. >> how do we feel as a panel america will feel? it was obviously a big issue in the campaign. we have two candidates one is saying we should have mandates and the other, saying no. i think everyone has emerged to gather with their ideas and massachusetts that plan past year and a half ago they have covered about 97% of the people. the question is will ameritech, will business allow it in a sense, government to say you must have health insurance in the same manner that if you drive a car, you must have insurance for that car? it will be a huge issue. >> if i can jump and quickly, i think the question about mandates is very important but i think sometimes if mrs. the underlying issue that if there is not affordable coverage of their four you requiring you too have coverage is irrelevant. even in massachusetts is a cohort two cannot get coverage because of the economics. i think a mandate is an important component of the overall health care reform package. but again come if we cannot address the underlying economics it does not really matter what other kinds of things we have. we

america. [applause] >> on behalf of the panel i want to thank mental-health of america for inviting us. is is a massively timely subject, particularly in view of the last panel. this fits with where all of us want to focus our time a

america. [cheers and applause]. >> on behalf of the panel, i want to say thank you mental health of america for and by seen us, this is a massively timely subjects particularly in the view of the last panel. i think this fits with where all of us wanted to focus our time and energy and particularly the next few months and i think you're going to get a feel for that during the debate today. this is not just say, an educational or process for me is a personal journey. when i was in buffalo, my uncle -- he was head of buffalo state hospital. and i have a family member receiving shock treatment for depression and in other family members who was severely mentally ill and receiving treatment and have a very challenging time until she received the modern medication. i went on to cleveland to train and then was in the navy during the vietnam. and, lieutenant cmdr helping and the veterans returning veterans dealing with the emotional issues through the war. i have been in business all of my life. i went into business because i found it hard to have, i didn't find the adequate services that i felt my pat

it kicks off a key iraqi brought us to our conclusion and i just wanted to thank the panel, thank mental-health america, thank those who are extremely helpful and i want to leave you with this please do not leave mental health coverage to someone else. is all of our responsibility. you are all leaders in your communities, the leaders in your neighborhoods, states and cities and you have a audiences that you have to mobilize whether it is congress, senate, state legislatures, governors, whoever it is. it is our responsibility to be sure we follow through and have adequate mental health coverage. thank you all and thank the panel very much. [applause] >> how is c-span funded? >> i have no clue. >> government grants. >> donations. >> advertisements for products. >> public money i am sure. >> my taxes can balckout a c-span funded? 30 years ago america's cable companies traded c-span as a public service, a private business initiatives. no government mandate, no government money. >> british prime minister court in brown and aspiration of independent inquiry into the war in iraq and that came earlier this day

america's position as the technological leader. give back money to consumers by lowering energy bills, send back the millions of barrels of boils -- oil we import and we will export wind turbines and solar panels that say made in america instead of continuing to import millions of barrels of oil a day that say, made by opec. this bill has the ambition of the moon landing, the moral imperative of the civil rights act and the scope of the clean air act all wrapped up in one. all we're hearing here this evening are the same discredited policies from the past that have got us into this economic national security and environmental situation that we live with today. vote no on this substitute and vote aye for the bill that we're considering. the gentleman from california has done an excellent job in bringing us to this point. vote no on this substitute. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman's time has expired. the gentleman from virginia. mr. forbes: madam speaker, i'd like to yield one minute to the gentleman from south carolina, mr. inglis. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from south carolina is recognized for one minute. mr. inglis: i thank the gentleman for yielding. this is not the time

panel. >> [applause] >> this week, on america and the courts, justice ruth bader ginsberg. american and the courts, saturday at 7:00 p.m. eastern on c-span. >> there is still time to get your copy of the 2009 congressional directories with information on house and senate members, the supreme court justices and the nation's governors. it is $16.95 on line. or you can call 1-877-on-c span. >> we will hear from several of dealers about the restructuring plans that include thousands of dealers closing. this is a little over four hours. >> as you can see, there is a lot of interest in this hearing today and i expect that members that are not on the hearing -- on the committee will be coming in and out. we will try to hold a tight rein on time and statements and questions. as i said, there is a lot of interest in this oversight hearing. this hearing is entitled "gm chrysler and dealership closures." other members of the subcommittee will be recognized with 3 minute statements. i will begin. through their vehicle manufacturing and cat us suppliers and a vast dealer network, the au

panels that don't crack. we are looking at major breck throughs but we cannot destroy the manufacturing base of america. the speaker pro tempore: under the speaker's announced policy of january 6, 2009, the gentleman from texas, mr. carter is recognized for 60 minutes as the designee of the minority leader. mr. carter: thank you, madam speaker. i thank the speaker for allowing me to speak tonight. i'm back again to talk about issues that are important, i think, to this house, they're important to the american people, and they're especially important to the concept of leadership in this house of representatives. and just where it's going to go. i want to go back for a moment, before we go into current events, and talk about some past events. when the democratic majority took over the house of representatives and in the leadup prior to that time, when we were having these speeches made by the presumed new speaker of the house, ms. pelosi, about what we could expect from the new congress. now this is not the first time i've mentioned this. but let's remind you again. to all the members of the house. this i

