matt: 25 point lead for florida. i think this thing that impresses donovan about him so much is how hard he plays defensively. matt: and there you see the results of them maintaining good pressure on the ball and getting the turnover. matt: well, he averages 32 minutes per game. number one on this florida team. seventh most in the sec and billy donovan tells him, look, you're playing 32 minutes per game because of all the little things that you do. now, they know we should score but billy really stressing don't worry about the shot because just keep doing what you're doing because so important to the team. kenny might be finding his lanes after a slow start to the college career behind the arc. bill: i have a feeling having his high school coach here tonight, a little bit of an incentive there. didn't play as well as he would have liked to in south florida when the gators lost to richmond but tonight, he's shooting the ball well. matt: 3-6, already has 13 points. that's 3-6 on his threes. and a blocking foul on the g

the gentlewoman from florida is recognized. ms. ros-lehtinen: thank you so much, madam speaker. i yield myself such time as i may consume. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlewoman is recognized. ms. ros-lehtinen: i thank the speaker. and i rise also in strong support of this legislation authored by my good friend and colleague from florida, congressman gus bilirakis. and i'm a proud co-sponsor of this important bill. madam speaker, i thank mr. bilirakis for his vision and also wish to extend my gratitude to our colleague from new york, congressman joe crowley, they have been leaders in this important issue. the bill before us, madam speaker, is a successor to a resolution that was passed last congress condemning the broadcasting of incitement to violence against americans and the united states in media based in the middle east and calling for the designation of al axatv as a specially designated global terrorist entity. as we commemorate the 68th anniversary of the united states' entry into world war ii, we know well the power that

florida law as it unfolded. what the uncounted -- what he encountered was what had become a bit of a two-track possibility in the way the court was going gore. it was either going to be an article to issue as to whether the court in florida had adhered to constitutional provisions, really a structural approach as to whether the court in florida was respecting the desires, the wishes of the florida legislature in terms of how the electors would be chosen for the vote on the presidency, or whether there was an equal protection issue in the way everyone who cast a vote within the state of florida, but particularly in four other counties, was being judged, whether each ballot was being given that same scrutiny, the same quality of potential for being counted, because we were dealing not only with ballots that had hanging chad and dimpled chad's and pregnant chads. some balance did not have any working for the president and some might have had two. ahold variety of different ways in which the ballots were constructed

the florida highway patrol finished their interviews with the neighbors. woods wife was talking to the golfer. jarius put blankets and pillows under him. >>> more breaking details continue to emerge. take a listen. >> nancy, the people you hear talking on this tape are jarius adams and his sister, kimberly. they were both asleep. kimberly heard a sound, like a continuous knocking, very faint. she thought somebody forget their keys, she went downstairs. that's when she saw headlights shining into the house. she woke up her brother. he sees tiger woods laying in the street. elin asked him for help. the thing that's not clear, drew, correct me if i'm wrong, we still don't know exactly if the neighbors heard anything or not. are there various reports of whether people heard an argument before it happened? >> these neighbors didn't. there are reports other neighbors did. i looked at an aerial shot and it seems like it would be hard for other neighbors to hear anything. these are huge houses. the only neighbor next to or remotely close to tiger woods house is fa

let me -- during the finance committee markup, the senator from florida, the senior senator from florida advocated in favor of treating certain medicare advantage enrollees in florida better than the rest of american seniors under medicare advantage. let me read from two articles written at the time of the senate finance committee's deliberation. "the new york times": "senator tries to allay fears on health overall." september 24, 2009. and i quote from the article: "mr. nelson, a democrat, has a big problem. the bill taken up this week by the committee would cut medicare payments to insurance companies that care for more than ten million older americans, including nearly one million in florida. the program known as medicare advantage is popular because it offers extra benefits including vision and dental care and even in some cases membership in health clubs or fitness centers. quote, it would be intolerable to ask senior citizens to give up substantial health benefits they are enjoying under medicare, said mr. nelson, who has been deluged with calls and complaints from constituents. qu

not good for florida. a burden florida can't afford to pay. that's why all the governors in the country, virtually, republican and democrats alike, including our governor, charlie crist are against this unfunded mandate. the third reason why i can't support this bill is it raises taxes. what happens when you're a drug company who makes your medicine or a device company that makes the lifesaving implement for you gets taxed? they're going to pass it along to you. mr. president, they're going to put it right in the bill. that's the way it's going to work. that's why health care costs aren't going to go down for the 170-some million americans who have health insurance. in fact, for some they're going to go up. that's not health care reform. fourth, this is a budget-busting bill. it is not deficit-neutral, and let me explain why. you'll hear reports that this is going to cut more than $100 billion from the deficit over the next ten years. only in washington, d.c. could you come to this calculation. it's funny math. we have this congressional budge

