bashir assad ought to go. when we talk about the era spring, i think they know what that means in it has generally been welcomed as a genuine change in the region. but we need to evaluate these developments. each and every one of these countries is different and needs to be dealt with accordingly. >> next question. over there in the front. >> i and the average citizen here. when do we know the we won the global war on terror? >> when do we know we have won the global war and terror?

it is not similar to a conventional war, where we get the battleship missouri in tokyo harbor and all the guys sign a document say that they are going to quit. that is not going to happen. there is evidence out there that we're making significant progress. i think getting osama bin laden is very useful to demonstrate a part of that process. but also, it may be the kind of thing that will gradually fade over time. i do not think that there is likely to be a aha moment where you can say is done. we will take a couple more.

>> if i could take you back to your earlier comments about the middle east and bring it back in history, the great controversy at the close of the bush 41 administration was with generals schwarzkopf. there might have been a different outcome. what you think that outcome might have been? would that have changed the course of events? >> he is talking about when he and i were in charge of the pentagon. i was the secretary and he was the comptroller. thinking back on that, i am careful not to challenge my colleagues from that era because they did good work. my recollection of the close of the gulf war was that there was unanimity on the part of the

president, of his senior at civilians and military advisers that we gathered around the desk at the oval office, we had a secure line open where our senior military commander, general schwarzkopf was, and you can look back at it later and say, "we should have done this. we should not have let them have helicopters. we did not know it at the time. there was a general sense at the time that we had done what we set out to do. that is what we told our troops we were going to do. that is what the told the coalition. i had also promised them as soon as we completed the mission, we would go home.

we are not looking for permanent bases in saudi arabia. there was a general sense of that. should we have gone all the way to baghdad? the circumstances were pretty dramatically different 10 years later, after we had had the events of 9/11, after we had had some violate 16 out of 17 u.n. security council resolutions and produce and use weapons of mass destruction against his own people. the world shifted 10 years later. if we had gone in, if there was a way to -- one thing i could think of that i would have liked to have changed, it would have been to have saddam at the table to sign a surrender document.

one of the things that emerged out of the way it was dealt with was, he was very creative and did not have any qualms about misrepresenting the situation. afterwards, he peddled himself as someone who had defied the great united states of america. after all we had done to him, he was still standing. the fact that he was still standing, he used it to demonstrate the notion that he won. of course, he had not. he was able to peddle that in that part of the world. if i could think of one thing i would have liked to see in differently, it would not have been to go to baghdad, but it would have been to have him sit his fanny on the chair and sign a surrender document. >> another one. all the way over.

>>my name is sayed. i served in iraq as a united states spokesman. iraq is a disaster rezoned with very little chance to recover. the united states is about to cut them off. was it a mistake to [no audio] >> i think it would be a mistake to cut and run. i do not think we should turn our back on a rack at this stage. -- on iraq at this stage. it is important for us to complete the mission. my own personal view is there is a danger, to rush for the exits under the current administration. that would be really

unfortunate. >> one more quick question. >> i am with aei and the washington examiner. president bush, in his memoir, does not mention of iraq from the spring of 2003 to the spring of 2006. what you say about the criticism that the president was insufficiently monitoring his generals and not soliciting early enough, or as early as desirable, something on the order of the surge strategy which was ultimately dropped at the end of 06 -- at the end of 2006 and the beginning of 2007. could that have been done earlier ta? >> and what i remember is that the president was heavily engaged during that period of time. he was not ignoring what was going on in the operations in i

iraq. we had fairly regular sessions where he would get on a secure hookup to baghdad, not only with our own senior people, but with the senior iraqis. i have a picture that i put in my book donald reinfeldt and condoleezza rice and i at camp david. it does not show the president because he is on the other end in baghdad. we had a secure hookup at that period of time. he had gone to baghdad and was over there visiting, having an important session with their prime minister. the notion that somehow he turned his back on, or was not focused on, was not engaged, i would challenge that. i do not think that is true. >> let me take the prerogative

of asking one last question to bring it back to 9/11. you have made the case that 9/11 change the government. i think that is obvious to everyone. in many respects, it changed the country and change the world. did it change you? >> did 9/11 change me? it was -- i do not think it changed me in the sense that some have suggested. i have got friends out there, they used to be friends. "i knew cheney when he was a nice guy, when he was warm and fuzzy. he is not fuzzy now." i did j. leno the other day and they have what they called a cold open. jay was greeting his guests for the evening.

