mr. nardelli, larry summers, senior advisor on the economy to the president, president obama, of course. over here, ron bloom, who i talked about, here's mr. geithner, secretary of the treasury. here is former president bush. so this group forms our new clue travel edition and as we move forward, i think again it is important that the american public know who made the call to force these car companies into bankruptcy, who made the call to lie to 9,000 auto workers at eight plants across the country and who made the call that even though they don't cost anybody any money, we have to close all these dealerships and put people out of work. and you know, i keep hearing, and the gentleman has heard it too, that the -- this task force doesn't want to run the day-to-day operations of chrysler or g.m. but sadly for them, there is a -- an article that appeared on may 11 out of detroit that indicated chrysler wanted to spend $134 million in advertising in the period of its bankruptcy and this unelected task force told them they couldn't spend money on advertising. they finally relented and said, ok

mr. nardelli sent a letter of apologies. i want to begin my expressing my apologies. he goes on to say that in response to congresswoman moore's question about kenosha, i mistakenly answered about the plant in trenton, michigan. trenton, michigan, doesn't sound like deke know shah, wisconsin, to me, and not only are they not a sound-alike, but they're in different states. the speaker pro tempore: so ordered. mr. latourette: oh, mr. speaker, i apoll jismse the other thing that occurred, you may remember, mr. speaker, that the u.a.w., the united auto workers were asked to enter into a new contract, gave up benefits, gave up wages, gave up off days, but they were told if they supported this new contract, that was going to lead to a new, vibrant chrysler where their jobs would be secure. they voted on april 28, all the chrysler workers went to the polls on april 28, to say whether or not they approved or disapproved this new contract. i don't know all of the election results, but i do know in my community of twinsburg, ohio, that has 1,200 -- did have 1,200 u.a.w. member

mr. bob nardelli sent us, thanking us for how we participated in the nardelli challenge. in a flat market, they asked us to buy extra cars, sell extra cars and we did exactly that. this is one of two that we received. >> i don't want to disturb your presentation, but we do need to keep presentations to about five minutes. and so those who would simply, you know, read their written. your statements are already in the record, all of them. so you just pick and choose what you want to talk about. >> okay, i will do that. number one, i will say there are many, many people. we have a senior citizen base. our community, spencer, wav wav, the people, if you take my dealership, if they take my dealership, if general motors and chrysler takes my dealership, my customers -- and i'm a customer there also -- will have to drive an hour to an hour and a half away. there's one old lady that i love dearly. she's 79 years old. she lives 30 mile ace way from me. i pick her car up, service it, take it back to her. how many metropolitan area dealers are going to do that. we are the face of th