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i disagree that placing common carrier regulation designed for the old ma bell monopoly of 1934 is the regulatory. he is talking about two seconds at the heart of title ii, that specifically regulates rates, terms, and conditions of services. are we not talking about rate regulation of broadband? that is pretty much everything, all the authority you need to do anything you want. let's say it is limited -- let's take him at his word that he is for a limited title ii regulations. this causes a number of problems. future commissions could regulate more, if this were to be upheld in court. i do not think it will. order to do what he is proposing, the commission would have to say what we did before was wrong. something has changed in the marketplace. if there is a change in law, like a court mandate, then you have to do this, you have to regulate more. what we have going forward is no evidence that would support that, and the commission is about to say, on the one hand, broadband internet access is just like monopoly phone service from 1934. on the other hand, is so different that we are go

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and my message was i am a public figure, this is my responsibility. >> reporter: ma says san francisco'sgram is working well but the state needs to do more. she sponsored a bill to get the state to pay for hepatitis-b vaccinations and treatment but was unsuccessful. >> we should be trying to cover hepatitis-b folks earlier in the process instead of later. in california, mehdi-cal only covers you if you're in your last stages of liver cancer or require a liver transplant. clearly that's too late and it costs too much. >> reporter: hepatitis-b is slowly starting to get more attention on a national level. participants at a recent rally on capitol hill called for more federal funding for the disease. but stanford's doctor so, whose mother-in-law died from liver cancer, believes there's still not enough being done by the global health community or in the u.s. he says other diseases get more public attention and therefore more money. >> one in 20 people in the world are chronically infected. one in 20. ten times more than people in the world intpebgted with h.i.v. there's huge advocacy for the

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additionally, ma res have called to fetheir suggestions howclean up this mess. i sincerely hope b.p. is giving due consideration to all of ese suggtions. clearly, b.p.'s plan has orked. the cleanup plan i louia is ys it is time for b.p. to look elsewhere yesterday, i met with.p. executives to discusthe company's slow, uncoordinated and half-baked response efforts in florida. at this meet, i reyed the frustratis of my south orida smalsinesswners w are going through the b.p. claims process. these individuals are ruired to go through long, complicated, and belittling proces in order to recve the compensatn that they deserve because forheir economi ss, ey had a downturn in business as a result ofhe premure panic from the b.p. l spill. let me bclear. these rdworking men and women are not looking for a handout . eaker. they would much rather working. fortunately, the disaster the gulf has take an tremendous ll on fishermen, on dive ops, on reaurants, on motels, and many urist reprented businesses inhe keys. its claims process. revamp in the key two claimsffices opened

after six mont or one year mas took over the authority. now we are talking about an agreement to, anpeople give them all the assurances. we are interte and now we are interested. we are incorping every movement. it is not sacred. some people cuse me that i am working th the israelis. no, we have been cooperating with them. that is to pvent any kind of terror acts or incidents here and we have succeeded. we haveucceeded. we give to pro to them. you ask the american administration, general jones, if you ask the raelis, the israeli side, what is going on in the west bank, some of the exaggerate it but there is security. >> the israeli general said to me in fact over the lst three years the palestiniasecurity forces have-- hureds of israeli-- so thiis the answer to your question to the israeli side. we can incorrate. we can do everything and we ar interested, we are eager to do mething because we want the region to be quiet, to be calm. we to live-- we suffered more than 62 years. i wants my grandsons, to live in pea, to feel that he belongs t

we acknowledge the suffering that war has brought, we affirm the sacred commitment to our nation has maettysburg asked whether a new nation -- lincoln at gettysburg asked whether a new nation in seeking liberty cannot prolong in door. the answer is all around us. from the former slave barrier to the children of the civil war, to the immigrants who twice free europe, to our brothers who fought and died in the korea and vietnam these grounds record that not only freedom and liberty have endured, but that they have flourished. those who sleep in arlington is newest section are from every race and every creed. their graves are topped by the cross, the crescent moon and star, the star of david. to walk from les manchin to arlington's first degroat -- freshly -- from lee's manchimano arlington's freshly dug grave, it reflects the more perfect union they died to defend. in arlington like nowhere else, we can see freedom blossom and note its price. it is now privilege to introduce our next speaker. but i fit want to say a note of gratitude to his wife, dr. joe biden, who i doing so much to help

