care outside of the united states. and the data, essentially, looks at medical tourism principally to places like india and singapore, and they always give the data above the numbers that go there -- about the numbers that go there. now, the vast, vast, vast majority of those are from southeast asia and the middle east and not from the united states. so it is a trickle of people who leave the united states for health care outside. i think it has almost negligible nick influence on health care in the united states. >> do the people who utilize your 24-hour call service have to have insurance? >> no. [laughter] >> aren't there other factors beyond smoking and obesity that cause ill health like chemicals, air and water quality, and what are you doing about these? [laughter] >> you guys are mean. there's no question that there are multiple other things that affect health care, but those are the, those are the three really big ones. the thing that concerns me, quite frankly, is the epidemic of autism. autism, frankly, was s

as the previous speakers mentioned, we paid a visit to the united states last february. governor brown proposed that we set up a working group for the u.s., a state, and china provinces to cooperate. we call this a working group, a joint working group of provinces and the states. at that time, the vice president made a very good, very positive response for the proposal. after the vice-president returned to china, we worked very hard on the proposal and my visit this time is to further the proposal. to make further follow-up of the proposal. yesterday morning, the delegation was in sacramento so we had a very good and successful and fruitful discussion with the lieutenant governor newsome and secretary ross. we believe when the working group is set up, it will tap the cooperative potential between our two sides while in many areas such as infrastructure, new energy, biomedicine, electronics, information industry, agriculture, and high and manufacturing. mayor lee echoed positive statements to our proposal before we came to this seminar. we had a very good meeting with mayo

in the united states when people come to the united states they become us. i'm an italian descent, whether you are jewish-american or hispanic-american you become americans and maybe the first generation is whatever the home mother country was but by the second generation the kids are in the mall and have the earphones in and are normal american kids. we integrate them into our society. europe has failed to do that and i think that then presents a very different threat. i think what you'll see politically as the europeans go to the polls is that a voting block they cannot ignore and the worry is that as europe faces economic crisis, the margins of victory are ever, ever closer in any election that they cannot ignore that voting block. and if that voting block is radicalized then i think it becomes a serious and major problem for europe. >> as in t.t. mcfarland as in ambassador ware as in many of the women in public service or private life in colorado today and across the country, conservative women, women who love freedom, women who know what's at stake. in

that joining the law of the sea is truly in the best interest of the united states. the u.s. relies on over 60% of all the energy we consume. recent projections by our own department of energy in the obama administration shows that 30 years from now, 57% of all the energy we consume in the united states will continue to be oil and natural gas. other projections show that the demand for world global energy led by oil and energy 20 to 30 years. energy is a very serious issue particularly to our global economy. companies spend billions of dollars annually looking for and producing oil and natural gas around the world to give you some insight from 2009 to 2011, the industry spent over $700 billion just in the united states drilling and exploring for additional opportunities. just last week at the lee sale conducted in the gulf of mexico, the u.s. oil and gas industry paid $1.7 billion in bonus bids to the federal government to secure rights to develop those resources in the gulf of mexico. preliminary studies estimate that the u.s. extended continental shelf as a result of the la

the second clock is how much time does israel have to stop iran, israel/the united states to stop iran, either with an attack, either with sanctions that we've just instituted, or with cyberattacks. the third clock is the american election because just think of whether the swing states likely to be in the election, florida, and if the israelis feel that president obama is going to be a re-elected president, i think there's a real question in the minds of the israeli leadership whether obama would support them in a second term. if there is an arab-israeli war, israel needs the united states. and if they feel, if they sort of thought ahead and concluded a reelected obama is not going to be in israel's best interest and we are facing an threat, then they have to launch a preemptive attack before the election. no candidate for president of the united states is going to walk away from israel right before the election because of the consequences of the jewish vote. the second thing, though, i think is timing, timing-wise, is the state of israel has to conclude that time is not on their side

