wal ba -- ms. bwin for five miter. garamendi for five minutes, mr. is a pl for five minutes,s. kaptur for ve mutes, and mr. defazioor five minutes. the speaker p tempore: withouobjection. under thspeaker's announced pof january 6, 200 a unr prevus order of the house, the following membe a recognized for five minut ach. mr. poof texas. >> mpeak. heer pro tempore: fo t puose do the gtleman mr. flak i ask unanims consentclaim time. the speaker pro tempore: wit objection, the gentleman is recognized for five mites. m flake: mr. speake ren prs reports indicate that the house ldership is consideri a rules chan that would iminish the scope and authority of the office of congreal ethics, or e. this is an aprent responsto the o.c.e.'s decisiono forward foation gaered i its invesgation of e p.m. group to the justi partment,assing the standards- the committee on andards of officialonduct. his is anotherxamp of the o.c. growing beyond its intended purpo. in the ierest of full disclosure, voted against t creation of.ein 2007. i felt athe me the house should be able to apropriate standar and

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give an incumbent achoice between being able to be financially successful baed on campaigning for small donations in their homeate versus being on the phone and lovely talking to total strangers allover the country and being in a compromising position when you have to go to the people who might find you because of where you stand on the committee, that they take the smallonor system. and we're seeing not increasingly becse the current system has become so untenable. i think if you look at the whole financial regulation debate coming of lawmakers who are years depended on wall street monday, saying how di take that money because i need that money to run? but on the other hand, how do i look good taking any of this money when the public is focused on this issue? also cannot system doesn't work so well anymore for a of the accumbens. again, we're not a 50% yet but if the vote were hel to maryland house, we would win it and i think the senate is perhaps one congress away from being abl to embrace that.

spe, ani yield ba the balance of my time the eaker pro temre: th geman yields back. the ntledy from rt carolina. ms. foxx: thank youmr. speaker. y know, this bill ibeing promoted as neceary to incrse the availabili for small businses. but as my colleague fro lifornia so eloquently pointed out, it's really a lout for ban tt are in y pos. d wt nobodyas point out next i credibly t money doesn'tave to bavailable foo years androbably wll t be avaable for two years. sohais th goingdo gain to helpmall biness hateed helpight now? and,gain, as my colleague pointedout, i crees30 bon lendi fund for banks with ss than $10 billioin asse. it also is going to apprate $billn to stes to shore up their sma business lending anguaranteed progrs. butldn't be doing that either ave no business going in a shoring up progra tat e ates have when they haven'been rponsible the usef their money. but what this bill is goi to do is deen our debt problems, duplicate e goal of e iginal $700 billion ta progra amr. mcclinto pointed out. we have nearly 10% unemployment, a t so-called ecomic leadersp of

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duluth elections, ba midge jill elections, minnesota elections. there is a pattern here. each of these decisions was one with five votes. and in each of these decisions that, bare majority used its power to help big business. there's another pattern here. in each of those decisions in every one, justice john paul stevens led the dissent. now, justice stevens is noo fir brand liberal. he was appointed to the seventh circuit by richard nixon. he was elevated to the supreme court by gerald ford. by all accounts, he was considered a moderate. and yet, he didn't hesitate to tell corporations that they aren't a part of we the people by whom and for whom our constitution was established. and he didn't flinch when he told the president that he executives is bound to comply with the rule of law. general kagan, you've got big, big shoes to fill. but before i turn it over to you, i want to talk a bit more about one of the decisions i mentioned. i want to talk more about citizens united. now, you've heard a lot about this decision already today. but il want to come at it from a sligh

we hado cut ba. we didn't say we're going to spendore. mrs. lummis: how did y cut? mr. latta: wh we d, when we did our budget for the year, there arrtn thingsn ohio that mmissioners ar spnsible for. u thought,el do we have to -- we ve the dgetfor ings like bad weather? you have havmo orte. one of the things we hope never happenis we had capil rder case, we dn know how much that would cost us. all thesehings we h to sit down with oth elected oficials and say, we a had to ke cuts across the board, nd scale back because if w didn't, welre going to be in trouble. butgain, our constitution says, you shall balance your buet. m. lummis: will the gentleman yid? are you aware of my circumanince you've been inongress where the members f congress in the leadersh veeen called to the white house to down and talk about how we'rgoing to c spending? i yield back. mr. l: i thank the lady for yidi, and this is a problem we're fang. insteaof saying we're gog to increaseudgets by 12% over the year before, whawed to be doing is sayingwe have to gok maybe a budget befe that and say, 's where

