mr. miller... >> and i don't want thomas to go that road. >> judge judy: mr. miller, he has to get his bike back. do you understand? he's a big boy, and it's gonna interfere with your relationship with him, and this is not his mother. you have different objectives. do you understand me? >> yes, i do. >> judge judy: fine. >> announcer: "judge judy" continues in a moment. >> he brought me a report card with an "f" on it. it was changed to a "c." >> judge judy: you are talking to me as if you believe that's a felony. i used to have special ink to determine whether or not my children changed their grades. >> announcer: and later today... >> judge judy: you think he intended to hurt you? >> yes, your honor, i do. >> judge judy: why in the world would he pick up that and throw it with such force at your face to hurt you? do you think he had a psychotic to hurt you? do you think he had a psychotic moment?,,,,,,,, >> announcer: real cases. real people. "judge judy." 17-year-old thomas miller says his father, jim miller, is holding on to a dirt bike that belongs to him.

mr. miller: i'd be happy to. mr. richardson: my amendment is not how long we should wait, it's whether it's needed or not. mr. miller: i reclaim my time. on this issue, how long we wait is predicated on how much we're going to spend. and my colleagues on this side of the aisle believe the american people, the taxpayers, have given too much of their money away and they're saying we want it stopped and we want you to be responsible for this money. if this were our dollars an we're getting in her purse and my wallet and handing money out, that's a prerogative we have. that's not what we have. we put our hands in your wallet, your purse and give away your money. i ask for a no vote and yield back. the chair: the gentleman yields back. the gentlewoman from california. the gentlewoman has one and a half minutes remaining. ms. richardson: ma cam chairwoman, in regards to the comments recently stated, for the largest city in our state of california, the mayor states that the program has helped cities across the country to ad

mr. miller: yes. mr. frank: will the gentleman tell us what's the maximum number people should be eligible to buy a house under fannie or freddie mac? mr. miller: i was in the building industry in my early 20's and the most excitement you can see on a person's face was when they bought a home and they were moving into that home and they thought about raising that family. i would love a country that every person in this country has the ability and the opportunity at some point in their life to buy a home. but in some fashion lenders have put people in positions to put them in homes that they could not afford. mr. frank: will the gentleman yield? mr. miller: in just a second i will. mr. miller: in those homes in many cases the people lost those homes to foreclosures. and those people that were well-intentioned, that moved into homes they could not afford because the lender perhaps did not describe exactly or they thought the way the economy is going in three or four years the house will be worth 40% more an

mr. miller. the chair: the gentleman is recognized for 45 seconds. mr. miller: i rise in strong support of this amendment. this amendment really restores democracy to the american workplace and it restores the american principles of majority vote and majority rule. the decision by the national mediation board to begin recognizing election results based upon who actually votes in the election is correct and a long time coming. it's a fair and open process, 60-day comment period and public hearings with 34 witnesses and this -- their answers were upheld in court. think of this in our committee. all rules are a majority of those present and voting. no committee in this congress would operate under these rules because they would not be able to prevail on any of the votes because people would just -- people could stay away and be counted no. no p.t.a. would operate urn these rules. they may have a large membership. so we have to restore democracy, protect american workers and support this amendment. the chair: the gentleman from florida. mr. mica: i yield one

mr. miller? >> thank you, mr. chairman. mr. secretary, in your prepared testimony you said that the administration's committed to a housing finance system in which the private market, private capital is the primary source of mortgage credit, and you said that would be subject to strong oversight, strong consumer and investor protections. it's pretty clear that private capital has not come back many this market. there's been one issue of $236 million in the private label mortgage-backed securities market which is an asterisk compare today what it had been before. in response to questions by ms. waters, you elaborated some and said we needed for standardization in the market and better disclosure so investors know what they're buying which is what is -- which is consistent with what i've heard from investors. but, but they say that the first effort by the sec does not quite get there. sec 193 allows greater disclosure of due diligence, but is due diligence still by the issuer or third parties hired by th issuer, they want the abi

