notion, an american notion. i think that has been lost. sections of the lot left try to claim those and they feel it is from a separate ever. know it is not. american lives have been lost, tens of millions and the effort to free african americans from slavery and they have voted for several chang gave us the right to go. the privileged have given up their rights and men have voted to give up their rights to further the quality of life for others. this is the only nation that does that but perhaps that is important to recognize that difference and if i can try to formulate it, it might be a good thing. >> host: you told me your most recent book? >> guest: i am working now on the idea of the emerging gestapo. if history gives us a lesson we will see a natural progression when the left finds that persuasion and intimidation does not work work, you heard it. my first book they dealt with it now and 2010 the average americans are finding that they are being called as teapartiers the brown shirt and the mob and wife b

asian-american -- asian-pacific americans have come to the forefront. of the five who competed on team u.s.a. in the winter olympics. julie chu who helped lead the women's ice hockey team to a silver medal. she's the first asian-american to play for the women's ice hockey team. she was team captain at harvard university where she was the all-time ncaa leading scorer for women's ice hockey. and the first asian-pacific american to win the gold for the must 1912 games he went on to win two more golds and two silver medals for the united states. he was inducted to the swimming hall of fame and the surfing hall of fame. other prominent olympians include kevin chen selected as captain of the u.s. men's gymnastics, high diver greg louganis, who won three gold medals in the 1980's. a high diver by the name of sammy lee, the first korean american to win the gold medal for the united states in the 1948 games. four years after his historic feat, dr. lee also won the second gold medal at age 32, becoming the oldest person to win the gold medal in diving and the fir

he stressed the importance of american made and american duty. upon retiring from his company in 1938 he remained a chairman of the board and very involved in kellogg's placement in the market. mr. kellogg was diagnosed with glue coma and spent the rest of his life blind but continued to visit his company's plants with a seeing eye dog. he left america a legacy of healthy living, patriotism and entrepreneurs that still endue -- endures today with that, mr. speaker, see nothing other speakers, i urge the support of passage of house resotion 1172 and i yield back the balan of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields back. the gentleman from massachusetts. mr. lynch: thank you, mr. speaker. i appreciate the gentleman's kind words and also the words of the gentleman from michigan, mr. schauer. i would just add one last point and that is that the kellogg company also played an instrumental role during wld war ii as the company for the first time provided packaged rations for the united states armed forces. in addition during world war ii

it is an american notion. it is the ideal that all of the should be able to live the lives that suit us. so writing a book on the modern feminist movement would almost have to address, if there is one, would almost be an american history sort of effort. if you see at ranging from the suffrage movement and certainly to the beginning of the modern feminist institutionalize movement, but even betty friedan in her last book noted that in fact she wasn't just a tired housewife, that she was a member of the american communist party and decided to move things in that fashion. and i think that a lot of history has been misrepresented by certain left-wing institutions, and i write about that both in the thought police and "the death of right and wrong." again, as part of my conservatism, by finding out in the history and political science that the things i believe in are inherently american. that it is not about having a hermetically sealed cultural separation. that i owe my life and my point of view and that i can spe

american largesse.hether it is the military elite or the civilian elite. i think a lot of this anti- americanism is fueled by the mistakes that have been made in pakistan have been made by us primarily. yes, the americans have had some wrong policies, by going into iraq, failing to resolve the middle east and plin problem. -- palestinian problem. american foreign policy is full of things that should not have happened. at the same time, i think we have to recognize what we are responsible for ourselves. >> i want to go back to what i asked you earlier. four or five years from now, what is it going to look like in your opinion in afghanistan with al qaeda or with taliban? >> i hope that within the next 12 to 18 months before a serious american withdrawal starts from afghanistan that there is a political pollen endorsed by the west and is backed up for continuing money for aid and development, that there is a kind of cease-fire that holds and that there is a regional agreement among the neighboring countri

