the selection of the month of may stems from the fact that may marks the arrival of the first japanese immigrants in the u.s. in 1843. . president carter made asian pacific heritage week an annual event and in 1990 president george h.w. bush proclaimed the entire month of may to be asian pacific american heritage month. madam speaker, they've made great strides in the area of civil rights and public policy. led by such notable americans as patsy mink, the phishes asian american congresswoman. not to mention the current members of the president's cabinets, which includes three asian americans and an energy secretary steven chu, gary locke, and veterans' affairs secretary eric shinseki. in closing, let us take a moment to recognize the contributions of the asian and pacific american community and celebrate such a rich cultural heritage by supporting house resolution 435. i continue to reserve the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman reserves e balance of his time. the chair recognizes the gentleman from utah. mr. chaffetz: madam speaker, i yield myself such time as

>> it may well. typically when we hear announcements of layoffs it usually takes a few months for those to actually occurred and work their way into our data. i don't know specifically where we are in our numbers compared to the announcement. >> i know you can't comment on this but i will just tell you, not as a member of congress, but just as an american it is on usual to me, i find it unusual the government is dictating the foreclosure of automobile to yield to the car dealerships. i find that travel and hope that affect will be moderated over the coming months but i tend to be pessimistic about that. as far as the government itself, growth of government we hear a lot about that. did government employment increase or decrease over the recent months? >> it was roughly flat. it decreased 7,000 but that is roughly flat. >> and what other -- you mentioned health care i think as an industry sector that should increases. were there any others? >> i think health care was probably the only major sector tha

in may, the unemployment rate rose from 8.9 to 9.4%. since the recession began in december of 2007, payroll employment has fallen by 6 million and the unemployment rate has increased by 4.5 percentage points. job losses continue to be widespread in may but the rate of decline moderated in construction and several service-providing industries. large job losses continued in the manufacturing sector with employment declines in nearly all component industries. employment fell sharply in motor vehicles and parts, machinery and fabricated metals. since the start of the recession, manufacturing employment has decreased by 1.8 million accounting for 30% of the job loss during this downturn. construction employment declined by 59,000 in may, half the average of the previous six months. job losses moderated in the private service providing industries with employment falling by 113,000 in may compared with an average monthly decline of 356,000 in the prior six months. employment was little changed in temporary help, retail trade, leisure and hospi

correctly, we may not have gotten this right. when people back home are having to tighten their belt and are looking at the largest deficits in history, they want kang to get this right. what it does is it serve miss programs, but it doesn't let them continue to spend this $2.7 billion that quite honestly we didn't have to begin. with it's one thing to spend additional money when you have it, but when you don't have it, it's another issue. people back home are faced with that same issue. i got a letter from one of my constituents in abilene, texas, the other day. congressman, you know what we got caught up in the credit card and borrowing, we stopped that we quit charging a lot of things we used to charge. not taking the vacations we used to take, now we're saving. the question she said, congressman, why isn't the federal government doing the same thing? what do they not understand that we cannot continue to run these deficits at these levels? continue to spend money that we do not have? madam chairman, we have to stop this. we c

you may proceed. >> thank you mr. chairman, distinguished members of the committee i would like to begin my testimony this afternoon with a short summary of the ntsb investigator actions to date regarding the accident involving cold air flight 3407 this is still the ongoing investigation and there is significant work left for our investigators but my testimony today will be limited to those facts we have identified and i will steer clear of any analysis of what we have found so a

many people may be familiar with john walsh from his tv show "america's most wanted"," but they may not realize the tragic event that led to his advocating on behalf of children and his work with "america's most wanted"." in 1981, adam walsh was abducted from a toy department store in florida at a shopping mall. two weeks later, fisherman found adam's decap tated head. they never found his body. he was six years old. last year, after 27 years of not knowing who killed their son, police announced that adam's murderer was a serial murderer who died a decade earlier. otis toole was the killer's name. although this did not take away the walsh's pain, we hope it gave them some peace of mind and a sense of justice. even during the years of unanswered questions, john walsh advocated on behalf of children. he helped fight for the passage of federal legislation such as the missing children's act of 1982 and the missing children's assistance act of 1984. the missing children's assistance act of 1984 established the national resource center and clearinghouse for missing and exploited children thus

