>> in another city? >> again our policy is we don't want to cross the picket line so there is not a picket line in smith will then that is where the conference is we will go to the conference. >> another conference in july, the naacp we understand it looks very favorable the present could be speaking to the nation's oldest civil rights organization? is that true? >> the president has spoken on a number of locations. i have not seen the final thing -- i assume strongly that he will go. and looks forward to honoring their historic commitment. >> the message, he has gone to the hispanic america, what is his message to black america and the first african-american president? >> let me not get ahead of a speech that hasn't been written. >> thanks, 13 questions. [laughter] i will settle for two. on the visitor login -- >> i am leaving. >> on the visitor's log issue, while the policy is under review you have denied to requests from msnbc and then was quoted by nbc -- and as nbc say that in essence there should b

i think it was -- it was a famous kind of working class city to quote another book by joshua freeman.t was a city that had had a lot of business during world war ii and its industries had been employing many, many new yorkers. and it was also a growing media capital. it was expanding its office infrastructure. it was growing in terms of the it was getting a lot of international attention in a new way politically and it was part of, you know -- it was seen internationally kind of as the capital of a resurgent u.s. following world war ii. yes, very much so. so its star was rising in that period. >> what happened to new york in the 1970s? >> well, it's a complicated question that has global, national, local reasonings behind it, political, economic, culture. it was a period of crisis on many levels. and it was a period that began, really, in the 1960s, the decline and really reached a nadir in the 1970s that had to do at the local level with a mismanagement of funds and a fiscal crisis of the state that led to the city technically going bankrupt. and when i say a mismanagement of funds,

president of the auto dealers president in clinton, iowa, in my district and also has another franchise in iowa city, welcome, john. >> mr. spitzer -- betty help me out elyiri a. >> he has been in the business a long time in eylira and the surrounding years. 100 years i believe in the auto dealership. [inaudible] >> well, those are pretty deep roots and i am honored and i'm grateful, mr. chairman, that you brought mr. spitzer to share his experience not only in obviously providing our communities with the cars they need to drive but helping to shore up so much within our community by sponsoring organizations and contributing to the quality of life there. >> next we have mr. bob thomas, mr. walden, would you like to say a few words there. >> thank you very much, mr. chairman. mr. thomas is a constituent of mine from bend, oregon. his grandfather formed the dealership for general motors in 1918. he served as lieutenant in the u.s. marine corps from 1969 to 1972. he's a graduate of stanford university. serves on the boards of the united way, greater bend rotary, st. charles hospital foundation, boys an

the city, within a day temperatures dropped another 15 degrees leaving russia's then second-largest city in its more typical seasonal states -- gray and frigid. little else however was typical that december day, particularly at the corner just past the cast iron bridge. a pathway that led directly to red square and the kremlin. since a 8m crowns flowed into this neighborhood known as the hub for moscow's flourishing at merchant class. wealthy businessmen are live with their elegant wives and unborn religious leaders love behind other pressing matters to make an appearance, workers and peasants showed up in droves. spilling out into the street leading st. john the baptist church. the crash was so dense that movement became almost impossible. horse-drawn tram's the seesawed through the center were forced to stop running as long lines of caris around the block. at 9:00 a.m. of the bell rang out, mapping the masses to attention, all eyes turned toward a majestic panel chaired out with a canopy of a silver brocade. it was part before the grand as residents on the block, a free story high ment

to sit in your bedroom at midnight and have chats with six buddies and down the block in your city and another state, around the world. so that there is no and to appear to appear contact. that is a unique condition of our time. >> but how is this a bad thing? >> sure, kids will be kids and when i was 15 in years old i could have gone home and sat there at the dinner table and text message and i would have gone upstairs to my room and flip open the laptop in order to maintain the social life that i had at school during the day and a few hours after school. the problem is you do not grow, you do not mature when you only have contact with your own peer group. when you are an adolescent. for one thing you don't build your vocabulary. i tell students, what would happen if he went to a luncheon monday in the middle of conversation you tossed out a big word -- what if instead of saying that guy is such a jerk, you said what an obstreperous and for that guy is. well, jobs would drop, people would drop their spoons in their soup. and this is an example of how social pressures, the norms of adolescence

