mrs. clinton. i understand he is also meeting the eu by rep.i wonder if he believes that between us we can actually encourage the quartet to take firmer action with israel who seems not to understand the gravity of the situation? >> there is an international focus. that is true in the united states. i was with the e.u high representative last night in sarajevo. she has the same focus on these issues. i was at the eu, western balkans meeting and they have discussed this issue. one of the results of this action is to really bring this to center stage. it has to shine a spotlight on the problems of the gaza strip. it is now important for us to take the momentum and make sure the work continues over the coming weeks and months to improve the situation. >> would the foreign secretary not accept that what he said today amounts to saying that the united states, britain, and europe will continue to tolerate the israeli blockade of the gossip strip and this toleration should be brought to an end and it necessary britain and other members of, the europea

mrs. clinton's fund-raisers and staff said they did not know that this fund raiser was breaking the law, and i agree with them. the point is, someone can flout the campaign finance laws right up in one of the most important campaigns and most important candidates in recent history. it is probably happening all the time. >> this was from april 1, 2009. the headline is "u.s. news: lawmakers have long rewarded their aides with bonuses." what is legistorm? >> it was started by a man who left and founded his own web site. a lot of people in d.c. have an interest in showing a greater spotlight on campaign finances. jeff freely is one of them. his website makes it easy for people to figure out and track the money within congress. not what congress is appropriating money for, but literally how much a committee is spending on running the committee, how much a congressional office spends on flowers, transportation, on the tvs that that buy and on staff salaries. >> what is the source from him for that? >> the house and senate at the time, i think it was every three months, had to publish information i

mrs. clinton asked him, well, you have no damage, what did you do? he said, i went down to the library, and i checked out a videotape from fema office of emergency services california videotape that showed you how to retro fit your house for an earthquake, and i did it myself, and i spent $1,000. and the biggest problem we have in this country, particularly for earthquakes and hurricanes, is the fact that we have inherited a traditional stock that was built before building codes and building standards and before they were ever enforced. now it's really critical that we start retro fitting those facilities, particularly hospitals, schools, public buildings, and showing people what they can do for themselves and their homes and their businesses, to protect them from devastation. president clinton authorized us to go to congress, to support a program that i wanted to start called project impact. i had this idea while that we might be able to do more in the prevention if we created this public-private partnership concept in the community. so i go back to

mrs. clinton. i understand he is also meeting with the eu by rep. i wonder if he believes that between us if we can actually encouraged the quartet to now take more firm action with israel which still today seems not to understand the gravity of the situation? >> there is a real international focus on these matters. that is true in the u.s. and with the you high rep. she certainly has the same focus on these issues. many other -- in the margins of that, many of the foreign ministers had discussed this issue. i think one of the results of this action is to really bring this to center stage. and it has shown a spotlight on the problems of gossip to which so many right hon. members have heard. i think it is important for us to take the momentum from that and make sure the necessary work continues over the coming weeks and months to improve the situation. >> with the foreign secretary not accept that what he said today it really amounts to saying that the united states, britain, and europe will continue to cooperate and that this toleration should be br

mrs. clinton asked him, you have no damage. what did you do? he said, i went down to the library and i checked out a videotape from fema, and it showed how to retrofit the house for an earthquake. i did it myself. i spent $1,000. the biggest problem we have in this country, particularly for earthquakes and countries, is the fact is we have inherited a traditional stock of buildings that were built before there were building codes and standards, and before they were never enforced. now, it is really critical that we start retrofitting those facilities, particularly hospitals, schools, public buildings, showing people what they can do for themselves in their homes and businesses to protect them. -- to protect them from devastation. president clinton authorized us to go to congress, to support a program that i wanted to start called project impact. i had this idea, while i was at school, that we might be able to do more in prevention if we created this public-private partneeship concept in the community. we came up with the name project impact. i