for too long, americans have felt their voice does not matter in washington. but that is about to change. we are ready to listen and start a real dialogue of ideas. so, log on to americaspeakingout.com, join the discussion, and make your voice heard. thank you. >> the treaty before you is an evolution of agreements echo back to the 1970's, and particularly to the series of s.t.a.r.t. agreements that started in the reagan administration and continued in some form in every subsequent administration. >> watched the moments that make history right now -- watch the moment that made history right now available free online. supreme court justice anthony kennedy on the prospect of a new justice. >> it is stressful for us. weep so admire our colleagues, we wonder if it will -- we so admire our colleagues that we wonder if it will ever be the same. the system works. after the appointment and the confirmation process is finished, if there is a confirmation, the system will bring as a very good justice. >> with the confirmation hearings for elena kagan starting june 28, l

to the american character. a little bit about the trip began in new york city and had to do those people far and away the biggest in america and boston was next but not the new york that we no. the streets and did not exist everything north of canal street was farmland with a deer road and at one point somebody met on a ship coming over invited them to the east river there is no skyline. is just one single story as far as the eye can see but already a commercial beehive inouye the way anybody talked about scrambling to make a fortune that the same time exhilarated did not care where it came from and the entrepreneurship and tocqueville actually responded and warrant warmly about a and it is a very interesting passage it was just both maybe if the workers came out everyday in the gaming san broke stones there would be doing something useful for society as long as they never spoke. amazingly enough under threat two of a ferocious lashing the natalee never open their mouth her not even expose -- supposed to exchan

therefore he transformed the democratic party and american politics. now, taft and willson, as well as most democrats and republicans, were surprised that t.r.'s provocative campaign for a pure democracy was so well received in many parts of the country. communicated to the voters directly through the new mass media independent newspapers and popular magazines for the muckrakers through audio recordings of t.r.'s most important rhetoric and in the movie houses it resonated especially with the fastest-growing areas of the country which best represented america's future. progressives insisted with considerable political affect that they did not seek to destroy the constitution. they did not seek to establish socialism and alien form of conflict on american soil. rather, they argued that they sought to revitalize and democratize the constitution to restore the dignity of the democratic individual in the face of the industrial revolution and the hard challenges that through us to constitutional government. jefferson and jackson and lincoln in their calls f

jewish-american heritage month gives all americans the opportunity to recoize jewish americans as leaders in every facet of life, from education, entertainment, arts, academia, to our armed forces. florida's 19th district is home to one of the largest jewish american populations in this country. i'm privileged to represent many first generation americans whose parents arrived on our shores seeking a better life. many jewish americans are members of the greatest generation. they stepped up to serve i world war ii and helped rebuild the country after the great depression. 11,000 jewish americans perished fighting for our country in world war ii. for those who arrived in europe as the holocaust raged on this war beme personal. as a quote from a jewish air force officer reads, quote, as a jew, it was hitler and me. that is the way i picture the war. . we have been fighting for this country since the revolutionary war. we were aides to general george washington. a general was court martialed six times. but the time the civil war broke out, there were 150,000 jews in the united states with 7,00

this new electronically traded marketplace allows american traders, simply put, to evade american market oversight and speculation limits. the practical implication of this is that united states traders can use offshore electronic exchanges to artificially drive up prices of united states commodities without any consequences from our nation's market regulators. this is a big problem. a 2008 cftc report found that traders using this london exchange to trade u.s. crude oil futures held positions far larger than would be allowed by american regulators. in fact, from 2006 to 2008, at least one trader position exceeded united states speculation limits every single week on the london exchange, and british regulators have done nothing about it. the good news is that some steps have been taken administratively to address this loophole. in 2008, the commodities futures trading commission negotiated an agreement with british regulators to bring greater oversight to american commodities contracts traded in london. the agreement called for speculation limits for the electronic trading of united stat

he was diagnosed with something called american nervousness. [laughter] also called american -itis. and the impact of the disease of the rich, which if you're a doctor you want to be treating a lot of diseases of the rich. in the cure for american -itis was considered to leave america. and they even taught in the medical textbooks about who could come with you when you leave america, you know, if your particular family members were going, they probably should not come with you when you leave america. so this is the cure. fred went away a lot and part of the reason the fred harvey system became so brilliant that predicting the needs of consumers and the need of their employees is because they had to do so much to predict the needs of their owner. whenever fred went away they had to create ciphers for every possible thing i could go wrong and friends business or personal life. so there was a word for everything bad than good that could happen. so they can send him telegraph in england. the cipher books are psychological portrait of a man and his company in enough himself. this is a li

