william lewis is on national committee for the american heart association's get with the guidelines program, associate prof. of medicine and shays western university and chief of clinical cardiology at metro health medical center and ice we haven't dr. herman taylor in 1998 arrived in jackson mississippi to new in jackson study, the largest base that a have that undertaking involving african-americans, the study both sought to answer questions about cramer's to a disease then the black community and provided historically black colleges experience in large scale epidemiological research. dr. taylor is a founder of hard to hard to in nonprofit organization that provides cardiac services for children from the developing world. then we will hear from dr. barbara howard, the senior scientist and former president of a red star is a two and holds faculty appointments in the berman even bredesen and a permanent biochemistry at howard university and his past year of the american heart association on attrition, physical activity my pastor of the nutrition committee of the american heart association a

, the american heart association, the american lung association, the campaign for tobacco free kids, and the american dental association. this bill also preserves states right's my not preempting state tobacco laws. it's extremely important to respect in many states, including my own home state of colorado, already recognized the dangers of smoking and the role that regulation can play and have excellent laws on the books that keep cigarettes out of the law, out of the hands of children and also regulates secondhand smoke. i'm very proud to say my home state of colorado is recognized as a leer in tobacco control as demonstrated by our leadership in enacting a comprehensive smoke free law that includes casinos. additionally colorado's working on enacting a youth access policy statewide. senator from my district, the state senator, introduced a bill last year that required i.d. checks for tobacco purchases and prohibited youth from possessing tobacco products. i'd like to highlight in conclusion a story of a hero in the cancer awareness movement from my district. a type of h

the association's first political activity was to urge the u.s. senate to pass legislation establishing the civilian pilot training program which allowed thousands of american pilots to gain their certification through federal government support. decades later, aopa remains a key thing in our nation's policy having played the vital role in crafting and passage of this year's f.a.a. re-authorization act. today aopa's membership exceeds 400,000, including seven out of every 10 pilots in this nation. i'm confident every member of congress currently has a valuable relationship with the general aviation pilots flying in their districts. on a personal note, those in my area serve on an advisory board prove to be some of the most informed and influential participants. their expertise has truly been a great resource for me as i serve on the transportation and infrastructure subcommittee and the aviation subcommittee. madam speaker, i believe the passage of this resolution congratulating aopa on its 70 years of service to our nation is a fitting way to sal

automobile dealers, the national association of manufacturers, the a.f.l.c.i.o. and the united states chamber of -- afl-cio and the united states chamber of congress. mr. speaker, i ask unanimous consent that the letters be included in the record. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, so ordered. ms. sutton: mr. speaker, we must pass the bipartisan cars act today for our workers, for our environment, for consumers, for our economy, for our country. i thank you and i reserve the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlelady reserves the balance of her time. the chair recognizes the gentleman from michigan. mr. upton: thank you, mr. speaker. i would yield myself two minutes. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized for two minutes. mr. upton: thank you, mr. speaker. mr. speaker, i congratulate my colleague from ohio and my colleague from michigan, mrs. miller. this is not the perfect bill but this is it. there is nplan b. this is not the original bill that ms. sutton and mrs. miller introduced, but this is the bill that passed our co

as the association ever done a salary study? i am guessing that must have had some analysis in the many years you have been there. can you provide that to the committee? >> we will provide you with a member -- information of our member carriers, what is publicly available. we will get that to you. >> we can keep things proprietary information, so i would like you to stretch further, if you can. >> the issue on the pay, and you mentioned the compensation pay is not necessarily a driving factor. i would disagree with you, because as a former mayor of managing over 500 police officers, paramedics, and fire, i did not want them to have a second job. i wanted one job. so we pay them very well. the net result was we had very limited problems because of that. they did not have to worry about their family and taking care of them, so i want to disagree with you on that and ask you the simple question, and taking it at $23,000. in alaska, we have some great regionals from the ones that operate currently there. the pace seems to me an impor

he is the first vice president of the national association of regulatory utility commissioners. mr. cohen has also served as a member of the vermont public service board since 1995 and has continued. he has served in a variety of regional and national leadership positions including the chair of the consumer affairs committee of the new england conference of public utility commissioners. we welcome you, sir. whenever you're ready, please begin. >> good morning, mr. upton, and ranking subcommittee. i also served as the first vice president of the regulatory commissioners also known as neru. i offer a state view on transmission. i'd like to thank representative wells for his kind introduction and his service to our state. he is certainly my favorite congressman from vermont. at the state level, we deal with transmission planning and siding requests regularly and the issues and concerns are not policy or procedural, and do not lend themselves to a one size fits all solution. state commissioners are obligated to act deliberately to ensure that any new projects would benefit the public. th

