mr. dicks of washington move that the managers on the part of the house at the conference on the disagreeing votes of the two houses on the senate bill h r. 2112 be instructed to insist on one, the highest level of funding for the federal highway administration, emergency relief program account within the scope of conference. and only for activities consistent with the definition of disaster relief included in the budget control act of 2011 and two, the highest level of fund within the scope of conference for the community oriented policing services cops programful the speaker pro tempore: pursuant to clause 7 of rule 22, the gentleman from washington, mr. dicks, and the gentleman from kentucky, mr. rogers, each will control 30 minutes. the chair recognizes the gentleman from washington. mr. dicks: mr. speaker, i ask unanimous consent that all members may have five legislative days to revise and extend their remarks on the motion to instruct. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, so order

mr. dicks, each will control 30 minutes. the chair recognizes the gentleman from kentucky. mr. rogers: mr. speaker, i yield myself five minutes. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized for five minutes. mr. rogers: mr. speaker, i rise today to present the conference report on h.r. -- the fiscal year 2012 consolidated and further continuing appropriations act. the house passed h.r. 2012, the bill making appropriations for the departments of agriculture, rural development, food and drug administration, and related agencies on june 16. the bill has since been amended to include the commerce, justice, science, and the transportation, h.u.d. appropriations bills, as well as a continuing resolution to keep the rest of the government operating until december 16. with the help of our ranking member, norm dicks, we successfully negotiated with our senate counterparts to craft this agreement. which is the first appropriations conference report to hit this floor since 2009. this report is the

mr. dicks: will the gentleman yield? mr. rogers: i yield. mr. dicks: i want to commend the chairman for his commitment to return to regular order. i wish we could have done all 12 bill bus we at least got six of them done and i want to thank him and his staff and the staff of the minority for working together in a collegial way. i think it's important for the american people to know that the appropriations committee here is working together on a bipartisan basis. now we may have differences on economic theory and everything else but we are committed to getting these bills passed and bringing as many as we can to the floor. i hope next year we can start a little earlier and get the budget resolution in and move these bills. i would love to see us, in the second session of this congress, get all 12 bills to the floor where members could offer their amendments. i think that still should be our goal and objective. mr. rogers: i thank the wrelt for those words. he is exactly right. he and i started out this year both new to our job on the committee, b

complaint to uncover where the contamination originated but in two thousand and one the case was dropped mr dick who was then contacted by a group of american farmers to join them in a class action lawsuit against monsanto dupont dow chemical astra zeneca and novartis international accusing them of engaging in antitrust activities and failure to test for human health and environmental safety coincidentally the judge was rodney simple the same judge as in mr rolfs case the case was ruled in favor of the chemical companies. raising. the gene in my field was a patient and monsanto gene which was sold to me in seeds by as a girl which is a monsanto subsidiary i agreed to take part in a class action lawsuit in the united states so in two thousand i went to washington d.c. to testify to answer the questions asked by monsanto's lawyers all day they asked questions such as do you know your neighbors names i much tax do you pay and where nothing to do with g.m. seeds. i tended to meetings at the ministry of agriculture recently during which they tried to impose on us a bill for a ministerial order for co

thank you. >> thank you, mr. dicks, and what a great colleague he is to work with. senator cochrin. >> mr. chairman, thank you very much. it's a pleasure to join you and other distinguishes members from both sides on this committee. it's an honor to serve with all of you and a pleasure to have worked closely with many of you over the years. i'm hopeful we can, you know, work together in a fashion, but careful and thoughtfully bring these bills together and produce a result that reflect credit on our institutions of the house and senate, and at the same time, carry out the responsibilities that our subcommittees have for identifying the funding levels and the way in which our agencies' programs are administered. i thank you, all, for allowing us to get to this point today. a lot of hard work is already gone before us in the form of hearings and other deliberations, meetings with administration officials, a lot of work, and i think we can, you know, be appreciative of the thoughtful leadership that both committees have. thank you, mr. chairman. >> thank you, senator. d

. >> here now to analyze the political implications of this the purveyor of dick morris.com mr. morris. look, these guys say if you want financey and freddie to be turned around you have to pay the money to the head guys because you are not going to get the talent to do it unless you pay them competitive salaries to what they could make at wall street or whatever. that's their argument. i want everybody to know what their argument is get rid of fannie and freddie. it doesn't work. we can't afford it? >> come on. 1.3 million in bonuses to each of 10 people. that's the average. 13 million in bonuses to 10 employees. is far more than competitive. >> bill: the big salaries are at the top. one guy is making six. the other is making 5. >> you have to realize that fannie mae and freddie mac have always been a factory for producing these huge bonuses. franklin reigns, the former president of bill clinton's budget director made $90 million in bonuses over six years. jim johnson who was mondale's campaign manager made millions over this period of time. jamie gore lick who was on the 9/11

