let me especially focus today on eleanor roosevelt. because her work permitted to build a foundation of international human rights law grounded in the equality of all individuals regardless of race, creed or sex. and i will address particularly one issue in the question that you will ask me about anything that you want. "women war and peace" that's the subject of my address this evening. because it was also a fact in the topic on which eleanor roosevelt held characteristically strong convictions during the first u.n. general assembly in 1946 mrs. roosevelt insisted passionately that women should seek and b grnted the opportunity to and i will quote, share in the work of peace and reconstruction as they did in war and resistance. end of quote. her plea, as you may have guessed, was not immediately taken up. in fact it would take nearly half a century for the security council to translate mrs. roosevelt's insight into international law. because in2000 the security council unanimously passed resolution 1325. and this landmark decision rec

let me especially focus today on eleanor roosevelt. because her work permitted to build a foundation of international human rights law grounded in the equality of all individuals, regardless of race, creed, or sex. and i will address particularly one issue in the question that you will ask me about anything that you want. "women, war, and peace" that's the subject of my address this evening. because it was also a fact in the topic on which eleanor roosevelt held characteristically strong convictions during the first u.n. general assembly in 1946, mrs. roosevelt insisted passionately that women should seek and be granted the opportunity to and i will quote, share in the work of peace and reconstruction as they did in war and resistance. end of quote. her plea, as you may have guessed, was not immediately taken up. in fact, it would take nearly half a century for the security council to translate mrs. roosevelt's insight into international law. because in 2000, the security council unanimously passed resolution 1325. and this landmark de

my name is eleanor morton. i am an accountant in the city of san francisco. i have represented employees, low-wage workers, and labor unions at a loss for more i am a law partner. -- law lot firm, where i am a law partner. as a passionate san francisco resident who is very concerned about the city and how it spends its dollars, i think i can bring both expertise and commitment to make sure this is done in a way that is consistent with avoiding and eliminating the use of sweatshops. >> thank you. any questions, supervisors? is there any public comment on this item? seeing none, public comment is closed. >> we make the motion to move eleanor forward. commissioner kim: that was the seat i agree to put you in. thank you so much for your application and your willingness to serve on the committee. thank you for your service. madame clerk, will you call item 6? >> this has to deal with public notices. commissioner kim: the deputy clerk is here to speak on this piece o. >> is different to be on this side of the test -- side of the desk. you know that the ordinance de

one of inspiring american who comes to mind is eleanor roosevelt. in 1961, the former first lady was unhappy about the lack of women in government. she marched up to president kennedy and handed him a three- page list of women qualified for top posts in his administration. this led the president to select mrs. roosevelt as the head of a new commission to look at the status of women in america. she passed away before the commission could finish its work. the report they released spurred action across the country. it helped galvanize a movement led by women that would help make our society a more equal place. it has been almost 50 years since the roosevelt commission published its findings. there have been few similar efforts by the government in the decades that followed. that is why last week here at the white house, we released a new comprehensive report on the status of women in the spirit of the one released half a century ago. there is a lot of positive news about the strides we've made. women have caught up with men in seeking higher education.

. >> as eleanor said there are plenty of hot spots in the world. darfur. >> why libya? >> and --. >> and libya, by the way happens to have oil and darfur doesn't. >> european oil. >> and i think that goes to the european allies and others. >> there are other people who can deal with this besides us. we are trying to hand it over to nato. but we led the charge and there was not a clear mission of when we would stop leading the charge. who would take it over. that is a very risky way to enter any type of military action. >> are we talking about this because of what happened with president bush in iraq. there was faulty information he did not think he needed to --. >> the discussion is taking place now, because we don't want to get ourselves into that situation. >> wait. wait. >> she is right to raise the bush analogy. but i think something is far more serious here. yes, this is war. this is not a quiet zone. we have bombed the hell out of these folks. this has also done some good. benghazi was about to be overrun. that is some good that has been done. but let's weigh out

