and he overturned mexico city. what that does is permit all of the family planning funds that go to international organizations, to go to organizations that promote and provide are abortions. by eliminating the mexico city policy. he has given them that money. and not only did he overturn mexico city, in the omnibus bill he raised the amount of money this year to $545 million going to these international organizations that promote and provide abortions. it's a tragedy. he is becoming known by many in the pro life community as the abortion president. it's very unfortunate and very sasmed the next thing he did shortly after that, was to issue an executive order overturning the federal ban that president bush had put on the stem cell policies, expanding the use of taxpayer funds for use to destroy embryos so that they could harvest the stem cells and use them for experimentation. not only did he do that, he in his order issueds -- issued an order to discourage adult stem cell research. now we all know, having followed

the first was the mexico city policy. you know, the mexico city policy was first prom all gated in 1984 and re-- promulgated in 1984 and renewed by the bush administration in 2001. this is a very simple policy that says, as a condition for receipt of u.s. family -- family planning aid, foreign, nongovernmental organizations and international organizations certify they neither perform or actively promote abortion as a method of family planning. simply put, this policy says that u.s. taxpayers will not pay to promote abortions overseas. yet one of this administration's first acts back in january was to rescind this mexico city policy. you know, mr. speaker, i'm going to defer here, because i have a gentlelady from the other side of the aisle, congresswoman dahlkemper, who would like to speak out about this issue. i would like to give part of my time, as much time as the gentlelady needs, on this issue. thank you very much for joining me tonight. mrs. dahlkemper: thank you. i thank the gentlelady from ohio for yielding. i wa

i mention the mexico city policy which is not on the floor today for context. to underscore what is actually happening 24/7 in the obama administration. add to this the fact that the administration has stuffed pro-abortion activists, a literal who's who in the abortion rights organizations, in key gatekeeper positions and you get the idea. you see that abortion is a serious undertaking by this administration. even the gatekeeper, the woman, and a fine woman, who heads up the u.s. agency for international development, wendy sherman, used to be the director of emily's list. so every dollar of foreign aid goes to the person who used to be the director of emily's list. yet obama's international abortion agenda is unpopular and getting increasingly unpopular with the american public. the gallup poll found by a margin of 65% to 35% americans opposed his reskigs of the mexico city policy and i would note parenthetically the most recent gallup poll from may 15 indicates that americans are clearly trending pro-life with 51% calling themselves pro-life, 42% calling thems

the fact is, i had a chance to go to mexico city and the gentlelady from arizona is absolutely right, the guns are one issue, but the huge amounts of cash that are transported are another. and her amendment makes what i think are some good provisions in this legislation on strengthening the initiative even better and i urge its adoption. ms. ros-lehtinen: i yield back the balance of my time. the chair: the gentlelady from arizona. mr. kirk: madam chairwoman, i thank the chairman and ranking member for their help with this amendment. i ask my colleagues to support this amendment that addresses the key part of the fight against key drug trafficking organizations and i yield back the balance of my time. the chair: the question is on the amendment offered by the gentlelady from arizona. those in favor say aye. those opposed, no. in the opinion of the chair, the ayes have it and the amendment is agreed to. it is now in order to consider amendment number 19 printed in part c of house report 111-143. for what purpose does the gentleman from illinois rise? mr. kirk: i have an amendment the sp

i lived in mexico city for a few years. i know that there are many people who are very satisfied with those government-run single payer health programs. they feel they can get basic care. they can get to a doctor. on the other hand, you will hear some stories from people who complain that there are wait times for specialists and surgeries. there may be limits on how much spending you may be permitted. there is a real divergence of opinion on that. senator baucus is reflecting what he is hearing from his constituents. they're trying to craft a uniquely american solution. host: ceci connolly's b yline can be seen in the "washington post." caller: i am glad to see that you are with c-span. i saw you on cnn monday. i thought you went over to cnn. host: we were promoting in our interview with the president. he talked about health care issues in the interview we did with him two weeks ago. caller: i am glad to see that you are still there. this is a wonderful subject. i am so thankful to god that i got through this morning. i am

