garamendi: garamendi is not easy either. these are bipartisan issues. if you'd just hang on a few seconds. there are about eight, seven bills that have been introduced thus far. mr. harky, who is now a senator, -- mr. markey, who is now a senator, introduced h.r. 1507, that deals with the social security act and makes this illness, a comprehensive alzheimer's disease diagnosis part of the medicare program. there's a bill introduced by republican, mr. guthrie, it's the alzheimer's accountability act. and this one basically says, ok, there's a plan, how are we doing with the plan? what is the plan to deal with alzheimer's research, the support necessary, and would require that a report be prepared every year so that we can keep track of progress or lack thereof? i like that bill because i think accountability is really important for us. ultimately these will be our decisions. you can jump in on any one of these you may be involved in. mr. roskam: if yuled yield -- if you'll yield. i'm a co-sponsor of both of those pieces of legislation. one authored by a

garamendi: thank you. i was thinking through that exim , the buzz inside the beltway helps the big companies general electric and boeing. it helps those companies, export airplanes and jet engines but it is the small companies that take advantage of the start-ups the growing companies that need that support. i had to ask my staff an intern to do research on the kinds of financing mechanism that china and japan and korea use to export their ships that they make the great shipbuilding industry is no longer in the united states. two countries are involved. the countries support those companies with programs that are exactly the same, a loan guarantee. and it works. mr. tonko: more aggressive than our own programs. why we would reduce the force that we provide to the exim bank. 0%, a great amount of the activity is with our small and medium-sized companies. 90%. so what gives. why are we not going forward with great energy and we can't miss a heartbeat. we need to re-authorize. we are hearing things about not

garamendi of california. at the end of the bill, before the short title, insert the following, section, a, of the funds made available by title 3 under the heading atomic energy defense activities, national nuclear security administration, defense nuclear nonproliferation, not later than 0 days after the date -- the chair: is there objection? without objection. for what purpose does the gentleman from idaho seek recognition? mr. simpson: i reserve a point of order on the gentleman's amendment. the chair: a point of order is reserves. housent to -- pursuant to resolution 641, the gentleman from california, and a member opposed, each will control five minutes. the gentleman from california is recognized. mr. garamendi: thank you, madam chair. during the 1950's and 1960's, we were engaged in what we know as the cold war. we could not build nuclear weapons fast enough and we surely built a lot of them. beginning in the 1980's, and then on into the 1990's, we got a little more sane. we and russia and others became

garamendi: no doubt about that. and i'm thinking about the twin cities and another bridge that collapsed more recently. this is dealing with the reality of transportation. fortunately there is a way to solve the transportation challenges and the infrastructure challenges of this nation. and it has been proposed by president obama, it's called the grow america act. and it is specifically designed to rebuild our crumbling transportation system. it is a comprehensive plan. it deals with all of the various parts of the transportation and infrastructure system. there is a major piece for our rail. there's a major piece for buses and transit within the cities. a piece for the ports, bridges, highways, all of this is encompassed in the grow america act, which the president and secretary fox of the department of transportation proposed a few months ago. the legislation was presented to the house of representatives introduced here in the house of representatives by delegate leanor homes norton -- eleanor holmes norton about

garamendi: thank you. representative roskam, it's been great working with you this evening, we'll call this a beginning, working on an issue that affects everyone on both sides of the aisle and across america. we can deal with alzheimer's, we need to put our shoulders to the wheel and push forward with programs we know are successful. i, too, am happy to be a co-sponsor of today's piece -- of these piece of legislation. so much for tonight on this issue. we'll come back to it in a few weeks and see what progress has been made, in the mentime, we have had our discussion this evening on this important illness. i yield back my remaining time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields back. mr. garamendi: i have a motion. the speaker pro tempore: if the gentleman would suspend. mr. garamendi: i will gather up my things and stay by for a motion if necessary. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from california seek recognition? mr. garamendi: mr. speaker, i move to adjourn. the speak

ferguson to go to israel and meet with government leaders additionally representative john raymond garamendi received an all expense paid trip to south sudan and tanzania to view u.s. investments in different health projects that trip came in just over forty thousand dollars but the largest sum was doled out for rep mike mcintyre almost fifty thousand dollars for the representative to meet with defense industry officials in australia these were all very expensive trips and all cases the sponsors were not only covering the travel of the congressman but also their wives and it's that kind of information that reporters and government oversight group say will be harder to keep tabs on once this change goes into effect reporting from capitol hill a mere david ortiz. and the iraqi government is now in session and things are looking bleak just thirty minutes into a meeting to form a new government yesterday sunni and kurdish members of the iraqi parliament failed they refused to return because the shiites failed to nominate a new candidate for prime minister or endorsed the current prime minister n

rep mike ferguson to go to israel and meet with government leaders additionally rep john raymond garamendi received an all expense paid trip to south sudan in terms of media to view u.s. investments in health projects that trip came in at just around forty thousand dollars but the largest sum was doled out for rep mike mcintyre almost fifty thousand dollars for a representative to meet with defense industry fishel in australia these were all very expensive trips in this case the congressman traveled a company meaning with their wives and it's that kind of information that reporters and government oversight groups say will be harder to keep tabs on once this change goes into effect in washington david r.t. . still ahead here on our t.v. a legal shift in new york on fracking a state court agrees that towns and cities can ban hydraulic fracturing within their own boundaries more on that court decision after the break. on marinating in the financial world. that's coming up. to. me like there are are there. thank you. right now nervous new yorkers are all waiting on governor andrew cuomo who mu

ferguson to go to israel and meet with government leaders additionally representative john raymond garamendi received an all expense paid trip to south sudan and tanzania to view u.s. investments in different health projects that trip came in i just over forty thousand dollars but the largest sum was doled out for rep mike mcintyre almost fifty thousand dollars for the representative to meet with defense industry officials in australia these were all very expensive trips and all cases the sponsors were not only covering the travel of the congressman but also their wives and it's that kind of information that reporters and government oversight group say will be harder to keep tabs on once this change goes into effect reporting from capitol hill amir david ortiz. all right so team usa is officially out of the world cup after last night's heartbreaking defeat have belgium but one person on team usa has become a national superstar goalkeeper tim howard he was sixteen he had sixteen saves in the team's losses but that's the most by any goalkeeper in the past fifty years of world cup play so since

representative garamendi, to you to close. mr. garamendi: it is time to close. we can, we can build america, we can build our infrastructure , the president has laid out a worthy plan, comprehensive and all of the elements of the infrastructure that we must do. it's fully paid for, it's a good starting point, maybe there's a better way of doing it. but we cannot get it done with short-term kick-the-can-down e--- kick-the-can-down-the-road bills like today. but it's better than doing nothing. this is an american future. why did we come here? did we come here just to pass the time or did we come here to really build america? we're going to make it in america. we're americans and we will make it. and i thank you, mr. speaker, i yield back the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields back the balance of his time. under the speaker's announced policy of january 3, 2013, the gentleman from texas, mr. gohmert, is recognized until 10:00 p.m. eastern standard ime. as the designee of the majority leader. mr. gohmert: thank you, mr. speaker. greatl