the american original. for over two decades, for the l >>> issue one, the american dream. >> the economic expansion that began in the middle of last year is proceeding at a moderate pace. supported by monetary policies. we will and fiscal policies. we will continue. >> america is recession weary. now in its third year since the meltdown and more bad news this week, item, jobs vanish. employment last month dropped 301,000 workers. item, banks busted. 96 banks have shut down so far this year on track for the highest number in 18 years. item, markets wobble. the dow fell 6.6% this year. the s and p has dropped 5.0%. item, confidence plunges in june. from 62.7 to 52.9 on the comforts board index. 10 points in one month. item, retail sales, manufacturing, auto making. all down. >>> little wonder that the fourth annual metlife study of the american dream shows that the percentage of americans who believe the u.s. economy will be the same or worse than last year is 67%. two out of three people, which is consistent

writing an african american character. you have to think about, too, this whole idea of political correctness has both an up side and a very bad down side. one of those is people tend to be very cautious and not want to try things like that. i eventually through my relationship with danny glover pulled it out of my drawers -- out of the drawer, desk drawer, and read it and danny was instrumental in saying, let's do this. let's just do this. but, again, it was me working with some african american actors and i actually had it vetted by august wilson, read it and checked it out for me and there's another fellow who wrote soldier's story, charles fuller, took a look at it for me. i wanted to make sure my bases were covered. but this new play, what i did was, i feel comfortable writing the characters, but you are never sure. one thing that happened was steven anthony jones helped me a great deal with the african american character. we took it to sundance and what happens when you go to sundance is you bring some actors and som

they're creating american jobs to produce american power. a tour with the veterans of our country about american power, about how we can create jobs here and not send hundreds of billions of dollars to foreign nations' treasuries and those nations are unfriendsly to the u.s. that's the change -- unfriendly to the u.s. that's the changed thinking, not the failure of the past that drained, that lost eight million jobs do. we go back to those failed policies or do we transition over to what has been the road to recovery, albeit not as fast as we would like, but it's progress, it's movement in the right direction and its innovation and -- it's innovation and it's embracing the american intellect. ms. wasserman schultz: thank you very much, mr. tonko. i want to add a couple more thing things and then i know mr. schauer will close us out. one of the things that i think it's important to note that we also have done, because deficit spending is -- deficits are really an issue and deficit spend something an issue, we -- when we took the majority back

americans deserve answers. [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2010] >> tonight, the final debate between four candidates in michigan gov.'s republican primary debate. it is followed by a rebates -- the debate by those running

african-americans and asian- americans. do you novak when the agent exclusion act, the chinese exclusion act was before congress in 1870, the first national leader to speak out against that was frederick douglass. the same man who fought against slavery. do you know that when the chinese exclusion act was voted on in congress, there was one black senator named blanche bruce, the only african-american in the u.s. senate, voted against it. similarly, we work side-by-side for semel -- civil rights and improve public education. in '86, and laundry owner sued the san francisco board of supervisors for a racially discriminatory law, and it brought equal protection to minorities, and that overturned the 1857 dread scott case, which held that minorities were not protected by the u.s. constitution. we have the landmark case of brown harris is board of education, 1954, to thank for equality in education. -- brown v. board of education. seven years later, the chinese community here worked shoulder to shoulder with the african- america

who is an american? how do we sort of coexist in this post war period where the people from that community are by and large marginalized, yet you have this whole kind of other thing happening where it's -- the war has been won, this is like new things, television is happening, advertising, this whole advertising thing is happening. so you have these marginalized peoples and what happens, is it possible to develop a kind of at that moment a cross-cultural community? is it possible to have kind of a multi cultural community that emerged from that moment? and so, in particular, that's what i wanted to explore. and part of the back drop is there was this extraordinary jazz scene happening in that area. there's this wonderful book called fillmore harlem west and also there's several other books that are about that particular era. but that's all happening too, people like billie holiday, count basie, duke ellington, they were all playing in the fillmore district, bop city, plantation club, jack's tavern. that'

