the chair: for what purpose does the gentleman from louisiana seek recognition? mr. scalise: mr. chairman, i have eanch amendment at the desk. the clerk: amendment offered by mr. scalise of louisiana, at the end of the bill before the short title, insert the following, section, for the corps of engineers civil construction, it is appropriated in the amount otherwise provided for this act expenses is reduced by $1 million. the chair: pursuant to the order of the house of the day, the gentleman from louisiana, mr. scalise, and a member opposed, will each control five minutes. the chair recognizes the gentleman from louisiana. mr. scalise: thank you, mr. chairman. i offer this bipartisan amendment with my fellow louisiana colleague, democratic congressman richmond. this is for critical coastal restoration efforts and if you look at what we are trying to address here, not only can we

he told them he was currently in louisiana at his elderly mother's.the new jersey detectives were eager to interview ates in person, so they flew to louisiana. by the time they arrived, the father-in-law had already hired a lawyer and invoked the right not to talk. but the detectives did get in a few words with ates' sister brenda that night. she told them that her brother had arrived at their moms in louisiana that tuesday evening, one day before the murder of paul duncsak. >> did you think she was telling the truth? >> i wasn't certain. it was still very early on in the investigation. >> so the detectives kept look at the ates' family's possible involvement in the murder. roughly a month after the crime, they obtained wiretaps on various ates phone lines. what they heard sounded to them like a classic cover-up in the works. ed ates tried to make sure his family stayed on script when it came to the tuesday story, his alibi. >> you were there when i got there on tuesday. >> yes, right. >> okay. i've just got to make sure we're all saying the same thin

offered by the gentleman from louisiana, mr. scalise, on which further proceedings were postponed and on which the noes prevailed by voice vote. the clerk will redesignate the amendment. the clerk: by mr. scalise of louisiana as modified. the chair: a recorded vote has been requested. those in supports of a recorded vote will rise and be counted. a sufficient number having arisen, a recorded vote is ordered. members will record their votes by electronic device. this will be a two-minute vote. [captioning made possible by the national captioning institute, inc., in cooperation with the united states house of representatives. any use of the closed-captioned coverage of the house proceedings for political or commercial purposes is expressly prohibited by the u.s. house of representatives.]

the gentleman from louisiana is correct. the intent of section 501-a is to fund the repair of damages to levees and navigation channels caused by the floods of 2011. the committee has provided more than $1 billion in title 5 of

so the o'reilly family has been in louisiana for centuries. in cuba, nobody remembers him but it was the street of calle oreilly, famous until the 50's for its banks and bookstores. it was one of the favorite streets of (inaudible) secretary of the spanish count of fernandino, my grandfather, another irish man feeling at home in havana. there, at the busy corner of calle street and oreilly was a cafe bakery owned by a catelan. it was described by many foreigners, in particular british and irish who lived in havana at the time, as one of the best order and most elegant cafes in the world. its large door led to a main floor with a fantastic stone floor. i saw it in the 50's, i was very little but i still was there in the 50's, and have a fountain that all that water really produce a refreshing sound that drown the patrons' loud conversations. but what made dominica famous, according to some foreigners and historians, was its ice cream of countless flavors and its famous fruit ices: guava and other flavors were served according to an irish travel

that is new orleans louisiana. mississippi river port city awash in its southern roots its colorful french creole charms and its overtones of piety. it's very catholic very catholic very bad just even very few who on a city that lives according to code your lines get stuck in this kind of like puritan mentality that's completely antithetical to everything that's happening people carmen have conventions here because they know there is the french quarter they know they're strip clubs prostitution. this is bourbon street. for about two hundred bucks you can buy yourself six more specifically straight up intercourse. with a new orleans street walker anything else oral sex anal sex can be negotiated but anything else is also. against the law. according to a law called crime against nature it basically prohibits anything other than they are ordinary intercourse there's no police out there going into a neighborhood saying you can't have sex with your husband you can't have oral sex with your wife right no one's actually e

landry of louisiana. the chair: pursuant to the order of the house of the day, the gentleman from louisiana, mr. landry, and a member opposed, will each control five minutes. the chair recognizes the gentleman from louisiana. mr. landry: my amendment is simple. it prevents the misuse of recess appointments by allowing the president to make emergency recess appointments if the need arises. current law currently prohibits the salaries of recess appointees. there was a law passed in 1863 that stayed on the books until 1940 that would prohibit the -- those who receive recess appointments from being paid until 1940 and then some exceptions were made and those exceptions basically took the intent of the law out. and so these exceptions, these loopholes are so broad it makes the prohibition against recess appointments useless and the administration can find a way to make recess appointments and i reserve. the chair: the gentleman reserves the balance of his time. the gentleman from indiana. mr. visclosky: i rise

