Mike Levin

I now yield 3 minutes to another distinguished member of our committee, the gentleman from New Jersey (Mr. Pascrell).

I now yield 2 minutes to another distinguished member of our committee, Mr. Kind from the great State of Wisconsin. (Mr. KIND asked and was given permission to revise and extend his remarks.)

It is now my privilege to yield 1 minute to our distinguished leader, the gentlelady from California (Ms. Pelosi).

It is now my pleasure to yield 3 minutes to a very active member of our committee from the great State of Texas (Mr. Doggett).

It is now my privilege to yield 3 minutes to the distinguished member of our committee, Mr. Lewis of Georgia.

It is now my distinct pleasure to yield 4 minutes to our whip, the gentleman from Maryland (Mr. Hoyer).

I now yield 2\1/2\ minutes to the distinguished gentleman from Texas (Mr. Cuellar).

This is a somewhat unusual structure here. Each of us is going to take 15 minutes of our total allotment. I want to talk to Mr. Camp. I think we have used all but 2 of our minutes. I want to use those 2 minutes to close the 15 minutes, but…

It is now my pleasure to yield 1 minute to the very distinguished gentleman from Massachusetts (Mr. Lynch).

It is now my pleasure to yield 1 minute to the distinguished Representative from Ohio (Ms. Kaptur).

I am now privileged to yield 2\1/2\ minutes to the gentleman from New Jersey (Mr. Pascrell), a very distinguished member of our committee.

No one has said that the program will be eliminated. What we have said is what the Manufacturers Association has said. It believes defunding ATVM will hurt manufacturers and their employees.

It goes on: ``Unfortunately, the country has yet to embark on a clean energy innovation program commensurate with the scale of national priorities that are at stake. In fact''--and I interpolate here this is what you're doing--``rather…

So now you're saying we're paying for it by taking away jobs from businesses and workers. That's what this does. You can't hide that fact.

There is nothing in that decision, nothing in that action that paid for a continuing resolution that will take away jobs from the businesses and workers of the United States of America, purely and simply.

We've heard a lot of rhetoric the first 10 minutes, or whatever, on the majority side, but rhetoric cannot mask, cannot obscure reality. The reality is this is an antijobs bill. In '07, we put forth the Advanced Technology Vehicle…

Are we in morning business? The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore. We are. ____________________

I now yield 3 minutes to the gentlewoman from Texas (Ms. Jackson Lee).

It is now my privilege to yield 3 minutes to the very distinguished gentleman from New York, Charles Rangel. (Mr. RANGEL asked and was given permission to revise and extend his remarks.)

It is now my privilege to yield 3 minutes to another active member of our committee, the gentleman from Texas (Mr. Doggett).

In that case, I believe I was here on the floor before the Senator from Kentucky, so I will proceed. The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore. The Senator from Michigan.

I would request, after the Senator from Kentucky, who is here to speak-- The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore. I am sorry, the Parliamentarian has corrected me. There is no agreement to alternate.

I understand we are alternating? The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore. That is correct.

Finally, would the Senator from Illinois agree, if tonight Republicans refuse to bring this debate to a halt and to allow a vote on the Reid motion, would the Senator from Illinois not agree there will be a strong negative public reaction…

So what we will be voting on is not, as the Republican leader characterized it--which he says he is willing to vote on right away--the Reid motion but a vote on whether we will end debate on the Reid motion? And is it not further true that…