. >> we saw a rare hing in coogress this week, which was an actual meeting with the house and senate, a conference, in which a lot of republicans complained that the democrats have kind of put together a lot of this behind closed doors, and the democrats said this is more open than any other conference. could i comment on that and if you -- could you comment on that and if you think the republicans in the room have a chance to make any changes in the next couple of weeks before this bill goes to the president? >> well, the proof will be in the pudding. we had 1,600-page bill. we were told that it would be the senate language, and the 1,600 pages turned out to be lot of the house language too, so it was a mesh of the two. we read the senate bill thinking that is what are we were going to get. plus we got another 400 pages, and in two weeks we have to vote on that. you look at the agenda for tuesday, and you're dealing with three or four subjects that problem at a minimum, the smartest economist in the world woofer to take a

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so much of what i do is hinged on show business. i believe so much in it. or do you ever just wear sweat pants or whatever they say. and i'm thinking the concept of show business is lost. michael jackson when he was being wheeled out of the ambulance when he was burned, he held his glitter glove up high above his head to wave to his fans because he was show business. >> larry: you have become a champion of what you call all the freaks. now, explain -- is everybody a freak, or are you appealing to freaks, or are there millions of freaks? explain it. >> well, i have -- since my childhood in school and for a very long time, i used to always feel like such a freak. i didn't have very many friends in school. i had a few close friends. and i wasn't a popular girl and got made fun of every day. couldn't really relate to anyone, and didn't want to dress like anyone else. and liked different things. and i related to men more than i related to women. and i felt like a freak, and i had nowhere to go. and i guess through the music and the performance pieces we've done,

we'veheard, based on what window, based on what's happening out there, what do we do, what we do to make hings move forward? and so we have carolyn lukensmeyer as the president of americaspeak one of e four sponsors of the event. and just a terrific person for listening, understand what's being really said, and taking us forward. and secondly, e.j. dionne, who people, who needs no introduction here at brookings for sure. but was one of the leading journalists and leading democracies i would say in our country. so let me ask carolyn and e.j. to come up and out for us. [applause] >> thank you very much, miles. let me add my thanks to brookings for having this evnt here, and to our compatriot organization, demos, and every day democracy and the ash institute for putting already two years worth of work into an id that, whose time we think may have come. every single person who is a leader of a democracy reform movement that i know, a you met exemplary examples of them here today, has from the time that i began working in this field, which is 15 years ago, made the following statements. that we bel

who heard ed rendell go off a uple months ago abo the democratic party hing lt its so?e need to be willing to say what is really goi on. we need to tell stories like the one i started this speech wit an order for people to understand why they're with us. during the health care fight, we kept saying those people think this is about socialism or they don't want the public option, the cdo score is too high. markosas one of the only people out there saying they hate government. we need to get a party to me sure it weay government is there to make sure you get a ir shake. [alause] non-corrupt government actually becomes a tool for justice. we need to go back to basics and tell people what is what. politics wl foow culture. somebody said we goto into the legislative leaders and i tota agree with that. we fought for the public option, sending the case had made that we needed health care reform. we-at our peril and we cannot afford to do that again. -- we did that at our peril. the's a campaign called the otr 90%. which is sort of an oxymoron. how can 98% the other? 2% of washi

. >> brown: the latest plan to capture nearly all the oil hinges on a new containment system due to be installed by month's end. it will include the so-called "evergreen" burner which turns a flow of oil and gas into a vapor. the vapor is burned and pushed out of 12 nozzles without creating any visible smoke. 60 days into the spill , there were also new concerns about what lies below the oilly surface. scientists warned of huge amounts of methane gas mixed in with the oil. it would create so-called dead zone where's oxygen is so depleted nothing can live. the ultimate solution , plugging the damaged well for good, appeared a bit closer to reality today. b.p. reported one of the two relief wells being drilled is now within 200 feet of the blown-out well. they will eventually be used to pump down mud and close off the oil flow. in the meantime, the coast guard said it will move 2,000 private boats closer to shore to focus on skimming more oil from the surface. it was also reported that b.p.'s c.e.o. tony hayward will hand over daily oversight of the response to the spill. the timing was

. >> this hing about the marianas is absolutely preposterous.'t find anything that was described. to suggest that i'm for slavery and human trafficking is ludicrous. >> one member of congresssafter another was going out there looking aaound saying, looks good to me. jack abramoff said, i can help you. >> by the way, all that video, directly related to northern mariina islands? or when you saw an asian there, the prostitutes obviously, was that from theee or from somewhere else? >> it was all from the marianas. there was sooe production footage we took out there. >> did you ever ask anybody why they would go that far to play golf? >> well, i did sk congressman rohrabacher. he said it was a iserable experience for me because i'm a surfer and the surf wasn't that good. i don't know. but it didn't look like from the footage that we had that they were suffering that much. i think they went out there because it was fun. it was a long way, but it was fun. they got to play golf, they got to go snorkeling, go out to the clubs at night, and they got a lit

