mr. smith: i yield myself such time as i may consume. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized. mr. smith: i support chairman conyers' sponsorship of resolution 894, which honors the 50th anniversary of the recording of the album "kind of blue" and reaffirming jazz as a national treasure. i support jazz, not only in music halls, but in the hall of congress. in 1987, h.r. 57 by representative conyers honored jazz. taking its name from this act, the h.r. 57 center opened in washington to promote jazz and blues. he sponsored a bill to award funding for the smithsonian to focus on jazz. chairman conyers has long supported efforts to bring live jazz to audiences in washington, d.c. he's helped on boards of the national jazz inc. and others. jazz is a historic american creation and as such, it certainly should be honored and supported by congress today. this year marks the 50th anniversary of the famous jazz album, kind of blue. on august 17, 1957, miles davis and his ensemble, sextet, co

mr. smithuld wrap up. you're a bit beyond your time. >> let's not forget the devices. we spent a lot of time to get it right. we did it so that economically disadvantaged, the elderly, are not left out, with access to critical news and information. and finally, mr. chairman, if statement is in the record, i think it is important that we consider highest and best and you put all of these public values in. the value of broadcasting itself. thank you, sir. >> thank you very much, mr. smith. dr. johnson. >> chairman and ranking member, and members of the subcommittee. senior vice president of the chief technology officer. my role in the corporation provides me with a broad perspective relevant to the discussion today. i appreciate the opportunity to contribute. and i'm honored to offer input that may help inform your consideration of these important policy matters. lockheed martin is a security company that em employed 140,000 people in all 50 states. we are engaged in the research, design, develop

i would like to shift gears and turn to mr. smith and ask a particular question. matter of fact it may drive, mr. chairman, i think we should take a really good look here at comcast and nbc. so i will ask a question about comcast and nbc, mr. smith. i have, i got some concerns about your member companies out there. i got concerns about consolidation in the marketplace. i have concerns about what type of new business model does this bring and what is the impact and how does it drive impact for advertising. you held up your phone and talked about the platform and as a marketplace in the future, it's all about individualizing and advertising. and if we permit the marketplace to mine and profile people, and pretty soon how it's driven not only upon a web, you can have individualized advertising appearing on tv. as i think about into the future and how a vertical integration is this deal when you have this many eyes of comcast and to control content, it almost turns our present business model inside up and upside down, i welcome your comments. >> congressman, some of my

mr. smith, i'm going to ask a couple more questions. but i think for here today, the distortion even in the democratic primary of "you're not the right kind of democrat" speaks legions about why for the sake of both parties this should be investigated further. and i appreciate your coming forward with that. because obviously we would like the attorney general in maryland to do something about that in a timely fashion. plus the u.s. attorney. but let me go through a couple of others. you're very familiar with the corporate shell. you yourself were operating out of at least three corporations. did they carefully pay you allocated based on your time between the various corporations? >> no. i was a sal rid employee through project vote. i was paid straight through the project vote payroll, though i functioned more on the first year and a half for acorn political operations than i ever did for project vote. >> so in a nutshell, right there, the very way they hired you using charitable tax-free, tax-

and while mr. smithsmith finishes his presentation? thanks. [inaudible conversations] >> first of all, i want to thank the ftc for the opportunity to speak here today. my role is to sort of set the stage for the workshop and to talk about some of the technologies behind data collection and data use. as we all realize, the flow of data is, makes our world work. it's a fundamental part of the economy and just everything that we do every day. a simple economic transaction such as making a cell phone call or buying something online all involve the collection of data and the use of data by multiple vendors, you know, simply to make a cell phone call might involve five different companies, typically, to -- that collect data as part of making, completing that phone call. and what i hope to do in the introduction here is to go, look behind the scenes a little bit at some of the technology that makes all this happen and some of the business relationships that make this happen. the issue of data collection has bee

mr. smith, i'm going to ask a couple more questions. but i think for here today, the distortion even in the democratic primary of "you're not the right kind of democrat" speaks legions about why for the sake of both parties this should be investigated further. and i appreciate your coming forward with that. because obviously we would like the attorney general in maryland to do something about that in a timely fashion. plus the u.s. attorney. but let me go through a couple of others. you're very familiar with the corporate shell. you yourself were operating out of at least three corporations. did they carefully pay you allocated based on your time between the various corporations? >> no. i was a sal rid employee through project vote. i was paid straight through the project vote payroll, though i functioned more on the first year and a half for acorn political operations than i ever did for project vote. >> so in a nutshell, right there, the very way they hired you using charitable tax-free, tax-

mr. smith, i'm going to ask a couple more questions. but i think for here today, the distortion even in the democratic primary of "you're not the right kind of democrat" speaks legions about why for the sake of both parties this should be investigated further. and i appreciate your coming forward with that. because obviously we would like the attorney general in maryland to do something about that in a timely fashion. plus the u.s. attorney. but let me go through a couple of others. you're very familiar with the corporate shell. you yourself were operating out of at least three corporations. did they carefully pay you allocated based on your time between the various corporations? >> no. i was a sal rid employee through project vote. i was paid straight through the project vote payroll, though i functioned more on the first year and a half for acorn political operations than i ever did for project vote. >> so in a nutshell, right there, the very way they hired you using charitable tax-free, tax-

