the gentleman from iowa. mr. braley: i yield one minute to the gentlewoman from illinois, congresswoman bean. the chair: the gentlewoman from illinois is recognized for one minute. ms. bean: thank you, madam chairwoman. i just want to acknowledge congressman braillely's efforts recognizing the challenges americans have -- braley's efforts recognizing the challenges americans have reading documents particularly lending disclosures. this amendment is a commonsense approach to making the program more accessible. i commepped his leadership to expand plain language to our government documents. i yield back. the chair: the gentlewoman from illinois yield back the remainder of her time. the gentleman from texas -- from iowa. mr. braley: madam speaker, i think that the comments that you heard are indicative of what's wrong with the way of government agencies write their documents. i think deplorable that we have to take this action, but the sad truth is anybody who's looked at these loan documents knows how serious this

about 31,000 of them are in iowa we've retained or saved, created. that would add another 2.5% to the unemployment rate. so things are getting better. >> joining us on "newsmakers" this week from

dubuque, iowa? the quintessential city of the future? apparently o. so what is it that makes this place a model for sustainability buol believes the model starts with community input. shortly after taking office, he formed a citizen task force to draw up a blueprint for sustainability. >> and they brought that back to the city council for our approval and i think they hit a home run. today that plan is looked at by other communities as kind of a benchmark. >> reporter: it's great to have benchmarks, but you also need the bucks. dubuque has been effective at combining the two. >> citizens of dubuque, you hear proclaim the week of may 8 to the 15th, 2010, as americorps week in the city of dubuque, iowa. >> reporter: when we were here, we witnessed one small example. the city council recognized these young americorps volunteers here for a door-to-door campaign to install energy saving devices court zi of the environmental protection agency. >> i want to make my house efficient. >> reporter: candice ewe dalely is a 25-year-old born and raised in dubuque.

the gentleman from iowa. mr. loebsack: madam speaker, i want to thank my colleagues for their consideration of this amendment and want to urge its passage and at this time i yield back the balance of my time. the chair: the gentleman has yielded the remainder of his time. the question is on the amendment offered by the gentleman from iowa, mr. loebsack. those in favor say aye. those opposed, no. in the opinion of the chair, the ayes have it. the amendment is agreed to. it is now in order to consider amendment number 17 printed in part c of house report 111-506. for what purpose does the gentleman from texas seek recognition? mr. green: madam chair, i rise as a designee to speak for ms. chu. and i have an amendment at the desk. the chair: the clerk will designate the amendment. the clerk: amendment number 17 printed in part c of house report 111-506 offered by mr. al green of texas. the chair: pursuant to resolution 1436, the gentleman from texas and a member opposed each will control five minutes. the chair recog

we learned a lot from howard dean's loss in iowa from -- in 2004.is ground game, that person to person of voter appeal was not there. they have a lot of people signed up to support howard dean in iowa on the internet, but their numbers on the ground did not match or come close. they did not have the kind of ground can necessary to get people from the committed. john kerry did. the personal connection -- we can never predict the future, but we are a pretty intense information age. that personal attention is still so critical to take what you have on line and make sure you have it offline, too. >> more question. the woman and a purple shirt. -- the woman in the purple shirt. >> my question is for mr. willington. you talked about candidate personality and how that can affect voter for turnout. your candidate had a photo shoot in cosmopolitan magazine that came about how would you say that affected voter turnout? did you enhance that factor for within voters? -- for women voters? how do they spend that to make that a positive factor for turn out? >> thi

king of iowa. the chair: pursuant to house resolution 146 , the gentleman from -- 1468, the gentleman from iowa, mr. king, and a member opposed, each will control five minutes. the chair recognizes the gentleman from iowa, mr. king. mr. king: thank you, mr. chairman. my amendment is simple in its language and perhaps a little more complicated when one starts to understand the freedom that would be exercised should my amendment become law. and that is this, it simply does this. my amendment eliminates, strikes all limitations on federal election campaign contributions. it takes out the $2,000 limit, the $5,000 limit, all the limits that sit there because it reverts us back to the constitutional principle that contributions to campaigns are free speech. funding is free speech. and to limit our ability as individual americans with constitutional rights, to make contributions to political campaigns, is an unconstitutional limitation, and by the way, to react to a supreme court decision by bringing a pi

