biden and pretend he actually knows what he's doing, i felt looking at john mccain and sarah pail lynntry would have been amazingly better off had they been in the white house. [cheers and applause] >> i also want to say that i think on behalf of both campaign committees that john voice has given you your battle cry for the next year and a half. and i say this having once with haley barber and bob doll crisscrossed the country when we've been out of power for 40 years and people thought we were absolutely out of our minds to suggest we could actually win a majority. i think the phrase "do not tell me it can't be done" is about as good a way to start thinking about 2010 and 2012 as you could imagine. [applause] >> and i think our goal should be to reach out to the american people in every possible way, to make sure that john baner becomes the speaker of the house in january of 2011, that mitch mcconnell becomes the senate majority leader, and that this is a one-term presidency in the jimmy carter tradition. [cheers and applause] >> let me be candid. watching that video, a lot has change

the next call is nexfrom lynn. actually, i'm going to go to barbara in michigan first. caller: i am a first-time collar. i am very worried that china is getting all of the business now. they are all going to china and mexico. ge has opened up a plant to make wind turbines in china. i think they should do it here. i am too old to be working anymore myself. but i am worried about all of the children and our children's children here in the united states of america. i think the government should do something about this. that is all i have to say. thank you very much. host: now we will go to it lynn in california. caller: i have been unemployed since november. when i lost my job, a retired first from the major telephone company. i was a manager for a long time. then i decided to take a job with the cable company selling air time. my timing was not very good. i took the job last year. last summer, everything started to go down as far as businesses closing here in california. the unemployment where i am is quite high. i decided to change careers. i think that is what a lot of

. >> good morning, i'm lynn jenkins from the great state of kansas. health care is not just a policy issue for me. as a daughter of aging parents and a mother of two children, i have spent a fair amount of time in dr.'s offices and emergency rooms in recent years. when it comes to health care for my loved ones, i want their doctor working with us to explain treatment options and helping us make important decisions, not a distant government bureaucrat or a washington politician who does not know the situation and does not know my family. we have a healthcare crisis on our hands. it is definitely a crisis when a family is denied the ability to choose the doctor or hospital that is best for them. i am concerned with some of the proposals being discussed here in washington that will take that choice away and put a government bureaucrat in charge. health care decisions are personal, and one thing we know for sure is that a one-size- fits-all government takeover of health care will result in fewer choices for patients. it is not a matter of if there'll be f

i also want to thank governor pay lynn and todd for coming tonight and for being part of this -- governor palin. [cheers and applause] >> i came in with sarah and todd. we came to the bottom of the steps over here. john mccain was there very gracious,ly welcoming us. i have to tell you. despite every effort of the elite media to prop up joe biden and pretend he actually knows what he's doing, i felt looking at john mccain and sarah pail lynn this country would have been amazingly better off had they been in the white house. [cheers and applause] >> i also want to say that i think on behalf of both campaign committees that john voice has given you your battle cry for the next year and a half. and i say this having once with haley barber and bob doll crisscrossed the country when we've been out of power for 40 years and people thought we were absolutely out of our minds to suggest we could actually win a majority. i think the phrase "do not tell me it can't be done" is about as good a way to start thinking about 2010 and 2012 as you could imagine. [applause] >> and i think our goal should b

president reagan's travels from dixon, illinois, hollywood, washington, dear lynn and beyond is as enduring of legacy as anyone. throughout that time nevadaians have been proud to call  president reagan our leader and our friend. [applause] >> ladies and gentlemen, the speaker of the united states house of representatives, the honorable nancy pelosi. >> it is a distinct honor, i know for my colleagues as well as myself to welcome so many distinguished guests on this very special day in the capitol. the unveiling of a statue in the capitol is always exciting. rarely are we able to to it in the presence of an immediate family member. it is usually about history. today it is a great privilege for all of us, for all of us to be joined by the former first lady, mrs. ronald reagan, nancy reagan. we are honored by your presence. [applause] president reagan and mrs. reagan have one of the great love stories of all-time and the american people benefited from that. the support, the love that mrs. reagan gave the president were a source of joy to the american people and again of strength to the pres

