i look forward to reading this book. i want to daw the committee's attention to something very important where you say medicare often times lax the authority to deal with some respective -- similarly a change in lay is also necessary for medicare to implement -- medicare needs authority tore make a change hits in current payment system. a while ago when our president took office i sent a letter to his staff asking that congress and the white house put together a blue ribbon panel, which is designed in 1965. and designed really from the bottom up, what would medicare back when it was designed some of the most advanced instruments the hospitals had was an x-ray machine on wheels. ital worked with the limited things we had with treatments to pay a fee for the service system. now we have a substantial amount of research that says quality is important and care smgget important and those things can indeed save money. when we look at some of the things that happened in medicare. and it will be interesting to hear your comments

when i look back, i look at two entities that all to be looked to. it is suggested that the federal government play of more prominent role. well, there are two things that you look at there. one is the financial statements of the two enttties, the united states of america and british petroleum. i find brrtish petroleum and a lot better shape than the united states of america. it is theirs. i think we should have turned it over to british petroleum to cap the well, and after the cap their well, did the out what they'll everybody else. i don't think the president knows anything more about capping the well and picking up little parts of the waste that he knew about the olympics. i resent the fact that he is trying to blame some of this on borich when bush on 9/11, i don't think i ever remember him accusing clinton. i yield back my time. >> the chair recognizes that joel levy from california. >> thank you for calling today's hearing. i like to thank our witnesses for appearing before us today. those who had their livelihoods and tight-fisted tester our o

i will certainly look at it. [laughter] i cannot promise to arrange all of the stocks on the west coast main line. i will certainly do my best. wil note hat i am a folllwer of my beloved english football team. i ask them to cut the bureaucracy and fly the flag of england in [unintelligible] >> i have had those conversations. there was some question that there would be a cost impact. i have managed to cut through that. if at no additional ccst, of the flood of st. george will fly -- the flag of st. george will fly over [unintelligible] i am looking at all of the benches here. house, no matter what part of the and united kingdom they come from, they will be shouting, "come on, england!" >> dos -- does he still think that hunting for sport will be considered in the review? >> everything has to be considered. there is the status of mental visits.people who require%- because of ttagedies, very strict rules come in terms of -pwhat people who keep guus at home ave to do in terms of very strict security. i remember askin

voters are looking for results. please name three of your most significant accomplishments since being elected in 2003 to represent the third district. >> i thought you were going to ask me about fred thompson. i am scratching and clawing to make the gubernatorial race. let me get serious. being part of the bush tax cut i think was a huge thing. making sure that people can keep their own tax money, that is a good thing. being a strong nuclear proponent at the national lab, getting national labs that is down in the neck of the woods, making sure nuclear sure the program of our nation with the savannah river site is first and foremost on my mind, especially when it comes to my district. in my legislative career, hands down, whether state or federal, it is helping lead the ban on partial birth abortion. it was a crowning moment in my life. i think it was a wonderful moment in south carolina, and i do not think anything i could do in my political career could come close to that. >> putting that same question, framing it

if you look at alaska, if you look at the depth that we work in, look at where we have the blowout, it is above water. there are separate issues with deep water. i am not saying that. what i am saying is we got caught up in this moratorium. we do not do deep water. host: will you be able to get an exemption from the government? guest: we have not yet. i have introduced legislation that codifies exactly what the president is talking about, making law for the land. we have legislation next week dealing with artificial technology. we have another piece of working on the liability issue. so i appreciate your call, but i hope she would go to my website. when i was the mayor of anchorage, we developed the first energy plan which is focused on renewable energy. that is why alaska will be running on 50% renewable energy. we are doing it. we are not bashful about it, but we have to be honest with ourselves. it is a balanced approach. host: david is next. caller: i have an idea. it may sound off topic, but to get us moving toward the track of a more diverse the commission with energy, i believe

are looking at a hybrid system? -- are you looking at a hybrid system? >> i think there is a lot of folks looking at the transition from four to 6. i think it is something that we will have to do at some point. you know, it is kind of interesting when you asked that. i know there are some people that are wondering why we were at vfour, and they are talking about going to at 5 -- to five. i do think it is something that we're going to wait hour -- work our way through. the number of addresses arky, and we have got to come up with something. -- the number of addresses are key. dubee take a step beyond that? and what will that be -- do we take a step beyond that? i admitted that i have an ipad. when you think about all of these tools, the iphones and all of these, it is huge. we are going to have to account for that. that will drive us down a road. i do not know where it is going to end up. -- that will drive us down the road. >> i have a question, and i think it is pretty inherent. it has been touched on a little bit. there is a vulnerability in cyber whic

