hinchey: thank you, madam chairman. thank you, madam speaker.he elements of this bill are critically important. pay as you go is essential. it is critically essential at this point in the issues dealing with -- we're dealing with by this country. if you look back over the course of the last several years you've seen how this huge deficit has gone up over and over again. let me just give you a couple of examples of the way in which the huge debt that we have now has increased. under the leadership of the opposition on the other side of the aisle here and the previous president. one of those was the military invasion of iraq which was completely unjustified. there was no justification for it whatsoever. the price of that is approaching now $1 trillion. another issue that was dealt with in the context when they were in the majority was the tax cuts for the wealthiest people in america. those tax cuts have now created the greatest concentration of wealth in the hands of the wealthiest 1% of americans that this country has ever experienced since 1929

. >> thank you, madam speaker. madam speaker, i rise to express my disappointment and dismay with a.i.g.'s decision to pay $100 million in bonuses to executives. these are just not any employees but those from the financial products division, the same group that created the flimsy derivatives, that caused such a catastrophe for our economy in late 2008. with taxpayer dollars flowing to keep a.i.g. afloat, ordinary americans facing 10% unemployment, i don't know who would have thought this announcement would be well received by the american people. it may be that these bonuses were legally obligated before the crash, but i'm sure that all the brainpower that created a.i.g.'s financial products can find out a way, as the american people would, to simply say no. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentlewoman from florida rise? ms. ros-lehtinen: to address the house for one minute. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, so ordered. the gentlewoman from florida is recognized. ms. ros-lehtinen: thank

madame was, in fact, extremely bright. educated in america, she knew just what would appeal to the senators and the representatives she spoke to. and how to get what she wanted for china without seeming to try. warned about her charm before she came to washington, president roosevelt had determined not to be vamped by her. vamp was one of his very favorite words. and he had arranged to have her sit at some distance from him during conferences. he took great pleasure in teasing his wife, eleanor, who when she first met madame in the hospital in new york, had told him how vulnerable and sweet she seemed. later, eleanor changed her mind. she talks very well about democracy, eleanor would say, but she doesn't know how to live it. this may be a good place to fill you in on the other members of the families. the two olders were two girls. there was one for a head for business and a passion for money. the family beauty, an idealist who married the george washington of china. and when he died a few years later, became a communist.

reyes: thank you, madam chair. i ask unanimous consent that all members may have five legislative days to revise and extend their remarks, to include extraneous material on the bill h.r. 2701. the chair: general leaf was granted in the house. mr. reyes: thank you, madam chair. i yield myself such time as i may consume. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. mr. reyes: madam chair, i'm proud to rise today in support of h.r. 2701, the intelligence authorization act for fiscal year 2010. this is an unusual time of the year for us to be considering this legislation, however, it is and remains a very important bill which addresses critical national security issues and one that we ultimately need to see enacted. as chairman of the permanent select committee on intelligence, my most important job is to guide the committee in providing appropriate tools, resources and authorities to aid the dedicated men and women of the intelligence community in keeping our nation safe. i believe that h.r. 2701 -- the chair: the gent

murkowski: tha, madam president. now, to be fair, these proposals that were laid out don't necessarily come as a total surprise to us. many of these were also part of last year's budget. and last september, there was a senior official from the treasury department, he raised some eyebrows, he was testifying and he said that somehow america overproduces oil and gas, overproduces oil and gas here in this country. as we continue to import about 60% of our total supply of our oil, and even some of our natural gas, that claim is -- is -- is just incredible to me. our nation clearly, clearly imports too much oil and we use too much oil, but we certainly don't produce too much of it. the administration is pursuing at least some of these tax increases and fees in order to end fossil fuel subsidies, and those are the words that they use. this is part of an agreement reached with the g-20 last year. but interestingly, though, the g-20 seems to have a very different idea of what that actually means. according to the group, devel

madam speaker, that's deceptive.adam speaker, this time i'd like to yield three minutes to the favorite son of dallas, texas, the gentleman, mr. hensarling. the speaker pro tempore: the chair recognizes the gentleman from texas. mr. hensarling: i thank the gentleman for yielding. madam speaker, i heard one of my democratic colleagues say that today is a historic day, that there's a historic opportunity and, yes, history is being made today because never in the history of america has the debt limit been increased to $14.29 had 4 trillion -- $14.294 trillion. here we are again just a few months later enacting yet another increase in the debt limit. the new debt limit again, $14.3 trillion, costing every american household over $120,000. and what do i hear from my democratic colleagues? well, we hear the old blame game. that's the first thing we hear. we hear a lot of names from the past. well, facts are pesky things, madam speaker, and, listen, there's blame to go around. my party spent too much money. i have a chart r