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city of detroit. "before going to europe, president obama took care of another piece of international diplomatic business. he announced the city in which we will host the next g 20. his choice drew laughter. pittsburg. -- pittsburgh, pennsylvania. it was a rusting, steelmaking homeless town that through struggle, pain, and creativity retooled itself to be a vibrant 21st century leader in education, computer science, sports entertainment, and manufacturing." we will take some of your calls. good morning, where are you calling from? caller: greensboro, n.c. i think that the chrysler and fiat deal should go through. i am apprehensive, though, about losing all of our american carmakers. but if we were to have a major war? we would not have any major car companies manufacture of our war goods. i think it is important that something on a smaller level occurred, rather than all of general motors. the old and the new should help things better for the car company. i have a state employee on a pension plan, and i understand it is very important to the workers. i also understand that leaders have failed the workers

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host: our guest is senator tom coburn with us about another half-hour. pentagon city, virginia. john on our republican line. caller: good morning, senator. guest: good morning. caller: a colonel in the air force. you mentioned a lot of lessons learned and things you've looked at. following desert storm we realized we had some very serious problems in 100% government participation cradle-to-grave system that is military medicine. we implemented a number of reforms including what we thought were small things like outsourcing a bid for family care and then adding small copays, as much as $5, and found that the lines for service decreased by as much as 80% when people had to simply make the choice to pay a little bit. you mentioned safeway. i believe that reform was driven largely by a grocery worker's strike years ago that paralyzed the industry out there because of a proposed change in health care benefits that add a co--pay feature. and the unions rebelled against it because of a simple copay. in the end that's proven to be a big feature that's worked. my question, sir, is what h

the animals never showed up and many of the people in miles city sold their guns, and were shocked. i will jump that again. another gratuitous photo of a man who was scalped outside of dodge city, kan.. they were hunting and trying to make money, they were absolutely complicity in destroying a way of life for people. they were treated like marauding enemies. this guy got off lucky. they would take buffalo hunters and want to make it so that there afterlife would be as miserable as possible. they would often stuff their testicles in their mouth, they would remove your digits. sometimes they would draw a drawing of the buffalo hunters depicting the ways through. they would take draft animals. and they would shoot the hawks and corner the front and back. you would find animals missing their legs. the comanche probably killed this gentleman here. a lot of our indian wars took the battle of little bighorn which was in many ways, a fight between buffalo hunters and historic enemies and people who went under custer. let's jump ahead again. this is the day i got interested in buffalo. i was interested, 9,000 feet above se

not to offend the man from kansas city, but i am another political science major. host: did you just graduate? caller: yes. right now mount pleasant has held up pretty well. we are home to a pretty successful university. the stimulus bill -- we have had a lot of road work going on, especially in rural areas. it was heavily needed. the infrastructure has actually been improving around here. i currently work at a small, locally-owned a bar. there's no union or representation. host: how you want to put your major to work? caller: ideally it would be through humanitarian work. to get out there and make a difference through community organizing. it seems that the problem we face, i agree with the last caller from michigan about the baby boomer generation. they never did enough to support themselves and the future. there is a mass of inequality between the rich and the poor. i am considered a lesser human being because i do not make as much money as they do because i work in a so-called and skilled profession. many people share that sentiment. just because many people we

another leadership. it launched rockets in nearby cities. this is the thanks israel got for withdrawing from gaza. haplgz does not recognize agreements that -- hamas does not recognize agreements palestinian leaders recognized with israel in the past, does not recognize israel's right to exist at all and is ideologically committed to israel's annihilation. gaza's people thrift for freedom and opportunity. even today after the consequences of menacing israel became clear in a disastrous war, weapons are flowing freely through tunnels into gaza. hamas is rearmed and it is readying itself for the day when it is going to take on israel again. hamas and hezbollah may be the head of the snake when it comes to terrorism, but the tame extends much farther back. the weapons terrorists use were sent from iran. money they received was sent from iran. propaganda supporting hamas' campaign of terror and calling for israel's destruction was conceived in, produced by and broadcast from iran. the fundamentalist regime in tehran isn't just an emerging threat. it doesn't just have the potential to be a threat to is