mr. miller. >> thank you, mr. chairman. secretary geithner, this morning -- i haven't heard a lot with regard to the federal home loan banks and it is in your testimony and it's in the report. can you elaborate just a little bit on where you feel the role would be? i know there's been a few problems but generally not a lot of problems with them and where you think we can go with that? >> there's a few examples he pointed out in the current system that it deserves attention and reform and i will mention those again although they are in the paper. the entities were allowed like fannie and freddie to accumulate investment portfolio which we don't think is necessary and they took on a lot of risk and they didn't -- some of them to congress and didn't have capital to back that and that is something we should avoid in the future to be created a system where we allow large banks to be members of multiple home loan banks and that's something we have to look at it again and again to make sure the system doesn't have too much risk. t

mr. miller band. >> can i say that we welcome the security council resolution and support the u.k. playing its full part? the international community has shown clear resolve with what has happened. since the statement 2.5 weeks ago, we support action to help the libyan people. we support the government and answer the necessary questions that we think the country will want asked. it is important the british people are clear about the purposes of this resolution and the basis of commitment of british forces. any decision to commit to british armed forces is a grave and serious one and must be based on a clear and compelling case. in this case, it is based, as the prime minister said, on the clear evidence of gaddafi brutalizing its own people in response to demands for democratic change. it is action that most important by the clear resolution of the arab league and now by a legal mandate from the united nations. so the military action that is being embarked upon has broad support and legal base and recognizes our responsibility to protect the libyan people. these are necessary preco

mr. miller. mr. miller: i thank the gentleman for yielding. the point of this amendment is if you're going to spend this money in violation of the rules and you're going to create additional deficit, you at least ought to spend it in something that's effective. and that works for the children. and improves their educational opportunities. investing in the d.c. voucher program that is now run over a period of years, by every study that has been done on it says that these students are doing no better than when they left their school but we're spending $100 million to educate them. they statistically are not any improved over the performance of the school that they left. but we continue to spend the money on the myth that somehow this is a model program that you would recommend cate all over the country. -- replicate all over the country. why would you replicate a program that is so inefficient and does not provide an education advantage for the students participating in it ? i understand there are parents who chose them to participate in the vou

mr. miller: thank you, mr. chairman. i first of all want to assure the gentleman from texas that if he's worried about the debt burden that children being born today face, this program, unless one of those children takes a job on wall street within the next two years, like the talking baby in the etrade ads, they aren't going to have to pay for this program. this program is going to come to the financial sector. that was the promise made in the tarp legislation and unless they plan to break that promise and i'm beginning to get the feeling that they are, this is not going to be something born, a cost borne by innocent taxpayers but by the industry they thank creates the myths. now, many people have criticized the tarp program including me. the congressional oversight panel has, the especially inspector general for the tarp program, yes, a lot of people have criticized the program. unlike republicans, a lot of us have been trying to figure out a way to make it work. i have offered several suggestions. i have criticized it

mr. miller, the gentleman from north carolina, mr. watt, i joined them later, tried to outlaw those loans. we were blasted by people who said no, that's a mistake. in fact in 2007 when this house, when we became the majority, finally did make illegal many of those loans in the bill, the "wall street journal" denounced us and said we had created a sarbanes-oxley restriction for housingment i just want to make it clear that there was no direction by any entity of the federal government. the gentleman appears to acknowledge that when he said fannie and freddie -- i'll finish my sentence first. when he said that fannie and freddie allowed it, that's a long way from saying that it was directed. now i yield. >> i appreciate that. i'm curious, though, how getting back to this particular amendment in this particular bill as we are removing this program, why is this program so vital if it was authorized in 1975, and in 1995 the clinton administration under h.u.d. used this language -- mr. frank: i got time. >> the language that they said, they

mr. miller: mr. speaker, the national football league contract bargaining fight could teach an important lesson to the governor of wisconsin about how to ensure high-quality teachers in his state. when governor walker dictates that teachers will lose their collective bargaining rights except for negotiations over pay, he shows how out of touch he is with the teaching profession, with school reform in america and, frankly, with the american workplace. having a voice at work has never been just about pay. it's about whether america's workplace will respect and nurture workers' skills, their ability or ingenuity or will it simply crush their spirit? it's about the total workplace and the ability of workers to be valued by and to add value to the enterprise. whether that enterprise is a school, a factory or an nfl team. ask yourself this -- if he could, would governor walker limit collective bargaining for the world champion green bay packers to just the question of pay? if he tried he would discover rap

