mr. smith: thank you, mr. speaker. in a recent interview with abc "world news," president obama referred to the christmas day bomber as a nigerian student. but he is not just a student. he's a terrorist. a would-be mass murderer who almost killed 288 innocent civilians. the administration is so concerned about being politically correct that they watered down the truth about the terrorist threat facing americans. last year the obama administration instructed officials to replace the term global war on terror with overseas contingency operation. around the same time, homeland security secretary napolitano started referring to terrorist attacks as man-made disasters. the administration also abandon the use of enemy combatants when referring to terrorists detained at guantanamo bay.

mr. smith: madam speaker, i yield five minutes to the gentleman from california, a senior member of the judiciary committee, mr. lungren. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from california has five minutes. mr. lungren: i thank the chairman, the ranking member, and i thank the speaker for the time. let me say at the outset, i do not believe that health insurance companies should be exempt from our nation's anti-trust laws. as one of those -- as one of those who believes and hopes those applauding would join me in supporting the idea of buying health insurance across state lines, when we reach that accomplishment i think it is appropriate for us not to have a federal anti-trust exemption. when health care has been primarily in a very real sense exclusively the province of the real states, under their jurisdiction, the attorney generals of the states have retained the ability to enforce the anti-trust laws of those states. and so we're entering a new era, i would hope, where we would be able

mr. smith: i yield two minutes to the gentleman from mississippi, an active member of the judiciary committee, mr. harper. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized. mr. harper: the purpose of the patriot act is to keep suspected terrorists under surveillance in an attempt to prevent another attack on our country like we had on september 11, 2001. i believe it has been successful and i support its extension. i believe that our safety for the nearly 8 1/2 years since 9/11 is due in part to the patriot act and the fine men and women who are able to use it each day to keep our country safe from harm. i particularly believe that the lone wolf provision, which allows for the surveillance of individual terrorists who might not be part of a larger international terror group, is very important. i'm very happy to see its inclusion in this extension. i applaud those who worked in a bipartisan manner to pass this legislation in 2001 and i look forward to seeing that provision of the patriot act

when i heard mrs. smith earlier on, the first panel, and she talked about how it just went 100 miles an hour and she couldn't do anything to stop it, wouldn't it have just been logical to take that car and others like that and just rip it apart? i know mr. barton asked you earlier. but i'm not sure i'm satisfied with your answer. >> again, i don't know the specifics, but it sounded as if she said there was a technical person that was down there and did look at the car. so i can't tell you, if they didn't see anything, that's probably why they didn't tear it apart. if they would have seen a component failure, i'm sure that that component failure would have come off that car and we would have received it. and again it may have happened. i don't know the specifics on her accident. but it wasn't only her car. there were others that gave similar stories and for how long was toyota saying it's mats, floor mats or rugs or sticky pedals when it just would seem clear by her story. i'm sure there are others like her t

mr. smith: mr.er, the administration's health care bill fails to include a republican solution that could actually have savings for parets, lawsuit abuse reform. 43% of medical malpractice suits against doctors and hospitals are without merit, according to a study by the harvard school of public health. and excess damages add $70 billion to $126 billion annually to health care costs. the department of health care and human services has found. these costs, of course, are passed onto patients. the administration has only suggested a pilot program for tort reform, but some states, including my home state of texas, have already enacted tort reform. these states has seen insurance premiums fall and access to medical care expand. we don't need a pilot program. we need to enact medical malpractice lawsuit abuse reform. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields back the balance of his time. for what purpose does the gentlelady from illinois rise? >> i ask unanimous consent to address the house for one m

it is a combination, as mr. smith and mr.ve testified -- a combination of post-cyclical regulation. it is a combination of that with illiquidity in loan portfolios triggered by the fact that there is no secondary market, particularly for commercial loans. , and reserve requirements that lead to a lack of collateral to back up their loan portfolios. with respect to the last issue, i would like to ask mr. turnbull why he agrees that a loan guarantee is a key to unlocking these illiquid portfolios. >> mr. minnick, some comments were made about the community banking system, whether they are the cause of this problem. i submit that in our market area we have good community banks and that community banks. that community banks were part of the problem. now, community banks are in the same soup because of this illiquidity. a large percentage of their loan portfolios are in real estate. they have no place to take those. because of that illiquid position, they are capital constrained. they could not make a loan if they wanted to. there