secondly, i from radiation. >> no it was blast. >> eleanor? >> i think the coverage has basically contributed to the anxiety that people already feel about nuclear power. but i do think it has to be a part of the planet's future because we don't know how to supply. we also want all our conveniences, and so i think it's going to continue, but it's going to -- the move towards it will slow down. good-bye to that nuclear renaissance alexander was talking about. >> the coverage has been full of higher, and one of problems is members of the obama administration bought into the hype, so you had the secretary of energy saying, this is worse than three mile island, then again we don't really have all the details. if you don't have all the details, don't make an statement like. that. >> the man cause of that -- real danger here was not the nuclear plant, it was the tsunami. and that is something that we don't quite have on worry become nevertheless, the popular -- has gotten to the point we have to change the security provisions. on any new plant that

eleanor remained an actor friend of hunter until her death. many years the house was a popular student activity center. when i became president in 2001, i was dismayed to discover the house in desperate need of repair. we are so thrilled to have the restoration become a reality. the house is amazingly rich american history. this is where fdr came to recover from polio in 1921, because it had an elevator, which was somewhat unusual in those days. this is where he returned as the country's newly elected president. in 1932, broadcasting from the parlor upstairs, he introduced the nation to his economic recovery plan. this is where eleanor lead the democratic party meeting on women's issues and set out to change the role of women in politics. women, she said, were important. they stood up side the door of all important meetings and waited. elenore got women inside the door. she convinced fdr to ask frances perkins to become the first woman cabinet member in u.s. history. perkins except in the library upstairs after franklin launch a program we sti

the hard fact is that the work of peace as eleanor roosevelt put it, is it overwhelmingly carried out by men. u.n. women researched 24 peace processes since the mid 1990s and found that women averaged fewer than 8% of the members of negotiating delegations, representing parties to a conflict. a similar pattern holds if we look at what kinds of experts are supplied to peace talks. very rarely have mediation support teams included specialist on how to shape peace agreements so that they preserve women's rights and ensure women's participation in the decision-making bodies that oversee the transition to a new political order. let us not forget, as well, that to this day, no woman has been appointed as chief mediator of u.n.-managed peace process. let me say that it is hard to believe that the lack of women in the highest levels of mediation does not account, at least in part, for nearly invisibility of gender issues in peace agreements. a study of 585 peace agreements concluded between 1990 and 2010 found that just 16% contain any reference to women at all. just 3% of these peace accords

in the 19th century, during my trip, i started to read up a lot of these lives of great win, like eleanor roosevelt, margaret mead. every name that is so familiar to us, but yet, we never had time to just sit and read their stories. these women just inspire us and motivate us to do even more. so i know that you are rushing, but i want to present you this little book that i read and finished. i know that you have lots of things to read, but i hope you will find time on your bookshelf for this one. i just wanted to give you this introductory remarks written for this little book. i think this was written by vincent wilson jr.. i think continually of those are truly great, the names of those who in their lives fought for lives, who were in their heart, the fire center. born of the sun, they traveled toward the sun. thank you so much for spending time with all of the honorees today and especially for this great honor. thank you. [applause] >> hello, i'm the president of the commission on the status of women, and i'm here to thank the friends of the status for women. without their efforts, we w

the first comprehensive white house report on women, since president kennedy asked eleanor roosevelt to lead a study in 1962, paints a portrait of a modern woman -- less june cleaver -- >> did you have a good day, dear? >> miserable. >> that's nice. >> reporter: -- more liz lemon. >> there are other things in life, like having a career. >> reporter: the obama administration report finds women have eliminated the gender gap in education. now, just as likely as men to have a college degree. young women actually are more likely to have a degree, reversing the norm of 40 years ago. after booming for decades, the rate of women entering the labor force has now tapered off. about 61% of women work. but the report says women are still paid about 75% of what their male counterparts are paid. >> it's one thing to know something intuitively, it's very different to have the evidence that actually backs it up. this report gives us that evidence. >> reporter: it's a conclusion that does not sit well with women around the country. >> it's disgusting, aggravating, annoying. i find it all the time wh

i agree with delegate eleanor holmes norton. she represents the thinking and the people of the district of columbia. i urge that we vote down this voucher deal and support the amendment that would be presented by delegate eleanor holmes norton. i yield back the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman's time has expired. the gentleman from california. mr. issa: mr. speaker, it's a great honor to introduce the author of the bill, the speaker of the house, for the customary one minute. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from ohio is recognized for one minute the speaker:: let me thank my colleague for yielding and let me start by also thanking him and the members of the government and reform committee for their work on this bill. i also want to thank our 50 co-sponsors and all the members on both sides of the aisle who are standing with us today. i also appreciate the efforts of our colleagues in the senate, particularly senator joe lieberman, who are working on similar legislation. today the house will have

