mr. davis: thank you, mr. speaker. this is based on a false premise that every need a person can have on earth can be met by government. like the worshipers bound in blood and sacrificed on the alter of political expediency, it violates taxes, policed by the i.r.s., intrudes on free choice and hurts seniors. i stand firm in my opposition to this exercise in statism, a true tyranny that is the largest, legislative transfer to the power of the executive branch in the history of this republic. vote no on this bill. start over with real reforms that americans want. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from michigan. mr. levin: it is now my pleasure to yield 45 seconds to the very distinguished gentleman from new york, mr. crowley. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized for 45 seconds. mr. crowley: mr. speaker, i rise in support of the patients protection and affordable america act, which will put families first in accessing health care coverage. americans need this bill more than ever. in the

mr. davis, each will control 20 minutes. the chair now recognizes the gentleman from michigan, mr. levin. mr. levin: thank you, mr. speaker. i ask unanimous consent that all members may have five legislative days in which to revise and extend their remarks and include extraneous material on h.r. 4887. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, so ordered. mr. levin: mr. speaker, under h.r. 3590, as passed by the senate, individuals are responsible for obtaining minimal essential health care or pay a small penalty. the senate bill states that anyone with ineligible employer coverage meets this requirement. the coverage that is provided today for the members of our armed services and their families and for military retirees and their families satisfies this requirement. in an abundance of caution, h.r. 4887 was introduced by our distinguished chairman, mr. skelton to reaffirm this result. i now will reserve the balance of my time. . the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman reserves. the gentleman

mr. davis: thank you very much, madam speaker. i rise in strong support of h.con.res 248 and commend the gentleman, my friend from ohio, for his introduction of it. madam speaker, i yield to no man, no woman in terms of my support for the heroic sacrifices that our troops in the military make each and every day of their lives and each and every day of our lives. but they make sacrifices on the battlefield. they fight the wars. we are e

mrs. davis: i yield myself such time as i may consume. mr. speaker, i rise today in support of house concurrent resolution 239. as chair of the house armed services subcommittee on military personnel and co-chair of the women's caucus task forced on women in the military and veterans, i'm privileged to recognize their service. we're all familiar with the icon of rosie the riveter working in factories in world war ii. her motto was, we can do it. well, the women air force service pilots did it too. almost 70 years ago, they became pioneers for women's equality in the armed services. as civilian pilots under the direction of the u.s. army air forces flying noncombat missions from 1942 to 1944, they bravely stepped into service while their male counterparts were stonet combat. the women air force service pilots are referred to as the wasps, w-a-s-p. unlike many acronyms used in the military, this is an apt name. for like wasps, their work demanded a unique combination of feistiness and strength, underlined by loyal to to their fell he wasps and

. >> larry: mr. davis added a statement, though.re's nothing you can say to people, particularly family members, within a day or two of the show that helps at all. they tend to be surprised and hurt. we understand that. we're sorry for it. they said they're sorry for it. do you take that as an apology? >> i think they're saying that family members and friends are upset. but it's not just family members and friends. i said that to mr. davis, and all due respect today. it's millions of fans. the minute she was not part of that memorial it started on twitter. i mean, it was absolutely -- the e-mails i've gotten, people are outraged by it. >> larry: they can't make it up, dick? >> not to me they can't. it's unforgivable. >> larry: next year they are going to say something? >> it was unforgivable. >> larry: were you shocked, candy, it was not an overlook. it was deliberate. >> yes, oh, yes. >> larry: they just didn't include her. >> it was deliberate because the year aaron died he was also left off because they thought of him more as tel

mr. davisdress the house for one minute and revise and extend my remarks. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. mr. davis: i rise to express my congratulations to the small lib ral arts -- liberal arts college that i attended. it started with seven students, a historically black college in arkansas. they played duke university. i mean, that was a major accomplishment for the athletic department. they didn't win. they didn't place, but they did show. and i congratulate them for a tremendous effort. and i yield back the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields back the balance of his time. for what purpose does the gentleman from minnesota seek recognition? mr. paulsen: permission to address the house for one minute, revise and extend. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. mr. paulsen: i congratulate the dinah boys' hockey team. in a highly anticipated championship game, they beat a very strong minnetonka to clinch their seventh hockey title. the hornets had t

the clerk: leaves of absence requested for mr. davis of illinois for today, mr. baca for friday, march 12, and mr. young of florida for today. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, the requests are granted. the speaker pro tempore: the house will come to order. will all members please remove your conversations from the house floor. the speaker pro tempore: will all members please clear the well. for what purpose does the gentleman from idaho rise? >> i ask unanimous consent to remove mr. simpson as a co-sponsor of house resolution 1177. he was added in error. the speaker pro tempore: without the speaker pro tempore: without objection, so ordered. for what purpose does the gentleman from arizona rise? >> permission to address the house for one minute. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, so ordered. mr. green: i'm not from arizona, but from texas. i honor my alma matter and university of houston and men's basketball team for being selected for the ncaa tournament for the first time in 18 years. they secured a bid by winning the conference championship

