butler and mr. welchr planned and put a young man in a false arrest situation, kidnapped him, flex cuffed him and took him back to his house. >> reporter: the men's attorneys say it was an attempt to buy the p.i. to help a mother scare her son. >> mr. butler and mr. welch did a fake sting or arrest. should it have been done? of course not. did it have in the final analysis a helpful role in scaring this young man straight? i don't know. >> if you're the mother and it worked, it was a great thing. if you look at it now in a lot of what happened, everybody is going to criticize it. >> reporter: the incident appeared to hit a nerve with the judge, who refused to lower bail for butler after lowering bail for welch a week and a half ago. butler's attorney believes his client is being positioned to take the bulk of rap. >> my view is when you weigh culpability, the sworn police officer who is in charge of dozens of arrests of citizens and has access to evidence and is recirculating that evidence and using my cl

laws and regulations and that their work there began after the sanctions were lifted and before mr. welch joined the company. both firms recently suspended their operations in libya. >> it's absolutely disgusting. and i and other pan-am family members have said many times that doing business with terrorists is not only the wrong thing to, do it's bad business. >> reporter: bernstein's late husband investigated nazi war criminals for the justice department. she says he kept a small sign in his office. >> "the law sometimes sleeps but it never dies." >> reporter: a credo that she hopes will ultimately hold true for gadhafi. michael isikoff, nbc news, washington. >>> up next here tonight, a father's plea for an american student who vanished while studying abroad. . >>> he left san diego to study for a semester in spain. and tonight, an american college student who always kept in touch with friends and family has disappeared, leaving few leads and many questions. we get more now from nbc's keir simmons. >> reporter: "missing," the poster says. austin bice disappeared more than a week ago. his

mr. welch: i thank the gentleman. mr. speaker, my colleagues on the other side, america does have a national security interest in protecting american citizens from terrorist attacks. but the question before us is, is that national security interest being served by 10 years of nation building in the third most corrupt country in the entire world? is our national security interest being served by sending 100,000 troops and $454 billion in taxpayers' money to a country where there are 50 members of al qaeda? is it a winning and likely successful strategy when al qaeda simply moves where we aren't? they move out of afghanistan into pakistan, to sudan, to wherever they can find a safe haven. does it make sense to ask our soldiers and our taxpayers to sacrifice when our afghan partner is so profoundly corrupt? and i mean world-class corrupt. $3 billion in palates of cash moved out of the kabul airport to safe havens for warlords. an afghan president who flies to dubai with $200 million in walking around money. when the u.s.-bac

mr. welch: i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the chair recognizes the gentleman from texas, mr. carter, for five minutes. mr. carter: thank you, madam speaker. madam speaker, congressman silvestre reyes and i would like to take this opportunity to honor general george w. casey jr., the 36th chief of staff of the united states army, for his extraordinary dedication to duty and service to our nation. as co-chairs of the house army caucus, congressman reyes and i have had the privilege of working with general casey as he led our army through a difficult period of transformation simultaneously rebalancing and modernizing the army while our nation was engaged in two wars. for over 40 distinguished years of service, general casey -- after 40 years of distinguished service, general casey will retire from active military duty in june of 2011. general casey is the epitomy of the consummate professional, exemplifying the special qualities exhibited by all transformational military leaders. a strong sense of duty, h

. >> mr. welch. five minutes. >> thank you very much, mr. chairman.f inderstand it, you say that dodd-frank has not succeeded in making the market believe that it has addressed this issue of too-big-to-fail. >> the implementation of it has not succeeded in convincing the market. >> is a because of the regulatory provisions - is it because of the regulatory provisions? >> yes, some of that put the responsibility on the regulators to edelman the necessary changes and send the right messages to market. >> so we would have been better off with congress testifying what were the guidelines and what were the parameters within which these large financial institutions could operate? would that have been a better approach? >> it would have been a more effective approach if ideas like the amendments in the senate to dog frank -- to dodd- frank would put such as caps on the larger institutions. if that had passed, it would have sent a clear message to the market. >> that is simple. >> you would have relied lot less on the regulators if that were included. >> when

. >> mr. welch. five minutes. >> thank you very much, mr. chairman. if i understand it, you say that dodd-frank has not succeeded in making the market believe that it has addressed this issue of too-big-to-fail. >> the implementation of it has not succeeded in convincing the market. >> is a because of the regulatory provisions -- is it because of the regulatory provisions? >> yes, some of that put the responsibility on the regulators to edelman the necessary changes and send the right messages to market. >> so we would have been better off with congress testifying what were the guidelines and what were the parameters within which these large financial institutions could operate? would that have been a better approach? >> it would have been a more effective approach if ideas like the amendments in the senate to dog frank -- to dodd- frank would put such as caps on the larger institutions. if that had passed, it would have sent a clear message to the market. >> that is simple. >> you would have relied lot less on the regulators if that were included. >>

slaughter: i yield two minutes to the gentleman from vermont, mr. welch. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from vermont is recognized for two minutes. mr. welch: i thank the gentlelady. there's really two questions that this bill raises. first, is this a way to deal with the serious problem we have in this country which is the deficit? and the answer is it isn't. i salute the republicans in this congress for focusing attention on the need to restore fiscal balance. you're right. but the plan you're pursuing to achieve it is dead wrong. you cannot by cutting 12% of the budget, the nondefense discretionary budget, achieve the fiscal balance that we need. and why you have a plan where you attack national public radio, where you attack planned parenthood, you attack home heating assistance, but leaving a swollen pentagon budget, that means this is not going to succeed even if we wiped out the entire nondefense discretionary budget we would still have a deficit of $1 trillion. so serious budget cutters have a serious plan that puts everything on the table.

mr. welch: i thank the gentleman. i'm here to talk about the abandonment of essential air service in rural america. my problem with this bill, among others, is that this legislation turns its back on rural america. the f.a.a. budget is about providing a transportation system that is going to serve all of america, all of our taxpayers in urban and in rural areas. and this bill is an assault on the $200 million a year that had been available for essential air services in rural america. how is it that rural america gets left behind? we have needs, we have companies, we have taxpayers and we have travelers. and we can have that commitment to rural america be continued, not abandoned. let me give you an example. the southern vermont regional airport serves southern vermont. that county is rural. 63,000 people. there's no interstate access, mr. chair, to help ensure the three daily flights to and from boston logan international airport, the air services are subsidized at $800,000 a year. it's a good and efficient use of tax

mr. welch: thank you. to my republican colleagues when you say that we have a fiscal house to get in order, you're right. but when your plan is to focus 100% of your firepower on 12% of the budget, i say you are designing a plan that will fail. why is it that we have added $700 billion to the deficit by extending tax cuts for the top 2%? why is it that we'll cut low-income heating assistance by $2.5 billion and continue $55 billion in tax breaks for oil companies that are selling oil at $100 a barrel? they made $1 drill in the past -- trillion in the past 10 years. why is it we are having a threat by the republican majority saying no on extending the debt limit and have americans default on paying its bills for past obligations incurred under republican and democratic administrations and play with fire? with the reputation of the american people despite the clear damage that will do to the economy rather than acknowledge that we have an obligation to meet our obligation. the speaker pro tempore: the gentle