- and solidarity in lech walesa, and we were not afraid as ronald reagan was not, to go to the per lynn wall and say take down -- go to the berlin wall and say take down this wall and call the evil empire what it was -- an evil empire. whaft ironies of this situation that i'd like to address very briefly is that president mahmoud ahmadinejad's top political advisor said thursday that the united states will regret its interference is if iran's disputed election. in other words, our president says he doesn't want to -- quote -- "meddle" and of course they're accusing us of doing exactly that. he said -- the advisor said i hope in the case of the elections they realize their interference as a mistake and they don't repeat this mistake. they'll certainly regret this. they'll have problems reestablishing relations with iran." mr. president, the history of this country, july 4, 1776, we affirmed the fundamental right that all people throughout the world have, and that is the inalienable rights granted by our creator to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. that commitment to human righ

harkin: i ask consent that indicate lynn miller and -- that kate-lynn miller and edwina hendrick be granted floor privileges. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. harkin: i yield back whatever time remains in morning business for this side. the presiding officer: without objection. is the republican time also yielded back? mr. brownback: on behalf of the republican leader, i yield back the time on our side. the presiding officer: morning business is closed. under the previous order, the senate will proceed to the consideration of senate congressional resolution 26, which the clerk will report. the clerk: s. con. res. 26 -- mr. harkin: madam president, i ask consent that the clerk read the entire text of the resolution. the presiding officer: without objection. clerk s. con. res. 26, apologizing for the enslavement and racial segregation of african-americans. whereas during the history of the nation the united states was thrown into a symbol of democracy around the world. whereas the legacy of african-americans is interwoven with the freedom of the united states. whereas millions of

neutrogena ultimate sport >> gary: series win and chance to head to philadelphia feeling good on the lynn in the bottom half of the 9th. mets have trailed but came bak in the 6th and 7th. and there's a base hit, wieters is going for two. the throw coming in is not in time. a double for matt wieters. >> jim: there's your. [ indiscernible ] remember the changeup on tuesday? watch this fastball. he smokes it. we always talk about the difference in the minors, how quickly beltran gets to the -- it's bang-bang at second. and matt is able to beat the throw. nobody out, your tieing run. >> gary: second base -- wietes gets the double. his second hit of the ballgam, and nolan re -- rye mold will take it down low. he has gone 0-1 at a pinch hitter. but overall, .283, big offense of numbers for him, 7 home ru, 16 rbis, and 3 doubles. there's wieters -- hoping that runner took his place. felix pie will hopefully get t tied. rodriguez looking back. reimold it get it by. >> this will be the 27th pinch hit for the orioles. mets have 88. all the bench playe

. >> lynn sweet. >> thanks for being on the show. >> it's nice to see you. >> likewise i usually the one on their light. why, of sure. >> amy bolten. >> amy is to go to prison for all things chicago-related. chris matthews is supposed to be here but there's other programs -- [inaudible] >> that is what people remember. >> yeah, i do. be careful. all i am a lawyer. -- wired. thanks for coming. it's been interesting, right? >> it's been a great experience. >> how long have you been with marino? >> two years and i worked for a trade magazine. >> what was the trade magazine? >> it was treed manufacturing. >> what's that? >> fiberglass, airplanes and stuff. interesting. i got because i can be passionate about anything and it's true. >> good, good. thanks for the efforts on the book. i hope it's been fun. >> it's been a lot of fun. >> good. a lot of interesting moments, that's for sure. >> definitely. [inaudible conversations] >> danny lavina. >> nice to meet you. >> dear friends of ours politically and socially and very concerned. they are very good citizens. [inaudible] >> came from arge

markowitz, dean lynn, and all of the john marshall community for conferring this honorary degree on me this afternoon. i cannot tell you how deeply honored i am to receive such a distinguished award from what is a distinguished law school. you have worked hard, earned everything you have, and i'm very proud, as are all the members of the court. thank you, kevin, for that generous and gracious introduction. good afternoon it is so good to see all of you. thank you for letting me be part of this celebration, your celebration, said it marks the end of one part of your life and the exciting beginning of a new chapter. to the graduates, congratulations on your academic achievements and on the relationships that you have cultivated while here. i hope the connections he made at this school will forever in rich your lives. and to the parents and families, congratulations to you, too. some you should feel an accomplishment, because i know you have made many sacrifices to see your loved ones sitting right here today. each of you can sit there and pat yourself on the back, also. who knows what gr

