also be quite threatening. jordan with relationship to is an important and good one and the jordanians are actually playing a very serious and important role right now trying to preserve what i will describe as a position process to the israelis and the palestinians of there have been tightened preparatory talks. they are working hard to try to preserve that process, but that is a working progress and it isn't exactly clear what is going to happen as a result of it and particularly now with what is at least a new development on the reconciliation between hamas and the fata we think we always have to approach the reconciliation process between hamas and fatah with a high degree of shella say humility approach the region right now with him nobody since nobody predicted actually what was going to happen, but we have seen that announcements don't actually translate into immediate behavior is. >> do you think that the announcement this morning is just an announcement or does it look like that one is more real comedy reconciliation announcement? >> i will give an honest answer. an

nations. it was co-sponsored by nations that included turkey, jordan, kuwait, libya, bahrain, qatar, the united arab immigrants, egypt and iran. the leadership and the strong understanding of the region deserves our support. i pay particular tribute to the secretary-general of the arab league and the pri minister who traveled to new york to brief the council and played a vital role in the extensive negotiations that followed. on saturday the resolution was put to the vote. the 15 members of the u.n. security council voted in favor. the two did not. russia and china both exercised the veto. they did so despite extensive efforts to amend the draft resolution to a draft the specific concern. and in the face of the repeated appeals from the nation's instead of the surf with the syrian regime and implicitly to leave the door open to further abuses by them. they did so while tanks were in circling homes and shelves of the syrian civilians coming at 200 people and of a 30 the anniversary of the massacre. we regard this veto as an error of judgment by the china and russia. mr. speaker there is n

that included turkey, jordan, kuwait, libya, bahrain, saudi arabia, the united arab emirates, egypt. the leadership and their strong understanding of the region deserves our support. i.t. for to give the tribute to disagree general of the arab league and the prime minister who traveled to new york to brief the council and played a vital role in the extensive negotiations that followed. on saturday the resolution was put to the vote. 13 of the 15 members of the u.n. security council resolution voted in favor. two of them did not. russia and china were exercised the veto. they did so despite extensive efforts made to amend the draft resolution to address russia's's specific concerns and in the face of the repeated appeals from the arab nation. instead of the syrian regime and implicitly to leave the door open to further abuses by them. they did so while the president was in circling shells of pounding the homes of the syrian civilians killing of 200 people and left 30 of the anniversary of the massacre we regard this as an error of judgment by the government of china and russia. mr. s

relationship right now jordan is important and good and the jordanians are actually playing a very serious important role right now trying to preserve what i will describe as a discussion process that and the israelis and palestinians live in five preparatory talks. they are working hard to preserve that process but that's a work in progress and it's not exactly clear what's going to have and as a result of it and particularly now with what is at least a new development on the reconciliation between hamas and fatah i think we always have to approach the reconciliation process between hamas and fatah with a high degree of shall i say humility where if we approach this nobody predicted actually what was going to happen announcements don't always translate into immediate behavior. let me think again quickly. does it look like that much more israel. >> i will give a very honest answer i don't know anybody that sits here and says they know you should be skeptical of. the two sides themselves are not 100% to know what this is going to translate into. what it does reflect the way is something i t

place in jordan tells you something about diminishing egyptian weight which as you point out is nothing new. so i think it's going to take some time. i think for now is main power egypt has is a negative form of power, sort of the power of the weak as people used to describe as it comes to the palestinians. when you go to israel and ask the israeli officials about what leeway they have to do things in gaza, for example, they say -- their main concern is how egypt will react. not that egypt is going to react by, you know, military action, but they're going to be forced because of public opinion to cut diplomatic relations, to bolster their ties with the palestinians, and they don't want right now to have yet more problems we egypt. so they're afraid egypt because of it own public opinion is going to have to take much more assertive stances. so when there was the attack several months ago and there was speculation about whether israel would reenter gads saw, the us -- gaza, the key factor that led them to be more restrained in their reaction was they were afraid of how a weak egyp

