no, they are calling it on minnesota. thought they had jamison on top. >> phil: he took a shot or someone was holding him. did they call it on kevin love? >> steve: they did, his first personal. wizards get a represerve and yet another opportunity there as they were unable to cash in on a couple of offensive possessions. there is the patented move and he scores. the wizards lead by two. they are on a 10-0 run in the last 2:50. >> phil: antawn can make that shot in his sleep. >> steve: 245 shot was a little strong jamison in his best to get the ball to butler, threw it out of bounds. that's a washington turnover, their 12th. timberwolves have won three games at home and three games at home. 3-12 and 3-12. jefferson, not there. off jamison's head. butler has it, he nearly traveled. >> phil: he better watch it. >> steve: gilbert calling for the ball but foye didn't see him. the pick by haywood, foye lost it and the foul will be called on minnesota. i think they got it on al jefferson. that will be his second personal. >> phi

al jefferson is back in for minnesota.ll be the second on butler. >> phil: he has his head on a swivel. you can see a lot of contact on that. >> steve: must have got him on the wrist. ramon sessions is a 66% free throw shooter. this is his first year here after the first two with milwaukee. he had the winning shot against the wizards a couple years ago. >> phil: i remember that in milwaukee, on the baseline. do you remember it? >> steve: i sure do. he misses both free throws boykins for blatche. nowhere to go and runs into blatche. four seconds left on the shot clock. boykins fading jumper, what a shot. earl boykins in his 11th year from eastern michigan has worked wonders with this team since he came here on november 11th. his third field goal in the last 10 minutes. >> phil: that's a good play by love. he new session knew sessions was going to be open. >> steve: butler takes the jump shot and hit it. it. love's jumper is good. >> steve: go to blatche again, he will take the shot and hit it. blatche is 2-2. >> phil: very

they will give it to minnesota. i thought had possession and one of the timberwolves knocked it out of his hands. >> phil: i thought so, too, it foul, free throws coming again. it's on butler, that will send damien wilkins to the line. the wizards have not made a field goal in the last 3.5 minutes of this game. there lull could very well come back to be the critical time of the contest. >> phil: all those games lately, they took care of the ball. they shot a good percentage. they shot a high percentage. they laid off the trees and they were executing, getting the shots that they wanted. that's not been the case so far in the first 7 minutes of the fourth. >> steve: they have dug themselves a 10 point hole. that was a blocking foul for the caron butler after minnesota had garnered a 10- point advantage. their large effort of the game. butler to the line where he is 6-6 tonight. >> phil: he is outside that area and thought al jefferson was still moving. >> steve: that's pretty close. >> phil: that was very close. so m

very frustrating loss in minnesota. gilbert arenas has said we are not a good basketball team right now. we have to prove ourselves. >>phil: that's a good point. steve: you look at some team assaying we should win that game, as you have said, they are looking at the other team saying we should win that game. >>phil: and they are only on in that third quarter. much more hungry than washington. steve: minnesota winning for the 7th time on the season. randolph shot. butler has it with brendan haywood. coy penetrates. lays it up with jamison but missed it. >>phil: he messed with his concentration. mayo for carol and he is short. dezul and fouled by gilbert arenas. carol a rookie from missouri, a 27th overall pick last summer after a couple years in missouri. this ball is off of the front of the rim. brendon can't get to it and look at the pass to deman. steve: this team has four 7 footers. >>phil: hunter is out for the rest of the year. steve: one free throw made. gilbert and the ball went out-of-bounds. grizzlies two of 7

peterson of minnesota. the chair: pursuant to house resolution 964, the gentleman from minnesota, mr. peterson, and a member opposed each will control 15 minutes. the chair recognizes the gentleman from minnesota. mr. peterson: madam chair, thank you very much. i yield myself such time as i may consume. and i rise today in support of the peterson-frank amendment to h.r. 4173, the wall street reform and consumer protection act of 2009. while much of the attention of this financial reform package is focused on the mortgage and credit crisis of last year, this amendment is the product of years of public debate about the regulation of derivative markets in the united states. it began with the price volatility we saw in energy futures markets, first with natural gas, then with crude oil, and we examined in our committee the influx of new kinds of traders into these markets like hedge funds and index funds, we looked at the relationship between what was occurring on the regulated markets and the even larger unreg

the presiding officer: the senator from minnesota. ms. klobuchar: mr. president, i ask unanimous consent that the vote order with respect to the lautenberg and dorgan amendments to h.r. 3590 be reversed to dorgan and then lautenberg. the presiding officer: without objection. ms. klobuchar: i ask unanimous consent that the senate proceed to the immediate consideration of calendar number 224 s. 1755. the presiding officer: the clerk will report. the clerk: calendar number 224, s. 1755, a bill to direct the department of homeland security to undertake a study on emergency communications. the presiding officer: without objection, the senate will proceed to the measure. ms. klobuchar: mr. president, i ask unanimous consent that the bill be read a third time and passed, the motion to reconsider be laid on the table with no intervening action or debate, and any statements related to the bill be placed in the record at the appropriate place as if read. the presiding officer: without objection. ms. klobuchar: i ask unanimous consent that the senate proceed to th

