not so much arab-americans, but muslim-americans.nk, you know, i think muslim more americans are under the microscope much, much more. it's different for them, really is. >> and the election of barack obama, his father was muslim, and worse than that interview? >> i think the president, with all do respect, and i'm a supporter of the president, but the only president to live in a predominantly muslim country in his childhood, and the president, at some point before he steps out, should say, 25-30% of the american people think i'm a muslim. what if i was? so what. what difference does it make? he's not said that. he needs to say that. i may be caused by not saying it it allows a rhetoric that's -- but you're right about the asian. i think the asian-american community, with all do respect, is much more organized and -- >> the george w. bush deserves yet for the statement he made after 9/11. >> a tremendous amount of credit. >> i aloud -- applaud him in the book, and he really had that speech after 9/11 was beautifully done by the presi

polish americans and non german-american. it got ugly. what they dislike about wilson was this repression. not necessarily directly from the executive office but accountants by the executive office. as many as you like. [inaudible] >> the front row too. [inaudible] >> my name is pete chase. referring to one of the answers you gave earlier tonight, you said what liberals despise is egalitarianism and in particular democracy, i guess because it empowers the average guy in a way they find deplorable. i am having trouble squirreling that with calls on the left, it is always for more democracy. the seventeenth amendment, the calls for the abolition of the electoral college, seems like on the left they're always calling for more direct democracy. having trouble squaring that. >> stick with that word direct. that is crucial. they want more direct democracy to create a more directly centralized society. so that when you control the center you control the entire society. what they are opposed to his republicanism, self-government on t

where all americans are treated equally, so that everyone can pursue the american dream.y every american you talk to will tell you they want that. a lot of americans think they have it. but when you have been targeted by the irs or your government is make you buy insurance, you need -- when our nation is trillions of dollars in debt, which means every $50,000, ors over one some laws are enforced and others are ignored completely, washington may not freedom at all.meta we will win. [applause] freedom,s, personal economic freedom, and a debt-free future will win. ouro not want to see country stretched thin. it is not fair to leave our children and grandchildren with the bills for our nation's debt. we must repeal the entire health care law. [applause] and put choice in the hands of people. we must grow our economy. the fastest way to do that is with reduced taxes, and replacing the entire tax code with a fair rate. when it comes to immigration alreadywe know there is a legal path to citizenship for --se willing to immigration immigrate here. around thatoes should not be gra

we have african american boys failing in our public schools. we have african american boys and men filling up our prisons. we have african american boyings boys who are victims and perpetrators of violent crimes in this community where we are losing too many african american men and boys at an alarming rate. we are on the wrong course. we are on the wrong course. when we talk about not making the same mistakes we have to look in the mirror and we have to wonder what are we doing to make a difference. supervisor cohen are here at city hall every single deal dealing with different dilemmas. we get calls from mothers, communities, calls to help deal with the challenges of the community, but we cannot do this job alone. we care about making history, yes. it's great to have two african american here at the board of supervisors, but it's better to have 80 african american men alive and successful in our public schools. [applause] we have lost a significant african american population, but that's just not because they're leaving the city. it's because

american politics, the asian american history also a public historian and train darkest and is licensed to give to workers in new york city. and finally real jack shaheen focusing on negative images and stereotypes and other minorities a former cbs news consultant on a very popular series and his new book is and "a is for arab" he has a collection that donated and deposited at new york university and is very special within 4,000 images of television programs and pitchers and cartoons and toys and games with anti-arab for anti-muslim depictions. we will start with jack shaheen and then moving to john tchen and dylan yeats. >> thank you for that gracious introduction. i am extremely pleased to return to this museum i was here right after it opened a few years ago and was impressed with the commonalities that exist with asian americans and arab americans and some of the stereotypes they had to endure over all these years including complementing john tchen and teeeighteen on their new book "yellow peril" the professor offered to buy me a lot today i will take him up on that. [laughter] but

after that, the american director -- the director of the american legion. then, weekly addresses with vice president i and -- vice president biden. on the next washington journal, atlantic council president fred kempe reviews president obama's trip. cofounder saless russo talks about the current state of the tea party. 's row-examine the u.s. with russia and the situation in ukraine. you can join the conversation via facebook and twitter. "washington journal," live at 7:00 a.m. eastern on c-span. two weeks after the burglary, i received a large manila envelope at the washington post. it had a return address of liberty publications. media, pennsylvania. it did not mean anything to me but it was intriguing. inside was a cover letter from the citizens commission to investigate the fbi. that is the name that the burglars give each other. wrote really sounded like something a commission, perhaps appointed by a president, might have done. they described the fact that they had burglarized an fbi office, that they had becomed concerned that there were informers in

