[applause] >> latham and watkins. [applause] >> scad and arps. [applause] >> cooley. [applause] >> morrison and forester. pillsbury. and simpson thatcher. [applause] everybody here has contributed and these have made a special contribution which we want to honor separately. i also want to thank tracy jennison of kirkland and ellis for doing whatever she needed to do to get the fine wine donated by duckhorn wine company and shea lure. you should have bottled of that on your table right now. we're also grateful to mark richardson and merrill corporation who contributed the printing of our luncheon program and menu, and i want to personally thank our friends at the recorder and "the daily journal" for their pro bono support in leading us up to today. i also want to thank the committee that worked on this and the honorary committee, all those people contributed to is. and now the only reason you really want to hear about from me is that i'm the guy that gets to give away presents. for the first time this year, we have compliments of our former chair, ken gurnsey, a silico

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latham, for two minutes, please. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized for two minutes. mr. latham: i thank the speaker, thank the chairman for allowing me the time here to speak, and i rise in support today of h.r. 6233, the agricultural disaster assistance act. as we all know, farmers are really suffering, ranchers suffering from one of the worst in widespread disasters, droughts that have occurred in over -- in decades. and while over half of iowa has been designated as a disaster area because of the drought, farmers at home are really hurting and really feeling the pain of the drought. you know, while the forecasts are not good for the future as far as rain and the conditions appear to be worsening every day out there, the temperatures near 100 degrees, we're at a critical point. congress can't legislate rain like we'd like to but we can certainly provide farmers the certainty that they need to address the disaster which is the worst in decades. unfortunately, mr. speaker, the livestock producers d

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. >> outside of the wfo task force that was given the hasan latham was anybody else in wfo or fbi headquarters aware of the length of time it was taken to act on this league? >> sir, it was an informational lead sent to headquarters, but they did not track the lead. again, that has changed. we changed under the new system. >> so now the management would monitor this? >> sir, it is monitor so there are 90 day file reviews that would have caught that. that it had lacked. again though, the commission report stated, and we concur, that the time period is still too long. >> okay. i'm going to go to mr. fattah. >> let me try to cover some the details and also get into some of the other issues. so, it's how many months after 9/11 does awlaki land at jfk? >> so, that time he comes back, and he came back in 2002, a number of times but that was october 2002 i believe. the chairman was talking to. >> so it's almost a year after 9/11. he comes back. he's arrested but then the warrant is withdrawn, right? >> he is held and the warrant -- >> right. you know, i think that the chairman to interest in this has