as people said of the time and the waltons got interested in this. they have business connections in panama and travel to the area. he. >> and set up a scholarship program. to bring young people from central america that they were afraid or in danger of being won over to come as some up to arkansas to study and christian colleges to study business, marketing, these kinds of a free-market oriented disciplines and then to go back to central america and help build a sort of pro american pro u.s. pro free-market alternative two that. now, that is one way to tell a story, but if you know the history and central america and the '80s, it is as you say a much darker story. the u.s. was deeply involved in creating and propping up dictatorships throughout the region that were grossly viciously murderously lacking in respect for human life for any sort of values of freedom that we would recognize as such. and this story seen from this angle is really interesting and is much more sinister because not because wal-mart had any direct connection with that history and that is important the evangelical right did have a direct connection and many cases with some of these repressive regimes in central america and e

such publication could serve as a disincentive to central, south america, and mexican, yes, mexican students, who would otherwise want to attend whisc and could discourage nations from sending their students to the school. it would undercut the effectiveness of whisc as a tool for building hemisphere security cooperation and communicate in the democratic values and respect for human rights we espouse. if our ability to influence the democratic trajectory of the region were diminished it would be countries like venezuela and china who would fill the void. mr. mckeon: yield an additional minute. mr. gingrey: i therefore believe this amendment could do more harm than good. all my colleagues to oppose it. thank you, mr. chairman. the chair: the gentleman from california only had 15 seconds left. the gentleman from california now has no time left. the gentleman from massachusetts. mr. mcgovern: how much time do i have remaining? the chair: the gentleman has 2 1/2 minutes remaining. mr. mcgovern: i yield one minute to the gentleman from georgia who represents whisc in his district, mr. bishop. the

as i mentioned before, it is some kind of institute presumably under the oas and with the united states support to train people in public administration from economic, and social development. this is what central america needs, not more militarization. host: this photograph from the associated press and siad "the washington post" as the riot police scatter -- it is not blood, but spray-painted stopped the protesters outside the presidential palace in the capital city of honduras. john is on the phone from frederick, maryland. caller: i wondering if the guest might explain what happened in honduras and how the president actually broke the constitution. and then the congress of honduras and the supreme court said he was gone. and what i would think we need from central america is pro- american governments, which honduras was leading us not down that route. i just don't know really why colombia and the rest of central america is brought in -- on c- span. i don't know why you guys keep using twitter -- 90% anti- american calls. it is not a good, fair source for c-span. e-mail is a lot better. but twitter, think about it, it is all democrats. host: thank you for the comment, one of many voices including e-

as central to healthcare reform. is that on the sweet spot of mental health america? how does that fail? i guess dr. q'uaran kessler will -- dr. kessler will talk about the average person in the course of their life will experience a mental disorder will experience by age 14 and the average lifetime before first having symptoms and getting care is nine years in the united states of america of. the understanding of untreated mental depression can interrupt the moms ability to turn on those receptors in a baby's brain that is critical to developing that relationship and that can lead to behavioral problems and they conducted disorder which we understand at a scientific link their reports out about prevention and just out about depression and and young people and adults and this is a timely. the question of how we make the sale i like the metaphor of cocaine that car to that train. our message in this community, we have to get more clear about but a message to prevention and wellness and the centrality the surgeon general said mental health is the essential to overall health, that has to be what we foc

as i mentioned, over 400,000 patients in four years, hospital ship comforts in central america right now, we have dispatched the pacific partnership, and another ha mission and africa partnership station has concluded and that was an extremely successful one, but it also allows us to not only touch people in other countries but brings leaders together, dialogue takes place, and as churchill said, you know, jaw, jaw, jaw is better than war, war, war. yes, ma'am? >>iest yesterday was the deadline on -- murray man from ogilve, yesterday was the deadline of pullout of troops from iraqi cities and i would like to ask you to comment in your role as a member of the joint chiefs on how wellee equipped you feel the iraqi governments is, to self-governor and protect their assets? . >> i believe that the -- the timeline that we are on, and the adherence to that timeline, and the work that has gone into getting to the point where we are, by the iraqi government, by the iraqi armed forces and by the american and coalition forces, that have been on the ground, in iraq, to prepare for this day, i b

by the american public and increasingly by elected officials as central to health care reform, is that in a sweet spot of mental health america or what? so then the question is, how does that say of it made? i know that doctor ron kessler will talk at this conference about his findings that the average person who in the course of their life will experience a mental disorder will experience it by the age of 14. 75% by the age of 23. and that the average lifetime between first having symptoms and interim chair is nine years. in the united states of america. so the understanding, for example, of how untreated mental depression can interrupt the mom's ability to turn on those receptors in the baby's brain that are critical to developing the relationships and how that can leave later on to behavioral problems and a conduct disorder, you know, which we understand the scientific link there. the report just out from the iom about prevention, and the report just out about depression in young people and their adults, boy, is this tough time at. so the question though of how we make the sale to, and i really like the metaphor of poking

