phil, on behalf of gw, thank you or a very thoughtful set of remarks. thank you for your service and thank you for joining us today. >> thank you for coming to my nieces. we're going out to georgetown harbor. if you want to pick up the bill, come along. [applause] >> as a token of appreciation, thank you. >> the c.e.o. of johns hopkins, dr. edward miller will talk about the impact of the new health care law. you can see that live on c- span3. the u.s. senate meets today. senators will begin debate on judicial nominations. the house resumes business for the week to mark with bills on campaign finance disclosure rules and possible additional funds for wars and disaster. robert mcdowell talks about reclassifying some broadband services for emergency services, tonight on "the communicators" on c-span2. >> clarence thomas on a new justice. >> it changes the whole family. it is different today than what it was when i first got here. you grow very fond of the court that you spent a long time on. >> with the confirmation hearings starting june 28, learn more ab

bill will speak for about 40 minutes. -- phil will speak for 40 minutes. we will open that up for questions and answers. we believe in dialogue. we would get a perspective on a critical set of issues. without further review, thank you for joining us and i look forward to it. [applause] >> let's be clear here. i resigned from the government's three months ago. it is the first time roughly i have been out of the house before 11:00 a.m. it is the second time i have had a cup of coffee. if this is a bit slow, i will decaffeinated by about 2:00 p.m. and i will be down from a nap at 3:00 p.m. it is interesting reflecting now. we have been at this for a long time. i think, in looking back, things have gone quickly but so much has happened. i want to talk about my perspective on what has happened. want to give you a sense of the ups and downs inside the game, as it were, but also that the adversary looks like. i think we'll have stories to tell at this point, not just professional ones, but this is such a poignant issue. i remember driving home from the cia in win

phil, thank you. that was really outstanding. >> thank you. >> i want to ask a little bit about the domestic threat. first of all, whether you see these smaller scale attempts as, perhaps, some of the tail of the comet, the throes of a dying organization and secondly, what o we do about it and particularly i know you're familiar with the united kingdom's effort. they have a more significant, home grown scaled threat and they are -- the pillar of their prevention efforts and that kind of outreach to muslim communities, for example, as compared to, say, enhanced electronic surveillance as a way of addressing potential homegrown concerns? >> i think that the operational implications of these threats are significant for the united states. if you had three kids in a basement in atlanta, georgia, or portland, oregon or california, society the chance of society finding all three of those is zero. if that is the bar in this country, get over it. we can't limbo that. i mean, so, i think in terms of "strategic

he is tied with phil mickelson. ernie els mrs. this par putt and finish with 873. graeme mcdowell, no stranger to winning. he won last week in wales. he is the first european to win the championship in 40 years. >> this cannot be real. i don't think this will ever sink in. is a special feeling. a special golf course. this golf course is just awesome. >> nice. he celebrated with his father. no celebrating again for the orioles who lost another game, this one on father's day in san diego. the fathers were allowed to bring out their children. the orioles jumped out to early lead. double clutches. jones makes him pay. that came with the bases loaded. matt wieters has been struggling. this may have been the highlight for the weekend. bases loaded double. nick markakis, adam jones scored. 4-0 orioles. watch this play. luke scott navigating the camberwell. help the man, please. he is ok -- luke scott navigating the camera well. the san diego padres beat the orioles. wimbledon start state. the u.s. place wednesday in the world cup against algiers. >> 6:28. so much ahead in

phil gingrey. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from georgia is recognized for how many minutes may i ask the gentleman from texas? the gentleman from georgia is recognized for -- mr. sessions: three minutes. the speaker pro tempore: three minutes. the gentleman from georgia for three minutes. mr. gingrey: madam speaker, all across the country americans are asking congress to get our fiscal house in order. this is -- this change in fiscal responsibility can be seen in the million of votes for the youcut initiative. each vote is a vote to cut spending and cut that spending now. i can think of no clearer message to the democratic leadership, who unfortunately to date have kept their ear plugs in and refused to listen. their solution instead has been more barring, more -- borrowing, more spending and more bailouts. indeed, that's what they recommended at the recent g-20 conference in toronto which was totally rejected by the other participating nations. madam speaker, this week, week six of the y