adalberto jordan. a lot of our folks refer to him as judge jordan, but he has been nominated to the 11th circuit court of appeals, and at this time when we have a very sizable judicial vacancy rate with a lot of these judicial positions empty, we need to get them filled with qualified judges who are going to rule and rule expeditiously. confirming judge jordan to the 111th -- 11th circuit, which is one of the busiest in the country,about is going to be a good step forward in filling the need for all of these judges. we have in florida a long history of bipartisan support for our judicial nominees. that is especially so with my colleague, marco rubio, as we participate with our judicial nominating commission which the two of us appoint, and they screen and interview the applicants for the vacancies on the district court vacancies. and as a result, we have nominees that come to us that have already been screened, and it takes the politics out of it. well, in the case of judge jordan, it is a continuation of that bipartisan support even though he did not go through that process, he was sele

equivalent to the river jordan they were entering the new world which is kanin filled with milk and honey in legal and rejecting decadence of europe in general which is equivalent to ancient egypt and establishing a new jerusalem. all of this was in accordance with god's will. walter hicks and claims american identity originally, lest around the idea of the other, whoever it was, and our identity is based on war. we never negotiated anything with anyone as other nations found out usually too late. chris hedges amplifies this notion by arguing war give americans a reason for being, meaning to their lives. this is much more sophisticated than false consciousness. that americans are well intentioned and rational. instead argues that we are and have been since the earliest days hopelessly neurotic, the belief that we can pursue a different path at this stage in the game is diluted requiring as it would be yanking out of the american psyche by its very roots. i think i fall into this -- this version of american history, a number of things we could discuss at this point. once i have exami

talking about these kids who were live anything jordan downs housing project, and i wanted her the -- her to focus on my client, and i wanted her to understand that the reason i went down to watts every day after court was because i was win anything the courtroom, but my clients were losing their lives. and that while i was having great success as a lawyer, i was doing nothing to change the ecosystem that they were dying in. and so i wanted her to focus on that. and instead she says, oh, connie, poverty's so boring, you know, i want to know how you and condoleezza got so different. [laughter] poverty is so boring. i was livid. and i had to bite a hole in my lip which i've learned to do and count to ten so that i didn't slap her and get arrested for assault and battery. and i said that's not what i'm here to talk about. i will talk a little bit about myself. i am boring. poverty is not boring. try living it. and, um, i realized that we had allowed, we, progressive people who think like the quakers, who think like martin luther king jr., who think like, who think like the great progr

dictatorship libya has the new government in jordan and yemen. the ambassador speaking to me the authority in london said there are four key things that he took out of the arab spring. the first is the arab exceptional was on the sense that somehow people in the arab world did not look for what we will looking for the chance to control their own destiny. that is being squashed. second, islam is not compatible for the democracy and whether we have had elections appear to be so. third, the sense is important all of us that the connection between the west and the arab goal wasn't simply based on our interest, the commercial interest but was not last based on values. and the big loser in all this has been the advocates of the violent terrorist ideology al qaeda has played no part in the revolution people have inspired themselves. they haven't been a winner after the with this and in fact they have seen movements turned back in this respect is very important for all of us. politics cannot be seen in isolation from the wider trends while the awakening was largely political and triggered by econo

states for the first time in seven or eight decades. in 1973 barbara jordan of texas and indiana and georgia became the first african-americans elected from the south since the 19th century. the growing ranks of african-american members in congress marked the time for formal organization and coordination of black efforts and what occurred then in early 1971 was the 13 african american members of congress led by charles digs a machine created the congressional black caucus. we have an image of the early caucus on the far right's. the mandate was to address "and "permanent interest that were born to black americans to enhance african-americans within the institution of the house and the senate to get them better committee assignments. the cdc also forced a legislative agenda and a cohesive voting block. they can rely on the caucus. among that notable early achievements were passage of the humphrey-hawkins act in 1978 to promote full employment and a balanced budget. 1983 passage of the federal holiday commemorating martin luther king jr., and in 1986 for the very first time passing leg

