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has spent time in south wales with the military knows that there is an incredibly strong case for the stathan defense training establishment. i have heard that case on all the visits that i have made, but he will understand that we must have a proper strategic defense review. we have not had one since 1998, and everything has to be included in that review. i would just say to him, as he feels so strongly about this, that he was in the last government, and that there was an opportunity to give that project the go-ahead before the election, but they did not do it. >> hear hear. >> now that we know that the last government spent £1 billion on advertising and "invested" £12,000 in golf balls, is the prime minister surprised that there is no money left? [laughter] >> we are not really surprised, not least because of the letter that we got from the former chief secretary to the treasury. i am glad to see that he has apologized for the letter, although he has not yet apologized for the legacy. my honorable friend makes a good point. in addition, we have discovered that £320 million was spent on

thats st the whole issue of the uniqueness of aviation in alaska. would it be fai in o conversation that we had that there is some differences but you have to see them as they lay out but in rural alaska, rural states having a full-blown tsa, for example, i'llust u an example i used with you was in a village like chevak, very small that maybe there needs toe not one size fits all but derstanding of rural internal state travel and how tsa can be more custome friendly in that regard. is tt a fair -- >>hat's fa, setor. if confirmed i look forward again in working with and the committee on those issues, on those airports. he resources >> last comment -- i know you've been t palmer for awhile. you went there for a short bit. look forward to try to bring you t alaska and we' go visit on of those villages. >> thanks, senator. i appreciate it. >> thank y very much >> mr. pistole, i warn you that the senho just spoke is obsessed and properly soh alaska and you will see him and hear from him often. senator warner. >> thank you, mr. chrman. i'm not sure my goo

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free, fair,nd open debate is a st. i contend that no bill is better than a bill that is rest and doneastefully all to tout a first-place finish in the race to ruin the world economy. if given the opportunity for free, fair, and open debate, i will be fighting to make sure that end-users, those who are not too big to fail,hose that did not contribute to the financia risis, are not treated like those that did. in otherords, i will be supportihe tenants of the house passed a veron of the derivative tle, which iight add is the only truly bipartin portion of this legislation. if we choose to ignore the pleas of the end user community and forced burdensome and unwanted regulations on compaes, capital otherwise used for research and development, infrastructure building and other job-creating activities wi come to aend. i received testimony from several of my own constituents warning but this bill cld do to them. if the chesapeake energyo. were forced to post margin to hedge three to fo years of its pruction, it wld cost them

they started the st. vincent hospital and school of nursing. the dedication of the sisters of st. joseph has no bounds. they serve as nurses, teachers, social worker, and community leaders. as a former student of the sisters, i'm eternally grateful for their love and guidance. mr. speaker, it is my privilege to honor the sisters of st. joseph of northwestern pennsylvania today and i thank them for their 150 years of service to our community. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlewoman yields back the balance of her time. for what purpose does the gentleman from pennsylvania rise? >> permission to address the house for one minute. revise and extend. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, so ordered. mr. pitts: mr. speaker, we have heard a lot lately about the need for a european style value aided tax in the u.s. to solve our budget problem. just yesterday the ruling coalition in britain announced it wants to raise their nation's value-added tax from 17.5% to 20%. it's estimated that this increase would cost 163,000 jobs and reduce consumer spending by $5.3 billion i

because there are enty of people who like bubles, but on he other hand i think the policymakers can take st by not removing themselves from the position of addressing bubble behavior, especially with respect to re estate, but other things as well. the stock market is important, is an important asset as well and let's face it-- the central bank does respond to the stock market and if the stock arc it went down 20% tomorrow, the fed would react. or, but then it has to be symmetric, aga like some of the circuit breaker rules. if the market goes down by 10% then we shut down the market. whatf it goes up by 1%? that is okay. again, you want symmetric to symmetric rules. i amot sur but i think more about foster's rule about whether you shldn't allow asmetric response, that is, when prices rise and fall, should the response be symmetric and i will leave that as something that can be in t question-and-ansr period. those are my thoughts and for wh it is worth-- i am still willing t bet we will always have bubbles. >> thank you john. i told you i thought we had an outstanding panel and you can sethat

low approval rating -- everybody is looking at congress and the president and the supreme court in st. poo, poo. since it is such a huge money- making endeavor and everybody is making money except the people, why don't we have the congress people volunteer to have their salaries -- i think there was a joke on met whitman spending millions of dollars for a $50,000 a year position. why don't we take the money they for and put it in a pool people that make less. i do not want to see my taxpayer dollars go out into an unhealthy atmosphere where everyone is bankrupt. you never know when the dmv is open. take the people that already have the money and power -- they got to office because of the power they have. take that money and spend it on have nots? guest: i wish we could all be in the same class economically. then maybe we could do that. the senate seems o have multimillionaires. the house reflective of the american population. many members live on the weekly paycheck for monthly paycheck. i do. the only people that could stay in congress according to the viewer could be multimillionair