he was wearing blue jeans. he asked me if i am going to wear the suit on the hangar for the show that night. at that point, i opened the door and came out of the dressing room and i was dressed as arthur later. -- dressed as darth vader. it did not help my image any. [laughter] i cannot say it did not change me. it was part of my life. it was an important milestone for all of us. obviously, i spend the next 7.5 years working with the president. and our colleagues to try to make absolutely sure that that at its -- that that never happened again on our watch. that meant we had to take steps and enact policies never going to guarantee the safety and

security of the american people. i sort of see it as, ok, here is the problem, here is what we are going to do about it, and we did it. the notion that -- the notion of change mainly came to a focus in my own mind. i thought before about this problem of a 9/11 style attack, terrorist attack with deadlier weapons, something other than a box cutters and airline tickets. the events of 9/11 really brought home. it heightens my concern. that would be a fair way to put it. about the potentially devastating consequences. we had anthrax attacks at the same time. he turned out those were domestically initiated. one night, i remember being at a

dinner in new york, one month after 9/11, and as we landed that day, to go down to the waldorf where i was a speaker for the evening, we received world that there had been a botulism attack on the white house. an attacker had gone off suggesting that the president, and i, had been exposed to botulism. we did not know for several hours whether it was true or not or a false reading. turned out to be a false reading. there was a level of heightened concern in the immediate aftermath of 9/11 that we had to deal with. it was like, on 9/11, you get a report that there were six planes hijacked. turned out there were only four. you get a report there was a car bomb at the state department.

turned out there was no car bomb. you get a report of a plane gunned down on the ohio-west virginia border, but it was just a plan that had dropped off the radar. there was a report of a plane that went down in pennsylvania, turned out that was true. we went through that process, in the immediate aftermath, of putting together policies. there was no question there was a significantly elevated level of concern. i felt, like most of us did, like i did not know how to do my job if i had not been concerned. part of my job as the vice- president was to make certain that we never again got hit the way we did on 9/11. >> with that, i would like to thank mr. vice president and the american enterprise institute

for posting. thank you all for coming. [applause] thank you so much. we are extraordinarily grateful to have a friend like you. a scholar, statesman, a man of action who represent us so well. we are so thankful for your time this morning. thank you for all of your questions. we will let you get out of here, i think you have some media interviews right after this. then we will excuse the crowd. thank you again here in -- and thank you again. [applause]

[captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2010] [captioning performed by national captioning institute] >> next, president obama speaks. >> this weekend, the 10-year anniversary of 9/11 on the c- span network with live coverage from each of the memorial site. here is our memorial scuttle. today, flight 93 national memorial dedication ceremony from pennsylvania. tomorrow morning at 8:30, a memorial ceremony from the world trade center site with president obama and former president bush. then vice-president biden from the pentagon.

the c-span 3 at 9:30, 9/11 remembered, on the c-span network this weekend. >> book tv features 9/11 authors. today with richard, -- lawrence wright and george. also, pulitzer prize-winning washington post reporter dan a priest makes suggestions regarding the nation's attends to protect the u.s. since 9/11. dick cheney talks about his experiences since ninth-11 and the lessons he has learned since then. find our complete schedule online at book tv dot org.

this month, look for congress to continue federal spending in november, including funding for recent nashville -- natural disasters. paula the presidential candidates as they campaigned across the country. it is all available to you on television, radio, on line in social media sites. search, what common share of our programs anytime with the c-span video library. we on the road with our digital c-span bus and local content vehicle. we show events from around the country. it is washington your way. created by cable, provided as a public service. >> following his speech to congress thursday evening, president obama talks more about the economy and jobs creation during a visit to richmond va., speaking to students at the

university of richmond. he spoke about his jobs package. this is about half an hour. >> thank you, richmond. is it to be in richmond, virginia. thank you nigel for that outstanding introduction. give nigel and round of applause. -- a round of applause.

