detective about a purely domestic affair." >> there. >> "mr. todd encloses a guinea for consultation." >> is this to be believed, huh? do they think they can get rid of hercule poirot like that, huh? no! no, no, no, no, no, no. 36 times. no. they sent me one guinea, huh? no! i will spend my own guineas. 3,600 of them if need be, but i will get to the bottom of this matter. >> if eliza dunn will communicate with this address, she will hear something to her profit. >> advantage. >> yes? >> yes. >> good. you have that, miss lemon? >> yes, mr. poirot. >> put it in all the papers you can think of. >> she won't read "the times" i shouldn't think. >> no, my dear miss lemon, perhaps she will not, but perhaps her new employers will. now run along, miss lemon. and you, hastings, do not you run away with such celerity. i have work for you, too. >> oh. as a matter of fact, i was thinking of popping down to sandown this afternoon. >> no, no, no. you do not pop. >> well, there's a horse running a pal of mine owns a leg of. >> when he owns 4 legs, i pop with y

a year. but only after the new year. mr. speaker, a great virginian once said, never put off tomorrow what you can do today. that man was thomas jefferson. so let us dedicate ourself to that spirit. people across our great country are tired of hearing why washington cannot do things. they are seeing say in and day out that washington is not working together. but we have the ability to give them some hope. let's show the american people that there's a reason to believe that we can work together and deliver results. the truth is, we are not far apart on this issue. the negotiators got extremely close. we owe some stability and good tax policy to the hardworking people of this country not more gimmicks and political games. today this house will vote to go to conference and work these differences out in regular order. we need to come together in a responsible manner to find common ground where we can accomplish everyone's goal of a year-long payroll tax extension. mr. speaker, there is no reason why the house, the senate, and the

you don't think i know he's a musician? mrs. kennedy, relax. y evidence of a murder here. he's dead. i know it. the canasta game. plus! i found his cat starving this morning. how do you explain that? okay, uh, why don't you wait downstairs, mrs. kennedy? and we'll take a look around for you. thank you. [whistling] what are you doing? background music. [continues playing] you know, they don't keep playing the same thing over and over. sure, they do. [sighs] hard to concentrate. isn't it? hey, randy. look at this. what do you got? makeup kit. bandages. skin disease. that's interesting bedtime reading. his appointment book. looking pretty busy every weekend. captain, look at this. last new year's eve, he played a private party for mandy bronson. [enthusiastic kissing] [moaning] [giggles] boy, this must be the best first date in the history of first dates. maybe we should quit while we're ahead. mm. i'm so glad your boss needed my help. mm, me, too. whatever happened with that case? oh, it's over. bronson went back to his leper colony on camino isla

mr. speaker, in advance, hardly a revolutionary idea, mr. speaker, know the consequences of your actions before you act, especially when it comes to having a chilling effect on job creation. but the experience over the last 15 years has shown the law needs to be reformed, mr. speaker, and updated because agencies aren't getting the message. this bill requires agencies to do what they should be doing any way which is -- anyway which is to calculate and make sure all agencies follow the rules, not some of the time, not when they feel like it but all of the time. mr. chairman -- mr. speaker, our fellow citizens want to work. they want to meet the needs of their families. they want to meet their societal obligations. and we should be doing everything in our power to make sure regulatory agencies measure twice and cut once, and our job requires and this bill ensures that they get the message. for this reason, mr. chairman, i urge my colleagues to oppose the motion to recommit. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, the previous question is or

i had a discussion with mr. marco yesterday where he pointed out to me that many people are not taking these jobs because they're concerned about liability issues. why take a job for 200,000 if you might have exposure to a $5 million worth of legal expenses or lawsuits or even criticisms which damages your reputation and i have told them that i think that this congress ought to work with him, so i apologize to you and for the employees that are there at fannie and freddie that in many cases, you are -- you're being sack official lambs of those who came before you, but as far as compensation, i think we're going to have to change our ways. i think we're just not going to be able as highlighted in today's paper, we're not going to be able to go to chicago and spend two-thirds of a million dollars at a reception even if it benefits the business. i thought one of the most unfair criticisms was when we criticized the president of ford and general motors from flying here in that corporate jets. you know, i -- and wante