equipment manufacturers association, the specialty equipment manufacturing association, the american iron-steel institute, the afl-cio, the chamber of commerce, i could go on and on. why do they support this legislation? because they understand the best way to jump start the economy is to get auto sales moving the plight of the auto industry is a national problem affecting our entire nation. we know this because of the troubles of chrysler and general motors dealers across the nation that are being closed with countless jobs being lost. we know because suppliers are struggling to stay afloat with countless more jobs being lost and at risk. we know this because two of our iconic industrial giants, both chrysler and general motors are today in bankruptcy court. all these vital job providers are clamoring for action and deserve the help of this congress. simply put, we must act. let us support legislation that will protect american manufacturing jobs and this legislation will also give our economy the boost that it needs. i certainly do want to thank my colleagues for all of their suppo

has the association ever done a salary study? i'm just guessing a much have had announced them, and if so can you provide to the committee? >> mr. chairman, senator, we will provide you the information of our member carriers, what is publicly available and we will get that to. >> and i guess i would push a little bit further. we have rules here. we can keep things proprietary information so i would ask you to stretch further if you can. >> we will do so. >> the issue on the pay, and i know you mentioned that the compensation pay is not necessarily a driving factor. i would disagree with you so it's clear on that fact because again as former mayor managing over 500 police officers, 300 public safety people, paramedics and fire. what i never want them to have was a second job. i wanted one job, and one job was doing the safety of the community. so we paid them very well. that result was we had very limited problems because of the. because they didn't have to worry about their family and taking care of them. so i want to disagree wit

the olympics to new york. that was done in association with the republican national convention. at has been done in association with a lot of different events that have been hosted by a much larger, beefed up professionalized marketing apparatus that has been -- that has been produced under his administration. so there's been a lot of very kind of luxury-like images that have been -- that have been produced. and there's also been a new campaign called this is new york, which interestingly associates that luxury image with a very kind of utopian -- a utopian version of a diversion city that harkens back to the early days of i love new york. and i think that juxtaposition of that kind of -- of a kind of longing, a utopian longing with this luxury-oriented, elite-oriented way is one of the things that makes these campaigns so successful and allows people not to sort of think so critically about them as i think they should. >> as a sociology professor at uc santa cruz, why are you writing a book called "branding new york." >> well, i recently relocated to santa cruz. not that i would

from the aerospace industry's association, the satellite industry association, on one hand to care, oxfam the peace corps association, refugees international and the genocide intervention network on the other. the save darfur council, church world service and american council on education, a coalition of all the major public and private universities in this country all strongly support this legislation. i urge all my colleague on both sides of the aisle to support this important legislation and i reserve the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from -- the chair: the gentleman from california reserves the balance of his time. the gentlewoman from florida. ms. ros-lehtinen: i would like to take our time in opposition of this bill. the chair: the gentlewoman is recognized. ms. ros-lehtinen: some dear colleague letters sent out earlier this week to express their -- express their support on the bill tended to focus on the few attractive features of the bill, such as the improvements it would make on the initiative to assist mexico and other central american countries to

i speak today on behalf of the flagsal association of insurance commissioners. the insurance industry, even in these difficult times, has withstood the collapses that echo through other financial sectors. we likely agree insurance regulation must not only serve industry needs but prioritize u.s. consumers. consumer protection has been, is and will remain priority one for state regulators. it bears repeating that we supervise 36% of the world's insurance market. our states, individual states include four of the top ten and 28 of the top 50 world markets. alone we surpass two, three and four combined. to be sure as with any dynamic industry, insurance regulation must modernize and it does. we worked with your great staff, mr. chairman, to fashion the office of insurance information which if passed would provide a federal focal point for international trade matters and federal data analysis. the naic maintains the world's largest insurance data base, while the states do and will provide data to federal regulatory counterparts, we agree that insurance sector data sho

the carbon cap that provides a value or cost of additional marginal costs associated for purchase for fossil-generated resources that provides additional revenues to renewable resource should provide the financial incentive needed to get renewables and the associated transmission built and that we want to maintain the distinction between who's responsible for paying for transmission if it's a generating facility and who is responsible if it's needed for -- >> number one, define the goals that we need to be with the transmission grid. >> number two, define a state-led process by which we can meet those goals, one of the primary aspects would be the decision maker must be beholden only to the public interest. number three, ensure there's federal backstop authority so that we get our job down. number four, don't do harm and with regards to that, don't define a specific technology and please don't define a cost allocation process. >> thank you, mr. cohn. >> thank you, mr. chairman, just very, very briefly, i just want to reiterate that the states are here to help. we would like to work cl

