mr. peters of michigan. the chair: pursuant to house resolution 316, the gentleman from michigan, mr. peters, and a member opposed, will each control five minutes. the chair recognizes the gentlewoman from michigan is recognized. mr. peters: thank you, madam chairman. i believe we must do more to help our nation's small businesses compete in the global marketplace. success of the global economy depends more and money on i.p.s.'s. the i.p. industry employ nearly 18 million workers at-on-education skills levels and represents 60% of u.s. exports. while obtaining a u.s. patent is a critical first step in our -- for our innovators towards recouping r&d cost, capitalizing on their inventions and creating jobs, a u.s. patent only provides protections against infringements here at home. if the inventor does not register in a foreign market, like china, they have no protection if the chinese economy gets their invention. it is necessary to defend american innovators and inventors against foreign lawsuits. high costs along with language and technical barriers prevent many american small busines

which uses it to pay wages except now we're talking about some action for a million dollars because mr peters families are. asking we want to tell you they were afraid the situation could still. palestinians fear their tel of of can again choose to withhold tax money like it did last month israelis argue that would be right to do so if they suspect the money could be used for buying weapons the salaries of hamas terrorists paid for the same bank account so i don't want confining. only in order to kill me palestinians insist the monies for ordinary workers it is. sore because of one it's a punishment but on the other it's a punishment it's a collective punishment that would mainly weaken the moderate elements within the palestinian society and play into the hands of the extremists the relationship between hamas and fatah is a turbulent one but both groups are trying hard to work together ahead of september's planned declaration of statehood no doubt is what will be working even harder to. and for them should it feel its interests are threatened policy r t women are. more stories on life in the

mr. belafonte, peter yarrow, who emerge as just heroes in this book, and there are people that, i think, a lot of americans don't think about daily or regularly. they're familiar with their work in the past but don't recognize their contribution to the american fabric. peter yarrow-- peter, paul, and mary were there every step of the way from the earliest days of the civil rights movement, risking their lives, as david said, in times when, if you went down there, you really didn't know what bullet was going to go whizzing by your ear, but peter tells us stories that are in the book and in the documentary of organizing in the vietnam war period, which i don't think a lot of people do realize. they think of peter, paul, and mary and, you know, the earliest days of folk music. it was peter, particularly, who moved a lot of artists, including a lot of rock and roll artists, into organizing against the war. he organized concerts in new york city. he had concerts where jimi hendrix and janis joplin-- the only two benefits we were able to find that either of them ever did, peter yarrow organize

mr. peters. >> thank you, mr. deals have changed but it seems to be two issues with the banking industry that i found talking to my community bankers, credit unions and others is that certainly the deals that are coming to you are different cash flows, cash flow is different, collateral is different. some of the other questions we're getting is that oftentimes the fdic will go into a community bank, i would like you to respond, then go into the community bank and say basically looking at your portfolio and sing your collateral that you have, realistic example has dropped for your collateral has dropped as result of that you need to have increased reserves which seems to be a prudent thing to do is to increase reserves as your collateral has dropped. but that, of course, lynn jorde billy glidden because you have to bring in private capital which is a difficult thing to do in a tough economy, a lot of small banks to look like a great investment to people, particularly my area or you have to call in loans are usually

mr. peter pantuso. president and ceo of american bus association. mr.icotr perra, president and ceo of united motor coach association. queline gillan.eln thank of the witnesses for being with us. we were the like to try to limit your testimony to five minutes. could submit a request through the chair. additional information, documentation, or information that you would like to be made part of the record, we will do that. >> thank you for the opportunity to speak today. this has been the worst time in recent history for motor coach safety, with six crashes resulting in 25 deaths and numerous injuries just since january. my condolences go to the families who have lost loved ones in these crashes. i join employees and state enforcement partners in taking these losses to heart. it is frustrating that despite safety standards and increases in inspections and enforcement actions, the risk to passengers continues from a few bad actors. our sick the mission is our number one priority -- our safety mission is our number one priority and we are cracking down on i

