murderers and we have incarcerated john gotti, we've incarcerated some of the most dangerous people convicted, brought into the country from overseas where the opposing a threat to america and the united states we brought them here. we know how to handle these prisoners. we are up to this task. we've proven it over and over again. this very senators questioning whether or not we can safely incarcerate our prisoners in our maximum and super max facilities should acknowledge one of these fact, no one, literally no one has ever escapes from a super max facility in the united states. and for those on the republican side to argue that putting these prisoners from guantanamo and a super max facility in dangers of in the community, it just isn't supported by history and experience. senator kyl said, quote, no one ever escapes from guantanamo, and of quote. that's true. but it's also true no prisoner has ever escapes from a federal super maximum security facility. i said before and i will repeat because senator kyl made reference to it. at the base of this argument made by senator mcconnell

do you realize we had 41,000 people incarcerated in 1980 and today we have 500,000 incarcerated for drugs in federal prison and 21% of our state prisons. astonishing three-quarters of prisoners locked up on drug- related charges are black. we are creating our own problems. and the prohibition. as abraham lincoln said, prohibition goes beyond the bounds of reason in that it makes crimes out of things that are not crimes. host: see why. guest: i do not know i would go as far as to say to legalize drugs, because an order to destroy the black market you would have to legalize all drugs and there are certain drugs we cannot as a society say we are going to authorize our fellow citizens to use. but, yes, i agree that there is a major problem with our drug laws. one of the other issues i have been of all been is trying to convince congress to change the of 100-1 disparity between powder cocaine and crack sentencing and that the spare seat -- disparity created a significant problem in the african-american community as far as young men getting locked up for an extended period of time. host: this,

he will be incarcerated safely. this notion that we've run out of supermax beds, and that's the end of the story. the presiding officer, this is his home state of colorado where the florence facility is located, i would say to the senator from kentucky, that may be the supermax facility at the federal level, but there are other supermax facility that's can safely incarcerate convicted terrorists or serial murders, whomever. if there is one thing that america knows how to do, we know how to incarcerate people. we do it more than any other nation on earth. we do it safely. the notion that there is only one place, guantanamo, where these detainees can be safely held, i think defies logic and human experience. i yield the floor. a senator: mr. president? the presiding officer: the senator from arizona. mr. kyl: thank you, mr. president. first of all i was going to interrupt and ask a question. but i simply confirmed with senator mcconnell, and i will state and the record can reflect the fact, i believe that senator mcco

you are aware as all this are that african-americans are incarcerated nearly six times the rate of whites in our country. one of the major reasons for that is the crack/power disparity when it comes to cocaine. -- crack/powder disparity becomes to cocaine. under current laws, someone who is guilty of selling this amount of cocaine is subject to the same incarceration as someone who sells this amount of crack cocaine. this disparity, sadly i voted for. many of us did 20 years ago. we did not know how terrible crack would be, but we were told it would completely change narcotics in america. it was so cheap, plentiful and devastating that we had to do something extraordinary. the net result was this 100-1 disparity in terms of sentencing. there were men and women presently incarcerated for 10 or 20 years because of this 100-1 disparity between two forms of cocaine. we held a hearing in the crime subsidiary of judiciary and not just those who said there is the scientific basis for this disparity, but also from law enforcement officials, including a john mccain to us from miami, fla. -- includ

reimburses states and localities for the arrest, incarceration, and transportation of undocumented immigrants who commit crimes in our communities. when state and local governments are forced to step in and do the federal government's job, it is only fair they be be reimbursed. last year the arizona department of corrections received $12.8 million from the federal government to house 5,600 criminal alien immigrants in state prisons. only 10% of what arizona spent to house illegal immigrants that year. this cut is wrong and as legislation moves to the floor next week, i urge my colleagues to help me fight this cut. if we are serious about immigration enforcement, we must restore funding and reimburse arizona for keeping criminal alien immigrants behind bars. i relinquish my time. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from utah rise? mr. chaffetz: i ask unanimous consent to address the house for one minute. revise and extend my remarks. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. mr. chaffetz: thank you, mr. speaker. i rise with deep concern about the so-called cap and tr

you're aware as all of us are that african-americans are incarcerated at nearly six times the rate of whites in our country. one of the major reasons for that is the so-called crack powder disparity when it comes to could he dane -- cocaine. i use this simply as an illustration that under our current laws someone who is guilty of selling this amount of cocaine is subject to the same incarceration as someone who sells this amount of crack cocaine. this disparity sadly i voted for. many of us did 20 years ago. we didn't know how terrible crack would be but we were told it would completely change narcotics in america. it was so cheap, so plentiful and so devastating that we had to do something extraordinary and the net result was this 100 to one disparity in terms of sentencing. there are men and women presently in incarcerated in the united states for 10 and 20 years because of this 100 to one disparity between two forms of cocaine. we held a hearing in the subcommittee, crime subcommittee of judiciary, and we had expert testimony not just from those who said there is no no basis, scien

