and north of the delta. that will be thrown into chaos if this amendment succeeds to become law. we won't have those fool tools available to us. we go to another year, there may be drought we won't have a system-wide approach to dealing with that to help the families in the central valley and southern california and northern california. these are all the same families. these are all the same people looking for work and looking for jobs. the fact of the matter is, you devastate this water system they all pay the price system of now we're trying to recover from eight years of mismanagement, from eight years of illegal activity, from eight years of throwing science out the door, and now we're left with that wreck aling, -- wreckage. there's a lot of cleanup to do after the bush administration and this is one of those projects this project has to be rehabilitated, it has to be brought together so the central valley project can serve its clients and serve the needs of the whole state of california, not just one p

the children of the niger delta and never knowing a dark night. and yet not profiting from the trailing and taking it the power out of the earth and giving it to the most powerful on earth, it is impairing the host communities from which it had come. i had met this man in 1994 when an nigerian activist brought him into the studios of the wba i. we were doing wake-up call that morning in the bernard white and i sat there and this man who was not one of the scheduled guests that morning held forth. and he told the story of what he was confronting in nigeria saint the world had to know and ending by saying i am a marked man. he returned to nigeria, was imprisoned, was tried, and he was executed. last week as we sat in the studios of "democracy now!" we broadcast of the voice of a him from those days on the wba i and we broadcast his son who was announcing that they had just won a settlement with the shell that took 14 years but they would then wind $15.5 million for their family and other victims and the people of the land. [applause] we also play th

but the model train and took them to fairbanks, put them on a trip-mack truck and ship them to the delta junction. over the years they national bison range shipped 1,002 alberta and the loss 2,000 transit. they usually lost 50% and transit. nowa and knows why these may. them made it up there in 1920 and hung around for a while and still they started becoming inconvenient to farmers who were coming to the delta area and also military presence, so they put some on a c-130 cargo ship and dump them. they put some on a truck one day and took them to bethesda road and let them go. this was carried out by the fish and wildlife service. they did something they called off how are release were you pull up, open the door, everybody runs out and see what happens. now the-- leave the door open in they would hang around. from 1950 to 1960 no one knew where the animals were. there are rumors they been killed off by wolves or died of disease. bush pilots would report seen them and strange places like walking down the road. after ten years people realized they had showed up in the area of the rivers, and

delta members. but i want to see our military have this same privilege. i will reserve the balance of my time. the chair: the gentleman from alabama reserves the balance of his time. for what purpose does the gentleman from mississippi rise? mr. thompson: mr. chair, while not opposed to the amendment i ask unanimous consent to claim time in opposition. the chair: without objection, the gentleman is recognized for five minutes. mr. thompson: mr. chair, i'm pleased to support the amendment offered by the gentleman from alabama. it directs t.s.a. to craft special security screening protocols for men and women of the armed forces. all of us have been in airports. we have seen our men and women returning subject to all kinds of searches. it is absolutely important that we say thank you for putting themselves in harm's way. and i support 100% the directive requiring t.s.a. to set up a protocol to recognize their value to the country. i yield back the balance of my time. the chair: the gentleman from mississippi yields back the balance of his time of the the gen

the use them for delta hedging, various expose sirs and these are great examples, they have wonderful utility but the problem is i suspect the pricing is wrong in other words it's not priced like insurance so when that contract goes into default and the provider of protection has to come up with the money you've got to ask yourself going back to the question about the supervision of dealers, is that person doing the work so they are actually cognizant what the cost of the fault is this is the spread on the bond. lehman brothers, you could have bought protection of lehman brothers before it failed at 7%. the next week you had to come up with 97% of cash. so it is a pricing issue that i think is at the core. it's not whether there is utility. polis obviously utility and these strategies. >> i'm hoping somebody can answer this question. this whole bank of business kind of an artful term but this entire business arena, what percentage would be of that classification that's not easily valued? >> i think most over-the-counter contracts don't have a problem in that regard if you're talking a

we have over 1,600 pumps in the delta that divert water that are unscreened. we have pollution from the surrounding urban areas because they've quadrupdrupeled in area. this ad-- they've quadrupled in area. 23 this drought extends a fourth or fifth year, this will be a greater -- there will be a greater impact. that impacts not only california but the entire nation. we must work together to address the drought crisis in california in the short term and in the mid term. these fixes include factors that could lead to improving and moving water around. to get water supplies to those who need them to deal with pump schedules and conflicts that arise. to increase the water bank. to ensure that in the next six months or next year and beyond that we do everything possible on the state with the federal government's collaboration to ensure that we deal with just not the fisheries of california but people who lost their jobs and whose lives have been impacted. we have a water system in california that was designed for 20 million people. today we have 38 million people.