mr. peter pantuso. president and ceo of american bus association. mr. vicotr perra, president and ceo of united motor coach association. queline gillan.eln thank of the witnesses for being with us. we were the like to try to limit your testimony to five minutes. could submit a request through the chair. additional information, documentation, or information that you would like to be made part of the record, we will do that. >> chairman, thank you for the opportunity to speak today. this year has been the worst period in recent history for motor coach safety. my condolences go to the families of of loss of a lens = cr =oved ones in these ashes. the risk to passengers continues from a few bad actors. fmca's safety mission is our number one priority and we are fully engaged in a crackdown, illegqa passlanof centre carriers. -- illegal passenger carriers. when we found out the sky express was attempting to operate and sell tickets after we have shut them down, we issued a cease and desist order. on the same day, we subpoenaed the record of 3 internet web sit

mr. peters? >> thank you, mr. chairman. i know how the deals have changed but they're seems to be two issues with the banking industry account talking to my credit unions and others is that certainly the deals that are coming to you are different cash flows, different collateral, but in terms of some of the questions we've been getting from other panelists as well as fdic is oftentimes the fdic will go to a community bank for example and i would like you to respond they are going to the community bank and say basically looking at your portfolio and say your collateral you have backing up your portfolio realistic has dropped so your collateral has dropped as a result of that you need to have increased reserves which seems to be prudent thing to do to increase reserves as your collateral has dropped to that of course limits your ability to lend because you have to bring private capital which is a difficult thing to do in a tough economy a lot of small lakes don't look a great investment to a lot of people particularly my area

mr. peters? >> thank you, mr. chairman.w things changed but they're seems to be two issues with the banks talking to banks and credit unions and others is certainly the deals that are coming to you are different cash flows, different collateral but in terms of the questions we've been getting from other panelists as well as the f.d.i.c. involvement is oftentimes the fdic will go to a community bank what i'm hearing and i would like you to respond they are going to the community bank and say basically looking at your portfolio and say that your collateral you have backing at your portfolio has dropped so your collateral has dropped as a result of that and you need to have increased reserves which seems to be a prudent thing to do is to increase reserves as your collateral has dropped so that of course limits your ability to lend because you've got to bring in private capital which is a difficult thing to do in a tough economy and they don't like when i look in my area or you have to fall in the loans will reduce your ability

mr. peters: with a complete ban on the entry of foreign journalists into the country, it is nearly impossible to determine just how dire the circumstances are. however with the thousands of syrians fleeing the violence into nearby turkey, it is clear that conditions both in syria and on the turkish-syrian border are deteriorating. i therefore urge president assad to allow humanitarian aid groups access into syria. by refusing entry, assad has forced his own people to not only live undeplorable conditions but he has forced them to live in a constant state of fear. aid groups must be allowed in to provide the vital care. if the syrian regime has any compassion, it will do so. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman's time has expired. for what purpose does the gentleman from cap as rise? without objection. the gentleman from kansas virginia tech. >> thank you, mr. speaker. today i rise for a very special trib boot to a strong, wonderful, sweet woman who has played a remarkable role in my life. ed in a yoder, my grand -- edna yoder, my grandmother, will be celebrating her birthday n

and mr. peter portelli is the group supervisor of the phoenix field division. ladies and gentlemen, pursuant to the rules of our committee, all witnesses are to be sworn in order to testify. would you please rise to take the oath? raise your right hands. do you solemnly swear or affirm that the testimony you are about to give will be the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth? let the record reflect that all witnesses answered in the affirmative. please be seated. in order to allow time particularly with such a large panel, your entire written statements and any conclusive material you want to have put in the record will be placed in the record. feel free to summarize and try to stay within five minutes. for the field agents, we will hold you closer to it. for the mother and sister, not so much. we'll start with mr. her, who was recognized for five minutes. >> good morning. my name is robert hyer. i'm a cousin of slain border patrol agent, brian terry. i'm joined on the panel this morning with brian's mother, josephine and his older sister michelle.

