carol a rookie from missouri, a 27th overall pick last summer after a couple years in missouri. this ball is off of the front of the rim. brendon can't get to it and look at the pass to deman. steve: this team has four 7 footers. >>phil: hunter is out for the rest of the year. steve: one free throw made. gilbert and the ball went out-of-bounds. grizzlies two of 7 to start. washington four of nine from the field. gilbert arenas nice pitch and penetrates and no where to go. gilbert had nice big numbers the other notification 26 -- night. >>phil: he has got to find a way to reel that in and to protect the ball more. steve: here is randolph driving it and missed it and tipped up and in. against dallas, randolph made 9 straight shots in the first night. 4 points in the first 15 minutes of the game. jumper, good for three. eventually the mavericks had to double team him after he scored the 21 points. jump girlfriend for mike conley. >>phil: going back to randolph, over the last two games he has had 22 offensive reboundings. steve: and his numbers are amazing. he looks for help. gives

so he left tennessee and went to missouri. he rose up to beat missouri lost a top politician for 30 years. >> to this injured -- did this injury in up with and to jackson -- end up with andrew jackson walking around with a bullet in his shoulder? >> the in jackson saw what i on most things and they were very much together on most of the issues of the day. >> another senator you write about -- and i bring this up to set the mood of that time period. benton was a democrat, polk was a democrat, and about the was a democrat. -- mcduffy was a democrat. >> he was a protege of calhoun. very early during the jackson presidency, toyed with the idea that straights -- that states could secede from the union. jackson said, that is tantamount to secession. jackson said, i am sending troops down and hang any traders who try to rent this hallowed union. he quashed the nullification movement. but those southerners, especially from south carolina, were very wary of the federal government. mcduffy never really came to heal to regards to jackson

he left national and went to missouri and rose up to beat missouri stop politician for 30 years. >> isthis that incident that resulted in him walking around with a bullet in his shoulder for the rest of his life? >> that was one of the incidents. i will say that jackson and benton became allies. they sought to eye on most things, and they were buried together on most of the big issues of the day. >> another senator that you write about duffy was a senator. >> correct. he was a protege of john c. calhoun. he had flirted with the idea that states should succeed in from the union. states could nullify a federal law as they did not like. jackson said that is panama to succession. he said he is sending troops down to hang any traders. he quashed the nullification movement. those centers, especially from south carolina, where very wary of the federal government. make up the -- mcduffy never came to heal. the democratic party was much closer to the republican party today. i happen to believe that the 20th-century president that was most like jackson was ronald reagan. and the 20th century pre

of high school, ray mccollum in michigan and out of the junior college ranks, zeke jones out of missouri junior college. cole does everything. >> marques: he does. even though it's not a big offensive day for him, again, he doesn't mind as long as they win the basketball game. great defense. great hustle on the block of the attempted dunk by reeves nelson. he gets on the floor like ucla stars do and then nice job on the inside. great position leading to the easy bucket. >> steve: kansas, one of many unbeaten teams. but they are on the top because of the two guys, collins and aldrich returned but the first five are all unbeaten. >> marques: purdue, their custom tough defense. kentucky has my favorite player in the country in john wahle running the point guard position for them as they beat north carolina by two yesterday. >> steve: duke has that one loss this year. >> marques: wisconsin. >> steve: yeah. yesterday kyle singler scored one he needed to. >> marques: talk about great point guards wisconsin has one in hughes. a nice job kind of putting the locks on john scheuer. >> steve: who's

so he left nashville, went to missouri, and rose up to be missouri's top politician for 30 years. >> is this the incident that resulted in andrew jackson walking around with bullets in his shoulder for the rest of his life? >> well, he had -- that was one of the incidents, but that was a bullet in his shoulder he never was able to get rid of. i will say that jackson and benton became allies in politics when jackson was president and benton was in the senate he and jackson saw eye-to-eye on most things, and they were very together on most of the big issues of the day. >> another senator you write about -- and the reason i'm bringing this up is to set the mood of that time period. benton was a democrat. >> he was a democrat. >> polk was a democrat. >> right. >> and mcduffie was a democrat. >> correct, from south carolina. >> now, what was his story? >> well, mcduffie was a protege of john c. calhoun, and john c. calhoun was a democrat but he was a southern democrat. and, well, he had very early during the jackson presidency flirted with the idea that states could secede from the union.

