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RES. 430 AS AMENDED ON 3 00:00:32,001 --> 00:00:37,000 THE CHAIR LAYS BEFORE THE HOUSE 4 00:00:37,001 --> 00:00:40,000 AN ENROLLE 5 00:00:40,001 --> 00:00:43,000 THE CLERK: H.R. 125656, AN ACT 6 00:00:43,001 --> 00:00:44,000 TO PROTECT THE PUBLIC HEALTH BY 7 00:00:44,001 --> 00:00:45,000 PROVIDING THE FOOD AND DRUG 8 00:00:45,001 --> 00:00:46,000 ADMINISTRATION WITH CERTAIN 9 00:00:46,001 --> 00:00:48,000 AUTHORITY TO REGULATE TOBACCO 10 00:00:48,001 --> 00:00:49,000 PRODUCTS, TO AMEND TITLE 5 11 00:00:49,001 --> 00:00:50,000 UNITED STATES CODE TO MAKE 12 00:00:50,001 --> 00:00:52,000 CERTAIN MODIFICATIONS IN THE 13 00:00:52,001 --> 00:00:53,000 THRIFT SAVINGS PLAN, THE CIVIL 14 00:00:53,001 --> 00:00:55,000 SERVICE RETIREMENT SYSTEM, AND 15 00:00:55,001 --> 00:00:59,000 THE FEDERAL EMPLOYEES RETIREMENT 16 00:00:59,001 --> 00:01:00,000 SYSTEM, AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES. 17 00:01:00,001 --> 00:01:15,000 THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE: THE 18 00:01:15,001 --> 00:01:16,000 HOUSE WILL BE IN ORDER. 19 00:01:16,001 --> 00:01:17,000 THE HOUSE WILL BE IN ORDER. 20 00:01:17,001 --> 00:01:28,000 WILL MEMBERS TAKE THEIR 21 00:01:28,001 --> 00:01:30,000 CONVERSATIONS OFF THE FLOOR. 22 00:01:30,001 --> 00:01:52,000 WILL MEMBERS TAKE THEIR 23 00:01:52,001 --> 00:01:53,000 CONVERSATIONS OFF THE FLOOR. 24 00:01:53,001 --> 00:01:54,000 THE CHAIR WILL ENTERTAIN 25 00:01:54,001 --> 00:02:10,000 REQUESTS FOR ONE-MINUTE 26 00:02:10,001 --> 00:02:15,000 SPEECHES. 27 00:02:15,001 --> 00:02:16,000 WILL MEMBERS CLEAR THE WELL 28 00:02:16,001 --> 00:02:23,000 WILL MEMBERS TAKE CONVERSATIONS 29 00:02:23,001 --> 00:02:25,000 OFF THE FLOOR. FOR WHAT PURPOSE DOES THE 30 00:02:25,001 --> 00:02:27,000 GENTLEWOMAN FROM TEXAS RISE? 31 00:02:27,001 --> 00:02:28,000 HOUSE FOR ONE MINUTE. MADAM SPEAKER, THE HOUSE IS NOT 32 00:02:28,001 --> 00:02:29,000 IN ORDER. 33 00:02:29,001 --> 00:02:39,000 THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE: WITHOUT OBJECTION. 34 00:02:39,001 --> 00:02:40,000 WILL THE HOUSE BE IN ORDER. 35 00:02:40,001 --> 00:02:42,000 MS. JACKSON LEE: THANK YOU VERY 36 00:02:42,001 --> 00:02:44,000 MUCH, MADAM SPEAKER. 37 00:02:44,001 --> 00:02:46,000 WHAT DID HAPPEN IN IRAN JUST A 38 00:02:46,001 --> 00:02:49,000 FEW DAYS AGO? 39 00:02:49,001 --> 00:02:52,000 I THINK THIS PICTURE EVIDENCES 40 00:02:52,001 --> 00:02:54,000 THAT THERE WERE VOTERS WHO FELT 41 00:02:54,001 --> 00:02:56,000 THAT WHAT HAPPENE 42 00:02:56,001 --> 00:02:58,000 CAPTURE THE ESSENCE OF 43 00:02:58,001 --> 00:03:01,000 SACRIFICE AND WENT TO VOTE. 44 00:03:01,001 --> 00:03:03,000 YOUNG PEOPLE, WOMEN, URBAN 45 00:03:03,001 --> 00:03:04,000 IDENTIES WENT IN MASSIVE 46 00:03:04,001 --> 00:03:06,000 NUMBERS TO VOTE. 47 00:03:06,001 --> 00:03:08,000 THIS ARTICLE SUGGESTS THERE WERE 48 00:03:08,001 --> 00:03:09,000 POLLING PLACES EVEN IN THE 49 00:03:09,001 --> 00:03:12,000 UNITED STATES WHERE IRANIAN 50 00:03:12,001 --> 00:03:14,000 AMERICANS WENT TO VOTE TO IN 51 00:03:14,001 --> 00:03:16,000 ESSENCE DECLARE THEY WANTED FREEDOM. 52 00:03:16,001 --> 00:03:17,000 THEY WANTED TO BE ABLE TO HAVE 53 00:03:17,001 --> 00:03:18,000 THE OPPORTUNITY TO LIVE IN 54 00:03:18,001 --> 00:03:19,000 DEMOCRACY, TO BUILD THEIR 55 00:03:19,001 --> 00:03:22,000 EC 56 00:03:22,001 --> 00:03:25,000 I WOULD ASK THE SO-CALLED 57 00:03:25,001 --> 00:03:27,000 ELECTED PERSON TO DO THE RIGHT 58 00:03:27,001 --> 00:03:30,000 THING OR THERE IS SHAME ON THIS PROCESS. 59 00:03:30,001 --> 00:03:34,000 I ASK FOR THE N.G.O.'S OF THE 60 00:03:34,001 --> 00:03:36,000 WORLD TO STAND UP AND QUESTION 61 00:03:36,001 --> 00:03:38,000 THE IRREGULARITIES OF THIS 62 00:03:38,001 --> 00:03:40,000 ELECTION, STAND FOR PEOPLE WHO 63 00:03:40,001 --> 00:03:42,000 WANT PEACE AND A DEMOCRATIC ELECTION. 64 00:03:42,001 --> 00:03:43,000 LET US RAISE OUR VOICE AS THE 65 00:03:43,001 --> 00:03:45,000 UNITED NATIONS SHOULD RAISE ITS VOICE. 66 00:03:45,001 --> 00:03:47,000 NO WE ARE NOT TRYING TO SELECT 67 00:03:47,001 --> 00:03:49,000 E NEXT PRESIDENT OF IRAN, WE 68 00:03:49,001 --> 00:03:50,000 ARE ONLY ASKING THAT THE PEOPLE 69 00:03:50,001 --> 00:03:51,000 SELECT THE NEXT PRESIDENT OF 70 00:03:51,001 --> 00:03:52,000 IRAN. 71 00:03:52,001 --> 00:03:55,000 SHAME ON IRAN'S ELECTION 72 00:03:55,001 --> 00:03:56,000 PROCESS. 73 00:03:56,001 --> 00:03:57,000 THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE: FOR 74 00:03:57,001 --> 00:03:59,000 WHAT PURPOSE DOES THE GENTLEMAN FROM PENNSYLVANIA RISE? 75 00:03:59,001 --> 00:04:02,000 MR. THOMPSON: MADAM SPEAKER, 76 00:04:02,001 --> 00:04:03,000 REQUEST UNANIMOUS CONSENT TO 77 00:04:03,001 --> 00:04:04,000 ADDRESS THE HOUSE FOR ONE MINUTE. 78 00:04:04,001 --> 00:04:05,000 REVISE AND EXTEND. THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE: WITHOUT 79 00:04:05,001 --> 00:04:08,000 OBJECTION. 80 00:04:08,001 --> 00:04:09,000 MR. THOMPSON: THANK YOU. 81 00:04:09,001 --> 00:04:11,000 MADAM SPEAKER, I COME TO THE 82 00:04:11,001 --> 00:04:12,000 FLOOR TODAY TO DISCUSS ISSUE OF 83 00:04:12,001 --> 00:04:15,000 HEALTH CARE. 84 00:04:15,001 --> 00:04:17,000 FOR 28 YEARS MY LIFE -- I WAS COMMITTED TO DELIVERING QUALITY 85 00:04:17,001 --> 00:04:18,000 HEALTH CARE SERVICES AS A HEALTH 86 00:04:18,001 --> 00:04:19,000 CARE PROFESSIONAL. 87 00:04:19,001 --> 00:04:21,000 I CAME TO CONGRESS WITH A 88 00:04:21,001 --> 00:04:23,000 COMMITMENT OF STRAIGHTENING THE 89 00:04:23,001 --> 00:04:24,000 QUALITY, ACCESSIBILITY, AND 90 00:04:24,001 --> 00:04:25,000 AFFORDABILITY OF OUR HEALTH CARE 91 00:04:25,001 --> 00:04:26,000 SYSTEM WHICH IS ALREADY ONE OF 92 00:04:26,001 --> 00:04:27,000 THE BEST IN THE WORLD. 93 00:04:27,001 --> 00:04:29,000 MADAM SPEAKER, THE DEMOCRATIC 94 00:04:29,001 --> 00:04:32,000 PARTY'S INTENT ON RUSHING A 95 00:04:32,001 --> 00:04:33,000 HEALTH CARE PLAN THROUGH 96 00:04:33,001 --> 00:04:35,000 CONGRESS THAT EXPANDS GOVERNMENT 97 00:04:35,001 --> 00:04:36,000 CONTROL WILL ULTIMATELY DECREASE 98 00:04:36,001 --> 00:04:38,000 ACCESS IN QUALITY. 99 00:04:38,001 --> 00:04:39,000 WHILE WE CONSUME THE ATTENTION 100 00:04:39,001 --> 00:04:41,000 OF CONGRESS ON THIS BIG 101 00:04:41,001 --> 00:04:42,000 GOVERNMENT PROPOSAL, WE HAVE 102 00:04:42,001 --> 00:04:43,000 IGNORED CRITICAL WORK FORCE 103 00:04:43,001 --> 00:04:45,000 HEALTH CARE ISSUES. 104 00:04:45,001 --> 00:04:47,000 AS A BABY GOOD MORNINGER 105 00:04:47,001 --> 00:04:48,000 GENERATION RETIRES, IT WILL BE 106 00:04:48,001 --> 00:04:50,000 INCREASINGLY DIFFICULT TO FIND 107 00:04:50,001 --> 00:04:51,000 QUALITY HEALTH CARE PROVIDERS TO 108 00:04:51,001 --> 00:04:53,000 DELIVER SERVICES NEEDED. 109 00:04:53,001 --> 00:04:54,000 THE DEBATE ON HEALTH CARE REFORM 110 00:04:54,001 --> 00:04:56,000 MUST FOCUS ON PRIORITY ISSUES 111 00:04:56,001 --> 00:04:58,000 THAT TRULY IMPACT SERVICE 112 00:04:58,001 --> 00:04:59,000 A LARGER GOVERNMENT HEALTH CARE 113 00:04:59,001 --> 00:05:01,000 BUREAUCRACY IS A CAUSE NOT A 114 00:05:01,001 --> 00:05:03,000 CURE TO THE PROBLEMS OF ACCESS, 115 00:05:03,001 --> 00:05:05,000 QUALITY, AND AFFORDABILITY. 116 00:05:05,001 --> 00:05:07,000 REAL HEALTH CARE LIKE HEALTH 117 00:05:07,001 --> 00:05:09,000 CARE WORK FORCE IS WHERE OUR 118 00:05:09,001 --> 00:05:10,000 EFFORTS 119 00:05:10,001 --> 00:05:13,000 I YIELD BACK THE BALANCE OF MY 120 00:05:13,001 --> 00:05:14,000 TIME. 121 00:05:14,001 --> 00:05:16,000 THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE: THE 122 00:05:16,001 --> 00:05:17,000 GENTLEMAN YIELDS BACK. 123 00:05:17,001 --> 00:05:18,000 FOR WHAT PURPOSE DOES THE 124 00:05:18,001 --> 00:05:19,000 GENTLEMAN FROM TEXAS RISE? 125 00:05:19,001 --> 00:05:20,000 >> MADAM SPEAKER, I ASK 126 00:05:20,001 --> 00:05:21,000 UNANIMOUS CONSENT TO ADDRESS THE 127 00:05:21,001 --> 00:05:22,000 HOUSE FO REVISE AND EXTEN 128 00:05:22,001 --> 00:05:27,000 THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE: WITHOUT OBJECTION. 129 00:05:27,001 --> 00:05:28,000 MR. SMITH: MADAM SPEAKER, THE 130 00:05:28,001 --> 00:05:29,000 NONPARTISAN CONGRESSIONAL BUDGET 131 00:05:29,001 --> 00:05:31,000 OFFICE HAS DETERMINED THAT CAP 132 00:05:31,001 --> 00:05:34,000 AND TRADE LEGISLATION WILL COST 133 00:05:34,001 --> 00:05:36,000 AMERICAN FAMILIES AT LEAST 134 00:05:36,001 --> 00:05:37,000 $1,600 A YEAR. 135 00:05:37,001 --> 00:05:40,000 OTHER STUDIES HAVE FOUND THAT 136 00:05:40,001 --> 00:05:42,000 THE COST OF ENERGY COULD BE UP 137 00:05:42,001 --> 00:05:44,000 TO $3,600 PER FAMILY. 138 00:05:44,001 --> 00:05:46,000 IT WOULD BE MORE ACCURATE TO 139 00:05:46,001 --> 00:05:48,000 CALL CAP AND TRADE CAP AND TAX. 140 00:05:48,001 --> 00:05:50,000 BUT YOU ARE UNLIKELY TO HEAR 141 00:05:50,001 --> 00:05:51,000 ABOUT CAP AND TAX AND ITS COST 142 00:05:51,001 --> 00:05:53,000 BY WATCHING THE NEWS. 143 00:05:53,001 --> 00:05:55,000 THE THREE NETWORK EVENING NEWS 144 00:05:55,001 --> 00:05:56,000 PROGRAMS MENTION CAP AND T AND 145 00:05:56,001 --> 00:05:59,000 ONLY FOUR STORIES FROM JANUARY 146 00:05:59,001 --> 00:06:00,000 TO MAY ACCORDING TO THE MEDIA 147 00:06:00,001 --> 00:06:01,000 RESEARCH CENTER. 148 00:06:01,001 --> 00:06:03,000 NONE OF THE FOUR STORI 149 00:06:03,001 --> 00:06:04,000 EXPLAINED CAP AND TAX AND ITS 150 00:06:04,001 --> 00:06:06,000 HIGH COST TO CONSUMERS. 151 00:06:06,001 --> 00:06:09,000 THE PRICE OF GAS AND ELECTRICITY 152 00:06:09,001 --> 00:06:10,000 WILL GO UP AS WILL THE PRICE OF 153 00:06:10,001 --> 00:06:11,000 FOOD. 154 00:06:11,001 --> 00:06:13,000 THE MEDIA NEED TO REPORT THE 155 00:06:13,001 --> 00:06:16,000 FACTS ABOUT CAP AND TAX AND TELL 156 00:06:16,001 --> 00:06:23,000 THE AMERICAN PEOPLE WHAT IT WILL 157 00:06:23,001 --> 00:06:24,000 COST THEM. 158 00:06:24,001 --> 00:06:25,000 THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE: FOR 159 00:06:25,001 --> 00:06:27,000 WHAT PURPOSE DOES THE GENTLEMAN FROM TEXAS RISE? 160 00:06:27,001 --> 00:06:28,000 MR. POE: REQUEST PERMISSION TO ADDRESS THE HOUSE FOR ONE 161 00:06:28,001 --> 00:06:29,000 MINUTE. 162 00:06:29,001 --> 00:06:31,000 THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE: WITHOUT OBJECT 163 00:06:31,001 --> 00:06:33,000 MR. POE: MADAM SPEAKER, 164 00:06:33,001 --> 00:06:37,000 SOMEWHERE IN THE DANK DUNGONS OF 165 00:06:37,001 --> 00:06:38,000 FEDERAL GOVERNMENT THE 166 00:06:38,001 --> 00:06:40,000 TAX-A-CRATS ARE LOOSE AND NOW 167 00:06:40,001 --> 00:06:41,000 THEY ARE WORKING ON A NEWS TAX. 168 00:06:41,001 --> 00:06:43,000 DEATH BY A THOUSAND TAXES. 169 00:06:43,001 --> 00:06:44,000 THIS TIME THEY ARE TALKING ABOUT 170 00:06:44,001 --> 00:06:46,000 TAXING HEALTH CARE BENEFITS THAT 171 00:06:46,001 --> 00:06:47,000 FOLKS GET FROM THEIR EMPLOYERS. 172 00:06:47,001 --> 00:06:49,000 IN OTHER WORDS, IF YOU TAKE CARE 173 00:06:49,001 --> 00:06:50,000 OF YOUR FAMILY BY HAVING HEALTH 174 00:06:50,001 --> 00:06:51,000 BENEFITS, YOU ARE GOING TO BE 175 00:06:51,001 --> 00:06:53,000 PUNISHED FOR DOING SO. 176 00:06:53,001 --> 00:06:54,000 I THOUGHT THE GOAL WAS TO MAKE 177 00:06:54,001 --> 00:06:55,000 SURE EVERYONE HAD AFFORDABLE 178 00:06:55,001 --> 00:06:57,000 HETH CARE. 179 00:06:57,001 --> 00:06:59,000 THAT'S WHAT THE TAX-A-CRATS DO 180 00:06:59,001 --> 00:07:01,000 TELL US. 181 00:07:01,001 --> 00:07:02,000 IF THAT'S THE GOAL IT DOESN'T 182 00:07:02,001 --> 00:07:05,000 MAKE SENSE TO MAKE HEALTH CARE 183 00:07:05,001 --> 00:07:08,000 SOMEONE WILL HAVE TO EXPLAIN TO 184 00:07:08,001 --> 00:07:09,000 ME HOW RAISING TAXES ON WORKING 185 00:07:09,001 --> 00:07:11,000 PEOPLE WILL MAKE THINGS BETTER 186 00:07:11,001 --> 00:07:12,000 FOR ALL OF US. 187 00:07:12,001 --> 00:07:13,000 THEY ARE TRYING TO CONVINCE 188 00:07:13,001 --> 00:07:15,000 PEOPLE THAT TAXING HEALTH 189 00:07:15,001 --> 00:07:16,000 INSURANCE WON'T AFFECT VERY MANY 190 00:07:16,001 --> 00:07:18,000 PEOPLE F THAT'S TRUE EXPERTS SAY 191 00:07:18,001 --> 00:07:19,000 IT'S NOT GOING TO BE ENOUGH 192 00:07:19,001 --> 00:07:21,000 MONEY TO PAY FOR THE 193 00:07:21,001 --> 00:07:22,000 GOVERNMENT-RUN HEALTH CARE 194 00:07:22,001 --> 00:07:24,000 SOCIALIZED SYSTEM WE ARE GOING TO. 195 00:07:24,001 --> 00:07:25,000 BUT THEY ALSO WANT TO MANDATE 196 00:07:25,001 --> 00:07:26,000 COVERAGE. 197 00:07:26,001 --> 00:07:27,000 THAT MEANS THEY'LL TAX ANYONE 198 00:07:27,001 --> 00:07:29,000 WHO DOESN'T BUY INSURANCE. 199 00:07:29,001 --> 00:07:31,000 TAXED IF YOU DO, TAXED IF YOU DON'T. 200 00:07:31,001 --> 00:07:32,000 IT'S ENOUGH TO MAKE A PERSON 201 00:07:32,001 --> 00:07:33,000 SICK. 202 00:07:33,001 --> 00:07:34,000 THAT'S NOT A VERY HEALTHY HEALTH 203 00:07:34,001 --> 00:07:35,000 CARE P 204 00:07:35,001 --> 00:07:39,000 THAT'S JUST THE WAY IT IS. 205 00:07:39,001 --> 00:07:40,000 I YIELD BACK. 206 00:07:40,001 --> 00:07:41,000 THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE: FOR 207 00:07:41,001 --> 00:07:43,000 WHAT PURPOSE DOES THE GENTLEMAN 208 00:07:43,001 --> 00:07:46,000 FROM MINNESOTA RISE? 209 00:07:46,001 --> 00:07:47,000 THE HOUSE FOR ONE MINUTE. 210 00:07:47,001 --> 00:07:49,000 THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE: WITHOUT 211 00:07:49,001 --> 00:07:51,000 OBJECTION. 212 00:07:51,001 --> 00:07:53,000 MR. PAULSEN: I RISE TO PAY 213 00:07:53,001 --> 00:07:54,000 TRIBUTE TO TWO RECENT STATE 214 00:07:54,001 --> 00:07:56,000 CHAMONSHIP TEAMS FROM 215 00:07:56,001 --> 00:07:57,000 MINNESOTA'S THIRD CONGRESSIONAL 216 00:07:57,001 --> 00:07:58,000 DISTRICT. 217 00:07:58,001 --> 00:08:00,000 MY HOMETOWN WON THE MINNESOTA 218 00:08:00,001 --> 00:08:01,000 HIGH SCHOOL GIRLS LACROSSE 219 00:08:01,001 --> 00:08:03,000 CHAMPIONSHIP LAST WEEK. 220 00:08:03,001 --> 00:08:06,000 UNDER COACHES JUDY BAXTER AND 221 00:08:06,001 --> 00:08:07,000 BETH PATTERSON, THEY CLAIMED A 222 00:08:07,001 --> 00:08:10,000 COME-FROM-BEHIND VICTORY OVER 223 00:08:10,001 --> 00:08:12,000 BLAKE TO WIN THEIR FIFTH STATE 224 00:08:12,001 --> 00:08:14,000 TITLE IN THAT SPORT. 225 00:08:14,001 --> 00:08:15,000 THE MINNETONKA HIGH SCHOOL BOYS 226 00:08:15,001 --> 00:08:18,000 LACROSSE TEAM DEFEATED EAST VIEW 227 00:08:18,001 --> 00:08:19,000 TO WIN THEIR VERY FIRST STATE 228 00:08:19,001 --> 00:08:21,000 CHAMPIONSHIP. 229 00:08:21,001 --> 00:08:22,000 CAPPINOFF A MAN IT'SIC YEAR IN 230 00:08:22,001 --> 00:08:24,000 WHICH THEY WERE RANKED NUMBER 231 00:08:24,001 --> 00:08:26,000 ONE FOR THE ENTIRE SEASON. 232 00:08:26,001 --> 00:08:28,000 THE HARD WORK AND DEDICATION OF 233 00:08:28,001 --> 00:08:30,000 THESE SCHOLAR ATHLETES HELPED 234 00:08:30,001 --> 00:08:31,000 THEM ACHIEVE SOMETHING THEY WILL 235 00:08:31,001 --> 00:08:32,000 REMEMBER FOREVER. 236 00:08:32,001 --> 00:08:35,000 I COMMEND EACH OF THEM ALONG 237 00:08:35,001 --> 00:08:37,000 WITH THEIR COACHES, TRAINERS, 238 00:08:37,001 --> 00:08:38,000 EDUCATORS, AND PARENTS WHO HELP 239 00:08:38,001 --> 00:08:39,000 KE THESE CHAMPIONSHIPS 240 00:08:39,001 --> 00:08:41,000 POSSIBLE. 241 00:08:41,001 --> 00:08:42,000 I YIELD BACK. 242 00:08:42,001 --> 00:08:44,000 THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE: A 243 00:08:44,001 --> 00:08:47,000 THERE FURTHER ONE-MINUTE 244 00:08:47,001 --> 00:08:48,000 REQUESTS? 245 00:08:48,001 --> 00:08:49,000 FOR WHAT PURPOSE DOES THE 246 00:08:49,001 --> 00:08:51,000 GENTLEMAN FROM TEXAS RISE? 247 00:08:51,001 --> 00:08:52,000 >> ASK TO ADDRESS THE HOUSE FOR ONE MINUTE. 248 00:08:52,001 --> 00:08:54,000 THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE: WITHOUT OBJECTION. 249 00:08:54,001 --> 00:08:57,000 MR. GOHMERT: THANK YOU, MADAM 250 00:08:57,001 --> 00:08:59,000 SPEAKER. 251 00:08:59,001 --> 00:09:02,000 THERE'S BLOOD IN THE STREETS IN 252 00:09:02,001 --> 00:09:04,000 IRAN TONIGHT. 253 00:09:04,001 --> 00:09:07,000 IT'S MORNING OVER THERE. 254 00:09:07,001 --> 00:09:08,000 BUT BLOOD IS RUNNING IN THE 255 00:09:08,001 --> 00:09:10,000 STREETS. 256 00:09:10,001 --> 00:09:12,000 PEOPLE HAVE BEEN OUTRAGED AT 257 00:09:12,001 --> 00:09:14,000 WHAT THEY SAY WAS THE STEALING 258 00:09:14,001 --> 00:09:18,000 OF AN ELECTION. 259 00:09:18,001 --> 00:09:19,000 SO DOES IT HELP TO HAVE A 260 00:09:19,001 --> 00:09:23,000 PRESIDENT WHO HAS CONTINUED TO 261 00:09:23,001 --> 00:09:26,000 MAKE CLEAR HE WOULD MEET WITH 262 00:09:26,001 --> 00:09:31,000 THE RUTHLESS DENIER THE OF THE 263 00:09:31,001 --> 00:09:34,000 HOLOCAUST, THIS TOTALITARIAN 264 00:09:34,001 --> 00:09:35,000 MEAN-SPIRITED, UNJUST, UNFAIRLY 265 00:09:35,001 --> 00:09:37,000 ELECTED LEADER? 266 00:09:37,001 --> 00:09:38,000 IT DOESN'T. 267 00:09:38,001 --> 00:09:40,000 MESSAGES GO AROUND THE WORLD 268 00:09:40,001 --> 00:09:45,000 WHEN YOU SAY YOU'LL MEET WITH A 269 00:09:45,001 --> 00:09:47,000 TYRANT WITHOUT PRECONDITIONS. 270 00:09:47,001 --> 00:09:49,000 MAY GOD BE WITH THOSE WHO ARE 271 00:09:49,001 --> 00:09:53,000 TRYING TO SEE THAT JUSTICE IS DONE. 272 00:09:53,001 --> 00:09:54,000 AND MAY OUR LEADERS BE LED TO 273 00:09:54,001 --> 00:09:55,000 KEEP THEIR MOUTH SHUT WHEN IT 274 00:09:55,001 --> 00:10:01,000 HURTS OTHERS. I YIELD BACK. 275 00:10:01,001 --> 00:10:03,000 . 276 00:10:03,001 --> 00:10:07,000 THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE: ARE THERE FURTHER ONE-MINUTE 277 00:10:07,001 --> 00:10:08,000 REQUESTS? 278 00:10:08,001 --> 00:10:12,000 THE CHAIR LAYS BEFORE THE HOUSE 279 00:10:12,001 --> 00:10:14,000 THE FOLLOWING PERSONAL REQUEST. 280 00:10:14,001 --> 00:10:15,000 THE CLERK: LEAVES OF ABSENCE 281 00:10:15,001 --> 00:10:16,000 REQUESTED FOR MR. BONNER OF 282 00:10:16,001 --> 00:10:19,000 ALABAMA FOR TODAY, MR. DONNELLY 283 00:10:19,001 --> 00:10:21,000 OF INDIANA FOR TODAY, MRS. EDDIE 284 00:10:21,001 --> 00:10:23,000 BERNICE JOHNSON OF TEXAS FOR 285 00:10:23,001 --> 00:10:24,000 TODAY 286 00:10:24,001 --> 00:10:28,000 TODAY AND MS. WATERS OF 287 00:10:28,001 --> 00:10:30,000 CALIFORNIA FOR TODAY. 288 00:10:30,001 --> 00:10:32,000 THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE: WITHOUT OBJECTION, THE REQUESTS ARE 289 00:10:32,001 --> 00:10:34,000 GRANTED. 290 00:10:34,001 --> 00:10:36,000 FOR WHAT PURPOSE DOES THE 291 00:10:36,001 --> 00:10:37,000 GENTLEMAN FROM INDIANA RISE? 292 00:10:37,001 --> 00:10:39,000 MR. BURTON: MADAM SPEAKER, I ASK 293 00:10:39,001 --> 00:10:40,000 UNANIMOUS CONSENT THAT TODAY 294 00:10:40,001 --> 00:10:42,000 FOLLOWING LEGISLATIVE BUSINESS 295 00:10:42,001 --> 00:10:43,000 AND ANY SPECIAL ORDERS 296 00:10:43,001 --> 00:10:44,000 HERETOFORE ENTERED INTO, THE 297 00:10:44,001 --> 00:10:46,000 FOLLOWING MEMBERS MAY BE 298 00:10:46,001 --> 00:10:47,000 PERMITTED TO ADDRESS THE HO 299 00:10:47,001 --> 00:10:50,000 REVICE AND EXTEND THEIR REMARKS 300 00:10:50,001 --> 00:10:51,000 AND INCLUDE THEREIN EXTRANEOUS 301 00:10:51,001 --> 00:10:52,000 MATERIAL. 302 00:10:52,001 --> 00:10:54,000 MR. INGLIS TODAY FOR FIVE 303 00:10:54,001 --> 00:10:57,000 M 304 00:10:57,001 --> 00:10:59,000 TO FIVE MINUTES AND MR. AKIN, 305 00:10:59,001 --> 00:11:00,000 JUNE 18, TODAY, FOR FIVE 306 00:11:00,001 --> 00:11:02,000 MINUTES. 307 00:11:02,001 --> 00:11:03,000 THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE: WITHOUT 308 00:11:03,001 --> 00:11:05,000 OBJECTION. 309 00:11:05,001 --> 00:11:06,000 FOR WHAT PURPOSE DOES THE 310 00:11:06,001 --> 00:11:07,000 GENTLEMAN FROM PENNSYLVANIA 311 00:11:07,001 --> 00:11:08,000 RISE? 312 00:11:08,001 --> 00:11:10,000 >> MADAM SPEAKER, I ASK 313 00:11:10,001 --> 00:11:11,000 UNANIMOUS CONSENT THAT TODAY 314 00:11:11,001 --> 00:11:12,000 FOLLOWING LEGISLATIVE BUSINESS 315 00:11:12,001 --> 00:11:15,000 AND ANY SPECIAL ORDERS 316 00:11:15,001 --> 00:11:16,000 HERETOFORE ENTERED INTO, THE 317 00:11:16,001 --> 00:11:17,000 FOLLOWING MEMBERS MAY BE 318 00:11:17,001 --> 00:11:18,000 PERMITTED TO ADDRESS THE HOUSE 319 00:11:18,001 --> 00:11:21,000 FOR FIVE MINUTES, TO REVISE AND 320 00:11:21,001 --> 00:11:22,000 EXTEND THEIR REMARKS AND INCLUDE 321 00:11:22,001 --> 00:11:24,000 THEREIN MATERIAL. 322 00:11:24,001 --> 00:11:25,000 MR. SPRATT OF NORTH CAROLINA FOR 323 00:11:25,001 --> 00:11:26,000 FIVE MINUTES, MR. ALTMIRE OF 324 00:11:26,001 --> 00:11:28,000 PENNSYLVANI 325 00:11:28,001 --> 00:11:29,000 MS. WOOLSEY OF CALIFORNIA FOR 326 00:11:29,001 --> 00:11:31,000 FIVE MINUTES AND MS. KAPTUR OF 327 00:11:31,001 --> 00:11:32,000 OHIO FOR FIVE MINUTES. 328 00:11:32,001 --> 00:11:39,000 THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE: WITHOUT 329 00:11:39,001 --> 00:11:41,000 OBJECTION. 330 00:11:41,001 --> 00:11:43,000 UNDER THE SPEAKER'S ANNOUNCED 331 00:11:43,001 --> 00:11:44,000 POLICY OF JANUARY 6, 2009, AND 332 00:11:44,001 --> 00:11:45,000 UNDER A PREVIOUS ORDER OF THE 333 00:11:45,001 --> 00:11:47,000 HOUSE, THE FOLLOWING MEMBERS ARE 334 00:11:47,001 --> 00:11:49,000 RECOGNIZED FOR FIVE MINUTES 335 00:11:49,001 --> 00:11:52,000 EACH. 336 00:11:52,001 --> 00:11:54,000 MR. SPRATT OF SOUTH CAROLINA. 337 00:11:54,001 --> 00:11:56,000 MR. POE OF TEXAS. 338 00:11:56,001 --> 00:11:57,000 MR. POE: MADAM SPEAKER, I ASK 339 00:11:57,001 --> 00:11:59,000 UNANIMOUS CONSENT TO ASSUME THE 340 00:11:59,001 --> 00:12:00,000 GENTLEMAN'S TIME. 341 00:12:00,001 --> 00:12:01,000 THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE: WITHOUT 342 00:12:01,001 --> 00:12:02,000 OBJECTION. 343 00:12:02,001 --> 00:12:04,000 >> THANK YOU, MADAM SPEAKER. 344 00:12:04,001 --> 00:12:05,000 I RISE THIS EVENING TO ANNOUNCE 345 00:12:05,001 --> 00:12:06,000 THE SAD PASSING OF DR. BOB 346 00:12:06,001 --> 00:12:08,000 FREDERIC. 347 00:12:08,001 --> 00:12:10,000 A DISTINGUISHED KANSAN AND AN EXCEPTIONAL HUMAN BEING. 348 00:12:10,001 --> 00:12:12,000 DR. FREDERIC SERVED AS ATHLETIC 349 00:12:12,001 --> 00:12:15,000 DIRECTOR AT THE UNIVERSITY OF 350 00:12:15,001 --> 00:12:16,000 KANSAS FOR 14 YEARS, THE SECOND 351 00:12:16,001 --> 00:12:18,000 LONGEST TENURE IN THE SCHOOL'S 352 00:12:18,001 --> 00:12:20,000 HISTORY AND A PERIOD DURING 353 00:12:20,001 --> 00:12:23,000 WHICH THE JAYHAWKS EXPERIENCED TREMENDOUS SUCCESS. 354 00:12:23,001 --> 00:12:25,000 UNDER BOB'S LEADERSHIP, JAYHAWK 355 00:12:25,001 --> 00:12:28,000 ATHLETICS RECEIVED 32 CONFERENCE 356 00:12:28,001 --> 00:12:29,000 CHAMPIONSHIPS AND GENERATED 31 357 00:12:29,001 --> 00:12:30,000 ALL-AMERICAN -- ACADEMIC ALL 358 00:12:30,001 --> 00:12:32,000 AMERICANS. 359 00:12:32,001 --> 00:12:34,000 THE LATTER OF WHICH I'M SURE 360 00:12:34,001 --> 00:12:36,000 MEANT THE MOST TO DR. FREDERIC, 361 00:12:36,001 --> 00:12:38,000 AS THAT WAS THE KIND OF PERSON 362 00:12:38,001 --> 00:12:39,000 HE WAS. 363 00:12:39,001 --> 00:12:40,000 DR. FREDERIC FELT MOST CONCERNED 364 00:12:40,001 --> 00:12:42,000 ABOUT THE WELL-BEING OF STUDENT 365 00:12:42,001 --> 00:12:43,000 ATHLETES. 366 00:12:43,001 --> 00:12:46,000 FIRST AS A COACH AND LATER AS AN 367 00:12:46,001 --> 00:12:48,000 ATHLETIC DIRECTOR, DR. FREDERIC SHOWED THAT CONCERN AS HE 368 00:12:48,001 --> 00:12:50,000 PERSONALLY TOOK AN INTEREST IN 369 00:12:50,001 --> 00:12:51,000 THE STUDENTS AT KANSAS 370 00:12:51,001 --> 00:12:53,000 UNIVERSITY THAT WERE ALSO 371 00:12:53,001 --> 00:12:56,000 ENGAGED IN AN INTENSE DEDICATION 372 00:12:56,001 --> 00:12:57,000 THAT IT TAKES TO BE A COLLEGE 373 00:12:57,001 --> 00:12:59,000 ATHLETE TODAY. 374 00:12:59,001 --> 00:13:00,000 WHILE VERY COMPETIVE BY 375 00:13:00,001 --> 00:13:02,000 NATURE, HE WAS AS GRACIOUS IN 376 00:13:02,001 --> 00:13:03,000 DEFEAT AND AS MUCH A CLASS ACT 377 00:13:03,001 --> 00:13:04,000 AS ANY ATHLETIC DIRECTOR EVER 378 00:13:04,001 --> 00:13:06,000 WAS. 379 00:13:06,001 --> 00:13:08,000 FOR DR. FREDERIC, THE BOTTOM 380 00:13:08,001 --> 00:13:09,000 LINE WAS NOT ABOUT WINNING BUT 381 00:13:09,001 --> 00:13:11,000 RATHER ABOUT IMPROVING AND 382 00:13:11,001 --> 00:13:12,000 ADVANCING THE LIVES OF YOUNG MEN 383 00:13:12,001 --> 00:13:15,000 AND WOMEN. 384 00:13:15,001 --> 00:13:17,000 DR. FREDERIC LOVED KANSAS. 385 00:13:17,001 --> 00:13:18,000 AS PART OF THE UNIVERSITY FOR 30 386 00:13:18,001 --> 00:13:20,000 YEARS BEGINNING WITH HIS 387 00:13:20,001 --> 00:13:22,000 BACHELOR AND MASTER'S DEGREES 388 00:13:22,001 --> 00:13:24,000 AND WALKING ONTO THE BASKETBALL 389 00:13:24,001 --> 00:13:25,000 TEAM, TO HIS YEARS OF SERVING AS 390 00:13:25,001 --> 00:13:26,000 ASSISTANT BASKETBALL COACH, 391 00:13:26,001 --> 00:13:28,000 ATHLETIC DIRECTOR AND FINALLY AS 392 00:13:28,001 --> 00:13:31,000 AN ADMINISTRATOR AND ASSISTANT 393 00:13:31,001 --> 00:13:32,000 PROFESSOR, IT WAS CLEAR DR. 394 00:13:32,001 --> 00:13:33,000 FREDERIC AND KANSANS WERE MEANT 395 00:13:33,001 --> 00:13:35,000 FOR EACH OTHER. 396 00:13:35,001 --> 00:13:37,000 DR. FREDERIC IS PERHAPS BEST 397 00:13:37,001 --> 00:13:39,000 KNOWN FOR HIS BOLD HIRE OF THEN 398 00:13:39,001 --> 00:13:40,000 UNKNOWN ASSISTANT BASKETBALL 399 00:13:40,001 --> 00:13:42,000 COACH ROADWAY WILLIAMS -- ROY 400 00:13:42,001 --> 00:13:43,000 WILLIAMS IN 1989. 401 00:13:43,001 --> 00:13:46,000 WILLIAMS, WHO WOULD ACHIEVE THE 402 00:13:46,001 --> 00:13:47,000 WINNINGEST DECADE OF ANY 403 00:13:47,001 --> 00:13:50,000 FIRST-TIME HEAD COACH IN NCAA 404 00:13:50,001 --> 00:13:51,000 HISTORY, SAID OF DR. FREDERIC, 405 00:13:51,001 --> 00:13:54,000 HE IS THE FINEST GENTLEMAN I'VE 406 00:13:54,001 --> 00:13:55,000 EVER KNOWN IN MY LIFE. 407 00:13:55,001 --> 00:13:57,000 A BASKETBALL COACH HIMSELF AT 408 00:13:57,001 --> 00:14:00,000 RUSSELL AND LAURENCE HIGH SCHOOLS AS WELL AS COFFEYVILLE 409 00:14:00,001 --> 00:14:02,000 COMMUNI COLLEGE IN KAAS, DR. 410 00:14:02,001 --> 00:14:05,000 FREDERIC WAS CHERISHED ON ALL SIDES OF OUR STATE. 411 00:14:05,001 --> 00:14:07,000 I WISH TO OFFER THIS TRIBUTE TO 412 00:14:07,001 --> 00:14:09,000 AN OUTSTANDING GENTLEMAN, DR. 413 00:14:09,001 --> 00:14:11,000 FREDERIC, AND EXPRESS MY SINCERE 414 00:14:11,001 --> 00:14:12,000 CONDOLE ENS TO HIS WIFE AND 415 00:14:12,001 --> 00:14:14,000 THEIR FOUR SONS. 416 00:14:14,001 --> 00:14:16,000 MY THOUGHTS AND PRAYERS WITH 417 00:14:16,001 --> 00:14:18,000 THEIR THEIR FAMILY. 418 00:14:18,001 --> 00:14:20,000 I -- WITH ARE WITH THEIR FAMILY. 419 00:14:20,001 --> 00:14:22,000 I YIELD BACK THE BALANCE. 420 00:14:22,001 --> 00:14:23,000 THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE: MR. 421 00:14:23,001 --> 00:14:25,000 ALTMIRE OF PENNSYLVANIA. 422 00:14:25,001 --> 00:14:27,000 MR. ALTMIRE: MADAM SPEAKER, TO 423 00:14:27,001 --> 00:14:30,000 BORE A CATCH PHRASE FROM HALL OF 424 00:14:30,001 --> 00:14:32,000 FAME HOCKEE ANNOUNCER MIKE LANG, 425 00:14:32,001 --> 00:14:35,000 YOU CAN BUY SAM A DRINK AND GET 426 00:14:35,001 --> 00:14:36,000 HIS DOG ONE, TOO, LORD STANLEY'S 427 00:14:36,001 --> 00:14:39,000 CUP IS MAKING A RETURN VISIT TO 428 00:14:39,001 --> 00:14:40,000 THE CITY OF CHAMPIONS. 429 00:14:40,001 --> 00:14:43,000 IN PITTSBURGH NOW BECOMES THE 430 00:14:43,001 --> 00:14:45,000 FIRST CITY TO EVER BE HOME TO 431 00:14:45,001 --> 00:14:47,000 BOTH THE DEFENDING SUPER BOWL 432 00:14:47,001 --> 00:14:48,000 AND STANLEY CUP CHAMPIONS AT THE 433 00:14:48,001 --> 00:14:51,000 SAME TIME. 434 00:14:51,001 --> 00:14:52,000 THIS PAST FRIDAY T 435 00:14:52,001 --> 00:14:53,000 PENGUINS WON THE THIRD STANLEY 436 00:14:53,001 --> 00:14:56,000 CUP AND THEY DID IT THE HARD 437 00:14:56,001 --> 00:14:58,000 WAY, BY COMING FROM BEHIND ON 438 00:14:58,001 --> 00:15:00,000 THE ROAD IN GAME SEVEN OF THE 439 00:15:00,001 --> 00:15:03,000 FINALS AGAINST LAST YEARS '-- 440 00:15:03,001 --> 00:15:04,000 YEAR'S CHAMPION, DETROIT RED 441 00:15:04,001 --> 00:15:05,000 WINGS. 442 00:15:05,001 --> 00:15:08,000 REGULAR SEASON SCORING CHAMPION 443 00:15:08,001 --> 00:15:12,000 WON M.V.P. HONORS BY LEADING ALL 444 00:15:12,001 --> 00:15:13,000 PLAYOFF SCORES AND THE GOALIE 445 00:15:13,001 --> 00:15:16,000 ONCE AGAIN PROVES HE BELONGS 446 00:15:16,001 --> 00:15:17,000 AMONG THE GAME'S ELITE WITH HIS 447 00:15:17,001 --> 00:15:19,000 DOMINATING PERFORMANCE IN THAT. 448 00:15:19,001 --> 00:15:20,000 HEAD COACH DAN TOOK OVER IN 449 00:15:20,001 --> 00:15:22,000 MIDSEASON WHEN THE TEAM WAS OUT 450 00:15:22,001 --> 00:15:24,000 OF PLAYOFF CONTENTION AND LED 451 00:15:24,001 --> 00:15:26,000 THEM NOT ONLY TO THE PLAYOFFS, 452 00:15:26,001 --> 00:15:28,000 BUT TO A CHAMPIONSHIP. 453 00:15:28,001 --> 00:15:30,000 AND IN WINNING THE TITLE, SYDNEY 454 00:15:30,001 --> 00:15:33,000 CROSBY BECAME THE YOUNGEST 455 00:15:33,001 --> 00:15:36,000 CAPTAIN TO HOIST THE 456 00:15:36,001 --> 00:15:37,000 IN THE 115-YEAR HISTORY OF THE 457 00:15:37,001 --> 00:15:39,000 TROPHY. 458 00:15:39,001 --> 00:15:40,000 AND AS IN ALL SUCCESSFUL 459 00:15:40,001 --> 00:15:43,000 ORGANIZATIONS, THE LEADERSHIP OF 460 00:15:43,001 --> 00:15:45,000 THE PENGUINS STARTS AT THE TOP. 461 00:15:45,001 --> 00:15:47,000 THE INCOMPARABLE MARIO WILL NOW 462 00:15:47,001 --> 00:15:49,000 HAVE HIS NAME ENGRAVED ON THE 463 00:15:49,001 --> 00:15:50,000 STANLEY CUP FOR THE THIRD TIME, 464 00:15:50,001 --> 00:15:52,000 THIS TIME AS TEAM OWNER. 465 00:15:52,001 --> 00:15:55,000 JUST AS HE DID WHEN HE CAME INTO 466 00:15:55,001 --> 00:15:56,000 THE LEAGUE AS A PLAYER, MARIO 467 00:15:56,001 --> 00:16:00,000 TOOK CONTROL OF A FRANCHISE 468 00:16:00,001 --> 00:16:01,000 THREATENED BY BANKRUPTCY AND 469 00:16:01,001 --> 00:16:02,000 RELOCATION. 470 00:16:02,001 --> 00:16:04,000 BY FROM THAT HE BUILT A 471 00:16:04,001 --> 00:16:05,000 CHAMPIONSHIP TEAM THAT LEADS THE 472 00:16:05,001 --> 00:16:08,000 LEAGUE IN TELEVISION RATINGS, 473 00:16:08,001 --> 00:16:10,000 MERCHANDISE SALES AND SELLOUTS. 474 00:16:10,001 --> 00:16:13,000 YES, MADAM SPEAKER, THESE 475 00:16:13,001 --> 00:16:14,000 PENGUINS CAN FLY. 476 00:16:14,001 --> 00:16:16,000 CONGRATULATIONS GO OUT TO THE 477 00:16:16,001 --> 00:16:18,000 ENTIRE ORGANIZATION FOR 478 00:16:18,001 --> 00:16:21,000 COMPLETING THE HAT TRICK OF 479 00:16:21,001 --> 00:16:22,000 CHAMPIONS, WINNING THEIR THIRD 480 00:16:22,001 --> 00:16:24,000 STRAIGHT -- THIRD STANLEY CUB. 481 00:16:24,001 --> 00:16:26,000 THE 2009 PITTSBURGH PENGUINS 482 00:16:26,001 --> 00:16:28,000 HAVE EARNED THEIR WELL-DESERVED 483 00:16:28,001 --> 00:16:29,000 PLACE ALONGSIDE THE GREATEST 484 00:16:29,001 --> 00:16:31,000 SPORTS LEGEN 485 00:16:31,001 --> 00:16:32,000 CHAMPION SHS -- CHAMPIONS. 486 00:16:32,001 --> 00:16:34,000 I YIELD BACK THE BALANCE OF MY 487 00:16:34,001 --> 00:16:36,000 TIME. 488 00:16:36,001 --> 00:16:39,000 THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE: MS. 489 00:16:39,001 --> 00:16:45,000 WOOLSEY OF CALIFORNIA. 490 00:16:45,001 --> 00:16:47,000 MR. JONES OF NORTH CAROLINA. 491 00:16:47,001 --> 00:16:48,000 MR. JONES: THANK YOU, MADAM 492 00:16:48,001 --> 00:16:50,000 SPEAKER. 493 00:16:50,001 --> 00:16:53,000 MADAM SPEAKER, I'M PLEASED TO 494 00:16:53,001 --> 00:16:55,000 ANNOUNCE THAT 290 OF MY 495 00:16:55,001 --> 00:16:57,000 COLLEAGUES IN THE HOUSE, FROM 496 00:16:57,001 --> 00:16:59,000 BOTH PARTIES, HAVE JOINED ME AS 497 00:16:59,001 --> 00:17:02,000 CO-SPONSORS OF H.R. 24, 498 00:17:02,001 --> 00:17:03,000 LEGISLATION TO REDESIGNATE THE 499 00:17:03,001 --> 00:17:06,000 DEPARTMENT OF THE NAVY AS THE 500 00:17:06,001 --> 00:17:07,000 DEPARTMENT OF NAVY AND MARINE 501 00:17:07,001 --> 00:17:09,000 CORPS. 502 00:17:09,001 --> 00:17:10,000 I'M GRATEFUL FOR THE WIDESPREAD 503 00:17:10,001 --> 00:17:12,000 SUPPORT FOR THIS CHANGE AMONG MY 504 00:17:12,001 --> 00:17:14,000 HOUSE COLLEAGUES AND I ALSO 505 00:17:14,001 --> 00:17:15,000 THANK CHAIRMAN IKE SKELTON WHO 506 00:17:15,001 --> 00:17:18,000 WILL INCLUDE THE LANGUAGE OF 507 00:17:18,001 --> 00:17:20,000 H.R. 24 IN THE NATIONAL DEFENSE 508 00:17:20,001 --> 00:17:21,000 AUTHORIZATION ACT MARKUP 509 00:17:21,001 --> 00:17:23,000 TOMORROW. 510 00:17:23,001 --> 00:17:24,000 FOR THE PAST SEVEN YEARS, THE 511 00:17:24,001 --> 00:17:25,000 LANGUAGE OF THIS BILL HAS BEEN 512 00:17:25,001 --> 00:17:27,000 PART OF THE HOUSE VERSION OF THE 513 00:17:27,001 --> 00:17:28,000 NATIONAL DEFENSE AUTHORIZATION 514 00:17:28,001 --> 00:17:30,000 ACT. 515 00:17:30,001 --> 00:17:32,000 EACH YEAR THE FULL HOUSE OF 516 00:17:32,001 --> 00:17:33,000 REPRESENTATIVES HAS SUPPORTED 517 00:17:33,001 --> 00:17:35,000 THIS CHANGE. 518 00:17:35,001 --> 00:17:36,000 THIS YEAR I'M ALSO GRATEFUL TO 519 00:17:36,001 --> 00:17:38,000 HAVE THE SUPPORT OF SENATOR PAT 520 00:17:38,001 --> 00:17:40,000 ROBERTS, A FORMER MARINE, WHO 521 00:17:40,001 --> 00:17:42,000 INTRODUCED THE SAME BILL IN THE 522 00:17:42,001 --> 00:17:43,000 SENATE, S. 504. 523 00:17:43,001 --> 00:17:47,000 WITH HIS HELP, I'M HOPEFUL THAT 524 00:17:47,001 --> 00:17:49,000 THIS WILL BE THE YEAR THE SENATE 525 00:17:49,001 --> 00:17:50,000 SUPPORTS THE HOUSE POSITION AND 526 00:17:50,001 --> 00:17:52,000 JOINS IN BRINGING PROPER RESPECT 527 00:17:52,001 --> 00:17:53,000 TO THE FIGHTING TEAM OF THE NAVY 528 00:17:53,001 --> 00:17:55,000 AND MARINE CORPS. 529 00:17:55,001 --> 00:17:57,000 OVER THE COURSE OF THE MARINE 530 00:17:57,001 --> 00:17:58,000 CORPS HISTORY, INCLUDING THEIR 531 00:17:58,001 --> 00:18:02,000 PRESENT DAY SERVICE IN 532 00:18:02,001 --> 00:18:04,000 AFGHANISTAN AND IRAQ, THOSE 533 00:18:04,001 --> 00:18:06,000 THREE WORDS, AND MARINE CORPS, 534 00:18:06,001 --> 00:18:07,000 HAVE BEEN EARNED THROUGH BLOOD 535 00:18:07,001 --> 00:18:09,000 AND SACRIFICE. 536 00:18:09,001 --> 00:18:10,000 THE NAVY AND MARINE CORPS HAVE 537 00:18:10,001 --> 00:18:13,000 OPERATED AS ONE ENTITY FOR MORE 538 00:18:13,001 --> 00:18:15,000 THAN TWO CENTURIES AND H.R. 24 539 00:18:15,001 --> 00:18:17,000 WOULD ALLOW THE NAME OF THIS 540 00:18:17,001 --> 00:18:19,000 DEPARTMENT TO ILLURATE THAT 541 00:18:19,001 --> 00:18:20,000 FACT. 542 00:18:20,001 --> 00:18:22,000 THIS LEGISLATION IS NOT ABOUT 543 00:18:22,001 --> 00:18:25,000 CHANGING THE RESPONSIBILITIES OF 544 00:18:25,001 --> 00:18:29,000 THE SECRETARY OF THE DEPARTMENT, 545 00:18:29,001 --> 00:18:30,000 REALLOCATING RESOURCES AND 546 00:18:30,001 --> 00:18:31,000 ADMISSIONS. 547 00:18:31,001 --> 00:18:33,000 THIS CHANGE IS ALL ABOUT RESPECT 548 00:18:33,001 --> 00:18:34,000 AND GRATITUDE TO THE MARINE 549 00:18:34,001 --> 00:18:35,000 CORPS. 550 00:18:35,001 --> 00:18:37,000 AS SYMBOLIC AS THIS CHANGE MIGHT 551 00:18:37,001 --> 00:18:38,000 BE, THE MARINE CORPS HAS EARNED 552 00:18:38,001 --> 00:18:40,000 THE RIGHT TO BE RECOGNIZED IN 553 00:18:40,001 --> 00:18:42,000 THE DEPARTMENT'S NAME. 554 00:18:42,001 --> 00:18:43,000 OVER THE PAST SEVEL YEARS, 555 00:18:43,001 --> 00:18:45,000 THIS CHANGE HAS RECEIVED SUPPORT 556 00:18:45,001 --> 00:18:47,000 FROM THREE FORMER NAVY 557 00:18:47,001 --> 00:18:49,000 SECRETARIES, THE MARINCORPS 558 00:18:49,001 --> 00:18:51,000 LEAGUE, VETERANS OF FOREIGN 559 00:18:51,001 --> 00:18:52,000 WARS, THE FLEET RESERVE 560 00:18:52,001 --> 00:18:53,000 ASSOCIATION AND MANY OTHER 561 00:18:53,001 --> 00:18:56,000 INDIVIDUALS AND GROUPS. 562 00:18:56,001 --> 00:18:58,000 IN 2004 AT A HEARING BEFORE THE 563 00:18:58,001 --> 00:19:01,000 HOUSE ARMED SERVICES COMMITTEE 564 00:19:01,001 --> 00:19:03,000 NAVY ADMIRAL STANFIELD TURNER 565 00:19:03,001 --> 00:19:04,000 DESCRIBED HIS SUPPORT FOR THIS 566 00:19:04,001 --> 00:19:05,000 CHANGE. 567 00:19:05,001 --> 00:19:09,000 HE SAID, AND I QUOTE, I THINK 568 00:19:09,001 --> 00:19:10,000 THIS CHANGE TITLE ENHANCES THE 569 00:19:10,001 --> 00:19:11,000 PRESTIGE AND PRIDE OF THE PEOPLE 570 00:19:11,001 --> 00:19:12,000 IN THE MARINE CORPS AND IT DOES 571 00:19:12,001 --> 00:19:14,000 NOT NECESSARILY TAKE ANYTHING 572 00:19:14,001 --> 00:19:15,000 AWAY FROM THE NAVY IN THAT 573 00:19:15,001 --> 00:19:17,000 PROCESS. 574 00:19:17,001 --> 00:19:19,000 I'M PARTICULARLY IMPRESSED TODAY 575 00:19:19,001 --> 00:19:21,000 BY THE DEGREE OF COOPERATION 576 00:19:21,001 --> 00:19:23,000 BETWEEN THE ARMED SERVICES OF 577 00:19:23,001 --> 00:19:24,000 OUR COUNTRY. 578 00:19:24,001 --> 00:19:25,000 ADMIRAL TURNER FURTHER STATED 579 00:19:25,001 --> 00:19:29,000 AND I QUOTE, EMPHASIZING THAT 580 00:19:29,001 --> 00:19:31,000 THIS IS A NAVY-MARINE CORPS TEAM 581 00:19:31,001 --> 00:19:32,000 IS A VERY IMPORTANT PART OF 582 00:19:32,001 --> 00:19:34,000 KEEPING THAT KIND OF SIGHT ON 583 00:19:34,001 --> 00:19:35,000 THE OBJECT OF TEAMWORK AND 584 00:19:35,001 --> 00:19:37,000 COMBAT. 585 00:19:37,001 --> 00:19:38,000 MADAM SPEAKER, THE MARINES WHO 586 00:19:38,001 --> 00:19:40,000 ARE FIGHTING TODAY DESERVE THIS 587 00:19:40,001 --> 00:19:42,000 RECOGNITION. 588 00:19:42,001 --> 00:19:44,000 IN CLOSING I WOULD LIKE TO SHOW 589 00:19:44,001 --> 00:19:45,000 THE CHANGE. 590 00:19:45,001 --> 00:19:46,000 MADAM SPEAKER, ON THIS F 591 00:19:46,001 --> 00:19:48,000 POSTER IS ACTUALLY A LETTER THAT 592 00:19:48,001 --> 00:19:51,000 WAS SENT BY THE SEC 593 00:19:51,001 --> 00:19:52,000 NAVY TO A MARINE WIFE WHOSE 594 00:19:52,001 --> 00:19:53,000 HUSBAND WAS KILLED. 595 00:19:53,001 --> 00:19:56,000 I CERTAINLY HAVE TAKEN OUT THE 596 00:19:56,001 --> 00:19:58,000 NAME OF THE MARINE CORPS WIFE'S 597 00:19:58,001 --> 00:20:04,000 NAME AND I WANT TO READ THIS 598 00:20:04,001 --> 00:20:05,000 PART TO YOU AND TO THOSE ON THE 599 00:20:05,001 --> 00:20:06,000 FLOOR. 600 00:20:06,001 --> 00:20:08,000 ON BEHALF OF THE DEPARTMENT OF 601 00:20:08,001 --> 00:20:10,000 THE NAVY, ACCEPT THE CONDOLENCES 602 00:20:10,001 --> 00:20:13,000 IN THE LOSS OF YOUR HUSBAND, 603 00:20:13,001 --> 00:20:14,000 CAPTAIN SO AND SO MARINE. 604 00:20:14,001 --> 00:20:16,000 MADAM SPEAKER, THE IMPORTANT 605 00:20:16,001 --> 00:20:17,000 PART OF READING THIS ITHIS, IF 606 00:20:17,001 --> 00:20:20,000 THIS BILL BECOMES LAW, THIS 607 00:20:20,001 --> 00:20:22,000 FIGHTING TEAM WILL RECOGNIZE 608 00:20:22,001 --> 00:20:24,000 THIS MARINE FAMILYN THIS WAY, 609 00:20:24,001 --> 00:20:27,000 THE SECRETARY OF THE NAVY AND 610 00:20:27,001 --> 00:20:29,000 MARINE CORPS, DEAR MARINE CORPS 611 00:20:29,001 --> 00:20:30,000 FAMILY, ON BEHALF OF THE 612 00:20:30,001 --> 00:20:32,000 DEPARTMENT OF NAVY AND MARINE 613 00:20:32,001 --> 00:20:33,000 CORPS. 614 00:20:33,001 --> 00:20:34,000 MADAM SPEAKER, THAT'S ALL THAT 615 00:20:34,001 --> 00:20:36,000 IT DOES, BUT IT'S VERY IMPORTANT 616 00:20:36,001 --> 00:20:38,000 THAT THE MARINE CORPS RECEIVE THIS RECOGNI 617 00:20:38,001 --> 00:20:40,000 AND BEFORE CLOSING, MADAM 618 00:20:40,001 --> 00:20:41,000 SPEAKER, AS I DO FREQUENTLY, I 619 00:20:41,001 --> 00:20:43,000 ASK GOD TO PLEASE BLESS OUR MEN 620 00:20:43,001 --> 00:20:45,000 AND WOMEN IN UNIFORM, I ASK GOD 621 00:20:45,001 --> 00:20:47,000 TO BLESS THE FAMILIES OF OUR MEN 622 00:20:47,001 --> 00:20:48,000 AND WOMEN IN UNIFORM AND I ASK 623 00:20:48,001 --> 00:20:50,000 GOD IN HIS LOVING ARMS TO HOLD 624 00:20:50,001 --> 00:20:52,000 THE FAMILIES WHO HAVE GIVEN A 625 00:20:52,001 --> 00:20:54,000 CHILD DYING FOR FREEDOM IN 626 00:20:54,001 --> 00:20:57,000 AFGHANISTAN AND IRAQ, AND, MADAM 627 00:20:57,001 --> 00:20:59,000 SPEAKER, I ASK THREE TIMES, GOD, 628 00:20:59,001 --> 00:21:01,000 PLEASE, GOD, PLEASE, GOD, PLEASE 629 00:21:01,001 --> 00:21:02,000 CONTINUE TO BLESS AMERICA AND 630 00:21:02,001 --> 00:21:06,000 WITH THAT I YIELD BACK THE 631 00:21:06,001 --> 00:21:07,000 BALANCE OF MY TIME. 632 00:21:07,001 --> 00:21:09,000 THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE: MS. 633 00:21:09,001 --> 00:21:15,000 KAPTUR OF OHIO. 634 00:21:15,001 --> 00:21:16,000 MR. BURTON OF INDIANA. 635 00:21:16,001 --> 00:21:18,000 MR. BURTON: I ASK UNANIMOUS 636 00:21:18,001 --> 00:21:19,000 CONSENT TO A?DRESS THE HOUSE FOR 637 00:21:19,001 --> 00:21:21,000 FIVE MINUTES, REVISE AND EXTEND 638 00:21:21,001 --> 00:21:22,000 MY REMARKS. 639 00:21:22,001 --> 00:21:23,000 THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE: WITHOUT 640 00:21:23,001 --> 00:21:26,000 OBJECTION. 641 00:21:26,001 --> 00:21:28,000 MR. BURTON: MADAM SPEAKER, THIS 642 00:21:28,001 --> 00:21:31,000 LAST WEEKEND I MET WITH SEVERAL 643 00:21:31,001 --> 00:21:32,000 AUTO DEALERS IN MY DISTRICT AND 644 00:21:32,001 --> 00:21:34,000 IT WAS VERY INTERESTING TO FIND 645 00:21:34,001 --> 00:21:37,000 OUT REALLY WHAT ALL OF THEM ARE 646 00:21:37,001 --> 00:21:40,000 GOING THROUGH RIGHT NOW. 647 00:21:40,001 --> 00:21:42,000 THE CHRYSLER AND GENERAL MOTORS 648 00:21:42,001 --> 00:21:44,000 COMPANIES ARE CLOSING HUNDREDS 649 00:21:44,001 --> 00:21:45,000 AND HUNDREDS OF AUTOMOBILE 650 00:21:45,001 --> 00:21:46,000 DEALERSHIPS ACROSS THE COUNTRY 651 00:21:46,001 --> 00:21:48,000 AND AFTER TALKING TO THESE 652 00:21:48,001 --> 00:21:51,000 DEALERS, I CAN'T FIGURE OUT WHY. 653 00:21:51,001 --> 00:21:52,000 IT ISN'T COSTING THE AUTOMOBILE 654 00:21:52,001 --> 00:21:53,000 COMPANIES ANYTHING. 655 00:21:53,001 --> 00:21:56,000 THEY SELL THE CARS TO THE DEALER 656 00:21:56,001 --> 00:21:58,000 AND THE DEALER SELLS THOSE TO 657 00:21:58,001 --> 00:21:59,000 THE CONSUMER. 658 00:21:59,001 --> 00:22:01,000 AND THE DEALERS PAY FOR THOSE 659 00:22:01,001 --> 00:22:03,000 CARS. 660 00:22:03,001 --> 00:22:04,000 IN ADDITION, THE DEALERS PAY FOR 661 00:22:04,001 --> 00:22:07,000 THE ADVERTISING, THE DEALERS PAY 662 00:22:07,001 --> 00:22:09,000 FOR THE PLANT AND EQUIPMENT, 663 00:22:09,001 --> 00:22:10,000 THEIR DEALERSHIPS, THE 664 00:22:10,001 --> 00:22:12,000 BUILDINGS, THEY PAY THE 665 00:22:12,001 --> 00:22:14,000 MECHANICS, THEY PAY THE SALESPEOPLE AND SO THE CAR 666 00:22:14,001 --> 00:22:16,000 COMPANY, ALL THEY DO IS MAKE THE 667 00:22:16,001 --> 00:22:18,000 CAR AND SELL IT TO THE DEALER. 668 00:22:18,001 --> 00:22:19,000 AND SO WHY ARE THEY CLOSING ALL 669 00:22:19,001 --> 00:22:21,000 THESE DEALERSHIPS? 670 00:22:21,001 --> 00:22:22,000 IT SEEMS TO ME AS YOU REDUCE 671 00:22:22,001 --> 00:22:24,000 YOUR SALES FORCE ACROSS THE 672 00:22:24,001 --> 00:22:26,000 COUNTRY YOU'RE GOING TO REDUCE 673 00:22:26,001 --> 00:22:27,000 THE AMOUNT OF CARS THAT ARE SOLD 674 00:22:27,001 --> 00:22:28,000 TO THE CONSUMER. 675 00:22:28,001 --> 00:22:30,000 IT JUST DOESN'T MAKE ANY SENSE 676 00:22:30,001 --> 00:22:31,000 TO ME. 677 00:22:31,001 --> 00:22:32,000 BUT LET ME JUST TELL YOU SOME OF 678 00:22:32,001 --> 00:22:34,000 THE THINGS THAT THESE DEALERS 679 00:22:34,001 --> 00:22:35,000 ARE GOING THROUGH RIGHT NOW. 680 00:22:35,001 --> 00:22:37,000 ONE DEALER TOLD ME THAT -- THE A 681 00:22:37,001 --> 00:22:39,000 CHRYSLER DEALER -- HE HAD A 682 00:22:39,001 --> 00:22:41,000 DODGE DEALERSHIP AND THE 683 00:22:41,001 --> 00:22:42,000 CHRYSLER ASKED HIM A COUPLE OF 684 00:22:42,001 --> 00:22:45,000 YEARS AGO TO 685 00:22:45,001 --> 00:22:47,000 DEALERSHIP THAT WASN'T DOING AS 686 00:22:47,001 --> 00:22:51,000 WELL AND THEY ASKED HIM TO NOT 687 00:22:51,001 --> 00:22:53,000 ONLY BUY THE PROPERTY, BUT TO 688 00:22:53,001 --> 00:22:55,000 UPGRADE THE EQUIPMENT AND 689 00:22:55,001 --> 00:22:59,000 UPGRADE THE PROPERTY AND UPGRADE THE SHOWROOM. 690 00:22:59,001 --> 00:23:00,000 AND SO HE PUT $3 MILLION INTO 691 00:23:00,001 --> 00:23:03,000 BUYINGHE PROPERTY AND 692 00:23:03,001 --> 00:23:04,000 UPGRADING THE SHOWROOM AND THE 693 00:23:04,001 --> 00:23:06,000 MECHANICS AREA, THE GARAGE AREA, 694 00:23:06,001 --> 00:23:07,000 AND AFTER HE DID IT, JUST 695 00:23:07,001 --> 00:23:09,000 RECENTLY, RIGHT AFTER HE GOT IT 696 00:23:09,001 --> 00:23:11,000 DONE, HAD INVESTED $3 MILLION, 697 00:23:11,001 --> 00:23:13,000 THEY CLOSED HIM DOWN. 698 00:23:13,001 --> 00:23:16,000 THEY CLOSED HIM DOWN. 699 00:23:16,001 --> 00:23:17,000 HE LOST $3 MILLION AFTER THEY 700 00:23:17,001 --> 00:23:20,000 ASKED HIM, THE COMPANY ASKED 701 00:23:20,001 --> 00:23:21,000 HIM, TO INVEST THAT MONEY IN 702 00:23:21,001 --> 00:23:22,000 PURCHASING AND UPGRADING THIS 703 00:23:22,001 --> 00:23:23,000 OTHER STORE. 