are contributing to development as well, the brcs, the brazils, the turkeys, the indyaz, contribute to peacekeeping and there's a multi-cultural dimension that has not only our armed forces working in these theaters but side by side with others, and i think there's a new language of development which these countries are bringing which is that we all get security. we know that you have to have that to be able to move forward, but they are bringing the language that gayle said of health, access to health, access to education, access to legitimate decision-making bodies are extremely important. i remember about 20 years ago a.i.d. did a study comparing rule of law in different countries, supply versus demand, and they couldn't immediately understand why alternative dispute resolution got a consistently high grade for people as opposed to building courthouses or training judges, and the answer was clear. it was access to justice, the ability to resolve someone's

conflict and walk away without shooting one another was the biggest gift one could give in a community, and i think that this is what we have learned and we have applied so we've made a lot of progress in that sense. we have lots to go but certainly listening to the demand side is equally important. >> when i was at the central hospital in port-au-prince, teams were arriving in this wild and very encouraging ad hoc way. jeeps would roll up. nurses and doctors would pour out. trucks would roll up with equipment and put on private planes in florida and so on, and there were traffic cops basically, doctors who sent people where they were needed for two of the most heroic nights that i've ever seen in my life. but even the traffic cops didn't quite know what to do when a huge church of scientology team

arrived, and he said, well, what do you guys do, and there were a large number of people on the grounds who were traumatized from the violence, and here are all these people who don't believe in psych industiatry so quickly put their heads together and the team got sent out to do massages which they did for the next several weeks, and -- and -- but it worked, it worked. instead of saying we don't need you guys here or go home or we're not sure what to do with you, there was this sort of feeling, look, you know, some hands showed up, some people showed up. let's put them to work and i thought, all right, good for you. there was a tent with scientology practitioners giving massages and not giving out psychotrophic drugs. we have just about a minute left. is there something that remains unsaid that somebody was dying to say when someone else was talking? >> yes.

>> good, okay. you've got -- >> at risk of being sentimental, i was in a meeting on friday with our vice president, the president of liberia, and i think for all of the cases where we look at these complex environments and humanitarian crises and say it's important. the president commented about the progress that they had made in nine years, and i just asked all of us to remember that as painful and ugly as some of these things are, lysz why a decade ago was one of the most horrific places on earth. ten years is a long time and a lot of blood was spilled and a lot of political and other capital expended, but i think what keeps all of us going is those successes, and i would just hope to leave us with that thought. it takes patience and it takes time and takes political leadership, but i think what we've been able to see in our lifetimes is it's entirely doable. >> okay, and hope, and hope. >> and love.

>> that's right. terrific to see. this week secretary of state hillary clinton spoke about the ongoing situation in syria. >> we have confronted the russians about stopping their continued arms shipments to syria. they have from time to time said that we shouldn't worry. everything they are shipping is unrelated to their actions internally and that's that patently untrue, and we are concerned about the latest information that we have that there are attack helicopters on

the way from russia to syria which will escalate the conflict quite dramatically. >> watch the rest of the discussion on the arab-israeli peace process online at the c-span video library. kenya, indonesia, hawaii, kansas, chicago and washington. this weekend on book-tv follow david maraniss on his journey "walking in a president's footsteps" for barack obama, the story, sunday starting at 6:00 p.m. eastern, a video record of his travels and then live at 7:30 david maraniss takes your calls and questions. also this weekend on "afterwards," conservative commentator jonah goldberg blames liberals for an ongoing war on ideas using "the tyranny of cliches." >> american politics distorted for the past century or so by the idea that you further you move away from the left the further you get to bad things, one word is fascist and another one is racist and homophobic and

a fascist in political life is a conservative winning an argument. >> that's sunday night at 9:00 on "book-tv" this weekend on c-span 2. the story behind "the star spangled banner," invasion and burning of washington, d.c. this weekend on american history tv. mark the bicentennial of the start of the war of 1812 from ft. mchenry, the site which francis scott key would see through the rockets red glare, historians, authors and your calls on this little known war live saturday at 11:00 a.m. eastern. also this weekend, more from our series on key political figures who ran for president and lost but changed political history. "the contenders," sunday at 7:30 p.m. this week with three-time democratic candidate for president william jennings bryant, american history-tv, this weekend on c-span 3. one of the quotes from a white house staffer that i thought was really exceptionally inspiring was once you realize