missouri? missouri is kind of the worst of the three in terms of voter file world.ng about missouri. missouri doesn't have party registration, does have partisan primaries, but doesn't give us that information. so we know whether people vote, but we don't know which primary they voted in. so again having something like the partisan model is very helpful in a place like missouri. missouri is the battle ground state, all three of those are always. and the big states coming up right now too. yes, sir? >> the indirect targeting and microtargetting, is it more the future of the guy graphic -- geographical targets of the people of the past. >> yes and no. we are no longer saying here's a precincts. go after everybody. when i moved into my neighborhood where we moved because of the school because we intended to have children. here we are a young couple with children. there are four sisters living across the street in the 80s. we're a were different demographic. if you go to everybody in the precincts, you are going to try to say the same things to both of us. that's not ve

the speaker pro tempore: the gentlewoman from missouri is recognized for two minutes. mrs. emerson: thank you, mr. chairman. madam speaker, i want to say a couple of things first. number one, i don't know if the american people realize that since 2007 this congress has increased spending on nondefense, nondeference discretionary spending, including the stimulus in that, by 85%. 85%. and in so doing we still have 30% unemployment in the construction trades in the state of missouri and there is no excuse for that. this bill does very little to help that. very, very little. as a matter of fact some of the stimulus money that went to create new jobs in my congressional district actually our job training people were told that anybody who is in job training can't get a new job. that's disengine with us at best. it's not fair to that person who has been counted as a job when they don't have one and one is not there waiting for them when they graduate. but i really want to talk today about my concerns with the use of tarp funds to offset additional government spending. when we deba

scalise: i thank my friend from missouri pointing that out. when you go back to those comments, the treasury secretary of f.d.r., the comments he made in 1939, there is an old saying. history repeats itself. and the unfortunate part of that is we are standing at a critical point in our nation's history. we are at one of those crossroads and are we going to be here and try to perpetrate the great legacy of america and that is that every generation has inherited a better generation than the one that was passed down to them by the previous generation. it's at risk because of the spending and the borrowing that's being perpetrated by the liberals that are running congress right now. when you show that comment from f.d.r., it's very telling, because when this administration came in, president obama says he inherited the worst economy since the great depression. first of all, if you go back and look at the great depression and the signs there, they were much worse than the signs he inherited. the signs he inherited weren't as bad as what jimmy carte

they also got what you would call quality losses against missouri state and north carolina state, teams both in the top ten in the rpi right now. hargrove back to reed. auburn gets sloppy with it and hargrove travels. >> daymeon: wow. you saw awhile ago, four turnovers, aim he sorry four field goals totaling. right now, his biggest strength can be his biggest weakness. he goes 100 miles per hour and the staff loves that but he has to learn to switch speeds sometimes and slow down on the offensive end. >> matt: evans late time in their last ballgame. zeglinski. that is his second three-pointer. >> daymeon: if you are an auburn player you have to know where he is on the floor at all times. >> matt: ross. and zeglinski with the rebound for the cavaliers. sophomore out of philadelphia. jeff lebo really wanted to get landesberg out of the paint. did everything but knocked down that shot. half waydown. sherrill's defense forcing them to put up a bad shot. >> daymeon: the size of sherrill making it tough for lucas hargrove. usually have some type of advantage, or size, and right now sherrill i

now i yield to the gentleman from missouri, mr. luetkemeyer. >> thank you, mr. chairman. mr. khuzami, mr. bernanke and paulsen were negotiating with merrill lynch and bank of america and sort of came to an agreement, yet they didn't disclose this, didn't want to put it in writing the transactions that were about to embark on here and about to approve and had been working with. and my understanding is that at once they did that, that would have been a discloseable event that the s.e.c. would have been able to come in to and be a part of and have some oversight over. is this a -- what is your opinion of this transaction, how it all happened and this unwillingness to put this in writing? >> well, congressman, what the law -- what the securities law require is that if that understanding had solidified to a material contract, then it would have been required to have been disclosed under what is known as form a case. bank of america would have had to make a disclosure if it rose to the level of an enforceable contract. and, you know, that's -- >> but isn't this skirting the law? by

in my state of missouri, a significant number of agencies closed in missouri forcing patients into more expensive care. one example, a county in north missouri, the only home health agency closed, they had 40 patients served in home at a cost of $4 million a year. -- 400,000 a year. when those patients were cut off, 30 were forced into hospitals or nursing homes. the cost skyrocketed for these patients to a staggerin staggering $1.4 million on the government tab or a $1 million larger hit to taxpayers. we don't even know what happened to the other 10 patients who lost this critical care. this is not the kind of reform americans can afford. under the majority's latest backroom deal states are getting hit hard. for example, the majority's big plan is to expand medicaid. but their big plan for paying for it is to put the burden on the states. that is, unless you were able to cut a backroom deal like in nebraska, which leaves other states holding the bag for their costs. which brings me to my next point. under the majority's latest backroom deal, americans are forced to fund a number of pol

we now have our third missouri national guard team over there.hey're planning on going seven more years because they want to continue that partnership. and guard units across the nation are lining up to partner with other -- with other provinces. and this is a great model, but unfortunately it's not enough to have guard forces there. we have got to have a national security budget that includes the civilian side, the economic development side, the agricultural side, the educational side along with the military force. and that's one of the things that i'm worried about. we've got to make sure that we get the build side of clear, hold and build, of smart power working in afghanistan. because we can't expect them to maintain their security and flourish if they don't have a way of earning a good liveliho livelihood. and they're earning -- make no mistake about it, they're earning a better livelihood with legitimate crops than they were with poppies. and they're not bowing down to the -- to the drug lords or to the taliban. and most of all, producing f

