in terms of presenting some of the data, we alluded to this issue. implicit with this ability to provide cultural linguistic care, a patient understands what you are talking about, not only that the patient understands, you understand the patient is important because it is something that is harder to capture significantly in the hard-core outcomes that peter and others have spoken about. other parts of the data, we see these intrinsic, implicit factors. i want to allude to the other thing you pointed out, which is this myth that asian-americans are uniformly healthy. you see specific health disparities in populations of asian-americans that are troubling. it is up to us to make sure we educate the broader u.s. population. >> i would say the data that the system has his overwhelming, we define the issue. in research it is easy to define a problem by how you set the premise forward. i served on boat board of grady hospital in atlanta. we have a tremendous problem because we have a growing hispanic population. and that issue is one that we are dealing wi

that is the data then included in the recovery dove and reports delivered to congress. feel like we have a consistent process of collecting that data. >> as was pointed out, we have on obligation deadline we are collecting a jobs data. >> the f.r.a. is a slightly different animal. to some extent, it makes our job a little bit easier. in fact, we have regular reporter from amtrak and as part of our oversight we do varfy these numbers. >> the numbers i gave you were a metric >> are we meeting our job with the metric jofment we see the number of projects on the way. those projects are really just beginning. the construction season gets into high gear. it's hard to pin down exactly but all the indicators are that they are heading into a positive direction >> we are hopeful that that added expansion will allow them to retain those employees and keep them about their business rather than laying off bus drivers. >> that makes sense. thank you. i blobe my time is up. >> on your side. ms. miller is recognized. thank you. i appreciate all of your testimony. i am sorry i missed yo

and the browser could in a technical way query a site and see what promises the site makes about uses of data. there's been efforts to do this in the past. there was a standardization effort called p3p called the platform for privacy preferences which defines such a standard and for reasons that are the subject of debate the standard didn't stick. it wasn't popular. nonetheless, i think this is a fruitful approach and i for one would be happy if the companies got together and had a discussion again about how to do this.' >> mr. kelly, tell us a little bit, if you could, about yu8÷ experiences in stepping on the toes of people's privacy concern. i mean, it seems to mey'ñ we to some degree have three companies that have succeeded because consumers with a lot of different choices have chosen to use google, chosen to use yahoo! and chosen to go to facebook. could it be the reason they're choosing your three services in particular that you're being self-selected by an active consumer marketplace that thinks the privacy works on your sites? now, you just had an experience, i guess, it's an ongoing

i do with the data. recognize the data are inherently problematic. live like to think the data has been measured and come equipped with perfect observation the book is very important to demonstrate the differences between cooperative networks, balloon resolutions, a satellite based temperatures and what it means. the third chapter a fairly big chapter on hurricane warning and you can guess why it is there. a lot of discussion and politics particularly after katrina and the 2005 and again the 2006 season there's a lot of discussion that came up about it and the book sums it up very nicely prepare also point* out the book does go back in time to notice, a 270 years of eight -- hurricane history, 800 years, 5,000 years, looking at the leo tub histology would is a fancy word for looking at the historical extreme events. chapter for the sea level rise and the great unfreezing world. but is also a very big chapter and also done very well. and i will point* out why i think chapter three and four are so big. here you can see one of the things that my old col

a contractor who is employing the workers. that data is then reported to the state. the state compiles the data from individual contractors or division office, which we haven't each state is working closely with the state dot in reviewing the employment data that is provided to the federal highway administration and loaded into this recovery act database. so it is compiled across the country from all of the states centrally. at that point we look at the number of jobs that are being reported to identify any issues or anomalies, does it look like anything is, you know, doesn't match up with what we would expect given the amount of dollars being spent. and that is the data that is then included in recovery.gov and in reports that are delivered to congress. so we feel like we have a very systematic process of collecting the data and oversight of that data through the federal highway administration staff. >> and for the other administrators, do you have mechanisms in place so that you feel a short these numbers are accurate? >> and the fede

