jackie robinson has been immortalized as a here. his number was retired. there were many great players in the kneeingow baseball team such as satchel page who was written up in today's "the new york times" and the great careers they had and great ball players. so the appropriate that civil rights which baseball and sports have contributed to so much, be remembered by major league baseball. i congratulate major league baseball and the city of cincinnati and i just want to say to my colleague from texas, noah. thank you, mr. speaker. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields back the balance of his time. the gentleman from texas. mr. gohmert: mr. speaker, i don't have any additional speakers and i'll be ready to close whenever -- my friend indicates hass no other speakers. apparently -- indicates he has no other speakers. just in conclusion, i would encourage my colleagues to support house resolution 530. my friend from tennessee mentioned satchel page. he had some great quotes, many people quote him as saying, don't look back, they may be gaining on you

then i was a father, and my two daughters, kathy and jacky, are here tonight and we're thrilled thatere. but now i'm a grandfather. maggie is 9 and robert is 7. then i was an elected official who'd been a college teacher. now calista and i run 24 mall businesses. like the 26 million other small business owners we are burdened with payroll taxes, red tape and all the challenges of trying to create jobs in a government-hostile environment. back then i came to chair the medicare reform task force. now i'm on medicare. back then i went to the movies. now calista and i make movies. so i recognize that 2009 is not 1994. but i want to say to all of you, as republicans, we have been here before. 1965, 1977, 1993. in each case we had lost. they'd been hard years. the news media was fleefully hoping we would disappear. 19651966 in which we picked up 47 house seats, swept the major -- including ronald reagan in california. two years later in 1968 we began the first of 40 years of presidency in which no overt liberal in 40 years won the presidency. [applause] >> 1977 when jimmy carter's inaugura

host: we have jackie on the line. caller: a few minutes ago he gave an explanation of an audit. it is an official examination of accounts, not anything about taking over or disposing of, or breaking up of an entity. it is to find out what is part of the company. what their actions are and what is on hand as far as currency and assets and debts. to audit the fed, to say that it will break it up is disingenuous. we do not know who runs these entities. we don't know who is the fed. we know that alan greenspan did it and been bernanke is in there now. but you had a gentleman on last week from a petroleum company who at the end of his time on the show was known to be the president of the texas fed. we do not know who these people are or what their objectives are. they are controlling all we do in this country. they control the money, the businesses. we do not know who runs it. i think that 2 of it is not to dispose of, but to find out what is going on. thank you. guest: i was certainly not suggesting that auditing the fed would break it up or disturb its current structure immediately

.: out of georgia, which also produced hall of famer jackie robinson. his number retired in every major league city by every franchise by the commissioner. a ball and two strikes on willie harris. hernandez, 24 years old. this is outside, 2-2. he's out of sacramento, california, and a 16 round pick in 2005. >> rob: i like the fact we have three contact guys right at the top of the order. you have willie, cristian, johnson. >> jim h.: fouls it back. >> jim p.: willie, we saw it last night, where he took a 1-2 pitch off of jeremy guthrie who looked like early on at least the first two batters, had pretty good stuff. guzman singled, then jeremy guthrie walked in a couple of runs. >> jim h.: breaking ball outside. >> rob: i always felt when you get a guy like harris who can steal bases six out of seven, you really have to play him away and pitch him that way. it's all right to throw breaking balls when you're 0-2. >> jim h.: he'll go to the bag unassisted. that ball was plastered by aubrey huff and he was able to get it in the heal of the glove. one away. s

jackie parker, a senior advisor to senator levin and cofounder of the senate black legislative staff caucus, has been instrumental in planning the upcoming ceremony with civil rights leaders and other luminaries to recognize the injustices of slavery and jim crow. finally, i would like to recognize the tireless work that mike house daniel goldberg has dedicated to seeing this resolution become a reality, the countless hours that he has committed to make this occasion happen is almost uncountable, the number of hours he's pullete is a put into this. i had like to add senators leahy, dodd, murray and kerry as cosponsors of the resolution. i yield the floor. the presiding officer: the senator from kansas. mr. brownback: i, too, want to acknowledge some individuals that have really helped to make this historic day take place. one for me is congressman john lewis, that i've been woshing with for some period of time to get the african-american museum of history and culture to be a reality on the mall. the design is s. has now been picked. the location lab picked. it will be at the base are

host: jackie is on the phone from an actor, new hampshire. good morning. caller: good morning. i am very ashamed of what he didn't come as a republican. but, -- of what he did, as a republican. but what goes around comes around. the democrats will pound on him, especially "the new york times" all the time. you read liberal newspapers, i do not go along with that. i do not believe what "the new york times" says. host: well, i respectfully disagree with that. we read from a number of different publications. caller: anyway, i am very hurt by what he did. but now the liberals and the democrats are going to have a field day with that. it is ok. but like i say, what goes around comes around. one day will come back to them. host: the news conference we're showing you on the larger screen from yesterday took place shortly after 2:00 from columbia, south carolina. if you want to watch the entire news conference, it is available on c-span.org. a tour, "i come from a conservative country. gop's have destroyed family values in the u.s. with hypocrisy. none is perfect, but it is private." n

