suspended the bill is passed and without objection the motion to reconsider is laid on the table the chair rhodes will answer and say requests for one minute speeches for what purpose does a gentlewoman from florida rise to address the house for one minute be able to revise and extend without objection thank you madam speaker then a speaker of the house is not in order the gentlewoman is correct the house is not an order please take all conversations off the floor madam speaker i rise this evening to highlight one of the most important pieces of legislation yet to pass this congress the veterans affairs military construction appropriations bill each year from one thousand nine hundred five to two thousand and six the republican led congress passed record increase after increase for our nation's veterans more importantly the republican led congress made it a priority to pass the v a appropriations bill so that our veterans could continue git receive the care that they deserve that madam speaker cannot be said of this year's the a funding bill reports in today's congressional quarterly are that the majority is considering holding the vital v a bill hostage as a means of passing a giant under this bill to fund government operations the health and welfare of our veterans is more important to my constituents that is to score cheap political points here in washington d speaker i hope that you can find it in your heart to appoint conferees to the v a military construction appropriations bill and send the president a bill he can sign our veterans deserve nothing less thank you and i yield back the balance of my time but what purpose does the gentleman from texas dr west mission to address the house one minute without objection madam speaker oakland airport officials might as well put up a sign welcome to oakland but no u s military allowed here it seems that over two hundred marines from the combat fields of iraq flew into oakland california recently and were not allowed to deplane into the airport they were forced off a plane between two runways and had to sit in the grass for three hours while waiting to fly to a why the troops had flown from iraq vehicle white germany and j f k airport they had already been completely screened by customs and t s a at j f k but the officials  oakland airport wouldn't let them into the terminal one marine said no explanation was ever given interesting enough reports say this is not the first time oakland ban the u s military from its airport most airports welcome our returning troops with patriotism cheers flags and enthusiastic applause but not oakland that should be ashamed they should apologize to each marine and congress needs to find out why the marines were treated so poorly and even consider prohibiting federal funds from going to this airport  shown the airport is anti military and that's just the way it is for what purposes the gentleman from florida vi figure i ask unanimous consent to today a following legislative business and any special orders here to for entry into the following members may be permitted to address the house revise and extend their remarks and include their an extraneous material mr purpose does the gentleman from ohio arise madam speaker i actually then and this consent that to day following legislative business and any special orders here to four entered into the following members may be permitted to address the house for five minutes to revise and extend their remarks and include their in its journey its material ms wall the from california for five minutes mr de fazio from oregon for five minutes mr hall of new york for five minutes mr hare of illinois for five minutes mr mashad of maine for five minutes and mrs maloney of new york for a five minute objection the chair laid before the house the following personal please this absence requested for miss carson of indiana for today and until october fifth team mr conyers of michigan for today and mr kind of wisconsin for today without objection t request a granted under the speaker's announced policy of january eighteenth two thousand and seven and under previous order of the house the following members are recognized for five minutes each  california the what the gentleman is recognized for five minutes thank you madam speaker madam speaker the american people have been opposed to the occupation of iraq and they've been demanding  of our troops for a very long time now but the word obviously hasn't reached our nation's leaders last wednesday the secretary of defense asked congress to appropriate billions of dollars more to continue the occupation of iraq he said that american troops will remain in iraq for years to come with no end in sight the occupation has already cost nearly half a trillion dollars and what have we gotten for that investment even general petraeus couldn't say for sure that our involvement in iraq has made us any safer when he testified before congress last month and the national intelligence estimate warned us in july qaeda is using the occupation to energize extremists raise money and to recruit in indoctrinate operatives for attacks on the u s homeland madam speaker the way to make america truly safer is to end the occupation restore our moral leadership in the world and use the plumb a c to strengthen the structure and institutions of international cooperation and peace that's why it is time to tell our leaders in the white house that congress isn't going to be their friendly neighborhood a t m machine anymore congress has the power of the purse we can use that to force the administration to change course we must rethink used to appropriate one more dime for the occupation instead we must fully fund the save orderly and responsible redeployment of american troops and military contractors out of iraq read deployment of our troops is the necessary first step on the road to peace it is clear that iraq will never stabilize while american troops and the vast unaccountable army of one hundred and eighty thousand american military contractors are there our occupation of iraq prevents the rockies from finding solutions to their own problems and it delays the regional and international efforts needed to jump start a true