real business comes out of the data base. we're focused on getting that done now and we're slowing down application development and focusing on conversion of the database. the other thing that's important from the report that came out, the vast majority of $400 million is being put to good use. it is the key is getting a data model with consistent definitions that all systems use. that was under that umbrella. we put out refunds in five days to millions of taxpayers using the money that's been spent, he is especially in this difficult economic time. we're using a huge amount of the software and hardware. so this is a shifting of focus, gradual. it's what you do with any big technology project as you learn as you go along. i certainly would hope it's not put in a category of i don't believe it's failed at all. what i did, stepped in and said what can i get done during my five-year ten-year. >> thank you. just one final question and the rest for the record. i appreciate the chairman bringing up the cade strategy, that has been o

we have the placebo data after we compare it to leave. of the very beginning 2001, the "journal" of american medical association looked at the data and said look for it is pretty clear that patient was taking less has more than twice the risk of heart attacks as the one that is taking alleve. powerful findings. merck scientist paid by merck for that major medical centers replied, no. look at the studies to different ways either vioxx cars as a heart attack but we believe alleve is preventing heart attacks. we do not have a drug that prevents a 60% but we would put it in the water supply. [laughter] they say the defense is corteo protected and eventually the real truth came out with a placebo was done three years later hundreds of thousands of people, and millions of people took vioxx in the meantime. it was withdrawn from the market september 2004 but by then 20 million people had taken the drug and somewhere between 88,000 and 144,000 part attacks occurred because of this. this is a public health disaster. we see the same campaign and app

they tried to get ahold of this study epa was doing to get the raw data but they could not do it so what they did and this was fascinating because there were essentially trying to stop this lawsuit, to force the osha standard, the invented a simulated population and then conducted a study on it. they said on the basis of what we know about this, this is what we think the work should look like and they concluded there was no risk of lung cancer. well, then eventually, through freedom of information act they were able to get the raw data and of course they did another epidemiological alchemy in the results go away and they conclude workers were never exposed above the current permissible exposure, did not experience long cancer excess risk. fortunately judge back here in philadelphia who died not so long ago said that is nonsense and threw it out. this is the only health standard that the bush administration, osha has actually issued and there were forced to by a federal judge who happens to be republican, dairy upstanding judge. the required osha to issue new standards. osha extended 1 mi

the latest surveillance data are discussing. the incidence of heart attacks showed a 65% higher rates and among black women there was a threefold increase in the number of heart attacks during that. this data is from the most recent survey. stroke rates for blacks were more than doubled for whites. these data are occurring in a city which has a jackson hard study as a reflection of what is going on where as control rates are actually as good as the national average. the disparity persists and these data suggest among other things that major gaps can remain between the groups despite the end of active treatment of a most important cause of disease. one of the messages of data was that good health care alone will not resolve health disparities. health care most often happens when something goes wrong or high-risk situation manifest itself whether it is an elevation in cholesterol or catastrophic attack. the most often discussed focusing on care for establish disease and this is critically important. however, what i am emphasizing h

we follow the data rather than the debt. by 1998 when there was a huge el nino we said they have become more frequent as a result of forming. as soon as we said that of course, the el nino is pretty much went away and we went into the cold phase in the same way we said that they would continue to increase it started to do is it -- decrease. doable disagree of the magnitude and i think the audience would appreciate that. >> there is a coupling problem there is the carbon dioxide and methane of the gas increases and the feedback that incorporates water vapor in the atmosphere and what that means i have a tendency to feel the water vapor is estimate by this ipcc is over estimate the doubling of the co2 will not be as great but i do not believe it will be zero either. on the other hand, one of the things we have seen in the service i am always asked is the climate changing in delaware and in particular are we seeing more floods and droughts? the answer to both is yes. has everything to do with land surface change if more people

by which the data starts with the contractor who employees the workers. at data is then reported to the state. the state compiles the data from the individual contractors or individual office, working closely with the d.o.t. and reviewing the employment data and loaded into this recovery act database, so it is compiled from across the country. we look at the number of jobs being reported to identify any >> as was pointed out, we have on obligation deadline we are collecting a jobs data. >> the f.r.a. is a slightly different animal. to some extent, it makes our job a little bit easier. in fact, we have regular reporter from amtrak and as part of our oversight we do varfy these numbers. >> the numbers i gave you were a metric >> are we meeting our job with the metric jofment we see the number of projects on the way. those projects are really just beginning. the construction season gets into high gear. it's hard to pin down exactly but all the indicators are that they are heading into a positive direction >> we are hopeful that that added expansion will allow

