mrs. reagan taking george bush because of these lingering issues being left unaddressed. this one day of what is just madness in detroit where they try to put together the copresidency which some of you would remember the gerald ford, the dream ticket where, you know, he had reagan running for president and they tried to get gerald ford it off serve -- to run as vice president. i always thought jim baker had the best line on the whole situation. because if you had reagan and -- reagan and ford elected as president and vice president, would you address ford as mr. president, mr. vice president or address him as

mr. george look me tell you something, my life is making hartsfeld the save people's lives. i make 1,000 bills a year. there are no inspectors on this line. i am the only inspector but before my criteria is is it good enough to go into my mother or my husband or my son and it is not, it doesn't leave the bench because i sign my name to every veldt and if it is detective the fda can come back and say what happened on that particular one. if one of those bells is defective someone is going to die. this is a life-and-death procedure. and she said i could never live with that. 99% met trulock is good enough but she said i could never live with that but she said when i go home at night you know what i'm thinking about? i am thinking about this 5,000 people in the world today who were alive because of the heart valves that i made. now does anyone in this room doubt that this woman is a leader? at the time she was making $18 an hour and now she's probably making figures 60% more than that but she will never be wealthy. she is wealth the inside because she knows she is making a diff

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mrs. reagan taking george bush because of these lingering that have been left unaddressed.there's this one day of what was madness in detroit where they try to put together the copresidency which some of you would remember with gerald ford the dream ticket where, you know, you had reagan running for president and they tried to get gerald ford to serve -- to run as vice president. i always thought jim baker a had the best line on the whole situation because if you had reagan -- reagan and ford elected as president and vice president would you address ford mr. president or mr. vice president or mr. vice president or mr. president. [laughter] >> where you had this whole day where there were negotiations and it was carried out on national television between walter cronkite and gerald ford and the copresidency and rumors being passed along from delegate to delegate to network. and it all made it on to network television and it recycled back and so you had a day of madness whether or not there would be a dream ticket or a copresidency. would they address the convention in, you kn

mr. berry from arkansas. georgeclyde kell distinguished himself as an exceptional professional baseball player over the course of 15 major league seasons and his later life, as has been mentioned, as a beloved broadcaster for the detroit tigers. mr. kell made his major league debut with the philadelphia athletics in 1943 playing in one game and became a consistent starter over the following two seasons. notably, mr. kell was traded to steroid tigers early in the 1946 season when he finished with a .322 batting average and thereby began establishing himself as a hall of fame caliber third baseman. over the course of his distinguished career, mr. kell was selected as an all-star 10 times, as has been mentioned, and hit at least .300 in nine major league seasons and led the third baseman in percentages seven times. mr. kell's finest season came in 1950 when he set a career high with 101 runs batted in and 114 runs scored. in addition, mr. kell holds the distinction of getting the closest batting race. he captured the b

mr. kingham. before george. -- the floor is yours. >> manufacturers of legitimate dietary supplement share the concern that you have for the distribution of body building products that contain anabolic steroids birdie at first that banks are well known and they should not be available for general use. it is important recognize that the vast majority of dietary supplements are in no way implicated by the matters being discussed at this hearing 31 to 150 million americans regularly use legitimate dietary supplements, and those products offer significant health benefits to those who use them. and this is the main focus of my presentation -- there is no need to amend existing legislation to deal with anabolic steroids. that the administration -- the agencies can make use of existing statutory powers. congress has twice amended the controlled substances act to give dea special power to regulate anabolic steroids the most recent in 2004 greatly expanded the list of substances subject to regulation under the statute t

mr. kingham. before george. -- the floor is yours. >> manufacturers of legitimate dietary supplement share the concern that you have for the distribution of body building products that contain anabolic steroids birdie at first that banks are well known and they should not be available for general use. it is important recognize that the vast majority of dietary supplements are in no way implicated by the matters being discussed at this hearing 31 to 150 million americans regularly use legitimate dietary supplements, and those products offer significant health benefits to those who use them. and this is the main focus of my presentation -- there is no need to amend existing legislation to deal with anabolic steroids. that the administration -- the agencies can make use of existing statutory powers. congress has twice amended the controlled substances act to give dea special power to regulate anabolic steroids the most recent in 2004 greatly expanded the list of substances subject to regulation under the statute t