a vigorous debate. whereas the representative from florida, mr. west, responded in a letter to mr. conyers that the democrat party does indeed have a vicious propaganda machine. it is a master of -- and in his outrageous sentiment to the representative from michigan, mr. conyers, the representative from florida, mr. west, demonstrates not only the willful and misapplication of history but also his disdain for the decorum of the congress. and whereas the conduct of the representative from florida, mr. -- whereas the conduct of the representative from florida was repungent. now therefore be it resolved that the house of representatives disapproves of the behavior of the representative of florida, mr. west, for bringing discredit to the house by offending the memory of those who died during the holocaust. the speaker pro tempore: the resolution qualifies. for what purpose does the gentleman from georgia rise? mr. price: i move to table the resolution. the speaker pro tempore: the question is on -- to lay the table on the resolution. all those in favor say aye. all those opposed, no. in

a goal. with that, mr. speaker, i yield two minutes to a hardworking new member of your class, mr. speaker, the gentleman from south carolina, mr. duncan. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized for two minutes. mr. duncan: thank you, mr. speaker. there are about two points i want to bring up in support of the bill before us today. thomas jefferson said this a wise and frugal government which shall restrain men from injuring one another which shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned, that is the sum of good government. i believe that america works better when hardworking americans keep more of the money that they earn. keep more of their paycheck. that's why i support the payroll tax cut provision in this bill. the second point, mr. speaker, is this. the administration can be for jobs or the administration can support a radical environmentalist policy. mr. speaker, i believe they are mutually exclusive and you cannot support both. the keystone pipeline i

mr. pryor: i would suggest the absence of a quorum. the presiding officer: the clerk will call the roll. quorum call: mr. mcconnell: mr. president, are we in a quorum call? the presiding officer: we are. mr. mcconnell: i ask unanimous consent the quorum call be dispensed with. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. mcconnell: i rise to pay tribute to a woman who is a dear friend of mine, now sadly departed, who was deeply committed to serving her community in northern kentucky and who left everything she touched a little better off than it was before she found it. i'm speaking of mary middleton of fort mitchell, kentucky, who tragically died in an accident on november 22, 2011. mary was 83 years old. i know northern kentucky would not be the same if not for the timeless dedication of mary and her family over more than five decades. a community leader, philanthropist, lifelong adventurer and supporter of public service, mary middleton's loss is a great loss for the people of kenton county and the entire commonwealth of kentucky. m

mr. quale, who is a member of the judiciary committee -- mr. quayle, who is a member of the judiciary committee. the chair: the gentleman is recognized for two minutes. mr. quayle: i rise in support of h.r. 10 because this ensures that the government is more accountable to the american people. now, poll after poll of small business owners and medium-sized business owners, they will show you and tell you that major regulations are holding back their expansion and the ability for them to hire more workers. but you don't have to rely on polls. you can just go down and talk to the local businesses in your stricts. i had a job forum the -- businesses in your districts. i had a job forum the other week. the thing we heard is the overburdensome regulatory environment is holding back their expansion. now, several months ago in the beginning of the 112th congress i had some hope because president obama actually had his agencies provide an executive order that they required agencies to review the regulations to see if we can have a less burdensome regulat

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a senator: i object. mr. franken: i take that back. a senator: mr. president? the presiding officer: the senator from delaware. mr. carper: there is not the absence of a quorum. but i appreciate my colleague mentioning that. i said to him earlier -- earlier today, maybe yesterday, he -- senator franken's a joy to have around here and some of us know he was -- he brings also a real special type for trying to put -- infuse some civility in this place again and came up a couple a year or two ago with the idea of a secret santa exchange. we actually did it this year. i don't know if there's been any mention of that tonight, but my secret santa turns out to be the senator from alaska, senator murkowski, senator -- our presiding officer's colleague. and she gave me this most wonderful gift, understandmade gift that she and her staff actually created. delaware is the only state that doesn't have a national park and what they did is they created on a sheet of paper sort of like this -- only it was, like, a firm sheet of paper, not like a regular sheet of paper -- but t