we looked at very carefully.ooked at it in the context of our guidelines and decided not to challenge that because proper precautions were taken, third parties were used, and the kind of information they were collecting an exchanges were a program. we have a business review process where you don't have to even a risk going forward and getting prosecuted. there are many mechanisms and safeguards to allow a legitimate collaboration to go forward. don't need an exemption. >> thank you. joel and diane, i want to go back to something right at the beginning, presenting that insurance companies might be cherry picking. let us be very selective and pick out the extremely healthy people who are low risk. what do you -- it for you as a state enforcer, how are you approaching that issue? and from diane, i would like you to reply on how significant an issue you perceive it is. >> i think it is a critical issue. i first got into this business in 1995, small group reform, the whole idea is to pool risks and large enough pools

i look at the process of appeasing unions to be somewhat broken, especially when you look at some ofed benefits they have been receiving. first of all, i don't believe they contributed premiums as of other private plans. i think some of them need to take a hair cut to put them more in line with either government pensions or other private company pensions. i would like your thoughts on that, thank you. guest: one thing i can say for sure is the liability on the employers that participate in these so-called multi-employer plans, these union plants, are very significant. the obligations in many cases are so excess oive that we will talk about this in the future. either bail out or haircuts or cutbacks in benefits or less in benefits for new employees -- these are debates that have to commence in a very, almost scientific way so we can determine the appropriate options. i think it is very healthy and a good bet the debate is starting now. i am surprised it is taking so long for people to realize that we are on the principles of a pension crisis. this is not just with the unions but with

when i was describing it to someone, it looks like the vehicles that are involved look like oversized motor homes with antennas springing all over them. when we were coming back or arriving, there were some environmental dust and we could not get the easy ride. the commission staff all got here in a few vehicles and got the privilege of bouncing around in that. apparently, there was an i.e. d -- and ied threat. there were three vehicles, one was blocking, one was in the back and one had soldiers doing what they do to assure the safety of soldiers. we waited an hour and a completed it. when we were in iraq, meet we met with your staff and they gave us a list. one of the items was ied removal that was going to be inherited by the state department. we asked the inevitable question. the army goes home, do you have anybody that can run and i e d like they do? they said that the iraqis to do it, but they don't. they would have to give a contractor. if we had a list of 14 items and the contractors were ready because they feel -- they fill vacuums and they stood by to fill this vacuum. it was

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[inaudible] early voting sure looks good.her de, 52,000 had early boded. -- yester dday, 52,000 had early voted. you know how hard it is. my team has done this and literally less than 14 weeks. most people to run against the incumbent start years ahead. we started literally on july 1. >> you run a very strong campaign. >> i am proud of my campaign. we of done a lot of miles on that truck. we've discovered that an rv. my suggestion is to buy one and then rented out to other ones. >> one of the negative parts about this was that there was no rv park. [inaudible] >> that was a silence there. >> i go in and check the restaurants -- the restaurants. you never lose it, it is terrible. >> at the general lection, we will bring new land. -- we will bring you end. >> i am the one that told bill clinton not to run for president. >> i would do more listening than talking. what are you hearing? you listen to a lot of people. >> people are still concerned about the economy and their jobs. i think the president has done a good job of puttin

thrift supervision looked at the rest but there was no one looking at what they're doing.under the new proposals, there would be a broad supervisor and in many cases it would be the fed. that would mean that somebody would be looking at aig and making sure that if they were selling insurance that they had enough capital that they would not go bust them. >> richard bernstein said that it is not real reform. richard fisher of the federal reserve bank in dallas says it will do very little to rein in the big banks, in his view. he said regulators will continue to tiptoe if this bill is passed. what is your overall impression of the impact of this bill? >> overall, there are lots of pieces to it. overall, it is a sensible approach and the many pieces fit together. the one thing that made everybody so mad including the general public and all of us here in washington was the bailout. and having to intervene with the failing firms like aig and bear stearns. i don't regret being involved in that because i know for a fact that we know those firms had to be protected in the context o

you are looking at a zero-sum game. we have to make some really tough choices as we look at this next fiscal year. >> other questions on the telephone? >> go ahead. >> can you comment on state debt levels and the extent to which states entered into more debt as they have dealt with these deficits? what is the prospect -- you mentioned cuts in medicaid reimbursement rates and layoffs increasing as other options for dealing with budget shortfalls. >> my own sense is that there has clearly been somewhat of a shift. the state has the option of paying for capital straight out or bonding it. there has been a shift to do more bonding. that is out somewhat. i do not think it is up dramatically. the other thing that we worry about is pensions, because, over the last several years, they have not been putting a lot of money into the pension trust funds. those liabilities have been growing. if we do not get some revenue growth in the next several years, that would just get to be an increasing problem. again, that is what i call tha

