the gentleman from ohio. mr. kucinich: may i ask how much time i have remaining? the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from ohio controls 11 1/2 minutes. mr. kucinich: i question why this resolution was brought before this house under suspension. i question why an effort wasn't made to contact the hungarian government, an effort by the proponents of the legislation, to contact the hungarian government and to learn that their position is in fact -- that there is a judicial review and that there is a criminal procedure related to the issue that was launched with the prosecutor's office. because that would clearly indicate action being taken on the part of the government to look at this particular contract. why is this matter on the floor of the house of representatives? why are we taking this time to look at something that's already under review by the hungarian government? and do it in the context of urging the hungarian government to have respect for law? that's what they're doing. they're showing respect for yo

the ohio class submarine, the ohio class ssbn. . in august 1982, the lead ship, u.s.s. ohio, arrived on the bangor watter front to start her operational life. ohio was followed by seven more trident boats. each taking up its responsibilities in the strategic defense of our nation. of the original 18 trident ssbn's in the u.s. inventory, eight now call the puget sound their home and continue their concurrent resolution strategic deterrent role. additionally after 24 years in operation, the first four ssbn's, ohio, michigan, florida, and georgia have been converted into cruise missile submarines. two of these platforms, ohio and michigan, continue their service from the bangor submarine base in this new role. the remaining six ohio class ssbn's and two cruise missile subma reasons carry out their essential duties from the naval submarine base at kings bay, georgia. it is truly fitting that we recognize the achievements of our trident submariners and their families over the past 27 years. we look to them to continue to build upon their legacy of excellent service to the un

fugate talked of him coming of the son or, yeah, ohio. it's ohio like louisiana. they don't have the oil in ohio. somebody's got to make the call. and so my answer is, if somebody's got to make the call, does the statute have to say who should make the call? or is there playing in the statute of all you need is some backbone? what you're guaranteed to have, who should make the call. we got to make a judgment one way or the other. >> i would argue that the statute has -- provided the authority, but i think madam chair, you're exactly right. it all comes down to leadership at the top of. in the agency, and if it's going to stay in dhs, within dhs. i think we are naÏve to think that if we have a major catastrophe, dhs and secretary that polydor is not going to want to play a major role in that disaster i think we're just being naÏve if we don't look at it that way. therefore, the statute may be -- the stafford act has to be maybe made stronger to clearly say that the fema administrator is in charge and maybe it's pfo. the other thing, just to go back to the recovery

i don't know if ohio is aware of a -- i don't know in the senator from ohio is aware of a statement today by our colleague, senator coburn, who came to the floor and said what the american people ought to pray, that somebody can't make the vote tonight. that's what they ought to pray. i've been trying to reach senator coburn because he's on a committee that i serve on and i work with him. i'm troubled by this statement. i'm trying to reach him to come back to the floor and explain exactly what he said. about a senator being unable to make the vote tonight. i'm reaching out to senator coburn. i'll be on the floor in the next 45 minutes. i hope he will join me there. i thank the senator from ohio for yielding. mr. brown: thank you. i did not see that quote. i watched what happened two nights ago when we were trying to pass the defense appropriations bill to make sure our troops were funded in afghanistan, iraq and state side and europe and everywhere else, in korea, everywhere, and some republicans wanted to kill that even though it would mean no funding, it would mean military layoffs, it

the gentleman from ohio is recognized. mr. kucinich: i yield four minutes to the gentleman from oregon. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from oregon is recognized. mr. blumenauer: thank you, mr. speaker, thank you, mr. kucinich, for permitting me to speak on this. i have great respect for the chair and ranking member and i deeply share their concern about a nuclear armed iran. it is something that i think we are all frankly deeply opposed to, we're deeply concerned about in terms of the potential instability in that delicate region and frankly around the world. but i do think there is deep concern that the approach that is being offered here is not calculated to reach that objective. first and foremost there is cords and i would add to the record, mr. speaker, a letter from the deputy secretary of state, mr. steinberg, talking about the problems of sanction legislation on the senate side, if i may. that talked about how we are injuring a critical period of intense diplomacy to impose significant international pressure on

