burgess. mr. burgess: may i inquire as to how much time remains?peaker pro tempore: the gentleman from texas has 7 1/2 minutes remaining. and the gentleman from new jersey has 10 1/2 minutes remaining. mr. burgess: i yield myself 30 seconds. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized. mr. burgess: congressman brady articulated some of the concerns he has with the pay-for raising revenues through tariffs and the possibility of actions by other countries. in section 4002 in the recently passed health care last march, there is a public health and wellness trust fund and $15 billion is in a slush fund in obamacare. this money could have been used to pay for this legislation and could have been done last april and we wouldn't be here at the last minute having to scrounge for capital to pay these funds. i reserve. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman reserves the balance of his time. the house will be in order. members and staff are reminded to remove their conversations from the floor. the gentleman from new jersey is recognized. mr. pallone

burgess, is recognized for three minutes. burgburg i thank the gentleman, my ranking minority member -- mr. burgess: i thank the gentleman, my ranking member, for yielding. this truly is an emergency for our nation's patients and our nation's physicianings. i support the passage of this bill. it does give us, also, some time in this body and the other body, it gives us some time to work on a permanent solution. there's plenty of blame to go around on both sides of the aisle and both sides of the capitol as to why we are in this fix. the fact is it began back in 1998 with an omnibus reconciliation act. it was extended under the republican watch for 10 years and now we have four years under the democrats where it has not been fixed. in fact, most of the doctors you talk to have come through the worse year ever in trying to manage their practices. stop and think about it for a minute. you have a small medical practice, two, three, four, five doctors. they don't do all medicare work. maybe it's only 5% or 10% of their actual book

burgess: thank you, madam speaker. i would only point out, and certainly i have no objection to working. in fact in my prior life as a physician i worked many christmas, many new year's, fourth of julys, mother's day, and veterans day. here we are at the 11th hour probably on the next to the last day before this congress dies a merciful death and here we are passing legislation that in fact we have not had a hearing in our committee. we have not had a markup on this legislation in our committee. several of us in the room right now are members on the energy and commerce committee. i argued passionately during our committee hearings and markups it is probably the committee with the most expertise in the whole united states congress and yet we didn't have a hearing to ask the simple question, ok, we pass this legislation, part of the energy policy act in august of 2005 when it was signed into law by then president bush, how have we done? how has it worked out? has it performed as requested? i can't argue the fact that thi

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but again we are looking at lighter than usual traffic loads on all of the bay area burgess. on the freeways we don't see slow traffic on highway 4 corridor westbound interstate 580 quarter, westbound 80 ride coming down from hercules to berkeley still a 12 minute drive time. traffic is moving at 60 or better for that the short stretch. >> 6:19 a.m. southern california risk of more mudslides. it is getting worse. storm tracker for showing you the intensity moving through the l.a. area. the video on the right hand side of the effect of all rain. forecasters say it could fall in four-six hour period. it will be followed by a potentially strong damaging winds. gale warnings are up along the california coastline. city officials and laguna beach says $10 million damage to private and public property the damage comes as a predict more rain and the potential for more mudslides on already saturated soil. breaking no news just an bomb squads have rushed to the u.s. embassies and the vatican city after suspicious packages being found. anarchists had sent three mail bombs to run in the

burgess, is recognized for three minutes. burgburg i thank the gentleman, my ranking minority member -- mr. burgess: i thank the gentleman, my ranking member, for yielding. this truly is an emergency for our nation's patients and our nation's physicianings. i support the passage of this bill. it does give us, also, some time in this body and the other body, it gives us some time to work on a permanent solution. there's plen of blame to go around on both sides of the aisle and both sides of the capitol as to why we are in this f. the fact is it began back in 1998 with an omnibus reconciliation act. it was extended under the republic watch for 10 years and now we have four years under the democrats where it has not been fixed. in fact, most of the doctors you talk to have come through the worse year ever in trying to manage their practices. stop and think about it for a minute. you have a small medical practice, two, three, four, five doctors. they don't do all medicare work. maybe it's only 5% or 10% of their actual book of bu

. >> burgess teaches their younger daughter as well asser students in indiana.hildren home schooled in the u.s. has gone up 74%. burgess' priority has remained the same. creating a diverse curriculum for the students. the thing that's missing is african-american perspective. very important teaching about heroes, like frederick douglas, kond leez kand lee kocondoleezza rice. >> we saw one, two african-american family, we asked what concerns you most about being an african-american family who home schools. one of the things that came up is our resources in our curriculum. in 22 u.s. states, canada and africa. the leek family has been home schooling their family for lee years. >> we considered home schooling because georgia was not ranked quite high compared to other states as far as school was concerned. then the school that constant was zoned to go through. we didn't want her to attend a school that was in danger of losing accreditation. private school was not an option. so vanessa teaches their four kids. you have 45 seconds to complete this drill. on your mark,

if you live in men lo park, sandbags will be available at burgesses park. now the rain could cause problems in the higher elevations. santa cruz mountains possibly getting as much as ten inches of rain. again, steve paulson, our meteorologist, is in the weather center now tracking the storm. he'll have more on this approaching storm in just a couple minutes. >>> well, construction workers on the bay bridge hope the weather will cooperate as they work around the clock to finish the tow effort of the new eastern span. right now they are lifting four massive steel columns into place on the self-anchored suspension tower. crews started the job yet, one day earlier than originally planned. one day early for safety reasons. they say the storm coming in could make a big job already difficult than it already is. >> the rain isn't so much of a challenge as wind is because even though these things weigh 551-tons, when you get them up there on strands, the steel can catch wind like a sail. >> cal tran says if the weather cooperates, workers will be able to finish over