be thereupon had and given as may be agreeable to law and justice. mr. president, the managers on the part of the house of representatives, by the adoption of the articles of impeachment which have just been read to the senate, do now demand that the senate take order for the appearance of the said samuel b. kent, to answer said impeachment and do now demand his conviction, and appropriate judgment thereon. mr. reid: mr. president, at this time the oath shall be administered in conformance with article 1, section 3, clause 6 of the constitution, and the senate's impeachment rules. i move that the senator from kentucky, mr. mcconnell, be designated by the senate to administer the oath to the acting president pro tempore, the senator from hawaii, mr. inouye. the presiding officer: without objection, it is so ordered. mr. mcconnell: do you solemnly swear that in all things appertaining to the trial of the impeachment of samuel b. kent, judge of the united states district court for the southern district of texas, now pending, you will do impartial justic

in an offhand comment that may or may not be private, but i don't think anymore anything should be private in regard to health care reform, the chairman said it was a response to senator snowe, how can we vote for this bill in committee if we don't know how much it will cost and how it will merge with the help committee bill? basically the answer coming back is, this bill isn't going to be written here. it isn't going to be written in committee, but it will be written in conference. that's called "trust me." i don't see how we can have much trust when the hel when the emps no closed. i yiel yield back the floor. the presiding officer: the senator from pennsylvania. mr. casey: i guess we are not in a quorum call. the presiding officer: we're not. mr. casey: i ask consent that i be permitted to speak as if in morning business. the presiding officer: without objection, so ordered. mr. casey: and i'd also ask consent i be permitted to speak for what i hope will be 20 minutes. the presiding officer: without objection, so ordered. mr. casey: finally, i'll have two subjects i'll cover, mr. presid

i yield myself such time as i may consume. i support house resolution 530, commending the noimp third annual civil rights baseball game. third annual civil rights game will be played as indicated by my friend from virginia, by the reds and the white sox on june 20 at great american ballpark in cincinnati. it serves as a celebration of the roll of sports and the the role they played in advancing equal rights in america. as port of -- part of that celebration, three great americans will be honored in the game, muhammad ali, bill cosby, and hank aaron. they will receive awards as individuals who, quote, whose lives are emblematic of the spirit of the civil rights movement. mr. ali was 10-time heavyweight champion boxer. since he left the sport, he's engaged in many humanitarian efforts and traveled the world on good will missions. mr. cosby has spent the last five decades as a comedian, entertainer, and i would add philosopher. his life has been a testament to proper handling of race issues. this extraordinary man just went about

accounts for such activities, may be merged with funds and may be accounted for as one fund. section 503, none of the funds that remain available for obligation shall be available for obligation through a reprogramming of funds that create a new program. section 504, the department of homeland security working capital fund shall continue operations as a permanent working capital fund for fiscal year 2010. section 505, except as otherwise provided by law, not to exceed 50% of unobligated balances remaining at the end of fiscal year 2010, shall remain available through september 30, 2011, for the purposes the appropriations were provided. section 506, funds made available for intelligence activities are deemed to be authorized. section 507, none of the funds may be used to make a grant allocation or to issue a letter of intent totaling in excess of $1 million. section 508, no agency shall purchase any additional facilities to be used for the purpose of conducting law enforcement training without the advanced approval of the committees. section 509, none of the funds may be used

willing to push that point enough -- >> you are asking me to get into what we may or may not do. >> now you are sounding like the budget ministration. >> trying to get me fired? >> it sounds like you are making the settlement issue one of the main issues. president obama and secretary clinton has talked about mr. spoken about settlements, that settlements are on helpful but for you to say from the podium that settlement should stop indicates this is one of the main points you are pushing. >> we are focused on the goal. and the goal is peace. the goal is two peoples living in their historic homeland, and there are a number of obstacles to this ultimate goal. i'm not saying that settlements are the main obstacle -- just one of the obstacles. >> on the today show he said there is hope for a room for negotiation on natural growth. indicating there will be discussion on how to finesse that with a obama administration. is that your understanding? >> again, you are asking me to get into what is going to happen when we actually sit down and negotiate, but it has to be worked out first and forem

it may have grants to produce well-educated math and science teachers. the funding levels specified in my amendment will provide for an estimated two to four new teacher development projects. highly qualified teachers have a firm grasp on the subject matter. they're able to capture their students' imaginations and give them excitement about the science. they demonstrate to the student that creative inquiry and rigorous investigation are a true heart of science. they stimulate, invigorate and inform their parents, their students of the value and accessibility of careers in the stem. there's a shortage in math and science teacher experts, especially in the high need school districts. dr. michael mortgager say that students fall behind in test performance in the fifth grade. commerce, justice, science subcommittee on this issue, and i'm pleased to support language in the greater outreach to students at the primary and middle school levels. i am also pleased to see the experience based science funding get more attention and support. young, smart minority stu