texas, he took barbara jordan's place. no one takes barbara jordan's place, he sat in the seat. so a big part of my roots was from texas, so when mickey and i met up, there was a big affinity we had, and his family sort of adopted me, so mickey and i became like blood brothers very fast. mickey had been going in and out of africa delivering food. mickey was an incredible guy, and be i loved mickey leland because he had no sacred cows. he would step on any sacred cow, you know, anywhere. i remember, for example, we went in the house dining room one day, and there were a number of my more conservative colleagues sitting at one of the tables in the dining room, and mickey said, ron, come with me. we walked up to the table, and he said how are all you brothers in the sheep caucus this morning? how would you like to have a couple of colored fellas sit down and have breakfast with you? [laughter] i mean, but mickey had a way of cutting through, you know what i'm saying? everybody, they laughed and they cried. but we sat down, and we had breakfast. but mickey had this wonderful way, i loved

created in north children coming up today and found the century freeway and got off on jordan 108th street and i went and i just marched in to the market with and said connie, latino families are moving into this african-american housing project. you're talking about african-americans who never recovered from slavery. five generations in public housing. no one has ever worked. in jordan i estimated that the unemployment rate was 70%. what we are facing right now in our system and recession/depression, they would be throwing a party over the levels of unemployment that we are suffering now. 20% unemployment would be a gift in this community because there are no jobs. there are no jobs for the(z underclass. and in the surrounding area where you had a very vibrant working class that used to work at the firestone plant, 127,000 jobs left the area. there wasn't even a committee created. so the whole working class got we didn't even hold a city council meeting about the 120 putative the 5,000 jobs leave.b hollywood, we are all over it,.@ aren't we?.$.$..b(b,@.$. .$. so, what i went down t

following morning business, the senate proceed to executive session and resume consideration of the jordan nomination with two minutes of debate equally divided and controlled in the usual form prior to a vote on confirmation of the jordan nomination. that upon confirmation of the nomination, the motion to be reconsidered be made and laid upon the -- be considered, be made and laid upon the table with no intervening action or debate, that no further motions be north, that any related stawments be printed in the record, that the president be immediately notified of the senate's action and the senate then resume legislative session in consideration of s. 1813, the surface transportation bill. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. brown: mr. president, the first vote tomorrow will be at approximately 12:00 noon on confirmation of the jordan nomination. additional votes in relation to the amendments to the surface transportation bill are possib possible. if there's no further business to come before the senate, i ask that it -- that it recess under the previous order. the presiding off

jordan, that cannot happen under saddam hussein, just impossible. and it existed but never to this level. the documents do reveal about major decisions, and it is very interesting. if you look at the iran/iraq war, you could see that the machine went into action long before the war. there was a lot of preparations, there were meetings of the chief of staff, there were internal senior party committees meeting. when it finished and because of the way it finished and given the fact that it was so long, when it came to the kuwait invasion, there were very, very few involved. and you don't really see any purview to it. what you see is a lot of analysis that takes place after wards. why did it go wrong, what happened, how come people went on an intifada in the south, an uprising? that happens. i think there were, for example, in the tapes there were a lot of discussions about the weapons of mass destruction. this was a decision that was made never to declare it, to say that we didn't have it and, therefore, everyone was playing cat and mouse with these committees, and there is no fact wh

consider the nomination of adalberto jordan to be circuit judge for the 11th circuit. at 5:30, there will be a cloture vote on the jordan nomination. we hope to be able to yield back postcloture time and confirm this nomination this evening. mr. president, the -- in the 1950's, america embarked on the largest public works project in its history, a new web of interstate highways. this came about as a result of then-president eisenhower reflecting upon a time when he was given an assignment as a young major to bring a caravan of vehicles across the country as part of his duties in the army. it was a terrible experience. roads why dilapidated, rutted. it was something that he never forgot. when he was president of the united states, he decided something should be done about it. and this was really a tremendous undertaking. 47,000 miles of highways would for the first time connect businesses and communities from sea to shining sea. president eisenhower, of course a republican, said the investment would pave the way for a new era of american growth, and he said america will be a na

