one of the things in the orth argument that bothered justice -- in the oral argument that bothered justice kennedy and justice roberts was that part of the voting civil rights act treats different parts of the country differently, and it bothered, at least in the questioning, some of the justices, well, you mean to tell me that certain parts of texas behave differently these many years later, and is there any evidence of that not withstanding the vote in congress? i think it bothered some of the justices and i do think it will come back about having different standards for different parts of the country, which may have been more -- based more in fact some years ago than now. the other thing that's going to come back, that we'll see, perhaps in the richie case, in the areas that did come out of the school cases a couple of years ago is a debateet

one of the things in the oral argument that bothered justice kennedy and the chief justice and i think some other parts of it is that that section of the voting rights act treats different parts of the country differently. i mean -- and i bothered, at least in the questioning, some of the justices, do you mean to tell me that certain parts of texas are -- behaved differently these many years later and is there any evidence of that, notwithstanding the vote in congress. i think it bothered some of the justices and i do think it will come back about having different standards for different parts of the country, which may have been more -- based more in fact some years ago than now. the other thing that's going to come back that we'll see perhaps in the ricci case and these areas that did come out in the school cases a couple years ago is the debate between the justices with respect to the level of scrutiny. strict scrutiny versus some reduced level of scrutiny in race cases where the motive may be said to be good discrimination, like, for example, in the school cases, the effort to conti

nobody bothered to check on this.ered not in the "new york times" print edition when this map was uncovered by my assistant but in a blog. and mr. schmitt's response was his map has to be wrong. well, i haven't seen another map yet. so things that we say are true go unquestioned in this climate and like i said, it's not just one party. i'd like to close with the red red koyapigaktoruk comes bob, bob, bobbin along. robins in the arctic. you've all heard this. senator john mccain, 2004, the language 10,000 years never had a word for robin and now there are robins all over their villages. the bbc program on climate change title, no word for robin, climate change in the canadian arctic. okay, where are the fact-checkers on this one. come on. there are staffers over here on the hill that had to have had a computer, which would be connected to the library of congress. there are fact checkers at the bbc who could connect with the british museum. or whatever. 1953, the journal arctic, volume 6 pages 35-43 by l. irving, the na

can be stewards of the environment, teaching future generations of bothers to have a healthy respect and appreciation for our natural resources. for these reasons, i urge my colleagues and i thank the gentleman from washington again for bringing h. res. 410 to the floor and urge its passage. i yield back the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields his time. the gentleman from wisconsin is recognized. mr. petri: i yield to our colleague from indiana, representative souder. mr. souder: i thank my friend from wisconsin for his leadership on transportation and for the time to speak on this bill. as a member of the boating caucus, since we first formed this, i'm really pleased to be supportive of this resolution. in indiana, in northeast indiana, basically, i represent a lot of water with plants and farms in between. and in our county, we have 100 lakes and another county we have 100 ladies and gentlemen. along one ridge, one goes to lake michigan and another goes down into the mississippi valley. we have -- because of geologic potholes, connected together someti

why bother having coverage? why bother enrolling when nothing in your life changes? and in fact, for schip program, a third of the uninsured charne that are currently eligible for schip, had been enrolled in a program within the past 12 months. they know how to get enrolled, and they found it of so little value that they didn't bother reenrolling, their parents didn't. if we don't listen to folks, and what they're telling us is that the cog that is out there is simply not attractive. they don't find value in it even when it's free. we should be listening to them and revising our insurance programs to suit that market instead of dictating to them. if we insist on dictating to them that they buy coverage that they don't value, we're basically telling working people, basically telling joe the plumber, that before he feeds his children, before he puts his gas this his car to get to work, he's got to pay for health insurance premiums, that that is the most important thing on earth, paying for your health insurance premiums. now, joe the plumber is not going to like that a

host: does that bother you? guest: it bothers me. it is every republican. host: he is a democrat. guest: i'm an independent. host: but you caucus with the democrats. guest: we have some wonderful democrats who are fighting to do the right thing, but you have some conservative democrats who will be working with republicans. from a political point of view, some people say we have to move forward in a bipartisan approach, which means that we have to have culture on a filibuster, which means that you have to the 60 votes. that means you have to make major compromises. my strong feeling is that if we end up with a bill that has 60 votes or 70 votes, it will be such a weak bill that it will not accomplish anything the american people want. i would rather pass a strong bill with 51 votes. the bottom line is that the current system is dysfunctional. we are wasting $300 billion and we need to move toward a cost- effective, comprehensive, universal program. this is a human right. we have to have the courage to take on the drug companies and the insurance companies. host: karen is a republic

