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H8548 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE November 13, 2002 May God continue to bless and guide the new session of Congress. But the move toward more proactive and help- these United States, Mr. Speaker. fact of the matter is that we have a re- ful positions on missing kids, all miss- f sponsibility to pass the budget, to pass ing kids. the appropriations bills, to deal with ANNOUNCEMENT BY THE SPEAKER them now, and to work between now in f PRO TEMPORE November as well as in December, not The SPEAKER pro tempore. The simply wait until the next session of HONORING THE ANAHEIM ANGELS Chair will receive 10 one-minute Congress to address all of these issues. FOR THEIR VICTORY IN THE 2002 speeches on each side. f WORLD SERIES f REMEMBER THE MISSING AND (Ms. SANCHEZ asked and was given EXPLOITED CHILDREN permission to address the House for 1 CONGRESS SHOULD FINISH ITS minute and to revise and extend her re- WORK (Mr. LAMPSON asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 marks.) (Mr. PALLONE asked and was given minute and to revise and extend his re- Ms. SANCHEZ. Mr. Speaker, I rise permission to address the House for 1 marks.) today to congratulate the Anaheim An- minute and to revise and extend his re- Mr. LAMPSON. Mr. Speaker, I rise gels for winning the 2002 Major League marks.) today to welcome our colleagues back Baseball World Series. I, for one, have Mr. PALLONE. Mr. Speaker, the Re- and to remind everyone that while the been waiting for them to win this since publicans are about to take up a CR media fervor of missing children has 1966, the day I attended the first game that keeps the government going until died down it does not mean that the when we built the Anaheim Stadium. January 11. What they are not saying cases have gone away. Under American League Manager of is that they are abdicating their re- It is my hope that we will continue the Year Mike Scioscia, the Angels sponsibility to govern. in this body to focus and work on the won a franchise record 99 games during The Republican leadership in Con- issue of missing and exploited children. the regular season on their way to the gress has achieved one of the worst leg- There is much that is going to be done. world championship. The Angels dem- islative breakdowns in the Nation’s It is going to be years before we will onstrated their courage in a ‘‘never say history. Of the 13 fiscal year 2003 appro- address all of the problems that face die’’ attitude during their champion- priations bills, Congress will complete children, so it will not be accomplished ship run, which included an incredible before the end of this session only De- during this session or even the next game number six of the World Series fense and Military Construction. Ev- Congress as well. where they came five runs from behind erything else is being carried over until I would like to invite the new fresh- to win and be in that World Series for the next year. men Members joining us to join the the seventh game. A review of the past half century of Congressional Caucus on Missing and Although there were many out- legislative calendars shows nothing Exploited Children. Children from standing individual contributions, it close to such nonfeasance. Even in 2000 every walk of life and every cir- was the team’s collective efforts that when Congress approved 21 continuing cumstance imaginable, stranger abduc- made the difference in the post season. resolutions before completing its work tion, parental abduction, international And I would like to recognize in par- December 15, the House at least had abduction, runaways, and children ticular the Rally Monkey for keeping passed each of the 13 appropriations being exploited, all deserve the atten- the crowds excited and helping the An- bills. tion we can give them. gels to come back and win time after What is happening now is we are sim- Today as many of us return from the time in the season. ply abdicating our responsibility. The campaign trail where we have talked With most of the players from this Republicans do not want to do any- about our future and our children, I year’s team returning next year, I bet thing. They simply want to wait until challenge my colleagues in Congress to we will win again. NOTICE If the 107th Congress, 2d Session, adjourns sine die on or before November 22, 2002, a final issue of the Congres- sional Record for the 107th Congress, 2d Session, will be published on Monday, December 16, 2002, in order to permit Members to revise and extend their remarks. All material for insertion must be signed by the Member and delivered to the respective offices of the Official Reporters of Debates (Room HT–60 or S–123 of the Capitol), Monday through Friday, between the hours of 10:00 a.m. and 3:00 p.m. through Friday, December 13. The final issue will be dated Monday, December 16, 2002, and will be delivered on Tuesday, December 17, 2002. None of the material printed in the final issue of the Congressional Record may contain subject matter, or relate to any event that occurred after the sine die date. 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By order of the Joint Committee on Printing. MARK DAYTON, Chairman. November 13, 2002 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE H8549 Mr. Speaker, H.J. Res. 124 is a resolu- Mr. Speaker, simply put, America PROVIDING FOR CONSIDERATION tion providing continuing appropria- has needs and today’s continuing reso- OF H.J. RES. 124, FURTHER CON- tions to fund ongoing activities of the lution does not meet them. The spirit TINUING APPROPRIATIONS, FIS- Federal Government through January in which the resolution is coming to CAL YEAR 2003, AND FOR CON- 11, 2003. It does not allow initiation of the floor and the message that it sends SIDERATION OF H.R. 5708, REDUC- new activities and, with certain excep- is cut and run politics of the highest ING PREEXISTING PAYGO BAL- tions, the resolution continues activi- kind. There is a reason that this is ANCES ties under applicable fiscal year 2002 called a Lame Duck Congress, because Mr. HASTINGS of Washington. Mr. terms and conditions. legislation like this is just lame. Speaker, by direction of the Com- The resolution limits obligations on As my colleagues know, today’s CR mittee on Rules, I call up House Reso- programs with high initial sped out funds the Federal budget until January lution 602 and ask for its immediate rates so that the funding levels in- 11, or thereabouts, 2003, without in- consideration. cluded in final appropriation actions The Clerk read the resolution, as fol- creasing spending in areas that we will not be jeopardized. It continues know we need increases. lows: authorizations for otherwise expiring H. RES. 602 programs and funding anomalies in- Resolved, That upon the adoption of this cluded in previous continuing resolu- b 1015 resolution it shall be in order without inter- tions and extends funding for the Tem- vention of any point of order to consider in With a possible war with Iraq on the porary Assistance for Needy Families, horizon, should not this body, which is the House the joint resolution (H.J. Res. 124) or TANF, and related welfare pro- making further continuing appropriations led by the President’s party, spend for the fiscal year 2003, and for other pur- grams. time figuring out a way to pay for a poses. The joint resolution shall be consid- Finally, H.J. Res. 124 provides au- war that the President has been asking ered as read for amendment. The previous thority to transfer up to $500 million to for and that many Members voted for? question shall be considered as ordered on establish the new Department of Home- the joint resolution to final passage without land Security and for unforeseen home- In a few hours, many expect that the intervening motion except: (1) one hour of land security requirements. Such au- House and Senate will each pass a bill debate on the joint resolution equally di- thority would expire on September 30, establishing a new Department of vided and controlled by the chairman and 2004. Homeland Security. Listen up Amer- ranking minority member of the Committee Mr. Speaker, section 2 of this rule ica, one caveat though: we are not on Appropriations; and (2) one motion to re- going to fund the new Department commit. provides for consideration of a bill that SEC. 2. Upon the adoption of this resolution removes balances on the Pay-As-You- until, according to the CR, January 11, it shall be in order without intervention of Go, or PAYGO, scorecard for the cur- 2003, at the earliest.