ms. smith put -- it takes us far from these statistics and brings it to reality. those of us who had the privilege to serve as prosecutors before we were here in the senate know what the a lot of these cases are like. we see the personal side of it. they're not just statistics. they're human faces on crimes, the victims, what it does to families and communities, and what you do, both of you in speaking out, tell all of us what that is. so thank you. i want to ask a question of commander solof and mr. redding. in a recent national institute of justice report found that one reduction simply getting that evidence from the police department to the lab, the study recommended additional training of law enforcement personal in the creation of uniformed procedures for submitting evidence as well as improved training for police officers on the benefits and use of forensic analysis. i'll start with you, commander. in your experience, what role has training played in educating law enforcement person nel a

thank all of you for your testimony, and ms. smith and ms. sepich, especially because of the the real-life situations you've given that are so painful. let me ask with regard to ms. smith the seven years you waited there before there was a hit, it strikes me that you have to have a database to check the person against. was that a factor in the delay in getting the identification of the person who assaulted you? >> yes, it was. because with my case all of this was just beginning. so it was kind of playing catch up. so trying to get the database set up and all of that, and so that was -- there was really nobody at fault at the time that my case sat.

this was upheld but ms. smith said sorry. >> i sought and received from the authorities that supported my main home designation. and indeed i spent more nights in london than the other residence. i never split my designation and only maintain one home. the committee recognizes that the taxpayers would not be worse or better off of the result of me making a better decision. >> a few days later there was an apology to pay 13,000 pounds in allowance. he came to the parliament to apologize and there was investigation of complaint that mr. nolte claimed this allowance. christopher was asked to investigate the claims of jackie smith and mcnotty. and this was brought further of what was claimed from moats to duck houses. mp's were told to claim properties. and this was to be scrapped and what they claim is to be phased out and a ban claiming relatives. there was a release from the bbc and stephen hammon who works for the parliament. >> i will start with you, it seems odd that mp's can hire relatives in the first place. >

ms. smith put -- it takes us far from these statistics and brings it to reality. those of us who had the privilege to serve as prosecutors before we were here in the senate know what the a lot of these cases are like. we see the personal side of it. they're not just statistics. they're human faces on crimes, the victims, what it does to families and communities, and what you do, both of you in speaking out, tell all of us what that is. so thank you. i want to ask a question of commander solof and mr. redding. in a recent national institute of justice report found that one reduction simply getting that evidence from the police department to the lab, the study recommended additional training of law enforcement personal in the creation of uniformed procedures for submitting evidence as well as improved training for police officers on the benefits and use of forensic analysis. i'll start with you, commander. in your experience, what role has training played in educating law enforcement person nel a

thank you, ms. smith for your extremely powerful testimony and your voice for victims around the country and thank you ms. stoiloff and mr. redding for your service in law enforcement. clearly the science of dna has sped far, far ahead. my first realization of it was a murder case where we were able to get dna off a beer bottle that the perpetrator of the crime had taken a swig out of during the course of his time in the home of the murder victim. and i suspect it's rocketed forward in the your since then. -- in the years since then. so i think it's a very valuable tool. and i assume that all of you would support mandatory dna testing of violent criminals. >> yes, i certainly would, senator. any way that we can get the dna from a person who's committed crimes and who has been arrested, as i said, get that in the database, a larger databases of convicted offenders as long as with a larger database of crime which have been tested. when those databases are searched against each other, we get more hits, the b

you mentioned in your testimony, ms. smithbout the deport well-trained nurses and how critical that this for collecting evidence and making sure the victims do not feel re-victimized when the evidence is collected. do you have any thoughts about how we can better train the students -- these nurses in this area? can get more nursing students to go into this area? >> yes, there's a wonderful program, sexual assault nurse examiners, who are trained specifically to take this exam. my doctor was actually reading the instructions as we went along, in my case. that is not reassuring when you are going through an exam like this. the sexual assault nurse examiners are not only trained how to deal how to get information that the average doctor may not even think about but she is also trained to know how to do -- to address the emotional needs of our patients. in a good sexual assault nurse program, you have rooms that are set aside so that the victim can go into a room. these examiners, that is all they are therefore. there is -- is a o