southbound looks . 29 at 32 looks great. we can switch over to a live view of traffic in the white marsh area. there was an earlier truck fire. it is now off to this side and not creating any traffic problems. that is the latest on traffic pulse 11. >> thank you. hot weather over the weekend brought out a lot of hot tempers with a rash of shootings. >> 10 people were shot on baltimore streets. kim dacey is live with that story. >> we just learned of two more shootings, one of last night and one early this morning. the one this morning was fatal. police are trying to determine if any of the shootings are linked from early saturday night to early sunday morning. 10 people were shot. many of the victims were young. there is a program. inner-city teenagers and young adults watched an episode and hopefully learn from mistakes their characters make. >> we wanted people to make better choices. it is the environment they are exposed to and live-in that is so negative what a good choice looks like. >> rewired is holding some summer w

you can look at it clearly.he voter registration in each of those states and how much money we put into it and how much attention we put into it was so critical. in virginia, which dramatically expend of the electorate with new voters. if we would not have worked to bring in those new voters to get them registered and inspire them and turn them out, all three, we would not have one virginia or the nine other states adding up to 100 electoral votes. we won with 365. if we would not have done that in those 10 states, we would have come up with 265 and you need to hundred 70 to win the presidency. i don't think you can look at 2008 in virginia and 2009 in virginia and compare apples to 9$(lc@&c+ i think they are two different races and two different strategies to win. ours was very different than the governor's race. >> massachusetts 2009 was not a normal race by any means. we had it resources. we had a lot of resources that came in. this changed our voter model dramatically from what our original plan was part o.

also, looking at the "miami herald." looking at the news from there.p bosses on likely to face jail. well they can expect heavy fines from the oil spill, past catastrophes show that company officials rarely face criminal charges. they are following that story very closely as it relates to florida's shores. they have a photograph -- beach patrol workers bag tar balls a long casino beach in the florida panhandle. we will speak with a gentleman from the audubon society later in the program. what motivvtes you to vote in primaries or what does not motivate you? let's go to huntington beach, california, ron, independent line. caller: good morning. it is a very early over here. i am testing for a case of insomnia, and i am glad i did. i would like to very much time into this conversation. basically, i believe, and i think the history of the united states supports it, that the primaries are the most on the democratic future of our electoral system-- the most undemocratic feature of our electoral system. our founding fathers called parties factions and most of

look. my sources in the pentagon tell me there's problems with ambassador holbrooke. that's not news. i think playing it out in front of the press is very bad and i'm general mcchrystal and survived, i would fire my staff involved in saying all those outlandish things. >> larry: they're the ones most quoted. one of the bombshells is of the one on one meeting with president obama. it was a ten-minute photo-op says an adviser to mcchrystal. obama clearly didn't know anything about him, who he was. here's the guy who's gown to run his bleeping war. doesn't seem very engaged. the boss was pretty disapontded. john, what do you make of what the colonel said, though? this has happened before. patton is an example of insubordination but a great officer. >> i disagree with that. standards are standards. it doesn't matter a four-star general or a platoon sergeant. we don't undermine the chain of command at any level so for the commander of u.s. forces in afghanistan, the nato general, general mcchrys

i look forward to the challenge and i look forward to working with all you as we move forward. >> thank you very much. we will begin with questions. the rounds will be five minutes. i will go back and forth between the sides. so it will be myself, senator alexander, senator tester, senator collins, senator dorgen, senator dorkocski. >> all we have are two pages that look like this. >> let me first -- >> what we ha done is we've taken the mms and blown it up and broken up into three distinct units. the first of those is the bureau of ocean energy management, that will be the unit within the agency that would have the authority to do the resource detminations relative to the creation of the five-year leasing plan and engaging in the leasing process. the second would be t create a bureau of safety and environmental enforcement, so that we are splitting up environmental and enforcement part of the organization from the functions of the department that are involved in the leasing part of the organization. so the bureau of safety and environmental enforcement, and thirdly, the creation an off

