we can't make our food without fertilizer and we can't make fertilizer without natural gas. the dairy industry in my state is having a difficult time making profits because of falling milk prices. and while there are many reasons for low milk prices, energy costs are certainly part of that equation. this legislation will do nothing to reduce our carbon emissions or help pennsylvania agriculture and will only cause more economic hardship for many small farmers and businesses. and i urge my colleagues to reject this misguided measure. thank you. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman's time has expired. the gentleman from california. mr. waxman: madam speaker, i'm pleased to yield to the gentleman from texas, mr. green, who played a very significant role in developing this legislation, for two minutes. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from texas is recognized for two minutes. mr. green: madam speaker, like my colleagues, we will miss you and good luck in your new endeavor in the administration. but today i rise in the house to -- set to consider the first comprehensive c

louis, chicago, detroit, and send that fertilizer back to the great plains. the soil is very aesthetic. they would make fine china with good buffalo bones. and burned at inside that filter. they will clarify sugar and wine. when buffalo bones began to run out, people began digging up indian burial grounds. they had historically run hundreds of thousands of buffalo off of clips. there is a place in wyoming called the buffalo jump, there is a bone bed hundreds of feet in diameter and this would suggest native americans over the course of a few decades killed 20,000 buffalo in the same spot. a bonet cotton plant in st. louis processed seventy million buffalo carcasses. this is more than ever existed at any time. was that exhaustive. there was a point when a guy, did you could not find a buffalo bound that you didn't realign. guys like to pick them after rain, sold by weight. this picture was taken during the bone crisis. it is all skulls. i make a point in my book that the man looks like exclamation point at the end along sentence about destruction. this is stil

we can't grow our food without fertilizer. natural gas is an important ingredient with fertilizer. we only have to go back as far as last summer when we saw the price of energy skyrocket in our country and that's what we are looking at now under cap and trade to see what the impact of that was on our farmers. and on food prices. many farmers in the past few years have been hurting because of high energy costs. the united states has an abundant supply of natural gas and vast majority of what we consume is produced right here at home. let me repeat that. the vast majority of natural gas we produce, that's a homegrown product. that's good for this country. oil, for instance, is a world price. that means we pay $69 a barrel, today's price, so does germany, japan, and canada. however natural gas is not a world price. meaning that the price of natural gas varies from country to country. it is simply supply and demand. when we produce more natural gas, its cost also come down. having said that i believe that we should expand upon our natural gas production which could act as a bridge to g

and then the fertilizer, goodness sakes, it takes massive amounts of natural gas to produce the fertilizer that the farmers use to produce all the food we get. and so it's heartbreaking to know how agriculture and -- it's just going to devastate the middle class, the lower middle class particularly, and what we are going to see in the next days ahead is heartbreaking. we are joined also by a friend who mr. poe indicated is a c.p.a. and i always appreciate the way he looks at things because it's such a straightforward approach. i'd like to yield to my friend, mr. conaway. mr. conaway: i thank the gentleman. i appreciate that. these are troubling times. this bill is awfully troubling. the science about the surrounds this climate change issue, everybody gets an opinion about it. but there's only certain set of facts that we ought to deal off. one of those facts is if you would equate the earth's atmosphere to a football stadium with 10,000 people in the stadium, you guys from indiana, we play a lot of football, 10,000 people in the stands, about 7,600 of those people are wearing jerseys that

most commonly they would make bone meal fertilizer. they would collect the bones on the great plains and ship them to places like st. louis, chicago, detroit. turn them into bone meal certified-- fertilizer. bob the soils there are various said it. another thing they did was make fine china with really good buffalo bones. another thing they would do is make bone ash, burn ash and when you buy an aquarium delta, it is often bone ash inside the seltzer. they would use it to clarify sugars and wine. when the bonds began to run now they announced a bone crisis and people began picking up indian burial grounds. indians began digging at the buffalo jump swear their own people have a starkly brian hundreds of thousands of buffalo off cliffs and then they would dig down and get those funds. the johns had an amazing amount of bonds because there's a place in wyoming, where there's a bond bed hundred steeped in diameter and native americans over the course of a few decades kill 20,000 buffalo in that same spot. a bone carbon plant in st. louis p

