mr. hall has described it, some very watered down version which does undermine the ability of our nation's disabled veterans to be able to take advantage of this program the way they should is in fact denied. and so the fact that these measures are not made in order, madam speaker, i am a strong opponent of this rule because i believe that we can do better and as mr. diaz-balart said, having an open amendment process, which we've not had in this entire crong, should have been the model for this bill in light of the fact that it has in the past been reported out under suspension of the rules. now having spoken about my opposition to the rule itself, madam speaker, i'd like to speak briefly about my support for mccartney. madam speaker, in 1976 she was obviously a child, this institution was probably violating child labor laws, when she came to work as a clerk in the parliamentarian's office. that's 34 years ago. in that 34-year period of time, she has had an amaiding -- amazing career which has

mr. hall: we have no objection to the amendment and reserve the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the -- the chair: the gentleman from reserves. the gentlelady from california. ms. chu: i yield the balance of my time to the distinguished chairperson of the committee. the chair: the gentleman is recognized. mr. gordon: let me add this is an excellent bill. makes it even better. i thank the gentlelady for the content of this amendment. the chair: the gentleman yields back. the gentlelady from california. ms. chu: i yield the balance of my time. the chair: the gentleman from texas. mr. hall: i yield back the balance of my time. the chair: all time being yielded back, the question is on the amendment offered by the gentlewoman from california. so many as are in favor say aye. those opposed, no. in the opinion of the chair, the ayes have it. the amendment is agreed to. it is now in order to consider amendment number 38 printed in part b of house report 111-479. for what purpose does the

mr. hall: mr. speaker, i yield myself such time as i may consume. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized. mr. hall: i rise today to speak on h.r. 5325, a bill re-authorizing the america competes act. i believe long-term investment in science and technology, coupled with policies that reduce tax burdens, streamline federal regulations and balance the federal government are very vital for our nation to remain competitive in the global marketplace. however, we must put our fiscal house in order to make sure we're not leveraging the future of our children and grandchildren. while i remain committed to the underlying goals of the america competes act, the bill before us today continues to take us in a much more costly direction and authorizes a number of new programs which have little to do with prioritizing investments in basic science, technology, engineering and math research and development. on may 12 and 13, the bill was considered by the full house of representatives. republican atte

mr. hall: i reserve the balance of my time. the chair: the gentleman from tennessee is recognized. mr. gordon: i yield three minutes to the gentleman from new jersey, mr. holt. the chair: the gentleman from new jersey is recognized for three minutes. mr. holt: mr. chair, i strongly support the robust program of science, technology, engineering and mathematics. my amendment would direct the white house to prepare a comprehensive national competitiveness and innovation strategy within one queer. we know that half or perhaps more of our growth in g.d.p. over the past century is attributable to our funding in research and development. our leadership in science and in engineering and innovation was unquestionable, but we can't pretend any more that this is a given. a year ago the information, technology and innovation foundation, using good methodology, found that 40 major nations or regions, the united states ranks not first but sixth in overall innovation and competitiveness. more importantly, over the last decade, every one of tho

mr. hall: mr. speaker, i yield myself such time as i may consume. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized. mr. hall: i rise today to speak on h.r. 5325, a bill re-authorizing the america competes act. i believe long-term investment in science and technology, coupled with policies that reduce tax burdens, streamline federal regulations and balance the federal government are very vital for our nation to remain competitive in the global marketplace. however, we must put our fiscal house in order to make sure we're not leveraging the future of our children and grandchildren. while i remain coitted to the underlying goals of the america competes act, the bill before us today continues to take us in a much more costly direction and authorizes a number of new programs which have little to do with prioritizing investments in basic science, technology, engineering and math research and development. on may 12 and 13, the bill was considered by the full house of representatives. republican attemp

mr. hall: mr.speaker, i inquire of ms. fudge, do you have other speakers? ms. fudge: no, i do not. mr. hall: then i might yield my time if you needed it? ms. fudge: no, sir. mr. hall: then i yield back the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from texas yields back the balance of his time. the gentlewoman from ohio. ms. fudge: mr. speaker, i yield back the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: all time having been yielded back, the question is will the house suspend the rules and agree to house resolution 1307. those in favor say aye. ms. fudge: mr. speaker, i that i request the yeas and nays. the speaker pro tempore: those opposed, no. in the opinion of the chair, 2/3 having responded in the affirmative, the rules are suspended, the resolution is agreed to and without objection the motion to reconsider is laid on the table. the gentlelady from ohio. ms. fudge: yes, mr. speaker. i request the yeas and nays. the speaker pro tempore: the yeas and nays are requested. those