[applause] can we have arousing boo for phil jacking -- a rousing boo for phil jackson? he came down on the side of the arizona state legislature in support of this draconian, unconstitutional measure. i do not know whether to blame los angeles or chicago for that. they are both distancing themselves from phil jackson. there are mobilizations on the campuses of california against cutbacks. they made marches in the number of cities, including new york, wall street. the near victory of our own mayor in cleveland -- it is a sign of the times. would you stand? [applause] the anti-nuclear conference and rally at the un in early may struck a much needed note for peace. one of those or meters is here with us. would you stand? -- one of those coordinatorr is here with us. would you stand? [applause] not least, the struggle over health care reform signifies this action. everybody stand and give themselves ar round of applause. [applause] the bill's passage was not only a hard-earned victory, but it also broke a republican- engineered logjam in congress and gave a fresh push to ch

i mean, phil, does this look risky to you? nancy? fred? no. well it is.in-4 chance homes like us will flood. i'm glad i got flood insurance. fred, you should look into it. i'm a risk-taker. [ female announcer ] only flood insurance covers floods. visit floodsmart.gov/risk to learn your risk. >>> it's going to be a long evening. we're doing two shows tonight. >> would you mind autographing? >> oh, my goodness, yes, of course. >> every night i'm in new york, i work at some tiny little club where i can practice my act. i just talk about everything and anything that annoys me. >> thank you. >> you don't get the recognition that you deserve. >> damn right, william. see, i have a fan. i have william. >> larry: we're back with joan rivers. to say that she's inspired a lot of funny women to give comedy a shot is an understatement. here's one of her biggest fans who does not overstate joan's influence. watch. >> hey, joan, it's my, kathy griffin. first of all, congratulations on all the success you're having, again. the documentary is fantastic. you're great. so t

phil mattingly from bloomberg business week has been covering this. what of the big issues ahead of the negotiators today? guest: the big issues today are really kind of the core issues of the crisis, if you will. the large, systemic risk issues. what they will be looking at are two things. one is a creation of council of regulators to oversee, to fill in some of the gaps that were exploited and led to the crisis. they are also looking at the creation of a mechanism for the government to wind down financial institutions that are not banks. aig, bear stearns, the institutions that need it to be bailed out because there was no mechanism to do so. host: what is the source of disagreement between democrats and republicans on the mechanism? guest: the big thing is how it will be paid for. probably the primary flash point. during the senate negotiations they dropped a fund, and industry prepaids fund of $50 billion that republicans in general teems as a bailout fund, a fund that the government can use almost at its own will and desire. that was dropped in t

for the team at d.h.s., phil ridinger, rear admiral mike brown and others have been great partners on a set of very complex issues. all of us in government recognize that government cannot do this without the help of industry, act deem ya, and our allies. securing cyber space is a team sport and we are proud to be a member of that team. we look forward to growing a partnership as we collectively address how we should secure our networks. let me talk about our portion of the team and our roles and responsibilities. two weeks ago, i was privileged to participate in the activation of u.s. cyber command. as dr. hamry said, a task long in the making and long overdue. i think it was a brief confirmatioo process that we went there. that was a joke. i'm sorry. no more jokes. in 2005, the director of n.s.a. was duel-hatted as director of n.s.a. and the commander of the joint functional command net warfare. the commander of was commander of the joint task force and global network operations. in late 2008, as a result of a serious intrusions into our classified networks, the secretary of dense d

for the team at d.h.s., phil ridinger, admiral mike brown and others have been great partners on a set of very complex issues. all of us in government recognized that government cannot do this without the help of industry, academia and our allies. securing cyber space is a team sport and we are proud to be a member of that team. we look forward to growing the partnership as we could electively address how we should secure our networks. let me talk about our portion of the team and our roles and responsibilities. two weeks ago i was privileged to participate in the activation of u.s. cyber command. as dr. hammery said, a ttsk long in the making and longer overdue. i think it was a brief confirmation process that we went through. that was a joke. i'm sorry. no more jokes. in 2005, the director of n.s.a. was the director of n.s.a. and commander of joint fugsal component command net warfare. the commander of the defense information systems agencies was dual added, commander of the joint task force global operations. in late 2008, as a result of a series intrusion, into our classified netwo