in my state of ohio, the unemployment rate is 10.6%. yet, we're talking about health care reform, cap-and-trade, which will put unsustainable burdens on doing business in this country and make it more difficult to get this economy going again. what people in this country want is they want to go back to work and have some assurance that their jobs are safe. and the best way to give them security and access to health insurance is get them back to work. we shouldn't be asking our nation's businesses to take on new tax burdens in the current recession. yet, this bill before us would impose $28 billion in new taxes on employers. $28 billion. furthermore, the legislation creates a new medicare payroll tax that will likely hit approximately one-third of the small businesses in this country which employ some 30 million americans. these new taxes are likely to significantly hinder these engines of job growth. another troubling tax that will impact businesses in my state is the tax on device manufacturers. i've heard from one of our ohio companie

in ohio. thank you for your leadership. let me just talk a little bit, for a few minutes, about our economy. we all know that the economic security of all americans is extremely fragile. communities of color, especially the african-american community and latino communities, have been disproportionately hit by this recession. last week, we released a letter which we forwarded to president obama, speaker pelosi, and chairman miller which outlined our priorities as members of the congressional black caucus. we are continuing to work with house leaders and the administration to ensure that our priorities for job creation and economic growth are included in the jobs package, which should be finalized hopefully before congress adjourns this year. after the release of our letter, it was interesting to read some of the bloggers, some of the pundits, they actually argued that targeted relief was unneeded. and what we proposed is not based on race. i want to be clear on that. it's based on need. we want

the gentleman from ohio is recognized. mr.ucinich: i yield four minutes to the gentleman from oregon. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from oregon is recognized. mr. blumenauer: thank you, mr. speaker, thank you, mr. kucinich, for permitting me to speak on this. i have great respect for the chair and ranking member and i deeply share their concern about a nuclear armed iran. it is something that i think we are all frankly deeply opposed to, we're deeply concerned about in terms of the potential instability in that delicate region and frankly around the world. but i do think there is deep concern that the approach that is being offered here is not calculated to reach that objective. first and foremost there is cords and i would add to the record, mr. speaker, a letter from the deputy secretary of state, mr. steinberg, talking about the problems of sanction legislation on the senate side, if i may. that talked about how we are injuring a critical period of intense diplomacy to impose significant international pressure on i

david from ohio, independent line. -- this is the david from ohio, independent line. caller: i am running for congress here in ohio's 15th district and we have a question and answer session, and i am a supporter of a non interventionist foreign policy and my opponent accused me of being an isolationist. [laughter] it kind of reminded me the address of the incident with you and john mccain there. -- it reminded me of the incident with you and john mccain there. if you were elected president in 2008, would you have kept them? could you explain why you would disband the group? if so, what we have seen more transparency and what would their function have been? guest: is another secret group and it was created by the executive order. we do not need another group of people, even though they are part of the government like the federal reserve and the treasury and the a a cftc and sec people. to get involved and have this asano 40 to prop up markets. broadway know they've bought -- they get involved and have this subtle authority to prop up markets. for all we know they buy a

lummis: i thank the gentleman from ohio and the consequence of what the gentleman from ohio pointed out is illustrated in this chart. here is the federal budget deficit when we began as members of congress. the budget when we came in had a $459 billion deficit or just under a half a trillion dollar deficit but since we've been here this amount of roughly a half a trillion has been increased by almost a trillion, $950 billion in increases, from 2008. for a total of over $1.4 trillion in deficits. now how did we get there? a $-- $320 billion of that roughly is from lower tax receipts due to the recession. that's roughly 27 million americans who are either unemployed or underemployed and they're paying less in taxes. as are businesses and as are our families. so we're experiencing lower tax receipts because of our recession. in addition the stimulus bill has added $200 billion to our deficit for this year alone, half is spending and half in lower taxes. then an additional $154 billion for bailouts for financial institutions and the auto industry. $91 billion in bailouts for fannie mae and

president, to sort of further put a human face on this, i want to share letters from people in ohio who have written me. they are people who understand how important it is because it's important to their personal lives, their families, their loved ones themselves that this, that we take care of this bill

you know, to focus in on what congress , jordan from ohio said the presumption one generation cares for a mother has been something we have all benefited from in our generation. but this is ultimately generational theft, isn't it? this is the sinkhole of self absorption. by this congress that says let's spend, spend, spend now and squander our children's future. no one is here cavalierly. no one is suggesting the choices are easy ones. but i think as congress man scalise and brady and others are trying to set a framework and it is a framework to stop this madness and turn back to prosperity. >> anytime we have record debt, record levels of spending and deficits, raising the debt ceiling and having a vote on that is as critical a vote as we will take and as a freshman member i can tell you the freshman class particularly

