mrs. lee's garden. >> so we are now up on the hill overlooking washington d.c. at the lee mansion. and i'm aiming the camera at mrs. lee's garden. >> yes, this is mrs. lee's garden on the hill, the highest part in arlington national cemetery. this is the home of robert e. lee, mary custis late before the civil war. and at the height of the civil war, 1864, the first military burial was remained in the cemetery, the lower cemetery outside of the mansion. quartermaster general didn't think of the graves were close enough to the mansion, so that he found officers who have died in service and he had been buried here around mrs. lee's garden to make it more difficult for the lease to return to burlington after the war. >> so if we walk along here we see that these tombstones actually encircled the garden? >> yes, they didn't go the way around, but they form a border around part of the garden. i think they're something like at the end of the war there was something like 40 graves of officers. we don

mrs. lees garden. >> so we are now up on the hill overlooking washington, d.c. at the lee mansion. this is the garden? >> yes, the highest point on the cemetery. this is the home of robert eletes, mary custis lead before the civil war. and at the height of the civil war in 1864 the first military burials were made in a cemetery. the lower cemetery, the hour side of the mansion. quartermaster general didn't think that the graves were close enough to the mansion so that he found officers who died in surface and have them buried here around mrs. lee's garden to make it more difficult for the lees to return to arlington after the war. >> so if we longley we see these tombstone's actually encircle the garden? >> yes. they don't go all the way around it but they form a border around part of the garden. i think there's something like at the end of the war something like 40 degrees of officers, and we don't know exactly what her thinking was, but i suspect he chose to bury officers here rather than pr

this is the end of mrs. lee's garden. another instance of montgomery meigs not only taking the opportunity to honor the war dead but also to erect a barrier to the lees returning to arlington. you will see many unknowns like these gravestones here. that is significant because so many people in the civil war on both sides went to their graves without names. more than 42% of, which is bad enough to get killed in the war but also to lose your identity for your family to have no trace on you left. what could be worse than that? we did learn from the civil war and subsequent wars, we worked very hard to identify our service members as soon as the fighting was over. we spend says -- specialty teams to make ids and provide a name for the fallen warriors and give them a decent burial. but it took a while. it took a few wars to perfect it. the rate of unknowns went to 10%. in the spanish-american war, 3% became the standard in world war ii. we have gotten so good at this particular part of warfare that by the time vietnam came alon

please don't touch me. >> reporter: then his body guards knocked down the camera. >> mr. lee has denied all of those allegations and we are confident we will get those claims dismissed in court. >> reporter: there is no question that lee and dahn yoga have a devoted membership. current members say it is not a cult. if you look at the dahn yoga website there are testimonials applauding ill chi lee to the president of costa rica to a prominent scientist. lee is seen in photographs with al gore, hillary clinton and joe biden. liza miller says she was once a believer, too. >> when i found dahn i felt like this is it. >> reporter: now liza is one of the 27 former employees filing a lawsuit claiming dahn yoga is a cult. >> i feel it is my duty to come forward and to share my story so people are aware of the truth about the organization. because having been in the organization, you know, and people that are still in believe something completely different. they are being deceived. >> reporter: the attorney for mr. lee says the only deception involved is on the part of the former empl

. >> as far as i can tell the need for growth is designed and intended to provide more money to mr. lee rather than any spiritual goal. >> reporter: ryan kent represents 27 former dahn yoga employees who are suing the organization, calling a totalistic high demand cult group which manipulates its members to serve il chi lee's businesses. >> they've injected cult like action u sayings. >> reporter: dahn's attorney says the accusations are a money grab. >> what's bow training? >> a series of representative motions to over and over again -- >> bowing over and over again like this. it drove her to the brink of exhaustion, just to reinforce her dedication to the group. >> we actually had to do 3,000 at one point which took about 10 hours. and we didn't eat or drink during that time. >> 10 hours of bowing, no eating, no drinking. did people pass out, did they get sick? >> people were rolling around mooning, crying, wailing. there was a lot of emotional distress. >> and nobody at any time said, this is crazy, this is ridiculous? >> if we were to come out and say things like that we would again

