act for nasa activities. moreover, it provides $450 million for legal services, increased by over $90 billion, it's still underfunded, this is indicative of rising need for legal support for the poor, particularly because of the mortgage crisis. the bill continues existing limitations except that it lifts the current restriction on attorneys' fees that is a brief summary of the bill and i reserve the balance of my time. the chair: the gentleman reserves. the gentleman from virginia. >> i yield myself such time as i may consume and revise and extend. the speaker pro tempore: the -- the chair: the gentleman is recognized. >> i am pleased to join the chairman in beginning consideration of h.r. 2747 -- 2247 for commerce, justice and science-related agencies. the bill before the house today addresses a number of national needs and requirements and i think it's important for the record to show that i believe and i think any fair-minded person would to say that the chairman has done a commendable job in balancing th

h.r. 2487 also makes critical investments in scientific research and nasa space program. the bill includes $6.9 billion for the national science foundation. this level of funding will support the doubling of n.s.f.'s budget over the next he 10 years and represents a true commitment -- next 10 years and represents a true commitment in research and development which will produce for innovation and future technologies to help the united states be competitive. h.r. 2487 includes over $18.2 billion for the national space administration. nasa's unique mission is to pioneer the future in space exploration, scientific discovery and aeronautics research and this appropriation enables them to accomplish this mission. this recommendation also provides for the continued efforts of nasa's mars exploration and provides funds for the completion of the mars science laboratory to launch in 2011. exploration has always been critical to mankind. we live in america today because of exploration. we must continue to explore the new frontier for future generations. in closing, mr. speaker, i wo

nasa. the chair: the gentleman from california. the gentleman from virginia. mr. connolly: i yield back the balance of my time. the chair: the yes on the amendment offered by the gentleman from virginia, those in favor say aye. those opposed, no. in the opinion of the chair, the ayes have it. the chair: i ask -- mr. connolly: i ask for a recorded vote on this matter. the chair: pursuant to clause 6 of rule 18, further proceedings on the amendment offered by the gentleman from virginia will be postponed. pursuant to clause 6 of rule 18, proceedings will now resume on those amendments in which further proceeding with -- proceedings were postponed in the following order. earment number three by mr. mcgovern of massachusetts. amendment number four by mr. mcgovern of massachusetts. amendment number nine by mr. franks of arizona. amendment number 15 bhi bimr. akin of missouri. amendment number 34 by mr. holt of new jersey. amendment number 20 by mr. connolly of virginia. the chair will reduce to

it's also partners of with nasa and the national oceanic and atmospheric administration. the motor oil foundation, shell oil company and others provide funding why with so many resources does the jason project still receive earmarks year after year after year? this is just the latest year we've challenged this earmark on the floor and we're always told it's vital, we've got to have it. the next year, it's vital, got to have it. when does the $4 million a year stop? according to the jason project, support from all these groups enables the organization to offer educational resources online for free. however, all jason's curriculum materials must be purchased, costing schools $788 for a classroom back and $1,100 for a school pack. last year they received $5.6 million from the federal government. the jason project has been so effective in securing money its website offers trips for teachers -- offers tips for teachers in securing funds from local entities in order to buy jason products. so here's what they offer. they offer tips to teachers to go out and secure funds from loc

east of there we had nasa glen in cuyahoga county. the things we can do and achieve in this country through the space program is limitless. however, if we stand by what we're seeing happening across congress today with this cap and tax legislation, we're in trouble. one of the things i'm proud of the fact is in think district, the fifth congressional district, i represent an area that we manufacturer solar panels, with first solar. we have another company coming online this fall. we also in my district have wind turbines, ethanol, biomass and we're doing all these things and the alternatives. also it's very, very important in this country we have the base power to be able to manufacture what we have to have. we want to continue to be independent in this country, especially in the manufacture and the new age of space, we have to make sure we have these homegrown companies here today. it's going to be very, very difficult to do that if we don't have the manufacturing capacity and if we also don't have the base load capacity. one of the

for nasa this cut would significantly reduce needed contingency in the development of all new nasa missions and we just heard democrats and republicans both get up, earlier consideration of this bill, speaking with great concern about the cuts that we've taken to human space flight, albeit we're doing that in the short-term because we're waiting for the augustine report to come forward and the administration to come forward with its vision with regard to human space flight. but just that concern, that angst, protectioned about the impact that that would have on the economy of those communities who are deeply involved in human space flight. the national science foundation, another example. this drop in government sport for -- support for research and development on top of the falloff in corporate research investment and private foundation support would stress the nation's research universities right at the time that this country needs to invest in research, needs to invest in development, so that we are at the cutting edge of the new economy as we go forward, which is at the very heart of pr

