i am so proud that he is with us here today. i know this trip does not get any easier as the years pass. for those of you who make it, there is nothing they could keep your weight. -- they could keep you away. 1 such veteran was a member of the hundred first airborne. last night, after visiting the cemetery for one last time, he passed away in his sleep. he was gravely ill when he left his home and knew that he might not return. just as he did 65 years ago, he came anyway. maybe now rest in peace. with the boys he wants blood with. the his family always find solace in the heroism he showed. in the end, jim came back to normandy for the same reason we all come back. he came for the reason articulated by our -- another former paratrooper that is with us today. when asked why he made the trip, howard said, it is important that we tell our stories. it does not have to be something big. just a little something about what happened so people don't forget. so people don't forget. friends and veterans, we cannot forget. what we must not

i am so proud that he is with us here today. i know this trip does not get any easier as the years pass. for those of you who may geke i, there is nothing they could keep your weight. -- they could keep you away. . . >> when asked why he made the trip, he said that it is important that we tell our stories. it does not have to be something big, just a little story about what happened. so people won't forget. so people don't forget. friends and veterans, we cannot forget. what we must not forget is that d-day was a time and place when the bravery and selflessness of a few was able to change the course of an entire century. an hour of maximum danger, among the bleakest of circumstances, men who thought themselves ordinary found within themselves the ability to do something extraordinary. they fought for their moms and sweethearts back home, for the fellow warriors they came to know as brothers. it was a simple sense of duty, a duty sustained by the same ideals that their countrymen had fought and bled for for for two centuries that

. >> dave joining us here in oakland. this hasn't been an easy couple of ball games. trying to battle back in this one but just too far behind. >> boy, we've sure made oakland real good offensive club the last couple nights. they've come out swinging the bats very well. we didn't stay away from the big inning. back to back innings they put cooking numbers up for them. we came back and got some runs late. fell behind way too much. some pitches that we'd like to have back especially with two strikes that we left over the middle of the plate. >> dave, when you have a young star like jason berken you can kind of expect there might be a hiccup on the road. tonight he didn't get many pitches down in you can design a plan that fits your budget and protects you even as your life changes. the ll us at the nzone at all. >> no. he pitched up. i thought the last time he pitched he was real good down and you n count up was down. he didn't establish any of his pitches at all tonight. seemed like he was trying to feel for them. they jumped on him early. they didn't make adjustments.

. >> mike, why do you think it didn't work here for lastings milledge and joel hanrahan? >> well, joel, i think could use a change of scenery. he struggled here mightily this year. his stuff is still very good. he needs to execute his pitches better to perform at the major league level. i think maybe a fresh face and a fresh set of circumstances may benefit him. lastings just -- you know, he was a product of an injury this year. you know, he had a very slow spring training start and that turned into a slow beginning of the major league season start for him. we thought we'd send him to triple-a to get his swing down. he was just starting to swing the bat pretty good when he wroak us -- broke his finger and put him on the disabled list. i think it was an unfortunate, frustrating year for lastings. he's a good player, and you have to give to get. we think we got two really good ones and tough give something up to get them. >> real quickly, before you make the roster move tomorrow. >> bringing thee two players, they'll both be in uniform, how tuch there you have it be to make the move? >> i think it will be

that is what draws us here this morning. it will take time between now and the fulfillment of our goals but i'm determined as i'm confident that all of you are that we get there and achieve those results and do so with civility and respect for one another. i have great respect for every member of this committee. certainly i want that to be the theme as we move forward, to respect each other's opinions, have good robust debate and achieve consensus are we can and move forward. that is the way i have tried to work in the past as a member of this committee and chairman of the banking committee in the past, working on issue of financial services. it has been my relationship with mike enzi. so, i invite that kind of process in this mark-up and i thank all of you for your attacks on these issues and turn to senator enzi. >> thank you, mr. chairman. i appreciate the flexibility that you built into the program as we worked on it since you took over the reins less than two weeks ago. and i agree with about 80% of what you said, which