accent and the american people will take an american accent in a better way that's right well george bush proved that you can fool the american people into accepting anything if you stand adama and he sounded deep south and in texas enough so he said look george bush we're going to completely destroy your economy and you're now left with nothing and everyone bought into it now you've got tony hayward's got that kind of british accent and of course i was like oh no it's foreign we don't accept it so they put in an american what's his name dudley robert dudley robert dudley so he'll get on there for b.p. and say well the girl goes completely destroy what we totally eviscerated and we bought a joke. i mean and we're occupying your country and you know a bunch of peasants now but does american accent suits ok and they're going to be like. we're peasants i feel like i could have a beer with him. well this however you know they're going to have an american accent to explain to the population of america which is suddenly interested in b.p.'s role in the release of the lockerbie bomber but o

i irish american. i didn't know what a pure american was. none of my friends were pure americans. a lot of my friends were lebanese and from syria. i had yewish and irish american friends. all of our identities were mixed. my sense of being american was being in a mix of things. >> margaret could you also reflect in a prior conversation you talked about your father had a sense of where he came from and it was a little more difficult for your mom to articulate that? >> sure. mother's side is irish american my father come from a different heritage. he is a genealogy. he traced his family all the way back to the times when they moved from spain to a region of france. that's where his family came from as peasants in 1850. and for generations, his family members had been going back to this place to visit their distant cousins. they knew exactly where it was. i was thinking that was a year after my irish american family came here. why don't my irish american family know this information. i want to try to find out what it is. i didn't know at that time what i was undertaking. i heard it

financial regulatory reform legislation, and as the chairman of the federal reserve testifies about the american economy before congress, we have a conversation with the secretary of the treasury, tim geithner. people ask two things about this financial reform legislation. number one, will it prevent another crisis? number two, does it speak to, in terms of capital requirements, and risk and leverage, the very things that caused the crisis in the first place? >> i've always said that the centerpiece of any reform is capital. stronger capital requirements. constraints on leverage. forced to institute more stable funding. that's the most important way to prevent future financial crises and it is the most important test of reform and what this bill does is provide authority that the government of the united states did not have to make sure we can set and enforce those capital requirements on these institutions, not just the banks but the large institutions, complicated institutions that are the big global leaders in these areas like goldman sachs, like morgan stanley, like g.e. capital, not just ci

they were the architects of the american and russian space programs. great eternal rivals in the battle to reach out to space. to make their first attempts to reach for the stars in their childhood as a boy in the soviet union so gay designed simple ideas but as time went by he came up with a more sophisticated. craft as for venice at the age of twelve he created a prototype rocket by equipping a crate with fireworks he also. built a wagon that he launched in his hometown and apparently this wagon any ad had mounted rockets he had made on it and it knighted that ran down the main street of his hometown and. who was von braun's long time private secretary says venet attracted police attention many times for firing things into the air nowadays buckbee often takes people on a tour of the space museum in huntsville where each exhibit is related to von braun . but the best storyteller of. exploits is his only daughter natalia she wrote about him in three volumes of memoirs simply titled my father. with this this is a picture of the first soviet rocket it wa

not only do these -- did these funds help american families, they help the american economy. one reason there is not enough jobs right now is weak consumer demand. c.b.o. has found that extending unemployment benefits to be one of the most cost effective and fast acting ways to stimulate the economy. every dollar in unemployment benefits creates at least $1.64 in economic activity as opposed to the 29 cents the bush tax cuts would generate if extended, according to a chief economist of moody's -- moodys.com. the c.b.o. projected that the restoration of emergency unemployment compensation act of 2010 would cost $33 billion which works out to be about $2,200 per unemployed person, of those people. this is roughly 7/1,000th of 1%. yet the republicans now want to claim fiscal responsibility. providing these benefits is fiscally responsible and more than that, it's a moral responsibility. in the month of may, the state of pennsylvania had a 9.1% unemployment rate and in my area in southwest pennsylvania we see many economies that are still hovering arppeds the 10% mark. while i wa

