inaba, let me ask you then if mr. ditlow is correct, of the fatal crashes of cary between 2002 and 2010 went to unintended acceleration, if there are twice as many that are not recall the last are that have been recalled, doesn't that raise real questions about whether the recall is extensive or as extensive as it should have been? >> senator, i'm not personally aware of that information and therefore i will ask mr. ditlow to give us some information and look into it and maybe get back to you later on. >> information is accurate as mr. ditlow presents its which you reach the same conclusion i reached that recalling a body of automobiles that of has half the rate of fatalities of astounded deceleration of you would want to recall those who have quite the right? >> i should not speculate but that should be the case. >> let me ask you, mr. inaba, and whoever else wishes and i want to ask about the accelerator and want to have the time. you indicated in your testimony, mr. uchiyamada, you said that as a result of our exte

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because of timing. >> the following conversations with the banks, did ask -- when they asked for a removalof someone, did you accommodate that? >> there would be cases where they would ask because of the timing that the analyst told them that they needed to be able to work on a transaction because their plane was full. at that time, i would get somebody else on the transaction. >> it was only a complaint that the analyst was not moving quickly enough. >> it would be because they were not able to start or work on the transaction. >> that complaint came from the banks? >> it usually came from the banks. however, it could come from the analyst. >> you never heard from a bank that they really would prefer you to remove somebody and it was not working out well with that person. it always related to that person not having time? >> no. we did get complaints from banks. >> but you never accommodated that? >> no, we did not. we would emphasize that the decisions were made on the committee basis. we would keep that analyst on. i may go to the analyst to find out what the issues are. i did not rememb

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you were asked a question. goldman was asked the question -- how do you get comfortable with the source of these securities? instead of saying -- disclosing right at that time -- and you ought to disclose any time but we will get into that. instead of disclosing, you had half the other side of this deal, you did not tell them that. instead you told your salespeople, peep -- keep pushing this bill. you had 3 people turn it down because of the source and you kept pushing it. now answer my question. when you are asked the question, how you get comfortable with the securities given the dubious source of the security, given the amount of how much -- how dubious this was because of the source -- you've got clients, they don't want to buy the security with so much exposure to the new century mortgages. those new century mortgages had had problems. i am gaon asking for the last time. if you don't want answer coming you say you don't want to answer. but clearly you must understand that you have a responsibility when you

president, i ask unanimous consent that amendment number 3739 be printed. the presiding officer: without objection, so ordered. mr. whitehouse: mr. president, i ask unanimous consent that the senate proceed to executive session to consider en bloc the following nominations on the executive calendar numbers 820, 821, 822, and 823, that the nominations be confirmed en bloc, the motions to reconsider be considered made and laid upon the table en bloc, any statements relating to the nominations appear at the appropriate place in the record as if read, the president be immediately notified of the senate's action, and the senate then resume legislative session. the presiding officer: without objection, so ordered. mr. whitehouse: mr. president, i ask unanimous consent that the committee on foreign relations be discharged from further consideration of h.r. 3714 and the senate proceed to its immediate csidetion. the presiding officer: the clerk will report. the clerk: h.r. 3714, an act to amend the foreign assistance act of 1961 and so forth and for other purposes.

>> no, we did not. >> what is your view of having been asked to do that? >> my view is i will not stop doing that. i will not stop evaluating cost as a part of the evaluation process. once again, all these issues go back to the same thing we have been talking about earlier. if kbr is under running a base line because an acl change has been issued and the contractor has been descoped, we need to take it out of the baseline. if kbr is under run a baseline because of the inefficiencies that brought into the operations and things they have done, then i should not be taking that out, i should be giving kbr due credit for it. i think that is what that letter was all about, the issues of when do we descope? with kbr concluding, if you're going to descope my initiatives out of the process, maybe you should not be of value and cost. that is not what we will do. >> thank you. i am done. >> i am unclear as to how you characterize basically a company that is telling you to back off. you are doing your job and they are saying back off. it struck me on the surface as ex

