mr. gordon: mr. chairman, i yield a minute and a half to my friend from kentucky, mr. larsen. the chair: the gentleman from connecticut is recognized for a minute and a half. mr. larsen: thank you, mr. speaker, and thank you, mr. chairman. i rise in strong support of h.r. 3246, the advanced vehicle technology act and want to especially applaud congressman peters and chairman gordon who i've had the honor to serve with on the science committee and the distinguished ranking member, mr. hall, for his continued and outstanding commitment to signs and -- science and technology and innovation. that's what moves the nation forward. it's where his political career has been invested in making sure that we continue to see america be the preeminent military, social, cultural and economic leader in the world and largely because of the embrace of technology and innovation like fuel cell technology. we know, for example, that every time we replace a gasoline-powered bus with a fuel cell bus it's equal to removing

mr. gordon: mr. chairman, i yield myself such time as i may consume. and also point out that the house is not in order. the chair: the gentleman will be recognized. the committee will be in order. mr. gordon: h.r. 3246, the advanced vehicle technology act of 2009, is authored by the gentleman from michigan, mr. gary peters, and co-sponsored by our colleague from illinois, miss judy biggert. this legislation provides a comprehensive authorization for long-term sustained funding of public-private vehicle research, development, demonstration, and commercial application activities in the department of energy vehicle technologies program. from passenger cars to heavy duty long haul trucks, we are all aware of the economic, environmental, and strategic importance of diverse filing our nation's vehicle sector through the innovation in cleaner and more effective technologies. however, the current economic situation has made it all the more difficult for companies to invest in research and development and tec

mr. gordon -- senator cornyn. >> i strongly support this amendment. i remember sitting at the dais when president obama was inaugurated and gave his inaugural speech when he talked about the importance of transparency in government. he said transparency breeds accountability and build public confidence, and i think this committee has done a good job under your leadership putting the amendments that have been filed on the web site on saturday -- i have got to emails. i have gotten tweets. i have got all sorts of things on things i have filed and other people have filed, and i would suggest that this legislation has captured the imagination and certainly the attention of the american people, and there are a lot of people across america who are reading these bills. they read the house bill. they read the house committee bill, and they are intensely interested in what this committee is doing, and i think for a bill most of which will not be implemented until 2013, it is not an inconvenience. it is not, i think, something we ought to overlook the opportuni

mr. gordon heddell, serves as inspector general for the department of defense. from 2001 to 2090 served as inspector general at the department of labor. prior to the position he served in the united states secret service for 29 years where he worked as the assistant director leading the secret services inspection in internal affairs programs worldwide. mr. adel holds a ba from the university of missouri and an m.a. of the university of illinois. mr. donald gambatesa serves as inspector general of united states agency for international development and concurrently held his position and the united states african development foundation and the inter-american foundation. prior to this post, mr. gambatesa served as the deputy director of the united states marshal service. he previously spent 24 years as a special agent in the united states secret service and he holds a ba from john carroll university. ambassador geisel serves as the acting inspector general for the department of state from 2022003 he served as the head of delegation for negotiations for the people's

mr. gordon felt, president of families of flight 93.0 brave souls, our course of events may have veered off in another path. madam speaker, families and friends, guests, it's truly an honor to stand before you today representing the 40 crew and passengers of flight 93. forever held in the hearts of families and loved ones it is a humbling experience beyond compare. it could have been any one of us on the air ore here, i think back to those days following 9/11, i am immediately reminded at the moment of time when the actions of our family members becamee+ítangible. while exiting the white house while spending time with president obama, our families were shown grace by the capitol. it was at that moment through a fog of my loss that i sensed the broad implications of the efforts taken by our loved one. it is with great pride that i remember those actions of our loved ones. many lives on the ground here in washington as well as this great symbol of our democracy could have been loss furthering those who question the resolve of the american

mr. gordon heddell serves as inspector general for the department of defense. as the inspector general at the department's general labour. he served in the united states a good service for 29 years, where he worked as assistant director leading secret service inspection in internal affairs programs worldwide. mr. heddell holds a b.a. from the university of missouri and an m.a. from the university of illinois. mr. donald gambatesea served as the deputy director of the united states marshal service. he previously spent 24 years as a special agent in the united states secret service, and he holds a b.a. from john carroll university. ambassador harold geisel serves as acting inspector general for the department of state. from 2002 to 2003, he served as head of delegation but negotiations with the people's republic of china on the construction of a new embassy. prior to serving as those, he served more than 25 years in united states foreign service. he holds a b.a. from johns hopkins university and an m.s. from the university of virginia. ms. jacquelyn williams as b