another factor, which i don't believe the major airlines should be able to paint the name of american, delta, continental connection on the side of the plane and staff at four people -- with people whose experience level is lower. pilots have to start off somewhere with low or experience and gain experience. the other thing that has been a major problem and no one has mentioned it, is the scenario situation, which basically drives the lower and less experienced pilots who fly with each other on the more demanding back side of the schedules. host: what does that term mean? back side of the clock? caller: nighttime flying, like the folks going in to buffalo. what happens is someone who is senior -- they may be only senior to you by a day -- might be able to get a schedule with 20 days off a month. and the more junior people -- and they may only be relatively junior -- may be stuck with these very undesirable, what we call read i -- red eyes. schedules are less productive. senior guy can fly and go to a motel -- so the schedules need to be homogenized. the duty needs to be spread among the juni

he was also honored with a valor award from delta. this young man is one of those men many, many american heroes that we have seen go out and stand up for freedom in the name of the united states of america. i would ask that you pass h.r. 2422, naming the post office in georgetown, texas, after this young warrior. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields back the balance of his time. the gentleman from massachusetts. mr. lynch: mr. speaker, we have no further speakers at this time. however, i continue to reserve our time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman reserves the balance of his time. the gentleman from california. mr. bilbray: mr. speaker, we have no further speakers and i yield back the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from california yields back the remaining time. the gentleman from massachusetts. mr. lynch: thank you, mr. speaker. in closing, i just join with the gentleman from texas, mr. carter, for the purpose of supportinging this measure which will honor first lieutenant k

tape or whether there is some that would be so unique that the commercial attributes as you said of delta air lines might be put at risk but i believe they should be aggregated in part seeing clearly by the regulators and possibly part of the consolidators. >> i don't see how delta air lines would be put at risk if they had against the market's advance and future jet fuel or whatever it might be. >> in that case i would recommend it would be part of the consolidated tape but i recognize there may be transaction. >> thank you. >> thank you mr. chairman i have a couple of questions. the first goes back to this question of the clearing of centralist contracts versus customized contracts. both the agricultural committee we have had similar conversations and i heard you today talk about how it might be okay if we can put the customized by centralized clearing house because we will have different capital requirement for some capital requirements which makes a great deal of sense. my question is what do you think about all of you think about this, what incentives there might be if any for people

mississippi wrote the short story of a bear modeled on holt collier, there are legendary bear people in the delta. but mass overculture, overhunting and harvesting, and killing bears because they are considered predators. we almost destroyed them. but t.r. wrote about the river region in great details. so i had what t.r. wrote but for my book, i needed to know what the black bear populations were back then and today. and so the different species to write b -- write about, this is what i had to check. >> when you come here, what do you do here? >> to look at documents and books. the helpful thing is out there, there is a library, they gave me two titles i didn't know about. because they collect everything. i noticed a minute ago, in this cabinet, i never saw this book by c.b. cobly on fish and wildlife. why i feel like i am walking into a treasure trove, a lot of people that write on nature focus on parks. yosomite and how to save species and the habitats. if you don't have enough wetlands you can't monitor the species. the fish and wildlife helped with the florida panther and many getting hit, an

where i enter, the impact of black women on race and sex in america and also in search of sisterhood, delta sigma and the black sorority movement. her most recent book, ida a sword among lions. it was called the best book of the year bit "washington post" and the "chicago tribune" and although it notes here that it was a final -- well, it was a finalist for the national book critic award it notes that it was a finalist for the "los angeles times" book prize, i'm happy to report to you that as of 9:30 last night it is the winner. [applause] >> paula also holds the elizabeth woodson chair and is the editor of the academic journal. she's a journalist who has been published in the "washington post" and among other publications. at the far end of the panel robert roper, we're here today, obviously, to take about biography and related topics. but, in fact, most of robert's published books are novels or story collections. he's written for magazines such as national geographic, outside and men's journal, for newspapers including the "new york times," "chicago tribune," "san francisco chronicle" and

