sutphen of ohio. >> thank you, mr. chairman. there are so many things i would like to pursue but i would like to start, mr. henderson, you said gm has an appeal process referred about that and i just want to ask why do you have an appeal process? >> at process was initially certainly intended to be dated driven up the data isn't always right which is why i think we felt certainly compelled to have the review process which would reconsider facts that may not have been clear in the data and that process is born out with the right thing to do because there were cases we were wrong. >> would you say it was a matter of fairness? >> yes. we thought it was the fair thing to do. >> and in those decisions where your decisions were overturned on the appeals, can you tell us, you know, the examples -- we heard the one about the devastation of the bridge that stopped the business from going forward. can you tell other examples of what was overturned? >> recently i don't have the full knowledge of the 45 but another recent example is we ha

in fact, the states of ohio, indiana and michigan, ohio and michigan have come in for national emergency grants have had used those. minnesota came in for a national emergency grant to support a pooling of dealers all of whom were relatively small in size but in aggregate the total effect was fairly significant in terms of the layoffs. so they did come in for a national emergency grant. so there are a variety of different mechanisms. the sba is one. agriculture has ways to support rural facilities, getting credit out to them. and so there are a variety of different mechanisms that we are already looking at an obviously where tried to monitor going for. i have been told from small business and meditation upon them as they got in the last couple months. i think there are some positive signs, but clearly not out of the woods yet. >> thank you. >> think you, mr. chairman. thank you both for being here. my temperature got a little up when some of the revisionist statements about some of the past and i didn't get to the point. i do want to thank you guys for your service and even though i know

. $35,000 miners lost their job in the state of ohio. what will this do to the average american? here's an example. democrats came to power, a gallon of gas was $2.33. now it's $2.66. add the cap and trade cacks, add 77 cents, it's $3.43 for a gallon of gas. that's ok in the big city, but in rural america, where you have to drive long distances to go to school to go to the store. why do we have the rich country -- rich places in this country attack the rural poor. how dare you do that to my constituents. i yield back the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from california. mr. waxman: madam speaker, i want to yield to the gentleman from new york, mr. wiener, who has been a very constructive and important member of our committee and played a very central role in having us recognize the essential part that transportation efforts can play in reducing carbon emissions. i yield a minute and a half. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized for a minute and a half. mr. weiner: we'll be recognized for generations to come. the e.p.a. will have the abilit

the fact of the matter is as the senator from ohio just indicated, we are wasting tens and tens of billions of dollars every year in bureaucracy, in billing, in excessive c.e.o. salaries through private health insurance companies. and at the very least -- at the very least, the people of this country are demanding panned we must bring forth a strong -- are demanding and we must bring forth a strong, underline strong, public option within any health care reform program that we develop. mr. brown: i thank the senator from vermont. and it's pretty clear and i think this congress is going to do the right thing. the president when he met with us last week, as he promised in this campaign, was strongly if may never of purchasing insurance from the medicare look-alike plan or private plans or either one or keeping what they already have. the president has spoken strongly on it for months, the majority of this congress wants to do the same and i'm hopeful that is what we do in the months ahead. i yield the floor and i suggest the absence of a quorum. the presiding officer: the clerk will call the r

your line of questioning with one community in ohio dealing with job loffs losses and budget cuts on a city by city level. >> these mayors are facing a difficult situation. they've relied on the tax revenue, very hefty tax revenue from these auto plants, the taxes the companies pay for years. all of a sudden they don't have it. how do you continue to maintain your schools, how do you still hire police officers and firefighters? that's difficult. and the administration hasn't really addressed that specifically. they have addressed and moved pretty quickly to address the worker concerns. unemployment, trade adjustment assistance, they made some announcements this week. they added about another $1.7 million just to help those workers in twinsberg, hoy. that t mayor says that's great but we have a tough time here. and they have that huge facility. the city doesn't even know how to market. they would like to bring in somebody new to do something with it but it's owned by chrysler and the old chrysler, not the new fee at chrysler. and so how do they negotiate? with whom? they're asking all