the magnitude of difference can you make in public life, everything else will pale in comparison. >> and so i think it was best put this week when someone from the white house came and said -- he said a quote and said those who think they are crazy enough to change the world are the ones that actually do. >> mr. bryant, the same man that christopher was talking about, said choose carefully and execute relentlessly, and that meant a lot to me because too many times we find ourselves taking too many things on and not really focusing on that one thing that should be a top priority. >> every year the u.s. senate youth program brings students to washington for a week of government and leadership education. this year brian kamoie made an impact. he's a senior director on the white house national security staff. >> so i started with a mindset of what is it like to be them, and now that i'm in this role, what could i share with them that either i wish i had known along the way or that they will remember when they leave washington week, which as you've

mentioned, is a very intense rapid-fire experience, so if you leave a few key encouraging messages at a time where you know where it's very easy to be cynical about politics, it's a good thing to encourage young people to pursue public service. >> more with brian kamoie, sunday at 8:00 p.m. eastern and pacific on c-span. this is c-span 3 with politics and public affairs programming throughout the week and every weekend, 48 hours of people and event telling the american story on "american history-tv." get our schedules and see past programs at our websites, and can you join in the conversation on social media sites. next week on "washington journal spotlight on magazines," peter elkin on his "fortune" magazine articles "the last days of mf global," the finance company headed by form new jersey governor jon corzine.

mf global collapsed with $1.6 billion in customer money missing. can you find a link to the article on our website c-span.org and the author will take your calls on c-span starting at 9:15 a.m. eastern wednesday. the u.s. chamber of commerce held its annual job creation summit this week here in washington. one discussion focused on how local officials can work with the private sector and educational institutions in promoting economic growth. we'll hear from the mayor of denver and the top official in the pennsylvania county that includes pittsburgh. >> good afternoon, everyone. if you'll be so kind as to take your seats, we'll move on with our program. i'm al martinez font is, the u.s. executive vice president for policy innovation and i'm

sitting in for margaret spellings, still off with the governors still doing a little interview. it's my pleasure to introduce to you one of the national chamber's foundations fellow and our scholar nick schultz who will be moderating the next panel. as an ncf fellow and scholar, nick has conducted original research on high-skilled immigration and its importance to america's economic competitiveness. in addition to his work with ncf, nick is the dewitt wallace fellow at the american enterprise institute where he specializes in political, economic and technology research. he is the editor-in-chief of american.com, aei's online journal focusing on business, economics and public affairs. nick also co-authored an acclaimed book on modern economic growth and development with arnold king called "from poverty to prosperity." this influential work is on

ncf's list of books that drive the free enterprise debate. nick has already made an important contribution to ncf and the chamber's policy efforts, but most importantly his critical thinking, credible research and thoughtful analysis are contributing immeasurably to the national economic debate. please join me in welcoming nick schultz. >> thank you, al. thank you, al, and welcome everyone to this panel on city case study, growth, jobs and innovation at the local level. as al mentioned i work at the american enterprise institute. we do a lot of work on national public policy issues. a lot of times the discussions about them can be really abstract, and one of the things that i like about what ncf does and what the chamber has been doing, both in its enterprising states, studies and series, but also this -- this look that

we're going to do at cities is looking at a really granular level at what practitioners are doing on the ground in states and cities. it's incredibly important to do this because that's the way we're actually going to find out what policy-makers are facing and the business community is face when we actually look at cities that face challenges and that take steps to rise and meet those challenges, and we have two very good examples of those today in pittsburgh and denver, and i'm particularly glad that pittsburgh and denver, two of my favorite series in, part because their respective football teams, the broncos and steelers are in the afc so the redskins don't have to worry about them in trying to win the nfc. the super bowl is another matter. and you should have on the table in front of you this the study right here which is an outgrowth of the enterprising states' study. it's a profile on job creation

