congressman wally herger. wally has been a tremendous asset to his constituents and certainly to this body. during his time in congress, congressman herger has been a vow tall and -- vocal and active supporter of efforts to enhance and improve flood control and water storage infrastructure to meet the public health and safety needs of growing communities in northern california. he's also been a strong supporter of improved forest management to protect communities from catastrophic wildfire and provide local economic development opportunities. accordingly, he's been champion of several piece of common sense forest health legislation, including the herger-feinstein-quincy library group of 1998 and the secure rules schools and community self-determination act of 2000. congressmanning her you are was instrumental in the re-authorization expansion of the 1996 welfare reform law, the re-authorization measure enacted in 2006, to strengthen the 1996 law to help even more parents on welfare go to work and further stren

interest so they can't claim to be acting in the interest of the afghan herger when they see a man the bundled him off and put him nsl for days and days and days so they are more limited, they have less justification for doing what they are doing. they have more liberty of operating working with domestic citizens. >> professor skerker, waterboarding became a big issue a couple years ago in iraq and afghanistan war is waterboarding in morrill? >> i believe this. it's been used against someone who isn't being violent. further the assumption is that this fiscal discomfort like somebody speak the truth there is no correlation to and causing pain or discomfort or making somebody speak the truth is there for it is disproportionate and disconnected you are hurting somebody in the hope they reveal to you the truth and morality is any time you use christa techniques more than likely or not you're doing it on an innocent person who will then no doubt speaker, say things that you wanted them to say and that will besmirch the whole intelligence gathering process because you will then think we got

bush had 86 and deutsche herger walker bush had 24. ronald reagan had only three. guest: you have superpac money flooding in and $1 billion flooding into this campaign. the president did what he thought he'd need to do. host: will it change after this election? guest: if you look at how the campaigns are spending their money, there is not a lot of waste. i thought all along that the best way is the ability to do instant reporting in today's society. you take away the curtain and bring it down to truly where this campaign is. all of the money into the campaign. do away with superpacs and have no ceiling on individual contributions and let the people see exactly what is happening. if there is a george soros on the republican side, i do not know who we could mention -- but the candidate takes the heat. guest: the koch brothers would be mentioned. they need to take the money out of the process so candidates can spend their time focusing on the people's business. host: the washington post pointed out that karl rove has not had success predicting outcomes. he says aa tim

herger: thank you, chairman camp. madam speaker, the bill before us is about economic growth and job creation. it's about expanding u.s. exports to the ninth largest economy in the world. it's about making sure u.s. businesses receive the same treatment in russia as their competitors in europe. it's about ensuring we have the tools to hold an unreliable trading partner accountable. this legislation is not a handout or gift to russia. maintaining jackson-vanik does not give us any leverage as russia's already a w.t.o. member. a vote against this bill is a vote against u.s. employers. it's a vote against small businesses. it's a vote against farmers and a vote against ranchers. i urge my colleagues to support legislation to give americans fair access to an important market. i yield back the remainder of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields back. the gentleman from michigan, mr. levin, is recognized. mr. levin: i now yield two minutes to another member who's been so active on trade policy, mr. neal from

bush had 86 and deutsche herger walker bush had 24. ronald reagan had only three.uest: you have superpac money flooding in and $1 billion flooding into this campaign. the president did what he thought he'd need to do. host: will it change after this election? guest: if you look at how the campaigns are spending their money, there is not a lot of waste. i thought all along that the best way is the ability to do instant reporting in today's society. you take away the curtain and bring it down to truly where this campaign is. all of the money into the campaign. do away with superpacs and have no ceiling on individual contributions and let the people see exactly what is happening. if there is a george soros -- on the republican side, i cannot know who we could mention -- but the candidate takes the heat. guest: the koch brothers would be mentioned. they need to take the money out of the process so candidates can spend their time focusing on the people's business. host: the washington post pointed out that karl rove has not had success predicting outcomes. he says a che