the presiding officer: the senator from ohio. mr. voinovich: mr. president, i want to take some time today to talk about the health care bill before the senate. which the majority leader is anxious to get passed before christmas. i expect that he knows if this bill sees too much light of day, he could lose one or two of his 60 votes and that's why his managers' amendment was kept under wraps so that really no one knew anything about it until the last minute. on our side of the aisle, w we'd like to hold off until after christmas to give all members of the senate and the american people a chance to review this legislation, and obviously this isn't going to happen and i think that's unfortunate. when you compare the number of days we've spent debating this bill to other major pieces of legislation that have come before this body in recent yea years, the democrats' haste is obvious. for example, in 2002, i was very much involved in legislation that created the department of homeland security. we spent 19 days over seven weeks on the floor debating thi

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but in ohio they can do it within the state. in ohio they did do it within the state. and it brought down the cost of health insurance. it brought down the cost. now not only that, the biggest savings was in administrative costs. it cost a lot more to keep track of all of the claims and everything from the small business than it does from a big business if the -- the bigger pool, again, the more capable you are of handling unusual situations. but administrative costs came down from 37% to 12%. 25% savings. every business would like to have that. that's how much it costs to administer. that's why they wanted to group together through their association and form this bigger pool, which we haven't -- haven't been able to do. and i'd ask the chair how much time i have remaining. the presiding officer: two minutes and 15 seconds. mr. enzi: okay. thank you. because i do want to make some quick comments about the junk lawsuits. we do have to do something about that. when i talk about junk lawsuits. i'm talking about a bunch of them that are being filed these days that are $25,

what purpose does the gentlelady from ohio rise? >> permission to address the house for five minutes and revise and extend my remarks. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. ms. kaptur: maybe some day, real banking reform will be considered by this congress. real reform means breaking up the big banks. real reform means empowering community banks and local capital communication. real reform means separating speculation and investments. real reform means restoring prudent lending. real reform means restructuring troubled housing mortgages. real reform means rewarding institutions that play by the rules and don't overleverage. prosecuting white-collar criminals and keeping them out of finance permanently. directly connecting executive pay and bonuses to the performance of the company and recuping the $145 billion in unwarranted bonuses for the american taxpayer. real reform means regulating all derivatives clearly and openly and interconnectedness between large institutions. real reform means independent, supervisory and regulato

so ohio is my home state so i'm going to pick on ohio and.is anybody here from ohio that's doing ohio? brooks. which side are you doing? have you guys thought about -- think about what could happen back home, i'm sure. have you thought about what mr. portman's issues are going to be as he goes to the senate race next year? >> we've taken a little bit of look at the. ivy-covered mostly voter returns. >> who's the portman's issues person? have you thought about. >> a little bit. >> where are you headed with this or? >> so far just basic research and jobs and economic. >> jobs and economy. sure, that stupid anybody here doing mr. specter, the democrat from pennsylvania. back in the corner. mr. specter's issue in the primary headache after thinking about that, which are going to be thinking about with mr. specter in a primary? anyone of you, start thinking about what you want to talk about with him? daniel? >> yeah, -- >> pretty basic. jobs important, health important. the economy is number one. >> we have to address the fact that he just switche

nicknamed the governors in the ohio valley. they've been to six ncaa tournaments and their 79th year of basketball. they have over 1,000 victories in their program. >> kyle: they lost a toughover time victory last year or would have had their seventh ncaa appearance. >> matt: moorhead in the double overhead to prevent a spot in the ncaa tournament. here comes austin peay. fraley. gives austin peay the lead again. >> kyle: fraley is a player that is from clarksville and went to high school in kentucky state. christian academy. and coach loos says he improves game-by-game. big high and learning curve getting better with each concept. >> matt: cousins inside. kentucky wants to feed it inside where they have distinct size advantage against smaller austin peay line. but so for a the governors have survived that game plan. wes channels, a senior out of memphis and ridgeway high school. there is campbell. either campbell or channels most likely both need big games today. three on the shot clock. austin peay with the third basket. fral

ohio is a good example. people are registering and voting. there is a very broad set of circumstances where someone was able to register early and vote on that day. we were concerned they doing it -- you can do a ton of anything. we went to make sure our lawyers were there. this is the second best thing to your voter file in terms of campaign planning, calendar. when do we need to start recruiting so we have people who are ready to go? it won't happen and there will be voting places where it is happening weekly. there are some ideas as you are right in your campaign plan and. some things to think about so you are ready to go. i included this chart. i am doing some work on someone who is running for governor. the great candidate. we were having this back and forth about the early vote. he said i want to know when people vote. when do we start delivering these messages? the early vote, we have to start earlier. i don't know. we said ok, what happens is may 10th is the day that people will get their ballots. the immediate week after people get t