if the inadequate funding level for nasa that is contained in this bill is allowed to stand as it is, then our nation's human space flight program will be dealt a serious blow. let's look at several of the spending items in the bill. the bill increases funds for the cops program by $252 million over 2009 and this on top of $1 billion in the stimulus bill. the bill sends 7.4 billion on the census, an increase over last year. the bill increases funding for national science foundation by $446 million over 2009 to promote scientific research by students, yet, it cuts funding for human space flight. a if the head of patents and scientific discovery. . i appreciate the work that you do and the challenges before you. with that the united states cannot maintain our leadership in space if we don't have it. it is for this reason we must work to restore funding that was cut from this program. i look forward to working with you and my colleagues over the next several months to restore the funding so we can get our nation's human space flight vehicle back on track. the cut of this magnitude at thi

he left there to form a clearer view energy -- clearview energy partners with partners from nasa. the work on projections of what is next in washington, an analysis of how government policy affects energy fundamentals. we have a wide spectrum of age and experience. we are delighted to have you all here. now, senator wicker has joined us. we will see what opening statements you have for us. >> i understand, mr. chairman, that you're being magnanimous and forgoing an opening statement? even so, i think if you'll give me a couple of minutes -- let me say about how pleased i am that we are doing best. we all remember this time last year. we were in the midst of an energy crisis, paying $4 for a gallon of gasoline. of course, americans were seeing their utility bills skyrocket. we have not made any policy changes since then. the energy problems have not gone away. the prices may have subsided, but undoubtably, unless we come to grips with this problem we're going to see those problems arise again. we need to develop alternative energy, certainly. the cornerstone of any real solution to

it is not this inter- governmental body alone, but nasa, and a whole body of u.s. experts who have all determined that this is real, happening, and you need to take action to confront the fact dead man is causing further emissions that degrade our environment and potentially will cause huge ramifications for our weather patterns and all the kinds of resources we pay into try to avert them as in hurricane katrina, though fires and the west, and so on. these issues must be confronted and they happen more and more. host: next, on the democrats' line. . . they don't talk about the structure of it and have some cross will be eliminated. we really need a health care program. my son had open heart surgery when he was a baby, and we were on cobra, but even on cobra paying $366 a month in the 1980's, that on the cover my son, we still ended up paying $10,000. host: how to fix that? guest: you have heard president obama talk about that. to keep people out of an emergency rooms. i think that is part of what happened with tobacco regulation bill. guest: there needs to be a lot

london and back on a commercial plane, so massive difference to the environmental cost of, say, a nasa space ship going into space. we'll also be able to put satellites into space at a fraction of the price that satellites currently go into space for. so exciting days. now, whether we'll ever go to the moon, i think we'll just give the moon a miss and go straight to mars. thank you. [laughter] >> we are almost out of time but before asking the last question we have some important matters to take care of. first of all, let me remind our members of future speakers. tomorrow john roe, chairman and ceo of exxon will discussion national energy policy in a time of economic uncertain. on may 21, ray lahood will discuss his eighth's involvement in president obama's $787 billion economic stimulus package aimed at turning around the u.s. economy. on may 28 mary tyler moore, actress and international chairman for the juvenile diabetes research foundation, will discuss research and finding a cure for diabetes. second, i would like to present mr. branson with the traditional npc mug. >> thank you v

it is not this inter- governmental body alone, but nasa, and a whole body

ground collectors unless you think i am not totally insane this is a massive project that is under way nasa is funding the space solar energy project which is under way and there is nothing of what i have said technologically that is break through. these are known technologies'. of the primary issue of how to underwrite the cost and one way to doing it is dropping the cost which is why jeff is doing this. he is the head of virgin airlines, they are all in this field and they say it is tourism. come on. you know, what you are doing it for drop space lift costs and you can be saudi arabia and that is what they are looking at. my expectation is one, the pressure on an ecology will decline as there are fewer humans, not quickly but that is one of the things but secondly the technological fix will come in the context of u.s. control of space which the u.s. will happily jump into because it will also put this in a position of making germany dependent on us instead of the russians which will be very nice and also dropped the price of fuel here. there is a lot of advantage to that technology and fo

