i mean, i think it's sensible. >> mr. howes? >> i would agree that what he's laid out makes a good deal of sense. >> okay. mr. metlay? dr. metlay? >> i would certainly agree, and my board has certainly taken the position that there are no technical impediments to developing a repository. >> another question for you dr. metlay. you mentioned in your testimony that u.s. nuclear waste negotiator, which was established, i think, in a 1987 amendment to the nuclear waste policy act. i don't think you mentioned this in your testimony. but take a minute if you will and talk more about the negotiators' intended role and is this something that we should or could pursue this time around? if you could. and be fairly brief in your response. >> excuse me? >> be brief in your response. >> certainly. the negotiators, as you said, was established as part of the 1987 amendments act. he was given a broad charter to negotiate with any state or native american tribe. and an agreement to host either a repository or an interim storage facility. after m

mr. eric howes? director of government and public affairs maine yankee. and daniel s. metlee, senior professional staff, u.s. nuclear waste tactical review board. dr. metlay, good to see you. is it mr. or doctor? which do you like to be called? all right. mr. it is. mr. andrew -- and is it orel? with the emphasis on the first or second syllable? orel. like oral surgery? all right. we'll alternate that. dr. andrew arel, director of nuclear energy and fuel cycle programs, sandia national laboratories. we'll ask you to hold your statements to about five minutes. if you go way beyond that we'll have to rein you in. we're glad you're here. appreciate your participation and preparation. mr. fettus. [ inaudible ] >> there you go. might want to turn that mike on so we can hear you. >> i thank the chairman and ranking member for inviting nrdc to share its views on the potential legislative outcomes of the president's blue ribbon commission. i've submitted written testimony to be submitted in the record. point one, in new legislation we urge congress to require standards for sigh

mr. wagner, is that correct, how mr. keith characterized what the former mayor would testify to? >> i believe i have already stated the testimony would impeach the credibility, vis-a- vis the conversations he had with nearly -- with mayor lee. >> what would he say? what is this other reason? >> excuse me. mayor agnos told mayor lee to talk to eliana lopez directly, and asked whether he had spoken to any other mayor about his intention to suspend the sheriff. he indicated he had not. at minimum, that is extremely relevant to the suspension of the sheriff, in terms of his motivations, his lack of reviewing any evidence, or even contacting eliana lopez in this case before he suspended the sheriff. i will add as a former mayor we could have called mayor agnos just as the city attorney has called retired sheriff's, as a witness of what constitutes misconduct and when a mayor should suspend another official. >> mr. wagner, assuming that the mayor testifies, what you say mayor agnos is going to testify -- there is no need for him to come in and say anything. it does not attack credibili

mr. chairman. i wanted to ask dr. winston, you described how the majority of research is focused on traumatic brain injury in adults and that the scientific foundation for pediatric brain injury is limited. and you mentioned the need for focused research investments for better policies to better prevent and reduce the severity among children. it seems that, you know, you believe there's an important role for nih and other federal agencies in congress to build upon existing on pediatric brain injury. could you share your perspective on specific pediatric research questions that could be further or should be further explored? >> thank you very much for asking that question. i think that we need to build up our scientific foundation so that we can improve and be more efficient in how we deliver our care. i like to think about it in five categories. first, to prevent -- to improve the prevention strategies we need to understand the who, what, where, when, how, and why of pediatric injury. we need to -- using biomechanics, behavioral science, epidem

mr. ervin, i understand that retransmission consent payments are used by broadcasters to support local news and local weather. how would you respond to concerns that changes in the retransmission consent regime could under mine quality local programming? >> thank you for the question. first of all, retransmission contents and maybe mr. barrett can give us more information on that, in my understanding generally goes to some to the network, the change, the network or the major network may take some of that and a large part of retranscontent does not flow to the local broadcasters anymore. that's the way it started. now the national network will take a large portion that far and second, of course, it is the broadcast model is a two-prong model, the retransmission consent fees and also advertising fees, so they get revenue from two sources. the troubling thing is that despite the fact that retransmission fees have gone up probably 2, 3, 400% since i started in this business, the actual localism in the local level has gone down from a local news perspective in the sense that to cut costs and operate more efficiently m

