mcelroy working in tanzania with public health leaders and tanzania and zanzibar and particular and it was launched just a couple of years ago but again has already showed remarkable progress. went vegan count on is that he will in fact take and use those best practices and spread them wherever we can. one of the things that may be, one of the reasons it was pioneered in zanzibar is because 's because we had seen such progress down to the point of below 1% affection rate and the question was what the success looked like. when is it that we can say we have crossed the goal line? meets is an effort to do just that. it is an effort to take the remarkable gains that have been made in lock them in and to take those final steps to stamp out whatever god willing minor infection outbreaks that we see. with respect to the faith-based story, nigeria in particular but in other parts of africa it really is remarkable just as you pointed to. it's remarkable for two reasons. its advantages are really twofold. in terms of being able to deliver a product, i was always amazed as ambassador win organiza

this is the president of tanzania. is former president george bush traveling in africa with the former first lady laura bush. today is world aids today. there is a link up to tanzania to the white house where presidents obama and clinton are listening as well. we'll drop in there for a moment as soon as we hear from the former president. martha: there are new reports that house republican leaders are now warning the rank-and-file that the image of the entire party may be at risk if they do not support president obama's payroll tax cuts, to extend them into the new year. meanwhile president obama targeted republicans on that very issue. here is what he said. >> some republicans used to love these tax cuts until i proposed them. [laughter] >> suddenly they started lining up against them. a lot of them have sworn, they've taken an oath, we are never going to raise taxes, as long as we live, religious lee. republicans said they are the party of tax cuts, that's what they said. a lot of them have sworn and oath to never rai

the former president and his family are in tanzania. >> there's nothing more joyful than holding the arms of a 2-year-old child who has benefited from the grass-roots efforts here in tanzania, and the enormous generosity of the american people. >> reporter: a new study found when mice were injected with protected antibodies, they had 100% protectionancy hiv. this could be -- protection against hiv. >>> now, maryland's most powerful doppler radar, and the forecast certified most accurate. >>> you can see wind still a factor out there this evening. breezy conditions, but not the gusty conditions we had last night. 48 degrees, getting cold out there. winds west northwest at three, visibility ten, unrestricted. our abc2 hd weatherbug cam, and what a nice sunset. annapolis, not a lot of boat traffic today. it was cold out for much of the day. but that sunshine made a difference. if you're out in the sun, it always feels about 10 to 15 degrees warmer when you have this scenario. >>> all clear tonight. we think they'll that'll holdup for the next several days actually. and temperatures begi

joining us live from the hiv aids ward in tanzania is the president of the united republic of tanzaniaas been a very strong supporter for hiv and aids testing and prevention programs and he launched a nationwide program in 2007. he has led by example, having himself tested, and nearly 4 million tanzanian is followed suit after he did so. please, help me warmly welcome him. [applause] >> thank you, sanjay. we are honored here with president george walker bush and his wife, laura bush with us and a number of visitors from the united states, and of course, the tanzanian president bush four years ago during a visit to tanzania to visit the hospital, we were able to see how the president's plan was making progress, saving lives of tanzanian, men, women, and children infected with hiv and aids. today, we are at the hospital to let knowledge of the good fight. we take it -- we thank you so much. i am pleased that using modern technology we have joined with washington, with many dignitaries there, administration officials, members of congress, as well as members of the aids community and the m

and tanzania, he saw of the powerful impact of the u.s. commitment to this fight. >> there is nothing more powerful than holding it in your arms a 2-year-old child who benefited from the enormous generosity of the american people. >> doctors say there could be a creative way of fighting the virus in humans. >>> city leaders are also marking world aids day with events across the district of the along. the city's mobile testing bus will offer free hiv testing in front of the wilson building. >>> and maryland school teams up with fire and police officials to collect donations for a family. a 6-year-old, his mother and his aunt died of their injuries from this fire. >>> we turn now to a flurry of activity on the campaign trail in the last 24 hours. herman cain says he will focus tomorrow on whether to stay in the presidential race. the candidates are crisscrossing the country and at times getting fed up with the attention. >> the candidates these days seem a bit more testy. >> when was the last time we had the perfect candidate with no blemish