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as the handoff took place and went over to the eric holder justice department under poth because ma, what happens, mr. speaker? loretta king in the justice department can selled the most open and shut voter intimidation case in the history of america because it would have brought about convictions on those new black panther party members. and one of the assistant -- the one of the attorneys general, thomas perez came before the jew care -- judiciary committee testified that they got the harsh punishment possible. it was false he knew it the day he said it, misinformed, he was under some pressure and needed to get off the hook. that's the matter of the congressional record. he was under oath. it's something we should pursue. it's unlikely we can get anywhere with it. that's tom perez. and so, the administration has can selled the most open and shut voter intimidation case in the history of america. it was a done deal. they can selled it. the administration, loretta king in the justice department, can selled also the will of the people in kingston, north carolina, that's -- in kinston,

i haveo ma of myarmes at worked full time off the rm but worked full time on the farm. slike my relatives who so livin my district, they're workg a lot re than 40-hour weeks e mang sure that the amerin economy keeps moving making surth ame are fed, buthey're also making sure that we don't ve to rely on foreign coues frr od like have to do when it comes to l, relying on foreign cntrior our need we need jo, we need jobs that are createdy the private sector. we don't need any government jobs that are rely just de for jobs out there. --hat are really jt make-work jobs out there. ey need relief to be ableto survivand coin to remain in business. currently, small buss employee er half the private sector workersn americ to assist small business ow, i inoduced the respoible reinvestment act. ecifally thibill focuses t follong areas that i lieve will not only help small businesses grow throughout the country but so help p our neighbors back to wo. the bill does the llowing. 20% tax cut for small businessesequal to 20 noveget tal come ofheiness. it permaly repesthe esttax or dea t

were suppoive in tms of thinvidual pls by a -point ma, by a 12-point main americans tru decrats over republicans to hand nation's bigst problems. that's a pretty siicant indicatoth ame are happyh e rectn that we're going. i thi that noatter what istrt we go to, whether it ogressive district like mine or aodera district ke mrs. dahlkemper, and you're pretty halfwain between ourdistricts, mr. tonko, about the philosophical differences. ihink o constuents would tellwe'r cautiousl optimisc, tngs armoving in the ridirection but wee not t of the woo yet you nd toeep noting, hing, you ed to kp pain legislatn th's going t contin tjump-start spark this onomand be an engine of jocreati. t'what we're keepingur nosethe grindstone on. mrs. dahlkemper: wihe gelewoman yield? . wasserman schuz: i b happy to yield. mrsdahlkemper: i just wted to mention a few things that these a independent gro out there, media outlets who are seng wt 're seei in thesebers herendhis is the true story of at's going on in the econom i yield back. mr. tonko: if eentlewomen will yield. you talk aboutse observations that a

telecom act, what you cannot do is take data information under title 2, which was how we regulated ma bell from route 3 dial phone to rotary dial phone. now lot to do that for data services, where you have folks breakout data flows differently. that is why you have to get the good minds of the day. we want more freedom for innovation. we do not want government control. >> as broadband becomes the new national medium do you think there is a case to be made for regulating it such as the telephone companies were regulated four years? >> it depends on whether you believe regulation lowers costs and provides higher quality service. capitalists believe if you want higher quality service you have to incentivize competition. the role for government is to prevent monopolies and duopolies, people having so much control that they are able to exert market pressure to provide less services at higher costs. but as long as you can make the case that you have a vibrant, competitive market, where people are trying to give higher quality service at lower costs, we should not be involved. >> as you know

give you an exampl a week ao i went to te in mobile,+ma alabama. they have jurisdiction over misssippi, alabama and florida, all the way over to the area of florida. now, what i wasold wa pepper -- was that the coast guard was 51% in command and band the st. then i was told that really the is 55%n command. well, that is the problem. nobody is in charge. now, there is a way to solve is, and i donot want to sound record, but the controlommand and capability in the world is the united states military. and you have got toive somebody with a clear chain of command that al hashe capability of bringing together parties, pvate- sectornd public- agencies, and directing them to do, of, cleaning up a problem, and hhve some authority to make it happen, and have the resoces, and that everyby ows that it goes straight to the commder in cef. until you do thhs, you're going have the same problem that you're having. you're goiig to coin to have same problem that florida d yesterday', not even being in . lop, when in fact, the orange sluce is coming to florida water