a train, shifted by rail to seattle, 17 by barge, put them on a train or a truck and ship them to delta junction. they all lived which was better because the national bison range shifted 4,000 in transit. no one knows why. they made it up here in 1920, then they hung around until farmers came into the dull thud junction area. they put one on a cargo ship, dumped those, put them on a truck and let them go, this was carried out by the fish and wildlife service. you just open the door, everybody runs out and you see what happens. then just leave the door open and they hang around. from 1950 to 1960, there were rumors they had been killed off by wolves or bears. you would see them walking down the road, and people realized they had shored up they had reproduced, 200 of them. severe winters knocked the heard down. they're not an indigenous animal unless you count being indigenous as 4,000 years ago. some people think they were in alaska and sold 300 years ago. that seems like bogus information. it comes down to one skull that someone found in anchorage that was recovered behind an archaeolog

he was often seen riding the latest cadillac through the mississippi delta and a lot of people kind of admired him for that. here's a self-confident guy. he went up to people like center bilbo, right, and he'd ask senator bilbo for help getting a black veterans hospital in mount bayou and bilbo was charmed by this guy. he was out of fashion in a certain sense that kind of civil rights leader who provided -- >> excuse me for interrupting. one thing that we didn't have the cameras in mississippi that we had in selma so the world didn't see the beatings and hangings that went on in mississippi. plus the fact that for dr. howard, he cared more for helping people so even though he was a surgeon, we say unorthodox, i think, in so many ways he would -- while the people were in the hospital he would give them seeds so they could plant crops. and he would give them soda and ginger ale after surgery and for him being a seventh day adinvento adinventory -- adventist and he's sort of pushed to the side in a way and that is because we don't have the cameras. we just did not have the cameras in miss

legendary beer people down there in the delta. i do the math agriculture, over hunting, harvesting, killing bears because they're considered predators. we almost destroyed them. here's where they are debilitating them. roosevelt spent time and wrote about that river region in great detail. in louisiana. but i need to ask them what's going on there today, what were the black bear populations like back then that the biological survey had and what they're like now. this is the place i had to come to check. >> how long do you spend your? what do you do while you're here? >> look at documents, look at books. one of the most helpful things is not in this room, but out there they have a library. a minute ago they gave me two things i did not know about for perhaps future writings. they collect everything here. i noticed a minute ago behind in his cabinet, i never saw this little book by colby on the history of fish and wildlife. they have all these pamphlets and documents and photos. it's a great archive. the problem with why i am kind o

that's the mississippi delta.obably the worst place to be a civil rights leader in the early 1950s but four years before the montgomery bus boycott, howard's regional council of neagree leadership organized a successful boycott of service stations that refused to provide restrooms for blacks and also organized a campaign against police brutality that was also relatively successful. as linda point out without trm howard we probably would have never heard of medgar evers. also without trm howard we probably never would have heard of fannie lou hamer who gained her first exposure to civil rights while attending howard's -- the annual rallies of the regional council of negro leadership in mount bayou. they were held every year. they would sometime draw crowds of 10,000 people and feature speakers such as thurgood marshall and congressman dawson of chicago. howard played a key role in the search for evidence and witnesses in the emmett till case who was a young -- well, boy basically, 14 years old from chicago. was vis

in the delta you hear tales of people have health problems, departmental health, diabetes. childhood health problems. are you satisfied at the quality of care that poor mississippians are getting under your governorship and what do you think needs to be done to emprove that? >> our medicaid program is a very rich program in terms of benefits that are available to our citizens. we have a lot of citizens that need it. we have a lot of low-income citizens and people that are disabled and old and it makes health care very, very easy to get in mississippi. the number of people on medicaid in my first five years as governor went down. went down for some good reasons. a., medicare part d took some people off medicaid. people who no longer needed the prescription benefit. secondly, we had about a 60,000 increase in employment. of,000 more people working, a whole lot of people become ineligible for medicaid for the right reason. they got a job and their kids can get health insurance. so now we're starting to see more unplomed. the cost of medicaid going up.

we think it is northwest, continental, delta. it is just a different carrier with a completely different standard of hiring new pilots that are entering that cockpit. my wrong about that? >> i think i heard a couple of questions there -- let me just try to expand on a couple of things. compensation and safety are not related. the ntsb has never in all its accident investigations ever sighted compensation are paid as a causal factor, even a contributing factor, to an aircraft accident. the pay is fair and competitive in a very difficult industry. i am a veteran of that industry, and i will tell you that it is a very difficult industry. the pay and training, the opportunity the person comes into, that they are proficient and well-trained, that we would not put that person in charge of that airplane, in charge of that crew, the safety of that -- we would not if that person or not well trained and prepared. >> this chart shows -- i assume this is a first that applies to most airlines. that shows newark, and shows the where the pilots

