the gentleman from tennessee. >> thank you, mr. speaker. i appreciate the work of congressman green from houston. mr. cohen: i look at him and mr. smith, i think about my weekend trip this past weekend. i went to austin, texas. when i was in austin, i was at the barber jordan airport and the baggage area on the ground floor there's a statue of barbara jordan, what a great member of the naacp she was. and a great american. with that i yield back the balance of my time and ask -- ms. watson requests some time. we'd be pleased if she'd contribute. i yield her as much time as she needs. spoim the gentlelady is recognized. ms. watson: mr. speaker, and to the authors and co-sponsors of this resolution, i just want to add to the testimonies that you have already heard in support of this resolution, commending the naacp, that many of us would not be here if not for the work and the support of others of the naacp. i am a case in point. i remember being elected as the first african-american woman to the second largest school board in the united state

the gentleman from tennessee. mr. cohen: thank you, mr. speaker. i yield as many minutes as the gentleman from texas, mr. green, who is the sponsor of this resolution, former president of the houston branch of the naacp and a great member of this congress, needs to address this subject. and i yield him time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from texas is yielded as much time as he may consume. mr. green: thank you, mr. speaker. i especially want to thank the member, member cohen, for working with us on this resolution. i especially want to thank the ranking member, mr. smith, for his working with us on the resolution. and i also want to give an extra special, if i may, thanks to mr. sensenbrenner because the first time we iitroduced this resolution he was the chair of the judiciary committee and he was very helpful, not only outfront in helping me with the resolution but also behind the scenes to make sure we got the resolution through the house. mr. sensenbrenner, i will be forever grateful to you for what you did to help us with the resolut

>> she has to fight because tennessee has a law about what's best for her children.has a good law, good jurisdiction, that's why she's fighting. >> larry: why does she have to fight? >> in crazy family circumstances, the judge is in a terrible position, has to take in all the evidence, has to get good evidence and make the best decision for the kids. that's why she wants to fight. >> larry: we have beau zimmer back on the phone in tampa. what's the latest on this incident? >> they have the entire south end of macdill air force base shut down right now. this is the bayshore gate, they had a light colored suv that pulled into the gate and stopped by security officers 37 at that point we don't know what happened, but they started unloading everything out that suv, including a number of -- what should be sniper rifles, large ammunition, military paraphernalia, and we're waiting right now for more work from macdill air force base as to what all this means? and why the vehicle was stopped. >> larry: did it try to get through the gate? >> it does not appear that it tried to

he had been governor of tennessee. he quit in a marital scandal of some kind. he took a cherokee wife. he was on his way to washington to try to persuade jackson to modify indian removal policy. he thought this raffish character could not have been governor of a state. people of tennessee had sent to the congress an individual who could not read with ease and had no fixed address. he saw houston as a really interesting guy with a wealth of experience. houston gave him this idea -- the indian has been brought up from infancy to be totally self-reliant, to make every decision for himself, to be put in life-threatening tests which only he can surmount. he will never surrender an iota of that liberty to any authority, therefore he cannot assimilate, therefore they are going to be exterminated. he said the black slave was at the other extreme. he has never been permitted to make one choice for himself. he has lost the language of his ancestors. he does not know what their religion was. he has no culture from his former land. white society will not accept him. there

the unfinished business is the vote on the motion of the gentman from tennessee, mr. cohen to suspend the rules and agree to house resolution 1422, on which the yeas and nays are ordered. the clerk will report the title of the resolution. the clerk: house resolution 1422, resolution honoring the department of justice on th occasion of its 140th the speaker pro tempore: the unfinished business is the volt on the motion of the gentleman from tennessee, mr. cohen to suspend the rules and agreto house concurrent resolution 242 on which the yeas and nays are ordered. the clerk will report the title of the concurrent resolution. the clerk: house concurrent resolution 242, concurrent resolution honoring and praising the national association for the advancement of colored people on the case of its 101st anniversary. the speaker pro tempore: the question is, will the house suspend the rules and agree to the concurrent resolution. mbers will record their votes by electronic device. we have 15 minutes for this vote. [ctioning made possible by the national captioning institute, i

