ms. moore: thank you. the chair: it is now in order to consider amendment number 4, printed in house report 112-213, for what purpose does the gentlewoman from california rise? mrs. capps: i have an amendment at the desk. the chair: the clerk will designate the amendment. the clerk: amendment number 4 printed in house report number 112-213, offered by mrs. capps of california. mrs. capps: pursuant to house resolution 406, the gentlewoman from california, miss capps, and a member opposed, each will control five minutes. the chair recognizes the gentlewoman from california. mrs. capps: thank you, mr. chairman. i yield myself such time as i may consume. it's clear that the goal of the train act is not simply to study e.p.a. standards. the goal of the majority is to block the efforts of e.p.a. to cut mercury and other toxic pollution from dirty power plants. that's dangerous and it's misguided. the research is clear, unless e.p.a. enforces these standards, there will be more premature deaths, more heart and as

ms. moore: mr. chairman, i have an amendment at the desk. the chair: the clerk will designate the amendment. the clerk: amendment number 6 printed in part a of house report 112-200 offered by ms. moore of wisconsin. the chair: pursuant to house resolution 392, the gentlewoman from wisconsin, ms. moore, and a member opposed each will control five minutes. the chair recognizes the gentlewoman from wisconsin. ms. moore: thank you, mr. chair. i rise today to encourage my colleagues to support my ealt to h.r. 2218 which would strike a provision that allows governors to apply and receive direct grants from the federal government and preempts state education agencies from their oversight and operational responsibility. let me say before i defend this amendment that i think that h.r. 2218 makes very critical changes to the charter school program that are long overdue and moves it in the right direction in terms of being more inclusive of students, including students that have had limited access to char

with that and there are some in the commercial world that are looking at it that what we believe ms. moore selfishly to deal with their particular needs as a company and when that happens that is surprising to us. we have more support than we had detractors, and that's very helpful. >> i would never consider any of the public safety communications carriers as enemies. we are all partners. we may have differing views on how to get some place. they might have different voters but i think at the end of today we are all on the same page and we all want the good thing, good reliable communications. >> when you hear the folks talk about let's increase the efficiency and perhaps use the white spaces in between the different areas what is your reaction to that? >> it's an interesting idea. certainly those places can be used more efficiently than they are being used now. the question for the public safety is is it a safe place for us to go in other words we have always been more comfortable with the idea of the allocation spectrum that is our spectrum that other people can't use or interfere with o

ms. moore: thank you. mr. speaker, the president has sent us the american jobs act, a plan to put the country back to work while it makes investments in our struggling economy. this bill would modernize and rehabilitate 30,000 public schools, establish the desperately needed infrastructure bank, pump $50 billion into our aging roads, bridges, railroads and airports. in fact, we have 71,000 structurally deficient bridges in this country. we are falling behind the rest of the world when it comes to modern railways, roads, and schools. and this bill, this bill is of critical importance to my district. of the nation's cities, milwaukee has the second largest percentage of its work force in the manufacturing sector. passing this bill means jobs for my constituents, making support beams for bridges. manufacturing tools. building engines. putting together construction equipment. designing, reducing computers for airports. trucking, rail, and poor transportation, and, yes, it even means making bacon and eggs at the lo

. >> the first advice i would give to americans would be looking at china their system ms. mooretexas in 20 or 30 years ago. you understand and forgive about the legal system is only worth the piece of paper it's written on and that you trust the people you're dealing with across the table. so i normally advise american executives to sit down with your counterpart, look them straight in the odd as you can trust each other and let's go. if you don't, go find another. the second advice i would give is to choose those reviewable companies that you want to deal with as there are some doubts there's plenty of companies out there that you can work together and those are in the beginning and you do want to have somebody on the ground in china let's say american companies do business in china you want somebody on the ground because the situation changes very fast so as in the united states. there's lots of changes. >> it's good and bad and american companies could have this you look them in the ausley and find once they are comfortable with and i presume are more transparent. there's a l

ms. lee. mr. moore please call your first witness. >> thank you your honor. i'd like to call to the witness stand mr. john mackey. [applause] >> ladies and gentlemen, please no applause. this is a courtroom. [laughter] >> mr. mackey, will you swear on this whole foods -- whole foods apple to tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth, so help you god? >> how do i know that is really a whole foods apple? >> because dr. skousen went to whole foods and told me he bought it. we will stipulate that is a whole foods apple. >> i do. >> mr. mackey, thank you. thank you for being here. let me start by asking you this question. you are the ceo and president of whole foods. how many employees do you have around the country? >> i think about 61,000. >> 61,000? of the 61,000 would you say that you are an employer that provides your employees with a fair wage and a fair benefit? could you describe a little bit the wages and benefits that you provide for your workers? >> the average wage -- $16.50 an hour. the benefits are extensive, fully provided health car

vowell if she thinks that this western as -- westernization ms. moore religious and cultural what they called the white man's beard or was it just commercial people basically to make money, commercialization. >> it's the united states, you don't have to choose. because you have these missionaries and you have these commercial sailors, you have both been going on at once. those missionaries, especially the early ones, they weren't quite idealistic and the accomplished a lot just in terms of literacy, so culturally -- ayman the interesting thing about what the did sites teaching more or less the entire population to read within a generation and 19th century hawaii was maybe the most literate country on earth because of their efforts, and as a consequence those missionaries taught the first generation of hawaii and writers and historians to write and so that the same time they are trying to dismantle the traditional hawaiian culture in terms of religion and moray and dressed, the missionaries had quite a problem with the hawaii inslee of dress or lack ther