mr. miller: mr. speaker, i rise today to highlight a very serious and dangerous attack on middle class americans being waged by the republicans in the congress and in state houses across the country. the wisconsin governor's assault on public employees is getting most of the media attention, but it is just one of the fronts of the extreme right-wing and anti-worker agenda trying to be carried out in this country. in fact, there is a well financed and coordinated national attack against working families in the unions they may belong to. the goal of which is to take away power from the middle class and give it to the wealthy special interests that have backed republicans in their elections. here's how it's playing out. the republicans are taking a real problem, a serious problem, that of the budget deficits and long-term debt in this country, and they are signing it to a fake cause. under the guise of cutting deficits, they say the working people's union rights and workplace protections must be elimina

now mrs. miller is taking donations of people that just want to help out, but don't really want to have the shoes. >> that's great. >> and whoever lives with her probably wishes her well too. >> yeah, right. >>> hopefully the roads aren't too bad this morning. >> you know, we are having good luck pam and dave, especially right now. it seems to have be a little better than it was just a few moments ago there. is 280 northbound up to highway 17. that traffic moving along nicely up to that area. also, this morning's commute is going to be okay driving on the san mateo bridge. chp has not lifted, and i'm just going to double check to make sure they didn't do nit the last few minutes. they had wind advisories for the san mateo bridge, and like i said, they have been canceled. it's been canceled for the bay bridge and also canceled for the san mateo bridge. just canceled just a few minutes ago. let's move along and take a look at southbound 101, traffic moving well. this middle part of the commute so far i

mr. miller: thank you very much. i think we all struggle with what phrase to use to describe the people that have been hurt by this. i think weual oo us auto -- i think we use middle class families, sometimes we say ordinary people, sometimes we say regular people. but the phrase that keeps coming to me is, people who are trying to make an honest living. and i think my model for that was my own parents. i'm a child of the middle class. my father worked for the post office, he managed -- at the end of his life, he worked there almost all of his life. he died in 1965 at the end of his life when i was 12. he was a manager of a neighborhood branch of the post office. and after that i saw my mother support me on her own as a widow when i was 12 forward and i remember my law school graduation, my mother being -- trembling. i thought she was overcome with pride since my generation was the first in our family to go to college. and she later admitted to my sister that she'd actually -- after my father died, prayed that if her

mrs. miller: mr. speaker, pursuant to clause 1 of rule 1, i ask for agreeing to the speaker's approval of the journal. the speaker pro tempore: those indicate by saying aye. the speaker: those opposed, no. the ayes have it. the journal stands approved. mrs. miller: mr. speaker, on that i would ask for the yeas and nays. the speaker: the yeas and nays are requested. pursuant to clause 8 of rule 20, further proceedings on this question are postponed. the pledge of allegiance today will be led by the gentleman from rhode island, congressman cicilline. mr. cicilline: i pledge allegiance to the flag of the united states of america and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. the speaker: the chair will entertain up to 15 one-minute requests on each side. for what purpose does the gentleman from texas rise? >> request permission to address the house for one minute, mr. speaker, and to revise and extend my remarks. the speaker pro tempore: with

mr. watt and i introduced that bill. it was miller watt two years -- miller-watt two years later it became miller-watt-frank. the gentleman from alabama said in committee the other day to deal with -- that wouldn't cost taxpayers. i introduced that in 2007. it was one way to teal with the problem is let bankruptcy judges modify mortgages in bankruptcy the same the way they modify all kinds of secured debt. no support from republicans at all. and the opposition of republicans killed that. i had introduced -- i urged the federal agencies that set rules for the banks to require they treat people better than they've been treating them. no help from republicans at all. and even -- even mountain last -- well, just yesterday, the federal agencies in charge of -- the banks' conduct and states' attorney generals had been pushing the banks to impose fines for violating the law in how they handle foreclosures. and several republicans sent a letter yesterday to the secretary -- secretary of the treasury protesting that federal agencies were being

