mr. smith: madam speaker, i ask unanimous consent that all members have five legislative days to revise and extend their remarks and include he extraneous materials on h.r. 4086 currently under consideration. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. mr. smith: madam speaker, i yield myself such time as i may consume. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized. mr. smith: madam speaker, i want to thank the gentleman from ohio, mr. chabot, a leader on the judiciary committee, for introducing this legislation. i also want to thank mr. conyers and mr. cohen for their support as well. this bill preserves the ability of u.s. museums and educational institutions to continue to borrow foreign government-owned artwork and cultural artifacts for temporary exhibition or display. the united states is long -- has long recognized the importance of encouraging the cultural exchange of ideas through exhibitions of artwork, loaned from abroad. cultural exchanges produce substantial benefits to the

i have more, mr. smith, but i would end on this last comment. martin luther king famously said, "in the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies but the silence of our friends. america is a friend to the imprisoned human rights lawyer, america is a friend to the young tibetan nun who just set herself aflame. america is a friend to the tortured human rights that catholic bishops, that protestant pastors, and we should not be silent as this administration has been. and i yield back. >> thank you, chairman wolf. i'd like to introduce our distinguished panelists. without objection, a full vibio will be available. but briefly, geng ho, wife of human rights lawyer gao zhisheng. she completed a study of accounting in china. she and gao zhisheng made in august of 1990. in 2006 she worked as a pa paralegal and accountant at a beijing law firm founded by her husband. in july 2009, a month after chinese officials reportedly detained her husband, geng left china with her children and since being in the u.s., she has advocated tenaciously for her h

mr. smith: america's medical liability system is broken and in desperate need of reform. frivolous lawsuits drive physicians out of the practice of medicine. limitless liability discourages others from high-risk medical specialties and substantially increases the cost of health care. the solutions to this crisis are both well known and time tested, but the president's recent health care legislation did nothing to address the problems in our medical liability system. you cannot wait any longer to fix the problem. you should pass this bipartisan medical liability reform legislation to cut health care costs, spur medical investment, create jobs, and increase access to health care for all americans. h.r. 5, the health act, is modeled after california's decades-old and highly successful health care litigation reforms. according to the national association of insurance commissioners, the rate of increase in medical professional liability premiums in california since 1976 has been nearly three times l

. >> will mr. smith ever get a sandwich on wall street? you know wall street -- with what i've seen, he probably will, but i think he'll have tough sledding. >> there's a lot of hedge funds that agree with what -- with what mr. smith just said today, and i wouldn't be surprised if some of them said, do you know what, you have skills, you can come work for us. >> i'll predict this, mr. smith goes to washington. i bet you he gets called in front of some committee fairly soon. folks, thank you very much. >> thanks. >>> up next on "power lunch," housing is still struggling to recover, but the home building stocks are on fire. >> yep, many hitting new highs, up between 20% and 50% this year. should you still get in at these levels, or is it buyer beware? forty years ago, he wasn't looking for financial advice. back then, he had something more important to do. he wasn't focused on his future but fortunately, somebody else was. at usaa we provide retirement planning for our military, veterans and their families. now more than ever, it's important

mr. smith: mr. speaker, i do ask for a moment of silence to remember our dearly departed friend, don payne. the speaker: observe a moment of silence. the speaker: the gentleman from new jersey. mr. 134i9: mr. speaker, i offer a privileged resolution and ask for its immediate consideration. the speaker: the clerk will report the concurrent resolution. the clerk: house resolution 571, resolved, that the house has heard with profound sorrow of the death of the honorable donald m. payne, a representative from the state of new jersey. resolved, that a committee of such members of the house as the speaker may designate together with such members of the senate as may be joined, be appointed to attend the funeral. resolved, that the sergeant at arms of the house be authorized and directed to take such steps as may be necessary for carrying out of the provisions of these resolutions and that the necessary expenses in connection therewith be paid out of applicable accounts of the house. resolved, that the cle

which brings me to the latest installment of "mr. smiths to the state legislature, then later, possibly washington." [ laughter ] [cheers and applause] people love the state legislature. our first rising star comes from indiana. >> an indiana lawmaker is taking a stand against girl scouts. state representative bob morris said he's against celebrating the group's 100th anniversary. >> in a letter that he wrote to his fellow representatives he says, "the girl scouts are a quote radicalized organization that promote abortion and homosexuality." >> stephen: yes. they meet in a church basement once a week, hold bake sales to raise money for field trips, and volunteer their time to help the elderly. you know, gay stuff! [ laughter ] and bob morris isn't just pulling these accusations out of his totally straight ass. in a letter to his fellow legislators, he said, quote, "i did a small amount of web-based research, and what i found is disturbing." [ laughter ] yes, and i did an even smaller amount of web-based research by typing girl scouts and l