. >> thank you, mr. smith. mr. smith, your opening statement. >> good evening.i would also like to take the opportunity to thank the honorable members of this committee for inviting us to testify today and sharing our experience with sudden unintended acceleration. my name is eddie smith and my wife is the woman you just heard speak. we purchased this 2000 lexus because a toyota's exemplary claims on safety. we have young grandchildren. it has been a difficult experience to decide what to say today. you have heard my wife describe her experience. listening to the last words in the imminent death of my best friend and it not been able to do anything about it. besides being a terrifying in trauma fight -- and traumatizing experience for my wife, it was the same for me. she was scared by the grace of god and is still by my side today. -- spared by the grace of god and is still by my side today. we have wanted to see this injustice addressed. toyota was informed of this potentially deadly problem in 2006 and was warned by us numerous times that lives would be lost i

mr. smith from washington. the chair: the gentleman from washington is recognized for two minutes. mr. smith: thank you very much. i certainly think there are a lot of very good things in this bill. our intelligence community is a critical piece of fighting terrorism. their counterterrorism efforts are absolutely at the top of the list of what the intel committee does. we are supporting all of our agents in the c.i.a. and throughout the intelligence community and we thank them for their brave efforts. we are aware that they're putting their lives on the line to prosecute this war every single day. this bill supports them across the board. it has the resource and the support they need to do their job. i could say a lot more about that, but i really want to take issue about some of the things that the minority has said in particular with niece alleged massive changes to our approach -- with these alleged massive changes to our approach. we heard about miranda. it would surprise people that this a

and hypothope that toyota and >> thank you, mrs. smith. mr. smith, your opening statement.good evening. i would also like to think -- thank the honorable members of this committee for inviting us to testify today ensure our sudden unintended acceleration experience. i am the husband of the woman you just heard. we purchased this 2000 lexus because of toyota's exemplary claims of safety. we have young grandchildren. it has been a true experience to try to decide what to say today. you heard my wife describes her experience. listening to what you think are the last words you'll ever hear her speak and imagining the debt of your lifelong best friend and spouse and being unable to do anything about it. besides being at terrorizing and traumatizing experience, it was frightening and heart wrenching. she was aired by the grace of god and is still by my side today -- she was spirited by the grace of god and is still by my side today. we have been on a mission to get this injustice noticed, address, and fixed. toyota was informed of this potentially deadly problem in 2006 and was w

i have a question for mr. smith.n is to a home in a gated community. they told me that the house was built for president eisenhower, but he never lived there because the secret service cannot protect it because ithe area it was in. can you verify guest: that i cannot verify that. i am not denying it either. i used to go to newport, rhode island, and it might be relevant. he would go to newport to get away from washington, and he would go to the naval base there. and it afforded all kinds of security. maybe there's a connection between those two host: philadelphia -- maybe there's a connection. host: philadelphia, democratic line. caller: this is a great topic. i find it entertaining, conversations about the founding fathers of the nation. they are honorable, glorious men. most of these people were slaveholders. thomas jefferson was not just a slaveholder, he was also a pedophile. there was a girl that was 11 years old, and he was 34. i know people will say that slavery was legal during that time, but so was the holoc

smith's deputy responds to mr. ickler's idea that the state consider allowing participants to infiltrate businesses that are part of the program. most disturbing to me, however, about this inconsistency is the fact that ms. smith admitted in her response to a question that she apparently saw the emails contradicting her testimony in july but did not correct the problem until directly asked in september about this issue by majority staff. that's two months later. a third inconsistency is that ms. smith also characterized wage and hour watch as an educational program in testimony. however, the record shows it was designed and intended to be an enforcement from the very beginning, with the union organizers and community organizer participants serving as amateur investigators and informants. the very first documents discussing the program describe potential participants as community enforcers. i refer to the previously introduced april, 2008, email from union official mr. eickler describing this as an enforcers' program

wu, and mr. smith, and mr. hall for their contributions to the good bipartisan bill we are considering today. i also would like to take a moment to thank the various staffers who worked on this bill, marcy, travis, dala, and mike on the majority side. dan and malay on the minority side. we could not bring a good bill like this together without their help. last fall the house passed a resolution recognizing national cybersecurity awareness month. the resolution stated that we will need to build strong partnerships between federal agencies, business, and nongovernmental organizations and educational institutes in order to enhance the state of cybersecurity in the united states. h.r. 4061 implements this principle of public-private partnerships in three areas. coordinating and prioritizing the federal cybersecurity r&d portfolio. improving the transfer of cybersecurity technologies to the marketplace. and training the i. t. work force that can meet the growing needs of both public and private sectors. h.r. 4061 st

