so now we're going to repeal don't ask, don't tell. so what exactly are we asking? are we asking the military then to protect or condone homosexual behavior if it does get in the way of performing the mission? what exactly are we talking about? are we talking about creating separate dormitories, for instance, if we have sexual ha -- harassment? what will this have to do with recruitment? people that have a 17-year-old kid that may be wanting to sign up. what will this do to recruitment? what's it going to do to the morale of the troops? what's it going to do to small unit cohesion? and also, the other piece of the military is about these soldiers giving their time and lives are confined to very tight areas and are pushed together in very difficulcircumstances over long periods of time. what is the effect on that? all of these questions are sitting out there, and the military leadership is saying, yeah, we don't know the answers to those questions. give us some time to take a look at it. we don't want you to pass this until we can see what's going on with this. now,

hall: i ask for a recorded vote. i really do. the speaker pro tempore: those favoring a recorded vote will ri. a sufficient number having risen, a recorded vote is orred. this is a five-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: on this vote the yeas are 197, the nays are 215. the sixth portion of the amenent is not adopted. the seventh portion of the divided question is voting -- is the portion of the amendme proposing to add stion 704. those in favor say aye. those posed, no. the ayes have it. >> i ask for a record vote, mr. speaker. 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 vot

nobody ever asked me about it. suddenly i think it was in february, someone asked me did they offer you a job? and i felt for my own personal accountability i needed to be honest and i said yes. i didn't try to parse the word there. then i said after that, no comment to the follow on questions that were asked. because, i talk about my role in the matter and i thought that was important for me to do. >> was there any other calls or communications, any other position? >> no, no. just that one phone call. this portion of the conversation probably lasted -- i mean, i'm not exactly sure of the time. but i would say 30 to 60 seconds. i mean we were off in another conversation and he came up during an end. it was almost as if he were saying the words, i almost felt like i was interrupting. i would only get out of this or not get into it, because i wasn't in the primary at the time if i felt it was the right thing to do for pennsylvania work families, and not for an offer. >> he stopped it there? >> he chuckled and he said

that's all we're asking for today. we're ol' not asking anybody to give up their holds.we're only asking people to come out into the sunshine for the transparency that we all want to have as we serve the great people of this nation. t-and with that, for -- and with that, for the first unanimous consent motions, i will yield to my colleague from new mexico, senator udall. mr. udall: mr. president? the presiding officer: the senator new mexico. mr. udall: thank you, mr. president. and i know the president -- our presiding officer today is also going to come forward and we hope to see him down on the floor, and i thank senator mccaskill very, very much for her organizational efforts, hers and senator warner's in working on this issue. this is a very, very serious issue for the senate in terms of how we move forward on the rules. i kind of liken it, senator mccaskill, to -- and i have some history here, and i know everybody has their history when it comes to administrations, but here you have this administration, just elected a little over a year and a half ago, trying put t

don't ask, don't tell weakens our national security by asking service members to lie, firing them for being gay, and telling able recruits we don't want you. please, america can do better. vote yes. the chair: the gentleman from pennsylvania is recognized. for what purpose does the gentleman from mississippi arise? mr. skelton: -- >> i request unanimous consent -- in opposition to this amendment. the chair: without objection. the gentleman from pennsylvania is recognized. >> i yield 30 seconds to the gentleman from michigan, a freshman congressman and former lieutenant commander, mr. peters. the chair: the gentleman is recognized for 30 seconds. mr. peters: i strongly support representative murphy's amendment. we must allow our military to recruit and retain any qualified patriotic and courageous american who wants to serve our country. during my service in the united states navy reserve, i served witmany dedicated men and women who were always ready to serve their country any time and anywhere. i was never concerned about their sexual orientation, just their ability to serve the unit

>> ask unanimous consent to address the house. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized for one minute. >> mr. speaker, getting our economy back on track and creating new jobs is the priority of my constituents and a top priority of my own. the democratic congress has alady taken significant steps to create jobs and jumpstart the economy. resulting in the lowest tax rates and over 50 years in the creation of over 500,000 new jobs so far this year. the american jobs and closing tax loopholes act continues these efforts. current tax law allows companies here in the united states to be rewarded for shipping american jobs overseas. this is unconscionable and american workers deserve better. this legislation includes provisions that close these tax loopholes and protects jobs here at home. this legislation will also continue to provide hard working american families with the relief they deserve, relief on property taxes, sales taxes and college tuition. mr. speaker, the american jobs and closing tax loopholes act is another