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that's what the american people want. that's what the american people deserve. that's why they want us to vote no. jim mccrery, 2000, march, said in an article in "the american atlantic monthly" that an employer and an individual mandate was essential. i can't understand the republicans saying we don't want everybody to play, we don't want everybody according to their ability to be in. why are you so eager to let people out the door, because they're going to wind up in the emergency room? have no doubt they will be getting health care but they won't pay for it. you're saying, that's ok with us. we like people who are free riders. that's not america. we all are supposed to do our part, and that's why everyone here should vote no. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from washington reserves. the gentlewoman from kansas is recognized. ms. jenkins: madam speaker, i'd like to yield two minutes to the gentleman from indiana, our friend and colleague on house ways and means committee, todd young. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from indiana is recognized for

society, the american economy and american culture and significant -- and. what you have is a new kind of america that takes shape that is increasingly devoted to consumer abundance, to bureaucratic definitions of work, to leisure and entertainment as keith to the peace lives. and in this world coming to your legs via private taurean self-denial seemed antiquated completely out of touch. i think you see a quite clearly in carnegie's own life is that the old hide down structures of character began to recede into the background and instead new sparkling images of personality began to take its place and it becomes central to a new code of individualism. what you have to say new notion out work character shaping of the healthy, magnetic, charismatic personal image rather than the old internalized the date of old fogies. the new charismatic personality is an crucial to your access in the new world self-fulfillment and bureaucracy and the consumer economy. and "how to win friend and influence people," kerr-mcgee captured all of this beautifully and in the book is

we are all americans are treated equally so that everyone can pursue the american dream.y american you talk to will tell you that they want that, too. nklot of americans thi they already have it. but when you have been targeted by the irs, when your government is making you buy insurance, you neither want nor need. nation is over $17 trillion in debt, which means that every american owes over $50,000, or when some laws are enforced and others are ignored completely, you realize washington may not cherish freedom at all. us. is why america needs that is why we formed tea party patriots. we will win. [applause] values, personal freedoms, economic freedom, and eight yet-free future will win -- a debt-free future will win. we do not want to see our country stretched too thin because we know it is not fair to leave our children and grandchildren with the bills that we have incurred for our nation's debt. we must repeal be entire health care law. [applause] and put choice back in the hands of people. we must grow our economy and the fastest way to do that is with reduced taxes,

he was the first african-american to be elected sincegress reconstruction, and i was the first african-american woman to be elected to congress from the state of georgia. so earl and i together went to and we bothd.c., served on the international relations committee, and we both ended up being targeted by the pro-israel lobby merely because we attempted to do our job and to represent our constituents and represent the good people of the united states. i have written a book, "ain't nothing like freedom," and it explains my experiences with the pro-israel lobby from candidate a redistricting case go all the way up to the supreme anti-defamation league becoming a party to that lawsuit, joining in with five whites who did not want black representation for them and their community in .eorgia in the congress the next part of the comments i would like to make our around this issue -- our around this issue of being caught in the eye of the storm, and a political aign, the idea put forward if you want to prevail, if you want to win, money, message, and media are ways in theh you can direct torrents of t

website is the least of americans' concerns. millions of americans, including over 200,000 in my home state of michigan, went out to the mailbox and found that the health care plan they had and liked was canceled. millions of americans are having their hours and wages cut as employers try to struggle with this complex law. many find they can no longer access the care they relied on from their local doctor or hospital. millions of americans are left wondering what happened to their promise $2,500 reduction in premiums. and next year millions more will see their premiums skyrocket again due to the administration's failure to meet their own enrollment goals. the american people have paid over and over for this health care law. they paid higher premiums, they paid having their hours cut back and their paychecks decreased. the last thing this law should do is penalize americans for being unable to purchase a plan on healthcare.gov either because of multiple web failures to they were unable to find an affordable plan. . the