bay area burgess them until britain on the right you can see the approach to the bay bridge and the view from mt. tam. we want you know sfo is experiencing to our and the last minute delays on arriving flights. so that is making the treacherous going in the airport the camera is moving along peter allergist is an here with the latest. >> 40 mi. an hour got said sfo. 25 mi. an hour as it was a, the overcast the biggest reason that we have the delay said best of all to to. they have to stagger the landings on store trucker heavier rain from 3 until 6. an inch of rain fell in the last 24 hours in the bay area. 6 in. in the senate cruz mountains. the heaviest rainfall in the sierra. scattered showers and that's where we will see today scattered showers, fog, wind and potentials of thunderstorms popping up. we are getting rain in the antioch area, 680 from all muckrake up and pleasant help. vallejo, center rosa.decea winter storm warning in effect until four this afternoon three- 6 ft. of additional snow possible today. one-2 ft. at like levels. we will get a lot of snow in the year over the

burgess helps a stubborn and woman track down her father's murder just after the civil war.want the murders had as well. true grit region pg-13. finally, the comedy the fokkers its adjustable between jack birds and sent a lot like fokker. it picks attendant years later. this is the fourth movie this franchise, you did see plenty of stars robert deniro, barbra streisand, dustin hoffman along with ben stiller little fokker is rated pg-13. still to come kron 4 news weekend we chat with political will durst about the best of were stories of 2010. with this live look outside at san mateo bridge it's currently 52 degrees in some detail. it's pretty clear out their awful forecast ahead. or back at 9:44 a.m. taking a live look outside, you can't see your kids on the right set of your screen because they have that blizzard out there. that karen san jose look at this a lot of folks from new york would love to be a to get out of town to come in san jose because look at how that is. it's going to be a great deal around the bay area. a little bit showers perhaps still moving through. but

there like freedom riders, to be there physically present to try to chill any attack on president burgess' government. of course it was the people themselves in lithuania, latvia and the baltic states who were the ones themselves who took it upon themselves to stand up to the tyranny and they prevailed ks as did the others in eastern europe and the soviet union. we rise to congratulate them and to pay our profound respects for their courage in bringing about democracy to those great countries. they are captive nations no more. and i reserve the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from new jersey reserves the balance of his time. the gentleman from florida is recognized. mr. klein: i reserve the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from new jersey yields back the balance of his time. the gentleman from florida is recognized. mr. klein: thank you, mr. speaker. again, i think that we think back of eastern europe from decades ago, the type of place that it was under soviet dominance and occupation, this is a different place today. and those of us t

burgess who provided leadership on this and senate passed the bill yesterday. we look forward to the real possibility of the house passing it. we urge you to pass it, and we look forward to working with this committee and the congress to realize the ambition of the alzheimer's association's vision, a world without alzheimer's disease. >> thank you. >> chairman, members of the committee, thank you for the hearing d providing the alzheimer's association to testify. i eric hall, the chief executive officer and i'm nored to testify on behaver of our member organizations and families that we care for across the country. faa was formed in 2002 to provide care and services to individuals confronting dementia and to their caregivers and families through member organizations dedicated to improving quality of life. today, our membership consistents of more than 1400 organizaons including grass roots nonfor profit organizations, government agencies, publicsivity departments, and long term care communities. our services include toll free hotlines stafferred by licensed soc

congressman burgess had an amendment to strike the word affordable out of the bill. the meanings of these things do matter. obama called it the affordable care act. that is not quite as catchy as obama care. again, in today's paper. so the language of the issues matters a lot. you can focus group it. you can poll it. you can just ask people. there are a lot of ways to clear up this stuff. there was a property tax increase for -- >> it is for the children. you're laughing. it is for the children. it is not the teachers' pay raises. it is for the children. i'm on the raidee and i debated two union guys and it was myself and a conservative commentator. at the end of the hour, they said what do you think is going to happen? i said it is going to fail 50-40. rige away they thought we were doing polling. are you doing polling? no. in the hour we had 10 people call in. six were for it and four against its. you talk to people and listen to what their concerns are. if you can't figure that out, why are you running? that is the why are you running? if you really don't know wha

burgess who provided leadershi on this and senate passed the bill yesterday. we look forward to the real possibility of the house passing it. we urge you to pass it, and we look forward to working with this committee and the congress to realize the ambition of the alzheimer's association's vision, a world without alzheimer's disease. >> thank you. >> chairman, members of the committee, thank you for the hearing and providing the alzheimer's assoation to testify. i eric hall, the chief executive officer and i'm honored to testify on behaver of our member organizations and families that we care for across the country. faa was formed in 2002 to provide care and services to individuals confronting dementia and to their caregivers and families through member organizations dedicated to improving quality of life. today, our membership consistents of more than 1400 organizations including grass roots nonfor profit organizations, government agencies, publicsivity departments, and long term care communities. our services include toll free hotlines stafferred by licensed

we have jack burgess of ashburn, v.a. still plays golf. and bunnye brinson, from ocala florida.brazilian to people who aren't brazilian. >> we have angeline brigiana. i rehearsed that, too. toms river, new jersey, 100. reads five books a week. can you believe that? >>> florence miles, from westminster, maryland. up the road from us, and crochets afghans among other things. also, we have norris long from southport, north carolina, a vet, seen on the history channel many times. and we have emily ridgway, 100 years old from short hills, new jersey. a lovely lady, has many friends and loves to work. and curtis and erna johnson. 75 years variance. he's 92 and she's 90. and their secret is date night. >>> when we come back, how would you like to own einstein's brain or an x-ray of it. i amazing items from some of the world's biggest icons up for >>> back now at 8:39, a collector's dream, a back still inning look at an auction house with an almost priceless catalog. >> reporter: on any given morning at this warehouse in west l.a., cardboard boxes can bring untold riches. >> wow! >> for