will be strengthened by the arrival of two alexander's of educated and seaman who meets up with the national team on choose de. take on the usa on the czech republic respectively the writing and could champions come into play slovakia. now to tennis where there were second round wins for andy murray and world number one novak djokovic actually rowing masters the serbian top seed comfortably beating bernard tomic in straight sets six three six three however it was less straightforward for mari the world number four was always returning to action after missing the madrid masters with a back injury however he showed no signs of sluggishness early on against arjun time david nalbandian as he dominated the first set taking it six one but the former wimbledon finalist forced a third under siding set birthday boy then broke his thirty year old opponents in the tenth game of the final set he was there for the match six one four six seven five the final score. now in the n.b.a. indiana have tied the eastern conference semifinals against miami after the paces secured a narrow seventy eight seventy fiv

reform than senator alexander, a national leader on education policy. like me, senator alexander is the son of a former classroom teacher, but he also served as the u.s. secretary of education and president of a prominent university, university of tennessee. so he knows firsthand the challenges of the opportunity lost when tens of thousands of foreign nationals who come here and seek the opportunity to get stem masters and doctoral degrees in some of our strongest and best universities, are then forced to return home to their nations of origin rather than being able to stay here if they choose, to create jobs, to grow businesses and to contribute to our country and our economy. and as someone who before running for public office worked with a highly innovative materials-based science company that employed over 1,000 researchers, i too have a sense of what a great contribution immigrants have always made to this country, but particularly in these areas of innovation and how they can contribute to our competitiveness. senator alexander's closing comment about the america competes act is where we

florida included comments from senator lamar alexander tennessee republican and former secretary of education and iowa democrat tom harkin.fficer: wiot >> mr. president i can't emphasize the importance andslat urgency of the legislation the student loan interest rate hike act of 2012, which the majority leader just spoke about. on july 1, unless congress intervenes, the interest rate on federal student loan debt is set to double from 3.4% to 6 30eu%. -- to 6.%. more than million students including than estimated 255,000 students enrolled at iowa colleges and universities would be required to pay an average $1,000 more per year of school. the bill before us is straightforward, it is fully paid for, it chemica keeps the t rate at 3.4% and the cost is offset by closing a tax loophole that benefits certain high-income professional service providers. i'd like to thank senator reid for his leadership in advancing this critical legislation. i also thank president obama for miking this legislation -- ma for making this legislation an urgent priority and for visiting collegvisitingcampuses across t. i

of education. that's what i was trained to be many years ago at columbia university. and in the early 1990s, evidence invited by lamar alexander, who was then secretary the education and is now a senator from tennessee, he invited me to b3 assistant secretary of education. i had been a lifelong democrat but i decided education must be a nonpartisan issue. i joined the first bush administration. during the course of my time there i found myself becoming kind of part of the woodwork, believes-- i always believed in standards. i still believe in standards. but i got to be part of this kind of conservative mantra of we need more choice. we need more accountability. and after i left of the bush administration in 1992, i was very active in three conservative think tanks. and i was with the real creme da la creme of the conservative intelligentia. >> rose: when you were there, what did you believe? d you believe in charter schools? you believed in voucher programs? you believed in testings teachers? you believed in-- >> in 1998, i went to albany to testify on behalf of the first charter legislation in new york state. there weren't ve

alexander: mr. president, i am glad i had an opportunity to hear the distinguished senator from iowa who is my friend, the chairman of the health, education and labor committee. i -- i want to address the same subject he did, but i want to hasten to summarize at the beginning to say we agree -- by we, i mean governor romney, the likely republican nominee for president, president obama, house republicans, i, others, agree that for the next year, we should keep the interest rate on 40% of the student loans at 3.4% for new loans. we agree on that. there is not a difference of opinion on that. what's different, what's different is how we pay for it and what -- and what the distinguished senator from iowa has done is actually outlined very well the difference of opinion here. what we're saying, what the republicans are saying is that in order to pay that $6 billion it costs taxpayers to keep that 3.4% rate the same for the next year, we want to give to students, we want to give them back their own money, the money that the democrats are overcharging them on their student loans. now, the senator from iowa went through a very careful explanation