all time has been yielded ba. the qution is on the amendment offered byhe gentleladyrom new york, ms. clarke. so many as are in favor say aye. the oppose no. in the opinion of the chair, the ayes havet. the amendment is agreed to. it's now in order tonsider amendment number 11 printed in house report 111-503. wh purposeoes the geleman from virginia seek recognition? nye: mr. speaker, i have an amendment at the desk. thchair: the crk wl designate the amendment. the clerk: amendment number 11, printed in house report number 111-503, offered by mr. nye virgin. the chair: pursuant to house solution 1, the gentleman from virginia, mr. nye, and a member opposed, each will contro2 five mis. the chair now recognizes the gentleman from virgini mrnye: m spear, i yaings. the air: the gentlan -- i yield myselfuch time as i may nsume. the chair: the gentleman is recognized. mr. nye: i scan here today to fight for my constituents in on roa, virginia, d for thousands of famlies across the united states against toxic chinese dry

d i yield ba. thspeaker o tempore: the geneman ylds back for what purpose does e gentleman from connticut rise? >> to address t houseorne extend. nd to revise a the speaker o mpore: wiout objection. m murphy: i ranor congres four year ao because i saw the puican to turn the power over to tir frids, the insurance indury, the oil dustry and thbanking industry. i wonder at kind of stimulus billhey wod have written last year if th were stilin charge. it's differenthan the one at's on the gund in connecticut. one th has put funds in a small socompany in bethal, conneicut, eati jobs d renewable energy. atimulus llt just pened up newarly head star programn danbur connecticut, employing0 peop immediately and creang a lot of job opportunities f the parents o now ha childcare. it would have be very dierent than the bill that gave millionandillions in tax credits toide and lower-incindiduals in connecticut that allowethem to go ouand create a retail research. e imul bill would have been doneery differently un

itouldtimulate it and get us ba onto a sober ack. of course that's pretty appealing to politians bause you get be the guys to out all othereoples' money in veays. that'what t stimulus bi cluded. a loof handos to various tateovernments so their pensios could proppp whenhe state governments had irresponsiy sppension money th really wasn' there and omising all kinded of retirees that they uld have a much fatter pension than what the government can ford. so that and a whole sers of other thin. but thibill was not en a classic f.d.r. kind of stimulus bill because that would have be lotofubic yar o concrete hydroelectr dams and also lots of roads and sort opublic works projects. thistimulus ll was much longer in increasingly rt of giveaways.ted pe of giveaways to various states and buttressing and greatly increasing various gernment handouts. ccre those kindsf jobs. be that as it may, we could learn from henry morgthau, if the ading anlirapay in th capit could learnrom ory. t ey dt. th is hemorgenthauoing back to 1939, aft t great depressi

he received a ba in economics in 1975 from harvard university summa cum laude, a ph.d. in economics in 1979 from the massachusetts institute of technology. he and his wife and i have two children. born in georgia, he grew up in south carolina. the format tonight is not for a speech by dr. bernanke, but he and eric inevitable president of the wilson council, a distinguished newsman sam donaldson, will provide the program. sam will interview the chairman. i would ask the two of them to come forward now and after the interview we will have questions from the audience. sam and chairman bernanke? [applause] >> hello? chairman bernanke, i am delighted that you would do this. by the way, what do you think of the great wall of china? >> can see it from the plane when you come down from beijing. very impressive. >> that matches mr. nixon's statement. let's get to substantive matters. we seem to be in a recovery from the great recession we have gone through, fragile but it may be. hull convinced are you that that recovery will continue at a reasonable pace? do you see troubling s

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we should mention union carbide with the horrible ba poll disaster. thousands of people died. union carbide damaged to be sure but kept on going. but it does create some vulnerabilities in a lot of different ways not the least being your own position in the industry and whether you might become a takeover candidate yourself. >> lehrer: do you agree with that, robin west? within the industry there's a problem here too. >> i think so. i think that this has hurt the industry somewhat. i agree with professor finkelstein. one of the real risks is what we call license to operate which is the confidence of the public which permits you to go about your business. bp and all these oil companies, they operate all over the world. it's not just the u.s. government. it's governments everywhere. they have to have their confidence. without that, they can't function. >> lehrer: what about the exxon and the exxon valdez oil spill. we all know about that but exxon is still in business now many years later. what is the difference? or how did they handle it and how were they able to survive it? >>

