in closing that this program is so important to the business community in south carolina, until richard paul recently ended his career at a global welding and cutting firm where he held positions of senior vice president of strategic planning, senior vice president of information technology and vice president of and took over the directorship of this program. this is one of the reasons we exist, to make the quality of life better for those people especially those who live along the i-95 corridor that so many of us like to talk about is the corridor of shame. we would like to turn that corridor into an oasis of opportunity for those children. and with that, i yield back. the chair: the gentleman from west virginia reserves his time. the gentleman from arizona. mr. flake: i thank the chairman. there are a lot of commendable education programs and this sounds like this is certainly one. we are facing a $2 trillion deficit this year alone. i think it be hoofs us as members of congress to make some choices at some time. i think all of us would like to have money for every worthy project, but here

serving up the gates of the 21st century although paul bridges the 19th and 20th centuries than paul's work and richard has rescind a book that spans the 21st century rather than standing at the gates but with that let me make a recommendation that i will open it to the panel and i will reserve some time at the end for some questions. first to my right paula giddings author of when and where i am sure, also in search of the sisterhood, and the editor and writing from the nation. her most recent book, at "ida: a sword among lions" ida b. wells and the campaign against lynching was called the best book of the year with "the washington post" did "chicago tribune" although a final choice for the critics both juries award i am happy to report as of 9:30 p.m. it is the winner for the "l.a. times" [applause] she also holds the chair at the african-american studies at the college board also urge journalist who has been published in the near times, "washington post" broke among others. robert roper we are here to talk about biography related topics of most of his publish books are novels or story collections so

richard. caller: thank you for c-span. i was in the south pacific. i have a question. first, i was wondering if you were aboard with ron paul's idea of auditing the federal reserve, which is a pretty big issue. if you want more information, go to infowars.com. it is like a giant ponzi scheme run by bernie madoff. guest: i have a co-sponsor of that bill. the federal reserve system ais a private bank. they have been doing some amazing things lately. i think it is extremely a proper for the federal government and those of us in congress to know what the federal reserve is doing. so i think it is a very good bill that ron paul has, with a lot of co-sponsors, and it is basic transparency. the federal reserve is doing things on the up and up, and they should be willing to share that information with us because they do control our money supply. there was an article that appeared two weeks ago on a thursday in the editorial page of "it will street journal" which shows what they have done with m1, which is the supply of money. you go back from 1960, van de graaff