born in norman and raised in chaunee, mrs. henry would mature into a confident woman who would eventually find her calling as a public school teacher. throughout her tenure as oklahoma's first lady she has been a devoted mother to three beautiful daughters and an active member of numerous charities. one of those prominent oklahoma organizations is the influential scarkes foundation. formed in 1962, it has contributed over $55 million to various oklahoma cultural and economic initiatives. last week the foundation asked mrs. henry to be its executive director. this is a significant moment in her life and also for the state of oklahoma. congratulations to oklahoma's first lady, kim henry, your hard work and debt case to the state of oklahoma doesn't go unnoticed. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from indiana, mr. burton, is recognized for five minutes. mr. burton: i ask unanimous consent to address the house for five minutes, revise and extend. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. mr. burton: madam speaker, m

siegelman and mr. henry, the government moved to dismiss the case in its entirety. and i granted the motion and dismissed it with prejudice. pare parenthetically, dr. bobos case had been severed because he wanted to appeal my failure to dismiss the charges against him on double jeopardy grounds and i didn't want to unduly delay the trial of the case. 11th circuit upheld my decision against him and there was a subsequent appeal by the government of my exclusion of evidence based on an alleged violation of the competitived y by -- bid law, but despite the fact that i was right, i should be removed from the trial of the bobo case. so dr. bobo went to trial before another judge and the jury found him not guilty on all charges. and i rather expected mr. siegelman to file a motion under the hyde amendment for attorneys fees. but he still had, i guess, political ambitions and so the motion wasn't filed. there were rumors at the time the case was dismissed that mr. siegelman would be pursued in the miller district. well, this past sunday, the "birmingham news" ran an articl

. >> mr. henry -- >> thank you, mr. chairman. today i have the privilege of introducing our witness whose company is headquartered in charlotte, north carolina. my district is just to the west of. the only committee from the carolinas i think it's my duty and privilege to introduce our witness. kenneth d. lewis is the chief executive officer of bank of america. he's responsible for more than $55 million consumer and small business relationships and $1.7 trillion in total client assets with various business and institutional clients in more than 150 countries and business relationships with 98% of u.s. fortune 500 companies. mr. lewis oversees one of the the largest financial services corporations in the world and one of the largest institutions headquartered in north carolina. born in 1947 he earned a bachelor' degree in finance from georgia state university and a grut of the executive program at stanford university. arising in 1969, which is bank of america's predecessor. he served more than 30 years within in the bank and 2001

but i believe there was another amendment made by my friend, mr. henry from north carolina, that would have done even more to ensure the integrity of this process. mr. mchenry and my friend and colleague, have worked tirelessly on this very issue. they know more than any other members in this chamber the pitfalls and constitutional concerns that come with the use of statistical sampling, both as it relates to the census and to the apportionment process of this very body. but because of this gag rule that the majority has imposed upon us, mr. mchenry's amendment will not be eligible to be debated, which is shameful. this is just one example of how the democrats' decision to completely close off the amendment process for this bill is ending up shutting out meaningful debate. the tactics employed yesterday in the dead of the night are completely against the promise of openes and integrity this body is supposed to stand for. i reserve my time. the chair: the gentleman reserves the balance of his time. for what purpose does the gentleman from west virginia ri

recreational boating community and industries and now recognize our colleague from south carolina, mr. henry brown, for such time as he may consume. mr. brown: i appreciate my colleague from wisconsin for yielding. i rise today to to support house resolution 410, legislation i was proud to introduce with representative klein. 75% of south carolina's coast and many of my commercial bothers, i'm proud of this resolution that recognizes the numerous contributions of the recreational and boating community. boating is big business in the state of south carolina with more than 826 million in sales a year and nearly 9,000 boating industry employees across the state. boats are owned by families of all income levels and across communities in the state. there are 145 boating businesses rangesing from small businesses to major boat manufacturers and employ hundreds of my constituents. nationally, the recreational boating community includes 59 million americans that make a significant impact to our community. they serve as stewards of the marine environment. it has a long history of education of future