mr. hall -- we have the summer months coming up. we have young people graduating. -- graduating from college and high school. tell me, what is the unemployment ratfor our teens -- the teen unemployment rate? i would like to know what it is for african-americans, white and hispanics. ok. >> the unemployment rate for teenagers is very high -- 25%. >> do you have a breakdown for african-americans, whites, and hispanics? would you have that? and i do not for teenagers. i have those groups overall. we can get to the teenager ones. do you want me to tell you the unemployment rate for african- americans? 16.5%. >> is that pretty much what it was last time? >> it is unchanged over the last month. four respects, iis 12.5%, also little changed. -- for hispanics, it is 12.5%, also little changed. >> for african-american teenagers, the rate was 37.3%. that is a little lower than it has been in recent months. that is a small group. it really jumps around from month to month. the white rate is 23.5% from a fairly stable in the recent months. is 2

mr. hall: mr. speaker, 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 vos by electronic device. this is a five-minute vote. [captioning made possible by the national captioning institute, inc., in cooperation withhe unid states house of representatives. any use of the closed-captioned coverage of the house proceedings for political or commercial purposes is presy prohibited by the u.s. house of representatives.] the speaker pro tempore: on this vote, the yeas are 181, the nays are 234. the ninth portion of the amendment is not adopted. the questn son the engrossmt and third reading. those in favor say aye. those opposed, no. the ayes visit, third reading. the clerk: a bill to invest in innotion through research and develoent to improve the competitiveness of the united states and for other purposes. the speaker pro tempore: the question is on passage of the bill. those in

speaker, i yield one minute to mr. hall from new york. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from new york is recognized for one minute. mr. hall: thank you, mr. speaker. i thank the gentleman for yielding. i rise today in support of h.res. 1320 honoring the brave americans who acted quickly and professionally to keep the attempted bombing at times square last saturday from becoming a tragedy. the people of new york city, new york police and fire departments, bomb squad, and others worked to identify the attack and defuse the device. in particular i would like to call the attention to the actions of dwayne jackson and lance or theon, both disabled vietnam veterans who work as street vendors in times square. i had the honor of representing mr. jackson who lives in westchester county. his thinking turned what could have been a tragedy into an example of american heroism. all new yorkers and americans owe them a debt of gratitude that there were no greefing families on saturday night. -- grieving families on saturday night. they once again

mr. hall, i want to talk about something you were just talking about. i watched the press and i can imagine that putting forth a headline that the unemployment rate has gone up 0.2%. when the drill down a little bit, there were some people who came back into the system, is that right? but they had not been looking for jobs? >> that is corrrct. >> to you call them read- entrance? >> yes, reid-entrance is one way to look at it. i was taught me about the increase in the labor force which was new entrants and re- entrance. >> how many of those were there? >> 800,000 over the month which is a large number. >> that is a huge number. 800,000? >if we did not have these, you probably would have a great, i guess, that would be lower than 9.7%? >> i don't want to speculate on that. >> i am not asking you to speculate but doolittle matt. >> that is correct -- but do a little math. >> that is correct. i was listening to mr. brady who was talking about the government jobs. then i look and say that manufactu

mr. hall -- we have the summer months coming up. we have young people graduating. -- graduating from college and high school. tell me, what is the unemployment rate for our teens -- the teen unemployment rate? i would like to know what it is for rican-americans, whites, and hispanics. ok. the unemployment rate for teenagers is very high -- 25%. >> do you have a breakdown for african-americans, whites, and hispanics? would you have that? and i do not for teenagers. i have those gups overall. we can get to the teenager ones. do you want me to tell you the unemployment rate for african- americans? 16.5%. >> is that pretty much what it was last time? >> iis unchanged over the last month. four respects, it is 12.5%, also little changed. -- for hispanics, it is 12.5%, also little changed. >> for african-american teenager the rate was 37.3%. that is a little lower than it has been in recent months. that is a small group. it really jumps around from montto month. the white rate is 23.5% from a fairly stable inhe recent months. is 23 -- the