it's in port in st. petersburg this week getting ready for another voyage to figure out what's happening to the oil, the fish, the whole gulf ecosystem. when at sea, the ship deploys a variety of ocean monitoring devices and sensors. one of them looks a bit like a cruise missile, but without an engine, it's a programmable underwater glider. each one costs more than $100,000 dollars. >> we have five gliders. we have four of them that are depth rated for 200 meters and we have one that is depth rated for a thousand meters. they are equipped with a sensor suite that give us capacity to measure temperature and salinity with depth. we can also measure various one of the key sensors on here is what they call sedom sensor, color dissolved organic matter, it can be used to measure the presence of hydrocarbons. >> reporter: since the well blew out, there have been a lot of pictures of the surface oil affecting the marshes, the beaches, and the birds. but there's also been a lot of debate and discussion about the

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if at no additional ccst, of the flood of st. george will fly -- the flag of st. george will fly over [unintelligible] i am looking at all of the benches here. house, no matter what part of the and united kingdom they come from, they will be shouting, "come on, england!" >> dos -- does he still think that hunting for sport will be considered in the review? >> everything has to be considered. there is the status of mental visits.people who require%- because of ttagedies, very strict rules come in terms of -pwhat people who keep guus at home ave to do in terms of very strict security. i remember asking how much leakage was there froo legally held guns into the illegal and black-market. the answer was virtually nine. if we are looking for what the problem is, it is clearly that we have a huge number of guns in our society that we have to get rid of. if there is an appalling problem in this case where a switch flipped in someone's head. we must make sure we have the robuss laws that we need. >> each week, but we dare the prime minister's questions. c-span.org @, -- at

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we must ensure tt we are doing everything tat we can to help those that are suffering the st. counseling services are just one component of this comprensive approach that we need to deal with this ongoing crisis. people must know their options when faced with foreclosure so thathey can make informed decisions basedn their own personal circumstances. navigating these options is often difficult, stresulnd confusing to those who have never had to dealith such issue counseling can help some people find ways to stay in their homes while it offers others a path to resolven impeding foreclosure and get ba on their feet. if we are going to incentivize mortgage servicers to provide thirt-party counseling to those behind on those payments, then we need to get to those who are hurtinghe most. my amendment would have counseling serves to areas of the country that have been hardest hit by financial crisis. i urge my colleagues on both sideof the aisle to support this amendment and help tho who need it the most. serve the balance of my the chair: the gentleman reserves the balance of his ti

the pontiff spoke at a mass for 15,000 priests in st. peter's square in vatican city. he vowed to ensure that such abuse is ended, once and for all. >> we promise to do everything possible to ensure that such abuse will never occur again. and that in admitting to-- ministry we will do anything we can to the authenticity of their vocation we will make every effort to accompany prooetss on their journey so the lord will watch over them in troubled situations. >> sreenivasan: hundreds of cases of sexual and physical abuse by priests have been reported in europe and the u.s. benedict has been criticized for his handling of abuse cases when he was archbishop of munich, germany, in the 1980s. russia has reversed itself and will not deliver air defense missiles to iran after all. that word came via the french president's office today. it said russian prime minister vladimir putin has agreed the sale would violate a new round of u.n. sanctions. just yesterday, the russian foreign minister said the missile sale would go through. wall street ended the week on an up note. the dow

i plan to work th my colleagues on language -- american itry st act responsibly andontribute to development and not be complicity in perpetuating conflict. in closing, is prudent to look back on lessonsearned and implemented frothe great depression. ring the 1930's,egislation was designed to curb systemic it is time to set the stage for decades of financial stability, economic growth, and job creation. >> i want to thank chairman dodd and all my esteemed colleagues for their outstanding work on this matter. i am pleased to say that -- putting finishing touches on much-need financial regulation for the americaneople and my constituents. while were in the midst of reforming agencies, i don' want us to do irreparable harm to an agency that crently exists and has existed for years and has been at the forefront of protectingmerican consumers. it is my firm view that the sec should retain all the authority it currently holds. that concept is set forth in time of 10 of the consumer protection act. it must continue toversee and authorize the fcc. looking at all reliabl industries, the commission ha

i am going to skip past multipolar is somism and move st to the big finale. the two trends we have covered and the ache that we did not have time to get to, it seems to pe that these trends are rich with the potential to unleash created new catholic energies. they are also fault with the possibility of new division, near paralysis, and you polarization. these are complicated matters, and there is more than one catholic opinion about how we ought to respond to them. it means that in these more complicated new world of the 21st center, before we get to thinking about what the rise of the global south means or anything else, there is a kind of court challenge will have to surmount. we have to overcome the tendency to be constantly of interval tribal warfare in the church and foster what i am calling a spirituality of communion. that is a new willingness to accept those things that unite us rather than those that divide us. a new willingness to put the emphasis on the best of what all the various movements in tribes have to offer rather than what we do not like.