host: let us go to iowa. we have a caller who said if you look at the results of the republican primary where br andstad, the establishment candidate was able to win with 50% of the vote, that i what is not buying into the conservative movement, the tea party movement. guest: an interesting point. he was the governor from 1983 until 1989. so he is not exactly an outsider. he was running to his right in some ways on social issues. at the same time brabdstad was still able to get support from the establishment conservatives. he got the support of sarah palin as well. so this sort of tea party conservative movement split and a place like iowa. but it is important to note that while the polls show brandstad did just win with 50% of the votes. at the same time going forward, the democratic governor of iowa, one of the most laudable incumbents -- his poll numbers have been terrible for a long time. the latest polling has him moving -- losing to terry branstad. clearly a case where he will make the case that bransta

of january 6, 2009,, the chair recognizes the gentleman from iowa mr. king. mr. king: i look at the data and looked at the poster, here is the economy as we know it and a very short snapshoo and billions of chain dollars. i never discussed an economy within chain dollars. i have not discussed it ithin trends that are compressed down within the few quarters that is presented in this graph within the floor of the house. here's what i would present. let's back up little bit. 1929 and think about what has haapened. this nation has been challenged over anddover again to come forward and determine where we are with this economy. are we the managed economy proposed by the democrats on the other side of the aisle that believe the president of the united states, the cabbnet and the pelosi congress and the harry reid senate should be the ones to make these economic decisions to manage the nationalized economy. are we the kind of people that should be nationalizing more of our economy?? i have gone through this list and i can recite it in my sleep. this federal government r

. >> since you are back home, how is the economy in the rural counties in iowa compared to this time last year? >> it is improving. unemployment is down, the total number is up. we have had seven consecutive quarters of economic growth, so things are improving and it is mayor -- is nearing what is happening is -- is nearing what is happening in the nation as a whole. i think the recovery act is i think the recovery act is having an impact, the congressional budget office says about 31,000 of those jobs are here in iowa. that would have added another 2% to the unemployment rate. things are getting better. >> tom vilsack, joining us on "newsmakers" this week. thank you very much. we're going to spend a couple of minutes where we help understand what the secretary had to say and i want to start with mike. he talked about regional differences and commodity differences. what do you know that the secretary was unwilling to say about this? >> i put the bait out there but he would not buy. every farm bill is a regional flight. to say it's a fight is not to say it's wrong, but it is the natur

in iowa, we bought i don't know how many residents along the river, and what was unique about it, all of the property we bought out, we put deed restrictions on it where no one could ever build on it again. they could use it for soccer fields, baseball fields, recreational, but no building. and in iowa, they worked to plant all that area back in the natural flowers, natural grass, and in just two to through years, the ecosystem all came back in that area around there. so we knew then that mitigation and prevention was going to be a huge part of everything we did, not only in disasters, but before disasters. and it worked extremely well. i never will forget, g.a.o. asked us to do a cost benefit analysis on buyouts and prevention. when we did that, after the mississippi flood, it showed that every dollar spent on prevention saved $3 to $5 in future losses, but it did more than that. it saved the pain and the anguish that people had to go through. so i'm extremely proud of what president clinton supported and what we could do for the american people in these high-risk communities. then i

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for what purpose does the gentleman from iowa seek recognition. mr. king: i move the house do now adjourn. ism the question is on the motion to adjourn. those in favor say aye. those >> the house took up two bills. more were expected on those bills tomorrow. also of bill honoring their role of fathers and our society. more live coverage tomorrow on c-span. >> they continued to press the industry to get access to news applies to the world. that is drilling wwlls to 10 kilometers in the deepwater of the gulf of mexico, ontinuing to explore under the guise in the arctic. >> tony hayward before the gulf oil spill. thursday he will testify on capitol hill. see what other industry officials have said about this bill with more than 100 hearings all archived at our video library. it is washington your way. region for the fourth time of april's this week. president obama address the bp oil spill from the oval office. he meets with officials tomorrow. >> good evening. as we speak, our nation faces a multitude of challenges. at home, our top priority is to recov