the historic significance of the location of the game in cincinnati, ohio. the speaker pro tempore: pursuant to the rule, the gentleman from virginia, mr. scott and the gentleman from texas, mr. gohmert each will control 20 minutes. the chair recognizes the gentleman from virginia. mr. scott: i ask that all members have five legislative days to revise and extend their remarks and include extraneous material in the legislation under consideration. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. mr. scott: i yield myself such time as i may consume. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized. mr. scott: this resolution recognizes the historic significance of the civil rights baseball game in cincinnati, ohio. i want to commend my colleague the gentleman from cincinnati, mr. driehaus, for introducing this legislation. the civil rights baseball game is an important event and deserves to be recognized by the house of representatives. the third annual civil rights baseball game will be played in cincinnati, ohio the great american baseball ballpark on june 20

the ohio river valley. but the potomac unfortunately was really not up to the task, and not the way new york's mohawk river makes a relatively easy path through a break in the appalachian mountain jane. and interestingly in 1817, just before new york decides to go ahead with the canal, a bill goes through. a bill goes through congress to create -- a bill called the bonus bill which would have provided federal money for state infrastructure projects. and madison, james madison on his last day in office and congress had been working toward this bill thinking that madison wanted this sort of thing because he had spoken about it in an inaugural address at the previous year. madison vetoes the bill on his last day in office. arguably, he says, on constitutional grounds that the federal government had no business using the federal treasury to support state project are obviously things have changed considerably since then, but at the time some botnet argument but people in new york thought the real reason for this

just a few short weeks ago james martin hall, city of canton, ohio, firefighter captain of 15 years sacrificed and died in the line of duty after suffering a fatal heart attack just hours after serving a volunteer fire shift at the greentown volunteer fire department. captain hall was a member of the city of canton's fire force for more than 20 years. captain hall clearly moved our community. joining the thousands of friends and neighbors and loved ones who lined the streets of canton for his funeral procession deeply moved me. this man was a respected member of our city who touched and saved many lives, including a child he performed c.p.r. on after rescuing him from a burning home in canton. captain hall's peers called and said to him as they bid him farewell, if you needed to be rescued, captain hall and his crew would be the crew you wanted coming for you. captain hall was a hero in our community and in his home. being a father of four small children, it was exceptionally emotional to witness his three daughters stand up at his funeral and say, we're going to miss you, daddy. their words s

during the course of the decade in ohio when republicans control the process there was an initiative to take this issue and put it into the hands of an independent commission in a bipartisan way. democrats of course supported it because there were other partou. now the democrats have taken over and you see their interest in coming up with an independent commission. that has really waned. republicans seem to be more interested. host: here is north carolina on the independent line. caller: i just wanted to talk about how i think it is unconstitutional that democrats, when they have power in office, there will just keep wanting more power. there will obviously take up more districts and when the republicans do not have the power there will be put behind. host: do it you see that happening? guest: it is definitely true in north carolina for the democrats control the governor's chair, the house, and the senate. when you have a monopoly like that on state power you really have the opportunity as a majority party to draw the lines almost any way you see fit as long as they do not violate fe

guest: that's an interesting topic because ohio is a very important state with a lot of congressional seats. as the caller pointed out, republicans control process there. the redistricting there is done by an independent commission for the state legislature and the districts were gerrymandered by republicans. interestingly enough, during the course of the decade in ohio, when republicans did control the process, there was an initiative to take this issue and put it into the hands of an independent commission that would, and a bipartisan way, democrats supported it because they were the party of power. republicans were against it because they were the party in power. now, because the democrats of taken over, you see the democrats lost interest in coming up with an independent commission has waned and republicans seem to be more interested. guest: a call from raleigh, n.c. on the independence line. caller: i think it is unconstitutional that democrats, when they have power in office, they will keep wanting more power. so they're going to take up more districts. more districts and when t

