-- why don't we have a discussion of roe vs. wade? [laughter] >> as you can see, this has been a tremendous amount of fun for all of us. we really enjoy ourselves. i think that the ultimate pronouncement is that peter jennings will have been very pleased. that is an extremely high standard. thank you all, so much. [laughter] [applause] >> you can see this program again or any other "america and the courts" program as c- span.org. join us next week for "america and the courts" here on c-span. >> this is c-span, public affairs programming. up next, the head of the national and dormant -- the national endowment for the arts. and then, supreme court justice brieyer, and then the annual radio and tv correspondents dinner. >> now, the former head for the national endowment for the humanities discusses the importance of understanding culture and the arts. this conversation is moderated by the former head of the national endowment for the arts. this lasts about one hour. >> good afternoon. welcome to the aspen institute. it is my pleasure to

-- why don't we have a discussion of roe vs. wade? [laughter] >> as you can see, this has been a tremendous amount of fun for all of us. we really enjoy ourselves. i think that the ultimate pronouncement is that peter jennings will have been very pleased. that is an extremely high standard. thank you all, so much. [laugh [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2010] >> you can see this >> you can see this program again at c-span.org. just click on "america and the courts" under the c-span series link. join us next week for "america and the courts." saturday evenings at 7:00 eastern here on c-span. >> coming up next, a "reporters without borders" next with an iranian photojournalist. and then the student documentary, "text driven," and then your calls and comments on today's "washington journal." >> today on "news makers," republican governor mitch daniels, george w. bush's director of the office of management and budget, talks about the economic impact of the healthcar

roe: just a quick comment. we do these suspensions and we talk about them and vote on them and so forth, but there is a real lesson in college athletics that i think congressman minnick brought up and that's very important and not just a resolution congratulating a football team, but young athletes. i know i certainly learned these lessons. as an athlete you learn to show up on time, be a team player, and give your very best. if you take those attributes into the world of business and your life, you are going to have a pretty successful life if you take those lessons that you learned. so congratulations once again. i would like to associate my comments. we just saw in the last week one of the greatest athletic events in this nation which was the ncaa basketball tournament. we saw what happened there. and football team should be allowed the same opportunity. i yield back the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from tennessee yields back the balance of his time of the the gentlelady from ca

roe: why are we concerned about this? i believe this is designed to fail because we saw what it did to our local private insurers in the state of tennessee, where we had about $1,800 per year shifted in costs, that's a hidden tax, what will happen is businesses now are struggling. you know the number one issue in this nation right now should be jobs, number two jobs, and number three, jobs. everywhere i went in the district this weekend, people were fearful and worried about losing their jobs. they were underemployed or not employed whatsoever. so we have a system, when this medicaid expansion occurs, what will happen is private businesses will get, not in addition to all the taxes in here that we'll talk about later, but this is designed to fail. we're worried about it for what reason? as physicians, we're worried about rationing care. i attended a conference at east tennessee state university college of medicine while i was home and we had a look at the canadian health care system, the english health care system and the

roe: no. one of the reasons is because of the practical experience i have had over 16 years that had shown that was not the case. what we thought was, back in the 1990's, we had a lot of uninsured people and asked for a medicaid exemption and we got that in tennessee to form a managed care plan and the idea ms. wasserman schultz: that we were going to have various plans to compete to help hold health care costs down. what happened was over a 10-year period of time, our costs tripled in this p plan. mr. a costs tripled. mr. roe: in 10 years. and i will pr now right now, what's go to go happen plan is what happened to . i have seen this picture before. and what will happen that youave -- and we have a business, congressman akin in west tennessee that's a large plan. and remember that the federal government will determine1 government will determine1 e in front you. federal wha h% have,ent adequate. $ their coverage, they pay the $2,000 fine per individual, it will save that company $40 million. m

class after roe class after roe class.and there's, like... it's we're told what... you know, like, you can't... and you can't do this. don't, you know, look for this. you know, and it's just... it's a big deal this time. the hearts and minds is a really big deal this time around and, like, i... and i understand where they're coming from. i... i do. but this is kind of hard for me to... to, you know, kind of shift over to that. >> i'd say it's more difficult now-- it's like chasing a ghost. and you never know-- is that day gonna be the day, you know, that they actually decide to... to face you toe-to-toe? >> what kind of car? >> i guess... opal? >> opel? >> opel. >> narrator: as the men of kilo shadow of haditha was inescapable.s5 it is now policy that, if an iraqi civilian is killed, an investigation must take place. >> it does make you second-guess yourself. i don't want to spend the rest of my life in leavenworth. but i also want to bring all my boys home safe. >> i think there are... are marines and... you know, who...