for then you have what they call bum rushes which isn't really moss but ma they call kane. and there's actually no actual bottom. and that will never be clean. there's no way -- that was one of the biggest places, bass, and everything grow. and i'm going to give you an ample of the oil companies. i grew up in an area of venezuela called the wagon wheel held up by texaco started in 1955, the year i was born. and that area has been destroyed. there are pits every where. where they lost things and they tried to sue them i'm guessing in the color to -- and you can go out there today and can't even catch theish because they have sor and you can't eat them because they actually taste like oil, so ifnybody thinks big oil is going to do anything about this, they are totally out of their mind. thank you. host: your reaction to the long-term effects of oil spills. guest: well, i agree with what he said and he captured an awful lot of the truth. on all of these on the mississippi dealta. i've heard 25% to 50% of all the wetland in the united states are going to be devastating. it's go

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ma, here's yours. >> larry: celebrate the birthday.ver box wine. >> oh -- >> just a little, honey. >> remember when obama had the box of wine after the interview? it's just like that. >> larry: the fragrance. >> tip it. all right. here. >> there. see? >> larry: awe frfraid of this? >> i don't want to start. >> tip it. that's a new thing now. you say, let's tip it. >> let him do the show and you drink. >> larry: let's tip it. >> there you go. >> will you hold up my book, larry? honestly. >> larry: here's kathy's book. >> oh, typical. oh, this is great. >> not too bad, larry. >> what did you think of larry with lady gaga? >> that was good. always good. >> always interesting, very good. >> larry: this tastes like a combination of a warm wine -- >> and urine? >> larry: -- and a touch of beer. >> oh, i never got the beer part of it. >> well, you got plenty. >> i got it from the -- >> larry: let's sing happy birthday to her. ♪ happy birthday to you ♪ happy birthday to you ♪ happy birthday dear maggie ♪ happy birthday to you >> i love you, mo

. >> on wednesday the c-span crew traveled with ly ma land son to louisiana as he met with constituentsnd federal and local officials to discuss the response. coast guard admiral thad allen and administrator lisa jackson are with those he met. this is about 25 minutes. >> right now we are having problems with the oil coming off the mouth of the mississippi and coming through these passes which are all opened and it would come into the inner waters right here. they are having trouble deploying assets from the eastern side of the mississippi to the western side. it was too late a response to get all of this done at that time. now, thankfully, they have deployed people all in this area. the response is substantially better. they have some jack-up barges that are out in our area and it has done substantially better. and a number of manpower and assets deployed have gotten significantly better over the last two to three weeks. >> you say this has gotten better the last couple of weeks. what were the effects of it being slow the first couple of weeks? >> the effects were that we had sightings

missing in judicial decision making such as when i looked at last year's supreme court decision in the ma len dez dias case where a majority broadly interpreted the confrontation claus to include crime lab workers creating unnecessary requirements for prosecutors. i want to ask you about that. as i consider your nomination, i also want to reflect on how far we've come. senator feingold mentioned the obstacles that sandra day o'connor and justice ginsburg faced when they were coming up through the legal ranks. and i know you're well aware of the strides that women have made in a 2005 speech quoting justice ginsburg. you described a 1911 student resolution at the university of pennsylvania law school. this resolution would having introduced a 25 cent per week penalty on all students without mustaches. the women who came became before you to be considered by this committee help blaze the trail. although your record stands on its own, are you also to borrow a line from isaac newton, standing on the shoulders of giants. in the course of more than two centuries, 111 justices have served on the

ma. >> one question for the congressn. do you think your prosal is legislation are part of the regulatory framework? >> well, it conceivably is th federal reserve which as understand it has rather broad authority to set nationwide mortgage origination standards. it could very aggressively interpret its legislation on the books to saythat bubble regulation ipart of consumer protection and do ithat way. my guess is they would wat some encouragement from congress in terms of specific enabng words. [laughter] the problem wi the feder reserve, eveone, it is common now to beat up onhe federal reserve for the monetary policy that drove part ofthis. my view of that is that the problem is they wereying to regulateo variables with one control, adthey saw their job as we have one control which is monetary policy regulating interest rates and what they actually needed were two joysticks, one of which would be monetary policy, the other one r example loan-to-value or more generally mortgage origination standas and to control two varabl