third, the memo claims multiple conversations between president clinton and mr. sestak during june and july of 2009. but congressman sestak insisted four times, just on tuesday, that there was only one brief conversation. so who's lying? fourth, the memo alleges that president obama knew nothing of all of these conversations. now, why would the white house enlist the help of such a high- profile surrogate like former president bill clinton -- on "multiple" occasions, without the knowledge of president obama -- for months-long negotiations over such a low- profile, unpaid position, and all with a congressman who couldn't even accept the job anyway? and now we know that this is only part of a larger pattern of backroom, chicago-style politics. andrew romanoff, who's challenging democrat incumbent michael bennet for the colorado senate democrat nomination, was offered a choice of one of three jobs by rahm emanuel's deputy jim messina if he would drop out of the primary. again, the white house first denied the allegations when they came from anonymous administration

bush and bill clinton. mr., please go ahead, sir. >> thank you, chairman leahy, ranking member sessions and members of the committee. it's a pleasure to be here. i retired about a year ago after 27 years working for the federal government, the last six years in the house of representatives. during that time, most of my work has been in the area of offshore oil and gas. but here on the hill, it was also more energy and minerals generally. prior to working as senior attorney for royalty and offshore minerals, i also served for 3 1/2 years as the senior attorney for environmental protection for the department of interior. prior to that i was special assistant to the associate administrator of noaa for 3 1/2 years. and i served four years on active duty in the army, active duty as a judge advocate general corps officer. native of mississippi. went to ole miss, undergraduate in law school. the focus of the hearing is, of course, on a variety of liability issues related to offshore oil and gas production. if on going

mr. bush came to power, president clinton left him a budget surplus. no deficit, we're paying down the debt. when mr. bush left office, he left barack obama with a record deficit that he is now trying to dig us out of in the midst of one of the worst economies since the great depression. when you come to the floor with these gimmick, let's understand what they are, they are gimmicks. let's get serious about reducing the debt. i'll tell you one thing i do disagree with him on very strongly, i'll go back to the article i referred to before, when minority boehner talked about raising the retirement age of social security to 70 and taking that money and not putting in social security to keep that program solvent, but then moving it to pay for the wars. i think that is wrong. i think our seniors deserve better than that. at this time i'd like to yield one minute to the gentlewoman from illinois, ms. bean. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlewoman from illinois is recognized for one minute. ms. bean: thank you, madam speaker. since the 2008 financial crisis th

bush and president clinton. mr. coleman, go ahead, sir. >> thank you, chairman leahy, ranking member sessions and members of the committee. it's a pleasure to be here. i retired about a year ago after 27 years as -- working for the federal government, the last six years in the house of representatives. during that time, most of my work has been in the area of offshore oil and gas. here on the hill, it was also energy and minerals generally. prior to working as senior attorney general for royalty and offshore minerals, i also served for 3 1/2 years as senior attorney for environmental protection for the department of interior. prior to that, i was special assistant to the associate administrator of noaa for 3 1/2 years. i served four years on active duty in the army as a judge advocate general court officer. native of mississippi, went to ole miss undergraduate and law school. the focus of the hearing is on a variety of liability issues related to offshore gas and oil production. the ongoing tragic oil spill in the g

mr. president, is -- started in the clinton administration. there was always talk by the republicans, and by everybody, not just the republicans, that should we do more than provide welfare to people? shouldn't we provide a way they can go to work? that's what this money is about. those programs are going to be terminated. programs that have worked so well to have people go from welfare to work. yesterday the republicans said no unanimously. let them stay on welfare. they don't need to learn how to work. they don't need to transfer to a job. this legislation was rejected yesterday, provided -- yesterday provided tax credits for research and development. a lot of companies, especially small companies can't do research and development they need to do unless they get a tax incentive to do it well. it won't be done. this bill provided $5 billion -- all i've talked about paid for, $5 billion in new market tax credits. what this meant is that investments could be made in economically distressed areas. they exist in oregon, they exist in nevada. they