. >> mr. smith? >> thank you, mr. speaker. the attack last week on the four year old raises once again concerned about the effectiveness of legislation with results. will my right honorable friend admit that those concerned about this is to be discussed what can be done to deal with this situation? >> mr. speaker, my honorable friend is quite right. this was a terrible death and i am very sorry about what happened to the little boy in liverpool. i think she knows we are continuing to investigate the circumstances of the death. they have also referred their handling of the original report from february 2090 independent compolice complaint. but the issue of status and dangerous job was raised on the working party a few days ago. we're working with the home office to ensure that those on the front line have the powers available to them. the government has provided additional advice to the police and also funding to the association of police officers to help train officers in dangers dog legislation that this was an event that sho

mr. smith, will each control 20 minutes. the chair recognizes the gentleman from michigan. mr. conyers: thank you, madam speaker. i ask unanimous consent that all members may have five legislative days to revise and extend their remarks and include extraneous material on the bill under consideration. i also further ask unanimous consent that the gentleman from virginia, mr. rick boucher, be yielded 10 minutes of my time and that he be allowed to control that time. i yield myself such time as i may consume. and i ask the house to be in order, please. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. mr. conyers: madam speaker and members, h.r. 3570 extends the compulsory copyright license for satellite television providers for another five years as congress has done in each of the last two other cycles that this measure has been re-authorized. this is an important intellectual property law and will also make a number of critical updates and much needed clarifications to the compulsory copyright licens

mr. smith: madam speaker, i ask unanimous consent to address the house for one minute and to revise and extend. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, so ordered. the gentleman from texas is recognized for one minute. mr. smith: madam speaker, abc, cbs and nbc are the winners of this week's media fairness caucuses highly uncoveted lap dog award for the most glaring example of media bias. the networks took two weeks to devote any coverage to the scandal on their evening news programs. we all know that prominent scientists were so determined to hide contradictory tempts data. but for two weeks, none of the networks gave this scandal any coverage on their evening news programs. and when they finally did cover it, it was largely slanted in favor of global warming alarmists. the networks have shown a steady pattern of bias on climate change. during a six-month period four out of five network news reports failed to acknowledge any dissenting views about global warming, according to a business an

the esteemed collector is middleton harris, and roger, and obviously mr. smith, who's daughter we're lucky to have here tonight. the production team who kept such detailed records that 35 years later, i could still trace the right folders. it inspired our senior editor here who brought this project to my attention who years ago. our production team headed, so inspired that they made this edition crisper and cleaner than the original. using just film. who recognized what a treasurer there was and published it in hard cover. this book touches everybody who touches it. that includes all of you inspired to be here today. and our panelist who are so excited to introduce. up first is dr. roscoe c. brown. [applause] >> the list of dr. brown's accomplishments are really enough to fill a book of their own. most notably, he is president of the bronx community college and creditor at the city university of new york. he sits on the board of several community organization including the boys and girls club, the funds for the city of new york, the urban issues group,

mr. smith: mr. speaker, i ask unanimous consent to address the house for one minute and to revise and extend my remarks. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, so ordered. mr. smith: mr. speaker, today the president is hosting a jobs summit. but he is ignoring the eight million jobs held by those in the country illegally that should go to american workers. with a 10% unemployment rate the president should put the interest of americans at work. while the administration ignores the eight million stolen jobs, republicans have a 12-point lead over the democrats. that's nearly a double over the g.o.p.'s lead a month ago. we should hold the administration's accountable enforcing the immigration laws which allows eight million illegal immigrants to remain in the work force. those jobs rightfully belong to citizens and to legal immigrants. enforcing the law is not only the right thing to do. it is what the american people want. any job summit that doesn't address the jobs occupied by illegal immigrants

mr. smith was avid art selector. he shared his love of the arts with his children. rebecca has created exhibits at the museum. he has been a friend to some the new york city finist chefs. she's an activist in the fight against hiv and aids. and we're honored to have her as part of our panel. [applause] : >> surely, you've been quite of bit of yourself. and what was your driving force? >> i was thinking the way he was talking office slavery. in 1930 when i was about 8 years old. it was 65 years from the end of slavery. now i'm 87 years old, and it's 65 years since the world war ii. now put those two things together. you have two parts of history that effected the african-american tremendously. fighting out of slavery, going to reconstruction, going through the lynching, then world war ii, opening the door. integrating the military, civil rights movement, and what you want to ask what i mean about the post-racial society. there's a post-segregation society. because when i was a young kid, segregation was the law of the land. i went to the black school. i went to dunba