schiff asked for. and that is they -- the proposed increase for 2011 the members of the court is 1.4%. that's the mandatory increase. and for the court personnel, it's 1.4% also. so that shows that it's different from the 5%. that's the overall budget. and they're unrelated. with respect to who is -- i was asked when i -- in my early years on the court to participate, be part of the budget committee. and that meant that i came up here as a part of that and testified. i don't know how that selection was made. except when the chief justice asks you to do something, you normally try to be positive and be a part and help him out. i think it's good for the courts and good for the institution to be asked to do these things. and i think it's like anything else. you get used to it. and you know the process. and they like that continuity. especially with a new chief justice. and he asked that we participate in this. and i think it's -- we -- i think i speaking for me, i enjoy this. i know -- gotten to know the

[laughter] >> on don't ask, don't tell, i support the don't ask, don't tell policy when i was on activety. and i'm still supporting that. i would change that position if operational commanders, like h.r., believe that it is not going to break down the cohesion of our fighting organizations by having homosexuals serve in those fighting organizations. and the public about it. that was the essence of it. this is not an equal opportunity issued in the united states military. it is not an equal opportunity organization. it is an organization that has a mission to win on a battlefield and it has to train organizations to be successful. and the only way that we can get people to perform highly, under that high degree of stress is the have to care about each other and have to trust each other. so much so that the psychological variable that is operating to keep the unit functioning under tremendous stress and going forward and doing what it needs to do, is that the individual soldier does not want to let down their fellow soldiers. and that gives that soldier the courage to overcome their fears

so, i think i would ask that, but still i would ask the question.on the gender question is, and it comes not so much from a western feminist perspective as it does from what i know of islamic feminist. and my question is, exactly what role would women have in the conversation about the ending of stoning? how would their voices be represented? what sort of rules would they play in the interpretive debate that need to be had around the question as difficult as that? endive many other things to say, but i'll stop there. >> gas, let me just go straight to your question because there are many other things that i wanted to comment. but on this question, and this is coming in now, once again i was having interview this afternoon and once again the same story came and this happened in 2003. from what the last 10, 12 years i've been advocating the fact that what we need in the muslim countries is really a moratorium. so what did i need and what do i mean now in which we have to involve women in the whole process. once again you cannot condemn them. stoning i

i was going to ask mr.ut not on that, where -- what i was going to ask what you know there have been as far as what the past performance is being basically report in the appropriate database by army contracting command she's, the general accounting office, government accounting office and the ig of defense department have had reports on the inadequacy of the placement of the number of past performance reports and their lack of the narrative that should be in there. and very crucial is that these are not only going to be the end of a contractor but annually in a because otherwise, we are not finding these when we look for them. especially for kbr, for which you would think there would be seven or eight annual report in the database. we are still looking for any, any. now, would you like to be doing annual reviews of whether the contracting officers are making these past performance reports? is that something you would aspire to if you had this position, if you have sufficient manpower? >> yes, sir. >> what i

they may ask for their vehicles. they may ask for their history. they do look into those things. >> a senator who has been a critic of toyota and nhtsa put out a statement saying that this should be a warning that nhtsa spends more time -- more time given to consumer complaints verses industry defense of those complaints. is that what happens? >> i never had anybody who felt they were trying to side with industry. they are mission oriented. it is good to go to work and think "i have saved some lives." you have organized groups of people who have cases. they will go and do press conferences. all of a sudden you get a surge of complaints from that local area. they go to the database and say there is a surge in complaints. the thing we have to be able to do is maintain some scientific purity. you have to be a credible, honest broker. you are always looking for the facts and the data. sometimes, if people have a concern or believe in something to be true, they get very unhappy when we do not agree with it. frankly, the facts are not there yet. given th

