mr. peterson: i thank think gentleman. i know he will work with us as he has through this part of the process. mr. dingell: i thank the gentleman. . the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from oklahoma. mr. lucas: i yield one minute to the gentleman from ohio, the minority leader, mr. boehner. the speaker pro tempore: the minority leader is recognized for one minute. mr. boehner: mr. speaker, my colleagues, here we go again. this is a major piece of legislation that was introduced last night at the rules committee about 12:15. then about 9:36 this morning we saw another version of this bill introduced to replace the first version. and then at 10:50 this morning we see a third version of the same bill. this may be a great bill. i have no idea. but the fact is that introducing three different versions of the bill yet this day and then bringing it to the floor some four hours later begins to ask the question, did anybody read the bill? now, i think the chairman and ranking member and the chairman of the subcommittee probably d

mr. peterson. mr. frank. >> thank you, mr. peterson.and i begin with an apology to our friends in the media. there is no fight to cover between these two committees. i know that's an easier topic than the complexities of how actually to do something. but i believe that the besetting sin of the house of representatives is jurisdictional fights. and n which our egos get in the way of good public policy. i am very proud that chairman peterson and i and other members of our committee, as well as chairman ginsler and chairwoman shapiro have made very extra special efforts to avoid that. and i believe we have achieved that. and there will be some disagreements, but they will be based on substance. there are some areas where there were no disagreements. clearly, we will be significantly expanding the regulation of derivatives. and i want to address the issue that was raised by the very thoughtful gentleman from idaho, with whom i agree on most issues, not on the question of the merger. i will say if we were starting from scratch, i don't think

mr. peterson. and i begin with an apology to our friends in the media.e is no fight to cover between these two committees. i know that's an easier topic than the complexities of how actually to do something. but i believe that the besetting sin of the house of representatives is jurisdictional fights. and n which our egos get in the way of good public policy. i am very proud that chairman peterson and i and other members of our committee, as well as chairman ginsler and chairwoman shapiro have made very extra special efforts to avoid that. and i believe we have achieved that. and there will be some disagreements, but they will be based on substance. there are some areas where there were no disagreements. clearly, we will be significantly expanding the regulation of derivatives. and i want to address the issue that was raised by the very thoughtful gentleman from idaho, with whom i agree on most issues, not on the question of the merger. i will say if we were starting from scratch, i don't think we would have the current organizational structure. but we'r

mr. peterson and the agriculture committee for this effort. with that, let me just yield two minutes to the the gentleman from connecticut, mr. courtney, for the purposes of a colloquy. chairman chirm the gentleman is recognized -- charmede the gentleman is recognized. mr. courtney: i rise to talk about the desperate state of our nation's dairy industry which has experienced collapse in prices. i had the honor of accompanying chairwoman delauro to the greenbacker in connecticut and we heard firsthand from dairy farmers across connecticut about the difficulties that they're facing, particularly regarding the cost of production and the rapid decline of dairy prices over the past year. could the chair woman speak to this issue and what relief might be available to these farmers. ms. delauro: i thank the chair woman. on behalf of the dairy industry, dairy farmers have been challenged like never before. i support efforts to provide increased relief to these farmers. i thank you, courtney and other members for their efforts. i'm committed to helping

mr. jackson pronounced did. >> dr. kerry peterson. you've been listening to all of this. the big question, of course, why didn't, when the paramedics arrived, they immediately take michael jackson into an ambulance and do all their work on him on the way to the hospital? dr. conrad murray was the doctor in charge. he had the authority. he said to them, stay there for 42 minutes to work on michael jackson without a pulse, without breathing in the home. what do you make of that decision? >> well, what i would gather when it comes to resuscitation, time is of the essence. you don't have seconds to spare when someone is not breathing. presumingly dr. murray was in a panic at that moment because he had attempted resuscitative efforts unsuccessfully and probably not thinking very rationally at that time. when ems arrived they would administer cpr immediately right there in the bed and would transport him as they were doing the cpr along the way. so i imagine that their emotions were running very high but the em serks was very well-qualified to do what they're trained to do. >>

mr. speaker, i congratulate f.n.s. on 40 years of great work. once again, i thank chairman peterson for his willingness to move this resolution through the process quickly, and i want to thank my friend, mr. scott, for all of his leadership. and i yield back the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields back. the gentleman from pennsylvania, mr. thompson. mr. thompson: mr. speaker, i have no further speakers, so i yield back the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields back the balance of his time. the gentleman from georgia, mr. scott. mr. scott: thank you, mr. speaker. in closing, mr. speaker, i could not be more eloquent than my good friend from massachusetts, mr. mcgovern, our distinguished co-chair of the congressional hunger caucus, because he spoke so well. but one fact shows a significance of the food and nutrition services and the work of our united states agriculture department in this area is the fact that when we look at child nutrition and specifically our school lunch program, it has been documented in all too many cases

mr. alder, currie, childers, cooper, fattah, gordon, harman, holden, mish showed, mitchell, murphy, peterson, scott, space, taylor, wilson, at mire, barry, bowen, boyd, chandler, davis,le ellsworth, griffith, herseth sandlin, kratovil, melancon, tanner and thompson, all we're asking you to do is vote for the bill you co-sponsored. that's all this does. vote for what you've co-sponsored. put your votes with your -- where your co-sponsors are. we can make this bill better and make it bipartisan. we will help you deliver the margin of victory. let's do this together. let's have that vote. i yield. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields back his time. all members are reminded to please address their remarks to the chair. for what purpose does the gentleman from south carolina rise? mr. spratt: mr. speaker, i rise in opposition to the motion to recommit. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized for five minutes. mr. spratt: this resolution is too clever by half. our colleagues across the aisle have not had some sudden epiphany and decided this bill is something they could embra

peterson and i, and our committees, are well on our way in cooperation with the administration to adopting such rules. i now recognize the ranking member of the financial services committee, gentleman from alabama, mr. bacchus. >> thank you, mr. chairman. as the chairman, the ranking member of the agricultural committee have said, derivatives serve an important function in the market -- >> ah, they are going on, aren't they? >> on and and and on. >> all right. we will take a quick break. make a little money from mother ge and themaybe they'll let ge and themaybe they'll let m geithner talk. whn give youhe fincial advice you need? where will you find the stility and resources to keep you ahead ts rapidly evolving wor? these are tough questions. powerful names inhe industry. that's why we broht together two of the most introducing morgan stanley smith baey. here to rethink wealth management. here to answer... your queions. morgan stanleymi barney. a new weal management firm with over 130 years of eerience. we speakpmso you can zip by her cars. but we also speak mpgs you can fly by gas stations. inac we speak mpgs so uently, we can say one morthing. the new fmidsize sedan e mosamerica. ficient and th'

mr. collin peterson, two minutes. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized. mr. eterson: i want to commend chairman emeritus dingell for all his hard work on this issue, not only in this session of congress but many sessions past. we are hopeful that we can move this legislation forward and get additional safeguards in place for food safety in this country. we also want to commend the other members of the energy and commerce committee for their work on this in a bipartisan basis. good to see some bipartisan effort happening in the house and there was some good work done. we did have some concerns in the agriculture committee that we engaged in some discussions and negotiations with mr. dingell and others on the staff of the energy and commerce committee and we think we have further improved the bill in terms of how it relates to agriculture. we were table clarify things in terms of livestock and grain farmers that -- there was some concern about the language and we cleared up things in terms of performance standards and recordkeeping. there were, as the bill came