eastern, they will continue on a bill to fund the commerce and justice departments along with nasa and other science programs. live coverage here on c-span. [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2009] >> there's still time to get your copy of the 2009 congressional director with information on house and senate members, the cabinet, supreme court justices, and governors, plus district maps and how to contact committees and caucuses. it is $16.95 online at c- span.org/products or call. >> on tomorrow morning's "washington journal," new financial regulations. two members of congress, dave camp of michigan and brad sherman of california and flint leverett discusses whether ahmadinejad really one iran's election. -- really won iran's election. friday night is the annual radio and tv correspondents dinner, and we will bring it to you live from washington. this year's eve and will be hosted by actor and humorous john hodgeman. you can watch it live at 9:45 p.m. eastern on c-span. today, patrick leahy talked- about dozen nomi

they use is a and palestinian nasa listen together in a tight package to save jihad is imperative in order to liberate palestine than once that happens it will become part of a larger state that the muslim brotherhood advocates for croaked one of the things i think they have done because they have adhered to this charter and have been very honest, the palestinian people trust them and they seem more on this. particularly compared to fatah which by the way the fatah charter openly calls for the state of israel as well but it is more secular and nobody can tell where they stand. on the one hand they negotiate with israel and talk about peace living side-by-side but then they launched in october 2000 you have the fatah mainstream which is more secular and then the brigade which is a spinoff of the fatah organization. >> host: and clearly religious refers to the moscow summit is on the basis of religion not the basis of national aspirations. to a one by the way i would add that the brigade is crafted in the image of hamas. this was fatah as ways to compete with hamas in the late 1990's a

mceleney, if the legislation that we are working on nasa's, and it screws up the bankruptcy process and causes the collapse of either or both of the companies down the road, we're going to have a rather nasty situation on our hands. part of it is going to be we are going to see all the dealers out of business, all the plants close, all the communities hurt, all the workers and all the suppliers hurt. what do we do about that situation? >> sir, i think with that situation, you know, this is not a normal bankruptcy. as you know this is a government negotiated bankruptcy. the debtor in possession financing beige. >> i understand those things but what are we going to do if that result is occasioned by the situation? >> i don't think that will happen. i think the fact that the government is involved is going to present data mapping. >> is that a statement or a hope? >> part may? >> is that a statement or a hope that it's not going to haven't. >> i guess that's a hope. >> i doing in the hope of. >> thank you. >> mr. press, mr. mceleney searched this. none of chryslers submissions to announcem

he liszt himself at the nasa goddard institute for space studies and you will notice nobody called him out for disagree with the president and if they had i am sure there ribby the uproar. i will leave you with the disclaimer with i do not represent any branch of government nor do i speak for the governor or any other state agency. start off with "climate of extremes" what does the book, what is it about, what is the climate of extremes? one is it could be a climatology of extreme weather events. i hope it was more than just that otherwise would just be a textbook. it could also be about the political climate around extreme weather events after all that is where the action is that is our people lose their houses, their homes and their lives. it is not the field that destroys the so it is the extremes of its of the political climate. on the other hand, climatology of extreme behavior by climatologists? we have seen a lot of that going on in. finally, the political climate of extreme behavior by a climate scientist acting in a political realm and i am pleased to report in fact, i think t

. >> i just want to let you know we would be posting nasa you'll be able to see that. >> you said there were 18 of those stations are owned by a single company going into bankruptcy, and the rest are going dark because of technical reasons? >> 18 of them have financial reasons. i believe 17 of those are one particular company. 16 of them are construction issues that will be resolved i believe by the end of the year. some of them a lot sooner, and one of them has a construction permit pending with us that we are looking at, because there is an issue that needs to be resolved. >> puerto rico has a large analog yours. i think the last that i checked was half the households. how is it going there? >> i have been out of puerto rico and they have made huge strides. they have a wonderful person down there who has done a lot of good work but they have a far way to go and i'm afraid there still are a large number of people that are unprepared and puerto rico. despite our best efforts. it was 50% over the air at the beginning of the transition, which was the highest in the united states and so ev

