warren harding came in a yacht and roosevelt said no one has set foot on pelican island. and president harding approached pelican island. he was a boat maker, and pointed a gun at harding and said get out of here. and turned them back. the point is that conservation was a battle. just like on land issues. it was nasty in florida. and not only did he create pelican island, t.r., but created a strategy of bird refugees down florida. and we would not have these species in florida, we would have lost them if roosevelt hadn't acted as he did. and he was taking notes on birds in tampa bay area. and on the gulf coast of florida. and most famously, key west, great bird breeding places. >> go back to the beginning. how did you find this place? >> that was it, when i went to the spots, they said did you go here, the headquarters. >> i am asking this for others, how did you get in the door? >> call mark madison, the historian for fish and wildlife. and part of his job is to interface with scholars. and with these materials, the old lantern slides. there is a box of them. there is cr

warren harding comes down in a yacht by pelican island. roosevelt said no one was allowed on pelican island. harding was going on a golfing trip as president. he approached pelaton island. but this man came at him and pointed a gun at the president of the united states and said i am the warden of roosevelt. he turned harding and those guys back. conservation in the beginning of the 20th century was a battle. there were two sides, like there are now on land issues. it was nasty and florida. not only did he create pelican island in 1903, teddy roosevelt, but created a string of bird refugees all the way down florida. if you grab a map and see all of them, it was roosevelt saving them. we would not have the species living in florida. we would've lost while florida forever if it roosevelt did not act when he did. he spent time in florida as a rough rider on a camp on his way to go to fight in cuba. he is getting ready to battle. he was taking notes on birds in the tampa bay area. places like santa bell island, he saved on the gulf coast of flo

hard cover. >> it's about the band and the whole grunge music movement. >> melissa warren is vice president of press. >> the organization of american historians are meeting in seattle this year and several publishers attend and put their wares on sale. and one of those attending is yale university press and there are four new titles that yale university press has out and chris rogers is the executive editor. what would you like to tell us about the conservatives? >> the conservatives is one of the first histories of all conservatives from the founding fathers right up through the bush administration. and it, you know, covers really the ideas and personalities that have evolved and how much it's changed over time and really almost come full circle to the colonial period in a very almost symmetrical sense. so each century really had a different notion of what the conservative ideology was. and i think the beauty of the book is the sort of balanced nonideological objective historical view of the conservatives through time over three centuries. >> who's patrick allen. >> he's a historian. he's fro

legislative council and the congressional budget office for their hard work on the bill, the efforts and dedication of tim brown, warren burke, alison bell, pope barrow and their colleagues in the office of legislative council who were indispensable for writing this wide raining and historic legislation -- ranging and historic legislation. similarly, colleagues at the congressional budget office were essential in analyzing the complex financial and scoring issues associated with this bill, both the staff of the legislative council and the c.b.o. deserve to be thanked and congratulated for their outstanding work over many late nights and weekends and we're very he grateful to their -- for their service to the nation. and i would like to add my appreciation to the fantastic job that our committee and subcommittee and select committee staffs have done in getting this legislation before the congress of the united states. mr. speaker, i would like to yield to my colleague on this legislation, congressman ed markey. mr. markey: i thank you, henry, very much. the speaker pro tempore: will the gentleman suspend? the house will