mr. cohen. mr. cohen: i would like to make one statement, if you'd permit. if you remember the 1960's you weren't part of the 1960's. when you get into the 60's you forget things. it was janis jop lynn and it's my friends all have mercedes-benz. the speaker pro tempore: under the speaker's announced policy of january 6, 2009, the chair recognizes the gentleman from california, mr. rohrabacher booker, for 60 minutes. mr. rohrabacher: thank you very much. today i would like to address my colleagues about the greatest threat over the horizon, made in china. mr. speaker, while focused on the deadly threat posed to our immediate safety by the forces of radical islam, many meshes -- americans seem oblivious to the storm clouds just over the horizon. i come to the floor with a grave warning to the american people. we face a threat to our national security with complexity and global scope such as we have never experienced in this nation's history. this threat is pervasive, it challenges our economic, political and financial structure as well as the security of our h

mr. cohen: thank you, madam speaker. i think as we look at this lame duck session and the end of the 111th how we get where we are with the deficit which was such a big issue. this congress, the congress in 1994, president clinton, passed a bill to balance the budget. all democrats, the result of it was the democrats suffered a great election defeat in 1994. the republicans took over with newt gingrich. had the house for the next 12 years. but we balanced the budget. with a budget surplus by the year 2000. then president bush came into office and he gave these tax cuts away, to a trillion dollar war in iraq, a war in afghanistan, and passed medicaid part d, the largest extension of federal benefits ever, tremendous deficit increasing, much more so than any health care bill passed since or the one we passed, and we got this tremendous deficit. now the republicans talk about earmarks. earmarks have nothing to do with the deficit at all. it has to do with tough decisions to increase revenues or cut spending. $700 billion cu

one of the things mr. cohenonths later, the wall falls. what people need to remember is that words have power. words are very powerful. and that's why this collection is so important. >> steve: when you look at the 25 documents that you have contained in your book, sometimes you might say to yourself, man, they don't make them like they used to. where is that guy giving that speech today? >> i think that's very interesting. one, we used to listen a lot to speeches. in lincoln's time, people would go for the whole day and listen to speeches all day long. you had martin luther king, he was a pastor, a preacher, he had that cadence, that rhythm that inspires. i think we still have those people today and i think you'll see that in the next election. >> brian: when broadcasting came n then all of a sudden the president's said, i am talking really to the people rather than historians. kind of fdr took that to a new level. when you hear his speech, sometimes i think they can transfer to head. >> they can. he did fire s

mr. cohen: thank you, madam speaker. today the united states received good news concerning education in america. nationwide high school graduation rose 2%. even better my state of tennessee the rates rose 15%. the number one increase in the united states of america. those are statistics from the year 2002 to 2009. as determined by the institute that colin powell headed. as part of that i'm happy to attribute it to is the lottery the hallmark legislation as a state senator. it passed in 2002 and the education law went into effect in 2003. giving children the incentive to go to college that they can have a better life. giving them hope with hope scholarships has helped kids make better grades in high school and turn out better graduates in tennessee. i appreciate the fact that tennessee has been recognized today as the country's education is great and scores have gone up. we need to continue working on this and if every state gave their students hope we would have a better nation. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yie

. >> it was quite the weekend, andy cohen is the host of bravo's "watch what happens." no rest for mry. i believe these are the same people who said that he had food allergies after the plaza hotel. >> the girl who was in the bathroom, she's doing something, right? >> yes. the prostitute is -- >> she doesn't like to be called that. she's a porn star. >> well, all right. the porn star is allegedly suing. so -- >> on what basis? >> she felt threatened. her life felt threatened. she felt like he threatened her life. i'm looking for gloria allred to turn the corner with this lady. she's going to have a press conference with the crying porn star. >> you did it again. >> no, i got it right. >> a big rally in d.c. with colbert and jon stewart. >> around 200,000 people showed up. i thought the highlight was cat stevens coming out. we haven't seen cat stevens in a very long time. >> he's not called cat stevens anymore. >> he's not, yousef islam, he sang peace train while ozzy osbourne came out and sang crazy train. >> what is the point, though? >> i think -- well, the point was to restore sani