in tanzania former president george george w.nd wife laura bush visited a hospital in tanzania. george w. bush increased funds to africa for aids. >>> many hiv patients worry their supply of free medication will stop because the drug programs may run out of money and the medications are expensive. most people can't afford them on their own. >>> san jose may have dodged a fiscal emergency at least for now. it turns out pension estimates for police and firefighters are much less than expected. so the city's $80 million deficit could potentially be cut in half. however, san jose major chuck reed said the deficit problem hasn't gone away and he still may ask -- >>> republicans signaled they would but they want to pay for it with cuts in the federal work force. president obama's proposal would pay for the cuts with a surtax on incomes above $1 million. a deal is possible before the end of the year. >>> governor brown is about to unveil a new tax but only if voters approve it. >> reporter: governor brown met with lawmakers this afterno

in tanzania former president george george w. and wife laura bush visited a hospital in tanzania. george w. bush increased funds to africa for aids. >>> many hiv patients worry their supply of free medication will stop because the drug programs may run out of money and the medications are expensive. most people can't afford them on their own. >>> san jose may have dodged a fiscal emergency at least for now. it turns out pension estimates for police and firefighters are much less than expected. so the city's $80 million deficit could potentially be cut in half. however, san jose major chuck reed said the deficit problem hasn't gone away and he still may ask -- >>> republicans signaled they would but they want to pay for it with cuts in the federal work force. president obama's proposal would pay for the cuts with a surtax on incomes above $1 million. a deal is possible before the end of the year. >>> governor brown is about to unveil a new tax but only if voters approve it. >> reporter: governor brown met with lawmakers this after

our trip begins here in tanzania. it's a place hit hard by hiv/aids and cervical cancer.f the places that are making a big difference. our first stop, one of those projects funded by the u.s. program. jipende means love yourself and it is an organization transforming hair salons across tanzania turning hair dressers into health care educators. >> the focus has been hiv/aids but the program also covers other health areas including family planning as well as breast exam. >> how long has the program been in existence? >> we started the program in february, 2010. to date we've been able to enroll a total of 70. >> visits here have become so much more. they're life saving lessons. how important is it for you to make sure you learn how to protect yourself and to keep yourself healthy? >> this is more important to everybody. health is the thing to make you live. you have to be healthy and about hiv there has to be more. >> reporter: across town at the ocean road cancer institute, women who are living with hiv are now sick with cervical cancer. on this trip, an announcement of a

in tanzania, when the president talked publicly about sleeping under a bed net himself, when he takes to the stage at concerts' with malaria messages, when the kind of leadership is bouchon and clear signals are sent throughout the ministry of health and leadership all over the country where fate leaders are enlisted, that is where it takes place. also in terms of our response to malaria intervention, a very innovative program that has not gotten enough attention is the involvement of the peace corps. he said this was pioneered in senegal. peace corps volunteers have been affected in using the typical ingenuity in keeping track on the logistics. it is partnerships across borders and across oceans and it is partnerships across cultural sectors inside the country that is making the difference. >> there is a debate over the question of control verses elimination. fundingget into limited now that we understand that the global health fund, spain and italy, some will be unable to reach their goals because of their financial situation, we have 2-1, reducing our appropriations supposedly. we

adel island of zanzibar is probably known a part of tanzania.y have almost eliminated malaria from the shore. to help them cross the finish line of charlie braking malaria's death grip, the tool called meads was created. working with the zanzibar malaria control program it was developed to detect the early stages of an epidemic within two weeks of onset. every single monday health leaders from 53 different stations in zanzibar use text messaging technology to send an treen automated server any positive test they have of malaria. if in fact there is a positive test or a blip if you will, they count on the epidemic with all the interventions that we know about and work to erasing it to wipe it out. it's a partnership between public health leaders and so, why your list. it's a remarkable example of taking an existing technology, bringing to get public-sector, bringing together the private sector and putting it to work. that is great leadership. leadership in the fight is also coming from the communities of faith. nowhere in the world are faced netw

the fbi's got to deploy people overseas-- they're going to deploy people initially to kenya and tanzania-- and who's going to be the on-scene commander? >> narrator: o'neill believed his experience and expertise made him the obvious choice to lead the investigation as the on-scene commander. ( elevator bell rings ) but down in the sioc, there were those who wanted to cut new york and o'neill out. ( telephone dialing ) ( telephone rings ) >> fbi. >> narrator: on the q.t., townsend called o'neill. >> and he was, to say angry, disappointed, hurt. there becomes this bureaucratic arm wrestle over who's going to be the office of origin. >> narrator: o'neill desperately needed the help of us attorney mary jo white. ( telephone rings ) >> us attorney's office. >> he and i were both very adamant that the new york field agents who were most knowledgeable about bin laden and the al qaeda organization get over to africa as quickly as possible as the investigation was unfolding, because those first few days are often the6 most critical to whether you capture somebody or not, or figure out who's invol

