sweden did it by allowing these products to come to market. as a matter of fact, swedish smokeless snoose is currently on the market in the united states. i'm not going to tell you the market share is big but i can tell you this, the risk of death or disease is less than 2%. but under h.r. 1256, which the senate may or may not adopt this afternoon, what we would do is we would eliminate swedish snoose and we would lock smokers into the categories that are currently on the market. all because of an arbitrary february 2007 date because somebody was too lazy to change the bill. think about that. that we would take something that sweden found over 25 years had been an incentive get people f of cigarettes and move towards other products to the degree -- to the degree that in sweden they had a decline in lung cancer. they had no detectable increase in oral cancer. they had an improvement in cardiovascular health. the tobacco-related mortality in sweden among the lowest in the developing world. why is that? because the authors of h.r. 1256 suggest th

used to get people off of cigarettes, that sweden used to reduce lung cancer, that sweden used to bring down cardiovascular disease, that sweden used to reduce mortality by tobacco products, and we're going to eliminate it. and we're going to lock them into everything sweden is going to try to get rid of. think about this before you do it. for god's sakes, once you pass this, it's too late. mr. president, current cessation programs don't work. i said earlier, those products have a 95% failure rate. given current smokers an opportunity to migrate to a less harmful product, it is a public health initiative, not creating a pathway to reduced harmful products. it is not a public health bill. but those products are banned in h.r. 1256. senator hagan's and my amendment allow these products to be marketed and regulated. marketed and regulated. marketed and regulated correctly. our amendment establishes the tobacco harm reduction center within the office of health and human services. we provide the harm reduction center with the regulatory authority to better protect our children from tobacco u

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never dreamed we would use sweden as an example of where the united states would go. but when the focus is on how you reduce risk, the risk of disease and death, they never lost focus of what that was. they weren't clouded by the introduction of new tobacco products and just a blinded effort to lock in what existed. they experimented and found new products that would actually entice smokers to switch. the claim that in some way, shape, or form that these products are gateway products, that they will take nonsmokers and turn them into smokers. well, from the royal college of physicians in 2007, relatively uncommon. no statistic is perfect, and i'm sure that there are some that might have made a decision to use one of these products. but as you saw on the chart before, had they decided to use it, the risk of that swedish snuff wasn't 100%. it was 3%. there was no risk of heart disease, copd, lung cancer, the things that one might get from these products over here that the base bill 1256 locks in. as a matter of fact, mr. president, let me bring this chart up. harm reduc

found out a study did exist in sweden. i didn't make it up. they found out that the c.d.c. did to a -- did do a study. and if we did nothing, we'd reduce smoking more than if we passed this bill. they found out that in sweden people did become healthier because of a decision that use smokeless products. but i think this is all it took for the american people to understand it. that you can't take an agency of the federal government that's -- whose responsibility for protecting the public health by ensuring the safety, efficacy and biological products, medical devices, nation's food safety and products that emit radiation, that it is impossible to take an agency that that's their core mission and give them a product where you ask them to ignore the standard that they follow on everything else that they regulate. i think the american people would say it seems reasonable to create a new entity to regulate tobacco. if for no other reason, if you didn't believe any of

and when the fighting started, even the embassadors from austria and sweden started writing saying this is unusual because even the jews are taking up arms. and a couple of weeks later there was an appeal written in the government is said to the jews saying listen, children of the tribes of israel, you who have in your heart implanted the image of god almighty, all five are willing to help in the struggle for the fatherland we should act, the time has come to concentrate, concentrate all of our strength, let us fight for the country as long as every drop of blood is left. my beloved brothers awaken like lions and leopards. unfortunately, once again poland was attacked by three sides. and at the battle, kosciuszko was surrounded and he had a giant pike driven to his hip and another driven through his back and a punctured a sciatic nerve and he couldn't walk and he was thrown into prison in russia. in russia and he spent two years in prison but after catherine the great died, kosciuszko maza offered freedom by her son, paul. here we see him over to the site with kosciuszko during the inca

because he was going to cross sweden in the winter to go to england so we figured he needed to be warm. now you see the fur here when kosciuszko made his way back to america after the revolution. he gave that fur coat to thomas jefferson. now thomas jefferson is seen here and the most famous portrait of him but in addition to that if you go down to the jefferson memorial you will see jefferson is portrayed wearing this fur coat. now, it was not just blacks, jews and peasants that kosciuszko stood up for. he also stood up for the native americans when they saw the founding fathers began murdering them and pushing them west. this is chief little turtle who showed up in kosciuszko's room in philadelphia with the present. it was a combination tomahawk and peace pipe and he gave kosciuszko this piece by bennie said i hear you are this righteous white man who is standing up for everybody's so we wanted to show you we appreciate this. kosciuszko saab that chief little turtle was squinting so he gave him his glasses and chief little turtle put on these glasses and said my god you have given me

