all of us in america. and you remind us of our roots and strengthen our resolve to fight for democracy in china and make us better americans. and i want to say to those here, perhaps the most important thing, do not be discouraged. i know that the heroes of tiananmen must have days in which they think that no one cares anymore. there are such deep discouragements because they don't see progress, a little bit of progress , a little more everyday. the great thing i want to share is that is not how history is made. history is not a process of gradual change until you reach victory. history is brave men and women lonely, who keep that flame, that little candle flickering. until one day, magically, it seems overnight. the shift takes place. and what seemed impossible yesterday because obvious and inev to believe -- inev --inevitable and we think that dictatorships are strong and that we are divided and weak in democracy. dictatorships are fragile. so everyone here, let us give deep honor to the men and women wh

i'm not sure 1 -- $150,000 as much as i wish that all of us in america had that amount in our hip pocket. but taking with seriousness the gentleman from california's proposal, i would just make the following comment. most people in new york state is viewed through new york city. they think of broadway, the statue of liberty and think about all the great things that is indeed new york city and is in many real ways new york. and new york is all of that, but it's much more as well. in my part of the world, in my part of new york state, it's the st. lawrence river, the add ron dack mountains and park. the largest publicly held park in the lower 48 states. it's beauty, natural wonder. and it's great people. it's not a metro. it's small towns, villages and hamlets with very indust tryous and very proud and kind people. for all of our natural beauty, for all of it that causes us to be proud, it's a region that has long been confronted by economic challenges, closed factories, abandoned mills, failing farms, declining populations. in our part of the world, and i can't speak for the coast of cali

we are moving forward with legislation that will transform the way we use energy in america. this legislation will spark a clean energy transformation that will reduce our dependence on foreign oil and the pollution that threatens our planet. it was poor -- spur the development of new sources of energy. it will spur new energy savings like a efficient windows and other material to read these -- to reduce heating costs in the winter and cooling costs in the summer. it will lead to the development of new technologies, new industries that can create millions of new jobs in america that will not be shipped overseas. at a time of great fiscal challenges, this legislation is paid for by the polluters who currently emit the dangerous carbon emissions that contaminate the water, and pollute the air that we breed. it provides assistance to businesses and communities as they make the transition to clean energy technology. i think this legislation is very important for our country. i want to thank the energy and commerce committee, henry waxman, his colleagues, and everyone such as char

dependence on middle eastern oil and give those young children an opportunity to have good jobs here in america using american natural resources to propel them. . we have a bill that takes in all of the above approach, actually utilizes american natural resources, our oil, our natural gas, their -- there are estimates that we've got almost 100 years of natural gas reserves here in this country. in fact in louisiana the largest natural gas find in the history of our country occurred just three years ago. i know one of my colleagues will be talking about that. we've got the ability here in our country to secure our energy independence. we've got legislation we filed that would help us secure that energy independence. they won't allow us a hearing on this bill because they are promoting this cap and trade energy tax. a tax on energy that again as we talked about, as we are talking about, our young children, encouraging them to lead healthy lifestyles, we need to also be creating policies here that give them those opportunities so that they don't get out of school and have to go straight to the unemploym

representatives is moving ahead on historic legislation that will transform the way we produce and use energy in america. this legislation will spark a clean energy transform that will reduce our dependence on foreign oil and confront the carbon pollution that threatens our planet. this energy bill will create a set of incentives that will spur the development of new sources of energy, including wind, solar and geothermal power. it will also spur the new energy savings like efficient windows and other materials that reduce heating costs in the winter and cooling costs in the summer. these incentives will finally make clean energy the profitable kind of energy. and that will lead to the development of new technologies that lead to new industries that could create millions of new jobs in america. jobs that can't be shipped overseas. at a time of great fiscal challenges, this legislation is paid for by the polluters who currently emit the dangerous carbon emissions that contaminate the water we drink and pollute the air that we breathe. it also provides assistance to businesses and communities as they make