. >> kathy turned to me and said, eleanor, where are the ashes? >> completely surreal. you know, it is the -- you showing up to your father's memorial service and the last thing you expect to hear is someone made away with the ashes. and at the time all you can really do is laugh because going the other direction just takes you to kind of a dark place and you really don't want to go there. >> his family doesn't think the thief knew what was inside or the value the backpack held emotionally. they do not care who took the remains or why, but they simply want them returned. >>> christina is talking about a foggy start this morning. >> good morning, scott. we have a foggy start, and we are seeing a little bit of a drizzle effect because of the dense clouds out there. we have really dense clouds, and it looks like as we head throughout the morning that will be a problem. right now we are looking pretty good. the richest moisture-laden area is the south bay. if you are headed for the north bay or east bay down south, take it easy. the east buy temperatures this morning are pr

. >> you know so much about it, did you hear the science that you got from eleanor, namely, that this yucca mountain is not big enough to sustain it? it lacks the size. is that what you said? >> that's right. >> you have any knowledge that? >> we heard -- regulatory headset. >> lets assume it's true. i think the french have the answer to the problem and the americans won't adopt it. >> what do we do with thehe$13. billion we researched for yucca mountain? >> same politics behind this, john. >> i think we have to do with what -- the french are doing, and the brits, and that is they recycle this fuel so they get more than one use out of it. and so it doesn't have to be destroyed. but the waste -- continuing problem. >> we all agree that president obama is not going to restore yucca mountain to its original status. these rods will stay next to the nuclear plants as >>> issue three, the odd couple. >> we don't always see eye to eye, do we, newt. >> no. but we do agree, our country must take action to address climate change. >> that was former republican house speaker newt gingrich, democr

know this even though as union busting agenda has stalled thanks to a wall democratic state senators eleanor walker in wisconsin unveiled his two year budget proposal today and guess what it's hard is teachers i know you're astounded walker is proposing a nine hundred million dollars tried to education and more than two thousand teachers have received layoff notices as a result and walker is also pledging more layoffs this week if senators don't return to pass his so-called budget repair proposal by today basically walker is telling his government workers they must accept losing their collective bargaining rights or i'll be fired or pasta and he's catching some. blowback down one of the nation's largest labor unions asked me has filed a labor complaint against governor walker alleging that he's violated fair labor practices with his own willingness to negotiate with workers over the recent rights also walker's attempts to lock the doors of the state capitol and prevent more protests was shot down today when a judge ordered the doors to be reopened during business hours and more bad news for

. >> when kathy turns to me and says, "eleanor, where are the ashes?" >> completely surreal. you know, it's you showing up to your father's memorial service, the last thing you expect to hear is someone's made away with the ashes. you know, at the time all you can really do is laugh because going the other direction takes you to kind of a dark place. you really don't want to go there. >> reporter: his family's doesn't think the thief knew what was inside. they say they don't care who took the remains or why. they just want them returned. >> we wanted to take it on a pilgrimage to several places here in the united states as well as europe. and that was the plan. >> those ashes are really only important to us. and they're important to us for a lot of reasons. there's something about -- it's like there's something -- there's been something left undone. and we can't really get that done until those remains are returned. >> reporter: if you know anything about the urns or the backpack that was stolen which, again, is dark green in color, please call alamedat police. kimberly terry

already this month and will include a cash payment and security high court of london has rejected eleanor's suit to postpone a google com shareholders meeting to approve the deal just in these wind telecom and it's over twenty terrible com signed a deal with wind by egyptian billionaire give so we is in a bid to create the world's fifth largest mobile operator by subscriber numbers however norway's talent on which is available com shareholder said it would vote against the deal arguing that the matter scheme and the merger scheme would dilute it's wild. hasta if they do you will be will hold twenty five percent stake only on the shareholder agreement with. the kind of go below zero point five percent however i think they're afraid that in future they could be towed further some harm and basically he just wants to exercise a parameter for rights. that's a separate cases from the your desire to build with you as if the situation is not for the company i think the best you could do you is that as fast as possible so they become funny and just focuses on the parishioner again because of ford's