may pointed out. one industry in concurrence on these issues -- let me point out two specific things in addition. this integrated database of pilot records is something that congress can direct the faa to do and do immediately so that the access to this information is readily available to people as we hire. the better information about people in the system, the safer it will be. the other issue underscoring the use of cvrs, as you talk about in your remarks, it is a tragedy that we are here, and all of the issues that congress, the faa, are learning about, are from -- it had to be after the tragedy. that is a shame. if there is the tool that can be used to help prevent accidents, that is getting information about how to prevent accidents before they happen, and we are not even touching it, that is a real tragedy. >> i would like to respond, we are talking band-aids, we need to look at the system. the thought that we can somehow monitor cockpit voice recorders and somehow improve the safety or the comp

speaker, i yield myself such time as i may consume. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized. mr. bilirakis: i rise in support of this resolution which gives long overdue recognition to the accomplishments of sumo champion takamiyama daigoro, who won japan's top division championship in 1972. this native son of hawaii, also known as jesse kuhaulua, was the first foreigner to achieve this distinction since competitive sumo tournaments first appeared in the 16th century. athletes have long been recognized as good will ambassadors who can often promote international understanding more effectively than professional diplomats. two years ago, for example, former secretary of state couldn't pleasea rice named baseball legend cal ripken jr. as good will ambassador to spread the will of diplomacy. mr. daigoro, who retires at the age of 65, spent 3 1/2 decades using his athletic skills promoting understanding and friendship between the people of the united states and the people of japan. i, therefore, join ms. hirono and my congressi

i yield myself such time as i may consume. madam speaker, today i rise in strong support of house resolution 435, which expresses support for the recognition in celebration of asian pacific american heritage. the measure before us was introduced on may 13, 2009, by congressman mike honda of california. along with other members and associate members of the congressional asian pacific american caucus. currently the measure is supported by over 55 members of congress and has been appropriately reviewed and approved by the committee on oversight and government reform as of june 4, 2009. madam speaker, the asian american and pacific islander community is composed of over 15 million people who on a daily basis are are making signature contributions to the betterment of our country. for example, in addition to being one of our country's fastest growing minority groups, the asian american and pacific islander community is also responsible for generating an estimated $326 billion annually for our economy as entrepreneurs and business o

on may 25th, 2009, popanother nuclear test was done. the chinese foreign ministry issued a statement fixed in its firm opposition. he strongly urged them to honor its commitment to the denuclearization, stop any moves that may further worsened the situation, and return to the six-party talks. china is committed as always to safeguarding the international bond prolific very -- and maintenance peace -- peace and stability in northeast asia. by conducting another nuclear test, they violated relevant resolutions, and affected regional peace and stability. we support and appropriate and balance the action from the security council. the measures included in the just adopted resolution are in accordance with article 41 of chapter seven of the you and charter. the resolution not only demonstrates a firm opposition of the international community to the nuclear test, but since a positive signal to thepprk. it shows the determination of the security council to resolve the issue peacefully. in this context the chinese delegation voted in favor of t

be facilitated and i emphasize the word may be. but it is going to be wave theory difficult and complex process. on the issue of the nuclear program itself, i think the negotiating point of departure might well be the desire to exploit more explicitly what the iranians have been affirming publicly for quite some time namely the three in vocations. we don't want nuclear weapons, we are not seeking nuclear weapons, our religion forbids us to have nuclear weapons. notes incidentally this stands in sharp explicit contrast with the position of the north koreans. the north koreans have been saying the very opposite. we want nuclear weapons. we are seeking nuclear weapons, and in your face, taha, we have nuclear weapons. that makes it tough to negotiate about and of arrangement which excludes nuclear weapons. the iranians perhaps out of the seat but perhaps in part at least truthfully are saying we are not building nuclear weapons, we don't have nuclear weapons, our religion forbids us to have nuclear weapons. that provides a point of dep

i think in some cases, it may turn out that this may increase the cost, while it actually devalues the benefit to the employee up front, it also by perhaps getting a higher utilization rate in the end may cost the government more money. so it's sort of a lose-lose situation. longer term employees would be required to exhaust any available prior leave before being eligible to take the additional advance leave and under most circumstances, they may already do this. so the amendment's only alleged new benefit to employees is to allow newer hires to go into a deficit on their leave in order to get days paid in their parental leave. again, federal agencies can already offer advance leave so there's no new benefit here. the true effect of this benefit is to gut the primary purpose of the bill to support families and child development by providing four weeks of unconditional paid leave to new mothers and fathers in the federal work force. in addition to gutting the bill, the amendment is inequitable because it would impact new employees and older employees differently. plfer, the amendment is

