there are no warren court justices left. indeed, i believe there is no one on the court who behaves like a warren court justices. there are no brennans or thurgood marshalls on the court. secondly, i was impressed by chief justice's roberts answer to the question put to him a few minutes ago by the fen phenomenon that all nine of the present justices came to the supreme court from the federal courts of appeal. that is unprecedented. i think the chief justice was nuanced in suggesting that that actually masked the fact of the professional background of the nine were fairly disparate before they came to the appellate bench. if you go further back again, if you go back to 1969, there were people on the warren court who were major national political figures with extensive experience in politics before they ever came to the supreme court. earl warren as governor of california and vice presidential candidate, an hugo black had been one of the leading new deal senators and felix frankfurter as chief advisor to roosevelt, and arthur

your member how vocal critics of the warren court were. if you thought the court was i've been in 1969, think about the turf that has now been constitutionalized by the supreme court since the war in court, since 1969. and number of areas that are not on the court's docket then then became constitutional eyes, you could get some of these examples -- abortion, roe vs. wade in 1973, sex discrimination under the heightened scrutiny and of the 14th amendment, commercial speech is now under the umbrella of the first amendment, busing as a remedy in school desegregation cases, recently gave rights in lawrence vs. texas -- quite a list of areas in which the court has steadily expanded its reach of what it takes to be a constitutional matter. in addition to the new areas either have been revivals of or expansions of areas that were familiar before that point, one would have two-point, for example to the rehnquist court and federalism. breathing life back into the tenth and 11th amendments. finding limits for congress as commerce. i used to tell my

we remember the warren court for activism. we should remember how much has happened since that time. the story of the supreme court from 1969 to the present time, one team has been the struggle between republican presidents, reagan and nixon before him, to reshape the supreme court in light of what they thought was wrong with the warren court. nixon put four justices on the court and pushed among them a solid conservative, but you had some drifting to the left wing. reagan was very concerned about judicial nominations. that was the time when two very young lawyers join the team, john roberts and samuel alito. you had the first george bush, two nominations, one of whom will step down this summer, and bill clinton put two moderate liberals on the court. but there was a long time, 11 years, in which there were no vacancies on the court, quite historic. during that time, if you were to some of the rehnquist court, you would have to say that there were some extraordinary movements. i mentioned several of them. but there was not a s

live coverage here on c-span. -- and miss warren in the room.live coverage here on c-span. >> i want to compliment you on your research and all of your work in support of credit cards reform and your testimony and support were very important to the passage of the credit cardholder bill of rights. thank you. this is the third in a series of hearings this committee has held to examine the degree to which the troubled assets relief program has succeeded in its goals. the june report is the result of the government stress test, which were designed to evaluate the balance sheet of financial institutions. and to provide recommendations for further action. the results of the stress tests have gone on long way to restoring market confidence. huge losses shook confidence in the banking system because it was not clear that some of our largest banks would remain solvent. the federal reserve treasury -- the federal reserve treasury and ftse have taken steps to provide banks with liquidity for -- and fdic have taken steps to provide banks with liquidity to i

warren austan gave a famous speech in march. up this point* one who plus studying and talking to delegates at the u.n., warned truman that in conjunction with the state department was planning to double cross truman and she had spoken to the under secretary of state and he was telling the press the state was beginning to take steps to revise the partition and she warned truman in a couple of telegrams they are really trying to double cross you. austan prepared this speech in march. this is a speech in which he will say among other things that trusteeship might still be a possibility to consider if and when it is necessary. truman was given in a draft of this statement and is an issue of contention. what happened? austan said he gave truman a draft of what he was going to say and he approved it. truman would later explain that most people might argue that is what happened, that's if is the un general assembly when the security council has studied the situation and said we can't go forward, the divisions are growing and we have to

warren churchill is certifiable. but it took the university, spent a million dollars probably and they had to organize a panel. first of all, warren churchill was what? he was the chairman of his department. that means his whole department voted to hire him, even though he had no academic credential, he had an experimental college gave him an m.a. in communication, it was not ethnic studies, he has no ph.d., he was not an indian, and it was an affirmative action post, but he lied to get in. throated him first to be an associate professor, that's to get 10 you're, then to be a full professor, then the whole department had to elect him chairman and he had to have recommendations from the field. so that tells you that the entire ethnic studies field is corrupt, it is an indoctrination in radical, anti-american views, and it thinks that ward churchill is the cat's meow. i did a book called the professors which described all this, and of course, it was -- i was pillared from one end of the country to the other by liberal