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in 2007, when the democrats cam ba to maturity, which passed a bill in the house t regulate subprime mortgages. it was after we did that that mr. bernanke finally decided that it was time to use the authority. for all theetk we have heard here, 12 years of republican rule, there was zero legislation for fannie mae and freddie mac. in two years of democratic rule, the bill was passed. finally, i want to introduce into the record an articl in "the new york times" in which paul volcker says of that "sweeping fancial reform before congress woul make the united stas a model for the world. the united states will go from less to the headf the le if this lislation is passed. i am glad that there could be international acceptance to the basic principle. i have the impression that it is on a very good side pat. -- syed path --side path? -- side path."my time has expir. >> can i ask the gentlemen -- >> know. my time has expired and there are a lot of members here. it is now the gentleman from illinois five minutes. >> the senate does have just started. do not be insulted if weewalked out on you

the importanthing is we begin a dialogue and that it be bas on a different. i'm that we need to be rethinking security and rebalancing notions of strenh and seeing every part of the government has to play some role in deficit reduction. if we all get on that page then we can work productively together. there is awareness that there is begin to have a dialogue with them. >> if you look at what secretary gates has said, he is doing half of what we are tking about. he is talking about making reductions. he would want to reprogramt all with and were fighting. -- the war fighting. secondly, i have been talking to some of my colleagues. the armed services committee wishes will committed to keeping military spending up. there are other committees wit jurisdiction over this area. i hoping to have a heari to which the members of the panel will be invited to talk about this at some level. >> larry and i will be meeting with the defense comptroller and presenting copies of the report, so we are beginning to get that. >> gates is moving this diction. we agree on the savi

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carter: we are bas%%ically saying, obama has said i want to change this from one group to my guy. and unfortunately, they are a little behind, but we will try to get them there by spending the american taxpayers' money. it's stimulus for a new group of private comppnies. it's amazing. but who else is going to be competing? taxpayers have invested $9 billion in constellation. this is sort of a comedy piecc that my staff put ttgether. it has to do with a ecent announcement that we had promised with the new constellation program, we will go back to the oon just to do some additional research there. the chhnese have announced in february that they have started their moon exploration project. phase one involves going aaound the moon. phase two involves sending a lune a ar to the moon. and china expects to complete its space station and a manned mission to the moon by 2020. not only are we giving up the fact that we are exceptional, but thhse people who are trying to ssow how exceptional they are and quite honestly, the chinese have turned around since they learned that capitalism reall

haveugh if we get hit ba hurr the national guard are the go to guys at thh state level. they are doing a nnmber of things. >> they took the vacuum trucks out they're too embarrassed bp into paying for them. >> they are dropping sandbags, filling sandbags, coming up with new technology, that was a national our idea. >> how important are they for the hurricane season? >> a trouble storm will take this up, bring it in land, dropping it across the short pollan once. we all from the coast of lanfranc to give them a fair chance at keeping it out of the marshland. >> and not just the parish's impacted to date, bbt the one to the west to make sure that they're protected as well. >> thank you, gentlemen. >> a couple of quick points. i am anxious to move to the next panel. the berms in place now, there was a directive. i think we should give credit where it is due. we may be able to afford to build a berm from florida to texas. that is something that the other states are going have to discuss. secondly, senator nelson, i agree with you about the military. but the coast guard is th

them training -- we are now engaged with them and we need coinue to give them training and to one day ba substite to hezbollah. in terms of engaging with heollah, i mean just that. we talked to virtually everyone in lebanon, but we do n talk to hezbollah. and ihink weeare weakening our own hand by not talking to them. we do not know very much about them because we do not deal with them directly. we do not know with thei differences and divisions are. im sure they are ther we will learn more b talking to them and we might see some advantages that currently we are blind to. this is not a bush policy or an obama policy. it has been a consistent policy that we do not talk to terrorist groups or organizations. when i was in iraq we talked to anyone who would ttlk to us and we did not worry about labels. the influence we were ae to bring was a big help in winding down the insgency. i would like to see us be more creative n just in iraq but in lebanon and elsewhere in the rld. host: so you're ok with talking with the taliban. guest: i am ok with it. it does not mean confering recognition or any

guestcaller: not on a yearly ba, but you see it fluctuate. that is not really my point. the i lived between albany and new york city. i have a 1994 pontiac. it gets 32 miles per gallon on the interstate at 69 miles per hour with my cruise control. i am going over the speed limit only because when i go the speed limit, people line up behind me and it creates an unsafe situation. these people who typically fly pie in the passing lane -- and they have to be doing a minimum 70 miles per hour, many of them at 80 -- host: we need you to get to your point quickly. guest: speed limits -- caller: speed limits are not enforced, law is not enforced. i hear everyone pushing conservation. guest: in alaska, we are concerned about the price of fuel. diesel fuel for heating in the western part of alaska can range to as high as $12 a gallon. if there is one thing we hear a lot about in alaska is the price of fuel. the issue on conservation, when i was the mayor of anchorage, we lead the largest effort on replacing white with led lights. when you think of projects like that, just in our c

