it would restore the pacific coastal salmon recovery fund that has received strong bipartisan support for years and is an existing program, but which this bill explicitly eliminated. the pacific coastle salmon recovery fund is a successful grant to states program to help recover and reserve, endangered and at-risk tribal runs on the pacific coast. in april, president obama proposed in his budget to eliminate this fund and transfer the funds to another fund. from the northwest, the reaction was bipartisan and very swift. the success of this long-standing program was so compelling that the obama administration reversed its course, to their credit, and sent a letter to congress seeking to restore the funds to this recovery plan. my amendment, which i am now blocked from offering on this floor, would simply adopt the obama administration's position. so, mr. speaker, i regret this unprecedented rule, restricting house debate, and this successful epdangered salmon recovery program will suffer for it. in the house action to eliminate this plan frankly will make it much, much more difficult f

they spent more money on transfer of technology, how they created the salmon industry. the government invested money to the salmon farming research and they employed 100,000 people. so this is the point i'm trying to make which is that, you know, you -- globalization is not inevitable. we have made some very hard choices. they are bad choices. people have known what the results are going to be, and that's exactly what we've got. [applause] >> i would like to ask the first question to each of our authors and then opening it up to all of you. kim bobo, wage theft in america. as i read it seemed to me that the book is about the way the neoliberal world that john just described is cheating on the old laws that were passed in the 1930s like the fair labor standards act, and you are acting for pushing back. i wonder if you think in the day, in today's political climate we could pass the fair labor's standard act again if it didn't exist. and maybe the problem is that we don't have the political will in this country to reenact a law that we are no longer enforcing. what do you

has stripped working people of the control over their lives, and he takes us on a journey from the salmon factory in chile to barack obama chicago, and it is a remarkably courageous book to come out at this time which even has a very good word to say about hugo chavez and some criticisms of some of our national leaders. i strongly recommend it. what we're going to do here today is had each author make a 10 minute presentation, and our hope is we can open this up to questions and the dialogue and that you all be roused enough by what these people have to say that i will have a tough job as a moderator moderating you down. [laughter] >> so let's begin with kim bobo who has focused on a specific and really shocking problem that has a working lawyer labor i see a lot of which is the way people are ripped off in small ways, the money you earned and what we can do about. kim. >> do not take advantage of a hired worker who is four and needy, whether that worker is an israelite or is a foreigner residing in one of your towns. pay them their wages each day before sunset because they are poor and a

in the -- in the river in my district that water policy brought us 80,000 dead spawning salmon. it absolutely closed the fishing season on the north coast, it's closed again this year. it's closed on the oregon coast. and it's all because politics was put ahead of science. you can't do business that way. the only way to fix this is to bring all of the agencies

and it's balanced enough that's it's not going to overpower a lighter meal it could compliment a salmonh with a little bit of spice to it. whether at a restaurant you're at home if you're having great food and you need a great beer, boston lager is the beer that i use. sam adams with great food-- there's nothing better. >>> 4-2, the nationals fall to the florida marlins down in florida. what do you think manny acta said to julian tavarez when he went out there on the mound in the 8th inning to take him out of the ballgame. here's what he said. >> i just told him that keep his delivery simple and stop doing any extra stuff with his legs and stop trying to pull that stuff and just keep his delivery simple so he can throw strikes. but it didn't work. >> and really surprised, ray, because one of the big proponents much putting the ball across the plate, manny acta's always talked about tavarez is here because he can throw strikes. >> i haven't seen it consistently. there's times when he goes out there and he is really effective, but then he'll go through a two or three day period where he c

and novak to erikson against salmons. they always say absent fraud, let's get to the will of the voters. these things that look mandatory on the front are directory on the back end if they don't go to the essence of the vote for fraud. that is the way minnesota has always been. >> i understand the claim is before us, we have a due process claim. >> we do. >> and an equal protection claim. do we have a claim before us that challenges the statute itself? >> we do not. >> we have one that directly challenges the application of the statute outside of due process and equal protection? >> i am not sure what you mean. we challenge the operation of the statute. we did not challenge the basic statute on its face. >> only to the extent that there are due process violations and equal protection violation. >> that is correct. >> it seems to me that it is possible there are statutory violations which do not revise the level. >> there may be, depending on how you look at these. >> are those claims in front of it? >> yes and no. when we

focused on her cane response because we snap started hurricane season this week, but we will be a salmonissues that affect not just the hurricane region but all regions of the country in this hearing today and we will be focusing on plans and processes that actually have applicability across the board from many different types of threats the its hurricanes, earthquakes, etc.. the ranking member and i both represent stains that have seen a large portions of our states, major cities and very important role in areas devastated by recent hurricanes. 2004, 2005, in 2008 were particularly hard years for cities and communities throughout the gulf coast from with florida to texas but the last century has been difficult for many states now like to put the first chart up there in a news of a number of hurricanes that is the hurricane belt from 1955 to 2005. and the blue line is very keen katrina -- hurricane katrina which was the greatest among all who the storms depicted there by a significant amount in terms of size of damage and then hurricane rita which ranks second and most of the storms in t

been scheduled to be at this exact site just a few weeks later to dedicate a great newly restored salmon spawning ground. when i went there and saw the damage after the explosion, i was just shocked. that blast had destroyed all of the plant and animal life in the creek and a once very lush and diverse habitat had been burned to ashes. now, again, our community was not unique. at that time on average our nation was suffering one pipeline accident every single day. well, mr. president, while bellingham may not have been unique in our tragedy, we were one of a kind in our response. today, 10 years after this unthinkable happened, the story of the bellingham explosion is also now the story of how a community came together to tackle a nationwide problem and protect other americans from coast to coast. as we, together, learned about the problems with inspection and oversight of our national pipeline safety system, the community channeled their grief into action. through research, i found out that there were inadequate laws, insufficient oversight, too few inspections, and not enough trained i

