mr. mccarthy: motion to ininstruct. mr. hoyer: what purpose was the -- mr. mccarthy: if i may finish. i was asking the american people to read it and understand it. mr. hoyer: isn't that what pre-printing of amendments attempts to do? i yield back. mr. mccarthy: i thank the gentleman for yielding. one thing i will say as we continue forward, if i could just finish with this discussion, it is your intention to close down or continue to have a pre-printing. is there a number in the gentleman's mind that he could tell this side of the aisle that the republicans would be able to have a number of amendments to just to have a check and balance for the american people when we talk about the billions of dollars being spent, even though we are being denied the amount of time to debate it. mr. hoyer: that's exactly what i offered your leadership. mr. mccarthy: do you have a number in mind? mr. hoyer: i didn't mention a particular number, but i offered to your leadership for over 2 1/2 months. your leadership concluded they would not make such an agreement. i tell my friend it's difficult to put

mrs. mccarthy of new york. the speaker pro tempore: pursuant to house resolution 559, the gentlewoman from new york and a member opposed each will control five minutes. the chair recognizes the gentlewoman from new york. mrs. mccarthy: i want to thank chairwoman wasserman schultz and ranking member aderholt for letting this amendment come through today. i appreciate all the work that has been done and i'm not going to speak long on this. i want to thank my lead co-sponsor of the civil rights oral history project, congressman john lewis, a civil rights hero, for all of his help in generating support for this program. all i'm going to say is that, i thank everyone working together to make sure that this amendment comes through. what has happened was it has passed in the house before and money had been appropriated for it, but unfortunately by a technical change, there was a delay until the year 2011. when we have so many people around this country that are advancing in age, but they have the history of the civil

mr. speaker, once again, i express my support for this resolution and i want to thank representative mccarthy for bringing this resolution forward. i urge my colleagues to vote yes on this bill and mr. speaker, i reserve the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman reserves the balance of his time. the gentleman from pennsylvania is recognized. mr. platts: thank you, mr. speaker. i yield myself such time as i may consume. i rise in strong support of this resolution, especially in light of our critical need for additional sign intists, math ma -- scientists, mathematicians and related professions. this program is so important tone couraging young people to pursue study in these fields. i will submit the balance of my statement for the record and yield the prime sponsor of this legislation, the distinguished gentleman from california, mr. mccarthy, as much time as he may consume. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized for as much time as he may consume. mr. mccarthy: thank youing mr. speaker. i rise today in support of house resolution 411, a resolution i introdu

mrs. mccarthy. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlelady is recognized for one minute. mrs. mccarthy: i thank the gentleman for yielding time. yesterday, a terrible tragedy happened right here in washington, d.c. it's sad when we see that there are people in this country who have so much hate in their hearts. it's sad that this person went out to try to kill as many people as possible and being at the holocaust museum. stephen johns was there to protect the people in the museum and he lost his life. he lost his life being a hero by trying to save as many people there as possible. mr. speaker, each and every day there are killings, there are hatred, put on this kind of killings. it's got to stop. we can stop it here in congress if the american people would actually put their choices -- put their voices a little higher and tell their representatives the violence needs to stop. violence on every level is totally wrong. violence to innocent people is totally wrong. we need to do a better job of stopping the hate in this country. with that, i yield back the balance of my time. the

mrs. mccarthy, or her designee, which shall be in order without intervention of any point of order or demand for division of the question, shall be considered read and shall be debatable for 0 minutes, equally divided and controlled by the proponent and an opponent. the gentlewoman from florida, ms. wasserman schultz, and the gentleman from alabama, mr. aderholt, will each control 30 minutes. the chair recognizes the gentlewoman from florida. ms. wasserman schultz: thank you, madam speaker. i ask unanimous consent that all members have five legislative days to revise and extend their remarks and include extraneous material on h.r. 2198. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, so ordered. the gentlelady will suspend. house will come to order. members please bring their conversations off the floor. the chair recognizes the gentlewoman from florida. ms. wasserman schultz: i yield myself such time as i may consume. madam speaker and mens, i'm -- and members, i'm proud to present the legislative branch appropriations bill to the house. the jurisdiction of this bill is incredibly important. we

mr. mccarthy. next we have mr. kenneth spence, executive vice president and general council at travelers. mr. spence? >> chairman kanjorski, ranking member garrett, subcommittee members, thank you for the opportunity to testify today on systemic risk and insurance. my name is ken spence and i'm executive vice president and general counselor of travelers. travelers offers a wide variety of property, casualty, insurance product and assurity and risk management services to numerous business with individuals and abroad. our products are distributed primarily through the u.s., through independent insurance agents and brokers and the company that's a member of the american insurance association. there appears to be an emerging concensus that there should be systemic risk regulation at the federal level. i will share some of travelers' specific systemic risk regulation recommendations in a moment. however, for any systemic level oversight to be meaningful across financial service sectors, there must be an insurance regula