french president nicolas sarkozy and british prime minister gordon brown. >> mr. sarkozy and mr.brown are not that important to us. what they say is not really very credible in our minds. >> at one point, he also said that iran does not want a nuclear weapon. he claimed that countries that pursue nuclear weapons are, quote, "retarded," and, shep, that is the word actually used. shepard: eric shawn, thank you. remember that big tent that muammar qaddafi brought to new york? he likes to pitch a tent everywhere he goes, and crews set one up in some property owned by donald trump, and the officials in the talent and the residence where none too pleased, down it came on wednesday -- the residents were none too pleased, and they went to court, and today, the tent came down for apparently the last time. they gave a hero's welcome to the lockerbie bomber, and that was the bombing of flight pan am 103. we are told that muammar qaddafi has been steady at the libyan mission here in manhattan and is expected to leave the country entirely this evening. his next stop? venezuela. hugo chavez sa

mr. gordon brown. >> good morning.ere to announce that yesterday in vienna the united states, the united kingdom, and france presented detailed evidence to the iaea demonstrating the islamic republic of iran has been building a covert uranium enrichment facility for several years. earlier this week, the iranian government presented a letter to the iaea that made reference to the facility years after they started construction. the existence of this facility under scores their continuing unwillingness to meet the obligations under security council resolutions and i a e a requirements. we expect the iaea to immediately investigate the disturbing information and report to the board of governors. iran's decision to build yet another nuclear facility without notifying the iaea represents a direct challenge to the basic compact at the center of the nonproliferation regime. the rules are clear. all nations have a right to peaceful nuclear energy. those nations with nuclear weapons must move toward disarmament. those nations wi

mr. gordon felt, the president of families of flight 93. [applause] >> thank you.not for the courage of 40 brave souls, our course of human events may have veered off in a far more radical path in the ensuing years since 9/11. madam speaker, house and senate leadership, families, friends, and guess it is truly an honor to stand before you today representing the 40 crew and passengers of united flight 93. to be able to speak for those ave souls, forever held in the family's hearts and loved ones and held collectively by our nation and freedom loving peoples of the world as he rose is a humbling experience beyond compare. it could have been a one of us that morning in the air or on the ground here. as they think back on those days following/11, i immediately and reminded of the moment in time when the magnitude of the actions of our family members became painfully tangible. while exiting the white house following time spent with president bush our families were literally braced by the outpouring of gratitude from the staffers here in washington during the events of 9

confidencboost, after mohs of depreing opinion lls and divisions abt gordon brown's leadership so, beforeaking to the stage mself, mrbrown deploy one of his best assets -- his wife, rah, for a quk character testimony. >> i know he's t a saint. he's messy, he' nsy, he gets up at a terriblehour, but i know that he wak up every morning and goes to bed every evening thinking about e ings that matter. i know he loves our count and i -- [applause] >> then iwas the prime minist's turn to pitch his case. he argues his party was on t right side of th argument when theconomic crisis h last year. he sd he acted quickly and decively to helpvert another greatepression. mr. brown did acknowledge difficul choes had to b made to get t public's nances back in sape. >> when martsalter and banks fail, it's the jobs and the homes and the security of the squeezed mt l that are hit the hardest. it's thehard-pressed, ha-working majority, te person with the trade, the small businesswner, the self mployed, the cssroom assistan, theorker on the shop, e builder on this site. >> finally, he ended wita rallying cry to his party not to submit to

gordon brown's leadership. so, before taking to the stage himself, mr. brown deployed one of his best assets -- his wife, sarah, for a quick character testimony. >> i know he's not a saint. he's messy, he's noisy, he gets up at a know that he wakes up every morning and goes to bed every evening thinking about the things that matter. i know he loves our country and i -- [applause] >> then it was the prime minister's turn to pitch his case. he argues his party was on the right side of the argument when the economic crisis hit last year. he said he acted quickly and decisively to help avert another great depression. mr. brown did acknowledge difficult choices had to be made to get the public's finances back in shape. >> when markets falter and banks fail, it's the jobs and the homes and the security of the squeezed mitt l that are hit the hardest. it's the hard-pressed, hard-working majority, the person with the trade, the small business owner, the self aemployed, the classroom assistants, the worker on the shop, the builder on this site. >> finally, he end

gordon brown plans to flesh out the details of possible cuts to the national fleet of nuclear submarines. then he joins mr. obama to chair an international support group for pakistan. the main event will take place in this room, security council discussions on a resolution against nuclear weapons, an attempt to strengthen the non- proliferation regime, overshadowed by concern about iran's nuclear ambitions. >> if they are relying on the passive response of the international community in order to pursue military nuclear programs, they are making a tragic mistake. >> world powers are preparing for negotiations with tehran, with some advocating tougher sanctions if it fails. russia appeared to move closer to backing that option, tempering its opposition after talks with barack obama, but cautiously. >> sanctions -- in some cases, sanctions are inevitable. >> iran's president did not mention the nuclear program to the speech -- in his speech to the general assembly. as well as his denials of the jewish holocaust. israel's leader will get his turn to address the u.n. today, calling for crippling sanctions to f

