we are trying to provide additional funds for pell grants, $5 billion. we are trying to provide $700 million for border security. $180 million more for energy loans, $163 million more for school installations, gulf coast -- i yield myself -- for gulf coast oil funding and $16 million to buildal processing center at fort hood. i would like to know what is wrong with any of those items. woy like to yield two minutes to the -- i would like to yield two minutes to the distinguished the gentleman from texas, mr. reyes. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized for two minutes. mr. rahall: i thank the gentleman for -- mr. reyes: i rise today to urge my colleagues to vote in favor of this amendment, the obey amendment, because during these tough economic times there are many areas that merit attention and this amendment takes a comprehensive approach towards addressing the vital needs to our communities. the support in this amendment for border security and law enforcement. border security is a major portion of the concerns of americans as we have se

they slift and transform but it is prings pen pells that do none of these things. we can strengthen the principles by teaching, uniting and moving others towards action. thank you. >> it has been a simply wonderful panel. wen tornado hearing from all these stuedebts. i'm going to mike the rule that you have to be present in order to be a winner in this drawing. so somebody will walk away with a flip camera. all right. have you all enjoyed these close your eyes and reach in and pick one out. let's see who is the lucky one. from ok la hoaxa state university, krista. are you here? thank you all for coming. it's been a great couple of days. god bless you and safe travels >> tonight, a debate in the tennessee's governor's race. the c spans congressional reference. the president's cabinet, sprome court justice all attire finger tips. order on line at c-span/store. appoint gs a normaler aids to temporarily a little over 30 minutes. flushflushfass pass >> the time has now come to appoint someone to the senate who will look out for west virginia and work hard for west virgi

we are trying to provide additional funds for pell grants, $5 billion. we are trying to provide $700 million for border security. $180 million more for energy loans, $163 million more for school installations, gulf coast -- i yield myself -- for gulf coast oil funding and $16 million to buildal processing center at fort hood. i would like to know what is wrong with any of those items. woy like to yield two minutes the -- i would like to yield two minutes to the distinguished the gentleman from texas, mr. reyes. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized for two minutes. mr. raha: i thank the gentleman for -- mr. reyes: i rise today to urge my colleagues to vote in favor of this amendment, the obey amendment, because during these tough economic times there are many areas that merit attention and this amendment takes a comprehensive approach towards addressing the vital needs to our communities. the support in this amendment for border security and law forcement. border security is a major portion of the concerns of americans as we have seen in t

in reading the e-mail request from the pell apt -- appellant, it was hard for me to say what exactly was missing from the information that she had. that is difficult to say -- it would be difficult for me to conclude that she didn't have a complete packet. i didn't see -- we didn't have the plans. i saw the plans on the overhead, but i didn't see anything that struck me -- given that there is a variance, the variance has already been finalized. i didn't see anything that struck me as particularly egregious in this deck, and i would be inclined to uphold the department and uphold the permit pending comments from my fellow commissioners. >> i move a similar opinion. the issue before us is what has been discussed through the materials, which is the legalization of this deck. the one thing we want to make sure that the department has done is that it conforms to the tenents of what the variance has concluded. i am convinced that it does. similarly, i am not prepared to condition it on an illegal wall that is 14 so 15 feet high. other issues. there are a number of various agencies that ove

when members get home, and here's where nancy pell os syso wise. and relate what they did in congress to their own election, those of you who are calling the election, here in august, are going to have mud on your face. >> like i said, 2.4 million jobs have been lost since the stimulus package was signed into law. people, they can go back, the democrats can go back and say we passed this and passed that and people will say but i still don't have a job. where is my job. where is my neighbor's job. i still can't afford my house. and it is the economy, stupid, clinton got that right. and that's what is going to affect things. nancy pelosi herself said well, we're going to pass these massive bills and find out what is in it later after it's passed. and the more the people look into what is going on and see how it affects them every day the more they don't like it. that going to resonate through november. the new deal wasn't exactly that great. the more that economists look at it, it was extended seven years. the depression was extended 7 years because

