don't ask, don't tell weakens our national security by asking service members to lie, firing them for being gay, and telling able recruits we don't want you. please, america can do better. vote yes. the chair: the gentleman from pennsylvania is recognized. for what purpose does the gentleman from mississippi arise? mr. skelton: -- >> i request unanimous consent -- in opposition to this amendment. the chair: without objection. the gentleman from pennsylvania is recognized. >> i yield 30 seconds to the gentleman from michigan, a freshman congressman and former lieutenant commander, mr. peters. the chair: the gentleman is recognized for 30 seconds. mr. peters: i strongly support representative murphy's amendment. we must allow our military to recruit and retain any qualified patriotic and courageous american who wants to serve our country. during my service in the united states navy reserve, i served witmany dedicated men and women who were always ready to serve their country any time and anywhere. i was never concerned about their sexual orientation, just their ability to serve the unit

we ask them to do and also the job we ask them to do infghanistan and iraq. we are also concerned in this bill -- ntinue to be concerned about our procurement and acquisition process. we passed acquisition reform again under chairman skelton's great leadership, but we have a farme number of programs, certainly the joint sike fighter, future combat systems that have not delivered on time and on budt. we have to make sue get every penny that we send and it is spent efficiently and effectively. we need to continue to make sure that the programs we procure et that standard. that is why i, too, along with mr. mckeon, am strongly supportive of the second engine program. it's been our committee's position for a long time to support that program. we believe that's an efficient use of taxpayer delaurs. so i thank you, -- delores. i thank you, again, for your leadership -- delores -- dollers. i thank you again for your leadership. >> i yield two minutes to the gentleman from maryland, mr. barton. mr. barton: thank you, mr. speaker. i'like to thank chairman skelton, ran

let me srt -- i asked mr. strickland, so let me ask you this question.tified that the mats and sticky pedal accounted for 16% of the sudden unintended acceleration and that's 84% of them we have no answer for. are we any closer to finding out what about the other 84% of the sudden unintended acceleration, what's the cause of it? >> i think it depen on the database that you're looking at. in the case of nhtsa's database, it's lumped together as speed control. so i includes not only events of sudden unintended acceleration, but it includes any other type ofurge or hesitation event. so when we spoke last, i'm confident of three things -- that the sticky pedal is bng repaired. we're already almost 70% repaired. >> correct. >> i'm confident we'll be under control on the mats -- >> but even if you do 100% mats, 100% sticky pedal we have 84% -- and these were numbers from last time. 2,262 sudden axlcceleration reports. 19 deaths in the united states. the 84% of the 2262. so even if you did a 100% mats, 100% sticky pedals we have 84% we have no answer for. you t

>> the investigation team asked me what you asked me.n, that's the only investigation i've been through. >> thanks a lot, sir. >> i just have a couple of follow-up questions. i know it may be dficult to go back through this process, but could you just go back preef briefly to where the events started and maybe give us a little bit slower accountf what happened. >> yes, sir. >> i got lost a little bit in what you were telling me there. i just want to go back over it again. >> yes, sir, that's no problem. >> at approximately 5:30, i was on the rig floor. when i walked into the drill shack, you know, i seen my relief over there, mark hay, and i went to talk to him. at the same time, wyman and bob kalusha were talking about the first negative test. wyman was convinced we lost mud. they bumped it up to 1900 and there wasn't any mud. >> that's to keep it closed? >> normal operating pressure is 1,500 psi. >> to keep it closed? >> or open. >> or open. so you increased pressure to keep it closed, is that what you're saying? >> yeah. >> thank you.