at any rate, warren austin would give a speech to the u.n. that knocked the rug out from under truman. he gave a speech in which he said and it was wildly interpreted to be he announced in this mid-march speech that we are now going to go back to supporting trusteeship and we're not supporting partition anymore and this is when truman said in a very famous quote the state department pulled the you go are out from under me and they made me out to be a liar and he was furious. clearly the state department was trying to do things to make a reversal in policy a real event. helio epstein said again a great conspiracy is brewing in washington. and he saw it for what it was. a conspiracy of the state department and james farsell and the state department as well as the cia to move policy back and to stop creation of a jewish state. fortunately, truman's advisor clark clifford who replaced samuel rozman who became, in effect, the first national security council director. he told truman it was not thinkable to reverse partition. that what the u.s. shou

pastor warren after asking then candidate obama about his views on religion, pastor warren said, well, then-candidate obama said, i thought that was pretty tough. warren said, let's go through some tough questions, tough ones, now the most and then-candidate obama said that was pretty tough. pastor warren said, that was a freebie. that's a gim me. let's deal with abortion. 40 million abortions since roe v. wade. as a pastor i've had to deal with this all the time. all the pain and all the conflicts and i know this is a very complex issue. 40 million abortions, at what point does a baby get human rights in your view? then candidate obama said, well, you know, i think that whether you're looking at it from a theological perspective or scientific perspective, answering that question with specificity is above my pay grade. pastor warren, have you -- then-candidate obama, but let me speak more generally about the issue of abortion. shs something obviously this country wrestles with. one thing i'm absolutely convinced is there's a moral and ethical element to this issue. . i think anyone wh

in the warren court was a famous line in brown vs. board of education for having a social science data in its with nouns. is the present court less receptive to data have that kind and in this respect one might think of the arguments over the use of comparative or international law did it which as you know has been somewhat controversial and what about methodological the beit? to the justices enter into debates over things like textualism, regionalism, and questions of that kind? seventh, what true and if any would you care to remark on from the beginning to the present time of the roberts court? it has ali been for years but are beginning to be able to pay any kind of picture for this particular court? i mentioned the declining dockets. does anyone care to speculate on five syracuses decided on the merits of. number nine, when i call avoidance techniques. there are ways the justices have that course in general have the simply deflecting a case before it reads the marriage. and not hearing it all when having decided to hear that havin

and this is all before warren was 15. from the age of 13 he supported himself completely. and by age 18, he had the present-day equivalent of 100 grand in the bank. when the wharton business school turned him down for admission. [laughter]. >> schools don't even hint at the existence of some a road to self-sufficiency. imagine if 60 million trapped schoolchildren were set to actively imaginening personal ways to add value to the general community. just like buffett did at their age. suppose from kindergarten boys and girls were needed with examples of how opportunity can be developed and managed. wouldn't our country be crowded with buffetts and ventures and fannings and wassermans, even mozarts, isn't that what this nation needs, not more zom buy, not more parasites, it isn't wild speculation, what is done is to carry your imagination back to the colonial days in ben franklin's america, where the possibilities were not created by task force of experts but by everybody getting a chance at a term, just as soon as they felt able. in an environment where possibilities were ev

the warren court was famous in brown versus board of education for having social science data in its footnotes. is the present court less receptive to data of that kind? in this respect, one might think about the argument over the use of comparative or international law data, which is somewhat controversial. sixthly, what about the method logical debates? do justices enter into debates over things like text ulism and originalism and questions of that kind? second, what trends if any, would you care to remark on from the beginning to the present time of the roberts' court? it has only been four years, but are we beginning to paint any kind of picture of this particular court? eighth, i mentioned the declining docket. does anyone care to speculate on why fewer cases appear to be decided on the merits. number nine, what i call avoidance techniques. there are ways that justices have that courts in general have of simply deflecting a case before it reaches the merits, either not hearing it at all, or having decided to hear it and having it go off on grounds like standing or ripeness or mo