how this statement made by you remains true. i mean that the two w t o. minimal economic bloc of the basic agreement and mr burrell sidelight on how we integration of russia w t o what influence we have today. elaboration or for the new. treaty of partnership and cooperation thank you. know it in a letters beginning with a w t o. how do you see i have seen the risks for separate sectors of russian economy. when we are here to w t o there are reasons but the instruments which we use with the requirements of a double to earl make us think by implementing those tools in our economy we can minimize those risks for separate. directions of industry that is agriculture agriculture engineering. car industry etc several instruments are beginning to be used. in full agreement with the w t o requirements and other w t o member states are using these instruments as well that is first second during talks including talks with the european countries we agreed that you william. on several directions of octave it is in several sectors our economy is how we will use the so called transitional period that we will join to the

mr. president of people. how do you do that? >> you look them in the eye and forget about what else is going on. >> an area that i am comfortable with is talking about movies and i know you're a great movie fan. over the years we have watched a lot of movies together. what is your favorite movie, mr. president? >> well, the first movie i ever saw more than once was "high noon" and i was still living in hope arkansas, i was 6 years old and you could go to the movie for a dime. and i would get 20 cents and i think you could get a coke and a candy bar. the only other movie that i can watch over and over and over again and not get tired of is "casablanca". >> i have the stanley kramer

mr. rakowich, how much money did cogentrix get? >> i'm sorry, i'm not with cogentrix. >> i'm sorry, i thought you were. i meant mr. mancini. >> the federal loan guarantee was $90 million. >> $90 million. do you know how many permanent jobs that created? >> we created directly approximately ten permanent jobs. >> ten permanent jobs? let me ask you -- >> but then -- >> not you, but you sitting at your kitchen table. you know what, we just made a $90.6 million investment. this is all about jobs. this whole initiative was about creating jobs. here's the good news. ten people. got jobs. is there any reason the american people no longer have faith in what's going on in washington, d.c.? the disconnect is so great here, it is so foreign to people who live in this area, that this money actually comes out of working people's pockets. no, it's free. no, it's not free. this drives me absolutely nuts. can you imagine going to the bank and say i want to borrow $90 million, and say, i can hire ten people with that. they'll say, good to see you. p

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mr. speaker, how much time. the chair: the gentleman from illinois has three minutes remaining and the gentleman from colorado has 11 1/2 minutes. mr. rush: i yield two minutes to the gentleman from tennessee. the chair: the gentleman from tennessee is recognized for two minutes. mr. cohen: i appreciate the time and i rise in opposition to h.r. 4480. this is a bill that is a giveaway to big oil. if we want to be energy independent we can't drill our way to energy independence but by having alternative green energies that will create jobs and make us independent. we can have wind and solar and we have higher fuel standards for automobiles and that's the best thing we can do is reduce the demand for oil by having higher fuel standards, which we don't have in this bill. the questions about the price of oil and make ourselves energy independent, not going to happen. the other side, my colleagues on the other side, at least some of them, for quite a while, about two, three months ago blamed the rising gasoline prices

mr. chairman, i'd like to take a moment to express how saddened we were to hear of the passing of your father mr. landborn on tuesday. i understand your father served with honors in the second world war and was one of the five guards that participated in the nuremberg trials. clearly, his service, public service was passed on to the second generation. so know that our thoughts and prayers are with you as your family as we go through this difficult time. i yield back my time. thank you, mr. chairman. okay, moving on here. at this point i would like to introduce the invited first panel which was the honorable lisa jackson, administrative agency. the director of the office of surface mining, reclamation and enforcement and joe elle darcy for civil works representing the army corps of engineers. it appearins not a single membe of the obama administration can take time out on laying burdens on the american economy and they cannot attend our hearing today. it's extremely disappointing that they invited -- excuse me, declined our invitations to speak and answer questions to the important issue that