>> i thought you were asking me to try to quantify -- >> i was asking a human question. how you feel? i feel pretty good today. >> i don't feel good at all today. >> i don't mean that i'm asking you a conversational question. i'm not in a court of law. i'm just asking you to describe your safely record. let me be specific. i'm going to ask you about a few things. in february of 2010, 19 member tofse house sent a letter to the mineral management service, questioning p.b.'s safety on the platform in the gulf of mexico. it asks what responses it will take in response to allegation by a whistleblower and a houston-based safety expert that b.p. skipped necessary engineering inspections and provided inaccurate engineering documents to the rig operator. these documents are critical to the safe operation of the oil rig. that's a letter, february of 2010. in october of 2007, b.p. pled guilty to a criminal violation of the clean water act, paid $12 million in fines as well as $8 knoll address national re-- natural resources damagings. in the north slope of alaska due to poor maint

so now we're going to repeal don't ask, don't tell. so what exactly are we asking? are we asking the military then to protect or condone homosexual behavior if it does get in the way of performing the mission? what exactly are we talking about? are we talking about creating separate dormitories, for instance, if we have sexual ha -- harassment? what will this have to do with recruitment? people that have a 17-year-old kid that may be wanting to sign up. what will this do to recruitment? what's it going to do to the morale of the troops? what's it going to do to small unit cohesion? and also, the other piece of the military is about these soldiers giving their time and lives are confined to very tight areas and are pushed together in very difficulcircumstances over long periods of time. what is the effect on that? all of these questions are sitting out there, and the military leadership is saying, yeah, we don't know the answers to those questions. give us some time to take a look at it. we don't want you to pass this until we can see what's going on with this. now,

newman and ask mr. mckay. >> during the life of the mississippi canyon -- >> that's correct. >> -- i don't have a record of how many times operations were suspended. >> mr. mckay? >> i'm sorry. don't know. >> let me ask you about a few specific problems. there was a story in "the times picuyane." they started to interview some ofhe people that were working on the well, talked about problems that go back to weeks prior to the explosion. they said a con staent theme was that gas kicks more frequent in this oil field than others that the crew worked on and members were concerned. quote, one gas kick occurred towards the bottom of the hole approximately 10,000 feet below the hole with such a large kick they had to shut down operations. they were concerned about sparks sources on the rig at the surface so they had to shut it down because there were so much -- there was so much gas coming out of the rig and they were afraid of the explosion. now, are you familiar -- that was according to this report a few wee

i am not going to ask you to go into this case, but i am going to ask this question. you have an attempted car bombing, a connection to the taliban, a guilty plea, all of which could certainly be construed that the man was not attached to the principles of the constitution and therefore should have his citizenship revoked. it is my understanding that within five years, this section of nationalization, this would allow such a relocation. >> thanks. you recommended me back in 1998. that was a source of pride for me. i remember that each day. >> for me as well. >> thanks. i am studying, the application process. [unintelligible] it may speak to in eligibility at the time of the application itself. >> i would call your attention to a section, subsection c. if a person shall have been naturalized after december 24, 1952, within five years become a member or become affiliated with any organization, with which at the time this, will be precluded from nationalization, under a provision of this title, it should be considered evidence that such person was not attached to the pri

don't ask, don't tell weakens our national security by asking rvice members to lie, firing them for being gay, and telling able recruits we don't want you. please, america can do better. vote yes. the chair: the gentleman from pennsylvania is recognized. for what purpose does the gentleman from mississippi arise? mr. skelton: -- >> i request unanimous consent -- in opposition to this amendment. the chair: without objection. the gentleman from pennsylvania is recognized. >> i yield 30 seconds to the gentleman from michigan, a freshman congressman and former lieutenant commander, mr. peters. the chair: the gentleman is recognized for 30 seconds. mr. peters: i strongly support representative murphy's amendment. we must allow our military to recruit and retain any qualified patriotic and courageous american who wants to rve our country. during my service in the united states navy reserve, i served with many dedicated men and women who were always ready to serve their country any time and anywhere. i was never concerned about their sexual orientation, just their ability to serve the united sta

nobody ever asked me about it. suddenly i think it was in february, someone asked me did they offer you a job? and i felt for my own personal accountability i needed to be honest and i said yes. i didn't try to parse the word there. then i said after that, no comment to the follow on questions that were asked. because, i talk about my role in the matter and i thought that was important for me to do. >> was there any other calls or communications, any other position? >> no, no. just that one phone call. this portion of the conversation probably lasted -- i mean, i'm not exactly sure of the time. but i would say 30 to 60 seconds. i mean we were off in another conversation and he came up during an end. it was almost as if he were saying the words, i almost felt like i was interrupting. i would only get out of this or not get into it, because i wasn't in the primary at the time if i felt it was the right thing to do for pennsylvania work families, and not for an offer. >> he stopped it there? >> he chuckled and he said