we are americans.eserve the civil freedoms of the american people, and that has to be our goal and objective. >> i want to get the charlie first. you are the first generation who grew up with facebook and twitter. is your generation reconciled to the fact that when they get up in the morning the government will be collecting their phone records as part of being an american in the 21st century? >> hardly. people asked, why do people care about the nsa? are they ok with it? the way i answer that, young people have -- on their twitter accounts. there's a fine line between what you tweet, posts, and the public and what is behind -- there is a secrecy lined the government has crossed, especially for the younger generation. there's information we hold on these accounts, whether it be twitter, or personal iphone, that the government has overreached, taken, catalog, and hopefully it will not be used against us in the future. it is an opportunity for conservative activists to engage young people in this convers

women earn just 77 cents on the dollar for, for african-american women -- dollar, for african-american it's only 64 credibilities on the dollar. that's why house democrats have launched an economic agenda for women. when women succeed, america succeeds. we've got at that raise the minimum wage to $10.10 an hour, increase tip wages that haven't been raised in 23 years, equal pay for equal work, paid sick days and access to quality, affordable child care. women are playing an expanded role in our economy and in our country. it's time we recognize their contribution because when women succeed, america succeeds. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlelady's time has expired. for what purpose does the gentleman from ohio rise? without objection, the gentleman is recognized for one minute. >> thank you. mr. speaker, march is colon cancer awareness month. sadly, colon cancer is the second leading cause of cancer-related deaths among both men and women in this country. including over 2,000 ohioans. mr. chabot: but it doesn't have to be. as the american college of gas row -- college of gastro shows

it was the first official message informing americans and the world that american p.o.w.'s were being tortured by the north vietnamese. during the interview denton displayed his unshakeable resolve by boldly declaring when they asked him this, whatever the position of my government is, i will support it fully. i am a member of that government, and it is my job to support it, and i will as long as i live. close quote. north vietnam's most ruthless intergators couldn't break the will of this rock-ribbed american alabama native. more than seven long years later, on february 12, 1973, denton would be freed as part of operation homecoming, following the signing of the paris peace accords. he was the senior officer of the first planeload of released poe p.o.w.'s at clark air force base in the philippines. he brought tears to the eyes of the entire nation on that moment, as he walked from the plane, it was reported that he wasn't expected -- wasn't told to make any official remarks or make a speech, but he got off the plane and these were his powerful words. "we are honored to ha

the american dream.s project, this machine is capable of running in all 50 states, targeting everything from city councils, local elections, to purple and blue states. the next chapter is ready to be written. the blueprint is ready. [applause] >> please welcome catherine engelbrecht. >> thank you. thank y'all. it is a pleasure to be here this morning. it is humbling, really. how many of you previous to five years ago have political experience? let me ask you a different way, how many of you never had political experience before five years ago? what in the world are we doing? [laughter] i came five years ago to the first tea party patriots rally in washington, d.c. quick show of hands, how many of you all were there on that lawn? wasn't that fun? i came to this hotel. i did not know what to expect. i had come completely unprepared. i did not see anybody else that looked like a patriot. my husband thought i had lost my mind. i knew i was potentially going to have to eat a whole lot of crow when i got home.

chinese americans, let's see -- hoe ho and we also look at nigerian americans and cuban americans that -- and we also explained, they are just extreme outliers for their population groups and high rates of up ward mobility and educational performance. we do have look at japanese americans and gone further down the list but we looked at these eight groups. >> pick one of the groups, favorite group. >> we could talk about the mormons. >> pick the mormons. so, what is -- how do we see the triple package in action with mormons in particular? >> sure. great. so, the starting point of our book was this remarkable fact which many people sense but we documented it, that there's several groups that are really outperforming the national average in terms of income and educational achievement, and aimy just went through the ones we focused on. then we identified those independently as regular rosalias we could. then we started looking at the groups, wondering, asking ourselves, are we going to find any cultural commonality? and before i get to the mormons. why look for cultural commonalities? why