would call terrorism offenses,crimes like providing material support to terrorists using weapons of ma destruction and the like. some of them iolve ordnary crime, docket of fraud, perjury and the like whre there's a particular factualaximus to terrorism. everybody knows about the gy from coladan that wento new york, david lee and chicago. both of these guys pladed guilty and theyare awaiting sentenng and now most recely we have had faisal shahzadrom times where there's been others from ramzi yousef, the first world trade center bomber the various east african eassy bombs to richard reid to al mad pacoima these gs are serving a litime in prison al and we have had sentenced to 25 years foimplosive defeat of iraq. sentenced to 13 to 17 years for providing material pport to al qaeda and osama sentenced for atmpd to establish a jihadists training camp in the united tates. last year we also picked up a couple of ys in a separate but for a similar undercover operations after they allegedly tried to blow up buildings one in dallas texas and te other in springfld illinois and at the texas plead

later, president opaw ma's nomination of -- president obama's nomination of james clapper for national intelligence director. both chambers of congress return from memorial day recess this week. the senate gavels in monday at 2:00 eastern to consider three judicial nominations with votes scheduled at 5:30. members could return to work on a package that extends tax credits and unemployment benefits. the house passed that measure before leaving for memorial day recess. we expect several amendments to be offered and debate regarding the budget offset. that's live on c-span2. the house returns tuesday at 2:00 for legislative business before voting on bills at 6:30 p.m. later in the week, a bill that provides the federal housing authority the ability to raise premiums. and a possible small business loan measure, which will create a fund to increase the availability of credit to small businesses. the house is live on c-span. next on "america and the courts," former attorney general john ashcroft on the legal history surrounding the rights of terror suspects. a federal appeals court ruled las

hope this is onef the lessons we cay away, not only takilegislion and taking e taxper off theook but ma sure we are not in this depdency theuture. tha yound i really appriate your leadership i preg this today and yr courtesy and permittg me to taket. mr. conlly: i thank y so mu. thk our collgue hs do uch a superb job. thank you for joining ust tonigh i see our friend, mr. ht, is he and yield to mrholt. mr.olt: i thank my good frnd fm virginia and i, too,ant ay tribute to the work that our collgue from oreg has done under th umbrella ofivility, having to do with transportion and housing and the location of st offices in town therere so many things ov the years that mr. umer ha rked on to try to me communies vable and suaible. sustainablin the way they producand use energy and vable in the sense of getting the best quality of life through our ansportation disions, our housg decions. and what iso heartbreaking out the castrophe that's under way in the gulf of mexico ght nois that it did not have to be. as i left to join yohere on the floorthey werehowing on of the news networksh flappi, op

that was the commitment i ma last week. some of t problems have been fixed, and some new ones have surfaced. we will keep coming back until we have dealt with an unprecedented crisis. i am very thankful to everybody for e constructive meeting and the constructive approach everyone is taking in terms of solving this problem. >> what about the economic difficulties from the drilling moratorium? >> we had a conversation about that as well. what i told them was very simple. when i made the decision to issue the moratorium, we knew that would have an economic impact. what i also knew is that there was no way that we can go about business as usual when we discovered that companies like be peaking who had provided assurances -- companies like bp that had provided assurances that they had faed savings, but find out that had no idea what to do when the failsas failed. we will be examining over the next six months what went wrong, but more important, how do we increase domtic oil production without having the kind of disasters we are

ma fee: they should know that the doctor of their choice should be able to see them and will be reimbursed fairly without having to worry about cuts month after month. while it's clear the system is broken and needs to be fixed permanently, there's a need to fix it permanently. if you can't cure the patient, find a treatment. if you can't find a good treatment, stop the bleeding. this is just a band-aid, it stops the bleeding temporarily. we have made a commitment to provide for seniors and i'll stand with our seniors and physicians. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from illinois continues to reserve. the gentleman from california. mr. herger: i'm pleased to yield to the very important member of our committee -- mr. waxman: i'm pleased to yield to the gentleman from texas, mr. green, for one minute. mr. green: thank you. i ask unanimous consent to place my full statement in the record. to my republican colleagues, we make history on the floor of the house and we did when we passed the health care bill but you can't rewrite it. the house passed a bill, h.r. 3961, that only had one mem