iraq on the democratic line -- national, tennessee.reck on the democratic line democraticnashville, tennessee. rick on the democratic line. caller: there was an author who noted that significant events like the revolutionary war, world war ii, occur about every 80 years, and caused a major shift in society because of it. that book was written in 1986. unfortunately, he did not live long enough to see what happened in 2008. and i believe it validates his theory that about every 80 years we lose our collective knowledge and experience and decide to go off in another tangent. listening to you, it sounds like you have done the best job that i have heard in articulating the agenda and purpose of the tea party. the tea party seems to be, representing the two things that i see in society, greed and apathy. our rate of boating is extremely low compared to other nations. i am afraid that we now have agreed and endure beginning to emerge -- greed and anger beginning to emerge without an agenda. everything that you speak of is obvious and clear t

we are hurting the down here in tennessee. we have floods and everything and they will even help us any. host: those gloves really got overlooked, didn't they? caller: we sure did. host: you have the oil spill, you had the potential times square bomber in new york going on. you guys kind of got lost in the middle of all of that. how many people died? caller: 8, i think. host: how close are you to national? caller: 50 miles. host: what do you do in morgan city. caller: there are no jobs. host: what do you do? caller: retired from the railroad. but it takes what i got to take care of my two sons -- i have a 30-year-old who is out of work and a 41-year-old who can't get a job. host: thank you for coming in. "financial times" -- the u. of mines with washington for tighter sanctions on iran -- eu aligns with washington to tighten sanctions on iran. that is an "the financial times" this morning. this is in "the wall street journal." federal government formally responded to the most serious legal challenge to the health care overhaul

host: next phone call is of knoxville, tennessee. the republican line. caller: hello. i wanted to tell mr. isaacson how much i enjoyed when c-span plays that aspen institute programs. i have something very serious that i think it is very important. they have lieutenant general honory during petrina. during this interview he senaid the president should declare he said to take every idea, pul. throw everything we have at it. i was hoping that the president would say something last night. i was very disappointed. host: you have an interesting perspective. you are from new orleans. he served as vice chair of the louisiana recovery board. go ahead and give us your thoughts. guest: i agree. we were slow off the mark at throwing every resource to contain the oil spill. i think other then thethe obvious things, there are big issues we should be facing. one is how do we restore our coastal areas, coastal wetlands and barrier islands. if you have restoreddwetlands and good barrier islands, it helps you when a tropical storm comes. these are the things that are affected by the oi

host: the next and call comes from tennessee. caller: i am dave. i am a vietnam veteran. i served two tours. 1967 and 1968. and when i came home and got out of the military in 1969, 1970 i started having muscle spasms in my back. and finally, when they put out that agent orange and numbers for us i applied, got my number. i will try to make this brief. i have had muscle spasms ever since. it has been over 40 years. they made me retire 10 years ago. the doctors did. and since i have read the american legion and read on the website that there are six different things that have affected the veterans from this. so far i have three. i have been diagnosed with type 2 diabetes. i had a heart attack in 2000 and had to have surgery on that in 1981 my daughter was born, and i was scared to death that she was going to be born defective. thank god, she was not. guest: once again, thank you for your service. if the vietnam veterans -- the vietnam veterans are the ones most able to understand this. they may be having muscle spasms and may not been part of the war but in the area where

and new we're starting to move slowly into rebuilding efforts. >> brown: tennessee is, of course, thelunteer state. everyone we spoke to took great pride in the way people in this community came together. >> it was very emotional. there were certainly times that i would go out to a site, and it would choke you up. it would bring tears to your eyes. not only because you see the need of the homeowner and the distress that they're feeling. but you see perfect strangers who are walking up and saying, "how can i help?" >> brown: on this day, one person in great need was jeanette harris, whose home was being gutted. he's happy for the volunteer help, she says , but frustrated by the pace of government aid. the city is in the process of offering buyouts to over 300 homeowners. harris is hoping to be one of them. >> i'm just at a standstill. i can't move on. i don't have the money to move on. i don't have the money to pay for the outside living because you have to live somewhere else. you can't live in the home with the mold . >> brown: and when it got that high, had you ever seen anything li