missouri, 195,036. montana, 27,592. nebraska, 30,571. nevada, 104,043. new hampshire, 13,200.new jersey, 156,607. new mexico, 73,567. look at new york, 853,387. north carolina, 251,738. people enrolled in medicare advantage, who love the program. north dakota, 7,633. ohio, 499,819. goo geewhiz, that's a lot of people who are satisfied with medicare advantage. oklahoma, 84,980. oregon, one of the most liberal states in the union, 249,993. pennsylvania, 864,040. puerto rico even, 400,991. rhode island, 65,108. south carolina, 110,949. these are senior citizens. south dakota, 8,973. tennessee, 233,024. texas, 532,242. my own state of utah, 85,588. vermont, only 3,966, but 3,000 people -- 4,000 people in vermont. virginia, 151,942. washington, 225,918. west virginia, 88,027. wisconsin, 243,443, and wyoming, 3,942. these are people who benefit from medicare advantage that would not like to get off of it. well, this choice in coverage has made a difference in the lives of more than almost 11 million people. 11 million individuals nationwide, families that benefit from this. the extr

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in the other body, congressman hall of missouri called it an ill-conceived adventure in government medicine. those were the republican voices of the past on medicare. what senior in this country today, which one of our parents or grandparents believe those words of the past as it relates to their health care today? more straw men, more fear, more nay saying. all of it wrong then, all of it wrong now. they said bureaucrats would come between doctor and patients. well, they're wrong. they're wrong. that's why it's interesting to see that today the american medical association, the nation's doctors, the people who take care of you when you're ill, the ones who follow your progress when you have maybe a debilitating disease or a lifetime health challenge, your doctor, the voice of your doctor, not any members of the senate, the voice of your doctor said this in support of this historic reform. they said -- quote -- "this is a time of great opportunity for the american health care system. we have the chance to substantially expand health insurance coverage, implement insurance market reforms tha

missouri. caller: good morning.but i'm one of the republicans who voted for mr. obama, president obama. i don't think people necessarily understand the headwinds that this administration incurred as well as -- this man is running headstrong into a brick wall. and i don't think that my party, whose approval ratings are 20 percent now, understand what we're doing to ourselves. i don't agree with everything that he does but i don't question his motives, i don't question his patriotism and his intentions. with that said, missouri will be a very open state to the green jobs program. the majority of the midwest. i was recently in illinois for a state forum and i noticed there were several windmills' on the outskirts, as well as what they're doing with clean water initiatives in illinois. but with that said, one thing that has to be touched on because, we are a fast food nation with fast food mentality. not many people realize how the outsourcing program -- outsourcing by my party -- and anyone touch on the fact that outso

the speaker pro tempore: the gentlewoman from missouri is recognized for two minutes. mrs.son: thank you, mr. chairman. madam speaker, i want to say a couple of things first. number one, i don't know if the american people realize that since 2007 this congress has increased spending on nondefense, nondeference discretionary spending, including the stimulus in that, by 85%. 85%. and in so doing we still have 30% unemployment in the construction trades in the state of missouri and there is no excuse for that. this bill does very little to help that. very, very little. as a matter of fact some of the stimulus money that went to create new jobs in my congressional district actually our job training people were told that anybody who is in job training can't get a new job. that's disengine with us at best. it's not fair to that person who has been counted as a job when they don't have one and one is not there waiting for them when they graduate. but i really want to talk today about my concerns with the use of tarp funds to offset additional government spending. when we debated t

you'll have connecticut, missouri, pennsylvania -- pennsylvania, missouri and ohio.if he's in a primary right now, they were probably start running ads this winter. you know, mr. specter's going to start him if he hasn't already. he will start anytime running ads are his primary. so the amount of time that we have two teeny k. to the public always begins to distort this sort of, then, here's a block of time, here's a block of time i'm going to use to go through these phases of campaign. then you add to that the fact that you go to any website today and if all you had out there which are named, kind of silly and irrelevant. so that in today's world, i think they're sort of a different set of criteria that you want to use in thinking about the entirety of your message all at once. its candidates on the same kind of background. they're sort of four things you always want to be thinking about communicating. the every piece of the medications that you put out there. number one, who am i? you know, so the total amount of my personage, background, family, and core beliefs,

the speaker pro tempore: the gentlewoman from missouri is recognized for two minutes. mrs.merson: thank you, mr. chairman. madam speaker, i want to say a couple of things first. number one, i don't know if the american people realize that since 2007 this congress has increased spending on nondefense, nondeference discretionary spending, including the stimulus in that, by 85%. 85%. and in so doing we still have 30% unemployment in the construction trades in the state of missouri and there is no excuse for that. this bill does very little to help that. very, very little. as a matter of fact some of the stimulus money that went to create new jobs in my congressional district actually our job training people were told that anybody who is in job training can't get a new job. that's disengine with us at best. it's not fair to that person who has been counted as a job when they don't have one and one is not there waiting for them when they graduate. but i really want to talk today about my concerns with the use of tarp funds to offset additional government spending. when we debate