the senator from minnesota, yield the floor. a kind of question. i would like to ask the senator from minnesota is he aware of the fact we've been debating health care reform 19 days on the floor and at a period of time there have been for amendment offered by the republican side of the ogle to change the bill, six motions to come at the bill back to the committee, stop the debate on the floor and that is a sum total of all of the effort on the republican side to date, and we don't choose the amendments the leadership chooses it on the republican side of the aisle. i ask the senator of minnesota are you aware of that? >> i am now. i was aware of the general shape of things, which is the sort of a dearth of the substantive amendments offered and the sort of delay. yes, that i'm aware of. thank you. mr. president, i ask unanimous consent to the consent to speak ten minutes as if in morning business. >> mr. president. >> is their objection? >> reserving the right to object, and i will not object to my good friend, i can't -- i can't let this stand whe

in minnesota, as you know, mr. president, we are proud to have created the beyond the yellow ribbon reintegration program. this ground-breaking initiative pioneered by the minnesota national guard helps soldiers make the transition from their life as a soldier to civilian life through counseling and other services. due to its overwhelming success in minnesota, this program now serves as the model for the national yellow ribbon program that i have worked with my colleagues to authorize and fund in recent defense bills. the bill on the floor right now includes funding that will continue the minnesota yellow ribbon program as well as funding for similar reintegration programs in states across the nation. these are soldiers that don't have a base to come home to. they go home to small towns all over this country, and the idea here is to bring them in to meet with their commanders again, to see if they have got a job, to see if they have the right health care, to see if they have got their education benefits set. that's

the presiding officer: the senator from minnesota has the floor. mr. franken: i will yield to the senator from kansas. for a question. for a question. mr. roberts: you again. mr. franken: you again. mr. roberts: just a personal aside. well, when we get through with the defense appropriation bill, which will be soon, and that issue will be settled and i'm not going to talk about it anymore with the exception that this is the only time that i have had to speak to several amendments that i feel very strongly about. but, as i say, i don't know whether four is the accurate number of being a subsidy or not. i think the four amendments that i have on the desk, i think it i will skinny is down to three, that i will offer to the finance committee, i say to the senator -- are you going to -- the senator is surely not shifting his position. i would say to the senator when we take up health care again would the senator give me some assurance i can offer the medicare advisory board, one to cut out the cuts in regards to the hospitals, that's $1.5 billion to kansas

an ecuadorian woman died in a minnesota facility three years ago. ice found that her death was inevitable. but also found that she had not undergone her mandatory medical intake exam despite being detained for two months. you inherited this problem. i know that. and i know that you're trying to fix it. but the first step in improving conditions is identifying the problem. so my question to you is, what went wrong here? >> well, we did an extensive review of the detention situation at ice, senator. and i think -- and several things which we have moved to correct. one is we decentralized it too much. we didn't have ice personnel onsite. we didn't have clear standards that we enforced. the contracting particularly as we outsourced all these detention facilities was not all that it should have been. we now have moved and we can brief your staff in more detail but we have moved to correct all of those problems and to really evaluate that detention system and hold it to the standards that it should meet in any legal system. >> thank you. i want to talk ab

we do that in minnesota. we do that in minnesota. 91 cents actually. i urge my colleagues to support both of our amendments to ensure that we get the highest possible value -- value for our premium dollars because nobody can contest the fact that for-profit health insurance companies have been making obscene amounts of money while americans watch their premiums skyrocket. from 2000 to 2007, insurance company profits rose 428%. 428%. -- 428% in eight years. during that time same we saw more than six million more americans become uninsured. and during that same time -- period american families saw their premiums almost double. so nobody can stand on this floor and argue that american families aren't suffering. no one can dispute what i hear from minnesotans every day, that in this economic downturn one of the greatest fears that families have is: what happens if i get sick? what happens if my spouse or my child gets sick? we're hardly holding on now. we're just one illness away from losing everything. that's what i hear. that's what i hear from minnesota

alone, probably 350 in michigan, probably 250 in minnesota, every single day are losing their insurance. and in this country 1,000 people a week are dying because they don't have insurance. a woman with breast cancer is 40% more likely to die if she's uninsured than if she's insured. 40% more likely to die if she's uninsured than if she's insured. when i see my friends stall and stall and stall -- and they have all kinds of reasons to stall. they have the clerk read the bill, they try to talk too long, whatever it is. however they're stalling in so many different ways, think about those 390 ohioans every day, think of the woman with breast cancer without insurance that just has more trouble fighting back. mr. president, to sort of further put a human face on this, i want to share letters from people in ohio who have written me. they are people who understand how important it is because it's important to their personal lives, their families, their loved ones themselves that this, that we take care of this bill