peace process the administration has said that it plans to redeploy some troops but this is just a tactic i believe to win political favor the arithmetic proves it w that began this year with a hundred thirty thousand troops in iraq the escalation brought the level to one hundred sixty thousand now the administration says that it will bring out thirty thousand troops so that by next summer we will again have one hundred thirty thousand troops so men speak and we end up with the same number of troops but the administration calls it a reduction i call it fuzzy math president bush has created a national mathematics panel to study ways to improve methods cation america that's a really good thing because the president himself needs help with ad addition and subtraction actually men speaker the only way to make sure that our troops are out of harm's way is to proceed right now with a full redeployment and end the fantasy that there is a military solution to this quagmire if we fail to use our power of the purse if we continue to spend our taxpayers dollars on this occupation instead of ending it we will have failed politically we will have failed economically and we will have failed morally and we will have failed our brave troops along with all of the american people it is time to bring our troops home i yield back paul of texas the gentleman is recognized for five minutes thank you madam speaker yesterday under the bright sun and blue sky of a texas sunday afternoon american flags flew in  breeze over thousands of quiet marble uniform tombstones and the houston national cemetery this is where texans bury their war dead men and women who go off to war for america in the center of the  a tribute a sacrifice was being made to the living those mothers who lost their children in the war in iraq and afghanistan mothers of texas who gave their children that died in their youth so that the rest of us could live in safety these women these mothers were honored on this gold star mothers day i was present along with congressman jean greying congressman nick lampson and congressman kevin brady to honor the special ladies we like these those present were emotionally affected gold star moms or what we call them is a mother who lost a child in combat this concept started in world war two when grace siebold learned on christmas eve one thousand nine hundred eighteen that her aviator son was killed in aerial combat in france great siebold directed her grief and sorrow to helping wounded doughboy as in local d c hospitals she formed the gold star mothers to give support for other such moms during war one if a son had gone off to war and the war to end all wars as it was called a banner was hung in front of the home in the window for each son in the military this banner had a blue star in the center of it that the son was killed a gold star was superimposed over the one during the great world war two my grandmother poe hung such a banner with a blue star in the front window of her home in the country my dad went off to war when he was just eighteen and when my grandmother died it was one of the few items she had saved that banner never had to have a gold star placed on it because my dad returned safely madam speaker here's a banner of a gold star mother has the name of the soldier that was killed william  junior he was killed in afghanistan he was from the woodlands texas he was a corporal in the united states army the blue star banners are very similar to this except in the middle there is a blue star rather than a gold star and when that son or daughter is killed in combat the gold stars superimposed over the blue and this concept these banners have been carried through all throughout all of america's war since world war one in a plot of sons and daughters killed in war so yesterday these mothers of the fallen were there and standing guard around them were the patriot guard motorcycle members rugged vietnam veterans who escort the fallen to this cemetery for burial there was a twenty one gun salute then after all the speeches these women were given yellow roses from texas and the buglers paid taps for those fallen about a speaker as a father of four i can think of nothing worse and more tragic than to lose one of my own kids no parent wants their son or daughter killed in unknown foreign lands no parent wants their child too pretty to see it's them and no parent wants their child to die in their youth but it happens and the grave can only be understood by other as congressman green said yesterday even the greatest heart surgeon in the world dr michael de bakey cannot repair such a broken heart of a mother like this mothers or especially especially the mothers of those who wear the american uniform those that keep statistics on the last words of soldiers say more often than not the dying words of many soldiers in combat is mother mother it seems to me the strongest bond in all of creation is the bond between a mother and her child the good lord made it that way on purpose and when that bond is broken by the loss of a child that wound just never heals madam speaker one out of every nine people in the military is from the state of texas and about four hundred texans ten percent of the total killed a four thousand have been killed in iraq and afghanistan yet sons and daughters throughout america continue to join our military knowing that they will no doubt go into the desert of the sun in the valley of the gun and they leave behind their parents their mothers so as we show honor and respect america's children who serve let us not forget the american show american compassion and ultimate get gratitude for the mothers of those troops who display the gold star of sacrifice from their windows and the next time we pass a house with one of these gold stars one of these four thousand that are throughout the united states and they are being displayed in the window maybe we should stop and say a prayer and say thank you because of that special mother who gave that child for the rest of us and that's just the way it gentleman is recognized for five minutes thank you madam speaker i'd like to revise and extend my remarks i want to comment right now on a little article that was