but the lacey act did not put an end to plume hunting entirely, especially in the lawless everglades. 5 years after the bill's passage, a game warden was murdered by poachers. 3 years after that another one was gunned down. some people began thinking that the uniquely abundant array of wildlife in southern florida would never be safe

. >> o'brien: then in 1996, valujet flight 592 from miami caught fire and ashed crtohein everglades.> ...there were 109 people on board. >> the secretary of transportation and the head of the faa went into protective overdrive. the secretary of transportation flew down to miami and stood in the everglades, literally, on the watery grave of 110 people and said, "valujet is a safe airline." >> i want to emphasize that i have flown valujet. valujet is a safe airline, as is our entire aviation system. >> i was very angry, because they knew that that airline was troubled. why? because i'd been called in to the secretary of transportation's office.úz the... the faa administrator knew we were down there,tqáaq]r looking. the... we had presented some of our findings already. >> o'brien: were they lying to the public? >> i think so. >> o'brien: why? >> because the faa protects airlines. >> o'brien: the faa's response to valujet exposed an inherent conflict in the agency's original mandate. >> the federal aviation act of 1958 gave the faa two primary missions-- one, safety; two, promote aviati

tarja a salvo unless the everglades itself was set aside, ke yellowstone, as a national park. man as john f. lacey: the attempt to preserve and restore some of the wildlife of america is no longer looked upon as a fad or idle sentiment. we have given an awful exhibition of slaughter and destruction which may serve as a warning to all mankind. let us now give an example of wise conservation of what remains of the gifts of nature. coyote: as america moved into a new century, a new word-- conservation--had crept into the nation's vocabulary. now a new president would turn the word into a movement. man: like all americans, i like big things--big prairies, big forests and mountains, big wheat fields, railroads, and herds of cattle, too. cronon: i think it's hard to exaggerate the significance of theodore roosevelt in the history of american conservation. he creates a presidency when he arrives in the white house that sets in motion most of the conservation agendas that will define the first half of the 20th century. man: the key to teddy roosevelt's leadership was his passion, his

army corps of engineers restoring the everglades. >> i can clearly say that the kim that went down thatular day in the boom was not the same person that was hoisted up. now i'm a better person making better choices, and i value people more than i did beforehand. >>> an accident high atop mt. hood. >> i saw his wedding ring, and that really made me upset, knowing that he had someone that had no idea that he might not make it off that mountain. >> but choppers are on the way. >> this is a kind of tricky flying when you're that close to the edge of the mountain. >> at a higher altitude the air is thinner, so the helicopter has to work harder to maintain a hover. >>> and -- >> i was saying to myself, got to hit the building because if the ladder came all the way down he was going to die. >> when "caught on camera: extreme rescues" continues. so i was the guy who was never going to have the heart attack. i thought i was invincible. i'm on an aspirin regimen now because i never want to feel that helplessness again. [ male announcer ] be sure to talk to your doctor before you begin an aspirin

the whole environmental issues that the democrats are trying to protect from the environment, the evergladesll they want is to study the environmental impact that it could have on the econo economy. the fact is that we have plenty of oil coming out of the dakotas and the montanas with the shale found up there, and things are better when it comes to energy in this country, but here again the republicans are saying that this is shovel-ready jobs. they want to do this, but don't want to do the stimulus. so, i just really believe that the democrats are at a point where the american people are with them in all of the polling out, there the income inequality and taxing the wealthy to pay more and going along with the middle-class tax cuts and the payroll tax cuts is where the country is. >> would the american people stand for the government shutdown, because tied to it is a trillion in omnibus bills. >> well, shutdown, you get folks going home with an earful and they will pay a political price, and come to the senses. we never shut down the government under bush, but it is failure at all costs for

it ends with a hurricane in the everglades that this rubs janie's life. took us on this path with janie mae crawford over the course of her life just gone through multiple husbands and all of this self identification and she's finally kind of found a place where she is laboring and she's working hard at his living ingenuity and it all gets disrupted by this hurricane. ash after you find yourself like none of the women in new orleans on the road offer home. she find yourself with her beloved tea cake in a circumstance of racial hierarchy, economic hierarchy, expected to help bury the white bodies into gray's, that those were black and killed by hurricane are just laid into mass graves and quick line is thrown over them. and then because it is that by a rabid dog in the context of the hurricane she ultimately loses tea cake as well. so that's where this book begins. this book begins with the question of how zora neale hurston store, the store about one black woman and her sort of search for identity, how that is a political story, how it's not just a romanc

it ends with a hurricane in the everglades that disrupts jamie's life. taken us on this path with ginnie mae crawford over the course of her life. multiple husbands and all of this self identification and has finally found a place where she is laboring in working hard and live in communities and it all gets disrupted by this hurricane . she actually finds herself, like many of the woman in norman's on the roof of her home. she finds herself with her beloved in this circumstance of racal -- racial hierarchy when she's infected cell to bury the widebodies into graves. those were black and killed by a hurricane. late into mass graves. the correct line is turnover them. and then because his bid by a rabid dog in the context of the hurricane she ultimately loses and as well. so that is read this book begins. this begins with the question of how the story, the story about one black woman and her sort of search for identity, how that is actually a political story and it is not just a romance novel and it is not just a novel as was often written off and there on

years later, he was a the nextvaluejet crash and the everglades. we discovered that he had never been to a dentist. he had never been to a doctor. i don't want to get into details but i'm wondering how much health care you have had, going to a dentist or getting checkups,. anybody? >> as a child, was well taken care but as the years got on, i don't recall ever really going to the doctor in high school. it was a question of getting past the physicals. there is no doctor visits, now a dentist, nothing. >> i go to the doctor or the dentist all the time. >> i did not have a lot of health care but i had to go through a lot of work at the dentist to get into the army. >> thank you very much. i yield back the balance of my time. >> the gentleman from ohio, st mr.ivers. >> thank you. many of you mentioned in your testimony, brandon and brittany and i think destiny all talked a little about grades and how your housing situation really impacted your schooling and your ability to continue your education. can you help me understand how those things are linked?

