that, let me urge my colleagues to defeat -- first to yield to my colleague from kentucky. mr. rogers: he says, all of these congressional directed spending earmarks have been vetted by the department. they have been scrubbed by our subcommittee, unlike anything before. and i join in opposition. mr. price: i thank the gentleman. i yield to mr. pastor to expand on this provision and the reasons that the proposed amendment should be rejected. mr. pastor: madam chairman, i ask unanimous consent to revise and extend my remarks. the chair: without objection. mr. pastor: first of all, i want to say for the record that i have never met personally with the company listed as the recipient for this earmark. it has stirred my interest, the technology and use of technology that i brought this request to the subcommittee. and while this is a for-profit company, which is listed as the recipient, under the new rules instituted in this congress this year, this company or any company will have to compete for the contract. and i know of at least three u.s. companies with products suitable for su

he insisted that i was homosexual and he urged me to quote from a let down my hair. he had been in the navy and all of us guys play around, right? i told him repeatedly that he had the wrong guy. he got angrier each time i said it. and at last he grabbed my hand and he tried to force it down the front of his trousers. i jumped up and away. there was a badge, and he was snapping the handcuffs on with a remark -- maybe you'll talk better with my partner outside. the partner, jennings wrote, was noted to be found on the left the house. the vice of a separated him all the way back to the park and then ushered him into the waiting patrol car. the arresting officer sat in the back seat beside him and he and the two others in the frenzied asked a barrage of basic questions such as, how long have been this way, the officers repeatedly made jokes about police brutality, laughingly asked if they have been brutal to reach other have a use of the three instructed me to plead guilty and then they assured me everything would be all, right. jennings feared in the usual beating, pro

let me remind the members, we all have the environment in our districts, so i urge a strong, strong no vote on the stearns amendment. and i reserve the balance of my time. the chair: the gentleman reserves the balance of his time. the gentleman from florida is recognized. mr. stearns: i would say to the gentleman, did he know that they found a water bay on saturn, the planet saturn, and using your line of reasoning we should also consider funding for the new water bay on saturn? this is not a reduction, this is not a cut, this is simply a freeze and i would ask the gentleman, how many people in your congressional district are getting a 38% increase this year in their salary? and how you can justify a 35 -- 38% increase on e.p.a.? with that i yield back the balance of my time. the chair: the gentleman yields. the gentleman from washington. mr. dicks: i will answer the gentleman's question. i want you to know, again, i have to say this again, and it pains me every time i say it, but over the last eight years, the interior department was cut by 16%, e.p.a., this part of this budget was cu

we have moved rapidly to ensure compliance and urge those products that are already covered be specifically exempted from new coverage from the act. let me conclude with a comment about public health. the very department of health and human services the regulates air safety has a dual responsibility to promote public-health but consider the fact we need as americans to double our consumption of fruits and vegetables to meet with a dietary guidelines for the with that imperative years of food safety have no place in the fresh produce a department. pinky for your leadership. >> thank all of you we will now take questions from the panel five minutes each. i will start. there are many in the industry that have called for prevention and a stronger emphasis on prevention and many feel we should share the responsibility for making food safety a as well as manufacturers to be responsible for the foods that they make the draft proposes to do this three new emphasis on prevention the requires companies to conduct has an analysis to identify potential safety risks for the food the handled and requires the facility owner adopt preventative measures

press, president of chrysler, urged dealers to buy 15,000 cars from the company in order to save it. now let meread what mr. press reportedly said to the dealers. quote, you have two choices: you can either helpless or per noss down. mr. golick, are you familiar with this? >> very familiar. >> the article also quotes mr. press saying and i quote, if you decide not to do that, we've got a good memory of who helped us and who didn't. do you recall that, mr. golick? >> i very much do. >> how did you feel about that? did you take that as a threat? >> i never heard that from an auto executive in my life. i've never heard anything like that. >> mr. golick, as the result did you buy additional cars? >> you know what, i honestly can't remember. i think if i had to look it up and probably did not on that particular month but i did all the other months. i think chrysler could provide you with that, but i have a feeling i did not that particular month he made that comment as i sloughed off and told my family i can't believe this guy said this. >> mr. keikenapp, were you on that call? >> yes, i was. >> are