warren what are some of titles coming up?f james monroe by washington, d.c. writer marlo james r. merkel the last founding father because he truly was one of the last founding fathers of the nation. >> why another biography on james monroe? >> this is more complete than the others. new information has been found through old archives and letters and records and we are finding there is a lot of patriotic interest out there so we want to be able to continue to feed the market >> what else do you have coming out? >> a biography of a amalia earmarks and there is a movie coming out with hilary swank and richard gere coming this fall that will be bringing the book to coincide with that. >> how old is that? >> several years at least a decade but we are giving a new cover and rolling it back out. >> who is dominique lapierre? >> book we are doing is called a rainbow in the night and it covers the apartheid period and the turmoil the country went through to become the nation it is today. >> what kind of books you look for at da capo? >

this panel that elizabeth warren chaired has looked at the operations of the program.rp is not popular. but the point that tim geithner and others have made is that it does seem to have some role in having save the financial system last fall. you never know what would have happened if tarp had not been put into place. many of economists say the downturn would have been worse. but this is not a popular program and banks' people are not popular in washington or across the country. but i would not expect public statements of them saying that. host: do you think that if things get into trouble again they can go back for tarp funds? guest: i believe they are. i do not think anyone wants to, though. one of the things about the stress tests is to encourage banks to build up reserves so that they are more solid and can weather another economic downturn. as banks leave the tarp program executives have a strong desire not to re-enter it. host: john shaw joined us this hour. . caller? caller: thank you for c-span. i would give obama and a, he jumped right in as soon as he took of

tim geithner and lawrence summers on not a replacement for warren buffett and bill gates. we have been here before. jimmy carter got us to 13% inflation, 22% interest rates, sliding into the worst recessions since the great depression and every day gasoline rationing. how many of you remember when you could only buy gasoline every other day based on your license plate? this happened. america was reduced by bad policy, bad politicians, and bad government to rationing gasoline. my good friend pointed out he was only 13 at the time every morning, his father would give him a screwdriver to go out back and change the license plate so the car that needed gas had the right license plate. if you learn that a government rationing led 13-year olds to change license plates, you are a conservative. if you conclude that what we needed was license plate police at every gas station, you are a liberal. it is that straightforward. we have been here before. replacing the rule of law with special interest deals and bankruptcy does not work. having a 31-year-old to take time off to did -- to

on that note,, professor warren, i want to thank you for what you have done. i think you have done an outstanding job. i understand there are certain limitations. you talked a little bit about foreclosure in the march report. something interesting happened about 40 miles away from here. we have a foreclosure prevention meeting where 1000 people who were losing their homes came in came into morgan state university. an interesting thing happened. we were able to help at least 500 people modify their mortgages. they had the opportunity to sit down with 19 banks or mortgage companies or service companies. during my exit interviews, we discovered that the banks or reducing mortgage payments between $300 per month and $1,100 per month. i am trying to figure out in talking to the banking people, i was a little bit surprised that they were so anxious to make these modifications. i was shocked. i am just wondering, -- we are getting ready to do it again. is there a new approach when these things happen? have you seen anything from these mortgage lending people whereby

. >> now the chairman of the congressional oversight panel, elizabeth warren. congress created the oversight panel to supervise the t.a.r.p. program and the treasury department. mrs. hartman was the full witness. this is an hour. >> i should start by saying, i am not scripted, so you should take my comments as my comments alone and not necessarily reflecting those as -- of the panel. i will do my best to reflect the views of the panel, but otherwise you should understand you are hearing from me. we are the smallest of the oversight units here, especially as compared to the inspector general. what we try to do here is a fact-based analysis of the operations under the toxic relief program and the impact of that program. we're really trying lard to see what the effective necessary -- we're really trying hard to see what the effectiveness is and ways to make it more effective. we return to the same theme that we started with our first report about transparency, accountability, and clarity throughout the system. and they appear again in a report that we issued today