after that, the executive director of the american legion talks about the backlog of american veterans claims. in the weekly addresses with vice president biden and indiana representative jackie miller ski. on the next "washington journal" atlanta council president reviews president obama's trip abroad last week. in the discussion of the deadline to sign up for insurance under the affordable care act. and the chief artie -- the tea party founder talks about the future of the party. an examination of the u n roll with russia and the situation with ukraine. we will take your calls and you can join the conversation via facebook and twitter. "washington journal," live at 7 a.m. eastern on c-span. >> two weeks after the burglary, i received a large manila envelope at the "washington post ," and it had a return address of liberty publication, media, pennsylvania, which did not really mean anything to me, but was slightly intriguing. and inside, a cover letter from the citizens commission to investigate the fbi. that is the name that the burglars gave each other. what they wrote really sounde

and in that way it will help all americans. also, we must remember that barack obama, one of the reasons that he was elected is because he has this way about him where he can take on racial issues and make america not feel so bad about them, but in a very cogent way explain what's going on as well as come to some solutions. and so that's why many african-americans were pro-barack obama, because we thought that he was a sounding board for many of the things that black america knows about in the first place and that he could articulate them in the highest places within this country. and that he really has failed to do. >> yeah, yeah. >> and so what we want, one, is that our politicians to hold their feet to the fire and, two, for us to hold the fire under them. >> for more information on booktv's recent visit to tallahassee, florida, and the many other cities visited by our local content vehicles, go to c-span.org/localcontent. >> you're watching booktv on c-span2. here's our prime time lineup for tonight. at 7:15 eastern, charle

and american democratic process. i am not sure republicans understand what they are dealing with here and if they do they are not willing to take it on. >> i think they understand all of these things but they are afraid to take them on for fear of a backlash. >> we don't have a select committee on benghazi. we don't have one on the irs these are real scandals but they have faded away. they have only one policy which is bankrupt. let himself destruct don't have a positive agenda. >> i am disappointed the republicans don't have a positive vision agenda that says if you elect us we will do 1, 2, 3, 4, 5. >> the violations he's making he is over stepping his bounds like the issue of the amendment violation delaying mandates left and right, obamacare is put into place and then he illegally violates the law he helped pass. on top of that we can't believe a word he says. those things go together. you get to keep your doctor, your insurance. this is going to save you money. >> why do the american people take it? >> i don't k

chev said i want to be treated as an american, not a negro. and i think that quote says so much about the larger issue. >> i think even back to pete and maybe tammy, the fact that even the students recognized after a certain point that we're not really getting that far, just by integrating lunch counters. we need political power. that's why by 1964 they're focused on voting rights, on getting the ballot. mississippi freedom democratic party challenges the democratic segregationists, elite in mississippi at the -- atlanta city. all the attempts to realize we need more than just a seat on the bus. >> i can speak do nat -- that briefly in the earlier period whites also perceived what they were doing to african-americans, economic opportunities, was also inextricably linked to their efforts to limit african-american political opportunities as well. so, the chain gang example i was discussing in my talk, in georgia and some other states, the very same legislative pack packages at the state level that passed chain gangs under the guise of reform, re

that is an american nightmare.ptimistic, im so am convinced our best days as a country are ahead of us, not behind us. our children and grandchildren will inherit more opportunities than we inherited from our parents. theives me confidence -- genius of the founding fathers was to trust the american people. this greatreached country with the conviction that if you worked hard, you could create a better quality of life. they were not looking for a government handout. they were looking for the opportunity to get a good job. my dad went to the yellow pages calling company after company until he could finally convince somebody to hire him. he tells his new boss after calling, who offers him a job monday morning, that is great. i do not have a drivers license or a car, you will have to pick me up on the way to work monday morning. starts work that monday. six months later i was born. i was what you call the pre-existing condition. there were two guys that shook hands in the hospital. i want you to think about this. my da

see, my generation of african-american scholars take african-american studies for granted. we have always been in the presence of african-american studies at historically white institutions. cornel west went to harvard, i believe, in 1970. i went to yale in '69. afro-american studies was there. there was a math department, there was a physics department, there was the history department and there was afro-am. so it's not out of place in the academy for our generation. and curiously enough, many of us who have phds, many of us who have chosen to be academics have chosen to be scholars of african or african-american studies, almost as if it's satisfying a vague political commitment, and i think because afro-am was under siege when we were undergraduates, that left a certain sort of imprint in our minds. so some of us liken our task, our privilege, our obligation to that of a talmudic scholar in the jewish tradition, that you preserve the text, you resurrect the text, you interpret the text, you live with the text and you take a stand for your community. c-span: how many afric

