loebsack? >> thank you, mr. chair. and thanks to both of you for your service. as i've discussed with both of our public-private partnerships and that will be key to maintaining the readiness for our arsenals. however, i also believe the army must do its part. and i do believe the army must actively support the readiness of our organic industrial base. and specifically, my question then regarding this particular issue is what is the army's plan to work load the organic industrial base, including the organic manufacturing base through the arsenals to ensure, really, that its capabilities are maintained in order to respond in case we do have another oco at some point down the road. and if there is a plan, how will it be implemented to ensure that these critical capabilities are maintained? >> thank you for your concerns on a very important area. generally, when people talk about so-called reversibility, i think they perhaps naturally think about reversing our in-strength numbers. that's something we spent a lot of time on. and i think one of the more important com

loebsack. mr. lobiondo: i -- mr. loebsack: i thank the gentlelady, ms. slaughter. i thank her effort and the effort of congressman walz as well for initially bringing this bill forward. at a time when we now heard about some things we heard on "60 minutes" at a time when really nobody was paying attention to this issue. these two folks had the courage to bring this forward. i want to thank them for that. i was really proud to be the fourth co-sponsor of this legislation back in may, at least this version we are talking about, not the current version that's on the floor. i really think that it's absolutely urgent that we fix the current loophole that as already mentioned by so many of my colleagues, that allows members of congress to use information that they obtain in a nonpublic fashion for their own financial benefit. this is something that on the face of it simply makes no sense that we should allow that to happen. not in a democracy. not certainly in congress and this institution. it was mentioned that this institution's not much respected right now. in fact, t

also think that in the political calculus there was a story in politico ten days ago before the loebsack got to reach this level today where is he essentially said an internal debate inside the administration who knows how accurate this is and they calculated that the intention of the quarter's would outweigh the opposition of the intensity of the opponent who were not going to likely vote for the president any way so they did it on a political basis. estimate in terms of the politics what is happening is the battle between two groups that most presidents seek for the reelection and want to appeal to particularly someone and president obama's position, one is the catholic vote, and the other is based in terms of the reproductive rights movement, planned parenthood and its neighbor in the pro-abortion groups. now they are very strong on this. they are capable of generating enormous traffic by e-mail and blog and making the media bend to their narrative of what is going on and that was apparent in the county because foundation of which they basically were willing to bring a major women's h