so i want to ask why not. what can be done to prevent another failure of it blowout preventer in deep water, or to control the spill more quickly and effectively if it does? until those questions are answered satisfactorily, i don't see how oour government can allw any more deep water drills to be permitted or drill. i say thatith regret, because i know how important offore american oil is to our nation's energy independence. but the u.s. government has a responsibility for protecting public safety that is more important. that responsibility, i fear, was not fulfilled in this case prior to the accident occurring. the result is the human environmental and ecomic catastrophe that we are now witnessing in the gulf. senator collins. >> thank you, mr. chairman. mr. chairman, as we began this oversight hearing into what is certainly an environmental catastrophe and what is likely to be an economic disaster, let us also remember what a personal tragedy this incident i for the families of the 11 workers who lost their

i'll ask you, mr. mckay.ediately after this blowout occurred and we began to have -- see the leaks, the idea came that we needed a coffe down, a containment that will go over the leak and take the oil out. that took several weeks to construct. while -- why was it not so that that had already -- something like that had already been constructed and those kind of ideas are thoroughly examined when you say you're dealing with this deepwater and the unusual circumstances? >> this situation is extremely, as you may imagine, extremely hard to predict, the specifics of the situation. what we have in this case is we have a blowout preventer that didn't work for whatever reason. we don't know why. and we've bot the lower marine reiser -- and we've got the lower marine riser package. and the disconnect did not activate the blowout preventer or release that disconnect. so we have a disconnect connected on top of the blowout preventer and a riser coming off the top of that. that then impacts what type of solution -- >> wo

so i want to ask why not. failure of it blowout preventer in deep water, or to control the spill more quickly and effectively if it does? until those questions are answered satisfactorily, i don't see how oour government can allw any more deep water drills to be permitted or drill. i say that with regret, because i know how important offshore american oil is to our nation's ergy independence. but the u.s. government has a responsibility for protecting public safety that is more important. that responsibility, i fear, was not fulfilled in this case prior to the acciden occurring. the result is the human environmental and economic catastrophe that we are now witnessing in the gulf. senator collins. >> thank you, mr. chairman. mr. chairman, as we began this oversight hearing into what is certainly an environmental catastrophe and what is likely be an economic disaster, let us also remember what a personal tragedy this incidt is for the families of the 11 workers who lost their lives afterhe explosion rocked andan

that's all we're asking for today. we're ol' not asking anybody to give up their holds.we're only asking people to come out into the sunshine for the transparency that we all want to have as we serve the great people of this nation. t-and with that, for -- and with that, for the first unanimous consent motions, i will yield to my colleague from new mexico, senator udall. mr. udall: mr. president? the presiding officer: the senator new mexico. mr. udall: thank you, mr. president. and i know the president -- our presiding officer today is also going to come forward and we hope to see him down on the floor, and i thank senator mccaskill very, very much for her organizational efforts, hers and senator warner's in working on this issue. this is a very, very serious issue for the senate in terms of how we move forward on the rules. i kind of liken it, senator mccaskill, to -- and i have some history here, and i know everybody has their history when it comes to administrations, but here you have this administration, just elected a little over a year and a half ago, trying put t

speaker, i ask -- mr. lynch: mr. speaker, i ask for the call of the yeas and nays. the speaker pro tempore: a -- the yeas and nays are requested. all those in favor of taking this vote by the yeas and nays will rise and remain standing until counted. a sufficient number having arisen, the yeas and nays are ordered. pursuant to clause 8 of rule 20 and the chair's prior announcement, further proceedings on this motion will be postponed. for what purpose does the gentleman from massachusetts seek recognition? mr. lynch: mr. speaker, i move that the house suspend the rules and agree to house resolution 1316, as amended. the speaker pro tempore: the clerk will report the title of the resolution. the clerk: house resolution 1314, resolution celebrating asian-pacific american heritage month. the speaker pro tempore: pursuant to the rule, the gentleman from massachusetts, mr. lynch, and the gentleman from missouri, mr. luetkemeyer, each will control 20 minutes. the chair recognizes the gentleman from massachusetts. mr. lynch: thank you, mr. speaker. i ask unanimous consent