so i think that's really a separate issue from what mr. smith and people are talking about on wall street. host: so let's -- i want to get your reaction to something that lloyd blank fine said when he testified in 2010. he talked about the change in the mission or the change in time. i want you to listen to what he said then and bring it up to date with our viewers now. >> i would say that increasingly -- and this is a change in the sociology of the business that took place over the last 15 or 20 years. i'm not sure it was precipitate bid the fall of glass spiegel or it caught it to fall as u.s. institutions had to become more competitive with global institutions but somewhere along the line clients used to ask you for advice and then went -- if you were an investment bank and then went to other institutions and asked them for financing and to take principled risk. somewhere along the line they stopped asking necessarily to do things for them but to do things with them. in other words torks be the other side. and today in the world -- and this e

i want to bring up the fact that i have been working with mrs. smith of the public health departments for the smoke-free, and she has been there a few times, and the last time i spoke with her she said she was going to address this. here is proof that shows they are still not abiding by what they have been discussing. >> this is in front of your house? >> this is in front of our house. they come, and it is a little bit setback may be afoot, a foot and a have set back, so it has an overhang. they talk on their phone, they get away from the bar because it is too noisy, and after working with anita floras, because what they are doing is dumping their mock water into the street, and she has been out there several times to talk to them. for whatever reason, it is not sinking in this is not ok, so i wanted to share those things, and also, as my husband was saying, i would much rather have it go back to the amount of rentals to having a jukebox again. it also because of a lifetime of catching hopkinup to the good nr commission list of they are not abiding by,

this morning, your ranking member, mr. smith, suggested that by allowing the tax cuts under mr. bush to expire in december, this would solve the problem. republicans would not have to vote for a tax increase. you guys could march forward. what do you think? >> adam is a good friend and we worked together on this. our committee is bipartisan. i really tried to work because we look at our responsibility as protecting the men and women in uniform. defending the nation of the country. however, we have had many hearings and i've expressed my opinion. he has expressed his. my opinion is that our responsibility, my responsibility, is to look out for the defense of the country, to make sure that men and women in uniform have all of the training, equipment, tools, leadership, then they need to carry out their missions and return home safely. i do not think it comes under my jurisdiction to worry about taxes and revenue. there are people at a higher pay grade that worry it and work on that. >> given your strong interest in avoiding defense cuts, would you be willing to not vote and let th

mr. smith talked about was extraordinarily documented. dan sparks, head of the mortgage unit, mortgage market turned south, goldman starts unloading bad product on its clients, and he is saying in e-mails how the team did a great job of taking big lemons and turning it into lemonade. after goldman decides the mortgage market is in steep decline, they offload toxic product to their clients, then create in the same time frame another $25 million in mortgage securities and sell them to clients and investors. this is the culture of this company, well documented beyond one individual. mr. smith reminds us not much has changed in four years. >> the government is complicit now. >> that's the point. if you have the government creating basically legalized accounting fraud in the way the banks account for underlying assets, if you have the government saying you do not have to post collateral of aaa rated financial institution, even if you crater the entire western economy, we will give you the accounting

smith schmidt mr. chairman, i'll yield -- mr. smith: mr. chairman, i'll yield to the gentleman from georgia, dr. gingrey. the chair: the gentleman is recognized for as much time as he may consume. mr. gingrey: i thank chairman smith for yielding to me. as good a communicator as the gentlewoman from california is, i would be quick to state that she's not the great communicator . the great communicator of course , president ronald reagan. and the gentlewoman from california talked about comments that were made on my side of the aisle, members of the judiciary committee and named a couple of members on my side of the aisle that were concerned about federalism and the 10th amendment and states' rights, but i just want to remind her that at least from our perspective, the gentlewoman may not agree with this at all, but from our perspective on this side of the aisle the great communicator was president ronald reagan. . in a speech of 1986 to the u.s. chamber of commerce after a commission had reported to him on this issue of medical liability ref

