mr. brady: i yield myself as much time as i may consume. the chair: the gentleman is recognized. mr. brady: at the end of the day, the republican budget developed by our budget chairman, paul ryan, is a jobs bill. we know america faces an unemployment crisis today greater than any time during the depression. we know roughly 23 million americans can't even find a full time job. we know that while government spending has rebounded and how other factors have rebounded in economy, what we know is that -- in this economy, we know that jobs haven't rebounded. there's fewer jobs in america today than when this president took his oath of office. so we're going to talk about this budget and its impact on america's economy. and the truth of the matter is, if you like the way our economy's going, if you think this is the best we can do, stick with the president's budget, stick with the democrats' budget. it says the course. if you think we can do better for american, hardworking taxpayers and job seekers,

mr. brady's proposal. mr. brady will go for perhaps as long as an hour. he has in prepared remarks. -- has a some prepared remarks. there is anger in washington about the bailouts. a lot of that anger has generated some pretty kooky ideas about what we should do to monitor policy. when i heard a few months back that the joint economic committee was starting to ask the question about how should the fed really be reformed, i was reassured, because, again, some of the ideas of reform of the monetary system in the u.s. struck me as caulk a mamie -- cockamamie. senior officials are usually bipartisan and academic in their approach. the joint economic committee was taking up the idea, and it meant that something better than "let's go back to the pure gold standard" would likely be forthcoming. it was with great enthusiasm over the weekend, when i got a chance to see what mr. brady's remarks would be. it presented something that, well we can debate whether it will work or not, at least there is a lot of sound argument for it. we will see that today. our first sp

mr. brady's proposal. and mr. brady will go perhaps for as long as an hour. he's got some prepared remarks before we turn it over to the round table discussion. now, there's been a lot of anger in washington about the fed's role in the

mr. brady. [applause] >> kevin, thank you so much for hosting this forum today, for your confident willingness to engage on economic issues, to tax issues, policy issues, fiscal monetary and on the ways and means committee as well. thank you so ever. i appreciate the enterprise on their hosting this event. it is a delight to be here today. i also appreciate the panelists who agreed to be part of the roundtable. each of you bring tremendous insight. thank you so much for taking time from your busy schedules. some say the 19th century belongs to the brits, the 20th century to the americans, and the 21st century perhaps to the chinese. well, not so fafert. -- well, not so fast. in are challenges ahead. if we look to our economic future, washington should have one goal, which is ensuring that america has the world's strongest economy throughout the 21st century. to ensure the 21st century as another american century, we have to renew our commitment to what works well in the free enterprise system an

mr. brady. [applause] >> thank you for your willingness to walls -- always talk about financial issues. i appreciate the american enterprise institute boasting today's forum. they are involved in such key issues on capitol hill and abroad that it is a delight to be here today. i also appreciate the panelists agree to be a part of the round table. each of you bring tremendous experiments -- experience and insight in planning the future, so thank you so much for taking time from your busy schedules. some say the 19th century belongs to the british. the 20th century belongs to the american than the 21st century, perhaps, to the chinese. well, not so fast. while there are real challenges ahead, if we look to our economic future, economic future shoot -- washington should have one goal, ensuring that america has the world's strongest economy throughout the 21st century. to ensure the 21st century is another american century, we need to renew our commitment to what works well, the enterprise system, a

[laughter] so we're delighted to have mr. brady here to discuss this new legislation on the role of the federal reserve, and as soon as he's done we will assemble the panel here mr. brady? thank you. [applause] >> kevin, thank you so much for hosting this forum today, for your constant willingness to engage on economic issues, tax issues, policy issues, fiscal and monetary ones both at the joint economic committee and the ways and means committee as well. thank you so much, and i appreciate the american enterprise institute hosting today's forum. they are involved in such key issues on capitol hill and abroad that it's a delight to be here today. and i also appreciate the panelists who are here, agreed to be part of the round table. each of you bring tremendous experience and fact perspective to the fed and the role it can play in the future. so thank you so much for taking time from your busy schedules. some say that the 19th century was, belongs to the brits, the 20th century to the americans, and the 21st century perhaps to the