host: ambassador white is a graduate of the tufts university school of law and diplomacy and former senior associate of carnegie endowment for peace. his current title is president of the center for international policy. tyrone is on the phone from memphis. caller: how are you doing? we are spending too much money on foreign stuff, all these wars and stuff. we've got a lot of problems over here. we need to bring all of the troops back and give these people jobs over here. a lot of folks here in the united states -- we need to get the jobs that instead of concentrating on other folks issues. host: thank you for the comment. let me go back to something we saw earlier -- senior administration officials say they want to "talk our way through this" with key players in honduras. who is talking to whom? guest: well, at this point, i think that the head of the oas is doing a lot of the negotiating, and that is proper. there is a sense that democracy is the official governing doctrine of the americans, and any coup requires a meeting of foreign ministers of the organization of american states. but you can be

the global trade association for over-the-counter derivatives.reviously he was the general counsel of isda since 1997. prior to joining isda he was in the legal department of an international oil and gas company from 1919 to 1997 -- 1991 do 1997. our fourth witness is christopher whalen, but mr. whalen is a proud resident of hudson, new york. they provide consulting services for audit tore, regular laters and he consults with global companies on a variety of financial and regulatory issues and the regional director of the professional risk managers international association and is a board adviser to a global business security risk in asia. -- huh, hu, would you please begin. >> mr. chairman and distinguished members, thank you for this opportunity. i teach at the university of texas law school and my testimony reflects my view as an academic. i agreed to be working at the securities & exchange commission. i emphasize that i'm currently a full-time academic, have been so for over two decades and after this forthcoming government service will retur

the associated plethoric press rights that they dug in for partisan trench warfare. senator john mccain spoke on the senate floor today saying the whole enterprise is basically a gridlock. >> i would like to say a few words about healthcare, and obviously we are innate -- accog to the committee, basically a gridlock. the correctional budget office stated monday -- congressional budget office stated that once the proposal is fully implemented, the number of people who had coverage through employer would decline by about 15 million. a health-care consulting firm estimates this summer to be much higher. they estimate that up to 70% of all americans who have private insurance, 120 million americans would lose their health insurance and be forced on to the government payrolls. that stands in stark contrast to the president's repeated assertions that if you like your health care, you can keep it. further analysis by a health care economics firm found to get all americans covered under the democrats' bill it would cost a staggering four trillion dollars and resulted in 79 mi

will like to have her confirmed as the snect associate justice. i now introduce mr. robert morganthal, the d.a. from manhattan. >> i see you were fortunate enough to bring your own umbrella. i came here to speak to the supreme court. she was the first job out of law school with the manhattan d.a.'s office and served for five years an and then she went on to private practice when she became a member of the campaign finance board and then she showed her independence and her desire to be fair to everybody. her decisions are well-known to the public. i want to say that based on everything i know about her, she will be an outstanding judge on the supreme court if he elected, and not just a member but an outstanding member and will be the only member of the court that will have experience in the state judicial system, as my colleague explained. 90% of the people in custody in the federal system came out of the state system. it's very important to have somebody on the court who understands the trauma of victims of crime, who understands the legitimate and

we have been working with the national association of translators, the virtual translation center, the national disability rights networks, and save the children. we also work with the u.s. humane society. i see that my time is short and i will move on. but the red cross is also involved in continuing to improve disaster response in a cost-effective way. the needs of the most will marble are magnified by disasters, at the same time that charitable organizations are decreasing. like many nonprofit organizations, we are faced with financial challenges. the major disasters of 2008 like the wild fires and the hurricanes created expenses with foreign based donations. >> could you please try to finish?

the carvin cap that provides a value of cost and additional marginal cost associated with allowance purchase for fossil generating resources and renewable portfolio floor that provides a different additional revenue to renewable resources should provide financial incentives needed to get the renewables and associated transmission belt and we want to maintain the distinction between who is responsible paying for the transmission if it is a generating facility and who is responsible if it's needed for reliability. >> commissioner azar. >> number one, define the goals we need to be on the transmission grid. member to come to define a statement process we can meet the schools. one of the primary aspects of that needs to be the decision maker must be beholden only to the public interest. number three, in short there's federal backstop authorities so that we get the job done. member for, don't do harm and with regard to that, don't define a specific technology and please don't define a cost allocation process. >> thank you. mr. coen? >> thank you. very briefly i want to reiterate the states are he