[applause] everybody is a special guest. there are a few people i want to acknowledge. the outstanding president of the university of richmond is first. [applause] jones is in the house. [applause] former governor of virginia and one of my greatest friends, the first person to endorse me outside of illinois, my home state, right here in richmond, va., tim kane. [applause]

and his lovely wife, who i love more. another history maker and outstanding former governor, doug, is in the house. [applause] you can sit down if you want. [laughter] but you do not have a seat. so do not. [applause] it is good to be here in virginia. first of all, the sun is out. i have not seen sun in about five days. it was nice to remember what that is like. it is always nice to get out of washington once in a while.

be with the american people, i have great memories of richmond. i have wonderful feelings about the commonwealth of a virginia. c-span.o [applause] the people have an innate optimism and a can-do spirit. i love you, too. it is good to get fresh air and perspective. i am grateful to spend some time with you, because we are going through a difficult time in this country. i know you are as frustrated about the economy as i am. i know you are also frustrated not just about our economic conditions, but also what is happening in washington.

i got in a man there. -- amen there. [laughter] you have every right to be frustrated. here in virginia and richmond, people do not have time for political concerns. you have real-life concerns. he may be looking for a job or knows someone who is looking for a job. i love you back. you make sacrifices to make ends meet. you work hard to meet your responsibilities. you expect -- you expect people you sent to washington to do the same thing -- meet their responsibilities. [applause] [unintelligible] stop the political circus and actually do something to help

the economy, to restore security and opportunity. to restore the american dream. to restore those things that made america the in the of the world. you expect action, and you deserve it right now. [applause] that is why after a few scheduling issues, i went to congress last night. [applause] to suggest new ways we can grow the economy, help businesses, and put more of our fellow americans back to work. it is called the american jobs act. next week, i will send it to

congress. they should pass it right away. [applause] everything in the american jobs act -- everything in there is the kind of proposal that has been supported in the past by both the democrats and republicans. nothing radical in this thing. everything in it will put more people back to work and more money back into the pockets of those working. everything in it will be paid for. [applause] the reason i am here in richmond to make it happen, every one of your voices to make a difference. every one of your voices will have an impact.

i am going to talk about politics in a second. right now, let me talk about what is in the american jobs act. it will create more jobs were construction workers, teachers, veterans, young people. [applause] more jobs for the long-term unemployed. it will provide a tax break to companies if they hire new workers. it will cut payroll taxes in half for every small-business owner and working american. it will jump-start an economy that has stalled. it will give companies the confidence that if they hire new workers and invest in their businesses, there will be customers there that can afford to buy the things they are selling. passing this jobs bill will put

people to work, rebuilding our crumbling roads and bridges. it will also help us rebuild our schools. in the back, i was taking photos to help organize an event. there was a young lady, who was a teacher. she said, i heard your speech last night. i really appreciate it. i teach eighth grade english in a trailer. we should not have people teaching in trailers. we should not have kids learning in trailers. they should have classrooms with internet and science labs. [applause] you have that aging bricks on i-95 and need to replace them. we have schools like the one of nigel the need to be upgraded.

there are many construction workers across america. they need to put on their tool belts and get dirty. i do not know about you. i do not want the new was airports, the past as roads to be built in china. i wanted them to be built right here in the united states of america. [applause] i do not want any of our kids to study in subpar schools. i want them to study in grade schools. so there is work to be done, there are workers who are ready to do it. let's pass the jobs bill right away. [applause]

passing the jobs bill will put thousands of teachers in virginia and across america back to work when we needed them most. this is a new age. everybody here knows that. if we want america to succeed, we have to have the most highly skilled workers in the world. we have places like south korea that prepare kids for the global economy. we are laying off our teachers in droves. it is unfair to our kids. it undermines their future, our future, it has to stop. pass this bill and put every teacher's back in the classroom where they belong. passing this bill will help us

higher america's veterans. we asked these men and women to leave their careers, families, risked their lives to fight for us. they come home, and they cannot find a job? the last thing they should have to do is fight for a job when they come home. [applause] we need to put these folks to work. pass this jobs bill, and we will give small business owners here in richmond in virginia a tax cut for hiring new workers and raising workers' wages. cutting their payroll taxes in half, and we will give small business money they can use to hire more workers. pass this bill, and we get hundreds of thousands of

disadvantaged youth, the hope and dignity of a summer job next year. [applause] that in stills in them good habits that will last a lifetime. it will make it easier for them to find a job in the future and continue their education. passing this bill will give companies a tax credit for hiring people. this has been a terrible recession. i get letters from folks, and the right to make -- write to me letters about what it is like, sending out resumes, and knocking on doors. they get discouraged. they drop out of the white labor force. if you have been out of work a long time, a lot of times, they