host: st. petersburg, florida. harry, on the independent line. caller: what do you think would happen to the military services people like general mcchrystal would go around -- are you there? guest: we are hearing you, harry. caller: if mcchrystal got away with what he did, don't you think the lower servicemen would start doing the same thing? the next thing is, would you please define to the american people the tax dollars that you are spending in afghanistan -- what is your definition of winning? guest: i think those are good questions, and that is why the president had to fire general mcchrystal. it's sort of an odd situation for somebody that has had the level of professional experience that mcchrystal had to have had some kind of an imbedded reporter from some sort of counter cultural "rolling stone." there seems like there is a back story there. why was he there in paris? that is an odd situation. most people that get to the level of being a general or, for instance, in a congressional office -- the person who talks to the media is either t

when john presented to our emergency department at st.is hospital, he was in grave condition and i really have to attribute the action of the paramedics, the ems, wes hartford fire department for resuscitating john, putting in two ivs in the right arm to get him fluids because he was severely dehydrated and essentially he was -- he was near death when he arrived in our department. >> larry: wow. are you right handed, john? >> i am. >> larry: so you lost your left arm. right? >> yeah. really -- could have been either arm to reach down for the tool and thankfully it was my left. >> larry: what did he didn't try to amputate it, doctor? what would have happened? >> you know, larry, what happens when gangrene sets in to part of your body is the infection takes over the organ systems. and there's a release of toxins throughout the body, and essentially, it shuts down the heart, the kidneys and he was -- he was in acute renal failure. he was -- he was going to die. his organs were failing so by actually cutting off that dead, nonviable tissue, j

and that it would really be mistake and i'm sure the united states would not move in this direction st to give hamas that authority on its own. briefly, what can be done to legitimatize an israeli investigation? what we're talking about now, it seems to be an argument about wi it be an international investigation with israeli involvement or an israeli investigation with international involvement. and obviously the latter is possibly acceptable to israel. something that the israelis are arguing about amongst themselves now. >> let me just venture into the -- wt can be done in terms of alleviating -- in terms of lifting the siege. look, we also have to understand these area have domestic politics and as long as saleed is there, it's going to be very diffult for the israeli government to suddenly say, okay, we're going to change our policy. so we have to come up with some sort of global deal, a, for the united states it's released and the modalities as to the inflow of goods into gaza. and third some kind of assurances that there won't be any more rocket attacks. you know, somebody asked

has interest in the outcome is a model that has potential conflicts of interest and those conflicts st be managed properly. >> can they be? fannie mae and freddie mac, these four institutions that d this bush poll. -- thi push-pull. can it really be overcome? its like transparency. everybody loves it. they also say we can handle our conflicts. it does not appear to have been based on this leaders period. >> e poor performance of ratings from the 2006-2007 period and residential mortgage- backed securities and other related securities, hsing related securities, it is not -- has not been replicated elsewhere in the business. to the extent that there is a concer that there cannot be superior ratings quality and even in the midst of a severe economic downturn, i think it is a misunderstanding. as i said, because the parties that are wng to pay fees for ratings, whether they be issuers or investors or government, have an interest in the outcome of those ratings, i do not see how to avoid potential conflicts of interest. we also have an important public good that is pduced which is the ratin

st november, israe intercepd a sp carrying hundreds of tons of iranian weapon intended for hezblah.amon t most pressing concern is hezbollah's rusal to disarm a cald for in the 1989 taif accord thatnded the lebanese civil war a more recently in u.n. security council resolutions 1559 and again 01. e sstantial demilitarization, if not the complete disarmament of hezbollah is required to transform lebanon from a perpetually war-torn society and geopolitical pawn into a durable 21st century state. as long as hezbollah is armed, the group can dominatanon through reat of force. justou years aer its 34-day wawith israel, hezbolh's military capabilitiesoday are mo robust thanever. with the help of iran and syria, its arsenal has becomeore soistited and melethal. during the 2006 nflict, heollahired approximately 4,000 rockets. 4,000 rockets into israel killing 44sraeli citins. furthermore it retains mility superiority to lebanon's armed forc. in april, defense secrery gates said hezbollah had, and i quote, far more rockets and ssiles than most governments in theworld, unquote. we must never