in minnesota this isn't just good advice, it's the law.ctually have them. we're here today to think about ways to get more families to install carbon monoxide detectors in their homes and also here to talk about legislation that i've introduced along with bill nelson who would require the u.s. consumer products safety commission to enforce stronger standards to protect against the dangers of carbon monoxide. it's called the residential prevention act. includes three key provisions, first to tren sthen the safety standards, currently they set volunteer safety standards which are underwritten by underwriter laboratories and the legislation makes these mandatory for carbon monoxide alarms sold in the united states. this is especially important in my state. some tend to fail in low humidity areas like minnesota's cold dry winters. seconds this legislation would require the consumer products safety commission to determine whether portable generators sold in the u.s. can be equipped with safety mechanic in additions Å the books that promote the

beat minnesota on wednesday. they will take a ton of threes, ron.st three, 28 attempts per. >> that's a two. it will go down for dequan jones, we were talking, we're waiting for dequan jones to explode. >> right now, we're waiting for him to explode. the early jump shot will help him. off balance and jump shot won't go. rebound controlled by miami to dequan jones, averages over three boards a game. here's scott, the freshman. he'll set it up with 20 to shoot. harris is on him. pick and roll with collins, shot block at 11 tries to dish it inside, forces the pass, southern gets a piece of it. into the hands of scott with the putback. >> i'm not a big fan of your point guard lingering around the glass, back in position defensively. scott has a nice size to him. he gets five rebounds a game. averaging just about nine points a ballgame, coming off that effort against minnesota, had a season high of 20. >> miami with a four point advantage. southern can't get it and boston college as cold as it is outside. four minutes gone by an the first. nice job, runn

so when you lose an analyst like we lose them in the minnesota c..a., you can't throw someone else in there right away so it is a significant problem. >> anything more anyone wants to add? i want to thank you for your testimony today for taking the time to be here. as you can see, we are very devoted to working on this problem. we know there have been improvements and there have been improvements. and we know there is a backlog issue and we want to be smart about how we tackle that. anyone who has worked on the front line as a prosecute understands this unfunded mandate issue and we have to figure out how to be smart to get the right rape kits tested and get them tested, that we also have to do better with training, everything from the nurses to the forensic scientists and i was interested in some of your points about the coordination with the police and prosecutors in the lab and improvements that can be made there. those are the things we are working on right there. my former job, which i loved very much, i think very back lovingly to that job esp

i see the senator from minnesota here. they come from all over the world to go to some of the hospitals that minnesota has. the fact is those hospitals agree that we can do this more efficiently, and we can reduce the overall payments under medicare, and we've worked very hard to protect the way that we do that so it doesn't do injury. the insurers have come to the table. home health care came to the table. i read the letter earlier from the home health care services. it's from the president of the home care and hospice association of america, and the -- he says we support the provisions of your health care reform legislation as they relate to home health care. that's what we're debating here on the floor, and they do support it, and the fact is that the senator from georgia who stood up and said well, in our state we have a letter that says -- well, first of all, that's based on an earlier assumption. secondly, we have no idea what the assumptions are in the analysis that they made. thirdly, it's based primarily on the ho

president, in minnesota. but the issue is it's becoming more and more expensive for the people of our state to afford health care. i try to remember three simple numbers of all the numbers we're going to hear in the next few weeks. those are the numbers 6, 12 and 24. ten years of cola costs $6,000 for an average family to pay for their health care a family. now it's $12,000 with a lot of people paying a lot more. ten years from now if we don't do anything, it's going to be somewhere between $24,000 and $36,000 a year, something regular people just can't afford. 6, 12 and 24. it's not going in the right direction, mr. president. if we don't act, costs will continue to skyrocket. the country spent $2.4 trillion on health care last year alone. that's one out of every $6 spent in the economy. by 2018 national health care spending is expected to reach $4.4 trillion, over 20% of our entire economy. despite spending one and a half times more per person on health care than any other country, many of our people don't

i especially want thank my colleague from minnesota, mr. ellison, for helping me get relief to the innocent people who have become madoff's victims. i want to thank the chairman for holding this important hearing. mr. lancette, thank you for sharing your story with us. >> thank you very much. >> i'll like to thank chairman kanjorski, ranking in america garrett, and members of the subcommittee on capital markets, insurance, and government sponsored enterprise, and the representative for having me here. as you heard, my name is gregory lancette, currently the business managers of the plumbers and steamfitters local 267, syracuse, new york. i am chairman of the jointly administered multi-employer trust fund. i've served in its capacity since 2005. local 267 is a chartered local union of the united association of journeymen and apprentices in the plumbing and pipe fitting industries in the united states and canada. i'm here today on behalf of not only my 100,115 pension participants and their families, but i also stand here as president of the