mr. smith: thank you, mr. speaker. i want to thank the speaker in this chamber for bringing this resolution so quickly to the floor. as we have now heard the tragic events of last sunday, we are here to offer our condolences to the families, also to honor the lives and the service of the four officers who were so brutally slain and to express our grief over their loss. they were ambushed early on sunday morning simply getting ready to go to work. it is a tragedy that has had a deep impact on our community. and i want to offer my condolences to all the people in lakewood, especially their police force and the city officials that have been so impacted by the tragic of this event. the four officers that were killed were part of the police force and all of the police officers in this country who so selflessly serve and protect all of us. they were sergeant mark renninger, who is a 13-year law enforcement veteran. he started out with the tukwila police department before going to lakewood. he's survived by his wife, two daug

why can't the senate, why can't they make them filibuster their filibuster liken mr. smith goes to washington? i think they should do that. i guess the underlying question is why do senators like filibuster's so much? why do even minority -- why do the majority centers like it? why is it hard to get rid of? the main reason is a durham powers the higher the threshold that's 60 vote threshold gives individual senators enormous power, and this would decrease their individual power to do it. still there was a time when this was a big public issue for democrats, this was something. joe lieberman for example when he was a freshman senator was signed on to a campaign to abolish the filibuster. i think that that senators attachment to the filibuster could be overcome by a concerted campaign to persuade them to do eight. >> there was also a time it was 66 votes were i think required instead of 67 would be a further argument. i have a small question of what difference will question a big question. in one of your essays about pennsylvania during the primary season, you mentioned a "ne

that was a wonderful movie, i would like to see mr. smithget some character in there. host: ok, thank you for your calls, we çwhélbuqçbe back i moment with drew armstrong who will speak with us more about health care. be right back. >> obviously it's the leaders of each chamber that willbu appoint the members to sit on this commission, and you are someone that knows the process, should you be on this committee? >> of course i should. >> who else? >> it would seem to me that people who need to be involved in this are the people who are in involved with these issues most intimately, those are the chamber and ranking member of the finance committee and ways and mean committee of the house and chamber and ranking leader of the budget committee. it seems to me those would be logical people to put on such a commission. >> senator, you also want to have a couple of members of the administration on this commission, and i would like to hear your thoughts about the reception this idea has been getting. how enthusiastic and who is their role on the

mr. smithask unanimous consent to address the house for one minute. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. mr. smith: madam speaker, the white house considers business owners the opposition, but don't take my word for it. in his book, mr. obama wrote, when he worked in the business world, he felt like a quote, spy behind enemy lines, end quote. it's no surprise that as president, he has appointed fewer people with business backgrounds to cabinet positions than any other president in over a century, according to an analysis by j.p. morgan. maybe that explains why the government favors government control of the health care, energy, automobile, banking, insurance and student loan industries. perhaps the administration has forgotten that without employers, there would be no employees. and small businesses generate 65% of the new jobs in america. it's the private sector, not the government, that makes america productive and prosperous. business owners are our friends, not the enemy. the speaker

chairman and thank you, mrs. smith, for that moving story and your courage, not only for telling your own story but also for being the voice for so many victims out there, and on behalf of senator frank and myself, we welcome steve reading, our next witness and a minnesotan. when i became the county attorney, over a million people in minneapolis, 45 suburbs, i came in from the outside without a lot of criminal experience and i wanted to put someone in charge of the violent crimes division that had the trust of the people in the office and that was steve reading. he served well in that role but most importantly for our hearing today, he is one of the national experts on dna and that means not only being a tough smart trial lawyer and being able to convince a jury hike so many good prosecutors but it also means having the willingness and determination and intellect to learn the science of d.n.a. which is not that easy for so many lawyers to dig in and read all the scientific articles, because we have to be as sophisticat

mr. smith: mr.speaker, to address the house for one minute and to revise and extend my remarks. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized for one minute. mr. smith: mr. speaker, as part of a nationwide effort to pass the right kind of health care reform, a constituent from austin, greg holliday, has written an open letter to congress. he represents the organization, commonsense texans. quote, my name is greg holloway. i speak not only for myself and my family but also for over 100,000 other texans with whom i collaborate and who i know share my views. you tell us that you are concerned about health care for our disadvantaged citizens. we are too. we wrote a plan published by the austin american statesman that would immediately allow up to $100 billion annually to be sent directly to private health care and health insurance for the needy without a raise in taxes. you ignore any of our alternatives and instead raise taxes, increase costs and draft a bill that excludes millions and provides

