mr. miller? >> i think we would support limiting it and respecting the fourth circuit opinion we are involved in. >> could you talk a little bit about that first map which mr. miller put up that showed rich wind resources with the excemption of portions of the great lakes and out on the west coast. it looks like it has the greatest potential for renow able energy. that's not to under estimate the challenges of construction and operations of maintenance cost. >> what could happen if we take mr. miller's maps that have been put together? >> we overlayed it on wind and then resource maps. what impact might that have on your planning for renewable electricity? you are up in the great lakes. talk about that. what potential could that have for michigan or if power was wheeled in through other parts of the coisht? >> it's a bit similar but maybe two aspects. first of all, it's clearly windier you mentioned off shore, unfortunately off shore is tougher to build. you heard the earlier testimony about the

mr. miller and mr. waxman were so much a part of that health care bill.here we are today with an opportunity to modestly and in a pay-for way address the issues of jobs. it's a four letter word. let's use that four-letter word every why we go, jobs, jobs, jobs -- everywhere we go, jobs, jobs, jobs, jobs. i urge my colleagues while some of your districts and states may be doing better than other parts of the country, this is the time for us to recognize that we are a national economy and that the -- what happens in one state has an impact on other national recovery. i thank chairman obey for his great leadership in putting this package together, and i urge our colleagues to act on behalf of america's working families and the creation of jobs in a fiscally sound way, to honor our responsibility of public safety by protecting our first responders and our responsibility to our children to make sure that their education does not have a gap because we have a budget gap. and understanding the role that consumers play in our economy. i hope we will have a strong

mr. joshua cobbs, miss nicole aikens boyd, david miller, and dana halbersonn. thank you all for being here. some of you have come a great distance. your statements will be made a part of the record in their entirety and if you can summarize five minutes or so, i would appreciate it very much. we'll start from left to right. dr. geraldine dawson, the chief science officer for autism speaks. she was a professor of psychology and psychiatry at the university of washington. she is the founding director of the university's autism center. she received her ph.d. from the university of washington. thank you very much an please proceed. >> good morning, mr. chairman. i want to thank you for inviting me. i am very ironed to appear before the subcommittee. i want to thank the committee members and you for your leadership and -- in providing full funding for it become bidding -- combating what is impact. also for your appropriations bill. this year, more children will be diagnosed with autism then with aids, diabetes, and cancer combined. autism research is still significa

mr. miller and mr. waxman were so much a part of that health care bill.re we are today with an opportunity to modestly and in a pay-for way address the issues of jobs. it's a four letter word. let's use that four-letter word every why we go, jobs, jobs, jobs -- everywhere we go, jobs, jobs, jobs, jobs. i urge my colleagues while some of your districts and states may be doing better than other parts of the country, this is the time for us to recognize that we are a national economy and that the -- what happens in one state has an impact on other national recovery. i thank chairman obey for his great leadership in putting this package together, and i urge our colleagues to act on behalf of america's working families and the creation of jobs in a fiscally sound way, to honor our responsibility of public safety by protecting our first responders and our responsibility to our children to make sure that their education does not have a gap because we have a budget gap. and understanding the role that consumers play in our economy. i hope we will have a strong ye

mr. miller. >> thank you, mr. chairman. we have set am bashs goals for training and equipping afghan saerm and police forces. but it remains a weak government. you said earlier much of afghanistan is ungoverned still. having a weak government and strong military frequently leads to unhappy results in many parts of the world. we've also had at best mixed success in trying to build a military as a unifying national institution in nations that don't have a strong national identity. we try to do that in iraq. and it appeared that we effectively armed and equipped every side in the sectarian civil war. the video, the cell phone video, the execution of saddam hussein and the taunting by the shia militia did us great damage, created the impression that was a sectarian revenge killing, not the execution of justice in a society with a legitimate rule of law. what is the desertion rate now? where are those folks going? how are we going to make sure that the military we build is not going to dominate the government and how are we maki