mr. cuellar, who has worked so well with all of us in the texas delegation, worked so well in securing our southern border. henry cuellar and i were elected together, mr. rodriguez, henry and i were elected together to the texas ledge pour that 1986. that friendship we formed has served us well today and we've worked together in establishing a program called operation steamline, a zero tolerance program where we are enforcing in texas existing law with largely existing resources to arrest and prosecute essentially everybody that crosses the border illegally between dell rio and zapata county, wrult that the crime rate has plummeted. they've seen about a 60% drop in the crime rate. in dellrie to -- dell rio, over 70% drop in the crime rate and the lowest level in crossings. this is an -- this is a piece of good news the nation needs to hear, that our border is far more secure in texas because we're enforcing existing law, applying common sense and working together in a partnership between state and local authorities and the federal authorities and we have in texas, i think, demonstrated that texas, we always keep

mr. siegelman and his legislative aide, paul henry, had been egged in a conspiracy count. and in that second case, the united states attorney embarked on a spree of shopping for a republican judge. that spree had actually started a few months before the bobo/siegelman case, when the united states attorney asked a clinton-appointed judge johnson to disqualify herself, first time in the history of the northern district of alabama, that the united states ever questioned the recusal of a judge in a criminal case. judge johnson indulged the united states attorney and removed herself not only from that case, but all other government cases until a decent "cooling off period is passed," she said. she wrote that the government and its agencies that are represented by the united states attorney shouldn't be forced to try cases before a judge who has been slandered by the united states attorney. that left two active judges appointed by democratic presidents in the criminal draw for the northern district. the case was initially assigned to a senior bush appointed judge. well, actually

mr. president, before i proceed i ask unanimous consent that henry williams and jessica martinez of senator bingaman's office be granted privileges of the floor during the debate of travel promotion bill. the presiding officer: without objection, so ordered. mr. inouye: mr. president, i find it very difficult to be on the opposing side to my dear friend from new hampshire. there's been a lot of discussion on the premise that the conferees did not pay for the cash for clunkers bill. mr. president, technically, that is correct. but i believe my colleagues should be advised that under the congressional budget office, the c.b.o. scoring, the conferees are scored with a savings of $1.47 billion in discretionary spending in this bill. in title 14 of the bill, the conferees included a provision which mandates that more than $1 billion in discretionary spending in rescissions shall be allocated as savings to the bill not used as an offset. while the conferees were required to designate the cash for clunkers title as an emergency for technical reasons, it is also true that we included $1 billion off

of course he hasn't learned from henry morgenthau. i yield back. mr. lamborn: the gentleman from missouri is correct. it is so inconsistent. if this was the previous president, the press would just be laying right into him. right now they're giving the president a pass. and it's inconsistent and i think the american people can see through that. and, congressman, you also mentioned, what are these phantom jobs out there that were saved? anyone can claim, well, there's a 100,000, 200,000, 300,000 jobs out there that were saved, i can't document it but take my word for it, and the press isn't looking at that either. i wish the press would do their job of being an honest, objective observer and reporter of what the facts are. and until the press does that, the mesh people are really not being -- the american people are really not being served well. mr. akin: i think you're right. and i'd like to just take a moment and get into -- these numbers are easy for us to rattle off, just off the tip of our tongue. but let's take a look. first of all, you've got $70

mr. buyer: thank you. i'd like to congratulate henry waxman and senator kennedy and others with regard to their tenacity and persistence over the years. what is unfortunate is that we were not able to incorporate harm reduction strategies. it is also unfortunate that we are continuing to place more burdens and responsibilities upon f.d.a. what i had sought to do is to regulate tobacco. i do not smoke, i don't encourage anyone to smoke. the health risks associated with smoking i believe are -- people recognize them. it's cognizant. tobacco is an adult product. it's legal. and we are faced with this question of moralism versus pramat -- pragmatism. what i sought to do is to choose the pragmatic side of the equation and to incorporate a harm reduction strategy with the abstinence approach in the kennedy-waxman legislation. while the authors of the bill, madam speaker, would say that, well, steve, we have harm reduction in the bill. well, it is mentioned in the bill but there is a two-tier standard in the bill that has been cleverly written in a manner to be an entry barrier to new innovative tobacco products.