in ohio the two largest insurance companies in my state account for 50% of the market in some cities it's literally 89% of the market. this bill -- we know that a public option but again discipline the market better in a way that wide-open competition would do. finally, mr. chairman, this bill would give providers the tools to improve the way health care is delivered in the country. improvements will help americans with chronic conditions to manage those conditions, improvements that can dramatically reduce medical errors and overcome on justifiable disparities and health care outcomes. these reforms drop in sight and inspiration from the work already being done by dedicated and individuals within the health care system. individuals like dr. derek who heads the cancer center at the cleveland clinic. he's devoted himself

if we had passed that, i think some of the auto plants of northern ohio and michigan would still be making the great models that are in this issue. we think this would be good for the industry, but the institute of medicine has noted that each year about 18,000 people die prematurely and unnecessarily because of not having health insurance. since this magazine issue, about twice as many people have died from not having health insurance as be killed in wwii and all of our conflicts since. it is past time to do something. this will be one of the great converses as of all time if you can pass this bill. we think the draft bill is such a bill. we are pleased to endorse its principles. we assume there will be some more savings and progressive of financing to make it budget neutral and sustainable. this is a bill that would bring health security and peace of mind, affordable and comprehensible -- and copper has of care to american families. -- and comprehensive care to american families. baby care was mentioned. that is a benefit on page 25. the other doctors who take on medicaid patients -- for

texas, university of california, usc, colombia, arizona, arizona state, missouri, university of miami ohio, and we found 150 courses that's blanton the obvious things are being indoctrinated if they read about poverty they read leftists about poverty, they read about i hate to tell the older folks like myself if you haven't been on a campus they don't even read books now teachers show movies, films and glass, show if the subject is global warming you have seen al gore's film and may have seen it in french class. i had a student at penn state that complained about being shown michael moore's "sicko" in french class. here's a sample indoctrination course. at the university of california, santa cruz is a course which is described in the official university catalog in these exact words. the goal of this seminar is to learn how to organize a revolution. and then it tells you it is an anticapitalist revolution. now the subject of revolution is totally appropriate for an academic setting if it is taught the approach is academic. that is what is a revolution and as it happens there are people

an ohio minister in november of last year, the murder of an usher and guest during a children's play in a tennessee church in july of last year, the murder of four family members in a church in louisiana in may of 2006, and the shooting of a worshiper outside his synagogue in florida in october, 2005, not to mention the attempted bombings of two synagoguing in riverdale, the bronx, just a few weeks ago. whether these acts of violence target one individual or an entire community of faith, we must all join together and speak out against them. i urge all my colleagues to stand up for those who would bring their terror into a house of worship and those who seek to change american law by violence and unconstitutional means to express their -- by supporting this resolution condemning the murder of dr. george tiller and extending the condolences of this house to dr. tiller's family. i urge my colleagues to support this important resolution, and i reserve the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from north carolina rise? mr. coble: i rise in suppor

and kosciuszko was also given 500 acres in ohio as a result of his being a general in the american revolution. so he had his own land. he could have come and live in ohio on that land as well. the reason i think he didn't return it because he always held out hope that he would be able to free the presence of bold. that was his obsession. not only did he want to freed american slaves but he wanted to into feudalism, frieda serves and freed dozens of europe. >> how much would that be in current dollars and what happened with the acres in ohio? [laughter] >> does anybody have a calculi are on them? [laughter] >> i don't know how much that would be but i think it would be more than a bucketful of money and the land in ohio, kosciuszko tried to lease it. he asked jefferson, he said fines and farmer who's interested in leasing my land, figure out what the going rate is and then give it to him for 1% less than that. some french farmer went and tried to farm it for a while but didn't have success. and as for the money, that he had in the american -- that he earned in the american revolution, unfort

missouri, university of miami ohio, and we found 150 courses that it's blatantly obvious that students are being indoctrinated. if they read about poverty, they read leftist about poverty. if at the read about global -- well, i hate to tell the older folks here like myself, if you haven't been on a campus, they don't even read books now that teachers show movies, films in class. so if the subject is global warming, you've seen al gore's film and you may have seen it in a french class or i had a student at penn state that complained about being shown michael moore's sicko in a french language class. the chairman of the department thought that was perfectly appropriate. here's a sample indoctrination course. at the university of california santa cruz is a course which is described in the official university catalog in these exact words. the goal of this seminar is to learn how to organize a revolution. and then it tells you what's an anti-capitalist revolution. now, the subject of revolution is perfectly appropriate for an academic setting, if it's taught -- if the approach is academic,