and when the fighting started, even the ambassadors from austria and sweden started writing to their king saying this is unusual because even the jews are taking up arms. and a couple of weeks later, there was an appeal in the government gazette to the jews saying listen, children, of the tribes of israel, yee who have in their@yq implanted the image of god almighty all that are willing to help in the struggle for the father land, we act. the time has come to consecrate for our strength let us fight for our country. my beloved brothers awaken like lions and leopards. unfortunately, once again poland was attacked by three sides. and at the battle, kosciuszko was surrounded and he had a giant pike driven through his hip. he had another one driven through his back. and they punctured his sciatic nerve and he couldn't walk and he was thrown into prison in russia. now, in russia he spent two years in prison with john la pierre. but after katherine the great died, kosciuszko was offered freedom by her son czar paul. here we see john9y la pierre by his side who was with him during his incar

sweden is doing a similar thing. norway is doing it. in belgium, the government is no carrierringconnect 1200 250 n >> it is not exactly a fair comparison. france was facing the same decisions we were. they decided they did not want to be dependent upon foreign sources of energy anymore than we did. we have abundant supplies of coal and natural gas. they went the nuclear route. we have a complete government owned and regulated utility, it is easy to make those long-term decisions and stick with them. as mr. book talked about earlier, we allow the consumers to make the choice did we binge and purge and go from cheaper to more expensive. it is a very good. that the per kilowatt hour amortized is as cheap as anything. it brings about. that does not get talked about. one of the greatest policies we can look into is whether or not we can extend the life of the plants we have now. people talk about the efficiency being below hanging for its. those existing reactors are cash cows. the costs have been immortalized out. the costs are significant

there are no telephones or post offices in the rural areas of honduras as there are in sweden and switzerland. you can poll using the telephone. there are remote areas in honduras and villages that are not easy to reach. there are very widely dispersed rural areas where people lacking -- are lacking reason ways of communication. the armed forces refuse to distribute the material that was necessary for the survey. they are refused to do so. the workers, the unions, the wlaborers, said that we will disseminate the polling papers. this was a crime. i wish to call for a march of people in honduras you are going to distribute the polling materials. their freedom of movement was interrupted. these people were willing to distribute the equipment necessary for the survey and able to do so in 24-hours, which earlier would have required six months time. the congress said that the oas was not welcomed. there were ambassadors of all countries who were accredited to observe the survey. there were television programs that were brought -- broadcast on how the survey would proceed on peaceful conditions. the

about how japan dealt with its banks when they were in financial chris dwristyifments experts from sweden. we had someone who had been part of the r.t.c. here in the united states when the savings and loan collapsed, and someone who was a specialist on the great depression. we did lots of other times in other circumstances. we came away from that saying that the zessful efforts to -- successful efforts to deal with failing financial institutions had always been marked by transparency, assertiveness in dealing with the financial institution, demanding greater accountability from the financial institutions, and clarity in the programs. what it is that the government was about and what it is trying to do. our may report, the last report before this one, considered the state of small business in consumer lending and whether the program was well designed to attract new capital. we concluded that there are serious problems in the small business lending area. we thought it was a much more mixed picture in terms of consumer lending. with small business lending, our conclusion was that the program

they do is they use money for programs to fly muslim people from the united states of america to sweden, to talk about issues in regards to islamic outreach, which i have serious concerns with that particular program. but that's the state department and that's what they want to do. i think they probably would have thought that the diplomatic efforts pakistan made in the swat valley was the thing we should have done. it was not something that should have been done. we know the taliban broke the truce real quickly after that was done. but look, the department of state should not be taking the lead in this vital issue. it should be the department of defense and i think that ultimately members of the body on both sides of the aisle understand that. so i urge a defeat of this flawed particular piece of legislation and i reserve my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from florida yields back. the gentleman from florida reserves the balance of her time they have gentleman from new york may control the time of the gentleman from california. the gentleman from new york. >> i'm pleased t

the inboard and outboard engine were invented in my district working with volvo in sweden. many of the larger boat companies are based there, everything from float boats to fishing boats to high-powered speed boats. it is a critical part of our district. it has been a pleasure to work with the boating industry as we work to get retail financing for boats. we hear a lot right now about gm and chrysler. i represent a county where we have been working to make sure the r.v. industry -- 50% of the industry is there. if you look at what they have done, you will see it says, cars, trucks, r.v.'s, motor cycles and boats, because the same challenge that we're facing in the auto industry is true for the boating industry. and that is how do we make sure there's adequate boats being purchased from manufacturers and the financing to keep them afloat and making sure the dealers, if they can only get 1/4 of their inventory there, it isn't going to work. this is a very unusual time, an important time for the boating i industry. not only are we entering the summer season in the great lakes

