mr. klein. >> no. >> mr. klein votes no. mr. ronlers. mr. rogers? mr. courtney mr. courtney votes aye. mr. franks votes no. mr. lobe sack votes ayep. mr. conway votes no. mr. pingrey votes aye. mr. kissel. mr. kissel votes aye. >> mr. whitman votes aye. mr. hinrich votes aye. mr. kauffman? mr. kauffman votes no. mr. critz votes aye. mr. rooney votes no. mr. ryan? >> aye. >> mr. ryan votes aye. mr. platts? >> mr. rupersburger votes aye mr. johnson? >> no. aye. >> mr. johnson votes a ye. dr. heck? >> no. >> ms. hockel votes aye. >> mr. schilling votes no. ms. spear votes aye. mr. runyon votes no. mr. scott votes no. mr. griffin. >> no. >> mr. griffin votes no. mr. palatso votes no. mr. west? mr. west votes no. robey votes no. mr. brooks votes no. mr. young votes no. mr. jones. mr. mcintyre votes aye. >> the clerk will record the tally. >> mr. chairman, the nos are 32, the ayes are 26. >> the amendment is not agreed to. the committee postpone further proceedings on the amendment offered by mr. andrews. number 128 and shall now resume those proceedings. the question now

mr. mulvaney, no. mr. huelskamp, no. mr. young, no. mr. mash. mr. okita, no. mr. aginta, no. mr. woodall, no. mr. garrett. mr. garrett, no. mr. calvert. no. mr. van hollen. >> yes. >> mr. van hollen, aye. mr. schwartz, aye. mrs. captor, aye. mr. blumenhauer, aye. mrs. mccollum, aye. mr. yarmouth, aye. mr. pascarell. mr. ryan. mr. ryan, aye. mrs. wasserman schultz, aye. mrs. moore. mr. shuler. mr. shuler, aye. mrs. bass. mrs. bass, aye. mrs. bonamici, aye. mr. chairman. >> no. >> mr. chairman, no. >> sorry. almost got me. almost got me. >> he's coming? hold the roll. campbell. give me a report. >> 13-18. mr. campbell, no. mr. chairman, on the vote, the ayes are 13, nos are 18. >> few more moments, mr. aiken, i believe you have a -- >> yes, thank you. mr. chairman, i asked for unanimous consent that the record report that i was detained for medical reasons and had i been present, i would have voted in favor of sequester act of 2012 and against the motion offered by representative castor. >> without objection. if no one seeks recognition, that will complete recommendation. we will n

mr. poe: thank you, mr. chairman. mr. chairman, during the hot days of last summer, the veterans of foreign wars went to battle with the veterans administration in houston, texas. the v.f.w. claimed the veterans administration was censoring free speech and preventing the free exercise of religion at the national cemetery in houston. i appreciate the chairman, mr. culberson's, work on this project after the veterans administration notified -- or the veterans of foreign wars notified not only me but notified him as well. the result is this. this cemetery, mr. chairman, is the second largest in the nation, it's a place where four al of honor recipients are buried. the v.f.w. said that the chapel at the cemetery would be closed and it was closed. the bible, the cross and the star of david were removed by the veterans administration and the chapel became a storage shed. v.f.w. members also said that the director of the cemetery censored the prayers and prohibited the religious ceremony during the burial of america's veterans.

mr. mcdonnell: what we were referring to, i believe they were separate, but the description to have done as we have completed each of the draft maps. >> i see, thank you. mr. mcdonnell: okay, any other additions to the appendices? >> i asked if that is duplicative? >> needs and bounce our defense from the district descriptions. they will take about eight, 10 hours. little description as a rough summer rates so that people can follow along. we have the district descriptions, and those are already on the website. i'm not sure if you wanted us to do district descriptions before those are completed. there are more formal. -- they are mor formal. >> when i spoke with john, he indicated before the actual final map, he would have to work with the consultant. since they are waiting for precincts and such, he was indicating a final product would not be available for about a month or more. maybe just the final draft map, where we are doing it now with descriptions? like, monday? >> i think he might

