and they had, in this documentary that they showed it to students at beijing university, and those students had no idea what this was a photo of. they said, what is that? is it art? did you put that together? this is an indication of how the chinese government has suppressed what happened on june 4 in the days leading up to it. this was actually a couple of days after june 4.

when geithner told an audience of chinese students at beijing university that -- quote -- "chinese assets are very safe," end quote, the reports are that this statement drew loud laughter. it really is not a laughing matter for us. it is serious. tough action, not -- quote -- "i'll tell you what you want to hear speeches" -- is what we need. on the state and local front, our economic indicators are equally troubling. on thursday, the rockefeller institute on government issued a report on state personal income tax revenues for 2009. they're falling fast. 34 of the 37 states in the saw declines in tax revenues indicating that it will be increasingly more difficult than expected for states to close their widening budget gaps. i can hear calls for more bailouts, but my question is: who's going to bail out the federal government? these numbers provide the critical backdrop as we consider the new deficit spending included in the keening did i staff bill. recently federal chairman bernanke stated that -- quote -- "achieving fiscal sustainability requires that spending and deficits be well-contro

pitts: during a speak last week at a beijing university in china, timothy geithner was laughed at when he ensured that the chinese government can continue with their loans with u.s. at the same time federal reserve chairman ben bernanke was here on capitol hill calling for fiscal restraint. every dollar spent by the government is taken from the people in taxes or borrowed against future generations. our nation's fiscal responsibility is so lacking that a developing nation snickers at the mention of sound investment in our debt. traveling the world begs creditor nations allowing us to continue our spending binge is not the kind of international engagement we should make. it will turn around because of our people, not because of out-of-control government spending and borrowing. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from oregon rise? mr. defazio: to address the house for one minute. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized for one minute. mr. defazio: republicans gave us a medicare prescription drug benefit -- complete with doughnut hole ba

jamaicans came up and went to morgan state university and at the relays these jamaicans in the late 1940's, early 1950's started to get recognition. we know in the beijing olympics, bolt, at 21 years old won the 100 meters and the 200 meters. he was one of the youngest persons ever to win those events and the first person since mr. lewis from new jersey to win both sprints in the olympics. we have had many outstanding people that started politics in new york. jack way back, fellow from st. lucia, he was born in 1905, moved up to new york, high school dropout, went to work for a company and worked his way up from a janitor to become a vice president of the firm. became active in politics and he became new york city democratic political leader, loyal to the tamm manny hall -- tamany hall feeaso. jack won seven straight elections to the new york state asimmably representing his harlem district. in 1953 he was elected president of manhattan becoming the first african-american to hold the post. elected more than a decade before the rise of big city black mayors in the 1960's, he was the highest ranking african-american municipal officer in the nation with an

beijing. i grew up in minnesota in an area that was not even a suburb. it was all corn forms around this. when i went to the university of wisconsin in madison and i was calling to be a spanish teacher. in 19-- i eighth joined the piece corps because i thought i could go do let america with the peace corps but i put in my application and they called vectoring my student teaching and they said we want to send you tishri locka y said ayman spanish speaker, i don't really want to go the sri lanka. they said we will call you back. they call back in said how about malawi? nellius in africa and they don't speak spanish. they called back

and they had, in this documentary that they showed it to students at beijing university, and those studentshad no idea what this was a photo of. they said, what is that? is it art? did you put that together? this is an indication of how the chinese government has suppressed what happened on june 4 in the days leading up to it. this was actually a couple of days after june 4. our work is large. it is work that many of us have been involved in for 20 years. in 1991, i stood on the square, remembering those who gave and sacrificed so much. i wear white today to signal to the families sympathy for what they have lost. i did that in 1991 as a member, to express my views and the views of my constituents. it was a bipartisan group of us on the square that day, democrats and republicans. 18 years later, a speaker of the house, i have the opportunity to sit across from the president of china, the premier of china, the chairman of the people's throat -- the people's congress, and to express to them the bipartisan concern in the congress of the united states about china's human rights record, both in