mr. burton for january 21 and 22, mr. ingells for today, mr. 340 ran for today, january 21, january 26, mr. smith for today and mr. mcclintock for today. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from illinois seek recognition? >> i too ask unanimous consent that today following legislative business and any special orders heretofore entered into, the following members may be permitted to address the house for five minutes, to revise and extend their remarks and include therein extraneous material. ms. woolsey, mr. defazio, mr. blumenauer, mr. quigley, ms. kaptur, and mr. gleison, all for five minutes. -- mr. grayson, all for five minutes. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. under the speaker's announced policy of january 6, 2009, and under a previoused orer of the house, the following members are recognized for five minutes each. ms. wool seve california. ms. woolsey: madam speaker, president obama is certainly doing the right thing when it comes to the humanitarian crisis in haiti. he's respond

mr. burton: mr.eretofore entered into -- i ask unanimous consent that members may have five legislative on the subject of leader boehner's one-minute today? the speaker pro tempore: without objection. mr. burton: mr. speaker, i ask unanimous consent that today following legislative business and any special orders heretofore entered into the following members may be permitted to address the house, revise and extend their remarks, and include therein extraneous material. mr. poe on january 20 for five minutes. mr. jones on january 20 for five minutes. mr. burton on january 19 and 20 for five minutes each. mr. moran on january 20 for five minutes. mr. thompson today for five minutes. and mr. wolf today for five minutes. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. for what purpose does the gentleman from oregon rise? mr. defazio: today following legislative business and any special orders heretofore entered into the following members may be permitted to address the house. mr. spratt, south carolina, mr.

mr. burton: you know, mr.eaker, i get a big kick out of my colleagues from the other side of the aisle who continue to beat on the bush administration. i mean, we're not in the bush administration. we are in the obama administration. and the obama administration this year has outlined a $3.55 trillion -- trillion budget. and you know, they always seem to come down when they talk about president bush and his administration and some of the shortcomings and there's never been an administration that didn't have some shortcomings, but they don't talk much about what's happened since they took power. when the democrats took over congress three years ago, less than three years ago, the national debt was under $9 trillion. it went from $9 trillion to $10 trillion to $11 trillion to over $12 trillion. that's just in the last three years. they're spending money like it's going out of style. they've increased the national debt limit five times, five times in just the last three years and the increase of $3.4 trillion is

mr. burton: mr.peaker, i ask unanimous consent to address the house for five minutes, revise and extend my remarks. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. mr. burton: mr. speaker, i listen to my colleagues and i think, we're all of one accord when we say we want to see jobs created in this country. we want to see the unemployment rate to go down. but the way you do that is the way ronald reagan did it when he was president, when he came in, when we had 12% unemployment and 14% inflation. he came in and he cut taxes across the board. what are we doing instead? well, since january when the president took office we have spent $73.3 billion that we didn't have on one program, we spent $1.16 trillion including interest on the stimulus bill, the omnibus spending bill, $410 billion, if you add interest that's $625 billion, in june we spent $106 billion with a lot of pork in it on the defense supplemental. and then on the consolidated appropriation bill, the many omnibus bill -- mini omnibus bill we pas

mr. burton. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from indiana is recognized for four minutes. mr. burton: mr. speaker, i believe probably everybody in the house and in the senate have someone that they know or knew that had breast cancer. or another form of cancer. my first wife, barbara, died about eight years ago from cancer. and i'll never forget the day that she felt a lump in her breast. she thought it was a fiberous tissue. she had those before. and she didn't want to go have herself tested. i said i want you to go to the doctor and have him look at that. he did and she called me a couple days later when i was out here in washington and she started crying and she said i've got breast cancer. of course we went back home. i went back home and we went to the doctor and went through all the things you have to go through, including the chemo therapy. for any family that's gone through that, they know how very difficult it is. had she had a mammogram earlier, she might not have had the cancer metastasize and go to other parts of her body and she ultimately passed away. it was a tra

mr. burton, opening statement please. >> think is due month. i get my prepared statement how much i personally appreciate your so don't take, but i'm about to say to personally. given this serious issue remember walden that today's hearing doesn't drink at the top of that death list and shows when you look at your side how much support there is. they may all be here but they're disguised as m2 shares if there are. >> most of the committee is in the consumer protection because we're putting new administrator in and, in fact, as why we started because i'm also on that committee. >> we will take over if you want to go down there. [laughter] >> can we have a vote on that? >> anyway mr. chairman today's hearing does examine several interesting questions surrounding the differences between bottled water and tap water. use how ricin regulatory approaches as well as in process and treatment one. several of the witnesses including the gao, fda will discuss and possibly debate ways in which bottled water regulations should be changed and possibly improve

mr. burton for january 26 and 27, mr. thompson for today. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. for what purpose does the gentleman from new jersey rise? mr. payne: mr. speaker, i ask unanimous consent that today following legislative business and any special orders heretofore entered into, the following members may be permitted to address the house for five minutes to revise and extend their remarks and include therein extraneous material. ms. brown from florida, five minutes, ms. woolsey of california, five minutes, mr. blumenauer of oregon for five minutes, ms. kaptur of ohio, five minutes, mr. grayson from florida, five minutes, -- five minutes. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. under the speaker's announced policy of january 6, 2009, and under a previous order of the house the following members are recognized for five minutes each. mr. poe of texas. mr. poe: thank you, mr. speaker. in the deep, dark dungeons of this capitol, the government trolls are writing bills behind closed doors. their aim has always been to take away our liberty one step at a time. it's what