my problem is when they ask me for papers. when they ask me what i'm doing. you know, what if i'm there for cinco de mayo and i happen to be wearing the hat and the morocco just celebrating that moment? >> larry: sheriff, who is stopped? give me a prototype of who you stop. >> you know, let me say this about the identification. we ask everybody for their i.d., their driver's license, in the course of our duty. nothing unusual about that. we ask them, you know where were you born, your date of birth? so this happens every day in law enforcement. >> larry: this case -- speeding, passing a red light? do you stop people just indiscriminately? >> no. no, we do not do that. we don't take people off the street corners or go into residents and businesses. we don't do that. we have a state charge first and then we have it to see if people are here illegally. >> larry: carlos, how's that different from any other law breaker or potential law breaker? >> if they ask me for my i.d. -- which, by the way, there have been times i forgot my wallet at home. they just write me

i am going to ask you a two pronged question. first, you must have your proposal in the works, and i would like to ask if you think you have a very good, attractive proposal? secondly, if your proposal won because it was attractive to the government, do you think there would be that much turmoil in transitioning kbr, considering that you are doing that right now? >> per se of, -- first off, i always believe we have a winning proposal, or i would not submit it. the problem with this proposal, from your perspective, is the solicitation stated that the country will be split in half, north and south, and there will be two different companies on life support. regardless of how it turns out, we are either going to transition half the company -- country to somebody else, or we are going to transition all of the country to somebody else. the current plan that we are preparing for tells us that that is going to happen, and we will do it while we are cascading down and closing camps. >> i believe your plan says, as dcaa says about it, that

>> i ask for a recorded vote. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentlewoman from new york rise? ms. slaughter: table a motion to reconsider. the speaker pro tempore: the question is on the motion to table. those in favor say aye. those opposed, no. in the opinion of the chair, the ayes have it. >> mr. speaker, i ask for a recorded vote. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from illinois. >> mr. speaker, i ask for a recorded vote. the speaker pro tempore: a recorded vote is requested. all those in favor of taking this vote by the yeas and nays will rise and remain standing until counted. a sufficient number having arisen, a recorded vote is ordered. members will record their votes by electronic device. this is a 15-minute vote. on the motion to table. [captioning made possible by the national captioning institute, inc., in cooperation with the united states house of represerepresentatives. any use of the closed-captioned coverage of the house proceedings for political or commercial purposes is ex

let me just asked both of you to answer any question you wish was asked and make any comment you wish to make about what ever is taking place at this hearing. mr. horn, we can start with you if you would like. >> we want to thank the commission for asking you to come today. a couple of key points i want to stress. the first is the unpredictability in the nature of the war that leads to a lot of uncertainty for the contractors you have on the battlefield. there is difficulty in applying the standard government contracting approach infil war zone because the inherent lack of predictability in the day-to-day operations. we strongly believe speaking with one voice within the government is important. we think it assists and the efficient operations of these types of contracts. and while we have stated in today's hearing that we need better oversight -- i mean better insight and more details to the military plan for the drawdown, we fully understand why we have not gotten that level of detail to this date, and we do feel that when we absolutely need the information we will get the informati

so i would ask the governor to ask her own party why do they fail to stand up and be counted on a fairrehensive immigration reform proposal that in the years past included border security as well as the opportunity for access to legalization. and so, the actions this past week are a travesty, hypocritical, not sincere, because you would ask the question, what is a legal contact? war -- what are the law enforcement officers to do in the midst of the work they have to do and protecting the community from the array of criminal acts by anyone, regardless of their background, burglaries, thefts and rapes, robberies and actions that require the intervention of state and local law enforcement. what is a legal contact? a person rushing their pregnant wife to the hospital stopping to ask a plifere if you would lead me through the lights to the hospital. is that a legal contact? what is the determination of legal probability? is that a brown skin? someone dressed in yard clothes? what is the determination of reasonableness? there's no answer to that, other than it is patently unconstitutional. y

