have been questioned are receiving scrutiny, appear not to match the payment authorized in the united states code. so when you pull out the united states code, and we are talking about the present statute, so you turn to title 38, section 1790, and then you turn to d-n says the member may elect settlement of this insurance under this subcontractor either in lump sum or 36 equal monthly installments. it doesn't say anything in the statute about retained asset accounts. now, why is that? it's because go back to legislative history. when this statute was written back in the mid 1960's there was no such thing as retained asset accounts. so what has changed? there is a common accepted business practice in america with regard to retained asset accounts. now, in the latter part of the 1990's the v.a. struck an agreement with produce tension then to adopt that business practice. but what they did is they adopted a business practice that is contradictory to the united states code. the statute. so this bill before us is about to say we should counsel the -- the v.a. should provide counsel to the beneficiar

statutory entitlements to pay and hours of work authorized by the district of columbia code for current members of the united states secret service uniform division from the district of columbia code to the united states code. senate amendment to house amendments. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, the reading is dispensed with. is there objection to the original request of the gentleman from missouri? without objection, the request is agreed to and the motion to reconsider is laid on the table. >> mr. speaker. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from missouri. mr. clay: i ask unanimous consent that all members have five legislative days to revise and extend their remarks and include extraneous material on the measure just considered. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, so ordered. mr. clay: thank you. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from minnesota rise? >> mr. speaker, i ask unanimous consent to take from the speaker's table h.r. 3619 with the senate amendments to the house amendments to the senate amendment thereto and ask for its immediate consideration in the hou

conviction because they are not able to carry a firearm under the laws of california and the united states code. commissioner dejesus: it is more of a misdemeanor shoplifting case? charges are filed, but you have a misdemeanor case pending? that will go to a committee and the committee will decide whether that is moral turpitude? and are there guidelines for moral turpitude? would they use a case at a time to talk about what that is? >> i do not know about that aspect of how the committee works. commissioner dejesus: they do mention people versus wheeler, which establishes criminal conduct including misdemeanors. i guess the real issue is it remains to be seen how much litigation this order may draw in terms of the way it is set up in the notification procedures. that remains to be seen. if it becomes a road block, we will have to come back and look at this. commissioner hammer: i want to thank you for your work. he is not here today, but his name is on it. i want to acknowledge the chief, who i have known for over 10 years. he is an honorable, great police officer. i know he did a lot of work.

the clerk: h.r. 3427, a bill to amend title 23, united states code, to protect states that have in effectlaws or orders with respect to pay to play reform and for other purposes. the speaker pro tempore: pursuant to the rule, the the gentleman from minnesota mr. oberstar and the the gentleman from new jersey each will control 20 minutes. the chair recognizes the gentleman from minnesota. mr. oberstar: mr. speaker, i yield myself such time as i may consume. and yield to the the gentleman from illinois. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized. >> thank you, mr. speaker. now more than ever, we must use every tool at our disposal to fight corruption. my home state of illinois has made headlines time and time again. many of these charges involve pay to play politics, trading campaign contributions for government contracts. in 2008, the illinois general assembly took a bipartisan stand by passing the bill to eliminate pay to play contracting. amazingly, the federal government then told illinois that it had to back down or risk losing highway funds. the federal highway administratio

the clerk: h.r. 5360, a bill to amend title 38, united states code, to modify the standard of visual acuity required for eligibility for specially adapted housing assistance provided by the secretary of veterans affairs. the speaker pro tempore: pursuant to the rule, the gentleman from california, mr. filner, and the gentleman from washington, mr. hastings, each will control 20 minutes. the chair recognizes the gentleman from california, mr. filner. mr. filner: mr. speaker, i yield myself such time as i may consume. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized. mr. filner: and i ask unanimous consent that all members may have five legislative days to revise and extend their remarks and include extraneous material on h.r. 5360. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, the gentleman is recognized. mr. filner: i want to commend, mr. speaker, congresswoman stephanie herseth sandlin, for introducing h.r. 5360, also known as the health veterans act of 2010. for the last four years of the chair of the veterans economic subcommittee, she raised the needs by veterans, worked direct