asked it. the questions are being asked in several committees, i understand. what did speaker pelosi know about eric massa? those of you that don't know the story of eric massa, i'm not going to tell it, i'm going to read to you a thing from the new york daily news d. it's an arled. f.b.i. joins in massa probe of sexual harassment, hush money and coverups. this is written april 22, 2010. the f.b.i. has joined the mushrooming investigations of sexual harassment, hush money and coverups allegedly involving former upstate representative eric massa, democrat for new york, and his male satisfiers. the bureau's entry into the case followed the announcement by the house ethics committee yesterday, is conducting its own investigation of how the office of house spear nancy pelosi, democrat from california, and others handled complaints against massa. massa's alleged tickling, groping and rarbes behavior at a gay bar with young staffers was offensive, inappropriate and created a hostile work environment,

i'm not going to ask you to go into the shahzad case, but i am going to ask this question. you have an attempted car bombing, a connection to the pakistani taliban, a guilty plea, all of which could certainly be construed that mr. shahzad was not attached to the principles of the constitution, and, therefore, should have his citizenship revoked. it's my understanding that within five years this section, five years of naturalization, this section would allow such a revocation your is that not true for mr. shahzad? >> senator, thank you very much. let me first, if i may say, that the fact that it was you who recommended me back in 1998 to be the united states attorney is an everlasting source of pride for me, and something that i remember each day. >> for me, too. >> thank you, senator. i am myself standing, not with respect to the shahzad case specifically, but if i may generalize it, the application, the naturalization process, the application itself and the relevant law. and as i understand the law, and please come if i may, my study is only preliminary, as i understand it

we'll ask former governor sarah palin to look ahead to november. palin on the midterm, only on "fox news sunday." then will republicans regain control of congress, or is talk of a sweeping g.o.p. victory premature? we talk with the two party chairmans, democrat tim kaine and republican michael steele. plus the president of mexico uses his u.s. visit to rip into arizona's new immigration law. we'll ask our sunday panel if that was stepping over the diplomatic line. and our power player of the week. a washington insider says washington must be fixed. all right now on "fox news sunday." and hello again from fox news in washington. with the political season heating up, we want to focus on the mid-term elections. we begin with one of the campaign's key players, former alaska governor sarah palin. governor, welcome back to "fox news sunday." >> thank you so much, chris. >> chris: let's start with a controversy over rand paul who of course just won the republican nomination for the u.s. senate seat in kentucky. you were a big early supporter of mr. paul.

i would like to ask mr.armstrong, on the safety issue, in your written statement, we talk about the taxi service that we saw -- this was being, perhaps, not necessarily the safety standards that we would have on our own shuttle. can you talk about the safety issue? >> the prime recommendations of the columbia accident investigation board, with respect to the new vehicles in the future, was that safety should be considered the prime consideration. and who will argue with safety. but safety -- you cannot put all the money into safety. this has to be balanced with the program requirements and others. except level of safety has to be determined. this is what you are searching for. and we had good confidence on this right now. we had a number of safelights, and ever since the columbia -- this seems to be operating very well. this is an old, 30-year-old technology. i believe that this may continue to be operated safely, and we have a good confidence level on this. this was projected -- by the outside safety expert

>> ask unanimous consent to address the house. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized for one minute. >> mr. speaker, getting our economy back on track and creating new jobs is the priority of my constituents and a top priority of my own. the democratic congress has alady taken significant steps to create jobs and jumpstart the economy. resulting in the lowest tax rates and over 50 years in the creation of over 500,000 new jobs so far this year. the american jobs and closing tax loopholes act continues these efforts. current tax law allows companies here in the united states to be rewarded for shipping american jobs overseas. this is unconscionable and american workers deserve better. this legislation includes provisions that close these tax loopholes and protects jobs here at home. this legislation will also continue to provide hard working american families with the relief they deserve, relief on property taxes, sales taxes and college tuition. mr. speaker, the american jobs and closing tax loopholes act is another

