mr. rogers: mr. speaker, i ask unanimous consent that all members may have five legislative days in which to revise and extend their remarks and include tabular and extraneous material on the conference report to accompany h.r. 2112. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. members please steak their conversations off the floor. -- take their conversations off the floor. for what purpose does the gentleman from kentucky seek recognition? mr. lorges: mr. speaker, pursuant to -- mr. rogers: mr. speaker, pursuant to house resolution 467 agreed to earlier today, i callp the conference report to accompany the bill h.r. 2112, a bill making appropriations for the department of agriculture, commerce, justice, transportation, and housing and urban development and related programs for the fiscal year ending september -- >> could we have order. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is correct. the house will be in order. the gentleman from kentucky may proceed. mr. rogers: related programs for the fiscal ye

mr. rogers readily admitted he committed the offenses. 22 years as a sig -- is a significant period of time to serve to protect the community. indeed, the plea reflects that rogers earlier opted not to identify the second shooter. woodland's mother and other family members say they agree with the judge. >> we were very happy about the decision that judge motley made. because of the lie that mr. rogers told. >> i think the message is to send to people who think they can just, you know, commit crimes and get a little bit of time for them, you know, the judges will not accept the plea and make you do the time that you need to do. >> reporter: the defense attorney thinks judge motley stepped out of bounds and could be reversed on appeal down the road. >> it appears that the judge, judge motley is trying to squeeze this defend. naturally, you would want to -- defendant. you would want to get to the bottom of it but it's not the court's role to get into that. >> reporter: in two other cases he's aware of, the judge's decision was reversed on appeal. rogers did not speak at this morning's hearing

mr. rogers: you have a speaker other than yourself? mr. dicks: one more. i yield two minutes to the gentleman from vermont, a very distinguished member of the congress and a person whose state has been very hard hit by disasters and we are going to do everything we can to work to assist him on this important endeavor. i yield him two minutes. the speaker pro tempore: the chair recognizes the gentleman from vermont for two minutes. mr. welch: i thank the gentleman. mr. speaker, on august 28 of this august, hurricane irene left a path of destruction from the carolinas to vermont. the districts of 55 of our colleagues were hit and hit hard. and that storm did damage without regard to partisan affiliation, income distribution . if you were in the path of that storm, you suffered. the 55 members of congress who are affected by it created the hurricane irene coalition, republicans and democrats, and we are united in the single goal of getting the aid to our people back home that they need to get back on their feet. hurricane irene, mr. speaker, saved its greates

mr. rogers. i began to realize i didn't get it. that was the beginning. then i began bombing him with questions about apples and fruit. there was one moment that did change things in my perception, which is we were walking one day, i worked the fields and packing house routine, 5:00 a.m. routine. we were walking at dawn with the pickers who were all working, my brother was walking ahead of me. i saw all the shades of green, i was able to get my own ego out of the way. i thought he is amazing. this brother of mine is amazing. he has built up something astonishing here. it was almost like he was no longer invisible to me. i could begin to see him. then when i watched him walking ahead of me, i realized he has the same gape i do. we are probably so much more alike than we ever allowed ourselves to think. that was a beginning moment for me. >> one of the narratives that runs through this book, particularly as he becomes more sick in the last part of it, you are the relentless, you are going to be okay, there is going to be hope, if i make enough contacts, i'l

mr. rogers has readily admitted i committed the offenses. 20 -- he committed the offenses. 22 years is a gnificant period of time and will serve to protect the community. indeed the plea reflects that rogers earlier opted not to identify the second shooter. woodland's mother and other family members say they agree with the judge. >> we are very happy about the decision of judge motley because of the lie that mr. rogers told about being the only one involved in the shooting. >> judge motley i think has a good message to send to people who think they can just, you know, get a little bit of time for doing it, that judges will not accept the plea and make you do the time that you need to do. >> reporter: but the defense attorney bernie grimm thinks the judge has stepped out of grounds and could be reversed on appeal. >> it appears that the judge is trying to squeeze this defendant and naturally you would want to get to the bottom of it, but it's not the court's role to get in the middle of that. >> reporter: bernie grimm says in two other cases he's aware of that are similar the judge's decis