mr. miller, for his opening remarks. >> thank you, mr. chairman. welcome back, mr. secretary. this is the fourth time we've had the privilege of having you before this committee since you were named secretary of education. each time you've told us about the work the obama administration is doing to investing in our youngest lerner's is one of the smartest investment we can make. programs like head start in short the children are on the right path with a solid foundation for success. in addition the proposal of the verney challenge fund would increase the number of low-income children arriving in kindergarten with the skills they need to succeed by spurring better standards and quality in the early learning settings. the president has also outlined an ambitious goal to have the highest college preservation rate by the year 2020. to meet that goal it is imperative that we continue to invest in our nation's college students through pell grants and other forms of student aid and we need to encourage colleges and states to partner in initiatives to ensure the students not only ente

mr. watt and i introduced that bill. it was miller watt two years -- miller-watt two years later it became miller-watt-frank. the gentleman from alabama said in committee the other day to deal with -- that wouldn't cost taxpayers. i introduced that in 2007. it was one way to teal with the problem is let bankruptcy judges modify mortgages in bankruptcy the same the way they modify all kinds of secured debt. no support from republicans at all. and the opposition of republicans killed that. i had introduced -- i urged the federal agencies that set rules for the banks to require they treat people better than they've been treating them. no help from republicans at all. and even -- even mountain last -- well, just yesterday, the federal agencies in charge of -- the banks' conduct and states' attorney generals had been pushing the banks to impose fines for violating the law in how they handle foreclosures. and several republicans sent a letter yesterday to the secretary -- secretary of the treasury protesting that federal agencies were being

mr. miller, for his opening remarks. >> thank you, mr. chairman. welcome back, mr. secretary. this is the fourth time we've had the privilege of having you before this committee since you were named secretary of education. each time you've told us about the work the obama administration is doing to beca while others there is no excuse for letting this continue in a country as great as ours. it's time we decide as a nation we can no longer afford to stay average. we can't afford to lose a generation of children because our best intentions don't work as well as they should have. we need to change in our federal education policy is a mystery to most people. we have to update the law of student and national needs through college and career ready standards, modernize teaching and the learning work force and recognize that teachers and leaders are professionals they are. we need to reevaluate the federal role in education. as we discussed last week we need to maintain accountability but most provide state and local districts more flexibility in how they appropriately address those n

mr. miller. there is a view that lenders lost money because of bad loans.lenders lost money when the maker of loans. some guy as coins to lose his job or someone is. if it divorce and in the old days, they would sell the house at a profit. now anybody that invested in good loans, they still lost money. the sub-par lending, how much of the losses are due to losses on prime loans, where you had an unexpected level of default and yesterday profitable cells, today short sales? >> most of the losses are on the prime. >> the most conservative banker started his bank for the purpose of making the first private loans, i am sure the lost money on the loans. >> you will see a big increase in default rates when people lose their jobs. >> in los angeles, it is easy to get a $20 million loan to buy a home in malibu. you either know the banker or you are the banker. it is almost impossible to get a loan in the $800,000 range. what would happen to the economy if we allow those that apply to the major metropolitan areas -- what happens if that were too precipitously droppe

speaker, i yield two minutes to mrs. miller, the gentlelady from michigan. political political i thank the -- >> i rise in strong support of this resolution, this house resolution that is going to put a statue of gerald r. ford in the united states rotunda. before i came to the congress i served as michigan's secretary of state and we did all the historic marker and i tried to get around the state of michigan to go to some of the dedications, particularly the ones i thought that were so outstanding and i recall with such a great amount of pride with having the historic marker dedicated for gerald ford's boyhood home where a couple of young people had bought the home and completely refurbished it to the period when gerald ford was there. so i'm -- we are standing on the porch of his home in grand rapids and there was a very large crowd assembled of family, friends and neighbors who were there to see the president, both the president and mrs. ford came that day. and i had gotten elected as the secretary of state and here i was introducing him to this crowd of

