this is not include this proposal. with stakes so high, gambling the house away on such a high cost and low reward program is a grave mistake that republicans will not support. i yield back. >> time has expired. gentleman from texas. >> yield one minute. >> at a time when families are already struggling to meet their basic needs, the last thing we need is a new energy tax on all consumers. that is exactly what is a bill is. it is a national energy tax that will burden consumers, businesses, and the lower income families in this country. this is particularly the lower income families. it peaks regional winners and losers -- it picks regional winners and losers. people will be penalized for their lower cost power and will have to pay more to use the greatest resource, col. we should be innovating toward clean coal. we all want cleaner sources of fuel and more efficient energy, but this bill is not the way forward. this bill is a job killer. this bill has real cost for real people. vote no on this bill. >> gentleman from

i encourage all too oppose this rule and this bill. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlewoman from california. ms. matsui: -- the gentlewoman from california has five minutes remaining. the gentleman from texas has three minutes remaining miss mat suey: i reserve. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from texas. mr. sessions: is the gentlewoman through running down her speakers now? we still have some disparate in the little bit of time that was given. i would like there to be parity. ms. matsui: i have additional speakers coming. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from texas. mr. sessions: ifhe has additional speakers i reserve my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman reserves his time. the gentlewoman from california. ms. matsui: i'm looking around and i don't see my speakers presently there. i'm red -- ready to close. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlewoman reserves her time. mr. sessions: at this time i'd like to yield one minute to the gentleman from tennessee, dr. roe. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from tenn

this legislation, this amendment, this substitute is exactly what you can need. you can vote for this, put us on a manhattan project to develop the new green tech nothing that -- technology that we need in this country, to do it in a way that is commercially feasible, to do it in a way that can rise up to replacing the 95% of our sources of energy we have in this country today that you push down in this legislation. and if you were to vote for that and against the underlying bill, we would be putting this country on a course in a bipartisan fashion that would lead our country to exactly what we need. unlike the markey-waxman approach, this doesn't pick winners or losers in technology but allows the ingenuity of american citizens to create the technology that will make our country energy independent. i urge my colleagues to support the gentleman's amendment. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman's time has expired. the gentleman from virginia. mr. forbes: i'd like to yield one minute to the gentlelady from minnesota, mrs. bachmann. the speaker pro tempore: the ge

we do not have this money. our constituents do not have this money. the federal government does not have this money. the democrat lead verse made the irresponsible decision to borrow in order to spend it at their whim. this bill will increase the deficit by borrowing and spending money we don't have. we can no longer blame the deficit and economic difficulties today on the previous administration because the democrat leaders are continuing to dig america into a bigger and bigger hole. this borrowed money is all being spent by speaker pelosi and the unemployment -- and the obama administration. as a result, the unemployment rate continues to rise and the deficit continues to rise also. this bill contains also several hundred earmarks. the earmark system is flawed. we know that even some of the earmarks in this bill have had questions raised about them. this legislation contains several giveaways for and preferential treatment to green countries to promote the green climate this bill applies davis-bacon that will create wasteful spending we do not need

so this amendment, this motion will knock out this language. it doesn't defeat the bill. the bill can still stand, sent back to the house and passed. take about another couple hours maybe at the most to pass it. and if people to want bring back the cash for clunker bill, they can do that. they can do it as a free-standing bill, and hopefully they can do it by paying for it, because that's the way it should be done. because there's another rule around here it violates which is the pay-go rule. so this amendment, this motion to waive is going to be the first test of this congress on two very critical issues. well, three really. first, are we going to do something about the debt of this nation? are we going to start paying for new programs which we know are politically attractive -- every auto dealer in america wants this language included in this bill -- but are we going to pay for it, as we should. secondly, are we going to live by the rules that were put in place by the democratic leadership under the honest leadership and open government snact andact? and thirdly, are we

this is what this is about. this goes back to where we were one year ago. i yield back the balance of my time. and i urge a yes vote. the chair: the gentleman yields back the balance of his time. the gentleman from west virginia. mr. mollohan: mr. chairman, a small point. one year ago, i don't know what numbers the gentleman is looking at and doesn't affect his overall point. and i understand he wants to reduce the bill by a significant amount of money. one year ago the accounts funded in this bill totalled $57 billion. as i understand the gentleman's cut and as we have done the math on it, his cut would take us down to $52 billion, which would be $4 billion below. mr. jordan: i appreciate the gentleman yielding. a year ago, we were -- it's my recollection, we were functioning under a continuing resolution, which would be the 2008 fiscal year spending level. that's why i'm saying one year ago we are functioning as to where this amendment would take us to. not the 2009. the 2008 continuing resolution. mr. mollohan: i'm looking at the actual number here. mr.