justice souter announced his decision to retire in early may. i think that neither the fact of his resignation nor the timing was a particular surprise. i think a lot of people in washington anticipated this. i say the timing wasn't a surprise, because i think it's certainly a fair inference that justice souter timed his resignation so as to permit president obama to choose his replacement, or at least permit a president other than president bush to choose his replacement. i say it's a fair inference because he resigned at effectively the first opportunity the he had to d do so in a post bush world. i think the fact of his resignation was not a particular surprise either. justice souter always said he looked forward to returning to his home state of new hampshire he never particularly enjoyed being in washington, at least that was certainly the impression he often conveyed. the always -- he always said he wanted to retire and go home at a time when he was young enough to go hiking in the mountains and enjoy the outdoors. as far as justice souter

and preferences may vary. -- the patient population and preferences may vary. if we are sure that this is meant to ensure care, our purpose is to find out what we think is best most of the time for the average patient and we want to put that out. fine. if we are going to tell the doctors what they are going to do and patience what they are going to do, it is not fine. it is not based on the best care, it is based on the best for the average, based on cost as well as outcome. without this amendment, i would like to know what section of the bill prohibits the government from using cer to decide which treatment can reach -- which it treatment the patient can cannot have. -- which treatments ththe patient can and cannot have? i trust that your intent is good. where is the protection? i will go back and remind you that a medicare patient today cannot, even with their own money, have a virtual colonoscopy, per orders of the dictate of cms. cms has decided that is too expensive for the benefits that we give. now on a

well be she forges relationships with other justices that may way -- we may not anticipate. even if she does, it's still an open question of whether that would result in different outcomes. my prediction at that point would be that judge sotomayor will fit in fairly seamlessly as a replacement for justice south for the terms of her ideology, her approach to the law. i think that it may -- there may well be some differences on individual issues but i do not think we're in for any sort of radical restructuring of the court or massive shift in ideology one way or the other. i think that in many cases, particularly those hot button constitutional cases, i think that we'll see that familiar 5-4 split recurring again and again at least until the next vacancy on the court arises. thank you very much. as i said, i would love to entertain questions and in fact our friends from c-span asked me to hold off to make sure we reach people with a microphone to make sure the question is heard. let's start over there. >> thank you for your presentation. i'm wondering if you have an inkling of

press may sit sound like sunshine and lollipops. you're exact word was invoice we're selling them mop at invoice negative o back ashley ppa minuses of 350 we are selling cars 1500 below invoice on average. we normally sell to the public as and voice or right around there. we are selling them up 1500 less than we normally do to the other dealers. >> parts inventory? >> mine has not been addressed yet. i don't know. i am still in a state of shock. >> i was told when chrysler came to see me yesterday i was told they took care of all of their dealers they are closing and inventories and cars and parts inventory of would be purchased. >> what needs to be understood, there is no written procedure how we will be paid. thank god i only have two new cars left but some have half a million dollars worth. we hear the cars will be trucked away and we will wait for the money some hopper i have not seen anything on paper obery will be paid. that is an important aspect. is there a written procedure? >> first of all. >> dell webb has been megabyte t

chairman, i yield myself such time as i may consume. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized. mr. franks: mr. chairman, on june 1, 2009, only about a week ago, private william long, only 23 years eeled, -- old, was shot and killed as he worked at the army navy career center in little rock, arkansas. private quinton ezeagwula, age 18, was also shot in the attack that day. thankfully private quinton ezeagwula survived although our latest information is that he remains still in critical condition. mr. chairman, most americans who are listening today are hearing about private long's death for the very first time. its likely most americans haven't heard of this killing because private long's murder forces the issue that the mainstream media does not want to confront or report on. and that is islamic terrorism within and coming from within the united states. the men accused of shooting private long and private quinton ezeagwula was formerly known as carlos bledsoe, he converted to islam and changed his name. he later traveled to

reaching the target may lead to a sharper reduction in the balance sheet. we can raise the interest that is paid in tandem with the target and this will raise the opportunity cost of the banks that are lending. as we announced in march, we are looking for additional tools for legislative action. an example would be the authority to release debt, and expansion of the treasury supplemental plan. now what circumstances will require us to use the tools that we have, and what we may have in the future? one clear concern is price stability. the balance sheets grew in a matter of weeks and remains large. there is a precedence for a large increase in the balance sheets. this is subsequently associated with inflation. i want to emphasize part of this, inflationary pressures are likely to rise without broad expansion. this explains why there is concern, and why we look after the ability to reverse the growth of the balance sheet. forecasting inflation is never easy, but this comes with the job. public interest leads to many different independent use. but these are pa