will the families in tennessee orrkansas suff tame fate as wcosis and iowans and see their funding fema frozen,ven after 's been approved? oneou hope the stem of gencyespoe would keep pgging away and assting thfamilies in ne as this country. but we see --e have seenat system completeroken down and this is unacceptable. o yea after their hos were devastatedmy neighbors are still living in temporary housing and enduring financial chaos. one m is homele, another family is on the verge of bankruptcy use of a situation that fema has left em in. know ts is wrong, my constituents ow ts is wrong and e federal governme has to do betr. so tha yu, mr. speer, i yield back the remainder of my me. thspear o tempore:he genelady yiel back. the ntleman from north rolina. >>rspker, i request ion to ajet stam -- assume e time of the gentleman from rth caroli the speapro tempor thout objection, gentlem is recognizor mutes. >> thank you, mr. speaker. mr. eaker, thination has se mlio of good jobs to other countriver the la 30 or 40 years because of environmental rules, lations, and red tap this has hurt mill

the presiding officer: the senator from tennessee. mr.lexander: i see the senator from pennsylvania. i would ask through the chair, is -- i plan to spheek for about fiv-- i plan to spheek for about five minutes. -- i plan to spheek for about five minutes z that leave him enough time? the presiding officer: the senator from tennessee. mr. alexander: thank you. in 1980, the republican leader, howard baker, became the majority leader of the united states senate, and robert c. byrd became the minority leader. according to senator baker, he went -- walked to senator byrd's office and said to him, bob, i'll never know the senate rules as well as you do. so i'll make you an offer. iecall a n surprise you if you'll -- i'll not surprise you if you'll never surprise me. senator byrd looked at senator baker and said, let me think about it. and the next morning senator byrd called senator baker and said, it' a deal. and that's the way they operated the senate in those four years when senator baker was the majority leader and senator byrd was the mino

caller: i am from tennessee. i am a real big republican conservative and we have a big governor's in action coming up in august, the primary. they will be replacing the governor. i like -- in the primary. i'm a real conservative and are really appreciate the southern conservative christian voters. thank you. host: anything to add to that? guest: it does look like bill -- is a republican front-runner. the also have a republican conservative challenge him for the republican nomination. this is a likely republican pickup in november. the tennessee governor's office. so this is a race we are following closely. host: will on the democratic line from oregon. caller: i have a question about what the turnout was like in these various primaries. i noticed a couple weeks ago the turnout was actually less than 25% for some states. i was just wondering if perhaps we are reading into this based on small numbers. thank you. guest: well, that is a very good point. i have not seen specific turnout numbers in any of these races.

for what purpose does the gentleman from tennessee rise? mr. cohen: thank you. to address the house for one minute. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized. mr. cohen: thank you, mr. speaker. there's great news for seniors, and i think they'll be receiving it in the mail soon. the notorious doughnut hole is going to be closed and starting this week the part d doughnut hole where seniors have to pay for their drugs at an immense amount that hurts them will be started to fill because of the health care bill we passed in this house because of a single -- without a single republican vote that made it law. the one-time rebate checks will go out this week to seniors who were in the doughnut hole. they will start to be mailed out tomorrow, june 10. seniors who fall in that hole can expect a $250 tax-free check in their mailbox to help them cover those costs, part of the democratic bill that reformed health care, that didn't have a single republican vote to help it become law. there were 217, 218 democratic votes up to make that law. eventually the doughnut

the presiding officer: the senator from tennessee. mr.alexander: i see the senator from pennsylvania. i would ask through the chair, is -- i plan to spheek for about fiv-- i plan to spheek for about five minutes. -- i plan to spheek for about five minutes z that leave him enough time? the presiding officer: the senator from tennessee. mr. alexander: thank you. in 1980, the republican leader, howard baker, became the majority leader of the united states senate, and robert c. byrd became the minority leader. according to senator baker, he went -- walked to senator byrd's office and said to him, bob, i'll never know the senate rules as well as you do. so i'll make you an offer. iecall a n surprise you if you'll -- i'll not surprise you if you'll never surprise me. senator byrd looked at senator baker and said, let me think about it. and the next morning senator byrd called senator baker and said, it' a deal. and that's the way they operated the senate in those four years when senator baker was the majority leader and senator byrd was the min

the gentleman from tennessee is recognized. mr. roe: i yield three minutes to the gentleman from indiana, mr. buier. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is -- mr. buyer. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized for five minutes. mr. buyer: i also would like to rise to pay tribute to a fellow hoozer. he was raised on a family farm that had neither running water or electricity. money was in short supply. he played basketball with his brothers in a barn using a tomato basket and a makeshift ball made with old rags he would credit his success to the hard work and discipline he learned growing up on the family farm. his family moved to martinsville, indiana, where he led the local basketball team ta championship for three consecutive years, winning the -- he led them for three years then actually won the championship in 1927. for his efforts, he was selected three-time allstate. after graduating high school in 1928, jon wooden attended purdue university where he helped the boilermakers as team captain inhe 1932 national c