island, en isle, elmer's island, marshsland, tplar island, pilot, isle,ake licity, pilot bay, bay ruma, ba tiste, bay long, lake- blind bay, beareas bay, wilkonson bayarsh. is disaster is bigger than call upon my cleagues and our nation to mainin our attention on swift rponse and recovery and to hold the responlity parties accontable. thk you and yield ck. the speaker pro tporeare there further one minute requests? the chair lays beforehe house the following personal requests. leave of absence requested -- the cler leavef absence requted for mr. davisf illinois for today. the speakro tempore withouobjection. the request is granted. for what purpe does t gentleman from tes rise? mr. poe: i ask unanimous consent that today following legislative business and any ecial orders heretofore ented into, the folling members may be permitted to revise and extend. myself many, mr.oe, ne 17, mr. boozman for today, mr. burton from inana fojune 14, 15, 16, and 17, mr. smith from new jersey for today, a mr. duncar today. the speakerro tempore: without objection. for what purpose ds the getlady from califo

iran-s -- continues to ba threat to israel, the region and the world. i'm pleased of today's agreement by the u.n. securi council to impose multilateral sanctions on iran, will hold the regime accountable for its reckless pursuit of nuclear weapons and i look forward to congress finalizing strong bilateral sanctions and urge european partners and other responsible countries to do the se. we must continue to strongly support the u.s.-israeli partnership which provides invaluable benefits to both of our countries' national securities. i yield back. thank you. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from missouri controls the time. mr. akin: i'd yield to my good friend. >> thank you. i thank the gentleman and i'll be brief. i risen support of everything that my colleagues have said. the u.s.-israel relationship is a special relationship and it's a relationship that needs to be strengthened. mr. engel: the united states is israel's only true friend. in fact, when you look at the united natio or the so-called human rights council in the united nations, it's r

possible.th him all things are%- i believe if we are going to take this nation ba, it is on state at a time. if i did not pick the that, i would not be here tonight. you want to see a sta with your sons and daughters to get toead and take jobs or the next job is across the street. not across the nation. entrepreneur is are the heart and soul of this company. we have our best days ahead of us. we need a did that can pull south carolina to get tre. i have been blessed to be a congressman for the past seven and half years and i would be honored to be your governor. tonight, i ask for your support inour vote. god bless. >> henry mcmaster. >> from upstate to the didn't come out from the mountain to the sea, ou carolina is a wonderful sight to behold. we see it everyday. we are blessed with talented and innovative people and plentiful resources. i believe we can achieve any drm that we set our minds to. i have a plan to put south carolina back on the path to prosperity. of the candidates, and they are good candidates, i believe i am the one that has executive leadership experience, a recor

if a community is a resource-bas community, fishing is a good example, and there is a man-made dister, like, bp or like exxon. people take it very hard, and they tend not to get over the unt they get their full measure of justice. so you see, in coastal commuents inlaska that were ll, the to the spi increased rates of alcoholism, epression. divorce, bankruptcy. x proble. and even 21 years after the spill today, if you were to go into a coffee shop or a bar in an outstate town in south central alaska, it's as if the spill happened yesterday. so the intacts are widespread. you can't tell what they are going to be now. and you can't even tell where the oil is going to go now. st: as we get started here, remind miami we have statistics from television in anchorage to remind us of the size and zope estimated 10.8 million gallons spilled covering 11,000 square piles, and anstimate of the number of animals killed by that spill include 250,000 to half a million sea birds, 1,000 otters, 300 harbor seals, 250 balanced eaglls, billions of samen and herring eggs and 22 orca whales. let's move to

we are going to escape cycles per se a while ago i came upon an interesting prediction made in 1997 bas on the author's view that there is a, an 18 year real estate cycle that goes back to the early 1800's, which he traces. this was his predictionade in 1997. quote, the next major bust will be around 2008. a pretty good call. if we can't get away from cycles , nonetheless can't we be clever and at least moderate the cycleswe ought to be able to do that. surely, the extent of debt against asset values, the an-to-value ratio or ltv as we call it, has something to do with this. we all know that the bubble, e were willingo lend more and more against the current mket prices of assets or higher loan-to-value ratios. we might contst this with the following following loan-to-valulimitation or mortgage loans, tken from some pass legislation in the united stes. quote, no loans shall be made for an amount exceeding 50% of the value of the property. is is fromhe federal reserve act of 1913, governing national banks. we probably can't go back to limitingoan-to-value ratios to 50%, but we can introdu