this isn't the case of rural versus urban but it's the chance of those of us in rural america to stand up and be counted. thank you, i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from virginia rise? >> ask unanimous consent to address the house for one minute, revise and extend my remarks. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. >> mr. speaker, this week "the new yorker" reported on the c.i.a.'s abduction rendition and torturing of an innocent man. a businessman named halid was abduct in one country, renditioned to another where he was stripped neighborhood and chained and given pute rid water to drink. a number of c.i.a. officials believed from the beginning that he was innocent. but his c.i.a. supervisor who has since been promoted twice overruled them of the funally, 149 days later, they went over the supervisor's head, insisting that his innocence be ac knowledged and got him released. another c.i.a. captive froze to death chained to a concrete floor and was buried in an unmarked grave. mr. speaker, as director panetta tries to restore the agency's

in the negative. she often anger with america is used to get people to trump other issues. n lebanon, i think it may have been a factor. fact is, it's very hard to be now angry with this administration given what it has done in relation -- saying we want to talk to iran. it's even admitted that we've intervened against the democratic hezbollah people of the 1950's so it's put a lot of people on the table that makes it -- deprives people like him from using the u.s. to rally people. and in that sense the u.s. could be a factor. at a minimum it will be interpreted that way. whether or not the u.s. is a factor will be interpreted that way. so the outcome of the election will be important. but even if ahmaddijan de wins, i expect he will be under pressure to respond to the administration's gestures. host: our guest has a long career in ack deemia, teaching at cornell uferts, also a visiting fellow at the woodrow wilson center. he has been a professor at u.s.c., princeton, columnia, u.c. berkeley. he also has penned a number of editorial pieces over the years. valley stream, new

ronald reagan saw america as a city on the hill set apart pie god, who intended us to be free. and innaugural address he said freedom in the dignity of the individual have been more available and more assured here than any other place on earth. three years later congressman rating the fallen warriors at omaha beach, reagan said we will always remember. we will always be proud. we will always be prepared so we may always be free. today our freedom is defended by 1,092 foot long air carrier and 5,500 sailors on the ronald reagan and their motto is peace through strength. ronald reagan's legacy is intact, and i am confident it will be for generations to come. if you study the man and his times you will see the rhythm of life described by shakespeare. all the world's stage and all of the men and women are merely players. and one man in his time will play many parts. ronald reagan played his parts brilliantly with words and deeds. he inspired his countryno one great heights and inspired a great vision. we are honored to grab his likeness. [applause] >> ladies and gentlemen, the republican

and unleashing the ability to use oil shale in the midwest, to use tar sands, clean coal technology and advanced those, by using the natural resources we have here in america we can create millions of jobs but also create billions of dollars of revenue that we will partially used to go and fund the alternative sources like wind, soil, -- solar, and nuclear. it is a different approach but it uses the natural resources we have here in america to, number one, decrease dependence on middle east oil but also create great jobs in america and ensuring energy independence. i think it needs to move forward and we need to first defeat the captain and trade pact that will literally run millions of jobs out of the country and raise electricity prices. i think you will see a different contract in our approaches. host: a key component appears to be a dramatic increase in nuclear power. can you talk specifically about that? guest: it has been about 30 years cent in new nuclear facility has been built. we have about 100. our goal is to build another 100 facilities in the united states in the next 20 years. we have over 30 applications already pending. there is a very long

us to leave the corners of the fields for the poor and foreigners. these injunctions are repeated in our prayers. as we look for a fair and just solution to the emigration issue in america, let us all combined this biblical instructions with the fact that we are a nation of laws and borders in america. it is unfortunate that at times during the immigration debate that the rhetoric hasotten overheated. the undertones and certain circumstances have alienated many communities. we must do everything in our power to remember the scriptures and insure immigrants in this debate are always treated with dignity and respect. [applause] the public discussion should reflect gratitude for the enormous contributions made by your community and the many others that make up the patchwork of our nation. the fabric of america is strengthened by your, and work ethics, by our determinations, by our faith in god, by our devotion to family and cultural roots, and by your willingness to serve in our military and thank you to those wounded warriors who are here. [applause] [applause] [applause] every day we serve in this town and serve for the people, we know we are only able to do that because