host: lynn, do you think that the north koreans intended all along to find them guilty and were usinghis as a political measure? caller: yes, yes, absolutely. i did not think for one minute that there would be found not guilty. someone else said it would have shown that there were taken without reason. i prayed this would not happen because one of those, the sister was a cast member for a while and also a child actors. i may be wrong on that one but i think so. -- she was also a child actress. host: thanks for your call. next up is on our democrats' line. caller: north korea is trying to bully countries into what they want. that is not going to get any country anywhere. it is not really solving anything. you're setting yourself up for conflict. conflict in today's world is not something we need right now. host: you think that the u.s. is setting itself up for conflict? caller: no, it is north korea. it is not that we are trying to do it, but the way that north korea is doing it -- in a sense they're the one trying to test the united states for what they can get away with. that is not

provides aid both under the foreign assistance act and me lynn yum challenge so even though there are trig terse you are not going to cut off that aid? >> well, mary beth, we're assessing the final actions. this has been a fast moving set of circumstances over the last several days, and we're looking at that. much of our assistance is conditioned on the integrity of the democratic system. if we were able to get to the status quo that returned to the rule of law and constitutional order within a relatively short polt i think that would be a good outcome. we are looking at this, but our priority is to try to work with our partners in restoring the constitutional order in honduras. >> does that mean returning the president? you would insist on that in order to -- >> we are working with our partners. the oas will have this assembly tomorrow. we haven't laid out any demands that we're insisting on because we're working with others on behalf of our objects which have shared broadly. so we think that the arrest and expulsion of a president is certainly cause for concern that has to be addres

an indictment filed in federal court filed against lynn stuart in the case of u.s. versus satar discusses how the blind sheik killed tourists in egypt to force his release from prison. the indictment states, quote, on or about november 17, 1997, six assassins shot and stabbed a group of tourists visiting a site nf luxor, egypt. 58 foreign tourists were killed, some of whom were police officers. before making their exit, the terrorists scattered leaflets ex pousing their support for the islamic group and calling for the release of rahman. one tourist was slit by the terrorist. on or about november 18, 1997, a statement issued in the name of an islamic group, tried to take prisoners of a large number of tourists to secure the release of the commander of the terrorist group. the statement continued, quote, the rush behavior and irresponsibility of government security forces with regard to tourists and civilians led to the high number of fatities. the statement also warned that the islamic group, quote, will continue its military operations as long as the regime does no

our discussion regarding spending patterns of barack obama administration we get this e- mail from lynn in princeton, new jersey. -- from len. guest: right, well, the kaiser foundation in connection with a abc and "usa today" did a massive survey before the 2006 election were they asked people if they were happy. and in what areas they were most or least happy with their healthcare. 89% said they were privately happy with their health care, but only 44% were happy generally. one of their questions and abc/ etc. survey was whether they were in shorter not. you find out that the vast majority, 70% of the uninsured were very happy with their health care. the kaiser survey was redone in canada. when you compare the canadians who have a similar system to what obama is proposing in terms of having government insurance with private providers, you find the uninsured in the u.s. are about as happy as those under the government's system in canada. the notion of changing our health-care system is to bring up the uninsured, but if you look at canada -- if we had something similar, it would lower th

host: lynn on our line for democrats. coming out of stockton, california. caller: good morning, gentlemen. and thank you for c-span. i just wanted to offer some words of encouragement for you to keep up the fight. i think it's absolutely abhorrent that we have allowed ourselves to basically create a second class of citizens in our gay and lesbian community. and i think california is one of the worst offenders. i happen to live in a count that passed prop 8 overwhelmingly and i just don't understand. as far as the marriage issue goes, my thoughts are this. why not make all marriage just a civil union between two people? heterosexual and homo sexual? and then if you want to sanction fi it with some kind of church ceremony afterwards, fine. take the church out of the institution of marriage to start with and let it be jst between two human beings. host: lin, we're going to leave it there. guest: first of all, as to california, the positive sign the trend is with us. the earlier proposition on marriage passed by 60-some% of the vote. and now it was 52%. so the

host: lynn wants to follow up on bonnie's point.est: i do not think that they do, to start with, and second cannot it is interesting that when someone welty -- and a second, it is interesting that when someone wealthy need health care, they come to america to get it. the problem is not the quality of the care. the problem is the cost of care and the inflation associated with care, which has to be brought under control. but wellness and fitness, prevention, rewarding people for good, healthy behavior -- there is a whole range of options that we can exercise to bring health care costs under control. including what may go and other health-care providers -- mayo and other of care providers have, which is overall procedure included. we can do this without going to a government run system. again, those countries that have gone to a government run systems, they ration health care and there are delays in receiving some operations. in some cases, if you're too old, you just do not get them, told. that is not the system i want. -- you just ca