smith? >> thank you, mr. chairman. i want to follow up on that piece there. i think it's just a misunderstanding about the mission in somewhere it's going. we were transitioning, that is the whole point, to bring in other forces, it's not a mat that the mission is reaching a point of diminishing returns, it's a matter the mission is reaching a point of reasonable success, and for it to continue to succeed we need to make that transition. it seems like there's always an argument for more troops on our side if things are going well, that's evidence that we can't leave because, look, it's working, we have to stay there, if anything goes wrong, that's evidence that we have to stay longer and in greater numbers because, look, it's not going well. that's not the point of our mission. as i said in the outset, nobody on this committee, nobody in this country wants a permanent presence in afghanistan. so you've got to take a step back and say okay if we don't want that and succeed in the mission that you general allen, clearly described, to make sure that the taliban

hello mr smith welcome to the show thank you very much for being with us well first of all congratulations for as i understand you're you're you're you're nearly there you nearly did it because the vicious gong was to cover the entire country with web camera polling station two hundred thousand we have cameras around the country so is it yeah. it's always done it's about ninety five percent already. gotten by the start of the election did move beyond it yeah yeah it was very important that we we we connected them to the network we. camera we see more school isn't just a kid to me you had to do it in the winter because the prime minister came up with this idea in the winter in december and fifteenth of december the ninth of december it's russia in siberia it's cable's you have to did it it's christmas and you literally have to dig and you exactly yeah yeah it's incredible and what we found it new for me as well so. in temperature minus fifteen sensors. for people is broking usually so. i've seen by myself so it's and sometimes people will keating's a cable before putting putting it in the g

. >> thank you, mr. smith. i think this administration has been a total failure and quite frankly, i think the groups around this country should know this and not pretend it is not true. christians in egypt should know this administration has failed them. iraqi and syrian caldian should kn know this administration has failed them. the vietnamese in vietnam, both buddhists and catholics ought to know this administration failed them. of course, the catholic bishops in china and their protestant house leaders in china should know this administration failed them. the dalai lama ought to know this administration failed them. 11 -- 11 buddhist monks and nuns have set themselves aflame. i want to bring it back to this and i did not know you had made a request. i would like to ask both of the wives if they would say publicly, i see the media here looking, but what would you say because there is still an opportunity to meet after the vice president from china leaves. what would you say if you had an opportunity to meet

mr. smith from new jersey, the chairman on south africa is recognized. >> let me associate myself with remarks that were made about -- he suppose via telephone right here and the man is brave. he is calling for freedom, human rights and we have got to be hard lined, i believe, but prudent. so i hope the gentle lady made an important point about not attending and i hope that will be the case. let me ask you with regards to the pastor, we will have a resolution later on today, if you can ireyiranians, there's a racheting up of persecution of christians, christian girls are forced to islam as minor s and given to a man in egypt who happens to be muslim is an act of trafficking and it's on a serious human right s hearing. i hold my first hearing on february 19th, and it's getting worse then and it's now awful in china, north korea, we know that people are tortured to death simply for being christian. i would with like to the ask you and a yes or no answer may be sufficient. i am appreciating your w

. >> turns out mr. smith is, in fact, an associate pastor at his church in gas tonya.duction was great. you couldn't tell there, but he was great. is. >>> republican candidate newt gingrich strengthening his attacks on president obama's energy and gas policies. remember in his speech on tuesday night he mocked president obama for using algae or talking about algae even as an alternative source of fuel. well, he stopped by yesterday a texaco gas station in pel city, alabama, to hold a little news conference while pumping some gas. >> come to a gas station is, i don't think the president quite gets it. there is no algae that's going to come out of this summer. this is the device by which the american people fill their cars and trucks and this, in fact, requires gasoline. >> there you go. no algae coming out of the texaco station, not yet anyway. >>> we've been keeping you abreast of stephen colbert and the countdown clock, the countdown to conservatives falling in love with mitt. nearly exploded after soouper tuesday's primary results. here's colbert last night. >> oh, n

i take mr. smith at his word. he says he doesn't know.ed in the fbi and the last i checked they had pretty good resources to get to the bottom of things like this, so we'll see. >> such a mystery. dave lane, thank you for sharing the latest on it, and we'll have what his platform is and what he's about. >> i look for it. >> it may be a landmark ruling in the court, but will the verdict make a difference in society? you're watching "weekends with alex witt." concentrated relief that goes to work in seconds and freshens breath. new tums freshers. ♪ tum...tum...tum...tum... tums! ♪ [ male announcer ] fast relief, fresh breath, all in a pocket sized pack. >>> welcome back to "weekends with alex witt" at just after the half hour. "the chicago tribune" is endorsing romney. here's part of the editorial in today's paper. only one of the four republicans still in this primary race has the personal skill set, the painfully won experience to appreciate this peril and to guide americans through their own financial rescue. romney is in puerto rico rig