roe. mr. roe: let me give you just one quick example. you talk about rationing of care. in the state of tennessee, what we did for our 10 care plan is cut the rolls -- our tenncare plan is cut the rolls. we are going to limit doctor access to 10. visits per year unless something can be done in the budget and a grand total of a hospital pay of $10,000. i don't care if you have a massive wreck and your bill is $100,000, the state will pay $10,000. and in rehabilitating services, as of july right now, unless something changes before the end of the state legislature, there will be no rehabilitative services. you have a knee replacement, you just going to have to rehabilitate it on your own because the state cannot afford to pay for it. mr. akin: wow. mr. roe: that is rationing of care going on with a government plan. and we just voted to massively expand this plan. mr. akin: i have not jumped in from a personal point of view because you guys are all experts. i'm just the poor sucker that receives the services. i'm a cancer survivor. i happened to take a look at the cancer su

i formed strong bonds with roe and his family and i had a hard time leaving. i didn't feel my time there was done. it had such an impact and coming back to the united states, i felt discombobulated. i have is experience that was radically different from anything i'd known and i felt the need to go back there to learn more about the country and also for my own sense of balance. i think i felt like they needed to stay there. i felt somewhat lost in having coming back to place it was so different. >> was your reporting done in the "kansas city star"? >> initially was done primarily for knight ridder newspapers which of at that time owned a star in 32 other newspapers and then i started freelancing and began working for smaller magazines such as the virginia quarterly review and the misery we do submitting personal essay some of which are revised in a book about my personal experiences in afghanistan and my thoughts about people they are in the country. i thought normally don't go into a daily story because i'm being more reflect in reporting is. >> give me an exa

take roe wade. all of the catholics on the court have not overturned roe v. wade.d happen for other reasons, but i don't think the religious test makes as much sense today as we thought it was in this country. >> there used to be a catholic seat, a jewish seat. a black seat finally a woman seat. now maybe there's an hispanic seat. >> it was never agreed upon. >> we'll fix that, arianna. if there's anything i can do. >> there's another test wielded by conservatives that say we're against judicial activism which they mean they want the court to defer to elected political branches of government. look what happened recently, the decision that most outraged conservatives, the key load decision on eminent domain, whether or not the state can seize property for the alleged public purpose for giving it to richer people who pay more taxes, the court did not defer to -- did defer to the city government in connecticut and enraged conservatives. the recent decision that most pleased conservatives, citizens united on overturning mccain, was the court not deferring to the senate

frazier robinson, had multiple sclow roe sis. so our first family clearly understands the need for increased awareness and outreach and resources to fight this disease. multiple sclow roe sis is a chronic, unpredictable disease of the central nervous system. it's thought to be an autoimmune disorder where the immune system incorrectly attacks healthy nerve fibers, interfering with nerve signal transmission throughout the body. there are over 400,000 people in the united states suffering with m.s. and worldwide 2.5 million have been diagnosed. but the actual numbers are almost certainly higher. though it primarily affects caucasian populations, it does affect african-americans and other minorities. because people of color have less access to the health care system that i'm -- which i'm confident our health care law will finally addressed they may not get diagnosed at the rates they should. m.s. awareness week was recognized this year, march 8 through march 14. the theme of this year was move it. it was intended to encourage people

even those who agree with the outcome of roe vs. wade have admitted that the legal reasoning behind it was flawed. a lot of decisions, once you say the word liberty, is not accurate. means whatever the supreme court thinks ought to be a liberty. you have given the court an enormous power over democracy, because everything we read into the bill of rights of bridges democracy. it means you cannot vote on that anymore. it is not up to the people anymore. it must be this way. that is simply not the road we should go down if we want our responsible, seriously functioning democracy. only unimportant matters do we try to persuade each other and vote on. really significance of such as whether there should be a right to die, a right to assisted suicide, where there should be right to abortion, whether there should be right to homosexual conduct. all this really important stuff. we cannot possibly dispose of those matters democratically by debating with each other and voting. all the really important stuff has to be decided by the supreme cou