mr. james, how are you feeling this morning. he would say i am stepping, but not high. isn't that wonderful? okay. okay. i go play down by the creek. he would say yes, tkarlg, but be particular. that meant be careful because i love you and don't want anything to happen to you. it was coded in the be protected. he often said be careful now. that meant one thing, be particular, there was stuff down by the creek and he wanted me to be careful and watch because he didn't want anything to happen to me. be particular did it all. when he would say when you go over there, i want you to walk and hold your head up like you belong to somebody. that meant you were representing your family. i want you to carry yourself in a way that you represent your family well with. he didn't have to go through all of that. hold your head up and act like you belong to somebody. if you didn't, you were growing up like a weed. i love dunbar for that reason. fast forward many years later, i am a teacher of 8th grade english. i want to give my students dunbar. there is nothing for young readers. so i

mr clancy, you said something about enforcement. maybe this is beyond the scope but how many people get caught? what happens? what is the penalty and what happens? >> i don't have an answer on how many people were caught but a way to look at the problem is the attacks have been in a time scale of seconds, minutes and hours and law-enforcement happens in scales of months and years. the challenge we have is the difference between those two points. and focus on mitigation, stopping the event from expanding and preventing others from being similarly targeted. >> yield back. >> thank you, mr. chairman. and deregulatiunder regulation get liability -- to protect small business from these. shift the liability to financial institutions. less interested from their protection. it does require them to notify which may be benefits the system. is that a good idea or bad idea? >> commercial and small-business customers are covered in every stage, that has stood the test of time in addressing this issue. >> what is the coverage amount? >> standards need to be commercially reasonable. >>

that's how i would summarize it. >> thank you, mr. register in your testimony you talk about differing needs depending on whether it's an upper body or lower extremely. can you talk about that with us in the needs as you see them are different? >> i think with upper extremities the use of getting the hand function back is one that's pretty critical. as you look at how that's come and developed over time, it's really amazing of the intricatesies that the upper bodies have with getting that limb function back. with lower extremities it's a matter of just gait and walking and functionality of limb. it's kind of comical what's inside the world of amputees below the amputees when i'm at brook army medical center is below the amputees. i think it's a matter of functionality and walking again and getting back upright. with arms we rite with our arms. they're more mechanical as far as what we're doing. they're more tangible with that. i think that's a difference. >> thank you very much. we'll yield to the ranking member for his questions. >>

mr. thatcher. >> how are you doing? >> hello. >> my ex-guardian, we have no secrets from our readers. mr. thatcher is one of our most devoted readers. he knows what's wrong with every copy since i took over. read the cable. >> girls, delightful in cuba, stop. could send you prose, poems about scenery but don't feel right about stealing your money. there is no war in cuba. >> you provide the prose poems, i'll provide the war. >> that's good mr. kane. >> yeah, i rather like it myself. >> frederick remington is a name that wasn't in that movie. how does he fit into this? >> he was the artist whom william randolph hearst sent to cuba to illustrate and draw sketches of the cuban rebellion that had swept the island by 1897. remington travels there in the company of richard harding davis, who was becoming the best known, most eminent foreign correspondent, work correspondent in the united states. this is a real coup for hearst to send these two individuals to cuba. and supposedly remington found that everything was quiet in cuba, there was not going to be a war with the united states. he sent

mr. hall described the way, what happened, how this thing first came about 40 years ago. and now technology has changed dramatically since then. would you agree with that? then i'll go to you, mr. moss. >> congressman, the department of labor has a master switch that controls communications in to and out of the room. no news headline or story can be published until the labor official literally flicks that master switch at 8:30. >> do you have a comment? >> just that, that's absolutely true. one of my concerns, though, one of my concerns with the lockup room came from a number of incidents over the past few years that involved this struggling with the technology coming out. and i do think that there is a need to sort of at a minimum really review the security in that lockup room. >> congressman, i would add, that's why, you know, these discussions we've been having with the labor department have focused on that. they have needs and as we said, i said in my testimony we understand they have the responsibility and the right to set up lockup rules and -- i think our view would