. >> it's every cavaliers fan's worst nightmare and a dream come true for every new yorker from lynn brook to little fallses. lebron in a knicks uniform. the franchise has made no bones about shedding cap room on the 2010 free agent class of which lebron is valedictorian. with a preview of the entire atlantic division, here's mat winer, avery rose and jalen. >> the celtics couldn't deliver on another world championship thanks to kevin garnett's injury in part. the knicks will select eighth in the draft. what are they looking for in >> the new york knicks need a lot of help in all positions but mainly at the point guard spot. the knicks are definitely looking for a quarterback in this draft to start moving forward. also they need help at the five spot. you know, they need help with a big guy that can post up, get some points in the paint for him. the knicks are looking at the point guard spot and the five position. >> the raptors will select one spot after the knicks. what's on their to do list? >> shooting guard. you want a player on the win that's not om a scorer from outside but al

anybody ever on the issue of peace including iraq and afghanistan, none other than our own co-chair lynn woolsey. ms. woolsey: i thank you, keith, for your progressive hour. it's a gift to every week -- the progressive hour is a gift to every person that watches us and wants to know what we stand for. and we have two new women with us tonight. i'm going to stand here and be part of the dialogue, but i think congresswoman hirono and congresswoman schakowsky bring something new and fresh tonight. so i hand back to -- mr. ellison: who would you like to yield to? ms. woolsey: i yield to congresswoman hirono from hawaii. ms. hirono: thank you very much. we are going to be focusing on health care tonight for this hour and i just wanted to share with all of you a little bit of my background, because i know what it's like not to have health care. i came to this country as a immigrant. my mother brought me and my brothers to hawaii, lucky me, and raised us as a single parent. and we didn't have much. and she worked for many years in a job that did not have any benefits, innovation, no health care

. >> lynn jenkins was on the health care task force that the leader put together. the ranking members from all the committees involved, workforce committee, the energy and commerce committee, the budget committee and the ways and means committee have been actively working. mark kirk's group has been very involved in the discussion we have been having and i think what has and in the last few weeks is we have become more and more specific and the administration has become less and less specification. there are eight principles. there are now three. their website has a lot less information on it than its did two weeks ago. one of the frustrations has been that we keep pounding on the door and we have good ideas here and we want to be a part of this process. we agree with the goals and that door never never opens for us. i read on the senate side the outside groups >> told if you're caught talking to republicans you're going to be penalized as this discussion goes forward. i think what the concern here is that our friends on the other side know particularly when it com

to 2001 period, disappeared, the -- devoured as they were by a recession and the response to nine lynn and two wars and by huge tax cuts, it became increasingly apparent to budget wonks that the nation was hurtling along an unsustainable fiscal path and peter orszag and his band of not so merry analysts at cbo die seconded the nature of this projected unsustainability and concluded that it was largely, if not entirely attributable to the projected excess cost growth of federal health care programs. by excess cost growth, what i mean is the excess growth in spending largely in medicare and medicaid over and above the growth of gdp. historically, that has been about somewhere between 2 and 2.5 percentage points a year. and it was projected to continue into the future. gao, the center on budget and policy priorities, a number of analysts in the private sector, like henry aaron and bill gale and alan auerbach did similar calculations and came up with similar conclusions. when i played around with these projections, back in 2007, i concluded as others had, that if through some miracle we co

i was -- i was the state treasurer at the same time he was, and at the time when lynn jenkins was state treasurer in kansas. we were proud of our colleague, mr. kauffman, for leaving his job as colorado state treasurer to do a tour of duty in iraq. the experience of our service men and women in this congress is invaluable. i applaud them and appreciate their efforts. i want to call on mr. rooney one more time to discuss specific issue that prevents all of us being here tonight, that being the fact that an amendment has been placed on a military funding bill that is not germane. would you care to elaborate further? then i'd like to yield to mr. thompson. mr. rooney: the bill we originally sent to the senate was just a clean war funding bill the president asked us for and we delivered as a house of representatives to the senate. unfortunately, one of the things -- and i did not serve in politics before running for congress so all of this is new, but by the time it came back from the senate to us, it had an additional amendment on it which included funding for the i.m.f., which is basicall