mr. miller, chairman of the education and labor committee. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from california is recognized for three minutes. mr. miller: i thank the gentleman for yielding and for all of his work on this legislation. today, the congress has the opportunity to continue the effort to rebuild the american economy. we have made significant progress since january when more than 600,000 people were losing their jobs. last month, 11,000. dramatic improvement. in november a year ago, it was over 700,000 people were losing their jobs. i don't know what the figure has to be before the republicans decide they ought to help americans keep their jobs, find new jobs and get a job so they can support their families. the fact is, the recovery act, which they want to continue to lampoon and every day, more and more fiscal analysts in this country are telling us that the recovery act is the reason that we have moved from a negative g.d.p. to a positive g.d.p. and the reason we have created more than 1.6 million jobs. those aren't our word

mr. miller? >> thank you, mr. chairman. gentlemen, one of you in your testimony just a few minutes ago, and i don't recall which one it was, but i think the comment was there has been no pressure from the -- for the afghans to perform over the last eight years. is that a true statement? >> i think there has been verbal pressure, but i think there has not been a serious exercise of leverage. >> you were secretary of defense. you didn't pressure the afghan people to perform? >> i had every meeting that i had with the minister of defense, every meeting that i had with president karzai, the subject of recruitment, retention, strengthening their military capabilities came up. but the leverage is more in the kinds of assistance that we've been offering not military assistance but civilian assistance, subsidies so on and i think there's some of that leverage. >> is that bypassing the karzai administration and some of the funds going to the local provinces and areas instead of giving them the money? >> well, i'll defer to secretary

mr. miller. the chair: the gentleman from north carolina is recognized for 2 1/2 minutes. mr. miller: thank you, madam speaker. or madam chair. and mr. frank. we will -- i will include in my revise and extend -- in my revised and extended remarks, the colloquy, i ask mr. frank to explain one committee amendment offered by mr. moore and me and explain the revisions tonight on the floor. the committee amendment and the revised amendment was originally a suggestion of the fdic to get at one of the most infuriated episodes in the entire financial crisis and the best example was the collapse and the rescue of a.i.g., which was not about a.i.g. but the counterparties to a.i.g. and we have now heard the counterparties, morgan stanley, deutsche bank, refused to take anything less than 100% on the dollar of what a.i.g. owed them. according to the special director general from the tarp program, they did that because they had gained collateral of their debt in the last days of a.i.g.'s collapse so they knew they could get paid in full, even if a.i.g. went into bankruptcy. the fdic says it

mr. miller and mr. waxman were so much a part of that health care bill. so here we are today with an opportunity to modestly and in a pay-for way address the issues of jobs. it's a four letter word. let's use that four-letter word every why we go, jobs, jobs, jobs -- everywhere we go, jobs, jobs, jobs, jobs. i urge my colleagues while some of your districts and states may be doing better than other parts of the country, this is the time for us to recognize that we are a national economy and that the -- what happens in one state has an impact on other national recovery. i thank chairman obey for his great leadership in putting this package together, and i urge our colleagues to act on behalf of america's working families and the creation of jobs in a fiscally sound way, to honor our responsibility of public safety by protecting our first responders and our responsibility to our children to make sure that their education does not have a gap because we have a budget gap. and understanding the role that consumers play in our economy. i hope we will have a str

mr. miller, we're in the here and now, mrs.boyd, we're in the here and now and families are struggling and we're facing this whole generation growing up and what they're -- what's going to happen to them as adults. so we have to focus on what are the most effective treatments we have now. this committee provided over a billion dollars to hhs and the recent recovery act. dr. insel mentioned that earlier for comparative effectiveness studies, $1.1 billion to be exact. now, again, we don't say exactly where to put them. but do you know if any of those dollars will be spent on autism? iom, the institute of medicine included one of the conditions that should be studied. and i just wonder if you have any thoughts on that. have you been watching or do you have any involvement in trying to see that some of these comparative effectiveness studies are done on early intervention programs? >> yes, i'm aware of the focus by the agency for healthcare quality on comparative effectiveness, and we have submitted recommendations in terms of the

