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Subcommittee Chairman Bart Stupak gives opening remarks. He notes that energy prices can be manipulated by speculating, including by the companies themselves, and plays audio recordings of one egregious example:
House Judiciary to Consider Bipartisan Subprime Mortgage Bill Compromise(Washington, DC)- The House Judiciary Committee will consider a substitute version of the Miller-Sánchez "Emergency Homeownership and Mortgage Equity Protection Act of 2007" during a markup TOMORROW, December 12, at 10:15 a.m. in room 2141 of the Rayburn House Office Building. The substitute reflects a compromise made with Rep. Steve Chabot (R-OH) that will help hundreds of thousands of homeowners save their homes from foreclosure while seeking bankruptcy to reorganize their debts.
"First Mitch McConnell sides with the White House and insists on a blank check for Iraq. Now he's fighting for earmarks over funding for cancer cures, the veterans' health care crisis, and 50,000 new American teachers. Under Senator McConnell's budget proposal, Iraq and his own re-election campaign would come first, while America's health care and education needs would come last. When the American people called for change in 2006, it was not to maintain the status quo in Iraq and the status quo in Washington."
Victim: Gang-Rape Cover-Up by U.S., Halliburton/KBR
ABC News - Dec. 10, 2007
A Houston, Texas woman says she was gang-raped by Halliburton/KBR coworkers in Baghdad, and the company and the U.S. government are covering up the incident.Jamie Leigh Jones, now 22, says that after she was raped by multiple men at a KBR camp in the Green Zone, the company put her under guard in a shipping container with a bed and warned her that if she left Iraq for medical treatment, she'd be out of a job.
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Chairman Ike Skelton gives opening remarks:
Rahall: CNMI Bill 'Puts to Rest' Degrading Era of Garment Industry AbusesWashington, D.C. -- The U.S. House of Representatives today approved comprehensive legislation -- shepherded by Natural Resources Committee Chairman Nick J. Rahall (D-WV) and Insular Affairs Subcommittee Chairwoman Donna Christensen (D-VI) -- to reform the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands (CNMI) immigration system, addressing nearly two decades of mounting concerns about CNMI immigration policy and years of political maneuvering by disgraced lobbyist Jack Abramoff.