your story was written by men who parachuted into dark marshes. lost and alone, he fought his way through the gunfire and helped liberate the town. it is a story written by an army ranger who saw half the man on his landing craft drown when it was hit by shell fire just a thousand yards of the speech. he spent three hours in freezing water and was one of only 90 rangers to survive out of the 225 who were sent to scale the cliffs. it is a story written by so many who are no longer with us. private barrett was only supposed to serve as a guide for the first infantry division. heroes. after wading ashore, he returned to the water again and again and again to save his wounded and drowning comrades. under the heaviest possible enemy fire, he carried them to safety. he carried them in his own arms this is the story of allied victory. it is the legend of humans like easy company and the all- american 82nd. it is the tale of the british people whose courage during the blitz forced hitler to call off the invasion of england. the canadians who came, even th

unlike men, most women do not experience chest pain. instead, 71% of the women who report having flu-like symptoms report and go to their doctors, they may see various other researchers, physicians and so on, and we need to make sure that emergency attendance, test and prescription drugs are informed about the differences that we might have. h.r. 2744, the equal rights for health care act, title 42, will prohibit discrimination in health care services and research programs that receive federal funding based upon sex, race, color, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity or disability status. civil rights laws have historically been a powerful mechanism for affecting necessary change in the united states. each law represents a national commitment to end discrimination and to establish a mandate to bring e excluded into the mainstream. these equal rights laws ensure that the federal government delivers on the constitution promise of equal opportunities so that everyone, every individual, has the right to develop his or her tal

good, men and women. according to their modesty regulations and so on and their respect for women, women -- you don't find girly magazines, you don't find women -- in america, a sexy girl stands on a platform to sell a car at a car show. is that something we're proud of? well, some of us are and some of us aren't. america is really pissed off sandinistas 'cause they refuse to let women takele degradation. there's a lot of these revolutionary societies that have an idea for women. iranians have their own idea for women. they don't want them used as sex toys or advertising pieces? on the streets of iran you see women talking good. they can't show the shape of their body. and they're not to show any hair. what they can show they make look really good. and it was fascinating to me to realize after a while as a man you have sort of an animal evolution at what you look at. 'cause you stop looking for a neckline 'cause there never is one. and you start getting really excited about just a little bit of hair comin

the men and women of the t.s.a. work hard every day to protect the property entrusted into their care. while the underlying premise is faulty in that it assumes t.s.a. personnel are to blame for loss or damages associated with baggages, information gleamed from this report might prove useful to manage these claims. the t.s.a. has instituted a process in which a tag is placed inside every bag they open and inspect. this includes bags that are sealed and require forcible entry. unfortunately, the traveling public is sometimes quick to blame the t.s.a. for any loss or damage associated with their luggage as opposed to the air carriers, baggage handlers or a simple error in bar coding scanning. this may find improvements to the t.s.a. notifications and claims process. i support the amendment and at this time i'd yield back the balance of my time. the chair: the gentleman from pennsylvania yields back the balance of his time. the gentleman from florida. mr. hastings: mr. speaker, i am prepared to yield back the balance o

and he invited all of the black men at west point, whether they were slaves or freed black men and theydecided that they were going to drink all of kosciuszko's wine. and they got happy drinking this wine and they started dancing around and grippy decided that he was going to try on kosciuszko's dress uniform from poland and this dress uniform from poland has this ostrich feather on top and they put boot black on his feet and was dancing around the cabin and kosciuszko couldn't make it across the river and so he came across the next night. and when he arrived he walked in on this party and all of these black men were in shock. they made faces as if they'd just seen the devil. they started jumping out the windows, rushing for the river and grippy fell to kosciuszko's feet and said whip, kill me do anything with me, mr. general. kosciuszko took grippy by the hand and he said, rise, prince, it is beneath the dignity of an african prince to prostate himself feet of him and he dragged him out to the other american officers and he said, we have a prince from africa who came to join our cause

i want to thank these wonderful men that took the time. and coach, it's the first time you have seen red skin fans cheer for you, that doesn't happen that often. but these men for taking the time to do this. give them a round of applause. [applause] but you are right, reverend, sometimes we have to lift up success than just remark on failure. because the young men i met at the trip i took to europe, these were extraordinary young people. they were poised and polished. and these are all kids from the neighborhood. but they had, somebody had reached out to show that they care. and it turns out that young people are incredibly resilient. it doesn't take that much, just someone to put a hand on them. saying, you are important and i am listening to them. it's the wrong person, the gangbanger, they will respond to that. or the person in the community, they will respond to that. we need to affirm positive behavior and not just condemn bad behavior. a lot of times young people need to be told, that if you -- one the neat things about this program