mr. jones. mr. jones. mr. mcintyre. mr. mcintyre. mr. akin. mr. akin votes aye. mr. brady. mr. brady votes no. mr. forbes, mr. forbes votes aye. mr. andrews, mr. andrews votes no. mr. miller. mr. miller votes aye. mrs. davis. mrs. davis votes no. mr. wilson. mr. wilson votes aye. mr. longavon votes no. mr. lobiando votes aye. mr. larsen votes no. mr. turner votes aye. mr. cooper. mr. cooper. mr. klein. mr. klein votes aye. miss bordio votes no. mr. rogers votes aye. mr. courtney votes no. mr. franks votes aye. mr. lobesack votes no. mr. sthooster votes aye. miss angus votes no. mr. con0way votes aye. miss pingri votes no. mr. lambborn votes aye. mr. kissle votes aye. mr. witman votes aye. mr. heinrich, votes aye. mr. hunter votes aye. mr. owens votes aye. dr. fleming votes aye. mr. garamendi votes no. mr. kauffman votes aye. mr. critz votes no. mr. rooney. mr. rooney. mr. ryan. mr. ryan votes no. mr. plats, mr. plats. mr. rupersburger. mr. ridgel votes aye. mr. johnson. mr. johnson. mr. gibson. mr. gibson votes aye. miss sutton. miss sutton votes no. mrs. heartsler. mrs. hearts

mr. mcdonnell: thank you. mr. pilpel: to that end, i think all of candlestick is in 10, and i would add showplace square. mr. mcdonnell: again, we don't need an exhaustive list. it is actually even under 1%. all of that said, any objection to candlestick? silver terrace, a little hollywood, candlestick, spelled correctly -- mr. pilpel: out include civista valley. sorry. -- i would include at vista valid. sorry. mr. mcdonnell: any objection to the list as presented here? mr. pilpel: yes. mr. mcdonnell: ok. go ahead. mr. pilpel: ok. what are you proposing it is in? mr. mcdonnell: propose what you want, it does not matter. mr. pilpel: silver terrace, candlestick, the central waterfront/dog patch, showplace square. mr. mcdonnell: any objection? it ms. tidwell: yes. i was attempting to be helpful by adding neighborhoods. with 16th street, i don't think we have included potrero, and the ones we have highlighted with issues. mr. mcdonnell: okay, that is what objection. ok, list them off. one more time. >> silver terrace,

mr. bachus: mr. speaker, the financial committee's work on this reconciliation package saves more than $35 billion. but more imptantly it does what 2,300 pages of the dodd-frank, 400 new regulations, over 2,000 new hired federal regulators, many of them living in my maryland colleague's district, and more than $24 million worth of compliance work required of america's companies, at the cost of $100 billion, it ends the bailouts. a bailout fund doesn't end t bailout, it guarantees them. we're telling the big banks what my democratic colleagues didn't want to tell them. if they make risky bets and make bad decisions, they're on the hook, not the taxpayers. no more privatizing the profits, no more socializing the losses. in short, no more bailouts period. thank you, mr. speaker. hen hen -- mr. bachus: i reserve the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the chair recognizes mr. hensarling. mr. hensarling: mr. speaker, i reserve. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman reserves. the gentleman from m

osborne, mr. cameron, mr. hunt, in a way -- [inaudible] isn't that what you brought to the table here? >> no, i don't think the. first of all, the strategy behind the bid was set by news corp, and i've nothing to do with that. and had again no formal role. and secondly this was a quasi-judicial decision, which is nothing to do with personalities, the preferences of particular, of the prime minister or the chancellor of the exchequer in this case, or mr. hunt before he took over for dr. cable. >> you weren't so naÏve, were you, to believe that quasi-judicial decision be carried out necessarily, you would naturally fear that it might intrude, you knew that, didn't you? >> no, actually. maybe it was naÏve of me to think, you know, the procedure would be dealt with properly, but i did believe that. i had no reason not to until dr. cable's comments came out in the summer. >> okay. but we do have one e-mail, don't we, which you have, you have found. it's rem be two, you kindly disclose this to us. yes, this e-mail,

the way mr. brashov would surely want it. do you know what mr. brashov would say to all of you, don't you ? yes. he would say "i am not paying you overtime for this !" and he would also say, "thank you." so, how is mr. brashov doing ? i spoke with the nurse a little while ago and she said he's doing fine. maybe we can find time to see him later when it's not too busy around here. i'm going to get something from the safe for mr. brashov. while i'm doing that you should all start working. henry, you can finish taking the chairs down. jamal, you can fill up all the salt and pepper shakers. and, katherine start setting the tables. - what ? - who made you the boss ? i'm sure that's what mr. brashov would want. well, i think he would feel better if i were in charge. mr. brashov might not be feeling well, but he's not that sick. the way you bark orders at people ? well, i'm sorry, but i don't know if anyone would want you in charge. katherine, i don't bark orders. i make strong suggestions. i think if only one of us is to be in charge, it ought to be me