the american people sent us here to represent them. and all they've seen this year is an awful lot of spending, an awful lot of debt, and an attempted government takeover of healthcare, national energy tax. and so we've got a lot of work to do. and my job is to keep our members focused on the work in front of us. and we're going to continue to do that. >> that's consumed the news oxygen in the past 24 hours. how can you stay focused on that if that's what people are talking about? >> if you noticed in my press conference this morning, i'm not talking about it. [laughter] >> i'm talking about the stuff that its at hand, the things that i've got to work on. >> mr. leader, i'm interested -- i haven't had a chance to hear your thoughts on the c.b.o. estimate. -- [indiscernible] focussing on that $3,000 per household estimate from boston university. c.b.o. announced it was $174 per household in terms of higher energy bills. -- [indiscernible] actually -- >> if you look at the c.b.o. score and you read it, it's only one title of the bill. bu

for having us here and inviting us here. i wanted to begin by thanking the people who put together last night's dinner, which was truly tremendous. [applause] >> and i also wanted to say having listened to tipper speak this morning, and having worked with her extensively during the clinton administration, that i, for one, never get tired of applauding her for her work, and i am consistently amazed at her commitment to this cause, and i thank you personally for what you've done. [applause] >> so this is the opening session. we hope to be co-harnte and brief. if we're not doing that, stand up and tell us. nonetheless, i hope you are all properly caffeinated out there. i see plenty of coffee on the tables. the point of our session is to, one, explore what americans think of health care, especially in the wake of the 2008 election. our second will be how those views may be shaping the health care reform debate today. finally, i hope to get free advice out of all these people for you. normally they charge a great deal of money. a

a warning to all ofs here in this house, i -- all of us here in this house, i might add. there's no substitute for a fundamental restructuring the safety's delivery systems and restoring the efficiencies that once produced a far higher level of service at far lower cost than what we see today. restoring that efficiency is going to require the governor and the legislature to wrestle control from the public employee unions, to dismantle the enormous bureaucracies that have grown up over the service delivery system, to decentralize administration and decisionmaking, to contract out services that the private sector can provide more efficiently, to rescind the recent tax increases that are actually costing the state money and to roll back the regulatory obstacles to productive enterprise. these are the changes that cannot be implemented overnight and that will not begin producing results for some time. and that brings us to the fine point of the matter. what churchill called history's terrible chilling words are about to be pronounced on california's failed leadership. too lat

so thank you very much for having us here and i look forward to questions. >> ms.leming, we welcome you and ask you to make your remarks now, please. >> mr. chairman, ranking member thune, ranking member hutchinson and members of the subcommittee, thank you for the opportunity to discuss high-speed inner city passenger rail and the american recovery and reinvestment act. the $8 billion provided by the act for high speed and other inner city passenger rail projects have focused more attention on and generated a great deal of anticipation about the possibility of developing high-speed rail systems in the united states. my testimony has two parts. i will discuss the factors that we have identified that affect the economic viability of high-speed rail projects and how f.r.a. strategic plan incorporates these factors. first, while the potential benefits of high-speed rail projects are many, these projects are costly, take years to develop and build and require substantial upfront public investment as well as potentially long-term operating subsidies. determining which,

those to join us who would like to take a moment to remember michael jackson so you may come and join us here at the mic. i want to say to our house of representatives -- >> madam speaker, the house is not in order. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is correct. members and staff will take their seats. ms. watson: to the country and the world. a young man has left earth, but now resides in the stars. and this was a talented, multitalented person who entertained the world with his dynamic portrayals, his songs that he had written, but his style of dancing. we think it's appropriate to say that we pay tribute to the culture that he has left behind, his legacy. i'd like now to ask my colleague, mr. jackson, he would close out and all those that stand with us send our condolences, our heartfelt sorrow to his family, his friends, and to his millions of fans throughout the world. mr. jackson: madam speaker, if there is a god -- >> the house is not in order. mr. jackson: if there is a god, and i believe there is, and that god distributes grace and mercy and talent to all of his children, on augu

i'll invite my colleagues sings there are three or four of us here to have a more informal conversation. if i start a line of questioning and you have a thought along the same line, jump right in here, so we make this in a way more cohesive in that sense. so many places to start. let me start with this. since t.a.r.p.'s inception the program's scope, size and complexity have dramatically increased. i made note of this in my opening comments when i noted the 12 separate initiatives under t.a.r.p. today. some of these interact with the federal reserve, some with the fdic, some obviously with private investors as we discussed as well. i wonder if you could begin, i think some of this you mentioned in your steps, the initial steps, you intend to take, but i would like you to expand on this and how you would assure this committee and the public at large the effective management of such a complex program that involves already interaction with almost every other federal agency that's direct or indirectly involved with economic recovery in the country. and i wonder if you might share those thou