mr. smith from new jersey. mr. sablan from the marianas. mr. pitts from pennsylvania. ms. kaptur is already gone. mr. stupak from michigan. and ms. foxx from north carolina. for what purpose does does the the gentleman from ohio rise? >> i ask unanimous consent to claim the time of the gentleman that has not been used. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from ohio rise? mr. kucinich: i move that the house 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, the house stands adjourned until 9:00 a.m. >> timothy geithner testifies about the troubled assets reprogram before a congressional oversight panel. the first, a hearing on afghanistan and pakistan. this is the fourth in a series of hearings on capitol hill this week. it is testimony from the general stanley mcchrystal. howard berman chairs this hearing. >> the committee will come to order. before beginning my opening statement, i like to make two brief announcement on

writes that for many congressman, mitch mcconnell and others she is going to give them a dvd of "mr. smitho washington" so they can see the proper use of a filibuster. next caller from alabama, go ahead. caller: the overall, 60% unfavorable opinion of the health care bill, and the democrats have still forced it through. the democratic leadership, harry reid and what not. i'm sorry, i'm a little bit nervous. but how ben nelson and others had to get the big basically, "give me" gives in order to push it through. i think it will be a big defeat in the 2010 elections. >> the following -- host: a follow-up to the health care story. he also writes in this piece, a little background on the longest session. here is jacksonville, fla., bruce, your foot -- favored political story of the year. caller: i would have to go along with the debacle of the health care bill. the jump in net was on earlier that was speaking about, you know, the republicans not contributing anything. well, i guess he did not watch television because they had the closed-door secret sessions and no republicans were allowed in. t

mr. smith: mr.peaker, chairman berman's iran petroleum action -- act significantly ratches up strong -- ratchets up strong bipartisan on iran. given ahmadinejad's extreme hostility toward israel, his outrageous threats to annihilate israel from the face of the earth, and his obsessive hatred of jews worldwide this bill strengthens penalties on those who not only sell or lease or provide to iran any good understand and services to iran -- goods and services to iran. and has other sanctions as well. mr. speaker, any serious effort to peacefully stop iran from acquiring weapons of mass destruction, which i believe they will use if they acquire them, requires the strongest political and economic pressure that we can muster. h.r. 2194 is a step, the right step, in that direction. i thank the chair. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlewoman from florida reserves. the gentleman from ohio is recognized. mr. kucinich: i yield myself three minutes. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized for three

mr. smith: mr. speaker, chairman berman's iran petroleum action -- act significantly ratches up strong -- ratchets up strong bipartisan on iran. given ahmadinejad's extreme hostility toward israel, his outrageous threats to annihilate israel from the face of the earth, and his obsessive hatred of jews worldwide this bill strengthens penalties on those who not only sell or lease or provide to iran any good understand and services to iran -- goods and services to iran. and has other sanctions as well. mr. speaker, any serious effort to peacefully stop iran from acquiring weapons of mass destruction, which i believe they will use if they acquire them, requires the strongest political and economic pressure that we can muster. h.r. 2194 is a step, the right step, in that direction. i thank the chair. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlewoman from florida reserves. the gentleman from ohio is recognized. mr. kucinich: i yield myself three minutes. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized for thr

mr. smith: mr. speaker, it has taken months but there's one thing even the national media now acknowledge. joe wilson was right. illegal immigrants are covered by the health care bill. this week the associated press reported that the house health care bill which was the bill under consideration at the time of president obama's speech to congress and mr. wilson's remark will allow illegal immigrants to participate in the government-run and government-funded insurance plan. to its credit, cbs news said something similar back in september but on a web post. these articles are few, far between, and fairly well hidden from public view. they also fail to address the other illegal immigration related loopholes in both the house and senate bills. it's no wonder that only one in 10 americans now have a great deal of faith in the media to report the news fully, accurately, and fairly according to a recent poll. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields back the balance of his time. for what purpose does t

the gentleman from new jersey, mr. smith. >> thank you very much, mr. chairman.thank you both for your extraordinary leadership and for your extraordinary service. let me just ask a few questions. number one, the iraq surge of 2007 deployed as we know 20,000 combat troops, extended the tour 4,000 marines already in iraq and constituted intervention to help iraqis clear and secure neighborhoods to help them protect the local population and to help ensure iraqi forces left behind were capable of providing security. notwithstanding secretary -- or senator re ide's infamous statement that the war was lost and the surge is not accomplishing anything, stated back in '07, it did provide reconciliation. did the success inspire the afghan surge? what lessons, pro and con, were incorporated to the new beefed-up troop deployment? secondly, i agree we need an exit strategy but shouldn't it have been kept secret? why announce it to the taliban so they can craft and employ strategies especially after redeployment begins 18 months from now. and did either of you recommend that