the bill that prohibits any president in the future from imposing an executive order such as the mexico city policies, i said i would love to. i support that position. but we are not going to use this bill to do it. the gentleman from new jersey, he's not truly at his heart driving at the office of global warming's issues. this is an office in one form or another has been around since 1975. their purpose is promote education for women and girls around the world, political empowerment like the right to vote for women, to deal with problems of violence against women. there is no basis for assuming this office is going to do anything to promote or lobby for abortion. i would ask unanimous consent for two additional minutes. mr. hastings: i yield an additional two minutes. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized for two additional minutes. mr. berman: but moreover, in the manager's amendment which is made in order by this rule that we are now debating, i said, let us establish in policy our statement of neutrality on this issue. and we include in the manager's amount a provision whi

n 1 virus -- h1n1 i virus the outbreak was in mexico city. the officers we put on the border, especially in laredo, texas, and other heavily affected states, were not allowed, they were not allowed to wear asks, to wear gloves, or to use hand sanitizer as they proceeded to screen travelers coming through from mexico. a bizarre situation develed where our officers actually were able to look across at the mexican security officers who all had masks on, they all had gloves on, yet our own t.s.a. did not allow our workers to wear masks or gloves. in fact when our officers took the initiatives to protect themselves, they were told by their superiors to take off those gloves, take office those masks. you're alarming the traveling public. many of these officers actually screen up to 3,000 visitors, travelers per shift. so they were actually exposed to a high degree to people who were exhibiting influenza. there are a couple of stark instances we received on the committee, affidavits from officers who actually confronted travelers who were visibly si

they ran into a herd of bison at a time when the mexico had glaciers, there were no cities anywhere, no agriculture, people lived in groups of 10 or 20, you would likely run your whole lifetime and not run into someone you didn't know. the animals had never seen a human being before. they walked, 23 of them, into this canyon until they were crammed in a spot the size of the bed room. and it rained down on them with that level, before the bow and arrow. they hadn't been processed, no cut marks on the bones. when used in an animal used usually takes the tale, it was in november. and now, the thing about these bones is archaeologists often credit him with having solved this religious crisis, so he became a pilgrimage site to visit his grave. we will jump ahead and buy will show you his final resting place. that is where he now lives. someone stole his tombstone. in that graveyard, which was, colonized by prairie dogs. i commented about all the animal bones everywhere on the ground, i pointed to when and he told about the finger bone. much of his fellows are on the surface and no longer

cities and towns. through the issue with mexico and partnerships for of the hemisphere, we must help our southern neighbors help themselves and a concerted effort to stop drug trafficking -- trafficking and provide security for their people. general fraser i look forward to hearing your thoughts on how to solve the these problems. i am looking forward to your testimony today. thank you. >> thank you very much. before we call on their witnesses, introduce their families. >> thank you, mr. chairman. i am honored this morning to sit before you come to introduce a general douglas fraser. he is coming by his wife, his son and daughter, and i a understand her husband as well. i have had the pleasure and the privilege to come to know not only general fraser, but his family also for the time is spent in alaska. he comes before the committee this morning for confirmation to the rank of general, tapping off the 34-plus year air force career. that career officially began in 1975, on his graduation from the air force academy. he served in several states in addition to alaska. i think his children are well- traveled. h

arrangements with the so-called regional airlines to connect large, mid-size, and small cities in the u.s. canada, and mexico, to the international -- this has resulted in the exponential growth of the regional sector of the industry. still, the carriers exert a great deal, almost total pressure on the regional airlines to provide their services at the lowest possible price. take control ticket pricing and schedules and they regularly move flying between the regional partners. this exacerbates breaking the chain of pilot experience. couple that with 160 or more bankruptcies in the industry, and airline pilots were bleeding in the industry because there's no way to protect and retain that experience in the cockpit. we start over again and again. some of the major airlines even today are outsourcing their flying to the regionals and lay off their own pilots, losing decades of experience to the profession. these experienced pilots cannot afford to work for one of these so-called regional carriers as a newly hired first officer. as a result, many of the smaller regional carriers hire pilots near the minimum stan