demographics, because what you do not measure, you do not see, so this idea of capturing a some of the data in terms of so what is it your incidence of heart disease, what is the true incidence of cancer, which is the true incidence of these diseases we have mentioned on specifics, especially the native american population, part of it is just being able to capture folks, to be able to reach folks, and actually being able to have them answered some of the did questions and then be able to put that, after simplifying it, put that in some of the data collection systems we have, so one of the strategies we are using are very targeted, where we specifically have specific efforts to reach folks and to be able to capture the population appropriately. . >> there is a push to look at health outcomes and i believe that that would be extremely dangerous. in order to try to find out and tease out the specific reasons why we have this wide variation in health outcomes. >> ok, first, commissioner? >> i want to thank the panel. it has been very informative. my immediate family and their spouses have eight

in 2007, the data from the a census bureau indicates that one-third of the u.s. population, that is 34%, is, today, a racial or ethnic minority. more than 50 million americans speak a language at home other than english. furthermore, the u.s. census projection shows that racial and ethnic minorities will become the majority of u.s. population by the year 2042. so in 2004, according to the commission, which i chaired in this report, we noted that only 9% of the nation's nurses are members of an underrepresented minority. only 6.1% are physicians -- are an underrepresented minority, and 6.9% a psychologist are underwriters and minorities and 5% of dentists. now, there are a host of barriers that are impeach and access to a health professional career by ethnic and racial priorities. -- minorities. these include the following. port awareness of the health position careers as well as poor academic preparation coming from many of our school systems that are not adequately preparing our young people. the also include financial barriers and the lack of role models and me

of those contained the data driven metrics you just identified? >> yes. we have submitted we will submit the criteria and provide additional data as requested. >> in your testimony before the senate commerce committee you said chrysler loses over $1 billion annually because of underperforming dealers and mr. henderson you claimed in similar testimony that dealers and add $1,000 of cost to every vehicle park road to you both have financial analysis that was conducted before the decision was made to terminate the deal their franchises that supports those allegations you made in your testimony? >> yes. we have the analysis of the sales situation and that does exist. we knew the number. >> it was added and submitted as part of your testimony? >> sorry? >> for today's hearing. >> not by dealer. >> can you provided to the committee? >> there is confidentiality data we receive. >> i know there is a need to redact information to protect confidentiality is still give the impression i am seeking would you agree to provide that? >> as long in protecting the dealers r

i should point out that the data to the left of that line is data. those are actual counts of armored vehicles, the data in the column at the center is the army plan for the future, better described by the word fantasy. it never happens. the data on the right, on that side of the screen, is not fantasy, it is delusion. that is certainly not going to happen in our lifetimes, maybe not ever if things stay the same. notice the line on the top. that is the average age of those vehicles, it has been getting older, the plan you see in the center column is if everything goes perfectly, no cost overruns, we buy the exact quantity, it will get better for a couple years, then the plan is for everything to get worse. even in their fantasy period they get significantly worse if everything goes perfectly. same story in the navy. average age of the ships is getting older, the fleet is shrinking, the plan for the navy is everything goes perfectly, that plan has already totally fallen apart. if everything went perfectly, it would have gotten worse. same thing in the

making the data publicly available. those things would better insure the information would be more reliable. >> szabo, after we spend $13 billion appropriated for high-speed rail over the next several years, do you expect the united states to have at least one corridor of substantial length served by a japanese or european style high-speed rail road? >> is important that, first off, we wait and see what is applied for. obviously i can't start commenting on what we are going to do until applications come forward, and are graded and approved. clearly again, we understand the need to ensure that we have very tangible, very substantial successes. clearly, our vision is to follow the model of what the europeans have advanced.

the whole system has been rewritten to ensure the privacy of the data and the two best things are it akes a very limited amount of data. you're name, gender and date of birth and is read of that seven days after you fly so take the minimum amount of data and get rid of it as fast as you can, i think are pretty good protection's. >> host: new york times says that it will begin to be kicked in later this summer, kenya pin that down for more exact date as far as you know? >> guest: no, i think that it is a moving target because it's up to the airlines and the travel agencies and everybody else to get it implemented here it as i understand from tsa, that the plan is to get a completely in place by the end of 2010 so that it says can of the airlines and everybody else time to do right, time to reprogram their systems and the connected and that sort of thing here it is really important ones the switchover to the government that everything go absolutely smoothly and that as getting it done fast but downright eric in. the day to write down his 2010. >> host: you worked on the secure fi during