he makes this same point. this was not a legal fight. this was not the city acting in good faith. this was the city belling to small-town politics. i think that's one of the threads that he is pulling from the alito concurrence. justice ginsburg -- justice kennedy wrote the main 5-4 decision. alito jump in because ginsburg had all the facts wrong. her dissent said i'm jumping and in the sense because they're not telling all of the facts. this is a strange situation where ginsburg and alito are really going at it. ginsburg's response was so what -- that is not a legal question. as a legal matter, the city had an obligation to toss the results of this exam if the disparate impact was such. that was just a lot. that was the affirmative mandate. her point was all the other stuff is very interesting and it makes for a good novel, but it is not the central legal issue. the central legal issue is that the law requires we tossed the big exam if it has a disparate impact on african americans. the city did that. the court said that is what the law requires. the court of appeals of which son

would you mind scrubbing this, not delay this but let us look at this a little longer.i think you're on to something. i think we do need to go down that track, but i'm a little worried about number three. if we've got accredited universities, why are we going to create another one? >> let me just respond to your question. if you're talking about an hour or two here and still get this done today that's fine. if you're talking about a week from next thursday. >> i'm not, i'm not. i just want to make sure i can look at it and think through -- >> i don't have a problem. unless the chairman does. i'm trying to do this in a way that makes sense. so if you have other concerns, let us know just so we can finish it up this afternoon, that would be great. >> i think we're talking about the same kind of time line you've asked us to withdraw amendments and work with us on. sometimes that requires overnight. >> do you want to do it tomorrow morning? >> whatever time. as soon as we can get it done. >> that's fine. >> senator burr? >> mr. chairman, i would like to call up burr number

this has nothing to do with the speech, this is what john f. kennedy was facing, they said the pope would run things. they only had enough money for the pope, "unpack." but i was asking sonia sotomayor about her experiences, she went on to say ultimately and completely, as a judge you have to follow along. ultimately and completely, the judge will have to follow the law. this is the kind of impartial judge that we want. this is respect for the rule of law, this is the kind of judge that she has been. she will live up to the description -- and she has said that we must continue to realize as individuals, and not statistics. these are important words because, we can have a fundamental impact on people's lives. your students will study this. five justices struck a severe blow to the people -- they were trying to outlaw discrimination in the workplace. so that men and women could receive equal payment for equal work. what the supreme court did, the activist court, was for judicial restraint during the confirmation hearings. they basically shut down

this is nothing to be ignored. this must be reckoned with. of course, there are differences of opinion and taste. some people support some principles or support a certain candidate. and his words and his ideas, which is natural, but you can see a collective commitment amid all this, among all ranks of people with the difference in their votes. there is a collective commitment to restoring and preserving their country, their establishment. everyone in villages and towns and cities, in major cities and small towns, different ethnic groups with different faiths, men, women, everyone participated in this great move. this election was a political earthquake for your enemies, if you will. for your friends, this election was, for your friends across the worlds, it was a real celebration -- for your friends across the world. 40 years after the islamic revolution, such a huge turnout of the people and showing their commitment to the islamic establishment of the late imam, this is a popular movement for renewing allegiance with the late imam and the ma

this is a solid effort. >> this is something we want to encourage. getting people from the different agencies to work together every day, in different forms. you have done a great job of taking people out to different places, the other agencies need to do this as well. this is a good forum for that. we want to look for ways to encourage this, and some of the conflicts between intelligence and department of defense can be resolved if we have more sharing. we understand that there is personnel to manage, that is a great challenge. you have a mission to accomplish, so, if there is a way to help you, to free up more personal, please let us know. we have an issue with the management within your own entity of different service members, and we are communicating this concern and trying to give you the authority to manage your own personnel. we are looking for those opportunities to build those relationships and continue with the principle that is now applied across the agency lines. i will yield to mr. miller. >> i serve on the nato parliamentary assembly an

proposal of this bill. there's no question that cigarettes are very, very harmful. the question for me here is the process. and i find the process here atrocious because it assumes that author tarianism is right -- authoritarianism is right and proper and education and self-reliance and depending on one's self to take care of one's self is a proper approach. we total reject our free society and assume that if we just have tobacco police roaming the country that all of a sudden bad habits are going to be cleared up. we're dealing with bad habits and these are bad for health. but let me tell you, i can bring you laste here of dozens -- a list here of dozens and dozens of things that lead to death. as a matter of fact, one of the things we ought to consider is, you know, how many people die from our drug war? we have a drug war because about 3,000 people die from the use of illegal drugs. we have a drug war going on. and tens of thousands of people die. it's so exs aer -- exacerbating at times. for decades, wh