i get a lot of travel requests and it's to peru and mozambique and tanzania and at the bottom it saysuch it costs and it's usually zero and those are the ones i like to sign but it really does. and i want to just acknowledge the d.p.h. aids office staff, please raise your hands, because you clearly -- [applause] >> some of you, in culmination of years, i know you have hundreds of years of experience here and i know that is so, so important and we've done some incredible work in san francisco and you've taken your work and your understanding of this disease to other parts of the world and it makes such a big difference for everyone in the world, particularly around ending this disease. you're doing aids planning and my job as the principal investigator is to help with space planning. this is a 100-year-old building and we were in all kinds of spaces and i want to acknowledge the staff that helped and figured out how to move people and how to construct behind them. mark primo and martine soto -- raise your hand, martine. he's been my negotiator whenever people are trying to figure out w

bush was in tanzania to see the result of the anti-aids program he launched in 2003. >> there is nothing more joyful than to hold in your arms a 2-year-old child who has benefited from the grassroots efforts here in tanzania and the enormous generosity of the american people. >> as we go forward -- we have got to keep refining our strategy so that we're saving as many lives as possible. >> part of that strategy involves getting aids fighting drugs to 6 million people in countries hardest hit by the virus within two years. >>> a 13-year-old boy denied add mission to a private pennsylvania boarding school because he is hiv positive. and now his family is suing. the milton hershey school says it was a tough decision, administrators were concerned about safety and could not handle a student with a chronic disease. thele school is cost free and caters to underprivileged kids. >> well foster children headed to capitol hill yesterday to testify about powerful drugs being prescribed to them in alarming numbers. this is shocking to me. >> really is the numbers, a new report confirlz those kids un

, with the public health leaders in tanzania and in zanzibar in particular. it was launched just a couple of years ago but it is shown remarkable progress. one thing that you can count zimmer is that we will take his best practices and spread them wherever we can. one of the reasons it was pioneered in sands of our because we had seen such progress down to the point of below 1% infection rate for the question as, what does success look like? when do we cross the goal line? this is an effort to do just that. it can take a remarkable gains, lock them in, and take those final steps to stamp out whatever minor outbreaks that we see, god willing. with respect to the faith-based story, nigeria in particular, it is really remarkable as you pointed to. it is remarkable for two reasons. its advantages are twofold. in terms of being able to deliver product, i was always amazed as an ambassador when organizations in the west would come to me and talked about reaching out to parts of the country, having no concept whatsoever about the logistical challenges that presents.

. >> the last three years, we have been working with the global fund on tanzania. just ensuring we can share some best practices with our supply chain in how we get things to remote villages, medicine has been made accessible, it is just incredible. it is not just the money, but ensuring you can land at your awareness and your supply chain and just getting things done quicker. >> i believe the satellite is up. carlos slim from american mobile, he has an announcement to make. please welcome him. [applause] >> good afternoon. can you hear us? >> good morning. hello, we are very proud to announce today our partnership with red. we will make our networks through all of latin america great and we will drive to fight aids, the next four years through 2015. i am sure that we can fight the calamities in the world. we will make with these networks donations to our customers and we are very glad to join our efforts and work together with the family and support of our customers to help reach the end of aids. thank you very much. [applause] >> that is great because it is a glo

bush spoke to a group from a clinic in tanzania. >>> a 13-year-old honor student is suing a philadelphialaiming he was turned away because he's hiv positive. >> the milton-hershey school says they denied their admission to protect the safety of other students. tim furlong has the story. >> emotional distress. >> reporter: this is a great 13-year-old. he does well in school, plays sports and studying a couple foreign languages. he's hiv positive so the school says he cannot attend there. >> if you have a school open to the public, then it's open to the public. you don't say we don't like you, we don't like your diagnosis, you can't come here. >> reporter: the school is a boarding school a couple hours west of philly. it's cost free for kids. they don't deny rejecting him because he's hiv positive. they say to protect our children in this environment, we cannot take students with chronic diseases that pose a health risk to the safety of others. the lawyer says it's discrimination and wrong. >> i feel no other teenager should go through this, being denied because they have hiv. >> that does

