tanner: former warsaw-pact countries. nato is evolving from a static land-based defense force to a security force that relieves our men and women to the extent they supply troops. it relieves the american taxpayer to the extent they help us pay for these efforts for our common defense. again, were this just an american expedition perhaps this debate would be more worthwhile. but it's not. and so i would urge the strongest possible terms to reject this. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman's time has expired. the gentleman from ohio. mr. kucinich: i yield four minutes to the gentleman from florida, mr. grayson. the speaker pro tempore: mr. grayson is recognized for four minutes. mr. grayson: madam speaker, i have good news. the good news is this, we won the war in afghanistan. now, it happened a while ago, so i may be the only person who actually remembers this. but after the 9/11 attack, within three months we had expelled, expelled the taliban government and we do so with the use of only 1,000 u.s. special forces troop

harm for veterans or no job killing, i happen to represent the orthopedic capital in the world in warsaw, indiana. they have -- getting a tax clobbering in this bill, particularly in the senate bill, in that tax clobbering includes half of the r&d. who uses hip replacements and elbows and shoulders more than anybody are our vets because particularly as we develop body armor that they're getting hit in those places where they used to die, they're now alive, and a big percentage of them are doing hip replacements. now r&d is critical, particularly as the 18 to 22-year-olds, those retired vets from the cold war era are looking at trying to get quality hip and joint replacements. and one of the questions is, if you reduce half the r&d only one of two things can happen. either future vets are not going to have as good of quality and advances like we've been having, or the jobs will go offshore to reduce the costs so they can do the r&d. there's really not a way that this isn't going to affect vets. it's indirect. then, as we all know that veterans' health care in general just like medicare an

the soviet union collapses peacefully and gorbachev dissolves the soviet union and dissolves the warsaw pact. so your bugaboo of the 1980s is the soviet military threat worse than the japan he's economic threat? both of those clouds on the horizon go well over the horizon. and then we get this really interesting seven or eight years of productivity increases in the '90s which seem to be driven by more clever use of computers and electronic knowledge. >> reporter: what's happening now that is again making the notion of the fall of the united states plausible? >> a number of elements at work here. one was the war in iraq which has now moved on to afghanistan. and the very evident signs that, a, it was straining our ground armed forces in particular and it was being budgeted off normal national budgets. military commitments which over the long term are going to be harder to pay for and harder to fulfill. the second thing was the fiscal crisis and the banks crisis and the housing crisis of the past 18 to 20 months and the response of both the late bush and then the early obama administratio

john patrick, third-generation owner for warsaw foundry in warsaw, indiana has been able to maintain for the transit workers correctly from impulse reared john stated that the only sales growth in his business that he's experienced has been from the transit orders. max length monthly manager for the post founder that operates in mansfield, ohio and cleveland attributes over 29% of his business to impulse. helping keep 50 to 60 employees working. and lastly, corn galvanizing company located in johnstown, pennsylvania has been able to keep 44 jobs to ripple sorters in the quick implementation of economic jobs funding for public transit. previously, they provide mostly on commercial work and today and pulse is one of the larger accounts. i could go on and on with suppliers in texas, california, illinois, washington state and others. as you can see the tag sales have impacted businesses throughout the u.s. and the associated arra funding house directly into beaded to saving hundreds of jobs. let's face it, transportation is the fact round of the economy and public transit is an incredibl

through this resolution and this commemoration we remember the night of broken glass, the warsaw ghetto uprising, the methodical devouring and destruction of a whole continent, the labor concentration and death camps at auschwitz and others. . may our actions and may our remembrance honor the courage and bravery shown by the millions murdered only seven decades ago. mr. speaker, just as our 34th president, general eisenhower, made sure that things he had seen were not quickly forgotten, may this year's ceremony in the capitol rotunda be a solemn and fitting reminder of the victims of the holocaust. i'm pleased to support this bipartisan resolution and encourage the support of my colleagues. thank you, mr. speaker, and i reserve the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman reserves the balance of his time. the gentleman from florida. mr. klein: we have no more speakers, mr. speaker -- we have no more speakers, mr. speaker. i reserve the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from florida reserves. the gentleman from mississippi. mr. harper: mr. speak