mr. berman: mr. speaker, i ask unanimous consent that all members may have five elective days to revise and extend their remarks and include extraneous material on the bill under consideration. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. mr. berman: mr. speaker, i yield myself three minutes. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized. mr. berman: mr. speaker, on september 12, 2009, the world mourned the passing of a great humanitarian. dr. norman borlaug, a world renowned plant scientist dedicate, dedicated his life to ending world hunger and improve the world's food supply. known as the father of the green revolution, dr. borlaug saved more than a billion lives through his pioneering research and scientific innovation. in fact, he has been credited with saving more lives than any other person in history. during his 20 years working in the poorest areas of rural mexico, he developed a strain of, quote, miracle wheat, that drastically increased crop yields and moved the country to sufficienc

mr. berman: mr. speaker, i ask unanimous consent that all members may have five legislative days to revise and extend their remarks and include extraneous materials on the resolution under consideration. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, so ordered. mr. berman: mr. speaker, i rise in strong support of this resolution, and i yield myself such time as i may consume. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized. mr. berman: mr. speaker, this resolution pays homage to the lives lost on september 11, 2001, and recognize the -- recognizes the anniversary as not only a time of solemn commemoration but also a demonstration of america's great resolve in combating terrorism. it extends our enduring and deepest condolences to the friends, families and loved ones of the innocent victims. and recognizes the heroism of u.s. service men and women who defend our country today. it honors the nation's first responders and others whose valiant efforts did credit to their country on that horrible day a

mr. berman: mr. speaker, i ask unanimous consent that all members may have five legislative days to revise and extend their remarks and include extraneous materials on the resolution under consideration. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, so ordered. mr. berman: mr. speaker, i rise in strong support of this resolution, and i yield myself such time as i may consume. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized. mr. berman: mr. speaker, this resolution pays homage to the lives lost on september 11, 2001, and recognize the -- recognizes the anniversary as not only a time of solemn commemoration but also a demonstration of america's great resolve in combating terrorism. it extends our enduring and deepest condolences to the friends, families and loved ones of the innocent victims. and recognizes the heroism of u.s. service men and women who defend our country today. it honors the nation's first responders and others whose valiant efforts did credit to their country on that horrible day a

mr. berman's organizations are nonprofit, it's almost imfobl find out who pays him for his services. luckily for us, richard berman is a bit of a chatty cathy. >> businesses themselves don't find it convenient to take on causes that might seem politically incorrect and i'm not afraid to do that. you're not going to get a lot of companies who want to say i'm funding rick berman to go after you. they're just not going to do it. >> but go after them, he does. richard berman heads a laundry list of more than a dozen front groups that take on causes for business interests like the food and beverage industry. and it's perfectly fine for him to head up all of these nonprofit purportedly grassroots organizations. anyone in america has the right to lobby on anything they want to at all. the problem in the case of a.c.o.r.n. is that the effect of corporate-funded pr efforts like rot tenacorn.com has been a jihad launched against a.c.o.r.n. by the right wing media which has since been joined by the mainstream media, minus any sort of real fact checking of these corporate organized facts about th

mr. berman runs the fake grassroots anti-a.c.o.r.n. website, rottenacorn.com.e also runs the fake grassroots anti-labor website unionfacts.com, which has an entire section specifically dedicated to sliming, you guessed it, seiu. the successful campaign that groups like a.c.o.r.n. and seiu have waged have raised wages and, therefore, the quality of life for millions of low-income americans across the country. and as a result a.c.o.r.n. and seiu have become the enemy of corporations that are willing to pay beltway slime merchants almost anything if it might mean avoiding paying higher wages to their own employees. the easiest way to destroy the whole movement to rage the wages and the standard of living for poor americans, of course, to destroy the best advocates of that cause, to destroy the groups that organize and campaign for living wages and a raised minimum wage. so, a.c.o.r.n., we've already seen what those attacks look like. seiu, you're next. then who's next after that? and are democrats and liberals going to stand up for these guys, or are they just goi

mr. berman and mr. frank next week, early next week to discuss the bringing of those bills and the order we ought to bring them in to have maximum impact. and i expect to do that in the near future. when i say the near future, i mean within a matter of weeks. i can't say it's going to be next week. i can say it's not going to be next week or the week after or the week after that. but my expectation is in talking to both mr. frank and mr. berman that we will be bringing those two sanctioned bills in the near future. mr. cantor: i thank the gentleman. my concern is the reports out of the administration today and that perhaps new intelligence information's being relied upon to result in a swift turnaround in our policy vis-a-vis iran. which is why i raised this question and seek from the gentleman his consistent position that has been up until now that we do face a threat in iran in its current capacity. as the gentleman states, we have uniformed armed men and women in iraq, in afghanistan, throughout the

mr. berman from the american forum -- foreign policy council to examine how the obama administration canain leverage over iran in nuclear negotiations. "washington journal" live at 7:00 a.m. eastern on c-span. president obama was on the road today to promote his health-care plan. he spoke at a rally at the target center in minneapolis for about 45 minutes. [cheers] >> hello, minnesota. [cheers] hello, minneapolis. [cheers] thank you. thank you, everybody. are you fired up? [cheers] thank you, thank you. thank you, everybody. [cheers] [crowd chanting, "yes, we can!"] >> thank you. thank you, thank you. thank you, everybody. everybody, take a seat. great to see you. çit is good to see you all. it is good to be back in minnesota. [cheers] before i do anything else, i want to get to some very important news. i hear the gophers have their home opener in their brand new stadium a little later today. [cheers] i want to make sure you know -- i wish the gophers' luck, what they are playing the air force. and i have to fly back home on one of their planes in a few hours -- [laughter] so, i've got