our trip begins here in tanzania. it's a place hit hard by hiv/aids and cervical cancer.es that are making a big difference. our first stop, one of those projects funded by the u.s. program. jipende means love yourself and it is an organization transforming hair salons across tanzania turning hair dressers into health care educators. >> the focus has been hiv/aids but the program also covers other health areas including family planning as well as breast exam. >> how long has the program been in existence? >> we started the program in february, 2010. to date we've been able to enroll a total of 70. >> visits here have become so much more. they're life saving lessons. how important is it for you to make sure you learn how to protect yourself and to keep yourself healthy? >> this is more important to everybody. health is the thing to make you live. you have to be healthy and about hiv there has to be more. >> reporter: across town at the ocean road cancer institute, women who are living with hiv are now sick with cervical cancer. on this trip, an announcement of a new initia

in my film, we look at tanzania, bangladesh and the u.s.u mentioned have us ranked as 50th behind 49 other countries in safe motherhood. it's shocking and completely inexcusable. >> what are the reasons women are dying in childbirth? >> post partum hemorrhage is the leading cause. women bleed to death. oftentimes, they live far away from a facility or a doctor who can perform a surgery or intervention that is necessary. another one is obstructed labor. it's when a mother is maybe a young girl, not developed enough to deliver her own child and the child will die in her. then she may die herself or experience a fistula, a horrific type of outcome. it's childbirth related. another is unsafe abortion. that's 13% of all maternal deaths. >> many people don't realize in india and china, there's such demand for abortions. >> in many countries where it's not legal, it's happening. it doesn't change the number of abortions, it's just less safe for people to access services. >> what about here in the u.s.? we rank number 50, will shock a lot of people

in my film, we look at tanzania, bangladesh and the u.s.nternational, the report you mentioned have us ranked as 50th behind 49 other countries in safe motherhood. it's shocking and completely inexcusable. >> what are the reasons women are dying in childbirth? >> post partum hemorrhage is the leading cause. women bleed to death. oftentimes, they live far away from a facility or a doctor who can perform a surgery or intervention that is necessary. another one is obstructed labor. it's when a mother is maybe a young girl, not developed enough to deliver her own child and the child will die in her. then she may die herself or experience a fistula, a horrific type of outcome. it's childbirth related. another is unsafe abortion. that's 13% of all maternal deaths. >> many people don't realize in india and china, there's such demand for abortions. >> in many countries where it's not legal, it's happening. it doesn't change the number of abortions, it's just less safe for people to access services. >> what about here in the u.s.? we rank number 50,

. >> one of my favorite stories elvis a 12-year-old boy i met last year in tanzania.end to try to find this community, the story was supposed to be about how his family received chickens we get to this community he comes out speaking perfect english which is strange, gertrude is trying to eat the ornaments. he was able to speak english because of the chickens. i pushed the family why does it matter he speaks english. he will get a good job, he is teaching his neighbourhood friends they will all be able to get good quality jobs. >>> chickens, produce eggs the family can eat, sell extra eggs, chickens can -- it is amazing even the goats, the manure provides fertilization. >> you have done your homework. >> my favorite gift is gift of child sponsorship it is $35 a month i sponsored my first child last year in ghana, his name is alfred, an 8-year-old boy every month i give $35 to help him and his community,. >>> for me such a small gift from you but so huge for him, mindy what an inspiring message maybe we will give a goat could we give a goat. >> i would love to do that.

. >> photographs show progress in share ratty, tanzania. there is hospital improvements and other improvements thanks in large part to the efforts of a woman who lived 10,000 miles away. her name is christine chacha. she is bridge the home in africa and the bay area where she now lives and teaches high school. >> i was an orphan since age 3. without going to school i would have been married at the age of 12. >> reporter: instead she went to university, graduated from law school and came to the united states. for the last decade she and her husband have lived in el sobrante. >> first support immigrants, give them orientation, help they are survive like i survived here. >> reporter: she founded the nonprofit african immigrant social and cultural services. she takes care of new arrivals. >> a lot of times people when they come here, they feel out of place, they feel lonely. >> reporter: dennis got his green card in 1999. he says mama chacha helps families navigate a new culture and connects them to resources so they can be successful. and at t