neither dot american people think this is -- neither do the american people think this is right. we need jobs in the private sector. i reserve the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlelady reserves the balance of her time. the gentleman from florida. mr. hastings: mr. speaker, i'm very pleased to yield two minutes to my friend, the distinguished jo from nevada, ms. berkley. two tight minutes. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlelady is recognized. ms. berkley: let me tell you something about the state of nevada. we have the highest unemployment rate in the country, 14.5% unemployed. our fellow citizens with no jobs to go to and no jobs to seek. we have the highest mortgage foirk rate in the country. -- forecast rate in the country. -- foreclosure rate in the country. unemployment benefits are not a handout. it's not welfare. it's giving a helping hand to our fellow citizens that need it the most, to get them where they are now which is without a job to where they're going to be when there's an economic recovery. the gentleman from northern nevada had an amendment

to the american people. they forced down the throats of the american public a bill which is now law that was designed to fail. designed to fail, america. why do i say that? it was designed to push people off of private health insurance. designed to push people into a, what's now called a public exchange. that's going to force people into more and more government. it's designed to lead us just before obamacare was passed into law that he said he wanted to go. where everybody in this country would be on one insurance policy. one pool is what he said. that means socialized medicine, where bureaucrats here in washington, d.c., direct the health care for everybody in this country, that tell doctors like myself -- i'm a general practice doctor -- how to practice medicine, who we can give care to, what tests we can do. and in fact, right now today the federal government tells me and other physicians across this country whether we can admit a patient that's on medicare to the hospital or not. it's not determined by

major american corporations joined hands with key international partners and individual american donorstom molds and metal alloys were created that would form the 184 individual benches on display throughout the memorial. steel fired at over 3,000 degrees would ultimately be crafted into individual tributes designed to last for generations to come. as would be expected, every detail of the pentagon memorial is deliberate and helps tell a part of the overall story. >> right off the bat we decided to try to figure out a way to invite interpretation; put enough clues, enough hints and clues into this place that would make one pause for a second, and a place to just contemplate. the act of contemplation at this place is, in and of itself, a way to pay respect. >> the memorial consists of 184 individual cantilevered benches perched above a shimmering pool of water, each bearing a single victim's name. >> a hundred and eighty-four unique individuals lost their lives here going about their daily lives, and we wanted to really emphasize both the individual nature of each of those people, as wel

this is a very important issue to the american economy and the american public. my friend from north carolina suggests that economists don't think that this is a good thing. well, mark zandi who is the chief economist at moody's, who was president bush's -- one of his economists and supporters, says no form of the fiscal stimulus has proved more effective during the past two years than emergency unemployment benefits. providing a bang for the buck of $1.61 for every $1 put in. paul crugman, nobel prize winning economist, that's not a bad little opportunity prize to win, one main reason there aren't enough jobs right now is weak consumer demand. helping the unemployment by putting money into the pockets of people who badly need it help support consumer spending. that's why the c.b.o. rates aiding the unemployment as a highly cost effective form of economic stimulus. timely, targeted and temporary, the three keys to stimulus spending and unemployment compensation goes to people who are the purple hearts of this economic recession, an economic recession caused by ge

i wish all americans have the independence day. as fireworks simulate the rockers there, i hope we will pause and think of the men and%+ women in uniform -- the rockets glare, i hope we will pause and think of the men and women in uniform. we're grateful for their service. may god bless them and may god continue to bless our nation. thank you. [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2010] >> tomorrow on "washhngton journal" -- blake hounshell discusses tyrants and dictators and their threat to world wide peace and stability. paul harrison joins us from the environmental defense fund, examining long term proposals for restoring the gulf coast reason. and peter decoursey

heritage month, every month can be african american heritage month.ry month can be seen the demise of. every month could be irish american, every month could be women's history month. don't you agree with me? [applause] this is a place where we all call home. we recognize there are a lot of issues in our communities these days, but this is a place we all call home, so the message that the apa heritage celebration committee would like you to take with you after this celebration is that we believe heritage and culture is something that we are proud of and something that we can all share. there is common ground in many traditions and common values among communities of all colors that we can all appreciate. we, the committee, are committed to take every opportunity to invite all communities to come together in occasions like this, to connect, to open doors ..., to get to know each other more. we need to do that in this city, and i know that today is not the first day, but every day can be the first day of forever. i want to thank you for coming as we cele

