in the ohio house of representatives, also ohio state senate prior to his election in the congress. naming this federal building in ohio is appropriate to recognize congressman regula's commitment to public service, to his constituents and to this nation. the respect that he earned while serving in congress is demonstrated by what we are seeing here today, the fact that this bill sponsored by ohio representatives from both sides of the aisle. i want to thank the sponsor of this legislation. i support the passage of this bill and urge my colleagues to do the same. again, this is a man who has served this country with distinction. with that, mr. speaker, i reserve the remaining part of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman reserves the balance of his time. the chair recognizes the gentleman from ohio. mr. boccieri: thank you, mr. speaker, i yield five minutes to the the gentleman from new york, mr. serrano. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from new york is recognized for five minutes. mr. serrano: unanimous consent to revise and extend my remarks. the speaker pro tempor

the gentlewoman from ohio is recognize. ms. sutton: at this time, it's my honor to yield one minute to the gentleman from ohio, mr. boccieri. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized for one minute. mr. boccieri: this bill is about putting america first. we heard this all through the last campaign about how we need to invest in america, we need to protect american jobs. congresswoman betty sutton has stood up for american jobs and put new meaning to putting old betty back in the garage and putting new cars on the streets. that's why it's imperative that we pass this bill. 25% of ohio's economy is based on how well or how poorly the automotive industry performs. 560,000 new vehicle registrations alone in ohio last year. that averaged 150,000 per dealership in ohio. that is about putting americans back in american-built cars. i yield back my time. thank you. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman's time has expired. the gentlewoman from ohio reserves this egentleman from michigan is recognized. >> i yield two minutes t

as of april, the state of ohio's unemployment rate reached 10.2%. up from 6.2% the same time last year. there are thousands of unemployed and underemployed individuals who must enhance their skills to become competitive in this knowledged-based economy he, which has now defined our nation's economy. a strong, public consensus supports enhancing the skills of america's workers, especially through high quality education and training. in today's environment the demand for workers to fill midlevel jobs is quite high. and will likely remain high in key sectors of our economy. these midlevel jobs require more education than a high school diploma or a g.e.d., but less education than a four-year degree. in ohio, nearly 55% of all jobs are midlevel jobs and many of these jobs receive new and federal job creation dollars in health care, green jobs, infrastructure and construction. unfortunately only 45% of workers in ohio have the skill set for these jobs. alarmingly, madam speaker, the national commission on adult literacy recently reported that 30 million ad

so i'd like for you to give us an update on the follow-on projects, that you have for the ohio class and its systems and, also, whether the navy intends to pursue a t-lam end replacement. >> as you know we are in the process of doing the nuclear posture review currently as parts of the quadrennial defense review. the discussions that are taking place are not only on the strategic weapons, but also, on t-lam-n as well, and with regard to the replacement for the ohio class, in the budget that we submitted, and that is on the hill, is the beginning research and development for that submarine, so, we have committed the funds to do that. there are some who would look and say, gosh, aren't you going early? but if you look at the develop men timeline for the ohio class, and where we are starting with replacement for the ohio class, we are just about in the same ballpark, and as you know, we are working with the united kingdom, because, they also have the need replace their strategic deterrence and we are moving forward with that replacement. we have put the money in the budget. and, of cours

the chair: the gentleman from ohio is recognized. mr. kucinich: i rise to invite the chairman to engage in a colloquy with me. mr. chairman, i wish to respectfully convey that i have three conserves with some of the practices employed by the virtual army experience, a high-tech traveling exhibit employed by the army as a -- as a recruiting tool. first, children as young as 13 years old are participating in the virtual army experience which paints an inaccurate picture of war by glorifying it while sanitizing the real effects. more than a mere video game, it includes interactions with real veterans who appear to be in perfect health. it also requires that the user, regardless of age, share personal information as a condition of participation. i think that we can find common ground on these issues. specifically i think we can and i believe that we can agree that the virtual army experience video game must be revalidated to ensure that its age-appropriate rating is accurate in the context of how it's being employed. that the virtual army exp