>> that is senator phil hard. he was in the class of 1958, of which i was a member.senator phil hart took on some of the great issues of that day pretty was spoken of and thought of as the conscience of the senate. he often went against what some of the powerful political interests in his state would have been for, or he went for issues that they would have been against. he demonstrated a tremendous amount of courage. he died of cancer during his time in the senate, so i have his picture there. i have senator howard cannon's picture there, and then there is senator eugene mccarthy. all of those were members of the 1958 class, and i have a whole chapter on that class. i am the last remaining member of that class. the class had some very remarkable senators in it, and they went on to become chairmen of various committees. as such, they were highly instrumental in the passage of very important legislation. >> what do you remember about senator hart ketke of indiana? >> he was instrumental in many measures. i was thinking about muskie's picture, too. he was very instrume

i will run around like phil donahue with a microphone try to get everybody's questions answered. we will adjourn accomplish and about one hour greenback i am sorry. thank you. it will be very important that when i run around with the microphone that everyone state their name, affiliation, so we know who you are. then go ahead and ask your question. i know we want to get right to it. before we do, by what to have the admiral come on up. i want to give this to you. this is a book that carolyn firestone has written. you may have seen it before. we thank you for everything you are doing. it is a nice tribute. thank you very much. without further ado. >> good morning. it is a treat to be back with you. about one year ago this time that i was with this group. i am very much -- a couple of thoughts. one is to acknowledge congressman taylor and would only say to a very proud father and mom, i have the privilege of commissioning his son, gary, at the academy just a couple of days ago. in all of the things that we do, we are ofttimes blessed with men and women that continue to serve. i jus

our foous has not been -- our focus has them on what is right, phil and responsibilities. it has not been on gratuitous language. >> [inaudible] >> i hate to refer back to the many answers i gave in the first week or so. the oil pollution act of 1990 set out quite clearly that -- who the responsible parties are and what they are required by law to pay for so that we don't have what happened in previous accidents like the exxon valdez where taxpayers are on the hook for the cleanup. the president has set legislation because one of the things they talked about and the bipartisan meeting was there is no doubt we have to update where we are on the oil pollution act of 1990 because it is 2010. as the president has heard from people involved in that debate who have said that in 1990 when we were worried about double hauling tankers, nobody contemplating -- nobody contemplated drilling at 5,000 feet. that is why we set legislation that dealing with liability. >> if bp were to file for bankruptcy, how the government make sure taxpayers -- >> i'm not a bankruptcy lawyer. it wants t

phil graham said that with respect to the derivatives. unfortunately i voted for that bill that mr. graham was for, i made a mistake. the market did not discipline itself. in fact, the market took extraordinarily irresponsible steps. what i hear, i tell my friend from new jersey, the people saying is, don't let the big guys trample on us. don't let the big guys put us at great risk. don't let the big guys make decisions that they take the risk and we take the loss. that's what i hear the people saying. and that's what i think this deal is designed to respond to. this week mr. boehner compared reforming wall street to killing an ant with a nuclear weapon. that may sound colorful, but this is the greatest economic crisis that any of us, and i'm looking around this floor, have experienced in our lifetimes. and i'm closer to experiencing the last one than any of you on the floor. but none of us, even at my stage, were alive during the great depression. so this is the first time that we have experienced such a deep, deep recession. but i will tell you, the eight million americans whose j

cassidy, psychologist, the specialty of tim murphy, ob-gyn, again the specialty of mike burgess and phil roe, orthopedic surgery, the specialty of my colleague from georgia, tom price, family practice, indeed house call medicine, the specialty of my colleague, again, from georgia, dr. paul broun. i could go on and on. these are members on our side of the aisle who are just begging, calling, writing letters to the white house, let us participate. let us -- we know, we know about that sanctity of the doctor-patient relationship. we know what rationing will do and the fear that our seniors have of being rationed because they're too old to have taxpayer dollars spent on their hip replacement. so you just say, no, take a couple ofed a vill and we'll buy you a -- of advil, we'll buy you a walker, maybe even a wheelchair, although that's debatable as well. and, mr. speaker, you know, to compound this problem, obamacare, now our president has named the new director of medicare, c.m.s., committee on medicare and medicaid services, there's now a new director, dr. donald bearwick. he may be a fine

