but the supplemental gives me a feeling of deja vu. haven't we been there before? voting to include billions of dollars for the occupation of iraq. congress has voted to increase funding for iraq many times. even though the american people want the occupation to end. it seems the iraqi people want us out of their country as well. the supplemental also calls for sending more troops to a foreign land, this time afghanistan, with no exit strategy. talking about repeating the past mistakes, talk about deja vu, afghanistan feels exactly the same as iraq did to me. president obama has said that a campaign against extremism will not succeed with bullets and bombs alone. he is absolutely correct about that. but the money in the supplemental is overwhelmingly devoted to military operations. it includes very little for the economic development, humanitarian aid and diplomatic efforts that we really need to stop extremists in afghanistan and in pakistan. the ratio is 90 to 10. 90% to department of defense, 10% to the smart alternatives. i believe the supplemental also violate

it is sort of deja vu all over again for me. there is more consensus now as to how we should go, at least in principle. there's more consensus now as to how we should go at least in principle and i agree with senator hark sxin his sense of what we need to do and it is basically three areas, our goals and one is make sure all americans have adequate insurance. so there is not an issue of some americans not being covered and so americans who aren't covered don't end up being picked up by americans who are covered and there is adequate insurance for all americans and secondly that we promote quality and choice which is very important. it's the core of our system. we do have the highest quality health care in the world even though it may be rated by some of the international groups as less than others, but i think they use standards that's not reflective of what we do. we are the cutting edge of technology, innovation and science in the area of health care and we're the cutting edge because of the system we have because we do not ha

is this deja vu all over again? american history is replete of charges of presidential overreach followed by congressional reaction. during the early 1970's, legislate force in scholars condemned the imperial presidency under lyndon johnson and richard nixon, premised on the vietnam war. in the 1980's and 1990's, the shoe was on the other foot. some leveled charges against an imperial congress under democratic speaker jimw wri ght and the republican speaker, newt gingrich. there was the so-called dictatorship of abraham lincoln . then there was what some dubbed "congressional government." is this pendulum swing built into the constitution? is it an invitation to struggle? does the constitutional separation of powers in power and bumbhumble presidents and congress? we found the anti-federalist opponents of the constitution careful of the presidency. the federalists responded that energy in the executive was a leading characteristic of good government. federalists alexander hamilton and james madison found themselves

. >> yeah, this m administration control seems like deja vu from the movie, the demolition man. >> the hartford, current in the financial disclosure's section talks about senator chris dodd and the piece is call dad's major adjustment. a priced value of the senator's cottage in ireland more than triples. concludes it's worth three times as much as dad has been reporting. the new value on the island in the county is about $658 thousand dollars according to two financial disclosure forms. the two page appraisal was done guy same man that did it in 2002 when it was valued at $190 thousand. timber pines florida? >> the article you just referred so was one of the two questions i was going to call in and say something about. the first was, that um... the president and supreme court has to put their stocks in a blind trust. why don't the congressmen have to do that? secondly, term limits. how come my mayor has term limits and governor and my president have terms limits but the congressmen don't? let you reply. >> albuquerque key, new mexico. >> hi. there. with regard to education, one of the

it is like deja vu all over again. just like the so-called economic stimulus package earlier, we've based complex and costly legislation behind closed doors. members to not even have the opportunity to review the stimulus before it was brought to a vote and judging by the announcement made that at the white house of this week that it is not delivering the jobs that were promised that it will not work. i will say it again health-care reform is far too important to get wrong i come to this debate in good faith and i stand ready to work with you but this during is at the wrong time. it is too fast let slowdown and a duet right. >> i think the gentlemen i also want to take the prerogative to introduce a friend and guest the health subcommittee pete stark from california is present my understanding we discuss that he will be an observer of the hearing and does not intend to ask any questions and appreciate your indulgence and just to say to my friend who i know approaches this is a good faith, chairman miller and i intend t

this has for those of us here in 1994 this is -- this is deja vu all over again. this is hillary carob loss. this is the elite of the elite deciding how everybody is going to get health care in this country. this is you set up a group of folks in washington who are going to unilaterally decide what type of health coverage people are going to get across the country. and its it really is the center of the bill when it comes to top-down centralized management of health care. it is some of us are concerned about the slippery slope to single payer. this is a greased slide to a single single-payer. it's not the issue of care or coverage, it is more about proposed coverage we would have had a bill that addressed the quality-of-care. but it's about is centralizing control right here amongst folks who think they know how to run something from a central system, and this medical led by as we committee is the precursor of that with the authority to basically accomplished that. we have a 500% increase in this bill. we have a bill that basically subsidized at 500% of poverty pr

