fred isn't here so i can tell some tales out of school. i first met fred 25 years ago, not far from here, at a conference sponsored by the american rivers association. we, the conference participants were meeting to save the world river valleys from development sponsored by the international development agencies such as the world bank and the multilateral development banks. the conference had the usual suspects. you know, the sierra club and rdc, friends of the earth, cultural survival, survival international among others including my organization, energy probe or the probe international from toronto and the conference also had one very unusual suspect, and that would be fred smith. who shared with us all about a concern about the harm that the world bank was causing around the world. fred was a force at that conference and very much in tune with us, although i don't recall -- i don't believe he was actually -- he actually marched with us on the world bank headquarters when it came time for that. i suspect that the people who are here repr

. >> his brother, fred was a reagan delegate. >> but that was the point.the point was he wouldn't let us -- sears would not let anybody else run. fred got there because he was a senator. [inaudible] >> anyway, sears said don't do that. four years later, of course, reagan has learned this lesson. and fred eckert and a bunch of us went -- ran, won, and we carried all but about six delegates in the state of new york. swapped the uncommitted slate so my question is, why did he wait so long to dump sears? [laughter] >> which he did after the january -- after the new hampshire primary. >> the day of the new hampshire primary. >> is that, you know, you got to remember national politics was vastly, vastly different in 1974 and '75 than it is today. john sears was -- you know, had been nixon's delegate-hunter in 1968. he was primo republican operative. and the reagan folks, you know, out here he leaves the second term governorship here and they're intimidated by national politics because it's dominated by the east coast party operatives. it's dominated by the natio

fred got there because he was a senator. >> right.audible] >> good. >> anyway, sears said don't do that. four years later, of course, reagan has learned this lesson. and fred eckert and a bunch of us ran, won, and we carried all but about six delegates in the state of new york. swapped the uncommitted slate. so my question is, why did he wait so long to dump sears? [laughter] >> which he -- which he did after the january -- after the new hampshire primary. >> the day of the new hampshire primary. is that, you know, you got to remember national politics was vastly, vastly different in '1 1974 and '75. john sears was nixon's delegate hub. he was a primo republican operative in the 1970s. and the reagan folks were out here, you know, after 1974, he leaves the second term of the governorship here. and they're intimidated by national politics because it's dominated by the east coast party operatives. it's dominated by the national media. they don't know the national operatives very well. they don't know the national media very well. up pop

four years later of course reagan has learned this lesson and fred and a bunch of us went and carried all but about six delegates in the state of new york, swapped the uncommitted slate. so my question is why did he wait so long to dump this sears? [laughter] >> you know, you've got to remember the national politics was vastly different in 1974, 75 than it is today. john sears had been nixon's delegate in 1968. he was a republican consultant operative in the early 1970's. the reagan folks are out here after 1974 he leaves the second term governorship and they are intimidated by national politics because it is dominated by the east coast party operatives, dominated by the national media. they don't know the national operatives very well, they don't know the national media very well and this guy john sears, who got passed over because stew spencer and roger martin and others were running at. so he ends up running reagan's campaign but this is a great accusation in the eyes of the media because they didn't know much about this guy, reagan, from california. even after all of his career

[applause] >> thank you very much, fred.embers of both bodies who are here, nancy, ladies and gentlemen -- nancy, i know i speak for everyone here when i say thank you for your magnificent service as our nation's first lady. but most of all, for the love and support that you gave our 40th president. you created that secure space from which he ventured forth to change america and to change the world. and so, as this ceremony honors him, nancy, it also honors you. [applause] ladies and gentlemen, there are many people who deserve recognition for this beautiful sculpture of president reagan, including all the members of congress to honor him with their presence here today. but two other individuals played especially important roles. first, john rogers. we're here today because of his financial generosity as the patron for this magnificent bronze. you served president reagan with great distinction, both in office and out of office, and now you have served his memory and his legacy. second, the chairman of the board of trustees f

mothers because, supporters say, they're re likely to spenthe cash on theichildren while fathers, it was fred, might not bring back to the family, even us it the money forlcohol. as aesult, officials say women have been empored. >> resources areiven to the ther. noto the father, so there has been a change of per within the household. >> suare but opportunadades has detractors too. mario lu fuentes, an economist social welfare at the universi of mexico, says the governnt should be more focused on job creatio- because even f the poor kids who finish tir education, mexico sll has few jobs. >> so the whole question is the end of t secondary and high school thesyoung people wont have the portunities of a job, of decent work. >> suarez:he world bank is heavily promotinthe program last springiving mexico a $1.5 billion loan. helenaibe manages the latin american region for the rld bank. >> the edence is very compelling, and in ally many yes of experience working in development in many regions the world, i have never en a program that receives souch terested and is being replicated in as mancountries