mr. peter pantuso. president and ceo of american bus association. mr.icotr perra, president and ceo of united motor coach association. queline gillan.eln thank of the witnesses for bei with us. we were the like to try to limit your testimony to five minutes. could submit a request through the chair. additional information, documentation, or infmatn that you would like to be made part of the record, we will do th. >> chairman, thank you the opportunity to speak today. this year has been the worst period in recent history for motor coach safety. my condolences gones in these u ashes. the risk to passengers continues from a few bad actors. fmca's safety mission is our number one priority and we are fully engaged in a crackdown, illegqa passlanof centre carriers. -- illegal passenger carriers. when we found out the sky express was attempting to operate and sell tickets after we have shut them down, we issued a cease and desist order. on the same day, we subpoenaed the record of 3 internet web sites that sell tickets for sky express and other bus companies.

olindo "lee" casa is special agent of the phoenix field division, and mr. peterhe bureau of alcohol, gabbing, and firearms. ladies and gentlemen, all witnesses are to be sworn in order to testify. would you please rise to take the oath? raise your right hands. do you solemnly swear or affirm that the testimony you're about to give will be the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth? let the record reflect that all witnesses answered in the affirmative. please be seated. ..ll witnesses answered in the affirmative. please be seated. in order to allow time, particularly with such a large panel, your entire written statement and any inclusive material you want to have put in the record will be placed in the record. so feel free to summarize, try to stay within five minutes. for the field agents, we will hold you closer to it, mother and sister, not so much. we'll start with mr. hyer, you're recognized for five minutes. >> good morning, chairman. ranking member cummings, and other members of the committee, my name is robert hyer, i am the cousin of slain bor

close peter we'll show mr wilson what will happen if you keep bailing them out. you know in there you were treaties. it was regulated that there must be any bailouts because. otherwise you would. you would. ruin the public finances of those countries who are contributing to it and as long as each country is responsible for its budget it has to take full responsibility and the only right answer to that is no bailout how the bailouts affect the german economy in germany we are making a lot of efforts to keep public debt under control. we just amended our constitution and put in their so-called truth and pens and kept break. which. defines the steps we have to take with our. budgets. in order to come to zero nine and then start paying the debt back. and it is dangerous if they see us. get infected by. policy national policy of other your partners. in the world it's it is an invitation to have a bigger neighbor policy and say ok you know i don't get any more money from the credits from the capital markets or i just take it from the other countries and they sister thi

and mr. peter porcelli is the supervisor of the bureau of alcohol, tobacco, firearms, and explosives. ladies and gentlemen, pursuant to the rules of our committee, all witnesses are to be sworn in order to testify. would you please rise to take the oath? and raise your right hand? do you solemnly swear or affirm that the testimony you are about to give will be the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth? let the record reflect that all witnesses answered in the affirmative. please be seated. in order to allow time, particularly with such a large panel, your entire written statement and any inclusive material you want to have put in the record will be placed in the record. so feel free to summarize, try to stay within five minutes. for the field agents, we will hold you closer to it, mother and sister, not so much. we'll start with mr. hyer, you're recognized for five minutes. >> good morning, chairman. ranking member cummings, and other members of the committee, my name is robert hyer, i

mrs. kim bocce. former giants managing general partner, peter mcgowan. clubhouse manager mike murphy is here with his wife carol. also with us today, the giants' training and medical staff, the clubhouse staff, the front office staff of giants executives, and the players' families are here as well. i would like to introduce the of the giant broadcast team. tito puentes. dave flemming. mike cruco and dwayne kriker. hall of fame broadcaster jon miller. and finally, two giants living legends, hall of famer mr. willy makati and hall of famer, the greatest mr. willie mays. [applause] how about a big hand for all of our special guests, everyone? [applause] we would like to thank the city and county of san francisco and our community partners, bank of america, caw, levi's, coors and miller, sales force.com, diamond foods, and charles schwab who helped make this possible. we would like to recognize broadcast partners knbr 680, the sports leader, comcast sports net bay area and nbc bay area, who bring giants baseball to our fans all season long and who have made

mr. peters? let's thank you, mr. chairman. let's talk a little bit about going back to the bankers situation with making loans. i know how the deals have changed. talking to community bankers, credit unions and others, certainly the deals that come to different collaterals, in terms of the f.d.i.c. involvement often they will go into a community bank and setting, basically looking at your portfolio, looking at the collateral the to have, real estate has dropped, collateral has dropped, and as a result you need increase reserves. which seems to be the prudent thing to do. but it of course limits your ability to lend. lots of small banks do not look like great investments to people. particularly in my area. or you have to call in loans or reduce your ability to lend. so, to what extent is it that you are having trouble finding creditworthy borrowers? or is it that your own collateral has dropped in value? what is that balance? >> i can tell you from our experience that we have been well capitalized and have had good running perf

