. >> i honor tore honor deputy sean webb. the entire department joined by the people of plumak county are rallying behind this young man and his family as he battles a difficult illness. you don't see this kind of outpouring these days. it's a testament to the impact that deputy webb has had on his department and community. sean's commander writes, we have here in plumas county we have a grade a, true blooded american hero. i salute the bravery and dedication that deputy sean webb has brought to his professional life in protecting our community, a quality so inconspicuous. and i salute the people of the county who embraced and supported sean during this difficult time. . the speaker pro tempore: the chair lays before the house the following personal requests. the clerk: leave of absence requested for mr. hill of indiana for today. the speaker pro tempore: objection, -- without objection, the request is granted. for what purpose does the gentleman from texas rise? mr. poe: mr. speaker, i ask unanimous consent that today follow

of live television when studs had studs' place on local chicago and to the local degree about the webbsell and by throwing comics and we go through each one of these cases and after the beginning phase and these areas or corporatized and formulas are set and then it is people who are grinding out the material expected of them and they don't have room for creativity. i discovered probably only when i began working on comex again after the lapse most people growing up thought the comics were written, john and everything else by the same artist who often wasn't acknowledged and we learned later in life is like a assembly line. that is the way that d.c. and comics are produced. you might write or do something else but it's just a job to come in and spend your hours and so on and so forth. we are in that phase now without work comics. that is what is exciting about it. it is probably because there is such little money and nobody wants to take it over and there is no indication that anybody wants to take over but there is enormous amount of excitement and especially artists under 30 there is

i was proud to work alongside with senator mikulski and senator webb and former senator john warner last year to pass the federal safety improvement act signed into law in october of 2008. this law authorizes $1.5 billion over 10 years in federal funds for metro's governing washington metropolitan area transit authority matched dollar for dollar by local jurisdictions. for capital improvement. the technical details of the arrangement are nearly complete and when done, metro will finally have the dedicated funding sources. i compliment the states of virginia, maryland and the district for passing the necessary legislation. earlier this year as a regional delegation along with our new colleague, senator mark warner, we requested the appropriations committee provide the first $150 million. while this is a substantial down payment it's not nearly enough to fulfill all of metro rail's obligations. at the time of the bill's passage metro had a list of ready to go totaling about $530 million and $11 billion in funding needs over the next decade. yesterday, i joined with my colleagues from maryl

webb will be the effect of that over the long term? >> the bible says the borrower is the servant of the lender and the chinese told somewhere around 1.$2 trillion of our money. that is the kind of the debt obligation we have with the chinese which means if we ever started to get a hard nose with china they say we will take you down and they start flooding the market with dollars and it drops dramatically and the price of everything we by which you up dramatically and our people would be screaming because the average steelworker and automobile worker would be desperate for money. that is what all of that means. the chinese are not going to do that of course, because they enjoy a trade with us and they have to have a market to sell their goods they crank out with cheap labor so i have to have somebody to buy it and we are it. but the trade balance in classical thought was if i had sales of $100 and purchases of $90 and i have to trade which normally speaking i would go and the flow would continue to go as it goes the chinese have added

c-webb site he invites us in and sends us out armed with ideas that strengthen our communities, keep or families safe, implement fiscal discipline, educate our children, and spur on economic development. through the decade i have known him, just one small chapter, i know, i have witnessed the genius of his short and long-term vision, a powerful reminder of the capacity of within person to impact systemic change. with his magnetic intensity, he is constantly seeking and finding new challenges, push being the fronts here a little further. now, of course, the responsibility is ours to meet his challenge, the tremendous challenge of al from's move beyond politics to build and enhance a culture of citizenship and leadership. as a d.l.c. fellow, i have had the opportunity to join 24 other young elected officials from around the country to discuss intensely legislative and policy concepts. but also the obligation of an individual to the community, the responsibility of elected office, values, and ethics. for me that is the gift of al, not a political label but the high ideals of humanity th

. >> dell webb has been megabyte to respond to the issue of three imperfect -- reimbursement. dealers are being reimbursed what they paid for the vehicle, what it cost them less $350. though word invoice comment it includes the hold back that we collect and give back to them but they are being paid what they paid us less $350. >> that is just 2009. >> in terms of the process we have published the process for the redistribution, we have asked the dealers to sign an agreement that allowed us to take responsibility and what the process is and it is available for them to understand what can be used. >> mr. spencer i know you are jumping in but go ahead. >> speak into the microphone. >> you asked the question of other dealers in a similar situations of the stores that were terminated, three of them were project genesis stores, one of them under way, we purchased a piece of land at chrysler's insistence, 1.$6 million in the market and that store was in the area they wanted to get away from. and quote we're undergoing construction and, if they agreed to hold off construction because

. >> thank you, senator webb. senator nelson. >> thank you, mr. chairman. general fraser, you have some experience in china. what do you think is the growing influence of china in south america? >> sir, from my study there, what i see is that they have commercial interests, they have interests to gain access to natural resources. i see them working the same purposes in other parts of the world also, not just influenced on and focused on latin america. i do not see from my study that there is it a military threat from that influence. so all of it right now is focused commercially. i also see an interest on the part of latin american caribbean nations to gain access to markets in china as well. >> as we discussed when you kindly came by to visit that the southern command is a great command that headed by a four star who is not only a warrior but is also a diplomat. and, ifs admiral stra rid is. and it's been -- stravridis. what kind of twist do you see as you apply diplomacy with being a commander? just give me some of your ideas as you take over command. >>

let me quote from the nuys webb said. national institute for collette -- clinical health and excellent. here is what it says. with the rapid advances of modern mersenne -- medicine, most people except that no publicly funded health care system can possibly pay for every new medical treatment which becomes available. if that is right. if the federal government has a monopoly, it probably does not have enough money to pay for every treatment available. the enormous costs involved means that choices have to be made. that is why they ration care and great britain. the quantitative a just and life helps us measure these factors of that we can compare different treatments for the same condition. it gives us an idea of how much -- how many extra years of life that a person may gain because of the treatment. each drug is considered on a case by case basis. if the treatment costs more than 30,000 pounds per quality adjusted life year, then it will not be considered cost-effective and they do not give it to you. we have many, many

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