mr. davis: i'd be pleased to yield. mr. butterfield: i want to thank you for the way you represent the people in your district. all of us a have unique congressional districts no two members of this house are identical. you have your district, and i have my district and each one is unique. as i travel through the my district in north carolina, many people tell me that they have health insurance. but it's not worth the paper it's written on. they are counted as insured, but in reality, they are uninsured. for example, a gentleman in my district told me he's had insurance for more than 10 years on the job and he pays $200 a month out of his paycheck but never used it. when i asked him why he hadn't used it, he said the deductible is $5,000 per year and as far as he's concerned, he's uninsure. i went into another part of my district and went to a dialysis center and a young man there told me he had been insured by a very reputable insurance company and that he needed a kidney transplant and his si

mr. dan davis. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from illinois is recognized for one minute. mr. davis: thank you, madam chairman. i want to thank the chairman for yielding. i note that the state of illinois has received $4,853,,000,000 up through january of this year. many of those have gone to communities that are represented by individuals who certainly are not described as democrats. matter of fact they have gone to communities throughout the state. these bonds are about building schools, roads, hospitals, creating jobs. there is no way under the sun that i could imagine not voting for this bill. it stimulates the economy. it builds jobs. it puts people to work. and i yield back the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields back the balance of his time. the gentleman from michigan. mr. camp: i continue to reserve. the speaker pro tempore: you continue to reserve. the gentleman from michigan is recognized. mr. levin: i now yield one minute to the gentleman from north carolina, mr. etheridge. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from north carolina is r

mrs. davis: thank you. madam speaker, opponents often cite polls saying the american people don't want congress to pass health care reform. but i have talked to my constituents and i have listened closely to what they expect from the system. they don't think pre-existing conditions should stop you from getting coverage. insurance company shouldn't just drop you. and nobody, nobody should face an increase in premiums like what just happened in california. madam speaker, it has been a difficult and a long debate, but we are closer than any time in history to putting into law the health security americans want. let's finish the job and put patients first. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlelady yielding back her time. for what purpose does the gentleman from louisiana rise? >> to address the house for one minute. the gentleman is recognized. >> -- mr. boustany: the american people say they don't want a government takeover of health all they get from the tone deaf liberals running congress is the latest attempt

mrs. davis: thank you.madam speaker, opponents often cite polls saying the american people don't want congress to pass health care reform. but i have talked to my constituents and i have listened closely to what they expect from the system. they don't think pre-existing conditions should stop you from getting coverage. insurance company shouldn't just drop you. and nobody, nobody should face an increase in premiums like what just happened in california. madam speaker, it has been a difficult and a long debate, but we are closer than any time in history to putting into law the health security americans want. let's finish the job and put patients first. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlelady yielding back her time. for what purpose does the gentleman from louisiana rise? >> to address the house for one minute. the gentleman is recognized. >> -- mr. boustany: the american people say they don't want a government takeover of health care. all they get from the tone deaf liberals running congress is the latest at

mrs. norton and congressman davis created was a program that would pay a student up to $10,000 a year to go to any public university in the country to offset be out of state tuition rate -- offset the out-of-state tuition rate. there is another program that matches that called ddc -- called the dc college break. don gramm of the washington -- of "the washington post" provides a great deal of support for the district of columbia residents. it is a great program. >> if you are a kid in the district of columbia, you have a lot of good things. >> there should be no student in the district of columbia that can say that they cannot afford to go to college. there are plenty of scholarship support programs have plenty of opportunities for a student to go to a really great institution like trinity, but also like some of the private and public institutions in this region. >> what percentage of your students comes from the district itself? >> 40% of the students are from the district of columbia. possibly another 30% come from the state of maryland. that is our next largest group. >> what is a day lik

the gentleman from illinois mr. davis for five minutes. >> thank you remind mr.chairman and i want to thank our witnesses. you know, coming from a large midwestern city with much of it being inner-city, i can't tell you the number of foreclosures that exists in many of the communities that i represent. but as i have listened to the testimony i was struck by the recommendations that the gentle lady from california made and i thank you would have been an excellent secretary of the treasury or at the very least a secretary of housing and urban development. that's because i believe in. it in -- three strongly in the concept that if you start with the false a promise to are going to arrive and a fall to conclusion. and i think many of the concepts in this program were faulty from the beginning and so it was inevitable that it becomes the failure that people are expressing or that we're not experiencing any more success with it then what we are experiencing. i also don't believe that you can defend the indefensible that two simply get are going around and around and ar