mission edwards: thank you, madam -- ms. edwards: thank you, madam chair. i want to take this moment to thank chairman gordon and ranking member hall for consideration of this amendment. i probably like lots of americans have faced a circumstance even in this last month and a half, private information compromised first at a bank then a federal agency and then at a retail establishment. all within the span of a month and a half. such as identity theft, denial of service, viruses, loss of sensitive information, and other malicious activity are part of the ever evolving cybersecurity threat to our country. it's important that we act exclusively to prepare our nation for these threats and anticipate the threats that will help in the years to come. it's not an easy task and we operate on a system of databases throughout this country that interact at the federal, state, and local level and commercial sector. this bipartisan bill really accomplishes all of these goals. and further the amendment that i'm offering really encourages the national institutes of standar

madam president, i yield the floor. ms. landrieu: madam president? the presiding officer: the senator from louisiana. land land madam president, i know -- ms. landrieu: madam president, i know under the previous arrangement, the senator from massachusetts will be giving his farewell remarks. i would like to speak for only the next four minutes prior to him coming to the floor. madam president, i spoke on the floor earlier about explaining to my colleagues and providing some additional information about the fair resolution that the senate came to help louisiana and any other state that would have been similarly impacted through a very difficult medicare -- medicaid, i'm sorry, medicaid readjustment rate. i spoke at length this morning about that. i want to show this chart that clearly outlines our particular and unique and disastrous situation. since 1999 and before, the state of louisiana, you were a governor, madam president, so you know, paid approximately 30% of our medicaid dollars and the federal government picked up about 70%. we're in the lowe

madam president, i yield floor. mr. udall: madam president, i seek recognition. the presiding officer: the senator from new mexico. mr. udall: thank you, madam president. thank you. i rise today to introduce the roads safe act of 2010, and i'm pleased to be joined in introducing this legislation by my colleague, the senator from tennessee, senator bob corker. this legislation will encourage the development of new tools to fight drunk driving and has the potential to save 8,000 lives every year. tragic drunk driving crashes often prompt communities to do more to prevent drunk driving. this was the case in my home state of new mexico back in 1992 when a drunk driver killed a mother and her three girls on christmas eve. he was speeding down the highway 90 miles an hour, going the wrong way down interstate highway. this crash helped change attitudes in my state, but it should not take a tragedy for us to do more to prevent drunk driving. in 2008, drunk driving killed about 12,000 americans, including 143 people in new mexico. that is an average of 32 people killed ev

conyers: thank you, madam speaker. no one comes before the judiciary committee that i can think of offhand more frequently than bill pascrell of new jersey. he's worked with us on a number of other issues besides this one and we welcome his counsel, we yield him two minutes. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from new jersey is yielded two minutes. mr. pascrell: thank you, mr. chairman, and thank you for your leadership and persistence on this critical matter. mischaracterization i think is the word of the day. when you look back at the beginning of the discussions of health care there's been more mischaracterizations of what was in the bill. but this bill that is before us, 4626, mr. chairman, is only two pages, not 2,000, not two million, two pages. very clear to the point. so what this bill seems to do and if i had my which have brought this bill up when we discussed the beginning back in last summer, but i'm one person. to call out the other side and to call out the other end of the building, i mean, week of pa

madam secretary, good to see you again. just another procedure issue if it was raised by the chairman, one of the questions we had asked was it the 181 border patrol and i think at one time we said you are going to cut them and then it came back and said we are not going to cut them we got, our staff got an e-mail from you today saying that we are not cutting 181 border patrol was originally proposed. we are taking it elsewhere to cover the costs. the problem is we get this around 12:30 today and read it before that time and what was it in the newspaper today. it's one of the issues we've been asking, madam secretary, that we are the oversight committee, and we would like to get this before the media does because when the media gets this, nothing against them but when they did before we do as oversight it puts us in a very uncomfortable situation so i would ask you again if you could have your staff trust us and provide us the information before the media because i of the memo from allyson and asked and then the newspaper -