[laughter] it is kind of spending that nobody has bothered to work on this. >> do you see any hope for afghanistan any time soon? he has different ethnicities and why not breaking it up that makes sense for local populations? >> i always think of afghanistan as being more unified as a nation that pakistan the afghans are always fighting for kabul and did pakistan they are always having a separatist movement. yet any number going on. i can see a way out of the afghan problem nation-building has become a dirty word in washington basically all of these committees need lot and order if we could establish governance we certainly would not get rid of the taliban and al qaeda to kill them all it is like the doritos ad they just keep making more. [laughter] but if we actually make them irrelevant by giving people a good alternative, i think that is the exit strategy for the reason. people talk about that being expensive, complex, taking years and i do not disagree but we're already spending $2 billion per month on our military operation alone and surely that is not sustainable either. even the

>> everything was bothering the player. it wasn't just tiger.ou're dealing with the wind, you're dealing with the rain, he took his rain jacket on and off, on and off, hard to get a rhythm started, he didn't get into the round as he said quite often, he's been driving the ball beautifully. if a player loses his rhythm a little bit that's where it shows up, in the tee shot. >> insanely difficult to find any rhythm on such a miserable day. we look at others who got out and played on this basically wash-out thursday, angel cabrera, his third to that uphill par 4 you're talking about, pulls the string nicely. >> playing with tiger woods, he made a huge putt for bogey at the first hole to keep from starting with a double. >> rough around the green, grass gets tacky, then it's wet. >> he's trying to hit a shot where he goes underneath and pops it straight up in the air because it's straight downhill to the hole location. didn't work out for him. >> led to double. justin leonard. he's got the straight ball going. is he long enough to contend here? if h

there really bothering down. -- they are realy buckering down. they place your video games and are in the class from a lot longer. -- they played fewer do games and are in the classroom longer. we have to step up our game. which brings us to your next question, how do we do that? i agree with you that what -- that if all we're doing is spreading around standardized tests and teaching the test, that is not improving our education system. [applause] so, there is a saying in illinois that i learned when i was down in rural

why bother having coverage when nothing in your life changes? and four the s-chip program one-third of the uninsured children that are currently eligible were enrolled in the program within the past 12 months. they know how to get enrolled and they founded of so little value they did not bother to read and roll. -- three enroll if we don't listen to level set what they tell us it is simply not attractive they do not find value even when it is free to should be listening to them and revising our insurance program to suit the market instead of dictating to them. if we insist on dictating to them that they buy coverage that they don't value we are basically telling working people and joe the plumber that before he feed his children, before he puts gas in his car to get to work he has to pay for health insurance premiums. that that is the most important thing on is paying for your health insurance premiums. joined the plumber the show the plumber will not like that anymore than the old folks chasing the car down the street except joe the plumber car

what bothered the doctor was an entry that my campaign staff had posted on my website. an entry that said i would fight right-winged ideologies who want to take away a woman's right to choose. the doctor said that he had assumed that i was a reasonable person, but that if i truly believe that every pro-life individual was simply an ideologue who wanted to inflict suffering on women, then i was not very reasonable. he wrote, i do not ask at this point that you oppose abortion, only that you speak about this issue in fair-minded words. fair-minded words. after i read the doctor's letter i wrote back to him and thanked him. i didn't change my position, but i did tell my staff to change the words on my website. and i said a prayer that night that i might extend the same presumption of good faith to others that the doctor had extended to me. because when we do that, when we open our hearts and our minds to those who may not think like we do or believe what we do, that's when we discover at least the possibility of common ground. that's when we begin to say, maybe we won't ag

