i think it is a really great modification and i want to thank senter schakowsky and her staff for working hard to do that with the amendment before us would eliminate the entire program and mr. chairman, i think one of the things we have heard over and over is we have a crisis in primary care and we know the severe shortage of primary-care providers prevent americans from accessing high-quality care. i first hear it in rural communities and now he read in my urban areas. we have to encourage students to go to primary care and decrease expense and potential risk they take in doing so is a fundamental way we can steer medical students into primary care so i would ask the members of the committee to reject this amendment because it eliminates the whole program and hopefully this afternoon we will be able to offer the amendment with senator murkowski that i think what modify and present a very good so what we forward. >> mr. chairman. this would not eliminate the program. this would keep the program the way it is at the current time. nobody wants to eliminate this program. the reason i bring

doctors would not be allowed to use senter reports and recommendations treatment decisions even if they were good ideas. and we are worried about that. so we want doctors to go to your question about who is in charge in the treatment which is also the heart of senator colburn's argument. our language would be make it clear is the doctor who is in charge, but you were language could prohibit doctors from actually using solid information that could come out of the southcom. >> i put in front of each of you hear the bill language as it is. the roberts, colburn amendment. >> mr. chairman? senator mikulski, have you finished ma'am? >> senator roberts? >> thank you, senator mikulski for your willingness to work with us and staff to get to some kind of understanding about this where we could agree. i think that you have counter language, i think we have counter language. but we will see where we go. i am not concerned and i can't speak for dr. colburn but i think that he would agree about the center being prohibited from mandating. my concern is prohibiting cms from using information to mandat

i think it's very much appropriate that the freedom senter is participating in the luncheon celebrating our heroes and i am proud to be a cincinnatian and to welcome this game to the city of cincinnati and i join with the cincinnati reds in thanking major league baseball and with that, mr. speaker, i would yield back the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields back the balance of his time. the gentleman from texas. mr. gohmert: i continue to reserve my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from texas continues to reserve his time. the gentleman from virginia. mr. scott: mr. speaker, i yield such time as he may consume to the gentleman from tennessee, mr. cohen, who represents memphis, the location of the first civil rights baseball game. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from tennessee is recognized. mr. cohen: thank you, mr. speaker. and i want to thank mr. scott for the time. i would like to congratulate cincinnati on their good fortuner to the -- to be the host of this game. memphis was the host of the first two games. the final exhibition game o

washington centered versus patient centered discussion senator mikulski and the amendment is only patient senter if you will. i've been in treat watching the process with senator mikulski starting with the check list which has been around a couple of years now to her work on the discharge plan and that information can about because of this age or q effort to work with hospitals and so i see to learn from hospitals and pass those ideas are around and develop them with one hospital and some sense competing with another and sharing information i think that this whole section much of which senator coburn wants to repeal this section helps in the mechanism of getting hospitals to share information getting hospitals to work with one another. i spend a lot of time as i think every member of this committee does talking to local hospitals and that's the administrators to be sure but also the nurses and doctors and the patient is occupational therapists and all and we really do learn from each other and i think this legislation greases the wheels to do that and this section will help us do that better so

>> senter, thank you. it's an honor to testify before you on behalf of the american red cross. we appreciate this opportunity to share the details and ability to respond to the challenges that may face the american people during the coming months. before i begin my testimony i would like to take the opportunity to thank the new fema administrator for his work in florida and express appreciation of the red cross for his support to the disaster preparedness response efforts in the state. for more than 125 years the red cross has provided released to the victims of disasters help families and individuals prevent prepare for and respond to emergencies from single-family house fires to large-scale disasters like hurricanes to red cross works to provide essential life savings sustaining services to those in need. we shelter, feet, provide critical supplies and emotional support to those impacted by disasters in communities across the country. we rely heavily on generous contributions from the public including donations of time, money and blood. today the report on preparations for th