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. >> there isn't another one in climate falls, burns -- >> the second thing we cities in the event weneed to put in place, put a location back one of the things we committed to the senate and i welcome it is if we need to locate a spot we will provide system operators the opportunity to look up at first. >> what's go to bend, oregon. you close to bend, redmon and leave matchless. so, what is that process is going to be put in place that allows mr. thomas may be to get his dealership back. you're telling me you were going to look at it and decide. i wouldn't be asking if it wasn't taxpayer dollars funding this whole thing, i would like you figured out under the law of the land. i actually voted for t.a.r.p.. i didn't vote for the although bill but i voted for t.a.r.p.. what we will do as i said we will have location bilocation if we've made mistakes in the future we conclude we can't take care of customers in the location and appointees to be put back we would go to whether the individual was affected and give the first chance to do that >> we may follow that further because i am just

within a day, temperatures dropped another 15 degrees leading rushes and then second largest city in its more typical seasonal state, gray and frigid. little else however was typical that december day. particularly at the corner just past the cast-iron bridge. a pathway that led directly to red square and the kremlin. it was 8 a.m. crowd flowed into this neighborhood known as the. wealthy businessman a ride with their elegant wise, important government officials and religious leaders left behind other pressing matters to make an appearance, workers and peasants showed up in droves. spilling out into the street leading to saint john the baptist church. the crush was so dense that movement became almost impossible. horse dawn transit usually seesawed through the senator were forced to stop running, as long lines of mourning carriages around the block at 9 a.m. the bell rang out snapping the masses to attention. all eyes turned toward eight majestic funeral chariot outfitted with a canopy of rich silver brocade. it was part before the grandest residence on the block, a three-story high

city, kansas, my hometown. so from one sheriff to another, i would simply say to the vice president, sheriff, i'll ride shotgun or you can ride shotgun. we have the problem only half solved. you see, in april, e.p.a. region 7 issues a press release saying cherokee county would receive up to $25 million from the stimulus. according to the press release, by starting or speeding up cleanup at superfund sites, the stimulus funding is also increasing the speed with which these sites are returned to productive use. when a superfund site is redeveloped, it can offer significant economic benefits to local communities, including future job creation. well, unfortunately, for fewer than 100 residents living in the city of treece -- t-r-e-e-c of e -- treece, the stimulus funding for this project is literally going down a sinking hole. the city of treece, kansas, sits on the kansas-oklahoma border. this small rural community was once a world leader in lead and zinc mining, mining that lasted for nearly 100 years. as the mining companies shut down in the 1970's, the ground water began to rise and the pillars that supported

support lng and we have license to facilities that notwithstanding, massachusetts city into the ferc will, we don't need another one on land. we are doing it offshore and licensed them with, and the ferc, not yours but the ferc at this point says no, you are going to have another one in massachusetts and even that decision itself could affect the amount of renewables that we need. notwithstanding the fact natural gas may be half of the carbon use as coal it's not nearly as good as renewables will be but it's going to affect our marketplace by having them be forced upon us and the ferc is pressing that now the last four or five years. so that kind of calls into question, kind of this federal one-size-fits-all process where even the when the state is saying back off the ferc continues to say no, this is what you are going to have four knipling wind so how do we reconcile that, mr. wellinghoff? >> well, mr. chairman i am not suggesting a one-size-fits-all process, and i'm suggesting on like the lng process ferc has the primary and initial responsibility with respect to siting and permitting that in fact of states

city's. as present obama came on and we then conducted another review -- as president obama came on, little and -- we will go to a 50,000 man transition force. i believe this decisions were made because of the progress we're making here. i think our soldiers look at it as progress that has been made here. and the fact that incidents are down. we are seeing iraqis take more control. they are doing more each day, so we see it as a positive development, not one of a forgotten war but one of success we have had over the past couple of years. hopefully, we will continue that success as we transition to the government of iraq. that is the challenge we have between now and the end of 2011, that we continue this success as we transition over the government of iraq. >> there is a school of that region school of thought that the war is far from over in the u.s. military engagement will be necessary for beyond 2011. we are a long way from political instability in baghdad. i seem to recall earlier it that you were quoted incorrectly to similar effect. i am wondering what your prognosis is going forward in

every day you delay this and reporters are bought out or lay off, another newspaper and thinks they can do without a copy desk or a city editor, every newspaper is closer to the abyss. finally, the big boys are getting a parade would have been nice if they got it -- finally, the big boys are getting it. it would have been nice if the big boys got it five years ago. the scary part, i think, is this. this "the times" and "post" wait long enough, you're going to see "the washington post -- st. louis edition" and they're going to hire 10-12 people to create an advanced usa today version of a local, is on paper -- local, zoned paper. it will give you a page of local metro coverage. because they're offering you their international and national coverage and you cannot get that on line anymore for free, because they're going to back up on that, you are going to see this sort of modern version of the the zoned papers which were previously regional or metro news. that is the worst case scenario. i would rather see locally owned papers survive. i do not know if that is going to happen. i do think that journalism has a value and e