ms. monkrief. the gentleman from california, mr.ist say, is recognized for his question. >> thank you, ranking member smith. ms. monkrief, i want to thank you for coming forth to take a moment to sort of define perhaps a bit further your past. you've worked with other nonprofits, microloans, other organizations to help the poor. isn't that true? >> yes. >> and your goal in going to acorn is in fact furthering community outreach and community support to help aid the poor, isn't that true? >> that's correct. i turned down a higher-paying job to go to acorn because i felt like i was ideologically in line with them. >> and i think that's something i hope we all learn today and leave this forum knowing better is that there are people like you who care about people in need who go to organizations, other organizations and find that they're doing a good job or not. but in this case you went to acorn, the largest organization of its type, and found that they had other agendas. isn't that true? >> yes. >> well, let's go through a little bit of that agenda if i could. and i'm going to be fairly narrow because my time

ms. monkrief. the gentleman from california, mr.ist say, is recognized for his question. >> thank you, ranking member smith. ms. monkrief, i want to thank you for coming forth to take a moment to sort of define perhaps a bit further your past. you've worked with other nonprofits, microloans, other organizations to help the poor. isn't that true? >> yes. >> and your goal in going to acorn is in fact furthering community outreach and community support to help aid the poor, isn't that true? >> that's correct. i turned down a higher-paying job to go to acorn because i felt like i was ideologically in line with them. >> and i think that's something i hope we all learn today and leave this forum knowing better is that there are people like you who care about people in need who go to organizations, other organizations and find that they're doing a good job or not. but in this case you went to acorn, the largest organization of its type, and found that they had other agendas. isn't that true? >> yes. >> well, let's go through a little bit of that agenda if i could. and i'm going to be fairly narrow because my time

ms. woolsey from california. mr. smith from new jersey. mr. sablan from the marianas. mr. pitts from pennsylvania. ms. kaptur is already gone. mr. stupak from michigan. and ms. foxx from north carolina. for what purpose does does the the gentleman from ohio rise? >> i ask unanimous consent to claim the time of the gentleman that has not been used. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from ohio rise? mr. kucinich: i move that the house do now adjourn. the speaker pro tempore: the question is on the motion to adjourn. those in favor say aye. those opposed, no. the ayes have it. the motion is agreed to. accordingly, the house stands adjourned until 9:00 a.m. >> timothy geithner testifies about the troubled assets reprogram before a congressional oversight panel. the first, a hearing on afghanistan and pakistan. this is the fourth in a series of hearings on capitol hill this week. it is testimony from the general stanley mcchrystal. howard berman chairs this hearing. >> the committee will come to order. before beginning my opening statement, i like to ma

ms. >> asked that my time be placed on a question and i welcome my friend in court and smith. >> the gentlemanadded time. the gentleman -- gentle lady from the virgin islands ms. christensen is recognized. >> thank you mr. chairman, i'm going to also weighed my statement and put it into the record. i'd like to welcome the witnesses, especially senator smith who i believe is here for the worst time. >> thank you, the gentleman from massachusetts, mr. markey is recognized. >> thank you mr. chairman and thank you so much for having this hearing. backing in -- back in 1993 we were in a world where there were two cell phone companies, each charged about $0.50 a minute and it was analog. but in 1993 this committee moved over 200 megahertz of spectrum and we created the third, fourth, fifth and sixth cellphone licenses that went digital and by 1996 the price had dropped to under $0.10 a minute. .. >> it should be bipartisan again. we're into a wealth creation. that's what this is all about. and the more effectively that we can think this issue through. bomb bomb which is more likely that we will crea