, including the 2001 american association for public opinion research innovator award and more recently the 2508 american statistical association julius shishkin award for originalal in and important contributions to the development of economic statistics. ultimately his deep expertise in survey response will help the census bureau focus on the most important goal of the 2010 census, which is to encourage all people to respond to the census. dr. groves will undoubtedly face a host of operational and management challenges as we move closer to the 2010 census. however, i remain confident that he is well-equipped, remarkably well-equipped, to understand the agency's inner workings, to lead his staff -- he's led a large organization already, served at a senior level at the census before -- and to also be a spokesman for the agency's other equally important ongoing survey programs. it is for these reasons that i hope that the full senate will support his nomination and move it quickly. let me just reiterate. we are now about eight

oh, the associated press. may have heard in light of several news agencies being closed to independent ves gaytive journalism. these are usually, while the associated press decides to show some of the stories as far as journalism starting july first, they will deliver work by the center for republic integrity, the center for ves gaytive report together 1500 american newspapers that are free to public the and publish the material. on july first that starts. the chairman and ceo of over stocks.com a website to purchase items of that nature will be on our program, next we're talking about concerns by businesses that use the internet for a large part of the daily work. internet taxes and other things that effect the internet. we'll be right back. ♪ >> the government's funding of direct aid to colleges is a laterly 1950's early 60's thing. >> hails dale college has never accepted government funding and not even government backed student loans are permitted. >> title four of the higher education act is roughly 400 p

in fact, we have two major objectives in our association, the arab women solidarity association. number one, to unveil the mind. we are as writers -- we're not only writers. we have to unveil, to help in unveiling our mind and the mind of others. and just by the knowledge, by having the courage to speak up our mind -- we may be wrong and then we learn from discussion, from different opinions, but we have to speak our mind and pay the price because freedom has a price. freedom means responsibility. you have the price of creativity. you have to pay it. in order to do it. nothing without a price. so our major one objective in our association is to unveil the mind. so reeducate people and to reeducate the self, to undo what education did to us, to undo what religion did to us, we have to work on that individually and collectively. and then the other goal is to organize. when the majority start to have irreversible true knowledge of what's happening in the world, there will be a social revolution. >> so i'm interested in how you actually have done this in -- worked on this in egypt. we

here is the associate editor of real clear politics. 're here to talk about congress wrapping up in the influence of media on politics. there is a front-page story this morning in roll-call about the gop in their plants over the recess. they planned to blast away over the fourth of july recess. they get these breaks in congress. how affected our party is getting a message through to the public, particularly in the stretch but this holiday? guest: it requires a lot of grassroots work. unique coalition-building out in the states, districts to amplify your message. if you are focused on a message in washington, d.c., advertising and places like "roll-call" or "the washington post," it has a limited effect. you have to go back home and attend fourth of july parades. you have to hook their messages are bombarding in getting across to constituents in the home states. i think they're effective when targeted that way. host: it is kind of the down time for politics in general. what are you looking at as the recess develops? guest: the districts t

supporting a call by the association of american medical colleges for a 30 percent increase in medical school enrollment as well as an expansion of graduate medical education positions to be achieved by the year 2015. a severe nursing shortage has been reported by the vast majority of our hospitals in our country, and the u.s. department of health & human services projects that by the year 2020 the shortage of nurses in our country will be between 400,000 and one million. the association of schools of public health estimates that by the year 2020, 250,000 more public health workers will be needed in the nation. and finally, we have predicted 150,000 shortfall in pharmacists for the nation by the year 2010. now, this health manpower shortage is exacerbated by a maldirection both by geography and specialty because it is well documented there's a shortage of primary-care physicians and family physicians. in addition, there's a dearth of provoiders in rural and inner-city areas which have been designated as health profession shortages. as many as 35 million americans live in areas so desig

of state highway transportation officials and will be the incoming president of that association this fall. on behalf of the state department of transportation i want to thank you for your efforts in securing transportation funding as a part of the economic recovery legislation. today a want of a size three major points. all of the states have on a 50% or more of the non sum allocated funds well before the june 30 deadline. projects are under construction and people going back to work in good paying jobs. states are directing funds are ready to go project that spent economic recovery and job creation to all corners of the united states with special consideration being given to the economic news of geographic balance. the economic recovery and provide a $48 billion for transportation investment out of a total of $787 billion. of that 27.5 billion or for highways, 30 percent of that going to this of pelicans in the cities and counties. this is to be received in excess of $354 million in stimulus dollars that is for shares petition projects and am extremely proud to report that we m