austin roe was a tavern keeper in suffolk county. he would travel into new york city to pick up supplies and what have you and he would take the messages back out to eastern long island. he had rented a cow pasture to place his cattle to graze, so he had a legitimate reason to go to the cow pasture to check on his cattle, and while there he would leave the messages and it rocks in the field. amos woodhall would come and, since he owned the field, had a legitimate reason for being in the field, checking on what was going on it while he was there he would pick up the messages and give them to stella strong. she would then place it in a location down at the beach on long island sound and by the use of bloomers and kerchiefs that she would hang on the line, would indicate to the american people that were coming over to service the dead drop, where they were to go and pick up the messages. in philadelphia we have the story of mom rancor who would sit on the river, doing her crocheting and darning, and then she would be observing the briti

these hearings understands when one of the nominees gets asked a question, what do you think about roe v. wade, precedent, i believe in precedent. and you never get an answer. but there is a new political dynamic that is, of course, driven by the tea parties on the republicans' side. and the question of federal power, what should the government be allowed to do? is health care reform for example constitutional? it's now being challenged. states' rights, property rights, a very, very big issue out west. and on the democratic side, you have the supreme court decision, which was a 5-4 decision that gets people at the white house very upset, as you know, which essentially loosens restrictions on corporations and the way they can spend their money in campaigns now. so those are going to be things that they're going to talk about in this confirmation hearing on both sides. so maybe it will be a little bit different and more interesting for all of us to observe. >> if it's different, do we think it's going to be as ugly as we've seen before? is the fact that it's an election year that both si

he expressed strong opposition to roe vs. wade. he had testified before congress that he believes the violence against women act was unconstitutional. that is what we had worked on the ad had been passed by a bipartisan majority. -- had worked on and had been passed by a bipartisan majority. he had a number of other areas where he is strongly critical of the supreme court. but, he says that he felt he believed in the doctrine that he would be bound to follow supreme court precedent. i supported, even though i disagree with just about everything he had written about, i believe him when he said that he would follow supreme court precedent. i supported his nomination and on like now, when even people come out of here unanimously and are held up month after month, week after week, he was reported favorably by this committee was confirmed in the 10th circuit by voice vote, and he was reported within a day what of his nomination being reported. within one day. we have people now in the lower court and you have to file to get them through

he expressed strong opposition to roe vs. wade. he had testified before congress that he believes the violence against women act was unconstitutional. that is what we had worked on the ad had been passed by a bipartisan majority. -- had worked on and had been passed by a bipartisan majority. he had a number of other areas where he is strongly critical of the supreme court. but, he says that he felt he believed in the doctrine that he would be bound to follow supreme court precedent. i supported, even though i disagree with just about everything he had written about, i believe him when he said that he would follow supreme court precedent. i supported his nomination and on like now, when even people come out of here unanimously and are held up month after month, week after week, he was reported favorably by this committee was confirmed in the 10th circuit by voice vote, and he was reported within a day what of his nomination being reported. within one day. we have people now in the lower court and you have to file to get them through

. >> i have to say i didn't know that until rosen pointed it out. 1975, two years after roe vs. wade. it didn't even come up and i was confirmed 98-0. that changed in 1986 with the confirmation over robert bjork, the reagan appointee, the democrats vilified him and said if he's confirmed, it would bring back-to-back -- bring back back alley abortions. >> who knew this -- you knew president ford didn't want a liberal, not the leader of the liberals. that's not how he started out. the thinking was he would be leaning one way the other, it would be to the right. >> there have been surprises. with ford and justice stevens, earl warren in the 1950s who became chief justice of the most liberal court, the warren court and eisenhower said it was the biggest mistake he made and george h.w. bush with david souder. it's a lifetime appointment so if you make a mistake, it's a big mistake that lasts long after you're out of the white house. >> shepard: president ford says his legacy can stand on this one appointment. he was proud when he gave an interview in 2005. >> that's through, jerry fo