another area is the number of aircraft that may deployed. there were plenty of assets, identifying those well in advance, and we have looked at the active components, with the coast guard to see where the assets would be available as they are called into the emergency. the last area of concern and we look at this closely last week, the health and human services and the veterans administration is the evacuation. we have improved greatly over the ability to identify people who may be moved and how to receive them on the other hand, and the problem that we will face, is the release time of those patients. if you wait until the last moment, we can only moved so many people and we were trying to have the officers working closely, having the coordinated officers to talk to them, so if you make the decision in 48 hours here are the people you can move. >> i will ask my staff to design a chart along the gulf coast, to indicate how many nursing home patients live within 30 miles of the coast. i will provide these numbers. in hurricane katrina we had

so that may have given the president confidence in what he was getting was what he gets, and may have pushed him toward getting judge sotomayor or other finalists who did not have that track record of published opinions that judge sotomayor does. the moment he said his nomination all sorts of groups and throughout the country came to life, came out of hibernation, and they began what is characterized as a concerted effort to circumscribe what they view as the permissible candidates from which president obama can make a selection. a lot thought he should appoint a minority or a woman. i should add this was not confined to activist groups. shortly after he announced his retirement spector went on face the nation and said he should appoint a minority or woman. in fact, the lobbying got so intense in this area that the white house was forced to issue a remarkable statement where they said this lobbying was counterproductive and everyone who was really pushing the president in a public way toward one of their choices needed to knock it off, cut it out. a few hours after that, senator barba

this morning's release reported may job losses totaling 345,000. almost half of the loss of recent months, but an unemployment rate of 9.4%, a jump of half a percent from the previous month. adding of discouraged workers and part-time workers who cannot find full-time employment, the unemployment rate jumped to 16.4%, the highest rate since the government started collecting this information in 1994. it was also announced recently that the initial jobless claims fell. the european central bank held interest rates steady yesterday , signaling expectations that the global economy may just have bottomed out. i am encouraged by the marginal improvements in consumer providence -- confidence, but this is accompanied by a sobering counterpoint. increased consumer spending has yet to translate into actual spending by consumers or businesses. rather, families are saving, and i do not blame them. they see that more than one in four unemployed workers has been unemployed for over six months and that the median duration of unemployment is now 14.9 weeks, a reco

so it is crucial that -- may i have an additional 30 seconds?it is crucial -- it is crucial that we proceed in moving on the articles of impeachment. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from michigan reserves the balance of his time. the gentleman from texas is recognized. mr. smith: i yield five minutes to the gentleman from wisconsin, mr. sensenbrenner a member of the impeachment task force and former member of the judiciary committee. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized. mr. sensenbrenner: i would like to demand in a division of the question so as to result in a accept rote -- a separate vote on the articles of impeachment. the speaker pro tempore: the article will be divided. mr. sensenbrenner: the overwhelming support is weighted in evidence against samuel b. kent. a federal grand jury indicted judge kent on three counts of inappropriate sexual conduct and one count of obstruction justice. he pleaded guilty to obstruction of justice pursuant to a plea agreement. as part of the plea agreement, the government

they may or may not take into account those bills.ut we're not being asked to write the bill with them. the bill that the president -- that the chairman comes up with and says this is my mark, now let's amend it, will not be a bipartisan product. >> senator, just last week i was talking with some finance democrats and they insist that it will be a baucus-grassley mark meeting. the chairman and ranking member. and i'm wondering, though, are they just sort of grasping at straws here trying to grab gratsly here, maybe senator snow who sits on the finance panel and maybe a couple others? it doesn't think of me you're going to make tup bipartisan product. >> that's what they're doing. senator grassley has been given no authority to negotiate anything by all of us republicans on that committee. and he has said that while his staff has talked to senator baucus' staff, baucus is the chairman of the committee, that he is not negotiating with max baucus. if we have only three days left to produce a bill and we will not have had a republican mee

. >> may i ask you a question?>> i'd like to just finish because we could have endless questions. >> we need to have endless questions -- >> but they are also -- so i'm coming back, though, what is it about quality health care standards? you've said over and over, using the same arguments and now i know them, you know them, we all know them. on clinical practice. let's go to the quality health standards. what is it that you -- >> federal and private health plan reports a recommendation shall not be construed as mandates. that's a big difference than saying they will not be used as mandates. >> might i make a suggestion? >> rather than this whole thing -- >> i think it's doesn't -- >> let me make my point. >> i'm trying to be helpful. >> let me make my point for a minute. where in medicare law do we have the right, right now, to tell an 85-year-old woman who has a complicated health history that she can't have a virtual colonoscopy because it's too expensive and yet that's exactly what we're doing, and that's what's