>> ohio. missouri. and pennsylvania. >> ohio, missouri, and pennsylvania. a good file. you get it from the secretary of state. ohio, you can also get from the secretary of state. download it. i believe it's free. it does not have party registration. it does have partisan primaries. they have a little quirk in the ohio file that they give you a party field, which is really populated with what's your last primary was. that can be somewhat misleading. because in 2008, a lot of people voted in the in the primary who may have voted in the only republican primary is part of that. i caution people in using their data. >> that's what in the party field. >> that's what's in the party field. we don't call it a party state, because it's not. we use the partisan primary da pa. but again, the campaign used for the partisan model instead. missouri? missouri is kind of the worst of the three in terms of voter file world. i've been talking about missouri. missouri doesn't have party registration, does have partisan primaries, but doesn't give us that information. so we kno

in ohio i know that was the fact. run up huge budget deficit, start wars, cut taxes for the top 1%, take their eye off of wall street, ignore health care, continue to support and subsidize the oil economy, push globalization, not enforce our trade laws, all with the rubber stamp from the republican congress and then all of a sudden in 2008, 2009 the bottom falls out. wall street collapses, we see the stock market collapse, credit locks up, on and on and on and our friends on the other side act like that just happened by happenen stance and now in order to try to address those issues we have to make some very difficult decisions as a country and come together as a country and we get people ignoring the previous eight years when anybody who is billion realistic can see how we got here and now all we want to do now is have a conversation about how we move forward and how we use this and see this as an opportunity to address some of the major structural changes that we have in the united states of america. and there are t

he was a high school all american in cleveland, ohio. he was ohio's player of the year. he played with great nba stars. he has spent nine years coaching with the timberwolves. his record as nba coach ranks near the top. our four have a higher winning percentage in their first 13 years. flip has been very successful. he hopes to bring that same success to the washington. tonight the wizards are going for their third consecutive win. we will have the opening tip right here on co anncr vo: ...call emergency services... anncr vo: ...collect accident information. anncr vo: or just watch some fun videos. anncr vo: it's so easy, a caveman can do it. caveman: unbelievable... caveman: where's my coat? it was suede with the fringe. vo: download the glovebox app free at geico.com. >> steve: nice cool night here at target center in minneapolis. it always is this time of year. but the wizards are warm. they have won two in a row, looking for their first three game win streak since the season before last. they will try to get it tonight against a struggling timberwolves club. that can

college of business in iowa. $250,000 for renovating the murphy theater community center in ohio.now, my friends, there is a lot more, and i will just go through them briefly, but the point is -- the point is you'll notice two things. one, that the preponderance of these pork-barrel and earmark projects are -- are allocated to members of the appropriations committee, which, first of all, is fundamentally unfair. second of all, you will find that each are designated to a certain place to make sure that none of that money isn't spent somewhere else in america where the need may be greater. and third of all, it breeds corruption. it breeds corruption. it is a gateway drug. what we're talking about is a gateway drug, and it's especially egregious now. $300,000 to monitor and research herring in maine. $200,000 to study maine lobster. $250,000 for a father's day rally parade in philadelphia, pennsylvania. i mean, you know, i -- i scoff and make fun of a lot of these, but really? $250,000 for a father's day rally parade in philadelphia. $100,000 for the kentler international drawing spa