is the other brief for you will notice james hampton, james hansen and the list themselves at the nasa a daughter is a two for space studies in a particular nobody called him out for disagreeing with the president and if he had i am sure there would have been the uproar. i will be be with this disclaimer i do not represent any other branches of government nor the governor or any other state agency. starting off with "climate of extremes" what does the book talk about? there are four possibilities it could be a climatology of extreme weather events. that would not be the only answer because then it is no more than a textbook and that is not something you'd be interested in and i have seen enough of those in my day. to be about political climates. extreme weather events is were the action is. people lose their houses, their homes, their lives. it is the extremes that destroys things summit is it the political climate? could be the climatology of extreme behavior? obviously we have seen a lot of that going on or finally come to the political climate of extreme behavior by climate scientis

amendments to the $65 billion spending bill to fund the commerce and justice departments along with nasa and other science agencies. the gentleman from california has 1/3/4 minutes remaining. does any member seek recognition on the campbell amendment? if not, the question is on the amendment offered by the gentleman from california. those in favor say aye. those opposed, no. the noes have it. the amendment is not agreed. to mr. flake: i ask for the yeas and nays. the chair: the gentleman from arizona requests a recorded vote. pursuant to clause 6 of rule 18, further proceed thonings amendment of the gentleman from california will be postponed. for what purpose does the gentleman from arizona rise? mr. flake: i have an amendment at the desk designated as number 87 in the con grgsal record. the chair: the clerk will designate the amendment. the clerk: amendment number 87 printed in the congressional record, offered by mr. flake of arizona. the chair: pursuant to house resolution 552, the gentleman from arizona and a member opposed will each have five minutes. the chair recognizes the gentl

going to get him a fancy town and this protestant minister decided he is happy where he is giving nasa is to the poor peasants of switzerland in the mountains. when kosciuszko heard this he jumped on his horse and raced to the minister first thing in the morning and this minister was shaving and kosciuszko burst in on him and gave him a hug and said finally a cleric who i can identify with. and i look forward to your e-mail. [laughter] >> georgetown university library. i was curious about the fortress you showed before he started building them. it had a kind of star structure and reminded me -- >> in the drawing? >> in the drawing that looked like the pattern of the great builder of fortresses -- i'm curious to defied any connection >> that six ackley right, he studied that in paris because he had to enroll in art school but he bought into all of the glasses and paris and for those of you that don't know this was perhaps the greatest expert in military history of siege graft and how to build and attack for its and kosciuszko was very influenced, that is true. >> i'm curious why would a

major scientists in the united states whose life has been devoted to this effort -- like jim hanen at nasa or the president's science advisor formerly at harvard -- all of these people will tell you in private warnings that are even far more urgent than the warnings that they give in public. and the reason is that the science is coming back at a faster rate and to a greater degree in terms of the damage that was predicted than any of these people had predicted. the fact is, there's a recent study about the -- the melting of the permafrost of the planet. and it shows that if the arctic -- this is the siberian shelf study which i would ask my colleague from oklahoma to read -- it shows columns of methane rising up out of the sea level and if you light a match where that's columns break out into the open acres it will ignite. those columns of methane represent a gas that is 20 times more damaging and dangerous than carbon dioxide. and it is now, as the permafrost melts, uncontrollably be released into the atmosphere. in addition to that there's an ice shelf, the wilkins ice shelf down in anta

>> well, what nasa say if you want to go up in a show, they give you a bunch of turns, times to pass a test? >> i hope not. alwyn onto that we would take a pilot, the particular element that they failed and we would train them to proficiency. i think there's another human aspect that we have to look at your if we had whatever the number is, one strike, two strikes, three strikes and you're out, remember the art jackpot. we have someone who is getting another pilot a checkride just a training jet pilot, and now somebody else's career is in my hands. if i fail this pilot, that's the end of their career. my concern would be, you might have the wrong reaction. that someone instead of saying you busted his portion, go back, get trained, come back when you get this right as opposed to, you know what, i'm not going to end his career. >> mr. babbitt, i have great respect for you and the others at the table, but i would say this to you. i would read it in his career and have my wife and my children on that airplane, i can tell you that. so i think these are things that we saw with the brillia