mr. woodall will be dlieltelighted with everything. that's a high bar to meet. for me the biggest expenditure in here is the 2% reduction in payroll taxes. i appreciated mr. bishop going through all the things that had been discussed before. but, to my knowledge you all have not had any hearings on the impact of the 2% reduction in the payroll tax on the social security trust fund. am i right about that? >> no. because it's an extension of current policy. >> and i appreciate your paying for it and then trying to focus on where that is. so let me go to you mr. levin. when you all had hearing last year before you created this had policy, what did you find -- i was not here -- was going to be the impact of this 2% reduction wale, 33% reduction in an individual's contribution to their retirement? >> the answer is that there are differences of opinion but no one has come up with a better proposal relating to trying to stimulate job growth than this, and while there's some disagreement mark zandi, for example, has estimated that this can add a percentage point to gdp a

mr. levin: i think we had a fear a couple hundred years ago that might happen. mr. graham: one of the things you learn in military law school is the posse comitatus act. because if a military unit is asked to assist in a law enforcement function that's prohibited in this country. why is that? we don't want to become a military state. we have civilian law enforcement that are answerable to an independent judiciary. the posse comitatus act came about after reconstruction, because during the reconstruction era, the union army occupied the south. they were the judge, jury, the law enforcement, they did it all because there was no civilian law enforcement. after the south was reconstructed, a lot of people felt that that is not a good model to use in the future, that we don't want to give the military law enforcement power. they're here to protect us against threats, foreign and domestic. law enforcement activities are completely different. now, we have national guard members on the border. that's not a law enforcement function. that's a national security function. but i'

is it true that a few years ago you were born on this date? mr. dicks: it was not just a few years ago, mr. chairman. since it's my birthday, we didn't plan it this way. i want to make sure that the chairman of the rules committee -- mr. rogers: happy birthday. mr. dreier: will the gentleman yield? the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from washington's time has expired. mr. dreier: i yield myself 15 seconds to say to my friend, happy birthday, and the great present is we will not shut the government down and we will obviously see this measure passed today. i also wanted to say to my friend that i believe we made history here. to have any member of the house stand up, especially on his birthday, mr. speaker, and speak in complimentary ways of the other body is in fact historic in and of itself. the speaker pro tempore: the time of the gentleman from california has expired. mr. dicks: i want to make sure everybody got the full picture. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from california. mr. dreier: mr. speaker, may i inquire of the chair how mu

it is a political problem that we've got. mr. hoeven: if i may, i would like to ask the esteemed senator from oklahoma to just talk for a minute on the subject of how we get -- create that environment that gets job creation going. i think this project is a perfect example of what we're talking about. we have to create an environment -- a legal, tax, and regulatory environment that includes private investment to get job creation going. so her we have a regulatory issue. trans-canada has worked for three years to meet the environmental process. most recently the problem was in nebraska, the sand hills area of nebraska, the ogallala aquifer. now we've come up with a solution to make sure that we deal with that issue, so we've cleared that process, right? now, that means that this project is ready to go as we're -- as we've just described. leader mcconnell just a minute ago talked about how the labor unions strongly support this project and i can go through that whole list as well. in addition, the u.s. chamber of commerce says, let's

now, this is a chart ks mr. speaker, that i -- a chart, mr. speaker, that i like to pull out. i have no beef with donald trump and paris hilton. i'm sure they are both nice people, but do you think they need a tax break, mr. speaker? i think they are getting just fine. i think that some of my neighbors who are firefighters and cops and teachers or who work at the local bank branch or who work at the local grocery store stocking up groceries, i think they could use a little help, but i do believe that if donald and paris don't get a tax break, they'll manage just fine. these are the millionaires and billionaires of our society. when we cut back from the poor people, you are putting money into the hands of these folks. i don't think that's wise policy. so, my point, mr. speaker, is just this, you want to talk tax breaks, we are actually talking about extending the payroll tax deduction so that -- 1,500 bucks can stay in the hands of people who are struggling. there was a bill in the u.s. senate that said, millionaires, on your first million, we aren't asking you for taxes but on