for what purpose does the gentleman from tennessee rise? mr. cohen: to address the house for one minute and to revise and extend. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, the gentleman is recognized. mr. cohen: thank you, mr. speaker. back in february when washington has slammed with record-breaking snowstorms, many of my colleagues made scientific conclusions that there was not climate change. many republicans seem to suggest that vice president gore come and build an igloo on the white house. well, the national oceanic and atmospheric administration has released information that says we have the warmest january to april ever, the warmest january to april ever since they started collecting data in 1880. and what do we get from our republican colleagues? more drilling, more drilling, not safeguards but more drilling. they go out and hold a press conference and ask for more offshore drilling. rather than that, they should call for more solar investment, rebates for americans to have solar technology and get us away from fossil fuels that are

freshe gentlelady from tennessee se? s. blackburn: to address the house for one mite. the spker pro tempore: wiout objection. mrs. blackburn: ank you, mr. speaker. today i rse to praise two outstanding high schools in tennessee's venth coressionalistri. collieille han houston high school both i shel county, tennessee have been nad by "newsweek" magazine among america's top high schools. only 6%f america's high schools make this list. this is an itant accolishment that comes beuse of hardnd diligent wo not ju fm sudents but faculty, staff principals, from parents, and from lo of participatiofrom the community. i congratulate the inpals, leasha justice ofoust, and tim suerland of collierville, along with the faculty and most importantly the students of both schools for allhe hard work that s led them tois important achievement. i yield ck the balance of my time. the speaker pro mpore: fro the gelelady from arizona rise? for what purpe does the gentlady from ariza rise? >>nanimous consent to address the house for one minute. search without objection. mr kirkpatrick: mr. s

host: cleveland, tennessee. byron, republican line. caller: ibm probably against this superfund and i will tell you why. we pay money to take care of these cleanups. people do not understand. i worked at a mint -- major manufacturer here in tennessee for years. we only passed the costs along to the consumer. they just do not understand, it will affect everything. host: how did you go about doing that? caller: what it takes to produce the product, you add that in and derive a certain cost for the year. then you just pass it on to the consumer. host: did you ever take into account a certain price point? caller: everybody does that. you have to make cuts somewhere. they have folks that will figure out what the consumer will pay for the product. you work backwards to get the cost. host: so, you pass on as much as you can without going over the price point? caller: yes, like this energy bill, it would go right in your products. people just do not realize that. close to what is the first place the companies look to cut? caller: people. host:

gore, they say lost the 2000 election because of his stance on gun control, lost his home state of tennesseeat has had the guts to come out. another issue where we do not have to back policies. two parties and one policies. we loved guns. >> larry: why do we love guns? >> having said that, i have again and i am not giving up. there are too many other nuts out there with guns. that is the thing. that is understandable. is a case of no going back. we are such a gun culture and so many people already have guns that you do not want to be in your home if somebody breaks and then they have guns. >> larry: i interviewed an inspector once and he could not believe that anybody would have guns. it was beyond his sense of belief. >> but in england which is to be no guns is becoming americanized. >> larry: this guy in chicago was a street guy who he did stuff that obama used to do. he wanted a gun because he lives in a neighborhood where he is scared. that is the case that 1 pair>> the idea that you can take this in public, where we can have a wherever we go because in case there is a criminal has again

i live in tennessee, and we are considered one of those red states. i think it is totally monotonous the way we have a republican down here by the way of marsha blackburn who is against everything. i feel like she is putting of cramp on a the state of tennessee in memphis. some states should be provided aid, and i love nancy pelosi and i want to send it a shoout out. host: jason on the independent lines. good morning. so what do think this morning? caller: i think the stimulus is a very good idea. i think the president is using the right approach in trying to mediate a pro -- immediate a problem with the economy. it will be uphill battle regarding recovery. the nation is starting to recover from the recession, starting last september, according to alan greenspan. i remember observing that report. and it came out of it -- the state came out of the recession back in january. the recovery phase will be awhile for us, but president obama did warn the nation that 2009 will be the year we commence recovery proceedings with a stimulus at. the first few month

