mccaul, and a member opposed, will each control five minutes. the chair recognizes the gentleman from texas. mr. mccaul: july 22, 2009, will mark the five-year anniversary of the declaration by the united states congress of the atrocities occurring in the darfur region of sudan constitute genocide. it was an historic resolution because it represented for the first time that congress had made such a determination while the killings were -- while the killings were actually taking place. today, innocent civilians from darfur are celebrating -- are still going through genocide. they are dying at the hands of the janjaweed, also known as the devil on horseback. the united states for years has been seeking to help find ways to ease the suffering in darfur and find a lasting political solution to each of the interrelated crises in sudan. we passed resolutions and impose economic and travel sanctions, frozen assets and enabled divestment from companies linked to the sudanese regime. the united states has led efforts at the united nations with bilateral

mccaul: i urge support of this amendment and i yield back the balance of my time. the chair: the gentleman yields back. mr. berman: mr. chairman, i'm pleased to yield the remaining time to the gentleman from california, mr. farr. the chair: the gentleman from california is recognized. mr. farr: thank you. mr. berman: before i yield may i ask how much time the gentleman has? the chair: the gentleman has 4 1/4 minutes. mr. farr: thank you, chairman berman, and ranking member, ileana ros-lehtinen. i want to rise not on this amendment but to make a comment on the peace corps because i was just thinking as i was hearing about the amendment that had we fulfilled john f. kennedy's dream in the 1960's to have 100,000 peace corps volunteers serving overseas throughout the 1960's, 1970's, 1980's, and 1990's this decade we might have avoided this disaster in sudan. i want to commend the committee because they have on the anniversary of the 50th anniversary of the peace corps which is 2011, we now have only 6,000 volunteers serving in 78 countries. and the price tag of that is

are getting away from the facts we need a really good first amend and lawyer and they hired michael mccaul who then went leader on to be a distinguished federal judge because of tremendous first amendment experts as we had to groups of farmers, one sticking with thomas campaign, the other guinn with the new lawyer. they both filed briefs in the case and supreme court didn't know what to do. we had two lawyers, only half hour for them to argue so the clerk of the court actually flip a coin to resolve this unresolvable fight between these two lawyers and thomas campaign had one so he argued the case and almost from the outset you could see that first amendment of the first speech was of no interest to him. he wanted to relocate this program about fruit and he started to argue about stipulates and 43 and exhibit to 97 as if he was back in the trial court and there's one clip we have of how unsuccessful that gannett was the first clip. >> [inaudible] [inaudible] as a matter of fact to make that stipulation number 57, i'm sorry, 59 -- [inaudible] >> in that stipulation i don't understand -- [in

mccaul of texas. amendment number 7 by mr. larsen of washington. amendment number 10 of ms. brown-waite of florida. amendment number 15 of mr. royce of california and amendment number 19 of mr. kirk of illinois. the chair will reduce to two minutes the voting. the unfinished business is the request of a recorded vote of amendment number 1 by the gentleman from california, mr. berman, on which further proceedings were postponed and on which the yeas prevailed by voice vote. the clerk: amendment number 1, printed in part b printed in house report 111-143 offered by mr. berman of california the speaker pro tempore: a -- the chair: a recorded vote has been requested. a sufficient number having arisen, a recorded vote is ordered. those in favor say aye. in favor of the amendment will votea. those opposed, no. members will record their votes by electronic device. this will be a 15-minute vote. [captioning made possible by the national captioning institute, inc., in cooperation with the united states house of representatives. any use of the closed-captioned coverage of the house pr

senator mccaul and kyl can come to the floor and express their fear over and over again, the latest year they have about the safety of the country but they are not borne up on the fact. i will stand by general colin powell and others, people i admire that have given so many years of their life and service to the country that agree with president obama to close the guantanamo facility, trusten was perhaps the saudis told the detainees if necessary and be aware of the fact if we should ship these detainees to some other country to be tried or for some other purpose there is a serious question whether or not they would treat them in the way they should be treated for the safety of the united states. for many years incidently president george w. bush said he wanted to close guantanamo. there weren't any complaints from the republican side of the arnall then. george w. bush couldn't get the job done. president obama said he will try to finish the job. i hope some of these two are critical of president obama and his position will not make a political issue out of guantanamo if president george

