mr. daniels, mr. overton and mr. brennan in their testimony placed a great deal of emphasis on damages caused by perception as opposed to damages caed by actual damage and i've heard many people also blame the media for assisting in this misperception of the american public. and i don't think that any of us were surprid by that because the media is focused on being sensational and obtaining more viewers and more readers and frequently without any regard to the real impact it has on people. but my question to you would be since you're going to be up and running within a month hopefully, when you start processing claims from your perspecti perspective, it won't make any difference if the damage is caused by perception or by actual damage, is that correct? >> that is correct. under the law of the federal pollution control act, which is a very important aspect of this whole process, actual physical damage to property is not required. so the issue for me, you're absolutely right on, congressman. the issue for me is not wh

mr. newsom and latoya cantrell to congratulate daniel homsey of the neighborhood services for leading today's great event and for launching of the neighborhood empowerment net work website empower sf. org. the best of luck, speaker of the house, nancy pelosi. [applause]. >> just amazing that young lady started as an intern in our office 3 years ago and came in and said, i want to make a difference. we should applaud her success it's just amazing. [applause] i would like to introduce your mayor gavin c. newsom. >> thank you very much for coming out. big round of applause for daniel homsey and his hard work bringing this together getting all the staff and volunteers the mayor's office of neighborhood services and other departmenting that are here we are very thankful. daniel has been talking about this for what seems a millennium. you imagine being the mayor's office of neighborhood services how demanding that job is. the calls you get for service. we got the liaisons to the districts and how overwhelmed some of them are. we added budget cuts. the office had 2 or 3 people representing each dist

. >> larry: daniel, do you understand why mr. gibbs, representing the president is so upset?l, he's very upset in part because he's working for a president who has indicted more people now for leaks than all previous presidents put together. and two of those peopl have been indicted for acts that were taken under bush, which george w. bush administration chose not to indict. so this is an administration that's more concerned about preventing transparency, i would say, than its predecessor, which i'm very sorry to hear. as somebody who voted for obama and expect to vote for him again, despite all this. but, you know, in terms of the -- if i may say, in terms of the relation to vietnam, the crucial thing that i think even these relatively low-level, field-level secret documents, compared to the top-secret ones in the pentagon papers, what they both reveal is this -- why it is that despite the fact that the taliban is not popular in that country, they get stronger every year as we put more troops in. that's a prospect i think should give congress a very great reason for sending

speeche he went on in the speech not only to quote the bible, shakespeare, rudd yard kipling and daniel webster and mrident, this was a speech about world trade. [laughter] those he thrived in the house, when he moved onto the senate, senator byrd remarked that he was happy to leave behind the limitations on speaking time on the house floor. [laughter] on a personal note i will never forget a dinner i hosted for him in the early '80s when he was running for reelection at that time, in california. after dinner we didn't know what to expect. we were all nervous to be in the presence of sh a great person. what did he do? he pulled out his fiddle and regailed us with west virginia tunes and told us great storelies aboutach and everyone of you. [applause] that was an act of ship that i will never forget. later when i came to congress, i told senator byrd how my father who had served in congress, gave me the i am of a coal miner carved in coal. it is only thing i have from my's office as a member of congress. it had to have been a gift to him from jennings randolph who had representedded west virginia so we

] he went on in the speech not only to quote the bible, shakespeare, rudd yard kipling and daniel webster and mresident, this was a speech about world trade. [laughter] those he thrived in the house, when he moved onto the senate, senator byrd remarked that he was happy to leave behind the limitations on speaking time on the house floor. [laughter] on a personal note i will never forget a dinner i hosted for him in the early '80s when he was running for reelection at that time, in california. after dinner we didn't know what to expect. we were all nervous to be in the presence of such a great person. what did he do? he pulled out his fiddle and regailed us with west virginia tunes and told us great storelies about each and everyone of you. [applause] that was an act of ship that i will never forget. later when i came to congress, i told senator byrd how my father who had served in congress, gave me the i am of a coal miner carved in coal. it is only thing i have from my's office as a member of congress. it had to have been a gift to him from jennings randolph who had representedded west virginia

speeches he went on in the speech not only to quote the bible, shakespeare, rudd yard kipling and daniel webster and mrent, this was a speech about world trade. [laughter] those he thrived in th house, when he moved onto the senate, senator byrd remarked that he was happy to leave behind the limitations on speaking time on the house floor. [laughter] on a personal note i will never forget a dinner i hosted for him in the early '80s when he was running for reelection at that time, in california. after dinner we didn't know what to expect. we were all nervous to be in the presence of such a great person. what did he do? he pulled out his fiddle and regailed us with west virginia tunes and told us great storelies about each and everyone of you. [applause] that was an act of ship that i will never forget. later when i came to congress, i told senator byrd how my father who had served in congress, gave me the i am of a coal miner carved in coal. it is only thing i have from my's office as a member of congress. it hado have been a gift to him from jennings randolph who had representedded west virginia so wel

mr. robot. i think you're carrying this just a little too far. our sunday morning cover story is reported now by daniel sieberg. >> reporter: this is not a football game or a basketball tournament. this is a robotics competition called first, where 10,000 kids from across the world descend on atlanta and turn the georgia dome into a high- tech super bowl. >> this is final match number one. >> really what it shows people, shows the students is that anybody can do this. >> i love robotics. it's only my second year on the team. i love it. >> i definitely understand technology a lot more than i had before. >> reporter: what do you think of dean? >> he's amazing. >> reporter: dean cayman inventor of the segway, that personal transportation device founded first. >> this seems like an obvious question. what is a robot? >> not only is what is a robot not an obvious question, i think it doesn't have an answer, any more than what is a computer? i think a robot is a system of some hardware and some software with the ability to communicate and then to interact with its environment, either autonomously or through i

mr. lobiondo: today we are considering the deauthorization of a portion of the navigation channel in washington, d.c. the washington daniel was authorized in 1935, this bill would be authorized -- deauthorize a small portion of the project that is no longer necessary to ensure safe commercial navigation along the northern end of the washington channel. the army corps of engineers or u.s. coast guard have no objection. and the federal navigation channel. the bill is noncontroversial. there are no costs associated with dee authorizing this portion of the washington -- deauthorizing this portion of the washington channel. i support passage and recommend my colleagues vote for and approve h.r. 5545. i reserve the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman reserves the balance of his time. the gentlelady from the district of columbia. ms. norton: madam speaker, 10 years ago this house approved a bill to revitalize the southeast waterfront. the southeast federal center is now being reinvigorated just down the street from the southwest waterfront. it is now called the yards. i very much appreciate that this house