mr. charles and tell me about your experience. >> i was a teacher so i thought book reviewing was lucrative. [laughter] i started freelancing for "christian science monitor" then became the book editor then move to be the fiction editor about five years ago. i really no two people that supported themselves one is mr. freeman and mr. rubin tomorrow for the "wall street journal" and "l.a. times" that passed away last year. he would do three or four per week and he's indicated them we paid $350 per review but a lot of bases just do it for free. you that your payment you get to keep the book. there is no way now to support yourself as a critic as a popular critic. >> we should talk about the ftc and giving back books of first i want to hear from katharine you have a lot of different places it. >> it was on the job training corps five 1/2 years i m incredibly will read secure novelist which has been helpful. [laughter] but because i get assignments snout i read the first novel in 1986 but it was the way for me to really understand fiction and from the inside out with structure, pacing, and havin

mr. charles. >> you should not thank a book reviewer. there should not be any contact between you and to review works. it contaminates your relationship. if you get a negative review you should make it public death threat. [laughter] because what you want to do is contaminate the public atmosphere that he can never leave you you again. [laughter] but as a book reviewer loves your book just stay in silence and cherish that and tell your friends and have your publicist thank him. >> that is always -- having your publicist thank the review were that is absolutely the best. >> i would say there is i don't know if you are on twitter or that sort of thing, every posting a review of your book and saying something positive about the review, i don't know whether that crosses the line, i haven't thought much about that but riders are not going to disseminate lng to the person who is probably online somewhere. that's one way to acknowledge the fact they've done something you appreciate. obviously you would not be disseminating to read >> a message

mr. charles. tummy a little bit about your experience. >> well, for schoolteachers like that book reviewing is really lucrative. i started freelancing for the christian science monitor in boston and then begin their book editor and then moved onto the "washington post" to be their fiction editor about five years ago. i only know two people who have ever supported themselves book are good. one was john freeman has become the editor and the other was myrtle rubin who route for the "washington journal" and "the l.a. times" and she passed away last year. it's really hard. john would do three or four reviews a week. i don't know how we did it. we pay 350 -- $350 a review. i've had people ask is that $3.50. [laughter] a lot of places are giving you the book for free. that's your payment. there's no way now to support yourself as a critic, as a popular critic. >> and you know, we should talk to later about the ftc and giving back to books, but will say that. first i want to hear from kathryn and your ext

mr. charles pierre. then you hear from minustah stakeholders. i will call on them in a moment. mr.erre representing the haitian foundation of mayors. [speaking in native tongue] >> translator: your excellencies, president of the republic, sir. your excellencies, prime minister, your excellency ban ki-moon, secretary general of the united nations, ladies and gentlemen, the earthquake of january 12th, 2010 devastated haiti. the local elected, the state were not able to meet and repair the consequences of this disaster. this day of doom of the 12th of january has exactly the tale of our basic services. we needed to react instantly in order to deal with the people leaving the area. millions of our fellow citizens fled port-au-prince, the devastated capital and the metropolitan area. all the elected representatives, the men made a primary road and bringing the first relief efforts with the organization of transport and shelter for the displaced persons. we had to look at the need for shelter, for food, for hundreds of family. we had, again, to look particularly at children that were new

mr. charles crowdhammer yesterday, the summit was a sham wow summit and the good faith of those republicans in the room is now currently being used in a political charade upon the people to prepare them for the proposition that a bipartisan health care bill is before them. i quote mr. crowdhammer. but they, the administration, wanted to present it to the american citizenry as having tried to reach out. that's why you had the charade of the summit last week, seven hours of discussion, when it was already precooked that nothing would change anything. but that's part of the deal. he, the president, wants to appear to be offering to incorporate republican proposals and now the pick of ot which we had today -- pivot which we had today. it's important that we not lose sight of the principle divide between the two sides. on the one hand the democratic majority wants to have one -- wants to have government-run bureaucrat-dictated health care. on the other, the republicans want to have wellness. no amount of taking republican proposals and sprinkling them onto the faulty premise of a government-run

mr. filner: i rise today to offer my support for h.r. 4360, a bill to name the v.a. blind rehabilitation center in long beach, california, after the distinguished iraq veteran charles r. soltes. mr. soltes' valiantly served his country in the united states army as a major in the 426th civil affairs battalion in mosul, iraq. he died on october 14, 2004, from wounds sustained in a blast conducting a patrol in mosul. he want only 36 years old. he was a graduate of the new england college of optometry and later completed his residency and focused on acute lens disease and glaucoma care. he served as the optometry residency program. in 1998, major soltes became clinical director of the urban vision institute, a refracter surgery center, where he served until his voluntary deployment in iraq. he was the first military optometrist to be killed in action while serving as a public health officer in iraq. he leaves behind a wife and three young children. also an optometrist, major soltes' wife, dr. sally wond dond, treats blind veterans in honor of her husband. naming this facility after this hero is proper for an honorable soldier who sacrificed his life for this nation. i re

mr. houston -- so houston and white picked education. charles hamilton houston graduate of amhearst college, graduated at the age of 19, served in the army and went on to harvard law school. he was the first african-american to serve on the harvard law review. he earned a doctorate of judicial science from harvard studied in spain while he was at harvard law school and was very famous at this time because he had recently defended a very high profile sensational murder defendant in rural virginia who is widely known by americans across all races and classes at the time. the law was plessy verse ferguson. established the doctrine. the decision to be sure, the law was that, so long as the government provides separate and equal facilities for african-americans and for white americans, the constitution is satisfied. houston cannot walk into court and ask a district court judge to overturn separate but equal. it would not work. a district court judge first of all does not have the authority to do so. secondly, it was the way the individuals lived thei