casey: thank you, madam president. madam president, i rise today to discuss the ongoing imprisonment of three young americans: joshua fatal from pennsylvania, and two other americans who have been imprisoned in iran with him, sarah shard and shane bower. these are three americans who have now spent more than seven months in solitary confinement in iran's evin prison, for allegedly crossing a poorly marked border, the border between iran and iraq. since their detention along the iran-iraq border on july 31 of 2009, the iranian government has refused requests from their attorney for visits. the government of iran has delayed due process, rejected requests from family members to call or visit them. the iranian regime has also delayed requests for iranian visas for the families and stonewalled the swiss embassy's attempt to carry out diplomatic visits. the longer the detainment of these young americans continues, the more clear it becomes to the international community that the iranian government, the iranian regime is eng

thank you, madam speaker. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from west virginia rise? >> to address the house. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized for five minutes. mr. rahall: i rise today to talk about principled leadership that makes a difference. that best describes the dean of the pennsylvania delegation and its longest-serving member, jack murtha. yes, jack murtha was a member ose member. he was a soldier's soldier. always straight-shooting, courageous, willing to defend this institution and all of us that work herein. during my 33 years of service in this body and with jack murtha, very few individuals would i turn to for advice and council -- and counsel like i would jack murtha. like so many of my colleagues, i have traveled to troubled spots of this world with jack murtha. i have read and learned from him. not only on these hardworking, hard-hitting codels, but also from his book, from vietnam to 9/11. words of wisdom for all of us here today and for the fut

thank you madam chairwoman. we'll be glad to answer questions after my colleagues have a chance to make statements. >> thank you very much, director blair. mr. panetta? >> thank you, madam chairman, mr. vice chairman and members of the committee. thank you for this opportunity to be able to share our thoughts with regards to the threats both current and future that face this country. i think the director has presented a summary of some of the key threats that we confront. of those, i would share with you that my greatest concern and what keeps me awake at night is al qaeda and its terrorist allies and affiliates could very well attack the united states. that's the primary reason the president provided the mission that we follow which is the mission to disrupt, dismantle and defeat al qaeda and its allies. having said that, the biggest threat i see is not so much that way face another attack similar to 9/11. i think the greater threat is that al qaeda is adapting their methods in ways that often times make it dif

>> thank you, madam chair.and director mueller we congratulate you on the excellent work that the fbi has done in capturing and bringing to justice those ozzie and other people whose capture was announced last fall. i would ask that whether you believe that a questioning of an enemy combatant, someone with potential knowledges battlefield intelligence for the future can be done briefly or within a short timeframe needed to give the customary aranda writes of a normal criminal suspect a bank robber in the united states. do you agree with those in the intelligence community who say the only effective way of interrogating somebody like abdulmutallab would be to spend the time to collect the information otherwise available in the intelligence community. background and what other intelligence may be available in order to questioning effectively, to be able to ask him questions about issues where we know the answers to see if he's telling the truth and to confront him with other intelligence he. do you believe that

the messenger: madam speaker, a message from the senate. the secretary: madam speaker. the speaker: madam secretary. the secretary: i have been directed by the senate to inform the house that the senate has agreed with h.con.res 168, expressing support for the early detection month for breast cancer and all forms of cancer. the speaker: thank you. the chair will entertain up to 15 one minutes on each side of the aisle. for what purpose does the gentlewoman from pennsylvania rise? ms. schwartz: to address the house for one minute. the speaker: without. ms. schwartz: we are making maul investments in communities across the nation. last week the city of philadelphia received a grant to develop an integrated bicycle network. it will be an asset to the philadelphia region. residents will benefit grateful from this trails using it to commute to work, go to school and the grocery store and will provide opportunities in the north delaware area for economic development. the fact that this project was just one of 61 projects funded out of 1,300 applications shows a substantial ne

brown: thank you, madam president. rise in support of craig becker for the national labor relations board. it's policymakers, it's not political strategists, it's not antiunion activists. it's not pro union activist that's are making this decision. it's policymakers. it's 100 members of the united states senate are asked to confirm the nomination of craig becker to serve as a member of the national labor relations board. it's something we have done in this country since franklin roosevelt in the 1930's when the national labor relations board was formed. in decade after decade, this body has voted for -- for national labor relation board nominees who are philosophically pro union, who are philosophically antiunion, who are philosophically pro management, who are philosophically not so pro management. with craig becker, the republicans have drawn a line in the sand. something that simply didn't used to happen around here. and when i hear my colleagues say, we can't rush this through, only in the united states senate when