i get a much, much billing irreactioning to my fred sesssor wasn't create about doing. the second part of your question, know is he even larter. editors want a paragraph. what are the consequences that the new aven firefighting testing decision? >> i don't know. nobody knows. what are the consequences. and once wants to find an opportunity to to come back at it. the rhythms there are moments in time when it's easy to write stories and it returns to something we call a pig. >> ok. the gentleman. is it a myth that justices get on the court and completely change that philosophy. or sit that predictable and the con fir station hearing is going to find out what's going to the court is so much integrated into the place cal system that -- it was always kind of a myth. there were prominent us the jiss bran ben. at least use tiss warren. both appointed byizeen-hour. david southor, there was a time when the per lynn wall that sounded like a good guy. but the last six points to the court sotomayor, we don't aley know anything about sotomayor. but i mean olyo, briar, thomas all ex-

i'm fred dean, the director of communications for the nrdc and i'm not sure, but what this says about my tenure here or what i'm thought of or my own stature, but someone told me that in the twitter age, this may be as big as a book ever needs to be again. so i don't know whether that's the case, but it is what frances set out to be, as accessible, it is authoritative and timely and it's very timely that you all would be here with us this evening. i do want to say a couple words, a quick thank you to some people. the washington staff of nrdc and the new york staff of nrdc has worked very hard to make this event come together and indeed, to help get this book together on what was a fairly short time frame. and i want to give special thanks tonight to liz and suzanne for all you did for this event. thank you very much. >> thank you. >> i would also be remiss if we did not say a very special thank you to our publishers, roman manned littlefield. i have to tell you that frances is what we in virginia call an uncompromising woman. and when frances said this book has to be part of the conve

[applause] >> thank you very much, fred.odies who are here, nancy, ladies and gentlemen -- nancy, i know i speak for everyone here when i say thank you for your magnificent service as our nation's first lady. but most of all, for the love and support that you gave our 40th president. you created that secure space from which he ventured forth to change america and to change the world. and so, as this ceremony honors him, nancy, it also honors you. [applause] ladies and gentlemen, there are many people who deserve recognition for this beautiful sculpture of president reagan, including all the members of congress to honor him with their presence here today. but two other individuals played especially important roles. first, john rogers. we're here today because of his financial generosity as the patron for this magnificent bronze. you served president reagan with great distinction, both in office and out of office, and now you have served his memory and his legacy. second, the chairman of the board of trustees for the ronald re

. >> marques: fred gulley, two little quick guards up in there. they're double-teaming in the backcourt. >> barry: landry fields following. tough shot knocks it down. >> marques: that's the grown man shot. you have a smaller defender like fred gulley defending gulley at 6' 6'2". that is a major mistake. you underestimated me, sir. drives on zimmermann off the window. >> marques: rebounding is a problem for stanford this year. they've been out-rebounded two or three rebounds a game. oklahoma state is crashing the boards with four rebounders. every shot at this. >> barry: green guarded by the smaller page. got a little too much of -- >> marques: that's how travis ford teaches his small guards to play defense when they're going against a 6'4" shooting guard like jeremy green. get up into his body and get into his body first playing physical and tough. he doesn't mind that foul. he's in the ear of the official hoping that the official will back off and let the team play. this is a familiar style of defense. >> barry: a traveling call against mann. six

ecial correspondent fred de sam laza reports from a viage in nor india. >> reporr: it is sunny most mornings in khairatp, but you can hardly tel at least not until some time after everne's had breakfast. that's becau here and in millns of villages in the developing world, od is cooked with wood or cow dung. the sootr black carbon from incompleteombustion causes not only lung diase but global warming,ays climatologist v. ramanathan, whis with the scripps institutioat the universityf california, san diego. >> and this iseing done by over three billi people in the world; not becausehey want to destroy their vironment. they have no access to oer types of fuel. >> reporter: he sayseducing black carbon will imdiately slow global warming. cleani up diesel engines is one y to do this, but ramanathan ifocused on cleaner cookin he's doi an experiment. with u.n. and private grants s surya project is handing o cleaner burning stoves to ,000 househol in and around khairatpur. they use biofuels, but have a solar chargeinternal fan to burnore efficiently. >> so at instrument measures black caon. >> reporte