-- illnesses in america has really brought us to this moment in history. we will be voting with him in mind as we should. thanking senator chris dodd, who once again, has stepped in in an extraordinary way, just as he did with credit card reform, in passing a bill that had been decades in the making, again, senator dodd has been called in at the last moment and has done a spectacular job on the floor of the senate to move this bill forward. i'm hoping that we can pass this and get it enacted into law. it will save lives. but you can't blame tobacco for all of the faults in our health care system. there are many parts that need to be addressed. the u.s. spends about 17% of its g.d.p., gross domestic product, on health care. this amounts to $7,400 per person on health care each year. we spend more than twice as much as any other country on earth when it comes to health care. as of 2006 health spending in the united states was 90% higher than other industrialized countries. health insurance premium increases consistently outpace inf

he wrote about all of the deer populations in america using charts of where they lived and how to get back. today we have so many deer in the country, it's not a problem. 100 years they were dying out. we almost didn't have deer. he was seeing the birds dying. we used to have the carolina parakeet. if you read about south carolina and georgia during the revolutionary war, they were all over, these beautiful carolina parakeets. they were an extinct species. i mentioned the passenger pigeon. flamingos gone from america. you have to go to bahamas to save them. roosevelt wanted to save them because he felt that added to the charm of american life that in many ways he hooked up with frederick jackson turner's frontier thesis and believed what made american was space and wilderness and that as soon as we lost that, we would lose our american character. >> go back to doug brinkley for a moment. this book, when did you start writing it? when did you write the first chapter? >> boy, i started writing my pro log about four years ago on pelican island, florida, and about how he started saving wi

in terms of the overall scope of what's before us, it's small. but i can tell you in small towns and in cities all across america, this is a big deal. we have up to three million people that in some way work with our automobile industry. we have small businesses all across this country that are looking at this vote. we have had colleagues come to the floor. we have had hearings held, letters and press releases about helping dealers at this time. this is the moment. this is the moment and the vote

used to limit carbon dioxide, some years later. i only say that because this was a huge economic decision, is called on an agency of the department of the united states government, to regulate every business in america using fossil fuels. right or wrong, i just say what five members of the court can do, the ruling was five members. they also -- they have the supreme court, at least two members of the supreme court, have concluded that the death penalty is unconstitutional, because this is cruel and unusual, as prohibited by the eighth amendment of the constitution. they descended on every single case, they thought others would agree with them. as time went by, they have left and no other judge has followed that philosophy. i would say that this is an untenable position because the constitution itself makes at least eight references to the death penalty. this is implicit in the constitution, that the government cannot take life without due process. that contemplates that there is a death penalty and you could take a life with due process, and it has references to capital crimes. every single state at the every single state at the founding of the government had a

with so many of us unemployed workers in america now, already the obama administration has made a decision on health reform that is really helped. i just have a feeling that nationally with so much unemployment going on, what is your national field on -- you have 10 percent of america on an unemployed. how does that affect everything on a global picture? guest: fortunately -- or unfortunately for our viewers delaware -- the rate is not 10 percent but he is right, i think it will reach 10 percent before this is over. what happens is even if the economy begins to rebound, the unemployment rate continues to grow for a period of time. the bigger danger is that in our last two recessions, we had jobless recovery spirit we had a pickup in economic activity, but we never quite return to the level especially of manufacturing and plummet that we had prior to that. economists laude this, they call it improvements in productivity. in fact, it is good to learn to do more with less. but for individuals, it is a horrible outcome. you don't benefit from the cup -- recovery in the way you hoped to or in t

i believe america hold within her the truth that regardless of race, religion, or station in life, all of us share a common aspiration, to live in peace and security, to get an education and to work with dignity, to let our families, our communities and our god. these things we share. this is the hope of all humanity. recognizing our common humanity is only the beginning of our task. words alone cannot meet the needs of our people. these needs will be met only if we act boldly in the years ahead. if we understand the challenges we face are shared and our failure to meet them will hurt us all. for we have learned from recent experience that when the financial system weakens in one country, prosperity is heard everywhere -- is heard everywhere. when a new flute index one human being, all are at risk. -- when a new flu infects one human being, all are at risk. when violent extremists operate in one stretch of mountains, people are endangered across an ocean. when in a sense in bosnia are slaughtered, that is a stand on our collective conscience. -- a stain on our collective conscience. [applaus

white american has put us in this position. all america except white america had been in a financial crunch. when bush was in there, someone who knew they were not qualified for the position, and yet he was put in there and he stole buffers the election and then a republican marvel -- marvel at him, he was not doing anything, but they agreed with everything he was doing. why not give obama a chance. god put obama in there. young, white america -- young white america was touched by the of blood. they put a bomb in there. they want a change. host: the president outlined a new plan for lowering drug prices. a photograph from the diplomatic reception room. the picture of senator max baucus, also the head of aarp and senator christopher dodd who is taking over for senator ted kennedy in supervising as chairman of the house committee hearings continue this week. it points out the lobby for drug companies, pharmaceutical research manufacturing organization said it pledged $80 billion of 10 years to help reform are troubled health-care system. the

