dr. cooper has down in texas, exercise and what that means. i don't know if you've seen el paso school system. for 12 years they had an exercise program in it. 6 their drug usage is down about 30%, their dropout rate is down about 25% rate. their graduation rate is way up. their grades are way up, their testing is way up and their college attendance is way up. through -- and it can all be directly attributed to a mandatory you will kper stiez if you go -- exercise if you go to these schools. so the neurosciences are starting to figure out if you exercise a child, they learn about 20% to 30% more because you have just flushed their brain with oxygen and the nutrients that create new neurons and synapses. >> great. >> so we're build building a walking path. if you don't teach someone to do it, it's not a good -- it's a stimulus, but it doesn't accomplish the goal. i'm wanting to put brakes on that money to see if we put the money somewhere else. what i should have been offering is an amendment to eliminate this money and go the other direction.

dr. cooper in texas. look at el paso schools.ey put an exercise program in there that has dropped bmis, dropped the dropout rates, raised education, decreased drug use, and increased graduation rates. just through exercise because the new neuroscience today says that you learn 20% more if you've been exercising before you go into class. but we ought to incorporate all of that, all of the incentives to help us do what we want to do. but we haven't taken the time to listen. we've said, we've got to be on this schedule. so my appeal to you is, i honor you for your desire. you have the same desires i do. how we get there is very different. i would remind you of the three tenets of medicine. listen. they'll tell us what's wrong. if it's been done, don't do it again. and, for god's sakes, don't do any harm. thank you, mr. chairman. >> thank you very, very p much, senator. >> thank you very much, mr. chair. it is a real honor to be here in this marble hall addressing the question of affordable, accessible health care for every single am

dr. perez nama, communication director kerry ibrahim cooper. on an msnbc talk show with tucker carlson six months after the trip ibrahim cooper claimed, quote, to my knowledge we don't take money from the government of saudi arabia, end of quote. i want to make it clear, it's important to understand american muslims are entitled to organize, advocate and engage in a political process. such are the makings of a vibrant democracy. they have taken advantage of the opportunity america provides for every background. they are teachers, doctors, policemen. they are mothers and fathers and neighbors. i am reminded of a young pakistani american who is muslim that i had the privilege of meeting during one of my visits to walter reed hospital. i met him when he was in the midst of his physical therapy, therapy that was necessary because he had both lost legs while in combat in iraq. despite his tremendous sacrifice, he was committed to the hard work of rehabilitation in part because he hoped to go back to iraq. he was a patriot of the cause that ought to

cooperation. i also know that we a very short leash on your time. dr. romer will be leading pretty close to 1:30 p.m. that means not everybody's going to get to as great question. we will go as rapidly and as quickly as we allow. welcome to the committee. your entire statement will be placed in record. you can proceed in a manner in which you are most comfortable. >> thank you very much. >> you will have 10 minutes. in 9 minutes, an orange light will come on and any concerns summarizing. thank you. >> chairman miller, ranking member klein and members of the committee, it is an honor to be with you today. the president has identified comprehensive health-care reform as a top priority. the administration is grateful to congress for working so quickly and tire sleep on the issue. in my remarks today, i will discuss the economic imperative of reform that satisfies the president's dual goals of slowing the growth rate of health care costs significantly and providing quality at affordable health insurance coverage for all americans. the figures in the analysi

dr. roe, fellow ob-gyn physician, just want to say to my colleagues on both sides of the aisle, mr. speaker, madam speaker, that what we are about is trying to work in a cooperative way on both sides of the aisle and offer our expertise to say to our colleagues and there's some health care practitioners on the majority side as well and we have reached out to them and made ourselves available. we want to be at the table. unfortunately, madam speaker, we are not at the table, we haven't been enjoined, if you will, but we still hope, we still have hope that that can occur because we do have some ideas, i think some very good ideas in regard to bringing down the cost of health care, making it more accessible, making it more portable, making it available to everybody and that would include people who are currently considered high-risk, maybe even considered uninsurable or if they can get insurance, it's because they can afford to pay three or four times the normal standard rate, which many, many cannot. so we want to talk about some of those things tonight and we'll get back to that. at this point i yield to my colleague from tennessee, representative roe. mr. roe: th