in 2007, he co-authored saipan baseball from the beginning. he has been voted into the sports hall of fame. when his name came up for selection, there was no target. he was selected unanimously. he provided a solid, steady foundation for baseball to become saipan's favorite past time. he accomplished it with his calm, dependable presence, sure knowledge and selfless devotion. that is why he came to be a legend in his own time, in his own way, on his own island. i thank you, mr. speaker, and i yield back the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields back. the gentleman from indiana plrning barton. -- from-in, mr. barson. without objection, from-in, mr. barton. >> last week, one of china's most -- mr. barton: last week, one of china's dissidents was take onto his house hsm he revealed to the world the massive violence of the one child per family enforcement campaign he remains you should house arrest in his own home, surrounded by surveillance cameras and police. foreign reporters attempting to enter his village has been

a hundred thousand were removed either by saipan ng or skimming it up the surface ok so now you add the correct and the net effect is is it more toxicity or less toxicity well after the spill began and after that b.p. had already dumped quite a bit of this chemical into the gulf we undertook their own investigation of this they've been releasing this data over the last few months now basically determined that the chemicals didn't make any more toxic than the oil alone but obviously didn't help the situation ok so it seems. irresponsible to say the least for a company to simply sail into the gulf of mexico and dump two million gallons of carex it into the water for basically a photo op you've got the president i stays down there i guess posing in front of some shrimp and claiming that everything it's ok it's ok to go in the water reminds me of the movie jaws where the other meryl was forced to stand in for the water and say it's ok to go in here but of course the water was toxic and it was not safe to go and well absolutely i mean this is part of a larger problem here basically the way o

that's a picture of him recently on a trip to guam and saipan, the kind of plays he's been spending time actual republicans actually running for impending actual election. michael steele has since embarked on a michael steele goes to the hinterlands bus tour where the republican party chairman plans to visit dons of congressional districts that do not have a competitive race this fall. no matter how much fun it is to talk about michael steele on cable news, and it is fun, no matter his job title as head of the republican party, neither michael steele nor the republican party proper are running the republicans election efforts this year. frankly it is more of a karl rove joint. karl rove's political group american crossroads is pledging to spend $52 million on behalf of republican candidates for these elections this year. $52 million. $52 million. a half million dollars of tea party money ousted an incumbent senator in the alaska primaries this year. karl rove is planning on spending 100 times that much. and the good news for the big guys is that he's raising it all from billionaires. not

after the war, she was just a girl and opened saipan's first beauty shop. she expanded it to retail clothes and shoes. her and her husband started a gasoline station, began manufacturing charcoal and opened saipan's first ice cream shop. people from all over the islands and from across the pacific know and love them. the people of the northern mariana islands honor the many contribution the enterprise made to her community. perhaps her greatest contribution is the work ethic, a shining example to us all. thank you, madam speaker. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from pennsylvania rise? mr. thompson: madam speaker, request unanimous consent to address the house for one minute and to revise and extend. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. mr. thompson: thank you, madam speaker. september 17 is constitution day. on that day the constitutional convention met for the first time in philadelphia to sign the document. it was then sent to 13 states to ratify. in a speech to the senate in 1850, henry clay said the constitution of th