planned for a future that continues our assistance for civil society and its arab partners in jordan, morocco, too easy, and elsewhere providing a record level of support for our ally, israel, and makes possible our diplomacy at the un and around the world which is output in place, with your help, the toughest sanctions that the in the country has ever faced against the run . the first priority is what i call economic statecraft. in particular, how we use diplomacy and development to create american jobs. with more than one douses the department's economic office is working to help american businesses connect to new markets and consumers to know we are pushing back every day against corruption, red tape, favoritism, distorted currency, and intellectual property theft. our investment and development also helps us create the trading partners of the future. we have worked closely on three free to -- free-trade agreements that we believe will create tens of thousands of jobs in america, and we hope to work with congress to ensure that as russia enters the wpl foreign competitors did not

freeway and got off on jordan 108th street and i went and i just marched in to the market with and said connie, latino families are moving into this african-american housing project. you're talking about african-americans who never recovered from slavery. five generations in public housing. no one has ever worked. in jordan i estimated that the unemployment rate was 70%. what we are facing right now in our system and recession/depression, they would be throwing a party over the levels of unemployment that we are suffering now. 20% unemployment would be a gift in this community because there are no jobs. there are no jobs for the(z underclass. and in the surrounding area where you had a very vibrant working class that used to work at the firestone plant, 127,000 jobs left the area. there wasn't even a committee created. so the whole working class got we didn't even hold a city council meeting about the 120 putative the 5,000 jobs leave.b hollywood, we are all over it,.@ aren't we?.$.$..b(b,@.$. .$. so, what i went down to jordan. helm, it was to learn what thos kids faced..b.b. was.@ to

look around the region today, king abdullah of jordan is one of the few leaders in the region who is focused on this, cares about this, has a relationship with maasen and also has a relationship with the israeli prime minister. so i think it make sense to continue to try for the political process. what i want to suggest is even as you try for the political process, i think from an israeli standpoint it's important for them to be thinking about what are the steps that they can take that will help to validate those palestinians who are engaged in a state-building process, who believe in nonviolence, who believe in coexistence? because if you're going to have elections, they're going to compete against those who reject coexistence and who believe in violence. .. >> so you can show, i wrote a piece on this a couple weeks ago, so when it comes to area a., maybe they're being phased up if you come up with a set of criteria that allows you to do that. area b, you increase the palestinian police presence and some other responsibilities. area c, you've done a lot of work on, and one of the

. jordan right now, its relationship with jordan is an important and a good one, and the jordanians, actually, are playing a very serious, important role right now trying to preserve a what i'll describe as a discussion process between the israelis and palestinians. there have been five preparatory talks. they're working hard to try to preserve that process. but that is a work in progress, and it's not exactly clear what's going to happen as a result of it. and particularly now with what is at least a new development on reconciliation between hamas and fatah, i think we always have to approach the reconciliation process between hamas and fatah with a high degree of, shall i say, humility? by that i mean, first of all, you should approach this region with a high degree of humility since nobody predicted what actually was going to happen. but we've seen that announcements don't always translate into immediate behaviors -- >> let me thin you down real quickly. do you think that the announcement this morning is just an announcement, or does it look like that one's more real, the hamas/f