deja vu all over again. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman's time has expired. for what purpose does the gentleman from virginia rise? >> madam speaker, qui permission to address the house for one minute. revise and extend my remarks. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, the gentleman is recognized for one minute. mr. nye: i rise today to express my sincere congratulations to caroline county, virginia, recipient of the 2009 all america city award for its outstanding civic accomplishments. this recognition is well deserved and rightly honors caroline county which has long been dedicated to meeting the needs of its community. established by the national civic league in 1949, the all-america city award wreck are nieses localities for community projects involving grass root civic engagement and cooperation between public-private and nonprofit sectors that best illustrate community-based problem solving. each year the civic league honors 10 communities throughout the country for addressing the most critical challenges facing america's communities. caroline cou

is this dÉjÀ vu all over again?merican history is replete with charges of presidential overreach followed by legislative reaction. during the late 1960's and early 70's, legislators and scholars condemned the imperial presidency under democrat lyndon johnson and republican richard nixon promised on the vietnam war. in the 1980's and 1990's however the issue was on the other foot with some charges against imperial congress under democratic speaker jim wright and republican speaker newt gingrich we were told was micromanaging expected its. going further back in history we witnessed the constitutional dictatorship of abraham lincoln during the civil war followed by decades of what scholar would for a wilson dubbed congressional government. is this pendulum swing built into the constitution? is the constitution and invitation to struggle as edward cohen suggested? was the constitutional separation of powers in power and humble presidents and congress? going back further in the ratification debate over the constitution,

ros-lehtinen: i feel like i'm dealing with deja vu. the iraq strategies used about two years ago about their commitment of fighting extremist groups there are making an appearance in this chamber with respect to pakistan. u.s. commanders have just begun to address the situation on the ground to determine the needs to implement that new strategy and some of the speakers today are already tying the u.s. hands while prejudging the response of pakistan. we should be focusing on success, on prevailing against al qaeda, prevailing against the taliban, not anticipating failure. and while the authors of this bill seek to empower our pakistani partners to confront insurgency and militarism, i believe this bill will have a counterproductive impact by potentially making the pakistani government appear subservient to the united states, as senator kerry suggested. this bill could weaken pakistani democracy as well as could potentially fuel paranoia, child conspiracy theories that help give rise to that country's visceral and deep seeded anti-americ

speaker, i had a strange sense of deja vu as i stood here on the floor of the house and watched all of the self-glattory rhetoric a few minutes -- minutes ago on the passage of the cap and trade bill and i feel the need to rise to issue an urgent warning from the left coast. you see, i stood on the floor of the senate of california three years ago and watched a very similar bill adopted and watched the same sort of self-gone grattory celebrations we saw here and i have watched over those years as that measure has dramatically deepened california's recession. it uses a slightly different mechanism than cap and trade but the objective is exactly the same. to force a dramatic reduction in carb -- carbon dioxide emissions. up until that bill took affect, california's unemployment numbers tracked very closely with the national unemployment rate. but then in january of 2007 california's unemployment rate began a steady upward divergeance from the national jobless figures until today california's unemployment rate is more t

there was a sense of dÉjÀ vu in this conversation because secured earlier i had been in zimbabwe forhe washington post, and this was right when robert mondavi a great man to win very bad but that's not in the book i guess. when he was ruining this country by seizing farms and seizing farms from the commercial farms, white commercial farmers and really begin his ranch here. ian smith was the prime minister of the country when it was rhodesia who refused to surrender control to the indigenous people there in the '60s and fought this disastrous war for years even when the british government didn't want to. ian smith was thinking about running again for prime minister. and i went to his home on the outskirts of the town, and we spoke for about two hours. we only agreed to an hour but he had just been widowed, and much like friedman, this man, i remember about reading about him when i was a child and how he always seemed this figure and he was actually genteel and sort of blunt spoken insincere. but we were talking, and i asked him basically why he wanted to run for political office again