mr. richmond, is recognized. >> first of all, let me thank you all for coming in and sharing your knowledge with us. and your experience and your recommendations for how we move forward. i guess part of my questioning, and maybe mr. braun or mr. swecker, who both have recommendations, do you know if the recommendations you gave us, if they're currently being carried out, or if the dea and cia and fbi and atf, for example, is refocussing on traditional threats and paying more attention to the drug trafficking? >> well, i think one thing you have to recognize, and what we talked about this morning is punated that is the convergence of criminal activity and terrorist activity. terrorists need money, and they raise money through -- mostly through criminal action these days. so we've talked about anti money laundering statutes and regulations. we have talked about technology and we talked about breaking down these silos of information. i think all of those are under way. they can always get better. whenever you have agencies, you have walls, and it's harder to share information. so anything that

mr. richmond. . mr. richmond: thank you for yielding and thank you, mr. speaker, for the time. it was once said that a politician worries about the next election. but a statesman worries about the next generation. don payne was a statesman. to the payne family, i offer my sincere condolences and prayers. thank you for sharing your brother and your father with us. while i do not have as many personal memories as my colleagues of serving with congressman payne, i stand here as a bishyear of his work -- beneficiary of his work over 77 years. i can honestly say but not for donald payne, i probably wouldn't be here. i along with others of my generation and the generations after me, not only in america, but all across the world, stand on the shoulders of congressman payne. so i have the honor and the pleasure of serving with him, but also have the obligation on behalf of those generations to say thank you to congressman payne for making this world a better place for us. if we can remember anything with his passing, we can be rest assured that donald payne did what he was purposed to

we go closer to richmond. to mr. wise, a low to mid-40's. this will not have a big impact. have some minor snow accumulations. most is the tomorrow. look at this warming trend. it is near 70 by thursday. >> we began for the midwest. we will spend another day cleaning up the damage. at 30 now.oll stands officials are trying to determine how many people are missing. homes and buildings were destroyed. rescuers are going door to door to see if there are any more victims. >> you get on the grounds. it takes you a second to look at those people.th daughteryou i have my grandchildren. >> a 60 month old girl was found an indiana field after the destroyed her family. she has now died. the family in siblings are among dead. died in another round ice storms on wednesday. the red cross is collecting donations to help people by the storms. for information on how you can to wjla.com. >> a lawsuit over the virginia massacre heads to trial. they filed wrongful death the commoninst wealth instead of accepting a settlement. 32 people died in that shooting rampage. the pose a nuclear meet at

richmond. she chose not to. she interviewed for a position as mrs. lincoln's dress maker and the two became much more than client and entrepreneur. they became friends and equal to be sure. they became friends and she was mary lincoln's close of confident in the white house. >> some of the artifacts in the mary lincoln section. the watch. >> we talk about it with mary lincoln and mary lincoln was an active supporter of the sanitary commission to raise money. she visited hospitals and that watch was won by her husband for giving the most money as a contribution to a sanitary fair. one talks about it and the wonderful image of one of the images. >> anything else about lincoln's bookshelf that is notable? >> i think a wonderful piece is referenced with elizabeth tech me in as well. it shows their friendship. she established an association to raise money and help slave who is had crossed the lines and made it to washington, d.c. she gave money and supported her in efforts to do this. they asked for the memento and mrs. lincoln and they associate mary lin

richmond. she chose not to. she interviewed for a position as mrs. lincoln's dress maker and the two became much more than client and entrepreneur. really became friends. an equal friendship to be sure. they became friends and she was mary lankincoln's closest confit in the white house. >> some of the artifacts in the mary lincoln section. the watch. >> we talk about it with mary lincoln and mary lincoln was an active supporter of the sanitary commission to raise money for wounded soldiers. she visited hospitals. and that watch was actually won by her husband for giving the most money to a -- as a contribution to a sanitary fair. one talks about her philanthropy but also raises the image of an organizer of a fair, i need you to give money. >> anything else about mary lincoln's bookshelf that's notable? >> i think a wonderful piece of the bookshelf actually references elizabeth kekly as well. it shows their friendship. mrs. lincoln -- mrs. kekly established the contraband aid association which was to raise money and help slaves who had -- former slave

richmond district station. we worked in conjunction with our police officers. we work with our officers and with our captains to try and address community issues and problems. we are mr. kahn's neighbors, not his enemy. we have never asked him to close his business. we only ask, after gathering the evidence, and that he close from 2 a.m. to 4:00 a.m. i think that got lost. also, i wanted to say that we did not initially addressed the 24 hour opening or permit issue when he first came into our meeting because we were not aware he was out of compliance. we operated on good faith with him, thinking everything was in order. i want to thank you all for your time and attention. i would encourage you to support our neighborhood and what we're trying to do. >> if you have not handed in your speaker cards, we would appreciate it. >> could evening. i was representing other clients while these cases were taken. i have been following this one and reading it in the press. i wanted to reiterate that i believe that supervisor mar did not support the after hours. however he understood it would go before the commission and their consideration and he put their terms in in the event it

mr. speaker, this afternoon i rise to thank those members and witnesses who joined together yesterday to discuss the tragic shooting of trayvon martin. representative conyers, jackson lee, brown, barbara lee, richmond, nadler, johnson, green, quigley, rush, deutch, yvette clarke, danny davis, carson, meeks, sewell, richardson, waters, chu and cohen. i cannot tell you how comforting it was, mr. speaker, to his parents and to everyone there to see such very strong support from this body. together we can continue to apply pressure in the case of trayvon martin, a little boy from my district, district 17, miami-dady county, florida, and -- miami-dade county, florida, 32 days and still no justice. thank you, mr. speaker. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlelady's time has expired. pursuant to clause 8 of rule 20, the chair will postpone further proceedings today on the motion to suspend the rules on which a recorded vote or the yeas and nays are ordered, or on which the vote incurs objection to under clause 6 of rule 20. any recorded votes on the postponed question will be taken later. for what purpose does the gentleman from pennsylvania rise? >> thank you, mr. speaker. i ask unanimous consent that when

. >> and richmond fed president jeffrey lacker sitting down with seef liesman earlier today on "squawk box." take a listen to what mrsay about economic growth. >> it could get to 3%. a lot of uncertainty around that p. i think growth will gradually pick up. i think consumers will move ahead more rapidly some quarter, less rapidly other quarters. but job market seems to be gradually healing. business investment still seems to have a lot of momentum to it. >> it's funny, we did get personal income and outlays from pen to january. the savings rate was down rather sharply to 3.7%, i believe. from what had been 4.3% the month prior. perhaps people dipping in to their savings to try to maintain at least where they stand right now. given still choppy economic -- >> for the economy that's quite good. that's what we need to engender to -- >> we want people to save more, but at the same time, we want them to spend money. >> paradox of thrift. >> i know you've also been focused on what's going on in spain. >> they've had a news conference in spain and they've come out, the figures look quite light. they're trying to save $27 b