so if they're from yemen, they're from djibouti, they won't take them. so this is the problem we have right now. and the news -- the views of congress haven't changed. in 2007, the senate vote of 94-3 on a nonbinding resolution to block detainees from being transferred to the united stat states, declaring -- quote -- "detain eased housed at guantanamo -- detainees housed at guantanamo should not be transferred stateside into facilities in american communities and neighborhoods." in 2009, the senate voted 90-6 to again keep detainees out of america. the views of the american people have not changed. i mentioned the polls. the polls are all conclusive that they, the american people do not want to have these people turned loose in the united states, which is exactly what could happen. well, the quality of facility of gitmo has not changed, it's the only facility of its kind that is -- is currently taking -- has six levels of security for the different levels of security. it has two -- one doctor for each two detainees. and as everyone agrees, it's the ideal

tunisia, morocco, yemen, and the list goes on. jordan, turkey, the list goes on. and some of them undoubtedly are seeking this capability because they have legitimate energy needs. turkey, for example, has a really severe energy deficit, and they're looking for a nuclear program as a corrective for that. but i would venture to guess that a lot of them including many of the countries of the gcc, including yemen which doesn't have much by way of running water so it's not so in dire need of additional sources of energy are doing this from a strategic perspective. they're essentially looking for a counterweight to to the emerg, what they see as an emerging iranian bomb. so this has a great deal to do with, obviously, the balance of power in the region, but it has to do with the fact that our strategy when it comes to the iranian nuclear program has to be robust enough not only to deter and contain iran, but the other countries that are lining up behind iran. the outcome's going to be the same. we are on the cusp of a very serious proliferation cascade in the region, s

we are hearing rumors about possible deals with yemen, italy, and albania. italy, and albania. all this has been done without

yemen has their own tourism promotion for their own country. of course, the bahamas, i think many of us have seen those on tv. i certainly v. you see tourism australia. i've seen a few of those ads. south africa. taiwan. scotland. india. these countries are promoting themselves internationally to bring other visitors in. what do we have right now in our country? we don't have a centralized promotion of our country for tourism. countries around the world make tourism a national priority because they see that it bridges jobs to their country -- that it brings jobs to their country. they spend millions of dollars on their program and have senior officials coordinate national tourism policy. frampled, vietnam, new zealand, lebanon and jamaica have ministries of tourism. germany has a national tourist board and australia has a tourism australia program. in 2005, greece spent more than $150 million on travel promoti promotion. france spent $63 million. that's what we're up against. the travel promotion act, madam president, would level the playing fi

some are going to saudi arabia and yemen and saudi arabia has funded many of these radical ma drasass on the pakistan -- madrasas on the pakistan-afghan border, so this asks for risk of recidivism and details the agreements related to the acceptance of individuals transferred. it places important restrictions and conditions on future transfers and releases. it has become clear in the last few days the administration is rushing to release and tfer as many of these detainees as possible before the will of congress to place restrictions can be ep acted. in close, despite concerns about overall levels of spend, the bill represents the chair's -- chairman's best efforts to distribute allocation he was given to the various competing requirements under the jurisdiction. i commend the chairman and thank the chairman for his openness, thoroughness to the minority and i would say the chairman held a week of hearings on prison reform and we unfortunately have the largest per capita prison population in the world and they were the best hearings that i had seen held in this congress and based on t

yemen, syria, and zimbabwe. let us get all of the facts out there and not just part of them. the yield back the balance of my time. >> the gentleman from wisconsin. he continues to resurface time. the gentleman from california. >> to demint from indiana is recognized for tenements. >> thank you. and thank the distinguished ranking member. there rights and opposition to the bill is underway today. i joined my democratic colleagues in supporting the bipartisan military supplemental bill which passed this house earlier in congress. when it comes to providing our sodas with the resources they need to get the job done in return and say, we must set aside politics as usual. we did that. i cannot support this military supplemental bill today. it is a disservice to the taxpayers of this country and to the brave men and women who depend as every day. people forget we are a nation at war. with american soldiers in harm's way, we have to make sure the soldiers have everything they need to get the job done. emergency war funding bills should be about a-a war funding. this legislation inc