from president clinton, and to have to deal with the amounts of problems that our economy was facing when president obama was inaugurated was astonishing. and astonishing and appalling, mr. tonko, because to have been left a mess and to have the economy driven off a cliff as it was was just absolutely irresponsible and it was avoidable. and it was avoidable because during the bush administration, instead of focusing exclusively on the wealthy and having tax cutting policies that were focused exclusively and irresponsibly on the wealthiest 1% of americans, instead what should have been done is there should have been a focus like there has been every single month since president obama took office, there should have been a focus on broadening those tax cut -- that tax-cutting policy and focusing on targeting tax cuts for the middle class. that was not done and so the economy essentially was a korean -- careening out of control. now you fast forward to a year and a half after he first took office, you fast forward to a little more than a year after we passed the american recovery and reinvestment act which invested $787 billion in our economy, to jump start the economy, to

mr. secretary, you did not think he would be there now, so who knows. secretary clinton, do you concur with that? >> yes, i do, completely. the whole thing, mr. chairman. >> that makes it much more comforting. i assumed that was the case, mr. secretary. my time is up, so i do not have time to get into the issue of rail-mobile launched weapons, which this treaty is silent on. we know the russians have a history of that. as i read the treaty, those would be exempt. that could be a serious issue for a number of us. i will submit a question for the record relative to rail as well as sea and air-launched icbm's. one final point. with regard to the flux -- to this issue, and the administration lacks commitment as expressed today, i do not know if you have given any thought to this, but i would hope he would maybe give some thought to -- you would maybe give some thought to having a red team take a look at this so we can move as quickly as you folks want estimate. thank you, mr. chairman. >> thank you, senator chambliss. senator burris. >> i would like to thank you for your ser

mr. secretary, you did not think he would be there now, so who knows. secretary clinton, do you concur with that? >> yes, i do, completely. the whole thing, mr. chairman. >> that makes it much more comforting. i assumed that was the case, mr. secretary. my time is up, so i do not have time to get into the issue of rail-mobile launched weapons, which this treaty is silent on. we know the russians have a history of that. as i read the treaty, those would be exempt. that could be a serious issue for a number of us. i will submit a question for the record relative to rail as well as sea and air-launched icbm's. one final point. with regard to the flux -- to this issue, and the administration lacks commitment as expressed today, i do not know if you have given any thought to this, but i would hope he would maybe give some thought to -- you would maybe give some thought to having a red team take a look at this so we can move as quickly as you folks want estimate. thank you, mr. chairman. >> thank you, senator chambliss. senator burris. >> i would like to thank you for your ser

mr. president, is -- started in the clinton administration. there was always talk by the republicans, and by everybody, not just the republicans, that should we do more than provide welfare to people? shouldn't we provide a way they can go to work? that's what this money is about. those programs are going to be terminated. programs tt have worked so well to have people go from welfare to work. yesterday the republicans said no unanimously. let them stay on welfare. they don't need to learn how to work. they don't need to transfer to a job. this legislation was rejected yestday, provided yesterday provided tax credits for research and development. a lot of companies, especially small companies can't do research and development they need to do unless they get a tax incentive to do it well. it won't be done. this bill provided $5 billion -- all i've talked about paid for, $5 billion in new mart tax credits. what this meant is that investments could be made in economically distressed areas. they exist in oregon, they exist in nevada. they're going

mr. bernanke, it is my understanding that during the clinton years we had a surplus. under the bush years we had a deficit. is that an accurate statement? >> if yes. >> on this graph, as you can see bit on 2007, we can see the uptick on the bush administration policy. in the 2009 bar, how much of that is from the economic downturn and the bush policies? >> a lot of the increases in the past couple of years and the size of the deficit for next year is a portion of the deficit. but this picture does not capture is that the dominant factors will be the entitlement programs. medicare, medicaid, and social security will be the biggest. the recession component ought to go away, but we need to deal with the structural component -- component. >> he testified that the gdp will go up for 2010. you talk about a faster pace next year. what is the faster pace you are anticipating? >> there is a lot of uncertainty, but we're looking at 3.5% to 4% next year. >> you also talk about the fiscal policy effects. if we which all the fiscal stimulus money that we put into the system -- you