i would like for you to give us an update on the follow on projects that you have for the ohio class and also, whether the navy intends to pursue the [unintelligible] and the replacement. >> we are in the process of doing the nuclear posture review. the discussions that are taking place are not only on the strategic weapons, but also on tlmn as well. with regard to the replacement for the ohio class, in the budget that we submitted and that is on the hill, that is the beginning of research and development for that submarine. so we have committed the funds to do that. there are some who would look and say, aren't you going early, but if you look at the developmental timeline for the ohio class and where we are starting with a replacement, we are just about in the same ballpark. we're looking with -- working with the united kingdom because they also have the need to replace their strategic deterrent. we are moving forward with that replacement. we have the money in the budget and that budget is on the hill. the ability to get started on developing that new class of ballistic missile sub

the chair recognizes the gentleman from ohio. mr. boccieri: madam speaker, i ask unanimous consent that all members may have five legislative days to revise and extend their remarks and to include extraneous material on house resolution 472. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. mr. boccieri: madam speaker, i yield myself such time as i may consume. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized. mr. boccieri: madam speaker, i rise in support of house resolution 472, kgget congratulating and saluting the 70th anniversary of the aircraft owners and pilots association commonly known a aopa. he was incorporated as a nonprofit organization dedicated to general aviation. aopa represents 417,000 members which is about 70% of all united states pilots. in 1950, aopa created the air safety foundation which provides general aviation pilots with training, education and research on information and safety that are important to all pilots. aopa was a leading advocate in the general aviation revitalization act of the 1994 which led to th

the state of ohio of the c.d.c. recommended amount that ohio should take of tobacco money and devote it to cessation programs, ohio spent 9% of what the c.d.c. recommendation was. when you hear these numbers, no wonder that we're not doing better at moving people off of cigarettes to other products or getting them to quit all together. it's because the effort that we made through education has been pitiful. as a matter of fact 21.6% of the youth in ohio have a prevalence to smoke. 45% have a prevalence to alcohol. 17.7% have a prevalence to smoke marijuana. yet some come to the floor and claim if we just give this to the f.d.a., youth smoking, youth usage is going to go away. if that -- if that claim were even partially correct, the marijuana usage would be zero. because it is illegal. there's no age limit. well, mr. president, some will claim that we don't address labeling. we address labeling on packages of cigarettes to discourage children from even looking at them. we require warning levels on the front and the b

the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from ohio. mr. driehaus: it is my privilege to rise today and bring to the floor this resolution. honoring the third annual civil rights game. s the third annual civil rights game, but it is the first time that this game has been played during the regular season. and we are honored in cincinnati to have that game at great american ballpark. i know congresswoman jean schmidt and myself will be looking forward to that event. as was mentioned earlier, by several of my colleagues, it's not just a baseball game. it's also recognizing great leaders. great leaders who have broken down barriers. that includes, at the luncheon that we will be holding, muhammad ali, hank aaron, and bill cosby. three giants, three giants who have broken down so many barriers amongst them system of i applaud major league baseball, i aplude the cincinnati reds for choosing cincinnati as the host of this event. i would draw your attention to one other aspect of the game, mr. speaker, that is to the underground railroad freedom cen

the chair recognizes the gentlewoman from ohio. ms. sutton: mr. speaker, i ask unanimous consent that all members may have five legislative days to revise and extend their remarks. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, so ordered. ms. sutton: mr. speaker, i yield myself such time as i may consume. the speaker pro tempore: gentlelady. -- the gentlelady is recognized. ms. sutton: mr. speaker, i rise on behalf of 2,000 people who are in the assembly plant in my district. i rise for the 159,000 ohioans with auto-related jobs and the three million to five million americans who rely on the auto industry to provide for their families. i rise today on behalf of the environment as we turn the corner to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, improve fuel economy and to help reduce our reliance on foreign oil. i rise today on behalf of consumers throughout our great country who continue to struggle during this global recession. and i rise today as the proud sponsor of the consumer assistance to recycle and save act, also known as the cars act. and i want to t

the gentlelady from ohio is recognized. ms. kaptur: thank you. madam speaker, the first goal of our banking system as opposed to a securities system should be to create a safe and sound credit system. one that promotes responsible savings and lending practices. in this system the availability of credit is crucial and that's what's missing today across our country. earlier today vice president joe biden held a town hall meeting in the toledo, ohio, area. he heard from governor ted strickland and others that one of the biggest economic challenges facing ohio remains an inability of businesses to obtain the credit they need. the reason is because our banking system suffered a heart attack last year and still hasn't fully recovered. safe and sound credit and prudent financial behavior by individuals and institutions should be our nation's financial system's primary purpose. the administration's priorities tell me it plans a much larger role for higher risk securities in whatever system they are envisioning which to me threatens more higher risk behavi