the end of the war laid the foundation for the growing relationship between the united states, the unitedlebrate as the str strongest of allies and closest of friends. as our three nations mark this milestone, i'm confident our alliance will abe a force for good and together we will leave this world a better, safer place for generations to come. >> now the secretary of the united states navy, ray mapis. >> governor o'malley, senator, the entire maryland congressional delegation, madam mayor, to the ambassadors from the united kingdom and canada. i have two observances for you. one is that i had the privilege of participating in the normandy 68th anniversary of the landings there earlier this mochlt it went to three british events. i was soaked at each one. but this is also, mr mr. ambassador, navy weather, and to our canadian friends, on my visit to canada earlier this year, both our countries are celebrating the war of 1812 as great victories. so it is fitting that we're here together at friends. we declared american independence in 1776 in philadelphia. we won our independence in 1781 a

they want the united states have africans kill other africans in their interest that's what it sounds like to me. no in this and this is my international are going to i mean first go ahead. i have to say that the you know africa was split up in these commands and it wasn't given much emphasis because nobody really cared about it frankly and now all you do is you hear the commander and other people in the in the command itself talking about what are the threats the threats to oil right so i think well is a major factor in this and we can't discount that i don't know as we're trying to the united states is trying to have afghans africans kill other africans but certainly we have all these military training programs with special forces around the world and that's kind of what end ends up happening we want geo political influence for oil and other reasons but what happens is a lot of the time unfortunately that all this training goes to repressing internal revolt and we try we say that we're instilling democratic values but you can't you can't do that in a seminar training course o

there are two different governing philosophies at war in the united states of america. one is that a constitutional republic and one is of a socialist, egalitarian, welfare and nanny state. the latter cannot be the way forward for this country. when i look at the inner cities, when you look at 14.4% unemployment in the black community, when you look at the fact that you have over 40% unemployment for black teenagers, my wife is a brilliant woman. we have been married for 23 years. black families, kids with the mother and father in the home, 28%. something is going very wrong in this country, and that is the truth that has to get out. >> we are depending on you. [applause] >> he has met a great name for himself in congress and we are very proud of his service. our next speaker has arrived, congresswoman michele bachmann. before she entered politics, she was very busy as the mother of five children and she had 23 foster children in her home. i had six children, but i don't know if i could have dealt with 23 foster children. in her spare time, she was a tax litigation attor

it is always is the gateway of the united states to china. as the economic and trade cooperation between china and the united states and california deepens, now we believe that trade and investment keeps growing. china is the third largest export destination for california. many multinationals like hp, intel, cisco, and chevron are doing well in china. they're making money in china. at the same time, as the close relationship is going on, many chinese companies are working in san francisco in california. i would like to name a few. the tsl, ciuts, just to name a few. these are successful chinese companies working here. as the american companies in china, the chinese companies working in california in san francisco are also making contributions to job creation and the development of the economy in local areas. we're thinking these are very good signs. as the previous speakers mentioned, we paid a visit to the united states last february. governor brown proposed that we set up a working group for the u.s., a state, and china provinces to cooper

so that's the one example in the book where the actions the united states takes really do impact the actions of other countries by the united states spending far more on military and being at least viewing itself as more of armed to protect many of these countries it ends up letting those other countries spend less and that's exactly what you see in the dynamics. in what areas does the us find itself in a leading position among other wealthy nations there are a few areas where we excel we have some of the best colleges in the world so that tertiary education our graduate schools are outstanding some of the strongest in the world our hospitals our technology overall is world class and overall those types of advantages are would draws the best talent in the world here students come here in order to learn and hopefully we can keep the opportunities for them not only to arrive here but for them to stay our technology that allows us to innovate and create some great companies that still exist and are entrepreneurship the government rules that allow us to create new companies and to pa

it is the largest minority group of leigh the united states. its voting power has an increasing tremendously and looking sophomore the border, there are positive opportunities that benefit this country by a closer alliance and relationship. i don't think americans truly understand the significant changes that have occurred in domestically and internationally south of the border that would benefit pay more attention. as an example, the evolution and strengthening of democracy and certain large countries in south and central america like mexico, colombia, brazil -- we have cemented the democratic ideas of a democratic form of government and coupled with that has been the growth of its economy. in mexico and brazil, their growth has been greater than a dead united states. latinos are beginning to take more of an interest in what happens and we believe this future of the latino community is tied to improving our relationship with the south of the border. for us, this report will highlight the opportunities for a closer relationship that integrates

