sherman, a multimillion dollar house race in the california 30th district that pits 15-term democrat howard bermanrad sherman. >> that puts other member of the party in awkward positio positions. they are asking for donations and republicans and democrats are taking sides in the intraparty battle. >> some like david dryer, powerful carolina of the rules committee opt to resolve by retiring. in washington, james rosen. >> bret: latinos made up 9% of the electorate in 2008. they find many right now are dissatisfied with the the direction of the country. bill hemmer tell us they strongly support president obama. >> more than half are unsatisfied with how things are going in the country. that's from fox news latino poll. add up, 51% of latinos are not very or at all satisfied topping the 46% who are very or somewhat satisfied. >> latino voituriers not satisfied with -- latino voters are not satisfied with where the country is going but they found president obama had a high approval rate. >> whopping 73% job approval rate among latinos. well above the president 48% approval of all voters in the recent

again, i have great respect for lamar smith and howard berman who led the effort in the house, but i think the legislation has some issues that needs to be addressed. normally you want a bill introduced and an amendment process. you get back to a point where people decide this is a workable solution and move forward. this upon a whole new light when 10 million in else came flooding in. a lot of them were about freedom of speech. the terms of the debate change. you'd be hard-pressed to find 20 people in the subject matter of copyright. candidly, the opportunity to respond was almost eliminated entirely. the issue to not go away. we are looking for solutions to this. i do not believe anything will happen the remainder of this year. election year politics are difficult at any level. the idea of another issue like this is probably unwise. i leave it up to members of congress to decide this issue. my guess is they will not try to move forward right now. there are efforts underway and we need to find a solution to the issue. my hope is this will require a level of profit -- cooperation bet

him in the highest esteem, and his foreign affairs committee, where he served with congressman howard berman -- to hear the two of them talked today as if they have lost a brother, and we all have. they have full appreciation of his hard work ethic, again, the knowledge she brought to his subjects, the concern he had for the american people, and the love he had for our country. last week, we had a visit to our office from bill gates, coming to talk about the issue of global health. he asked if donald payne could be in the meeting. we had hoped that would be possible, but had to say he was not feeling well that day. this was a week ago. up until the end, he was in demand, recognized for his, again, standing on issues that related to the alleviation of poverty, the eradication of disease, again, the eradication of hunger throughout the world. what more could be about the gospel of matthew than ministering to the needs of god's creation, which the bible tells us is an act of worship. to ignore those needs is to dishonor the god who made us. donald payne was all about worshiping god by ministeri

ever, you see contested primaries, contested elections in california, and it is going to put a howard bermanoing to be more representative and it is going to be -- elections will be decided in november. right now most elections are determined in the primaries and so you play to your base. that's when you win. and you don't play to the center at all. in a state legislative seats, tennessee has gone totally republican. the districts were drawn to where the republicans had the districts. so that's -- it happens. it does not make them a better people. john tanner had a bill a blue dog, a great blue dog. and it said that every state -- i have taken up the bill. he had it. left, too, because he felt like he was too far. but the bill needs to pass to say that each state's redistricting should be -- commission. and nonpartisan commission may be named by the governor from each party or something like that. >> let me just say -- insert that the political scientists have been -- literature now around gerrymandering and parts of polarization and inclusive. unclear that that is really driving it. we stil

during my tenure as the speaker under the leadership of chairman howard berman, we enacted the strongestran sanctions legislation ever passed by congress. [applause] the sanctions that sell iran have accomplished the services and the know-how of the energy sector. we offer foreign banks a choice. they can deal with institutions that support weapons of mass destruction and terrorism if the united states that they cannot do oath. under republican leadership we built on those measures tend ginning iran and further isolating the regime from the global economy. the united states is leading the charge of our allies and at the u.n.. in recent weeks under pressure from president obama and his administration, iranian banks have been put on a path to expulsion was an international network used to transfer money. this action would cut off one of iran's on the avenues left to conduct business in the global economy the way the and we are seeing results. the economy and industry are suffering to bigot partners are coming off their tides and creating commerce. we are so funding the nuclear activity com

smith: madam speaker, h.r. 3992 is legislation that was introduced by our colleague, howard berman, which i have co-sponsored, and i appreciate his leadership on this issue. the judiciary committee approved this legislation by voice vote. the bill adds israel to the list of countries eligible for e-2 visas. e-2 visas are temporary visas available for foreign investors. a foreign national may be admitted initially for a period of two years under an e-2 visa and can apply for extensions in two-year increments. the u.s. has entered into treaties of commerce that contain language similar to the e-2 visas since at least 1815 when we entered into a convention to regulate commerce with the united kingdom. currently the nationals of over 75 countries are eligible for e-2 status, from albania to the ukraine. in fiscal year 2010, over 25,000 aliens including dependents were granted e-2 visas. . in the past, countries became eligible to the e-2 program through treat yees signed with the u.s. the judiciary committee reached an agreement that no immigration provisions were to be included in future tra

and again, i have great respect for lamar smith and for howard berman who led the effort in the house, but i think and italy the legislation has issues that need to be addressed. but normally you do that. you have a bill introduced and then an amendment process you get back to a point where people decide this is a workable solution, move forward. this takes on a whole new life, between eight and 10 million e-mails they came flooding into a lot of it was about freedom of speech, the terms of the debate changed. a globalized the issue. you'd be hard-pressed to find 20 people interested in the the. then candidly the opportunity for it to respond was almost eliminated entirely. but the issue doesn't go away. as you've heard from the panel and others today, looking for solutions to this. i don't believe anything will happen maybe this year, against election year politics are always difficult at any level. the idea of having another issue, but this is probably unwise, although i lived up to the members of congress who decide that issue. my guess would be they would not try to move forward r

in the highest esteem and then his foreign affairs committee, where he served with congressman howard berman, to hear the two of them talk today as if they had lost a brother. an we all have. they had an appreciation of his hard work ethic, the knowledge he brought to his subject, and the concern he had for the american people an the love he had for our country. and he came to office to talk about the issue of global health and he asked if donald payne could be meeting. we hoped that would be possible but he was not feeling well that day, this was a week ago. but up until the end he was in demand, recognized for his, again, standing on issues that related to the alleviation of poverty, the eradication of disease, again, the alleviation of hunger throughout the world and what more could be about the gospel of matthew than ministering to the needs of god's creation, which the bible tells us is an act of worship. to ignore those needs is to dishonor the god who made us, donald payne was all about worshiping god by ministering to the needs. he was an expert on economic, political and security si