and i said, this is a missouri sales tax case, i really like that. but i really believe that the chief justice is fair and what he does -- in what he does. it is his job to make the assignment. we are on the same side, i write the opinion and i try to be faithful to the conference. but i do not lobby. the only time i would ask for assignments was if i had worked imbalances in my chamber. but otherwise i do not lobby. or i think i am the best person to write it -- there might be one where the court as a little fractured and i think i have a way of pulling us together, but that is not an ego thing that is let us get this done and maybe we can get everybody on board if we tried this way. and if you cannot, at least you have given at the college try. but i do not really lobby for anything. >> do you intellectually approach to writing of majority opinions the same as a dissent? >> oh, yes, you're an agent of the majority would you write the majority opinion. that is the way i approach that. and what you try to do is -- let us say for example that -- i wil

clay from missouri for five minutes. >> thank you so much mr. chairman. guess along the same lines as mrs. waters, some of the strategy that we see now deployed by mortgage holders and banks does not make good economic sense. why haven't we seen an effort to keep people in their homes instead of removing them? and then leaving the home vacant and reducing the value do you of the surrounding property in the neighborhood. if it is about the bottom line and profit motive, would it not be a better business strategy to keep people in homes? doesn't the mortgage holder or the bank have to maintain utilities and to keep the water on in those facilities? let me ask someone on the panel and may be ms. sheehan or mr. schakett could take a stab at this. what is more cost effective for banks and mortgage holders, to evict and/or foreclose on a home is that more cost effective or would it be better to work out some arrangement even if it's the homeowner been reduced to paying rent in order to keep them in that house? what's would be more tears to the banks? >> i would

. >> the gentleman from missouri is recognized, mr.cleaver for five minutes. >> the answer to that question would have been what you just said no matter what, right? >> i believe our system is very strong. >> even if the war, that would be the answer, right? >> i don't understand. >> you would not have said it from a bus in the tv cameras that our system has been compromised. >> i believe that the system is very strong and it was not compromised as a result of this, sir. >> ok. i understand why you won't answer the question which is why i asked the question. that was somewhat of an answer. i am not sure you can answer my questions in public. >> perhaps when we get into the closed session, i can answer and give you more examples as to why i am confident in our system. >> generally, whether it is science or theology or anthropology for epidemiology, we all build on what laws. was. it seems to me that any new versions were built on older versions. and i read about that? >> yes, sir. >> if i am correct, there obviously is information that

. $900,000 for a river freight development study in missouri. $800,000 for a scenic trail in montereybay, california, another deprived area of america. $750,000 for the philadelphia museum of art transportation improvement program in brady, pennsylvania. $500,000 for park and ride lots at broward county, florida. $487,000 to restore walkways in new port cliff, rhode island, another low-income area up there in new port, rhode island. $974,000 for regional east-west trail and bikeway in albuquerque. the list goes on and on and on and on. up to nearly $4 billion. and, you know, the problem is, mr. president, among other problems, is that in the last campaign, the president of the united states campaigned for change, change you can believe in. there's no change here. it's worse. it's worse because the conditions that americans find themselves in, out of their homes, out of jobs, high unemployment, tough economic conditions, and it's business as usual. spending money like a drunken sailor, and the bar is still open. so, again, i tell my colleagues again what i keep saying over and over and

also mandatory release, supervised release it is called probation at the federal level for eastern missouri, st. louis, as first was to be a spectacular job oriented the probation officer said it is your job to get them jobs. not job readiness or training. the man who runs the montgomery county center here is doing the same sort of thing and it seems you can get a job if you want to one and that is so you get out of prison is if you want a job. the state offender group with a lot of gang bankers has a lower unemployment rate and the city of st. louis because it turns out if you call an employer and has a minimum wage employee who has to show for work every day sober, they wanted that so i don't think it is serious probation and parole supervision could substantially reduce the disadvantage that felons now face in the labor market. i actually have very substantial hoping for that. >> but what about the district of north carolina? i know federal probation office is trying to bring the program. >> but that is jobs focused. i want to see you can add to that with drug testing. >> but the pending

. >> jim: spani, the freshman from lee's summit, missouri.schooled, played in kansas and was the state gatorade player of the year. she had 18 against texas tech. 16 against ucla. the lead is back to 14. every time tennessee has had a surge, stanford has had an answer. appel comes flying out of there. >> lisa: stanford -- all the players talked about rebounding, 25 offensive boards, you don't get back out here and play another game. >> jim: we talked about neka's game and tara vanderveer, playing on that. >> lisa: in talking to her, she's gained so much confidence. this year her teammates voted her as one of the captains. she was excited about that because she's -- that tells me, helps me to say that, you know. >> jim: pulls down the rebound. >> mary: it was interesting after the meeting, it was neka that answered it. >> jim: pedersen from the elbow. >> mary: pat summitt has to call another time-out. >> jim: celebration at stanford. >> mary: it's been a great rivalry, jim, but very one-sided rivalry. stanford feels like they get to get some n