doing arms trade but yes it's about oil yet for the united states yes it's about containing china in this is done under the banner of terror a war on terror ok peter where do you come in all this. well i agree that africa has increasingly a strategic importance to the united states but let's get some facts straight first for example if the pursuit was rid of terrorists was merely a cover for pursuing and defending oil interests the u.s. would certainly not have gone to back to bring about the independence of south sudan where eighty percent of sudan's oil reserves are found and which goes almost exclusively to china the interest would be far more in the western part of the cause of the cotton in nigeria algeria where the u.s. does purchase its oil on the weapons sales certainly the u.s. is a major arms. source of arms globally but for most african countries u.s. arms are not affordable u.s. systems are too complex in fact the u.s. military in a number of cases has sourced weapons for allied countries to the former eastern bloc or even look at china as a source simply because those

get the permit to do that based on safety rules cars kill about thirty thousand people in the united states annually in forty one of our states if you want to drive and carry a gun for lawful protect. public there is a stricter more severe and tougher but still fair system for people to get a permit but unfortunately we have nine states including california and new york were permits are unfairly denied to people and that is criminogenic again back to the start of the show we stopped a massacre in colorado at a church in two thousand and seven because we have a fair objective law so that people can find it's descaling of the law to what degree does the the n.r.a. right law in the united states when it comes to guns how powerful is the lobby. well you know i don't know that i'm the i'm the person that's the expert to speak on that i'm mark may be a better person to to speak on that but i do think that when we look at the politics let's just take cars and guns and we look at the at the politics of regulation well in california for example and fairly recently we we increased the regulation of d

mark the anniversary of the war of 1812 and commemorate the long-lasting alliance between the united statesrue that our shared history had a turbulent beginning. indeed visiting the white house earlier this year, i was a little embarrassed to confess this managed to burn the place down. today as you sit at fort mchenry, the sight so ably defended by u.s. soldiers against the brits, you can't help but think of the battle of baltimore, the event that inspired the star-spangl"star-s banne banner". in part i suppose you can sort of thank the british for your national anthem. now, the war's origins may be obscured today, but what maps maerts since the end the two countries have been allies for almost 200 years. that eelgsship has strengthened constantly in depth and breadth. generations of british and american servicemen and women who fought together from normandy to the korean peninsula to afghanistan. there is no more tangible illustration of our two nations defending our valuables and the interests than the mutual sacrifice made by our service men and women. but ours is not just a security al

by the united states. over the last, turkey has cut back on oil imports from iran, in i think may, it was down to it was down from -- 270 barrels per day in may and in june -- no, in april, and then in may, it went down 180 barrels. there was a significant decline. this is because of turkey faces real pressure. okay. i've got less than that. on the united states on sanctions and turkey would be a price. turkey is talking to saudi arabia some of the caucus states about finding alternative sources of oil. you see this tension brewing between the two because of the failure on nuclear talk to make success and iran's stubbornness to find a solution. and the syria has complicated as a third in the triangle of relations. a revolutionary guard commander charged earlier this month that tour key was part of a regional alliance with saudi arabia and -- taking orders from the united states and israel in a plan or grand design to oust the syrian leadership. a prominent revolutionary guard leader called turkey a strateg

world but on the other hand they are also getting a list of also made them sent troops from the united states so the rest assured they right now as we speak the state department is. ecuador plenty to think about by showing what kind of consequences they will be facing whether it's the economic or whether it's political and so this is the reason they are taking this long and beyond hoping that their decision will be yes they would grant asylum to giuliana science but considering their weight the united states carries but also considering that he's three or five nation in terms of the types of measures they take to put pressure on the other governments it will remain to be seen and i don't forget that our julian assange still has his own interview program here on our t.v. it's our latest edition is on this tuesday but if you've missed any of the previous ones they're available for you twenty four seven. dot com. it is true of wiki leaks we've exposed the world secrets these documents the united states government being attacked by the united states strongly condemned. illegally. hundred days now

the perspective of the un charter which says you really cannot you're supposed to engage in the united states and all other countries are supposed to solve their international disputes peacefully even including non-state actors and you need to be able to work with. countries where non-state actors are are. are being. held or are being. housed or protected by some portions of the government but you need to be able to make that case make it internationally and just think of what would have happened is instead of instead of the ten years ago as invading the u.s. invading afghanistan there was a real push to actually arrest and detain the people who had planned nine eleven i think i think that would be this it wouldn't be sexy enough for i think a lot of politicians here chris if i can go to you i mean you know let me go to chris here in london and i think it's really it's interesting is that they don't want to talk too much about this because these are precise weapons but they still kill a lot of other people here and that's the issue they really don't want to address. the cia made the extraordi