fred. are you there? let's try tenn. >> caller: i have considered myself a republican but i voted for the president but i support the bill because there are millions of people who either cannot be covered by health care or would not be covered orenda current system because they have a pre-existing condition with a person with a disability or they work for themselves and have a large discount as they would with a major company and we have to secure health care for all those people from the current system. >>host: alex went from "congressional quarterly." go ahead. they called cloture by this sonat 1:01 a.m. eastern. why is this significant? >> it is a big tax go. if they can pass the though they will show the have the support to pass the bill. >>host: do they have the support? >> if they don't we are not aware. if they don't have the 60 votes i don't know who it would be they have only been negotiating with ben nelson from nebraska and he says he is for the bill. >>host: they have been added since 1:00 in

let's go to our first call, fred , from portland, oregon. what do you think?by pollution, i don't know. host: fred, do you think that the work done at copenhagen over the past weeks will make a difference? caller: not the way they are going about it. no one is actually making any real effort to change things. it's all circumstance, it's like sell me your carbon and i will give you a free reign to smoke it up. it's -- can i say one more thing? host: go right ahead. caller: ok, after 9/11 if we had the sympathy of the world, why did we turn into a monster? host: ok moving to reed, republican line. caller: good morning c-span, i wanted to say that if america anyhow exactly what was going on there and put it all in context, we would run. everyone would run. i got three different links from people in e-mail over the last day and it showed the demonstrations holistically, our media shows trying to maintain law and order, what our media did not so -- show but to pan back and show 18 different communist movements, i am talking about red flags and the words communism a

fred will hold down one corner opposite carlos rogers and doubtty will be starting at safety in place of thornton. we have more redskins coverage still ahead on geico sports night. kelli johnson sits down with devin thomas who suddenly has become a force in the red skin's passing game. >>> the problem with notre dame wasn't their offense, instead it was their defense but that didn't stop the irish from naming brian kelly as their new head coach today. his forte is offense. here is something you can't dispute. he turned around cincinnati and looks to do the same for the irish. >> you do not come to the university of notre dame because you want to be average. you want to be the best of the best, and that's why i'm here. it inspires me to be around young men like i had in front of me today. now we're going to have our good days and bad days, but we start with that premise that you can tell these young men they want to win. >> the cincinnati players are not happy that kelly is leaving, especially receiver marty. he told the players the news, he walked out one minute into the meeting and h

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and actually this involves some deals you know, william fred smith. william was on lookout list for solicitor general. that is, as you know because you also held that job, is a very important job, it's the government's top lawyer for the supreme court, the office that is viewed with plastic and become all the men who've held that and have the first woman doing it all the men have warned the morning suit with tales -- it is quite a prestigious job, and also get another intellectual kind of brainy job before the court. and then professor scully at the university of chicago really wanted that job, and he thought he was going to get it. he had what he thought was a pretty good interview with william french smith, an attorney general but rex lee was also up for the job, and bill smith writes in his memoir that i know you are familiar with some of the late bill smith, he says there was a really close call but he went with wrecks week, and that was a very big disappointment. in fact justice scalia used the word bitter when he talked to me about it. i think i

recently, our two institutions collaborated with the fred friendly seminars and the columbia university school of journalism's workshop on race. we brought together a group of journalists, educators, and community leaders to grapple with questions many still find difficult to talk about and even more difficult to answer. when does race and ethnicity become part of the news? when do these issues matter in news reports? and how does it affect the newsroom itself? >> our moderator, charles ogletree of harvard law school, challenged our panelists with a hypothetical scenario. but while the people and places they encounter may be fictitious, the dilemmas they face are very real. >> we learned that the sort of events you might see in your newspaper on any particular day-- a prominent businessman returning to his hometown, a neighborhood fighting over a new multiplex, or the police releasing a description of a homicide suspect-- can raise wrenching questions on whether and how race becomes part of the story. >> and how we answer those questions can shape the future of our community. now, as ou