chairman, mr. smith, and i want a particular bank mr.iation security. let me just make one quick comment about mr. garamendi. he may not know i just became a constituent only two months ago, and so -- [inaudible] >> i am a native for this area for most of my career but got lured out to livermore and am very, very happy to be there. very proud to have you be my representative. so what i want to do, as you said undependable associate director for security of louis livermore national lab. one of the national laboratories that is finished in an essay, we don't offload work on sigurd at large but what i want to focus my comments on today, specifically are on those efforts associated with passenger screening at the checkpoint. the nsa labradors have long been and continue to be fully considered an assistant announce his explosives, high-performance computing and other resources to work with the department of homeland security and other partner agencies to protect aviation and combat terrorist threats. it was the recognition of the particular c

mr. smith coming in and yet the working capital is not available to ramp up the production necessary in order to meet those orders. it is a situation where there is a dysfunctional capital market system. there are orders coming in, you can hire people, but the capital is not there. if you could elaborate a little bit more about the challenges of manufacturing, where you are right now, why credit has limited your ability to create jobs even though orders are coming in right now. also you talk about the collateral support program and why that is direct help for you from the banking industry. you referenced the modernization act which many members of this committee have endorsed. if you could flesh some of that out for us, i would appreciate it. >> i have to disagree with what has been said before about the president's plan, injecting $30 billion into the banking industry. i think that is absolutely what is necessary. when i sit on the board of a community bank, i think our situation in manufactur

somebody we haven't seen for -- remember that movie "mr. smith goes to washington." this is mrs.hat needs to be fixed. what is wrong? >> well, i think we need to get rid of these -- what do you call them, these long-term politicians that have been there 30, 40 and 50 years. they get entrenched with that kind of mentality. and they're corrupt. every time you turn on a tv there's another corrupt politician with an ethics charge. and they don't listen to us anymore. they don't listen to us out in the heartland. they don't listen to us. she does. >> there's something you missed saying? >> yes, i want to say she's a woman like i said with a strong values but she's a woman with impeccable integrity and a very strong faith in god and she's not afraid to let that show. >> i think that's fantastic. i agree with you 100%. we heard your words and we believe in that. >> yes. >> perfect. said perfectly. >> so you're all here very early. why are you here so early for this? >> so we would have a chance -- >> we wanted to get in here, yes, exactly. >> do you remember when you first learned about

i know mr. smith said he had to attend to certain things.curity screening apparently consider the needs of dha offices like tsa but i am told they do not look at the concerns of other customers like the traveling public, airlines, and airports. is this true and if it is, would considering these other concerns such as customers, the traveling public, would this have surfaced some of the problems earlier? >> i would like to say yes but i think taking into account the public's perception of the operators of the machine are also in baltimore whole aviation security technology. deciding the machine so that they get specific information about what they are looking for as opposed to seeing anything to bring in a bag, that has been driving the tsa activities. it is only one part of the travelling public has come to expect that variability. i think that is unfortunate. >> i would just further elaboration on the community acceptance of technology panels that i mentioned earlier. we run these panels based on technology that will have to be accepted by

wu, mr. smith and mr. hall. we have been fortunate as to not have a major catastrophic incident with cybersecurity. but this bill will help ensure a strateemingic plan for cybersecurity research and development, strengthen public-private partnerships in cybersecurity and help train the next generation of cybersecurity professionals and improve cybersecurity technical standards. ms. clarke's amendment is a very vital amendment for it will help subject to the assessment of the president's committee the same assessment on employees. this will assess the contractors who are dealing with cybersecurity, including minority women and small contractors of which we hope will increase. while we have been fortunate so far in avoiding a catastrophic cyberattack, last year the pentagon reported that more than 360 million attempts to break into its networks, a 2009 consumer report study found that one in five online consumers had been a victim of cybercrime. in 2008, the department of homeland security logged 5,499 such cybera

mr. smith: to revise and extend my remarks. mr. the president's budget proves once again that the obama administration is not serious about enforcing our nation's immigration laws. they found money for 25 new positions in the secretary of homeland security's management office, but there is no funding for a single new immigration detention bed, no new money to find and deport immigration fugitives or criminal aliens, no additional special agents to investigate workplace immigration violations, and no money to expand the visa security program. the president ought to use immigration enforcement to open up jobs for american workers. instead, the administration maintains the status quo. citizens and legal immigrants will be forced to continue to compete with eight million illegal immigrants for very scarce jobs. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from texas rise? without objection, the gentleman is recognized. >> mr. speaker, the federal government is trying to do too much at too high of cost to t

. >> a lot of people who think the filibuster probably think of jimmy stewart and "mr. smithgoes to washington." that seems like a classic thing. we don't see that on c-span. why don't we see that on c-span? >> this is the question everybody reasonably ask, why doesn't the majority forced the minority to stand up just like jimmy stewart? we call it bring out the cots. why not make them filibuster? the argument today goes, republicans filibuster and the assumption is republicans will be shamed and give up the majority will get what they want. i don't buy it for one instant. first of all the minority party i don't think it is so much of a cause for them if they think they are going to win. their position to republican constituencies over health care and many issues is popular so there is probably a benefit to them talking all night. but to the majority party-- if you take the floor and filibuster for two weeks, three weeks nothing else gets done. the majority has agendas. they want to use the floor to get things done. even the minority party senators want to use the floor to

