but it is also up to the taxpayer, the citizenry, to contact their alleged the officials and let themnow what we think and feel. i do not do enough. i am calling c-span, for example. listening to health care, my personal feeling at this point is we are hearing the best of the best discussing this issue, and medicare for all, the republicans argue that the government takeover of health care, a look at the older people i know on medicare, they love it, they do not want to give it up for anything. there should be a bye in program for people, 25 and up, charging premiums. i am scared to death that one analysts' and i will be bankrupt. host: david, market heights, illinois. caller: we are all part of the problem, but when the government and politicians will not take any pay cuts, that is why we are marching in springfield today for the illinois campaign for liberty, trying to get the concealed handgun law for the people and our rights restored in. host: rockville, maryland. republican line. are we the problem? caller: i think that the problem is strictly the politicians. i am going to be s

the american citizenry justifiably insists as well as demands that high office holders practice highcal standards. in this case it appears clear that the judge did indeed violate the oath of his office. he violated the trust in which the public extended to him. i know of no greater office than that of the united states federal judge. people clamor for it. they fight for it, to get on that bench. once on the bench, i think we are justified in insisting they comply ethical accordingly. the house judiciary committee as you know is the committee of jurisdiction on impeachment matters. nothing gleeful about it, but we discharge our duties. and i thank everyone on the floor for having spoken on this resolution and i urge its passage. i yield back the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from north carolina yields back the balance of his time. the gentleman from texas reserves the balance of his time. the gentleman from michigan. mr. conyers: continue to reserve, sir. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from michigan reserves the balance of his time. the gentleman f

what's stable with their citizenry where i can put a business and rest my money? we're always the one. if we would dramatically reduce our costs and our budget and cut it in half, if we would go and take our spending and cut it and our taxes and say it is going to be safe here you can make money, the world will flee to us. but the same thing can be said for the political parties. i am convinced this game has been going on for a long time. i've never felt more set-up in my life than i do right now. i feel like we've been duped. this game has been coming for a long time. none of us saw it coming. we all just went, it's going to be fine, great, i got get my guy in. no you got to get my guy in. it has been a game. so the american people have to play a different game. does anybody here think that these problems are going to be solved in washington? nobody. then what are we doing standing around waiting for they will to solve it? it's a fundamental transformation of our system. it's a fundamental transformation of our country. then we have to fundamentally transform. ho

if an increase of technology does not by itself guarantee a more informed said its -- citizenry.he well-connected nation does not translate to a well informed nation without significant effort. a nation connected but not informed or cynically engaged is about as useful to democracy is a plug and lamp with no light bulb. -- p luugelugged in lamp with no light bulb. time spares you might extended remarks on the subject but we all know that journalism is in trouble. we better do something about how the american people receive their news and information in a world where the town square is going broadband and where a critically important public interest has somehow to be safeguarded. any viable solutions have to address a traditional and online media. i look forward to working on this with the members of this committee. each of the commissioners will have some variations on the plan that has been presented. with spectrum, for example, i will be especially vigilant to make sure it does not decrease the scarce denver city would have in programming or media ownership. -- does not decreas

her whole life as a public affairs reporter, in the same way i feel it is vital to have engaged citizenry it is also vital to have a vibrant, free press. it is very labor intensive to uncover what i'm doing -- to uncover wrongdoing. it is a lot easier to report on britney spears' underpants. the example that i use is the article in the san diego tribune that won a pulitzer a few years ago for uncovering a scandal about duke cunningham, the congressman that art -- that is in jail now for a bribe taking and other things. that bureau now no longer exists. it uncovered that story and it won a pulitzer. and that is the way these things are going. it is a serious, scary time. >> one more question. this is the last one. >> i'm a junior at georgetown university. a large part of the platform is changing the way washington works and changing the town and there has been some evidence in the last year that we have seen that. there is a good argument to be made that -- it may be too early to think about this, but [inaudible] what does the panel think about that potential? >> there is a potential for t