madam president, i yield the floor. mrs. murray: madam president?ding officer: the senator from washington. mrs. murray: madam president, i thank the senator from north dakota for his passion on this issue. i would just add one other issue within this, is that we have got to be training our workforce for the coming years with those skills to make those things in america, whether it's airplanes in my state or cars in the midwest or south or whether it's the widgets that he talked about. we're losing people today in this country that have those basic skills -- welding, electricians, those kinds of skills that are basic to these industries. as we move into this coming year and look at our budget and we look at our education policy and when we're talking about the president's education policy on the committee that i sit on, we've got to make sure that we're going down into our middle schools and high schools and really making sure our kids have career pathways that help fill these skilled manufacturing jobs that we want to have here in this country. so

thank you madam chairwoman. glad to answer questions after my colleagues have a chance to make statements. >> thank you very much, director blair. mr. panetta? >> thank you, madam chairman, mr. vice chairman and members of the committee. thank you for this opportunity to be able to share our thoughts with regards to the threats both current and future that face this country. i think the director has presented a summary of some of the key threats that we confront. of those, i would share with you that my greatest concern and what keeps me awake at night is al qaeda and its terrorist allies and affiliates could very well attack the united states. that's the primary reason the president provided the mission that we follow which is the mission to disrupt, dismantle and defeat al qaeda and its allies. having said that, the biggest threat i see is not so much that way face another attack similar to 9/11. i think the greater threat is that al qaeda is adapting their methods in ways that often times make it difficult to

madam secretary? >> senator snowe time has expired but i will be courteous to allow you to respond is. >> the jobs calculation for small business owners is a huge. i have heard from some of your constituents directly and i do think the book, though lends as you know, the small business tax credits in the senate and house bill will kick in 2010. that would be a more affordable market and a fax -- to fix and the system along the way. while it is always important to look at the impact the group being squeezed in the current market place is unemployed and those who have no choices, higher prices and fewer options and often lose employees based on the fact they cannot keep them. >> thank you very much senator lincoln's been wrecker 12 think my colleagues from maine because i do believe the largest percentage of the uninsured do fallen into that category of self-employed independent contractors. it is a great step forward with what we can do with what will be meaningful in the overall health care debate. i

president, this does not sound -- madam president, this does not meet anyone's definition of support. now mr. becker is nominated for a different agency and is a different nominee and i certainly don't want to impute the action of others on to

brown: thank you, madam speaker. it is an honor to be here today with our distinguished guest chaplain, reverend burt bailey who is the pastor of the st. john missionary baptist church in dallas, texas. ms. eddie bernice johnson's constituent. revend bailey is well-known for his strong faith and the work he's doing in the dallas, texas, community. he's impacted the lives of thousands of congregation members and i am pleased he could be with us in the house of representatives to share his prayers and wisdom. for over 130 years, the missionary baptist church has been known for their tradition of serving the church, family and community. during this time at st. john, reverend bailey has proven an energetic and dynamic leader. i am pleased to be able to share his faith, his inspiration with our colleagues and i thank reverend bailey for his prayers and blessings. thank you. i yield back the balance of my time. the speaker: thank you. the chair will entertain up to 15 further one-minutes on each side of the aisle. for wha

reyes: thank you, madam chair. and i want to tell the gentleman that i appreciate his wanting to honor the personnel

madam secretary, welcome.ne of the first questions i want to ask you is regarding lower income assistance, which is the critical program for my region, and throughout the country depending on the severe circumstances of the weather. and senator reed of rhode island and i sent a letter along with 46 other senators concerning the methodology that was used to distribute the low income fuel assistance funding, the release of the emergency funding, for example. 40 million of the 490 that was released, was set aside for heating degree days. our state received 80% less, and rhode island received 50% less, for example. on the heating degree funding, states like florida, and i understand has been unusually cold in florida this year, received 3.9 in emergency their alaska, minnesota and maine received nothing. because of the calculation of these heating degree days. so while we would have 30 days, last december, mainly have 44 times the energy required. so i'm trying to make sense of what was the methodology used in thi

brown. >> thank you, madam chair. ms.outh carolina it was one of those states that did get a 10 billion-dollar grant to continue the funding firm ice 73. and i noticed in part of the criteria, you could use it either as a grant or you could use it as a subsidy of ministry assistance. tell me how that works. and i guess the states would make the choice or as part of the funding mechanism -- >> is a very good question, sir. first, as you know, there were far more products than we had funding. i 73 is a good example of a barely badly needed but also very expensive highway project that would be the direct connection to myrtle beach. what this does is gives the states the option of either using that, what we call a challenge grant, to either cover the tv a subsidy for it alone or to use it for an element of the project financing that they'd like to do. the idea would be -- it can be a catalyst to the financing package for a project of that scope and we will be flexible with the state and how they want to proceed. the indicatio