. >> tackle them saying in vitro fertilization -- >> it's a more feminine issue but i want to be sensitive but politically correct also. >> that's a tough one because conservatives disagree on that. we all have many friends who particularly women -- we have many friends who can't have babies and have tried in vitro fertilization or surrogate moms. you can look at modern cases, you know, the mom who had eight kids or whatever, you know that's a tough issue, too. i don't have a firm position on it either because i don't particularly like the idea of the government coming in and telling her how many kids she should have. it's irresponsible. i have four kids i can't tell you how many people in the grocery store would like at me and say, are you kidding? you're having another one? you know, it's like it was so irresponsible to have four so where does the line get drawn. we conservatives need to be having lots of babies by the way so y'all go out and be fruitful and multiply. i don't know about, you know, 17 or how many that lady has. [laughter] >> it's her business, you know? is it wrong, yeah,

whether it's the fuel for the tractor, the fertilizer for the crops or the delivery of food to the grocery store, agriculture uses a great deal of energy throughout production and processing. although usda hasn't devoted any time or resource to complete economic analysis of how this bill will impact farmers, the heritage foundation has. a recent study from the heritage foundation revealed that by the year 2035 the average net income for farms will be decreased by 57%. and also by 2035 gasoline and diesel costs are expected to be 58% higher and electric rates 90% higher. for example, residents in oklahoma can expect their electric rates to increase by nearly $300 million. so why are we doing this bill? so the u.s. can lead on climate change in the world? we can lead when china and india have refused to participate? we can lead when europe is willing to do half what this bill calls for? we can lead when the rest of the developing world is unable to do anything at all about climate change? some of my idealistic colleagues have to say we have to set atandard for the rest of the world. but i sa

willingly or not, that attitude enables the chinese leadership to continue fertilizing its own people. and while i respect president obama's outrage in cairo, that event could have been scheduled for any other day but the 20th anniversary of tiananmen square. bad priority. this remembrance of tiananmen square, and the crushing of the victims bodies, but not their hopes, should be the white house's priority today. there is a bipartisan support on capitol hill. republicans and democrats that care deeply about human rights of the people of china. but we need to do more than say and talk, words have meaning, deeds have more meaning. it's time for deeds, we need to relink human rights and trade for other parts of our relationship. secretary geithner will be in china pushing treasury bills. we should be talking about human right, we should be visiting at every level. those in tiananmen, that spoke that agony, that should be the priority, human rights first. you are here as a witness, and some day, god willing, china will be free. thank you very much. >> i would like to address the gentleman

this sort of cross fertilization in the present moment -- what one might do in those films, we are aboutstart shooting. there are follow-up films. if you don't find some of those words on that particular occasion, i very much doubt they will. before doing that, i worked for harold, this rather glorious days. a very reasonable roll. i work for at the occasional magazine, sometimes not. in a way, a good journalist in the first draft of history. i was lucky in life. goodness, how time flies. stand up and be counted. how long do i have? that sounds alarming. your life will expire in 3 minutes. two:59. eight:15. this skinny kid with the curly hair? there are 2 kind of history you can do. both of them in the light of history, going all the way back. in the nineteenth history, that gloaming -- a great one in oxford. there is no irony intended. it was thought of the contamination of history. a slightly egregious example, like the author of the water babies. since i have been shown charles dickens's desk upstairs. in the french revolution, he gets in his wheel barrow around the corner. this was a