but let me tell you who i was going to be asking for. there are two judges for the fourth circuit, albert diaz and james wynn. they're a republican and democrat. they're paired for appointment. they cleared the judiciary committee with only one opposing vote. one was unanimous and the other was everybody but one -- but one. they have been on the calendar now for weeks, and i would like to ask unanimous consent -- i'm informed that because there are no republicans, senate republicans in washington, i'm unable to do that right now, but they have been on the calendar for many weeks and there is no reason for them not to be confirmed. the following judges, judicial candidates for -- nominees for judgeship are also pending. john e. deguilio, audrey goldstein fleissig to be district judge in missouri. lucy haeran koh for california. tanya walton pratt to be united states district judge for the southern district of indiana. jane e.magnus-stinson for indiana. brian anthony jackson to be judge for the middle district of louisiana. elizabeth erny

the minister of defense, of course, is asking for much more. he is asking for 400,000. quite cautious for the cost it will incur in the future. we are trying to have the right numbers between 300,000 to 350,000 for now. as we move forward and bring stability, we will concentrate more on quality and equipment rather than numbers. >> that brings up a question of the sustainability of 400,000 afghan national security forces. dr. ghani has been describing the mineral wealth. you mentioned a couple of days ago at the state department that sometimes in the not too distant future when afghanistan can stand on its own feet financially. 400,000 troops of of various kinds will be essential. >> if we keep going at the current speed of revenue collection, is the minister of of finance around? this year, we had a 22% increase in our revenue collection. yesterday, used a 22%. [laughter] >> it was a good day. >> 22% of gdp growth. if we move at this speed, within three years, afghanistan will be able to pay for the existing members of our security forces. that is within three years. w

are there any questions so we did not ask ind? >> np, sir. we will need to appear before the board, will you make yourself available? >> i will do everything i can. i appreciate the grayson that was given to me verbally. i appreciate that. you are dismissed. >> thank you. [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2010] cable satellite corp. 2010] to allow for the party interest we have, we have time for evident for the board to consider and the technical verification phase. we are planning to hold the next sessions in the later part in july. i request that of a party interested to submit a request to the board by the end to an impossle. throughout our investigation, we will identify identify additional parties as appropriate. is on the conduct of the captain well operating under the deepwater horizon, the board will issue letters to each individual as a party of interest. this meeting is >> and you are going to find quickly, in this life beyond college, that you will be required upon occasion to dig the well deeper. >> this weekend t

bersin i have three standard questions we ask all nominees and i will ask them right now. first come is there anything aware of in your background that might present a conflict of interest for the duties or jobs in which you have been nominated? >> no sir. >> de novo any reason, person or otherwise that would in any way prevent you from fully and honorably discharging their responsibilities for the office and what you have been nominated? >> no mr. ciaran and. >> do you agree to respond to any reasonable summons to appear and testify before any duly constituted committee of congress? pie douceur except otherwise required by law. >> what would that be? >> i do, sir. >> thank you. >> i've not heard any other witness make that reservation. and you have now withdrawn that reservation? >> i have sir. >> mr. bersin, as commissioner chris and you are responsible for enforcing america's immigration laws at our borders, and during the finance committee vetting process, you failed to timely complete and maintain weekly required i-9 forms that verify your household employees were leg

we ask them to do and also the job we ask them to do infghanistan and iraq. we are also concerned in this bill -- ntinue to be concerned about our procurement and acquisition process. we passed acquisition reform again under chairman skelton's great leadership, but we have a farme number of programs, certainly the joint sike fighter, future combat systems that have not delivered on time and on budt. we have to make sue get every penny that we send and it is spent efficiently and effectively. we need to continue to make sure that the programs we procure et that standard. that is why i, too, along with mr. mckeon, am strongly supportive of the second engine program. it's been our committee's position for a long time to support that program. we believe that's an efficient use of taxpayer delaurs. so i thank you, -- delores. i thank you, again, for your leadership -- delores -- dollers. i thank you again for your leadership. >> i yield two minutes to the gentleman from maryland, mr. barton. mr. barton: thank you, mr. speaker. i'like to thank chairman skelton, ran

>> the investigation team asked me what you asked me.n, that's the only investigation i've been through. >> thanks a lot, sir. >> i just have a couple of follow-up questions. i know it may be dficult to go back through this process, but could you just go back preef briefly to where the events started and maybe give us a little bit slower accountf what happened. >> yes, sir. >> i got lost a little bit in what you were telling me there. i just want to go back over it again. >> yes, sir, that's no problem. >> at approximately 5:30, i was on the rig floor. when i walked into the drill shack, you know, i seen my relief over there, mark hay, and i went to talk to him. at the same time, wyman and bob kalusha were talking about the first negative test. wyman was convinced we lost mud. they bumped it up to 1900 and there wasn't any mud. >> that's to keep it closed? >> normal operating pressure is 1,500 psi. >> to keep it closed? >> or open. >> or open. so you increased pressure to keep it closed, is that what you're saying? >> yeah. >> thank you.