. >> da capo is one of the imprints of the perseus books group and melissa warren is a vice presidentre some of the your books coming out. >> we have a wonderful biography of james monroe harlow james unger and is called the last founding father because he truly was one of the last founding fathers of our nation. >> why another bio on james monroe. >> this is more complete. new information has been found through old archives and letters and records and, you know, we're finding that there's still a lot of patriotic interest out there so we would to be able to continue to feed that market. >> what else do you have coming out? >> we have a wonderful biography of amelia earhart coming out. there's a movie with hillary swank and richard gere that's going to be coming out this fall. we'll be bringing the book out to coincide with that. >> how old is the book? >> it's several years old. it's at least a decade. but we're giving it a new cover and rolling it back out there with an update. >> who's dominique la-pierre. >> dominique is a very well-known author who has a author of new york bestse

some of the liberal meaning cases come from the warren court. what does meaning really focus on? it really tries to get a balance, a balance between two kinds of considerations. on the one hand, you want to be able to have people come into court and make their case even if they don't have possession of all the facts. on the other hand, if they can come into court without showing any plausible suspicion that something is wrong here, they can have the advantage of a huge amount of discovery and impose all sorts of costs. and so it depends on what we are going to wait for more strongly about how liberal our meaning les are going to be. and i think what those two cases suggest is that the roberts court has a very different balance, that there is a greater concern about the cost of discovery. you might actually suggest that what is actually destroying liberal meaning is liberal discovery because liberal discovery imposes all of these costs. now i should say that the first one was a 7-2 decision. this was a hotly contested 5-4 decision with justice souter, the author, in accident here.

please join us for lunch with elizabeth warren in the grand ballroom. it's a quarter to 11:00, sorry. join us for a luncheon with elizabeth warren in the grand ballroom whose role in the country has even exceeded what it was when she was invited. volunteers will be onsite to address you to your appropriate locations. please remember to return cle evaluations to the table. thank you to the sponsor of this plenary session, and the american federation of civil employees. thank you all very much. [applause] [inaudible conversations] >> president obama heads to russia next week for talks on nuclear disarmament and other issues. today in washington, a group called global zero commission looked at the future of u.s. and russian weapons reductions. this is just over an hour. >> thanks very much. i think we're still rounding up certain members of our commission but i assume these seats will be filled in the course of our press conference today. my name is richard burt and i'm a member of the global zero commission. the commission held its first meeting here in w

this is a question going back to the warren court. the difference between that cord and the democratic legislative process? . finally, this is to borrow a lay description, is it possible to talk about the roberts court as being pro business? is it possible to say it's not very friendly to environmentalists? what would one say about questions like that. no one is obliged on the panel to speak to any or all of those questions, but they're the kimes of themes that might emerge. we're going to sort out some of the main areas of court's work this term. i hope you will understand we feel no obligation to talk about everything the court did. we simply can't do that. we have picked a few areas that we think are interesting that we hope you'd like to hear about. the one we want to start with is actually the one the court hasn't fully answered yet and that is civil rights and voting rights. we were all rating for the new haven firefighters case, which will come down on monday. but we're going to republican knowledge right in with the civil righ

warren buffett called it a huge tax. very poor people are going to pay a lot more for electricity, end quote. last night in my district a utility company calculated its estimate of what this bill will cost the families in my district. it will increase their electric rates by $2,500 a year. not your statistics from those who don't live in a place like michigan. $500 a year. and that doesn't incorporate the fact that their clothes will now be more expensive, their groceries will not be more expensive, their school supplies will now be more expensive. if you haven't noticed, people are hurting around the states. adding costs today is absolutely the wrong direction. it will destroy $1,400 in wages for the average family in my district. $1,400. that's a $2,000 swing. people in michigan who are already under assault wants to know what they'll get for that new swing. they will not get a new nuclear plant. they won't get the electric grid to deliver clean energy. they will not get that. and they will not get a level playing fiel

sarah warren for safekeeping. and when benedict arnold's plan was uncovered mrs.warren was terrified this might fall outside enemy hands and put it on the lawn and set it on fire but this -- this -- so this was recreated by the frenchman and this is exactly what major andre, benedict arnold's spy was caught with when he was trying to go over to the british. now, in the south, kosciuszko now saw slavery up and close for the first time to such an extent as it was. here's a map of virginia, and you see the areas where there were large populations of slaves. and here kosciuszko met thomas jefferson for the first time. thomas jefferson, the man who wrote "all men are created equal" owned slaves and kosciuszko thought he was a hypocrite. kosciuszko ended up serving the rest of the war in the carolinas where he developed a rapport with slaves in the southern states and he brought grippy with him. and it helped to other continental soldiers who were abolitionists. one of they say colonel lawrence who was an outspoken opponent of slavery but when the colonel was killed, th