this one is the one that got me wondering about this czarships. executive pay czar. . there's an awful lot of people asking, what does that mean? we know at a minimum what it means is that we're going to decide what some of the big firms that took bailout money, what they're going to pay their top executives. it's been all over the papers and all the tv shows about the various huge gigantic amounts of money that some c.e.o.'s and c.f.o.'s and others get paid in some of these large corporations. with bonuses and it's really beyond most of our ability to conceive how much money these folks get. so this guy's going to limit that. but then the question becomes, if he's going to be the czar, the absolute monarch, over executive pay and that executive pay is going to be from anybody that took government money, then does that mean anybody that got a tax break from the government could be kind of grandfathered into this deal? or anybody that got a grant from the government could be -- not the bailout money, not the tarp money or the other one, stimulus money, but just got a gr

i expected this kind of a difficulty on it. but not when i went this liberal. so. >> with all due respect, mr. chairman, i don't think alexis detoqueville was affected by this. and i don't appreciate the suggestion mine was. >> don't have the wrerequisite numbers to vote on this. so we can continue the debate. >> i'd like to continue the debate because i think senator enzi says i don't -- he doesn't stifle trial by jury. i think we need to talk about that and i think we need to talk about what a health court is. it sounds great like a drug court. like a mental health court, et cetera. but really, what a health court would be, it would be a new entity emerging within our legal system and health courts don't have juries. okay? they don't have juries, they're like workman's compensation courts, if you will. so you don't have a trial by jury. and then there's this whole section of voluntary which is where do you -- at what point do you choose when they're going to trial or when you're being admitted to a hospital. so we can continue that this afternoon. but i want

in charge of this. the tobacco industry should continue to be related -- regulated at the state level. we should not expand the federal government to add another layer of bureaucracy to the already overburdened food and drug administration and a another layer of regulation to americans, consumers, and lives. this is not the direction we need to go but it is the direction, again, that the administration and the majority party want to go. that is more and more control of the lives of americans. with that, madam speaker, i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlewoman from north carolina yields back her time. the gentleman from colorado is recognized. miss polis: thank you, madam speaker. this bill is not a hostile trade action. every sovereign state, every country has the full ability to regulate public health issues. tobacco is a killer. 443,000 deaths per year. smoking related deaths as i mentioned earlier are more than the deaths caused by aids, alcohol, cocaine, heroin, motor vehicle crashes, a

this house. there has also been the dollar inquiry and the [unintelligible] inquiry. we have to look at the evidence of the last eight years, the run-up to the war, the conflict itself, and the reconstruction. i cannot think of every minute that is wider than that. given this house has looked at this issue many times, it is right to counsel of the inquiry get on with the job, interview witnesses, members of this house or other people. they can take evidence from anyone in which to do so and receive all papers from government and there is nothing that will be kept secret from them. this is a model of the franks inquiry and that is what we are following. >> can i have my condolences at the losses of two soldiers in afghanistan. the conflict has led to the deaths of 1079 uk service personnel and 150,000 iraqi civilians. their loved ones want to know the cause of this war and why their loved ones failed. if every evidence session is held in private, that may not be possible, so will the prime ministe

this is the type of process we need to deal with this unprecedented challenge. i urge strong support for the en banc amendment. the chair: the gentleman from california. mr. mckeon: i yield to the gentleman from kentucky, mr. davis, four minutes. the chair: the gentleman is recognized for four minutes. mr. davis: today i offer an amendment tone able our nation to more effective pli hi plan international operations. we must be able to integrate military and nonmilitary elements of our national power this requires the effective integration of all agencies of the federal government, not only those with traditional security roles. however, achiefing integrated roles requires planning and excuse. at present there's no permanent institutionalized system for developing the skills required. examples abound for the need for change. the first relates to afghanistan. i commend president obama for pursuing an interagency approach to solving that. helping the after began government create a secure and stable environment requires we assist farmest growing something other than

this will be -- device. this will be a two-minute vote. [captioning made possible by the national captioning institute, inc., in cooperation with the united states house of representatives. any use of the closed-captioned coverage of the house proceedings for political or commercial purposes is expressly prohibited by the u.s. house of the chair: on this vote the yeas are 282, the nays are 348, the amendment is not adopted. the unfinished business is the request for a recorded vote on amendment number 2 printed in part c of house report 111-183 offered by the amendment -- or the gentleman from arizona, mr. flake, on which further proceedings were postponed and on which the noes prevailed by voice vote. the clerk will redesignate the amendment. the clerk: part c amendment number 2 printed in house report 111-183 offered by mr. flake of arizona. the chair: recorded vote has been requested. those in support of the request for a recorded vote will rise and reare be counted. a sufficient number having arisen, a recorded vote is ordered. members

this goes through march of this year. you can see how the deficit is increasing, how much our shortfall is, and by march it's already tied -- atop $953 billion. that's twice the -- more than twice, the biggest deficit president bush ever had and he was criticized for his deficits. that's twice, and we haven't gotten to the end of the fiscal year yet. what the c.b.o. projects and this is our own congressional budget office numbers and they're running the tale of how much w we are -- the tally of hw much we are spending and they estimate $1.8 trillion for the deficit by the end of the year. that is about four times the highest deficit president bush ever had. i just say that because people say, well, president bush had deficits too. yes, he did. a lot of that was not justified in my opinion but we never had deficits like this in the history of the american republic. and you have to borrow this money. so this is in march. by sent 30th, we're looking at a deficit of $1.8 trillion this year alone and the whole debt of the amer

