lamborn: i deaver to the gentlelady from guam or i would be happy to step in. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlewoman from guam. ms. bordallo: i continue to reserve my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlewoman reserves. the gentleman from colorado. mr. lamborn: let me point out that there's a big flaw in the process that we have been following here recently. we have these massive groups of bills that we are supposed to absorb in a 72-hour period, which finishes tomorrow and culminate with a vote on a massive piece of legislation. reforming 1/6 of our nation's economy. if you look at this bill right here, this is the reconciliation bill, h.r. 4872, the bill reported from the house budget committee, 2,310 pages. the two plain language reports from the budget committee tote taling about 1,300 pages and the amendment in a nature of a substitute of 150 pages. that is 3,800 pages that we have been given in the last three days. i dare say there's not a single member of this house that has read these 3,800 pages and that's on top of the original bill of a couple

they can deaver to the federal government which will also set up a multistate exchange. there will actually be two exchanges in every state. one is for individuals to buy coverage. another is for small businesses and self-employed people to buy coverage through. there will be standardized benefits packages. four different levels of them. the platinum plan, the gold plan, the silver plan. et cetera. >> suarez: describe who the buyers are. who are the sellers? who is in that exchange helping people who are seeking insurance buy it? >> the very same insurance companies by and large that are selling insurance now. they will just have to participate in the exchange and they'll have to sell these standardized benefits packages. so it's going to be kind of like walking into a food court where everybody has got to sell a hamburger. you're able to comparison shop among the hamburgers or everybody has got to sell roast beef. different levels. the subsidies are going to be available for people not only to reduce what they have to pay for their premiums but also for the cost sharing

host: deaver -- beaverton, michigan. caller: didn't we talk about military trials in vietnam and we called them trial by military junta and didn't comment -- condemned them as used by third world countries? they were used by despotic communist government and third- world nations. i really do believe there is a lot more behind this that we are not being told about. you've got to understand, you got control of major world oil, 1/5 of the production out of iraq. control of major world opium which every hospital in the world requires for morphine. i did not think these are small matters at all. that is all i have to say. host: hunts bill, alabama, john on the independent line. caller: i am not against the idea of military tribunals. that is the way it has been done before bush. but there are also geneva convention hearings, and if we don't have those, we should have some substitute or informally about out of the geneva convention. also, i would be against the idea of a regular trial -- but in neither case, i think it is impo

deaver, you can correct me.i understand our folks in this avoid responds or who have warned essentially as contracting expert. and a.i.d. does not use them. is that wrong? >> we have reached out to both defense department and state department to see what assets they have available that we could look out for various fields. in the case of the defense department, i think we look at among the list that they gave us, there was a handful of people with contracting capability that met our needs and we pursued them. this is in the case of afghanistan. i believe in the case of s/crs, there may have been '02 that we look at that have that kind of background. and i think we were looking at them. i don't have the specific names. i will have to get back you on that, but procurement officers are very high valued commodity. and grant officers as well. >> i heard something quite different. finally, it ambassador herbst, how has ambassador holbrooke used the civilian response corps? >> we have provided names of civilian respons

deaver, you can correct me. i understand our folks in this avoid responds or who have warned essentially as contracting expert. and a.i.d. does not use them. is that wrong? >> we have reached out to both defense department and state department to see what assets they have available that we could look out for various fields. in the case of the defense department, i think we look at among the list that they gave us, there was a handful of people with contracting capability that met our needs and we pursued them. this is in the case of afghanistan. i believe in the case of s/crs, there may have been '02 that we look at that have that kind of background. and i think we were looking at them. i don't have the specific names. i will have to get back you on that, but procurement officers are very high valued commodity. and grant officers as well. >> i heard something quite different. finally, it ambassador herbst, how has ambassador holbrooke used the civilian response corps? >> we have provided names of civilian respon