this obstruction doesn't just keep food off american tables. it keeps americans out of work. people like annette. last month she lost her benefits. now she can't afford the gas she needs to drive to job interviews. like the vast majority of those on unemployment, annette uses these funds as a bridge to her next job to replace it. the notion that relief discourages people from seeking jobs is not only wrong but outrageous. so today i call on republicans to stop hurting american workers. stop playing politics with their lives. and start letting the senate and millions of americans get back to work. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentlewoman from ohio rise? >> i rise to address the house. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. miss shultz: mr. speaker, last week the state of ohio announced that its unemployment rate for june was 10.5%. every county in my district saw an increase and in some areas higher than 14%. and that's before taking into account those people that have given up looking for work and the underemployed. no wonder my consti

but to most american media she's yet another twenty something russian agent. in light of this season's spy hike every russian woman in the u.s. seems to mistreat. young maybe a schoolteacher maybe a reporter doesn't matter what you do but the allure of a russian spies there and the women are the most intriguing. movie critics say the rest of ten russian agents in the u.s. this summer was the best answer campaign possible for the latest movie with angelina jolie a russian spy story song might have come across as a little outdated but after the rest it appears fresh and new the most challenging was speaking russian very hard learned that you have all you have a full study of the f.b.i. could make a great gift to this movie and it's not the only one of the summer nights in date with tom cruise it's a favorite plots in hollywood but i think in the future they're going to be more comedy and some spice rather than serious drama. real life spying is no joke but when a young attractive woman enters the picture things change. i was i think what was most most readers ar

and it was the health center and nailtive american aids project together -- native american aids project together that really helped me to be where i'm at today and without these two organizations, without these two women, i wouldn't be where i'm at today. so it really is with deep respect, i thank these two ladies. so thank you. and now mark would like to say a few words about kathy. >> thank you. about three years ago kathy was hired at the native american health center. i didn't know her at the time or at least i didn't think i did. we started talking about the old days and how things were and it turned out she knew my mother and we talked more and it turns out she remembered me as a kid. during the longest walk. and i thought, wow, that goes back 1978. i'm 45 now. that story that you're under 40e isn't going to work anymore. no, honestly i think, you know, what we do at the health center as well as nap is provide services that are needed for our community and the city as a whole. with the recent budget cuts and cuts to the h.i.v. programs and dental and medical, it's apparent that we

accent and the american people will take an american accent in a better way that's right well george bush proved that you can fool the american people into accepting anything if you sound a dumb and you stand a deep south and in texas and so he said look. we're going to completely destroy your economy and you're now left with nothing and everyone bought into it now you've got tony hayward's got that kind of british accent and of course i was like oh no it's for him we don't accept it so they put in an american what's his name dudley robert dudley robert dudley so he'll get on there for b.p. and say well the bill goes completely destroy what we've totally eviscerated the big budget you economy and we're occupying your country then you're all bunch of peasants now but does america not san soo it's ok. and you watch the kaiser report in just fifteen minutes time here on r t but for that let's take a look at russia close up as we take you to another part of the world's biggest country. and today we're just two hundred kilometers from moscow in the cold. region the center of russian scien

americans are angry at the expenditure of this way abroad in iraq and. afghanistan but also the expenditure of seventy five billion a year on the so-called security intelligence industrial complex which is a two fold increase from the time before nine eleven and when people say after nine eleven everything changed well yeah it sure did but not to the good former cia analyst rama govern there now let's turn to some other stories from around the world and i'm going to rancho rains in china have triggered a landslide which is left more than twenty people missing thousands of civilians were evacuated from their homes many houses roads and bridges collapsed almost a thousand people have died so far this here in the worst flooding to hit the country in a decade forecasters say more heavy rains are expected this week. while giant b.p. suffered a record loss of seventeen billion dollars in the second quarter of this year in the wake of that some oil spill in the gulf of mexico downstream came as b.p. boss tony hayward took the decision to step down bob dudley wh

elderly asian-american victims allegedly committed by african-american youths has raised the questionwhether the