mr. dimon's role in selecting the members of the risk committee and how the committee oversaw the firm's risk management. finally, i hope today's hearing can reveal what lessons that mr. dimon and jpmorgan and others have learned. this hearing will have served a valuable purpose if it helps banks and bank regulators avoid repeating the mistakes of jpmorgan. in this regard, i believe it's unfortunate that the can committee has not heard similar meetings with the heads of other fngs institutions and although the committee hearing from mr. dimon whose bank lost two or more billion dollars of its own money, it has never heard testimony from freddie mae and freddie mac who have lost $2 billion of taxpayer dollars. perhaps the committee could turn its attention to the gse's massive public losses when it completes its review of jpmorgan chase. thank you. >> thank you, senator shelby. this morning's opening statements will be limited to the chairman and the ranking member to allow more time for questions from the committee members. senator warner is a valuable member of this committee and is abse

mr. ergen. how would you comment upon them? i would be limiting my comments because as head of the association i would not be a party to the transaction and not have the specifics that they have in terms of the conversation. all deals like this deserve the vigilant and that's why they have an anti-trust process and we should rely on the skills of the federal communications commission to vigorously scrutinize the transaction for those purposes and to reach a conclusion in the public interest. i don't believe that it's intuitively clear that it's a capitulation and it wouldn't be continued competition among these companies and i think that's why we have an antitrust process and i have a lot of faith in it. >> let me ask you, mr. barrett and you, mr. o'leary. july 1st is the deadline for the completion of the rule making and the implementation of the provision switch i built into the 2010 law for video accessability. can you give us an update as to where the two industries are in terms of complying with that? >> speaking on behalf

mr. chips." that's rather a nice name. how d'you do, mr. chips? how do you do, miss bridges?ng else? ah....well... the denouement i found quite remarkable when you turned out to be the real lady letty all along. no, that's edna loveless. i turn out to be william c. belfridge's ward. ah, yes-- the multimillionaire shop owner. of course, how stupid of me. but then you and the other lady do look alike. yes, i suppose we do. she's 53 next birthday. you're a star and sing so well. i think we should go back to our table. good-bye katie. marvelous seeing you. good-bye. good-bye miss bridges. good-bye, mr. chips. what an idiotic bore. bill, you were asking me something important. you were asking me whether i seriously believed something. they tell me they make a delicious oyster stew here. by the way how do you know she's not here? she? the girl tonight's evening news said you're going to marry. oh, yes, i saw that-- me and penelope fitzdouglas. huh. utterly ridiculous. sidesplitting. i'll have the same as last tuesday. so will i. [sigh] and the same wine? the same wine. man: hey! he

mr. president of people. how do you do that? >> you look them in the eye and forget about what else is going on. >> an area that i am comfortable with is talking about movies and i know you're a great movie fan. over the years we have watched a lot of movies together. what is your favorite movie, mr. president? >> well, the first movie i ever saw more than once was "high noon" and i was still living in hope arkansas, i was 6 years old and you could go to the movie for a dime. and i would get 20 cents and i think you could get a coke and a candy bar. the only other movie that i can watch over and over and over again and not get tired of is "casablanca". >> i have the stanley kramer award even today. later on did you realize that this was an anti-mccarthy movie. >> i did later on when i read some books about the movie. i figured if i was going to see something 20 or 25 times, i ought to know more about it but i liked it because it wasn't your standard macho western. >> did you feel when you were the president, that you also were t

