i have been to gary peters office, who works for the financial committee, and nothing has been done. host: i'm going to jump in because it is hard for us to do with individual problem the program. for comments on policy and what is in the news, let's go to louisville, ky. bob is calling on our independent line. caller: thank you very much. my name is bob and i have been involved in three businesses. the first one was heavily regulated by the federal government if you think the federal government is there to help you in any business that you involved in, you are not because they are sold -- you are nuts. there are so heavy handed, they will micromanage our business until there is no business. the second one is the auto industry. i have been in finance sales management, the whole 9 yards, closing, everything to the third is the housing industry. i will tell you, when they talk about community reinvestment act, fannie and freddie and all this good stuff, i went to the real estate and saw the difference, the qualifications and requirements for loans. if you did not have a big financial s

gary peters. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized for one minute. mr. peters: thank you. mr. speaker, my district is the home of the first free standing holocaust museum in the united states of america. for 25 years it has stood as a reminder of the horrific consequences of extremism and hate. just a few months ago the founder of that museum passed away. although he is gone, his life work will educate future generations about the horrors of the holocaust so that such senseless violence should never again be repeated. last month this body passed a resolution honoring his life and memory. so it is with an especially heavy heart today think a come to the floor to urge passage of resolution 529, a resolution condemning the violent attack on the united states holocaust memorial museum on june 10. the holocaust museum exists as a place to reflect and mourn murderous prejudice and hatred. yesterday yet -- yet yesterday a senseless attack motivated by the same prejudice and hatred resulted in the tragic death of a security guard, stephen t. johns. it is a sad r

know all these czars could be ultimately alan the great, carolyn the great, gary the great, jay scott the great. just like peter the great. we don't know how great these guys are going to be. but they could be one of those, and let's hope none of them happen to be ivan the terrible because that would be terrible. persian gulf czar, sudan czar. now, we have an ambassador to sudan, i think. we have diplomats that work with sudan. we have a secretary of of state who has an office that sudan falls under. i'm sure she has got some of the best experts on sudan anywhere in the contry. just like she does on the persian gulf. just like she does on the middle east. the secretary of of state has the best people we can hire. some of these people have been working in this field forever. now we got a sudan czar. this means this is the absolute monarch of sudan experts? what does it mean? or is it just an associate of the administration that needs a be job? i don't know. i don't know what it does. climate czar. it's not clay mat change czar. it's not global warming czar. because we have had to change those terms. we started w