so what i try to do in the book is take it ba to a systemic level. we need to think about the materialistic and ener-intsive lifestyle that is we live. rather than boycotting b.p., you know, go buy a hybrid car. that's how you deal with it. . i'm not only gratefufor this gattedsering but touched and either a littl bit surprised. my daughter who is now 26 w, she was ound 16 or so died. you and all your csest male friends should form alub and you would hold one meeting a year that all of you would refuse to attend. but if the meeting were in a placlike thiit would be hard tohouse us out of there. as zacha sd, my book is lled,y new book is called the unwanted sound of ything w want. which is something of a mouthful for a title. so t subtitle is very simple and direct a book about noise. and noises a very topcal subject, a subject that i believe is right for our time of which i'm gng to mention right now because i want to leave shy peoe something for qstion and awerf they uld like. but it's also very ancient subject. i think most of you here are familiar

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since they are pointed forward, they will pick up any kind of derbis sliding into the bas ment.can drop the grid down. the pump goes up and down. we manually adjust it depending on the thickness of the oil. it demands movement with water. we need roll into the pump. once we pick it up, we pump it into the tanks. time.e one tanka at a as lon gas we have it. we letter the water run over it. once it is full, we let it run into the mud tanks. there is a barrell we will discharge it. >> [inaudible] thatll allow us to do job, keep oil off the shor and minimize impact. that is what we want to do. this technology is another set of those resources. we want to brin gas much on board as possible. >> nato general talks with reporters about the security to afghan forces. remarks by robert gates. after that, barney frank and a number of others about a new report on defense spending. >> the democrats had run the congress for 40 years. there is a certain level of construction that taken hold. we are rallying against thatd it is ironic i would be a face-to- face similar type of corruption. >> th

i wouldever rule out coming ba and asking for something more. i think that would be irresponsible.he intention right now is the -- our consideration right now, our view is that with the additional forces ordered by the president with the flex that you mentioned that secretary gates has d general mcchrystal has stated this in a letter to the ranking member of t house armed services committee that we will have the fors required to execute the strategy. >> right. and i think your role is perfect. i guess i should have directed this to the secretary because it was the -- the secretary of defense, secretary of state who said we do not have to introduce new troops. general, i totally respect the fact, and i would be -- i mean it goes without saying that you'd ask for more troops if you think we needore troops to provide our military objective. so that's -- but in terms of the official position of the president of the united states and the secretary of state, secretary of defense and the head of the joint chiefs, we put all the troops we're going to be putting into afghanistan. is that fa

over 300,000 engineering, i.t., a mathematics major at the be a level -- mathematics majors, at the baable being first among many. >> obviously, we're not going to be number one in the numbers, given china and india as populations. we can talk about the percentage of our population will do well. in terms of the research, as president of research university, it is critical to innovation. whether in health care or energy, we need more research. we now have 50 companies on campus. we're hiring people. we have students working there to build the economy and the training. research is tied to the education and it is critical. you're absoluteey right. >> other questions? >> i am a teacher here in d.c. and i have two questions. you talk about other measures of teacher effectiveness beside his test scores. -- syed task force. i see many of those -- besides test scores. why could not one member of success be the measure of college graduates several years out of high school? many of them are not completing college. >> i teach -- we are not all local educational agencies and we have no control of

members will taktheir at from the aisles, from the ba of the roe chambers,rom th front, from erywhere. members, take your seats. r what purse does the gentleman from michiganise? >> . speaker, have a motion to recommit at thedesk. the speaker pempore: is t ntleman posed to the bl? mr. camp: i am in its present form. the speaker pro tempore: the clerwill report thmoti. the clerk: mr. camp of michigan moves to recommit the bill h.r. 54 -- mr. campmrspeaker, i ask unanius csent to spen with t reading. mrlevin: reserve a point of rder. the speaker prteore: is there objection? mr.evin: i resee a point the speaker pro tempore: the point of order is heard. is tre objtion to th gentman's reest? heg none, wowed. the gelema qualifies. rsuant to the r the gtlan from michig is recogzer fi minutes in ort of his motion. mr.amp: thank you, mr. saker. the house isot in de the speaker pro tpore: the gentman is correct. members to my right, members to my lt, take your seat. mbersn the ce, take your st. the geleman frm chigan. mr. camp: thank you, mr. speake withhe unemployment rate stucat nearly 10%, r