panel. it is a long-time coming. we worked hard. we have stratjiesed about how to have america's future now, not some day, not after some next election, but actually changing america's future now. i'm very excite excited to have all these kfings with you. it was just a year ago we had this conference for take mac -- back america, and we did it. that was even before the economic collapse. that was about greed, corruption, and a bush administration that cared about the top 1% and not anybody else. i want to officially welcome you to washington. i know there have been lots of welcomes already. i want to welcome you to washington, d.c., the nation's capital, where the people have reclaimed our capital and our country and we have secured our leader in the white house. this is a new day in america, and we have just begun the work of transforming our country, our communities, and our families. we have a remarkable president. one who thinks big and acts boldly. it is good to be here with all of you. all of us together have worked hard for years to have a transformational election to work

america. warren churchill is certifiable. but it took the university, spent a million dollars probably and they had to organize a panel. first of all, warren churchill was what? he was the chairman of his department. that means his whole department voted to hire him, even though he had no academic credential, he had an experimental college gave him an m.a. in communication, it was not ethnic studies, he has no ph.d., he was not an indian, and it was an affirmative action post, but he lied to get in. throated him first to be an associate professor, that's to get 10 you're, then to be a full professor, then the whole department had to elect him chairman and he had to have recommendations from the field. so that tells you that the entire ethnic studies field is corrupt, it is an indoctrination in radical, anti-american views, and it thinks that ward churchill is the cat's meow. i did a book called the professors which described all this, and of course, it was -- i was pillared from one end of the country to the other by liberal academics. what the book showed and none of my critics read the book, what the book showed is h

the property casualty association of america and the cea, a trade association of european insurers. without objection, it is so ordered. i want to thank this panel for their contribution today and taking all the -- we did it in three hours which is pretty good. maybe next time we can keep it for five. there will be another opportunity to visit with mr. skinner. we called him over here to enjoy that. i think that we gained a lot from the international exposure of having mr. skinner, but all of the participants on the panel were extraordinarily contributed today, and i think even the greatest doubters on the committee may tend to say that we moved the ball down the field further with the result of this hearing. i want to thank you again for being part of it. i look forward to future hearings on this very subject and now the panel is dismissed and this hearing -- >> before you adjourn, just to enter something in the record. from the ai alert of june 5th to larry summers. >> didn't mean you hold up an extra 30 seconds, but i did want to make it into the official record. thank you. >> thank you, mr. chairman. >> thank you. >> now from london, prime m

was treated disrespectfully by the members on the panel, and he should have and did thrown the thing up. he was trying to do the right thing for america. for $1 a year, and that wasn't enough to sat satisfy him. and so i'm thinking -- enough to satisfy him. so i'm thinking, what company would be exempt from the scrutiny of the executive payroll czar? i can't think of one. because they view these corporations as being evil capitalist corporations but they still haven't looked over into hollywood, for example, and decided that some of the actors and directors and producers are probably making too much money by their own standards here, they wrote out checks to these people in the white house today, so you haven't seen ethat scrutiny that would come. but -- seen that scrutiny that would come. then i suppose we get into the professional sports athletes that do make a lot of money and maybe, you know, you're playing so that must be fun, probably doesn't demand more than $500,000 a year, no matter how good you are and soon we're a regulated government entity that decides who gets paid and how much. the payroll czar, outrageous. it is really

traveled to florida to a panel of experts, and i'm proud to recognize them as a wonderful and unique community of virginia's first congressional district for receiving the 2009 all-america city award. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from colorado rise? >> permission to address the house for one minute. revise and extend. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, the gentleman is recognized for one minute. mr. polis: madam speaker, i rise today in strong support of the american clean energy and security act. we are in the verge of a historic step that we have a responsibility and opportunity to take for the health of our environment, our economy, and our nation. opponents simply don't comprehend the magnitude of the problem of global warming or the opportunities that come with the solution. the u.s. is currently losing clean energy jobs and market share to china, germany, and korea. u.s. consumers continue to spend $400 billion a year to places like the middle east and venezuela every time we fill up our gas tanks. madam speaker, we have a responsibility to enact swift and strong climate change legislation. it's absolutely false to suggest

deliberately left out of the panel by the committee led by spencer baucus, who is supposed to be a democrat, but i cannot believe he is. single payer has worked in europe, latin america, and parts of asia. there is nothing wrong with it. it is a very workable system, and the government does not control you. there is choice. he built that in to satisfy republicans, but they are dead letter. they will not cooperate. guest: democrats are not pushing single-payer in congress. if there is a two-tier system, that is not the kind of approach they want. if you have resources, you can opt out and have the ability to go to a private facility in new england. that is