and mr. peter porcelli is the supervisor of the bureau of alcohol, tobacco, firearms, and explosives. ladies and gentlemen, pursuant to the rules of our committee, all witnesses are to be sworn in order to testify. would you please rise to take the oath? and raise your right hand? do you solemnly swear or affirm that the testimony you are about to give will be the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth? let the record reflect that all witnesses answered in the affirmative. please be seated. in order to allow time, particularly with such a large panel, your entire written statement and any inclusive material you want to have put in the record will be placed in the reco. so feel free to summarize, try to stay within five minutes. for the field agents, we will hold you cler tot, mother and sister, not so much. we'll start with mr. hyer, you're recognized for five minutes. >> good morning, chairman. ranking member cummings, and other members of the committee, my name is robert hyer, i am the

mr. peter young there -- bear white nose syndrome society. dr. justin boils, the department of evolutionary biology at the use it -- university of tennessee. doctor, you are recognized knell for five minutes. >> thank you, mr. chairman. mr. whitman. in the science adviser to the director of the fish and wildlife service. i would like to recognize with me doctors [reads names] thank you for the opportunity to update the committee on white knows syndrome in the effort to address this crisis. this is an emerging disease that when first reported it was 2007. unlike a lot of the familiar wildlife diseases that we know, like avian influenza, this is very destructive and is a new species to science. we were confronted with an entirely new disease. it was a case where bats hibernate during the winter. found in the environment, it grows on living tissue as the bats are hibernating. in the affected hibernating bat populations, 80% will die. bats have only one pup each year and leave -- live only five years to 15 years. while it is challenging to estimate th

peter increase. >> sam here? basham joe,. >> mr. moment -- mohammed. humberto castro. hold on. i'mgoing going to move down. think most of these gentlemen have letter. >> herbert winer, former, as for consolidating traffic stops, it's meaning less and service. a surface. they're going to have to walk to catch that bus. it's nobody and there's extra loathing time because you have more people. the other thing i noted in the newspaper for collective bargaining negotiations, the mta hired a public relations man and. i consider that. that money could have been used for buses. it could have been used for mainness. the other thing i want to focus on is the resuscitation of the transited sector from this rodget. -- project. m.t.a.'s personnel screens information and the report may been accurate. something from the group should share with the group. that would not inhibit the participation. a lot of people were very unhappy with the results including myself. the motto should say passengers first. >> michael wong, pejia madahar. ok. ken will follow. and then john haans. jerry mcchoir. the

of the south stream who is joining us from st peter's been from the economic forum mr krammer we started talking about about south stream bad in the book all about competitiveness of these two projects but as far as i understand natural gas which you pipe which you pump through the pipes also has also has competition like the new sources of gas for example the shale gas and the liquefied natural gas they're putting downward pressure on natural gas prices is this really the trend this is a true. well you know i think we have to look at the l.n.g. and chilled gas in quite a different way. the shale gas first of all we know the story about to us very large and rather unexpected volumes of shale gas have come to the market there. we are now as an industry looking very hard at what could be the possibilities elsewhere in the world and what i'm hearing about europe in that respect is that yes there are in geological terms certain possibilities it is not yet quite clear how complicated some of the production will be in europe it could be quite different from the u.s. and our number of environme

syria and yemen are provoking vastly different and i'm justified approaches artist peter oliver reports from moscow. mr lavrov was addressing a meeting of the foreign affairs committee of the duma just behind me he highlighted and said so really well russia's stance concerning the ongoing situations in the arab world though he gets outside what he sees as the west in desire regime change in the middle east saying that this was unacceptable and the russians would not support it and any circumstances he also went on to highlight the fact that this was actually against international law. russia feels a little disappointed to say the least about the way. the the situation in libya has become abstaining from the vote on the u.n. resolution that allowed international intervention there they very disappointed at the way they see that mission has gone beyond the parameters laid out in that u.n. resolution and came to avoid a similar fate a similar situation occurring in syria yemen no possibility of parole pulling no punches he has how to those that have criticised russia's stance on the u.n. security council