>> well, i think, you know, this is a conservative movement issue. >> this is a conservative movement issue. it's not just an issue that happened to drop out of the blue, so there are people with a real vested interest in undoing section five, and there are jurisdictions that will seek to bail out under this, you know, bigger bailout provision, and they will fail to get a bailout, and that will give them standing to come back in because it's hard to bail out even under the expanded jurisdiction. >> it may be a movement issue, but it's interesting how overwhelming the vote in congress for renewing the action was i think for 25 years. in the old days it was five years at a time. >> it's renewed for 25 years, yeah. >> i think in the senate there were no dissenters, as i recall, only a handful of representatives, so apparently -- >> that's the vote when it's unconstitutional. it's always unanimous in the senate. >> okay. [laughter] >> i mean, well, the opinion has led -- a number of people have interpreted the opinion as saying to congress, you know, okay, now the ball's in your court and

all of this straight out of this road map. my friends, it is irresponsible in the face of 50 million americans without health care with working americans in every one of our states going bankrupt as they struggle with health care expenses. it's irresponsible to utilize a road map of rhetoric that comes from polling about how to scare people. that's irresponsible. what we need to do today is lay out a plan on how we can create affordable, accessible health care for every single american. addressing one of the biggest factors that degrades the quality of life for our citizens across this nation. now, we have a unique opportunity. we have an opportunity because small business wants help with those 26% increases and 14.7% increases in premiums that they're having to pay and they're not able to continue paying them. and large businesses are asking for help to become cost competitive so that we can restore manufacturing in our nation and put people to work and rebuild the middle class and have successful corporations operating out o

this was this parliament at its very best. there are those who are reminders of on wealthy moments, but i will tell of the goodness that exists in this house. i will leave this house with fond and moving memories. one of those memories is of meeting a holocaust survivor. she came to this country in 1946. after she indoor the horrors of auschwitz and a long, forced march to germany, she raised her family in britain. she would say about this parliament, "that building gave me my freedom." she held this house in high regard for perfectly justifiable reasons. the house must worked tirelessly -- the house must work tirelessly to restore the feisty and that she saw in it. knowing you all personally, i know you will do this so the people of the united kingdom will have once again a parliamentary democracy taken regard it as the best in the world. -- they can regard as the best in the world. in the work ahead, you'll be criticized strongly, particularly from this side. take as comfort the words that roberts bonn wrote to those as the

on this down the road.i think what's most important is that we have a vibrant housing system in the united states, with liquid markets, so that people can access credit in responsible eights to own their home. after all, that's part of the american dream. so at this point, i wouldn't offer any specific prescription. i think this depends on major government policy going forward. this is a pivotal moment, and i think that it causes -- it calls for a debate, a reasoned debate, about the future of the housing market and of housing policy in the united states. >> thank you very much. that was pretty much a nonanswer, and i guess -- i guess during a confirmation hearing when you don't know if you're going to be confirmed or not, it's maybe unfair to ask that. i sure hope as time moves on and you are confirmed, that you will be more clairvoyant and helpful to us as to what you think ought to occur. but i certainly, like senator tester, will give you a pass and say you are well qualified to run for public office ba

this is a crime. this is one of the most serious crimes out there. the slavery and involuntary servitude is something that cannot be remedied by having different immigration structures, having labor instructors and different policies about various things. it can only be dealt with by investigating and prosecuting the people who dare to do them. we stand ready not just abroad but also home for those countries who like to engage and you are willing to do the same type of self assessment that we did in our attorney general's report which was also released today with the get the strengths and weaknesses of the united states government's response for those countries who are willing to engage in that type of partnership -- the rest of the government stands ready to partner. >> what jumped out at me was the substantial increase in a number of the country's put on the tier 2 watch list. what is it a function of? this is a reflection of the at coming or this administration applying more stringent criteria than the last one dead? >> i think it is all of the ab

we know this is all too common today. this is what she said -- there are many times that the medical care her children needed determined to the food, but the family with eight. one of the most poignant things he said was this and i quote. wondering whether you should go to the doctor earning a parent is completely different from wondering whether your kids go to the doctor. so says denise lewis, so well said about the challenge that our children posed in this bill and the legislation overall. no parent should face this choice and no child should be without the health care that they need. from going to close with a quotation from dr. judith paul free. a pediatrician advocate and president-elect of the american academy pediatrics. she said in her testimony last week before us and i quote, sometimes we as town advocates find hard to understand why children's needs are such an afterthought ny because children are little bit, because children are little policy makers and ensures think it should take less effort and less resour

