and we will continue to honor our commitments to the people of wales. >> mr. speaker, the bounce back campaign launched by the telegraphicing aims businesses and organizations so that our area is on the right road of recovery following the recession. will he endorse that initiative and at the same time have a few short words of those opposite who continue to talk down our country? >> mr. speaker, it's important to recognize all the local efforts that are being made including by the business campaign to fight for a recovery for our country. and they are fighting to get local business. they are fighting to invest in future businesses. they're fighting to help young people get jobs and take on more apprenticeship ises. this is what people in britain want to do to help us get through the recession and get to recovery. but it is only possible -- it is only possible by having a policy that says we will invest additional money to take us through our most difficult time when markets fail and banks falter and that is the policy that we have pursued. it is pursued by ev

allegation public, however, would have been to slander the reputations of his father-in-law, john wales, who purportedly was the father of sally hemmings. his beloved wife's memory and either his own brother randolph, or his two favorite nephews, the carr brothers, who admitted their paternity of sally's children to jeff randall. as a man of devotion and family honor, jefferson chose to suffer in silence. 12, the hemmings true believers. like professor annette gordon reed, have turned the debate into an obsessive agenda on the color of sally's skin and slave status. gordon reed's assessment, it must be taken on face value because white historians had previously ignored it are not facts, but racial canards and misinterpretations of the evidence itself. moreover, that is an intellectually dishonest argument. to paraphrase one historian, quote, i'm afraid that professor gordon reed, despite her admiral under an admirable qualities, is the worst thing to happen to thomas jefferson since james callender. this latest have taken diversity and created a hostile environment in the academic world

as of december 2008, over 3,000 posts have been reallocated from london in the southeast of wales and nearly 300. we want to help areas by creating jobs not causing unemployment. >> sir peter tapsel. >> the prime minister has just told us that he hopes that in a couple of years time we'll have 300,000 troops fighting the taliban. as that happens to be the number that i told the government that we would need when they first recklessly went in with hopelessly inadequate troops, grossly underequipped. should he not now as i? >> mr. speaker, mr. speaker can i say president obama will be grateful for his endorsement of our strategy. 300,000 means that there are about 150,000 afghan troops trained and ready to take over responsibility. and that is the task over the next year to train up more afghan forces and i'm very grateful that president obama has made it at the center of what he has proposed. it's what our british forces will do with all our coalition partners and can i think him for his advice. he's not always been -- he's not always been right. he advised childre

as of december 2008, over 3,000 posts have been reallocated from london in the southeast of wales and nearly 300. we want to help areas by creating jobs not causing unemployment. >> sir peter tapsel. >> the prime minister has just told us that he hopes that in a couple of years time we'll have 300,000 troops fighting the taliban. as that happens to be the number that i told the government that we would need when they first recklessly went in with hopelessly inadequate troops, grossly underequipped. should he not now as i? >> mr. speaker, mr. speaker can i say president obama will be grateful for his endorsement of our strategy. 300,000 means that there are about 150,000 afghan troops trained and ready to take over responsibility. and that is the task over the next year to train up more afghan forces and i'm very grateful that president obama has made it at the center of what he has proposed. it's what our british forces will do with all our coalition partners and can i think him for his advice. he's not always been -- he's not always been right. he advised me not to make the bank of e

. -- he has talked the talk and walk the waled the walk.pecially welcome you before the budget committee. >> thank you, senator conrad. >> at 10:00, we will observe a moment of silence for the big thumbs uvictims at fort hood. i wanted to give you a heads up. >> i thank you, mr. chairman and senator gregg for holding this hearing on this issue. you have spoken eloquently over the years about the need to deal with the debt, the deficit, and tax reform. i think it is important that, finally, the american people are realizing the fiscal crisis our nation faces. our federal spending is out of control. as a result, our debt continues to skyrocket. we have projected deficits as far as the eye can see. it doesn't take an economist to realize tthat our future is unsustainable. we are putting everything on a tab of their children and grandchildren. at a time when american families are taking a close look at their own budgets and credit card statement, the federal government is turning a blind eye to the statements on our out of control federal debt.