so, madam president, i would just sum it up this way. i've been talking about republican minority and republican filibusters. the same could have been said about democrats when we were in the minority and then we could have said about the republicans when they were and you go back and forth. it's gotten to this tip-for-ta -- this tit-for-tat. i said to a republican friend of mine a couple of weeks ago about their hold on our nominees. and he said to me, well, you did the same thing to us when you were in the minority. you held up and you kept a person from going here and a person from going there. and i thought to myself, that's what it's come down to, tit-for-tat, we did this to you so we're doing it to you? does this mean that the number of filibusters are going to continue to go up? because surely, democrats will be in the minority again. six times it's changed hands isn't i've been here many 1985. so does that mean now that we'll do to the republicans like they did to us, only more? and then when they become the minority again, they'

>> thank you, madam chair. one of the features often cited about this recession has been the fall in consumer spending. which is itself linked to consumer confidence. how does the fall in overall consumer demand show up in your data? >> i would say consumer spending is really the driver behind gdp. additionally the driver behind employment. during the normal expansion, the growth of consumer spending is roughly in line with the growth of gdp. and so without a strong recovery in consumer spending and hopefully consumer confidence and in consumer spending, which is are going to see a strong recovery. so it's critical. >> now when we got the information a few days ago, when we got the very good numbers on gdp, how -- do you see, do you see a correlation between those numbers and what you found in your report and? >> actually, a lot of the gdp, let me just say, a lot of the gdp was from inventory. so the 5.7, while he was a good number, a good portion of that was from inventory buildup which actually may be an indi

. >> thank you, madam chair. i would like to associate myself with the words of senator casey. the unemployment rate has lowered for four months now. i have to tell you that i am glad it did not go up. if it had gone up, we would have naysayers on the other side talking about how bad things are. that is not to say we do not have problems. as i have said many times, one job lost is one too many. there are so many people who are suffering. i want to take the few moments that i have, madam chair, to urge our republican colleagues to join in as we attempt to address this problem. you know, people are unemployed in every district of our 435 congressional districts. last week, the president was in baltimore. he did two thanks. he went to a company that manufactures all kinds of steel casings for things like water purification apparatus. he did a lot of wonderful things. one of the things we found out there was that they have been getting some government contracts and other contracts from the private sector. they may very well be on the verge of hiring a few more people. it is not a t

madam secretary, i want to ask you about one other area.and that is an enormous amount of expense and frustration for the millions of people who use our health care system, especially the providers and patients, is a staggering array of different billing systems that we have for american health care. and as you know, getting a standardized billing system has almost been the longest-running battle since the trojan war. i was actually reading some history on this recently, and one of your predecessors, lou sullivan, made this a top 30. this is what lou sullivan, a wonderful physician, wanted to get done. and here we are, practically eons later, and we are still wrestling with this. i think it would be very helpful if you would do two things. one, give us an update on where we are at this point and getting a standardized billing process. and second, i'm curious whether you all and your staff have taken a look at some of the efforts around the country that look like they are bearing fruit. the one that i i've been interested in is minnesota. mi

madam secretary, we are delighted to welcome you back here before the committee.n just say quickly as soon as we have a quorum madame secretary, we are going to interrupt quickly for a goal and are you will support wholeheartedly which is to get a bunch of state nominations out of here and a couple of legislative items. so, the minute if you don't mind we will interrupt to do that. we had this scheduled during the snowstorm that obviously didn't take place. i don't think any of us can think of the time in history when we have had a greater need for energetic diplomacy to make the case for america globally, and we appreciate your incredibly hard work and your many travels in the effort to do just that and we welcome the chance to hear from you today. the international affairs budget is the backbone of our civilian efforts worldwide and from fighting hiv/aids to supporting our aid workers and diplomats on the frontline states like afghanistan, pakistan and iraq this budget secures the tools we need for a more effective foreign policy. i think the secretary would joi