mr. woodall: mr. speaker, i yield myself 30 seconds to say we just disagree on what balance is. what our proposal for brucks is to reduce spending over $65 billion over five years. and your proposal is to spend an additional $35 billion over the same five years. we disagree what balance is. we are moving in the wrong direction under your proposal. right under our proposal i a-- i'm proud to serve with my friend. with that, mr. speaker, i'd like to yield three minutes to the gentlelady from michigan, mrs. miller. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlelady from michigan is recognized for three minutes. mrs. miller: i thank the gentleman for yielding. i rise to support the rule. mr. speaker, i am very proud to represent the guard base home to the michigan red devils, the 107 fighter squadron. the 107, mr. speaker, flies a-10's. they recently returned from a redeployment to afghanistan where they performed so bravely, made us proud. the 107th was one of the air guard units scheduled to be eliminated under th

murdoch and mr. blair or mr. blair's government? >> i don't think there ever was such a deal. >> can we be clear, mr. campbell, what that answer is based on? i'm not asking you to comment. i'm just asking you from your own knowledge. if you knew of such a deal, you would tell us because i've asked you to tell us. do you have any evidence of such deal? >> no. absolutely not. >> in terms of the possibility of implied trade-offs for unspoken supplications. paragraph 49, you refer there to the -- i think we probably asked you to look at the big, bad comment which is mr. paul keating who is then the labor prime minister in australia, wasn't he? >> yeah. >> you cover this in your diaries, volume 1 pages 247 and following. you set out part of the citat n citation. page 247. on the 16th of july 1995, on murdoch, he told t.b., he's a big, bad bastard and the only way you can deal with him is to make sure you can be a big, bad bastard, too. you can do deals with him without ever saying a deal is done. but the only thing he cares about is his

mr. woodall: mr. speaker, i thank my colleague from florida for joining me down here for this debate food, and there really are some things that we disagree about here in this body at large. but one thing we don't disagree about is bringing open bills for appropriation bills. this appropriation bill is a 1% reduction from the level the president has proposed. we talk about the doom and the gloom and the kicking of children and the punishing of women. 1%. oh, there's a long hard fall to the bottom coming all right and it's coming in the american economy. i tell you who gets most in a bad economy, it's the poorest and weakest among us. we all know it. we all know it. we're asking for 1% less than what the president proposed. in the name of taking a small step in the right direction. you could have gotten me for 20%, 25%. just to be clear. this body is trying to move in a responsible fashion. there's only one budget that's passed in this town, mr. speaker. the president's budget didn't pass. it got zero

mr. mcdonnell: that is. ms. lam: will -- mr. pilpel: will we edit this after the break? it is our findings as to what constitutes the neighborhood. mr. mcdonnell: you just agreed on something. i have no idea what you agreed upon. ms. tidwell: what the task force lists are the task force's findings. mr. mcdonnell: what is there to correct? mr. pilpel: in district 1, we might continue to use the reference to the outer richmond, in a richmond, as opposed to the -- the doe'[s richmond district. i don't know that we need to make specific reference to doe in this section. ms. tidwell: can i make a suggestion that we clarify that i write down the deviations' currently in these districts, and then we can work on incorporating the other comments that we decided to do? we will come back with a final draft before we get to this. i will e-mail it and then i can include it. give me some time to draft. >> as and give you time to make the draft? >> the rest of the needs 10 minutes to include and create

mr. brooks votes no. mr. young votes no. mr. jones? mr. jones? mr. mcintyre? no. mr. chairman, the nos are 34, the ayes are 27. >> that means the amendment is not agreed to. okay. the committee postpones further proceedings on the amendment offered by mr. rigell. the question now occurs on the amendment offered by mr. rigell, the clerk will call the role. >> chairman mckeon votes aye. mr. reyes voets no. mr. thornbury votes aye. ms. sanchez votes no. mr. jones. mr. mcintyre. mr. mcintyre veets no. mr. akin votes aye. mr. brady votes no. mr. forbes votes aye. mr. andrews votes no. mr. miller votes aye. mrs. davis votes no. mr. wilson votes aye. mr. langevin votes no. mr. lobiondo votes no. mr. larsen votes no. mr. turner votes aye. mr. cooper votes no. mr. kline votes aye. ms. bordallo. ms. bordallo votes no. mr. rogers votes no. mr. courtney votes no. mr. franks votes aye. mr. loebsack votes no. mr. shuster votes aye. ms. tso 234 gas votes no. mr. conaway votes aye. ms. pingree votes no. mr. lamborn votes aye. mr. kissell votes no. mr. wittman votes aye. mr. heinrich