>> at process was initially certainly intended to be dated driven up the data isn't always right which is why i think we felt certainly compelled to have the review process which would reconsider facts that may not have been clear in the data and that process is born out with the right thing to do because there were cases we were wrong. >> would you say it was a matter of fairness? >> yes. we thought it was the fair thing to do. >> and in those decisions where your decisions were overturned on the appeals, can you tell us, you know, the examples -- we heard the one about the devastation of the bridge that stopped the business from going forward. can you tell other examples of what was overturned? >> recently i don't have the full knowledge of the 45 but another recent example is we ha a small town that had it she buick gm store and the conclusion initial plan would be to consolidate the two and a conclusion after the reconsideration was no, let's leave that to for example the would be another one. >> mr. press, in light of what we have heard mr. henderson say about the need to have an

>> no, we have the data. that is absolutely true, the nine planned for% is different from 8.1%. >> this bin continues. >> thank you. mr. casey. >> mr. chairman, thank you very much. i didn't plan to get into this discussion by think it is important when people are losing their jobs in record numbers that we are very clear what this hearing is about and why george of is in the bureau of labor statistics so let me just your job, correct me if i'm wrong, but your job is not to make job projections; is that correct? >> that's correct. >> your job is not to do an analysis of the impact of the stimulus legislation; is that correct? >> that's correct. >> your job is not to speculate about the impact of any administration's economic strategy; is that correct? >> that's correct. >> you are joe friday, providing facts every month with the numbers tell you; is that correct? >> that's correct. >> the rest of us can be other than joe friday. we all have different jobs. i want to go through a couple members i tend to ask a

if we look at the data, cultural confidence is very important. if you look at the full spectrum of data, we find much of what dr. chandra and peter have published, to understand there are quality of care issues in terms of delivery care, but if it was just a linear situation where it was just that, as dr. chandra pointed out, it would be 60/forty, 100% correlation. to understand the importance of workforce diversity and all of that is truly what we're trying to get at in terms of understanding the disparity. that is some of the work that dr. chandra and peter have published have been instrumental in understanding the rules of geography and the full spectrum of datapoint to other factors which are important and cultural competency is one. >> one of the major problems in health care is compliance of patients with constructions from the health provider. we have a tremendous problem of compliance within a few weeks. many patients made it -- may not be following their physician's orders, that is based on not understanding what the provider has said or

he is a nasa scientist and manages the collection data that collects the data from earth satellites and has 25 years of data. and as he talked about this, and this was a fairly quick won through, but as he talked about this data, he explained to us that the climate change models that they're using to predict global warming are they have to have assumptions. and i asked the question, why is it that physician sifts buy into the argument more so than meteorologist. he says they are trying to predict the weather for tomorrow. the climate czar. he can't predict the weather for tomorrow, but they are predicting the temperature 100 years from now. i have a son who is going to have an outdoor wedding in august and i would like to know the weather. the climate czar isn't going to tell me. 100 years from now, he will make a prediction, but won't tell you what it's going to be like next week. but the presumptions that are there, meteorologists understand predicting the weather tomorrow tomorrow let alone 100 years from now. physician sifts have studied the exact science. when they put together a c

cameron said if he became the next prime minister, he would increase access to government data in several areas. he also talked about the recent members' expense scandal in the house of commons. following his speech, he took questions from the audience. this event is about a half hour. [applause] >> thank you very much for that introduction and for your kind words about the need for honesty, openness, and transparency about public spending, something the prime minister and i discussed in a slightly less calm atmosphere yesterday, but nonetheless extremely important. [laughter] i want to thank imperial college for inviting me to speak here today. you do have a remarkable history. in just a little over a century, you've got the discovery of penicillin, the development of fiberoptics, the foundations of the internet and, of course, 14 nobel laureates to your name. these innovations have put real power into people's hands and have changed the world, and that's what i want to talk about today, people power and the change we need in this country. after the political crisis this year, the consen