the united states of america from galion, ohio and akron, ohio, and junctiontown, ohio, dayton -- youngstown, ohio, because c.e.o.'s lobbied congress down the hall to give trade advantages to the communist party dictatorship in china. we have paid a price. the chinese people paid an even more important price. i'm proud to join with senator inhofe to introduce with him a resolution acknowledging the revolution of the tianamen crackdown. it demands that china release its political and religious prisoners. today, mr. president, we look back on the tianamen protest, we honor those who died in the struggle for freedom. let's remember that brave, unnamed protester who 20 years ago believed that one person can change the world through peace an nonviolence. think what a whole nation can do, mr. president. thank you. the presiding officer: the clerk will call the roll. quorum call: the presiding officer: the senator from north carolina. a senator: mr. president, i ask unanimous consent to vitiate the quorum call. the presiding officer: without objection, so ordered. mr. burr: mr. president, i ask una

host: jonathan on the behind for republicans out of columbus, ohio. go ahead. caller: my point, mr. ambassador , why can't we just let them run their own problems? they can solve their problems, and how dare you now tell the iranians about democracy? why can't we let them solve their own problems? host: thanks for your call. guest: in those cases we supported democratic movements but you're right, it is for the iranian people to solve this. all my comments over the last two weeks, that's what i have said. but at the same time, it's right to compare what is happening in iran with the universal standard for the exercise of civil and mill rights, which the international community has agreed on, and violence or suppression of peaceful protests, arresting of politicians who claim that the elections should be investigated, many fan fess tations of what the -- many manifestations of what the iranians have been doing don't match up to those standards. the important thing is to know whether if we express a view hike that in response to pressures within our own democracy that we take a stand,

kosciuszko was also given 500 acres in ohio as a result of his being a general in the american revolution, so we had his own land. he could have lived in ohio on that land as well and i think the reason he didn't return i think was he always held out hope that he would be able to free the peasants. not only did he want to free american slaves but he went to end feudalism, free the serfs and free the peasants of europe. >> you mentioned kosciuszko-- offered $12,000. how much would it be in current dollars and what happened to the acres and ohio? [laughter] >> does anybody have a calculator on them? [laughter] i don't know how much that would be, but i think it would be more than a bucket full of money. and diland in ohio, kosciuszko tried to lease it. jeppesen, he said find some farmer who is interested in leasing my land, figure out what the going rate is and give it to him for 1% less than that. some french farmer went and tried to farr for a while but did not have success and as for the money that had in the american, that the earned in the american revolution,

a lot of providers in kansas and i'm sure, ohio, are concerned about their isolation and want to make sure they can access colleagues and consultation. and i think that the steps that are included in this legislation that pay for student loans and encourage additional incentives for primary care and family care doctors alsonhance the workforce in rural as well as urban areas. >> and i just have a couple more minutes. i want to just make a comment as a follow-up. you mentioned telemedicine and i guess i want to take this opportunity to explain to you as a member of the administration, just how important it is to access broad band and high speed intranet. one other area that i want to talk about has to do with the geographic disparity is dealing with chronic disease. coming from appellation, one of the things that we see is a higher rate than normal in diabetes. -- coming from happily sh

this is based out of tehran. dayton, ohio. kathleen honor democrats line. caller: jane hamsher, is incredible. i encourage your public to go to that blog. i have read comments from policy analyst. seymour said that congress had passed funding, condoleezza rice was part of that, i believe, to send into iran to undermine the president bridget present government and four men dead student movement there. -- and undermined the student movement there. i read everything that he has to say. i would hope c-span will have them on to talk specifically about this issue. host: another photo from "the associated press." this is out of iran yesterday. the accompanying story talked about what this means in iran. obama's core message of democracy and change dovetails with the hopes of iranian reformers. obama was also elected on the form of moralizing rhetoric. speaking of which, if you go to twitter, they have a special section that looks at the i run postelection and gets the comments of it. -- they have a special section that looks at the iran election. caller: i just wa