host: that is one of the points that he mentioned. 95% of those incarcerated in u.s. prisons ultimately leave jail in move back into society. caller: this is a big problem. what will the of administration do to try to curb this? the african american community, especially the black women, are being infected with this. i am not infected, thank god, but there are so many that are. as far as the hon darhondurans e concerned, how will that affect the illegal immigrants here? host: we did invite him to come back on in a couple of months to see how the administration is dealing with some of the questions that you posed on incarceration and the situation of rape in prison. inside the "usa today" -- a look inside the british monarchy. funding for the queen elizabeth and the royal family cost british taxpayers 68 plea $6 million last year, almost $2.5 million more than the previous year. caller: i was trying to talk about the medicare debacle and the insurance industry. you probably have insurance where you work. you also have the chance for supplemental insurance. that is basi

inr brothers and sisters incarcerated for non-violent crimes, no evidence whatsoever that this caging of young black latino men makes us safer. no evidence. all kinds of other ways to sanction lawbreaking and help diople recover from the worst thing they ever did. no other country does what we do. as every governor, republican or democrat, can testify, we can't sustain this. what it costs to lock people up, what it costs to have them come tck out with no skills, no prospect for housing, no prospects for jobs, no prospects to vote, stripped of their opportunity to recover from whatever happened, it is just a failing system. governors are trying to close prisons and the small towns, the unions that threaten their jobs make us locked in to a system not unlike slavery where a lot of people had an interest in perpetuating it even though, if you step back, you would say whe can't be. we have to get rid of it. the fact that we have this odd family where we visited prisons, it is not that on. you have two million people in prisons and on any given day, you have ten million kids who are incarc

so he and another fellow who had an independent case had been incarcerated in detention facilities awaiting re repatriation to cuba, one for eight years and another for something like 13 years. this was occurring before a supreme court case, and the feature was how does a circuit judge spot that case given that it was a handwritten petition, pro se. you have to really read carefully. it takes time to take care of a case like that and to develop the legal analysis. the person had sort of recognized that there was a due process concern, that he was in detention without having any crime, but not being able to be repatriated to cuba under the circumstances of the case. that is one illustration of a case where it is vitally important the judges pay particular attention to the case, figure out what is involved in the case, then write an opinion, figure out the situations and produce a final opinion that can be adopted by the majority of that panel. sometimes those kinds of cases end of going further to review or to supreme court review. so that illustrates, frankly, the dilemma that judges have,

we have two million people incarcerated in the united states. two million. more than any other country in the world. we have 20,000 in hard core prisons. we can handle this. i mean, you know, i have no question we can handle these folks being in our system. the biggest problem we have is what happens because they've been incarcerated so long in so many couldn't i are -- countries and so many people in their countries have a disapproval in the united states because they feel they haven't got an fair trial in some cases. this -- let me tell you something. we took the money out in our subcommittee, we said, look, you've got to have a plan before you do anything. reprogram the money after you have a plan. that's what we said. we believe that. we don't think other language is even necessary. i oppose the amendment and would ask for a no vote. >> any other comments? >> no reason to beat this to death, i'd like to have a vote. >> let me just say before we do vote, i want to point out that the money to pay for any resettlement of these prisoners or movement of these

in 2004, nbc news reported that despite their incarceration in max couple security conditions, convicted world trade bombers were communicated by mail with the terrorists in madrid, spain, where many, many people died in that attack. there would certainly be strong reasons to believe that detainees currently held at guantanamo, known to riot and grossly abuse prison guards, would use their access to counsel and investigators in order to convey messages to their allies. i'm concerned about the extra cost that would be incurred in preparing prisons and courthouses for trials. i understand the courthouses in which try terrorism cases were litigated had to be hardened to accommodate terrorism prosecutions and the attendant threats they entail for participants and the public. a recent "new york times" article indicated that one of every seven prisoners released from guantanamo bay and determined to be low-security risks were recaptured on foreign battlefields fighting american forces. what does this say about the danger posed by the medium and high security risk detainees still being held? th