just remind you don't miss our a debate show cross-talk coming up in quarter of an hour people of eleanor's guest explore more of gorbachev's legacy. doctors paid in russia or developing a pioneering alternative treatment of heart transplants and with a shortage of organ donations in the country right now the technique is indeed giving hope to thousands of people on surgery waiting lists and sort of reports. it's a smile that comes straight from the heart that almost died from heart failure two decades ago but these only visits a cardiology ward for regular check out. look at her she's just a picture of health by now she's been living with a new heart longer than with her own. doctor does a miscarriage operate on natasha twenty one years ago when a donor organ was her only hope for live one of the best known cardiac surgeons in russia he performed hundreds of lifesaving transplants but still thinks of the thousands he couldn't do because of the shortage of donor organs nowadays he's pioneering any technique that gives some patients on the analyst waiting least a more definite hope. a heart

and let me recognize now, welcome anna eleanor roosevelt. welcome. >> chairman mica, chairman issa -- >> you may not be on there. okay. pull it up real close. >> okay. >> great. >> well, chairman mica, chairman issa, miss norton, mr. cummings, members of the committees, thank you for the opportunity to testify before youtoday. my name is anna eleanor roosevelt and i am chair of the board of directors of the roosevelt institute, the nonprofit partner to the fdr presidential library and museum in hyde park, new york. i've been a member of the roosevelt institute ard for more than 30 years and i have been board chair for a little more than a year now. in my professional life i am the head of globalorporate citizenship for the boeing company and serve as the company's representative on the board of the national archives foundation. the fdr presidential library and museum is the nation's first presidential library. prior to franklin d. rose develop's decision to build the library in hyde park, the final disposition of presidential papers was left

influence the global economy we intend to go ahead with our clients to build a nuclear power plant and eleanor's the project we are going to develop will encompass a leader safety and second a logical advancements. leading russian economy still gave says a global nuclear industry players will have to revise their safety standards in the wake of japan's turmoil. we will of course see because major reconsideration of the nuclear reactor safety being safe with promise zones and i think most likely but there were are located in those zones and i think they'll be most likely closed down and i think yes that may be an impact on the market for fuel oil and gas it is actually reasonable like he was talking about overall closing down all nuclear generation i think it's premature simply because there was a very large church which is very unlikely to happen in other areas of the world. now move to the stock markets and we start years again with asia the massive selloff in the tokyo stock exchange continued on changed as investors were trying to guess just how badly japan's major companies could be here the

in less than ten minutes host peter of eleanor's cross star cast talk about what's in store for the middle east end north africa but first me terry with joins us next with all the business news. thanks for that hello and welcome to business our shareholders have decided to postpone a decision on whether the british russian joint venture wants to participate in their b.p. and rostam parting exploration deal the meeting was held in berlin on friday after was initially pushed forward from the original beings of february twenty fifth due to b.p. failing to turn up on a daniel bushell brings us the latest. closer in the sense that the two sides have met because as you say last week b.p. actually failed to turn up and obviously feel somewhat stuck in a corner it's a bit of a lose lose situation on the one hand obviously has a case against b.p. the stockholm arbitration course court has suspended the b.p. rosneft deal while the two sides iron out their differences on the other hand if b.p. does give up control of this ration it will of course lose a great deal of the profits that it has a shadow

the people of eleanor's guess discuss next how the legacy of the father of russian democracy is seen both in his own country and across the atlantic cross-talk is coming right. keep. following welcome to cross talk i'm peter lavelle as he turns eighty neil got a bunch of legacy season loved abroad in a low speed home as glasnost and perestroika become distant memories we ask how will history judge the man who seemingly ended history. can. you discuss the legacy of the last soviet leader i'm joined by stephen cohen here in the studio he's a professor of russian studies and history at new york university and his latest book is the victims return survivors of the gulag after stalin in london we go to geoffrey hosking he's an american professor of russian history at university college london and his latest book is rulers and victims the russians in the soviet union and also in london we have lads sobel he's an analyst at the i would securities and another member of our crosstalk team on the hunt all right gentlemen this is crosstalk that means you can jump in anytime you want steve i wan