i yield to my friend from iowa. mr. king: i thank the gentleman from texas. i am standing here thinking, i started down this subject matter and -- a statement i needed to make was this. i'm look forward to the interception of the whole in the re-- of the hole and the ref leaf -- relief wells that are being dealed that were down to 14,000 feet going back to last weekend, so i assume they're a i proaching their goal. but it's very difficult to thread the needle from four miles away. but when they do get it done and get the relief wells drilled and sealing it off, doing what they did in 1979, when they had the huge oil spill when they had the blowout in the well on the yucatan peninsula, when they hut that off, i expect -- and i haven't had a conversation with anybody in b.p. or anybody more knowledgeable than we, i expect we'll be able to go down with robotics, cut the casing off and recover the blowout preventer. if we can bring that up to the surface and test that b.o.p., we'll be able to have a more effective theory on what went wrong. that's what i'm intere

. >> the gentleman from iowa? >> thank you. i want to commend and many hers, for your hard work and your dedicationo making the bill in the hse. look forward to working with colleagues in the senate. last time i saw you this closely, you were with your children at the icrink. >> that was a great time. >> i want to associate myself with the comments made a moment ago and what was just said. this is true to me. the job in coness is to allow tranarency and oversight to wall street in the over-the- counter derivatives market for the necessary oversight without hindering legitimate consumers from operating within them. to the extent that the activity is taking pce and hard-working americans are taken to the cleaners. we have to ake certain that regulators can protect consumers and that they will be using thostools. congress has pledged that the rules will change, and they are working steadfast for new regulations. we must make certain that american consumers are protected angry executives are held accountable, and we preventhe irres

the example they point out is iowa. iowa uses the -- helped to produce competitive elections. pennsylvania from this editorial, one of the most gerrymandered estate would have to change its system. the next is gail joining us. good morning to you. caller: two quick comments. first of all, we only have ourselves as americans to blame for the partisanship doubt there. for people like alvin green to be elected in south carolina tells you the voters out there are somewhat ignorant to vote someone like that. so peoole have to put a d or r in front of their name. it only makes sense. secondly, i am as an independent i am happy the republicans are fighting obama right now. because if you look beyond your partisan eyes and say what is he doing? the citizens -- the decisions they have made. is it really helping the economy? if you take an honest look at it, what he's doing is actually making things worse. i say keep fighting because we need some that look at the interests of the american people, not just the people that support them. >> and responding back and forth between some of our

we on farmland in iowa. -- we own farmland in iowa, but the reality is, if either of our boys wantedto be a farmer, it would be very difficult for them, even though we owned the land. how should we address that the next, as we address that? -- how should we address that? how must we addressed that if we are to keep rural america alive? the nation should focus its attention on rural america if for no other reason than 90% of the persistent poverty counties are located in rural america. so, aging population, dispersing population, a persistent poverty are all indications that it is important to have a summit. it is important to focus our attention on these challenges. when i referred to the rural revitalization bill, i say we should take into the complex -- -- we should take into consideration the complexity of the challenges facing rural america. what i do not want, and what i do not think you want, is a hang on a philosophy. just hang on. it is going to be ok. we need to think beyond that. we need to think about that day when we can actually turn the corner in terms of the economy of

republican charles grassley of iowa sounded out the nominee on the role of international law in u.s. courts. >> should judges ever look to foreign law for, quote unquote, good ideas? >> i guess i'm in favor of good ideas coming from wherever you can get them. but i don't think that foreign law should have independent precedential weight in any but a very, very narrow set of circumstances. so i would draw a distinction between looking wherever you can find them for good ideas, for just to expand your knowledge of the way in which judges approach legal issues; but makinging that very separate from using law as precedent or independent weight. >> reporter: amidst tense exchanges there were also humorous most as when pennsylvania democrat arlen specter asked about televising supreme court proceedings. >> i think it's always a good thing when people understand more about government rather than less. certainly the supreme court is an important institution and one that the american citizenry has every right to know about and understand. i recognize that some people, some justices may have v

i would have voted iowa. the speaker pro tempore: the lady's explanation will be recorded in the record. the speaker pro tempore: the chair will entertain requests for one-minute speeches. will other members please take their conversations out of the chamber. for what purpose does the gentleman from the northern mir yawn ast rise? -- miranas rise. without objection. the gentleman is recognized. mr. sablan: madam speaker, some families have an outside influeece in their community, with 12 children, 40 grandchildren, 30 great-grandchildren and two great-great-grandchildren, manuel gomez has had an impact but the influence was more than a miracle. he was the first entrepreneurs to emerge from the ashes of world war ii. manny's family sold produce to the japanese before the war but after the war they became business people themselves and began a small grocery store. they invested in real estate, went into construction, sold scrap and grew their fortune and invested in their children's education though they only h