mr. mcdonnell: we are on 6 now. so, tenderloin. >> we look at district consultants now? where are we? mr. mcdonnell: we are on district 6. this is the consultants lists list association. all of those will come off. we will now refer to ms. tidwell's list. mission bay, south beach, rincon hill, treasure island, filipino community, and the tenderloin just added by ms. melara. >> are we keeping it together in district 6? >> we did not fully achieve that for the mission, either. mr. mcdonnell: we will not include the tenderloin. >> there is a planning department-recognized neighborhood. correct the spelling. replace "n" with "p." mr. pilpel: could i suggest combining those and saying south of market? that seems to be more of a neighborhood that we could recognize. >> they are separate, though. mr. mcdonnell: hold on. we have heard one proposal. i will confirm the spelling. >> no. that is not right. >> no what? >> we are not voting. >> could you repeat the question? mr. mcdonnell: silma -- rec

mr. odall: mr. speaker, i would say to my friend, i wish he would show me the code sections here that if in the snap program and say under the snap program the income criteria we had yesterday, that's changing and so folks aren't going to get those benets tomorrow. that's not here. all this bill does is to say you need to apply and you need to earn those benefits on your own merits. when the gentleman talks about paperwork, he knows good and well the c.b.o. took that into consideration. when the c.b.o. says 1.8 million families are no longer going to qualify, it means some folks are going to get off of categorical eligibility because that is the gaming of the system and they are going to go back in and apply for the benefits and get them but 1.8 million will go back in and apply and get denied because they don't callify for benefits. -- qualify for benefits. mr. speaker, if we need to change the eligibility criteria, if we have folks in need who can't qualify, let's change the eligibility criteria.

mr. mcdonnell: i will withdraw what i just proposed. let's go district by district. let's see if there any exclusions you would like to make. then we will answer them. district 3. inclusions or deletions? >> we're looking at this one, right? mr. mcdonnell: we are only looking at the consultants. there might be information you want to pull from ms. tidwell's list. we can determine whether there are additions or deletions. ms. tidwell: for clarity, to city attorney's position, for instance, i will be writing russian hill as opposed to rational community association. -- to russian hill community association. >> i think there might be a reason why the consultants listed it that way. we should have that discussion. ms. tidwell: ok. i will say russian hill. >> if the association cemented boundaries for russian help, which are obviously different than -- >> the community association submitted boundaries for a the community association. they indicated they are different. >> my concern is that i t

mr. mcdonnell: thank you. mr. leigh: yes. mr. alonso: no. ms. tidwell: yes. >> i was going to make the same observation. parts of this are already there. it is augmenting it a little bit to get what is not there included. mr. pilpel: if we are not able to edit, i would not include it in this way. mr. mcdonnell: ok. thank you. ms. mondejar: included in the body of the report. maybe at the last sentence. -- edit the last sentence. mr. mcdonnell: your response but the break for editing. ok. thank you. on mr. pilpel's? everyone take a moment to read this suggestion. >> the question you're going to call is all or nothing? mr. mcdonnell: that is correct. mr. pilpel: -- mr. schreiber: no. ms. mondejar: the question is to include it all or not? um -- yes. ms. lam: no. ms. melara: no, because most of it is already included in the report and some of the things that were not, i think we did not vote on them. mr. leigh: i am going to say yes. on the whole, i think it is fine. i appreciate member pilpel's attempts to respond to the issues we had. ms. tidwell

mr. ryan: mr. speaker, pursuant to house resolution 648, i call up the bill h.r. 5652, the sequester replacement reconciliation act of 2012, to provide for reconciliation pursuant to section 201 of the concurrent resolution on the budget for fiscal year 2013, and i ask for its immediate consideration in the house. the speaker pro tempore: the clerk will report the tight of the bill. the clerk: union calendar number 330, h.r. 5652, a bill to provide for reconciliation pursuant to section 201 of the concurrent resolution on the budget for fiscal year 2013. the speaker pro tempore: pursuant to house resolution 648 , an amendment in the nature of a substitute consisting of the text of rules committee print 112-21, shall be considered as adopted and the bill as amended shall be construed as read. the gentleman from wisconsin, mr. ryan, and the gentleman from maryland, mr. van hollen, will each control one hour. the chair recognizes the gentleman from wisconsin. mr. ryan: mr. speaker, i ask unanimous con