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united states. barclays agreed to pay a $450 million fine to settle manipulation charges. investigations that banks manipulated the libor process are continuing. questions are being asked whether regulators took sufficient action. i look forward to hearing from chairman bernanke on all of these issues. >> thank you. to preserve time for questions, opening statements will be limited to senator crapo. the record will be open for the next seven days. with that, i would like to welcome chairman bernanke. he is currently serving a second term as chairman of the board of governors of the federal reserve system. his first term began under president bush in 2006. before that, he was chairman of the council of economic advisers and served as a member of the board of governors of the federal reserve system. please begin your testimony. >> thank you. >> i'm pleased to present the federal reserve's semi-annual policy before the congress. i'll discuss current economic conditions and the outlook before turning to

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japan, united states, south korea and others conveyed to north korea the international community's desire for a stable and nuclear-free north korean peninsula. but the reclusive state was prepared and knew how to respond. asean is a friendly audience for north korea. all ten asean members have formal diplomatic relations with the north. pyongyang took advantage of the stage. it was able to clear state its position regarding the nuclear issue and indicated it's open to holding talks with other countries. but the top priorities for north korea are rebuilding its economy and stabilizing the regime of kim jong-un. >> turning to the south china sea issue, what developments have emerged regarding disputes over sovereignty there. >> on the eve of the national forum, asean countries and china agreed in principle to start drawing up a legally binding code of conduct and china remains cautious. it doesn't want to sign on to anything that would limit activities. at thursday's meeting the united states strongly pushed all countries involved to accelerate work on the code of conduct. concerns remain t

the moral standing of the united states major setback of credibility of the united states. the united states of america pretending, acting the leader of the free world and yet and expanded in torture and abroad. the economic costs of the 9/11 war between three to $5 trillion. three to $5 trillion. >> it's one of those members i've been using and hearing and writing this for so long and it's one of those numbers that is so large it is almost impossible to comprehend. what is a trillion? i can't quite imagine a million. >> guest: think about when barack obama came and said 700 million, $700 billion in order to basically reconstct the american economy, think of the cry. you are spending $700 billion. we don't have $700 billion. we dn't even have $3 trillion we have spent. most of the money was borrowed not to mention just about economic cost is also about the opportunity cost. while the united states was chasing the jihadis in afghanistan and pakistan the war was going on so barack obama inherited the legacy of the economic decline and also the rise of the geostrategic power c

israel strikes unilaterally or the united states and israel, or the united states strikes and everyone blames it on a united states and israeli coalition. but the important thing is, we have to avoid using military force, if at all possible. on what is frustrating as an analyst, we have sanctions and they take a bite, we hear, soon, from the white house. and then they say they will increase sanctions and it will be biting. we should have started the sanctions 2 1/2 years ago. we know how bad it is if iran gets nuclear weapons but we do not have an effective plan. >>shepard: but i read from this analysts that iran having a nuclear weapon would not be the end of the world; that iran would then be more of a stabilizing nation than it is now. i'm not sure how many people subscribe to that notion, but it is out there. >>guest: it is out there. i don't think iran with the country regime necessarily having nuclear weapons would be an absolutely untenable situation. the problem is, what happens if this regime goes and a worse regime comes to power. we saw that with egypt and the whole arab spr

being attacked by the united states strongly condemned. illegally shoot five hundred days now i've been detained without charge. that hasn't stopped. the day we're on a quest for relief ideas that can change the world tomorrow. this week seventeen pakistani soldiers were captured on the beheaded by a ton of on military seven more died in a separate roadside bombing exposed believe the country is paying a high price for helping the u.s. and its fight against islamist in afghanistan but has gotten reports it's a war that wouldn't have been possible without pakistan's support. it's not only u.s. bombs that fly in pakistan but also the stream of demands and accusations from washington there are several things that where asking the pakistanis to do more and better number one they've got to do more about the safe havens inside their own country even ridicule the u.s. defense secretary has laughed at pakistan for being in the dark on the bin laden raid. one. little in washington's rhetoric now suggest that during the decade of war in afghanistan

