then went to three separate cases in which the american enterprise institute filed briefs on behalf of one side and in each case not only do justice thomas not recuse himself but he sided with the american enterprise institute every single time so i can carve three more notches in justice thomas' corruption he's official the best supreme court drug money can buy and that's very variable. details on how apple may even be working for you from taking pictures of misbehaving cleats. and getting. into a little mirror military mechanisms to do the work to bring justice or to the world . i have every right to know what my government should do if you want to know why i pay taxes. i would characterize obama as the charismatic. of american exceptionalism. but so much for years here i thought a record concerts and sporting events in order to stop people from posting videos of live events online some key. companies may have exclusive rights to apple says that they're working with commercial broadcasters to disable the i phone's video recorder at such events infrared sensors mounted at these live

abraham lincoln is the gift from the conservative think tank the american enterprise institute promised then went to hear three separate cases in which the american enterprise institute filed briefs on behalf of one side and in each case not only did justice thomas not recuse himself but he sided with the american enterprise institute every single time so i couldn't carve three more notches in a justice thomas' corruption he's officially the best supreme court judge money could buy and that's very very. details on how apple may even be working for you from taking pictures of misbehaving. and getting. into it only when there were three mechanisms google would come to bring justice or . i have every right to know what my government should do if you want to know why i pay taxes. i would characterize obama as the charismatic version of american exceptionalism. well so much for use here i found a record concerts and sporting events in order to stop people from posting videos of live events online some keep. somebody may have exclusive rights to apple says that they're working with commercial

and ken green, who studies environmental policy for the american enterprise institute. glen hurowitz, is al gore right? >> he is right. unfortunately environmentalists got the sense that president obama was not fully fighting for the climate and for the urgent environmental needs that we have during the debate over climate legislation when he cut side deals with the oil industry, the coal industry, the nuclear industry without getting anything in return in terms of a commitment to support a cap on pollution or investment in clean-energy jobs. that was rumor that he was seeing other people but we really got confirmation when he embraced a broad agenda of drilling for oil offshore in the gulf, now looking to do in the very sensitive ecological areas in alaska. we saw it when he opened up huge areas for coal mining in wyoming it's about 30 times the amount of coal mining as clean energy that his installation has installed. he's also stalled clean air act that will have benefits and are aimed at protecting public health like mercury, smog and soot so there's been a real ser

he is currently director, he is a resident fellow at the american enterprise institute dealing with health policy issues. he previously was the senior health economist of the joint economic committee. you strict of health policy studies at the cato institute, a chief economist with the competitive enterprise institute and also serve on a national advisory council for the agency for health care research and equality so we are very like to welcome tom miller who also was a former broadcast, sports broadcaster with the wildcats. welcome, tom. [applause] >> thank you very much, grace-marie, jim, bob and all the other folks that are respected institutions and harpercollins for making this wonderful book, rocket possible. i'd like to thank the obama administration, the last congress for making this necessary, i don't want to. so let's just continue our collective -- our books written to provide you with a firm foundation understanding of the serious consequences of the unaffordable care act, or a.k.a. tca for americans and injuries slices of life. i think we did it in a clear and accessible mann

and yet he's about to leave his position soon and recently when giving a speech at the american enterprise institute he had a bit of a walk back there and said you know the less money we have the fewer missions we're going to be able to have did he change his mind why the change is mine is it because of all the uncertainty suddenly or did the military industrial complex just when we demanded it needs a job after he retires that's where he's going to go to i don't think that's what got the interview by today it was quite good where he started about he was maybe to hang around even further because he had objected to libya dejected other things even apparently was very doubtful of the intelligence about bin one where he was and apparently weighed in in a negative way with regard to the season to get which looks in retrospect like a bad one now that looks bad but not having any war lasts right now that means that you're too old to do your job in some ways i hate the sin you leave because he was taking on the military industrial complex he was item by item trying to eliminate those high dollar items we d