in minnesota this isn't just good advice, it's the law. since 2008 all homes in our state are required to have working carbon monoxide alarms, naturally it's estimate that's fewer than 30% of homes actually have them. we're here today to think about ways to get more families to install carbon monoxide detectors in their homes and also here to talk about legislation that i've introduced along with bill nelson who would require the u.s. consumer products safety commission to enforce stronger standards to protect against the dangers of carbon monoxide. it's called the residential prevention act. includes three key provisions, first to tren sthen the safety standards, currently they set volunteer safety standards which are underwritten by underwriter i interested or ice storms, something i might be more interested in. when there's a power outage and people are tempted to use generators in their homes. last year's events drove this point home in 2008, two men and a boy died in a minneapolis home from carbon monoxide poisoning due to a use of a

. >> the senator from minnesota guild for a question? >> absolutely. >> of the senator from minnesota when i was pointing out on the chart understand the point i was making that the taxes increased start 18 days from now and that the benefits, the spending benefits under the bill -- which are the premium tax credits and exchanges that are designed to do design the benefit under this bill don't start until 2014? the senator missed -- >> does the senator understand the spending benefits start right away? >> at the senator missed the point -- >> i asked you a russian senator. i'm asking you a question. >> the senator from minnesota may only yield for a question. and the senator from minnesota has the floor. >> past two what? >> has the floor. i have the floor. the senator from south dakota said i realized that i was talking about the spending doesn't start for 1800 days on health care. the benefits don't start. here's one. $5 billion in immediate federal support starts immediately. for a new program to provide affordable coverage to insured

we show ads we run at same time in minnesota after this took place.the first is michelle going back on camera. >> once again, our nation is at a crossroads, and it's a time for choosing. we could embrace government as the answer to our problems, or we could choose freedom and liberty. i may not always get my words right but i know that my heart is right. because my heart is for you, for your children, and for the blessings of liberty to remain for our great country. i'm michelle bachmann and i approved this message. >> who did that appeal to? i mean, our conservative base, right? we lost a part of our conservative base in that survey. so we thought we needed to get her back out there to remind our supporters why we're still okay and michelle was still the same person no matter what they were hearing from the news media. if we doesn't cover our core supporters first no way we would get back to winning with election. part one of our strategy, recover our core supporters with michelle back on camera reminding our supporters why it was they supported her.

in minnesota, we have high regulations. in other states, you don't. in many states, it's legal to charge women higher premiums or deny them coverage at all if they have had a c-section. it's a pre-existing condition. if they have been the victim of of -- of domestic violence in many states in this country, an insurance company can deny a woman coverage because she has been the victim of domestic violence because it's considered a pre-existing condition. well, that's just wrong. and i'm immensely pleased that under this bill for the first time women will have access to comprehensive health benefits, including maternity care without having to pay more than their male counterparts, but we can do even more for women's health in this country. senator mikulski's amendment to improve the bill and making sure that women can get preventative screenings they need to stay healthy. most importantly, the amendment will make sure that women have access to these life-saving screenings at no cost, so it doesn't interfere with a woman and her doctor, as my distinguish

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frank: i yield four minutes to the gentleman from minnesota. the chair: the gentleman is recognized. >> madam speaker, let me thank the chairman and ranking member and remind my colleagues that we are not here by accident. we are here because over the course of several years, lax regulation and failure and inadquacy of law landed us at a -- inadquacy of law landed us at a point where we have seen two million foreclosures this year alone. by september of 2008, the average house price had climbed by 20%. more 60% of subprime loans went to people who could have qualified for her costs. nearly one in four borrowers owes more than their home is worth. this in large measure happened, madam speaker, because mortgage brokers unregulated family -- mortgage brokers, unregulated, leuered families with low teaser rates and incomprehensible terms and conditions that brought on the housing crisis and undermined the financial system. i want to rise in favor of the wall street reform and consumer protection act which includes a strong consumer financial protec

we're home to the mayo clinic, home to the universality of minnesota.d countless innovative businesses that contribute to groundbreaking medical research that is bettering the lives of patients. now the key to this minnesota model where we have some of the highest-quality care in the country at some of the lowest cost has been putting the patient in the driver's seat. i have been at the mayo clinic. i have seen what happens there. it's integrated care with one primary doctor with a group of doctors at work with them, like a quarterback on a football team. they also focus on the patient with satisfaction surveys and knowing -- and keeping the team accountable for how they're doing. i always say to my colleagues, it is counterintuitive. if you go it a hotel, you pay more money, you often get the best room with a view. that's not true in health care. you can pay more money and get some of the worst-quality care in this country because there's no accountability. that is why these patient surveys andsllowing consumers to really look at these different plans