young native american men?> there's this perception that has been so prevailing about native americans, that even the young people have come to accept them. the chief, being the warrior guy, that's one of our goals, like the subliminal goal of the 1941s, the challenge of how we created ourselves as native american people, specifically as native men. and we try to challenge it as often as we can. and i think that it goes to the whole purpose of building and encouraging a stronger, more sustainable indian country, and a stronger and more sustainable nations. so i think its something that's really important to us as a group, to constantly push the limit as what it means to be a native person. and you asked specifically, what it means to be a native man. >> and there are also native women. take it away. >> we put out a psa about violence in the communities. >> for every 1,000 native women in the district, 330 will be sexually assaulted. 88% of the perpetrators will be non-native. and not all champions are leaders a

iranian americans, chinese americans -- that seek to borosilicate nigerian americans and cuban-americansand we also explained, they are extreme outliers for their population groups and also very high rates of upward mobility in very, very strong educational performance. as the sake, we could looked to japanese-americans. he could have gone down -- further down the list. at their space limitations elected a groups. >> host: pick one of your groups paired with your favorite group? >> guest: we could talk about the mormons. >> host: how do we see the triple package in action with more men's and particular? >> guest: this remarkable fact many people sense that we really documented several groups that are really outperforming the national average in terms of an common educational achievement. we just went to the ones we focused on. we identified those independently as rigorously as we could. then we started looking at the groups, wondering come asking ourselves if are going to find many cultural commonality. before i get to the mormons, why look for cultural commonalities? lightness of the so

who is the greatest american of all kinds? dot who is the greatest presidents but with the greatest american? 2.4 million people responded which any status will tell you is far and away. it's maybe 500 people that do some of this polling. and reagan won the greatest american of all time. awas republican wouldn't want to be like reagan? who wouldn't aspire to that success? you have groups that have been building these annual dinners for years. they've been changing many of the names to the reagan day dinners. february is the day of wind in's birthday if ronald reagan's birthday. so ronald reagan in a sense replacing lincoln of all things. i get asked all the time by media people and others which candidate is the most like ronald reagan and where would he stand on this issue or that issue? it begs the question of what did ronald reagan believe? this poster boy face of conservatism and the standardbearer in the icon of the republican party. what did he beat me, what did he actually beat these? ronald reagan never gave a definitio

and just like the african-american story, the native american story, the asian pacific narrative story, they all are part of the american experience. 59 times it is too complex and too big to fell, and to have one museum charge with that, is daunting. and i think what we aspired to do is we are -- i think showing that our contributions our part of that american experience, through the latino lenes. and i think anything that we do is set in again in that context of trying to center the margin. and trying to bring our experience back into the main stream. so i think anything we do, any programs we offer, any honors that we devil out is done with that spirit, of we have been contributing to this country since the beginning. but it takes often times more than one -- just one museum to tell that very complex, very rich beautiful story. >> professor, rivas rodriguez as the country changing and we are right now in the midst of tremendous change, will those histories that you gather from hundreds of world war ii veterans and their families become only more valuable once we can't talk to the ve

that is american liberty. [laughter] [applause] this country is the most powerful force for liberty on the face of the earth, and we are on the verge of losing that country, and if we don't come together in a powerful way, the way the founders did, we are going to visit and we should be an instrument of losing. but we come together, we win. because we have the ideas and we are the truth. >> well said. we are out of time. please express your appreciation. >> great panel. >> thank you. ♪ playing]ry of my life" >> ladies and gentlemen, these welcome foster freez -- foster fries, founder of fries foundation. [applause] >> always nice to be at cpac and see a lot of people who care could i have the honor of introducing rick santorum. why do we love this guy? number one, what he says is who he is. i was a donor to his campaign and he would not listen to anything i tried to convince him. "i know what is going on, don't try to influence me." when he told a speech in iowa, when he talked about his grandfather's big hand