the clerk: h.r. 6198, a bill to amend title 11 of the united states code to make technical corrections and for related purposes. the speaker pro tempore: pursuant to the rule, the gentleman from virginia, mr. scott, and the gentleman from texas, mr. smith, each will control 20 minutes. the chair now recognizes the gentleman from virginia. mr. scott: thank you, mr. speaker. i ask unanimous consent that all members have five legislative days to revise and extend their remarks and include extraneous material on the bill under consideration. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. mr. scott: i yield myself such time as i may consume. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized. mr. scott: five years ago, the bankruptcy abuse and prevention and consumer protection act of 2005 was enacted into law. it exceeded 500 pages in length and made significant changes to our country's bankruptcy law. since the enactment, drafting errors have been identified, including mistaken cross references, grammatical and spelling errors and mistakes in punctuation. this bill corrects these purely te

the clerk: h.r. 3219, an act to amend title 38 united states code to make certain improvements in the laws administered by the secretary of veterans affairs, relating to insurance and health care, and for other purposes. the speaker pro tempore: pursuant to the rule, the gentleman from california, mr. filner, and the gentleman from indiana, mr. buyer, each will control 20 minutes. the chair recognizes the gentleman from california. .6 c1 the chair recognizes the gentleman from california. mr. filner: i yield myself such time as may be consumed and i ask unanimous consent that all members have five legislative days to include extraneous remarks notwithstanding the fact that it exceeds two pages and is stemented by the public $329 value. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. notwithstanding the cost. mr. filner: i rise in strong support of what is now entitled the veterans been filth act of 2010, h.r. 3219. the title being amended in the senate. this is an omnibus benefits bill assembled by the house committee on veterans affairs. it is comprehensive, bipartisan and it is bicamera

. >> these are all provisions of the united states tax code. congress enacted them.s is allowing, this is interesting. john mccain had a debate in 2000 about 527s. another blind fund out there where people can throw millions of dollars into the electoral system if they would like and it's not traceable. the irs knows who it is, but nobody else does. so explain to me why it is that john mccain did not go to the senate floor and demand that 501 c 3s, 4s and 527s, why didn't he go to the floor and demand or ask harry reid for a vote to expose all of these different foundations and money groups out there and say, you got to tell us who gives you money. >> there's a history of this in this country. it has been corrupted going back to the rockefellers and barrens in general. educated briefly on that and parallels of the wealthy control of our government then and now. >> what we found, what congress found at that point in time when you had a handful of billiona e billionair billionaires, was that they were able to go out and through their corporate dollars, influence the wa

it is often prosecuted under the sex trafficking provision of 89 united states code section 1591. those who exploit children for commercial gain, exploit the vulnerability is of their victims. american children are recruited from all socio-economic classes and races. they become victims because of abandonment, abuse, or unhappiness. these children targeted by pimps are typically runaways, for ways, are victims of sexual abuse. they are promised stability, love, attention and a home, but instead, find themselves forced into prostitution. american pimps can easily replace one child with another. they seem to have little fear of law enforcement, confident in their ability to keep their victims from cooperating against them. sadly, they are confident that they have customers that are willing to pay to sexually assault these children. the department of justice is heavily involved in combating this grave and growing problem. while it is difficult to imagine, children as young as 11 are targeted for commercial sexual exploitation. in june, 2003, as the committee heard, in order to addres

will replace the term mental retardation with the term intellectual disability throughout the united states code. in july of this year, new york governor paterson signed similar legislation joining 48 other states that have dropped the r word. democrats and republicans have co-sponsored and agreed that the time has come to end discrimination against individuals with intellectual disabilities. every day, millions of children and adults have difficulty with tasks such as problem solving, decision making and communications because of intellectual disabilities. these americans are often ridiculed, ignored or abused by their peers. sometimes they are referred to publicly by insulting terms and treated as second class citizens. in particular, the term mental retardation has acquired a negative meaning and is used intentionally and unintentionally to deride and humiliate many of our citizens. h.r. 4544 is aptly named for a great woman from my home state, elizabeth a. connelly. she was elected to the assembly as the first woman from my district to be elected to public office. when she retired in 2000, s