i have gnat nasa satellites, the ones used by the weather channel are made in fort wayne and they are looking to track as my friend from texas said, we don't have the science on that. that's one of the companies in my district is looking at, can we track the climate change because the truth is we are doing this bill with no data. put a satellite on it. you know it takes an incredible amount of energy to make? aluminum. the electrical systems and plane and copper. you can't get copper if you can't mine it. the smeltering of copper takes energy. aluminum and copper takes as much or more energy than steel. how do they think we can even track this climate change? it is behalf baffling this bill would go through congress. if most of the members of congress were businessmen, this would have never passed. mr. gohmert: i appreciate my friend's point and that is a good point. i think if most of the people in this house had read this bill and then given a chance to read the additional third that was added at 3:00 a.m. or so this morning, then i don't think this would have passed either. i have

bold aggressive promise required a new culture, a new mindset and ultimately a new administration of nasao become a reality. this kind of example is something that i think we had should be mindful of today. don't misunderstood me. i have complete confidence in the united states department of transportation and secretary lahood, his colleagues at the federal railroad administration have -- a team including the administration. we have not had a chance to work together. and with karen ray, we had a pleasure of being with her in houston at one of the outreach sessions. they're fully capable of developing the system throughout the nation. in order for america's in the broadest sense of the term moon shot to become a reality we, all of us here, and congress must work in concert with the same bold initiative. we must recognize that the clear view of this administration and congress combined with the mounting public and private sector groups such as the texas high-speed rail and transportation corporation, the california high-speed rail authority, the florida high-speed rail authority working wit

he is a nasa scientist and manages the collection data that collects the data from earth satellites and has 25 years of data. and as he talked about this, and this was a fairly quick won through, but as he talked about this data, he explained to us that the climate change models that they're using to predict global warming are they have to have assumptions. and i asked the question, why is it that physician sifts buy into the argument more so than meteorologist. he says they are trying to predict the weather for tomorrow. the climate czar. he can't predict the weather for tomorrow, but they are predicting the temperature 100 years from now. i have a son who is going to have an outdoor wedding in august and i would like to know the weather. the climate czar isn't going to tell me. 100 years from now, he will make a prediction, but won't tell you what it's going to be like next week. but the presumptions that are there, meteorologists understand predicting the weather tomorrow tomorrow let alone 100 years from now. physician sifts have studied the exact science. when they put together a c

there is some difference of opinion about spending for nasa, for space democrat. democrats are waiting, members of conference, excuse me, are waiting a report on space flight later this year. so that's really the only substantive issue. >> and in terms of the dollar figure, how is this compared to last year and how's it compared to what the president wants? >> this is about 12% above last year, somewhat comparable to what the president requested. >> seth stern of "congressional quarterly" thank you for being with us. [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp 2009] >> the house came in at 10:00, gaveled out subject to the call of the chair. our congressional producer tells us that the government printing office was unable to print the rule for the bill last night which house lawmakers need to read before beginning the legislative business today. we'll have live coverage once they do gavel back in here on c-span. another news on capitol hill today, nevada senator is resigning his g.o.p. leadership post

you consider this and consider that so whenever assumption they made we can afflicted on its head nasa the reverse. and obviously we use are on assumptions two. if they believed that this was going to be x we added it was .84.2 x. we did not pass on any single point estimate but rather as a lender an investor what we really did is simply acted i think as traditional investors were which is to say we looked at a variety of scenarios, we ask ourselves if saar is higher or execution is better or worse than plan, how did these things look and that brought us to an enterprise value using relatively traditional financial techniques. multiples of earnings come a discounted cash flows. i think the things you expect any third-party investor to look at. obviously we are the government and we are doing this because of the president has directed that this is a critical industry but nevertheless we tried in every aspect of this to be commercial. to ask ourselves what is the cash flow capability, what is the likely earnings capacity of the country to etc. from that we created models of potential ent

i had intended to you are a and respond to -- offer and respond to the short and of the nasa funding in this bill short of the president's mark. but as we have had the deliberations we realize that the augustine report is coming forward. i wanted to include $400 million and i -- that i think would have been appropriately inducted to provide for space exploration because we built the space station. that was our genius and we did it with our collaborators and allies that entity will provide the next generation of research and the only way to engage the space center in a national space station is to be able to have the c.e.v. vehicle and continue human space exploration. but the resolve is, in the report language it specifically notes that this does not disallow the addition of those dollars as we make our way through this legislation and to the conference committee. the augustine report will come forward and i hope that will not be a challenge. for it will be in essence an abandonment of a future that helps to employ people and create jobs. we know that in johnson space center alone, 1