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the church in hanover, the mosque in bavaria, and a new synagogue in dresden were all built over theic has brought out the coffee table book examining modern places of worship. >> in itself, a sacred building is one that has a meaning. it has to offer just more than space. it has to convey its substance. if you look at the history of architecture, the safe -- the sacred building has always been a place of communication. the cathedrals have huge paintings there to bring the christian message to a population that could not read. sacred buildings have to convey and have a narrative. >> a church for 6500 parishioners. the skylight represents the wounds of christ. this space is a reminder of the temple in jerusalem. there are stars of david. ♪ he is one of the architects of the munich synagogue. >> we were working in a safaith with no imagery. we tried to reference the basic architectural experience of the jews and transfer them metaphorically. we tried to use the pairing of concepts and deploy it architecturally. ♪ >> historically, synagogues and mosques have served as meeting places for

-- not pennsylvania, not california, bavaria -- by purchasing over $2.2 billion of its commercial paper furthermore, when we cannot get support on the floor of this senate to extend unemployment benefits to millions of americans who are on the verge of seeing them expire, i think the american people would find it incomprehensible that the fed chose to bail out the arab banking corporation based in bahrain by providing them with over $23 billion in loans, with an interest rate as low as one-quarter of 1%. so maybe you have to go to bahrain and work with the arab banking corporation there to get some pretty good loans. but it would be a nice thing, i think, if maybe the feds would start to pay attention to banks in this country. furthermore, the fed extended over 9.6 billion to the central bank of mexico. now, what's interesting about all of this, mr. president, is that we had a very, very vigorous debate here in the senate and in the house, over the $700 billion t.a.r.p. program. every person in america could turn on c-span2 and see what president bush had to say, what senator mccain had