they include alcoa, b.p., conocophillips, dow, duke energy, du pont, general electric, general motors, johnson & johnson, energy-energy, shell and siemons. environmental groups are also members. many of these companies have built billion-dollar companies through the processing of fossil fuels. most of b.p., shell and conocophillips is in oil exploration and production. duke energy produces 75% of its electricity from coal. manufacturers such as g.e., alcoa and dow consume a great deal of electricity and would be negatively affected by higher energy prices. they support this bill. these businesses worked for two years with environmentalists and members of congress to develop a blueprint for legislative action that laid out a plan to reduce greenhouse gas pollution, create jobs and spur investment in renewable energy. this blueprint for legislative action form the foundation for the american clean energy and security act passed by the house energy and commerce committee on a bipartisan vote, i might add. at its briefing, members emphasized the importance of the american clean energy and

about that this week on the communicators, andrew fine virga broadband census.org and fawn johnson of dow jones newswires. mr. feinberg, before we had reviewed the hearing itself, give us a little background on julius genachowski. >> guest: the guy has been everywhere. he is than that the fcc. he has been in the private sector on both the entertainment side. he has been a venture capitalist, actually weisser in washington with a d.c.-based start of incubator and he served-- sort have been a tech and city terry to the obama campaign all the way through. he is on the advisory committee, and now he is probably going to be our next sec chairman, barring anything horrible or strange. >> host: phone johnson, given his background what we know about him now and where do you think he will take the fcc? >> guest: we know he is passionate about the internet and this comes from the obama presidential campaign. he was one of the early supporters of obama. he was actually when the first to bring the telecom community around him in supporting him. he brought people in who have never given money to a pre

host: corey boles covers congress for dow jones newswires and appears in "the wall street journal." we are here to talk about the past for -- cash for clunkers provision. what will this mean for the auto industry? guest: i think lawmakers hope it means another boost to flagging sales. we all know the story of the troubled u.s. auto industry. what this will do is essentially provide a cash incentive to people to trade in older, heavier polluting vehicles and buy new cars off the lot and hopefully get rid of some of this huge backlog. >> you had a good graphic that accompanied an article he did last week with your colleague at "the wall street journal" about what the provisions would do. we will live look at it here. the requirements -- 18 miles a gallon or less, built in 1994 -- for a new car it has to be at least 22 mpg and in $4,500 subsidy and the last -- guest: if it is least 4 miles, 3500, and at least 10 miles improvement, $4,500. host: have they done these projections on not just in terms of what this will mean for the auto industry but what about the environment? pollution st

sky to be the new fcc chief, and joining us to talk about that, andrew feinberg and fawn johnson of dow jones news wire. mr. feinberg, before we review the hearing itself, give us a little background on julius genachowski. >> guest: well, the guy's been everywhere. he's been at the fcc, he's been in the private sector on both the entertainment side, he's been with venture capitalists actually right here in washington with launch box digital which is a d.c.-based start-up incubator, and he's sort of been a tech con cigly yea to the obama campaign all the way through, and now he's probably going to be our next fcc chairman barring anything horrible or strange. >> host: fawn johnson, given his background what do we know about him now, and where do you think he'll take the fcc? >> guest: well, we know he's passionate about the internet, and this comes from the obama presidential campaign. he was one of the early supporters of obama. he was actually one of the first to bring the telecom community around him in supporting him. he brought people in who have never given money to a presidential

lead the federal communications commission with andrew feinberg broadband census and form johnson with dow jones news wire. with the fcc would look like under a new chairman to night eight eastern on the communicators on c-span2. >>> topics at today's state department briefing include the continuing unrest in iran, u.s. relations with china and u.s. navies ongoing surveillance of the north korean ship suspected of transporting beer and nuclear technology. the briefing is conducted by state department spokesman kelly. it's half an hour. >> good afternoon. i think as many of you have heard the secretary on the doctor's advice decided for the g8 foreign ministers meeting and for the lsc meeting has deputy secretary steinberg said just a few minutes ago, he will go for the meeting which is the back end of the trip and undersecretary burns will represent at the g8 foreign ministerial meeting. the secretary was in the office this morning. she attended her morning staff meetings. she's already made a few phone calls. she made a bunch of phone calls over the weekend as well. the first call she mad