too often, as randall of west liberty, ohio, a small town in our state, as randall can explain, rural communities have a difficult time attracting even basic care. randall oversees ohio's only rural training track in family medicine. while his program has received awards for training excellence, he struggles to attract enough doctors for their rural residency. randall wrote to me explaining the disincentives and misperceptions he has to overcome to attract the care needed to serve rural ohio. a public health insurance option will not neglect rural areas. insurance companies often leave rural areas. insurance companies bail out or the insurance companies that stay are so small in number that there's no real competition and they can charge far too high rates. instead, the public option would be consistently available in all markets and in rural eastern oregon, in rural western and southeastern ohio. i stand ready to work with my colleagues to design a public insurance option as part of overall health care reform. the stories of millions of americans behind spiraling costs of health care

rangel: the gentleman from, ohio, a member of the committee, i would like to yield one minute to him. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized for one minute. mr. ryan: i thank the chairman and we hear a lot from the other side that if we pass this bill, all these jobs are going to go to china. if we pass this bill, gas is going to go up higher. the jobs already went to china. that's what this bill is all about. come to youngstown, ohio and see how many jobs have gone to china. this bill is about revitalizing manufacturing and your energy policy has been implemented and gave us $4 a gallon gas here. and we have a $700 billion transfer in wealth from this country to states that want to fly planes into our building. and this bill is about creating programs, like the green bank, that will loan $750 billion to companies that want to create alternative energy resources. this bill has in it, $30 billion for auto suppliers, medium and small auto suppliers to refurbish and retool so they can sell these products into these windmill companies. everyone is talking about losing jobs.

, mained great state of tennessee. intellectual property protection should have been provided for those. many of those innovators of tomorrow are in this program we are celebrating. it is very sad the party of punishment does not provide the protection those young men and women need to be the innovators of tomorrow. i thank the gentleman for yielding and i yield to him the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the chair recognizes the gentleman from new york. mr. tonko: yes, mr. speaker, does the gentleman from pennsylvania have further speakers? the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized. mr. platts: i have one additional speaker. mr. tonko: i reserve my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from new york reserves the balance of his time. the gentleman from pennsylvania is recognized. mr. platts: i yield five minutes to the gentleman from ohio, mr. latta. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized for five minutes. mr. latta: thank you, mr. speaker. i appreciate the gentleman for yiel

in the past year there have been 105 cases of salmonella reported in ohio and sadly three deaths resulting from the most recent peanut butter strain. a constituent of mine who unfortunately died from salmonella poisoning -- a contract in a nursing facility, and just in april of this year and cuyahoga county there were three incidents of illness from e. coli and another death this time a seven year-old girl. so this is an urgent issue for the people i am so honored to represent. i mentioned that i introduced to protect consumers act which was a bill that would give the fda mandatory recall authority and i'm happy to see that it is a part of this comprehensive bill. and i would just like to get a little bit more of your opinion about the need for a recall authority and this bill of chorus seeks to remedy the situation of the fda not having a mandatory recall authority by laying out to different types of recall authority is your first that the fda believe certain food because adverse health consequences are that that they can recall -- require recall, but in that scenario fda must first of th

all of us, our colleagues from detroit and michigan and ohio, senator brown, all of us are being adversely affected by job losses, some more than others. we want to help our communities during times of adjustment. what an initial tools will you be asking of us, be helpful to perform your job? wonderful things to do. i suspect they want to know what kind of help is they're as they try to find a new economic path for themselves and their families. we need to get some initial specificity as to what you are asking of us, how to minimize the economic blow the community is facing. >> let me try to adjust your 3 questions. in terms of the equity stake, let me answer this way. the size of this state and determination was done through the following process. the first thing that happened is the companies put forward a business plan which we vigorously reviewed and challenge, he eventually came to a business plan and through that, a financial need was determined. we saw how much money they needed to right size their business to take the necessary steps. in the case of general motors, to pay off the s