the gentleman from ohio. mr. jordan: there they go. the chairman's words was irresponsible, meat-axe approach. this is holding the line. this is taking a modest first step towards trying to rein in spending so we don't future generations with enormous debt. if you don't say let's freeze where we are at, you never have to prioritize, it's just the band plays on. we will keep increasing and spending. we never have to decide which programs make sense, which programs are eliminated. you just keep spending, which is the easiest thing in the world for politicians to do, spend and spend and spend and borrow and borrow and borrow and tax and tax and tax. that's pretty easy. the tough thing is the right thing. i had a coach that talked about discipline every stinking day and he said discipline is doing what you don't want to do when you don't want to do it. it's doing his way. the tough way, the difficult way. the easy and convenient way is to continue to spend and spend and spend. the tough thing to do is to say let's hold the line and figure o

the gentleman from ohio is recognized for five minutes. mr. jordan: i thank the chairman and thank my ranking member and the chairman of the subcommittee. the chairman of the subcommittee was just boasting about the fact that the committee reduced the amount of dollars appropriated in this bill from what the administration had requested. i think it's important to point out that request came after we had the stimulus, the omnibus, tarp, all the spending had taken place in the first six months of this congress. i don't know that's anything to brag about. this amendment actually goes back to what this congress was allocated and what was being spent in the various agencies. it would reduce the spending in this bill by $12,500,000,000 prior to the stimulus. it is about preserving opportunity for our children and grandchildren. the american people get it. they are tightening their belts as many speakers have indicated on the floor this evening. they're tired of this blank check, this bailout mentality that has got a hold of washington. they're sick o

caller: good morning, i want to know the caller would speak more towards ohio in the paradigm shift. for now we have the democratic senate and control of what will make up the portioe board if the reelected. we have seen ohio be very jerymandred for republicans who had control -- finally the democrats took over because they're so out of five. i want to know if you have studied the ohio state map? guest: that is an excellent question an interesting topic. ohio is an important state with many congressional seats. republicans control process there. redistricting there is done by an independent commission for the state legislature. the districts were gerrymandered by republicans. during the course of the decade in ohio when republicans control the process there was an initiative to take this issue and put it into the hands of an independent commission in a bipartisan way. democrats of course supported it because there were other partou. now the democrats have taken over and you see their interest in coming up with an independent commission. that has really waned. republicans seem to be m

i thank the gentlelady from ohio for yielding. i want to extend a thank you for inviting me to have this opportunity to speak on the floor about the issue of life. an issue that is very important to me. i believe in the sanctity of life from birth to natural death. in fact, i often like to refer to myself as a person whose whole life in my -- who is whole life in my beliefs. this issue of abortion is personal to me. at age 21, i found myself unmarried and pregnant and it was obviously a very difficult time of my life. there was a lot of soul searching went on, a lot of praying. i had support of friends and family, but i struggled. i struggled with the thought of telling my parents and i struggled with the social stigma and the fact that i may have to drop out of school and also the fact i would have to be a single parent. but i knew there was a life inside of me, a living person. little did i know at that very early stage the joy and beauty that that child would bring to my life. today, i have an absolutely gorgeous 30-year-old son

in this one that for decades washington, george washington and thomas jefferson who owned land in the ohio river valley, speculators of land, had desperately tried to find a way to get the potomac river to improve the potomac river and get it to go over the mountains and off to the other side and into tributaries of the ohio river valley. but the potomac unfortunately was really not up to the task, and not the way new york's mohawk river makes a relatively easy path through a break in the appalachian mountain jane. and interestingly in 1817, just before new york decides to go ahead with the canal, a bill goes through. a bill goes through congress to create -- a bill called the bonus bill which would have provided federal money for state infrastructure projects. and madison, james madison on his last day in office and congress had been working toward this bill thinking that madison wanted this sort of thing because he had spoken about it in an inaugural address at the previous year. madison vetoes the bill on his last day in office. arguably, he says, on constitutional grounds that the fede

but i also represent the largest agricultural district in the state of ohio. and as we have been talking about this, there's been a lot of information that's been put out there by a lot of different groups but i think it's interesting to point out the heritage foundation and the brookings institute has put out how many jobs we will be lost about this. the heritage foundation says you will look at 1.5 million jobs being lost. carry out to the end date of the brookings institute about 2.5%. and we can't afford to have this happen in the united states. . what type of energy it was. in my case in the state of ohio we received 87% of our energy is coal generated. next store to us to my west indiana. they get 94%. so they ranged all thee districts together -- ranked all these districts together. they said, where do you stand? this is one rft times you don't want -- this is one of the times you don't want to be at the top of the list. the top 16 of the top 20 were from ohio and indiana. unfortunately in my case i came in at number three. number three. what's that goin