do we have a doctor from georgia that wants to join us here? i'm going to run back to my good friend, congressman king from iowa. please join us. mr. king: a couple of points that linger in my mind. one is to add to the point that the gentleman from georgia and missouri were making about spain and i concur, it was for every green job created, it cost .2 jobs, but also each of those green jobs cost $770,000 to generate that job. a massive cost in capital. i want to throw another point into this in a brief way, the cap and trade component of this legislation that's impending to be driven through this house floor the month of june, we have experienced that. when speaker pelosi was elected, she declared this capitol complex would be carbon neutral and ordered the generating plant that provides the electricity that illuminates this room would be changed over from coal generation to natural gas under this idea that natural gas isn't a hydro carbon that can't be upheld by an engineer, but in any case, double the cost of the electricity and still found

i appreciate this hearing and the circumstances that bring us here today. it's really unfortunate. despite signs the economic downturn has slowed and maybe even turning around, many americans are still unemployed or fearful of losing their jobs and for some, this fear is -- for many, this fear is very real. two iconic companies here today, chrysler and gm, are closing more than 2,000 dealerships nationwide with potential job losses numbering in the hundreds of thousands. this move will impact every state and city in the united states. on tuesday, 789 chrysler dealerships closed their doors including some in chicago. about where i'm from, about 2500 gm dealers closed by the end of the year. there are three gm dealers in my district and another four nearby that my constituents depend on. there's been no public announcement of whether any of those businesses will close but the employees and their families go to sleep every night wondering what the news will bring in the morning. and i'm glad that this committee will have the opportunity to review how the decisions are made to close ce

us don't like that idea anyway. but this is a catastrophe. but then you go out and really exacerbate it and smaller communities off of small businesses and it seems like that the consistent route here for us to go through this would be, okay, you provide the same slower glide path on this that we're trying to do with the auto manufacturers and that that would make more rational sense given the amount of federal dollars that we're putting into this overall industry sector. >> see if i can address each of the points, senator. first, in our case, with all due respect to my colleagues and partners here, 67% of the dealers have received winddown agreements were unprofitable and substantially so last year. second is, we spent a lot of time talking about small markets. in fact, the disproportionate impact of the gm actions are in metropolitan markets where if you look at this has been the exactly where our past has been, this has been our past. we let the dealers work through the issue over time and we end up with a situation where we have today where in some for example major metropolitan markets we have far more dealers than our principled competitor toyota and we greatly underperform b

we had our own gibson and chestnut, those two words mean a great deal to us here. now steven johns. later today we will have a resolution on the floor, hopefully to be a comfort to his family and also to talk about how despicable this act of violence was. it's really sad. earlier this week we met with the president at the white house when he announced his pay-as-you-go initiative. it was with great excitement that we heard his statement. just as a little history, maybe even ancient history to some of you, that means before you were born history, in 1982 at the democratic mid term convention in philadelphia congressman george miller introduced a resolution for pay-as-you-go. it was -- it passed. it became part of the democratic platform that year. it took until 1990 for it to become operative here when president bush was president of the united states. throughout the 1990's it was how we operated. pay-as-you-go. and the last four budgets of president clinton were in balance or in surplus. we have to return -- you know what has happened in the eight years intervening in terms of the r

here, it is simply wrong. i don't know of any one of us that disagrees with that. we have a moral imperative to act and see that that gap is closed, that no one in this country, no child in this nation, no family ought to be faced with those kinds of outcomes. when the small business owner finds himself having to choose between the welfare of his employees and the survival of his business, it simply is wrong and we have a moral imperative, i think, to act to close that gap. when a grandmother can't afford the prescriptions she needs to stay well, and has to cut her pills in half, that is simply wrong as well. and, again, a moral imperative to act. when millions of american families working hard and p playing by the rules in the wealthiest and most advanced nation in the world lay awake at night fearing one heart attack, one car accident, one cancer diagnosis could mean not just medical hardship but economic ruin, that is simply wrong in my view and we have a moral imperative to act. our legacy, the legacy of those who sit in service to the american people at this m

glad you could be with us here. ryan burr along with michele lafountain on what is a monster day and night in the