last week the american public gave the american -- the republicans gave the american people an opportunity to say whether we should be cutting spending. 280,000 people said we should be culting spending. they'll given an opportunity this week to express themselves again. we saw today the jobless rate is up to 471,000 people. we need to get americans back to work and we need to cut the spending. we need to listen to the american people. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman's time has expired. for what purpose does the gentlelady from ohio rise? ms. kaptur: -- >> you know, when i talk to people in my community, they are losing jobs at an atrocious rates, now we're seeing months of job growth and adding jobs to our economy. that's good news. let's continue to stay on this pathway. that's why i'm supporting bills like the hire act to help employers add more people to their businesses and recently niled small business intermediary lending act so eople starting businesses and needing smaller loans in that gap between $35,000 and $200,000, that there can be a pilot program to set that in motion

home on his american passport.t's a case of home-grown terrorism, and it's an alarming trend. was this guy on anybody's radar? >> it doesn't appear that way. >> kroft: anything remarkable about him that would lead you to believe he might do something this? >> no, and that's a good word-- "unremarkable." these are unremarkable young men who made a decision to kill innocent people in their own country. >> we've made it very clear that if, heaven forbid, an attack like this that we can trace back to pakistan were to have been successful, there would be very severe consequences. >> pelley: we met with secretary of state clinton at the state department on friday morning. but we've had rare access to her for the last several months. after you. >> thank you. >> pelley: it is your airplane. on her travels from the white house to the united nations to the cradle of terrorism. >> amazingly, we have 16 out of the 44 houses on the street have foreclosed over the last year. >> safer: yours over here? >> mine will be number 17.

a philosophy that says that giving american entrepreneurs, american taxpayers, american construction workers the chances will and does. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from texas. mr. sessions: thank you, mr. speaker. in fact the gentleman's correct. there were jobs that were added. they were government jobs. mr. andrews: would the gentleman yield? mr. sessions: i appreciate the gentleman. you had your time. there are government jobs because of the census. that's why we saw an upparticular -- uptick. let's go back to texas, i know there's been a lot said about texas, unemployment jumped from 6.8% in april, 2009, to 8.1% in april, 2010. that's an additional 188,600 people unemployed. i appreciate you-all trying to take credit for all this great robust economic boom that's going on in this country. the fact of the matter is it's not working that way. mr. speaker, i'd like to ask unanimous consent to insert a letter dated may 24, 2010, from i.b.m. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. mr. sessions: and this letter, and i'm going to read just the last paragraph because it sh

certainly not to american interests and western interests there. the other option of their proposed by those on the right is regime change. to help the iranian opposition overthrow. it's a wonderful idea in theory. i think it is something to look hard at. for the first time we do have a large, legitimate popular opposition to the government. we ought to look at ways to help the opposition. the truth is, the regime has demonstrated it will not go gently. if scholars have taught us anything about revolutionsm and they have taught us only one thing -- it is that revolutions occur only when the regime loses the will or capacity to use violence. unfortunately, this regime has lost me there. it is not likely to do so any time soon. we can hold out hope that at some time there will be regime change in tehran, but not any time since. so, if you don't like the harsh sanctions option, the alternatives are worse. i hope you don't simply say this is too hard and we should walk away. that is not a good answer either. then you must consider the consequences. tha

african-american history is american history. there's no american history free of african-americans. african-americans were here a lot earlier than my relatives. there's no culture like african-american like music and literature. this is just who we are. it affects all of us. you're seeing the difficult side of it now. >> that's what i'm asking about. was he thinking about some of that element? >> this wasn't going to happen smoothly. weather he got elected or not. you see in the tea party movement, i'm not suggesting for a second that the everybody in the tea party is racist or even remotely the majority. there are movements coming through history. these kind of movements happen. but at the far end of it, you have seen and heard some pretty ugly things. even in the anxiety and african-american president and it creates a kind of certain vocabulary and a certain kind of outrage. we saw a phone message left on john lewis of all people, a phone message left. again, i don't want to suggest for a second that one phone message is paint