for what purpose does the gentleman from ohio rise? mr. boehner: to address the house for one minute. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, the gentleman from ohio is recognized for one minute. mr. boehner: madam speaker and my colleagues, three years ago the democratic leadership promised in their document "a new direction," made these promises. and i quote. every person in america has a right to have his or her voice heard. no member of congress should be silenced on the house floor. secondly, and i quote, respectfully -- respectful of both the wishes of the founders and the expectations of the american people, we offer the following principles to restore democracy in the people's house . guaranteeing that the voices of all people are heard. and thirdly, one of those principles was this, and i quote, bills should generally come to the floor under a procedure that allows for an open, full and fair debate consisting of full amendment process that grants the minority its right to offer alternatives including a substitute. madam speaker

i want to know if he has studied the ohio state map and could talk about the redistricting there. guest: that's an interesting topic because ohio is a very important state with a lot of congressional seats. as the caller pointed out, republicans control process there. the redistricting there is done by an independent commission for the state legislature and the districts were gerrymandered by republicans. interestingly enough, during the course of the decade in ohio, when republicans did control the process, there was an initiative to take this issue and put it into the hands of an independent commission that would, and a bipartisan way, democrats supported it because they were the party of power. republicans were against it because they were the party in power. now, because the democrats of taken over, you see the democrats lost interest in coming up with an independent commission has waned and republicans seem to be more interested. guest: a call from raleigh, n.c. on the independence line. caller: i think it is unconstitutional that democrats, when they have power in office, the

again i absolutely agree with the gentleman from ohio. i believe that the president had no idea, his administration had put the a.i.g. bonuses in the stimulus bill. i truly believe the president of the united states had absolutely no idea about what would follow the consequences of the chrysler and g.m. bankruptcies. in terms of the human cost to the working people of america. but what i cannot figure out is that if that is the case, if we are correct in our assessment, why the president of the united states, a, does not want to find out who in his administration put him in that position, more importantly who put the people of the auto companies and the workers in that position, or the taxpayers of america in that position, and then as the most transparent administration in american history, does not want to tell the american people who those actors were. it would seem to me that would serve the country well and it would serve our president well. i yield back. mr. latourette: i thank the gentleman. just to continue talking about the dealer

he owned 60,000 acres, he had fought to win in the ohio country. generally the midwest, what would later be ohio, indiana, illinois, michigan, wisconsin, washington's certainly hope that the united states would gain that area even after yorktown. washington proposed to rauchambeau a joint invasion of canada, rights to congress, in his letter he talks about all that great land in canada, securing the frontiers, securing the american national security by keeping great brittan out of canada in the postwar years. most southerners, i think, they were quite interested in what they called the southwest, what we think of as the southeast, alabama, mississippi, and whenever. i don't think very many people, at least anytime soon, thought of going beyond the mississippi river. they hoped to get to the mississippi river. many of the loyalists argued that one of the great reasons for remaining tied with great britain with the combined power of america and great britain, much more rapidly, the angle americans could sweep to the mississippi river and beyond the mi

sanders: will the senator from ohio yield for a moment? mr. brown: yes. mr. sanders: i want to thank him for his cogent remarks talking about one of the most basic issues facing this country, and that is health care. we're on the veterans committee as well, and i know that you spend a lot of time talking to veterans in ohio. you have heard a veteran in ohio tell you that they want to privatize the v.a.? mr. brown: i have heard mostly conservative republicans say that they want to privatize the v.a. mr. sanders: every time that issue is raised, the veterans say no. mr. brown: senator sanders, one of the things that we noticed about the veterans administration, is that the v.a. has found a way to -- to buy at the lowest cost possible some of the least expensive, but good-quality prescription drugs. because what the v.a. does is there are millions of veterans, they negotiate on behalf of veterans with individual drug companies for individual prescription drugs, individual pharmaceuticals, and they get a rate at about one half of what you would pay if you went to