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of -- sort ofwhere we are goi in arizona where you have between 18 and 20 states where it's a goo hinggo in that direction. it is about a lot more than immigration. this is really about who is perceived to be an american, who is going to be regarded as suspicious when they show up to a polling place or to any other thing. and connected to that of who is deemed to be a american and perhaps in the civic sense, who is deemed to be a citizen, you start lking at some of the other challenges we are facing in terms of who is deemed worthy of being a voter? and so with that we have voter identification requirements which introduce under the guides of immigration and voter fraud that has been largely in existence now, we've been trampling the ability to vote of u.s. citizens. : because when you think that you five years in prison, $10,000 fine and if you are a mimicry and, it's a pretty steep gamble to try to cast that vote. so we need to stand against those. we. we need tongage in more realistic debate to make sure that the buttons that are getting pushed on us when we react as voters and cond

went around the country promising things and has but a nun --hing bunch of nonsense. guest: this is the debate throughout the summer and the %%ll. who is to blame. there is a lot of finger- pointing. whether it is demoorats, liberals.s, deeocrats have large majooities on capitol hill. been some will miis these majorities next year..% they are having difficulties moving bills. they will pass financial reform in all likelihood. in between, they have had a rough patch. the war supplemental has been delayed. the tax extender bill as well. harry reid says we have worked this for a couple of months get to theannot votes. happen for theto go home and say have had a successful year? guest: this congress hassdone a lot. you can argue agaanst a lot of they have done, but they some historic%% legislation. the signature is health care reform. ii did not look like it was going to pass. , but it did. gave them momentum. it has moved financial regulatory reform throogh the senate. nancy pelosi wants to get climate change done. some democrats have been pushing for immigration reform.

on june 10 he issued a presidential memorandum to department heads direct hing them to, quote, accelerate efforts to identify and eliminate excess properties. he went to say, both taxpayer dollars and energy resources are being wasted to maintain these excess assets. we seem to be in agreement with the president. we urge the democrats to join us. today congress can carry out the wishes of the american people, and take significant steps in getting our fiscal house back in order. i urge my colleagues to support this pros posal. it's just common sense. thank you, mr. speaker. -- proposal. it's just common sense. 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. the gentleman from colorado. mr. perlmutter: i remind the speaker and others that we are here on the small business lending bill not on mr. chaffetz's proposal or any proposal like that. may have merit at another time when that bill itself is brought forward, but we are here to talk about the small business lending bill which provides community bank

the secretary is absolutely right to try to finish this. >> this hinges on the ability of the secretary a stake in business as usual going to look at how long he has committed to serve and then sit back to wait him out? >> the secretary is committed to serve -- i do not think he has set a date on when he is leaving. >> [unintelligible] >> i do not think he has said that. i think this will be more than just the secretary. he has discussed this with the president and the president is behind this. he has discussed this with the office of budget management and the director is fully supportive. what we need to do with this progress -- the incentives are with the services to find the savings. we have a very strong start on this process. >> mr. secretary, what guarantees are there that the funds are going to shift were the biggest gap are, since they will stay within -- where the biggest gaps are, since they will stay within the services to find them? >> most of the force structure and modernization accounts are within the services, and that is where you would shift them to. the service decisi

a sufficient mber hing risen, a record vote i ordered. members will record theirotes electronic device. this is a five-minute vote. fi-minute vote. [captioning made possible by thnaonal caponing institute, inc., in cooperation with the unittates house of representatives. any use of thesed-ptiod coveage ofhe house proceedis for political or coercial purposes is expressly prohibited byhe u.s. house of representatives.] the chair: on this ve e yeas are 105, the nays are -- the chair: on this vote the ys are 106. thnaysre 316. onon this vo the yeas are 106, the nays are 316. e dmis aopted. the unfinishedusiness is the reest for a recorded vote on the amdmennumber 9 print in hou report 111-503 by t ntleman from io, mr. turnon whichurther proceedings were postponed and on which the noes prevailed by voice vote the erk wl redesiate the endment. the clerk: amendment number 9 inted in house report 111-503 offered by mr. turner of ohio. he chair: a recoed vote has beequested. ose in support of the request for a recoed vote ll rise a sufficient numb

that's what i was hing for. let's go to work as you and i have so often in t pa. let's toughen up the conflict rules. particularly as it relates to the revolving door. let's work on the emergency response capability. thank you mr. chairman. >> senator corker, do you have -- go ahead. >> and just -- i up with going bring up the issue again. i am trying to contrast wha ars to me to be a very professional response from yr department and other professionals to the political responses that occur. and that's all i was trying to do. and i was trying to say that appreciate the maturity that it seems that crow hayou have disp. on the police call side people move around and try to figure out where best to be. and i do think for what it's worth, that does effect the chain of command. it does effect how professionals end up dealing with a crisis when, in fact, the political impact. how do you o rescue mission like this through the political side. my question is one of i have talked a couple of times a little bit about a story that appeared in the mobile register on april 29.