thank you, madam chair, for holding this hearing.itnesses. >> thank you. you would like to proceed? >> chairwoman and other distinguished members, thank you for this opportunity to present the work of the defense task force on sexual assault in the military services. we're honored to discuss the findings of the staff. given the fact that our formal statements have been forwarded to you, we will keep our opening comments very, very brief. as regards to the task force authority, as the chairwoman has already mentioned, the congress directed the task force to be established in 2005 by the defense authorization act. employing quantitative measures, over a period of 15 months, we have visited more than 60 military installations. we interviewed more than 3500 individuals, 61 victims of sexual assault, senior military and civilian dod leadership, sexual assault response coordinators, victim advocates and, of course, the supervisors. we've interviewed the first responders to sexual assault, the doctors, lawyers, chaplins, the military police

i want to urge you madame secretary, this payment system, it doesn't work. i was pleased to author the legislation to repeal it. i still believe we need to do that. i hope the administration will work with us long term to do that. i appreciate your efforts to take the cost of prescription drugs out of that formula. which was a very important first step. but i'm hopeful that you will as well as look for other ways in which you can fundamentally change that. we change the incentives in health reform. if we are able to move that forward, i think it's one of the positive things in there. i just urge you to continue to work with that. >> look forward to it. and as you know better than many given your long efforts in this area, the uncertainty for providers and for patients about the future of their medical chair is really undermined the confidence in a great health care system. and i really look forward to a long-term fix to making sure that we can live up to the trust that we've committed to medicare beneficiaries. they will have a provider and services delivers

davis. >> thank you, madam chair.would like to thank you and also ranking member issa and members of the committee for allowing me to join from my position on the ways and means committee on this oversight hearing on toyota's recalls. i had the honor of representing toyota's north american headquarters in kentucky. and one of the voices of perspective from our region. toyota directly employs 172,000 in plants and dealerships in the united states. and it's toyota has an integral part in our economy in kentucky and investment in the united states of america. they maintained operations in a world class level of quality in the commonwealth for nearly 25 years. the georgetown facility now manufactures engines and automobiles, all part of the $5.4 billion investment in our state. toyota has been an exceptional corporate citizen in kentucky. they've given more than $37 million to local charitable groups from education to social services. not only have they supported local charitable needs, but they've been one of the commonw

. >> thank you, madam speaker.iness is the number one source of new job growth in our country and their success will be critical to our country moving oud of economic recovery and toward recovery. one of the key things is access to capital. recovery act and small business administration lending programs such as 504 loans, 701 loans or arc loans are helping stem the tide of job loss and getting our economy going again but more needs to be done. we must strengthen our community banks to allow them to lend to deserving small businesses. our nation's community banks play a vital role in small business lending but the financial crisis has hamstrung their ability to give these loans. i'm looking forward to see how the proposal will help our community banks provide loans to give small businesses access to the tools they need to build their own businesses and to start hiring again. i've heard from many community banks in my district that federal regulatory policies are also inhibiting their ability to lend. these banks are

. >> thank you, madam chair. i thank you for the excellent work and report concerning a very difficult important and challenging set of issues. this report is comprehensive, detailed and highly insightful as to how much yet needs to be done to insure that the military culture adequately, appropriately and effectively addresses the issues related to sexual assault. certainly the report cites many instances of best practices by the military services to illustrate that progress has been made and is being made. among those best practices are the efforts at ft. jackson which is in the second district of south carolina that i represent. the army's largest gender integrated initial entry training center where sexual assault is addressed within the first two days of training. response to victims and accountability efforts of the department of defense and the military services. furthermore, the report is critical of the well intentioned effort by congress to create a new comprehensive article 120 of the uniform code of mi

davis. >> thank you, madam chair. like to thank you and also ranking member issa and members of the committee for allowing me to join from my position on the ways and means committee on this oversight hearing on toyota's recalls. i had the honor of representing toyota's north american headquarters in kentucky. and one of the voices of perspective from our region. toyota directly employs 172,000 in plants and dealerships in the united states. and it's toyota has an integral part in our economy in kentucky and investment in the united states of america. they maintained operations in a world class level of quality in the commonwealth for nearly 25 years. the georgetown facility now manufactures engines and automobiles, all part of the $5.4 billion investment in our state. toyota has been an exceptional corporate citizen in kentucky. they've given more than $37 million to local charitable groups from education to social services. not only have they supported local charitable needs, but they've been one of the commonwealth

sure to follow the bible and it would be a mess you cannot see that but it is on the cover of my madame secretary. i do think this is an important time to understand foreign policy. there are a lot of things going on president obama has an agenda to the which of the likes i have never seen. i wrote a memo to the president i gave it to president-elect at the time and a roach it would be audacity to hope this book might be useful. i laid out the agenda which was difficult at the time and unfortunately i think most of that time are things he has to do with. we have to figure out how to fight terrorism without creating more terrace. i said at the time i disagreed with the term more on terrorism because it made people who were mortar at -- mergers seem like warriors within their own society so we have to do with them as murderers, not to elevate them. i do not think war on terror was a good term and it has been dropped but second, a spread of nuclear non-proliferation systems that are broken and we have to be careful the worst weapons do not get into the hands of the worst people. the third