i i yield myself such time as i may consume. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, so ordered. mr. johnson: i yield myself such time as i may consume. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized. mr. johnson: mr. speaker, the webcaster settlement act of 2009 allows the recording industry and the providers of internet radio also known as webcasters to negotiate reasonable royalty rates for the streaming of sound recordings on the internet. while a relatively new technology, the audience for internet radio is growing rapidly. 50 million to 70 million americans listen to internet radio each month in part because of the diverse programming available to cater to many different musical tastes. in 1995 congress passed a digital performance right for sound recordings. in 1998 the digital millennium copyright act expanded the right to internet radio services by granting them the privilege of using copyrighted music at an industry negotiated rate or in the event industry cannot negotiate a rate at a government mandated rate

speaker, i yield myself such time as i may consume. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized. mr. sablan: thank you, mr. speaker. i rise today to recognize the significant contributions of hillel, the foundation for jewish campus life has made towards colleges and universities around the united states. hillel began as an organization 85 years ago at the university of illinois. benjamin franklin developed the organization as an oppornity for jewish students to support their heritage. during the war, hillel counseled soldiers, welcomed g.i.'s back to campus and sponsored european refugees. one of the refugees was the late chairman of the house foreign affairs committee, tom lantos. today hillel is the largest jewish campus organization in the world. hillel's mission is to enrich the lives of jewish undergraduate and graduate students so they may enrich the jewish people around the world. it helps them spiritually, intellectually and socially throughout their college years. hillel prepares thousands of young adults to enter th

baird: madam speaker, i yield myself such time as i may consume. it is fitting that h.r. 1736 is coming to the floor of the house in the same week as the foreign relations authorization act because science and technology can play a truly unique role in improving our foreign relations. science is a universal language built on a foundation of prior discoveries and advancements that have originated from all corners of the globe. science diplomacy presents a unique and essential opportunity to develop and sustain friendships and collaborations into the future. international surveys consistently show that the people in other nations admire our scientific and technological achievements and opportunities more than almost any other feature of the united states. many of the political, economic and social leaders have at one time or another studies in our nation or worked for an american business. from a diplomatic perspectives, the connections is valuable beyond measure. the science and students all benefit from this scholarly exchange. but so do our nation

want to hold it, some may want to see. most will believe there is a significant upside potential and they may hold it for a long time. i think frankly that is what is going to happen if the company is run right and it will be run right with the additions of the bennett concept should the amendment. so, you don't want the government to get rid of this docket at fire sale prices. the nobody benefits and that is the second practical reason. we the people should have the stock and secondly it will make the most sense from a long term value perspective and senator bennett has spoken to the reasons why the fiduciary responsibility of the government is also very important. i hope that rather than viewing this as some kind of partisan exercise our democratic colleagues will listen to their constituents back home, who were not happy about the way things are going with government takeovers these days and will see the value for them in adopting this amendment. this is an amendment, a bill that should be adopted, and i am very hopeful

perhaps movement on some of them, movement on other issues more difficult may be facilitated. but it is going to be a very difficult and complex process. on the issue of the nuclear program, itself, i think the negotiating point of departure might well be a desire to exploit more explicitly what the iranians have been affirming publicly for quite some time, namely their 3 invocations. we don't want nuclear weapons, we are not seeking nuclear weapons, our religion forbids us to have nuclear-weapons. note that this stance in explicit contrast with the position of the north koreans. the north koreans have been saying the opposite. we want nuclear-weapons, we are seeking nuclear weapons, and now we have nuclear weapons. that makes it much tougher to negotiate about an arrangement which includes nuclear weapons. the iranians are out of their seat, but maybe they are saying we are not building nuclear weapons, we don't have nuclear- weapons, our religion forbids us to have nuclear weapons. that provides a point of departure, saying to them, this is reassuring, but we have some legit

chairman, i have another question if i may. madam secretary, i have been advised that fraud and abuse are dreaming about $60 billion a year from the health care system. this money could be going for patient care to address other problems. i co-sponsored with other senators the seniors and tax payers protection obligation act as an acronym, it's known as the stop act designed to eliminate the use of social security numbers as the medicare identifier to help curb fraudulent services. i wonder if you agree something like that is needed and in view of the fact your budget includes only 113 million for medicare safeguards do we need to look elsewhere for ways and means of helping to curb medicare waste, fraud, and abuse? >> i certainly share your concern about waste, fraud, and abuse, senator, any dinosaur went from the program is not only from the tax payers but the delivery of health care services and i think that is why the president was eager to have the attorney general and i join together in a new initiative, sharing data rath