whatever it is, whatever the time, that incarceration for that period of time is serious incarceration. this is a serious accusation. these are sear contentions by the speak with her she says they didn't do that, they are lying. they are lying to you. they are lying to the congress. they are lying to the press if they talk to the press. most importantly they are lying to congress. now, that's an issue that we should be concerned about because not just we need it resolved. that's what i keep raising. i have been a judge in this country for 20 years. and its purpose is to resolve issues. now, my question is, who's going to resolve this issue? this issue needs to be resolved. now, why does it need to be resolved? i gave you two examples. north korea even iran -- and iran. two hot spots boiling up. we are getting information, we should be, i assume we are getting information from our intelligence community. if they are liars, can we trust them? can we put the security of hawaii on the shoulders of our intelligence community and trust their report as to whether or not there is a nuclear war

he now sits incarcerated. he has been convicted of a felony.the felony is an obstruction of justice and he did it knowingly. i'd like a moment to just say that in the proceeding where he had to proceed with his plea, the court specifically said you have the right to persist in a prior plea of not guilty that you have entered in this case. in that event, the burden is entirely upon this government to prove your guilt. you don't have to go forward with this. and therefore to the jury's satisfaction with proof beyond a reasonable doubt, which is a very high standard of proof, and under the law and the constitution, to the judge who was standing there, you are presumed innocent which means you do not have to prove your innocence to prove anything at all, meaning the judge was questioned on his plea that involved the obstruction of justice, misrepresenting and@@@) as the defendant said yes, sir, and the court said, knowing that, is your intent to enter a plea of guilty to this charge? yes, sir. that was in essence a plea to a felony of obstructing j

states than the prison gulag we can no longer sustain. 2.3 million of our sisters and brothers incarcerated overwhelmingly for nonviolent offenses no evidence whatsoever that this kind of caging of young black and latino men makes us safer. really no evidence. and all kinds of other ways to sanction law-breaking. and to happen people recover from the worst think they ever did. no other country does what we do, and as every governor can now testify, we can't sustain this. what it costs to look people up, costs to have them come back out with no skills, no prospects for housing no prospects for jobs, no prospects to vote, really stripped of their opportunity to recover from whatever happened, it's just a failing system. front end, back end, and from the public's point of view. so governors are trying to close prison and the small towns and prison guard jobs make us -- long-ed into a system where people had an interest in perpetuating it, even though if you step back you say this can't be. we have to get rid of it. so, when you go in -- and our kids -- the fact we had this odd family where we

and to try them -- incarcerate them and to try them.e know that no one has ever escaped from there and we know we have never been attacked again since 9/11. but let's assume that we did bring them up here for trial. my good friend has suggested, no harm down. well, during the ramzi yousef trial, he tipped off terrorists to a communications link. during the zacarias moussaoui trial, there was inadvertently leaked sensitive material. the east africa embassy bombing trials painted osama bin laden. the beeline sheikthe blind shein trial, fainted osama bin ladenment when you have these rare trials in i criminal setting, there are downsides to it. and in terms of community disruption, i would cite the ma

must fully fund this so that we can provide for that job training and those jobs for form early incarcerated individuals. also our disconnected youth. we have young people who need jobs. many families now because of the fact that mothers and fathers are unemployed, oftentimes young people have to help and they deserve to be able to get a job, too. so we have to fully fund and support summer job programs for our young people which i'm very proud of the fact that president obama, speaker pelosi and all of our leadership here, our majority whip, support it with the economic recovery package to make sure we have funding in there for our summer jobs program for youth. also, access to health care. some of us believe, i know many of us in the congressional black caucus believe that health care should not be a privilege. it's a basic right, it's a basic right and as we begin this health care debate, again, we cannot forget that closing health care disparities and communities of color must be part of any health care reform package. otherwise those communities, those individuals who have historically

from the beginning, because you can easily, you know, be charged with other crimes when you're incarcerated, so you have to decide on to make your bed hard or soft and that decision is up to the individual themself. i mean, communicating with other inmates, you know, about their problems helped me to think about, you know, mine wasn't as worse as i thought it was. [inaudible] >> i had to get my education, i had to take on-line courses and everything else. [inaudible] >> well, still, you know, you have to just believe and have faith. you know, my family, they was there for me. i corresponded with many different people. i was on a pen palm list that i had got in a fight with a guy in prison, and you know, the guy that i fought, i broke his jaw up, when they put me in solitary confinement, i mean, you know it helped me to express myself to those that was out on the outside rather on the inside, because knowing that, you know, after corresponding with someone for a lengthy period of time, you start developing things for one another. you get able to understand, get the feedback that other people