if i was asked to raise taxes when i had pledged that i wouldn't, -- when i was asked to compromise onright to life by folks in my party or an outside my party who said they would let this vote passed, i would not do that. i am hearing all over that what measures are longing for is a voice not only for the conservative values -- what hoosiers are longing for -- a voice that will be consistent in washington, that i will do what i said i will do. if we don't have that trust then we will never be able to make the difficult decisions necessary to put america back on the right track. >> thank you. >> thank you for your graciousness tonight. you have been a tremendous host. thank you for the question. three of my colleagues in the past few days have worked very hard to earn the support of washington to win the nomination. i don't believe washington should choose this nominee, it should be hoosiers. i am a financial adviser. i am not a politician. i believe i have a grasp of the fiscal problem facing our nation. let me tell you, our nation is at a time of crisis. we stand at a crossroads. dow

i ask my colleagues to sign the letter we have composed to attorney general holder asking for a criminal investigation with fraud related to these institutions and invite my colleagues to co-sponsor h.r. 3995. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlewoman's time has expired. mr. moran from kansas. ms. ros-lehtinen: i ask permission to claim mr. moran's time. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. ms. ros-lehtinen: i rise tonight to recognize the vital work of an important south florida organization called our kids of miami-dade and monroe. since the year of 2005 our kids has worked to ensure that at-risk, abused, neglected and abandoned children are afforded to grow up in safe, permanent families. as a grandmother and former educator, i recognize the great opportunity that our kids has to fully support at-risk children. under the leadership of the c.e.o. and the board chairman, our kids has risen to the challenge and given direction to our local child protection system. since 2005, our kids has created over 1,600 families through child focus family-centered adoption and created an enviro

>> you know, everybody's been asking me this question.d this question from the time conan and i last spoke on sunday. i'm going to tell you, respectfully on sunday, conan will not have an issue with this. what he was concerned with was that he wasn't going to do to me what was done to him at nbc. that was his biggest concern. he did not want to get, as they say on twitter, "lenoed." i'm not getting "lenoed." i'm welcoming conan. moving to midnight -- i go to work an hour later? a dream come true. and the pay's the same? conan o'brien wanted to know that he could do the type of show that he wanted to do. and the biggest concern that he was not going to do to me what was done to him. that was not the case. if you hear about that, you didn't hear it from me. that's not the case. >> larry: in the conversation, did he tell you he was going to take the deal? >> you know, he didn't tell me that he was going to take the deal. i didn't hear about it until the morning when i was in a meeting this monday morning. and everything changed. everything -

ask any questions. but maybe you can. and, would. thousands of people, send us questions, all the time. and we also have video messages, when we announced we were going to do the show and we'll do our best to answer as many as we can, and thousands of them have come in and we have a studio audience, that is raring to go with questions. so, let's get to it. steven is a fox news contributor and comedian and very very, funny guy, is here to ask the questions. >> we have compiled a list of the top five most asked question, sent into ask glenn anything at gmail.com that and most far, is a little thing, health care reform you might have heard of that. >> glenn: really, talking about that. >> and we'll start off with an audience, kathleen has a question for you. hi. >> my question is, about the paradigm shift you talk about. you talk about it a lot, but, could you kind of explain what you mean by the paradigm shift and which way you think it is going? because -- >> i'm not really sure, do i have a bloackboard,

i ask for support of this legislation and i ask for our colleagues to vote for this motion. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlelady's time has expired. the gentlelady from florida. ms. ros-lehtinen: thank you, mr. speaker. i'm honored to yield two minutes to the gentleman from california, mr. royce, the ranking member on the foreign affairs subcommittee on terrorism, nonproliferation, and trade. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized for two minutes. mr. royce: i thank the gentlelady for yielding time. as ranking member of the subcommittee on terrorism, nonproliferation, and trade, i strongly support this motion to instruct. i think it's important for all of us to realize that right now iran is at its weakest point in terms of its capacity to manufacture enough refined petroleum. it has to, it has to at this point for its gasoline import that into the nation. and already the impact, the effect of this legislation even coming up on the floor has been effective in backing companies away from doing business with iran. imagine what the effect will be