will say, you have been out of work too long and i'm not sure we want to hire you. that is not fair. it is not right. this bill will help people on unemployment insurance to do temporary work to build skills while looking for a full-time job. we should extend unemployment insurance for another year. it is not only the right thing for those families, but if we cut off unemployment insurance right now, that is millions that people cannot spend on their basic needs. that means businesses have fewer customers, and the economy for everyone will shrink. that would be a big, unnecessary blow to the coming. passing this bill will give a typical working family in $1,500 tax cut next year. [applause]

this boost, the $1,000 tax cut, there are the past for this year. we cannot allow that to expire. it would hit middle-class families at the worst possible time. i said to folks yesterday, especially my good republican friends, i said you made pledges never to raise taxes on air anybody ever again -- on anybody ever again. you cannot make an exception when it goes on middle-class people. [applause] this is the american jobs bill. it means new jobs were construction workers, teachers, veterans, and people. it provides tax credits for businesses and workers. it will not add to the deficit. it will be paid for.

we spent a whole summer fighting about the deficit. it is legitimate for us to get a government that is living within its means, just like families do. democrats and republicans have agreed to cut the spending by a trillion dollars over the next decade. what i said last night is let's go further. let's be more ambitious. i believe we need to do more to boost jobs and growth in the short term, and still bring down our debt in the long run. i will release a more ambitious deficit reduction plan. it will follow the balanced approach i have been talking about for months. we needed to cut fiscal spending and strengthen our retirement

programs. we have to as the wealthiest americans -- we have to ask the wealthiest americans and biggest corporations to pay their fair share. [applause] i want to make very clear, i understand nobody likes paying taxes. i pay a lot of taxes. [laughter] it is public, the amount of taxes i pay. i am not taking advantage of a bunch of loopholes. i understand -- we have always lived based on the principle that everybody has to do their fair share. we have to make some choices.

we have to decide what are our priorities. we have to ask ourselves, not just what is best for me, but what is best for us. what is the best way to grow the economy and create jobs. should we keep tax breaks for oil companies or use that money to get small business owners a tax credit when they hire new workers? [applause] we cannot afford to do both. should we keep tax breaks for millionaires and billionaires, where should we put teachers back to work so our kids are ready to graduate from college and get their jobs? [applause] we cannot afford to do both. we have to make real choices about the kind of country we want to be.

that is not class warfare. i am not attacking anybody. it is simple math. if we cannot afford to focus on the most fortunate to do the least and put the largest burden on the people that are struggling the most. that does not make sense. [applause] i put forward this planet, but we cannot stop there. we cannot stop there. not a sense iran for this office. we have to look beyond the immediate crisis and start building an economy that will last. an economy that is not built on housing bubbles, easy credit, wall street shenanigans, but an economy that creates good middle-class jobs that pay well and restores some sense of security.

let me tell you what this means. we live in a world where technology has made it possible for companies to take their business anywhere. if we wanted them to start here, stay here, higher year, we have to out bills come out at kit come out in a bit every other country on earth -- outbuild, outeducation every other country on earth. [applause] i am glad you are having fun, but [inaudible] [applause] you are competing now against kids in beijing. you cannot afford it -- you cannot avoid it those math class, science class a common

engineering class. everybody has to up their game. businesses have to get more efficient and productive. employees have to consulate upgrade their skills. even if you have a good job, you ought to keep staying on top of it. the government test to become more efficient. we have to be smarter in terms of how we help people to succeed. to do all of those things, i will need your help. this has been a long journey dealing with this economy. when i came into office, everyone was thinking, six months, we will get this all salt. i told you at the time, this was

going to be a tough, long journey. i also told you i cannot do it all on my own. every kind of proposal in the american jobs act, every proposal to put more workers on the job where money in their pockets, every single one of these proposals have been supported by democrats or republicans before. they should be supporting them now. that will only happen if they set politics aside for a moment to deal with america's problems. the only way they are going to do that is if they hear from you. [applause]

to their credit, i was glad to hear some republicans, including your congressman say they see room for us to work together. i know that folks sometimes think -- the use the benefit of the doubt, but i am an eternal optimist. i am an optimistic person. [applause] i am an optimistic person. i believe in america, our democracy, if you just stay at it long enough, eventually, after you have exhausted all of the options, you will do the right thing. [applause]