they were in places like ohio in the 2004 election or florida in 2000, in which only a few of the counties are actually covered by this portion of the act. so the problematic areas in which there were disputes about access to the ballot, counting the votes and the like, had changed since 1982. now when congress sat down in 2006 to revisit all of this, i assumed that it would make some changes in this regime, however modest. to reflect some of these developments. and much to my surprise, and i think to the surprise of many voting rights experts and academics, congress changed absolutely nothing from the regime that had been in place since 1982, and in fact, that regime largely went back to 1975. congress didn't change what parts of the country were covered or not covered. it didn't change the approach to defining when racially polarized voting was a problem. it extended the statute not for a shorter term, as it had done in some earlier iterations of section 5, such as for seven years, but it extended it for another 25 years, to 2031. and i saw this as i have said if print, as congress throw

., and you are more likely to see a news report on a factory being shut down in ohio because of chinese competition than to get a story about how the workers in that chinese competition are treated. you could do news stories on both. host: brooklyn, new york. michael pre-dawn. -- michael. you are on. caller: first a comment. it we are trying to get some peace in the middle east situation. it is probably one of the most failing questions of our time policy-wise. .

i'm a senator from ohio. we are spending money to get out of this economic mess but we cannot allow that to be an excuse to continue our reckless fiscal path. we have to start finding ways to work harder and smarter, to do more with less, and it doesn't take an economist to realize that our course is unsustainable. i know it. the obama administration knows it. the american people know it. and so does the rest of the world. i just read a story to my granddaughters, "the emperor has no clothes," and i think that that's where we're at today. everyone understands that we have a real problem in terms of our unsustainable debt and the crisis that we have, but for some reason, we fail to recognize that we have the problem. according to a poll conducted by the peterson foundation, america's concern for the growing national debt takes second only -- only -- to their concern for their own jobs. the american people know that we cannot continue to ignore our ballooning national debt and our continued deficit spending, wh

., on the matter of politics, society and the such. host: back to the phones. cincinnati, ohio. d on the line for the democrats. caller: how are you? host: go ahead. caller: there is a lot of talk in the house and senate about what the united states should say vis-a-vis the elections in iran. these point out to me that there isn't much we really need to say. we said all we need to say in last year's election. and when barack obama was campaigning for president and he talked about the power of one to make a difference in this country. i don't think he was just talking about the american people, i think he was talking to the people around the world to be free. this point sounds so ridiculous for the united states to go into a country and try to force democracy down the throats of people at the end of a gun. democratic has to be legitimate and sustained. i want to know how your guest feels about this and whether or not the young people in iran are taking a cue of what happened last year to the use of their media and the internet? host: before you go, i want to get your response to

across ohio 47 chrysler dealerships are being eliminated in the ohio auto dealers association estimates and 130 gm dealerships may be cut. the impacts of these decisions on families and local economies will be substantial. and we heard from the distinguished gentleman from pennsylvania and i associate myself with his remarks. on average 43 people work at a dealership in ohio where the average pay is $44,000 a year. with these closings, millions of dollars of income will disappear with the jobs and those jobs are lost on top of the 2,000 auto manufacturing jobs that will be eliminated by the closing of the chrysler twinsburg plant, the gm mansfield metal center plant and gm's power train unit in parma. these dealers and their employees, they're not merely statistics. they have families. they have mortgages. and dare i have say they have car payments. and in the time that i've been in congress we've been fighting. we've been fighting hard to try to keep those jobs in america. because if people do not have good jobs in the united states, they're not going to have any money to buy things. a

they drove clear across ohio, the second night of the trip, and there's no mention where they stopped for dinner, what they did, nothing. so there are gaps in there and i wonder if they didn't do some -- either do some sight-seeing or at the very least finally got to enjoy a dinner in peace and quiet. >> after mr. truman sold the family farm, did your research indicate how he acquired the present site of the library financially and how he -- how he picked that site? >> yeah, i believe the city of independence actually donated the land to the truman -- you know, the truman librarian incorporated after the farm was sold and that's how it came to be in independence. one more? don't run. don't run.s/e >> yeah, i have a question. there is a building just near 39th and wyoming that has a sign on it that harry s. truman owned it or officed there. do you know anything about that? >> i don't know, i have to confess. does anybody here know 39th and wyoming. it's right near there -- >> i don't know that he owned property apart from the house. >> he owned an apartment building just south of 39th.