america's founding, the right to have arms was indeed fundamental and that the second amendment codified this preexisting, fundamental right. several months lairlt a second l months later, a second panel, including judge sotomayor, confircitedan 1886 supreme cour, the second circuit held that under the constitution's privileges and immunities clause, the second amendment applies only to the federal government, not to the states. whether correct or not, that holding was obviously enough to decide the issue in that particular case. judge sotomayor's court, however, went beyond what was necessary to further minimize the second amendment by once again characterizing its something less -- characterizing it as something less than a fundamental right. the court said that there need be only a show of called rational basis to justify a law banning such weapons, a legal standard it said applies where there is no fundamental right involved. the court simply ignored and actually contradicted the supreme courtstddition in heller by treating the second amendment as protecting less than a fundamental right. in fact, the very 1886 precedent judge sotomayor's court cited to hold that the second amendm

america. how are our systems working? how are we paying attention? and i consider it a very valuable hearing. i consider the audience very could you tellous audience and the panel all of them, helpful and straightforward with us. having said that, this hearing is adjourned.qcqcccccqqcccq

panel it is a long time coming. we have worked hard, tramp about being able to salvage as about how to have american futures now not some way, "healthwatch" that actually changing america'sfuture now so i'm excited to have this discussion with all of you. it was a year ago that we came to this conference to take back america and we did it. the stakes are high back then a one at the last conference and i was even before the economic collapse, that was all about green corruption in the bush administration that cared about the top 1 percent in not anybody else and so i want to officially welcome to washington. i want to welcome you to washington d.c. to the nation's capital where people have read them their country and have secured our leader in the white house. it is a new day in america and we have begun the work of transforming our countries, our communities and families. we do have a remarkable president, one who thinks big axe boldly and it's great to be here with all of you who have helped elect him and make this happen here and because all of us together have worked hard for years to have a transformational action, to work for electing progressive majority said t

america. how are our systems working? how are we paying attention? and i consider it a very valuable hearing. i consider the audience very could you tellous audience and the panel, all of them, helpful and straightforward with us. having said that, this hearing is adjourned.qqqqqqqqqcqqqcccqqq >> now, a briefing with senate republicans on the general motors and chrysler bankruptcy proceedings. we will hear from the chair of the conference, lamar alexander, on transferring stock not a companies to the government to taxpayers. this is a little over 20 minutes. >> we are introducing today the a lot of stock for every taxpayer act to require treasury to distribute to individual taxpayers all the stock in the new gm and chrysler within one year following the emergence of the new gm from bankruptcy proceedings. this is the best way to get the auto companies out of the hands of washington bureaucrats and politicians and into the hands of the american people and the market place where it belongs. instead of the treasury and owning 60% of the shares in the new gm and 8% in chrysler, you would on them. if you were one of 120 million americans to pay federal taxes on apri

panel of washington bureaucrats through rules and regulations, put the politicians in charge of deciding who is eligible for a particular treatment or to decide when and where they can get it. that is wrong for america. it's wrong for the patients in america. and it is the wrong approach to health care reform. republicans believe that there is a better way for health care reform. rather than empowering the government, empower patients. rather than putting bureaucrats in between your doctor and yourself, try to remove the constraints that physicians have and hospitals have for treating people. try to remove constraints on insurance companies. one of the things i've asked for, for example, if all of these wonderful ideas about more government regulation of insurances, how about repealing some laws that currently prevent insurance companies from competing? i mentioned before, you can't compete across state lines. we all know that if you want to incorporate a corporation, why are all the corporations incorporated in delaware. a delaware corporation. it doesn't matter whether you're in illinois or arizona, corporations are incorporated in delaware. that's the way it used to be. one of the reasons is beca

panel or piece of trim or a window. auto dealers are in virtually every commaint cross the country and they average about 50 employees per dealership. so this bill impacts every single community across america. no one here today has talked about what this bill also does. we will rely less on foreign oil because the average consumer, by taking advantage of this program, will save $780 in fuel costs because they're going to trade in that old car and have a more fuel efficient, better emission vehicle than they had before. $780 per household. for those that take advantage of it. we have fraud and abuse provisions in here so it won't be taken advantage of and to my good friend mr. flake, yes, there is a sunset. this program doesn't go on forever. there is a sunset. it's a temporary band-aid to fix an economic problem that needs america's attention. isn't it better, isn't it better to have people work and have a job and pay taxes than having them laid off and receive benefits? i think most americans would rather have that job. they want to pay the taxes. this is a bill that helps america and that's one of the reasons why it passed in our committee 50 to four. i would urge all my colleagues to su