and ask for the yeas and nays. i've been asked to rescind the call for the vote.the presiding officer: the motion is withdrawn. mr. inouye: i suggest the absence of a quorum. the presiding officer: the clerk will call the roll. quorum call: a senator: mr. president? the presiding officer: the senator from oklahoma. mr. coburn: ask that the quorum call dispensed with. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. coburn: and i send to the desk a modification to the pending amendment. i ask for its consideration. the presiding officer: the senator has a right to modify his amendment at this time. and the amendment is so modified. mr. coburn: thank you. and i am ready for a vote any time the chairman of the finance committee is ready. mr. baucus: mr. president? the presiding officer: the senator from montana. mr. baucus: mr. president, i move to table the coburn amendment and ask for the yeas and nays. the presiding officer: is there a sufficient second? there appears to be. the clerk will call the roll. vote: vote: vote: the presiding officer: any senators wishing t

but it was something i'd never asked for, nor wanted. but i think that in the long run it was the right decision, and i think while ford, obviously, suffered his, his ability to win the presidency on his own as a result of the pardon, there's just enough people who really felt strongly about it that would have made a difference in that election had that not have been the key issue. but it's pretty, pretty ugly to contemplate any former president of the united states on trial for what happened during nixon's presidency. it's, there's a real question as to whether richard nixon could have ever received a fair trial. if the well had not been so poisoned from which you draw jurors, you'd never find a juror that could give him an honest reading. he had some defenses. a lot of this material, a lot of this activity was, in his mind, national security activity. he wasn't, his motive -- informs, bud -- in fact, bud croag went to visit him after he'd been pardoned and said, mr. president, do you feel you're guilty of a crime? and nixon said, no, i

and so help me god. -- >> so help me god. ♪ >> ask not what your country can do for you, ask what youle across the globe, we help them help themselves. not because it is difficult, but because it is right. it is right, it is right, it is right. [unintelligible] >> a lifeline, a life line. >> but let us begin the world is very different now. there is a new generation of americans. a new generation of americans let every nation know that we shall pay any price to insure the survival. [applause] ask not what your country can do for you, what your country can do for you, for you, ask what you can do for your country. ask not what america will do for you, what america will do for you >> do for you. >> do for you. >> let us go forth, casting his -- asking his blessing and his help, but knowing that here on earth, god's work must truly be our own. ♪ [applause] >> michael was on the left, evan on the right. sara in the middle. that was a couple of years ago. if we put you all together, that does not even total 49 years. when were you first exposed to mlk and jfk? >> we all had good history te

president, may i just ask my cleelg, senator mccain -- may i just ask my colleague, senator mccain, you have been down on the border recently. you went to the tucson sector, which is the sector that has about half of all of the illegal immigration in the united states coming across in that one sector; is that correct? mr. mccain: i have. and i would point out again, there were 241,000 apprehended last year. there are estimates that five to one are not apprehended. so that could have been over a million people who cross the arizona illegally in one year. that's staggering in itself. mr. kyl: and, mr. president, the point here is that the tucson sector is one of two sectors in arizona -- it's maybe -- i'll just estimate here -- maybe 60% of our southern border. the yuma border, maybe the other 40%. and the tucson sector ends i believe at the new mexico border. so you're talking about a couple hundred miles, give or take, not that many miles, when you consider the more than 2,000-mile border all the way from the go gulf of mexico to -- all the way from the gull of mexico to the san diego a