wade or something like roe v.wade but i would say they are a minority of the conservative movement at this point. even libertarians have a significant number of critics of abortion in their ranks. >> host: we are the campus of ucla at the launch as-- los angeles times festival of books. when you think of ucla as a conservative point of view what do you think of and is claremont mckenna a conservative college? >> guest: claremont mckenna was founded relatively recently, 1946 and it was founded in part as a place where the chivalrous of the new deal could be questioned. the faculty was not explicitly conservative or are overwhelmingly conservative but there were a number of conservatives in the economic faculty, and the government faculty and ever since then, it has prided itself on being a balanced school, in which you have those liberal professors and conservative professors, in which you have liberal they love the road in conservative students dumm. in fact have the body's opinion parallels the country pretty clo

he expressed strong opposition to roe vs. wade. he had testified before congress that he believes the violence against women act was unconstitutional. that is what we had worked on the ad had been passed by a bipartisan majority. -- had worked on and had been passed by a bipartisan majority. he had a number of other areas where he is strongly critical of the supreme court. but, he says that he felt he believed in the doctrine that he would be bound to follow supreme court precedent. i supported, even though i disagree with just about everything he had written about, i believe him when he said that he would follow supreme court precedent. i supported his nomination and on like now, when even people come out of here unanimously and are held up month after month, week after week, he was reported favorably by this committee was confirmed in the 10th circuit by voice vote, and he was reported within a day what of his nomination being reported. within one day. we have people now in the lower court and you have to file to get them through

upheld roe v. wade. voted in cases that limit death penalty. supports affirmative action and he has given more rights to terrorism detainees at the guantanamo bay detainny prison in cuba. the magic wall for the volatile political environment. it in this political environment president obama will name a successor. we have seen the left and the right dominate oirg politics. take michigan, for example. bart stupak a democratic congressman resigned today, trying to make the case in that district that his health care vote was the right vote, because the tea party says no, some on the left criticized him. bart stupak saying 38,000 people in northern michigan will get health insurance and nearly 200,000 will see their costs lowered. that is a view from michigan of the contested political environment. utah, bob bennett a republican senator, been in office for years. he's being challenged from the right in part conservatives say, because they don't like these votes. here's one, school safety ability of 1999. passed by 73-25. 31 republicans vote ford thi

the drywall emits sulfur and linked to coer ed ted to co-roe possible health problems.t could effect thousands whose homes were made with the defective wallboard, particularly in florida they have problem as well. >>> lawyers representing a group of teenage girls in massachusetts have pleaded not guilty on their behalf today. the girls are accused of tormenting 15-year-old phoebe prince so much so she committed suicide back in january. now we're learning the girls may be the victims of bullying themselves. jeff ross seven in in hadley, massachusetts. what can you tell us about that part of the story? >> reporter: they've become pariahs in this community, some public disdain for what they're akudz of doing, apparently some websites have been set up damaging their names with nasty photos and messages and some of the lawyers for these alleged bullies are saying they're getting physical threats themselves coming just short of saying death threat. one reporter asked one attorney yesterday, do you foel fear for your clirnt he's life, and he said yes. clearly these threats are

this time the president hopes to win over more republican sena r senators roe versus wade remains an issue. senate leaders who the president called in today know he will send them a supreme court nominee who shares that view. >> i want somebody who is going to be interpreting our constitution in a way that takes into account individual rights and that includes women's rights. >> reporter: mr. obama's first nominee, sonia sotomayor, was confirmed with nine gop votes. republican leader mitch mcconnel and jeff sessions voted no. but both were consulted by the president. who is hoping to ban this week's flicker of bipartisan. cross-party cooperation looks possible, new financial regulations. senate republicans today. >> i think that we are going to get there. i am very optimistic. >> both sides agree on main point. >> number one, that we don't have to bail out firms if they act recklessly. >> reporter: but the president's approval rate sing back down to about 45% in today's quinnipiac poll. >> the notion he was a post partisan president who would be able to bring people together from dif