host: fred on the republican line. caller: food stamps -- it has been a great program. in doing so we do not take the rest of the people who cannot afford food and put them in a universal food program where we ration their food and put everybody on the same government food programs. and retrospect, why do we have to take everybody just because 10% of the people can't afford their payments for health care and put everybody in one program where the government tells of riding what to do and who could they can shop with and what kind of health care they can get? i hope the analogy holds true. i just wanted to say you are able to keep the republicans in an demand the best program for the american people. -- keeping the republicans in line and a demand of this program. guest: it is interesting you ask the question because you are speaking to someone who is that responsibility administrating the food stamp program when i was the secretary of agriculture and that is a program that has really worked quite well. but your analogy is correct. we did not redesign the food distributi

when you look at that challenge, not just a phenomenon of one country but a trans-national fred and needs to be dealt with in a trans-national way. -- a trans-national threats. it cannot be addressed in a hard hand or to restructure way or -- or three strikes, you're out. you need to address the social problems but also address the issues of state capacity, the rule of law, and that kind of thing. this is a very important part. ultimately the question of criminal and public insecurity is related to weak institutions, particularly at the state and local level. and that leads me to a reflection of institutions, democratic governments in latin america. three critical points -- social inequality, public insecurity, and now i would like to address the issue of democratic governance. i said earlier, we used to say trade is what we need, not eight. i am saying that we need as well to focus on competitiveness and particularly investment in people and infrastructure. but a very, very important and missing link in that kind of thing is success in economic and social terms, based on the quality of i

fred, and nick, program manager of the afghan national security sector. you can stay standing.stions? if so, have them stand up. >> we don't want anyoneç to game e system. in is not an opportunity for you to say something that would then give you an opportunity to make some kind of protest or swrpb else a protest. we realize there is a contract that has to be settled. we had a debate in our commission on whether we should invite you, the third panel. in some ways you are the most important panel in being able to answer questions like what are the challenges of, you know, deciding whether to even seek work with the government in contracti contracting? what kind of people do you look for? telling us what are the difficulties in training afghans versus iraqis if you can tell us that. theç differences between those who are literate and those who are not. fill us in on the generic stuff that will help us understand what it is like to be in your shoes. understand what it is like in your shoes. and what it is like four other contractors. if we can proceed i think we can learn a lot

religious centers and jails who are persuaded by extreme violent messaging, whether through the internet, fred or mentors to commit violent acts. before it is too late. so what are the triggers? the number of americans who are either being recruited or are self-recruiting to carry out terrorist attacks here or abroad is growing. so what are the triggers? recently numbers of young somali american was recruited in minneapolis to join a terror network in somalia. their families were stunned. two carried out suicide bombings. so what are the triggers? and then there's david hedley, the american citizen who has now been indicted for alleged roled in the mumbai attacks as well as plotting attacks on a danish newspaper. this case is doubly important to examine because he was an american recruited to attack abroad. so what are the triggers? in these cases, terrorist organizations not only successfully recruited americans, but then provided the requisite training to enable those americans to carry out attacks. we don't have too many chances more, too many more chances to get this right. there is a grow

you use the term long-haul and those are at odds with the date, and that is a difficult needle to fred because those people of got to be convinced that we do have a commitment and we are there for the long-haul and yet we say july 2010. we really need to be clear on this, because the enemy is going to take their calendar out. they are going to circle july 2011 and say just like america we are going to really wait at that point whether we are going to step down and until then kira at that point, so and again i notice a difficult legal to threat because the american people including myself want to see success. they want to see is out of afghanistan and yet at the same time the people that got to be convinced that somehow we are going to protect them if they cooperate with us so and with all due respect and i don't mean this may be the wave is going to sound but i heard secretary gates, i heard you talk about a target yesterday when you were talking about july of 2011 and yet the impression i got from the president is it isn't the target as much as a hard date for starting to drawdown. th

. >> how much more confidence do you have now if devin and fred?ean there has to be so much more there, you know, in terms of knowing, now they are not just making plays catching the ball, they are making them after? >> yeah, kind of figured out their personality a little bit. >> reporter: yeah. >> all three of them are different, you know. the one thing, i'm more happy for them because they are making plays, you can tell that the confidence is there. they feel comfortable what they are doin', you know, for a defense, soft-spoken, now you're in the huddle. "i'll be there for you, give me the ball," that just shows you that they are having fun, complimenting, devin gets his head almost knocked off, he says be quiet, i'm okay, that's when the guys are feeling it. when they are feeling it they are not thinking so much. they are just playing the game and it takes a while you know to get into your own groove or you know for a light to come on for you. i'm happy it's starting to show for them. >> reporter: they are starting to show that yelling swagger.

