mr. harris is talking about the mayor's office of disability, we have talked about this at length. i have never objected i would imagine if we can sit down with them that they would agree that the two groups have to work together. this does not come at the total expense of the disabilities thing. >> we were talking about a list because it seems like there were things that were either waiting in the wings or the suspended ceiling. >> i would be very happy to make a list. >> thank you. >> is that all the questions? >> the plan does show that this is hidden behind the gate. number one. if you are combining the entire buildings, you are more than 5000 square feet, but we are not. we are counting two units, plus a small area in the mezzanine. this is way below 5000 square feet. it is easy to get confused. finally, there are stations between the subjects. are we talking about the historical preservation of this area? the permit requested the interior, nothing can be in the next year. we came to the conclusions that if all possible, we would find a way to get funding from somewhere, eithe

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mr. harris: thank you very much, mr. speaker. you know, as if businesses weren't struggling enough with the worst recession since the great depression, some washington bureaucrat decided it was a good idea to distract the real job creators of our country from doing what they do best, create jobs. to the gentleman from new york, that's what this debate is about. whether that hypothetical family actually has a job. whether they should be distracted from creating jobs by requiring them to fill out -- mr. crowley: will the gentleman yield? mr. harris: obviously the individual who came up with this brilliant idea has never had to meet a payroll ordeal with the day to day operations -- the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman controls his time. the gentleman by his silence is not willing to yield. mr. crowley: point of parliamentary inquiry. mr. harris: small business owners all over my country have told me that the 1099 provision would hurt their business. trish paige said it would be, quote, an administrative nightmare that would cost

mr. rockefeller bayh teo famous labor leaders. harry was the head of the electrical workers union and peter, who had been president nixon's labor secretary. they had a partnership with the rockefellers and worked closely with them on development efforts. they introduced me to mr. rockefeller. i wrote a paper on what the market may look like. i was 20-something. they said fine and a now we will hire you to do it. i went to work their having worked for a decade in non- profit housing development. then i set up a program working in partnership with the city. with federal governments as well with -- created a home building industry in the city that we build neighborhoods. >> how friendly is it to the middle class to come here? >> too successful. when we started in the 1980's bessette -- there was not a place where you could sell a home or rent an apartment for what a cost to build it. there was a very weak market. we had to create markets. within 15 years there was not a neighborhood in the city where you could not sell a home or rent an ap

mr. boehner, with nancy pelosi, and with harry reid about how they should approach this budget problem. know. what we the republicans in the house passed a budget that has been now rejected in the senate. they are not going to get 100% of what they want. the democrats have put forward spending cuts, many of them pretty painful, that give republicans already half of what they were seeking because it was to do.ht thing many of those cuts were ones that were already embodied in the budget that i proposed for 2012. now, that's been rejected as well. so here's what we know. both sides are going have to sit down and compromise on prudent cuts somewhere between what the republicans were seeking that's now been rejected and what the democrats had agreed to that has also been rejected. it shouldn't be that complicated. so what i've done is every day i talk to my team, i give them instructions in terms of how they can participate in the negotiations, indicate what's indicate what's not acceptable. and our expectation is that we should be able to get this completed. now, because i think neither de

wayne, not just harry baals. >> mr. baals. i'm going to call him mr. baals., what do you want me to do? he says, we'd love to take it but how can i feed these dogs? >> i'm sure the legal department will have fun with that. >>> he's been dead for a while now. >> oh, man. >>> a fun story out of the pittsburgh area. we've been upset when you get your car back and it's not filled with gas. you let someone borrow it and they bring it back and it's on empty. >> like you last time. >> sorry about that. sorry about that. there was a case where a man and woman got into a nasty altercation. he ended up like firing inside her bedroom, female roommate brought the car back empty, he got upset, started shoots at her. he's been arrested. s after another explosion and fire at a japanese nuclear plant. >> today's evacuations, precautions and fear after friday's earthquake and tsunami. it's tuesday, march 15th. >> announcer: from abc news, this is "world news now." >>> and good morning, everybody. i'm rob nelson. >> i'm peggy bunker. just how serious is this nuclear threat in

mr. kahn, thank you very much, your financial expertise will be of great value and you're a new appointment. thank you. and of course, my good friend, harryim. harry, you've been around for a long, long time. you know this city very well and i know your experience will be of great value to us, too. and of course, florence cong, joining us for the first time on the city hall preservation advisory commission and she has recently been on our immigrant rights commission, as well. and being a contractor for the city, you'll look at every crack and you'll determine whether it's a new one or one to be maintained as a historical crack. i know your expertise will be very helpful. so, and thank you very much, everybody, for joining us, as well. is there anybody else i missed that should be here? anyway. with that, perhaps we should just get -- i'm sorry? for all of you to stand and i'm going to give you the oath. and of course, as you take this after i say aye, then please state your name and then at the end, you can state the position that you're in and as we proceed, maybe we'll begin with aye and we'll go down the row and you can announce your n

