ongress said up front we know that the registration is fine. no longer the problem. continuesscrimination in other forms. let me speak to that. hat highlights one of the weaknesses here. could congress continue based on '65 and renew?in your question shows it's a different situation. continuing the efforts initiated in 1975. the reason section 5 was created was because states are moving faster than litigation new formsto catch the of discriminatory practices being developed. form, urt struck down one the states would find another. justice ginsberg is calling it secondary. what congress said is it terms of voterin umbers but in other ways to disenfranchise voters like voting booth from a convenient location for all oters to a place that istorically has been known for discrimination. that's an example taken from one of the section 2 and 5 cases alabama. >> justice sotomayor -- >> i don't know what the is except that this court or some may think it's unimportant. of discrimination is different than what congress found it to be so. a when congress is addressing new evil,

ongress is very split, the administration is split.my life it has been like that i think advocate of guys like mark we were a democrat in virginia i consider corker from senator tennessee who are working for middle grounds. the growth of w entitlements. you may have to raise taxes. that.t necessarily for i think you should limit spending. spent most of my life on low income programs. i think that the government income o help low people. i have been against -- i would tested medicare more. my problem with president plan is i don't think you should subsidize 62% of people's health care. that is $95,000 for a family of more. a lot in new york city or washington or l.a. but a lot in a lot of parts. be in a situation to americans' 2% of healthcare. relatively moderate. you have to be reasonable on who help.fine as needing i think president obama's plan went too far. the 'm all for making sure programs work well. another example is the have tripled es the last 10 years. i personally think i was in for e of a lot of programs years and 10 year

i can't help but ask why the ongress has not asked or subpoenaed these individuals to testify beforehe house committees that have been investigating this over the past year. if these questions are not answered, the american people will never know what took place in benghazi. i yield back the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields back the balance of his time. the chair recognizes the gentleman from oregon, mr. lumenauer, for five minutes. mr. blumenauer: thank you, mr. speaker. last week's farm bill debacle in the house of representatives highlighted a fundamental disconnect. my friends in the republican majority felt that nutrition for poor people was not a priority because they were concerned about increasing government dependence for lower income americans. yes, there are more people receiving sflap, what we used to call food stamp benefits, because that's how the system is supposed to work. after our nation, with a much larger population, now over 313 million people suffered a near collapse of the economy, we would expect in the face of persistent unemp

ongress has repeatedly attempted to step up to this responsibility, not perfectly programs but pragmatically. shelby county ripped a sizable hole in congress's work. that decision has refused americans less sure that won't taint their elections. that damage.rrect sweeping nationals statistics unfortunatelythat there are still public officials electoral limit opportunity based on race or ethnicity. sometimes because of contempt. sometimes because of perceived political advantage. t is disgusting and it is illegal. and even with armies of lawyers t is very hard to fix using existing tools like section two. legal system the depend on responsive lawsuits the tools mr. carvin was talking about. there is a legal problem you saw, prove harm and it gets fixed. employment way the system, housing system, education works. laws areg and election different. these normal lawsuits attack one a time. at officials looking to limit political power based on race switch tactics. draws a lawsuit, shift to w or z. he official doesn't bear the cause of this. the taxpayers do. it. taxpayers get sick of it is hard f

the tradition of opening prayer begins with the continental ongress in 1774 when the reverend jacob duchetered a prayer at its start. since that time the house has enjoyed over 200 yearser is vancy from the chaplain of the house. chaplain bell has served in churches in missouri and illinois since 19 8 while serving his church, he was commissioned as a chaplain captain in the united states air force reserves in 2002. and assigned to the individual mobilization augmentation to the 375th air wing at scott air force base. in 2008, he was deployed to fghanistan and assigned to the 455th air expeditionary force at bagram airfield as a hospital chaplain where he received the army commendation medal. since then he's restheaved air force commendation medal, the international security and assistance force medal and the afghanistan enduring freedom medal. he was also appointed wing chaplain of the 932nd airlift wing where he supervises a ministry of nearly 1,200 airmen in the wing. e is currently pastor of the united methodist church in the a illinois and lewisville united methodist church in lewisvi