let me ask the letter that you received at the justice department from about 18 of us the other day asks you to take a look at an announcement by transocean limited, the owner of the deep water horizon oil rig, that it is intended -- it announced in switzerland and by the way, that's where it has about a dozen employees and it has 1,300 employees in houston but moved to switzerland, i think, to reduce its tax obligation to the united states. so in switzerland, it announces that it intends to distribute $1 billion to its shareholders at this point in time. is that troublesome to you? we've written a letter asking whether it's troublesome because there may be substantial liability here for transocean as well. and if they go ahead and distribute that $1 billion in the face of potential liability, wouldn't that be pretty difficult circumstance for a lot of people whose lives have been dramatically affected to see? >> senator, i don't think i've actually seen a copy of the letter, although i've been told that it was sent. our focus is from all of the responsibility parties or anybody who's po

let me srt -- i asked mr. strickland, so let me ask you this question.tified that the mats and sticky pedal accounted for 16% of the sudden unintended acceleration and that's 84% of them we have no answer for. are we any closer to finding out what about the other 84% of the sudden unintended acceleration, what's the cause of it? >> i think it depen on the database that you're looking at. in the case of nhtsa's database, it's lumped together as speed control. so i includes not only events of sudden unintended acceleration, but it includes any other type ofurge or hesitation event. so when we spoke last, i'm confident of three things -- that the sticky pedal is bng repaired. we're already almost 70% repaired. >> correct. >> i'm confident we'll be under control on the mats -- >> but even if you do 100% mats, 100% sticky pedal we have 84% -- and these were numbers from last time. 2,262 sudden axlcceleration reports. 19 deaths in the united states. the 84% of the 2262. so even if you did a 100% mats, 100% sticky pedals we have 84% we have no answer for. you t

>> i asked about that this morning. i asked first of all whether our police department received any notice of that arrest and the answer was no. and second, i asked whether the coaches had any knowledge of it or whether it'd been disclosed. and the answer to that was no also. finally, i asked whether students are required to self-report arrests, convicti s convictions, and so on. and there is, in fact, a regulation in the student code of regulations that requires that kind of report. are there any follow-up questions to that one? yes? >> i'm with the "washington post." when you posted the story on your website based on public record that found that at least 8 of the 41 members of the lacrosse team had been charged. one of the -- were you aware of any of those charges? and if there's any discipline in regards to any of those. >> i was not. but let me ask craig since he's responsible for that function. >> without being specific to any one individual, there are -- >> okay. we're listening there. that was the president of t

>> i thought you were asking me to try to quantify -- >> i was asking a human question. how you feel? i feel pretty good today. >> i don't feel good at all today. >> i don't mean that i'm asking you a conversational question. i'm not in a court of law. i'm just asking you to describe your safely record. let me be specific. i'm going to ask you about a few things. in february of 2010, 19 member tofse house sent a letter to the mineral management service, questioning p.b.'s safety on the platform in the gulf of mexico. it asks what responses it will take in response to allegation by a whistleblower and a houston-based safety expert that b.p. skipped necessary engineering inspections and provided inaccurate engineering documents to the rig operator. these documents are critical to the safe operation of the oil rig. that's a letter, february of 2010. in october of 2007, b.p. pled guilty to a criminal violation of the clean water act, paid $12 million in fines as well as $8 knoll address national re-- natural resources damagings. in the north slope of alaska due to poor maint

out like to ask you a question that i asked tad olson -- i would like to ask you a question that asked ted olson when he was under confirmation hearings. he had written something 20 years earlier about public policy. what policies are implemented, the law must be enforced by the justice department -- once policies are implemented, the law must be enforced by the justice department. whether we like them or not, where the government's lawyers. even if we disagree with the policies of a lot and even if we feel there are questionable constitutionality, we must enforce the rights. do you agree? >> absolutely. there is simply no question not when one assumes the solicitor general's role, one is assuming a set of responsibilities and obligations, of which the defense the statute is one of the most critically important. the defense of the statutes, whether you would have voted for those or not. i know that ted olson would not have voted for the mccain-final bill. -- feingold bill. but he did an extraordinary job defending that piece of legislation, which i think you will agree. that is what th

we are supposed to ask the big questions. i do not fault the admiral for having someone write that for him. what else is he supposed to say? that is why i said the change will not come from within. that letter has emphasize exactly what i am talking about. these people stay for three years. the superintendent's stay for three years. there is a constant in and out. they come in, make big mistakes, and leave. host: that incident -- considered to be a plum assignment? guest: it is. in the mid-1990s, they added the terminal appointment. we have heard of superintendents who got that after being passed over for chief of naval operations. it is kind of a consolation prize after the cna. host: good morning, carolyn. caller: you say the academy is practically worthless. the people in there are ignorant or something to that measure is what i have gotten out of you. if they are, i want to know why they are not used in our border security. maybe they will learn something as border patrol keeping the sovereignty of our state. i know the d