pingree: i yield two minutes to the the gentleman from ohio, member of the committee on armed services, mr. driehaus. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized for two minutes. mr. driehaus: thank you, mr. speaker and thank you for this opportunity. there has been much talk about fiscal responsibility on the floor of this house. and i come to the floor to support the rule and support the bill. and i support it because of the inclusion of the joint stryke fighter program. when we talk about the program, it is through competition that we achieve fiscal responsibility. since fiscal year 2006, $2.5 billion has been provided for the development of the joint stryke fighter program. and last month, president obama signed the recquistions reform act into law. this supported an increased use of competition in defense procurement. the expected cost of the primary joint stryke fighter propulsion system has increased by $1.8 billion while the competitive engine program has not experienced any cost growth at all. in fact, the contractor has indicated a willingness to negotiate on fixed p

, in northeast ohio, i talk about the five p's of health care. the five p's. the fact that we need to cover all people. now, when we talk about covering all people, we need to understand that by not doing so, it's actually costing all of us paying into the system more money. those 46 million uninsured or underinsured people who can't seek access to their doctor because their health care effectively ended when they got their pink slip at their job because they can't afford a cobra payment, they are uninsured or underinsured and when they use the hospital emergency room as their primary care physician, they're costing all of us paying into the system four or five times more by using the hospital room, the emergency room, as their primary care physician. we need to cover all people. and to those americans who might be listening tonight, we need to understand that the american people -- the american taxpayer right now is paying to make sure that every man, woman and child in iraq has access to universal health care coverage. now, it's inconsistent th

i yield to the gentleman from ohio. >> i ask unanimous consent to put into the record two sets of documents we received with subpoenas containing the e-mails and excerpts of documents i refer to today. >> without objection, so ordered. >> thank you. >> i yield two minutes to the gentlemanwoman from ohio. >> thank you, chairman and i thank chairman bernanke from his endurance. we all have to do our jobs. i would like to insert record into the information, background between bank of america, merrill lynch and black rock and i. >> without objection so ordered. >> i thank the chairman. i would like to ask chairman bernanke to submit from the record for the fed how did bank of america end up owning 49% of black rock. in 2004, the f.b.i. warned the public and administration mortgage fraud was headed toward an epidemic level in our country. the fed did nothing. now the fed under your watch has hired black rock, a firm owned 49% by bank of america, headed by a man who invented the subprime instrument when it first bought them and later as black rock who traded billions of dollars of these securitie

i yield to the gentleman from ohio. >> unanimous consent, i asked to put into the record two sets of documents we received with subpoenas containing the e-mails and excerpts of documents i referred to today. >> without objection so ordered. >> i yield to the gentleman from ohio, congress, captor. >> i thank the congress and for his endurance. i would like to insert into the record information and background on the relationship between bank of america, merrill lynch and black rock. >> without objection. >> i would like to ask churn and bernanke to submit from the fed how did bank of america and up owning 49% of black rock? in 2004 the fbi warned the public and the administration mortgage fraud was headed toward an epidemic level in our country. the fed did nothing. now the fed under your watch has hired black rock, a firm owned 49% by bank of america headed by a man who invented this up prime instrument when it first in boston and later at black rock who treated billions of dollars of these securities to freddie mac and fannie mae over the last decade. i quote a sentence and we will p