i have some news for the american people. the congressional budget office, even missing all the numbers as dr. roe and i were talking about, the congressional budget office stated that the law will raise the individual market premiums by an average of $2,100 per family. raise them. they're going to go up above what would have been if we did nothing. i don't want to do nothing. i know that you don't want to do nothing. you made that very clear in many hours here on the floor talking. but the cost is going to go up by $2,100 per family on average across this country. that's another failed promise by speaker pelosi and barack obama. i yield back. mr. fleming: there were a number of promises made and each time we try to rebut these, we were to we were using scare tactics. we're scaring old people and it was unconscionable to do that. so what has happened since th bill has passed? first of all, the bill had about 52% of americans against it, against 38% who were for it. today, 63% of americans want repeal system of that means that

are considered african-american. i think it's absolutely fascinating. and so i really wanted to just dive into -- to write a book how race changed over the past 35, 40 years. >> what do you think -- how has it changed? what's the biggest thing you've seen today versus growing up in the '60s? >> well, it's questionable. because i think many people think race relations have move forward in a very positive way. and i question that tremendously. you know, we still have a massively segregated society. 86% of whites within the suburbs are living in neighborhoods with less than 1% african-american residence in their neighborhood. we think things have changed massively but mixed race -- you know, my kids, how will my kids identify themselves growing up in an all-white area right now in rural america. i'm not sure, for example, on mixed race identity, i think it feeds off the current polarization of african-americans and whites in the society. there's still a great polarization of african-americans and whites in society. alth

war against germany, the american involvement in europe, was less popular among the american people than the war in the pacific against japan. and yet, both president roosevelt and the american military planners, relatively early, even before the war, and this is one chapter of the book of american military planning is. you see, when you write a book and you learn something. i would have -- i knew a fair amount about this period, and about american history of that period. but i thought that the germany first strategy, germany is the principal enemy. germany has to be defeated first. and the defeat of japan would come soon afterwards, consequently. that this was, franklin roosevelt's idea. and that he convinced american military planners staff officers, secret war planners to go along with him. i learned, there's a chapter about this in this book, that this was not so, that the american military and staff planners thought the same thing. they did not have to be convinced by franklin roosevelt. and that was the right strategy, in spite of its relative unpopularity among the american p

i am a cuban american. i was an immigrant, but i came legally into the country there is two differences in the whole thing, being legal and illegal. i don't think it's proper of president calderon to come to the united states and tell us what to do about immigration. we, the cubans, when we get to mexico, -- the cubans are coming because they threaten their life. the mexican people are coming here because they are hungry. if the united states, wants to be open to all immigrants, we are thankful for it. however, there is differences. one of the situations that i think will be great to do and all the other countries, why don't these american politicians do business with the politicians. host: we remind you, this discussion continues online. coming up this afternoon, the senate is back in, they'll continue debate on financial regulations with a cloture vote around 2:30, that's on c-span2. on c-span3, continuing coverage of the toyota hearing. online, the first hearing with the representative, the head of masse

it is un-american. and anybody that would stand for that proposition, that we're not going to let these companies compete fairly, we're going to come in and pick the winners and losers. they need to start wearing a name tag that says, king george iii wannabe. i want to pick the winners and losers. i want to tell you who prevails and who doesn't. i will tell you who ends up getting to be the dominant force in america. instead of letting people live in freedom and in liberty and pursue happiness and pursue opportunity. the constitution never guaranteed equality of outcome. it guaranteed equality of opportunity. and that's what ought to be done. anybody that says they support a systemic risk council that gets to pick the winners and losers, these are too big to fail, we can't let them fail, they are enemies of this country, as it was founded. mr. king: reclaiming my time, then i have to pose the question, if you're in business if you're an investment banker, for example, if you have a large credit operatio

in other words, african-american history is american history. >> uh-huh. >> there's no american history free of african-americans. african-americans were here a lot earlier than my relatives who have been around for generations. and there's no american culture without african-american culture whether it's music or literature, et cetera. this is just who we are. so it affects all of us. and you're seeing the difficult side of it now. you're seeing -- >> that's what i'm asking about. was he thinking about some of that element -- >> it wasn't going to happen smoothly. whether he got elected or not. and you see in the tea party movement -- i'm not suggesting everybody in the tea party is racist or in the majority or even the remotely the majority. there are real economic concerns that bubble up and have caused this throughout american history these kind of movements happen. but at the far end of it, you have seen and heard some pretty ugly things. and it can't be by coincidence that the nature of these ugly things are this conbustion -- combustion of insecurity. it's t-creates a certain kin