, $-- $5.7 billion for pell grants and $500 million to save firefighters' jobs. however, once again, madam speaker, the senate passed the legislation without any of these necessary job creation measures. the senate must act now to help hardworking americans. the congressional black caucus and the house democratic leadership fought to keep creation and job-saving measures in this bill. we fought back in legislation that included $10 billion to save teachers' jobs. almost 5ds billion for pell grants, $4.6 billion for settlements of the discrimination cases and on thursday, just this past thursday, the senate once again rejected these measures. i have always believed that it is the job of government to help its people. if we are not helping the people that we represent i don't know why we're here. i ask the senate, where is your job creation legislation? what are you doing to help teachers, to help police officers and firefighters? what are you doing to get the american people back to work? we cannot allow american families to suffer through these difficult times an

we are trying to provide additional funds for pell grants, $5 billion. we are trying to provide $700 million for border security. $180 million more for energy loans, $163 million more for school installations, gulf coast -- i yield myself -- for gulf coast oil funding and $16 million to buildal processing center at fort hood. i would like to know what is wrong with any of those items. woy like to yield two minutes to the -- i would liie to yield two minutes to the distinguished the gentleman from texas, mr. reyes. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized for two minutes. mr. rahall: i thank the gentleman for -- mr. reyes: i rise today to urge my colleagues to vote in favor of this amendment, the obey amendment, because during these tough economic times there are many areas that merit attention and this amendment takes a comprehensive approach towards addressing the vital needs to our communities. the support in this amendment for border security and law enforcement. border security is a major portion of the concerns of americans as we have se

guest: well, i think, yes, there have been some efforts to look at pell and reform it.i am not an expert in financial aid or on pell in particular, so i do not know where that stands at this point in time. but the larger point i think that you are making is that every dollar we are spending the leads -- every dollar that we are spending really needs to have the effect we want it to have that as part of the restructuring that i am talking about. the federal government needs to do it, and so to the states but we need to make sure we are targeting our funds and getting all we can get for them. it is not a lot of money to spend for ineffective or ill-use programs. host: new york. tom is in independent caller. caller: good morning from troy, new york, across from sunny albany. good morning, elizabeth. i am independent but i work for the appropriations committee in congress about 10 years ago. let me say that the federal government will not be in any position to help out this state. we are all in trouble. but in new york state, the democrats currently have control of the exec

lewis on the extraneous spending in this bill, $10 billion state bailout fund, $5 billion pell grant infusion, half a billion dollars to, quote, forward fund accounts in the fiscal year 2011 appropriations bill, thereby freeing up money to spend on other activities in fiscal year 2011. the $245 million to allow the i.r.s. to ramp up its enforcement activities. my colleagues in the majority just doesn't get it. this is washington business as usual, as this congress uses funding for our deployed war fighters, many of them in harm's way as we speak, to provide for more unnecessary social spending. my colleagues, i urge the adoption of a clean supplemental appropriation as quickly as possible so that our men in uniform can continue to do their important work on our behalf and i yield back the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman's time has expired. who seeks recognition at this time? the gentleman from wisconsin. mr. obey: mr. speaker, i have only one remaining speaker. we have the right to close. i'd suggest the gentleman use his time. the speaker pro tempore: the

pell grants did not keep pace with where they needed to be. and our friend who was here earlier was talking about the student loans, how the department of education took over the student loan program and free markets, yeah, because the banks were charging 8%, 9%. you want to keep that system going? well, you better take out a student loan when you get out of college and owe $20,000, $30,000 or heaven forbid and go to medical school and come out with hundreds of thousands of dollars in debt so the banks can make a profit off our kids. that's what the other side wants to do. they want to keep that system in place. they liked it just the way it was. everybody was happy. the insurance companies are happy. the multinationals were happy. the banks were happy. wall street was happy. but we weren't happy as a country. and not only did the banks charge 8% or 9% for a student loan. check this out. the government said if a student defaults on that loan, we'll pick up the tab. wasn't it -- wouldn't it be nice to be a bank under george bush? you mean, i ge

we need to provide money for pell grants, teachers, firefighters and police officers, for the settlement for black farmers, 100,000 of them and for youth jobsed on summer jobs and people in america who are unemployed and those families who need support as a bridge to carry them over. i believe in this nation and i believe in our soldier, i salute them and i believe it is time to bring them home with honor. they are heroes. they have done what they needed to do in afghanistan. they provided for a democratic government. it's time now to bring them home with honor. vote no on the supplemental. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from california. mr. lewis: i'm prepared to yield two minutes by way of a colloquy to my colleague, the chairman of the subcommittee on national defense. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized for two minutes. >> i appreciate the gentleman yielding to me. the purpose for this is just to discuss the situation. the secretary of defense, the comptroller, have made it very clear that money for our troops in the field, in afghanistan and ir