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for what purpose does the gentleman from ohio rise? ms. kaptur: permission to address the house for five minutes. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. without objection, the gentlewoman is recognized for five minutes. ms. kaptur: mr. speaker, the job market is bleak. a major reason is that bank credit is frozen in this country still. business can't get loans to hire and function. the federal deposit insurance corporation reports that lending has declined for the last five consecutive quarters. this chart demonstrates that. it was in the "washington post" yesterday, because credit in the real banking sector has dried up. i'm not talking about the political tarp bailout fund banking sector being managed by treasury. i'm talking about the impact of that on the rest of the banking system where credit is simply not being lent across this country. businesses are clammering to get loans only to be rejected from coast to coast. the normal banking sector is not functioning. tarp destroyed over $600 billion of real bank capital as the treasur

durbin: i think the senator from ohio has really put his finger on part of the problem here. it turns out that the vast majority of lawsuits involve a very small percentage of doctors, many of whom are making errors repeatedly. i would recommend to my friend from ohio a book to read -- and i know he reads -- called "complications." it's by dr. galandi, a boston surgeon we're familiar with. and i tread and it was an eye-opener about what a surgeon explernz goes through. but -- learns and goes through. but he spends a whole chapter in there of doctors and nurses who know of practicing doctors who are not up to skill any more because of age, alcoholism and drug addiction. and they're afraid to speak out. that is not common, it is rare, but it shouldn't happen at all. and those doctors who consistently make mistakes, consistently get sued or have these problems should be identified and removed from the practice until they can be rehabilitated or go off to another job. mr. brown: if the gentleman would yield for a moment again. don't the state licensing boards have the ability to

the gentlewoman from ohio is recognized. ms. kilroy: i yield two minutes to the chairman of our committee, barney frank. the chair: the gentleman from massachusetts is recognized for two minutes. mr. frank: the gentleman from texas's instinct be known overcomes that so he has to say negative things. among them, though, the most outlandish is his continuing effort to blame unemployment on president obama. president obama inherited from president bush a very serious recession. it turns out now the worst since the great depression. and it was begun by those who certified the nonpartisan entities that do that. in december of 2007 after many years of republican rule, both in the house and senate and in the white house. unemployment is decreasing now, and you don't go from very bad to perfect. but this effort to evade responsibility for the republican policies that caused this recession is, as i said, one of the great examples of blame shifting. i have to say again, we suffered a great disease outbreak on january 23, 2001. mass amnesi

the issue is what this bill means to people in ohio. my state 390 people every single day from toledo to cincinatti to dayton to youngstown, 390 every single day lose their insurance across the country 1,000 people are dying every week because they don't have insurance. if you're a woman with breast cancer, 40% more likely to die. if she doesn't have insurance. than if they does. that's why we need to move now, why the delay tactics from some of our colleagues i think are simply don't serve the public interest in this legislation ultimately 31 million people are going to get insurance under this legislation. i go to the floor every night, almost every day and read letters from ohioans most of whom were pretty satisfied with their insurance a year ago and then either they had a child with a pre-existing condition or they lost their job or they had an expensive illness that caused the insurance company to , they call it rescission, to rescind their insurance. and now they're hurting. we have an opportunity to fix this. this bill does this

for those working the ohio campaigns, he's governor in ohio.president job approval will play a huge role in this campaign. the republican's image he will say yes, they still don't like the republican party and that may be true. the image of the republican party hadn't really changed throughout the year. 28% positive, four 3% negative. minus -- it's been minus 21 to minus 13. it hasn't changed. it hasn't changed a bit. what has changed, though -- what has changed the image of the democratic party from in february plus 18 positive/negative 31, 41 and look at what it's happened. really as a result of the healthcare debate. the image of the democratic party is now more negative than it had been all yearlong. still more positive than the republicans. but republicans haven't moved. it's voters souring on the democratic party which ought to give people hope, democrats hope, that you know what? we did it to ourselves. we can turn it around. it's the highest negative rating the democratic party has ever received in these nbc news wall street polls since

host: dayton, ohio. alonso. caller: i'm calling about a case out of cincinnati, ohio. i am not sure if it came across the supreme court agenda or not. however, in 1984 -- i think in the 1980's, all the way up into the 1990's, really a black mark on the women's movement. there was a case concerning tier 3 rape statutes. the woman out of cincinnati in 1984 that was raped supposedly. at that time during the berlin 1980's, they were sending a lot of women -- a lot of men to jail, understand, on the charge of rape when really, you know, like, nursery school teachers, so on. and they did a lot of time in prison. now they started a thing in ohio that says that if you can't prove that you are not a tier 3 rapist -- this man was convicted in cincinnati, ohio. host: alonso, i will get follow- up from you. the have any thoughts? guest: i am not familiar with that law -- if not a whole lot i can say. obviously the issue of sexual predators has been a big one. there is a supreme court case in this term that goes to whether sex offenders [captioning performed by national captioning