i yield one minute to the gentleman from tennessee, mr. roe, who is also a physician. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized. mr. roe: i thank the gentleman. thank you, mr. speaker. why was this so hard? house republicans have been saying for months that we'd be happy to support legislation ensuring seniors have access to doctors. they were willing to cut spending to stop the deficits from going any higher. doctors and patients both have -- are benefiting under this legislation but today's headlines should be this, bipartisan solutions are possible when the majority tries to meet the minority halfway. when we cut spending, we can address many of the critical problems facing our country. hopefully today's bill isn't the end of bipartisan cooperation. our economy is still in dire straights and republicans can help democrats get -- straits and republicans can help democrats get people back to work. otherwise the job loss and exploding deficits we've seen for the past 18 months will only continue and no one benefits from that. i can tell you as a physician th

he is a democrat from tennessee. >> he is a good guy. he was the head of that nato assembly group picks what makes him a good guy? >> i said that 99% of congress are good people. i think he is trying to do the right thing. he was part of this group of european parliamentarians and u.s. legislators who every six months or every quarter would meet up here in the u.s. or abroad. it is not part of nato. >> can you explain that? >> is difficult. it is a legitimate organization. the idea is to bring legislators from nato countries together and talk about issues that affect nato countries. at this one, they are talking about afghanistan and nuclear proliferation. >> you " david scott as saying having a spouse travel helps keep the family together. what is your reaction to that? >> a lot of people on capitol hill, when i ask them about traveling, said that if members of congress are from out of state, they travel to d.c. almost every week, the alley behind the families and kids. they get the easter break, the spring break, the summer break, july

the bus.et them on ♪ home, sweet home to me good old rocket, tennessee [fiddles playing] very good.ays be, you'll home to me [applause] >> i'm bill halter. oh, is that right? nice to see you. >> your dad was like mine. >> ed halter. >> this is a great surprise. you all just made c-span. you guys are great. how old are you? >> 11. >> that is great. [laughter] that is great. you all did fantastic. >> thank you. >> tell all of our cousins. >> thank you. [laughter] >> it is going pretty well. >> it is a little bit slow. it is all good. it is a nice day. >> it feels pretty good. how are you all doing? we have a vote coming up on tuesday. >> thank you. >> where do you all live? i was just there. just yesterday. >> did you visit the [unintelligible] >> no, we just said hello to folks. make sure you vote on tuesday. >> i am happy you are running. i signed a petition to get you to do it. i'm a from the northern part of the county. keep up the good work. it is going very well. >> good. i really appreciate it. thank you. thank you some months. good morning, ladies. >> a good morning. >> are yo

it is a gem in the city of memphis, tennessee. you are fortunate to graduate from the christian brothers university today. make a difference to that one person. 90. -- lanky. >> thank you, amy. good morning. class of 2010, border trusties, faculty, staff, students, parents and guests. it is impossible for you to understand that story that i feel at this moment, how prevalent -- the joy that i feel at this moment, how privilege. to address you today, i am truly honored. when the president called me to inform me of this opportunity, i was stunned to the extent that i asked that i might have some time to export -- some time to respond during my hesitancy had nothing to do with the quality of the event for my availability. it was a certain request for a ton to decide if i thought i deserved this honor, and most of all if i could justify your confidence in me. upon hearing my request for more time, as your president was thinking, oh, no. we have made a mistake. what was i thinking? well, the president, after the next few months your wo

gore they say lost the 2000 election because of his stance on gun control, lost his home state of tennesseerat has had the guts to come out. again, another issue, larry, where we do not have two policies, we have two parties and one policy. we love guns, we can't get enough guns. lart question is why do we love guns? >> yes, having said that i have a gun and i'm not going to give up my gun. >> larry: why do we love guns? >> because there is too many other nuts out there with guns, larry. that is the thing. people out there are very understandable, sort of a case of no going back. we are such a gun culture and so many people already have guns that you don't want to be in your home if somebody breaks in and they have guns. >> larry: i interviewed an inspector from scotland yard once with and he couldn't believe that anybody could have a gun. >> right. >> larry: it was beyond his sense of belief. >> but england, which with used to be completely a nongun culture is becoming more americanized in every way. >> larry: people feel the need. this guy in chicago, who is a street guy, who he did stuff