george w. bush. that is 33 years. 33 years. and all of a sudden my colleagues want to change our policy on federal funding of abortion. mr. president, we shouldn't be making this type of sweeping policy change in this health care legislation. and the nelson amendment is necessary -- is a necessary addition to the bill in order to protect our current policy and the unborn. i understand that not everyone in this country agrees with my position on abortion. and, again, i know that this issue deeply divides americans on ethical, moral, and religious grounds. while i have said that i don't agree with abortion and believe roe v. wade should be overturned, the nelson amendment -- and this is really important -- does not prevent anyone from seeking an abortion, it does not overturn roe v. wade and it does not place any new restrictions on access to

george w. bush is the one in this room. mr. podhoretz's resumes is sprinkled liberally, if i make use that word, with assembly seeming contradictions. contradictions. he edited the first new left journal, commentary, deadbolt of the democratic party when it nominated the new left's first political water carrier, george mcgovern, for the presidency. he's an intellectual who thinks that intellectuals have ruined the world. most fundamentally he was a key director of a great exodus from liberalism at the democratic party during the 1970s, as leader of a moment that he can no dismissively at neoconservatism. now, even during his best days on the left, mr. podhoretz was never a very politically correct liberal. among the first works that brought him widespread public attention was an essay called my negro problem and ours, which described how a childhood spent on brooklyn's mean streets getting beaten up by black kids had shaped his political thinking. but when he left liberalism, mr. podhoretz really left it. he became one of a tin

mr. gershwin, may i please have a picture of george to hang in my room?"re are we going to mail the letter? we don't know where ira gershwin lives. we're from indianapolis, indiana. well, my aunt suggested we mail the letter in care of the society of composers, authors and publishers, i think one lincoln plaza, new york, n.y., something like that. and ask them to forward the letter. four months later, an eight and 1/2 envelope arrives in the mail. >> reporter: a correspondence ensued, culminating in an invitation to visit gershwin's home in los angeles and play the famous piano where the brothers composed some of their most famous works. ♪ glazier, sitting with us now in the "gershwin room" at the library of congress in washington, surrounded by mementos of their work, was then 12. >> he asked me to go over to play the piano, which is behind me. this is where they composed "they can't take that away from me," "a foggy day," "loved walked in," "shall we dance," "nice work if you can get it," "let's call the whole thing off", "love is here to stay," not to m

mr. mcconnell: it was george washington who was asked, general, what do you think the national is going to be like? he said, i think it is going to be like a saucer under the teacup and the tea is going to slosh out of the cup into the saucer and cool off. precisely the point my friend from new hampshire raises, which is the senate was a place viewed to be a body that ought to and correctly takes its time. you know, the house of representatives passed this massive restructuring of one-sixth of our economy on one day with three amendments. one day. not the way the senate operates. i can remember when our friends on the other side were in the minority. specifically, i remember the now assistant majority leader saying the senate is not the house. praising the procedures in the senate. and if ever there were a measure -- if ever in the history of america there were a measure that the american people expect us to take our time on and to get it right, it's this one. this massive 2,000-page effort to restructure one-sixth of the economy and have the government take over all of american health car

mr. isakson: well, like the senator from texas and the senator from south carolina and my senior senator from george george, we all represent -- the senator from georgia, we all represent the people that vote for us. and with regard to popularity and about the way people feel about this legislation, i'd like to ask unanimous consent to introduce into the record two letters, one from the medical association of georgia and one from a consolidated group of medical associations representing 92,000 physicians. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. isakson: and i want to tell what you these letters say. the first -- the first one is to me from president gary c. richter, the president of the georgia medical association -- medical association of georgia, who writes in great detail about the difficulties and the problems that they have with this legislation, beginning with its stonewall against tort reform by only putting in a demonstration project. and the senator from texas is aware of what tort reform can do because his state has made a great improvement in medical malpractice costs because of tor

george bush was in the white house -- we got a one-fingered salute. that was from the republican chairman of the house financial services. mr. sessions: would the gentleman yield? mr. perlmutter: no i yield three minutes to my friend from north carolina, mr. watt. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized for three minutes. mr. watt: i'm obviously a strong supporter of this legislation and was here on into the evening last night to express my support for it. but there's one aspect of it i want to point out that i have some discomfort with. that i would like to speak about. there's really nothing we can do about it, it's not going to cause me to vote against the bill, but i think we need to continue to work on it. the financial services version of the bill requires swap dealers and major participants to execute their standardized swaps on exchanges or swap execution platforms. these provisions we thought were very important to the bill. and the reason for that is 15 years ago, the only way to search for a swap transaction was to use the telephone. it was time consuming, expensive, and a company was never sure it ha

