third, shady grove orthopedic associates, the allstate insurance company presents an issue procedure teachers will follow with rapt attention. may a state legislature forbid recourse to class actions for claims arising under state law but filed as diversity cases in federal corbet? that completes my report -- in federal court? that completes my report on the 2008-2009 term. i invite judge livingston and judge kravitz to join me in conversation. [applause] >> you're watching public affairs programming on c-span. up next, from the federalist society of dallas, a former bush administration justice department official talks about judge sonia sotomayor's nomination knot supreme court. after that, secretary of state clinton talks about honduras and iran. after that, president obama announces new energy efficiency standards for light bulbs. >> how is c-span funded? >> publicly funded. >> donations, maybe? i have no idea. >> government? >> c-span gets its funding through the taxes. >> federal funding. >> sort of a public funding thing. >> maybe, i don't know. >> how is c-span funded? 30 year

allstate's of obligated 50 percent are more of the funds will before the june 30 deadline. projects are under construction and people are going back to work and states are directing funds were ready to go projects that will spread economic recovery and job creation to all corners of the united states with special consideration being given to the economic needs and geographic balance. that economic recovery act provided $40 billion for transportation investment out of a total of 787 billion. of that 27.5 billion 30% going to the sub politicians in the cities and the county's. mississippi received 350 more million in stimulus dollars for transportation projects and i am extremely proud to report we met and exceeded the 50% goal bella head of the deadline states have delivered on the deadline current me 60% of the recovery act dollars have been obligated for a total of approximately 4900 projects valued at nearly 15.5 billion dollars. all of the states, the district of columbia and pr half projects under way. federal highway administration estimates there are 1500 projects und

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third, shady grove orthopedic associates, the allstate insurance company, presents an issue procedure teachers will follow with rapt attention. may a state legislature forbid recourse to class actions for claims arising under state law but filed as diversity cases in federal courts. that completes my report on the 2008 to 2009 term and i invite judge livingston and judge kravitz to join me in conversation. [applause] [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2009] >> you're watching public affairs programming on c-span. up next, from the federalist society of dallas a former bush administration justice department official talks about judge sonia sotomayor's nomination to the supreme court. after that, secretary of state clinton talks about honduras and iran. later, president obama announces new energy efficiency standards for light bulbs. >> tomorrow morning, a discussion of energy policy, we'll hear from jon wellinghoff, live coverage at 9:00 eastern on c-span2. later, a conversation on iran's nuclear program and the po

potentially dangerous and determining whether or not there's the but they cannot always determine allstate the ours so i think it is a piece of the debate that really what we have to do is look in each potential hazard by itself and say what is going on, what do we know? we have is the can't change the economy overnight but we have to raise these issues and say okay, here is a substance that we just don't know about it. the chemicals that are used in waterproof linings and pesticides we don't know enough about them and we assuredly should be phasing them out or reducing exposure. that is the best we can do. fortunately in europe there is great pressure in legislation now to force chemical companies to do more testing and it is rudimentary testing of the reach program will give us answers that we certainly is americans will benefit from greeley because we will have information that we did not have previously. what we don't have now is the mechanism. we don't have regulatory agencies that are willing to step forward and say how we limit exposure to these things? >> what do we go back to the