mr. griffin is recognized for the remaining time until 10 p.m.. mr. griffin: i have been listening to some of the speeches here tonight and i thought i would take a little time to address some of the arguments and first i would like to welcome my friend from wisconsin, representative did you have if i, who has joined -- duffy who has joined me here on the floor tonight. i have listened to the discussion of tax loopholes, tax exemptions, deductions, specifically, i heard a lot of talk about tax deductions for oil companies. well, i'm glad that the gentleman from the other side raised that tonight because i was thinking and before i got here in january, the last two years, this house was controlled by speaker pelosi and s the other side of the aisle. the senate, down the way here, controlled by the same party and the white house, president obama. now if my mathis correct, that means that -- now if my math is correct, that means that the democrats were in control of the house, the senate and the white house. mr. speaker, it puzzles me that they were in co

mr. griffin: i rise to offer an amendment which will leverage our limited resources for wetlands and wildlife conservation. it would transfer $3 million to the wetlands conservation fund by reducing the e.p.a.'s operations and administration budget by the same amountment -- by the same amount. the e.p.a. has been overfunded in recent years and i respect subcommittee chairman simpson's attempt to bring it down to size. this makes a cut to e.p.a. administrative budget in favor of wetlands conservation. since this organization was established in 1989, more than 1,800 projects have led to the conservation of over 2,-- of over 24 million acres across north america. each project is funded through a public-private partnership and for every dollar of the organization's money that's spent in my home state of arkansas, private sources and organizations have given $4 in matching funds. in arkansas alone, 12 of these projects are either completed or currently under way. these projects have conserved over 64,000 of wetlands. make no mistakes this success story is not limited to arkansas. wetlands, wildlif

i want to return to how john opened the session, and the evidence that was griffin previously. in connection with mr. davis' questioning, there was one key question you admitted to us. mr. murdoch, james, through the civil actions have you been paying glenn moore claire's legal fees? >> as i said before to mr. davies. >> let's keep it short, it's a yes or no yes. >> i don't know the current status of those. you asked a question, am i paying all of mr. mulcaire's legal fees. >> have you been playing glenn mulcaire's legal fees during civil actions. >> i don't know the civil actions. i do know certain civil fees were paid for mr. mulcaire by the company and i was as surprised and shocked to learn that as you are. >> can you understand that people might ask why a company might wish to pay the legal fees of a convicted felon who has been involved intimately involved in the destruction of your reputation, to buy the corporation's violence? >> i can't understand that. that's exactly why i asked the question. that's exactly what -- when the allegations came out, i said are we doing this? is this what the c

have been behind the move thanks mr that argument to shreds last night he revealed not only that his ratings were lower than good but the m.s.m. b.c. president phil griffin had called him into a meeting and said the quote people in washington didn't like his tell and then he said this. and then he gives me the second part of the speech hallucinogenic outsiders recall and then we're thinking well this is something where you were little jack and say what ride bikes i think i'm an outsider i don't write boy but i would terrible leather jacket. he said i love to be an outsider outsiders are cool but we're not we're insiders we are two steps. so there you have it the mainstream corporate establishment media admitting they are in fact not government launched dogs but are the establishment but how long can the mainstream media really survive with that kind of attitude and is new media like the young turks the way of the future or earlier i caught up with an experiment host of the young turks university and an i often talk about the mainstream media its failure to question the government but i first asked her how she felt now that m.s.n. b.c. actually referred t