culture, american values and american founding principles. in order to do so they know that they have to stop the process of assimilation, and in order to do that they have to undermine our immigration laws. it is an outrage that a foreign head of state would appear in this chamber and actively seek to do so. and it is a disgrace that he would be cheered on from the left wing of the white house and from many democrats here in congress. arizona has not adopted a new immigration law. all it has done is enforce existing law that this president refuses to enforce. it's hardly a radical policy to suggest that if an officer on a routine traffic stop encounters a driver with no driver's license, no passport and who doesn't speak demrish that maybe that individual might be here -- english that maybe that individual might be here illegally. and to say those who say we need to reform our immigration laws, we don't need to reform them. we need to enforce them. just as every government does, just as mexico does. above all, this is a debate of, for and by

more access to american oil that but the american people know better. the pathway toward energy independence is environmentally responsible expansion of domestic drilling for oil and natural gas, it's more wind and solar and nuclear and more conservation. republicans are determined to get the american people the answers about what happened on april 20, about the slow federal response and to give the american people answers and a pathway toward energy independence that uses all of the above. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman's time has expired. for what purpose does the gentleman from colorado rise? >> to address the house for one minute and to revise and extend. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, the gentleman is recognized. mr. polis: i rise today to encourage my colleagues to live up to a challenge that has been put before us by the people of our country, by the people of arizona, by the people of my state and that is the challenge to replace our broken immigration system with one that works. as i travel across my district, i haven't fou

>> guest: that is interesting the telegraph did not have much to do with the mexican-american war. it probably would have been conducted the same. budget they do not want the government to take over as the postmaster general did but the first president to comment extensively is james buchanan who is very poor fall it is making it impossible to tell one story in one. the country and the news is spreading and he is very troubled by that. abraham lincoln who was no great fan of the transcontinental telegraph which was understandable as it was the pet project of his rivals, when he becomes president he comes to see the railroad and the telegraph as you 19 of the country and the way that it made the union inevitable but has the technological determination and spend more time in the telegraph office during the civil war than anything else and falling those battles very closely and the news was closely monitored during the civil war because of the wire service. that is a real landmark and the use of the telegraph by the president. hayes was the first to have a telephone in the white house

african american history is american history there's no american history free of african-americans. we will hear a lot earlier than my relatives who had been around for generations. there's no american culture without african-american culture whether it is musical literature etc. it is just who we are so it affects all of us. and you are seeing the difficult side of it now. >> that's what i'm asking about though are you thinking about some of that element? >> this wasn't going to happen is mostly whether he got elected or not and that he party movement i am not suggesting for a second that everybody in the tea party move that is racist or the majority or even remotely the majority are real economic concerns the doubled and calls this through american history and these kind of movements have been. but at the far end of it, you've seen and heard some pretty ugly things and it can't be by coincidence the nature of these things are this combustion of economic uncertainty and anxiety and an african-american president and it creates a kind of surgeon vocabulary and a certain kind of outra

this will be an american agenda with direct involvement from the american people. thank god they still wanted redress their -- petition their government for redress of their grievances. this is another venue for them to do so. and now like to introduce the chairman of our congress. -- a bar conference. -- of our conference. >> thank you all for being here. the american citizens who are joining us, touring the capitol building, those who are looking on around the country, and the members of the media who have joined us from capitol hill for this field trip. we welcome you. thank you for your attention to america speaking out -- americaspeakingout.com. this is a very serious time in the life of this country. there is great anxiety across this land. this economy is strongly, families are hurting, americans are concerned about jobs and runaway federal spending. the american people are looking for answers. and after years of being shut out of the debate here in capitol hill, seeing massive legislation formulated behind closed doors, the american people finally have a wa