he and his son fred are both right wing think tanks in washington. bob has kind of wrote the book on u.s.-europe relations. host: the reason for grouping them together as one unit was what? guest: it seemed like a fun thing to do. they do operate as a family sometimes. sometimes they collaborate. they are an interesting american family with a lot of ideas. host: the managing editor of foreign policy magazine. previously, he has been the web editor there and worked at the center for development studies in cairo. what kind of assignment was that? guest: i was working for a magazine there. it was an organization promoting dem crassy in egypt and the arab world. kind of a tough mission. host: back to the phone on the line for democrats. go ahead. caller: good morning. i'm glad to see barack obama is on that list. i voted for him and i'll vote for him again. i think keith oberman from msnbc has a great mind. i'd put his mind up against anybody. guest: he's a funny guy. i appreciate the way he's brought the impact of sports to the political world. host: am

i get a much, much billing irreactioning to my fred sesssor wasn't create about doing. the second part of your question, know is he even larter. editors want a paragraph. what are the consequences that the new aven firefighting testing decision? >> i don't know. nobody knows. what are the consequences. and once wants to find an opportunity to to come back at it. the rhythms there are moments in time when it's easy to write stories and it returns to something we call a pig. >> ok. the gentleman. is it a myth that justices get on the court and completely change that philosophy. or sit that predictable and the con fir station hearing is going to find out what's going to the court is so much integrated into the place cal system that -- it was always kind of a myth. there were prominent us the jiss bran ben. at least use tiss warren. both appointed byizeen-hour. david southor, there was a time when the per lynn wall that sounded like a good guy. but the last six points to the court sotomayor, we don't aley know anything about sotomayor. but i mean olyo, briar, thomas all ex-

and that's the message i would like to get to my right, honorable fred as he goes to. >> i am long-term interest in the problems that are faced operatively by those island states where the possibility is that we could be dealing with climate change refugees and climate change in the not-too-distant future. and therefore, copenhagen is important because it can allow us to make a commitment to help immediately those island states that are facing needs among difficulties and help them get support to do with their adaptation that is necessary. we will not forget the challenges faced by these island. many of them are part of the commonwealth and it is a portal that we come to the aid of countries when they are in need. >> mr. speaker, why was the prime minister's statement completely silent on the consul agreements for a tangible e.u., a single space and a security system and what he calls a common asylum system by 2012? says labour ministers argue against all these policies against the negotiations of the lisbon treaty, as i saw for myself on the european convention, does the prime minister

fred writes, executive company z company formerly known as blackwater, and nick nickerson, program managerafghan national security sector development and field development program division of l-3 communications. although the contractor panel is last on our schedule, contractors are not last in our thoughts. as a member of congress i have travelled to iraq many times and returned 10 days ago with other commissioners from afghanistan. we are aware of the challenges in the u.s. contracting process and have previously highlighted instances of ways to fraud and abuse by some contractors. but we have also observed that contractors supporting american military and reconstruction efforts in both iraq and afghanistan gets high marks from our troops in the field, and that contractor employees include large number of experienced, hard-working and patriot americans -- patriotic americans. their work is vital. we have met contractors who have been in theater five years or more providing continuity and institutional memory that is difficult to sustain in a six-month or one-year deployment by u.s. milita

fred thomas last week wrote that the muslim -- the u.s.arily goes to muslim countries primarily to support democratic muslim causes. but another says that if the united states stop killing muslims, the relationship between the two countries would improve. so we have a lot of tensions but a lot of potential also. despite the fact that all of these things happen, the united states was the only country that intervened in bosnia and kosovo. we had these tensions, but the united states was the only country that led the movement against the soviet union in afghanistan and on the taliban and the other fighters and gave pakistan the signal to go ahead and all those things. what best we can describe as our foreign policy does not make any rational understanding when it comes the muslim arabs and the middle east. there has been confusion. >> all right, aslam. you know, i think -- let me just follow up on what you're saying there. i'd think that -- one line of argument is that united states, by engaging in certain words, --obviously afghanistan and i

