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my hope is that we will take the best ideas from both of the bills and put -- lakesid ias that go too far and may have unintended conquence for our constituents and the small community banks to have nothing to do with the crisis. i want to commend the blue dog democrats that have worked to enhancregulatory oversight, to protect consumers aninvestors. we are going to continue working to preserve the ability of small business and we will help them take appropriate risks for job creation. and i believe that the final bill will help work on the this will provide a stronger financial system that will better protect the consumers and taxpayers for generations to me. i will yield back. >> the gentlewoman from ohio. >> thank you for your leadership on this comssion. we he the banks that are too big to fail, and those who deliberatelyr irresponsibly traded the product so that they could bet against this, jeopardize an american pension funds and life savings, and the value of their houses. i want to ank you for making this a publicrocess so that americans can see that we are working on the inte

this ia ptisan issue. and i'm gd that rublicans and democratar joining effort to hor responsible fatherhood. country rely on thwork of famies t keep our neighborhoodstrong churches, commy servic clubs, and school brd should remember how critical fathe are in creang sbleamilies and therefe stable commits. irgmy colleags t recognize the poance of fatherhoodnd to support this resoon, h.res. thank yi yield back the spker pro tempore: the gentleman from wisconsin. mrtr i urge support fo e resoluti befores. have no further requests for time. and yid back. the speaker pro tempore: t gentleman yields back the balance of hisime. the gentleladyrocalifornia ms. woolsey: speaker, i personally hav the great privilegeo have raed sons and have a son-in-law who e the most wonderful thers on ts earth. roud of em and i juhght i'd take this ment right no be able to express th. r children, my grandchildren, teddy adjulia, ke, eddie, carlo, and lca are grea th betterecausey have such great dads so, mr. speaker,rge my eaguo sup

people thought that by one house was a good ia -- by ree houses was a good idea. people who lent money said it does not matter if someone is lying about their income because of the house goes up in price we will get our money back anyway. it affects the reasoning pow up and down the line. aac newton participated in the south sea bubble, got out, and got claimed. he was regarded as generally been pretty bright. we had farmland in the midwest. it was a worse recession for us that the housing recession. there ar going to be more people, the rising prices prevented their own destruction. >> it is a narcotics, but do we not expect that regulators, credit rating agencies not partake of the narcotic? is that t their role? >> it is not easy to avoid. >> you do not was yo police trading in crack. -- you do not want your police trading in crack. >> with the power of this podium, we had a great interne boom after that. >> that was the nature our question of who was responsible. soone must be. >> i want to ask a different question of mr. mcdaniel. during this period of the la

everyone is calling ia disaster, right? president obama has called a disaster.very elected official is blowing each other out of the way to call it a disaster. even the ceo of bp, and he can take hoot out of his mouth is calling it a disaster. but there's another word i want to talk about -- is thword spill. i have been rankled by that word because that's with a 3-year-old does with his milk. a spill is what happens when a cargo truck hits an icy patch and rolls over. this wasot a spill. this was calculated gamble that bp took with the help of our government for the la several decades. [applause] it was a calculated gamble the american people lost. it was no accident. this was a betrayal of our democracy made possible by decades of a relentless lobbying, a revolving door between case street and our govement, and a willingness -- betwn k street and our government and at bp and other corporations like it tpay fines for aitted legal violations. in the case of bp, both environmental and safety laws. do you know why they're willing to pay this finds? becausehey are a

if you take a look at our report, and chairman frank mentioned this, the ias we have in there have been expressed both by the secretary defense and the president. when we talk about the fact that we can do these things and state money, the fact is we will not undermine our national secuty. let me go over a couple of those. robert gatesas an aicle in foreign affairs that says we will not do iraq and afghanistan and -- ain. that is right. why not go back to the force level for the army and marine corps if you are not going to do that again? i talk about strategic fces. we say the new strategic arms is 50/50, let's get closer to 1000. when people say we're undermining security, we of course have the famous ballista all mystic defense which is the admistration added money, congress added money, the thing has not been fully tested. but keep it in research and development until it is ready to go. secretary gates says whyoes the navy need 11 carriers when nobody else has one? l's get rid of two carriers. we have unmanned planes doing a heck of a job and pakistan and afghanistan. let's get rid