smith. >> the gentle lady from the virgin islands, ms. stensen, is recognized for two minutes. >> thank you, mr. chairman. i'm also going to waive my opening statement and put it into the record. i would like to welcome the witnesses, especially senator smith, who i believe this year for the first time. >> thank you. the gentleman from massachusetts coupl, mr. markey is recognized. >> thank you for having this hearing. back in 1993 we were in a world where there were two cell phone companies. they each charge about 50 cents a minute, and it was analog. but in 1993 this committee moved over to hundred megahertz of spectrum, and we created the third, fourth, fifth, and six license, and they'll win digital. the first to the real companies moved itself, and we had a revolution of is ongoing. it was so successful that right now there are people sitting out here in the audience that are checking their blackberry rather than listening to my opening statement. that is a tribute to what our community made possible. now we're on to the next stage of

smith, thank you for your indulgence on a little extra time. >> you're welcome. thank you, mr. issa. ms. moncrief, let me ask you one quick question, that is given what you saw, the politicalization of acorn and project vote, and which you knew to be a misuse of funds and you knew that project vote was used for election reasons that were wrong, what made you decide to come forward? you could have resigned, you could have not said anything, you could have kept quiet. what made you want to go public? >> well, i tried to do this twice. in 2007 i contacted the employment policies institute. i spoke to a man named brett jacobsen. and we talked about some of the acorn's antics in relation to throwing people under the bus as i call it. too many people during election cycles were being sent to jail for things that acorn was encouraging. and a lot of times they were targeting people that didn't have the best education, that didn't have a lot of resources. and these were the people that they were offering up like sack figures lambs. at the time he told me that i needed to find other employment be

ms. lankford. i like to recognize my colleague from minnesota to introduce our second witness. mr. ellison. >> thank you again, mr. chairman. i am pleased to introduce one of the witnesses, mr. joel green of upsher-smith laboratories, a pharmaceutical company in minnesota. i've heard from many people in my district and state who are victims of the madoff scandal. those people were not high rollers. there were regular, ordinary people who work hard every day to make america great, people like the ones mr. green represents, and his colleagues, who were part of a pension profit plan that invested with bernie madoff. the thought that they were protected by the securities investment protection corporation, sipc. however, they held themself and has not followed through on protection in many cases. that is why am pleased to work with my colleague on an amendment to clarify sipc protection. i look forward to continuing to work with you, mr. chairman, and others on the committee on this reform and others to ensure that sipc makes good on its promises. mr. greene. >> thank you, congressman ellison, and mr. maffei, and chairman and members of the committee. thank you for the opportunity to address your committee

ms. ros-lehtinen: i'd like to yield one minute to the gentleman from new jersey, mr. smiththe ranking member on the foreign affairs subcommittee on africa and global health. mr. smith: mr. speaker, chairman berman's iran petroleum action -- act significantly ratches up strong -- ratchets up strong bipartisan on iran. given ahmadinejad's extreme hostility toward israel, his outrageous threats to annihilate israel from the face of the earth, and his obsessive hatred of jews worldwide this bill strengthens penalties on those who not only sell or lease or provide to iran any good understand and services to iran -- goods and services to iran. and has other sanctions as well. mr. speaker, any serious effort to peacefully stop iran from acquiring weapons of mass destruction, which i believe they will use if they acquire them, requires the strongest political and economic pressure that we can muster. h.r. 2194 is a step, the right step, in that direction. i thank the chair. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlewoman from florida reserves. the gentleman from ohio is recognized. mr. ku

ms. ros-lehtinen: i'd like to yield one minute to the gentleman from new jersey, mr. smith, the ranking member on the foreign affairs subcommittee on africa and global health. mr. smith: mr. speaker, chairman berman's iran petroleum action -- act significantly ratches up strong -- ratchets up strong bipartisan on iran. given ahmadinejad's extreme hostility toward israel, his outrageous threats to annihilate israel from the face of the earth, and his obsessive hatred of jews worldwide this bill strengthens penalties on those who not only sell or lease or provide to iran any good understand and services to iran -- goods and services to iran. and has other sanctions as well. mr. speaker, any serious effort to peacefully stop iran from acquiring weapons of mass destruction, which i believe they will use if they acquire them, requires the strongest political and economic pressure that we can muster. h.r. 2194 is a step, the right step, in that direction. i thank the chair. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlewoman from florida reserves. the gentleman from ohio is recognized. mr.