candidates carry themselves in winning elections right across the river in virginia, the george allen campaign, when mr allen made a statement about the person filming him that, a little bit of controversy and brought mr. webb up to a place where he was able to actually be competitive and win the united states senate race. final thing i would say is, let's, be thinking about who your candidate is, what message they can carry over the entirety of the campaign when you're picking issues. before i sort of move into the next section of looking at ads and then talking about the ads and how they relate to the issues in the campaign what it was we thought in putting this whole thing together and boiling campaign down to 30-second snippets we do, want to stop see if there are any questions, comments, thoughts, things i left out. things you've thought about. yes, ma'am? >> could you talk about the transition from a primary to general election when you're obviously focusing on different issues based on who your opponent is. is that going to change strategy at all? >> i think it should change strategy at very beg

mr. forbes as well as a lot of other republicans, and i have one question at this point before i go any further. where were you in the last eight yearsñr when george excuse me -- ran our country's tab up to over a trillion dollars? mr. obama has only been in office less than a year, but you want to accuse and hold him responsible for trillions of dollars, but your voice was not heard when mr. bush was in office. secondly, i have a problem with the republicans who talk against medical reform when we are the ones who pay the insurance for their insurance. they won't allow us to have the public option, but they are the public option. they are on the public option. again, you speak about 50 years ago in terms of what the budget was in comparison, comparing it to what it is today. we're going back 50 years. there is no comparison. please do not continue to use that. another question i have, you guys talk about mr. reagan all the time, and the good times that we have under mr. reagan. those times were not as great as you want us to believe that they were, and we also must factor in the fact that mr. reagan was in the throes of alzheimer's -- host: dee,

mr. enzi: it mentions some of the editorials and key points of editorials that i put in in my speech last night. and i would also ask that the, unanimous consent that the editorial by george will from "the washington post" the indispensable dispenser opens up be included in the record after my speech. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. enzi: it shows how medicare is left up in the air after the reid bill. i yield the floor and reserve the balance of our time. a senator: madam president? the presiding officer: the senator from south carolina. mr. demint: thank you, madam president. we've heard a lot about the unsustainable mountain of government debt, bureaucracy and spending the democrat majority intends to create in rushing through their health care bill through this chamber. we've also heard a lot about how much of this they inherited. we need to remember that this congress, both houses of congress have been controlled by the democrat party for three years now. the president doesn't write legislation or spend money. the congress does. the only thing the democrat majority has inherited is its own irresponsible spending. saturday's release of the final democrat

mr. forbes as well as a lot of other republicans, and i have one question at this point before i go any further. where were you in the last eight yearsñr when george ran -- excuse me -- ran our country's tab up to over a trillion dollars? mr. obama has only been in office less than a year, but you want to accuse and hold him responsible for trillions of dollars, but your voice was not heard when mr. bush was in office. secondly, i have a problem with the republicans who talk against medical reform when we are the ones who pay the insurance for their insurance. they won't allow us to have the public option, but they are the public option. they are on the public option. again, you speak about 50 years ago in terms of what the budget was in comparison, comparing it to what it is today. we're going back 50 years. there is no comparison. please do not continue to use that. another question i have, you guys talk about mr. reagan all the time, and the good times that we have under mr. reagan. those times were not as great as you want us to believe that they were, and we also must factor in the fact that mr. reagan was in the throes of alzheimer's -- host

mr. overstreet, you self publish this book. >> i had to self publish it because the idea came to me from watching gore debate george bush actually, previously. and i watched the debate and i would think george bush, really didn't do that you go or won that debate. he was very informative. so at the end of the debate i would wait for the postdebate coverage and sure enough they would say things like george bush was really funny. he did a good job on that debate. and i'm looking, going, did they just watch the same -- the media is telling people that you and i get calls of people saying i don't know, it looks like george bush won that debate. they're getting the information from the media. i got that idea then. but then once i saw obama at a convention give his speech back in 2004 i just thought, if you got a chance to run, i was to have the media try to parse what he says. the book just wrote itself. i mean, from the first democratic convention on. the first chapter in the book is called these people. because every network, i just kept hearing that theme, these people. so i said to myself it would be interesting to say if the rep

