dead song called cassidy. so it's cassidy brinkley, johnny brinkley, benton brinkley. my wife is ann goldman of new orleans. we met there and got married in new orleans and have become a family man. it's changed my life. and more, brian, changing your life having kids, i love taking them -- all my kids want to do now is go to the wild basin to go see animals. we have a place in austin. so i take them to a nature study center. i'm teaching them the animals. they don't look and say they know even -- if they see a fish in the tank, that's a perch. i trained them to get them to start knowing all of them and they each have favorite animals that they've honed in on. my daughter benton, for example, is all ducks and we have -- without exaggeration she probably has 200 ducks, toy ducks -- >> 200 toy ducks? >> she just surrounded her of all of these little, it's an obsession. but the audubon society of america does a whole series of bird stuffed toys, which are really fun because you can get a great blue heron or you c

that is cassidy is her name. it's from a character of jack kerouac. there's a grateful dead song as well called "qazi." it's an irish-- called "cassidy" and we got married anand had met in new orleans. becoming a family man changed my life. all my kids want to do is go to the wild places to go see animals. we have a place in austin a park where i take them to nature study center. i'm teaching them the animals. if they see this in a tank they say that the purchase. i trained them to get them to start knowing all of them. they each have favorite animals that they have honed in on. my daughter benton loves ducks. she probably has 200 ducks, without exaggeration, a toy ducks. >> really? >> she has where she is surrounded by them if it is an obsession. the audubon society of america does a series of bird-stuffed toys which are fun because you can get a great blue heron or a snowy egret or whatever. we have a lot of those as well. >> the writing of all this, you talked about pelican island. do you still write longhand? >> mixed these days. i used to it all

cassidy? >> mr. visco, when you speak, i think of my wife is a breast cancer survivor, that is music to my ears. dr. hacker, a couple things. as i think about it, your proposal, congratulations, this is your brainchild and it has become something. the public auction is innovative, the sense that nationalizing the insurance company creates a government run health insurance company, but as you're speaking of the need for innovative payment methods, medicare and medicaid have lagged far behind other companies in coming up with innovative payment schemes. and certain as i look at this, the patient is central. i never see that the patient is central to cost or central to improving outcomes, what i do see is there's emphasis on using bargaining power to decrease costs, even though in your paper you mention bargaining power has been used to excess and you can show in some cases physicians that access the decrease because of and the scoring of this or the senate documents, there is limited access to fund spe

cassidy? >> my wife is a breast cancer surgeon and when you speak, i just think oh, my gosh, isn't that just nuke my ears and to my wife's ears. we share your concern. dr. hacker, a couple of things. you know,no carrierringconnect central to improving outcomes. what i do see there's a great emphasis on bargaining power to decrease cost even though in your paper you mention that probably for physicians, that bargaining power has been used to excess and you can demonstrably show in some cases that physicians that access the decrease because of it indeed the cbo scoring of this or maybe the document, the cbo score said there would be limited access to some specialists because of rate -- because of rates paid by the public option. so i don't see that much innovative. and so let me bounce it back to you. if we're going to come up with a patient centered plan i think the only way that history subpoena by towing so -- and improve it by doing so -- and -- i keep on saying this but it's just -- i feel

cassidy: just a couple of things. one it's accessibility to care and that is the crisis of personnel. mr. roe: we need a million new registered nurses in the next few years. there will be more physicians retiring and dying in this country than we are producing. we aren't investing in the medical infrastructure to increase the class size and who's go to go provide this care? that is very direct and a huge issue. the challenge here is affordable health care and accessible to people. it's not going to be easy. i have deelt with this over 30 years and this is going to be very, very complicated to do and we don't need to do this fast but do it right. i think that's one of the worries i have is we're going to go and have this arbitrary deadline of 60 days from now. who says 60 days from now we should have this right and done? we need to get it right. if it takes six months, we need to get it right, because it affects every american. let me give you a couple of examples. in this country, we have 47 million people that are un

and thirdly, the share up cassidy -- opacity of the credit world meant a leverage went undetected for a long time and it wasn't just cds that did that but you basically have a situation where people are going to in the spring of 2007 everyone could feel by then that something was going badly wrong in the credit world and regulators were getting together and saying something is wrong, what should we do, is there a way we can get a sense of how the world thinks of us. quite apart from the fact that you had the groups like the germans who were insisting on talking about hedge funds and nothing else which was not particularly helpful, one of the problems was that it was very hard to pinpoint the scale of leverage and the scale of the risk being taken in the system because there wasn't data and people were looking in the right places so for example, the scale of super senior risk build on the balance sheets such as merrill lynch and ubs which have such utterly disastrous implications toward the end of 2007, that was not being debated but it wasn't on the agenda and there was very little wa

cassidy: thank you, mr. speaker. cap and trade threatens to be a well intended disaster. under the ruse of reducing carbon emissions to help the economy, it will hobble the economy. it reduces g.d.p. by $9.6 trillion over two decades, illuminates 1.1 million jobs per year and increases the federal debt by 26%. electricity rates jump 90%, gas prices 74%, natural gas prices 55%. cap and trade is designed to disguise what it truly is. in the words of mr. dingell, a great big tax. it imposes higher taxes on producers so producers pass higher prices to consumers. the authors are targeting the producers so that the producers increase the price on consumers. if the authors' target producers rather than consumers it would connect them too much and, therefore, they must distance themselves from the families who bear the costs. the authors know the effects. it deserves to fail. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields back. for what purpose does the gentleman from alabama rise? >> request permission to address the house for one minute. the speaker pro tempore: wi