: under the speaker's announced policy of january 6, 2009, the chair recognizes the gentleman from iowa, mr. king, for 60 minutes. mr. king: thank you, mr. speaker. it's a privilege to have the opportunity to address you here on the floor of the house and lot of subjects come up here. everything has been debated here on the floor. i have listened to a lot of the dialogue in the previous hour, and i appreciate my coleastheegs ' situation and the dire straits that america is in. and it seems ironic to me that about a year ago, little more than a year ago, i sat in the office in berlin just outside the reicshtagg and angela merkel made a statement that the united states is spending too much money. this was february or march of 2009 and she made the argument that the solution for economic crisis was not the federal government spending more money, mr. speaker, but it was about some targeted tax cuts that they had provided for their social ized economy. european socialized economy, government-managed businesses, public-private partnerships, that's been some of the problems as to why they have

host: next up, now pleasant, iowa. anthony, republican line. caller: i think the firing of general mcchrystal was unnecessary. but he also made comments that were unnecessary. but i would like to get general -- i think he would make a good addition to it and the republican ticket in 2012. military man, nobody else in the republican bill has more foreign policy experience as general mcchrystal. he would add eight -- to the ticket to mitt romney or pawlenty, who already have a good grasp of the economy. host: anthony collings from the caucus state of iowa. south bend, indiana. independent line on c-span open phones. caller: good morning, susan. thank you very much for c-span. how you guys can put up with some of the questions and answers you have to field. host: you know it is a lot of fun. caller: as far as general see anyal -- i don't way how season general will has a chance to cancel the stick in "rolling stone" or at least clean that up and did nothing to even let his bosses know that the article has beennpublished, this has been a mistake. i

in iowa, they worked with the iowa game and fish department to plant that area back into the natural flowers, natural grass. in just a couple of years, the ecosystem all came back into the area around there. so, we knew then that mitigation and prevention was going to be a huge part of everything we did. not only in disasters, but before disasters. it works extremely well. i will never forget the gao asking us to a cost-benefit analysis on by all relocation and prevention. -- on by out -- on buyout relocation and prevention. every dollar spent saved $3 too $5 on future losses. it saved people pain and anguish. i'm extremely proud of what president clinton supported and that we could do for the american people in those communities. in 1994, we have the northridge earthquake. in los angeles and pasadena, simi valley, all throughout theire. people were scared to go back into homes. leona came out and volunteered her time. cnn was always after her to do an interview and she would hide from them. [laughter] it was unbelievable. the first lady, hillary clinton, came out today to agree to t

>host: the next call is from davenport, iowa. peter on the independent line. >caller: first elected say i am loyal to c-span. awesome channel. teachers are great public servants. nothing matches up to it at all. financing for schools should be equal all the way around. it should not be tax base. it should not be local base. every school should receive the same amount of funding. it should not matter that one district has a higher tax bracket and whatever else. host: are you suggesting nationwide or statewide? caller: it should be on the state level. i think the state should have more responsibility for education. there should be a basis for it, but it is the state's responsibility. it is a federal responsibility. unfortunately, our federal government is already taxed out. it will be micromanaged to an unbelievable amount if we do it that way. as far as math and science goes, we will not get much farther unless we have thee evolution/creation debate that we have. that has stalled a lot. we're not going to get much farther from that. that is a major block we are

guest: it is very interesting primary for governor of iowa. terry branstad served a governor four materials from 1983 to 1999. he is seeking a comeback and wants to calendar the current democratic governor in november. he faces two challengers. it looks like a more competitive one is a businessman who was the republican nominee for lieutenant governor in 2006. again, this is one of these party sacramento versus conservative activist primaries. that is very interesting although endorsements don't necearily mean anything. i hate to keep referring to sarah palin laying her hands on candidates and giving them her blessing. butn this case >> it is the busiest election day of the year so far for congressional and gubernatorial elections. with 12 states holding primaries or runoffs today. here in california, democratic senator barbara boxer will learn who her republican opponent will be. california has a republican primary in the race to succeed term limited republican governor around schwarzenegger. we'll have live coverage tonight of key races star