if the republican substitute is any guide, in the words of jackie mason, this is not my business. we've tried the minority approach. it is completely devoid of policy. it encourages abuse. it doesn't work. but it does have one advantage. it allows members of congress to avoid any responsibility for the war in afghanistan. mr. speaker, it's too late to go back to stra t.j.ertegery. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: -- stragery. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from california. mr. berman: i yield to the gentlelady from texas, sheila jackson lee. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlelady from texas is recognized for two minutes. ms. jackson lee: i thank the distinguished chairman. we cannot wait, and i just suggest to my colleagues if they would look quickly at these pictures where the pakistan military is fighting terrorism. and this is the activities that are happening in that area. people are fleeing terrorism, and the people that are in these camps are suffering. we cannot wait for this legislation, and i oppose the republican substitute because i want not

and i asked jackie whether or not she would like to spend the evening talking cbo numbers. i think we'll go to dinner instead. she's here and my two daughters are here as well. came this afternoon. wonderful friends from iowa. >> let's have a shout out for the dodd girls. [ applause ] >> all right. senator coburn, you had an amendment? no. who we looking at? no. >> senator coburn had an amendment. >> tom, do you have an amendment. >> waiting on the resolution. >> waiting on that resolution. >> mr. chairman, i have some other amendments but if we resolve this then i probably won't have any more amendments on it. i have a lot of worries but no amendments. >> mr. chairman, i think what senator robert, coburn and inzio are saying is if the roberts language is adopted or could be included or whatever, it would essentially crack the davinci code on a variety of these amendments because as i look at many of these amendments, there are variations of the same ones of coburn 9 and roberts 1. and so if we could have our legal people to take a look at it, and properly vet it, then i th

it's a story of how a famous pilot, jacqueline "jacky" cochran became the first commander of the w.f.o. in 1942. that's the women's flying training detachment. it's the story of how a test pilot, nancy love, became the commander of the w.a.f., the women's auxiliary flying -- ferrying squadron in 1942. it's the story of how the w.f.o. and the w.a.f. merged in 1943 to become the wasp. the wasps would go on and fly 60 million miles. they would fly every type of aircraft. they would be stationed in 120 bases across the country. on december 20 of 1944, when victory was at hand, the wasps were quietly and unceremoniously disbanded. 38 lost their lives in the course of serving their country. however families and friends had to pay for their burial expenses. survivors had to pay their way back home because they were not considered a part of the military in an official capacity. many of their records were sealed and unavailable to historians until the 1980's. they didn't get veteran status until 1977. and this was done without a white house ceremony and it was done without the kind of fanfare t

in john boccieri of ohio and glenn nye of virginia and especially to amy o'donnell of my staff and jackie sheltree. we refer to this bill in the short form just, frankly, as providing an independent inspector general for the financial services committee that are in such desperate need of this oversight. i thank the -- i think the chairman outlined it well. the genesis of this bill took place from conducting a public forum back in my district and listening to former republican mayor of south windsor, connecticut, john mitchell, and our attorney general of the state of connecticut, richard blumen thall. the idea, when -- richard blumenthal. the idea, when we were looking at commodities and the market, we realized the more and closer we looked at who was regulating these agencies, it was somewhat a case of the foxes guarding the hen house. many have asked, and when they went home over the break and since the financial collapse on wall street, people have been astounded in trying to answer the question of how could it be that bernie may dauf was scamming thousands -- may doff was scamming --

there have been a ton of other athletes, joe frazier from philly up against muahmmed ali, jackie robinson in baseball, the target of much, much worse in fans. why did romero get so upset? if he didn't do it, why did he react this way? >> you can't win when you go up against a fan? you have everything to lose, the big contract, the fame, and the stories are going to be that you're in the headline, not this nameless fan, and no matter... we've all been at these ballparks as reporters. you hear some of the things fans say, and some of them are totally wrong and totally gutless really when you look at it. dave been drinking a lot. i know they are millionaire athletes. i know they have everything going for them, but still nobody deserves to hear some of the things people say about people's personal lives. it gets a little bit too much, no matter how much you're paying. you can boo, you can cheer, but to say some of the things that are said, still, even with all that said, athletes have to turn the other cheek because you have nothing to win and a lot to lose. >> i'm going to xxpp@it a >>> welc

joe, michael gu, danielle, unra, i'd like to thank mihal, more began gray, jonathan phillips, evan, jackie, jeff sharp, ali broad i ask and especially -- broadski and especially jerry walden and jeff duncan. along with shannon henry who is still sitting over there had as well. all of you were fantastic and it's just a historic achievement and we thank you all so much for everything. mr. waxman: mr. speaker, i also want to add our appreciation to matt weiner, our staff assistance on this legislation. i feel empowered because i only asked for one minu and i've talked far more than one minute. but i guess that's become a new tradition in the house. but i don't want to abuse it and i yield back the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentlewoman from new york rise? >> mr. speaker, by direction of the committee on appropriations, i present a privileged report for filing under the rule. the speaker pro tempore: the clerk had report the title. the clerk: report to accompany h.r. 3081, a bill making appropriations for military construction, the department of vete