look at the republican preeidents. the last surplus that america had was a $5.6 trillion surplus handed over to us by president clinton. so, you know, for them to come over here and lecture democrats about spending, you know, is pretty ironic considering the facts here that this chart shows. now, look, we have got to our spending under control in washington. democrats and republicans agree on that point. we have to make sure that we can pay for the wars that we are paying for, these two undeclared wars we find ourselves in. we need to live within our means like working people have to. $3.5 trillion deficit handed to us day one when congressman tonko walked through the doors is insurmountable in an economy that was on a downward spiral. this is the deficit that was handed over to us with $1 frillion tax cuts to the wealthiest americans, another $1 trillion to the top 1% of the country, a prescriptionnplan that left a huge doughnut hole and two undeclared, unfunded wars in iraq and afghanistan. that is the facts. ms. was

we need to look at every feet. one of the first things we need to do is look at the income tax.ight now it is 3% of our budget. in 2005 through 2007, when government grew by $1 billlon a year, nobody asked what he wants to cut, but at this point when we talk about eliminating income tax, everyone wants to talk about how you're going to pay for it. when you give them profit margins, the first thing they do is hire people. it is the number one thing that can get people back to work quickly and help the economy grow and way that will make it strengthen, so it is 3% of our budget. i know there are things we can cut. the education oversight committee advises as opposed to doing something. also, of turning around and looking at the budget control board that employs 1057 people. >> the first time on your web site is to take action to fill job openings. explaine how that is different? >> it is roughly 30,000 to 40,000 jobs better on film because we do not have trained workers. what we would do is link of unemployed people with those workers, hire them on the spot so they get off the une

. >> larry: hang on, look out. >> i don't care anymore. go ahead, tweet me. >> larry: next, on "larry king live." >>> kathy griffin is the emmy-winning star of "my life on the d list." her latest comedy bravo special kathy griffin does the bible belt this week. her number one "new york times" best seller is now out in paperback, i have it in my hot hands. debuts june 15th. let's take a sneak peek at that show. >> hi, everybody! this season on "my life on the d list" i'm going to alaska to find love. >> oh! >> i am pulling out all the stops. i'm doing stuff only a real diva can pull off. never done on television. the first public pap smear on tv. how about don't ask don't tell? oh, i have one more thing. yeah! >> i smell emmy here. >> larry: kathy griffin. so what distinguishes season six from season five or four? >> we are really kicking it up a notch, larry. all right. now, here's -- okay, i'm doing something on my show that you've never done. >> larry: what's that? >> have you ever gotten, after 25 years, of a distinguished career, have

when you look at this. one is really hard pressed to look at the supreme court and talk about diversity. i don't think feminization or simply the placing of two on women on the supreme court counts as diversity or diversity of life experiences. they all seem to come from the same general ar. guest: the caller makes a very good point. peter, he - he's absolutely right. if she gets on the court, all nine justices will have gone to harvvrd or yale law school. four of them will have been from the new york area. the even the religious diversity that shouldn't matter. where there's diversity or not. you will have six catholics and three jews but no protestants and two from manhattan. you would have everybody coming from the same, everybody but i believe one from the same northeastern corridor. you have clarence thomas and anthony ennedy from out west of the that's not very diverse at all. to me, diversity doesn't matter as much as qualifications and experience and adjustment. but the left always argues that diver

government began looking at. they began to realize this is the answer we've been looking at for something other than drug dealing in afghanistan. >> warner: the u.s. most recently got engaged with this, what, back in '04? >> what happened was early in the war the bush administration was looking for some reconstruction projects. as part of that, the u.s. geological survey was asked to go and do a series of different assessments. one of them was a mineral assessment. one of the top geologists went to the afghan geological survey's lie rather. he stumbled across what some of the afghan had preserved, old soviet charts from the soviet era. the soviets had looked at this and wanted to exploit it. the war got in the way and they never did. these charts were sitting and in fact some of the afghan geologists took them home during the civil war to preserve them. those charts were then used by the americans to do new surveys. by 2007, they had completed some new high-tech charts and datas that showed enormous deposits that

they said to me, you look great, you look this. you're terrific.god, you're so beautiful. >> larry: don't you think you're pretty? >> eh, only time my husband ever threw me down on the bed, i was black in the tv. >> larry: sad about the death of your husband. >> oh, yeah. >> larry: as we've seen, joan is not slowing down. what's next? we'll talk about that after break. we'll talk about her winning the apprentice show and another surprise or two. as the festival of tafetta and tuxes, known as prom season, winds down, some young people fighting life-threatening illnesses will miss it. but this cnn hero is giving seriously ill teens their night to remember. take a look. >> small here and put medium on the floor. >> my best friend, trudy, passed away when we were in high school. one thing we really wanted to do was attend prom together and we never had a chance to do it. i didn't want to forget her charm, how funny she was, how optimistic she was. i just knew i had to do something. my name is fred scarf and i organized proms for teens who may not live