that the turkish armed forces is seizing a tremendous amounts of c- span.o [unintelligible] host: iowamocrats line. caller: thanks for having me. i want to focus back on america. i think part of the problem we are seeing is a lack of trust with our government. and also with other news media. i have listened very intently to what you have been saying. it is suggested that the council on foreign relations route -- i read the people singing to have a certain type of influence. my question is -- i hear you talking about the u.s. liberty and nothing the facts straight and different stories. it's a question about the investigation that is going to happen with the american deaths and there are questions that there may be more deaths to follow. cushion the united states knows the most about investigations with israeli? vice-president biden says let it be an israeli-led investigation. but some parents have worked with the united states government for several years to get an investigation, a garland and transparent investigation. united states government said israelis had not accomplish that. ho

which shoes go with which bag, a coffee plantation, turkish, poland, german, french, italian, that's iowa-italian, from the bridges of madison county, a bit of the bronx, aramaic, yiddish, irish clogged dancing, cooking, singing, riding horses, nick takoma playing the violin, and simulating steamy sexual encounters. these are some of the areas in which i have pretended quite professionally to be successful, or the other way around korean as have many women here, i am sure. women, i feel i can say this authoritatively, especially at barnard, where they cannot hear us. what am i talking about? they professionally cannot hear us. women are better at acting than men. why? because we have to be. it successfully convincing someone bigger than you are of something he does not want to know is a survival skill, this is how women have survived through the millennium. pretending it's not just play. bartending is imagined possibility. -- pretending is not just play. pretending or acting is a very valuable light skill, and we all do it, all of the time. we do not want to be caught doing it, but nonetheless, i

the senator from iowa. >> is this the time [unintelligible] thank you. i asked my full statement be made part of the record. i want to compliment chairmann dodd and chairman peter sent for their leadership in putting this together. i might observe ttat my friend from alabama made the statement of trying to find out what went wrong. we know what went wrong. it went wrong in 1999. for 65 years, a classical -- glass stiegal rove's through the korean war and the tumultuous years of the 1960's nd 1970's and broadcaster liberal presidents to conservative presidents like ronald reagan. and cast our financial system sound. in the 1990's clufthese whiz-kid wizards of wall street t devised ways of developing monday. they had no way of evaluating it. they had no way of making or maximizing their promise. what they said was to do this, all we can do is do it through the investment banking system. in order to make a loo of money, we need access. access to the money that is in the insurance industry. we need access to the money in depository banks. wall street led the

i'd like to recognize the gentleman from iowa, mr. boswell, for purpose of a colloquy. the speaker pro tempore: for how much time? patterson patterson for such time as -- mr. peterson: for such time as he may consume. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized for such time as he may consume. mr. boswell: i'd like to clarify an important point about one of the exclusions from the definition of swap. the exclusion from the definition of swap for, quote, any sale of a nonfinancial commodity or security for deferred shipment or delivery so long as the transactions intended to be fiscally settled, end of quote. it is intended to be consistent with the ford contract exclusion that is currently in the commodity exchange act and cftc established policy on this subject. physical commodity transactions should be -- should not be regulated as swaps as that term is defined in this legislation. this is true even if commercial parties agree to, quote, look out to deliver obligations of the ford contract. now, for those who are not familiar with terminology, a bookout is a

host: bill in iowa. you are a federal employee, what do you do?aller: i am an atmospheric scientist. i used to work climate change for many years. i am now with noaa > cal. you are understating the problem. i had the opportunity to be involved in a couple of special areas. the government is a huge powerful, self perpetuating special interests. it all comes down to that. there is not really checks and balances and standards to hold the whole system that day. -- at bay. you are rewarded for growing, not results. i have been and involvinvolved s for the past few decades. they are not asking the right questions. all i can kill you this, -- i was told many times, the taxpayers have spent millions on my training. the seriousness of the problem is overwhelming. we are bankrupt. if you take exponential growth, the magnitude of the problem, we cannot tax our way out of the problem. we have to make some huge spending. and they will overwhelm us and we are all at fault. this is not a partisan issue. guest: first of all, thank you for your work at noaa. it is

