dove a resident of athens texas passed away last month. he was a loving husband of 58 years to jo ann. he was proud father to daughter cynthia and mary lou. he was a devoted grandfather of cole, kyle, michelle, and great grandfather of kristen, preston, and daniel. finally, madam speaker, he was my dear friend. he was born in 1929 in texas and graduated from luisa high school. he proudly defended our nation in the korean war by serving in the united states army. when his service ended dove began what became a legacy of leadership in our free enterprise system and service to his community. he returned to work and eventually owned his own clothing business. he gave back to his small west texas community by shaping the live of younger men as the order of de malay dad and long time boy scout leader. he then moved to my hometown of dallas, texas, where he began a long career and corporate group insurance management. after that he set his sights heward on the pine trees and lakes of east texas and began a fire and casualty insurance business in

if you were a senior and going to athens to getting to the museum the more region gets in for free. using why can't i get in for free by guy increase says when our seniors go to norway they go for free but when they come to the united states there is no reciprocity. this is normal but when you are big and strong like us you say get over it but when you were little and battered around these things matter. this is saving face. so there's a lot of saving face pretty important when you are on top and powerful and dictate things you undervalue. i would like to get things done quick and a gorilla on japan real kind of way and you get over there and everything has to be slow and cumbersome and chat about this and shmooze here and i had to cruise a whole show and a week and a half and i wanted to get there soon but we had to make the big shot and he's from the ministry of guidance. [laughter] and that is the tourism department is the subset of and it was clear to me this is a different kind of organization and he made everything possible. they gave permission because they are concerned abou

dreier: i'm happenity pi to yield to my friend from athens, georgia, who would have had an amendment if we'd been allowed to debate. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized for one minute. mr. brun: i rise in strong opposition to this rule. i submitted six amendments to this bill and i'm outraged the democrats have denied my right to debate and receive a vote on any of them today. they not only denied my right but they are denying americans the ability for us to present -- to present amendments that will stop this outrageous spending. one of my amendments would have added funding to the 287g program which provides state and law enforcement with training and suns quent authorization to identify a sess and when appropriate detain offenders they encounter in their regular job as law enforcement. i had many amendments. but the democrats denied my constituents, denied the american people the ability to have my voice and others heard. they're stealing our grandchildren's future with this outrageous spending. we've got to stop it. the american people need to stand up and say no

those places that exceeded them. 500 years before christ these are are the guys who looted and burned athens and there is the first home of the shah of iran. it's going all the way back to this place and this is where you see a lot of tourists and what i was struck by is a lot of iranians because three come lear to connect with their roots will it's a cultural pilgrimage to remember and remember an important and proud culture that there will that's in their 19 more than muslim. they are not arabs will we are arabs will we are persians will we speak farsi will it's not the gulf of arabia will it's the persian gulf will get it straight will i do not want to radicalize these are people will these are people are as good as they come. they happen to have a different religion and culture than quo but it was clear to plea all of them are teachers and crafts people and people and, you know, it [applause] >> thank you will nice to be here. thanks. so i guess now we now have the q & a time. i don't know if there is the standard here. i know there are some iranians last year. i'm just doing ply best to

he was second to sean crawford in a 200 meters in the athens olympics. so an excellent field. six olympians and usain bolt. as bernard williams poses. the focus in lane 4 with crawford next to him. this is a new track in toronto. a little softer than the one he ran on in beijing. and of course it is slickened by rain. but usain bolt is set to step in. and we are set for the men's 100 meters. fastest time of the year, 9.94 by michael rogers last week in eugene, oregon. >> false starts in what appeared to be lane three or lane 8. you saw williams we saw that infamously in atlanta with lynnford christy. >> that was a tragedy. that was a farce that any athlete would do what he did in that race. but certainly set it up better for bailey. >> so bolt will reset. so 3 and 8 are charged with false starts. >> bolt loads himself into the starting blocks. >> another false start. this time, it is lane 6, marvin anderson. >> at least it appeared to be. it's got everyone has to run his own race. this is not man-to-man. this is avoiding that and executing as best you can. so marvin anderson i

the greeks on the hillsides of athens, and then our own founders. i mean, the more you find out about them the more fascinating they become. stop and think about this. we take the american revolution for granted these days. think what was bound to happen. i think a was thomas paine who said it will happen -- and island cannot rule a continent. but that was not necessarily the case. when america broke away from england which in that time was the most powerful country in the world it was the first time that a colony had ever broken away from another country. the first time. we forget that. no one thought it was a done deal. no one thought it would just happen, that it was bound to happen. it was a very difficult thing to do and had never been done before. yet it happened. i would like to talk to john adams and thomas jefferson and ask, did you really think it would happen? because they did not. they thought there was a good chance that they would all behanged and they made jokes about the one guy who signed the declaration of independence who was very