writes that for many congressman, mitch mcconnell and others she is going to give them a dvd of "mr. smith goes to washington" so they can see the proper use of a filibuster. next caller from alabama, go ahead. caller: the overall, 60% unfavorable opinion of the health care bill, and the democrats have still forced it through. the democratic leadership, harry reid and what not. i'm sorry, i'm a little bit nervous. but how ben nelson and others had to get the big basically, "give me" gives in order to push it through. i think it will be a big defeat in the 2010 elections. >> the following -- host: a follow-up to the health care story. he also writes in this piece, a little background on the longest session. here is jacksonville, fla., bruce, your foot -- favored political story of the year. caller: i would have to go along with the debacle of the health care bill. the jump in net was on earlier that was speaking about, you know, the republicans not contributing anything. well, i guess he did not watch television because they had the closed-door secret sessions and no republicans were allowe

and it panel one could take their seats so that we can be ready to go as soon as mr. smithfinishes his presentation. >>, i think the ftc for the opportunity to speak here today. my role is to set the stage for the workshop and to talk about some of the technology behind data collection and data use. as we all realize, the flow of data makes our world of work. it is a fundamental if park -- a fundamental part of our economy and everything we do every day. a simple economic transactions such as making a cell phone call or buying something online, it all impulse the collection of data and the use of data by multiple vendors, simply to make a cell phone call might involve five different companies to collect data as part of making and completing that phone call. what i hope to do in the introduction is to look behind the scenes of little bit at some of the technology that makes all of this happened and some of the business relationships that make this happen. the issue of data collection has been around forever. today, the issue, as the chairman said in his introduction, very in

mr. smith: i thank the gentleman from virginia, mr. goodlatte, the deputy ranking member of the judiciary committee, for yielding me time. madam chair woman, those who confront mortgage foreclosures are understandably in a difficult situation. but this bankruptcy amendment will only lead to a worse situation for everyone. the number one cause of foreclosures today is job loss. the number two cause is homes that are mortgaged for more than they are worth. sending these homeowners with these problems into chapter 13 ups bankruptcy will not solve at all. they don't have the income required that is required to file chapter 13 bankruptcy. and those should honor the mortgages for which they freely contracted. allowing bankruptcy courts to cram down mortgage principal will only lead to higher interest rates and tucker mortgage terms for all future homeowners. why should those that did nothing wrong have to pay that price? i yield back. the chair: the gentleman yields. the gentleman from georgia is recognized. mr. marshall: i yield myself such

mr. smith: thank you, mr. speaker. mr. speaker, here is what jeffrey flier, dean of harvard medical school, has to say about the administration's health care bill. quote, the people who favor the legislation are engaged in collective denial. speeches and news reports say it will tackle the problems of cost, access and quality but that's not true. there are no provisions to substantially control the cost or raise the quality of care so the overall effort will fail to qualify as reform. whatever its shape, the final legislation that will emerge from congress will marketly accelerate national health care spending rather than restrain it. the legislation would do little or nothing to improve quality or change health care's dysfunctional delivery system. worse, currently proposed federal regulation would undermine any potential for real innovation and insurance and the provision of care, end quote. dean flier has good advice. congress should start over and do it right. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman's time has expired.

permitted to address the house revise and extend their remarks and include extraneous material, mr. smith from new jersey, mr. poe on december 16 for five minutes, mr. jones on december 16 for five minutes, mr. deal on december 16 for five minutes, mr. pitts on december 16 for five minutes and ms. foxx for december 10 for five minutes. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. for what purpose does the gentleman from georgia rise? >> mr. speaker, i ask unanimous consent that today following legislative business and any special orders entered into, that the following members may be permitted to address the house for five minutes revise and extend their remarks and include therein extraneous material, mr. davis from tennessee for five minutes, ms. woolsey from california for five minutes, mr. langevin of rhode island for five minutes, mr. defazio of oregon for five minutes, ms. kaptur for five minutes, mr. grayson of florida for five minutes and mr. spratt of south carolina for five minutes. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. for what purpose does the gentleman from georgia rise?