the dow jones closed up. >> you have been watching bbc news night here on c-span carry you can see the program again tonight at 9:05 p.m. eastern on our companion network c-span 2. president obama held a news conference in germany today. later, they visited the buchenwald concentration camp. here is the rest of the trip schedule, france with stops in paris and normandie where he will observe the 65th anniversary of d-day. his speech to the muslim world in cairo--- cairo, egypt will be shown again this sunday. we have more now on the president's speech and a trip from this morning's "washington journal." . i want to begin with this treat that gives us an account. it says "we will never solve their problems. the u.s. should get out of other people's business. there are enough problems at home to worry about." how do you respond to that? guest: at least a philosophy of the speech yesterday was extraordinary in so many different ways. one of goes -- one of them goes to the heart of the issue you just raised. you have the president of the united states who travels to the muslim world to del

that there's going to be an team to just close dow the judicia committee on all o the important issues we face. if we were -- if -- i'd be happy to yieldo my colleague from massachusetts for a question. a senator: mr. president -- mr. kerry: i wou ask my colleague, isn't it true that it is not only inerms of the public record the longest period of time,f we were to del unl september isn't it true that would be the longest period of timf csideration for any justice of the supreme court in history? mr. schumer: i believe my colleague om maschusetts is correct. mr. kerry: certaly much longer than justice alito, justice roberts or any of the others that we considered very rapidly. mr. schumer: it would be clearly longer than roberts -- much longer than roberts, but longer than alito, but alito had the thanks gichthanksgiving and chrs breaks that we were celebrating in that time. mr. kerry: there is no rationale here that we've seen for why this justice's entire record is public and pored over already, requires the longest judgment in history particularly given what is at stake. mr. schumer

he had to commit the ball dow. if you go back and look at the 6th inning, about everything got up. the hanging curveball was up. the curveballs are always done, he he's inside, there's a pith to sheffield. questionable to castillo, and then ball is up in the strike zone. murphy hits it. cora hits it. but again, he kept the club in the ballgame. he needed this performance, te 8 strikeouts, the 4 earned ru, it could have been better than that, and you have to remember he had 252/3 innings -- 25 2/3 innings in aaa. it's hard to come up, learn te hitters, learn what you got to do in the big league and have success. so if you gets a chance, whi liked about everything tonigh, he gave up the two runs, they left him out there to pitch in the 7th inning. and that's how you're going to develop young pitchers in baltimore. he has enough guts to pitche 7th. even though he gave up two runs. >> i want to ask you about the reimold pinch hit at-bat. very interesting strategy after the

the people in the middle, the guy and dow making $30,000 or 40,000 lives per year who are now told by the employer, i'm sorry, i cannot afford to keep you on, that is the problem. -- the guy and of the girl making $30,000 or $40,000 per year. there are many who are only one paycheck away or are under- insured. this is the population that european countries, france and the u.k., those entire countries equal to the people in this country who do not have health care or are only one paycheck away from not having it. guest: look, congressman star was talking about the political expediency of voting against the opposition. i would argue -- he did not want to answer it -- that right now one of the proposals, if you get health care benefits from your employer right now you do not pay tax on that as income, but the one proposes they would tax that at least a certain level -- guest: $17,000 and above. guest: if you are currently getting insurance and will pay tax on it to help those who do not. there would be picked up and be benefiting from your taxes. the other plan was to cut medicare. the p