it is often prosecuted under the sex trafficking provision of 89 united states code section 1591. those who exploit children for commercial gain, exploit the vulnerability is of their victims. american children are recruited from all socio-economic classes and races. they become victims because of abandonment, abuse, or unhappiness. these children targeted by pimps are typically runaways, for ways, are victims of sexual abuse. they are promised stability, love, attention and a home, but instead, find themselves forced into prostitution. american pimps can easily replace one child with another. they seem to have little fear of law enforcement, confident in their ability to keep their victims from cooperating against them. sadly, they are confident that they have customers that are willing to pay to sexually assault these children. the department of justice is heavily involved in combating this grave and growing problem while it is difficult to imagine, children as young as 11 are targeted for commercial sexual exploitatio in june, 2003, as the committee heard, in order to address t

it is often prosecuted under the sex trafficking provision of 18 united states code section 1591. those who sexually exploit children, whether foreign or domestic, for commercial gain, exploit the vulnerabilities of their victims. american children are recruited by pimps and madam -- madams from all sose yo economic classes and from all races. they become victims because of abandonment, abuse or unhappyness. these children targeted by pimps and madams are typically run aways, throw aways or victims of sexual abuse. they are promised stability, love, attention and a home. but instead they find themselves forced into prostitution. american pimps and madams can recruit children for nearly nothing and can easily are replace one child with another. they seem to have little fear of law enforcement, confident in their ability to keep their victims from cooperating against them. and sadly, the pimps and madams are are confident they have customers who are willing to pay to sexually assault these children. the department of justice is heavily involved in combating this grave and growing pr

it is often prosecuted under the sex trafficking provision of 89 united states code section 1591.hose who expit children for commercial gain, exploit the vulnerability is of their victims. american children are recruited from all socio-economic classes and races. they become victims because of abandonment, abuse, or unhappiness. these children targeted by pimps are typically runaways, for ways, are victims of sexual abuse. they are promised stability, love, attention and a home, but instead, find themselves forced into prostitution. american pimps can easily replace one child with another. th seem to have little fear of law enforcement, confident in their ability to keep their victims from cooperating against them. sadly, they are confident that they have customers that are willing to pay to sexually assault these children. the department of justice is heavily involved in combating this grave and growing problem. while it is difficult to imagine, children as young as 11 are targeted for commercial sexual exploitation. in june, 2003, as the committee heard, in order to address this

the clerk: h.r. 5993, a bill to amend title 38, united states code, to ensure that beneficiaries of service members group life insurance receive financial counseling and disclosure information regarding life insurance payments and for other purposes. the speaker pro tempore: the question is will the house suspend the rules and pass the bill as amended. members will record their votes by electronic device. members, this is a five-minute vote, five-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 representatives.] . the speaker pro tempore: on this vote the yeas are 358 and the nays are 66. 2/3 of those voting having responded in the affirmative, the rules are suspended and the bill is passed and without objection the motion to reconsider is laid on the table. the unfinished business is the vote on the motion of the gentleman from california, mr. berm

multiyear contract if they could meet the intent of the requirements contained in title 10 of the united states code for projected cost savings. the authority granted to navy one-time permission to miss the title 10 reporting timelines as long as they submitted the required reports by march of this year. the navy subsequently reported the significant cost savings this type of contract would achieve but missed the reporting requirement by a month due to a variety of factors. as a result of the missing this reporting requirement, the letter of the law prevents them from entering into this cost saving contract. to fix this new problem, this house agreed to the exact language contained in this bill when h.r. 5136, the fiscal year 2011 national defense authorization act, passed the house in may. this standalone bill is necessary because the senate has yet to take up fiscal year 2011 national defense authorization act which means we may not have an authorization act signed into law by the end of this fiscal year. madam speaker, this is not an argument about the number of strike fighters that navy needs. t