senator, by unanimous consent your salmon as long as you want to be will be included in the record alongthe way. today we are back on the agenda for the affordable health choices act what i announced yesterday going to proceed with the markup and that is title two, the quality section which our colleague senator mikulski has been a tremendous amount of time at the hearings. since january on the subject matter and i went to several of the hearings with tremendous witnesses than talk about the paradigm shift of going from the quantity based system to a quality based system, value base system as a way not only of improving the quality of health care but also contributing signaling an eye to the cost issue which is an overriding issue for all of us on these matters. what about my to do today and tomorrow for the half day or so i worked throughout is two continue to it by the staff to work on the various amendments that have been already submitted out of this section of others. i gather is the room and let senator mikulski address the issue but i gather there has been some possibility of agre

one of those that you admired, chief justice taft and one of those that you thought went awry with salmon chase, and looking back on the history of the supreme court, people say that the two most important decisions were probably brown versus board of education and marbury versus madison were really different reasons, but looking back over the history of the supreme court, are there some decisions that stick in your mind other than those two as being of the most monumental consequence? because it seems to me that when people start getting beyond marbury versus madison and brown versus board of education, the views about the importance of some of the others diverge, and so i was wondering what cases you might add to that list of really, really landmark cases in the past. >> well, i do think there he's one that stands out, and it's a counterpoint. i mean, people talk about the monumental cases and you assume they're talking about the good ones, marbury and brown. i would say the third most significant case in the supreme court's history was dread scott, in the sense that marbury and brown a

lynching of a friend of hers in memphis, she tells blacks to leave memphis, a city that conover protect salmon and oklahoma territory as opening up in this time in 92 and blacks began to leave. they begin to leave for oklahoma, 20 percent of the back population moves memphis in this time leaving in the same -- leaving the city without much black labor or help and bankrupt. a in the newspapers to get coverage of this, everything in the 19th century particularly great with no political correctness. and the white paper is talk about one day 700 blacks are on the docks, there are at memphis did a relieved because many of them cost and market -- cross of the arkansas river. have everything in the wagon with every belong in the have and with them, with their dogs and their families and there are talking amongst themselves. this is all reported a saying this is right, you need to leave. until there is some justice and i'm going to find kanan. they say hundreds of sinusitis, it is just incredible so short it would be great to see, many of you have voice to talk about history in that way as well. >> wh

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national environmental satellite data and information service or alternativively, literally wipe out all salmon and endangered species funding. mr. chairman, a reduction of the 199 -- $92.4 million to the rest of the title 1 would he will eliminate the minority business development agency and the telecommunications salaries and expenses as well as public telecommunications facilities planning and construction account. those are accounts that directly impact people who are sitting around those tables in those kitchens across the table. for nasa this cut would significantly reduce needed contingency in the development of all new nasa missions and we just heard democrats and republicans both get up, earlier consideration of this bill, speaking with great concern about the cuts that we've taken to human space flight, albeit we're doing that in the short-term because we're waiting for the augustine report to come forward and the administration to come forward with its vision with regard to human space flight. but just that concern, that angst, protectioned about the impact that that would have on th

this morning out presents several of fmi recommendations for revising the bill but i ask my entire salmon be included in the record. in april 2008i testified before the subcommittee on legislation now have modernized overhaul the food safety systems that the food and drug administration and since that time high profile of to say the operation recalls involving tomatoes, jalapenos, peanuts and mustachios have not only it had guns but regrettably acosta listen in some cases even that. many of the themes and ideas that i share today will be similar to those i shared in 2008 but their differences the reflect lessons learned and new witnesses in the existing food safety system identified from the latest recalls. as the purchasing agent for the concern and of the supply chain our industry understands it is vital to ensure that the fda have necessary authority and resources to meet the challenges of today's global marketplace. consumer confidence remains an essential factor in this debate, food safety issues can be extremely complex and consumers weary greatly in their knowledge of the science a

another young woman was diagnosed with type one diabetes at 15, not overweight, never smoked salmon never did anything wrong in some of life's all. as we know it is a growing problem and she now finds herself in a situation where she is pale or 400,000 month into a health-care plan, million 400,000 a week so she is spending about $120 a week on health care costs alone and that is going to expire fairly soon. in just two examples of what goes on. what we're doing here and green with which you said yesterday and i strongly agree that clearly one of the major provisions of our average if we're going to bend these curves is got to get people to change livestock. if people continue lives down here this isn't going to work despite all of the effort is making in other places and we don't change that this is not want to work so bottom of incentivizing whatever else we can do now we did try to model and a way that we can help achieve those results. i think there is this is where i would disagree with richard and i think i suspect we're questioning on this i think there is a value in creating the s

to worry about fighting wars over will come if we can give our grandkids a fighting chance to have salmon in the rivers and glaciers and coastline in florida, that is worth 47 cents a day. now, i think democrats believe that. i believe republicans believe that. i believe independence believe that. the question is, will it on the? all that no -- all i know, following the economic people who look of the model. the reason we have been able to keep the costs down is we have adopted some measures in the bill to insulate consumers. that is why i am happy with its results. host: our first call is on the democratic line from wisconsin. vonnegut west virginia. host: sorry. caller: please be patient with me, i am very hill -- ill. it takes me a lot of time to get my thoughts. guest: take your time. caller: it does have to do with environmental problems. i do live in west virginia where we do value our ability to mine coal because of the need for jobs, good paying jobs. wal-mart is basically our biggest employer. but i am very much concerned with the environment. i was hearing a year or two years ag