one of the things that i perceived, there's a growing trend among our citizenry to become stakeholders in this green revolution, to take personal ownership of cleaning up the environment and thinking of things that they can do right at the household level, right there in their own homes, right there in their own neighborhoods. one particular effort that i'm very interested in, and i introduced legislation to this effect, has to do with these programs called pace programs. pace is an acronym for property assess clean energy program. what these are is a local municipality will decide to borrow funds and make those available to local homeowners. so that those homeowners can borrow the money and invest it in retrofitting their homes to make it more energy efficient. there's legislation moving through the congress ithe now that would create two new category, silver star and gold star, under a home star brem of energy efficiency to try to encourage people of achieving these high standards of green technology and energy efficiency in their own homes. what the pace programs do is make these lo

if an increase of technology does not by itself guarantee a more informed said its -- citizenry. the well-connected nation does not translate to a well informed nation without significant effort. a nation connected but not informed or cynically engaged is about as useful to democracy is a plug and lamp with no light bulb. -- p luugelugged in lamp with no light bulb. time spares you might extended remarks on the subject but we all know that journalism is in trouble. we better do something about how the american people receive their news and information in a world where the town square is going broadband and where a critically important public interest has somehow to be safeguarded. any viable solutions have to address a traditional and online media. i look forward to working on this with the members of this committee. each of the commissioners will have some variations on the plan that has been presented. with spectrum, for example, i will be especially vigilant to make sure it does not decrease the scarce denver city would have in programming or media ownership. -- does not decre

they're very, very important to the citizenry of our country. senator brown? >> thank you, mr. chairman. i want to first thank you for your warm welcome and i appreciate your recognition of my service. and just to correct the record a little bit, generals and admiral, i started out as an enlisted man and was qualified as an infantry officer at ft. benning and now i'm a quarter master and i have some knowledge that i don't think an average torn knows being a jag. one of the things senator gramm was commenting on because when i hear from the guardsmen serving throughout massachusetts they are confused how they treat folks how they're captured. i also want to kind of go along the same vein, what rights are they given and do we send them to afghanistan? do we keep them where they're captured? do we bring them to u.s. soil? do we get them to gitmo? i know i'm new here, but being in the military, these are the questions that my troops are passing on to me when i'm representing them. and if there's any insight you can give as to the policy as to where we're heading with that or if it'

we all except our role to play in making sure that we have the best educated citizenry in the world.de the 20th-century and that is what will make the 21st century the american century. there is an old story that collin is told. he lived about 100 years ago. george was a janitor. his job was to clean up after the artist, french. some of you may of heard of french. he carved the figure of abraham lincoln for the lincoln memorial. day after day, we carefully, he bled about his job, but barely uttering a word to mr. french other than the occasional hello or goodbye. just when france had nearly completed his masterpiece, he spoke up. he said, i have a question. what is it? >> how you knew all along that mr. lincoln was sitting inside that block of marble. that wasn't a silly question. sometimes in this country we see blocks of marble and some people can see what is inside and some people cannot. it was a profound question about how we recognized the potential within each of us and chisel away at what is locked inside. i am confident that because of the work of colin powell and his wife a

. >> we all have to do what we can and be informed citizenry to make the democracy work, the republick. we all do our part. i'm not the only fellow out there. as you can see in front of the steps and the people gathering. there are a whole lot of folks out there. if you put the microphone in front of any one of them, you'd be reminded of who america is. >> neil those are the people i'm serving today for sure. >> neil: all right. well, they're looking forward to hearing from you. pro or con tea partiers, i understand you're going to be attracting quite a crowd. jon voight, good to talk to you. >> god bless. bye-bye. >> neil: you, too. well, he is going to address a pretty large crowd here because buses are coming in fast and furious to the event. we're told many of them stuck in traffic early on. a prominent person is missing from the gathering. we don't know if it was by design or purely chance. don imus isn't here. much of the western world is asking the question i am. why not?  [ female announcer ] sometimes you need tomorrow to finish what you started today. for the aches and slee

important the committee we want to thank senator mccaskill they are very anchor it -- important to the citizenrypany. >> a first one to thank you for your warm welcome the appreciate the service and just to correct the record a little bit general and admiral, one branch qualified as a separate tree officer and trial defense attorney and jagged massachusetts why do have some knowledge shuttle think the average attorney understands being a traditional jag. one of the thing senator graham was commenting on i have great concern because when i hear about the guys that were serving from massachusetts and new england as to how folks are treated when they are captured want to go on the same vein and i am concerned about how they treat the detainee is where they send them and what rights were they given and do we send them to afghanistan or keep them or they are captured on u.s. soil i know i am doing here. being in the military these seven questions my troops pass on to me when i represent them. is any insight we can give to the policy as to where we're headed were offline conversation? i am all ears an