a lot of this is not going to be saying mr. smith an education program that tries to get kids to graduate from public school. do you think that is positive or negative? not many people are going to say that is a negative thing. you are much better taking it back a step and make it nonspecific to your candidate. how important is the graduation rate from high-school for you for all the schools in new jersey? what that is going to tell you is is this something we should be talking about or focusing on or is this a piece of the background puzzle we are trying to put together as something that is good to bring to the table but not what the focus of the campaign is. with good bowling you are going to get those answers. what should be the front and center piece of what we are doing and what is a little bit more of the background. with a lot of other things, we have the issues, favorability, you are testing your candidate and the democrats who are running and the republicans who are running and the new governor of new jersey and probably the

mr. smith's. >> thank you very much mr.man and thank you both for your extra night leadership and for your extra preservice. let me just ask a few questions. number one, the iraq surge of 2007 deployed as we know 20000 combat troops extended the tour 4000 marines already in iraq. constitute innovation to help the iraqi's clear and secure neighborhoods to help them protect the local population and to help ensure that iraqi forces left behind were capable of providing security. notwithstanding secretary or senator reid's statement that the war is lost, and the search is not a compassing anything stated back in april of 2007. the search did create space for political solution and reconciliation. my question would be did the success of the iraqi search inspired afghan search? what lessons learned from that surge pro and con, or incorporate into the troop deployment? secondly, i agree that we need an exit strategy. but shouldn't it have been kept secret?

the gentleman from new jersey, mr. smith. >> thank you very much, mr. chairman. thank you both for your extraordinary leadership and for your extraordinary service. let me just ask a few questions. number one, the iraq surge of 2007 deployed as we know 20,000 combat troops, extended the tour 4,000 marines already in iraq and constituted intervention to help iraqis clear and secure neighborhoods to help them protect the local population and to help ensure iraqi forces left behind were capable of providing security. notwithstanding secretary -- or senator re ide's infamous statement that the war was lost and the surge is not accomplishing anything, stated back in '07, it did provide reconciliation. did the success inspire the afghan surge? what lessons, pro and con, were incorporated to the new beefed-up troop deployment? secondly, i agree we need an exit strategy but shouldn't it have been kept secret? why announce it to the taliban so they can craft and employ strategies especially after redeployment begins 18 months from now. and did either of you recommend that

mr. smith: i thank the gentleman from virginia, mr. goodlatte, the deputy ranking member of the judiciary committee, for yielding me time. madam chair woman, those who confront mortgage foreclosures are understandably in a difficult situation. but this bankruptcy amendment will only lead to a worse situation for everyone. the number one cause of foreclosures today is job loss. the number two cause is homes that are mortgaged for more than they are worth. sending these homeowners with these problems into chapter 13 ups bankruptcy will not solve at all. they don't have the income required that is required to file chapter 13 bankruptcy. and those should honor the mortgages for which they freely contracted. allowing bankruptcy courts to cram down mortgage principal will only lead to higher interest rates and tucker mortgage terms for all future homeowners. why should those that did nothing wrong have to pay that price? i yield back. the chair: the gentleman yields. the gentleman from georgia is recognized. mr. marshall: i yield myself such

and it panel one could take their seats so that we can be ready to go as soon as mr. smith insists his presentation. -- finishes his presentation. >>, i think the ftc for the opportunity to speak here today. my role is to set the stage for the workshop and to talk about some of the technology behind data collection and data use. as we all realize, the flow of data makes our world of work. it is a fundamental if park -- a fundamental part of our economy and everything we do every day. a simple economic transactions such as making a cell phone call or buying something online, it all impulse the collection of data and the use of data by multiple vendors, simply to make a cell phone call might involve five different companies to collect data as part of making and completing that phone call. what i hope to do in the introduction is to look behind the scenes of little bit at some of the technology that makes all of this happened and some of the business relationships that make this happen. the issue of data collection has been around forever. today, the issue, as the chairman sai

smith. >> thank you, mr. speaker. the fatal attack last week on four-year-old john-paul massey from merseyside raises once again concerns about the effectiveness of legislation relating to dangerous dogs. will my right honorable friend agree to meet, with me, a small delegation of those who are concerned about the issue to discuss what can be done? >> my honorable friend is absolutely right. this was a terrible death, and i am very sorry to learn about what happened to the little boy in liverpool, john-paul massey. she knows that the police are continuing to investigate the circumstances of the death. they have also referred their handling of an original report from february 2009 to the independent police complaints commission. it would obviously be inappropriate to comment further on that instance, but the issue of the status of dangerous dogs was raised at the antisocial behavior working party a few days ago. we are working with the home office to ensure that those on the front line make full use of the powers avail

chairman and thank you, mrs. smith, for that moving story and your courage, not only for telling your own story but also for being the voice for so many victims out there, and on behalf of senator frank and myself, we welcome steve reading, our next witness and a minnesotan. when i became the county attorney, over a million people in minneapolis, 45 suburbs, i came in from the outside without a lot of criminal experience and i wanted to put someone in charge of the violent crimes division that had the trust of the people in the office and that was steve reading. he served well in that role but most importantly for our hearing today, he is one of the national experts on dna and that means not only being a tough smart trial lawyer and being able to convince a jury hike so many good prosecutors but it also means having the willingness and determination and intellect to learn the science of d.n.a. which is not that easy for so many lawyers to dig in and read all the scientific articles, because we have to be as sophisticat