[inaudible] you look at the record for votes.oted for most of the money. >> you're the candidate on the left. >> the media is saying that. >> are you saying that you are the fiscal conservative? [inaudible] >> absolutely. the fact is that not onlym i part of the team that worked on [inaudible] but in 2001 [inaudible] shias voted for most of the major pieces of legislation that have led to the deficit and the dead. over that 10-year period, $70 billion as more than double, and she voted for most of it. >> thank you very much. >> we will see you again. all right, guys. where would you like to meet up? >> [inaudible] i would just drive down there. guys, are you going to any other spots? ok, good to see. >> live coverage of the election results tuesday night on the c- span network. working group. we will take a couple months off for the summer and reconvene in the fall. it's a very fitting that topic of today's discussion is a look ahead at haiti's future over the coming months. certainly we hope after the traumatic event of the rece

that helps to form how you look it to run job.down further and see more some weight. -- the job does not give you historical significance just because you hold the job. you understand another role in making sure that the corke function: gilad. you see charles evans hughes and recalled his final role and turning backed thheats to the independence of the judiciary. things like that. from time to time, i find it useful reminder of the role of the court and the role of thee chief justice. >> as time goes forward, this building will remain time was. as the work of the institution inside will be tied to past presidents and tradition, but in many ways it is a forever changing plays defined by the human being serving there is -pjustices. all trying to interpret the document over 200 years old in the context of an ever-changing world. treating you really cannot judge pustices uuless you know the materials that they are wwrking with. you cannot say, this is a ggod decision, this was a good court simply because you liked the results. it seem

we are looking at spending in your area.f you have been watching, you just saw the president talked at columbus, ohio. he was talking about the voter project from the stimulus. we want to find out from you, what evidence of stimulus spending is in your area, if any. the numbers are below at the bottom of the screen. you can also send us a message torture.tevia here is the address. you can also -- twitter. you can also send us an e-mail. there are the addresses. the story the way it appears in the financial times this month -- this morning. also in the papers this morning, this news analysis in the "new york times." i want to talk about that for the first 40 minutes of the program. find out if the evidence, if any, up stimulus spending in your area. the first call comes from michigan. caller: good morning. thank you for taking my call. i have seen several road projects, all in different counties in michigan. the first is in crawford county. some kurds are being re-paved. in another countyc anotherurbs -- curbs being re-paved.

i think it was drafted this way because they have to look and it called for looking into all the acts in the events that led to really the very bad situation that evolved on the ship. so it's not only from the moment that our soldiers tried to intercept the ship but before that, all the things that led to what happened on the ship. the turks say they can interpret it in any way that they want. i think they were very disappointed because they wanted something much stronger in a resolution or a statement condemning israel. this is not the final outcome. >> ifill: u.s. officials have taken pains to walk a diplomatic fine line. secretary of state hillary clinton said today that although the blockade is unsustainable, israel should be able to take part in the investigation into sunday's high seas stand-off. >> we support in the strongest terms the security council's call for a prompt , impartial, credible and transparent investigation. we support an israeli investigation that meets those criteria. we are open to different ways of assuring a credible investigation, including international p

if you look at the reports, we look at how much it has grown and what it would be. even if you took everything we have said, you would still be sending 1.5 times more than your potential adversary. those are things that -- when you say that to people, they understand. in the report, it has been pointed out thaturing the cold war, we spent 60% as much as our adversaries and potential adversaries. 250%, if we bring that back we will sti b at 150%. >> is there isustainable level you are lking for? there agreement among q to say at least to return to that pr9/11 levels? >> there are numbe in here. reducing by nrly $1 children -- trillion less than was there. if you ask anybody thereyou might get a lower number starting from scratch. we are operating within that context. that may go back to f-35. it depends on how its the fine. if you assume that we should keep spending all of this money on the f-35. the engine becomes stronger. if you just get rid of the whole thing, you are ok. that is what i am for. the presidenhas asked for too little so he will not get what he asked

our main topic now looks at the new report out, looking at how the u.s. funnels money into afghanistan, perhaps paying war lords. this is how "the wall street journal" covers it. a six-month investigation of over $2 billion in pentagon contracts to support the u.s.- led war against the taliban from the contractors, some with close ties to the president karzai, are pretty with little or no oversight and routinely bribed local officials. this call comes on the democrats' line. caller: good morning. i think there is no difference in the united states paying for safe passage of our troops and corporate america pain for safe passage of our bills. only in that context it sounds wrong when they're both wrong. that concludes what i have to say. host: let's go to or again on the independent line -- to a oregon. caller: just like the other fellow said, it depends on who is looking at it and whose pockets they'reegetting into. there is so much distortion of where funds are supposed to be going and what funds are being used for what. i'm really astonished that no one