also kevin hassett, thank you for being here from the american enterprise institute. thank you. coming up we'll talk about immigration policy but first women in the workplace with our guest, portia wu. we'll be right back. >> c-span's congressional directory. a complete guide to the first session of the 112th congress. inside, new and returning house members and twitter addresses and district maps and committee assignments. and information on the white house, supreme court justices. order them online at c-span.org/shop. >> this weekend on book the on c-span 2. gretchen morganson and another talk about the role of fannie mae and freddie mac in the 2008 financial collapse. afterwards henry kissinger on whether it's possible to form a true partnership with china, he is interviewed by a fox contributor. look for the complete book tv schedule at book tv.org. and go to the schedule in your inbox. sign up for book tv alert. >> on this nomination, the ayes are 72 and nays are 16. >> deputy council was selected. donald verrilli is one of the persons you can search online. it's washington

have imposed furlough days, eliminated positions and done away with sports programs but american enterprise institute suggests other strategies as reducing amount of funding for research. erica perez is with california watch, a center for investigative reporting. >> the finding was -- everybody talks about football and the gourmet foods in the hall that. is not really the way these colleges are going cut costs. they need to target some of the core stuff which includes research. >> the study acknowledges research is essential between stanford and uc berkeley. >> it is true public universities are under a great deal of stress. the country cannot afford to back away from fundamental research. >> uc berkeley spends $700 million, a third of the dujit on research. but the study found teachers at less reputable universities are spending too much time doing research, less time in the classroom. >> looking at the typical coarse load used to be units per semester. >> the study questions whether some universities are serving needs of students. the costs continue to increase and some find starting their educatio

sally satell resident scholar at the american enterprise institute.or will share with us the principles surrounding what she believes would be a more effective system of care and compensation for veterans seeking mental health treatment. as i mentioned we also have the former chairman of the veterans disability benefits with us general terry scott. we also have a va clinician dr. karen seal who will share with us her findings on the health care utilization of iraq and afghanistan veterans. and finally on our third panel we'll hear from the administration and share views and the views of two important veterans organizations, amvets and the wounded warrior project. i want to thank everybody coming, members and those in the audience, those who are going to be testifying and i now yield to our ranking member. >> thank you, mr. chairman. and thank you for taking the leadership on this subject. of course, we have all raised serious concerns over many years about the backlog of claims and now there are a record of service men and women returning homes with s

but the american enterprise institute based in washington dc suggest other strategies such as route routesingmount of funding for research. ericka is with california watch. non-profit center for investigative reporting. >> finding was really tevshl talks about football. everybody talks about the gourmet fad served in the dining hall. that's not really the way the colleges will cut cost. they need to target the core academic stuff which includes research. >>reporter: the study acknowledges research is essential at some top university such as stanford and uc berkeley. fleming is the vice chancellor of research at cal. >> certainly true that public universities in the u.s. are under great deal of stress but the country can not afford to back away from under fundamental research. >>reporter: uc berkeley spend more than 700 million dollars one third of its budget on research. if the study found teachers at other less reputable university are spending too much time doing research and less time in the class room. >> one of the things they were looking at is the fact that the typical course load for

but the american enterprise institute based in washington, d.c., suggests other strategies. such as reducing the amount of funding for research. california watch, the non-profit center for investigative reporting. >> the finding was really, you know, everybody talks about football, and everybody talks about the gourmet foods served in the dining hall. that is not really the way that the colleges are going to cut costs. they need to target some of the core academic stuff, which includes research. >> the study acknowledges research is essential at some top universities, such as, stanford and public universities. >> they're under a great deal of stress but the country cannot afford to back away from fundamental research. >> reporter: u.c. berkeley spends more than $700 million, one-third of the budget on research. but the study found teachers at other less reputable universities are spending too much time doing research and less time in the classroom. >> one of the things they were looking at was the fact that with typical course load for faculty used to be 12 units for semeste