help them not just with their pregnancy, but with the deliver and the caring of that child and these senters have programs to help educate the moms and the dads on good parenting skills, something that awful us can befit from. they also work to give them a points program so as they go through each one of their phases of education they can earn point ises so they can have a free bed, a free basinet, free clothing, free food. it is a wonderful experience for these young women and these young men. and it really makes them better parents, not just for that baby, but for future babies and builds a stronger relationship in many cases between that mother and that father. and so it's not just pregnancy centers that want these women to have their child, but pregnancy centers that reach out and help that woman and the dad with that child, not just through its birth, but through the process of its natural life. and at least the ones in my district opened their arms to that and toward the end of all of the pregnancy centers, you know, i really salute them because they're doing a great job and i yield ba

>> senter i will note the committee asked my office to examine pilot pay.it's an important factor as several members of the committee have pointed out as an influence on the question of fatigue and also perhaps a proxy for the question of experience and how that would relate to performance in the cockpit. >> let me -- i'm sorry go ahead. >> as we continue our investigation of the colgan accident facts will continue to be analyzed and we could end up with some form of recommendation dealing with fatigue that could also have relevance to lowercase skills. >> compensation issues. >> senator from maine. if you refer back to the statement we submitted for the record there's a copy of reference, bloomberg panel report stimulated by hearings held by this committee back in 1990. that report covers preemployment requirements for airlines. it covers salary ranges for pilots, it covers what kind of basic training should be provided by the civilian flight schools because at that time the primary reason for the report was the committee's interest why there was such a dr

senter cantwell. >> thank you, mr. chairman. ms.tenenbaum, thank you for the meeting in my office last week and we are glad that your nomination is before the committee today. i was wondering if i could ask you about emerging products associated with hazards. in 2007 the commission established a pilot program for an early morning system on the emerging products and association hazard and my understanding is that it uses expert assessment tools to quickly and avoid these issues and proposed protective action. do you know whether this pilot has been successful? >> i don't, senator cantwell. thank you for the question but i don't have information on that. it seems like common sense approach to work with the industry's ahead of time to advise them of the regulation and requirements on consumer products before they develop these products and put them in the stream of commerce. >> i guess that is why was getting that weather in principle that approach helps the commission to be more productive than completely reactive and should the commi

weeks and sometimes months after broadcasters will be changing the location on the tower which they senter the broadcast. we know some broadcasters are sitting of translators or transmitters to boost signal strength and in the and that is a good things and means the reach further and more households will be able to reach or receive the signals but we don't yet know the full strength of each of the broadcasts in all the markets will be. we also don't know what the real world impact of interference is going to be. there are challenges people are facing as they installed their converter box and antennas with interference. sometimes it's the building of a living, concrete building and sometimes it is a large tree that might sit in front of your house and might be between the broadcast station and where your antenna is set up but we know there will be variations the first time a snowstorm hits the twin cities what's going to happen to people's broadcast television digital signals on that day. what's going to happen when there's a hurricane or thunderstorms that hit areas of the gulf coast. what

. >> host: you could have went down to senter. >> guest: we did.we had to know if we could run for supreme court but we couldn't run for that and then they wanted samet pro tem and speaker of the house and we just marched right down. >> host: finally got to the bottom with those of us at the house of representatives. >> guest: they felt it needed to be something important and that was a federal race. they wanted it to be in washington, d.c., they wanted to matter so i am sure they didn't think it was the bottom of the barrel. they thought it was pretty big stuff. >> host: do understand we are talking about a real campaign. this isn't a school project although, tierney, you were constantly asked if it was a real campaign? >> guest: sure. we had to defend that quite a lot, yes. >> host: tell me for real, tierney, yes, your students dared you and you took them up when you told them you could do anything but did awaken something in you that may have been dormant all the time? >> guest: mabey. my parents were fairly politically active and very outspoken

sali thank senter sanders for again, bringing a little dose of reality as to what the parameters of our on health insurance. mr. chairman, our staff has continued to work on these, on the prevention title and a forked up the two amendments with senator enzi, amendment number 50 and 51 and i would ask unanimous consent be adopted as modified. >> witho