. >> what do you mean by the cosmickeur boris? >> or borea is a snake that swallowed his tail. >> is that myth? >> of course it's middle call. it's not a snake. it's a ser pent. it's a middle call sort of snake but what we are doing is -- mythical -- using that as one of the symbols we use in our book to try to give pictures that people can grasp and work with and in this case, we are using it to represent all the different size scales in the universe. it turns out there is a smaller size that is very, very small but it's not zero and there is a larger size we can see which is the whole visible universe and we rem sent those around this snake swal owing its tail. >> what happens then? >> two interesting things. first of all we are in the middle, our size, the human size is right in the middle between the symbolic size. >> we are almost out of time. >> there is an idea the swallowing of the tail that represents a hope that we are actually going to understand how the whole picture fits together. we are going to have a second install

your heckling is as boring as it is boris. -- boorish. >> [inaudible] >> the secondary school is being rebuilt their future programs. kinney karen t that they will continue to invest in the future we can you guarantee that they will continue to invest in the future? >> there are 3400 shores start centers. -- sure start centers. three and four year old are available for apartheid. place. mr. speaker, is a concerted party persist in their policy, which is to cut sure start children's centers, only to a minority of children, and millions of children in this country will lose out on early education. and the whole country will suffer. >> mr. nick clegg. >> i'd like to add my own expressions of sympathy consulted to the family and friends of corporal stephen thompson from first battalion the rifles, lance corporal tom keogh from fourth battalion the rifles, rifleman liam maughan of third battalion the rifles, rifleman jonathon allott of third battalion the rifles. all of whom who tragically lost their lives serving so bravely, so selfishly in afghanistan this lastly pick out also also like t

of these brave russian champions of human rights, human dignity and freedom, a man by the name of boris netzoff. i know that several other people and other members of congress had a similar opportunity to speak with him. mr. nemsof is but one of the many russians who believes their country deserves a government that enhances the human rights of its people and a rule of law that allows citizens to hold their leaders accountable through a real democratic process. this saturday, march 20, many russian human rights activists are planning public demonstrations all across their great country. i might add, at great risk, since there's very little doubt the russian government may even -- will forcibly repress some of these public demonstrations which will be peaceful. i asked mr. nemsoff what we in washington could do to support the cause of human rights in russia, and he simply said "speak up for it and speak up for us. " it is my pleasure to do that today. now the russian government will take whatever i say here and similar things said by others and try to paint russia's champion of human rig

falling home values left boris underwater, and in many cases unable to make -- let borrowers under water and in many cases unable to make ballooning payments. unemployment leads to more foreclosures, which drives down demand and feeds more unemployment. last thursday in the oversight and government reform committee we heard again about the havoc wrought by foreclosures. this time it was officials from the northeast ohio area, discussing the destruction that foreclosures have done to the city and the outlying suburbs. we saw pictures of bacon homes in cleveland, side by side with pictures -- vacant homes in cleveland, side by side with pictures of post katrina new orleans. you could not tell the difference between the two. i do not need to attend a hearing to learn this. i just had to go home to my baltimore neighborhood or across the city and i could see the same things. thus, i have made a foreclosure prevention my highest priority and will continue to do so. as the witnesses told us last thursday, we can only six the economy if we can keep people in their homes. as long as the perfect

falling home values left boris underwater, and in many cases unable to make -- let borrowers under water and in many cases unable to make ballooning payments. unemployment leads to more foreclosures, which drives down demand and feeds more unemployment. last thursday in the oversight and government reform committee we heard again about the havoc wrought by foreclosures. this time it was officials from the northeast ohio area, discussing the destruction that foreclosures have done to the city and the outlying suburbs. we saw pictures of bacon homes in cleveland, side by side with pictures -- vacant homes in cleveland, side by side with pictures of post katrina new orleans. you could not tell the difference between the two. i do not need to attend a hearing to learn this. i just had to go home to my baltimore neighborhood or across the city and i could see the same things. thus, i have made a foreclosure prevention my highest priority and will continue to do so. as the witnesses told us last thursday, we can only six the economy if we can keep people in their homes. as long as the perfect

we continue to hear numerous reports of boris who want ho want to participate, but it just don't know where to begin. if they do began they often encounter unresponsive lenders, repeated incidents of lost paperwork, phone calls not being returned, and a variety of other administrative frustrations. to make matters worse there is evidence that some of vulnerable homeowners desperate to obtain help are falling victims to rescue scams. instead of obtaining housing assistance for the free these homeowners are being fleeced by scam artists posing as professionals. in addition a new survey with the national community investment coalition provides evidence that minorities, particularly african-americans may be less likely to receive a mortgage modification. they are more likely to be foreclosed on. this is it just not acceptable. moreover this problem is compounded by the fact that we does not have a clear process by which a homeowner can appeal a denial of his or her application. these problems are reflected in the programs results as reported by treasury. the mortgage bankers association s