mr. dingell: mr. speaker, i ask unanimous consent to revise and extend my remarks. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, so ordered. mr. dingell: mr. speaker, i begin by expressing great respect and affection for my dear friend from texas. unfortunately he's wrong. here the democrats came in and found that the republicans had left them two wars, a depression and $1.3 trillion deficit. and we found that when mr. bush came in he converted a $2 trillion surpruss -- surplus to a $7 trillion deficit. now i was a young boy when my dad was here and passed last april and i want to say this legislation does not re-institute steegle. it does much that had to be done by the democrats when they were dealing with the hoover depression which was very much like this one and was caused by this same good-hearted folks up in new york. gambling with deposser tos' money guaranteed by the federal government. when they repealed the glass steel act, the result was that all of a sudden we had to rush in and bailout cor

mr. dingell is recognized for five is. >> thank you mr. chairman. and thank you for attending today's hearing on h.r. 3125. three of spectrum inventory act. in h.r. 3019, the special relocation improvement act of 2009. had these two bills of which i'm original cosponsor will aid the federal administration allocations by german commodity of increasing importance especially given recent advances in mobile broadband services. i call -- i'm concerned about the allocation, about the future and also about what we have done so far and whether it has contributed to the proper use of the spectrum for the future and for all our people. these two pieces of legislation is are complementary to the federal communications commission the duty to present to the congress and national broadband plan as mandated under the american investment and recovery act. to be certain the success of the development of such a plan and implementation of recommendations will be facilitated in no means agree by a clearer and better understanding of the spectrum available for use and b

mr. dingell, is recognized for five minutes. >> thank you, mr. chairman.nk you for convening today's hearing and h.r.-3125, the radio spectrum inventory act. and h r-3019, the spectrum relocation improvement act of 2009. these two bills, which i may refer original cosponsor, will aid the reallocation of spectrum, a commodity of increasing importance, given recent advances in mobile broadband services. like all the rest of us, i am concerned about the allocation, about the future, and also about what we have done so far and whether it has contributed to the proper usage of spectrum for the future and for all of our people. these two pieces of legislation, so complementary to the federal communication commission, duty to represent the congress a national broadband plan as mandated under the american investment and recovery act. to be certain, the success and development of such a plan and the implementation of its recommendations will be facilitated in no mean degree by the clear and better understanding of the spectrum available for use and a better to more

mr. chairman. >> thank you, chairman dingell. mr. green? >> thank you, mr. chairman. i apologize for being in and out, but we have both secretary gates, secretary clinton and the joint chiefs of staff and the foreign affairs talking about afghanistan. so although this is such an important issue for the district i represent, i represent a majority of hispanic district is also federally medically underserved area. and we face many, many issues and becomes encouraged to encourage women to seek primary and preventive care services. we rely on our parish county hospital district, our health clinics to provide the services of screen for our constituents. i worry that the revised recommendation will discourage the safety net providers from educating the screening for breast cancer in these underserved populations. i often say what one of the premier medical centers in the world, including the cancer center located in our backyard. but my constituents can see the medical center. it's just hard for them to get it because they are substantially uninjured. and important, unfortu

mr. chairman. >> thank you chairman dingell. we have five votes. i would say about an hour but when they are done we will come back in reconvene. the committee stands in recess. >> the subcommittee will come to order. mr. gingrey. >> mr. chairman, thank you. my first question is-- about having ob/gyn currently on the task force. i wanted to specifically ask you how many ob/gyn oncologist server on the task force? [inaudible] >> let me read to you from a testimony we will hear from the second panel. in fact the president of the national breast cancer coalition framed this note, attorney fran visco which she states in her testimony, we want to know that the attacks against the makeup of the task force are misplaced. screening is an issue of primary care. it is a health intervention for a healthy population. the experts in this area, those with the scientific training and objectivity to do the necessary analyses are primary care health professionals and methodologist, such as epidemiologists and biostatisticians. notch radiologists or medical oncologis

mr. chairman. thank you. >> thank you, chairman dingell. we have five votes. uld say about an hour, but when they are done we'll come back and reconvene. the committee stands in recess. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] >> the committee will reconvene. >> mr. chairman, thank you. [inaudible] >> i wanted to specifically ask you, how many serve as a member of task force. [inaudible] >> let me read to you from testimony. in fact, she states in her testimony we want to know that the attacks against the makeup of the task force are misplaced. screening is an issue of primary care. it is a health and a vision for a healthy population. the experts in this area, those with a scientific training and objectivity to do the necessary analyses are primary care health professionals, and methodologists, epidemiologist, and biostatisticians. not radiologists or medical oncologists. and i'm quoting directly from her, her statement. what is your opinion on that? >> the task force expertise in this area was sufficient to weigh the evidence that led to his recomm

mr. chairman. thank you. >> thank you, chairman dingell. we have five votes. i would say about an hour, but when they are done we will come back in reconvene. the committee stands in recess. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] >> so this hearing taking a break now. members going on the house floor, and hear on c-span2 we will be returning to the senate momentarily. senators expected back falling about an hour-long recess to continue the health care debate. elsewhere on the c-span networks this afternoon on c-span3, the house foreign affairs to be looking to president obama's afghanistan strategy. committee members will hear from secretary of state hillary clinton, defense secretary robert gates and joint chiefs chairman admiral mike mullen. live coverage at 1:30 p.m. eastern. now live back to the u.s. senate on c-span2. on monday the congressional budget office sent a letter to the senator from indiana, senator bayh, that provides a very comprehensive analysis of -- a comprehensive analysis of