angel island is known as ellis island of the west. over a 30-year period, 1910 to 1940, angel island processed one million immigrants from around the world, with the majority coming from asia. today the angel island immigration station contributes greatly to our understanding of our nation's rich and complex immigration history by hosting more than 50,000 people, including 30,000 school children every single year. but because of their deterioration, many of the historic buildings are in danger of collapsing and in desperate need of repair. that's why along with speaker pelosi requested $1 million to rehabilitate the old angel island immigration hospital that can be used among other things as a museum to tell the story of imgation from asia to the united states. now, i doubt very much that anyone would come to this floor to strike funding for ellis island and argue that its preservation was wasteful government spending. but at the heart of the matter, angel island is just as important for those who crossed through its gates as ellis is

before making her way to virginia, this young woman had passed through ellis island, peering out from the boat at the mouth of the hudson river, she saw the statue of liberty. the most powerful symbol of freedom and opportunity america represents. all she wanted was chance, but never did she dare dream that her grandson would someday, this day, the this member of the u.s. congress standing before you. [applause] when i think of my grandmother, i reminded in its pure says that america is about looking forward. -- in its pure sense of america's about looking for. it is about persevering, to pass on something better for your children than you inherited. the narrative of this country's promise resides within us all. all of us here came from somewhere. we or our ancestors came to this country for the same reason -- for hope, opportunity, and a better life. this is the time that has always bound us as a nation. this is a tie that continually strengthens us as a people. above all, america is a nation of inclusion. a country nourished by its rich tradition of diversity and its tradition of im

. >> my question to you is actually as a follow-up to ellis' question whether obama said -- had set the right tone or not. i wonder whether you believe the regional countries have set the right tone. iran's immediate neighbors like turkey and iraq had called mahmud ahmadinejad to congratulate his victory. do you think that is a stand against the people on the street or an alliance to the current regime. how do you interpret it? thank you. >> well, i think it is hard to interpret it as anything other than standing in complete opposite of where the iranian people stand today. yes this did this? ask them. i don't think it is my place to discuss why a government does that. at a time when they are risk everything they have got to earn their freedom, was on their side. if we have a long term vision, that will lk more of a -- will become more of a vision. >> i would like to ask you about the relations between chavez and ahmadinejad. they have established relations in recent years. what do these two governments have in common to be so close? also, my second question is if you think that iran sh

right fielder, chavez out, ellis second base man out, garciaparra brought over to play first base, out. bullpen out. cust bad back. chopper to short again, andino, this is the shortstop night. >> buck: and he had to lay back and wait on that extra hop and he threw high to first base. watch how he waits back, gets back on that back foot, a little extra time, too much time. he air mails it. that's an error on the shortstop. >> gary: the humbling game of baseball. at one point when you think, you are doing good. the game will just grab you and bite you. >> buck: sure does. it evens out in a heartbeat. >> gary: error charged and the runner on, one away. jack hannahan, the third baseman up. he has singled and grounded out. error charged to the orioles. that will bounce away as the runner will go to second. wild pitch. >> buck: that's unfortunate. it eliminates the possibility of a double play. you can see wieters is in pretty good shape but then he gets his body side ways and that breaking ballhit the dirt and kicks away, hit his chest protector. >> gary: hannahan up the middle. andino agai

caller: this last ellis of the same thing i wanted to sue. obama should just back off of iran and let them be. just let them do their own thing. the same thing in afghanistan and in the other countries. he wants to send money to build the mill. the money he wants to send over there we need over here. -- to bail them out. he always wants to give people money, give people money, but he doesn't for over here. our health program, they have synergy, and a first person who signs up on that there's a $6 charge. if they go up to $10 apiece if they add more people into the family they pay for all the medical. the prescriptions are all paid for and you do not have to worry if you have somebody who has cancer right now. anything now there will be covered under that insurance. there will not be charged any more for it. there is nowhere as you can buy insurance that will be that cheap. it is synergy with the company and the phone number on their. the put commercials on the tv, but they always do well commercial is on, but people do not watching kitchen. b

