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. carter, is ecognized for 60 minutes as the designee of the minority leader. mr. carter: thank you, mr. speaker. i appreciate being recognnzed this hour. i'm pleased to be joinee by several of my colleagues. and i want to raise an issue that is of real concern to the people of the state of texas, state of alabama, state of %% florida. those who for now for generationn been invested in and proud of that great american accomplishment of our space program. you know, we are an exceptional people and there is an awful lot of people that seem to be ashamed of our exceptionalism. but one of the things we have been exceptional in our inception is our space program. i can remember as a young teenager when the russians put sputnik over the roof of my house and we watched that thin

remember him right away because during times square, when a terrorist attack was being attempted, duanesaw the smoking vehicle, he immediately called the police. he is no stranger. he was there on 9/11 and saw the aircraft hit the world trade center and was very much affected by it. he is a graduate of boston university. a fine human being, and he will receive the patriot award from the vietnam veterans memorial fund, and we will ask admiral mullen and i to hold it as we get a tooth dwanye -- as we get it -- give it to dwayne jackson. [applause] >> good afternoon, fellow veterans, and the many friends of veterans. freedom is not free. freedom is not free. we have our man in women overseas today -- our men and women overseas today for our freedoms. i want to take a moment to reflect about my mother who was a wac in world war ii. [applause] fort bragg, 1941 -- although she is not with me here today, i know she is looking down and saying, thank you, dwanye, thank you america for what we hold dear and our country today. what i did that day was nothing unusual. i saw something, i said someth

portland, maine, duane on the independent line. caller: i am jewish and i have been to israel and i would like to say that i wish we had 100 more light helen thomas -- and we use the term advisedly. we need people who ask tough questions. what israel did last week is horrible. i have been watching c-span sense it happens and you did not even featured the story until helen thomas says something and then you make and issue what she said. that is ridiculous, nine people were killed, including american shot four times and had -- and you are becoming as fair and balanced as fox and we need more like helen thomas because there is something wrong with our foreign policy when we are not even allowed to discuss the issue of what an ally did or is doing to it as a people. host: we appreciate your views but to let you know, if you were not watching last week, we did several segments, including one with windy sherman. cleveland, ohio, wahid and the democrats line. caller: i tell you what, i agree with helen thomas. they have been over there fo

will rememr him right away because during times square, when a terrorist attack was being attempted, duane jackson was fair, and when he saw the smoking vehicle, he immediately called the police. he is no stranger. he was there on 9/11 and saw the aircraft hit the world trade center and was very much affected by it. he is a graduate of boston university. a fine human being, and he will receive the patriot award from the vietnam veterans memorial fund, and we will ask admiral mullen and i to hold it as we get a tooth dwanye -- as we get it -- give it to dwayne jackson. [plause] >> good afternoon, fellow veterans, and the many friends of veterans. freedom is not free freedom is not free. we have our man in women overseas today -- our men and women overseas today for our freedoms. i want to take a moment to reflect about my mother who was a wac in world war ii. [applause] fort bragg, 1941 -- although she is not with me here today, i know she is looking down and saying, thank you, dwanye, thank you america for what we hold dear andur country today. what i did that day was nothing unusual. i sa