mr. mcconnell: are we in a quorum call? the presiding officer: yes, we are. mr. mcconnell: i ask that further proceedings under the quorum call be dispensed with. this morning, the senate will vote on whether the consumer financial protection bureau should be able to put a director in place before concerns about its accountability to the american people are addressed. let me just stress at the outset that that's all today's vote is about. all today's vote is about is accountability and transparency. it's a debate about whether we think americans need more oversight over washington or less. republicans made our position clear more than seven months ago when 44 of us signed a letter saying we won't support a nominee for this bureau no matter who the president is until three commonsense conditions are met that would bring some transparency and accountability to the cfpb. that letter now has 45 signators. the president knew about these concerns months ago and he chose to dismiss them, and now he is suddenly making a push to confirm his nominee because it fits into som

i remember once upon a time, mr. speaker, i was listening to a elected official talk and he had some folks in his office and they said, we have to have to have to have to have to have deductibility of mortgage insurance because the only reason we are able to sell real estate in this country is because folks were able to deduct their insurance -- deduct their interest, and that makes a difference. and the selected official said, how about if we double interest rates? will that help us sell more homes? and the answer is no. what we need are low interest rates to sell homes. we have low interest rates in this country today, but it's one of those things that whether republicans or democrats, folks have agreed that we want to subsidize interest payments for folks who own homes. there is no such subsidy program for those who rent s there a good reason for that? maybe there is. certainly the argument has been made time and time again, but it's something that we have chosen to do in this country, mr. speaker, and i don't know

and we owe them a huge debt of gratitude. mr. speaker, in this, the last prime is a questions of the year, let me remind the prime minister what he had to say in his new year message of 2011. he said this, uppermost in my mind as we enter the new year is jobs. in light of today's unemployment figures can be explained what has gone wrong? >> first of all let me join the right honorable joe been in his fitting tribute and right trigger to our forces at christmastime serving in afghanistan but also serving in other parts of the world at one of the things that most like you in this job is that they are the best of the best. they are brave, courageous, dedicated and their families give up a huge amount at the same time so i join him in saying that. but let me say about the unemployment figures, any increase in unemployment is bad news and a tragedy for those involved. that is why we will do everything we can to help people back into work. that is why we of the work program, that will have to and half million people. that's why we have

and we owe them a huge debt of gratitude. mr. speaker, in this, the last prime is a questions of the year, let me remind the prime minister what he had to say in his new year message of 2011. he said this, uppermost in my minds we enter the new year is jobs. in light of today's unemployment fires can be explained what has gone wrong? >> first of all let me join the right honorable joe been in his fitting tribute and right trigger to our forces at christmastime serving in afghanistan but also serving in other parts of the world at one of the things that most like you in this job is that they are e best of the best. they are brave, courageous, dedicated and their families give up a huge amount at the same time so i join him in saying that. but let me say about the unemployment figures, any increase in unemployment is bad news and a tragedy for those involved. that is why we will do everything we can to help people backnto work. that is why we of the work program, that will have to and half million people. th's why we have a massive

i'm a cost conscious shopper, mr. speaker. i brought a marker down here with me today in case i had to write big red marks. this was free with rebates for this marker. dollars and cents matter. we make different decisions in our personal purchasing life when we experience those costs. transparency lets you know how much your government is costing you. does everybody want a free marketer marker? yes, does everybody want to pay the $6.95 it would have been? i think not. puts the entire cost of government out where you can see it. most importantly the fair tax is about individual freedom. folks, have you thought about how the tax code manipulates your life? it doesn't matter whether you sit on the far right over here with the republicans. you sit on the far left over there with democrats, sometimes something happens when you show up in washington, d.c., and you do, you believe you are the smartest person in the room. everybody tells you how wonderful you are. you think your ideas are so great, and you decide, you know what, i shou

this would suggest that he also sports a waxed mustache. mr. ster being celebrated for his cosmetic wax for gentlemen. if this was so, lestrade, you could do worse than have a word with harry "the 'tache" wilcox of soho. >> good lord, holmes. your "nothing much" would be anyone else's "a great deal." >> yes, well, i'm sure my men will arrive at the same conclusion once their reports are in hand. >> you will also naturally have noticed, lestrade, that this is the sixth reported theft of a mature male primate. >> is it? six? good lord, exceptional. >> the gender of the animals removed is, i suggest, of the essence. good day. [monkeys screeching] [knocking] >> come in. >> my dearest alice. >> i'm not interrupting your work? >> no, no. i wasn't seriously engaged. just some notes for future enquiry, nothing more. shall we go through to the drawing room? this is hardly the place to entertain a young lady. >> no. >> oh, dear. >> my dear child, what is the matter? >> i ought to have said before. >> ought you? what? >> there. you must take it back. >> oh