itit's just not going to havment the american association of public health physicians states that this product orbs are the most effective way to fight death, disease associated with current tobacco users. let me state at that again. the american association of public health physicians states that these are the best tool we have to get people to quit smoking. as a matter of fact, i'm proud to say that the american association of public health physicians yesterday endorsed the substitute amendment and not the base bill. because they recognize the base bill does nothing but provide a pathway to certain disease or death. just so i'm clear, mr. preside mr. president, under the base bill, h.r. 1256, marlboro is cemented on the retail shelf. camel orbs that reduces death and disease related to tobacco use is band, can't be sold. swedish snus -- it wasn't on the market before february 2007. marlboros are on the shelf. snus? it's banned. even though the swedish experience that i talked about earlier -- during the past 25 years, swedish men showed notable reductions in smoking-related disease,

for the large commercial carriers. and as your association have a number of what percentage of that maintenance is beingç outsourced? >> i'm sure we have the answer to that, i don't happen to have it with me. >> if you have it that would be terrific. it has been a very difficult -- to the information is difficult to come by from the faa in. i have not -- i don't think prior to rise looking at this issue and i don't think the american flying public realizes to what extent maintenance has been outsourced in an effort to cut costs and one of the problems is in many of these places there's not even alcohol and drug testing. it seems weird to me that we have a domestic certify the repair stations and because we don't have as many of them anymore because some of our outsourced, there are faa inspectors that hang out there that are really looking over the shoulder and then you travel to indonesia and if there is ever faa inspectors that show up, by the way the u.s. pays for that, the taxpayers pay the cost of the faa inspectors to go look at foreig

he's vice president of the national association of regulatory utility commissioners. david is acutely sensitive to the particular needs of rural utilities where a small state, but this issue of transmission is incredibly important to us as it is all around. so i want to welcome him and thank you, mr. chairman, for inviting david to be here and add to the testimony. thank you. >> the chair recognizes the gentleman from louisiana, mr. scolese. >> thank you, mr. chairman. renewable energies will play an important role in the energy policy and the support the development of renewable sources of energy. as a matter of fact, republicans have drafted legislation, the american energy act which will be in energy. as we expand energy sources like wind, solar and hydro and as the congress and this administration discussed the grid and its capacity, we must not neglect that many of these sources of energy are intermittent and need to be backed up by other sources of energy and we would be remiss if we do not emphasize the importance of diversifying our energy portfolio and ensurin

and the regional airline association respectively. it will also hear from the air line pilots association and mr. scott -- scott mauer representing the families of the continental express flight 3407 which crashed on february 12th of this year in new york. i do want to say as well as mr. this hearing and that i had intended it and wished to have representatives of the carriers themselves at a hearing and so we did not accomplish that today. i am not minimizing and all other representatives of the 80 a but i will wish to expand invitation and have representatives of the airlines themselves here within the next month or so. it is important i think that they wouldn't accept an invitation to, and so i will extend those invitations again. in this country i think it is safe to say that we have a remarkably safe system of air travel. it is not my intention with hearings about aviation safety to alarm anyone about taking a flight to on a regional carrier when our carrier. we operate aircraft all across this country everyday and provide critica

chairman, the regional airline association thanks you for the opportunity to testify today, and for opening the dialogue on these critical issues. we will look forward to keeping you informed and i welcome any questions you might have. >> thank you for your testimony, next we will appear from captain john prater, president the airline pilots association. >> we commend this committee for calling this hearing to look a critical issues affecting airline pilots and our charges. many of these issues, pilot training and hiring standards, training and mentoring, were at the top of the agenda at the faa's call to action summit in which we participated on monday. this meeting was a critical first step toward developing solutions to these problems, we encourage the faa to take a more structured approach in working with the airline and labor to establish an agreed to implementation plan for all parties to adopt. in recent years, we have to look more at the system. the major airlines have come to rely heavily on cochair arrangements with the so-called regional airlines to connect large, mid-size, and s

next, we will hear from the president of the airline pilots association. >> thank you. we commend this committee for calling this hearing to taking a closer look at some of the critical issues affecting the airline pilots and our charges. many of these issues -- pilot training and hiring standards, training and mentoring -- are the top of the agenda at the faa's call to action summit in which we participated monday. will this meeting was a critical for step toward developing solutions to these problems, we encourage the faa to take a more structured approach in working with the airlines and labor to establish and agree to implementation plans for all parties to adopt. in recent years, we have to look more at the system. the major airlines have come to rely heavily on arrangements with these so-called regional airlines to connect large, mid- size, and small cities in the u.s., canada, and mexico to their international hubs. this has resulted in the exponential growth of the regional sector of the industry. still, the major air carriers exert a great deal, almost total pre