that looks at denver and pittsburgh, and i just want to give you a couple highlights and then we're going to get into the discussion. pittsburgh and denver were good choices because there are -- the u.s. has about 50 metro areas that are a million people or more, and both pittsburgh and denver had in recent years much, much higher job growth than the other cities. about a percentage point higher in recent years which is pretty remarkable. and one of the things that the report highlights is the importance of cities as their policy-makers and businesses is their thinking about how do we create jobs and provide economic opportunity is to u.n. what your innate strengths r.now, there's a temptation when policy-makers get into office to say, okay, we need jobs and we need dynamism and we need economic activity so we'll think of silicon valley. let's try to be like silicon valley, and we'll imitate what they do, and a lot of times that doesn't work, or they will say, you know what, the movie

industry has been really important for l.a. maybe we can get movies made here. that will be a driver of growth and jobs. but it doesn't look at what's really innate and specific to a city itself and try and leverage that, but pittsburgh and denver about good examples of cities that have done that, that have looked at what their own inner strengths are and have said how can we build on those. let me give you a couple of brief examples. both cities are known for a tradition of having manufacturing. now, there's a perception, it's a false one that manufacturing is in decline in this country. my colleague and an ncf fellow mark perry has done a lot of research on this. there's actually somewhat of a manufacturing boom going on if you look at advanced manufacturing, and pittsburgh and denver are good examples of cities that have really -- that have looked to their roots of manufacturing but have made this jump into advanced manufacturing with higher jobs, higher wages, higher productivity, and it's a

remarkable success story. another example for both cities is that they both harness the potential of the new income boom that's going on with natural gas and the like. now, some luis alicea and some of the governors were talking about this, well, states are just happy to be sitting on and fortunate to be sitting on top of these energy reserves, boston as my friend joel who spoke to you earlier can attest, there's plenty of states sitting on top of enormous energy deposits not doing anything about it. california is a good example. this is where business leadership and political leadership really matters and denver and pittsburgh are two examples of cities that are taking advantage of the natural resources and endowments they have. those are areas that both cities have in common, but, you know, one example where denver has leveraged a traditional strength is in -- is in trade. denver's a traditional crossroads, and it's built on that tradition to really leverage international trade, and it's booming. its international trade has been

booming. its exports are up 70% from 2005, for example. pittsburgh has had a tradition of higher education, both with great research universities like carnegie-mellon, university of pittsburgh medical center and the like, and it's leveraged those assets to become a real leader in things like health care, robotics and information technology and the like. so i think that's important that we think about that when we're trying to draw lessons for other states and other communities. so here's how this is going to work. we're going to have a conversation. you all should have pieces of white paper on your tables. i ask that you write down questions which will be submitted to me so that we can get questions from the audience, and what we're going to do is we're going to start to my right, your left, and we're going to go down, and we're going to hear about two or three minutes, just a little bit of an overview from -- from our panelists. the first one that we're going to hear from is the honorable michael hancock who is the mayor of denver, and so with that i'm going to turn it over to mayor

hancock who is going to talk to us, and then we'll move down the line. >> thank you, nick, and i want to thank the u.s. chamber for the invitation to be here today. i think if you take a look at denver and identify the words that best describe really our positioning and kind. things that we have done over the years, even prior to me arriving as mayor of the city, that has helped sustain and ignite our growth over these turbulent years, words such as regionalism, partnership, particularly public/private partnerships with my friend and colleague here to the left, kelly brough, as well as with daveda, and other companies, as well as collaboration, these are words that quite frankly, and i should say also vision have really solidified our city going forward, and they started decades before i arrived. just to give you a hint of what i was talking about, 154 years ago denver was considered a city that was too dead to bury. that's a direct quote from an