mr. miller, you're recognized for any closing remarks. >> i won't take any more of the secretary's time. thank you, mr. secretary. we'll all have follow-up conversations. >> i thank the gentleman. mr. secretary, i thank you. i do have one note that i'd like to bring up. the last time we had a hearing we asked for some responses for the record. we, frankly had the hearing in march and got the answers in december. we've had several requests today. i hope you will look at getting those responses in a timely way as possible. i apologize to you. i'm seven minutes over. thank you very, very much for your attendance, for your testimony, for your responses. there being no further business. >> that would be top of the list and that, of course, is the -- that is one of the threats -- the threat from international terrorism is one of the threats -- one of the top one tier 4 threats in the national security strategy. thank you. >> yes, i mean, the balance between whether we're looking primarily at domestic or international issues is driven by, obviously, external events but also the intelligence that

mrs. miller: mr. speaker, i was dumbfounded recently when i heard the senate majority leader slamming the long-term continuing resolution passed by this house which cut government spending by more than $100 billion below the president's f.y. 2011 budget request. and he particularly lamented the elimination of funding for an annual cowboy poetry festival in nevada. mr. speaker, i can assure the senate majority leader that the rugged individualism of the american cowboy will not be snuffed out due to the lack of a federal subsidy. in fact, i believe that the american cowboy supports our efforts will control federal spending under control. let me quote, mr. speaker, from a poem written who has been featured at the poetry gatherings and the title of her poem is "how to cut taxes." and i quote, so i think if i was the president of this home of the free and the brave, i'd close up all those departments and think of the money i'll save. mr. speaker, this is the poet that i would give a personal subsidy to. a

miller. and finally, two giants living legends, hall of famer mr. willy makati and hall of famer, the greatest mr. willie mays. [applause] how about a big hand for all of our special guests, everyone? [applause] we would like to thank the city and county of san francisco and our community partners, bank of america, caw, levi's, coors and miller, sales force.com, diamond foods, and charles schwab who helped make this possible. we would like to recognize broadcast partners knbr 680, the sports leader, comcast sports net bay area and nbc bay area, who bring giants baseball to our fans all season long and who have made it possible for today's event to be watched by giants fans throughout northern california. now, everyone, let's get this show on the road. let's get this party started. it is my great pleasure to introduce two members of the best broadcast team in all of baseball -- please welcome dave fleming and john miller. [applause] >> thank you for that. i always thought that this must be what it is like to be code, to go out to st. peter's on the b

the dubois household in brooklyn heights in a townhouse that they had purchased from arthur miller or at least mrs. dubois had. mr. dubois had earned very little money in his life and you went home with the meeropols and your new live and you have had a wonderful post-rosenberg file life from that point on. >> and there is where ed doctoro really gets wrong. i mean, susan and daniel are so screwed up and susan, of course, commits suicide. and, you know, robby and my life after 1954 is pretty damn boring. we had great lives. and you can see we got great kids and i and annie have so much noxus with two grandkids and my brother just got his first grand kid and we've had great professional lives and married once, stayed married. [laughter] >> when i started -- when i made the film, people -- one of the reactions i get all the time is when they meet you through the film, they meet dad through the film, they say why -- it seems like a happy person and such a good guy. why isn't he an ax murderer? [laughter] >> how is that possible? you must have had years of therapy. what's his secret? we're more misera

, jan, david meckel, javier, sergio, matt miller, john ring, francois, andrienne, ben, kate, mary beth sanders, kim, brigitte, matt, tom, and arnie larson. >> mr. president chiu, i am here to support this project as emphatically as i can. unlike the sponsors, in human. about that money, let's be real. there are a lot of campaign contributions lying around. is this about building the kind of neighborhood that we have witnessed here tonight? building on the sinking sand? i know there is perhaps a supervisor year or two. with a "ph," for the closed captioning, like sarah palin. with the ambient -- they will need a lot of money. i urge you to think about your future. the displacement of the doctor, the chair of the program. dr. terrance -- no, but all of that aside. think of you! president chiu: next speaker. >> good evening, supervisors. i am with the local and san francisco. i urge you to reject the appeal. i think the environmental report is adequate. when this project is done, you're going to avoid all of those commuters. another thing is there was a lot of noise about local hiring.