they have to contribute like everybody else and they have finally said we will contribute if the par pell packs passes. >> reporter: the parcel tax would generate $54 million a year more than enough to plug their deficit next year but it may be a tough sell to voters. landlords would be able to pass half of that $360 on to tenants, that tax is key to hiring back the 80 officers that we lost earlier this month. if it passes and voters also agree to amend measure y, the force would go back up to more than 80 -- 800 officers. right now it is at about 700. now measure y says police need to keep their staffing levels at a stash minimum in order to pertain -- in order to get proceeds from a 2004 parcel packs. now obviously it can't meet that requirement right now so now the voters are going to be asking to extend those levels until the year 2015. tara moriarty, ktvu channel 2 news. >> two people are in jail right now, accused in the shooting of a virginia man in the bay area for a job interview. george hug ins was arrested yesterday in west oakland for the jewel 18th shooting of 45- year-old ji

. >> i go back to claiborne pell. the pell grant was done in his 12th year. as good a statement as hamper, under this proposal, -- as good as him, under this proposal, it would not be eligible for the election. i have created a measurement tool that would be on the website. the citizens would be able to see immediately how other elected official is operating. within two years, if i am not delivering and results, forget about six years. forget about four. i would not seek a second term. i am so certain that with transparency for citizens mccann deliver a result they can see and measure. >> it is mr. lynch right? >> reform is an issue of work long and hard on. i founded the rhode island chapter of a group called fair vote. i sat before the u.s. house and senate on the issue of electoral reform. i believe we need to do things to open up our systems of governance. i believe in passing a pair elections law that removes the influence of corporate tax dollars from our system. that is the thing into undertake first. that will provide drastic change to t way people fe

some people think pell grants are free. i said to somebody the other day, a pell grant is not free except for a student to get them to college. guest: what they are doing right now is sort of accommodation. there are loans out there, small business loans are a big part of the stimulus they raise. but some of the things are more grant-like, i guess. the tax credit, that is money they obviously did to keep. they don't have to give it back if there is a tax credit. some are direct stimulus and some are loans. host: and message via twitter -- without demands -- guest: a lot of people say that you can't really encourage businesses to hire if the economy is not there to support it. one of the issues is, without that demand, the small businesses with all the tax credits and the world will not make them higher if they did not feel the additional workers will have anything to do. so, that is a problem. but then the people on the other side say, yes, these businesses will still have capital and what will they do with that? they may s

>> $36 billion in pell grants, i thought was a pretty good step in the right direction. and obviously these are tough times for not just k through 12 but higher ed. we're continuing to urge universities to contain costs, in tough budget times. and i think, you know, clearly we still have the best system of higher education in the world. something we should be very, very proud of. what we need to continue to do, however, is drive up completion rates on the higher education side. it's not about access, it's about attainment. when you look at colleges and universities, not too dissimilar to high schools. some do a remarkable job o completion and do a great job supporti supporting english language, and what we want to do is find ways to spotlight those not just getting students get through the front doo all of our work is simply by hind the 2020 goal. that's our northstar, drying to le trying to lead the world, we have to be focused not just on access but on completion. >> does the u.s. need more vocational education, especially when many college graduates can't find jobs? >

. >> i go back to claiborne pell. the pell grant was done in his 12th year. as good a statement as hamper, under this proposal, -- as good as him, under this proposal, it would not be eligible for the election. i have created a measurement tool that would be on the website. the citizens would be able to see immediately how other elected official is operating. within two years, if i am not delivering and results, forget about six years. forget about four. i would not seek a second term. i am so certain that with transparency for citizens mccann deliver a result they can see and measure. >> it is mr. lynch right? >> reform is an issue of work long and hard on. i founded the rhode island chapter of a group called fair vote. i sat before the u.s. house and senate on the issue of electoral reform. i believe we need to do things to open up our systems of governance. i believe in passing a pair elections law that removes the influence of corporate tax dollars from our system. that is the thing into undertake first. that will provide drastic change to the way people