and gave a list of political prisoners, including some who were there at tiananmen and remain incarcerated. the chinese government took the list and laid it aside. not one of those individuals have been released. the tiananmen square massacre was a turning point in china, and not for the better. the hard-liners in beijing have since unleashed unprecedented cruelty on labor activists, political prisoners, religious believers, and have committed massive crimes against women and children through forced abortions. the ugly spirit of tiananmen square massacre continues today unabated throughout china, with brutality and efficiency that only a nazi could love. with some notable exceptions, including last year's savage crackdown on the tibetans, the chinese leadership has taken their murder and torture behind closed doors, where the cries and screams and tears of thousands of dissidents are heard by no one except the torturers, themselves. for its part, the international community has failed to seriously challenge, oppose t 's massive human-rights violations, including the weak response of the un

strategies and programs at the federal and state levels to reduce resiffedism and future cost of incarceration. i compliment the committee for the good job they have done with the second chance act and other legislation they are considering. and we are looking forward and appreciate the opportunity to cooperate with them on the funding side. the initiative across the department of justice is increased investments in law enforcement and prosecution for which the bill provides $155 million and that's an increase of $65 million over fiscal 2009. for scat which the president proposed to eliminate, the bill includes $300 million. with respect to the department of commerce, $4.6 billion is slated for national oceanic and atmospheriadministration, above the request. the bill provides $7.4 million for census, the same level as the budget request. for nasa, the bill provides $18.2 billion, increase of $420 million. investments have been made in earth science to finance the surveys and the recommendation acknowledges, however and this is important for members to consider, acknowledges that the administr

what is the right length of incarceration? damages? these are not easy decisions. know that, because my husband was a state trial court judge for 16 years. measure out. people. her ankle. i said to her, you are tough. you have to be tough. injury with grace and humor. she has a first rate temperament. she has first-rate intellect. after growing up in a public housing project in the bronx, she excelled at princeton and yacht -- yale law school. i believe that she is an

instead of incorporating the effect of abuse and coercion, they often result in light sentences or incarceration of the victims. risks that the traffickers are willing to take. one important point in this year pose a report in a time of crisis, foreign workers are too often -- in this year's report any time of economic crisis, last year, congress -- the traffickers had a starkly use them to exploit people as waitresses and enforced prostitution. congress also gave us welcome criminal tools to ensure that promises do not expose workers to servitude and mandated that these the recipients receive information about their rights before they traveled to the united states. we welcome those tools, and we will use them. to echoe \ secretary clinton's call, -- to echo secretary clinton's call, we must build on our common interests and to attack this phenomenon. a number of partners have been featured as heroes. we are joined by some of them who the secretary will introduce, but several of them were unable to be there with us -- be here with us today. a greek police commander has dedicated his life to brea

what is the right length of incarceration? what is the right level of damages? these are not easy decisions. i know that, because my husband was a state trial court judge for 16 years. trial court judges must be able to live with the justice they measure out. it takes more than an understanding of the law. it takes an understanding of people. judge sotomayor has a great understanding of both. i had the pleasure of meeting with her the day she fractured her ankle. i said to her, you are tough. she said i grew up in the bronx. you have to be tough. she handled that a painful injury with grace and humor. she has a first rate temperament. she has first-rate intellect. after growing up in a public housing project in the bronx, she excelled at princeton and yacht -- yale law school. i believe that she is an excellent choice to replace david souter as a supreme court justice. she deserves a fair and a thorough hearing without delay. mr. president, i look forward to that hearing, and i yield the floor. ms. klobuchar: well, thank you very much, mr. president. the presidi

while he sits incarcerated in a federal institution of confinement he's a judge. what arrogance. and if we do not act we are letting the word go out that we, the only branch of government that is enabled by the constitution to act in these circumstances do not take our constitutional obligations seriously. we cannot resist acting here, and we cannot resist asking the senate to act as expeditiously as possible. this federal judge has demeaned his office, has demeaned this country, has demeaned his oath of office and the constitution itself. and we need now to act, and we have sufficient evidence presented on this record for all members to vote in favor of each and every article of impeachment. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from california's time has expired. the gentleman from texas reserves the balance of his time and has 12 1/2 minutes. the gentleman from michigan is recognized and has five minutes remaining. mr. conyers: mr. speaker, i am pleased to recognize now the gentleman from tennessee, a member of the task force and also the chair of the commercial and administr

they don't lose their human- rights when they are incarcerated. and because i knew it was a problem and the impact on individuals that are sexually abused, and the fact that most of them will come back into society, i felt it was appropriate we address this problem to ensure that hopefully individuals would not be damaged more so than when they went in and therefore pose a greater threat to society. host: what are your benchmarks? what will you look at over the next year to determine whether or not this commission and the recommendations are heard? guest: i hope the attorney general will is essential to adopt what we recommended because we went through a laborious five-year effort to make sure we got it right. we think we have. we hope the attorney general will see it that way and implement these efforts in the federal bureau of prisons and that would be a laboratory to show state and local governments that they can accomplish success consistent with what we believe we -- this will bring about it adopted at the national level. host: but judge regg