what does may cause been? >> and it is a very vague terms. >> i am not certain. >> the actual subsection says if the secretary has reason to believe they use or consumption of or exposures to an article of feared may cause adverse health consequences of the actual standard is reason to believe and of the may cause is in there but it really is a standard of which is very protective of public health. >> dr. jones? >> i agree with those comments the. >> i believe it is much more vague them that. >> i hope we can work to clean up that language and i think there is an opportunity then ask the subpoena question again to those who want to talk about there are three criteria of section 311 which i did not delude to is any other proceeding respecting a violation of the act? i think most people agree. and a hearing or investigation to determine if a person is in violation or provision of this act? i think the average person would say okay. subpoenaed of the babies. >> any other matter relative to the commissioners juris

this may be a good study to do. but if you rhine up the caron -- line up the chronology of the timeline of what's happened to individual free speech and personal freedoms and representation within iran, they line up fairly closely, and i think the lesson here is as iran gets closer to nuclear capability, it feels freer to deal as it will with its internal population. you see this in the accelerating pace of closures of religious newspapers, in persecution, just in the tone of the public statements you have. so i think in a very real sense the pace of the iranian nuclear program and the pace of the freedom of iran lead in opposite directions. the harder it's going to be for protests like you see on the streets now of having any sort of chance of not only succeeding because as ken illustrated it's a complicated process, but as having any hope of attracting international attention because the lesson of tiananmen, for example, in '89 is the fact that the international community doesn't meddle in the affairs of nuclear p

and it may come sooner than you think. you are more powerful than you know, and we are deeply grateful to follow in your path. thank you very much, and keep fighting for my grandchildren, you will give them a wonderful life. >> the theme of this event is remembrance and truth. so it is my extreme pleasure to invite to the podium ms. ji-ling. she was a commander in tiananmen in the democracy movement. a wonderful woman, she will address us in chinese and english. give her a warm welcome. >> thank you for being here with us, and remembering tiananmen and 20 years later. i want to invite my colleagues and my dear friends that are with us 20 years ago, to come to the podium with me. i am speaking on behalf of all of us, please all others that were here earlier in the press conference. please join me on the podium. give them a big round of applause. [applause] >> 20 years later, i still remember the sunrising behind t he chinese history museum, shedding the bright light on the square. it was the morning of june 3, 1989 and the

the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman may not yield blocks of time, but the gentleman may yield. mrs. tauscher: thank you, mr. chairman. california, texas, colorado, new mexico, washington, south carolina, tennessee, idaho, georgia, anybody live there? those are the states that are expecting this cleanup money. your governors are expecting this cleanup money. mayors of communities are expecting this cleanup money. this isn't just little slush in tanks that we are trying to clean up, ladies and gentlemen. this is a 50-year residue of the cold war, dangerous, dangerous proliferation risks, dangerous health and safety risks. these states have agreements -- usually because they sued the federal government to this money be spent for this cleanup. if you think this is a triviality and your phone is ringing from your governors, they are saying our communities are at risk. you need to pose this motion to recommit. we have had hearing after hearing, subcommittee markups, committee markups, none of this was brought up. support this mark. defeat this motion to recommit. mr. skelton: i yield

hinojosa: i yield myself such time as i may consume. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized. mr. hinojosa: mr. speaker, i rise today in support of h.r. 1777, a bill to make technical corrections to h.r. 4137, which is the higher education act. mr. speaker, the house originally passed this legislation on march 30, 2009. this is a revised version from the senate. the senate made additional conforming and technical changes including a scholarship program for students whose parent or guardian was a member of the armed forces of the united states and died as a result of performing military service in iraq or afghanistan after september 11, 2001. clarifying the experimental site authority at the department of education. let me explain some of these changes. currently borrowers may rehabilitate their defaulted federal student loans by making nine on-time payments. once they meet this threshold, the guarantee agency may sell the loan to a lender which results in the default being removed from the borrower's credit reports. mr. spe

it may not be politically correct to talk about stopping illegal drugs. in doing sthork agents of the border patrol made our streets safer, helped prevent child and spouse abuse, lowered emergency room admissions, hipped people make child support payments by helping them hold their jobs and because of illegal markets and other things causing them to lose their jobs, or by intercepting them or driving the prices up because of what they intercept. we're never going to stop all drug abuse and every border patrol agent know he is cant stop all drug abuse. but he know he is can intercept large numbers and that would have gone to the streets and homes of america and would have resulted in huge problems in crime and family safety in america. so maybe we don't want to call it the war on drugs anymore. instead we call it disease. for those who are addicted, it is a disease. in fact, unlike doctors and nurses who fight canence or -- cancer or researchers who fight cancer or lupus or diabetes, the border patrol agents are getting shot at and die. whether we want to