mr. forbes as well as a lot of other republicans, and i have one question at this point before i go any further. where were you in the last eight yearsñr when georgesh ran -- excuse me -- ran our country's tab up to over a trillion dollars? mr. obama has only been in office less than a year, but you want to accuse and hold him responsible for trillions of dollars, but your voice was not heard when mr. bush was in office. secondly, i have a problem with the republicans who talk against medical reform when we are the ones who pay the insurance for their insurance. they won't allow us to have the public option, but they are the public option. they are on the public option. again, you speak about 50 years ago in terms of what the budget was in comparison, comparing it to what it is today. we're going back 50 years. there is no comparison. please do not continue to use that. another question i have, you guys talk about mr. reagan all the time, and the good times that we have under mr. reagan. those times were not as great as you want us to believe that they were, and we also must factor in the fact that mr. reagan was in the throes of alzheimer's -- ho

george mason university. you are recognized for five minutes. >> mr. chairman and members of the committee, thank you for the invitation to testify today. according to the treasury service performance report through october, 2009, 920,000 charnel modification plans were offered to borrowers and 651,000 trial modifications have been made. given the fall off the cliff of housing prices of many states the surge of unemployment and evaporation of liquidity for banks and institutions in the second half of 2007i am frankly surprised at the servicing industry has moved so quickly to make the loan modifications in such large numbers. with 14.4% of the border was in foreclosure or delinquent on their mortgages this creates incredible challenge to the servicing industry. it is a challenge to the server serves to make loan modifications succeed when 70% of loan modifications that have already interest rate cuts have gone into default after 12 months. if the loan modification affordability calculation is done under hamp only use is firstly mortgages the failure of

mr. brown: twice during the revolutionary war, george washington decided to morristown, new jersey, as the place to station the continental army. there were both military and civilian reasons to choose this area. with the road coats in firm control of the new york city and the sea, it was essential that an inland route with the south be be kept opened. morristown was positioned just right to keep this link from being severed. morristown was also the right place because george washington had won over the local population to support the american cause. he won their support by insisting his troops respect the property of the people, even the property of tori -- torrey sympathizers. not only did washington give strict orders to keep the force from looting in sharp contrast to the british, but he also gave the new jersey militia as its major assignment the mission of protecting the property of new jersey's farmers from the for radging parties of king george's army. the leaders of the ma lish yeah in summerset -- somerset county, was a young 23-year-old colonel named frederick frelinghuysen, it

mr. carter: i believe you learn from history, in the clinton administration and the george w. bush administration, there were prospective cabinet members who it was discovered had a domestic working for them that was possibly without papers to be in the united states and it caused them not to get confirmed for that position because, why? they were violating the law that pertains to illegal aliens. the rule of law. those people, the labor secretary under the bush administration had a domestic from another country that didn't have appropriate papers and withdrew the name because the rule of law wasn't being followed in her household. inadvertently, i'm not saying he did this to be mean, vindictive, or cheat the american public. that's between him and the i.r.s. but i'm saying it happened, he admits it happened, yet for some reason, the rule of law is not an interference with him being secretary of treasury. yet two previous administrations, violating a rule of law has prevented people from becoming a cabinet member. i think we should be concerned as we look at the obama administ

george will where it says more talk, less support. the more we talk, the less support there is for this bill. so i'd ask unanimous consent -- the presiding officer: without objection. mr. enzi: and i would yield the floor and reserve the balance of the time. a senator: mr. president? the presiding officer: the senator from texas. mr. cornyn: mr. president, i want to thank the senator from wyoming for his important leadership. he's absolutely right. as much as we would all like to be home with our families, and especially at this time of year, this battle to inform the american people about what is about to happen to them is too important for us to simply give up or acquiesce in what the senator from iowa seems to think is inevitable. there is nothing inevitable about this. the only thing i think inevitable about it is in light of the unpopularity of what is being jammed down the throats of the american people, there will be a day of accounting. we don't know when that day of accounting will be. perhaps one of the first days of accounting will be election day 2010. i just don't understand how people who are elected to represent their constituents can try to impose some