mr. miller, ms. delauro, ms. slaughter, i don't know if she's joined us yet.inging about this important, important end of session for us. i want to say when we began this year, it's very important to note, when we began this year, the first month of the year, this economy lost 740,000 jobs. because of our recovery package and other actions of congress and the leadership of president barack obama, in this last month, the economy lost 11,000 jobs. 740,000 a year ago. 11,000 last month. we don't want to lose any jobs. now we're going on a path of creating a net gain of many more jobs. but it's important to note that . in that same period, the stock market went up over 3,000 points. from the day president obama took office, where the market was about 7,000, now over 10,000. a will the of that change relates to our recovery package and other fiscally sound measures taken by congress. i think it's important to note that -- it's very important to note what has happened to the g.d.p. think of this. we have stimulated the economy to grow. in the first quarter of this

mr. miller for five minutes. >> thank you mr. chairman. i was puzzled by mr.oyces questions that would have on voluntary modifications. the congress did something very similar in 1986 to what we've proposed with respect to how mortgages. to allow modification of mortgages on farms. and it would reduce the amount secured to the value of the collateral, the value of the forum which is all that really is secured anyway. treating the rest has been secured and then set a term and interest rate that's a little bit above prime. my impression from that. is that the modification voluntary modifications took a huge spike and that the total number of modifications by courts with a relatively small percentage but it provided a template for other modifications. ms. morgan was very tip and volunteer modifications? >> no, there was not a dip in volunteer modifications. in a number of states around the country, until a supreme court decision on this topic ministates permitted the right, the so-called koran down a principal residence mortgage debt and bankruptcy court and thos

mr. miller. >> thank you, mr. chairman. we have set am bashs goals for training and equipping afghan saerm and police forces. but it remains a weak government. you said earlier much of afghanistan is ungoverned still. having a weak government and strong military frequently leads to unhappy results in many parts of the world. we've also had at best mixed success in trying to build a military as a unifying national institution in nations that don't have a strong national identity. we try to do that in iraq. and it appeared that we effectively armed and equipped every side in the sectarian civil war. the video, the cell phone video, the execution of saddam hussein and the taunting by the shia militia did us great damage, created the impression that was a sectarian revenge killing, not the execution of justice in a society with a legitimate rule of law. what is the desertion rate now? where are those folks going? how are we going to make sure that the military we build is not going to dominate the government and how are we maki

mr. miller. >> thank you and for the rest of the leadership, steny, jim.this yields to the concerns we have every week as members come back from their community. hopefully, these positive indicators continue on unemployment, but we hear in the private analysts community and many people concerned about unemployment in this country, economists and others, that that could be overwhelmed if we do not do something to support local government, that we could have a wave of on employment created by the cuts they may face because of the fact that there are close to $300 billion underwater in their budgets, and this bill makes an effort, i think a good effort, in making sure we can assure the health and safety of our community and the education of their children. we are watching every year now as look at and reports from across the country from thousands and thousands of school districts -- as we look at reports from across the country. we cannot afford to lose that because of unemployment in school districts. we cannot afford to lose that because of the downturn in

mr. miller. >> i would be glad to try to explain that. this is one way that we think it is happening. there are probably other ways. the coaxial cable coming in your house, from your set box top to your tv. you would unscrew the end from the television set and screw this -- this tv stick into that end, here. and on the other end of the stick, is a -- a u.s.b. connecter, which is can be -- can be inserted into the front part of your computer, where there is a receiving connecter for that. the same place you would stick a flash memory stick and with drivers that would come with this device, the one we bought costs $70, you could more or less manipulate your personal computer as if it were a television. you could change channels on your computer. the next step is using a peer-to-peer service download, from a service in china that has plagued us or through the instructions like a service like justin provides, you could take those signals which have already been converted and are being read by the computer through this device and route them, upload them to the public internet for worldwide

mr. miller for five minutes. >> thank you mr. chairman. i was puzzled by mr. royces questions that would have on voluntary modifications. the congress did something very similar in 1986 to what we've proposed with respect to how mortgages. to allow modification of mortgages on farms. and it would reduce the amount secured to the value of the collateral, the value of the forum which is all that really is secured anyway. treating the rest has been secured and then set a term and interest rate that's a little bit above prime. my impression from that. is that the modification voluntary modifications took a huge spike and that the total number of modifications by courts with a relatively small percentage but it provided a template for other modifications. ms. morgan was very tip and volunteer modifications? >> no, there was not a dip in volunteer modifications. in a number of states around the country, until a supreme court decision on this topic ministates permitted the right, the so-called koran down a principal residence mortgage debt and bankruptcy court and th