thank you [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] >> the national governors association say states are facing the steepest budget cuts in its 30 years. spending is projected to fall for the second year in a row. now more from the 35 minutes event. >> good morning ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the fiscal survey of state conference that all participants are in a listen-only mode we will conduct a question and answer session i now turn that discussion over to scott pattison. >> i am the executive director with the national association of state budget officers and with me is raymond scheppach executive director of the national governors association. we are releasing our fiscal report which we do twice per year and we have been doing this report for well over 30 years. unfortunately i have two report these are some of the worst numbers we have ever seen. for example, for the first time ever actual spending for the states will decline this fiscal year 2009, 2010, two years a narrow. the last time this occurred, the only other time states had the outright decline in expenditures

according to the mental health association, every day 1,100 adults start smoking. over 1,000 young people start smoking. every day these young adults start smoking, they're entering a lifelong addiction. therefore, the number of young adults who start smoking every day is tragic, especially when you consider that cigarette smoking is the leading cause of preventable death in our country. once you're addicted to tobacco it's with you for life and death. most states -- most smokers start at 13, 14, 15 years old. the family smoking prevention and tobacco control act will give the food and drug administration, the f.d.a. the authority to regulate tobacco for the first time. as was said earlier, we don't regulate tobacco now. we're finally giving the food and drug administration the authority to regulate it. this bill is fully paid for and the f.d.a. activity on tobacco will fully fund it through a user fee, not through the f.d.a.'s existing budget. these new funds will not take away or affect any of the f.d.a.'s current activities. the bill also subjects all new tobacco

thank you for allowing us from the american association of state highway tradition that officials i will be happy to answer questions when the time allots. >> good afternoon representative edwards and members of the committee. my name is joseph casey representing we provide to is rotation in the southeastern pennsylvania area but there also representing the american transit authority representing private businesses. private -- publix 23 phase-in can reduce our dependency on oil improve the environment and achieving sustainability and improving the economy. with the increasing price of gasoline over the last couple of years, the market has rediscovered public transportation. at this recording last year 10 .3 billion trips taken on public transportation the highest in the last 50 years, spta has seen a similar increase our writer ship has increased 12% and even though prices dropped last year the writer should remain strong and recede another three percent over last year. the american recovery and reinvestment act is critical to mass-transit prior to enactment and over 200 and providers th

nealson, president of the american medical association. [applause] >> thank you. i watched the president. he goes thank you. thank you and you sit down. good morning, everyone. it is a great -- a great honor and privilege for us to welcome back home to chicago, the president of the united states, barack obama. [applause] the president will be coming in in just a second. just a couple of words to him. mr. president, we appreciate that you have taken the time out of a busy schedule to join us and we're grateful for your efforts to make the path toward health system reform as open and inclusive as possible and in particular that we have been included in those efforts. you have said that a test of the american judicial whether we allow ourselves to be shaped by events and history or whether we act to shape them. america's physicians want to help shape a better future for our patients and our country. [applause] >> we know first hand that change is needed and that the status quo isn't acceptable. [applause] we appreciate the investment you've already made to help physic

. >> in a few moments, president obama's speech to the american medical association. he outlined his plans for the future of health care. the speech is one hour and after that reaction from leaders of the ama and congress. later, treasury secretary speaks on the a economy. on washington journal tomorrow, we will discuss the supplemental spending bill with jane hampshire -- hamsher. we will also speak with two other guests after that. "washington journal" live on c- span every day at 7:00 a.m. eastern. a couple of live events to tell you about on our companion network on c-span3. a hearing will be held on insurance industry oversight at 10:00 a.m. eastern. they will look at pursuing policies that may threaten the financial system. later will be the nominations to the federal communications commission. that is at 2:30 p.m. eastern. president obama spoke to the annual meeting of the american medical association monday to discuss his proposed changes to the health-care system. this is one hour. >> good morning, everyone. it is my pleasure to welcome the president of the un

the credit union national association has $578,000 in holdings. talk about this and how they're responding currently? guest: it is a powerful interest group. we will have a case study of its power over the next year as congress tries to put together a financial services regulatory regime. they have weighed in heavily on initiatives discussed. consolidating various agencies into one strong begin later. many of the banking groups do not like that. they are comfortable with the current system. it is one of many interest groups who have strength in washington. it is a powerful group. when they come together to fight an initiative they usually have a strong cloud on capitol hill and within the administration. host: how would you gauge their strength in this administration compared to the previous one? guest: probably had a little more sway with the bush administration. it is a strong force. the banking industry is a force to be reckoned with. host: check out our website if you want more information on this. these are figures on the political action comm