judge kent began his term of incarceration on june 15, this past monday. the day after sentencing, the house of representatives directed the judiciary committee investigative task force to inquire whether judge kent should be impeached and the committee received testimony from ms. mcbroom, ms. wilkerson and a judicial impeachment scholar. the professor provided expert testimony that concluded that making false statements as well as abusing his power as a federal judge to sexually assault women were independent gounds that would warrant judge kent's impeachment and removing from office. the task force invited judge kent to testify, but he declined. we received correspondence that was made available to all members. the task force invited judge kent's counsel to present arguments on behalf of his client and provide the opportunity to question any of the witnesses and judge kent counsel declined to appear or participate. subsequently, judge kent counsel sent a letter questioning the veracity of the women and making the admission that their testimony was unnece

libertarians who are so excited that for the first time someone talked about their kids being in art -- incarcerated, for the first time about how horrible their education system is, about the quality of their water. and beyond our middle class conversation to people who are actually struggling. not like oh, i cannot go on vacation. that, to for us to say "we need america back" when some people have never had any first place -- soap opera-middle-class language, which it sold middle class language. -- so upper-middle-class language. those that just do not do what we do now. [applause] >> yes, i think one of the dangers, and this has been a danger of our world here in the progress of community is that we can win without winning without anybody. and who will win, and who wins first, and seconds, and third, and forth, -- and second and third and fourth, are we after certain candidates winning and maintaining control, or are we after empowering people? i think there is been a longstanding problem there. this is one of the reasons why i think obama is great, is that there are folks who feel that they have

i am still free and have not yet been incarcerated because of this advice. i am grateful for your service, walt. [applause] [applause] >> thank you. it is a great honor to be asked to introduce that roe keating. he has that kind of resume that mere mortals only dream of. he graduated from the naval academy in 1971. shortly thereafter, began a distinguished career as a legal aviator. the most impressive thing is not the stress on his sleeve or the stars, if he were wearing a slightly different uniform, but it is that he is carried out 1200 arrested landings on aircraft carriers. he was the did the commander in thewing during the first gulf war, and he was the commander during visiting gulf war. in between, like all senior military officers, he has to do the additional penance, working in washington and a variety of jobs. i have had the honor and pleasure of working with him when he was the deputy j-3 during the 1990's. he then became, after his service, in connection with operation iraqi freedom. he became the director of the joint staff which is the critical

and he incarcerated all the japanese just for being japanese. host: clear lake, texas on our independent line. caller: thank you, i do not think that bush was mistaken in using his executive authority. i do not think close in guantanamo is going to solve anything, and moving them to another location. they must be processed in some kind of trial. just changing the location will be an expense to the taxpayer and will not address the core issue of having their day in court and what kind of justice system will be used. but guantanamo has turned into this poster child for america's foreign policy and is a red herring. i do not think the world is inflamed over the few detainees we have in guantanamo. i think that we need to be focused on the money we give israel and other issues i think are inflaming the muslim world, much more than guantanamo. host: glen falls, n.y., next up on the democrats' line. caller: this is the perfect segue to the previous caller. i would suggest viewers who are interested in why obama cannot follow through on his promise to

we bring them here and incarcerate them, and then a judge rules that cannot hold them anymore. to release them from the united states, and once you do that, you're going to have a problem. >> this is a question from one of our viewers on c-span. as a person who is never served in the military, why should the u.s. accepts your position about waterboarding when john mccain, who was a prisoner of war, says that it is torture? >> what we look for and adhere to is the one provided by the justice department. we went and said, what are the guidelines? what can you do that is appropriate? what do you have to do to stay away from? we drew a red line to explain it to the central intelligence agency. that is the guidance that i would take. that is inappropriate way to proceed, and i believe that it was, and i do not believe the we engaged in torture. there were three people that we waterboarded, not a large number, and, in fact, it was done under the guidance of the central elements of the cia and the department of justice. >> final question on national security topics. why did not your a