-- the prisons started to fill up with young men who couldn't pay the dowry.wanted to promote moderation in both the wedding parties themselves and in the marriage contracts. they wanted young people to start to seek and to have kinds of weddings that they could actually afford. and so you would read in newspapers about the decline and how sad it was and one day i read about the government's party -- to gain admittance you had to show that your marriage contract had a very modest line. it had to be under the equivalent of something like under $1,000 and i read about this party and it sounded like something like an islamic disco because the reporter described there being big portraits of shia saints on the walls and they brought a mulla to read from the koran and after that they brought somebody to talk about the irani/and iraqi war and this was meant to be a party and they passed out the snacks that usually kids in elementary school will eat. and then the party favor was a book on marriage written by the ayatollah khamenei who is the country's supreme leader.

but i've also learned from men that i admired. and one example was frazier robinson was a loving example of a loving, responsible fatherhood. here's a man who was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis. but he got up every day. went to a blue collar job. by the time i knew him, he was using two crutches to get around. but he always was able to get to every dance recital, every ball game of michelle's brother. he was there constantly and helped to shape extraordinary success for his children. and that's the standard that i strive for, though, i don't always meet it. as i've said before i've made mistakes as a parent. and i'm sure i will make plenty more. there have been days when the demands of work have taken me from my duties as a father and i've missed some moments in my daughter's lives that i'll never get back. so i've been far from perfect. but in the end it's not about being perfect. it's not always about succeeding but it's about always trying. and that's something everybody can do. it's about showing up and sticking with it. it

this disrupts as gay and lesbian service men and women who knows what about their private lives. given the objective of the president to repeal the law, and the evidence that the law and policy harm military readiness and morale, what will be the strategy of the committee on armed services for assessing this law? mr. skelton: i thank the gentleman for raising this issue. it's fair to say that much has happened since the law was adopted back in 1993. and i propose that the committee will continue to edge gauge in a deliberative process to hear perspectives from all sides of the debate but understand the perspectives of the civilian and military leadership of the department of defense and the perspectives of ordinary service members. if we conclude that repeal is a success of the change will-g on our full understand -- will hingeo our full understanding that will preserve the readiness and morale of our military forces. certainly hearings will be at the heart of the committee's effort to determine those necessary facts. mr. polis: mr. chairman, can we expect hearings to be conducte

it was a deferential century, it was a century when women thought men were better than women, and men thought men were better than women and abigail, abigail was proud to be a woman and she spoke up for women all of the time, and she expressed her pride and her satisfaction in her life and demanded that from other people. i love the fact that she was self-educated. she was a person who, in her early life, was educated as women were educated, that is, learning to read, and write, maybe a little bit of french, and to do arithmetic. the women were taught to read, not necessarily to write, so that they could read the bible, and women were taught to do arithmetic, so that they could keep accounts abigail used the time with john was away to read and she educated herself. she was an auto didact. she read broadly in history, in literature, but she also read medical and scientific books as well and she read philosophy and she read political sciencers so that she was able to converse with any human being in her age as an equal. i love the fact that this woman, who experienced huge adversity in

but with old equipment and three young men, rutherford split the atom in 1932. another reason i was interested in writing about him and will write about tim burners lee. he was the anti-edison. thomas edison invented for money. it was a business. it was america. rutherford was of the english school as later a young man named tim burnerslee who felt that all scientific publications should be open. that the way science -- rutherford never had a patent in his life. the way science advanced was by open dissemination of information because you could bet there's some kid in new zealand who would read this and figure out the next step. and that's the kind of science i wanted to write about. when rutherford died, he died rather early. in the late '30s, his bank account was 7,000 pounds. which was exactly his own noble prize money in 1911. i'll end by talking about the -- the "new york times" once had a very brilliant science editor named comfort. and in 1936, he wrote what these people did. einstein, rutherford, bohr, clunk, the heroes of the heroic age of physics, and

