we have stayed open because we are committ eted to customer service. we have five new hotel chains under construction. new schools, restaurants and many corporate relocations. to meet the needs of a growing city, we have purchased five ache oefrs land on a busy highway. we hired a builder and have drawn up plans for a new building. all these plans have been shown to the legaler placement people for chrysler. no dealership is a cost to chrysler. we pay for everything we use and we take all the risk. we are chrysler's cust mer. in a typical month, we pay chrysler over $2,500 in fantasticed e eed -- fixed expe alone plus parts and vehicles paid for in full and up front. we sponsor school events, little league, pea wee football, rodeo and many other events. we are a teeny small store but our dealership has gross sales of $18 million or $443,000 per month. we have collected and paid the state and county over $805,000 in taxes and fees or $20,026 per month. plus, we have paid the county $52,668 in property taxes. all of this and it does not include income or

the guantanamo detainees include committers of some of the most horrific acts against the u.s., including 9/11 and the cole bombings in africa. director muller of the f.b.i. deafed that bringing the detainees to the u.s. involved serious risk to american security. the administration is ignoring or disregarding these risks and stone walling the congress. we need to stop the administration from bringing more detainees into our country. in addition, my motion would restore language included in senate section 315 requiring a detailed threat assessment of the risk to the american people resulting from the transfer or release of each of these individuals. that language passed the senate by a vote of 92-3. this motion is that the house receive language prohibiting the movement of detainees to the united states in requiring comprehensive threat assessments. all this language passed overwhelmingly in the senate. mr. chairman, i urge adoption of my motion as i express my appreciation for the work of the senate. >> i thank the gentleman, mr. murtha. >> i appreciate what the gentleman is saying. we h

you're going to find that the costs are so astronomical the way it's being formed in th the "help" committe we're leaving a burden on our grandkids and great grandkids that will be insurmountable. with that, mr. president, i yield the floor. a senator: mr. president? the presiding officer: the senator from oregon. a senator: mr. president, before he leaves the floor, i want to tell the senator from utah how much i'm looking forward on a personal level to working with him in this five-month sprint to figure out a way to fix american health care on a bipartisan fashion. mr. wyden: some of the moments that i'm proudest of have been those moments when the two of us have been able to team up on health reform and without getting into it this afternoon, mr. president, let me say that millions of poor youngsters who use community health centers now are getting services there, scores and scores of them at no extra cost to our taxpayers because senator hatch was willing to work with this senator and a group of others, public interest groups and a wide variety of health care advocates, in order to cha

would do well to incorporate the lessons of the bank of america-merrill lynch episodes that this committeings hearings over the coming weeks will draw. thank you. >> i thank the gentleman from ohio. now we yield to the ranking member, also from ohio. >> thank you. thank you for holding today's hearing. i want to thank you and ranking member icea's efforts to get to the truth about this issue. i believe today's hearing is an important first step in learning about the full extent of the government's manipulation of the banking industry. this investigation into the bank of america-merrill lynch transaction has raised troubling questions about the government's abuse of power as bodes the ranking member and chairman have indicated. we've learned that at a minimum then secretary hank paulson threatened to remove mr. lewis if mr. lewis exercised his legal option to back out of the deal. in addition, we've learned that the department of treasury and the federal reserve were involved in discussion about when and how the financial condition of merrill lynch was to be disclowed to the share holders. we