this one that for decades in washington, george washington and thomas jefferson who owned land in the ohio river valley speculators of land and desperately tried to find a way to get the potomac river to improve it and get it to to go over the mountains and on to the other side and then to to the terrace of ohio -- ohio river valley, but the potomac unfortunately was really not up to the task and not the way new york's mohawk river makes a relatively easy through a break in the appalachian mountain chain. interestingly, in 1817 just before new york decides to go ahead with the canal, a bill goes through congress, a bill called the bonus bill which essentially provides the money for a state infrastructure projects in madison, james madison on his last day in office and congress have been working toward this bill thinking that madison want this sort of thing, because he has spoken about it in his inaugural address the previous year, madison vetoes the bill on his last day in office. arguably he says, on constitutional grounds, the of the federal government has no business using the treasury

you and i talked about this briefly on the telephone the other day. you visit d ohio and michigan and one of the places you went was a company called glass tech which is making some promising advancements in solar energy and manufacturing. but glass tech employees may be a couple hundred jobs or employees, there's another company called sunlight that a number of members of congress have talked about. but sunlight employs a hundred people. how can these small but promising companies possibly absorb the tens of thousands of jobs that are being lost in the auto industry? >> it won't be a silver bullet, but i will say to you that we are encouraged that there will be funding available through, say, the department of energy to help expand those kind of manufacturing jobs. and i think the beauty of the plant that i visited the glass tech corporation is that they are already installing wind shields on cars for foreign and domestic. but the same type of equipment that they are using that they developed as state of the art will also help to manufacture solar panels. and i was p

, the next senate race in ohio, on down the line. this is starting to actually give the republicans, which was the party out of favor in ohio, give them some real ammunition for perhaps winning some seats in the next election. >> steve and jim, jent, thanks for being was on c-span's "newsmakers" program. >> thank you. >> thank you. >> watch "newsmakers" again with labor secretary hilda solis later today at 6:00 p.m. eastern here on c-span. up next, president obama's remarks on the middle east. the past week, general motors filed for chapter 11 bankruptcy. coming up, a statement from president obama on general motor's future along with the remarks from the company's c.e.o. e on c-span. [applause] [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2009] >> thank you. thank you. thank you very much. thank you. thank you. thank you so much. the afternoon. i am honored to be in the timeless city of cairo. i am being hosted by two remarkable restitutions. for over 1000 years, this us

that is what i have been doing, touring some of the state to have been hardest hit, particularly in ohio and michigan and other parts of the country that have very high, unacceptable unemployment rates that are even higher than the figure nationally. >> we will begin with the "los angeles times" >> your home state is one of those states that has been exceptionally hard hit. michigan has 12.9%. what is the administration doing in particular for those states that are hard hit when it comes to the long-term unemployed and the underemployed in those areas? >> in the recovery program that the president signed in february, there were different types of funding made available to the states. many of the stage you outlander benefiting from the extension of unemployment benefits. first of all, that went out and gave a $25 increase for anyone who is drawn down unemployment insurance. some states have gone as far as to change and modify their laws so they could receive what we call funding under the ui modernization act will now be able to get money to cover part- time workers. in many cases, women

the speaker pro tempore: the gentlewoman from ohio is recognized for four minutes. ms. sutton: thank you, mr. speaker much and i thank the gentleman, my good friend from new york, for the time and for his leadership. i also want to thank chairman obey for all of the hard work he has put into developing this bill that will fund some of our nation's most critical needs, including funding for prisons and law enforcement initiatives related to the southwest border, along with promoting important scientific research and development. this bill provides $30.6 billion for investments in science, technology and innovation, including $6.9 billion for the national science foundation. whose grants in the past have allowed researchers in our colleges and universities to discover fundamental particles of matter to develop carbon 14 dating of ancient of artifacts and to decode genetics of virus, to name just a few. it provides $1 billion to the science, technology education and math for our students -- from graduate students all the way down to kindergarten. so we are going to educate

as discussed earlier, the ohio skills bank is implementing efforts across a broad range of industries in each of the 12 economic development regions. another example is congressman fattah's state of pennsylvania, which has more than 6,000 firms participating in nearly 80 partnerships and 70,000 workers receiving training services since 2005. to date, at least 39 states have adopted industry or sector strategies, but for the most part, they are doing so in spite of the work force investment act, not because of it. as written the workforce investment act does not adequately support the hard work of convening multiple stake holders and allowing a area or region to develop targeted depth and capacity in high growth or emerging industries in a way that develops broad growth sectors. the measure introduced in the house, of which i'm a co-sponsored, would establish a separate title for industry or sector strategies. as a supporter of the legislation, i'm working to ensure the principles set forth in this bill are included in a re-authorized wia. we need to recognize that different workers en