inconsistent results in different cases so you have a case like garrett on the one hand and a case like tennessee versus land on the other >> i know those cases very well. 5-4. o'connor went the other way, but they used proportionate congruity. what i want to know from you is whether you think that is an appropriate standarto replace the rational basis test of wertz. >> well, it is the standard of the court right now. it is precedent, and it is entitled to weight as precedent. now as you very well know, senator specter, there are times when the court decides that precedent is unworkable. it just -- it produces a set of chaotic results. >> what was unworkable about the wertz test for a reasonable basis contrasted with congruent and proportional which nobody understands? >> i wasn't -- i wasn't suggesting that the wertz test was unworkable. i think that the question going forward, and it is a question, i'm not stating any conclusion on it, but i think that something that juste scalia and others are thinking about is whether the congruent and proportionality test is workable or whether it produces s

she is married to a two-time indianapolis 500 winner and they live in tennessee and scotland. please welcome ashley judd. [applause] . . >> thank youor tt kind troduction. there is a dil here. do i get to use it? do i need to hide it from you? thank you for the top table and forrganizing this. i have lot ofriends re i wod like to start by saying good afternoon. i am southern, so that means you are supposed to rpond in kd. good aftnoon. >> good aernoon. >> i would likto start by acknowledging my many fends. if b accident i overlooked you, please shout out your name this is the president and i have friends here from the sierra club and the national resources defense council. i have friends from earth just this year -- earth justice here. he is just an e-mail body. he may not exist in real life. there's also a friend who is a writer of exceptional abilities. she wrote what may have been the first cover story on mountaintop coal mining removal. or who else is here? one of the classmates from harvard kennedy school who is a dual degree canada it over at mit. he is a child oo the mo

there went to tennessee because they did it the next day. we have to be prepared when industry comes looking. we are 18 months away from making major infrastructure decisions so we are ready for the ships. we have to have a covenant that will roll up their sleeves and put people in the same room. we have to solve the problem. when infrastructure is right, the whole state can work. we can gain that growth. it is not just the port of charleston. >> mr. mcmaster. the charleston pork tinted boats at high time. george time -- the charlestown port can take boats at high tide. we all agree on the basic ingredients. the difference with me is i see that we can think big and globally and there is no end to what we can do. we have to work together to accomplish real change. whatanford year's show us happens when we do not do that. i am ready to continue working together. >> your question was about ports and maximizing interstate highways. we need to learn from georgia. they ran with it. you haa a port board her recognized they needed a legislature that

. >> the senator from tennessee. >> thank you. i want to thank you and chairman dodd and others for having this conference and i look forward to participating. there is no issue i have enjoyed working on in the three years and five months i've been here than financial reform. i look around and think about what an unusual place washington is. so different from the rest of our country. we began this congress working on health care. to thwi if te-- two of the drivg forces were the cost to individuals and try to lower that a we proceeded to pass a bill that increased the cost of both of those. here we are today. in the middle of an economy that is slow and we're concerned about, we're passing a financial reform bill that is not only going to limit credit but it is going to increase the cost of credit and probably, and most likely, make us non-competitive with the rest of the g-20 when the g-20 is setting sttndards. there is nothing in this bill that does anything but harm to those countries -- companies across our country that makes t

host: our guest is tennessee haake. he attended law school at georgetown university.lso a graduate from antioch college. james responding to the comments. nothing like a democratic politician undermining national security to gain advantage. we will go next to charles from virginia of the republican line. caller: thank you for taking my call. host: it sounds like you're listening to c-span radio. caller: i am. when it comes to afghanistan, my only concern is that it is not iraq. iraq is a mitropoulos compared to afghanistan. changing the hearts and minds of people in iraq was a lot different. they will basically do what they need to survive. i think that is the problem. i just do not see what the actual end -- i do not think we will ever be able to leave. will we build bases there? permanent basis? the thing about afghanistan as we spend so much money over there, and if you want to raise my taxes to make sure our troops have the best equipment available, then raise them. i do not want to see another american life lost to poor technology or lack of proper equipment, but