this bill. the bill calls for fda to set its standards to regulation which means fda will go through a public notice and comment process. our committee is busy in the middle of three gauge three-month period. last month we passed a copperheads of energy and climate change legislation. so we will take up health-care reform, but food safety is so critical that i've carved out time right in between to pass this legislation. over the next few weeks i intend to work with all our committee members ,-com,-comma democratic and republic and with the fda with the affected industry to achieve insistence on a food safety bill that we can pass out of committee. we can't afford to wait any longer. i look forward to hearing from our witness today. thank you, mr. chairman. >> thank you, chairman waxman. the gentleman from kentucky, mr. whitfield. >> thank you, mr. chairman. and we appreciate you having this hearing on this very important issue today. we all recognize that fda has many very important responsibil

this program. but what i think is most important about eradication, interesting wishes so much of the other things we do in international health is that it requires getting to the populations that everyone else misses, where the road stop for every initiative you have to keep going if you are to eradicate a disease. it's the ultimate indicator that you are actually reaching children and achieving the goals that we set out to. most things, as you know, in the pursuit of the millennium development goals must of what we have done so far is been given more thing to the 70, 80% of children. what this talk is mainly going to be about is what have we learned about trying to reach the other 20, 30% of children. and not only been bringing me to the third reason about eradicating polio. the third reason is not just to get there to eradicate polio to put the skids on a map, but also to establish the structures, the infrastructure, the processes and the support for going to scale in the areas where we need to

and it stems from this. that when hamas was created, this immediately appealed to iran. iran was steadfastly opposed to the oslo process. did not want to see the palestinians make peace with israel. and found a faction that steadfastly opposed it as well so began to throw money in their direction. now, this shiite/sunni divide played a factor in the early goings because there was this sort of inherent distrust between these different sects within islam but over the years, we saw hamas, palestinians islamic jihad other rejectionist groups rely upon iran for operational support for weapons, for financing in order to attack israel and this was their common goal and this is where really they found ways of working together. i would also add that iran actively drove a sort of a stake between the palestinian factions between hamas and fatah. iran openly called for arafat's assassination which appealed to certain members within hamas. and we sort of saw this animosity grow over time due to the fact that hamas was really getting the support from iran and fatah was not. that fatah

vote to restore public access to this institution. vote for this amendment. the chair: the gentleman's time has expired. mr. mcgovern: i reserve my time. the chair: the gentleman reserves. the gentleman from california. mr. mckeon: mr. chairman, i rise in opposition to this amendment and yield myself such time as i may consume. the chair: the gentleman is recognized. mr. mckeon: mr. chairman, i rise in strong opposition to this amendment. while my colleagues on the opposite side of the aisle will argue that disclosing the personal information of the students and instructors at whinsec is in the name of transparency and good oversight, what they're actually suggesting is that the united states does not respect the privacy of foreign citizens. and more specifically our allies in the western hemisphere who are invited to attend the u.s. military schools. what concerns me is that this amendment expresses winsec -- exposes the students and instructors, which includes u.s. citizens, to hostile personal hazards such as identity theft and surveillance, intimidation o

this bill will make these i.g.'s presidentially appointed and senate coon firmed, are reducing unnecessary influence by the institutions. i want to thank my colleagues for working with us on this bill. we now make sure that this will not cause a reduction in pay and they remain on par with the senior officials at the institution. more importantly, we provide i.g.'s with subpoena authority. finally the bill require thinks regulatory agencies to take action on the efficiencies identified by the i.g.'s. these agencies cannot ignore the findings. given the enormous role these institutions play in our financial sector, it's important they have the tools and independence tone sure these operations operate above reproach. i urge my colleagues to support this measure and reserve the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman reserves the balance of his time the chair recognizes the gentleman from massachusetts. mr. lynch: i want to thank the gentleman from utah for his hard work on this bill and his commitme

this -- you have had a special look at this stuff? >> no. what i want, brian, is to come. it's a campus environment here. you want scholars to start looking in this. look, you can't pick up a magazine without reading about green power or wind power, the environmental movement, a planet in peril like in anderson cooper's. in order to understand it, roosevelt created the global modern conservation movement. he as president was calling for international conferences to save rainforests and you know redwood forest, old evergreen forests. it wasn't just localized to america for t.r. he was evolved in the sense of seeing problems of hyperindustrialization and the havoc it was going to create on wilderness areas. he wanted the world to act. he could not be more relevant. his concerns 100 years ago are really now our true front-burner concerns today. >> this place, tell me if i'm wrong, it wouldn't be here without robert c byrd, a west virginia place, $150 million came into build this place, all done specific to this requirement here. do you t