host: oregon, next couple -- next call from heron, ohio. let's try rich in heron, ohio. caller: yes, thank you for taking my call. host: we'll point out you're on the republican line. caller: first of all, i believe something has to be done with the health care. with that being said, the problem that i have -- there's two areas. first of all, that the majority of the funding coming from medicaid, now i think we need to be taking care of their -- bills to the porblete that there's too much fraud. things i'm adjusted with the fact that you're taking that money and putting it into something elsewhere it should go back into medicaid to make it a more -- medicare i mean to make it a more viable program to make it last longer the first week of these and now we've changed it to -- anyhow, to keep it extended longer -- guest: let me say, we are not cutting medicare. what we're doing is cutting out the fraud, a abuse and waste. if you look at iter we're spending over $770 billion on medicare, medicaid and the chip program for children. and jst 3%-10% of those expenses we know cou

the presiding officer: the senator ohio. mr. brown: thank you, madam president.'ve come to the floor most days reading letters from people in ohio who -- from springfield to mansfield who thought they had good insurance a year or two ago, if you had asked them, but found out their insurance was not so good when they got 0 preexisting condition or when they got very, very sick and costs were high, the insurance companies cut them off, or in some cases, as the presiding officer knows, that in my state and across the country, women so often are paying higher premiums than men. and our bill will fix a lot of those things. but one of the things the bill still needs to fix, and we all have gotten letters on this, is what's happened with the price of prescription drugs. and i think this bill -- there's many things i like about the bill, a few i don't. this is one we can really improve. i rise to support senator dorgan's amendment 2793. i'll start with a story. about a decade ago, maybe a little more than that, i live in northern ohio and i used to take a busload of seni

it was a wonderful day for ohio and for this country. i was in the rose garden representing state and local governments when president clinton signed the legislation into law in 1995. after that experience, you can imagine, mr. president how it pains me to be standing here today debating legislation that provides for the largest single expansion of the medicaid program in our country's history. and a brand-new fiscal liability for states. and it'sat a time when the states can least afford it. i have serious concerns that if this bill becomes law and states are required to take on more just as the extra stimulus funds disappear -- which they're going to havedo or we'll have to come up with the money -- congress will be forced to spend billions more to keep the medicaid safety net from falling -- or from failing completely in not-too-distant future. so what i'm basically saying is that when the stimulus money ends in december of next year the governors are going to be down here with the bathtub asking us to fill it, because if we don't do

sister dorothy came to anapu from her native ohio in 1983. she said she was drawn to the amazon to work with the poor. >> the only thing they know is survival farming. that's slash and burn. >> she started a sustainable development program. teaching locals how to live off the forest, at the same time, preserving. her mantra, the death of the forest is the end of our lives. >> bringing back new life to a land that was lost, it is possible. we can renew the forest. >> let's do it! >> she may have looked like a little old lady to people from outside. but who live with her, she wasn't any little old lady. she was a power house. a decision, when she decided, she decided. she would work to make it happen her way. >> but her friend and colleague, jane dwire, says those tactics earned sister dorothy some powerful and dangerous enemies. big ranches and logging companies were often in her sights. if they encroached on a pes sants land, stang would report them to the government. as sister dorothy became more successful, she started getting death threats

before she came to vermont, she lived in ohio for 15 years.s degree from bowling green state university, her master's degree from ohio university. crowing lives in vermont -- currently lives in vermont. the vermont network -- i would like to thank president selling well as a member of the board who work tirelessly -- i like to thank president sally wells. i think it would be fair to give ourselves thanks, too. go ahead. >> chairman leahy, thank you for the opportunity to discuss the success of a violence against women act. the vermont network is a statewide coalition. there are networks throughout the state. vawa-funded programs are a critical part. i am here today to discuss this success of our programs and the need to strengthen vawa with the reauthorization in 2011. the crime of domestic violence is pervasive. one in four women will experience violence in their lifetime. the most heinous of these cases is murder. even in one of the safest states, there were seven domestic violence and an additional three violence- related suicides in just o