ellison of minnesota, mr. klein of florida, and mr. perlmutter of colorado who have helped to select today's witnesses and advance discussions on reforming the securities investor protection act. together, i hope that we can learn more from these terrible events and figure out how we can further improve our regulatory system. now what would like to recognize the ranking member for his opening statement. >> and i thank the chairman and all of the witnesses for joining us today to testify before our subcommittee. from people situated similar to yourself, i have been all aware of the suffering inflicted on so many investors, and in my area, that the district of new jersey and across the country as well, due to the madoff situation and the stanford situation as well. it is important that we hold this hearing today to hear first hand from some of the victims. not only to get a better render standing of their situation and their plight, but also to hear your ideas. having been to this experience personally. how to make this process work bett

minnesota is a special place as rese programs as e tently as 2006 we took more refugees than any other state except california isningow ice detaining fousands of applicants for asylum months at a time if anything more asylum seekers are detained for longer your notrtment has discretion ainr whether or not to detain asylum seekers why are we detaining applicants? enatorator, oftentimes what untry ilsomebody in the country illegally is nt theim and picked up and at that point* they claim asylum they have not as they enter the country we have dividuo areries of redividuals who were seeking asylum the we are looking at it as to whether or not they should fall within eligibility. of that is another process th h the departm on with the respe tryingent and justice department and then with respect to move for an th icatease this stage of the eing wetion process, we're ertaineverything we can to limi streamline the there are mitation certain imitations better on ty of in terms of availability officers, evidence communicators and will like. peoplave read about people who come seeking asylum that

paul, minnesota.t is diverse and poor, most students are eligible for free an reduced priced lunch, one-third are english language learners. dayton bluff used to be one of the worst learning schools in minnesota, only 1% of its fourth graders and 4% of the fifth graders were efficient in reading and math. today the school is restructured. today principal collins is in his fifth year of leading the school. under his leadership the student achievement is at an unprecedented paisms it has increased from 49% three years ago, 10 points below the state average to 71% or eight points above the state average. african-american students at the school have performed more than 20 percentage points above african-american students statewide in both math and reading scores. it's the same school, the same neighborhood and the same kids. yet, the school is achieving vastly different results. the success of the school is a testament to the hard work of principal collins and -- and -- and his staff. principal collins ha

president, let me thank my colleague from minnesota. that letter from your constituent is heartfelt and should be an inspiration to all of us to get this job done. we've sacrificed. this is the 24th day of debating this bill. some of these sessions have been early in the morning, late at night, and i think the time has been well spent. people have come to the floor and spoken at great length, but no one more eloquently than your constituent who sent that letter. come tomorrow morning we will have the official vote very early in the morning. i'd like to say to my colleagues from west virginia and minnesota, we have a piece of news here. a lost what's been said on the floor has been said by others and said before, but this is a piece of news worth reporting. our bill, the health care reform bill, has been endorsed by the american medical association, the doctors, the largest physicians organization in this country. it's been endorsed by the american hospital association, the largest organization representing our hospitals. it's been endor

the individual side can defend themselves under in minnesota statute. if it is an item which most likely can be handled by federal supreme some -- supremacy. federal law will control minnesota law, which will supersede the decision of the court of appeals. these are very important items for dealing with a multi-billion dollar industry estimated to bring in supplements might $24 billion a year. there are substantial property rights involved. there are substantial health risks involved. there are tough penalties. we may need to take a look at what we are going to do here with the exemption that allows the steroids to be sold allows without these body building steroids to be sold without pre clearance under 1994 legislation. and now i am pleased to yield to my distinguished colleague, senior senator from utah, senator hatch. >> it is nice to be with you, as always. we are very close friends. i appreciate being here at this hearing. it should be of high priority to enforce the laws currently on the books. national football players or a major league baseball

host: are they all minnesota residents? caller: yes. host: how do you get them to sign up belloc caller: going door-to-door. host: what area of the state are you in? caller: north of minneapolis. host: our next call comes from jesse. caller: thank you for c-span. you are looking very well today. everything that the callers have said, in america we voted for this man. a lot of young whites and blacks voted for change. now, he says there is no money to give retirees this year, but they will spend $30 billion for five years? c'mon. i thought i was voting for someone that was thinking about peace instead of war. host: from "the new york times" this morning, "president obama spent 40 minutes with nicolas sarkozy of france, who signaled that the french are not willing to send more troops to afghanistan. instead of troops, mr. sarkozy told obama that there would be a conference sponsored in london to rally support for afghanistan. it also says that the administration sent richard holbrooke to brussels on tuesday to begin briefing nato allies o