we have to give them a little help to do the right thing. i am asking all of you to lift up your voice, not just here in richmond, but anyone watching, listening, falling on line, i want you to e-mail, call, tweet , facts, facebook, send a carrier pigeon -- i want you to tell your congressperson the time for gridlock and games is over. the time for action is now. the time to create jobs is now. pass this bill. if you want construction workers, pass this bill. if you want teachers in the classroom, pass this bill. if you want small business owners to hire new people, pass this bill. if you want veterans to get their fair share of opportunities that they help

create, pass this bill. if you want a tax break, pass this bill. the will fight as hard for tax breaks for rich companies as you do other people, pass this bill. [applause] the next election is 14 months away. we cannot wait. the american people do not have the luxury of waiting and other 14 months for some action. some of you are living paycheck to paycheck week to week day-by- day. now is not the time for people in washington to be worrying about their jobs. it is time for them to be wearing about your jobs. now is the time to put americans back to work. now is the time to act. we are not a people to just look and watch and wait to see what

happens. we are americans. we make things happen. we are tougher than these times. we are bigger than the smallest of our politics. we are pioneers and innovators through individual effort and common commitment to one another. we build an economy that is once again the engine and in the of the world. we will write our own destiny. it is within our power. we have to seize the moment. let's shake off all of the anxiety and hand-wringing. enough of that. let's get to work. let's show the world once again why america is the greatest nation on earth. thanks, everybody. god blast. god bless america. -- god bless.

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♪ >> as a house wrapped up its business for the week, a discussion was conducted between cantor. this is about 20 minutes. >> as for the remainder of the week, we have a number of items to consider. we will complete action on the empowering parents charter schools act. we expect to consider an additional faa extension. of disapproval relating to the president's debt limit increase request and we will consider h.r. 2587, the protecting jobs from government interference act , the first bill in our fall

agenda, mr. speaker, relating to job creation. i thank the gentleman from maryland and i yield back the balance of my time. mr. hoyer: i thank the gentleman for the information that's given to us. can i inquire, as the gentleman knows when we left for the august break, there was a very substantial issue with respect to the f.a.a.. does the gentleman know whether there will be any policy writers on the f.a.a. bill? i know there's a reduction in authorized levels but are there any policy writers -- riders in that bridge bill? mr. cantor: mr. speaker, i'd say to the gentleman that we are still in discussions with the other body and the other side of the capitol as well as the committee on exactly the construct of that bill. but i do intend to bring that forward next week. mr. hoyer: i thank the gentleman for that information. i certainly hope that we can do so and i'm pleased to they're

that we're having discussions so that -- hear that we're having discussions so that will not be a matter of contention. as you know with had 4,000 f.a.a. employees and 7,100,000 or so contractors, private sector employees who were laid off for peard of time because of the failure to get an agreement with the rider that was included in the bill that we passed over to them. so i'm hopeful that we don't have a recurrence of that situation because it would be very harmful not just to those 7,500 to -- 75,000 people but to the f.a.a. and the generaly. so i'm hopeful we can work that out. the president, mr. leader, spoke to us last night about a jobs program. i know that you have made comments with reference to

shifting focus from cuts to jobs . we think that's appropriate, we appreciate that observation. but do you have any idea of how soon we may get to the president's proposal on job creation and trying to get our economy growing again? you made some, i think, positive comments, the speaker has made some positive comments. i think those are welcomed. but can you give me some idea, given the president's sense of urgency, and i think the sense of the american people of the urgency of trying to create jobs and give them some more resources with which to support themselves and their families and to invest and to comprehensively try to staunch the loss of teachers and police and fire personnel that each one of our communities is

experiencing and i yield to my friend. mr. cantor: i thank the gentleman and, mr. speaker, i respond by saying, first of all, the president has not sent a text of his bill and we will be awaiting that. i would also like to respond by saying that the president came last night and there were several things and proposals within his speech that seemed to reflect some areas that we can both agree on and build towards consensus. i would say to the gentleman that insisting that this body and the two sides here agree on everything is not a reasonable expectation but that i feel and have said so many times since the president's speech that this is an opportunity for us to set aside the differences that we have because good people can differ and begin to focus on

things like allowing for tax relief for small businesses, like allowing for the rollback of regulatory impediments that stand in the way of small business growth. as the gentleman knows we put we put forward a fall agenda that's focused on those goals. proposals standing in the way of job creation and affording tax relief for small businesses to create an environment for middle class jobs. i yield back. mr. hoyer: i thank the gentleman. i would hope that we could also have hearings. i understand the gentleman's correct that the text has not been sent up. i expect that to happen in the very near future, probably i would hope before we get back on monday night. i would hope we could start hearings on all segments of that and see that on which we could get agreement. certainly investing in our infrastructure, investing in our schools and highways, critically