and so, along with many others in the ohio delegation, senator brown and others, representative boccieri and representative charlie wilson, marsha fudge, a lot of others, have been spending time trying to raise awareness and push the auto task force to consider these 15,000 people across this great country who have contributed in such a significant way to the auto industry. and we want to make sure that the auto task force recognizes that as these decisions are being made, some already are made, that they are made fairly and equitably, that these people who have served the company as significantly as others get the same kind of recognition, the same kind of support. and they're not asked to bear the brunt of the whole burden. . as the new g.m. tries to re-invent itself and get back up on its feet, it's important that they don't lose and i think it's important for the auto task force to recognize this, mr. speaker, that they don't lose a core constituency of general motors consumers. former -- former employees who have been loyal to the company, 15,000 of them, should not only be consider

that was a topic that came over the ohio primary. some sort of government role in taking some amount of wealth from americans of the can get into the system something you're comfortable with? >> i will be comfortable with some sort of sliding scale of workers at some income level with that government assisting. there does need -- everybody -- we will see agreement on both parties that everybody has to get health insurance somewhere or another. the government will assist them and employers will play a role and people will have to pay some amount of money to get into the health system, if they have any kind of decent income. >> if they're not willing the government will take it. >> there will be something. you cannot -- for this to work you need under healthier workers, you need them in this health care system. what it will mean is those people who have health insurance now, the first rule for everybody and the president said it, anyone who is happy with their plan can stay in it. what you will see is people that stay in the health ins

and we heard from the distinguished gentleman from pennsylvania and i associate myself with his remarks. on average 43 people work at a dealership in ohio where the average pay is $44,000 a year. with these closings, millions of dollars of income will disappear with the jobs and those jobs are lost on top of the 2,000 auto manufacturing jobs that will be eliminated by the closing of the chrysler twinsburg plant, the gm mansfield metal center plant and gm's power train unit in parma. these dealers and their employees, they're not merely statistics. they have families. they have mortgages. and dare i have say they have car payments. and in the time that i've been in congress we've been fighting. we've been fighting hard to try to keep those jobs in america. because if people do not have good jobs in the united states, they're not going to have any money to buy things. and they can't be consumers. and over the last few months along with my colleagues, many of them in this room we've been working on the consumer assistance to recycle and save act known as the cars act which passed earlier this week. and through the cars act manufacturers --

. >> i yield five minutes to the gentleman from ohio. mr. kucinich. >> i thank the gentleman. chairman bernanke, your staff believed bank of america knew about milledge's accelerating losses in mid november. for months before coming to you, and weeks before the shareholders voted to approve the merger. those fourth quarter losses rose over 15 billion out of the pockets of bank of america's shareholders. but i want to ask did the fed know about those accelerating losses before the fed approved the merger at the end of november? >> no, i don't think we did. >> may i introduce into the evidence this e-mail which is from the new york fed to autrey of merrill lynch dated wednesday, september 17. it says hope this gets to you. our management, that is the new york fed, has asked to continue the flash report on a daily basis and i am sure with the sec. so the fed was receiving detailed information by which they could have concluded that the overwhelming losses at merrill lynch were more than problematic and that the fed could have done something if they chose. now, are you familiar wi

, the next senate race in ohio, and on down the line. this is starting to give the republicans, the party at a favor in ohio, some real ammunition for a winning some seats in the next election. >> steve cox is with the "plain dealer. gentlemen, thanks for being with us on "newsmakers." >> tonight on "q&a", governor mitch daniels. he was reelected in 2008. before that he was director of the office of management and budget under president george of the bush and a senior advisor to president reagan. "q&a" at 8:00 eastern here on c- span. >> tomorrow on "washington journal," michael crittenden, dave mccurdy talks about federal assistance to the of industry and general motors, and stephen aftergood looks at the possibility of a center to speed up the classification of government documents. >> how is c-span funded? >> private donations. >> i do not really know. >> from public television. >> donations. >> i do not know where the money counts from. >> contributions from donors. >> 30 years ago, america's cable companies created c-span as a publi