ellison of minnesota, mr. klein of florida, and mr. perlmutter of colorado who have helped to select today's witnesses and advance discussions on reforming the securities investor protection act. together, i hope that we can learn more from these terrible events and figure out how we can further improve our regulatory system. now what would like to recognize the ranking member for his opening statement. >> and i thank the chairman and all of the witnesses for joining us today to testify before our subcommittee. from people situated similar to yourself, i have been all aware of the suffering inflicted on so many investors, and in my area, that the district of new jersey and across the country as well, due to the madoff situation and the stanford situation as well. it is important that we hold this hearing today to hear first hand from some of the victims. not only to get a better render standing of their situation and their plight, but also to hear your ideas. having been to this experience personally. how to make this process work bett

forgetting how they played against minnesota and lost. now rivers. carson palmer coming back home, if you will, he lives in the san diego area. during the off season, you ready for this, he actually lives directly next door to norv turner. can you imagine that? i might just go next dorsey if the doors are unlocked see if the extra play book is lying around the turner household. having some fun with it. >> phil: i would say the bengals are doing it, don't let them get down the field too fast. >> jim: that's pretty fast, jackson. 21 yards picked up. we've got another charger down. another charger injured. they don't have a time out so they're going to lose ten seconds off the clock. >> phil: the clock will start when the official blows it. spike the ball again. it's -- >> phil: he was raising his hand right away. it wasn't like he couldn't get off the field. there was a bump at the line of scrimmage. but it's not enough. vincent jackson gets down there quick. >> jim: you see dennis norman, reamizing he's going to get in to this game with 16 seconds. ph

paul, minnesota, written as a letter to the editor in the "wall street journal" today. and the title of his letter to the editor is "the first cost comptroller will be your own doctor." it's something i've been talking about since we started this. the last thing we want to do in health care in america is to make it where the doctor is not 100% advocate for the patient's best interest. and he quotes very directly the transfer. he says -- he said, a previous article written did not emphasize a potential stealth cost control aspect of the bill. it will transfer the gatekeeper role to the doctors at the bedside arcs role currently held by payers, the government, and h.m.o.'s and insurance agencies, including medicare and medicaid. the transfer will be by capitation of fee payments, making clinics responsible for the cost of care of insured lives for one year. the illusion of many pundits and policy-makers is that many provider -- mini provider gatekeepers can control costs after powerful gatekeepers, i.e., medicare, medicaid and large insurance companies, have failed for de

the presiding officer: the senator from minnesota. ms. klobuchar: i believe our speech is about 10 minutes and if the senator from iowa could wait for 10 minutes, then we'd be able to complete our speech as was recognized by the chair. the presiding officer: the senator from iowa. mr. grassley: i'll let the senator speak, and i'll speak tomorrow because i have to go to a meeting. so i'll just let the unanimous consent -- ms. klobuchar: i wasn't aware that the senator from iowa has to leave. if that's fine. if he could keep it to 10 minutes. that would be helpful to us. mr. grassley: i can't keep it to 10 minutes. and i don't want to short 10 up. so i'll let the unanimous consent request stand. mr. kaufman: thank you. the presiding officer: the senator from delaware. mr. kaufman: the senator from minnesota and i will engage in a colloquy. we rise today to talk about health care fraud enforcement. fraud is one of the most costly crimes in america today. in no small part our current economic crisis can be linked to financial fraud. starting

an ecuadorian woman, died in a minnesota facility three years ago.i've found that her death was inevitable but also found that she was not undergone her medi-cal intake exam despite being detained for two months. you inherited this problem here it i know that. and i know that you are trying to fix it but the first step in improving condition is identifying the problem. so my question to you is what went wrong here? >> well, we did an extensive review of the detention situation and i said senator and i think we did several things which we move to correct. one is we decentralized it too much. we didn't have ice personnel on-site. we didn't have clear standards that we enforced. the contracting particularly as we outsource all of these detention facilities. what's not all that it should've been. we now have moved and we can brief your stuff in more detail. but we have moved to correct all of those problems and to really evaluate the detention system and hold it to the sanders standards it should meet in any legal system. >> thank you. i want to talk abo

sanders: let me pick up on the point that the senator from minnesota made. when you use the term "cadillac," what the implications are, maybe we will get some guys from goldman sachs who have this off-the-wall outlandish benefits package. when the c.w.a. did a bit of work on this, what their estimate is that as health care costs continue to rise and we're seeing 6%, 7%, 8% increases every year, obviously the way the language of this legislation is written, it will impact more and more health care plans. by the year 2019, it will burden one out of three health care plans in this country. does that sound like a cadillac plan? one out of three plans. and eventually as health care costs continue to rise, it will impact virtually every plan in this country. so the bottom line that we're talking about is, yes, we need to raise money. how do you do it? you do it by socking it to the middle class and working families. and as the senator from ohio has indicated, many of these workers have given up wage increases in order to maintain a strong health care benefit. and