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get beyond all the political chatter, turn to a group like the american cancer society or the american diabetes association and look at the information that is there and then go to one of the many enrollment fairs we are having across san antonio this weekend. one up in austin that is going to go 24 hours straight. these are opportunities to get out and do this. i know you had a successful enrollment fair in san antonio, i had one in progressive hall and one of our colleagues had ne at palo alto. . mr. castro: thank you for your work. thank you for helping to pass it and since then, making sure that people get onto the a.c.a. mr. doggett: we can improve this but main thing for our families to get out there now and increasingly folks are realizing as you pointed out with so many efforts to repeal, that the only alternative they offer is nothing-care. mr. castro: with that, mr. speaker, i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman's time has expired. the chair will recognize a motion to adjourn. mr. castro: mr. speaker, i make a motion to adjourn. the speaker pro tempore: the que

chinese-americans, let's see, oh, then we also look at nigerian-americans and cuban-americans that -- and we also explained, i mean, they are just extreme outliers for their population groups and also very high rates of upward mobility and very, very strong educational performance. but as we say in the end notes, we could have looked at japanese-americans, you could have gone further down the list and, you know, but for space limitations we looked at these eight groups. >> host: so let's take -- pick one of your groups. what's a your favorite group? >> guest: we could talk about the mormons? >> host: the mormons. how do we see the triple package in action with mormons in particular? >> guest: sure, great. so, you know, the starting point of our book was this remarkable fact which many people sense but we really documented it, that there are several groups that are really outperforming the national average in terms of to income and educational achievement. and amy just went true the ones that we focus on -- through the ones that we focus on. and we identified those independently as rig

you are a concerned american?ne of the things that we got really quickly was that it was not an individual movement as much as it was a movement. we may have had that first phone call that we saw quickly how things spread and how people in individual communities took hold. you look at how many tea party organizations there are around the country and this did bloom from the first phone call. economy and how individuals took what we started with one phone call and ran with it, now you have these organizations in washington, new jersey, or in new york. we have organizations all over the country. that is not because of us that is because -- because of us, that is because people want to make a difference. evolution and wha

of african-americans, 6 million african-americans voted with their feet for, you know, a more just society, and so i think that, you know, looking at the experience of mr. solomon, looking at the experience of other members of the communities, we need to go home and collectively decide, you know, what are heroic actions in the community? how do we duplicate them? how do we rep kate them? what are heroic acts in our own family's lives? you know? my grandmother came here as a teenager on a boat to get out of europe in between the wars, and, i mean, man, that was a time i don't think i was allowed to stay home. i had a babysitter at the age she got on a boat by herself to cross the atlantic. there's stories of resistance in our own families, communities, and we have to define those for ourselves and value them and listen to them and then figure out how today, you know, we can implement them and move this forward. it is a question of redefinition, but it's a question of simp fying actions because we're on a timeline experiencing massive injustice, and today, really, is the day. a lot of the pe

the american legion made sure that our voice, the 2.4 million americans who wear the legion cap verydly, their voice was heard in congress, and that was overturned. that fws back to every veterans day and every memorial day, you'll read an article that the american legion is decreasing in membership, that their relevancy is declining. i'm here to tell you it doesn't proof, and that's proof. because that cola legislation was overturned, this is as strong as it's been. host: i want to show the chart that shows funding levels for different parts. federal government, the red circles, mandatory spending, the largest one being social security, medicare, and medicaid also being in those mandatory spending. but it also has discretionary spending in the orange circles. defense spending is here, $652 billion last year. veteran spending, $140 billion. two big circles here. are there places that the american legion would be ok to see some cuts in defense spending? >> i can answer that in a way that the american legion is working as close as ever with d.o.d. we've had meetings where we actually s

jewish-american stood up just as there were other americans who oppose these policies. they were in the minority. they were very much on the minority on the west coast but people don't expect to hear the story and unfortunately it is a story of getting in bed with the wrong people so they got in bed and with people, and should bear a campaign against anti-semitism and they do damage to another. many people read history looking for good guys and bad guys and here it is a case, to go back to this organization in los angeles, like i said these are people who dedicated their lives to civil rights and even they got caught up in this, sort of a wartime hysteria and expediency and so on so it is not so simple as good guys and bad guys and as we saw at the time of 9/11, in times of war when people were vulnerable, and what they might be. and i would hope that would be the message. i'm not trying to vilify the community, certainly if you looked at the jewish community overall, they maintain silence for the most part, officials silence. i saw it as a failing and expected them to