the provision council elections, was basically the whole issue of the evolution of the vote of the citizenry because in many ways, the citizens voted not so much about the message that we all extract did was that the vote was nonsectarian, but it was also. it might've been nonsectarian, but it was a very strong anti-incumbent because of the inability of the politicians in power to basically provide basic services and provide therefore what we can call bread and butter issues. and that's, in a sense, is a very interest in evolution in terms of iraq. the process that we are seeing right now is basically obviously the fiddling with the rules of the game. a sort of judas was a sham with the anti-de-baathification commission that might reopen the wounds of the past and basically the emergence of fear mongers and fears. or with a certain degree. what are the risks in terms of the process of many of course? one of the risks, the most important risk is that basically voters grow disillusioned with the electoral politics in order to solve, address their problems and therefore that should be a set bac

and thirdly, i'm delighted that the citizenry of haiti wanted kind want to be self-sufficient in food and i think the president of the world bank and others who believe that we should change all of our policies to make that possible, not just in haiti, but throughout the world. so thank you for the presentation. now i'd like to call on representative of diaspora. i would ask you to keep your presentations to for five minutes a we can stay on time here. marie and joseph. >> good morning. president preval, president clinton, good morning. i'm very humbled and great honored with you to report what was done. the hosting of the oas on march 21-23rd. there is five workshop that was taken place on urgent matter and needs. it was transparent and construction process. strengthening governance, system development and social development. on humanitarian urgent needs, we acknowledged that the government of haiti and the private sector to welcome international cooperative the that food and aid. preference should be given to local producers and national suppliers and/or to avoid the contraction of

her whole life as a public affairs reporter, in the same way i feel it is vital to have engaged citizenry also vital to have a vibrant, free press. it is very labor intensive to uncover what i'm doing -- to uncover wrongdoing. it is a lot easier to report on britney spears' underpants. the example that i use is the article in the san diego tribune that won a pulitzer a few years ago for uncovering a scandal about duke cunningham, the congressman that art -- that is in jail now for a bribe taking and other things. that bureau now no longer exists. it uncovered that story and it won a pulitzer. and that is the way these things are going. it is a serious, scary time. >> one more question. this is the last one. >> i'm a junior at georgetown university. a large part of the platform is changing the way washington works and changing the town and there has been some evidence in the last year that we have seen that. there is a good argument to be made that -- it may be too early to think about this, but [inaudible] what does the panel think about that potential? >> there is a potential for there t

we all except our role to play in making sure that we have the best educated citizenry in the world.entury and that is what will make the 21st century the american century. there is an old story that collin is told. he lived about 100 years ago. george was a janitor. his job was to clean up after the artist, french. some of you may of heard of french. he carved the figure of abraham lincoln for the lincoln memorial. day after day, we carefully, he bled about his job, but barely uttering a word to mr. french other than the occasional hello or goodbye. just when france had nearly completed his masterpiece, he spoke up. he said, i have a question. what is it? >> how you knew all along that mr. lincoln was sitting inside that block of marble. that wasn't a silly question. sometimes in this country we see blocks of marble and some people can see what is inside and some people cannot. it was a profound question about how we recognized the potential within each of us and chisel away at what is locked inside. i am confident that because of the work of colin powell and his wife alma, and work

got to bring the health care providers and and experts that could have the best interests of the citizenry expect all those technology as radon is driving a lot of because, on the the other hand i think information technology can work to reduce it. i mention one example earlier, my wife just -- and i wave her? we just with an experienced and got three prescription for the same drug, from three different positions, plus of the samples that she took away from the emergency room. and if that were all on a medical electronic record summer, presumably, each succeeding physician would have known that and not prescribed a duplicative script. so i think there are opportunities to reduce cost through technology as well. >> this is one of the weight states learn from one another, whether it is the right way to use technology, whether it's the models for case management, care corporation like you mentioned, whether it's an accountable care. a lot of us are replicating the pioneer state to try accountable care framework support service delivery. people forget that we all talk to one another quite ofte