because you haven't been successful right now doesn't mean that you can say, okay, we're throwing in the dow, we are never bringing it up again. in our committee, the chairman has made the issue of revenue clearing very, very clear to folks on his site. he just philosophically disagrees with it. that's just it. so how that will play out as we move forward with a full bill to the floor, i don't know. >> what political risk does senator boxer raised if she tries to markup cap and trade legislation, driving peak oil prices higher? higher, while she is preparing for and with california in a dire straits? is there any specific risk that she faces do you think? >> i think she is but i also think she's a pretty smart woman. i think she is thinking about all of that. >> what do you perceive is her calculation? >> i tell you, if oil prices continued to go up and people's attention starts to refocus on what they are paying at the pump as they did last summer, i think her calculus changes. i'm sure you have all seen the list of priorities, i don't remember what -- i think it was a gallup poll when indi

host: your the reporter for dow jones. here's a tax question. what is the current limit of the deductibility of executive pay? guest: that is one thing that lawmakers want to address. it is one way to may be addressed executive pay. you have seen some people on the ways and means committee talk about that. if we're letting these folks have a low tax rate when they gain billions of dollars or hundreds of millions in bonuses -- some make billions with the big hedge funds -- that is another way. lawmakers could eventually look to recoup some of these. host: here's a call from indiana. caller: good morning, my question is why is the obama administration creating all these czar positions? why don't they let congressional members do it because they're not doing anything for the people? guest: one reason these positions are being put into place is because it gives them a point man. it is partly a political demonstration that these are issues they consider important enough to appoint someone specifically to focus on them. host: he will also oversee the

and dow jones news wires. what the fcc would look like under a new chairman monday night at 8:00 eastern. on friday, hundreds of hispanic clergy and community leaders gathered for the annual prayer breakfast. among the speakers, house minority whip eric canter, and homeland security security janet nap ol tano. this is about 30 minutes. >> good morning. thank you for all the great work you do to >> good morning. thank you for all you to to enrich the lives of so many in america. hope, you don't merely represent this principle in name or in words. you live by it and live by example. the faith-based community in this country throughout our land sheds light where all too often there is darkness. fer the proud virginiaen, i stand here and join you as heirs to the tradition set forth by the colnists who came ashore at jamestown and began its settlement in 16 07. through an unfailing commitment to faith and concern for one another, these colnists banded together and worked hard toward a better future. they planted th

. >> but may i follow up with the dow jones, if those amendments were not to be offered or passed, as it currently sits -- >> i'm much more inclined to support it, absolutely. >> you have a question up here? >> yes. you talked about the process earlier about the healthcare bill and how that was kind of opposite of what you're seeing with the energy bill. speaking about that just real quick, is the healthcare process so onus right now as you see it early on that it's really going to affect things as it moves to the floor? and with the energy bill, what do you see as being realistic things you've seen on the floor. you've talked about anwr and natural gas. what are the common ground with some of the folks on the other party. >> let's do your second part of your question first. i think nuclear is an issue where we can do a little bit better than we have in committee. i've had conversation with some of my colleagues on the other side who agree for a multitude of different reasons that nuclear must be a larger player in our energy portfolio. and have indicated that they want to work with m

. >> host: well, our guests have been fawn johnson with dow jones news wires and andrew feinberg of broadband census.com. we've been discussing the nomination of julius genachowski to be the next chair of the fcc. when will the vote happen? if it hasn't already? >> guest: it could happen before the july 4th recess. there are things that could stall that, obviously, it only takes one senator. but that has been the plan at least as part of the committee, we'll have to wait and see. we expected other nominees to go forward a lot more quickly, and they've gotten held up, so we're still waiting on that one. >> host: and you can watch the full hearing if you'd like at c-span.org. thank you both for being on "the communicators." >> guest: thank you. >> guest: you're welcome. >> how is c-span funded? >> through donations? >> i think you get a little bit from the federal government? >> you know, grants and stuff like that. >> maybe from sponsors? >> it might get some government funding. >> viewers? >> how is c-span funded? thirty years ago america's cable companies created c-span as a public service,