he and his son fred are both right wing think tanks in washington. bob has kind of wrote the book on u.s.-europe relations. host: the reason for grouping them together as one unit was what? guest: it seemed like a fun thing to do. they do operate as a family sometimes. sometimes they collaborate. they are an interesting american family with a lot of ideas. host: the managing editor of foreign policy magazine. previously, he has been the web editor there and worked at the center for development studies in cairo. what kind of assignment was that? guest: i was working for a magazine there. it was an organization promoting dem crassy in egypt and the arab world. kind of a tough mission. host: back to the phone on the line for democrats. go ahead. caller: good morning. i'm glad to see barack obama is on that list. i voted for him and i'll vote for him again. i think keith oberman from msnbc has a great mind. i'd put his mind up against anybody. guest: he's a funny guy. i appreciate the way he's brought the impact of sports to the political world. host: am

we have fred joining us from the independent line.oric thing he's brought about being an african-american president, has to be the greatest thing in the history of america. host: one other person like duke said that rush limbaugh should be the person of the year. and beck's pinocchio and we have lee joining us. going to new york, ray on the republican line. caller: hey, i agree with one of the previous callers, george w. bush to be the person of the year. because in the past year the democrats have w7[blamed him repeatedly over and over.ñr to him and there is çónothing ok they will take çresponsibility for. host: ok, thanks for will call. we showed this headline, çon t front page of the "washington times", çmore koon afghanistan the left xdççóççisç rankle comments. next caller, who should be mst person of year? caller: i think it should be scully that is more universally liked. host: thanks for the call, the senate voted 60-34 on the spending bill, but in order to end the republican filibuster, democrats had to hold the vote f

. -- fred on the republican line. caller: the main problem is congress, period, senate and house.governor did a $3 million put off -- $3 million pay off. don't you think the american people are tired of being bent over and getting the finished product? host: he was referring to mary landrieu, a point well taken. -- but a point well taken. guest: in the people have been complaining about congress for a long -- a lot of people have been complaining about congress for a long time. the health care bill -- passing it is more important than what it actually does any more. we know that votes are bought. it is unfortunate that once the representatives get elected and come to washington, they seem to stop representing us and start paying attention to special interests instead of our interests, and we are the ones that sent them there. i agree with you. it is very unfortunate. one of these days, if we get angry enough as of voters, we will change that, but we've not done that yet. host: deborah is joining us from new jersey. welcome to "washington journal." caller: mr. dunkelberg, we listen

fred, and nick, program manager of the afghan national security sector. you can stay standing.nyone else who may respond to questions? if so, have them stand up. we may need to ask a question and if you turn to someone else we would like them to stand. do you swear the testimony you will give before this commission will be the truth? thank you very much. before i start , let me ask for your cooperation. we don't want anyone to game the system. this is not an opportunity for you to make some protest. we realize there is a contract that has to be settled. we had a debate on whether we should invite the of -- whether we should invite you to the panel. you are the most important to answer questions of, what are the challenges of deciding whether to seek work with the government? what kind of people do you look for? what are the difficulties in training afghans verses are iraqis? the differences between those [unintelligible] fill us in on the generic stuff that will help us understand what it is like in your shoes. and what it is like four other contractors. if we can proceed i thi

. >> fred raises a very, very val point. here's what i tell you, fred.teresting that you ask that question. you are speaking to somebody who used to have responsibility for administrative program when i was secretary of the united states department of agriculture. that's a program that has worked quite well. your analogy is correct. we did not redesign the food distribution for the whole united states. we targeted that population that needed the food supply through food stamps. and we tried to do everything we could to administer them in a way that made sense, cost efficient, et cetera. that programs continues to improve. and it continues to serve more people. what you're saying here is true. there are tens and tens of millions of people in the united states who look at their health plan and say you know i'm satisfied with with the plan. i wish the premiums wouldn't go up as much and this and that. the president came out and said to them if you like your plan, you're not going to lose it. guess what? there are so many things about this health care initia

the senate rule requiring a bill to be fred is almost routinely waived. >> can we expect to see more of this kind of tactic? >> we can. republicans are threatening to potentially ask to have a manager's amendment which still has not been fully crafted but the majority leader harry reid is working the next day or so. republicans say they may call to have that amendment which could be several hundred pages read aloud as well. >> let's take quick look how the reading ended. >> sections and t-note to repeal of certain provisions in the employee retirement income security act of 1974. >> the senator from vermont. >> i withdraw my amendment. >> regular order -- >> the senator has that right, the amendment is withdrawn. >> mr. president, person went -- >> under the previous order the senator from vermont is recognized for 30 minutes. >> mr. president, let me begin not by talking about my amendment but republican action on the floor of the senate. everybody in this country understands our nation faces a significant number of major crises whether it is the disintegration of the health care sy