now, that letter was signed by senator kohl of wisconsin, senator mccaskill of missouri, senator pryor, senator begich, bayh of indiana and klobuchar of minnesota to the chairman of the finance committee, saying if we pass health care reform without addressing the issue of health care spending, we will have failed. we know from c.m.s., the actuary at the department of health and human services, that the reid bill fails the test of senators kohl, mccaskill, pryor, begich, bayh, and klobuchar. so we know what c.m.s. thinks. we also know what cnn thinks. we know where the american people are. we have watched the public opinion polls dramatically shift against the reid proposal. the well-respected quinnipiac poll a week or so ago had the proposal disapproved by 14%. the week before that gallup had it disapproved by 9%. now cnn just yesterday, the latest poll, people opposed the senate bill 61-36. so, mr. president, we have heard from both c.m.s. and cnn, and when will our colleagues on the other side of the aisle respond to either the cold, hard facts or the american people? they argued to

[laughter] why not the missouri synod lutherans. let's get them all together. by remember -- remember the priests and bishops from the anglican church to come in our married -- they are married and will continue to be married and will therefore introduce the possibility into the catholic church of a married priesthood in which a lot of people have been waiting around for for a very long time. so it may have repercussions that we are not anticipating, but let us wait and see. >> a number of our questioners in the audience raise questions about fundamentalism, let's begin with a question about what is the most essential similarity that the fundamentalists of all religion share with each other? >> well, what might be called a family resemblance. all these movements, first of all, reach back into their own tradition and very, very selectively retrieve some element. it is a scripture, it is a particular ritual, it's a particular time in history, they retrieve that very selectively, bring it to the present and deploy its in some kind of current argument from a strugg

at both ray mccallum and michigan and a high school player and jones out of a junior college in missouri, and i think those guys could get a lot of minutes and start perhaps as early as next year jarvis. >> steve: ravern johnson scoring outside. >> marcus: ravern running down the floor after knocking it down. he can't believe the relative ease of the open looks that he's been able to find out here on the floor against this formerly tough ucla defense. malcolm lee, the microcosm of this whole game for ucla. mcdonald's all american three feet wide-open jump shot jarvis. >> steve: tyler honeycutt will go to the scorer's table to check in. anderson gets it ahead to michael roll who lays it up and in. jarvis. >> steve: mississippi state leads 22 points, 14:17 left in the ball game. georgetown knocked off washington by eight in game one. ravern, wow. he's something. he's got 24 and two shif his career best. >> marcus: yeah. he is really having a coming out party and we talked about the block party with jarvis varnado and he has his career high 25 and i don't think anybody expects ucla for one

mustafa abdul-hamid is a walk-on from missouri.tions, a major in global studies. and the all american, cole aldrich, 3.3 in communications. we had a chance to visit with cole at the hotel yesterday. >> marques: a very nice, personable young man. spent some time at the amare stoudamire camp. he told me he's got danny manning, the big man developer in all of basketball as an assistant coach. >> steve: danny a national champion. >> marques: champion all-time leading scorer in kansas basketball history. >> steve: honeycutt gets it back inside. powers it up. knocked away. there's that kansas defense. >> marques: there it is again. you have to recognize if you're the blues on the interior, awfully hard to get shots up over -- the defense by the freshman, reeves nelson. >> steve: roll from downtown missing. it is out of bounds. still ucla basketball. 10:58 to play first half. kansas ucla 15-6. michael eaves courtside with you. we visited with bill self yesterday. despite his team being young in some regards he said this is the most versat

they did come away with a win at southeast missouri state. which is a big win. austin peay was up eight with a minute to play. let them go to overtime before they put them away. >> matt: roberson at the line played a big role in that victory. career high 15 points. got ten today. two of three shooting at the free-throw line. boy has his role increased dramatically. coming in to today. he already played 225 minutes after combining for only 340 minutes of action. >> kyle: john wall is back in the libe-up and has a big cut over his eyebrow. >> matt: i don't know where it came from. i didn't see it happen. >> kyle: at the speed he plays he needs to be durable. going 100 miles per hour on and off the floor. saw earlier the knee and now scratch on the eyebrow. >> matt: first sec freshman to win player of the week honors four consecutive weeks. he has a shot at obliterating the sec player of the week record of six in a season. set by roberson and alabama in 1990-'91. inside cousins fouled. by channels. you're watching sec basketball. austin peay and number three undefe

the last trip we took, we rented a boat in missouri and went down in new orleans. while i was at "time" is where i really got bitten by the motion of -- by the notion of covering people and also the possibility of writing books. otto friedrich was my editor. he was totally and always and constantly amused by himself. he would just walk around sort of smiling. and he wrote books on the side. i said, i get it. this is really cool. a weekly magazine so we can sit here and write books four days a week and write the article on friday. it's like college, you figure out the key to all things. and so i had been put on the reagan campaign in 1980. and i kind of noticed that at rallies we went to, on the fringes of the rallies, there were always these people handing out leaflets and pamphlets that talked about the establishment, and the elite, and the -- it was always the tri-lateral commission and the council or foreign relations and the east coast establishment with the rockefellers and everybody else was totally controlling everything. i was totally baffled by this, but o