economic development leader, and when they started running trains from sheyenne, denver realized that if it convicted to cheyenne with a train, it could really create an economic opportunity as a city. fast forward to the new change in transportation where air became the more dominant form for people to move around the united states and to move product. denver visionaries had the foresight to open up stapleton international airport, and it didn't take long before it became the most dominant form of commerce for the city of denver. when the economy began to sag again it was a visionary by the name of federico pena who said let's build a new airport. we have become here at stapleton and, again, we can't grow and denver responded by building denver international airport. as a result, this city began be to be -- to take its journey to

what i love governor herbert said beginning to embrace the global market. now i arrive in 2011 as the new mayor, and we look at emerging industries which really call and beckon cities to begin to embrace kind of this globalization. in other words, we will be most successful if we do a few things. number one, embrace the global market. two, work on investing locally which means we've got to do the things necessary to be successful, educate the work force. make sure we are investing and leveraging those emerging markets in the global economy, thereby attracting or having a reason why someone would want to come to your city and invest, and, two, why we want to go globally and invest, and thirdly, invest in our infrastructure which never has done over the years, even proseeding me to build what i believe is the most vibrant downtown in denver. as a result you have companies

like daveda wanting to relocating. as a result, you have a massive investment in the transit system. as a rushlgts we are the number one destination for 18 to 34-year-olds in the nation today. they are moving and flocking to denver in droves. now, they are coming without jobs, but they are coming nonetheless, creating a new base for us. and as a result we begin to take a look at how we can use and leverage our position as a city in the middle of this nation where you can get anywhere from denver in a matter of 2 to 12 hours, anywhere in the world, by air. leveraging our port, growing that global attraction to our city. the last thing i'll say to you is through the investment of our infrastructure is at the height of this recession our then mayor john hickenlooper led the effort to invest in our infrastructure at a tune of a half a billion

bond issue. as a result, four years later as we begin to emerge out of this, you see denver sitting as the number one city for the creation of construction jobs because we've been building and investing even during these economic challenges. that sense of vibrancy is beginning to attract even more businesses and opportunities to our city, and as mayor it's an awesome tool for me to use as i try to market the city for job recruitment. >> great. thank you, mayor hancock. kelly jean brough, the director of the metro chamber of commerce for denver. >> thanks. it's good to be here. just to follow up on what the mayor was highlighting. you know, in colorado i think the huge benefit of why we get to sit here today with pittsburgh is that the history of this country and frankly the world has been if you sat on a body of water chances were good you could find your way towards success economically, and technology has really changed that and positioned us who are inland to find our place in the world and really be competitive,

but it required a very different approach. and i think the two things we have really been both lucky and good and we accept both of those is, one, in the development of our workforce. we're the second most educated state in the country, and some of that is because we're lucky. people want to move there because of our quality of life and what we deliver as a state, and the second one is because i think we're willing to acknowledge some of our weaknesses, and that is graduating our own kids and preparing them to be the workforce we want, and i think our willingness to call out where we're not as strong and tackle it head on has been a huge, huge advantage for us. we tend to do it very early, and we do it with great vigor. the second thing i would say is our business climate and our recognition that we also, because we didn't have a history of needing to build our economy the way many cities on the coast have, we didn't know you were supposed to ask things like what's your family name and where did you go to school? did your ancestors come over on

the may flower? we skipped all of those questions, and we went straight to do you want to contribute? do you have an idea? do you need help and how can you get involved in our community? and i would say that attitude was our second very good competitive edge that has positioned us very well as we go into this next kind of economic future that we face as a world. i'll quit there and look forward to the discussions that we're about to get into and thanks for having us here, nick. >> great. kelly, thank you. now, you would expect the mayor of the city and someone at the chamber to be boosters, but we also have with us chris riopelle, senior vice president of operations of daveda and didn't used to be. it's a transplant and there's an interesting story so why don't you tell us your perspective on denver. a little bit about daveda first, a large health care services company focused primarily on the dialysis space but recently expand nada broad part of health care so i was interested in