he expressed strong opposition to roe vs. wade.he had testified before congress that he believes the violence against women act was unconstitutional. that is what we had worked on and had been passed by a bipartisan majority. he had a number of other areas where he is strongly critical of the supreme court. but, he says that he felt he believed in the doctrine that he would be bound to follow supreme court precedent. i supported, even though i disagree with just about everything he had written about, i believe him when he said that he would follow supreme court precedent. i supported his nomination and on like now, when even people come out of here unanimously and are held up month after month, week after week, he was reported favorably by this committee was confirmed in the 10th circuit by voice vote, and he was reported within a day what of his nomination being reported. within one day. we have people now in the lower court and you have to file to get them through. i put my full statement in the record. >> if i could respond sinc

he had been playing at second base, roe sell las and now at second base is eric patterson. ninth as pennington has come out of the game. >> jim p: he got his hand stepped on. barton got hit by the pitch so they left. a couple of as have departed, along with brett anderson. that mink makes three. >> gary: wigginton, two-rbi double in the third. 1 for 3 in the ball game. he reached on an error in the 5th and scored as the orioles have five earned, one unearned run on the board, charge to the starter brett anderson. jones at first, throw over will get him back. edwar ramirez -- jones would extend his lead at first base on chavez's holding. the slider will catch the outside corner for a strike. right back with you tomorrow night as we go to seattle and our game time linebacker o xtra at 9:30. 01 for bergesen and fister. they're the scheduled starters. 1-1 delivery. hit off speed. good break ball. fister pitched eight shutout inningses against the a and then milton bradley in the bottom of the 8th gave them a win. throws a lot of strikes -- didn't walk anybody against the as. >>

seventh circuit of appeals, former clerk for harry blackman, the author of the majority opinion in roe v. wade. judge merrick garland who sits on the court court of appes for the district of columbia, a court that's seen alumni ascend to the nation's high court, he is set to be more controversial but has done work for dukakis and bill clinton. then there's janet napal tono, her performance homeland security secretary dug the aftermath of the christmas bombing plot could conceivably impact on whether she's selected this time around. there are others but of necessity, for the pups of live television, our short list is a little shorter than the president's. megyn: james, the ones you ticked off are generally not considered to be far left when it comes to their judicial philosophy or idealog, however, there's a possibility that president obama could nonetheless pick somebody who is far left. how much of a political battle can we expect now in the u.s. senate? >> reporter: it is well to bear in mind, megyn, the president is going to be looking to accomplish a number of other things in the s

had we lost 4 billion, that would have triggered a 12% roe.hion. >> this is just a simple question, the you disagree with the assertion. >> the assertion was that we're not supposed to go below the standard. >> on page 4 of the testimony, it is in stated that there was a stress test program to design and assess whether you could withstand a hypothetical and historical stress scenarios but you did not include the assets such as commercial real estate. do you agree or disagree with that assertion? >> that was the case until towards the end of 2007. the day to day marking was an impractical exercise. then again, that was a risk committee and executive committee regardless. we will include commercial real estate. >> the former president and ceo, is this correct? he would have answered it to you, i assume. are you familiar with the e- mail exchange between himself and mr. lee at the panel? exhibit 7, we have mr. lee asking about this. are you familiar with the e-mail exchange? >> yes, sir. >> do you have an opinion on what you're former president a

liberals like roe v. wade which was a decision to overturn abortion laws in many states in the union. that is certainly an activist decision, but conservatives like activism, too. they like the heller decision that overturned gun control laws and democratically passed and democratically elected officials passed gun control laws and the supreme court struck that down. the supreme court struck down part of the mccain feingold law. that was certainly an activist decision. so there are liberal activists and there are conservative activists. i think that term should be retired, frankly, because it's not terribly helpful, but i don't have high hopes for it being retired. >> one more quick one, jeffrey. there is a pretty important case pending here. we'll get a decision on it soon. mcdonald versus chicago, a case examining the chicago handgun ban. why don't you set up what's at issue there, and i know you've got some thoughts on the difficulty the court is going to have in squaring a decision here with the decis