gordon charlop. have a great weekend. >> back up stairs to erin. >>> mr. haines, let's get the buzz beyond the big board on friday. art hogan is here, at jefferies. good to see you, art. >> good to see you. >> talk about comp, a little concerned about housing. throw in a little dollop of quadruple witching and what do you see today? >> it's interesting, we talk about quadruple witching a bit and what ends up having, three things. volume. that will be a pleasant change. we get some volatility. a lot of that has been muted over last couple of years on the expiration dates. we'll see if that plays out certainly usually replace where we go. that's and 80% of the time. we make more out of that than we really need to. i think what we really have here is a liquidity-driven market. central banks around the world are continuing the monetary policy. the place to be right now is equities until it's not, so like gordon said, he's cautious and he's been cautious for the last 50% of this move. who knows if he's going to be cautious for the next 20% of the move but it's

mr. todd right away. we'll have elmo give a special briefing. >> if you didn't catch the joke, sesame street teamed up with the administration releasing a psa on proper hygiene. is that the new gordon it must be. that's a reminder. >> well if someone is going to do it, she should. >>> so we're going into the weekend. >> and it looks good. right now i just was outside and taking a look at things. very cloudy and i came in to tucker and i said, it looks like it wants to rain but we're not thinking it's going to rain. but it is cloudy. later on today we'll get some sun and then tomorrow looks nice. a real nice day. take a look at the bustop forecast. as you get the kids ready for school. cloudy and cool, temperatures generallyspeaking in the 60 degrees. i haven't seen anything cooler. sunrise was at 6:52 but you can't tell. but it's bright but cloudy. here are the temperatures around the nation. 50 in detroit. 72 in dallas, texas. phoenix is at 82. salt lake city, 63. so you have some cool air out in the northwesand in the rocky mountain states, temperatures in the 50s. some 40s out there. here is a look at the satellite radar for the nation. we have some cloud cover in the southern p

gordon gecko. >> although he was cool. he still says to this day, michael douglas, people come up to him and call him mr. he said it was supposed to be a negative character. >> the first movie was a great movie. >> it really was. what do you say about the second one? >> i hope it's a great movie. >> so do i. anyway, let's check on the markets right now. as indicated, to open a little lower today. not a whole lot going on. let's go. labor day is over. some people were still out yesterday. >> laxidaisical. >> we've been in a flat line. let's get to carl with more of today's headlines. he's gone. he's somewhere else. >> i'm over here. you're going to be doing these. >> no, i'm not. i'm too hold. >>> meeting begins at 3:00 even. expecting the cartel to leave production levels unchanged. saudi-owned newspaper says they plan to tell other ministers. direct reform pitch to legislators and the public. white house press secretary robert gibbs says the president will not present new legislation in that speech. >>> some high-profile properties up for sale this week, luxury homes belonging to bernie madoff, homes in

gordon brown has a huge task ahead of him, much more difficult than me walking across the shingle beach while i'm talking to you. they're trailing third today while trailing by 15 points. but mr. brown will have been cheered by the welcome yesterday as the hall behind me standing on their feet in applause. >> yes, we may be the underdogs, yes, we may be. but if we show the british people that we have not lost the fighting sxeert and appetite for change that is defined this party throughout its history, then we can and will win! and i tell you, conference, we will win for our party. we will win for our party and we will win for our country. and we will win for the british people. that's what we're going to do! >> reporter: he advocated for the clunkers scheme. but we don't know what germany's stance is on that at the moment. we charred from alistair darling yesterday who came out and said we were legislate to try and cap bankers' bonuses. >> in the next few weeks, we will introduce laepgz to end the reckless culture that put short-term profits over long-term success. it will meet an end to automatic bank bonuses year after year. it will mean an end to immediate payouts for top

gordon in his suit for wrongful termination, he has these two paragraphs. now, these are allegations, but this is what he said. that during the period april to june 2007, mr. sauer martino and he received reports from guard force position in predeployment in texas had been engaging in lewd, abhorrent and sexually deviant behavior including sexual hazing, yur nag on one another and equipment, bullying, mooning, exposing themselves, excessive drinking and other conduct making them unfit for service on the contract. mr. sauer and martino immediately notified mr. semantic who was the agna president about these reports and objected vehemently in allowing those deployed to afghanistan. it was a consequence of raising those incidents that apparently those two gentlemen were terminated from their contract with armor group. and we can explore that discussion with armor group later this afternoon. but i wanted to put it on the record that there is strong evidence that these -- this kind of conduct and behavior was engaged at the training facility and then brought to kabul and camp sullivan. is that your understanding? >> yes. commissioner, i think that was an incre