mrs. mccarthy: mr. speaker -- mrs. maloney: i rise to join with president obama and vice president biden and all those around the world who have been expressing their most profound concern about the events in iran. and in particular about the violence being used against those people who have been peacefully dissenting in the streets of iran. er there are news reports that at least seven have been killed. others have been beaten and badly injured. both the protest and violent suppression have been spreading. it has been reported that there are instances of live fire being used by police in the cities. the iranian authorities have now indicated that they will do a limited recount of the election results. i hope they are sincere and earnest in this offer. as president obama has said to those who have used their right to dissent, the world is watching and the world is inspired. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields back the balance of his time. for what purpose does the gentleman from new mexico rise? >> unanimous

mr. mccarthy will have a chance to get in and break for the vote. >> thank you and i appreciate that. many years ago my husband worked on wall street. he started on wall street i think when he was 17 and he worked his way up and he worked for a very large financial service company. he was in compliance and he has old northeast corridor to go to all the little offices to make sure that they are complying with the sec rules but also for the company rolls and he always found it amazing because he never announced when he was going to be there that he would go into an office and

mr. chairman. >> miss mccarthy. >> thank you, i appreciate it. many of my colleagues have said this has been a very interesting journey that many of us have taken over the last several months. i wanted to ask you as an alternative to federal regulations, some have recommended moving to federal minimum standards that would enforce by the current state insurance regulatory structure. would that solve the regulatory burden in areas such as licensing, market conduct, and speed to market if not, please explain why? >> thank you for the question. we believe it does not. we believe federal minimum standards, many of us run national businesses. we unlike the profit and casualty industry, we price a product one time for all 50 states. our producers are often national. our producers often have customers move from one state to another. so when someone suggests that federal minimum standards is the answer, what that means is those minimum standards will be met but there will be still be 51 different sets of rules and regulations that we must file product app

mccarthy. >> thank you mr. chairman. i appreciate you having this hearing jenkins i questions towards especially the higher education bill was basically trying in to help nurses get more into the system. we have plenty of people that want to be nurses. unfortunately we don't have the faculties that want to hire professors to be able to teach nursing. the good news is nurses are getting good pay now going back in the 60's we certainly got terrible pay. but no matter which way we go and you know, i do believe that we have a good health care system. our problem is we have to need people that are not receiving health care and that is what we are trying to fix and that is important for everybody to know that but we are not quick to be able to do that unless we have enough primary-care doctors out there and we need a whole ton of nurses out there because we also have to look to the future. we are not preparing ourselves at all for the baby boomers. they are not going to go to a nursing home i can tell you that right now. they

mr. towns has down such a great job in marshaling this bill forward, along with diane watson, and i'd further like to thank on their staff mike mccarthy, adam boards of the oversight committee, austin burns in the majority leader's staff, barney frank, mel watt, and dennis moore for their ongoing efforts to reform the regulation of our markets and financial sectors and for their input into this legislation. my good friend todd platts who also assisted in this, and frank lobiondo who was a co-spon or sor of this bill almost two years ago. i especially want to single out for their efforts two reform-minded freshmen who have come to congress in john boccieri of ohio and glenn nye of virginia and especially to amy o'donnell of my staff and jackie sheltree. we refer to this bill in the short form just, frankly, as providing an independent inspector general for the financial services committee that are in such desperate need of this oversight. i thank the -- i think the chairman outlined it well. the genesis of this bill took place from conducting a public forum back in my district and listening to former republican mayor of south windsor,

mr. president. i -- across the street today in the so-called senate caucus room, in the room where perhaps -- next to this chairnlings perhaps the most famous room into the senate. it's the room where the mccarthy hearings, the car artur hearings, the watergate here, the hearings for the supreme court nominees have been -- the confirmation process have been held. it is the room where senator -- senator john f. kennedy announced his campaign for the prz sivment it is the room -- it is in 190, the room where senator robert f. kennedy, whose desk at which i sit, announced his candidacy for president in march of 1968. down the hall -- it is the room where we're today marking up -- beginning the markup of the health care bill, legislation that will -- is the mostt important thing i've worked on in my, i guess, 17 years in washington. it's probably the most important bill this -- with the exception of war and peace issues -- that this congress has worked on in a long, long time. this congress has been trying for many years, as have been presidents, to pass legislation to reform our health care system. and in 1945, harry truman spoke before a joint session of congress down the hall hall in the house o