. >> we don't have the information because we are collecting the data. we are not trying to look to see where they are a fact from stimulus. >> so you don't have the unemployment data? >> we have the unemployment data. >> so when we ask about the on employment projections of the administration, 8.1%, versus the current rate of 9.4% which he said was significantly significant, your singing you didn't have that data? >> no, we have the data. that is absolutely true, the nine planned for% is different from 8.1%. >> this bin continues. >> thank you. mr. casey. >> mr. chairman, thank you very much. i didn't plan to get into this discussion by think it is important when people are losing their jobs in record numbers that we are very clear what this hearing is about and why george of is in the bureau of labor statistics so let me just your job, correct me if i'm wrong, but your job is not to make job projections; is that correct? >> that's correct. >> your job is not to do an analysis of the impact of the stimulus legislation; is that correct? >> that's correct.

and we in fact not only were we looking at the data but we had an outside firm that looked at the data before, a company run by chris flowers who was looking at the data alongside of us and he had looked at their data some time ago, a few months before then and so they had a very good knowledge of the various instruments and securities. so we actually had two sets of eyes looking at that again, sir, it was not the fact that we didn't identify the securities, it was that we did not expect the credit to deteriorate like it did in the fourth quarter. >> so do you agree that the decision on whether to proceed with the merger was ultimately yours? it was yours? >> well, it was my recommendation to the board and it was mine and the board's decision to go forward, yes, >> congressman. >> he has a follow-up.

and lastly, making the forecasts subjected to peer review and making the data publicly available. so i think that those three things would be to better ensure that the information would be more reliable. >> mr. szabo, after we spend $13 billion that's likely to be appropriated for high-speed rail over the next five years, do you expect the united states to have at least one corridor of substantial length that's served by a japanese or european style high-speed railroad? >> i think it's important that first off we wait and see what is applied for. you know, obviously i can't start commenting on what we're going to do until applications come forward and are weighed, you know, graded and then approved. again, we understand the need to ensure that we have very tangible, very, you know, substantial successes. and, you know, clearly, again, you know, our vision is to follow the model of what the europeans have advanced. you know, keep in mind when the system in spain first opened up, you know, again, ms. fleming talked about how essentially they begin with one trunk line. they did. they

data either. it takes a few more than it does to get to the u.s. nish meteorological institute has a very, very nice set of weather records around greenland. the integrated warming for the last 10 years around warming island would average somewhere around here and i would submit that's not much different than what you see here from the mid-1920s to the mid-1960s. what fact-checking editor would not ask, hey, has that been this warm in the past? or, b, is it really true that this thing has not been uncovered for millennia or something going back into the last ice age? in a climate of extreme you don't bother. more importantly, apparently, no scientist chimes in and says, hey, wait a minute, it was warmer back in the early 20th century. you better check on that before you go with this story. well, how long did it take my assistant to find this book? not very long. published by a fellow -- written by a game named ernst hofer of 1957 with the intriguing title of "arctic riviera" and it was a book talking about how warm it is in eastern greenland. he did

moving in the system, in a much more effective way. is there more opportunity to use that data? absolutely. but the foundation and the infrastructure is there, and i think that sets a model that a lot of other people would aspire to. we've also worked with a lot of large provider groups around quality payments, paying for performance, and standardizing practices of care. so one of the great examples in this space, is the minneapolis heart institute. of the minneapolis heart institute was able to reduce by half the incidence of mortality related to m.i. and they did that not by involving new technology. they did it by bringing together nurses, emergency staff, cardiologists, everybody who touches the treatment of cardiac event. they brought them all together, remapped the process, remapped the protocols, and worked collaboratively in a very different way than you see in a lot of other communities around the country. now that protocol that they've established is in 100 different places around the country, but it comes from thattest i can around collaborating and -- that ethic aro

and lastly, making the forecasts subjected to peer review and making the data publicly available. i think that those three things would be to better ensure that the information would be more reliable. >> mr. szabo, after we spend $13 billion that's likely to be appropriated for high-speed rail over the next five years, do you expect the united states to have at least one corridor of substantial length that's served by a japanese or european style high-speed railroad? >> i think it's important