>> part may? >> is that a statement or a hope that it's not going to haven't. >> i guess that's a hope. >> i doing in the hope of. >> thank you. >> mr. press, mr. mceleney searched this. none of chryslers submissions to announcement could have been interpreted to put chrysler dealers on notice of the scope of the termination as follows your is that statement true? true? yes or no? >> i'm sorry? >> mr. mceleney state as follows, none of chryslers submissions to the government prior to may 14 announcement could have been interpreted to put chrysler dealers on notice of the scope of the terminations that followed. guesser no, is that true? >> we have had a genesys program, dealer consolidation program in place for more than 10 years, and i think the majority of those dealers had good, long time to prepare for that. >> would you submit for the record your comments that proves that this is not the case. now, mr. mceleney, did general motors give adequate warning prior to its may 15 announcement that it

i fully understand that we may have made some mistakes. but the lion's share of the sales in the united states are in major metro markets there we grossly underperform and in part because our dealer system is not properly structured. >> thanks. >> thank you, senator. senator mccaskill. >> thank you, mr. chairman. i think mr. press, one thing we discovered today is that there is -- has been a significant breakdown in communication as it relates to your plans to relieve these dealers of their cars and replace them with the dealers going forward. these two gentlemen have said they didn't know it. i'm betting there is others that don't have all the accurate information so i think one of the things you -- we have learned from this hearing is you have a task in the next 24 hours and that is to check the phone log and the e-mail log and make sure that you have communicated clearly with all of the dealers that you have, in fact, moved 97% of the vehicles and are on a path to provide some kind of specific assistance as it relates to tools and parts

or may not agree with the opinion. so that's not a hypothetical in that sense, i would submit. >> well, i think i was focused really more on the attorney general not necessarily agreeing with what an olc opinion -- an olc position might be. olc plays an important role, a vital role in saying what the justice department's view is on the constitutionality of a statute and a whole variety of  things. the president in front formulating policy takes into account a wide range of things -- things that come from the justice department, opinions that come from other places. there are policy determinations that go into it. and -- i don't know -- i'm not -- i'm not as bothered as you are apparently by the notion that a president in taking into account the wide range of advice and opinions that he or she gets comes up with a determination that might be different from what the justice department has recommended. >> would that have to be based on a legal argument or would that -- could that be based purely on political consideratio

you said there may be a take-back at that point. i frankly think that a soft landing is wishful thinking at this point. it is temporarily maybe keeping things going but the end is clearly in sight and i think people are going to defer to the time when they're going to have to say to their families look, we don't have the income anymore, we don't have the employees, would you expect the employees would hang around until the last day that they can continue working or you think they might look for something else and get out while the getting's good? >> senator, one of the reasons why, with all due respect, we will supply it, we have not been public with the list of the dealers who agreed to the wind-down agreement is because we give them 12 to 16 months to determine what they would like to do with their business without having that hanging over them, sir. >> mr. press, you apparently said to the dealers either help us or burn us all down. would having the availability of some degree of financing, do you think it would be a good idea fo

it may also be used for project rental assistance. the bill also authorizes appropriation necessary to provide 20,000 additional housing choice vouchers for homeless veterans for f.y. 2009 and each year thereafter. other provisions in the bill include the exclusion of veterans benefits amounts from rental subsidy calculations for all federally funded housing programs and an authorization of $1 million in technical assistance grants to nonprofits who provide veterans housing or provide assistance to veterans seeking housing. all in all, this bill, i believe, will help to address an area or an issue of homelessness in our veterans population, one that we must not allow to continue. h.r. 403 is similar to h.r. 3329, which passed the house in the 110th congress by a vote of 412-9. i urge my colleagues to support and i reserve the balance of my time. . the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from texas. mr. green: i thank the gentlelady for her generous comments and her appeal to colleagues to support this important piece of legislation. mr

we have people that the only risk they may have ever taken is to buy a lottery ticket chongging to tell companies how they should move forward with business plans. and the american people, one, we need to get them out of these businesses and a structure that ends the bailout and the government picking winners and losers and more important puts a market discipline into these companies. letting them feel knowing there's consequences if you think shareholders will have an uprising wait until they think they are about to lose their investment. today we send the signal you may not lose your investment or more importantly as we say to the american people guess what, you didn't like shares in that company? we are going to buy them for you because we are the government and we know the best investment of the american taxpayers' money , and by the way we don't have this money. this is money we are borrowing from china and japan and people we are having to buy energy from on a basis. the american tax payers are tired of being shareholders. let's get them out and get an exit strategy and more impor