but they, the administration, wanted to present it to the american citizenry as having tried to reach out. that's why you had the charade of the summit last week, seven hours of discussion, when it was already precooked that nothing would change anything. but that's part of the deal. he, the president, wants to appear to be offering to incorporate republican proposals and now the pick of ot which we had today -- pivot which we had today. it's important that we not lose sight of the principle divide between the two sides. on the one hand the democratic majority wants to have one -- wants to have government-run bureaucrat-dictated health care. on the other, the republicans want to have wellness. no amount of taking republican proposals and sprinkling them onto the faulty premise of a government-run bill will make it bipartisan or will make the republican proposals effectual. as trailer will be taking the democrats proposals and putting them onto a free market, patient-centered withness bill. it is a principle divide, one which abraham lincoln reminds us, important principles must remain

but an increase of technology does not by itself guarantee a more informed citizenry.009 study indicates as a country we consume in excess of one point* 3 trillion hours per year be at the production and distribution of a central news and information content has never been in more than doubt. hyper speculation of consolidation and wreaks havoc began early with media and the destruction was compounded by the almost complete it dismantle of the oversight of the broadcasts stations decimating news, news rooms and news media. a new research center report shows a 50% decline in reporting and editing capacity since the 1980's and a 30% drop of newspapers since 2000. the pink slips that have replaced pay stubs for so many journalist and the bell operating state of watchdog journalism have left us it to be frank come on a starvation diet when it comes to nursing the democratic dialogue. the serving of daily american reformation as 500 calories short of a healthy meal. story should go on facts not on opinion but neither the media is a delivering the nourishment we need. we'll h

the other trend that emerged was a sickly the issue of the vote of the citizenry because in many ways the citizens voted not so much about the message we extracted was the vote was on secretary in but it was also it might have been nonsectarian but it was a very strong anti-incumbent vote because of inability of the politicians of power to basically provide basic services and provide what we can call bread-and-butter issues and that is a very interesting evolution in terms of iraq. the process the pc right now is basically obviously the feeling with rules of the game, a sort of pro version debaathification that might reopen the wounds of the past and the emergence of the fear mongers but with a certain degree of approaching it. what are the risks in terms of the process many of course. one of the risks, the most important risks is that basically voters grow disillusioned with electoral politics to solve and address the problems and therefore there should be a setback because they are talking about what we were in baghdad in 2004 and 2005 they were talking about the democratic dividend

significance not just for the economy but also to whether we will have a situation that includes the citizenry. what has the ftc done with this project so far? we have had two workshops. in december, 2009, we had a workshop that was basically gathering the facts about the economics of the industry these days. we found at least three critical factors. the first is that there are critical financial difficulties that have been caused by over leveraged purchases of newspapers in times when it was thought that margins of 30% would continue for a long time. they obviously have not. is important to note in that context that most newspapers that are stand-alone enterprises, they are still profitable. if you look at them as stand- alone enterprises, but you cannot because they are part of much larger organizations that are still saddled with debt from those over leveraged acquisitions. second, there have been significant reductions to advertising revenues to newspapers. that is important because newspapers traditionally got about 80% of their revenue, at least during the 20th century, from advertising.

we ranked 19th in the world in the health of our citizenry. our children die earlier. all americans die earlier than the other 18 industrialized countries. the rate of increase in the health care market for the individual market, in california and in many other states, was nearly 100% within a one-year period. an unaffordable rate increase. in california, the average number of claims denied by the insurance companies was 21%. and the range was from 39% to 17%. you talk about a death panel. here's where the real death panel. it's in the insurance companies themselves denying benefits, denying claims, denying treatment. that's for illnesses and that causes death. this has to end. and on sunday, we will bring this kind of unacceptable situation to an end. on sunday, we will pass affordable, available health care for america. i would like to call upon my colleague from new york, mr. tonko. mr. tonko: thank you, representative garamendi. it is important for us to recognize what you are suggesting, the benefits we are bringing from this reform for americans across this great

bill is about higher political power for the party in charge and they want to obligate the american citizenry to re-up their contract every two years in order to not lose the benefits that they are going to get with this bill. the bill is a bad deal, mr. speaker, i would submit that the american people need to continue to weigh in on this, all is not lost, time is not up, there is still time to make a difference. i'll yield to the two gentlemen for their final thoughts. mr. gohmert: i just appreciate all the work you've done. there are several bills that have been proposed by republicans. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman's time has expired. mr. burgess: i thank the gentlemen for their time this evening. the speaker pro tempore: under the speaker's announced policy of january 6, 2009, the chair now recognizes the gentleman from ohio, mr. ryan, for 60 minutes. mr. ryan: thank you, madam speaker. i appreciate the opportunity to come up and continue the discussion on health care from a little different perspective than my friends on the other side have been giving the american people. i wan