i am not going to ask you to go into this case, but i am going to ask this question. you have an attempted car bombing, a connection to the taliban, a guilty plea, all of which could certainly be construed that the man was not attached to the principles of the constitution and therefore should have his citizenship revoked. it is my understanding that within five years, this section of nationalization, this would allow such a relocation. >> thanks. you recommended me back in 1998. that was a source of pride for me. i remember that each day. >> for me as well. >> thanks. i am studying, the application process. [unintelligible] it may speak to in eligibility at the time of the application itself. >> i would call your attention to a section, subsection c. if a person shall have been naturalized after december 24, 1952, within five years become a member or become affiliated with any organization, with which at the time this, will be precluded from nationalization, under a provision of this title, it should be considered evidence that such person was not attached to the pri

i ask for a recorded vote. i ask for the yeas and nays. the speaker pro tempore: the yeas and nays have been requested. all those in favor of taking this vote by the yeas and nays will rise. a sufficient number having arisen, the yeas and nays are ordered. pursuant to clause 8 of rule 20 and the chair's prior announcement, further proceedings on this motion will be postponed. for what purpose does the gentleman from virginia rise? mr. scott: mr. speaker, i move to suspend the rules and pass house resolution 1325 as amended. the speaker pro tempore: the clerk will report the title of the resolution. the clerk: house resolution 1325, resolution recognizing national missing children's day. the speaker pro tempore: pursuant to the rule, the gentleman from virginia, mr. scott, and the gentleman from florida, mr. rooney, each will control 20 minutes. the chair recognizes the gentleman from virginia. mr. scott: thank you, mr. speaker. i ask unanimous consent that all members may have five legislative days to revise and extend their remarks and in

and if i could ask you separately, did president obama or anyone else you talked to this week ask you to sideline or fire your brother from his role in kandahar? do you believe it's appropriate for the united states to have an opinion on that? and for secretary clinton, do you think that ahmid wa to the success in afghanistan? >> what i said since last week, this is in consequent of consultation that is we have had that the efforts in kandahar and the -- have to be explained better. the modality of it has to be explained better. so we are not calling it an operation. an operation would indicate a military operation with tanks and troops moving. that is not the situation in kandahar as the secretary of state described very aptly. we are talking of a process. and it's only the change in terminology and for the right objective. the president did not raise the issue of my brother in kandahar. i raised it with him. and to the satisfaction of both sides, even if i were to resort to an activity of firing or hiring, fortunately for afghanistan we are a democratic country, one elected by the p

what do they ask me to do? they ask me to cut their taxes and to help small business owners grow the jobs that we need to work our way back into prosperity. well, you may not have seen it on television or heard it in the radio, but president obama and the democrats here in congress have already delivered the biggest tax cuts in american history. here in "usa today" two days ago, it says tax bills in 2009 at lowest levels since 1950. don't stop there. let's take the word of president reagan's domestic economic advisor, mr. bartlett, quote, federal taxes are lower by every measure since obama became president. last year, $787 billion stimulus bill enacted with no republican support, reduced federal taxes by almost $100 billion in 2009 and another $222 billion this year. but we all know that helping small business must be a top priority as well. that's why we passed the bipartisan hire act which will generate jobs. that's why we worked together with republicans and democrats to pass the home star act. the speaker

they had asked to cease funding for certain equipment. there are heavy up-front costs -- about $3 billion. multiple studies show the military has ample airlift capacity to meet all current and feasible future needs. the leadership of the air force is car -- they do not need and cannot afford more c-17's. correspondingly, the air force, marines, and 80 do not want the second f- -- and navy do not want the second f-35 engines. yet a battle is underwayo prevent them from putting these back in in the next few yrs. i strongly recommend a veto if either of these items is included in the budget legislion next year. leave aside the sacred obligation we have to america's wounded warriors, but health care costs are eating the department alive. it increased from $19 billion when decade ago to roughly $50 billion, about the same but it of the foreign affairs budget for the department of state -- about the same budget of the of foreign affairs but it -- of the foreign affairs budget for the department of state. many working-age military retirees, who

don't ask, don't tell weakens our national security by asking rvice members to lie, firing them for being gay, and telling able recruits we don't want you. please, america can do better. vote yes. the chair: the gentleman from pennsylvania is recognized. for what purpose does the gentleman from mississippi arise? mr. skelton: -- >> i request unanimous consent -- in opposition to this amendment. the chair: without objection. the gentleman from pennsylvania is recognized. >> i yield 30 seconds to the gentleman from michigan, a freshman congressman and former lieutenant commander, mr. peters. the chair: the gentleman is recognized for 30 seconds. mr. peters: i strongly support representative murphy's amendment. we must allow our military to recruit and retain any qualified patriotic and courageous american who wants to rve our country. during my service in the united states navy reserve, i served with many dedicated men and women who were always ready to serve their country any time and anywhere. i was never concerned about their sexual orientation, just their ability to serve the united sta