narrator: over 300 million people live in the united states. and each person uses an average of 100 gallons of water every day. man: what it takes to actually make clean water is somewhat a mystery to most customers. woman: so how does water get from the river into your house, or here at school? woman: somebody has to bring that water to us, and somebody has to take it away when we're finished with it. man: the water infrastructure is vital for disease protection, fire protection, basic sanitation, economic development, and for our quality of life. man: you just can't visualize all the assets that are under our feet. we have about two million miles of pipe in this nation. if you're walking around in an urban area, you're probably stepping on a pipe. man: our grandparents paid for, and put in for the first time, these large distribution systems. woman: and in many cases, it's not been touched since. man: we're at a critical turning point. much of that infrastructure is wearing out. narrator: our water infrastructure is made up of complex, underg

and settled in the united states, at united states children and citizen wife. as a whole we want to address this issue. >> host: palm beach, florida. >> caller: thank you. very hard work. i want to comment on the integration of the u.s. army with the mexican army and heading towards north american union and something that might be dangerous for our health and safety laws friday while enforcement perspective. >> host: do you see a lack of sovereignty? >> guest: that won't happen. very simple, mexico is a sovereign nation. they are proud to be a sovereign nation. we are sovereign nation in the united states. we all need to cooperate as neighboring countries for the security. not just of our region but the security of the entire world. we work closely together. i want to say i am proud of the service, work very much on our behalf to protect our country and i will tell you one thing about immigration as well. i had the pleasure of naturalizing many immigrants who serve in our armed forces and became united states citizens. we deal with immigration, it is a huge com

on october 8, 1970, governor mechem was confirmed by the united states senate as united states district judge for the district of new mexico. he served in that position until his death in 2002. in a letter to my office, his wife wrote, he loved this state from one end to the other and vacations were rarely taken outside of new mexico. all of his life, he loved to spend his free time driving the back roads checking the water situation and seeing all was well with our crops, our business and our communities. this year marks the 100th anniversary of new mexico state hood on july 2, 2012, governor mechem's birthday. naming this courthouse during 2012 is an honor befitting his life of service and i ask my colleagues to vote in favor of h.r. 3742 and strongly encourage quick action and passage by our friends in the senate. thank you, mr. chairman. and i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields back the balance of his time. the chair recognizes the gentleman from illinois. mr. costello: thank you, mr. speaker. i would ask my friend from indiana if he has other speakers. mr. bu

>> the first thing to say is that the statue of liberty was not a gift from france to the united states. neither government had anything to do with it. neither government raised a single penny toward the statue of liberty. there was a bill in the state legislature of new york and also in congress to put up some money. the bill in new york was vetoed by governor grover cleveland. the congress voted down an appropriation of $100,000. all the money had to be raised by private sources. bartholdi does not speak english. he knows nobody. he goes to the editor of a french newspaper, published in new yo. he speaks to this french person. she says, it is not going to do you any good to speak to me. you have to talk to americans. he has a letter of introduction to sumner, the great abolitionist, because bartholdi is an abolitionist. they meet. people in washington said, why are you talking to us about the statue you want to build in new york? talk to people in the york. the united states was still very much a set of separate entities, separate states, in the middle of the 19th century. he did not

the moral standing of the united states, the credibility of the united states as an actor. the united states of america pretending, and acting as the leader of the free world and experimenting torture abroad. the economic costs of the 9/11 wars were $5 trillion. between three and $5 trillion. >> host: is one of those numbers i have been hearing and reading and writing this number for so long and is one of those numbers that is so large it's almost impossible to comprehend. blood is a trillion? i can't quite imagine a million. >> guest: think about when obama came and he said 700 million -- 700 yen dollars in order to basically reconstruct the economy. you are spending $700 billion. >> host: we don't have $700 billion. >> guest: no, we did not even have the three to $5 trillion that we have spent. most of the money was are owed money. not to mention the economic cost. it's also the opportunity cost. while the united states was chasing bands of jihad is in the valleys of afghanistan and pakistan the world was going on so barack obama inherited the bitter legacy, declined econ