with all of production and that is what we compete with right now is should i be keeping that since roe or grow corn? should i grow corn as close to the stream as possible so that this economic pressure that is changing the environment right now and i think energy production is going to help to be a part of that tour and i think these partnerships with all these different entities that have an interest in the rural landscape is bring to make the difference. >> jaime, the mountain west partnerships. >> i appreciate the opportunity to run for mayor. we will have to an ex dvorkin to the next preservation. [laughter] if the secretary will sign the papers we will get the work on that. again speaking from personal experience, one of the opportunities i had and actually i'm from idaho by live in st. paul minnesota but when i was at home in idaho i served on the citizen advisory committee in one of the largest for it private forest landowners in the state. certainly the tribe we had our industrial forest lands, we have a pulp and paper manufacturing that six right on one of the major contra lea

clearly the hope for homeowners program has had little to see roe participation from organizations like yours also my question is why and recognizing the there were compliant issues we later a first about a year into the program, does that include the second lien treatment and how it's different than the h.a.m.p. program and my selzer question would be do you believe that approach does tackle moral hazard by discouraging homeowners from intentionally defaulted because they think the are going to get a deal if they have to share equity later that would discourage them also encourages those that are in a troubled situation to stay in their home because they have a more realistic potential that some equity appreciation in some realistic future than just adding all of their debt at the end of the day. is their anything precluding you as servicers from already working out your own equity of arrangements with powers to the two borrowers and is their something we should do in the h.a.m.p. program relative to that? can we start with this is desoer. >> hope for homeowners have -- >> please ident

and even the people who agree with the outcome of roe vs. wade have admitted that the legal reasoning behind it was flawed. no, i mean, we've made a lot of decisions. once you say the word liberty is unanchored. it means whatever the supreme court thinks ought to be a liberty. i mean, you have given the court an enor mouse power over democracy because -- enormous power over democracy because everything we read in the bill of rights abridges democracy. it means you can't vote on it anymore. it's not up to the people anymore. it must be this way. and that is simply not the road we should go down if we want a responsible seriously functioning democracy. only unimportant matters do we try to persuade each other and vote on. really significant stuff such as whether there should be a right to die, a right to assisted suicide, whether there should be a right to abortion, whether there should be a right to homosexual conduct, all of this really important stuff, oh, we can't possibly dispose of those matters democratically by debating with each other

it has been hard for us to justify doing much more than constantly nagging, okay chastising through roe and meetings since they have not been really adversely impacted in terms of losses. i think you already testified to this. but i think it's got to be really driven home. is it proper for an examiner to say that we really can't do much more than jawbone or nag because they have not yet really adversely been impacted in terms of losses by the flaws and the mistakes that we have identified? is that proper? >> no. in fact, i think i quoted a small excerpt from their own guidance that mentions the fact that profitability and performance of loans is not a qualification to withhold any enforcement action. >> all right, and mr. rymer, do you have a comment on that? >> yes, sir. just to follow-up. mr. thorson was alluding the guidance, the ots guidance says if an association has a high exposure of credit risk it is not sufficient to demonstrate that the loans are profitable or that the association has not experienced significant loan losses in the near term. that's directly from the ots handbo

aisle, call it the left side of the aisle, primarily, and a few on our side, made the argument that roe v. wade is settled law and a woman has a right to an elective abortion under any circumstances and the government has no business telling a woman what she can or can't do with her body. well, the government has no business telling a woman what she can or can't do with her body. that argument was made by men and women, almost everybody on that side of the aisle. a few of the people on this side of the aisle. pretty interesting point. federal government has no business telling a woman what she can or can't do with her body. now the same people that made this argument since 1973, now they're saying to us, well the federal government has every right to tell everyone in america what they can or can't do with their body, and that includes thou shall buy a government-approved health insurance policy or sign up for medicaid and we'll make sure we can give you a stipend if you don't have he money and we'll tax you if you do have the money and if you're an employer with 50 or more employee, you

