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Attended of any subcommittee in the Natural Resources committee that wasnt a loaded partisan title full of loaded partisan content with a loaded partisan agenda. This is an important subject. We can all be interested and gauged and might get something done together that can help the country. We need more hearings like this. And as much as anything, i wanted to be here to express that and thank you for it. With that, ill yield the balance of my time to Ranking Member holt. I thank representative huffman. Let me make two general comments. First, following on the line of our Ranking Members comme...

Thank you, secretary kerry. And, of course, our gracious hosts today and over the next couple of days. I wish to acknowledge your contribution this morning. Thank you very much for that very inspiring statement. Excellencies, friends of the ocean, ladies and gentlemen, let me begin by greeting you, bringing the greetings from the people of my country young, old and on whose behalf im very honored to be here to address this conference. In my country we usually begin by conferring blessings on each other, so let me do so to each and every one of you this morning. [speaking in native tongue] it i...

Think most americans have r an m idea of what the face of poverty is, what an individual in po poverty actually looks like and i think through these recent times people realize its ink affected everybody, rural, big cities, small communities, et cetera,le of b eve of every c. But today, as it stands, do any of you know, when it comes to wn the percent of people on public assistance, is the majority assn nonwhite minority or nonminority white. Does anybody know that figure . I dont know the figure. Figue the most recent figures figu youve been aware of . Ecent i can tell you about child . Pover...

Another five minutes of questioning. Mr. Huffman of california. Thank you, mr. Chairman. I wanted to be at the hearing because i represent earthquake country, tsunami country. I think its an important subject with some helpful testimony. I want to thank the witnesses for their contributions. Mr. Chairman, i also wanted to be here to thank you. As a new member of congress, thing is the first hearing ive attended of any subcommittee in the Natural Resources committee that wasnt a loaded partisan title full of loaded partisan content with a loaded partisan agenda. This is an important subject. We...

Understand most of the time. Maybe thats true. Most of the time theres someone on the legislators staff who understands it. Thats not necessarily the case with intelligence bill. On the senate side you have one dedicated staffer who is clear, who can talk to their boss about these things. On the house side they are pretty dependent on the committee staff. For example sessen brenner who wrote freedom acts bill is completely cut out of the negotiations with the administration over what to include in the final version of the reform bill. This is nothing i reported, in cq. He didnt have sufficient...