>> good morning, elliott.averne jordan from the campaign for judicial correctness under the law. >> yes. >> our organization is more local. i'm going to make a statement and then i'm going to ask you two questions. one, the judiciary is clearly broken, and i think that you know that this has been going on for quite some time. this is no surprise. it's horrible to hear but it's actually no surprise, and so what i want to ask you is, one, what is the oversight committee prepared to do? what is mr. conyers' committee, both -- and he has the house. i understand that, and he's not on the senate side, but what is he prepared to do to correct these abuses, and, again, it's also on the local level, and i want to talk with you about that, and, two, why should you have confidence in the department of justice? i mean, what are you guys going to do about making sure that this is a new administration, that is committed to curing these abuses? because they're clearly just out of line with our constitution, and that's an emb

thank you so much, elliott, and nan. without much further adieu, i could talk a lot about this, but in the interests of time i'm just going to say i'm totally thrilled to have, be able to present the former chief judge of the northern district of alabama, u.w. clemmen. a little bit of background, i wrote a quite lengthy article about the siegelman case in "the huffington post" eric holder error, the attorney general, had written it just before my article came out. i had nothing to do with it. the attorney general had asked the chief judges and recent chief judges to help guide him on what he should know about the administration of justice in the country and judge clemens stepped forward to offer his views after 30 years on the bench. he had been invited to speak to the judiciary committee, but he felt that as a judge, he should not do it. he is now in private practice in birmingham. i am just thrilled by this opportunity to present nearly three decades of top-level judicial experience for this audience here and thanks to

digressive answer to your question was that we had an american family always when i was growing up, uncle elliott came in his rather beautiful air force uniform when i was a kid. we were close to our new york sandbergs, so new york when they came, -- very much like home to me. it wasn't a surprise. you know, i got tired -- i was raised in cambridge and i was given liberty by any doctor father to write scholarly history and i went to teach at oxford and there was a sense you were tied to an immemorial curriculum. never mind what you wanted to team. i was interested in crack pot things to do with cleanliness, feats tissues and strange and wacky things, and i remember standing up and proposing that the history on the history of the family, for example, and it was as though -- i remember being met with looks of rummy-eyed disbelief as though i uttered some unspeakable profanity. and then the next day i tried to kilnle the enthusiasm of one of any undergraduates in something very marginal, say the russian revolution, and i was meant with twinkle, which reminded me very much of what cousin gentleman's

wolfowitz, elliott abrams, people who were strongly influenced by wohlstetter, by philosophers and military strategists that would be considered like conservative blacks did he or was he influenced by that group or did he agreed in large part they were correct? thank. >> guest: that's a very interesting question and rumsfeld smylie sean ship with the neocons i think is a very important part of his time as secretary because he and up surrounded by a number of prominent members of the neoconservative community and they included his deputy, paul wolfowitz, the chief of the top civilian policy official at the pentagon, doug feith but rumsfeld himself is not a new conservative. many of his views may overlap. they do depart one critical area which is the notion of spreading democracy and around the world. rumsfeld is always very uncomfortable with that notion particularly as a rationale going to war against iraq and argued to try to keep it out of some of the rhetoric justifying the invasion. he wasn't particularly successful. the white house embraced that notion along with other rationale they o

greatest achievement is his family, including his lovely wife, shirley, and his three adult sons, elliott, his wife alyssa, and their children michael and brook, jeffrey, his wife,riesa and their children. steven, his wife jacqueline, and their children, jennifer and jeremy. the opening prayer rabbi schiff presented today reflects his intellectual fiber as well as a determination to improve our community and our country. i thank rabbi schiff for his invocation and look forward to working with him in the years ahead. thank you, mr. speaker. the speaker pro tempore: the chair will entertain up to 10 further requests for one-minute speeches on each side of the aisle. for what purpose does the gentlewoman from massachusetts rise? ms. tsongas: to address the house for one minute. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. ms. tsongas: no one was more worried about the national debt than my late husband, paul tsongas. during the years of the clinton administration, fiscal responsibility prevailed and the debt clock started to roll back. but we have seen a stark reversal of that success with sp

then i really flipped out one afternoon when i came across and in the woods and later that day and elliott. i thought this is marvelous, all in north america coming together here but then everly was fascinated because i began seeing combinations of those people feel that the lost strain is the only one in america are not going to be happy with this but seeing these crosses of the malcolm of the world, thought this really in that way is the fulfillment as i see it of what we are doing in this nation. on that second book to were their bows, i was stopped along the way to get a haircut and was talking with the man sitting next to me while we both were waiting for a haircut. then we got to know each other kind of-- not the way dogs do. dogs that each other. men do that by knots niching i hope that by asking a simple question, what do you do? if we know what the other fellow does we have some kind of a fix and we can talk, so we were chatting in that game of quickly and he asked me-- he was the high school mathematics teacher. he asthma what i did and i remembered i didn't want to answer that q