mr. waxman, and the gentleman from texas, mr. barton, each control 10 minutes. the gentleman from california is recognized. mr. waxman: madam speaker, i yield myself one minute. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized for one minute. mr. waxman: i rise in vong support of this bill for education, jobs, and medicaid assistance. this will provide clinical relief of the states and local governments. this is a vote for jobs, their education, for health care. the states and local governments are faced with a decrease of income or taxes as people have lost their jobs. and yet in the medicaid area there is an increase for services as some people have lost their insurance. this will help the states avoid the massive cuts in medicaid eligibility, benefits, and payments to providers. the federal medicaid assistance program was adopted in february of 2009. it expires in december. this will extend our temporary fmap program for a-- an additional six months through june 30, 2011 when most state fiscal years end. there will be no change in the current formula for

mr. waxman. guest: i appreciate where she's coming from. gambling is a form of entertainment for many people. and if they do it responsibly i don't believe it's the rule of government to step in and to stop them. host: argument on the other side from twitter. one viewer tweets in this morning. worst thing that ever happened to mississippi was when they started the casino taking advantage of the poor. how about that argument about the poor might suffer most from this? guest: i think if you are going to have any expansion of gambling, including online, you need to put in place a system to educate consumers. you need to make sure that you're reaching them, you're explaining that gambling is only should be done responsibly , and as i've talked about, when we looking at regulating the industry online, the only way that makes sense if we do everything we can to protect the consumers and dealing with problem gambling, we need to give them the information. we need to make sure there are ways that people can protect themselves from going too far. ho

mr. waxman and i will talk about how we will handle it from here. i want to thank those witnesses for being here. i have my own opinion on it. our goal, when we started this, was to send out the message that steroid use was dangerous, wrong, and illegal, yet when million kids take it. major league baseball has changed their policy and hopefully they will again. we are glad to hear that the one thing you agree on is that underlying recommendation. i want to thank you both for coming here today. >> thank you very much. we worked together on this whole issue from the very beginning in 2005. this is not anything that separates us and democrats and republicans. we all care about this issue. each member and hopefully everyone in the audience will reach their own conclusion. this is what i think we have learned. they confirmed what brian mcnamee told senator mitchell. andy pettitte believed that he told mr. clemens about hgh. yet mr. clemens believes that they would share information with each other. mr. pettit did not believe what mr. clemens said in that