. >> a lot of people think of filibuster, probably think of jimmy stewart and mr. smith goes to washington, i'm sure people asked you that before, that seems like a classic thing. we don't see that on c-span. why don't we see that on c-span? >> well, this is the question everybody reasonably asks. why doesn't the majority challenge the minority to stand up just as jimmy stewart and speak all night. why not make them filibuster and the argument today goes look, maybe the republicans filibuster and the assumption is, republicans will be shamed, will give up and the majority will get what they want. i don't buy it for one instant, all right. first of all, minority party, i don't think it's much of a cause for them if they think they're going to win. their position to republican constituencies over health care and many other issues is popular in the republican constituencies, so there's probably a benefit to them talking all night, but to the majority party, there's a big cause imposed minority. if you keep the floor and filibuster for two weeks, three weeks, nothing else ge

interesting, we had her on hln, "prime news" one night and they were at the police station we had mr. smith on by phone. remember, she was inside the police station talking to law enforcement. so, i think this is when everything started to unravel. >> we had a long conversation with jack smith concerning all. this let's hit on this. you are again surprised he wasn't arrested, as well? is but she's had the conversations with elizabeth johnson in jail. >> exactly. >> that's the difference here, right? >> that is the big difference here. that's i didn't think even if she doesn't know, you know, the -- they make -- lead them closer but the bottom line is where is the baby? you know, they still don't know. and, you know, they were looking at a landfill, they haven't said whether or not they are going to search the landfill in san antonio, looking at one last week, though, but law enforcement has yet to say whether they are going to search this area they are cordoned off in the landfill. but we've seen too many of these cases, mike lead us to landfills, not a good thing. >> he hasn't been seen si

in the 71 years since hollywood filmed "mr. smith goes to washington," the aim of the filibuster has turned completely upside down. jimmy stuart -- senator smith, of course in, that sphaou have i -- in that movie -- was the little guy standing here in a filibuster to protect the little guys from the special interests of the big guys. today it's the special interests that are using the filibuster to kill legislation that would help the little guy. what is particularly striking moreover is not just the sheer number of filibusters today, it is the fact that this once rare tactic which was once a dramatic challenge to majority rule only used in extraordinary circumstances is now used to threaten to be used on virtually every major and nominees. to quote norm ornstein again -- quote -- "the senate has taken the term deliberative to a new level, slowing not just contentious legislation but bills that have overwhelming support." the occupant of the chair just pointed this out a little while ago. last year the republicans filibustered a moti

. >> mr. smith, you are in town to talk about a topic i don't know many know about but maybe some, cloud computing. if you have to discredit to the average person how would you describe it? >> it is about connecting a pc workload with the ability to run data remotely. we call it in the cloud, a data center. if anybody has ever used a web based e-mail like yahoo! or a ll or hot meal or g-mail you have used cloud e-mail because you the store in your e-mail and a data center. media kept a copy on your own pc as well but you are already using the clout even if you are not aware and increasingly we are using the clout to store more and more model the as consumers because businesses and governments are doing the same. >> here you are in the nation's capital talking about the issues. why speak to the government felt about this? >> this is an important part of the technology because more and more people are going to be using the cloud, storing photographs of line, running applications on line, and it raises

my question is, what about this mr. smith having something to say about a war tax. i heard there was a war tax in the general washington had a war tax. i was wondering if you talked about what both his desire on debt and things like that. >> host: professor fleischacker. >> guest: well, there is a long black and complicated and very technical session of the wealth of nations devoted for taxes, very much as mired for politicians of the time. they took to see which taxes might be most useful. and in there he talks about funding of course quite explicitly. he talked about was called the sinking fund which was a kind of data system by which britain financed its worst. he complains about by way of financing for technical reasons and i'm going to leave it to russell as he wishes. and says that he would prefer if wars were funded by a tax paid in every war fought. one reason he says that would be advantageous as that would meet the wars shorter. people would be irritated by paying the tax that would make them call for the war to come to an end. i'll leave it to russell to

in response to the current economic climate, mrs. smithcritical programs to reduce the impact of layoffs and also implemented career training to assist individuals in entering high-demand fields. additionally, she has enhanced labor law enforcement in order to safeguard workers and reward responsible employers. commissioner smith fully embodies the integrity and the diligence that this position demands and has a wealth of experience, making her well qualified to enforce quilt issues such as workplace safety and health, fair wages, equal employment opportunity, veterans' protection, and retirement and health benefits. prior to her term as labor commissioner, she served as chief of the labor bureau in the new york attorney general's office for eight years. in that capacity, she established a method of labor law enforcement that other attorney generals and enforcement agencies have used as a model. she was an innovative leader here, increasing efficiency and effectiveness of the bureau by developing ethics standards, targeting enforcement eff