mr. burton: mr. speaker, some people just don't get it. i was reading "the wall street journal" this morning, and when the senators, the democrat senators met, one of the aides was asked by a reporter, you know, what was going on, and the aide to one of the democrat senators said this. people are hysterical right now . hysterical because the american people realize that this health care bill is an absolute disgrace and a tragedy and they didn't want it and they overwhelmingly voted against it? in massachusetts they're hysterical? i'd like to say to that young man and to any of my colleagues that hasn't gotten the message from massachusetts and new jersey, the american people don't like the direction this country is heading in. they don't like the big spending. they don't like all of these new socialistic programs, and they don't want the government coming between them and their doctor. and i hope my colleagues will get that message so we can work together to solve these problems facing the nation regarding health care. i yield back the bal

mr. burton. >> one of your counsels james bergen said on march 12th i don't know if there is any way to manage this so congress doesn't ask for it and won't release it. does he work for you or did he? >> yes, he did. >> does your legal counsel have authority to make comments and decisions without your knowledge? >> of course, but -- >> regarding something of this importance? >> as president and ceo of the new york fed i was ultimately responsible. it's not a long answer. >> i want to know, do they have the authority to make these comment comments and decisions without you knowing about it? >> of course. >> what's the date on there? on november 11th when you were still at the fed, an internal memo said as a matter of course we do not want to disclose that the concession is at par unless absolutely necessary. are you familiar with that memo? >> not with that e-mail. as i said, i was not involved about decisions about what to disclose about the transactions or the names of counter parties. i have enormous trust and confidence in the integrity and judgment of people who were. >> on march 15th afte

mr. burton. >> thank you, mr. chairman. your counsel, one of your counsels, james bergen, said on march 12, i don't know if there's any way to manage it so that congress won't ask for it, or if they do, won't release it. does he work for you? or did he work for you? >> yes, he did. >> does your legal counsel have the authority to make comments and decisions without your knowledge? >> of course, but -- >> regarding something of this import? >> well, president ant c.e.o. of the new york fed -- >> this doesn't require a dissertation. i only want to know do, they have the authority to make decisions without you knowing about it? >> of course. >> what's the date on there? on november 11th, when you were still at the fed, an internal memo said as a matter of course, we do not want to disclose that the concession is at par unless absolutely necessary. are you familiar with that memo? >> not with that e-mail. as i said, i was not involved about decisions about what to disclose about the transactions or the names of counter parties.

mr. burton. >> one of your counsels, james bergen said on march 12th i don't know if there is any way to manage this so congress doesn't ask for it and won't release it. does he work for you or did he? >> yes, he did. >> does your legal counsel have authority to make comments and decisions without your knowledge? >> of course, but -- >> regarding something of this importance? >> as president and ceo of the new york fed, i was ultimately responsible. it's not a long answer. >> i want to know, do they have the authority to make these comment comments and decisions without you knowing about it? >> of course. >> what's the date on there? on november 11th, when you were still at the fed, an internal memo said as a matter of course, we do not want to disclose that the concession is at par unless absolutely necessary. are you familiar with that memo? >> not with that e-mail. as i said, i was not involved about decisions about what to disclose about the transactions or the names of counter parties. i have enormous trust and confidence in the integrity and judgment of people who were. >> on march

mr. burton from indiana. mr. faleomavaega from american samoa. mr. moran from kansas. mrs. miller from michigan. mr. reichert from washington. for what purpose does the -- under the speaker's announced policy of january 6, 2009, the gentleman from pennsylvania is recognized for 60 minutes as the designee of the minority party. mr. pitts: thank you, mr. speaker. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman rise? mr. pitts: to address the house. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized. mr. pitts: thank you, mr. speaker. i rise today on the occasion of the 37th anniversary of the infamous court decision roe v. wade. and i rise on the occasion of the annual march for life that will occur tomorrow with tens of thousands of citizens who will come to washington to publicly speak out on this issue of life and the sanctity of life. and i just want to say to those who are coming, i want to thank them, the people from all across the country who come for their dedication to a cause that matters so much, the cause of life. every year on this day people acros

mr. burton. >> one of your counsels, james bergen said on march 12th i don't know if there is any way to counsel have authority to make comments and decisions without your knowledge? >> of course, but -- >> regarding something of this importance? >> as president and ceo of the new york fed, i was ultimately responsible. it's not a long answer. >> i want to know, do they have the authority to make these comment comments and decisions without you knowing about it? >> of course. >> what's the date on there? on november 11th, when you were still at the fed, an internal memo said as a matter of course, we do not want to disclose that the concession is at par unless absolutely necessary. are you familiar with that memo? >> not with that e-mail. as i said, i was not involved about decisions about what to disclose about the transactions or the names of counter parties. i have enormous trust and confidence in the integrity and judgment of people who were. >> on march 15th, after that we had up on the board there a few minutes ago the e-mail to mr. dudley. he said where are you on the counter part

mr. tenet said that there were 100 -- i am not sure about the other 65. host: let me ask you about burton'sole, not only about the abdulmutallab case, but more broadly. "the new york times" did a story about the time that this young man spent in britain, this development of terrorism and terrorist potential in britain. why did we not get that information from the british? guest: our relationship with the british is generally excellent. the visa problem was not him being suspected of being a terrorist, but he lied on his application. he said he attended a school that did not exist. it was more of an immigration problem. host: norfolk, virginia. go ahead. caller: i met you in the los angeles, i told you about that neocon website. when are we going to shed this is really yolk? guest: israel is certainly part of the problem, but not the only one. one issue is people are almost embarrassed to stand up. yes, civilians are going to be killed, but we have to do this to protect americans. the president of the united states is not the president of the world when it comes to defense. he has to put the