see americans and russians in space together. in one hundred seventy five the so you project put an end to the space race. i'm approaching so use. less than five meters. three meters. contact. i like chocolates most of all like the trickle of chocolates a location. cosmonaut valeri could bounce off was part of the soyuz apollo project and often visits this museum he remembers every minute of his mission the food what they talked about and how they welcomed the apollo crew lives board which is a good suit vapor labels from ball tolls off bald go with us. and when we were up there i randomly pasted them on a couple of chub and one of them turned out to be filled with borsch and the other with some kind of a tomato paste. on the end when american astronauts stafford and dick slayton said sound on the table. i show them that use and you know yeah good idea they said. today new cosmonauts are set to go into space one by one of the countries are creating their space programs india and japan and china has already launched its own cosmon

for millions of americans. i thank -- i think every member wants to see every member of our society live the american dream and you have to do that by creating jobs. i yield back the balance of my time. i thank you for your leadership. ms. fudge: thank you so much, madam chair. i would like to thank the gentlelady from california who has been a tireless advocate for the jobless, the homeless, the hopeless, the helpless. this caucus is better. at this time, i would like to yield to my colleague from the state of georgia, mr. johnson. mr. johnson: thank you and it is indeed an honor to serve in congress with you ladies who are all champions of regular working people and poor people of this country regardless of gee oggra if i and i salute you. in this age of women we are living in. and you know, i remember, madam speaker, just within the last 17 months the leader of the republican party said publicly that he hopes that president obama fails. do you all remember that? it was well publicized. it was not coming from

in iraq if the if the state were to not be a solid is the americans who told me when there is hard to believe there always are already talking about leaving afghanistan i mean the united states is talking about the future and for americans the future comes real soon in the region it's a lot more long term so how can we be talking about a negotiated peace when at the same time the obama administration are enormous pressure is being pressured to actually leave the region or leave it in not on the same level of where troops are and security forces are just and lowered and moved back how can you do both at the same time. well i think you have to be careful not to repeat the mistakes of the past and that is to have a very prison project would draw which is what has informed a lot of the cajun is and the caution on the part of the pakistanis that as happened after the the the soviet withdrawal from afghanistan that the americans after having helped pakistan with the majority in and installed government in kabul basically took off in the middle of the night. that is unlikely to happen this t

elderly asian-american victims allegedly committed by african-american youths has raised the questionwhether the growing interracial tensions in cities like san francisco and oakland are partly to blame. i think most of us hope that the election of president obama would transcend the racial divide. however, even if this divide were somehow overcome, it would not address the racial divide amongst minorities in this country. the reality is

americans angry at the expenditure of funds in this way abroad and in iraq. afghanistan but also the expenditure of seventy five billion a year on the so-called security intelligence industrial complex which is a two and a half fold increase from the time before nine eleven and when people say after nine eleven everything changed well yeah it sure did but not to the good. former cia analyst roy mcgovern there and our website or two dot com has a lot more for you to check out and here's a taste of what's streaming there right now. russian american drug police busted a trafficking ring involving a show man and a corrupt officer. and russian lawmakers predict the last days of sham psychics will call on their trust in clients out of thousands of dollars more had to r t dot com. let's now take a look at some other stories from around the world and an air blue passenger plane reportedly carrying one hundred fifty two people has crashed into hills close to the pakistani capital islamabad rescuers are trying to reach the scene but roads in the region are difficult to

agriculture businesses don't want americans working for them. which translates into workers needed a spanish language sign definitely aimed towards immigrant workers a foreign based workforce that's making sure that. make it to your table there's no need for interviews or long applications undocumented immigrants simply show up at a field and they're hired many people including former president george w. bush i mean immigrant workers do the jobs americans used to do at a farm in oxnard a city just north of los angeles neighbors. the average american could step in their shoes even for a day. to hire a. white person is too hard. i haven't seen any american here working here in the fields said he'll get it all came into this country illegally through the southern california desert he makes a dollar ninety for every box of strawberries he feels and now in an effort to employ americans and obviously to prove a point the united farm workers union is embodying american citizens to take the jobs of these farm workers wouldn't be surprised if after a day