an ecuadorian woman, died in a minnesota facility three years ago.'ve found that her death was inevitable but also found that she was not undergone her medi-cal intake exam despite being detained for two months. you inherited this problem here it i know that. and i know that you are trying to fix it but the first step in improving condition is identifying the problem. so my question to you is what went wrong here? >> well, we did an extensive review of the detention situation and i said senator and i think we did several things which we move to correct. one is we decentralized it too much. we didn't have ice personnel on-site. we didn't have clear standards that we enforced. the contracting particularly as we outsource all of these detention facilities. what's not all that it should've been. we now have moved and we can brief your stuff in more detail. but we have moved to correct all of those problems and to really evaluate the detention system and hold it to the sanders standards it should meet in any legal system. >> thank you. i want to talk abou

most of the somali community in minnesota are subject to push factors that distinguish them from other american muslims. such as war exposure, forced displacement. living in refugee camps, poverty, ghettoization, secondary migration, inadequate services and family instability. poll factors also played a key role. internet exposure to violence in somalia and to extremist political and ideological views, the somali warrior tradition, the 2006 ethiopian invasion of somalia bp all of these factors were skillfully ma anyone lated by recruiters who are former el sha bobb fighters who reached out to recruits through special networking and face-to-face contact. the results at least 18 somalis left home in minnesota and flew to somalia without telling their parents. serve hadn't been killed, four in custody and seven are believed to be in somalia. can violent radicalization occur with more somali americans? in my opinion, u.s. somalis remain highly susceptible to violent randiccalization as long as el shabob is active in somalia. recruiters previous success in convincing the best and brightest

minnesota, how about south minnesota or north minnesota, east minnesota? . six little mini al frankens going on in districts that don't exist and create 100,000 new jobs, who could find the voters who say we didn't? they'd love it in duluth. they say, thanks for the jobs. this is crazy, this is just kay sy where it's going. i see i've been joined by my friend and colleague from ohio, mr. latourette. this is a report that came out in a newspaper here, the "examiner," inflated jobs by state. it shows drainage ditch number one, i don't know what all these are, but it shows these inflailted job numbers. i would yield to my colleague, mr. latourette from ohio. mr. latourette: i thank my friend for yielding. most people will recognize the united states of america. each of the push pins represents an area where the administration has reported jobs being created or saved and it's kind of interesting, saved is a tough thing to analyze. i'm going to talk about that in just a second, but created or saved. each of those push pins represents either a fictional place that

i have full list of things that start. >> the senator from the minnesota has the floor. he may a gauge in a colloquy and is not have to yield to any further questions. >> it will prohibit insurers to have lifetime limits on benefits. store chain on day #1. starting on day one, a senator. he does not want to hear a. he does not want to hear. we are entitled to our own opinions but we're not entitled to our own facts. benefits kick in on day one and a large majority of benefits again on day one. we should not be standing appear with charts that say the exact opposite. senator mccain one week ago said facts are stubborn things. these are stubborn things. small business tax credits will kick in immediately. the senator from south dakota just said no payments , nothing that will cost money will kick in right away. that is not true. we are not entitled to our own facts. i stand here day after day after day year my colleagues, my good friends from the other side say things that are not based on fact. we hear this $78 trillion unfunded liability. we've used a year the 11 trillio

. >> my name is steve redding, and i'm a southeastern assistant the county attorney in minnesota. i supervise the sexual assault unit in our office, the county encompasses minneapolis and 45 surrounding suburbs. our office serves approximately 1.1 million people. i want to thank the members of the the judiciary committee for inviting me here, i especially want to thank senator klobuchar, of course, who as you all know was the county attorney for eight years. she fully understood the power of dna testing to protect women and children and to assist prosecutors like myself in carrying out our duty to convict the guilty and to protect the innocent. i also want to thank mike freeman, my present boss, he's the county attorney for his unwavering support in dna issues both now and for the 8 years that he was county attorney prior to senator klobuchar's election. dna testing has solved many cold cases in the united states. i had the good fortune to prosecute the first two in 1992 and '93. one was the rape/homicide of a recent college graduate, the second was a sexual assault of a young wom

ellison of minnesota, mr. klein of florida, and mr. perlmutter of colorado who have helped to select today's witnesses and advance discussions on reforming the securities investor protection act. together, i hope that we can learn more from these terrible events and figure out how we can further improve our regulatory system. now what would like to recognize the ranking member for his opening statement. >> and i thank the chairman and all of the witnesses for joining us today to testify before our subcommittee. from people situated similar to yourself, i have been all aware of the suffering inflicted on so many investors, and in my area, that the district of new jersey and across the country as well, due to the madoff situation and the stanford situation as well. it is important that we hold this hearing today to hear first hand from some of the victims. not only to get a better render standing of their situation and their plight, but also to hear your ideas. having been to this experience personally. how to make this process work bett

