latham: i thank the speaker, i thank the gentleman for yielding, and, mr. speaker, i'm pleased to stand today in support of h.r. 4157, preserving america's family farms act. this is a very bipartisan bill that i think really gets to what we're concerned about in agriculture today. any more these days it seems like army of federal bureaucrats are drawing up new regulations often with little or no consideration or understanding of the very industries that they're trying to regulate. you know, while some regulations do serve a legitimate purpose, others do little more than create uncertainty and additional costs for hardworking taxpayers, farmers and small business owners. i believe we want to put america back to -- in business, back to work. one of the first things we must do is crack down on overregulation. i've introduced the proposal called the regulatory accountability and economic freedom act that would take a number of steps to reverse our government's direction in overregulation. unfortunately, we're standing here today to fight one of those misguided

[applause] >> latham and watkins. [applause] >> scad and arps. [applause] >> cooley. [applause] >> morrison and forester. pillsbury. and simpson thatcher. [applause] everybody here has contributed and these have made a special contribution which we want to honor separately. i also want to thank tracy jennison of kirkland and ellis for doing whatever she needed to do to get the fine wine donated by duckhorn wine company and shea lure. you should have bottled of that on your table right now. we're also grateful to mark richardson and merrill corporation who contributed the printing of our luncheon program and menu, and i want to personally thank our friends at the recorder and "the daily journal" for their pro bono support in leading us up to today. i also want to thank the committee that worked on this and the honorary committee, all those people contributed to is. and now the only reason you really want to hear about from me is that i'm the guy that gets to give away presents. for the first time this year, we have compliments of our former chair, ken gurnsey, a silico

. >>> recent storms claimed another victim, the latham hotel in northwest d.c. closed for up to six months due to the water damage from this summer's severe weather. a spokesman tells us the damage is extensive. the buildings are being evaluated to see how much work needs to be done. >>> an investigation has shown penn state officials hid accusations against jerry sandusky. tonight the school is responding to that scathing report, details ahead. >> and a prominent lawmaker says these u.s. olympic uniforms should be burned. find out why they're causing so much controversy coming up. check out the rundown. we're back. >> this is fox 5 news edge at 11:00.  do you see it ? there it is ! there it is ! where ? where ? it's getting away ! where is it ? it's gone. we'll find it. any day can be an adventure. that's why we got a subaru. love wherever the road takes you. wow, there it is. >>> an orchestrated coverup and failures at the highest levels at penn state university, just some of the conclusions of a scathing report that concluded how penn

latham's has lashed out against the british prime minister over his remarks of the u.k. could restrict the greeks from entering the country the move could also target citizens of other struggling euro zone nations but as a london should be looking closer to home to solve its own financial trouble laura smith reports. there's been speculation about massive waves of immigration from not just greece but from other economies that are struggling at the moment david cameron in response to that said that britain could potentially close its doors to immigration from these struggling eurozone countries including greece he was under pressure really to say there was a lot of speculation about these kind of migrant issues and he said if the borders came under unusual stress then the legal position was that britain could take action and close down those borders greece has responded quite vehemently it was the it was the pasok party one of the parties in the leading coalition at the moment that said that david cameron should look to his own house he should keep his own house in order

you know, if it disappears in its curren form then theree om ec e rstynhe new yorker" is the john latham story about buying the internet. he mentioned there was anothe internet that is split and there were only 100 people on it and there s one person left and theyinvited one more person on. he was ted of it sohe s ovg ntt thin an internet. it's a metaphor that kind of -- what is this big thing we spend all of our day on? yes, sorry. >> the thi i wa ned acra of interdependence and interconnectedness and how is this changing us as human ings individually and collectively? >> i don't know. it's a hard thing to answer. one thing that i was really struck by was, andto talk about the churchill quote about we she our igs a our ils eui an tinastructure is only 10 or 15 years old. it's all relatively incredibly new and we are just -- some of the newest buildings are the most monumental. that is to ee oe gso them. facebook data center and a great building london that looks like it should look. it is sort of meant to celebrate what is gog on inside and is the kind okey building nd t knhengt me hear

there was a jonathan latham story about buy internet.i don't know if anybody saw this, but he imagined there was another internet that split, and there were only 100 people on it, and anytime one person left, they invited one person on. but he was tired of it, so he was starting an internet within the internet. it's always these sort of plays of metaphor that you kind of come back to of what is this big thing that we spend all our day on. does that -- please. >> the thing i was concerned about principally was this acceleration of interdependence and interconnectedness and how this is changing us as human beings individually and collectively. >> one of the, um -- i don't know. it's a hard thing to answer. one thing that i was really struck by was, um, was the -- and you talk about the churchill quote about we shape our buildings, then our buildings shape us, is the, i mean, all of this infrastructure's only 10 or 15 years old, you know? it's all relatively, incredibly new. and we're just, some of the newest buildings are the ones that are

judd latham with think progress in with us tomorrow.