up the hill and mrs. lee'sen. >> we are now up on a hill overlooking washington, d.c., at the lee mansion. and i am a meeting camera at mrs. lee's garden. >> this is the garden on the hill, the highest point at arlington national cemetery. this is the home of robert e. lee, mary custis lee. before the civil war. and at the height of the civil war in 1864, the first military burial in the lower cemetery, out of sight of the mansion. quartermaster general didn't think that the graves were close enough to the mansion. so he found officers who have died and in service and he had them buried around here and mrs. lee's garden to make it more difficult for the least to return to arlington after the war. >> if we walk along here we see these tombstones actually encircle the garden? >> yes. they do go all the way around it. they form a border around part of the garden. i think there's something like -- at the end of the war there was something like 40 graves of officers. and we don't know exactly what meigs is thinking

lee: yes. mr. schiff: but even though the scenes are familiar and unsettling, we must not shrink our aid in our neighbor in the hour of need. i ask for aid and reconstruction personnel. i thank my colleague for her leadership and in support of the resolution. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields back the balance of his time. the gentlelady from florida is recognized. ms. ros-lehtinen: thank you, madam speaker. we have no further requests for time, and we yield back the balance of our time. i thank my good friend from california, ms. lee, for the bipartisan approach to this terrible, terrible situation. thank you, madam speaker. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlelady from florida yields back the balance of her time. the gentlelady from california. ms. lee: thank you. how much time do i have remaining, madam speaker? the speaker pro tempore: the gentlelady from california has 2 1/4 minutes. ms. lee: i'd like to yield now before i close 1 1/2 minutes to my friend from new jerse

mr. lee: thank you very much. now -- ms. lee: thank you very much. now i'd like to yield to the chair of the congressional black caucus of international affairs task force, congressman don payne, who also chairs the global or africa and global health subcommittee of the international relations committee. congressmen payne today has been -- congressman payne today has been working hour by hour coordinating an emergency response strategy for the house of representatives and i thank you very much, congressman payne, for being with us tonight and for your leadership. mr. payne: thank you very much. let me commend, mr. chair, the person of the congressional black caucus, barbara lee, for her continued leadership, stellar leadership, bricking -- bringing issues that are current to us before the congressional black caucus and the congress and to the nation. and so once again we're here to talk about an issue that's very close to us. it's been indicated i chaired the international task force of the c.b.c. and others on the western hemisphere committee and so

mr. speaker. i join the prime minister in paying tribute to corporal lee brownson and rifleman luke farmer. they died serving our country. we must honor their memory and we must look after the loved ones that they have left behind. everyone in the house and in the whole country has been touched by the scale of the tragedy in haiti. we can be proud of the british response -- the public, who have donated generously, the members of the fire service, who volunteered immediately, and the ngo's, who are doing such a good job in haiti. does the prime minister agree that there will come a time when we should reflect on how britain and the international community can make the initial rescue effort even better, even faster, and even more effective? more immediately, will the prime minister update the house on the further action that britain is intending to take to assist the international relief effort? >> i am grateful to him. it is of course a matter of immediate action, followed by an assessment as to what can be done better in future. as i suggested two years ago, to have a reconstruction and sta

mr. speaker, i'm sure the whole house will wish to join me in paying tribute to corporal lee bronson, andrifleman luke farmer from third battalion, the rifles that they died in afghanistan this week in our thoughts are with their families and friends at this very sad time. last night i went to the moving tribute of their fellow soldiers to their selflessness and camaraderie which they displayed serving their colleagues, the british people, and the people of afghanistan. and they will not be forgotten. mr. speaker, all of us have also been deeply moved to action ivies to unfold tragic of the people of haiti. some of the poorest people in world facing some of the most extreme hardships and imaginable. our thoughts and condolences go to those families also in the united kingdom being directly affected by the tragedy. we must first provide also for improved international cooperation and we must help the government of haiti. mr. speaker, this point i met with colleagues about this. i shall have further such duties later today. >> aisha the prime minister's condolences to the true brave soldier