i believe that people do want change i believe that cuban americans also want change the difference is that i believe change will happen when you have people exchanging ideas when you have people seeing democracy in action the problem with frank is that he believes that change will occur by maintaining a fifty plus policy that has been has narrowed to cuba if anything it made things worse i mean people will still not have one of the cities of life but that's really how life where i am going to go is the ninety miles make l. make you know tell me that what i got better well you know well i'll tell you one thing that's not what i believe and you don't know me you know of my problem is what i would like to see is to be to you know you know kind of discussion well but i don't talk about your problems so you seem to talk about my frank make a point be frank make a point go ahead please make a point the point is wait is that for example let me let me say this you talk about a number of things you said about israel for example female cows for a rope broke relations with israel feel cast restr

prisoners does not meet the expectations of a president ok so the cubans aren't listening to the americans god after sixty years they still won't listen to and won't be told what to do kathy what do you think about that i mean this this is a this is really an abomination in foreign policy the only other foreign foreign policy the united states has that i think even gets remotely close is with iran it's just it's psychopathic it's a psychopathic obsession around one of them and it's even worse with cuba because it's just simply longer i mean this what is this embargo really achieved. nothing it hasn't achieved anything i mean it was supposed to help the human rights in cuba and the people are suffering this they have a not so good they don't have me to they don't have cheers for their pizzas i mean they don't have the basics in life that make life pleasurable they can't leave the island they're just it's a disaster the government's fine for their customers brother have always had a great time they're living a beautiful life so the embargo has done nothing for me then the castro brothers are

taxes, hire american workers or follow american health, savity and environmental laws. ms. sanchez: i would expect all americans to support the jones act and in the past we have. recently, some have tried to blame the jones act for b.p.'s failure to clean up its own mess. nothing could be further from the truth there is no effort that the jones act has interfered with the cleanup in any way. we are in a recession. it's time to work together to expand american manufacturing and create jobs, not play partisan games. i urge my colleagues to stop posturing and start supporting american families by supporting the jones act. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlelady yields back her time. the chair would lay before the house the following personal requests. the clerk: leaves of absence requested for mr. culberson of texas for today after 1:45 p.m. and mr. doyle of pennsylvania for today. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, the requests are granted. for what purpose does the gentleman from north carolina seek attention? >> mr. speaker, i ask unanimous consen

they loved the native americans.here was a navajo-hopi agreement, and the big boys, the interior committee would not let me end. -- would not let me in. will of the conflict was right in my district, and they would not let me ein. i offered an amendment that said we are going to freeze a moratorium on the navajo-hopi settlement. the navajo people were with me and cheered me, but the navajo leadership did not like it. neither did mo. he said bill, this is not the way to get things done. the champion of the navajos was against it. everybody was against it. for a while, i said i am going to back off. but the navajo people wanted it because there was some unsettled claims. stewart udall came up and said bill, you have had fun with this. good worked. you have got the people behind you. but now it is time to go. and we ended up with an agreement. now i have 30 seconds to say this. there was a conference recently called the great outdoors. i commend the president and secretary salazar for putting it together. there were all

a strategy to boost american manufacturing. for generations, for generations, americans have looked at our manufacturing sector as a source of economic vitality. a source of good paying jobs and a source of pride. almost has always been proud to be a country that makes things. somewhere those jobs and that pride are a thing of the past, but democrats don't believe that. and we are committed to the make it in america agenda will encourage bills to make it in industry and improving manufacturing infrastructure and innovation, strengthen the america workforce, and create a level playing field for american manufacturers that compete worldwide in this flat world of which tom friedman spoke. n america agenda is made up of a range of bills that will come to the floor in the coming weeks, including enhancement act which passed the house on wednesday. it makes it easier for american companies to get the materials they need to manufacture goods here. the sectors act which passed this week, it foreigns -- forls partners to train workers n

the americans with disabilities act of 1990 was enacted to protect all americans from discrimination on the basis of disability. i am proud that we are able to look back on the passage of the americans with disabilities act and recognize the importance of this legislation and the changes made in american society, but our work is not yet done. the law must continue to evolve. we must continue to revisit the ada and to examine whether it is accomplishing its purpose. where we find that it is not, we must be willing to make changes. one recent example occurred in the last congress when we passed the americans with disabilities act amendment of 2008, which was assigned by george w. bush and went into effect into the asinine. this restored the ada to congress as original intent by clarifying the coverage of anyone with disabilities and over rowling -- overruling a court decision that anyone with a disability would list their aid it simply because the treatment was available. we hope that this kind of determination and cooperation will continue into the future so that individuals with disa