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mr. boehner. i have had conversations with harry reid about how they should approach this budget problem. here is what we know. republicans in the house passed a resolution that has been rejected in the senate. they are not going to get 100% of what they want. the democrats have put forward spending cuts that are pretty painful to give republicans already have of what they are seeking. many of those cuts are ones that were embodied in the budget i proposed for 2012. here is what we know. both sides are going to have to sit down and compromise on prudent cuts somewhere between what the republicans were seeking that has been rejected, and what the democrats have rejected. it should not be that complicated. every day i talked to my team. i give them instructions. in terms of how the participate in the negotiations, to indicate what is acceptable, what is not acceptable. we should be able to get this completed. because neither democrats nor republicans will compromise until their 100% position is voted down in the senate, we have probably lost some time. we will probably not meet next week's

harry reid. the american people rose up, mr. speaker. and they knew it was irresponsible. and they filled up the town hall meetings and saw what was happening. i guess two or three summers ago and the year might come to me and i might be confident enough to speak it into the record, but we had an energy crisis with gas at $4 a gallon. and i believe that was the summer of 2008. that gas was at $4 a gallon. and i went back and did town hall meetings that filled up with people and they saw what was happening and there was an effort in this congress to shut down access to energy, a belief that if energy costs went up, people would use less and we remember then the speaker, nancy pelosi, saying, i'm trying to save the planet, i'm trying to save the planet. well, i think she believed that she was trying to save the planet and what i saw happening was the actions were driving up the cost of energy. that $4 gas issue finally broke and started to spiral back down wards by the election of 2008 but we had in august of that year a month long energy debate taking place here on the floo

mr. president, we welcome you back to town. my friend and colleague harry and are on a wreath today, bill frist. -- and our honoree today, bill frist. fort campbell covers the border of tennessee and kentucky. the post office is in tennessee, so weak claim it. -- so we claim it. but years ago there was a young soldier watching a live fire exercises and a soldier discharged his weapon and shot the division commander right in the chest. it was pretty clear pretty early that he was in trouble. got him on a helicopter, flew him down to nashville, where a young surgeon, bill frist, saved the life of general david petraeus. and so the influence and the good work of bill frist is far and wide. and it is fitting that we are here today to honor this good man. i want to welcome, as others have, the members of the frist family. it is indeed large. the lot has been said about this good man. i like to add just a brief word of my own. when you come across a man like bill frist, you cannot help but wonder, where does it all come from? nobody doubts that it takes a lot of

mr. boehner. i have had conversations with harry reid about how they should approach this budget problem. here is what we know. republicans in the house passed a resolution that has been rejected in the senate. they are not going to get 100% of what they want. the democrats have put forward spending cuts that are pretty painful to give republicans already have of what they are seeking. many of those cuts are ones that were embodied in the budget i proposed for 2012. here is what we know. both sides are going to have to sit down and compromise on prudent cuts somewhere between what the republicans were seeking that has been rejected, and what the democrats have rejected. it should not be that complicated. every day i talked to my team. i give them instructions. in terms of how the participate in the negotiations, to indicate what is acceptable, what is not acceptable. we should be able to get this completed. because neither democrats nor republicans will compromise until their 100% position is voted down in the senate, we have probably lost some time. we will probably not meet next week's

mr. chairman. good morning. this is the last hearing of the congressional oversight panel. i would like to express my gratitude to senate majority harry reid, minority leader nancy pelosi, for giving me the opportunity to serve my country. i would also like to express my profound gratitude to our chair and elizabeth warren for their leadership on our panel. also, to my staff. in particular, my staff director, for all they have done in the past 2.5 years to make our panel a success. finally, i want to thank my fellow panel members. we have worked together as a team in a manner that is tragically rare in our national politics today and i am honored to have been a part of that. today, we hear from acting assistant secretary timothy masson, from representatives of the key agencies but worked together on restoring financial stability, and from some of the world's leading economists and experts on financial crises. while i am grateful to our witnesses for joining us today, i want to know, that over the past two and a half years, we have benefited from the assistance of professor masson, stieglitz, and johnson, and it is fitting that they sh