alexander, who are both leaders on education policy here in the senate. they have proposed an alternative that pays for a temporary one-year extension of the 3.4% interest rate by taking money from a slush fund created by obamacare in 2010. the president and democrats have supported taking money from the slush fund in the past, so it seems odd that now they're suddenly up in arms in support of a slush fund supposedly aimed at prevention. the president's fiscal year 2013 budget proposal recommends using the prevention slush fund for other federal priorities. and my democrat colleagues here in the senate supported taking $5 billion from the fund merely 11 weeks ago. so there's broad support for the idea of prevention, but the recent record of the use of federal prevention dollars shows that these dollars are not being spent wisely. funds in the prevention slush fund can be used on almost anything in the name of prevention and wellness. for example, jungle gyms, bike paths, farmers' markets, those are the types of things this so-called prevention slush fund is being used for. keep in mind, in 2010 that my democratic colleagues used the $9 billion in savings in

education secretary arne duncan. there is an extra day of "book tv." he may be best remembered for his goal with alexander hamilton. saturday night at 8:30 eastern. afterwards, the former director for asian affairs at the national security council on the imports of -- of possible state, north korea. >> it is a ridiculous dialogue. you can tell them the need to improve your human rights situation and their response to you will be, you, the united states have human-rights problems too. that is not a comparable discussion. >> that is saturday night at 10:00. also this weekend, he details operation red wings from service, and navy seal at the war. sunday night at 10:00 eastern. three days of "book tv" this weekend on c-span to. this memorial day weekend, three days of american history tv on c-span3. actor is from"band of brothers." >> you give them everything in the platoon to jump with he said, we aren't jumping aren't we? i said yes. ok. what does that have to do with me? he said let me tell you something. how much you weigh? i said 138 pounds. how tall are you? i say 5'4. he said you have to put that half the in the

cosponsor of legislation introduced by my colleague, senator alexander, which extends the current 3.4% interest rate for an additional year. it needs to be done. it can't be denied that access to educations future for nebraska's young people and for all americans. and it should our goal to foster an economic atmosphere where jobs will flourish, our economy thrives, and opportunities abound for young people and, for that matter, for all americans. that's why i'm so disappointed that today we will vote on a bill that takes such a different approach to paying for student loan interest rate extension. the bill we will vote on taxes small businesses and raids funds that would otherwise go to shore up the social security and medicare trust funds. providing relief for students, protecting seniors' benefits, and fueling our nation's job engine should not be mutually exclusive goals. we should not be pitting one sector of our population against the other, and yet that's what we will do later on today. this bill sacrifices one of those goals i just mentioned and puts another in jeopardy to achieve a third. and i believe that's counterproductive. why? in part because the future of our young people

of tennessee, senator lamar alexander. >> okay, did you get the memo. ghost busters dogs and cats. you are not supposed to get along. what are you working on, senator? >> charter schools. >> educationhool week which is public schools that are entrepreneurial. my friend and colleague here helped start the movement. we are bringing into reality in new orleans, 80% of our children in the city are now in public charter schools. >> can you talk about that? we went to a school with starbucks and have been working down there. you really see an excitement in new orleans that i see young people all over the place. you see education really taking shape there. >> my brother said, who is the mayor, we are not building the city. we are rebuilding the city the way we dreamed it could be. the old new orleans only better. it's a brand-new exciting entrepreneurial public school system attracting middle class white families and hispanics. seeing extraordinary gains in academics. we are freeing up our principles to be great. we are expecting our teachers to be great. this man started it. >> i left the -- as education secretary 20 years ago with the first president bush and my last act was to write a

team somebody by the name of alexander nunez, and here, you are lucky to have alex's mother, or as you call her, dean nunez. mount ida parents thank you for helping to educate their kids, and i thank you for raising an extraordinary kid who is one of my best staffers. she is here somewhere. i am happy to celebrate her. [applause] i also want to salute the mayor of the great city of newton, who was by my side every single day of the presidential campaign. he was my trip director, responsible for every stop everywhere we may in the country. he was also a staff director, deputy director come up here in massachusetts but i watched him go off to war. he took a year's leave from my office to go to iraq, where he served as an officer in intelligence, and return home now to serve with distinction the city of new 1ton. it is great to see you here in that position. [applause] i was justhe deal -- reminded that i am the 10th most senior senator in the united states senate, and with it now, regrettably, dick lugar's loss and the retirement of the senator from new mexico, i will move up to eight, which is scary to me. [laughter] but the truth is, i stand here now with f