during my time as a representative in the ohio general assembly, i worked on behalf of ohioans to ensure when benefits were promised, benefits were given. and now i'm here in congress. to continue that fight. recision of coverage is a problem that we in congress are seeking to eliminate, and it's our hope, you've heard from the comments here, that when we have finished reforming our health care system, coverage discrimination will be a thing of the past. but today it's still a problem that exists and must be eliminated. when a health insurance policy recision occurs, it creates waves throughout the entire health care system. make no mistake, these decisions deprive people of needed care. they deprive hospitals and doctors of the reimbursement they have ened for their service. for some, a recision is a costly process that can result in a doctor or hospital having to seek payment from the individual. for others, it means a delay and access to a life-saving procedure or treatment. that's unacceptable. today we will hear from citizens, and i thank you all for coming to provide your testimony

about the fact we are initiating the replacements for the ohio class ssbn with this budget. the notion we're not taking seriously the range of potential future conflicts i think frankly is misunderstanding of what we're trying to do. it drives from my view that the old way of looking at their regular warfare as being one kind of conflict and conventional warfare as a discreet kind of warfare is an outdated concept. my belief that conflict in the future will slide up and down a scale, both in scope or scale and lethality. we have to procure the kinds of things that give us the maximum, the kinds of equipment and weapons that give us the maximum flexibility across the widest range of that spectrum of conflict. frankly, i think there is broad agreement on the part of senior military leadership that that kind of construct going forward is what we ought to be looking at. if there is one major aspect of the qdr that i have insisted we get away from, it is the construct we have had such a long time that we size our forces to be able to fight two major combat operations. i think that

ohio. we're struggling right now. it's tough. one of the things that a lot of people don't realize, since we have so few farmers out there left, 1% in ohio, we have so many farmers that not only work a full day on the farm but go out and work all night at another job. we've got to have jobs going both way prarkslell with each other this bill is not going to help these people out there. it's going to kill jobs across the country. when the secretary of agriculture was before us not long ago, i posed this question, is china going to comply with what we're going to do? the answer is, maybe not this month or maybe not next month, but it's going to happen. may i have 30 seconds? mr. lucas: i yield the gentleman 15 seconds. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized. mr. latta: we've got to be able to compete against the world and this bill will kill the ability to do that. i thank the gentleman for yielding. mr. waxman: madam speaker, it's my distinct honor to yield to the chairman emeritus of our committee who has been the leader in fa

waxman: i wish to yield one minute to the gentlelady from ohio, ms. sutton. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlelady from ohio is recognized for one minute. ms. sutton: thank you, madam speaker. i rise in support of this legislation, and i want to thank the chairman for his leadership and for working with me and other members of this house to address our concerns about manufacturing and jobs in this bill. this bill isn't perfect. i have yet to see a bill that is. but the status quo is not the right choice. we must unleash the entrepreneurial spirit of this country and provide the economic opportunities that our constituents need. this bill is part of that mission. it's not the entire answer to all that ails us, but let there be no mistake, this is a jobs bill. this bill has support from groups that represent workers. the united states steel workers, the u.a.w., the c.w.i., and the afl-cio are all urging a yes vote on this legislation. madam speaker, the people i represent are facing difficult times. they're looking for jobs and sometimes they can't find them th

the austrians who had all taken them. and kosciuszko was also given 500 acres in ohio as a result of his being a general in the american revolution. so he had his own land. he could have come and live in ohio on that land as well. the reason i think he didn't return it because he always held out hope that he would be able to free the presence of bold. that was his obsession. not only did he want to freed american slaves but he wanted to into feudalism, frieda serves and freed dozens of europe. >> how much would that be in current dollars and what happened with the acres in ohio? [laughter] >> does anybody have a calculi are on them? [laughter] >> i don't know how much that would be but i think it would be more than a bucketful of money and the land in ohio, kosciuszko tried to lease it. he asked jefferson, he said fines and farmer who's interested in leasing my land, figure out what the going rate is and then give it to him for 1% less than that. some french farmer went and tried to farm it for a while but didn't have success. and as for the money, that he had in the american -- that he earned in the american revolution, unfort

and i yield to the the gentleman from ohio. mr. boccieri: i thank the gentlelady for assembling this dialogue on health care. this is very important. and americans who might be listening in, those folks who might be awake, after punching a time clock and working long hours, we want you to know we are working on this issue. now it's time to take action. and leadership is defined by action, not by position, but by action. and what i applaud this president is for his bold efforts to step forward and take action on an issue that remains a dilemma for america. this is about us as a nation being competitive with our foreign competitors. this is about how much we spend on delivery of health care and making sure that all americans have access to the quality of care that we want not just because you can afford it, but because you are american. and let me just say these things. number one, number one, if you like your doctor, you will keep your doctor. if you don't like the plan that you're in, you can move to another. there is going to be fr

