great society, a time when the robber barons ran this country. the legislation the republican controlled house has passed would bring back a world where there are no restraints on wall street banks and others, enriching themselves at the expense of everyone else. we tried that. in the 1930 s the absence of government regulation and fair rules for competition broad as the great depression. in 2008 the same theory of government brought us the great recession. it is not government regulation that caused our economic woes. i chaired hearings in 2008 when i was chairman of the oversight committee on the collapse of wall street. what we found was the absence of cops on the beat, the heartbreak in unemployment hurting families stems from a philosophy that wall street banks should be allowed to operate free from regulation. even if that means jeopardize in our economic future for their profits. americans cherish clean air. clean water, safe food, protections of the environment and th
because the caucus was here. on behalf of all of the pastors of our nine denominations and independent churches because we have also opened up the call this is within mainline denominations, and we are building a movement. we are not gathered for religious or ideological purposes, even though our thinking grows out of our theology. we are gathered around education, health, social justice, and poverty. when the church comes around those issues and put aside the differences that separate our people, there s no telling the impact we could have in this country, and this election season is an important test of whether or not we are serious. mr. chairman, thank you for your leadership. [applause] thank you, too, mr. chairman, and staff and all the work they put into it. now let us prepared to leave from this place. now and to him who is able to keep you from stumbling, and to present you before the presence of his glory with exceeding joy, to the got our savior who alone is wise,
the government to offset the reduction of 6.8% to a lower rate. and the measure we passed in 2007 accomplished that with a pay-for, because it eliminated a lot of wasteful bank subsidies and fees to make sure that that cut from 6.8% to 3.4% was actually going to take place. so we are here today in a situation where student loan debt now is the largest challenge that faces middle class families who are trying to just do the right thing and give their children the opportunity to get the skills they are going to need to compete in their lives and help our economy, by the way, perform in a very competitive global environment. and yet we still have not come up with sustainable, long-term path in terms of trying to make college affordable. my bill, h.r. 3826, locks in the lower rate at 3.4%, not just for one year but permanently. we also need to look at the issue of college costs. we need to put incentives out there in terms of federal programs to make sure that colleges are not ru
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united states. and now, we don t know if they found information but in remarkable testimony up on capitol hill, the chief of homeland security, janet napolita napolitano, told lawmakers that her department, homeland security, has already received information. less than three days after it was gathered up has already received information from the cia and fbi analysts. don t know what it is, whether it is about a possible imminent attack somewhere, but it was valuable enough to forward almost immediately after the it was it was reviewed by those analysts. mik, where does the debate stand right now in terms of whether or not to release a picture of bin laden? well, if you listen to if you look at a scorecard you think that it appears that the majority of people within the administration, including apparently secretary of defense robert gates and we know secretary of state hillary clinton who are against the release, there are others as we know leon panetta told brian w