hasn't had a bad day since. mr. rangel received a purple heart for the wounds he received in fighting his way out of an ambush by chinese forces in subzero temperatures in the early months of the korean war. mr. rangel also received a bronze star for his valor. mr. rangel shares his -- this with members sam johnson, howard coble and john conyers, korean veterans all, a personal knowledge of how crucial this resolution is in addressing unresolved issues from that long-ago conflict. another person who understands the critical importance of this resolution is the president of the korean war inductees families union who flew almost halfway across the globe from seoul, korea, to be here and witness the consideration of this resolution on the house floor, ms. lee was a mere 18-month-old baby when her father was taken away by the north koreans, not to be seen again for the past six dengeded. . general mcarthur famously told the u.s. congress that the american people had old soldiers never die, they just fade away. how sadly

that's almost a trillion dollars, mr. president. the fact that we're debating this project today in the face of a frozen economy and rising energy insecurity is really unthinkable. we don't need more solyndra fiascos. we don't need to waste additional billions of taxpayer dollars to support failed businesses that wouldn't exist without federal subsidies. this pipeline has not one taxpayer dollar in it. it is privately funded and will create private industry jobs that will be jobs that create more revenue for our country through the spending and the creation of still further jobs. and we would be doing it with a trusted neighbor and ally, canada. this is something we should do, and i would love to see us do it in a bipartisan way in this senate, as the house has already done. thank you, mr. president, and i yield the floor. a senator: mr. president. the presiding officer: the senator from pennsylvania. mr. casey: thank you, mr. president. i rise to speak about the urgent need to prevent a tax increase in the year 2012 if the congress

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host: here's a tweet from freelancer on twitter. mr. corzine, she asks, going to jail, if missing m.f. cash not recovered? then adds, can't believe a millionaire who made his cash on wall street didn't know. will you posit a letter whether there's a criminal investigation? guest: we'll leave that to the proper law enforcement officials to take whatever actions. that is not the role of congress. i will tell you that any time you have -- especially the time very sensitive of corporations, then i think you are going to probably be looking at investigation and see what happens. i can say in my mind what i think is going to happen, but i leave it up to the investigators. any time you mess around with customers' moneys, that's not good. host: ben in ohio sends this question by email. he writes, do you think it's time to let go of agriculture subs isdies? the states receiving the most agriculture subsidies have the lowest unemployment rates, and were less impacted by the housing mess. it would seem they no longer need this federal help in view

a 13-year affair. lin wood joins me now. mr. wood, a pivotal moment for your client's campaign and everything resting really, i guess, on this woman, ginger white's word against herman cain's word. ha makes you so sure that your client is telling the truth? >> well, i have seen no evidence, piers, no evidence to support the accusations of ms. white. i have seen her go out on what we now know is not just an interview where she could tell her story and be done. but now she's engaging in a media campaign, one interview after another after another. i'm told she'll be on one of your competing networks tonight and she's offered no proof. no facts. she offered some phone records. they prove nothing other than she knew mr. cain, he has admitted that he was a friend of hers. she's offered two autographed books that were autographed with inscriptions that he could have signed to anybody in a book signing in a bookstore. what you have it boiled down is do you believe herman cain or do you believe ms. white? ms. white we know, has apparently

mr. corzine come you just testified a moment ago. my colleague mr. rice asked you a question in your aunt in part to some place i actually had expertise. i assume you're talking about your time at goldman. >> congressmen, i grew up in the governor's security business and i was homage to the fact that mr. royce raised this issue about the primary dealership and this had been something i'd probably spend 15 years, had been very, very a good enough marketplace. >> which he would say as ceo at mf global you had expertise. is that correct? >> certainly would require to the government security markets. >> you were asked about your deference. you think you could've got minis national treatment because of deference in the positions he's held? i just want to know that you were granted a three-year extension of your employment agreement in 2011 and two of the reasons they cited the success and primary dealer status and improving the posture with regulators. do you think that would definitely have something to do with maybe some deference to the wire in your sta