afterwards the underlying question, is it somehow more fertile territory taking a look at this -- >> i think there's been a lot of discussion about the speeches that she's made. . this is the opposite of attacking a nominee. we are raising questions. that is our duty under the constitution. i think it is unfair to characterize that we are doing an attack. we are raising issues asking legitimate questions. we want a nominee to respond to them. i would once again say this is in stark contrast to perhaps the first hispanic nominee if he had not been filibustered seven times and not offered a job by democrats. in contrast to the disrespectful and unfair process, i think this stands in stark contrast. we want to raise issues and do our job under the constitution. >> why do you think she and the panel [unintelligible] >> i will read you some sentences. on page three, she says the 14th amendment provides certain things. they do not single out suspect classifications and must be upheld to the legitimate state interests. she says this does not interfere with the fundamental rights which we be

it is very fertile farmland. but it will be expensive to try to move them onto alternative livelihoods'. it is predicted it will cost $5 billion over five years to move afghan farmers on to alternative crops. that sounds like a big price tag and tell you consider rears spending $2 billion every month to run our military operations when you run the numbers that looks like a economical way out. anyone else? thank you. thank you very much [applause] . . mr. galeano is into viewed by john dinges, a journalism professor at columbia and the author of a "the condor years: how pinochet and his allies brought terrorism to three continents". >> host: hello, we are here with a one of the authors that i have admired my whole life, eduardo galeano. eduardo galeano and was a born in uraguay. i mentioned to him just a minute ago that i have had his books in my head for decades. one of the reasons that i became involved in latin america and latin american studies and writing as a journalist about what america was because of your

whether it is the fuel for the tractor, fertilizer, or delivery of food, agricultural uses a great deal of energy throughout production and processing although usda has the devoted anytime resources to the analysis of how the bill will impact farmers, the heritage foundation has. a recent study revealed that by the year 2035, the average net income for farms will be decreased by 57%. i 2035, gasoline and diesel cost will be 58% higher and a letter grade 90% higher. residents and oklahoma can expect their grids to increase by $300 million. why are we doing this bill? so the u.s. can lead on climate change in the world? we can lead when china and india have refused to participate? we can lead when europe is willing to do have a what this bill calls for? we can meet with the rest the developing world is unable to do anything at all? some of my idealistic colleagues will say we have to set a standard for the rest of the world. i say, i will not make my constituents for -- poorer so others can get richer at our expense. this is the wrong bill. this is the wrong time and the wrong reasons. i

comment on warren austin speech, this is a stillborn project produced on the spur of the moment by a fertile brain in the american state department. weitzman told truman he would sure the american president would keep emphasizing the need for partition as the only possible solution for security and peace in the middle east. weizmann toward you cannot turn the clock back before the partition vote to. the only choice he wrote truman, for the jewish people, is between statehood and extermination. history and providence have placed this issue in your hands. and i am confident that you have yet decided in the spirit of moral law. in a sense, but weizmann was right. two men had not chosen to be put into this position but as truman himself came to think, it was the quote that was mentioned that providence placed this heavy responsibility in his hands and fortunately for the jews the world over truman held his ground and even with the opposition of such a sterling figures of george c. marshall, he came out at the last minute without anybody knowing what he would do in the face a moment, for recognit

them to grow melons, roses, there are all sorts of steps in produce that they can grow it is very fertile farmland but it will be expensive to try to move them onto alternative livelihoods'. one example of former finance minister predictable cost $5 billion over five years to move afghan farmers on to alternative crops which sounds like a big price tag until you figure we spent $2 billion every month just to run the military operations when you do the numbers nation-building start to look like a economical way out. >> anyone else? thank you. thank you very much [applause] gretchen peters has covered afghanistan for the associated press and abc news. for more business gretchen peters.org >> what is a demagogue? >> it is a leader there is a four part definition which is one of the few times anybody has the find demagogue by a bar of the terms from james cooper and there are four characteristics they identify as a manner per cent of the people or the mass against the elite. second major great emotional reactions, third they use those reactions for personal or political benefit and the fourth