mr. miller. >> thank you, mr. chairman. we have now set ambitious goals for training and equipping, afghan army and police forces. but the karzai government by anyone's estimation remains a very weak government. you said earlier much of afghanistan is ungoverned still. having a weak government and a strong military frequently leads to unhappy results in many parts of the world. we've also had at best mixed success in trying to build a military as a unifying national institution in nations that don't have a strong national identity. we tried to do that in iraq and it appeared we effectively armed and equipped every side in the sectarian civil war. the video, the cell phone video of the execution of saddam hussein and taunting of the shia military but obviously also members of the shia militia that was more loyal to muqtada al-sadr did us great damage. it created the impression that was a sectarian revenge killing not the execution of justice in a society with a legitimate rule of law. what is the -- what is the desertion rat

mr. miller. >> thank you, mr. chairman. general mcchrystal, welcome, sir.n your opening statement, you made a comment about defeating al qaeda, and then in the same line you said you must disrupt and degrade the taliban's capacity. could you explain for us the difference between defeating al qaeda and degrading the taliban? >> certainly. i believe that it's u.s. policy, and i believe it's an important objective that the taliban be defeated. and that means over time, wherever they are around the world, they must be prevented from being a threat against either the united states or our allies. i think that will take many years and it won't be just an american effort, it will be all of our partners. but where they are, i believe al qaeda both as an organization and as an ideology needs to be defeated. and that will require a lot of muslim nation partners as well. in terms of taliban, what i think we need to do there, sir, is -- and we had an extensive discussion about the term defeat. i think what we're doing is preventing -- taliban, i'm sorry, preventing the

mr. miller is chair of education and labor and our policy committee. he has been a major force in shaping and jobs initiative. our mastrestro in the jobs bill has been chairman obey, especially when he is dealing with all the variables of dealing with the united states senate. he has the idealism and the ideas. he has the integrity, and he has the institutional memory and the temperament. i would not go that far. we are in the business of hyperbole, but i would not go that far. temperament aside, a great leader. chairman obey. >> i had an old friend in wisconsin and a by the name of herbie. at moments like this, he would say, is getting deep in here. i want to say thank you to the harry truman of the democratic party, are speaker. we would not have had this package without her. we would not have passed without her. and on virtually every issue known to the country over the past year, we would not even have been in the ball game without her. she is one of the most incredibly determined and conscience-ridden persons i have ever known. and i thank god eve

mr. miller for five minutes. >> thank you mr. chairman. i was puzzled by mr. royces questions that would have on voluntary modifications. the congress did something very similar in 1986 to what we've proposed with respect to how mortgages. to allow modification of mortgages on farms. and it would reduce the amount secured to the value of the collateral, the value of the forum which is all that really is secured anyway. treating the rest has been secured and then set a term and interest rate that's a little bit above prime. my impression from that. is that the modification voluntary modifications took a huge spike and that the total number of modifications by courts with a relatively small percentage but it provided a template for other modifications. ms. morgan was very tip and volunteer modifications? >> no, there was not a dip in volunteer modifications. in a number of states around the country, until a supreme court decision on this topic ministates permitted the right, the so-called koran down a principal residence mortgage debt and bankruptcy court and th

mr. paul for today and december 2. ms. miller today. mr. jones for today and december 2, 3, 4 and 7. and mr. deal for december 7. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. for what purpose does the gentlewoman from illinois rise? california? ms. woolsey: thank you. mr. speaker, i ask unanimous consent that today following legislative business and any special orders heretofore intered into the following members may be permitted to address the house for five minutes, to revise and extend their remarks and include therein extraneous material. ms. woolsey, california, mr. defazio, oregon, ms. kaptur, ohio. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. under the speaker's announced policy of january 6, 2009, and under a previous order of the house, the following members are recognized for five minutes each. ms. woolsey from california. the gentlewoman may proceed. ms. woolsey: thank you, mr. speaker. mr. speaker, president obama will talk to the american people about afghanistan tonight. etion expected to announce a major new escalation of the conflict. i believe the president's apparent