use that in creative ways. can use that in ways that we've seen america going forward. and you can see it in the music industries. one of the places where we put together math and music to generate whole new kinds of products and ways of producing. so i would encourage people to take from your statement the notion that it isn't only more of education that we need, but we need a different kind that really emphasizes problem solving and creativity. and using the tools of mathematics and skyance to do that. >> do international teachers apply that differently? do they teach those concepts differently than here in the united states? >> there's something called the pizza exam that is another one of those international exams. but it's a program for international student assessment and it looks at 15-year-olds in 80 countries. and they pick the age so you're going of course the way different countries do grades. and in science, one of the things american students do, we do in the middle on this but other countries, students do better on applying scientific concepts and using th

in america. now, where's that train going to take us? we have a clear picture of that too. all we have to do is look in cuba. look in soviet controlled soviet union prior to them making their forms and turning towards more capitalistic system. but we can look at cuba. cuba prior to fidel castro taking over that government was very prosperous. certainly they had problems but not the problems that they have today. in cuba we have a very rich elite headed by a marxist, fidel castro. and we have a vast majority of the people in that country are struggling, very poor with no choices. that's exactly where we're headed in america today if we continue down this road, the steam roll of socialism, this high-speed train that's going to drive us off the economic cliff. and we've got to stop it. republicans have offered alternative after alternative. we had alternatives to the housing crisis. the liberals on the other side were obstructionists. they wouldn't let our alternatives be heard. we had alternatives to the stimulus bill. i call it a nonstimulus bill because it has not and will n

in america. they're more likely, these manufacturing jobs, use lots of energy to locate in a country that has less environmental standards than we do. the ultimate lose-lose. we lose the jobs you put more of these things in the air than you would otherwise and americans suffer because of that. in our state, the estimate is that utility bills would go up 40% in the first five years, 80% in the first 10 years and even more after the various allowances are gone. this is unfair to american families and frankly, the less you can afford to put in new windows, new insulation, new everything else, the harder a burden this is going to be. i urge my colleagues to vote this bill down and work together to have a better bill for america and i yield back my time. the chair: the gentleman yields back. the gentleman from california. mr. waxman: i want to yield to the gentleman from pennsylvania, mr. doyle, a minute with an option for another one if he needs it and i want to point out that the essential role he played in making sure this legislation protected those industries that are vulnerable to trade that migh

we in america have gotten used to having things fixed in a hurry. information at our hands so quickly, so we want quick answers, and unfortunately the economic problems are so deep. host: you are breaking up a little so i will move on to the independent line in ohio. caller: yes, and not very optimistic about the economy. with this stimulus package that the democrats pretty much forced down our throat and did not allow anyone to read before they passed it >> we will leave this morning's "washington journal" to go to the white house briefing which is just beginning, live, on c- span. [laughter] >> re, sometimes those things that happen in bubble boxes come out of my mouth. >> and a question -- michael jackson from friday to today and then the letter over the weekend -- >> i do not understand. >> friday, when you're at the podium, you told us he was anticipating the question about michael jackson. >> i was surprised that nobody asked one. i do not think you were there friday. >> i was. >> with chancellor markell? -- merkel? >> no. >> i did not expect

focus in the shaping of the bill and the energy and commerce committee was to keep electricity rates affordable and to enable utilities to continue using coal which accounts for fully 51% of america's electricity generation. both of these goals have been achieved in the bill that is before us today. electricity rates will be only modestly affected. the nonpartisan congressional budget office says that by 2020, the cost of the entire program for the typical american family will be $175 per year. the environmental protection agency projects that the nearer term cost for the american family for all elements of this legislation will be between $80 and $110 per year, about 20 cents a day for the typical american family. so the claims by the opponents that this legislation will impose enormous electricity price increases are simply wrong. and the environmental protection agency projects that by 2020, the usage of coal in our economy will grow as compared to today's usage. now that may seem somewhat counterintuitive in a bill that regulates greenhouse gas emissions. the e.p.a. projects that by 2020, coal usage in america under the terms of this bill will actually grow. as transportation e