and men's ministries. and ladies, let me be clear, we are not talking about something that will make you subservant to the men. and let me offer to the women a happy father's day. because we now want to step up to the plate and take some burden off of your plate. and the responsible fatherhood field doesn't have the infrastructure associated with maternal health. and we build these partnerships including the ladies, and we will figure out how to put these in every community of the -- community. and this will happen to those associations and reach out to the national fatherhood's group. >> thank you. juan, the program where the president visited, this sounds outstanding and tell us a little more about it. >> i was saying like when i came to this country, they gave me the opportunity to be successful in the united states. so basically the program is between the ages of 18-24, they train you computer skills, they give you social skills, how to write an e-mail and how to communicate and how to deal with diffic

about 100,000 men serve in the cottonelle army. and we are pretty certain that 25000 of those 100,000 perished. about one in four regular soldiers died during the revolutionary war. in a civil war if you combined union and confederate casualties and look at the regular soldiers gets about one and five which perished. and in world war ii, about one in 40 american 40 american serv. at greatest single cause for death of american servicemen in the revolutionary war was a disease. this was a time period before anesthesia have been developed, before modern antibiotics have been developed. it was a time period, in fact, when most people hardly traveled from their place of birth, probably not more than 40 or 50 miles if they went that far from their place of birth, and suddenly they were thrown into army camps with men from all around the country. and oftentimes they were malnourished and ill housed and ill clad. it was a formula for disaster. so the greatest single cause of mortality was disease. but in addition to that, the mortality amo

our men were sent to these wars from my jeeria. a lot of them participated and i'm sure others participated for the french clone yl matters. yet, nobody ever talks about the participation of african countries in these wars. i was six years old and i coming into our city. so how come nobody ever talks about the participation of the african soldiers in this war? host: you have today, and thank you for enlightening us. caller: good morning. host: ron, you're a family member of a vet? caller: i'm a vet nam vet and my uncle landed in omaha. host: what did he tell you about his participation? caller: he was a ranger. and i don't know if people remember this but the rangers had a battalion wiped out by the germans and after that they disbanded the regiment and they sprinkled the rangers back in and they were the scouts or the forward guys of each rifle company. and so my uncle went through with a push to st. lieu and was wounded at d plus 12 just outside of st. lieu. my uncle served at heart break ridge in korea. and then i served in the

it deals with those young men, young women in uniform wherever they may be. it's our job to do our best to support them and this bill does just that. i thank the members of the committee on both sides of the aisle. they have been magnificent to work with. and with that, i express appreciation to our wonderful staff. i yield back. the chair: the gentleman's time has expired. all time for general debate has expired. for what purpose does the gentleman from missouri rise? mr. skelton: mr. chairman, i move that we do now rise. the chair: the question is on the motion to rise. those in favor say aye.. those opposed, no. the ayes have it. the committee will rise. the speaker pro tempore: mr. chairman. the chair: the committee of the whole house on the state of the union has had under consideration h.r. 2647 and asks me to report that they have come to no resolution thereon. the speaker pro tempore: the chairman of the committee of the whole house on the state of the union reports that the committee has had under consideration h.r. 2647 and has come to no resolution

were better than women and men thought men were better than women and abigail was proud to be a woman and she spoke up for women all of the time and expressed her pride and satisfaction in her life and demanded that from other people. i love the fact that she was self educated, a person in her early life was educated as women were educated, that is learning to read and write and a of the 12 bit of french and arithmetic. women were taught to read but not necessarily to write so they could read the bible and a little arithmetic to keep accounts abigail use this time when john was a way to read and she educated herself and she became an amazingly carrier negative eight will been. she read largely in history and literature but also medical and scientific books as well and philosophy and political science and she could converse with any human being as in a call i love the fact that this woman who experienced huge diversity of her life and i have often thought about whether i would change places with her after all she is famous in the history books, i would not because it was not a pleasant

and he invited all of the black men at west point, whether they were slaves or free black men, and they decided they were going to drink all of kosciuszko's wine. and they got happy drinking the wine and started dancing around, and grippy decided that he was going to try on kosciuszko's dress uniform from poland. and the dress uniform from poland has a giant ostrich feather stick, out of the top and since kosciuszko took his boots with him grippy put boot black on his feet so they would look like boots and was dancing around in the cabin. well, kosciuszko couldn't make it across the river. and he came back the same night. [laughter]. >> and when he arrived, he walked in on the party, and all of these black men were in shock and made faces as if they had seen the devil and jumped out the windows and rushed for the door and grippy here, fell to his feet and said, whip me, kill me, do anything, with me, mr. general. kosciuszko took grippy by the hand and he say, rise, prince, it is beneath the dignity of an african prince to prostrate himself at the feet of anyone. and he dragged him out,