why does the morning family in athens, texas, when they need this money to put gas in their car, why do they have to pay for it? why does the lily family in coughman, texas, that need money to pay health care premiums on their insurance, why do they have to pay for it? i don't understand that, mr. chairman. and i don't think it's right. i don't think it is right at a time of economic crisis. we are losing small businesses by the thousands. the average small business is capitalized by $25,000. this $200,000 expenditure right here, that could mean the difference of saving eight small businesses and the jobs they represent in this great nation of ours. but instead it's going to be spent on the maine lobster research and in shore troll survey. no doubt it's important to maine. no doubt they are doing good work. but, mr. chairman, again is it worth borrowing money from the chinese, sending the bill to our children and grandchildren, and maybe being the first generation in america's history to leave the next generation with a lower standard of living? it's not fair. it's not smart. it's no

if you don't have that preclearance in south carolina, georgia, other than athens and atlanta, most of alabama, mississippi, and northern louisiana, above new orleans, you know, will there be the back sliding, you know, without that coercion? that doesn't make majority-minority districts, you know, the only real potential remedy, but to does make -- does provide some course for us. the only other thing i wanted to say is i deeply agree with richard on the whole question that we need a national law on registration, and voting, you know, to deal with some of the other problems, but i think we have still have problems in certain parts of the south. >> well, a couple of thoughts. first, i'm sympathetic to a part of what you're saying if that you're separating out issues of access to the ballot box to the issues of redistricting and part of the reason this debate gets so distorted and so polarized to use that word, is we have a hard time keeping those two phoenixes separate. i'm very much in favor of aggressive laws for protecting access to the ballot box. i'm actually willing to think abou

socrates, looking out across this country today, 3,000 years ago, they sat around and in places like athens, socrates, play tow, aristotle, carried -- plato, aristotle, they carried on conversations and shaped the age of reason. it was the foundation of science and technology. they built it into their culture to be proud of being able to rationalize both deductive reasoning and inductive reasoning, and that rationale, and even though they didn't get their elements right, what did they have earth, wind, fire, maybe some other elements like that that they used to argue with, they didn't have the tables to be able to put the atoms together and figure out the molecule, but they had a good rationale. the age of reason in greece is the foundation of western civilization. they took great pride in being able to think rationally. if they would transpose themselves, fast forward through history 3,000 years, race through the age of enlightenment in western europe and primarily in france and the dawn of the industrial revolution here and how technology has flourished and we've gone from an industrial e

paul broun, also a family practitioner from athens and augusta area, there was a letter sent within the last couple of days addressed to our leaders, to our leadership in the house, to speaker nancy pelosi, and our minority leader, john boehner, also to majority leader of the senate, harry reid and senate minority reeder, mitch mcconnell, the national coalition on benefits, madam speaker, talking about the opposition to a public plan. the strong opposition to a public plan. i don't have time to stand here and read the names, madam speakerings, of all of these firm -- madam speaker, of all of these firms, but just to mention a few, wal-mart stores, xerox corporation, well point incorporated, wire howser company, national restaurant association, bank of america, national association of health underwriters, signa corporation, chrysler l.l.c., nike. i could go on and on. that's just maybe 5% of the number of companies that are part of this national coalition on benefits that are so opposed to this idea of a public plan which our colleagues at the 30-something group just an hour ago touted s

you go there you got to remember 500 years before christ, these were the guys that looted and burned athens, right and this was the home of the first shah, the shah of iran we know celebrated his 2,500 year of the shah in 1970s with that party where onassis flew in and so on and this is where you see a lot of tourists and what i was struck by you see a lot of iranians. because they come here to connect with their roots. it's a cultural pilgrimage to go there and remind themselves what an important and powerful and proud culture they are. that goes back 700 years before mohammed. that's in their dna more than islam, i think. these are not arabs. they're quick to tell you, we're not arabs. you westerners think we're arabs because we're muslims and most arabs are muslims but we are persians. we speak farsi. it's not the gulf of arabia, it's the persian gulf. get it straight. [applause] >> and, you know, one thought i had is i just -- i do not want to radicalize these people. these people are as good as they come when it comes to what they aspire for their children and so on. they happen to hav

broun: s south of athens georgia. and i represent northeast georgia. if you put the date of this week on the next bar going back to what bachmann was just talking about, these dealerships are shutting the doors. dealerships may have 20 employees, 30 or 40 employees. i have met with a number of them. there is a dealer in my district, right up on the north carolina line, that called me this week and he got one of those pink slips. he is a customer of the auto maker and that's what these dealersr customers. and what is happening, this administration is forcing the big three auto makers to fire their customers and that makes no economic sense. but this dealer doesn't do any floor planning. he doesn't have to borrow money from the auto maker to put the cars on his lot. he owns them all. he's paid for them all. he owns his dealership. he doesn't owe anything to the car maker, but they have fired him. and in doing so, this administration has fired all the employees. and so the next bar for all these dealerships, i think it's 780 some odd just this week that a