seem sexy, but this simple action holds enormous promise because 7% of all the energy consumed in america is used to light our homes and businesses. between 2012 and 2042, these nu standards will save consumers up to $4 billion a year. conserve enough electricity to power every home in america for 10 minutes, reduce emotions by the equivalent of 166 million cars a year and eliminate the need for as many as 14 coal-fired power plants. by the way, we are going to start here at the white house. secretary chu has already started to look at our light bulbs and replace them. if we want to make our economy run more efficiently, we also have to make our homes and businesses run more efficiently. that is it why we are also speeding up a $346 million investment under the recovery act to expand the accelerate the development, deployment and use of energy efficient technologies in residential and commercial buildings, which consume almost 40% of the energy we use and crints to almost 40% of the carbon pollution we produce. we are talking about technologies that are available right now, or will soon be availa

in town who tries to keep the government from giving us money. he said there was not in use in title for funding. -- and use -- any use in title iv funding. >> today, bank of america ceo ken lewis was here on capitol hill testifying about his company's merger with financial services firm merrill lynch. committee members questioned mr. lewis about recently uncovered e-mail's suggesting that bank of america may have been unduly pressured into the merger by the federal government. this hearing of the house oversight and government reform committee is just under three hours. >> thank you all for being here today. on september 15, 2008, when the financial crisis was at its height, bankamerica announced that it was purchasing merrill lynch, -- bank of america announced that it was purchasing merrill lynch, creating one of the nation's largest financial institutions. at the time, mr. lewis called the merger a great opportunity for bankamerica's shareholders. -- bank of america's shareholders. it was negotiated between to willing parties. it was designed for this clause a benefit of private shareholders, and it was to be paid for exclusively with private money. four month

into gaulle airport in france where before the french have been rather hostile towards us and i would say excuse me, are you an american, yes i am an american and am so happy for america. i am like, okay. [laughter] i think about when i was in law scolol was by another young president, john kennedy was president while i was here at law school, and the senate to i have had the privilege of working with his youngest brother, ted kennedy for the past 35 years on some of the most pressing issues in this country and next month as weighted said in the senate judiciary committee is going to hold hearings on president obama sustanon nomination of the judge's sonia sotomayor to be associate justice of the supreme court to of the united states. and we were meeting about this and as the breeze -- my chief counsel is here and a question was asked are we going to get her confirmed, you better believe we are going to get her confirmed. [applause] take that into the bank. just think of the number of the her nominations -- the first nominee to the supreme court, the first nominee and well over a century to have been nominated to three different federal judicial offices by three diffe

need from central america is pro- american governments, which honduras was leading us not down that route. i just don't know really why colombia and the rest of central america is brought in -- on c- span. i don't know why you guys keep using twitter -- 90% anti- american calls. it is not a good, fair source for c-span. e-mail is a lot better. but twitter, think about it, it is all democrats. host: thank you for the comment, one of many voices including e- mail and your phone call on the republican line but we appreciate your observation differed on the earlier point, ambassador -- i appreciate your observation. on your earlier point? guest: we need more democratic governments and central america but the way to get them is not to follow policies that damaged civilian government. here i think particularly of our emphasis on developing the military and our policy of drug interdiction. and i think what we need to do -- i am not advocating anything radical here. what i would like to do is to start to listen to the central americans. they are paying a very high price for not -- for our inability to curb our drug habit. port-of-spain, trinidad, at the summit of the americas, pr

we in america have gotten used to having things fixed in a hurry. information at our hands so quickly, so we want quick answers, and unfortunately the economic problems are so deep. host: you are breaking up a little so i will move on to the independent line in ohio. caller: yes, and not very optimistic about the economy. with this stimulus package that the democrats pretty much forced down our throat and did not allow anyone to read before they passed it, that money will have to come due some time and that will absolutely destroy the economy. this cap and trade bill the democrats are pushing through the house, or did pushed through, did not allow the republicans to rita. and put down amendments at 3:00 a.m. -- they are hiding something. the no will raise taxes. . it will raise electric bills and gas and everything is. they want to hide that because they force it through to the senate. now the senate has the democratic majority. now we have a democrat president. he will force it through. it will become law. all the businesses will go overseas. that