nobody bothered to check on this.ered not in the "new york times" print edition when this map was uncovered by my assistant but in a blog. and mr. schmitts response is his map has to be wrong. well, i haven't seen another map yet. things that we say are true go unquestioned in this climate and like i said, it's not just one party. i'd like to close with the red red koyapigaktoruk comes bob, bob, bobbin along. robins in the arctic. you've all heard this. look, senator john mccain, 2004. the inuit language for 10,000 years never had a word for robin and thousand there are robins all over their villages. the bbc program on climate change title, no word for robin: climate change in the canadian arctic. where are the fact-checkers on this one? come on. there are staffers over here

why should we bother doing this, getting involved, sucked into this in afghanistan?and i'll agree that the things i think need to happen to turn this around are going to be extremely expensive, extremely complex or it's going to take a long time. it's not going to be easy. it's going to take a lot of coordination, which is something that the coalition operating there has famously lacked since 2001. but i think the consequences of not writing does could be astronomical, could be you know unimaginable. and so on that happy note i'm open for questions. [applause] >> because they are filming is if you have a question, please step up to the microphone first. michelle? >> is it on? >> can you talk a little bit about how you collected all the evidence and what your field research and stuff like? >> sure. some of the -- a lot of the interviews i did myself. i collected about five years of hiding some of my work in my trips for abc, and i also did a report for the u.s. institute of peace, which gave me a grant for $38000 which i spent mostly on local researchers who helped me

but last week, there is something that bothered me. after a two-year investigation, the fbi in cooperation with the part of justice arrested 19 people in utah trafficking in indian artifacts from federal lands. i'm extremely concerned by the manner in which sees once were executed. they came in in full combat gear like they were going after the worst drug dealers in the world. in the process, i don't believe anybody should be taking indian artifacts, but in the process, one of the leading figures in the whole county down there was a leading doctor had delivered almost everybody who lives in the county as a doctor, he committed suicide. he was by all intents and purposes and that standing member of the community and a decent man. critical to the community. from health and welfare standpoint. the way they came in there -- i have no problem going after people and violate the law, but they came in like they were the worst criminals on earth and in the process, this man -- a very strong individual and good person, decided to commit suicide.

doesn't that bother you? >> yes, sir, it does. and we regret the necessity that that has to occur even a single time. and we have made suggestions, that would reform the system, such that that would no longer be needed. >> well, you know, i haven't heard your opening statements, i glanced at them and i haven't heard the first round of questions, we understand the need to verify that people are telling the truth. we are not asking you guys to -- the insurance industry to automatically take somebody's word for it. i mean, i understand that. but, when i see advertisement after advertisement about be a part of the family, and you know, we treat you like our, you know, own family, and then somebody who doesn't have group coverage takes out an individual policy, and runs into some situation, where they have a health care issue, that requires a major claim early in the policy, if they operate in good faith, in taking out the policy, and you approve them, i really don't think it is good business practice to go back and try and figure out

. >> does that bother you? >> it bothers me. it's not just senator baucus. it's every republican. let's be clear. >> i'm an independent, and that's why. >> but you caucus with the republicans. >> we have some wonderful democrats fighting to do the right thing. but you have some conservative democrats who will be working with republicans. from a political point, let me say this, there is some people say we have to move forward in a bipartisan approach which means that we have to have closer on a filibuster which means you have to have 60 votes which means you have to make major major compromises. my guess is, and i maybe wrong with this, but my strong feeling if we end up with a bill as 60 or 70 votes, it would be such a weak bill that it will not accomplish i think what the american people want. i would rather pass a strong vote with 51 votes than a week filled with 65 or 70 votes. the bottom line is the current system is dysfunctional, we are wasting 300, $400 billion we need to move toward a cost effective comprehensive universal program. we have to finally move in that directio