704 00:23:23,001 --> 00:23:26,000 NOW THAT'S TERRIBLE. 705 00:23:26,001 --> 00:23:28,000 HE PUT $3 MILLION IN 706 00:23:28,001 --> 00:23:29,000 COMPANY REQUESTED, AND THEN THEY 707 00:23:29,001 --> 00:23:31,000 CUT THE LEGS OUT FROM UNDER HIM 708 00:23:31,001 --> 00:23:32,000 AND HE LOSES $3 MILLION. 709 00:23:32,001 --> 00:23:35,000 I TALKED TO A CHEVROLET DEALER 710 00:23:35,001 --> 00:23:36,000 WHO WAS NEGOTIATING WITH A 711 00:23:36,001 --> 00:23:40,000 G.M.C. DEALER ACROSS THE STREET. 712 00:23:40,001 --> 00:23:41,000 THE G.M.C. DEALER AND THE 713 00:23:41,001 --> 00:23:42,000 CHEVROLET DEALER WERE RIT 714 00:23:42,001 --> 00:23:44,000 ACROSS THE STREET FROM ONE 715 00:23:44,001 --> 00:23:45,000 AN 716 00:23:45,001 --> 00:23:46,000 WHY DON'T YOU TWO COMBINE? 717 00:23:46,001 --> 00:23:48,000 SO THE TWO COMPANIES WERE 718 00:23:48,001 --> 00:23:50,000 NEGOTIATING WITH ONE ANOTHER ON WHO WOULD BUY THE OTHER OUT. 719 00:23:50,001 --> 00:23:52,000 AND IT WAS A $3 MILLION TO $5 720 00:23:52,001 --> 00:23:54,000 MILLION PURCHASE. 721 00:23:54,001 --> 00:23:57,000 WELL, THEY COULDN'T REACH 722 00:23:57,001 --> 00:23:58,000 AGREEMENT BEFORE THE DEAL WITH 723 00:23:58,001 --> 00:24:00,000 GENERAL MOTORS TOOK PLACE AND 724 00:24:00,001 --> 00:24:01,000 THEY WERE GOING TO CLOSE A WHOLE 725 00:24:01,001 --> 00:24:02,000 BUNCH OF DEALERSHIPS AND SO WHAT 726 00:24:02,001 --> 00:24:04,000 THEY DID IS THEY DECIDED TO 727 00:24:04,001 --> 00:24:07,000 CLOSE THE DEALERSHIP OF THE 728 00:24:07,001 --> 00:24:08,000 CHEVROLET DEALER DOWN EVEN 729 00:24:08,001 --> 00:24:11,000 THOUGH HE WAS VERY PROFITABLE. 730 00:24:11,001 --> 00:24:13,000 AND WHAT THAT MEANS SIMPLY IS 731 00:24:13,001 --> 00:24:16,000 THAT THE G.M.C. DEALER ACROSS 732 00:24:16,001 --> 00:24:17,000 CHEVROLET DEALERSHIP THAT WOULD 733 00:24:17,001 --> 00:24:20,000 HAVE SOLD FOR $3 MILLION TO $5 734 00:24:20,001 --> 00:24:21,000 MILLION TO HIM FOR NOTHING. 735 00:24:21,001 --> 00:24:22,000 AND SO THIS DEALER IS GOING OUT 736 00:24:22,001 --> 00:24:25,000 OF BUSINESS, IT'S GOING TO COST 737 00:24:25,001 --> 00:24:26,000 HIM $3 MILLION TO $5 MILLION 738 00:24:26,001 --> 00:24:28,000 BECAUSE THEY C 739 00:24:28,001 --> 00:24:30,000 DEALERSHIP AND HE SOLD AS MANY 740 00:24:30,001 --> 00:24:34,000 CARS AS THEY ASKED HIM TO SELL, 741 00:24:34,001 --> 00:24:35,000 HE WAS UP TO SNUFF ON HIS 742 00:24:35,001 --> 00:24:37,000 PAYMENTS AND EVERYTHING ELSE 743 00:24:37,001 --> 00:24:39,000 THAT WAS REQUESTED BY THE 744 00:24:39,001 --> 00:24:40,000 COMPANY AND THEY KNOCKED THE 745 00:24:40,001 --> 00:24:42,000 LEGS OUT FROM UNDER HIM AS WELL 746 00:24:42,001 --> 00:24:43,000 AND IT COST HIM $3 747 00:24:43,001 --> 00:24:45,000 MILLION. 748 00:24:45,001 --> 00:24:46,000 THERE WAS A G.M. DEAL THAT ARE 749 00:24:46,001 --> 00:24:48,000 CAME TO ME AT THIS MEETINGHE 750 00:24:48,001 --> 00:24:49,000 OTHER DAY AND HE HAD EIGHT 751 00:24:49,001 --> 00:24:50,000 DEALERSHIPS AND THEY CLOSED ONE 752 00:24:50,001 --> 00:24:51,000 OF THEM DOWN. 753 00:24:51,001 --> 00:24:53,000 IT'S GOING TO COST HIM SEVERAL 754 00:24:53,001 --> 00:24:55,000 MILLION DOLLARS BUT HE CAN'T 755 00:24:55,001 --> 00:24:56,000 COMPLAIN PUBLICLY BECAUSE G.M. 756 00:24:56,001 --> 00:24:57,000 IS GOI TO BE CLOSING OTHER 757 00:24:57,001 --> 00:25:00,000 DEALERSHIPS DOWN IN THE FUTURE 758 00:25:00,001 --> 00:25:02,000 AND HE'S AFRAID IF HE SAYS 759 00:25:02,001 --> 00:25:04,000 ANYTHING, HE'S AFRAID IF HE SAYS 760 00:25:04,001 --> 00:25:05,000 ANYTHING THEY'LL CLOSE SOME OF 761 00:25:05,001 --> 00:25:06,000 HIS OTHER DEALERSHIPS DOWN AND 762 00:25:06,001 --> 00:25:10,000 COST HIM MORE MONEY. 763 00:25:10,001 --> 00:25:12,000 . 764 00:25:12,001 --> 00:25:13,000 I DON'T UNDERSTAND, WE HAVE THE 765 00:25:13,001 --> 00:25:15,000 GOVERNMENT, CAR CZAR, IF YOU 766 00:25:15,001 --> 00:25:16,000 WILL, TAKING CONTROL OF THE AUTO 767 00:25:16,001 --> 00:25:17,000 INDUSTRY. 768 00:25:17,001 --> 00:25:18,000 THEY ARE FORCING THE EXECUTIVES 769 00:25:18,001 --> 00:25:20,000 OF THE COMPANIES OUT OF OFFICE 770 00:25:20,001 --> 00:25:21,000 AND REPLACING THEM WITH 771 00:25:21,001 --> 00:25:23,000 HANDPICKED PEOPLE BY OUR 772 00:25:23,001 --> 00:25:25,000 GOVERNMENT THROUGH THE CAR CZAR 773 00:25:25,001 --> 00:25:27,000 AND THE AUTO TASK FORCE. 774 00:25:27,001 --> 00:25:28,000 SO THE GOVERNMENT IS TAKING OVER 775 00:25:28,001 --> 00:25:29,000 THE AUTO INDUSTRY AND CLOSING 776 00:25:29,001 --> 00:25:30,000 THESE DEALERSHIPS, PUTTING 777 00:25:30,001 --> 00:25:32,000 HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE 778 00:25:32,001 --> 00:25:34,000 OUT OF WORK, CLOSING THOUSANDS 779 00:25:34,001 --> 00:25:36,000 OF DEALERSHIPS ACROSS THE 780 00:25:36,001 --> 00:25:38,000 COUNTRY, AND ACTUALLY HURTING 781 00:25:38,001 --> 00:25:40,000 THE AMERICAN AUTO INDUSTRY'S 782 00:25:40,001 --> 00:25:42,000 ABILITY TO SELL CARS WHEN THEY 783 00:25:42,001 --> 00:25:43,000 ARE IN COMPETITION CAR COMPANIES 784 00:25:43,001 --> 00:25:45,000 AROUND THE WORLD. 785 00:25:45,001 --> 00:25:46,000 IT JUST DOESN'T MAKE ANY SENSE 786 00:25:46,001 --> 00:25:47,000 TO ME. 787 00:25:47,001 --> 00:25:49,000 SO ONCE AGAIN HERE WE HAVE THE 788 00:25:49,001 --> 00:25:51,000 GOVERNMENT TAKING OVER AN 789 00:25:51,001 --> 00:25:53,000 INDUSTRY, SOCIALIZING THE AUTO 790 00:25:53,001 --> 00:25:54,000 INDUSTRY, AND REALLY KILLING AN 791 00:25:54,001 --> 00:25:55,000 AWFUL LOT OF THE PEOPLE WHO WORK 792 00:25:55,001 --> 00:25:57,000 IN IT. 793 00:25:57,001 --> 00:25:59,000 NOT TO MENTION THE RESTAURANTS 794 00:25:59,001 --> 00:26:00,000 AND STORES THAT SURROUND THESE 795 00:26:00,001 --> 00:26:01,000 CAR DEALERSHIPS WHO HAVE BEEN IN 796 00:26:01,001 --> 00:26:03,000 BUSINESS FOR YEARS AS WELL. 797 00:26:03,001 --> 00:26:04,000 IT'S GOING TO COST THEM JOBS. 798 00:26:04,001 --> 00:26:06,000 GOVERNMENT INVOLVED IN THE 799 00:26:06,001 --> 00:26:08,000 PRIVATE SECTOR, GOVERNMENT 800 00:26:08,001 --> 00:26:09,000 CONTROL OF THE PRIVATE SECTOR 801 00:26:09,001 --> 00:26:10,000 JUST DESTROYS THE PRIVATE 802 00:26:10,001 --> 00:26:12,000 SECTOR. 803 00:26:12,001 --> 00:26:13,000 AND THEY WANT TO NOW TAKE OVER 804 00:26:13,001 --> 00:26:15,000 OUR HEALTH CARE INDUSTRY, THEY 805 00:26:15,001 --> 00:26:16,000 ARE TAKING OVER THE BANKS, THEY 806 00:26:16,001 --> 00:26:18,000 WANT TO TAKE OVER THE ENERGY 807 00:26:18,001 --> 00:26:19,000 INDUSTRY WITH CAP AND TRADE 808 00:26:19,001 --> 00:26:21,000 WHICH IS GOING TO COST EVERY 809 00:26:21,001 --> 00:26:24,000 FAMILY IN THIS COUNTRY, $3,000 810 00:26:24,001 --> 00:26:26,000 TO $4,000 MORE PER YEAR FOR 811 00:26:26,001 --> 00:26:27,000 ENERGY. 812 00:26:27,001 --> 00:26:28,000 WE DON'T NEED SOCIAL NISM THIS 813 00:26:28,001 --> 00:26:29,000 COUNTRY. 814 00:26:29,001 --> 00:26:30,000 WE CERTAINLY DON'T NEED IT -- 815 00:26:30,001 --> 00:26:31,000 HERE'S AN EXAMPLE. 816 00:26:31,001 --> 00:26:33,000 THE CAR INDUSTRY, WHAT HAPPENS 817 00:26:33,001 --> 00:26:34,000 WHEN GOVERNMENT TAKES OVER. I YIELD BACK THE BALANCE OF MY 818 00:26:34,001 --> 00:26:38,000 TIME. THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE: THE 819 00:26:38,001 --> 00:26:42,000 GENTLEMAN'S TIME HAS EXPIRED. 820 00:26:42,001 --> 00:26:43,000 MR. INGLIS OF SOUTH CAROLINA. 821 00:26:43,001 --> 00:26:44,000 THE GENTLEMAN IS RECOGNIZED FOR 822 00:26:44,001 --> 00:26:46,000 FIVE MINUTES. 823 00:26:46,001 --> 00:26:49,000 MR. INGLIS: THANK YOU. 824 00:26:49,001 --> 00:26:51,000 THANK YOU, MADAM SPEAKER. 825 00:26:51,001 --> 00:26:54,000 TODAY I HAD AN INTERESTING 826 00:26:54,001 --> 00:26:55,000 DISCUSSION I GREENVILLE AND 827 00:26:55,001 --> 00:26:57,000 SPARTANBURG, SOUTH CAROLINA. 828 00:26:57,001 --> 00:27:00,000 THEY WERE ENTITLED WHAT'S WRONG 829 00:27:00,001 --> 00:27:02,000 WITH CAP AND TRADE, WHAT'S RIGHT 830 00:27:02,001 --> 00:27:04,000 WITH USING FREE ENTERPRISE TO 831 00:27:04,001 --> 00:27:06,000 SOLVE THE CHALLENGE THAT WE HAVE. 832 00:27:06,001 --> 00:27:08,000 SO WHAT'S WRONG WITH CAP AND 833 00:27:08,001 --> 00:27:09,000 TRADE, WE CAME TO PRETTY SOLID 834 00:27:09,001 --> 00:27:10,000 AGREEMENT ON THAT, MADAM 835 00:27:10,001 --> 00:27:11,000 SPEAKER. 836 00:27:11,001 --> 00:27:13,000 IT'S A MASSIVE TAX INCREASE IN 837 00:27:13,001 --> 00:27:15,000 THE MIDST OF A RECESSION. 838 00:27:15,001 --> 00:27:17,000 IT'S A WALL STREET TRADING 839 00:27:17,001 --> 00:27:19,000 SCHEME THAT REALLY 840 00:27:19,001 --> 00:27:22,000 ANY TRADER ON WALL STREET THAT 841 00:27:22,001 --> 00:27:25,000 LED US INTO THIS RECENT DEBACLE 842 00:27:25,001 --> 00:27:28,000 BLUSH, AND IT'S REALLY A 843 00:27:28,001 --> 00:27:29,000 PROPOSAL THAT'S GOING TO END UP 844 00:27:29,001 --> 00:27:32,000 DECIMATING AMERICAN 845 00:27:32,001 --> 00:27:34,000 MANUFACTURING BECAUSE THE TAX ON 846 00:27:34,001 --> 00:27:35,000 ENERGY WOULD BE APPLIED JUST 847 00:27:35,001 --> 00:27:37,000 DOMESTICALLY, WOULDN'T BE 848 00:27:37,001 --> 00:27:40,000 APPLIED TO IMPORTED GOODS. 849 00:27:40,001 --> 00:27:41,000 THE RESULT IS WE WOULD EXPORT PRODUCTIVE CAPACITY FROM THE 850 00:27:41,001 --> 00:27:47,000 UNITED STATES TO OTHER COUNTRIES 851 00:27:47,001 --> 00:27:48,000 THAT DON'T HAVE PRICE ON CARBON. 852 00:27:48,001 --> 00:27:49,000 IT'S A REAL PROBLEM. 853 00:27:49,001 --> 00:27:50,000 IT'S SOMETHING WVE GOT TO STOP 854 00:27:50,001 --> 00:27:53,000 IN ORDER TO GET TO THE BETTER. 855 00:27:53,001 --> 00:27:56,000 THE B 856 00:27:56,001 --> 00:27:58,000 A PROPOSAL THAT ACTUALLY A 857 00:27:58,001 --> 00:28:01,000 BIPARTISAN PROPOSAL AT THIS 858 00:28:01,001 --> 00:28:04,000 POINT, THAT JEFF FLAKE AND DAN 859 00:28:04,001 --> 00:28:06,000 LIPINSKI AND I ARE SUPPORTING 860 00:28:06,001 --> 00:28:10,000 WHICH IS A PLAN TO BASICALLY DO 861 00:28:10,001 --> 00:28:15,000 A 862 00:28:15,001 --> 00:28:18,000 AND CAUSING FREE E 863 00:28:18,001 --> 00:28:20,000 FIX THE PROBLEM THAT SOME ARE 864 00:28:20,001 --> 00:28:22,000 TRYING TO FIX WITH CAP AND TRADE. 865 00:28:22,001 --> 00:28:24,000 BUT AS I JUST PNTED OUT THERE 866 00:28:24,001 --> 00:28:26,000 ARE REAL PROBLEMS WITH CAP AND TRADE. 867 00:28:26,001 --> 00:28:28,000 THE WAY THISOULD WORK, THE 868 00:28:28,001 --> 00:28:30,000 REVENUE NEUTRAL TAX SWAP WOULD 869 00:28:30,001 --> 00:28:31,000 WORK, WE WOULD REDUCE TAXES ON 870 00:28:31,001 --> 00:28:33,000 SOMETHING WE WANT MORE OF OF, 871 00:28:33,001 --> 00:28:34,000 WHICH IS PAYROLL, 872 00:28:34,001 --> 00:28:37,000 THE PAYROLL TAX. 873 00:28:37,001 --> 00:28:39,000 THAT'S 6.2% FROM THE EMPLOYER, 874 00:28:39,001 --> 00:28:43,000 6.2% FROM THE EMPLOYEE ON THE 875 00:28:43,001 --> 00:28:46,000 FIRST $106,800 WORTH OF INCOME. 876 00:28:46,001 --> 00:28:48,000 WE WOULD REDUCE THAT AND THEN AN 877 00:28:48,001 --> 00:28:50,000 EQUAL AMOUNT SWAP THE TAX, IF 878 00:28:50,001 --> 00:28:53,000 YOU WILL, IN THE EQUAL AMOUNT 879 00:28:53,001 --> 00:28:56,000 PUT A TAX ON CARBON DIOXIDE EMSIONS. 880 00:28:56,001 --> 00:28:57,000 TH RESULT WOULD BE NO 881 00:28:57,001 --> 00:28:58,000 ADDITIONAL TAKE TO THE 882 00:28:58,001 --> 00:28:59,000 GOVERNMENT. 883 00:28:59,001 --> 00:29:01,000 IT'S REVENUE NEUTRAL. 884 00:29:01,001 --> 00:29:02,000 IT JUST FREE UP FROM TAXATION 885 00:29:02,001 --> 00:29:05,000 SOMETHING YOU WANT MORE OF WHICH 886 00:29:05,001 --> 00:29:07,000 IS INCOME AND LABOR AND 887 00:29:07,001 --> 00:29:10,000 INDUSTRY, AND IMPOSE A TAX ON 888 00:29:10,001 --> 00:29:11,000 SOMETHING YOU WANT LESS OF WHICH 889 00:29:11,001 --> 00:29:13,000 IS CARBON DIOXIDE. 890 00:29:13,001 --> 00:29:15,000 THE POINT I WAS TAKING TODAY IS 891 00:29:15,001 --> 00:29:18,000 EVEN IF YOU THINK CLIMATE CHANGE 892 00:29:18,001 --> 00:29:21,000 IS A BUNCH OF HOOEY AND THERE IS 893 00:29:21,001 --> 00:29:22,000 NO NEED TO REDUCE CARBON 894 00:29:22,001 --> 00:29:25,000 DIOXIDE, I THINK CONSERVATIVES 895 00:29:25,001 --> 00:29:29,000 CAN JUMPP AT THE OPPORTUNITY TO 896 00:29:29,001 --> 00:29:30,000 REDUCE TAXES 897 00:29:30,001 --> 00:29:33,000 THE -- JUMP AT THE OPPORTUNITY 898 00:29:33,001 --> 00:29:35,000 TO REDUCE TAXES ON INCOME. 899 00:29:35,001 --> 00:29:36,000 YOU FREE UP EMPLOYERS TO EMPLOY 900 00:29:36,001 --> 00:29:37,000 MO PEOPLE AND FREE UP THE 901 00:29:37,001 --> 00:29:38,000 EMPLOYEE TO HAVE MORE OF THEIR 902 00:29:38,001 --> 00:29:40,000 OWN MONEY. 903 00:29:40,001 --> 00:29:41,000 THIS IS SOMETHING CONSERVATIVES 904 00:29:41,001 --> 00:29:44,000 SHOULD BE VERY EXCITED ABOUT. 905 00:29:44,001 --> 00:29:47,000 EVEN IF WE WERE SWITCHING TO A 906 00:29:47,001 --> 00:29:49,000 TAX ON SWEET GUM BALLS OR 907 00:29:49,001 --> 00:29:52,000 SYCAMORE BALLS OR ACORNS, IT 908 00:29:52,001 --> 00:29:55,000 WOULD BE BETTER THAN TAXING PAYROLL. 909 00:29:55,001 --> 00:29:57,000 THE PROBLEM WITH TAXING PAYROLL 910 00:29:57,001 --> 00:30:00,000 IS YOU'RE PUNISHING WORK. 911 00:30:00,001 --> 00:30:01,000 SO WHAT WE DO IS FREE UP FROM 912 00:30:01,001 --> 00:30:04,000 TAXATION PAYROLL AND IMPOSE A 913 00:30:04,001 --> 00:30:06,000 TAX ON CARBON DIOXIDE AND WATCH 914 00:30:06,001 --> 00:30:08,000 THE FREE ENTERPRISE SYSTEM WITH 915 00:30:08,001 --> 00:30:09,000 THAT PRICE SIGNAL CHANGE WHERE 916 00:30:09,001 --> 00:30:12,000 WE ARE. 917 00:30:12,001 --> 00:30:13,000 SUCH THAT WE WOULD FIX A 918 00:30:13,001 --> 00:30:16,000 NATIONAL SECURITY PROBLEM WE 919 00:30:16,001 --> 00:30:21,000 HAVE WHICH IS GREAT EXPOSURE TO 920 00:30:21,001 --> 00:30:22,000 OPEC AND ITS CONTROL OF OUR OIL 921 00:30:22,001 --> 00:30:23,000 MARKETS. 922 00:30:23,001 --> 00:30:24,000 WE WOULD ALSO CREATE JOBS BY 923 00:30:24,001 --> 00:30:27,000 CREATING NEW INDUSTRIES IN NEW 924 00:30:27,001 --> 00:30:28,000 KINDS OF TECHNOLOGIES. 925 00:30:28,001 --> 00:30:30,000 AND WE'D CLEAN UP THE AIR. 926 00:30:30,001 --> 00:30:33,000 THE POINT THAT I WAS MAKING IN 927 00:30:33,001 --> 00:30:34,000 THESE MEETINGS IN GREENVILLE AND 928 00:30:34,001 --> 00:30:36,000 SPARTANBURG, EVEN IF YOU THINK 929 00:30:36,001 --> 00:30:38,000 CLIMATE CHANGE IS 930 00:30:38,001 --> 00:30:39,000 THE SMALL PARAGRAPH PARTICULAR 931 00:30:39,001 --> 00:30:41,000 CUE LATS IN COAL WOULD CAUSE YOU 932 00:30:41,001 --> 00:30:42,000 TO WANT TO TAKE ACTION. 933 00:30:42,001 --> 00:30:44,000 THE CLEANER ALTERNATIVE OF 934 00:30:44,001 --> 00:30:46,000 NUCLEAR POWER WILL COME TO THE 935 00:30:46,001 --> 00:30:47,000 MARKET WHEN THE MARKET SAYS, OH, 936 00:30:47,001 --> 00:30:50,000 COAL IS NOW PAYING THE FULL 937 00:30:50,001 --> 00:30:52,000 FREIGHT OF ITS COST. 938 00:30:52,001 --> 00:30:54,000 IF IT IS, NUCLEAR BECOMES 939 00:30:54,001 --> 00:30:55,000 POSSIBLE AND WE START BUILDING 940 00:30:55,001 --> 00:30:56,000 NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS. 941 00:30:56,001 --> 00:30:57,000 MADAM SPEAKER, THE KEY TO TS 942 00:30:57,001 --> 00:31:00,000 IS GETTING THE ECONOMICS RIGHT. 943 00:31:00,001 --> 00:31:02,000 IF WE DO THAT, WE CAN FIX THIS PROBLEM. 944 00:31:02,001 --> 00:31:04,000 BUT IT STARTS WITH STOPPING THIS 945 00:31:04,001 --> 00:31:07,000 CAB AND TRADE BECAUSE CAP AND 946 00:31:07,001 --> 00:31:09,000 TRADE ISN'T THE WAY TO FIX THIS PROBLEM. 947 00:31:09,001 --> 00:31:11,000 THE FREE ENTERPRISE SYSTEM IS 948 00:31:11,001 --> 00:31:12,000 THE WAY TO FIX IT AND WIN THE 949 00:31:12,001 --> 00:31:14,000 TRIPLE PLAY THIS AMERICAN 950 00:31:14,001 --> 00:31:16,000 CENTURY, WE CAN IMPROVE THE NATIONAL SECURITY OF THE UNITED 951 00:31:16,001 --> 00:31:19,000 STATES, WE CAN CREATE JOBS, AND 952 00:31:19,001 --> 00:31:20,000 WE CAN CLEAN UP 953 00:31:20,001 --> 00:31:22,000 MADAM SPEAKER, I SAY WE COME 954 00:31:22,001 --> 00:31:25,000 TOGETHER AND GET THAT DONE AFTER 955 00:31:25,001 --> 00:31:30,000 I YIELD BACK THE BALANCE OF MY 956 00:31:30,001 --> 00:31:33,000 TIME. 957 00:31:33,001 --> 00:31:39,000 AKIN OF MISSOURI. 958 00:31:39,001 --> 00:31:40,000 MR. AKIN: THANK YOU, MADAM 959 00:31:40,001 --> 00:31:44,000 CHAIR. 960 00:31:44,001 --> 00:31:46,000 I RISE TO ADDRESS THE HOUSE FOR 961 00:31:46,001 --> 00:31:47,000 FIVE MINUTES. REVISE AND EXTEND. 962 00:31:47,001 --> 00:31:48,000 THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE: WITHOUT 963 00:31:48,001 --> 00:31:49,000 OBJECTION. 964 00:31:49,001 --> 00:31:50,000 MR. AKIN: THANK YOU. 965 00:31:50,001 --> 00:31:53,000 MADAM SPEAKER, I RISE TODAY TO 966 00:31:53,001 --> 00:31:54,000 CONGRATULATE THE WINNER THE OF 967 00:31:54,001 --> 00:31:57,000 THE 2009 KEYSTONE CENTER 968 00:31:57,001 --> 00:32:00,000 LEADERSHIP AWARD FOR LEADERSHIP 969 00:32:00,001 --> 00:32:02,000 IN INDUSTRY, MR. HUGH GRANT, 970 00:32:02,001 --> 00:32:05,000 CHAIRMAN, PRESIDENT, AND C.E.O. 971 00:32:05,001 --> 00:32:06,000 OF MONSANTO CORPORATION. 972 00:32:06,001 --> 00:32:09,000 KEYSTONE AWARDEES HAVE 973 00:32:09,001 --> 00:32:12,000 CONTRIBUTED TO SOCIETY IN WAYS 974 00:32:12,001 --> 00:32:14,000 THAT RESPECT THE -- REFLECT THE 975 00:32:14,001 --> 00:32:15,000 SPIRIT AND MISSION OF THE 976 00:32:15,001 --> 00:32:17,000 KEYSTONE CENTER AND DEMONSTRATED 977 00:32:17,001 --> 00:32:18,000 A HISTORYF ACHIEVEMENT WITH A 978 00:32:18,001 --> 00:32:20,000 STRONG SENSE OF VISION, OF 979 00:32:20,001 --> 00:32:22,000 PROVEN ABILITY TO MOTIVATE 980 00:32:22,001 --> 00:32:24,000 OTHERS, DEDICATION TO TEAMWORK 981 00:32:24,001 --> 00:32:27,000 AND CONSENSUS IN THE DRIVE AND 982 00:32:27,001 --> 00:32:30,000 ABILITY TO INITIATE FUNDAMENTAL 983 00:32:30,001 --> 00:32:33,000 AND LONG-TERM POSITIVE CHANGE. 984 00:32:33,001 --> 00:32:35,000 I COMMEND MR. 985 00:32:35,001 --> 00:32:38,000 LEADERSHIP AND THE 20,000 STRONG 986 00:32:38,001 --> 00:32:41,000 MONSANTO TEAM FOR THEIR 987 00:32:41,001 --> 00:32:43,000 EXTRAOINARY AWARD EFFORTS AND 988 00:32:43,001 --> 00:32:44,000 POSITIVE INFLUENCE ON AMERICAN 989 00:32:44,001 --> 00:32:46,000 AGRICULTURE. 990 00:32:46,001 --> 00:32:48,000 TECHNOLOGICAL INNOVATION, AND 991 00:32:48,001 --> 00:32:49,000 GENEROUS CONTRIBUTIONS TO 992 00:32:49,001 --> 00:32:51,000 INTERNATIONAL HEALTH, 993 00:32:51,001 --> 00:32:55,000 DEVELOPMENT, AND THEIR CONTINUED 994 00:32:55,001 --> 00:32:56,000 COMMITMENT TO COMBATI 995 00:32:56,001 --> 00:32:58,000 MONSANTO UNDER GRANT'S 996 00:32:58,001 --> 00:33:00,000 LEADERSHIP PROVES THAT FREE 997 00:33:00,001 --> 00:33:02,000 ENTERPRISE IS THE MOST EFFECTIVE 998 00:33:02,001 --> 00:33:05,000 WAY TO SOLVE SEEMINGLY 999 00:33:05,001 --> 00:33:07,000 INTRACTABLE PROBLEMS LIKE HUNGER 1000 00:33:07,001 --> 00:33:10,000 IN SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA. 1001 00:33:10,001 --> 00:33:11,000 NOT ONLY HAS MONSANTO PROVIDED A 1002 00:33:11,001 --> 00:33:14,000 SUSTAINABLE FOOD SOURCE FOR 1003 00:33:14,001 --> 00:33:15,000 HUNDREDS OF MILLIO OF PEOPLE, 1004 00:33:15,001 --> 00:33:18,000 BUT THEY HAVE GIVEN HOPE TO 1005 00:33:18,001 --> 00:33:20,000 PEOP WHO HAVE BEEN DENIED A 1006 00:33:20,001 --> 00:33:22,000 FUTURE FOR FAR TOO LONG. 1007 00:33:22,001 --> 00:33:25,000 I ASK MY COLLEAGUES TO JOIN ME 1008 00:33:25,001 --> 00:33:29,000 IN 1009 00:33:29,001 --> 00:33:30,000 SAY THANK YOU TO THE ENTIRE 1010 00:33:30,001 --> 00:33:32,000 MONSANTO TEAM. 1011 00:33:32,001 --> 00:33:33,000 YOU PUT THE POWER EVER 1012 00:33:33,001 --> 00:33:36,000 INNOVATION AND ENTERPRISE TO 1013 00:33:36,001 --> 00:33:39,000 WORK FOR THE WORLD'S POOREST 1014 00:33:39,001 --> 00:33:42,000 PEOPLES AND DEMONSTRA 1015 00:33:42,001 --> 00:33:44,000 AMERICAN COMPASSION. 1016 00:33:44,001 --> 00:33:45,000 THANK YOU, MADAM 1017 00:33:45,001 --> 00:33:51,000 YIELD BACK THE BALANCE OF MY 1018 00:33:51,001 --> 00:33:52,000 TIME. THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE: UNDER 1019 00:33:52,001 --> 00:33:55,000 THE SPEAKER'S ANNOUNCED POLICY 1020 00:33:55,001 --> 00:33:57,000 OF JANUARY 6, 2009, THE 1021 00:33:57,001 --> 00:33:58,000 GENTLEWOMAN FROM THE VIRGIN 1022 00:33:58,001 --> 00:34:01,000 LANDS, MRS. CHRISTENSEN, IS 1023 00:34:01,001 --> 00:34:04,000 RECOGNIZED FOR 60 MINUTES AS THE 1024 00:34:04,001 --> 00:34:05,000 DESIGNEE OF THE MAJORITY LEADER. 1025 00:34:05,001 --> 00:34:07,000 MRS. CHRISTENSEN: THANK YOU, MADAM SPEAKER. 1026 00:34:07,001 --> 00:34:08,000 MADAM SPEAKER, I ASK UNANIMOUS 1027 00:34:08,001 --> 00:34:09,000 CONSENT THAT ALL MEMBERS MAY 1028 00:34:09,001 --> 00:34:10,000 HAVE FIVE LEGISLATIVE DAYS TO 1029 00:34:10,001 --> 00:34:12,000 REVISE AND EXTEND THEIR REMARKS 1030 00:34:12,001 --> 00:34:15,000 AND INCLUDE EXTRANEOUS MATERIAL 1031 00:34:15,001 --> 00:34:17,000 ON THE SUBJECT 1032 00:34:17,001 --> 00:34:18,000 CONGRESSIONAL BLACK CAUCUS' SPECIAL ORDER THIS EVENING. 1033 00:34:18,001 --> 00:34:19,000 THE SP 1034 00:34:19,001 --> 00:34:21,000 OBCTION. MRS. CHRISTENSEN: THANK YOU. 1035 00:34:21,001 --> 00:34:23,000 MADAM SPEAKER, I'M HONORED TO 1036 00:34:23,001 --> 00:34:26,000 RISE TODAY ALONG WITH MY OTHER 1037 00:34:26,001 --> 00:34:27,000 COLLEAGUES IN HONOR OF CARIBBEAN 1038 00:34:27,001 --> 00:34:29,000 AMERICAN HERITAGE MONTH. 1039 00:34:29,001 --> 00:34:32,000 THIS MONTH MARKS THE FOURTH 1040 00:34:32,001 --> 00:34:33,000 ANNIVERSARY OF OFFICIALLY 1041 00:34:33,001 --> 00:34:34,000 RECOGNIZING CARIBBEAN AMERICAN 1042 00:34:34,001 --> 00:34:37,000 HERITAGE MONTH AND I WANT TO 1043 00:34:37,001 --> 00:34:40,000 THANK AND APPLAUD YOU, MADAM SPEAKER, THE CHAIR OF THE 1044 00:34:40,001 --> 00:34:41,000 CONGRESSIONAL BLACK 1045 00:34:41,001 --> 00:34:44,000 INTRODUCING THE LEGISLATION AND 1046 00:34:44,001 --> 00:34:45,000 GETTING IT PASSED IN FEBRUARY OF 1047 00:34:45,001 --> 00:34:47,000 2006. PRESIDENT BUSH OFFICIALLY 1048 00:34:47,001 --> 00:34:48,000 PROCLAIMED IT FOR THE VERY FIRST 1049 00:34:48,001 --> 00:34:51,000 TIME IN JUNE OF THAT YEAR. 1050 00:34:51,001 --> 00:34:54,000 THE EFFORTS TO GET US TO THAT 1051 00:34:54,001 --> 00:34:55,000 POINT BEGAN LONG BEFORE, THOUGH, 1052 00:34:55,001 --> 00:34:57,000 AT THE INSTITUTE FOR CARIBBEAN 1053 00:34:57,001 --> 00:34:59,000 STUDIES WHICH STARTED OBSERVING 1054 00:34:59,001 --> 00:35:01,000 JUNE AS CARIBBEAN AMERICAN 1055 00:35:01,001 --> 00:35:02,000 HERITAGE MONTH IN 1 1056 00:35:02,001 --> 00:35:03,000 SO I WANT TO ALSO TAKE THIS 1057 00:35:03,001 --> 00:35:06,000 OPPORTUNITY TO APPLAUD THE WORK 1058 00:35:06,001 --> 00:35:09,000 AND LEADERSHIP OF I 1059 00:35:09,001 --> 00:35:11,000 DR. CLAIRE NELSON OF JAMAICAN HERITAGE. 1060 00:35:11,001 --> 00:35:12,000 I ALSO WANT TO RECOGNIZE THE 1061 00:35:12,001 --> 00:35:15,000 CARIBBEAN NEWS FOUNDATION FOR 1062 00:35:15,001 --> 00:35:16,000 ITS WORK OVER THE YEARS TO BRING 1063 00:35:16,001 --> 00:35:19,000 CARIBBEAN AND UNITED STATES LEADERS TOGETHER TO DISCUSS 1064 00:35:19,001 --> 00:35:20,000 ISSUES OF COMMON INTEREST OVER 1065 00:35:20,001 --> 00:35:23,000 THE PAST 14 YEARS. 1066 00:35:23,001 --> 00:35:25,000 THEY FILLED AN IMPORTANT 1067 00:35:25,001 --> 00:35:27,000 RECENT ATTEMPTS OFFICIALLY 1068 00:35:27,001 --> 00:35:29,000 BRIDGE THIS GAP BEGAN IN 1997 1069 00:35:29,001 --> 00:35:32,000 WHEN PRESIDENT CLINTON TRAVELED 1070 00:35:32,001 --> 00:35:33,000 TO BARBADOS WITH A BRIDGETOWN 1071 00:35:33,001 --> 00:35:35,000 DECLARATION WAS CRAFTED. 1072 00:35:35,001 --> 00:35:36,000 THIS IMPORTANT DECLARATION 1073 00:35:36,001 --> 00:35:38,000 AFFIRMED OUR COMMON RESOLVE TO 1074 00:35:38,001 --> 00:35:41,000 FIGHT CRIME, VIOLENCE, 1075 00:35:41,001 --> 00:35:42,000 CORRUPTION, DRUG AND ILLEGAL 1076 00:35:42,001 --> 00:35:44,000 DRUG TRAFFICKING WHILE AS 1077 00:35:44,001 --> 00:35:45,000 PRESIDENT CLINTON SAID, I QUOTE, 1078 00:35:45,001 --> 00:35:46,000 PROMOTING OPEN AND FAIR TRADE, 1079 00:35:46,001 --> 00:35:48,000 PROTECTING THE ENVIRONMENT, 1080 00:35:48,001 --> 00:35:49,000 STRENGENING EDUCATION, 1081 00:35:49,001 --> 00:35:50,000 STRAIGHT AHEADING 1082 00:35:50,001 --> 00:35:51,000 TELECOMMUNICATIONS, AND HELPING 1083 00:35:51,001 --> 00:35:53,000 CARIBBEAN COUNTRIES DIVERSIFY 1084 00:35:53,001 --> 00:35:55,000 THEIR ECONOMIES AND BECOME MORE 1085 00:35:55,001 --> 00:35:57,000 COMPETITIVE AS WELL. 1086 00:35:57,001 --> 00:35:59,000 UPON HIS RETURN, HE SUBMITTED 1087 00:35:59,001 --> 00:36:01,000 THE CARIBBEAN TRADE ENHANCEMENT 1088 00:36:01,001 --> 00:36:02,000 ACT WHICH CONGRESS PASSED. 1089 00:36:02,001 --> 00:36:03,000 THE COOPERATION WAS FURTHER 1090 00:36:03,001 --> 00:36:06,000 AFFIRMED WITH THE HISTORIC 1091 00:36:06,001 --> 00:36:08,000 MEETINGS HELD IN JUNE OF 2007 1092 00:36:08,001 --> 00:36:10,000 BETWEEN THE HEADS OF CARIBBEAN 1093 00:36:10,001 --> 00:36:11,000 GOVERNMENTS AND THE BUSH-CHENEY 1094 00:36:11,001 --> 00:36:13,000 ADMINISTRATION AND THIS CONGRESS. 1095 00:36:13,001 --> 00:36:15,000 THIS COMMITMENT WAS RENEWED AND 1096 00:36:15,001 --> 00:36:17,000 REINVIGORATED AT THE SUMMIT OF 1097 00:36:17,001 --> 00:36:20,000 THE AMERICAS HELD IN THE NATION 1098 00:36:20,001 --> 00:36:22,000 OF TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO IN APRIL 1099 00:36:22,001 --> 00:36:23,000 OF THIS YEAR WITH THE ACTIVE 1100 00:36:23,001 --> 00:36:25,000 PARTICIPATION AND LEADERSHIP OF 1101 00:36:25,001 --> 00:36:26,000 OUR PRESIDENT, BARACK OBAMA, WHO 1102 00:36:26,001 --> 00:36:28,000 SET A NEW TONE FOR OUR 1103 00:36:28,001 --> 00:36:30,000 RELATIONSHIP WITH THE REGION. 1104 00:36:30,001 --> 00:36:33,000 BUT IT'S EVEN PREDATED THE BIRTH OF THIS NATION. 1105 00:36:33,001 --> 00:36:34,000 IN 1751 OUR VERY FIRST 1106 00:36:34,001 --> 00:36:35,000 PRESIDT, GEORGE WASHINGTON, 1107 00:36:35,001 --> 00:36:37,000 REPORTED TO HAVE HAD FAMILY 1108 00:36:37,001 --> 00:36:38,000 CONNECTIONS IN BARBADOS TRAVEL 1109 00:36:38,001 --> 00:36:40,000 THERE WITH HIS BROTHER FOR A 1110 00:36:40,001 --> 00:36:42,000 HEALTH RELATED MATTER IN 1111 00:36:42,001 --> 00:36:44,000 NOVEMBER OF 1751. 1112 00:36:44,001 --> 00:36:46,000 THEY STAYED TWO MONTHS AND HE IS 1113 00:36:46,001 --> 00:36:47,000 SAID TO HAVE BEEN ENCHANTED BY 1114 00:36:47,001 --> 00:36:49,000 THE ISLAND AND THE CARIBBEAN. 1115 00:36:49,001 --> 00:36:50,000 OVER THE YEARS MANY 1116 00:36:50,001 --> 00:36:51,000 CONGRESSIONAL BLACK CAUCUS 1117 00:36:51,001 --> 00:36:54,000 MEMBERS HAVE WORKED TIRELESSLY 1118 00:36:54,001 --> 00:36:56,000 TO RAISE AWARENESS AND KEEP US 1119 00:36:56,001 --> 00:36:58,000 FOCUSED AND INVESTED ON ONGOING 1120 00:36:58,001 --> 00:36:59,000 AFFAIRS IN THE CARIBBEAN. 1121 00:36:59,001 --> 00:37:00,000 WE HAVE DONE THIS THROUGH 1122 00:37:00,001 --> 00:37:04,000 CHAIRMAN RANGEL'S EFFORTS WITH 1123 00:37:04,001 --> 00:37:06,000 THE CARIBBEAN BASIN LEGISLATION 1124 00:37:06,001 --> 00:37:07,000 AND OTHER INITIATIVES. 1125 00:37:07,001 --> 00:37:09,000 CONGRESSWOMAN WATERS WHO WORKED 1126 00:37:09,001 --> 00:37:10,000 SO HARD TO SAVE THE BANA 1127 00:37:10,001 --> 00:37:11,000 INDUSTRY AND THEN CHAIR OF THE 1128 00:37:11,001 --> 00:37:13,000 CONGRESSIONAL BLACK CAUCUS. 1129 00:37:13,001 --> 00:37:15,000 SHE AND I TRAVELED TO BARBADOS 1130 00:37:15,001 --> 00:37:18,000 IN 1997 FOR THAT MEETING. 1131 00:37:18,001 --> 00:37:19,000 I ALSO WANT 1132 00:37:19,001 --> 00:37:21,000 SPECIAL WORK DONE BY CONGRESSMAN 1133 00:37:21,001 --> 00:37:22,000 DONALD PAYNE WHO WAS THE 1134 00:37:22,001 --> 00:37:24,000 FOUNDING CHAIR OF THE FRIENDS OF 1135 00:37:24,001 --> 00:37:27,000 THE CARIBBEAN CAUCUS AND 1136 00:37:27,001 --> 00:37:29,000 CONGRESSMAN KENDRICK MEEK, 1137 00:37:29,001 --> 00:37:34,000 CONGRESSMAN GREGORY MEEKS, AND 1138 00:37:34,001 --> 00:37:36,000 OF COURSE CONGRESSWOMANY VET CLARKE. 1139 00:37:36,001 --> 00:37:37,000 TRULY ALL THE MEMBERS ARE 1140 00:37:37,001 --> 00:37:39,000 CHAMPIONS OF THE CAUSES OF THE 1141 00:37:39,001 --> 00:37:41,000 CARIBBEAN. 1142 00:37:41,001 --> 00:37:44,000 LAST YEAR ONE OF OURREAT 1143 00:37:44,001 --> 00:37:46,000 ACHIEVEMENTS LED BY CONGRESSMAN 1144 00:37:46,001 --> 00:37:47,000 DONALD PAYNE AND YOU, MADAM 1145 00:37:47,001 --> 00:37:50,000 SPEAKER, CONGRESSWOMAN LEE, IN 1146 00:37:50,001 --> 00:37:51,000 ONE OF THOSE GREAT EFFORTS 1147 00:37:51,001 --> 00:37:54,000 PEPFAR WAS EXTENDED TO ALL OF 1148 00:37:54,001 --> 00:37:56,000 THE CARIBBEAN FOR THE VERY FIRST TIME. 1149 00:37:56,001 --> 00:37:59,000 TWO MONTHS AGO HEALTH MINISTERS 1150 00:37:59,001 --> 00:38:01,000 AND CARICOM LEADERS MET TO DRAFT 1151 00:38:01,001 --> 00:38:03,000 A FIVE-YEAR PLAN WHICH WOULD 1152 00:38:03,001 --> 00:38:07,000 BUILD ON THE PAN CAP, THE PAN 1153 00:38:07,001 --> 00:38:10,000 CARIBBEAN PARTNERSHIP TO AH.I.V. 1154 00:38:10,001 --> 00:38:11,000 AND AIDS IN THIS REGION. 1155 00:38:11,001 --> 00:38:14,000 THE SHIRLEY CHISHOLM EXCHANGE 1156 00:38:14,001 --> 00:38:16,000 ACT OF 2009 INTRODUCED AGAIN BY 1157 00:38:16,001 --> 00:38:18,000 CONGRESSIONAL BLACK CAUCUS 1158 00:38:18,001 --> 00:38:19,000 CHAIRWOMAN AND MADAM SPEAKER 1159 00:38:19,001 --> 00:38:21,000 LEE, IS NOW WORKING ITS WAY THROUGH CONGRESS. 1160 00:38:21,001 --> 00:38:23,000 IT WILL HELP TO BUILD A STRONGER 1161 00:38:23,001 --> 00:38:24,000 CARIBBEAN WORK FORCE AND PROMOTE 1162 00:38:24,001 --> 00:38:26,000 GREATER COLLABORATION BETWEEN 1163 00:38:26,001 --> 00:38:28,000 THE UNITED STATES AND THE 1164 00:38:28,001 --> 00:38:30,000 CARIBBEAN, AS WELL AS A SHARING 1165 00:38:30,001 --> 00:38:31,000 OF VALUES AND CULTURE. 1166 00:38:31,001 --> 00:38:32,000 MADAM SPEAKER, I DO HAVE A FEW 1167 00:38:32,001 --> 00:38:36,000 COLLEAGUES HERE WITH ME THIS 1168 00:38:36,001 --> 00:38:38,000 EVENING AND I'D LIKE TO YIELD 1169 00:38:38,001 --> 00:38:42,000 SOME TIME TO THEMP SO THAT THEY 1170 00:38:42,001 --> 00:38:44,000 MAY BRING SOME REMARKS ABOUT THE 1171 00:38:44,001 --> 00:38:46,000 SPECIAL MONTH THAT WE ARE 1172 00:38:46,001 --> 00:38:47,000 CELEBRATING IN WHICH WE ARE 1173 00:38:47,001 --> 00:38:51,000 RECOGNIZING THE CONTRIBUTIONS OF 1174 00:38:51,001 --> 00:38:53,000 PEOPLE FROM THE CARIBBEAN TO THE UNITED STATES. 1175 00:38:53,001 --> 00:38:57,000 SO AT THIS TIME I WILL YIELD 1176 00:38:57,001 --> 00:39:01,000 SUCH TIME AS SHE MIGHT 1177 00:39:01,001 --> 00:39:02,000 TO CONGRESSWOMAN YVETTE CLARKE. 1178 00:39:02,001 --> 00:39:05,000 MS. CLARKE: I'D LIKE TO THA 1179 00:39:05,001 --> 00:39:08,000 I'D LIKE TO ASSOCIATE MYSELF 1180 00:39:08,001 --> 00:39:09,000 WITH YOUR COMMENTS, REMARKS, AND 1181 00:39:09,001 --> 00:39:11,000 HISTORICAL CONTEXT FOR THIS 1182 00:39:11,001 --> 00:39:13,000 CONGRESSIONAL BLACK CAUS' 1183 00:39:13,001 --> 00:39:14,000 C.B.C. HOUR COMMEMORATING 1184 00:39:14,001 --> 00:39:16,000 CARIBBEAN AMERICAN HISTORY MONTH. 1185 00:39:16,001 --> 00:39:17,000 I WANT TO THANK YOU, MY 1186 00:39:17,001 --> 00:39:19,000 COLLEAGUE, DONNA CHRISTENSEN, 1187 00:39:19,001 --> 00:39:23,000 FOR ALL OF YOUR WORK AND 1188 00:39:23,001 --> 00:39:25,000 ADVOCACY BEING PART OF THE U.S. 1189 00:39:25,001 --> 00:39:26,000 CARIBBEAN, U.S. VIRGIN 1190 00:39:26,001 --> 00:39:28,000 MADAM SPEAKER, I RISE TODAY TO 1191 00:39:28,001 --> 00:39:30,000 HONOR THE CARIBBEAN AMERICAN 1192 00:39:30,001 --> 00:39:34,000 HERITAGE MONTH. 1193 00:39:34,001 --> 00:39:37,000 GENTLELADY FROM CALIFORNIA, MS. 1194 00:39:37,001 --> 00:39:41,000 BARBARA LEE, FOR HER VERY HARD 1195 00:39:41,001 --> 00:39:43,000 WORK AND HER ENDURING COMMITMENT 1196 00:39:43,001 --> 00:39:45,000 TO THE PEOPLE OF THE CARICOM 1197 00:39:45,001 --> 00:39:47,000 REGION AND FOR ENSURING THAT 1198 00:39:47,001 --> 00:39:49,000 EVERY JUNE WE I BRING 1199 00:39:49,001 --> 00:39:51,000 RECOGNITION TO THE MANY 1200 00:39:51,001 --> 00:39:54,000 CONTRIBUTIONS MADE BY CARIBBEAN 1201 00:39:54,001 --> 00:39:57,000 AMERICANS AND CARIBBEAN PEOPLE 1202 00:39:57,001 --> 00:40:00,000 -- PEOPLE OF CIBBEAN DESCENT 1203 00:40:00,001 --> 00:40:02,000 AND THE ISSUES FACING THE 1204 00:40:02,001 --> 00:40:04,000 NATIONS OF CARICOM AND THE 1205 00:40:04,001 --> 00:40:08,000 CARIBBEAN AMERICAN DIASPORA. 1206 00:40:08,001 --> 00:40:11,000 . 1207 00:40:11,001 --> 00:40:12,000 I HAVE THE HONOR OF REPRESENTING 1208 00:40:12,001 --> 00:40:13,000 NEW YORK'S 11TH CONGRESSIONAL 1209 00:40:13,001 --> 00:40:14,000 DISTRICT. 1210 00:40:14,001 --> 00:40:19,000 PREVIOUSLY REPRESENTED IN PART 1211 00:40:19,001 --> 00:40:20,000 BY CHERYLY CHISHOLM, THE FIRST 1212 00:40:20,001 --> 00:40:22,000 AFRICAN-AMERICAN MEMBER OF 1213 00:40:22,001 --> 00:40:23,000 NGRESS AND THE CHILD OF 1214 00:40:23,001 --> 00:40:25,000 CARIBBEAN AMERICAN IMMIGRANTS 1215 00:40:25,001 --> 00:40:28,000 FROM BAR BADEOWS AND GUYANA. 1216 00:40:28,001 --> 00:40:29,000 OF THE PROMINENT CARIBBEAN 1217 00:40:29,001 --> 00:40:32,000 AMERICANS THAT WE MAY BE AWARE 1218 00:40:32,001 --> 00:40:34,000 OF OR HAVE KNOWN THROUGHOUT OUR 1219 00:40:34,001 --> 00:40:40,000 HISTORY INCLUDE SUCH LUMENARIES 1220 00:40:40,001 --> 00:40:41,000 AS JEAN BAP TEASE, THE FOUNDER 1221 00:40:41,001 --> 00:40:43,000 OF CHICAGO. 1222 00:40:43,001 --> 00:40:46,000 FOUNDING FATHER ALEXANDER 1223 00:40:46,001 --> 00:40:50,000 HAMILTON, WHO WAS BORN IN NIVES, 1224 00:40:50,001 --> 00:40:52,000 ACTOR AND SOCIAL ACTIVIST, HARRY 1225 00:40:52,001 --> 00:40:56,000 BELAFONTE, REVOLUTIONARY MARCUS 1226 00:40:56,001 --> 00:40:57,000 GARVEY, NOTED JOURNALIST, AGAIN 1227 00:40:57,001 --> 00:41:00,000 EIFFEL, HAZEL SCOTT, THE FIRST 1228 00:41:00,001 --> 00:41:04,000 WOMAN OF COLOR TO HAVE HER OWN 1229 00:41:04,001 --> 00:41:05,000 TELEVISION SHOW, MALCOLM X, 1230 00:41:05,001 --> 00:41:07,000 REVOLUTIONARY. 1231 00:41:07,001 --> 00:41:09,000 OUR OWN ATTORNEY GENERAL, ERIC 1232 00:41:09,001 --> 00:41:14,000 HOLDER, FORMER SECRETARY OF 1233 00:41:14,001 --> 00:41:17,000 STATE COLIN POWELL, SUPER MODEL 1234 00:41:17,001 --> 00:41:18,000 TYSON BECKFORD, ATHLETE AND 1235 00:41:18,001 --> 00:41:22,000 COACH, PATRICK EWE WING, BOXER 1236 00:41:22,001 --> 00:41:24,000 AND ATHLETE, LENNOX LEWIS AND 1237 00:41:24,001 --> 00:41:26,000 WYCLEF JEAN, PERFORMER. 1238 00:41:26,001 --> 00:41:28,000 AND THE LIST GOES ON AND ON. 1239 00:41:28,001 --> 00:41:31,000 AS A CHILD OF JAMAICAN 1240 00:41:31,001 --> 00:41:33,000 IMMIGRANTS, I HAVE BEEN AN 1241 00:41:33,001 --> 00:41:35,000 OUTSPOKEN ADVOCATE FOR CARIBBEAN 1242 00:41:35,001 --> 00:41:38,000 AMERICAN AND CARIBBEAN ISSUES 1243 00:41:38,001 --> 00:41:40,000 AND CONCERNS MY ENTIRE PUBLIC 1244 00:41:40,001 --> 00:41:41,000 LIFE. 1245 00:41:41,001 --> 00:41:43,000 AND PROBABLY CARRY FORTH MY 1246 00:41:43,001 --> 00:41:45,000 DISTRICT'S RICH CARIBBEAN 1247 00:41:45,001 --> 00:41:47,000 HERITAGE. 1248 00:41:47,001 --> 00:41:48,000 THE SUCCESS OF THE CARIBBEAN 1249 00:41:48,001 --> 00:41:53,000 IMMIGRANT AND THEIR CARIBBEAN 1250 00:41:53,001 --> 00:41:54,000 AMERICAN DESCENDENCE HAS BEEN EVIDENT IN EVERY FIELD OF 1251 00:41:54,001 --> 00:41:56,000 ENDEAVOR. 1252 00:41:56,001 --> 00:42:01,000 WHILE CARIBBEAN AMERICANS HAVE 1253 00:42:01,001 --> 00:42:02,000 MADE GREAT STRIDES AND VERY 1254 00:42:02,001 --> 00:42:04,000 HISTORIC CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE 1255 00:42:04,001 --> 00:42:07,000 PROSPERITY AND STRENGTHENI OF 1256 00:42:07,001 --> 00:42:09,000 OUR NATION, THERE'S STILL 1257 00:42:09,001 --> 00:42:10,000 LINGERING ISSUES THAT ADVERSELY 1258 00:42:10,001 --> 00:42:11,000 AFFECT CARIBBEAN AMERICANS IN 1259 00:42:11,001 --> 00:42:13,000 THE UNITED STATES. 1260 00:42:13,001 --> 00:42:16,000 CARIBBEAN IMMIGRANTS OFTEN HAVE 1261 00:42:16,001 --> 00:42:19,000 VERY LITTLE MONEY OR ACCESS TO 1262 00:42:19,001 --> 00:42:20,000 RESOURCES WHEN MAKING THEIR 1263 00:42:20,001 --> 00:42:22,000 TRANSITION TO THE UNITED STATES, 1264 00:42:22,001 --> 00:42:24,000 MAKING THEM VULNERABLE TARGETS 1265 00:42:24,001 --> 00:42:28,000 OF IMMIGRATION FRAUD. 1266 00:42:28,001 --> 00:42:30,000 I HAVE INTRODUCED H.R. 1992, THE 1267 00:42:30,001 --> 00:42:33,000 IMMIGRATION FRAUD AND PREVENTION 1268 00:42:33,001 --> 00:42:35,000 ACT OF 2009, MAKING IT A FEDERAL 1269 00:42:35,001 --> 00:42:38,000 CRIME TO WILLFULLY MISREPRESENT 1270 00:42:38,001 --> 00:42:41,000 THE IMMIGRATION PROCESS THROUGH 1271 00:42:41,001 --> 00:42:45,000 FRAUD AND FALSE REPRESENTATION. 1272 00:42:45,001 --> 00:42:48,000 I HAVE ALSO INTRODUCED H.R. 2071 1273 00:42:48,001 --> 00:42:49,000 WHICH DIRECTS THE SECRETARY OF 1274 00:42:49,001 --> 00:42:52,000 COMMERCE TO INCLUDE CARIBBEAN 1275 00:42:52,001 --> 00:42:53,000 DESCENDENTS AS AN OPTION ON 1276 00:42:53,001 --> 00:42:55,000 CENSUS QUESTIONNAIRES. 1277 00:42:55,001 --> 00:42:58,000 I BELIEVE THAT THIS WILL BRING 1278 00:42:58,001 --> 00:42:59,000 RECOGNITION TO THE BROAD 1279 00:42:59,001 --> 00:43:03,000 DIVERSITY OF CARIBBEAN NATIVES 1280 00:43:03,001 --> 00:43:06,000 AND DESCENDENTS THAT OUR COUNTRY 1281 00:43:06,001 --> 00:43:07,000 HOME AND ENSURE AN ACCURATE -- 1282 00:43:07,001 --> 00:43:09,000 THAT CALL OUR COUNTRY HOME AND 1283 00:43:09,001 --> 00:43:10,000 ENSURE AN ACCURATE ACCOUNT AND 1284 00:43:10,001 --> 00:43:11,000 PROPER PRESENTATION AND 1285 00:43:11,001 --> 00:43:13,000 RESOURCE. 1286 00:43:13,001 --> 00:43:14,000 I WAS ALSO PLEASED THIS YEAR TO 1287 00:43:14,001 --> 00:43:15,000 BE PRESENT AT THE SUMMIT OF THE 1288 00:43:15,001 --> 00:43:18,000 AMERICAS ALONG WITH OUR OWN 1289 00:43:18,001 --> 00:43:20,000 PRESIDENT, BOEHM, EARLIER THIS 1290 00:43:20,001 --> 00:43:22,000 YEAR -- BARACK OBAMA, EARLIER 1291 00:43:22,001 --> 00:43:23,000 THIS YEAR. 1292 00:43:23,001 --> 00:43:25,000 THAT SUMMIT WAS THE BEGINNING OF 1293 00:43:25,001 --> 00:43:26,000 WHAT I KNOW WILL BE AN ENDURING 1294 00:43:26,001 --> 00:43:29,000 COMMITMENT TO A MUTUALLY 1295 00:43:29,001 --> 00:43:30,000 BENEFICIAL RELATIONSHIP WITH OUR 1296 00:43:30,001 --> 00:43:34,000 THIRD BORDER. 1297 00:43:34,001 --> 00:43:35,000 OUR NATION'S THIRD BORDER SHARED 1298 00:43:35,001 --> 00:43:39,000 WITH THE CARICOM COMMUNITY LINKS 1299 00:43:39,001 --> 00:43:41,000 NOT ONLY FAMILIES, NOT ONLY 1300 00:43:41,001 --> 00:43:45,000 TRAVEL AND INDUSTRY, BUT I 1301 00:43:45,001 --> 00:43:46,000 BELIEVE THE SECURITY OF OUR OWN 1302 00:43:46,001 --> 00:43:50,000 UNITED STATES AND THE NATION -- 1303 00:43:50,001 --> 00:43:55,000 AND OUR ISLAND NATION NEIGHBORS. 1304 00:43:55,001 --> 00:43:56,000 IN 2007, A JOINT REPORT BY THE 1305 00:43:56,001 --> 00:43:58,000 UNITED NATIONS OFFICE OF DRUG 1306 00:43:58,001 --> 00:43:59,000 AND CRIME AND THE WORLD BANK 1307 00:43:59,001 --> 00:44:02,000 LINKED SOME OF THE RISG CRIME 1308 00:44:02,001 --> 00:44:07,000 RATES IN CARIBBEAN NATIONS 1309 00:44:07,001 --> 00:44:10,000 INCREASE IN DRUG SHIPMENT. 1310 00:44:10,001 --> 00:44:12,000 IN THE PREVIOUS CONGRESS I 1311 00:44:12,001 --> 00:44:14,000 INTRODUCED H.RES. 1504 1312 00:44:14,001 --> 00:44:16,000 CALLS FOR INCREASED COOPERATION 1313 00:44:16,001 --> 00:44:19,000 BETWEEN THE UNITED STATES AND 1314 00:44:19,001 --> 00:44:22,000 CARIBBEAN OFFICIALS TO COMBAT THIS PROBLEM. 1315 00:44:22,001 --> 00:44:24,000 ST WEEK I STOOD PROUDLY ON 1316 00:44:24,001 --> 00:44:26,000 THIS FLOOR TO EXPRESS MY SUPPORT 1317 00:44:26,001 --> 00:44:31,000 FOR PROVISIONS WHICH WERE IN 1318 00:44:31,001 --> 00:44:32,000 H.R. 2410, THE FOREIGN RELATIONS 1319 00:44:32,001 --> 00:44:37,000 AUTHORIZATION ACT OF 2009, WHICH 1320 00:44:37,001 --> 00:44:38,000 ADDED THE CARIBBEAN COMMUNITY OR 1321 00:44:38,001 --> 00:44:39,000 CARICOM TO THE MA RIDIA 1322 00:44:39,001 --> 00:44:41,000 INITIATIVE. 1323 00:44:41,001 --> 00:44:42,000 I ALSO WANT TO COMMEND THE 1324 00:44:42,001 --> 00:44:47,000 HONORABLE BARBARA LEE FOR HER 1325 00:44:47,001 --> 00:44:49,000 WORK IN ESTABLISHING THE CHERYLY 1326 00:44:49,001 --> 00:44:51,000 CHISHOLM EDUCATION ALEX CHANGE 1327 00:44:51,001 --> 00:44:58,000 PROGRAM AUTHORIZED WITHIN THE 1328 00:44:58,001 --> 00:44:59,000 BILL -- EDUCATIONAL EXCHANGE 1329 00:44:59,001 --> 00:45:05,000 PROGRAM AUTHORIZED WITHIN THE 1330 00:45:05,001 --> 00:45:06,000 BILL. 1331 00:45:06,001 --> 00:45:08,000 MADAM SPEAKER, IT IS WITH GREAT 1332 00:45:08,001 --> 00:45:11,000 PRE THINK A STAND HERE A 1333 00:45:11,001 --> 00:45:12,000 DESCENDENT OF CARIBBEAN 1334 00:45:12,001 --> 00:45:16,000 IMMIGRANTS, ABLE TO STAND IN THE 1335 00:45:16,001 --> 00:45:19,000 HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, SECOND 1336 00:45:19,001 --> 00:45:22,000 GENERATION REPRESENTING A 1337 00:45:22,001 --> 00:45:23,000 CONSTITUENCY THAT IS THE DISPORA 1338 00:45:23,001 --> 00:45:25,000 OF THE CARIBBEAN REGION AND I'M 1339 00:45:25,001 --> 00:45:28,000 PROUD HERE THAT WE HERE IN THE 1340 00:45:28,001 --> 00:45:30,000 U.S. CAPITOL TAKE THIS TIME TO 1341 00:45:30,001 --> 00:45:32,000 COMMEMORATE THE VERY 1342 00:45:32,001 --> 00:45:35,000 ACCOMPLISHMENTS, THE BINDING OF 1343 00:45:35,001 --> 00:45:38,000 OUR NATIONS AND OUR PEOPLE IN 1344 00:45:38,001 --> 00:45:41,000 MAKING SURE THAT WE STRENGTHEN 1345 00:45:41,001 --> 00:45:43,000 AND BUILD PROSPERITY HERE IN THE 1346 00:45:43,001 --> 00:45:47,000 UNITED STATES AND SHARE THAT 1347 00:45:47,001 --> 00:45:48,000 GOOD WEALTH AND DEMOCRACY TO THE 1348 00:45:48,001 --> 00:45:50,000 REGION FROM WHICH SO MANY HAVE 1349 00:45:50,001 --> 00:45:51,000 COME. 1350 00:45:51,001 --> 00:45:53,000 HAVING SAID THAT, I YIELD BACK 1351 00:45:53,001 --> 00:45:54,000 TO THE GENTLELADY FROM THE 1352 00:45:54,001 --> 00:45:56,000 VIRGIN ISLANDS. 1353 00:45:56,001 --> 00:45:57,000 MRS. CHRISTENSEN: THANK YOU, 1354 00:45:57,001 --> 00:45:58,000 CONGRESSWOMAN CLARKE, FOR YOUR 1355 00:45:58,001 --> 00:46:00,000 MARKS THIS EVENING AND THANK 1356 00:46:00,001 --> 00:46:02,000 YOU MOST OF ALL, THOUGH, FOR 1357 00:46:02,001 --> 00:46:04,000 YOUR LEADERSHIP ON BEHALF OF THE 1358 00:46:04,001 --> 00:46:05,000 CARIBBEAN COUNTRIES 1359 00:46:05,001 --> 00:46:16,000 WE APPRECIATE THE WORK THAT YOU 1360 00:46:16,001 --> 00:46:17,000 DO, BOTH ON YOUR COMMITTEE, YOUR 1361 00:46:17,001 --> 00:46:18,000 SUBCOMMITTEE, THE SUBCOMMITTEE 1362 00:46:18,001 --> 00:46:20,000 THAT YOU CHAIR OHOMELAND SECURITY, AND IN ALL OF THE WORK 1363 00:46:20,001 --> 00:46:21,000 THAT ADDRESSES ISSUES IN THE CARIBBEAN. 1364 00:46:21,001 --> 00:46:22,000 THANK YOU FOR JOING US THIS EVENING. 1365 00:46:22,001 --> 00:46:23,000 I WOULD LIKE NOW TO YIELD SUCH 1366 00:46:23,001 --> 00:46:25,000 TIME AS SHE MIGHT CONSUME TO THE 1367 00:46:25,001 --> 00:46:26,000 GENTLELADY FROM TEXAS, 1368 00:46:26,001 --> 00:46:30,000 CONGRESSWOMAN SHEILA JACKSON 1369 00:46:30,001 --> 00:46:32,000 LEE. 1370 00:46:32,001 --> 00:46:34,000 MS. JACKSON LEE: LET ME THANK 1371 00:46:34,001 --> 00:46:36,000 THE GENTLELADY FOR YIELDING TO 1372 00:46:36,001 --> 00:46:37,000 ME AND ALLOW ME TO ACKNOWLEDGE 1373 00:46:37,001 --> 00:46:39,000 AS WELL THE CONGRESSNAL BLACK 1374 00:46:39,001 --> 00:46:41,000 CAUCUS FOR THE COLLECTED EFFORT 1375 00:46:41,001 --> 00:46:44,000 THAT THEY HAVE MADE AND THANK 1376 00:46:44,001 --> 00:46:45,000 OUR PRESIDENT CHAIRWOMAN FOR THE 1377 00:46:45,001 --> 00:46:48,000 2004 RESOLUTION, HOUSE 1378 00:46:48,001 --> 00:46:50,000 RESOLUTION 517, THAT ULTIMATELY 1379 00:46:50,001 --> 00:46:51,000 WAS PROCLAIMED BY THE PRESIDENT 1380 00:46:51,001 --> 00:46:54,000 OF THE UNITED STATES. 