. >> reporter: photographs show progress on the banks of lake victoria in tanzania, a new school, new rainwater collection system for clean drinking water, and hospital improvements. thanks in large part to the efforts of a woman who lives 10,000 miles away. her name is christine neon i did cha cha. she's bridging the distance between what was once her home in africa and the bay area, where she now lives and teaches high school. >> reporter: she went to university, graduated from law school, and came to the united states. for the last decade, she and her husband have lived in el sibrante where they have opened their homes to other. >> support immigrants when they come here. help them survive like i survived her. >> reporter: she founded the nonprofit african immigrants social and cultural services. like her nickname implies, mama cha cha takes care of those around her. >> lot of time when people come here, they feel out of place or lonely. >> reporter: dennis got his green card in 1999. he says mama cha cha helps families navigate a new culture and connects them to resources so they c

it wasn't tangible even though we had the attacks on the towers in tanzania and kenya we all thought they would not come here. i think part of the problem at the moment in this country is you can't touch and feel and smell or feel the hot wind of the debt that we are in this country, so people can put it out of their mind. it's not legal for them any way. you can talk all you want about what it's going to cost your children and grandchildren but because it is a tangible, it's more of an abstract i don't think it has the same impact. >> in closing you write about the state of journalism today, and you say this about the investigative journalism, without investigative journalism what what we know about the people's revolt in egypt or long before that of watergate? the silent spring, the iran contra, trademark and a square, war come islamic range from a nuclear proliferation of peace, cullom mehdi plaques to our ally unwelcoming on this very stage edward morris whose speech you gave at berkeley the commencement speech he says this. i have often wondered why we need the phrase investigat

united states, portugal, greece italy and spain but also economies of countries like south vietnam, tanzania, sri lanka, canada and chile, taking the ford had a conversation as my starting point and moved my investigation back in time, hoping to locate the moment when it looked to me as though things decided to go wrong. the stargate if you will of the road that led to president for his confrontation with the shah on oil prices in his final weeks in office. that meant i had to move back in time past the recession, past watergate, nixon's resignation, beyond oil embargo or, the yom kippur war, past vietnam war, the 1972 presidential election and indeed back as far as the shah of iran's visit to washington to attend the funeral of former president eisenhower in 1999. that is the board in which my book begins. in the fall of 2008, three years ago now, during the financial collapse, i remember watching news footage of the lehman brothers, the failure of lehman brothers and thinking, this sounds familiar. as each month passed and as each phase of the financial crisis gave way to a newer more omin

even though we had the attacks on khobar towers and the cole and tanzania and kenya, you know, we werell into thinking they won't come here. i think part of the problem at the moment in just country is, you can't touch and feel and smell or feel the hot winds of the debt that we're in, in just country. so people can put it out of their minds. it's not looming over them in a way. you can talk all you want about what it's going to cost your children and grandchildren. but because it's not tangible, it's more of an abstract, i don't think it has the same impact. >> in closing, you write about the state of journalism today. and you say this about investigative journalism, you say without investigative journalism, what would we know about the people's revolt in egypt? or long before that, of watergate? the silence spring, tiananmen scar, war, islamic rage, peace, calamity and heroism. tomorrow i'm welcoming on this very stage edward morris in a speech he gave at berkeley, a commencement speech since you like commencement speeches, he says this, i have often wondered why we need the phrase "

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even though we have the attacks on khobar towers in the tanzania and kenya, we all were lulled into thinkinghey won't come here. i think part of the problem at the moment in this country is, you can't touch and feel and smell or her feel the hot wind of the debt that we are in this country. so people can put it out of their minds. it's not looming over them anyway. you can talk all you want about what it's going to cost her children and grandchildren but because it's not tangible but more of an abstract, don't think it has the same impact. >> in closing, you write about journalism today and you say this about investigative journalism. you say without investigative journalism what would we know about the peoples revolt in egypt or long before that of watergate? the silent spring, aids, iran-contra, tiananmen square, islamic rage, nuclear proliferation, peace calamity and heroism? till tomorrow tomorrow i'm welcoming on this very stage -- who in a speech he gave at berkeley, commencement speech if you like commencement speeches he said this, i have often wondered why we need the phrase in best