. >> host: does that bother you?>> guest: it bothers me, it is not just senator baucus it is virtually every republican. i am an independent. and am i going to sit here and tell you that democrats are immune from any pressure? of course, they are not. we have some wonderful democrats or writing to do the right thing but you have some conservative democrats will work with the republicans but from a political point let me say this. there are some people who say we've got to move toward in a bipartisan approach which means we have to have a cloture on a filibuster which means you need 60 votes which mean you have to make major compromises. my guess is and maybe wrong in this but my strong feeling is if we end up with a bill that has sisera 70 votes it will be such a weak bill that will not accomplish with the american people want out rather pass a strong bill with 51 those than a week bill with 65 percent of votes. a bottom line is the current system is dysfunctional and we're wasting 300 and $400 billion and need to mo

there were a lot of more western, educated people who don't usually bother to vote there's a big section that feel that by voting they are legitimizing it. they were very long queues out there. people saying they were voting for the first time since the islam yick revolution 30 years ago. i think ahmadinejad taught these people there was a difference. there was a lot of people yesterday voicing their displeasure. do you sense there might be unrest among the people? could that show itself in future protests? >> i think it's going to be very difficult. these people mr. mousavi supporters have too much to loose in many ways. they already enjoy the freedom. where as mr. ahmadinejad's supporters are more likely >> any idea if mr. ahmadinejad will change the policy because of the turn outs? >> no. he has been very defient in responding to his critics at home and in the stance taken towards the west. >> what with do we care some finalization of this issue? >> it should be saturday or early sunday morning. >> thank you for joining us from tehran. >> thank you. >> if you want to comment on the re

and what really bothers me about this amendment is that iran -- we should have a bipartisan approach. we tried a policy. i supported that policy of the previous administration. isolate, sanction unilaterally because we can't get effective while we sat around rallying against them. we want this policy to work. a nuclear weapons' capability. i don't know if the diplomatic strategy will work. you guys don't know. i don't know if we can get the international committee to do the kinds of things it can do to stop iran and force the regime to change its behavior in this area on the issue of terrorism and all the other issues we have with iran. but let's try a policy that's different than the one that was a total failure for the past five years. we said we won't engage until they suspend. they kept enriching. we said we'll sanction all we can. we caused annoyances. those sanctions didn't work. now we are trying to get the world serious about it. give it a few months to try and work. i urge that this eviscerated version of the bill i'm sponsoring in this motion to recommit be defeated and you

the company might say, why bother with the paperwork and administration when we can just pay a fine and tell people to get on to the government insurance roles? and as i said that's what health experts say will happen. the louen group has estimated 119 million people will be shifted great a private plan to a government plan if it's created. that would affect two-thirds of the 170 million americans who currently have private insurance, all but ending private insurance in america. president obama said recently, if we don't get this done this year, we're not going to get it done. why is that if why does that have to be so? could it be because the president would prefer that we rush a bill through before americans get a chance to absorb what washington-run health care would mean for their families? if this is worth doing, it's worth doing right. it's worth taking the time to do it right. americans are compassionate and we want coverage for our neighbors just as much as we want it for or our families but i will tell you my constituents worry about the cost and they don't want the federal gov

villone doesn't let what just happened bother him for a big first out. ron villone gets another shot at this guy. kapler take this is 83 miles per hour curveball for strike 3. [cheering and applause] the interesting thing about the bullpen t, the person guarding our bullpen is a kid wearing a tampa bay uniform wearing a glove. >> rob: if it was one of our guys, they would be able to tell our guys to get out of the way. >> bob: it's a lot of responsibility put on the kid. breaking ball by villone to gabe gross who's 0-2 with awalk k. >> rob: we may see something different at that time ballgame. never saw that before. >> bob: that's a good fastball. villone goes soft for the strike out. soft for strike one and over overmatches gabe gross. it's willy aybar hitting for gross, former atlanta brave. villone will throw him a breaking ball hit to the right side. willy aybar originally signed by the dodgers. a couple of years there. atlanta 06 and 07. didn't play in 07 because of a wrist injury and substance abuse problem. he hit .253 for the rays in 95 last year