let me ask ms. olson one the issues that you and i spoke about when you were kind enough to come by my office a few weeks ago was this whole issue of liens and the concern that you've expressed about the irs lien filing policies causing harm to taxpayers without necessarily increasing irs revenue collections in the process. i guess i'd just ask if you could describe the concern you got and the solution you think we should consider. >> well, what we identified was that irs over the last few years has been instituted policies where liens are essentially filed automatically. if the taxpayer meets certain requirements of without really looking at the taxpayer specific facts and circumstances. and we look further into what the effect of that lien filing on the taxpayer? we learned that it caused the taxpayer credit score to plummet 100 points immediately and even when the taxpayer paid off of the lean or it expired after time it sat on the credit report for years and years and years. even though it might

the pleb side would ask the un-- plebiscite would ask the unambiguous question are you satisfied with the status quo? if they vote yes, then the government would hold pleb scythes every eight years to ensure voters have the opportunity to express themselves democratically over time. if a majority vote is against the status quo, if it decides they are tired of their being treated as second-class citizens, the plebiscite will ask them to choose between nonterritorial status options -- indpent, statehood, and free association. this pleb scythe -- plebiscite represents the straightforward determination of puerto ricans to finally express their wishes to congress and i for one will support the express wishes of the puerto rican people as a member of congress representing colorado. like any important piece of legislation, this bill has some critics. you'll hear from them today. opponents claim the bill favors statehood and they take issue with how the plebiscite has been constructed. it's imperative our fellow americans be give the opportunity to express whether or not they im-- approve of

so let me just ask you the questions that i can. if the russians and something happens that the crew return vehicle isn't operable, what if you had the accident and that grounded the sole use for an extended period of time and we don't have our own reliable effort or it would ask you how long it would take after the six person crew that would still be aboard the international space station at certain points would have to evacuate using two of the vehicles that just experienced a critical vehicle considering it occurred in the event. i mean, what are your plans here? >> senator going to try to understand the scenario you're placing. if that scenario takes place between now and 2015, with the existing program of record, constellation. after shuttle is retired in september or whenever we fly our last mission, we have no way to get americans or anyone else to the station. we have two vehicles on station. we would be able to get the six person crew home, but that would terminate all use of the international space station. the constellati

i was going to ask a question, i am going to ask a question related to mr.thompson's questioning about the need for this regular. and it really does go to 2008. just in all candor, did the federal reserve in the occ when they came in, i believe in what, july, august? >> yes. >> did they find things that you have not found, or where they offer me what you had already found? >> some of both. they found some things that we hadn't bought. >> and you had counted because of their capability, the depth of their bench? or why is that? >> well, one thing is the actually, the bank regulars had a somewhat different approach to reserving than fannie and freddie did. and when we wrote, read the portfolios through their approach, the losses got bigger. >> so they did have a deeper perspective that you did not have? >> guesstimate okay. mr. mudd earlier today noted the delinquency rate of fannie and freddie loans versus the wall street or private market was definitively less. he noted that the risks of coming by being a big monoline insurer, and i do wonder, and i would sa

ronald reagan did not ask for that. let us not ask for it. let us give an honest up or down vote to the people of puerto rico who for 112 years have perceived themselves as a colony. now, there are some who want statehood, some who want independence and sovereign status, there are some who want commonwealth. there are some who want this relationship with the united states, somewhat like australia has with great britain. do not diminish this principle however with the future of the politics, as the gentleman from puerto rico said. this will be debated when and if puerto rico asks for statehood. your republican governor asked for a vote for this bill and against this motion to recommit. i ask my party to do the same. give puerto rico its chance today. the speaker pro tempore: all time has expired. without objection, the previous question is ordered on the motion to recommit. those in favor say aye. those opposed, no. the knows have it and the motion is not adopted. mr. hastings: i ask for a reported vote. the speaker pro tempore: a recorded vot