that whether we are talking about new york or washington or whether we're talking about egypt or tanzaniaoverty and for a change, and that here in this country, and they are largely broken. >> i think that people think in the trademark of the world the coca-cola and the starbucks, and i recently wrote an op-ed in the financial times about this, that if you look at the numbers, the number one thing but the world admires about the united states is education and science. the number one thing, almost 70% of the population, but we are not utilizing it to very well, and i think that was part of the idea of president obama of using science and diplomacy recently, and i was an envoy to the middle east on this mission, to try to help with education and science and to really utilize it effectively in our foreign policy. >> you are just leaving here tonight or tomorrow for egypt. >> right after here. >> we will make sure you get the flight. are the two of you, there have been some second thoughts about what is going on in the era springer, that it is turning into winter. are you two optimistic about

forget when we went out, bill gates and i went out on a sunday afternoon to 100% muslim area in tanzania to announce what we're trying to do in malaria to merge it with the aids problem. and in a village of about 1000 people, 12,000 people showed up. now, they didn't come to see me. most of them didn't remember who i was, and i think they came because it was partly nobody was home watching pro football, but mostly because they were really smart. they thought this is about whether our children live or die. and i believe if we can get that message to the congress into the country, that people care more about whether their children live or die, and anything else, and pepfar and the work of the american ngos and other efforts being made by a.i.d., they send that signal. we care whether your kids live or die. we want them to live. that is an enormous part of our national security strategy for the 21st century. and it's worth 1% of the budget. [applause] >> mr. president, thank you so much for your time. you look great, by the way. stay healthy, great travels, president clinton. and tony fauch

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you've been touring the world this summer and basically have been entertaining crowds in tanzania, switzerland to this? i was playing bob marley over the weekend. there's something joy, free, happy about reggae. >> it breaks down barriers, it's global in any language. people come up and sing the song and almost a cool factor, just like the brand reggae, brand jamaica, the cool factor that comes with it and you just want to be a part of it. >> you'll bring the cool for us this morning. >> i am. >> the song that you're about to perform apparently you made it all happen for us? >> they wanted to us do christmas carols and we just put our own little twist to it so we did "drummer boy" jamaican style. >> i'm ready for that. thank you so much for getting up early to bring us some joy this morning. ladies and gentlemen, shaggy. ♪ ♪ christmas in the island breeze, aah rum pum pum pum ♪ ♪ great islands and coconut trees, rum pum pum pum ♪ ♪ laid out on the island beaches, pah rum rum rum ♪ ♪ hills and valleys to the shining seas, rum pum pum pum ♪ ♪ rum pum pum pum, christmas if on identity lands ♪ let

qaeda member named ahmed ghailani, who was responsible for the 1998 embassy bombings in kenya and tanzania. most of us remember those early al qaeda bombings against our embassies in africa. after the justice department chose to prosecutes ghailani in an article 3 civilian court and directed the united states attorney not to seek the death penalty, which i'm not sure why that ever happened -- we don't know -- but the jury acquitted him on 284 out of 285 counts. luckily he received a life sentence on the single count of conspiracy for which he was convicted. but if he hadn't been convicted? what if there was insufficient evidence to prove he committed a crime but not insufficient evidence to prove he was an unlawful -- a combatant against the united states? al qaeda has declared war against the united states, officially and openly. the united states congress has authorized the use of military force against al qaeda, which is the equivalent of a declaration of war. well, what if he'd received a modest sentence after being convicted or -- and had credit for time served? what if he had been ac

embassies in kenya and tanzania. just imagine what an emboldened iran would do if allowed to obtain nuclear weapons an the means by which to deliver them. remember what the regime has already said it wants to do. ahmadinejad had openly proclaimed that iran seeks a world without america and zionism and iran's so-called supreme leader has stated iran is prepared to transfer the experience, knowledge and techling in of its scientists. we should take them at their word and impose crippling sanctions on this regime and it starts tonight, mr. speaker. with this bill. h.r. 1905. the iran threat reduction act. let's pass it tonight. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlewoman's time has expired. the question is, will the house suspend the rules and pass h.r. 1905 as amended. those in favor say aye. those opposed, no. in the opinion of the chair, 2/3 being in the affirmative -- ms. ros-lehtinen: mr. speaker. mr. speaker, on that i request the yeas and nays. the speaker pro tempore: the yeas and nays -- the yeas and nays are requ