currently there are five states -- idaho, kentucky, oklahoma, missouri, and north dakota -- that only allow abortion coverage through riders. guess what? the individual market does not accept this type of a policy, it doesn't exist. abortion riders severely undermine patient privacy. as a woman would be placed in the position of having to tell their employer or their insurer, and in many cases their husband's employer, that they anticipate terminating a pregnancy. also requiring women to spend additional money to have comprehensive health care coverage is discriminatory. we don't do that for services that affect men's reproductive rights. and the last point i would mention is i hear frequently from my friends on the other side of the aisle that the statements that we make -- that is, those who support the bill, underlying bill, that this allows individuals who have their current insurance to be able to maintain their current insurance, builds on what's good in our health care system. well, this amendment takes away rights that people already have. so if you have insurance today as an

millions and millions of birds 'cause that's what lewis and clark described when they came up from missouriar from where roosevelt set up his shot in that little cabin so he goes back to new york city after two years. and he's this transformed man. the west has saved him. he said i owe man more than any man owes him to the west. let's fast forward to 1900. mckinley is president. roosevelt was vice president. and the corrupt people in albany did not like having roosevelt so he went and placed on the vice-presidency. mckinley is assassinated. he's not dead yet. roosevelt is hiking. the secret service goes and get him and brings him back down. they think mckinley is going to day but after a day they think he may go through it but seven days later the secret service goes to get him and the president is dead. it takes roosevelt another 36 hours to get to buffalo where he is sworn in as our youngest president. now, he says later in his autobiography, he doesn't say it at the time, remember, he's leader of the republican party. i wanted to transform the republican party, as he says, into a, quote,

the mayor of slater, missouri, says, "i totally agree with you on the fact that people do not correspondhe mail anymore, and i am curious if you ever received this letter." let me see. no, mr. mayor. i don't think i ever got your letter; maybe it was lost in the mail. i frequently get a lot of letters about what i look like. this one from dennis ryan in clifton park, new york, says, "i notice you wear your wristwatch with the dial facing inward. my dad did the same thing." yes, i wear it that way because it's easier to see what time it is, mr. ryan. didn't your father tell you that? my least favorite mail comes from people who want me to promote something. obviously, they don't know that i don't do that. i guess that's why someone sent me this michael jackson cutout paper doll book. here's a nice letter to the producer of "60 minutes" from someone named m. titus. mr. titus says about me: "he's not funny, he's not clever, he makes me dislike old men in general." next week, maybe i'll do a funny and clever piece about you, mr. titus. >> pelley: i'm scott pelley. we'll be back next week wit

host: glenda in missouri. your on the air. caller: hello.ing on your web page about the pricing, and maybe i'm reading it wrong, but i would be responsible for paying $5800. is that a year? host: what part of the healthcare hub are you on? are you reading one of the wrll bills? caller: on premiums. host: and it was about one of the bill? caller: yeah it was about - what an individual would pay. a letter to - host: okay. i would need to know what you were talking about, but are you saying that your premiums would go up? is that where you're going? caller: oh, yeah. substantially. host: do you get insurance through your employer. how much do you pay and they pay?% caller: i think we pay $150 a month. i don't know what they pay. that's like $3800 less than what this would cost. host: are you happy with your insurance now? caller: no. same time i know the government also has the power to regulate insurance companies instead of pushing mandates on people. host: okay. thank you for calling in on this christmpj eve and i suggest without knowing wha

for what purpose does the gentleman from missouri rise? >> mr.peaker, i ask unanimous consent to my name be removed as a co-sponsor of h.r. 1880. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, so ordered. the house will come to order. once conversations are removed from the floor we will proceed. the house will come to order. if you will kindly remove your conversations from the floor, take them to the cloakroom it would be appreciated. for what purpose does the gentleman from new york rise? mr. rangel: mr. speaker, i rise to call up h.r. 4154, the permanent estate tax relief for families, farmers, and small businesses act of 2009. and ask for its immediate consideration. the speaker pro tempore: the clerk will report the title of the bill. the clerk: h.r. 4154, a bill to amend the internal revenue code of 1986 to repeal the new carryover basis rule in order to prevent tax increases and imposition of clines versions on many more estates than would benefit from repeal to retain the estate tax with a $3,500,000 exemption, and for other purposes. mr. r

host: glenda in missouri. your on the air. caller: hello.reading on your web page about the pricing, and maybe i'm reading it wrong, but i would be responsible for paying $5800. is that a year? host: what part of the healthcare hub are you on? are you reading one of the wrll bills? caller: on premiums. host: and it was about one of the bill? caller: yeah it was about - what an individual would pay. a letter to - host: okay. i would need to know what you were talking about, but are you saying that your premiums would go up? is that where you're going? caller: oh, yeah. substantially. host: do you get insurance through your employer. how much do you pay and they pay?% caller: i think we pay $150 a month. i don't know what they pay. that's like $3800 less than what this would cost. host: are you happy with your insurance now? caller: no. same time i know the government also has the power to regulate insurance companies instead of pushing mandates on people. host: okay. thank you for calling in on this christmpj eve and i suggest without knowing