-- there aren't any heroes in these towns. there aren't any sports stars, any michael jordans that they could look up to. all you would see in these towns would be posters of what were so-called -- these so-called martyrs, they called them saheed posters people who killed israeli wearing -- looking militaristic and the young 10 to 14-year-old boys that's what they had to look up to and greg interviewed two boys -- they went to school every day with their photograph, their school photograph that they wanted used on their martyrdom poster if they got caught in the clashes or they decided to start throwing rocks at the israelis and if they died that day. so little boys were thinking already of how they could become a martyr, so-called, on those posters. >> there was this incredible paradox there that also was fundamental in our decision in the book and what we wanted to explain in the book and the paradox is this. you have israel, this small country that despite having constant -- being a constant state of conflict for decades has done -- made enormous strides in its development and y

get this man out of the country. the absolutely key thing to do is an agreement with jordan about the way he will be treated because the european court on human rights has made it very clear judged on the. i have to think it is the wrong judgment i regret that judgment. this guy should've been deported years ago. but nevertheless, if we get that agreement with jordan he can be on his way. [inaudible] with the prime minister agree we need a simpler alternative for our smallest firms for dismissal rules? >> i think my honorable friend is right to raise this issue. if every small business in the country hires an additional worker that would go a long way of curing both long-term and youth unemployment at one stroke. we've got to make it easier for businesses to take people on that one of the key considerations businesses have is a difficult it is to let someone go that doesn't work out, and that's why extending to two years the amount of time you have to work of we get access to the tribunal i think can make a real difference in terms of small business employment. >> thank you, mr. speak

studied arabic intensively. they travel to the middle east to kuwait, jordan, and plunged into middle eastern culture. and he loved it. he became a special forces support soldier, and he went to afghanistan in 2002 in the first wave of american soldiers to strike back at al qaeda and the taliban after 9/11, and he won a bronze star for the troops in combat there. know, in 2005 he was assigned to be the tribal affairs officer for the u.s. military in ramadi, iraq, which was one journalist called it the most fun to make place on earth. reporters would scamper through the ruins of vermont and say this reminds me of images of hiroshima and dresden and stalingrad. it had collapsed completely. it was the provincial capital of anbar province and basically the hecklers of the al qaeda that were attempting to launch in iraq. right away three things are obvious to travis patriquin and is called forget to attack al qaeda forces with firepower, and they also had to rebuild the shattered local iraqi police force and reach out to the remaining tribal sheiks, a lot of whom had fled the horror of thi

government in jordan and yemen. the ambassador speaking to me the authority in london said there are four key things that he took out of the arab spring. the first is the arab exceptional was on the sense that somehow people in the arab world did not look for what we will looking for the chance to control their own destiny. that is being squashed. second, islam is not compatible for the democracy and whether we have had elections appear to be so. third, the sense is important all of us that the connection between the west and the arab goal wasn't simply based on our interest, the commercial interest but was not last based on values. and the big loser in all this has been the advocates of the violent terrorist ideology al qaeda has played no part in the revolution people have inspired themselves. they haven't been a winner after the with this and in fact they have seen movements turned back in this respect is very important for all of us. politics cannot be seen in isolation from the wider trends while the awakening was largely political and triggered by economic realities and the corrupti

furthest along. turkey has talked about. jordan has talked about it pretty much every country in the region at least indicated interest, not begin some pro. with the saudis, not just rumors that u.s. intelligence believes very strongly that the '70s and '80s and '90s approached a queue can't about you try to buy or fully operational nuclear weapon or to buy what they would need to build a nuclear program. again is if iran goes nuclear that would be the natural place for the saudis to go. back to pakistan, offer whatever about it and money necessary and tried to buy either a weapon or nuclear system. let's go to alexander next, independent infidelity. go ahead. >> caller: good morning. i have a few questions, i guess one question. i will try to put all together. i just heard, speaking about how, when more nuclear weapons in the middle east were caused by more of a different -- a deterrent factor. this is good because it will force everyone to sit down focus on diplomacy just like what we're seeing between russia and u.s. also what i'm hearing is always, like you said, there's an increasing d

