mr. lewis, will each control 15 minutes. the chair recognizes the gentleman from wisconsin. but the gentleman will suspend, the house is not in order. the gentleman from wisconsin's recognized. mr. obey: mr. speaker, i ask unanimous consent that all members may have five legislative days to revise and extend their remarks and include extraneous material on the pending legislation. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, so ordered. . the gentleman will suspend. the gentleman from wisconsin. mr. obey: mr. speaker, i yield myself five minutes. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized. mr. obey: mr. speaker, the underlying bill presented to us by the senate is essentially a bill to provide funding to continue the war activities in afghanistan. why, people might ask, are we trying to add this amendment to that proposal? i would suggest the numbers tell the story. with this bill from the senate, we will be spending in this fiscal year $167 billion on the war in iraq and afghanistan.

mr. lewis: i recognize our leader of the homeland security committee, mr. rogers of kentucky. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized. mr. rogers: i thank the speaker for the time. i rise today to voice my opposition to the blatant exploittation of our brave troops and the brazen process being undertaken here tonight. with this ongoing char arch de, the democrat majory has chosen to drag out the consideration of this supplemental appropriations bill, now five months lagging. they have chosen to bypass the markup by the appropriations committee. they have chosen to dictate by the few, rather than legislate by the representative many. and worst of all, they're holding hostage vital funding for our troops as a vehicle for more spending, more bailouts, more encroachment by the federal government into our private lives. a clean supplemental, mr. speaker, could have easily been disposed of through regular order months ago. regrettably, the majority has waitedntil the very last minute, tw

mr. lewis: mr. speaker, i'm proud to recognize the ranking member of the judiciary committee, mr. smith of texas, for two minutes. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from texas is recognized for two minutes. mr. smith: mr. speaker, first of all i want to thank the ranking member, the gentleman from california, mr. lewis, for yielding me time. mr. speaker, i'm opposed to the inclusion of the preserved access to affordable generics act in r.r. 4899. most cases in the united states where the civil or criminal, antitrust or patent settle. the reasons for this are simple. litigation is expensive and its outcomes are uncertain. the supposed problem involves a payment of cash in the settlement of a patent case brought by generic drug manufacturer. such payments were said to frustrate the intent of federal law by allowing the brand name pharmaceutical company to pay to delay entry of the generic competitor into the market. the proposed solution to this problem incorporated in this bill goes much to

mr. lewis: i have no additional speakers. mr. speaker, suddenly, my last speaker showed up. i would yield to my colleague, jack kingston, three minutes. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized for three minutes. mr. kingston: i thank the gentleman for yielding and while i certainly appreciate the sincerity of the people who are offering this amendment, i disagree with it in as much as it ties the hands of the military. i have had the opportunity to go to iraq and afghanistan several times and i can say war is complicated. war does not always go your way. the enemy does always cooperate with the best of our plans. and yet, we here in the safety of the u.s. congress can dictate to the commanders in the field what direction the war should go in and the time frame and what

mr. lewis: i have no additional speakers. mr. speaker, suddenly, my last speaker showed up. i would yield to my colleague, jack kingston, three minutes. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized for three minutes. mr. kingston: i thank the gentleman for yielding and while i certainly appreciate the sincerity of the people who are offering this amendment, i disagree with it in as much as it ties the hands of the military. i have had the opportunity to go to iraq and afghanistan severa times and i can say war is complicated. war does not always go your way. the enemy does always cooperate with the best of our plans. and yet, we here in the safety of the u.s. congress can dictate to the commanders in the field what direction the war should go in and the time frame and what

mr. lewis, each will control 20 minutes. the chair recognizes the gentleman from wisconsin. mr. obey: madam speaker, i ask unanimous consent that all members may have five legislative days to revise and extend their remarks and include extraneous material on h.r. 4899. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, so ordered. mr. obey: madam speaker, i yield myself three minutes. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized for three minutes. mr. obey: madam speaker, i have a double and conflicting obligation on this matter. as chairman of the committee, i have an obligation to this house to bring this war supplemental before the house to allow this institution to work its will, but i will have the obligation of my conscience to indicate my individual vote by profound skepticism that this actually will accomplish much more than to serve as a recruiting incentive to those who most want to do us ill. last year i expressed my concern that the best policy in the world cannot succeed if we did

