. >> the ranking member, kay bailey hutchison, had played quite active role in this hearing, too. one question she asked about was the media ownership issue. >> when i first came to the senate, i was a person who believed that a newspaper should not have too much television presence in the market, because i think more media outlets are good thing. since i came to the senate, the technology world has exploded. i no longer think that we need to police that. we have the most incredible situation, which i don't think any of us ever anticipated in our lifetimes, that major newspapers would be on the brink of going out of business and not having that avenue for news coverage for the citizens of big communities. it is now a viable possibility. my question is, the sec does have rules against ownership, and i think it is important that you look at that and determine if we really ought to be doing everything we can to keep newspapers alive in order to have the most outlets for people who like to get their news in different ways. >> very early in my career, i worked on a newspaper in college

she has worked with senator kay bailey hutchison who has had this piece of legislation pass the senate. she had 75 co-sponsors, hence the legislation is now before us in the house. mr. speaker, there should be a compendium of knowledge, if you will, styled the greatest stories never told. perhaps therein wb the stories -- would be the stories of the buffalo soldiers. a story of rarely told how they had to fight their way into the military so that they could fight for their country. perhaps contained therein there would be the story of the fill peaian soldiers who died -- philippine soldiers who died on the bataan march. such a collection would not be complete, however, without the story of the wasp. these are the first women to fly military aircraft. they are the women in the air force, the women air force service pilots known as the wasp. it's a story of gender bias, mr. speaker. the notion that flying is a man's work. it's the story of culture bias, the belief that a woman's pce is in the home. it's the story of injustice. the notion that women could apply but never qualify. it's a s

thank you and i call upon the ranking member, kay baileyç hutchison. >> thank you mr. chairman.to ask every person in the audience who is a dealer to stan. >> of course. >> thank you very much. we really wanted to seeing the people who are facing the issues that we're talking about today. i think mr. chairman, first of all, thank you for holding this hearing year ago i think that after the supplemental appropriation a week before last just as i was offering my amendment to try to extend the the time for these chrysler dealers especially to be able to shut down their businesses and an orderly way, i got word that you were going to set this meeting for this week and i appreciate it because i think we need to hear what is really happening. is been about 10 days since we had the debate on the floor and we have the assurances, mr. press of chrysler that they would be contacted with dealers who are being closed. i want to set the stage because it was just the week before last that i was contacted by some of the dealers in my state who were affected and in the received a letter from ch