the so-called american taliban was captured and grievously mistreated by american forces i might add anyway if a kid like that can get in why can an agent you know i just don't think we've really developed the human intelligence and it would some ways we've relied far too much on this technical expertise and that's probably the that's part of the problem where the contractors come in because they come in and they promised the world one of the big projects at the n.s.a. that completely failed one of the biggest contractors it was called s.a.i.c. it's based here in washington now while they spend about five billion dollars on a system to track all the phone calls and analyze them the thing completely failed and they started a new program who got the contract s.a.i.c. because they had done it before and they just decided to pass it on to them and i think these companies come in there and they promise you know all these secret things that they can do and promises that they can track everything and they can do it but it is not inevitable at let's say in this age when we have things like c

before they decided most of them decided to go with the americans. surprisingly the americans welcomed their former enemies despite the fact that a new conflict was on the horizon the cold war. who flew with russians their first job was to learn how to fly an airplane to go bomb russia the american people looked at these these people the local people anyway as being able to assist us in developing a new system for defense of the country the americans won the space race but did we win the space race when you look at the fathers of space in the last century you had one of the was germany and then you look at the russians and we have surrogate pavlovitch carlo he had spent time in the gulag and some of his first designs that he did on aviation where we're from the gulag. but. was eventually released from prison and was no longer an enemy of the soviet people in fact he became his country's protector and made chief designer of a ballistic missile called item number one. even lost his identity and was now a top secret somebody working on a top secret tusk

it's not enough to simply buy american, we have to sell american. we have to sell our products and goods and services throughout this world. in fact, over 80% of our trade deficits today is with countries that are not trade agreement partners. that are not level playing fields for the united states. that's why we push hard for those agreements. five years ago the united states, for example, five years ago, the united states had a $1.2 billion trade deficit with central america. last year the united states had turned that around because the agreement to a $1.2 bill trade surplus. we are on track to surpass that surplus again this year. last year the united states had a trade surplus in manufactured goods with our central american partners of almost $2 billion. we are on track again this year. nor is cafta the only example how trade agreements can improve u.s. trade balance. this week also marks the eighth anniversary of the final house vote on the trade act of 2002, under which we have resoundingly successful trade agreements with 13 countries now in

indian, american indian aids project and the american indian health center to celebrate five outstanding local heroes for their work in the san francisco bay area, american indian community. now therefore be it resolved that i, the mayor, do hereby proclaim november, 2009, as american indian heritage month in the city and county of san francisco. at this time i'd also like to recognize the offices of several elected officials who are providing certificates of honors to all of the awardees this evening. the office of senator mark leno, assemblyman tom amiano and speaker of the house nancy pelosi. i'd also like to thank helen walkasou of friendship house, john ben with a of the american native -- john ben with a -- jonbenet, lindo brian from kqed and mark espinosa from the native american health center. and i'd like to now introduce mark espinosa, executive director of san francisco native american health center. >> good evening, everyone. welcome. i'd like to congratulate all the winners tonight as well as thank all the sponsors for this great event. native american health center of san f

don't give the moon away to the americans. much time wasted. the american flag on the surface. i really believe that. the us to the moon. in our day and we did that in the sixty's and i think it was because there was serious competition between the two countries. didn't get to see strong take the first step. sixty six. and his identity was finally. triggering a way. even though. my father like to say that people can travel into space issued by train he was absolutely sure that outer space was. not empty and people must live and work there he said. the north could hardly have been magine seeing americans and russians in space together the fund did in one hundred seventy five the so use apollo project to put an end to the space race. i'm approaching so use. less than five meters. three meters. contact. near bush. i like chocolates most of all like these trickle up there are a lot of chocolates a location. cosmonaut valeri could bounce off was part of the soyuz apollo project and often visits this museum he remembers every minute of his mission the food what they talked about and