mr. lewis. >> chairman, vice chairman, and members of the commission, i am pleased to help in any way i can in the commission's efforts to learn about a.i.g. and the complex derivative financial exinstruments. i am the chief risk officer of a.i.g. i joined a.i.g. in 1993 as the company's chief credit officers and in 2004 was appointed the company's first chief risk officer by then c.e.o. m.r. greenberg. i established and continue to be responsible for the a.i.g. corporate risk management function known as enterprise risk management. as an insurance company, a.i.g. is in the business of taking on risk. a.i.g.'s basic approach is that responsibility and accountability for the risks assumed by the various a.i.g. business units actually reside within the business units themselves. my role as chief risk officer supported by enterprise risk management is tos a sist the businesses in identifying, evaluating and managing aspects of their risk. i understand the focus of today's hearing is on complex fin

sullivan and mr. lewis they have $78 billion of contracts, and you do not know that the contracts have a provision in them or you're going to have the post of billions of dollars at market values declined if that happened. how does that happen? particularly in the context of compensation, how does that happen? how would you now characterize that? >> the only way i can respond is by giving you the facts. the fact is, i only became aware of the cds portfolio in 2007. i did not receive reports -- i did received reports recognizing that no new business had been written since the end of 2005. >> that is not true. the book was $54 billion, there are deals in the pipeline, and we have a log. there were deals made. the decision was made, but the full wind down did happen immediately. he had $24 billion of exposure, and hedged. >> understanding is that there was a meeting of the mines, both my colleagues have articulated between the rm and aig fp. as i said, the first time i became aware of the portfolio and collate

mr. lewis: mr. speaker, today we have been given another chance to do what is right while un-- for our unemployed brothers and sisters. we must extend unemployment insurance, it is the right thing to do, it is the moral thing to do, it is the compassionate thing to do. those of you who have said that the unemployed are lazy, are going to hand out, you should be ashamed of yourselves. this is not a handout. people have paid into the system their whole working lives. the unemployed in this country want to work, they are desperate to -- desperate to work and we must help them get by. i challenge each of you who plan to vote no to come to georgia, go into your own districts. i challenge to you look people in the eye and tell them that you voted no. i challenge you to tell the people that you valid yoling more than empathy and compassion for your fellow man. tell them as they swallow their pride that you don't care, that you don't have a heart, that you don't have any feeling. explain to them why you vot

mr. lewis: mr. speaker, i yield myself five minutes. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized for five minutes. mr. lewis: mr. speaker, let me begin by making a personal observation. this evening, we are embarking upon the most irresponsible convoluted legislative exercise i have seen in my many years in this body. my dear friend and former chairman of the senate appropriations committee, the late senator byrd would be embarrassed by this process or the lack of process, because it greatly diminishes the integrity of this congress he loved so dearly. i can hear senator byrd's voice clear as day. shame, shame, he woull say. it was 35 days ago that the full appropriations committee was scheduled to mark up the fiscal year 2010 emergency supplemental before us. republican and democrats alike had a number of amendments they planned to offer to make the package a better piece of legislation. but for reasons that remain a mystery to everyone, that markup was abruptly canceled three hours before it was to occur. tonight, the house i

mr. lewis: madam speaker, i want to thank my friend and colleague from colorado, and my friend and colleague from wisconsin for bringing this resolution before us. want to thank the chairman and the ranking member of the ucation and labor committee for their support of this bill and the majority leader for his support and for bringing this resolution to the floor. madam speaker, this year marks the 10th annersary of an outstanding organization called sojourn to the past, the longest running civil rights education program in the united states. sojourn to the past was founded by jeff steinberg and five american history high school teachers from northern california. he started by taking his students on a 10-day field trip through the south to see where the most important moments of the civil rights movement actually happened. he took them to places like atlanta, tuss keke, birmingham, and took them to jackson, little rock. while on these journey, young people met the leaders of the movement. they

mr. lewis: mr. speaker, we are hearing welcome news that house leaders may accept a clean supplemental appropriations bill if it is sent back from the senate. i introduced a house version of that bill last week. if we had voted then t. would be on the president's desk right now. the army and marine corps operating accounts are about to run into the red. without these supplemental funds, the pentagon will begin cutbacks, reduce training, delay equipment purchases, possibly even delay pay for our soldiers and marines. by passing this clean supplemental, we can avert these dangerous situations. we can provide disaster relief funds to the areas that need it. we can avoid adding tens of billions of dollars to the federal deficit that would have come from add-ons passed by this house two weeks ago. i urge my colleagues please pass a clean supplemental bill now. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields back the balance of his time. for what purpose does the gentlelady from texas rise? without objectio