rick had been 7-1 in his last 10 starts, he goes 4 1/3, allowing five earned runs, mark ellis and sweeney both homer. oakland has -- [inaudible] >> back to wimbledon now, serena williams on a collision course with her sister, taking on daniella, first set on serve, serena, big two-handed backhand. set up break points. gees. the ball clips the net, falls in. serena wins the first set. match appoint. second set, crosscourt, backhand coming up here for serena. she dominates it, 56 minutes, 6-4, 6-1. her sister, chasing her sixth wimbledon title. facing former number one anna ivanovic. venus dominating. up 5-love. huge forehand win. takes the first set 6-1. this is the first game of the second set. ivanovic would need treatment. she would have to retire with a thigh injury. venus only on the court 47 minutes. now the top fourth ladies seeds could break through to the semis at wimbledon for the third time since 2003. serena, next play, victoria azarenka from belarus. she's beaten her in each of the last two years at the australian open while older sister venus gets -- >> become the first one t

you don't say i have got an ellis, let me see if i can treat the episode and in 90 days i will tell you. we are halfway through. >> one of the questions you brought up earlier, if the child has a seemingly irrational fear of dogs, are these the questions that get asked? >> early on, alan can tell you, you don't see clear illnesses among kids very often. you wait a while and the illness declares itself. there is an impulsive sort of fearful, moody -- they are odd kids. you go after these spectrum's. one of the ones they use the first is fearful less. the other one is impulsive less. you don't see depression until teenage years. the impulsive, aggressive, fearful kids. >> nature or nurture? >> 50% is nurtured. environmental effects interact with genetic. it is a combination of the wrong genes at the wrong time at the wrong place. in terms of variants, nature is more important than nurture. >> nurture is more important than nature. environment is more important than jeans but both play a big part. >> they played a part together. the fall in a way we don't understand. >> that is one of the

you'd be hard pressed to find sites is anywhere in this " would not ellis' forged a consensus on defining the problem. it is difficult when definition has settled in to offer a solution. this legislation offers a solution. >> the time has expired. >> i yield one minute to make true american hero, mr. johnson of texas. >> thank you. as a clean energy advocate, i believe we should be good stewards of the earth and its resources. we are in the middle of a longer recession. the democrats want to impose a massive new energy tax on american families and businesses, costing every american family heavily. americans are sick and tired of democrats spending too much and borrowing too much. with the price of the pump rising 65 cents this year, the democrats would create a 70 cent per gallon tax hike with unemployment close to 10%. the democrats would kill 2.5 million jobs per year. my district alone will lose 3000 jobs per year. "nobody in this country realizes that cap and trade is a tax and a big one. this is america. let's not selling down the river." >> if he is now standing advocate of preventi

our phone lines are open -- ellis salvador and honduras. here is what the president had to say about the situation in honduras. >> let me first of all speak about the coup in honduras because this was the topic of conversation between myself and president uribe. all of us have great concerns about what has taken place there. president zelaya was democratically elected. he had not yet completed his term. we believe that a the coup -- we believe that the coup not legal and zelaya remains the president of honduras. the present host: using the word -- host: president using the presidentcoup -- the president using the word coup. guest: will probably overlooked the president's casual use of the word, but it was a coup. i think the secretary of state was careful not getting zelaya a blank check because she wants him before he is returned with our support and the organization of american states, she wants him -- and i think properly so -- to give up any ambitions of a plebiscites that would extend his term. host: john is on the phone from bridgepor

. -- it is not only that i only thatelli wiesel, -- ellie iesel, and my grandfather's brother was part of the units that first liberated that camp. i have talked about this before in the united states, perhaps not in germany. the shock for this very young man who could not have been more than 19 or 20 at the time was such that he ended up when he returned having a very difficult time readjusting to civilian life. and it was a memory that burned in him for quite some time.