mr. rush. i mean so many members, including members off the committee, like henry cuellar from the state of texas who worked with us on natural gas-related issues. we will not be here unless we had the cooperation of so many members across the full spectrum of the house. during this process we have received valuable input and expertise from other leaders in the house like chairman rangel on trade issues, chairman peterson on agriculture issues, amongst, again, many others. the legislation we have before us today is the most important energy and environment legislation to ever have been considered in the history of the united states. the consequences for our country are great unless we act to deal with these issues. this legislation sets a new course for our country creating millions of new clean energy jobs while reducing our dependence upon imported oil. and when it becomes law and it will, for the first time in the history of the united states congress, for the first time in the history of our country we will put enforceable limits on global warming pollution. at its core, however, this is a jo

mr. president, i've watched with great admiration, senator dodd's work on this. i worked with chairman, with henry waxman in the house of representatives. and senator kennedy, senatorred ssenatordodd and congressman wae never given up and i am appear tich particularly to senator dodd. i boil this issue down to almost one sentence: i remember sitting in front of the "help" committee in the house of representatives many years ago and seeing the tobacco company executives stand in front of us, raise their right hand and swear to tell the truth and they didn't exactly tell the truth when they talked about nicotine not being an addiction but i learned one simple concept that we have known this number for years, 400,000 americans die every year from tobacco-related illness. that means on the average more than 1,000 americans die every single day from tobacco-related illnesses. no if you are a tobacco executive, mr. president, what you think about is this: you've lot 4 hundred dho 400,000 custou need to replenish your base much what do you do? you need to find 400,000 new customers every year. you don't

>> host: that was a conversation with henry kissinger, national security adviser on the situation in hanoi and my question is the relationship between mr. kissinger. >> i noticed this during the next and interviews and in two years later when i did an in depth thing with henry kissinger on his memoir and that was that richard nixon and henry kissinger both wanted to credit for the things that went right in foreign policy and they didn't want debit for the things that went wrong. they wanted to grab all the credit as far as they could from themselves and they couldn't talk because the judgment of history nixon and kissinger would have an umbilical cord, so what happened was nixon making his bid for the maximum credit would say in the interviews things like henry, henry kissinger is just a brilliant mind, brilliant mind. like most intellectuals of course unreliable sometimes and doesn't follow through with things so he would be saying he's very intellectual and in order to say that it needed a father figure, had a figure when he was weak or changed his mind. meanwhile henry's line on that was to say president nixon was one of the greates

mr. pomo did and i want áo@ >> i did not. >> ken lewis testified under oath and said you and henry paulson made verbal commitments to him indecember of 2008 to provide bank of america with enough money to fill the hole created by the $12 billion lost at merrill lynch. in december of 2008, did you promise mr. lewis that she would provide bank of america with enough capital to fill the $12 billion hole created by losses at merrill lynch? the $12 billion hole created by losses at merrill lynch? >> i did not promise any specific amount of money. what was committed was the commitment of the government to work in good faith with bankamerica to develop a contingency plan that would assure the viability of the company in case of a financial crisis. >> chairman bernanke, in an e-mail the committee recently obtained under subpoena to a topic employee of the new york federal reserve communicates with your general counsel regarding questions the sec had about the bank of america bailout. can you explain why bank of america would complain about someone talking to the sec and why it appears federal reserve and employees were not complet

henry paulson or paul senate in geithner? >> on a personal basis as far as i could discover and mr. geithner are certainly much more to of a kind and then mr. paulson and mr. bernanke. >> can you explain that? >> well, let's say that i can't -- but i have a kind of look at life that is marked parallel and a look at economics and financial methods that are more comparable. i think it must have been quite difficult situation for mr. bernanke when the financial crisis turned and maybe you can go back in your memory, it took quite a while for paulson and the bush administration to realize that this was really bad. this is not just a minor crisis that would go away in three months' time and i think there have been very interesting articles amongst "the new york times" about what bernanke had to do to convince paulson and other people in the bush administration that this was serious and is needed urgent personal reaction to prevent from getting into something really bad. >> there was a lot of resistance to government intervention in general which now we have seen pretty much told. practic

mr. goldstein, what are some of the books you have coming out and later 2,009? >> this summer we are publishing henry waxman, the waxman report in july, it is a look back some of the landmark legislation of the congressman has involved involved with, tobacco, clean air, nutritional labels and what he does is explained to us how coalitions are built, how bills can move from subcommittees' to committees, how you collect votes and it is really a look and how the sauce is made in and, of course, the congressman has a couple big bills coming on the floor this summer. >> did you approach henry waxman or did he approach to? iraq are publisher approached him and thought that he would be the perfect person to explain how congress works and i should add that josh green from the atlantic monthly did a fantastic job. >> another book by peter peterson. >> he has lived a fairly low nominal wife. born in 1926, raised by greek immigrants will, was born into the depression era in nebraska and were tennis fathers diamond, found himself secretary of commerce for nixon, chairman and ceo of lehman brothers and beta the b