enough time -- i know that the presiding officer does this in duluth and rochester and all over minnesota. i know the speaker next to the senator from colorado who worked on a lot of these issues with me in the house, when he goes to boulder and he goes home and he goes to denver, he talks to people who don't have insurance. i just wish more of my colleagues who oppose this bill, i wish they'd meet some of the 390 people in my state or in their states who lose their insurance every day. i wish they would talk to a woman who has breast cancer without insurance, knowing she's more likely to die. i wish they would talk to some of those people whose family members died because they didn't have insurance. because most of us dress like this and most of us hang around with people who dress like this and generally have good insurance. i think we're a little out of touch. i would hope we could pass this bill, go back home, meet some of these people that this is going to matter for because i think it will make a difference in how we all look at this. i thank the president, and i yield the floor. a

dodd: i see my colleague from minnesota. does he wish to be heard? how much time does my colleague need? mr. franken: thank you, senator dodd. i need three minutes. mr. dodd: take four. mr. franken: i'll take it. mr. president, i rise today to ask unanimous consent to be added as a cosponsor to senator coburn tofs amendment number 2789 to require all members of congress to enroll in the public option. i'm pleased to cosponsor this amendment because i strongly support the public option, and i will have no qualms at all enrolling in this plan. you know, there's a lot of misinformation about the public option, so i want to be clear about why we need a public option and why i would be proud to enroll in a public health insurance plan. we need a public option because health insurance premiums for minnesota residents have risen 90% since 2000, because 440,000 minnesotans went without health insurance in 1998. we need a public option because insurance executives continue to make bloated, obscene salaries tpr-fplt -- salaries. from twrou-2007 americans saw p

cox, you work in the attorney general's office in minnesota. >> senator dorgan, and mr. chairman, i use to run the consumer protection division at the minnesota attorney general's office, 4 1/2 years ago i left to go to the university of minnesota law school. >> it look we have consumers that need protecting pretty badly. probably millions of people. but what do you make of the notion of somebody extracting money from ms. lindquist and mr. france's accounts or adding it to their credit card without providing a product to them. without them even knowing they purchased something. that seems to me like fraud. >> mr. chairman, senator dorgan, i have been astounded for 10 years that this goes on and on and tried every way to call attention to it that i could. the fundamental problems here are that a disclosures are made so when you try to attack the problem you wind up in this legal battle about the sufficiency of the discloses. you have to shift focus and ask the questions you're asking. who in god's name agrees that we should allow a practice where everyone who winds up get

under a minnesota statute. well, it is an item which most likely can be handled by federal supremacy, if the congress decides to act to eliminate any ambiguity that federal live will control the standing. minnesota law could supersede -- control the standing, if the minnesota law could supersede the federal court. this is a multimillion dollar industry on dietary substance, $24 billion a year, and body building supplements, projected yield in the range of $2.5 billion a year. there are substantial property rights involved, but there are also very substantial health risks involved. in this legislation, the food and drug administration under controlled substances has tough penalties. and we may need to take a look at what we're going to do here with the exemption which allows these body building steroids to be sold without pre clearance under 1994 legislation. and now i am pleased to yield to my distinguished colleague, senior senator from utah, senator hatch. >> it is nice to be with you, as always. we are very

you heard the earlier testimony about the problem of getting the resources over to minnesota and the blame being laid at the feet of the federal government. do you believe that is one of the main problems that otherwise regions have been able to harmonize in a way that's able to view >> i'm aware that the planning process has been affective. you warp the economics when you start putting free transmission along and expect them to change dramatically. >> there's significant cost involved. it change $the economics. one of the things we are trying to accomplish is to generate renewable energy in all 50 states. he has a plan along with all the other people in the country we don't want to invoke the law of unintentional consquentions here the richest renewable industry right off the shore. i also suggest one other thing. it might make more sense in light of the fact that we are entering into a little different world making use of it all across this nation. i can understand why several folks want to make this localized if you are looking at this map and the fact that we are talking along th

minnesota, 284,101. mississippi, 44,772. missouri, 195,036. montana, 27,592. nebraska, 30,571.nevada, 104,043. new hampshire, 13,200. new jersey, 156,607. new mexico, 73,567. look at new york, 853,387. north carolina, 251,738. people enrolled in medicare advantage, who love the program. north dakota, 7,633. ohio, 499,819. goo geewhiz, that's a lot of people who are satisfied with medicare advantage. oklahoma, 84,980. oregon, one of the most liberal states in the union, 249,993. pennsylvania, 864,040. puerto rico even, 400,991. rhode island, 65,108. south carolina, 110,949. these are senior citizens. south dakota, 8,973. tennessee, 233,024. texas, 532,242. my own state of utah, 85,588. vermont, only 3,966, but 3,000 people -- 4,000 people in vermont. virginia, 151,942. washington, 225,918. west virginia, 88,027. wisconsin, 243,443, and wyoming, 3,942. these are people who benefit from medicare advantage that would not like to get off of it. well, this choice in coverage has made a difference in the lives of more than almost 11 million people. 11 million individuals nationwide, f