thursday cut its growth forecast in half for this year and next this comes as turkish finance minister berra travels to berlin today carrying some heavy economic luggage the lira has plunged by forty percent this year over concerns about president wants influence on monetary policy and there's a deep rift with the united states inflation is now above twenty percent and the situation is getting worse every day as our correspondent julia han found out in istanbul sick and in the knowledge his staff still have work to do but he gets harder by the day eight years ago he set up on his own as a silversmith in istanbul. each piece is hand crafted it's hard work and until recently it's paid off but the currency crisis has changed everything silver has to be imported and paid for in dollars as a result the cost has skyrocketed and with people worried about their finances they're buying less jewelry. i don't know if we're going to sing half as much as last year. and are in the red in terms of process. but other people are even worse off i've had people who've had to shut down their businesses coming t

berra. mr. berra votes no. ms. frankel. ms. frankel votes no. ms. gabbard. mr. castro. mr. castro votes no. ms. kelly. ms. kelly votes no. mr. boyle. mr. boyle votes no. ms. titus. ms. titus votes no. ms. fors re. mrs. torres votes no. mr. schneider. mr. schneider votes no. mr. suozzi. mr. suozdi votes no. mr. espaillat. mr. espaillat votes no. mr. lieu. mr. lieu votes no. mr. royce: have all members been ecorded. the clerk will report the vote. >> mr. chairman on that vote there are 23 ayes, 18 noes. mr. royce: the motion is adopted. house resolution 1017 will be reported adversely. the motion to reconsider is laid on the table. without objection, staff is directed to make any technical ancon forming changes. mr. conditionally: i have a u.c. request. to enter something into the record. r. rest: state the -- mr. royce: state the nature. mr. connolly: i have a series of 20 different quotes with respect to the helsinki performance, i ask unanimous consent they be entered into the record. r. royce: without objection. >> can i ask if the gentleman read the statements before i d

in 1950, that great folk philosopher to be, yogi berra was honored by his hometown of st. louis. i'd like to thank all the people who made the state necessary he said, well most presidents have found baseball to be necessary, none more so than frank and roosevelt. as we will see, baseball never found the president to be more necessary than fdr. for the next few moments, i'd like to recall the indispensable role of the indispensable man and saving these two institutions, the presidency and baseball. he was forged in childhood and a far different world right here along the hudson river. later with much of the globe at or hearing war emma franklin president love to run a mess about his youth. crippled with by polio at 39, never again as we all know to walk, he tried to relive his boyhood life by secretly returning time and again here to hyde park to a time when all things must have seemed possible. perhaps he remembered sliding down a snowy hill before polio, or some by the melting snow. only gradually had he picked up a wooden bat. the young fdr hope to pick up baseball and as a wo