mark runyan also from ohio faced the same barrier. mark was being treated for multiple myeloma with standard care. his doctor recommended a new drug that might help him recover quicker. the insurance company refused to imply. another terrible lost opportunity. the clinical trial would have helped us learn more about which drugs we should administer to patients after stem cell transplants. in other words, while this most directly, most tragically, most painfully affected mark runyan and his family, it also affects most of us who have loved ones or who ourselves might come down with this disease and mark's treatment, mark's clinical trial that he would liked to have enrolled in would have given him the opportunity to -- would have given all of us more scientific knowledge and information that would have been helpful. instead the insurer took a shortsighted view. mark writes i personally would rather make my medical decision with my doctor, the expert in my care, rather than my insurer. these stories should have ended differently. cheryl

for what purpose does the gentleman from ohio rise? >> permission to address the house for one minute and revise and extend my remarks. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. >> today i rise in recognition of the stark county district library located in canton, ohio. in october 6, 2009, the museum of library science asked the stark library to receive the medal of library service. this is the nation's highest medal for the libraries. it has served our community for 125 years and the staff set a fine example of leadership by responding to the changing needs of our community. i know firsthand the friendly faces and they provide resources to our county. despite budget cuts rkts it maintains the highest quality of service making sure our communities have access to the materials they want and need. through early literacy efforts for mothers and children for the stark county kids, employment assistance classes, the stark county library has enriched lives in creating a stronger community. this national medal con firms the library's commit

sherd brown is a democrat from ohio and is a memr of thsenate's health committee and lisey graham is a republican from sout carolina. he's a member of the senate' dget committee. gentlemen, we just hea ben nelson, thfamously sought-off senator om nebraska, say this weend that this is not about whether the heth care system gets fixed but the wa you fithe health care syst. so was this, as rry reid put it today, e grand compromise of the senate or w it just back room dealing at its worst? senator brow >> it was a good comomise. i n't like some of the deals that were made. i don'like the deal that was ma on abortion. i thk that that compromises a woman's right to choose. i think that i don't like that the public oion is no longer in or the medica buy-in. i don't ke some of the other things. but overalthis bill makes a big difference. strengthens medicare. it provides tax centives to small business so they can begin to coverheir employs. most small businesses want t do that. i thinthis legislation is importt when you look at the inrance reform. immediately going into efft next yr when the

. >> at this time i yield to the chair of the domestics policy subcommittee, the gentleman from ohio, mr. kucinich. >> at the outset of my friend from california, there is a distinction between what you're discussing and what our subcommittee has been doing. and that is that you're talking about disclosure events that occurred after the shareholder vote. our focus, in this subcommittee, has been about disclosure events before the shareholder vote. now, mr. khuzami, my subcommittee investigation has found that bank of america relied on the november 12th forecast for fourth quarter 2008 created by merrill lynch, that omitted any forecast of how collateralized debt obligations, subprime mortgage-backed securities, credit default swaps would perform in the quarter. the former merrill cfo admitted to staff at the november 12th forecast was not, in fact, a valid forecast. bank of america knew at the time that the november 12th forecast was of questionable validity, in quotes. bank of america did not do any actual financial analysis to make up for the merrill omissions. instead, bank of amer

paul is on the republican's line and wilmington, ohio. caller: yes.basically i have a comment and a question. and i don't know how we got to this point, but my point is i am a working man and i have never received any check from a poor individual. it always has been the rich man who has allowed me to support my family. now, in 2005, the company i worked for [inaudible] we had the highest sales. went from $15 million in three years to $40 million. in 2006 when the democrats, whatever legislation was drawn up to allow the stock market to outsource our jobs, that's when i started [inaudible] sending them to mexico and china. so i was forced and i was scared so i had to switch jobs. then the housing market fell through. how do we get to the point to where people don't matter, just the individual matters? and that is a job killer because then the grief sets in. and then you have more rich people in this country than you have people working. guest: ok. thank you. well, you know, we did have a lot of greed and we had greed i think at all levels. we had peopl

to use a single drug was carried out in ohio today. kenneth biros, 51, was executed this morning. he was convicted of murdering a woman in 1991, and scattering her body parts in ohio and pennsylvania. state officials said the one- drug method would be less painful than a three-drug combination used in previous executions. the u.s. senate has turned back restrictions on abortion funding in the health carol bill. the language was similar to a provision already included in house version of the bill. for now the senate measure allows insurance plans to cover abortions but not with federal funds. this decade this decade could turn out to be the warmest going back to 1850. that word came today from the head of the u.n. weather agency. he made those remarks at the conference on climate change in copenhagen, denmark. >> the decade 2000-2009 is very likely to be the warmest on record. so, in other words, this decade is going to be warmer than the 1990s, which itself were warmer than the 1980s and so on. so it is likely to be the warmest on record. >> hari: the u.n. agency said only the u.s

