mr. smith: i yield to the jar 30 seconds. reed reed american -- mr. reed: gets lawyers and bureaucrats out of our lawyers. let's repeal the bill and focus on bipartisan initiatives like fixing the doughnut hole and without spending an additional $50 million. until we do so, jobs will continue to be lost. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields back the balance of his time. the gentleman from michigan. mr. conyers: we recognize for one minute the gentleman from missouri, rust carnahan. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized for one minute. mr. carnahan: i rise in strong opposition to this bill that would hurt small businesses in missouri who are finally imagining access to affordable coverage for their employees. the health care coverage for small firms has increased at more than 12%. those small business owners will lose tax credits that are providing up to 50% of their health care costs and will have to drop the very health insurance they have now been able to provide employees and their families. these are real peopl

mr. smith: i yield to the jar 30 seconds. reed reed american -- mr. reed: gets lawyers and bureaucrats out of our lawyers. let's repeal the bill and focus on bipartisan initiatives like fixing the doughnut hole and without spending an additional $50 million. until we do so, jobs will continue to be lost. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields back the balance of his time. the gentleman from michigan. mr. conyers: we recognize for one minute the gentleman from missouri, rust carnahan. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized for one minute. mr. carnahan: i rise in strong opposition to this bill that would hurt small businesses in missouri who are finally imagining access to affordable coverage for their employees. the health care coverage for small firms has increased at more than 12%. those small business owners will lose tax credits that are providing up to 50% of their health care costs and will have to drop the very health insurance they have now been able to provide employees and their families. these are real peopl

mr. smith: i yield to the jar 30 seconds. reed reed american -- mr. reed: gets lawyers and bureaucrats out of our lawyers. let's repeal the bill and focus on bipartisan initiatives like fixing the doughnut hole and without spending an additional $50 million. until we do so, jobs will continue to be lost. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields back the balance of his time. the gentleman from michigan. mr. conyers: we recognize for one minute the gentleman from missouri, rust carnahan. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized for one minute. mr. carnahan: i rise in strong opposition to this bill that would hurt small businesses in missouri who are finally imagining access to affordable coverage for their employees. the health care coverage for small firms has increased at more than 12%. those small business owners will lose tax credits that are providing up to 50% of their health care costs and will have to drop the very health insurance they have now been able to provide employees and their families. these are real peopl

mr. reed: thank you, madam speaker. madam speaker, i rise today without a script but to send my thoughts and prayers and all of the thousands of people from my district out to the congressman's family, to the congressman herself, and to all the families that were affected by such a tragic day in our nation's history. we shall never forget what happened last saturday. but as i walked into work today , and i saw the sun breaking as it was coming up and shining on the dome of the capitol, there was a glorious site, because what it reminded me is that even in our darkest days, this nation always will rise again. as we stand here rightfully and pay our respects to our dear colleague, and the families that suffered so much, and are suffering as we speak, let us not forget that this nation will rise and we will persevere. thank you. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields back. the gentleman from arizona. mr. pastor: i yield two minutes to the gentlelady from new york. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlelad

mr. reedrican who worked for the owner of the foundry and was selected to cast the bronze statue. he figured out how to dissemble the model. a hairline crack appeared. the crack indicated with the joint were located, and he then repeated the operation until the five different sections of that statute were discovered. we know about phillip garrido de because the son of the foundry owner shared this story back in 1869, and it describes as philip reed as an expert and an admirer of the workmen. we stand here today, not only because of philip reed, but for other enslaved african americans like him who worked tirelessly to sacrifice in the face of strife. these plaques in their own right will serve as a symbol of their sacrifice and will be seen by visitors who enter the building for evermore. in closing, i would like to personally thank the members of the task force, chairman schumer of the rules committee for their help as well, as well as senator chambliss and others who were original co-sponsor

mr. chairman. >> thank you very much, senator reed.i'm aware of the travails you went through to get here. i was following your travels yesterday, and my staff kept advising me because of the weather, was unable to take your flight, and as i understand, it took you ten hours on the train to get here. so we really appreciate your diligence and effort to be here. last we have mr. olivo or ivo? olivo. our final witness is mr. joe olivo. he is the president and co-owner of a burgeoning printing business, perfect printing. mr. olivo co-owns the company along with his wife, mother and two brothers in new jersey. he's grown his business from 10 employees to 45 employees. wish we could do that all over the country. thank you very much for coming, mr. olivo. and so, again, as you know, we'll take all your testimonies as they are written in order and they'll be submitted to the record in their entirety. i would like to ask as we go through, if each of you sum up in a few minutes, i don't have a distinct cutoff time, but five minutes or so, what