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. >> madam speaker? >> yes. >> you talk about abortion funding yesterday. >> yes. >> base in your assessment would you say mr. stupak is wrong when he looks at the present language and says it's also not fitting his standard and also do you think that's going to be a problem in the weeks to come? >> let me say this would. there are three -- i want to say principles -- but three standards that we are using as we go forward, and i talked to the catholic bishops about this, people on all sides of the choice issue. wall prevents federal funding. the federal law prevents that are funding of abortion. there is no federal funding of abortion in this bill. that we no expansion or diminution of a woman's right to choose, and that does not happen in this bill. and we're determined that we're going to pass healthcare reform. this bill that passed the senate does not have federal funding of abortion. that will be the language. >> at least you and senator reid our export a competent process to get a bill to the presi

madam's list. dc madam, of course, running a.ccountable to the citizens, he should be answering questions about what he was doing on the list. i don't think tiger woods owes us anything. >> you just want him to go play golf. >> go back and live his life. >> what due think? >> i spoke to stephanie way, a golf blogger, very respected. she said the best way to protect his brand is to go play golf again. what he did was correct, he did look contrite and sincere, but it should have been done a month ago. in terms of damage control, that would have helped. there is a different standard for public figures. he has a profession that people enjoy watching, unlike politicians. >> does he have a responsibility to his fans? >> no, not to talk about his private life. he has a responsible to his fans, he game, i suppose and play it well. he might be the best there ever was, but he doesn't owe me anything. >> listen to had little clip, and then we'll pick it up. >> i never thought about who i was hurting. instead, i thought only about myself. i

>> madam secretary, thank you for your testimony today and your work.ng, and was thinking that one area of our discussion that does not get enough attention is the budget itself. it is the management of a huge enterprise at the state department. by voice believed that whatever level of government we're talking about, that the strength -- i have always believed that whatever level of government we're talking about, the strength of the government can only be maintained by the strength or integrity of its agencies and the management of those agencies. i know it is difficult enough to deal with the issues you are confronted with. you also have to run a big agency. we're grateful for the way you manage that and the team have put in place to help you do that. i was also struck by something you might sooset in your testime section of development. you highlighted the areas of development that the state department is focused on. the last section of that, i thought that we cannot say this enough. i am quoting. "these initiatives are designed to enhance american s

. >> madam mayor you've been duly sworn may i be the first to congratulate you. >> it has been a little less than 18 hours now since mayor stephanie rawlings-blake was sworn in. she got right to work prepaying for the snowstorm. she'll serve out the rest of sheila dixon's term. dixon resigned yesterday following the terms of her plea bargain on perjury charges. >>> we are following a police involved shooting that we first brought you as breaking news last night at 11:00. three people shot in northwest baltimore. here is kai jackson with the latest. >> reporter: the baltimore city police detective was shot twice in the right arm in the 3700 block of oakmont avenue. it happened about 8:00 thursday night as two detectives were responding to a report of an armed suspect in the area. >> the detectives made their approach to the suspects on foot and as they came around the corner to the house, the suspect at least one suspect immediately opened fire with a handgun. >> reporter: police say two days prior to the detective being shot there was a non-fatal drug involved shooting in the area. the

i've spoken with madam speaker on many occasions, numerous times about health care. we spent most of last year talking about health care. i so admire her tenacity, her legislative brilliance and i will do everything i can, mr. president, to get this health care reform over the goal line. >> well, thank you very much, harry. everybody went a little over time, which is not surprising with a room full of elected officials. i wanted to give people a little bit of wide berth starting off, but we're going to need to be more disciplined moving forward if we're going to be able to cover every item, and i'll try to set the example here. i just want to address very quickly, lamar, the issue of process that you raised at the beginning and then we'll move on and start talking about the specifics. as i listened to your description of the house-senate bill as well as the proposal that i put on our website, obviously there were some disagreements about how you would characterize the legislation. on the other hand, when i listened to some of the steps that you thought republicans wo