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asked it. the questions are being asked in several committees, i understand. what did speaker pelosi know about eric massa? those of you that don't know the story of eric massa, i'm not going to tell it, i'm going to read to you a thing from the new york daily news d. it's an arled. f.b.i. joins in massa probe of sexual harassment, hush money and coverups. this is written april 22, 2010. the f.b.i. has joined the mushrooming investigations of sexual harassment, hush money and coverups allegedly involving former upstate representative eric massa, democrat for new york, and his male satisfiers. the bureau's entry into the case followed the announcement by the house ethics committee yesterday, is conducting its own investigation of how the office of house spear nancy pelosi, democrat from california, and others handled complaints against massa. massa's alleged tickling, groping and rarbes behavior at a gay bar with young staffers was offensive, inappropriate and created a hostile work environment,

so i want to ask why not. what can be done to prevent another failure of it blowout preventer in deep water, or to control the spill more quickly and effectively if it does? until those questions are answered satisfactorily, i don't see how oour government can allw any more deep water drills to be permitted or drill. i say thatith regret, because i know how important offore american oil is to our nation's energy independence. but the u.s. government has a responsibility for protecting public safety that is more important. that responsibility, i fear, was not fulfilled in this case prior to the accident occurring. the result is the human environmental and ecomic catastrophe that we are now witnessing in the gulf. senator collins. >> thank you, mr. chairman. mr. chairman, as we began this oversight hearing into what is certainly an environmental catastrophe and what is likely to be an economic disaster, let us also remember what a personal tragedy this incident i for the families of the 11 workers who lost their

i'll ask you, mr. mckay.ediately after this blowout occurred and we began to have -- see the leaks, the idea came that we needed a coffe down, a containment that will go over the leak and take the oil out. that took several weeks to construct. while -- why was it not so that that had already -- something like that had already been constructed and those kind of ideas are thoroughly examined when you say you're dealing with this deepwater and the unusual circumstances? >> this situation is extremely, as you may imagine, extremely hard to predict, the specifics of the situation. what we have in this case is we have a blowout preventer that didn't work for whatever reason. we don't know why. and we've bot the lower marine reiser -- and we've got the lower marine riser package. and the disconnect did not activate the blowout preventer or release that disconnect. so we have a disconnect connected on top of the blowout preventer and a riser coming off the top of that. that then impacts what type of solution -- >> wo

he asked the banker why he got such a response, and they said they only had to ask one question about the purchase. can we sell the loan? they felt no need to check and see whether it was a good underlying activity. we also at a consumer protection agency. we are born to get a test of regulation. we are often told by people in any business, don't legislate too rigidly. don't go up to the line. leave us some flexibility. on the other hand, when an incident arises such as goldman sachs, and many people think that what they did was not appropriate, the response is almost always, the law did not specifically prohibit us from doing it. businesses cannot simultaneously argue to us for flexibility but then in a tough situation, argue that because you did not make it specifically illegal, you cannot complain. if that is the case, if there is not a willingness to comply with the spirit beyond the absolute letter, then we have to write the absolute letter. i should make one last point. what we are doing conceptually. our problem was not deregulation. the problem was not regulation. we did not h

so i want to ask why not. failure of it blowout preventer in deep water, or to control the spill more quickly and effectively if it does? until those questions are answered satisfactorily, i don't see how oour government can allw any more deep water drills to be permitted or drill. i say that with regret, because i know how important offshore american oil is to our nation's ergy independence. but the u.s. government has a responsibility for protecting public safety that is more important. that responsibility, i fear, was not fulfilled in this case prior to the acciden occurring. the result is the human environmental and economic catastrophe that we are now witnessing in the gulf. senator collins. >> thank you, mr. chairman. mr. chairman, as we began this oversight hearing into what is certainly an environmental catastrophe and what is likely be an economic disaster, let us also remember what a personal tragedy this incidt is for the families of the 11 workers who lost their lives afterhe explosion rocked andan

are there any questions so we did not ask ind? >> np, sir. we will need to appear before the board, will you make yourself available? >> i will do everything i can. i appreciate the grayson that was given to me verbally. i appreciate that. you are dismissed. >> thank you. [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2010] cable satellite corp. 2010] to allow for the party interest we have, we have time for evident for the board to consider and the technical verification phase. we are planning to hold the next sessions in the later part in july. i request that of a party interested to submit a request to the board by the end to an impossible. throughout our investigation, we will identify identify additional parties as appropriate. is on the conduct of the captain well operating under the deepwater horizon, the board will issue letters to each individual as a party of interest. this meeting is adjourned. thank you. >> raise your right hand so i can place you under oath. false testimony given to an entity of the united states is punishabl