mr. mcgovern: i find it puzzling to hear my friend on the other side of the aisle all of a sudden talk about the deficit when bill clinton left office he left the republicans and george bush a record surplus. there was no deficit. we were paying down the debt. they took that surplus and turned it around and drove this economy into a ditch. president obama gets elected to office, he inherits the worst economy since the great depression. my friends on the other side don't take any responsibility for that. in one year under president obama we have created more jobs in this country than george bush did while eight years in office. the american people want us to focus on jobs and job creation. and i would just make another suggestion since we're talking about how we protect the taxpayers. i'd urge my friends on the other side of the aisle to stop apologizing for the way the federal government is treating b.p. to stop apologizing for the fact that this administration wants british petroleum to live up to its responsibility and pay for the cleanup of that mess in the gulf. i wish my friends on the other side of the aisle would

mr. turner: i rise in sprong support of house resolution 1121 congratulating clinton county and the county seat of will mington, ohio, on the occasion of their bicentennial. clinton county has been an interesting part of history. what is now clinton county was initially called the virginia military district because the government reserved the land to give veterans of the revolutionary war as a reward for their service. it w named clinton county in honor of george clinton. he was one of america's founding fathers and served as vice president under both thomas jefferson and james madison. clinton county was a very important part of the anti-slavery movement before the civil war because it had a station that was part of the underground railroad helping thousands of slaves escape. also a less serious aspect of clinton county's history is that it is the place where the first banana split was created and every year they have their annual banana split festival. i want to thank my ohio colleagues, all of whom who are original co-sponsors, and thank chairmanowns and ranking member issa for their su

mr. speaker, won that debate. up until the current president really with a good fight put on by president clinton and he made great strides in his own way. but we've been fighting this system. but over the course of the last couple years we have seen exactly what happens when this philosophy, economic and political philosophy, are implemented. it is milton friedman and the supply side economists and the republican party versus the keynesian demand side democrats on our side and our republican friends in the earliest parts of this decade, up until 2006 and then 2008, controlled every %% lever of government, controlled the house, controlled the senate, controlled the white house, implemented their economic policies across the board and in ohio the republicans controlled every statewide office, including the governorship for 16 years and the state legislature for longer, controlled everything and implemented their policies. their energy policy, their foreign policy, theii economic policy, they deregulated wall street,,they continued this path, this role of appointing industry lackees to critical oversight positions o

in the clinton administration, it left during the bush administration, but came back in june of 2009 as their own press release from the department of interior indicates. so i yield to my friend. mr. carter: i want to thank you for yielding. i want to congratulate my colleague for doing some mighty interesting research. and it's good that we laid this kind of research out before this house and before the american public so that, you know, one of the things people get very concerned about up here is who -- who's shooting straight. and, you know, as far as she's concerned, it sure looks like right now that this administration decided to put their money on the wrong horse. and when you start talking about minerals management, that's starting to ring a bell with the american people. because our interesting father and son inspection team that you talked about on the floor of this house, isn't that part of minerals management? i yield back to my colleague. mr. gohmert: it certainly is. it's part of minerals management service. and i have to say, it was a hunch when i heard president obama talking about the cozy relationship between big oil and the regulators, it just hit me, and i sent

mr. obama credibility on national security, which was why he was security, which was why he was asked to stay after 20908 election. he goes on to say that -- a profile of secretary clinton, this is call "traveling saleswoman." some of the things the author writes occur in the first column as far as quotes she has from an interview that she granted to the financial times. she says, "we now havv a case to make, and it is not just the case that is made to the president or the prime minister or the foreign minister or an ambassador," she tells in an interview. she goes on to say -- host: we continue on with jacksonville, florida, on our republican line. margaret, thanks for waiting. caller: thank you for having me. i think the topic really should be more about honoring confidentiality in government. it's what it sounds like you're talking about here. people who have access to classified material actually have signed a pledge that says that they won't disclose what they've learned, and i think the penalty should be the same as for treason. when you have information that could be damaging to our country as a whole and you disclose it, then you've committed three son. secrecy,