thank you. >> thank you, chairman dingell. we have five votes.ould say about an hour, but when they are done we'll come back and reconvene. the committee stands in recess. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] >> the committee will reconvene. >> mr. chairman, thank you. [inaudible] >> i wanted to specifically ask you, how many serve as a member of task force. [inaudible] >> let me read to you from testimony. in fact, she states in her testimony we want to know that the attacks against the makeup of the task force are misplaced. screening is an issue of primary care. it is a health and a vision for a healthy population. the experts in this area, those with a scientific training and objectivity to do the necessary analyses are primary care health professionals, and methodologists, epidemiologist, and biostatisticians. not radiologists or medical oncologists. and i'm quoting directly from her, her statement. what is your opinion on that? >> the task force expertise in this area was sufficient to weigh the evidence that led to his recom

next is chairman dingell. did you want to proceed now? >> i think i will proceed rather quickly, mr. chairman comegys, please. i would like to welcome you both to the committee and tell you how helpful it is to have you here. from the things i've heard sit on the other side of the aisle about you folks at the agency i was afraid you would appear with fornes, a tale, fangs and a red suit breathing fire demanding we immediately eliminate for the weak, sick, poor and with regards to mammograms and pap smear so i am very much comforted and want to welcome you to the committee this morning. i just have really one question that i think is important. i find it curious the task force has repeatedly over the years voted to leave cost out of its deliberations on whether to provide or not improving preventive service. why? >> thank you, congressman. this is a key question. the task force believes from congress and responsibility to the primary care clinicians and patience is that we set the evidence based stake in the ground immune from much it cost

john dingell the longest senching house member ever in history.ou had two giants going head to head. and because they have been around for so long, you can be sure they had a lot of allies and networks in the broader influence community that they could engage to try to determine whether one or the other is going to prevail and get the votes to do that. after the committee makes its recommendation, they have to submit it to either the democrat caucus or republican conference and this partisan instrument atlanta -- instrument can direct the committee and last is pro forma and the house and senate vote to place people on standing committees respectively. and then policy making, basically that boils down, you have hearings, markups and reports. those are the major stages. hearing process, obviously, no lobbyists or the people they represent are going to be up there to testify. they have read the testimony of people and worked with the committee staff to

dingell, is recognized for five minutes. >> thank you, mr. chairman.nk you for convening today's hearing and h.r.-3125, the radio spectrum inventory act. and h r-3019, the spectrum relocation improvement act of 2009. these two bills, which i may refer original cosponsor, will aid the reallocation of spectrum, a commodity of increasing importance, given recent advances in mobile broadband services. like all the rest of us, i am concerned about the allocation, about the future, and also about what we have done so far and whether it has contributed to the proper usage of spectrum for the future and for all of our people. these two pieces of legislation, so complementary to the federal communication commission, duty to represent the congress a national broadband plan as mandated under the american investment and recovery act. to be certain, the success and development of such a plan and the implementation of its recommendations will be facilitated in no mean degree by the clear and better understanding of the spectrum available for use and a better to more

chairman dingell, the answer is not good.is better if you don't have the right information. so if you need the right information, delay may be necessary. >> i'm no special pleader for delay. my concern is if we do it, we do it well. and i'm not satisfied up until this time that we have been doing these things well. i'm very much troubled that we will expand that bad history by again doing things poorly. >> i agree with that. >> i don't want to wind up with a mess on our hands because we have built upon a false fact. >> we have the actual measurement that is will help identify bands for spectrum sharing. >> all right. mr. chairman, i note my four seconds over my time. i yield back with thanks to you. >> thank you very much chairman, dingell. >> the chairman is recognized for five minutes. >> thank you very much. i want to thank the witnesses for your testimony as well. all of you. especially dr. johnson appreciated your technical council on the legislation as well. senator smith, i want to go to you regarding this notion put f

dingell: mr. speaker, i ask unanimous consent to revise and extend my remarks. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, so ordered. mr. dingell: mr. speaker, i begin by expressing great respect and affection for my dear friend from texas. unfortunately he's wrong. here the democrats came in and found that the republicans had left them two wars, a depression and $1.3 trillion deficit. and we found that when mr. bush came in he converted a $2 trillion surpruss -- surplus to a $7 trillion deficit. now i was a young boy when my dad was here and passed last april and i want to say this legislation does not re-institute steegle. it does much that had to be done by the democrats when they were dealing with the hoover depression which was very much like this one and was caused by this same good-hearted folks up in new york. gambling with deposser tos' money guaranteed by the federal government. when they repealed the glass steel act, the result was that all of a sudden we had to rush in and bailout cor