ma: i like to yield, if i may, 1/2 minutes to t disnguished gtleman fm north carolina, also a member of the -- senior member ofhe t.n.i. committee, the distinguished gentleman, mr. coble. e speaker o tempore: the gentlen isecognized. mr. coble: i rise in support of h.r. 3473. this legislation is crit 3473. this legislation is critical. the agencies involved i respse to the deepwater hozon oil spill are spending tremendous amots ofime and effort, enring every tangible resource is avale to meet this response. by passing ts legislatio we ensurehat the coast guard can intain these valiant efforts while simulneously ensuring that other important provisions are met. includi maritime, safety, search and rescue efforts, prepadness. as ameri's maritime guardian, thast guard is alwayseady , and th legislation eures this goal cacontinue to be met. inally, mr. speaker, it's important to note that the oil spill trust fund is funded by the petroleum industry and not the taxpayers. i urge passage and i yield back the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempo: the gentleman yields back the balance o

gentleman mas, i very much agree with them and that we do no need to accelere the process of the move toward low- carbon economy. whatever else the risks are, for example with the offshore or onshore wind, t tal stream, the future generatio of wave technology, they are not in the same order of magnitude with the sort of risks we are currently running in the drillg and increasingly hostile of environments -- creasingly hostile environment in the wod. i think that message is an important one. this is an environmental wake-up call. hydrocarbon oil and gas will play a part in the transion period from economic history, -- aart in transition. from our economic history, we know that we cannot simply switched off steam power and move on to electrici. these things do take time. but it is an iortant -- but it isn important -- but it is an important timeor us that there is no time to lose. >> we will have reassurance that we are operating in two dierent envinments. weeneed to recognize that these mistakes in a difficult environment are the responsibility of the whole industry. the whole industry

. >> owner and operator of ma's sandwich snack shop. i was born here and been here my entire life. katrina couldn't keep me away, was back two months later, so i'm bound and determined to stay. i was 6 years old, this has been my dream to open this business, and i was nine weeks into it prior to katrina, lost and destroyed everything, and it took us till february of 2009 to resexbled get back open. >> is that right here? >> that was right next door. i'll show you what was right here. it was open anyone weeks. >> i notice that you have a bunch of scenes up on the side of your restaurant. can you explain those? >> a morning of frustration amongst many mornings of frustration. when you wake up in the morning, you're seeing the same exact thing on the news. no progress whatsoever. they try to say things that make unfortunately better, but it's not working. we're seeing, we're living what's going on out there, and we just want to see some progress. i mean, it doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out how to stop that well. we have lots of ideas, and we know they'll work, just do day

is this ma in los angeles? caller: no. host: here's mary. caller: thank you for taking my call. i wanted to ask you -- before the 9/11 attacks, i understand there were several of the bin laden family living in different places in the united states. was there any investigation performed on what exactly that family was doing in the united states? also, why were they flown out united states right after 9/11? guest: i think those are excellent questions. in the book, i do talk about the very strange to him statistics which some bin laden -- very strange circumstances. some of their lifted -- air- lifted out. i find that to be one of the really troubling aspects of the post 9/11 period. i do not have a good answer. i try to lay out why it happened. host: president obama made a speech in cairo one year ago picked the has thawed in "the chstian science monitor -- one year ago. i want to play in a short clip. >> i have come to cairo to seek a new beginning between the united states and muslims around the world, based on mual interest in mutual respect. and one based upon the idea that a

the turkish government has been -pput in an environment that mas this possible. israelis have a tremendous responsibility. the situation in gaza is dire. many americans say there is no humanitarian efforts there. that is not true many of -- poverty has tripled their. madison has not been allowed to be transferred there. it is in every sense a serious humanitarian crisis there. the united states and all concerned parties need to work constructively to figure out how gaza while e into das being sensitive to their concerns. turkey is our friend. it is a founding member of nato. they fought alongside troops in korea. they were side-by-side with united states in the cold war. since the end of the cold war, and a variety of other changes in the system -- it remains a candidate to become a part of the union, it has led to innovations in policy that has led to us being at opposite ends on several issues. it does not mean that we are fated to be enemies. i did not want to create the impression that turkey and the united states would agree on everything. there are some are