mr. reid: mr. president? the presiding officer: the majority leader is recognized. mr. reid: i move now to proceed to calendar number 396, h.r. 2072. the presiding officer: the clerk will report. the clerk: motion to proceed to calendar number 396, h.r. 2072, an act to reauthorize the export-import baipg of the united states and for other purposes. mr. reid: mr. president we're now on the motion to proceed to the ex-im bill. i hope we can pass the bill today. i haven't had an opportunity today to speak to the republican leader, but i'll do that shortly and will decide if there's a way forward on that. so i ask unanimous consent that the next hour be divided and controlled between the two leaders or their designees with the majority controlling the first half and the republicans controlling the second half. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. reid: i note the absence of a quorum. the presiding officer: the clerk will call the roll. quorum call: mr. reid: mr. president? the presiding office

osborne, mr. cameron, mr. hunt, in a way -- [inaudible] isn't that what you brought to the table here? >> no, i don't think the. first of all, the strategy behind the bid was set by news corp, and i've nothing to do with that. and had again no formal role. and secondly this was a quasi-judicial decision, which is nothing to do with rsonalities, the preferences of particular, of the prime minister or the chancellor of the exchequer in this case, or mr. hunt before he took over for dr. cable. >> you weren't so naÏve, were you, to believe that quasi-judicial decision be carried out necessarily, you would naturally fear that it might intrude, you knethat, didn't you? >> no, actually. maybe it was naÏve of me to think, you know, the procedure would be dealt with properly, but i did believe that. i had no reason not to until dr. cable's comments came out in the summer. >> okay. but we do have one e-mail, don't we, which you have, you have found. it's rem be two, you kindly disclose this to us. yes, this e-mail, tap

mr. osborn was then to be mr. cameron's number 2. so this was putting a favorable gloss on quite a murky world, was it not? >> mr. osborn -- i do not think we should necessarily go into the details of the story. but mr. osborn was not admitting to anything. these were the claims of a friend of a friend, as i seem to remember. that was the view form. i think probably as a result of a discussion with my team. that is where we ended up. i have taken the time to look at "the sunday mirror" leader. it does not call for mr. osborn to be fired. it is fair to say it is more critical, as you might expect. but it certainly does not suggest that it would be the end of his political career, by any measure. >> wasn't it a classical example? let me put it in these terms. "news of the world" could not resist the scoop of a great story. but then they lost it in the editorial, and put perhaps the most favorable interpretation that could be put on the story. >> i do not think it is. if you are looking for an example of "news of the world" being helpfu

mills mccartney offended him and she found herself on the wrong end of mr mr putin's i won't say temper but he was obviously extremely irritated by it to the minute the kremlin grounds unless unless the story is told in greater detail in the book by the book gentlemen i understand that you're advertising today you're selling the book but you claim that this book leaves no stone unturned i was and what about personal matters such things as putin's family was very sensitive about or were the size of putin's fortune these stones did you did they did you turn these stones in your book absolutely absolutely we did talking about the so-called fortune i think that anybody who would tell you that he or she knows the size of the putin's fortune obviously would be uninformed to put it mildly or obviously we left no stone unturned in uncovering all that but again i think that we can go into greater detail here about all we can by the book and i would suggest the latter ok now now. talking about the friends i know i know chris that you probably will not give us the name of this mysterious british f

mr. alonso? in or out? >> out. mr. leigh? >> no. >> mr. manned harr? >> no. >> ms. tidwell. >> no. >> ok, next. >> on the recaptioning of the section, i would like toe change the caption because i think it is important to refer to the staff. >> ok, so the proposal is? >> task force composition officers and staff. >> you get that, ms. tidwell? >> uh-huh. >> any snokse moving then. anything else in section b? >> what i took from the last vote was not to include the dates. could we re-order it? just the three sentences so that they're in the order of the selections. that would be the election commission, the board of supervisors and the mayor. >> why? if there are no dates, no one will have an appreciation other than you. >> because that tracks with the later -- >> ok, we're not going to debate it. that's all. >> about the history. >> great. thank you. mr. alonso? >> out. >> mr. leigh? >> no. >> ms. mondejar. >> no. >> mr. schreiber? >> no. >> ms. tidwell? >> no. >> ok, next. >> and to be replace technical advice, i would replace that with technical assistance. >> whic