mr. gary g. miller for today until 3:00 p.m. and mr. reichert of washington for today. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. the requests are granted. for what purpose does the gentleman from tennessee rise? >> mr. speaker, i ask unanimous consent that today following legislative business and any special orders heretofore entered into, the following members may be permitted to address the house, revise and extend their remarks and include therein extraneous materials, mr. akin today for five minutes. mr. paul on december 10 and 11 for five minutes each. mr. jones on december 15 for five minutes. mr. poe on december 15 for five minutes. myself, mr. duncan, today, for five minutes. mr. moran of kansas on december 14 and 15. mr. inglis today for five minutes and mr. olson today for five minutes. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. for what purpose does the gentleman from oregon rise? mr. defazio: today following legislative business and any special orders heretofore entered may be permitted to address the house and include extraneous material, ms. woolsey, mr

mr joshua cobb's. miss nicole pickens boyd. david miller and dana halverson. thank you all for being here. some of you have come a great distance. your statements will be made a part of the record. if you can summarize, we will start from left to right. the chief science officer, professor of psychology at the university of washington, founding director of the autism center. she received her ph.d. from the university of washington. thank you very much. if you can summarize in five to seven minutes we would appreciate it. punch the button. >> good morning. i want to thank you for inviting me. i am honored to appear before this subcommittee. i want to thank the committee members and you for your leadership in providing full funding for the combating autism act and for your most recent fiscal year 2010 appropriations bill. more children will be diagnosed with autism than with aids, diabetes and cancer combined. autism research is still significantly underfunded despite greater public and congressional awareness. leukemia affects one in 25,000 people but receives research funding for $310 mill

mr. souder of indiana. >> thank you. congressman milleregy and we would appreciate an answer. on july 31, three ranking members of the government oversight and natural services and subcommittee members and myself past four the department of interior in cooperation with dhs and would appreciate an answer on those letters. i think the point about the project being overambitious isn't a credible understatement. some of us raised concerns of the beginning not about the partners bought about the concept. when you have hilly areas of the border particularly in the area from nogales to where it flattens out by organ pipe in the aho sector, in my district, when i'm going back and forth between warsaw and fort wayne, and a little bump level on the hills like california, will cause me to lose my cell phone service. it was not hard to figure out that when you have relay towers, particularly when the subcommittee visited as a group and we saw the tall towers to try to address that, the wind was going to blow that are we already knew that from the mili

miller, clerk of the house. the speaker pro tempore: the chair will entertain requests for one-minute speeches. for what purpose does the distinguished majority leader rise? mr hoyer: to address the house for one minute. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized for one minute. mr. hoyer: i thank the speaker. mr. speaker, our capital city is mourning the death of one of its leading citizens. a man i was proud to call my friend, abe poland. my thoughts and sympathy are with his wife, irene, and his sons, robert and jim. abe's business skill, his philanthropy changed washington, d.c., for the better. and indeed his legacy extends far beyond this city. it is a legacy that will long outlive abe poland himself but i rise today to honor the man behind it. abe was the son of a russian immigrant who came to this country speaking no english and he rose to become one of this city's most successful developers. he was a boy whose fondest memories were paying 25 cents to sit in the bleachers at washington senators' games. and even when he brought basketball and the hockey teams to washington, he kept his childhood passion for sports. the same work ethic that s

miller and daniel thatcher. it is my -- it is because of their hard work and dedication that america's dollars are better utilized and airmen are best served. and with that, mr. chairman -- mr. speaker, i yield back the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields back the balance of his time. the gentlewoman from guam. ms. bordallo: mr. speaker, at this time i have no further requests for time. i'm prepared to close after my colleague has yielded back his time. and i continue to reserve the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlewoman from guam reserves. the gentleman from florida. mr. rooney: mr. speaker, i yield back the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from florida yields back the balance of his time. the gentlewoman from guam. ms. bordallo: i wish to thank my colleague from florida, mr. rooney, for managing the bills on the floor today. and i yield back the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlewoman from guam yields back the balance of her time. the question is will the house suspend the rules and agree to house resolution 845 as amended. those in favor say aye. those oppos