a satirist. jonathan swift was kidding. mr. gingrich is not kidding. and he has been not kidding about this stuff for a long time. in congress in the 199 os he argued the federal government should take children away from mothers on welfare. federal government should take kids away from the moms and shift the kids to orphanages. poor women should lose their children for the crime of being poor. reporter tim murphy reminding us about newt gingrich's scam in the 1990s called earning by learning, supposedly a summer reading program offering kids 2 bucks for every book they read. the point of the story, mr. murphy wrote, is private initiatives often succeed where government programs fail. earning by learning was a lean, mean private machine. quote, the overhead is entirely voluntary, mr. gingrich said of the program in 1995. the only money goes to the kids. if you have $1,000 at 2 bucks a book, you can pay for 500 books. whereas in the welfare state model if you have $1,000, you pay $850 of that for the bureaucracy. when "the wall street journal" looked into

mr. jackson: i request a recorded vote, mr. speaker. the speaker pro tempore: a recorded vote -- the gentleman is not recognized for debate. mr. jackson: mr. speaker, i request a recorded vote. the speaker pro tempore: a recorded vote is requested. all those in favor of taking this vote by the yeas and nays will rise and remain standing until counted. a sufficient number having arisen, a recorded vote is ordered. members will record their votes by electronic device. this will be a 15-minute vote. [captioning made possible by the national captioning institute, inc., in cooperation with the united states house of representatives. any use of the closed-captioned coverage of the house proceedings for political or commercial purposes is expressly prohibited by the u.s. house of representatives.] the speaker pro tempore: the yeas are zero, the nays are 355, the motion is not adopted. the chair lays before the house the following enrolled bill. the clerk: h.r. 470, an act to further allocate and expand the ability of the electric power and for

lump of coal and a tax hike this year. mr. holt: but we should not undermine social security. last year it was a mistake to take the 2% tax cut from social security and say we'll cover the losses from general funds. we should not allow a one-year mistake to become a permanent attack on social security and on the livelihood of its beneficiaries. social security should not be used as a rainy day fund or political bargaining chip, it should not be like another government agency that some years has a good budget and some years has the budget voted away. president roosevelt described it best. he said, we put these payroll contributions there so as to give the contributors a legal, moral, and political right to collect their pensions. with those taxes in there, no damn politician can ever scrap my social security program. here's a way to handle the problem and keep the mechanism of social security intact. make the changes within the existing system. let's cut the payroll tax for 160 million americans and make up the lost revenue by

mr. camp: i yield a minute and half to the gentleman from louisiana, mr. scalise. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from louisiana is recognized for a minute and a half. mr. scalise: thank you, mr. speaker, and i thank the gentleman from michigan for yielding. what we're talking about here today, mr. speaker, is the difference between passing a tax policy that would only last two months or passing a tax policy that lasts the entire year. you know, during these next week and a half while families are sitting at home doing their budget for next year, they're going to be making their budget for the entire year of 2012, not just for two months. yet what the senate sent over is a plan that would only kick the can down the road and we'd be right back here again having this same debate in two months. and people are sick and tired of this kind of absurd action from congress. you know, if you look at earlyics courses, anybody who takes their -- -- early civics courses, anybody knows that when there's a difference between the house and senate, then the two sides get toge

mr. foyle, a police officer. good morning. really? why? i mean-- he's been making inquiries about edith johnstone. edith? where is she? what's she done? she hasn't done anything as far as i know, and i'm afraid mr. foyle is refusing to enlighten me. uh, did she ever tell you where she came from? yes. she came from norfolk. yes, yes. that's right. well, thank you for your time. why was he asking about edith? it doesn't matter. it's nothing to do with us. having the police here now? we've got nothing to be afraid of. we have nothing to hide. we're breaking the law. arthur, we've been through all this, and i have told you, a week from now, there will be no law. who was that just now? oh, it was nothing, mr. fleming. a police officer. what did he want? he was just making inquiries about one of our staff. nothing important. good. this is very decent of you, sir. it's perfectly all right, sam. i've never been particularly fond of sandwiches. i seem to have been brought up on them. too many tea parties. these are very good, though. my father says,

