mr. butterfield. mr. butterfield: to the extent that i can, mr. barton. mr. barton: can you define whether the -- house is? mr. butterfield: i do not have that material in front of me. mr. barton: ok. we're getting a pig in the poke here, is that right? i'm -- mr. butterfield: you certainly appreciate the disadvantage i find myself. mr. barton: mr. speaker, i'm -- i'm not totally opposed to this amendment. i don't know too much more about it than mr. butterfield, but i do know that the pass the house concept, while it saves energy once it's in place, it is more expensive to construct. it is my understanding that the concept that the amendment supports is substantially more expensive than standard construction. that may be appropriate when people have high incomes and the cost of construction is really of little interest. but for most of my constituents, mr. speaker, the initial cost is of significance. and while this is not mandatory, the amendment does not require to simply say, add something like this, while, again, i don't think there is a tremendous downs

mr. barton: mr. chairman, i rise in opposition to the bill before us today. i'm going to ask my colleagues to vote no. we had a similar bill on the floor back in may and in that bill we offered a motion to recommit which passed which struck the lone star program, the the home star loan program -- the home star loan program, excuse me, i'm from texas i think lone star. that's a problem sometimes. this bill, the bill that we struck the loan program from back in may, was a $324 million authorization. this bill has come back to us at a $5 billion authorization. that is a little bit of a puzzlement. if it didn't make sense in may to start a new program for $300 million, it doesn't make sense in september to start the same program except for $5 billion. so if for no other reason we should vote against this bill. the second point i want to make is that the programs in the bill are worthwhile. i know that seems to be a little bit inconsistent with what i just said, but it's not that these are bad programs. t

mr. barton: thank you. mr. speaker, i rise in respectful but sincere opposition to the pending bill. i have no disrespect for the victims or for the namesake sponsor and his family. but i also have a sincere regard for the united states taxpayer who is going to have to pay for this new entitlement program. the first myth that i want to relate to is, there is the implication that we don't have an existing victims compensation fund. that is simply not true, mr. speaker. 12 days after the attack, back in september of 2001, we passed public law 107-42, the victim compensation fund of 2001. we gave two years or a year and a half for people to submit claims. 97% of the eligible victims or their families filed injury or death claims by december 22, 2003. of the 2,973 victims, 2,880 of the families filed a claim. the average award for the families of victims actually killed in the attack seanched $2 million -- averaged $2 million per victim. 70 people chose to file lawsuits. 23 eligible families took no action. in addi

barton let's finish the subject of you take makes another that's probably had like says kid about the music that they're called tunes he has all sorts of music but it seems to me that music is always very important to you because i read somewhere that you were listening to music all the times you were working on the plane with that do you always work like that and does music for you personally. you know i had a cartoon i made with bill gates received the poem dorian kohn and it had no music at all but generally music even more than animation so when i'm working on the ugly duckling for example the reason this way the young lee duckling turns into a swan beauty swan the kind of sub swan means it's one like he didn't it was a swan lake. yes i began looking for what he had to offer to fit in with that story i found several themes from the not crack her going to rule and composers have arranged a musical. performance of your sessions he agreed on condition that i don't do stuart tchaikovsky score so i told you my love take kolsky as much as he did but you libretto comes straight from unde

barton. >> last week, one of china's most -- mr. barton: last week, one of china's dissidents was take onto his house hsm he revealed to the world the massive violence of the one child per family enforcement campaign he remains you should house arrest in his own home, surrounded by surveillance cameras and police. foreign reporters attempting to enter his village has been beaten and driven away and he's in urgent need of medical attention, having been regularly beaten in prison where he lost a great deal of weight. just today radio free asia reporter spoke with chun and his wife over a cell phone. his wife said, he has a sort of haunted look and for the first few days after his release, he couldn't speak at all. think about it. this is a very, very tough and articulate man. yet for the first few days after his release, he couldn't speak at all. such was the brutality of his imprisonment. it is all the more inspiring to read his words, the chinese government may have broken his body but they have absolutely not spoken -- broken his s

barton, ranking member of the full committee, mr. burgess and all of the minority members. this bill is, if you look it up in the dictionary, the words bipartisan efforts, this bill number would be next to that effort. on july 26, the 20th anniversary of the americans with disabilities act, the house passed by an overwhelming bipartisan margin of 348 to 23 the 21st century communications and video accessibility act that i introduced last year to update the a.d.a. for the digital era. on august 5, the senate passed the companion bill by unanimous consent. and then on september 22, the senate unanimously passed the bill to make technical corrections to its companion bill. we are now taking up both of these bills and will send them after passage to the president to be signed into law. if you are an individual who is blind, deaf or both, navigating an intersection can be a challenge, but navigating the internet can sometimes be even more difficult. and that's because laws to ensure equal treatment for americans with disabilities have focused primarily on things like wheelchair

mr. barton, thank you very much. >> we're glad to be in new york. you can't take the texas out of me, but i'm glad to be in new york! martha: hope you enjoy it. >> thank you. bill: 26 minutes past the hour. >>> a comment about witchcraft, following delaware's senate nominee christine o'donnell, how she explain it is and how sarah palin is getting involved. martha: and get a load of this, folks. it's a half ton alligator. look at how little that woman is. she nabbed that alligator. >> he was enormous! martha: she joins us live in "america's newsroom". we're going to ask her how she did that. bill: it is 9:30 in new york on a monday. we're awaiting a news conference out of herriman, utah, a fast moving wildfire forcing hundreds of folks out of their homes, firefighters saving two homes so far that have burned -- they've saved several homes so far but two have burned to the ground. >>> the man contradicted for the lockerbie bomber is well enough to get out of bed, he lost his daughter. scotland released megrahi after he was sick with prostate cancer. >

shimkus and mr. barton, for their support and commitment in getting this bill to the floor. i urge my colleagues to support the bill. and i reserve. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from new jersey reserves the balance of his time. the gentleman from kentucky is recognized. mr. whitfield: i thank mr. murphy. all of us recognize the importance of community health centers. they are spreading throughout the country and provide primary health care for the american people. and at this time, one of the real leaders in this area, mr. murphy of pennsylvania, i would like to yield five minutes to him. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from pennsylvania is recognized for five minutes. mr. murphy: thank you. community health centers provide high quality and low cost. they're more than just a doctor's office. a child can see a pediatrician, an adult can see an internist, you can go there if you're getting a cold instead of running up an emergency room bill. the doctors are under one room and coordinate your care working as a team in a one-stop wellness center. the costs for p