mr. rohrabacher asked about how is a relatively small trace element impact raise intend your? >> as compared to the natural cycles. >> fair question. >> dr. cicerone? >> i would be happy to answer that. there is no simple election between them out of a constituent and its ability to absorb radiation. if you have a very strong absorbing molecule, then you need less of it to do something. co2 is a significant absorber. i differ with my colleagues about the reason why it the perfect moment it's important. they all have two atoms and they absorbing infrared. so i don't know, that makes you wonder about the testimony, but still it is possible for a trace gas to be important. it isn't strictly the amount and even though the amount is miniscule. for instance, a very thin visibly invisible cloud will absorb more infrared than all the other infrared absorbers in the atmosphere, when it is present. >> dr. cicerone? >> the framework is the energy bouts of the planet, and so in deciding come in decided whether an entry is small or diminutive or whatever, it's when we look at those ballots

mr. rohrabacher: thank you, mr. chairman, i'd like to express my deep appreciation of the ranking member as well as the chairman now of the committee. you've heard these accolades many times but you'll be missed in the next congress. we worked together in a very bipartisan way for -- to accomplish things through technology through our country and our people and the people of the world. i rise today in support of h.r. 5866. nuclear power has been a cornerstone of american domestic energy policy for decades and it could have had a greater positive impact had we not succumbed to irrational attacks by environmental radicals who oppose any energy. they ended up costing us hundreds of billions of dollars for imports we ors would not have needed. we now, however, have a tremendous opportunity to use the latest nuclear technology developments to produce safe, clean, cost effective energy for our country and the world this bill updates america's nuclear energy research and funds those technologies that show the greatest poss

mr. rohrabacher booker, for 60 minutes. mr. rohrabacher: thank you very much. today i would like to address my colleagues about the greatest threat over the horizon, made in china. mr. speaker, while focused on the deadly threat posed to our immediate safety by the forces of radical islam, many meshes -- americans seem oblivious to the storm clouds just over the horizon. i come to the floor with a grave warning to the american people. we face a threat to our national security with complexity and global scope such as we have never experienced in this nation's history. this threat is pervasive, it challenges our economic, political and financial structure as well as the security of our homeland. i have come to the floor to plead, we can no longer look at the dynamic shift in power that is taking place and con sole ourselves with wishful thinking. we must quit fooling ourselves that there are offsetting elements at play, that the glass can be viewed as half full or half empty. it is clear that a powerful adversary is unabashedly out to grab that glass and drain it

mr. rohrabacher: pursuant to the order of the house of today i move that we do now adjourn. the speaker pro tempore: the question is on the motion to adjourn. those in favor say aye. those opposed, no. the ayes have it. the motion is agreed to. accordingly, pursuant to the previous order of the house of today, the house stands adjourned until noon on monday, november 22, 2010, unless it sooner receives a message from the senate transmitting its adoption of house resolution >> house members to start their week-long thanksgiving day return the following week to finish federal spending -- they return the following week to finish a federal spending. live coverage of the house here on c-span. while the 11th congress is finishing work and a lame duck session, members of the 112th congress are getting offices and working all congress works. a look at a couple of the newly elected congress members. pat meehan was a u.s. attorney and a pro hockey referre. ee. mike fitzpatrick returned after it defeating patrick murray in a rematch of the 2008 campaing. >> congressman charlie rangel w