a year. but only after the new year. mr. speaker, a great virginian once said, never put off tomorrow what you can do today. that man was thomas jefferson. so let us dedicate ourself to that spirit. people across our great country are tired of hearing why washington cannot do things. they are seeing say in and day out that washington is not working together. but we have the ability to give them some hope. let's show the american people that there's a reason to believe that we can work together and deliver results. the truth is, we are not far apart on this issue. the negotiators got extremely close. we owe some stability and good tax policy to the hardworking people of this country not more gimmicks and political games. today this house will vote to go to conference and work these differences out in regular order. we need to come together in a responsible manner to find common ground where we can accomplish everyone's goal of a year-long payroll tax extension. mr. speaker, there is no reason why the house, the senate, and the

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mr. president, yes. in fact, there is a famous u.s. supreme court case, ex parte inquiry indecided in -- quirin that dealt with the case of an american citizen helping the nazis, the nazi saboteurs that came to our shores. mr. graham: do you agree with me that our supreme court ruled then that when an american citizen decides to collaborate and assist an enemy force, that that's viewed as an act of war and the law of war applies to the conduct of the american citizen? mr. kyl: mr. president, i would say to my colleague, yes. my colleague knows this case, i am confident, and i think one quotation from the case makes the point clearly. in ex parte quirin, the court made clear, and i'm quoting now -- "citizenship in the united states of an enemy belligerent does not relieve him of the consequences of his belligerency." in other words, if you leave your country and take the position contrary, you side with the enemy, you become belligerent against the united states, the fact that you're still a citizen does not protect you from being captur

mr. chabet, a senior member of the judiciary committee. the chair: the gentleman from ohio voiced for two minutes. mr. chabot: i thank our distinguished chair-more -- chairman for yielding the time. mr. chairman, when i talk to small business owners back in my district in cincinnati and southwest ohio, i continue to hear the same thing over and over again. overbearing regulations are crushing their ability to grow and create jobs. and that's what we are supposed to be about, is getting this economy moving and getting people back to work again. but the regulations are just crushing them. over the last year, however, the obama administration has enacted more than 3,500 new rules and regulations and they have another 4,000 pending. so rather than reduce the regulations, they're talking about putting on even more. mr. chairman, small businesses in this country are struggling. unemployment is at record levels an our economy is showing little or no signs of improvement. we must pass legislation that reduces red tape and reduces burdensome regulat

i -- having been to a number of your venues, i know of your work and it is incredibly impressive. mr one of the things i have realized on the board, i have seen in district 2 is a lot between the neighborhoods and the commercial corridors. that is an inherent tension in our great neighbor kids in the city. it has come through for what people have said and what you have said about your desire to integrate and work through those issues. that is so important and especially our technology background, it is very fascinating for me personally. i will indicate where i am thinking right now and i will let my colleagues talk. amie, i will have difficulty considering her today given that she is not here. this may seem not fair. it has been consistent with what i've done all year. when we have all lot of -- even though your recently moved out, when we have a residency waiver requirements, i have a difficult time and i have been this way all year with people i like. it is something i have done all year and it is a principal thing i would feel difficulty sticking with. with that, that being said,

as a response person. mr medvedev. to which conditions could russia help the. there is a. there was a talk about the twenty billion aid could you confirm this and maybe for me another question to the side the european parliament called yesterday for new elections. to be or to be all in held in russia was this call also related among the concerns you had about the irregularities and if mr medved if wants to react to this thank you. you would. vision pastoring the first part of your question. but i think i want to say that russia. is the beautiful is interested in. the youth so when you use. preserve ation as a powerful economic and political force says you have end up going toys civilizational toys is the mood i mentioned advantageous ties with the us or us for russia united europe is very important for us it's important that we were being states should agree and the river exercise preserve and courage to preserve all that has been done over the recent decades and chris and one of the most important reserve currencies the euro these beautiful and the e.u. rules of the europ

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