mr. chairman. thank you chairman conyers. thank you ranking member smithshed members of the committee. i would like to thank you for inviting me to appear to discuss on lange screening including pirated live sporting events, to true honor for me to be here and i am pleased to explain how unlawful streaming of our pay-per-view events adversely impacts our business. the piracy of live sporting events is illegal and kills jobs and threatens the expansion of u.s. based companies. in 20001 my brother and i along with their friend dana white purchased the ufc. we saw great potential in ufc when many thought we were crazy. we took a great risk but today the ufc is a phenomenal success creating an impacting thousands of jobs for athletes licensees partners and affiliates. that success is threatened by the retransmission of our live pay-per-view events which account for nearly half of our revenues. our copyright production works are critical to our survival get they are infringing, yet there are an fringy web site where you will find almost any type of content whic

mr. chairman, and thank you, ms. smith, for that moving story and your courage not only for telling your own story, but also for being the voice for so many victims out there. and on behalf of senator franken and myself, we welcome steve the redding who is our next witness and a minnesotan the. when i became henny pin county attorney, i came in there from the outside without a lot of criminal experience, and i wanted to put someone in charge of the violent crimes division that had the trust of the people in the office, and that was steve redding. he's served well in that role, but most importantly for our hearing today, he is one of the national experts on dna. and this means not only being a tough, smart trial lawyer and being able to convince a jury like so many good prosecutors do, it also means having the willingness and the determination and the intellect to learn the science of dna which is not that easy for so many lawyers to dig in and read all those scientific articles because we have to be as sophisticated as a s

mr. joel green of upsher-smith laboratories, a pharmaceutical company in minnesota. i've heard from many people in my district and state who are victims of the madoff scandal. those people were not high rollers. there were regular, ordinary people who work hard every day to make america great, people like the ones mr. green represents, and his colleagues, who were part of a pension profit plan that invested with bernie madoff. the thought that they were protected by the securities investment protection corporation, sipc. however, they held themself and has not followed through on protection in many cases. that is why am pleased to work with my colleague on an amendment to clarify sipc protection. i look forward to continuing to work with you, mr. chairman, and others on the committee on this reform and others to ensure that sipc makes good on its promises. mr. greene. >> thank you, congressman ellison, and mr. maffei, and chairman and members of the committee. thank you for the opportunity to address your committee. as congressman ellison said, i am joel green with u

mr. nolte claimed this allowance. christopher was asked to investigate the claims of jackie smith and mcnotty. and this was brought further of what was claimed from moats to duck houses. mp's were told to claim properties. and this was to be scrapped and what they claim is to be phased out and a ban claiming relatives. there was a release from the bbc and stephen hammon who works for the parliament. >> i will start with you, it seems odd that mp's can hire relatives in the first place. >> i suppose it is, and your family is part of your lifestyle. i have worked for the parliament for 25 years, and in the last general election of the retired i was of the election and my husband was there at the same time. and i thought it was the best way forward, i worked with stephen and i have years of experience in the commons. >> it does seem a little unfair doesn't it. do you think we will see mp's wives for this. >> that has been rumored and =6 >> it looks like unjust or unintentional enrichment. you either have money into your household or capital gain on the property. it may not be a loss to anyone els

mr. chairman, ranking member smith and other members of the committee, but like to begin by commending youf u.s. intellectual property undermined the vitality of what should be among the most promising economic assets. we're here today because sports is not immune from piracy. we hear this on the increasing number of internet sites that are the focus of today's hearing. these enable the real-time deat theft of sports programmin. let me highlight a few points. it is important to recognize that this is problem not only with just sports in general. these sites available aha make real time streaming on many other types of television. this affects the entire global media sector. this is heavily international in scope and impact. in many cases, at this streaming isites are set up offshore. half who we regulawe regularly s available in real time without authorization. espn has been a pioneer in expanding legitimate access to large sporting events through a broadband services. espn 360.com is our signature website. through our investment and technology, these events are available to over 50 millio

mr. chairman, ranking member smith, other members of the committee, i would like to begin by commending youfor holding this hearing. and in particular, for your focus on emerging forms of internet piracy. in today's economy we cannot afford to let the theft of u.s. intellectual property undermine the vitality of what should be among our most promising, creative and economic assets. each year espn invests billions of dollars to produce tens of thousands of hours of high quality sports programming for distribution by a television and a agreeing array of new media platforms. we're here today because sports is not immune from privacy. we see this on the increasing number of internet sites that are the focus of this hearing. it allows the real time threat of real time sports programming uploaded by the site operators or by the users of these sites. in the interest of time let me highlight just a few points from my written testimony. first, it is important to recognize that this is not a problem limited to live sports or even sports in general. these same sites also make available real time strea