let me ask this. when you're selling a security, such as a cdo, my understanding is you're not a market maker. isn't it true that you're a placement agent? and as a placement agent you have a duty of full disclosure? >> senator, that's correct. it might be helpful if i talk about, in our department we had a number of business activities with two major business activities. one was an aggregation and distribution business, where we aggregated assets, loans, securities or synthetics, and distributed them in new issue type situation. in those situations u. disclosure with respect to the asset and the deals -- and that's very specific disclosure with years and years of input from regulators, counsel and other investors, that's that business. >> and those disclosure rules work well? >> um, well, those disclosure rules are meant to provide an investor with what they need to make their decision in investing in that particular product. the second part of the business is a market-making business, which is a tra

and i would just ask -- i would ask all my colleagues -- and i ask this respectfully of my colleaguesrom connecticut who, you know, look, things didn't get where they needed to be and i understand what happened. but i still relish the fact that we came close. and i think we can get back there. i really do. i don't think anyone is trying to subterfuge this. i don't. i met with all my colleagues yesterday on the republican side. we may have a few folks that don't want a bill because they think don't like roths. i'm making that up. but i think most people really want a good bill. and i think the chairman -- i think what you did in december demonstrated that you really want a good bipartisan bill. i don't think it's right -- i will get in a little bit here -- i don't think trying to call one republican senator to pick him off, two republican senators to pick him off -- i don't think that's a bipartisan bill. let's get back to the table -- >> i'm happy -- my colleague wanted a colloquy here and i'm glad to be an audience for him. if he wants -- >> i'm glad to listen. as i have often -- >>

let me ask you, mr.cdaniel, does moody's decide lower ready to lenders that are known for poor quality loans with high to link its rates? >> do you mean to the lenders themselves? >> know, to the loans. >> clearly, pools of lower quality loans versus higher quality loans as a credit factor, absolutely that i am not asking you that. i'm asking whether or not you assign a lower rating if you know that the lender involved is known for poor quality loans with high delinquency rates? is that something you look at when you rate their loan? >> it absolutely is something we look at, yes. >> senator kaufman. >> thank you very much. to kind of concentrate on what it is we know. thousands of rmbs' were rated aaa and 2006, 2007 are now rated as junk. what would you give precisely as what you think would be the main reason why that would happen? >> i think there were a number of reasons. among the most principal reasons were that we went from may period where there was a home price appreciation. there was low interes

you don't have ask me about that. i'd call you even if you didn't ask me.ce being in thenate i've been a partner with acorn as well. i've been fighting with them on issues you care about my entire career. >> glenn: maybe why he didn't call me, he may be on the phone with acorn. we are talking about bertha lewis and her comments to the young democratic socialists of america. listen this. >> this rise of the tea party, so-called movement, bowel move memovement. >> glenn: again, classy. this is where the media's focussed and as usual, media is completely missing the real story. when this show, fox news, talk radio, conservative blogs, that is pretty much it, put on the heat on acorn i made a prediction. here it was. >> they're going to change their name and go underground. my prediction is that acorn is going to get so much heat because of this note w network only because of this network they will disband. you will see, you will see acorn kind of mutate change, go underground. that was june of last year. june of last year. ho, that's ridiculous! i mean, i reme

i had to say yesterday, yesterday i visited a number of places and i asked, and i asked people, i asked people what the major issue affecting them is. and they said they wanted to secure the recovery. and i have to tell people that the conservative party taking 6 billion out of the economy would put the recovery at risk. the issue is very clear. jobs with labor, unemployment under the conservatives. >> mr. speaker, will my right honorable friend heed the warning of the former bank of england member, that if you follow the advise of the right honorable members lord whitney and patent and took persistent action to cut the deficit, it was late out onto unemployment unemployment but the rising poverty, social disorder? >> mr. speaker, this is the central issue of this you. will be secure the recovery? the conservative party says take 6 billion out of the economy and it doesn't matter. in fact, take six-point out of the economy now and there is more on deployment, more businesses go under and there is less growth. i believe when you look at what people are saying in an doing in every other c