as iam sai ia adless movement.we really, rllyon't kno what they exaly nt and it would be very difficult to coey that message to the administration ink that would be part of the problem. and i want to make a correction. i'm actually under cyberenthusiast. i'm not a skepti >> i agree wh hamed and maam. need d a way to solidify those efforts and create awarene and eower dissidts. and atequires support. >> i guess theuestion we have to ask ourselves is how do we make neda famous fore she dies? and thinking of iranian efforts to highlightndividual caaigns, i cannly think really ofma and oths who also died and became more famous. th's kind of somhing i would submit wneed to think carefully about. the second quen i wan to ask then i'll open it to questions from th aude is, turning specifically to the green movement, how arehey tually doing in tes of ung technology inse of iran? if you had to givehem a rank? if you had -- a 1 to , or recommend soing very specific to the green movement because it seems th might b headless b

maaietta oach said clark is the most talented player he has ever pphad the chance to coach and ia very mature focused kid. marietta high school benefited greatly from the playing abiliiy. i extend my congratulations to his mom and dad who played a big part of his success and i wish chavez all the best. and i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from new york rise? the gentleman is recognized. without objection. >> i rise today with the very sad duty of reporting the passing of army specialist osborne. he was killed on june 15, 2010. specialist osborne was assigned to the 101 airborne out of kentucky. son, husband, friend and sold year from lake george, he will be missed from his community. my heart goes out to %is wife and parents. this true american hero made the sacrifice in defense of his nation and we owe him our eternal gratitude. he was just 27 years old, volunteered for the position of gunner because in the words of his sister, he was a proud soldier and believed in what he was doing.%% he was willing to give his life in service to all of us a

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ias just telling him, i have known him for a good number of arr.n fact, i think i knew him before i wasarried. i was wondering where he was going to go with that. i am happily married now. but thank you for those very kind words, a doctor, and for this tremendous honor. i am grateful to you and for the ard and staff members for this wonderful opportunity to speak withou, and appreciate the opportunity, at the start of this miles down convention, to share some thoughts with you about the justice department post a commitment to promoting safety, peace and opportunity i especially want to thank your extraordinary president for her leadership. we also thank and congratulate the other awardees here this afternoon for their achiements in the cause of justice. above all, and want to congratulate you for your 30th anniversary. i think that deserves a round of applause. [applause] i do not know exactly what you get for its 3h anniversary. i just passed my 20th. you deserve what ever the wonderful prize is. the reality is that for decades you have advanced t

reiterate and further urge all the members of this ngressas we go through ts budgeting process, and it ia tragedy that this ngress has still yet to pass a budget,e haveo exercise greer restraint, reducthe amounts of ormous ending gng oin this govnment. we ote ce of our nation's budget deficit, this but deficiwill take care of us. remind all of the members of this cmber, we do notave to look any further than what happening in t natioof gree righnow, the enormous financial problems going on in euron our nati and congress does noduce its taxes anlimit its governm, we will be in thee mess. mr. speaker, with that i yield back the bance of my te. thank y. thspeakepro mpore: the gentleman yields ck policy of jaary 6,009, the d gentleman fm virginia, mr nnolly, is recogzed for 60 minute the designeef the majority leader. mr. cnolly: mr. speaker, thank you. in tted states right now we are experienci an environment catastrophe. we are experienng with e b.p. oil rig the largest single il spill inmican hisry. it's a little hardto contemplate ju how big this oilpill is. 21 mon to 44 min gaons oil, fou

it ia good thing when foreigners wanto invest in the u.s. a third of our automobile workers in thunited states work for feign-owned affiliates. this is one reason why the import-export picture seems a little skewed. the kinds of things we impt are used for consur goods. just ask yourself ere you and your family would be if you add to by mid-and-usgoods. -- if you hado bwhy made-in- usa could spread the things that we export tend to be that we export tend to be exports, engin, and we remain in export our horse -- aexport it is just a different and more valuable mix of goods than we were producing 20 or 30 years ago. guest: the best in that chinese noodles are made in america. [laughter] host: we look good to wind up on the democrats' line. good morning. caller: i have a statement to make. you truly in my opinion underestimate the intelligence and ability of the american public at large. we understand what is going on. and in the early 1990's ibm laid off of 30,000 people. within a year ge and laid off 15,000 people. the city is devastated, as