ros-lehtinen of florida. your partnership on behalf of a free and independent press on the world stage should be an inspiration to every american looking on these proceedings. i especially want to express my appreciation for the visionary leadership of congressman adam schiff. who brought this legislation and who invited us to partner in his vision for expanding awareness to the people of the united states and the people of the world of the repression of the free press. congressman schiff and i were elected in the same year. we have undoubtedly followed different paths and usually voted differently on things, we occasionally disagree, but we always agree on freedom. and a free and independent press. i commend the gentleman from california for his singular leadership on this issue and the privilege of working with him. it is altogether fitting that the gentlelady referred earlier though that i should do so not only during this debate but also in anticipation of the debate in the next legislation, the bipartisa

it's a member of the florida cabinet. and for six years i got to see what insurance companies will do. and i can tell you, instead of 85% and 80% that we're going to require in this bill of every insurance premium dollar that they pay out in medical costs, medical care. i can tell you that some of the insurance companies that i regulated back in the state of florida were down in the 60's. a lot of that was going into big-time plush administrative offices, all kinds of jets, all kinds of padded expense accounts. well, you can see what we are trying to do. -- what we're trying to do with this bill here tonight. now, let's ask: why do we have to have a ratio like this, and why is it important? it certainly is getting more medical care to the individual policyholder. but listen to this. a study that was done by the senate commerce committee shows that the ratios are often below what is considered to be fair. our commerce committee found that in the small business market, those with fewer than 50 employees, insurers spend only

that is why the senator from florida demanded they make accommodations for people of florida. the people of america, 11 million americans who have chosen the medicare advantage program because it does help coordinated care, it goes with preventive care, it keeps it more patient-centered as opposed to government-centered, that is the way for people to stay healthy, live longer lives. we've seen cuts across the board on home health care, whether it's hospice care, they're across, they're cutting. the seniors across the country do not deserve. they paid into the program for many years and deserve their benefits. mr. alexander: one other thing, we've talked a lot about our good friend, the senator from florida. now he's been so perceptive on noticing that his floridians with medicare advantage may lose their medicare benefits. i hope he's as perceptive -- the presiding officer: the senator's time has expired. mr. mccain: i ask for an additional 30 seconds. mr. alexander: i believe there are our medicare benefits likely to be cut. aren't there cuts to hospices? aren't there cuts to

so i would ask the senator from texas if the people from florida and the senator from florida don't trust the democratic bill to protect medicare advantage, why should 240,000 tennesseans trust the democratic bill to protect medicare advantage. >> >> well, i agree that what's good enough for the seniors in florida ought to be good enough for all seniors. and in my state, the state of texas, we have 532,000 seniors on medicare advantage, and they like it for the reasons that the senator from tennessee mentioned, and they don't want us cutting those benefits. but i would ask, ask the senator from arizona and tennessee, i seem to recall we had amendments earlier which would have protected everybody from cuts in their medicare benefits, and now we have a targeted effort negotiabilitied behind closed doors to protect states like florida and pennsylvania and others. and i wonder whether this, the nelson amendment to protect the seniors in florida, would even be necessary if our colleagues across the aisled aisle had agrt no medicare benefits should be cut. >> well, as the senator from texas poi

now, florida would like that same fix. if it's good for nebraska, it's good for florida. i'm sure iowa would like that fix as well. i'm sure all the states would. so, mr. president, i ask unanimous consent that the pending amendment be set aside and it be in order to offer an amendment to extend to the state of florida the same benefits that provide 100% federal funding to the state of nebraska for their expanded medicaid program. the presiding officer: is there an objection? mr. harkin: objection. the presiding officer: objection is heard. mr. lemieux: the reason why my distinguished colleague from iowa oh, jectd to this is this -- object to this, is that the deal won't go through. some states will get it better and some states will get less. that's not fair. but that's what this bill has been put together to cobble together 60 votes. may -- may i ask how much time i have remaining? the presiding officer: 15 seconds. mr. lemieux: at the end of the day, i have 15 seconds left. i will be back to the floor to speak about this again, but this is not a good bill for america.