i'm not going to ask you to go into the shahzad case, but i am going to ask this question. you have an attempted car bombing, a connection to the pakistani taliban, a guilty plea, all of which could certainly be construed that mr. shahzad was not attached to the principles of the constitution, and, therefore, should have his citizenship revoked. it's my understanding that within five years this section, five years of naturalization, this section would allow such a revocation your is that not true for mr. shahzad? >> senator, thank you very much. let me first, if i may say, that the fact that it was you who recommended me back in 1998 to be the united states attorney is an everlasting source of pride for me, and something that i remember each day. >> for me, too. >> thank you, senator. i am myself standing, not with respect to the shahzad case specifically, but if i may generalize it, the application, the naturalization process, the application itself and the relevant law. and as i understand the law, and please come if i may, my study is only preliminary, as i understand it

someone asked what he is doing.he says, every time this one guy sees him, he slaps him in the pocket and destroys his cigars. his friend says, but now i have dynamite? next time he sees you, he will kill you. he says, i know, but i will blow his handoff. [laughter] you are being asked to trade your cigars for dynamite. in need to think about what is best for your community and your children, and your grandchildren, and your future. [applause] the second thing i want to say is not really about blanche's opponent. let me show you another article. it is from "the washington post." it talks about the primary. if you read along here, it says, the national union made a decision a few months ago that they wanted to make blanche lincoln the "poster child" for what happens when a democrat crosses them. in other words, this is about using new and manipulating your vote to terra five members of congress and the senate from other states -- to terrify members of congress and the senate from other states. if you want to be used t

speaker, i ask -- mr. lynch: mr. speaker, i ask for the call of the yeas and nays. the speaker pro tempore: a -- the yeas and nays are 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, the yeas and nays are ordered. pursuant to clause 8 of rule 20 and the chair's prior announcement, further proceedings on this motion will be postponed. for what purpose does the gentleman from massachusetts seek recognition? mr. lynch: mr. speaker, i move that the house suspend the rules and agree to house resolution 1316, as amended. the speaker pro tempore: the clerk will report the title of the resolution. the clerk: house resolution 1314, resolution celebrating asian-pacific american heritage month. the speaker pro tempore: pursuant to the rule, the gentleman from massachusetts, mr. lynch, and the gentleman from missouri, mr. luetkemeyer, each will control 20 minutes. the chair recognizes the gentleman from massachusetts. mr. lynch: thank you, mr. speaker. i ask unanimous consent

what i was asked to do is to set the stage and ask the question why would arizona do this? what's the big deal? what is causing arizona it to cause what some have described as a result of taking the law into its own hands? we would like to see the jurisdiction in the federal government, but that presupposes the federal government is doing its job in controlling the border and enforcing the laws that this arizona law would attempt to supplement. that is what i want to review with you in the seven to 10 minutes i have been given. it starts with this premise -- the federal government has been ignoring the problem for too long and that problem is an insecure border. that is obviously what led to this legislation. in september of 1994, when i was not yet elected to the senate but thought i had a pretty good shot at being elected to months later, i met with then attorney- general, janet reno, and said it you don't know about this, but you have a huge problem on the border surrounding the town of nogales. i told her all the things i had learned during my campaign for the senate. a

newman and ask mr. mckay. >> during the life of the mississippi canyon -- >> that's correct. >> -- i don't have a record of how many times operations were suspended. >> mr. mckay? >> i'm sorry. don't know. >> let me ask you about a few specific problems. there was a story in "the times picuyane." they started to interview some ofhe people that were working on the well, talked about problems that go back to weeks prior to the explosion. they said a con staent theme was that gas kicks more frequent in this oil field than others that the crew worked on and members were concerned. quote, one gas kick occurred towards the bottom of the hole approximately 10,000 feet below the hole with such a large kick they had to shut down operations. they were concerned about sparks sources on the rig at the surface so they had to shut it down because there were so much -- there was so much gas coming out of the rig and they were afraid of the explosion. now, are you familiar -- that was according to this report a few wee

and i do want to ask -- i do want to thank and ask dr. barbara the interim chair of the national council to stand. [applause] dr. schorr i want you to know that we are here and we are going to support you. can we have all of the women of the national council stand please. stand and let us acknowledge that we are going to continue the legacy of our beloved dr. dorothy height. i bring to you now this is history. this is history. three when in shaping the world making it a better place. the longtime national council of the night of supporter of the senior vice president of the coca-cola company and the chair of the global coca-cola foundation. and the two past honorees, the fearless marion wright edelman president and founder of the children's defense fund and master educator dr. johnetta cole to director of the smithsonian national museum of the national art and both dr. johnetta and marion wright edelman are former awardees of the uncommon height of word award. [applause] >> the life and the surprising times of dorothy irene height who ros

