that is it possible that the british authorities move mr cole to be a friend of yours from the witnesses latest onto the list of suspects you need this is it possible now has the i read of such an option in the paper the reporter from the sunday times. because they're always taking an aggressive stand it was apparently were it the same as papers which you know if that happens to you. i will discontinue any contact with the british side and i will not comment or in any way participate in this case why is that then that it's ok to suspect you but not ok to suspect they weren't suspecting that's all very messed up but when the truth is that there is no new evidence and i must tell you that that meeting of ours it was in there ever captured by anyone. as to how many people there were and who they were because the location we used was not equipped with surveillance cameras and it's also unclear what foundation there can be for prosecutions to come up with amy charges merely polonium traces in regard to that i'd like to say once again that is a substance that requires some very serious studies

harper of missisppi and mr. cole of oklahoma, to reduce federal spending by ending public financing for campaign and terminate this assistance commission. presidential campaigns are becoming increasingly expense i have to the tune of hundreds of millions or even billions of dollars, the idea of having taxpayers contribute matching funds to them is lewd crowd. this practice -- ending this prackties would save $617 until over 10 years. as a member of the me on jurisdiction over e.a.c., the house administration committee, i've learned firsthand that this agency has olived -- outlived its usefulness, mismanaged its resources, costing we the taxpayer millions of dollars a year. the election assistance commission's budget request for 2012 devoted 51.7% of its budget to management and overhead costs. let's eliminate this commission and support this bill and i yield back the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from pennsylvania. mr. brady: i'd like to recognize the gentleman from pennsylvania, mr. hoye

harper of mississippi and mr. cole of oklahoma, to reduce federal spending by ending public financing for campaign and terminate this assistance commission. presidential campaigns are becoming increasingly expense i have to the tune of hundreds of millions or even billions of dollars, the idea of having taxpayers contribute matching funds to them is lewd crowd. this practice -- ending this prackties would save $617 until over 10 years. as a member of the me on jurisdiction over e.a.c., the house administration committee, i've learned firsthand that this agency has outlived -- outlived its usefulness, mismanaged its resources, costing we the taxpayer millions of dollars a year. the election assistance commission's budget request for 2012 devoted 51.7% of its budget to management and overhead costs. let's eliminate this commission and support this bill and i yield back the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from pennsylvania. mr. brady: i'd like to recognize the gentleman from pennsylvania, mr. ho

mr. cole: thank you, mr. speaker. i thank the gentleman for yielding. mr. speaker, first of all, i want to congratulate chairman rogers and ranking member dicks for an exceptionally hard job which yielded frankly a very good product. this bill spends less, $70 billion less than the president requested, $6 billion less than we spent last year, the second year in a row we have actually cut discretionary funding. it cuts 5% for e.p.a. regulatory spending. it eliminates 23 programs totaling $240 million. and while this bill cuts wasteful spending, it actually focuses additional funds on things that count, defending our country, helping some of our most vulnerable and challenged citizens and providing funds to educate some of our most disadvantaged young people. the bill provides a 1.6% pay increase as requested by the president and funds the defense health and military family programs at there are 1.1 billion above f.y. 2011 and $283 million above the president's request. along with supporting our

and they say, "mr. cole, thank you for your positive image of negro america, national association for the advancement of colored people." >> projects that we're working on right now is a play called "i wish you love." it's written by dominic taylor. >> can call down to alabama. tell them my 97 sue missing. >> what dominic has put together here is not so much about nat cole, although there are 22 songs in the performance. >> four, three, two. >> it happens during his television show. and you get him doing his show. actually there will be a television camera in the back of the house, and they'll shoot him doing the show. >> nat king cole ♪ in the evening ♪. >> but when the show goes down, when they break for a commercial, you'll also see commercials, and then you'll see the actors and producers interacting about life, about what's going on in the world because it's-- there are news clips in there as well. >> the governor of south carolina during the second world war, he told harry trump trueman-- and i quote--

mr. colek you, mr. speaker. i thank the gentleman for yielding. . speaker, first of all, i want to congratulate chairman rogers and ranking member dicks for an exceptionally hard job which yielded frankly a very good product. this bill spends less, $70 billion less than the president requested, $6 billion less than we spent last year, the second year in a row we have actually cut discretionary funding. it cuts 5% for e.p.a. regulatory spending. it eliminates 23 programs totaling $240 million. and while this bill cuts wasteful spending, it actually focuses additional funds on things that count, defending our country, helping some of our most vulnerable and challenged citizens and providing funds to educate some of our most disadvantaged young people. the bill provides a 1.6% pay increase as requested by the president and funds the defense health and military family programs at there are 1.1 billion above f.y. 2011 and $283 millionbove the president's request. along with supporting our armed for

my colleague from oklahoma, mr. cole, has been a loader in trying to end those campaign subsidies, and i'm pleased to work with him today to continue that effort. when taxpayer financing of political campaigns and conventions was adopted, proponents said it would improve the public's trust in our government, clean up politics and increase the competitiveness of political campaigns. sadly, it has failed on all counts. now we find that more and more candidates are opting out of the system altogether. the federal election commission has just this week confirmed that no presidential candidate to date has opted to participate for the 2012 election. mr. chairman, we're talking about eliminating a program that literally no candidate is currently using or preparing to use at this point. that includes president obama, who in 2008, famously became the first presidential candidate ever to decline to participate in both the primary and general election phases of the program. and it's not just the candidates who don't like it. as thi

. >> thank you, mr. cole. another gentleman from north carolina, mr.att, is recognized for his questions. >> thank you, mr. chairman. mr. chairman, i had hoped the way my colleague from north carolina started his questioning that we were going to treat this as a general oversight hearing, which is the way my memo said it was going to be, rather than an inquiry into one single subject. so i want to spend my time asking about some other things unrelated to fast and furious because there are a number of other important things going on in life, and some of those things the attorney general and his staff have made tremendously good decisions about. one of those is to have all these police chiefs sitting behind you today, one of whom is from my hometown of charlotte, north carolina, and for the members on the democratic side, they will certainly get to know chief rodney monroe when they come to charlotte for the democratic national convention. so i want to applaud the work that he is doing to prepare us for that significant national event. perhaps the police