lot of moms and dads of our guests list this year. >> tetherball, chairman of the radio tv correspondent dennis association. thank you. >> thank you. people don't want to think of the results conservation is a policy as much as a passion, he put aside almost 240 million acres of wild america and son out as people are talking about environmentalism and green movements, roosevelt is becoming the key figure to understand because he was the only politician of his day to absorb darwin and understood biology and understood the birds, migratory patterns, and understood it mating habits of deer and elk and antelope and actually did something. >> sunday on cue and egg, the first of two hours with douglas brinkley on wilderness warrior, sunday night at eight on c-span. or listen on xm satellite radio or download this c-span podcast. >> now a house hearing on business practices that made insurance companies to cancel or deny health insurance, will hear the stories of people whose individual policies were canceled while they were dealing with serious medical conditions. followed by a panel of health insurance executiv

counterterrorism chief has called awad's former employee the islamic association for palestinian quote, a front organization for hamas that engages in propaganda for islamic militants, end of quote. a september 24, 2001, l.a. story described the connection between the islamic association of palestine and the holy land foundation this way, quote, the i.a.p. and the holy land were founded and funded by mazuk, he's also the political leader of the terrorist group, hamas. andrew mccarthy, a former federal prosecutor who led the 1995 prosecution against shake omar abdul rahman, the blind sikh, found guilty of the 1993 world trade center bombing in an article notes there are several persons connected to care who have been convicted of federal felonies, including terrorism, end of quote. mccarthy includes in this group one of the founding members of re of the dallas area chapter and also co-founder and former chairman of the holy land foundation. according to july 9, 2007, "dallas morning news," report he was sentenced to, quote, nearly seven years in prison for doing business with a terroris

let me read a letter from the national association of realtors. the national association of realtors supports h.r. 2998, the american clean energy and security act which addresses a broad and global array of issues. in closing, the national association of realtors asked for the favorable passage of this. as do duke energy, american electric power, b.p. amicle, g.e., the american institute of architects. this bill is designed to help with national security, the climate and jobs. my friend, mr. poe from texas, says just vote no. well, that's the party of the status quo. just vote no. we like the status quo. it is time for a change, ladies and gentlemen. we can't afford the status quo, and this bill brings us in that change and a new direction. with that i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields back the balance of his time. the gentleman from california. mr. waxman: madam speaker, i have one more person who wanted to be recognized and then we'll be prepared to close. would the gentleman from texas have someone he wishes to yield to

so osha bigger new data the national association of american manufacturers a great supporter of worker rights complained and said oh shut is that relating on 35 year profiles and italy reliance onto outdated studies and should continue to study the effects at lower levels. more study. more study. just as the comment period was closing i was asking my students about this because it was a great teaching opportunity i read the study in the "journal" of occupational medicine that the conclusion that the absence of the elevated lung cancer may be a favorable change an inquiry is the researchers have looked at the new factory cover the have not looked at people for very long or but it shows there is no real risk from low levels of exposure. the chromium chemical health committee from the industrial foundation. what is that? late one night i did some grupo and it just by luck because only on the web for a brief period of the industrial health foundation had gone bankrupt and there is a fight over chromium files and fortunately we were able to get the data from that and by cold calling the var

national health care anti-fraud association. the national insurance crime bureau. blue cross and blue shield association. and the american health insurance plans. the health committee engaged in in a -- engaged the staff in a bipartisan way. not only in this committee but the staff at finance and aging and judiciary to get input and participate in these discussions and drafting. just by way of a quick update, this is the latest that i have. we have a total of 21 amendments, 19 of those being republican amendments. we have acceptance on two, to my knowledge. nz-103, nz-104. we're working on possible agreement on three senator burr amendments 1, 2, 7. we have a whole series of coburn and gregg agreements we don't have agreement on right now. also one by senator hatch. the total democratic amendments of course are two or three. i think there's a discrepancy in the number here. but two or three. senator sanders has i guess three. if i get that right. 6, 7, 8. he'll be offering -- he will not be offering for a vote but will talk about them. we're making a little progress

by the next headline, the president's nomination of second circuit judge sonia sotomayor as the next associate justice. the nominee will bring to the supreme court, as she did to the district court, and then the court of appeals, a wealth of experience in law and in life. and i am so glad no longer to be the lone woman on the court. [laughter] >> i look forward to a new colleague well-equipped to handle the challenges our work presents. and turning to the term's work,ly say some things about our -- i will say some things about our caseload and lineup. then note a few of the most watched cases. and after that, describe second circuit decisions on our agenda. last year i predicted we might hear as many as 100 cases this term. that estimate proved incorrect, not at all to my regret. we in fact heard 78 cases. that was up from 69 the preceding term. and next term if the 31 grants are reviewed so far, by a fair measure we will stay in the high 70's ranges. of the 78 argued cases, opinions to date have been released in 60. 17 of the 60, or 28%, were 5-4 decisions, a rate considerably higher than las