why bother hanging out when celebrities -- with celebrities when i can spend time with people that madee. i know where my bread is buttered. plus, we have our own luminary's here. john is here from wyoming. i'm sorry, john skip this evening. for those of you who have not met him, he is the george clooney of junior senator from wyoming. [laughter] it is great to be here. there is some much talent from the four world of tv and radio. despite the flood of new media, your program is more relevant than ever before. that is the impression i get when i read the logs every day. -- blogs every day. [laughter] journalists like chuck taught. i spotted him over there somewhere. at this dinner, chuck embodies the best of both worlds. he has the rapid-fire style of a television correspondent and the facial hair of a radio correspondent. [laughter] mika rezenski is here. we both have partners named joe who used to be in congress and did not know when to stop talking. [laughter] and happening now, wolf pulitzer is here. -- blitzer is here. the only man in america with his own situation room. people ass

you will not see anyone else bother china with their economic power right now. i keep watching cnn coverage andmsnbc and c-span and no one has mentioned this. i would argue this is probably what is powering the situation in the whole background. i would imagine also that the current leaders -- i have been to the middle east and corruption is rife through most of those countries in the area. i am sure you'll find most of the current administration who supposedly lost this election is also making a lot of money out of the deal. it is in china's interest to keep the old group in. that is what i would argue is powering this. would you please comment? guest: i agree to an extent, to the extent that china does have great interests in iran and the more iran pushes elk western countries such as with the french company total, that the chinese will gain footholds. western countries will be cautious because of that and at the same time in competition with china. and with russia. host: iran is a country of 70 million people. guest: 70% are under 25 years old. host: guest: w

i happen to be an educator, and one thing that bothers my colleagues, they say we need a raise. i try to explain we don't need a raise, what we need is educators, and when we have a classroom, i teach a fourth grade class, and at one time i had 26 kids in my classroom. that makes it very, very difficult to get anything accomplished. the reason i wanted to call you and talk about, now we are facing a huge problem with north korea, and their nuclear proliferations. the question i have is what do you think their main intent with this is? and i feel personally that china is neck deep with north korea and so is russia. and i just feel in my heart of hearts that their way to once they get -- we can already reach hawaii and alaska, and once they get a missle that reach the west coast, they will bomb and put japan out of business, what do you think about that? guest: japan, i think that the conventional wisdom that japan has nuclear weapons and has the components and needs to put it together to the nuclear weapons. and we come to a point where japan comes officially as a nuclear power b

who don't get bothered by having to get up at 4:30 tomorrow morning and warm-up, and then maybe not play or have to wait or play a few to get back in. so it's guys who can deal with this. there are going to be a lot of long days. a bunch of guys never even teed off. so they're looking at trying to get their first round started and then maybe the second round. it's going to be a a long weeke, so nobody that can deal with that will be farther ahead than anybody that gets agitated by the whole thing. >> is that an advantage, given what the weather was? or is there no real advantage for not teeing off, considering you're going to have to do maybe double the work on friday? >> yeah, i think you can look at it both ways. guys who got off to a bad start today are certainly going to think that it's a disadvantage that they played. but the guys who kind of hung in there for a few holes are that much farther along, they'll have that many fewer holes to play. at some point they'll play a lot of holes. either saturday or sunday, they'll look to play at 27 or 36 holes if they can get to it. and the o

there is something that bothers me. after a two-year investigation, 19 people were arrested for trafficking some items. these warrants were executed in a man -- in a manner that i question. they came in full combat gear like they were going after the worst drug dealers in the world. in the process, i do not believe anybody should be taking indian artifacts. in the process, one of the leading figures in the whole county down there committed suicide. it was an outstanding member of the committee -- of the community. an outstanding man. he was a doctor and delivered many people in the community. i have no problem with going after people who violate the law. but treating them like the worst criminals in the world -- causing eight good individual to go out and commit suicide. that concerns me. over 100 federal agents were used in this operation. that presence has been perceived by the community as not only unnecessary but brittle. unquestioning the motivation of some of the higher ups and of the interior. a day after these r