i would like to ask mr.armstrong, on the safety issue, in your written statement, we talk about the taxi service that we saw -- this was being, perhaps, not necessarily the safety standards that we would have on our own shuttle. can you talk about the safety issue? >> the prime recommendations of the columbia accident investigation board, with respect to the new vehicles in the future, was that safety should be considered the prime consideration. and who will argue with safety. but safety -- you cannot put all the money into safety. this has to be balanced with the program requirements and others. except level of safety has to be determined. this is what you are searching for. and we had good confidence on this right now. we had a number of safelights, and ever since the columbia -- this seems to be operating very well. this is an old, 30-year-old technology. i believe that this may continue to be operated safely, and we have a good confidence level on this. this was projected -- by the outside safety expert

we'll ask former governor sarah palin to look ahead to november. palin on the midterm, only on "fox news sunday." then will republicans regain control of congress, or is talk of a sweeping g.o.p. victory premature? we talk with the two party chairmans, democrat tim kaine and republican michael steele. plus the president of mexico uses his u.s. visit to rip into arizona's new immigration law. we'll ask our sunday panel if that was stepping over the diplomatic line. and our power player of the week. a washington insider says washington must be fixed. all right now on "fox news sunday." and hello again from fox news in washington. with the political season heating up, we want to focus on the mid-term elections. we begin with one of the campaign's key players, former alaska governor sarah palin. governor, welcome back to "fox news sunday." >> thank you so much, chris. >> chris: let's start with a controversy over rand paul who of course just won the republican nomination for the u.s. senate seat in kentucky. you were a big early supporter of mr. paul.

if you want to ask about a specific one, i can ask a question. if there are seven or eight -- >> i can touch on some of this stuff. on march 26, that was the original approval, your revised program was changed to include the 9 and 7/8 liner. you revise the program again on april 14 to include the a 7-inhc production casing. on april 15, you came in again to revise that to taper casing. you corrected your well design info on that application. you inadvertently removed the liner from the well-designed information. the rich incorporated it into the two applications submitted on april 15 -- you re incorporated that into the two applications submitted on april 15. >> you call those changes, i would call them additions to the permits. some of those were because of the people entering into the system. some people are new to the system. the primary person who input the data -- these were being input by someone else. due to the nature of the additions, she made some typos that we corrected. there is no substantial change to the well program. these are add

>> there is nothing wrong with asking for volunteers.ed to do weapon departs they said they will not have anybody out there mowing the grass on 66 or major roads. safety comes first. for more information, you can go to the website. we have a number for you to cal. >> goats do very well at that. >> you would need a lot of them. >>> we've locked in clouds of date but some sun shine is picking through. an interesting sky. we have this persistent flow of winds out of the northeast all day long. we will see some patchy fog through the evening hours. warm temperatures and sunshine are here by the mid week. first stop, for washington. 75 degrees with a high of 78. 76 and sterling. are our official numbers are 79 and 66. the pollen count was a washout but it will be back later in the week the sunshine and dry weather prevailed. 75 in fairfax. but we at 76. average for the most part this budget -- average for the most part for this time of year. the real heat is building just to the west. there are some big numbers at this late hour. 94 in minnea

the bill passed this afternoon it included repeal of "don't ask, don't tell". that 1993 law prohibits the military asking recruits if they are gay or actively searching them out. but gays who openly declare their status or engage in homosexual conduct are subject to being discharged. the repeal was adopted last night as an amendment sponsored by pennsylvania democrat and army veteran patrick murphy. >> when i served in baghdad, my team did not care whether a fellow soldier was straight or gay. we cared if they could fire their m-4 assault rifle or run a convoy down ambush alley. could they do their job so that everybody in our unit would come home safely? with our military fighting two wars, why on earth would we tell over 13,500 able-bodied americans that their services are not needed? >> woodruff: that is the estimated number of men and women who've been forced to leave the army, navy, air force and marines since "don't ask" was first put in place. under murphy's proposal, repeal would take effect only after the pentagon completes its study into how the chang

holtz- eakin, asked. i think there is a substantial argument that give rise to moral hazard that made the lehman brothers collapse much more significant than it otherwise would have been if it would have occurred at all. i want to point out, for example, that once there stearns was rescued, it certainly encouraged lehman brothers to keep its price somewhat higher than it might otherwise have been in dealing with potential acquirers. go on the other side, lehman brothers had a reasonable expectation that it might also be rescued. the chairman of lehman brothers indicated that in some of his testimony given to congress in the past. in addition, creditors of lehman such as the reserve fund that caused so much difficulty, it would have rid themselves of the commercial paper they were holding that would immediately have lost value if lehman brothers had actually been allowed to fail. when lehman brothers did fail they were stuck with this commercial paper. as you remember, that particular money-market fund, re