. >> jacqui smith. >> mr. speaker, across the country, police officers and a community partners are working amidst hard to tackle violent crime. what does my right honorable friend think they should turn to to monitor their success? to the party opposite who have been caught bantu rights issuing crime statistics or to the authoritative and independent british crime survey that suggested that violent crime has fallen by 41 percent in the last 10 years? >> mr. speaker, i think we have a duty in the debate of law and order to give out all the facts are relevant to this. and to misrepresent the facts that come from the police and british crime survey is not allowed to have a fair debate in this country. mr. speaker, of the police have said that the use of the figure of 71 percent by the opposition is extremely misleading, and the bbc has said the story is of one of falling and in stable files. i think there is a duty on everyone's part to report the facts accurately. >> david cameron? >> thank you, mr. speaker. an

harkin had to say "when many people think of the filibuster, it brings to mind the classic film mr. smithgoes to washington, but senator smith was a little guy using a filibuster to stop the special interest. today that has been turned upside down. it would benefit the little guy." he goes on to write, " republicans have filibuster legislation to provide low- income energy assistance to ensure our children are not exposed to unsafe toys and efforts to ensure that women are guaranteed equal pay for equal work." "the problem is not that republicans are using the filibuster to kill good bills, the larger problem is that republicans' discriminate use has made it impossible to conduct everyday business in the senate. on a daily basis, the republican minority stops bills from even coming to the floor for debate." we want to see what you think about it seemed a filibuster. we will be more in just a few seconds. pursuant to go to the phones. knoxville, tenn. on airline. go ahead. caller: hello. good morning. how are you? host: i am fine. what you think about the use of the filibuster in the senat

smith. mr. nixon how do you respond? >> i have no comment. >> this is basically taking the fifth amendment. this is not good. and nixon pulls himself up for that. his body language is still very poor. he has the 5:00 shadow going on mixing case was the 8:00 shadow. foley fact of the visual effect of nixon was one of gft aide said by looking like an escaped convict using can look like the original fugitive. [laughter] johnson is listening in the radio thinking nixon has won but on tv they think he has lost. he did well but all the first debates really count. you don't get a second chance to make a first impression of the nixon has been around for crow that is the defining point* of the election. it goes to be a very, very close election. all year aside from jack kennedy's pollsters in the primaries when they say it is close. and it is. in the electoral college, if it is not the popular votes, it is. there is the "congressional quarterly" for because of those staying in the south who was on the balance that says richard ni

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. >> and i can tell you, listening to mrs. smithd we are going to go down to talk to them and get that car so that they feel satisfied. i want her and her husband to feel safe about our products. i was embarrassed about the story. and i will tell you whether it san accident or injury and we heard the smiths today, you didn't have to have a death to understand the terror that she had from that accident. i mean, that is a terrible thing to have to put one of our customers through. and it doesn't even have to be an accident. we have apologized to our consumers just for the concern that we have given them with their current recalled vehicles. we are sincerely sorry for that concern and anxiety that we put people through. any time there is one death in one of our vehicles, that pains us to have that take place regardless of how it happens. but it is critical today and we weren't doing a good job in the past of investigating those quickly enough, especially, when it had to do with unintended acceleration. with adding the new engineers, th

smith as solicitor general at the u.s. department of labor signed by margaret dorfman, the new york women's chamber of commerce. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. harkin: ms. smith is imminently well qualified and well vetted and we need a solicitor of labor at the department of labor. this nomination has been hanging here since last april. since last april. it's time to move on. but, again, the republicans are exercising their right. although i think there's an abuse of that right to drag it out for 30 more hours, keep the senate in session for no purpose whatsoever other than just to slow things down in this chamber. to me that's -- that's not a good enough excuse. whatsoever. when only one person came here today to speak against her and that person spoke against her yesterday. i read the transcript. nothing new. same stuff. so i would hope that we could collapse this time frame and vote on it. but evidently the republicans are intent on stretching this out to the maximum 30 hours. as i said, maybe they're right. but i think it's an abuse of that right. mr. president, i yield the floor. toy in the the absence of a -- i note the absence of