well, they're over the place, especially near the everglades.orities know how to handle such beasts. >> that dude does not look big enough to be dealing with this. >> that's a woman. >> that woman certainly doesn't look big enough. >> you just have to know where to grab it. right behind the head. that did not work out too well. i would never grab it by myself. >> look, now they brought six strong men in to help her out. it looks like you needed all those six people to start with. wow. >> anyway, little christmas surprise. >> no kidding. >> thank you. >> good to see you, rob, thank you. >>> when you think back to the top song of 2011 something by adele or pitbull or katy perry, no. >> no. >> the most popular song of the year could be one you've never heard before. the official video for it and the song is called, a song written for the film, which the name of the film is "3" was posted on youtube on november 16th and exploded on the web. listen to it. ♪ so the song roughly translates to why this murderous rage and tells the story of a boy rejecte

places in our federal parks and places, we're not going to be exploited were not going into the evergladesithout going into yellowstone. but we have millions of acres of federal lands with proven reserves on them that need to be opened up so that we can safely produce those resources. and i would choose a substantial amount, if not all that revenue coming into the federal government to help pay down the debt. yes, sir th. [inaudible] >> i don't think you will see a big change, we be my instinct, until we get more infrastructure built. here's what i think occurs when that pipeline is built. because then there's confidence and people will feel substantially more secure than the supply of oil, in this case, is going to have come is going to be coming. we have found sources of energy that we had no idea we had 10 years ago. i mean, i'm sure all of us have heard the stories a decade ago that we have found all of the petroleum products that there are. they have all been found. we may be able to improve some secondary, tertiary recovery ways to get a little more out, but we found it all. and then

turkey point and the nuclear waste stored there is 10 miles from the everglades. 10 miles. so we passed, i wasn't a member of this chamber at that time, a federal law called the nuclear waste policy act, in 1982. when we passed that law, we defined yucca mountain as the national repository. a single repository. for not just nuclear waste from our nuclear power fleet, but also the nuclear waste from our department of energy locations, from around the country. obviously we are still -- we are very close, but this administration along with the n.r.c. commissioner has delayed and postponed and tried to stop any movement on yucca mountain. that's why i take the floor as the subcommittee chairman of the energy and environment subcommittee, part of my jurisdiction is how level nuclear waste, and that's why i come to the floor weekly to address this issue. now, this is very timely this week as the chairman and n.r.c. members appear before the oversight committee. the chairman said i welcome debate, i welcome discussion, i welcome crit search. but a letter sent to the chief of staff

actually he went to school with our kids, our twin boys that he was later killed in a jet crash in everglades, but the one thing that we discovered was that he had never been to a dentist. he had never been to a doctor. for some obvious reasons. i don't want to give you the details, but i'm wondering how much health care, i mean, you have had, going to dentists or getting checkups. anybody? >> as a child, i was well taken care of come but as the years got on i was in high school, i don't recall ever really going to the doctor. it's a question of how did i get past the physical, you know? i'm just, you know, no doctor visits, and a dentist, nothing. >> i have also, i go to the doctor or the dentist, too. all the time. >> i didn't have a lot of health care, but i had to go through a lot of work to the dentist in order to get in the army. >> thank you very much. i yield back the balance of my time. >> thank you. the gentleman from ohio, is recognized for five minutes. >> thank you so much, madam chairwoman. and i think many of you mentioned in your testimony, i think brandon and britney, and i t

were not going into the everglades or yellowstone, but we got millions of acres of federal lands withproven reserves on them that need to be opened up so that we can safely produce those resources. and i would use a substantial amount, if not all of that revenue coming into the federal government to help pay down the debt. yes, sir. >> what you expect to be happening to our local gas prices and all shall know national prices on gasoline to the pipeline go through? >> i don't think you'll see a big change that will be my instinct until we get more infrastructure built. here is what i think occurs when that pipeline is built because then there's confidence in people will feel substantially more secure that this supply of oil in this case is going to be coming. we have found sources that we had no idea we had 10 years ago. you heard the stories decades ago. they've all been found. we may be able to improve secondary tertiary recovery ways to give a little more out. but we found it all. and then we find these huge natural gas deposits that people didn't know were there. frankly we don't k

have you learned anything in the everglades that has application there or other places? >> do you have a couple days? >> i know. we're getting short on time here. >> yes. excellent question. and certainly could take up a lot of time. i'll say something. yes, i think we've learned a lot. and at the top of the list of our lessons learned is interagency coordination. the federal regional state local partnerships that have been formed so that it's not a single entity that has to keep the ball rolling i think is critical. and i think that fits with any issue, any technological issue or any major challenge which we are trying to face. it's about establishing those relationships, working together, trusting each other and seeing what the end goal is and focusing on that. not always easy to do, but certainly our top priority. >> good. thank you. harry, you mentioned and as did dr. glick the non-point source pollution and waste to address that. can you talk about some of the ways that that pollution has effectively been addressed? and perhaps, dr. glick, you could also respond or