mr. gibson. on your shelf here, inside mexico's criminal insurgency. >> the author has lived in mexico for ten years and has gone inside the drug insurgency in mexico and interviewed everybody involved from the gang leaders to the police and tells the inside story of what is happening in mexico. the extraordinary upheaval in their society. because he tells it from all angles you come to understand who is responsible. not just the gang but the government bears the responsibility as well and have a huge effect on the united states. from mexico and all over the united states. >> american crisis. >> bill fowler is a professor of history at northeastern. we were talking a few years ago and he wanted to write a book about his troops at newberg in 1783 after the war had ended but the war hadn't ended. i thought you should write a larger story about 1780 one-83. we think that the war ended in 1781 when cornwallis surrendered to george washington in yorktown. didn't end for two more years until the britis

mr. gibson can do a proper job? >> i will look very carefully at what my honorable friend says because he has been pursuing this issue with dogged determination over the years and quite right, too. what i would say, though, in relation to this, is we are dealing obviously -- this is an inquiry almost entirely concerned with the security and intelligence services. it's extremely difficult area to inquire into. it has to be done with great sensitivity. i don't want to do anything that puts our country at risk or anything that jeopardizes the work of our security and intelligence services so i see this as a package. there was the clearing of the guantanamo bay cases, vital so the security services could get on with their work. there was the new guidance. officers in the field knew what they should and should not do. there is this inquiry to try and clear up the problems of the past. yes, it's about uncovering any mistreatment or malpractice and that's not to be justified in any way. but it's also to enable our security

mr. gibson guitar. >> by these obama policies and i think we should have -- take a hill date tonight andtually is showing up bring a ceo, bring a small business entrepreneur who has been strangled, who has been stifled by these obama policies. >> million great ideas today. you mentioned big labor a moment ago and famously jimmy hoffa talked about, you know, getting out the vote and, you know, doing what to the tea party members. you got a column out right now talking about how the president protects the teamsters in particular. got a little time. can you explain that? >> yes, this is a bromance that goes way back. it's a bromance that's costing taxpayers and costing employers, costing rank and file workers and i urge everyone to go read it at michellemalkin.com because i lay out all the different ways that obama has protected the teamsters and big labor buddies from issuing special waivers and exempting them from the cadillac health exemption and to obama from the very beginning promising that he would call off the feds on teamsters corruption. jimmy hoffa is using this whole tea party m

mr. gibson can do a proper job? >> i will look carefully because he has been pursuing this wg dogged determination. what i would say in relation to this, this is an inquirey almost entirely concerned with the intelligence and security services and extremely difficult area to inquire into. i don't want to do anything that puts our country at risk or anything that jeopardizes our intelligence or security services. there was the clearing of the guantanamo bay cases by the security services. there was a new guidance so officers knew what they should or should not do and try to clear up the problems in the past. it's about uncovering any mistreatment or malpractice and that is not to be justified in any way but allow our security services in keeping us safe. >> if libya is take over responsibility for its own security so our services can now return to base and other duties, will you ensure that financially the training we can provide in building a new libyan army, air force and navy is competitive with other countries so

mr. gibson can do a proper job? carefully at what my honorable friend says because he has been pursuing this issue with dogged determination over the years and quite right, too. what i would say, though, in relation to this, is we are dealing obviously -- this is an inquiry almost entirely concerned with the security and intelligence services. it's extremely difficult area to inquire into. it has to be done with great sensitivity. i don't want to do anything that puts our country at risk or anything that jeopardizes the work of our security and intelligence services so i see this as a package. there was the clearing of the guantanamo bay cases, vital so the security services could get on with their work. there was the new guidance. officers in the field knew what they should and should not do. there is this inquiry to try and clear up the problems of the past. yes, it's about uncovering any mistreatment or malpractice and that's not to be justified in any way. but it's also to enable our security services to get on

because gibson bought wood overseas to make i go tars in america. seriously. well, seriously, mr. speaker, you were seriously -- well, not necessarily you. i know you can't write all your speeches, but you were done a disservice by your speech writers who could have done a little more research about the background of what was happening there. because the federal government was involved with enforcing the lacey act which actually makes it easier to protect american jobs and manufacture here at home. in 2008 i was pleased to be part of leading an effort, working with the bush administration in a bipartisan fashion to amend the lacey act which bars trade in illegally harvested species to include trade in illegally harvested timber. illegal logging threatens some of the world's richest and most vulnerable forests but more important it threatens tens of thousands of jobs right here in the united states. over 50 trade associations, nonprofits, unions representing the entire range of the u.s. economy signed statements supporting this amendment to the lacey act and its proper implementati