on big, complicated issues that affect most americans, the american people will not accept partisan proposals. they want bipartisanship because, by definition, it means there has been some thoughtful and point from different philosophical inputs and is seen as fair. i believe that these really big issues that are very complex, like tax reform, really has to be done in a bipartisan way in order to get the momentum and support from the american people necessary to address it. things like social security, medicare, tax reform needed to be done in a bipartisan fashion. it is one that reason -- one reason why we make a totally bipartisan commission to have a report and congress vote on that. although that got a majority vote, it did not pass. the president picked it up with an executive order. i genuinely believe -- i am not a pessimist about the willingness of the members of the senate to work together to try and solve these problems. unfortunately, there is a definite centrifugal force around this place driven in part by the 24/7 hyperbole which is all one-liners that makes this difficult. i thi

this past that today we were reminded that terrorists are determined to kill americans on american soil. this story is now a little old but shahking in a to further -- but shocking enough to further review it. there is a timing device discovered in times square. it is one of the most visited places in america . the terrace behind this plot was going to murder -- the terrorists behind this plot what did to murder as many americans as possible. it did not explode this time. they will do everything they can to stop a feature terrorist attack. it to pull this terrorist the upper hand. this loophole allows terrorists to purchase military grade explosives and firearms legally in our country. mindful of what senator collins said, we do not want to rob people of a constitutional right. i do not like saying this. it is to air on this side of protection. -- err on the side of protection. it is a challenge is sometimes have to take whateve. just last year, it person on the terror watch list was cleared to buy explosives. how can it be? the federal government cannot block the sale of explosives or

i don't think your idea is a bad idea of asking americans. we all want to ask americans. what do you think, so we can come together to solve what we both agree is a very serious economic ditch into which we have fallen. we need to get out of it. we need to work together to do that. the american public expects us to do that. can't thank the gentleman. and, mr. speaker, i would say, first of all, i think the gentleman knows that i have never, never rooted against this economy or this country. mr. cantor: in fact i've gone out of my way to make public statements, when we have positive job growth, to say, when we see jobs growing it is a good thing, period. and i have been consistent in that message. so i just wanted to speak to that and correct the gentleman's assertion that somehow i'm not giving credit for job growth. but i would say, i'll yield in a second, mr. speaker, i would say we do have much work to be done. and he indicates that somehow this last year was the year that americans paid lower taxes than ever before in recent memory. i would say they paid lower taxes b

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i said to the american people this would take time. it was going to be hard.were not going to see magical transformations immediately but would slow, steady, persistent work on the part of both the united states and the afghan government, i was confident that in fact we could achieve peace and stability and security there and ultimately it would make the american people more safe and more secure. i am more convinced than ever that we have found it difficult but appropriate strategy for pursuing those goals. i am confident we will be able to achieve our mission. theregiká will be setbacks. there will be times when the gap and government and the u.s. government disagree tactically. our overarching approach is unified and i think by this invitation and his willingness to listen to our concerns as we listen to his, this makes the relationship stronger. thank you very much, everybody. [applause] [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2010] >> today, "washington journal" is live next. , later, live

in terms of thinking about the real american is. and many people, liberal intellectuals, people who are really cultivating the program are thinking about imagining that isn't just emulating europe, that is a just white men, that isn't the first americans, it is these indigenous communities, african-americans and rural people and there's a whole effort to sort of excavate the origins of american life. >> these programs developed during the roosevelt administration is largely cultural and reaching out to intellectuals, celebrities and performers from the light. what was the umbrella under which the programs operated and how do they work? >> well, that's a buick a couple work progress administration -- [inaudible] one aspect of it was white-collar, all these people of the book which talks about the programs of the 1930's, but part of what was called schedule one, which was a white-collar program for musicians, writers, authors and staged employees. and part of the mission was to provide art for them. there was an ideology behind it. it

tell them you are the first american, that you're an american, you are the first american and you are as much american as the man that occupies the white house today. that's the right sentiment for this country for legal immigration. that's the way we should think about new americans, in every bit as good a standing once they take the oath of citizenship and go through the naturalization process, in every bit as good a standing as someone born to the 10th generation that might be here. each of us have a different set of history a different set of family histories, but we need to be tied together you should in banner. so the idea that we'll see students sent home from school because they're wearing red, whilet, and blue on a day that's a mexican nationalist day, a day that's not celebrated to any significant extent even down to a city in mexico where the mexicans won a victory over the french, but celebrated here in the united states. i think it was a beer distributor that began the celebration of cinco demayo here in the united states. whatever that is, mr. speaker, i don't take issue