begich: thank you very much to the senator from louisiana. the presiding officer: the senator from alaska. mr. begich: i'm happy to join my friend from louisiana, my friend from minnesota. i am a small business owner. have been since my teenage years. my wife is a small business owner. i understand the plight they go through on how to raise capital, how to start a small business, how to take a dream to reality, and sometimes those dreams don't work out so well and what happens next? as we sit here and we talk about the short term versus the long term, in business, you lay out a business plan. it's a long-term plan. businesses that set a short-term plan are the ones that say going out of business. those big banners you read, those are the short-term planners in the business world. we debate today, and i think we are a lot closer than maybe the media likes to portray, but it is a difference between the next six months do we deal with this issue and have another debt limit vote in six months from now and another six months later and six months,

i'd be the governor in louisiana who had never lost a race. he spent $16 million and i spent $1 million and i wanted it can be done. this will be a war between special interests and me. >> you're talking about being a different candidate. if you were not running, could you vote for anyone running in the republican field right now? >> i like them all. i will not answer your question. i remember certain tricks of the trade. i won't mention the tim pawlenti or someone i know well and like a lot. i will not mention michelle bachmann. it is fascinating to watch her do -- i have friends there. i regret they have not been able to stand back and see the power of the money. i think they know the power of the money. they are just afraid to run without it. it is the only way. >> why are you launching here today? >> i would give you my campaign managers number and we can talk about strategy. we were going to announce this week -- a couple of weeks ago and we said this week is our time. dartmouth had an invitation for us to be here. it is a great universit

>> new orleans, louisiana. >> new orleans, louisiana the yeah, let's hear it for the 504. how do you prepare for this whole darn thing here? >> practice. >> ok. that will get you to broadway but here you are in union square. ladies and gentlemen, two-time winner, mr. leonard oates. >> this is what i do every day. [ringing bells] >> leonard oates, ladies and gentlemen, reigning two-time champion mr. leonard oates. that completes the entire competition, ladies and gentlemen. let's hear it for everybody you heard today. the votes from the judges will now be tallied. that means up guys actually have to go to work now. we're going to name the tom three winners in the amateur and professional categories. the first place winner of the professional competition will take home a beautiful cable car bell with -- made by gilberto at the frens of the cable car museum. every year this man makes a beautiful cable car bell for this competition the mr. gad oy is pretty shy, he won't talk about his work but the craftsmanship speaks for itself the every bell every year is individually made b

this was death row in louisiana. you have three televisions on the wall, you were in your cell 23 hours per day, you get out for the shower or exercise, -- >> let me interrupt you to make this clear. you are completely alone, and the televisions are outside of the cell, or multiple inmates can be watching them? and they all may be on different channels? and you have to hear this even if you are not watching television? >> this is crazy. you have sought -- you have for televisions and four different channels, 15 people tried to talk at the same time. i was there was a mentally disturbed people and they actually had to have shot to calm them down, whatever kinds of drugs that they give them to calm them down. you have to deal with all of this insanity. sometimes they would spread them with pepper spray to get them to take the shots. these kinds of situations, you could not get around and you could not deal with. by the same token, you say, why is that man on the death row with mental problems, you have to feed him medi

he was appointed governor of louisiana and head of the army later on. he arrived in august, 1769, and took formal possession of louisiana for spain. think of new orleans and cuba, in particular havana, governors there were also in cuba so there was all this traveling from one city to another because later when i got my ph.d. from tulaine university and i went to the irish channel. it's interesting, the irish history

the gentleman from louisiana is correct. the intent of section 501-a is to fund the repair of damages to levees and navigation channels caused by the floods of 2011. the committee has provided more than $1 billion in title 5 of our bill to address navigation channel dimensions and make levee repairs. mr. scalise: i thank the distinguished chairman. as many of our colleagues know it is critical in louisiana and elsewhere throughout the nation to restore as quickly as possible the flood control and navigation integrity of our inland waterway system. again i thank the chairman of the committee for yielding and i yield back the balance of my time. the chair: the gentleman from louisiana yields back to the chairman. the -- mr. frelinghuysen: before i yield back. i support the gentleman in his capacity for his constituents and so many other members affected by the incredible devastation of recent floods. i yield back. the chair: the gentleman yields back the balance of his time. for what purpose does the gentleman from florida ris

-- the gentleman from louisiana rise. for what purpose does the gentleman from louisiana rise? mr. richmond: i have an amendment at the desk. the chair: the clerk will designate the amendment. report the amendment. the clerk: an amendment offered by mr. richmond of louisiana. page 2, line 20, after the dollar amount insert reduced by $10,617,000. page 10, line 21, after the dollar amount insert increased by $10,617,000. the chair: the gentleman from louisiana is recognized for five minutes. mr. richmond: mr. chairman, again, i rise to talk about what i consider to be wise investments into the future and stability of this great country. for the last 21 years the north american whaling conservation act has created jobs and served as an important investment to our nation's economy and for wetlands in every single state. it's responsible for restoring 26 million acres of wetlands, equivalent to the state of ohio. not only did it restore over 26 million acres, it also created nearly 7,500 jobs annually and hundreds of millions