mrs. norton and congressman davis created was a program that will pay a student up to $10,000 a year to go to any public university in the country, it offsets the out-of- state tuition rate of that public universities outside of d.c.. if they choose private colleges in d.c., they can get up to $2,500 a year. there is another program that matches that called the d.c. college access program. that is a privately funded program that also puts matching money into the student's financial aid package. don graeme of the washington post is the organizer of that. there are a number of major business leaders now who support dc-cap. those two programs together provide a great deal of scholarship support for d.c. residents to go to college and university across the country. it's a great program. >> if you are a kid in the district, you have a lot of choices. >> there's a lot of financial aid available. there should be no student in the district, a matter their income level, to say they cannot afford to go to college. there are plenty of scholarship support programs, plenty of opportunities for students

mr. gutierrez, he stood out like a sore thumb. >> davis got a warrant to draw a blood sample. dna testing was possible by then, but still not quite preci precise. once again, the saliva on two of the cigarette butts in christy's trash can could have been gutierrez's. could have been. at that time it wasn't even as good as a fingerprint. >> no, it wasn't. >> did you arrest him? >> no. >> and, with that, the christy fleming case went cold again and would stay that way unless davis could find something, anything, that would help solve the myste mystery. for that it would take eight more years until a clever plan was hatched to trap the killer. >>> coming up -- the circle around a certain suspect begins to tighten. >> whether it be technology, whether it be a witness coming forward, you never lose hope on these things because you just never know when something is going to happen. (announcer) how do you take a dull look t it on ice: ice shine from pantene this advanced pro-vitamin system starts at the core and helps polish strand by strand twice the cool plus, the "total hair satis

his 14 years as the editor of sunday's time and then a year as the editor of the davy times of the london produced works of mr. nearly high standard. in 2001 journalists named him the greatest british newspaper editor of all time. [applause] and he championed what yesterday's review of the book in the new york times called a crusading style of journalism in which he anticipates afflicted the guilty and champions the innocent. and people of my generation who got interested in national and international politics very often did so because of the sunday times because of its fire, its control leadership and its investigative zeal. but this is also a transatlantic story. harold first encounter with americans i read the other day was during the second of world war in manchester and his fellow ship in 1956 began a lifelong association. he and teenine have lived here for nearly 30 years. although teenine doesn't remember we were her contemporaries at oxford and she has the knack of stopping the traffic there just as she has done here ever since. his american career took him to u.s. news and world report and a number o

davis? >> thank you very much, mr. chairman. >> you got about eight mints left, folks. >> good to see you, mr. secretary. just a comment on the common standards. i think that there are a lot of things in place, certainly, the states' efforts, your efforts, the president's efforts. i think i'm still looking for a sputnik like moment. is that something that you feel as well, that, wow, there is all this attention, you don't sense that urgency really in the country as a whole? and i'm not sure whether that's good or bad. i mean maybe it's okay that this really does have to be thoroughly grass roots in the sense of coming through locals but i just wonder whether you have that sense and is it -- where -- where is that effort missing? is it missing in the business community? >> i think, frankly, as a country we have lacked a sense of urgency and so we feel a huge urgency. i feel it every single day. i think you're seeing more and more people around the country. but yes we have to get dramatically better and do it as fast as

mr. hutton, you should answer it first. i'm sure you've got a good story. >> well, i will tell you, it was walt disney's television show davy fez parker. i didn't see the show. i was actually in england at the x#x x x)behda)ú next two or three years i read ú every book that existed and read nothing but fantasy and science fiction for the next several years until i was about 16. now i'm allergic to elves, dragons, wizards, all that kind of thing. but that got me hooked. i don't know how it led here but i found i was a decent writer in high school. did the usual newspaper thing. didn't follow into college as these two gentlemen probably did. but worked in bookstores obviously and somehow got here. >> i had the meanest fourth grade teacher whoever lived who pointed out my faults regularly and she had a right to. one day she made us write a paper, a 250-word paper in the fourth grade. and we all complained about it. and when i got the paperback it was the only a i'd ever gotten from her and she'd written in red ink you should be a writer. and because she and god were on personal terms and were never wrong, i was 9 years old and