mr. hall: thank you, mr. speaker. i rise today to say it it will not be the u.s. taxpayer who is stuck with the bill for the tragic oil spill that is still spewing hundreds of barrels of oil into the gulf of mexico. b.p. had -- british petroleum, b.p., had $6 billion in profit last quarter alone. that's profit, not earnings. and that is the first place we should be looking to pay for this oil spill. and we all know how much money halliburton socked away thanks to the last administration. their deep pockets also need to be tapped to pay for their negligence. for years we've heard from the oil industry that offshore drilling is safer than ever, cleaner than ever. not true. meanwhile, oil companies, like b.p., spent years making billions while gouging consumers. we in the house are going to make sure that they pay for cleaning up this unprecedented catastrophe. it's time to truly move beyond petroleum into renewable energy and energy efficiency. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from texas rise? mr. poe: i ask permission to ad

first meeting with liv band and pizza place in the comments grand committee room of one's mr. hall at lun reporters gathered expect dean  conservative deal might be announced within ho but when david lures emerged it s clear there were still problems. >> although we're very consciou do make these decisions quickly and that was a clea the parliamentary party today, we also want to make sure we ge ese matters right. >> liberal democrat mps have been graded by their negotiators. he told the negotiators to go back and see clarif that of three on a number of issues, but it's not really clear how much progress has b made so far and whether the liberal democrats are really being offered anything substantial on that issue of ortional repr >> just the sugar which about with a still conservatives. >> i don't know what the eventual outcome will be. will just judges simply, constructively every step of th way.

. >> mr. hall. >> thank you, mr. chairman. for holding this hearing, and my prayers and condolences to those killed and injured in this event. mr. mckay, i was curious about the choice of dispersant, correx it, a former 11-year board member of bp sits on the board. do you know approximately how much money bp has paid so far to the company for this dispersant? >> i'm sorry, i don't. >> could you get the committee that information, please? >> we can get that. >> why do you think correx it would have been chosen over a less toxic and more effective product like dispersant, which you would think would be a better choice and did bp talk to -- did your company talk to any manufactures of the other dispersas to find out if they were available? >> i've not been personal involved in the choices around the dispersants and what's happened in terms of talking to companies and understanding the availability, the effectiveness or choices they've made. we can get you some information, i've just not been involved in that. >> my understanding

mr. hall -- we have the summer months coming up.e have young people graduating. -- graduating from college and high school. tell me, what is the unemployment rate for our teens -- the teen unemployment rate? i would like to know what it is for african-americans, whites, and hispanics. ok. >> the unemployment rate for teenagers is very high -- 25%. >> do you have a breakdown for african-americans, whites, and hispanics? would you have that? and i do not for teenagers. i have those groups overall. we can get to the teenager ones. do you want me to tell you the unemployment rate for african- americans? 16.5%. >> is that pretty much what it was last time? >> it is unchanged over the last month. four respects, it is 12.5%, also little changed. -- for hispanics, it is 12.5%, also little changed. >> for african-american teenagers, the rate was 37.3%. that is a little lower than it has been in recent months. that is a small group. it really jumps around from month to month. the white rate is 23.5% from a fairly stable in the recent months.

mr. hall -- we have the summer months coming up. we have young people graduating. -- graduating from college and high school. tell me, what is the unemployment rate for our teens -- the teen unemployment rate? i would like to know what it is for african-americans, whites, and hispanics. ok. >> the unemployment rate for teenagers is very high -- 25%. >> do you have a breakdown for african-americans, whites, and hispanics? would you have that? and i do not for teenagers. i have those groups overall. we can get to the teenager ones. do you want me to tell you the unemployment rate for african- americans? 16.5%. >> is that pretty much what it was last time? >> it is unchanged over the last month. four respects, it is 12.5%, also little changed. -- for hispanics, it is 12.5%, also little changed. >> for african-american teenagers, the rate was 37.3%. that is a little lower than it has been in recent months. that is a small group. it really jumps around from month to month. the white rate is 23.5% from a fairly stable in the recent months