they didn't even bother to throw. and then your old friend, wil nieves, hits a sac fly. then in the 6th inning, an all doubles inning for the national. cristian guzman comes to the plate, strokes the ball down the line. rolen never moved on it. then nick johnson comes up and nick has been red hot at the plate. he doubles to deep right centerfield which, can, drives in guzman. they elijah dukes comes to the plate and he smokes the ball out there which was almost caught but, again, the guy got the glove on it, could not hang on to it. that's a two-base hit. and elijah was thrown out at third base. >> johnny: there is no question that willie harris has the hottest bat on the team but he has made some great dave plays. he had one tonight and then one against a-rod in yankee stadium. chavez hits one, harris goes after it: then against alex rodriguez, look at this. he slide on his stomach, armed stretched out like superman. then vernon wells last night, incredible catch. gets the applause from joel hanrahan. you do it every night, they're going to start expecting it every nigh

one of the things that bothers me that is often lost is the fact it gov. sanford was somebody not doing a particularly good jobs for his constituents. south carolina's record unemployment numbers are in now. he was at the forefront of rejecting stimulus funds of the obama administration had been pushing. the and women rate amongst minority populations in south carolina -- the unemployment rate amongst minority populations in south carolina is extremely high. what we saw from gov. sanford, both on the affair issue and on the stimulus issue, is that he was politically grandstanded. he was simply taking positions that reflected a moral code that he wanted to use to sell as political gamesmanship. it is not something he actually believed. that is the problem

i am very bothered by your offer of proof. you will obtain testimony from a substantial and material number of minnesota county election officials. you are prohibited from doing that. in 26, you say you could have called all 87 auditors, but we purposely didn't do that because we didn't want to take the time. that implies to me that you could have. but let me talk about your list of sample ballots. i have gone through those. 1016, all of that, they are basically just lists of names. in paragraph 4, you said the testimony of a material number of individual voters, but know voters are identified. i am having a problem. >> this is 646, appendix 709. we do identify each and every ballot. let me give you an example. this envelope was counted on election night. it makes its point. i don't want to use the last name but it is the first one in 1709. it says i am in mt. juliet, tennessee and couldn't find a witness from minnesota. that was opened and counted. that is part of our evidence and the hundreds of pages that follow, they are t

yes. k bothere is a moment rival anticipate more and more of members of the traditional clergy who from the very beginning were outside of the system. they were encouraged to make more clear of a statement. the very fact that what he created action 1979 goes against the very attendant rigid tenet -- goes against the very tenet which it is not the responsibility of the clergy to govern. they say that from day one. some of them have put on house arrest. one person was tortured in prison. i was sent an open letter that was appealing to the open community to have someone look into his case. become a defining moment for clerics both in the interest of the nation, but also in the interest of the faith and the clerical establishment, to show a complete demarcation from the system. >> i have a quick question -- my understanding is that there is a fair amount of differences between the iranians in the countryside and those in the cities. what proportion of the population lives in cities, to what extent to the protesters represent the people of iran? >> i did not hear the last part of your questi

host: so you see no relevance to your life about the events in iran caller: no, it does not bother me one bit. guest: the state of the economy we are en is partly related to the international events, including those of iran. the war for which so many american lives have been lost is related to the interferences and interventions of iran. it is not as if the united states can and has survived,. the world is very much related in is becoming more so. -- it cannot survive on its own, the united states. the people on that 9/11 came from faraway countries. if should become important to you. you would perhaps prosper more and have more security. i am quite offended by calling the whole media that jewish- owned a. it is an insult to the jewish people and to the media. host: good morning on our democrats' line. caller: good morning, and good morning to your guest. i respect her and to the most high, i like to say [greeting.] anyone who does not think that the events in iran affect us in the whole world needs to think twice. as a young man in my 20s i watched a daily basis the situation in 1979

i mean, it's been so long we've been fighting for respect, but it doesn't really bother us so much anymoreviously they're not going to toss us aside as another team in the group anymore, but, you know, we're not going to let our expectations go out the roof, you know, for ourselves. we know we still have a ways to go. we ask still improve on a lot of things. but we're definitely getting better and better and you can see the young boys on the team and, you know, we're starting to get better so that's great. >> up next for the u.s., the gold cup. u.s. captain carlos bocanegra. once again congratulations on the run. thanks for joining us here on espnews. >> okay. thanks, man. >> let's get you updated on some wimbledon action. the number two seed serena williams taking on daniela hantuchova. first set, serena leading 3-2, she's got the big back hand. that's for break point. the next point is serena clipping the net. serena broke hantuchova five times in this match. second sets, serena up 5 -1. the younger williams sister dominates, straight sets. she's 7-1 lifetime against hantuchova. >> all r