pell pell thank you very much, mr. speaker. i thank -- nancy pelosi thank you very much mr. speaker are, mr. speaker -- the speaker: thank you very much, mr. speaker. as i listen to the debate here, i can't help but remember, and i have a vivid memory of it, a couple of years ago, almost two years ago, september 18, a thursday afternoon, we were gathered in our office and had just seen a week and a half proceeding, a week and a half to two weeks preceding that day, some unusual events that related to lehman brothers, merrill lynch and then a.i.g. and the said bailout of a.i.g. i called the secretary of the treasury and said, we're meeting here in my office and wondered if we could be helpful in any way in terms of public policy because what we seemed to see coming out from the executive branch is chaos, different responses to different challenges that were not adding up to us, could you, mr. secretary, come to the congress tomorrow and give us a report on what is happening? the secretary said, and i said, could you be here at 9:00 tomorrow morning to tell us what is happenin

only the democrats voted to increase the pell grants to make it possible for students to enter college, to enter the community colleges. you can't have a first-class manufacturing industry unless you have a well-educated work force which means education, and that's what we did. it's now the law. every student and wannabe student across this nation has access. >> if the gentleman will yield? mr. garamendi: please. >> these community colleges and we have seen it across the country to have customized training to develop classes where they'll come out and train at the work site or at the community college, specific skills related to the manufacturing processees that are going to be used there. mr. fattah: so you're absolutely right. i was here in the clinton years. we passed -- when the clinton economic plan was passed, not one republican voted for it. not in the house, not in the senate. you know, 25 million jobs later, a balanced budget, $3 trillion surplus, it doesn't matter whether they voted for it or not. democrats had to be committed doing what we do best, which is getting this econ

allowing us to have this debate, but also that it provides on the domestic spending crucial issues, pell grants will be provided for, border security that impacts the northern and southern border so that we can stand as we do comprehensive immigration reform and ensure the american people that we will secure our borders. in the most catastrophic oil spill from a region think a come from, the tsunami of oil spills, we are taking care of the people by providing $304 million for the gulf coast oil spill, including moneys for unemployment assistance. and then coming from the region i belong to as well, we had a tragedy at fort hood and we are now rebuilding the fort hood processing center that saw a terrible loss of life because of terrorism. fema disaster, this is the most vigorous season that you could have ever imagined that is to be expected in hurricanes and we know among other disasters we'll have the money here. but we're also going to say to the youth of america, when we vote on this we're providing money for summer youth jobs, $1 billion youth jobs that we in the congressional black

pell pell thank you very much, mr. speaker. i thank -- nancy pelosi thank you very much mr. speaker are, mr. speaker -- the speaker: thank you very much, mr. speaker. as i listen to the debate here, i can't help but remember, and i have a vivid memory of it, a couple of years ago, almost two years ago, september 18, a thursday afternoon, we were gathered in our office and had just seen a week and a half proceeding, a week and a half to two weeks preceding that day, some unusual events that related to lehman brothers, merrill lynch and then a.i.g. and the said bailout of a.i.g. i called the secretary of the treasury and said, we're meeting here in my office and wondered if we could be helpful in any way in terms of public policy because what we seemed to see coming out from the executive branch is chaos, different responses to different challenges that were not adding up to us, could you, mr. secretary, come to the congress tomorrow and give us a report on what is happening? the secretary said, and i said, could you be here at 9:00 tomorrow morning to tell us what is happenin

. >> i go back to claiborne pell. the pell grant was done in his 12th year. as good a statement as hamper, under this proposal, -- as good as him, under this proposal, it would not be eligible for the election. i have created a measurement tool that would be on the website. the citizens would be able to see immediately how other elected official is operating. within two years, if i am not delivering and results, forget about six years. forget about four. i would not seek a second term. i am so certain that with transparency for citizens mccann deliver a result they can see and measure. >> it is mr. lynch right? >> reform is an issue of work long and hard on. i founded the rhode island chapter of a group called fair vote. i sat before the u.s. house and senate on the issue of electoral reform. i believe we need to do things to open up our systems of governance. i believe in passing a pair elections law that removes the influence of corporate tax dollars from our system. that is the thing into undertake first. that will provide drastic change to the way people

i am pell of my record. >> mr. deakin. >> both of them are the same. the net benefit themselves in the same position. if they would stick to the united states constitution and spend more time in arizona ban in washington, which would not get caught up in this system. i want to campaign on the u.s. constitution and the issues facing our nation. it is much more important than slinging mud. >> john, if you had told the truth about barack obama, you might be president of the united states right now. john mccain has been caught in a cynical attack politics in washington, d.c. never did my name come up. shame on you. arizona deserts better. >> the next question is for you. tea party activists are suggesting that you dropped out because your candidacy, they claim, is hurting the conservative cause. >> i think it is great. the american people are expressing their opinion. that is what politics are about. that makes our government better. we are a government of "we the people." we the people should stand up and say that is not acceptable to us anymore. then we