the gentleman from florida. mr. diaz-balart: thank you, mr. speaker. i'd like to thank my friend, the gentleman from colorado, mr. polis, for the time. and i yield myself such time as i may consume. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized. mr. diaz-balart: eight years ago, mr. speaker, the republican-led congress passed legislation that provide over $1.3 trillion in tax relief by, among others, gradually decreasing rather increasing the exemption for the estate tax while decreasing the tax rate itself. as part of that legislation, the estate tax, also known as the death tax, is set to disappear next year. the underlying bill would undo the repeal of the death tax and instead bring back the tax, extend the estate tax rate of 45% and include and an -- an unindexed exemption. i believe these are excessably high rates of taxation, especially when we realize that the tax is imposed at the end of a lifetime of work on which taxes were paid throughout the stages in which income was made. i believe it is wrong

for florida. wyoming was the same accommodations as texas because 118 million americans have chosen the medicare advantage program to help coordinate care, preventive care, keep it patient centered as opposed to government centered and insurance companies centered. they can keep their independence and live longer lives. we have seen cuts across the board with home health, hospice, medicare advantage they are cutting in a way that certainly the seniors of this country do not deserve. they paid into the program many years. >> one other thing we have talked about from our good friend from florida who has spent so perspective -- perceptive to notice they may lose medicare benefits, i hope he is as a perceptive. >> your time is expired. >> what ask the senator i believe there are other benefits likely to be cut it will cut hospice, hospital hospice, hospital, and cuts to home health care that we talked about yesterday. if of floridians don't trust the democratic bill to protect benefits from medicare v

it's florida, louisiana, montana and on and on. i came to the floor this morning and ask unanimous consent that all the special deals be taken out and i listed a long list and of course there was objection to that request for unanimous consent. why would we want to try to pass legislation with all of this? it makes no sense to me. but let me take a step back. we remember a few months ago there was a big story that nevada was going to give a special medicaid deal and it was right about that time we took a few days off, and i went back home and i did telhami tings like i have done for years and years and years. but we invested time and effort and identified six principles of health care. they are on my website. you can go look at them. i literally had a power point presentation. i did for town hall meetings and a peace principles up. and one of the principles was no car routes, no backroom deals, no special deals, and i presented that to the people at the town hall meetings. i did tons of interviews and explained why i felt the way i

but in 1989 the clerk began to unwind the whole process two years later would be for florida parliament and said here's what they cost here is how many people are involved and they call on the international atomic energy agency. they agreed and they were taken apart they recycle the energy and south africa ceased being a nuclear state.

the florida flimflam. the one that gives the medicare advantage members in florida around the country, benefit, but my constituents and medicare advantage of don't. and so in answer to this, and in answer to question today, the majority leader said, quote, a number of states are treated differently than other states. really? a number of states are treated different than other states. that's what legislation is all about. that's compromise. where is that todd? where is that todd? a number of states are treated differently than other states. that's why legislation is all about. that's coppermine. my friend, that's not what the american people call governing. that's called exactly an opposite and contradiction of what the president of the united states had what he says we will have negotiations televised on c-span so that people can see who is making arguments. i see the letter from illinois over there. just a few days ago i said what's in the bill. the senator from illinois says i don't know. i'm in the dark

that's a lot of fraudulent ballots, even by the standards of florida or illinois, this is cheating on a global scale. he got caught and he got away with it. i'm not sure how illegitimate his government looks in the eyes of afghans, but it looks illegitimate in the eyes of americans and of our european and noneuropean isaf partners. this administration has to bear some of the responsibility for this. this didn't happen on george bush's watch, it happened on its watch. its behavior towards the afghan election was a little bit like the famous deer in the headlights, it could see the problem coming but seem mess merized until it was run over. here again, we don't have a time machine and go back and fix it.

but he makes a good point about the florida carveout. and hi a discussion with some of the leadership on the democratic side on the floor of this senate the other day about medicare advantage. the strong assertion over on that side is that medicare advantage is not medicare. as a matter of fact, some of the leadership in this very body said -- the booklet that the government puts out, it says medicare advantage is part of medicare should be changed. those words should be stricken from the handout because it really is not part of medicare. the website that the federal government has up saying that this is -- that medicare advantage is part of medicare, that should be changed because really it's just an insurance company masquerading as medicare. let me just take a second. this is betty, and betty represents -- she is from louisiana. now, i don't know if she voted for -- if she was one of the 60% of louisianans who voted for senator mccain in louisiana, but -- but she enjoys medicare advantage. she was told during the election that if you

the real training was in florida. the training was in florida and the f.b.i. has evidence at the time that they were being trained and was totally ignored. and we are still back to 9/11, fear of nuclear war, we have to go in and scare the people. yet, what is the motivation for individuals to become radical against us, whether in the taliban or al qaeda? there is one single factor that is the most ininfluential in motivating to commit suicidal terrorism and that is occupation by a foreign nation. and now, where have we occupied? iraq, afghanistan, we are bombing pakistan. not only the literal occupation, but also -- also, we have this threat on pakistan. so i would say it's time for us to re-assesses ourselves and look at a noninterventionist foreign policy and i yield back. mr. moran: i ask unanimous consent to address the house for five minutes at this time. the speaker pro tempore: before you do -- without objection, the gentleman from kansas is recognized. mr. moran: i recognize a remarkable gift that will enhance the education of our country's military of