. >> that's quarterback ben roe roethlisberger talking about accusations he raped a woman.tors are saying they can't charge him for anything. >>> some pebs of the tea party have a controversial plan to keep big government in check. some think their idea is scary. >>> the tennessee woman who sent her adopted 7-year-old back to russia is refusing to talk to police. she put the boy on a flight all by himself last week with a note saying she no longer wanted to adopt him. the sheriff is looking for evidence of abuse or abandonment but unless he files a charge the woman won't come in for an interview. >> what we have to do at this point is continue the investigation and dig into and get enough evidence to bring charges and that's the only way we'll get to talk. so, i guess we're getting our hand forced here. >> the grandmother claims the boy had a hit list of people he wanted to hurt and caught starting a fire in their home. the russian orphanage did not warn him about his tendencies. investigators found no mental problems. the family might also face charges near the nation's ca

they understand the important role roe roots play in our transportation system.he subcommittee has seen too many budget request from previous administrations that would have guaranteed the bankruptcy of amtrak which would have been devastating to commanders in communities across the country. i know families in my home state of washington deeply value or amtrak service cascade line, has set a new record for ridership is here and i personally heard from a lot of people who depend on it. i know communities around the country value their rail service as well. that is why i'm so glad to issue the request for a grant or amtrak which supports a railroad although it does not meet all the needs identified by amtrak itself. in addition the administration is requesting $1 billion for grants to support inner-city and high-speed rail. this funding builds on the $10.5 billion provided for these purposes through the fiscal year 2010 appropriations act and the american recovery and reinvestment act. including 590 million to improve high-speed rail in washington state. finally ra

i'm glad we have our panel before us in the cdc and nih to discuss roe of the federal government particularlywith a u.s. interagency task force on antibiotic resistance. i look for to the hearing has more on the progress made and what my next by from the task force's update action plan expected to be released later this year. a devil is believed crucial component is providing industry incentives every last remark that encourages development of more anti microbial drugs. any new measures have turned away from the new antimicrobrials because of increased incentives to develop drugs and other therapeutic areas and the uncertainty of the marketplace. as members we should work hard to break down the barriers that occurred like extended the exclusivity for new antibiotics and economic incentives such as tax credit. unfortunately the $27 billion tax on a drug industry and the health reform law will have negative effect and only serve and not encourage more development of antibiotics. perhaps that is in the case with this is another example of why we must hold hearings on the new health reform law. l

you can't say roe vs. wade but what about, i don't know, what about wicker vs. philburn and that just cannot in the last 15 years. it is tricky to realize what will come up again. >> what about justice khalil's refusal -- justice scalia's refusal to discuss madison. edicine. >> i think that roberts was willing to discuss it. that is not open for revisited some very >> i had a sperry's this of the question that goes to a broader. about whether there's the possibility of change in the senate process. it seems to me from observation but maybe you knows this of the wake of this would happen -- maybe you know specifically how this would happen, one major flaw in the hearings was there is no ability on the senators to engage in follow-up questions as they were not listening to the answers. it seems to me in the last several hearings that there was a much more effective process up follow-up questions. do you know the explanation for that? did something physically change in the process? >> no, my experience is that members work very hard to prepare for these hearings. a

without such guidance fra is not positioned to effectively assess the merits of roe grant applicationand insure sustainability of the service. fr8 must also enhance its internal policies and practices in order to effectively oversee these larger project grants. according to the ofp plans for a program monitoring and administration are in development. finally fra must obtain adequate staff with the right skills to oversee program implementation. the recovery at greatly accelerated fra rollout at the high-speed road programs. further exacerbating the challenges. within ten months fra was required to issue a strategic high-speed rail plan from internal guidance and process all applications. balancing other responsibilities with this traditional responsibility creates even more challenges for fr and. for example, pria requires fra to coordinate with hundreds of private and public state college to establish certain national rail plan that addresses into connectivity with other modes of transportation, inform the development of state rail plans, and recognizes the needs for sustainable fund

david roe. >> i like to give all of you and a. i'm going to start at birth. that is what i did for a living. birth babies. one of the things that i did -- several other things i ran across, and one of the issues is work. going back to work and breast feeding is a huge issue. basically, your education level and cultural issues, we emphasize that in our practice. we deliver about 1200 babies a year. we emphasize that a high% -- a high percentage breastfed. i pitch that out with no solutions, but just want to point out that that is a problem. also, how we grow up, and i think it is extremely important to start in schools, as congresswoman slaughter did, we started a program called up and asked them. we weighed all of the children and found that 39% were overweight. 1% were on-white. -- worked under-weight. growing up, my mother did not allow me to stay in the house. you had to be outside playing. you have to go out. we only eight when we ate. there were no fast food restaurants where i live. we ate vegetables and fruits. that is how we grew up and that is how i

