to go to a cubs game. [applause] [applause] >> elena kagan is less of a chicago baxter then justice stevens and was not at the 1932 -- chicago fixture than a justice stevens and was not at the 1932 cubs game, but she, too, has an interesting circuit. she clerked for a court-martial and then began her academic career at the university of chicago, joining its faculty in 1991. i got to know her on strolls where the faculty exchange ideas around the roundtable. she specialized in administrative law. in 1995 she joined the administration as one of president clinton posey policy wonks. she was set -- president clinton's policy wonks. she was up even further when she went to the university of chicago law school, which was a disaster of -- for trouble because she knew just which faculty members to recruit and what would tempt them east. harvard is so much bigger than chicago that it seemed she would establish jiabao as a wholly owned subsidiary. -- establish chicago as a wholly owned subsidiary. [laughter] fortuna

your honor, we knew you were a cubs fan. now that you are retiring, you will have more time to go to cubs games. this is for you. [applause] [applause] >> elena kagan is a less of a chicago figure than the justice stevens and was not at the 1932 chicago world series. -- elaine and kagan is less of a chicago fixture then justice stevens and was not of the 1932 world series. but she too served on the seventh circuit. she began her academic career at the university of chicago, joining its faculty in 1991. i got to know her on strolls between the law school and the quadrangle club, where the faculty exchange ideas around a round table. she specialized in a labor law and administrative law. the administrative side mmst have one out, for in 1995 she joined the administration as one of president clinton's policy wonks. she was sucked even further into administration when she became dean of the harvard law school, which was a disaster for chicago, because she knew just which members of the faculty to recruit, and which delors would

basketball and football as well as for several other major league teams, including houston astros, chicago cubs and new york % yankees. duane begannhis career as a sports reporter while a student at southern illinois university. and at the time, began -- became the youngest active broadcaster when he began calling major league games in 1976. remarkaaly, he has called six no-hitters. wade boggs 3,000 base hit. among many accomplishments of an outstanding broaddasting career, duane's tats has been honored as baseball's all-time top 101 broaddasters by arthur kirk smith. aside from calling rays games, duane and his wife karla are pillars of the tampa bay community, supporting the veterans and quantum leap farms, a therapeutic recreation alpha silt for our wounded warriors and disabled adults. again, i congratulate duane on the occasion of his 5,000th major league baseball broadcast. many more rays' wwns. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: mr. defazio of oregon.%% mr. grayson of florida. mr. gohmert of texas. under the speaker's announced policy of january 6, 2009, the gentleman from texas, mr.

the orchestra, an officer of the can you be scouts organization in his community -- an officer of the cub scouts organization in his community. he's joined by his wife, melissa, his daughter, burr gandhi, and his -- burghandy, his son, joshua. we welcome you to the capitol and thank you for offering up the prayer this morning. with that, madam speaker, i yield back. the speaker: thank you, mr. schock. the chair will entertain up to 15 additional one minutes on each side of the aisle. for what purpose does the gentlewoman from california rise? >> to address the house for one minute and to revise and extend. the speaker: without objection. ms. lofgren: i rise to talk about the service of a corporal who was killed in action in the hellman province of afghanistan. he was 23 years old. kevin was born in santa clara county. at west month high, kevin was part of the football, wrestling teams. following high school, determined to serve his country and his family, kevin enlisted in the marines and was assigned to the third battalion, seventh marine regiment, marine expeditionary first based in 29

he was a cub reporter in 1989, sort of got deployed to the oil spill and was fortunate or unfortunate to be the first reporter on the beach when the oil hit shore. and then kind of didn't leave and kept covering that story, and that sort of developed into my career as an author. host: from your experiences in covering the oil spill, are there parallels that you see then that you can parlay now to what's going on currently in the gulf? guest: yeah, without question. a lot of the veermental and techniccl aspects are obviously different, because you're dealing with a much warmer environment and oil that's being released much farther off shore and at the bottom of the ocean. but in terms of the way we're responding to it, unfortunately, it seems just shockingly similar, and a lot. causes seem very similar. the mistakes that are being made, sadly, are really a replay, and people have been through it and feel heart-sick that we seemed to have learned so little in 20 years. host: as far as what's similar, can you offer spsks about what you've seen then and what you're seeing now? guest: well