if we want to amend the constitution, questio, we can d. but as it stands right now, the second amendment has been upheld by the supreme court to apply to have individual in the united states free from federal undue interference with respect to the ownership of guns. but if we adopt mr. koh's argument about conforming to international norms, including stricter gun control, it may bring us more in line with some other countries but it certainly would not be in keeping with the interpretation of the u.s. supreme court with respect to that second amendment. in an april 2002 speech at the fordham university school of law, mr. koh advocated a u.n.-governed regime to force the united states -- and i'm quoting now -- to submit information about their small arms production. he believes that the united states should -- and i quote again - -- "establish a national firearms control system and a register of manufacturers, traders, importers and exporters of guns" to comply with international obligations. this would allow u.n. members such as cuba and v

for  [ inaudible questio >> well he was at the top of all of our pref list going into the season and he stayed atop of everybody's list. we monitored his clothesly as you all well know, we saw every start that he had this year, and i don't think we ever wavered from him being, you know, at the top of the draft board. for  [ inaudible question ] >> well we, as far as i'm concerned, there is no pitcher or player that is major-league ready coming out of the draft because they don't know, they have never experienced the wear and tear of a professional season, the baseball activity, as far as a pitcher goes the pitching every five days with a bullpen in between there, it's just such a drastic change from what they are used to in college and certainly in high school that i don't believe any pitcher or any position player is -- comes out of the draft and goes directly to the major league. and steven and drew are thaw exception to the rule.  [ inaudible question >> he is certainly in the team

royce in his own questio questions went beyond his own bill in setting up insurance information and then his question and this is mrs. bean's bill also, what good does it do to have information if you have no authority to act upon it. i mean, i come from illinois. and one of things that we do right in that state is regulate insurance. we have the cheapest insurance rates probably in the country. mr. mcraith, my understanding and correct me, is that aig was in five pieces, five separate entities, call it what you want. and that the life insurance aspect was cordened on by fire walls by the investment side that went sour, is that correct? >> that is correct, congressman. every state has adopted what we call a holding company act. the holding company act along with our other financial regulations requires each insurer to be financially independently viable. we have very strict capital in accounting and investment requirements. one function of the holding company act is that that insurer, the life insurers cannot release capital to the holding company to support the holding company without r