mr. murphy: former air force sergeant david hall was walking in this gallery and he mentioned to me, he said, sergeant hall wasn't asked and he didn't tell. he was kicked out of the air force. he already served in the middle east. he said to me, and i quote, i assure you, i'm still fit for mitary duty. stop discharging patriotic americanwho just want to serve the country that they love. mr. speaker, i urge my colleagues to support this amendment and i yield back the balance of my time. the chair: the gentleman's time has expired. ll time has expired. the question is on the amendment offered by the gentleman from pennsylvania. those in favor say aye. those opposed, no.. in the opinion of the chair, the ayes have it. the amendment is agreed to. the gentleman from california. mr. mckeon: on that, i demand the yeas and nays. recorded vote. the chair: does the gentleman ask for a recorded vote? pursuant to clause 6, rule 18, further proceedings on th >> the house voted 234-1 added 94 to repeal the don't ask don't tell policy. -- the house voted 234-194 to repeal the don't ask don't tell policy. t

mr. blumen bought of connecticut -- whitey going after rand hall this morning and not mr. blumenthal? why is it what you are on you always attack republicans? are you that much in the back of the obama administration? what is your story? tell our audience, your audience, why you are so anti republican? whenever you host the show you bring the top backs up against republicans and you never bring them up against democrats. why is that? host: manhattan, gregg, a democrat. what do you think about the grand -- rand paul remarks. caller: it goes back to his father who i sort of had an interest in. i'm a person of color, also a native american. but going back to his father who aligns himself with the idea of older goldwater. rand paul stands up and tells the country he has no current -- problem with a private business telling you whether you are jewish, italian, male female, that i am not serving you. it has nothing to do with black people in general. when we talk about civil rights, it is not just a black folks but of every american in this country. so, as c-span and other media stands up a

mr. murphy: former air force sergeant david hall was walking in this gallery and he mentioned to me, he said, sergeant hall wasn't asked and he didn't tell. he was kicked out of the air force. he already served in the middle east. he said to me, and i quote, i assure you, i'm still fit for military duty. stop discharging patriotic americans who just want to serve the country that they love. mr. speaker, i urge my colleagues to support this amendment and i yield back the balance of my time. the chair: the gentleman's time has expired. all time has expired. the question is on the amendment offered by the gentleman from pennsylvania. those in favor say aye. those opposed, no.. in the opinion of the chair, the ayes have it. the amendment is agreed to. the gentleman from california. mr. mckeon: on that, i demand the yeas and nays. recorded vote. the chair: does the ntleman ask for a recorded vote? pursuant to clause 6, rule 18, further proceedings on the amdment offered by the gentleman from pennsylvania will be ptponed. the chair: pursuant to clause 6 of rule 18, proceedings will now resume on t

mr. dreyfuss." [ light laughter ] clearly making a mistake. here's another. this one is from a town hallouple weeks ago. this is the "this will so be on facebook tomorrow." [ light laughter ] yeah, are you getting that? all right. i love this next facial expression. this is the "we're totally seeing 'sex and the city 2' this weekend, girls." [ laughter ] [ cheers and applause ] this next one is interesting. this is the "i wish r2-d2 was my vice president." [ laughter ] you can dream. >> steve: you can tell. >> jimmy: he's a fan of r2-d2. here's an interesting look -- take a look at this -- this is the "bieber, bieber, over here! oh, my god, he touched my hand!" [ laughter ] here's another great one. this one's called "lady?" [ light laughter ] yeah, all right. this next expression is great. it's from a recent white house children's event. it's called the "who wants to read president bush's memoir?" [ laughter ] yeah. raise your hand, yeah. and then -- [ applause ] here's one from a joint news conference with canadian prime minister stephen harper. this is the "pretending to care about ca

mr. speaker, but in my town hall meetings in 2006 and 2007, in many of them, i set the rule that we were going to talk about everything except immigration until we had dealt with everybody's concerns and issues, then we would go to immigration to finish the time we had left. invariably we'd get to immigration and it would burn all the time we had left. because the american people are very intense on the immigration issue. and we watched as frank luntz did a focus group in arizona, just came back from there recently, watched how that group itself was divided between themselves with very intense emotions, most of them full of frustration and anger about the immigration issue, not in complete agreement on what to do. it seems as though the hispanics in america are where you find the objections to the enforcement of immigration law the most vocal ones, yet we know there are a large number of hispanics, many of them have been here hundreds of year, their families have been, but i'll submit that that doesn't get anybody anything. i just shook the hand of an individual down at the turkish recep