george mason university. you are recognized for five minutes. >> mr.to testify today. according to the treasury service performance report through october, 2009, 920,000 charnel modification plans were offered to borrowers and 651,000 trial modifications have been made. given the fall off the cliff of housing prices of many states the surge of unemployment and evaporation of liquidity for banks and institutions in the second half of 2007i am frankly surprised at the servicing industry has moved so quickly to make the loan modifications in such large numbers. with 14.4% of the border was in foreclosure or delinquent on their mortgages this creates incredible challenge to the servicing industry. it is a challenge to the server serves to make loan modifications succeed when 70% of loan modifications that have already interest rate cuts have gone into default after 12 months. if the loan modification affordability calculation is done under hamp only use is firstly mortgages the failure of these modifications is not unanticipated. and as i mentioned in the

mr. forbes as well as a lot of other republicans, and i have one question at this point before i go any further. where were you in the last eight yearsñr when georgesh ran -- excuse me -- ran our country's tab up to over a trillion dollars? mr. obama has only been in office less than a year, but you want to accuse and hold him responsible for trillions of dollars, but your voice was not heard when mr. bush was in office. secondly, i have a problem with the republicans who talk against medical reform when we are the ones who pay the insurance for their insurance. they won't allow us to have the public option, but they are the public option. they are on the public option. again, you speak about 50 years ago in terms of what the budget was in comparison, comparing it to what it is today. we're going back 50 years. there is no comparison. please do not continue to use that. another question i have, you guys talk about mr. reagan all the time, and the good times that we have under mr. reagan. those times were not as great as you want us to believe that they were, and we also must factor in the fact that mr. reagan was in the throes of alzheimer's -- ho

mr. frank: i know some of my conservative colleagues want to emulate the people who revolted against georgeiii but there's another monarch who comes to mind when i think of them, when in the 19th century, when the royals were restored after a revolution, they have learned nothing. that's what they say. do we care about jobs? yes. ea we don't want, as their bill would do, to allow an a.i.g. to continue to do what it did. to allow subprime mortgages to continue. to allow executive pay to have that incentive. we want to prevent a job loss like the one president obama inherited. i thank my colleagues. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from colorado reserves the balance of his time. mr. dreier: i'm pleased to yield three minutes to the gentleman from columbus, indiana, mr. pence. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized for three minutes. mr. pence: i thank the gentleman for yielding and i ask unanimous consent to revise and extend my remarks. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. mr. pence: thank you, mr. speaker. i rise in opposition to the rule and the underlying bill,

mr. speaker. i just make a couple of observations. first of all i should remind everybody when bill clinton left office he left george bush with a record surplus. which president bush and his republicans in congress squandered. we ended up going from record surpluses to record deficits and debts. that's just a fact. i understand the frustration of my friends on the other side. their goal is to obstruct and make sure we get nothing done here. that's their -- i will not. that is what they think is a winning strategy. to basically get nothing done. they are failing in that because congress is moving and getting things done. we are beginning to turn this economy around. and we are responding to the needs of the american -- needs and desears of the american people. we are going to continue to do that. this bill with the inclusion of moneys for veterans, for our infrastructure, for health care, for job creation, and worker training during this difficult economy is vital and important and we are going to help the american people. at this time i yield three minutes to the gentleman from new york, mr. serrano. the speaker pro tempore: the gentl

mr. obama is doing. host: that is a sentiment we have heard from democrats looking back at what this president inherited and how president george is. he corrected it in terms of the search. we hope the next president will get us out in an orderly way. we forget the importance of iraq in the explosive situation. there may be dissertations written 20 years from now that say it was painful to live through it and it cost american lives and certainly iraqi laws but maybe it was worth it. i think we can afford to be generous. there is no reason not to be. we will see how history plays out for george w. bush. host: the former president has given a couple of speeches off camera. he announced the bush center in dallas. guest: i don't think he wants to stick his oar in this. i don't know why that is. host: his vice president has been very vocal. guest: that is a different story altogether. in the last part of his last term when he took over his own future, took over his own presidency, did better. what he did was where lyndon johnson made the same mistake and that was not naming his own cabinet immediately. that led him into some very ba