mr. butterfield. how was nixon so confident, able to be so confident in his ability to keep these tapes secret? it seems maybe just with hindsight it was almost inevitable when a scandal like this would arise these tapes would get out. was it hubrous? did he have a tighter grip on his inner circle than he ended up having? why would you say he had such confidence in his ability to keep these secret? >> i don't know, but i was flattered by it because the secret was well kept until -- and to answer the question earlier that someone mentioned, perhaps it was the dean, why he didn't burn the tapes. i always felt i knew why he didn't. it was simply because he could not fathom, he couldn't imagine, the tapes ever being revealed. he really didn't. he had that much confidence. on i'm sure that's right early on. there was no one that was going -- it is amazing. henry kissinger didn't have a clue. john ehrlichman didn't have a clue. rosemary woods did not have a clue. we just didn't run around talking about it. and

mr. kelly has expressed. but bottom line we're talking about power and money, how people get to the table. i don't think it has to do with republicans or democrats. mr. thompson, if i'm correct, just to show his bipartisan nature, he was able to be a part of involved in the transition for then governor givens, for energy -- or natural resources issues. so, you know, the fact of the matter is, we can go -- and i have gone into who is contributing to whom. part of the problem with this process, men and women who sit on these committees are good people. people who serve in congress are good people. the system is rotten. it's up for sale. and the unfortunate assumption that -- or the assumption that occurs about this unfortunate nexus between money and power is, you know, it's inarguable. the only question is, what about these programs. >> the gentleman yield? >> oh, of course. >> i would just point out i think that was the point that the doctor made, that this isn't a one-party problem. this is a problem when you have government handing out -- >> i agree with that. now, also, just to make a po

mr. bernstein directly. >> how do you know it is going to be inconsistent? >> because he has told others that the only thing that he talked to ivory madison about was whether madison could get phone numbers of three individuals. we believe the testimony between the two would conflict. moreover, mr. bernstein was a former editor of the san francisco chronicle. it goes to the political nature of this case. on a factual basis alone, the fact stand for themselves. to ignore the politics of this case, to ignore the political reality, to ignore the facts they were key players in this case, and to not allow their testimony would be a great injustice. if i may go back to former mayor art agnos -- i would respectfully request to at least permit us to call him as a rebuttal witness, in the event that, based on mayor lee's testimony. >> i think we can reserve that decision, but i would not preclude that. do the commissioners have views on mr. bronstein? i am sensitive and cognizant that the sheriff is trying to put on a defense, and i do not want to hamper the defense

mr. chairman. >> how are the american people to understand who is responsible for what is contained in these. >> the attorney general will be allowed to answer this question. >> because anyone of ordinary reading including the atf director, former director meson, anyone reading these according to him would have him sick to the stomach. >> does he have a question, mr. chairman? >> so who is responsible, mr. attorney general? >> all right. you really conflated a bunch of things here. the responsibility -- >> you have delivered so little. >> regular order now, mr. chairman. will he be allowed to answer the question now? >> the attorney general will be allowed to answer the question. but i would appreciate no more questions so the ag can answer the question. >> the responsibility about what you speak is in fact the responsibility of a deputy assistant attorney general looking at those summaries to make sure that there is a basis to go into court and to ask that court that -- to grant the wiretap based on a determination that a responsible official makes that probable cause exists to believe that

how soon they can do that? >> we have that, too. i am not sure about the composition of this board. perhaps we can hear from mr. hong. president hwang: how quickly could you reinspect the restaurant? >> probably sometime next week. with my supervisor's permission. >> is there anything else, if you were to reinspect. it is not enough to look at the facility after and has been cleaned. what else could you require? >> hasenin repeating myself, the operational issues were proven over a long time and we have documented that and that has been prevented -- presented in front of the board. what i would be going there for its did someone clean -- for is did someone clean? we would not take a severe action we did if it was -- we did not think it was more than if you swept the floor or looked good for when i walked in. >> are there other things we can add to get more of -- something that would help you, what you were looking for earlier at the abatement conference that could happen? >> i mentioned to commissioner fung, if he is determined to continue this. the most reasonable option would be to have him reapply for another permi