you're thinking we get to this point and this guy -- what would he not kidnap? the thought of kidnapping was so present in my mind. >> host: this is 2006, not long after daniel pearl's death. >> guest: and the death of daniel is over karachi and every journalist working there is reminded by anyone who works in the media by essentially anyone in karachi who is abreast of defense will say very careful you know this happened once. i saw a young ambitious western reporter going down this path. so we met this guy and he turned out to be very cordial host. his ideas were couldn't have been more opposite of my own but yet he was still -- he was open and, you know, turned out this was sort of the first example and first window into how this was all going to work in that these guys wanted to be able to have their ways be heard and they were banned by the government so he was an opportunity to speak to a journalist. >> host: and it's well recounted. obviously the book spans a good deal of time on your contacts with radicals including the taliban and i want to talk about y

states in this at the end of this month, june 30th. in ten we are projecting state expenditures will have an actual outright to equine of 2.5% and again that's significant both because this is two years in a row the first time but also these numbers are much more significant in terms of decline than the only other decline which was 1983. the restates estimate their fy are nine budgets will be negative. only six were negative 408 to give you a little perspective and comparison and in 2010 we had expect 35 states will have negative budgets in other words year over year they will be spending less and ten than the year before and then they did in 08. now, one indicator of fiscal stress that is good is the actual cut made to the budgets after passage. in other words after the governor signed the budget and there is a chart that shows the is, but these are fairly stark. we actually have a record for the first time ever 42 states in this particular fiscal year will have gone back and had to cut after passage of the budget. the last time that

>> well, we have done this like 15 times and i think the president spoke pretty clearly to this in that interview that i discuss a minute ago. on financial regulation earlier. >> let's go back to the inspector general issue, senator grassley has issued two letters yesterday and he has been pushing the americorps issue but he issued to lenders to the local treasury department and international trade commission regarding their inspector general. could someone infer is that a trend in which the administration? >> if they inverted it would be an incorrect inferences. >> thank you. >> thank you. >> happy father's day. >> happy father's day to all of you guys. >> yesterday canadian prime minister stephen harper took questions from members of the house of commons and the last question time before summer recess. members focused on the economy with unemployment insurance and jobs been the dominant issues. earlier this week the conservative party and the main opposition party, the liberals, agreed to a deal that would preserve the conservatives minority government temporarily. this is 45 minutes.

this coalition has worked to make this a reality. we look forward it to restoring the fiscal discipline to the federal government by enacting paygo into law. >> is not a coincidence that when this was in effect, we were able to have surpluses, and when these what by the wayside, this contributed to the deficits that we are facing. this is a rule that we must abide by winning comes to difficult decisions on mandatory spending as we undertake health care reform, to cut the deficit in half and get back to the balance as we tried to grow the economy and get more people back to work. it is important to say that this is the first legislation that they have officially transmitted to the congress. we are proud to work closely with obama, since the days of the transition to bring us to today and make certain that this will pass the house, we will work to reinstate this tool. >> we are very pleased with the president's support on this issue. today is a good day. we have suspended many of the philosophies to give the president what he has neede

it was interesting of course she is also this victorian, so all this tension and the contrast makes foronderful character. she famously says, and i will end with this, she famously says in her discourse around anti-lynching, she says first of all civil disobedience, the south reconstruction depends on black labor and northern capital. if we can, if we can stop any of it, if we can stop that from coming into the south, we can have a revolution. the disobedient did not work. she said famously, a winchester rifle should have a place of honor in every black. and believe certainly, and was born out eventually after world war i. these are stories we don't hear very much. in the summer of world war i and 1994 example and one of the biggest rights was in chicago where wells was living at the time. it is very interesting that that this sort-- agents the bright period because for the first time in chicago, the first time in these riots, hundreds of them taking place in this period of time where blacks are being killed, chicago is a place that fights back. chicago is a place that blacks are armed.

is, for the purposes of this this is uncertain. and given given the most current ruling that is out there, that carbon emissions are considered polluting, anything that is going on up north, could be considered a discharge subject to the rules. we are concerned by the impact on existing production, this may be very detrimental. >> down there. >> can you talk about shell, lng, and alaska gas? there was a development that transcanada -- this is a difficult question. there is a huge amount of gas, going into the u.s. markets. where do you see the project position? >> it is is a good question. we have great potential in the country, this is coming out and these are sources that, quite honestly, 10 years ago, we had not factored in. these are extremely important looking to domestic production. you have to get this into the distribution center. i believe that you will need everything that we can produce domestically as well as what we can deliver -- we have 25 cubic feet of the reserves. we're going to need all of them, particularly if w