. >> [inaudible] >> [unintelligible] is this somehow more fertile territory?> i think there has been a lot of discussion about the teach -- the speeches that she has made. the president has even said that she misspoke, but if she did, she did about half a dozen times because she repeated that statement i will not say that she misspoke. it will be interesting to see if she answers about, whether the court of appeals or policy- making bodies. those are important issues and will be examined at the hearing. i will say that there will be other issues and this is one of them -- that have not been talked much about and i think it is time again to discuss this issue because i think the second amendment is a viable constitutional amendment. a lot of people do not think that they have to enforce the constitution as it is written. they think they have to -- they can enforce it as they would like to have had it written. it will be an interesting discussion. >> i am not picking on you, but first used the word "attack." you are not the only one i have seen to characterize w

farmers would have to pay more for fertilizer and equipment. he also feels the farmers are not being given enough credit for some of their conservation efforts. he is telling this bill. until peterson and other members from farming districts come along the house will not be able to move it. host: thanks for being with us. where can people read your congressional coverage? caller: dcexaminer.com. host: how is the job situation there in central florida? caller:

point of life i appreciate this testimony, so it is old and young at the same time, so this cross fertilization the present moment struck me as a good risky project to undertake because i thought what one might do in the films made for the bbc we are about to start shooting a couple which will be follow-up films shooting the president on omaha beach on the 65th anniversary of d-day which if you can't find some of his most grindle words, you know, on that particular occasion will. but i was also a journalist when i graduated from college and was never quite sure what i wanted to be between doing at least even some i worked for harold on the sunday times of london and it's rather glorious investigative phase in the small role in a couple of days a week hired by a friend of mine working for the paper. i worked for the occasional magazine and i felt it was the job in a way of good journalists almost always read the first draft of history. i was lucky. i was the sort of undeserved that in cambridge to did to kinds of history after we simplified. goodness, how time flies when one is having fun. where

higher gasoline and diesel fuel costs, high religious in costs and higher natural gas to drive fertilizer costs erode farm drofits which are expected to asop by 28% in 2012, average 57% turer in 2035. as with american manufacturers, waxman-markey but american farmers that a global disadvantage and other food exporting nations would have no comparable price ranging educures in place. overall, waxman-markey reduces gross domestic product by $393 billion annually between 2012, and 2005, cumulatively by $9.4 trillion. and with waxman-markey rather than without it, these costs are utt distributed evenly, low-income households spend an additional share of their incomes on energy and this would verait harder than average by waxman-markey. the bill has provisions to give back the revenue to low-income households but in my view it is likely these rebates will amount to only some portion of each dollar that was taken away from households in the first place in the form of higher energy costs and higher costs of other goods snd services. waxman-markey disproportionately burdens those states especiall

>> i did not giving senators sessions, [inaudible] is somehow more fertile territory want is? >> well, i think there has been a lot of discussion about the speeches she has named and the president has even said she misspoke minute she did she misspoke about half a dozen times because she repeated that statement. i know that she would say she misspoke so it'll be interesting to see how she is is that in the question about the court of appeals our policy-making bodies and those are important issues that i'm sure will be examined at the hearing and have trouble the people would talk to me. i would just say that there will be other issues and this is one of them that had not been taught much about and i think it is time we began to discuss this issue because i believe the second amendment is a vile constitutional amendment. a lot of people don't think they have to enforce the constitution as is written. they like to enforce and as they would like to have been written and i think it's a question as to whether she is committed to it. it will be an interesting discussion can i can i

theory, most recently in decades for children and indications that may be the subject is a really fertile ground anymore for adult readers. but my agent answer the question why by saying, when a major publisher wants to pay you a fair amount of money for what would be your second book, you just say yes. and so i did say yes, after resolving the issue of a contract for a different book. but i begin to answer the why question myself. then i found out that there were new stories to tell about the erie, new ways to tell old stories about area up a little bit of myth busting to be done as well. the first thing i found out is that the famous erie canal song 50 miles on the erie canal, 50 miles on the erie canal, also known as low bridge, everybody down, was actually never sign on the erie canal. and that is because, in fact, and no erie canal boatman lunches you'll sow who was the main charter in the song, or at least he never sang about it. in fact, 50 miles on the erie canal is a 10 pin alley song written in 19 oh five the year the second enlargement on theory and the current canal for motori

