dr. fleming, thank you, and thank you for being with us this evening. before i defer to my colleague from georgia, dr. paul broun, i just wanted to mention something, mr. speaker, that congressman fleming just said in regard to the taxes, the tax situation that we have and hopefully the compromise, obviously the compromise worked out between president obama, his administration, and the republican leadership in the house and the senate, all of that has to be approved, mr. speaker, as you know, by the entire senate and by this entire house. before it becomes law. and i hope that we'll be able to do that before we leave here for any kind of a break, even a christmas break. but as part of that compromise, there is to be this cut in the payroll tax for a full year to literally cut the employee portion of the social security payroll tax from 6.2% down to 4.2%. i think, mr. speaker, that's a good thing. just as keeping the tax rates that are currently existing and have for almost the last 10 years, to keep them all in place. not to raise any, especially not on

dr. fleming described and other people on the missions board have described, it's a second track for minorities. that's my first point. very quickly, i'll tell you the naval academy prep school was originally envisioned to take fleet sailors,off -- often in combat, and make them ready for the naval academy. it's not that case at all. it takes just regular civilians, have them enlist almost a sham enlistment and then go to the naval academy to the detriment of the fleet force? i'll hang up and take my line off of the line. thank you. >> guest: i agree with everything that the caller said. the naval academy kicked like a sphere whenever i use the phrase two-track admissions. if they can be found to do that, they know they have lost the case. there's a lot of blowback. fine, you don't want to call it two-track. i can show you that the prep school, for example, that we were talking about, and the gentleman is absolutely right is now almost exactly 50% unqualified, unprepared, racial majorities and 50% recruited athletes. >> host: well, you have a little bit of blowback about your piece. there was a

dr. fleming again. mr. broun: ok, thank you for yielding. this first bullet about the 100% deducksability solves the problem of portability. right now, 87% of america gets their health insurance through their employers. it's because employers can deduct the cost of their health insurance that they provide to their employees as a regular business expense and the employee can get that money as a nontaxable benefit. but if we make it 100% deductible for everybody, then the employer can give that money in increased wages to the employee, still a deductible amount, won't cost the employer any more money out of their bottom line, but they can give it to the employee. and then the employee can take that -- those dollars, instead of having to be saddled with whatever insurance policy that the employer provides for them, can go buy their insurance wherever they want, with whatever kind of coverage they want. in fact, dr. gingrey brought up something about the mandates states have put on, my friend neil boris, who has a radio program syndicated all ov

dr. fleming, a member of the house armed services committee. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized for two minutes. mr. fleming: i thank the gentleman. mr. speaker, i rise today to oppose the repeal of don't-ask, don't-tell. you know, this has been the policy of the military that's worked very well for many years. there has been a study of this. finally, when we approached the period in which it was going to be once again brought up in congress, there was a study commission which asks the questions of many, many people. however, the study was flawed from the git-go. first off, it did not ask whether this policy should be implemented. it asked the question how it should be implemented. i am a physician. i come from a medical background. if ever we tried to determine what the effective way of treating a disease is, we would never start with the presupposition that this treatment is already the accepted treatment of that. no. in fact, we go and study it. this was not done. but, let's talk about the questions a little bit in this stu

dr. fleming, a member of the house armed services committee. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized for two minutes. mr. fleming: i thank the gentleman. mr. speaker, i rise today to oppose the repeal of don't-ask, don't-tell. you know, this has been the policy of the military that's worked very well for many years. there has been a study of this. finally, when we approached the period in which it was going to be once again broughup in congress, there was a study commission which asks the questions of many, many people. however, the study was flawed from the git-go. first off,t did not ask whether this policy should be implemented. it asked the question how it should be implemented. i am a physician. i come from a medical background. if ever we tried to determine what the effective way of treating a disease is, we would never start with the presupposition that this treatment is already the accepted treatment of that. no. in fact, we go and study it. this was not done. but, let's talk about the questions a little bit in this study.