another it's extremely dangerous. you really risk your life when you go to sadr city, even the prime minister, he went once to this thick part and he doesn't dare to go there again. so there's no security in this country, there is no potable water. there is no medical care. nothing works and there is something very sad. i was in iraq this whole war and at the time of saddam, i never wanted to see this man. i didn't need a member of his government. everybody in iraq says understood on it was better. the only advantage now is you can vote freely in this country. but you cannot move freely anymore. so people say i need food for my children. i need medical care for my children. i need potable water, electricity. when i was in ramani, we couldn't sleep and after i was there in august. we slept outside in the garden. there's no way to sleep and/or, in the house because it's too warm. it's incredible, hot in this country. and, of course, why do i write such a book? i was like chairman of the big comfy. we had 7000 people are and i had other things to do than write books and go to afghanistan or to iraq. i wrote this book becau

obviously the distinguished manager of the bill found another purpose, but certainly none that has the slightest connection to the state of omaha -- the city of omaha or the state of nebraska except the senator happens to be from that state. and maybe even resides in that city. you see, the reason why i'm -- i'm taking the floor is because americans are hurting right now. americans all over this country are hurting right now. i go downtown in my city -- hometown of phoenix, arizona, and i see people closing up storefronts and i see people not making their housing payments or able to pay their medical bills. and, you know, $200,000 would mean a lot to them. $200,000 is not a small sum. so the fact is, i don't question the merits of the program. i don't question that the durham museum is probably a nice place to visit. i do question when we're going to stop earmarking pork-barrel projects because of the influence or clout of members of the united states senate. i want to repeat, i do not question that this museum is a fine museum. i do question -- and any objective observer would question -- how in the world that has a place on appropriation

myself in the head when eric since copies i love karen of sin in the second city and i think to myself with this book it was anotherick in the head. why didn't i know this? why didn't i know this story? why didn't i know this story, jason? >> because he was good at what he did, he kept quiet many years. the crimes he was committing. i think he didn't want you to know it so that is why. >> but even after the fact of all of that stuff why isn't this kind of character and he's a very careful wifely tortured human being why isn't he famous in chicago? do any of you notice, can you tell me any counterfeiting story about chicago? >> he's famous in bridgeport. >> and they don't talk to each other. >> yeah, you keep your mouth shut. >> in doing this to do believe him immediately? there is a con man who anybody would seemingly get into the counterfeiting game is not only a high class criminal but there is the common element, you know what i mean, they must drifting to personal life. >> he's a very charming guy, a great storyteller and i definitely had my defenses up when i first met him and threw a very gradual process of i

another issue is real estate in dubai. a lot of money in seconded by, the citywith 20% of the world cranes. people say it's an oil-rich shakeup. what a better place to park your dirty money bennett or the rich shake them with 20% of the world cranes. so that certainly is something that needs -- nobody is examining this i did some of it all i offer one chapter. but within the u.s. government, i'm not sure what our intelligence dollars are going for, but when i go and ask people about this in the u.s. government they are like really? do you think it's in dubai? [laughter] >> it's kind of stunning to see how much they don't -- nobody has bothered to work on this. >> so do you see any hope for afghanistan as a unified state anytime soon? because obviously it has a lot of different at the cities, and if not, why not support breaking it up to borders that make sense for local populations, things like that? >> yeah, i actually think about afghanistan as being more unified as a nation than pakistan. the afghans are always fighting for cobbles. you have a number of diffe

city, pointing the way to liberty for the expected masses below. exactly two decades ago today, a second towering lady lifted another torture above another expectant crowd. this was the goddess of democracy of beijing. art students made her out of youthful idealism, and she soon emerged on television screens around the world as the symbol of hope for the people of china. the students who created the statue announced its unveiling. today, and the people's square, the goddess stands tall and announces to the whole world, a consciousness of democracy has awakened among the chinese people. the new era has begun. her awesome presence in the center of china struck fear in the hearts of the cruel men who ruled with an iron fist. she was pointing the way to freedom, and the dawn of a new day for those gathered in tianenmen square . in the early hours of june 4, 1989, the midsummer night's dream of the goddess of democracy was cruelly shattered by tanks entering the square. chinese troops turned bandits and weapons against their own people. the statue had stood for only five days before being reduced to rubble by the invading forces. some in the crowd fled

