Dennis Kucinich

I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will report the amendment. The Clerk read as follows: At the end of the bill (before the short title) insert the following new section: ``Sec. __. None of the funds in this Act…

I think that this committee is the proper forum for us to determine whether or not the low-income minority students who are experiencing these high rate of defaults are in a situation where they are boxed in by the extraordinary cost at…

But let's not miss the connection. The size of the debt comes from the amount of money that people are charged for their education.

But one of the things that... the mountain you have to climb of debt is much larger if you are going to a for-profit college.

You want to explain that? When you say cost and the low wage rate, what do you mean?

I demand a recorded vote. The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to clause 6 of rule XVIII, further proceedings on the amendment offered by the gentleman from Ohio will be postponed. Amendment No. 69 Offered by Ms. Jackson Lee of Texas

I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will report the amendment. The Clerk read as follows: Page 9, line 6, after the dollar amount, insert ``(reduced by $3,600,000)''. Page 33, line 18, after the dollar amount…

The congressman is saying that there was a mistranslation or perhaps a problem with the translation.

If there is a willful miss characterization of what Congressman Kucinich said, then what you're saying, Anderson, is fair.

It's important that the international media are now in the country because you need to see things firsthand.

I'm here on a fact-finding mission. I'm here to listen to all sides.

Just briefly, and I thank the gentleman for yielding because, you know, this question about whether or not the government controls GM's decision, that's the focal point here.

For the record here, Mr. Chairman, my friend Mr. Johnson inserted into the record an e-mail from Greg Martin referencing the revisions made by Frederick Henderson.

Those 1.5 million... are in trouble and the PBGC is in trouble because the corporations who had made a commitment to fund those programs didn't keep their end of the deal.

I want to thank you for holding this hearing. It's a chance to conduct oversight, but it's also a chance to take stock of a critical and successful government intervention.

This question about whether or not the government controls GM's decision, that's the focal point here.

I want to thank the chairman.

Those 1.5 million... They are in trouble and the PBGC is in trouble because the corporations who had made a commitment to fund those programs didn't keep their end of the deal, isn't that right?

Does Congress normally provide top-up support for insufficient pensions that PBGC has taken over?

My understanding is that Delphi Corp. failed to make necessary contributions to its retirement plans and when PBGC assumed trusteeship of them you found them to be underfunded, is that true?

I not only voted against the bailout, I was one of the leaders against the bailouts.

Now I have a slightly different take on this, and Mr. Bloom rather than an outright bailout wasn't in support of GM and the auto industry, truly an investment, not only in auto companies themselves but in communities in the country.

I just want to say that, well, that the chair's line of inquiry here whether or not the Auto Task Force was running GM is an appropriate line of inquiry.

The winner it picked was the American automotive industry and the American auto workers.

The return on investment for the public from the restructuring of the domestic auto industry was extraordinary.