our responsibility was not to beat the door down, but take the door off the hinges and smash the windows ou so there was no more inside and outside. i'm here to tell you that i was wrong last year. i was wrong. there is an inside and outside. it is our job now to actually call what is inside inside and that is democracy ruled by a corporate elite. those of us who cannot afford lobbyists, who are paying the price for what decades of corporate influence in our government have done, we are on the outside. we will continue to be on the outside until we demand every single politician that is elected in washington d.c. choose whether they are going to be on the inside or the outside. we ran an ad last week that said president obama, you did not create this problem that led to the bp disaster. but you can end it. i believe that we can. the reason we can is some of the stuff markos talked about. there are three reasons -- the first is because we want it. because we did everything we were supposed to do. we mobilized the resources to take back both chambers. we pulled out every stop and created u

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in light of those kinds of figures, the security of our food supply clearly hinges on the survival of these species. national pollinator week is a time to reflect upon these contributions and what we can do to help preserve these animals. on a similar note, mr. speaker, to further emphasize the importance of this issue, i recently participated in co-founding and now co-chairing the national pollinator protection caucus, along with representative tim johnson and representative cardoza and harry brown of south carolina -- north carolina. henry brown. the caucus is a bipartisan source of information and discussion related to how natural, political and economic development impact the security of pollinators and their habitats. last week a briefing on the future of pollinators and in recognition of national pollinator week was held in conjunction with the caucus and was a tremendous success. we are planning more events and briefings to keep members and their staff informed on this important issue. i urge all of my colleagues to become members of the congressional national pollinator caucus

i think we ed to reflect on what jobs we are hing them to do if most of them are -- >> we are hiring them to guard our troops. >> we're hiring local nationa to guard our troops? >> local nationals afghanistan or third country nationals in iraq. the point being that they are privatized so just respond to that. >> regarding a camp? >> they are providing forced protections and providing our forces the security so that they can operate at a base. >> i think because of static it is permissible. >> that is where i think your bright line does help and i commend you for drawing that bright line. >> at the risk of going to the end of the spectrum that the chairman put me at earlier, having lived in this neighborhood for 30 years, i doeptd thi don't think it is about whether they are public or private. i think we have to look at the system that is driving us to require us to go to low bids with the standards that we as the customer drive what the payment will be. but the fact that someone is public or private does not speak to whether we are providing adequate or inadequate security. >> so you

our responsibility was not to beat the door down, but take the door off the hinges and smash the windows out. so there was no more inside and outside. i'm here to tell you that i was wrong last year. i was wrong. there is an inside and outside. it is our job now to actually call what is inside inside and that is democracy ruled by a corporate elite. those of us who cannot afford lobbyists, who are paying the price for what decades of corporate influence in our government have done, we are on the outside. we will continue to be on the outside until we demand every single politician that is elected in washington d.c. choose whether they are going to be on the inside or the outside. we ran an ad last week that said president obama, you did not create this problem that led to the bp disaster. but you can end it. i believe that we can. the reason we can is some of the stuff markos talked about. there are three reasons -- the first is because we want it. because we did everything we were supposed to do. we mobilized the resources to take back both chambers. we pulled out every stop and created

one hing that strikes you as you go on the internet, especially as a non-muslim reporter, is that youufind this dilemma that american muslims often face, which is, and a couple of years ago, if you said you were against the iraq war, well, so what if you were american dax 50% were opposed to it. but if you were a muslim and you said that, there was something devious about that. how do you feel but the afghan war? how do you feel about this and that? there is something about, i suppose, the left, during the days of mccarthy and the red scare. so and so is connected to so and so. so and so attended a mosque with this preacher. what does that mean? there is a lack of analysis out there. >> i would like to thank both of you for comiig out to add to this discussion today. i was hoping thii conversation would do a lot to explain and elaborate, and at some nuances to the discussions we have been having. i think we have definitely done that. i do we have raised questions that we need to focus on in the future. but of our speakers have written excellent pieces that you can find outside. one is in h