mccaul volume peaked at 7,000 the day that rita hit. after 2005 we were even better prepared for 2008. going into the hurricane season of 2008, we have a partially integrated telephony, statewide disaster plan, centralized disaster database, and 24 hours a day seven day a week average. 211 louisiana answer more than 117,000 calls between hurricane gustav hitting on august 31st of september 16th of 2008. in the peak of that, we were assisted by the 211 system in california which was invaluable in expanding our capacity during it in a day window when hurricane ike hit texas in september the texas 211 insert 157,000 calls, absolutely incredible response. inland the aftermath of a hurricane ike caused flooding and wind damage throughout the midwest. and the 211 in the missouri, iowa, indiana and ohio played significant roles in their recovery efforts. the 2009 preparation as well under way and i am pleased to report to that we have complete integrated telephony the office to the louisiana. most importantly we have an extended an enhanced re

not the kind of mccaul inflation many providers have been learning the last decade, but still in capitation was often at the end of the year when we lowered the payment. we are not talking about that. finally, to the criticism there might be withholding of care under a system based on capitation that can't happen in the system because it only works financially for physicians and hospitals and only for patient safety is quality incentives get paid out and quality incentives as you will see in a minute or based on quite a comprehensive set of measures. so how do we think about this measurement work? we start with a set of principles and said the measurement work should build towards the institute of medicine's definition of the end state which is safe, affordable patient centered care that the measures said include process measures, and measures of patients experience that should go from the end site patient care to the ambulatory side of care. we also wanted to get out of some of the falls and paid for performance where if people will succeed on a measure the stop working and halfway through

cohen, the mccaul on you. let me say to all four of you that you're entire statements we've made a part of a permanent record and we would ask that you summarize your remarks. and as you pull that very close internal zaun, thank you. >> thank you mr. chairman and good morning. let me share my condolences with mr. mauer and the other representatives of the families that lost loved ones aboard a the air flight. it is a terrible tragedy. in the airline industry's safety is our highest priority. we try very hard to assure that we never compromise safety because of economic conditions. we were closely with all members of the aviation community including regional airlines to achieve extraordinary records. no fatalities from airline carriers in the past number of years and there really is in that that i appear before you today. with an understanding that no accident is acceptable, we have responsibility to understand through rigorous as searching inquiry the causes of the buffalo accidents and then to take whatever s

mccaul of texas. the chair: those in support of the recorded vote will rise and be counted. a sufficient number having arisen, a recorded vote is ordered. members will record their votes by electronic device. this is a two-minute vote. [captioning made possible by the national captioning institute, inc., in cooperation with the united states house of representatives. any use of the closed-captioned coverage of the house proceedings for political or commercial purposes is expressly prohibited by the u.s. house of representatives.] the chair: the yeas are 429. the nays are zero. the unfinished business is request for a recorded vote on amendment number 7 printed in house report 111-143 by the gentleman from washington, mr. larsen, on which further proceedings were postponed and on which the ayes prevailed by voice vote. the clerk will redesignate the amendment. the clerk: amendment number 7 printed in part c of house report 111-143 offered by mr. larsen of washington. the chair: a recorded vote has been requested. those in support of the request of the recorded vote will rise

mccaul: i thank the gentleman. mr. speaker, every person in america has the right to have his or her voice heard. no member in congress should be violenced on the floor. bills should come on the floor under the procedure that allows open debate, consisting of full amendment process that grants the minority the right to offerity alternatives. speaker pelosi, a new direction for america, this right has been denied, this is not a new direction, it is a wrong direction. my amendment would block taxpayer dollars from being used for monuments to me after sitting members of congress. i'd like to yield the remainder of my time to the chairwoman of the rules committee as to whether she agrees that tax dollars should be used to fund monuments to me after sitting members of congress? i would like to yield the balance of my toimto the chairwoman of the rules committee -- to the chairwoman of the rules committee to whether she agrees that taxpayer dollars should be used to defend monuments to me after sitting members of congress an