at the same time the great irish scientist john dingell discovered co2 traps infrared radiation. have already begun to use coal at the beginning of the industrial revolution and that began to accelerate. but will overtook coal and now the two of them together, both rich in carbon, represent the principal source of fuel for our economy and shifting away from these dirty polluting fuels is one of the principal challenges that we face in solving the climate crisis. it is not the only one. i go into the others in this book as well. in section ii of the book i focus in on the principal sources of energy that we can get from renewable sources. first of all, solar energy. there is enough sunlight that falls on the surface of our planet in one hour to equal a full year's supply of energy for the entire world. the scientists and engineers have gotten better and better, better and better at capturing and converting that sunlight into electricity. there are two principal ways they do that if you don't count the hot water heaters which are very effective and we ought to make greater use of t

chairman dingell? >> i'm going to begin by reading something which appeared in and you'll recognize it and the statements of dr. sweet. under affordable health care for america act, h.r. 3962, passed by the house of representatives, new task force on clinical preventive services would be created which would take on many of the responsibilities of the current u.s. preventive services task force. this new entity will have an important role in making evidence-based recommendations on preventive services that insurers would be required to cover, but the only 19 affect the recommendations of the task force will have on health plans is is a requirement that preventive measures for which the task force has been given and a or b reagan must be covered. the bill does not get the task force or the federal government itself in the authority to put limits on coverage ration care all require that insurers deny coverage. health plans that offer additional preventive and other benefits of their choosing. and no restr

the digital millennium copyright act was really envisioned -- content owner said dingell website addressrints instead of the website address and ask for them to screen everything that contains the pingree print. -- that contains the fingerprint. the dmca notice the requirement could be changed, particularly for flood of sense. -- for live events. another ambiguity is an infringement, which is addressed by the supreme court. the case is really instead of addressing one of the 62 questions about how substantial does the infringement have to be before it triggers infringement -- they left that issue and salt. -- insults. -- unsolved. the perfect area where there is an ambiguity at the law, where congress can step in and provide the much-needed clarity in ways that it would make it easier to curb the kind of a legal piracy we're talking about today. lastly, industry got together in found solutions for pre- recorded contents in ways that did not involve so much legal involvement and suggested a different role that congress might play, which is holding hearings like the one we're having today

chairman bobby rush for taking an early lead in examining the proposal in his subcommittee and chairman dingell for ensuring that we enhance f.t.c.'s role. ranking member barton worked closely with us on our proposal to create a commission to lead the cfpa and i finally want to thank chairman peterson for working with us to resolve the energy regulatory issues. i urge all my colleagues to support this legislation and i yield back the balance of my time. the chair: the gentleman yields back. the gentleman from texas is recognized. >> thank you, mr. speaker. i yield myself four minutes. the chair: the gentleman is recognized for four minutes. mr. barton: i ask unanimous consent to revise and extend my remarks. the chair: without objection. mr. barton: thank you, mr. speaker. first let me say that i rise in strong opposition to this bill. i did support marking it up at the energy and commerce committee to maintain jurisdiction over this agency and other agencies in our committee's jurisdiction. i did work with chairman waxman to make some perfecting changes to the bill that's before us. but having

next is chairman dingell, did you want to proceed in a? >> i think i can proceed rather quickly, mr. chairman. yes, please. i would like to welcome you both just me and say how helpful it is to have you here. from the things i've heard said on the other side of the aisle about you folks at the agency, i was afraid you would appear with horns, tales, fangs and in a red suit breathing fire. demanding that we immediately terminate all health benefits through the unfortunate segue war and especially with regard to mammograms and pap smears. so i'm very much comparable and i want to welcome me to the committee this morning. i just have really one question that i think is important. i find it curious that the task force has repeatedly over the years voted to leave costs out of its deliberations on whether to provide or not approved preventive service. >> thank you. congressman, i think this is a key question. the task force believes its major charge from congress and responsibility to primary care clinicians and patients is that evidence-based s

chairman bobby rush for taking an early lead in examining the proposal in his subcommittee and chairman dingell for ensuring that we enhance f.t.c.'s role. ranking member barton worked closely with us on our proposal to create a commission to lead the cfpa and i finally want to thank chairman peterson for working with us to resolve the energy regulatory issues. i urge all my colleagues to support this legislation and i yield back the balance of my time. the chair: the gentleman yields back. the gentleman from texas is recognized. >> thank you, mr. speaker. i yield myself four minutes. the chair: the gentleman is recognized for four minutes. mr. barton: i ask unanimous consent to revise and extend my remarks. the chair: without objection. mr. barton: thank you, mr. speaker. first let me say that i rise in strong opposition to this bill. i did support marking it up at the energy and commerce committee to maintain jurisdiction over this agency and other agencies in our committee's jurisdiction. i did work with chairman waxman to make some perfecting changes to the bill that's before us. but having