united states. for years, our tax code has actually given billions of dollars in tax breaks that encourage companies to create jobs and profits in other countries. i want to change that. [applause] i want to change that. instead of tax loopholes that incentivize investment in overseas jobs, i am proposing a more generous permanent extension of the tax credit that goes to companies for all the research and innovation they do right here in ohio, right here in the united states of america [applause] i am proposing that all american businesses should be allowed to write off all the investments they do in 2011 and this will help small businesses operate their plants and equipment and will encourage large corporations to get off the sidelines and start putting their profits to work in places like cleveland and toledo and dayton. [applause] to most of you, i bet this seems like common sense. [laughter] but not to mr. behner and his allies. for years, republicans have fought to keep these corporate loopholes (in fact, when mr. behner was here in cleveland, he attacked us for closing a few of these loopholes

treatment pursuant to the call for an alternative section code section, commonly known as laura's law pirie the basic principle of law in united states is that all adults are presumed to be competent. that is, they are presumed be capable of making their own decisions about their own lives and their own medical care, including mental health treatment. every state has court procedures for determining when and if someone is incompetent. only a tiny percentage of people have ever been declared incompetent under these procedures. is corresponds with reality that almost all persons with even the most serious mental illnesses are competent most of the time. that is they are capable of making their own decisions about whether to seek treatment and support and what treatment and support they should receive. the association acknowledges that a.b. 1421 was passed in the interest of public safety, but we believe that if proposition 36 and other funding resources for outpatient mental health services were fully utilize, there would be far less need for a measure of the source. second, the bill if enacted has the potential to go beyond its value

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code of military justice you see m.j. desertion. i will introduce mr ramsey clark as you all know by now as a former attorney general united states in the sixty's certainly the johnson administration set to go beat leading the defense on the issue of whether international law defenses that we want to offer should be admitted in this case is that this is a or the most important issues in this case. are coming down to the station. you know. because it should such great importance. to our country tend to peace. in iraq you have soldiers accused of violating international law. the geneva convention. and for that matter domestic law course you can't prove a lot of people under any circumstances under any law. here you have a soldier. who served in iraq. you describe leader. his squad was cleared in. two abuses that were violations of international law. you know they were they were stationed out at the international airport. they were handing detainees but what comes in is three sheen your men who had no dinner and have. only code names and they do the actual interrogation. but they order. these young soldiers around on how you handle the

united states. for years our tax code has given billions of dollars in tax breaks that encourage jobs and profits inther countries. i want to change that. i want to change that. [applause] instead of tax loopholes that incentivize investments in overseas jobs, i am proposing a more generous, permanent extension of the credit goes to companies for the research and innovation that they do right here in of the united states of america. i am proposing that all american businesses should be allowed to write off all of the investments they make in 2011. this will help small businesses upgrade plants and equipment, encouraging large corporations to put their profits to work in places like cleveland and toledo. for most of you, i bet this just seems live common sense. [laughter] not to mr. boehner and his allies. for years, republicans have fought -- fought to keep these loopholes opened. when he was here in cleveland that he attacked us for closing some of these loopholes, using the money to help states like ohio keep hundreds of thousands of teachers, cops, and firefighters on the job. mr. boehner the scr

building a two-unit building, you would have this as an alternate, but we are required to enact more restrictive requirements into our code? >we always make our commitments to the state code but it seems like the residential code would be an alternate. >> it is a hybrid, a mix of both. >> yes, you could always use the original code, as it was intended to be more restrictive, but it turns out, they did not pay attention to all the details. i think there are 25 carry- forwards. >> i wonder what other things that i did not see when i was looking through it. >> how much more time as the review process been extended? >> the code review was a big problem for us, but now that it is all in the code, probably not a significant effect on our daily operations. everything is clearly in there. once we do training -- >> that is what i was going to ask. do we have some level of training so they are familiar? public not reach will only take place at the point where they are applying for their permit. >> as part of the plan, we have this coded option cycle which we are talking about today. then we have the next piece which is reviewing our administrative bulletin to make sure that th