the first pathway's class, consisting largely of formerly incarcerated individuals and people lacking permanent homes, provides soft skills training along with hands-on training in a green job. federal workforce development programs have faced extremely deep funding cuts over the past eight years. the workforce investment act and the wagoner pacer employment service lost more than $9 billion in funding since 2001. reducing the capacity of our national workforce system to respond even to normal levels of demand for skilled workers, let alone the extraordinary demands for job training and reemployment services, we now face -- services we now face. the american recovery and reinvestment act made nearly $4 billion in new funding available through the department of labor for jobs training programs. just under $3 billion of this funding has already gone out to states through formula grants under the workforce development act. speaking with the deputy director of workforce training, i learned that the county will receive nearly $14 million in training. the money will help dislocated adults a

here we see him over to the site with kosciuszko during the incarceration in russia and the first kosciuszko was not sure if he should take the offer because he had 12,000 soldiers sitting in sidey area -- siberia. he made a deal if you let mine in go i will go and the saar said okay but you can never come back to poland and have to promise never to attack again so in order to free his men who were imprisoned, kosciuszko agreed. so he also gave kosciuszko 6,000 -- 60,000 rubles that he would in a bank account in london and he gave him a fur coats because he was going to cross sweden in the river to go to england so he figured he needed to be warm. you see the call were here when kosciuszko made his way back to america after the revolution, he gave the coat to thomas jefferson. now thomas jefferson is seen here in the most famous portrait of him in addition to that if you go down to the jefferson memorial you will see jefferson is also portrayed wearing this fur coat. now it wasn't just blacks, jews and peasants that kosciuszko stood up for but he also stood up for the native americans when h

in the border states in a program called scaap which provides assistance to states that have to incarcerate illegal immigrants and bear the costs of flaws in our federal immigration policy. furthermore, the bill makes a very key investment, very substantial investment in d.n.a. technology and back log reduction to the degree we can eliminate back logs of d.n.a. evidence we can take murderers and rapists off the street. of this, there is no question. you can still from a -- tell from a statistical certainty, when you reduce back logs, you take murderers and rapists off the street and prevent them committing further offenses. finally, let me speak to a science investment in the bill, which i think is also important, and that is this legislation keeps some of our most important space science efforts like the mars program on track, which has brought us new and unprecedented information about the world we live in that has led to scientific improvements and innovation here on the ground and is a vital investment in our nation's future. so i want to thank you, chairman mollohan for your work on th

i am still free walking around and have not yet been incarcerated. that's all because of walt slocombe. walt, i'm grateful for your service and we're delighted to have such a distinguished former pentagon official moderate this evening's discussion. [applause] >> thanks, fred. it's a great honor to be asked to introduce admiral keating. he has that kind of resume that mere mortals only dream of. he graduated from the naval academy in 1971. shortly thereafter, began a distinguished career as a naval aviator. the most impressive thing is not the stripes on his sleeve or the stars if he were wearing a slightly different uniform, he has carried out 1200 arrested landings on aircraft carriers. he was the deputy commander of an air wing during the first gulf war and he was the commander during the second gulf war. he's had the duty of occasional penance working in washington in a variety of jobs i have the honor and pleasure of working with him when he was the deputy j3 during the '90s. and he then became after his service in connection with he became the

john conyers who i worked with as we visited haiti and went to see many of those who have been incarcerated because of the, if you will, the inconsistency of leadership in haiti. we are delighted to see the president leading out but we visited many who were political prisoners and worked with the then bush administration to try to secure their freedom. i went to -- i want to continue to express my appreciation to chairman conyers for the work that he has continuously done working in haiti when we traveled there together. so there are many aspects of the caribbean that we can celebrate. i'm here to celebrate the great connection that i've had the privilege of having and i'm delighted to be joined on the floor of the house by congresswoman christensen as well as congresswoman clarke and congresswoman -- congressman payne and the chairwoman who is now serving as speaker pro tempore. we do this because we want to ensure that people realize how great america is and it is home great because it relies upon the strength of those who come from different cultures and bring that wonder the to our wond

the united states and compared it with guantanamo, it is of the highest standard of any of our incarceration units there is. guantanamo happens to be a place that is not sovereign american territory, that's the important distinction. i thank the gentleman for his time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman's time has expired. the gentleman from california. mr. lewis: it's my intention to yield to mr. frelinghuysen. i'd like to make this point to the speaker as well as to the members. the words just spoken were the words of the former attorney general of california, dan lungren. i would suggest all of us read them with care in the congressional record. i'm proud to yield four minutes to my colleague, rodney frelinghuysen. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from new jersey is recognized for four minutes. mr. frelinghuysen: madam speaker, thank you. i thank the gentleman for yielding. i rise in strong support of the motion to instruct conferees providing for supplemental appropriations for ongoing operations in afghanistan and iraq. my colleagues, i support the portion of these instruction