est: i think you ma a good int and i visit the mizzen-the dwest a lot.t, there is not the investment that there ought to be. when we are doing our job and make sure that our-12 educatn, m sure at ou employees of this company are well-educated, and we get our costs down, i beeve the u.s. will be a great place to manufacture things. it will be a great place to produce software and multiple things and thats what we, a americans, should focus on. host the republin line kentucky, doug, go ahead. aller: you make a good presentation and you da good job of setting reasonable in the things that you are saying, and i think there are ome legitimate points about dng these alteativeoadster energy. but one thing wld like to but one thing i would like t say is, is whole thing about global warming, we ize this is just a big hoax. i looked into this issue very hard at a fears ago and en i discovered thate have the same level of warming on jupir and mars that we have hereand there is not a smtack or a mufacturing plant orn automobile plant on any of tse planets. as far as

the early part of the decade responded to my request to come down to the university of louisville, my ma mater, and to speak to the students and to a broader audience. at his age and parcularly given the fact that i was a member of the opposition party, there was frankly no particular reason for him to do that, but he did and made an extraordinary imprsion on the students and inconvenienced himself on my behalf, which i always appreciated. my second and really my favorite recollection of senator byrd, i found myself a few years ago in a curious position, at viance with virtually everybody on my side of the aisle. i had reflexively, like i think many members had,esponded negatively to a decision of the united states supreme court in the late 1980's, essentially lding that flag burning was a permissible first amendment expression of political speech, and the first time that amendment came before the senate, i voted for it, and then i began to have some pangs of discomfort about my position. and having spent a good portion of my political career focusing on political speech and the first am

ma>> may i? we will be doubling more specifically into the claims process. however, it is unusual when dealing with large catastrophes like hurricane katrina, that there was improper payments and claims that can occur. it is really important that you have the framework in place so that you have reasonable assurance that would identify improper payments. but you have to balance that need to have the structure with the need to try to make sure that your process -- your claims process is working effectively and efficiently. you have to have that balance but we're going to delve into that for youu >> and there is tangent to try to be responsible. >> mr. bennett, could you respond to that question? >> i will let the season denials because i know there are 6000 claims. what have i found? we of a 1-800 number out there all server communicated to climates when they get information from bp about questions and concerns. out of 56,000 claims, we have had 256 calls in the last five weeks. 210 of those calls were not about claims. there were about people's opinion on how

the ma arenaas, hotels, grocery stars, the shrimp producers. in grand isle, the largest producer in the united states, providing seven million pounds, and should have bought four million pounds in the last week is completely down. i look at that picture, and it brings tears to our eyes. we have been watching this. come through our five passes. we have been working hard to come in and block the passes. we have come in with ideas. billy and greg, the two parish presidents to the east of me came up with the idea of sand berms. in the mean time, born and raised on that island, prying to protect our people, trying to stop oil from coming on burbon street if we have just a low pressure from the gulf of mexico, we cape up with the idea of deeper passes. i told the president if he gives us $1 million a day, we can come in and block these five passes with warnings. we only have 45 days before a major hurricane gets into the gulf of mexico. i keep looking at that oil. i watch it every day, every morning coming through these passes. our cage unheritage ha

this has become a toxic stew that we've ingested now and it's turning into a ma ig -- a malignant tumor that will start to metastasize in 2014 when obamacare is fully implemented. here's whht we do. my bill and others' bills, we have 90-something co-sponsors on this legislation. i've introduced a discharge petition. i think it's discharge petition number 11. i'm not certain of the number, i think that's the number. i signed it a lot of others have signed it, a lot more need to sign it because of this if a discharge petition gets 218 signatures on it here in the well of the house, it has to come to the floor for a vote unamended that means we can force a vote even over the rule of the speaker of the house who surely would do everything she could do to resist the repeal of obamacare. but the process of getting to 218 signatures on a discharge petition identifies, separates, let's say, the men from the boys and the women from the girls. if you really were sincerely against obamacare, it's one thing to vote against it. 34 democrats did. nancy pelosi let them off the hook, they were afraid t