host: another article, a story about stimulus spending in the state of georgia. the headline reads, basics take priority. kansas city on the democrats lined. caller: our jobs went overseas and in general tend -- january 10th when obama -- we had we had 100 to seven jobs. on general 12, they just disappeared. we had 157 jobs. all of the company's all of a sudden, no longer employed americans. most of them went overseas. it just darted a free paul. host: another story in the new york times about education. education chief arne duncan warning people that charter schools harm the effort of the administration. education warns advocates of charter schools today that low- quality institutions are giving their movement a black eye. charter movements are putting themselves at risk by allowing too many second and third grade schools to exist. he is scheduled to deliver these remarks today at the gathering of the national alliance for public charter schools. the economy has improved the savings rate. in the section of the washington times, consumers rediscover the concept of thrift. the savings rate rebounds after the collapse

. >> rob: every time i go to the pub there in crystal city, i see you in a your underwear. >> jim p.: you've got to go to another pub. >> jim h.: breaking ball swing and a miss, he got him. what a pitch. not only good breaking, good dip, but it came in very off speed and two men down. >> jim p.: i think what happens is when you change your windup, you're able to be more consistent. a curveball, such a feel pitch. starts it off the outside corner. the key to this at-bat is getting ahead of austin kearns. kearns has been in a slump, but he did get a big hit earlier in the ballgame for the nationals. >> jim h.: here is alberto gonzalez. >> rob: you can really see him close that front foot, kind of close up the hip. throws across his body. >> jim p.: every hitter i talk torques especially the lefties, they say deception. not always about the velocity. do you pick the ball up. i think also from what i've been able to observe, pitching is also location. and since he's made the little adjustment the location has been better. the finish on his pitches has been better. then he's addedded the change- up. >> jim h.: the fa

city? caller: i'm 60 years old and retired in not looking for a job. host: here is anotherory concerning education. duncan is warning advocates that inferior charter schools harm the effort. it says the obama administration has made opening more charter schools a big part of its plans for improving education, but the education secretary will warn advocates the lotus quality institutions are giving their movement a black eye. they allow too many second-grade and third-race schools to exist he said. he is scheduled to deliver remarks today. the economy has improved the savings rate. tap the consumers rediscover the concept of thrift. the share the savings rate rebounded. in april 2009 it was up to 5.7%, a sharp rise from just one year ago. but the to cleveland on our republican line. -- let's go to cleveland. caller: i have seen a little infrastructure improvement, but it seems like a small amount. our road system is over 60 years old and a water system is over 100 years old. they could have spent more to help that. the biggest thing to hurt us is the loss of industrial manuf

another previously proper newspaper decides they could without a copy desk or a train the city editor. every day of delay brings us closer to the abyss. but i think finally the big boys get it. it would have been nice if they had got a five years ago or even longer, but we are where we are. and that is the only hope i have left. now, the scary part i think is this: if the times and the post with long enough eventually you're going to see national newspapers like in britain and you're going to see washington post st. louis addition, washington post baltimore addition, new york times then addition and they're going to hire tenet of people to create a sort of advanced usa today version of a local zoning paper or usa today gives a couple paragraphs of what your local news is. and they will give you a page and a half of the local mental coverage and because there are offering the times or the post international and national coverage and because you can get that on-line anymore for free because they're going to finally back on the aggregate is like google and yahoo! and return to a combinat

another theater. he did not tally, and left about 9:00 p.m.. having done nothing that the city architect didn't have in mind we need to design a place. only now a bit rough looking character whom came out of nowhere began following him jennings proceeded to the theater only to discover that he had seen that show already so he turned back for home. still followed by the burly stranger. jennings grew afraid the man intended to rob him so he walked fast, took the taurus and said goodbye and each street corner. once you arrive at his own front door, the stranger pushed past him and entered into the house. jennings describes what happens then in an article he later printed in the first edition of one magazine. quote, what followed would have been a nightmare even if we haven't turned out to be vice squad. assured now that this big character was a dog by as a prosecutor described it flitted wiley from a room to room, wondering and wondering how to get rid of this person sprawled out making sexual gestures and proposals. i was almost relieved when he strolled into the back bedroom bec