why did it take so long to issue this? >> well, i think we have the embassy has been in contact with american citizens living in china. and so i know that there's been contact through the abortion system with american citizens. we have addressed this issue, i think in a number of ways, the issue of these quarantine measures. >> have you -- >> but i'm not sure what exactly preceded this advisory of june 19. >> have you under the statement described some treatment of children -- there being separated from their parents because they display symptoms -- have you talked were discussed with the chinese this specific issue and it seems to me that you are making an observation but not doing anything to see whether we can perhaps change the way. >> no, i know that our embassy and consulates are in very close touch with the chinese government and getting more information about the rationale for these kind of procedure starting to get information about travelers who have been taken off of airplanes and put in quarantine so i know tha

view on this legislation. while i have you here, could you be kind to give me the justice department prosecute on the state secrets protection act of 2009? >> we want to work with this committee in congress to deal with the doctrine of states' secrets. we are about to release what our views are as to how this problem can be handled to the extent that it is one. i think it is our view that the proposals we will make will deal with many of the concerns that generated need, the feeling in some people that there is need for legislation. i would hope we would have a chance to have members of this committee and congress to look a proposal we're going to make fancy if that will be sufficient and then work with the members of the committee on any legislation that might be contemplated. i think the proposals we're going to make will be sufficient. >> when will you release those? >> it's my hope we can do this in a matter of days. this is -- >> as the attorney general knows, i have been pushing for the same kind of resp

this is to me i just don't understand the logic of it. i understand how the figleaf of peace could help with the sudanese as a mentioned before, that the sunni arab states and the saudis and egyptians could get behind israel a little bit more and events that israel seized the decision and has to bomb iran. but i don't see this as, i don't see how you can leave one with the other parent you should in my opinion, both should be pursued it independently and obviously in everyone's interest to see peace brick out of the middle east but again and we've got these problems of trying to figure out who speaks with the palestinians but at the same time you got iran which is pushing toward nuclear weapons, edging closer every day. it will only be up to the united states. we have seen a pretty much every international actor and cliff can talk about this as well, backed out of the iranian challenge. it will be left up to the u.s. and israel as always in the middle east. and for this administration to say that it can't do anything until peace talks whi

is that it on this? >> what is the pentagon's assessment of the success that pakistan armies have had? >> i think it's been three, four weeks now or longer, and i think i spoke about that three weeks ago and we were a week into it then. it's been five weeks since this operation is underway. i think we are greatly heartened by the fact it's gone on as long as it. one key thing we were looking for in terms of pakistan military operations is sustainability. clearly this operation is sustained. and in doing so i think they have enjoyed great success. so we are pleased. we are encouraged. and we are hoping that the offense continues to the point that the militants in this region are defeated. and we are working with the pakistanis to provide them with whatever they need, wherein reason, to ultimately prevail. >> do you approve for the pac army to move into al-qaeda. do you think they are willing to do that? >> i won't get into those threats, where they exist, i would be encouraging of the pakistan military to

this stimulus plan defies logic. this is at the cost of $2 trillion a leg, madam speaker. what do we get back for that? and these margins that were to come, we weren't going to see unemployment go past 8%, but now it's 9.4%. the stock market is down 204 points. the level of confidence that is there, it seems it's less volatile and more stable than it was, but we have a lot more debt than we had. and the chinese were happy to buy our debt. i was never happy to sell it to them. today they're not happy to buy it and i'm not happy to sell it to them. we have to tighten this belt down and slow down the spending and got to get back to balancing our budget. and i believe that every one of us here on this floor voted for a balanced budget this year in the face of all this economic crisis. those of us on the republican side of the aisle, many of us supported a balanced budget. it's hard to put one together in this tailspin that we're in. we voted for it. and that sends the right message and every year, we have to put a balanced budget out there. i yield back and i thank the gentlem

this is like the people who havare incompetent. i would like is to get off of this. second thing, we continually say that in this legislation -- and i've given chapter and verse -- that we do not mandate clinical practice. we do not mandate clinical practice. >> there is no clear language that says we prohibit the mandate of this interfering between the doctor and patient. please, name the section where you see a mandate for prohibition. >> go to page 323. tell me where that says where it is not construed whether it is sufficient? it says it would you want to not made a national standards. there is nothing in here that requires a mandate for clinical practice. quality health care standards could be any number of things. one could be the development that the effectiveness of the various checklists. some have really improved outcomes in surgical arenas and actually saved lives. michigan told as if they stayed to wonder million dollars. it is not the clinical practice. -- told us they saved $200 million. it is not the clinical practice that i'm worried about. i would li