my question is did mr. smith has anything to say about a four texas? i heard there was a for tax general washington had a four -- vortex. what were his views on debt and things like that. >> host: professor fleischacker. >> guest: there is a long and complicated and very technical last section of "the wealth of nations" devoted to taxes. very much admired by politicians of the time in fact some of the first picked up the book and ransacked the back to see which taxes might be most useful. and in their he talks about the funding of the war quite explicitly. he talks about what was called the sinking fund which was a bit system by which it financed its war. he complains about that we of financing the war for technical reasons i'm going to leave it to russell to explain. and he says that he would prefer if the war was funded by a tax payment every year they are fought. one reason he says that would be advantageous is that would make the war shorter. people would be irritated by paying the tax and that would make them call for the war to come to an end and

the chair now recognizes the gentleman from texas, mr. smith. >> thank you. madam secretary let's go to the subject of worksite enforcement. in the united states there are 15 million people who are out of work. they and their families are hurting greatly. yet at the same time we have about 7 million people in the country working here illegally. if we were to enforce the current immigration law we on the books we might cut unemployment in half. when i think about the impact that could have on the country if we didn't force the laws and cut the rate in half you have the opportunity to be a national heroine by enforcing the law ahura it let me give you some facts what i perceive as a lack of enforcement. in the area of administration ministry does the rest are down 68%. criminal arrests down 60%. criminal indictment down 58% and criminal convictions down 63% and all of those categories, address, indictment, convictions they are all down a 58 to 68% all in one year. that is quite a record. my question is why don't we enforce immigration laws in creating more jobs

my question is, what about this mr. smith having something to say about a war tax. i heard there was a war tax in the general washington had a war tax. i was wondering if you talked about what both his desire on debt and things like that. >> host: professor fleischacker. >> guest: well, there is a long black and complicated and very technical session of the wealth of nations devoted for taxes, very much as mired for politicians of the time. they took to see which taxes might be most useful. and in there he talks about funding of course quite explicitly. he talked about was called the sinking fund which was a kind of data system by which britain financed its worst. he complains about by way of financing for technical reasons and i'm going to leave it to russell as he wishes. and says that he would prefer if wars were funded by a tax paid in every war fought. one reason he says that would be advantageous as that would meet the wars shorter. people would be irritated by paying the tax that would make them call for the war to come to an end. i'll leave it to russell to

let me go onto one last question that i know that mr. smith, told the long ago, that he had to attend to certain things at a certain time. the transportation security screening ipt's, apparently considered the needs of dhs offices such as gsa, but i'm told but not the concerns of other customers such as the traveling public, airlines and airports. is this true, and if it is, would considering these other concerns, such as customers, the traveling public, air carriers, the ports that operate airports, would this have surfaced some of the problems are resulted in different technologies being deployed, different research efforts? >> i'd like to say, yes, i think that taking into account the public's perception, but the operators of the machine are also involved in the whole aviation security technology. so designed that machine so that they get as mr. buswell says, specific information about what they're looking for, as are posted here is a bad, do you see anything, anything different in there. that has been the tsa activities. it is only one par

mr. harkin: i ask that a detailee in my office be granted floor privilegesduring the debate on patricia smith to be solicitor general. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. harkin: i suggest the absence of a quorum. the presiding officer: the clerk will call the roll. quorum call: mr. harkin: mr. president? the presiding officer: the senatofrom iowa. mr. harkin: i ask that further proceedings under the quorum call being dispensed with. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. harkin: mr. president, i listeninged very carefully to the -- i listened very carefully to the statement made by my friend and ranking member, senator enzi. many of the points raised by the senator have been gone over before by the committee. these were things that we looked into, and so i think i would like to respond to -- a little bit almost point by point to some of those concerns that were raised -- that was just raised in the statement made by senator enzi. but before i do that, i again want to make one thing very clear. we are talking about something here, this wage watcher -- is that what it's called

mr. chairman. yesterday a woman named rhonda smith testified at the energy and commerce committee and she's from easttennessee, from just outside my district, which is based around knoxville. she was driving into knoxville in her lexus automobile. on october 12th, 2006, three and a half years ago, and she experienced one of these sudden acceleration events and her automobile reached 100 miles an hour. she said she thought it was her time to die. she said she called her husband and tried to put the car in reverse but the computer apparently didn't recognize it. she feels that toyota's response to her complaints was a farce. toyota apparently told her there was nothing wrong with her car. our investigators for energy and commerce committee and this committee have found their complaints started coming in about these events in 2001 and nhtsa started an investigation apparently in 2004 aimed at toyota. now, 2004, that's six years ago, if that investigation started early in the year. maybe five and a half years ago if it started late in the year. but mr. toyota has said several times today that he just bec