i would venture to guess that many, including many such as yemen are in dire need of additional sources of energy are doing this as a strategic move. when we decide what to do this has to do with the balance of power in the region and the fact that our strategy with their nuclear program must be robust enough to deter and contain iran and also the other countries lining up behind iran for whatever various reasons. the outcomes would be the same. we are on the edge of the serious proliferation in the region. the third trend is the impact that this program will have on the pace of freedom within iran and soap. no one has ever done this. -- within iran and the region. it might be a good steady to do. when you did the timeline as to what happened with personal freedoms, free-speech, they line up closely. the lesson is that as iran gets closer to nuclear capability it feels freer to deal as it will with its internal population. is to the closures of newspapers, persecution. in a very real sense the pace of their nuclear program and the pace of their freedom lead in opposite directions. it wi

if we can come to an agreement with yemen and to our satisfaction provide for a security bases for these -- the 100 or so yemenis we have, that would go toward alleviating this problem. >> anything regarding the future of guantanamo of the next few months? >> i hope it is within the next time. . i do not mean to be fresh with you, joe, but this is a work in progress, and the longer it takes, the more complicated it becomes, the more pressure there becomes on this organization to figure out the final disposition of these individuals. we above all are encouraging of a fast, but responsible process. we are in the midst of it, and i do not have anything to report to you in terms of any breakthroughs in terms of where these guys would go and when they will go there. yes. let me go to this gentleman. >> is defense interested in sending a delegation to a conference in germany this month? >> i do not know if we are sending a delegation. we are a military that police in the utility of cluster bombs. they have a specific military purpose that we still think there is a -- has a valid reason and can

cole in yemen in 2009. i'm also --ed about the danger these individuals would pose were they placed in u.s. prisons are jails. these individuals are responsible for planning the deaths of thousands of americans. in the case of nociere, court tapes show that conspirators provided assurances that in the event some were captured, others would work to free them. in addition, in the 2000 trial of salim, one of the terrorists accused of the 1990 bombing of the u.s. embassy in kenya, he stabbed a u.s. prison guard in the eye in a prison escape attempt. al qaeda saw the rights given to its members to meet with counsel as an opportunity to carry out violent escape attempts. mr. salim was one of the original followers of osama bin laden and the highest ranking al qaeda member held in the u.s. at the time. in addition to trying to escape from prison, al qaeda members communicated with confederates while in prison. it's my understanding that one was involved in plotting the 1993 world trade center bombing while in cust

. -- or yemen where the ambassador blocked the fbi from looking for people. therefore during the entire period of the clinton administration the ability of al-qaeda to plan 9/11 was never stopped, and the people who were doing it were never stopped, and as a result we were left in enormous danger. again and again the legalisms and self-deceptions of treating enemies as criminals led to more and more disastrous results. today many of the same civil libertarians defend the accused terrorists, follow criminal proceedings in a war, ideal ogs are now in the obama justice department. it's amazing how many of them come from law firms which were eagerly giving pro bono representation to alleged terrorists in guantanemo. the challenge for the obama administration is simple: americans know better. this isn't the first issue in which the president's clearly and devicively on the wrong side and the american people have begun to get it. by 3-to-1 the american people believe that we are safer with prisoners in guantanemo than in america. 3-to-1 is a pretty big margin. [app

cole off the coast of yemen. by the time the 19 hijackers boarded the four planes that crashed on september 11, 2001, al qaeda already identify numerous grievances with america, including its contempt for western culture, equal rights for women, and men and our support for free speech and exchange of ideas. i've sent a letter to the national security council asking for evidence that keeping guantanamo bay open has created more terrorists than the facility has housed. that was a statement that president obama made. that the existence of guantanamo prison has created more terrorists than the facility has housed. it's an incredible assertion but it's at the foundation of his claim that we need to close guantanamo because somehow it represents a valid symbol of american torture or oppression that hurts our efforts abroad. anything we do is going to cause recruitment of terrorists who hate us, whether we close guantanamo or not, the terrorists will still have plenty of reasons to recruit fellow jihaddists. i'd like to

. >> yemen, the bodies of the missing people who have turned up? >> i am afraid i don't know what you are referring to. >> maybe you can ask and take a look. >> can you give me a little more detail. >> well, they were killed, there were germans, a. and a south korean. >> i will have to look into that. >> but i'm looking for a comment on that but also if there are any -- does this mean there increase security concerns for your people there? >> okay, we will look into it. >> thank you. and how c-span funded? >> i have no clue. >> maybe government grants. >> donations. >> advertising for products. >> public money i am sure. >> my taxes balckout is c-span funded? 30 years ago america's cable companies. is c-span as a public service, a private business initiatives with no government mandate and no government money. >> david drucker of roll call, what is the status of the health-care debate in congress? >> i think it all comes down to the government run public plan option. if you're a democrat you are going to emphasize the public plan part of it because