in the paper probably most americans didn't see it today but  i followed what went on in zimbabwe a long time ago and when the communist leader mr mugabe took over and he said that they were going to make that country greater because of the movement toward communism well here's what's happened since he took office the government says that it's going to have to import one hundred tons of extra wheat but that's still going to be real really short of the three hundred seventy five thousand tons that they need to feed their people and the united nations world food program estimates that at least three million people will need to make our emergency food aid in zimbabwe before the april corn harvest communism simply doesn't work it hasn't worked in the past didn't work in the soviet union and it hasn't worked in zimbabwe or other places and we ought to be very thankful that we live  democratic republic in this country and we have to do everything we can to help those who are living under the under the yoke of communism and do everything we can to make them free i think is extremely important because when you go to those countries as i have and you see what those people have to live like and you see the starvation the little children with big bellies because they don't have the food they need you realize that the communist menace is very very costly any place that occurs in the whole world as the here illinois gentleman is recognized for five minutes speaker i rise this evening in strong opposition to the pending pru free trade agreement nafta promised americans two hundred thousand new nafta jobs higher wages and increasing us trade surplus with mexico you now nearly fifteen years later the evidence shows that nafta failed to make good on its promises in fact in many areas in which benefits were promised conditions are worse than before nafta went into effect for example in direct contact tradition a contradiction to the promises of nafta nearly one million jobs were destroyed directly by the nafta free trade deal might just work in particular has suffered the loss of one thousand six hundred jobs when nafta forced mate maytag to leave galesburg illinois for sonora mexico and just last week it was announced that carhart manufacturing a clothing company will cease production and move to mexico at the end of december every aspect of the city of galesburg is hurting the economy the schools the small businesses that feed into these plants and the citizens have lost their give foreign investors the authority to sue the united states government in foreign tribunals for violating their f t a granted rights second the peru trade agreement includes a nafta  and off anti offshoring policies the f d a requires foreign firms be treated the same as american firms seeking government contracts challenging our right to invest tax dollars into american jobs and businesses s that literally replicate job killing aspects of the core nafta cap the model have not been addressed not one word was changed in the bush negotiated text in addition the interface working group on trade and investment released a statement sa quote based on our experience with the nafta and kept the models the us prue sta will cause loss livelihoods a rural communities reduced access to lifesaving medications and perpetuates a global race to the bottom for workers safety right here in the united states in a statement released on may eleventh they fell say oh president john sweeney reminded us of the bush administration's of force when failures in past agreements by saying the bush violations against nations like jordan  china reminds us there's no guarantee the executive branch will enforce any new rights workers may gain through these negotiations the machine is labor union echoed mr sweeney stating in a letter to congress dated august second it states we are well aware of this administration's dismal record when it comes to work rights for example it is refused to issue a trade complaint against china for workers rights violations described fully in a f l cio submissions given its past record we feel that this administration will simply ignore even the most egregious labor violations and recently i received a letter from to prove in a letter federation's labor federation concerned about the labor provisions in the pending f d a man speaker our trade policies must start to serve the interests of american working families and workers around the globe we can do better we need to overhaul our trade readjustment program we need to calculate the loss of american jobs when this bill goes into effect and we need to remember that our majority is here because working men and women demanded that we look out for them and their families let's slow down vote no on this trade deal and stand up for those people who stood up for us that madam speaker is the very least we can do i urge my colleagues to please vote no on the pruett dream and you go back to balance my time mr link india but a lot of florida the gentleman is recognized for five minutes thank you thank you madam speaker pro democracy activists inside cuba report that an undetermined number of dissidents were detained by the dictatorship on the morning of september twenty seventh the dissidents were on their way to participate in peaceful activities to request the release of political prisoners those detained in cuba on september twenty seventh include marbury at that he's broken jorge luis garcia but it's on doing this and others whose names i do not have at this time it is unknown how many of the detained dissidents have been released and how many will be kept in confinement it is up to the whim of the ailing tyrant the list of political prisoners languishing in cuba cuban prisons is long madam speaker sixty dissidents who were peacefully expressing their opposition to the dictatorship remain in prison since the regime's brutal crackdown of march two thousand and three joining hundreds of other political prisoners reporters without borders reports that there are at least twenty three journalists languishing in abysmal conditions in cuban prisons the miami herald today published a very important editorial about one such journalist i think it's an