mr. steele's mistake was that he told the truth. the soviets slash russians executed a 10-year war in afghanistan and left without a victory. here's the front page of the "l.a. times" this morning, a photo of a u.s. military police officer heading for a patrol with afghan police troops have been told to help civilian officials in improving governance, most energy is spent trying to stay alive. the headline says can kandahar turn around? troops and aid poor into the stubborn taliban stronghold. we're also reading about an act by the defense secretary, robert gates, tightens rules nout for military's contacts with the news media following the "rolling stone" piece nine days after a four-star general rause was relieved for comments. secretary gates issued orders tightening the reins on officials dealing with the news media. it requires top-level pentagon and military leaders to notify the office of the department of defense's assistant secretary for public affairs quote prior to interviews or any other means of media with possible nati

steele , thank you for riegger. i would like knowledge that people from the congressional black caucus, and barbara lee here today. john lewis has been called the conscience of the congress, and to date -- and today the challenge is that this injustice has been partially corrected by giving the recognition that we do. it is -- also like to recognize at least two leaders from the african-american community. the clerk of the house [applause] and terry is the ceo of the capital visitors center. thank you, terry. and i do not know where lorraine is. still working. making sure everything is every -- going ok. over the past decade, the slave labor task force work to document the history of slavery constructed walls of the united states capitol. we know that and the contribution of the reid family. it was a dark chapter in our past, and with equality denied, rights reviews, a dream not yet realize, they gave us this house of liberty and the beacon of hope for our nation and indeed the world. history books up until now had

i appreciate sir, i have a question for mr. jacobson. why are the state lurs legislatures across the country in this mode or directive from the mupet mr. michael steele at the rnc, to block all stimulus and block all construction towards jobs? in particular $400 million of d.o.t. transportation funds from f.r.a. have been directed to ohio. i'm calling from the 12th district. there's been blockage at the controlling board by an apparatus set up by the republicans and their obstructionist techniques to have all d.o.t. funding have to go through a seven-man panel. it's become a block of mind set that it shouldn't be and in an apparatus of theatrical it should be technical for what's best for the country. >> i think it's been too big, hasn't done enough. i would just say that in terms of political games being played, you know, certainly congress does it and the states are not different. again, each state has its own political games, the g.o.p. and the democrats depending on the circumstance will use policies to advance their parties' interes

mills on consumer side of the prison or even on mr wood actually passed the guy. on to monopoly board to do that analyze they call that a change starting from upstream or downstream sectors and the exactly enables the rear to settle certain civil as a way of doing business just to void the hundreds of complaints to the federal and to monitor what's the thank you thanks very much that was a boras cousin john of metals and mining analyst renee something capital. look at how the equity markets are doing in european shares are mixed in a choppy trading session on friday on the footsie gains in miners are being counted up by weakness in banks after a decent performance in the previous session the banking sector is now retreating even though results from the european stress tests are not due until after close of play in london. and here in moscow the markets are higher this hour and what is also proving to be a chopping trading day so far banks continue to weigh in the my sex bad bank is the worst performing blue chip there shedding more than half a percent rosner is fo

. >> yesterday, that yard wasn't able to pick up anything until he saw mr. sosa attack mr. schaeffer from behind. >> reporter: he reportedly fired rubber bullets. schaeffer died at marin general hospital. his abuse -- accused killer was sentence forward murdering a homeless man after steeling his bicycle. schaeffer's mother sent an e mail to abc 7 news claiming her son had been beaten and taunted by the sheriff deputies while in the county jail awaiting transfer to san quentin. she wrote that deputies said you're a baby killer. watch out. you'll get yours in presidenton. aaron told me he feel nose sense of satisfaction. >> there are times it's easier to die and slip away. in the end it probably would have been more difficult to spend life in prison. >> reporter: by the way this was the first murder in san quentin in 13 years. now, sheri dunn showed us a letter she wrote to the marin county sheriff's office in may expressing her concerns over her son's safety and n.prison. we called the sheriff's office. they still haven't returned our calls. vic lee abc 7 news. >> thank you

mr. kagen: i was very moved by the idea of steel being targeted for extinction by communist china. but i represent paper valley, we have 22 different paper companies. we invented the tissue products. we have some tremendous paper products, but we have some problems. the problem is that china has targeted not just steel for extinction here in america, automobiles and a number of other things. and the list goes on. power generation, oil and petro chemicals, telecommunications, shipping, automobiles, information technology, iron, steel, they have some very strategic plans under way to target we manufacture to take the jobs away and let me detail how they did it in paper. the government would purchase raw materials in brazil at government expense, ship it over to china. ship it from the port on trucks up to the paper mill. make the paper and then again at government expense after the government allows slave-like wages to be paid. the government pays for the product to be shipped, shipped off of oakland and dumped into the united states of america, below our cost of production. well, as

gathering of producers and consumers in the city of chile go over the weekend it seems from mr putin was happy to oblige you know it amid reports. let me put in regrets that his comments about metals pricing policy two years ago led to a twenty percent drop in its share price but he clearly wasn't sorry about any other thank you may have had this time prime minister held up mitchell as an example for others to follow he said the company treats russian consumers well and was not under suspicion for price fixing the same could not be said about six other metals competitors. investigation for selling their product at a higher price to russian consumers than for export it's alleged their irregularities in transfer pricing where the producers sell product to a friendly offshore company at a much reduced tariff to avoid tax in the ocean a company that sells the steel to foreign consumers normal world market rates. most of the call and metal producers present here by selling their product to russian customers fifteen to twenty percent higher than world prices we're talking about export pric

i hope that tragic circumstance of mr. donafee's death will serve as a call for safer driving on all roads across our country. prior to his career of delivering mail, mr. donafee had worked in the cleveland area steel mill to which he told family members it was too dangerous of a place to work. his older brother recalls, dote, david took the job in the post office so he cohave a safer place to work, end quote. sadly, the 14-year veteran of the postal service couldn't escape the danger he tried to get away from. mr. donafee is remembered about his wife as a great father and by co-workers as a generous man who would do anything for you. he had a wonderful sense of humor and according to mail carriers, he was the guy who made the place better, end quote. mr. donafee was very involved in his brunswick youth hockey league. he was born in 1965 in ohio. he leaves behind his wife, sandy, of almost 18 years and his two teenage sons, derrick and liam. our heart goes out to his family. mr. speaker, it's proper that we pass this resol

and our friends on the other side, mr. speaker, are saying no. let's keep giving tax cuts to the oil companies so they can keep drilling, when we only have 2% of the world's oil in the united states of america. there's a real choice here. there's a real difference here. and it's important for all of us to recognize the choices that have been made down here and the differences between the two parties. so we stabilize things. we went from losing 750,000 jobs in that first month in january. and now we have an average monthly job growth of 170,000 jobs a month here in the united states. not nearly enough. we need more. and we're working on more by helping small businesses eight-plus small business tax credits to help create jobs including a tax credit to create jobs here in the united states as opposed to a tax credit that our friends on the other side support to move jobs overseas. so we can put americans back to work making things, manufacturing things and taking on china. that's what these policies are all about. a green revolution in the united s