clerk: nomination, the judiciary, adalberto jordan to be united states circuit judge for the 11th circuit. mr. reid: i send a cloture motion to the desk. the presiding officer: the clerk will report the motion. the clerk: cloture motion, we, the undersigned senators, in accordance with the provisions of rule 22 of the standing rules of the senate, hereby move to bring to a close the debate on the nomination of adalberto jose jordan of florida to be united states circuit judge for the 11th circuit, signed by 18 senators as -- mr. reid: i would ask that the names not be read. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. reid: i ask unanimous consent that on february 13, 2012, at 4:30 p.m., the senate proceed to executive session to consider calendar number 437, an hour of debate divided in the usual form. further, that a vote on rule 2 be waived. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. reid: i now ask unanimous consent that we resume legislative session. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. reid: i ask that we proceed to s. res. 371. the presiding officer: the clerk

executive session in consideration of the jordan nomination postcloture. the senate will recess from 12:30 until 2:15 for our weekly caucus meetings. we hope to confirm the jordan nomination today and resume consideration of the surface transportation bill at the earliest possible time. mr. mcconnell: mr. president. the presiding officer: the republican leader. mr. mcconnell: we have had a little more time now to look at the president's budget, and i have to say the more one looks at it, the harder it is to believe that this is the president's considered response to the crisis that we face. president obama knows better than anyone in this country that government spending and debt is completely out of control and that america is headed down the same road as europe. this budget was his chance to show it. instead, he decided to basically pretend these problems don't even exist and to the extent that he does acknowledge them, to propose solutions that are either gimmicks or that he knows will never come to pass. just to take two examples, he says he will bank savings by not fighting a wa

longer alive--but... >> guest: barbara jordan, who--who--who when she spoke, it was like god himself was speaking. she had a powerful voice, and what she said had great content and she did not waste her words. she... c-span: and jerome waldie, behind her on the right, there with the glasses, and then paul sarbanes again. >> guest: right. another individual that--that--that had figured, even up to today, so that this picture is one of my favorite photographs, and--and it was published in life magazine when they were doing a story on what happened during the impeachment of the president. c-span: if you had a choice, would you rather shoot black and white or color? >> guest: they're both important. i--black and white has archive value--that's the beauty of it. you know when you're shooting black and white that anything that you photograph is going to last long after you're around. when you shoot color, color is much more fragile. it certainly gives you life the way life really is, which is color, but the film doesn't have the long life. they're--they have improved it greatly, but when y

should support us on that. i remember as and eager 18-year-old ready to for jordan to the adult world on my own thinking there was no bigger decision than deciding where i would go to college because it would help shape who would become. in part because of the catholic teachings and tradition i loved as a child and because i connected to the traditions of quality education and public service. they promised to nurture my individual that the -- nurture mauney individual the end to confront in justice, and in one way i am a dedicated to the cause of social justice and i still deeply respect the education i received and the lasting values the instilled in me, but they also let me down, not just as a cheesy personal want ad but i would single 18-year-old female slight the controller for my own body looking for affordable contraceptions and finding contraceptions was about as easy as finding a good man for a want ad. [laughter] my girlfriends and i figured out how to protect ourselves and how to stay healthy but it wasn't on their account. by denying us access to contraception, they didn't sup

. republican senators delayed the final vote on the nomination of judge adalberto jordan of florida even though the senate voted 89-5 last night to end a republican filibuster that prevented a vote for four months. you know, this is a consensus nominee. he has the strong support of the senior senator from florida, senator bill nelson. he is also strongly supported by the republican senator from florida, senator marco rubio. he should have been confirmed months ago. in fact, you get a vote of 89-5 on cloture, he should have been able to be -- to go through then instead of obstruction needlessly delayed the senate acting to fill the judicial vacancy in the 11th circuit. and a remarkable person to be there, the first cuban american to go on the 11th circuit. senator nelson worked hard for this nomination and worked to get judge jordan's nomination cleared by every single democratic senator in october. immediately after his -- it was reported unanimously by the judiciary committee. let me just explain what that means. we voted in the judiciary committee, the distinguished presiding officer w