idealistic person when he went to washington in 1948, i think he probably felt that this was going to be mr. smith goes to washington, the place of marble monuments were just waiting for him to come there and change the world in a crusade and very quickly his dreams and idealism collided with reality. >> the reality was a senate dominated by the same dixie crats humphrey had angered with his civil rights speech the summer before and they would not go easy on hubert humphrey. >> after all, i had been the destroyer of the democratic party, the enemy of the south, hubert humphrey, the, quote-unquote, nigger lover. but i never felt so lonesome and unwanted in my life as i did those first few weeks and months as united states senator. >> where did you find the ronald reagan clip? >> that was in the humphrey collection. it was actually a radio program. it was for the garment national ladies garment workers union. speaking for -- on a union program. he was the screen actors guild president at the time. >> we knew he was a supporter of fdr's, but i never heard he was outwardly supporting hubert humphrey.

accelerate the movement of the ansf into the fore and we're go fog continue to pursue that aggressively, mr. smith. >> one more question. president karzai made a number of comments, you know, being concerned about the u.s. troops, talking about returning us to our bases, ending night raids. by and large it seems to me those comments reflect domestic pressure, reflect the afghan constituents that president karzai is responsible to being concerned about the foreign military presence. while president karzai's aware of the importance of us being there he's aware most of the people in afghanistan look forward to the day when we're not. so number one, is that an accurate reflection in your view of what president karzai and some other domestic politicians in afghanistan are reflecting? number two this is for both dr. miller and general allen, how do you work that relationship? how do you make sure the transition continues to happen in a responsible way, not in a rushed way given that domestic political pressure? i will point out that domestic political pressure that president karzai and others in the afg

mr. smith's role was vice president, a relatively junior position held by thousands of employees around the. where do they get that information? from an unnamed goldman sachs source, really, who would have figured. when you tell the truth about goldman sachs the media pounces against you. isn't that amazing? now, let's tell what you goldman sachs normally does. carl levin challenged them on the senate. here watch. >> july 1, 2007, tells the sales course the top priority timber wolf. your top priority is to sell [bleep] deal. >> i don't recall the sales. trying to sell. >> okay, you're trying to sell [bleep] deal. and it's your top priority. come on, should the goldman sachs should be trying to sell--by the way it sold it, and a lot of it after that day. should goldman sachs be trying to [bleep] deal. can you answer that one yes or no. >> he's saying, look, it's in your own internal e-mails bragging how you sell crappy deals to your own clients. we know it's true. goldman sachs paid a $550 million fine to the sec for all the problems they've done. that sounds like a big number but it's comic

this is like the old senator, and mrs. smith goes to washington. everything they said about me is true. it is like saying everything you said about mitt romney, a flip-flopper, can't believe a word he says, it'll change. a mood ring, it will be different. an etch-a-sketch, we used to have those things, you wrote it on it then it disappeared when you lifted it up. all of the commitments about everything are yesterday's news now. >> you should buy stock in the company that makes etch-a-sketch because there will be a run on those by not just list republican opponents, but the obama people. >> are the obama people handing them out. >> they launched this and newt and santorum -- >> they launched the reaction. >> you could not say a more damaging thing about mitt romney. >> he has to fire the guy. how does he live with the fact his biggest guy said this without laying on and beg for forgiveness. >> his campaign reached out. they is think he t should be clear he obviously was referring to the campaign reset that happens between primary and general versus

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mr. smith: mr. speaker, i do ask for a moment of silence to remember our dearly departed friend, don payne. the speaker: observe a moment of silence. the speaker: the gentleman from new jersey. mr. 134i9: mr. speaker, i offer a privileged resolution and ask for its immediate consideration. the speaker: the clerk will report the concurrent resolution. the clerk: house resolution 571, resolved, that the house has heard with profound sorrow of the death of the honorable donald m. payne, a representative from the state of new jersey. resolved, that a committee of such members of the house as the speaker may designate together with such members of the senate as may be joined, be appointed to attend the funeral. resolved, that the sergeant at arms of the house be authorized and directed to take such steps as may be necessary for carrying out of the provisions of these resolutions and that the necessary expenses in connection therewith be paid out of applicable accounts of the house. resolved, that the cle

mrs. smith is still teaching at the local elementary school. the other problem that the democrats have, they don't have a candidate worth two nickels. they have a world series event for a recall and bring in $30 million of big public union money and look at the candidate. this is a -- kathy falk has the distinct honor of being the only democrat in america in 2006, you might remember, republicans didn't do well in 2006, but our attorney general was the only republican in america to win a race statewide that was previously held by a democrat. he beat kathy falk. this is the person that the democrats think they are going to knock off scott walker? we will be watching very closely. it's a big race. thank you. >> hey, thank you. >> greta: coming up, arizona's republican lawmakers, trying to cut the federal government off at the pass. they are proposings their own contraception rule. sprks are flying. ripping cleans off. a decline in fiber. this is an example of the blistering accusations of employees against goldman sachs, putting accusations in pri