the 170 million americans who depend on public broadcasting every month to again fight back and for ongress to finally listen. the radical proposal to slice public broadcasting, defund npr, terminate public broadcasting as we know it is a powerful signal of how far out of step the republican leadership is from the country they are supposed to represent. there is no reason to make public broadcasting, which barry goldwater helped launch, into a partisan issue. public broadcasting has broad support from republicans, independents, and democrats alike. that's why pbs and its member stations were named number one in public trust and an excellent use of tax dollars for 10 years in a row. it's time for the people who believe in public broadcasting to stand up to this extremism and settle the question once and for all about the future of public broadcasting. unless we fight now, there may be nothing to defend. the speaker pro tempore: the chair recognizes the gentleman from arizona, mr. gosar, for five minutes. mr. gosar: thank you, mr. speaker. i'll keep it brief. mr. speaker, i rise today to shed

the founding fathers said .ongress should declare war but in the nuclear age, we got to thinking there was no time for congress if soviets have the missiles going and in 28 minutes it will be here, so the president could just go ahead and do it and they would have to report later. then president got the idea that we will have to defend the country, and i will do it, but right here, he was determined, and as he saw events play out, they got some congressional approval later, but he was determined to do it. there are two events that i have seen, helen, so far in this decade which have given president immense power. that was one. we were all behind him. get them, i don't care who they are. he was able to do anything he wanted. striker back -- strike a rat, suspended a lot of civil liberties. then we have another one. has grave economic crisis given barack obama immense power. we think it is to reform things and socialcare security and all of that, but at the moment, he, too, has an opportunity to do -- not anything he wants, but if he can do mass public opinion behind him, to it. >> i thi

of the newic effect approach, whether intended or not, is that it does not meet .ongress' intent thees u.s. dot to indicate whether an application is played within 30 days of receipt and to approve or disapprove an application within 60 days after giving notice that it is complete. the process prior to map-21 and by requiring that almost every project detail the disclosed prior to the application stage, u.s. dot has put an undue burden on the project sponsors and has drug out what is intended to be a streamlined process. in addition to the timing issues, usda t has indicated that except under exceptional circumstances, they will not consider assistance for more than 33% of the total project cost. we would be thankful if they would consider projects may .enefit more than that 33% i see that i just ran out of time. ok. we believe u.s. dot should adhere to congress' intent and consider projects that would benefit from more than 33% to fund their projects, especially if it is important to put all the dollars in the tifia program to work. given that map-21 is only a two- year built, we ha

any objection to the court opinions and period i can reports being made available to all members of ongress? >> i think the answer is probably no but i think we'd have to think about the itch indications of that. >> that is probably my response. >> the time of the gentleman has expired. > thank you. >> the gentle woman from california is recognized. >> thanks to mr. chairman and our witness. i was thinking back to september 11, one one of the worst days i've spent in the congress and remembering that that weekend after the attack that members of the white house, the intelligence community, members of this committee and our staff sat right at that table, we sat around that table and worked together to craft the patriot act. and it's worth remembering that at original act was passed unanimously by the house judiciary committee and had the balance we thought was important to protect the country but looking forward to protect the rights of americans under the constitution. and i share the concern expressed by some that things have gone off in a different direction from that day. now i as my col

we will never have control with ongress. it is not an option. it will never happen.s is a country where we are leaving things to consumers constantly. i am not going to -- for 100% of the market. let's take 1 million and one half dollars and put half of it in a catastrophic care system that is national, universal, cradle-to-grave, and that the other half go back to healthcare. we will see in industry where the providers have different motivations. steve mentioned cosmetic surgery. anything not touched by health insurance, including carefree documented. basic, primary, documented, operates on a competitive cash market. it has nothing to do with the type of care. it has to do with the type of payer. what i am calling for his understanding. treating healthcare as one thing. recognize some of it as catastrophic. where we need intervention and insurance. if we build a whole system based on the worst cases, we will have more of what we have now. incentives doing the wrong thing at high prices. >> i disagree to a little bit on the definition of catastrophic. women in stamfo