mr. white, unique to pick one or the other. so houston and white take education. charles hamilton houston was a graduate of amherst college in washington d.c., graduated from amherst at the age of 19, serves in the army and went on to arbor bosque will and he was the first african-american to serve on the harvard law review. he earned a doctorate of judicial science from harvard, studied into paying what he why he was at harvard law school and was very famous at this time because he had recently defended a very high-profile sensational murder defendant, out in rural virginia. he is widely known by americans across all races and classes at the time. he wanted to attack segregation in the way that it works with the successful. the law of the land at the time was plessy versus ferguson, the 19th century supreme court decision that established the doctrine of separate but equal. and those words never appeared in the decisions to be sure, but the law was that the longest states, so long as the government provides separate and equal facilities for african-americans and for whit

mr. hall: h.res. 935 honors john e. warnock, charles m. geschke, forrest m. bird, and esther sans takeuchi and i.b.m. for being awarded the 2008 national medal of technology and innovation. the national medal of technology and innovation is awarded annually to the nation's leading innovators. this award recognizes those who have made significant contributions to their country. additionally, it's intended to also inspire or use to pursue science technology engineering and mathematics related fields of study. together dr. warnock and and gesche founded a-r-r-r -- adobe systems being able to send documents from program to program through technology known as p.d.f. since their retirement as software executives both have distributed generously to encourage young engineers. dr. forrest bird of idaho served as an aviator during world war ii. following the war he founded bird ink which developed am fibon air -- am fibon aircraft. using this same technology bird later developed medical respirators still in use around the world and contributed to lowering breath relate

mr. crapo. -- hosting our program today is charles "cully" stimson. of defense on detainee issues worldwide. he has also served four years as an assistant to the u.s. attorney for the district of columbia. previous to that, he was a homicide prosecutor in maryland, and a domestic violence prosecutor in san diego. he served three active-duty tours in at the navy, and continues to serve as a judge advocate general reservist in the navy. please join me in welcoming my colleague, charles "cully" stimson. cully. [applause] >> thank you. welcome. this week i had the opportunity to speak to some distinguished citizens about u.s. detention policy. in that audience or several world war ii exploits -- in the audience were several world war ii veterans. during that war, we had over four hundred thousand not see pow's here in custody -- overpowers -- over 400,000 nazi pow's here in custody. no one would have thought of releasing them during a war. that is what we are doing today. i think we would all agree with that gentleman that we should not be rearming an ene

mr. attorney-general for appearing before us. they have the same rights as charles manson, correct? >> i said that murderers have the same rights as charles manson. if these people are charged with murder, that is the kind of rights they would get. >> and terrorists have the same rights as charles manson? >> in the sense that a murderer has the right to go before a jury, get the ax that he is charged with proved beyond a reasonable doubt, yes. >> osama bin laden has the same rights as charles manson. >> they are comparable people in some ways. >> that is incredible. that is for the disconnect between this administration in your mindset is completely opposite that of where the vast majority of the american people are. my constituents and i have deep- seated and profound philosophical differences. in a time of war, we have never given constitutional rights to foreign nationals, and many soldiers -- enemy soldiers, certainly captured overseas. he asked the question, you could not provide him with an example, can you provide us an example of when in a time of war the united states has n

mr. lemieux: thank you, madam president. yesterday, the president of the united states was in st. louis, missouri -- actually, st. charles, missouri, and he talked about a new effort that the federal government would undertake to go after waste, fraud and abuse in our health care system. and he focused on the use of payment recapture audits and the teams of auditors who will now go through the process of looking at the payments that are being made in medicare, for example, health care for senio seniors, to make sure that the money is actually going for health care to seniors and not going to criminals who are stealing the money from the system. i want to commend the president for doing this. it's the right thing to do. republicans and democrats can work together. this is a good initiative. but i would like to request of the president, as i've asked of this congress, to take further steps and more bold steps to stop fraud in our health care system. i want to thank leader mcconnell who, in his opening remarks this morning as the senate opened its session, commented on a piece of legislation that i have offered that will no

ways and means committee under the leadership of charles rangel and now under the leadership of sander levin from michigan. thank them very much. the energy, mr. scott what's your new committee name? energy, education and labor committee under the leadership of mr. george miller of california. all of these committees working together with the budget committee led by john spratt of texas and louise slaughter of new york -- did i say texas? excuse me, from south carolina. i'll personally apologize to him for that. john spratt from south carolina and louise slaughter from new york leading the rules committee. all these individuals working together to get us to the point where we were last night. the passage of this bill is monumental. it is historic. yesterday was not an ordinary day in the house of representatives. i thank my colleagues who voted for this legislation and i look forward to the results that it will yield. at this time, i will yield back my time to the congresswoman from the virgin islands. mrs. christensen: thank you, congressman butter feel. thank you for going through the process we have gone through over the past year. it's be

charles b. rangel. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, the resignation is accepted. without objection, the gentleman from north carolina, congressman price, is recognized for one minute. mr. price: thank you, madam speaker. i wish to recognize today's guest chaplain, iman abdullah antepli. and i want to say hello to the duke community, the touchish community. iman antepoli has a long record in countries ranging from his native turkey to the southeastern asian nations of burma and malaysia. since moving to the united states in 2003, he's been a true pioneer in the areas of muslim campus ministry. serving as first muslim minister at west lane university. he later served as hartford seminary where he completed his dock rate on the challenges facing the muslim community in the united states. in july, 2008, he came to duke university to serve as the school's first-time muslim chaplain. although he's been on campus less than two years, he's made an enormous impact on the campus community. he's taken on much more. he counsels students of all faiths, fosters understanding of the muslim faith and is much in demand as a speaker and a participant in a variety of community events. t