host: dayton, ohio. alonso. caller: i'm calling about a case out of cincinnati, ohio. i am not sure if it came across the supreme court agenda or not. however, in 1984 -- i think in the 1980's, all the way up into the 1990's, really a black mark on the women's movement. there was a case concerning tier 3 rape statutes. the woman out of cincinnati in 1984 that was raped supposedly. at that time during the berlin 1980's, they were sending a lot of women -- a lot of men to jail, understand, on the charge of rape when really, you know, like, nursery school teachers, so on. and they did a lot of time in prison. now they started a thing in ohio that says that if you can't prove that you are not a tier 3 rapist -- this man was convicted in cincinnati, ohio. host: alonso, i will get follow- up from you. the have any thoughts? guest: i am not familiar with that law -- if not a whole lot i can say. obviously the issue of sexual predators has been a big one. there is a supreme court case in this term that goes to whether sex offenders can continue to be held after they completed

host: ellen in ohio on the republican line. caller: good morning. very economically depressed area. i agree with you about the restoration of manufacturing in the u.s. you cannot find things that are made in america hardly any more. it's wonderful that you have this economic club to get people together and discuss this. in northeast ohio, we are trying to do some alternate energy source things. we have some creative thinkers batter trying to get some alternate energy sources, it into the creegrid. we have got to be progressive and get manufacturing restarted. your ideas about building an infrastructure for electric cars and that kind of thing -- that sounds wonderful. i really appreciate your vision. guest: that is our opportunity. we have an opportunity in this country to create all kinds of new wonderful jobs. not just manufacturing jobs. if we were gone are infrastructure, if we emphasize science, technology, engineering, and math, if we are going to embrace alternative energy as an opportunity to transform this country, those all require unique

ohio. good morning. why do you support it?ort the bill because i think this is like the greatest days or one of them in american history. so many people are now going to be able to have healthcare that was not able to have it in years past. because of costs, whatever the case may be. i work for one of the retailers and now - people that they can't afford healthcare, and now like i said. this is a great day. >> thank you. if your joining us on this christmas eve morning the united states senate was a vote of 60-39. senator from kentucky the only one not participated passed his version of health(p)e reform. until 9:00 eastern to this lls historic vote in the sense of "tá(ut of it and also the fact that it happened on christmas eve. very unusual for senate. last time 1895. south carolina. your on the air joshua. caller: thank you. the reason i do not spu sport it is we have to look at canada and how many people come here to have surgeries because of the back up system and this healthcare bill is like it. we all, mom l obama likes

frank: i yield two minutes to the gentleman from ohio. the chair: the gentleman is recognized. >> i come to the floor tonight to support h.r. 4173, the wall street reform and consumer protection act of 2009. i've often said it's hard to play a fair game without a referee and i believe that this bill will help us put the appropriate referees in place in our financial markets. it's a big step forward for more oversight, transparency, and consumer protection. before coming to congress, i served for many years on a small bank board back home in ohio. i know the small banks like the one in our community were not the problem that we're having today and they were not a part of the problem that led to our financial markets to the edge of collapse this last fall. i'm proud that this legislation acknowledges, by not putting unfair burdens on banking institutions that have shown themselves to be good corporate citizens. while the bill is not perfect, i support common sense regulation of our financial markets. we must put an end to the big -- the too

durbin: i say the senator from ohio, the difference is obvious. under medicare anyone who shows up age 65 is eligible for coverage, no questions asked other than your age and whether you've contributed over the course of your lifetime. these health insurance companies cherry pick the healthiest people they can and try to deny coverage where they can as well. that's how they make their profits. they're so good at it that they are one of the most profitable sectors in the american economy. virtually everybody knows someone they work with or someone in their family who's had a bad experience with a health insurance company. that is the reality of what we face in america. mr. whitehouse: if i could ask the assistant majority leader to yield for a question. it would appear then that not only is there this subsidy that goes to the private insurance industry funded by a tax on all other medicare recipients, but that those private insurance companies are actually doing their level best to try to pick out a disproportionately healthy medicare-eligible popu