read able to truly rare shouldn't be great i mean all we ever do right eleanor never dies is talk about the u.n. and how useless it is how weak it is how it has no power it is that when i see the it's you can point fingers and say the rule the u.n. is ruling here because we're doing we're trying to put our troops under control we got muscled into this we got muscle then because the arab league and nato came together and said oh united states will you please bail us out they specifically france england france england italy the oil companies are all revenues ask the united states to make sure they could continue have free access to libyan oil that's why we got into this and because we have pulled them into ongoing wars in iraq and afghanistan we felt obliged that was probably one the second problem meanly of us is that the united states especially the united states does not know how to do with the tri part civil war taking place with the islamic world the global i was young people the theocrats the conservative muslims and then the secularists. and of saddam hussein and our president all

eleanor? >> it's -- n in his union busting because the way they got this through is they decoupled the budget part from the effort to str mo of the collective bargaining rights and passed it in the dark of yo legislators climbing through the ndows and to get a vote the and the polls in the and country show 2- 1 really don't appre of treating unions this way. so he wi e short-term, but he energized a labor movement that has really been sleeping for the last 30 years, and i think tha real backlash to thhealth benefitshe's done. , ideological. very different from mitch daniels in indiana who did this six years ago, and he is credible presidential candidate, whereas walker looks like a zealot. >> is this a defining moment for walker? it's defining for walker and for the country. obama declared there's an assault upon the unions. he had his organization working it, they maiv demonstrations in the capitol chanting, beating drums, they had the state legislators lead. it's a big battin the country. ev

i agree with both pat and eleanor. this might be a first, that totally the president has gotten it right. but i also think that the united states and president obama is mindful of this, cannot go into this alone. one, the united states doesn't have the same length in libya as it did in egypt. and also, again, as pat said, this is a european affair. if anything is going to be done, it's going to have to be done through the international community. it can be on led by the united states and it's going to be led by the europeans, and just one other word of caution as we saw happening in egypt. there are lots of things that are happening behind the scenes, out of the public view, that we don't know about yet. so while everyone is criticizing the president for not doing anything, i think down road we're going to hear about all sorts of things the administration has been doing behind the scenes to get a handle on the situation, to protect american lives on the ground, to protect not only american interests but european intere

. >> eleanor? >> efforts to defund planned parenthood will fail and will rally women against the new republican budget cutters. >> monica? >> the spike in oil prices will have a direct effect on the already weak housing market because it will affect home foreclosures and you'll see an increase there as well. >> newt gingrich the first republican in the race will be the first one to drop tout because he has so much baggage that it will never get off the ground, absolutely sink. fast. fast. >> i somewhere in america, there's a doctor who can peer into the future. there's a nurse who can access in an instant every patient's past. and because the whole hospital's working together, there's a family who can breathe easy, right now. somewhere in america, we've already answered some of the nation's toughest healthcare questions. and the over 60,000 people of siemens are ready to do it again. siemens. answers. its auto insurance customers for over 70 years.e to more information on auto insurance at geico.co

. >> you know so much about it, did you hear the science that you got from eleanor, namely, that this yucca mountain is not big enough to sustain it? it lacks the size. is that what you said? >> that's right. >> you have any knowledge that? >> we heard -- regulatory headset. >> lets assume it's true. i think the french have the answer to the problem and the americans won't adopt it. >> what do we do with the $13.5 billion we researched for yucca mountain? >> same politics behind this, john. >> i think we have to do with what -- the french are doing, and the brits, and that is they recycle this fuel so they get more than one use out of it. and so it doesn't have to be destroyed. but the waste -- continuing problem. >> we all agree that president obama is not going to restore yucca mountain to its original status. these rods will stay next to the nuclear plants as >>> issue three, the odd couple. >> we don't always see eye to eye, do we, newt. >> no. but we do agree, our country must take action to address climate change. >> that was former republican house speaker newt gingrich, democr

