mr. berkley's considerable help and understanding of the concern that were raised, our offices willingnessith him to find a solution, we would like to announce in cooperation with the port commission we have a solution. we have agreed to an exchange of development rights with the organizing committee, the event authority. they will be giving up their long-term development rights to pier 14 to 22 1/2 and will be offered and have accepted the rights to pier 54. i think that is a major agreement. a lot of concern were raised about views, the impact of developing in front of those marina piers. this has been a wonderful solution, took a lot of sensitivity on everyone's part to understand those concerns, while at the same time, making sure we've fulfilled the eir. we are working for different sets of hands as we are moving the acr event forward. i want to once again praised mr. barkley's participation. he is learning what it is like to do business with the city. he is learning, has kept a calm approach -- perhaps not at the beginning. there was a high level of anxiety. we have a lot of other de

berkley of nevada on january 17 and january 18, and mr. reyes of texas for today. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, the requests are granted. under the speaker's announced policy of january 5, 2011, the gentleman from texas, mr. gohmert, is recognized for 60 minutes as the designee of the majority leader. mr. gohmert: thank you, mr. speaker. it's a privilege to be speaking on the floor this evening. here we have been talking for some time about the huge deficit spending that's going on. in fact, republicans have promised to make massive cuts and the old story that used to be told about the fellow texan, sam rayburn, about a young freshman democrat coming up and saying, talking about how difficult things were here in the house, and that he as -- as a democrat it's obvious the republicans are our enemy, they're trying to stop us from doing what we need to and boy, the media is not helping and speaker rayburn stopped him, reportedly, and said, son, the republicans are not your enemy. the media is not your enemy. at the other end of the hall, the senate, now