>> i asked about that this morning. ly ask others to expand on this if they need to. i asked first of all whether our police department received any notice of that arrest. and the answer was no. and second, i ask whether the coaches had any knowledge of it or whether it had been disclosed. the answer to that was no also. finally, i asked whether the students are required to self-report arrests, convictions and so on. there is, in account if a, a regulation in the student code of regulations that requires that kind of a report. are there any followup questions to that one? yes. >> jenna of "the washington post." the story on the website, based on public record that found that at least eight of the 41 members of the lacrosse team had been charged with -- [ inaudible ] one of those was george huguely. were you aware of any of those charges? and have there been any discipline in regards to any of those? >> i was not. let me ask craig since he's responsible for the function. >> without being specific to any one individual, there are alcoholvilleations, if you will, violati

do you remember them asking this you see that? the two firms have xapd $145 billion from uncle sam's unlimited credit line. they don't have to ask you for money anymore. they just do it. they take your credit card and charge as much as they want. did you ask for this? are you for this? third story is greece. we are not only bailing ourselves out but we're trying to bail europe, as well. the imf is giving one trillion dollars to greece. the u.s. contributes 17% of the imf funds so how much are we on the hook? 54 bye. that is more than the xh expects for the budget of our commerce department, our labor department our interior, the treasury. $48 billion. you have to be kidding me. that is all combined for this year. the original bailout was $787 billion. that was for us. then it was speculated to be $1.5 trillion and then it was 3 trillion. they think our bailout of us could be upwards of 20 trillion dollars. they are just charging it. what are the final answers here. where are we headed? what are we doing. we are doing this globally

his principal called to ask me to look out for him. he said he was a quiet kid, but one of the brightest in his class. keep abreast of the story. he lived in a small, -- he told me the rest of the story. he lived in a small, dilapidated home on the edge of town. the family had no car and no access to public transportion. his dad was dead. his mom never came to a meeting because she had no way to get there. doing homework was not an option. there was no quiet place t study and bary a place to sleep. he had missed the basic social experience that we all take for granted. going out to a restaurant and ordering from a menu, taking a car trip with a family. i learned more about the issues of povty and social class and their impact on children from my relationship with michael than i ever did in any course or seminar. although he was intelligent, the obstacles he fed were massive. he did that -- he did graduate from high school last year. it was a great day. he was the first member of his family to do so. he quickly found that having a high

don't ask, don't tell, it's called. and what it meant when president clinton instituted that program what h was that whatever you're drawn to sexually, you keep it private, you don't let it get out and become open with regard to your military service and we want you in the military. that's what it comes down to. but that hadn't been good enough. we have too many people in here that did not have good history teachers and so they don't know the lessons from history. and so we're destinned to repeat them. and that's what we're doing now. we are repeating the lessons of history. and historians would have a hard time going back and finding any great nation, even to the earliest city states that achieved greatness and then toward the end of their existence, they forced homosexuality to be accepted in areas like the military. why have we not learned this? why couldn't we let the military do their jobs? with as much respect i have for our majority leader was shocked in the debate over don't ask, don't tell to hear the americans

she asked me about it.t i was never asked about it that often so of course i never really talked about it four people knew because i would get letters from family members of someone who had been, a young person who had been involved in a car accident where there was a death. i would get letters from teachers or parents or aunts and uncles, and they would ask me to write to the young person, words of encouragement. so i did of course and i was always suggesting that they get some kind of counseling, that they talk to a pastor or get a counselor or find some sort of a help. i didn't do that and no one ever suggested it. it was the times. we didn't know-- no one really talked about it. it. reagan and i talked about it but it was just something you swallowed and didn't talk about at. >> but the whole town new. >> course they did. >> did that in some way do you think help when you met george bush, that he knew and you didn't have to talk about it? >> that might have although we did talk about it and he knew beca

and first i like to ask -- ask for ening remarks and ask the panel i haves to comment on the -- comment on the network revolution. >> it is great to be here. obviously the 2008 campaign is probably the first one where we saw social networking specifically, not just talking about this but it playing an instrumental role and i think it'll seem prehistoric compared to how future elections will be impacted as more and mare people spend a lot of their time sharing information with each other, and using social networking as their primary source of information. in 2008, social networks was the way a lot of people got involved in the campaign and so someone uld say, we have -- we have our own social networking site and that was the place where most people involved in our campaign on the volunteer level and contributor level spent their time. so while there's plenty of people on facebook and myspace and other sites that were talking about that campaign and trying to lift people, most of them -- that was great from our perspective. we could see it all. it was transparent. we could see what work w