connecticut the author of the new children's book dubs goes to washington which you can get on dick morris.com. mr. morris. now, in the beginning of this whole debate cycle and everything like that, it was fluid. all right. so, then you have rick perry come in. he rocketed to the top, and then you had herman cain, he took perry's place and now he is going down and then you have newt gingrich. when are things going to start to stabilize so we know who the real contenders are? >> probably after iowa. this is still an unstable situation. because your two frontrunners, gingrich and romney both have great difficulty getting the votes of tea party people and evangelicals. romney because of his religion and his position on health care and gingrich because of some of the stuff he has done on global warming and climate change and the personal stuff. and the -- therefore, the tea party evangelicals who are a very large portion of the vote haven't voted yet. >> bill: in iowa, you are talking about in iowa? >> well, all over the country. iowa more than new hampshire, but all over the place. and the thing is t

joining us now from stanford, connecticut is fox news contributor and the purveyor of dick morris.com, mr. morris, who is also the author of the new children's book "dubbs goes to washington." here we go, we have this cain controversy yesterday that bubbled over. we had the big press conference. don't have to dwell on the details. a lot of other folks are doing that nevertheless, how big a distraction from the conservative pro-growth message and highlighting of obama's failings has this been so far? >> oh, i think it's been huge. i think it's dominated the presidential race in the last two weeks. i think it's cost the republic party momentum, which is what i think the purveyors, to use your phrase of this scandal, wanted it to do. we have to understand that this is is largely a democratic setup. the woman who is on television the other night lives in the same building with dave axelrod, obama's media person. shepard around the press conference by gloria allred a democratic operative. one of the women who came to the so-called settlement works in the obama administration communications job

mr. mccullough, this is dick wingfield. i want to think you for bringing history alive to the american people and to me. i have every one of your books in your book case i'm looking at right now. i have to admit i haven't read any of them from cover to cover but once the most interesting things i've ever read that you have written is an essay in a book a collection of books what if when you describe washington's crossing not the delaware but the east river for the most important defense in the history of our country very few of us know anything about and should know more about. they should be a monument in this $250 million park around the east river. i've written you a letter about that which i've never heard back from you on. [laughter] i spent, ironically i spent friday afternoon looking through your book at barnes and noble looking to see whether among the things that you've discovered in paris that was brought back to the united states was our engineering education. i notice i'm a graduate of one of the finest universi

group of protestors called for arrest of former vice president dick cheney in san francisco today, gathering outside of the palace where mr. cheney gave a key note speech. they dressed in jail uniforms and sent a letter to san francisco police demanding arest. the protestors say authorities have an obligation to arrest and prosecute anyone who is complicit in torture or inhuman treatment. >> more still to come at 5:00. pressure is on penn state's football coach to step down after a child sex scandal rocks the program. >> big changes in store for california kindergarteners meaning some kids will have to repeat this grade level. >> and chilly by night. mild by day. but this pattern will not stay. i'll let you know when you'll need umbrellas again, coming up. >> then, from michael finney, credit you may have coming for a 99 cent i tunes gift card. >> closed captioning brought to you by mancini sleepworld. >>> a police officer shot and wounded a man police say was trying to break into his home, police say they're looking for a second man working with him. it occurred just before noon. we talked to a neighbor who told us two m

. >> among the mourners senator dick durbin who plans to show the family a cellphone picture of mr. and mrs. daly from last st. patrick's day. >> those to maggie and rich are just beaming with so much happiness. >> from emanuel and his wife also coming to pay their respects along with the cook county board president commissioner john daly and a host of aldermen and city officials. >> she brought class culture in the world promise to chicago that the mayor himself couldn't have done without her the cultural center of city locations miss dailey is credited with saving this historic building. as people filed past her casket of fliers stance in the background for a lasting legacy many say will be her commitment to the city's children nature and the arts but above all her devotion to her family and her husband chicago's longest serving mayor. she always cared about him and she cared about her city. there's about one hour left for this visitation, the funeral mass will be tomorrow morning at 1030 at old st. pat's church, that will also be open to the public and instead of sending flowers

dick cheney. as with many stories about mr. cheney, the details are murky. as politico put it today "it's not clear why cheney's there this week or what he plans to talk about. to several senators, cheney's visit was a complete surprise." consider also it was surprising to me. surprising development number three today, you may remember a reporter named spencer ackerman who reports at the danger room site at wire.com, spencer reported recently on our air that a self-proclaimed terrorism expert from the conspiratorial ragged edge of the far right wing had been hired by the fbi to train fbi officers about terrorism. using charts and graphs he argued things like this genius hypothesis. remember this? this is the guy who told the fbi using this chart that over time since the founding of jude ism, christianity and islam, over time the more paised and devoted you were, the less prone you were to violence but for muslims, being paised made you stay violent all the time. he scientifically did this, it's on a graph. that man got paid for that, his tax dollars paid for

