see, it is imprinted in black letters and there is no signature except john hancock's name appears on the bottom and charles thompson attesting to the signature of john hancock. >> who served as president -- >> was the president of the congress. so -- but you don't see signatures. all you see are the block letters. because, it is printed. and it is printed in block letters. that was send out. that was sent out broadly. so, the text of the declaration was broadly disseminated. to see -- it is possible to say this is a press release. so that the people of the state and members of the army would know that their cause had changed dramatically and now they were fighting not for reconciliation of grievances but for independence and that is circulated largely domestically. they do send a copy to silas dean in france with orders to give it to the french court. but they -- congress doesn't do it. it is done by a committee and they do it in the most lackadaisical way imaginable. i mean, they send it on one ship. you don't do that in the 18th century. if it is important, going across the north atlantic, you put it on two ships

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john. chairman, i think your microphone is -- >> i thank you as the ranking member mr. thompson for your courtesy and also the members for your kindness to me. this is a hearing which has great potential and i'm very hopeful that under your leadership and with the cooperation of members of the committee that good results will have been achieve d there is reason for us to go into this question of risk to our nation. that is one of the assigned businesses of this particular committee. for the record, i'm john dingell, member of congress from michigan's 15th congressional district. as you mentioned, i'm dean of the house. i have engaged in the practice of being chair of committees for many years. also in running new committees. i represent a very diverse congressional district which we have all races, religions and all parts of the world society represented. i represent a very fine community of muslim americans that i'm here to tell you something which you know and that is they are local, decent, honorable americans. they hold elected office. they have immigrated to our state from

the firing of john galliano after an online video supporting claims that he made antisemitic remarks and it has sent shock waves through the start of fashion week in paris. abc's anne thompsonis there. good morning to you, anne. >> reporter: good morning, matt. it's all anyone is talking about here in paris. john galliano's work has made him famous, dress something of the most glamorous women in the world and his work has been honored by the french president and britain's queen elizabeth. this morning he's out of christian dior, the victim of his own appalling behavior. ♪ >> reporter: john galliano's designs for dior are staples on the red carpet. nicole kidman and sharon stone both in dior at sunday's oscars. on the runway, his over the top shows and outrageous personal style made him a bold-faced name in fashion, but it's galliano's words caught on tape in a cafe and posted by a british newspaper that were too much for the house of dior. >> i love hitler. people like you would be dead. >> reporter: on tuesday christian dior started firing procedures against its chief designer calling the remarks deeply offensive and in total contradiction to the core values of the fashion

john porcari. this has live coverage on c-span2. >> we just came from i think and awe-inspiring speech by governor tommy thompson, has recently joined apta as an advisor on our transportation issues. so i think he presented a great perspective for each of us as we do our work in washington. and our list of great speakers continues. and a few minutes we will hear from deputy u.s. secretary of transportation john porcari, a longtime active member of the transportation fraternity, and a good friend of apta so we're very pleased he is with us. brought with him our fta administrator, peter rogoff, and later we will hear from our ab r. h. a p. administrator karen rate. and an agency we don't often hear from, but we are very pleased that the tsa, transportation security administration, will be represented by chief of staff art masao's. and he'll be giving us an update on the activities that are so important to us in the area of transportation security. later today we'll hear from congressional staff, and we will close out the day with some good advice from veteran congressman, republican from ohio, and democrat earl blumenauer from oregon.