about one thing that's important to louisiana. this is important to 30 states in this country, it's important to the entire country. according to customs, 85 -- $85 billion to $104 billion a year is attributed to trade through the mississippi river. so when you talk about how we keep this country going, how we grow this country, it's through making wise investments and right now in these tough times, the american people want us to use every dollar that we have very wisely and i will say that according to the port of new orleans every dollar that this country spends on dredging the mississippi river, we get a 35-1 return. so the $6.8 million that my colleague from new orleans in the metropolitan area is talking about diverting creates $238 million in this country. i would say what's happening in this country is that we should look at return on investment, we should look at how we spend money wisely to create more income, create more jobs and make this a better country, that's what this amendment does. and for all of my colleagues i

the former governor of louisiana switched parties. he said he will not accept campaign contributions in excess of $100. this is 40 minutes. >> i am a methodist so i don't believe in those kind of science but it was humbling. -- signs that it was tumbling. are we ready? today i ran for president of united states of america. i run to prepare america to grow jobs again. beginning with the elimination of our tolerance for unfair foreign trade practices and the use of our own tax code to ship jobs overseas. i run to reveal and challenge the control of the special interests over our nation's capital. and demonstrate the freedom to leave that can only come from refusing their money. i run as a proud republican but an even broader american. i believe in america, its values and future. r a nation at risk and neither the president nor any other candidates for this office addresses are as solutions for the two major problems facing america. one is on fair trade which is stealing our best jobs, stop and economic growth, causing us to slowly sink

then former louisiana governor buddy roemer announces his candidacy for president. after that, the state of u.s. national parks. now, the feature documentary, "the library of congress," behind the scenes in the world's largest library. ♪ >> the pursuit of knowledge is something progressives, liberals and conservatives, and libertarian's all agree on. they may disagree on how to do it and how much to spend on it, but essentially they are all in favor of accurate information that lawmakers can use.

. >> before writing the book you want to louisiana and did a lot of research. what reception did you get there? what obstacles did you find? well -- it depends on which decade you are talking about. i did research, actually starting in from the time i was very small. and we went back every summer even though i was born here in berkeley, as a matter of fact we went back every summer to louisiana and i was always interested and did a lot of -- um -- both formal and informal research. starting in the 50's and the 60's. and i will tell you that when i first startd that research and a lot of the research i did in that time period was i was largely unaided by any official source. i would go to the courthouse and i would ask for records. they would not give them to me. it was just -- it was very clearly -- it was very clear they were not going to give them to me. >> what records were you asking for? >> i was looking for land records. i was looking for records of the fredues. the concept was there were black fredues and white fredues and there was not an acceptance of

the speaker pro tpore: the gentleman from louisiana. mr. scalise: thank you, mr. speaker. i rise in support of cut, cap and balance and you look at what american families have been telling us for the last few years, during these tough economic times what they've been doing is they've been cutting back, they've been tightingen -- tightening their belts and they sit around the kitchen table and figure out how to balance their budget and live within their means and yet today on the other side all you've seen is a parade of members coming criticizing the concept of a balanced budget. actually calling it extreme, radical. imagine that. only a big spending washington liberal could think it would be radical to require washington to start living within its means like families have been doing for years. and so frankly american families would say it's about time, welcome to the party. and instead some people think you can just live in this fantasy land where you can keep tax, taxing, spending, borrowing money from china and act like the day of wreckening nevers never going to come a

he came all the way from louisiana to be here today. [applause] one question, how did you survive? >> god. god. god. death row is a place that brings out the truest human being in you. it makes you realize you can't take nothing for granted. you need to love every moment of each day and praise and thank god for each moment you have out here. for the system to do what it did to me -- i was the only child from my mother. i was a father too. the system didn't see none of that. it did not see me not having a criminal record. it's hard to accept. it's hard to keep on continuing to accept a prosecutor or somebody that wants to sentence swub to death with a system that's corrupt as ours. all right. [applause] >> i want to take this opportunity to thank the sponsors who have made the summit possible. the law firm of brown and furtel and my good friend, dave young, thank you. the criminal trial lawyers association. we'll hear from their incoming president in a few minutes. and also stuart hanlon as well as the bar association of san francisco. so let's have a round of applause for our spons

time for side rule side award and tonight we're giving answer louisiana governor bobby jindal here on wednesday the republican governor signed house bill six three six into law and it requires women to be informed of their specific legal rights and options before they undergo an abortion procedure and the measure is not of course of course in providers to post signs of a still it is saying that it's illegal to coerce a woman into an abortion and letting them know about child support that a father must pay which state agencies could help during a pregnancy and at some adoptive parents are willing to pay for medical cost base closing of the move by republicans who claim to be all about smaller government again trying to legislate a woman's uterus but the thing that there really gets me here is that bobby jindal has been rumored to have white house aspirations so this new abortion bill might be just great for him right in fact a comment he made of the bill signing is really going to weight him some support in the pro-life crowd he said quote. when officers arrest criminals today they're