the disadvantage is if you hear that joe smith, who's this fantastic writer, is looking for a job, you don't have mrmoney bags that you can go to and say, 'oh, you know, please give me some money to hire joe smith.' and -- and the reason foundation, as a whole, also gets money from some foundations and some corporations. c-span: there's a footnote in the back on page 252 i want to ask you about. it happens to be footnote 52. actually, i don't know how this is wor -- let me make sure -- is that 52 on one chapter? >> guest: it's one chapter. yeah. c-span: yeah. it's -- it's the last chapter in the book. let me just make sure so that if somebody wanted to find this, chapter 8, on the verge. >> guest: right. c-span: did you get the verge from daniel boorstin? >> guest: daniel boorstin, yeah. c-span: oh. but here's the -- here's the footnote. 'hillary rodham clinton's speech at the annual meeting of the world economic forum in davos' -- or davos, i'm not sure how you pronounce it -- 'switzerland, february the 2nd, 1998' -- so it's not too long ago, about a year ago -- 'aside from the flaws in bell's argu

smith misled the "help" committee. i ask consent that report be made a part of the record. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. enzi: the majority acknowledges there are factual inconsistencies between what ms. smith said before the "help" committee and official documents from the state of new york. the suggestion that the rationale for these inconsistencies lies in the fact that ms. smith was busy running a large agency and cannot be held accountable for this small program is simply not supported by the facts. official documents show the following: ms. smith named the program, she personally met with the organizer and community organizing advocates, developing where her subordinates in november 2008. she personally met with the five trade associations concerned about the program. she personally promoted the program in speeches internally to her staff and in the media. ms. smith was involved in close to 100 communications about the program, either being referenced or as the sender or recipient. she admits her program was the topic of numerous personal discussions she had with the new york governor's office. "

smith has now, full circle. in 1840 citizens about amaro county quotes, vindicating the memory of mr. jefferson from posthumous slanderers, with regard to his private character. these individuals were his neighbors, who had the opportunity of personally knowing the true state of facts. you know, when you visit monticello, is but a short walk from the pastoral west lawn, down a sloping hill to jefferson's gravesite. as one enters the cemetery, you feel closer to history. you feel closer to thomas jefferson. , who once wrote that it was a subject i never bust and now hate. without a doubt, the hemings controversy and bodies of mr. jefferson sentiment. on his deathbed, jefferson spoke of the slanderers and libelous against him, either in quotes, they had never known him. they had created an imaginary being closed with odious attributes to whom they had given his name, and quote. unfortunately, as pulitzer prize winning virginia stab me sad, jefferson quote is one of the principal historical but dams of the current of debunking our heroes. finally, only two people know the true absolute t

mr. becker just like they opposed patricia smith. t i think it's important for the general public to get the facts and understand what this is all about. first and foremost, critics have suggested that mr. becker would come to the board with an agenda and that he would try to implement the employee free choice act by administrative fiat. as you are all aware, i am a supporter of the employer free choice act, as is president obama. he campaigned on it. i hope to see it passed by congress. i would look forward to the debate. i hope it's signed into law by the president. but i have no illusions that those important changes can somehow be accomplished administratively and neither does craig becker. he has clearly and consistently explained on numerous occasions that all three major reforms in the employer free choice act, the card check, binding arbitration for first contracts and increased penalties for violations of the law, cannot be accomplished without a change in the statute. and as we all know, statutes can only be amended by those

smith has now come hartel circle. citizens of albemarle county passed a resolution, quote, vindicating the memory of mr. jefferson from posthumous slanders with regard to his private character. these individuals were his neighbors who had the opportunity of personally knowing the true state of the facts. you know, when you visit monticello it is but a short walk from the west lawn, there is a cemetery, you feel closer to history. you feel closer to thomas jefferson who once wrote, quote, politics was a subject i never loved and now. without a doubt the hemingses controversy and bodies mr. jefferson's sentiment. on his deathbed, jefferson spoke of the slander and libel against him uttering a, quote, they had never known him. they had created an imaginary being closed with ots attributes to whom they had given his name, and of quote. unfortunately, as the pulitzer prize-winning historian burgeon yes avenue said jefferson, quote, is one of the principal historical victim's of the current orgy of debunking our heroes. finally, only to people know the true absolute truth. one was sally hemingses who brought