our friends in the rest of the world, especially our friends in latin america, especially when they're taking advantage of low tariffs with us and we're not taking advantage of low tariffs with them. our principal concern on the republican side, and i'm sure many democrats too, is the cost of living for middle-class families in america. there are many issues that come before us that deal with that. the level of our taxes, the level of tuition. if we get medicaid spending -- excuse me -- under control, states will be able to fund the states of tennessee and nebraska better. but another way to do that is to train the world. people walk into stores in america and look

this is a great big deal for us in the united states of america to review our nuclear posture. i mentioned we have been 27 or 28 countries out there. sooner or later, many of the folks with whom we have discussions will get around to asking -- is your nuclear deterrent umbrella going to continue to extend over [still in the blank] country? our abilities on a taken for granted. sooner or later, the conversation comes up, and i said that it is not mine to determine policy, but it is my hope that our nuclear deterrent umbrella will continue to be effective, and that probably means it will continue to extend over wherever in the world i happen to be. the nuclear posture will be aggressive. our president has made clear certain aspects that he hopes to be addressed in the nuclear posture review, and i'm sure the guys doing it understand. part of that was japan, and what was the second part? i am unaware of specific japanese interests in that particular system that you described. i am aware of japanese interest in the nuclear umbrella, continuing to expand. >> just as a follow-on to t

this simple action holds enormous promise, because 7% of all the energy consumed in america is used tolight our homes and businesses. between 2012 and 2022, these new standards will save consumers up to $4 billion a year in and serve enough power to reduce emissions by 166 million cars a year, and eliminate the need for as many as faulty -- 14 coal fired plants. we will start here at the white house. the secretary has already started to take a look at our light bulbs and replace them. if we want to make our economy run more efficiently, we have to make our homes and businesses run more efficiently. that is why we are all will expand the development, employment and use of energy- efficient tech calls -- technology. we are talking about technologies that are available right now, or else will soon be available. from lightning, windows, heating, cooling, controls. by adopting these technologies in our homes and businesses, we can make our buildings up to 80% more efficient. with additions like solar panels on the roof, even transform them into zero energy buildings that use as much energy

america is because we are americans in the south. >> host: of some of the. >> guest: the languages suppress but we are american and also. i am using the collective memory of the americas in the three volumes. this is much more ambitious. because it is the entire world 87 the entire world and the entire history. i have been a fan but i think people associate you with the great latin american writers and i know that to be in the same sentence as others is daunting but others that are household words in the united states but in latin america you are certainly as well known as the they are. and what is interesting is that all three if you are journalist. and you have this immediacy even though we start off with the piece and we will read many more, at the beginning of everything when man meets woman, you talk about all of the wars, all of the cultures, the development of humankind and a the scope is amazing and daunting. i thought we would do and the autobiography before we go on with the book. of course, your name has been in the headlines in the united states because the president of venezuela, chavez met our president barack obama

this climate change bill we have before us today makes those tough choices for our future and our children's future. it is in the interest of america and in the interest of the world. america leads the way. this is an opportunity for us to reclaim that leadership. this legislation will lead our consumers, businesses, and communities toward smarter and more efficient energy use. it will not be alone. strong trade enforcement means the american business community's will not be disadvantaged by importers who skirt the rules. this legislation is a vote for innovation and environmental stewardship. i would be remiss if i did not mention this. for the previous eight years, the administration rejected the idea of global warming. the other side was given fanti talking points. they did not -- based on the argument that presented a peril to our time. you'd be hard pressed to find sites is anywhere in this " would not ellis' forged a consensus on defining the problem. it is difficult when definition has settled in to offer a solution. this legislation offers a solution. >> the time has expired. >> i yield one minute to make true american hero

the mixture here, growing up in kansas city as they did in the heart of america, was in use to such diversity even a generation ago like that. looking at the faces of not only black and white but asian, but even more than that they kept bringing into american indian faces here and then i really flipped out one afternoon when i came across and in the woods and later that day and elliott. i thought this is marvelous, all in north america coming together here but then everly was fascinated because i began seeing combinations of those people feel that the lost strain is the only one in america are not going to be happy with this but seeing these crosses of the malcolm of the world, thought this really in that way is the fulfillment as i see it of what we are doing in this nation. on that second book to were their bows, i was stopped along the way to get a haircut and was talking with the man sitting next to me while we both were waiting for a haircut. then we got to know each other kind of-- not the way dogs do. dogs that each other. men do that by knots niching i hope that by asking a simple que