mr. president, nice to welcome you back to town. my friend and colleague, harry reid.nd of course, are hungary today, bill frist. -- our honoree today, bill frist. you have heard how he has touched all lot of lives. i will share my favorite. fort campbell covers the border of tennessee and kentucky. the post office is in kentucky so we claimant. [laughter] there was a young commander of the 101st airborne who was observing a live fire exercises. a young shoulder -- soldiered tread and discharged his weapon and shot him right in the chest. it was pretty clear pretty early that this fellow was in trouble. we got him on the helicopter and flew him down to nashville. a young surgeon, bill frist, save the life of general david petreaus. and so the influence and the good work of bill frist is far and wide. it is fitting that we are here today to honor this good man. i want to welcome as other haves the members of the thrust -- frist family. it is indeed a large one. a lot has been said about this good man. i would like to add a brief word of my own. when you come across a ma

mr. boehner. i have had conversations with harry reid about how they should approach this budget problem. here is what we know. republicans in the house passed a resolution that has been rejected in the senate. they are not going to get 100% of what they want. the democrats have put forward spending cuts that are pretty painful to give republicans already have of what they are seeking. many of those cuts are ones that were embodied in the budget i proposed for 2012. here is what we know. both sides are going to have to sit down and compromise on prudent cuts somewhere between what the republicans were seeking that has been rejected, and what the democrats have rejected. it should not be that complicated. every day i talked to my team. i give them instructions. in terms of how the participate in the negotiations, to indicate what is acceptable, what is not acceptable. we should be able to get this completed. because neither democrats nor republicans will compromise until they are 100% -- their 100% position is voted down in the senate, we have probably lost some time. we will probably not

now, senate majority leader, harry reid, lays out how the senate will proceed next week on federal spending. this is about 30 minutes. >> without objection. >> mr you very much. i have a longer statement that i'll give after we finish this colloquy here. yesterday afternoon at four o'clock we met back here at vice president's office. it was a very fine meeting, vice president biden was there, my friend the republican leader, the speaker, and the minority leader of the house. parredden me, -- pardon me on getting the terms down since it changed in the house. boehner and pelosi were there with vice president biden, and we spent about an hour there, and we were going to have a vote on hr1 sometime in this next week and also a vote on the bill we just laid down which is our alternatives to what we think should be done with the economy. now, i know, mr. president, that our bill, because it's the way we have to do things around here, it's a long bill, and i'm sure the minority wants to spend some time looking at that, but one way or the other, we'll do it with an agreement or through my filing of a different procedural motions and get to a point next

mr. boehner. i've had conversations with nancy pelosi and i've had conversations with harry reid about how they should approach this budget problem. here's what we know. the republicans in the house passed a budget that has been now rejected in the senate. they are not going to get 100% of what they want. the democrats have put forward spending cuts, many of them pretty painful, that give republicans already half of what they were seeking. because they're the right thing to do. many of those cuts are ones already embodied in the budget i proposed for 2012. now that has been rejected as well. so, here's what we know. that both sides are going to have to sit down and compromise on prudent cuts somewhere between what the republicans were seeking that has now been rejected and what the democrats had agreed to that has also been rejected. it shouldn't be that complicated. and, so what i've done, is every day i talk to my team. i give them instructions. in terms of how they can participate in the negotiations. indicate what's acceptable. indicate what's not acceptable. and, our expectation is that we should

mr. chairman. good morning. this is the last hearing of the congressional oversight panel. i would like to express my gratitude to senate majority harry reid, minority leader nancy pelosi, for giving me the opportunity to serve my country. i would also like to express my profound gratitude to our chair and elizabeth warren for their leadership on our panel. also, to my staff. in particular, my staff director, for all they have done in the past 2.5 years to make our panel a success. finally, i want to thank my fellow panel members. we have worked together as a team in a manner that is tragically rare in our national politics today and i am honored to have been a part of that. today, we hear from acting assistant secretary timothy masson, from representatives of the key agencies but worked together on restoring financial stability, and from some of the world's leading economists and experts on financial crises. while i am grateful to our witnesses for joining us today, i want to know, that over the past two and a half years, we have benefited from the assistance of professor masson, stieglitz, and johnson, and it is fitting that they sh

harry wu's. you bring up an interesting point. i thank you for your leadership on human rights and the peace agenda which is really the freedom agenda. mr. gohmert: it certainly is an honor to serve with you and i hope -- i don't know if you are aware, our friend, ted poe, our colleague has a bill that's trying to force all foreign aid to come to a vote country by country. . and isn't that wonderful? i look forward to that in time to come. mr. speaker, is my time expiring? the speaker pro tempore: your time has expired. mr. gohmert: thank you, mr. speaker. we appreciate the time to discuss this very important issue and especially now that money is so critically needed and we should not be wasting it to help those who repress others. with that, we yield back. the speaker pro tempore: under the speaker's announced policy of january 5, 2011, the chair recognizes the gentleman from mississippi, mr. nunnelee, for 30 minutes. mr. nunnelee: thank you, mr. speaker. it's time for the united states senate to act. the democrats in the united states senate, the democrat leadership in the united states senate have failed the american people. last ye

