this will complement regular lending efforts and help businesses like allen joe's, capitalize on existing property to expand and create new jobs. i urge my colleagues to pass this critical legislation. thank you and i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields back the balance of his time. for what purpose does the gentleman from pennsylvania rise? mr. thompson: mr. speaker, request unanimous consent to address the house for one minute and to revise and extend. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, so ordered. mr. thompson: mr. speaker, i rise today to recognize and honor the young talent of elaine kang, a 16-year-old violinist from pennsylvania. this coming september she will make her radio debut on n.p.r.'s "from the top," a critically acclaimed radio show which reaches 600,000 listeners each week. it serves the tenacity of young musicians by showing who they are and what they can accomplish. she must be commended with only 16 years behind her and well ahead, she's on her way to a fruitful career. she is a role model to many young musicians as well as her peers. ela

allen on the gulf oil spill. >> good morning, everyone, i'm lieutenant joe pinker, press secretary to admiral allen. he'll be sgroined the secretary for labor and health. just a couple of ground rules follow the comments, we'll have 10 minutes of questions from the phone and possibly 10 minutes of questions from the room. at that -- at this time, i'll turn it over to admiral allen. >> thank you. good afternoon. a couple of developments to update you on but first of all, as of midnight last night, we were able to produce 27,097 barrels a new high for us, a combination of the discover enterprise, which did 668,000 and the q-4000 which flared off natural gas and oil of 420,000 oils. we had an incident earlier today where they noticed there was some kind of gas rising through the vent that carries warm waters down. in an abundance of caution, the discover enterprise removed the containment camp and moved away until they could assess the condition. they've indicated the problem was a remotely operated vehicle that had been around the area had bumped one of the vents that allows how to come out, thereby c