mr. chairman. >> sorry. actually go ck to the gentle lady from michigan, miss miller. >> thank you, mr. chairman. sorry, mr. higgins. you know first of all i want to thanyou for holding this hearing. i think it is very, very important and certainly after listening to the testimony today of all of the witnesses it's very clear that we have situations here in america that we need to examine candidly as we all seek the very same thing which is a strong safe secure america. and you know in the run-up to today's hearings we heard talk about how we should not be prejudging any one single group. i think after hearing the compelling testimony i think many, many, particularly in the media were as misguided by prejudging what this hearing was about. i'm hopeful this will strengthen our country. i think it's an opportunity to have an actual pivot for us and help us all to stand together. above everything else and i would make an observation. i know so many of my colleagues mentioned that we should be having all of these hearings on other groups who could potentially be a threat to america and i don't know w

mr. chairman. >> sorry. actually go back to the gentle lady from michigan, miss miller. >> thank you, mr. chairman. sorry, mr. higgins. you know first of all i want to thank you for holding this hearing. i think it is very, very important and certainly after listening to the testimony today of all of the witnesses it's very clear that we have situations here in america that we need to examine candidly as we all seek the very same thing which is a strong safe secure america. and you know in the run-up to today's hearings we heard talk about how we should not be prejudging any one single group. i think after hearing the compelling testimony i think many, many, particularly in the media were as misguided by prejudging what this hearing was about. i'm hopeful this will strengthen our country. i think it's an opportunity to have an actual pivot for us and help us all to stand together. above everything else and i would make an observation. i know so many of my colleagues mentioned that we should be having all of these hearings on other groups who could potentially be a threat to america and i don't know

mr. speaker, i want to take just a moment to thank candice miller from michigan, who was involved in thislegislation throughout its course last year and has been very instrumental this year. with that i'll reserve the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman reserves the balance of his time. the gentleman from new jersey. mr. pallone: you have no additional speakers. ok. i would then also yield back the balance of my time at this time and ask for support of the bill. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields back the balance of his time. the gentleman from texas. mr. burgess: again, mr. speaker, i also want to thank chairman upton and chairman pitts and ranking member waxman and pallone for their work in passing this bill so quickly through the subcommittee and full committee. i want to also thank mr. stupak for his hard work on the legislation in the last congress. again, i want to acknowledge the work of candice miller last congress and this congress in getting this bill passed. in an emergency, all hands ondeck. dentists are willing to support the response to a di

mr. robert bell. [applause] >> thank you very much. it's a great honor to follow ellen tauscher and to proceed jim miller in your proceedings today. at the outset let me come to the deepest apologies from the ambassador for not being able to make this a video conference today. .. >> and it's these two groups that are really pivotal in the terms of the success that we were able to achieve at lisbon. and they are making nato missile defense a reality today. of course, i would also like to acknowledge lieutenant general riley, the aiaa, and all of those in the audience who helped make the event possible today, including, of course, the sponsors. as you know from nancy's introduction, i'm no looking working with industry, but as the defense advisor of nato. i come to missile defense as a slightly different perspective than those of you working inside the beltway, at least most of you. that's specifically from the nato perspective. which means that we focus here on how the united states and it's allies together move forward with missile defense to advance the alliance of security interest. fortunately, there's a great deal of convergen