it's been a rough first hour for us here. it's 2:30 in our nation's capitol. ball game underway, blue jays four in the first, a run in the second, a run here in the third, and they're all over martis. >> i opened my score book this morning, and at the bottom of the page it said happy father's day. we love you. >> i wrote that. >> i know my wife's handwriting. >> oh. >> i'll get your autograph sometime. well played and throws out the pitcher. the overbay homer happens quickly, and the blue jays 6-2 after 2.5. at dodge, we build mechanical bulls. we build freight trains. we build toolboxes. we build field offices. we build fan clubs. we build the all-new, award winning dodge ram. come see what we've built for you. >>> happy father's day to all you fathers out there, and to you, bob. >> he said that to me. thanks, nick. zimmerman, dunn and kearns, still very much in this game, and zimmerman is trying to do anything he can to get on base, now 0-14. ryan is a really good bunter, but he guided that one right to the pitcher. >> what did you say, disabled list? >> s

shubert here with us today. when asked why he made the trip, howard said it is important we tell our stories. it does not have to be something big. just a little story about what happened, so people don't forget. so people don't forget. friends and veterans, we cannot forget. what we must not forget is that d-day was a time and place where the bravery and selflessness of a few was able to change the course of an entire century. within an hour of maximum danger, it made belleek circumstances, men who thought themselves ordinary found within themselves the ability to do something extraordinary. -- amid bleek circumstances, men found the ability to do something extraordinary. they fought out of a simple sense of duty, and sustained by the same ideals for which their countrymen had once fought for over two centuries. that is the story of normandy, but also the story of america, of the minutemen who gathered on a green in lexington, of the union voice from maine who repelled a charge of gettysburg, of the man who gav

on behalf of all bust thank you to mha for having us here go before we began that wanted to thank the people who put together last night's dinner which was truly tremendous. [applause] and, i also wanted to say, having listened to tipper speak this morning and having worked with your extensively during the clinton administration, that i for one never get tired of applauding her for her work, and i am consistently amazed at her commitment to this cause and i thank you personally for what you do. [applause] so, this is the opening session, which is good and bad. we hope to be coherent and brief. if we are not come up please stand up and tell us that we are not being that and nonetheless i hope you are all properly caffeinate it out there. i see plenty of coffee on the table. the goals of our session today are i think three. the first is to explore what americans think about healthcare and particularly in the context of the 2008 election. second, to discuss how those views may be shaping the healthcare reform debate today, and finally, i hope to get free advice out of all of these people

here. he is stuck in traffic that will be with us momentarily. at our next hearing on june 17th we will hear from witnesses including some of the airlines and some pilots. let me begin the subject of safety by saying in this country who think we have a remarkably safe system of air travel. the safety record is extraordinary and it is not my intention to a that alarm anyone about considering taking a flight on the regional carrier or any airline for that matter but i do think we of responsibility to examine airline crashes when they occur and insure we do all we can to prevent future accidents. we have all heard the story of the tragic crash in february of this year of continental connection flight 3407 from buffalo, a new york or rather in buffalo new york. this flight was operated by colgan air. the plane was operated by captaining co-pilot, both of whom had committed fairly long distances to get to work and were found to have had little rest before the flight. the co-pilot revealed her experience in flying in icy conditions in the transcript of

. >> e.j., thanks for joining us here, we appreciate it. >> any time, mark. >> back to interleague allltway ball, nationals and orioles. this is melvin mora, in the sixth with two on. roped, to the left field corner, double. nolan ryan. we have 5-1. they're not done in the sixth. how about the baltimore chopper, aubrey huff there, brings in brian roberts and adam jones. orioles score eight in the sixth inning, tied for their most prolific inning of the season. they get their 100th interleague win. they're just 100-127 all time. >> meantime, in cleveland, the reds, facing the cincinnati. ryan -- facing the indians. garko's, seventh home run of the year, harang winless in his last six starts. they've dropped 7 of their last road games to cleveland. trady sizemore, four straight games with an rbi. >> nascar rolling into new hampshire this week. how tony stewart won the poll without taking a lap. after flirting with the 50s in yesterday's first round, kenny perry was dodging raindrops in connecticut. like the rest of us. we'll tell you if he's still leading. would you like to see our new m