mr. blumen bought of connecticut -- whitey going after rand hall this morning and not mr. blumenthal? why is it what you are on you always attack republics? are you that much in the back of the obama administration? what is your story? tell our audience, your audience, why you are so anti republican? whenever you host the show you bring the top backs up against republicans and you ner bring them up against democrats. why is that? host: manhattan, gregg, a democrat. what do you think abouthe grand -- rand paul remarks. caller: it goes back to his father who i sort of had an interest in. i'm a person of color, also a native american. but goinback to his fatr who aligns himself with the idea of older goldwater. rand paul stands up and tells the count he has no current -- problem with a private business telling you whether you are jewish, italian, male female, that i am not serving you. it has nothing to do with black people in genel. when we talk about civil rights, it is not just a black folks but of every american in this country. so, as c-span and other media stands up and endorses an

mr. murphy: former air force sergeant david hall was walking in this gallery and he mentioned to me, he said, sergeant hall wasn't asked and he didn't tell. he was kicked out of the air force. he already served in the middle east. he said to me, and i quote, i assure you, i'm still fit for military duty. stop discharging patriotic americs who just want to serve the country that they love. mr. speaker, i urge my colleagues to support this amendment and i yield back the balance of my time. the chair: the gentleman's time has expired. all time has expired. the question is on the amendment offered by the gentleman from pennsylvania. those in favor say aye. those opposed, no.. in the opinion of the chair, the ayes have it. the amendment is agreed to. the gentleman from california. mr. mckeon: on that, i demand the yeas and nays. recorded vote. the chair: does the gentleman ask for a recorded vote? pursuant to clause 6, rule 18, further proceedings on the amendment offered by the gentlemanrom pennsylvania will be postponed. >> the house voted 234-194 voting to repeal the amendment on the "don't as

hall ways but he says cyber bullying is worse. >> because of the cyber bullying, texting and messages the kids are stressed out all the time. >> reporter: mrsalley also sent out letters to schools across the state to ask teachers to take time out to talk to students about bullying. >>> the jury convicted -- a fourth victim survivorred and testified against godinez. police arrested him in maryland after a massive man hunt. >> the jury deliberated for four hours before returning the guilty verdict. godinez may face life in prison. >>> the mothers of berkeley graduates were allowed a meeting with their children. all of that time in prison has led to an engagement. two of the hikers say they plan to marry after the release, with the second captive man serving as the best man. >>> the airline plans to continue operating half of their flights. >>> as people headed to lunch today, many found themselves in a beach party. the party included several surprise get aways. >> grab your bag as well. >> grab a bag. >> reporter: at the corner of light and pratt street, south west airlines set up a mini beach with one thing in mind. yes employees put on gras

mr. harry. >> it's his 5th year doing that. >> and hi, everyone who's watching and everyone else. and this is for you, just a little thank you. >> and chapel hill in perry hallbaltimore county. look who's in the 5th grade now. joe slatery and the coach and tony. hoping to graduate next year. okay, all right. oh, man, you ready to go, guys? >> they're ready, let me hear the magic words. >> cue it, melvin. >> hey, ron, where are you spending the weekend. hollywood palace, route 40. chapel hill elementary, stand by. [school singing manic monday] >>> i love that. >> i know what you're going to say. if i had to make a wager as to who would be in the five finalists -- >> yeah. >> las vegas is saying, hey, they're in. >> well, you guys did a great job, you're invited back to the meltdown in november. . congratulations. >> that was huge. that was great. >> they knocked it out of the park. all right, guys, great manic monday, we thank you guys. give me some of that money, i'm broke. >> thank you, give yourselves a big hand. >> chapel hill elementary. have a great day, see ya. >> you give that money back. >> that was great. >> you know, well, there's no way to tell. >

hall ways, but he says cyber bullying is the worse. >> because of cyber bullying, all the texts and bad messages, the kids are stressed out all the time. >> reporter: mrs o' malley sent letters to the state's schools asking teachers to take time out to talk to students and parents about bullying. >>> anne arundel county police are asking for your help to find two sex offenders. 50-year-old willie brown who was last living in annapolis and 30-year-old chris toáfr gillenwater who last had an address in gillen county. >>> 35 days later, and a spill in the gulf of mexico continues. thousands of gallons continue to pour out by the minute. beaches and marshes are being contaminated. tomorrow bp will try once again to stop the leak using a technique called top kill where a huge amount of concrete and mud will be fired into the ruptured line. as millions of the gallons of oil continue to spew into the spill, a baltimore county company ceo thinks he has a plan to stop the leak. jessica cartalia reports, he just needs to get the attention of the federal government. >> reporter: about 65 miles of louisiana coastline is now covered in oil. bp is now trying to stop