coming up, the national governor's association unveiled their latest survey of states. ter from the rand corporation, discussion on the future of iran. ♪ >> join us later today for a speech by david simon, creator and head writer of the wire. mr. simon also wrote for the baltimore sun for 12 years and he will talk about the future of journalism. that is live at one:00 p.m. eastern on c-span2. here is a look at tonight's edition of the communicators. >> with the federally mandated transition to digital television come in next week, we will get a status report on how the sec has prepared viewers for the change. william blake, congressman joe barton, television station manager kevin harrison, and erica swanson, activist group coordinator. we will have that tonight at 8:00 eastern. the communicator's on c-span2. we have more live events later with national intelligence director dennis blair. he is speaking to the national security alliance. you can see that live at 8:30 p.m. eastern after the communicators on c-span2. >> how is c-span funded? >> private donations? >> i don't

is there a way to figure out what industries, does it say created in the association are something or the. cues that goes on in these is rigorous as of the ones because it should be-- you cannot interpret your data that way. >> you raise important points. their journals that specialize in publishing essentially what that u.s. questionable analysis. they are essentially run by individuals involved in trade association or consultants to big companies. they will often published articles 100 pages long. anybody who has published an article will know that pages and journal articles are precious commodities and they are sold out very carefully but some journals will publish an article about the pre-analysis of benzene studies done for the american petroleum institute. the only reason to publish a 120 page article is to say look how impressive this is. we don't have rules that cover different journals and what his forces while the leading medical journals require you to say who paid for the study and what relationship you had to the people, the regulatory agencies don't have that same requir

for public awareness, the american gas association and the american public gas association. in conclusion, mr. speaker, i encourage my colleagues to support house resolution 484. with that, i reserve the balance of my time. . the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman reserves the balance of his time. the gentleman from wisconsin. mr. petri: mr. speaker, i yield myself such time as i may consume. i'd like to express my support for house resolution 484, designating june 10 as national pipeline safety day and yield such time as he may consume to my colleague, mario diaz-balart of florida. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized for ouch -- how much time? mr. petri: as much time as he may consume. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized. mr. diaz-balart: thank you, mr. speaker. let me also thank the gentleman for his generosity with the time. i rise in support of this resolution designating the national pipeline safety month. mr. speaker, pipe lines obviously play an important role in our society through the operation of our homes, our businesses, by clif

a meeting adjourned the national governors association says states are raising their steepest budget cuts in 30 years spending projected to fall for the second year in a row. this is a little more than a half hour. >> good morning and welcome to this goal of survey of states conference call, at this time and all participants are and listen only mode and later we will have a question and answer session. i will turn the call over to scott pattison, you may began. >> thank you. i am scott pattison, executive director with the national association of state budget officers and with is mr. scheppach the, of the national governors association and today we are releasing our fiscal report which we do twice a year. we have been doing this report for well over 30 years now and unfortunately i have to report that these are some of the worst numbers we have ever seen. for example, the first time ever actual spending for the states is going to decline. this fiscal year 09 and fiscal year 102 years in a row. the last time this occurred and the only other time the state's actually had an actual outri

prop propaganda by the deed as opposed to the association who would be the future. after all of that. now he had killed before in 1892. in 1892 at 11 avenue which is still there, i have gone into various times, they found a package in front of a the carmaux mining company. there were big time strikes in the town in the south of france with a great socialist on the 31st of july in 1914 lived. they found a package and i guess one of these bonds they should have been more careful about the white powder that was falling out of the package. there are two kinds of bombs. dynamite leveled the playing field. in the way that roadside bombs leveled the playing field now. invented by nobel of the nobel prize in 1865 and the others were irreversible bomb, you could buy chemicals together and they blow upon the table so they found this bomb in 1892 in november and they carry it downstairs, put it down, they notice that there was powder dripping out but they called the policeman and said we had better carry to the police station. it is still there and then go in and poppa down on

he will hold hearings on the nomination of obama of sonia sotomayor to be the associate justice of the supreme court of the united states. i have my chief counsel here, we're going to get her informed -- confirmed. you better believe we will get her confirmed. take that to the bank. think of the number of firsts in her nomination. the first nominee in over a century to be nominated by three different presidents. goerge h.w. -- george h.w. bush, clinton, and now obama to the supreme court. and the first hispanic. being the first is not very easy. but you may be the first person to go to law school or college. i became the first one to receive a college degree. she graduated summa cum laude. she began her career as a prosecutor in new york city, the district attorney of manhattan was a wonderful [unintelligible] i remember when bill clinton nominated her, the republicans controlled the senate, and they put a hold on the nomination. they place an anonymous call on her -- hold on her, but would not come forward. in june 1998, they were trying to hold her up, because they thought they would