guest: central america has been a source -- a problem for the united states because we neglected for decades and then we intervened militarily as we did in the 1980's. we sponsored the war in el salvador, in nicaragua. these were useless exercise is because now both of the parties that we intervened against are in power -- the revolutionary party in el salvador and daniel ortega in nicaragua. i think that the history of u.s. intervention in central america has been a sorry one, and we recently at least been on the side of democracy. i wish that we would put less emphasis on military assistance and more emphasis on helping them with public administration and economic and social development. host: this came just a day after -- it took place yesterday with the president of colombia in the oval office. our relations with the president's colombia, uribe? guest: the bush administration overlooked a lot of offenses that the uribe government has committed against human rights. now, uribe did something very important in colombia. he restored order. and that was crucial. governments have to have order, countries have to have ordered. but

there were parts of the story as you mentioned went into latin america, was treated like an honored guest by anyone of the people that i met in central america, and then, of course, of the archival records is not of i'm just an internal documents. people would give me for example, the internal magazines from wal-mart. >> host: i used to work in a library is a periodical assistant at paul a speefour graduate school and these are publications that would not be bound because . >> guest: rebound is amazing things in called house organs, a publication that companies put out to advertise which are incredibly rich sources and we spend most of our waking lives and work, people are deeply invested in what they're doing on the job and particularly in these early magazines from the '70s and early '80s some very unselfconscious kind of cell revelatory instinct. and i would make people were mentioned in the articles and i would introduce me to other people. the sources now publicly available i should mention or available to the public through archives in kansas, i have a full run out, but at the time there were kind of hard to get your hands on s

from its centrality to the lives of native americans to the sizable reduction of its population from forty million to a few hundred by the late nineteenth century and its usage as a symbol of america. this event, hosted by tidal wave books in anchorage, alaska, is 40 minutes. >> thank you for coming out tonight. i want to read a little bit from my book and show some slides. when i showed the slides, i will need somebody to hit the button. i need a nearby volunteered to handle that for me. i don't need much introduction, i will read from the beginning of the book, a couple pages. this begins with a quote from a guy, and novelist named powell. he has no idea he has done this, he said one time in passing, they have the huge, giant head, the oddball design of a billiard ball. in the past week, i have become a buffalo, sort. the perfect specimen has the circumference of a baseball cap with full blair's. it is as dense as a gingersnap cookie with the color and texture of old cardboard that has been wet and dry out again. i am talking about buffalo dung, what is left of vegetation after passing through the digestive circuitry of north america's largest native land mammal also known as th

central america today. those are the missions and that is what our sailors do and that is the very flexible force that is the u.s. navy today. in a way, as i said, many of those things we have been doing as a navy for almost two centuries. our history quite frankly is less the cataclysmic sea battles than it is being out and about looking out for our nation's interest. 62,000 sailors are deployed around the world and 51% of our ships are at sea. the four of our aircraft carriers are deployed. three in the pacific and one in the central command area. each one of the ships as 97,000 tons of american sovereignty. sovran american base, able to be moved anywhere in the world. it is more than a floating runway. it is a floating base. a sovereign base. from witcwhich the instrument of american power is equipped and maintained. 46% of the fixed wing sorties flying over afghanistan in afghanistan are coming off the carrier. it is a floating base that can flex from that type of power projection to being a base that can be the foundation of the largest humanitarian relief operation that has ever taken place in history and that is what happened in d

from its centrality to the lives of native americans to the sizable reduction of its population from about 40,000,002 of the few hundred by the late 19th century and its usage as a symbol of americathis event hosted by tidal wave books in anchorage alaska is 40 minutes. >> thank you all for coming out tonight. i am going to read, i want to read a little bit of my book and then i'm going to show some slides and discuss them. when i showed the slides and discuss them i realize the need someone to hit the button, the forward button. i need a volunteer to handle that for me. i am going to read from the beginning of the book. [ist a couple of pages.

i can't think of anything that's more important as far as stabilizing central and south america than free trade agreements. we've been fighting for a free trade agreement with panama and colombia for a long, long time and if we're going to make sure that we slow down the illegal immigration that's coming from central and south america, we've got to do things to stabilize that entire region. not only from the drug standpoint but also from the illegal immigration standpoint. so i really hope that my colleague and i'm sure mr. wolf will, i really hope my colleagues will do everything they can to make sure that this stays in the piece of legislation. the chair: the gentleman's time has expired. who seeks recognition? the question is on the amendment offered by the gentleman from illinois, mr. schock. those in favor say aye. those opposed, no. in the opinion of the chair, the ayes have it. the amendment is agreed to. mr. mollohan: mr. chairman, i move that the committee to do now rise -- that the committee do now rise. the chair: the question is on the motion to rise. those in favor say a