united states. but for years, our task code has actually given billions of dollars in tax breaks that encourage companies to create jobs and profits in other countries. i want to change that. i want to change that. instead of tax loopholes that incentivize investment in overseas jobs, i'm proposing a more generous, permanent extension of the tax credit that goes to companies for all the research and innovation they do right here in ohio, right here in the united states of america. and i am proposing that all american businesses should be allowed to write off all the investment they do in 2011. and this will help small businesses upgrade their plants and equipment, and will encourage large corporations to get off the sidelines and start putting their profits to work employs is like cleveland and toledo and dayton. -- to work in places like cleveland and toledo and dayton. to most of you, i bet this just seems like common sense. [laughter] but not to mr. boehner and his allies. for years republicans have fought to keep these corporate loopholes open. when mr. boehner was here in cleveland, he attacked us f

united states believe she's been the victim of a flawed investigation. >>> a computer worm is on the loose. it's a sophisticated computer worm that rewrites codests believe that the first target was iran's nuclear facilities and they're trying to rede code the threats. >>> and every day life for the 33 chile minors includes comforts from home. they get three meals a day and ice cream. no down time, they watched movies and they're hoping the new routine will help them hanging on. >>> behind the scenes look as bristol palin tries to dance her way to the top. >>> and coming up tonight, will sarah palin make her front row debut tonight. we're inside the rehearsal at home. >>> this is an et exclusive. >>> they're hoping they'll get through dancing with the stars. and the quick step is difficult. i know you have to be proper and you're jumping around a lot. think i'm excited about that today. and leaving hollywood to head back. >> and the first dance, you have about three to four weeks and you can break it down and take your time and now, it's a crash course. tonight, they may have pressure of bristol's mother. >> she's got a lot on her plate, she di

united states. paul, you've been kind of shutout on this. is this -- is there something about the -- is kenya a code word here? >> of course, it is. he's trying to reach the tin foil hat crowd. the crazy who is don't believe this president is legitimate. by the way, they didn't think bill clinton was legitimate either. they would never accept the legitimacy of a democratic president. it's beneath newt. 4 this is beneath alex. people should read this. it was a number-one best seller. it is about a search for personal identity, not for the importation of some sort of african political agenda which is what i think mr. gingrich was implying there. i think it's really -- it's sad. it's really just pathetic, as david points out. there's plenty of decent ways to attack this president. but the notion that somehow, because his father descended from africa, that's illegitimate, is wrong. he, of course, refers back to his grandfather who he was much closer to, who served in patten's army, and was a white guy from kansas. and he grew up with his grandfather. the book is not about searching for political ideolog

code for change. we just have to be patient. problem is social justice will most likely bankrupt the united states. we simply cannot afford this society mr. obama envisions. in a perfect world, everyone would have a nice house, good food, a good education. progressives believe that vision can become reality if only a huge magnificent government would impose the dream. and it looks like mr. obama is going to try. and that's the memo. now for top story tonight, reaction with us, former press secretary to president clinton and now a democratic consultant. first of all, am i making my mistakes in defining progressive values? >> yeah, i think you're giving the right wing caricature. the conservative caricature. >> so specifically where did i go wrong? >> because progressivism is a big tent as is conservativism. it's hard to say everybody fits within that. the most important progressive value is creating a fairer society. >> i was right on that one. >> ok. >> that's one i was right on. >> because the united states, the american dream was one of fairness where everybody had equal opportunity, not necessar

united states on the north slope of alaska protecting the environment will continue to be a matter of great importance and deliberation. peace in the middle east featured heavily at the u.n. some of the code at the top of the program there's also been speculation of the possibility of israel and the u.s. bombing iran but some experts say the war is over before it began because for us but some playing to open branches in the islamic republic later my cousin gives his view on that. as you know on this show i said to tehran if you want to avoid getting bombed this fall by israel's last goldman sachs allow goldman sachs and citibank to open a bank and. therefore take out a billion or ten or one hundred billion dollars of loans and you will get bombed hey did you know that world war three started and it ended were you aware that by the time you left the protestant i knew where the gate world war three started and now it's over. because report next hour here on. morning news for that a martial arts champion who's a skate from a russian psychiatric hospitals turned up in norway where he's pleading to be allowed to stay extreme nationalists vicious love that sick has a history of violence and was