mr. rogers? >> oh, yeah. you bastard.. >> jimmy: i'm sure you hear this all the time but you played a very -- major role in my teenage years and beyond that. you taught me the f-word. >> did i really? how old you are? >> jimmy: you started when you were, what, 19. >> 15. >> jimmy: i'll be 44 next week. >> i just turned 50 a couple months ago. >> jimmy: congratulations. [ applause ] you really look the same as you did 20 years ago. >> not with my shirt off. [ laughter ] >> jimmy: you -- a lot of what i know about you i think is from your standup comedy and i don't know what's true -- like, do you have an aunlt bunny and an uncle gus? are those -- >> well, i had aunt honey and uncle buster and i changed their names around. >> jimmy: was that to avoid causing trouble at the house? >> i heard jokes about you, you know, make their life more difficult, to kind of change it. >> jimmy: seems like you could have changed them a little bit more than one letter in the name. [ applause ] >> buster and honey are nicknames anyway. >> ji

mr. rogers: i yield. mr. dicks: i want to commend the chairman for his commitment to return to regular order. i wish we could have done all 12 bill bus we at least got six of them done and i want to thank him and his staff and the staff of the minority for working together in a collegial way. i think it's important for the american people to know that the appropriations committee here is working together on a bipartisan basis. now we may have differences on economic theory and everything else but we are committed to getting these bills passed and bringing as many as we can to the floor. i hope next year we can start a little earlier and get the budget resolution in and move these bills. i would love to see us, in the second session of this congress, get all 12 bills to the floor where members could offer their amendments. i think that still should be our goal and objective. mr. rogers: i thank the wrelt for those words. he is exactly right. he and i started out this year both new to our job on the committee,

. >> last but not least mr. roger williams. >> thank you very much, mr. speaker. i welcome the reduction in corporation tax and that will encourage those businesses to expand 90% of the businesses in my constituency are not incorporated and won't benefit from a reduction. will the prime minister in sure that in the spring budget these businesses and given similar tax incentives so that they can insure they will go to their full potential in the economy and communities they serve. >> appraise the hon. john:for the magnificence specimen underneath his nose and the effort he spent. we are not going to wait for the budget in order to help these businesses. we already extended the rate relief freeze for small businesses and the national loan guarantee scheme that will help small businesses get access to credit. that is up and running soon. >> the minister for the cabinet office and the pace of our master general. ipo -- >> you're on c-span2 we leave the british house of commons as they move to other legislative business. you have an watching prime minister's question t

mr. starr and ms. rogers. i hope that mr. starr will do a sequel to his cartoon. [laughter] the two together would probably read very well on youtube with what can be done in the city. thank you. we all know that there is the ability and open doors with the supervisors to really prepare and hone down on some of those little things and what they need or do not need. i am very confident that by bringing it to everybody's attention that there will be further discussions. it was left wide open the there will be tweaks, and perhaps cctc will not be the only one. it needs tweaking to be as responsive as it is basically set up to be. president olague: yes, it is a good start. >> commissioners, the motion is for approval with staff recommendation with the added language from the zoning administrator. on that motion, commissioner antonini? >> yes. >> commissioner fong. commissioner moore. commissioner sugaya. vice president miguel. president olague. thank you, commissioners. it passes. >> someone to talk a legislative actions. i think there is confusion about that. the vas

mr. starr and ms. rogers. i hope that mr. starr will do a sequel to his cartoon. [laughter] the two together would probably

mr. rogers. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized. mr. rogers: thank you, mr. speaker. rise today in support of s. 894, the veterans' compensation cost of living act of 2011. it's a companion bill to h.r. 140 , which i introduced in april, which passed this chamber as ameppeded by voice vote in this chamber. s. 894 provides a cost of living adjustment, equal to that being provided to social security resip septembers for veterans disability compensation, an compensation for veteran surviveors. this is an annual bipartisan bill which is scored by the c.b.o. as hag no additional budgetary impact. it's crucial that the benefits are sufficient to meet their needs. as a member of congress representing the district in new jersey with the largest number of disables veterans, i've heard from many veterans back home and in washington about the importance of the need of this legislation. this cost of living adjustment is tied to an increase in the consumer price index which has not increased in the last two years. s. 894's increase in the cola for 2012 reflects rising inflation ra

mrs. elizabeth rogers who taught you american history. what's the back story? >> she was my 11th grade history teacher. she was a wonderful teacher. she is still a life. she is 92, still living in western north carolina, but she grew up in upstate new york where i live now. interesting. she came south to live and i moved up there, almost exactly where she grew up. but she was one of the people who really inspired me to love history, to read history, to think about it. and it seemed appropriate when i publish this book did dedicate it to her. >> i should've mentioned that robert teaches at cornell. he has become a college professor but evidently that hasn't ruined him as a writer. it's always dangerous. your previous book was on daniel boone, a great favorite of mine, and the book is wonderful. you don't include daniel boone and lines of the west but, of course, you've all ready done, but his spirit is all through "lions of the west," and references are made to him. i've often thought of daniel boone as a founding father keyes a founding father of the american w