i can't imagine that people across the country, certainly people in my state or places like missouri, virginia, california, wisconsin will agree that the federal government should break with its longstapblgd policy against federally funding abortions. that is exactly what has happened and what is in this bill. abortion is not health care. why is it even in this bill at all? the president himself said that at the joint session of congress. at the end of the day the vote for cloture is an affirmative vote to the federal funding of abortion. there is no way around that fact. some people on the democrat side, particularly senator nelson of nebraska, who i've been working with and closely on this, wants to keep abortion out of this bill. i believe there are huge flaws still in it. he has been fighting to keep abortion out of it. he said this: taxpayers shouldn't be required to pay for abortions. it's his statement on it. he says that. shouldn't be in there. and he's worked to try to get this out. i think there's still enormous flaws and holes in this. if we start the funding of abortions,

last trip we took instead of doing the bus trip, we printed, i always wanted to do, we went for a missouri and then went down to new orleans. while i was at time, it's where billy got bitten by the notion of covering people but also about the possibility of writing books. otto friedrich was my senior editor. wonderful old man with a bushy red mustache who was totally and always and constantly amused by himself. he just would walk or run started smiling. and he wrote books on the side. i said i did it, this is really cool. this is a weekly magazine so we can sit here and just right hooks for four days a week and write the article and friday. you know, it's like college, you figure out the key to all things. and so i've been put on the reagan campaign in 1980. and i kind of noticed that that rallies we went to on the fringes of the rallies there were always these people handing out leaflets and pamphlets that talked about the establishment and the elite and there was always a trilateral commission and the dotted line to the group and the council on foreign relations and their little circles

and i said, this is a missouri sales tax case, i really like that. but i really believe that the chief justice is fair in what he does. it is his job to make the assignment. we are on the same side, i write the opinion and i try to be faithful to the conference. but i do not lobby. the only time i would ask for assignments was if i had work imbalances in my chamber. but otherwise i do not lobby. or i think i am the best person to write it -- there might be one where the court was a little fractured and i think i have a way of pulling us together, but that is not an ego thing. let us get this done and maybe we can get everybody on board if we try it this way. and if you cannot, at least you have given at the college try. but i do not really lobby for anything. >> do you intellectually approach the writing of majority opinions the same as a dissent? >> oh, yes, you're an agent of the majority where you write the majority opinion. that is the way i approach that. and what you try to do is -- let us say for example that -- i will put it numerically so it

the senator from missouri is recognized. mr. bond: mr. president, i ask to be advised when i have used eight of my ten minutes. the presiding officer: without objection, so ordered. mr. bopped: thank. mr. bond: mr. president, small businesses are the backbone of our economy. they make up 99.7% of all employer firms. they pay 44% of the total u.s. private payroll. they have generated 64%, a majority of the net new jobs over the past 15 years. they create more of than half of the nonfarm gross domestic product. they hire 40% of all high tech workers. small businesses drive this economy. they are also the sector most in need of real health reform that will reduce costs and make it easier to buy insurance. mr. bond: it's estimated that 26 million uninsured small business owners, employees, and their dependents, that's a majority of the uninsured, they continue to struggle to be unable to afford health care. two examples: jim henderson, president of dynamic sales in st. louis has made every adjustment in the book to continue to provide health

i yield to the gentleman from missouri. >> thank you, mr. chairman.nk you for being here this morning and just curious. now that we have some non-banks that are banks and lehman brothers absorbed by b of a, have you been in to examine that portion of b of a? been in to examine the bank itself? been in to examine goldman-sachs and those folks since this all took place? >> we have -- i cannot comment on specific institutions. i will tell you generally what we are doing which is right now we have backup authority only for insured depository institutions. so activities outside of this, like investment banks even though they might be part of a broader holding company structure, we have no authority there. that is exclusive to -- >> goldman-sachs now a bank. is it not? >> no. because the insured depository institution is only a subsidiary of the larger bank holding company structure. this has been a problem for us. and another positive thing we think the house bill does is gives us backup authority over everything in the holding company. right now it's only

union, missouri, gregg, republican line.aller: i think the president of the united states and the democratic party is committing a fraud against the american people and i think america needs to wake up and they will see in six months or so what is going on with the economy and so forth. keep in mind, this is just costing us money and they don't have a clue what is going on. thank you. host: 1 state is not happy. -- or city. the mayor of new york's city, disgrace of a health care prescription for disaster. this is the senate health reform bill is packed with a bagful of coal for new york. governor paterson and mayor bloomberg said it would force the city to close 100 health clinics and below the 1 billion all and the state budget and threaten struggling hospitals, nursing homes and other facilities. that is " in your post" this morning. despite that, " the new york times" is endorsing legislation in the editorial section. a bill well worth passing as their editorial. ken on the democrats' line. caller: i am a college student

lake ozark, missouri. ron on the republican line. caller: thank you. mr. peter morici, i appreciate it. guest: dean baker is a good economist, too. thank him, too. he is working really hard for you even if he is on the other side. caller: i am not an economist. i have had my own businesses for years. i am so sick of what they have done to this country. the stimulus package, as you just mention a few minutes ago, or a few seconds ago, was a total joke. they haven't done anything to stimulate. instead they promote all of their ideals, they're far left calf and tax, far less -- cap and tax, far left health care reform and all they have done for anybody who wants to start a business, grow a business, increase the economy, is put up some any roadblocks and question marks that no one is willing to take a chance or take a risk and allow the american public to do what it does best, which is work hard, be deficient, get the government out of our way, get back to the constitution -- and i am just so frustrated. i have lived my life pretty much as a normal american.