>> yes. >> mr. league? >> yes. -- mr. leeg -- leigh. >> yes. >> no. >> i will look at the deviations. >> thank you. >> can i make a comment while at the look at the numbers? >> sure. i think the pop lore initially had either ben the four blocks between two and five as a way to clean the lines. so since those are not submitted as part of a neighborhood, i would suggest we look there to the extent we still have a population issue. >> ok. >> mr. chair, we have the deviation. it is negative 4.997%. >> are you comfortable? >> i'm comfortable. >> thank you. thanks for that exercise. let's visit now the less again attempting to move fairly swiftly through each of these considerations. let's go to the question of d-60 border, at the same time we will secondarly visit the maria manner. >> i don't know where they are continue may affect it. if you can tell us where they are. >> sure. give us the other two. so we will look out -- so the next -- the next one is between districts 10 and 9. bart line we would align to. this is an area

i think mr or mrs putin will learn some new facts it is highly personal. thing is it really is yet. he didn't really. and telly has until early read the manuscript some months ago but i only have other people's word for that but i guess it is highly it is highly personal and there are probably things in it which he won't approve of simply not because they are going to throw him in a bad light but because i think he's a very private man and i think he likes to be an enigma i do believe that that amir putin never wanted the cloak of secrecy to be taken away from him i do believe i do believe that. this book is an end to become a part of mr putin's apology. our apology for what it is that i think i think the english korean used to say or it is believed that she used to say that she never apologizes and i think if the queen doesn't i think why put insured. in this book you say putin is the most interesting man the most interesting politician on the world stage today could yes if i want to what you want to sounds and what's so interesting for you a russian proud about about your presiden

mr. wilson. gentleman from south carolina for five minutes. >> thank you, mr. chairman. i yield to congressman mike turner of ohio. >> thank you, mr. chairman. the budget control act does not mention cmrr and does not have any requirement whatsoever that this facility's funding be delayed. in fact, this provision we're going to vote on isn't even going to move any money. it is a companion to the first amendment. the first amendment said this facility is not being constructed because of failures of nsaa. we're going to engage d.o.d. to get it done. the second amendment says, d.o.d., now get this done. this is not an issue of funding. the funding is there. the issue is one of nsaa's able to perform the -- the other issue i think that keeps getting confused in the administration talk is they keep saying that there are alternatives. they have not identified any alternatives that would lessen the president's statements of, that this facility is absolutely required and necessary, and needs to b

mr. berman: mr. speaker, in further speakers, i yield back the balance of my time. ms. ros-lehtinen: i have no further requests for time and i also yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the question is will the house suspend the rules and pass h r. 4240 as amended? those in favor say aye. those opposed, no. in the opinion of the chair, 2/3 being in the affirmative, the rules are suspended, the bill is passed and without objection the motion to reconsider is laid on the table. the speaker pro tempore: thank you, mr. speaker. ms. ros-lehtinen: i ask unanimous condition sent that the house suspend the rules and pass house resolution 56 as amended. the speaker pro tempore: does the gentlewoman move that the house suspend the rules? ms. ros-lehtinen: i do. the speaker pro tempore: the clerk will report the resolution. the clerk: resolution expressing the sense of the house of representatives regarding the importance of preventing the government of iran from acquire agnew clear weapons capability. the speak

bayer and mr. brown which you -- mr. blair and mr. brown, you were on mr. blair's side, weren't you? >> i think that, um, you're talking about the hostilities between gordon brown and tony blair? >> yes. you were talking about it in the first sentence of paragraph 61 of your statement. >> request right. and what was the question, sorry, mr. jay? >> were you on mr. blair's side, not mr. brown's side? weren't you? >> i, what i said in the statement was that in the latter years -- and, again, there's been much better political commentary on this from, actually, many of the books you've asked me to read for this inquiry -- but in the latter years of tony blair's prime ministership, the hostilities between him and gordon brown got increasingly worse. and the worst of it did become a sort of tony blair camp and a gordon brown camp. and on particular issues, um, so, for example, the welfare reform bill which i think was, we first tried to get through in 2004, hostilities between gordon brown and tony blair were such that it didn't get through that time. we tried a

>> mr. chairman? >> mr.conaway. >> i have an amendment at the desk. >> the clerk will please distribute the amendment. without objection the rating of the amendment will be dispensed with. the chair now recognizes the gentleman for the purposes of offering and explaining his amendment. >> this is a pretty straightforward amendment. the daa of 2010 requires an annual military power report from the department of defense with respect to iran and our capabilities there. this amendment would ask that we would amend section 1245 to require that sitcom commanders also provide and annex either classified or unclassified report to that. i think it's important that we know the commander on the ground believes his cap abilities aren't his capacities are so that we understand from the field exactly what is happening. we have got certain programming requests provided to the committee that the committee is working through that gives some indication that there are weapons systems and other capabilities and capacities that