here we see john9y la pierre by his side who was with him during his incarceration in russia and he wasn't sure he should take this offer because he had 12 thousand of his soldiers sitting in siberia. well, he made a deal with the czar that, okay, if you let my men go i will go. and the czar said, okay, but you can never come back to poland and you have to promise never to attack again. so in order to free his men, who were in prison, kosciuszko agreed. czar paul also gave kosciuszkor 60,000 rubles and he gave him a fur coat because he was going to kq sweden and he needed something to keep him warm when kosciuszko made his way back to america after the revolution he gave that fur coat to thomas jefferson. now, thomas jefferson is seen here in the most famous portrait of him but in addition to that, if you go down to the jefferson memorial, you'll see that jefferson is also portrayed wearing this fur coat. now, it was not just blacks, jews and peasants that kosciuszko stood up for. he also stood up for the native americans when he saw that the founding fathers began murdering them and push

biggest disagreement has been a $400 million reduction in federal spending for state prisons to incarcerate illegal immigrants. this from "the wall street journal." a bush administration spy satellite program at the department of homeland security is being cancelled by the new administration. democratic lawmakers said it would lead to domestic spying. the united states agreed today to more than triple the rent it pays for use of a key airbase in kazakhstan, to ship non- lethal military supplies to afghanistan k toyrgyzstan. and those are some of the latest headlines on c-span radio. >> the u.s. house comes and for general speeches, morning hour at 10:30 a.m. eastern, and legislative business at noon. several veterans bills on the agenda today. later this week, spending measures for the homeland security and interior departments and environmental agencies. also expected to debate the 2010 defense authorization bill. live house coverage is here on c-span. on c-span2, president obama holding a news conference at 12:30 p.m. eastern live from the rose garden. and we continue to bring in coverage

here we see john lapierre to this side with kosciuszko during his incarceration in russia. at first kosciuszko was unsure if he should take this offer because he had 12,000 soldiers sitting in siberia. well, he made the deal with this are that okay if you let my men go i will go. and bizarre said okay but you can never come back to poland and you have to promise never to attack again. in order to free his men who were in prison kosciuszko agreed. czar paul gave kosciuszko six delge-- 60,000 rubles which he put in a bank account for him in london and he also gave him a fur coats. because he was going to cross sweden in the winter to go to england so we figured he needed to be warm. now you see the fur here when kosciuszko made his way back to america after the revolution. he gave that fur coat to thomas jefferson. now thomas jefferson is seen here and the most famous portrait of him but in addition to that if you go down to the jefferson memorial you will see jefferson is portrayed wearing this fur coat. now, it was not just blacks, jews and peasants that kosciuszko stood up

what is the right length of incarceration? what is the right level of damages? these are not easy decisions. all i know that because my husband was a state trial court judge for 16 years. trial court judges must be able to live with the justice the meat out. to do it well it takes more than an understanding of the law, it takes an understanding of people. and judge sotomayor has a greater understanding of both. the had the pleasure of meeting with sonia sotomayor that they she fractured her ankle one. i said to her as she came into my office, boy, your top, she said i grew up in the bronx where we had to be tough. she handled the last panel injury with grace and humor, she has a first-rate temperament. she also has a first-rate intellect. after growing up in public housing project in the south bronx to she excelled at both princeton and yale law school. quote i believe judge sonia sotomayor is an excellent choice to replace david souter as a supreme court justice. and she deserves a fair in a thorough hearing without delay. mr. president, i look forward to that

result is more crime in our communities and a higher long-term cost to the taxpayer of future incarcerations. . i'm not exaggerating that there is no other agency in the bill about which i'm more confident about the need for additional resources. i urge my members to reject this amendment. i reserve the balance of my time. the chair: the gentleman from west virginia reserves. the gentleman from tennessee. mr. roe: i yield myself one minute. i understand e budget constraints. i have been a mayor. i had a jail system under my supervision. and i also know that around this nation there are cities and states that are dealing with budget deficits never before seen. and here is the only place in the world where we call a cut, we raise it 9% and give the president exactly what he wanted and call that a draconian cut. it is not. we should show some fiscal restraint in the house as an example to the people around this country, families and cities and municipalities and states that are working hard to balance their budget. in my own hometown, they're doing that by making real cuts. this is a very minim

