miller, to mr. welch and mr. capuano and it was such a reassuring observation, such a wonderful scene there where these kids, boys and girls, felt that they had a big job in a big institution. you could see them getting excited about public service and you could see them taking seriously the responsibilities that go along with it which at that moment was learning the names and matching them to the faces of the people that were here. and barry, you were a great teacher. it just isn't they got our names right, but you inspired them to take the next step and to aspire to achieve their dreams. it's a life well lived when you can treat the people in it with love and respect, when you can commit yours to the building of an institution, that you can help leave it behind in a better shape than you found it. thank you very much, barry. i yield back. mr. capuano: i yield to the gentleman from new york, mr. higgins. mr. higgins: i thank the gentleman for yielding and i want to say as a freshman member here several years ago

mr. shuster is recognized for one minute. mr. shuster: thank you, mr. speaker. i rise today to introduce a good friend and community leader in my home state, reverend paul taylor and thank him for offering today's invocation. he made the trip to the nation's capital from the city of letreau, pennsylvania. for the past 17 years, reverend taylor has dedicated his life to the students and faculty at st. vincent's college. he's held several positions there, dean of admissions, dean of students and executive vice president. his civic engagement and enthusiasm for improving the lives of o's is not limited to higher education he also serves on the board to have directors for the hospital charity foundation. in his personal life he's an avid hunter and served as super to the six-time bowl champion pittsburgh steelers and leads mass before every football game. i'm proud of the work he's done in pennsylvania community and i'm privileged to call him my friend. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore:

mr. welch, good to have you on the program. i want to ask you what could john kasich do? what do workers want governor kasich to do? >> all the governor had to do was make one phone call and tell them to ask aep to give us another break. we weren't asking for a break forever. we had the intention of building our own power plant. but we needed a break until that happened. he didn't make the phone call. he didn't care enough. >> what kind of break? what did you want the governor to do? make some guarantees that these jobs weren't going to go away at all costs? >> we needed a payment program with aep that we could survive on. the aluminum has been down for quite some time, but it's starting to show some signs of recovery, scene we were hoping to get a power break so we could survive long enough for the aluminum industry to recover. we think it's going that way. >> you think it's going that way. now, it would seem to me that conservatives would be saying this is just market forces taking place. is that what you're hearing? >> it -- we keep hearing that there's a lot of reason

we now recognize mr. welch for five minutes. >> thank you for the hearing. there is a mutual desire to get this to work. and one is to fix the rollout and the other is to use it to read it litigate the battle of the law of the land. and i know that that is your job. we had a big battle in this congress and i was not here were the passage of medicare part d. it was a largely partisan vote. and most of the democrats were against it. in a very tense vote. and it must acquire a computer program and a website. and there were concerns about having it work and i just want to ask you a little bit about that history so we have this today. not at all as an excuse. because there is real unity about needing to get this fixed. but it is part of the actions that we take about getting this fixed were trying to derail this with the overall health care program. american law when transamerica will have to judge. but can you give us a sense of what is going on inside the agency when you were prepared for the medicare party website in 2005, and were there concerns and issues th

fairly often jack gets introduced as mr. welch, and he takes it well. but we decided when we got married that he would keep his last name. [laughter] there's also a video on youtube of some of the craziness that we do from day to day-to-day, and we'd be more than happy to talk to you about that. the last thing i want to do is tell you the story of the day i found out little bookstore was going to get published. my husband and i having sent the manuscript off to my agent which was a long and heavy slog, believe me, that was in april of 2011. we decided that we had been in business for five years, we were still standing, we had eaten a lot of peanut butter, but we were still there. and in celebration of having finished writing the manuscript that we didn't know if it was going to get published or not -- and let me just take a pause here, how many of you like to write? let me give you just one piece of advice. everything you do as a writer, celebrate it. you never know what's going to happen next, and it doesn't matter. when you do the thing that you wante

. >> although i spent -- went into great deal with mr. ted welch and his team, i do not intend to discuss this matter publicly at this point. i do, however, look forward to speaking directly with the dolphins organization at the appropriate time. this is the right way to handle the matter. beyond that, i look forward to working through the process and resuming my career in the national football league. >> next time you make a call, look at your phone. you know what model it is. but do you know what's inside your phone or where those minerals come from? the bits and pieces of your phone mostly come from the politically unstable democratic republic of congo. they are called conflict metals and they include the so-called three ts, tin, tantalum and tungsten. what makes these items, these items that so many of us have in our phones, what makes them conflict minerals? >> well, in the eastern region of the democratic republic of congo, a very weak state, a series -- dozens of armed groups compete for control of mining areas. it's where they can

you've got mr. economic business wiz mitt romney coming up the rear. and all of a sudden the unemployment rate is dropping. you're thinking maybe we are on the right track. jack welch comes out and says, i'll paraphrase, it's amazing what these chicago guys will do to win an election. >> what is going to be included next in the statistic? you had a dream about getting a job? you were sad about losing your job and hope one day you can get it? this is something so serious and affecting millions of americans out there to have a loosey goosey number about unemployment going forward is infewer -- infuriating. >> in "the new york post" today there is an item where the author talked to the fellow accused of fudging the numbers. this guy's name is julius buckmon and was essentially told to make up information by the census bureau. >> to make it seem like more people had jobs than had jobs. >> nine out of ten household have got to report. they weren't in the philly and new york area. so he was told essentially somebody called him on the phone and said, quote, g