and every time we look for money or every time we look to so-called reform something we hit them again and again and again. at some point it obviously is going to affect the quality or care or what tchay can provide or how many -- or what they can provide or how many nurses they can hire. i just want to echo what so many of my colleagues have said. i really wish you would look again at that point because our teaching hospital just cannot afford even the whisper of cut. it can have a very negative and debilitating thing that could happen to them. >> i certainly understand the anxiety about it mr. engal. but, that uncertainty often accompanyity teaching hospital. as mr. weiner suggested. the vote on this recommendation, was unanimous. two of the members of the commission are deeply involved in medical education and graduate medical education training. i've referred a couple of times now to my group in boston. our principle hospital, women's hospital and children's hospital have no antipathy towards teaching institutions. but we do think that the taxpayers, the health care system, the med

>> i am here to look at this operation. i will do it and overflight to look of all of our areas. i will meet with the governor later today. we will talk about whatever issues he has. that is at the direction of the president. >> that is in mobile. >> i will meet with the governor based on a conversation we had with the president yesterday. >> can you boom the beaches? >> you can. there is tension between where to boom and where to protect. the state identified areas to protect, where there is a lot of juvenile water life. the hardest place to pick up oil is in the marsh or the wetland. the easiest place is on the sandy beach. it is much easier to recover and remove. the best and is to do it on the water. -- the best thing is to do it on the water. if we have to do it on land, it is easier to do it on the beach, that in the marshland. >> they say -- [inaudible] after a week of tests. can yoyou comment on that? >> there have been some anecdotal reports of underwater oil booms. -- plumes. the administrator of noaa has put together a large area sampling plan to form a consortium with

what should we be looking for?> this is one of the biggest point of contention with this conference committee. the city bill is far tougher on the to limit his market than the house bill is brita the author asks that the senate language is blanche lincoln who won reelection are a bit this week. she won it earlier this week. she will be looking to keep that derivative proposal tough in the senate bill. >> and a tough version -- house version is not as tough? >> yes. it would require banks to get rid of most of their derivatives. you have to move it into a separately capitalized entity. the idea being the you get these derivatives that carries certain risks away from the banks that have the insured deposits that you and i keep. >> what is the financial industry? what led thehave they been saying? do they want to keep in? >> it has been pretty intense on many parts of it. they are concerned with an amendment that richard durbin successfully attached to the senate bill. it would require the federal reserve to cap the f

she said there's really no one way to look at it. she mentioned the decision by the court two years ago on the second amendment case where all the nine justices looked at original intent, and they came up with conflicting views. so she said you have to take case by case. you have to look at it pragmatically, and you apply the constitution. she did not accept that there was such a thing as a living constitution, which has also caused considerable controversy among the public and in congress. she said that the constitution doesn't change , but the kinds of situations to which it applies, that changes, and as the constitution is applied to new situations, constitutional law develops. so i think we learned a little bit about how she would approach judging. we also learned, she said as many nominees have said in recent years, that she looks at court decisions, such as the recent second amendment case this week and the death penalty as settled law. and that satisfies some, doesn't satisfy others on the judiciary committee because just abou

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as i mentioned, we did not look separately at gender, but we looked to see what the effects were.e of these measures were significant. they would increase or decrease the time it would take for youth to attain employment. even with those measures, we still had the significant race difference. we had a measure of academic ability. we used the military -- that was administered to all that participated. we did not have their grades, but everyone who took this reading and math score. we were able to control for that. we looked at whether the youth had a child as a teenager, between 16 and 18. that increased the time. even above and beyond that, race was significant. >> ok. i forget which speaker mentioned this. i'm from the howard university school of social work. someone mentioned the lessening of the value of the ged. i was wondering what the options for a high-school dropout -- is it not as important as it might have been? secondly, could you give e the percentage of jobs for graduates, the successful participants in the program? >> that sounds like bill. the other one could be for

i look forward to participating. there is no issue that i have working on more than financial reform. i look around this room and think about what an unusual place washington is. fortunately, it is so different from the rest of the country. we began this congress working on health care. two of the main driving forces regarding health care were the cost of health care to individuals and trying to lower that and the cost of health care to our government. over the next 15 months, we have proceeded to pass a bill that increases the cost of both of those. so here we are today appeared we art -- here we are today. we are passing a financial reform bill that is not only going to limit credit, but it will increase the cost of credit and probably and most likely would make us non- competitive with the rest of the g-20. . there is nothing in this bill that does anything but harm to those countries, companies -- excuse me -- across the hhartland of america that makes things, that needs to borrow a line of credit from a bank. ma