the gentleman from florida. mr. rooney: mr. speaker, i yield back the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from florida yields back the balance of his time. the gentlewoman from guam. ms. bordallo: mr. speaker, at this time i have no further requests for time and i yield back the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlewoman from guam yields back the balance of her time. the question is, will the house suspend the rules and agree to house concurrent resolution 206 as amended. so many as are in favor say aye. those opposed, no. in the opinion of the chair, 2/3 of those voting having responded in the affirmative, the rules are suspended, the concurrent resolution is agreed to -- ms. bordallo: i request the yeas and nays. the speaker pro tempore: the yeas and nays are requested. all those in favor of taking this vote by the yeas and nays will rise and remain standing until counted. a sufficient number having arisen, the yeas and nays are ordered. pursuant to clause 8 of rule 20 and

so you're suggesting that we change our name from florida, the sunshine state, to...? florida -- the sun life state. the posters will be so cool. sooner or later, you'll know our name. sun life financial. >> larry: the house homeland security committee set to hold a hearing on the white house breach on thursday. the salahis and the director of the secret service have been called to testify. earlier today on nbc, the ranking member of the panel had this to say about what should happen to tareq and michaele. >> should this couple be charged with a crime? >> this is serious. people think it's a joke. it's not. you have the prime minister of india whose country was attacked in mumbai last year. we can't show this type of weakness to terrorists or psychopaths, especially against president obama, probably the most threatened president in our history. >> larry: do you think tareq and michaele should be charged, casey? >> i think that i can't find anything they've done wrong. i do believe they had an invitation or at least thought they did. from what my conversations have been

my constituents in florida don't know who they are. but they're going to be responsible for the decline of their medicare and their health care. the greatest generation fought to protect this country is looking at this health care bill and wondering why. folks with health insurance in this country, more than 170 million, who are not going to see their health care costs go down, but up, are wondering why. americans who are seeing higher taxes and penalties for not buying these health insurance programs under this bill are wondering why. if we're here to reform health care -- and we should be -- if we're here to try to make sure that the 45 million in this people and the nearly 4 million floridians get hlth insurance -- and we should be -- then why don't we take a step-by-step approach? madam president, i am new to this body. my first day here was september 10, so i've not even been here three months. but i can tell you that the american people would, if they knew what i know now and could see what i see, they'd be baffled by this proces

the gentleman from florida. mr. hastings: mr. speaker, thank you very much. i'm prepared to yield myself some time and then yield to the dean of the house previously. but i'd like previous to yielding to the dean to address my colleague's immediate concerns regarding the procedure in this measure. . he decries the procedure. i served with my colleague. this is not an unusual procedure particularly given the importance of this legislation. i want to point out that in the 109th congress the republican majority reported at least 21 rules that allowed same-day consideration. in fact, five of those rules waived this requirement against any rule reported from the committee. by contrast this rule is only for this one specific bill and only for today. additionally i would like to address my colleague's concerns regarding where we are. i've been hearing repeatedly on this floor that the democrats have not done anything. i won't give the litany of everything that we have done. but what i do want to clear up, when we're referr

mack of florida for today. mr. wolf of virginia for today. and mr. young of florida for today. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, the requests are granted. for what purpose does the gentleman from north carolina rise? >> i ask unanimous consent that today following legislative business and any special orders heretofore entered into, the following members may be permitted to address the house, revise and extend their remarks and include therein extraneous material. mr. inglis today for five minutes. mr. poe, december 21 for five minutes. mr. jones, december 21 for five minutes. mr. lincoln diaz-balart today for five minutes. ms. ros-lehtinen for today for five minutes. and mr. frank, december 15, 16, 17 and 18, five minutes each. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. for what purpose does the gentleman from pennsylvania rise? >> i ask unanimous consent that today following legislative business and any special orders heretofore entered into, the following members may be permitted to address the house for five minutes to revise and extend their remarks and include t

the gentlelady from florida. ms. ros-lehtinen: i yield one minute to the the gentleman from texas, mr. hensarling, a member of the budget committee, and committee on financial services, a co-sponsor of this bill and a former chairman of the republican study committee. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized for one minute. mr. hensarling: i thank the gentlelady for yielding. given the state of iran's nuclear ambitions and poor record at transparency, it is clear that the united states must lead the world in pressuring iran to give up these ambitions. there is no option. iran's energy sector is the backbone of its economy and provides the majority of its government's revenue. but iran's energy infrastructure is deteriorating badly and in need of modernization. without this modernization, its energy sector very well may deteriorate and along with it consequently, its economy and possibly even its regime. the act gives the president an important tool to help persuade the iranian regime to peacefully give up