recently i had the opportunity, privilege to go to walter reed and bethesda. and mr. speaker, for the first time before i walked in this young soldier's room i was told out front by the major that escorted me that he has no body parts below his waist. they've all been blown away. then i had the opportunity to see a marine sergeant at the same visit who had been to afghanistan four times, and on the fourth tour, he had his left leg blown off. what in the world are we trying to do? why don't we understand from history nobody is ever going to conquer afghanistan. so therefore i hope the president will say to his -- stay to his word and start bringing our troops home. we're spending $8 billion a month in afghanistan and yet throughout america, including my district, the third district of north carolina, we can't even fix the roads. we can't even fix the schools because we're spending money we don't have we're borrowing from the japanese and chinese and e.a.e. -- u.a.e. and other countries. it's time the congress speaks up and listens. 63% of the american people say it's t

reed. >> thank you, madam secretary. thank you, mr. chairman. recalling some of the discussions in the health care debate, one of the issues around the elimation of pre-existing conditions was t need to have essentially mandatory coverage. i think that was an issue that was pushed very aggressively by the insurance industry. >> that's correct. >> and in fact their view basically was that if we provide this benefit, which is -- could be the most popular, frankly, the popular -- most popular aspect of the health care reform, if you have the resources, you can buy insurance regardless of your health care condition. it was, again, just a little -- to put it in context, it was as much the insistence of the insurance industry than it is any sort of policymaker here in washington that mandatory coverage has to be part of it now. >> i think, senator, it was brought to the table by the insurance industry, by the association of health insurance plans and others to guard against anned aversionly selected market place if only the sick are in an insurance po

reed. >> thank you, madam secretary. thank you, mr. chairman. recalling some of the discussions in the health care debate, one of the issues around the elimination of pre-existing conditions was the need to have essentially mandatory coverage. i think that was an issue that was pushed very aggressively by the insurance industry. >> that's correct. >> and in fact their view basically was that if we provide this benefit, which is -- could be the most popular, frankly, the popular -- most popular aspect of the health care reform, if you have the resources, you can buy insurance regardless of your health care condition. it was, again, just a little -- to put it in context, it was as much the insistence of the insurance industry than it is any sort of policymaker here in washington that mandatory coverage has to be part of it now. >> i think, senator, it was brought to the table by the insurance industry, by the association of health insurance plans a others to guard against anned aversionly selected market place if only the sick are in an insurance

reed hospital. he went into this week, came out of the suite in tears, sobbing and sobbing. i had never seen him cry again for many, many years until mrs. nixon died. it was a very significant friendship. >> that was a jack brennan, who was my data military marine paid in the white house, served his country with great distinction. and after the resignation, jacking up and was chief of staff for my dad, and i remember my father crying, too. >> i was going to say something to the eisenhower nixon relationship is actually of interest to historians in a big way julie and i have been talking with a man who is going to base a book on them. the scenes that you're talking about, jack, i was that i remember. if the answer to everybody. not only, here, there was a clash between the two that one might expect. one of the relationships we covered in "going home to glory" is a clash between dwight eisenhower and douglas macarthur. and the reason they clashed is eisenhower and macarthur, now serving together at an early point in the career could not have recognized that macarthur had the stuff of the commander of an entire war front in world war ii,

mr. smith as depicted in that movie coming to washington. they want to do away with the filibuster. senator reed says "they are wiser than our founding fathers? i doubt that's true. there's one other senator who spoke and said this, the senator from illinois, senator obama, "if the majority chooses to end the filibusters, speaking of republicans, if they refuse to change the rules and put an end to the democratic debate, then the fighting and gridlock gets worse." i dissh -- to me, the uniqueness of the senate -- let me put it this way. the last two years have been an aberration. i'm coming to my question for the senator from iowa. we had no incentive for the majority to take the ideas of the minority because the majority had these huge majorities, and nearly 60 votes here and a democratic president, so that when senator, my colleague from tennessee, began to work on the financial regulation bill, the republicans said, well, we like him. he's got good ideas. we don't need the votes, we won the election. we had a democratic bill. we had a democratic health care bill. we had a democratic stimulus