1381 00:46:54,001 --> 00:46:55,000 THIS IS AN ENRICHING DAY AND AN 1382 00:46:55,001 --> 00:46:57,000 OPPORTUNITY FOR US TO EMPHASIZE 1383 00:46:57,001 --> 00:46:59,000 THE VASTNESS OF DIVERSITY THAT 1384 00:46:59,001 --> 00:47:00,000 IS IS IN THIS COUNTRY AND I 1385 00:47:00,001 --> 00:47:04,000 STAND HERE AS A CARIBBEAN 1386 00:47:04,001 --> 00:47:08,000 AMERICAN PROUDLY EXERCISING AND 1387 00:47:08,001 --> 00:47:09,000 RELISHING IN THE HISTORY OF MY 1388 00:47:09,001 --> 00:47:10,000 ANCESTRY. 1389 00:47:10,001 --> 00:47:13,000 LET ME ALSO ACKNOWLEDGE THE WORK 1390 00:47:13,001 --> 00:47:15,000 THAT WE HAVE COLLECTIVELY DONE. 1391 00:47:15,001 --> 00:47:16,000 AS A RANKING MEMBER ON THE 1392 00:47:16,001 --> 00:47:19,000 IMMIGRATION SUBCOMMITTEE, WE 1393 00:47:19,001 --> 00:47:22,000 HAVE HAD A HISTORY OF WORKING 1394 00:47:22,001 --> 00:47:26,000 FOR THISSUES OF PARODY AS IT 1395 00:47:26,001 --> 00:47:28,000 RELATES TO THE OPPORTUNITIES FOR 1396 00:47:28,001 --> 00:47:30,000 HAITIANANS TO BECOME STATUSED 1397 00:47:30,001 --> 00:47:32,000 HERE IN THE UNITED STATES AS WE 1398 00:47:32,001 --> 00:47:34,000 HAVE SEEN THE CUBANS ALSO HAVE 1399 00:47:34,001 --> 00:47:37,000 THIS OPPORTUNITY THROUGH WHAT WE 1400 00:47:37,001 --> 00:47:39,000 CALL THE WET FOOD, DRY FOOT 1401 00:47:39,001 --> 00:47:40,000 PROVISION -- WET FOOT, DRY FOOT 1402 00:47:40,001 --> 00:47:42,000 PROVISION. 1403 00:47:42,001 --> 00:47:44,000 WE HAVE WORKED UNENDING TO MAKE 1404 00:47:44,001 --> 00:47:45,000 SURE THAT COMES ABOUT AND AS WE 1405 00:47:45,001 --> 00:47:47,000 LOOK FORWARD INTO THE 1406 00:47:47,001 --> 00:47:48,000 COMPREHENSIVE IMMIGRATION REFORM 1407 00:47:48,001 --> 00:47:50,000 DEBATE I HOPE THAT LANGUAGE FROM 1408 00:47:50,001 --> 00:47:51,000 THE SAVE AMERICA COMPREHENSIVE 1409 00:47:51,001 --> 00:47:53,000 IMMIGRATION LEGISLATION THAT I 1410 00:47:53,001 --> 00:47:55,000 AUTHORED WILL BE PART OF THE 1411 00:47:55,001 --> 00:47:57,000 DEBATE SO THAT OUR REFORM WILL 1412 00:47:57,001 --> 00:48:00,000 INCLUDE ALL ASPECTS OF THOSE WHO 1413 00:48:00,001 --> 00:48:02,000 ARE SEEKING TO BE STATUSED AND 1414 00:48:02,001 --> 00:48:04,000 PARTICULAR PARTICULARLY THOSE FROM THE CARIBBEAN. 1415 00:48:04,001 --> 00:48:06,000 WE HAVE WORKED ON ISSUES THAT 1416 00:48:06,001 --> 00:48:07,000 ADDRESS THE QUESTIONS OF MANY 1417 00:48:07,001 --> 00:48:10,000 CARIBBEAN LEADERS, WHEN THERE 1418 00:48:10,001 --> 00:48:11,000 WERE MASSIVE DEPORTATIONS OF 1419 00:48:11,001 --> 00:48:13,000 INDIVIDUAL 1420 00:48:13,001 --> 00:48:14,000 STATES WHO HAD NEVER BEEN TO THE 1421 00:48:14,001 --> 00:48:15,000 CARIBBEAN, HAD NEVER BEEN TO THE 1422 00:48:15,001 --> 00:48:17,000 COUNTRIES OF WHICH THEIR BIRTH 1423 00:48:17,001 --> 00:48:19,000 AND THEREFORE THEY WERE COMING 1424 00:48:19,001 --> 00:48:22,000 AND PROVIDING THE NEED FOR EXTRA 1425 00:48:22,001 --> 00:48:25,000 RESOURCES BY CARIBBEAN LEADERS. 1426 00:48:25,001 --> 00:48:26,000 THIS IS PAYING ATTENTION TO THE 1427 00:48:26,001 --> 00:48:28,000 ISSUES OF THE CARIBBEAN AND 1428 00:48:28,001 --> 00:48:31,000 RECOGNIZING THAT THEY ARE A 1429 00:48:31,001 --> 00:48:34,000 VITAL ALLY TO US AND THAT WAS 1430 00:48:34,001 --> 00:48:36,000 RECOGNIZED BY THE RECENT 1431 00:48:36,001 --> 00:48:39,000 AUTHORIZATION OF THE MEETING IN 1432 00:48:39,001 --> 00:48:41,000 THE CARIBBEAN IN TRINIDAD WHERE 1433 00:48:41,001 --> 00:48:44,000 MANY CARIBBEAN NATIONS CAME AND 1434 00:48:44,001 --> 00:48:45,000 I BELIEVE THE NEW RELATIONSHIP 1435 00:48:45,001 --> 00:48:46,000 WAS CEMENTED BETWEEN THIS NEW 1436 00:48:46,001 --> 00:48:48,000 PRESIDENT, THIS CONGRESS AND THE 1437 00:48:48,001 --> 00:48:49,000 CARIBBEAN LEADERS. 1438 00:48:49,001 --> 00:48:50,000 SO AS WE SPEAK ABOUT THE 1439 00:48:50,001 --> 00:48:51,000 GREATNESS OF CARIBBEAN 1440 00:48:51,001 --> 00:48:54,000 AMERICANS, I WANT TO EMPHASIZE 1441 00:48:54,001 --> 00:48:55,000 THAT WE SHOULD ALSO BE ENGAGED 1442 00:48:55,001 --> 00:48:57,000 WITH THE CARIBBEAN AS OUR 1443 00:48:57,001 --> 00:48:59,000 ALLIES, AS THOSE WHO CAN 1444 00:48:59,001 --> 00:49:01,000 PARTICIPATE WITH US IN HOMELAND 1445 00:49:01,001 --> 00:49:02,000 SECURITY AND SECURING THE 1446 00:49:02,001 --> 00:49:03,000 BORDERS. 1447 00:49:03,001 --> 00:49:05,000 AS WE LOOK TO CARIBBEAN 1448 00:49:05,001 --> 00:49:06,000 AMERICANS WHO HAVE MADE GREAT 1449 00:49:06,001 --> 00:49:08,000 STRIDES HERE IN THIS COUNTRY, 1450 00:49:08,001 --> 00:49:11,000 CARIBBEAN AMERICANS ARE 1451 00:49:11,001 --> 00:49:13,000 EDUCATED, SOLDIERS, POLITICIANS, 1452 00:49:13,001 --> 00:49:16,000 ATHLETE IT'S, ECONOMISTS, 1453 00:49:16,001 --> 00:49:17,000 HISTORIANS, ACTIVISTS, DOCTORS, 1454 00:49:17,001 --> 00:49:18,000 LAWYERS AND EVERYDAY MEN AND 1455 00:49:18,001 --> 00:49:20,000 WOMEN. 1456 00:49:20,001 --> 00:49:21,000 THERE ARE THOSE OF US WHO ENJOY 1457 00:49:21,001 --> 00:49:22,000 THE MUSIC OF THE CARIBBEAN AND 1458 00:49:22,001 --> 00:49:26,000 ONE OF OUR MOST FAMOUS POETS AND 1459 00:49:26,001 --> 00:49:28,000 MUSICIANS WAS BOB MARLEE, WHOSE 1460 00:49:28,001 --> 00:49:30,000 REGGAE MUSIC CONTINUES TO 1461 00:49:30,001 --> 00:49:33,000 PERMEATE THE MUSIC CHANNELS AND 1462 00:49:33,001 --> 00:49:35,000 THE EARS OF AMERICANS. 1463 00:49:35,001 --> 00:49:36,000 WE ARE PROUD OF THE 1464 00:49:36,001 --> 00:49:38,000 CONTRIBUTIONS OF CARIBBEAN 1465 00:49:38,001 --> 00:49:40,000 AMERICANS. 1466 00:49:40,001 --> 00:49:43,000 OF THOSE LIKE KAREEM 1467 00:49:43,001 --> 00:49:48,000 ABDUL-JABBAR, THOSE LIKE TIMOTHY 1468 00:49:48,001 --> 00:49:52,000 DUNCAN, THOSE LIKE SYDNEY PORT 1469 00:49:52,001 --> 00:49:53,000 YEA, THOSE LIKE -- SYDNEY 1470 00:49:53,001 --> 00:49:56,000 PORTIER AND OF COURSE COLIN 1471 00:49:56,001 --> 00:49:59,000 POWELL, THE FORMER SECRETARY OF 1472 00:49:59,001 --> 00:50:02,000 STATE, A CARIBBEAN AMERICAN. 1473 00:50:02,001 --> 00:50:05,000 CERTAINLY THE HONORABLE CHERYLY 1474 00:50:05,001 --> 00:50:06,000 CHISS AM WHO RAN AS AN 1475 00:50:06,001 --> 00:50:08,000 AFRICAN-AMERICAN WOMAN FOR 1476 00:50:08,001 --> 00:50:11,000 PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. 1477 00:50:11,001 --> 00:50:12,000 BOLD, UNASHAMED OF THEIR 1478 00:50:12,001 --> 00:50:14,000 AND HISTORY, READYO MAKE A 1479 00:50:14,001 --> 00:50:15,000 DIFFERENCE, THAT IS THE 1480 00:50:15,001 --> 00:50:16,000 CHARACTER OF CARIBBEAN AMERICANS 1481 00:50:16,001 --> 00:50:17,000 AND THOSE WHO LIVE IN THE 1482 00:50:17,001 --> 00:50:18,000 CARIBBEAN. 1483 00:50:18,001 --> 00:50:23,000 LET ME ALSO 1484 00:50:23,001 --> 00:50:25,000 WHO I WORKED WITH AS WE VISITED 1485 00:50:25,001 --> 00:50:28,000 HAITI AND WENT TO SEE MANY OF 1486 00:50:28,001 --> 00:50:31,000 THOSE WHO HAVE BEEN INCARCERATED 1487 00:50:31,001 --> 00:50:32,000 BECAUSE OF THE, IF YOU WILL, THE 1488 00:50:32,001 --> 00:50:33,000 INCONSISTENCY OF LEADERSHIP IN 1489 00:50:33,001 --> 00:50:35,000 HAITI. 1490 00:50:35,001 --> 00:50:38,000 WE ARE DELIGHTED TO SEE THE 1491 00:50:38,001 --> 00:50:39,000 PRESIDENT LEADING OUT BUT WE 1492 00:50:39,001 --> 00:50:41,000 VISITED MANY WHO WERE POLITICAL 1493 00:50:41,001 --> 00:50:43,000 PRISONERS AND WORKED WITH THE 1494 00:50:43,001 --> 00:50:46,000 THEN BUSH ADMINISTRATION TO TRY 1495 00:50:46,001 --> 00:50:48,000 TO SECURE THEIR FREEDOM. 1496 00:50:48,001 --> 00:50:50,000 I WENT TO -- I WANT TO CONTINUE 1497 00:50:50,001 --> 00:50:51,000 TO EXPRESS MY APPRECIATION TO 1498 00:50:51,001 --> 00:50:54,000 CHAIRMAN CONYERS FOR THE WORK 1499 00:50:54,001 --> 00:50:57,000 THAT HE HAS CONTINUOUSLY DONE 1500 00:50:57,001 --> 00:50:58,000 WORKINGN HAITI WHEN WE 1501 00:50:58,001 --> 00:51:00,000 TRAVELED THERE TOGETHER. 1502 00:51:00,001 --> 00:51:01,000 SO TRE ARE MANY ASPECTS OF THE 1503 00:51:01,001 --> 00:51:03,000 CARIBBEAN THAT WE CAN CELEBRATE. 1504 00:51:03,001 --> 00:51:05,000 I'M HERE TO CELEBRATE THE GREAT 1505 00:51:05,001 --> 00:51:06,000 CONNECTION THAT I'VE HAD THE 1506 00:51:06,001 --> 00:51:08,000 PRIVILEGE OF HAVING AND I'M 1507 00:51:08,001 --> 00:51:12,000 DELIGHTED TO BE JOINED ON THE 1508 00:51:12,001 --> 00:51:15,000 FLOOR OF THE HOUSE BY CONGRESSWOMAN CHRISTENSEN AS 1509 00:51:15,001 --> 00:51:16,000 WELL AS CONGRESSWOMAN CLARKE AND 1510 00:51:16,001 --> 00:51:18,000 CONGRESSWOMAN -- CONGRESSMAN 1511 00:51:18,001 --> 00:51:19,000 PAYNE AND THE CHAIRWOMAN WHO IS 1512 00:51:19,001 --> 00:51:21,000 NOW SERVING AS SPEAKER PRO 1513 00:51:21,001 --> 00:51:22,000 TEMPORE. 1514 00:51:22,001 --> 00:51:24,000 WE DO THIS BECAUSE WE WANT TO 1515 00:51:24,001 --> 00:51:26,000 ENSURE THAT PEOPLE REALIZE HOW 1516 00:51:26,001 --> 00:51:28,000 GREAT AMERICA IS AND IT IS HOME 1517 00:51:28,001 --> 00:51:29,000 GREAT CAUSE IT RELIES UPON THE 1518 00:51:29,001 --> 00:51:32,000 STRENGTH OF THOSE WHO COME FROM 1519 00:51:32,001 --> 00:51:33,000 DIFFERENT CULTURES AND BRING 1520 00:51:33,001 --> 00:51:35,000 THAT WONDER THE TO OUR WONDERFUL 1521 00:51:35,001 --> 00:51:36,000 NATION -- WONDERMENT TO OUR 1522 00:51:36,001 --> 00:51:38,000 WONDERFUL NATION. 1523 00:51:38,001 --> 00:51:39,000 I WANT TO ACKNOWLEDGE THE 1524 00:51:39,001 --> 00:51:40,000 CREATION OF THE INSTITUTE OF 1525 00:51:40,001 --> 00:51:44,000 CARIBBEAN STUDIES IN 1994, I 1526 00:51:44,001 --> 00:51:45,000 WANT TO ACKNOWLEDGE THED A HOCK 1527 00:51:45,001 --> 00:51:49,000 CARIBBEAN COUNCIL IN WASHITON, 1528 00:51:49,001 --> 00:51:52,000 D.C., THAT DISBANDED AND 1529 00:51:52,001 --> 00:51:53,000 CELEBRATING JUNE AS THE 1530 00:51:53,001 --> 00:51:55,000 CARIBBEAN AMERICAN HERITAGE 1531 00:51:55,001 --> 00:51:57,000 MONTH IN WASHINGTON, D.C. 1532 00:51:57,001 --> 00:51:58,000 THIS IS JUST PART OF THE BILL 1533 00:51:58,001 --> 00:51:59,000 THAT WAS TO MAKE IN THE MONTH 1534 00:51:59,001 --> 00:52:01,000 THAT WE CELEBRATE CARIBBEAN 1535 00:52:01,001 --> 00:52:02,000 HERITAGE MONTH. 1536 00:52:02,001 --> 00:52:05,000 FINALLY, MIGHT I SAY PROUDLY 1537 00:52:05,001 --> 00:52:07,000 THAT I WANT TO SPEAK OF MY 1538 00:52:07,001 --> 00:52:08,000 GRANDPARENTS, MR. AND MRS. 1539 00:52:08,001 --> 00:52:10,000 JACKSON. 1540 00:52:10,001 --> 00:52:12,000 MY GRANDMOTHER AND GRANDFATHER 1541 00:52:12,001 --> 00:52:13,000 WERE TRUE SONS AND DAUGHTERS AT 1542 00:52:13,001 --> 00:52:15,000 THAT TIME OF THE KING AND QUEEN 1543 00:52:15,001 --> 00:52:18,000 BECAUSE JAMAICA WAS THEN A 1544 00:52:18,001 --> 00:52:21,000 COLONY OF GREAT BRITAIN. 1545 00:52:21,001 --> 00:52:24,000 HOWEVER, THEIR DIGNITY ALLOWED 1546 00:52:24,001 --> 00:52:26,000 THEM TO KNOW THAT JAMAICA COULD 1547 00:52:26,001 --> 00:52:29,000 BE A FREE AND DEMOCRATIC NATION 1548 00:52:29,001 --> 00:52:33,000 AND THROUGH THE LEADERSHIP OF 1549 00:52:33,001 --> 00:52:36,000 THAT IT COULD BE A FREE NATION, 1550 00:52:36,001 --> 00:52:38,000 THEY SECURED THEIR FREEDOM AND 1551 00:52:38,001 --> 00:52:39,000 WHAT A CELBRATORY TIME THAT 1552 00:52:39,001 --> 00:52:40,000 WAS. 1553 00:52:40,001 --> 00:52:43,000 I WANT TO ACKNOWLEDGE SO MANY 1554 00:52:43,001 --> 00:52:45,000 PRIME MINISTERS BUT FORMER PRIME 1555 00:52:45,001 --> 00:52:48,000 MINISTER MANLY, FORMER PRIME 1556 00:52:48,001 --> 00:52:50,000 MINISTER PATTERSON, ALL GREAT 1557 00:52:50,001 --> 00:52:53,000 LEADERS THAT BROUGHT GREATNESS 1558 00:52:53,001 --> 00:52:54,000 TO THE CARIBBEAN AND TO 1559 00:52:54,001 --> 00:52:56,000 ACKNOWLEDGE THE PRESIDENT PRIME 1560 00:52:56,001 --> 00:52:57,000 MINIER AS HE CONTINUES TO 1561 00:52:57,001 --> 00:53:00,000 WORK, TO ACKNOWLEDGE THE FIRST 1562 00:53:00,001 --> 00:53:03,000 WOMAN PRIME MINISTER AS WELL 1563 00:53:03,001 --> 00:53:06,000 THAT WAS IN JAMAICA FOR AT LEAST 1564 00:53:06,001 --> 00:53:07,000 A TIME IN THE LAST TWO YEARS. 1565 00:53:07,001 --> 00:53:11,000 WE KNOW THAT SHE'S BEEN CALLED 1566 00:53:11,001 --> 00:53:12,000 WITH GREAT LOVE AND AFFECTION 1567 00:53:12,001 --> 00:53:14,000 BUT WE RESPECT THE SERVICE SHE 1568 00:53:14,001 --> 00:53:16,000 HAS GIVEN. 1569 00:53:16,001 --> 00:53:17,000 MY GRANDPARENTS LEFT JAMAICA AND 1570 00:53:17,001 --> 00:53:20,000 PT TO WORK IN PANAMA, IN THE 1571 00:53:20,001 --> 00:53:22,000 PANAMA CANAL, AND I HAD THE 1572 00:53:22,001 --> 00:53:25,000 PRIVILEGE OF GOING TO THE PANAMA CANAL FOR A HOMELAND SECURITY 1573 00:53:25,001 --> 00:53:26,000 MISSION AND SEEING MY 1574 00:53:26,001 --> 00:53:28,000 GRANDFATHER'S NAME LISTED AS ONE 1575 00:53:28,001 --> 00:53:30,000 OF THOSE WHO WORKED ON THE PANAMA CANAL. 1576 00:53:30,001 --> 00:53:33,000 AS HE CAME TO THE UNITED STATES 1577 00:53:33,001 --> 00:53:34,000 AND THEN SETTLED BETWEEN SOUTH 1578 00:53:34,001 --> 00:53:36,000 CAROLINA AND BROOKLYN, NEW YORK, 1579 00:53:36,001 --> 00:53:37,000 TO KNOW THAT HE W 1580 00:53:37,001 --> 00:53:40,000 WONDERFUL TRADITION OF HISTORY 1581 00:53:40,001 --> 00:53:43,000 AND HERITAGE, THE WONDERFUL 1582 00:53:43,001 --> 00:53:45,000 CUISINE OF RICE AND PEAS AND 1583 00:53:45,001 --> 00:53:47,000 MANY OTHER GOOD THINGS THAT WE 1584 00:53:47,001 --> 00:53:49,000 CONTINUE TO ENJOY CULTURALLY IN 1585 00:53:49,001 --> 00:53:50,000 MY FAMILY, THAT I RAISED MY 1586 00:53:50,001 --> 00:53:52,000 CHILDREN ON, THAT I WAS RAISED 1587 00:53:52,001 --> 00:53:54,000 ON, SO THAT THIS NEXUS OF 1588 00:53:54,001 --> 00:53:56,000 KNOWING YOUR ROOTS IS SO VERY 1589 00:53:56,001 --> 00:53:57,000 KEY. 1590 00:53:57,001 --> 00:53:59,000 SO WHAT I SAY TO ALL WHO ARE 1591 00:53:59,001 --> 00:54:00,000 LISTENING, THIS NATION IS 1592 00:54:00,001 --> 00:54:02,000 VALUABLE BECAUSE IT RESPECTS THE 1593 00:54:02,001 --> 00:54:03,000 CULTURE OF ALL OF US AND TODAY 1594 00:54:03,001 --> 00:54:06,000 WE SALUTE CARIBBEAN AMERICANS 1595 00:54:06,001 --> 00:54:08,000 AND I'VE BEEN PRIVILEGED AND 1596 00:54:08,001 --> 00:54:09,000 PROUD TO SERVE IN THE UNITED 1597 00:54:09,001 --> 00:54:10,000 STATES CONGRESS WITH THAT 1598 00:54:10,001 --> 00:54:11,000 HISTORY BUT ALSO TO WORK ON A 1599 00:54:11,001 --> 00:54:13,000 NUMBER OF ISSUES HELPING TO MAKE 1600 00:54:13,001 --> 00:54:14,000 THEIR LAND, THEIR NATIONS BETTER 1601 00:54:14,001 --> 00:54:16,000 AND CREATING A BETTER 1602 00:54:16,001 --> 00:54:17,000 PARTNERSHIP BETWEEN THE UNITED 1603 00:54:17,001 --> 00:54:18,000 STATES AND THE CARIBBEAN. 1604 00:54:18,001 --> 00:54:22,000 WITH THAT, I'D BE HAPPY TO YIELD 1605 00:54:22,001 --> 00:54:24,000 BACK TO THE DISTINGUISHED 1606 00:54:24,001 --> 00:54:25,000 GENTLELADY. 1607 00:54:25,001 --> 00:54:26,000 MRS. CHRISTENSEN: THANK YOU, 1608 00:54:26,001 --> 00:54:28,000 CONGRESSWOMAN JACKSON LEE, AND 1609 00:54:28,001 --> 00:54:30,000 THANK YOU FOR YOUR HARD WORK AND SERVICE AND SUORT FOR ALL 1610 00:54:30,001 --> 00:54:31,000 ISSUES RELATING TO THE 1611 00:54:31,001 --> 00:54:33,000 CARIBBEAN. 1612 00:54:33,001 --> 00:54:34,000 I KNOW YOU'RE VERY PROUD OF YOUR 1613 00:54:34,001 --> 00:54:38,000 JAMAICAN HERITAGE BECAUSE YOU 1614 00:54:38,001 --> 00:54:39,000 SPEAK OF IT VERY OFTEN. 1615 00:54:39,001 --> 00:54:40,000 THANK YOU. 1616 00:54:40,001 --> 00:54:42,000 AT THIS TIME I'D LIKE TO YIELD 1617 00:54:42,001 --> 00:54:44,000 SUCH TIME AS HE MIGHT CONSUME 1618 00:54:44,001 --> 00:54:45,000 TO THE FOUNDING CHAIR OF THE 1619 00:54:45,001 --> 00:54:47,000 FRIENDS OF THE CARIBBEAN 1620 00:54:47,001 --> 00:54:49,000 CAUCUS, THE GENTLEMAN FROM NEW 1621 00:54:49,001 --> 00:54:54,000 JERSEY, CONGRESSMAN DONALD 1622 00:54:54,001 --> 00:54:57,000 PAYNE. 1623 00:54:57,001 --> 00:54:58,000 MR. CONSENT TO REVISE AND EXTEND MY 1624 00:54:58,001 --> 00:55:01,000 REMARKS. THANK YOU. 1625 00:55:01,001 --> 00:55:09,000 LET ME COMMEND THE 1626 00:55:09,001 --> 00:55:12,000 BLACK CAUCUS AND ITS CHAIRPERSON 1627 00:55:12,001 --> 00:55:14,000 THIS EVENING, BARBARA LEE, FROM 1628 00:55:14,001 --> 00:55:17,000 CALIFORNIA FOR THE OUTSTANDING 1629 00:55:17,001 --> 00:55:18,000 JOB THAT SHE I DOING AS CHAIR 1630 00:55:18,001 --> 00:55:20,000 OF THE CONGRESSIONAL BLACK 1631 00:55:20,001 --> 00:55:22,000 CAUCUS AND AS THE CAUCUS MOVES 1632 00:55:22,001 --> 00:55:24,000 FORWARD BEING THE CONSCIENCE OF 1633 00:55:24,001 --> 00:55:28,000 THE CONGRESS, LET ME ALSO 1634 00:55:28,001 --> 00:55:31,000 COMMEND REPRESENTATIVE FUDGE WHO 1635 00:55:31,001 --> 00:55:38,000 IS FROM THE GREAT STATE OF OHIO 1636 00:55:38,001 --> 00:55:41,000 WHO CONTINUES TO LEAD THIS 1637 00:55:41,001 --> 00:55:46,000 SPECIAL ORDER ON OUR EVENINGS. 1638 00:55:46,001 --> 00:55:49,000 OF COURSE TO OUR CARIBBEAN QUEEN 1639 00:55:49,001 --> 00:55:50,000 , DELEGATE DONNA 1640 00:55:50,001 --> 00:55:53,000 CHRISTIAN-CHRISTENSEN WHO AS YOU 1641 00:55:53,001 --> 00:55:56,000 KNOW IS OUR REPRESENTATIVE FROM 1642 00:55:56,001 --> 00:55:59,000 THE U.S. VIRGIN ISLANDS. 1643 00:55:59,001 --> 00:56:01,000 NOT ONLY IS SHE AN EXPERT ON THE 1644 00:56:01,001 --> 00:56:05,000 CARIBBEAN, BUT AS WE ALL KNOW 1645 00:56:05,001 --> 00:56:08,000 SHE IS AN INTERNIST, PHYSICIAN 1646 00:56:08,001 --> 00:56:13,000 AND HAS BEEN VERY, VERY 1647 00:56:13,001 --> 00:56:16,000 AS WE MOVE FORWARD IN A VERY 1648 00:56:16,001 --> 00:56:19,000 DIFFICULT HEALTH CARE REFORM. 1649 00:56:19,001 --> 00:56:24,000 AND HER INPUT 1650 00:56:24,001 --> 00:56:25,000 I ALSO WANT TO COMMEND HER FOR 1651 00:56:25,001 --> 00:56:27,000 THE RECENT INVOLVEMENT IN A 1652 00:56:27,001 --> 00:56:31,000 DOCUMENTARY ABOUT THE 1653 00:56:31,001 --> 00:56:32,000 RELATIONSHIP B 1654 00:56:32,001 --> 00:56:34,000 AND PUERTO RICO THAT WENT 1655 00:56:34,001 --> 00:56:36,000 THROUGH THE HISTORY OF THE SUGAR 1656 00:56:36,001 --> 00:56:40,000 CANE INDUSTRY BACK AT THE TURN 1657 00:56:40,001 --> 00:56:43,000 OF THE CENTURY IN THE 19 -- LATE 1658 00:56:43,001 --> 00:56:46,000 1800'S, EARLY 1900'S AND THE 1659 00:56:46,001 --> 00:56:48,000 NUMBER OF PUERTO RICANS WHO CAME 1660 00:56:48,001 --> 00:56:51,000 TO ST. CROIX TO WORK THERE. 1661 00:56:51,001 --> 00:56:53,000 THIS WAS SHOWN LAST WEEKEND, 1662 00:56:53,001 --> 00:56:57,000 WILL BE SHOWN IN NEW 1663 00:56:57,001 --> 00:56:59,000 HAS RECEIVED MANY PRAISES FOR 1664 00:56:59,001 --> 00:57:00,000 THE INTERESTING HISTORY THAT IT 1665 00:57:00,001 --> 00:57:02,000 BRINGS ABOUT. 1666 00:57:02,001 --> 00:57:05,000 LET ME JUST SAY THAT IT'S A 1667 00:57:05,001 --> 00:57:06,000 PLEASURE TO BE HERE 1668 00:57:06,001 --> 00:57:08,000 OF THE SUBCOMMITTEE ON AFRICAN 1669 00:57:08,001 --> 00:57:10,000 GLOBAL HEALTH, BUT CHAIR OF THE 1670 00:57:10,001 --> 00:57:12,000 CARIBBEAN CAUCUS, A BIPARTISAN 1671 00:57:12,001 --> 00:57:14,000 CAUCUSTHAT WE HAVE HERE TO 1672 00:57:14,001 --> 00:57:17,000 KIND OF EXPAND OUR RELATIONSHIP 1673 00:57:17,001 --> 00:57:20,000 WITH THE CARIBBEAN THAT THIS 1674 00:57:20,001 --> 00:57:21,000 AMERICAN HERITAGE MONTH IS WELL 1675 00:57:21,001 --> 00:57:22,000 DESERVED. 1676 00:57:22,001 --> 00:57:25,000 IT'S RECOGNIZING THE DIVERSITY 1677 00:57:25,001 --> 00:57:26,000 AND SUCCESS OF PEOPLE FROM THE 1678 00:57:26,001 --> 00:57:27,000 CARIBBEAN. 1679 00:57:27,001 --> 00:57:28,000 YOU HAVE HEARD OTHER SPEAKERS 1680 00:57:28,001 --> 00:57:32,000 TALK ABOUT THE MANY PEOPLE FROM 1681 00:57:32,001 --> 00:57:34,000 THE CARIBBEAN WHO HAVE BEEN SO OUTSTANDING. 1682 00:57:34,001 --> 00:57:36,000 THE ACHIEVEMENTS AND IMPACTS 1683 00:57:36,001 --> 00:57:38,000 MADE FROM CARIBBEAN PEOPLE HAVE 1684 00:57:38,001 --> 00:57:40,000 CONTINUALLY MADE A POSITIVE 1685 00:57:40,001 --> 00:57:42,000 CONTRIBUTION TO THE WELL-BEING 1686 00:57:42,001 --> 00:57:44,000 OF AMERICAN SOCIETY. 1687 00:57:44,001 --> 00:57:45,000 WE COULD GO BACK TO OUR 1688 00:57:45,001 --> 00:57:48,000 BEGINNING. 1689 00:57:48,001 --> 00:57:49,000 ALEXANDER HAMILTON CAME FROM THE 1690 00:57:49,001 --> 00:57:52,000 CARIBBEAN, OUR FIRST SECRETARY 1691 00:57:52,001 --> 00:57:54,000 OF THE TREASURY. 1692 00:57:54,001 --> 00:58:00,000 WE HAVE OF COURSE COLIN PELL 1693 00:58:00,001 --> 00:58:01,000 FROM ALEXANDER HAMILTON WAS FROM 1694 00:58:01,001 --> 00:58:02,000 ST 1695 00:58:02,001 --> 00:58:05,000 SECRETARY COLIN POWELL IS FROM 1696 00:58:05,001 --> 00:58:10,000 THE CARIBBEAN, SICILY TYSON, WE 1697 00:58:10,001 --> 00:58:12,000 HAVE HEARD W.E.B. DU BOIS, JAMES 1698 00:58:12,001 --> 00:58:17,000 WELDON JOHNSON, MALCOLM X. 1699 00:58:17,001 --> 00:58:18,000 HARRY BELL FONTY -- BELEFONTE 1700 00:58:18,001 --> 00:58:20,000 AND SIDNEY POITIER. 1701 00:58:20,001 --> 00:58:23,000 IN MY OWN DISTRICT TWO PEOPLE I 1702 00:58:23,001 --> 00:58:25,000 MIGHT TALK ABOUT HERE, 1703 00:58:25,001 --> 00:58:26,000 ANTOINETTE KAY ELLISS WILLIAM 1704 00:58:26,001 --> 00:58:28,000 AND DR. CLAIRE NELSON. 1705 00:58:28,001 --> 00:58:30,000 THE FOUNDER AND PRE 1706 00:58:30,001 --> 00:58:32,000 INSTITUTE OF CARIBBEAN STUDIES 1707 00:58:32,001 --> 00:58:33,000 IS KNOWN FOR HER MAKING CARIBBEAN AMERICANS 1708 00:58:33,001 --> 00:58:35,000 HEARD. 1709 00:58:35,001 --> 00:58:36,000 AND I'M PROUD TO SAY THAT I HAVE 1710 00:58:36,001 --> 00:58:38,000 WORKED WITH HER ON A REGULAR 1711 00:58:38,001 --> 00:58:40,000 BASIS AS MANY OF US DO AND WE 1712 00:58:40,001 --> 00:58:41,000 ADMIRE HER AND THE GREAT WORK 1713 00:58:41,001 --> 00:58:42,000 THAT SHE DOES. 1714 00:58:42,001 --> 00:58:44,000 WE JUST HAD THE OPPORTUNITY TO 1715 00:58:44,001 --> 00:58:51,000 BE WITH HER LAST WEEK AND WE ARE 1716 00:58:51,001 --> 00:58:53,000 OUTSTANDING WORK THAT THE 1717 00:58:53,001 --> 00:58:56,000 INSTITUTE IS DOING. 1718 00:58:56,001 --> 00:58:58,000 THE SECOND PERSON I MENTIONED, 1719 00:58:58,001 --> 00:59:00,000 DR. ANTOINETTE K. ELLIS WILLIAMS 1720 00:59:00,001 --> 00:59:02,000 IS A LEADER IN MY CONGRESSIONAL 1721 00:59:02,001 --> 00:59:04,000 DISTRICT, CURRENTLY SERVES AS 1722 00:59:04,001 --> 00:59:06,000 PRESIDENT FOR THE HE SECTION 1723 00:59:06,001 --> 00:59:10,000 VALLEY HEALTH CARE AND SERVES ON 1724 00:59:10,001 --> 00:59:13,000 AND SERVES ON THE BOARD OF EAST 1725 00:59:13,001 --> 00:59:15,000 GENERAL HOSPITAL. 1726 00:59:15,001 --> 00:59:18,000 SHE'S PART OF A NONPROFIT 1727 00:59:18,001 --> 00:59:20,000 ORGANIZATION OF DOCTORS, NURSES, 1728 00:59:20,001 --> 00:59:21,000 AND OTHER PROFESSIONALS WHO GIVE 1729 00:59:21,001 --> 00:59:22,000 BACK TO THE COMMUNITY THROUGH 1730 00:59:22,001 --> 00:59:24,000 THEIR SERVICES. 1731 00:59:24,001 --> 00:59:27,000 SHE IS A FOUNDER AND DIRECTOR OF 1732 00:59:27,001 --> 00:59:28,000 THE STATEWIDE FEMALE LEADERSHIP 1733 00:59:28,001 --> 00:59:30,000 DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE AND 1734 00:59:30,001 --> 00:59:31,000 RESEARCH CENTER AT THE NEW 1735 00:59:31,001 --> 00:59:33,000 JERSEY CITY INSTITUTE. 1736 00:59:33,001 --> 00:59:35,000 THE CARIBBEAN COMMUNITY'S 1737 00:59:35,001 --> 00:59:37,000 PRESENCE ALSO PLAYS A WIDE ROLE 1738 00:59:37,001 --> 00:59:41,000 IN OUR ELECTIONS, ESPECIALLY IN 1739 00:59:41,001 --> 00:59:42,000 MY DISTRICT, WHERE THE GREATER 1740 00:59:42,001 --> 00:59:46,000 SETTLEMENT OF MANY PEOPLE FROM 1741 00:59:46,001 --> 00:59:48,000 THE CARIBBEAN IN EAST ORANGE AND 1742 00:59:48,001 --> 00:59:49,000 IRVINGTON AND NEWARK MAKE THEIR 1743 00:59:49,001 --> 00:59:51,000 VOICES HEARD. 1744 00:59:51,001 --> 00:59:54,000 PAST ELECTIONS WE HAVE SEEN MANY 1745 00:59:54,001 --> 00:59:55,000 PEOPLE FROM THE CARIBBEAN 1746 00:59:55,001 --> 00:59:59,000 COMMUNITIES EDUCATE CARIBBEANS 1747 00:59:59,001 --> 01:00:01,000 ON THE AWARENESS OF 1748 01:00:01,001 --> 01:00:03,000 PARTICIPATION IN RECOGNIZING 1749 01:00:03,001 --> 01:00:06,000 JUNE AS CARIBBEAN MONTH. 1750 01:00:06,001 --> 01:00:08,000 MY WORK WITH THE CAUCUS THIS 1751 01:00:08,001 --> 01:00:09,000 CONGRESS HAS CONTINUALLY FOCUSED 1752 01:00:09,001 --> 01:00:10,000 ON ENHANCING RELATIONSHIPS 1753 01:00:10,001 --> 01:00:12,000 BETWEEN THE UNITED STATES AND 1754 01:00:12,001 --> 01:00:16,000 THE CARIBBEAN STATES BY 1755 01:00:16,001 --> 01:00:17,000 REVIEWING PROPOSALS AND PENDING 1756 01:00:17,001 --> 01:00:19,000 LEGISLATION THAT HAS DIRECT 1757 01:00:19,001 --> 01:00:22,000 IMPACT ON THE CARIBBEAN. 1758 01:00:22,001 --> 01:00:23,000 I BELIEVE THAT BY FACILITATING 1759 01:00:23,001 --> 01:00:25,000 AN ONGOING DIALOGUE WE CAN 1760 01:00:25,001 --> 01:00:27,000 CONTINUE TO RECOGNIZE THE 1761 01:00:27,001 --> 01:00:29,000 CARIBBEAN AS AMERICA'S THIRD 1762 01:00:29,001 --> 01:00:31,000 BORDER FOR TRADE, FOR POLITICAL 1763 01:00:31,001 --> 01:00:33,000 STABILITY, FOR FIGHTS AGAINST 1764 01:00:33,001 --> 01:00:34,000 DRUG TRAFFICKING, AND FOR 1765 01:00:34,001 --> 01:00:36,000 ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT. 1766 01:00:36,001 --> 01:00:38,000 WE NEED TO REMBER THAT THE 1767 01:00:38,001 --> 01:00:40,000 CARIBBEAN IS NOT JUST A PLACE 1768 01:00:40,001 --> 01:00:41,000 FOR VACATIONING BUT IT'S A PLACE 1769 01:00:41,001 --> 01:00:43,000 IN NEED OF ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT 1770 01:00:43,001 --> 01:00:46,000 WITH THE CURRENT OPEN TRADE 1771 01:00:46,001 --> 01:00:48,000 REGIME, THE CHALLENGE FOR 1772 01:00:48,001 --> 01:00:51,000 CARIBBEAN IS TO QUICKLY DEVELOP 1773 01:00:51,001 --> 01:00:53,000 HIGH PRODUCTIVE SECTORS THAT 1774 01:00:53,001 --> 01:00:54,000 COULD DRIVE THE REGION'S 1775 01:00:54,001 --> 01:00:56,000 DEVELOPMENT. 1776 01:00:56,001 --> 01:00:57,000 WE KNOW THAT THE SAME PROBLEMS 1777 01:00:57,001 --> 01:00:59,000 THAT HAVE STRICKEN US IN THE 1778 01:00:59,001 --> 01:01:00,000 U.S. HAVE STRICKEN THE 1779 01:01:00,001 --> 01:01:03,000 CARIBBEAN, H.I.V. AND AIDS HAS 1780 01:01:03,001 --> 01:01:04,000 BECOME A PROBLEM, BUT WE ARE 1781 01:01:04,001 --> 01:01:07,000 VERY PLEASED THA 1782 01:01:07,001 --> 01:01:09,000 PROGRAM NOW HAS BEEN EXPANDED TO 1783 01:01:09,001 --> 01:01:12,000 14 CARIBBEAN COUNTRIES. 1784 01:01:12,001 --> 01:01:18,000 THE EPIDEMIC HAS CLAIMED CLOSE 1785 01:01:18,001 --> 01:01:20,000 TO 300,000 LIVES -- OR 300,000 1786 01:01:20,001 --> 01:01:22,000 PEOPLE LIVING IN THE CARIBBEAN 1787 01:01:22,001 --> 01:01:24,000 WITH THE VIRUS. 1788 01:01:24,001 --> 01:01:28,000 AND IT'S THE LEADING CAUSE OF 1789 01:01:28,001 --> 01:01:34,000 DEATH FROM PEOPLE FROM 15 TO 44. 1790 01:01:34,001 --> 01:01:35,000 WE KNOW THAT OUR HAITI, THE LIFE 1791 01:01:35,001 --> 01:01:38,000 EXPECTANCY HAS ALSO BEEN 1792 01:01:38,001 --> 01:01:39,000 IMPACTED TREMENDOUSLY BY H.I.V. 1793 01:01:39,001 --> 01:01:42,000 AND AIDS. 1794 01:01:42,001 --> 01:01:45,000 HOWEVER LIKE I SAID WE HAVE A 1795 01:01:45,001 --> 01:01:48,000 TREMENDOUS RELATIONSHIP WITH OUR 1796 01:01:48,001 --> 01:01:49,000 FRIENDS IN THEARIBBEAN. 1797 01:01:49,001 --> 01:01:51,000 THERE ARE SEVERAL PROBLEMS WE 1798 01:01:51,001 --> 01:01:56,000 NEED TO HELP THEM ON. 1799 01:01:56,001 --> 01:01:57,000 DEPORTATION AS Y KNOW IN 1996 1800 01:01:57,001 --> 01:01:59,000 THE U.S. LAW CHANGED ANYONE 1801 01:01:59,001 --> 01:02:01,000 CONVICTED OF AN OFFENSE HAD TO 1802 01:02:01,001 --> 01:02:02,000 FACE DEPORTATION FROM THE UNITED 1803 01:02:02,001 --> 01:02:04,000 STATES. 1804 01:02:04,001 --> 01:02:07,000 AS A RESULT MANY OF THESE SMALL 1805 01:02:07,001 --> 01:02:10,000 NATION COUNTRIES HAVE HAD TO 1806 01:02:10,001 --> 01:02:15,000 ABSORB PERSONS WHO MAY HAVE COME 1807 01:02:15,001 --> 01:02:16,000 TO THE UNITED STATES AS INFANTS 1808 01:02:16,001 --> 01:02:19,000 BUT HAVE ENGAGED IN CRIME AND 1809 01:02:19,001 --> 01:02:20,000 NOW ARE SENT BACK 20, 30, 40 1810 01:02:20,001 --> 01:02:21,000 YEARS LATER AS HARDENED 1811 01:02:21,001 --> 01:02:23,000 CRIMINALS. 1812 01:02:23,001 --> 01:02:25,000 MANY OF THE COUNTRIES IN THE 1813 01:02:25,001 --> 01:02:29,000 CARIBBEAN IS HAVING A DIFFICULT 1814 01:02:29,001 --> 01:02:31,000 TIME DEALING WITH THESE DEPORTEES. 1815 01:02:31,001 --> 01:02:34,000 ANOTHER PROBLEM THAT WE SEE IS 1816 01:02:34,001 --> 01:02:36,000 WITH THE DRUG TRAFFICKING IN MEXICO. 1817 01:02:36,001 --> 01:02:39,000 WE ARE FINDING THAT THEY ARE 1818 01:02:39,001 --> 01:02:42,000 PUSHING DRUG TRAFFICKING INTO 1819 01:02:42,001 --> 01:02:45,000 THE CARIBBEAN AND WE NEED TO 1820 01:02:45,001 --> 01:02:48,000 ASSIST THE CARIBBEAN IN FIGHTING 1821 01:02:48,001 --> 01:02:50,000 THIS -- AND GIVE THEM ASSISTANCE 1822 01:02:50,001 --> 01:02:53,000 IN LAW ENFORCEMENT AND TRAING 1823 01:02:53,001 --> 01:02:55,000 AND COAST GUARD ASSISTANCE. 1824 01:02:55,001 --> 01:02:57,000 BUT WIRE VERY PROUD OF MANY OF 1825 01:02:57,001 --> 01:02:58,000 THE -- WE ARE VERY PROUD OF MANY 1826 01:02:58,001 --> 01:02:59,000 OF THE HAITIANS AS I MENTIONED. 1827 01:02:59,001 --> 01:03:00,000 TRACK AND FIELD IS SOMETHING 1828 01:03:00,001 --> 01:03:03,000 THAT THEY HAVE EXCELLED IN. 1829 01:03:03,001 --> 01:03:06,000 I RECALL WHEN I WAS RUNNING BACK 1830 01:03:06,001 --> 01:03:09,000 IN THE EARLY 1950'S, GEORGE 1831 01:03:09,001 --> 01:03:12,000 RHEN WAS A QUARTER MILER WHO 1832 01:03:12,001 --> 01:03:15,000 WON THE HELSINKI GOLD MEDAL IN 1833 01:03:15,001 --> 01:03:17,000 THE OLYMPICS. 1834 01:03:17,001 --> 01:03:20,000 BUT GEORGE RHODEN AND MANY OTHER 1835 01:03:20,001 --> 01:03:23,000 JAMAICANS CAME UP AND WENT TO 1836 01:03:23,001 --> 01:03:25,000 MORGAN STATE UNIVERSITY 1837 01:03:25,001 --> 01:03:29,000 THE RELAYS THESE JAMAICANS IN 1838 01:03:29,001 --> 01:03:30,000 THE LATE 1940'S, EARLY 1950'S 1839 01:03:30,001 --> 01:03:34,000 STARTED TO GET RECOGNITION. 1840 01:03:34,001 --> 01:03:37,000 WE KNOW IN THE BEIJING OLYMPICS, 1841 01:03:37,001 --> 01:03:39,000 BOLT, AT 21 YEARS OLD WON THE 1842 01:03:39,001 --> 01:03:42,000 100 METERS AND THE 200 METERS. 1843 01:03:42,001 --> 01:03:44,000 HE WAS ONE OF THE YOUNGEST 1844 01:03:44,001 --> 01:03:47,000 PERSONS EVER TO WIN THOSE EVENTS 1845 01:03:47,001 --> 01:03:49,000 AND THE FIRST PERSON SINCE MR. 1846 01:03:49,001 --> 01:03:54,000 LEWIS FROM NEW JERSEY TO WIN 1847 01:03:54,001 --> 01:03:55,000 BOTH SPRINTS IN THE OLYMPICS. 1848 01:03:55,001 --> 01:03:59,000 WE HAVE HAD MANY OUTSTANDING 1849 01:03:59,001 --> 01:04:00,000 PEOPLE THAT STARTED POLITICS IN 1850 01:04:00,001 --> 01:04:05,000 NEW YORK. 1851 01:04:05,001 --> 01:04:06,000 JACK WAY BACK, FELLOW FROM ST. 1852 01:04:06,001 --> 01:04:08,000 LUCIA, HE WAS BORN IN 1905, 1853 01:04:08,001 --> 01:04:09,000 MOVED UP TO NEW YORK, HIGH 1854 01:04:09,001 --> 01:04:11,000 SCHOOL DROPOUT, WENT TO WORK FOR 1855 01:04:11,001 --> 01:04:13,000 A COMPANY AND WORKED HIS WAY UP 1856 01:04:13,001 --> 01:04:16,000 FROM A JANITOR TO BECOME A VICE 1857 01:04:16,001 --> 01:04:18,000 PRESIDENT OF THE FIRM. 1858 01:04:18,001 --> 01:04:21,000 BECAME ACTIVE IN POLITICS AND HE 1859 01:04:21,001 --> 01:04:27,000 BECAME NEW YORK CITY DEMOCRATIC 1860 01:04:27,001 --> 01:04:32,000 POLITICAL LEADER, LOYAL TO THE 1861 01:04:32,001 --> 01:04:34,000 TAMM MANNY HALL -- TAMANY HALL FEEASO. 1862 01:04:34,001 --> 01:04:36,000 JACK WON SEVEN STRAIGHT 1863 01:04:36,001 --> 01:04:37,000 ELECTIONS TO THE NEW YORK STATE 1864 01:04:37,001 --> 01:04:38,000 ASIMMABLYEPRESENTING HIS 1865 01:04:38,001 --> 01:04:42,000 HARLEM DISTRICT. 1866 01:04:42,001 --> 01:04:44,000 IN 1953 HE WAS ELECTED PRESIDENT 1867 01:04:44,001 --> 01:04:45,000 OF MANHATTAN BECOMING THE FIRST 1868 01:04:45,001 --> 01:04:46,000 AFRICAN-AMERICAN TO LD THE 1869 01:04:46,001 --> 01:04:48,000 POST. ELECTED MORE THAN A DECADE 1870 01:04:48,001 --> 01:04:51,000 BEFORE THE RISE OF BIG CITY 1871 01:04:51,001 --> 01:04:54,000 BLACK MAYORS IN THE 1960'S, HE 1872 01:04:54,001 --> 01:04:55,000 WAS THE HIGHEST RANKING 1873 01:04:55,001 --> 01:04:56,000 AFRICAN-AMERICAN MUNICIPAL 1874 01:04:56,001 --> 01:04:57,000 OFFICER IN THE NATION WITH AN 1875 01:04:57,001 --> 01:04:58,000 ANNUAL SALARY AT THAT TIME OF 1876 01:04:58,001 --> 01:04:59,000 25D,000. 1877 01:04:59,001 --> 01:05:02,000 HE WAS THE HIGHEST PAID BLACK 1878 01:05:02,001 --> 01:05:05,000 OFFICE HOLDER IN THE COUNTRY. 1879 01:05:05,001 --> 01:05:07,000 HE SERVED AS MANHATTAN BURROUGH 1880 01:05:07,001 --> 01:05:11,000 PRESIDENT FOR SEVERAL 1881 01:05:11,001 --> 01:05:14,000 AND BECAUSE OF HIS EMERGING 1882 01:05:14,001 --> 01:05:19,000 STRENGTH, THE POWS THAT BE 1883 01:05:19,001 --> 01:05:21,000 INTERRUPTED HIS CAREER AND HE LEFT. 1884 01:05:21,001 --> 01:05:25,000 BUT JACK SHOWED 1885 01:05:25,001 --> 01:05:29,000 WAS SOMETHING THAT MANY OF OUR 1886 01:05:29,001 --> 01:05:31,000 CARIBBEAN FKS BROUGHT TO THE 1887 01:05:31,001 --> 01:05:32,000 LEADERSHIP OF POLITICS IN OUR 1888 01:05:32,001 --> 01:05:34,000 COUNTRY. 1889 01:05:34,001 --> 01:05:36,000 AND I'LL JUST FALLY END BY A 1890 01:05:36,001 --> 01:05:39,000 PERSON THAT WE ALL ADMIRED SO 1891 01:05:39,001 --> 01:05:41,000 MUCH AND HAS BEEN MENTIONED 1892 01:05:41,001 --> 01:05:44,000 EARLIER, MR. MICHAEL MANLY, SON 1893 01:05:44,001 --> 01:05:48,000 OF NORMAN MANLY WHO SERVED AS 1894 01:05:48,001 --> 01:05:50,000 THE PRIME MINISTER, 1959 TO 1962 1895 01:05:50,001 --> 01:05:52,000 BUT MICHAEL MANLY CAME IN AND 1896 01:05:52,001 --> 01:05:57,000 BECAME THREE-TERM PRIME MINISTER 1897 01:05:57,001 --> 01:05:58,000 FROM 1972 TO 1980 AND 1989 TO 1898 01:05:58,001 --> 01:05:59,000 1992. 1899 01:05:59,001 --> 01:06:00,000 HE STEPPED DOWN BECAUSE OF BAD 1900 01:06:00,001 --> 01:06:01,000 HEALTH. 1901 01:06:01,001 --> 01:06:05,000 BUT JUST LOOK AT WHAT MICHAEL 1902 01:06:05,001 --> 01:06:08,000 MANLY DID IN JAMAICA. 1903 01:06:08,001 --> 01:06:10,000 A MINIMUM WAGE FOR ALL WORKERS. 1904 01:06:10,001 --> 01:06:12,000 FREE EDUCATION AT SECONDARY AND 1905 01:06:12,001 --> 01:06:15,000 UNIVERSITY LEVEL TO 1906 01:06:15,001 --> 01:06:18,000 THAT SPACE W AVAILABLE. 1907 01:06:18,001 --> 01:06:20,000 INSTITUTE OF LITERACY CAMPAIGN. 1908 01:06:20,001 --> 01:06:23,000 SUBDIVISION OF WHAT HE CALLED 1909 01:06:23,001 --> 01:06:26,000 IDLE LAND TO POOR BLACKS. 1910 01:06:26,001 --> 01:06:27,000 FORMATION OF AGRARIAN 1911 01:06:27,001 --> 01:06:29,000 COOPERATIVES WHERE THEY WORKED 1912 01:06:29,001 --> 01:06:31,000 TOGETHER. 1913 01:06:31,001 --> 01:06:34,000 PRICE CONTROL ON NUMEROUS 1914 01:06:34,001 --> 01:06:36,000 STAPLES TO BENEFIT THE POOR. 1915 01:06:36,001 --> 01:06:38,000 REDUCTION OF THE VOTING AGE TO 1916 01:06:38,001 --> 01:06:40,000 18 THUS INCREASING THE BLACK 1917 01:06:40,001 --> 01:06:43,000 VOTE THAT THEN WAS ABLE TO 1918 01:06:43,001 --> 01:06:46,000 CONTINUE TO MOVE FORWARD. 1919 01:06:46,001 --> 01:06:47,000 LISTEN TO THIS, 1920 01:06:47,001 --> 01:06:49,000 INSTITUTIONALIZING PAID 1921 01:06:49,001 --> 01:06:51,000 MATERNITY LEAVE AND FREE MILK TO MOTHERS. 1922 01:06:51,001 --> 01:06:55,000 THIS WAS WAY BACK THEN, IN 1923 01:06:55,001 --> 01:06:57,000 STILL FIGHTING TO GET FAMILY 1924 01:06:57,001 --> 01:06:59,000 LEAVE INSTITUTED IN SOME OUR 1925 01:06:59,001 --> 01:07:01,000 STATES IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. 1926 01:07:01,001 --> 01:07:06,000 30 YEARS LATER. 1927 01:07:06,001 --> 01:07:08,000 AND SO A PERSON LIKE MR. MANLY, 1928 01:07:08,001 --> 01:07:11,000 MICHAEL MANLY, DID SUCH AN 1929 01:07:11,001 --> 01:07:15,000 OUTSTANDING JOB AND SO WE ARE 1930 01:07:15,001 --> 01:07:16,000 JUST PLEASED TO CELEATE THIS 1931 01:07:16,001 --> 01:07:19,000 HERITAGE MONTH. 1932 01:07:19,001 --> 01:07:20,000 ONCE AGAIN I CERTAINLY COMMEND 1933 01:07:20,001 --> 01:07:22,000 THE GENTLELADY FROM THE U.S. 1934 01:07:22,001 --> 01:07:25,000 VIRGIN ISLANDS FOR HER 1935 01:07:25,001 --> 01:07:28,000 LEADERSHIP AND I KNOW THAT WE 1936 01:07:28,001 --> 01:07:31,000 WILL HAVE A WONDERFUL MONTH AS 1937 01:07:31,001 --> 01:07:33,000 WE CELEBRATE THE GREAT 1938 01:07:33,001 --> 01:07:35,000 ATTRIBUTES THAT THE PEOPLE FROM 1939 01:07:35,001 --> 01:07:37,000 THE CARIBBEAN HAD MADE NOT ONLY 1940 01:07:37,001 --> 01:07:38,000 TO THE UNITED STATES, EUROPE, 1941 01:07:38,001 --> 01:07:39,000 AND OF COURSE THE CARIBBEAN. 1942 01:07:39,001 --> 01:07:41,000 WITH THAT I YIELD BACK THE 1943 01:07:41,001 --> 01:07:42,000 BALANCE OF MY 1944 01:07:42,001 --> 01:07:45,000 MRS. CHRISTENSEN: THANK YOU, CONGRESSMAN PAYNE. 1945 01:07:45,001 --> 01:07:48,000 THANK YOU FOR YOUR LEADERSHIP 1946 01:07:48,001 --> 01:07:50,000 BOTH 1947 01:07:50,001 --> 01:07:51,000 AND GLOBAL HEALTH, AS WELL AS 1948 01:07:51,001 --> 01:07:53,000 FOR ALL OF THE WORK YOU HAVE 1949 01:07:53,001 --> 01:07:55,000 CAUCUS. 1950 01:07:55,001 --> 01:07:56,000 THANK YOU FOR JOINING US THIS 1951 01:07:56,001 --> 01:07:58,000 EVENING. 1952 01:07:58,001 --> 01:07:59,000 MADAM SPEAKER, I'D LIKE TO ASK 1953 01:07:59,001 --> 01:08:01,000 UNANIMOUS CONSENT TO E 1954 01:08:01,001 --> 01:08:03,000 STATEMENT INTO THE RECORD THIS EVENING. 1955 01:08:03,001 --> 01:08:04,000 THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE: WIT OBJECTION. 1956 01:08:04,001 --> 01:08:06,000 MRS. CHRISTENSEN: THANK YOU. 1957 01:08:06,001 --> 01:08:07,000 THERE ARE SO MANY MEN AND WOMEN 1958 01:08:07,001 --> 01:08:09,000 OF CARIBBEAN AMERICAN HERITAGE 1959 01:08:09,001 --> 01:08:11,000 WHO HAVE CONTRIBUTED GREATLY IN 1960 01:08:11,001 --> 01:08:13,000 SO MANY EVENTS THAT HAVE GRATED 1961 01:08:13,001 --> 01:08:14,000 TIES THAT FOREVER BIND US 1962 01:08:14,001 --> 01:08:15,000 TOGETHER. 1963 01:08:15,001 --> 01:08:18,000 PRESIDENT OBAMA AND HIS 1964 01:08:18,001 --> 01:08:20,000 PROCLAMATION OF THIS YEAR 1965 01:08:20,001 --> 01:08:22,000 RECOGNIZING CARIBBEAN AMERICAN 1966 01:08:22,001 --> 01:08:24,000 HERITAGE MONTH WROTE, AND I 1967 01:08:24,001 --> 01:08:26,000 QUOTE, GENERATIONS OF IMMIGRANTS 1968 01:08:26,001 --> 01:08:28,000 HAVE PLEA SERVED THE TRADITIONS 1969 01:08:28,001 --> 01:08:30,000 OF THEIR HOME LANDS AND THEY 1970 01:08:30,001 --> 01:08:32,000 DEFINE OUR NATION'S IDENTITY. 1971 01:08:32,001 --> 01:08:33,000 THIS MULTILINGUAL AND 1972 01:08:33,001 --> 01:08:34,000 MULTIETHNIC TRADITION HAS 1973 01:08:34,001 --> 01:08:36,000 STRENGTHENED OUR SOCIAL FABRIC 1974 01:08:36,001 --> 01:08:37,000 AND ENRICHED THE DIVERSITY OF 1975 01:08:37,001 --> 01:08:39,000 OUR NATION. 1976 01:08:39,001 --> 01:08:40,000 HE CONTINUES, WE ARE NEIGHBORS, 1977 01:08:40,001 --> 01:08:42,000 PARTNERS, AND FRIENDS. 1978 01:08:42,001 --> 01:08:43,000 WE SHARE THE SAME ASPIRATIONS 1979 01:08:43,001 --> 01:08:46,000 FOR OUR CHILDREN AND RESTRIVE 1980 01:08:46,001 --> 01:08:48,000 FOR THE VERY SAME FREEDOMS. 1981 01:08:48,001 --> 01:08:49,000 TOGETHER WE CAN MEET THE COMMON 1982 01:08:49,001 --> 01:08:51,000 CHALLENGES WE FACE, END OF QUOTE. 1983 01:08:51,001 --> 01:08:53,000 I WANT TO HIGHLIGHT SEVERAL OF 1984 01:08:53,001 --> 01:08:55,000 THOSE TIES THAT BIND. 1985 01:08:55,001 --> 01:08:57,000 THE BIRTH OF OUR NATION WAS 1986 01:08:57,001 --> 01:08:59,000 SUPPORTED BY MANY CARIBBEAN ISLANDS. 1987 01:08:59,001 --> 01:09:01,000 MANY DO NOT KNOW THAT THE GUNS 1988 01:09:01,001 --> 01:09:02,000 THAT WERE MANNED BY THE COLONIES 1989 01:09:02,001 --> 01:09:04,000 DURINGHE AMERICAN REVOLUTION 1990 01:09:04,001 --> 01:09:05,000 WERE GUN POWDERED BY SHIPMEN 1991 01:09:05,001 --> 01:09:07,000 FROM THE CARIBBEAN. 1992 01:09:07,001 --> 01:09:10,000 WHILE I BELIEVE MOST OF IT 1993 01:09:10,001 --> 01:09:13,000 ORIGINATED IN ST. KITTS IT WAS 1994 01:09:13,001 --> 01:09:15,000 IN THE ST. CROIX HARBOR WHERE 1995 01:09:15,001 --> 01:09:17,000 THAT GUNPOWDER WAS LOADED FOR 1996 01:09:17,001 --> 01:09:20,000 THE SHIPMEN TO THE EARLY COLONIES. 1997 01:09:20,001 --> 01:09:22,000 THERE WAS ALSO IN THAT ST. CROIX 1998 01:09:22,001 --> 01:09:25,000 HARBOR ACCORDING TO ROBERT 1999 01:09:25,001 --> 01:09:27,000 JOHNSON IN HIS BOOK, "ST. CROIX 2000 01:09:27,001 --> 01:09:28,000 1770 TO 1776 THAT THE FIRST 2001 01:09:28,001 --> 01:09:31,000 SALUTE TO THE STARS AND STRIPES 2002 01:09:31,001 --> 01:09:33,000 OCCURRED IN JUNE OF 1776. 2003 01:09:33,001 --> 01:09:36,000 AND OF COURSE THEN THERE'S THAT 2004 01:09:36,001 --> 01:09:37,000 -- DIRECT RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN 2005 01:09:37,001 --> 01:09:39,000 HAITI AND NEW ORLEANS, THE 2006 01:09:39,001 --> 01:09:41,000 LATTER OF WHICH IN THE BEGINNING 2007 01:09:41,001 --> 01:09:43,000 OF THE 19TH CENTURY WAS 2008 01:09:43,001 --> 01:09:46,000 CONSIDERED A MINOR ADJUNCT TO 2009 01:09:46,001 --> 01:09:47,000 CONSIDERED FRANCE'S MOST 2010 01:09:47,001 --> 01:09:52,000 VALUABLE POSSESSION. 2011 01:09:52,001 --> 01:09:56,000 . 2012 01:09:56,001 --> 01:09:58,000 IT WAS ONLY AFTER NAPOLEON HAD 2013 01:09:58,001 --> 01:10:03,000 FAILED TO CONQUER THE COLONIES, 2014 01:10:03,001 --> 01:10:07,000 THE LOUISIANA TERRITORY. 2015 01:10:07,001 --> 01:10:08,000 MANY FROM THE ISLAND WHO HAD 2016 01:10:08,001 --> 01:10:10,000 FLED THAT ISLAND BECAME EARLY 2017 01:10:10,001 --> 01:10:11,000 INHABITANTS OF NEW ORLEANS, 2018 01:10:11,001 --> 01:10:13,000 CONTRIBUTING TO THE CULTURE THAT 2019 01:10:13,001 --> 01:10:15,000 IS SO RECOGNIZED AND RENOWNED 2020 01:10:15,001 --> 01:10:18,000 TODAY. 2021 01:10:18,001 --> 01:10:19,000 THERE ARE ALSO MANY U.S. VIRGIN 2022 01:10:19,001 --> 01:10:23,000 ISLANDERS TODAY AND IN THE PAST 2023 01:10:23,001 --> 01:10:24,000 AND FROM THE THEN DANISH WEST 2024 01:10:24,001 --> 01:10:25,000 INDIES WHO HAVE AND CONTINUE TO 2025 01:10:25,001 --> 01:10:26,000 CONTRIBUTE MUCH TO OUR NATION 2026 01:10:26,001 --> 01:10:28,000 AND HAVE SPOKEN OF MANY OF THEM 2027 01:10:28,001 --> 01:10:32,000 ON SEVERAL OCCASIONS. 2028 01:10:32,001 --> 01:10:34,000 PEOPLE LIKE CASPER HOLSTEIN, 2029 01:10:34,001 --> 01:10:40,000 CONGRESSMAN PAYNE MENTIONED 2030 01:10:40,001 --> 01:10:44,000 RAYMOND JONES, EMIL GRIFFIN, TIM 2031 01:10:44,001 --> 01:10:46,000 DUNCAN, MANY, MANY OTHERS. 2032 01:10:46,001 --> 01:10:47,000 ONE, DENMARK VECSEY, WAS BORN IN 2033 01:10:47,001 --> 01:10:50,000 ST. THOMAS AND SETTLED IN 2034 01:10:50,001 --> 01:10:52,000 CHARLESTON, SOUTH CAROLINA, ONE 2035 01:10:52,001 --> 01:10:53,000 OF MY FAVORITE CITIES. 2036 01:10:53,001 --> 01:10:55,000 SETTLED INTEREST IN 1783. 2037 01:10:55,001 --> 01:10:56,000 17 YEARS LATER HE BROUGHT HIS 2038 01:10:56,001 --> 01:10:59,000 FREEDOM AND INSPIRED, I'M SURE 2039 01:10:59,001 --> 01:11:02,000 BY THE 1733 AFRICAN REBELLION OF 2040 01:11:02,001 --> 01:11:07,000 ST. JOHN AND THE 1791 SUCCESSFUL 2041 01:11:07,001 --> 01:11:09,000 AFRICAN REBELLION IN NOW HAITI, 2042 01:11:09,001 --> 01:11:11,000 HE ALSO PLANNED A WELL-KNOWN 2043 01:11:11,001 --> 01:11:15,000 SLAVE UPRISING THAT WAS TO HAVE 2044 01:11:15,001 --> 01:11:16,000 TAKEN PLACE IN 1822, BUT WAS 2045 01:11:16,001 --> 01:11:18,000 THWARTED. 2046 01:11:18,001 --> 01:11:22,000 I WOULD BE TRULY REMISS IF I 2047 01:11:22,001 --> 01:11:24,000 DIDN'T SPEAK BRIEFLY ABOUT ALEX 2048 01:11:24,001 --> 01:11:28,000 ANDER HAMILTON WHO WAS BORN IN 2049 01:11:28,001 --> 01:11:29,000 WHAT IS NOW THE INDEPENDENT 2050 01:11:29,001 --> 01:11:31,000 NATURE OF ST. KITTS AND WHO 2051 01:11:31,001 --> 01:11:32,000 SPENT HIS FORMATIVE YEARS IN ST. 2052 01:11:32,001 --> 01:11:36,000 CROIX BEFORE COMING TO NEW YORK 2053 01:11:36,001 --> 01:11:37,000 AND EVENTUALLY BECOMING, QUOTE, 2054 01:11:37,001 --> 01:11:39,000 ARGUABLY THE MOST IMPORTANT 2055 01:11:39,001 --> 01:11:42,000 FIGURE IN AMERICAN HISTORY WH 2056 01:11:42,001 --> 01:11:44,000 NEVER ATTAINED THE PRESIDENCY 2057 01:11:44,001 --> 01:11:47,000 BUT HAD A FAR MORE LASTING 2058 01:11:47,001 --> 01:11:48,000 IMPACT THAN MANY WHO DID. 2059 01:11:48,001 --> 01:11:50,000 ALEXANDER HAMILTON IS CREDITED 2060 01:11:50,001 --> 01:11:51,000 WITH HAVING BEEN WASHINGTON'S 2061 01:11:51,001 --> 01:11:55,000 AIDE TO CAMP, A REVOLUTIONARY 2062 01:11:55,001 --> 01:11:56,000 WAR HERO, A MEMBER OF THE 2063 01:11:56,001 --> 01:11:57,000 CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION, THE 2064 01:11:57,001 --> 01:11:59,000 LEADING AUTHOR OF THE FEDERALIST 2065 01:11:59,001 --> 01:12:00,000 PAPERS AND HEAD OF THE 2066 01:12:00,001 --> 01:12:02,000 FEDERALIST PARTY AS WELL AS THE 2067 01:12:02,001 --> 01:12:04,000 FIRST SECRETARY OF THE TREASURY 2068 01:12:04,001 --> 01:12:06,000 WHO FORGED OUR TAX AND BUDGET 2069 01:12:06,001 --> 01:12:08,000 SYSTEMS. 