i hope the united states -- fortunate they have not been ersolutions.new and andsed in the united states people talk about the u.s. becoming energy independent going back to the environmental concerns there the challenge to thatype of the yseen done. the toxins, there will be a reieve for energy prices. tary spending. rn $700 billion around the world. largest amount of money -- japan and china a very distt nd of ppolsn thoo is because so many of the wars around the world, even if the united states diverted a fraction of military spending into more resours innovation not onl would youave e held but a lot of resources wouldn't have a reason to fight because we find a lot of solutionso desalatnan era osc in solving these problems. hy am going to stop wii amoing s e riio t environment is a serious economic and social development. my view is this is basically saying commodity prices are going up. we have a long way before weet to pla wheheld i fod hisndhat wos . i hope that you take away from this the urgency ofhese issues and so many wars arnd the world and telgee unfostwa suggest we should

that i will support and defend the constitution of the united states and the laws of the united statesamerica. against all enemies, foreign and domestic, that i will bear true faith and allegiance, that i will bear arms on behalf of the united states when required by the law. the dye will perform noncombata services -- that i will perform noncombatant service is in the armed forces of the united states when required by law. the dial performs work of national importance -- that i will perform work of national importance under civilian direction when required by the law. that i take this obligation freely without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion. so help me god. congratulations. [applause] please be seated. congratulations to our newest -- i am proud to call you my fellow citizens. there is no fluke more fitting day -- there is no more fitting day to do this than a fourth of july when we celebrate the to under 36 anniversary of our declaration of independence -- 236 anniversary of our declaration of independence. these new citizens are members of the armed forces. all the 25

let's say it's not it's not the issue alone of the united states but it also involves. nato member countries with whom pakistan does maintain good relations and i think the seven eight months of suspension pakistani leadership did come to conclude that somehow both countries needed to move on in order not to sour relations not only with the united states but also with the other members of the nato as you say as you say pakistan enjoy enjoys a close friendship with some members of the nato alliance some i draw into question how close their friendship is with out of the united states of america we know that washington gives pakistan billions of dollars in aid and military hardware every single year with this opposition movement do you think the benefits perhaps outweigh the consequences considering the huge amount of money that washington throws into pakistan. well i think first we have to rectify this perception the way that you emphasized the billions of dollars it's not all that big amount of money. the united states had been giving giving to pakistan they did a good e

being attacked by the united states strongly condemn this question. illegally shoot five hundred days now i've been detained without charge. that hasn't stopped us. today we're on a quest for revolutionary ideas that can change the world tomorrow. and he which was driven between moscow and washington this week as u.s. senators backed sanctions against russian officials it suspects of human rights abuses moscow says it's an interference in its internal affairs and has warned of a symmetrical response the circle list primarily targets people allegedly linked to the death of the russian lawyer. he died while in custody facing tax evasion allegations three years ago the u.s. congress has yet to vote on the bill political analysts martin so you've says that the move is extremely ill timed in terms of u.s. russia relations. the united states and russia are the two great thermonuclear powers in the world russia remains the preeminent strategic partner in the eurasia mass the american states and russia have an enormous amount of strategic interests and concer

there would have to be an announcement by the president of the united states that the united states intended to go forward to a modernized gold standard, and he would announce the period in which the market would have its opportunity. the open free market would have its opportunity worldwide to adjust to conditions in the market. and the process of discovery generally known as price discovery for any product, whether it be toothpaste or gold, would go on in the market as everybody attempted to adjust themselves that two or three years hence on a date certain the dollar would be defined at law as the weight unit of gold and during that period, the price of gold would clearly tend to vary in proportion to its all-in cost of production. so as you approach that date, you would be guided very substantially how to have this reasonably long period of adjustment by the market price of gold. the second aspect of the problem, which has always been the case in successful restorations of the gold standard. france had one in 1926. france had another in 1959. 100 to the gold and 100 present point carry. i