we remember in 1979, when iran was taken over think ia toe la khomeini, i was a 16-year-old in houston, texas, my job was to take the car up, when it got down to about a quarter tank of gas, to take the car up, i loved it, sitting there, radio on, window down. now that i'm an adult, i realize, what a disaster that was. and it's still out there today. we have serious challenges in the mideast. the -- mr. katani in iran is scary. trying to get a nuclear weapon. he was here in the united states at the united nations, sat down with george stephanopoulos, and literally, this is the leader of iran, told him that osama bin laden is here, in washington, d.c. they said osama bin laden is here in washington, d.c. this guy is trying to get some nuclear weapons, he's got oil, he's got friends out there, saudis and others, who will help him out. this administration has hurt our relationship with our great ally israel in 18 months, our relationship with israel has gone from being one of our strongest allies to someone the world looks at and go, are the united states really with them? that's created

when he was doing that this morning ias thinking about the supreme court's decision yesterday incorporating the second amendment into the due process clause of the 14th amendment and remember how many objections were raised to the activist liberal warren court for doing that. i was a prosecutor at the time, and the law changed. constitutional law changed with a map in ohio in '16 and gideon in '63 and rand in '66, and now we have the five conservatives being progressives or activists. i was intrigued by senator hatch's questioning you on the citizens united case, really an extraordinary case

that is to say, shallowly, in "vogel, -- in "vogue," "seventeen," but i saw in those pages -- ia and today, period. i peroxided my hair, -- i ate an ale a day, period. i ironed it straight. i demanded brand-name closing. my mother shot me down on that one. but i did, i worked harder on this characterizationeally than anyone i think i've ever do since. i worked on my giggle. i liken it. ecause i thought it sounded childlike and kind of cute. this was all about appealing to boys, and that the same time being accepted by the girls, a very tricky negotiations. often, success in one area precludes succeeding in the other. and along with all of my exterior choices, i worked on what actors call my interior adjustment. i adjusted my natural temperament, which tended to b -- tends to be slightly bossy, a little opinionated, loud, a little loud, full of pronouncements and high spirits, and i will fully cultivated softness, agreeableness, a breezy natural sort of sweetness, even a shyness, if you will, which was very, very, very, very, very effective on the boys. but the girls did not buy it. t

students have an oortunity to learn what they need to know to be successful inhe 21st century and it ia global economy. it is very important that there be standards for all students, no matter where you live. host: the core standards connect with the obama admistration's race to the top initiative. can you comment on that? guest: they call for higher standards, a career- and college-ready standards. another at this is of the administration is to have students college -and career- ready by 2010. host: another story in "the washington post," a local story for national, because the editorial-page sgests potential national implications. "district teachers approve contract. district of columbia teachers ratified a new contract on wednesday that expands kasler michellehee's initiatives -- ancellor michelle rhee's initiative to remove part teacr -- poor teachers and places washington on a growi list of cities and states that established results and not seniority as the standards by which teachers are paid to read thcontract was the product of two and half years of contenous negotiations with o

senator, thanks f the question and giving me t opportunity to offer m insights based on wha i saw when iasad thereor 3 1/2 years. first of all, hezbollah does have genne grassroots popular pport. without qution. we may not like it, but we can't deny it. hezbollah seen able to tap inhe lebanese polital systema divided lebanes polical system based on community loyalty and also provide some social serviceto a neglected part of the popution. iranian-funded social service we cldsay, but theve been very effective in doing this. but the point i was tryin to make is therere limits. is is not a question where suddenly hezbollah's ideology is going to be welcomed across lebane society, ainst all of leban. so hassan nasrallah seems to be a true believer i the khomeini-style. that seems to be what motivates him. i think a lot of us know a lot of lebanese and you kw that's not sometng -- that's not a way that you would charactize all the lenese. it's an extremelysophticated cosmopolitan population with traditional ties across the region, across the worl dn iraniastyle revolutionary shia-based ideology