. >> the gentleman from iowa? >> thank you. i want to commend ou and many others, for your hard work and your dedication to making the bill in the house. i look forward to working with colleagues in the senate. last time i saw you this closely, you were with your children at the ice rink. >> that was a great time. >> i want to associate myself with the comments made a moment ago and what was just said. this is true to me. the job in congress is to allow transparency and oversight to wall street in the over-the- counter derivatives market for the necessary oversight without hindering legitimate consumers from operating within them. to the extent that the activity is taking place and hard-working americans are taken to the cleaners. we have to ake certain that regulators can protect consumers and that they will be using those tools. congress has pledged that the rules will change, and they are working steadfast for new regulations. we must make certain that american consumers are protected angry executives are held accountable, a

just in the pacific northwest but when i had a chance to visit ranking member grassley's district in iowa earlier, he has got a compan that used to be involved, a company that was formerly involved and maytag washing machines, and they are now making the blades for some of these wind turbines. you have companies and manufacturers from texas and michigan. this can be a real job creating industry if we manage this appropriately and we are going to do that across the administration. if i might, senator wyden i know our time is coming to a close but i did want to respond to one thing that chairman baucus said and i want to make it absolutely clear. this administration is acutely focused on the needs of americans to find the jobs we so deeperately wants to accompany this economic recovery, and we believe having a smart, thoughtful, aggressive export policy is the way to do that. we share the concerns of this committee about some of our challenges with china, but i want to make sure we don't give the american public the impression that it would be in the best interest economic interest, of the

guest: it is very interesting primary for governor of iowa. terry branstad served as governor four materials from 1983 to 1999. he is seeking a comeback and wants to calendar the current democratic governor in november. he faces two challengers. it looks like a more competitive one is a businessman who was the republican nominee for lieutenant governor in 2006. again, this is one of these party sacramento versus conservative activist primaries. that is very interesting although endorsements don't necessarily mean anything. i hate to keep referring to sarah palin laying her hands on candidates and giving them her blessing. but in this case branstad trying to fight the in picture that he is not kevin of it enough it might bolster him. host: we have had the senior political analyst from c.q. watch us through the evening. we will bring you the results here tonight deep into prime time. maybe until 1:00 or 2:00 in the morning with the west coast races. we will have speeches live and taped from winning and losing candidates tonight. we will take ano

a native of iowa, he holds a bachelor degree in sociology and master degree in theology anddy vinity. he also holds a master's degree in counseling from creighton university, in omaha. a priest of the omaha arch by sees since 1985, he previouuly soifled as the director of st. augustine mission before coming to boys town. he has over 20 years of experience in nonprofit administration and youth advocacy and will be a great leader in carrying out boys town's mission in the 21st century. for 93 years boys town has helped at-risk youths and family through a variety of services and the organization has now%% expanded to 12 locations nationally. last year the organization served 370,000 children and adults across the u.s., canada, and the u.s. territoryings, as well as in several foreign countries. boys town has grown significantly since father flanagan's era. in 1977 boys town national research hospital opened its doors and has become a national treatment center for children with hearing and speech problems and other communication disorders. boys town is also opened its national hotline in

this view were saying -- -- viewer saying -- next from fairfield, iowa. caller: good afternoon to. i had the opportunity to visit with you. we are simply in trouble and what we had is a president who is incapable and will never get out of it. we need to get rid of him and pushed the democrats out and go back to a one-on-one debate and then we will have something. thank you. host: thank you. from "the guardian" this morning. over the weekend, ariana huffington dubbed mr. obama "the nowhere man." charles joining us from springfield, massachusetts. good morning. caller: i was thinking that what is going on right now is sort of a reflection of what went on at kyoto. it seems as though america is being challenged by these emerging powers. you have the situation in north korea where we are completely reliance on the chinese. and the situation with iran, some of these shifting alliances and up having influence in afghanistan. but the thing that struck me this morning is this situation with israel. i lived there in the 1990's and i'm interested in absolutely how polarized people are that,