and we have a plan also that was defeated in the united states senate. i don't know whether your side intends to offer exactly the plan that was defeated in the united states senate, but it was a plan that the president of the united states, as the leader knows, said he won't sign. so what i ask my friend respectfully so we know what to prepare for and we know it will be made in order that consistent with the clear meaning of this statement that mr. boehner made just a few hours ago is that we would be given the opportunity to offer the senate-passed plan and would have a vote on that plan, either in the form of an amendment or a substitute. and i yield to my friend. mr. cantor: mr. speaker, i would say back to the gentleman, we do expect and our intention is to allow your tax hike to be made in order. i mean, i don't understand, mr. speaker, how many more times i have to say that. the speaker has always represented that we would work towards an open process, and i would remind the gentleman that when his party was last in majority and considered an expi

it took us 30 years to beat them off the in the united states. n the fbi was given the tools, local and state law enforcement, it takes time. it just doesn't happen. and so what's important is to identify trends, not to be too impatient with the way in which the world works. because that's not something that any of us in our points of time are going to change, but the ideas is to build the momentum. and i think when you look at the 21st century border declaration presidents obama and calderÓn in 2010, beyond the border vision by prime minister harper and president obama and 2011, you begin to see trendlines established. i can assure you that the relationship with mexico and, indeed, with canada is simply not what it was five years ago. certainly not what it was 10 years ago. so without detracting from the proposition that it takes work, it takes work all the people in this room who care about these things. the fact of the matter is that we see trends that are considerably more favorable to this vision than what existed even a short time ago. >> ch

or indirectly you're providing capital that can then be loaned out somewhere other than in the united states and one of the realities of capital is that it is a gnostic it doesn't honor flags it doesn't honor political parties it goes words treated well and so if you put in a system that incentivizes the movement of labor into places that have effective slave labor and use environmental arbitrage in other words dumping toxic waste into the air and water where you can't do that here in the united states then it's not a surprise that capital flows to where it can be exploited by those businesses we need to take a very serious look at how we look at trade and now we look at policies related to trade and labor in that area because we're essentially driving jobs and opportunities out of the united states we've been doing it for twenty years but coming back to some of these big companies and these big corporations that twenty years ago were making decent profits the fact is that they haven't had to change their policies to keep those million and billion dollar profits number so karl that these cor

are in the united states. as it stands right now, because of our worldwide tax regime, many global corporations have their parent company in the u.s. as a matter of historical accident. if they -- if they had to do it all over again, they very well might decide to incorporate elsewhere in the world. the way to address that, the way to make sure that the u.s. is a place global businesses want to incorporate is to transition our current worldwide system of taxation to a territorial tax system. a territorial tax system would only tax businesses on the profits they make in the u.s. this way, businesses would not be discouraged from incorporating in the u.s. now, if a business incorporates in the u.s., all of its worldwide profits are subject to u.s. tax. it is certainly true that a territorial tax regime must be done right and that the devil is in the details, but it is also clear the territorial tax regime proposals could lead to greater investment in the u.s. and more headquarters jobs in the u.s. a territorial

last week it was reported united states is training counter narcotics enforcement units within other countries for example in gonna to disrupt the flow of cocaine, for nigeria and kenya. we know latin america transnational criminal organizations will exploit political and social unrest in vulnerable countries we have to be nimble in our response. another recent article covered the drug problem in countries traditionally thought of as force or transit countries. these are clearly artificial distinctions. in these countries drug-trafficking organizations paid their networks in drugs and not in cash increase in drug consumption in those areas is a great concern. increased consumption strains public health services in developing nations that are all too often ill-equipped to handle the influx of people who need treatment for addiction. finally the third prong of the global approach to drug control is reducing demand for drugs. that is an important part of the administration strategy. our 2012 strategy. i know you have all read it and earmarked and have your copies with you but they are s

in the united states even our trash cans are filled with food you just have to go get it all of these perfectly good eggs because one was cracked didn't even get all over the other ones just thrown all the way out and cheese from the german oh you clearly like the upper class. from the dumpster at one am this morning three pm this afternoon on the grill a cake is made from and one dozen dumpster egg whites. and delicious breakfast for the family make some toast for about a week every year in america we throw away ninety six billion pounds of food.