remember the movie mr. smith goes to washington? jimmy stewart trying to get people's attention?s just a routine maneuver. it's done every day, so what you do is just a rules change. you want to filibuster something, you do it on the floor. >> i like that one, too, john. what about this. up or down vote for presidential appointees. just hold up the other guy's. we needed a full fed and i think that was unpatriotic. did that change? >> this is part of the senate's advise and consent. it's a basic rule. it's gotten worse every single congress since reagan. we've got over 200 federal appointments unfilled. the fed, the treasury. 90 days to vet a nominee and if you don't get it done, the guy should be automatically confirmed. that would be up or down 90 days. >> these three things, the the way you present they had, makes much more sense. so, will it happen? >> well, if congress starts feeling the pressure. if they want their approval ratings to improve, they need to start taking action. these are by a group called no labels, which i helped to cofound in december 2010. no budget, no p

. >> this is like the old senator and mr. smith goes to washington saying everything they said about me is true. it's like saying everything you said about romney, that he is a flip-flopper, the guy is saying it's all an etch-a-sketch. all of the commitments about immigration and all of the commitments about everything is yesterday's news now. >> you should buy stock in the company that makes etch-a-sketch because there will be a run on those. >> you think the obama people will hand these things out now? >> it started by the democrats. they launched this and then newt and santorum caught on. >> you could not say a more damaging thing about mitt romney that -- >> the guy said this without laying on the ground and begging for forgiveness. >> translator: campaign reached out to me, they think it should be clear, he obviously was referring to the campaign reset that happens between a primary and a general verses resetting the candidate positions. they're saying -- there is a, it has been an accepted fact of life that nominees of major

the idea of what the filibuster was, remember "mr. smith goes to washington."my stewart taking that lone stand of principle, trying to get people's attention. now it's just a routine parliamentary maneuver. it's done every day to stop votes in process. just a rules change, bring it back to the way it was. if you want to filibuster something, you do it on the floor. >> i like that one, too. up or down vote for presidential appointees. this has been painful, both democrats and republicans. they love to do this. just hold up the other guy's apaintees. during the financial crisis, we didn't even have a full fed. i think that was unpat ottawaic. can it change? >> that's what we' got to do. this is part of the senate's advise and consent. it's a basic rule. but as you said, it's gotten worse every single congress since really ronald reagan. we've got nearly 200 federal appointments unfilled. the federal judgeships, fed, treasury, et cetera, et cetera. up or down vote, 90 days to vet a nominee. if you don't get it done, the guy or gal should be automatically confirmed

mr. smith's op-ed that this is like telling you that the sun rises in the east in the morning about goldman. and far matter the ethics on wall street in general. but it's still-- as this uproar demonstrates-- it's a terrific sore, not only with people who are involved with wall street but with the american public as ahole w spend trillions bailing these companies out and continues to find out that there is conduct here that really defies common sense and good ethics. and with goldman, it's especially troublesome because goldman had its famous 14 basic principles of business. principle number one was the.... >> woodruff: let me just stop you there and i want to pick up on your first basic point and turn to jim angel. just on this essential criticism from greg smith in that piece yesterday that the moral fiber as deteriorated. >> there have always been conflicts of interests in financial markets and charges of these conflicts are really not new even at goldman sachs, whether it was the i.p.o. spinning scandal of the late '90s or the excesses of the 1920s. if you go back in financial history,

what mr. smiths saying to this letter to the "new york times" is that neither has happened. >> yeah, he certainly is. goldman did this famous internal review and promised to look more carefully at its supposed first business principle of putting its first and that may not have mattered much. >> so there may be some heads rolling, beth ani. >> too soon to tell. i don't know who you have taking lloyd blankfein's play. larry cohn is a continuation of the same. i think that's a real challenge for goldman sachs. >> thank you, bethany. next up on "kudlow," the obama overreach continues. 32 major regulations, a cost of $50 billion. can it be stopped? americans believe they should be in charge of their own future. how they'll live tomorrow. for more than 116 years, ameriprise financial has worked for their clients' futures. helping millions of americans retire on their terms. when they want. where they want. doing what they want. ameriprise. the strength of a leader in retirement planning. the heart of 10,0