>> there is nothing wrong with asking for volunteers.ed to do weapon departs they said they will not have anybody out there mowing the grass on 66 or major roads. safety comes first. for more information, you can go to the website. we have a number for you to cal. >> goats do very well at that. >> you would need a lot of them. >>> we've locked in clouds of date but some sun shine is picking through. an interesting sky. we have this persistent flow of winds out of the northeast all day long. we will see some patchy fog through the evening hours. warm temperatures and sunshine are here by the mid week. first stop, for washington. 75 degrees with a high of 78. 76 and sterling. are our official numbers are 79 and 66. the pollen count was a washout but it will be back later in the week the sunshine and dry weather prevailed. 75 in fairfax. but we at 76. average for the most part this budget -- average for the most part for this time of year. the real heat is building just to the west. there are some big numbers at this late hour. 94 in minnea

if you want to ask about a specific one, i can ask a question. if there are seven or eight -- >> i can touch on some of this stuff. on march 26, that was the original approval, your revised program was changed to include the 9 and 7/8 liner. you revise the program again on april 14 to include the a 7-inhc production casing. on april 15, you came in again to revise that to taper casing. you corrected your well design info on that application. you inadvertently removed the liner from the well-designed information. the rich incorporated it into the two applications submitted on april 15 -- you re incorporated that into the two applications submitted on april 15. >> you call those changes, i would call them additions to the permits. some of those were because of the people entering into the system. some people are new to the system. the primary person who input the data -- these were being input by someone else. due to the nature of the additions, she made some typos that we corrected. there is no substantial change to the well program. these are add

don't ask, don't tell, it's called. and what it meant when president clinton instituted that program what h was that whatever you're drawn to sexually, you keep it private, you don't let it get out and become open with regard to your military service and we want you in the military. that's what it comes down to. but that hadn't been good enough. we have too many people in here that did not have good history teachers and so they don't know the lessons from history. and so we're destinned to repeat them. and that's what we're doing now. we are repeating the lessons of history. and historians would have a hard time going back and finding any great nation, even to the earliest city states that achieved greatness and then toward the end of their existence, they forced homosexuality to be accepted in areas like the military. why have we not learned this? why couldn't we let the military do their jobs? with as much respect i have for our majority leader was shocked in the debate over don't ask, don't tell to hear the americans

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i would like to ask mr. armstrong, on the safety issue, and in your written statement you talk about the taxi service that we will be buying from the russians and soyuz as being perhaps not necessarily the safety standards that we would have on our own shuttle. would you talk about the safety issue? >> thank you. the prime recommendation of the colombia accident investigation board, with respect to new vehicles in the future was that safety be considered the prime consideration. who can argue with safety? that, safety, you can't put all the money into safety. safety has to be balanced with program requirements and others, and an acceptable level of safety. that is what you are really searching for. we have pretty good confidence on the shuttle right now. we have had a number of safe flights now, ever since the colombia and it seems to be operating well. nonetheless, it is a 40-year-old technology, but i do believe that it could continue to be operated safely, as we have in the last few years and have pretty

demint: i ask it be suspended. i call for the regular order with respect to wyden apartment 4109 and call up my amendment as a second-degree amendment the presiding officer: the clerk will report. the clerk: the senator from south carolina, mr. demint, proposes an amendment numbered 3852 to amendment numbered 4019. at the appropriate place insert the following: section, border fence completion. a, minimum requirements -- mr. demint: madam president, i ask the reading of the amendment be suspended. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. demint: i thank you, madam president. i yield the floor. mr. dodd: i note the absence of a quorum. the presiding officer: the clerk will call the roll. quorum call: quorum call: mr. kaufman: mr. president? the presiding officer: the senator from delaware. mr. kaufman: madam president, i ask consent that the quorum call be dispensed with. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. kaufman: madam president, i ask consent to speak as if in morning business for up to five minut