the industry was battling to maintain the right to sell soda in sweden drinks in school so they produced a model showing that soda this not contribute to obesity. in the early days of cell phones, driving while using a cell phone would be bad, the companies involved of telecommunications paid for a number of studies that showed that driving while holding and talking on the cell phone leads to little or no increase tissue. that is nonsense but they produce those studies. in the early days of that debate they were part of that debate. the gasoline additive, a big settlement on the contaminated water supplies across the country. the state of california classified it as a possible carcinogen, so the producers of that chemical contacted one of these companies, they produced a study showing it was not dangerous and when tom delay tried to get legislation passed the taxpayers would pick up the cost of the cleanup economists produced a study saying the cost would not be very high so congress would be more willing to buy into it. you see it over and over again and no matter how cynical you become

varies strong whether never seen before in these circles for the most of the scientific organization sweden and the white house had to retreat but there still these requirements so there is now a new requirement that has essentially stopped agencies from moving forward. congress requires the national institute for environmental health sciences to issue a report on carcinogens every year or every other year. we are now four years late in getting that document now, because the agency is trying to figure out how to get it out for the review because of this the white house requirement. many of the changes in force but the white house are done in secret. the most recent one which is very discouraging is a requirement that the environmental protection agency's basic document about clinical res, essentially they will be reviewed in secret by interagency process. they will allow the defense department, the agriculture department to weigh in before other scientists can weigh in and can essentially force changes which are being made by scientists for codys to be this process was done publicly. scient

sweden is doing a similar thing. norway is doing it. belgium, they are asking, the government is asking the nuclear operators to pay a 250 million euro contribution to the state government because they are making so much money off of nuclear. so this whole question about nuclear being too expensive, i think you want to look at the real answers there. >> i would like to make a couple points to that. one, comparing the united states market economy to command-and-control socialized economies isn't exactly a fair apples to apples comparison. when france made a decision they were faced with the same circumstances that we were both the oil embargo. they decided they did not want to be dependent on foreign energy oil more than we did. we have supplies of coal and natural gas. we went down that road. they had not. they went down the nuclear route. frankly, when you have a completely integrated government owned and government regulated industry, utility, it's easy to make those long term decisions and stick with them. were as much as mr. booktal

runner up was sweden with a socialized health care system it was at 113st%. on a per capita basis we spend the most in the world, $5,267 for every man, woman, and child in america. if you look at our outcomes we are in the middling ranks of industrialized countries in terms of outcomes. we rank 50th out of 224 nations in the world in terms of life expectancy. as a nation, we are spending more on health care than everybody else but we are not necessarily getting the outcomes we need. our challenge is to make health care costs obviously more affordable. a recent "usa today" poll showed 21% of americans struggling with health care costs being able to manage it. significantly up from what it would have been a decade or two decades ago. those who currently have and like their existing health care coverage still nonetheless often lament the rapidly increasing costs of premiums and recognize we all pay a cost for emergency room treatment for those without health care coverage. in fact it's estimated that cost to everybody, $1,000 per capita per year because o our fe

it's a ton of money, and it's only going to be seen in sweden. only in sweden? all the hollywood guys do this. guess one commercial couldn't hurt. ♪ ( whispery ) bud light. dancers: vroom vroom, der party starter! ( cat meows, conan hisses ) conan: vroom vroom, party starter! that wasn't me. ♪ party starter... party starter ♪ hey, conan! vroom vroom, party starter! party starter. why don't you go back to sweden, man? >> well, chad ochocinco feels so good about being a bengal again, he's predicting the playoffs. pro bowl receiver says this year's team has as much if not more talent than the '05 squad, the last group to go to the postseason. so bob holtzman, what's behind his complete attitude reversal from a season ago. >> chad ochocinco looks happy and fast and interested on thursday, exactly the opposite of how he looked at last june's minicamp when he was so disgruntled he didn't even tie his shoes. ochocinco now admits he made a lot of mistakes last year and says he didn't realize it until he ran into actor denzel washington at a laker game and got a tongue l

by adopting a system that has been a failure every place it has been tried whether it is sweden or great britain or canada is not something that we are prepared to do in this country. i know the effort's out there. they're going to make every effort to see that that happens. we're going to have to make sure it doesn't happen. with that, i yield the floor, mr. president. mr. brown: mr. president? the presiding officer: the senator from ohio. mr. brown: thank you, mr. president. i know that most of my colleagues seem to enjoy the government health care plan for -- of which they are a member, and i -- i'm always interested when i hear my colleagues, first of all, almost all of whom are on the government health insurance plan talk about government not providing a decent health care plan. and i'm particularly intrigued when i hear my colleagues say it's a dismal failure anywhere else in the world. and, you know, i'm not proud of this, as i stand on the floor of the united states senate, but i know we spend twice what almost any other country does in the world on health care and i also know th