jackson lee: thank you, mr. speaker. the house is not in order. e speaker pro tempore: the house will be in order. take your conversation off of the floor, please. the lady deserves to be heard. ms. jackson lee: thank you very much, mr. speaker. there have been a great deal of controversy that has arisen over what i think is good policy but good for america and that is real health care reform. today i listened to the story of a mother who lost her son by the name of mike because he could not get a colonoscopy to determine whether or not he had colon cancer. he is not living today. and he could not get it because he did not have insurance. we need health care reform that allows americans to have the dignity of health care and as well the respect of treatment -- the respective treatment. i met a man who was blind because he couldn't get the treatment while he was going blind to reverse that terrible disability. it could have occurred with good health care. and we must stop allowing 45,000 americans to die every year because they do not have good heal

lee. who was a president clinton on mrs. kennedy. i was asked very young to design costumes.nd i was such an arrogant young artists, young artists are because this was a story happening under the ocean that i designed these costumes. i found out later they all hated me because it's very difficult to sing in this. [laughter] >> which i didn't care because i was an artist and i would think about a poor opera singer standing there and there were more creatures like that. [laughter] >> it was not very considerate of me. i became also a disc jockey, admitted down to my children. that was a mistake that they also led to the fact i became the most popular or one of the most popular disc jockeys in czechoslovakia. i had a radio show. this was just after 68 and it was being. i had problems with what kind of music i played or what did i say and things like that. so there was the way to go and i fully dedicated myself to art. the experience with art was that my first professional assignments and this is now a 1970s, so the russians came and the kind of regime and its game became very di

jackson lee: thank you, mr. speaker. happy new year to america. we start this new year i believe it's important to clarify a lot of misinterpretations about what the job of the federal government is and what this congress' responsibility is. we are problem solvers. we work to solve the issues on behalf of the american people. and as we look at this health care debate which i hope will be entirely transparent, let the underlying premise be that 36 million people are without insurance. in addition, this health care bill will generate numerous numbers of jobs and new health professional scholarships to provide for doctors and nurses, making sure you do not have a denial of insurance because of preexisting disease and jobs we must make. we must move forward on the jobs bill and i in particular are pushing one that says if you're unemployed you can continue to get training, stipends will be given to you so you can train for the new job. we have to be innovative and know what the american people want. but most of all the government of the united states

jackson lee: mr. speaker, i'm reminded of some of the tougher times in this nation. maybe it was the vietnam war when members had to vote their conscience. i was not in the congress at that time. it might have been even further back when l.b.j., lyndon baines johnson, had to lead on making a body of people in this nation equal in the 1965 voting rights act. i imagine it was difficult and i imagine there were people who said, this is the wrong way to go. we've often said on this floor, don't watch polling and politics, watch your heart and what is right for america. and i believe the issues dealing with job creation and good health care for america is good. and the latest polls and elections don't daunt our spirit. we are working with those on the other side of the aisle. we are working with the american people. we do want transparency, but i for one am not going to step away from helping people get the best health care they can. we don't know the timing of it. maybe tomorrow. but the idea is to feel crushed or crumbled because of some actions that deal in politics is

jackson lee: thank you very much, mr. speaker.verwhelming tragedy, catastrophic incident that's occurred in our neighboring country of haiti. but i particularly want to offer my deepest sympathy to my constituents, my haitian american constituents in houston, texas, many of whom are suffering because their relatives are in haiti and they cannot find them. i want to acknowledge a delegation of rotary club members who houston, texas, who came to haiti just yesterday, and their family members are expressing concern of their location and status. it makes it relevant to know that this hurricane-like earthquake is the largest earthquake that we've seen in the western hemisphere over the last number of years. we know that all resources have to be pointed toward haiti, to the united nations, for the losses they're experiencing, my sympathy. to the haitian government, my sympathy. and my commitment is that you will never walk alone. we will stand with you in this battle to recover haiti. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlelad

mr. souder, for five minutes. the gentlelady from texas, ms. jackson lee we can see that the focus of the nation beyond personal economic concerns is to ensure the security of the homeland. over the last couple of months this committee and the crisis of homeland security has been on the peoples' minds. from the incident that involved tragically a military captain in fort hood, texas to the incident that occurred on christmas day, we know that the security of the homeland is not a joke. to the salahis let me say in all respect, the security of the president of the president of the united states is not a joke. your actions or alleged actions on that fateful night made a mock erie of this country, our security and your commitment to this nation and a mock erie to any representation that you are pates of this country. iminsensed for your dignity for i will never challenge that, but for individuals who can be so reckless to believe they could enter on property of the united states hosting a dignitary from a foreign nation of whom we owe an obligation to secure,

mr. souder, for five minutes. the gentlelady from texas, ms. jackson lee. >> thank you very much, and i might add my preeshes as well for your upholding your duty as the chairman of the homeland security committee. over the last couple of months we can see that the focus of the nation beyond personal economic concerns is to ensure the security of the homeland. over the last couple of months this committee and the crisis of homeland security has been on the peoples' minds. from the incident that involved tragically a military captain in fort hood, texas to the incident that occurred on christmas day, we know that the security of the homeland is not a joke. to the salahis let me say in all respect, the security of the president of the president of the united states is not a joke. your actions or alleged actions on that fateful night made a mock erie of this country, our security and your commitment to this nation and a mock erie to any representation that you are pates of this country. iminsensed for your dignity for i will never challenge that, but for indi

mr. mudd, and if we don't the avoid recreating the gse, then i would like to offer this fine book as a road map for the next time around. thank you. [applause] >> tom, bernie lee. thank you for your remarks. our luncheon speaker's going to the talk about gses and the danish mortgage system. here you've been talking as did peter about the secondary market, but there's a third financing mechanism well established in the europe called covered bonds. to what extent have you looked at the relative efficiencies and safety of covered bond financing where lenders retain the ownership of the mortgage and fund them with covered bonds compared to trying to perpetuate this very inefficient secondary mortgage market system that we have in this country that depends on gses? >> i've not studied it nearly as well as you have, bert. i have drawn a couple of preliminary conclusions. one, it is definitely a model to look like, and i think the treasury has taken that position. but number two, for the next five years what i'm talking about using a government corporation and then deciding, do we renew that charter or not, for the next five years our problem is that the covered bond

lake, what is the government's role vis-À-vis the autolock lee and can you afford to have one member of that fail? so of course i agreed with mrayo. >> this discussion is going well. i will yield three, four minutes. utility which you need to i got flexibility this type of. >> that should be perfect. you mentioned that you disagreed with mr. dimon on that particular point. i'm curious, maybe if you could just teach briefly what you most agree with what they said, the previous panelists. i'm assuming you had an opportunity to hear the testimony. and then perhaps maybe one or two things that you disagreed with. >> you know, as i listen to mr. blankfein, he brought up a one word, that hit me that i think if i'm still doing this job, 20 years from now is going to stick with the. and that's what he said rationalized. we rationalize what we were doing based on the circumstances at the time. and i think one of the conclusions of your hearings throughout this year, that's a warning to the future. look at how much we rationalize the activities that were taking place in the industry. so i very much agreed with that. and with regard to m

mr. souder, for five minutes. the gentlelady from texas, ms. jackson lee. >> thank you very much, and i might add my preeshes as well gá,)rr fort hood, texas to the incident that occurred on christmas day, we know that the security of the homeland is not a joke. to the salahis let me say in all respect, the security of the president of the president of the united states is not a joke. your actions or alleged actions on that fateful night made a mock erie of this country, our security and your commitment to this nation and a mock erie to any representation that you are pates of this country. iminsensed for your dignity for i will never challenge that, but for individuals who can be so reckless to believe they could enter on property of the united states hosting a dignitary from a foreign nation of whom we owe an obligation to secure, the vice president of the united states and the president of the united states with reckless disregard for the perception and the reality of what would be seen as a breach in security for terrorists of all walks of life to be a