. >>> now the daughter of former vice president dick cheney, lynne cheney hosted by the clare boothe luce policy institute in washington. this is just over 30 minutes. >> each year at the seminar we present the conservative leadership award to one woman who's shown exceptional leadership and commitment to promoting conservative values. we are honored this year to present the award to elizabeth cheney, who goes by liz. liz cheney is the left's worst nightmare. smart, articulate and a conservative woman and she is one of the few leaders in this country who is not afraid to stand up to the obama administration on critical issues like our national security. mrs. cheney is an attorney and specialist in u.s. middle east policy and recently served as principal deputy assistant secretary of state for them at least affairs. in this capacity she was the second ranking state department official responsible for u.s. policy in the middle east. she practiced law and the international of international product finance and served on assignment with international finance corporation where she provided

. >> that included backing up the toxic assets on meryl lynn ach balance sheet. >> there were no specifics how to do it. there were different possible approaches in the event that -- would not even be consummated. >> but what he was specifically referring to was the news they were aware of this merrill lynch had far more in toxic assets than had been disclosed to shareholders in the early part of december. is it your recollection ash shushs he gave his board that the fed and treasury would back up the toxic assets was accurate. >> he knew in the case of citi we could use both capital and ring fence so that was an options. >> started. >> you widely stated in my view that we do need a new regime and there's really two approaches that can be taken and the congress has to make a judgment which is the better one to go with. one is a supersized regulator or some entity with the capacity to monitor the risk of these huge con gloom mere rats that bring us all with them when they go down. that's one approach. the other is to take the view that an institution is too big to fail, it's too big to exis

they looked at healthcare, financial security through a very personal lynn said they were very worried about healthcare. back in the fall of 2006 eight out of ten american saw healthcare is their right. but the lens that they used was not worrying about the 47 million folks without insurance. it was a very visceral and poppell fear that even those with insurance had that their healthcare costs would soon become so great that it would lead to financial ruin or that they could lose their jobs, their insurance because so, we kind of did a change in how we thought about things and wind up talking to people in terms that really resonated. one of the fundamental principles of our campaign was to not go forthwith aarp preferred policy specifics but instead to press the candidates for both a commitment to action as well as their specifics on how they would fix things. we wanted to be even-handed and balance, have a strong message about the need to put aside partisanship and gridlock and come up with solutions that could be supported by the american public. part of their campaign was to take th

developments of an antiwar movement, powered by vets, by the black movement, by young people, and comes 1968, lynn johnson son, for those who were young, the president, i don't we don't teach history -- at the end of march in 1968 he would not run for president and would work to end the war. we celebrated. we were june lent, and thousands of us gathered and had just a party all night long because we won. three years of war, a miserable washings illegal war, million deaths but we won. and then five days later, king is dead, and then kennedy is dead, and then not only is the war not going to end, it's going escalate, and here's the problem. every week the war goes on there would be another 6,000 deaths. every week. so, what do you do? this is a crisis for democracy, a crisis for the antiwar movement in my own family, in my own family, people made a range of choices. we were all against the war. one of us ran away to canada to get out of the madness. one of us joined the democratic part, tried to build a peace wing. some people went to the commune, some people went to the factories, and i did what i