camp: i yield two minutes to the member of the ways and means committee, mr. brady. mr. brady: thank you, madam speaker, thank you, chairman camp. many members of congress that didn't have the time or the decision -- choice to read this new health care law before it became law, after it was passed, i asked our economist, the joint economic committee, they spept four months going through every page and provoifings the new law, to show the american public just what this new health care takeover looked like. they went through all the 2,300 pages of the bill and this is what the new health care law in america looks like. actually, not completely. we could only fit 1/3 of all that new bureaucracy on one page. here are the physicians, over in that corner, the patients, and in between are 159 new federal agencies and bureaucrats in between you and your doctor. we can do better for the american public than this horrible health care law. and we're doing that today. today we're going to take on this chart the way it works, everything in dark blue is a new expansion of government an

mr. brady: madam speaker, i strongly support passage of this bill. when china repeatedly undermines the free market by subsidizing its exports to the united states, we can't just give them a pass. especially when the businesses china subsidizes are often government-owned businesses that compete unfairly against our american companies and workers. so if you don't believe the american government should pick winners and losers in the marketplace, you certainly don't support the chinese government doing the same. there's an important distinction between the duties that seek to protect companies that are afraid to compete in the marketplace, those i oppose, and in this case duties assessed against those who try to distort the free market through unfair government subsidy. it's a distinction between the price of legal software and the illegal software. we would shoot ourselves in the foot if we denied this important tool to protect the free market from american workers. it's important as chairman camp noted today that this legislation is w.t.o. consistent

subject of economic goals and policies equally divided and controlled by the gentleman from texas, mr. brady, and the gentleman from new york, mr. hinchey, or their designees. the gentleman from wisconsin, mr. ryan, and the gentleman from maryland, mr. van hollen, each will control 90 minutes of debate on the congressional budget. the chair recognizes the gentleman from wisconsin. mr. ryan: mr. chairman, i yield myself such time as i may consume. the chair: the gentleman is recognized. mr. ryan: mr. chairman, the house is slightly out of order. the chair: the gentleman is correct. the committee will come to order. members, take your conversations off the floor. members on both sides of the aisle, please remove your conversations from the floor. the committee will be in order. the gentleman from wisconsin. mr. ryan: mr. chairman, i look forward to working with my friend, the gentleman from maryland, the ranking member, on what's going to be a long day and a pretty debate. let me start this debate first off by saying this is what our constituents sent us here to do. to lead. to make decisions.

mr. welch nor ms. morris willfully engaged in any misconduct in the nature of concealing brady or giglio information from the defense. >> this will be my last question, probably because i want to keep my colleagues going. the report makes the deputy chief of public integrity seem happenless, overwhelmed, at times, she seemed more interested in not offering feathers with the trial team and aggressively supervisinging the case. as an experienced prosecutor assigned to run the case, shouldn't she are risen above the concerns about ruffling feathers and done the job she was tasked with and if she was failing, wasn't it the job of her supervisor to fix that? >> no question. >> thank you. >> thank you. >> thank you very much. >> good morning, senator -- >> your work in this area. both senator leahy and i have served on the appropriations committee with senator stevens. senator leahy far longer than i, but i, almost 20 years, so in the course of so doing, you learn a little bit about a person that sits on that committee. so, it is with a kind of particular shock that we view what happened to him, made all the m

joining us tonight is dan gross, president of the brady campaign to prevent gun violence. mr., good to have you with us tonight. did this law set the table in some way for george zimmerman to go hunting for trayvon martin? >> i think that's exactly what it did, it set the table. it is a bad law if if it lets murderers walk awayne way uncharged. as bad as it is as a law it is just as dangerous as a state of mind and it is a state of mind that permits and encourages things like this to happen. when you combine that state of mind with florida's incredibly weak gun laws in general, it's a recipe for tragedies like this to happen. >> you have said in this case that the nra, this is the nra's vision for america. what do you mean by that? >> that's precisely what it is. the nra's utopia is a place where anybody can get a gun and carry it virtually anywhere. this is -- and what we are seeing in florida, tragedies like this, are the manifestation of what happens in the nra's utopia. it is two different visions of america, the vision that the people have that want to protect themselves,

mr. schuelke. and we have been joined by another former prosecutor, senator klobuchar . the supreme court, we mentioned brady earlier, and that case brady versus maryland, prosecutor learns that they have a clear constitutional duty to disclose exculpatory evidence to a defendant prior to trial. it's a constitutional duty. it's also common sense. if prosecutors fail to disclose eskulpatory evidence whether intentionally or not, the integrity of the whole criminal justice system in my belief is diminished. you also end up convicting or have the risk of convicting innocent people. i mention this because in your report, you found the information withheld from the defense was i quote you, "quintessential brady information."