of the house of $4.6 million to finally replace the antiquated 33-year-old voting system that we use here electronically in the chamber so we no longer have to have it held together by the duct tape that its inner workings are held together by. $325.1 million is provided for the capitol police. that's sufficient to maintain their current officer strength. there was a request we did not fund to increase the number of officers. it was felt although the capitol police is working diligently toward getting their fiscal house in order and chief morris is to be commended for that, they are not quite there yet and arding to the strength of theirs for did not make sense until they -- of their force did not make sense until they get a handle on their overtime and who is where in the capitol police structure. $607.4 million is included for the library of congress a 6.6% increase over the 2009 level. it includes $22 million for the library to fund their high priority initiatives, which also includes $15 million for technology upgrades. it also includes the full amount, lebs will be interested to know

the united nations, distinguished special guests chancellor of honduras, ministers who accompanied us here today, ministers from oliver countries reap, distinguished minister of venezuela, of ecuador, distinguished friend margaret kelly, director of the general assembly. the resolution and that the united nations has just adopted unanimously with the vote of all countries that are members of this assembly expresses the indignation of the people of honduras and worldwide who continue to struggle for the only principles that can prevail in accordance with united nations. agreements, international human rights agreements, and the fundamental value of humanity, namely the right to life, to freedom, to justice, to individual dignity and collective dignity, as well as the right of citizen participation. also significant in this new century art challenges and world conditions that are becoming complex, where we have greater strength and awareness and more instruments to be able to respond to the problems that we face, that finding solutions that are increasingly global. to which we are all commit

us. you could have done what hitler believed he would do when you arrived here. in the face of a merciless assault from these cliffs, you could have idled the boats offshore, met a garage of tracer bullets that split the night sky -- and mirage of bullets. you could have hidden in the hedgerows or waited behind the sea wall. you could have done only what was necessary to ensure your own survival. but that is not what you did. that is not the story you told on d-day. your story was written by men who parachuted into dark marshes. lost and alone, he fought his way through the gunfire and helped liberate the town. it is a story written by an army ranger who saw half the man on his landing craft drown when it was hit by shell fire just a thousand yards of the speech. he spent three hours in freezing water and was one of only 90 rangers to survive out of the 225 who were sent to scale the cliffs. it is a story written by so many who are no longer with us. private barrett was only supposed to serve as a guide for the first infantry division. he instead became one of it

i'd also like to thank our panelists for being here with us this morning. today we are here to examine the practices and consumer protections from a growing online advertisement practice known as behavior advertising. as broad-band access continues to expand across this country, more and more americans are relying on the internet for news information, online videos, and to purchase goods and services. and americans need to have trust and confidence that their personal information will be properly protected. privacy policies and disclosures should be clear and transparent so consumers can choose what information they want to view and receive on the internet instead of inappropriate collection and misuse of their information. consumers should also understand the scope of the information that's being collected. what it's being used for, the length of time it's being retained and its security. the more information that consumers have the better. moving forward we must ensure that americans are comfortable with using the internet and know with confidence that mea

[applause] i want to thank all the tribal leaders of wisconsin who are with us here today. [applause] i want to a knowledge great leadership that you are getting in the united states senate from herb kohl and russ feingold, although they cannot be here with us today. give them a big round of applause. [applause] this is a town hall meeting, but if you do not mind, i want to make a few comments at the outset to frame the discussion, and then we will get to the fun part. you guys can bombard me with questions. as i said, i want to thank southwest high school for hosting us. i especially want to thank laura for sharing her story. it takes courage to do that, and it takes even more courage to battle a disease like cancer with such grace and determination. i know her family is here and they are working and fighting with her every inch of the way. her story is incredibly moving, but sadly, it is not unique. every day in this country, more and more americans are forced to worry about not just getting well, but whether they can afford to get well. millions more wonder if they can af

living memory has parliament been the subject of so much anger ask dismay from the people who send us here. the need for change is quite simply unprecedented. you know as we all do that change does not come easily to this place with ol' habits die hard. you must be different from every speaker who has ever come before you. no longer just another pillar of the tabment, we urge you to reinvent the role speaker as a catalyst for radical change. on your own you cannot bring about that change but you can become one of the prime architects of it. in your speech to us this afternoon, you rightly said, i don't want to be something, i want to do something. i would urge you, too, to remember the words of the other candidates in today's elections, especially the words of the honorable member for gloucester who said we should all be looking to change the settlement between parliament and the people and the words of the honorable member for auldridge brown hill that this is not a moment for -- but a moment for action. to misquote the misquotes from the honorable member from northwest hampshire, you sho

