[applause] [applause] ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ [applause] moi [applause] [applause] >> we're honored to present to you in this eric m. warburg award for your outstanding leadership in german american readership. thank you. [applause] [applause] [laughter] [speaking german] it. >> translator: senator hagel, excellence a, ladies and gentlemen, it is a great honor and privilege for me to receive this award here today and let me say that i am truly grateful to the atlantik-brucke for this. i will understand this and see this as an encouragement to continue to do everything i can in order to work for a transatlantic relations. i am very glad to be here today in this is a very important place and these are very interesting times. and recently there was an event held which reminded all of us that 400 years ago the first germans emigrated to the united states and we as germans as i may say so nice federal chancellor that 8 million americans today are still able to trace back their routes to germany, there are still 17% of the american people who have german ances

the fed even gaigave it more moy than what ken lewis had originally asked for. the disconnection between the analysis of the fed about what went wrong at bank of america and what the fed was willing to do about it is significant for all of us and is the subject of today's hearing. if the bank of america/merrill

forces the quds force and along with that the ministry of intelligence services and security -- the mois -- is very active both very active outside the borders. guerrilla warfare has been incorporated in some areas and in particular in the naval area which i will discuss and a second. passim defenses, air defenses and things like that that seemed to be a key part of their defense especially a key points such as the capital and their nuclear assets and that kind of thing and they seem to be putting a great deal of emphasis on those kind of things about the defense industry appears to be expanding, they are putting out equipment in almost every area of military capability. however, there are some key areas where they do fall short in their ability to meet the doctrine. iranian forces despite the exercises that are supposed to show denigration are not integrated in these are a set piece oftentimes in the exercises are. their readiness abyss suspect and logistics' really don't have the capability of supporting for example all major incursions' into neighboring countries because of their poor

there are tremendous problems with the statistics, especially in 1998 and 2000 as far as, you know, moi the population of native americans, what it was in the census -- you know, with a population non-americans. -- with the population of native americans. >> one of the very, very key issues is this issue on data collection. aside from some of the challenges that are mentioned with the census bureau, one of the major challenges we face and the tools we have, many of the service but the department of and human services as well as state organizations and state public health agencies use to capture what is the health status, many times, we miss important subsegments of our population, such as the native american population, as well as

one minute to a valued member of our committee on natural resources, the gentleman from american is a moi what, mr. faleomavaega. mr. faleomavaega: i want to thank chairman rahall and ranking member hastings, members of the committee for bringing this important resolution to the floor. i also want to commend both gentlemen, congressman klein and congressman pence, as co-chair of our caucus on anti-semitism. the memory of tom lantos eadvocates all the understanding that we have and appreciation for this important issue. i want to personally express my deepest condolences and sympathies to the family and friends of officer johns who was killed unexpectedly yesterday as a result of the shooting by a man who harbored so much hatred against members of our jewish community. officer johns was -- for some six years served faithfully at the museum, was doing his job, he made the ultimate sacrifice and we are here to honor him and his life. he gave his life in order to save the lives of others. mr. speaker, i hope that every person who visits our nation's capitol should make it a point, a must, to

chairman, moi as we have gone through not only the various walk-throughs and we have had an but in the conversations today with people's opening statements were there have been so many questions that have been raised and i would encourage us as a move to this process that we take these questions seriously would because they are begging for answers. should the government require all americans to purchase health insurance will face monetary federal tax penalty is looking at what is going on with our economy should we force employers to provide insurance for both part-time in and full-time employees? i ask the question the other day about seasonal workers and in my state nearly half of our workers are seasonal workers so what to do with them? what we may ultimately see possibly in this legislation and are we going to see employers that will lower their wages to pay for health-care benefits and instead bring on will people full time looking to bring on contract employees instead of just to avoid the burden of paying the health care costs, will a new insurance program modeled on medicare pu

moi kim en and explained what capabilities of the mabey requesting and then summarized the table top exercise. i would tell you that the biggest shortfall of this current hurricane season probably is in the brigade structure with the national guard because the brigades deploying. even though it is a shortfall in certain regions and it's not a short fall across the nation's it's a matter of reallocating forces and the national guard is working closely right now with the state general to identify the forces that can fill the shortfall so the brigade structure was one area. another was the number of rotary wing aircraft that could be depleting. again we looked across the states and there's plenty of assets available. it's identifying those in advance who would back up to in the states and on top of that we looked up the active component both army air force marines working with coast guard through dhs to see where the assets would be available as rotary wing would be called in to the emergency. the last area that leavitt mention that is of concern to us and we worked closely last week wi