and it's not americans kidnapping americans. it's illegal people coming across our border and starting a big business of kidnapping people. they kidnap them, they hold them for ransom. and if they don't get the ransom on time, they send them a hand or an arm and ultimately maybe a head of their loved one to let them know they didn't pay the money and that's what happened to their loved one. we don't live with that kind of horror in this country, b there it is right there in phoenix, arizona. and that means that this lawlessness that exists on the border of this country, the southern border of this country, is bleeding over into the united states. and we have got to do something about it. so the arizona folks, they wrote themselves a law. and they basically said, they basically defined some stuff that federal officers have had the ability to do for some time. and they talked about the fact that if washington is not going to do something, we're going to do something to try to find out who these people are that are coming across ou

and protection of, you know, american -- american products. the united states crossed over an important bridge in the late 19th century and became a real power. mckinley was the first person to walk us over the bren. -- bridge. woodrow wilson and franklin roosevelt talked about the inch indications. but it's mckinley who walked us over the bridge to make us is 20th century global power that we were. >> we are here live at the "los angeles times" book festival. it's held on the grounds of ucla in the west l.a. area. and, in fact, the c-span bus is also here. and they are handing out book bags. so if you happen to be in the area, you want to come down and get a book bag, come on down and see us. next call for tim naftali comes from west hanover, new hampshire. good afternoon. >> good day, tim. it looks like you're enjoying yourselves. we've got a little rain here. a general comment and then a question for you there. first of all, i'm currently reading the chalmers johnson trilogy. he's position a lot of on research on militarism and his books ar

keep african-americans in their place. i was angered in the 1950's and 1960's when i saw that kind of rhetoric, because i thought that was not the america that i was so proud of. hear that language that was used back in 1948. and read the transcripts today. in 1965, i was -- excuse me, in 1990, the sponsor of the americans with disabilities act. there was an amendment offered that said people with aids could not be waiters and waitresses. why? because people wouldn't come into restaurants if they knew that somebody with aids was serving them. of course, all the scientists and medical personnel said there was no way to transmit aids by handling plates or food. and i pulled out some rhetoric. interesting eugh,ing from 19 -- from 1965, when the public considerations law was considered on this floor, and guess what they said. they said if we have african-american waiters and waitresses, people won't come into our restaurants. that's why we don't have african-americ waiters and african-american restaurants. that was not the ame

one indicator with 2.4 million americans now under lock, the u.s. imprisoned almost 1 million more people than china, and authoritative state with four times the population base. second, how is it that measures of racial in criminal justice have widened over the past two generations? in the middle of the last century, before montgomerie, before the march on washington, before the civil rights act, after that americans were going to present at about four times the rate of whites. today they're going to prison at almost seven times the rate of whites. almost double. until recently social scientists have been curiously reticent on the second question, but they have provided legion answers to the first, as to why it is the u.s. has built such a massive and exceptional prison system. law and order conservatives had definitive expansion of incarceration as a reason and effective response to elevated postwar crime rates. but they have failed to explain why other countries, notably canada, successfully lowered crime with no comparable prison build a. in fac

the bank of what the american people make the bus. -- just think of what the american people think ofe allow that to happen. it would be blood on our hands. we would be responsible for the death of all of those people. that is why this legislation is common sense. there's all possible violation of a constitutional right. i agree with that completely and we provide all legal mechanism that after a person is notified, they can go to court and challenges. senator lautenberg has even more extensive protections. i would certainly be willing to adopt my legislation toward that. no one wants to be having someone always strongly. if we balance this and we look at what we are facing -- all possible slaughter of american citizens, and murder of american citizens by al qaeda supporters, by islamic militants and terrorists -- to me there should be no real debate here. as long as there protections in here and they are in here, but the balanced equity is on the side of protecting the american people. we saw the guns were bought in a potential attack at fort dix. we saw a major homicide -- major has

