and mr. berg has been running in and out, in and out, and he comes in and asks my question last minute. since i'm the last one here, mr. chairman, it does not seem fair. but all that aside, this has really been a very helpful. and much of your written testimony has also been helpful. i do want to add or tag on to what mr. berg has said about the stability. and i want to go to one of the statements that you made, mr. frank, that i thought was interesting. you said you wanted to compete on the merits of business and not on the tax code. let me take that a little further and ask you with the temporary tax incentives how you see those as affecting competitiveness. because i will say just as a sidebar, between the hearing that we have had in this committee, this year, which have been very, very helpful, and then those business round tables that we have had, i've had a number of businesses say that because of the complexity of the tax code, that not always are they aware of maybe some of those opportuni

mr. berg's recognized. >> thank you, mr. chairman. one of the most frustrating things for me is the uncertainty. it seems reich there are a lot of taxes that are short-term. we miss a lot of deadlines and go back and reinstate tax incentives and et cetera. so just to make sure i'm not it be only one who feels that way. my question for miss hanlon do you think this instability in the tax code credits a problem both a book and a tax problem? >> yes, i would agree that the unpredictability and the uncertainty creates a lot of problems for companies when they try to make long-term investments. i think a stable tax policy would be a lot better from both the tax and accounting side. >> i think i heard those comments. i mean, whatever it is if it's fair, if it's reasonable, lore or flatter keep it there. then we can make business decisions around that. i know this has been a long hearing. my question, if there are some specifics that you can relate to the committee where you see the temporary nature

i don't think the militia responsible for the the likely torturing to death of mr berg will be held account but there's a lot of interesting political games going on in libya it seems to me very clearly is that why this focus now on this entire new militia is because there's a tiny militia there's entirely people are holding saif al islam and the west especially the i.c.c. are very fearful about what this one tiny militia are going to do with stifle islam so i feel islam hasn't had access to a solicitor as far as i know and he hasn't said anything publicly so i think for this entirely is that saif al islam in their custody is the biggest power play that they've got to use in libya so i think this is the great agenda of what's going on right now with this latest development but nonetheless mr bush does seem to have been tortured to death who is the former ambassador to france protests have been raging across europe against last week's signing of the new copyright treaty which enforces intellectual property law on the internet opponents say the international actor documenting forces censorshi

mr. berg. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized. mr. berg: i rise in strong opposition to the democrats' motion to instruct. with sections 2123 of house bill 30, we give states the unemployment -- the ability to test and expedite re-employment on individuals receiving unemployment benefits. we are empowering the states who know their workers best, to be creative, to be innovative and to do more if war eric -- workers to get them back to work. in my home state of north dakota, where the unemployment rate is the lowest in the nation, we have tremendous re-employment programs that are operated through job service. the participants in these re-employment programs have even said, i would make this program a permanent feature so that all people who are unemployed have a chance to utilize it. and others who said you will learn something you never thought about before, no one goes away without something. instead of continuing the same washington business as usual, inflexible approach to unemployment insurance, it's critical we make common sense

and mr. berghas been running in and out and in and out and he come in asked my question last minute since i'm the last one here, mr. chairman, it does not seem fair but anyway, all that aside, this has really been a very helpful and much of your written testimony has also been helpful. but i do want to add -- or just tag on to what mr. berg has said about the stability. and i want to go to -- one of the statements that you made, mr. fryt you want to compete on the merit of business and is not on "the today show" and let me take that a little further and ask you with these temporary tax incentives how you see those as affecting competitiveness because i will say just as a side-bar between the hearings we had on this committee this year which had been very, very helpful and then those business round tables that we've had, i have a number of businesses say because of the complexity of the tax code that not always are they aware of possibilities that they could have and, therefore, they're not as comp