mr. barney frank. i also would like it to thank the housing subcommittee chair who has worked closely with me on this project, representative maxine waters. mr. speaker, the question may be posed in the mind of someone as to why we should pass the homes for heroes act. i'd like to answer this question. we need to pass this bill because, while many of us are sleeping in the suits of life, too many of our veterans are sleeping in the streets of life. we node to pass it because while many of -- we need to pass it because while many of us have homes and jobs, too many of our veterans are homeless with no jobs at all. we must pass this piece of legislation because america can't continue to be the home of the free and the land of the brave if too many of our brave veterans continue to be homeless. mr. speaker, the statistics are shocking. they literally shock the conscience. veterans are % of the population and more than 25 -- 9% of the population and more than 25% of the homeless. on any given night, 131,000

mr. president, i ask unanimous consent to include in the record the wall street article entitled "barney frank car sphwhrar." thank you, mr. president, i yield the floor. -- car czar". thank you, mr. president, i yield the floor. a senator: mr. president? the presiding officer: the senator from vermont. mr. sanders: mr. president, let me be very clear, our health care system is disintegrating. today 46 million americans have no health insurance and even more are underinsured with high deductibles and h and co-paymen. at a time when 06 million people do not have access to a doctor of their own, over 28,000 americans die every year from preventible illnesses because they do not get the medical care that they should. this is six times the number of people who died at the tragedy of 9/11, but this occurs every single year after year after year. in the midst of this horrendous lack of coverage, the united states spends far more per capita on health care than any other nation and health care costs continue to soar. at $2.4 trillion and 18% of our g.d.p., the skyrocketing cost of health care in this

mr. hensarling or if anybody wants to comment about barney frank's executive compensation plan, the say on paper, the accountability and the compensation rules don't go far enough to punish bad behavior. anyones reaction. ..

mr. bloom, reference was made in a previous question about barney frank. you can see why that leads to some much suspicion back home and even amongst members of this panel. i do not have that kind of power, and yet, dealerships were closed in the state of nebraska. were you aware of that? did the ceo or somebody call you and say, wow, what do i do with this?(%Ñbarney frank has ce this facility left open? >> no, sir, i have not. >> did you learn about it after the fact? >> i have learned about it pretty much the same way you have learned about it. not. >> do you know of any other deals that have been made? >> i only know what we've been admonished to do and what i believe we've done. i assure you we're going to do what he continued to ask us to do. >> so when you say you haven't participated does that mean you don't know of any other special deals that were struck. >> i don't know what i don't know, sir. what i can tell you is the auto task force has been explicitly and very clearly discussed with them, and i have -- and we have regular discussions internal

mr. bloom, references made in the previous question about intervention from congressman barney frank. you can see why that leads to sell much suspicion even among members of this panel. i don't have that kind of power, dealerships imposed in the state of nebraska. were you aware of that? did the ceo or somebody call you and say what do i do with this? barnard frank what this facility left open? >> we were not. >> did you learn about it after the fact? >> i learned about it the same way you learned about it. >> do you know of any special deals that have been made? that we have not press the they did in? >> we have not participated in that activity. i can only speak to what the president has directed the administration officials to do and what we have been admonish to do and what we have done. we are going to continue to do what he has those do. >> does that mean you don't know of any other special deals that were struck? >> i don't know what i don't know. i can tell you the auto task force has been explicitly and clearly discussed. we have regular discussions internally about this and

mr. speaker. thank you for the time from the rules committee. i rise today to support my colleague, chairman barney frank. i am equally or even more disappointed than he is that his amendment on the f-22 funding was not made in order for the defense authorization debate. there is absolutely no need for additional funding for this flawed program. the cold war is over. the existing 187 f-22 planes have already cost the united states a total of $65.1 billion. and while this bill only includes $369 million for advanced procurement, the total amount for 12 additional f-22's will run $2 billion. think what we can do with $2 billion in the united states of america. we have schools that are in need. we have a health care system that's broken. we have to move on with our global warming program. $2 billion would help any one of those issues. the f-22 has never been used in iraq or afghanistan. it is absolutely not necessary or useful in counterinsurgency operations. the existing 187 that we have right now is actually adequate for any single contingency that could happen in the united states of america, both civili