important. we believe, and i think that will not only create jobs but it will create jobs that will have a meaningful, positive impact on our infrastructure and our economic competitiveness. the president mentioned about making it in america. as you know we have a make it in america agenda which includes a large number of items, including a manufacturing strategy, the president mentioned, and we all -- it was one of the few times we all stood very enthusiastic when he mentioned it whether it was making cars or refrigerators or other goods here in america that having made in america goods was something that i think we all support. that's part of his agenda as well. and i certainly -- our agenda, and i hope our agenda writ large on a bipartisan basis. if i might ask you on the front page of the "washington post" today, as you probably saw, is a picture of my district in upper

marlboro, maryland, where great flooding as a result of the rains that we received and irene , the supplemental for the fema is coming hopefully from the senate relatively soon. i would ask the gentleman, as you know there are 484 million remains -- $484 million remains in fema's disaster relief fund. not enough to meet the disasters. in the aftermath of 9/11, as the gentleman knows, we appropriated such funds as were necessary. and we did so without paying for them because, in fact, they were real emergencies, real pain, real displacement, real dislocation, real costs immediately incurred by people as a result of the disaster. in that case of a terrorist act,

but this case of a disaster. can the gentleman tell me whether or not we will be able to pass in a relatively accelerated fashion sufficient resources for fema without getting into arguments about how in the short term we'll pay for them? we have to pay for things in the long term, i'm for that, but i would ask the gentleman whether or not he would anticipate getting that supplemental done as early as possible and hopefully a clean supplemental next week if that is at all possible because we need to respond to the emergencies that confront us. i yield to my friend. mr. cantor: first of all, he knows as well my district was the epicenter of the earthquake and damage there for that as well as extremely hard hit by the high winds associated with irene, and had almost 900,000 people without power.

still people without power. i understand the situation that people are suffering and we need to get them their relief. the gentleman knows i share his commitment to making sure that happens. i also applaud the gentleman for saying that, yes, because he has always been, mr. speaker, someone who says we have to pay for what we do here. and i don't think that the two are mutually exclusive. i don't and have never said we should be holding up any relief at all for people who need it. i also think we can work together to act responsibly. the gentleman has been an advocate always for paying for what we do. and so i would say as to the request as to where and when we were doing the supplemental, we still have not heard from the administration because as the gentleman knows there's a process that goes on at the local and state levels to make a determination about the need and to make a determination that the need exceeds the capacities of the local and state governments.

so as to then turn to fema and the federal government to come in. so i say to the gentleman we need to understand exactly what the costs are going to be. and we will make sure that we find the money. i will also say that we continue to try and get out of these sort of ad hoc way of appropriating for such emergencies. the fact is in the past that we in this congress have not adequately funded the disaster accounts and if found ourselves caught short-handed when disaster hits. and as the gentleman knows, part of the debt ceiling agreement included a 10-year rolling average to now be the amount for which we will budget for the disaster fund and hopefully that will get us on a much more even keel and allow for the adequate funding of what's needed, both in the short-term and long. but as for the supplemental,

still waiting for the administration's determination of what it needed, and if it is f.y. 2012 moneys, we will have the opportunity to roll that into the process of budgeting for the disasters the way we set out to do that in the debt ceiling agreement. i yield back. mr. hoyer: i appreciate the gentleman's observation and also his reference to the head room that we gave in the agreement that was reached in raising the debt ceiling, understanding there are emergencies that occur and you need head room to deal with those emergencies. i'm appreciative of the gentleman's observation. i understand as well, i want to acknowledge that his district was hard hit not only by the earthquake but by irene and i presume by the rains as well that have compounded that issue. but in any event i appreciate his willingness to ensure that we do, in fact, get a

supplemental that will meet the needs, the immediate needs of those people throughout certainly the atlantic coast, but in other parts of the country as well. i appreciate and will look forward to working with him on that objective. as i will look forward to working with him on realizing the early passage of a jobs bill which will in fact get americans back to work and get our economy growing is essential. unless >> and next, live, your comments on "washington journal." >> the c-span network. we provide coverage of politics,

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