i mentioned which is a great thing to see if we go out and work together because we relied upon -- iowafe and secure environment for us to do humanitarian assistance. and i think aa surprise to many, security remains stable through the course of the operation at a time when many thought that he would revert back to its violent ways from the gangs who controlled most of the city it did not happen. i submit it did not happen because of the leadership of the united nationmilitary. the forces there and the actions that they took in the days following the earthquake. and ovously, all the other military that showed up to provide help to the haitian people responded appropriately so. i found them to be resilient, every patient and very gracious for all of the support, and we have benefited from that relationship. so as we go forward, one of the areas we're looking to provide from the u.s. southern mmand is to be prepared for the next disaster that would strike haiti because if history is any indicator, there will be another disaster whether it is heavy rain. we really do not need a hurricane a

for what purpose does the gentleman from iowa rise? mr. king: i move the house do now adjourn. the speaker pro tempore: the question is on the motion to adjourn. those in favor say aye. those opposed, no. the ayes have it. it follows the recent support -- supreme court ruling covered under the first amendment. always live here on c-span. >> coming up tonight on c-span, president obama announces the removal of general mcchrystal as commander in afghanistan. then members of the senate armed services commitment react to the announcement, and we will hear from general david petreaus who was named as mcchrystal's replacement. >> today president obama announced he was removing general stanley mcchrystal from commander of allied forces in afghanistan. this move came after rolling stone magazine interview were general mcchrystal criticize the president and members of his administration. president obama has named david petreaus as mcchrystal's replacement. here is the president's announcement at the white house. >> good afternoon. today accepted general stanley mcchrystal resignation as

host: bill, we will go to a democrat in iowa. caller: good morning. as a woman, i worked all my life and i belonged to a union. i belonged to the union because a woman has equal rights when she belongs to a union. host: ok. caller: thank you. host: hollywood, california. republican line. gerry. good morning. caller: good morning. i have been and motion picture business for 15 years -- have been in the -- for the entire period. the union, as far as i'm concerned are corrupt sell out. they guarantee our wages, yes. do they get us work? nope. do they sell off most of our rights that we have as far as rights that we have as far as guaranteed him late night hours, wages, and what not? no. they are selling off all of our rights. the corrupt union bosses are selling off all of our rights to producers. i went through a grievance for 13 years. in the meantime, the arbitrator died. they put another arbitrator in power, and basically they settled for pennies on the dollar. i think the unions have really lost their clout. and i think the union in the mode should

host: iowa. joe on the democratic line. caller: how are you doing, man? host: doing well. caller: you know what is hurting the country the worst? we are paying 30% of our paycheck. and that does not include health care, which is another 8% of our paychecks. even the people who are working are giving up such a large portion to our government. if our government would back off and become what it was supposed to be originally, where its decentralized portion will take care of civil defense and let the states do their own business, i think everybody would be better. host: independent line in georgia. what do you think? caller: good morning. the states that did not have an income tax are the state better off financially. if you noticed, california, into the states that are more fiscally irresponsible like california is a sanctuary state. one out of every $3 goes to support illegal immigrants pour. the people of california voted eight years ago that taxpayer money would not go to support illegal immigrants. it was overturned by a federal judge. one out of every $3 goes to support

pro tempore: you should the speak's announced li of januy 6, 2009, t chair rognis the gentlema from iowa,r. king, for0 minutes. mr. king: thank you, mr. speaker. it's a privilege and honor to be recogned to dress you here on the floor of the house tonight and pick up on some subject matter, i think my lleagues who spoke in the previous hour covered th suect matr pret clearly and very well, the matter global finances and the broader picture we're working with. for me, i come here tight with a numbeof things on my mind and things that are fresh on my min mr. speaker, they have to do with iigrati situation he in the united states. andavg had a lo history with the subject matter, when i first came to thisongress i recall listening to congressman tom tancredo on theloor, i was in myffice, watching on c-span, i ought, -- i though ia pie of history in the king. i walked over here, io the pitol chber and sat here to listeto him speak and tom, knong the rthm ofhe pce here, saw me in the chamber d concluded i came over because i had me things toay. he recognized me to speakn the subject matter of