guest: does it look like it? guest: looking good. guest: good, ok. i put a lot of concealer on this morning so hopefully it is showing. of late last night, though thankfully places like nevada and california, results came in pretty quickly so it was not an all night here -- not an all- nighter. convincing victories from meg whitman and carly fiorina and sharron angle of nevada -- one step past of the time but it was not too bad. guest: do you host: thanks for coming up early. where can we find it going forward today? guest: great question. we will have a lot of analysis, specifically what happened in a lot of the races and who the winners and losers were from last night. looking in particular at a place like arkansas, what happens, how did the conventional wisdom for the last week or so -- how big it turned on its head. we also have a look at all of the house races, all of the gubernatorial contests and every one of the primary states. anything you want to know, click on it and you will find it. host: let us go to nevada. bob on the independent line.

it is one thing to do what has worked in the past, but we have to also look at what is looking into new sectors. -- in new sectors. we have to go with alternative fuel. in some other counties, i have talked to developers who want to convert non-food source crops and to biofuels. weaken utilize a former textile factories to -- we can utilize former textile factories to produce this. there are other opportunities in alternative energy light wind inappropriate areas off the coast and in hydrogen. we already have a hydrogen initiative for a second area that is rife for increase in job growth is in the health care economy. i have toward many hospitals and health facilities around the state. i have promoted a broader view of economic development, especially in areas that are under developed that includes health care. if we train enough nurses and enough medical tech support, we can create jobs that pay up to $70,000 per year. right now, we're bringing in nurses out of state. >> during my first two years in office, i did more than 30 town hall meetings around the state. i'm almost finished wit

we look back at a day of mourning, loss, and pictures in "the new york times," but i have to look at this and say this is a strategic attack by an organization that thought we would cut and run. the intervening years after the initial years of paramilitary operations and chasing al qaeda and watching them move to the affiliate's, we saw a lot of ups and downs. we saw the capture of a lot of individuals like khalid sheik. he was an iceberg for the organization. when that iceberg melted, i think many in the organization thought the loss someone they could never replace. person, after person, after person who are involved in plotting against the united states. i think, once again, and i want to return repeatedly to this conversation to the theme of how we perceive the target and how they perceive themselves, i think we make a mistake when we focus on these individual take counts. we are not asking the right questions. what is the status of the revolution? i will return to that, but i think an important question about these takedown is not whether any individual goes down but, what is th

mckay, you indicated that bp is looking to pay all damages. are you willing to put into an escrow account enough money to pay for such damages as might be expected? >> we have been very clear from day one that we as the responsible party will be responsible for living up to the obligations of open-90. i cannot comment on whhthee there will be a fund set aside or not. we have made it clear that the company stands behind these commitments. with a strong balance sheet and a strong company, and we intend to stand behind those. i cannot commit to a one way or another whether a fund would assert that. >> so that is and know its this point. >> i cannot comment yes or no. >> why not? the buck stops there. >> what we have said is that we will honor all legitimate claims. the full company stands behind that. >> have you asked the feeeral government for any help that you have not received? >> not that i know of. >> what grade would you give the administration in its effort to stop the spill? >> we have been cooperating in every way we know how. i cannot

it looks almost like a mini mall. as you go in, you go by some officers and you enter a visiting room area, which is a of them facing ach other. many they call the prisoner, the prisoner comes in, and you talk. i went and visited him a number of times, maybe three times, i believe, and each time talked with him for about wo or three hours. >> how would you describe his attitude about all this at this point? >> about all what? >> what's happened to him, the sentence he got. was it fair? the restitution, he has to give back $25 million? all that kind of thing. >> look, i think he felt victimized. but i also -- at least to me, he seemed very contrite. i think he felt he paid a heavy price.. so heavy. re that the price was you know, prison is not a nice place. and, you know, so -- but the way -- his point of view on it was that he had been unfairly singled out. and i must say to some extent i agree with that. i think that there were many people involved in what jack abramoff did whob didn't pay a price, and ittsurprises m