. >> host: lynn wants to follow up on what bonnie was saying: >> guest: i don't think they do. to start with, and second of all it's interesting that when someone wealthy needs health care no matter where they are, they come to the united states to get it. the quality of health care in america is the best in the world. the problem is not the quality of the care. the problem is the cost of care and the inflation associated with care which has to be brought under control. wellness and fitness, prevention, rewarding people for good, healthy behavior, there's a whole range of options. we can exercise them to bring health care costs under control. including what mayo and a number of other health care providers are, and that is payment for an overall treatment, not an individual procedure. so there's a lot of ways we can reform health care and bring the cost down and keep the highest quality in the world without going to a government-run system. and again, in those countries that have government-run health care systems, they ration health care, and there are delays in receiving some

i've got one there from loretta lynn. not all learning comes from books. you have to live a lot. think that life experience -- we know that that is -- that's so important. and between each chapter in the book i've told a story of a wonderful woman, different women whether from different parts of the country, from different areas of work, who have taken their life equity, their strengths, their experiences, put it to work on their passions to achieve their goals. and there's some wonderful stories there. but the chapter 5 reappraising your life and calculating your equity. i use a quote from marian williamson and i'm quoting her. our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. it is our light not our darkness that most frightens us. we ask ourselves, who4 am i toe brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? actually, who are you not to be? you are a child of god. i hope each and every one of you have a wonderful, a wonderful life equity experience in your life and thank you very much for giving me the time for being here today

so instead of removing lynn drenses to more -- the "help" committee's first instinct is to create another government entitlement program and set up roadblocks to employer innovation. i would now like to take a moment to put this in perspective. today is tuesday, june 23. and another day has passed without the senate having a complete health care reform bill to consider. we don't yet know what the majority will propose for their so-called government plan or how it will be paid for. what we do know is that a congressional budget office preliminary estimate believes that the incomplete bill will cost over $1 trillion but cover only one-third of those currently uninsured. so i'm very interested in the congressional budget office cost estimate of a complete bill. some fear that the final price tag for covering all americans could cost taxpayers as much as $3 trillion. we have a real problem here. every day that goes by without a key element of the democrats' bill being available for consideration leads to another day where millions of americans will become uninsured. this is a disservice to ou

. >> rob: and during the season jose chico lynn had my number, 7 for 7 against me. but during the playoffs it was a lot of fun. i was just a little bit pumped up. >> johnny: just a little. >> rob: guys didn't want to high five me. >> johnny: setting down the first four reggie has faced and johnny goals will step in the left fielder. 26, 23, 88 saves, look at the opponent's batting average. of course they couldn't dig in either, 198. >> rob: uh-huh. it was fun. i don't even know that guy though, it was a long time ago, a lot of cheeseburgers. >> johnny: johnny goals numbers 7 for 24. >> rob: i like this kid. they picked him up, he has had a number of injuries so now they are finding if you can hit a little bit they'll find room for you somewhere in the lineup. >> johnny: only his fifth start this year for the reds and his third start in left field. we're in a scoreless ball game in the top of the second. the delay was two hours, a pop down the right field line, anderson hernandez wisely, i'm not sure if he slipped or did that on purpose, he saw that fence approaching

the death of sean's mother, sean has been illegally held by her second husband, a man by the name of lynn desilva, a wealthy and very well-connected lawyer who, by the way, does family law. if there ever was a case of abusing family law, the david goldman case is it. he refuses to return sean to his father, david. but heedless of the damage that he does to sean, endlessly delays and obstructs and abuses the judicial system. last tuesday, mr. speaker, after a court had ordered the abductor to turn sean over for immediate return to the united states, within 48 hours a member of the brazilian supreme court responding to the appeal by a brazilian political party suspended that order. i read the justice pinto's original statement, an 82-page -- the parts that were translated into english from portuguese, it's a regardable finding by a justice in the brazilian court. he talks about it's not the first kidnapping by a mother who sadly passed away by by the second kidnapping that occurred when a man who is not sean's father took custody of a son that was not adoptable and just grabbed him as if he

former airline has long agreed alliances are not a blessing particularly when the air france delta lynn linkup cut off connecting traffic at paris. yet american airlines is now trying to argue alliances are great for consumers. well, that's the sort of flip-flop which would give the most popular politician a bad name. what may look like a llife-saver for an airline will be a millionstone around the neck of consumers. if b.a./a.a. were to receive clearance, fares will rise because there would be less competition. why else would they want to join forces at an airport effectively closed to new comers? in addition for the travel trade and large corporate accounts, b.a./a.a. would be very damaging indeed. travel agents with such large parts of sales being derived from b.a./a.a. would also be completely beholden to them, with well over 75% of their income coming from just one source. they would end up being forced for their very survival to recommend b.a./a.a. to passengers. a bigger airline with less competition would force up prices because it would not face so much pricing pressure. travel

