mr. markey: mr. speaker, i yield such time as i may consume. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized. mr. markey: mr. speaker, i would like to begin by commending chairman boucher of the subcommittee for his incredible work on this issue along with chairman waxman, who dedicated a lot of time to making sure that this piece of legislation would come to fruition here this evening. i would like to thank chairman stearns, ranking member stearns on the minority side, along with mr. barton, ranking member of the full committee, mr. burgess and all of the minority members. this bill is, if you look it up in the dictionary, the words bipartisan efforts, this bill number would be next to that effort. on july 26, the 20th anniversary of the americans with disabilities act, the house passed by an overwhelming bipartisan margin of 348 to 23 the 21st century communications and video accessibility act that i introduced last year to update the a.d.a. for the digital era. on august 5, the senate passed

mr. markey, for questions. >> thank you, mr. chairman, very much. as you know, mr. decosta, who's iowa facility, has been implicated in this outbreak, is also tied to a number of egg processing businesses in maine. some of these businesses may merely rent land from mr. decoster while others may have closer ties, like purchasing chicken feed from other facilities that mr. decoster runs. as i'm sure you know, facilities owned and operated by mr. decostner maine have a long history of public health, environment, worker abuses and animal cruelty violations. so just to be clear, hathere be any recent salmonella inspections linked from facilities from new england's. >> not thai'm aware of but we'll get back. >> thank you. i think that that's important to note. to the best my knowledge, the answer is, no. bithink that we should nail that down. so that residents of massachusetts, other new england states, are not concerned -- >> well, let me say this, i think in the past, we have measured success or failure just by an outbreak but the way that we're looking at it now we'd l

mr. markey. >> mr. chairman, may i ask for unanimous consent re. >> yes. >> i'd like to to entere from senator coburn. he's not blocking the comment. senator reid's comments that coburn is blocking the bill are false. >> i object. i don't believe that's an accurate statement. i would object to it going in the record. >> there's objection. it will not be made part of the record. if you want to submit something later, mr. burgess, to supplement your testimony, i'm sure we can work with it. but right now nothing is going to be entered in the record. that concludes the opening statement by members of the subcommittee. i want to call our first panel of witnesses. our first panel is ms. sarah lewis from freedom, california and ms. carol lobato from littleton, colorado. i would ask you to employees come forward and take a seat at the witness table. >> it's the policy of the do either of you wish to be represented by counsel that's >> no. advised by counsel during testimony. do either of you wish to be represen

mr. markey. >> mr. chairman, may i ask for unanimous consent re. >> yes. >> i'd like to to entered from senator coburn. he's not blocking the comment. senator reid's comments that coburn is blocking the bill are false. >> i object. i don't believe that's an accurate statement. i would object to it going in the record. >> there's objection. will not be made part of the record. if you want to submit something later, mr. burgess, to supplement your testimony, i'm sure we can work with it. but right now nothing is going to be entered in the record. that concludes the opening statement by members of the subcommittee. i want to call our first panel of witnesses. our first panel is ms. sarah lewis from freedom, california and ms. carol lobato from littleton, colorado. i would ask you to employees come forward and take a seat at the witness table. >> it's the policy of the subcommittee to take all testimony under oath. please be advised you have a right under the rules of the house to be advised by counsel duri

skeptic, is currently ranking republican of the committee, which is run by chairman ed markey of massachusetts. mr. sensenbrenner hoping he would employ some of his expertise as former chair of the judiciary committee where he was able to obtain information from the clinton administration without, he says, subpoenas. quote, i have had a reputation of really being a tiger on oversight. listen to this tiger action during the committee hearing back in december. sensenbrenner calling for all climate change science to be reviewed based on the so-called climategate e-mails. private exchanges stolen from the university of east anglia in britain. the content of the stolen e-mails distorted and blown out of proportion by the right at worst it's junk science and is part of a massive international scientific fraud. there is increasing evidence of scientific facism going on. >> the scientists in question have since been cleared. several inquiries finding they did not engage in any kind of deliberate malpractice. no matter. congressman issa also wants to do this but do it theoretically as the head of the overs

mr. speaker and i thank the gentleman for yielding time to me. i want to thank betsy markey, who just spoke. she has worked with me hand in in glove. and we were able to get over 130 co-sponsors. as she said, more than 50,000 people will die from blood-related disorder. this legislation asks the house to support this designation of september as blood cancer awareness month. this will enhance the understanding after -- of blood cancers. these diseases need more fund regular sources. this legislation was requested by the american society of hematology, the national my luoma foundation, the hematoma found they leukemia and lymphoma society. mr. speaker, before i close, i want to thank the committee of jurisdiction, the chairman on the floor today, for getting this legislation to the floor, the end of september i will be in raleigh, north carolina, for an event called walk the night, there will be those who have been cured of cancer blood diseases that will be walking, there will be those who lost loved ones because of blood cancer diseases that will also be walking and so, for