the student aid and financial responsibility act, 100% republicans voted no denying students pell grants. the cash for clunkers and majority voteed for it. the hire act, creating 300,000 jobs. it was the democrats and the republicans voted no. so after this 18 months of concerted effort to create jobs in america through the various stimulus programs such as the cash for clunkers, the homeowners' assistance program, all of those, we have seen improvements. but this was the first 18 months. we are now moving onto the second half of the democratic agenda. and if i might just reach over here, this is the second half of the democratic agenda, make it in america. make it in america so that america can make it. manufacturing matters. and that's the subject of our discussion. the first 18 months get people back to work, stimulate the economy, set a solid foundation. we're now on the road to permanent improvement in the american economy through manufacturing. joining me here tonight are my colleagues from wisconsin and from the great state of ohio to talk about manufacturing in the heartland, som

and whether there's a down side to having the entire court come from an 'pell lat court background. >> pu. thank you. i stated that i thought it was irrelevant that elena kagan had no prior judicial experience. and i stated that many of our most distinguished justices did not have prior experience, including ief justice john marshall and william reng kwis, earl warren and i could go on and on. i think there were 65. i don't have a particular view about whether it's a good or bad thing to have had prior appellate experience. >> thank you. captain white, let me begin by recognizing your service to the country. you serve as an example to us all, and we thank you for it. in your testimony, you spoke about how solicitor general kagan was welcoming and accommodating to military veterans. could you tell us morebout that? >> during my time there, it really started on my first day with me. i think for most of the veterans that i have spoken to, we all went to -- we all went into harvard witsome bit of trepidation going to an ivy league school, which traditionally i think dot have the reputatio

economic care of recommendatis and no ability to come pell to do so i don't know why they would not documentvery conversation they have whether negotiating in the warner program where it was providing information some get the benefit knowing what the price treasury will except in other banks are not record cannot imagine truly why they would not imdiately come forth and say we deny year with respect. >> and hidden but california acknowledgments of their fallen. >> let me just remind you that the only thing that they need to do to redo t.a.r.p is for the secretary and treasurer to write a letter to himself. >> there should be more accountability for a $700 billion slush fund that is not being used as senator nelson said, for the purpose of which it was created. do you think in one instance that this panel and other senators would haveoted for t.a.r.p how they know and what is going to the major bankers in new york city if secretary paulson would have came to this congress and is said by the way we wilma ago after bad assets were toxic gas cents in the system. we will give the money to the ban

in that case, that particular piece of legislation that passed this house would have increased the pell grants so that kids and adults could afford to go to school. what did the republicans do? not one republican voted for student aid to help students continue in school. i'm curious what's going on here. i noticed that my colleague from connecticut has arrived here, john larson. tell us what's going on in connecticut. mr. larson: let me thank the gentleman for organizing this special order hour and i associate myself with the remarks of the the gentleman from ohio and join with you -- well, frankly out of frustration in terms of the kind of opposition that we're seeing in the united states senate on an issue that's so important to people who, through no fault of their own, have found themselves in a situation where they are unemployed. i think during this bush recession, as we per servered through the bush wars and financial collapse that unemployment has hit this country hard. when america loses, $17 trillion in wealth and assets from march of 2007 to february of 2009, then you begin t

day they're waiting to get permission to protect some of these fragile eco systems where you have pell kn nests and other valuable resources. the approach should be sit in that room and nobody leaves until you figure out a way to get it done. and if this plan is not the way to do it, and there is no perfect plan, but whoever's plan is better let's do it. but your answer can't be we're denying your planned and nothing gets done and more oil gets into par shes. and that's the problem we're facing. so maybe they don't want to own up to the fact that they issued the permit and they're trying to blame ortsde people. but the bottom line is we want to get these problems solved and we want the attention of this administration doing their job under the law. the oil pollution act says it's the president's job to protect the coast. unfortunately, he's not doing that. our local leaders are trying and they're being blocked by federal government. there's no excuse. getting back to the moratorium, while there is a moratorium that even though the federal courts have said is arbitrary and capricious an