honestly, general, there is a disconnect between the comment that you ust made in response to the chairmen and what is being depicted here. the president's repeated statements thaa in july of 2011, we will begin withdrawal. this obviously sends a message to our enemies that we are leaving, and our friends that we are leaving. and then there is accommodation in the region. i guess maybe, could you clarify the difference between what you just said and what is quoted in the book that are direct quotes? i am confident we can train and hand over in that timeframe. if we can't do the things you say, no one is going to suggest that we stay, right? that is a quote from the president of the united states. >> senator, i am not sure it is% productive to comment on conversations that took place. >> i understand that. >> i would come back to what the president said at west point. that is something that i support. that is that july 2011 is not the date where we race for the exits. it is the date where having done an assessment, we begin a process of transition of tasks to afghan security forces based on

ust cut spending. d i yield ba. thspeaker o tempore: the geneman ylds back for what purpose does e gentleman from connticut rise? >> to address t houseorne extend. nd to revise a the speaker o mpore: wiout objection. m murphy: i ranor congres four year ao because i saw the puican to turn the power over to tir frids, the insurance indury, the oil dustry and thbanking industry. i wonder at kind of stimulus billhey wod have written last year if th were stilin charge. it's differenthan the one at's on the gund in connecticut. one th has put funds in a small socompany in bethal, conneicut, eati jobs d renewable energy. atimulus llt just pened up newarly head star programn danbur connecticut, employing0 peop immediately and creang a lot of job opportunities f the parents o now ha childcare. it would have be very dierent than the bill that gave millionandillions in tax credits toide and lower-incindiduals in connecticut that allowethem to go ouand create a retail research. e imul bill would have been doneery differently un

transferred to our committee on transportion an infrastructure the whole concept of oil ill liability ust fund was from previous experience. if there needed to be an immediate response by government agencies on scene to lay out funds which was already spelled out in the letter from homeland security without having to wait for negotiations with the responsible party. in those years throh e 1990's the focus -- allthe attention was tued to spills from tankers, ocean-going vessels, bulk carriage ofde oil, principally, but other product as well. the requirement was to get on the scene quickly, corral the oil, contain the spill, the government needed to a quickly, the coast guard had the capability to do that, but we didn't want to and we had experience with tori canyon that we long waits for the responsible party to make payments to government agencies responding. in the case of france and the u.k. and in the casof u.s. government agencies. so the spill trust -- oil spill liability trust fund was established to have a financial resource for government agencies to respond quickly and then build

because of iran's markably high iernet penetration rates that we are ust speaking aut, and setting ofrnational media. because of the country strong mile-class and to emerge from isolation, and because e country's growing disillusioned with its leadership tre ar opportunities for smart creative outreach to their many peopl and we shld takeadvantage of those opportunitie ithink that's what i will talk about, what i think is a big missing pi what i think is the big missing approach to what it has rightly identified as a priority country, and a center piece of american interest right now. i think we need to articulate a bold new policy in support of the iranian people. even as we work to isolate the irgc types who are working to get a nuclear weapon and willing to shoot people down in the streets. i'll return to my recommendations at the end. let's first discuss what the administration has done so far. entering office, they made clear a willingness to engage diplomatically with iran. president obama wrote two letters stating as much. in the string and early summer of 2009, president obama

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while we do have segregated responsibilities the ust are in forces and focuses on our government relationships and our treaty obligations. commerce deals with private entities. nonetheless we are all very coordinated. i consult with the ambassador vvry extensively as we go into these meetings. as we meet with foreign officials. we do the same with both the white house and secretary-designate. >> i am very concerned that this is not sufficient. therefore accountable. we have all these different departments doing different things. economic. i understand the good intent. i also think that we are inefficient and not sufficiently focused given the intense competitive pressures. as we ha got to reorganize ourselves so that we are focused much more on economic progress and jobs with special attention to our foreign competitors. otherwise , very complex. doody, obligations as well as different obligations. i just think it behooves us to come up with a ingle department head. the white house personnel come and go. presidents come and go. i just don't thinkt is sufficient that we designate somebody and t