. >> rob: well you and i at, what, the ohio broadcasters hall of fame dinner? >> johnny: um, that's right. you were there introducing an old buddy. >> rob: yeah, dan patrick and he went into ohio, ohio state or just ohio. >> johnny: just ohio. >> rob: and you also went in that night and that's when you and i first met. >> johnny: and you said to me, i believe "please fit out of the way, i'm trying to get to the buffet. >> rob: get out of here. that's funny. that was in my bigger days. i was following a lot of cree acontinue. trying to look as buff as i could. >> johnny: count is 2-1, you were a little larger, 2-1 to dukes. two out in the bottom of the first. catches the outside corner for a strike, the count is even. >> rob: well when i took this job and started putting on some suits and things like that, a couple years ago, i had to have them all taken in because i was about 30 pounds heavier when i was lifting every day. >> johnny: what did you play at? what was your top weight? >> 225. but back when you saw me i was about 270. >> johnny: hadn't missed too ma

in ohio the two largest insurance companies account for 58% of the market. i didn't take the antitrust because i didn't go to law school. when you've got two companies like the presiding officer did, obviously, because he's smiling. he knows this better than i do. when you've got two companies that have 58% of the market, that's not exactly competition. even worse than that, in some ohio cities, as i would assume in some communities' home state of illinois. it's the two largest insurance companies account for 89% of the market. that's not exactly healthy competition. bring in a public option, compete with these two companies. their rates would come down. their salaries would probably come down for top executives. no more multimillion-dollar salaries. costs would be cut. they would be leaner and meaner. they would be a better insurance company as a result. finally, mr. president, this bill gives providers new tools to improve the way health care is delivered in this country, improvements that help americans with chronic conditions manage those conditions, imp

some of those people reside in my district, in middletown, ohio, where a.k. steel is headquartered. they make steel the old-fashioned way. they bring in iron-ore, coal, they bring in limestone. you get it hot enough, you've got steel. the cost of their steel will increase 30% to 40% if this bill were to pass. and in a time when we're trying to help the american automobile industry get back on its feet, the last thing they're going to do is pay 30% or 40% more for their steel. so what are they going to do? they're going to bring it in from china. they'll bring it in from india, who are not burdened under this regulatory scheme, nor are they burdened under our current environmental regulations. so what happens is high energy jobs in america are going to get shipped overseas. exactly the -- at exactly the wrong time. the american people sent us here to help this economy, to help get them back to work. this is the biggest job-killing bill that has ever been on the floor of the house of representatives, right here, this bill. and i don't think that's what the american people want. but if

the presiding officer: the senator from ohio. mr. brown: i ask unanimous consent to dispense with the quorum. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. brown: thank you, madam president. i appreciate the comments of the senator from tennessee. i don't know how the vote will come out at 550 today but i know it -ps infrastructure -- come out at 5:today but we want the government to return wholly to the private sector, that this was an extraordinary situation i represent, as senator from tennessee represents. a lot of auto workers, in this case union and nonunion alike. i think all those companies that, certainly g.m. and chrysler, workers and people in the community want this industry back on its feet and want it run by the private -- by the private investors, as it should be. madam president, i ask unanimous consent to place my following remarks in a different place in the "congressional record." the presiding officer: without objection. mr. brown: thank you, madam president. today marks the 40th anniversary when the cuyahoga rive

the economy is the focus of a number of stories. inside a "the new york times," a piece from cleveland, ohio. "monday is the 40th anniversary of the kite a holder river -- cloy of the river -- cuyahoga river

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, ohio named frank. he matched an early kind of person i was hoping to meet on the back roads. two use the old indian american way of speaking ople t t of the seventh generation beyond it seems so american we are not doing too good of a job of at adulate. can see it in washington, individuals, you can see it on wall street, god bless you mr. rosewater he is a character that says a philosophy is grab much too much or you would get nothing at all. and i think sometimes we in this country might do well to remember that. i was looking for people were thinking beyond themselves and want to leave something behind, people who were concerned about their legacy. i want to leave something behind i don't want them to say he just use up energy and lift it -- left a big carbon footprint i have a feeling all of you would like to do that to. we can do with family, children, grandchildren but they eventually die what can we leave behind that goes beyond family? how many times per day do think of your great great-grandpa