fee-for-service and the extreme you put no weight on a fee-for-service adjusted for quality and severity of ellis of the patient. far along the stream that definitely where a lot of organization reforms and accountable care organizations concept of working on to explain the hatters on this line mrs. trying to work by us at health care reform at brookings and the dartmouth instituted for clinical services for health policy in clinical practice. a collaborative effort and any anaheim accountable care rescission is we want to support providers organize and away the can manage continuum of care. the whole set of care for patients. maybe not too formal organization been having accountability and focusing payments on the results for a population of patients. not for specific episode but for a population of patients. this requires the care organization to be large enough to support comprehensive measurement of performance and provide a critical mass with the kinds of targeted support services benefit for particular patients and also needs to be enough organization in these accountable care organizations

joseph ellis in a wonderful book talks about how we were built to argue and not to resolve. we have been the most successful experiments of war in human affairs in finding ways to deal with differences not only of opinion but a principle, to make a distinction that thomas jefferson made in his first inaugural. so, i think what is incumbent on all of us is to try to argue about these things with civility and a measure of grace and hope that we can translate come as you say, translate the wisdom of the founders into our own day. host: our guest is editor of open "newsweek" and also sold a reflex on history often. he is the author of books including "american lion, " "american gospel," and "franklin and winston." "american lion" recently won the 2010 pulitzer prize for biography. since we mentioned your historical writings, looking back at past presidents, does it help influence you've as you look at, for example, president obama and his work. does it help you put it in political perspectives as events unfold? guest: it does -- trying to underhand -- understand history, is at o

and finally, i believe that collecting and disseminating information about food safety and foodborne ellis to consumers is a critical component of any food safety plan. i'm encouraged by the provisions of the bill but i think there may be more that we can do to assure that americans are adequately informed. thank you so much. >> thank-you and i believe that completes our members opening statement. so we will now turn to our witness. let me say, dr. hamburg, i appreciate your being here and i want to welcome new. we have as you know five minute opening statements to become part of the record and you may get questions afterwards from members of the committee so they give and if he would begin. >> chairman pallone and members of the subcommittee, and i am a dr. hamburg commissioner of the food and drug administration. thank you for the opportunity to appear before you today to discuss the urgent need for reform of our nation's food safety system. i commend to chairman waxman, chairman stupak, chairman emeritus dingell and others and your staffs for the interception hard work in developing thi

ellis williams is a leader in my congressional district, currently serves as president for the he section valley health care and serves on the -- essex valley health care and serves on the board of east general hospital. she's part of a nonprofit organization of doctors, nurses, and other professionals who give back to the community through their services. she is a founder and director of the statewide female leadership development institute and research center at the new jersey city institute. the caribbean community's presence also plays a wide role in our elections, especially in my district, where the greater settlement of many people from the caribbean in east orange and irvington and newark make their voices heard. past elections we have seen many people from the caribbean communities educate caribbeans on the awareness of participation in recognizing june as caribbean month. my work with the caucus this congress has continually focused on enhancing relationships between the united states and the caribbean states by reviewing proposals and pending legislation that has direct impact

he told me that last year he paid $1.3 million in taxes in ellis county. it employed 40 people. cells and average -- he sells an average of 50 cars and trucks a month. in good years you can double that. so he could do better, he says that. but his business that has been in his family for four generations, if we can't get chrysler and gm to take a second look, it is gone. and his son, austin, who is sitting out here, his opportunity to the american way of life as we know it is gone. now what i am asking, mr. chairman, is i am not asking the management of chrysler and gm to do things that don't make sound business and economic sense. but what i am asking is to show little mercy of that is the right term. every decision doesn't have to be the toughest decision you can make. you cannot bear on the side of leniency and if somebody is selling 50.5 cars a month and the goal is for them to sell 51, you don't have to cut them off at the knees. so mr. chairman, i want to hear from both sides but i really hopefully by the end of the day want to hear from the presidents of the manufacturing

. >> host: rockville maryland, ellis, republican line. >> caller: thank you for taking my call. is anyone looked at the fact that a good way to handle the healthcare system would be to put it in the free marketplace where there is no insurance company, no government subsidies, to make a truly competitive. in other words a patient would pay for doctors' visits themselves and there could be a large-- major catastrophe. >> guest: i think that is in essence the kind of debate that we should be have been. the problem with it being totally paid out of pocket so to speak is that the costs are astronomical when someone truly get sick and when you see bills that can be $100,000 or more, a bypass operation are treating a cancer patient. when people really get sick, those are catastrophic events that you need to have insurance that i don't care how wealthy why are, those bills won't break the bank. however, that this mean bebchuk what you are suggesting is unfeasible for a lesser cost. and, i think we need to look it that and i think that really is the essence of what went on and what was