. that bothered justice stevens, we need -- we have got to be mindful of justice as well as actual justice itself. having taken the case, once they took the case, it would be hard to say no problem. >> as we move to the conclusion it would not be appropriate to end without a comment or 2 on the retiring justice who leaves the court -- i had not met david souter before he was nominated to the bench. i remember covering his confirmation hearings for the mcneil news hour. i was taking what i was seeing in the hearings. i have to say the justice has been on the bench, seems to be fairly common ground with the figure i saw before the committee. i was not among those who was terribly surprised but i might not have predicted he would be as liberal a justice as some people think he turned out to be but as you know, he was called the stealth candidate. he has been, during his time in washington, and commonly disengage from washington's social life of me there is no justice who appears less on the social scene than justice david souter. he will be happy to go back to the farm in new hampshir

responsible for this, the first and third in this bill seems so general and nebulous in a way does that bother you or don't you take it would be better to have a more precise identified standard for recall? >> i certainly understand the concern you are raising and i think there may be opportunities for some words missing. certainly we would never seek to recall a product without some reasonable expectation that there was serious adverse consequences and are related to their product. the recall is no small issue both in terms of resources and efforts on the parts of the fda and also implication on industry and consumers who want access to those products. it is an area we would like to work with you on four language. we would not want it to be to overwhelmingly prescriptive because you want the flexibility for the potential emergency situation to move forward. >> i agree. this is an area we should look at because we know the ramifications of a recall. the extent and fault and certainly we want to have a balance of protecting the public verses undue expenses to companies as well. ironclad to see

one of the things that bothers me that is often lost as the governor sanford was someone who was not doing a particularly good job for his constituents. they've record unemployment south carolina. he was at the forefront of rejecting stimulus funds that the obama administration had pushed. the unemployment rate among the minority populations and south carolina is extremely high, 20%- 30%. what we saw from him on the affair issue and the stimulus issue is that he was politically grandstanding. he was taking positions that reflected a moral code that he wanted to use himself as political gamesmanship. moral code was something he was trying to put on to others. it is not something he chose to live by. host: what about fallout from him but the party in general? guest: the one person who helps the most is britain -- is mitt romney. he is in the 2012 presidential hopeful who pulls off the map. john ensign is another one who happened -- whose scandal happened a week earlier. there's an argument as to how successful he would have been. there have been some other governors who have not had a

and he went to every recital and every ballgame of michelle's bother, -- brother, and he was there constantly. and that's the standard i strive for. i don't always meet it, i have made mistakes as a parent and i am sure more. and there are days when the demands have taken me from the duties of a father, and those are moments i won't get back. but it's not just about being perfect, but to try. and that's something that everyone can do. it's going and sticking with it and to let the kids know that they are your first priority. and we need dads and men that are not dads to, make this commitment not only in their own homes, but to many people that were not fortunate enough to have compassionate dads. we need mentors and big brothers and to just shoot hoops or talk with them. just even smallest moments can have a lasting impact on a child's life. i am grateful to a number of organizations working on these issues. some are faith-based and some not, and some government funded, but all of you have those same commitments to lift up the importance of fatherhood in the communities. this is not the end b

fall notion of cultural competency bothers me. let me make move to another area where there are analogous arguments made in the area of education, k-12 education, there is a lot of chatter in the world of educational literature on the question of whether the racial gap in academic achievement is to to inadequate cultural competence on the part of a lot of teachers. and the record here is very clear. what the term ended the occasional outcomes is the quality of teachers by all of the standard measures. what ritter as a team scores? where did they go to college? what do they know? teachers can't teach what they don't know, too many teachers don't know very much. it has nothing to to do with anything one would call cultural competency or skin color. this squares with a message that one of you delivered, i can't remember which, parents don't care. there has been a lot of survey data on this, they don't care what the color of their teacher is, they care about the quality of their teacher in terms of the lessons that are being delivered