2070 01:12:08,001 --> 01:12:09,000 I BET HE WOULD HAVE LED US 2071 01:12:09,001 --> 01:12:11,000 BUDGET FOR PREVENTION AS WE'RE 2072 01:12:11,001 --> 01:12:13,000 TRYING TO DO IN REFORM. 2073 01:12:13,001 --> 01:12:14,000 HE STARTED THE COAST GUARD AND 2074 01:12:14,001 --> 01:12:16,000 THE CENTRAL BANK. 2075 01:12:16,001 --> 01:12:17,000 WE ARE PROUD THAT HE WAS A 2076 01:12:17,001 --> 01:12:19,000 VIRGIN ISLANDER, AND WE'RE 2077 01:12:19,001 --> 01:12:21,000 SEEKING TO MAKE HIS FAMILY HOME, 2078 01:12:21,001 --> 01:12:23,000 THE SITE WHERE HIS MOTHER WAS 2079 01:12:23,001 --> 01:12:25,000 BURIED, A PART OF THE NATIONAL 2080 01:12:25,001 --> 01:12:26,000 PARK SERVICE. 2081 01:12:26,001 --> 01:12:28,000 IT CARRIES THE SAME NAME AS HIS 2082 01:12:28,001 --> 01:12:30,000 HOME IN NEW YORK CITY, GRANGE. 2083 01:12:30,001 --> 01:12:32,000 THERE HAVE BEEN MANY CARIBBEAN 2084 01:12:32,001 --> 01:12:33,000 MEN AND WOMEN WHO HAVE SERVED IN 2085 01:12:33,001 --> 01:12:35,000 CONGRESS AND IN OUR NATION'S 2086 01:12:35,001 --> 01:12:36,000 ADMINISTRATIONS. 2087 01:12:36,001 --> 01:12:37,000 AS A WOMAN OF CARIBBEAN DESCENT 2088 01:12:37,001 --> 01:12:39,000 AND A FOUNDING MOTHER OF THE 2089 01:12:39,001 --> 01:12:40,000 CONGRESSIONAL BLACK CAUCUS, 2090 01:12:40,001 --> 01:12:42,000 CHERYLY CHISHOLM WHO HAS ALSO 2091 01:12:42,001 --> 01:12:44,000 BEEN MENTIONED THIS EVENING, LED 2092 01:12:44,001 --> 01:12:45,000 THE WAY FOR CONGRESSWOMAN CLARKE 2093 01:12:45,001 --> 01:12:47,000 AND I. 2094 01:12:47,001 --> 01:12:49,000 AS A PIONEERING MINORITY WOMAN, 2095 01:12:49,001 --> 01:12:51,000 HER LEGACY HOLDS THE DOOR OPEN 2096 01:12:51,001 --> 01:12:52,000 FOR MANY MORE AFRICAN-AMERICANS 2097 01:12:52,001 --> 01:12:57,000 AND WOMEN. 2098 01:12:57,001 --> 01:12:58,000 THEN THERE WAS MERVIN, MELVIN 2099 01:12:58,001 --> 01:13:01,000 EVANS, VICTOR FRAZIER AND ALL 2100 01:13:01,001 --> 01:13:02,000 WHO HAVE SERVED AS RESIDENT 2101 01:13:02,001 --> 01:13:05,000 COMMISSIONERS FROM PUERTO RICO 2102 01:13:05,001 --> 01:13:06,000 AS WELL AS THEIR HERITAGE WHO 2103 01:13:06,001 --> 01:13:08,000 ARE ALSO CARIBBEAN AMERICANS AND 2104 01:13:08,001 --> 01:13:09,000 WHO SERVE 2105 01:13:09,001 --> 01:13:11,000 IN THE PAST IN THIS BODY. 2106 01:13:11,001 --> 01:13:16,000 MANY MORE OF OUR NATION'S 2107 01:13:16,001 --> 01:13:18,000 CARIBBEAN SUCH AS OUR FORMER SECRETARY OF STATE, COLIN 2108 01:13:18,001 --> 01:13:21,000 POWELL, ATTORNEY GENERAL, ERIC 2109 01:13:21,001 --> 01:13:23,000 HOLDER, ASSISTANT SECRETARY OF 2110 01:13:23,001 --> 01:13:26,000 THE EXTERIOR DESIGNEE AND 2111 01:13:26,001 --> 01:13:28,000 SUPREME COURT NOMINEE, SONIA SOTOMAYOR. 2112 01:13:28,001 --> 01:13:30,000 BUT THERE ARE MANY OTHERS. 2113 01:13:30,001 --> 01:13:33,000 WE MAY LOOK BACK AS FAR AS THE 2114 01:13:33,001 --> 01:13:36,000 PERIOD TO THE 1900'S', TO THE 2115 01:13:36,001 --> 01:13:37,000 1920'S, WHICH MARKED THE 2116 01:13:37,001 --> 01:13:38,000 INITIATION OF MASS LABOR 2117 01:13:38,001 --> 01:13:39,000 MIGRATION FROM THE CARIBBEAN TO 2118 01:13:39,001 --> 01:13:41,000 THE UNITED STATES AND THE 2119 01:13:41,001 --> 01:13:42,000 FORMATION OF THE FIRST LARGE 2120 01:13:42,001 --> 01:13:43,000 CARIBBEAN COMMUNITIES HERE IN 2121 01:13:43,001 --> 01:13:45,000 THIS COUNTRY. 2122 01:13:45,001 --> 01:13:46,000 WE SHOULD NOT FORGET WORLD WAR 2123 01:13:46,001 --> 01:13:48,000 I, WHEN THE RECRUITMENT OF LABOR 2124 01:13:48,001 --> 01:13:50,000 FROM THE CARIBBEAN BECAME 2125 01:13:50,001 --> 01:13:52,000 EMPIRTIVE, MORE THAN 100,000 2126 01:13:52,001 --> 01:13:53,000 CARIBBEAN LABORERS WERE 2127 01:13:53,001 --> 01:13:55,000 RECRUITED FOR AGRICULTURAL AND 2128 01:13:55,001 --> 01:13:58,000 TEDIOUS JOBS AS PAR AS -- PART 2129 01:13:58,001 --> 01:13:59,000 OF WAR LABORERS. 2130 01:13:59,001 --> 01:14:00,000 WE SHOULD ACKNOWLEDGE THE 2131 01:14:00,001 --> 01:14:01,000 CARIBBEAN MEN AND WOMEN WHO 2132 01:14:01,001 --> 01:14:04,000 SERVED OUR COUNTRY AND THOSEHO 2133 01:14:04,001 --> 01:14:06,000 CONTINUE TO SERVE THIS COUNTRY 2134 01:14:06,001 --> 01:14:07,000 OVERSEAS IN ITS CONFLICTS TODAY. 2135 01:14:07,001 --> 01:14:10,000 SO I FEEL IT'S BEEN AN HONOR AND 2136 01:14:10,001 --> 01:14:11,000 A PRIVILEGE AS A CARIBBEAN 2137 01:14:11,001 --> 01:14:14,000 AMERICAN WHOSE ROOTS FLY CUBA, 2138 01:14:14,001 --> 01:14:15,000 AN TIGA, ST. KITTS AND THE 2139 01:14:15,001 --> 01:14:17,000 DANISH WEST INDIES, NOW THE 2140 01:14:17,001 --> 01:14:19,000 VIRNLEN ISLANDS, TO HOST THIS 2141 01:14:19,001 --> 01:14:20,000 HOUR WITH THE CONGRESSIONAL 2142 01:14:20,001 --> 01:14:22,000 BLACK CAUCUS IS RECOGNIZE AND 2143 01:14:22,001 --> 01:14:23,000 PAID TRIBUTE TO CARIBBEAN 2144 01:14:23,001 --> 01:14:25,000 AMERICAN HERITAGE. 2145 01:14:25,001 --> 01:14:26,000 WITH THAT, MADAM SPEAKER, I 2146 01:14:26,001 --> 01:14:32,000 YIELD BACK THE BALANCE OF MY 2147 01:14:32,001 --> 01:14:33,000 TIME. 2148 01:14:33,001 --> 01:14:35,000 THE SPEAKER 2149 01:14:35,001 --> 01:14:36,000 GENTLELADY YIELDS BACK THE 2150 01:14:36,001 --> 01:14:38,000 BALANCE OF HER TIME. 2151 01:14:38,001 --> 01:14:39,000 UNDER THE SPEAKER'S ANNOUNCED 2152 01:14:39,001 --> 01:14:41,000 POLICY OF JANUARY 6, 2009, THE 2153 01:14:41,001 --> 01:14:45,000 GENTLEMAN FROM TEXAS, MR. 2154 01:14:45,001 --> 01:15:06,000 MINUTES AS THE DESIGNEE OF THE 2155 01:15:06,001 --> 01:15:08,000 MINORITY LEADER. 2156 01:15:08,001 --> 01:15:09,000 MR. CARTER: I WANT TO THANK YOU 2157 01:15:09,001 --> 01:15:12,000 FOR RECOGNIZING ME TODAY. 2158 01:15:12,001 --> 01:15:17,000 I GO SOME STUFF I THINK'S 2159 01:15:17,001 --> 01:15:18,000 KIBEDS OF INTERESTING TO TALK -- 2160 01:15:18,001 --> 01:15:19,000 KIND OF INTERESTING TO TALK 2161 01:15:19,001 --> 01:15:28,000 ABOUT. 2162 01:15:28,001 --> 01:15:31,000 LET'S SEE, LET'S START WITH -- 2163 01:15:31,001 --> 01:15:33,000 RECENTLY WHILE LISTENING TO THE 2164 01:15:33,001 --> 01:15:36,000 RADIO I HEARD AN ANNOUNCEMENT 2165 01:15:36,001 --> 01:15:38,000 THAT PRESIDENT OBAMA WAS 2166 01:15:38,001 --> 01:15:43,000 APPOINTING A GENTLEMAN TO BE 2167 01:15:43,001 --> 01:15:46,000 NAMED THE 2168 01:15:46,001 --> 01:15:48,000 THAT KIND OF THREW ME, I BEING 2169 01:15:48,001 --> 01:15:51,000 AN OLD CRIMINAL LAW TRIAL JUDGE. 2170 01:15:51,001 --> 01:15:53,000 I REMEMBER THE DRUG 2171 01:15:53,001 --> 01:15:56,000 PAST. 2172 01:15:56,001 --> 01:15:58,000 I REMEMBER I THINK A COUPLE OF 2173 01:15:58,001 --> 01:16:01,000 HOMELAND SECURITY CZARS, BUT I 2174 01:16:01,001 --> 01:16:02,000 NEVER HAD HEARD OF A 2175 01:16:02,001 --> 01:16:04,000 COMPENSATION C 2176 01:16:04,001 --> 01:16:07,000 SO I STARTED LOOKING INTO IT. 2177 01:16:07,001 --> 01:16:08,000 AND I'VE ALWAYS THOUGHT THAT IT 2178 01:16:08,001 --> 01:16:10,000 WAS KIND OF PECULIAR FOR A 2179 01:16:10,001 --> 01:16:12,000 DEMOCRATIC COUNTRY TO EVEN USE 2180 01:16:12,001 --> 01:16:14,000 THE TERM CZAR. 2181 01:16:14,001 --> 01:16:17,000 BUT OTHERS HAVE ADOPTED IT AHEAD 2182 01:16:17,001 --> 01:16:19,000 OF TIME SO I DON'T HAVE ANY 2183 01:16:19,001 --> 01:16:20,000 PROBLEM WITH USING THE WORD CZAR 2184 01:16:20,001 --> 01:16:22,000 ALTHOUGH IF YOU LOOK IT UP IN 2185 01:16:22,001 --> 01:16:25,000 THE DICTIONARY YOU'LL FIND OUT, 2186 01:16:25,001 --> 01:16:26,000 THE MOST PAP LAR VERSION IS A 2187 01:16:26,001 --> 01:16:28,000 FORM OF THE -- POPULAR VERSION 2188 01:16:28,001 --> 01:16:31,000 IS THE FORM OF THE RUSSIAN, 2189 01:16:31,001 --> 01:16:35,000 TOTALLY AUTO CONTRACTIC 2190 01:16:35,001 --> 01:16:39,000 EMPERORERS OF THE OLD IMPERIAL 2191 01:16:39,001 --> 01:16:41,000 RUSSIA -- EMPERORS OF THE OLD 2192 01:16:41,001 --> 01:16:42,000 IMPERIAL RUSSIA. 2193 01:16:42,001 --> 01:16:43,000 I THINK IT SOUND AS LITTLE FUNNY 2194 01:16:43,001 --> 01:16:46,000 FOR US TO BE COMPARING OURSELVES 2195 01:16:46,001 --> 01:16:49,000 WITH THAT FAILED SYSTEM, BUT, 2196 01:16:49,001 --> 01:16:50,000 YOU KNOW, I CAN'T -- I CAN'T 2197 01:16:50,001 --> 01:16:51,000 CRITICE IT TOO MUCH BECAUSE 2198 01:16:51,001 --> 01:16:54,000 WE'VE HAD MULTIPLE FOLKS THAT 2199 01:16:54,001 --> 01:16:56,000 HAVE HAD THESE CZARS. 2200 01:16:56,001 --> 01:17:00,000 AND EXACTLY WHAT ARE T 2201 01:17:00,001 --> 01:17:02,000 THAT WE CREATE IN THIS COUNTRY? 2202 01:17:02,001 --> 01:17:04,000 WELL, THE BEST I'VE BEEN ABLE TO 2203 01:17:04,001 --> 01:17:09,000 DETERMINE, THESE ARE PEOPLE WHO 2204 01:17:09,001 --> 01:17:10,000 ARE HIRED MEMBERS OF THE 2205 01:17:10,001 --> 01:17:11,000 EXECUTIVE BRANCH OF THE 2206 01:17:11,001 --> 01:17:14,000 GOVERNMENT. 2207 01:17:14,001 --> 01:17:18,000 BUT THEY'RE NOT 2208 01:17:18,001 --> 01:17:20,000 OF HEALTH, EDUCATION AND WELFARE 2209 01:17:20,001 --> 01:17:22,000 OR SECRETARY OF LABOR. 2210 01:17:22,001 --> 01:17:24,000 BUT THEY'RE GIVEN SORT OF 2211 01:17:24,001 --> 01:17:27,000 ABSOLUTE AUTHORITY IN THEIR 2212 01:17:27,001 --> 01:17:28,000 FIELD TO GIVE DIRECTION TO THE 2213 01:17:28,001 --> 01:17:31,000 GOVERNMENT AND TO ADVISE THE 2214 01:17:31,001 --> 01:17:35,000 PRESIDENT AS HIS 2215 01:17:35,001 --> 01:17:36,000 OF OTHER CABINET, IF WILL YOU. 2216 01:17:36,001 --> 01:17:37,000 NOW THE FIRST THING THAT COMES 2217 01:17:37,001 --> 01:17:39,000 TO MIND WHEN YOU WONDER ABOUT 2218 01:17:39,001 --> 01:17:41,000 THAT IS, WITH WELL, YOU SAY, 2219 01:17:41,001 --> 01:17:47,000 WELL, WAIT A MINUTE, ALL THESE 2220 01:17:47,001 --> 01:17:48,000 SECRETARIES THAT BECOME MEMBERS 2221 01:17:48,001 --> 01:17:49,000 OF THE CABINET, THEY HAVE TO BE 2222 01:17:49,001 --> 01:17:50,000 CONFIRMED BY THE SENATE, 2223 01:17:50,001 --> 01:17:52,000 CONSTITUTIONALLY IT'S REQUIRED 2224 01:17:52,001 --> 01:17:53,000 THAT THEY BE CONFIRMED BY THE 2225 01:17:53,001 --> 01:17:56,000 SENATE AND WE HAVE THESE 2226 01:17:56,001 --> 01:17:57,000 CONFIRMATION BATTLES IN EVERY 2227 01:17:57,001 --> 01:17:58,000 ADMINISTRATION AND ACTUALLY SOME 2228 01:17:58,001 --> 01:18:00,000 ISSUES HAVE COME UP THIS TIME 2229 01:18:00,001 --> 01:18:02,000 WHICH CAUSED PEOPLE TO WITHDRAW 2230 01:18:02,001 --> 01:18:04,000 THEIR NAMES BEFORE THE ISSUE OF 2231 01:18:04,001 --> 01:18:05,000 WHETHER OR NOT THEY'D BE 2232 01:18:05,001 --> 01:18:09,000 CONFIRMED FOR REASONS LIKE THEY 2233 01:18:09,001 --> 01:18:11,000 DIDN'T PAY THEIR TAXES OR SOME 2234 01:18:11,001 --> 01:18:14,000 DIDN'T WANT TO GO THROUGH THAT 2235 01:18:14,001 --> 01:18:16,000 KIND OF AN ONEROUS PROCESS OF 2236 01:18:16,001 --> 01:18:21,000 GETTING TO BE THE SECRETARY OF 2237 01:18:21,001 --> 01:18:22,000 HOMELAND SECURITY OR THE 2238 01:18:22,001 --> 01:18:24,000 SECRETARY OF STATE, SECRETARY OF 2239 01:18:24,001 --> 01:18:25,000 COMMERCE OR WHATEVER SECRETARY 2240 01:18:25,001 --> 01:18:28,000 IT MAY BE, WHICH HAVE LONG TIME 2241 01:18:28,001 --> 01:18:29,000 BEEN THE HISTORICAL HEADS OF 2242 01:18:29,001 --> 01:18:30,000 DEPARTMENTS OF THE EXECUTIVE 2243 01:18:30,001 --> 01:18:33,000 BRANCH OF THE FEDERAL 2244 01:18:33,001 --> 01:18:35,000 GOVERN 2245 01:18:35,001 --> 01:18:37,000 BUT NOW WE'VE GOT THESE NEW GUYS 2246 01:18:37,001 --> 01:18:39,000 THAT ARE GOING TO BE CZARS. 2247 01:18:39,001 --> 01:18:41,000 NOW IT WASN'T SO HARD TO FIGURE 2248 01:18:41,001 --> 01:18:46,000 OUT WHEN YOU SAID, WELL, YOU'VE 2249 01:18:46,001 --> 01:18:48,000 GOT AN ATTORNEY GENERAL WHO IS 2250 01:18:48,001 --> 01:18:51,000 ONE OF THE CABINET MEMBERS, HE'S 2251 01:18:51,001 --> 01:18:52,000 CONFIRMED BY THE SENATE JUST 2252 01:18:52,001 --> 01:18:56,000 LIKE THE CONSTITUTION REQUIRES, 2253 01:18:56,001 --> 01:18:57,000 AND TO HAVE SOMEBODY WHO TOTALLY 2254 01:18:57,001 --> 01:19:01,000 FOCUSES ON THE DRUG FIGHT THAT 2255 01:19:01,001 --> 01:19:03,000 SUCH A BAD IDEA. 2256 01:19:03,001 --> 01:19:04,000 SO THAT'S KIND OF WHAT -- THAT'S 2257 01:19:04,001 --> 01:19:07,000 KIND OF THE FIRST CONCEPT OF 2258 01:19:07,001 --> 01:19:12,000 CZAR THAT I CAN RECALL AND I 2259 01:19:12,001 --> 01:19:13,000 THINK PROBABLY IT AT SOME TIME 2260 01:19:13,001 --> 01:19:16,000 RONALD REAGAN MAY HAVE USED THAT 2261 01:19:16,001 --> 01:19:17,000 -- AT SOME TIME RONALD REAGAN 2262 01:19:17,001 --> 01:19:21,000 MAY HAVE USED THAT TERM. 2263 01:19:21,001 --> 01:19:23,000 SO YOU CAN UNDERSTAND THAT. 2264 01:19:23,001 --> 01:19:25,000 BUT WHEN YOU HEAR CZAR YOU THINK 2265 01:19:25,001 --> 01:19:26,000 RUSSIAN. 2266 01:19:26,001 --> 01:19:30,000 WHEN YOU THINK OF RUSSIAN CZAR 2267 01:19:30,001 --> 01:19:32,000 YOU THINK OF THE DYNASTY. 2268 01:19:32,001 --> 01:19:36,000 WHICH IS THE DYNASTY THAT WAS 2269 01:19:36,001 --> 01:19:41,000 ULTIMATELY OVERTHROWN BY THE COMMUNIST REVOLUTION. 2270 01:19:41,001 --> 01:19:47,000 FROM ITS INCEPTION AND FOR 300 2271 01:19:47,001 --> 01:19:48,000 YEARS, THE ROMANOVS' RULE HAD 18 2272 01:19:48,001 --> 01:19:51,000 CZARS AND TWO OR THREE OF THEM 2273 01:19:51,001 --> 01:19:54,000 DIDN'T LAST VERY LONG. 2274 01:19:54,001 --> 01:20:00,000 AND IN 146 DAYS, THE OBAMA 2275 01:20:00,001 --> 01:20:03,000 ADMINISTRATION HAS 22 CZARS. 2276 01:20:03,001 --> 01:20:06,000 NOW, THESE FOLKS HAVE LOTS OF 2277 01:20:06,001 --> 01:20:10,000 TITLES, THESE 22 CZARS. 2278 01:20:10,001 --> 01:20:12,000 BUT IF CZAR MEANS WHAT CZAR HAS 2279 01:20:12,001 --> 01:20:14,000 SORT OF HISTORICALLY MEANT, IT'S 2280 01:20:14,001 --> 01:20:18,000 DESIGNED TO GIVE THEM SORT OF AN 2281 01:20:18,001 --> 01:20:20,000 ABSOLUTE, IN CHARGE POSITION ON 2282 01:20:20,001 --> 01:20:22,000 A CERTAIN SUBJECT MATTER. 2283 01:20:22,001 --> 01:20:24,000 AND REMEMBER, THESE FOLKS ARE 2284 01:20:24,001 --> 01:20:26,000 NOT ONES WHO WOULD HAVE TO BE 2285 01:20:26,001 --> 01:20:28,000 CONFIRMED THE WAY I UNDERSTAND 2286 01:20:28,001 --> 01:20:31,000 IT IN ORDER THOLD A POSITION. 2287 01:20:31,001 --> 01:20:33,000 THESE ARE JUST HIRED FOLKS THAT 2288 01:20:33,001 --> 01:20:34,000 THE PRESIDENT, THROUGH HIS 2289 01:20:34,001 --> 01:20:40,000 PRESUMED AUTHORITY, GIVES THEM 2290 01:20:40,001 --> 01:20:42,000 THIS POWER TO DO THIS. 2291 01:20:42,001 --> 01:20:45,000 SO, THE RUSSIANS TOOK 300 YEARS 2292 01:20:45,001 --> 01:20:51,000 AND WE TOOK 146 DAYS TO CREATE 2293 01:20:51,001 --> 01:20:53,000 THIS CZARDOM IF YOU WILL. 2294 01:20:53,001 --> 01:21:07,000 NOW, LET'S SEE WHO THESE FOLKS 2295 01:21:07,001 --> 01:21:14,000 ARE. 2296 01:21:14,001 --> 01:21:16,000 THE BEST I CAN TELL, THIS IS A 2297 01:21:16,001 --> 01:21:18,000 PRETTY ACCURATE LIST OF OUR 2298 01:21:18,001 --> 01:21:20,000 CZARS. 2299 01:21:20,001 --> 01:21:21,000 THAT HAVE BEEN CREATED BY THE 2300 01:21:21,001 --> 01:21:24,000 OBAMA ADMINISTRATION. 2301 01:21:24,001 --> 01:21:32,000 WE START OFF WITH THE BORDER 2302 01:21:32,001 --> 01:21:35,000 CZAR, CAROL BROWNER. 2303 01:21:35,001 --> 01:21:36,000 I BELIEVE SHE WAS PART OF THE 2304 01:21:36,001 --> 01:21:40,000 E.P.A. LAST TIME, MAYBE UNDER 2305 01:21:40,001 --> 01:21:43,000 CARTER OR CLINTON, I'M NOT SURE. PROBABLY CLINTON. 2306 01:21:43,001 --> 01:21:46,000 I DON'T KNOW ALL ABOUT ALL THESE 2307 01:21:46,001 --> 01:21:56,000 PEOPLE. 2308 01:21:56,001 --> 01:21:59,000 URBAN CZAR, INFOTECH CZAR, 2309 01:21:59,001 --> 01:22:01,000 FAITH-BASED CZAR, THE BEEN 2310 01:22:01,001 --> 01:22:02,000 REPORTED THAT HE'S AN ATHEIST. 2311 01:22:02,001 --> 01:22:04,000 BUT THAT IS HIS FAITH, I 2312 01:22:04,001 --> 01:22:11,000 SUPPOSE. 2313 01:22:11,001 --> 01:22:13,000 HEALTH REFORM CZAR, NANCY-ANN, 2314 01:22:13,001 --> 01:22:16,000 TARP CZAR, NOW WE HAVE ALL HEARD 2315 01:22:16,001 --> 01:22:20,000 ABOUT 2316 01:22:20,001 --> 01:22:21,000 THE -- HERB ALISON IS THE TARP 2317 01:22:21,001 --> 01:22:22,000 CZAR. 2318 01:22:22,001 --> 01:22:28,000 STIMULUS ACCOUNTABILITY CZAR, 2319 01:22:28,001 --> 01:22:31,000 THE NONPROLIFERATION CZAR 2320 01:22:31,001 --> 01:22:32,000 -- AND I MAY BE MISPRONOUNCING 2321 01:22:32,001 --> 01:22:35,000 THESE FOLKS' NAMES AND LET ME 2322 01:22:35,001 --> 01:22:36,000 SAY RIGHT OFF, IF I'VE 2323 01:22:36,001 --> 01:22:38,000 MISPRONOUNCED ANYBODY'S NAME, 2324 01:22:38,001 --> 01:22:39,000 IT'S BECAUSE I'M FROM TEXAS AN 2325 01:22:39,001 --> 01:22:42,000 I APOLOGIZE FOR THAT. 2326 01:22:42,001 --> 01:22:43,000 THE TERRORIST CZAR IS JOHN 2327 01:22:43,001 --> 01:22:49,000 BRENNAN, THE REGATORY CZAR, 2328 01:22:49,001 --> 01:23:00,000 THERE'S AN INTERESTING ONE, 2329 01:23:00,001 --> 01:23:01,000 CASS, THE DRUG CZAR IS GIL 2330 01:23:01,001 --> 01:23:12,000 KERILOWSKI. 2331 01:23:12,001 --> 01:23:15,000 THE GUANTANAMO CLOSURE CZAR, THE 2332 01:23:15,001 --> 01:23:22,000 AF/PAK CZAR, THE MIDEAST PEACE 2333 01:23:22,001 --> 01:23:25,000 CZAR, THE PERSIAN GULF/SOUTHWEST 2334 01:23:25,001 --> 01:23:31,000 ASIA CZAR, DENNIS ROSS, THE 2335 01:23:31,001 --> 01:23:36,000 SUDAN CZAR, J. SCOTT, CLIMATE 2336 01:23:36,001 --> 01:23:37,000 CZAR, TODD STERN, CAR CZAR, 2337 01:23:37,001 --> 01:23:41,000 STEVE RAD IN HER -- RAT IN HER. 2338 01:23:41,001 --> 01:23:43,000 HE'S BEEN ALL OVER THE PLACE -- 2339 01:23:43,001 --> 01:23:44,000 RATNER, HE'S BEEN ALL OVER THE 2340 01:23:44,001 --> 01:23:46,000 PLACE. 2341 01:23:46,001 --> 01:23:47,000 ECONOMIC CZAR, THE EXECUTIVE PAY 2342 01:23:47,001 --> 01:23:48,000 CZAR, THAT'S ONE OF MY FAVORITES 2343 01:23:48,001 --> 01:23:55,000 RIGHT THERE. 2344 01:23:55,001 --> 01:23:58,000 THE EXECUTIVE PAY CZAR 2345 01:23:58,001 --> 01:24:00,000 KENNETH FEINBURG AND THEN THE 2346 01:24:00,001 --> 01:24:01,000 CYBER SECURITY CZAR, POSITION TO 2347 01:24:01,001 --> 01:24:02,000 BE ANNOUNCED, BUT THEY'RE GOING 2348 01:24:02,001 --> 01:24:04,000 TO HAVE ONE. 2349 01:24:04,001 --> 01:24:06,000 NOW, RIGHT OFF I WONDERED ABOUT 2350 01:24:06,001 --> 01:24:09,000 THE CYBER SECURITY CZAR BECAUSE 2351 01:24:09,001 --> 01:24:11,000 WE'VE GOT AN INFOTECH CZAR UP 2352 01:24:11,001 --> 01:24:14,000 HERE WHICH IS SORT OF BOTH IN 2353 01:24:14,001 --> 01:24:15,000 THE SAME -- BOTH FIRST COUSINS, 2354 01:24:15,001 --> 01:24:17,000 ANYWAY. 2355 01:24:17,001 --> 01:24:18,000 AND I DON'T KNOW WHETHER THEY'LL 2356 01:24:18,001 --> 01:24:19,000 BE WORKING TOGETHER OR WHAT. 2357 01:24:19,001 --> 01:24:21,000 BUT THEY'RE GOING TO HAVE 2358 01:24:21,001 --> 01:24:23,000 ABSOLUTE POWER IN THEIR FIELD, 2359 01:24:23,001 --> 01:24:25,000 WHATEVER THAT MEANS. 2360 01:24:25,001 --> 01:24:27,000 I THINK THIS IS SOMETHING WE 2361 01:24:27,001 --> 01:24:28,000 OUGHT TO BE CURIOUS ABOUT. 2362 01:24:28,001 --> 01:24:32,000 THAT'S SO MANY CZARS, YOU KNOW 2363 01:24:32,001 --> 01:24:35,000 WHAT'S INTERESTING, THE RUSSIANS 2364 01:24:35,001 --> 01:24:37,000 GAVE NICKNAMES TO SOME OF THEIR 2365 01:24:37,001 --> 01:24:38,000 CZARS BASED ON THEIR BEHAVE -- 2366 01:24:38,001 --> 01:24:40,000 BEHAVIOR. 2367 01:24:40,001 --> 01:24:43,000 I DON'T THINK ANYBODY WOULD WANT 2368 01:24:43,001 --> 01:24:46,000 TO BE CALLED, LIKE, ALLEN THE TERRIBLE, YOU KNOW? 2369 01:24:46,001 --> 01:24:48,000 WE HAD AN IVAN THE TERRIBLE IN 2370 01:24:48,001 --> 01:24:50,000 THE RUSSIAN ROMANOV DYNASTY. 2371 01:24:50,001 --> 01:24:52,000 WE HAD -- I'M SURE THEY'D ALL 2372 01:24:52,001 --> 01:24:54,000 LIKE TO BE PETER THE GREAT OR 2373 01:24:54,001 --> 01:24:55,000 KATHRYN THE GREAT, HAVE THE 2374 01:24:55,001 --> 01:24:57,000 GREAT AFTER THEIR NAME, BUT I 2375 01:24:57,001 --> 01:25:04,000 GUESS WE CAN MAKE UP NAMES FOR 2376 01:25:04,001 --> 01:25:06,000 THEM. THE QUESTION IS WHY. 2377 01:25:06,001 --> 01:25:07,000 I THINK IT'S A QUESTION 2378 01:25:07,001 --> 01:25:10,000 ADMINISTRATION OUGHT TO ANSWER. 2379 01:25:10,001 --> 01:25:11,000 I'M NOT THE ONLY ONE ASKING THESE QUESTIONS. 2380 01:25:11,001 --> 01:25:13,000 THE STATEMENT FROM SENATOR BE 2381 01:25:13,001 --> 01:25:16,000 ROBERT BYRD SAID THE RAPID AND 2382 01:25:16,001 --> 01:25:17,000 EASY ACCUMULATION OF POWER BY 2383 01:25:17,001 --> 01:25:18,000 WHITE HOUSE STAFF CAN THREATEN 2384 01:25:18,001 --> 01:25:22,000 THE CONSTITUTIONAL SYSTEM OF 2385 01:25:22,001 --> 01:25:23,000 CHECKS AND BALANCES. 2386 01:25:23,001 --> 01:25:27,000 AT THE, WHITE HOUSE STAFF HAS 2387 01:25:27,001 --> 01:25:31,000 TAKEN DIRECTION AND CONTROL OF 2388 01:25:31,001 --> 01:25:32,000 PROBLEMATIC AREAS THAT ARE THE 2389 01:25:32,001 --> 01:25:36,000 STATUTORY RESPONSIBILITY OF 2390 01:25:36,001 --> 01:25:37,000 SENATE CONFIRMED OFFICIALS. 2391 01:25:37,001 --> 01:25:40,000 HE'S RAISING THE SAME ISSUE I 2392 01:25:40,001 --> 01:25:42,000 WAS RAISING A FEW 2393 01:25:42,001 --> 01:25:44,000 THAT IS THESE PEOPLE DON'T GO 2394 01:25:44,001 --> 01:25:45,000 THROUGH THE CONFIRMATION 2395 01:25:45,001 --> 01:25:48,000 PROCESS. 2396 01:25:48,001 --> 01:25:50,000 THERE'S NO SENATORS LOOKING AND 2397 01:25:50,001 --> 01:25:52,000 SEEING WHAT KIND OF REPUTATION 2398 01:25:52,001 --> 01:25:55,000 THESE PEOPLE HAVE, WHAT THEY ARE 2399 01:25:55,001 --> 01:25:56,000 DOING-WITH A -- DOING -- WHAT 2400 01:25:56,001 --> 01:25:58,000 THEY HAVE DONE IN THE PAST. 2401 01:25:58,001 --> 01:26:00,000 WHERE THEIR AREA OF EXPERTISE IS. 2402 01:26:00,001 --> 01:26:01,000 WHETHER OR NOT THIS IS THE MOST QUALIFIED PERSON. 2403 01:26:01,001 --> 01:26:02,000 WHETHER IT'S A PERSON WHO WOULD 2404 01:26:02,001 --> 01:26:04,000 MEET THE CONSTITUTIONAL 2405 01:26:04,001 --> 01:26:05,000 REQUIREMENTS OF SERVING OUR 2406 01:26:05,001 --> 01:26:06,000 NATION. 2407 01:26:06,001 --> 01:26:08,000 I KNOW THESE ARE HIRED BY THE 2408 01:26:08,001 --> 01:26:12,000 PRESIDENT. 2409 01:26:12,001 --> 01:26:15,000 WE DON'T -- 2410 01:26:15,001 --> 01:26:18,000 THIS ALTERNATE UNIVERSE WE ARE CREATING. 2411 01:26:18,001 --> 01:26:21,000 I GUESS YOU LEAVE THE CABINET 2412 01:26:21,001 --> 01:26:23,000 AND YOU GO OVER TO THE CZARDOMS 2413 01:26:23,001 --> 01:26:24,000 AND MEET WITH THEM. 2414 01:26:24,001 --> 01:26:25,000 MAYBE THEY ALL GET IN 2415 01:26:25,001 --> 01:26:26,000 AND BATTLE IT OUT. 2416 01:26:26,001 --> 01:26:28,000 I DON'T KNOW HOW IT WORKS. 2417 01:26:28,001 --> 01:26:31,000 WE'LL SEE. 2418 01:26:31,001 --> 01:26:42,000 BUT THIS IS SIZABLY MORE CZARS 2419 01:26:42,001 --> 01:26:45,000 THAN WE HAVE EVER HAD. 2420 01:26:45,001 --> 01:26:47,000 IN FACT, TAKING A LOOK AT 2421 01:26:47,001 --> 01:26:51,000 ESIDENT RONALD REAGAN 2422 01:26:51,001 --> 01:26:53,000 CZAR, PRESIDENT GEORGE HERBERT 2423 01:26:53,001 --> 01:26:54,000 WALKER BUSH HAD ONE CZAR, 2424 01:26:54,001 --> 01:26:57,000 PRESIDENT BILL CLINTON HAD THREE 2425 01:26:57,001 --> 01:26:59,000 CZARS, PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH 2426 01:26:59,001 --> 01:27:03,000 HAD FOUR CZARS. 2427 01:27:03,001 --> 01:27:08,000 WE'VE GONE ONE, ONE, THREE, FOUR 2428 01:27:08,001 --> 01:27:13,000 . 2429 01:27:13,001 --> 01:27:16,000 22. 2430 01:27:16,001 --> 01:27:20,000 IF THESE CZARS ARE SET UP TO 2431 01:27:20,001 --> 01:27:23,000 TARGET HISTORICALLY NEEDED HELP 2432 01:27:23,001 --> 01:27:25,000 FOR PEOPLE IN THIS COUNTRY, I 2433 01:27:25,001 --> 01:27:26,000 THINK IT'S DONE WITH A GOOD 2434 01:27:26,001 --> 01:27:28,000 HEART. 2435 01:27:28,001 --> 01:27:30,000 BUT I REALLY THINK WE SHOULD BE 2436 01:27:30,001 --> 01:27:33,000 -- WE AS THE AMERICAN PEOPLE 2437 01:27:33,001 --> 01:27:37,000 SHOULD START ASKING WHY. 2438 01:27:37,001 --> 01:27:40,000 WHY SHOULD YOU HIRE SOMEBODY 2439 01:27:40,001 --> 01:27:43,000 PRINCIPLE TO BE THE BORDER CZAR? 2440 01:27:43,001 --> 01:27:45,000 ALAN MAY BE A NICE GUY AND HE 2441 01:27:45,001 --> 01:27:48,000 MAY BE SMART AS A WHIP. 2442 01:27:48,001 --> 01:27:50,000 WE ALSO HAVE MRS. NAPOLITANO WHO 2443 01:27:50,001 --> 01:27:54,000 IS THE HEAD OF HOMELAND SECURITY 2444 01:27:54,001 --> 01:27:56,000 AND IT IS HER STATUTORY 2445 01:27:56,001 --> 01:27:58,000 RESPONSIBILITY TO BE IN CHARGE 2446 01:27:58,001 --> 01:28:02,000 OF DEFENDING THE BORDERS OF THIS COUNTRY. 2447 01:28:02,001 --> 01:28:03,000 IN FACT, IT'S THE CONSTITUTIONAL 2448 01:28:03,001 --> 01:28:06,000 RESPONSIBILITY OF EVERY MEMBER 2449 01:28:06,001 --> 01:28:07,000 OF THIS HOUSE TO DEFEND OUR 2450 01:28:07,001 --> 01:28:09,000 BORDERS. 2451 01:28:09,001 --> 01:28:12,000 BUT IT'S CERTAINLY HER STATUTORY 2452 01:28:12,001 --> 01:28:14,000 RESPONSIBILITY TO DEFEND OUR 2453 01:28:14,001 --> 01:28:17,000 NATION. 2454 01:28:17,001 --> 01:28:19,000 WE HAVE AN ENERGY DEPARTMENT AND 2455 01:28:19,001 --> 01:28:21,000 THE SECRETARY OF ENERGY, I 2456 01:28:21,001 --> 01:28:24,000 THINK, THE BEST I CAN FIGURE 2457 01:28:24,001 --> 01:28:25,000 OUT, IS SUPPOSED TO BE 2458 01:28:25,001 --> 01:28:26,000 RESPONSIBLE FOR THE ENERGY 2459 01:28:26,001 --> 01:28:27,000 DEPARTMENT. 2460 01:28:27,001 --> 01:28:30,000 NOW, I WONDER WHY WE HAVE TO 2461 01:28:30,001 --> 01:28:32,000 HAVE THIS ENERGY CZAR. 2462 01:28:32,001 --> 01:28:37,000 URBAN CZAR. 2463 01:28:37,001 --> 01:28:41,000 WELL, WE'VE GOT A DEPARTMENT OF 2464 01:28:41,001 --> 01:28:43,000 URBAN DEVELOPMENT THAT'S HOUSING 2465 01:28:43,001 --> 01:28:44,000 AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT, H.U.D., 2466 01:28:44,001 --> 01:28:45,000 THAT'S BEEN AROUND FOR AN AWFUL 2467 01:28:45,001 --> 01:28:47,000 LONG TIME. 2468 01:28:47,001 --> 01:28:49,000 THAT IS A CABINET POST. 2469 01:28:49,001 --> 01:28:50,000 SOHY ALL OF A SUDDEN DO WE 2470 01:28:50,001 --> 01:28:52,000 NEED AN URBAN CZAR? 2471 01:28:52,001 --> 01:28:53,000 WE NEVER HAD ONE BEFORE. 2472 01:28:53,001 --> 01:28:55,000 INFO TECH CZAR. 2473 01:28:55,001 --> 01:28:59,000 I DON'T KNOW WHERE THAT WOULD 2474 01:28:59,001 --> 01:29:02,000 FALL IN THE PURVIEW OF THE 2475 01:29:02,001 --> 01:29:07,000 ESTABLISHED 2476 01:29:07,001 --> 01:29:08,000 CONSTITUTION, BY STATUTE, BUT 2477 01:29:08,001 --> 01:29:09,000 SOMEWHERE. 2478 01:29:09,001 --> 01:29:12,000 FAITH-BASED CZAR, WE HAVE DEALT 2479 01:29:12,001 --> 01:29:14,000 WITH THE HEAD OF A FAITH-BASED 2480 01:29:14,001 --> 01:29:15,000 INITIATIVE IN THE BUSH WHITE 2481 01:29:15,001 --> 01:29:16,000 HOUSE. 2482 01:29:16,001 --> 01:29:18,000 IT CAME UNDER A LOTF CRITICISM 2483 01:29:18,001 --> 01:29:19,000 OM THE NOW MAJORITY, BUT THEY 2484 01:29:19,001 --> 01:29:23,000 CREATED ONE. 2485 01:29:23,001 --> 01:29:26,000 AT LEAST IT IS REPORTED, PUT AN 2486 01:29:26,001 --> 01:29:27,000 ATHEIST IN CHARGE OF THAT WHICH 2487 01:29:27,001 --> 01:29:29,000 TO ME SEEMS STRANGE. 2488 01:29:29,001 --> 01:29:31,000 THE HEALTH REFORM CZAR SHOULD BE 2489 01:29:31,001 --> 01:29:33,000 ACTIVE RIGHT NOW BECAUSE AS I 2490 01:29:33,001 --> 01:29:35,000 UNDERSTAND IT THE PRESIDENT 2491 01:29:35,001 --> 01:29:37,000 SPENT HIS DAY TODAY TRYG 2492 01:29:37,001 --> 01:29:40,000 CONVINCE PEOPLE IN VARIOUS 2493 01:29:40,001 --> 01:29:42,000 PLACES THAT WE NEEDED THIS 2494 01:29:42,001 --> 01:29:43,000 MASSIVE HEALTH REFORM THAT HE'S 2495 01:29:43,001 --> 01:29:45,000 SEEKING TO PUT. 2496 01:29:45,001 --> 01:29:46,000 AND HE WANTS TO ACTUALLY CREATE 2497 01:29:46,001 --> 01:29:47,000 -- PUT THE GOVERNMENT IN 2498 01:29:47,001 --> 01:29:51,000 COMPETITION WITH PRIVATE 2499 01:29:51,001 --> 01:29:52,000 INDUSTRY ON HEALTH CARE. 2500 01:29:52,001 --> 01:29:55,000 I WOULD SAY LEADING TO THE KIND 2501 01:29:55,001 --> 01:29:57,000 OF HEALTH CARE ULTIMATELY MAYBE 2502 01:29:57,001 --> 01:29:59,000 THROUGH THE BACKDOOR BUT 2503 01:29:59,001 --> 01:30:00,000 ULTIMATELY I THINK THERE IS NO 2504 01:30:00,001 --> 01:30:02,000 DOUBT AND MOST EXPERTS WOULD SAY 2505 01:30:02,001 --> 01:30:04,000 THE RECOMMENDATIONS THAT HE'S -- 2506 01:30:04,001 --> 01:30:06,000 THAT THEY ARE MAKING, THEY ARE 2507 01:30:06,001 --> 01:30:09,000 PUSHING FORWARD BETWEEN NOW 2508 01:30:09,001 --> 01:30:10,000 PROBABLY AND THE FOURTH OF JULY 2509 01:30:10,001 --> 01:30:13,000 ARE TO SET IN MOTION THE 2510 01:30:13,001 --> 01:30:14,000 POSSIBILITY OF A SINGLE PAYER 2511 01:30:14,001 --> 01:30:15,000 HEALTH CARE SYSTEM IN THE UNITED 2512 01:30:15,001 --> 01:30:20,000 STATES RUN BY THE GOVERNMENT. 2513 01:30:20,001 --> 01:30:22,000 THE QUALITY OF OUR HEALTH CARE 2514 01:30:22,001 --> 01:30:26,000 PLUMMET AND WE WILL SEE PEOPLE 2515 01:30:26,001 --> 01:30:28,000 LIKE ME, PEOPLE IN WASHINGTON, 2516 01:30:28,001 --> 01:30:30,000 MAKING DECISIONS AS TO WHAT 2517 01:30:30,001 --> 01:30:32,000 CERTAIN PEOPLE ARE SUPPOSED TO 2518 01:30:32,001 --> 01:30:34,000 DO FOR HEALTH CARE. 2519 01:30:34,001 --> 01:30:36,000 AND RATIONING THAT HEALTH CARE. 2520 01:30:36,001 --> 01:30:40,000 NOW, IF YOU ASK OUR GOOD FRIENDS 2521 01:30:40,001 --> 01:30:42,000 AND NEIGHBORS TO THE NORTH IN 2522 01:30:42,001 --> 01:30:44,000 CANADA, YOU SAY, WE HEAR YOU GOT 2523 01:30:44,001 --> 01:30:47,000 THE GREATEST HEALTH CARE SYSTEM IN THE WORLD. 2524 01:30:47,001 --> 01:30:48,000 THEY SAID, IT IS GOOD. 2525 01:30:48,001 --> 01:30:50,000 IT'S REAL GOOD. 2526 01:30:50,001 --> 01:30:52,000 AS LONG AS YOU'RE WELL. 2527 01:30:52,001 --> 01:30:54,000 IF YOU GET SICK, YOU GOT TO GET 2528 01:30:54,001 --> 01:30:55,000 ON A WAITING LIST TO GET 2529 01:30:55,001 --> 01:31:00,000 TREATED. 2530 01:31:00,001 --> 01:31:02,000 IN FACT, WE HAVE A GREATER CURE 2531 01:31:02,001 --> 01:31:04,000 RATE FOR BREAST CANSER IN THIS 2532 01:31:04,001 --> 01:31:05,000 COUNTRY BY ABOUT 30 POINTS, 2533 01:31:05,001 --> 01:31:07,000 PERCENTAGE POINTS THAN THEY DO 2534 01:31:07,001 --> 01:31:10,000 IN CANADA BECAUSE THEY WAIT TOO 2535 01:31:10,001 --> 01:31:12,000 LONG TO TAKE ACTION ON THE 2536 01:31:12,001 --> 01:31:14,000 BREAST CANCER ISSUE. 2537 01:31:14,001 --> 01:31:17,000 SAME THING GOES FOR PROSTATE CANCER FOR MEN. 2538 01:31:17,001 --> 01:31:18,000 THESE ARE THINGS WE OUGHT TO BE 2539 01:31:18,001 --> 01:31:21,000 THINKING ABOUT. 2540 01:31:21,001 --> 01:31:23,000 WE HAVE SOMEWHERE IN THE 90 2541 01:31:23,001 --> 01:31:26,000 PERCENTILE EXPRESS RATE IF WE 2542 01:31:26,001 --> 01:31:27,000 CATCH BREAST CANCER EARLY AND 2543 01:31:27,001 --> 01:31:29,000 AGGRESSIVELY PURSUE IT. 2544 01:31:29,001 --> 01:31:33,000 THEY ARE IN THE EARLY 60 EA, 2545 01:31:33,001 --> 01:31:34,000 LIKE 61%, 63%. 2546 01:31:34,001 --> 01:31:36,000 THIS IS SOMET 2547 01:31:36,001 --> 01:31:38,000 CONCERNED ABOUT. 2548 01:31:38,001 --> 01:31:42,000 IF YOU GET AN ORTHOPEDIC PROBLEM 2549 01:31:42,001 --> 01:31:44,000 IN CANADA, SAY BAD KNEE YOU NEED 2550 01:31:44,001 --> 01:31:46,000 TO GET FIXED, CAN YOU WAIT FIVE 2551 01:31:46,001 --> 01:31:47,000 YEARS BEFORE YOU GET IN TO SEE 2552 01:31:47,001 --> 01:31:50,000 THE ORTHOPEDIC SURGEON. 2553 01:31:50,001 --> 01:31:52,000 WHERE IN THE UNITED STATES YOU 2554 01:31:52,001 --> 01:31:53,000 COULD PROBABLY SEE HIM THE DAY 2555 01:31:53,001 --> 01:31:54,000 AFTER TOMORROW AND YOU COULD 2556 01:31:54,001 --> 01:31:56,000 PROBABLY GET SURGERY DONE NEXT 2557 01:31:56,001 --> 01:31:59,000 MONDAY. 2558 01:31:59,001 --> 01:32:00,000 SO WE HAVE 2559 01:32:00,001 --> 01:32:01,000 THINGS. 2560 01:32:01,001 --> 01:32:03,000 BUT WE GOT A HEALTH REFORM CZAR 2561 01:32:03,001 --> 01:32:05,000 AND I AM ASURE SHE'S GOING TO 2562 01:32:05,001 --> 01:32:06,000 TELL US HOW IT'S GOING TO WORK. 2563 01:32:06,001 --> 01:32:08,000 TARP CZAR, THAT'S PECULIAR TO 2564 01:32:08,001 --> 01:32:10,000 WHAT WE ARE DOING RIGHT NOW, 2565 01:32:10,001 --> 01:32:13,000 THAT'S THE TARP STUFF, AND THERE 2566 01:32:13,001 --> 01:32:14,000 MAY BE SOME UNDERSTANDING AS TO 2567 01:32:14,001 --> 01:32:17,000 WHERE THAT IS. 2568 01:32:17,001 --> 01:32:18,000 WE WERE TOLD BY TWO SECRETARIES 2569 01:32:18,001 --> 01:32:20,000 OF TREASURY THAT THEY WERE GOING 2570 01:32:20,001 --> 01:32:22,000 TO OVERSEE THIS AND THEY WERE 2571 01:32:22,001 --> 01:32:24,000 GOING TO MAKE SURE NOTHING BAD HAPPENED. 2572 01:32:24,001 --> 01:32:27,000 THAT'S WHAT THEY TOLD US. 2573 01:32:27,001 --> 01:32:30,000 WE HEARD ONE UNDER GEORGE BUSH 2574 01:32:30,001 --> 01:32:31,000 AND WE OBAMA. 2575 01:32:31,001 --> 01:32:33,000 BOTH THESE GUYS HAVE TOLD US 2576 01:32:33,001 --> 01:32:34,000 THEY ARE GOING TO BE LOOKING OUT 2577 01:32:34,001 --> 01:32:37,000 FOR OUR MONEY OVER HERE. 2578 01:32:37,001 --> 01:32:39,000 BUT WE GOT MR. TARP CZAR IS 2579 01:32:39,001 --> 01:32:44,000 DOING THAT. 2580 01:32:44,001 --> 01:32:45,000 A STIMULUS EXHIBIT -- ACCOUNTABILITY CZAR. 2581 01:32:45,001 --> 01:32:46,000 ACCOUNTABLE TO WHO? 2582 01:32:46,001 --> 01:32:48,000 WHAT DOES THAT MEAN? 2583 01:32:48,001 --> 01:32:49,000 BUT I'LL TELL YOU, THERE'S NO 2584 01:32:49,001 --> 01:32:51,000 DOUBT ABOUT IT NOW, THIS IS TRUE. 2585 01:32:51,001 --> 01:32:52,000 THE AMERICAN PEOPLE ARE SURE 2586 01:32:52,001 --> 01:32:54,000 WORRIED ABOUT HOW THIS MONEY'S 2587 01:32:54,001 --> 01:32:55,000 BEING SPENT AND WHERE IT'S 2588 01:32:55,001 --> 01:32:56,000 GOING. 2589 01:32:56,001 --> 01:32:59,000 AND IS THERE ANY WASTE, FRAUD, 2590 01:32:59,001 --> 01:33:00,000 AND ABUSE INVOLVED IN IT AS IT 2591 01:33:00,001 --> 01:33:01,000 COMES OUT? 2592 01:33:01,001 --> 01:33:03,000 BECAUSE WHEN YOU START THROWING 2593 01:33:03,001 --> 01:33:06,000 AROUND BILLIONS AND BILLIONS AND 2594 01:33:06,001 --> 01:33:10,000 BILLIONS OF DOLLARS UNTIL YOU 2595 01:33:10,001 --> 01:33:11,000 REACH TRILLIONS OF DOLLARS, IT 2596 01:33:11,001 --> 01:33:13,000 DOESN'T TAKE A ROCKET SCIENTIST 2597 01:33:13,001 --> 01:33:15,000 BACK HOME TO FIGURE OUT THAT 2598 01:33:15,001 --> 01:33:17,000 MUCH MONEY IS JUST A TARGET FOR 2599 01:33:17,001 --> 01:33:23,000 SOMEBODY TO ABUSE THE SYSTEM. 2600 01:33:23,001 --> 01:33:25,000 SO MAYBE THAT'S A GOOD THING. 2601 01:33:25,001 --> 01:33:27,000 NONPROLIFERATION CZAR. 2602 01:33:27,001 --> 01:33:28,000 I ASSUME THAT'S NUCLEAR 2603 01:33:28,001 --> 01:33:30,000 PROLIFERATION. 2604 01:33:30,001 --> 01:33:31,000 THAT'S WHAT YOU ALWAYS HEAR 2605 01:33:31,001 --> 01:33:34,000 CONNECTED TO THE PROLIFERATION 2606 01:33:34,001 --> 01:33:39,000 WORD. 2607 01:33:39,001 --> 01:33:41,000 BUT THE QUESTION IS, -- 2608 01:33:41,001 --> 01:33:45,000 TERRORISM CZAR. 2609 01:33:45,001 --> 01:33:47,000 YOU KNOW, WHEN 9/11 HAPPENED AND 2610 01:33:47,001 --> 01:33:48,000 THE -- THIS IS BEFORE I CAME TO 2611 01:33:48,001 --> 01:33:51,000 CONGRESS, WHEN 9/11 HAPPENED THE 2612 01:33:51,001 --> 01:33:54,000 MEMBERS OF CONGRESS HERE IN 2613 01:33:54,001 --> 01:33:57,000 THEIR COMBINED WISDOM IN A VERY 2614 01:33:57,001 --> 01:34:00,000 BIPARTISAN EFFORT, WHICH 2615 01:34:00,001 --> 01:34:01,000 EVERYBODY'S WONDERING ABOUT 2616 01:34:01,001 --> 01:34:03,000 BIPARTISAN, VERY BIPARTISAN 2617 01:34:03,001 --> 01:34:05,000 EFFORT CREATED THE DEPARTMENT OF 2618 01:34:05,001 --> 01:34:07,000 HOMELAND SECURITY. 2619 01:34:07,001 --> 01:34:10,000 IT WASN'T JUST FOR BORDERS, IT 2620 01:34:10,001 --> 01:34:13,000 WAS FOR ALL ISSUES TO PROTECT 2621 01:34:13,001 --> 01:34:18,000 THE HOMELAND OF AMERICA. 2622 01:34:18,001 --> 01:34:20,000 ENTITY WHERE WE GATHERED EXPERTS 2623 01:34:20,001 --> 01:34:24,000 ON TERRORISM. 2624 01:34:24,001 --> 01:34:25,000 OF COURSE ALL OF OUR 2625 01:34:25,001 --> 01:34:26,000 SERVICES AND INTELLIGENCE 2626 01:34:26,001 --> 01:34:27,000 DIVISIONS HAVE ALWAYS HAD 2627 01:34:27,001 --> 01:34:29,000 INFORMATION ABOUT TERRORISM 2628 01:34:29,001 --> 01:34:30,000 BECAUSE THAT'S PART OF THEIR 2629 01:34:30,001 --> 01:34:32,000 JOB. 2630 01:34:32,001 --> 01:34:34,000 THEY KNOW WHO HAS TO CLEAN UP 2631 01:34:34,001 --> 01:34:35,000 THE MESS AFTER THE MESS IS 2632 01:34:35,001 --> 01:34:37,000 CREATED. 2633 01:34:37,001 --> 01:34:38,000 AND SO OUR MILITARY CERTAINLY 2634 01:34:38,001 --> 01:34:40,000 HAS THAT INFORMATION, TOO. 2635 01:34:40,001 --> 01:34:42,000 BUT WE CREATED -- I WOULD ARGUE 2636 01:34:42,001 --> 01:34:43,000 ONE OF THE LARGEST OUTSIDE OF 2637 01:34:43,001 --> 01:34:45,000 THE DEFENSE DEPARTMENT, 2638 01:34:45,001 --> 01:34:49,000 DEPARTMENTS IN THE ENTIRE UNITED 2639 01:34:49,001 --> 01:34:50,000 STATES AND IT WAS CREATED 2640 01:34:50,001 --> 01:34:54,000 BECAUSE OF TERRORISM, BUT NOW WE 2641 01:34:54,001 --> 01:34:56,000 GOT A TERRORISM CZAR. 2642 01:34:56,001 --> 01:34:57,000 THE DRUG CZAR WE HAVE HAD, I'M 2643 01:34:57,001 --> 01:35:00,000 PRETTY SURE, IN EVERY 2644 01:35:00,001 --> 01:35:02,000 ADMINISTRATION FOR THE LAST FOUR ADMINISTRATIONS. 2645 01:35:02,001 --> 01:35:07,000 AND I KNOW HOW THAT WORKS. 2646 01:35:07,001 --> 01:35:08,000 AND I UNDERSTAND HOW THAT WORKS. 2647 01:35:08,001 --> 01:35:13,000 NOW, WHETHER OR NOT DRUG CZARS 2648 01:35:13,001 --> 01:35:14,000 WORD CZAR SEEMS TO INDICATE, I 2649 01:35:14,001 --> 01:35:15,000 DON'T KNOW. 2650 01:35:15,001 --> 01:35:18,000 WHETHER THESE FOLKS ARE GOING TO 2651 01:35:18,001 --> 01:35:22,000 HAVE THAT KIND OF ABSOLUTE 2652 01:35:22,001 --> 01:35:23,000 AUTHORITY IS ANYBODY'S GUESS. 2653 01:35:23,001 --> 01:35:25,000 GUANTANAMO CLOSURE CZAR. 2654 01:35:25,001 --> 01:35:26,000 AT LEAST WE 2655 01:35:26,001 --> 01:35:29,000 GOING TO BE OUT OF WORK BY THE 2656 01:35:29,001 --> 01:35:30,000 END OF NEXT YEAR. 2657 01:35:30,001 --> 01:35:31,000 THAT IS THE ADMINISTRATION KEEPS 2658 01:35:31,001 --> 01:35:33,000 THEIR PLEDGE. 2659 01:35:33,001 --> 01:35:35,000 WE HAVE BEEN TOLD ABSOLUTELY 2660 01:35:35,001 --> 01:35:37,000 THAT BY THIS TIME NEXT 2661 01:35:37,001 --> 01:35:40,000 GUANTANAMO WILL BE CLOSED. 2662 01:35:40,001 --> 01:35:44,000 AND SO THIS GUY'S GOT -- HE'S ON 2663 01:35:44,001 --> 01:35:47,000 A SHORT LEASH. 2664 01:35:47,001 --> 01:35:48,000 THE ALPAK CZAR, DON'T KNOW WHAT 2665 01:35:48,001 --> 01:35:50,000 THAT DOES. 2666 01:35:50,001 --> 01:35:53,000 MIDDLE EAST PEACE CZAR. 2667 01:35:53,001 --> 01:35:57,000 WELL, YOU COULD ALSO CALL HIM AN 2668 01:35:57,001 --> 01:35:58,000 AMBASSADOR FOR CREDENTIALED 2669 01:35:58,001 --> 01:35:59,000 AMBASSADOR OR WHATEVER THEY CALL 2670 01:35:59,001 --> 01:36:00,000 THE PEOPLE THAT GO OUT AND 2671 01:36:00,001 --> 01:36:01,000 NEGOTIATE PEACE. 2672 01:36:01,001 --> 01:36:04,000 AND GEORGE MITCHELL HAS 2673 01:36:04,001 --> 01:36:05,000 MORE THAN HIS SHARE IN HIS 2674 01:36:05,001 --> 01:36:06,000 LIFETIME. 2675 01:36:06,001 --> 01:36:07,000 HE'S VERY COMPETENT. 2676 01:36:07,001 --> 01:36:08,000 I'M NOT GOING TO THE COMPETENCE 2677 01:36:08,001 --> 01:36:10,000 OF ANY OF THESE PEOPLE. 2678 01:36:10,001 --> 01:36:13,000 AS FAR AS I KNOW ALL THESE CZARS 2679 01:36:13,001 --> 01:36:15,000 COULD BE ULTIMATELY ALAN THE 2680 01:36:15,001 --> 01:36:17,000 GREAT, CAROLYN THE 2681 01:36:17,001 --> 01:36:19,000 THE GREAT, JAY SCOTT THE GREAT. 2682 01:36:19,001 --> 01:36:20,000 JUST LIKE PETER THE GREAT. 2683 01:36:20,001 --> 01:36:21,000 WE DON'T KNOW HOW GREAT THESE 2684 01:36:21,001 --> 01:36:23,000 GUYS ARE GOING TO BE. 2685 01:36:23,001 --> 01:36:28,000 BUT THEY COULD BE ONE OF THOSE, 2686 01:36:28,001 --> 01:36:30,000 AND LET'S HOPE NONE OF THEM 2687 01:36:30,001 --> 01:36:31,000 HAPPEN TO BE IVAN THE TERRIBLE 2688 01:36:31,001 --> 01:36:35,000 BECAUSE THAT WOULD BE TERRIBLE. 2689 01:36:35,001 --> 01:36:39,000 PERSIAN GULF CZAR, SUDAN CZAR. 2690 01:36:39,001 --> 01:36:40,000 NOW, WE HAVE AN AMBASSADOR TO 2691 01:36:40,001 --> 01:36:42,000 SUDAN, I THINK. 2692 01:36:42,001 --> 01:36:43,000 WE HAVE DIPLOMATS THAT WORK WIT 2693 01:36:43,001 --> 01:36:44,000 SUDAN. 2694 01:36:44,001 --> 01:36:48,000 WE HAVE A SECRETARY OF OF STATE 2695 01:36:48,001 --> 01:36:49,000 WHO HAS AN OFFICE THAT SUDAN 2696 01:36:49,001 --> 01:36:51,000 FALLS UNDER. 2697 01:36:51,001 --> 01:36:54,000 I'M SURE SHE HAS GOT SOME OF THE 2698 01:36:54,001 --> 01:36:56,000 BEST EXPERTS ON SUDAN ANYWHERE IN THE CONTRY. 2699 01:36:56,001 --> 01:36:57,000 JUST LIKE SHE DOES ON THE 2700 01:36:57,001 --> 01:36:59,000 PERSIAN GULF. 2701 01:36:59,001 --> 01:37:00,000 JUST LIKE SHE DOES ON THE MIDDLE 2702 01:37:00,001 --> 01:37:03,000 EAST. 2703 01:37:03,001 --> 01:37:05,000 THE SECRETARY OF O 2704 01:37:05,001 --> 01:37:08,000 THE BEST PEOPLE WE CAN HIRE. 2705 01:37:08,001 --> 01:37:09,000 SOME OF THESE PEOPLE HAVE BEEN 2706 01:37:09,001 --> 01:37:11,000 WORKING IN THIS FIELD FOREVER. 2707 01:37:11,001 --> 01:37:12,000 NOW WE GOT A SUDAN CZAR. 2708 01:37:12,001 --> 01:37:15,000 THIS MEANS THIS IS THE ABSOLUTE 2709 01:37:15,001 --> 01:37:18,000 MONARCH OF SUDAN EXPERTS? 2710 01:37:18,001 --> 01:37:24,000 WHAT DOES IT MEAN? 2711 01:37:24,001 --> 01:37:25,000 OR IS IT JUST 2712 01:37:25,001 --> 01:37:26,000 THE ADMINISTRATION THAT NEEDS A 2713 01:37:26,001 --> 01:37:27,000 BE JOB? 2714 01:37:27,001 --> 01:37:29,000 I DON'T KNOW. 2715 01:37:29,001 --> 01:37:30,000 I DON'T KNOW WHAT IT DOES. 2716 01:37:30,001 --> 01:37:32,000 CLIMATE CZAR. 2717 01:37:32,001 --> 01:37:36,000 IT'S NOT CLAY MAT CHANGE CZAR. 2718 01:37:36,001 --> 01:37:38,000 IT'S NOT GLOBAL WARMING CZAR. 2719 01:37:38,001 --> 01:37:41,000 BECAUSE WE HAVE HAD TO CHANGE THOSE TERMS. 2720 01:37:41,001 --> 01:37:43,000 WE STARTED WITH CLIMATE -- 2721 01:37:43,001 --> 01:37:45,000 STARTED WITH GLOBAL WARMING AND 2722 01:37:45,001 --> 01:37:46,000 STARTED GETTING COLDER THAT'S 2723 01:37:46,001 --> 01:37:50,000 KIND OF DROPPED. 2724 01:37:50,001 --> 01:37:52,000 NOW WE ARE CLIMATE CHANGE CZAR. 2725 01:37:52,001 --> 01:37:54,000 HE'S GOT TO BE THE 2726 01:37:54,001 --> 01:37:56,000 WE ALWAYS BLAME THE WEATHERMAN 2727 01:37:56,001 --> 01:37:58,000 FOR THE WEATHER. 2728 01:37:58,001 --> 01:38:01,000 BUT, HEY, WE GOT A CZAR WE CAN BLAME NOW. 2729 01:38:01,001 --> 01:38:06,000 THIS GUY COULD VERY QUICKLY 2730 01:38:06,001 --> 01:38:07,000 BECOME THAT COULD BE STEVE THE 2731 01:38:07,001 --> 01:38:08,000 TERRIBLE VERY QUICKLY. 2732 01:38:08,001 --> 01:38:10,000 HOW WOU YOU LIKE TO BE 2733 01:38:10,001 --> 01:38:12,000 RESPONSIBLE FOR THE CLIMATE OF 2734 01:38:12,001 --> 01:38:16,000 THE UNITED STATES? THAT'S TOUGH. 2735 01:38:16,001 --> 01:38:18,000 THAT'S A TOUGH JOB. 2736 01:38:18,001 --> 01:38:20,000 CAR CZAR. 2737 01:38:20,001 --> 01:38:23,000 WELL, IF THIS GUY DOESN'T DO HIS 2738 01:38:23,001 --> 01:38:25,000 JOB HE'LL HAVE A WHOLE LOT LESS 2739 01:38:25,001 --> 01:38:27,000 TO BE CZAR OVER BECAUSE THE 2740 01:38:27,001 --> 01:38:29,000 FEDERAL GOVERNMENT NOW RUNS THE 2741 01:38:29,001 --> 01:38:32,000 CAR BUSINESS AND AT LEAST TWO OF 2742 01:38:32,001 --> 01:38:35,000 THE LARGEST THREE FIRMS IN OUR 2743 01:38:35,001 --> 01:38:37,000 COUNTRY, SO HE SORT OF COULD BE 2744 01:38:37,001 --> 01:38:40,000 THE GOVERNMENT AUTO CZAR BECAUSE 2745 01:38:40,001 --> 01:38:42,000 THE GOVERNMENT'S NOW IN THE 2746 01:38:42,001 --> 01:38:44,000 AUTOMOBILE INDUSTRY, HEAVENELP US. 2747 01:38:44,001 --> 01:38:46,000 THE ECONOMIC CZAR, I KNOW WE'VE 2748 01:38:46,001 --> 01:38:48,000 GOT A HALF DOZEN PEOPLE THAT 2749 01:38:48,001 --> 01:38:53,000 SERVE IN CABINET OR SUBBE 2750 01:38:53,001 --> 01:38:55,000 CABINET POSITIONS THAT WE -- 2751 01:38:55,001 --> 01:38:56,000 SUBCABINET POSITION THAT IS WE 2752 01:38:56,001 --> 01:38:57,000 REFER TO AS SPECIALISTS. 2753 01:38:57,001 --> 01:38:58,000 WE HAVE THE FEDERAL RESERVE THAT 2754 01:38:58,001 --> 01:39:00,000 GIVES US ADVICE ON ECONOMICS AND 2755 01:39:00,001 --> 01:39:02,000 THE SECRETARY OF TREASURY THAT 2756 01:39:02,001 --> 01:39:04,000 GIVES US ADVICE ON ECONOMICS. 2757 01:39:04,001 --> 01:39:06,000 WE HAVE A BOARD THAT GIVES US 2758 01:39:06,001 --> 01:39:09,000 ADVICE ON ECONOMICS. 2759 01:39:09,001 --> 01:39:10,000 THERE'S THE ECONOMIST BEHIND 2760 01:39:10,001 --> 01:39:12,000 EVERY BUSH. 2761 01:39:12,001 --> 01:39:15,000 ONLY THING MORE IN WASHINGTON WE 2762 01:39:15,001 --> 01:39:16,000 GOT THAN ECONOMIST IS LAWYERS. 