not less than once every 90 days so long as the service member remains. and to take whatever followup measures and to report to congress on the program s effectiveness. i ask my colleagues to support this important and very necessary amendment. i yield back my time. the chair: the gentleman yields back the balance of his time. the gentleman from missouri. mr. skelton: mr. chairman, i will ask for a recorded vote on the motion or the motion en bloc . first, i but first i wish to pay special tribute to ranking member mckeon, a gentleman of the first order who has not only continued the bipartisan attitude and bipartisan work in our committee, but has made it work very, very well. we owe him a debt of gratitude and i want to pay a special word of thanks to him for his excellent work and cooperation in mking our committee so bipartisan in nature. a special thanks also to the fantastic staff that we have. members take credit for all the good work that they do, and so often they go
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from their personal standpoint. and they got lots of assistance from retired members of congress to do that. so not only was it staff people, it was retired members. some on the blue dog side, who really said, you ve got to do it and here s the technique and don t worry about the criticism about the technique. at the end, the product will dictate whether or not it s acceptable to the general public. okay. thank you, mr. mayor. thank you, mayor brown. thank you, doug brinkley, congratulations on your latest book, you re just an amazing guy, you keep putting us all to shame with your, your historical ability. coming up, more on the threats against members of congress, with republican leaders talking about armageddon and the death of freedom. to what extent is that kind of rhetoric, over-the-top heated rhetoric responsible for the violence we re hearing? so far not horrible violence, just there. we don t know what it s going to lead to this weekend.
and we re on a bit of a red alert, but i think it s going to dissipate fairly soon, at least for that potential violence. mayor brown, you ve probably heard late this afternoon, there was a word that jim clyburn, the great house majority whip, the number three guy in the leadership with nancy pelosi and steny hoyer, got another one of those faxes, a picture of a noose, a photograph of a noose. obviously that carries all kinds of history with it where do you place the violence level so if a, with the broken windows and the threats of death, even? well i, i have been in business long enough to know that these things do occur. seldom, if ever, are they translated into actual action. there will be sufficient security, provided to everybody who needs it, on the congressional side and otherwise, whether they re republicans or democrats. and i agree, i think there should be a dialogue uttered for the whole, all of america, by the leadership of america.
speaker, harry reid. there was some staff people involved. somebody came up with the idea of using reconciliation, not as an alternative to passing the bill with 60 votes which they did last december, but to use it to complement it, to tweak it. so it could correspond to the house bill. and somebody figured out, whether it was rahm emanual, that the executive order on abortion funding would somehow ameliorate the differences on that issue. mayor brown, sometimes smart politics requires some technicians along the way who help make this thing work. i would say at all times it is technicians who come forward with the great ideas. and believe me, this effort demonstrates great ideas. over the last three weeks there has been a dramatic change in the attitude of the people on the hill as well as the people throughout this country. when it became clear that it could be achieved, even some of the blue dogs resorted to the whole business of looking at it
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