to look to, i assume with the commission, is for the states themselves to work with us to tell us, here's where our shortages are. here's an information-gathering commission. then at the federal level we can make sure what we're doing actually works out in the real community. so we are addressing that within the underlying bill. >> what that means is we ultimately decide, they don't. and this doesn't stop, preclude any money to other areas. this amendment doesn't stop that. all it says is we're giving hersa, you've got grants all across these things and our state, oklahoma for example, might not need it in three or four of them, hersa can sign a contract where they can concentrate where they don't have needs and put that money into where they have the most acute needs. in other words, we're not precluding any other area that the state might have from not getting appropriate monies. what we're saying is we're concentrating and allowing the states to concentrate on the areas of most. and what that does is we can have all the commissions we want. but ultimately the commission's going to take

for all of our crew, thanks for being with us here at camden yards, everybody. wieters, pie in the face, real solid nie. how it all happened, coming up next, "o's xtra," jim and rick right now. >>> welcome in, everybody. it's "o's xtra." how about that first major league home run, first major league rbi off the home run and his first curtain call. the orioles celebrating a victory as they beat the mets tonight to even up this interleague series at a game each. welcome back in to our picnic area. a lot of excitement here tonight. i really believe because of the wieters home run, it got the crowd into the game. everybody was waiting for that first home run hoping it would be hit here at camden yards and the young man finally came through. >> the guy who catches the ball in the grandstands gets interviewed just for catching matt wieters's first home run. it was exciting. >> that's a valuable souvenir. >> well, it is now. >> let's get a look at the highlights for tonight as matt wieters early on became the man of the night as the orioles got a lead in the first, but

us in chinese and english. give her a warm welcome. >> thank you for being here with us, and remembering tiananmen and 20 years later. i want to invite my colleagues and my dear friends that are with us 20 years ago, to come to the podium with me. i am speaking on behalf of all of us, please all others that were here earlier in the press conference. please join me on the podium. give them a big round of applause. [applause] >> 20 years later, i still remember the sunrising behind t he chinese history museum, shedding the bright light on the square. it was the morning of june 3, 1989 and the students of the broadcasting center had just begun the newscast. a nt

they can run over us here in the house. we have reached out and offered better solutions. it is unfortunate. the american people want this done in a bipartisan way. >> if there was a building came to the floor now, with any republican votes for it? >> i will leave the vote counting to the whip. i would have to stretch my imagination to think of one who would vote for the most bizarre plan i have seen. i cannot wait for the cost figures to come out. >> will your side doing it can to slow down -- to slow it down? >> i do not know what course of action we are to take. there's a lot of time between now and then forced to do everything we can to protect the american people's wallet. they want to raise taxes, spend more money, and increase the debt. i came here to fight against that. >> [unintelligible] [laughter] >> there is still time to get your copy of c-span's 2009 congressional directory. it has district maps and how to contact committees and congress'caucuses. >> as this year's supreme court term comes to an end, chief justice robert talks about how the court works. many

us. "nats xtra pregame" here on masn.as the nationals try to salvage game three of this big weekend beltway, battle of the beltway series at camden yards, after an 11-1 loss and a 6-3 loss last night. kind of an interesting news coming down last night about the situation involving craig stammen who had started seven games, now he goes to the bullpen for the nats. >> i'm really happy for him. i thought he threw well enough to remain up here and i think it was the right decision to make. he can throw the ball over the plate. he's got the curveball, change- up, that sinking fastball, and i know that he's going to go out there and be able to throw the ball over the plate. he's our first true long guy that we've had here since i've been here. davey johnson used to call him the 6th starter. he was a guy in a anytime the game got out of hand early, you had somebody to come in there and not only eat up innings, but keep you close. i think he can do that. he's had some minor league appearances, with a great earned run average. wha

>> thank you very much, madame chair, and i also want to thank you, professor warren, for joining us heretoday. in the work of the congressional oversight panel of the government accountability office, and especially the inspector general, continue to provide congress with critically violations of the financial recovery efforts. in the latest monthly report, it is an impressive assessment of the stress test conducted by the treasury and federal reserve on the 19 largest bank holding companies. the report observes that the basic methodology and economic assumptions underlying in the stress test are reasonable and conservative. the report goes on to identify logical and important criticisms of the test. the panel's finding that concerns me most is that it calls for increased transparency. i have long been an advocate for the highest levels of accountability and visibility in the vault -- in all aspects of the economic recovery. i've often said that in order for the obama administration to come out of this crisis, the public must have a sense of confidence, they must feel that they are a par