mr. chairman. yesterday a woman named rhonda smith testified at the energy and commerce committee and she's from eastnnessee, from just outside my district, which is based around knoxville. she was driving into knoxville in her lexus automobile. on october 12th, 2006, three and a half years ago, and she experienced one of these sudden acceleration events and her automobile reached 100 miles an hour. she said she thought it was her time to die. she said she called her husband and tried to put the car in reverse but the computer apparently didn't recognize it. she feels that toyota's response to her complaints was a farce. toyota apparently told her there was nothing wrong with her car. our investigators for energy and commerce committee and this committee have found their complaints started coming in about these events in 2001 and nhtsa started an investigation apparently in 2004 aimed at toyota. now, 2004, that's six years ago, if that investigation started early in the year. maybe five and a half years ago if it started late in the year. but mr. toyota has said several times today that he just becam

mr. president. i and you see dr. smithemember that he only barely waved and put his head in the door? or right now, there is some salesman talking to some doctor, and saying hey, my company will finance a machine for you for $1 million, so you do not have to pay for it. you can gradually pay. you can increase your income by $200,000. there is another machine three blocks away already working and available. these other things we need to go after. i think there are other things that we can come together on. there was a provision in the senate bill the said we ought to reward doctors for doing quality, not quantity. there are a small number of doctors -- something we have seen already in "the new yorker" -- that a small number of people trying to maximize their and Ñicome for the whole city off. maria has a provision in there that says we ought to reward doctors for the quality, not quantity. i think you can agree with it. there is a provision that senator rockefeller authored, that says 80 to 85% of what companies get money

sincerely, raymond smith, buffalo center, iowa. mr. president, we spent, i hear talk about how we got to start over and do all this thing again. we spent one year considering a range of ideas from experts from all over the political spectrum. two committees, the health committee under the leadership of senator dodd held over 100 by partisan meetings and walk throughs, our bill contains 147 distinct republican amendments. now on the issue of health insurance reform, of the ten key elements in the house bill, we have nine of them in our bill. nine out of ten, that's not bad. the only one that's missing is the health savings accounts. but nine out of ten are in our bill that are in the house republican bill. no recession when you get sick, no lifetime annual caps, no gender based ratings, keeping your skids on until they're age 26. that's in the house republican bill, that's in our bill. i think we're very close on this. the last two things i just want to address myself to is this idea that somehow we can do a little bit. we can take an i

sincerely, raymond smith, buffalo center, iowa. mr.ident, we spent, i hear talk about how we got to start over and do all this thing again. we spent one year considering a range of ideas from experts from all over the political spectrum. two committees, the health committee under the leadership of senator dodd held over 100 by partisan meetings and walk throughs, our bill contains 147 distinct republican amendments. now on the issue of health insurance reform, of the ten key elements in the house bill, we have nine of them in our bill. nine out of ten, that's not bad. the only one that's missing is the health savings accounts. but nine out of ten are in our bill that are in the house republican bill. no recession when you get sick, no lifetime annual caps, no gender based ratings, keeping your skids on until they're age 26. that's in the house republican bill, that's in our bill. i think we're very close on this. the last two things i just want to address myself to is this idea that somehow we can do a little bit. we can take an increm

patricia smith of new york to be solicitor for the department of labor. the presiding officer: the senator from iowa is recognized. mr harkin: mr. president, thank you. so for the benefit of those who are tuned in on c-span in their offices, we're now in what we call postcloture on the nomination of patricia smith to serve as solicitor of labor. this is a nominee that came before our committee almost a year ago, in april. it's been held up and held up and held up. and yesterday the senate voted cloture because it was being filibustered -- yet again another filibuster by our republican friends. and so we had a vote last night, and the cloture was invoked by 60 votes. and so now we're in the period of what they call postcloture of 30 hours after postcloture. and then we will have a final vote up or down on patricia smith to be the solicitor of labor. and it's obvious that if she got 60 votes last night on cloture, it's obvious she certainly has more than 51 votes to take the position as solicitor of labor. so that's where we are. we're in this 30 hours. again, it raises a question in my mind why are we chewing up 30 ho

mr. jackson yesterday and latoya jackson last night. they want justice for michael jackson. they want justice for all those people who are being administer administeredadminister administered drugs. we had the anna nicole smithase. did we learn nothing? is four years the only kind of charge we'll have here? i think the public is entitled to take this problem on a serious note instead of saying, oh, you didn't mean it. we think they did mean it. it was so reckless that it was utterly irresponsible. >> brian oxman, thank you so much. time to check the rest of the headlines with erica hill at the news desk. good morning erica. >> good morning. three american soldiers are dead this morning killed by a roadside bomb in northwest pakistan. that explosion hit a convoy en route to the opening of a girls' school. mark phillips is in london this morning with more. mark, good morning. >> reporter: good morning. the information is still coming in on this but the u.s. embassy does now confirm that three american soldiers were killed and two others injured in this bomb attack in the tribal area near the afghanistan area. the injured we're now told have been brought to a hospital in islamabad for treatment with their injur