so here's what i want to ask you. soon enough position having come from wall street, by the end of 2006, the leverage ratios that bear stearns have hit 32 to one, morgan stanley, 36 to one lehman brothers, 34 to one cannot come in for balance sheet management. in the spring of 07, which is obviously a little later than the day when you're at camp david or the ratio of level three assets, liquid assets, assets that are hard to price because there's no discernible market price. a bears fan, their 269% tangible , equity agreement to 43 at coleman 200, morgan stanley 266. the investment banks and just as they said they're not necessarily unique of been growing like weeds are goldman 26% a year compounded annual growth through morgan stanley about 15%, merrill lynch 18%. and as you point out in your testimony, there are warning signs that i found states all over the country trying to fight in early 2000 before you become treasury secretary deceptive and unfair lending. they were preempted by the occ in 2004 the fbi warns a

what are you asking?> what is the federal government come in and take over -- why does the federal government not come in and take over and get the job done? >> let me address dick's question. bp is working, and i would refer you to them on the actual efforts they will undertake over the course of this weekend, different ideas on how to stop the leak, which they have done with the insertion to, as well as what is going on with the riser. i would say we've asked them to provide more public data on air- water quality. we asked them 10 days ago. we reiterated yesterday. we ask them to provide video footage of what is happening 5,000 feet below the state. >> is there a record? >> you cannot do that to a private company. first of all, the -- >> [inaudible] >> the pardon -- pardon? >> you took over aig. >> the company is largely in receivership. this is a proprietary video that was in the joint information center that was working through -- the command had the video in order to see, for the response efforts we

the bill passed this afternoon it included repeal of "don't ask, don't tell". that 1993 law prohibits the military asking recruits if they are gay or actively searching them out. but gays who openly declare their status or engage in homosexual conduct are subject to being discharged. the repeal was adopted last night as an amendment sponsored by pennsylvania democrat and army veteran patrick murphy. >> when i served in baghdad, my team did not care whether a fellow soldier was straight or gay. we cared if they could fire their m-4 assault rifle or run a convoy down ambush alley. could they do their job so that everybody in our unit would come home safely? with our military fighting two wars, why on earth would we tell over 13,500 able-bodied americans that their services are not needed? >> woodruff: that is the estimated number of men and women who've been forced to leave the army, navy, air force and marines since "don't ask" was first put in place. under murphy's proposal, repeal would take effect only after the pentagon completes its study into how the chang

>> absolutely. >> let me ask -- a question tht mr. waxman was asking about negative pressure test. once i'd read 1400 psi and the other side read zero. what should the other side of ready up the pressure test had been absolutely perfect?ure >> the way i understand the configuration that was i hydraulically connected so the pressure is on the choke andas kill line and the drill pipe should've been the same. >> identical pressures.ke i am just a layman but that would indicate some obstruction allow pressure to be transmitted from the drilld c line to the kill line or vice to versa? >> i can't speculate as to why but they should have been theral same from the way they arecula hydraulically connected, from what i understand. >> going back to the previousauc issue, committee staffers have been told by your staff mr. mckay that when bp attempted to operate the rams underwater the device was either mislabeled are notut labeled in the way tha anticipated. is that correct?sslabeled >> that is correct. i louisiana coast. they have 7700 miles offest stew astew -- ofe estuaries on the coastlin

i'll continue to ask for those votes. i know we'll work at having a successful outcome on monday afternoon. thanks again. i yield the floor, mr. president. and i would note the absence of a quorum. the presiding officer: the clerk will call the roll. quorum call: quorum call: quorum call: quorum call: quorum call: the presiding officer: the senator from connecticut. mr. dodd: mr. president, i'd ask consent that the call of the quorum be rescinded. mr. president, i want to share some thoughts, if i can, for a couple of minutes on one of the proposals that will be coming up, i think next week in the bill. briefly again, i want to express my gratitude to all of my colleagues for the way in which this bill has been conducted. contrary to what many people may think about the united states senate, we are capable of having a debate, one filled with emotion and passion about strongly held views and yet respect each other to allow the debate to go forward and amendments be voted up and down. we've done that 33 or 34 times over the