on today's vote, we turn to congress-watcher norman ornstein, resident scholar at the american enterprise institute; and todd zwillich, washington correspondent for "the takeaway" radio program from public radio international and wnyc. welcome. >> thank you. >> todd, the first vote, not giving approval to the libya operation, was expected, i think right. >> it was. it can't be seen as anything but a rebuke to the white house but not unexpected. members of congress have been carping for weeks. i think your report said 97 days in, and members have been carping the entire time that they weren't consulted. >> carping over that. >> carping over that. there are a lot of members with a lot of different kbripz with this operation, that first and foremost it's a separation of powers issue. you never consulted authorization interest congress. we have the war powers act-- he can launch operations. he has to come back within 60 days. you didn't even do that and this white house definition of it not being hostilities to many members of congress seems tortured and downright off base ask a lot casted their vote o

he is presently a resident scholar at the american enterprise institute.in opposition to mandatory voting is fred smith, who studied theoretical mathematics at harvard's graduate department until he realized that defending markets was his true calling and he has done it with great fervor and humor. he is the founder and president of the competitive enterprise institute, a free-market public policy group and international non-governmental organization in washington d.c.. fred smith also writes and lectures of bundling. knowledgeable moderators help make a debate moved more precisely and substantive way. mark green is such a moderator. he performs that function weekly by moderating a national radio program featuring arianna huffington and marry a merry fellow. at harvard law school he edited the civil liberties law review is a public interest lawyer, an elected public advocate for new york city. author of a mere 22 books, including the bestseller, who runs congress back in 1972 and a more recent, losing our democracy, published in 2006. mark green has been a

kevin is a senior fell sexow director of economic policy studies at the american enterprise instituteor public policy research. before joining a.e.i., he was a senior economist at the board of governors at the federal reserve system, an associate professor of economics and finance at the grass roots school of business of columbia university. he was a policy consultant at the treasury department during the george h.w. bush and clinton administrations. he served as an economic advisor to george w. bush 2004's presidential campaign. and as senator john mccain's chief economic advisor during the presidential primary. he also served as senior economic advisor to the mccain presidential campaign. he is a columnist for national review. he earned his ph.d. in economics at the university of pennsylvania. doctor, welcome. our fourth panelist today, chad stone, a chief economist at the center on budget and policy priorities, where he specializes in the economic snals of budget and policy issues. dr. stone was the acting executive director of the joint economic committee here in 2007, and before

formerly worked at a va in west haven connecticut and now i'm a resident scholar at the american enterprise institute. in the current testimony as we've seen and as we've been discussing, a veteran can testify disability compensation, excuse me, for a psychiatric condition that's never been treated. a straightforward approach to bridging this gap and the kind that general scott has been focusing on is an urge, of course, to urge vdbc so claimants are referred to treatment. while it's a definite advantage over current practice does not address the timing issue. that is whether veterans necessarily benefit when the disability claims process can precede care and that's what i want to focus on now. we have to consider the fact that compensation before care, that kind of a sequence of granting disability claims before a veteran has been treated can sometimes have significant drawbacks. for one thing, it is very difficult for a compensation manager, comp and pension manager to make an accurate assessment of a future veteran's function is that whether or not he or she will continue to be disabled in a way t

the fiscal commission, the bipartisan policy center, the american enterprise institute, the center for american progress, the heritage foundation, the roosevelt institute -- all of them saying, we need to get this debt down. mr. president, here's where we're headed, according to the congressional budget office. this is not the gross debt. this is the publicly held defnlts it's headed for 233% of the gross domestic product if we pail to act. if instead we adopt the commission proposal, you can see we'd actually work the debt do down, the publicly held debt, to 30% of g.d.p. mr. president, every part of the budget has to be scrutinized and has to generate savings. here's what's happened to defense spending since 1997. it has gone straight up from $254 billion a year to $688 billion a year. mr. president, secretary of defense gates said this. "... the budget of the pentagon almost doubled during the last decade. but our capabilities didn't particularly expand. a lot of that money went into infrastructure and overhead and, frankly, i think a culture that had an open checkbook." mr. preside