if you look -- if you look at the last election cycle and look at corporate pac money and ask where it go, it goes ten times more to incumbents than to challengers. and in the prior election cycle, even more than that. and for an obvious reason. because when corporations play in the political process, they want winners. they want people who will produce outcomes for them. and they know that the way to get those outcomes, the way to get those winners is to invest in incumbents. and so that's wt they do. as i sasasasasa . . . . . >> several steps we've already begun to take. number one, as i indicated, the budget that we're presenting, three years, discretionary, domestic spending freezes, and i've september a clear signal to the leadership when we met, even if we do not get the entire budget package passed through congress, that top-line number needs to stay firm. and i'm serious about it. we've initiated a whole host of measures to cut programs that aren't working, including, by the way, in the defense area. bob gates has been, i think, as successful as any secretary of defense in rece

we look forward to a lip with them. we look forward to a day when iran is a productive partner for us, its neighbors and the world. until that day, we must ensure that iran is prevented from obtaining the nuclear weapons that would threaten global and regional security. again, i thank our distinguished chairman, mr. berman, ranking member, ms. ros-lehtinen, mr. hoyer and mr. cantor for giving us this opportunity in a strong bipartisan way to support the comprehensive iran sanctions accountability and divestment act and hope we can have a unanimous vote today. thank you, mr. speaker. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlewoman from florida. ms. ros-lehtinen: i yield one minute to the the gentleman from arizona, mr. franks, the chairman of the national security working group of the republican study committee. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized for onn minute. mr. franks: i rise in strong support as a co-sponsor of this bill. mr. speaker, we live in a moment in history when the terrorist state of iran is on

looks good.problem. >> reporter: zhang surgeon, stanford liver surgeon samuel so was concerned about a c.t. scan that revealed several new growths. >> on this side, you can see one, two, three, four. >> reporter: the hepatitis-b virus is found in blood and bodily fluids. many people can live with the virus and never get sick, but 25% of those infected get severe liver damage or cancer. the virus can be transmitted by unsafe sex and unsterile needles, but most people who suffer from the disease-- like zhang, who was born in china-- became infected at birth from their mothers. >> this is my brother with his two kids. >> reporter: his younger brother haiyang also became infected at birth but, like many of those with the disease, he had no symptoms until it was too late. to two years ago at the age of 42, he went to see a doctor about a pain in his side. he was told he had advanced liver cancer and there was nothing that doctors could do. zhang flew his brother to shanghai to try to get a liver trans

let's look in brass tacks. if the u.s. were to leave, what does that mean for the future of afghanistan? >> if we hear an announcement tomorrow that the u.s.'s leading -- is leaving in 2011, the type of announcement can create a rapid erosion of confidence. psychological effects usually set the tone for further advance. we have seen these things in other parts of the world. premature announcements, politickingwith war, wars have to fought or we should not choose to go to war. in my opinion. pakistan's war is not over. if it is over, why are we there? if we have not finished the work, should we finish it or not? this is an obvious thing. if the war is not finished and if the u.s. leaves tomorrow, in three hours, the afghan government will collapse. very obvious. secondly, can the world afford another boy in afghanistan, especially now that things have chaed? the world is not the sme as the world of 2001 or 2000. this world is much different. the extremists are more bold. there boulder. look at the suicide attempt, the suici

just looking at this whole thing, what i cannot understand is you look at the other oil companies. you have 8, 6, 12 of violations. bp had over 1200? that is outrageous. we want these guys to really get this settled? stop all of bp's drilling in the united states. halt their drilling. i bet you that within 48 hours you will see them come up with some kind of a solution that will fix this problem. i am sick. just sick of what is going on. should obama show more emotion? what more can he do other than be realistic? i do not think that obama has much to say in this. that is just my view. host: marietta, georgia. democratic line. caller: i was listening to that caller that just came up and i could not agree more. this is really a corporate problem. first of all, everyone seemed to think that it would get solved, but i did not think it would get solved and so gradual the the worst has happened. i cannot understand why the public is now wanting our president to express greater emotion. i think he has made it very clear they he is very disappointed, along with everyone else in the country

if you look at those two sets of ideology and also value sets, you would see that one is looking over the individual and the other is looking for government does best for the individual. so i always look at what their party positions and ideology are versus what their gender or race or ethnicity. that is what america is supposed to be about now. but unfortunately a lot of people are bringing this race and gender aspect into it, trying to divide americans. host: a caller from raleigh. thank you for sharing your views. on the campaign trail, many women not making a point out of their gender. but a quote from tuesday night that some pickup is referenced here in "the washington post" this morning. meg whitman said career politicians in washington and sacramento be worn because you now face your worst nightmare, two businesswomen from the real world who are able to create jobs, balanced budgets, and get things done. next is a call from scranton, pennsylvania. thomas, democrat's line. caller: good morning. i think it should be on the issues and not agenda. gail collins had a common -- -- co