mr. berry: mr. speaker, i thank the chairman, the gentleman from west virginia. and congratulate him for putting together a good bill and bringing it to this house floor and moving it forward. my colleagues across the aisle as they have suffered in the minority, talked more trash than a $3 radio. and it's amazing it would actually almost be funny if it were not so serious. but they took over this country in january of 2001 with a balanced budget, a $5 trillion surplus, and the voteso pass anything they wanted to pass. and they did. and they imposed their will on the american people. and their idea of how to grow an economy is give as much money as you can to the rich people, don't regulate them at all. let them do anything they want to, and hope wall street takes care of you. we all see what happened. this year we find ourselves in the worst economic circumstance that anyone can imagine. it's happened one other time in this country. as i have listened to the debate it sounds like the ghost from the hoover republicans trying to stop franklin d. roosevelt from rebu

berry. this would ensure that those are properly regulated. mr. speaker, i'd like to yield three minutes to the gentlewoman from california, ms. harman. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlewoman from california is recognized for three minutes. ms. harman: i thank the gentleman for yielding and rise in support of the rule and the bill, as amended, by the senate. mr. speaker, as they say in the intelligence world, this is a slam dunk. i've experienced the tragedy that afflicts many tobacco users and their families. both of my parents were chain smokers. my father, a physician, quit when i was young but our house reeked of second-hand smoke, and my mother continued to smoke until she could no longer hold a cigarette. after long illnesses, both parents died from lung cancer. it was a nightmare and one i would spare other families. as a grandmother of three, i hope my grandkids will never smoke. approximately 4,000 children try a cigarette for the first time each day. by the end of this week, thousands of americans will have died from tobacco-related di

the country during the great depression and returned home to berry, alabama, then on to fayette, alabama. today he resides in tuscaloosa. mr. kimball served in the alabama state senate for the 12th district of alabama. and he also managed b.i.g. jim fullson's gubernatorial campaign in 1940. he served in the great state of alabama. until his retirement in 1984, he owned and operated fayco, which was located in fayette, alabama, which is in the district i am privileged to represent. he served on various civic and other organizations such as lions club, the fayette chamber of commerce, the alabama road builders association, just to name a few. mr. kimball has made so many great contributions to alabama and our nation. it is an honor to pay tribute to this great alabamian and this great american. i am thankful to know mr. fuller kimball as an inspiring example to all of us. i look forward to having the benefit of his wise counsel for many years to come and i wish him a very happy birthday this saturday. i yield back the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman's time has expired. the gentleman from michigan,

mr. boozman, your question about jobs created, and job saved, that is an accounting that we will specifically receive in the next 30 day report. we thought initially that in this second report that the berries motormen ministrations would be able to report on those job figures, but it turned out to be a little more difficult to gather the information because of the lag in time in reporting and. but this little flash drive is now at work. the information will be available, in our july hearing we will get those figures and we will make sure that your point which is also mine concern is adequately answered. >> very good, mr. chairman. i think that is a challenge. you know, to get good information in that regard. and in the other challenge as i asked to make sure that the projects that are being done are not projects that would have already been slated to get done that are additional projects. >> the recovery act language from our committee was very specific data recovery act funds which are 100% funding should be in addition to the program of projects the state had committed to undertake prior to enactment of the recovery act. we surveyed all state dot's indie sambar and again in january. the