mr. mccullough, this is dick wingfield. i want to think you for bringing history alive to the american people and to me. i have every one of your books in your book case i'm looking at right now. i have to admit i haven't read any of them from cover to cover but once the most interesting things i've ever read that you have written is an essay in a book a collection of books what if when you describe washington's crossing not the delaware but the east river for the most important defense in the history of our country very few of us know anything about and should know more about. they should be a monument in this $250 million park around the east river. i've written you a letter about that which i've never heard back from you on. [laughter] i spent, ironically i spent friday afternoon looking through your book at barnes and noble looking to see whether among the things that you've discovered in paris that was brought back to the united states was our engineering education. i notice i'm a graduate of one of the finest universi

mr. chairman. secretary, dick northeast obama campaign donor contact your ascii to take action related to the solyndra loan guarantee or to the restructuring of that loan? >> no. >> you are under oath. >> yes. >> are you up personally aware of any contact by any obama campaign donor to any employee of the department of energy asking them to take any action related to the loan guarantee or to the restructuring? >> i am not aware of any. >> have you asked your folks, your employees? >> no one has said that that something like this occurred. they in fact said that to the best of their knowledge it has not occurred. >> did anyone from the white house ever contact you to take any action on the solyndra loan guarantee or restructuring for any reason other than the actual financial analysis? >> no. >> are you aware of any contact from the white house to anybody in the doe, asking them to take unusual action relating to the loan guarantee or restructuring? >> no communication of the white house to the department of energy

mr. herman cain, the preses has a narrow margin, 48 to 46%. no matter what the numbers are tonight, much can change and much can change so fast. dickris is here to talk about that. nice to see you, dick. >> good to be here with you, greta. >> greta: explain it to me. i've been watching these numbers and talking to you for the past couple weeks about this. how come governor romney's numbers don't budge up or down? >> the glass is half full or half empty. the half full is he has strong, loyal support from a quarter of the vote. the half empty is they seem to be willing to vote for anybody, the other a three-quarters. they say their for daniel and bachmann and now they're for cain. they're running out of alternatives. i think the message for romney is that he's got to reach outside of that base. he already has the establishment. he has the club for growth and chamber of commerce and that stuff, but he's gotta reach out for the tea party and the evangelicals. and i think that he has played a very limited, cautious, low profile race waiting for everyone else to either drop out or mess up. he's got to get past that and wait for everybody

mr. president, it's because of your failed leadership to create the opportunity and unleash the ingenuity that is so great in our country both past and could be present and future but for your leadership. megyn: dick, the last time he said something like this, it led to a fair amount of outrage in conservative circles including this retort from conservative limbaugh. listen to this. >> people in this country have their imagination. the people in this country still have their dreams and their willingness to do things. you stand in the way. the federal government stands in the way. mountainous regulations. we did build the golden gate bridge, the bay bridge, the hoover dam and the empire state build anything ten years, and we did it in the middle of the great depression. you couldn't do it today. megyn: what do you do you think? >> well, i think rush needs to remember a lot of the things he just mentioned were built using government money, stimulus programs, just the kind of programs that he opposes and brad opposes. and brad, by the way, you know, this president is trying to get us out of the ditch that your president -- >> oh, come on, stop blaming bush. >> no, no, no, come on. now, come on. >> th

mr. speaker to make it a wholehearted welcome to the announcement concerning the crossing would make a big difference as will help small business by dick can i make a plea to the chancellor to look further at small business exit the finance whether it will be expanded, possibly floating the business growth fund? >> i'm very happy to look at ideas to enhance the business growth fund, which, of course, is operated by the banks, principally but it is there a commitment to investing in small companies. we've already announced the investment scheme which i think will help investments in companies. and i'm glad he support the commitment we made for the new crossing. >> the chancellor has proclaimed support for business and jobs in the present climate. he also puts out a premium, innovation, productivity and exports. do his plans, therefore, extend to existing -- assisting those firms who are -- from your some companies in areas like medical devices, life sciences and sustainable technologies? they are finding this compromise, unreliability of payments also damaged because of austerity measures in those countries. >> well, i'm not sure i agre

mr. speaker, if you were a vice president of the united states -- [applause] [laughter] -- what would you want to the president to assign you to do first? [applause] [laughter] >> having studied my good friend of dickcheney, i would not to go hunting. >> i hope you enjoyed it tonight to talk debate. let's give our candidates a round of -- i hope you enjoyed the debate tonight. let's give our candidates in a rut of applause. thank you for showing up tonight. let's hope we do this again wilson. >> we would like to thank our moderators. stephen king from iowa. [applause] as long with our two presidential candidates newt gingrich and herman cain. thank you for attending the texas patriots political action committee. [applause] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2011] [captioning performed by national captioning institute] >> you can watch this debate again with republican presidential candidates herman cain and nicking rich at 10:30 p.m. eastern and on c-span not work. -- cpsan.org. -- c-span.org. >> this has been completed. all it needs is a signature on there. this is the filing fee and. this is a slogan -- we do this every four years. >> you have a great secretary of state. you have