our men and women in uniform vice president given and given and given. and it's time now to say we have a definition of victory. that's all a mr. mcgovern's amendment is asking. with that, mr. speaker, i will yield back my time. the chair: the gentleman from california. mr. mckeon: i yield at this time to the gentleman from california, the chairman of the foreign affairs committee, mr. berman, one minute. the chair: the gentleman is recognized for one minute. mr. berman: thank you, mr. speaker. i thank my friend for yielding. i have tremendous respect for my friend and colleague from massachusetts. i know he always has the best interest of the nation and our armed services at heart. but i must oppose the amendment. as much as all of us would like to have our brave men and women home again reunited with their loved ones, we don't have a choice but to keep the troops on the ground in afghanistan for some period of time. the only way we can succeed in afghanistan is to create an environment conducive to development and good governance. our u.s. military is

and women in afghanistan and iraq -- men and women in afghanistan in iraq, we have young men and women dying for this country and young men and women who are losing limbs in those fights in afghanistan and iraq, so i ask god to please bless our men and women in uniform, i ask god to please bless the families of our men and women in uniform and i ask god in his loving arms to hold the families who have given a child dying for freedom in afghanistan and iraq. and three times, mr. speaker, i ask god to please bless america, i ask god to please bless america and again i ask god to please bless this great nation known as america. thank you and i yield back the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields back the balance of his time. ms. berkley of nevada. for what purpose does the gentlelady rise? ms. berkley: i ask unanimous consent to speak out of order for five minutes. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. i'm not sure out of order, though. the gentlelady is recognized for five minutes. ms. berkley: thank you, mr. speaker. before i yield to my colleague, mr.

thomas jefferson, the man that wrote all men are created equal on slaves. and kosciuszko thought he was a hypocrite. kosciuszko end of serving the rest of the war in the carolinas where he developed the report with slaves and the sovereign states. he brought grippy and the friendship helped him out and kosciuszko was drawn to other continental soldiers were also abolitionists. one of them was colonel lawrence, outspoken opponent of slavery but when he was killed the other men started taking off his clothes and kosciuszko wrote to general green who was the commanding officer that this was mean and low thinking and the two negro's belonging to lawrence r. naked and wash shirts, jackets, breeches and their skin can bear as well as ours good things. kosciuszko was in charge now of south carolina and basically surrounding and putting the stranglehold on charleston. and the way he kept track was going on in charleston was he had black spies of going to charleston and come back and tell which people were loyalists and which people work with the rebels. even shible

the other africa, niger, and other countries and we are extremely excited the first african-american men woman in the white house as a response of the african americans around the world.Ñi we have laurie and betsy [applause] we will invite them a little later in the program to say something what this experience has meant to them and what motivated them to write to us what we have found we develop day network or a sisterhood that is comprised of women who contributed to this outstanding work and historic work as was mentioned. we want you to know them a little better as well so we will have them say something as we go through the program. we want to tell you a little bit about what motivated us to write this book and how we got started. we will talk about the uncrowned queen soleil tours in the question-and-answer because this has been a passion for the uncrowned queen is a two the missionxd is to identify collected preserve and disseminate the histories of african-american women we call community builders.ñr actually this work the underground queens is a two set the foundation for this b

spend it on the men and women who support our troops every day so they stay employed. do not send it to the imf. i oppose this bill. i yield back. [applause] >> the gentleman from california. >> i am proud yield two minutes to my colleague, mr. gomer from texas. >> it was a proud moment for us to be able to come together in a bipartisan fashion and support the supplemental here in the house as put together in the house for the troops. but to add this mess that is coming down here that the senate stuck in over $100 billion -- they're loaning money that they get from us that we are going to have to borrow from china to give to countries who hate us and would love to see us go away. that makes no sense. if we are going at this additional burden on to the american taxpayer which is going to work counter to the troops that are out there putting their lives at risk, why not just bring them home and not pay our enemies all that extra money and: awash -- call it a wash. if we're going to have to borrow from the chinese, just call it a wash, bring our troops home instead of fin

i stand with men and women who understand that liberty is enduring and that tierney is temporary. the united states is a beacon of freedom to the dark corners of the world. alexander solzhenitsyn and the gulag, once they gain freedom, they talked about the uplifting effect of the words coming from the united states, deliver -- defending their liberty and freedom. now should be no different. we stand with the did fenders of liberty and freedom in iran and we will not allow them to be silenced. >> i am not in the leadership and i guess i am here because i was a speechwriter for president reagan. i have a very vivid memory of those people who attacked ronald reagan because he was strong in his rhetoric and was forcefully an advocate for freedom and never hesitated to condemned oppression and a press stores throughout the world. -- oppressors three of the world. i remember the pressure on him to tone down the rhetoric. it was coming inside his administration as well as outside. having been one of his speechwriters, i was there on the front line trying to back up his desire to make sur