american crude oil exports would boost the world's oil 134r50eu and help stabilize prices for american consumers. american exports would undermine the influence of oil-rich countries that don't like us very much. for years the united states has asked japan to reduce imports of iranian oil. these are two of the largest in iment ports, japan and india. in 2012 japan imported 4 of its oil from iran. india about 8% of its oil from iran. american crude oil exports could cut off a vital supply of funding to the iranian regime. if my colleagues are serious about sanctions in iran they should support american crude oil exports, not oppose them. finally, president obama needs to promote exports of american coal. like natural gas and oil, coal exhorts will create good jobs all across the country. over the last several years the environmental protection agency has taken steps to block american coal exports. the e.p.a. has asked the army corps of engineers to expand the review process for new export terminals. it wants the corps to consider the carbon emissions produced by exports after they leave

you are a concerned american? one of the things that we got really quickly was that it was not an individual movement as much as it was a movement. we may have had that first phone call that we saw quickly how things spread and how people in individual communities took hold. you look at how many tea party organizations there are around the country and this did bloom from the first phone call. economy and how individuals took what we started with one phone call and ran with it, now you have these organizations in washington, new jersey, or in new york. we have organizations all over the country. that is not because of us that is because -- because of us, that is because people want to make a difference. evolution and what these people are doing in their communities now, no we do not see the big rallies. it's a most better anyway because you have these people in these communities who are on their school boards running for office. they are making differences on the ground where it counts. here triedople calling to te

over 58,000 americans were killed, and those who did return home were not treated as american heroes as they are. in recent years i'm grateful that most americans have been able to put aside their opinions about specific military missions and have an unwavering commitment to our courageous men and women operating in dangerous places around the world. vietnam veterans day is meant to reaffirm our respect and gratitude for those that served our nation in that war and show a generation of soldiers our immense gratitude. i'll be doing so this saturday at the v.f.w. post in lamont, illinois. i ask my colleagues to join me doing the same not just this weekend but every day because our vietnam veterans and all our veterans deserve this. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields back. for what purpose does the gentleman from michigan seek recognition? >> mr. speaker, i seek unanimous consent to address the house for one minute. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, the gentleman is recognized for one minute. mr. walz: thank you, mr. speaker. for far -- mr. killedy: th

american activists had in fact inspired the law.the gays bill eventually died after a wave of condemnation. that was 2009. but last month, a new it ration of that bill came back. and uganda's president, somewhat unexpectedly signed into law the new version of the bill, the revised bill doesn't include the sentence of death for being gay, but you can still get life imprisonment. you can also get seven year in prison for attempting homosexuality. the ugandan brought up, unprompted the same kind of bonkers for science nonsense those americans activists had exported to that country back in 2009. >> finished. the ugandan president said he was done, he wouldn't reconsider his position and signed it. american officials including both secretary of state john kerry and his predecessor, hillary clinton and president obama himself have all been outspoken. after the president signed the anti-gay law, president obama said the u.s. would review aid money and our whole relationship with uganda. we don't yet know what that review is going to mean,

american exceptionalism. american exceptionalism. reagan thought that america was a beacon to all of humanity, it was the last best hope on earth, it was a shining city upon a hill. he said that for 30 years before the presidency. i found a speech that reagan gave, a commencement speech in june 1952 to a little, tiny women's college called william woods college in missouri, in fulton, missouri, not far from where churchill made his iron curtain speech just a few years earlier. and in that speech reagan said: america is less of a place than an idea. think about that. chew that over. america is less of a place than an idea. it really is. right? the idea of america is nothing but the inherent love of freedom in each one of us. it is simply the idea of the basis of this country and our religion, the idea of the dignity of man, deep within the heart of each one of us is something so god-like, augustin said all of us have a god-shaped vacuum in our hearts that only god alone can fill, right? it's a vacuum that's god-shaped. only god can fi

african american history is american history. [applause] and woodson recognized that it needed to be celebrated and studied year round and this is still true today. he always envisioned negro history week becoming negro history year. events in the 1950's and 60's had an effect on the study and celebration of black history. it was about consciousness raising as public policy. black was now beautiful. by the late 1960's as young black students on college campuses became increasingly aware and proud of their past, black history month -- black history month gang to replace negro history week. younger activists and individuals prodded their elders to change with the times. got to listen to the young folks sometimes. they succeeded. 1976, 50 years after the first celebration, it officially became black history month. by the mid 1970's something starting happening. it started getting popular, schools started incorporating it, presidents began to embrace it. since the mid 1970's, democrat and republican has issued d proclamations endorsi