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united states and is slowly gaining ground. and the report reads in part according to sharia, every faithful muslim is obligated to wage jihad whether violent or not against those who do not adhere to this coderesult of this is the establishment of sort of global state or califate under which everyone will be governed by sharia. this they say is totally inconsistent with the u.s. constitution. megyn: thank you so much. this is a fox news alert. an about-face. the national republican senatorial committee saying they will support christine o'donnell in her bid to win the senate seat once held by joe biden. this after saying she might have to go it alone. it wasn't some who said that. it was that same group who said she'll have to go it alone. her victory adds to the tea party candidates who upset the establishment choice. carl, as a political story, this is a great story it many like the alignments are all off. it's infighting and they flipped. so what is up with the apparent flip-flop in delaware? >> reporter: the nag aing republican senatorial committee raises hundreds of nilons of dollars t --hundreds of millions to country bite to candidates they want to see elected to the u.s. senate. the

overseas, which our tax code does right now, let's close those loopholes and provide tax breaks to companies that are investing in research and development here in the united states. that is a smart thing to do. we want to incentivize businesses who are making profits right now to say we should take a chance and let's invest in that next new thing. second, is what i have proposed, is allow companies to write off their new investments early if they make those investments here in 2011. he essentially, accelerating depreciation they can take on their taxes to front load investments now. that certain thing, pending -- the third thing, pending in the united states senate, a small business package that will eliminate capital gains taxes for small businesses, would help small businesses obtain loans, a common sense bill that traditionally would have garnered a lot bipartisan support, it has been blocked out by the senate republicans for the last month and a half, and small businesses are still having trouble getting loans, and what we want to do, although we have given them eight different tax breaks, is we want to say we will give you just a little bit more incentive b

united states. i am going to stop there. thank you, very much. [applause] >> thank you, heidi hartman. our next speaker is eric kingson. he is the code-share of the campaign to strengthen social security. he served as a policy adviser to two presidential commissions -- the 1982 and 1983 forum on social reform, and he will talk a lot about putting this conversation in context -- the content -- a conversation about cutting social security benefits and raising the retirement age. eric. >> thank you, terry. i'm going to take a minute and a mention my power point will go up. i'll start with a couple of stories. on the way over, i will confess i was in a cab. the driver was listening to fm wpfw who was raising the question about whether we should raise the retirement age, and why people in france are fixed -- writing. his quick response was it works. it has been working for decades. why would anyone want to change social security? i think that is outside of the beltway, although he was inside. americans like this program. americans do not like region do not understand some of the wall three. -- wonkery. this is a morning confession. i once

united states, don't give up and don't give in. host: wanda calling us, there were early morning talk about her concern about consolidation in the news. "the daily beast + code as a headline, a new round of layoffs expected this fall and cbs is being trimmed to the bone. cbs evening news drew 4.89 viewers on average, the lowest ratings recorded in 20 years since nielsen has been keeping track. one person who works there described the atmosphere inside the network now as separate call. another round coming this fall. we are talking to you about to big to fail. white plains, new york. m.j? good morning to you. caller: it is crony capitalism. you have fdic insuring banks and then you have the banks going around and taking so much risk. it is absolutely ridiculous. you are going to ensure deposits and the banks go out and lever up and take all of these risks just on the trading side and then you will come in and save them. of course, they are going to become too big and start taking away too much risk. you also had the fed which come in, the bankers' bank, and the whole point is to make sure the large banks that are close to them don't fail. it has happened in e

our tax code does right now, what i've said is let's close those tax loopholes and let's provide tax breaks to companies that are investing in research and development here in the united states. that's a smart thing to do. we want to incentivize businesses who actually are making profits right now to say, we should go ahead and take a chance, and let's invest in that next new thing. second is, what i've proposed is, is that we allow companies to write off essentially their new investments early if they make those investments here in 2011, so essentially accelerating the depreciation that they can take on their taxes to encourage them to frontload making investments now. the third thing that we've proposed, and this is actually pending right now in the senate, the united states senate, because gerry and jim have already voted on it, is a small business package that would eliminate capital gains taxes for small businesses, would help small businesses obtain loans. it is a common-sense bill that traditionally would have garnered a lot of bipartisan support, but we're in the political silly season right now so it's been blocked up by the senate republicans for the last month and