[applause] i want to close in a moment, but i want to tell you i have met men like texada, men like this fester, men like warmness and women whose lives have been changed. they were once they being the jewish people, hating the american people, hating fellow muslims to did not believe what they believe in god reach genned and change them. this is the god we have, this is the god we serve. this is the god of the bible and my question is if god wants to change the life of a radical muslim what you think he wants to do in your life? if god wants to give hope, peace and joy to a muslim what you think he wants to do in your life? if god is willing to forgive completely the sense of a radical muslim terrorists, a sniper, don't you think he is willing to forgive your sins? win labavitch what is happening in the world, all the things that jesus said would be evidence of the last days, and we look at what is happening in our newspapers and our world today, i have a message. i want to close with a message from believers and a message to unbelievers. if you are a follower of jesus christ and you ar

the rationale for launching is that black men are raping white women. and it causes a new crime because this has never e merged before. using new methods of science that is developing but she also has to mobilize and protest using modern methods like civil disobedience she led the strike long before rosa parks and also with the immigration and it cetera, etc.. so so she had to fold task which she does with great meticulous and great courage. >> you have written across various john rose and styles, what about our your experiences in that regard? >> all of my books are about people characters but i feel that i was stalked by wall commitment for a long period of time. i was forced to read my captain o capt. and other bad poems. then when i was in college i stumbled into a class where we were reading a lot of speed 13 and again we read a lot of poems of the indiana nebraska school. [laughter] and i had a feeling that what is all of the excitement about this guy? not until some years later that i realized we were reading poems exclusively out of the deathbed

he started off with 200 men. he got to the top of the bluff with 20 men, but he got to the top. he was the first one to get there. he's going to be introducing president clinton tomorrow at omaha beach. john spaulding was another. he was a d lieutenant. many of them are nameless. i don't know their names. i've talked to men who've said, "i saw this lieutenant and he tossed a grenade into the embrasure of that fortification, and out came four germans with their hands up. i thought to myself, hell, if he can do that, i can do that." "what was his name?" i will ask. "geez, i don't know. i never found out his name. i never saw him before, and i never saw him again, but he was a great man. he got me up that bluff." c-span: let me go back to when you were 10 years old in wisconsin, on d-day. why were you there? >> guest: my father was in the pacific, in the navy, and it was my grandmother's hometown. my mother had three boys, and she was working in the local defense plant and grandma could take care of us during the day while she worked. it seems in my memory that every night we had t

we all agree that these men and women are the heart and soul of our military. all the weapons systems in the world cannot substitute for their competency, their dedication and sacrifice. sadly, a recent survey shows that 94% of military families do not believe that the american people truly understand the sacrifices they are making on behalf of our country. so we have a responsibility to change that and we're trying to do that with this bill today. fortunately, this year, the subcommittee did not have to deal with the dramatic increases to tricare and premiums previously proposed by the department of defense. secretary gates has indicated a willingness to work with the committee to address the significant growth in military health care expenditures. and we need to work together, not only with the department of defense, but with those who represent our military personnel, retirees, survivors and their families to find a fair and equitable solution that protects our beneficiaries and ensures that the financial viability of the military health care system is real.