and this is usually taken as the authoritative slur, and came out this week and this is a trillion dollar industry. the radicals of health reform, said we are not going to take it this time and get the management of budget from the obama white house. which is to say we don't want a disinterested estimate of the cost of this thing. furthermore this whole debate is taking place in the context conditioned by one great fact. it was a survey, it said that 80% of americans rate their health care good or excellent. there is no clamor for a radical change for health care. let's of things could be done, i have ideas that are more radical than obama. but we have to understand that the american people are not clamoring for this. host: you can't leave ideas of more radical ideas without an example. guest: john mccain had an idea, give people money, tax the compensation. tax as compensation employer provided health insurance. but make up for the tax by giving people a refundable tax credit for the 40 million that pay no taxes. a refundable tax credit, 7500 for individual, to buy your own. furthermore

not at this hour. not at this hour. i understand at some point others may say, i cannot support this bill that you put together and walk away, but let's not say that in the first 15 minutes of the conversation in effect of what is going to happen in the coming months, and that is not a conclusion that the american public wants us to make. they expect us to get the job done. >> thank you, mr. chairman, and i agree with almost everything you said. the essential problem that we have is that unlike every other major country on earth, we don't have a health care system. some people say that the cost of health care system is stressing tout american government, and that is an important point, but you have made an equally important point. you have looked at millions and millions of people who today don't have any coverage who are also being stressed out, and we have an obligation, a moral obligation to look at them. one statistic that you didn't mention which i think that we need to put on the table, and i know that some of the

meetings this week. i am not going to give you their fault backgrounds. we can provide you that. in the interest of time, beginning on my right is ambassador thomas pickering from the united states. ambassador woo. he is from china. i'm sorry. no, no. i know your name. i got the order on the list from. on my immediate right is from the russian federation. this is ambassador from india. another ambassador, from pakistan. and the ambassador from japan. now, behind me, we have a general from the russian federation. tony lake from the united states. next a gas from the united kingdom. -- next a guest from the union -- from the united kingdom. our next guest from the people's republic of china. i think that completes our list. we do have someone on the phone with us, from moscow. he is the chairman of the management board of the institute of contemporary development and enjoys close ties with the presidential administration in russia. i will give you briefly the main results of our deliberations to date. i wo

that's the purpose of this. this isn't an inquisition here.n't want to be back here on another day about another crash. thank you. >> thank you, senator klobuchar? >> thank you so much, chairman dorgan, for chairing this and to our witnesses, many of whom, mr. rosenker and i worked extensively on the 35w bridge collapse and mr. scoval, thank you. i was ironically working at the beginning of this hearing having to get a speech done in honor of paul wellstone he and his wife are getting a big award from a mental health association and i had crossed off about the part of their tragic plane accident. as i sat here then listening i flipped over to what we were doing here thinking about that their plane went down. it was a private plane because of icy conditions as well as pilot issues that were not dissimilar to this with training and things like that. so it hit home to me. my colleagues have done a great job of asking some good questions in the areas of fatigue and icing and other things so i thought i would follow-up with some of these ideas i'm

and i think the camera will catch this. this is how long the stories are. sometimes the stories or half a page. most of the time they are between one or one and a half pages. just for fun, would you read the first story in the book just to give an idea? >> guest: bourn of desire -- life alone, no name, no memory, it had hands but no one to touch. it had a tongue but no one to talk to. life was one and one was known. then desire drew his bow. it split life down the middle and life was to. when they got sight of each other they laughed and and when they touch each other they left again. >> host: i think that is a great example and of course it made me think of genesis. >> guest: they are part of real life aspects. part of daily life. >> host: it's one of the most affectionate pieces in the hundreds of pieces -- 600 short stories like this. >> guest: yes, 600 very short stories who finally survive after the process of renouncing sacrifice some of fighting the 800 or 850 short stories in the first version but it was composed as a symphony and so it would have a

i have been asked this. i've been asked the same question probably every week for the past 10 weeks. the president has laid out what he believes is the best way to pay for health care. it is consistent with everything he said in the campaign. the president has also said that we are early in this process, and he is going to watch what happens in congress. as i said yesterday, i think what has marked efforts in the past to achieve the reform that is necessary to bring under control the cost of health care is -- lines that cause people to leave the table. everyone is still talking to each other in an effort to move health care reform for word, to do so in a way that is consistent with our principles and our values. that is what the president has said he is most focused on. >> how has it not resulted in the bait and switch? >> how does what not result? >> a different result than he originally promised.

this is the first book, mr. nouri book and a wonderful storyteller, beverly gage is a professor of yale and she wrote this to talk about america and the age of terror. she started it well before 9/11 so this is not a book that was inspired to write because of current events in europe is something to talk about was happening on wall street at this time it is a detective story. >> finally one of the book we want to talk about, the wilsonian moment king and the wilsonian, is an example of a new generation of scholarship, this is a methodology and what is really exciting to me is there's been a division in history between people who study the u.s. in people the senate the rest of the world so people will focus on countries and focus on individual topics. this is a person who actually is part of this new generation of international historian, he looks at president woodrow wilson's ideas that came out of the paris conference and ending whirled were one and wilson was spending a whole rhetoric about self-determination