home or in congress who actually knows the faceless bureaucrats who will now be imposing upon the citizenry of this country, the requirements of their health policies and the health care going forward. so perhaps we should put priorities and say, let's have transparency and the ability to opt out in something more personal as our health care as opposed to getting into regulating the credit markets. with that said, i can just say that i was here about six years ago when i first came into congress, back in, oh, my first year was 2003 and at that time, spencer baucus was the ranking member, the chair of the financial institutions subcommittee, and that's when we passed the fair and accurate credit transaction act, or the fact act and that law made a number of important changes for pro consumer changes to the reporting laws, it allowed consumers of to have easier access to credit information, as well as what we're looking for and that is improve the accuracy of that information. now during that time, credit scores have become an essential and valuable tool if allowing creditors basically to mor

home or in congress who actually knows the faceless bureaucrats who will now be imposing upon the citizenry of this country, the requirements of their health policies and the health care going forward. so perhaps we should put priorities and say, let's have transparency and the ability to opt out in something more personal as our health care as opposed to getting into regulating the credit markets. with that said, i can just say that i was here about six years ago when i first came into congress, back in, oh, my first year was 2003 and at that time, spencer baucus was the ranking member, the chair of the financial institutions subcommittee, and that's when we passed the fair and accurate credit transaction act, or the fact act and that law made a number of important changes for pro consumer changes to the reporting laws, it allowed consumers of to have easier access to credit information, as well as what we're looking for and that is improve the accuracy of that information. now during that time, credit scores have become an essential and valuable tool if allowing creditors basically to mor

an informed citizenry is essential to a thriving democracy, and a democratic government operates best in the disinfecting light of the public eye. by seriously addressing the corrupting influence of earmarks, we will allow members to legislate with the imperative that our government must be free from corrupting influences both real and perceived. we must act now to ensure that the erosion we see today in the public's confidence in congress does not become a complete collapse of faith in our institutions. we can and we must end the practice of earmarking. now, i have traveled around the country and all around my home state of arizona. i have seen the tea party participants. i have met citizens of my state who have never, ever been involved in the political process before. they are angry, and they are frustrated, and they want change. they want the change that was promised to them last november, which they haven't gotten. they want us to act as careful stewards of their tax dollars. just the other night my colleague from arizona and i, senator kyl, were on a teleconference call to the c

but an increase of technology does not by itself guarantee a more informed citizenry. a 2001 study indicates that as a country we consume in excess of 1.3 trillion hours of media per year. yet the production and distribution of essential news and information content has never been more in doubt. the same hyperspeculation that wreaks so much havoc on the media. and the complete dismantlement of our public oversight of the broadcast stations decimating news, newsrooms and media. a new report shows a 50% decline in network news reporting and editing capacity since the 1980s. that just came out yesterday and a 30% drop for newspapers since 2000. the pink slips that have replaced pay stubs for so many thousands of beat journalists and the evaporating state of watchdog journalism have left us to be frank on a starvation diet when it comes to nourishing our democratic dialog. serving daily news and information is about 500 calories short of a healthy meal. opinion should feed on facts, not on more opinion. and right now neither are traditional nor media are supplying the nour

if an increase of technology does not by itself guarantee a more informed said its -- citizenry. well-connected nation does not translate to a well informed nation without significant effort. a nation connected but not informed or cynically engaged is about as useful to democracy is a plug and lamp with no light bulb. -- p luugelugged in lamp with no light bulb. time spares you might extended remarks on the subject but we all know that journalism is in trouble. we better do something about how the american people receive their news and information in a world where the town square is going broadband and where a critically important public interest has somehow to be safeguarded. any viable solutions have to address a traditional and online media. i look forward to working on this with the members of this committee. each of the commissioners will have some variations on the plan that has been presented. with spectrum, for example, i will be especially vigilant to make sure it does not decrease the scarce denver city would have in programming or media ownership. -- does not decrease