. >> she didn't make every traction and i am not going to belabor that. >> i would be one busy man if that were the case. >> can you translate some of this, three times presently set talk about the fermentation should between south korea and the united states when responding to a question about the north korean threat. did he ask for an assurance from the president that if there's a military strike against south korea that the u.s. will respond to that? that it's unequivocably undreamt unequivocal? >> we've had that type of relationship. >> and that's the way we should be the word firms and all that. >> absolutely. look, this is something that we have responded to. i think as we have said many times before, the increasingly -- the reactions of the north koreans in alienating themselves from their own responsibilities and isolating themselves from the rest of the world, that they are going alone down a different path. the president believes there is a different way for north korea, and i think what he discussed today with president lee was a continuation of the strong relationship that

the challenge rear facing due to the spread of polio from indiana and angola part i do not want to belaboreverything we will do to get the job finished is published here and not the topic of today's discussion but i have touched on what we are doing over the course of my presentation. key is to sustain the implementation of course, strategy's come independent a violation of major barriers to interrupt transmission. we're hoping to get a fresh look in each of the remaining effected areas processing a number of new approaches. in the process of developing and the foul it -- evaluating a new vaccine with type wine and iii vaccine and additional strategies to have those days to run those for spreading. to give you a response with jesse the complex ability of the response on the heart of africa and west africa to get those finished when the speak of the new approaches that we just had agreement with nato forces in afghanistan is to work with us on days of tranquillity in the 11 highest districts that sustain transmission to try and reach children in a safe environment to get the job finished th

. >> without belaboring the issue can you describe from your own experience or your own history of the situation really how those financial instruments work? in other words, as the public takes a look at this hearing tries to understand, something of that complex nature, why was this effective if you believe it was in the past with regard to it north korea? >> i can't really go into much detail on this not because i'm reluctant to comment because i was not involved in these efforts at that time. but i think we're looking at the possibility of additional measures which will be very carefully targeted and which would it as you suggest addressing the issues posed by specific number three in deposits and holdings outside of the country. obviously this becomes very complicated because north korea would have relationships with the banks and financial institutions of other countries and we have to be sure that we are coordinating this with those governments, but this is clearly under the pending u.s. security council resolution and an area of activity we're going to look at seriously. >> is i

belabor the point. what if they don't do it. what if they're not successful? >> that's a good point,@@@@@ rr money available have any anti-obesity programs at all operating in the states. 25% we know that's one of the major sources of chronic illnesses. >> correct me if i'm wrong, tom. i think obesity is the number one issue at cdc today. mr. chairman, my point is where is the effectiveness of the cdc if 25 states in america don't have obesity programs. there's funding there for them. >> mr. chairman -- >> senator burr, i don't know if it's the number one priority, but much of cdc is devoted always to dealing with -- to being reactive to difficult situations, whether it's an outbreak of e.coli at a county fair in ohio or north carolina, whether it's a flu virus, whether it's a whole lot of things. it's an agency that, because of its general, i think its general flat line funding for most of the years, it's an agency that has trouble focussing on an affirmative mission because it's playing defense so much. and that may be a question of management in part burke

secondly, without belaboring it, i do take issue with the administration's request for low-income heating assistance. i understand that the amount that is being requested by the administration is significant in historical terms, but it still represents a reduction below last year, and i would think that ought to be corrected. let me simply express one concern about your budget for nih. i have been on this committee since 1974, and we have steadfastly, regardless of which party controlled the white house or the congress, we have steadfastly insisted that allocations to research on diseases be handled by scientists rather than politicians. and so, we have always resisted efforts to direct a specific amount of funding at a specific disease. as you know, and i understand this happen before you were appointed, but as you know, in the administration's initial request, they have crossed that line, and they have moved to request a specific amount of funding for cancer and autism, to the exclusion of almost every other disease. i don't think there's anybody on this panel who is in love with cancer

i won't belabor that other than to say hatred is something that leads to violence. so we should all be looking deeply within our hearts to remove hatred and to try to value humanity. officer stephen johns leaves an 11-year-old son who i saw on tv yesterday and he was, you know, i don't think he could cry, shofse overwhelmed and then his mother and his grandmother were too distraught to talk and so we -- they need our prayers and i send out my condolences to the family and it happened yesterday that a black man doing his duty at the u.s. holocaust memorial museum was killed and our communities have worked so diligently in the past, we have such strong bonds, so we are there for each other. thank you very much and i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from west virginia. mr. rahall: i yield one minute to the gentleman from ohio, pli driehaus. mr. driehaus: i rise today to add my voice to this tragedy and honor the family of mr. johns who was so tragically killed yesterday at the holocaust museum. i think when i come to the floor and when i think about t

i don't want to belabor the point but congress has already approved a $700 billion bailout package and an $800 billion stimulus pack -- package in the last year alone. meanwhile, our medicare and social security trust frunds that our constituents relie on will be -- exhausted sooner than we thought. we're also fighting tough wars in two countries why my colleagues belief that a lessons learned center might prevent such costly wars in the future, i would appeal to your intellect and your sense of fiduciary responsibility with all the massive charges already on the people's tab, the american taxpayer tab, and with spending at government agencies going up dramatically this year across the board, i ask my colleagues to make tough choices that the american people expect us to make. all this portion of the bill does is create more government jobs. i urge adoption of this amendment and i yield back the balance of my time. the chair: the gentlewoman yields back. for what purpose does the gentleman from california rise? mr. berman: i rise to claim the time in opposition to this amendment. the c

i don't mean to belabor it any longer. i will be coming back to a. mr. chairman, what we have got, we have worked very closely, i think. or stack as worked very closely with republican staff on a lot of these measures. we had proper to them earlier, a couple weeks ago or a week ago when we were going through this and we had some suggestions back in a few areas. but then mommy started the process here of amendments, we got 171 amendments filed. i did not think this section would incur that many quite frankly. so far, ours staffs worked diligently over the weekend on sunday and saturday. i think we are at the point now where, these are rough figures and don't hold me to an exact number, but we can except around 50 that they worked out. there's about another 30 that they are working on language. if you get the right comma and the right period of the right place, maybe it will work and then there are about 90 left. as i understand from my staff that the republicans that this said well, there's some kind of themes here and you referred to that earlier, the th

i don't want to keep belaboring this issue, but someone ought to think about this before they light the first firecracker on the 4th of july. and a country said they are back at war with us, and going to fire a missle at one of our 50 states and going to do it on the 4th of july. let's assume we will get intelligence on that. let's start off with them saying, doesn't carry a war head . and the man is going to have to make the decision is the president of the united states. this isn't a decision you do by committee. that's why we have an executive branch. he will collect that data. and the question is do we shoot it down. pretty sure it doesn't carry a nuclear missile. but he says, wait a minute. wait a minute. wait a minute. they lied to nancy pelosi, how do i know that they haven't done their work and telling me this to feel good about it. maybe there is a missile on board. or he thinks, i don't know what to do because i don't know if i can trust our intelligence. he knows the firing of the missile, which, by the way, according to trent franks, we have missiles that can take this thing