looking at other races across the country, we have a full list of the race is happening tuesday -- iowamaine, house and governor, california, senate and governor, montana has a house race, new jersey has a house race as does virginia, south carolina has senate and governor and south dakota has senate and governor along with house races and all of those states. the questions continue about how influential are are the politicians when it comes to your vote? do they motivate you to get out and have a voice in the primaries? former governor sarah palin has given her support to a handful of candidates, including haley, running for south carolina governor. she also came out this past week to endorse a candidate who is running against senator lisa murkowski. that is up in alaska, murkowski is a republican there. the former governor palin endorsed little-known -- "competition makes everybody worker, be more efficient, debate clear, and produce more. the the media has tried to trace some sort of feud or bad blood between lisa and myself, such as the case. it is my firm belief we need a bold refo

les like to ignite in ethusiasm because i guess you ca go and est aroun the virinia courthouse, the iowa house but it doesn't have the sea and i think gavanizing force as something that is more foced on voting specific people into office who promised to vote a certain way. >> i would adequaty becse henry mcalister of soth carolina as the attorney general responsible i think he was teatening tsue if they ssed -- if hlth care got roh and they passed theull vote and he sort of in the polls and then that wa three months later he lost the nmination and came in third place behind the compreion. so if there is olical momentum behind that it didn benefit the guy at filed lawsuit. so you are bter f with a repeal and replacement like steve king or michele bachman say. and get me funf in the press for saying it bu vers wanto believe they can pull a ler and make something happen rather than mabey what happens is the candidate will point better judges somd but thatis just -- i isn't the lauit itelf. >> i woul disagree. i'm skeptical about this idea there seemsto be this underte i gather from the one

which shoes go with which bag, a coffee plantation, turkish, poland, german, french, italian, that's iowa-italian the bridges of madison county, a bit of the bronx, aramaic, yiddish, irish clogged dancing, cooking, singing, riding horses, nick takoma playing the violin, and simulating steamy sexual encounters. these are some of the areas in which i have pretended quite professionally to be successful, or the other way around korean as have many women here, i am re. women, i feel i can say this authoritatively, especially at barnard, where they cannot hear us. what am i talking about? they professionally cannot hear us. women are better at acting than men. why? because we haveo be. it successfully convincing someone bigger than you are of something he does not want to know is a survival skill, this is how women have survived through the millennium. pretending it's not just play. bartending is imagined possibility. -- pretending is not just play. pretending or acting is a very valuable light skill, and we all do it, all of the time. we do not want to be caught doing it, but nonetheless, it is part

: under the speaker's announced policy of january 6, 2009, the chair recognnzes the gentleman from iowa, mr. king, for 60 minutes. mr. king: thank you, madam speaker. it's an honor to be -- have the opportunity to address you here on the floor of the house of representatives. and pick up where my colleagues left off. they have given, i think, a good presentation over the last 60 minutes that covered a lot of important territory with regard to the budget and the spending. i think they made the point that since the rules of the house required a budget resolution this house has never before failed to pass a budget. and there are political reasons for that. i happen to see a quote over on the wall that i hadn't picked up before. it didn't occur to me. i'm sure it wasn't a republican, maaam speaker. it was a quote that generally speaking was this, until the deficit reduction commission would meet and produce a decision, we couldn't possibly pass a budget here in the house. and that would be -- oh, let me see, a week or two or so after the election in november. imagine. congress can't do its

products i entioned which is a great thinto see if we go out and work together because we relied upon -- iowa and secure environnt for us to do humanitia assistance. and think as a suprise to many, securityemains stable through th course of the opatn at a time when many ought that he would revert ck to its violent ways from the gangs who conolled most of the city it did not happen. i submit it did t happen because the leadership of the united nations military. the foes there and the actis that they took in the days following the arthquake. and obviously, all the other military that showed upto provide help to the hatian people responded appropriately so. i found them to be resilient, every patient an vey gracious for all of the sport, and we have benefited from that relationship. as we go forward, one o the arease're looking to provide from the u.ssouthern comman is to be preparedfor the next disast that wuld strikehaiti cause if history is any indicator, there ll be anther dister whether it is heavy rain. we really do not need a hurricane as all of you know to create a disaster in aiti. all

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