. >>> pittsburgh steelers' quarterback roethlisbergben roe is taking part in team workouts as if nothingner roger goodell is making it clear the star player is in serious trouble with the league. goodell is dropping pretty clear hints he'll suspend roethlisberger over allegations he sexually assaulted a college student at a nightclub in georgia. now the quarterback was not charged with the crime but the commissioner says roethlisberger did violate the league's rules on conduct. >> you do not have to be convicted or even charged of a crime to be able to demonstrate that you violated a personal conduct policy and reflect poorly not only on themselves but their entire teammates, all of their teammates, every nfl player in the league and everyone associated with the nfl. >> and one of the questions of the day is should roethlisberger be punished? he was not convicted of a crime and if you think he should be punished, what should the punishment be? a lot of feedback on my facebook page about this. the majority of you think he should face some sort of punishment, but not everyone. pamela wrote

the people on generally the left side of the aisle in america have made the argument with regard to roe vs. wade and dole vs. bolton and abortion in america, the people on the other side have argued long and hard that the federal government has no business telling a person what they can and can't do with their body. that's the argument. so they argue that the federal government can't regulate nor diminish nor make it more restrictive for a woman who seeks an abortion to get that abortion. because the not our business what a woman dozen with her body -- does with her body ycht men and women make that argument. over and over again they made that argument. and now the same people, mr. speaker, are making the argument and have made the argument and the president has signed it into the law of the land, now that the federal government has not no business telling a woman what she can or can't do with her body but instead the same people are arguing that the federal government has every right to tell everybody in america what they can or can't do with their body. the president of the united sta

one of the interesting features was that roe vs. wade had been decided. i went through the confirmation process, that was not a political issue. it became an issue later. the principal issue that was involved at the time was the constitutionality of the death penalty. i expected to be questioned about the death penalty when i went through the hearings, and i had made up my mind that i had not sat on in the cases or studied the issue, and i was going to say that i don't think i should answer the questions because i would wait till i read all the briefs and become familiar with it. i had a long speech made out about how often i change my mind uncases after reading briefs. but i did not get a single question about the death penalty. i did get questions when i went around and let the senators before the hearing started, i remember strom thurmond taking the his office, and i shook hands with all the people and went into his chambers. he said judge stevens, i want to talk to you. i want to talk to you about the death penalty. he said i am not going to ask you q

if you start to say, okay, roe v wade, what about some only, how aboutwood -- woodburn versus bilburndifficult to know what is going to come up again. >> how about justice scalia's refusal to discuss marbury versus madison. >> you know, i'm trying to remember how he handled that. that's not open for revisitation in any realistic sense so. >> actually, i had a very specific question, bill, that maybe it goes to a broader point about whether there is the possibility of change in the senate's process. it seems to me from observation but maybe you know specifically how this has happened, that it used to appear to me that one of the big flaws in the confirmation hearings was that there was no ability on the part of the senators to engage in follow-up questions because they weren't listening. it seems to me in the hearing of sotomayor there weren't -- did something change in the process? >> no, i do think my experience is members work very hard to prepare for these hearings. and staff as you can imagine sit around and anticipate every conceivable response to a question and draft the follow

i'm glad we have our panel before us in the cdc and nih to discuss roe of the federal government particularly with a u.s. interagency task force on antibiotic resistance. i look for to the hearing has more on the progress made and what my next by from the task force's update action plan expected to be released later this year. a devil is believed crucial component is providing industry incentives every last remark that encourages development of more anti microbial drugs. any new measures have turned away from the new antimicrobrials because of increased incentives to develop drugs and other therapeutic areas and the uncertainty of the marketplace. as members we should work hard to break down the barriers that occurred like extended the exclusivity for new antibiotics and economic incentives such as tax credit. unfortunately the $27 billion tax on a drug industry and the health reform law will have negative effect and only serve and not encourage more development of antibiotics. perhaps that is in the case with this is another example of why we must hold hearings on the new health reform law.