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in spring training, having confidence in his composure that koji uehara, jeremy guthrie could hold dowh ortunti soeof the youngsters got innings under their belt. >> jim: two down. dan uggla. there is is a fastball for a strike. 0-1. of course if the orioles were to make any kind of a change with the role of koji uehara, somebody then would have to come over or come up and take that spot in the rotation. >> buck: i think there are a lot of possibilities and i don't think andy macphail has made up his mind one direction or the other. i think with baseball being so bunched up at the top and so many teams included in the wildcard race, there's going to be a lot of activity moving around, and rosters shuffling

>> for those of you who don't know, fawn johnson of dow jones. a question on the 35 stations that will go dark after june june 12th. do we know who they are, what company, especially the one that is going into bankruptcy, which company that is coming any detail about those? >> i am sure we know that. i don't personally know that. >> somebody must know. >> yes, we do have that information and actually some of it is indicated on our master list but i think for everybody's convenience what we are going to be doing is posting a full list of the 35. >> i don't think we need to go through here. >> i just want to let you know we would be posting nasa you'll be able to see that. >> you said there were 18 of those stations are owned by a single company going into bankruptcy, and the rest are going dark because of technical reasons? >> 18 of them have financial reasons. i believe 17 of those are one particular company. 16 of them are construction issues that will be resolved i believe by the end of the year. some of them a lot sooner, and one of them has a

efficient car from today's washington charnel this is 25 minutes >> host: corey boles covers congress for dow jones newswires and also appears in "the wall street journal" and we are here this morning to talk about the cash for clunkers provision that was part of legislation passed last week in the senate. what is this going to mean to the auto industry? >> guest: i think what the lawmakers hope it means is a boost to flagging sales. as we all know the sale of the auto industry, chrysler, gm and large extent ford are facing this recession so but this would do is essentially provide cash incentive to people to trade and older and heavier vehicle and buy new cars off the lot so they get rid of some of the huge backlog of cars that exists right now. >> host: you had a good graphic company in an article you did last week with your colleague at "the wall street journal," john schmidle, about what the provisions would do and have a look at it here. the requirement for the trade in, if it's 18 miles a gallon or less is 1984 or after you can treated in. but you have to get, like, for a new car at lea

what we're doing sheer a top down.h a top dowe a top downr e down. a top down.is a top down. what this says is quality parameters throughout the country mean something and we're going to have a quality commission. we're going to have it set or it's going to be available where you can get it. and it's not just going to be who we pick or who somebody else wick picks. we have not one metric, we have no idea whether it's effective. when we measure it independent and ask for a study to stay is this money the metrics that say it is making a difference? we don't have that. we have some small areas but overall for the 16 billion we spend we don't. and what this amendment is saying not all the wisdom lies in washington and in fact what is right in washington state may be different than what is right in oklahoma given risk factors, environment, climate, everything else but the point is with this amendment -- it is not trying to get quality. it's trying to establish common sense with parameters so you can measure it. have you ever asked yourself why we don't know, why we are not getting

and for the dow you all go is going to get tricky and delicate.so that is what is going to happen in your absolutely right. two have time to ask one more? did we talk about the pope? >> this was an interesting thing that we ran across while going to the classified documents and iran across some letters that the pope had sent to reagan and reagan sent back to the pope. i asked about that that i would really like to get some of those, but you can't get them because the vatican has got them locked up. maybe some of the vatican can tell me what happened. i believe that it was if they die and then you had to wait for 50 years before you could see them which is higher than the cia, but while we were going through these documents we did find some that will show you what was going on. and reagan and the pope for very tight. they got together and december december 15th, you work on that one -- i will tell them what happened later. >> on december 15th in 1981 cardinal asset value was the secretary of state to the vatican came over and met with ronald reagan