with the greek public let's discuss this upcoming vote now with only peter bergman from the labor party joining us live from brussels mr berman very very reproducibly on r.t. you're a strong proponent are you of breaking out greece why do you think it is so important to greece avoid a default. well you know if greek would default. it would be a domino effect for perhaps portugal spain because it would clear message to the markets that the euro zone countries are not ready to see greece so which country would they be ready to save in the end it would be the crack down the end of the euro zone as a one whole with with the southern european countries you would get a market song and i don't know what you what else would have but it would be a terrible blow to the european unity and to the european economy and it would be a catastrophe for the economy of greece but it isn't another bailout simply stating off what may be the inevitable anyway and throwing good money after bad. it is inevitable to help the greeks out of this crisis of course the little last time it didn't work. no because the ministers of finance and that is

welcome back across dot com peter lloyd also remind you we're discussing him it's possible futures. ok. ok mr ambassador and we have been talking about yemen specifically but let's broaden it out and see what the international community possibly can do i'd like to add the caveat we have a intervention going on in libya right now that does it's at the very very least it's very very messy. and then make people go much further and say this is a stalemate this is a partition and that we have really nothing good has come of this intervention so with that in mind what can the international community do i mean are interventions off the table now or is it going to be turning into the flavor of every single month as we go forward in the in the arab awakening. well an armed intervention in yemen would be a terrible mistake. it would be even more problematic than libya so that is not the way to go in my opinion however i think what you need to do is construct some positive exit from the current impasse and it can't be all negative it can't be all sanctions and it certainly can't be passivity watching th

mr. manfredo, what's new in the world of technology for sony? >> guest: well, for sony this year, peter, 3-d has gotten personal. we've taken, um, the 3-d television technology that you've seen before and brought it to the home in a way that allows people to now create the content themselves. first, we have a 3-d handicam, we also have a 3-d pocket camera and a 3-d laptop that allows people to view, create and actually modify their own 3-d content. >> host: okay. mr. manfredo, we've got to start with this tv up here. now, for viewers just seeing this without this pair of glasses that you need to wear, it's a little on the fuzzy side. but once you put the glasses on, it's very 3-d. how are these selling? >> guest: they're selling very well. last year we moved a lot of models, and we were very happy with the performance. sony continues to be committed to 3-d and engaging the way that we are developing the content and playing it back. performance just keeps getting better. this is our top of the line model, the hx429. we're talking about $3,000. >> host: and as it goes on, will the price c

well peter if you want to unpack israeli paranoia and hysteria you should really be speaking to yaakov katz mr katz and not to me but certainly i think that what he was talking about about the bind in terms of international p.r. that israel is in is a very interesting point because on the international stage israel is looking increasingly deal of gypsum eyes and again one can quote lieberman and other israeli officials one doesn't have to make an argument up at all here and i think that this blockade and this flotilla that is in response to it i think is a real danger for israel's international reputation and so far israel is really floundering it showed it show no real response that i think convinces the world audience out there that it really is acting in a manner which is legitimate and is the kind of behavior that one expects from a state and i think the fact that the till is in response to an illegal collective punishment considerably weakens on already weakened case all right i am going to give you the last word in the program go ahead in chicago it's where we go from here now ali you di

mr. chairman, you do have one member of the public who has asked to address you under the citizens advisory council report. >> peter whit, yellow cab driver, 23 years native san franciscan. i'm sorry to -- this may be or maybe not on the subject. the citizens advisory council, all right? the citizens take taxis, too. i was wondering why citizens are not involved in taxi service. they seem to complain through you, but i don't see anything on paper. there was a report that was put in the taxi town hall meeting and it said there was a survey done in 2000, that was the latest survey that was done, and that was with dispatch. put out by the police. so i just wondered where is the input on the outreach to the citizensry of such -- san francisco. or tourists, specifically if there was a tourist problem, which i don't believe there is a tourist problem. i believe it's a localized program amongst san francisco's city residents, and i believe it specifically has to do with dispatch. so if i may inquire about that, why is there no relationship to citizens, dispatch, and taxi service? thank you very much. >> thank you. ms. boo