attorney general, i'm not asking that. i'm asking about the law and the fact that every report that has been issued says the law is now either gray, dated or nonexistent on this. we have mr. schwartz, a very capable professional, the white house czar. we don't know who in the hell's in charge. that's number one. number two, there are these issues where the private sector is really apprehensive about the ongoing attacks on them. google comes to the national security agency. that's really new ground. so we want to, as we look at this, protect -- we have to have a kind of legal framework also to be able to define what are the parameters, how can various sectors in our government, do we maintain the current structure, do we look at it. ha you been tasked to examine this inna comprehensive way? >> well, we are working with our counterparts in various parts of the executive branch and working with the white house as well to deal with the issues that you have raised. we are concerned about intrusions, we are concerned about priva

but i had asked, mr.ush and others asked specifically about the november 27, 2009 accident involving a 2010 camry in auburn, new york. i asked about decemr 26, 2009 accident in south lake, texas, involving a 2008 toyota avalon. i asked about jeff pepski of minnesota, 2007 lexus es 350 about their black box record. i also asked and questioned you on the february 20th, 2010 washington post article on the camry's 2005. in fact, three fatal accidents in the course of 2005. camry is not subject to any sudden unintended acceleration though the thr fatal accidts did. we are looking for information on the black box recorders. i will follow up in writing. that and other questions i have. >> i apologize if we haven't submitted that to you. i can tell you that the black box recorders, we have lived up to our commitment that we have 150 of the deces, the data retrieval devices in the marketplace. i can also tell you -- >> correct. we want to know what they say. >> yeah. i can tell you they will be made commercially a

let me just ask you first about what i was asking robert gibbs about this. did the white house offer you a position in the administration if you would not run? >> i was asked that question months after it happened. i felt an obligation to answer it honestly. i said yes. >> schieffer: what job? >> i said at the time anything beyond that just gets into politics. actually that's what i think is failing washington d.c. principle doesn't seem to triumph over politics. when people come here, be willing to lose their job. or are they doing what they said they would do. i just stay focused on what i had issued out there which was a plan for pennsylvania working families from retirement security to opportunities for their children and small business opportunities. that's what i just keep on talking about. >> schieffer: let's talk about the race that you had with arlen specter. the white house obvious lie wanted you not in the race. you took them on now will you ask for barack obama's help. >> the president was the very first one who called me. i welcome my support. i

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presint, i ask consent the call of the quorum be rescinded. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. dodd: mr. president, i want to spend a few minutes, if i may, and i'd like to address the reed, jack reed of rhode island, and scott brown of massachusetts, the amendment that they offered earlier and was voted on earlier. i'd ask consent that my comments appear prior to the vote, if i may, as well. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. dodd: mr. president, i strongly support this proposal that was adopt add little while ago that was offered by our two colleagues from? he, senator reed of rhode island and senator brown of massachusetts. as both of these colleagues of ours speak with some authority on this amendment. jack reed of course is a graduate of west point and served for a number of years in uniform for our country with great distinction, i might add. senator brown has spent, as i heard him say, some 30 years in the national guard in the state of massachusetts, i believe. and so he can also speak with more than just passive

i would ask him -- i think your question is over broad asking for conclusions. the entire basis for answering, can you break it down a little bit? >> i withdraw the question, thank you. >> thank you very much for being here. are there any questions we didn't ask for any information relevant to the investigation the think we should know? >> i have no -- i have nothing to add. >> if we need you to come back, will you make yourself available to the board? >> i am fully available, yes, sir. >> we will take a break and resume at 9:45. [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2010] >> the board and no call on transition. please rise and raise your right hand. the statement given to an agency of the united states is punishable by fine under 18 -- do you solemnly swear that the testimony you're about to give is the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, so help you god? >> i do. >> take a seat. >> before we begin, are you being represented by transition -- transocean? for the record, can you p

i ask every candidate that.ontinue that more than a few of them of the thousand i have interviewed are stumped by the concept until they really think about it. we don't think about what america stands for. a well regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people, that's you, to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed. what is wrong with that statement? think about where it came from. it came from the pennsylvania constitution. the right of the citizens to bear arms in defense of themselves and the state shall not be questioned. that is the legacy that each one of you have to protect. i want you also to think that until february of this year, we did not restore the right of citizens to bear arms in national parks like lexington and concord where the british originally came to take the fire arms of americans. how ludicrous it is bad for a congress that swears an oath to the constitution? these are your rights. these are your freedoms. this is why i am here today. i have t