the third book i want to read is written by a friend of mine who used to work at dow jones, which ownshe "wall street journal" and it is called a restless genius. it is the story of a famous and very influential american journalist, barney kilgore, who was the editor of my newspaper, the "wall street journal" for years and years and treated the modern "wall street journal" and in many ways modern journalism. he is written and interesting biography of barney kilgore who will go down in history as a person who created much of what we think of in journalism in the '20s century. finally, for fun i want to read the rockets that fell to earth, the new book about roger clemens and how he sort of rose and tank as to the drug controversy has somewhat fall and. >> to see more summer reading lists and other program information, visit our web site at booktv.org. outside magazine correspondent steven rinella on recounts the history of the american buffalo from its centrality to the lives of native americans to the sizable reduction of its population from about 40,000,002 of the few hundred by the l

host: michael creighton with dow jones news wire, thank you for being with us -- michael crittenden. we have open phones on any issue. and we would take a look at some capitol hill news as the house gets set to come back in. "roll call) newspaper, he writes, democrats's shaky agenda. democrats have had heavy turbulence, he writes, as they enter a crucial period, with the part of their agenda in dallas. the first week after the memorial day recess of a major split between conservative and liberal democrats over health care, a war supplemental spending bill punted for another week amid internet seen sniping, and speaker nancy pelosi, cracking her what to get reluctant committee chairman to act swiftly on the climate change bill. further in this story he writes, the canyon-sized split over health care could prove the toughest issue for the democratic leaders in the weeks ahead. that is roll call this morning. here is a story from the politico, and they read about our inspector and his first trek out as a democrat. specter makes democratic debut in pennsylvania. a story from inside the p

america, energy energy, g.e.,al could hea, dupont, dow chemical, johnson&johnson, national venture capital association. these are american companies that understand the point you were making a little bit earlier, mr. polis, that to stand still is to lose ground and that actually we have an enormous opportunity here to regain america's competitive edge, create jobs and once again lead the world in innovative technologies and techniques. but we've got to make that initial step. this bill creates that framework. >> mr. connelly, one of the things mr. heinrich talked about, if these jobs aren't created here they're going to be created elsewhere, the research will be done elsewhere, the fact that the american industry, the companies that you recognized who are, you know, many of them american-based companies, feel that this is a good policy, i mean, these are global problems we're facing. some way or other the world is going to need to wean itself off of fossil fuels. don't you think that this policy helps make sure that those solutions happen here in this country? mr. connelly: absolutely and

some members of the congress especially in the senate and also in the house where ferrell the dow be used to ration the cost and analysis and i made it clear that no this is a clinical attractiveness. clinically this procedure and is this a job and is in this medical device, is a better than the other or not? i am fond of this planning how fda reviews a drug application, it looks only to see whether it is safe and doesn't work and compares it with a placebo, not against any other drug and i think we need to do a comparison here, not just drug and medical devices but also procedures to see which is more attractive and so have much more evidence based evidence in america based more on value and reimbursement, based more on quality and value than volume. and i think that we will be able to get this included in the health care reform as comparative effectiveness research or fred as we want to call it as long as you make it clear there is no cost benefit analysis here. this is pure clinical comparison. >> senator, to follow-up on that, there are some people who have argued if you don't ha

the dow was it. kosciuszko filed madly in love with her. [laughter] and he decided he wanted to marry her so he went to the lord and said i would like to marry your daughter. well, he looked at the estate and realized he didn't have that much money and said i'm sorry but pigeons are not meant for sparrows. and daughters of land magnets are not meant for the common so kosciuszko majority loper with her. unfortunately, he was captured and he pulled out his sword and was about to fight off the lord and his men and he realized this is the father of the woman i am in love with so he put the sport back into the sheet and they beat him up, knocked him unconscious and took the daughter away. now kosciuszko had to run away because the father decided he is going to try and prosecute him for abducting his daughter. so kosciuszko left and went to paris where he learned about the american revolution and first heard about the battles of lexington and concord, so there he set sail for america. and after crossing the atlantic and hurricane season where his