come from just any state you come from mississippi, one of the poorest states in the country, in the delta you hear tale of folks having egregious health problems, terrible dental health, diabetes, childhood health problems are you proud of the quality of care that poor mississippians are getting under your governorship and what do you think needs to be done to improve that? >> our medicaid policeman is a very pritch -- our medicaid program is a very rich program in terms of what's available to citizens, we have a lot of citizens that need it. we have a lot of low-income citizen, people who are disabled and old. our system makes access to health care very, very easy to get in mississippi. the number of people on medicaid in my first five years as governor went down. went down for some good reasons. a, medicare part d took some people off medicaid, duel eligibles who no longer need the prescription benefit. secondly we had about 60,000 increase in employment. when you've got 60,000 more people working, a lot of people become ineligible for medicaid because of the right reason they got a job

this because we are told is because of a tiny fish, the delta smelt. so our people will have to suffer because of concern over a little, tiny, worthless fish that isn't even good enough to be used as bait. so last week, even amidst california's tremendous difficulties, with drought conditions and a shortage of water at near crisis, this house, the house of representatives, voted not for the people of california, but for a fish. no water for our people, but if -- because if we would give it to the people, that little fish might be affected in a detrimental way. perhaps the most damaging of the weird policies that i've described is america's long-time commitment not to develop its own domestic energy resources. even as high energy prices have brought suffering and economic hardship to our people, we have not been developing our own resources. even as we see dollars being siphoned from the pockets of our people and deposited in could havers overseas, en-- coughers overseas, enriching foreigners, some of those foreigners who hate us, while our hard-earned

airplanes where all of us are getting on, the name is the same, we think it is northwest, continental, delta, a different carrier with a completely different standard of hiring new pilots entering that cockpit. am i wrong about that? >> mr. chairman, i think i heard a couple questions, let me try to expand on a couple things. most importantly, compensation and safety are not related. the ntsb has never, in all of its accident investigations, have recited compensation or pay as a causal factor, even a contributing factor to and aircraft accident. the pay is fair and competitive in a very difficult industry. i am a veteran of that industry and i will tell you that, as captain prater pointed out, it is a very difficult industry. the hand training, first time opportunity, that person comes into, that they are proficient, that they are well trained, that we would not hurt that person in charge of that airplane, in charge of that crew, we would not, if that person were not well trained and prepared. >> we do have a chart. let me ask a question of captain prater. this chart shows a committee for ko

we had hearings on the delta northwest merger hearings on pro sports player and their pensions, so ijust wanted to say to the chairman, i don't think it is uncomfortable to be talking about this. we would rather not. we would rather not be here now, but our job as a commerce committee is to deal with people's jobs and companies and the livelihoods of people. so i just wanted to make that point because people have kept saying about their level of discomfort. this is what we're supposed to be doing. and along those lines, my focus here are on -- i mentioned some of our dealers here, laurel nelson, a lot of women dealers as well, and george mcgwire from shockapie. these people haveare very focus just trying to figure out what we can do here. and so just to summarize here what we have here is some commitment that we will -- a commitment that from chrysler that in fact it is very clear you're going to redistribute these parts and they're not going to have to pay cheaper prices, is that right? and can you tell them they're going to be sold? >> we will tell them that they will be redistribu

these legendary bear people down there in the delta. we almost -- mass agriculture, overhunting, harvesting, killing bears because they were considered predators. we've almost destroyed them. but here is where they're rehabilitating them. t.r. spent time and wrote about the river region in great detail. i had what t.r. thought about it. but i needed to ask, what's going on there today? what were the black bear populations like back then that the biological survey had and what are they like today? with different species i was writing about, this is the place i had to come to check. >> so when you come in a place like this, how long do you spend here and what do you do while you're here? >> look at documents. look at books. to be honest, one of the most helpful things is not in this room, but out there. they have a library. in fact, a minute arc they gave me two titles that i didn't know about for perhaps future writing of mine, because they're collecting everything here. i mean, i just noticed a minute ago in this cabinet, i never saw, u

his former airline has long agreed alliances are not a blessing particularly when the air france delta lynn linkup cut off connecting traffic at paris. yet american airlines is now trying to argue alliances are great for consumers. well, that's the sort of flip-flop which would give the most popular politician a bad name. what may look like a llife-saver for an airline will be a millionstone around the neck of consumers. if b.a./a.a. were to receive clearance, fares will rise because there would be less competition. why else would they want to join forces at an airport effectively closed to new comers? in addition for the travel trade and large corporate accounts, b.a./a.a. would be very damaging indeed. travel agents with such large parts of sales being derived from b.a./a.a. would also be completely beholden to them, with well over 75% of their income coming from just one source. they would end up being forced for their very survival to recommend b.a./a.a. to passengers. a bigger airline with less competition would force up prices because it would not face so much pricing pressure. t