mr. speaker, as i read this quote i'm reminded of the statute we always encourage our constituents to look at and rub their feet on as we go into statuary hall's the statue of will rogers. will rogers, that great, great comedian famously said, i'm not a member of any organized political party, i'm a democrat. mr. speaker, we have observed over the last three days the democratic leadership running around this institution like chickens with their heads cut off. attempting to put together some deal which when asked if it was precooked, the chair of the committee on rules said, are you kidding me? we're democrats. well, mr. speaker, the american people get it. they are not only not being delivered -- they are not getting the kind of transparency they were promised, but we are seeing a measure here that is being put into place which i am convinced will continue to have the dilatorious effect that the other measures that have been put into place over the last several months have created. we all know that when we dealt with the serious economic downturn and we can point fingers at ourselves, we can point fingers all over. but we do know that as we

mr. speaker. we have ned two concerns relative to the ar reserve line hall tractors. the first concern is that they are procuring these tractors without the benefits and advantages of full and open competition. and secondly, their procurement is way, way behind the need. there are in fact about 1,000 tractors ort. so i have a very simple amendment which addresses these two concerns. a, congressional encouragement of full and open competition. congress encourages the secretary of the army to use full and open competition for the m-915 tractor traler program beginning in fiscal year 2012, and, b, report not later than february 15, 2011, the secretary of the army shall submit to the congressional defense committees a repon line ha tractors including possible courses of action that would accelerate meeting the line hall actor requirent of the arm serve. we have vetted this with the army reserve, mr. speaker, and they are in support of it. and i encourage a yes vote on this and i yield back the balance mtime. the chair: for what purpose does the gentleman from new jersey r

mr. boswell is a highly decorated vietnam veteran and a professor at the college. last week i had the pleasure of be inducted in the fort leavenworth hall of fame. congratulations and best regards to my colleague from iowa, mr. boswell, on this great honor. this legislation both honors these great soldiers and alumni at the command and general staff college but also helps the college continue its vital mission of professional military education. i urge my colleagues to support this and yield back the balance of my time. . the speaker pro tempore: the gentlelady from kansas. ms. jenkins: i have no further requests for time. i yield back the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from kansas. mr. moore: madam speaker h.r. 22 is a bipartisan measure that honors our five five-star generals. i urge my colleagues to vote in favor of this bill. i yield back my time. the speaker pro tempore: the question is, will the house suspend the rules and pass h.r. 1177 as amended. so many as are in favor say aye. those opposed, no. in the opinion of the chair, 2/3 of those voting having responded in the affirmative, the rules are susp

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mr. president, in fine print, free credit score and report with enrollment in triple advantage. ironically, these credit reporting agencies are walking the hallstect a federal law that has given them a monoply on this information and continues to direct unwitting consumers their way. we agree, those of us who have sponsored this piece of legislation, with these credit reporting agencies that a credit score is important information, and perhaps their misleading ads, if anything, have convinced consumers they need to know this information. however, luring hard-working americans into a costly credit monitoring service is simply not fair, especially when federal law nudges consumers in their direction. mr. president, we've all come to the floor this week from both sides of the aisle explaining what we want to do to protect consumers and do what is right for main street. we have a chance to right this wrong here and now this week. put simply, this amendment accomplishes what the television commercials and their fine print caveats have stkep tively claimed for years -- deceptively claimed for years, the offer of a free credit score. that's why the c

mr. speaker, we in the house of representatives need to understand that -- remember that outside these halls, on the rooftops and around the capitol, are the capitol police officers, watching and protecting those who come to the people's house, to the capitol building and the surrounding buildings. and we need to rore this -- remember that in 1998, two of those capitol police officers, jacob chestnut and detective john gibson, were killed in the line of duty in this very building as they were protecting other members of congress from a gun-wielding assailant that came into this place. we should always remember that these peace officers every day are a cut above the rest of us. and they do represent everything that's good and fine and right about america. later this week, not far from here, on the west side of the capitol, there will be the families of the slain police officers in the united states. surrounding them in a group will be thousands and thousands of peace officers in the united states all wearing the uniform, with a badge that they wear above their heart and a black cloth across t

