mr. sullivan, who is a thoughtful person with whom i have had some thoughtful discussions when i was coming up to speed about muni work, i would suggest to you that this might be one topic that you could reach out to him as you get to know him, because he and his organization care a great deal. director nolan: anyone else on this? >> secretary -- secretary bopo -- boomer: there are no speaker cards on this. director nolan: a really informative discussion. at some point, on a day like today, when we do not have a lot, to have a report from them. the director of the project is very impressive. i think it is important for us to know all of this because we would certainly be impacted by this in the years ahead, so with members consent, do you want to say anything about that? >> i think that is a wonderful idea. eventually, the terminus of california high speed rail is really going to change downtown for the better. it has been an amazing project. i think we are aware of it and ready for it. some of the challenges that are still faced by high-speed rail and the downtown extension. there is a goo

mr. sullivan, did you enjoy the game? >> i enjoyed it very much. >> exhausted? >> i am. i am one of the ones that jumped off the couch. >> no matter where u.n. today, raven's fans were talking about that game -- where you went today, the ravens fans were talking about that game. >> for baltimore ravens fans, things could not be better. joe flacco connects with hattori smith and the ravens win. -- with tory smith and the ravens wende. >> they are truly the champions i knew they would be. >> it is nice beating pittsburgh, isn't it? >> i was ecstatic. it was beautiful. >> all over town it was all people were talking about today. >> it was wonderful. we pulled it o. >> you deliver the mail. i guess people are very happy today, aren't they? >> yes, we are. >> i could not even sleep until 2:00 a.m. it was beautiful. >> it is a good monday. >> they did it. they brought it back. they did what they had to do, just like everybody asked them. it was a good game prepared ought -- a good game. i really appreciate it. >> fantastic, i loved every minute of it. >> it is nice beating pit

mr. sullivan? >> mr. sullivan votes aye. >> the clerk will report the results. anyone else wishes to vote? if not, the clerk will report. >> mr. chairman, on that vote, there were 13 ayes, nine nays. >> the ayes have it, and the motion is tabled. >> in motion to strike the last word. we have but an unfortunate situation of the solyndra bankruptcy. i think it is important that the committee investigate how this happened, not only to find out how happened in the past but to make sure it does not happen in the future. this is involved? first, it is the positive energy. those who make the decision. who else is involved? the office of management and budget. there is correspondence with the white house about this one alone. some people love a different opinion about solyndra, so we asked omb for their information. before they had a chance to get it from the congress, the committee had a chance to subpoena them, which i thought was premature and inappropriate. but it is far better to subpoena the omb then the president of the united states. i do not think they should b

mr. sullivan? mr. murphy? mr. burgess? >> aye. >> mr. burgess votes aye. mrs. blackburn? also plaque burn votes aye. mrs. myrick votes aye. mr. bilbray? mr. gingrey? mr. gingrey votes aye. mr. scalise? mr. scalise votes aye. mr. gardner? mr. gardner votes aye. mr. griffith, mr. griffith votes aye. mr. barton? mr. barton votes aye. mr. up son mr. upton votes aye. miss degette. miss deget votes know. miss schakowsky. miss schakowsky votes no. mr. rose votes know. mr. castor, votes no. mr. markey votes no. mr. green? mr. green votes no. miss christensen. miss christensen then votes no. mr. dingell? mr. dingell votes no. mr. waxman. mr. waxman votes no. chairman sterns? >> chairman turns sternses vote aye. >> mr. sullivan votes eye. . . >> well -- first of all, it's the department of energy. who also is involved the department of management and budget because they review the decision so our committee asks d.o.e. for information and we got 65,000 pages from them including correspondence that they had with the white house about this loan. some people at omb had a different opin

mr. sullivan? >> mr. murphy? >> anyone else wishes to vote? and >> mr. chairman, on that vote, there were 13 ayes, 9 nays. >> i seek recognition to strike the last word. we have the unfortunate situation of solyndra's bankruptcy. it is appropriate that this committee investigate how this happened. not only to find out what happened in the past, but to make sure it does not happen in the future. who is involved in such a loan? the department of energy. they are the ones that make the decisions. to else is involved? the office of management and budget. our committee passed -- asked doe for information and we got 65,000 pages from them. some people at omb had a different opinion about solyndra. before they had a chance to get it to the congress, this committee moved to subpoena them. i thought it was inappropriate. it is a far different thing to subpoena the omb than to subpoena the president of the united states. we did not give an opportunity to work things out. we slammed them with a subpoena. i posted as premature. not because i did not want to get the

mr. sullivan: i believe a constitutional amendment to balance our budget is good and i'm pleased that congresste on one for the first time in 15 years. this is a critical time for our nation. over 14 million americans are unemployed, and our record-setting debt level of debt is over $14 trillion. congress has a moral obligation to our children and grandchildren to stop the outrageous spending and restore fiscal sanity in washington to ensure we don't lead them under a mountain of debt. i will continue fighting for a constitutional amendment to require the federal government to live within its means just like families across oklahoma do every day. thank you and i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from rhode island rise? mr. cicilline: i ask unanimous consent to address the house for one minute. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, so ordered. mr. cicilline: mr. speaker, i rise today to recognize whitmar house in providence, rhode island, a place for developmental disabilities and families for over 40 years. in recognition of the organization's commi

mr. cain acted inappropriately. >> in the interest of fairness, i want to read ray sullivan, the communications director had this to say, this charge is both reckless and false. for a candidate and campaign claiming to be victims of unfounded accusations they are often quick to hurl unfounded accusations themselves. there is no one shroud of evidence that they had anything to do with recent story regarding herman cain because it simply isn't true. suggesting there is no room here, no wiggle room, that rick perry had nothing to do with it. is there a strategy in what herman cain is doing? it feels a little catch as catch can. >> in a way it is working, they are trying to turn the focus away from them to the rick perry campaign. but that's only a short term solution. at the end of the day the story is the story nbc news confirmed with accusations from two different women, one of whom we've been able to confirm ended up getting a settlement agreement. there is smoke here. >> it is not just a smear campaign there are facts. a woman was paid this amount of money as a result of some allegation. that much we know. >> ulti

mr. cain making an allegation against a veteran political operative who once worked for him, also worked for mitt romney, worked for the republican national committee, and is now associated with the perry campaign. ray sullivan's spokesman says, "no one with the perry campaign was in any way involved in this. the first we learned of it was "the politico" story." erick erickson, how's this play out on the right? >> i'm out in california, interview governor perry tonight, and you can bet i'm going to ask him about this. but everything's jumping on two things, john. the first is that he's known about this since 2003. he's known that this consultant was not going to back him. and the campaign expects something to come out, but is caught flat-footed. yeah, the politico could have mixed up details, but we're now on wednesday, and the campaign still can't get its story straight. the other thing that is sticking out to people now is that he said in his statement, to richard about this, he told kurt anderson there was one complaint. we're now on three women. >> james carville is a veteran of political campaigns. you're a democrat in the conversation, but we went through 1992 and the bill clinton campaign together and t