missouri 200. 104,000 a bad. state of new york 853,000. ohio 499,000. pennsylvania and baby are maybe not because they may have got the deal 865,000. tennessee 2,223,000 according to members. washington state 225,000. wisconsin to the 43,000. i will ask unanimous consent for the enrollment of medicare advantage as of august 2009 into the record. >> the point* of all of this? the point* of this is that the senator from florida, member of the finance committee felt so strongly that advantage was a risky decided to carve out and get a majority on a party-line vote from the finance committee to carve out a special status for a group of seniors under medicare advantage in his state. this amendment simply says that everyone the senator from oklahoma -- oklahoma just made reference to the has that same protection for of that is all this amendment is about too. >> if you will yield for a question, if this amendment does not pass which protects all medicare advantage beneficiaries come all 11,532,000 in my state, and as a result of not only these cuts but additi

in missouri, 714 deaths, in nebraska, 216 deaths. in nevada 450 deaths, in new hampshire 132 deaths. in north carolina, 1,423 deaths. in oklahoma, -- sorry in ohio, 1,279 deaths. in oklahoma, 550 deaths. in south carolina, 693 deaths. in south dakota, 88 deaths. in tennessee, 883 deaths. in the state of texas, 5,857 deaths each year for lack of health coverage. in utah, 342 deaths. in wyoming, 69 deaths. and on it goes. for those senators who have shown some reluctance or lack of interest in health care reform, i'm going to provide your names right now to go with your states. in alabama, i'm talking about jeff sessions, i'm talking about richard shelby. in alaska, lisa mruczkowski. in arizona, jon kyl and john mccain. in connecticut, joseph lieberman. in florida, george lemieux. in georgia, saxby chambliss and johnny isaacson. in idaho, mike crapo and james rich. in iowa, chuck grassley. in kansas, sam brownback and pat roberts. in kentucky, jim bunning and mitch mcconnell. in louisiana, david visiter. in maine, susan collins and oly

be an anti-bolton, folded and reversed that he meant by that winston churchill's speech in fulton missouri 1986 which is not the beginning of the cold war but the beginning of the cold war and was a soviet takeover in eastern europe. but it was a dramatization of the beginning of the cold war when churchill said that they had descended across europe. so gorbachev was trying to do the reverse. he was trying to end the cold war very explosive with that speech. i often heard people in eastern europe bemoan the fact that major challenges to soviet began, mounted one at a time whether in hungary in 1956, czechoslovakia in 1968, or pulled in 1980, 81. coordination was however impossible. even if a handful of dissidents who were closely monitored by the secret police when they were not in visit, even if they manage to me they had little chance of a light in populations as a whole. they did not and does paris striker in pre-internet years have access to communications that could have provided the possibility of coordinating a civil attempt simultaneous device of soviet imposed rulers. the amount o

if it is not good for us, it is not good for our friends in iowa or missouri or south dakota or any other either. you should have fixed the bill, not just get a special sweetheart bill for nebraska. that is not what we want. i do not know this for sure. i have not talked to our friends in nebraska. but i am sure that that is what they will say in the next several weeks. if you look at the dow jones news wire yesterday, there are more sweetheart deals. apparently, there are other references to insurance companies who meet certain qualifications and it just happens that the three that qualified are blue cross, blue shield of nebraska and michigan and mutual of omaha. in other words, that satisfies the special interests in the state and against what the vast majority of nebraska and are telling him what to do, which was to not support this legislation. >> i think you have a half nelson, a three quarter nelson, a double nelson, and more. one is exempting many floridians. the three quarter notes and is that senator nelson has excluded the position on hospital construction in his state by chang

it is all over the united states, in missouri, ohio, and 12 other states. does it not seem like criminal enterprise is taking place here? are all of these acorn groups organized to commit voter fraud against the american public? who knows? it is certainly time to find out. it is not an isolated problem. it appears to me acorn has systematically and purposely work to subvert the democratic process in this country and it makes me mad and it ought to make americans matt, too. people need to be held accountable. they are guilty of voter fraud, we should not just just -- we should not just talk about it. someone should be tried and go to jail. how would you back to the ranking member. >> thank you, mr. pope. but thank all eight members for their excellent opening statements today. we will not go to introducing our expert panel. our first witnesses secretary todd rookiquita. he has overseen indian oblations with the commitment to innovation and technological advancements. his efforts to combat investment and mortgage fraud have led to the convictions of dozens of