2763 01:39:16,001 --> 01:39:19,000 HEAVEN HELP US. 2764 01:39:19,001 --> 01:39:21,000 BUT WE GOT AN ENOMIC CZAR. 2765 01:39:21,001 --> 01:39:24,000 AND HE'S ONE WE HAVE HEARD OF, 2766 01:39:24,001 --> 01:39:26,000 PAUL VOLCKER. 2767 01:39:26,001 --> 01:39:28,000 I GUESS PAUL WILL TELL US HOW IT WORKS. 2768 01:39:28,001 --> 01:39:31,000 THIS ONE IS THE ONE THAT GOT ME 2769 01:39:31,001 --> 01:39:32,000 WONDERING ABOUT THIS CZARSHIPS. 2770 01:39:32,001 --> 01:39:38,000 EXECUTIVE PAY CZAR. 2771 01:39:38,001 --> 01:39:41,000 THERE'S AN AWFUL LOT OF PEOPLE 2772 01:39:41,001 --> 01:39:42,000 ASKING, WHAT DOES THAT MEAN? 2773 01:39:42,001 --> 01:39:44,000 WE KNOW AT A MINIMUM WHAT IT 2774 01:39:44,001 --> 01:39:49,000 MEANS IS THAT WE'RE GOING TO 2775 01:39:49,001 --> 01:39:51,000 DECIDE WHAT SOME OF THE BIG 2776 01:39:51,001 --> 01:39:53,000 FIRMS THAT TOOK BAILOUT MONEY, 2777 01:39:53,001 --> 01:39:55,000 WHAT THEY'RE GOING TO PAY THEIR 2778 01:39:55,001 --> 01:39:57,000 TOP EXECUTIVES. 2779 01:39:57,001 --> 01:40:00,000 IT'S BEEN ALL OVER THE PAPERS 2780 01:40:00,001 --> 01:40:03,000 AND ALL THE TV SHOWS ABOUT THE 2781 01:40:03,001 --> 01:40:06,000 VARIOUS HUGE GIGANTIC AMOUNTS OF 2782 01:40:06,001 --> 01:40:08,000 MONEY THAT SOME C.E.O.'S AND 2783 01:40:08,001 --> 01:40:10,000 C.F.O.'S AND OTHERS GET PAID IN 2784 01:40:10,001 --> 01:40:12,000 SOME OF THESE LARGE 2785 01:40:12,001 --> 01:40:14,000 CORPORATIONS. 2786 01:40:14,001 --> 01:40:20,000 WITH BONUSES AND IT'S REALLY 2787 01:40:20,001 --> 01:40:21,000 BEYOND MOST OF OUR ABILITY TO 2788 01:40:21,001 --> 01:40:22,000 CONCEIVE HOW MUCH MONEY THESE 2789 01:40:22,001 --> 01:40:23,000 FOLKS GET. 2790 01:40:23,001 --> 01:40:25,000 SO THIS GUY'S GOING TO LIMIT 2791 01:40:25,001 --> 01:40:26,000 THAT. 2792 01:40:26,001 --> 01:40:28,000 BUT THEN THE QUESTION BECOMES, 2793 01:40:28,001 --> 01:40:31,000 IF HE'S GOING TO BE THE CZAR, 2794 01:40:31,001 --> 01:40:32,000 THE ABSOLUTE MONARCH, OVER 2795 01:40:32,001 --> 01:40:34,000 EXECUTIVE PAY AND THAT EXECUTIVE 2796 01:40:34,001 --> 01:40:39,000 PAY IS GOING TO BE FROM ANYBODY 2797 01:40:39,001 --> 01:40:41,000 THAT TOOK GOVERNMENT MONEY, THEN 2798 01:40:41,001 --> 01:40:44,000 DOES THAT MEAN ANYBODY THAT GOT 2799 01:40:44,001 --> 01:40:46,000 A TAX BREAK FROM 2800 01:40:46,001 --> 01:40:48,000 COULD BE KIND OF GRANDFATHERED 2801 01:40:48,001 --> 01:40:50,000 INTO THIS DEAL? 2802 01:40:50,001 --> 01:40:52,000 OR ANYBODY THAT GOT A GRANT FROM 2803 01:40:52,001 --> 01:40:54,000 THE GOVERNMENT COULD BE -- NOT 2804 01:40:54,001 --> 01:40:58,000 THE BAILOUT MONEY, NOT THE TARP 2805 01:40:58,001 --> 01:41:01,000 MONEY OR THE OTHER ONE, STIMULUS 2806 01:41:01,001 --> 01:41:03,000 MONEY, BUT JUST GOT A GRANT, BUT A BIG ONE? 2807 01:41:03,001 --> 01:41:05,000 NOW, DOES THAT MEAN THAT HE'S 2808 01:41:05,001 --> 01:41:07,000 GOING TO GET TO TELL THEM WHAT 2809 01:41:07,001 --> 01:41:09,000 THEIR PAY IS GOING TO BE? 2810 01:41:09,001 --> 01:41:12,000 IN FACT, MAYBE THE COMPANY YOU 2811 01:41:12,001 --> 01:41:13,000 WORK FOR HAS GOTTEN SOME OF THIS 2812 01:41:13,001 --> 01:41:15,000 MONEY. 2813 01:41:15,001 --> 01:41:17,000 IS HE GOING TO BE ABLE TO TELL 2814 01:41:17,001 --> 01:41:19,000 YOUR COMPANY WHAT YOU'RE GOING 2815 01:41:19,001 --> 01:41:21,000 TO GET PAID? 2816 01:41:21,001 --> 01:41:27,000 AND WHERE DOES IT STOP? 2817 01:41:27,001 --> 01:41:28,000 SO IS THIS REALLY A WAGE FIXES 2818 01:41:28,001 --> 01:41:31,000 CZAR? 2819 01:41:31,001 --> 01:41:34,000 IS THAT A BETTER TE 2820 01:41:34,001 --> 01:41:36,000 THAN EXECUTIVE PAY CZAR? 2821 01:41:36,001 --> 01:41:37,000 I DON'T KNOW. 2822 01:41:37,001 --> 01:41:40,000 AND FINALLY, WE HAVEN'T GOTTEN 2823 01:41:40,001 --> 01:41:42,000 THE PERSON'S NAME YET, BUT THE 2824 01:41:42,001 --> 01:41:44,000 CYBER SECURITY CZAR AND THEN 2825 01:41:44,001 --> 01:41:45,000 WE'VE RUN OUT OF SPACE ON THE 2826 01:41:45,001 --> 01:41:46,000 PAGES. 2827 01:41:46,001 --> 01:41:50,000 AND I GUESS THE NEXT THING WE'LL 2828 01:41:50,001 --> 01:41:52,000 FIND OUT, INSTEAD OF 22 CZARS WE 2829 01:41:52,001 --> 01:41:54,000 MAY HAVE 42 CZARS. 2830 01:41:54,001 --> 01:41:55,000 I'M TRYING TO FIND OUT HAD WHAT 2831 01:41:55,001 --> 01:41:56,000 THESE FOLKS GET PAID BUT I 2832 01:41:56,001 --> 01:41:58,000 HAVEN'T BEEN ABLE TO FIGURE IT 2833 01:41:58,001 --> 01:41:59,000 OUT YET. 2834 01:41:59,001 --> 01:42:00,000 STAY TUNED, I'LL TRY TO COME 2835 01:42:00,001 --> 01:42:02,000 BACK TO YOU AND TALK TO YOU 2836 01:42:02,001 --> 01:42:05,000 ABOUT WHAT ALL THESE CZARS ARE GOING TO GET PAI 2837 01:42:05,001 --> 01:42:06,000 BUT, YOU KNOW, IF THEY'RE 2838 01:42:06,001 --> 01:42:10,000 FOLLOWING IN THE RUSSIAN PATTERN 2839 01:42:10,001 --> 01:42:11,000 THE GOING TO BE PRETTY GOOD. 2840 01:42:11,001 --> 01:42:12,000 BECAUSE THOSE CZARS LIVED IN 2841 01:42:12,001 --> 01:42:14,000 SOME PRETTY NICE HOUSES AND THEY 2842 01:42:14,001 --> 01:42:17,000 DID PRETTY WELL. 2843 01:42:17,001 --> 01:42:22,000 SO, THE ROMANOVS IN 300 YEARS 2844 01:42:22,001 --> 01:42:25,000 HAD 18 CZARS, THE AMERICANS IN 2845 01:42:25,001 --> 01:42:27,000 146 DAYS HAVE IT 2 -- 22 CZARS. 2846 01:42:27,001 --> 01:42:28,000 I'M VERY PLEASED TO SEE THAT I'M 2847 01:42:28,001 --> 01:42:29,000 NOT BY MYSELF TODAY. 2848 01:42:29,001 --> 01:42:33,000 I HAVE A GOOD FRIEND, MY GOOD 2849 01:42:33,001 --> 01:42:37,000 FRIEND AND COLLEAGUE, CLASSMATE 2850 01:42:37,001 --> 01:42:38,000 STEVE KING FROM IOWA IS HERE, 2851 01:42:38,001 --> 01:42:39,000 STEEVEB'S ALWAYS READY TO HAVE 2852 01:42:39,001 --> 01:42:40,000 SOME FUN -- STEVE'S ALWAYS READY 2853 01:42:40,001 --> 01:42:42,000 TO HAVE SOME FUN. 2854 01:42:42,001 --> 01:42:44,000 WHAT DO YOU THINK ABOUT ALL THIS? 2855 01:42:44,001 --> 01:42:45,000 I YIELD YOU SUCH TIME AS YOU MAY 2856 01:42:45,001 --> 01:42:47,000 WISH TO CONSUME. 2857 01:42:47,001 --> 01:42:48,000 MR. KING: I SO MUCH APPRECIATE 2858 01:42:48,001 --> 01:42:49,000 YOU BRINNG THIS ISSUE TO THE 2859 01:42:49,001 --> 01:42:51,000 FLOOR OF THE HOUSE OF 2860 01:42:51,001 --> 01:42:52,000 REPRESENTATIVES AND I APPRECIATE 2861 01:42:52,001 --> 01:42:53,000 THE CHANCE TO ADDRESS MADAM 2862 01:42:53,001 --> 01:42:55,000 SPEAKER IN THIS SUBJECT MATTER. 2863 01:42:55,001 --> 01:42:56,000 I HAVE NOT SEEN THIS LIST OF 2864 01:42:56,001 --> 01:42:57,000 CZARS, I WAS ACTUALLY, I THINK I 2865 01:42:57,001 --> 01:42:59,000 WENT HOME FOR THE WEEKEND WITH 2866 01:42:59,001 --> 01:43:01,000 19 CZARS AND ARRIVED BACK IN 2867 01:43:01,001 --> 01:43:03,000 WASHINGTON WITH 22 CZARS. 2868 01:43:03,001 --> 01:43:05,000 THERE MIGHT HAVE BEEN THREE 2869 01:43:05,001 --> 01:43:06,000 MATERIALIZED OVER THE WEEKEND 2870 01:43:06,001 --> 01:43:08,000 AND I LOOK DOWN THROUGH THIS 2871 01:43:08,001 --> 01:43:09,000 LIST AND THE FIRST THING THAT 2872 01:43:09,001 --> 01:43:11,000 HITS ME IS, WELL, LET'S SEE, 2873 01:43:11,001 --> 01:43:13,000 BORDER CZAR, I'M A RANKING MEMBER OF THE IMMIGRATION 2874 01:43:13,001 --> 01:43:14,000 SUBCOMMITTEE, NEVER HEARD OF 2875 01:43:14,001 --> 01:43:16,000 HIM. 2876 01:43:16,001 --> 01:43:17,000 GO RIGHT DOWN THE LIST. 2877 01:43:17,001 --> 01:43:18,000 A FEW I'VE HEARD OF BUT NOT VERY 2878 01:43:18,001 --> 01:43:19,000 MANY. 2879 01:43:19,001 --> 01:43:21,000 I DON'T THINK THEY HAVE A VERY 2880 01:43:21,001 --> 01:43:22,000 HIGH PROFILE BUT CZAR, CZAR, 2881 01:43:22,001 --> 01:43:23,000 CZAR, 22 TIMES. 2882 01:43:23,001 --> 01:43:26,000 18 CZARS IN ALL THE HISTORY OF 2883 01:43:26,001 --> 01:43:28,000 THE ROMANOVS, DID I GET THAT RIGHT? 2884 01:43:28,001 --> 01:43:30,000 MR. CARTER: THAT'S CORRECT. 2885 01:43:30,001 --> 01:43:31,000 MR. KING: UNDERSTAND A IT OCCURS 2886 01:43:31,001 --> 01:43:33,000 TO ME THAT CZAR, IF YOU -- AND 2887 01:43:33,001 --> 01:43:35,000 IT OCCURS TO ME, IF YOU THINK 2888 01:43:35,001 --> 01:43:37,000 ABOUT THE FLOW AND CONTINUATION 2889 01:43:37,001 --> 01:43:39,000 OF HISTORY, ALL THE CZARS WE 2890 01:43:39,001 --> 01:43:40,000 PRECURSORS TO THE MARXIST ERA OF 2891 01:43:40,001 --> 01:43:42,000 RUSSIA. 2892 01:43:42,001 --> 01:43:43,000 SO I DON'T KNOW IF THIS IS ANY 2893 01:43:43,001 --> 01:43:44,000 KIND OF THING WE OUGHT TO BE 2894 01:43:44,001 --> 01:43:45,000 THINKING ABOUT, BUT THE 2895 01:43:45,001 --> 01:43:47,000 IMPLICATIONS THAT COME WITH THIS 2896 01:43:47,001 --> 01:43:49,000 ARE THE PEOPLE THAT ARE SUPPOSED 2897 01:43:49,001 --> 01:43:50,000 TO BE MANAGING THESE JOBS THAT 2898 01:43:50,001 --> 01:43:52,000 WE ALREADY HAD PEOPL 2899 01:43:52,001 --> 01:43:54,000 CAUSES ME TO THINK, IS THIS A 2900 01:43:54,001 --> 01:43:56,000 PRECURSOR FOR WHAT'S HAPPENING 2901 01:43:56,001 --> 01:43:58,000 IN A NATION THAT'S SEEN OUR 2902 01:43:58,001 --> 01:44:01,000 MAJOR INDUSTRIES NATIONALIZED? 2903 01:44:01,001 --> 01:44:02,000 LARGE INSTMENT BANKS 2904 01:44:02,001 --> 01:44:03,000 NATIONALIZED, THE LARGEST 2905 01:44:03,001 --> 01:44:06,000 INSURANCE COMPANY NATIONALED. 2906 01:44:06,001 --> 01:44:07,000 I DIDN'T SEE ANY CZAR RE OF 2907 01:44:07,001 --> 01:44:10,000 DENATIONALIZATION FOR ONE THING. 2908 01:44:10,001 --> 01:44:13,000 I'M LOOKING FOR THAT AND I'D 2909 01:44:13,001 --> 01:44:14,000 LIKE TO POINT THAT CZAR OF 2910 01:44:14,001 --> 01:44:16,000 DENATIONALIZATION AND I CAN FIND 2911 01:44:16,001 --> 01:44:17,000 ABOUT ANYBODY ON THE REPUBLICAN 2912 01:44:17,001 --> 01:44:19,000 SIDE OF THE AISLE THAT WOULD 2913 01:44:19,001 --> 01:44:22,000 MAKE A GOOD DENATIONALIZATION 2914 01:44:22,001 --> 01:44:23,000 CZAR BECAUSE, YOU KNOW, I 2915 01:44:23,001 --> 01:44:25,000 PRESENT THIS LIST THAT'S IN MY 2916 01:44:25,001 --> 01:44:27,000 HEAD, NOT VERY WELL REFINE AND 2917 01:44:27,001 --> 01:44:28,000 MAE WE'LL GET IT BETTER -- 2918 01:44:28,001 --> 01:44:29,000 REFINED AND MAYBE WE'LL GET IT 2919 01:44:29,001 --> 01:44:31,000 BETTER BUT OCCURS TO ME THAT 2920 01:44:31,001 --> 01:44:33,000 THERE ARE, OH, SIX, SEVEN, 2921 01:44:33,001 --> 01:44:34,000 EIGHT, NINE OR 10 DIFFERENT 2922 01:44:34,001 --> 01:44:36,000 THINGS THAT PRESIDENT OBAMA HAS 2923 01:44:36,001 --> 01:44:37,000 ENGAGED IN WITHOUT AN EXIT 2924 01:44:37,001 --> 01:44:39,000 STRATEGY. 2925 01:44:39,001 --> 01:44:40,000 AND THAT WOULD BE THE 2926 01:44:40,001 --> 01:44:43,000 NATIONALIZATION OF A LIST OF OUR 2927 01:44:43,001 --> 01:44:44,000 MAJOR INVESTMENT BANKS, HOW MANY 2928 01:44:44,001 --> 01:44:46,000 THAT IS, FOUR OR FIVE PERHAPS, 2929 01:44:46,001 --> 01:44:47,000 AND THE NATIONALIZATION OF THE 2930 01:44:47,001 --> 01:44:50,000 LARGEST INSURANCE COMPANY, 2931 01:44:50,001 --> 01:44:51,000 A.I.G., NATIONALIZATION OF 2932 01:44:51,001 --> 01:44:54,000 FANNIE MAE AND FREDDIE MAC, SO 2933 01:44:54,001 --> 01:44:56,000 I'M MAYBE UP TABOUT EIGHT, WE 2934 01:44:56,001 --> 01:44:57,000 OUGHT TO RESEARCH THIS LIST A 2935 01:44:57,001 --> 01:44:58,000 LITTLE BIT BEFORE WE PUBLISH IT 2936 01:44:58,001 --> 01:45:01,000 AS THE FINAL TOTALECAUSE I CAN 2937 01:45:01,001 --> 01:45:03,000 SURELY FORGET SOME BU YOU CAN 2938 01:45:03,001 --> 01:45:04,000 ADD THAT, NOW I'M AT EIGHT, NINE 2939 01:45:04,001 --> 01:45:06,000 AND 10, LET'S PUT DOWN CHRYSLER 2940 01:45:06,001 --> 01:45:09,000 MOTORS AND GENERAL MOTORS WHILE WE'RE IT. 2941 01:45:09,001 --> 01:45:11,000 AND WHEN YOU END UP WITH 60% 2942 01:45:11,001 --> 01:45:13,000 SHARE IN GENERAL MOTORS THAT THE 2943 01:45:13,001 --> 01:45:14,000 TAXPAYERS ARE HOLDING, THAT'S 2944 01:45:14,001 --> 01:45:17,000 THE AMERICAN TAXPAYER, ANOTHER 2945 01:45:17,001 --> 01:45:18,000 12.5% HELD BY THE CANADIAN 2946 01:45:18,001 --> 01:45:20,000 TAXPAYERS. 2947 01:45:20,001 --> 01:45:23,000 THAT WOULD BE 72.5% OF GENERAL 2948 01:45:23,001 --> 01:45:24,000 MOTORS OWNED BY GOVERNMENT. 2949 01:45:24,001 --> 01:45:27,000 17.5% OWNED BY THE UNIONS AND I 2950 01:45:27,001 --> 01:45:29,000 THINK AROUND 12.5% OWNED BY THE 2951 01:45:29,001 --> 01:45:30,000 BOND HOLDERS, THE PART THEY WERE 2952 01:45:30,001 --> 01:45:32,000 ABLE TO HOLD TOGETHER OF THEIR 2953 01:45:32,001 --> 01:45:34,000 SECURED INTEREST. 2954 01:45:34,001 --> 01:45:38,000 YES, WE NEED A CZAR TO FIGURE 2955 01:45:38,001 --> 01:45:39,000 OUT HOW TO -- AN EXIT STRATEGY 2956 01:45:39,001 --> 01:45:41,000 FOR ALL THESE THINGS THAT 2957 01:45:41,001 --> 01:45:42,000 PRESIDENT OBAMA HAS ENGAGED IN 2958 01:45:42,001 --> 01:45:44,000 WITHOUT AN STRIT STRATEGY AND IT 2959 01:45:44,001 --> 01:45:46,000 OCCURS TO ME THAT HE WAS -- EXIT 2960 01:45:46,001 --> 01:45:47,000 STRATEGY AND IT OCCURS TO ME HE 2961 01:45:47,001 --> 01:45:50,000 WAS ECTED IN PART BECAUSE OF 2962 01:45:50,001 --> 01:45:52,000 HIS RELENTLESS CRITICISM OF 2963 01:45:52,001 --> 01:45:53,000 PRESIDENT BUSH FOR GOING INTO 2964 01:45:53,001 --> 01:45:55,000 IRAQ WITHOUT AN EXIT STRATEGY. 2965 01:45:55,001 --> 01:45:58,000 NOW I'VE JUST NAMED 10 THINGS 2966 01:45:58,001 --> 01:46:00,000 EXIT STRATEGY AND ALL OF THEM HE 2967 01:46:00,001 --> 01:46:01,000 SAID, I DON'T WANT THE 2968 01:46:01,001 --> 01:46:02,000 GOVERNMENT TO OWN THEM AND I 2969 01:46:02,001 --> 01:46:04,000 DON'T WANT TO HAVE TO MANAGE 2970 01:46:04,001 --> 01:46:05,000 THEM AND THE NOT MY BUSINESS TO 2971 01:46:05,001 --> 01:46:06,000 DO SO, TURN AROUND THE NEXT WEEK 2972 01:46:06,001 --> 01:46:07,000 AND NATIONALIZE SOMETHING ELSE, 2973 01:46:07,001 --> 01:46:10,000 DO A PHOTO OP WITH HUGO CHAVEZ 2974 01:46:10,001 --> 01:46:12,000 AND THAT GREAT NATIONALIZER IN 2975 01:46:12,001 --> 01:46:13,000 VENEZUELA,PPEARS TO ME TO BE A 2976 01:46:13,001 --> 01:46:15,000 PIKECOMPARED TO THE ONE WE 2977 01:46:15,001 --> 01:46:16,000 HAVE IN THE WHITE HOUSE. 2978 01:46:16,001 --> 01:46:18,000 BUT THESE 22 CZARS THAT WE HAVE, 2979 01:46:18,001 --> 01:46:21,000 THE ONCE THAT STAND OUT AND GET 2980 01:46:21,001 --> 01:46:24,000 MY ATTENTION, FOR EXAMPLE, 2981 01:46:24,001 --> 01:46:26,000 EXECUTIVE PAY CZAR, THE PAYROLL 2982 01:46:26,001 --> 01:46:30,000 CZAR, THE GUY WHO SITS THERE AND 2983 01:46:30,001 --> 01:46:31,000 FIGURES OUT, JOE'S MAKING TOO 2984 01:46:31,001 --> 01:46:34,000 MUCH MONEY AND SHANNON'S NOT 2985 01:46:34,001 --> 01:46:36,000 MAKING ENOUGH AND WE NEED TO 2986 01:46:36,001 --> 01:46:37,000 HAVE SOME MORE PEOPLE OUT HERE 2987 01:46:37,001 --> 01:46:41,000 THAT ARE SACRIFICING FOR THE 2988 01:46:41,001 --> 01:46:42,000 GOOD OF THE WHOLE AND I LOOK AT 2989 01:46:42,001 --> 01:46:43,000 THAT, WHEN -- AND THEN AS I UNDERSTOOD THIS, TOO, IT WENT 2990 01:46:43,001 --> 01:46:44,000 BEYOND THOSE THAT HAD TAKEN 2991 01:46:44,001 --> 01:46:47,000 FEDERAL MONEY, BUT THEY WERE 2992 01:46:47,001 --> 01:46:48,000 GOING TO AT LEAST LOOK AT 2993 01:46:48,001 --> 01:46:50,000 EXECUTIVE PAY IN ALL OF THE 2994 01:46:50,001 --> 01:46:51,000 LARGE CORPORATIONS AND THE 2995 01:46:51,001 --> 01:46:53,000 C.E.O.'S AND MAKE SURE THAT 2996 01:46:53,001 --> 01:46:55,000 WASN'T OUT OF PROPORTION. 2997 01:46:55,001 --> 01:46:56,000 REMEMBER THAT NUMBER, ABOUT 2998 01:46:56,001 --> 01:46:59,000 $500,000, PLENTY ENOUGH FOR 2999 01:46:59,001 --> 01:47:01,000 ANYBODY TO MAKE IN A YEAR OR SO. 3000 01:47:01,001 --> 01:47:03,000 THEY WOULD PUT A CAP ON ALL OF THAT. 3001 01:47:03,001 --> 01:47:05,000 AND IT'S HARDER TO DO SO IF 3002 01:47:05,001 --> 01:47:06,000 THERE ISN'T FEDERAL MONEY 3003 01:47:06,001 --> 01:47:07,000 INLVED. 3004 01:47:07,001 --> 01:47:08,000 BUT NOT IMPOSSIBLE TO DO SO, IF 3005 01:47:08,001 --> 01:47:10,000 YOU LOOK AT SOME OF THE 3006 01:47:10,001 --> 01:47:11,000 IMPOSSIBLE THINGS THAT HAVE 3007 01:47:11,001 --> 01:47:13,000 ALREADY BEEN ACCOMPLISHED BY 3008 01:47:13,001 --> 01:47:14,000 THIS ADMINISTRATION. 3009 01:47:14,001 --> 01:47:15,000 MR. CARTER: IF I COULD RECLAIM 3010 01:47:15,001 --> 01:47:16,000 MY TIME FOR JUST A MOMENT. 3011 01:47:16,001 --> 01:47:17,000 BUT IF THE ISSUE WOULD BE A 3012 01:47:17,001 --> 01:47:21,000 FEDERAL NEXUS, IT WOULD BE HARD 3013 01:47:21,001 --> 01:47:22,000 TO FIND AN INDUSTRY REALLY THAT 3014 01:47:22,001 --> 01:47:24,000 WOULDN'T HAVE SOME CONNECTION 3015 01:47:24,001 --> 01:47:25,000 WITH THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT. 3016 01:47:25,001 --> 01:47:28,000 IF THEY'VE GOTTEN A GRANT, IF 3017 01:47:28,001 --> 01:47:29,000 THEY'VE GOTTEN A FELLOWSHIP, IF 3018 01:47:29,001 --> 01:47:32,000 THEY'VE GOTTEN -- IF THEY'VE 3019 01:47:32,001 --> 01:47:35,000 GOTTEN A GUARANTEED LOAN, IF 3020 01:47:35,001 --> 01:47:37,000 THEY'VE GOTTEN A TAX BREAK 3021 01:47:37,001 --> 01:47:39,000 DESIGNATED FOR THEIR INDUSTRY, 3022 01:47:39,001 --> 01:47:40,000 THAT OTHER INDUSTRIES DIDN'T 3023 01:47:40,001 --> 01:47:45,000 GET, ALL OF THESE CATEGORIES 3024 01:47:45,001 --> 01:47:47,000 COULD BE QUICKLY EXPANDED TO ADD 3025 01:47:47,001 --> 01:47:49,000 TO THAT STIMULUS CZAR, IF YOU 3026 01:47:49,001 --> 01:47:50,000 WILL. 3027 01:47:50,001 --> 01:47:52,000 SO I YIELD BACK. 3028 01:47:52,001 --> 01:47:53,000 MR. KING: AND I THANK THE JUDGE 3029 01:47:53,001 --> 01:47:55,000 FROM TEXAS FOR POINTING THAT OUT 3030 01:47:55,001 --> 01:47:56,000 BECAUSE THERE IS A FEDERAL NEXUS 3031 01:47:56,001 --> 01:47:57,000 INTO ALMOST ALL BUSINESS IN 3032 01:47:57,001 --> 01:47:59,000 AMERICA D THEY CAN FIND A WAY 3033 01:47:59,001 --> 01:48:00,000 TO CONTROL IT, AN EXCUSE, MY 3034 01:48:00,001 --> 01:48:02,000 FATHER ALWAYS TOLD ME THERE'S A 3035 01:48:02,001 --> 01:48:04,000 DIFFERENCE BETWEEN REASONS AND EXCUSES AND HE KNEW THE 3036 01:48:04,001 --> 01:48:05,000 DIFFERENCE. 3037 01:48:05,001 --> 01:48:06,000 I DIDN'T ALWAYS KNOW THE 3038 01:48:06,001 --> 01:48:08,000 DIFFERENCE. 3039 01:48:08,001 --> 01:48:09,000 TODAY I THINK I DO. 3040 01:48:09,001 --> 01:48:10,000 THIS IS EXCUSES. 3041 01:48:10,001 --> 01:48:12,000 BUT THINK OF THIS, EXECUTIVE PAY 3042 01:48:12,001 --> 01:48:13,000 CZAR, THE PAYROLL CZAR, LOOKING 3043 01:48:13,001 --> 01:48:15,000 IN AT C.E.O.'S, FIRING THE 3044 01:48:15,001 --> 01:48:16,000 C.E.O. OF GENERAL MOTORS, HIRES 3045 01:48:16,001 --> 01:48:18,000 HIS GUY, APPOINTS ALL BUT TWO 3046 01:48:18,001 --> 01:48:20,000 MEMBERS OF THE GENERAL MOTORS 3047 01:48:20,001 --> 01:48:21,000 BOARD OF DIRECTORS, SAID, I 3048 01:48:21,001 --> 01:48:22,000 DON'T WANT TO RUN THIS COMPANY 3049 01:48:22,001 --> 01:48:24,000 BUT YOU'RE GOING TO HAVE TO 3050 01:48:24,001 --> 01:48:25,000 BUILD A CAR THAT LOOKS AND RUNS 3051 01:48:25,001 --> 01:48:27,000 LIKE THIS AND STOP BUILDING 3052 01:48:27,001 --> 01:48:28,000 THESE 3053 01:48:28,001 --> 01:48:30,000 MAKE THIS ALL ENVIRONMENTALLY 3054 01:48:30,001 --> 01:48:31,000 FRIENDLY IN THIS FASHION AND 3055 01:48:31,001 --> 01:48:33,000 WE'RE GOING TO DECIDE WHO GETS 3056 01:48:33,001 --> 01:48:34,000 PAID HOW MUCH, WHO GETS PAID, 3057 01:48:34,001 --> 01:48:36,000 BECAUSE HE FIRED THE C.E.O., AND 3058 01:48:36,001 --> 01:48:37,000 HOW MUCH. 3059 01:48:37,001 --> 01:48:39,000 AND BY THE WAY, WE HAD A C.E.O. 3060 01:48:39,001 --> 01:48:40,000 OF A.I.G. THAT WAS WORKING FOR A 3061 01:48:40,001 --> 01:48:42,000 DOLLAR, THAT CAME TO THIS 3062 01:48:42,001 --> 01:48:43,000 CONGRESS, THAT I THINK WAS 3063 01:48:43,001 --> 01:48:44,000 TREATED DISRESPECTFULLY BY THE 3064 01:48:44,001 --> 01:48:47,000 MEMBERS ON THE PANEL, AND HE 3065 01:48:47,001 --> 01:48:48,000 SHOULD HAVE AND DID THROWN THE 3066 01:48:48,001 --> 01:48:49,000 THING UP. 3067 01:48:49,001 --> 01:48:51,000 HE WAS TRYING TO DO THE RIGHT 3068 01:48:51,001 --> 01:48:52,000 THING FOR AMERICA. 3069 01:48:52,001 --> 01:48:53,000 FOR $1 A YEAR, AND THAT WASN'T 3070 01:48:53,001 --> 01:48:56,000 ENOUGH TO SAT SATISFY HIM. 3071 01:48:56,001 --> 01:48:57,000 AND SO I'M THI 3072 01:48:57,001 --> 01:48:58,000 SATISFY HIM. 3073 01:48:58,001 --> 01:48:59,000 SO I'M THINKING, WHAT COMPANY 3074 01:48:59,001 --> 01:49:00,000 WOULD BE EXEMPT FROM THE 3075 01:49:00,001 --> 01:49:02,000 SCRUTINY OF THE EXECUTIVE 3076 01:49:02,001 --> 01:49:04,000 PAYROLL CZAR? I CAN'T THINK OF ONE. 3077 01:49:04,001 --> 01:49:05,000 BECAUSE THEY VIEW THESE 3078 01:49:05,001 --> 01:49:07,000 RPORATIONS AS BEING EVIL 3079 01:49:07,001 --> 01:49:08,000 CAPITALIST CORPORATIONS BUT THEY 3080 01:49:08,001 --> 01:49:09,000 STILL HAVEN'T LOOKED OVER INTO 3081 01:49:09,001 --> 01:49:12,000 HOLLYWOOD, FOR EXAMPLE, AND 3082 01:49:12,001 --> 01:49:13,000 DECIDED THAT SOME OF T 3083 01:49:13,001 --> 01:49:15,000 AND DIRECTORS AND PRODUCERS AR 3084 01:49:15,001 --> 01:49:19,000 PROBABLY MAKING TOO MUCH MONEY 3085 01:49:19,001 --> 01:49:20,000 BY THEIR OWN STANDARDS HERE, 3086 01:49:20,001 --> 01:49:22,000 THEY WROTE OUT CHECKS TO THESE 3087 01:49:22,001 --> 01:49:23,000 PEOPLE IN THE WHITE HOUSE TODAY, 3088 01:49:23,001 --> 01:49:24,000 YOU HAVEN'T SEEN ETHAT 3089 01:49:24,001 --> 01:49:26,000 SCRUTINY THAT WOULD COME. 3090 01:49:26,001 --> 01:49:28,000 BUT -- SEEN THAT SCRUTINY THAT 3091 01:49:28,001 --> 01:49:30,000 WOULD COME. 3092 01:49:30,001 --> 01:49:33,000 THEN I SUPPOSE WE GET INTO THE 3093 01:49:33,001 --> 01:49:34,000 PROFESSIONAL SPOS ATHLETES 3094 01:49:34,001 --> 01:49:39,000 THAT DO MAKE A LOT OF MONEY AND 3095 01:49:39,001 --> 01:49:40,000 MAYBE, YOU KNOW, YOU'RE PLAYING 3096 01:49:40,001 --> 01:49:43,000 SO THAT MUST BE FUN, PROBABLY 3097 01:49:43,001 --> 01:49:44,000 DOESN'T DEMAND MOR 3098 01:49:44,001 --> 01:49:47,000 $500,000 A YEAR, NO MATTER HOW 3099 01:49:47,001 --> 01:49:48,000 GOOD YOU ARE AND SOON WE'RE A 3100 01:49:48,001 --> 01:49:51,000 REGULATED GOVERNMENT ENTITY THAT 3101 01:49:51,001 --> 01:49:52,000 DECIDES WHO GETS PAID AND HOW 3102 01:49:52,001 --> 01:49:54,000 MUCH. 3103 01:49:54,001 --> 01:49:58,000 THE PAYROLL CZAR, OUTRAGEOUS. 3104 01:49:58,001 --> 01:50:00,000 AND THE CLIMATE CZAR. 3105 01:50:00,001 --> 01:50:02,000 I REMEMBER WE DID A DEDICATION 3106 01:50:02,001 --> 01:50:04,000 TO A PARK WE BUILT IN MY 3107 01:50:04,001 --> 01:50:06,000 HOMETOWN, WE DID IT IN THE LAST 3108 01:50:06,001 --> 01:50:08,000 FRIDAY OF OCTOBER WHICH WAS A 3109 01:50:08,001 --> 01:50:09,000 VERY RISKY THING TO DO IN IOWA 3110 01:50:09,001 --> 01:50:12,000 AND I GAVE THE OPENING SPEECH 3111 01:50:12,001 --> 01:50:14,000 BEFORE WE CUT THE RIBBON AND 3112 01:50:14,001 --> 01:50:16,000 THEN PASTOR JOHNSON STEPPED UP 3113 01:50:16,001 --> 01:50:17,000 AND MY OPENING SPEECH, IT WAS A 3114 01:50:17,001 --> 01:50:18,000 BEAUTIFUL DAY, 75 DEGREES, LAST 3115 01:50:18,001 --> 01:50:20,000 FRIDAY IN OCTOBER, YOU JUST 3116 01:50:20,001 --> 01:50:21,000 DON'T SEE THAT IN IOWA AND I 3117 01:50:21,001 --> 01:50:22,000 SAID, WELL, I TAKE CREDIT FOR 3118 01:50:22,001 --> 01:50:24,000 THE WEATHER, I PLANNED THIS. 3119 01:50:24,001 --> 01:50:25,000 AND AFTER I TOOK CREDIT FOR T 3120 01:50:25,001 --> 01:50:26,000 WEATHER, PASTOR JOHNSON STEPPED 3121 01:50:26,001 --> 01:50:29,000 UP TO GIVE THE OPENING PRAYER 3122 01:50:29,001 --> 01:50:31,000 AND HE SAID, NOW I'M GOING TO 3123 01:50:31,001 --> 01:50:32,000 GIVE CREDIT FOR THE WHERE IT'S 3124 01:50:32,001 --> 01:50:33,000 DUE. 3125 01:50:33,001 --> 01:50:35,000 I DESERVED IT, HE DID IT WITH 3126 01:50:35,001 --> 01:50:36,000 THE RIGHT TONE. 3127 01:50:36,001 --> 01:50:38,000 I APPRECIATE TT EXACT 3128 01:50:38,001 --> 01:50:39,000 CORRECTION. 3129 01:50:39,001 --> 01:50:40,000 THE CLIMATE CZAR, I'D LIKE TO 3130 01:50:40,001 --> 01:50:42,000 TALK TO THE CLIMATE CZAR ABOUT 3131 01:50:42,001 --> 01:50:43,000 THE SCIENCE INVOLVED IN THIS. 3132 01:50:43,001 --> 01:50:45,000 I'M NOT FINDING PEOPLE THAT 3133 01:50:45,001 --> 01:50:46,000 UNDERSTAND AND CAN EXPLAIN AND 3134 01:50:46,001 --> 01:50:49,000 DENEND THE SCIENCE IN THIS 3135 01:50:49,001 --> 01:50:51,000 ALLEGED GLOBAL WARMING AND BY 3136 01:50:51,001 --> 01:50:52,000 THE WAY THIS ISN'T EVEN THE 3137 01:50:52,001 --> 01:50:53,000 CLIMATE CHANGE CZAR. 3138 01:50:53,001 --> 01:50:55,000 HE COULD HAVE BEEN THE GLOBAL 3139 01:50:55,001 --> 01:50:57,000 WARMING ZA -- GLOBAL WARMING 3140 01:50:57,001 --> 01:50:58,000 CZAR A YEAR AND A HALF AGO BUT 3141 01:50:58,001 --> 01:51:00,000 SIX MONTHS AGO HE SHOULD HAVE 3142 01:51:00,001 --> 01:51:02,000 BEEN THE CLIMATE CHANGE CZAR BUT 3143 01:51:02,001 --> 01:51:04,000 NOW SINLS THE CLIMATE'S CHANGING 3144 01:51:04,001 --> 01:51:06,000 IN THE WRONG DIRECTION -- BUT 3145 01:51:06,001 --> 01:51:07,000 NOW SINCE THE CLIMATE'S CHANGING 3146 01:51:07,001 --> 01:51:08,000 IN THE WRONG DIRECTION HE'S JUST 3147 01:51:08,001 --> 01:51:09,000 THE CLIMATE CZAR. 3148 01:51:09,001 --> 01:51:13,000 AS THIS EARTH SEEMS TO BE 3149 01:51:13,001 --> 01:51:15,000 FLAPTING OUT OR COOLING -- 3150 01:51:15,001 --> 01:51:16,000 FLATTENING OUT OR COOLING, THEY 3151 01:51:16,001 --> 01:51:20,000 HAVE TO CHANGE THEIR ARGUMENT 3152 01:51:20,001 --> 01:51:21,000 AND PASS THIS CAP AND TAX 3153 01:51:21,001 --> 01:51:22,000 REGULATION. 3154 01:51:22,001 --> 01:51:25,000 I'LL SAY THIS INTO THE RECORD, 3155 01:51:25,001 --> 01:51:26,000 THESE FOLKS THAT ARE PUSHING, 3156 01:51:26,001 --> 01:51:27,000 WAXMAN, MARKEY, ARE WRONG ON THE 3157 01:51:27,001 --> 01:51:28,000 SCIENCE. 3158 01:51:28,001 --> 01:51:30,000 THEY CAN'T DEFEND THE SCIENCE, 3159 01:51:30,001 --> 01:51:32,000 THEY CAN'T ARGUE IT AGAINST PEOPLE THAT ARE OF EQUAL 3160 01:51:32,001 --> 01:51:34,000 SCIENTIFIC TRAINING, THEY CAN'T 3161 01:51:34,001 --> 01:51:35,000 EVEN ARGUE IT AGAINST ME. 3162 01:51:35,001 --> 01:51:36,000 AND I'M HAPPY TO DO THAT, BY THE 3163 01:51:36,001 --> 01:51:37,000 WAY. 3164 01:51:37,001 --> 01:51:39,000 I'M HAPPY TO HAVE THAT DEBATE 3165 01:51:39,001 --> 01:51:41,000 WITH AL GORE AND THE REST OF THEM THAT COME ALONG. 3166 01:51:41,001 --> 01:51:42,000 EVEN IF THEY'RE RIGHT ON THE 3167 01:51:42,001 --> 01:51:44,000 SCIENCE, AND THEY'RE NOT, 3168 01:51:44,001 --> 01:51:47,000 THEY'RE REALLY, REALLY WRONG ON THE ECONOMICS. 3169 01:51:47,001 --> 01:51:48,000 THIS IS ALMOST -- THIS HAS 3170 01:51:48,001 --> 01:51:49,000 ALMOST BECOME A RELIGION. 3171 01:51:49,001 --> 01:51:53,000 IT'S GOT POLITICAL INERTIA. 3172 01:51:53,001 --> 01:51:54,000 AND WE SAW AND HEARD FROM A 3173 01:51:54,001 --> 01:51:57,000 PH.D. FROM SPAIN WHO HAS BEEN IN 3174 01:51:57,001 --> 01:51:58,000 THE MIDDLE OF -- SPAIN EMBRACED 3175 01:51:58,001 --> 01:52:01,000 THE GREEN COUNTRY, THEY WANT TO 3176 01:52:01,001 --> 01:52:02,000 BE THE LEADER IN GREEN ENERGY 3177 01:52:02,001 --> 01:52:04,000 FOR THE WORLD, THE 3178 01:52:04,001 --> 01:52:05,000 INDUSTRIALIZED WORLD. 3179 01:52:05,001 --> 01:52:07,000 SO THEY SET ABOUT DOING THAT A 3180 01:52:07,001 --> 01:52:08,000 THEY BUILT A BUNCH OF WIND 3181 01:52:08,001 --> 01:52:09,000 CHARGERS AND THEY RAISED THE 3182 01:52:09,001 --> 01:52:11,000 COST OF THEIR ELECTRICITY. 3183 01:52:11,001 --> 01:52:12,000 THEY BECAME THE LEADERS IN 3184 01:52:12,001 --> 01:52:13,000 RENEWABLE ENERGY AND THE 3185 01:52:13,001 --> 01:52:14,000 INDUSTRIALIZED WORLD. 3186 01:52:14,001 --> 01:52:16,000 THEY ALSO BECAME THE LEADERS IN 3187 01:52:16,001 --> 01:52:17,000 UNEMPLOYMENT AT 17.5%THE 3188 01:52:17,001 --> 01:52:19,000 LEADERS IN THE INCREASE IN 3189 01:52:19,001 --> 01:52:23,000 UTILITY BILLS, 20% TO RESIDENTS, 3190 01:52:23,001 --> 01:52:25,000 BUT 100% INCREASE FOR INDUSTRY, 3191 01:52:25,001 --> 01:52:27,000 FOR ELECTRICAL BILLS, AND EVEN 3192 01:52:27,001 --> 01:52:28,000 THEN, THIS IS OVER A THREE-YEAR 3193 01:52:28,001 --> 01:52:30,000 PERIOD OF TIMEX EVEN THEN THEY 3194 01:52:30,001 --> 01:52:31,000 COULDN'T KEEP UP WITH THE -- 3195 01:52:31,001 --> 01:52:33,000 PERIOD OF TIME, EVEN THEY THEY 3196 01:52:33,001 --> 01:52:35,000 COULDN'T KEEP UP WITH THE COST 3197 01:52:35,001 --> 01:52:36,000 OF ELECTRICITY SO 3198 01:52:36,001 --> 01:52:37,000 BOND THEM OUT ON THE FINCIAL 3199 01:52:37,001 --> 01:52:39,000 MARKET, DIDN HAVE THE MONEY TO 3200 01:52:39,001 --> 01:52:41,000 PAY THE BILLS, SO THEY PLEDGED 3201 01:52:41,001 --> 01:52:43,000 THE FULL FAITH IN CREDIT TO 3202 01:52:43,001 --> 01:52:44,000 LATER ON PAY OFF THESE BONDS TO 3203 01:52:44,001 --> 01:52:46,000 THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT WHICH 3204 01:52:46,001 --> 01:52:47,000 MEANS THE COST OF GREEN ENERGY 3205 01:52:47,001 --> 01:52:48,000 IN SPAIN WAS BEING PASSED DOWN 3206 01:52:48,001 --> 01:52:50,000 TO THE GRANDCHILDREN. 3207 01:52:50,001 --> 01:52:52,000 THEY COULDN'T EVEN PAY THEIR 3208 01:52:52,001 --> 01:52:54,000 ELECTRICAL BILLS IN THIS TIME. 3209 01:52:54,001 --> 01:52:55,000 SO THEY LEAD THE WORLD IN 3210 01:52:55,001 --> 01:52:59,000 UNEMPLOYMENT, 17.5%, THEY 3211 01:52:59,001 --> 01:53:01,000 CREATED A LOT OF GREEN JOBS AT 3212 01:53:01,001 --> 01:53:05,000 THE COST OF $770,000 A JOB AND 3213 01:53:05,001 --> 01:53:06,000 AT THE COST OF 2.2 PRIVATE 3214 01:53:06,001 --> 01:53:08,000 SECTOR JOBS THAT THEY LOST. 3215 01:53:08,001 --> 01:53:09,000 I'M HOPEFUL THAT THE CLIMATE 3216 01:53:09,001 --> 01:53:12,000 CZAR, MR. TODD STERN, WILL TAKE 3217 01:53:12,001 --> 01:53:14,000 A LOOK AT SPAIN AND I WOULD 3218 01:53:14,001 --> 01:53:16,000 REFRESH THE MEMORY OF THE 3219 01:53:16,001 --> 01:53:19,000 SPEAKER AND YOURSELF, JUDGE, 3220 01:53:19,001 --> 01:53:20,000 THAT -- TAKE A LOOK AT SPAIN 3221 01:53:20,001 --> 01:53:21,000 BECAUSE PRESIDENT OBAMA SAID, WE 3222 01:53:21,001 --> 01:53:23,000 SHOULD LEARN FROM SPAIN, WE 3223 01:53:23,001 --> 01:53:25,000 SHOULD EMULATE SPAIN, THEY HAVE 3224 01:53:25,001 --> 01:53:27,000 LED INTO THIS GREEN REVOLUTION 3225 01:53:27,001 --> 01:53:29,000 AND I'M CONVINCED THAT THE 3226 01:53:29,001 --> 01:53:30,000 CLIMATE CZAR HAD TO HAVE TAKEN 3227 01:53:30,001 --> 01:53:32,000 THE OATH TO BE SUPPORTIVE OF 3228 01:53:32,001 --> 01:53:36,000 SUCH AN IDEA OR HE WOULDN'T BE THE CLIMATE CZAR. 3229 01:53:36,001 --> 01:53:38,000 AND AS HE I -- AND AS I LISTEN 3230 01:53:38,001 --> 01:53:41,000 TO THE SECRETARY OF AGRICULTURE 3231 01:53:41,001 --> 01:53:42,000 TESTIF 3232 01:53:42,001 --> 01:53:44,000 THE LOGICAL QUESTIONS WE ASKED 3233 01:53:44,001 --> 01:53:45,000 FROM BOTH SIDES OF THE AISLE, IT 3234 01:53:45,001 --> 01:53:46,000 LOOKED TO ME LIKE HE HAD TO TAKE 3235 01:53:46,001 --> 01:53:50,000 THE OATH TO SUPPORT THE 3236 01:53:50,001 --> 01:53:52,000 PRESIDENT'S AGENDA ON THIS MARKY 3237 01:53:52,001 --> 01:53:54,000 CAP AND TAX LEGISLATION, NO 3238 01:53:54,001 --> 01:53:55,000 MATTER HOW B IT IS FOR OUR 3239 01:53:55,001 --> 01:53:56,000 ECONOMY. 3240 01:53:56,001 --> 01:53:57,000 I WONDER IF ALL THESE PEOPLE 3241 01:53:57,001 --> 01:53:59,000 BELIEVE YOU CAN GROW THE ECONOMY 3242 01:53:59,001 --> 01:54:00,000 BY INCREASING THE EXPENSES OF 3243 01:54:00,001 --> 01:54:02,000 BUSINESS IN AMERICA BECAUSE 3244 01:54:02,001 --> 01:54:03,000 THAT'S WHAT CAP AND TAX DOES. 3245 01:54:03,001 --> 01:54:05,000 SO PUT THE CLIMATE CZAR TOGETHER 3246 01:54:05,001 --> 01:54:07,000 WITH THE ECONOMIC CZAR TOGETHER 3247 01:54:07,001 --> 01:54:09,000 WITH THE EXECUTIVE PAY CZAR. 3248 01:54:09,001 --> 01:54:10,000 I WOULDN'T WORRY ABOUT CYBER 3249 01:54:10,001 --> 01:54:11,000 SECURITY. 3250 01:54:11,001 --> 01:54:12,000 I'D LIKE TO PENETRATE THAT, KNOW 3251 01:54:12,001 --> 01:54:14,000 WHAT THEY ALL HAVE TO SAY AND 3252 01:54:14,001 --> 01:54:15,000 HOW THEY'RE THINKING ABOUT THIS 3253 01:54:15,001 --> 01:54:16,000 APPROACH BUT THE PAYROLL CZAR IS 3254 01:54:16,001 --> 01:54:19,000 THE ONE THAT GETS ME THE MOST. 3255 01:54:19,001 --> 01:54:20,000 THE ONE WHO CAN DECIDE WHAT 3256 01:54:20,001 --> 01:54:21,000 EVERYBODY OUGHT TO BE PAID AND 3257 01:54:21,001 --> 01:54:27,000 I'M WONDERING, I'M WONDERING 3258 01:54:27,001 --> 01:54:29,000 BEFORE I YIELD BACK, ARE THEY 3259 01:54:29,001 --> 01:54:31,000 GOING TO CONTROL THE PAY OF A 3260 01:54:31,001 --> 01:54:33,000 NEUROSURGEON, WHAT WOULD A 3261 01:54:33,001 --> 01:54:35,000 NEUROSURGEON BE WORTH IF HE WAS 3262 01:54:35,001 --> 01:54:37,000 CAPPED AT 3263 01:54:37,001 --> 01:54:39,000 OR COULD WE JUST GET A CHEAP 3264 01:54:39,001 --> 01:54:41,000 LOBOTOMY FOR THOSE WHO THOUGHT UP THIS? 3265 01:54:41,001 --> 01:54:42,000 AND I YIELD BACK TO THE 3266 01:54:42,001 --> 01:54:49,000 GENTLEMAN FROM TEXAS. 3267 01:54:49,001 --> 01:54:50,000 . 3268 01:54:50,001 --> 01:54:53,000 MR. CARTER: THE POOR WEATHERMAN 3269 01:54:53,001 --> 01:54:54,000 IS GOING TO GET A BREAK, 3270 01:54:54,001 --> 01:54:58,000 EVERYBODY SAYS WHEN THE WEATHER 3271 01:54:58,001 --> 01:55:00,000 MAN ON SUNDAY SAYS IT'S GOING 3272 01:55:00,001 --> 01:55:02,000 BE BEAUTIFUL ALL DAY LONG, AND 3273 01:55:02,001 --> 01:55:04,000 IT RAINS, WHO DO THEYLAME? 3274 01:55:04,001 --> 01:55:07,000 THE POOR WEATHER MAN. 3275 01:55:07,001 --> 01:55:08,000 NOW THEY CAN BLAME THE CLIMATE 3276 01:55:08,001 --> 01:55:10,000 CZAR. 3277 01:55:10,001 --> 01:55:12,000 THESE FOLKS UP HERE ON THE 3278 01:55:12,001 --> 01:55:15,000 MAJORITY SIDE, THEY WOULD LIKE 3279 01:55:15,001 --> 01:55:16,000 ALL THE CENTER OF THE UNIVERSE 3280 01:55:16,001 --> 01:55:17,000 TO BE WASHINGTON, D.C., AND 3281 01:55:17,001 --> 01:55:19,000 THERE YOU GO. 3282 01:55:19,001 --> 01:55:21,000 EVERYBODY IN THE COUNTRY WILL BE 3283 01:55:21,001 --> 01:55:22,000 BLAMING THE CLIMATE CZAR FOR BAD 3284 01:55:22,001 --> 01:55:24,000 WEATHER. 3285 01:55:24,001 --> 01:55:26,000 AT LEAST WE'VE GOT CENTRALIZED 3286 01:55:26,001 --> 01:55:27,000 BLAME. 3287 01:55:27,001 --> 01:55:29,000 YOU KNOW, I'M SURE THERE ARE 3288 01:55:29,001 --> 01:55:30,000 SOME PEOPLE SITTING AT HOME 3289 01:55:30,001 --> 01:55:33,000 SAYING AND IN THIS BODY SAYING, 3290 01:55:33,001 --> 01:55:35,000 WHY ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT THIS? 3291 01:55:35,001 --> 01:55:39,000 I THINK THERE'S SOMETHING REALLY 3292 01:55:39,001 --> 01:55:40,000 CRITICAL THAT WE ALL NEED TO 3293 01:55:40,001 --> 01:55:44,000 INTERJECT IN THIS AND I SAID IT 3294 01:55:44,001 --> 01:55:49,000 BRIEFLY, BUT IT TAKES US OUT OF 3295 01:55:49,001 --> 01:55:50,000 THE REALM -- INTO THE REALM OF 3296 01:55:50,001 --> 01:55:51,000 SERIOUSNESS. 3297 01:55:51,001 --> 01:55:52,000 THE FOUNDING FATHERS OF THIS 3298 01:55:52,001 --> 01:55:56,000 COUNTRY ASSIGNED THE GOVERNMENT 3299 01:55:56,001 --> 01:56:00,000 WITH CHECKS AND BALANCES. 3300 01:56:00,001 --> 01:56:01,000 AND THIS SIR COUPLE VENTS THAT 3301 01:56:01,001 --> 01:56:03,000 SYSTEM. 3302 01:56:03,001 --> 01:56:05,000 THIS PUTS ABSOLUTE AUTHORITY IN 3303 01:56:05,001 --> 01:56:07,000 THESE PEOPLES' HANDS AT THIS 3304 01:56:07,001 --> 01:56:09,000 CATEGORY AND THEY HAVE NOT GONE 3305 01:56:09,001 --> 01:56:11,000 THROUGH ANSENATE CONFIRMATION, 3306 01:56:11,001 --> 01:56:14,000 WHICH THE EXECUTIVE BRANCH -- 3307 01:56:14,001 --> 01:56:16,000 THOSE PEOPLE ARE SUPPOSED TO BE 3308 01:56:16,001 --> 01:56:18,000 -- SECRETARIES AND 3309 01:56:18,001 --> 01:56:20,000 UNDERSECRETARIES HAVE TO BE 3310 01:56:20,001 --> 01:56:22,000 CONFIRMED BY THE SENATE. 3311 01:56:22,001 --> 01:56:24,000 WE'VE GOT A GOOD FRIEND IN THIS 3312 01:56:24,001 --> 01:56:26,000 BODY THAT HAS BEEN NOMINATED FOR 3313 01:56:26,001 --> 01:56:27,000 SECRETARY OF ARMY. 3314 01:56:27,001 --> 01:56:29,000 AND I CERTAINLY HOPE HE GETS 3315 01:56:29,001 --> 01:56:32,000 CONFIRMED BY THE SENATE, AND I'M SURE HE WILL. 3316 01:56:32,001 --> 01:56:33,000 BUT HE HAS TO GO THROUGH THAT. 3317 01:56:33,001 --> 01:56:35,000 THESE PEOPLE DON'T GO THROUGH 3318 01:56:35,001 --> 01:56:37,000 THAT. 3319 01:56:37,001 --> 01:56:39,000 THERE'S NOBODY OVERSEEING THIS 3320 01:56:39,001 --> 01:56:42,000 BUT THE EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT, 3321 01:56:42,001 --> 01:56:45,000 BUT THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES. 3322 01:56:45,001 --> 01:56:46,000 SO THERE'S NO CONGRESSIONAL 3323 01:56:46,001 --> 01:56:48,000 OVERSIGHT. 3324 01:56:48,001 --> 01:56:49,000 THERE'S NO JUDICIAL OVERSHT, 3325 01:56:49,001 --> 01:56:52,000 BOTH OF WHICH WERE CREATED BY 3326 01:56:52,001 --> 01:56:54,000 OUR FOUNDING FATHERS. 3327 01:56:54,001 --> 01:56:55,000 NO. 3328 01:56:55,001 --> 01:56:59,000 THE ONLY REAL PERSON THEY ANSWER 3329 01:56:59,001 --> 01:57:00,000 TO IS THE PRESIDENT OF THE 3330 01:57:00,001 --> 01:57:02,000 UNITED STATES. 3331 01:57:02,001 --> 01:57:03,000 AND THEY WORK FOR THE PRESIDENT 3332 01:57:03,001 --> 01:57:04,000 OF THE UNITED STATES. 3333 01:57:04,001 --> 01:57:06,000 HE HIRED THEM, HE CHOSE THEM AND 3334 01:57:06,001 --> 01:57:07,000 PUT THEM IN THIS POSITION. 3335 01:57:07,001 --> 01:57:10,000 HE IS PAYING THEM GOOD MONEY. 3336 01:57:10,001 --> 01:57:14,000 AND -- BUT THEY DON'T DO WHAT 3337 01:57:14,001 --> 01:57:15,000 OUR FOUNDING FATHERS ENVISIONED 3338 01:57:15,001 --> 01:57:17,000 OUR COUNTRY TO BE DOING. 3339 01:57:17,001 --> 01:57:19,000 SO WHAT DOES IT CREATE? 3340 01:57:19,001 --> 01:57:23,000 IT CREATES AN EXECUTIVE 3341 01:57:23,001 --> 01:57:25,000 DEPARTMENT THAT IS GARNERING 3342 01:57:25,001 --> 01:57:27,000 POWER IN EVERY AREA. 3343 01:57:27,001 --> 01:57:31,000 I'M JOINED BY MY GOOD FRIEND 3344 01:57:31,001 --> 01:57:32,000 FROM TEXAS, REPRESENTATIVE 3345 01:57:32,001 --> 01:57:33,000 GOHMERT. 3346 01:57:33,001 --> 01:57:38,000 I'LL GIVE YOU AS MUCH TIME AS 3347 01:57:38,001 --> 01:57:40,000 YOU WISH TO CONSUME. 3348 01:57:40,001 --> 01:57:43,000 MR. GOHMERT: I THANK MY FRIEND FOR YIELDING. 3349 01:57:43,001 --> 01:57:44,000 AND YOUR LAST COMMENTS ARE 3350 01:57:44,001 --> 01:57:47,000 EXACTLY WHAT I WOULD LIKE TO 3351 01:57:47,001 --> 01:57:49,000 DISCUSS AS WELL, AND THAT IS 3352 01:57:49,001 --> 01:57:54,000 THESE PEOPLE ARE UNELECTED. 3353 01:57:54,001 --> 01:57:55,000 WE WERE PROMISED BEFORE THE 3354 01:57:55,001 --> 01:58:00,000 NOVEMBER ELECTIONS THAT WE WLD 3355 01:58:00,001 --> 01:58:03,000 HAVE UNPARALLELED TRANSPARENCY, 3356 01:58:03,001 --> 01:58:04,000 THAT YOU WOULD KNOW EVERYTHING 3357 01:58:04,001 --> 01:58:06,000 ABOUT THE GOVERNMENT, EVERYTHING 3358 01:58:06,001 --> 01:58:08,000 THAT WAS GOING ON, WE WERE GOING 3359 01:58:08,001 --> 01:58:12,000 TO BE TRANSPARENT, WE WERE TOLD, 3360 01:58:12,001 --> 01:58:14,000 IF ONLY YOU WOULD ELECT THE 3361 01:58:14,001 --> 01:58:15,000 OBAMA ADMINISTRATION -- ELECT 3362 01:58:15,001 --> 01:58:16,000 HIM PRESIDENT, AND THAT WOULD 3363 01:58:16,001 --> 01:58:18,000 HAPPEN. 3364 01:58:18,001 --> 01:58:19,000 AND WE'VE HEARD PEOPLE SAY IN 3365 01:58:19,001 --> 01:58:21,000 THIS BODY THAT THERE WAS A 3366 01:58:21,001 --> 01:58:22,000 MANDATE. WE GOT A MANDATE. 3367 01:58:22,001 --> 01:58:28,000 NO, YOU DIDN'T. 3368 01:58:28,001 --> 01:58:30,000 YOU BARELY GOT A MAJORITY THAT 3369 01:58:30,001 --> 01:58:32,000 ELECTED YOU TO HAVE 3370 01:58:32,001 --> 01:58:34,000 TRANSPARENCY. 3371 01:58:34,001 --> 01:58:37,000 WE WERE PROMISED THERE WOULD BE 3372 01:58:37,001 --> 01:58:38,000 CHANGE BASS THIS ADMINISTRATION 3373 01:58:38,001 --> 01:58:40,000 WOULD STOP THE INSANE DEFICIT 3374 01:58:40,001 --> 01:58:42,000 SPENDING. 3375 01:58:42,001 --> 01:58:45,000 AND SOME OF US, INCLUDING THOSE 3376 01:58:45,001 --> 01:58:47,000 OF US HERE WERE NOT HAPPY WITH 3377 01:58:47,001 --> 01:58:49,000 OUR OWN PRESIDENT BUSH AND HIS 3378 01:58:49,001 --> 01:58:50,000 ADMINISTRATION SPENDING TOO MUCH 3379 01:58:50,001 --> 01:58:52,000 MONEY. 3380 01:58:52,001 --> 01:58:53,000 AND THEY GOT ENOUGH OF OUR 3381 01:58:53,001 --> 01:58:55,000 COLLEAGUES TO HELP THEM SPEND 3382 01:58:55,001 --> 01:58:56,000 TOO MUCH MONEY, ON OUR SIDE OF 3383 01:58:56,001 --> 01:58:57,000 THE AISLE, SOME FROM THE OTHER 3384 01:58:57,001 --> 01:58:59,000 SIDE OF THE AISLE, BUT IT WAS 3385 01:58:59,001 --> 01:59:00,000 TOO MUCH MONEY. 3386 01:59:00,001 --> 01:59:03,000 AND THE PEOPLE VOTED HIM IN TO 3387 01:59:03,001 --> 01:59:04,000 STOP THE INSANITY. 3388 01:59:04,001 --> 01:59:05,000 AND SO THIS IS WHAT WE'RE 3389 01:59:05,001 --> 01:59:08,000 GETTG. 3390 01:59:08,001 --> 01:59:09,000 AND A CZAR, I WOULD SUBMIT, IS 3391 01:59:09,001 --> 01:59:12,000 PROBABLY THE PROPER TERM, 3392 01:59:12,001 --> 01:59:14,000 BECAUSE THEY'RE NOT ACCOUNTABLE. 3393 01:59:14,001 --> 01:59:17,000 THE SENATE TRIED TO GET RATNER 3394 01:59:17,001 --> 01:59:19,000 TO COME OVER AND TESTIFY. 3395 01:59:19,001 --> 01:59:20,000 WE DON'T KNOW HOW MUCH THEY'RE 3396 01:59:20,001 --> 01:59:22,000 MAKING. 3397 01:59:22,001 --> 01:59:24,000 THEY HAVE THESE CLOSED-DOOR 3398 01:59:24,001 --> 01:59:25,000 MEETINGS AND THEY'RE MAKING 3399 01:59:25,001 --> 01:59:29,000 THESE INCREDIBLE DECISIONS ABOUT 3400 01:59:29,001 --> 01:59:31,000 THE FUTURE OF THE AUTOMOBILES. 3401 01:59:31,001 --> 01:59:32,000 NOW, SOME PEOPLE DON'T 3402 01:59:32,001 --> 01:59:35,000 UNDERSTAND, BUT IF YOU STUDY 3403 01:59:35,001 --> 01:59:37,000 ENOUGH HISTORY, YOU KNOW THAT 3404 01:59:37,001 --> 01:59:41,000 WHEN YOU CAN NO LONGER PRODUCE 3405 01:59:41,001 --> 01:59:43,000 THE ESSENTIAL THINGS YOU NEED TO 3406 01:59:43,001 --> 01:59:47,000 CONDUCT WARFARE TO CONDUCT 3407 01:59:47,001 --> 01:59:49,000 YOURSELVES WHEN YOU'RE ATTACKED 3408 01:59:49,001 --> 01:59:53,000 THEN YOU ARE GOING TO STOP BEING 3409 01:59:53,001 --> 01:59:54,000 A COUNTRY, WHEN YOU CAN NO 3410 01:59:54,001 --> 01:59:57,000 LONGER STOMACH TO DO WHAT IT 3411 01:59:57,001 --> 01:59:59,000 TAKES TO PROTECT YOUR COUNTRY 3412 01:59:59,001 --> 02:00:00,000 FROM NUTCASES FROM AROUND THE 3413 02:00:00,001 --> 02:00:01,000 WORLD, THEN YOU LOSE THE 3414 02:00:01,001 --> 02:00:03,000 COUNTRY. 3415 02:00:03,001 --> 02:00:08,000 HERE, WE HAVE THESE PEOPLE WHO ARE IGNORING THE LAW. 3416 02:00:08,001 --> 02:00:10,000 AND YOU LOOK AT THIS CZAR, WHAT 3417 02:00:10,001 --> 02:00:14,000 HE DID WITH CARS AND SAID, WE 3418 02:00:14,001 --> 02:00:17,000 DIDN'T TELL THEM WHICH DEALERSHIPS TO CLOSE. 3419 02:00:17,001 --> 02:00:20,000 BUT THIS CLOSED-DOOR SECRET 3420 02:00:20,001 --> 02:00:22,000 SOCIETY APPOINTED BY PRESIDENT 3421 02:00:22,001 --> 02:00:23,000 OBAMA MEETS BEHIND CLOSED DOORS, 3422 02:00:23,001 --> 02:00:25,000 EXERTS PRESSURE. 3423 02:00:25,001 --> 02:00:26,000 AND WE HAVE SEEN THE KIND OF 3424 02:00:26,001 --> 02:00:28,000 PRESSURE THIS ADMINISTRATION 3425 02:00:28,001 --> 02:00:29,000 BRINGS TO BEAR. 3426 02:00:29,001 --> 02:00:34,000 YOU DO THIS OR ELSE WE'RE GOING 3427 02:00:34,001 --> 02:00:36,000 TO BLACKEN YOUR NAME AMONG THE 3428 02:00:36,001 --> 02:00:39,000 MEDIA AND WE'VE SEEN THAT HAPPEN. 3429 02:00:39,001 --> 02:00:41,000 WE'VE SEEN THE BEATING THAT 3430 02:00:41,001 --> 02:00:42,000 SECURED CREDITORS TOOK WHEN THEY 3431 02:00:42,001 --> 02:00:44,000 SAID, YOU REALLY OUGHT TO FOLLOW 3432 02:00:44,001 --> 02:00:46,000 THE LAW HERE. 3433 02:00:46,001 --> 02:00:48,000 WELL, THEY WERE BEING 3434 02:00:48,001 --> 02:00:50,000 UN-AMERICAN. 3435 02:00:50,001 --> 02:00:52,000 THOSE PEOPLE WERE NOT BEING UN-AMERICAN. 3436 02:00:52,001 --> 02:00:54,000 THEY WERE TRYING TO FOLLOW 3437 02:00:54,001 --> 02:00:55,000 CHAPTER 11 LAW. 3438 02:00:55,001 --> 02:00:59,000 THE LAW IS CLEAR. 3439 02:00:59,001 --> 02:01:00,000 IT HAS BEEN FOR YEARS. 3440 02:01:00,001 --> 02:01:01,000 THERE'S GOING TO BE A CHAPTER 11 3441 02:01:01,001 --> 02:01:02,000 -- THERE'S GOING TO BE A PLAN. 3442 02:01:02,001 --> 02:01:04,000 THERE HAS TO BE DISCLOSURES 3443 02:01:04,001 --> 02:01:07,000 ABOUT THE PLAN. 3444 02:01:07,001 --> 02:01:10,000 THERE HAVE TO BE HEARINGS. 3445 02:01:10,001 --> 02:01:13,000 YOU HAVE OECTIONS, RELIEF FROM 3446 02:01:13,001 --> 02:01:15,000 MOTIONS, STAYS. 3447 02:01:15,001 --> 02:01:18,000 YOU CAN HAVE ALL THESE HEARINGS. 