state to state channels and to mobilize a range of opposition groups, ranging from these i 80s in yemen, unrest in egypt, the sin against those in saudi arabia, reports of conversion. even when we look at the fear of a nuclear capable iran, the biggest year is not so much that iran will use this capability against arab states, but that it will provide top cover for iran to continue this policy of meddling in the internal affairs of states. two dynamics may be at work here. the first is that arab leaders may in fact actually believe their populations are susceptible to the mobilizing appeal of iran. particularly, it's rejectionism on the israeli front. they remain sensitive to the fact that the islamic publics hyperactive isn't on the palestine issue exposes their own deficiency especially their dependence on the u.s. and their paralysis to domestic and regional audiences. certainly iran does have a number of important links with nonstate actors in these societies. the second dynamic is that these regimes may actually be benefiting from threat and inflation. the artist in chile stamping

where is their voice, like jordan, yemen, what have they been saying about this, and shouldn't they be speaking out for more democracy, in that area, also? >> well, that's a good point. the fact is that iran's arab neighbors are not quick ever to comment on iranian internal affairs. they are neighbors, and they are nervous about iran's influence in the region, and very often they calculate that to make the kind of comments which you recommend could worsen matters between them and that big neighbor, so they are always cautious. this is also a point here, too, that the internal affairs of some of those countries don't bear too close scrutiny anyway. some have elections. some have elections which a lot of international observers doubt. some don't have elections, so -- although elections are not the be all and end all of a political system based on consent. this would be a very complex area for the leader of an arab country to get into if he sought to give the kind of lead which you advocate. host: mona wrote in thursday's "washington post," she calls it the sounds of silence on iran and w

bypass state to state channels and mobilize a range of opposition groups ranging from the the zaidis in yemen, the nedj, the reports of shia conversion and even when we look at the fear of nuclear capable iran the biggest fear is not so much that it will use the capability against arab states but provide some top cover for iran to continue the policy of meddling in internal affairs of states. to dynamics may be at work. the first as arab leaders may actually believe their populations are susceptible. particularly reductionism on the arab-israeli front but they remain sensitive to the fact the islamic public kuiper activism on the palestine issue expos is of their own deficiencies especially dependence on the usn process to domestic and regional audiences and certainly iran does have a number of important ways with nonstick actress in the societies. the sudden dynamic is their regimes may actually be benefiting from threat inflation. they're essentially stamping a return address on problems that are fundamentally internal and homegrown and saudi arabia in discussions with reformists and human

another is now a leading al qaeda operative in yemen. and, as i said before, these were supposedly the safe ones. so what would happen if those currently at gitmo returned to the battlefield? mr. president, this document and the actions of those detained at guantanamo bay illustrate what some in this congress seem to have forgotten, we, as a nation, are still at war. they are trying to gil americans an destroy -- to kill americans an destroy our very way of life. the prisoners at gitmo realize this, our troops realize this, it is time that we here in washington, d.c., wake up and realize it as well. the facilities in gitmo are state of the art and are some of the most impressive that i've ever seen. and after touring the facilities down there, i believe that it would be next to, if not impossible, to recreate those facilities here in the united states. partially because of the fiscal location of the facility itself. guantanamo bay is also the appropriate place to conduct military commissions. the privacy and seclusion of the unique court

obviously if we could ever come to an agreement with yemen that was to where mutual satisfaction and could come to our satisfaction, provide for a security basis for the hundred or so yemenis that we still have an detention, that would go a long way to alleviating this problem but that is part of the ongoing discussions that are taking place. >> do you expected detailed plan regarding the detainee's and within the next few months like-- >> we have six months so i hope it is in that time period. i don't mean to be fresh with do you cho but this is a work in progress. the longbrake takes, the more complicated it becomes, the more pressure there comes on this organization particularly to figure out the final disposition of these individuals, so we above all are encouraging of a fast buck responsible process. we are in the midst of it, and i don't have anything to report to you in terms of any breakthroughs in terms of where these guys will go and when they will go there. yes, let me go to this gentleman. >> regarding the cluster bomb convention in june in germany this month, is the d.o.

