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Commission report. This is an hour and a half. [applause] well thank you very much. I apologize for being late. Im sure you understand. I do want to thank the vice chair and the 9 11 commissione commissioners. The right thing to thank them for is the love of our country. Thats been manifested obviously in each case in many ways but particularly the commitments when they were commissioners when that was going on, but even more importantly the sustainment of that commitment which i think at its root is another reflects the level of the country. And also, i feel obliged to support and thank them ...

Now house intelligence chair mike rogers talks about the violence and instability in iraq. Congressman rogers spoke to reporters at an event hosted by the Christian Science monitor. Representative mike rogers, chairman of the House Select Committee on intelligence, this is his first visit with our group and we appreciate his starting his morning this way. He grew up in michigan, graduated from Adrian College there. After serving in the army our guest became an fbi special agent, specializing in public Corruption Cases in chicago. He returned to michigan in 94 and was elected to the state senat...

Embrace it. The less the leaders in congress recognize publicly that this is an important issue its not going to happen because theyre going to have people pushing back real hard so its got to be a public effort. They have to be armed with a push from the president and the white house to say this is important. So id like to see the whole National Security apparatus from the president , nfc on down, making this top priority in all the conversations. Tom, you had mentioned the role of the congressional leadership in pushing this ahead. What should they be doing . It is i think my colleagues brou...

Has there been anything discussed to the day that cant be dealt with if we sat down and worked . Congressman, im a business map. I came to this after 20 years in the private sector. So were constantly and our team is looking for better ways to operate the bank, address reforms and issues brought up by congress so we can do a better job in managing risk and also serving exporters. Lastly, i would just add, as under president reagan, a number of reforms went into place and president reagan signed a six year extension of the xm bank. The time of the gentleman has expired. The chairman recognize t...

Representative mike rogers, chairman of the House Select Committee on intelligence. This is his first visit with our group and we appreciate him starting his morning this way. He grew up in michigan, went to college there after serving in the army he became an f. B. I. Special agent, specializing in public Corruption Cases in chicago he returned to michigan in 1994 and was elected to the state senate the next year, rising to become majority floor leader. In 2000, he won a hotly contested race for the house seat being vacated by Debbie Stabenow he became chair of the House Intelligence Committe...