host: phil on the republican line.aller: i like hat you are saying, but i do not know how you begin to dismantle something like this i live in a small town in kansas. we have that in issue with the school district here. there was a real budget shortfall. i dug into the numbers and found out they had a strategic planner. i thought that there was one, but there was a strategic planner for each school in the district. at the national level, i am sure that your savings have just hit the tip of the iceberg. first of all, the cost of the bureaucracy itself, and then the inhibiting cost that people on the front lines cannot do anything about. i found out in the school district, they want to get rid of people at the front of the line. that might be a janitor or someone else, but the top end of the bureaucracy stays in place. at the federal level, i am sure that that is what is going to happen. they will go to someone in government and say my job is absolutely imperative for the well-being of every person in the country. so how

you look at the rest of the government, that is where phil comes in and says, how will help the otherovernment department agency see their networks so they could operate and defend those, just as the military will defend its? our responsibility is to the system that asks for, request, technical assistance, we provide that. i think from a national perspective, if we come up with a situational awareness, we will we will"x", that we should have each department pay to have "x" developed for it, to. microsoft office or something like that. the third question, the third part of that, civil liberties and privacy. i think the key of this is oversight. this is a tough issue when you think about civil liberties and privacy when you are talking about classified information. the way we have set up the oversight on that is having a set of mechanisms and all branches of government. government, the court system, and congress on the to play a part in that and know the actions we're taking comport with law and protect the civil liberties and privacy of our people. there are issues you get into, and yo

if those products go to high, the people [unintelligible] host: phil, independent line. caller: what the country is suffering from is an economic stockholm syndrome. the superfund is a wonderful idea. republicans that do not want to pay for it, we call them dead beats down south. take that term. use it. the thing is, these people that want to take all the profits and put them in their pockets, get used the term. and the superfund is a great idea. the thing is that the people that do not want to pay for it, what good are they? dunite let them use the american military to protect assets than. and host: -- do not let them use the american military to protect assets than. host: the lead editorial, "democrats target gop apology to bp." "we look at the point last week that it failed to assess the best way to do all of these things by establishing a broadly based economy wide cap and trade system that would put a price on cap and trade systems. he opened the door to wide to policies that were not truly alternative. action in the senate has been delayed for months as they argue

. >> phil wilcox, the president of the foundation for middle east peace.back to the closure in light of the flotilla crisis. which everyone says is no longer sustainable. there's ven some voices in israel who are saying that. suppose the u.s. work to change its policy and become much more aggressive with the government of israel, and succeeded in persuading israel to lift the closure, what would be the consequences of this for internal palestinian politics is in front would there be a clearer beneficiary on the hamas side or the fatah side? assuming that the u.s. were to change its policy, i suppose, it's likely abu mazen would agree and become an advocate of the lifting of the gaza closure in a way much more emphatic than he has been in the past. michele and taghreed, could you discuss that? >> we'll go over to this side over here. >> dan litman, freelance writer. this is for taghreed, if say hamas was treated like any government entity in the world equally and gaza was given all the freedoms, open borders just like any country, can you make a little pred

. >> you call them fail sex, but they are not phil simms asafes . this committee has reviewed bp's response for the gulf of mexico and not one time in the 582 page plan to lay out a plan for controlling a subsea gutter. you conducted your p that it wasf not even a possibility. you admitted that you did not have the tools you want in your tool kit. why not? why would you not prepared? why did you elevate products over safety? >> i do not believe we did elevate profits over safety. what i was referring to was the complicated engineering problem we were faced with after the rig sank, attached to the rise. we had a rig on the floor. we did not have the pieces to cut the riser and find a way to intervene on the wellhead. that is true. >> for years, big oil companies and your allies have claimed that drilling is safe, and you want to see me closer to florida beaches. you say it is safe. he said there are no problems. on the other hand, we have heard over the last couple months, this is complex and dangerous to drill miles below the ocean. bp officials hav