group in florida, austin energy, consolation energy, seattle city light, public service enterprise, p&m resources in new mexico, shell oil, conoco, b.p. america, energy energy, g.e.,al could hea, dupont, dow chemical, johnson&johnson, national venture capital association. these are american companies that understand the point you were making a little bit earlier, mr. polis, that to stand still is to lose ground and that actually we have an enormous opportunity here to regain america's competitive edge, create jobs and once again lead the world in innovative technologies and techniques. but we've got to make that initial step. this bill creates that framework. >> mr. connelly, one of the things mr. heinrich talked about, if these jobs aren't created here they're going to be created elsewhere, the research will be done elsewhere, the fact that the american industry, the companies that you recognized who are, you know, many of them american-based companies, feel that this is a good policy, i mean, these are global problems we're facing. some way or other the world is going to need to wean itself off of fossil fue

mexico florida and other states. it is 70 minutes. >> it is a lot of people's favorite city in the country at i assume it is yours. the last time i was here on a book be 11 i was here for prairie earth i was on a 40 citi book to -- tour by the time i was a princess close fading than i had the flu by the time i got here i thought i was near death then it came time to go to the bookstore downtown and give a talk and i said i will not make it. i cannot do this but i did not have enough nerve to face the new yorkers they can be abusive. i went into the bookstore and i got in there it was a crowd of about the size i don't know if it is still the same set up and i saw all of the energy in your faces. was anybody there at that time? so i saw of this energy in your face is and suddenly i felt better and with and about five minutes i was cured and that truly lasted for about 10 hours. [laughter] by the time i hit salt lake city and the land of the more men die was sick again. i cannot blame the mormons. [laughter] i think but i remember the tremendous energy supply will feed off of that tonight although it is hard as the s

in houston isn't the only import area and texas and cities like laredo is one of the largest block ports of entry in the world imports from mexico literally trailers, thousands of travelers on a weekly basis. it seems unwise and unsafe to have the lab for the empire state of texas hundreds of miles away in another state, the location of labs need to be evaluated and reports submitted to congress on whether the labs are located where they are most needed a. discussion draft allows fda to assess current lab locations and relocate labs as necessary and i like to hear from the fda on whether they have plans to evaluate current locations. congress also is to allocate funds to the building of more fda labs and employees to see the budget allocation of funds for laughs so it insures the food supply of any to build more labs in areas where food imports are arriving such as houston's of the fda can quickly and accurately test our food imports and ensure food safety. thank you mr. chairman and i look for to hearing our witnesses and thank you again, our new fda director for appearing before the committee can i thank you mr. green. ranking

americans that don't know that the beaches running from pensacola all the way through panama city to mexico beach are some of the world's most beautiful beaches. they are sugary white sand that people from all over go to enjoy this extraordinary, valuable resource. it is god's way of gefg u givina blessing on earth that they want to enjoy when they want to go to the beach. can you imagine now what the energy committee has passed allowing oil rigs 10 miles off of the world's most beautiful beaches? now, environmentally that's one thing. but let's look at the economy of florida. the economy of florida, we are a peninsula. we have more coastline than any other state, save for alaska, but alaska doesn't have a lot of beaches. we have more beaches than -- not almost, but than any other state. is it any wonder that we want to protect our economy, which is a $60 billion a year tourism industry. particularly at a time when the economy is being savaged as much as it is? and, yet, -- and, yet, the senate energy committee would say what -- that they are not only going to ignore the military tests and

what they did was, they ran into a herd of bison at a time when the mexico had glazers. there were no cities anywhere on earth. the rest of agriculture anywhere on earth. people here probably lived in groups of ten or 20 people. it was quite likely he would go your whole todd time and never run into a person you did not know. they simply walked, 23 of them, up into this canyon until they were crammed into a spot about the size of the bedroom and then rain down them. it was before the bow and arrow. a lot of the skeletons were still articulated. they had not been processed for me. there were all missing their tails.