she lives in tennessee and ssotland. please welcome ashley judd.[applause] >> thank you for that kind introduction. there is a devil here. do i get to use it? do i need to hide it from you? thank you for the top table and for organizing this. i have a lot of friends here. i would like to start by saying good afternoon. i am southern, so that means you are supposed to respond in kind. good afternoon. >> good afternoon. >> i would like to start by acknowledging my many friends. if by accident i overlooked you, please shout out your name. this is the president and chairman of the organization defenders of wildlife. i am proud to serve with him. i have friends from the sierra club. i have friends from the natural3 maybe he does not exist in real life. maryann is a writer of exceptional ability to evoke important things. she wrote perhaps the first ever story on mountaintop removal coal mining, published in "mother jones." this is a friend of mine's from harvard. he is actually from mit. he was born and raised in west virginia. he wants to start a clean

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there was a courtroom sketch artist, bill tennessee, who was there. just as randolph sent a note down that he did not want to tennessee to be sketching in the court. so bill took his large sketch pad at out and deposited it in the press room and came back with a little reporter's notebook of the type many of us take into the courtroom and proceeded to make his sketches anyway. i went back out after the hearing was over and he took up the big one and did people color portrait of the court. he got a very nasty telephone call. fortunately, ray is not on the supreme court. i think courtroom artists to a fantastic job. they're wonderful people. bill has a great book called "all rise," which is a book of his images about the court. i do not think they are an adequate substitute for televising the court, but they do illustrate the court in a very nice way, and i know the lawyers really love them. bill and the nbc guy and the others to do it make a lot of money selling color copies of these two arguing counsel. [laughter] >> anybody else have a question? we a

this country is reeling from major floods in tennessee, arkansas, and oklahoma and we are now officially in hurricane season. i urge my colleagues to stand with me innsupport of this important extension. i want to thank ms. waters and chairman frank and i urge my colleagues to vote in favor of this bill. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman reserves the balance of his tiie. the gentleman from california. mr. miller: i yield myself such time as i may consume. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized. mr. miller: mr. speaker, i rise to speak on another temporary short-term extension of the national flood insurance program, nfip which expires more than three weeks ago on may 31, 2010. this is the third time this year that the flood insurance program had expired causing disruption in the housing market in cases where individuals are trying to purchase a home located in a flood plain which requires them to buy flood insurance to close on a federally backed mortgage. it is very unfortunate the fate of the national flood insurance program has to be authorized on a temporary basis

thanks for joining us from tennessee. to connecticut and stephen. are you with me?'s go to bob in arkansas. are you in arkansas? >> yeah. i have some time on the ocean down there and i worked as an engineer offshore for several years. the big thing i think you are missing about this disbursement -- i worked on a platform for about a year and we carried two 55 gallon drums on that? . -- on deck. my job was to turn the pumps on if there was a spill. by that time the deckhand would have a 55 gallon drum. the skipper would put one engine forward and one in reverse, drive into the spill and churn it up. that -- i don't want to name me rig but they just had a big fire. according to the rigman, that there'll would get rid of several hundred barrels of oil. the reason -- my theory, and i don't have a card in the game, my theory is you have a company that makes their own disbursement, ships and on their own boats and injects it into their own well. when you are hauling a product the those land to the reaig only solid handled in bulk monitored is normally just helicopter fuel

caller: in maine, new hampshire,3w and tennessee, its not worked there. not worked in these states, why are we experimenting and where are we finding out that all of these costs are going to go iballoon? host:, let me jump over to a republican collar and then we will come back. where are your thoughts, mitchell? caller: i have a 7-year-old kid and he has several medical conditions, but mainly summit condition from [unintelligible] trying to host: let's move on to something more substantive. what do you have, john? caller: i'm a 46-year-old man and permanently disabled on medicare. i have to devote children at home, one about to graduate -- i hhve two children at home, what about to graduate. my son is going to be going to college. because i'm on medicare, i have no way to put them on any insurance. my daughter, when she graduates next year, she will be the same, without any kind of insurance. host: can you help with that? guest: yes, there are new regulations. the insurance agencies have ssepped up to help ensure that people under 26 can stay on insurance