the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from ohio is recognized for two minutes. mr. boehner: let me thank my colleague for yielding and, madam speaker, congratulate you on your upcoming marriage and your new job and all of us on the republican side of the aisle thank you for your service to this institution, your service in the chair and good luck to you. my colleagues, we've been through a very difficult time in our economy. we had the great economic shocks of last fall and we've seen unemployment climbing month after month after month. now at some 9.4%. earlier this year we passed a 1,100-page bill that no one had read that was supposed to be about putting the american people back to work again. it was supposed to be about stimulating our economy and all we heard during that debate was about jobs, jobs and jobs. it's pretty clear that what the bill really ended up being was nothing more than spending, spending, and more spending. because since that bill passed, some $1 -- 1.7 million americans have lost their jobs. and so when we look at the legislation that continu

we also see the term private insurance competition is simply an oxymoron. in ohio the two largest insurance companies account for 58% of the market. i didn't take the antitrust because i didn't go to law school. when you've got two companies like the presiding officer did, obviously, because he's smiling. he knows this better than i do. when you've got two companies that have 58% of the market, that's not exactly competition. even worse than that, in some ohio cities, as i would assume in some communities' home state of illinois. it's the two largest insurance companies account for 89% of the market. that's not exactly healthy competition. bring in a public option, compete with these two companies. their rates would come down. their salaries would probably come down for top executives. no more multimillion-dollar salaries. costs would be cut. they would be leaner and meaner. they would be a better insurance company as a result. finally, mr. president, this bill gives providers new tools to improve the way health care is delivered in this country, improvements that

i yield to the gentleman from ohio. >> i ask unanimous consent to put into the record two sets of documents we received with subpoenas containing the e-mails and excerpts of documents i refer to today. >> without objection, so ordered. >> thank you. >> i yield two minutes to the gentlemanwoman from ohio. >> thank you, chairman and i thank chairman bernanke from his endurance. we all have to do our jobs. i would like to insert record into the information, background between bank of america, merrill lynch and black rock and i. >> without objection so ordered. >> i thank the chairman. i would like to ask chairman bernanke to submit from the record for the fed how did bank of america end up owning 49% of black rock. in 2004, the f.b.i. warned the public and administration mortgage fraud was headed toward an epidemic level in our country. the fed did nothing. now the fed under your watch has hired black rock, a firm owned 49% by bank of america, headed by a man who invented the subprime instrument when it first bought them and later as black rock who traded billions of dollars of these securitie

-- also being the number one agricultural district in the state of ohio. i have myr-- we're in tough tim. i have part of the -- i have the highest unemployment rate counties in the state of ohio, one over 16% now. and as we have been on our break, i crisscross my district during that time, and also when i'm at home every weekend, going through factories and talking to businesses across the region and also the people that work there. and, you know, i'm finding, you know, folks are out there in the business sector, especially in these factories, they can't shed any more jobs. they shed any more jobs, they're not going to be operating. a lot of them are hanging on by their fingernails now. there have been pay cuts that people have taken. they have reduced the number of hours that they're working for a week. and so it is a very, very tough time. and when we have been doing this, one of the -- going across the district, one thuing i woul like to ask, on your testimony on page one, you say that, you know, the consumer spending has been relatively flat and consume

the gentleman from ohio is indeed correct. in my district i have seen the importance of the partnership between the celcp to our fragile coastal resources. the committee expects noaa to invest in great lakes conservation through celcp as the gentleman has outlined. and i would be happy to work with him to ensure that the funds will be used for this purpose. mr. latourette: i thank the chair. mr. dicks: i yield back. reserves. the chair: the gentleman reserves the balance of his time. the gentleman from idaho is recognized. mr. simpson: i now yield three minutes to the gentleman from georgia, mr. broun. the chair: the gentleman from georgia is recognized for three minutes. mr. broun: madam speaker, the house is now considering the department of interior, environmental, and related agencies appropriations act of 2010. appropriations bills have traditionally been brought to the floor under an open rule. where all relevant amendments are allowed to be offered to the bill. sadly the majority has decided to reject precedent. where on