and cling pro- life leader henry hyde, former house speaker newt gingrich and former rep bobolink is -- bob livingston who resigned just before assuming the speaker chair. mr. sanford voted in favor of three of the four articles of and be against it in -- mr. cullen. he was in the house of representatives before being elected. geraldine is joining us on independent line from mount pleasant, south carolina. caller: good morning. i object to of the fact that all of the news media and newspapers are focusing more on the fact that what he did to his family, what he did to his sons, that is all well and good. as far as i'm concerned, his private life is his private life. but when it affects the people of south carolina, then it is morally and very objectionable. he left them for five days without a leader, no one knew where he was. he probably would have been gone long. if somebody had not said to him, he was the national object of scorn. but he left us unprotected. no one knew how to get ahold of him. and this is not the first time. when the fires were up and myrtle beach he was not anywhere around. so, to me, that is where the public officials, when they let

henry gerber in chicago. >> just a few years after n like you're subject it hasn't been a well researched other than what mr. katz has done in his book and, of course, i am here to tout in chicago which has begun researching all of a the vacuums that are in our history. thank you for what you're doing. for you m'aam do think that economics had anything to do with the teachers being pursued in florida? i found in researching the of arrests and questioning come all the same kind of questions of the same techniques for used when trying to get the waves purged after second world war because they no longer needed them economically, the jobs were not needed, and also the same kind of techniques have been in the libraries across the country. there is a new biography of gen at howard foster that was recently published and the author has gone all across the country and there were purchase and their arrests and people losing their jobs etc.. all across the country in that time. to you associated almost totally with the political climate? and not economics? >> yes especially since the teacher shortage was going on but

mr. president. >> what were they talking about there? host: that was a conversation with him to kissinger on the situation in hanoi. my question is about the relationship between henry kissinger and president nixon. guest: fascinating. i did an in-depth interview with henry kissinger on his memoir, volume one. that was that richard nixon and henry kissinger both wanted the credit for the things that went right in foreign policy. they did not one criticism for when things went wrong. they wanted to grab all the credit that they could for themselves for the good things, but they could not knock -- in the judgment of history, they will have an umbilical cord. what happened was that nixon, making his bid for maximum credit, would say in the interviews, things like, "henry kissinger, he is just a brilliant mind, just a brilliant mind. he is unreliable self court -- and so on and so forth, and does not follow through sometimes,," and he would say these things when he was weak in changed his mind. new law, henry's line was "president nixon is one of the greatest presidents we ever had. above all, he was a great delegator, and he delegated all the important things to me. so

by our colleague, henry waxman, by senator edward kennedy, by the campaign for tobacco-free kids and scores of public health groups. and it is a big down payment on health care reform. mr. speaker, california alone spends over $9 billion annually treating tobacco-related diseases. this critical funding could be put towards our failing health care infrastructure and make health care more affordable for everyone. with its passage today, i hope this bill will become law promptly and i hope, mr. speaker, that c.b.o. will find the way to score the savings that come from this and other preventive health measures. if we can do this, we can find a way to cut the cost of health care reform, national health care reform, which is urgently needed this year. so as i see it, this is a down payment on health care reform and it's a down payment on the health of our children and our grandchildren. this bill will save lives and scarce resources. this bill is a slam dunk. vote aye on the rule and the underlying legislation, and i yield back the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlewoman yields back her time. the gentlewoman from north carolina. ms. foxx: thank you, mr.

mr. markey: i thank you, henry, very much. the speaker pro tempore: will the gentleman suspend? the house will be in order. members please take your conversations off the floor. staff, conversations off the floor, please. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from massachusetts. mr. markey: -- mr. waxman: mr. speaker, i yield to mr. markey. mr. markey: i thank you, mr. chairman. and i thank everyone who worked on this legislation. all of the members on both sides of the aisle. but as chairman waxman just said, this took an enormous amount of work by a lot of staffers over a sustained, intense period of time and i want to thank all of you for everything that you have done to make today possible. i think you really do deserve a round of applause for the tremendous work that you have done. it's your victory as much as any member and we thank you for it. mr. waxman: and reclaiming my time, i'd like to read from page 333 of the manager's amendment and to indicate my gratitude to our staff director, phil barnett, our chief legislative -- chief representative on -- i'm not going to gi