go ahead. caller: i just want to tell the representative that my feeling is that we should have absolutely nothing to do with the libyan conflict. the best thing we can possibly do is to help the president of our country stand up and publicly state that the european union and the islamic countries need to solve this. i don t really give a damn anymore whether we are a humanitarian or whatever we are. this is not our fight. i have a son in the united states navy. he is in the enterprise battle group. he is currently deployed. the last thing i want to have happened is handstanding off the coast of libya and our blood and treasure going to something that is not our fight. guest: thank you for your eloquence. i hope your son will come home soon. we have to understand that we are not living in isolation. i want to go back to a point that was made before and the article that susan read about the banks. we are focused like a laser beam in our country on jobs. that is what we should
have done questions that i have asked regarding heparin./ heparin is actually made from the intestines. i represent a lot of hog farmers, so i am interested why we would go to china for heparin. the test teens the intestines are ground up, extracted, and they eventually get the protein. i don t know if it is a blood thinner blood thinner. it keeps you from getting blood clots. b thank you. what is interesting about what you wrote in answer to my question, he said the fda had approved applications to market heparin, but it does not say anything about manufacturing. it is not clear where the ingredients are made. i want to know for the three or four companies that are listed that are supposedly marketing it, how many of the ingredients come from the united states? i will push you a little on this, maybe not today, but in further questions. i m also going to ask about damages. our government and the american people were not able to recover damages from the deaths because
predictability for property owners while moving towards meaningful and necessary reforms. we must also gradually reduce federal subsidies that keep taxpayers on the hook. we must consider how to deal with repetitive lost properties to index coverage for limits for inflation and expand available coverages. we need to consider policies that will limit adverse selection and better spread risks. we need to consider giving private market insurers some certainty and uniformity regarding applicable law under what is necessarily a national flood insurance market. in the end, we need to create the conditions under which the taxpayer risk is minimized, private sector involvement is expanded and policy owners are protected. i look forward to working with the chair woman and my colleagues on both sides of the aisle to achieve these most important national objectives. i yield back. thank you. i would also like to ask for unanimous consents for ms. mccarthy, a member of the full committe
panel. our first witness is david kris, sworn in as@@@@@@@ @ as an associate, from july 2000, to may 2003, he focused on security issues, including the government s use of fisa, representing this current council and assisting the attorney general conducting oversight of the intelligence community. in our second with this is james charles johnson, from the department of defense. in this capacity, he serves as the chief legal officer for the department of defense and the legal adviser to the secretary of defense. his legal career has been a mixture of private practice and distinguished public service. mr. johnson began his career in public service as an assistant united states attorney in the southern division of new york, where he prosecuted public corruption cases between 1989 and 1991. gentlemen, if you would please stand. between 1989 and 1991. gentlemen, if you would please stand. do you affirm that the testimony you re about to give before the committee will be the truth,
going to talk to? who sp%s@@@# it is the failure to use appropriate controls of managed risk that we believe leads to the problem of systemic risk. on europe s attitude of guaranteed funds, burden sharing and compensation schemes are not necessarily practiced in every state but we are now considering how to change that to introduce it. in conclusion, chairman, if i can say if there is anyone that has been close to this committee s work and what you are going to do, it is i. i look forward if any way to help, to offer to help from the european union and our committee in european parliament to offer fraternal greetings and come up with common approaches to face a global crisis. thank you. thank you very much, mr. chairman. now we ll hear from michael mcraith, testifying on behalf of the national association of insurance commissioners. mr. mcraith. chairman, ranking members of the committee, thank you for inviting me to testify. i m michael mcraith, director of insurance in