mr. pistole. how are you? some time ago, we talked about training and behavioral analysis. what do you -- how do you select these people, good deal of judgment and tact is required, an overriding common sense, which we all know is not that common. and are any of the collective bargaining provisions impeding how these people are selected? >> thank you, congressman. so, let me answer the last question first. no, there's been nothing impeding that from a collective bargaining perspective. we go through a selection process, obviously, we look for volunteers of those who have the aptitude and then we do a screening process of them to assess whether they would be a good candidate, based on some of the criteria you mentioned, the common sense and the ability to just engage with somebody in a conversation. the -- we then put them through a training and for those that we have at boston and detroit who

>> with respect to how we transmit their signal to other distributors. >> so limited rights? >> yes. >> mr. ergen, your company is opposed to paying for access to content. >> no, we're not opposed -- no, we're not opposed to paying for content. >> mr. johnson? [ inaudible ] >> when you say content you mean local programming or cable channels? >> any content that you -- >> no, we expect and have been paying for the content, yes. >> mr. hyman? >> all we do is pay for content. >> this is something that already occurs. i want to ask mr. barrett, you all own other channels, is that correct? >> correct. when you're negotiating with different video distributors, is that a free market? do you all sit at a table or are there copyright laws or retransmission consent agreements that have to happen? >> we negotiate on behalf of hearst television for consent rights and are not involved with negotiations with the cable asset. >> i want to ask you about commentious made on the opening statement. on page 9 and 10 you had specific reference to hr-3675 in which you say cable and satellite providers, first,

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mr. rakowich, how much money did cogentrix get? >> i'm sorry, i met with cogentrix. >> i'm sorry, i thought you were. i thought you were. i meant mr. mancini. >> the federal loan guarantee now is $90 million. >> do you know how many permanent jobs that created? >> we created directly approximately 10 permanent jobs. >> let me ask you. not you, but you sitting at your kitchen table, and i would tell you, you know what? we just made a $90.6 million investment, and this is all about jobs. this whole initiative was about creating jobs. and here's the good news. 10 people. got jobs. do you see any reason why the american people no longer have faith in what's going on in washington, d.c.? the disconnect is a great year, it is so foreign to people who live in this area that this one actually comes out of working people's pockets. no, it's free. it's not free. this drives me absolutely nuts. can you imagine going to the bank as i want to borrow $99, and here's the upside, i can hire 10 people with it. they would say you know what, it's good

mr. kelly has expressed. but bottom line we're talking about power and money, how people get to the table. i don't think it has to do with republicans or democrats. mr. thompson, if i'm correct, just to show his bipartisan nature, he was able to be a part of involved in the transition for then governor givens, for energy -- or natural resources issues. so, you know, the fact of the matter is, we can go -- and i have gone into who is contributing to whom. part of the problem with this process, men and women who sit on these committees are good people. people who serve in congress are good people. the system is rotten. it's up for sale. and the unfortunate assumption that -- or the assumption that occurs about this unfortunate nexus between money and power

mr. president, how much time do i have remaining? the presiding officer: your time is expired, sir. mr. conrad: let me end on thatth point -- on that point. i'll put the full statement in the record. i thank the chairman and the chair. mr. roberts: mr. president, how much time do we have on the republican side? the presiding officer: 18 minutes, sir. mr. roberts: 18? the presiding officer: 18. mr. roberts: thank you. mr. president, i yield myself six minutes. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. roberts: mr. president, i rise today in support of the cloture vote on the motion to proceed on the farm bill. let me point out what the distinguished chairwoman and the distinguished senator that has just spoken has already pointed out, and it bears repeating. i know it is somewhat repetitive if people have been paying attention to the remarks that we have had here prior to this vote, but this is a reform bill at a time in which reforms are demanded. it saves $23.6 billion in mandate -- mandatory spending, they are cuts, real deficit savings. it accomplishes this by reforming, reducing