three, increasing public reporting on the use of national security letters and fisa, including their impact on the privacy of americans. a right that we all cherish. and finally, number four, requiring the inspector general of the department of justice to conduct regular audits of the use of these authorities. i am confident that a one-year extension will provide congress with sufficient time to make these important changes. as always, mr. chairman, i look forward to working with you and especially in the coming year as we look at ways to make sure that we draw that balance between giving the men and women that keep us safe the ability to utilize essential and vital tools and also at the same time ensuring that the rights and the privacy of all americans are protected. with that, i thank you for yielding and i yield back the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from texas. mr. smith: i yield four minutes to the chairman emeritus of the committee, mr. sensenbrenner. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized. mr. sensesen brenner: i rise in support of -

this provision is proven and important intelligence gathering tool in a small but silling subset of fisaurveillance orders. the government cannot use this authority lightly. it must provide specific information that the suspect may employ countersurveillance activities. finally, in the senate amendments we are considering today will extend for one year a provision first enacted in 2004 that allows the government to apply to the foreign intelligence surveillance court, the fisa court, for surveillance orders involving suspected lone wolf targets. these are suspects who are engaging in or preparing for international terrorism activities but don't necessarily have ties to a larger organization, such as a terrorist group or a foreign nation. the provision does not apply to any u.s. citizen or legal immigrant. these three programs are vital tools our nation cannot let expire, and with that i'd reserve the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman reserves the balance of his time. the gentleman from texas. mr. sessions: thank you very much, mr. speaker. i appreciate the gentle

enough and even when we look like we are doing the right thing if you look in the details they are fisa rating with the intent of what was needed. >> host: knott number five necessarily but what are the five things for the three things -- three things congress better due to be able to really make sure we don't get into this pickle again? and also, to make the economy, the financial part of the economy work better for people? you mentioned bankruptcy reform and easy very simple reforms, payments in the electronic payment system of controlled by visa and mastercard. what would be the one, too, to recall four, five things they need to do that they are not. so too big to fail? >> guest: to big to fail is clearly one. derivatives, doing something about derivatives is another. doing something about incentives systems so that you don't have these people rewarding in ways to have excessive risk-taking and shortsighted behavior. they need to do something about excessive leverage, a whole variety of other ways of risk-taking. they've got 30-1 leverage. what does that mean? is a value of the asset

now, mark penn, the campaign strategist 2 of fisa former president clinton in his reelection campaign talks about this year's election. mr. penn has also advised secretary of state hillary clinton, tony blair, and microsoft ceo bill gates. from the clinton school public service in little rock, ark., this is about 50 minutes. >> thank you for that very kind, very kind introduction, and underscoring that the voters are not numbers, they are people with habits, thoughts, beliefs -- and i find so often that the real intelligence of the american voter is really underappreciated. in fact, i got into the business of pooling pretty much after reading a book one day by fellow, which said, the simple fact of this book is that the voters are not fools. the voters, in fact, have real perspectives, real issues, real changes in their lifestyle. as this class studies the election of 2010, maybe it can provide little insight into what is happening right now and what happened in 2009 and before, what are the conditions that have been set up to make this perhaps one of the most hotly contested in midte

we are impressed by lindsay's ability to identify fisa maddock classics of the moment the appear but we must also be troubled by the tendency to get carried away by what looked to us in retrospect like moment of the enthusiasm. he links the never to be forgotten what the nation blow in quality the loan since forgotten battle hymn of the republic. this is a reminder of the fact contemporary criticism is likely to be inconsistent even a sharp critic may mistake what was turned out as passing fads for contributions. that is why the test time is crucial to the process of the canon formation. it may take years to sort out the week from the chaff. that is also one reason why the criticism works better as a retrospective science than predictive science. if we try to infer the future from the president we are likely to go wrong precisely because we need the future to find out what really is important and long lasting significance in our own day. still lindsay is impressive, generally has a grasp of the big picture and explicitly states he's writing about one of the epochal shift in history.

i will say, at the risk of saying like i am putting myself on the back, -- that i am patting fisa onk and open well working mechanism for court in maine within cells has allowed us to allow that to continue in a larger level. -- a mechanism for cooperating within ourselves. >> i wonder if you can update us on figures and if the people participating are mainly engaged in removing rubble? >> to the best of my knowledge, the cash for work is focusing on removing rubble. usaid has two separate $50 million programs out there which will be run over the couple months -- over the coming months focusing on providing money for people to purchase food and keep themselves closed. also it is to help clear the rubble which is a gargantuan task. step number one will be to keep the streets clear or getting them clear. again, i do not know how many of you have been down there, but in many cases building has -- buildings have collapsed into the streets. teams are of there with pickaxes, shovels, and rooms to dump these out of the way to clear the roads. >> the number of people who might be participati