the is been affiliated with the american enterprise institute and held many positions at government, omb, hut, and council of economic advisers. he was the second director of omb. robert reischauer is president of the urban institute. he was the vice chair. he is also one of two public trustees of this also security and medicare trust fund. he has also worked at brookings and what alice when she set up cbo in 1975 and also served of the agency's assistant director and deputy director. froms cbo's third director 1989 to 1995, during which the great time i have the privilege to work for him. you may be expecting me to tell you that douglas holtz egan was the fourth director of cbo's, but this is not true. he was the sixth director of cbo. having served from 2003 to 2005, he came immediately from the white house economic council of divisors, before which he had is distinguished economic career. he was director of economic policy for the john mccain policy. even though we are in the house budget committee hearing room, where each of these individuals has spent countless hours delivering p

host: we are joined this morning by bob greenstein and kevin hassett from the american enterprise institute where he directs the policies program. caller: good morning. i'm curious. i'm a real independent. libertarian. and i spent some time in washington, d.c. in the 1960's. so i know where a lot of our economic problems have come from. i was in vietnam. spent my 20th birthday there. a couple short comments then a very serious question. one, i remember the age quite well. i remember reagan dumping revenue into the government. but i also remember the democrats tripling spending. and i also remember that was a time during the 1980's up until about 1997 when they were red lined. of course we were a bunch of losers. that's understandible. we're baby killers to our peers. but in this country we are $15 trillion in debt. we have something in the neighborhood of $70 trillion in unfunded mandates coming up. we have regulatory nazism and health care is running amuck in this country. we have an illegal and unconstitutional drug war that's making the leaders not compete in the world. so my question to

was a managing director of the barrens group, a pmg company, been affiliated with the american enterprise institute and held positions at omb, hud, and home of add providers. he was on the cbo from 1983-87. next to him is the vice chair and also one of two trustees the social security and medicare trust fund and also worked at brookings with alice rivlin in 1975 and served at the assistant director and deputy directer and third director from 1989 to 1995 during which time i worked for him. you may be expecting me to tell you that douglas holtz-eakin who is to bob's right was the fourth director of cbo, but this is not true, the 6th director of cbo. [laughter] having served from 2003 to 2005 came to cbo immediately from the white house economic counsel advisers before which he had a distinguished academic career. during 2007 and 2008, he was director of domestic and economic policy for the john mccain presidential campaign. currently, he's the president of the american action forum. even though we're in a house budget committee hearing room where each of the individuals has spent, i would think it's

he also spent time at the american enterprise institute.serves as a news and political analyst for fox news. in indiana -- or rather in nevada, last joins us. you are an independent color? caller: i'm a democrat. host: what you think about newt gingrich and how this might change the race? caller: he is pretty good at pr, but the republicans -- i think they are kind of forgetting that social security and medicare and medicaid -- these are proven to work. call it obamacare, and say all the embarrassing things they want, but in massachusetts, it has an approval rating of over 50%. i just really miss the days of good, moderate republicans where we did not have all of this name calling and knee-jerk reactions. the republicans in general would be in much better shape if they would have some general support people to run their party instead of these radicals. host: let's go to scott joining us from oklahoma city, joining us on our line supporting another republican candidate. weigh in on this for us. caller: thank you. newt gingrich is a long line

. >> tiffin hassert is a senior fellow and tutor of economic policy studies at the american enterprise institute for public policy research. before joining the aei commission was a senior columnist of the board of governors with federal reserve system and an associate professor of economics and finance at the grassroots school of business at columbia university. dr. hassert was a policy consultant during the george h. w. bush and clinton administration. he served as the economic adviser to the george w. bush 2004 presidential campaign and as the senator john mccain's chief economic advisor during the 2002 primary. heels after served as the economic adviser to the mccain 2008 presidential campaign and is a columnist for national review. dr. hassert earned his ph.d. in economics at the university pennsylvania and dr. hassert. welcome. our fourth panelist today chad stone is the chief economist at the center on budget and policy priorities where he specializes in the economic analysis of budget and policy issues. dr. stone was the acting its ticket to the editor of the joint economic committee here