sullivan and mr. lewis and sounded like they did not understand the risks. >> presumably, they understood that there was a probability. i am not going to speculate on what they were thinking, but the representations they made to us was that the probability of those things being recognized were very remote. >> in effect, they understood the rest and were willing to bear them because they figured they were and are low probability events and they did not have to worry about them. >> that is probably correct. >> in my written testimony, i had a lengthy "from an article that i thought was helpful. it pointed out that the type of credit defaults slot they sold -- credit defaults swap they sold -- it is antithetical to an insurance book. the insurance department has never permitted disclosing collateral or any such aspects. i believed that they did not otherwise set aside the billions of dollars that it would take to sell that kind of product coupled with the liquidity that they would have needed if the date are c

obey and mr. lewis reach ared agreement on the consideration of those bills. the gentleman is accurate when he says that is my preferred option on the consideration of appropriations bills. as i say, i have not talked to the chairman and i will will -- i will be talking to him to hetgizz -- to get his views on how these most effectively can be considered. mr. cantor: i thank the gentleman, mr. speaker. turning to the issue of the troop funding bill, mr. speaker, the senate sent the house a troop funding bill supplemental about two months ago. it appeared that that body will be sending us back the exact same version of the bill next week. i'd ask the gentleman, mr. speaker, is that his understanding of the bill, and is it his understanding that that is the bill we can expect the house to be voting on? i yield. mr. hoyer: i thank the gentleman. the senate, as you know, has not completed consideration of the supplemental and are debating other issues, some of which we sent to them. as a matter of fact, i think some of those have a majority support, small lending

rogers, mr. lewis and other leading republican members a mere week ago. this has to do with the kind of enforcement efforts that might be undertake on the southwest border, i'm quoting from that letter. while cross-border criminal activity is not a new phenomena, it has escalated into an unquestionably clear and present threat to the security of the united states. therefore, we believe it is necessary to pursue any and all means of addressing this threat within the parameters of the law. mr. speaker, i submit that that is exactly what our supplemental emergency appropriations bill does and for that reason, i urge its adoption. i reserve the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman reserves. the gentleman from kentucky is recognized. mr. rogers: i yield myself such time as i may consume. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognize. mr. rogers: the gentleman is correct, years ago, when we requested and put in the bill funding for the border, and some of it was emergency, so-called emergency spending but that was at a time when we d

thank you. [ laughter ] mr. lewis. >> thank you, madam chair. i very much appreciate you and miss granger bringing this hearing together. these witnesses are perhaps as good as we could have to help us focus a different way on afghanistan. ambassador holbrooke and dr. sha we appreciate your being here. ambassador holbrooke, it was perhaps 25 years ago when i first asked this question relating to the poppy i afghanistan that weearned a lot more about after "charlie wilson's war." we've made significant progress, i gather, in connection with at least interdicting and trying to deal with the cash flows that go to warlords and turn and support the taliban and our terrorist opponents. i'm very concerned that we haven't in a comprehensive way developed a policy to try to long-term deal with this. perhaps, madam chair, the most lasting example of socialism in the world has existeds between the american government and agriculture. it seems crazy to me that in some way we haven't been willing to say that the poppy in those narcotics flows are so importan

mr. lewis: mr. speaker, for 75 years social security has lift millions of seniors and disabled americans out of poverty. that is why i can't believe that republicans would cut social security benefits and make it harder for people who work all their lives to get benefits. social security is a sacred trust. it is a trust between the american government and the american people. it is a trust between parents and children, between those working and those in retirement. it is an example of the beloved community in america. we will not allow anyone to cut social security. we will hold this sacred trust for generations yet to come. i yield back the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from alabama rise? >> to address the house for one minute and to revise and extend my remarks. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized. >> thank you, mr. speaker. i want to talk to you about jobs. i come into this chamber often to hear my democratic colleagues to hear h

i see also mr. lewis on the floor, the former chairman of the defense committee and the appropriations committee, i thank him for working on this bill and working on this throughout his long career here in congress in support of our men and women in the armed forces. it's one of the true honors of my lifetime to introduce and recognize chairman david obey. in the last 3 1/2 years, this congress has increased veterans' funding by more than any other 3 1/2 year period in history that would not have happened had it not been for the allocations and personal leadership of david obey. while others of us have been the ones sometimes recognized by veterans groups for our work over these past 3 1/2 years, it's been chairman obey's leadership and partnership with speaker pelosi behind the scenes that made all these new programs, including the funding of the g.i. bill, that's helped over 500,000 service men and women and veterans and their families. it's been mr. obey's leadership that's made a difference in this pr