these men face life-threatening circumstances every time they go out. you need to know that this is not an aptitude test. they are tested for their knowledge of building collapse, building construction, and dirty bomb response, anthrax, metallurgy. i would plead to the court to not treat these men and this profession as if it were on skilled labor. we do not do this to lawyers or doctors or nurses or accountants or real-estate brokers. somehow, they treat firefighters as if it does not require knowledge to do the job. a firefighter died in a warehouse because they decided to send them into an unoccupied house with nobody to save on thanksgiving day. after 20 minutes, he nearly suffocated to death. i am not big on histrionics. that happens all of the time. if you cannot pass a competency exam, -- >> council, we're not suggesting that unqualified people be hired. the city is not suggesting that. there is a difference between where you score on the test and how many openings you have. to the extent that there is an adverse impact on one group over another

we saw men and women with their heads shaved. they looked like concentration camp victims from the second world war. right before the beijing olympics when all the world community was gushing over the chinese dictatorship we went over and gave a list of political prisoners, including some who were there at tiananmen and remain incarcerated. the chinese government took the list and laid it aside. not one of those individuals have been released. the tiananmen square massacre was a turning point in china, and not for the better. the hard-liners in beijing have since unleashed unprecedented cruelty on labor activists, political prisoners, religious believers, and have committed massive crimes against women and children through forced abortions. the ugly spirit of tiananmen square massacre continues today unabated throughout china, with brutality and efficiency that only a nazi could love. with some notable exceptions, including last year's savage crackdown on the tibetans, the chinese leadership has taken their murder and torture beh

it is great to be here with such a great pope of women and i see a few select men snuck in. great to see you. i am also thrilled to be part of the first gathering of this group. as i was thinking about women and technology, i want to tell you a little story. i was driving my nine-year-old daughter to school. she was playing on my io -- iphone. i told a, you know, when i was growing up, we did not have computers, e-mail, iphone, you name it. she said, wow, mama, it must have been hard growing up in the olden days. [laughter] we are living in this incredible time when the pace of change seems to be speeding up. new devices are being developed in -- at an astonishing pace. five years ago, youtube and twitter did not exist, they spoke existed but was hardly the behemoth, and no one was using e-readers. i do not think it would suppress any of us to imagine that our people out there now developing new technologies we can barely imagine. technology but enhances our lives, and at the same time infiltrates our lives it in ways we may not have anticipated. it frees you to work everywh

the success of our military has much to do with the courage of the men and women in uniform.the fight every day for our freedom. what we can do as members of this congress to speak to that courage and commitment is to stand up and to remove politics from bills affecting their ability to execute on their mission to protect us. we can pass a bipartisan bill. this house has shown several weeks ago we passed a bill. it was a bipartisan bill sending the message that this congress can support our troops and nothing got in the way. we now find and report that will make its way to this house. it is vastly different from the bill that was made in a bipartisan way. the bill that will make its way to this flore seems to put the right of terrorists before the security of americans. when we seen that this body wants to remove language prohibiting the transfer of detainees at guantanamo bay to u.s. soil -- when this house allows that transfer, what that says is we are willing to take on and told risks at the expense of the security of the people that our troops are trying to protect. we ha

history is brave men and women lonely, who keep that flame, that little candle flickering. until one day, magically, it seems overnight. the shift takes place. and what seemed impossible yesterday because obvious and inev to believe -- inev --inevitable and we think that dictatorships are strong and that we are divided and weak in democracy. dictatorships are fragile. so everyone here, let us give deep honor to the men and women who show even more courage than they did in tiananmen. by fighting off the feelings of defeat, the bad days. and still working with all in their hearts and souls to keep that flame flickering. just keep it going, do not be discouraged. dictatorships are fragile, and you will bring down those walls. 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 com

men come in for much more criticism in your book. >> guest: yes perhaps but we are half of humanity, we are not all of humanity, just half of it so it is time to recover some of the important women. >> host: maybe 40,000 years ago before it was written down and before the men rode down in history, women had that kind of equality and were trying the cave drawings. >> guest: y not? of the book tries to recover, to create this recovery of of the memory of the spies, the invisible, the scorn. for instance, blacks, not only women but blacks. for me is very important that the fact the united states and black or half black president. very important. in means there and lot of stories about to blacks not only in the united states, even in a one of the first stories here began asking if adam-and-eve for blacks because all the experts: the impact that we all came from africa. in we are all african immigrants because the human beings began in africa so perhaps adam-and-eve were blacks. in. >> host: most likely. >> guest: and there are some stories that were for me very relevant. especially becau

the bill improves quality of life and care for our men and uniform in uniform, by expanding to access to education and training and increasing funding for family housing programs and by expanding tricare coverage for members of the reserve and their families prior to mobilization. after seven years of conflict in afghanistan and iraq, this bill provides a basis for ensuring that the plans for progress are sound and that the objectives for victory are clear. the bill requires frequent reports to congress on the objectives and measurements for success in iran and afghanistan and the process of withdrawing our troops from iraq. the bill will assess strategic plans for iraq and afghanistan. congress must do everything in its power to ensure that our military strategies are working and our ultimate goals are achievable. i believe we can always do more, but i also believe that this bill provides a starting point for that process. lastly, mr. speaker, while this bill addresses broad strategic issues and threats across the globe, it has a direct impact on our districts. while communities acro