debate earlier today about affordable care. we're delighted to call denver home. about three years ago we announced our decision to relocate from california to colorado, and we've done that in about a month. we'll be moving to our brand new headquarters in a special part of downtown denver, a significant redevelopment effort. davida is a company that cares for 140,000 people with 40,000-plus teammates. that's what we call our care-givers in 2,700 locations across america. we're delighted that denver is home. we'll talk some more during this session about why we made that decision. there's lots of factors that went into it, but suffice it to say that we believed we were moving to a community that would embrace us and support us in many, many ways and denver -- in the city of denver and the state of colorado has outperformed significantly in that regard so delighted to be here and part of

the discussion. >> great. thank you, chris. that's our denver delegation. now we're going to flip to the other side of the country and go to pittsburgh. pittsburgh does have the distinction. it was mentioned how important historically it was to be on a body of water, pittsburgh not on one but three, the intersection of three rivers there. first we'll hear from the honorable rich fitzgerald from allegheny county, pittsburgh many mostly allegheny county. rich? >> first of all, thank you, thanks to the chamber for having us and recognizing the success that pittsburgh has become over the last couple of years. you know, we probably led, you know, when the industrial hit happened in the late '70s and early '80s and probably suffered more than anybody with job loss and population loss, and it's taken us many, many years to work towards finding a solution, and if i had to synthesize our success over the last few years in a couple of words it could be

cooperation and diversity. we've really cooperated -- have a lot of cooperation among institutions, among government, working with the -- with business and government, public/private partnerships with our universities. our universities, about nine major universities in -- in allegheny county working together, and they work with the -- with the government sector and with business to partner, and then also i would add in our labor unions. our labor unions have been terrific partners with us in providing the type of partnership and workforce development that i hear about all the time. i heard the governors previously talk about that being one of the barriers, and we see the same thing. we have a lot of jobs that are available right now, particularly -- not necessarily high-skilled jobs, although we do have those, too. we have actually 15 hundred engineering jobs right in the city of pittsburgh that run filled right now, but we also have jobs for technicians, for welders, for machinists and

working with our labor community there's a great spirit of cooperation as the workforce partners with their owners, with -- with management to make them more efficient, make them more competitive and make better products and more marketable products, so what we've been able to do over the last few years has really been leading the nation. our gdp over the last year has been about 5.5% while the nation's been about 1.82%. our housing stock, our housing values over the last five years have also led the nation in appreciation as we've seen jobs grow in a variety of areas. again, when we talk about diversity, obviously we used to be known for steel and heavy manufacturing. we still make a lot of steel, but what's changed in steel is steel doesn't make it with the labor force that they used to. it's much more automated, but we've had major investments in our steel mills, in our stainless steel mills. we also have a burgeoning chemical industry.

greg babe is here from bayer and he'll talk about that. he also have a burgeoning i.t. business. our i.t. spins off from cmu and pitt, having major presences of folks like google. we're one of the major rail institute for -- for the rail industry, making the rail, making the cars and making the controls and making the switches for -- for people movers all over the world. so we have -- we have, again, a very diverse -- very diverse economy, and one of the things that i would really highlight over the change of the 30 years that i talked about is 30 years ago our 25 to 35-year-old workforce was one of the least educated in america. fast forward to 30 years later, our 25 to 35-year-old workforce is the highest educated in the country when it comes to post-graduate degrees. that's been a major transformation as we continue to invest in education and invest

in our workers and invest in the folks that are there, and right now we continue to work on attracting talent, quality of life issues that have really made a great difference in our region. >> great. thank you, rich. next up is dennis yablonsky. dennis is the ceo of the allegheny conference on community development. dennis? >> thanks, nick, and good afternoon, everybody. in case you don't know what an allegheny conference, is we're the metro chamber organization that represents the private sector and the ten counties in the southwestern pennsylvania area. for someone who grew up in pittsburgh, being here today is a bit amazing. if you go back 30 years, 1983, our low point, our regional unemployment rate was 18.3%. think about that for a minute. 18.3%. today it's 6.7% and dropping, and the real fundamental question we want to talk with you all about today is how? what -- what happened? what did pittsburgh do, and am