the clerk: the honorable the speaker, house of representatives, madam, this is to notify you formallylets of the house of representatives that i have been served with a -- an administrative subpoena issued by the environmental hearing board of the commonwealth of pennsylvania for documents. this is in reference to the land in pennsylvania which i opposed due to environmental concerns. after consultation with the office of general council, i have determined that compliance with the subpoena is consistent with the privilege of the house. signed tim holden, members -- signed, tim holden, member of congress. the speaker pro tempore: the chair lays before the house another communication. the clerk: the honorable the speaker, house of representatives, madam, this is to notify you formally pursuant to rules 8 of the rules of the house of representatives that i have been served with an administrative subpoena issued before the environmental hearing board of the commonwealth of pennsylvania for documents. after consultation with the office of general council, i have determined that it is consi

connolly: thank you, madam speaker. madam speaker, the time for fiscal responsibility is now.had four consecutive budget surpluses was in fiscal year 1930. the great recession which began in 2007 dramatically increased employment to a 26-year high. but those fortunate to remain employed, the recession was to depressed wages and benefits and growing at 1.5%, the lowest level since 1982. as a result, families suffers. in 2009, corporate income revenue declined $166 billion from its 2007 level, and individual income revenues fell 20% or $230 billion. madam speaker, in addition to the tremendous toll this recession took on the american public, rising unemployment and wages added almost $400 billion to our debt. in fact, total federal revenues, which historically have represented roughly 20% of our gross domestic product declined to 14.8% in 2009. although the recession did not create budget deficits it exacerbated this enormously. in the face of this we took decisive action. the congress reinstituted pay-as-you-go, a piece of legislation. in 1990 congress enacted that statutory pa

no madam, i don't have esp. ok. i'll take a box, but you probably already knew that.nouncer) fiber one. cardboard no. delicious yes. >>> good news for some automakers in january. ford reported a whopping 25% increase in sales. gm up 14%. nissan up 16% p chrysler and honda saw single digit drops. toyota is down 16% after it was forced to halt sales of the most popular models. aig apparently ready to hand out $100 million in bonuses. the washington post says employees in the financial products division who agreed to a 10 to 20% cut will get their checks tomorrow a month ahead of schedule. that's the same branch of the insurance giant that came close to destroying aig. the company says the bonuses are contractually required. >>> one thing going up after the recession, the number of women in the workforce and they're exerting more influence on their workplace. melanie alnwick explains. >> reporter: they're calling it the cheeconomy. more women are taking charge of their financial health and working to make the most of their new found power. we've come a long way from the

no madam, i don't have esp. ok. i'll take a box, but you probably already knew that.d no. delicious yes. >>> as you can see the toyota hearings still going on. ray lahood as soon as he gets out of there is still testifying as he has been put on the defensive about what toyota knew, when did they know it and why the national highway traffic safety administration did not testify as demanded today. he said he would take the heat for the nhtsa administrator who has only been in office 40 day. >> we have the opportunities to subpoena. >> i can follow up. according to testimony that is going to be provided later by the administrator the agency from 2004 to 2008 and the largest penalty the agency has ever imposed is $1 million. the act of 2000 now authorizes much higher penalties. what would explain the lack of penalties that was imposed the last several years? >> i have to get back to you on that. that was prior to my stewardship of this agency. i will put that on the record for you. >> thank you. >> thank you. >> gentlemen, yield back? >> i yield zblak i recognize the gent

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say, madam, may with ask you at the gruesome murders out at the clutter home?ybe you should drop the word "gruesome." there he was standing. >> kneeling. >> like a man. >> on a bed of rose petals in a tuxedo. your son, your son. he was choking back soft, soft sobs. and when he held back the tears and finally caught his breath he said to me... >> margaret will you marry me and she said yup, and the end. he who's hungry? >> rose: sandra bullock has been nominated for her first best actress oscar for the blind side. she plays a feisty memphis mother who adopted a homeless african american boy with unusual football talent. here's a look at the film. >> i'm not cutting, i'm just asking. let me tell you something, all right? we have been sitting around here for over an hour and when i look around all i see are people shooting the bull and drinking coffee. >> how can i help you? >> oh, he was first. >> no, yo go ahead, i think i want to hear this. >> me, too. >> you all right? >> excuse he? you're right? how did those words taste coming out of your mouth? >> >> like v

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