mean this as a slur against warren buffett. i think he's a very impressive man but a few bucket his well, what is this wealth then? i have not on the new numbers but he's worth $66 billion. he owns stock, but what company did he karen? berkshire hathaway. what was the basis for is a delegation in berkshire hathaway? pretty close to zero. now you take the market capital and that is what his wealth is, in what we call on realized capital gains. if any of you know what the tax rate is on the unrealized capital gains, it is zero. steve is cutting capital gains in market thinking about cutting capital gains. it gives it to the belen melinda gates foundation it will never see a tax. but, when you look of this, when he says that they lacked hecht's is the my secretary he is telling you the truth. it is a bad tax bill and i am not blaming you for finding a tax way of having all this wealth. the last thing is rich people can change the volume of their income, so when you look of the tax codes of the last 25 or 30 years the top 1%, the t

the president has weighed on whether general motors should move to warren, michigan. here's an invitation for those who may be listening, if you know of a washington car czar who deserves to be honored, please e-mail me at car award at alexander.credit. and after you write me, i hope you'll write or call your congressmen and senators and remind them to enact the auto stock for every taxpayer act as soon as general motor emerges from bankruptcy. all you need to say are these eight magic words: i paid for it, i should own it. mr. president, i ask unanimous consent to include in the record the wall street article entitled "barney frank car sphwhrar." thank you, mr. president, i yield the floor. -- car czar". thank you, mr. president, i yield the floor. a senator: mr. president? the presiding officer: the senator from vermont. mr. sanders: mr. president, let me be very clear, our health care system is disintegrating. today 46 million americans have no health insurance and even more are underinsured with high deductibles and h and co-paymen. at a time when 06 million peopl

warren and cosgrove are such superlative representatives. but most of all, i missed the students. i used to say, some time something goes wrong and you get into a funk, but i realized that there was a short foolproof way that the job had of getting me out of a funk. and the way was to leave my office behind, shut the door, and go someplace where there a lot of students. it is the students that make this place great. it is the students to provide it with its dynamism and energy, and they demonstrate every day the passion for ideas. when they walk, i hope and pray when they walk out its graduates they are so committed to making a difference in the world. it is an incredible statistic. and it is maybe-measure i can give, although not the only measure, of how special the students of harvard law school are, and i miss you. [applause] i know that some of you may have thought sometime in this last year or so that you and this class drew the short straw. i do not think there's been a class for many many years that has had the difficulties that this class has had in terms of jobs, financia

. >> has the president had any direct conversations with his friend warren buffett. >> and not that i am aware of. >> has he convey those views? >> i don't believe they have talked recently. it appeared to me that the analysis might have been based on legislation where more of the permits were sold at an auction rather than given. >> red, that is a question. >> now that i know of -- right, that is my question. >> not that i know of. >> you keep saying that you expect to begin a formal debate. do you think the president will actually sign on immigration? >> we hope so. i forgot my crystal ball. i cannot predict what ending the game will end in. -- i can predict what inning the game will end in. >> [unintelligible] the top republican on the immigration subcommittee was left out. can a meeting -- can anything be done in a meeting with 30 people? >> [unintelligible] [laughter] there are 535 members of congress. 30 of them constitutes, in a very quick manner, less than 5% of congress. [unintelligible] [laughter] i think if you look at the people, there is a pretty diverse cross-section. th

host: warren, ohio, good morning. caller: good morning, first of all abc and the white house there will be no opposite and nobody fair. money won't come out [inaudible] and c-span needs to talk about [inaudible] and martha stewart. and can i disagree on iran and korea. and i think that iran is more dangerous and they get their food from china. iran is funding hezbollah and iraq, i think they are more dangerous. guest: the caller may be right, they may be more dangerous, and he's certain right, they are more dangerous. host: this is martha from maine. caller: yes, this is martha clark, and i would like to ask mr. will, why do you include insurance companies to the health equation. they bring nothing to the table. they make money and prevent health care. guest: that seems to me as a eccentric view of the current function of insurance companies in the country. i don't know how to grasp they prevent health care. are they trying to make a profit? yes, and you make a profit by providing what people want to buy. and therefor