in 2003, the ia board o governors expressed, quote, great concern that iran still had not enabled theiaea to assure the member states that iran had declared all of its nuclear material activities. for our part, the united tates launched a sustained serious effort to starting early last year to engage with iran on a range of issues of mutual concern including these nuclear issues. the united states made detailed and specific openings to the iranians. including personal and direct outreach by president obama. the united states strongly supports the peaceful use of the atom for energy and innovation. like every nation, iran has rights but it also has responsibilities. and the two are inextricably linked. iran sean opportunity after opportunity to verify the peaceful nature of its nclear program. in recent months iran has given us more reas, not less, to suspect its goal is to develop the ability to assemble a nuclear weapon. last september, the world learned that iran had secretly built another uranium enrichment facility at qom in clear violation of security council resolutions and in i

can you tell me, ias listening to some of the other news programs is morning. has fe been lled in or has this been called a disaster? guest: not that i have heard. but, ain, it's a little bit outside of myxpertise. so i can't give you a real good answer on that. hostdo you have a followup question? ller: yes. i was just quite astonished on this other news program that thatasn't happened yet. host: well, there's certainly people down there who are suffering in terms of onomic loss because of their businesses, not having customers or they're not being able to fish. u know, being suddenly unemployed and so forth. it turns outt's really hard toeal with those problems. i'll give you an example. in alaska, where you h fishern who suddenly couldn't fish, the way fisng industry works is that the captain sells the fish and then he shares a share of his catitthe crew members. well, a lot of captains got paid as if they had been fishing that summer when they couldn fish. but then they hadn't hired any ew members. so they had no one to share the crew member shares with. al

we will go ia slightly different order than the bio in front of you.irst hear from second from michele dunne and henri barkey. you have their biographies in front of you. so i will be verbrief. tared is joining us at carnegie for a few months. she's a "new york times" correspondent in gaza and she's worked for the international crisis group. while serving here at the middle east program at carnegie she's a fellow as well so we should acknowledge the foundation for making her visit here possible and it couldn't have come at a better time to inform discussions here in washington. the second speaker is mhele dunne. michele is an editor of the air reform bulletin. her interest in american policy towards the israeli-palestine conflict goes back some time. at least a decade and a half when she was serving in the u.s. consulate in jet stream. -- jerusalem. our third speaker is henri barkey who has a unique position here a few years ago at carnegie. there was -- we invented the category of nonresident associate, which i serve. henri, as i understand is the fir

as my wife once asked me, what good ia rating if it can't predict the future? well, the answer is, that ratings are tools to help investors manage risk. a bond rating is meant to boil down the received wisdom of the market to a single symbol. especially for managers of large portfolios, rings are an easy organization tool for a complex risk envirment. they are useful and publicly available to all investors at no charge but ivestment decisions should always be based on much more than just a rating. second, rating downgrades are bad news. it's bad news for the issuer. bad news for investors. by definition, it's a rating agency that is a bearer of bad news and theare the ssenger that are shot. rating agencies are a gat scapegoat is at their business model. they are pd by the issuers they rate. managing this conflict requires that moody's balance competing interests of two group the investors and moody's schairers and the investors and the debt that moody's rate. during my time at moody's management did focus on maet share and ofit margin. so a question that i ofte

for big breakthroughs, if we are really going to have ia mobile banking program that will give a hundreds of thousands of rural women a safe place to save, that would be a big breakthrough. that will require public sector investment, regulators in different countries. you need to build those partnerships to get the big win, and i am thrilled our agency is+ jumping into that. we have been doing public- private partnerships for more than a decade, and that is paying off now. >> yes several questions on food security as -- we have several questions on food security as a topic. a comprehensive approach to addressing hugger should include emergency response -- under should include emergency response activities. >> that is a great question. i love these questions. [laughter] that is exactly what you're trying to do with the feed the future initiatives. we're going to a wonderful event this week -- what date is it? earlier this week, we had an event that honored the father of the green revolution, a tremendous leader. those of you who have known him, you know his absolute commitment to winning t