hall. if you need to appreciate that. we really do have to move along here. okay. mr. michaels, welcome to the committee. your statement will be made a part of the eckert events in tire if you could sum it up in five minutes we would appreciate that. mr. michaels, welcome. >> thank you, german harkin, ranking member in the and members of the committee. today we are meeting under the shallow to the recent tragedy that captured the hearts and mind of the american people. the almost untouchable death of 29 miners in west virginia, the loss of refinery workers in washington state and the 11 workers still missing from the deep water horizon. what we are also hearing in the knowledge as 14 americans field to come home from work to their families every single day of the year. we must think seriously to ensure that osha has the tools it needs to enforce the safe working conditions. if we are to fulfil secretary of labor balsillie's vision of good jobs for every one we must that detective laws that will insure all americans to the right thing to get good jobs or save jobs but an american worker still face is unac

hall the markets were obeying them,e. so what we need to do is just implement them, whether we implement his version, mr. duffy's version or a slightly different version, because securities do trade slightly differently. we'll figure that out, but this is really, as mr. noll said, it's an implementation issuetly, from a technology standpoint, because we have agreed essentially on a framework for going forward with that. >> so in other words, for it to work, it has to be implemented across all market venues. >> what will most likely happen, the listing venue, so in the case of nyc listed stock, in the case of nasdaq listed stock, nasdaq will enlist the stop loss trigger and the other stocks will have to obey it. >> i agree. that's where we'll end up.ave >> mr. noll, i'm sorry. >> i think that's where we'll end up, where the listing venue will determine when a stock should be halted across the market and all the other listing venues will obey that. >> how long do you think this will take to work that out?stoc >> i think the rule said or at least an understanding of the functionality will probably take ofce

mr. speaker, the medical device industry in minnesota is a success story. the innovation it foresters means longer lives, healthier patients, good-paying jobs and economic growth. just this morning i attended a town hall meeting in minnesota with the new head of the f.d.a.'s center for devices and radiological health. dr. jeffrey suren. dr. shuren and his team were in town to hear about device manufacturers, doctors and patients. i applaud his willingness and his team's willingness to listen. as the f.d.a. looks to the future, it's critical that it strikes to the right balance, protecting patients from harm while not behindering the availability of life-saving innovations. in uncertain and unpredictable approval for pro-sesses for devices could reduce options for patients down the road. we need to keep the innovation here, we need to keep the jobs here, we need to keep the technology and patient care here in the united states. that's why we need an effective process that protects patients while fostering the innovation and economic growth that this industry provides. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: are there further one-minute requests? the chair lays before the house the following personal req

mr. speaker, by the lack of accountability and deeply concerned about the consequences of our fledgling economic recovery now and for future generations as well. after months and months of countless phone calls, emails, letters, town hall meetings the american people are asking themselves why won't washington listen? why is our demand for fiscal responsibility not getting through? why is the majority refusing for the first time in modern congressional history to not even consider a budget? my answer to them is that some of us, mr. speaker, some of us are getting the message from the american people very loudly and clearly. the democratic majority might refuse to listen, but republicans are serious about the issue of reining in spending. though we have been barred by the majority for making significant reforms, we are using every tool at our disposal to force some accountability into the spending process. one such effort is what we are calling the youcut project, y-o-u-c-u-t launched last week on the republican whip's website. americans have the opportunity to voice their opinion on five specific spending cuts, and nearly 300,000 votes were cast. people making their thoughts known. nearly 300,000. the proposed cut among

are watching down the hall, and they have been able to ask questions, i will turn to their questions and questions to the people in this room. one question from the other room, mr. president, can a free, fair and effective election be held this year? >> absolutely. absolutely. afghanistan began the current democratic process in 2002. with your help from al-qaeda and the terrorist networks. and we did well. millions of people participated in the election. the first election of the president and the councils and the election for the parliament and then the second election for the president and now the second parliamentary elections. we have in place all the necessary tools to make sure that the election is credible. and in keeping with the standards that we can apply in . . >> we are now at nearly the mid stage of our preparations of our army and police. in other words, the minister of defense and the minister of interior. our army has crossed the 130,000 -- 120,000 mark. we have trained -- well-trained troops and officers. about three months ago, i went to witness and gave the certificates of the second batch of afghan military academy graduates who looked quite