who are men? what does it mean to be created equal? and does being created equal imply an inequality of fact in light of the circumstances and the question at hand. nowhere can we see this more clearly than our long-standing national discussions on race. as abraham lincoln so aptly said during the 1860 presidential election, the slavery question revolves solely around the question whether black skinned human beings were men within the declaration's promise. the century that followed saw a myriad of political discussions and debates that culminate in the civil rights revolution that essentially asked whether one could be said to be created equal if one were the subject of legal and social discrimination, exclusion and ostizism because of the color of their skin and today's debates on affirmative action and debate policy answer this question in the last trilogy namely whether being created equal is really being equal if one sees the distribution of economic, political and social goods in this country being distributed not on the basis of

of the men who gave their last full measure in vietnam. of all the young men and women whose valor and goodness still carry forward this legacy of service and sacrifice, it is a story that has never come easy, but one that always gives us hope. we cannot help but draw from those moments in history when the best among us were somehow secure a beachhead on an unforgiving sure. those men who achieve that victory 65 years ago, we thank you for your service. may god bless you and may god bless the memory of all those to rest here. [applause] >> ladies and gentlemen, four of the normandy veterans that are with us here today will be awarded the legion of honor in recognition of their efforts and bravery. the legion of honor is france's highest decoration. it was created by napoleon bonaparte in 18 02. today's recipients will be awarded the order of officer of the legion of honor. [speaking french] [but bugle plays] >> ladies and gentlemen, please rise for the legion of honor presentation for jack woods, joseph roach of canada and [inaudible] mili

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four runs in 2/3 of an inning, two hit bats men. chicago white sox win 6-3. floyd throws 7 2/3. 1.27 e.r.a., one run or fewer in five straight starts. how about monday's notables. home runs. justin morneau continues to rock. he has 18 on the national league side. zimmer hits number 13. >> coming up on espnews, shopping news out of houston. yao ming's future in doubt as his foot injury is not healing like it should. we have the latest from south texas. manny ramirez has lit up the minor league with his presence. we'll find out if he lit up his final rehab start with his bat and the toronto blue jays couldn't be happier to have halladay back but would he be rusty against the rays? let's start right now. >> keep it current on espnews, alongside mike, i'm the coach, why don't we start with the two best national league teams out west. >> that's where we begin as the dodgers await the return of manny ramirez later in the week. l.a. opened a three-game home set against the rockies on monday night. colorado having won 20 out of its last 23. we are now tied at two, bo

in my district of hampton roads, men and women are regularly deployed to iraq and afghanistan. when a soldier, sailor, airman or marine is leaving their home to serve our country in harm's way, the last thing he or she has to worry about is paying a cell phone contract termination fee. in the last congress, legislation was passed to allow deployed service members to exit an individual cell phone contract without paying a penalty. and this amendment will extend that same protection to military personnel whose phones are registered through family plans. the amendment is supported by the iraq and afghanistan veterans of america, and i urge all my colleagues to join me in easing the burden on our men and women in uniform. i yield back. the chair: the time has expired. the gentleman from california. mr. mckeon: i yield at this time the gentleman from arizona, a member of the committee, one minute, mr. franks. the chair: the gentleman is recognized. the gentleman is recognized for one minute. mr. franks: i thank the distinguished gentleman. mr. chairman, i want to say that i support

the experience of our service men and women in this congress is invaluable. i applaud them and appreciate their efforts. i want to call on mr. rooney one more time to discuss specific issue that prevents all of us being here tonight, that being the fact that an amendment has been placed on a military funding bill that is not germane. would you care to elaborate further? then i'd like to yield to mr. thompson. mr. rooney: the bill we originally sent to the senate was just a clean war funding bill the president asked us for and we delivered as a house of representatives to the senate. unfortunately, one of the things -- and i did not serve in politics before running for congress so all of this is new, but by the time it came back from the senate to us, it had an additional amendment on it which included funding for the i.m.f., which is basically us borrowing money from somewhere else or printing money to loan it to another country. and that might seem ridiculous to a lot of people that may be listening, since everybody knows that america is going through tough