editorial that deserves commendation and attention that silence may die for exercising free speech in cuba and independent journalist he has been imprisoned since cuba's crackdown on dissidents in april two thousand and three now he is so critically ill that he was transferred to a military hospital last week it's bad enough that mr nunn has gone salis thirty nine is serving a twenty five year sentence for criticizing the government something people in free countries do every day yet things could get worse returning him to prison would be a death sentence this is where he contracted serious ailments chronic digestive disorders and tuberculosis among them even in his can even even if his condition were to improve in the hospital he would not last long in the filthy cells and eating the food given to p accusing the cuban regime of torturing mr adams on this mossad is by denying him proper medical treatment the following day he was sent to have an a hospital he appears to be getting some medical treatment according to his wife that wasn't the case before mr adams on this go saleh has been deteriorating since his first year in prison he has been beaten placed in solitary confinement and repeatedly denied access to basic medical care he blames overcrowded vermin filled cells and contaminated food and water for his multiple illnesses he suffers nausea diarrhea fever fainting spells and weight loss last december he was rushed from his prison to a hospital and got my way there he was placed in a room with no furniture his food was thrown under the door he returned to prison more information on his case go to penn's website at penn dot org that the world know that mr adam dunn is going sideways and hundreds of other political prisoners haven't been forgotten all of them should be released and quote that's the miami herald today editorial now madam speaker the same week that approximately thirty dissidents were rounded up and thrown in dungeons by the cuban dictatorship the spanish government of a host at least earlier yes some thought they do decided to unilaterally break the european union's common position on cuba by entering into a cooperation agreement with the cuban tyranny mr they use up what they do and his government does continue to act as the castro brothers most zealous advocates in europe and they deserve the condemnation of all freedom loving men and women for their disgraceful actions i renew tonight my call for the immediate liberation of all political prisoners and prisoners of conscience into tearing into cuba and urge international solidarity for them and for their right to be released immediately and unconditionally all of them now shell of men i think you madam speaker the gentleman is recognized for five minutes thank you madam speaker many of the newly elected freshman campaign on a platform of ensuring a significant change of course from the bush trade policy the prove trade agreement is based on the same flawed nafta caffe the model that has been so devastating to industries all across our nation while i campaigned for the seat five years ago the cornerstone of my campaign also was to fix our broken trade policy i've seen firsthand what they have done to the state of maine i firmly believe that in order to address our trade imbalance we have to change the trade model the proof free trade agreement the same old model with a little bit stick there is overwhelming opposition to the agreement by unions environmental consumer and small business groups they're all asking congress to oppose the pru f p a who supports the bill the lodge multinational corporation big business does when tom donohue president the united states chamber of commerce states  quote that he is encouraged by assurance that the labor provisions cannot be read to require compliance with the aiello conventions end of quote we should be more than skeptical while we have all heard that the proof trade agreement text improves labor environmental standards we fail to hear that they were added upon top of the same old nafta and calf to tax the bottom line this is another bush after expansion key unions were worried about the labor provisions the new provisions require countries to and adopt maintain in a force only the terms of the o o declaration on fundamental principles and rights at work the new f d a language does not require signatories to meet the i l o conventions that the binding standards the declaration is a non binding statement it is highly likely that changes to the environment and labor provisions will have no real effect on the ground we all know that the bush administration has a long record of not enforcing the standards of past trade agreements why should they start now and there are so many problems with the peru free trade agreement whether it's the privatization of social security ban on anti offshoring or failure to protect intellectual property rights there are more than enough reasons to oppose the pru s t a not to mention if you look at nafta nafta has caused a worse problem here in the united states with illegal immigration the peru free trade agreement will do the same thing cause the illegal immigration problem to get worse i could go on and on about the pru f d a i asked my colleagues to really listen to what america is saying about these feel free trade agreements i'm asking members to vote their conscience oppose the peru f d a appeal back to balance my time ms maloney of new york under the speakers and now policy of january eighteenth two thousand and seven the gentlewoman from ohio ms tubbs jones is recognized for sixty minutes as the designee of the majority leader thank you madam speaker it's so good to see you in the chair and especially on this occasion as we engage in the congressional black caucus message hour this evening it gives me great pleasure to spend some time talking about the  legislative conference that was this past weekend right here in washington d c and i'm joined this evening by the co chairs the chair of the congressional black caucus foundation is kendrick meek but the co chairs of this wonderful week in this year are my good friend g k butterfield from north carolina and my colleague and good friend donna christian