strength even when done with restructuring will also have the most extensive dealer body in rural america up. what cost us is insufficient distribution in metropolitan markets where we have many locations and a few strong one's. that is a significant problem today. >> it has been estimated the average for foreign transplant dealer is twice that of a comparable domestic dealer. is this true? yes or no? >> i don't know exactly double blood is a substantially higher, perhaps. >> toyota reverses a chevrolet approximately would be double. >> if this is true, but apparently it is, why is that the case? mr. press first. >> the reason and toyota's case they sell 2 million cars at a 1200 doo there's and if we did not have the restructuring we would sell about 700,000 retail out of 30100 dealers. average sales per dealer is substantially different. as and toyota case the product line is less truck oriented and more mature market or sunshine states in a bus presents in the rural areas are secondary markets and also don't have the 80 year legacy of having a substantially higher dealer body to see the volume disappear

we are the largest audio book producer in north america. it gave us an idea of how to do this in the digital realm. at the same thing applies in broadcast television. we tried to pick a show the way forward for some of our core businesses. there is a distribution relationship. in any case that will show something about how these markets will develop. the same thing is true with amazon. people are getting comfortable reading full books on screen. this kind of behavior is certainly fascinating and how it is mapping the changes in our culture over all, but it is also fairly concerning. as things switch to digital, there is the danger of that a lot of value can leak out of the industry. we will not have enough revenues to pay for our own infrastructure. in the recorded music industry, it has declined quite precipitously. it created a market that was smaller than the former market. the same thing is true in the newspaper business. when you look at where these papers are today, based on where they were five or 10 years ago, the revenue model is under seriou

us on the phone from kansas city. caller: you know what? in canada, they have a 10-year patent right. in america, we have a 20-year patent right. why doesn't congress do something about that? you're getting these companies the right to charge us as much as i can for medicine for 20 years. and then the other thing is, i have been aa nephew who just bee a cover procter. his education is costing more than a quarter of a million dollars. guest: eyelid an hour away from the canadian border. i was the first member of the congress to take americans over the canadian border to purchase prescription drugs in montreal. i will never forget as long as i live the expression on the face of women, many of those poor with me were struggling with breast cancer. -- many of those women who were with me were struggling with breast cancer. they've paid 1/10 of the price for the same medication. right now, many of us are fighting for a program that we call re-importation of medicine so americans do not continue to get ripped off. in terms of education, many of the people who graduate medical school today are very dee

seem sexy, but this simple action holds enormous promise because 7% of all the energy consumed in america is used to light our homes and businesses between 2012 and 2042 these standards will save consumers to $4 billion a year, a concerted of electricity to power every home in america for ten months. reduce emissions equal to the amount produced by 166 million cars each year and eliminate the need for as many as 14 coal-fired power plants. and by the way, we are going to start here at the white house. secretary chu has already started to take a look at the light bulbs and we will see what we need to replace them with energy efficient light bulbs and if we want to make the economy run more efficiently we have got to make our homes and businesses run more efficiently and that's why we are also speeding up a 346 million-dollar investment under the recovery act to expand and accelerate the development, deployment and use of energy-efficient technology in residential and commercial buildings which consume almost 40% of the energy we use and contribute to almost 40% of the carbon pollution we produce.

i think the last piece of this challenge for us is going to be to make suffering visible in america. so i am struck everywhere i travel in this country working with low-income grassroots community organizations that

madam speaker, let's unleash new investment in america, let's produce more of our energy here at home, let's wean ourselves off foreign oil dependency. let us create new clean energy jobs in america. we cannot delay economic recovery, and we cannot risk further destabilization of our climate. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the chair recognizes the gentlewoman from north carolina, ms. foxx, for five minutes. ms. foxx: thank you, madam chair. my colleague from indiana made some very, very eloquent and compelling remarks about the status of our economy, and my colleague from west virginia gave valuable information on energy and called attention to some important issues. my distinguished colleague from florida, whom i like and admire very much, says the energy bill will create jobs, but he's wrong. it will kill jobs. he never answered his own question -- why don't we produce those mirrors in the united states? because our taxes are high and regulations drive jobs overseas. america, if the democrats pass this cap and tax bill, get ready to pay more for electricity, a lot more. this cap and tax scheme, better known as the national energy