mr. kaufman: i rise again today to recognize one of our nation's great federal employees. the davis creation is the first executive department in 1789, the state department has carried out the important work of american diplomacy. pursuing peaceful relations between the united states and other nations around the world. when our role as a world power grew in the late 19th century, our diplomats became peacemakers among nations. since the end of world war ii, we heavily invested our time, treasure, and human capital in the preservation of global peace during a time wrought with potential for war and mass destruction. today, in the aftermath of the cold war and september 11 attacks, our state department personnel and our foreign service officers in particular worked tirelessly to promote the american values of liberty and international cooperation. stationed in every region, they daily endure risks to their health and safety. they leave behind family and a familiar culture. these talented and dedicated men and women are the living embodiment of president kennedy's declaration that whil

davis-bacon and environmental impact statements. we ought to give small businesses payroll tax relief immediately. now, mr. president, i'd like to take this opportunity today to speak about the ongoing cause of human rights and democracy in russia. these are not issues that we hear much about from the current russian government, unfortunately, unless it is to denounce those russian citizens who aspire to these universal values. i had an opportunity the other week to meet with one of these brave russian champions of human rights, human dignity and freedom, a man by the name of boris netzoff. i know that several other people and other members of congress had a similar opportunity to speak with him. mr. nemsof is but one of the many russians who believes their country deserves a government that enhances the human rights of its people and a rule of law that allows citizens to hold their leaders accountable through a real democratic process. this saturday, march 20, many russian human rights activists are planning public demonstrations all across their great country. i might add, at great risk, since there's ve

thank congresswoman donna christensen and our health task force, danny davis, donna edwards, chairman rangel, our majority whip, mr. clyburn, for their stellar leadership. we all cast our votes for all of the people who deserve health care, but simply cannot afford it. we cast our votes for senior citizens who will see their prescription drug costs go down. we cast our votes for all of those who have no health care and end up in emergency rooms. and we cast our votes for our children and our grandchildren so they will live longer and healthier lives. and we cast our vote in memory of those people who didn't have preventative health care and died prematurely. health care will become a right for all. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlelady's time has expired. the the gentlewoman from new york's time has expired. the gentleman from california. mr. issa: i yield 1 1/2 minutes to mr. smith. and i would ask that the house be in order before he begins. the speaker pro tempore: the house will be in order. the gentleman from new jersey is recognized for 1 1/2. submit submit for those who recognize abortion is exploittation

gave us -- rural health money which congress davis has been partially rolled into 2011 -- which congress gave aus has been partially rolled into 2011. >> ok. mr. secretary, did you want to add to that or not? >> i think the doctor answered the question. i was looking at some statistics here. >> ok. very good. let me conclude by banking you all for your time today -- thank ing you all for your time today. as we hear about individual cases where someone did not receive the care he or she deserved, my experience, overwhelmingly, is that our va employees are dedicated, hardworking employees that do that every day to try to figure out how they can support our veterans. that is why we have the system. i do not just thank you, i thank your 200,000 employees that you represent every day and the difference they make in the lives of our veterans. mr. secretary, with that, if you would like to have a final word, we will adjourn. >> i just want to very simply thank you for your leadership and longstanding support of our men and women in uniform. your insights into the feedback that you receive, not just that you received as a member of congress in texas,

davis raised concerns about him continuing as chairman. he's a member of the committee and a member of the black caucus and that, i think, was a bad moment for mr. >> why was this representative rangel's chairmanship, continued chairmanship a potential problem for democrats? >> this is obviously about election year. the voters are up in arms about washington and about politicians in general. the democratic majority came to power in 2006 promising to clean up the institution of the house and to -- and to the extent that rangel was holding a prominent committee post and was under investigation and had been found as we now know last friday from last week to have violated the rules of the house, that was a problem. it was an image problem, political problem, and would expose rank-and-file democrats in vulnerable districts to questions about whether or not they supported the guy. it was just i think for many members, an untenable situation given the political environment they are operating in. >> what's next for his committee? the ways and means committee? there is no clear successor there in the committee as least temporarily. >> i think there's --

mr. hutton, you should answer it first. i'm sure you've got a good story. >> well, i will tell you, it was walt disney's television show davycrockett starring fez parker. i didn't see the show. i was actually in england at the time but i got the comic book and i read that comic book. it truly -- it sounds corny but it inspired my whole love of history and i went from there to custer and just kept going following the donovan road. and i decided i'd become a historian 'cause i just loved history so much. and it's been a great choice. it's been a great ride. a great profession. >> well, for me it was tarzan. [laughter] >> well, that was the first -- when i was sick one day when i was 9 years old my mother bought me tarzan and, boom, over the next two or three years i read every book that existed and read nothing but fantasy and science fiction for the next several years until i was about 16. now i'm allergic to elves, dragons, wizards, all that kind of thing. but that got me hooked. i don't know how it led here but i found i was a decent writer in high school. did the usual newspaper thing. didn't follow into college as these