mr. owens. mr. owens: thank you very much. i appreciate your leadership on this. when you talk about rural, i represent rural. 14,000 square miles makes up my district, 1,000 miles around the perimeter. i live in a very rural place, and public broadcasting is extraordinarily important to each and every one of my constituents. i have to do a bit of a disclaimer first. my wife works for our local television station. she's the education director. i volunteered at the station for 3 1/2 years, and i was the host of a television program, and i was also the lawyer for that station for about 25 years. . i'm most disturbed because i see what's going on in this situation as really a slash and burn tactic that is primarily focused on public broadcasting. it is an attempt to take the continuing resolution and make it into a piece of ideology. that's not what our constituents are asking of us. they want us to make an economic decision and do an economic analysis of where we are and where we're going. i thin

mr. owens: thank you, mr. speaker, i come before you today after spending 25 years in the health care industry representing my local hospitals. i can tell you that this bill was supported by them because it creates care in our communities and it creates jobs in our communities. if we are going to focus on how to improve care and reduce costs, the bill is replete with opportunity. we can support accountable care organizations, we can support medical home pilots. we can support community health centers, we can support electronic medical records, we can support telemedicine. and support the for medicare and medicaid innovation. that's how we'll improve care, reduce costs, and deliver benefit to our constituents. i yield back. the chair: the gentleman yields back. the gentleman from iowa. mr. king: mr. chairman, be pleased to yield one minute to the gentleman from new jersey, mr. garrett. the chair: the gentleman from new jersey is recognized for one minute. mr. garrett: i thank the chair. earlier we heard the for

mr. owens: thank you, mr. speaker, i come before you today after spending 25 years in the health care industry representing my local hospitals. i can tell you that this bill was supported by them because it creates care in our communities and it creates jobs in our communities. if we are going to focus on how to improve care and reduce costs, the bill is replete with opportunity. we can support accountable care organizations, we can support medical home pilots. we can support community health centers, we can support electronic medical records, we can support telemedicine. and support the for medicare and medicaid innovation. that's how we'll improve care, reduce costs, and deliver benefit to our constituents. i yield back. the chair: the gentleman yields back. the gentleman from iowa. mr. king: mr. chairman, be pleased to yield one minute to the gentleman from new jersey, mr. garrett. the chair: the gentleman from new jersey is recognized for one minute. mr. garrett: i thank the chair. earlier we heard the for

mr. owens: thank you, mr. speaker, i come before you today after spending 25 years in the health care industry representing my local hospitals. i can tell you that this bill was supported by them because it creates care in our communities and it creates jobs in our communities. if we are going to focus on how to improve care and reduce costs, the bill is replete with opportunity. we can support accountable care organizations, we can support medical home pilots. we can support community health centers, we can support electronic medical records, we can support telemedicine. and support the for medicare and medicaid innovation. that's how we'll improve care, reduce costs, and deliver benefit to our constituents. i yield back. the chair: the gentleman yields back. the gentleman from iowa. mr. king: mr. chairman, be pleased to yield one minute to the gentleman from new jersey, mr. garrett. the chair: the gentleman from new jersey is recognized for one minute. mr. garrett: i thank the chair. earlier we heard the for

mrs. kennedy, kathleen issue everybody here, i'm honored to be asked to speak on behalf of the lawyers who served under robert kennedy 1961-1963. i'm thinking particularly of burt marshall, herald greene, bob owen present here today and can't be here, but all of us in the division, i think i can speak for them. i first met robert kennedy on the second or third day after president kennedy was inaugurated. john had prepared the attorney general for a visit to my office in the first floor of the justice department, and he asked for some information as about what the division was doing. there was a black farmer from louisiana named frances joseph atlas, an independent farmer and had about 100 acres of land on which he grew, cut soybeans. he had eight or nine children, and he and his wife had educated all of them. they all had gone off to various places in the united states to work, and november or december 1960, the civil rights commission held a hearing in new orleans and asked him to come down and testify about the fact that there were no black citizens of east carol per rich that could register to vote because in order to register, you had to have a voucher of register official and no white pers