producer whether she might it following maryland miller and clifton webb in a song and dance number they thought was going to be a showstopper, he said no, mr. hart, i don't mind it at all being on a hot state. [laughter] i'm going to talk about cameras in the courtroom and how it is that they became at least in the view of some disreputable. but basically this is a look backwards it's not media so much as it is old media and a bit of history. let's start with the ninth circuit. the ninth circuit first permitted broadcast of appellate arguments even 20 minutes ago. regarded on the radical fringe of the ninth circuit, jay clifford wallace, thomas nelson and oliver kilcher allowed c-span is with us today and three television stations to broadcast. in the years since, requests for broadcasts have been made in the ninth circuit and 365 cases. and the ninth circuit has granted 71% of those requests. these have included it would argument in a gindin rickards versus not stir, the first internet file sharing case, the california gubernatorial recall case of a native hawaiian schools case and most recently, the case that susan here in phoenix hilbol

producer whether she minded following marilyn miller and clifton webb in a song and dance number that they thought was going to be a showstopper. waters said, no, mrhart, i don't mind at all being on a hot stage. i am going to talk about cameras in the court room and how it is that they became -- at least in the view of some -- disreputable. basically, this is a look backwards. it is not new media as much as it is old media and a bit of history. let's start with the ninth circuit. the ninth circuit first permitted broadcast of appellate arguments over 20 years ago. three judges, generally not judged as one of the radical fringe of the ninth circuit -- j. clifford wallace, thomas nelson, and the late oliver -- allowed c-span, with us today, and three television stations, to broadcast an appellate argument. in the years cents, request for broadcasts were made in the ninth circuit in 365 cases, and the ninth circuit granted 71% of those requests. these have included appellate arguments in a new mexico records v. master, california gubernatorial recall case, the native hawaiian schools case, and, most recently, the case that susan bolton here in phoen

producer whether she might it following maryland miller and clifton webb in a song and dance number they thought was going to be a showstopper, he said no, mr. hart, i don't mind it at all being on a hot state. [laughter] i'm going to talk about cameras in the courtroom and how it is that they became at least in the view of some disreputable. but basically this is a look backwards it's not media so much as it is old media and a bit of history. let's start with the ninth circuit. the ninth circuit first permitted broadcast of appellate arguments even 20 minutes ago. regarded on the radical fringe of the ninth circuit, jay clifford wallace, thomas nelson and oliver kilcher allowed c-span is with us today and three television stations to broadcast. in the years since, requests for broadcasts have been made in the ninth circuit and 365 cases. and the ninth circuit has granted 71% of those requests. these have included it would argument in a gindin rickards versus not stir, the first internet file sharing case, the california gubernatorial recall case of a native hawaiian schools case and most recently, the case that susan here in phoenix hilbol

mr. speaker, i rise today in support of this rule and the two underlying bills. the first piece of legislation, the neighborhood stabilization program termination act was introduced by my friend from california, gary miller, on march 1, 2011, and went through committee markup in the financial services committee last week on march 9. the second bill, h.r. 839, the home affordable mortgage protection -- program termination act was introduced by my dear friend from north carolina, the gentleman, mr. mchenry, on february 28, and marked up last week as well. both of these bills went through regular order which allowed members from both sides of the aisle the opportunity to offer amendments in the financial services committee and in the rules committee yesterday. the chairman of the rules committee, david dreier, has once again provided members of this body a transparent and accountable structure under the rule that we are discussing today. allowing members from both sides of this body to offer amendments and both sides to join in debate of the underlying legislation. mr. speaker, last fall republicans pledged to the american people that we would stop the wasteful spending and put americans back to work. these

mr. speaker, i rise today in support of this rule and the two underlying bills. the first piece of legislation, the neighborhood stabilization program termination act was introduced by my friend from california, gary miller, on march 1, 2011, and went through committee markup in the financial services committee last week on march 9. the second bill, h.r. 839, the home affordable mortgage protection -- program termination act was introduced by my dear friend from north carolina, the gentleman, mr. mchenry, on february 28, and marked up last week as well. both of these bills went through regular order which allowed members from both sides of the aisle the opportunity to offer amendments in the financial services committee and in the rules committee yesterday. the chairman of the rules committee, david dreier, has once again provided members of this body a transparent and accountable structure under the rule that we are discussing today. allowing members from both sides of this body to offer amendments and both sides to join in debate of the underlying legislation. mr. speaker, last fall republicans pledged to the american people that we would stop the wasteful spending and put americans back to work. these