remember what our partners say -- we would like you to hang around for a while, but would not bother us if you leave. sometimes, they did not know if we are two, 20, or 200 miles over the horizon. they trust that we are nearby. there are advantages to that. so it is to the pacific command's benefit to have more than less ships. the more capable they are, the better because we will ask much of the cruise on those ships, as we hope to engage, demonstrate readiness, and enhance partnership, the higher end technical capabilities those ships have, the easier it is for us to ensure the secretary of defense ability to execute whatever our operations he tells us to execute. whether it is united nations security council resolutions, whether it is exercises like small bar, or whether it is the high-end operation and iraqi freedom, and during freedom type of operation. lots of ships are better than less ships. there is, of course, the issue of affordability. the ddg 51 is a wonderful platform. if that is how the navy chooses to go, we would be happy with that. their decision to make. we just wa

but we cannot let that bother us. we must move of forward. this is a time break now, this is a most unusual time where we have the president, the congress and the public will not to pass this, and we hope that this panel today will in latin that debate and help move the process forward. my first question is to chris jennings, tell us, chris, what you think the likelihood of passage will be. then i want to talk about the government sponsored program, and the newly discussed options. >> sure, it is a pleasure to be here again before you all. i think that all of us in one way or another have been touched by mental illness. and, i am certainly no exception. i want to think tipper gore for leading us off. i missed her she is such a back to foul i think we should reverse that and the future. but let me get straight to your question. i am actually more optimistic than i have ever been about the prospect of health form. having said that i always say that healthcare is always more unlikely than it is likely but it is more likely than it ever has been.

[laughter] >> there's no contest, why bother hanging out with celebrities when i can spend time with the people who made me one. i know where my bread is buttered. plus we have our own here in attendance. the junior senator from wyoming is here. [applause] i'm sorry, he skipped this evening. let me tell you for those who haven't met him, he is the george clooney of junior senators from wyoming. [laughter] it is great to be here. so much talent in the world of tv and radio, despite the flood of new media, i think your programming is more relevant than ever before, that's the impression i get when i read the blogs every day. good to see a number of hard-working correspondents. chuck todd over there. at this dinner, chuck, embodies the best of both worlds, rapid-fire style of a television correspondent and the facial hair of a radio correspondent. [laughter] >> mika is in the house. we have a lot in common. we have partners named joe who used to be in congress and don't know when to stop talking. and happening now, wolf blitzer is here. he's the only man in america with his own situatio

. >> bob: maybe that's why ricky didn't bother looking at the runner.t the ball and the bat. here is wil nieves. >> rob: i'm sure anderson's hands kind of reverb rated after that hit. they'll be numb a little bit. >> bob: breaking ball away. if it gets by the mound, there's a chance. nieves is safe and the nationals pick up a two out run. it was do or die for uggla with the glove. and the nats get a break on an infield chopper, 2-0. >> rob: we saw this happen to us up in baltimore. they were going over the infield. this one, perfect. >> bob: wil has good speed for a catcher. >> rob: and he's getting down that line. the only chance log had on this play was to try to take it with his glove and scoop it and throw it to first base. never had a chance. >> bob: that accomplished a couple of things. got a run home and it gets scott olsen up here. scott olsen can handle the bat. he is 0 for 8 on the year, but he's a .154 career hitter. for nieves, his 12th rbi. >> rob: don't overswing right here. you just came off your rehab. you're nursing the sore wing. you d

if you're a scholar, you really don't want to be bothered with departmental meetings and committees and so forth, so you will find that the president of the faculty senate, the lead leaders of the faculty senate are usually leftist. the aaup, the american association of university professors, is a far left organization, the american federation of teachers is a thuggish far left organization, the american historical association, menses logical organization. the people running it ar all going to be political leftists and another reason is of course, if you get in the way of a political leftist, they will call you a racist or a sexist or a homophobe and in the academic world, that can be career damaging, shall we say. example, larry summers,est most powerful university president in the history of the modern university, ran afoul of the left at harvard. and became the first university president in the history of the modern university to be censored and eventually fired. i was given out by his own factual. it was only 10% of the harvard faculty but probably 100% of the left wingers on the ha

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