alexander: i have enjoyed listening to the senator from rhode island and his passion for education is always on his sleeve and always front and center. i admire him for that. a couple ofthings i'd like to make clear, though. if you're a student and you already have a student loan, what we're talking about has nothing to do with you. in other words, your rate is not going up. what we're talking about only affects new loans. so before you think about not going to college next year because of all this talk about student loan rates going up, that's not a problem. we're only talking about new loans. second, for 60% of the students who get new loans, we're not talking about you either. so you don't have to worry about student loan rates going up. and third, for those of you whom we are talking about, the 40% who have these subsidized student loans, what we're talking about saving you is $7 a month in interest payments over the next ten years. $7 a month can add up, which is why governor romney as well as president obama, republicans as well as democrats, want to keep the rate at the rate it is now, 3.4% for another year, but it's $7 a month. it's important to know that. it'

no education, skills and all of that program to help the pros person vacation on programs, they've been cowed. so you're setting up the vicious cycle of young men being tired as with sister alexander cause the new plantation. >> do you think the move that was stronger with women being part of the panther party quite >> could you repeat that? >> do you think was made stronger, the black panther party was made stronger because the women in the movement? >> there's no question that throughout our history from the middle passage to now, to slavery, to other things we've gone through that without the strength of our women that we would not be here. and that is certainly come is certainly evident to me as a young man growing up in the movement and the black panther party. absolutely. >> leave me i was at night and being a student at temple university and citation occur -- i hope i'm pronouncing that right. i like to know the status it is still in prison? >> yeah, the simple answer to yes, she is still exiled and probably will be, given the nature of what has happened, what i talked about as moving toward the right of policy, in south africa nelson mandela became president he truth and r

no education, skills and all of that program to help the pros person vacation on programs, they've been cowed. so you're setting up the vicious cycle of young men being tired as with sister alexander cause the new plantation. >> do you think the move that was stronger with women being part of the panther party quite >> could you repeat that? >> do you think was made stronger, the black panther party was made stronger because the women in the movement? >> there's no question that throughout our history from the middle passage to now, to slavery, to other things we've gone through that without the strength of our women that we would not be here. and that is certainly come is certainly evident to me as a young man growing up in the movement and the black panther party. absolutely. >> leave me i was at night and being a student at temple university and citation occur -- i hope i'm pronouncing that right. i like to know the status it is still in prison? >> yeah, the simple answer to yes, she is still exiled and probably will be, given the nature of what has happened, what i talked about as moving toward the right of policy, in south africa nelson mandela became president he truth and r

no education, skills and all of that program to help the pros person vacation on programs, they've been cowed. so you're setting up the vicious cycle of young men being tired as with sister alexander cause the new plantation. >> do you think the move that was stronger with women being part of the panther party quite >> could you repeat that? >> do you think was made stronger, the black panther party was made stronger because the women in the movement? >> there's no question that throughout our history from the middle passage to now, to slavery, to other things we've gone through that without the strength of our women that we would not be here. and that is certainly come is certainly evident to me as a young man growing up in the movement and the black panther party. absolutely. >> leave me i was at night and being a student at temple university and citation occur -- i hope i'm pronouncing that right. i like to know the status it is still in prison? >> yeah, the simple answer to yes, she is still exiled and probably will be, given the nature of what has happened, what i talked about as moving toward the right of policy, in south africa nelson mandela became president he truth and r

alexander: mr. president, i am glad i had an opportunity to hear the distinguished senator from iowa who is my friend, the chairman of the health, educationand labor committee. i -- i want to address the same subject he did, but i want to hasten to summarize at the beginning to say we agree -- by we, i mean governor romney, the likely republican nominee for president, president obama, house republicans, i, others, agree that for the next year, we should keep the interest rate on 40% of the student loans at 3.4% for new loans. we agree on that. there is not a difference of opinion on that. what's different, what's different is how we pay for it and what -- and what the distinguished senator from iowa has done is actually outlined very well the difference of opinion here. what we're saying, what the republicans are saying is that in order to pay that $6 billion it costs taxpayers to keep that 3.4% rate the same for the next year, we want to give to students, we want to give them back their own money, the money that the democrats are overcharging them on their student loans. now, the senator from iowa went through a very careful explanation