and the senator from florida. >> senator from florida. >> madam president. i met the mikulski amendment -- >> madam president, thank you. i come to the floor today to draw back the curtain a little and wide in the land to talk about the issue of the bill before us not just on this particular amendments but on what it's going to mean for my constituents in florida and for the people of this country. madam president, i had the opportunity last week to be back home in florida and south florida in south beach county, miami-dade county, where i talked to the hospital's aunt tran. as well as everyday floridians, specifically senior citizens. and the response is that i were near unanimous and that is grave concern about the bill that's being debated on this floor. and the general confusion as to why the congress is pursuing on the path that it is. people of florida don't understand why we are going to cut medicare to create a new program. the people of florida don't understand why we are going to raise taxes to cut a new -- to create a new program. the people have

the gentleman from florida is recognized. mr. stearns: mr. speaker, i ask how much time i have left? the speaker pro tempore: 16 minutes. mr. stearns: ok. i yield myself such time as i may consume. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized. mr. stearns: i think if you try to look at this as a broad picture, around the world a lot of countries are actually building nuclear power plants and there are countries that are decommissioning these. there are currently 436 nuclear reactors worldwide with 53 under construction. china has 16 reactors under construction. so this renaissance is occurring. it's global. so, you know, i think if you're going to have companies that are involved with the construction and decommissioning of nuclear power plants and they want to say, ok, i want to bid, these countries will accept the bid from the united states but if the united states is limiting them in how they're getting rid of the low-level radioactive waste, it's going to put -- make it more difficult to make that company to compete. again, you kn

south florida has had a bitter experience with these stronger storms. and the storms have faster winds and higher moisture content in the storms, so they are more destructive for both of those reasons. you also get a melting of the ice in all of the ice covered regions of the world. and in those places that depend on the seasonal melting of the snow and ice in the mountains for the drinking water and agricultural water, places like california, south america, europe, and most significant in terms of the number of people affected in the himalayas, you know, 40 percent of all the people who live on this planet now get 50 percent of their drinking water and agricultural water from the seasonal melting of the snow's and the eyes in the himalayas. and the seven great rivers of the ganges, the river and yellow river in china, they all originate in the same field of ice in the himalayas. and that ice is melting that snow is melting. in some of those areas, the flows in friezes temporary, but when it is gone then the flows are shut off. and as the ice melts in t

so she started the florida breast health initiative to sign up uninsured women for free mammograms. with her volunteers, she's gone door to door to beat this disease, not just a few doors, but more than 20,000. that's how tired andrea is of cancer winning. and if all of us fight, march, walk, run and knock on as many doors as possible, right alongside our hero, this cancer doesn't stand a chance. >> i had cancer. i had health insurance, but throughout my treatment and recovery, i was thinking about those women who didn't have health insurance. it was right then and there throughout my recovery, i just knew i had to make a difference in their lives. good morning, everyone. every woman regardless of her ability to pay has a right to benefit from the early detection of breast cancer. the first thing they notice is probably her hair. it's always perfectly done. >> florida breast health initiative. >> second thing you notice about andrea is that she is very stubborn. >> please, let me make an appointment for you. it's so convenient. they don't have health insurance, we can get them a fre

over the last 100 years the population of florida increased 64. it sadly much, much nicer to live to the sea as people here in seattle no. and of course we also have gotten much richer which means we have much more stuff to get damage. some researchers actually said okay, let's try and take a look at what would happen if all hurricanes that hit the u.s. over the last 105 years had hit the u.s. as it looks today. with today's issue beaten of wealth. and today's distribution of humans. and then they said let's try to run all the hurricanes again and see how much damage we would have seen. notice how the picture will change. suddenly we get a very different picture than what's actually happening. the most damaging hurricane of the great miami storm, hurricane from 1926 that tour right through downtown miami and cost a huge amount of destruction and actually killed 2000 people, which were more than ivan and katrina. but basically just ripped through downtown. it gives the impression. there was not much to damage here that's why it was so costly back i

florida relies on tourism. it is almost like what we are doing here, we are relying upon a faulty source. host: thank you for your comments. couple of issues here. one, obviously one of the great challenges for the leadership in the country is dealing with the unemployment problem that we have. it is worth knowing that you are not alone out there. we have 10% unemployment. we have got 17% underemployment. a lot of people right now are struggling with all of these changes that are happening in our economy and financial system, certainly it is something that the fed is concerned about. one thing that i think is worth pointing out is that the american people and the american economy are really resilience. we have seen it time and again throughout history, after the great depression, after the 1970's, when we had a terrible shock of deflationary. it looks very bleak. we turned it around. we have an economy, and economic system very much driven by innovation. we certainly haveñr many probles right now, but the gove

