henry oleson with aei. i've enjoyed all of your discussions. it's almost as if you all were doctors and looking at sick patients and giving us precrippingses on how to bring the patient back to health, but i'd like you to be more clinicical, why is the patient sick in why isn't conservatives among wide people? is it largely because of events we did or failed to do in the last few years or largely because of long-term changes and demographics with which we're currently out of touch or a mixture of the two? >> i think there's a real combination of those sorts of factors. to begin with there's an element of paying the price of our successes. if you asked a conservative in the early 1980's what the issues were you would have heard crime, tacks, health care, today it's likely none of those issues will be at the top of their list the reason is conservative successes. successful reforms from a successfully reformist conservative movement that changed the tax codes somewhat and the well fare system dramatically and changed urban law enforcement dramati

oleson: madam speaker, i rise in support of h.r. 1736, the international science and technology cooperation act of 2009 and i yield myself such time as i may consume. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman virginia tech. mr. olson: i join my colleague today in supporting h.r. 1736, the international science and technology cooperation act of 2009. our nation has a long history of engaging with international partners on a variety of scientific issues and this is an area of great importance to our nation. h.r. 1736 incorporates many recommendations made by the national science board in its report, international science and engineering partnerships a. priority for u.s. foreign policy and our nation's innovation agenda. the primary purpose of this legislation is simply to build a stronger coordination link between the scientific activities of our federal agencies and the department of state in order to strengthen u.s. science and technology enterprise, improve u.s. economic and national security, and support u.s. foreign policy goals as appropriate. this will be achieved through the creation of