i was on mount st. helens 30 years ago.ndreds of people who went to the levee and sandbag. what we saw coming down that river was water. we realized we did not know how to handle this. that is what this is. i encourage you to take your anger and your pain -- which, believe me, i do feel because this is a global catastrophe -- take that and channel it into, ok, bp is this and that. ok, what do we need to do? it is up to us. we cannot sit around and point fingers at people. we have to get people out there. we have to court and a people and volunteers from across the country. -- we have to coordinate people and volunteers from across the country. >> i think you from the call from washington. -- forhink you from the the call from washington. we are seeing at. all we want is the feddral government to help or get out of the way. we do not need bp to call the shots. this was an opportunity for the federal government to step up and make sure they did not repeat the mistakes of the aftermath of katrina. the federal government was ve

and into terror are bonn -- i mean into st.ernard and plaquemines parish on the east side they are concerned with the wetland. the lake up here is open to fishing. lake katherine is open to fishing but you have protection. that oil is collecting on chandelier island. if it keeps going like that it will get in the north end and get into the lakes from the back side. you don't know where the tide is going to take this stuff. >> would you point out new orleans as reference? >> it is on the north end of all of it. >> thank you. >> you are welcome. >> she is the on-seen coordinator. the administrator is on the way and should be here in 10 minutes and admiral allen. >> we are heading up here. >> have you seen john glover around? >> no. his son is here. >> michael? >> mr. glover is actually here. >> lead the way, guys. >> how are you doing? >> making it. staying out of the rain. >> got you stranded down here? >> an assignment until further notice. >> in the last week and a half we are dealing with the parishes trying to push authority

that it is very important people remember this -- both the situation in katrina and new orleans and st. bernard parish and situation in the gulf not anything natural about them. they were engineering failures and massive engineering failures. there is nothing, a drilling rig operated properly with proper procedures can be a very safe thing. it had been done a lot. when you had a situation like you had here and you didn't have proper regulation and there wasn't a wall of separation, separation between the regulator and the regulated, this kind of thing happens. and i think we have got, we have got to tighten down on that. but we can tighten down and get it running up again. >> larry: senator, can you comment on the president's selection of michael bromwich served as justice department inspector general. he is going to revamp, minerals management and regulate offshore drilling. what do you think? >> we need somebody to clean up minerals management. ken salazar started the job, think he found a bigger mess than he bargained forch . government does have a job to play in regulating not just

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he was among a group of residents who gathered at the st. thomas catholic church to talk about how the oil spill has been affecting business. >> if the oil comes in, they're destroyed, not just temporarily, but for a long, long time. >> reporter: really? >> yes, yes, sir. oil has a really adverse effect on the oyster reefs. the oyster and reproduction stage, the oysters put out a mick, we call is spat. and this spat swims around in the water until it find a clean, hard surface to attach itself to and it grows from there. now, if the oil coats of shell then the spat can't stick, and this can continue for years. >> reporter : byron encalade is president of the louisiana oysts, or association. he testified before the house judiciary committee last thursday and said the oil disaster, much like katrina, has been decadees in the making. >> once again we find ourselves crippled by a disaster we did not create. >> reporter: of the residents in plaquiminess parish are pushing hard for the government to quickly construct barrier sand islands to buffer

are we doing the right st, i guess is the question. >> well, there's a whole host of things that ngeth respect to blow-out preventers including the kind of redundancies built in, additional casing shear rams that we will be requiring and additional redundancies in their actati a actuation and i'll ask steve black to comment briefly on the report because he was the principal author of the report on the safety recommendations. >> and when y do that, mr. black, in addition to understanding that, i'm curious to know, there's going to be a lot of new technical requirements that will be required going forward and understand that. but what about instituting some minimum training standards, for instance, if you're going to have standards on certification, will you also require certification of people on the rig that are working in these areas that are related to safety and control so you got the technological side but you also have the human side and i think we recognize there's been human error here, as well. how does that integrate as well if you can address that? >> thank you, senator mur

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st. for, this merger will likely lead to rationalizing capacity by closing or scaling back hubs in the midwest which would harm a significant number of consumers. these considerations require us to ask whether the three national networks that will emerge from this process will be sufficient to provide a satisfactory range of choice and service and sufficient competition to keep prices close to cost. standard antitrust analysis focuses on horizontal overlaps between airport fares. if an origin and destination route is served by only a few airlines and of a merger would leave the market more concentrated, then the boj will likely and properly require a divestiture or some other arrangement with respect to that route. this is necessary, but it is not sufficient. especially if we look at competition among the system and not within specific repairs. much has been made about low- cost carriers and preserving competition. southwest influences prices wherever it competes and southwest is perceive