horn sounds to signal the autopilot was disconnecting at the board renslow pulled back pushing the dowwas up word, that altered the air flow of the wings and sent the plane tumbling. and then a quote from mr. rosenker, acting chairman told reporters renslow and shaw violated regulations banning conversation once a plan to send blood in thousand feet. clearly there were violations of the cockpit rules which ban such conversations he said. critical phases of flight the career direct focus without doubt there is a risk of mistakes. this is a chilling to everyone, and if you have had a loved one on that play and it is beyond chilling. it is unforgivable it seems to me, so i want to get to a letter that senator snowe and i sent to secretary lahood and we said some tough things, mr. babbitt. we are troubled by reports suggesting the faa would talk to carriers about duty time, that is a direct quote, talked to carriers about duty time, this refers to this flight and pilot fatigue. the faa must become a proactive agency and merely talking doesn't fulfill their primary mission to ensure the saf

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do you want to see the dow not recover for 26 years? settled think that is the policy we want. believe the stimulus bill the president brought us was the wrong prescription. big government, that is the answer to more government spending, mortgaging our children's future, running up their credit card, we are getting the fruits of is supposedly and running up their credit card they have to pay higher taxes when you look at the stimulus bill and add interested is over $1 trillion. $1 trillion. now it is bad enough the following week they brought spending bills to us that increased last year spending bill by 8% then shortly after that the president brought us this budget that was the scariest thing i have never seen come to washington d.c. because the president's budget, if you take all of the debt that was accumulated from george washington three george bush, all of that he doubles it in five years and triples in 10 years. it is unsustainable. i don't know if you have noticed some of the reports were the chinese are getting nervous about buying our treasury bills. they're gettin

madame chair you have just come back where they do a lot more active engineering to protect property dow we would look at as being in a vulnerable song so i think we are reaching the point where we come back and discuss reauthorization of the national flood insurance program and we look at the v-zones we are working under the current rules and regulations. but also looking at as we go forward is it time to recognize there are many places along the coastal communities that are going to face the same challenge in a disaster that we have to recognize if we are going to allow a repair why would a destroyed building not be the same factor and should we not be looking at if we can engineer a solution that keeps the public safe and reduces the future damages doesn't commit to new growth in these areas but allows the historical communities to rebuild as they were but better so they are not damaged i think that is something we have to ask ourselves as a country and this will be again to your leadership and through the process of congress looking at the realization that we want guidance on but i t

pakistan somehow i think has persevered negative 1971 civil war the dow was geographically unattainable to begin with. but i think pakistan works in so far as it moves ahead. it doesn't work -- it is still grappling with a single identity. you travel around pakistan and your right, the index does divide the civilizations. but you ask pakistanis in various parts of the country how do they identify themselves. they rarely ever if ever identified themselves as pakistanis first. it's either punjabis or pashtuns, whatever their identity is, tribal identity and the muslim and then pakistani. so you see the tears of identity. so in that sense, the idea of pakistan has never really taken root amongst the civilization, the population. >> host: yet when british india was partitioned in 47 coming into two states, now three, bangladesh of course spun off in 71, but you look at india that just finished a month of immense elections except for a brief interlude in the emergency rule the democracy in india has never been interrupted and have a military coup. it's worked. and yet pakistan has had at lea

b.p., big oil company, dow chemical, conocophillips, general electric, you got the entire labor union movement supporting this, you've got the league of conservation voters and the sierra club. now, i know not everybody is familiar with every one of these organizations, but suffice it to say you have some very large corporate business that is have their view of the world, and certainly the necessity of having an efficient energy polcy, you've got some environmental groups that have come together and said we like this, this makes sense to us. you got labor which doesn't always necessarily but sometimes agrees with the other two groups. what i like to this -- think wh h