kevin hassett is a senior fellow and director of economic policy studies at the american enterprise institute for public policy research. before joining the aei, he was a senior economist at the board of governors, federal reserve system and associate professor of economics and finance at the graduate school of business at columbia university. dr. hassett was it was a consultant to the treasury department during the george h. w. bush and clinton administration. he served as economic adviser to the george w. bush 2004 presidential campaign and senator john mccain's chief economic adviser during the the 2000 presidential primary. he also served as the senior economic adviser to the mccain 2008 presidential campaign. he's a columnist for the national review. dr. hassett earned his ph.d. in university pennsylvania. welcome. our fourth panelist today, chad stone is the chief economist at the center on budget and policy priorities where he specializes in the economic analysis of budget and policy issues. dr. stone was the acting executive stricter of the joint economic committee here in 2007 and be

the is been affiliated with the american enterprise institute and held many positions at government, omb, hut, and council of economic advisers. he was the second director of omb. robert reischauer is president of the urban institute. he was the vice chair. he is also one of two public trustees of this also security and medicare trust fund. he has also worked at brookings and what alice when she set up cbo in 1975 and also served of the agency's assistant director and deputy director. froms cbo's third director 1989 to 1995, during which the great time i have the privilege to work for him. you may be expecting me to tell you that douglas holtz egan was the fourth director of cbo's, but this is not true. he was the sixth director of cbo. having served from 2003 to 2005, he came immediately from the white house economic council of divisors, before which he had is distinguished economic career. he was director of economic policy for the john mccain policy. even though we are in the house budget committee hearing room, where each of these individuals has spent countless hours delivering p

for deterrence and also whether he agrees with secretary gates' recent comments at the american enterprise instituter modernization programs are absolutely critical. on the basis of the administration's commitments to our nuclear modernization program that some senators disagreed to support or to ratify the new start treaty. let me turn out in to -- turn now to the question of missile defense. there was no meeting of the minds between russia and the united states. while the administration insisted that there were no restrictions on missile defense, either legal or otherwise, the russian side believed that "the linkage to missile defense is clearly spelled out in the accord and is legally binding." that was noted by russian foreign minister lavrov on april 6 of last year. the administration was never willing to share with the senate the negotiating record that the russian negotiators were aware of. sharing the record with us might have cleared up just what understanding the russians think they have received during the negotiation of the treaty. in order to secure russian support for the new start tre

kevin is a senior fellow in the director of economic policy studies at the american enterprise institute for public policy research. before joining a.e.i., he was a senior economist, the board of governors, the federal reserve system, and associate professor of economics and finance at the school of business of columbia university. he was a politics consultant at the treasury department during the george h.w. bush and clinton administrations. he served as an economic advisor to the george w. bush 2004 presidential campaign and as senator john mccain's chief economic advisor during the 2000 presidential primaries. he also served as senior economic advisor to the mccain 2008 presidential campaign. he is a columnist for "national review." he earned his ph.d. in economics at the university of pennsylvania. dr. hassett, welcome. in our fourth panelist today, chad stone, is a chief economist at center and budget priorities where he specializes in the economic analysis of budget and policy issues. dr. stone was the acting executive director of the joint economic committee here in exetch and bef

we're also joined by kevin hassett from the american enterprise institute, where he is the economic policy director. thank you both for coming to talk about jobs and job creation. bob greenstein, what is the of job stagnation? guest: we did not have a normal recession. we had a financial crisis. history suggests that when there are big financial crises it takes much longer to recover. basically, employment fell off a few years ago. we are now gaining jobs each month, but that such a slow rate that the unemployment rate is not coming down much. in addition, the housing market is still very weak. there are problems internationally. we're part an international economy and there are issues in europe and elsewhere. and the stimulus that was enacted in 2009, that is feeding how now. it is putting a drag on the economy. one other factor, state budgets have to be balanced even in a recession. they are laying off people right and left. in the last 18 months, 350,000 jobs lost in state and local government. those people lose their jobs and do not spend as much. it has a ripple effect. other people l