. >> reverend kathy turns to me and says, eleanor, where are the ashes? >> completely surreal.know, it is the -- you showing up to your father's memorial service and the last thing you expect to hear is someone has made away with the ashes. you know, at the time all you can really do is laugh because going the other direction, it just takes you to kind of a dark place and you just really don't want to go there. >> hockabouts family doesn't know what the value is for the thief, but they just want the backpack returned. >>> a girl was raped four years ago at a house party, and those accused are free this morning. lawyers made a surprise decision to drop the civil suit against the two. seven other men are still on trial and five of them are former baseball players. the civil trial is underway. >>> a music teacher could be singing the blues if the mount diablo school board plans to cut costs. the school board will discuss eliminating positions of librarians and music teachers. the move would slash nearly $22 million from next year's budget. trustees expect the governor's tax extens

. >> president obama also gave praise to former first lady eleanor roosevelt and her advocacy for women's rights. >>> fewer than two in 10 americans approve of congress doing its job. the drop in two months ago when congress surged in popularity. overall, only 18% of americans approve of the job congress is doing. it was 23% in december. >>> the death toll from japan's deadly quake and tsunami is likely to extend all the way here to california. reporter david is live with more details on the accident that swept one man out to sea. good morning, david. >> reporter: good morning. we're here in crescent city getting some looks at the damage. you can see the boats sunk in the harbor, sailboat mast sticking out. six boats are confirmed sunk butt bigger damage is all of the docks, smashed here. some 300 people depend on this harbor for their livelihood, and the harbor will be shut down for quite some time. this is the biggest fishing port north of san francisco. the fish and the crab caught here go throughout northern california and beyond. so there thereby a devastating economic impact this mo

in 1963 former first lady eleanor roosevelt shared a commission on the status of the american woman.big federal study on the subject. that is until now. a new survey, nearly 50 years later, just released by the white house. it looks like there have been some changes, but perhaps not as many when it comes to the difference in salaries between men and women. we're going to take a look at that and some of the other highlights to give you a better idea of where all the women are. >> we'll look forward to that. plus, josh is branching out. he is the star of "how i met your mother." he has a new movie coming out. he stars in it, wrote it, and directed it. we call him the triple threat. he is here with us to tell us all about it. >> looking forward to that. >> also here with us this morning jeff glor at the news desk with a check of some of the day's headlines. >> not as multi-talented as josh. >> don't sell yourself short. ? you're not a slouch. >> good morning, guys. good morning, everyone. armed forces loyal to libyan leader muammar qadhafi are fighting rebel troops on multiple fronts th

one woman who comes to mind is eleanor roosevelt. in 1961, the former first lady was unhappy about the lack of women in government. she marched up to president kennedy and handed him a three- page list of women who were qualified to serve in his administration. this led the president to select your as a commission to look at the state of women in america, the unfairness that routinely faced in their lives. the report a released spurred action across the country. it helped galvanize a movement led by women that would help make our society a more equal place. in almost 50 years since the roosevelt commission published its findings, there have been few more efforts by the government and the decades that followed. that is what last week week issued a new comprehensive report on the status of women in the spirit of the one that was released half a century ago. women ca u

eleanor roosevelt said it's better to light a single candle than to curse the dark this.hat lights the way to a better america and a better future. please continue to burn three. thank you very much. [applause] [applause] [applause] >> thank you, mr. secretary for being a dynamic young man and thank you for your continued support and service to america by helping veterans occur meaningful employment. and somebody should have got those two former soldiers over there and find out if they're a member american legion. i got a thumbs up. all right, there we go. thank you, ladies for your service. the american legion has, since its inception, dedicated itself not only to veterans themselves, but to their families. that is one reason the sun for the american legion was created in 1932. dsa alice made up of boys and men of all ages whose parents were her parents had served in the united states armed forces and are eligible for membership in the american legion. together members of the american legion, the american legion maxillary in the sense that the american legion makeup the

eleanor roosevelt said it is better to like a single candle than to curse the darkness. you, the american legion, is a candle that lights the way to a better america and a better future. please continue to burn bright. thank you very much. [applause] >> thank you. >> thank you, mr. secretary, for being a dynamic young man, and thank you for your continued support and service to america by helping veterans secure meaningful employment. and somebody should have got those two former soldiers over there and find out if they are a member of the american legion. i got a thumbs-up. there we go. thank you, ladies, for your service. thank you. the american legion has since its inception dedicated itself not only the veterans themselves, but to their families. that is one reason the suns of the american legion was created in 1932. the sal is made up of boys and men of all ages whose parents or grandparents have served in the united states armed forces and were eligible for membership in the american legion. together, members of the american legion, the american legion auxiliary, a

