wittman: thank you, mr. chairman. i rise in strong support of the national defense authorization act for fiscal year 2010. and i'd like to take a moment to highlight some important aspects of the bill. the members and the staff of the house armed services committee are dedicated to supporting our men and women in uniform and this bill truly reflects our undying commitment to those service members and i'm pleased to see this bill makes progress toward strengthening our naval power and projection on the high seas. we must continue to develop the industrial base and promote ship building to establish a floor, not a ceiling, of 313 ships in our navy. our nation's security and forward presence also depends on the timely delivery and deployment of our various naval platforms. therefore, i urge my colleagues to support the provisions that provide for the construction of a new virginia class submarine, research and development funds for the s.s.b. and ohio class replacement submarine and advanced procurement for the new ford

mandate which is a bad idea in the first place but it's because when congress mandates something wittman dates is the definition of health coverage, health insurance. what would qualify as health insurance and again we see from the house bill all of the dynamic things out there in the marketplace like savings accounts and medical savings accounts and deductible catastrophic plans, all of those will not only be on available they will be illegal and that's why a mandate would be for american medicine and finally ceding the definition of quality of the federal government through the healthy choice administration or the comparative effectiveness research council. whatever it is if it isn't patients and their families and making the decision out what treatment administered at that weight in time for that individual and the unique patient than the quality of an american health care plummet's for each individual not just in this room and this city but across the land. think about the principles you have for health care whenever they are. i've got six of them. accessibility, affordability, quali

in fact, the first administrator, christine todd wittman did a study that showed there was a $668 billion backlog for these kinds of programs. this kind of infrastructure is desperately needed. that's why we added money here and added money in the stimulus package. yes, this bill includes a $4.7 billion increase above the 2009 level. but let me remind my colleagues that the programs in this bill will return more than $14.5 billion to the treasury next year. that's revenue. the department of interior alone estimated to return more than $13 billion to the treasury through oil, gas and coal revenues, raising timber and recreation fees and revenues from the duck stamps. the e.p.a.'s leaking underground storage tank program financed by 1/10 of 1% tax per gallon of tax sold has a balance of more than $3 billion that offsets the deficit. clearly, the program in this bill -- programs in this bill goes towards a long way paying for themselves. this bill is not all increases. we had to make difficult choices. through hearings and briefings, we carefully reviewed the proposed budget and have recomme

lawrence writing about wittman and was important to me to say that these ideas that could seem remote and the launch a far away culture or just the buddhists, there they are in an english novelist, an american poet and our midst. and in some ways i would say to domesticate but be exonerated him and to bring a letter real-life -- also in terms of the los reading of the words that he says. for example he will begin sentences and say generally, therefore, and that therefore is not by chance. logic is six ackley how he formulates his sentences. he will say something like i am a simple buddhist monk and seems so transparent -- >> is he being a bit coy? i've always wondered that. >> 20 years ago would have said it sounds like modesty of an extreme kind. i felt as i went deeper into it he says when he has dreams and his dreams he sees himself as a monk but he never sees himself as a dalai lama and when he has the images of his past life he is aware of a strong connection but not a deep connection with the dalai lama institution and he says the most important thing is anyone at any time could