3448 02:01:18,001 --> 02:01:21,000 THEY JUST BYPASSED THAT LAW AND 3449 02:01:21,001 --> 02:01:25,000 SAID WE'RE GOING TO TURN THE LAW 3450 02:01:25,001 --> 02:01:26,000 UPSIDE DOWN BECAUSE WE ARE 3451 02:01:26,001 --> 02:01:29,000 SECRET-MEETING ZARS WHO AREN'T 3452 02:01:29,001 --> 02:01:30,000 GOING TO LET PEOPLE HAVE THEIR 3453 02:01:30,001 --> 02:01:31,000 RIGHTS, BUT OBLITERATE THE LAW, 3454 02:01:31,001 --> 02:01:34,000 WHICH THEY DID. 3455 02:01:34,001 --> 02:01:36,000 AND THEY FAILED A BANKRUPTCY 3456 02:01:36,001 --> 02:01:41,000 JUDGE, WHO THEY BELIEVE WOULD 3457 02:01:41,001 --> 02:01:42,000 PROBABLY SIGN OFF ON THIS PLAN, 3458 02:01:42,001 --> 02:01:44,000 BECAUSE LET'S FACE IT, IF YOU 3459 02:01:44,001 --> 02:01:46,000 ARE A BANKRUPTCY JUDGE, OF 3460 02:01:46,001 --> 02:01:48,000 COURSE THEY COME UP FOR 3461 02:01:48,001 --> 02:01:50,000 RE-APPOINTMENT EVERY 14 YEARS. 3462 02:01:50,001 --> 02:01:51,000 I DON'T KNOW WHEN THIS JUDGE 3463 02:01:51,001 --> 02:01:53,000 COMES UP AGAIN, BUT APPARENTLY 3464 02:01:53,001 --> 02:01:56,000 HE WANTS TO BE A JUDGE A WHILE LONGER. 3465 02:01:56,001 --> 02:01:58,000 ANYWAY, THEY FOUND A JUDGE WHO 3466 02:01:58,001 --> 02:02:00,000 WAS INTERESTED IN NOT HAVING ALL 3467 02:02:00,001 --> 02:02:03,000 THE HEARINGS THE LAW REQUIRES TO 3468 02:02:03,001 --> 02:02:05,000 GIVE THE DEALERSHIPS A FAIR 3469 02:02:05,001 --> 02:02:08,000 HEARING, TO GIVE THE SECURED 3470 02:02:08,001 --> 02:02:10,000 CREDITORS A FAIR HEARING, TO 3471 02:02:10,001 --> 02:02:15,000 GIVE THE UNSECURED CREDITORS A 3472 02:02:15,001 --> 02:02:16,000 FAIR HEARING, THE CRACK TALL 3473 02:02:16,001 --> 02:02:18,000 RELATIONSHIPS THAT WERE BEING 3474 02:02:18,001 --> 02:02:19,000 ADDRESSED BY THE SECRET CZAR 3475 02:02:19,001 --> 02:02:21,000 MEETINGS BEHIND CLOSED DOORS, 3476 02:02:21,001 --> 02:02:22,000 THERE SHOULD HAVE BEEN 3477 02:02:22,001 --> 02:02:24,000 TRANSPARENCY. 3478 02:02:24,001 --> 02:02:25,000 THAT'S WHAT THE VOTERS VOTED 3479 02:02:25,001 --> 02:02:26,000 FOR. 3480 02:02:26,001 --> 02:02:27,000 AND THEY DIDN'T GET Y OF THAT. 3481 02:02:27,001 --> 02:02:30,000 JUST TURNED THE LAW UPSIDE DOWN. 3482 02:02:30,001 --> 02:02:31,000 I HOPE MY FRIENDS WILL BE 3483 02:02:31,001 --> 02:02:35,000 PLEASED TO HEAR THAT SINCE WE'RE 3484 02:02:35,001 --> 02:02:36,000 TAKING UP THE COMMERCE, JUSTICE 3485 02:02:36,001 --> 02:02:38,000 BILL THIS WEEK, I HAVE AN 3486 02:02:38,001 --> 02:02:39,000 AMENDMENT IN THERE, IT'S VERY 3487 02:02:39,001 --> 02:02:42,000 SIMPLE. 3488 02:02:42,001 --> 02:02:45,000 IT SAYS NO MONEY APPROPRIATED 3489 02:02:45,001 --> 02:02:47,000 CAN BE SPENT TO PAY 3490 02:02:47,001 --> 02:02:49,000 TASK FORCE, INCLUDING THE CAR 3491 02:02:49,001 --> 02:02:50,000 CZAR. 3492 02:02:50,001 --> 02:02:53,000 IF THEY'RE NOT GOING TO TELL US 3493 02:02:53,001 --> 02:02:54,000 WHAT THEY'RE DOING BEHIND CLOSED 3494 02:02:54,001 --> 02:02:57,000 DOORS TO TURN THE LAWS UPSIDE 3495 02:02:57,001 --> 02:03:00,000 DOWN AND TO IGNORE THE 3496 02:03:00,001 --> 02:03:02,000 CONSTITUTIONAL TAKINGS WHICH IS 3497 02:03:02,001 --> 02:03:04,000 OCCURRING AND TO IGNORE ALL THE 3498 02:03:04,001 --> 02:03:07,000 CONTRACT LAW, THE BANKRUPTCY 3499 02:03:07,001 --> 02:03:09,000 LAW, AS THEY IGNORE ALL THOSE 3500 02:03:09,001 --> 02:03:12,000 THINGS, ARE THEY GOING TO IGNORE 3501 02:03:12,001 --> 02:03:14,000 THE LAW, THEN WE ARE GOING TO 3502 02:03:14,001 --> 02:03:16,000 IGNORE PAYING THEM. 3503 02:03:16,001 --> 02:03:17,000 I FEEL LIKE WE WILL HAVE 3504 02:03:17,001 --> 02:03:18,000 BIPARTISAN SUPPORT ON THAT, 3505 02:03:18,001 --> 02:03:20,000 BECAUSE I KNOW PEOPLE ON BOTH 3506 02:03:20,001 --> 02:03:21,000 SIDES OF THE AISLE WANT TO KNOW 3507 02:03:21,001 --> 02:03:23,000 WHAT'S GOING ON. 3508 02:03:23,001 --> 02:03:24,000 W 3509 02:03:24,001 --> 02:03:26,000 AND BY GOLLY, WE OUGHT TO HAVE 3510 02:03:26,001 --> 02:03:27,000 IT. 3511 02:03:27,001 --> 02:03:29,000 I APPRECIATE THE GENTLEMAN 3512 02:03:29,001 --> 02:03:31,000 YIELDING, ESPECIALLY ON THIS 3513 02:03:31,001 --> 02:03:36,000 TOPIC OF CZARS, BUT WE KNOW WHAT 3514 02:03:36,001 --> 02:03:38,000 HAPPENED TO THE CZARS. 3515 02:03:38,001 --> 02:03:39,000 PEOPLE GOT SICK OF IT, AND THEY 3516 02:03:39,001 --> 02:03:40,000 THREW THEM OUT. 3517 02:03:40,001 --> 02:03:42,000 NOW I WOULD NEVER ADVOCATE WHAT 3518 02:03:42,001 --> 02:03:44,000 HAPPENED TO THE LAST CZAR AND 3519 02:03:44,001 --> 02:03:46,000 HIS FAMILY. 3520 02:03:46,001 --> 02:03:48,000 TOTALLY INAPPROPRIATE, BUT HERE 3521 02:03:48,001 --> 02:03:50,000 IN AMERICA, WE HAVE ANOTHER WAY 3522 02:03:50,001 --> 02:03:51,000 OF THROWING OUT CZARS. 3523 02:03:51,001 --> 02:03:52,000 WE HAVE ELECTIONS. 3524 02:03:52,001 --> 02:03:54,000 PEOPLE ARE GOING TO HAVE A 3525 02:03:54,001 --> 02:03:55,000 CHOICE. 3526 02:03:55,001 --> 02:03:57,000 THEY WERE PROMISED TRANSPARENCY 3527 02:03:57,001 --> 02:03:58,000 AND THIS KIND OF BALONEY IS NOT 3528 02:03:58,001 --> 02:04:00,000 IT. 3529 02:04:00,001 --> 02:04:03,000 AND I HOPE THE AMERICAN PEOPLE RESPOND APPROPRIATELY. 3530 02:04:03,001 --> 02:04:05,000 MR. CARTER: RECLAIMING MY TIME 3531 02:04:05,001 --> 02:04:07,000 AND I APPRECIATE MY FRIEND 3532 02:04:07,001 --> 02:04:09,000 EXPRESSING HIS PASSION. 3533 02:04:09,001 --> 02:04:12,000 I WAS TALKING ABOUT EXACTLY THE SAME THING. 3534 02:04:12,001 --> 02:04:14,000 WE LIKE TO TOUT THE RULE OF LAW. 3535 02:04:14,001 --> 02:04:15,000 WE LIKE TO SAY -- AND IN FACT, 3536 02:04:15,001 --> 02:04:17,000 IT'S TRUE. 3537 02:04:17,001 --> 02:04:19,000 THAT WHAT REALLY MAKES AMERICA 3538 02:04:19,001 --> 02:04:21,000 WORK IS HAVING THE RULE OF LAW. 3539 02:04:21,001 --> 02:04:23,000 THAT MEANS WHEN YOU MAKE A 3540 02:04:23,001 --> 02:04:24,000 CONTRACT, WE HONOR THAT 3541 02:04:24,001 --> 02:04:25,000 CONTRACT. 3542 02:04:25,001 --> 02:04:27,000 WHEN WE HAVE LAWS ON THE BOOKS, 3543 02:04:27,001 --> 02:04:30,000 WE FOLLOW THOSE. 3544 02:04:30,001 --> 02:04:33,000 AND WE CAN DEPEND AS AN INVESTOR 3545 02:04:33,001 --> 02:04:35,000 OR A PURCHASER OR AN EMPLOYEE, 3546 02:04:35,001 --> 02:04:36,000 WE CAN DEPENUPON THOSE LAWS 3547 02:04:36,001 --> 02:04:39,000 WHICH HAVE BEEN WRITTEN IN THE 3548 02:04:39,001 --> 02:04:43,000 BANKRUPTCY ARENA, FOR INSTANCE. 3549 02:04:43,001 --> 02:04:45,000 AND I AGREE WHOLEHEARTEDLY WITH 3550 02:04:45,001 --> 02:04:46,000 MY COLLEAGUE THAT THE WAY THIS 3551 02:04:46,001 --> 02:04:48,000 HAS BEEN HANDLED, WE HAVE THROWN 3552 02:04:48,001 --> 02:04:51,000 THE RULE OF LAW AND BANKRUPTCY 3553 02:04:51,001 --> 02:04:53,000 LAW RIGHT OUT THE WINDOW. 3554 02:04:53,001 --> 02:04:54,000 I YIELD BACK. 3555 02:04:54,001 --> 02:04:56,000 MR. GOHMERT: ONE FURTHER COMMENT 3556 02:04:56,001 --> 02:04:57,000 ABOUT THAT. 3557 02:04:57,001 --> 02:04:59,000 BY GETTING A BANKRUPTCY JUDGE TO 3558 02:04:59,001 --> 02:05:03,000 SIGN OFF ON IT, NOW THIS 3559 02:05:03,001 --> 02:05:05,000 UNELECTED, UNACCOUNTABLE, 3560 02:05:05,001 --> 02:05:06,000 NONTRANSPARENT BODY HAS GOTTEN 3561 02:05:06,001 --> 02:05:10,000 UNDER THE GUISE OF ONE LAZY 3562 02:05:10,001 --> 02:05:12,000 BANKRUPT JUDGE'S SIGNATURE. 3563 02:05:12,001 --> 02:05:13,000 THEY NOW HAVE COVER OR COLOR OF 3564 02:05:13,001 --> 02:05:18,000 THE LAW. 3565 02:05:18,001 --> 02:05:20,000 NOW, I THOUGHT WHEN JUSTICE 3566 02:05:20,001 --> 02:05:22,000 GINSBURG STAYED THSALE TO 3567 02:05:22,001 --> 02:05:24,000 FIAT, WE MIGHT GET SOME RULE OF 3568 02:05:24,001 --> 02:05:25,000 LAW. 3569 02:05:25,001 --> 02:05:28,000 BUT IT LOOKS LIKE SO FAR THE 3570 02:05:28,001 --> 02:05:29,000 BANKRUPTCCOURT UP TO THE 3571 02:05:29,001 --> 02:05:31,000 SUPRE COURT SAID, YOU KNOW 3572 02:05:31,001 --> 02:05:32,000 WHAT? 3573 02:05:32,001 --> 02:05:34,000 WE'RE SCARED OF THESE PEOPLE. 3574 02:05:34,001 --> 02:05:36,000 LET'S JUST LET THE CZAR PEOPLE 3575 02:05:36,001 --> 02:05:38,000 RUN THINGS. 3576 02:05:38,001 --> 02:05:40,000 AND JUDICIARY, WE AREN'T GOING 3577 02:05:40,001 --> 02:05:41,000 TO HOLD THEM ACCOUNTABLE. 3578 02:05:41,001 --> 02:05:43,000 IF THIS BODY, THIS CONGRESS, 3579 02:05:43,001 --> 02:05:45,000 DOES NOT HOLD THEM ACCOUNTABLE, 3580 02:05:45,001 --> 02:05:48,000 THEN WE HAVE BECOME A COUNTRY 3581 02:05:48,001 --> 02:05:50,000 RUN BY CZARS, BECAUSE THE 3582 02:05:50,001 --> 02:05:52,000 CONGRESS HAS NOT MADE THEM 3583 02:05:52,001 --> 02:05:54,000 ACCOUNTABLE, JUDICIARY HAS NOT 3584 02:05:54,001 --> 02:05:56,000 MADE THEM ACCOUNTABLE, SO 3585 02:05:56,001 --> 02:05:59,000 THEY'RE JUST RUNNING THINGS AND 3586 02:05:59,001 --> 02:06:02,000 EVERYBODY HAS ALLOWED THEM TO 3587 02:06:02,001 --> 02:06:03,000 USURP WHAT THE FOUNDERS FOUGHT 3588 02:06:03,001 --> 02:06:06,000 AND PLEDGED AND DIED AND THEIR 3589 02:06:06,001 --> 02:06:07,000 FORTUNES ANDACRED HONOR. 3590 02:06:07,001 --> 02:06:11,000 WE CAN'T LET THAT HAPPEN. 3591 02:06:11,001 --> 02:06:12,000 I YIELD BACK. 3592 02:06:12,001 --> 02:06:14,000 MR. CARTER: I THINK MR. KING 3593 02:06:14,001 --> 02:06:16,000 WOULD LIKE SOME TIME. 3594 02:06:16,001 --> 02:06:18,000 I YIELD FIVE MINUTES TO MR. 3595 02:06:18,001 --> 02:06:20,000 KING. 3596 02:06:20,001 --> 02:06:21,000 MR. KING: I THANK THE JUDGE FROM 3597 02:06:21,001 --> 02:06:23,000 TEXAS FOR YIELDING. 3598 02:06:23,001 --> 02:06:26,000 AS I LOOK AT THIS LIST, A COUPLE 3599 02:06:26,001 --> 02:06:28,000 OF THINGS DO COME TO MIND AND 3600 02:06:28,001 --> 02:06:32,000 COME BACK AND REFRESH. 3601 02:06:32,001 --> 02:06:35,000 THE TARP CZAR HERB ALLISON AND 3602 02:06:35,001 --> 02:06:38,000 EARL DEVANEY, THOSE TWO PLACES 3603 02:06:38,001 --> 02:06:41,000 THERE, ADD THAT UP, WE ARE AT 3604 02:06:41,001 --> 02:06:44,000 ABOUT, LET'S SEE $1.5 TRILLION 3605 02:06:44,001 --> 02:06:47,000 IN THAT NEIGHBORHOOD, VERY CLOSE TO THAT. 3606 02:06:47,001 --> 02:06:48,000 AND IT MIGHT BE GOOD TO ASK 3607 02:06:48,001 --> 02:06:50,000 THEM, WHERE'S THE MONEY AND 3608 02:06:50,001 --> 02:06:51,000 WHERE DID IT GO? 3609 02:06:51,001 --> 02:06:54,000 NOW WE HAVE A CENTRALIZED PLACE 3610 02:06:54,001 --> 02:06:55,000 TO AT LEAST ASK TH 3611 02:06:55,001 --> 02:06:57,000 THE LEVEL OF ACCOUNTABILITY. 3612 02:06:57,001 --> 02:06:59,000 THESE PEOPLE ARE NOT ACCOUNTABLE 3613 02:06:59,001 --> 02:07:01,000 TO THE SENATE FOR CONFIRMATION 3614 02:07:01,001 --> 02:07:02,000 OR TO THE PUBLIC FOR ELECTIONS. 3615 02:07:02,001 --> 02:07:03,000 AND THEY ARE ACCOUNTABLE ONLY TO 3616 02:07:03,001 --> 02:07:06,000 THE PRESIDENT AS FAR AS WE KNOW, 3617 02:07:06,001 --> 02:07:08,000 BUT THE LEAST WE CAN DO IS PUT 3618 02:07:08,001 --> 02:07:10,000 SOME PRESSURE ON THEM AND ASK 3619 02:07:10,001 --> 02:07:11,000 FOR A FULL ACCOUNTING, WHERE'S 3620 02:07:11,001 --> 02:07:13,000 THE TARP MONEY? 3621 02:07:13,001 --> 02:07:14,000 AND ARE WE GOING TO LET THE 3622 02:07:14,001 --> 02:07:16,000 PEOPLE WHO WANT TO PAY IT BACK, 3623 02:07:16,001 --> 02:07:18,000 PAY IT BACK.?? 3624 02:07:18,001 --> 02:07:21,000 IS THE MONEY GOING TO THE 3625 02:07:21,001 --> 02:07:22,000 TREASURY OR ROLL IT OVER TO SOME 3626 02:07:22,001 --> 02:07:25,000 VENTURE CAPITAL GOVERNMENT KIND 3627 02:07:25,001 --> 02:07:28,000 OF ENDEAVOR. 3628 02:07:28,001 --> 02:07:30,000 AND MR. EARL DEVANEY, I WOULD BE 3629 02:07:30,001 --> 02:07:32,000 INTERESTED, IF WE COULD GET AN 3630 02:07:32,001 --> 02:07:33,000 ANSWER FROM THE STIMULUS 3631 02:07:33,001 --> 02:07:35,000 ACCOUNTABILITY CZAR ON WHERE IS 3632 02:07:35,001 --> 02:07:37,000 ALL THAT MONEY, HOW MUCH OF IT 3633 02:07:37,001 --> 02:07:40,000 HAS BEEN SPENT AND WHERE, HOW 3634 02:07:40,001 --> 02:07:41,000 MUCH OF IT WENT INTO 3635 02:07:41,001 --> 02:07:43,000 INFRASTRUCTURE, HOW MUCH 3636 02:07:43,001 --> 02:07:44,000 CONVERTED INTO JOBS, HOW MUCH OF 3637 02:07:44,001 --> 02:07:46,000 THAT INFRASTRUCTURE IS GOING TO 3638 02:07:46,001 --> 02:07:49,000 STIMULATE THE ECONOMY. 3639 02:07:49,001 --> 02:07:50,000 I WOULD LIKE TO SEE THE LIST. 3640 02:07:50,001 --> 02:07:53,000 I UNDERSTAND THE NUMBER OF THOSE 3641 02:07:53,001 --> 02:07:55,000 DOLLARS THAT HAVE GONE INTO 3642 02:07:55,001 --> 02:07:57,000 INFRASTRUCTURE IS 3% TO 4% OF 3643 02:07:57,001 --> 02:07:59,000 THE $787 BILLION THAT WERE 3644 02:07:59,001 --> 02:08:02,000 APPROPRIATED IN THE STIMULUS 3645 02:08:02,001 --> 02:08:04,000 PLAN, WHICH WAS SAME AS THE TARP 3646 02:08:04,001 --> 02:08:07,000 FUNDING, HURRY UP AND PUT THE 3647 02:08:07,001 --> 02:08:09,000 MONEY OUT NOW BECAUSE WE ARE IN 3648 02:08:09,001 --> 02:08:10,000 AN ECONOMIC TAILSPIN. 3649 02:08:10,001 --> 02:08:13,000 WE HAD A CHICKEN LITTLE DRILL 3650 02:08:13,001 --> 02:08:14,000 GOING ON HERE IN THIS CAPITOL 3651 02:08:14,001 --> 02:08:17,000 AND IT YIELDED ABOUT $1.5 3652 02:08:17,001 --> 02:08:20,000 TRILLION FROM THE TAXPAYERS THAT 3653 02:08:20,001 --> 02:08:21,000 MY GRANDKIDS ARE GOING TO HAVE 3654 02:08:21,001 --> 02:08:22,000 ON TO PAY AND WEON'T KNOW 3655 02:08:22,001 --> 02:08:24,000 WHERE THE MONEY WENT 3656 02:08:24,001 --> 02:08:27,000 DON'T KNOW HOW IT IS THAT ALL 3657 02:08:27,001 --> 02:08:28,000 THIS MONEY THAT IS APPROPRIATED 3658 02:08:28,001 --> 02:08:30,000 DIDN'T GET IMPLEMENTED. 3659 02:08:30,001 --> 02:08:32,000 NOW WE HAVE THIS LONG-TERM DEBT 3660 02:08:32,001 --> 02:08:35,000 FOR AMERICA, THAT ONCE YOU TAKE 3661 02:08:35,001 --> 02:08:36,000 ON THAT KIND OF DEBT, EVEN 3662 02:08:36,001 --> 02:08:39,000 WHATEVER YOUR ECONOMIC CRISIS IS 3663 02:08:39,001 --> 02:08:41,000 THAT YOUR'S IN, TAKING ON DEBT, 3664 02:08:41,001 --> 02:08:43,000 DELAYS IT, DELAYS THE RECOVERY. 3665 02:08:43,001 --> 02:08:45,000 THAT IS THE EQUATION THAT TAKES PLACE. 3666 02:08:45,001 --> 02:08:47,000 AND I THINK WE SHOULD BE ABLE TO 3667 02:08:47,001 --> 02:08:48,000 HAVE REAL-TIME ACCOUNTING D 3668 02:08:48,001 --> 02:08:51,000 SHOULD BE A WEBS 3669 02:08:51,001 --> 02:08:53,000 HERE'S YOUR $700ILLION IN TARP 3670 02:08:53,001 --> 02:08:56,000 MONEY AND HERE WHERE IT WENT. 3671 02:08:56,001 --> 02:08:58,000 SCENE, REAL-TIME. 3672 02:08:58,001 --> 02:08:59,000 I THINK THERE OUGHT TO BE A 3673 02:08:59,001 --> 02:09:01,000 WEBSITE FOR THE STIMULUS 3674 02:09:01,001 --> 02:09:02,000 ACCOUNTABILITY CZAR SO HE COULD 3675 02:09:02,001 --> 02:09:04,000 HAVE THAT WEBSITE UP. 3676 02:09:04,001 --> 02:09:05,000 WE WOULDN'T HAVE TO BE PRESSING 3677 02:09:05,001 --> 02:09:08,000 FOR ANSWERS. 3678 02:09:08,001 --> 02:09:09,000 AMERICA COULD GO TO THE WEB SITE 3679 02:09:09,001 --> 02:09:12,000 AND CONTACT US AND LET US KNOW 3680 02:09:12,001 --> 02:09:13,000 HOW THEY THINK THE MONEY IS 3681 02:09:13,001 --> 02:09:14,000 BEING SPENT OR NOT BEING SPENT. 3682 02:09:14,001 --> 02:09:17,000 ONE THING WE KNOW IS, IT'S NOT 3683 02:09:17,001 --> 02:09:19,000 BEEN AND DOESN'T LOOK LIKE IT'S 3684 02:09:19,001 --> 02:09:21,000 GOING TO BE SPENT ACCORDING TO 3685 02:09:21,001 --> 02:09:22,000 PLAN. 3686 02:09:22,001 --> 02:09:24,000 AND WHETHER OR NOT IT'S BEEN 3687 02:09:24,001 --> 02:09:25,000 ACCORDING TO PLAN, THE RESULTS 3688 02:09:25,001 --> 02:09:30,000 DON'T LOOK LIK 3689 02:09:30,001 --> 02:09:32,000 FUNDING OR STIMULUS. 3690 02:09:32,001 --> 02:09:35,000 AND I'M PROUD OF MY COLLEAGUES 3691 02:09:35,001 --> 02:09:37,000 VOTING NO ON THAT PLAN. 3692 02:09:37,001 --> 02:09:39,000 IT WAS ONE LEG OF A M 3693 02:09:39,001 --> 02:09:42,000 STOOL THAT WE HAD TO CONSTRUCT 3694 02:09:42,001 --> 02:09:43,000 TO GET US OUT OF THAT ECONOMIC 3695 02:09:43,001 --> 02:09:45,000 CRIS. 3696 02:09:45,001 --> 02:09:48,000 LOOKS LIKE A MULTILEGGED STOOL 3697 02:09:48,001 --> 02:09:49,000 HAS GOT TO BE A FOUR OR MORE 3698 02:09:49,001 --> 02:09:51,000 LEGGED STOOL. 3699 02:09:51,001 --> 02:09:55,000 I NEVER SEEN A TWO-LEGGED STOOL 3700 02:09:55,001 --> 02:09:57,000 AND I NEVER TALKED TO ANYBODY 3701 02:09:57,001 --> 02:09:58,000 THAT HAS SEEN A TWO-LEGGED 3702 02:09:58,001 --> 02:10:02,000 STOOL. 3703 02:10:02,001 --> 02:10:03,000 THIS STIMULUS PLAN DEFIES LOGIC. 3704 02:10:03,001 --> 02:10:06,000 THIS IS AT THE COST OF $2 3705 02:10:06,001 --> 02:10:07,000 TRILLION A LEG, MADAM SPEAKER. 3706 02:10:07,001 --> 02:10:10,000 WHAT DO WE GET BACK FOR THAT? 3707 02:10:10,001 --> 02:10:13,000 AND THESE MARGINS THAT WERE TO 3708 02:10:13,001 --> 02:10:15,000 COME, WE WEREN'T GOING TO SEE 3709 02:10:15,001 --> 02:10:17,000 UNEMPLOYMENT GO PAST 8%, BUT NOW 3710 02:10:17,001 --> 02:10:21,000 IT'S 9.4%. 3711 02:10:21,001 --> 02:10:24,000 THE STOCK MARKET IS DOWN 204 POINTS. 3712 02:10:24,001 --> 02:10:25,000 THE LEVEL OF CONFIDENCE THAT IS 3713 02:10:25,001 --> 02:10:28,000 THERE, IT SEEMS IT'S LESS 3714 02:10:28,001 --> 02:10:29,000 VOLATILE AND MORE STABLE THAN IT 3715 02:10:29,001 --> 02:10:31,000 WAS, BUT WE HAVE A LOT MORE DEBT 3716 02:10:31,001 --> 02:10:33,000 THAN WE HAD. 3717 02:10:33,001 --> 02:10:36,000 AND THE CHINESE WERE HAPPY TO BUY OUR DEBT. 3718 02:10:36,001 --> 02:10:38,000 I WAS NEVER HAPPY TO SELL IT TO 3719 02:10:38,001 --> 02:10:41,000 THEM. TODAY THEY'RE NOT HAPPY TO BUY 3720 02:10:41,001 --> 02:10:42,000 IT AND I'M NOT HAPPY TO SELL IT 3721 02:10:42,001 --> 02:10:43,000 TO THEM. 3722 02:10:43,001 --> 02:10:44,000 WE HAVE TO TIGHTEN THIS BELT 3723 02:10:44,001 --> 02:10:47,000 DOWN AND SLOW DOWN THE SPENDING 3724 02:10:47,001 --> 02:10:48,000 AND GOT TO GET BACK TO BALANCING 3725 02:10:48,001 --> 02:10:50,000 OUR BUDGET. 3726 02:10:50,001 --> 02:10:51,000 AND I BELIEVE THAT EVERY ONE OF 3727 02:10:51,001 --> 02:10:54,000 US HERE ON THIS FLOOR VOTED FOR 3728 02:10:54,001 --> 02:10:55,000 A BALANCED BUDGET THIS YEAR IN 3729 02:10:55,001 --> 02:10:57,000 THFACE OF ALL THIS ECONOMIC 3730 02:10:57,001 --> 02:10:58,000 CRISIS. 3731 02:10:58,001 --> 02:11:00,000 THOSE OF US ON THE REPUBLICAN 3732 02:11:00,001 --> 02:11:01,000 SIDE OF THE AISLE, MANY OF US 3733 02:11:01,001 --> 02:11:04,000 SUPPORTED A BALANCED BUDGET. 3734 02:11:04,001 --> 02:11:06,000 IT'S HARD TO PUT ONE TOGETHER IN 3735 02:11:06,001 --> 02:11:07,000 THIS TAILSPIN THAT WE'RE IN. 3736 02:11:07,001 --> 02:11:09,000 WE VOTED FOR IT. 3737 02:11:09,001 --> 02:11:13,000 AND THAT SENDS THE RIGHT MESSAGE 3738 02:11:13,001 --> 02:11:14,000 AND EVERY YEAR, WE HAVE TO PUT A 3739 02:11:14,001 --> 02:11:15,000 BALANCED BUDGET OUT THERE. 3740 02:11:15,001 --> 02:11:17,000 I YIELD BACK AND I THANK THE 3741 02:11:17,001 --> 02:11:21,000 GENTLEMAN FROMEXAS. 3742 02:11:21,001 --> 02:11:24,000 . 3743 02:11:24,001 --> 02:11:25,000 MR. CARTER: AS WE SUM THIS UP 3744 02:11:25,001 --> 02:11:27,000 HERE, MR. KING MENTIONED 3745 02:11:27,001 --> 02:11:28,000 SOMETHING I THINK IS IMPORTANT. 3746 02:11:28,001 --> 02:11:32,000 HE MENTIONED WE NEED A 3747 02:11:32,001 --> 02:11:34,000 DENATIONALIZATION CZAR OR AN 3748 02:11:34,001 --> 02:11:37,000 EXIT STRATEGY CZAR OR MAYBE BOTH 3749 02:11:37,001 --> 02:11:38,000 IN THIS WORLD OF PROLIFERATION 3750 02:11:38,001 --> 02:11:41,000 OF CZARS, MAYBE WE NEED BOTH. 3751 02:11:41,001 --> 02:11:43,000 BUT THE REALITY IS, IN 3752 02:11:43,001 --> 02:11:45,000 SERIOUSNESS WHEN THE PRESIDENT 3753 02:11:45,001 --> 02:11:49,000 OF THE UNITED STATES CAME INTO 3754 02:11:49,001 --> 02:11:50,000 OFFICE HE TOLD US, THERE'S A 3755 02:11:50,001 --> 02:11:52,000 DROPDEAD DEADLINE, WE'RE GOING 3756 02:11:52,001 --> 02:11:54,000 TO GET OUT OF IRAQ, THIS IS IT. 3757 02:11:54,001 --> 02:11:57,000 THERE'S A DROPDEAD DEADLINE, WOULD ERR GOING TO CLOSE 3758 02:11:57,001 --> 02:11:59,000 GUANTANAMO BAY, THIS IS IT. 3759 02:11:59,001 --> 02:12:00,000 SO THIS TIME NEXT YEAR WE WON'T 3760 02:12:00,001 --> 02:12:06,000 EVEN NEED THE GUANTANAMO CLOSURE 3761 02:12:06,001 --> 02:12:07,000 CZAR BECAUSE IT WILL BE CLOSED. 3762 02:12:07,001 --> 02:12:09,000 AND VERYLEARLY WE'RE GOING TO 3763 02:12:09,001 --> 02:12:11,000 DRAW DOWN OUR SOLDIERS IN THE 3764 02:12:11,001 --> 02:12:14,000 WAR IN IRAQ. 3765 02:12:14,001 --> 02:12:15,000 THE PRESIDENT'S SHOWN 3766 02:12:15,001 --> 02:12:18,000 LEADERSHIP, WHETHER YOU AGREE OR 3767 02:12:18,001 --> 02:12:19,000 DISAGREE WITH HIM IS FOR OTHER 3768 02:12:19,001 --> 02:12:23,000 TIMES, BUT HE'S CERTAINLY BECOME 3769 02:12:23,001 --> 02:12:26,000 ONE WHO SAYS THERE SHOULD BE A 3770 02:12:26,001 --> 02:12:28,000 DROPDEAD DATE, AN EXIT STRATEGY. 3771 02:12:28,001 --> 02:12:29,000 YOU I THINK IT'S IMPORTANT THAT 3772 02:12:29,001 --> 02:12:31,000 THIS CONGRESS -- I THINK IT'S 3773 02:12:31,001 --> 02:12:33,000 IMPORTANT THAT THIS CONGRESS, 3774 02:12:33,001 --> 02:12:34,000 WHEN YOU LOOK AT THIS MASSIVE 3775 02:12:34,001 --> 02:12:36,000 INCREASE IN THE EXECUTIVE 3776 02:12:36,001 --> 02:12:38,000 DEPARTMENT AND WE SAY TO 3777 02:12:38,001 --> 02:12:39,000 OURSELVES, THEY ARE NOT 3778 02:12:39,001 --> 02:12:41,000 ANSWERABLE TO US EXCEPT THROUGH 3779 02:12:41,001 --> 02:12:44,000 THE APPROPRIATIONS PROCESS, WE 3780 02:12:44,001 --> 02:12:47,000 CAN CUT OFF THE MONEY, BUT OTHER 3781 02:12:47,001 --> 02:12:48,000 THAN THAT, THEY'RE ANSWERABLE TO 3782 02:12:48,001 --> 02:12:49,000 THE PRESIDENT. 3783 02:12:49,001 --> 02:12:51,000 WE HAD NOTHING TO SAY ABOUT WHO 3784 02:12:51,001 --> 02:12:53,000 GOT HIRED, WE GOT NOTHING TO SAY 3785 02:12:53,001 --> 02:12:55,000 ABOUT WHAT THE DUTIES WERE. 3786 02:12:55,001 --> 02:12:57,000 THIS WAS THE CREATION OF THE 3787 02:12:57,001 --> 02:12:59,000 EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT AND THAT 3788 02:12:59,001 --> 02:13:00,000 WOULD BE THE PRESIDENT OF THE 3789 02:13:00,001 --> 02:13:07,000 UNITED STATES AND HIS STAFF. 3790 02:13:07,001 --> 02:13:08,000 THEY OWE THIS NATION IN SOME OF 3791 02:13:08,001 --> 02:13:09,000 THESE AREAS A TIME TO GET OUT. 3792 02:13:09,001 --> 02:13:11,000 THEY SAY THEY DON'T WANT TO US 3793 02:13:11,001 --> 02:13:12,000 RUN THE AUTOMOBILE INDUSTRY. 3794 02:13:12,001 --> 02:13:14,000 WELL, WE NEED TO BE PLANNING ON 3795 02:13:14,001 --> 02:13:15,000 GETTING OUT OF THE AUTOMOBILE 3796 02:13:15,001 --> 02:13:17,000 INSTRY. 3797 02:13:17,001 --> 02:13:18,000 WE CAN'T STAY IN THERE. 3798 02:13:18,001 --> 02:13:20,000 THE COUNTRY DOESN'T WANT A 3799 02:13:20,001 --> 02:13:26,000 GOVERNMENT-MADE CAR. JUST ASK THEM. 3800 02:13:26,001 --> 02:13:29,000 THEY DON'T WANT ONE. 3801 02:13:29,001 --> 02:13:31,000 SO, WE COULD GET RID OF THE CAR 3802 02:13:31,001 --> 02:13:34,000 CZAR, THE EXECUTIVE PAY CZAR, A 3803 02:13:34,001 --> 02:13:36,000 LOT OF THESE OTHER CZARS, IF WE 3804 02:13:36,001 --> 02:13:38,000 WOULD JUST SAY, THIS IS THEIR 3805 02:13:38,001 --> 02:13:40,000 MISSION, HERE'S WHEN WE EXPECT 3806 02:13:40,001 --> 02:13:42,000 THAT MISSION TO BE ACCOMPLISHED, 3807 02:13:42,001 --> 02:13:44,000 AS WE DID TO OUR SOLDIERS, AND 3808 02:13:44,001 --> 02:13:45,000 THIS IS WHEN WE EXPECT IT TO BE 3809 02:13:45,001 --> 02:13:47,000 ACCOMPLISHED AND BY TH DATE 3810 02:13:47,001 --> 02:13:49,000 YOU EITHER ACCOMPLISH IT OR 3811 02:13:49,001 --> 02:13:51,000 YOU'RE GETTING OUT. 3812 02:13:51,001 --> 02:13:56,000 YOU KNOW, I PERSONALLY THINK THE 3813 02:13:56,001 --> 02:13:57,000 WAY WE LOOK AT THIS MASSIVE $1.5 3814 02:13:57,001 --> 02:14:00,000 TRILLION WORTH OF AUTHORIZED 3815 02:14:00,001 --> 02:14:02,000 SPENDING, AUTHORIZED BY THIS 3816 02:14:02,001 --> 02:14:03,000 HOUSE, MAINLY THAT SIDE OF THE 3817 02:14:03,001 --> 02:14:05,000 AISLE, THE WAY WE LOOK AT THAT 3818 02:14:05,001 --> 02:14:09,000 RIGHT NOW IS, WE SHOULD BE 3819 02:14:09,001 --> 02:14:10,000 SAYING, STIMULUS MEANS RAPID 3820 02:14:10,001 --> 02:14:12,000 INFUSION INTO THE ECONOMY. 3821 02:14:12,001 --> 02:14:14,000 EVERYTHING THAT HASN'T BEEN 3822 02:14:14,001 --> 02:14:17,000 RAPIDLY INFUSED THIS YEAR WE 3823 02:14:17,001 --> 02:14:21,000 SHOULD HALT. 3824 02:14:21,001 --> 02:14:23,000 SO IF THEY HAVEN'T SPENT THE 3825 02:14:23,001 --> 02:14:25,000 $787 BILLION OR WHATEVER THAT 3826 02:14:25,001 --> 02:14:26,000 NUMBER IS, LIKE RIGHT NOW, AT 3827 02:14:26,001 --> 02:14:29,000 LEAST SOME PAPERS REPORT ONLY 3828 02:14:29,001 --> 02:14:30,000 $25 BILLION OF THAT MONEY, OTHER 3829 02:14:30,001 --> 02:14:32,000 YOUS SAY $40 BILLION OF TH 3830 02:14:32,001 --> 02:14:34,000 MONEY HAS BEEN USED SO FAR -- 3831 02:14:34,001 --> 02:14:35,000 OTHERS SAY $40 BILLION OF THAT 3832 02:14:35,001 --> 02:14:37,000 MONEY HAS BEEN USED SO FAR. 3833 02:14:37,001 --> 02:14:38,000 IF YOU STUDY THOSE PROJECTS, 3834 02:14:38,001 --> 02:14:40,000 MANY OF THOSE PROJECTS ARE 3835 02:14:40,001 --> 02:14:41,000 GIVING MONEY TO PEOPLE FOR 3836 02:14:41,001 --> 02:14:43,000 THINGS THAT WILL NOT HAVE AN 3837 02:14:43,001 --> 02:14:45,000 AFFECT ON OUR ECONOMY FOR YEARS, 3838 02:14:45,001 --> 02:14:46,000 THREE, FIVE, SEVEN YEARS DOWN 3839 02:14:46,001 --> 02:14:47,000 THE ROAD. 3840 02:14:47,001 --> 02:14:50,000 THAT'S NOT STIMULUS. 3841 02:14:50,001 --> 02:14:52,000 IF THEY HAVEN'T GOTTEN THE THING 3842 02:14:52,001 --> 02:14:53,000 DONE THIS YEAR THAT -- WE OUGHT 3843 02:14:53,001 --> 02:14:55,000 TO SAY, DEAUTHORIZE IT AT THAT 3844 02:14:55,001 --> 02:14:56,000 POINT IN TIME. 3845 02:14:56,001 --> 02:14:59,000 IT HASN'T WORKED. 3846 02:14:59,001 --> 02:15:00,000 TRY SOMETHING THAT WORKS. 3847 02:15:00,001 --> 02:15:02,000 THAT'S WHERE WE OUGHT TO BE. 3848 02:15:02,001 --> 02:15:04,000 THAT'S THE WAY THIS CONGRESS 3849 02:15:04,001 --> 02:15:06,000 NEEDS TO START THINKING. 3850 02:15:06,001 --> 02:15:08,000 BECAUSE WE ARE CREATING A POWER 3851 02:15:08,001 --> 02:15:09,000 STRUCTURE THAT IS OUTSIDE THE 3852 02:15:09,001 --> 02:15:10,000 NORMAL POWER STRUCTURE OF THE 3853 02:15:10,001 --> 02:15:12,000 EXECUTIVE BRANCH OF THE 3854 02:15:12,001 --> 02:15:15,000 GOVERNMENT. 3855 02:15:15,001 --> 02:15:16,000 THESE ARE THINGS FOR TO US THINK 3856 02:15:16,001 --> 02:15:18,000 ABOUT. 3857 02:15:18,001 --> 02:15:20,000 MADAM SPEAKER, I T 3858 02:15:20,001 --> 02:15:21,000 YOUR COURTESY TONIGHT AND I 3859 02:15:21,001 --> 02:15:25,000 YIELD BACK THE BALANCE OF MY 3860 02:15:25,001 --> 02:15:26,000 TIME. 3861 02:15:26,001 --> 02:15:27,000 THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE: UNDER 3862 02:15:27,001 --> 02:15:30,000 THE SPEAKER'S ANNOUNCED POLICY 3863 02:15:30,001 --> 02:15:31,000 OF JANUARY 6, 2009, THE CHAIR 3864 02:15:31,001 --> 02:15:50,000 RECOGNIZES THE GENTLEMAN FROM 3865 02:15:50,001 --> 02:15:51,000 IOWA, MR. KING, FOR 60 MINUTES. 3866 02:15:51,001 --> 02:15:53,000 MR. KING: THANK YOU, MADAM 3867 02:15:53,001 --> 02:15:54,000 SPEAKER. 3868 02:15:54,001 --> 02:15:56,000 I APPRECIATE THE HONOR TO BE 3869 02:15:56,001 --> 02:15:58,000 RECOGNIZED HERE ON THE FLOOR OF 3870 02:15:58,001 --> 02:16:00,000 THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES AND 3871 02:16:00,001 --> 02:16:01,000 I APPRECIATE THE COLLABORATION 3872 02:16:01,001 --> 02:16:04,000 OF MY COLLEAGUES FROM TEXAS, THE 3873 02:16:04,001 --> 02:16:06,000 TWO JUDGES FROM TEXAS, TO 3874 02:16:06,001 --> 02:16:08,000 ADDRESS THIS SUBJECT MATTER OF 3875 02:16:08,001 --> 02:16:10,000 THE CZARS IN THE LAST HOUR. 3876 02:16:10,001 --> 02:16:11,000 A LOT'S BEEN SAID ABOUT THE 3877 02:16:11,001 --> 02:16:13,000 CZARS. 3878 02:16:13,001 --> 02:16:14,000 MAYBE JUST TO TRANSITION FROM 3879 02:16:14,001 --> 02:16:17,000 THAT INTO ANOTHER SUBJECT 3880 02:16:17,001 --> 02:16:19,000 MATTER, MADAM SPEAKER, BUT, YOU 3881 02:16:19,001 --> 02:16:21,000 KNOW, THE IDEA THAT WE'RE GOING 3882 02:16:21,001 --> 02:16:22,000 TO SEE THE END OF THE GITMO 3883 02:16:22,001 --> 02:16:24,000 CLOSING CZAR IS PRETTY 3884 02:16:24,001 --> 02:16:26,000 INTERESTING TO ME. 3885 02:16:26,001 --> 02:16:27,000 WE HAVE AN ATTORNEY GENERAL THAT 3886 02:16:27,001 --> 02:16:28,000 SEEMED TO HAVE GOTTEN THAT 3887 02:16:28,001 --> 02:16:29,000 ASSIGNMENT. 3888 02:16:29,001 --> 02:16:31,000 I REMEMBER THE LOOK IN HIS EYES 3889 02:16:31,001 --> 02:16:32,000 AS HE WAS TRYING TO FIGURE OUT 3890 02:16:32,001 --> 02:16:35,000 WHAT TO DO WITH THAT JANUARY 22, 3891 02:16:35,001 --> 02:16:36,000 2010, MANDATED CLOSING DATE THAT 3892 02:16:36,001 --> 02:16:39,000 WAS ESTABLISHED BY THE PRESIDENT 3893 02:16:39,001 --> 02:16:40,000 AND HIS EXECUTIVE ORDER -- IN 3894 02:16:40,001 --> 02:16:43,000 HIS EXECUTIVE ORDER. 3895 02:16:43,001 --> 02:16:46,000 I HAVE ALSO BEEN DOWN TO GITMO 3896 02:16:46,001 --> 02:16:48,000 AND SEEN DOWN THERE IN THE AREA 3897 02:16:48,001 --> 02:16:50,000 WHERE THE GITMO INMATES, THE 3898 02:16:50,001 --> 02:16:52,000 DETAINEES, THE ENEMY COMBATANTS, 3899 02:16:52,001 --> 02:16:55,000 THE TERRORISTS, THE WORST OF THE 3900 02:16:55,001 --> 02:16:56,000 WORST, WHERE THEY GET IN THEIR 3901 02:16:56,001 --> 02:16:58,000 COMMUNAL AREA JUST OFF OF WITH 3902 02:16:58,001 --> 02:17:00,000 WHERE THEIR LITTLE SOCCER FIELD 3903 02:17:00,001 --> 02:17:02,000 IS, AN AREA WHERE THEY SIT IN 3904 02:17:02,001 --> 02:17:04,000 THE SHADE AND JUST OFF OF WHERE 3905 02:17:04,001 --> 02:17:06,000 THEIR BIG SCREEN TV IS WHERE 3906 02:17:06,001 --> 02:17:08,000 THEY GET THEIR REFRESHMENTS AND 3907 02:17:08,001 --> 02:17:10,000 THEIR EDUCATION IN ENGLISH 3908 02:17:10,001 --> 02:17:11,000 LANGUAGE AND THE CULTURAL 3909 02:17:11,001 --> 02:17:13,000 EDUCATION THAT TAKES PLACE, JUST 3910 02:17:13,001 --> 02:17:16,000 OFF OF THERE, MADAM SPEAKER, NOT 3911 02:17:16,001 --> 02:17:18,000 TO SET THE SCENE TO DISTINCTLY, 3912 02:17:18,001 --> 02:17:19,000 THERE IS A BULLETIN BOARD THAT'S 3913 02:17:19,001 --> 02:17:20,000 PUT UP. 3914 02:17:20,001 --> 02:17:22,000 IT'S A PLY BOARD. 3915 02:17:22,001 --> 02:17:24,000 AND ON THAT PLY BOARD IS THE 3916 02:17:24,001 --> 02:17:25,000 EXECUTIVE ORDER. 3917 02:17:25,001 --> 02:17:28,000 THE PRESIDENT'S EXECUTIVE ORDER, 3918 02:17:28,001 --> 02:17:31,000 DATED JANUARY 22, 3919 02:17:31,001 --> 02:17:32,000 SEVEN PAGES LONG, IN THE ENGLISH 3920 02:17:32,001 --> 02:17:34,000 VERSION OF IT, AND THAT'S SET ON 3921 02:17:34,001 --> 02:17:36,000 THIS PLY BOARD AND THEN THE 3922 02:17:36,001 --> 02:17:37,000 ARABIC VERSION IS ABOUT THE SAME 3923 02:17:37,001 --> 02:17:39,000 NUMBER OF PAGES AND THERE'S 3924 02:17:39,001 --> 02:17:40,000 PLEXY GLASS OVER THE TOP OF IT 3925 02:17:40,001 --> 02:17:43,000 SO THESE INMATES, THESE WORST OF 3926 02:17:43,001 --> 02:17:46,000 THE WORST, HOWEVER MANY 3927 02:17:46,001 --> 02:17:47,000 LEFT DOWN THERE, THEY CAN 3928 02:17:47,001 --> 02:17:48,000 INTERRUPT THEIR SOCCER GAME OR 3929 02:17:48,001 --> 02:17:50,000 STOP OR IF THEY'RE WAITING THEIR 3930 02:17:50,001 --> 02:17:51,000 TURN TO PLAY OR WHATEVER IT 3931 02:17:51,001 --> 02:17:53,000 MIGHT BE, GO OVER THERAND READ 3932 02:17:53,001 --> 02:17:58,000 AND THEN REREAD THE EXECUTIVE 3933 02:17:58,001 --> 02:18:00,000 ORDER WHICH SAYS, IT'S A PROMISE 3934 02:18:00,001 --> 02:18:02,000 TO THE WORST OF THE WORST, THE 3935 02:18:02,001 --> 02:18:04,000 GITMO DETAINEES, THAT THEY ARE 3936 02:18:04,001 --> 02:18:07,000 NOT GOING TO BE DOWN THERE IN 3937 02:18:07,001 --> 02:18:08,000 GITMO ONE DAY PAST JANUARY 22, 3938 02:18:08,001 --> 02:18:10,000 2010. 3939 02:18:10,001 --> 02:18:12,000 THAT'S THE PLEDGE TO THEM. 3940 02:18:12,001 --> 02:18:14,000 WHEN I LOOKED AT THAT I HAD BEEN 3941 02:18:14,001 --> 02:18:15,000 INVOLVED IN A WILL THE LOW OF 3942 02:18:15,001 --> 02:18:18,000 THIS DISCUSSION THAT HAD TO DO 3943 02:18:18,001 --> 02:18:20,000 WITH THE GITMO DETAINEES AND THE 3944 02:18:20,001 --> 02:18:23,000 UTTER LOGIC THAT SAYS KEEP THEM 3945 02:18:23,001 --> 02:18:25,000 THERE, DON'T CLOSE GUANTANAMO 3946 02:18:25,001 --> 02:18:26,000 BAY, YOU COULDN'T HAVE A BETTER 3947 02:18:26,001 --> 02:18:29,000 -- NO NATION HAS TREATED THE 3948 02:18:29,001 --> 02:18:31,000 PEOPLE THEY PICKED UP IN WARFARE 3949 02:18:31,001 --> 02:18:33,000 AS WELL AS WE HAVE TREATED THE 3950 02:18:33,001 --> 02:18:34,000 GITMO DETAINEES. 3951 02:18:34,001 --> 02:18:38,000 AND SO THESE INDIVIDUALS ARE 3952 02:18:38,001 --> 02:18:40,000 DOWN THERE AND THEY LI IN AIR 3953 02:18:40,001 --> 02:18:42,000 CONDITIONING AND THEY SAY THEIR 3954 02:18:42,001 --> 02:18:45,000 CULTUR TEMPERATURE IS BETWEEN 3955 02:18:45,001 --> 02:18:46,000 75 AND 80 DEGREES SO THEY 3956 02:18:46,001 --> 02:18:49,000 ESSENTIALLY ARE THE ONES WHO SET 3957 02:18:49,001 --> 02:18:52,000 THE THERMOSTAT IN THEIR 3958 02:18:52,001 --> 02:18:53,000 RESIDENCES, WHICH CELLS, PRIVATE 3959 02:18:53,001 --> 02:18:55,000 CELLS, THEY DON'T SHARE A ROOM, 3960 02:18:55,001 --> 02:18:56,000 THEY HAVE PRIVATE CELLS WITH A 3961 02:18:56,001 --> 02:18:57,000 NICE LITTLE ARROW ON THE FLOOR 3962 02:18:57,001 --> 02:18:59,000 WHICH SHOWS THEM WHERE MECCA IS, 3963 02:18:59,001 --> 02:19:01,000 AND OUR OPERATIONS DOWN THERE 3964 02:19:01,001 --> 02:19:03,000 STOP FIVE TIMES A DAY FOR 20 3965 02:19:03,001 --> 02:19:05,000 MINUTES EACH TIME, THAT'S 100 3966 02:19:05,001 --> 02:19:07,000 MINUTES A DAY, WHILE OUR GUARDS 3967 02:19:07,001 --> 02:19:09,000 STAND RESPECTFULLY IN WAIT WHILE 3968 02:19:09,001 --> 02:19:12,000 THE FIVE PRAYERS A DAY GO ON. 3969 02:19:12,001 --> 02:19:13,000 THIS 100 MINUTES ISN'T 3970 02:19:13,001 --> 02:19:14,000 INTERRUPTED BY THEIR OPPORTUNITY 3971 02:19:14,001 --> 02:19:16,000 TO FILL OUT THE MENU, THEY DO 3972 02:19:16,001 --> 02:19:17,000 THAT AT A DIFFERENT TIME. 3973 02:19:17,001 --> 02:19:18,000 THEY GET TO CHOOSE FROM NINE 3974 02:19:18,001 --> 02:19:22,000 DIFFERENT ITEMS, FIVE TIMES A 3975 02:19:22,001 --> 02:19:24,000 DAY PRAYER, 100 MINUTES DAY, 3976 02:19:24,001 --> 02:19:26,000 NINE DIFFERENT ITEMS ON THE MENU 3977 02:19:26,001 --> 02:19:27,000 EVERY DAY THEY CAN CHOOSE FROM, 3978 02:19:27,001 --> 02:19:31,000 CHECK THE BOX AND DECIDE WHICH 3979 02:19:31,001 --> 02:19:32,000 ONES OF THESE 3980 02:19:32,001 --> 02:19:34,000 ISLAMICALLY-APPROVED MALES -- 3981 02:19:34,001 --> 02:19:36,000 ISLAMICALLY APPROVED MEALS DO 3982 02:19:36,001 --> 02:19:38,000 THEY WANT TO EAT, ALL IN THE AIR 3983 02:19:38,001 --> 02:19:39,000 CONDITIONING THAT THEY LIVE IN, 3984 02:19:39,001 --> 02:19:41,000 IF THE NOT THEIR DESIRE TO GO 3985 02:19:41,001 --> 02:19:44,000 OUTSIDE IN THE FRESH CARIBBN 3986 02:19:44,001 --> 02:19:47,000 AIR AND PLAY A LITTLE SOCCER. 3987 02:19:47,001 --> 02:19:49,000 SO THERE'S A PLEDGE ON THAT 3988 02:19:49,001 --> 02:19:52,000 BULLETIN BOARD AND THAT PLEDGE 3989 02:19:52,001 --> 02:19:54,000 IS THE EXECUTIVE ORDER, WITH THE 3990 02:19:54,001 --> 02:19:56,000 PLEXIGLAS OVER THE TOP OF IT, 3991 02:19:56,001 --> 02:19:58,000 IT'S PRESIDENT OBAMA'S EXECUTIVE 3992 02:19:58,001 --> 02:19:59,000 ORDER THAT, THE COMMITMENT FROM 3993 02:19:59,001 --> 02:20:01,000 THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED 3994 02:20:01,001 --> 02:20:02,000 STATES, THAT GITMO WILL BE 3995 02:20:02,001 --> 02:20:03,000 CLOSED. 3996 02:20:03,001 --> 02:20:05,000 NOW, WHEN I SAW THAT I CAME TO 3997 02:20:05,001 --> 02:20:07,000 THE CONCLUSION THAT NO MATTER 3998 02:20:07,001 --> 02:20:09,000 HOW MUCH LOGIC THERE IS THAT 3999 02:20:09,001 --> 02:20:12,000 SUPPORTS SUSTAINING GUANTANAMO 4000 02:20:12,001 --> 02:20:13,000 BAY, NO MATTER THAT IT IS THE 4001 02:20:13,001 --> 02:20:15,000 BEST PLACE IN THE WORLD FOR 4002 02:20:15,001 --> 02:20:18,000 THESE GITMO DETAINEES, NO MATTER 4003 02:20:18,001 --> 02:20:20,000 THAT IT'S AIR CONDITI 4004 02:20:20,001 --> 02:20:22,000 NINE ISLAMIC MEALS TO CHOOSE 4005 02:20:22,001 --> 02:20:24,000 FROM AND OUTSIDE EXERCISE AND 4006 02:20:24,001 --> 02:20:25,000 INDOOR CLIMATE CONTROL AND 4007 02:20:25,001 --> 02:20:27,000 ARROWS FOR PRAYERS AND THE 4008 02:20:27,001 --> 02:20:29,000 FANSIER PRAYER RUGS, I DON'T 4009 02:20:29,001 --> 02:20:31,000 KNOW HE ANYBODY THAT HAS RUSSIAN 4010 02:20:31,001 --> 02:20:33,000 THIS FANCY IN THEIR HOUSE -- 4011 02:20:33,001 --> 02:20:34,000 RUGS THIS FANNIE -- FANCY IN 4012 02:20:34,001 --> 02:20:35,000 THEIR HOUSE. 4013 02:20:35,001 --> 02:20:37,000 NO BIBLES BY THE WAY. 4014 02:20:37,001 --> 02:20:38,000 ONE OF THEM REQUESTED A BIBLE. 4015 02:20:38,001 --> 02:20:39,000 BUT IT CAUSED TOO MUCH UNREST 4016 02:20:39,001 --> 02:20:42,000 AMONG THE REST OF THEM. 4017 02:20:42,001 --> 02:20:43,000 SO BIBLES ARE NOT ALLOWED. 4018 02:20:43,001 --> 02:20:46,000 NEITHER ARE AMERICAN GUARDS 4019 02:20:46,001 --> 02:20:47,000 ALLOWED TO TOUCH A KORAN, IT 4020 02:20:47,001 --> 02:20:49,000 COMES IN A SPECIAL LITTLE BAG 4021 02:20:49,001 --> 02:20:50,000 CARRIED IN AND EVERYBODY GETS 4022 02:20:50,001 --> 02:20:52,000 THIS KORAN. 4023 02:20:52,001 --> 02:20:53,000 WELL, OF ALL OF THESE THINGS 4024 02:20:53,001 --> 02:20:56,000 GOING ON DOWN THERE AT GITMO, 4025 02:20:56,001 --> 02:20:57,000 THEY HAVE A PROMISE, NO MATTER 4026 02:20:57,001 --> 02:20:59,000 HOW LOGICAL IT IS TO KEEP IT 4027 02:20:59,001 --> 02:21:02,000 OPEN, NO MATTER HOW LOGICAL IT 4028 02:21:02,001 --> 02:21:03,000 IS TO PROCESS THESE ENEMY 4029 02:21:03,001 --> 02:21:04,000 COMBATANTS THROUGH THE 4030 02:21:04,001 --> 02:21:06,000 PROCEDURES THAT THIS CONGRESS 4031 02:21:06,001 --> 02:21:09,000 HAS LAWFULLY SET UP, GITMO WILL 4032 02:21:09,001 --> 02:21:11,000 BE CLOSED, DESPITE ALL LOGIC, 4033 02:21:11,001 --> 02:21:13,000 AND IT CONVINCED ME OF THAT WHEN 4034 02:21:13,001 --> 02:21:14,000 I SAW THE BULLETIN BOARD WITH 4035 02:21:14,001 --> 02:21:16,000 THE EXECUTIVE ORDER ON IT. 4036 02:21:16,001 --> 02:21:17,000 THE PRESIDENT'S NOT GOING TO 4037 02:21:17,001 --> 02:21:19,000 RESCIND ANY EXECUTIVE ORDER THAT 4038 02:21:19,001 --> 02:21:21,000 THEY HAVE POSTED IN FRONT OF THE 4039 02:21:21,001 --> 02:21:23,000 GITMO DETAINEES, THE ENEMY 4040 02:21:23,001 --> 02:21:26,000 COMBATANTS, THE FORMER 4041 02:21:26,001 --> 02:21:27,000 THAT'S THE STRONGEST MESSAGE 4042 02:21:27,001 --> 02:21:29,000 THINK A PICKED UP WHILE I WAS THERE. 4043 02:21:29,001 --> 02:21:31,000 I'D BE HAPPY 4044 02:21:31,001 --> 02:21:32,000 GENTLEMAN FROM TEXAS. 4045 02:21:32,001 --> 02:21:33,000 MR. CARTER: I THANK THE 4046 02:21:33,001 --> 02:21:34,000 GENTLEMAN FOR YIELDING. 4047 02:21:34,001 --> 02:21:36,000 AS YOU WERE TALKING ABOUT 4048 02:21:36,001 --> 02:21:39,000 GUANTANAMO BAY, IT DAWNED ON ME 4049 02:21:39,001 --> 02:21:43,000 THAT WE TALK ABOUT THE -- THE 4050 02:21:43,001 --> 02:21:45,000 WORLD TALKS ABOUT AMERICAN 4051 02:21:45,001 --> 02:21:46,000 TREATMENT OF POLITICAL PRISONERS 4052 02:21:46,001 --> 02:21:49,000 THEY'RE CALLING THEM, WE CALL 4053 02:21:49,001 --> 02:21:51,000 THEM ENEMY COMBATANTS, WHICH I 4054 02:21:51,001 --> 02:21:52,000 THINK, SINCE WE PICKED THEM UP 4055 02:21:52,001 --> 02:21:55,000 ON THE BATTLEFIELD, WE HAVE A 4056 02:21:55,001 --> 02:21:57,000 PRESENT DECENT AR 4057 02:21:57,001 --> 02:22:03,000 DON'T HEAR ANYBODY TALKING ABOUT 4058 02:22:03,001 --> 02:22:05,000 OUR ENEMIES' TREATMENT OF OUR 4059 02:22:05,001 --> 02:22:09,000 COMBATANTS WHEN CAPTURED ON THE BATTLEFIELD. 4060 02:22:09,001 --> 02:22:13,000 THERE'S A REASON, I THINK. 4061 02:22:13,001 --> 02:22:14,000 FIFRLT OFF -- FIRST OFF, WE DO 4062 02:22:14,001 --> 02:22:16,000 EVERYTHING IN OUR POWER TO MAKE 4063 02:22:16,001 --> 02:22:18,000 SURE THAT WE DON'T LOSE ANY OF 4064 02:22:18,001 --> 02:22:20,000 OUR SOLDIERS, SAILORS, AIRMEN 4065 02:22:20,001 --> 02:22:22,000 AND MARINES TO THE ENEMY. 4066 02:22:22,001 --> 02:22:24,000 WE DON'T EVEN LET THEM -- WE 4067 02:22:24,001 --> 02:22:25,000 EVEN TAKE OUR -- REMOVE OUR 4068 02:22:25,001 --> 02:22:27,000 DEAD, WITH HE LEAVE NO SOLDIERS 4069 02:22:27,001 --> 02:22:29,000 ON THE BATTLEFIELD. 4070 02:22:29,001 --> 02:22:32,000 IT'S THE PRIDE OF OUR MILITARY. 4071 02:22:32,001 --> 02:22:35,000 BUT THERE'S ALSO AN UNDERLYING 4072 02:22:35,001 --> 02:22:37,000 PRINCIPLE THEIR BECAUSE IF YOU 4073 02:22:37,001 --> 02:22:38,000 WILL RECALL, LESS THAN THREE OR 4074 02:22:38,001 --> 02:22:40,000 FOUR YEARS AGO THEY GOT THEIR 4075 02:22:40,001 --> 02:22:42,000 HANDS ON SOME PEOPLE AND THEY 4076 02:22:42,001 --> 02:22:44,000 DRAGGED THEM BEHIND CARS AND 4077 02:22:44,001 --> 02:22:46,000 HUNG THEM FROM THE BRIDGE IN 4078 02:22:46,001 --> 02:22:48,000 BAGHDAD. 4079 02:22:48,001 --> 02:22:50,000 GUY AND ON TELEVISION WITH 4080 02:22:50,001 --> 02:22:53,000 EVERYBODY WATCHING THEY CUT HIS 4081 02:22:53,001 --> 02:22:55,000 HEAD OFF IN FRONT OF ANYBODY WHO 4082 02:22:55,001 --> 02:23:00,000 WANTED TO WATCH IT. 4083 02:23:00,001 --> 02:23:04,000 SO LET'S COMPARE NINE SELECTED 4084 02:23:04,001 --> 02:23:05,000 MENU ITEMS, 4085 02:23:05,001 --> 02:23:06,000 TEMPERATURE-RELATED -- 4086 02:23:06,001 --> 02:23:10,000 TEMPERATURE REGULATED TO SUIT 4087 02:23:10,001 --> 02:23:12,000 YOUR LIFESTYLE AND YOUR RELIGION 4088 02:23:12,001 --> 02:23:14,000 MATERIAL OF CHOICE TREATED WITH 4089 02:23:14,001 --> 02:23:20,000 GREAT RESPECT, WHICH IS OUR WAY 4090 02:23:20,001 --> 02:23:21,000 OF DEALING WITH PRISONERS VERSUS 4091 02:23:21,001 --> 02:23:26,000 DECAPITATION, DRAGGING, SETTING 4092 02:23:26,001 --> 02:23:27,000 ON FIRE AND HANGING FROM A 4093 02:23:27,001 --> 02:23:30,000 BRIDGE. 4094 02:23:30,001 --> 02:23:31,000 AND LET'S DECIDE, WHERE IS THE 4095 02:23:31,001 --> 02:23:32,000 OUTCRY? 4096 02:23:32,001 --> 02:23:33,000 WELL, THERE CERTAINLY CAN'T BE 4097 02:23:33,001 --> 02:23:35,000 ANY COMPARISON OF TREATMENT 4098 02:23:35,001 --> 02:23:36,000 CAUSE WE'RE DOING OUR DAMAGEST 4099 02:23:36,001 --> 02:23:39,000 NOT TO SEE THAT HAPPEN AGAIN. 4100 02:23:39,001 --> 02:23:41,000 AND I'M PROUD TO SAY THAT OUR 4101 02:23:41,001 --> 02:23:42,000 COMBATANTS, OUR GUYS, ARE DOING 4102 02:23:42,001 --> 02:23:44,000 A GREAT JOB THAT. 4103 02:23:44,001 --> 02:23:46,000 THEY'RE PROTECTING AMERICANS ON 4104 02:23:46,001 --> 02:23:48,000 THE BATTLEFIELD. 4105 02:23:48,001 --> 02:23:51,000 IT'S BECAUSE THE ENEMY HAS NO 4106 02:23:51,001 --> 02:23:53,000 QUAL S WITH WHAT THEY'RE GOING 4107 02:23:53,001 --> 02:23:55,000 TO DO -- QUAL AMS WITH WHAT 4108 02:23:55,001 --> 02:23:57,000 THEY'RE GOING -- QUALMWITH 4109 02:23:57,001 --> 02:23:59,000 WHAT THEY'RE GOING TO DO. 4110 02:23:59,001 --> 02:24:01,000 DO YOU REALLY THINK THE ENEMY IS 4111 02:24:01,001 --> 02:24:02,000 PROVIDING BIBLES TO WHO THEY CAP 4112 02:24:02,001 --> 02:24:05,000 SAN ANTONIO SPUR DO YOU THINK 4113 02:24:05,001 --> 02:24:06,000 ONE OF THE CHOICES WOULD BE 4114 02:24:06,001 --> 02:24:07,000 MEXICAN FOOD? 4115 02:24:07,001 --> 02:24:09,000 GIVE ME A BREAK. 4116 02:24:09,001 --> 02:24:11,000 EVERYBODY THAT'S GOT ANY LOGIC 4117 02:24:11,001 --> 02:24:12,000 AT ALL KNOWS EXACTLY WHAT WOULD 4118 02:24:12,001 --> 02:24:14,000 HAPPEN TO PRISONERS THAT WERE 4119 02:24:14,001 --> 02:24:15,000 CAPTURED, AMERIC PRISONERS, 4120 02:24:15,001 --> 02:24:16,000 THAT WERE CAPTURED. 4121 02:24:16,001 --> 02:24:17,000 AND THAT'S WHY WE FIGHT SO HARD 4122 02:24:17,001 --> 02:24:19,000 TO KEEP THEM SAFE. 4123 02:24:19,001 --> 02:24:20,000 I YIELD BACK. 4124 02:24:20,001 --> 02:24:22,000 MR. KING: RECLAIMING AND 4125 02:24:22,001 --> 02:24:24,000 THANKING THE GENTLEMAN FROM 4126 02:24:24,001 --> 02:24:28,000 TEXAS, I THINK IT'S AN 4127 02:24:28,001 --> 02:24:30,000 VERY ILLUSTRATIVE. WHEN HE ASKED THE QUESTION, DO 4128 02:24:30,001 --> 02:24:32,000 YOU THINK THE ENEMY WILL PROVIDE 4129 02:24:32,001 --> 02:24:33,000 BIBLES TO ANY OF OUR SOLDIERS 4130 02:24:33,001 --> 02:24:35,000 THAT THEY MIGHT ONE DAY CAPTUR 4131 02:24:35,001 --> 02:24:37,000 AS PRISONERS OF WARS, IT SOUNDS 4132 02:24:37,001 --> 02:24:39,000 EVEN RIDICULOUS WHEN YOU SAY IT 4133 02:24:39,001 --> 02:24:40,000 BECAUSE IT'S SO FAR OUT OF THE 4134 02:24:40,001 --> 02:24:43,000 REALM. 