mr. schuelke. and we have been joined by another former prosecutor, senator klobuchar. the supreme court, we mentioned brady earlier, and that case brady versus maryland, prosecutor learns that they have a clear constitutional duty to disclose exculpatory evidence to a defendant prior to trial. it's a constitutional duty. it's also common sense. if prosecutors fail to disclose exculpatory evidence, whether intentionally or not, the integrity of the whole criminal justice system, in my belief, is diminished. you also end up convicting or have the risk of convicting innocent people. i mention this because in your report, you found the information withheld from the defense was i quote you, "quintessential brady information." now, tell us what you mean by that, especially how would the -- how would the trial have been different if the prosecutors had disclose this had information? >> i think senator leahy, that i first should describe at least briefly the allegations made in the indictment against senator stevens and the essence of his defense. senator stevens and his wife catherine in addition to their home he

brady who will offer remarks before opening before to questions. welcome. [applause] >> thank you. thank you for coming to this. where is mr. cahill, senior? thank you. who purchased 252 books and distributed them to the entire class of 1949. a compatriot of father bob brooks. thank you for that. i think eddie got tired from showing off the super bowl ring last night and is rooting for the patriots. i don't think we established that. i am a to mid giants fan in the midst so i will quickly move on to the book itself. i thought i would just talk briefly about why this story intrigues me so much. a little bit about the reporting process and bring it forward to today because that intrigues me and open the floor to questions and i will admit first of all i am sadly not a holy cross grabbed which somebody thought naturally i must be an alumnus of the school--the way i came across the story was one of the men in the book, we were having lunch and it was the same day that ted wells was a front-page story in the new york times representing scooter libya at the time and going way back, he started to talk about his classmates, the other black classma

mr. welch or ms. morris willfully engaged in any misconduct in the nature of concealing brady or giglio information from the defense. >> this will be my last question because i want to keep my colleagues going. the report makes the deputy chief of public integrity same hapless, overwhelmed and at times she seemed more interested in not ruffling feathers with the trial team then aggressively supervising the case. as an experienced prosecutor assigned to run the case, shouldn't she have above the concerns about ruffling feathers and done the job she was asked -- tasked with and if she was failing was that the job of her supervisor to fix that? >> thank you mr. chairman. >> thank you very much mr. schuelke. >> good morning. >> for your work in this area put your both senator leahy and i have served on the appropriations committee with senator stevens. senator leahy far longer than i but i for over 20 or so in the course of so doing, you learn a little bit about a person that sits on that committee. so it is with kind of particular shock that we view what happens to him made all the more worse by his premat

brady is in north carolina. go ahead. caller: thank you. mr. riley, when i was in the cold war, of the greatest threat was nuclear threat. we were not concerned about who had the weapons. it was about who would use it first and start the domino effect. since we are talking about iran, which is the greatest threat to america? the cyber threat 0 iran? -- or iran? guest: that is a hard question. u.s. intelligence officials and security officials will say that nuclear weapons just because of their ability to do such pest damage and to kill some many people the greatest threat. there is a question about the use of cyber as a growing national threat. one of the things that came out recently is the arrest of a venezuelan official who was supposedly involved in a cyber attacks against the u.s. think about this. a country like venezuela, an adversary in many ways, may be plotting a cyber attack against the u.s.. it is very hard to determine who is attacking you. things can happen. they can affect infrastructure. they can affect siri systems and you as i