he asked the man, does your job dog bite? he reaches down to pet the dog, only to have of the dog terror a shred on his coat. the man looks up and said, this is not my dog. i am here to say that we need to stop treating the issue of family engagement as though it is not our dog. parents think well of the school their child or children attend. but they believe at the same time that public schools in general across this country are not as strong as they need to be. the same split vision of education is evident when americans asked about parenting and family engagement at school. overwhelming majorities say that their parenting skills are solid, but they are actively involved -- they are actively involved in their child's school. they are convinced that other parents are falling down on the job. other parents how about too little with homework, failed to discipline their children, or leave their children alone too much after school. this cognitive dissidence -- dissonance his troubled both political parties for years. it leaves

out like to ask you a question that i asked tad olson -- i would like to ask you a question that asked ted olson when he was under confirmation hearings. he had written something 20 years earlier about public policy. what policies are implemented, the law must be enforced by the justice department -- once policies are implemented, the law must be enforced by the justice department. whether we like them or not, where the government's lawyers. even if we disagree with the policies of a lot and even if we feel there are questionable constitutionality, we must enforce the rights. do you agree? >> absolutely. there is simply no question not when one assumes the solicitor general's role, one is assuming a set of responsibilities and obligations, of which the defense the statute is one of the most critically important. the defense of the statutes, whether you would have voted for those or not. i know that ted olson would not have voted for the mccain-final bill. -- feingold bill. but he did an extraordinary job defending that piece of legislation, which i think you will agree. that is what th

foac ask, don't tell" law. that would allow military commanders to repeal the law and allow gay men and lesbians to serve openly in the military for the first time. the house vote on that was 234- 194. opposed to the amendment were 168 republicans and 26 democrats. more debate on amendments to the defense authorization bill later today in the house. the speaker pro tempore: on this vote the yeas are 235. the nays are 182. the previous question is ordered on the am -- amendment and on the resolution. the question is on the adoption of the amendment. so many as are in favor say aye. those opposed, no. the ayes have it. >> mr. speaker, i ask for a recorded vote. the speaker pro tempore: those favoring a recorded vote will rise. a sufficient number havi arisen, a recorded vote is ordered. members will record their votes by electronic device. this is a five-minute vote. [captioning made possible by the national captioning institute, inc., in cooperation with the united states house of representatives. any use of the

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i'm going to ask mr. cao for any questions or comments he might have. >> that's really my concern, like yours, centers on the effect of the dispersants on the wildlife as well as on some of the species, as you said in your report. but as of right now, the only data that you actually have are the ones tham the "exxon valdez" and none other? >> other information is available. it isot available to me as i speak here, but the -- the role of dispersants across the board is to break the oil up into smaller pieces. some of the chemicals used for this are more toxic than others. but ne of them are exactly a recipe for good health for creatures who live in the sea. >> you mention that we have to invest in creating, inventing new deep water submersibles. how far are we if we were to invest money to develop such a vehicle that it can go down to the deepest part of the ocean floor. >> the technology exists. the oceanographic institution deployed this past year in 2009 a remotely operated system that went to full ocea

. >> house asking for unanimous+ -- i was asking for unanimous >> go ahead. >> mr. barton challenged both toyota and nhtsa to get to thee bottom of this proolem and to do so with a sense of clarrty and in toyoot's approach tt the sudden, and anticipatedd of%- acceleration. when the ranking memmer stated at the conclusion of his remarks today that he waaspleased that they had hired an iidependent the representations they made thattit had hired exponent and given it a mission to et to the bottom of this problem with an unlimited budget. the ooly proolem with that perception is that it is contrary to the documents that i information that were ade atprr our last hearing. the documents that we have been provided with show that toyota's trial lawyers, not toyota, work on december 7, 2009,,and did not engageeexponent for the purpose of getting to the bottom -pof this problem,,but for he purpose of defending class-- action claims filed against toyota. that is the probllm wwth toyyta's response since our last hearing. if you ookkat what has been of the sole witness whoedibil