host: joan on our line for democrats out of tennessee. go ahead. caller: i would like to say one thing first, okay? on the people that do not like the united states, tell them to put their hand in their pocket and quit asking for money to take care of the things that they could have done themselves. another thing, when karzai gets up off of his bottom and starts taking care of his own people, then the war will be over because god says, we take care of our own and we pray for our leaders, with people seem to forget, and i do not care about the money as much as i do about what is doing to generations coming up. the thing about it is we have always done for ourselves. i'm in my 80's, close to my 90's, and i watched politics, the biggest part of my life, and i have never found any person that gets up there and says okay, we will do this and do that. they cannot do everything that they promised to do because the other party will not work with them. even my group of people, common people, they do not like their president or any of their leaders. i vote d

host: knoxville, tennessee. linda on our democrats line. "the new york times" they move forward to general petraeus's leadership. new mission for petreaus -- make his own plan work. they write from kabul -- of course, just recently, he had the other incidents where he fainted during his appearance before a senate panel, saying that he had become dehydrated. during the questioning next week, i am sure some questions will come up about his health status. new orleans, louisiana. jay is on our republican minded good morning. caller: i think this whole incident is manna from heaven for the president, because if you can imagine, down here it is a disaster and the federal government is not just not helping us but hampering our efforts to help ourselves down here. it is ridiculous what is going on in the country. the economy -- the president of the united states is not an entry level executive position. this man is not a chief executive. he is not a statesman. he has no experience. he is the most incompetent man we have had to serve. i did not know

jack is in tennessee. he has been holding. welcome. >> you have done a great job.agine what it would be like with oil coming up as i sit in this rv by the lake. the people -- is your livelihood. you cannot depend on what you are hearing from bp or the government. i am not a radical, but your people have the knowledge, the ability, the volunteers to get out and deal with sand berms. i believe they need to do it because i do not think they are getting -- we do not need weeks of studies to know what is going on. >> all of this has been invented -- vetted post- katrina. this has been vetted by the army corps of engineers. they have been dragging their feet. bp seems to be more worried about public relations nightmares and they are about protecting the new one -- the louisiana and estuaries and coastlines. >> sometimes, people have to take over to get things done. >> a man. >> if you have the volunteers, the equipment, whatever, get the sand berms done. we do not have time to wait for approval. i am not a radical. >> we are americans. it is not about being radical. we w

with community bankers in tennessee. not e of them support this legislation. with of that, mr. chairman, i thank you for the time. fiat think -- i thank you for the courtesy. >> the senator from south dakota. >> a year ago, the administration put forth his proposal to reform financial- services regulation. since then, the house and senate have held thounds ofearings in both chambers and they have d comprehensive legislation. today, we begin the mging of these two documts. i think it is important to note that [unintelligible] i applaud theard work of chairman dodd and chairman frank. their dedication to put together a package of reforms makes the most substantial changes to financial services regulatio since the great depression and is commendable. there will create systemic risk oversight and givin regulators tools to resolve [unintellie] it woold create a better system of prudential regulation. it sets up a system of regulations for derivatives and fills a gap in regulations. i was part of the senate product. we were able to find a great balance on handful of tough issues. the

it is a gem in the city of memphis, tennessee.re fortunate to graduate from the christian brothers university today. make a difference to that one person. 90. -- lanky. >> thank you, amy. good morning. class of 2010, border trusties, faculty, staff, students, parents and guests. it is impossible for you to uerstand that story that i feel at this moment, how prevalent -- the joy that i feel at this moment, how privilege. to addre you today, i am truly honored. when the president called me to inform me of this opportunity, i was stunned to the extent that i asked that i might have some time to export -- some time to respond during my hesitancy had nothing to do with the quality of the event for my availability. it was a certain request for a ton to decide if i thought i deserved this honor, and most of all if i could justify your onfidence in me. upon hearing my request for more time, as your president was thinking, oh, no. we have made a mistake. what was i thinking? well, the president, after the next few months your worst fears m

from middle tennessee state university.ters of personnel management from toward state. he was named the army acquisition commander of the year. mr. gary motsek is the deputy undersecretary of defense for program support. his principal adviser to the office of the secretary of defense leadership on policy and program support for the geographic area command. he served as the ship 83 for support operation, the head deputy assistant of staff, among other positions within the united states army and native. mr. motsek received a b.s. in informal engineering from syracuse university, an ms in management from george strait university, and a level 3 accreditation from another university. john nicholson is responsible synchronizing the military action since of the services and combatant and demand for the region. is served in afghanistan at the deputy commanding general for regional command south, as part of the national a sergey -- security force for the national military command center. john nicholson has of degree from the united