. >> yemen. the bodies of the missing europeans have turned up. >> i did not know what you are referring to. >> can you give me a little bit more -- >> they were killed, germans, a brit, and a south korean. i will have to look into that. >> looking for a comment on that, wart increased security concerns. >> we will look into what. -- it. thank you. >> the u.s. house meets for legislative work at 2:00 p.m. eastern. nearly 20 bills and resolutions will be considered, including giving the inspector general who oversees afghanistan more spending, authority to hire more inspectors. the building of the debate this afternoon, live coverage here on c-span. c-span3 is live at 1:30 p.m. eastern as the health of the world health organization's poll bill of revocation effort is in his speech on vaccines and disease prevention. he is expected to take questions on the h1n1 swine flu. >> the july 4 weekend, discover and unfamiliar side of our nation's first president as we are live from george washington crossi

benefit from this with special drawing rights are people who are not our friends, venezuela, iran, yemen, syria, zimbabwe and burma. i would never admonish the majority leader because he's a great man, but let's get the facts out there and not just part of them. and i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields back the balance of his time. the gentleman from wisconsin. the gentleman continues to reserve. the gentleman from california. mr. lewis: i yield two minutes to the the gentleman from indiana, mr. pence. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized for two minutes. mr. pence: ask unanimous consent to revise and extend my remarks. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. mr. pence: thank you, mr. speaker. and i thank the distinguished ranking member of the appropriations committee for yielding. i rise in reluctant opposition to the military supplemental bill that's before the congress today. i was pleased to join many of my democratic colleagues in supporting the bipartisan military supplemental bill that passed this house earlier in this congress. it seems

he later traveled to yemen where he was studying under a islamic scholar. mr. speaker, we have millions of law-abidinging muslims in this country. -- law-abiding muslims in this country. acts of terror committed by some members of a religion should not be used against all members of that religion. at the same time, however, we cannot be blind to the jihadist ideology of some muslims in 24 country who believe they have a religious duty to murder innocent. the mind set which seems to find fertile ground in the soil ofy had claims the cause of justice is advanced by filling the innocent and killing those who seek to protect the innocent. this is the fundamental reality. when the american media and we as a people refuse to call evil by its name, it imperils us all and especially dishonors all of those like these two soldiers who have sacrificed and bled to protect the innocent from that evil. mr. speaker, the american soldier does not fight because he hates what's in front of him. he fights because he loves what is behind him. private long's so-called crime was his

you look to some of these emerging threat environments around the horn of africa and yemen and a.q. what do you think is most important toward the pushing forward of that level of cooperation between other elements of d.o.d., state, and the intel community? >> the most important thing to push forward are structures that provide a forum so that the community can provide the content to the discussions. these are relationships that are building over time. we are pay better than we have ever been. we're not as good as we will be next year or the year after, but so much of it has to do with just understanding each other's organizations and cultures and we're even seeing now what i call second or third generation, second or third order effects of people who work together in one place coming together in another place and already having a relationship so that they can move much more quickly together. joe mcchrystal set the standard aggressively at the operational level. the united states special operations command is serving as a model of sorts at the higher headquarters level. we wake up e

my time in very difficult north korea and averitt and sri lanka during of the war and ethiopia and yemen and el salvador never to be like anyone going back and forth between these places good preparation and champion of peace. i always wondered what the sun usually nuclear site man might have to offer to those places to help release them from their seemingly intractable cycles of violence and i should say at this point that i am not a buddhist. i don't speak tibetan so i can't follow the dalai lama when he is at his most forceful and articulate and i do spend a lot of time in a monastery but i wouldn't presume to talk about his monastic life. but one thing that struck me was on like of course any dalai lama in history he spends a lot of his time in rooms like this, the national cathedral. certainly he spends a lot of his life talking to people like us who may have no interest in buddhism and no interest ever in acquiring a knowledge of buddhism and i think that almost as a doctor of the mind, and like any doctor, he sits on this very intricate and technical body of knowledge and like any

in observance of to yemen's where, over 150,000 people turned out last night. . . 150,000 people, thebiggest crowd since the one-year anniversary. so i know that the long arm of the chinese government will be reaching out to the media all over the world to suppress reporting on what is happening in china and also restricting communication from china through the internet and the rest. the fact is, here we are at the capitol. there they were in hong kong. a drumbeat of activity across the world. an echo of the voices of our heroes of gm and -- tiananmen. we want a record of what happened, and we will continue to work for more openness, for improvement of human rights in china and tibet. and again, i want to salute -- he just laughed. he came out of -- he just laughed. -- just left. he is in macao. i see. i saw him -- i saw him in hong kong while was there. we have all been working on this for very long time. there are some new prisoners that just came out of china to account for the treatment they received. this list on my poster is a list of heroes. you are, too. thank you for your cou