christianson from the virgin islands so i'm going to begin by yielding such time as he may consume to my colleague and good friend from the great state of north carolina g k butterfield for as much time as he may consume thank you very much i want to first of all thank the generator from ohio for our friendship and for her leadership here in the congress one of the first members that i met when i came to washington three years ago was stephanie tubbs jones she is engaged all of the time and and certainly representing the constituents of her district and so madam speaker thank you for giving me the opportunity to share  thoughts with you this evening we have just finished the thirty seventh annual legislative conference of the congressional black caucus foundation i want to delineate between the congressional black caucus and the congressional black caucus foundation  those are two separate entities and so often people confuse those entities but the congressional black caucus proper is simply and unofficial organization of the forty three c b c members african american members who serve and in the congress who meet from time to time to discuss public policy issues it is not a foundation it is simply an informal gathering of members of congress back contrast the congressional black  foundation is a very formal organization it is a five zero one c three tax exempt foundation that has been in existence for many years and so i want to start off by making that point abundantly clear the congressional black caucus is composed of forty three members we hear that number from time to time that's a very important number if it has not always been forty three members the african american representation here in congress has evolved over the years and now it is that its highest point in its history forty two african americans serve in the house of those forty to forty of full voting members of the house  representatives the other two have the right to vote in committees and the committee of the whole but not in the full house because they represent the district of columbia and the virgin islands and hopefully one day in the not too distant future even those two members will have a right to  full participation here in the congress but having forty two african americans in the house of representatives is a significant that is seventeen percent of the house of representatives at least the democrats in the house of representatives come from the congressional black caucus and so that's very important and so over the years the congressional black caucus has seen fit to annually produce an annual legislative conference whereby african american leaders from all across the country can come to washington and fellowship and to act and network with other people from across the country and then we conclude that week by having and a gala oil or nan you would enter and we've just completed the thirty seventh annual conference this past week and it kendrick is we used to call him a part of the thirty something club but he's now past that great forty year old mark but he's still a young and an energetic and dynamic you remember late thirty something no ma'am i'm not i'm a member of the sixty something that but i can't make as has led our organization and we had a very very good conference last week i'm not going to go into all of the details i'm sure my colleague donna christian from the virgin islands who was also my co chair last week may give you more details about it but it was a wonderful week we had brain trust on just about every topic that you can imagine we had a gospel extravaganza and and one of my choirs from north carolina came to washington then and really really had a magnificent showing in that extravaganza and then we had a prayer breakfast you see we we are very close to pray on the congressional black caucus because we know that it has been our faith that has brought us thus far along the way and then we concluded on saturday night with our gala i don't know how many a thousand people were at that dinner but there were more than three thousand yes there there were more more like or five thousand people in attendance at the dinner and it was a great success and so i want to thank all of those persons who had a hand in making the week the success that it was particularly dr elsie scott and the staff of the congressional black caucus foundation you know congresswoman i would say in speeches all of the time and i will say here on the house floor today you know we get credit for a lot of things that we really don't deserve members of congress we cut the ribbons and take the pictures and sit in meetings and and  there has only been one hundred twenty two african americans who have served in the united states congress that is an actual statistic our research shows that nineteen african americans served in the house of representatives during reconstruction four of those were from my district that i now represent which is the northeastern corner of north carolina eight of those were from south carolina which is the district that my good friend and the majority whip of this house congressman jim clyburn represents but we've only had one hundred twenty two african americans to serve in this body and so we've come a long ways to have forty two african american serving in the house and one in the senate and so we have a lot of work to do and i'm going to close by simply saying that we had a good week and a very successful weekend and i know it's self serving for me to say this congresswoman but i think it's the best conference that we've had in our thirty seven years and so many people deserve the credit with that i yield back the balance of my time before you leave i want to congratulate you on your choice of prayer breakfast speaker dr clifford jones out of north carolina was warm wonderful speaker and his thing somebody prayed for me i think it right home with all of us and we had a wonderful wonderful time in praise and worship allah saturday morning you would have thought we'd actually turn the convention center into a church on saturday morning with a wonderful experience we had a seven missionary baptist preacher who came to washington and delivered a powerful