mr. reid: mr. president? the presiding officer: the majority leader is recognized. mr. reid: i move to proceed to calendar number 400. the presiding officer: the clerk will report. the clerk: motion to proceed to calendar number 400, s. 3187, a bill to amend the federal food, drug and cosmetic act to revise and extend the user fee programs for prescription drugs and medical devices, to establish user fee programs for generic drugs and biosimilars and for other purposes. mr. reid: thank you, mr. president. we're now on the motion to proceed to f.d.a. user fees legislation i. now extent that following my remarks and those of the republican leader, the time until 10:30 be equally divided and controlled between the two leaders or their designees with the republicans controlling the first half and the majority controlling the final half. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. reid: mr. president, therefore, at 10:30 today the senate will proceed to executive session to consider the stein and powe

lynch event, mr. larson, mr. garamendi, i am grateful they put it on the block them and i think thank you again, and i yield back. >> gentlelady yields back. any other discussion on the amendment? >> mr. chairman? >> the gentleman from arizona, mr. franks. >> very briefly, i noticed in the amendment that there didn't seem to be the language that we have been told that we were told would be on that. i want for clarification to yield to mr. turner to give a perspective on that. >> that is her second package. >> and forgive me. never mind, as the lady said. thank you mr. chairman. >> any other discussion? the gentleman from new jersey is recognized. >> i would like to thank you and the chairman and ms. sanchez. i want to engage with a short colloquy. mr. turner, i'd like to thank you for including language and the strategic forces of committee that provides critical oversight of the joint space operations center mission program. i think it is very important that the department meets the requirement of the war fighte

mrs. ford and i became really close friends. i was treated like one of the family there during their white house, and, of course, we were talking about how lady bird johnson came to the white house. it's not quite as horrible a situation but betty ford became first lady really overnight almost, and they hired me as their white house photographer when i was 27 years old, and i was a little bit older. now, these are the kinds of pictures that i'm sure the -- the -- most first ladies don't want to be photographed like that nor does anybody, but mrs. ford and president ford had such an incredible sense of humor and a lack of vanity about themselves. this was, by the way, taken in the -- in the kitchen of their home in alexandria, virginia, which is a very modest two split-level place, and they lived there for almost two weeks after they became -- after he became president, and this is lady bird johnson and mrs. ford and the two johnson girls. they are being shown the white house living room --

mr. pitts: mr. speaker, at this time i'm pleased to yield two minutes to the gentleman from pennsylvania, from the health subcommittee, really the author of the sections on generic drug user fee and biosimilars in the bill, dr. murphy, two minutes. mr. murphy: i thank the chairman and thank the speaker. they'll spend 15% of their household income on health care, including $620-plus on prescriptions. but that will be much higher if there were no f.d.a.-approved generic pharmaceutical. that same senior might pay $1,000 for medicine. and medicare would spend some $67 billion more. we must always assure that any medication, brand name or generic, is of the highest quality. but currently the food and drug administration cannot assure that medicines coming in from overseas factories, such as those from china, are pure. this bill includes my legislation, the biosimilar user fee act to authorize for the first time an f.d.a. program that will expedite approval of generics and clear a backlog of over 2,800 ge

mr. reid: mr. majority leader. mr. reid: we're now considering the motion to proceed to the stop student loan interest rate hike. the time until noon will be divided between the two parties. the majority will control the first, the republicans the second 30 minutes. at noon there will be a cloture cloturevote on the motion to proceed to s. 2343, which is the stop student loan interest rate hike act. at 12:30, the senate will recess until 2:15 to allow for the weekly caucus meetings. there are four bills at the desk due for a second reading. i'd ask that the chair would move these forward. the presiding officer: the clerk will read the titles of the bills for the second time. the clerk: and act to authorize the continuation of certain water diversions used on system land. h.r. 2240, an act to though, change of land and so forth and for other purposes. h.r. 4628, an act to extend student loan interest rates for undergraduate federal direct stafford loans. h.r. 4849, an act to direct the secretary of

>> mr. chairman? mr. chairman? >> gentleman from arizona, mr. frank is recognized for five minutes. >> thank you, mr. chairman. just very briefly, i noticed in the en bloc amendment, that there didn't seem to be the space-based interceptor language that we had been told would be in the en bloc. and we have a separate amendment prepared for that. i just wanted for clarification if i could yield to mr. turner to give me any perspective on that. >> could you repeat that? >> mr. franks, that's in a second en bloc package. >> it's a second one. forgive me. never mind, as the lady said. thank you, mr. chairman. >> thank you. >> any other discussion? gentleman from new jersey, andrews is recognized. >> yes. i'd like the thank you and the chairman and ranking member sanchez for some help with an issue that i wanted to engage in a short colloquy with the subchairman committee mr. turner on. mr. turner, i would like to thank you for including language that provides critical oversight of the joint space operation center mission program. i think it's very i