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of the american businesses. it of the america's businesses that help us in this period of economic crisis. the said been a tough two years for our country. i do not need to tell you this. countless businesses had to shut their doors. trillions of dollars in savings were lost. it forced young people to forgo college and entrepreneurs to given -- to give up starting a company. many people had to be let go. more than a million men and women lost their jobs. just about every day i hear from some of these people, people who are out-of-work. i hear about them from letters i receive each nigh]> every once in while i hear from children seeking to make sense of what is happening in their families, the sadness and uncertainty that they do not fully understand. it is a reminder that what has happened is not justç an econoc problem. it is a human tragedy. we have maintained a focus on reviving the at economy in job growth. some of which are very to see some hopeful signs. when i last spoke to members of the business counci

it felt american to us. >> pelley: did he feel american?absolutely. >> pelley: martinez built homes. his wife raised the children and taught hebrew school on the side. in 2007, martinez was pulled over for a traffic stop and the police discovered he was here illegally. martinez was deported to mexico. and under u.s. law, there was practically no way for him to obtain legal status once he'd committed an immigration violation. >> martinez: he took matters into his own hand and came and took a bus to the border and called me from there that he was about to cross and there was no one going to hold him from doing that. >> pelley: and what happened to him? >> martinez: they caught him two times. and on his third try to cross, he drowned. >> pelley: you know, many people watching this interview are probably thinking to themselves, "this is a terrible tragedy for your family, but he shouldn't have come. what he did was illegal and he shouldn't have tried." >> martinez: that is true and i understand that. but i think that once you put yourself in th

we are americans. most of us. [laughter] we always have disagreement in this country but. >> you raise a very interesting issue. it was always said slashing third could not bring himself to end the biographies, the volumes on roosevelt because of just that coming he could not deal with what happened to rose about. as you mentioned reminds me it was a longstanding problem for mayor ken liberalism to do with disagreements even within its ranks and it is impoverished with the intellectual discourse terribly. there is no place where liberals and conservatives get together. the days were both buckley met in manhattan with a few liberal journalists are over. we tried to get them in here and a couple of others. impossible. >> day they heard you say that before. >> [laughter] but there is something odd about it and might go with your enormous grasp of history hong, idled think there is a point* in the western world where the orthodoxy dominated a society without any democratic support whatsoever but just dominated because

and stand up for the american people.show at long last that we're not going to allow wall street to destroy more lives. we're not going to allow wall street to allow an adverse impact of $100,000 per family to transpire again. that we're going to at long last provide real reform for the american people and hold wall street accountable to the abusive practices they engage in, for the dishonesty and fraud and sometimes criminal conduct they engage in. so it is about time that the groups who are opposing reform -- and of course the chamber has been opposing lots of reform lately; we won't go into all of it -- but i would hope that the chamber of commerce would make it very clear where they stand in this debate, because when they come out against proposals like this, they stand to protect wall street at the expense of the american people. and with that, i would yield the floor. mr. durbin: madam president? the presiding officer: the senator from illinois. mr. durbin: madam president, i have an amendment which has been filed a

it's the right thing to do for the american people. let's make sure that we remain the most innovative nation in the world. that's what the american competes act that should pass with wide bipartisan majorities as the first authorization of this bill did a couple years ago with roughly 360 members supporting it. they should support it again today. i urge its passage and i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields back the balance of his time. the gentleman from texas, mr. hall. mr. hall: mr. speaker, i yield myself such time as i may consume. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized. mr. hall: i recognize that we all write language differently, however once the house has voted on and passed that language, i think it ought to be included in the bill that the house has considered. and that's happened not once but a couple times. regretfully i disagree with chairman -- with the chairman, there is no assurance that an underlying bill that a single institution helping disabled veterans would benefit. let me say t

and enterprise of americans businesses. and it will be america's businesses that help us emerge from this period of economic crisis and economic turmoil. the fact is these have been a tough two years for our country. i do not need to tell you that. at the height of the recession, countless businesses had to shut their doors. the trains of dollars in savings were lost, forcing seniors to postpone retirement and young people to forgo college, entrepreneurs to give up stuff on starting a company. many businesses that remained standing had to let people go. and some of you had to make some painful decisions. and more than 8 million men and women lost their jobs during the course of the downturn. just about every day i hear from some of these people -- people who are out of work. i hear from them through letters that i receive each night or in town halls that i've held across america. every once in awhile, i hear from children seeking to make sense of what is happening in their families, of the sadness and uncertainty that they