4135 02:24:43,001 --> 02:24:44,000 AND WE ARE TALKING ABOUT 4136 02:24:44,001 --> 02:24:45,000 RENEWING, ONE OF THE PIECES THAT 4137 02:24:45,001 --> 02:24:48,000 HAVE TO DO WITH IMMIGRATION, 4138 02:24:48,001 --> 02:24:49,000 TALKING ABOUT RENEWING THE 4139 02:24:49,001 --> 02:24:51,000 RELIGIOUS WORKERS VISA AND WE'LL 4140 02:24:51,001 --> 02:24:52,000 HAVE ABOUT 5,000 RELIGIOUS 4141 02:24:52,001 --> 02:24:54,000 WORKERS COME INTO THE UNITED 4142 02:24:54,001 --> 02:24:56,000 STATES EACH YEAR AND THEY SHOULD 4143 02:24:56,001 --> 02:24:58,000 BE AND GENERALLY ARE REQUIRED TO 4144 02:24:58,001 --> 02:24:59,000 AND OFTEN IT DOESN'T WORK OUT 4145 02:24:59,001 --> 02:25:01,000 THAT WAY, BE AFFILIATED WITH 4146 02:25:01,001 --> 02:25:02,000 EXISTING RELIGIOUS 4147 02:25:02,001 --> 02:25:03,000 ORGANIZATIONS. 4148 02:25:03,001 --> 02:25:05,000 NOW THEY MIGHT WELCOME FROM 4149 02:25:05,001 --> 02:25:06,000 COUNTRY LIKE SAUDI ARABIA OR 4150 02:25:06,001 --> 02:25:07,000 OTHER COUNTRIES IN THE MIDDLE 4151 02:25:07,001 --> 02:25:09,000 EAST, FOR EXAMPLE, THOSE 4152 02:25:09,001 --> 02:25:10,000 COUNTRIES THAT AREN'T VERY 4153 02:25:10,001 --> 02:25:12,000 TOLERANT OF OUR MISSIONARIES 4154 02:25:12,001 --> 02:25:14,000 GOING IN THERE. 4155 02:25:14,001 --> 02:25:15,000 AND SO IT OCCURRED TO ME THAT IF 4156 02:25:15,001 --> 02:25:17,000 WE REALLY WANT TO HAVE A 4157 02:25:17,001 --> 02:25:18,000 RELIGIOUS WORKERS VISAS HERE IN 4158 02:25:18,001 --> 02:25:19,000 THE UNITED STATES, WE SHOULD 4159 02:25:19,001 --> 02:25:22,000 TURN AROUND AND REQUIRE 4160 02:25:22,001 --> 02:25:23,000 RECIPROCITY, JUST SIMPLY SAY TO 4161 02:25:23,001 --> 02:25:25,000 THEM, FINE, SEND YOUR MAN 4162 02:25:25,001 --> 02:25:27,000 MA'AMS HERE TO THE UNITED STATES 4163 02:25:27,001 --> 02:25:30,000 -- YOUR IMAMS HERE TO THE UNITED 4164 02:25:30,001 --> 02:25:31,000 WE'RE GOING TO SEND YOU SOME 4165 02:25:31,001 --> 02:25:33,000 BAPTIST MINISTERS AND CATHOLIC 4166 02:25:33,001 --> 02:25:34,000 PRIESTS. 4167 02:25:34,001 --> 02:25:40,000 I YIELD TO THE GENTLEMAN. 4168 02:25:40,001 --> 02:25:41,000 . 4169 02:25:41,001 --> 02:25:43,000 MR. CARTER: I AGREE WITH YOU. 4170 02:25:43,001 --> 02:25:45,000 THAT WOULD BE THE KIND OF WORLD 4171 02:25:45,001 --> 02:25:47,000 WE WOULD CREATE. 4172 02:25:47,001 --> 02:25:48,000 THAT'S WHAT AMERICANS GIVE TO 4173 02:25:48,001 --> 02:25:50,000 OTHERS. 4174 02:25:50,001 --> 02:25:51,000 IT'S NOT THE WORLD OF THOSE WE 4175 02:25:51,001 --> 02:25:54,000 FIGHT AGAINST. 4176 02:25:54,001 --> 02:25:57,000 THE WAR WE FIGHT AGAINST IS AN 4177 02:25:57,001 --> 02:26:00,000 AUTOCRATIC WORLD WHICH IS THEIR 4178 02:26:00,001 --> 02:26:03,000 WAY OR THE HIGHWAY. 4179 02:26:03,001 --> 02:26:05,000 I GET TIRED OF HEARING PEOPLE 4180 02:26:05,001 --> 02:26:07,000 SAY, WE GOT TO CLOSE GITMO 4181 02:26:07,001 --> 02:26:09,000 BECAUSE IT IS THE TARGET FOR 4182 02:26:09,001 --> 02:26:10,000 CREATING MORE TERRORISTS. 4183 02:26:10,001 --> 02:26:11,000 SO, LET'S SEE. 4184 02:26:11,001 --> 02:26:14,000 WHAT DO YOU THINK IS GOING TO BE 4185 02:26:14,001 --> 02:26:18,000 THE TARGET IF WE TAKE EVERYBODY 4186 02:26:18,001 --> 02:26:19,000 OUT OF GITMO AND PUT THEM IN 4187 02:26:19,001 --> 02:26:21,000 LEVENWORTH. 4188 02:26:21,001 --> 02:26:24,000 THE NEXT YEAR, GUESS WHAT, IT'S 4189 02:26:24,001 --> 02:26:28,000 GOING TO BE LEVENWORTH. 4190 02:26:28,001 --> 02:26:31,000 AND NOW WE'RE GOING TO CLOSE 4191 02:26:31,001 --> 02:26:33,000 AND THEY COULD CAUSE THEM TO GO 4192 02:26:33,001 --> 02:26:34,000 TO THE TERRORIST SIDE AND SEND 4193 02:26:34,001 --> 02:26:37,000 THEM TO EL PASO. 4194 02:26:37,001 --> 02:26:39,000 AND THEN IN A YEAR, THAT WILL BE 4195 02:26:39,001 --> 02:26:41,000 THE EVIL GITMO. 4196 02:26:41,001 --> 02:26:43,000 AND THEN THEY WILL END UP IN A 4197 02:26:43,001 --> 02:26:46,000 COUNTY JAIL. 4198 02:26:46,001 --> 02:26:49,000 TIL THEY ARE BACK HOME ON THE 4199 02:26:49,001 --> 02:26:51,000 TERRORIST BATTLEFIELD, THEY WILL 4200 02:26:51,001 --> 02:26:52,000 RECRUIT BASED UPON THAT HOLDING 4201 02:26:52,001 --> 02:26:54,000 FACILITY. 4202 02:26:54,001 --> 02:26:55,000 IT'S A RIDICULOUS ARGUMENT 4203 02:26:55,001 --> 02:26:58,000 SAYING YOU HAVE TO CLOSE 4204 02:26:58,001 --> 02:27:01,000 GUANTANAMO BECAUSE IT BECOMES A 4205 02:27:01,001 --> 02:27:07,000 RECRUITING TOOL FOR LEFFION 4206 02:27:07,001 --> 02:27:09,000 WORTH. 4207 02:27:09,001 --> 02:27:11,000 MR. KING: THE REPUTATION OF 4208 02:27:11,001 --> 02:27:15,000 GITMO IS SOMETHING CREATED BY 4209 02:27:15,001 --> 02:27:18,000 THE LIBERAL NEWS MEDIA AND 4210 02:27:18,001 --> 02:27:22,000 MOVEON.ORG PEOPLE. 4211 02:27:22,001 --> 02:27:23,000 CHANCESR THAT CRITICISM IS 4212 02:27:23,001 --> 02:27:24,000 UNTRUE. 4213 02:27:24,001 --> 02:27:27,000 PEOPLE WERE WATERBOARDED AT 4214 02:27:27,001 --> 02:27:29,000 GITMO, NOT TRUE. 4215 02:27:29,001 --> 02:27:32,000 BUT THE PUBLIC BELIEVES IT DID. 4216 02:27:32,001 --> 02:27:33,000 IF THERE IS A RUMOR OUT THERE, 4217 02:27:33,001 --> 02:27:36,000 IF YOU WANT TO CALL THIS AN 4218 02:27:36,001 --> 02:27:38,000 URBAN LEGEND THAT EXISTS ABOUT 4219 02:27:38,001 --> 02:27:40,000 SOMETHING, DO WE GO AND 4220 02:27:40,001 --> 02:27:41,000 ERADICATE IT BECAUSE THERE IS A 4221 02:27:41,001 --> 02:27:42,000 RUMOR? 4222 02:27:42,001 --> 02:27:44,000 I DON'T UNDERSTAND WHAT THE 4223 02:27:44,001 --> 02:27:46,000 CRITICISM WAS OF GITMO WAS. 4224 02:27:46,001 --> 02:27:47,000 THEY HAD TO GO SOMEWHERE. 4225 02:27:47,001 --> 02:27:51,000 IT'S A HUMANE THING TO DO. 4226 02:27:51,001 --> 02:27:53,000 NO, WATERBOARDING DIDN'T TAKE 4227 02:27:53,001 --> 02:27:55,000 PLACE AT GUANTANAMO BAY, BUT 4228 02:27:55,001 --> 02:27:56,000 EVIL PEOPLE RESIDE DOWN THERE. 4229 02:27:56,001 --> 02:27:59,000 AND THEY AREN'T INNOCENT PEOPLE 4230 02:27:59,001 --> 02:28:04,000 THAT RANDOMLY WERE PICKED UP. 4231 02:28:04,001 --> 02:28:08,000 THESE ARE NOT GOAT HEARDERS, BUT 4232 02:28:08,001 --> 02:28:12,000 EVIL PEOPLE WHOSE PATH IS TO 4233 02:28:12,001 --> 02:28:15,000 KILL US, EVEN ORDER AN ATTEMPT 4234 02:28:15,001 --> 02:28:17,000 AT SUICIDE THAT TOOK PLACE A 4235 02:28:17,001 --> 02:28:23,000 SEVERAL YEARS AGO. 4236 02:28:23,001 --> 02:28:28,000 BEFORE THEY SUCCEEDED, NOW WE 4237 02:28:28,001 --> 02:28:30,000 HAVE THEM ALL ON S 4238 02:28:30,001 --> 02:28:32,000 NO ONE GOES WITHOUT THREE 4239 02:28:32,001 --> 02:28:36,000 MINUTES WITHOUT EYES ON. 4240 02:28:36,001 --> 02:28:37,000 WHEN YOU THINK ABOUT ABUSIVE 4241 02:28:37,001 --> 02:28:40,000 TREATMENT OF PRISONERS, I SEE 4242 02:28:40,001 --> 02:28:44,000 NOTHING BUT A CULTURE OF -- IT 4243 02:28:44,001 --> 02:28:47,000 BENDS OVER WHACK BACKWARDS. 4244 02:28:47,001 --> 02:28:51,000 THERE IS TOO MUCH RESPECT FOR 4245 02:28:51,001 --> 02:28:54,000 THESE EVIL DOE. 4246 02:28:54,001 --> 02:28:55,000 ON AN AVERAGE OF 20 TIMES A DAY, 4247 02:28:55,001 --> 02:28:59,000 THESE INMATES ATTACK OUR GUARDS. 4248 02:28:59,001 --> 02:29:00,000 THEY ARE THROWING FECES IN THEIR 4249 02:29:00,001 --> 02:29:02,000 FACE AND OTHER HALF OF THE TIME, 4250 02:29:02,001 --> 02:29:03,000 THEY ARE PHYSICALLY ATTACKING 4251 02:29:03,001 --> 02:29:06,000 OUR GUARDS AND THE WORST THING 4252 02:29:06,001 --> 02:29:09,000 WE CAN DO TO PUNISH THEM IS 4253 02:29:09,001 --> 02:29:12,000 REDUCE THEIR OUTDOOR EXERCISE 4254 02:29:12,001 --> 02:29:15,000 TIME TO TWO HOURS A DAY. 4255 02:29:15,001 --> 02:29:17,000 WE OUGHT TO CLOSE GITMO BECAUSE 4256 02:29:17,001 --> 02:29:21,000 MOVEON.ORG IS CRITICAL AND 4257 02:29:21,001 --> 02:29:24,000 LIBERAL SOCIALIST EURO 4258 02:29:24,001 --> 02:29:26,000 CRITICAL AND PEOPLE ON THE OTHER 4259 02:29:26,001 --> 02:29:27,000 DIVIDE ARE CRITICAL. 4260 02:29:27,001 --> 02:29:29,000 MANY OF THEM HAVE DESIGNS 4261 02:29:29,001 --> 02:29:30,000 WORKING AGAINST THE UNITED 4262 02:29:30,001 --> 02:29:31,000 STATES AND I DON'T INCLUDE 4263 02:29:31,001 --> 02:29:33,000 WESTERN EUROPE. 4264 02:29:33,001 --> 02:29:34,000 BUT I DID HAVE A CONVERSATION 4265 02:29:34,001 --> 02:29:36,000 WITH THE LEADERSHIP OF THE 4266 02:29:36,001 --> 02:29:38,000 GERMANS AND AS THEY SAID, WELL, 4267 02:29:38,001 --> 02:29:39,000 WE THINK YOU OUGHT TO CLOSE 4268 02:29:39,001 --> 02:29:41,000 GITMO. 4269 02:29:41,001 --> 02:29:43,000 THEY HAVE BEEN PUSHING HARD FOR 4270 02:29:43,001 --> 02:29:45,000 THAT AND WE SHOULD DISBURSE 4271 02:29:45,001 --> 02:29:47,000 THESE 241 DETAINEES AROUND TO 4272 02:29:47,001 --> 02:29:49,000 OTHER COUNTRIES IN THE WORLD. 4273 02:29:49,001 --> 02:29:50,000 BUT THE GERMANS AREN'T GOING TO 4274 02:29:50,001 --> 02:29:53,000 TAKE ANY OF THEM AS LONG AS THEY 4275 02:29:53,001 --> 02:29:55,000 MIGHT POSE A THREAT TO GERMANY. 4276 02:29:55,001 --> 02:29:58,000 AND HOW DO THEY MEASURE THIS? 4277 02:29:58,001 --> 02:30:00,000 WELL, IF WE'RE NOT GOING TO 4278 02:30:00,001 --> 02:30:02,000 BRING THEM TO THE UNITED STATES, 4279 02:30:02,001 --> 02:30:04,000 THEN THEY MUST BE DANGEROUS FOR 4280 02:30:04,001 --> 02:30:06,000 US TO ING HERE, SO WHY WOULD 4281 02:30:06,001 --> 02:30:10,000 THEY TAKE THEM THERE? 4282 02:30:10,001 --> 02:30:11,000 SAYING THEY WON'T BE ACCEPTING 4283 02:30:11,001 --> 02:30:13,000 ANY, BUT JUST PRESSURING US TO 4284 02:30:13,001 --> 02:30:14,000 CLOSE GUANTANAMO BAY. 4285 02:30:14,001 --> 02:30:17,000 MY ANSWER IS, IF YOU WON'T TAKE 4286 02:30:17,001 --> 02:30:18,000 ANY OF THESE INMATES, IT LOOKS 4287 02:30:18,001 --> 02:30:20,000 LIKE YOU DON'T HAVE ANYTHING TO 4288 02:30:20,001 --> 02:30:22,000 SAY ABOUT GUANTANAMO BAY, 4289 02:30:22,001 --> 02:30:25,000 INCLUDING YOUR OPINION, ALONG 4290 02:30:25,001 --> 02:30:26,000 WITH MOST OF THE CRITICISM THAT 4291 02:30:26,001 --> 02:30:30,000 FLOWS OUT FROM THE BEHAVIOR. 4292 02:30:30,001 --> 02:30:33,000 NATIONS HAVE GOT TO BE ABLE TO 4293 02:30:33,001 --> 02:30:37,000 WITHSTAND CRITICISM. 4294 02:30:37,001 --> 02:30:38,000 WE SHOULDN'T APOLOGIZE TO EVERY 4295 02:30:38,001 --> 02:30:40,000 CONTINENT. 4296 02:30:40,001 --> 02:30:43,000 IT'S NOT GOING TO MAKE PEOPLE LIKE US ANY BETTER. 4297 02:30:43,001 --> 02:30:45,000 I'M NOT INTERESTED IN BEING 4298 02:30:45,001 --> 02:30:46,000 LIKED, BUT BEING RESPECTED. 4299 02:30:46,001 --> 02:30:48,000 AND THAT'S THE THING THAT WILL 4300 02:30:48,001 --> 02:30:50,000 BRING ABOUT THE RIGHT KIND OF 4301 02:30:50,001 --> 02:30:51,000 RESULTS FROM THE ENEMY THAT WE 4302 02:30:51,001 --> 02:30:52,000 HAVE. 4303 02:30:52,001 --> 02:30:54,000 WHEN THEY SEE US KNUCKLE UNDER 4304 02:30:54,001 --> 02:30:57,000 AND GO WOBBLY BECAUSE OF A 4305 02:30:57,001 --> 02:30:59,000 LITTLE CRITICISM AND CLOSE 4306 02:30:59,001 --> 02:31:02,000 GUANTANAMO BAY AND THINKING THAT 4307 02:31:02,001 --> 02:31:03,000 THE CRITICISM IS GOING TO MOVE 4308 02:31:03,001 --> 02:31:06,000 ALONG, WHO SAYS AND WHY? 4309 02:31:06,001 --> 02:31:08,000 AND IF THAT'S THE RECRUITING 4310 02:31:08,001 --> 02:31:11,000 TOOL, THERE ARE MANY THINGS THEY 4311 02:31:11,001 --> 02:31:13,000 COULD GET ON THE INTERNET TO 4312 02:31:13,001 --> 02:31:14,000 STIMULATE PEOPLE. 4313 02:31:14,001 --> 02:31:16,000 WHAT DO THEY SAY? 4314 02:31:16,001 --> 02:31:20,000 REMEMBER GUANTANAMO BAY. 4315 02:31:20,001 --> 02:31:22,000 IS THAT LIKE REMEMBER THE ALAMO? 4316 02:31:22,001 --> 02:31:25,000 IS THAT A RECRUITING TOOL? 4317 02:31:25,001 --> 02:31:26,000 IT DOESN'T HOLD WATER IN MY 4318 02:31:26,001 --> 02:31:27,000 ANALYSIS. 4319 02:31:27,001 --> 02:31:29,000 AND I JUST BELIEVE THIS BACK 4320 02:31:29,001 --> 02:31:31,000 PEDDLING FROM INTERNATIONAL 4321 02:31:31,001 --> 02:31:35,000 CRITICISM DOESN'T GET YOU 4322 02:31:35,001 --> 02:31:36,000 ANYTHING OTHER THAN MORE SIT 4323 02:31:36,001 --> 02:31:42,000 SISM. 4324 02:31:42,001 --> 02:31:45,000 MR. CARTER: I THANK THE JUDGE. 4325 02:31:45,001 --> 02:31:47,000 DON'T COMPARE IT TO THE ALAMO. 4326 02:31:47,001 --> 02:31:52,000 TODAY I WAS WATCHING THE NEWS 4327 02:31:52,001 --> 02:31:54,000 AND I SAW THESE FOUR GUYS 4328 02:31:54,001 --> 02:31:57,000 FOUR DETAINEES, WHO ARE NOW 4329 02:31:57,001 --> 02:31:59,000 LIVING IN PROBABLY THE MOST 4330 02:31:59,001 --> 02:32:02,000 LUXURIOUS SETTING I HAVE 4331 02:32:02,001 --> 02:32:05,000 SEEN IN BERMUDA. 4332 02:32:05,001 --> 02:32:07,000 IT'S 4333 02:32:07,001 --> 02:32:09,000 OVEROKING THE OCEAN WITH A 4334 02:32:09,001 --> 02:32:13,000 SWIMMING POOL. 4335 02:32:13,001 --> 02:32:14,000 IT'S LIKE A THREE-PART SWIMMING 4336 02:32:14,001 --> 02:32:17,000 POOL. 4337 02:32:17,001 --> 02:32:20,000 A LOUNGING AREA, A KIDEE POOL. 4338 02:32:20,001 --> 02:32:24,000 AND THESE GUYS, THEY ARE SITTING 4339 02:32:24,001 --> 02:32:27,000 THERE -- LIKE THE GUYS SAID THE 4340 02:32:27,001 --> 02:32:31,000 OTHER NIGHT, THEY WERE TALKING 4341 02:32:31,001 --> 02:32:32,000 ABOUT PUTTING PEOPLE OUT ON AN 4342 02:32:32,001 --> 02:32:35,000 ISLAND. 4343 02:32:35,001 --> 02:32:43,000 IF THAT IS SPENDING $200 MILLION 4344 02:32:43,001 --> 02:32:45,000 IN PALAO, WHY DON WE BUY OUT 4345 02:32:45,001 --> 02:32:47,000 THE WALL DOFFER 4346 02:32:47,001 --> 02:32:49,000 IT WOULD BE CHEAPER. 4347 02:32:49,001 --> 02:32:52,000 I THINK THE WORLD IS GOING TO 4348 02:32:52,001 --> 02:32:54,000 LOOK AND SAY, LOOK AT HOW THE 4349 02:32:54,001 --> 02:32:58,000 ADMINISTRATION IS REACTING TO 4350 02:32:58,001 --> 02:33:01,000 THIS CRITICISM OF GUANTANAMO. 4351 02:33:01,001 --> 02:33:03,000 PULLING THEM OUT OF A STATE OF 4352 02:33:03,001 --> 02:33:05,000 THE ART PRISON WHICH HAS STATE 4353 02:33:05,001 --> 02:33:06,000 OF THE ART RULES AND STATE OF 4354 02:33:06,001 --> 02:33:09,000 THE ART TREATMENT AND THEY'RE 4355 02:33:09,001 --> 02:33:13,000 MOVING THEM TO THE TUNE OF $200 4356 02:33:13,001 --> 02:33:16,000 MILLION TO AN ISLAND OUT IN THE 4357 02:33:16,001 --> 02:33:20,000 MIDDLE NOWHERE, WHICH, BY THE 4358 02:33:20,001 --> 02:33:25,000 WAY, THESE GUYS AREN'T ON THE 4359 02:33:25,001 --> 02:33:27,000 TO FUT THEM ON THE NO-FLY LIST 4360 02:33:27,001 --> 02:33:28,000 AND THE MAJORITY KILLED IT IN A 4361 02:33:28,001 --> 02:33:31,000 BIG WAY. 4362 02:33:31,001 --> 02:33:35,000 NOW WHAT'S TO PREVENT THEM -- WE 4363 02:33:35,001 --> 02:33:38,000 PAID $200 MILLION TO PALAO AND 4364 02:33:38,001 --> 02:33:40,000 THEY GET THEIR FEET ON THE 4365 02:33:40,001 --> 02:33:43,000 GROUND AND ON THE GREAT WHITE 4366 02:33:43,001 --> 02:33:45,000 JET WHEREVER THEY WANT TO GO. 4367 02:33:45,001 --> 02:33:49,000 AND THEY'RE NOT UNDER DETENTION. 4368 02:33:49,001 --> 02:33:50,000 IN THE BAHAMAS, THEY HAVE THE 4369 02:33:50,001 --> 02:33:53,000 ISLA. 4370 02:33:53,001 --> 02:33:55,000 WHAT'S 4371 02:33:55,001 --> 02:34:00,000 BAHAMAS, YOU CAN GO ON A BOAT 4372 02:34:00,001 --> 02:34:03,000 THAN 4373 02:34:03,001 --> 02:34:06,000 BUT SERIOUSLY, THIS IS 4374 02:34:06,001 --> 02:34:07,000 RIDICULOUS AND I'M SURE THE REST 4375 02:34:07,001 --> 02:34:10,000 OF THE WORLD HAS GOT TO BE 4376 02:34:10,001 --> 02:34:12,000 SAYING, THESE GUYS ARE CRAZY IN 4377 02:34:12,001 --> 02:34:17,000 THE UNITED STATES SETTING UP 4378 02:34:17,001 --> 02:34:18,000 THESE GUYS IN A SEASIDE RESORT 4379 02:34:18,001 --> 02:34:20,000 IN JAMAICA. 4380 02:34:20,001 --> 02:34:21,000 I YIELD BACK. 4381 02:34:21,001 --> 02:34:22,000 INSANITY RULES. 4382 02:34:22,001 --> 02:34:24,000 MR. KING: I THANK THE GENTLEMAN 4383 02:34:24,001 --> 02:34:25,000 FROM TEXAS. 4384 02:34:25,001 --> 02:34:27,000 AND WE WERE HAVING DISCUSSIONS 4385 02:34:27,001 --> 02:34:28,000 ABOUT THINGS THAT WERE NOT 4386 02:34:28,001 --> 02:34:30,000 HERETOFORE UNIMAGINED A FEW 4387 02:34:30,001 --> 02:34:33,000 MONTHS AGO OR EVEN A FEW YEARS 4388 02:34:33,001 --> 02:34:36,000 AGO. 4389 02:34:36,001 --> 02:34:39,000 AND AS WE TRANSITION INTO THIS 4390 02:34:39,001 --> 02:34:41,000 DISCUSSION ABOUT GUANTANAMO BAY. 4391 02:34:41,001 --> 02:34:43,000 THE DISCUSSION WILL GO ON. 4392 02:34:43,001 --> 02:34:46,000 IF THERE ARE A FEW OF THEM THAT 4393 02:34:46,001 --> 02:34:48,000 COULD POTENTIALLY BE FACING THE 4394 02:34:48,001 --> 02:34:49,000 DEATH SENTENCE. 4395 02:34:49,001 --> 02:34:51,000 A FEW. 4396 02:34:51,001 --> 02:34:54,000 I GUESS I SHOULD PASS MY REQUEST 4397 02:34:54,001 --> 02:34:56,000 OVER TO THE GITMO CLOSING CZAR 4398 02:34:56,001 --> 02:34:58,000 AND ASK HIM HOW MANY ARE FACING 4399 02:34:58,001 --> 02:35:00,000 A DEATH SENTENCE. 4400 02:35:00,001 --> 02:35:03,000 LET'S LOOK AT IT ITHIS FASHION 4401 02:35:03,001 --> 02:35:05,000 AND THAT IS, LOOKS LIKE -- THEY 4402 02:35:05,001 --> 02:35:06,000 ARE GOING TO CLOSE GUANTANAMO 4403 02:35:06,001 --> 02:35:07,000 BAY. 4404 02:35:07,001 --> 02:35:10,000 THEY WILL DISBURSE THESE PEOPLE. 4405 02:35:10,001 --> 02:35:11,000 SOME OF THEM A LIKELY TO BE 4406 02:35:11,001 --> 02:35:13,000 RELEASED IN THE FREEORLD. 4407 02:35:13,001 --> 02:35:16,000 SOME INTO THE UNITED STATES OF 4408 02:35:16,001 --> 02:35:17,000 THESE ARE THE WORST OF THE 4409 02:35:17,001 --> 02:35:22,000 WORST. 4410 02:35:22,001 --> 02:35:24,000 WE HAVE ABOUT A ONE OUT OF SEVEN 4411 02:35:24,001 --> 02:35:27,000 RESIDISM RATE. 4412 02:35:27,001 --> 02:35:30,000 THE LEAST DANGEROUS IS THE MOST 4413 02:35:30,001 --> 02:35:33,000 ACCURATE WAY TO DESCRIBE THEM. 4414 02:35:33,001 --> 02:35:36,000 OUT OF THOSE 558, WE SEE A RATE 4415 02:35:36,001 --> 02:35:37,000 WHERE THEY TURNED AROUND D 4416 02:35:37,001 --> 02:35:41,000 ATTACKED AMERICAN PEOPLE, ONE 4417 02:35:41,001 --> 02:35:42,000 OUT OF SEVEN WE KNOW. 4418 02:35:42,001 --> 02:35:43,000 DON'T KNOW. 4419 02:35:43,001 --> 02:35:45,000 IF ONE OUT OF SEVEN WILL COME 4420 02:35:45,001 --> 02:35:48,000 BACK AND ATTACK AMERICANS WHEN 4421 02:35:48,001 --> 02:35:49,000 YOU PICK THE BEST OF THE WORST, 4422 02:35:49,001 --> 02:35:50,000 WHAT WILL BE THE ATTACK RATE ON 4423 02:35:50,001 --> 02:35:52,000 FREE PEOPLE WHEN YOU RELEASE THE 4424 02:35:52,001 --> 02:35:54,000 WORST OF THE WORST? 4425 02:35:54,001 --> 02:35:56,000 IT WILL BE GREATER THAN ONE OUT 4426 02:35:56,001 --> 02:35:58,000 OF SEVEN. 4427 02:35:58,001 --> 02:36:01,000 AND THIS NUMBER IS 241. 4428 02:36:01,001 --> 02:36:02,000 DIVIDE YOUR SEVEN AND DIVIDE 4429 02:36:02,001 --> 02:36:04,000 THAT FACTOR BY A TWO OR THREE 4430 02:36:04,001 --> 02:36:05,000 AND YOU'LL COME UP WITH A 4431 02:36:05,001 --> 02:36:07,000 NUMBER. 4432 02:36:07,001 --> 02:36:09,000 YOU WILL SEE 50 OR MORE OF THEM 4433 02:36:09,001 --> 02:36:12,000 THAT WILL ATTACK AMERICANS OR OTHER FREE PEOPLE. 4434 02:36:12,001 --> 02:36:15,000 THE BOTTOM LINE OF THE EXECUTIVE 4435 02:36:15,001 --> 02:36:17,000 ORDER IS THAT MOST OR ALL WILL 4436 02:36:17,001 --> 02:36:19,000 EVENTUALLY BE RELEASED AND THEY 4437 02:36:19,001 --> 02:36:21,000 WILL ATTACK FREE PEOPLE AND 4438 02:36:21,001 --> 02:36:22,000 INNOCENT PEOPLE WILL DIE AND 4439 02:36:22,001 --> 02:36:25,000 AMONG THOSE INNOCENT PEOPLE ARE 4440 02:36:25,001 --> 02:36:26,000 LIKELY TOE AMERICANS AND THAT 4441 02:36:26,001 --> 02:36:29,000 WILL BE THE NEWS STORY THAT WILL 4442 02:36:29,001 --> 02:36:32,000 COME BACK AND WE'LL REPLAY IT 4443 02:36:32,001 --> 02:36:36,000 AND UNRAVEL IT BACKWARDSGAIN 4444 02:36:36,001 --> 02:36:38,000 AND SAY ONLY COST 20, 30, 40 4445 02:36:38,001 --> 02:36:41,000 LIVES SO WE COULD AVOID THIS 4446 02:36:41,001 --> 02:36:44,000 CRITICISM AND SHUT DOWN AN 4447 02:36:44,001 --> 02:36:45,000 EXRATION THAT HAS BEEN ABLE TO 4448 02:36:45,001 --> 02:36:48,000 ACCOMMODATE THE PEOPLE WHO ARE 4449 02:36:48,001 --> 02:36:53,000 THERE NOW AND THE UIGHURS WHO 4450 02:36:53,001 --> 02:36:56,000 ARE WASTING AWAY IN UIGHURVILLE. 4451 02:36:56,001 --> 02:36:58,000 I CAN'T EVEN SAY IT. 4452 02:36:58,001 --> 02:37:00,000 MR. CARTER: I LIKE THAT. 4453 02:37:00,001 --> 02:37:04,000 MR. KING: I WANTED TO ALSO AND 4454 02:37:04,001 --> 02:37:06,000 IF THE SUBJECT MATTER HAS BEEN 4455 02:37:06,001 --> 02:37:08,000 UTILIZED ADEQUATELY, I WANT TO 4456 02:37:08,001 --> 02:37:10,000 TAKE THIS DISCUSSION OVER AND 4457 02:37:10,001 --> 02:37:13,000 TALK A LITTLE BIT WHERE WE ARE 4458 02:37:13,001 --> 02:37:15,000 ON CAP AND TRADE, CAP AND TAX. 4459 02:37:15,001 --> 02:37:17,000 LOOKS LIKE THIS ADMINISTRATION 4460 02:37:17,001 --> 02:37:18,000 IS -- AND THE MAJORITY IN THIS 4461 02:37:18,001 --> 02:37:22,000 CONGRESS IS DETERMINED TO PUSH 4462 02:37:22,001 --> 02:37:23,000 THROUGH A WAXMAN-MARKEY BILL OR 4463 02:37:23,001 --> 02:37:25,000 SOME VERSION OF IT, PROBABLY THE 4464 02:37:25,001 --> 02:37:27,000 VERSION THAT CAME OUT OF 4465 02:37:27,001 --> 02:37:32,000 COMMITTEE HERE A FEW WEEKS AGO. 4466 02:37:32,001 --> 02:37:34,000 AND HAVE TAKEN THIS POSITION AND 4467 02:37:34,001 --> 02:37:35,000 I HOLD IT THAT THEY'RE WRONG ON 4468 02:37:35,001 --> 02:37:38,000 THE SCIENCE AND ECONOMICS. 4469 02:37:38,001 --> 02:37:40,000 I WANT TO ADDRESS THE SCIENCE IN 4470 02:37:40,001 --> 02:37:41,000 A FAIRLY SHORT DEGREE HERE. 4471 02:37:41,001 --> 02:37:43,000 AND IT TURNS OUT TO BE THIS. 4472 02:37:43,001 --> 02:37:44,000 REMEMBER OUR HISTORY. 4473 02:37:44,001 --> 02:37:46,000 THIS ISSUE WAS BROUGHT BEFORE 4474 02:37:46,001 --> 02:37:48,000 THIS CONGRESS, I THINK THE YEAR 4475 02:37:48,001 --> 02:37:50,000 WAS 1988, ALTHOUGH I HAVEN'T 4476 02:37:50,001 --> 02:37:52,000 REFERENCED THAT. 4477 02:37:52,001 --> 02:37:55,000 THAT'S STRICTLFROM MEMORY. 4478 02:37:55,001 --> 02:37:56,000 WHEN THERE WAS A HEARING ON 4479 02:37:56,001 --> 02:37:58,000 GLOBAL WARMING. 4480 02:37:58,001 --> 02:37:59,000 AND THE LEAD WITNESS ON THAT WAS 4481 02:37:59,001 --> 02:38:02,000 DR. JAMES HANSON. 4482 02:38:02,001 --> 02:38:03,000 HE AND I WENT TO THE SAME HIGH 4483 02:38:03,001 --> 02:38:05,000 SCHOOL TOGETHER. 4484 02:38:05,001 --> 02:38:07,000 HE WAS AHEAD OF ME AND I DON'T 4485 02:38:07,001 --> 02:38:09,000 RECALL HIM. 4486 02:38:09,001 --> 02:38:10,000 BUT THE TESTIMONY WAS 4487 02:38:10,001 --> 02:38:12,000 MID-SUMMER. 4488 02:38:12,001 --> 02:38:13,000 THE ROOM WAS NOT AIR 4489 02:38:13,001 --> 02:38:14,000 CONDITIONED. 4490 02:38:14,001 --> 02:38:16,000 THE HUMIDITY MATCHED THE 4491 02:38:16,001 --> 02:38:18,000 TEMPERATURE. AND AS MEMBERS SWEATED, THEY 4492 02:38:18,001 --> 02:38:20,000 WERE BEING TOLD THIS WORLD WAS 4493 02:38:20,001 --> 02:38:22,000 GOING TO GET WARM AND ALL KINDS 4494 02:38:22,001 --> 02:38:23,000 OF THINGS WERE GOING TO TAKE 4495 02:38:23,001 --> 02:38:25,000 PLACE. 4496 02:38:25,001 --> 02:38:27,000 1988, THAT WAS A FEW YEARAFTER 4497 02:38:27,001 --> 02:38:28,000 ALL WE HAD THE INTERE IN THE 4498 02:38:28,001 --> 02:38:30,000 ICE AGE. 4499 02:38:30,001 --> 02:38:32,000 THERE WAS A COMING ICE AGE THAT 4500 02:38:32,001 --> 02:38:34,000 WA 4501 02:38:34,001 --> 02:38:37,000 MAJOR PUBLICATIONS AND IT WAS 4502 02:38:37,001 --> 02:38:40,000 INEST TABBLE THAT THE EARTH WAS 4503 02:38:40,001 --> 02:38:44,000 GOING TO COOL AND PEOPLE WERE 4504 02:38:44,001 --> 02:38:47,000 GOING TO HAVE TO MIGRATE TO 4505 02:38:47,001 --> 02:38:50,000 ANIT'S A FACT THAT AT LEAST 4506 02:38:50,001 --> 02:38:52,000 ONE, AND PROBABLY MORE THAN ONE, 4507 02:38:52,001 --> 02:38:54,000 ALTHOUGH SCIENTISTS WERE CERTAIN 4508 02:38:54,001 --> 02:38:55,000 WE WERE GOING TO UNDERGO TH 4509 02:38:55,001 --> 02:38:58,000 ICE AGE, ARE NOW ON THE SIDE OF 4510 02:38:58,001 --> 02:39:01,000 THE ARGUMENT THAT THE EARTH IS 4511 02:39:01,001 --> 02:39:03,000 GOING TO GET WARMER AND GET 4512 02:39:03,001 --> 02:39:05,000 WARMER FAST AND THEN ANYTHING 4513 02:39:05,001 --> 02:39:08,000 THAT'S A WEATHER ANOMALY IS 4514 02:39:08,001 --> 02:39:09,000 GOING TO BE THE RESULT OF GLOBAL 4515 02:39:09,001 --> 02:39:10,000 WARMING. 4516 02:39:10,001 --> 02:39:13,000 IF YOU REMBER, WE HAD A FEW 4517 02:39:13,001 --> 02:39:14,000 HURRICANES AS A RESULT OF GLOBAL 4518 02:39:14,001 --> 02:39:16,000 WARMING. 4519 02:39:16,001 --> 02:39:17,000 LAST YEAR, HURRICANES WERE WAY 4520 02:39:17,001 --> 02:39:18,000 OFF. 4521 02:39:18,001 --> 02:39:20,000 EVERYTHING IS AS A RESULT OF 4522 02:39:20,001 --> 02:39:22,000 CLIMAT 4523 02:39:22,001 --> 02:39:24,000 MORE RAIN OR LESS RAIN OR 4524 02:39:24,001 --> 02:39:25,000 WHETHER IT'S WARMER TEMPERATURES 4525 02:39:25,001 --> 02:39:30,000 OR COOLER TEMPERATURES. 4526 02:39:30,001 --> 02:39:33,000 NICE UTILITY TO BLAME IT ON, 4527 02:39:33,001 --> 02:39:34,000 CHAMENTE CHANGE BLAMES 4528 02:39:34,001 --> 02:39:37,000 EVERYTHING ON AN ANOMALY. 4529 02:39:37,001 --> 02:39:39,000 AND YOU AREN'T GOING TO HAVE TO 4530 02:39:39,001 --> 02:39:41,000 BE AROUND WHEN SCIENCE ACTUALLY 4531 02:39:41,001 --> 02:39:46,000 PRESENT DIFFICULTIES. 4532 02:39:46,001 --> 02:39:47,000 IF ANYONE GOING TO LIVE BEHIND 4533 02:39:47,001 --> 02:39:51,000 100 YEARS. 4534 02:39:51,001 --> 02:39:54,000 NOBODY IS GOING TO POINT AT DR. 4535 02:39:54,001 --> 02:39:57,000 JIM HANSON AND SAY YOU'RE WRONG 4536 02:39:57,001 --> 02:39:59,000 OR AL GORE AND SAY YOU'RE WRONG, 4537 02:39:59,001 --> 02:40:01,000 BECAUSE THEY WILL BE IN THE SAME 4538 02:40:01,001 --> 02:40:03,000 PLACE I WILL BE AT THAT POINT. 4539 02:40:03,001 --> 02:40:06,000 SO IT'S A HANDLY EXCUSE TO SHIFT 4540 02:40:06,001 --> 02:40:08,000 IT OFF ON TO CLIMATE CHANGE AND 4541 02:40:08,001 --> 02:40:09,000 ASK FOR A GREAT GROWTH IN 4542 02:40:09,001 --> 02:40:16,000 GOVERNMENT. 4543 02:40:16,001 --> 02:40:18,000 NOW, WE HAD A METEOROLOGYIST 4544 02:40:18,001 --> 02:40:21,000 SPEAK LAST WEDNESDAY MORNING. 4545 02:40:21,001 --> 02:40:24,000 HE IS A NASA SCIENTIST AND 4546 02:40:24,001 --> 02:40:27,000 MANAGES THE COLLECTION DATA THAT 4547 02:40:27,001 --> 02:40:28,000 COLLECTS THE DATA FROM EARTH 4548 02:40:28,001 --> 02:40:29,000 SATELLITES AND HAS 25 YEARS OF 4549 02:40:29,001 --> 02:40:31,000 DATA. 4550 02:40:31,001 --> 02:40:35,000 AND AS HE TALKED ABOUT THIS, AND 4551 02:40:35,001 --> 02:40:37,000 THIS WAS FAIRLY QUICK WON 4552 02:40:37,001 --> 02:40:39,000 THROUGH, BUT AS HE TALKED ABOUT 4553 02:40:39,001 --> 02:40:40,000 THIS DATA, HE EXPLAINED TO US 4554 02:40:40,001 --> 02:40:44,000 THAT THE CLIMATE CHANGE MODELS 4555 02:40:44,001 --> 02:40:45,000 THAT THEY'RE USING TO PREDICT 4556 02:40:45,001 --> 02:40:47,000 GLOBAL WARMING ARE THEY HAVE TO 4557 02:40:47,001 --> 02:40:49,000 HAVE ASSUMPTIONS. 4558 02:40:49,001 --> 02:40:53,000 AND I ASKED THE QUESTION, WHY IS 4559 02:40:53,001 --> 02:40:58,000 IT THAT PHYSICIAN SIFTS BUY INTO 4560 02:40:58,001 --> 02:40:59,000 THE ARGUMENT MORE SO THAN 4561 02:40:59,001 --> 02:41:00,000 METEOROLOGIST. 4562 02:41:00,001 --> 02:41:01,000 HE SAYS THEY ARE TRYING TO 4563 02:41:01,001 --> 02:41:03,000 PREDICT THE WEATHER FOR 4564 02:41:03,001 --> 02:41:04,000 TOMORROW. 4565 02:41:04,001 --> 02:41:06,000 THE CLIMATE CZ. 4566 02:41:06,001 --> 02:41:08,000 HE CAN'T PREDICT THE WEATHER FOR 4567 02:41:08,001 --> 02:41:10,000 TOMORROW, BUT THEY ARE 4568 02:41:10,001 --> 02:41:11,000 PREDICTING THE TEMPERATURE 100 4569 02:41:11,001 --> 02:41:12,000 YEARS FR NOW. 4570 02:41:12,001 --> 02:41:16,000 I HAVE A SON WHO IS GOING TO 4571 02:41:16,001 --> 02:41:18,000 HAVE AN OUTDOOR WEDDING IN 4572 02:41:18,001 --> 02:41:19,000 AUGUST AND I WOULD LIKE TO KNOW 4573 02:41:19,001 --> 02:41:20,000 THE WEATHER. 4574 02:41:20,001 --> 02:41:21,000 THE CLIMATE CZAR ISN'T GOING TO 4575 02:41:21,001 --> 02:41:24,000 TELL ME. 4576 02:41:24,001 --> 02:41:26,000 100 YEARS FROM NOW, HE WILL MAKE 4577 02:41:26,001 --> 02:41:29,000 A PREDICTION, BUT WON'T TELL YOU 4578 02:41:29,001 --> 02:41:30,000 WHAT IT'S GOING TO BE LIKE NEXT 4579 02:41:30,001 --> 02:41:31,000 WEEK. 4580 02:41:31,001 --> 02:41:34,000 BUT THE PRESUMPTIONS THAT ARE 4581 02:41:34,001 --> 02:41:36,000 THERE, METEOROLOGISTS UNDERSTAND 4582 02:41:36,001 --> 02:41:40,000 PREDICTING THE WEA 4583 02:41:40,001 --> 02:41:41,000 TOMORROW LET ALONE 100 YEARS 4584 02:41:41,001 --> 02:41:44,000 FROM NOW. 4585 02:41:44,001 --> 02:41:46,000 PHYSICIAN SIFTS HAVE STUDIED THE 4586 02:41:46,001 --> 02:41:47,000 EXACT SCIENCE. 4587 02:41:47,001 --> 02:41:49,000 WHEN THEY PUT TOGETHER A 4588 02:41:49,001 --> 02:41:50,000 COMPUT 4589 02:41:50,001 --> 02:41:52,000 IN A LOT OF FACTORS, THERE 4590 02:41:52,001 --> 02:41:54,000 ALWAYS HAVE TO BE ASSUMPTIONS. 4591 02:41:54,001 --> 02:41:56,000 THE ASSUMPTIONS ARE PLUGGED IN 4592 02:41:56,001 --> 02:41:59,000 BY THE METEOROLOGISTS AND THE 4593 02:41:59,001 --> 02:42:00,000 NUMBERS ARE CALCULATED BY THE 4594 02:42:00,001 --> 02:42:02,000 OTHER EXACT SCIENCE PEOPLE AND 4595 02:42:02,001 --> 02:42:05,000 THEY HAVE GREAT CONFIDENCE IN 4596 02:42:05,001 --> 02:42:06,000 THEIR NUMBERS AND THEY 4597 02:42:06,001 --> 02:42:08,000 UNDERSTAND THE INTER 4598 02:42:08,001 --> 02:42:09,000 RELATIONSHIPS OF THE FACTORS 4599 02:42:09,001 --> 02:42:11,000 THEY PUT ON THEIR CALCULATIONS, 4600 02:42:11,001 --> 02:42:15,000 BUT STILL BASED ON ASSUMPTIONS. 4601 02:42:15,001 --> 02:42:18,000 . 4602 02:42:18,001 --> 02:42:20,000 THE ASSUMPTIONS ARE THIS, THEY 4603 02:42:20,001 --> 02:42:22,000 ASSUME THE GREENHOUSE GASES 4604 02:42:22,001 --> 02:42:23,000 EMITTED FROM MANUFACTURING IN 4605 02:42:23,001 --> 02:42:25,000 THE WORLD BRING ABOUT MORE 4606 02:42:25,001 --> 02:42:28,000 CLOUDS IN OUR ATMOSPHERE. 4607 02:42:28,001 --> 02:42:29,000 I DON'T KNOW WHY THAT IS, BUT 4608 02:42:29,001 --> 02:42:30,000 THEY BELIEVE THAT IS. 4609 02:42:30,001 --> 02:42:32,000 IF THERE'S MORE CLOUDS IN THE 4610 02:42:32,001 --> 02:42:34,000 ATMOSPHERE, ONE ASSUMPTION. 4611 02:42:34,001 --> 02:42:36,000 SECOND ASSUMPTION, MORE CLOUDS 4612 02:42:36,001 --> 02:42:38,000 MAKE THE EARTH WARMER. 4613 02:42:38,001 --> 02:42:41,000 SEEMS LIKE AN ODD ASSUMPTION TO 4614 02:42:41,001 --> 02:42:43,000 ME, AND TY'VE BEEN TELLING ME 4615 02:42:43,001 --> 02:42:45,000 THIS FOR YEARS. 4616 02:42:45,001 --> 02:42:47,000 DR. SPENCER SAYS MORE CLOUDS 4617 02:42:47,001 --> 02:42:48,000 BRING ABOUT A COOLER EARTH AND 4618 02:42:48,001 --> 02:42:51,000 THEY'VE GOT 25 YEARS OF 4619 02:42:51,001 --> 02:42:52,000 SATELLITE DATA THAT SHOWS THAT 4620 02:42:52,001 --> 02:42:56,000 AND THAT'S WHAT MAKES SENSE TO 4621 02:42:56,001 --> 02:42:58,000 ME IF A CRUD BLOCKS OUT THE 4622 02:42:58,001 --> 02:43:02,000 SUN, THE EARTH WENT BE AS WARM. 4623 02:43:02,001 --> 02:43:03,000 IF THE CRUD GO AWAY, THE 4624 02:43:03,001 --> 02:43:04,000 SUNSHINES ON THE EARTH AND THE 4625 02:43:04,001 --> 02:43:07,000 EARTH GETS WARMER. 4626 02:43:07,001 --> 02:43:10,000 THAT'S THE SIMPLE PART OF THIS. 4627 02:43:10,001 --> 02:43:13,000 IF THEIR ASSUMPTIONS ARE, CO 4628 02:43:13,001 --> 02:43:18,000 26RBINGS GAS PRIMARILY IN THE 4629 02:43:18,001 --> 02:43:20,000 ATMOSPHERE INCREASES CLOUDS AND 4630 02:43:20,001 --> 02:43:21,000 INCREASES CLOUDS, YOU GET ONE 4631 02:43:21,001 --> 02:43:22,000 RESULT. 4632 02:43:22,001 --> 02:43:25,000 IF YOU TURN IT AROUND AND USE 4633 02:43:25,001 --> 02:43:27,000 THE DATA AND BACK FEED DR. 4634 02:43:27,001 --> 02:43:28,000 SPENCER'S DATA INTO THE MODEL, 4635 02:43:28,001 --> 02:43:29,000 IT TURN THIS IS ARGUMENT AROUND 4636 02:43:29,001 --> 02:43:33,000 ON THE HEAD. 4637 02:43:33,001 --> 02:43:35,000 EVEN THEN, DR. SPENCER IS VERY 4638 02:43:35,001 --> 02:43:40,000 CONSERVATIVE AND CAREFUL HE 4639 02:43:40,001 --> 02:43:41,000 SAID IT'S NOT A FOUR DEGREE 4640 02:43:41,001 --> 02:43:43,000 CENTIGRADE INCREASE, BUT A HALF 4641 02:43:43,001 --> 02:43:44,000 DEGREE CENTIGRADE AND THE 4642 02:43:44,001 --> 02:43:47,000 ARGUMENT COULD BE MADE THE 4643 02:43:47,001 --> 02:43:49,000 EARTH WILL GET COOLER. 4644 02:43:49,001 --> 02:43:52,000 AND WE COULD ARGUE THAT THE 4645 02:43:52,001 --> 02:43:53,000 EARTH HAS GOTTEN COOLER OR THE 4646 02:43:53,001 --> 02:43:55,000 TEMPERATURE HAS BEEN FLAT SINCE 4647 02:43:55,001 --> 02:43:56,000 2002. 4648 02:43:56,001 --> 02:43:58,000 ANOTHER 10 YEARS OF THIS KIND 4649 02:43:58,001 --> 02:44:00,000 OF DATA, IT'S GOING TO BE HARD 4650 02:44:00,001 --> 02:44:02,000 FOR THE ALARMISTS TO MAKE THE 4651 02:44:02,001 --> 02:44:03,000 ARGUMENT THAT WE'RE FACED WITH 4652 02:44:03,001 --> 02:44:05,000 GLOBAL WARMING THAT'S ONLY 4653 02:44:05,001 --> 02:44:06,000 REVOCABLE IF WE FOLLOW THEIR 4654 02:44:06,001 --> 02:44:08,000 MODEL. 4655 02:44:08,001 --> 02:44:09,000 I LOOK AT THAT SCIENCE AND I 4656 02:44:09,001 --> 02:44:11,000 UNDERSTAND DR. SPENCER'S 4657 02:44:11,001 --> 02:44:12,000 PRESENTATION. 4658 02:44:12,001 --> 02:44:14,000 I DO NOT UNDERSTAND DR. 4659 02:44:14,001 --> 02:44:15,000 HANSON'S OR AL GORE'S 4660 02:44:15,001 --> 02:44:17,000 PRESENTATION. 4661 02:44:17,001 --> 02:44:19,000 IT DOES NOT MAKE SENSE TO ME 4662 02:44:19,001 --> 02:44:20,000 WITH THE SCIENCE I HAVE IN MY 4663 02:44:20,001 --> 02:44:21,000 BACKGROUND. 4664 02:44:21,001 --> 02:44:23,000 SO I SIMPLY, MADAM SPEAKER, ASK 4665 02:44:23,001 --> 02:44:24,000 A QUESTION, THE FOUNDATIONAL 4666 02:44:24,001 --> 02:44:25,000 QUESTION, WHAT ARE WE TRYING TO 4667 02:44:25,001 --> 02:44:27,000 DO HERE AND WITH WHAT? 4668 02:44:27,001 --> 02:44:30,000 THAT WOULD BE THE LOGICAL THINK 4669 02:44:30,001 --> 02:44:31,000 TO SKSM FIRST THING IS, HOW BIG 4670 02:44:31,001 --> 02:44:33,000 IS OUR ATMOSPHERE? 4671 02:44:33,001 --> 02:44:35,000 OUR ATMOSPHERE HAPPENS TO BE, 4672 02:44:35,001 --> 02:44:41,000 THEY MEASURE THERE IN RHETT 4673 02:44:41,001 --> 02:44:44,000 METH RICK TONS, 1.50 QUA 4674 02:44:44,001 --> 02:44:45,000 DRILLON TONS OF METIC 4675 02:44:45,001 --> 02:44:47,000 ATMOSPHERE. 4676 02:44:47,001 --> 02:44:49,000 THERE'S A LOT OF AIR IN THE 4677 02:44:49,001 --> 02:44:52,000 ATMOSPHERE. 4678 02:44:52,001 --> 02:44:55,000 WHAT IS THE CUMULATIVE TOTAL OF 4679 02:44:55,001 --> 02:44:57,000 ALL THE CO-2 THAT'S GONE INTO 4680 02:44:57,001 --> 02:44:58,000 THE ATMOSPHERE EMITTED BY THE 4681 02:44:58,001 --> 02:45:01,000 UNITED STATES OF AMERICA SINCE 4682 02:45:01,001 --> 02:45:02,000 THE DAWN OF THE INDUSTRIAL 4683 02:45:02,001 --> 02:45:05,000 REVOLUTION. 4684 02:45:05,001 --> 02:45:07,000 45% OF IT GOES AWAY, THEY DON'T 4685 02:45:07,001 --> 02:45:09,000 KNOW WHERE, 55% HANGS OUT IN 4686 02:45:09,001 --> 02:45:10,000 THE AIR. 4687 02:45:10,001 --> 02:45:13,000 THAT SOUNDS BIG, BUT NOT 4688 02:45:13,001 --> 02:45:14,000 COMPARED TO THE OVERALL 4689 02:45:14,001 --> 02:45:15,000 ATMOSPHERE. 4690 02:45:15,001 --> 02:45:16,000 IT WORKS LIKE THIS. 4691 02:45:16,001 --> 02:45:18,000 MADAM SPEAKER IF YOU DRAW A 4692 02:45:18,001 --> 02:45:19,000 CIRCUMSTANCE THAT WILL 4693 02:45:19,001 --> 02:45:20,000 REPRESENTED THE SIZE OF THE 4694 02:45:20,001 --> 02:45:22,000 ATMOSPHERE OF THE EARTH AND 4695 02:45:22,001 --> 02:45:23,000 HAVE THAT BE AN EIGHT-FOOT 4696 02:45:23,001 --> 02:45:26,000 CIRCLE SO ROUGHLY THE SIZE OF 4697 02:45:26,001 --> 02:45:27,000 THE WALL INOUR HOUSE, TWO 4698 02:45:27,001 --> 02:45:30,000 FOUR BY EIGHT SHEETS OF 4699 02:45:30,001 --> 02:45:31,000 DRYWALL, THAT BIG IN IAM TER 4700 02:45:31,001 --> 02:45:33,000 THAT WOULD REPRESENT THE 4701 02:45:33,001 --> 02:45:35,000 EARTH'S ATMOSPHERE. 4702 02:45:35,001 --> 02:45:36,000 DRAW A CIRCLE IN THE MIDDLE OF 4703 02:45:36,001 --> 02:45:39,000 THAT TO DEMONSTRATE THE SIZE, 4704 02:45:39,001 --> 02:45:40,000 THE VERY DWHRISME CO-2 THAT'S 4705 02:45:40,001 --> 02:45:42,000 ACCUMULATED IN THE EARTH'S 4706 02:45:42,001 --> 02:45:43,000 ATMOSPHERE SINCE THE DAWN OF 4707 02:45:43,001 --> 02:45:45,000 THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION 4708 02:45:45,001 --> 02:45:49,000 EMITTED BY THE UNITED STATES. 4709 02:45:49,001 --> 02:45:50,000 YOUR EIGHT FOOT CIRCLE IS THE 4710 02:45:50,001 --> 02:45:54,000 ATMOSPHERE, IN THE CENTER OF 4711 02:45:54,001 --> 02:45:56,000 THAT, YOU'D DRAW A CIRCLE .56 4712 02:45:56,001 --> 02:45:58,000 IN DIAMETER, A LITTLE OVER HALF 4713 02:45:58,001 --> 02:46:00,000 AN INCH IN DIAMETER. 4714 02:46:00,001 --> 02:46:02,000 THAT WOULD BE THE KEY 4715 02:46:02,001 --> 02:46:04,000 CUMULATIVE TOTAL OF THE CO-2 4716 02:46:04,001 --> 02:46:05,000 THE U.S. HAS EMITTED THAT'S IN 4717 02:46:05,001 --> 02:46:08,000 THE AT MISS FEAR TODAY. 4718 02:46:08,001 --> 02:46:11,000 WE'RE TALKING, OR THE 4719 02:46:11,001 --> 02:46:13,000 WAXMAN-MARKEY, THAT'S 205 YRS 4720 02:46:13,001 --> 02:46:16,000 OF ACCUMULATION. 4721 02:46:16,001 --> 02:46:19,000 WE WANT TO TAKE 1/205 OF THAT 4722 02:46:19,001 --> 02:46:23,000 AND REDUCE IT BY 20% A YEAR, 4723 02:46:23,001 --> 02:46:24,000 THEN BY 40% THEN 60% AND 83%. 4724 02:46:24,001 --> 02:46:26,000 WITH THAT LITTLE TINY BIT IN 4725 02:46:26,001 --> 02:46:28,000 THAT EIGHT-FOOT CIRCLE WE ARE 4726 02:46:28,001 --> 02:46:30,000 GOING TO SET THE EARTH'S 4727 02:46:30,001 --> 02:46:31,000 THERMOSTAT AND CONTROL THE 4728 02:46:31,001 --> 02:46:33,000 EARTH'S TEMPERATURE? 4729 02:46:33,001 --> 02:46:35,000 WHAT UTTER VANITY TO THINK THAT 4730 02:46:35,001 --> 02:46:38,000 IN THAT TINY LITTLE BIT WE CAN 4731 02:46:38,001 --> 02:46:40,000 ADJU THAT TINY LITTLE HALF INCH 4732 02:46:40,001 --> 02:46:42,000 BIT IN A CIRCLE, ONLY BY A 4733 02:46:42,001 --> 02:46:44,000 LITTLE BITTING AND WE'RE GOING 4734 02:46:44,001 --> 02:46:47,000 CHANGE THE ATMOSPHERE IN THE 4735 02:46:47,001 --> 02:46:49,000 EARTH IN 4736 02:46:49,001 --> 02:46:50,000 CLIMATE 4737 02:46:50,001 --> 02:46:51,000 HAD OVER TIME. 4738 02:46:51,001 --> 02:46:54,000 WE HAVE ICE AGES A WARMING 4739 02:46:54,001 --> 02:46:56,000 PERIODS AND SUN SPOTS AND MORE 4740 02:46:56,001 --> 02:46:57,000 SOLAR ACTIVITY ON THE SUN AND 4741 02:46:57,001 --> 02:47:01,000 SOMETIMES WE SEE THE EARTH COOL 4742 02:47:01,001 --> 02:47:02,000 BECAUSE A VOLCANO WILL ERUPT 4743 02:47:02,001 --> 02:47:04,000 AND CLOUD THE EARTH AND WHY 4744 02:47:04,001 --> 02:47:06,000 WOULD WE THINK THAT MORE CLOUDS 4745 02:47:06,001 --> 02:47:07,000 IN THE ATMOSPHERE WOULD WARM 4746 02:47:07,001 --> 02:47:10,000 THE EARTH WHEN MORE CLOUDS IN 4747 02:47:10,001 --> 02:47:11,000 THE ATMOSPHERE FROM AN VO CANO 4748 02:47:11,001 --> 02:47:14,000 COOL THE EARTH. 4749 02:47:14,001 --> 02:47:15,000 EACH OF THESE QUESTIONS ARE 4750 02:47:15,001 --> 02:47:17,000 LOGICAL QUESTIONS FOR THIRD, 4751 02:47:17,001 --> 02:47:19,000 FOURTH, FIFTH, SIXTH, SEVENTH 4752 02:47:19,001 --> 02:47:20,000 GRADERS TO ASK. 4753 02:47:20,001 --> 02:47:23,000 EVEN AT THAT LEVEL, WE'RE NOT 4754 02:47:23,001 --> 02:47:24,000 GETTING ANSWERS FROM THE PEOPLE 4755 02:47:24,001 --> 02:47:28,000 ADVOCATING THIS. 4756 02:47:28,001 --> 02:47:29,000 IT'S AS IF THEY HAD TO CREATE A 4757 02:47:29,001 --> 02:47:31,000 CONVOLUTED SCIENCE TO JUSTIFY 4758 02:47:31,001 --> 02:47:32,000 THEIR IDEA THAT THEY WANT TO DO 4759 02:47:32,001 --> 02:47:35,000 THIS CAP AND TAX MODEL. 4760 02:47:35,001 --> 02:47:38,000 THE CAP AND TAX MODEL IS A 4761 02:47:38,001 --> 02:47:42,000 LARGE TAXATION SCHEME THAT FOR 4762 02:47:42,001 --> 02:47:44,000 EVERY $5 COLLECTED 4763 02:47:44,001 --> 02:47:45,000 THE TREASURY AND WASTES THE 4764 02:47:45,001 --> 02:47:46,000 OTHER FOUR. 4765 02:47:46,001 --> 02:47:47,000 I YIELD TO THE GENTLEMAN FROM 4766 02:47:47,001 --> 02:47:48,000 TEXAS. 4767 02:47:48,001 --> 02:47:51,000 MR. CARTER: I THANK THE 4768 02:47:51,001 --> 02:47:52,000 OF WHAT'S GOING ON. 4769 02:47:52,001 --> 02:47:54,000 AS HE WAS SAYING IT CAME TO 4770 02:47:54,001 --> 02:47:55,000 MIND SOME OF THE THINGS THAT 4771 02:47:55,001 --> 02:47:57,000 JUST IN MY LIFETIME I CAN 4772 02:47:57,001 --> 02:47:58,000 REMEMBER. 4773 02:47:58,001 --> 02:48:01,000 IF YOU STUDY HISTORY YOU LEARN 4774 02:48:01,001 --> 02:48:02,000 THAT WHEN WE PUT IN THE PANAMA 4775 02:48:02,001 --> 02:48:04,000 CANAL WE HAD A 4776 02:48:04,001 --> 02:48:06,000 HORRIBLE SITUATION WHEN WE 4777 02:48:06,001 --> 02:48:09,000 BUILT THE PANAMA CANAL BECAUSE 4778 02:48:09,001 --> 02:48:12,000 OF MALARIA AND YELLOW FEVER 4779 02:48:12,001 --> 02:48:16,000 THAT WERE INSECT BEARING 4780 02:48:16,001 --> 02:48:19,000 DISEASES AND WE INVENTED D.T. 4781 02:48:19,001 --> 02:48:21,000 AND WE USED D.D.T. TO HOLD DOWN 4782 02:48:21,001 --> 02:48:23,000 THOSE BUG POPULATIONS. 4783 02:48:23,001 --> 02:48:25,000 BY THAT, WE WERE TABLE BUILD 4784 02:48:25,001 --> 02:48:27,000 THE PANAMA CANAL. 4785 02:48:27,001 --> 02:48:30,000 AS A CHILD, GROWING UP IN 4786 02:48:30,001 --> 02:48:31,000 HOUSTON, TEXAS, WITHOUT 4787 02:48:31,001 --> 02:48:33,000 AIR-CONDITIONING, THE D.T. 4788 02:48:33,001 --> 02:48:34,000 TRUCK WENT BY EVERY FRIDAY 4789 02:48:34,001 --> 02:48:36,000 NIGHT. 4790 02:48:36,001 --> 02:48:38,000 SPRAYED THE WHOLE NEIGHBORHOOD. 4791 02:48:38,001 --> 02:48:41,000 AND YET A LADY WRET A BOOK 4792 02:48:41,001 --> 02:48:43,000 CALLED "A SILE SPRING" IN 4793 02:48:43,001 --> 02:48:46,000 WHICH SHE SAID THAT ALL THE 4794 02:48:46,001 --> 02:48:47,000 RESEARCH SHOWED, I HATE IT WHEN 4795 02:48:47,001 --> 02:48:49,000 PEOPLE SAY ALL THE RESEARCH 4796 02:48:49,001 --> 02:48:51,000 SHOWS, ALL THE RESEARCH SHOWS 4797 02:48:51,001 --> 02:48:54,000 THAT IF WE CONTINUE TO USE 4798 02:48:54,001 --> 02:48:57,000 D.T., WE WILL HAVE NO INSECT 4799 02:48:57,001 --> 02:48:59,000 LIFE ON EARTH AND THE BIRDS 4800 02:48:59,001 --> 02:49:02,000 WILL DIE AND WE WILL HAVE A 4801 02:49:02,001 --> 02:49:05,000 WHEN SPRING COMES, THE BIRDS 4802 02:49:05,001 --> 02:49:06,000 WON'T BE SINGING, THE CRICKETS 4803 02:49:06,001 --> 02:49:08,000 WON'T BE CRICKETTING, AND 4804 02:49:08,001 --> 02:49:12,000 THEY'LL GO AWAY. 4805 02:49:12,001 --> 02:49:13,000 AND BEING 4806 02:49:13,001 --> 02:49:15,000 BELIEVERS WE LAUNCHED A 4807 02:49:15,001 --> 02:49:16,000 CAMPAIGN TO GET RID OF D.D.T. 4808 02:49:16,001 --> 02:49:19,000 WE GOT RID OF IT. 4809 02:49:19,001 --> 02:49:21,000 IT'S BEEN GONE. 4810 02:49:21,001 --> 02:49:24,000 BUT WE NOW HAVE ONE OF THE -- 4811 02:49:24,001 --> 02:49:25,000 WE ACTUALLY GIVE MILLIONS, 4812 02:49:25,001 --> 02:49:27,000 MAYBE EVEN BILLIONS NOW OF 4813 02:49:27,001 --> 02:49:29,000 DOLLARS FROM THIS CONGRESS TO 4814 02:49:29,001 --> 02:49:31,000 FIGHT MALARIA. 4815 02:49:31,001 --> 02:49:33,000 SOMETHING THAT WAS ALMOST 4816 02:49:33,001 --> 02:49:36,000 ERADICATED WHEN I WAS A KID IS 4817 02:49:36,001 --> 02:49:39,000 NOW A MAJOR WORLDWIDE PROBLEM 4818 02:49:39,001 --> 02:49:41,000 BECAUSE WE DID AWAY WITH D.D.T. 4819 02:49:41,001 --> 02:49:43,000 AND GUESS WHAT? 4820 02:49:43,001 --> 02:49:46,000 NOW THE RESEARCH, THE REAL 4821 02:49:46,001 --> 02:49:47,000 PRESENT-DAY RESEARCH, 21ST 4822 02:49:47,001 --> 02:49:49,000 CENTURY RESEARCH SAYS 4823 02:49:49,001 --> 02:49:50,000 EVERYTHING THEY SAID ABOUT 4824 02:49:50,001 --> 02:49:51,000 D.T. IS NOT TRUE. 4825 02:49:51,001 --> 02:49:56,000 IT WAS MADE UP. 4826 02:49:56,001 --> 02:50:00,000 THE LADY KNEW SHE MADE IT UP. 4827 02:50:00,001 --> 02:50:02,000 BUT SHE DIDN'T LIKE D.T. 4828 02:50:02,001 --> 02:50:03,000 NOW YOU TALKED ABOUT GLOBAL 4829 02:50:03,001 --> 02:50:05,000 COOLING. 4830 02:50:05,001 --> 02:50:07,000 I REMEMBER GLOBAL COOLING. I REMEMBER PEOPLE TALKING ABOUT 4831 02:50:07,001 --> 02:50:08,000 WHY IT WAS GOING TO COOL DOWN. 4832 02:50:08,001 --> 02:50:10,000 WE WERE GOING TO BE IN THE ICE 4833 02:50:10,001 --> 02:50:11,000 AGE, WE WERE GOING TO BLAME THE 4834 02:50:11,001 --> 02:50:13,000 RUSSIANS. 4835 02:50:13,001 --> 02:50:14,000 IT WAS GOING TO BE THE 4836 02:50:14,001 --> 02:50:16,000 RUSSIANS' FAULT. 4837 02:50:16,001 --> 02:50:19,000 ALL THIS STUFF. WE HAD TO BUILD BIG INDUSTRIES 4838 02:50:19,001 --> 02:50:23,000 AROUND GLOBAL COOLING. 