i've got an e-mails from a leedy in south africa who read the book and said this book should be required reading for anybody who is about to graduate from school. hang on a second. my phone is ringing. mama, at the signing. [laughter] i understand. yes, they are all being nice to me. no i have not told them i love you yet but i'm going to. okay i've got to run. love you, bye bye. [laughter] sorry. so, it was a great experience. it was a lot of fun. the coolest thing about all of it thus far is getting around to come to the cities and meet new people and it's a lot fun. i think that i promised the book will make you laugh. i've gotten a couple stories from somebody, a friend of mine who was on an airplane and there was this person just laughing like an idiot, and on the way out they were like what are you laughing at? i'm reading this book, you want fries with that? so there was very flattering and very exciting. what i will do is i will sort of wrap things up here. i will, before taking questions, i will ask all of you and my new friends on c-span as a first-time author the book is publi

said in the 19 taha meetings i carry this around because i had some constituents come up to me one leedy in burlington, one over in twin lakes and devine sure michael barone knows where this is. i've received these over the years and it is astounding to me. this is a -- i asked because we can't accept gifts and a lady tried to give me this note and i said i can't accept anything of value. she said this is a from the volume of the republic. it has no value. so i accepted it. [laughter] when you keep printing money whether it's a 50 billion-dollar note, $100 million zimbabwe not given by constituents or 100 trillion-dollar zimbabwe note or something from the republic that came from somebody's wheel barrow back in the day talks we have to be mindful. we are a world reserve currency and we should act like we're the keeper of the world reserve and we are not acting like we are the keeper of the world reserve policy. what do i mean by that? yes, we had a shock and federal reserve needed to intervene to stop the panic. the need to intervene in credit facilities to make things work, the paper ma

the store manager happened to be out at the store but also a in leedy who's been with the company 17 years is the store manager of the store but i think within about 20 minutes she was back in the store. [laughter] and we had a fantastic visit. but a lot of the -- really that is so much of my job because we spend the time talking to our associates on the front line and talking to the customers shopping in the store. but i remember investor. one customer said more than ever on here at wal-mart because in once likened it everything i need. this was an elderly lady, a customer paying a lot more for fuel and so i'm thankful i can come to wal-mart and get everything we need in one stop. and i think that the first question of sales, we really needed to bring back product, put the right assortment in the store, have that trust, that assurance, that my basket of products that no other place i can buy can i have a lower basket than shopping at wal-mart and that's what we are focused on to drive the cost for sales. >> so you brought more products into the stores and made some adjustments. are

scientific study done because the portrait everybody has is gilbert stuart where she is an old heavyset leedy and so i said okay what did she look like and i went to the faces lab to the mary at lsu forensic anthropologists and said could we take a picture that is said by her family to really look like her and then go back to age 25, piece of cake. and here's a nice picture and i showed it to my editor and she said let's have somebody painted portrait and the person really good at doing historical portraits, alternative is michael d. is from new orleans who is a friend of a friend. and so she did the portrait and just the month before katrina hit, the head of mount vernon came to town to give a talk, took some people to look a portrait, and today it lives safely at the museum at mount vernon along with her wedding gown which was gold and wedding slippers which were purple so it's not just purple and gold because we are from new orleans , it's because she liked those colors so i saved her from old ladydom. [applause] >> i just wanted to know how you all handled when you come up with a subject

. >> does the leedy object? >> yes, i do. important issues. yes, i object. >> moving on, mr.gnized. the clerk will please distribute the amendment. >> the reading of the amendment will be dispensed with. i would be happy to respond to any questions anyone might have in the interest of time. basically what this amendment will do is it complies with language that is already in the section 1226. section 1226. >> the united states the congress has to get notice of that. what this amendment says is if we have a permanent relocation of a thousand individuals are more we simply get notice of that by the congress for 90 days before they do it. that is without being an emergency or the president determining that it's in the national interest of the country to do to move it within that timeframe and here's the reason why. we are told the we are going to have $4 billion of cuts coming down. mr. chairman, i think that if we should be entitled to know when we will have permanent relocations outside the united states we ought to at least have knowledge, we are going to have the permanent r

said in the 19 taha meetings i carry this around because i had some constituents come up to me one leedy in burlington, one over in twin lakes and devine sure michael barone knows where this is. i've received these over the years and it is astounding to me. this is a -- i asked because we can't accept gifts and a lady tried to give me this note and i said i can't accept anything of value. she said this is a from the volume of the republic. it has no value. so i accepted it. [laughter] when you keep printing money whether it's a 50 billion-dollar note, $100 million zimbabwe not given by constituents or 100 trillion-dollar zimbabwe note or something from the republic that came from somebody's wheel barrow back in the day talks we have to be mindful. we are a world reserve currency and we should act like we're the keeper of the world reserve and we are not acting like we are the keeper of the world reserve policy. what do i mean by that? yes, we had a shock and federal reserve needed to intervene to stop the panic. the need to intervene in credit facilities to make things work, the paper ma

said in the 19 taha meetings i carry this around because i had some constituents come up to me one leedy in burlington, one over in twin lakes and devine sure michael barone knows where this is. i've received these over the years and it is astounding to me. this is a -- i asked because we can't accept gifts and a lady tried to give me this note and i said i can't accept anything of value. she said this is a from the volume of the republic. it has no value. so i accepted it. [laughter] when you keep printing money whether it's a 50 billion-dollar note, $100 million zimbabwe not given by constituents or 100 trillion-dollar zimbabwe note or something from the republic that came from somebody's wheel barrow back in the day talks we have to be mindful. we are a world reserve currency and we should act like we're the keeper of the world reserve and we are not acting like we are the keeper of the world reserve policy. what do i mean by that? yes, we had a shock and federal reserve needed to intervene to stop the panic. the need to intervene in credit facilities to make things work, the paper ma