another revolution. we will beat you down. the second thing, i think, is it needs to expand beyond some other major cities to have some major impact. i have a feeling that some of the reports we have gotten from some of the cities in hamas and sheran, they're acting a little wit, the governmental affiliated sources are acting more brutally in other cities because there is not much report coming out of those cities as much as we see and hear out of tehran. so these two things need to take place for this to become a major movement that would impact -- that would have such an impact to change the regime of maybe not fundamentally, but to a degree that, you know, we can say that this was the moment for us. as far as being a fair election, i'm not sure. you have a mechanism that allows for a certain people to run. there were 400-plus people who registered to be candidates for president, but only four were qualified by the garden council, which is the body. i don't know about the election. host: mike on the line from georgia for republicans. go ahead. caller: can you hear me? host: go ahead. caller: i want to piggyback on what a number

cities. they are now producing 50% of the nuclear power. that is pretty wonderful. >> i keep telling my constituents that. they get upset about another issue that i will not go into. thank you all. it -- i thank you for your input and your expertise. [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2009] >> next on c-span, obama signs a bill expanding federal regulation of tobacco products. after that, john mccain talks about iran. we will also have an update from the state department and hear from the son of the former leader of iran. >> the weekend of july 4 on book tv, discovered an unfamiliar side of the first president, with john ferling on the ascent of george washington. join us on "book tv." >> obama signs a bill expanding the authority of the food and drug administration. from the rose garden, this is about 10 minutes. >> ladies and gentleman, the president and vice president of the united states. [applause] [applause] >> have a seat. i am is thrilled to be here, or what is an extraordinary accomplishment for this congress. on one to talk about a few of my guests, a f

it will not be good enough for city fire fighting departments to say we just have a feeling that this test has a disparate impact on one race or another. that will not be good enough. that is the floor. legal scholars are all sitting there hair on fire today to try to figure out what that means practically speaking. one practical effect will be that cities will have to get more facts behind them into a better job of showing that there is a disparate impact, which is legal under title 7. you can try to remedy that. a lot of cities will simply do away with these. 60% of the test is a written test. there are other better methods for testing and promoting. they may go to less controversial methods. i think the answer to her question -- shouldn't you just have to study hard and do well? that is not what the law provides. right or wrong, the disparate impact of title 7 -- this was codified in 1991. it says if there are massive fleet discriminatory effects, if the test precludes african- americans or what ever group from doing well enough to be promoted, then the test is suspect. there's this question of burden shifting. that's just the law.

cities. they are now producing 50% of the nuclear power. that is pretty wonderful. >> i keep telling my constituents that. they get upset about another issue that i will not go into. thank you all. it the economy, the federal deficit, and the stimulus package. after that, senator john mccain talks about foreign policy challenges the u.s. faces. then a conversation with linda douglass. later, bob schieffer of cbs news. washington journal begins each morning at 7 eastern -- at 7:00 a.m. eastern. on c-span 3, health care legislation. live coverage from the senate health committee begins at camp a.m. eastern. >> now, president obama signs a bill expanding the food and drug the administration's authority to regulate the sale and marketing of tobacco products this is about 10 minutes. >> ladies and gentlemen, the president and vice president of united states [applause] -- of the united states. [applause] óóóóóóóóóóóqo >> please, have a seat. i am thrilled to be here for what is an extraordinary accomplishment by this congress, the bill we are about to sign into law. i would like to acknowledge a few of our special guests. first off, we hav

and there is another verse, in romans that speaks about being more than a conquerer. in christ. you know a conquerer takes a city but someone who is more than a conquerer possesses that city. and i would like to personally commend both of you for having the courage to possess the city, and for being examples of people

aqueduct, the first water supply for new york city, the puddings of the brooklyn bridge, the pedestal of the statue of liberty, and the walls of the animal canal. another bit of new material in theory, what i call the mohawk crisscross the 18th way one, 1822. and the situation never written about in any other erie canal book as best i can tell david benjamin wright, the father of american civil engineering, against a fellow named john randel, a different spelling but an albany native, very prominent family in albany in new york. he was a skilled surveyor and the man who had just been a dozen years laying out an mapping the future street grid of manhattan. we are here on 57th street because 200 years ago john randel put markers for thousands of blocks and in a very rugged and rural landscape. so john randel. here is the background. the path of the canal in the mohawk valley was supposed to be entirely along the southern bank of the river. using eaters from the mohawk to water the canal, to get water into the canal. between schenectady and albany, the mohawk makes a very big northwood park your bets and the most uterine section of the mohawk river. with

