. >> who stood, clam moried, came to town halls and demanded we live within our means and said this is enough. this is your day. >> gentleman from massachusetts. >> i yield to the gentleman from georgia for one minute. >> the gentleman from georgia is recognized for one minute. >> thank you very much, mr. chairman. ladies and gentlemen, this is, of course, a very important day, difficult decision for all of us. i'm going to vote for this in the best interest of our economy in putting us in the stature where we need to be. i want to point out one area of weakness we have to look at carefully going forward, and that is in the application of this 12-member committee, and especially as it relates to the areas of social security, medicare, and medicaid. now, my understanding is, and i think this is understanding that we certainly need to make clear that social security and medicaid, veterans, pell grants, are protected fully under this bill, but when it comes to medicare, my understanding is that there will be an opportunity in here where they will look at medicare on the provider side. que

power structure, and i follow a constellation of people in different parts of the country who are clam moriing, if you will, for their own rights as per rigs nears, and as the bishops have begun to close churches, these churches become forms of property, and the story of how the vatican oversees the liquid dation of these assets is something i had utterly no idea about until i began the research, so let me give you one overview of the book with a little shorthand. first two sets of numbers -- every year at the end of june is a collection called peters pence. peter's pence goes for the charitable uses of the pope. pope benedict rebuilt a school or provided $250,000 to rebuild a school in haiti last year. this is the kind of cause that one would like to see, people philanthropy, put to. ultimately what i learned in the research of the $82.5 million that peter's pence took in in 2009, only about $8.5 million of it was documented. it all went to good causes, much of it interestingly to environmental work, erosion, things of that nature, and yet, almost 80% of this massive donation did not have any