sermon when i first suggested dr jones's name a few months ago few people were skeptical because they had not heard of him before and when they came up with their name i had not heard of their name before and so i thought it was time to have a southern minister and dr clifford jones what a wonderful job as the revenue way i'm barbara from goes barbara who delivered the pro goes far north carolina who delivered the prayer for the nation dr barber is also the state president of the n w c p in north carolina and it was just a wonderful occasion you would have had to had to have been there to really appreciate it and hopefully  persons who didn't come this year may safe see fit to come next year i wasn't part of the choice but i knew a minister dame joan said to be really are thankful thank you very much for the choice well thank you staff thank you all of you who have a hand in making this happen including  the chairwoman of the congressional black caucus itself i failed to mention the name of carolyn cheeks kilpatrick congresswoman kilpatrick is the leader of the congressional black caucus and that's a tough job leading forty three diverse politicians but she reconciles all about differences in our all of our views and and leads the black caucus with great distinction and so thank you as well to congresswoman your packet with that mr jones i will yell back the balance of my time thank you very much you madam speaker it gives me great pleasure to yield time to my colleague and good friend congresswoman donna christian christianson she chairs the health brain trust for the congressional black caucus she represents  high school students and which is also a part of our discussion a very integral part of our discussion at the annual legislative conference and we will very fortunate that while we were there mychal bell was released from prison and we were able to have the lead attorney louis scott come up and join us for a session absolutely yes but this was our thirty seventh annual legislative conference and our theme as you heard was unleashing our power that is also exactly what we here in the c b c anarch and situations across the country intend to do going forward unleash our power and i also want to join my co chair in thanking the chair of the congressional black  for his strong and visionary leadership of the foundation and of the conference and to thank our c b c chairwoman the honorable carolyn cheeks kilpatrick for her stellar guidance as we have come into the majority as she has coalesced and directed our power to influence the product of what i think will be a historic hundred tenth congress madam speaker i also as you heard just a few minutes ago had a great partner in my co chair congressman g k butterfield of north carolina whose input vision and hard work really helped to make this week a successful and momentous one as it was of course as he said to the a l c could not have been successful without the work of our staff his staff and my staff and the staff of the foundation under the excellent and skilled leadership of dr elsie scott its president as this year's co chair was a special person pleasure for me to welcome generation now another virgin islanders including neville peter who sang at much about him well he's a young man he was born in and raised in st thomas and my district in the u s virgin islands and at twelve well he started his musical career very early at about five mostly on the piano and one other instrument but around twelve he pretty much lost his sight he became behind at about age twelve that didn't stop him though he went on to college at the university of miami and studied music there actually specializing in jazz  and some other kinds of music but in recent years he's turned his talent to the service of the lord and he has been a gospel singer writer and he actually perform one of his original compositions which as he said was a testimony of his own life and his it was pioneering god it was personal it was perfect we mark remarks so it's personal now it's personal we were marked as we were sitting at the table listening to him that his future but yeah so we have them and we had a generation now and of course all of many of us in the congressional black caucus also had our emerging leaders come up from my district that we sponsored mine were attorney mark hodge and  conference a weekend that was all about power and it wasn't only about power in the congress but it was a power in our community that is still really untapped unleashed and we could do be really agents of change for our community and our country if we were tech really come together and use the power that is ours i'm with you so i wanted to focus the rest of my remarks on the town hall though and the health sessions that i was a part of there were many h sessions there were many sessions period on a number of issues all of them very interesting and very informative but the town hall first was a real powerful discussion on ways to eliminate or reduce the factors that lead so many black men and now increasingly black women into prison we entitled disrupting the prison pipeline because we wanted to focus on positive action to to really stop what was what has been happening over the years and that to our session was also attended by almost i think over a thousand people at that town hall that morning and we discussed how the disparities in education health including mental health and substance abuse how poverty and unemployment in the criminal justice system the disparities in those areas create a pathway to incarceration rather than to college for so many men in the african american community we had wonderful speakers we had reggie weaver the president of the national education association from north carolina an expert on child and family judicial issues janks morton was a writer here in the sea representing the media and several acts of offenders who've really major mattick turn around in their lives we want to thank them as well as our moderator leon harris and the members of congress who participated congressman congressman bobby scott who chairs the crime subcommittee of judiciary and has turned that into has begun to focus that committee and prevention