let me share with the many of the editorials. they call it the cairo speech. pointing out that words are important. mr. obama was right when he urged leaders to say those words in public, but words are not enough. mr. obama, who has been in office less than six months, has a lot to do to fulfill this mission. guest: what the president is trying to do, he wants to turn the page with the muslim world. once to begin a new dialogue and search for common ground. -- he wants to begin a new dialogue. at the same time, as he said, everything does not change with one speech. but one of his prime objectives is to get a lot of people in different muslim communities to reevaluate their attitudes towards the united states, and create wider distance between some of these muslim communities and extremist forces. one of the ways to do that is to engage in a peace process, but he hit about seven key themes in that speech. host: let me share another editorial from the "wall street journa;." mr. obama missed a chance to remind his audience that no country has done more to liberate muslims from oppression in kuwait and afghanistan and iraq, where more

are going on and urge my colleagues to vote against the royce amendment and i yield back the balance of my time. the chair: the gentleman from california. mr. royce: thank you. let me respond. first of all, that i have a great deal of respect for chairman payne. we worked together for years on africa issues. we worked together on darfur, sudan, but this is the very issue why we disagree here. because all members should know that it was eritrea that was the first country to invite sudan's president to visitor tria following an arrest warrant for his crimes against humanity in darfur. now, with respect to the issue, i can think of numerous issues and times when congress has had to push and would take sudan an example, since the example i'm giving here is an example in which eritrea has welcomed al-bashir, at a time when the international community is trying to get him to prevent the crimes he's committed in darfur, we have had to push to take more assertive actions. we did that with genocide in sudan. and if my view, there's nothing wrong now, especially with respect to its state sponsorship of terrorism. i think that the assistant secretary of state for africa's wor

let me simply say on this side of the aisle the committee serning agrees with the gentleman's assertions and will be happy to accept the amendment. mr. boswell: thank you. with that i urge adoption of the amendment and reserve for any comments made for opposition. mr. wolf: we have no objection to the amendment, support the amendment and yield back the balance. the chair: the gentleman yields back. the gentleman from iowa. mr. boswell: with that i urge adoption of the amendment and yield back my time. thank you. the chair: all time has expired. the question son the amendment offered by the gentleman from iowa. those in favor signify by saying aye. those opposed, no. in the opinion of the chair, the ayes have it. the gentleman from georgia. mr. broun: i request the yeas and nays. the chair: does the gentleman ask for a recorded vote? mr. broun: yeah. the chair: pursuant to clause 6 of rule 18, further proceedings offered by the gentleman from iowa will be postponed. the clerk will continue reading. the clerk: title 2, page 23, line 1. national drug intelligence center, $44,023,000. justice information sharing technology, $109,417,000. tactical law enforcement wireless co

june day more than 140 years ago, and let us stand with our forefathers to continue this journey in our own lives. madam president, i urge my colleagues to join with me in supporting this resolution, observing the historical significance of juneteenth independence day. thank you, madam president. i yield the floor. mr. specter: madam president? the presiding officer: the senator from pennsylvania. mr. specter: madam president, i've been asked on behalf of the leader to announce the unanimous consent agreement that no further points of order be in order during the pendency of the conference report to accompany h.r. 2346, and at 4:40 p.m. the senate proceed to vote on adoption of the conference report with the time until then equally divided and controlled in the usual form. that is the consent request which would have been offered earlier, but the senator had the floor so it was not. the hour of 4:40 having arrived, that is the time specified for the commencement of a vote. i thank the chair and yield the floor. the presiding officer: is there objection to the request? hearing no objection, it is so ordered. is there a sufficient second? there appears