miss lynn silversmithkline. mr. adam jones. i want to thank them for their service on the house page board and thank you-all our departing pages. mr. speaker, at this time i yield my time to the vice chair of the page board and my friend, mr. bishop of utah. mr. bishop: i thank my good friend from michigan for yielding time. it has been an enjoyable experience being part of the page board, part of the page process. the pages who are here and the ones who are not here because you're set to do work in the morning, we are very grateful for you having joined us here. some for a semester, some for a year. but your time and dedication in helping to serve the house of representatives. i think if nothing else as -- put many of the eloquent words about what you have seen, what you have not seen, what you have experienced here. but if nothing else, i hope that it instilled within you this idea the united states had of self-government still does work. that you put together people who are not experts, not trained to be parliamentarians, pu

luis martin, michelle o'connor, master sergeant sherry lynn olds. h.r. 2410 remembers their sacrifice and provides restitution to the loved ones they left behind. mr. speaker, this provision is the very least a grateful nation can do. i urge an aye vote on h.r. 2410 and i want to thank chairman berman, ranking member ros-lehtinen. thank you. the chair: the gentlewoman continues to reserve? ms. ros-lehtinen: yes. the chair: the gentleman from california. mr. berman: i'm pleased to yield a minute to a member of the appropriations committee, mr. schiff, one minute. the chair: the gentleman is recognized for one minute. mr. schiff: i request unanimous consent to revise and extend my remarks. i'd like to commend the foreign affairs committee for all their hard work on the foreign affairs authorization act and thank mr. berman and his staff for working to include the daniel parole act to this legislation. it brings much-needed atonings a critical human rights issue this calls upon the secretary of state to greatly expand its examination of the status of t

thank you for the opportunity to testify on behalf of piedmont in parliament the council and also for lynn trustingly and conservation organizations throughout the country. we are happy to be a member of the land trust alliance in we have been working hard on this issue with them. they asbestos to express some of their concerns. i have a couple of maps, which i hope the staff can put up because i think it will help construct this conversation. we appreciate the time and attention this committee is taking to consider the complex issues associated with transmission. we appreciate the willingness of the committee to deal with transmission is part of a broader policy and not is an end in itself. from our perspective transmission is only a tool for moving electricity, but much more important are the policies that will reduce demand for electricity, modify peak demand so that the need for a generation and transmission infrastructure is minimized and encourage clean generation close to load centers which were reduced the losses of energy caused by long distance transmission. in the end of high-vo

one study by the lieu well in-- lieu well lynn group says luolen group is cut, 100 million americans will lose their health insurance. a health reform bill will cut the number of american who was their own insurance from 170 million to 70 million. our bill, our positive alternative goes in exactly the opposite direction. we're enhancing employer-provided coverage and making sure it's more available. i yield to the gentleman. . mr. dent:00 when you talk about 100 million americans losing their health care where will they go to get it? that employer exclusion, that favorable tax treatment is essential to making sure many americans are able to maintain their coverage. that's the first thing we have to protect in this whole discussion. we have to protect that first. and some of the proposals clote floating around this capitol as you pointed out would either eliminate that exclusion or severely limit it as a way to finance whatever kind of program they are advancing. this is big money. so i just wanted to share that with the american people. make sure they understand that seems to be the

by george washington during the revolutionary war, abraham lincoln during the civil war, and frank lynn roosevelt during world war ii. and, yes, military commissions have been authorized by both our 43 and 44th president of the united states in the context of the war on terror. president obama has said -- quote -- "military commissions are an appropriate venue for trying to detainees in violation of the law of war." and i agree with him. of course, military commissions, as i alluded a moment ago, have had bipartisan support, and authorization by the united states congress, but somehow professor koh takes a more radical view. he believes military commissions -- quote -- "create the impression of kangaroo courts." he said and they provide -- quote -- "ad hoc justice" and he said "they do not provide and can't provide credible justice" do we want the top legal adviser to the state department undermining both the will of congress on a bipartisan basis and the president during -- regarding time-tested practice of military commissions during war time? again, another example of professor koh's