those of us here were pleased with the prayer. it was a wonderful, meaningful prayer. i want to welcome rabbi harlig for helping us open the senate and for the beautiful prayer that he uttered. rabbi harlig and his wife dina opened a center in their living room in 1990. it was -- it has grown dramatically since then, and successfully grown. there are now five such community centers in southern nevada. the organizing rabbi harlig and his friends -- i'm sorry. the organization rabbi harlig founded has taught many children and many adults and done so many good deeds for so many people. as rabbi harlig mentioned in his invocation, the day is significant. it's significant because it's the day of the chabad community -- important in the day of the chabad community. it is the 15th anniversary of the passing of rabbi schneerson, one of the great jewish leaders of our time. thank you, rabbi harlig for joining us in the senate today. following leader remarks there will be a period of morning business for up to one hour. senators will be permitted to speak for up to ten minutes e

it's a great evening you put together for us here. we've been here a little over 100 days, about 120 days now. we've all got some first impressions of what this body is all about, what this work work is all about. it's been an eye-opening experience for me coming from the midwest. my district is full of small towns, it's where you know your neighbors and wave at them as you go by. we still have gun racks in the back of pickup trucks where i come from. but we also have some great people. that's the reason i was excited to be able to represent those folks. where i come from, people still believe in limited government, lower taxes, self-reliance for the individual, common sense, and balanced budgets, whether it's their own or whether it's the local political entity's. it's kind of a -- kind of ironic, when you get here, things seem to change. in my mind, what a difference a few thousand miles make in the way governance takes place. having served in the house in missouri, it's completely different but the same type of process, though the

i'll invite my colleagues sings there are three or four of us here to have a more informal conversation. if i start a line of questioning and you have a thought along the same line, jump right in here, so we make this in a way more cohesive in that sense. so many places to start. let me start with this. since t.a.r.p.'s inception the program's scope, size and complexity have dramatically increased. i made note of this in my opening comments when i noted the 12 separate initiatives under t.a.r.p. today. some of these interact with the federal reserve, some with the fdic, some obviously with private investors as we discussed as well. i

those of us here with us today at the u.s. capitol and the c-span audience across america and around the world welcome to the luce policy institute's 2009 conservative leadership seminar i'm alyssa cordova and i'm the director for the luce institute america's organization for conservative women. our mission is to prepare women for effective leadership and promote conservative women throughout the country. we do this through a variety of unique student initiatives including our campus lecture program, which features many speakers you'll hear from today. you'll notice that today's speakers also featured in the lecture program are marked in your agendas with an asterisk and i'm proud to announce a brand-new addition of a distinguished speakers. rebecca hagelin, students will greatly benefit from her expertise in the area of family, traditional values and the culture war. we're proud to call her a luce lady and i hope you'll consider bringing her to your campus this year. we're so honored that the conservative leaders we have here

thank you admiral, last year when i joined you in tampa, and thank you for the service you give to us here and around the world. the concern about wear and tear on equipment, is one that we have had since the situation occurred in iraq. and tell me specifically with special operations resources, what resources do you find experience the greatest wear and tear. and to what do you attribute this aging process. and do you have thoughts of how we can help you address that situation? >> sir, thank you. i don't think it will surprise anyone, the answer is our mobility systems that are suffering the most wear and tear. because of the ways they are used and the pace they are used. so as my staff just recently gave me the top five items of what we see wear and tear. and it's the fixed wing and rotary wing aviation and the flat time, we are driving more hours and spending more time on the water. and this is at a pace beyond what we predicted when the systems were procured. so we are refurbishing them more often and we are resourced to do that. my concern looking ahead is that we sustain the level of

but the truth is the american people have elected us to come here and represent their interest. i don't believe we are representing their interest as we do this markup. i believe we owe it to them to be more thoughtful than what we are attempting to do and a very short timeframe. today we do have technical comments on the bill before us, we don't call from the administration. we have a technical comments from health and human services from the secretary. the agency that will be in charge of implementation of many aspects of this legislation we have no comments. my colleagues have covered and i will cover in a little more depth the words and remarks from cbo. even yesterday i think the white house began to actually distance itself from the product on the hill. yet we have a weekend house of scheduled markups that it's basically been said we will have this bill finished at the end of the process. all i am not sure how you can arbitrarily attempt to do something this big in that amount of time. now, true health care reform has to guarantee that all americans have the opportunity at