4839 02:50:23,001 --> 02:50:26,000 YOU KNOW, WE TOLD OUR PEOPLE, 4840 02:50:26,001 --> 02:50:28,000 YOU BETTER QUIT PROPAGATING, 4841 02:50:28,001 --> 02:50:30,000 BECAUSE YOU'RE GOING TO RUN OUT 4842 02:50:30,001 --> 02:50:32,000 OF SPACE ON THIS EARTH BY THE 4843 02:50:32,001 --> 02:50:34,000 21ST CENTURY, IT'LL BE STANDING 4844 02:50:34,001 --> 02:50:37,000 ROOM ONLY ON THE EARTH UNLESS 4845 02:50:37,001 --> 02:50:38,000 YOU LIMIT THE NUMBER OF 4846 02:50:38,001 --> 02:50:41,000 CHILDREN YOU HAVE AND BEING 4847 02:50:41,001 --> 02:50:42,000 GOOD COLLEGE-EDUCATED 4848 02:50:42,001 --> 02:50:45,000 PROGRESSIVES, WE LAUNCHED OUT 4849 02:50:45,001 --> 02:50:47,000 TO REDUCE THE AMOUNT OF 4850 02:50:47,001 --> 02:50:49,000 CHILDREN WE HAD. 4851 02:50:49,001 --> 02:50:51,000 AND WE DID IT WITH BIRTH 4852 02:50:51,001 --> 02:50:54,000 CONTROL, AND LATER WE DID IT 4853 02:50:54,001 --> 02:50:55,000 WITH THAT HORRID INVENTION 4854 02:50:55,001 --> 02:50:57,000 ABORTION. 4855 02:50:57,001 --> 02:50:59,000 BUT WE LIMITED OUR BIRTH 4856 02:50:59,001 --> 02:51:01,000 CONTROL AND OUR WESTERN 4857 02:51:01,001 --> 02:51:04,000 EUROPEAN FRIENDS LIMITED THEIR BIRTH CONTROL. 4858 02:51:04,001 --> 02:51:06,000 WE STILL REPLACE OURSELVES. 4859 02:51:06,001 --> 02:51:07,000 I THINK 2.1 CHILDREN TO THE 4860 02:51:07,001 --> 02:51:09,000 FAMILY. 4861 02:51:09,001 --> 02:51:10,000 BUT I BELIEVE THE EUROPEANS 4862 02:51:10,001 --> 02:51:13,000 NOW, SOME OF THE CUBTRIES OVER 4863 02:51:13,001 --> 02:51:14,000 THERE ARE LIKE 1.2 AND I THINK 4864 02:51:14,001 --> 02:51:16,000 SOME OF THE BEST COUNTRIES OVER 4865 02:51:16,001 --> 02:51:17,000 THERE, 1.8. 4866 02:51:17,001 --> 02:51:19,000 THEY'RE NOT EVEN REPLACING 4867 02:51:19,001 --> 02:51:21,000 THEIR FAMILIES WITH THE NUMBER 4868 02:51:21,001 --> 02:51:26,000 OF CHILDREN THEY'RE HAVING. 4869 02:51:26,001 --> 02:51:29,000 THEN WE WONDER WHY 4870 02:51:29,001 --> 02:51:30,000 PEOPLE CROSS THE TEXAS AND 4871 02:51:30,001 --> 02:51:32,000 CANADIAN BOARDER TO COME INTO 4872 02:51:32,001 --> 02:51:33,000 THE UNITED STATES TO FILL JOBS 4873 02:51:33,001 --> 02:51:35,000 BECAUSE WE DON'T HAVE ENOUGH 4874 02:51:35,001 --> 02:51:37,000 PEOPLE TO FILL THE JOBS. 4875 02:51:37,001 --> 02:51:39,000 AND WE WONDER WHY THAT IS. 4876 02:51:39,001 --> 02:51:40,000 EUROPEANS GOT THE SAME 4877 02:51:40,001 --> 02:51:41,000 PROBABLE. 4878 02:51:41,001 --> 02:51:43,000 THEY'VE HAD THAT PROBLEM, I CAN 4879 02:51:43,001 --> 02:51:44,000 RECALL THEY HAD THE PROBLEM IN 4880 02:51:44,001 --> 02:51:47,000 1956. 4881 02:51:47,001 --> 02:51:50,000 THEY WERE -- THE GERMAN WERE 4882 02:51:50,001 --> 02:51:51,000 BECAUSE THEY DIDN'T HAVE ENOUGH 4883 02:51:51,001 --> 02:51:53,000 POPULATION. 4884 02:51:53,001 --> 02:51:55,000 NOW WHEN YOU BUY INTO A PROGRAM 4885 02:51:55,001 --> 02:51:57,000 AS YOU POINT OUT, DOWN THE ROAD 4886 02:51:57,001 --> 02:51:59,000 IF THEY'RE NOT TELLING YOU THE 4887 02:51:59,001 --> 02:52:00,000 TRUTH, IT HAS MAJOR 4888 02:52:00,001 --> 02:52:03,000 CONSEQUENCES. 4889 02:52:03,001 --> 02:52:06,000 WHEN YOU MADE THAT 10-YEAR 4890 02:52:06,001 --> 02:52:08,000 COMMENT, AT THE PRESENT RATE 4891 02:52:08,001 --> 02:52:10,000 THIS CONGRESS IS GOING, 10 4892 02:52:10,001 --> 02:52:11,000 YEARS FROM NOW WE MAY FIND 4893 02:52:11,001 --> 02:52:13,000 OURSELVES SITTING AROUND TRYING 4894 02:52:13,001 --> 02:52:15,000 TO WATCH TELEVISION BY 4895 02:52:15,001 --> 02:52:17,000 CANDLELIGHT. 4896 02:52:17,001 --> 02:52:19,000 BECAUSE WE'RE USING BATTERIES 4897 02:52:19,001 --> 02:52:20,000 FOR OUR TELEVISION SETS. 4898 02:52:20,001 --> 02:52:22,000 BECAUSE FRANKLY, WE ARE IN THE 4899 02:52:22,001 --> 02:52:23,000 PROCESS OF TRYING TO TAX OUR 4900 02:52:23,001 --> 02:52:26,000 ENERGY INDUSTRY OUT OF 4901 02:52:26,001 --> 02:52:27,000 BUSINESS. 4902 02:52:27,001 --> 02:52:29,000 EVERY FORM OR FASHION THAT HAS 4903 02:52:29,001 --> 02:52:30,000 ANY KIND OF CARBON CONNECTION. 4904 02:52:30,001 --> 02:52:34,000 10 YEARS FROM NOW, WE COULD BE 4905 02:52:34,001 --> 02:52:36,000 A THIRD WORLD COUNTRY. 4906 02:52:36,001 --> 02:52:38,000 AND WONDER WHY. 4907 02:52:38,001 --> 02:52:39,000 THAT'S WHY THIS SCIENCE IS SO 4908 02:52:39,001 --> 02:52:42,000 VERY IMPORTANT. 4909 02:52:42,001 --> 02:52:44,000 THAT'S WHY KNEE JERK REACTION, 4910 02:52:44,001 --> 02:52:45,000 OVERREACTING TO THINGS, WHICH 4911 02:52:45,001 --> 02:52:47,000 THE GOVERNMENT IS FAMOUS FOR, 4912 02:52:47,001 --> 02:52:49,000 AND I DON'T CARE IF IT'S KNEE 4913 02:52:49,001 --> 02:52:52,000 JERK CONSERVATIVES OR KNEE JERK 4914 02:52:52,001 --> 02:52:54,000 LIBERALS, ANY TIME YOU GET IN A 4915 02:52:54,001 --> 02:52:57,000 HURRY, BAD THINGS HAPPEN. 4916 02:52:57,001 --> 02:52:59,000 AND IF YOU STUDY THE HISTORY OF 4917 02:52:59,001 --> 02:53:01,000 LEGISLATION IN THIS COUN 4918 02:53:01,001 --> 02:53:02,000 IS ABSOLUTELY TRUE AND NOBODY 4919 02:53:02,001 --> 02:53:04,000 WILL DISPUTE IT. 4920 02:53:04,001 --> 02:53:06,000 YOU CAN LOOK AT SLAVERY, LOOK 4921 02:53:06,001 --> 02:53:07,000 AT THE LABOR LAWS, THE 4922 02:53:07,001 --> 02:53:09,000 ENVIRONMENTAL LAWS, YOU CAN 4923 02:53:09,001 --> 02:53:11,000 LOOK AT ANYTHING AND SEE WHERE 4924 02:53:11,001 --> 02:53:14,000 KNEE JERK REACTION -- THAT'S 4925 02:53:14,001 --> 02:53:16,000 WHY WE HAVE A SENATE TO SLOW 4926 02:53:16,001 --> 02:53:17,000 THINGS DOWN, BECAUSE OUR 4927 02:53:17,001 --> 02:53:19,000 FOUNDING FATHERS KNEW THE KNEE 4928 02:53:19,001 --> 02:53:20,000 JERK REACTION CREATED BAD 4929 02:53:20,001 --> 02:53:21,000 LEGISLATION. 4930 02:53:21,001 --> 02:53:23,000 WE'RE ABOUT TO KNEE JE 4931 02:53:23,001 --> 02:53:24,000 OURSELVES INTO THE POOR HOUSE 4932 02:53:24,001 --> 02:53:25,000 IF WE'RE NOT CAREFUL. 4933 02:53:25,001 --> 02:53:26,000 I YIELD BACK. 4934 02:53:26,001 --> 02:53:30,000 MR. KING: RECLAIMING, AND I 4935 02:53:30,001 --> 02:53:32,000 THANK THE GENTLEMAN FROM TEXAS. 4936 02:53:32,001 --> 02:53:35,000 WATCHING THIS CLIMAT 4937 02:53:35,001 --> 02:53:37,000 ARGUMENT UNFOLD, AND I THINK 4938 02:53:37,001 --> 02:53:38,000 ABOUT THIS COUNTRY THAT WE ARE, 4939 02:53:38,001 --> 02:53:41,000 THE MOST SUCCESSFUL NATION IN 4940 02:53:41,001 --> 02:53:42,000 THE HISTORY OF THE WORLD, 4941 02:53:42,001 --> 02:53:44,000 STRONGEST ECONOMY IN THE WORLD 4942 02:53:44,001 --> 02:53:45,000 BY FAR, STRONGEST MILITARILY, 4943 02:53:45,001 --> 02:53:46,000 OUR CULTURE PENETRATES THE REST 4944 02:53:46,001 --> 02:53:48,000 OF THE WORLD. 4945 02:53:48,001 --> 02:53:51,000 WE'RE KIND OF AMERICAN-CENT 4946 02:53:51,001 --> 02:53:56,000 RICK BECAUSE WE'RE SELF--- 4947 02:53:56,001 --> 02:53:57,000 AMERICAN-SENTRIC, BECAUSE WE'RE 4948 02:53:57,001 --> 02:54:00,000 SELF-SUSTAING. 4949 02:54:00,001 --> 02:54:02,000 WE DON'T AS OFTEN LK AT THE 4950 02:54:02,001 --> 02:54:04,000 UNITED STATES FROM OUTSIDE. 4951 02:54:04,001 --> 02:54:08,000 BUT I WONDER WHAT IT MUST LOOK 4952 02:54:08,001 --> 02:54:10,000 LIKE FOR, LET'S JUST SAY, 4953 02:54:10,001 --> 02:54:12,000 SOCRATES, LOOKING OUT ACROSS 4954 02:54:12,001 --> 02:54:14,000 THIS COUNTRY TODAY, 3,000 YEARS 4955 02:54:14,001 --> 02:54:17,000 AGO, THEY SAT AROUND AND IN 4956 02:54:17,001 --> 02:54:21,000 PLACES LIKE ATHENS, SOCRATES, 4957 02:54:21,001 --> 02:54:23,000 PLAY TOW, ARISTOTLE, CARRIED -- 4958 02:54:23,001 --> 02:54:25,000 PLATO, ARISTOTLE, THEY CARRIED 4959 02:54:25,001 --> 02:54:27,000 ON CONVERSATIONS AND SHAPED THE 4960 02:54:27,001 --> 02:54:28,000 AGE OF REASON. 4961 02:54:28,001 --> 02:54:31,000 IT WAS THE FOUNDATION OF 4962 02:54:31,001 --> 02:54:32,000 SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY. 4963 02:54:32,001 --> 02:54:34,000 THEY BUILT IT INTO THEIR 4964 02:54:34,001 --> 02:54:36,000 CULTURE TO BE PROUD OF BEING 4965 02:54:36,001 --> 02:54:39,000 ABLE TO RATIONALIZE BOTH 4966 02:54:39,001 --> 02:54:42,000 DEDUCTIVE REASONING AND 4967 02:54:42,001 --> 02:54:43,000 INDUCTIVE REASONING, AND THAT 4968 02:54:43,001 --> 02:54:44,000 RATIONALE, AND EVEN THOUGH THEY 4969 02:54:44,001 --> 02:54:46,000 DIDN'T GET THEIR ELEMENTS 4970 02:54:46,001 --> 02:54:47,000 RIGHT, WHAT DID THEY HAVE 4971 02:54:47,001 --> 02:54:49,000 EARTH, WIND, FIRE, MAYBE SOME 4972 02:54:49,001 --> 02:54:51,000 OTHER ELEMENTS LIKE THAT THAT 4973 02:54:51,001 --> 02:54:53,000 THEY USED TO ARGUE WITH, THEY 4974 02:54:53,001 --> 02:54:54,000 DIDN'T HAVE THE TABLES TO BE 4975 02:54:54,001 --> 02:54:56,000 ABLE TO PUT THE ATOMS TOGETHER 4976 02:54:56,001 --> 02:54:57,000 AND FIGURE OUT THE MOLECULE, 4977 02:54:57,001 --> 02:54:59,000 BUT THEY HAD A GOOD RATIONALE. 4978 02:54:59,001 --> 02:55:01,000 THE AGE OF REASON IN GREECE IS 4979 02:55:01,001 --> 02:55:03,000 THE FOUNDATION OF WESTERN 4980 02:55:03,001 --> 02:55:05,000 CIVILIZATION. THEY TOOK GREAT PRIDE IN BEING 4981 02:55:05,001 --> 02:55:06,000 ABLE TO THINK RATIONALLY. 4982 02:55:06,001 --> 02:55:08,000 IF THEY WOULD TRANSPOSE 4983 02:55:08,001 --> 02:55:10,000 THEMSELVES, FAST FORWARD 4984 02:55:10,001 --> 02:55:12,000 THROUGH HISTORY 3,000 YEARS, 4985 02:55:12,001 --> 02:55:14,000 RACE THROUGH THE AGE OF 4986 02:55:14,001 --> 02:55:15,000 ENLIGHTENMENT IN WESTERN EUROPE 4987 02:55:15,001 --> 02:55:17,000 AND PRIMARILY IN FRANCE AND THE 4988 02:55:17,001 --> 02:55:18,000 DAWN OF THE 4989 02:55:18,001 --> 02:55:20,000 REVOLUTION HERE AND HOW 4990 02:55:20,001 --> 02:55:21,000 TECHNOLOGY HAS FLOURISHEDND 4991 02:55:21,001 --> 02:55:24,000 WE'VE GONE FROM AN INDUSTRIAL 4992 02:55:24,001 --> 02:55:25,000 ECONOMY TO AN INFORMATION 4993 02:55:25,001 --> 02:55:27,000 ECONOMY, AND SEE ALL THE THINGS 4994 02:55:27,001 --> 02:55:29,000 WE'VE DEVELOPED FROM A 4995 02:55:29,001 --> 02:55:30,000 TECHNOLOGICAL STANDPOINT, BUT 4996 02:55:30,001 --> 02:55:32,000 YET IF THEY COULD LOOK IN THIS 4997 02:55:32,001 --> 02:55:33,000 -- INSIDE THIS CHAMBER AND SEE 4998 02:55:33,001 --> 02:55:36,000 WHERE DECISIONS ARE MADE IN A 4999 02:55:36,001 --> 02:55:37,000 CIVILIZED COUNTRY TODAY AND SEE 5000 02:55:37,001 --> 02:55:39,000 HOW THEY'RE MADE, I THINK 5001 02:55:39,001 --> 02:55:41,000 THEY'D BE ASTONISHED THAT WE 5002 02:55:41,001 --> 02:55:43,000 HAVE SUSPENDED THE REASON THAT 5003 02:55:43,001 --> 02:55:45,000 THEY SO CAREFULLY DELOPED 5004 02:55:45,001 --> 02:55:48,000 3,000 YEARS AGO AND NOW WE 5005 02:55:48,001 --> 02:55:49,000 LEGISLATE BY ANECDOTE. 5006 02:55:49,001 --> 02:55:52,000 WE LEGISLATE BY SOMEBODY'S 5007 02:55:52,001 --> 02:55:59,000 EMOTIONS RATHER BY EMPIRICAL DATA. 5008 02:55:59,001 --> 02:56:01,000 . 5009 02:56:01,001 --> 02:56:03,000 JUDGE CARTER MENTIONED A FEW OF 5010 02:56:03,001 --> 02:56:06,000 THOSE. 5011 02:56:06,001 --> 02:56:16,000 PULL D.D.T. OFF THE MARKETPLACE. 5012 02:56:16,001 --> 02:56:19,000 MY MOTHER -- MY LAWN HAD NOT 5013 02:56:19,001 --> 02:56:22,000 MUCH BLUE GRASS. 5014 02:56:22,001 --> 02:56:25,000 WE COULDN'T SPRAY THAT ANYMORE. 5015 02:56:25,001 --> 02:56:26,000 MOM KNEW AND WE HAD A LOT OF 5016 02:56:26,001 --> 02:56:29,000 BIRDS AROUND. 5017 02:56:29,001 --> 02:56:31,000 WE HAD THEM ANYWAY WITHOUT THE 5018 02:56:31,001 --> 02:56:33,000 WEEDS. 5019 02:56:33,001 --> 02:56:36,000 AND THE SCARE COMES TO MIND, THE 5020 02:56:36,001 --> 02:56:39,000 APPLE ISSUE THAT TOOK APPLE 5021 02:56:39,001 --> 02:56:41,000 BUSINESSES AWAY BECAUSE THE 5022 02:56:41,001 --> 02:56:45,000 ALLEGE THAT THE SPRAY THEY USED 5023 02:56:45,001 --> 02:56:53,000 ON THEM WAS SOMEHOW DANGEROUS. 5024 02:56:53,001 --> 02:56:55,000 THESE ARE SCIENTIFIC CALAMENTY. 5025 02:56:55,001 --> 02:56:58,000 THEY THREATEN PEOPLE. 5026 02:56:58,001 --> 02:56:59,000 THEY TELL US THAT THE PLANET CAN 5027 02:56:59,001 --> 02:57:01,000 ONLY SUSTAIN SO MANY PEOPLE. 5028 02:57:01,001 --> 02:57:02,000 AND THESE ARE THE PEOPLE THAT 5029 02:57:02,001 --> 02:57:04,000 HAVE DETERMINED THAT THEY'RE 5030 02:57:04,001 --> 02:57:06,000 GOING TO SHUT DOWN, AS JUDGE 5031 02:57:06,001 --> 02:57:08,000 CARTER SAID, OUR ENERGY 5032 02:57:08,001 --> 02:57:10,000 PRODUCTION IN THIS COUNTRY. 5033 02:57:10,001 --> 02:57:15,000 AND WE SPENT LAST AUGUST 5034 02:57:15,001 --> 02:57:17,000 POUNDING AWAY EVERY DAY CALLING 5035 02:57:17,001 --> 02:57:19,000 FOR AN ENERGY PLAN THAT OPENED 5036 02:57:19,001 --> 02:57:20,000 UP ALL OF THE ABOVE, ALL OF THE 5037 02:57:20,001 --> 02:57:22,000 ENERGY THAT WE HAVE. 5038 02:57:22,001 --> 02:57:25,000 WE ARE AN ENERGY-RICH NATION, 5039 02:57:25,001 --> 02:57:27,000 NOT AN ENERGY-POOR NATION. 5040 02:57:27,001 --> 02:57:29,000 AND TO GIVE AN EXAMPLE OF HOW 5041 02:57:29,001 --> 02:57:32,000 EASY IT SHOULD BE TO TAKE THIS 5042 02:57:32,001 --> 02:57:33,000 NATION TO THE NEXT LEVEL OF OUR 5043 02:57:33,001 --> 02:57:37,000 ECONOMIC DETERMINISM, IF WE JUST 5044 02:57:37,001 --> 02:57:42,000 LOOK OVER TO COUNTRIES LIKE JAPAN AND KOREA. 5045 02:57:42,001 --> 02:57:43,000 BOTH OF THOSE NATIONS, MAJOR 5046 02:57:43,001 --> 02:57:47,000 CITIES WERE DESTROYED IN WAR. 5047 02:57:47,001 --> 02:57:49,000 THEY REBUILT THEIR CITIES, 5048 02:57:49,001 --> 02:57:50,000 INFRASTRUCTURE T 5049 02:57:50,001 --> 02:57:52,000 THEY FUNCTION. 5050 02:57:52,001 --> 02:57:55,000 AND YET IN THAT 60 OR SO YEARS, 5051 02:57:55,001 --> 02:57:56,000 EACH OF THOSE COUNTRIES HAVE 5052 02:57:56,001 --> 02:57:59,000 IMPORTED ALMOST 100% OF THEIR 5053 02:57:59,001 --> 02:58:01,000 ENERGY AND 60% OF THEIR FOOD AND 5054 02:58:01,001 --> 02:58:02,000 THEY STILL BUILD MODERN 5055 02:58:02,001 --> 02:58:03,000 TECHNOLOGICAL SOCIETIES. 5056 02:58:03,001 --> 02:58:05,000 AND WE ARE HERE IN THENITED 5057 02:58:05,001 --> 02:58:07,000 STATES OF AMERICA WITH A SURPLUS 5058 02:58:07,001 --> 02:58:10,000 OF FOOD AND THE ENERGY THAT WE 5059 02:58:10,001 --> 02:58:11,000 NEED IF WE JUST MANAGE IT AND WE 5060 02:58:11,001 --> 02:58:15,000 CAN'T DISCIPLINE OURSELVES TO 5061 02:58:15,001 --> 02:58:16,000 UTILIZE OUR OWN RESOURCES. 5062 02:58:16,001 --> 02:58:19,000 AND WE HAVE A SPEAKER OF THE 5063 02:58:19,001 --> 02:58:20,000 HOUSE TO IS TRYING TO SAVE THE 5064 02:58:20,001 --> 02:58:23,000 PLANET, PLEASE PUT THAT IN 5065 02:58:23,001 --> 02:58:24,000 QUOTES, TRYING TO SHUT DOWN 5066 02:58:24,001 --> 02:58:26,000 ENERGY IN AMERICA. 5067 02:58:26,001 --> 02:58:28,000 ONE IS WIND. 5068 02:58:28,001 --> 02:58:30,000 THE OTHER IS SOLAR AND THE NEXT 5069 02:58:30,001 --> 02:58:33,000 ONE MAY BE GEOTHERMAL IF YOU 5070 02:58:33,001 --> 02:58:34,000 DIDN'T HAVE TO USE A DRILL RIG 5071 02:58:34,001 --> 02:58:36,000 TO GET IT. 5072 02:58:36,001 --> 02:58:39,000 WIND IS OK AS LONG AS YOU DON'T 5073 02:58:39,001 --> 02:58:41,000 HAVE TO GET IT OFF OF NANTUCKET. 5074 02:58:41,001 --> 02:58:44,000 TEDDY KENNEDY IS OFFENDED AT 5075 02:58:44,001 --> 02:58:47,000 LOOKING AT WINDMILLS. 5076 02:58:47,001 --> 02:58:49,000 I COULD SEE 39 OF THEM FROM MY 5077 02:58:49,001 --> 02:58:50,000 YARD. 5078 02:58:50,001 --> 02:58:52,000 BUT THAT'S ALL RIGHT. 5079 02:58:52,001 --> 02:58:53,000 WE NEED ALL OF THE ABOVE AND 5080 02:58:53,001 --> 02:58:57,000 THERE IS NO WAY TO MEET THAT 5081 02:58:57,001 --> 02:58:58,000 MODEL UNDER A WAXMAN-MARKEY 5082 02:58:58,001 --> 02:59:00,000 BILL. 5083 02:59:00,001 --> 02:59:02,000 THIS IS ALREADY THE INTIMIDATION 5084 02:59:02,001 --> 02:59:03,000 EFFECT AND THE EXISTING 5085 02:59:03,001 --> 02:59:05,000 REGULATIONS HAVE SHUT DOWN ANY 5086 02:59:05,001 --> 02:59:06,000 NEW COAL-FIRED GENERATION PLANTS 5087 02:59:06,001 --> 02:59:11,000 IN AMERICA. 5088 02:59:11,001 --> 02:59:13,000 WE DO HAVE A NUCLEAR JON RATING 5089 02:59:13,001 --> 02:59:15,000 PLANT THAT'S UNDER CONSTRUCTION 5090 02:59:15,001 --> 02:59:17,000 IN NORTH CAROLINA AND SCHEDU 5091 02:59:17,001 --> 02:59:18,000 TO COME ON-LINE THE YEAR 5092 02:59:18,001 --> 02:59:20,000 2017. 5093 02:59:20,001 --> 02:59:22,000 THEY HAVE BEEN WORKING ON IT TWO 5094 02:59:22,001 --> 02:59:24,000 OR MORE YEARS BY NOW. 5095 02:59:24,001 --> 02:59:26,000 AND 2017, IT WILL COME ON-LINE. 5096 02:59:26,001 --> 02:59:29,000 AND THIS IS THE BETA MODEL, A 5097 02:59:29,001 --> 02:59:30,000 MODEL OF NUCLEAR GENERATING 5098 02:59:30,001 --> 02:59:32,000 PLANTS. 5099 02:59:32,001 --> 02:59:33,000 IT'S HOW DO YOU JUMP THROUGH THE 5100 02:59:33,001 --> 02:59:36,000 REGULATORY HOOPS TO GET THERE. 5101 02:59:36,001 --> 02:59:39,000 IF THEY CAN GET THAT DONE, IT 5102 02:59:39,001 --> 02:59:40,000 WILL BE THE COOKIE CUTTER SO WE 5103 02:59:40,001 --> 02:59:43,000 CAN BUILD MORE. 5104 02:59:43,001 --> 02:59:44,000 BUT NOT UNDER THE OBAMA 5105 02:59:44,001 --> 02:59:48,000 ADMINISTRATION. 5106 02:59:48,001 --> 02:59:50,000 HE SAYS TO AHMADINEJAD, I 5107 02:59:50,001 --> 02:59:53,000 HAVEN'T HEARD HIM SAY 5108 02:59:53,001 --> 02:59:55,000 CONGRATULATIONS ON HIS VICTORY. 5109 02:59:55,001 --> 02:59:58,000 BUT HE SAYS, WE CAN'T TELL A 5110 02:59:58,001 --> 02:59:59,000 SOVEREIGN NATION THEY CAN'T 5111 02:59:59,001 --> 03:00:01,000 DEVELOP NUCLEAR POWER. 5112 03:00:01,001 --> 03:00:04,000 HE SAID TO THE IRANIANS, YOU 5113 03:00:04,001 --> 03:00:06,000 HAVE THE RIGHT TO DEVELOP 5114 03:00:06,001 --> 03:00:09,000 NUCLEAR CAPABILITY EVEN THOUGH 5115 03:00:09,001 --> 03:00:10,000 YOU WANT TO GET RID OF ISRAEL. 5116 03:00:10,001 --> 03:00:11,000 SO, ACCORDING TO PRESIDENT 5117 03:00:11,001 --> 03:00:14,000 OBAMA, IRAN HAS THE RIGHT TO 5118 03:00:14,001 --> 03:00:17,000 NUCLEAR, BUT AMERICANS DON'T. 5119 03:00:17,001 --> 03:00:19,000 WE CAN'T BUILD A NUCLEAR POWER 5120 03:00:19,001 --> 03:00:22,000 PLANT HERE TO MAKE UP THE GAP 5121 03:00:22,001 --> 03:00:26,000 THAT IS RECRATED BY THE NUCLEAR 5122 03:00:26,001 --> 03:00:27,000 RESTRICTIONS THAT ARE COMING. 5123 03:00:27,001 --> 03:00:31,000 THOSE OF US WHO PRODUCE ENERGY 5124 03:00:31,001 --> 03:00:32,000 FR COAL, WILL PUNISH STATES, 5125 03:00:32,001 --> 03:00:35,000 THOSE STATES THAT DO NOT, THOSE 5126 03:00:35,001 --> 03:00:38,000 THAT ARE RECIPIENTS, IF THEY PUT 5127 03:00:38,001 --> 03:00:40,000 THIS ON CAP AND TAX, YOU WILL 5128 03:00:40,001 --> 03:00:42,000 SEE A MASSIVE CORRUPTION BILL 5129 03:00:42,001 --> 03:00:44,000 WITHIN THE UNITED STATES AS THEY 5130 03:00:44,001 --> 03:00:46,000 TRADE THE CARBON CREDITS. 5131 03:00:46,001 --> 03:00:49,000 AND TO GIVE AN EXAMPLE OF WHAT 5132 03:00:49,001 --> 03:00:51,000 GOES ON AS SPEAKER PELOSI 5133 03:00:51,001 --> 03:00:54,000 RECEIVED THE GAVEL HERE IN 2007, 5134 03:00:54,001 --> 03:00:55,000 SHE DECIDED THAT THE CAPITOL 5135 03:00:55,001 --> 03:00:59,000 COMPLEX WHICH WE STAND IN THE 5136 03:00:59,001 --> 03:01:02,000 MIDDLE OF RIGHT NOW, SHOULD BE A 5137 03:01:02,001 --> 03:01:04,000 CARBON NEUTRAL, GREENHOUSE GAS 5138 03:01:04,001 --> 03:01:05,000 EMITTING, NEUTRAL FACILITY. 5139 03:01:05,001 --> 03:01:08,000 SO SHE ORDERED THAT THE POWER 5140 03:01:08,001 --> 03:01:10,000 PLANT THAT FEEDS THIS CAPITOL 5141 03:01:10,001 --> 03:01:14,000 COMPLEX, FIRED BY COAL AND 5142 03:01:14,001 --> 03:01:16,000 NATURAL GAS AND OIL BE CONVERTED 5143 03:01:16,001 --> 03:01:18,000 FROM COAL TO NATURAL GAS. 5144 03:01:18,001 --> 03:01:20,000 DOUBLED THE COST OF OUR POWER TO 5145 03:01:20,001 --> 03:01:22,000 COME INTO THIS CAPITOL, BUT 5146 03:01:22,001 --> 03:01:26,000 FOUND OUT THAT HER CARBON 5147 03:01:26,001 --> 03:01:29,000 FOOTPRINT -- I SAY HERS -- HER 5148 03:01:29,001 --> 03:01:31,000 CARBON FOOTPRINT GAIT. 5149 03:01:31,001 --> 03:01:34,000 SO SPEAKER PELOSI WENT ON THE 5150 03:01:34,001 --> 03:01:36,000 BOARD IN CHICAGO AND BOUGHT SOME 5151 03:01:36,001 --> 03:01:37,000 CARBON CREDITS. 5152 03:01:37,001 --> 03:01:40,000 $89,000 OF OUR TAXPAYER DOLLARS 5153 03:01:40,001 --> 03:01:43,000 PAID BY CARBON CREDITS THAT WERE 5154 03:01:43,001 --> 03:01:45,000 GOING TO OFFSET THE CARBON 5155 03:01:45,001 --> 03:01:47,000 EMISSIONS HERE AT THIS CAPITOL 5156 03:01:47,001 --> 03:01:50,000 COMPLEX. AND THAT'S DESIGNED TO DO 5157 03:01:50,001 --> 03:01:52,000 SOMETHING MORE TO SEQUESTER THIS 5158 03:01:52,001 --> 03:01:55,000 CARBON THAT'S GOING INTO THE 5159 03:01:55,001 --> 03:01:57,000 ATMOSPHERE THAT'S FEEDING THE 5160 03:01:57,001 --> 03:01:58,000 CAPITOL. 5161 03:01:58,001 --> 03:02:00,000 $89,000, FIGURE OUT WHERE IT 5162 03:02:00,001 --> 03:02:03,000 WENT. 5163 03:02:03,001 --> 03:02:05,000 DAKOTA. 5164 03:02:05,001 --> 03:02:06,000 PEOPLE THAT HAD BEEN KNOWN TO 5165 03:02:06,001 --> 03:02:08,000 FARMERS. 5166 03:02:08,001 --> 03:02:09,000 PEOPLE WHOSE BEHAVIOR DIDN'T 5167 03:02:09,001 --> 03:02:10,000 CHANGE. 5168 03:02:10,001 --> 03:02:12,000 I DON'T THINK THEY SEE 5169 03:02:12,001 --> 03:02:14,000 QUESTIONSERED ANY MORE CARBON. 5170 03:02:14,001 --> 03:02:15,000 THEY GOT A REWARD FROM THE 5171 03:02:15,001 --> 03:02:17,000 SPEAKER'S CHECKBOOK, OUR 5172 03:02:17,001 --> 03:02:18,000 CHECKBOOK, FOR WHAT THEY WERE 5173 03:02:18,001 --> 03:02:21,000 DOING. 5174 03:02:21,001 --> 03:02:23,000 YOU CAN'T SEQUE 5175 03:02:23,001 --> 03:02:25,000 IF YOU TURN AROUND AND TILL, 5176 03:02:25,001 --> 03:02:27,000 THAT IS RELEASED IN THE 5177 03:02:27,001 --> 03:02:28,000 ATMOSPHERE AND THE NET GAIN IS 5178 03:02:28,001 --> 03:02:30,000 ZERO. 5179 03:02:30,001 --> 03:02:32,000 IF YOU PRACTICE NO-TILL, THAT'S 5180 03:02:32,001 --> 03:02:34,000 YOUR MEASURE FOR GOOD 5181 03:02:34,001 --> 03:02:37,000 ATMOSPHERE. 5182 03:02:37,001 --> 03:02:39,000 AND SOME OIT WENT TO THE 5183 03:02:39,001 --> 03:02:41,000 COAL-FIRED GENERATING PLANT IN IOWA. 5184 03:02:41,001 --> 03:02:43,000 SO I WENT THERE AND TOOK A LOOK 5185 03:02:43,001 --> 03:02:44,000 AT THIS COAL-FIRED GENERATING 5186 03:02:44,001 --> 03:02:48,000 PLANT. 5187 03:02:48,001 --> 03:02:49,000 AND WHAT I SAW WAS A GOOD, WELL 5188 03:02:49,001 --> 03:02:50,000 RUN PLANT. 5189 03:02:50,001 --> 03:02:52,000 THE EMISSIONS WERE I THINK 5190 03:02:52,001 --> 03:02:54,000 PRETTY GOOD AND FAIRLY MODERN, 5191 03:02:54,001 --> 03:02:56,000 BUT THEY HAD RECEIVED A 5192 03:02:56,001 --> 03:02:58,000 GOVERNMENT GRANT TO SET UP AN 5193 03:02:58,001 --> 03:02:59,000 SEPARATION TO BE ABLE TO BURN 5194 03:02:59,001 --> 03:03:02,000 SWITCH GRASS AND BLEND THE 5195 03:03:02,001 --> 03:03:03,000 SWITCH GRASS IN WITH THE COAL, I 5196 03:03:03,001 --> 03:03:05,000 THINK IT WAS A 10% RATE, TO 5197 03:03:05,001 --> 03:03:09,000 SUPPLEMENT THE COAL THEY WERE 5198 03:03:09,001 --> 03:03:10,000 BURNING, BECAUSE SWITCH GRASS IS 5199 03:03:10,001 --> 03:03:12,000 CARBON-NEUTRAL. 5200 03:03:12,001 --> 03:03:13,000 AND OF COURSE, COAL IS NOT. 5201 03:03:13,001 --> 03:03:17,000 WELL, I WENT IN THERE AND THEY 5202 03:03:17,001 --> 03:03:21,000 HAD TWO BIG SHEDS AND HAD A LOT 5203 03:03:21,001 --> 03:03:23,000 OF BIG ROUND BALES OF SWITCH 5204 03:03:23,001 --> 03:03:25,000 GRASS AND THEY WERE STACKED AND 5205 03:03:25,001 --> 03:03:28,000 A CONVEYOR AND BLOWER SYSTEM TO 5206 03:03:28,001 --> 03:03:29,000 INJECT THAT ALL IN WITH THE COAL 5207 03:03:29,001 --> 03:03:34,000 AND THE PLACE WASN'T RUNNING AND 5208 03:03:34,001 --> 03:03:35,000 AND I COULD TELL BY LOOKING AT 5209 03:03:35,001 --> 03:03:38,000 THE HAY, IT WAS OLD. 5210 03:03:38,001 --> 03:03:39,000 I SAID HOW LONG HAS IT BEEN? 5211 03:03:39,001 --> 03:03:41,000 ABOUT TWO YEARS. 5212 03:03:41,001 --> 03:03:42,000 WE RAN OUR EXPERIMENT AND SHUT 5213 03:03:42,001 --> 03:03:47,000 THE EXPERIMENT DOWN. 5214 03:03:47,001 --> 03:03:49,000 AND SO, FIRST IS, THEY DON'T 5215 03:03:49,001 --> 03:03:51,000 HAVE DATA FROM WHAT THEY MIGHT 5216 03:03:51,001 --> 03:03:53,000 HAVE LEARNED, SO THE EXPERIMENT 5217 03:03:53,001 --> 03:03:55,000 DIDN'T YIELD A RESULT, UNLESS 5218 03:03:55,001 --> 03:03:56,000 MAYBE THEY KNOW AND DIDN'T TELL 5219 03:03:56,001 --> 03:03:58,000 US. 5220 03:03:58,001 --> 03:04:00,000 AND THE SECOND THING IS THIS 5221 03:04:00,001 --> 03:04:02,000 MONEY THAT WENT TO THEM FORESEE 5222 03:04:02,001 --> 03:04:05,000 QUESTIONSERING THE CARBON TO 5223 03:04:05,001 --> 03:04:08,000 GIVE INCENTIVE TO BURN SWITCH 5224 03:04:08,001 --> 03:04:10,000 GRASS DIDN'T SWITCH ANYBODY'S 5225 03:04:10,001 --> 03:04:12,000 BEHAVIOR. 5226 03:04:12,001 --> 03:04:14,000 THEY SHUT DOWN THE SWITCH GRASS 5227 03:04:14,001 --> 03:04:16,000 BURNING TWO DOWNS EARLIER AND 5228 03:04:16,001 --> 03:04:17,000 THIS IS A CHECK. 5229 03:04:17,001 --> 03:04:19,000 WE DIDN'T LEARN ANYTHING FROM IT 5230 03:04:19,001 --> 03:04:20,000 YET. 5231 03:04:20,001 --> 03:04:23,000 IF THAT'S THE ING THAT'S GOING 5232 03:04:23,001 --> 03:04:27,000 TO GO ON, THAT CAP AND TAX, CAP 5233 03:04:27,001 --> 03:04:29,000 AND TRADE, WAXMAN-MARKEY, IF THE 5234 03:04:29,001 --> 03:04:31,000 SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE CAN'T GET 5235 03:04:31,001 --> 03:04:34,000 THE TRANSACTION TO WORK WHEN YOU 5236 03:04:34,001 --> 03:04:37,000 GO OUT AND BUY CARBON CREDITS, 5237 03:04:37,001 --> 03:04:40,000 HOW IN THE WORLD ARE WE GOING TO 5238 03:04:40,001 --> 03:04:42,000 DO HUNDREDS OF BILLIONS OF 5239 03:04:42,001 --> 03:04:44,000 DOLLARS IN CARBON CREDITS AND 5240 03:04:44,001 --> 03:04:46,000 HAVE ANY ACCOUNTABILITY TO SEE 5241 03:04:46,001 --> 03:04:49,000 WHETHER IT BRINGS ABOUT ANYTHING 5242 03:04:49,001 --> 03:04:51,000 THAT MIGHT SEE QUESTIONSER AND 5243 03:04:51,001 --> 03:04:52,000 CAUSE SOMEONE TO ACT IN A 5244 03:04:52,001 --> 03:04:55,000 DIFFERENT WAY. 5245 03:04:55,001 --> 03:04:57,000 IT IS A BUREAUCRATIC IMPOSSIBLE 5246 03:04:57,001 --> 03:05:00,000 BUILT. 5247 03:05:00,001 --> 03:05:02,000 THE SPAN YARDS DID THIS 5248 03:05:02,001 --> 03:05:03,000 EXPERIMENT. 5249 03:05:03,001 --> 03:05:05,000 THE MAFIA WERE THE BEST. 5250 03:05:05,001 --> 03:05:06,000 AND THEY WERE BROKERING THE 5251 03:05:06,001 --> 03:05:09,000 PERMITS AND THEY WERE DECIDING 5252 03:05:09,001 --> 03:05:10,000 WHO WERE GOING TO BE THE 5253 03:05:10,001 --> 03:05:12,000 CONTRACTORS AND DECIDING WHO 5254 03:05:12,001 --> 03:05:13,000 WOULD BE THE SUPPLIERS OF THE 5255 03:05:13,001 --> 03:05:14,000 MATERIALS THAT WENT INTO THE 5256 03:05:14,001 --> 03:05:19,000 WIND CHARGERS. 5257 03:05:19,001 --> 03:05:20,000 THEY GOT WRAPPED UP IN THE CYST 5258 03:05:20,001 --> 03:05:23,000 SILLIAN MAFIA. 5259 03:05:23,001 --> 03:05:25,000 PERMITS WILL BE CONTROLLED BY 5260 03:05:25,001 --> 03:05:26,000 POLITICIANS. 5261 03:05:26,001 --> 03:05:27,000 POLITICIANS WERE INFLUENCEBY 5262 03:05:27,001 --> 03:05:28,000 POLITICAL CONTRIBUTIONS THAT 5263 03:05:28,001 --> 03:05:31,000 CAME FROM THE PROFITS THAT WERE 5264 03:05:31,001 --> 03:05:32,000 BEING EXTRACTED OUT OF THE 5265 03:05:32,001 --> 03:05:35,000 CONSTRUCTION AND OPERATIONS OF 5266 03:05:35,001 --> 03:05:39,000 THESE ND CHARGES BY THE MAFIA. 5267 03:05:39,001 --> 03:05:44,000 AND IT MADE A HUGE MESS OUT OF IT ALL. 5268 03:05:44,001 --> 03:05:47,000 HOUR, FOR EVERY GREEN JOB THEY 5269 03:05:47,001 --> 03:05:49,000 CREATED, IT COST 2.2 PRIVATE 5270 03:05:49,001 --> 03:05:51,000 JOBS BECAUSE IT SUCKED THAT MUCH 5271 03:05:51,001 --> 03:05:52,000 OUT OF THE PRIVATE SECTOR 5272 03:05:52,001 --> 03:05:54,000 ECONOMY. 5273 03:05:54,001 --> 03:05:55,000 THE COST PER GENE JOB IS 5274 03:05:55,001 --> 03:05:56,000 $770,000. 5275 03:05:56,001 --> 03:06:00,000 THE UNEMPLOYMENT RATE IN SPAIN 5276 03:06:00,001 --> 03:06:03,000 IS 17.5% UNEMPLOYED. 5277 03:06:03,001 --> 03:06:04,000 THE LARGEST INDUSTRIES IN SPAIN 5278 03:06:04,001 --> 03:06:06,000 HAVE LEFT. 5279 03:06:06,001 --> 03:06:07,000 THE ONES THAT ARE LEFT ARE 5280 03:06:07,001 --> 03:06:09,000 LOOKING AT LEAVING. 5281 03:06:09,001 --> 03:06:11,000 THE ELECTRICAL BILLS FOR THE 5282 03:06:11,001 --> 03:06:14,000 RESIDENTS HAVE GONE UP 20%. 5283 03:06:14,001 --> 03:06:15,000 AND THE ELECTRICAL BILLS FOR 5284 03:06:15,001 --> 03:06:19,000 INDUSTRY HAS GONE UP 100% IN 5285 03:06:19,001 --> 03:06:21,000 THRESHOLD WHERE THEY COULDN'T 5286 03:06:21,001 --> 03:06:22,000 DEMAND ANY MORE AND RAISED THE 5287 03:06:22,001 --> 03:06:24,000 COST OF THE ELECTRICITY THAT 5288 03:06:24,001 --> 03:06:26,000 MUCH. AND SO THEY WENT OUT ON THE 5289 03:06:26,001 --> 03:06:28,000 MARKET TO BOND THAT AND PLEDGED 5290 03:06:28,001 --> 03:06:29,000 THE FULL FAITH AND CREDIT OF 5291 03:06:29,001 --> 03:06:31,000 THEIR GRANDCHILDREN, THE SPANISH 5292 03:06:31,001 --> 03:06:34,000 GOVERNMENT, WE'LL PAY THE BILLS 5293 03:06:34,001 --> 03:06:35,000 LATER, BUT WE CAN'T PAY THE 5294 03:06:35,001 --> 03:06:36,000 ELECTRIC BILLS TODAY BECAUSE 5295 03:06:36,001 --> 03:06:38,000 THIS IS TOO HIGH HIGH. 5296 03:06:38,001 --> 03:06:41,000 AND PRESIDENT OBAMA HAS SAID, WE 5297 03:06:41,001 --> 03:06:43,000 SHOULD LEARN FROM THE SPANISH. 5298 03:06:43,001 --> 03:06:45,000 I AGREE, WE SHOULD LEARN FROM 5299 03:06:45,001 --> 03:06:48,000 THE SPANISH THAT THE LESSON I 5300 03:06:48,001 --> 03:06:51,000 GET FROM THEM IS THAT IT'S A 5301 03:06:51,001 --> 03:06:52,000 HUGE BOONDOGGLE THAT IS FULL OF 5302 03:06:52,001 --> 03:06:55,000 CORRUPTION AND I ASK THEM WHY 5303 03:06:55,001 --> 03:06:56,000 DON'T YOU REPEAL IT, THEY SAY, 5304 03:06:56,001 --> 03:06:58,000 WE CAN'T. 5305 03:06:58,001 --> 03:07:00,000 BECAUSE SO MANY PEOPLE WHO ARE 5306 03:07:00,001 --> 03:07:01,000 POWERFUL ARE MAKING PROFIT FROM 5307 03:07:01,001 --> 03:07:04,000 IT AND TIED UP IN IT. 5308 03:07:04,001 --> 03:07:05,000 AND WE WOULD HAVE TO DEMAND THAT 5309 03:07:05,001 --> 03:07:08,000 OUR POLITICIANS WOULD CONFESS 5310 03:07:08,001 --> 03:07:09,000 THAT THEY MADE A HUGE MISTAKE 5311 03:07:09,001 --> 03:07:11,000 EIGHT OR NINE OR 10 YEARS AGO. 5312 03:07:11,001 --> 03:07:12,000 A LOT OF THEM ARE STILL THER 5313 03:07:12,001 --> 03:07:14,000 AND THEY CAN'T MAKE THAT 5314 03:07:14,001 --> 03:07:15,000 CONFESSION BECAUSE THEY'LL LOSE 5315 03:07:15,001 --> 03:07:17,000 THEIR JOBS. 5316 03:07:17,001 --> 03:07:22,000 AND SO ONCE YOU GET STARTED INTO 5317 03:07:22,001 --> 03:07:26,000 THIS, IF WE PASS CAP AND TAX, 5318 03:07:26,001 --> 03:07:28,000 WAXMAN-MARKEY, I BELIEVE THAT 5319 03:07:28,001 --> 03:07:30,000 DECISIONS MADE BY THIS 5320 03:07:30,001 --> 03:07:31,000 ADMINISTRATION IN THIS TERM, I 5321 03:07:31,001 --> 03:07:35,000 BELIEVE ARE REVERSE I BELIEVE 5322 03:07:35,001 --> 03:07:40,000 AND REVOKEABLE BY A CONGRESS AND 5323 03:07:40,001 --> 03:07:44,000 A PRESIDENT THAT HAVE COOLER HEADS. 5324 03:07:44,001 --> 03:07:46,000 BUT IF WE PASS WAXMAN-MARKEY CAP 5325 03:07:46,001 --> 03:07:49,000 AND TAX, THAT BECOMES AN 5326 03:07:49,001 --> 03:07:51,000 IRREVERSIBLE POLICY, BECAUSE 5327 03:07:51,001 --> 03:07:52,000 THEN YOU HAVE SO MANY PEOPLE 5328 03:07:52,001 --> 03:07:54,000 BENEFITING FROM THE TRADING OF 5329 03:07:54,001 --> 03:07:56,000 THESE THINGS THAT DON'T HAVE ANY 5330 03:07:56,001 --> 03:07:58,000 VALUE IN A REAL ECONOMY AND SO 5331 03:07:58,001 --> 03:07:59,000 MANY POLITICAL DOLLARS GET 5332 03:07:59,001 --> 03:08:01,000 INFUSED IN THIS PROCESS THAT YOU 5333 03:08:01,001 --> 03:08:03,000 SIMPLY CAN'T REPEAL IT. 5334 03:08:03,001 --> 03:08:04,000 THAT'S MY CONCERN. 5335 03:08:04,001 --> 03:08:08,000 THAT'S MY FEAR. 5336 03:08:08,001 --> 03:08:10,000 I BELIEVE THAT WAXMAN-MARKEY IS 5337 03:08:10,001 --> 03:08:13,000 IRREVERSIBLE POLICY. 5338 03:08:13,001 --> 03:08:15,000 AND SO I'M HERE SPEAKING AGAINST 5339 03:08:15,001 --> 03:08:18,000 IT FOR TWO BIG REASONS. 5340 03:08:18,001 --> 03:08:19,000 ONE IS, THEY'RE WRONG ON THE 5341 03:08:19,001 --> 03:08:20,000 SCIENCE. 5342 03:08:20,001 --> 03:08:22,000 AND I'M HAPPY TO DEBATE THEM. 5343 03:08:22,001 --> 03:08:24,000 AND THE OTHER REASON IS THEY'RE 5344 03:08:24,001 --> 03:08:25,000 REALLY, REALLY WRONG ON THE 5345 03:08:25,001 --> 03:08:27,000 ECONOMICS. 5346 03:08:27,001 --> 03:08:28,000 WHEN YOU HAVE SECRETARY OF 5347 03:08:28,001 --> 03:08:30,000 AGRICULTURE THAT TESTIFIES 5348 03:08:30,001 --> 03:08:31,000 BEFORE THE AG COMMITTEE THAT 5349 03:08:31,001 --> 03:08:33,000 SOMEHOW HE BELIEVES THAT 5350 03:08:33,001 --> 03:08:35,000 INCREASING THE COST TO 5351 03:08:35,001 --> 03:08:38,000 AGRICULTURE WILL RESULT IN MORE 5352 03:08:38,001 --> 03:08:40,000 PROFITS FOR AGRICULTURE BECAUSE 5353 03:08:40,001 --> 03:08:42,000 THE INNOVATIVE NATURE OF 5354 03:08:42,001 --> 03:08:44,000 AMERICAN AGRICULTURE WILL 5355 03:08:44,001 --> 03:08:45,000 OVERCOME THE HANDICAPS THAT 5356 03:08:45,001 --> 03:08:47,000 GOVERNMENT IS PUTTING ON THEM, 5357 03:08:47,001 --> 03:08:51,000 THAT IS AN IRRATIONAL DEGREE OF 5358 03:08:51,001 --> 03:08:53,000 OPTIMISM TO BE STATED BY A 5359 03:08:53,001 --> 03:08:54,000 SECRETARY OF AGRICULTURE, WHO 5360 03:08:54,001 --> 03:08:56,000 FINDS HIMSELF AT ODDS WITH 5361 03:08:56,001 --> 03:08:57,000 DEMOCRATS AND REPUBLICANON THE 5362 03:08:57,001 --> 03:09:00,000 AG COMMITTEE. 5363 03:09:00,001 --> 03:09:01,000 THERE IS NO ECONOMIC MODEL THAT 5364 03:09:01,001 --> 03:09:04,000 I KNOW OF THROUGHOUT THE HISTORY 5365 03:09:04,001 --> 03:09:07,000 OF THE FREE MARKET SYSTEM THAT 5366 03:09:07,001 --> 03:09:09,000 WOULD DICTATE THAT WOULD ENSURE 5367 03:09:09,001 --> 03:09:11,000 A RESULT THAT IF YOU INCREASE 5368 03:09:11,001 --> 03:09:13,000 THE COST TO ANY BUSINESS OR A 5369 03:09:13,001 --> 03:09:15,000 SECTOR OF THE BUSINESS WORLD, 5370 03:09:15,001 --> 03:09:16,000 THAT YOU'RE GOING TO SEE PROFITS 5371 03:09:16,001 --> 03:09:17,000 GO UP. 5372 03:09:17,001 --> 03:09:19,000 THEY WILL GO DOWN. 5373 03:09:19,001 --> 03:09:21,000 AND THIS WAXMAN-MARKEY 5374 03:09:21,001 --> 03:09:24,000 LEGISLATION INCREASES THE COST 5375 03:09:24,001 --> 03:09:27,000 TO, ESPECIALLY OUR ENERGY USERS, 5376 03:09:27,001 --> 03:09:29,000 THOSE WHO ARE THE MOST ENERGY 5377 03:09:29,001 --> 03:09:33,000 INTENSIVE, THE HIGHEST ENERGY 5378 03:09:33,001 --> 03:09:35,000 USERS IN AMERICA WILL GET THE 5379 03:09:35,001 --> 03:09:36,000 HIGHEST INCREASES IN THEIR 5380 03:09:36,001 --> 03:09:38,000 COSTS. 5381 03:09:38,001 --> 03:09:41,000 LET'S JUST SAY YOU'RE IN THE 5382 03:09:41,001 --> 03:09:43,000 BUSINESS OF CONVERTING IRON ORE 5383 03:09:43,001 --> 03:09:45,000 TO IRON AND STEEL. 5384 03:09:45,001 --> 03:09:47,000 LET'S JUST SAY YOU ARE IN THE 5385 03:09:47,001 --> 03:09:52,000 BUSINESS OF CONVERTING NATURAL 5386 03:09:52,001 --> 03:09:53,000 GAS TO PLASTICS OR ANY OTHER 5387 03:09:53,001 --> 03:09:55,000 HIGH-ENERGY INTENSIVE OPERATION 5388 03:09:55,001 --> 03:09:56,000 OR LET'S SAY YOU AR FARMER AND 5389 03:09:56,001 --> 03:10:00,000 USE A LOT OF DIESEL FUEL AND 5390 03:10:00,001 --> 03:10:02,000 LOOKING AT 88 CENTS A GALLON 5391 03:10:02,001 --> 03:10:04,000 ADDED ON TO BY WAXMAN-MARKEY. 5392 03:10:04,001 --> 03:10:05,000 ALL OF THESE INDUSTRIES WILL SEE 5393 03:10:05,001 --> 03:10:07,000 THEIR COSTS GO UP. 5394 03:10:07,001 --> 03:10:09,000 IF YOU ARE GENERATING 5395 03:10:09,001 --> 03:10:10,000 ELECTRICITY FROM BURNING COAL, 5396 03:10:10,001 --> 03:10:12,000 NATURAL GAS, FUEL OIL, FOR 5397 03:10:12,001 --> 03:10:13,000 EXAMPLE, YOU WILL SEE THE COST 5398 03:10:13,001 --> 03:10:16,000 OF THAT ELECTRICITY GO UP. 5399 03:10:16,001 --> 03:10:20,000 AN M.I.T. PROFESSOR DID A STUDY 5400 03:10:20,001 --> 03:10:22,000 AND CALCULATED THE OVERALL 5401 03:10:22,001 --> 03:10:24,000 DOLLARS BY WAXMAN-MARKEY AND 5402 03:10:24,001 --> 03:10:26,000 DIVIDED THE NUMBER OF HOUSE 5403 03:10:26,001 --> 03:10:27,000 HOLDS INTO IT AND THE BOTTOM 5404 03:10:27,001 --> 03:10:32,000 LINE, INCREASED AVERAGE ANNUAL 5405 03:10:32,001 --> 03:10:36,000 HOUSEHOLD COSTS FOR ENERGY, 5406 03:10:36,001 --> 03:10:37,000 $3,128 FROM WAXMAN-MARKEY'S CAP 5407 03:10:37,001 --> 03:10:39,000 AND TAX BILL. 5408 03:10:39,001 --> 03:10:43,000 FOR EVERY $5 COLLECTED FOR THIS 5409 03:10:43,001 --> 03:10:45,000 CAP AND TAX BILL, ONLY $1 GOES 5410 03:10:45,001 --> 03:10:48,000 INTO THE TREASURY AND THE 5411 03:10:48,001 --> 03:10:50,000 BALANCE IS CONSUMED BY THE 5412 03:10:50,001 --> 03:10:55,000 INEFFICIENCIES CREATED. 5413 03:10:55,001 --> 03:10:59,000 . 5414 03:10:59,001 --> 03:11:01,000 THIS IS AN INSIDIOUS TAX, IT 5415 03:11:01,001 --> 03:11:04,000 WILL TAX EVERY GLAN OF GAS, 5416 03:11:04,001 --> 03:11:05,000 EVERY GALLON OF DIESEL FUEL, 5417 03:11:05,001 --> 03:11:07,000 EVERY CUP OF COFFEE, EVERY PAIR 5418 03:11:07,001 --> 03:11:09,000 OF SHOES, EVERY PIECE OF PER, 5419 03:11:09,001 --> 03:11:12,000 EVERY FLOWER ON MOTHER'S DAY, 5420 03:11:12,001 --> 03:11:21,000 AND EVERY TWO BY FOUR THAT GOES 5421 03:11:21,001 --> 03:11:23,000 INTO YOUR HOUSE. 5422 03:11:23,001 --> 03:11:27,000 AND IT TRANSFERS, MADAM 5423 03:11:27,001 --> 03:11:29,000 SPEAKER, AMERICA'S INDUSTRY, 5424 03:11:29,001 --> 03:11:31,000 AMERICA'S ENERGY INTENSIVE 5425 03:11:31,001 --> 03:11:32,000 INDUSTRY OFF TO OTHER COUNTRIES 5426 03:11:32,001 --> 03:11:35,000 IN THE WORLD LE INDIA AND 5427 03:11:35,001 --> 03:11:38,000 CHINA, WHO HAVE PLEDGED NOT TO 5428 03:11:38,001 --> 03:11:39,000 PARTICIPATE IN A CAP AND TAX 5429 03:11:39,001 --> 03:11:42,000 PLAN BECAUSE THEY SAY THIS IS 5430 03:11:42,001 --> 03:11:46,000 THEIR CENTURY TO BECOME INDUSTRIALIZED NATIONS. 5431 03:11:46,001 --> 03:11:47,000 LAST CENTURY OR TWO WERE OUR 5432 03:11:47,001 --> 03:11:49,000 CENTURIES TO BE INDUSTRIALIZED. 5433 03:11:49,001 --> 03:11:51,000 THEY SAY THIS IS THEIRS. 5434 03:11:51,001 --> 03:11:53,000 THEY'RE BUILDING BETWEEN INDIA 5435 03:11:53,001 --> 03:11:57,000 AND CHINA ONE NEW COAL-FIRED 5436 03:11:57,001 --> 03:11:59,000 GENERATING PLANT A WEEK, 5437 03:11:59,001 --> 03:12:00,000 BELCHING SMOKE INTO THE 5438 03:12:00,001 --> 03:12:03,000 ATMOSPHERE, AND THESE PLTS DO 5439 03:12:03,001 --> 03:12:06,000 NOT MEET THE EMISSION STANDARDS 5440 03:12:06,001 --> 03:12:07,000 OF AMERICAN COAL-FIRED 5441 03:12:07,001 --> 03:12:09,000 GENERATING PLANTS SO EACH TIME 5442 03:12:09,001 --> 03:12:12,000 WE PUSH INDUSTRY OUT OF THE 5443 03:12:12,001 --> 03:12:13,000 UNITED STATES, WE'RE PUSHING UP 5444 03:12:13,001 --> 03:12:16,000 COAL-FIRED GENERATING PLANTS IN 5445 03:12:16,001 --> 03:12:19,000 INDIA AND CHINA AND IF YOU'RE 5446 03:12:19,001 --> 03:12:24,000 CONCERNED ABOUT THE ATMOSPHERE, 5447 03:12:24,001 --> 03:12:27,000 THIS IS CREATING PROBLEMS FOR THE ATMOSPHERE. 5448 03:12:27,001 --> 03:12:28,000 BUT I'M WORRIED ABOUT THE COST 5449 03:12:28,001 --> 03:12:30,000 TO AMERICANS, THINKING SOMEHOW 5450 03:12:30,001 --> 03:12:31,000 WE CAN OVERCOME THE BURDEN ON 5451 03:12:31,001 --> 03:12:33,000 OUR ECONOMY AND PROSPER. 5452 03:12:33,001 --> 03:12:36,000 IT IS WRONG THINKING, IT IS 5453 03:12:36,001 --> 03:12:37,000 WRONG-HEADED, THEY'RE WRONG ON 5454 03:12:37,001 --> 03:12:39,000 THE SCIENCE, MADAM SPEAKER AND 5455 03:12:39,001 --> 03:12:40,000 THEY'RE REALLY, REALLY WRONG ON 5456 03:12:40,001 --> 03:12:41,000 THE ECONOMICS. 5457 03:12:41,001 --> 03:12:42,000 AS THIS DEBATE UNFOLDS HERE ON 5458 03:12:42,001 --> 03:12:44,000 THE FLOOR OF THE HOUSE AND 5459 03:12:44,001 --> 03:12:46,000 THROUGHOUT THE COMMITTEES AND 5460 03:12:46,001 --> 03:12:47,000 SUBCOMMITTEES AND THROUGH THE 5461 03:12:47,001 --> 03:12:48,000 MEDIA AND IN THE LIVING ROOMS 5462 03:12:48,001 --> 03:12:50,000 OF AMERICANS, AMERICAN PEOPLE 5463 03:12:50,001 --> 03:12:51,000 NEED TO UNDERSTAND AND 5464 03:12:51,001 --> 03:12:52,000 REMEMBER, MADAM SPEAKER, THAT 5465 03:12:52,001 --> 03:12:54,000 IF THEY CAN'T MAKE THE CASE ON 5466 03:12:54,001 --> 03:12:55,000 THE SCIENCE, THERE'S NO SENSE 5467 03:12:55,001 --> 03:12:57,000 IN TALKING ABOUT THE ECONOMICS 5468 03:12:57,001 --> 03:12:59,000 BECAUSE IT FALLS ON ITS FACE 5469 03:12:59,001 --> 03:13:01,000 NOT HAVING THE SCIENCE TO 5470 03:13:01,001 --> 03:13:03,000 UNDERPIN THE ARGUMENT. 5471 03:13:03,001 --> 03:13:05,000 EVEN IF THEY COULD MAKE THE 5472 03:13:05,001 --> 03:13:08,000 CASE ON THE SCIENCE, AND THEY 5473 03:13:08,001 --> 03:13:09,000 HAVEN'T AND CAN'T AND 31,000 5474 03:13:09,001 --> 03:13:10,000 SCIENTISTS HAVE SIGNED A 5475 03:13:10,001 --> 03:13:12,000 PETION THAT SAID THEY CAN'T 5476 03:13:12,001 --> 03:13:14,000 SUPPORT THE CONCLUSIONS OF 5477 03:13:14,001 --> 03:13:16,000 THESE CLIMATE CHANGE MODELS, 5478 03:13:16,001 --> 03:13:18,000 WE'RE GET MANAGEAND MORE THAT 5479 03:13:18,001 --> 03:13:20,000 WILL STEP FORWARD AND SAY, I 5480 03:13:20,001 --> 03:13:23,000 CAN'T TAKE YOU THERE, I CAN'T 5481 03:13:23,001 --> 03:13:26,000 BE WITH YOU, THESE ARE 5482 03:13:26,001 --> 03:13:28,000 TOP-NOTCH PROFESSIONALS, 5483 03:13:28,001 --> 03:13:29,000 METEOROLOGISTS, PHYSICISTS, 5484 03:13:29,001 --> 03:13:31,000 MORE OF THEM ARE PEELING OFF 5485 03:13:31,001 --> 03:13:32,000 AND WALKING AWAY, SAYING AL 5486 03:13:32,001 --> 03:13:36,000 GORE IS WRONG. 5487 03:13:36,001 --> 03:13:37,000 BUT EVEN IF HE WERE RIGHT IF 5488 03:13:37,001 --> 03:13:39,000 ONE STIPULATED THAT, AND I 5489 03:13:39,001 --> 03:13:40,000 DON'T FOR A MINUTE, BUT IF ONE 5490 03:13:40,001 --> 03:13:43,000 STIPULATED THE GLOBAL WARMING 5491 03:13:43,001 --> 03:13:45,000 MODELS WERE RIGHT THE ECONOMIC 5492 03:13:45,001 --> 03:13:47,000 CALAMITY THAT COMES FROM ADDING 5493 03:13:47,001 --> 03:13:49,000 TO THE COSTS OF ALL OF 5494 03:13:49,001 --> 03:13:50,000 AMERICA'S BUSINESS IS 5495 03:13:50,001 --> 03:13:52,000 INTOLERABLE AND THE BURDEN THAT 5496 03:13:52,001 --> 03:13:53,000 IT SHIFTS ONTO FUTURE 5497 03:13:53,001 --> 03:13:56,000 GENERATIONS AND WHAT IT DOES TO 5498 03:13:56,001 --> 03:13:58,000 OUR ECONOMY, OUR CULTURE AND 5499 03:13:58,001 --> 03:13:59,000 CIVILIZATION ARE INTOLERABLE, 5500 03:13:59,001 --> 03:14:03,000 MADAM SPEAKER. 5501 03:14:03,001 --> 03:14:06,000 AND SO LET THEM MAKE THE CASE 5502 03:14:06,001 --> 03:14:08,000 ONCE AS MUHAMMAD ALI SAID AFTER 5503 03:14:08,001 --> 03:14:11,000 HE FOUGHT JOE FRAZIER TO A TIE 5504 03:14:11,001 --> 03:14:13,000 IN 15 ROUNDS, WAS THIS, YOU 5505 03:14:13,001 --> 03:14:15,000 TIED HOW COME YOU'RE STILL THE 5506 03:14:15,001 --> 03:14:16,000 WORLD CHAMP, YOU'VE GOT TO 5507 03:14:16,001 --> 03:14:18,000 WHOOP THE CHAMP. 5508 03:14:18,001 --> 03:14:19,000 THE CHAMP IS FREE ENTERPRISE, 5509 03:14:19,001 --> 03:14:21,000 THE CHAMP IS SOUND SCIENCE, THE 5510 03:14:21,001 --> 03:14:23,000 CHAMP IS EMPIRICAL DATA. 5511 03:14:23,001 --> 03:14:24,000 THE CHAMP IS THE HISTORY OF THE 5512 03:14:24,001 --> 03:14:25,000 UNITED STATES SUCCEEDING BY 5513 03:14:25,001 --> 03:14:28,000 BELIEVING WE CAN ACHIEVE AND BY 5514 03:14:28,001 --> 03:14:29,000 MAKING LOGICAL CONCLUSIONS WITH 5515 03:14:29,001 --> 03:14:30,000 THE SCIENCE WE HAVE AND THE 5516 03:14:30,001 --> 03:14:32,000 ECONOMICS WE HAVE. 5517 03:14:32,001 --> 03:14:34,000 BY T WAY, IT'S FREE 5518 03:14:34,001 --> 03:14:36,000 ENTERPRISE NOT NATIONALIZATION 5519 03:14:36,001 --> 03:14:38,000 AND LET'S ADD AN EXTRA CZAR OR 5520 03:14:38,001 --> 03:14:40,000 TWO TO THIS LIST OF 22, LET'S 5521 03:14:40,001 --> 03:14:43,000 DO THE DENATIONALIZATION CZAR, 5522 03:14:43,001 --> 03:14:44,000 THE EXIT STRATEGY CZAR, PUT 5523 03:14:44,001 --> 03:14:48,000 THOSE TWO PEOPLE TOGETHER AND 5524 03:14:48,001 --> 03:14:50,000 MAYBE THEY CAN GET TO WORK TO 5525 03:14:50,001 --> 03:14:52,000 ELIMINATE THE OTHER CZARS AND 5526 03:14:52,001 --> 03:14:54,000 GET US BACK TO COMMON SENSE. 5527 03:14:54,001 --> 03:14:55,000 WITH THAT I YIELD BACK THE 5528 03:14:55,001 --> 03:14:57,000 BALANCE OF MY TIME. 5529 03:14:57,001 --> 03:14:59,000 THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE: THE GENTLEMAN'S TIME HAS EXPIRED. 5530 03:14:59,001 --> 03:15:00,000 DOES THE GENTLEMAN HAVE A 5531 03:15:00,001 --> 03:15:01,000 MOTION. 5532 03:15:01,001 --> 03:15:02,000 ? 5533 03:15:02,001 --> 03:15:03,000 MR. KING: I MOVE THE HOUSE DO 5534 03:15:03,001 --> 03:15:05,000 NOW ADJOURN. 5535 03:15:05,001 --> 03:15:06,000 THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE: THE 5536 03:15:06,001 --> 03:15:07,000 QUESTION SON THE MOTION TO 5537 03:15:07,001 --> 03:15:08,000 ADJOURN. 5538 03:15:08,001 --> 03:15:10,000 THOSE IN FAVOR SAY AYE. 5539 03:15:10,001 --> 03:15:11,000 THOSE OPPOSED, NO. 5540 03:15:11,001 --> 03:15:13,000 THE AYES HAVE IT. 5541 03:15:13,001 --> 03:15:15,000 THE MOTION IS AGREED TO.