its continental, delta. the same name just a different carrier with a completely different standard is seems to me of hiring new pilots that are entering the cockpit. am i wrong about that? >> mr. chairman, let me -- i think i heard a couple of questions in there. let me just try to expand on a couple of things. first of all and most importantly, compensation and safety are not related. the ntsb has never in all of its accident investigations ever cited compensation for pay as a causal factor, even a contributing factor to an aircraft accident. the pay is fair and competitive in a very difficult industry. i'm a veteran of the industry, and i will tell you that as captain prater pointed out, it is a very difficult industry. the pay and training, the opportunity that person comes into, that they are proficient. that they are well-trained. that we would not put that person in charge of that airplane, in charge of that crew, the safety of that. we would not, if that person worked well trained and prepared. >> we

experiences in iraq that will apply to afghanistan, we think it's maybe 75% to 80%, but our focus is on the delta, what are the differences? that's where we're working to better understand the culture, learn the language, appreciate how decisions are made, what does it mean in terms of the history of the land. you know, that's our value in having them work with us. they've had a lot of invading countries and armies roll flu there. in the wise words of a colonel in kabul, without the afghan national troop, we are another invading army or stand the potential to be seen that way, unless it's seen as a national effort based through the dex direction of their government that we're in support of, if we're simply trying to do it ourselves we're pessimistic it's going to be nearly as effective. >> what type of cultural training are you doing to deal with these differences and how important would you say the continued cultural training is, like that being conducted by the center for operational culture and learning to success in afghanistan? >> it bleeds over to the question and the answer to that last qu

higgins had had a lot of experience building shallow draft boats in the mississippi river delta so he knew about that. he tried to get the navy interested for many years in buying those landing craft but of course the navy was really much more interested in the bigger ships and there was a sense before world war ii, very wrong, that amphibious invasions were a thing of the past. so when the war hits we are not prepared in terms of having landing craft and we need a lot because you can't bring the ships in a mile offshore around tell them to swim in. you need a transition landing craft. that where the higgins boats were a thing of genius. and that story dr. ambrose told about meeting eisenhower for the first time an eisenhower telling them that higgins won the war, i love to tell the story to my students. they really enjoy that because it does put it in perspective for them and it also highlights for them two people they have kind of come to know very well. eisenhower obviously but ambrose through his writings because he got a lot of folks interested in world war ii and the average sol

chapter 2 is the story that a woman told me on the mississippi river on the delta queen a few years ago so it is her story and i'm simply the mouthpiece. i thought no, no i want to pull the reader in immediately and reach out and get a story line. i don't want to talk about this concept of q and quoz. i will put that off until later so i did not get it in progress and the book off and he broke back again and said, i am convinced even more that chapter to should be chapter 1, so he put enough doubt in my head and this is what i have never done before. i have ran off copies of both chapters, gave them to seven friends and said, tell me which one you think should be chapter 1 in which should be chapter two, so they did and the vote was i think 6-1 against me. so, i thought i probably will live to regret this but i will do it. so, my chapter 2 is now chapter 1 and if you were reading chapter 1 hand you think, this is just too weird, this is to eccentric, i'm not sure the guy is fully balanced on this. stop reading, go to chapter to. [laughter] there you will meet mrs. weatherford, she is go

it is these often nameless individuals who registered the voters in the mississippi delta, who marched over the bridge in selma, fought for better jobs and housing in northern cities and desegregated the lunch counters. i point to people like edna griffin, john bibbs, and len nard hudson. they entered a drugstore on a hot summer day in des moines, iowa, at a segregated lunch counter. when the manager refused to serve them because the store did not -- quote -- "serve colors" miss griffin refused to leave. and outraged iowans responded with outrage. and they won. edna griffin won. the lunch counters were desegregated and who -- who -- but a handful knows of edna griffin or john bib intvment or len nard hudson? it is only because of the extraordinary acts of bravery by ordinary americans like these in all corns of this country that the mightiest walls of oppression have been torn down. as this nation formally apologizes and acknowledges slavery and jim crow, we must also recognize that this nation owes these individuals most known toll their friends and their family, an enormous debt of g