used to live. the mean annual average temperature is 53 degrees. annually precipitation, 38 inches. heressex county in southeastern virginia at 5 degrees warmer and about 20% more precipitation and the corn yields are exactly the same. why? becauseé?ñ people adapt. they adapt their practices. what's different between the temperature warming 5 degrees or a farmer moving from suffolk county to augusta county? the answer is absolutely nothing.sbr so people adapt to varying and large changes. well, that's the climate of extremes. now i'd like to ask a very, very interesting question in this climate. i'm going to ask you the question, have the global warming climate models failed?kñ and this is touched on in the book. i want to expand on that.Ñ when we talk about the effects of global warming like mr. gore was talking about in 10 years, we start with changing in the atmosphere meaning changes in the carbon dioxide concentration. Ñ climate models and then we put these into usually economic impact models for agriculture or energy or whatever you might want to do. there are many of these models.

the american people sent us here to help this economy, to help get them back to work. this is the biggest job-killing bill that has ever been on the floor of the house of representatives, right here, this bill. and i don't think that's what the american people want. but if our goal, if our goals are to clean up the air, to build an alternative energy business in the united states, a thriving one and to create -- one, and to create jobs, there's a better way to do this and it the all of the above strategy that we've been talking in this chamber about for nearly a year. and that is to say we need to have more alternative sources, whether they be solar, wind, geothermal. we can produce those additional types of energy and help renew them, but in the meantime america needs energy to grow our economy. so we need to have more drilling for oil and gas in the united states. there's no question about it. we need to increase the supply of american made energy so that we bring down the price. and what we do in our bill is we take all the royalties from the development of additiona

glad you could be with us here. ryan burr along with michele lafountain on what is a monster day and night in the sports world. we got nba final, lakers-magic, game three. pittsburgh with their backs against the wall, game six, stanley cup finals at the igloo in pittsburgh. pens need to win to stave off elimination and not be embarrassed again and have the red wings skate around on their home ice with that stanley cup thing, plus major league baseball draft currently going under way. but it's all been trumped by breaking news out of southern california, and the college basketball team at u.s.c. >> that's right. so unexpected news as tim floyd has resigned this afternoon. according to the clarion ledger, the basketball course at southern california a month after being accused of giving $1,000 to man who helped steer sharpshooter o.j. mayo to u.s.c. floyd submitted a one-paragraph letter of resignation to u.s.c. athletic director make garrett. this is what it says: >> senior college basketballteom writer for espn "the

deeply concerned that the bill before us today provides a framework for injecting jarring and discordant notes from divisive and unresolved domestic disputes here in our country into u.s. foreign policy. we should be using this process to find our common ground to develop the tools that actually bind the human family, lift weary human hearts around the world, provide justice for all, especially vulnerable persons, including the elderly, the mother and her unborn child, instead of -- and trying to propose the resistance to tyranny and twisted ideologies. i yield back. the chair: the gentleman from california. mr. berman: yes, mr. chairman. i'm pleased to yield a minute and a half to the very active and distinguished member of the committee, ms. sheila jackson lee, the gentlelady from texas. the chair: the gentlewoman from texas is recognized for 1 1/2 minutes. ms. jackson lee: i thank the speaker. i ask unanimous consent to revise and extend my remarks. i thank the chairman. thank you very much to both the chairman and the ranking member of the full committee, chairman berman, ranking member ros-lehtinen. it is too short a time to talk about the

we own, the taxpayers, i mean, you and i and all of us here are now share holders in a lot of major u.s. corporations. the taxpayers, the federal government own 75% of a.i.g., 5% of general motors, 10% of chrysler, 36% of citibank, 80% of freddie mac and fannie mae, and it goes on and on and on. and so we have all of this spending, borrowing, taxing now on top of that increasing amount of government ownership of our america's private economy. and if there is one thing that americans are clear on, it's that government should not be taking over bigger and bigger shares of the american economy. there was a survey that said 75% of americans agree that the federal government shouldn't take over the u.s. banking system. that was a poll done in february. more recently 60% say that the bailout loans given to g.m. and chrysler were a bad idea. a new poll on may 3st shows that 67% of americans are opposed to providing general motors with $90 billion -- i'm sorry, $50 billion and giving the government a 70% ownership interest in g.m. 56% of voters said it would be better to have g.m. go out of bus