mr. cantor: mr. speaker, all i would say to the gentleman is certainly our intention and the commitment that we have to bring these bills forward for open and fair debate. i know the gentleman has expressed now twiles the fact that his side didn't like some of the votes that occurred on the specific provisions of some bills. this is a democratic process, as he knows. 23 members on his side of the aisle ended up supporting the c.j.s. bill. and again this is the house's will at work and we hope to be able to work with him in this very new environment in which we're operating on appropriations bills. the commitment that we have is still that we want to, you know, bring these bills forward under a very challenging fiscal time in our country and do so without earmarks. this does represent a new construct within which we are operating and so again we look forward to the gentleman's participation toward that end and a successful -- in a successful way. i yield back. mr. hoyer: i want to make it clear that c

mr. mcdonnell: thank you. mr. alonso: i am going to say yes, and real quick, it was a pleasure working with all of you, and hopefully i never have to work with you in this capacity again. [laughter] mr. alonso: but in the end, we pretty much brought the best out of the city as we could. thank you. >> i vote in support of the map. i also really want to thank everybody for working together on this, and it has been a pleasure to work with everybody. i personally feel like i learned a great deal about the city, which is what i will take the most value from a personal level forever, really. i want to thank, in that regard, the staff, the consultants, the district attorneys that have worked with us. they have been a tremendous resource to us. i also think everybody in the community. i am amazed summon people have spent so much time, whether in our meetings or submitting it public comment or facebook, or what have you, it has been a very rich and critical source of information for all of us. i admire the dedication of ev

mr. mcconnell: mr. president? mr. reid: mr. president, democrats are ready to move forward and vote on an amended s. res. 380, the bipartisan graham-casey-lieberman legislation. this amendment would put the senate on record along with president obama rule iewght policy of containment on iran. yet republicans have objected, again. we can't aford to delay these sanctions any longer. on may 23 there is a round of international negotiations taking place with the iranians on subjects relating to this resolution we have. democrats are ready to move forward. we're ready to pass both a sanctions bill and the containment resolution now, not later -- now. we can't afford any more delays. sanctions are a key tool in our work to stop iran from attaining a nuclear weapon, threatening ig israel and jeopardizing the united states' national sciewmplet i am to the end of my patience, mr. president. i usually never raise my voice with a senator. i apologize to my friend from arizona. did a few minutes ago. the conversation was between him and me

>> no. >> mr. cole, no. mr. price? >> no. >> mr. price, no. mr. mcclintock. >> no. >> mr. mcclinton, no. >> mr. chaifetz. >> no. >> mr. stutzman. >> no. >> mr. stutzman, no. >> mr. lankford. >> no. >> mr. lankford no. >> miss black. >> no. >> miss back, no. >> mr. ripple. >> no. >> mr. ribel no. >> mr. floor es? >> no. >> mr. flores, no. mr. mulvaney. >> no. >> mr. huls camp? >> no. >> mr. young? >> no. >> mr. young, no. >> mr. amosh? >> no. >> mr. amosh, no. >> mr. rokita. >> no. >> mr. giunta? >> no. >> mr. giunta no. >> mr. woodall? >> no. >> mr. woodall, no. >> mr. van hollen, yes. >> miss sxharts. >> yay? >> miss captor? >> aye. >> miss captor, aye. >> mr. doggett? >> mr. bloomenhauer. miss mccallum? >> aye. >> miss mccallum, aye. mr. yarmuth? >> aye. mr. honda? mr. ryan? >> aye. >> mr. ryan, yay. miss wasserman schultz? >> aye. >> miss moore? miss castor? >> aye. >> miss castor aye. >> mr. schuler. >> aye. >> mr. schuler, aye. >> miss bass? aye. >> miss bonimic sydney. >> aye. >> mr. chairman? >> no. >> mr. chairman, no. mr. chairman, on that vote the ayes are 12, th

i know that mr. les hinton, mr.dacre had spent some time as most of the rest of the industry discussing the data protection act. and in particular the custodial sentences confined to journalists. and i remembered that being at a conversation with politicians, and i probably only got involved in that, again, quite late off. so there was some discussion but not a great deal. >> you were friends with mr. blair and mr. blair we know often felt "the daily mail" was hostile to him and his wife. was that something that you discussed with you? >> on occasion, yes. >> quite often, perhaps? >> not quite often. it was probably more -- would discuss it with me. >> i'm not interested in private discussion but i'm interest in the private -- what was the concern being conveyed to you in this context? >> it wasn't, if you like, press ethics it was the tone. i think she read the letter was concerned that she felt a lot of her coverage was quite, was quite sexist. but she's not the first high profile female to think that about the uk