i remember fred thompson used to say it the most valuable thing the department of justice can do is tot helps individual police departments and offices make the right decision. you mentioned some of these studies that you have ongoing. are you satisfied that the vawa office and department of justice programs are identifying in a practical way the kind of protocols and procedures that would be most effective for law- enforcement agencies for a mid- sized city, that they're getting the kind of guidance the helps them to establish the very best protocols for success? >> thank you for asking. the answer is yes, with the help of some national law enforcement agencies. we have been able to develop what are clear protocol and practices. you should be aware that we're also going to be updating what we are -- will recall are practicing practices. the thing for us to remember -- since vawa was passed, there is a whole new generation of police officers and prosecutors who need to be educated on those practices and protocols. we do not need to go back and reinvent the wheel. we've done some signif

. -- fred on the republican line. caller: the main problem is congress, period, senate and house.overnor did a $3 million put off -- $3 million pay off. don't you think the american people are tired of being bent over and getting the finished product? host: he was referring to mary landrieu, a point well taken. -- but a point well taken. guest: in the people have been complaining about congress for a long -- a lot of people have been complaining about congress for a long time. the health care bill -- passing it is more important than what it actually does any more. we know that votes are bought. it is unfortunate that once the representatives get elected and come to washington, they seem to stop representing us and start paying attention to special interests instead of our interests, and we are the ones that sent them there. i agree with you. it is very unfortunate. one of these days, if we get angry enough as of voters, we will change that, but we've not done that yet. host: deborah is joining us from new jersey. welcome to "washington journal." caller: mr. dunkelberg, we listen

fred thomas last week wrote that the united states has intervened in muslim countries primarily to supportf the journalists stations in the middle east says that if the united states would stop killing muslims, certainly the relationship between the two countries would improve. so we have a lot of tensions, but a lot of potentials also. despite the fact that all these things are happening, the ups was the only country that intervened in bosnia and kosovo. the united states was the only country that led the movement against the soviet union and armed the taliban and freedom fighters and basically gave pakistan the green signal to go ahead. what we can describe, definitely our foreign policy does not make any rational understanding when it comes to muslim, arabs and the middle east. there is confuse. >> all right, aslam. let me follow up on your -- on what you are saying there because i think that -- one line of argument is that the united states, by engaging in certain wars, obviously afghanistan and iraq are the biggest ones right now, that this has impacted the opinion of the united state

>> i want to point out fred palmer here and the groups, there are several of you here.i know that you're going to be out there helping us use this money. we actually have a terrific person now who's heading the area. i want to introduce shawn green. i don't know if he is here. but has a great expect in this area, and i will tell you what we are finding. our applications for these have gone way up. we are getting the highest quality, people coming in. we have tremendous new innovation in how we are working with those applicants. we are taking our leadtime down, announced a fast track program for particular set of folks that we've been working with already. we're going to get you applications through much faster. so i would anticipate that we are going to be very able to put that money to work over the coming year. >> with the increased focus in financing available, will you be able to hire more people to manage trantwo's, in particular the approval process? >> i think just answered, i think yes there's a great unity out there that we are partners with. we have folks at t

the presidents of 12, regional fred banks and seven governors including the chairman in washington, and the chairman could only go so far without the committee behind him and there are a number of people in the committee who was then and now think that if you do too much to help the economy you get on welcomed inflation and the fed ought to err on the other side and there are also people who are very uncomfortable with the way bernanke used the money in other words bear stearns or aig -- >> host: too much feeling out. >> guest: and so he had to work hard to convince them that this was really one of those once in a 50 year even as that required once in every 50 years medicine and some of them are still skeptical. some of them think that this was a mistake and had for instance he not been so beautiful to bailout bear stearns and bear stearns had gone bankrupt we might have had a smaller crisis. >> host: let's come to bear stearns. you say in the book there was before bear stearns and after bear stearns, and now we are in the early 2008. why was that so significant? >> guest: so in january

