mr. hernandez, we're going to start with you. if you can summarize your testimony around five minutes or so, we'll be a little flexible here, we don't always get these opportunities and then all of your testimony will be included in the record. with that -- [ speaking spanish ] >> honorary chairman hernandez, honorary member marco julio and members of the subcommittee. good morning. thank you very much for inviting me to testify. my name is normandeau hernandez and i am a journalist and an expolitical prisoner from cuba, member of the group of '75. when arrest, the topic of this hearing, i did nothing but rejoice. events like this show the world that cubans are not alone on the difficult road to freedom. to be against cuba is to be against the totalitarian regimes of the brothers. i am still learning english so please allow me to continue in spanish. >> translator: i would like to highlight the emergent and growing civil society in cuba as different from the so-called civil society of the past which was created and manipulated by

mr. hernandez, yesterday before we had a chance to chat and i found something very interesting, two things very interesting in what you said. you said that there was a red line, a red line of dissident activity which is implicitly tolerated by the regime. but if you cross that red line, that was not tolerated by the regime. could you tell us what activity is permitted up to the red line and then what happens when you cross the red line. [ speaking spanish ] >> translator: yes, mr. senator. we all know that the cuban government allows what they call up to a peaceful, nonviolent, passive fight. [ speaking spanish ] >> translator: this peaceful, nonviolent, passive type of fight includes the people that send information from cuba to the world, but don't go beyond that. [ speaking spanish ] >> translator: and the influence they have within the island is very small. it's despicable. [ speaking spanish ] >> translator: this is like an implicit agreement that has been for years between the dissidents and the castro brothers. [ speaking spanish ] >> translator: this does not mean these people are

mr. hernandez, we are going to start with you.f you can summarize your testimony around five minutes or so we will be a little flexible here. we don't always get these opportunities. and then all of your testimony will be included in the record. with that. >> [speaking spanish] >> members of the subcommittee, good morning. thank you so much for inviting me to testify. my name is normando hernandez, and i am an ex prisoner from cuba, member of 75. in the topic of this hearing i did nothing but rejoice to show the world the cubans are not alone on the road to freedom. to be against the totalitarian regime of the castro brothers. it is to be in favor of the civil society. i am still learning english, so please, allow me to continue in spanish. .. . >> independent civil society and u.s. is self created groups established without authorization from the government to defend their interest in this state. >> e-speaking spanish. >> this includes as the dissidents, peaceful opposition, human-rights movement, professional and intellectual as

hernandez? >> thank you, mr. chairman. >> mr. curry, i want to ask you about jp morgan losing $2 billion or more and being too cozy with the banks it regulates. i know you just got to your new position here. you have an opportunity to decide what the occ does in the future i find it interesting. i don't want to see a repeat of 2008. i know that a free market is essential to our very economic vitality. in 2008 we obviously came to the conclusion of a consequences of a free for all market, where the decisions of large financial institutions became the collective risk of an entire country, even though they were in part of making those investments and other decisions. and then all of us had to pay. and so, you know, i wish we had insisted on capitalization then, had insisted on a whole host of things that had avoided 2008. i'm never forget that meeting with chairman bernanke and secretary paulson where they described largely a series of financial institutions on the verge of collapse and suggested that if they collapsed they would cr

hernandez case? or the mendrano case. why all of a sudden would you start with this fast and furious unless you're saying mr.as also conspireing? >> the big difference is all of the bush activity that you described were handled in an orderly fashion. >> how do you know that? you have not called them before your committee. how do you know that? you just said you don't even know about i them. you said you had heard of them. >> first of all, no one was killed. >> you said you don't know much about them. how do you now know they were done orderly? >> because we do not have reports of anyone being killed or maimed in those programs. what we were trying to do is track guns. that's been done many times. no one's ever blown it so badly as to have these guns -- >> congressman,ç with all due respect -- >> most guns we find are in mexico and in the united states. >> you are investigating whether some government -- the justice department concocted something to go against guns. then why aren't you investigating all of the programs since they started to see if they were concocted? or are you only trying to sell a conspir

mr. neunheiss had two home runs. we're looking at the third baseman, keith hernandez, bobby ohida. >> stay in the game. >> we're gettingre. how are you doing? how are the phillies doing? we're four games under .500. we're going nowhere. >> we thought you had the pitching staff at the beginning of the season. >> we won two in a row. >> be careful. >> thome has a couple of big runs. it's 9:30. someone can say what are we doing talking about -- they are ringing the bell. >> that was legitimate. >> they are ringing the bells. >> okay. let's talk about nat gas for a moment. a few days after boone pickens said the commodity head blossomed. >> energy on last night on mad money, they're the largest storage company. believe me, there's a lot of nat gas. you need a real cold winter on top of a skalding summer to get this inventory down. i will say this, though. shanira is a big exporter. what they're basically saying is, look, if obama doesn't want nat natural gas for service fuels, we will send it all to china. and i have to think that that's going to happen. >> lng, by the way, got a upgrade helping to add to that upgrade that