and our current governor, arnold schwarzenegger, is one of those who serves under the california flag and he has his star on the walk of fame. so i'm so proud that the flag that the speaker stands in front of in this chamber and that adorns its chamber is the flag we celebrate. and we all, every single american and every single person who lives in our country, pays homage to our flag by flying it high. so i will again urge all of my colleagues, madam speaker, to join me in supporting this measure. and with that i will reserve the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlelady reserves the balance of her time. the gentleman from utah is recognized. mr. chaffetz: thank you, madam speaker. i yield myself such time as i may consume. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized. mr. chaffetz: all right. now this is a bill, this is actually i can get excited about. i'm sure can be in unison on. i hope chairman towns, wherever it might be, hears it loud an clear. i rise in support of house resolution 1429, celebrating the symbol of the united states flag and supporting t

she will be running away from arnold schwarzenegger. rry brown has been more friendly to arnold toward senator then the republicans have. it will be very interesting to set up. jerry brown said he understands sacramento and can get in there and get this democrats and republicans to work together to trim that $20 billion deficit the state is facing and his claim is that somebody has to have the experience to put california back on track. his argument is that she does not have it. >> has there been any early polling in this match upfront between the former ceo of the bay and the former telephonic governor? >> there has. in the moment, brown is in the lead by about five or six points. look for that to change. whitman came out of the box on the attack. he said this is a time for humility and lowering expectations. going back to the thing he went through in the 70's and 80's. at this point, he is well known to californians. after months and months of bombardment by ads from meg whitman, she has a message out there. they have seen her face man

the movie put cameron on the map, though his star, arnold schwarzenegger, was not the studio's firstoice. >> arnold schwarzenegger: i'll be back >> cameron: the head of orion, who were going to release the film, called me up and said, "are you sitting down?" "i've cast this movie." i was at a party, and it's, "are you sitting down? it's o.j. simpson for the terminator." and i said, "this is the stupidest idea i've ever heard," you know. i didn't know o.j. simpson, i had nothing against him personally. i didn't know he was going to go murder his wife later and become the real terminator, you know. >> safer: in recent years, he's made underwater documentaries on the "titanic" and the german battleship "bismarck." both expeditions presented enormous challenges, plus the danger of working almost three miles down. >> cameron: the jacques cousteau specials-- this was in the late '60s-- brought the ocean into our living rooms and into my already inflamed imagination that loved, you know, exploration and fantasy. so i had a love affair with the ocean that began before i had actually even see

[applause] >> former governor jerry brown won the democratic primary to replace arnold schwarzeneggere faced meg whitman who won the republican nomination. here are their speeches and los angeles. >> q for being here. -- thank you for being here. i know you one but [unintelligible] there is another team up there. anyway, by the way, i have done this before. [applause] still, i want to thank you. i want to thank everyone out there that boded today. the best years are still ahead. i want to thank the mayor for being here today, standing with me, i appreciate that. [applause] the sheriff, really important [applause] there is one other person who is actually more important than these people. that is my wife, anne. [applause] she is the one who figured all this stuff out. nevertheless, keeping up with her has given me the preparation to keep up with california. again, thank you very much we are here on a very auspicious occasion. i am here as the democratic candidate for governor, yes. [applause] i did not check but i think we made. [laughter] i am also here as a californian who is disgust

friend, will have to answer about some of her ties to goldman sachs and also demonstrate after arnold schwarzenegger that she can make sacramento work as an outsider and not somebody with a lot of experience. this is going to be a wonderful and interesting race and as you say, one that's going to break all records for spending. >> woodruff: it's often said california may be the toughest state in the country to govern. amy, all the way across the country to south carolina, everybody was talking about the that race. nikki haley just barely missed getting 50%. she's got a runoff, but she's now considered to be the favorite. what's the lesson here? >> i wish-- well, one is , can you actually run a gubernatorial race where a candidate agrees to take a lie detector test? that, to me, was one of my favorite parts here. i think the lesson is this is a great case where the anti-establishment candidate was able to still keep that mantle even as she was being attacked. in fact, the more she was attacked, the more she grew in stature because what i think she was able to tap into was a frustration along south ca

caller: when arnold schwarzenegger first became governor he fired the head of caplpers because he took. as the biggest shareholder of disney stock, it seems like he was exercising the republican ideal of the investors holding the managers of these stocks accountable. why was that never looked into? that was an ugly thing. calpers has not recovered since he fired the manager. guest: we are all human. it strikes me that we have difficult choices and the future. the age-old issue of how does one best incentiv 5ize exec is to perform well? shareholders can -- employees can determine whether something is right and leave. time tells and performance based compensation is something that is on shareholders' minds. whether they make corrector incorrect decisions -- the proof is in the pudding. as a function of how the funds recover over time. host: it is time to start buying out public pensions. the few hundred thousand now will be weighed cheaper than the payout. will there be any takers? guest: what i think he might be saying is that in order to reduce the pension obllgations, some states are

there is a republican primary and the race to succeed arnold schwarzenegger.we will have live coverage starting tonight at 9:00 eastern on the cspan networks. >> no candidate in this race has given voters in new hampshire or america more opportunities to ask them questions and see what they are made up. >> these are the faces you see every day. see some of their earlier television appearances at the cspan video library. it is a quarter-century that you can search your way. it is all available free online. >> now, former abc correspondent sam donaldson interviews federal reserve chairman ben bernanke. they talked about the current economic situation and what the fed chairman sees happening in the future. the woodrow wilson international center posted this 50-minute event. >> david was president of the carnegie foundation. he is one of the great humanitarian ends in this country. there are several former colleagues that i want to introduce. andy ireland, congressman from florida and his wife nancy. [applause] i will test your knowledge of politics a little bit.

arnold schwarzenegger. people who buy prepaid cell phones could find themselves under increased scrutiny. new york democratic senator charles schumer and jon corzine have introduced legislation requiring consumers to produce identification before buying these bones, which have been used by terrorists because they are hard to track. the bill has bipartisan support, but civil liberties groups are raising privacy concerns. in an interview with nbc's "the today show" the president said, tony hayward would not be working for me. also in the interview, he said he considers veteran white house correspondent's helen thomas' comments controversial, but was sad to see her career and. she retired on monday as a columnist for hearst news service. finally, an administrator at a new jersey high school said one of the two terrorism suspects arrested over the weekend was considered so dangerous as a student that he was caught outside of the classroom with a security guard present. the administrator did not elaborate. the t