that is what eleanor roosevelt was striving toward half a century ago. that is why this report matters today, and that is why on behalf of all of our daughters and our sons, we have got to keep making progress in the years ahead. thank you for listening. >> this is lisa murkowski. our hearts and prayers are with the people of japan in the wake of friday's terrible earthquake and tsunami. the memories of the devastating 1964 quakers to with this. we're just beginning to complement -- comprehend the magnitude of this quake. we share the president's support to help recovery and we commend the actions he has taken so far. this tragedy as well as the upheaval in the middle east and north africa serve as stark reminders of how intertwined at our world economy is, how world events beyond our control can affect all of us. it makes it all the more important that we control those things we can. i want to speak with you today about one of the threats that we are experiencing personally -- rising energy prices. i want to share some of the steps the republicans are r

whether the commission on the status 0 of women, established by president kennedy and coshared by eleanorvelt, had a report on the conditions facing women. some of you know there's quite a bit of press on this report. i'm really pleased it's one of the few cases i veen where there's actually two co-chairs to this early report that keeps getting mentioned and the man is just never mentioned. richard lester, famous economist, for those of you who know him. this reflects on the department of o.m.b., department of commerce and five of six federal statistical agencies. i want to thank valerie jarrett and tina them, council on and co-chairs and others who make the results of this report known. prieta and her office at o.m.b. worked with a number of folks to conceptualize what this report should contain and the folks in my office really put the entire report together. they had a lot of help. staff from six to eight agencies helped identify the data and documents the trends. i want everyone who worked on the report, wave your hands, stand up. i would like to give you a round of applause. identify

that is what eleanor roosevelt strived towards half a century ago. the report on women that was issued this women matters today and on behalf of all of our daughters and sons we have to continue to make progress. before i yield to the the gentlewoman from texas, i ask unanimous consent, mr. speaker, that all speakers may have five legislative days in which to revise and extend their remarks and to add material to the subject we are discussing this evening. now it's my pleasure to yield as much time as she might consume, the gentlewoman from texas, sheila jackson lee. ms. jackson lee: i would like to thank the gentlelady from the virgin islands and being the lead on monday after monday, opportunities to be able to engage our constituents and speak on a number of very important issues. i thank you for your leadership. and i have certainly be privileged to be part of this very important opportunity to speak on a number of challenging issues. many of us just arrive back in washingtonment and spent precious days with our constituents and it's amazing the

dicks: i want to yield two minutes to the delegate from the district of columbia, eleanor holmes norton. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlelady is recognized for two minutes. ms. norton: look, the majority has chosen to run the government, the federal government from c.r. to c.r., but the majority has no right to inflict this operational outrage on the local funds of a local jurisdiction, the district of columbia. it may want -- the majority may want to incur for the federal government the operational difficulties, after all the the district of columbia delivers services to federal officials including the president, federal buildings, foreign embassies and the like. but does the majority really want to risk the -- to put the district and its operations at risk or to place what wall street almost surely will do, a risk premium on the district due to the fact that we are being put from c.r. to c.r.? this is a fragile economy for every big city, the d.c. local budget was approved a year ago in the city and last summer, by the appropriations committee. yet the district of columbia is being

eleanor roosevelt said it's better to light a single candle than to curse the dark this. the american legion is a candle that lights the way to a better america and a better future. please continue to burn three. thank you very much. [applause] [applause] [applause] >> thank you, mr. secretary for being a dynamic young man and thank you for your continued support and service to america by helping veterans occur meaningful employment. and somebody should have got those two former soldiers over there and find out if they're a member american legion. i got a thumbs u. all right, there we go. thank you, ladies for your service. the american legion has, since its inception, dedicated itself not only to veterans themselves, but to their families. that is one reason the sun for the american legion was created in 1932. dsa alice made up of boys and men of all ages whose parents were her parents had served in the united states armed forces and are eligible for membership in the american legion. together members of the american legion, the american legion maxillary in the sense tha