. >> senator sessions, in the beginning -- [inaudible] >> is this somehow more fertile territory for you to attack this -- or take a look at this nomination? >> well, i think there's been a lot of discussion about the speeches that she's made. the president has even said she misspoke, but if she did she misspoke about half a dozen times 'cause she repeated that statement. i don't think she will say she misspoke. so it will be interesting to see to see how she answers that, the question about whether the court of appeals are policy-making bodies. those are very, very important issues that i'm sure will be examined at the hearing and have trouble -- the american people, the people who talk to me. i will say there will be other issues and not much talked about and i think it's important to discuss this issue because i believe the second amendment is a vital constitutional amendment. a lot of people don't think they have to enforce the constitution as it's written. they'd like to enforce it as they would like it to have been written. and i think it's a question as to whether she's commit

there is no doubt that this legislation will raise the cost of fertilizer, chemical and equipment, which farmers use daily. this will cause serious economic harm for the american farmer. according to the heritage foundation, farm income is expect todd drop because of this legislation by $8 billion in 2012, $25 billion in 2024 and over $50 billion by 2025. these are decreases. i do not know how we can expect american farmers to survive when we cut their farm income by 94%. what i found even more interesting that the impet tuesday for this legislation is to reduce carbon emissions. the legislation does not specifically provide for agricultural or forestry assets but leaves ell i believe assets to the discretion of the environmental protection agency. over 30 pages of this bill are devoted to developing international forestry offsets including to send american taxpayers overseas to developing countries. i urge my colleagues to look at this legislation closely and soundly reject it. the speaker pro tempore: mrs. bachmann. mr. carter. for what purpose does the gentleman from texas rise? mr. c

the mind set which seems to find fertile ground in the soil ofy had claims the cause of justice is advanced by filling the innocent and killing those who seek to protect the innocent. this is the fundamental reality. when the american media and we as a people refuse to call evil by its name, it imperils us all and especially dishonors all of those like these two soldiers who have sacrificed and bled to protect the innocent from that evil. mr. speaker, the american soldier does not fight because he hates what's in front of him. he fights because he loves what is behind him. private long's so-called crime was his commitment to defend the innocent against those who would cause them and all of us harm. that commitment is the price required oftentimes to maintain our freedom. that commitment was carried deeply in the heart of private william long. he displayed it bravely by wearing the uniform of the united states armed service. and dying into it for all of us. that commitment will forever be the legacy of his life here on this earth. mr. speaker, today there are approximately 1.2 million reserv

prevent also conservative- controlled test valley broke council is disgraceful plans to build on fertile green fields? -- borough council's disgraceful plan? >> the honorable lady will have to write about that. >> did my right honorable friend note to the international monetary fund report? public debt in this country was lower than all of our competitor countries, that is lower now as we leave the recession, and that it will be lower in this country over each of the next five years? is not the case that the actions of this government prepared as to the economic slowdown in a way that the opposition's policies never would have? >> once again, honorable friend is proving that the problem we have to deal with is the global financial recession. britain is coming through that by taking the right policies. the opposition party of the first party, they are the first party to go into an election tomorrow with no policy to deal with the economy. >> mr. speaker, is the prime minister aware that his departing home secretary leaves a legacy that there are

there are green shoots in this economy and the recovery act fertilized it. it cut taxes for working americans, made education more affordable, jump-started urgent investments that will make our commutes faster and our air cleaner. investments like repairing crumbling bridges and highways and building light-rail and light-speed transit, investments that will pay off over the course of generations. hundreds of thousands of americans who are going to work this morning because of the recovery act can tell us in no uncertain terms the legislation isorking. it's creating jobs, making responsible investments, helping workers damaged by this crisis. but in the face of these tremendous efforts, some are questioning the effectiveness of these investments. they've decided to attack the entire recovery process by jumping to conclusions, distorting the facts, and spreading outright falsehoods all because of their failed george bush-style ideology that created this crisis in the first place. now there have been some who have commissioned their own report, a report which p