another one is called "zero tolerance, resisting the drive for punishment in our schools." we have "teaching the personal and political," "city kids and city schools," now, these are with several different contributors, and this is "city kids and city schools, more reports from the front rows." we'll get into some of his other books as we go. this is "to teach" which also contains the myth of education. what are some of the myths? >> guest: gosh, i wrote that 15 years ago, you're asking me to remember? [laughter] what i, when i wrote the book i was taken with the fact that when you go to college, it's an education. when you become a teacher, you get kind of surrounded with these myths, and some of them are things like kids today are different than kids ever were in the world, that these are the toughest kids, the worst kids. that's been said by every generation ever, and now that i'm old i feel myself wanting to say it about young people today. it's just not true. kids experiment, kids try things, kids do things, and so one myth is kids today are different than ever before. another myth is that i remember writing is teaching

the city of fort payne has spent $150,000 of its own money working on this project. the state of alabama has committed another $135,000 for this project. the coal and iron building will house a cultural center. the building is on the national register and it will be a valuable asset to encourage tourism and heighten awareness of the cultural heritage of northern alabama and southern appalachia as it will provide educational opportunities which augustment certain other activities in the region. mr. dicks: would the gentleman yield? i just wanted to say to the gentleman that the committee strongly supports his amendment. we think this is a good amendment. it's well thought out. we like the fact that the city and the state have put up money. it's a real partnership. this is the way we do things today. and the gentleman is a distinguished member of the committee and we are proud of his good work. . mr. adler: it has a rich history of doing that, it was one time the number-one sub producer in the world and also the birth place of the country music legends alabama. when new york city suffer the terrorism attack of

cities. they are now producing 50% of the nuclear power. that is pretty wonderful. >> i keep telling my constituents that. they get upset about another issue that i will not go into. thank you all. it has been very useful. we appreciate your time and expertise. [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2009] >> the senate is meeting right now. they are continuing debate on a bill to create a commission to encourage foreign tourism in the u.s. off the floor, committees are working on health care legislation. lives in the coverage is on c- span-2. house members return to moral force short speeches -- for short speeches and then legislative work at noon. on wednesday, federal spending, spending on homeland's security, and in our image of programs. also, defense programs, and policy. >> there is still time to get your copy of the 2009 congressional directory. it has information on house and senate members, the cabinet, supreme court justices, and the nation's governors. there's also information on how to contact committees and caucuses. it is available on line or by calling

aqueduct, the first water supply for new york city, the footings of the brooklyn bridge, the puzzle of the statue of liberty, and the walls of the panama canal. another bit of new material in erie, what i call the mohawk crisscross of 1821 -- 1822, and this situation never written about in any other erie canal book is best i can tell, it. benjamin wright, the father of american civil engineering against a father against john rendell, a relative of randalls island, the various palin, but in albany native and very prominent family in albany, new york. news a skills survey air and the man who had just spent a dozen years laying out and mapping the future street grids of manhattan. we're here on 57 straight because 200 years ago john randolph put markers for thousands of a rectilinear blocks on what was then a very rugged and rural landscape. so john randall of the year is the background -- the path of the canal in the mohawk valley was supposed to be entirely along the southern bank of the river. using peters from the mohawk for to water the canal and now between and connecting in albany the mohawk makes a very big north toward art in the most eastern s

had a chance to go to mexico city and the gentlelady from arizona is absolutely right, the guns are one issue, but the huge amounts of cash that are transported are another. and her amendment makes what i think are some good provisions in this legislation on strengthening the initiative even better and i urge its adoption. ms. ros-lehtinen: i yield back the balance of my time. the chair: the gentlelady from arizona. mr. kirk: madam chairwoman, i thank the chairman and ranking member for their help with this amendment. i ask my colleagues to support this amendment that addresses the key part of the fight against key drug trafficking organizations and i yield back the balance of my time. the chair: the question is on the amendment offered by the gentlelady from arizona. those in favor say aye. those opposed, no. in the opinion of the chair, the ayes have it and the amendment is agreed to. it is now in order to consider amendment number 19 printed in part c of house report 111-143. for what purpose does the gentleman from illinois rise? mr. kirk: i have an amendment the speaker pro tempore: chearment the clerk will designate the amendment. the clerk: amendm