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the ma jort of american jurisdictions today do recognize some right to recover for loss of society damagesgful death, but not the jones acted and not dosa. a spouse, child, parent or sibling who loses a loved one suffers a very real loss and the law should recognize that loss. as chris jones also noted, there is one exception to the rule barring recovery of loss of society damages under dosa. in 2000 ach the korean airline and twa air disasters you retroactively amended dosa to provide recovery of loss of society damages to the survivors of those killed in high seas commercial aviation disasters. but for anyone else killed on the high seas, on a cruise ship, on a ferry, on a semi submersible floating rig or helicopter, the survivors do not recover loss of society. the law should be the same for all. and you can make the law the same for all by amendmenting the relevant statutes to provide recovery for loss of society. as i understand, senator leahy, your proposed survivors equality act o of 2010 would remedy that inequi inequity. in fact, the climate of limitation fos centered by the . bec

gaza blockade we must not forget that failure to prevent weapons and other materials from reach hag mas would be a dereliction of israel's most basic responsibility to its people. i stand firmly in support of israel's right to self-defense and i am committed to maintaining israel's qualitative military edge, so she can continue to defend her citizens. as the blame israel first crowd continues to attack our democratially israel over a host of challenges in the middle east, i am reminded of a simple yet powerful concept, words matter. the inflammatory rhetoric surrounding events inhe middle east in recent weeks and months only begets more hostility, discourages efforts toward a lasting peace agreement, which the people of israel, the people of the west bank, the people of gaza deserve and these words can incite those encouraging violence against israel. the administration focused today on humanitarian and development -- an additional minute by annapolis consent? to strengthen the palestinian authority so -- the speaker pro tempore: the house policy does not allow extensions of the special

e];÷w$[)ma>> thee boston globe," it said the europeans seek fees for bailouts.ays they want to tax their financial institutions to pay the cost of recovery, exactly what we)(jdid today. this is in wednesday's "boston globe." the conservative british government has begun to the punch by a few days in setting up an independent consumer protection agency. they have dissolved their financial oversight unit. as the senator said, we put in my hands of the president a very powerful set of tools to reassert american leadership and the world. we are trying to get other countries to stimulate and help us all the feed unemployment. i think you will see continued conversion. >> the compromise on the derivatives language, was that a concern? >> i believe there will be a majority. there were some people, five or six, who voted from left. i sympathize with many of our democratic colleagues who are thoughtful people. the amendment as adopted moves in that direction. one concern i have with the amendment of senator lincoln was what we called inappropriate application for advisab

for then you have what they call bum rushes which isn't really moss but ma they call kane. and there's actually no actual bottom. and that will never be clean. there's no way -- that was one of the biggest places, bass, and everything grow. and i'm going to give you an example of the oil companies. i grew up in an area of venezuela called the wagon wheel held up by texaco started in 1955, the year i was born. and that area has been destroyed. there are pits every where. where they lost things and they tried to sue them i'm guessing in the color to -- and you can go out there today and can't even catch the fish because they have sores and you can't eat them because they actually taste like oil, so if anybody thinks big oil is going to do anything about this, they are totally out of their mind. thank you. host: your reaction to the long-term effects of oil spills. guest: well, i agree with what he said and he captured an awful lot of the truth. on all of these on the mississippi dealta. i've heard 25% to 50% of all the wetlands in the united states are going to be devastating

caller: well, dalton's about probably 70 miles from pans right on the man ma city.ost: do you work in any kind of related industry down there eetsdz anywhere seafood or fishing or the oil business? caller: i'm in the pressure washing businesses up here. but really doesn't relate too much about what needs to be done there. host: then what's the first thing that you would like to see done? caller: i would like to see somebody mobilize something and get it in there quickly and get it done, maybe more at the source than at the beaches. but all this bureaucracy and who did what, when it got done, let's have a meeting in congress and let's start pointing fingers, quit pointing fingers. like the lieutenant did, he took the bull by the horn and ran with it. host: general, sounds like mobilization is the key word. guest: we've got to give some context to what that mobile ation is. we use that word mobilize. we are going f going on the offense. but the key thing we have to spend a little time explaining to the american people because i think the more we tell them what we are

provided quality eddcation for our children, including establishing schools like my alma mater, villa ma raea -- maria academy. they started the st. vincent hospital and school of nursing. the dedication of the sisters of st. joseph has no bounds. they serve as nurses, teachers, social worker, and community leaders. as a former student of the sisters, i'm eternally grateful for their love and guidance. mr. speaker, it is my privilege to honor the sisters of st. joseph of northwestern pennsylvania today and i thank them for their 150 years of service to our community. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlewoman yields back the balance of her time. for what purpose does the gentleman from pennsylvania rise? >> permission to address the house for one minute. revise and extend. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, so ordered. mr. pitts: mr. speaker, we have heard a lot lately about the need for a european style value aided tax in the u.s. to solve our budget problem. just yesterday the ruling coalition in britain announced it wants to raise their nation's value-added tax fr