the gentleman from florida is recognized. mr. young: madam speaker, i yield myself such time as i may consume. the speaker pro tempore: the chair recognizes the gentleman from florida. mr. young: i want to thank all of the members of the subcommittee for working hard so long to get this bill to where we have final -- a final passage on the issue. the house passed this bill 4 1/2 months ago. the senate passed it in september. it's been a bit of a painful process along the way because a lot of suggestions, a lot of ideas were raised that we could agree to some, we could not agree to others. i think it's a good package. i may not be as enthusiastic as well as i have been the past but it's a good bill. it provides what our soldiers, what our marines and what our airmen need to do their job and to protect themselves while they're at it. i would have said coast guard but we don't have the jurisdiction in the subcommittee for the coast guard, but we recognize the importance of the united states coast guard as well. the bill is not too m

going to have our moms, our dads, our grandparents who are benefiting from this home health care in florida and across this country, instead of having to go into a nursing home or an assisted living facility away from their homes and family, and they will not be able to go anymore. by the way, i don't believe that's going to save any money. what i think that's really going to do is increase costs because we know nursing home care is far more expensive than home health care. it is estimated that one day of hospital costs, for example, is 43 times as much as home health care. so when you get rid of home health care, you are going to increase costs. i want to follow up on a comment to my friend from new hampshire, because i'm new here and i'm still understanding the ways of washington, d.c., but everyone needs to understand this bill is not going to help seniors at all. this bill takes money from seniors. if there was a legitimate effort to help seniors, we would take medicare savings and keep the money in medicare. as our leader said today, we're robbing the piggy bank. we're taking the money

the gentleman from florida. mr. diaz-balart: mr. speaker, it's my pleasure to yield three minutes to my good friend dr. boustany of louisiana. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized for three minutes. mr. boustany: thank you, mr. speaker. i rise today to express my deep concern about gulf coast disaster relief left out of this bill. yesterday i offered an amendment in rules to extend important tax provisions, tax relief provisions to help gulf coast residents rebuild after the 2005 hurricanes. it's disappointing yet again that the majority is bringing this bill to the floor under another closed rule prohibiting amendments to be debated. the economic downturn complicated gulf coast recovery and jeopardized the effectiveness of katrina and rita aid. residents need more time to fully utilize existing disaster assistance programs before they expire. congress should extend the go-zone low-income housing tax credit for an additional year. at risk, currently at risk are nearly 70 affordable rental housing projects encompassin

we had a l of trouble in florida getting courts t allow dna testing. we had onease that went up and down through the syste will ton dedge. finally florida has create a post conviction a state and now 48 states have such statutes othe books. and the federal governme has one as wl. t when we started this work, there were no stes that had post nviction dna states. and in fact, are trying to t into court was se diicult because there were statutes of limitations where courts wouldn't even lo at newly liss covered evidence, even edence as powerful as dn identification. >> reporter: i wonr how f sent true perpetrator found through dntesting. how often does that cur? >> a lot. right now the are 105 individuals who ha been identified as the real assailants in these cas. out of t 200 -- 248 post conviction dna exoneration what's rlly important to emphasizhere is that dna is only present in about 10% of cases. in oth words, biology that can be tested, that n be determinative of w really committethe crime. so what about the otr 90% of theases where there is eye wi

host: florida, democrats line. caller: justify a how they can force individuals to pay for something that they do not want. for her to sell her vote along with ben nelson and others make it more political prostitutes. guest: you are dead wrong. my vote for this bill had nothing to do with the fact that my republican governor at our delegation to fight hard to get change for any state not just louisiana but any state including your own that might be hit by a natural disaster. i make no apologies, and you are dead wrong. the government has the responsibility to acquire individuals to take personal responsibility for themselves. the government cannot pick up the entire tab for people that will not or cannot or will not get insurance. there is no more free ride here. everyone will have to do their part. we hope with the subsidies be a place in this bill that we can make it affordable for all families. if we do not, people in my state will be spending -- right now they are spending 30% of their average and come to try t

in the state of florida, in one county in florida, 60% of the payments, extra money that goes for sicker patients was in one county. that county had 06% of the extra money. that is fraud. they rout out a lot of fraud. home health is very good. my mother is in home health right now. it works really well. reducing some of the overpayments. we're getting the waste out. and guess what? those savings, where do they go? they go back into medicare. let me repeat that again. they go back into medicare. i don't know if any senator wants to open up his ears or her ears and hear that. they go back into medicare. and guess what? that's why the solvency of the medicare trust fund is extended. now, if these were so-called cuts we hear about on the other side were really cuts as implied by the other side, you'd think that would hurt medicare. you'd think that might reduce the period in which the trust fund will go insolvent. it would go insolvent at an earlier period. it's the opposite. these are savings in medicare which extend the life of medicare. please, please. i see my friend from iowa. i think h