george and judd. >> i like that. >> and anyone else who is retiring. >> all our grandchildren, hopefully. >> amen. >> well, thank you, mrk you for holding this hearing. senator collins, senator carper, senator voinovich, thank you for your interest and your proactive approach to this issue. a lot of good statements and thoughts have already been given. i just would like to tie together a few. unfortunately, i am going to have to leave before i speak because we are about to confirm the chairman of the federal reserve and the banking committee and i want to make sure i make that vote. as you said, mr. chairman, this issue -- i view this issue as the most serious issue or nation confronts after the issue of a terrorist getting weapons of mass destruction. and possibly using it against us. because the implications of the numbers that senator conrad have -- has outlined here in a very stark way are pretty clear . essentially we will reduce the quality of life of our nation and our children and our children's children if we don't do something about the burden of the debt that we're passing on to them. we are already seeing si

george and judd. >> i like that. >> and anyone else who is retiring. >> all our grandchildren, hopefully. >> amen. >> well, thank you, mr. chairman. thank you for holding this hearing. senator collins, senator carper, senator voinovich, thank you for your interest and your proactive approach to this issue. a lot of good statements and thoughts have already been given. i just would like to tie together a few. unfortunately, i am going to have to leave before i speak because we are about to confirm the chairman of the federal reserve and the banking committee and i want to make sure i make that vote. as you said, mr. chairman, this issue -- i view this issue as the most serious issue or nation confronts after the issue of a terrorist getting weapons of mass destruction. and possibly using it against us. because the implications of the numbers that senator conrad have -- has outlined here in a very stark way are pretty clear . essentially we will reduce the quality of life of our nation and our children and our children's children if we don't do something about the burden of the debt that we're passing on to them. we are a

george w. bush struck in getting the medicare drug benefit, and it's a proven bonanza for the drug industry." and i will say as i recall that mr. reich was a critic at the time of that. and right or wrong, it was done and he was a critic of it. i give him credit for it. and he said -- "a continuation of that would be an even larger bonanza." he goes on to describe why he thinks it's a bonanza. well, right or wrong, as a matter of policy and so forth, it is no doubt that that is something that the big farmer would like, and he goes on to say this -- "in return, big pharma isn't just supporting universal health care. it's also spending lots of money on tv and radio advertising in support. sunday's "new york times" reports that big pharma has budgeted $150 million for tv ads promoting universal health insurance starting this august." and he puts in -- i'm quoting him. "that's more money than john mccain spent on tv advertising in last year's presidential campaign," close paren. "after having already spent a bundle through health advocacy groups and families u.s.a." well, i don't know what's happened. there is a memorandum in i be

george and judd. >> i like that. >> and anyone else who is retiring. >> all our grandchildren, hopefully. >> amen. >> well, thank you, mrhank you for holding this hearing. senator collins, senator carper, senator voinovich, thank you for your interest and your proactive approach to this issue. a lot of good statements and thoughts have already been given. i just would like to tie together a few. unfortunately, i am going to have to leave before i speak because we are about to confirm the chairman of the federal reserve and the banking committee and i want to make sure i make that vote. as you said, mr. chairman, this issue -- i view this issue as the most serious issue or nation confronts after the issue of a terrorist getting weapons of mass destruction. and possibly using it against us. because the implications of the numbers that senator conrad have -- has outlined here in a very stark way are pretty clear . essentially we will reduce the quality of life of our nation and our children and our children's children if we don't do something about the burden of the debt that we're passing on to them. we are already seeing

george w. bush, they had the support of leaders of the democrat and the republican party in the united states senate as well as here in the house of representatives, mr. speaker. and yes yet, and yet -- and yet, and yet, the american people rejected the idea of amnesty, whether it was in the nuances they tried to bring through or blanket amnesty. here we are again, mr. speaker. here we are again with a transformational issue that's slowly being brought forward before the american people. i'm here to say, let's pay attention my red flag is up. i've watched the transition of issues that have unfolded since -- actually, for year, but intensely unfolded since the beginning of the obama presidency. these issues unfoldled -- unfolded in this fashion. perhaps i'll go back and revisit them many more detail. the american people did go to the polls a year ago last november and sustained majorities and actually expanded majorities for democrats in the united states senate and the u.s. house of representatives and they elected a president who fit their mold as a party member, a democrat, a very liberal democrat. in fact, president obama, in the short time he ser