even of arresting him and try and him what anchor so ma tribesmen which you may know there's a separateinsurgency going on in yemen. in the south there has been a renaissance of southern culture and identity ad revival that has taken place in large areas where heris internal dynamic where it isn't worth rivaling the mass of about of thousands of people affiliated in that area over thisne guy. >> there is a microphone coming. >> sprick i'm with of the congressional research service. my question is related to what isthe roe that al-awlaki ad in some of the cases? every time there's a new terrorist evened it is immediately reported that he was the perpetrator was influenced by alawlaki either his lectures or forth. what we do know in the hasan case is that hasan ached out to him there were only to e-mails at al-awlaki replied to and speculation that maybhe was being entrapped so all the other e-mails that hasan had se he didn't rspond to and there's talk in the cse about abdumutallab and tat he was influenced but what do we know in the open source literature about what that was exactly otr

guess what, all ma money made from offshore oil drill, not a penny spent on the ocean. we've got a big source of income the united states government can use to start with renewable resources, start investing in the oceans and most importantly to create an oceans fund and oceans governance plan so it isn't chaos at sea, it's a planned, organized, smart bayway to use the ocean just like we learned smart ways to use the land. i commend you on your bill and your work and thank you for inviting me to be here tonight. mr. garamendi: thank you, mr. farr. i'll go back and answer the question about where does do the federal subsidies go in just a moment, but i see our colleague, congresswoman jackie speier, has arrived, with a young lady, the next generation who has to live with our decisions we're making right now with regard to climate change and the extraordinary consumption of carbon-based fuels. if you would join us, thank you very much for joining us, congresswoman. ms. speier: thank you, congressman and thank you for your leadership in this area and recognizing the next g

the early part of the decade responded to my request to come down to the university of louisville, my ma mater, and to speak to the students and to a broader audience. at his age and parcularly given the fact that i was a member of the opposition party, there was frankly no particular reason for him to do that, but he did and made an extraordinary imprsion on the students and inconvenienced himself on my behalf, which i always appreciated. my second and really my favorite recollection of senator byrd, i found myself a few years ago in a curious position, at viance with virtually everybody on my side of the aisle. i had reflexively, like i think many members had,esponded negatively to a decision of the united states supreme court in the late 1980's, essentially lding that flag burning was a permissible first amendment expression of political speech, and the first time that amendment came before the senate, i voted for it, and then i began to have some pangs of discomfort about my position. and having spent a good portion of my political career focusing on political speech and the first am

under though because ma administration. and we're outssurce -- under the obama administration. we're outsourcing the spault program and the rockets that make this exceptional. this administration has been very critical about outsourcing outside the country of jobs. pointing fingers at lots of people about, you're destroying american jobs by outsourcing, what do you think you're doing with these 20,000 to 30,000 high-paying, technical, the great brain trust of america, you're outsourcing it to the chinese, the indians, and the russians. maybe the japanese. why shouldn't we be concerned about this, mr. president? i think that's the question we've got to ask ourselves. and i think we've got to start saying, how much are we willing to say we're no longer exceptional, we're going to outsource everything to somebody else? i believe the american people want to say to us here in congress, hey, wake up. give us a job like you've always given us a job and we as americans will do that job and do it better than anybody else in the world. we always have, we always will. i'm not ready to giv

occasions where president obama identified what his goal or priority was, i supported poth because mathat the a pretty high number. not the highest among republican, i think it was fifth or sixth, but that's what i'm talking about. the way that things work and the way you govern is when you take the best ideas of a lot of bright people here a lot of good intentioned people here and craft something, maybe you don't get everything you want. i have a -- the only two people that i ever knew, or do know, that were right 100% of the time, were my mother and my fe. and i know that because they both told me they were right 100% of the time. so, again, you have to say to yoself, why -- what are we doing? why are we spending an hour times 337, honoring football teams and lacrosse teams and swimming teams and recognizing the -- what else did we do? . we expressed condolences to the chatham county courthouse. i don't know what befell them but we took an hour doing that rather than doing other things. what is it that we haven't accomplished and what is it that the american people i think would app