apply only to staff and to d.o.d. appointees, jordan england said i think congress should live by the rules they impose on other people. in the state of the union the president said let's limit any elected officials owning stocks in industries they impact. everything we do in this body, almost everything we do, committee hearings, floor sessions, calls to agencies, affect businesses and the profits businesses make or don't make. that's why senator merkley and i are introducing this amendment. it's simple, direct, the public should expect nothing else. i yield the floor. the presiding officer: the senator from oregon. mr. merkley: mr. president, i'm delighted to rise today in support of the stock act and in support of amendment 1481 that my colleague from ohio has put forward to address the fundamental issues of conflict of interest that reside here in our body. let me start with the defining principle, that is there should not be one set of rules for members of congress and a different set of rules for ordinary americans. i think the citizens of the united states of america in every s

filibuster of the confirmation of judge adalberto jordan. because we had that filibuster he is the first cuban american to serve on the 11th circuit. we ended a five-month filibuster of the nomination of jesse furman former counsel to attorney general mukasey, the attorney general under george w. bush. and he's now confirmed federal trial judge of the southern district of new york. the majority leader should not have had to file cloture petitions for the senate to vote on these two outstanding judicial nominations. senate republicans filibustered nine of president obama's judicial nominations despite the fact that he reached out to both republican and democratic home state senators and nominated a ideologically moderate men and women to fill vacancies on the federal court. nomination margo brodie should have been confirmed last year. she was reported unanimously, every republican, every democrat on the senate judiciary committee. look what happened to jesse furman. federal prosecutors, also served as top legal advisor to attorney general michael mukasey during the george w. bush ad

for the first time in seven or eight decades. in 1973 barbara jordan of texas and andrew young of georgia became the first african-americans elected from the south since the 9th century. 19th century. the growing ranks of african-american members in congress marked a time for formal organization and coordination of black efforts. and what occurred then in early 1971 was that 13 african-american members of congress led by charles diggs of michigan created the congressional black caucus, and we have an image of the early caucus on the far right. the mandate was to address, quote-unquote, permanent interests that were important to black americans. to advance african-americans within the institution of the house and the senate. to get them better committee assignments, the get them -- to get them into leadership. the cbc also forged a legislative agenda and a cohe's e voting bloc -- cohesive voting bloc. representative louie stokes of ohio who was a cbc cofounder once noted blacks never could rely on somebody in congress to speak out on racial questions, but they can with the caucus.

they're michael jordan and what we know is if we can get them to work together, we can have an awesome result in all the fields of medicine today and bring tremendous advancement to us. divided we fall, work together we win. financial services, number 2 in the country in property and casualty. we just got 800 jobs from amtrust moving from new york city to cleveland, ohio. it's just fantastic news for cleveland and they want to change the very face of cleveland. we've got chase, a huge investment from chase in columbus, the huntington bank, p & c and the huntington banks and we're creating a course in several universities in the community colleges to train kids in risk management so that we've got people that can work there. you can't have an insurance company and have no employees. and we're carrying this out and working with universities and community colleges to get it done. agriculture, it's our base. we are on the cusp of becoming a worldwide leader of exporting animals. whoever thought that we would be able to say that we're exporting -- nonblue tongue cows to turkey. thank you --

a lobbyist has to register michael jordan to advocate for a school or a church or a private corporation, shouldn't the same lobbyist have to register if they're seeking and getting inside information that ends up in making people a profit. this is especially true if that information would make millions for a hedge fund or a private equity fund. so we have current law. under current law, this is not the case. no registration of these people. we don't know who they are. so you go back to amendment 1493. it merely brings sunlight to this unregulated area. it dehe fines what political -- defines what political intelligence lobbyist is and requires that person or firm to register. in other words, make them do what urn the 1995 law every lobbyist has to do. i understand that some would say that there have not been hearings on this subject and that it should be studied first, but there isn't much that's complicated about this amendme amendment. it's pretty simple. if a person seeks information from congress in order to make money, the american people have a right to know the name o