mr. rogers notebook and can you tell us if you recognize anything. d, of course, the very first pitch from my name, address, my phone numbers. and as pages go by, mr. mulcaire made a note to the fact that is writing for both the independent and the times. and was in for significant to me and what i found shocking was that he, he seems have been a very obsessive notetaker. and his was one thing in the corner of the "news of the world" to steal from a also made a note of dates. and my name and address and details appear in mr. mulcaire's notes for the first time on the fifth of may, 2004, and that the approximate six weeks after denis' eldest daughter was killed in a skydiving accident in australia which had attracted a huge amount of publicity. i was incredibly shocked that in that period when denis was believed that in the region, as you can imagine is not an easy time for it by 124 euros girl has just died in such circumstances. that the "news of the world" have been interested in both of us to ask mr. mulcaire to listen to our voicemails. >> can you

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roger in gainesville ohio. you are on book tv with author ben mezrich. >> caller: i hadn't heard of mr. mezrich so i looked him up on the internet. >> guest: that's scary when you look me on the internet i don't know what you find. [laughter] one rather obvious one of the ugly american was about a guy that used the stock market to meet a lot of money to occupy wall street that's what is going on right now is the great recession as on the international golden section theory. how much of that is true and related to your book? >> guest: i get so many pitches about evil conspiracy wall street conspiracies. i get ten of those a week. i wish i found a really good one but i haven't found a true one yet. i sure feel the full life written about have been people who have gained the system like this or have figured out a way to make money off of a kind of corrupt system i think that is what ugly americans is. it's reg is different parts of a car like that. certainly bringing down the house and a lot of ways there is a system in place but there's a way to make money off of it. you know, i'm not a b

i applaud the willingness of chairman rogers and the house committee to work with us on our current schedule. while this approach, indicated by you, mr. chairman, is short of the regular order, i think we can all agree it's superior to acting on a single act of finding ourselves again forced into a series of continuing resolutionsment like you, i join you in thanking the members of this and their staff for all the hard work in managing and writing the three bills we consider today, and i look forward to working with you, sir. mr. chairman, over the coming weeks as we seek to conclude our work on all 12 appropriations measures. thank you very much, mr. chairman. >> thank you, mr. chairman. thank you for those words. mr. dicks. >> thank you, mr. chairman, and i'm glad that we're having this conference. i think it's important that we finish our work. i do just want to say that it has been a pleasure. we had six of our bills to the floor. we also did hr1, took a week on the floor, gave members a chance to offer up amendments and do it like we used to do it, and i'm glad we're trying to get back to that approach. i think it's in the best

. >> host: roger, ohio, you're on booktv with author ben mezrich. >> caller: anyway, i hadn't herd of mr. mezrich, so i looked him up on the internet, so that gives me questions. >> guest: that's scarry. i don't know what you find on the internet. >> caller: there's one obvious one, it was either rigged or of the ugly american, maybe both was about a guy who used the stock markets to -- rigged the market to make a lot of money, and according to occupy wall street, that's what's going on now. it's the great recession that's all a result of the goldman sachs conspiracy. how much of that is true and is in your book? >> guest: i get so many pitches about evil conspiracy, wall street conspiracies. i mean, i get ten of those a week. i wish i found a really good one, but i have not found a true one yet. i write about people who gamed the system or figured out a way to make money from a corrupt system. that's what ugly americans is, rigged is like that, but bringing down the house in a lot of ways, there's a system in place, but there's a way to make money off of it. you know, i'm not a big poli

mr. reid: senators should expect two roll call votes at noon in relation to sharon gleason and evon rogers. if there is no further business to come before the senate, i ask it stand adjourned under the previous order. the presiding officer: the senate stands adjourned until 10:00 a.m. tomorrow. adjourn:

rogers of california to be united states district judge. the presiding officer: under the previous order you there will be one hour for debate, equally divided in the usual form. the senator from alaska. mr senate will confirm two more highly experienced federal judges this morning. i'd like to take a moment to speak in support of the nomination of one of alaska's finest state judges to the federal bench. today the senate will vote to confirm the nomination of sharon gleason to be the judge for the u.s. district court for the district of alaska. i know sharon quite well, and i recommended her to the president for this opening. i can say without hesitation that she is one of alaska's finest. she is smart, she's compassionate, well-rounded and possesses an ample supply of common sense. alaska's judicial candidates are rated by their peers and judge gleason consistently receives among the highest marks possible. for these reasons and many others, i hope all my senate colleagues will join me in supporting her nomination. her confirmation will make judge gleason the first female judge appointed to the federal bench in alaska history. that is truly a momentous point for our state and long over