mr. garamendi. the other point you are making about student loans and capping of interest rates, how they'll create jobs, that's absolutely right. when they are freed up not to pay these high interest rates, it will create jobs. some people will say they signed the contract with the high interest rate on there, but this is the point, those student loans that our government issues to students and to their parents to provide our students with a way to get their education when they can't afford to pay for that education, that's not just a help to get that student a degree, those loans are to help our country become stronger. the more americans that we have who are properly trained and can contribute to our country to their full potential and able to create more jobs by building the best products, by providing the best services and developing the best technology that can be sold worldwide that helps our entire economy. so these loans are to strengthen our entire national economy, it's not just for the b

mr. garamendi, do you have questions? >> i have a couple, if i could. could you just briefly summarize why the family believes president eisenhower would have rejected this design? >> well, first of all, he was a very modest man. he would have expected something of far less dramatic, far less -- he would have wanted something on a smaller scale, i believe. this is an enormous thing. i did mention the metal scrims, which i think are really at the heart of the difficulty we have here. it was only until relatively recently the people began to focus on the size of these things. these metal mesh curtains are actually 80 feet high. this is theize of an eight-story office building. and everyone visiting the memorial will be dwarfed by these edifices. i don't think he would understand it, and i don't think that it would appeal to him because he was well-known not to have much time for modern art. and as a matter of fact, my sister anne and i could tell you a funny story about riding along the gettysburg countryside with him, both on different occasions with gra

mr. garamendi: thank you, madam speaker. our good friend from the state of utah posed the question, what do the american people want? i suppose that most of us would like to hunt on public land and fish and the underlying bill does that. unfortunately tacked on to that bill should this rule actually become -- actually pass the house will be something that i am sure the american people do not want an that is that the trucks of this current debate, debate here is really about what will be added to the hunting and fishing legislation. let's consider for a moment exactly what it is. it is the end of medicare as we know it. that's a program as we are surely here on the floor at this moment terminate medicare. it's also a bill that will immediately double the interest rate on every student loan taken out here in the united states. it's also a bill that will put 200,000 students out of school, out of college because the pell grants are reduced. it's also a bill that will take $80 billion a year out of medicaid, some 63% of which go

mr. garamendi: a couple that had reached the age of 94 and 92 were celebrating not only the gentle -- the gentlelady's birthday but also their 70th year of marriage and when i told people where i had been, they go, you've got to be kidding? 70 years? no, they were not married as teenagers but they were married in their 20's, they happen to be my aunt and uncle and i love those genes, so congratulations to ann and jack murphy and the day of ann's 90th barte diand their -- and their 70th anniversary. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from michigan seek recognition? >> to address the house for one minute and revise and extend my remarks. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. >> tomorrow is tax day and as americans work to file their taxes by midnight tomorrow, they're reminded of how broken our tax system, how cumbersome it has become, and how it has not kept up with our economy. there are too many in washington who focus on raising taxes. the united states became the number one in the world for having the highest tax rate. this is something we should not be