mr. clay, the ranking member of the monetary policy for five minutes. >> thank you, mr. chairman. secretary lew, as you know, an earthquake devastated haiti on january 12, 2010, leaving millions homeless in the wake of the disaster. the american people and the global community rallied to provide relief to the haitian people. as the center for economic and policy research points out in a recent report, despite billions of dollars pledged to build back a better haiti, more than 350,000 haitians remain internally displaced, and it is unclear what sustainable impact our funds have had. secretary, can you give members of this committee a progress report of the post-earthquake humanitarian reconstruction and development efforts in haiti? >> i would have to get back to you on an update. i was deeply involved in putting together the haitian relief package when i was deputy secretary of state, and i have not had the opportunity in the last few months to become familiar with a detailed up-to-date assess

the chair recognizes gentleman from missouri, mr. clay, for five minutes. >> thank you, mr. chairman. as you know an earthquake devastated haiti in 2010. the american people and global community rallied to provide relief to the haitian people. as the center for economic policy and research points out in a recent report, despite billions of dollars pledged to build back better haiti more than 350,000 haitians remain internally displaced and it is unclear what impact our funds have had. secretary, can you give members of this committee a progress report post earthquake humanitarian reconstruction development efforts in haiti? >> i would have to get back to you on an update. i was deeply involved in putting together the haitian relief package when i was deputy secretary of state. and i have not had the opportunity in the last few months to become familiar with the detailed up to date assessment. but i'm happy to do so and get back to you. >> this is the second time i've inquired about this and one of your deputy secretaries was supposed to get back to me a couple of months ago

mr. clay had a simple question and your answer was don't blame me, i didn't know it was my staff. in my case i sent a letter to you asking three simple questions regarding the i.r.s. scandal. i asked when it was first time you became aware of the i.r.s. targeting groups independent on the i.g.'s investigation. curiously the answer came not from you but from some assistant secretary a month and a half later basically refusing to answer the questions. the second question i asked was whether you attended any meetings with then commissioner and whether there was any decision discussions at the concerning the i.r.s. targeting any organizations and a couple of other simple yes or no questions. again, a refusal from you to answer yes or no questions. so then after several months more passed i called your office and said would you give me five minute tons phone and your answer was no, i cannot talk to you, too busy. so i tuferede have a meeting with you, not in my office. i agreed to go to your office at your convenience anytime to discuss this and your answer was no you were too busy for

that evening after ike won the nomination in chicago, he and lucious clay and the general were having dinner at the blackstone hotel, and mr. brownell said, so i asked the general, general, whom do you want to be your vice presidential candidate? and he said the general looked at me and said, well, think that mr. smith, who is the head of american airlines, enormously effective executive, charles wilson, who is head of general electric, is an enormousry effective executive. he would be a good vice president. and brownell said, lucious and i were sort of rolling our eyes at each other at that point, and i rallied and said, general, they're all very fine men but i'm sure the convention is going to want to a candidate whom they can recognize, and i'm sure they're going to look to you exclusively for guidance. and so the general nodded his head, and mr. brownell then said, general, if you haven't thought about it very much, lucious and i believe we should go with richard nixon. nixon's young. he was in the navy. he is from california. he has a good record in the house and senate, and the president said, well, -- general eisenh

leaders leading the marches in that this is a clay signal criminal act but it doesn't seems to be too paralyzed to to restore order. right either way this isn't. mr cross unfortunately we have to leave it there and. mr erich krauss alive mr krause thank you very much indeed for that. why and here's why the ukrainian government is under pressure now thousands of protesters as well as the opposition in parliament want to move the country towards europe but the government thinks that's premature saying brussels is not offering perks like membership and the privileges most europeans enjoyed there than there's a believe that live closer to europe would be cheaper but the government warns the deal would actually damage the economy for little compensation their positions too and says here should resist pressure from moscow but close economic ties with russia including a free trade zone a shared business landscape and increased exports to pull the states together and it's still a matter of great debate whether ukraine will get more out of the deal with russia with the european union let's not discuss that with robert oulds chair of the bridge group same

mr. speaker, as we've been rolling through this of a, quote first shared with me of our deputy whip, peter roskam. it was in a thomas jefferson letter to charles clay in 1790. he said this, mr. speaker. the ground of liberty is to be gained by inches, and we must be contented to secure what we can get from time to time to be pressed forward for what is yet to get. it takes time to persuade men to do even that which is for their own good. we're in the game of inches here today, mr. speaker. i expect you'll hear the same thing from my colleague from new york. we are going to secure today what we can get from time to time, and we are going to eternally press forward for that which is yet to get. my sense is my friend from new york will eternally pressing in this direction and i will be pressing in this direction, as is the process here. as she follows the wishes of her constituents and i follow the directions of mine. but we have an opportunity today for the first time in the three years that i have served in this body to come together on a budget agreement, to get that which we can get before we both wake up tomorrow morning and begin to eternally pr