warren harding came in a yacht and roosevelt said no one has set foot on pelican island. and president harding approached pelican island. he was a boat maker, and pointed a gun at harding and said get out of here. and turned them back. the point is that conservation was a battle. just like on land issues. it was nasty in florida. and not only did he create pelican island, t.r., but created a strategy of bird refugees down florida. and we would not have these species in florida, we would have lost them if roosevelt hadn't acted as he did. and he was taking notes on birds in tampa bay area. and on the gulf coast of florida. and most famously, key west, great bird breeding places. >> go back to the beginning. how did you find this place? >> that was it, when i went to the spots, they said did you go here, the headquarters. >> i am asking this for others, how did you get in the door? >> call mark madison, the historian for fish and wildlife. and part of his job is to interface with scholars. and with these materials, the old lantern slides. there is a box of them. there is cr

greed and power and they don't understand now eve in the age-old game of aggression and warfare, warren and raised in the united states and encapsulated sphere of privilege and safety. it is not surprising. they wouldn't be able to fathom the reality of distance of four in society and the ramification of their action. i was struck again by the english that has stayed with me ever since hajif's death also my consciousness and memories are forever connected to the conflict zone in iraq and so many other war-torn countries across the globe my present reality has become seen a comfort zone as the young colorado soldiers. i have a warm, comfortable apartment, a hot cup of coffee or a pepper grown-up -- bruni pete said. a health club membership and wine and cheese at a friday art opening. i live in a completely comfort and security even when i am constantly worried about my family and my people. i realize i had to produce work to address the chasm between the comfort and conflict zones both to examine the duality in which i exist and to push the limits of understanding purely in the comfort z

even warren buffett indicated that usually after a situation like this in which the government has induced and infused the tarp program and helped the banking industry there is usually about. there is no bounds. the reason why is because the financial institutions are not cooperating. host: calif., next on the end up in a mine. go ahead. caller: yes, i am not very hopeful about the economy straightening out. i have been laid off for about six months and working extremely hard. i have had only two interviews. host: what kind of work? caller: i was a welder, a technical wilder. i had a lot of management experience. -- a technical welder. but with everything going on including amnesty -- it will not make it easier. there steamrolling a lot of stuff through congress. it is not helping americans at all. i think this should help america first. help those who are really hurting before they try to help everybody coming in, you know? i can understand it somewhat, but not with such an influx. that is what is really stressing out california so much. host: this is from "the chicago tribune" were retur

i think that he may also have in mind the instance of earl warren where you appoint someone with a long track record and night approach issues in a way that someone who hasn't approached it would. whether or not that's a good or bad thing depends on the person. certainly i think you would want to have someone who has an appreciation for the notion a judge's rule is different in kind than the rule of a politician. a judge is applying the law enforcement a judge is applying the constitution. a judge can't pay attention to poll numbers or what the popular outcome would be. while i would say a politician may well make an excellent supreme court justice, i think you need to make sure that person bhover they are, has an appreciation for the rules. >> [inaudible] future topics, such as imlegal immigration, gun control, and any effect she might have on tax policy in the future. >> let's see. taking the my guess is that she takes a liberal view in the sense she might be more sympathetic and justice thomas or scaly would be to claims of aliens. from my experience having argued some of these cases

[applause] chief justice warren, a man who had real life experience. but he made sure it was going to be a unanimous decision, so a deeply divided united states of america could except this. in contrast, two years ago they ignored the real world experience of millions of americans so it would depart from the precedents of the court. a few days the supreme court will issue one of its most important decisions in years. the constitutionality and the reauthorize voting act. voting rights act provision is a time-honored way to prevent discrimination. the court has always upheld the constitutionality of section 5. but i have to tell you i listen to that argument in the supreme court and i am very worried about it. there are students that are taught that there are no more explicit granted power to congress than that in the 15th amendment to allow us to protect the right to vote. passage of the voting rights act was a result of an historic struggle for civil rights. your dad remembers that. he remembers what a crucial turning point on march 7, 1965. i was 15-y

there was mercy warren who wrote the first history of the american revolution, but she left very few papers as well. and and hutchison of course, but no paper, no archives left in your own words everything we know about her has been written by men but then there was abigail adams and she laughed letters price as they started reading her letters, it was love at first letter and realized i could work on abigail adams. and there were very few biographies of her at the time that had been sit-in at in recent times there were some around world war ii but no contemporary biographies. i started out writing a biography of abigail adams this was 30 years ago. i finished it and it was a chronological history of her life from birth through death. just about the time i was ready to publish it a couple of biographies came out about her and i realize my not was not different than the others that came out about her. and the salient thing about all of them was that all of her biographies had as its protagonists, the main character, a hero, john adams. the reason was he was involved of all of the grea