she's getting everything taken care of down there in florida. an absolute travesty for this country. host: democratic line, go ahead. caller: hello. i just wanted to call in to say i'm so sick and tired of people calling in and claiming this is terrible and that we shouldn't pay for abortion was their tax dollars. i doubt there are many people who make a quarter of a million dollars a year spending their time calling c-span. which probably means that the vast majority, including myself, are people that call into c-span don't pay any appreciable amount of federal income tax. this business about my tax dollars is ridiculous. we have a clinic in farmington here that they don't -- you go in there for a physical and there ain't three people there. they are--there are primary care facilities out there that don't have patients. if you increase the population of patients coming to them and stop them from having to argue on the phone with insurance companies. doctors will come out better. doctors want by and large to provide patient care. and i think if

host: mike on the phone from jacksonville, florida. caller: first i have a comment and then the question. i believe the defining moment -- of course -- for the country was 9/11. so many things changed across so many facets of our lives, and they continue to do so. i wish this administration could remember that, but they seem to have left that behind as a police the event, not a terrorist event. i really want you to try to enter as honestly as you can. you mentioned that obama's ratings were so high, even with unemployment falling apart, and he was at 53%. do your guests believe that it is the media -- if they were not so pro-obama and so for the administration -- that he would, in fact, have the ratings he has? i know it will be very hard, but i would like them to try to answer that. guest: i will be very honest. i do not think that person has ever read a word that i had written. i am not a shell for the administration. in fact, even some of my best friends do not know how i think about things, but i do point out liberal biases in the

but he makes a good point about the florida carveout. and hi a discussion with some of the leadership on the democratic side on the floor of this senate the other day about medicare advantage. the strong assertion over on that side is that medicare advantage is not medicare. as a matter of fact, some of the leadership in this very body said -- the booklet that the government puts out, it says medicare advantage is part of medicare should be changed. those words should be stricken from the handout because it really is not part of medicare. the website that the federal government has up saying that this is -- that medicare advantage is part of medicare, that should be changed because really it's just an insurance company masquerading as medicare. let me just take a second. this is betty, and betty represents -- she is from louisiana. now, i don't know if she voted for -- if she was one of the 60% of louisianans who voted for senator mccain in louisiana, but -- but she enjoys medicare advantage. she was told during the election that if you

on that trip to florida, when she got to florida, she fell down and sustained some injuries, physical injuries. while being treated in florida at the hospital for the injuries, it was discovered she had a brain tumor which is the reason she had the fall. she had no idea this beforehand. medicare advantage plan covered treatment for the fall as an emergency, which medicare advantage plans must cover even if out of network, by the way, but not any diagnosis or treatment for the cancer, for the brain tumor. the woman had another daughter that lived in utah, a nurse there, so they traveled from florida to utah where they went for the cancer treatment for the brain tumor. while undergoing chemotherapy, this woman had a life-threatening reaction to one of the medications from which she almost died. the medicare advantage plan denied coverage for all of this care because it was out of network. she was in utah. they said no. leaving the client and her husband with $100,000 in bills. now, again, the center for medicare advocacy went to court again and battled in court, and they were successful

i think we have just lost barry, to shelly from tampa, florida. caller: yes, of course this is -- hello. host: hi, you are on the air. caller: of course this is being rushed, if it weren't rushed they wouldn't have to take a vote at 1 o'clock in the morng. when have they been taking a rushed vote, and you are told that nothing good happens after midnight. and else -- nelson said he would reform health care, and medicare is going bankrupt, we have heard this for months. you can't just add another program, and the one thing that people are not screaming at the roof tops. they say health care reform now but nothing is enacted for four years. it's all tax loaded up front, that's why they can say it's deficit neutral. and finally because of tort reform, because i am married to a surgeon and i know how much we pay in malpractice insurance, nothing is being addressed. tort reform is a flip on the radar screen and we are not going to do anything about it. but people don't understand that these surgeons that go to medical school and residency and higher tr

florida law as it unfolded. what the uncounted -- what he encountered was what had become a bit of a two-track possibility in the way the court was going gore. it was either going to be an article to issue as to whether the court in florida had adhered to constitutional provisions, really a structural approach as to whether the court in florida was respecting the desires, the wishes of the florida legislature in terms of how the electors would be chosen for the vote on the presidency, or whether there was an equal protection issue in the way everyone who cast a vote within the state of florida, but particularly in four other counties, was being judged, whether each ballot was being given that same scrutiny, the same quality of potential for being counted, because we were dealing not only with ballots that had hanging chad and dimpled chad's and pregnant chads. some balance did not have any working for the president and some might have had two. ahold variety of different ways in which the ballots were constructed