because she spent the better part of every weekend driving eight hours to visit her father who was incarcerated. a man and an orange jumpsuit who would have five minutes to pick up a telephone, put his hand on plexiglas and try to teach this young latina to be strong, a woman warrior or aztec princess. little maria walked into my class that day and wasn't carrying a shiny apples like my father predicted. instead she walked in with an ankle monitor around her leg and a probation officer. 14-years-old. she was a freshman in high school and by the time this little girl was a freshman in high school she had already been and what can and juvenile hall and in her mind she thought it was a revolving door. and matter of time before i make a mistake again and am back behind bars because in her mind, because she had done bad things therefore she was a bad person. as i looked at little maria in the back corner in my classroom i think she must have used an entire khanna of gwyneth hair spray. her bangs were out to here, she had dark lipstick and dark makeup to disguise a black eye she had received days ear

if we are going to try these guantanamo detainees in the united states, we are going to incarcerate them while we try them. there's no other reasonable alternative. and if they are found guilty and face imprisonment, what will we do with them? i'm glad senator kyl acknowledged the obvious. of course we have to bring these terrorists to justice. and an american court is the best place to do it. the u.s. government frequently brings extremely dangerous individuals to the u.s. for prosecution. ramsey youseff, mastermind of the 1993 world trade center bombing, brought to the u.s., convicted, now being held in a federal supermax federal prison, a convicted terrorist. some of my colleagues on the other side of the aisle continue continue -- continually argue that we should not prosecute detainees in u.s. courts because no prison in america is safe to hold them. yam see youseff was held in the metropolitan corrections center in new york during the course of his trial for over two years. safely. my colleagues seem to think ma that american corrections -- think that american corrections officer a

i am concerned that the alleged perpetrator now incarcerated and held in jail is he continuing to make threats against those who are trying to both abide by the law and serve the needs of more than 51% of america. yes, we know there is opposition to abortion. none of us stand here as abortion proponents. what we stand here as is simply individuals who believe in choice. prayerfully believe in choice. and therefore i'm asking full support for this initiative to denounce the killing of dr. tiller, but i'm also saying enough is enough. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from north carolina. mr. coble: i continue to reserve the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: continues to reserve. the gentleman from new york. mr. nadler: mr. speaker, i now yield one minute to the distinguished gentlelady from illinois, ms. schakowsky. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlelady from illinois is recognized for one minute. ms. schakowsky: mr. speaker, i rise in support of house resolution 505 honoring the life of dr. george tiller and condemning his brutal murder at church. i thank

it further causes the cost to educate while to incarcerate is more. in texas we are reef -- reaching a point where we have more youth in a criminal justice system than in the education system. i ask my colleagues as we move forward to think of these issues and i yield back the balance of my time. mr. diaz-balart: i yield two minutes to mr. hastings. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from washington state is recognized for two minutes. mr. hastings: thank you, mr. speaker. i ask unanimous consent to revise and extend my remarks and add extraneous material to my remarks. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. mr. hastings: thank you, mr. speaker. mr. speaker,last evening i was patiently waiting here on the house floor to offer an amendment to the commerce and justice bill when they cut off our ability to represent our constituents with ideas to improve this legislation. at 8:00 p.m. last night the rules of the house allowed me to offer my amendment. but this morning under the rewriting of the rules, i am blocked from doing so. i deeply regret

knew what our real cost were when it comes to education, medical services, those kind of issues incarceration. i'm a believer in trying to figure out what those numbers are. and for that reason, i do believe that local government and the state of california ought to be involved in a greater way of identification of those who are here ill legally but yet requiring services of the taxpayers of the state of california. host: john, good morning. caller: thank you for taking my call. i just want to give a quick idea of something maybe to watch out for. i think your proposition program is a good idea personally when legislature won't work for the people it's a great idea to have us have an opportunity to come back and make some changes. we have something similar here in florida where we often have some amendments to the constitution. one problem we had here though i'm sure you may have out there, we had the huge property taxes on these huge overinflated home prices and home values. and we had a change to our constitution about a year ago to lower the tax rates to several years ago even though our r

specified that none of the funds appropriated by this act may be used by the bureau of prisons to incarcerate individuals currently held in guantanamo bay. mr. speaker, these detainees are not convicted criminals repaying their debt to society but rather the most dangerous people on the face of the planet, terrorists who will stop at nothing to kill any and all americans that they can. we cannot allow taxpayer dollars to be spent bringing these terrorists to live among the civilians they have sworn to destroy. also our prisons are already at capacity. in my colorado district, super max federal prison is at 99.7% capacity, leaving room for only one additional inmate. yet there are 226 prisoners now at guantanamo. other maximum security facilities in the u.s. are likewise operating at 55% above capacity. the fact is, we do not have the capability to house terrorists on our own soil without endangering prison employees and posing a risk to the communities in which they are sent. the president simply does not have a plan. it is unfortunate that my democratic colleagues do not want to debate this