lincoln diaz, lewis guiterrez and mr. diaz from florida. i believe is retiring. but you interviewed them in spanish? >> yes. >> i want you to see, or people to see what you do on your network. >> okay. [conversation in spanish] >> you're in there and who's the woman? >> that's my coanchor. we've been working together for more than 20 years now. >> your bilingual. obviously. can you tell the difference? is there a different emotion in spanish than english? >> i hope you have the opportunity to watch up the work up through uni vision and you might think it's a different game and year because of the way we express our emotions in spanish completely different than the announcers on espn. world cup. going beyond that, the u.s. is the largest spanish speaking country in the world with the exception of mexico. latinos are a growing factor in this country and they'll be the majority eventually. i'm not saying we're becoming a bilingual country but already part of the united states are bilingual in that part of our culture as the united states of america is just to have a

mr. speaker. the prime minister has said he wants to see more companies owned by their workers, the so-called john lewismodel. sheffield masters is one of those companies. will the prime minister, therefore, now accept that he % was wrong to criticize the shareholders for seeking a loan from theovernment as they were not seeking to line their own pockets. they have not yet taken a penny in dividends. what they were seeking to the was to ensure the future of that company and other jobs in the u.k. >> the honorable lady talks about the importance of firms being owned by their own employees. well, i'm looking forward to her support and the support of everybody opposite when we make sure the post office has that sort of ownership model and we get the best investment as well so i'll take that as a yeshen. >> mr. gary streeter. >> thank you, thank you, mr. speaker. thank you, mr. speaker. about 5,000 young people a year live local authority care and without parental support many f them end up in the streets or in our prisons. does the new government plans to intervene in the lives of this very vulnerable grou

search for red bull lewis hamilton was fourth and still leads the drivers' championship from jenson button to his face was a despite this result is a victory for a. terrifying us already mr ingersoll. top three in qualifying. in the race you know the best feeling as well as the recovery to be improving. over saul and on to the work on this one or two in a film about this good performance from the team and hopefully next week in hungary we can do our all that we can must work on scoring some strong points for the team are staying on the track ok renzo has won moto g.p. as he was called free it was his sixth victory in. eight races this year and extends three to seventeen points in the championship a spaniard came home three and a half seconds faster than his nearest rival casey stoner on defending world champion valentino rossi finished third despite still racing with a broken leg. i make i would just drive but suddenly they they were taking me so quick. and i didn't understand. why but. i found myself in the four position so. i tried to do it big enough but she will be. and then i put in the position i. make a mistake you're with him and danny was big you saw are they pu

red bull lewis hamilton was fourth and still leads the drivers' championship from jenson button to his face alongside despite sunday's result is a victory for so far in. their fingers already mr ingersoll for the team. top three in qualifying. in the race you know the best feeling as well is that they've got good been proven. over saul and down to their word on this one or do anything about this i would performance from the team and hopefully next week in hungary we can do our i want to we can as well i'm scoring some strong points for the team. staying on the track ok renzo has won motor g.p.'s he was crime free it was his sixth victory in eight race. is this year and extends his lead to seventy two points in the championship a spaniard came home three and a half seconds faster than his nearest rival casey stoner on defending world champion valentino rossi finished third despite stories of the broken leg. i make i was just tired but suddenly they they were taking me so weak. and i don't understand. why but i found myself in the position so i. i tried to do it big enough but she will be. and then i put in that position i. make a mistake you would take him and then deep down h

mr. steele , thank you for riegger. i would like knowledge that people from the congressional black caucus, and barbara lee here today. john lewis has been called the conscience of the congress, and to date -- and today the challenge is that this injustice has been partially corrected by giving the recognition that we do. it is -- also like to recognize at least two leaders from the african-american community. the clerk of the house [applause] and terry is the ceo of the capital visitors center. thank you, terry. and i do not know where lorraine is. still working. making sure everything is every -- going ok. over the past decade, the slave labor task force work to document the history of slavery constructed walls of the united states capitol. we know that and the contribution of the reid family. it was a dark chapter in our past, and with equality denied, rights reviews, a dream not yet realize, they gave us this house of liberty and the beacon of hope for our nation and indeed the world. history books up until now had not reported their story or the pivotal role that they played in erecting the capital. the tale will be written