brady is in north carolina. go ahead. caller: thank you. mr. riley, when i was in the cold war, of the greatest threat was nuclear threat. we were not concerned about who had the weapons. it was about who would use it first and start the domino effect. since we are talking about iran, which is the greatest threat to america? the cyber threat or iran? guest: that is a hard question. u.s. intelligence officials and security officials will say that nuclear weapons just because of their ability to do such pest damage and to kill some many people the greatest threat. there is a question about the use of cyber as a growing national threat. one of the things that came out recently is the arrest of a venezuelan official who was supposedly involved in a cyber attacks against the u.s. think about this. a country like venezuela, an adversary in many ways, may be plotting a cyber attack against the u.s. it is very hard to determine who is attacking you. things can happen. they can affect infrastructure. they might affect various systems in the u.s. it migh

brady who offer remarks before opening up the floor to questions. welcome, diane. [applause] >> thank you, everybody. thank you for coming to this. i want to see, where is mr. cahill senior? thank you purchase 250 bucks and distributed them to the entire class of 1949. the peachtree to father brooks, thank you very much for that. and i think eddie got tired from showing up a super bowl ring last night and is officially in fact rooting for the patriots. i don't agree actually establish that. i'm a very timid giants fan in the midst will quickly move on to the book itself and i will just talk a little bit reflate about why this story intrigued me so much, a little bit about the reporting process and bring it forward to today because they think it is what intrigues me and then i'll open the floor to questions. i'll admit first of all i am not a holy cross grad, which is somebody thought is naturally that they must be an alumnus of the school to know the story. the way it came across a story within grayson, one of the men in the boat. we were just having a luncheon was the same day that ted wells was the front-page story in "the new york times." he was represen

brady to offer remarks before moving to open the floor for questions. welcome diane. [applause] >> thank you everybody in thank you so much for coming to this. i want to see, where is mr. cahill senior? he purchased by the way 250 books and distributed them to the entire class of 1949. [applause] thank you very much for that and i think eddie got tired of showing off his super bowl ring last night and is officially in fact rooting for the feature is. i don't think we established that. i am a very timid giants fan and so i will quickly move on to the book itself. i thought i would just talk a little bit briefly about why this story intrigues me so much, a little bit about the reporting process and bring it forward to today because i think that this what -- open the floor to questions. i will admit first of all sadly i'm not a holy cross grad which somebody thought naturally that i must be in an alumnus of the school. the way i came across the story was sam grayson one of the men in the book. we were just having a lunch and it was the same day that ted wells was a front-page story in "the new york times" representing scooter libby at the time, so going way back. he star

brady who will offer remarks before opening up the floor to questions. welcome, diane. [applause] >> thank you, everybody. and thank you so much for coming to this. i want to see where's, where's mr. cahill sr.? um, oh, thank you, who purchased, by the way, 250 books and distributed them to the entire class of 1949, a compatriot of father brooks', so thank you very much for that. [applause] and i think eddie got tired from showing off the super bowl ring last night and is officially, in fact, rooting for the patriots. i don't think we actually established that. so i am a very timid giants' fan in this midst, so i will quickly move on to the book itself. [laughter] i thought i would just talk a little bit briefly about, um, why this story intrigued me so much, a little bit about the reporting process and, you know, bring it forward to today because i think a that's what intrigues me and then just open the floor to questions. i will admit, first of all, i am, sadly, not a holy cross grad which as somebody thought just naturally that i must be an alumnus of the school to know the story. the way i came across the story was stan grayson, one of the men in the bookment we were just hav

mr. marsh is a state. >> the justice department has told us that the stevens case does not suggest a systemic problem. with regards to prosecutors abusing their responsibilities to divulge exculpatory and other information required under brady and julio. how were we to be -- how can we be satisfied without representation? and how do we know? how does any citizen no that the department of justice won't abide by similar prosecutorial misconduct in the future? >> first of all, i do not believe on the basis of our investigation that would happen in the stevens case is representative of what happens in cases brought by the thousands across this country by the department of justice. secondly, as senator leahy indicated at the outset, it was, of course the attorney general or a colder. .. >> roi all i agree with you the attorney general is entitled to credit for after the fact raising this issue with the court seeking the dismissal of the charges will unfortunately the damage to sadr stevens and to the adversarial system of justice had already been done to with there's nothing the attorney general or anyone else could have done to undo it. and so, let me just ask in conclusion since time is short in those instances where the chara