employees from an american company.ean, general, can we draw any conclusions from this. >> i don't think so, judge. i think it's still to early and we've got to analyze that. so i don't think we ought to jump off to speculation. but we ought to be very concerned about those two individuals that were on, that were on stolen passports. and that's what is causing the speculation, i think, that kirk and i are ryaning in that direction. malaysia is a million country. it's mostly moderates. but you never know what the purpose behind this was. and if you had two suicide bombers that somehow got bombs on board and detonated them. >> i'm curious. >> that could be a major problem. >> quickly before we wrap up, do we know how tight security is in getting on planes in malaysia and kuala lumpur? >> i don't. >> do you? >> judge, i don't either. i will tell you dovetailing off what the commander said, don't forget the attack on uss cole and 9-11 took place in malaysia with high level operatives. clearly, that region does have an activ

american students on campuses. last year a group of african-american ucla students produced this video to highlight the lack of diversity at the school. >> now, you tell me that i should be proud to be at ucla. but only 35 of us are predicted to walk across that stage. >> the video, made by student cy stokes, went viral. they are considering whether voters can use ballot measures to ban affirmative programs. now ed hernandez want voters to vote on repeeling part of prop 209. i spoke to senator ed hernandez earlier. >> senator, thank you for joining us. why are you proposing this measure? >> you know, it's about diversity, but more important, it's about equal opportunity for every student here in the state of california. >> can you explain further -- since prop 209 passed in 1996, there has been a 40% drop in admission in blacks admission, a 15% drop in terms of ucla. are those the kind of numbers that made you decide to try to get this measure passed yet again? >> that's just part of it. the other part is just the

or the american psychiatric association. it is inherent in the test and all clinicians are told both professional associations made clear because it is simply a statistical fact it must be taken into account such that and obtained iq test score is actually the result of an obtained iq test score is a test band. >> for what purpose did they establish these? is it for the purpose of determinidetermini ng who is so incapable of controlling his actions that he shouldn't be subject to the death penalty? is that what they're looking for when they establish 70 to 75? what are they looking for? >> intelligence tests supply, i mean they weren't created for the definition, the clinical definition of mental retardation. the rear created to determine a proxy for true intellectual function and therefore a true iq test score. the general. >> i'm not talking about iq tests in general. i'm talking about why did they pick -- they use to pick and now they pick between 70 and 75 is the upper limit. the upper limit for what? i assume it's for p

is the greatest american of all time? who is the greatest american of all time? almost two and a half million people respond it which any statistician will tell you this far and away. nearly may be fun and the people and reagan won. >> you can watch this and other programs online at booktv.org. >> catherine kneele is next on book tv to talk about the rise and fall of tyco dennis kozlowski. professor kneele had access to him in the district attorney who prosecuted him, arguing that all the people directly involved in the case in the media have reported on at acted unethically at some point. this is about an hour and ten minutes. >> one of the greatest of ventures in my life began three years ago when i did something outside my comfort zone. at the time it seemed like a very small and insignificant act , but it turned into something really, really important and significant. my adventure has taken me to places i have never been like a hard core new york state prison and up slinky wall street law firm where president franklin delano roosevelt once practiced law

most americans don't know who the kochs are. you have these democratic candidates out talking about them, they're not really paying attention. especially this early in the midterm cycle. again, i think what harry reid is trying to do is push his own donors to match some of that koch money. and that actually may have a greater impact on the race because, you know, this is an issue that does tend to really wind up a lot of liberals. and it could inspire them to open their pocketbooks. >> but it does give the lie to the idea that somehow only the rich are dominating politics if all harry reid wants is other rich folks to write him checks. when we come back, our hits and misses of the week. this is for you. ♪ [ male announcer ] bob's heart attack didn't come with a warning. today his doctor has him on a bayer aspirin regimen to help reduce the risk of another one. if you've had a heart attack, be sure to talk to your doctor before you begin an aspirin regimen. if you've had a heart attack, be sure to talk to your doctor america's fa