the data also showed the privilege being used to protect the same national security interest as in the past. over the previous four decades most state secret case is concerned intelligence programs, followed by military technology and contracts and then diplomatic communications. that is the same pattern as today. the data shows the government is not seeking harsher remedies such as dismissal of cases and more than it has in the past. further, the courts take seriously their duty to oversee the privilege. during the clinton administration courts refused to grant the privilege and 17%. that rose to 40% during the bush administration. if anything the course of become less deferential. finally, president obama onesy critic of the privilege, now recognizes its great importance. freepress.net going back to lyndon johnson has reached the same conclusion. in some, there's no evidence the state privilege secret is being misused, over used or abused. my second point is that it is also unconstitutional. unlike most other privileges this one is grounded in the constitution. specifically the power

transparency and power of consumers and providers, and giving them the data but when you get the data is a double edged sword with responsibility on the consumer side as well. coverage for everyone. we absolutely believe everyone should be covered and we're working to make that happen in minnesota. promoting health and wellness. we believe these are critical. if you look at the growing tide of cost coming to the health-care system is not going to be changed by taking one player out of the mix are making small changes around the fringes. it is going to be changed because we did in and get to the issue is creating a major cost bobble coming out of this country. driving this cost is tobacco and dying in inactivity so we cut this differently and opposed to the things people are doing that are driving cost. we have to be serious about taking on these challenges. these are preventable issues so have we think about this in minnesota? we think about this and a comprehensive line. i will start with how do we address the individual. when we look at the individuals we have health risk assessment

much of the data filed with the commission is not even accessible online. in the past, the fcc has been accused of disclosing information to some, and you know that to be the truth, while leaving the general public in the dark. consumers should not have to spend $500 an hour on lawyers to participate in the process. question, do you think the fcc should be more open to the public? >> yes. >> and now? >> first thing, it requires a commitment throughout the agency to principles of openness, transparency, fairness, fact-based decision making, and if confirmed, i would want lead the fcc in that direction. i don't see how it could be other wise. the issues are too complex. we need an fcc smart about technology, smart at economics, smart about businesses and smart about what consumers go through every day in navigating a complex communications world. i think this is quite important. i had the same experience that you did in trying to navigate the fcc website. the fcc should be a model for transparency, openness and fairness, there's a lot of work to do, but i wou

you to be a scientist i think i started off 1990 and then 1995, 2000, 2005 and you can see how the same data set has changed in 1980 there was a paper published by spencer and christi which had 11 years of a brand new satellite and it showed no warming but the surface temperature records show warming and the weather balloon record which is the third showed more warming. by 1995 that disparity continued. by the year 2000 the united nations suggested the temperature record so the readings around 1950 got colder so there was more warming in the same data and it was discovered the satellite had a drift in it so when that was corrected for and there are various directions a satellite record began to show warming and then buy the year 2005 or 2007 there is a tremendous adjustment that was made to the weather balloon data where it got much much colder remember that in the early portions of the record? now all of the records agree and the point* in my article is you have to say at that point* that warming is real but you also have to back it up with the understanding the way science works which is p

the list. then they discard that data seven days afterward. none of it is kept for more than seven days unless you are a potential match. host: this does not ask any extra step in line at the airport? guest: no, not all. this is after many people have had to go all over the place clarified. you can print your boarding passes at home or at the kiosk -- it will make a major difference inconvenience for passengers. host: the next call from our independent line. caller: ok, you have said you have to put your name, and gender, your full name as on your driver's license, right? well, lots of people are have been sex changes -- how would you do that with those people? that would be confusing for security. guest: there is a category put under gender that indicates that. that is accommodated in host: the system kip hawley, what about different airlines, travel sites like orbits, or those that use different proprietary systems to book tickets. will there need to be more of a homogenous type of booking system online for all airlines or travel sites? guest

the problem is that we can go much beyond 20 because then we start using model data that is too far out in the future. >> [inaudible] >> well, when i see the observed data following that point, 025 an online, pretty much along the entire length of would be really shocked if another 10 years would make it all of a sudden jump in to the trumpet, this sort of trumpet. that would be very odd. listen, i wish i could put 10 years on the clock in at eight. [laughter] and do that but i can't do that. thank you very much. lunch upstairs. [applause] >> patrick michaels is a past president of the american association of state climatologists and contributing author and reworked to the united nations intergovernmental panel on climate change. mr. michaels is a research professor of and rental sciences at the university of virginia and a visiting scientist with the marshall institute in washington d.c.. robert balling is a professor in the climatology program in the school of geographical sciences at arizona state univ.. for more information on the author please go to kato did award. >> this summer b