. >> harry shearer was in washington last week to talk about his new film, "the big uneasy" looking at the devastation in new orleans caused by hurricane katrina. mr shearer who is an actor, writer, and public radio host spoke also about the state of journalism. from the national press club, this is an hour. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] >> good afternoon, and welcome to the national press club ment i'm mark hamrick a journalist and party rt associated press. we are the world's leading professional organization for journalists committed to our profession's future through our programs, events such as this, while fostering a free press worldwide. for more information about the national preth club, we invite you to visit www.press.org and to donate to programs offered to the public through our national journalism library and that information is on the website as well. on behalf of the members worldwide, i'd like to welcome the speaker and those of you attending today's event. our head table guests include guests of the speaker as well as working journalists who are club members, and if you hear applause in our audience, we note

mr. chairman. good morning. this is the last hearing of the congressional oversight panel. i would like to expss my gratitude to senate majority harry minority lead nancy pelosi, for giving me the opportunity to serve my country. i would also like to express my profound gratitude to our chair and elizabeth warren for their leadership on our panel. also, to my staff. in pticular, my staff director, for all they have done in the past 2.5 years to make our panel a success. finally, i want to thank my fellow panel members. we have worked together as a team in a manner that is tragically rare in our national politics today and i am honored to have been a part of that. today, we hear from acting assistant secretary timothy masson, from representatives of the key agencies but worked together on restoring financial stability, and from some of the world's leading economists and experts on financial crises. while i am grateful to our witnesses for joining us today, i want to know, that over the past two and a half years, we have benefited from the assistance of professor masson, stieglitz, and johnson, and is fitting that they should be with

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mr. chairman. good morning. this is the last hearing of the congressional oversight panel. i would like to express my gratitude to senate majority harry reid, minority leader nancy pelosi, for giving me the opportunity to serve my country. i would also like to express my profound gratitude to our chair and elizabeth warren for their leadership on our panel. also, to my staff. in particular, my staff director, for all they have done in the past 2.5 years to make our panel a success. finally, i want to thank my fellow panel members. we have worked together as a team in a manner that is tragically rare in our national politics today and i am honored to have been a part of that. today, we hear from acting assistant secretary timothy masson, from representatives of the key agencies but worked together on restoring financial stability, and from some of the world's leading economists and experts on financial crises. while i am grateful to our witnesses for joining us today, i want to know, that over the past two and a half years, we have benefited from the assistance of professor masson, stieglitz, and johnson, and it is fitting that they sh

harris bank between the chicago corporation and senior vice president and chief economist worker fred kubik, stephens and thompson. 1995 and 96 he serves as the chief economist for the united states congress. mr. webster received his mba from northwestern university's keller graduate school of management and a ba in economics from the university of montana. ..some of you have seen me talk but most of you don't. so let me just give you a real brief history of the last couple years of my forecasting record. the past two years have been some of the best forecasting i have ever done in my career. which spans close to 30 years. 2008 was the worst year of forecasting. i have ever done. in fact, i thought we would avoid a recession in 2008. i really did. i'll talk about that in just a minute. but just in case you go on the web and look me up, you be find wesbury is clueless, he missed the recession, don't believe anything he says. et cetera. et cetera. but they don't say is that the past two years have been pretty darn good. now, that actually sets the stage for me this morning because the title of my talk is , did capitalism fail? and my belief is that our answer to that question will set the stage

harry reid's comments. it is about 30 minutes while we wait to hear from the president in florida. absence of the quorum be terminated. the presiding officer:ithout objection. mr. reid mr. president, thank you very much. i have a longer statement that i'll give after we finish this colloquy here. yesterday afternoon at 4:00 we met back here in the vice president's office. it was a very fine meeting. vice president biden was there, my friend, the republican leader, the speaker, and the -- the majority -- the minority leader of the house of representatives. it's hard for me to get this term down since this change in house leadership. anyway mcconnell, reid, boehner and pelosi were there with vice president biden. and we spent about an hour there and the arrangement was that we would have a vote on h.r. 1 sometime this next week and also a voton the bill that we just laid down, which is our alternative as to what we think should be done with the economy. now, i know, mr. president, that -- that our bill, because it's a -- it's the way we have to do things around here, it's a long bill and i'm sure there -- the minority wants to spend some time looking at that. bu