how about florida? 946,836. almost a million people on medicare advantage. good reason -- it works. georgia, 176,090. hawaii, 79,386. idaho, 60,676. illinois, 176,395. indiana, 148,174. iowa, 63,902. people enrolled in medicare advantage. let's proceed further. kansas, 43,867 people enrolled in medicare advantage. kentucky, 110,814. louisiana, 151,954. maine, 26,984. maryland, 56,812. massachusetts, 199,727. michigan, 406,124. minnesota, 284,101. mississippi, 44,772. missouri, 195,036. montana, 27,592. nebraska, 30,571. nevada, 104,043. new hampshire, 13,200. new jersey, 156,607. new mexico, 73,567. look at new york, 853,387. north carolina, 251,738. people enrolled in medicare advantage, who love the program. north dakota, 7,633. ohio, 499,819. goo geewhiz, that's a lot of people who are satisfied with medicare advantage. oklahoma, 84,980. oregon, one of the most liberal states in the union, 249,993. pennsylvania, 864,040. puerto rico even, 400,991. rhode island, 65,108. south carolina, 110,949. these are senior citizens. south dakota, 8,973. tennessee, 233,024. texas, 532,242. my

florida state will look to shut down georgia tech. and then north carolina state collides with wake. mike and i will be on hand for that, along deb will be with us and jim will be joining with dan in atlanta for that georgia tech/florida state game. and boston college turns it over again. cothran, all the way to the rack. and the follow. a flush by outerbridge. he's got six. you talk about a guy that's coming off the bench that can be effective. he had a career high ten point and eight boards in the win against providence not long ago. and sent a message that he was going to be heard from in the next few weeks. >> mike: again, the turn joef there, and then the deflection. i think where sanders just caught himself trying to do too much. he's got 15 shots up. he's not shooting a high percentage, a couple of turnovers. it's really affected his game in the second half. >> tim: outerbridge sort of reminds me of antonio reynolds who played on that team back in the late '90s, a jumping jack and still gets the oftens ive rebound. cothran with

she received her bachelors of science from florida university and her master's from florida international university. >> good morning, members of the committee. as stated, my name is stephanie, i am the crime laboratory director at miami dade police department and i am responsible for the managing operation of a full service laboratory. in addition to my duties as crime laboratory director i also sit on the board of the american society of crime laboratory directors which represents the interests of over 500 crime laboratory directors throughout the united states and overseas and plays an active role in overseeing the credibility and activity of labts. i am honored to be asked to speak to you about ensuring the effective use of d.n.a. evidence to solve rape cases nationwide. the role of crime laboratories is twofold. to provide investigative leads to remove dangerous offenders, or exonerate innocent suspects and to provide the results and interpretations resulting from these investigations in a court of law. at the end of the day, there are more cases that could be worked. cases must be p

host: our next call comes from sanford, florida. hello? caller: a while ago, someone asked about credit card. i know the answer because i listened to suzy orman. it is a bad blow to the credit report if you do not return a credit card. if you use it twice a year and buy anything and pay it off, you have covered it and you will not pay any penalty but you have to be careful about the credit cards and have you handled them. host: this sounds more like a statement about credit rather than taxes. caller: one man called at about that. the tax man said he could not answer the question and i wanted to help the other poor, struggling people out there. host: we appreciate your help will move onto everett, washington, go ahead caller: i am a small business or and i'm looking to make a decision to purchase a car before the end of the year and i want to know if there are any other tax advantages other than you have spoken about? guest: what kind of car will you buy? caller: it will be under $45,000 but it will be for the business. guest: you will be a

to florida. caller: i think he is a classy individual that continues to represent the american people. host: on the republican line. go ahead. caller: first of all, we had a bail out in the banks of wall street. we keep hearing there's more and more people back to work but the unemployment rate is rising. obama administration plans to channel money from the bail out program. small businesses as part of an effort of high unemployment. one plan involves a new entity that would give banks access to the funds without restrictions including limits as long as the money was used to support loans of a small business. returning next week with 12 of the world's largest bank to increase lending to small businesses louisiana on the ind line. caller: good morning. to call this a healthcare bill is a miss no , er. we will not and cannot ever have decent healthcare whenever this is a profit margin involved. that is the bottom line. how good could it be for us? loopholes lurk. >> buried in the financial regulato

the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from florida, mr. rush, and the gentleman from florida, mr. stearns, will each control 20 minutes. the chair recognizes the gentleman from illinois. mr. rush: i ask unanimous consent that all members have five legislative days in which to are revise and extend their remarks and include extraneous material in the record. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, so ordered. mr. rush: i yield to myself such time as i may consume. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized. mr. rush: mr. speaker, the second bill which i am urging adoption of is h.r. 1319, the informed p2p user act. hr 1319 was originally introduced by the gentlelady from california mrs. bono mack and the gentleman from georgia. h.r. 1319, similar to h.r. 2221 would better enable consumers to secure personal information. under h.r. 1319, personal information which resides on computers by making it easier for file sharing software programs more aware of the risk involved in down loading and running these programs, the p2p act will reduce inadvertent disclosures of sensi