the data also show the privileges being used to protect the same national security interests as in the past. the previous four decades most state secrets case is concerned intelligence programs, followed by military technology and contracts and then diplomatic communications. that is the same pattern as a day. the data also showed the government is not seeking hirshon remini such as dismissal cases anymore than it has in the past. further courts dig seriously their duty to oversee the privilege. tyrannic going to demonstration core trease to grant the privilege and 17% of her opinions. that rose to 40% during the bush administration. if anything the course of beacom last year friendship. president obama now recognizes its great importance for the ever-present going back to lyndon johnson as reach the same conclusion. and some, there's the evidence the state secrets privileges being misused, overused or otherwise abused. it makes legislation unnecessary. my second point is that it is also unconstitutional. unlike most other privileges this one is grounded in the constitution because the

if the data is being based on monitors that don't meet scientific standards either today or in the past, how can we pass laws with taxes and controls on our people if the so-called problem is based on bogus or absolutely unscientifically obtained numbers? and even with the current methods of collecting data, we have been warned time an again of dire predictions. so, the numbers themselves are suspect but those people have been warning us about those numbers over the last 20 years have been spreading incredible alarm. i mean, that is exemplified by vice president gore and others. the temperatures we were told over and over again were going to climb and they were going to continue to climb and then it would reach a tipping point and then the temperatures would really jump up. well, wake up. let's talk reality here again, let's talk science, let's quit trying to say case closed. let's not give speeches but never take any questions. let's quit saying that all the scientists agree when there are scientists all over the world disagreeing. they were wrong. when they said that there was going t

they do and i think the best part about tsa is and that by efficiently moving the lines and having the data they are able to sit back and look for the signs of things that might indicate an attack whether the behavior or something you have on your body or something that you have in the bag. that makes it less intrusive on the big bulk traveling through it allows them to pick up on the few who do need -- retention. >> host: new mexico, good morning on our republican line. >> caller: good morning, i have a comment and an observation about the marshals better on the plains. i am a million miles plus traveler cannot work for the department of defense, and i am sort of in the habit of observing people and behavior. one of the things that have notice in many occasions is that the marshals preboard. we have these healthy young men or young women wearing hawaiian shirts or otherwise baggy clothes that actually board the plane into bands of the other passengers and not even handicapped or anything like that. it is kind of a clear indication and i have no idea if they want to keep a low price file wh

when that happens the raw data, and everything should be made available in the interest if we make important policy decisions on the basis of those studies. but is the bottom line ruled that can be implemented. >> i am a retiree, i want to congratulate you david, for an extremely well-written book. it is a very good read. it is a breed that makes you very angry about the harm than has been done 2000's or perhaps millions of people, ruined lives come and kill people, use a number of examples in your book how the government has ceased to collect information or stop reporting information when they do not like the results. can you give us examples of how the administration is using science or manipulating science for their own ends today? thank you for asking that. is a very important question i devote a big portion of the book to the bush and administration because they essentially have taken the strategy of manufacturing uncertainty and institutionalize did they build structures into the review process and requirements to take into account bad science coming give producers of bad science and n

board, but from the data we have seen over the past two or three decades, we have seen a continued confirmation of the existence of health disparities in minority populations. so what is the cause of these disparities? well, it's certainly multifact tomorrow, and i can tell you as a policymaker that i've seen the full spectrum of impact just in diagnosing specific diseases within minority communities but looking at this on the population level as well. and it is certainly related to the interplay between socioeconomic, environmental and individual factors as well as other social determinants of health. you'll hear more about these, but as we look in terms of the ideology of health disparities, it's important to realize there's definitely a multifactorial process in terms of these diseases on minorities. individual factors include things like poverty, behaviors as well as lack of health insurance or underinsurance as well as a lack of a regular source of care. other systems factor that contribute to health disparities incl