elizabeth warren will be there. we will show a portion of the joint economic committee hearing which begins at 10:00 a.m. eastern until the house gavels in at 10:30. >> how is c-span funded? >> private donations? >> i do not really know. >> from public television? >> donations. >> i do not really know where the money comes from. >> federally? >> how is c-span funded? 30 years ago, america's cable companies created c-span as a public service, a private initiative, no government mandates, no government money. >> president obama and vice- president biden laid out plans for stimulus of funds over the summer with a goal of creating or saving about 600,000 jobs in the u.s. economy. they made remarks just before a cabinet meeting in the white house. this is about 15 minutes. >> it seems strange to thank you for joining us in your house, but thank you for joining us. now, paying people a good, decent wage. because of the tax credits, the company in missouri is building 100 new windmills. this is happening all over. we went

as someone aspires to be the next bill gates, oprah winfrey, warren buffet or charles schwab we shouldtell them this guy is the limit, go for it. not we are the congress, you will not be allowed to go beyond the tenth floor and by the way, take the stairs. i will be first to admit compensation and for holding this hearing. this issue promises to be one of the most important regulatory reform legislation. recently there's been a number of characterization's of efforts to reform executive compensation structures on wall street in the wake of the worst economic crisis since the great depression many financial industry leaders have insisted ceo compensation is self correcting. the urge inaction on reform existing shareholder media scrutiny has moderated pay for leaders of poorly performing companies. they claim if we enact stronger reform our financial talent will be driven overseas and economic recovery will be delayed. what is missing from the argument is clarity and reason. for the 175 executives whose companies helped fuel the current economic crisis that required hundreds of billions

taking a patient approach, so in areas where the conservatives take the view that the court in the warren court era and subsequently overstep the judicial role, it is much more patient and how it is that it is overruling those positions, so a couple of examples. we have the big case of voting, but was celebrated by the civil rights community as rejecting a civil rights challenge to the voting act, but if you read the opinion, it is page after page of why section 5 of the voting rights act is probably unconstitutional, and i think that decision if congress does not amend the act will later be cited as precedent for the fact that eight members of the court who recognize there were real problems with the voting rights act. there is a problem with the exclusion our role for the fourth amendment, the office of the polyphyletic your rights in an illegal search and seizure, the fee it -- if the police to violate your rights in an illegal search and seizure, the evidence will not be brought against you, but there should been a realization if they do not do it intentionally. there are cases but do

warren harding comes down in a yacht by pelican island. roosevelt said no one was allowed on pelican island. harding was going on a golfing trip as president. he approached pelaton island. but this man came at him and pointed a gun at the president of the united states and said i am the warden of roosevelt. he turned harding and those guys back. conservation in the beginning of the 20th century was a battle. there were two sides, like there are now on land issues. it was nasty and florida. not only did he create pelican island in 1903, teddy roosevelt, but created a string of bird refugees all the way down florida. if you grab a map and see all of them, it was roosevelt saving them. we would not have the species living in florida. we would've lost while florida forever if it roosevelt did not act when he did. he spent time in florida as a rough rider on a camp on his way to go to fight in cuba. he is getting ready to battle. he was taking notes on birds in the tampa bay area. places like santa bell island, he saved on the gulf coast of flo

warren more people are getting sicker and hospitals, and so i just throw that out in saying i hope you will be looking at this, just come on board. i know you have only been here a month and a half. >> six weeks? something like that. i would hope you and your staff would get together and look at this and see what it is that you can do or what we can do together to really go after both of those. >> mr. chairman let me just say i appreciate the concern and share it. we have already issued a challenge to the american hospitals to work in conjunction with our departments to reduce by two-thirds the number of hospital related infections. it has been proven that using a fairly simple hospital checklist has a dramatic impact on hospital infections, so we are using some of the funding provided by congress in the recovery act to do just that, to challenge hospitals and also increase the state capacity to do inspections. that is one area. i don't think there's any question that we know where there are, as you say, pockets of high@@@@@@@@ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ there is a lot of excess of and redundant