mr. joel green of upsher-smith laboratories, a pharmaceutical company in minnesota. i've heard for many people in my district and state who are victims of the madoff scandals, people who are not high rollers but regular people, ordinary people who work hard and make america great. people like the ones mr. green represents and his colleagues, who were part of a pension profit plant that invested with bernard madoff. they thought that they were protected by the securities investment protection corporation, and unfortunately it sipc held itself out and has not followed out on the petition in many cases. that is why employees to work with my colleague on an amendment to clarify the protection. i look forward to hearing -- to continue to work with you, mr. chairman and members of the committee, on this reform and others to ensure that sipc makes good on its promises. mr. greene. >> thank you, congressman ellison, and mr. maffei, and chairman and members of the committee. as congressman ellison said, i am told greene, and i work with upsher-smith laboratories of minnesota.

mr. joel green of upsher-smith laboratories, a pharmaceutical company in minnesota. i've heard for many people in my district and state who are victims of the madoff scandals, people who are not high rollers but regular people, ordinary people who work hard and make america great. people like the ones mr. green represents and his colleagues, who were part of a pension profit plant that invested with bernard madoff. they thought that they were protected by the securities investment protection corporation, and unfortunately it sipc held itself out and has not followed out on the petition in many cases. that is why employees to work with my colleague on an amendment to clarify the protection. i look forward to hearing -- to continue to work with you, mr. chairman and members of the committee, on this reform and others to ensure that sipc makes good on its promises. mr. greene. >> thank you, congressman ellison, and mr. maffei, and chairman and members of the committee. as congressman ellison said, i am told greene, and i work with upsher-smith laboratories of minnesota.

mr. joel green of upsher-smith laboratories, a pharmaceutical company in minnesota. i've heard for many people in my district and state who are victims of the madoff scandals, people who are not high rollers but regular people, ordinary people who work hard and make america great. people like the ones mr. green represents and his colleagues, who were part of a pension profit plant that invested with bernard madoff. they thought that they were protected by the securities investment protection corporation, and unfortunately it sipc held itself out and has not followed out on the petition in many cases. that is why employees to work with my colleague on an amendment to clarify the protection. i look forward to hearing -- to continue to work with you, mr. chairman and members of the committee, on this reform and others to ensure that sipc makes good on its promises. mr. greene. >> thank you, congressman ellison, and mr. maffei, and chairman and members of the committee. as congressman ellison said, i am told greene, and i work with upsher-smith laboratories of minnesota.

smith. >> thank you, mr. speaker. prime minister, does he recognize that he does not need an inquiry to know that his thank you the british troops will be all the more stronger if it contains an apology to the british troops and the people of afghanistan for the failure to resource the war in afghanistan properly in the early years because of the folly of going to war to run on false present. >> i am sorry the liberal party is trying to follow the conservative party in subscribing to a myth that the afghan campaign has been underfunded. this is totally wrong. i hope that the conservative party and the liberal party will, in the interest of the unity of our country in facing the terrorist threat, recognize that we are spending more on our armed forces than we ever did. we are spending more on making urgent operational requirements than we ever did, and we have taken a view and it is the view that is held i believe by the vast majority of the british people that you cannot defend terrorism by the extra money we are spen

smith. >> thank you, mr. speaker. the prime minister, does he recognize that he does not need an inquiry to know that his thank you the british troops will be all the more stronger if it contains an apology to the british troops and the people of afghanistan for the failure to resource the war in afghanistan properly in the early years because of the folly of going to war to run on false present. >> i am sorry the liberal party is trying to follow the conservative party in subscribing to a myth that the afghan campaign has been underfunded. this is totally wrong. i hope that the conservative party and the liberal party will, in the interest of the unity of our country in facing the terrorist threat, recognize that we are spending more on our armed forces than we ever did. we are spending more on making urgent operational requirements than we ever did, and we have taken a view and it is the view that is held i believe by the vast majority of the british people that you cannot defend terrorism by the extra money we are

smith for your courage and your strength and mr. redding and ms. stoiloff for your expertise and professionalism and ms. howley, for your advocacy. last month i introduced a bill joined my colleague, senator grassley and senator hatch and senator feinstein that would create financial incentives for jurisdiction to process the rape kit backlogs and to make sure that processing then continues to remain prompt. the truth is, i think that this is one of the issues -- those issues in congress where we all can agree on the big picture. rape is a heinous crime and we need to provide our law enforcement agencies with everything they need to prevent it. and bring perpetrator it is to justice. i just want to ask a few questions on this front. mr. redding, in your testimony you need there's a need for improved infrastructure and lab capabilities so that dna evidence can be processed as quickly as possible. the national institute of justice study revealed that 6 out of 10 police departments surveyed lacked computerized evidence tracking systems. they rely on p