axis of evil and they felt very offended and belittled by that and i think that that created a very fertile ground for them to feel they wanted to believe in a strong iran, an ascendant iran. and i think to that extent, you know, there's a sort of incoherence because people are so critical on the government on the one hand and yet very proud and convinced that iran has sovereign rights and should have status in the region with its resources and its population so i think it does sort of lead to a kind of incoherent nationalism in a way that will sometimes rise up and then at other times just go quiet. when it comes to culture identity, and i write about this a lot because i think especially for young people it's been almost impossible to sort of create and to hammer out a sense of self in an environment that is on chaotic. when you have such a divide and such an increasing divide between public and private life, it's hard to have a sense of who you can trust and who your real self is. if you're one person outside and a different person inside the house and maybe a different person at univers

was there cross fertilization with the u.k.? >> absolutely. one of the things that is really interesting and almost unknown to days that frances perkins was very active in the international or-- which was part of the league of nations. she got the united states de'jon that ilo in 1934. yanna the topic was radioactive, the league of nations and the united states. fdr, when he had been the young assistant secretary of the navy had actually helped to arrange the first, one of the early i l omeetings in 1919 here in washington so frances perkins attended that meeting in 1919. international labor organization brings labor officials, government officials and business officials together to talk about labor and economic issues so frances perkins is very aware. she is part of that discussion. she is a major labor official all of this year's end the english at that point are leading the way with unemployment compensation. she actually goes to england in the 1920's to learn how the english do their unemployment compensation system. she sees workers climb

he says this is a stillborn project produphñ on the spur of the moment by some fertile brain in the unitedstates state department. and weitzman wrote to truman that he, the american president, would keep emphasizing the need for partition as the only possible solution for security and peace in the middle east. he warned truman you cannot turn the clock back before november 29th, 1947 vote. the only choice, he wrote truman, for the jewish people is between statehood and extermination.dmz history andd: providence, he we truman, have placed this issue in your hands. and i am confident that you will yet decide it in the spirit of moral law.[v in a sense he was right. truman had not chosen to be the president put into this position. but as truman himself came to think with a quote that brent mentioned that providence had placed this heavy responsibility in his hands fortunately, for the jews world over truman eventually held his ground and even with the opposition of such sterling figures as george c. marshall, he came out at the last minute without anybody knowing what he would do in that fat

life is a life and should we start messing around with lives and when we start doing in vitro fertilization and something does that lead to some kind of cloning and picking out blue eyes and eliminating babies who have any deficiencies? what we perceive to be deficiencies that, you know, are not deficiencies. .. things i have heard on the news, i come up to people who are saying they are biased because it comes from a source that is conservative work -- how can we -- especially where we have snippet news, seconds, how can we help other people to be informed on information, get past the point where just because they disagree with what it is saying they try to argue that it is biased? >> that is another diversionary tactic because instead of arguing the point they would just say that is fox news and it doesn't count. fox news has both sides on it. i think it is well represented. you have to argue the fact, this is where your intelligence and knowledge base comes into play. if you know the facts he will be able to pull them back from those diversionary tactics, what do you know about this subj

these taxes would directly im pact farmers of south carolina as every day costs of fuel and fertilizer may become too expensive for them afford. additionally our state's clean energy production would be excessively taxed. forcing companies to move to countries with less stringent standards resulting in little progress towards protecting our environment. the relocation of these businesses could result in the loss of up to seven million jobs, increasing unemployment and placing further economic strains on the american families. all for a policy that won't even achieve its initial goal of reducing carbon emissions. americans are sick of this energy roller coaster and i enshaorch my colleagues to support an all-of-the-above energy plan that will not tax us to death. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman's time has expired. for what purpose does the gentlewoman from maine rise? ms. pingree: madam speaker, to address the house for one minute. revise and extend. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, the gentlewoman is recognized for one minute. ms. pingree: thank you very much. madam s