and that's the message i would like to get to my right, honorable fred as he goes to. >> i am long-termerest in the problems that are faced operatively by those island states where the possibility is that we could be dealing with climate change refugees and climate change in the not-too-distant future. and therefore, copenhagen is important because it can allow us to make a commitment to help immediately those island states that are facing needs among difficulties and help them get support to do with their adaptation that is necessary. we will not forget the challenges faced by these island. many of them are part of the commonwealth and it is a portal that we come to the aid of countries when they are in need. >> mr. speaker, why was the prime minister's statement completely silent on the consul agreements for a tangible e.u., a single space and a security system and what he calls a common asylum system by 2012? says labour ministers argue against all these policies against the negotiations of the lisbon treaty, as i saw for myself on the european convention, does the prime minister reg

i am also joined by fred upton in introducing the spectrum -- this would bring an urgent need broughtlight after the fed cc auctioned the advanced past the fcc auctioned the advanced special in 2006. while the special was often more than three years ago, the winners of the commercial licenses still did not have full access because it has not been fully cleared by the government users. the bill that we have jointly introduced would hasten the process of clearing federal users from spectrum that the government has reallocated for commercial purposes. it would require the and cia to publish the transition plan of each -- the mtia to clarify the steps that users must take to receive payment for their relocation costs, from the spectrum relocation fund, including a requirement that the spectrum fully be reallocated and vacated by the federal users within one year. my goal is to have both the inventory legislation and the bill speedy the reallocation of previously auctioned government spectrum through the committee and through the house at the earliest possible time. i want to thank our wit

religious centers and jails who are persuaded by extreme violent messaging, whether through the internet, fred or mentors to commit violent acts. before it is too late. so what are the triggers? the number of americans who are either being recruited or are self-recruiting to carry out terrorist attacks here or abroad is growing. so what are the triggers? recently numbers of young somali american was recruited in minneapolis to join a terror network in somalia. their families were stunned. two carried out suicide bombings. so what are the triggers? and then there's david hedley, the american citizen who has now been indicted for alleged roled in the mumbai attacks as well as plotting attacks on a danish newspaper. this case is doubly important to examine because he was an american recruited to attack abroad. so what are the triggers? in these cases, terrorist organizations not only successfully recruited americans, but then provided the requisite training to enable those americans to carry out attacks. we don't have too many chances more, too many more chances to get this right. there is a grow

fred, and nick, program manager of the afghan national security sector. you can stay standing. is there anyone else who may respond to questions? if so, have them stand up. we may need to ask a question and if you turn to someone else we would like them to stand. do you swear the testimony you will give before this commission will be the truth? thank you very much. before i start , let me ask for your cooperation. we don't want anyone to game the system. this is not an opportunity for you to make some protest. we realize there is a contract that has to be settled. we had a debate on whether we should invite the of -- whether we should invite you to the panel. you are the most important to answer questions of, what are the challenges of deciding whether to seek work with the government? what kind of people do you look for? what are the difficulties in training afghans verses are iraqis? the differences between those [unintelligible] fill us in on the generic stuff that will help us understand what it is like in your shoes. and what it is like four other contractors. if we can pr

president, fred of merit medical systems. one of the overriding thoughts in our forum was that there's uncertainty, that there's such an aggressive legislative agenda that business people don't really know what they ought to do. in fact one c.e.o. said, that he thought, he has to kind of wait and play have to restructure his business. this is a large multi-national farm company and uncertainty is holding back the jobs. and i hear that a lot in the press. there's so much going on respect nobody knows what to do. how will you give us that confidence and make sure that we're certain about both the near term and long-term growth prospects. >> i have -- i actually think this is, this is -- this a legitimate concern. this is been a tough year. with a lot of uncertainty. and now -- at the beginning of the crisis when we were in transition, we could have made a decision and there are legitimate arguments for that decision or -- there are legitimate arguments for the course that could have been taken which is to say, things are so bad

and that's the message i would like to get to my right, honorable fred as he goes to. >> i am long-termerest in the problems that are faced operatively by those island states where the possibility is that we could be dealing with climate change refugees and climate change in the not-too-distant future. and therefore, copenhagen is important because it can allow us to make a commitment to help@ wheat many of them are part of the commonwealth, and it is important that we, as part of the commonwealth, come to the end of countries when they are in need. >> why was the prime minister's statement completely silent on the types of agreements for a tangible eu's citizenship, a single eu judicial space, and internal security system, and what he calls a common asylum system by 2012? the labour ministers argue against all these policies during the negotiations of the lisbon and treaty. i like to offer myself and the european convention. does the prime minister regret having to support them now and pretend he was always in favor of them? >> i do not think he has moved on since use of the european c