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i would ust want to point us to the previous speaker that the american people want us to fix this economy which we are trying to do. i would also point out that we have created more jobs this year than in the entire eight years of the bush administration. so i think we are doing the american people's work. at this time i would like to yield one minute to the gentlewoman from california, the distinguished speaker of the house, ms. pelosi. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlewoman is recognized. the speaker: thank you very much, madam speaker. i thank the gentleman for yielding and making the point he just made. i would also like to make a further point which is 87.5% of the american people support what the disclose act will do. which is to shed light on elections. mr. speaker -- madam speaker, nearly a century ago supreme court justice louis brandeis wrote about the dangers of corporate interest dominating our economy, stifling competition, and harming our nation. and he reminded us in the face of these force that is sunlight is the best disinfectant. today many of us will rise, and i do no

in fact, the federal -- there are federal laws, ust like i'm familiar with state laws in texas, that say basically it's a crime far prosecutor in texas to call in a defendant and say, ppi'm not -- i will not indict you or i'll drop the indictment if you will put x number of dollars into aafund that i dictate. that's a crime. you can't do that. there's a reason that we have three branches of government. i heard someone ask once of the brilliant justice toon anyone scalia, don't you thiik the reason we've had more liberty in this country than any other country in the world is because of our bill of rights? and justice scalia, he's so brilliant yet so forthright he said no, and i'm sure my answwe will not do justice to his bu my recollection, basically, no. the soviets had a much better bill of rights than we have. then it hit me, i remember, i studied the soviets' bill of rights and they did. it was a great bill of rights. he said, no, the reason you've got more liberty in america is because the founders did not trust governmmnt. so they wanted to make it as hard as they could for gove

>>ust a couple of qui points. the burns that are in place now ber -- ms -- berms that are in place now are there because of the president directethey b put there. i think we should give obama credit where credit is due. thcoast guard is the military. they useto be in the dertment of fense until we in congress moved them when we reated the department of homeland security, so this is an issue we have to discuss about now hoto fure this out, whether the coast gua should be consered the navy or the army. i do not know, but weve resolved today that the command structures are broken. to fix this, we ned more discussion. finally, and didn't bp give every state $25 million? and if so, could yyuust briefly say how you are spending that money? di everyone get thatmount, mississippi, alabama and florida? >> i am not sure about the ot states. in our ate, each parish got $1 million. >>nd each county did. are you going to send any of that to the parishes? >> absolutely. we want to make su that the paaishes are supported. t at w

leadership on a more immediate basis to enable the kind of progress that we know we need urgently and not ustave this very long process. there's als been a change. there was a procedure with the police and the number of different areas where they were recruited assigned and then trained when they got to it. and now the process is very much to recruit, train and then assign. just the recruiting itself, there is the creation of a recruiting component. and that has significant improved for the army as well. cruiting. and then there have been measures taken to improve retention to reduce attrition as well as various incentive packages and policies and so forth. and those on the basis of three months at least, and we don't want to declare that a true trend just yet, but those have enabled the building of the additional army and additional police elements to be on track for now after a period in which they were not on track. so that's just a few of the areas. there are enormous chaes made in the institutional training business. it used to be there was one trainer for every 80 trainees, obviously, i

. >> can i ust interrupt you there. you wish. i don't mean to be a wise guy but we've look at the training program for the military and police, even though you want to double them, you should give us an estimate will they be doubled with the ability to to the do what they need to. afghan police in particular, our goal is to curb and limit it eventually to the extent we can eliminate the corrupt practices. by partnering with afghan units and having significant forces that are properly trained and of course the afghan police in the time frame we're discussing, last year, 70% of them were not trained. they had uniforms and guns they are on the road, they have low pay, they're not properly trained, they're engaged in corrupt practices. through the effort, through the funding provided by the u.s. congress and the training mission in afghanistan, we've increased the amount of train, we're going to elimmnate that deficit of untrained police and be able to partner with police units and increase accountability and increase professional st

to hire thousds of additional employees, possibly as my as many as 16,000,ust to enforce w health ce law. theecently enacted health re law is bad for workers, bad for employers and bad fo america. cleay we need toepeal and replace this lawit commonsee reformthat will actually lower health care osts and l americans keep the plan they have in life. and t me remind my colleagues quote from tn resiiandidate rack obama. and i quo, mande means that in me fashion evebody will be forceto buy hlth insurance, b i believe the oblem is nothafolks are trying to avoidetting health care, the problems they can't afford it. this health care law ineas premiums by $2,0 for mins of american families and ruis them to buy this vernment-aroved insurance i urge my cleagues tand th the american oplend vote for thmotion to i yield ck t balance omy time. the speaker pro tempore: for what puose does t gentlem from michigan rise? . levin: i am opposed to this motion. the spear pro tempore: the gentleman still rerveis point of order? mr. levin:o. the speakerroempore: the gentleman withdraws his po of order. thgen