george kell post office. the speaker pro tempore: the question is, will the house suspend the rules and pass the bill. those in favor say aye. those opposed, no. >> mr. speaker. on that i ask for a recorded vote. the speaker pro tempore: a recorded vote is requested. those favoring a recorded vote will rise. a sufficient number having risen a recorded vote is ordered. members will record their votes by electronic device. this will be a five-minute vote. [captioning made possible by the national captioning institute, inc., in cooperation with the united states house of representatives. any use of the closed-captioned coverage of the house proceedings for political or commercial purposes is expressly prohibited by the u.s. house of representatives.] 2/3 being in the affirmative, the rules are suspended, the bill is passed, and without objection the motion to reconsider is laid upon the table. for what purpose does the gentleman from texas rise? >> mr. speaker, i ask unanimous consent to have my name removed from h.res. 648. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. pursuant to clause 8 of rule 20, the chair will postpone further proceedings today on

mr. gibbs said when he said that vice house staff don't testify before congress. that isn't true. i was on the banking committee in 1994 during the whitewater hearings when president clinton sent george stephanopoulos, maggie williams, hillary clinton's chief of staff, said lloyd cutler, president's council and also the previous council mark gearan, as press secretary to testify before congress and yet on this issue where we are talking about the security of the president of the united states, the person who made the decision is not going to be here. i think it is wrong, stonewalling. this was a bipartisan request, mr. chairman. a bipartisan request in the white house that prides itself on being open and on cooperation. but in this instance they are stonewalling. and for our committee to work with white house there has to be an element of trust. they preached that trust and i am doing all i can. i work with you to issue subpoenas to have them here but i also believe that we should subpoena desare rogers. this is and separation of powers issue. this is where there are people at the white house said sizing the president on health care or cap and a tree or afghanistan. we are talking ab

mr. now, you mentioned it -- the sixth-11 age group. this is a gap. i do not know what the right answer is. my son now likes to watch george lopez. that this is for older kids but he prefers to watch it. and the adult has the total control over what a kid watches and we practice that with one television in my family and one download lake. how do we get to, without mandatory requirements in regard to ensuring that there is good content for 6-11 year-old son. that is a huge gap. -- 6-011-year-old. my son is not interested in much of it so he jumps to the preteens doubt. at any moment, the boys and girls kids, he is like, change the channel. everything else he tries to watch. is it or gamete -- orgami? > >> zarghami. >> some of our kids are better able to use media than their teachers. one person told me that heard two-year-old was downloading apps. >> my 6-year-old is using quick books. he thinks that it's very fascinating until he gets as a bell. >> one thing -- one way to go about this is to look at a pipeline for schools. we have been talking to the department of education, and secretary duncan is a big advocate of trying to mer

mr. speaker, i want to join in my colleagues on the other side in rejecting the finding of a task force, all 16 members of whom were appointed by republican president george bush. young women's cancer is are generally more aggressive, diagnosed at a later stage, and lower survival rates. in tway the american cancer society estimated there would be 4,6060,000 -- 460,000 new cases of breast cancer in women. while no screening tool is perfect, we know that intervention through routine screening for breast cancer and using mammography can save lives of women at a time when medical science is still unable to prevent the disease. this resolution expresses the sense of the house of representatives regarding guidelines for breast cancer screening for women ages 40 to 49 and supports the importance of women's access to member moggraphy screening. i urge my colleagues on a bipartisan basis to support the resolution and commend representatives debbie wasserman schultz and lois capps for their leadership. i yield back. . the speaker pro tempore: the gentlewoman from tennessee? mrs. blackburn: i have an inquiry, is the gentlewoman prepared to close or does she have ad

george island. maybe some of you have been there, maybe you have been there, mr. williams, and then proceeded from there -- actually, we had to because of problems of aircraft and other technical issues that i won't go into, we had to go back to go further and deeper into the the continent. but it was mainly by air, and the only part that was terrestrial was on skis when i joined mike horn, the south african explorer, where we skied together for two days and camped out under, shared his tent with him, and we reached the south pole on skis. so that was the advent rouse part -- adventurous part of the trip. but -- oh, i can't remember the last part of the question. >> do you think more people should do it to get a sense of the environment? >> that's a double-edged sword. of course, if you know a place and you tend to want to protect it more and do more for it, but the other side of that is if too many people go there and this is coming under review by the different councils that take care of antarctica that there could be a quo that on the number of -- quota on the