and when they wanted to ask it. so this president has taken questions through countless interviews, through answering questions through the media -- >> i'm not arguing that he's not accessible to the media. just making the point about the news conferences. but i appreciate your pushback. >> i think this is a great arbitrary washington measure of -- >> how accessible a president is. >> but it isn't. i don't know if you would consider talking to scott wilson at t"the washington post" -- >> i think all of those interviews are important, but i think there's a hunger for more press conferences. let's move on and ask you about the art of the leak. a couple weeks ago "the new york times" had a front page story about the president about to announce the next day about a new policy on offshore oil drilling. on conditions that they not be identified. that's what i would call an authorized leak. why is it in the white house's interest to leak a story before he makes the announcement? >> it's interesting, because we talk about t

>ask not what your country can do for you, what your country can do for you, for you, ask what you canfor your country. >> do for you. >> do for you. >> let us go for, casting his blessing and his help, but knowing that here on earth, god's work must truly be our own. [applause] >> michael was on the left, evan on the right. that was a couple of years ago. if we put you all together, but does not even total 49 years. -- that does not even total 49 years. >> we all had good history teachers the famous lines from both of those speeches became part of our culture. i think that that carries through on the video and data messages are so powerful that they still hold true today. there is no substituting the power of the original speech. >> when i was your age, you could not do any of this. in your own lifetime, can you think of when you first wanted to do that? you did not have to ask anybody's permission. >> technology and internet has revolutionized the way that we make music and make it available for people to say. this is something that would not be possible even five or six years ago, l

let me ask this question. whatever happened to the tea party contract from america which called for constitutional limits on taxing, on spending, and on ultrabig government. we covered this story last week. it was a national story. the tea party polls are way up, and washington has completely tossed it aside. a pew poll says 80% of americans mistrust washington. what a shock. stunned, shocked at this. read dan henninger's great column in today's "wall street journal" on this very important point. whatever happened to the tea party call for limited taxation and spending and government. that's what i want to know. i've got two guys with the answers. cnbc contributor and syndicated columnist jerry boyer, and matt miller, washington post columnist and host of public radio's left, right, and center. all right, gentlemen. thank you. i want to talk with you, left, right, and center. where are the spending cuts, matt, and why is all this tax hike stuff in the air? mr. obama put that bank tax back on the table today. s

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then they ask the independents, just straight party identification then they ask the independents do you lean to the democratic side or do you lean to the republican side just to get another cut on it. when you do that and you sort of push the leaners each way, for the first quarter of this year, democrats, 46%. republicans, 45%. and then 8% in the middle that are independents don't lean either way. they're what we call pure independents. now, compared to the fourth quarter of 2008, when democrats won the presidency, and picked up that second big wad of seats in the house of representatives and in the senate, democrats were nationally up by 11 points. in the fourth quarter of 2006, they were up by 14 points. so this majority was built in elections when democrats had party identification advantage of 11 and 14% in what we call lean party identification, and now they have an advantage only one point. wow!, that is kind of a warning sign. if, don't push the leaners and just leave democrats, republicans and big wad of independents there, it is 32% for democrats, 28% for republicans, and

boxer: i ask unanimous consent, mr. president, that the senate proceed to the immediate consideration of h.r. 5147 received from the house and at the desk. the presiding officer: the clerk will report. the clerk: h.r. 5147, an act to amend the internal revenue code of 1986 to extend the funding and expenditure authority of the airport and airway trust fund, and so forth and for other purposes. the presiding officer: is there objection to proceeding to the measure? without objection. mrs. boxer: mr. leader, i ask unanimous consent -- or mr. president, i ask unanimous consent that the bill be read three times, passed, and the motion to reconsider be laid on the table and any statements appear at this point in the record as if read, with no intervening action. the presiding officer: without objection. mrs. boxer: mr. president, i ask unanimous consent that the senate now proceed to consideration of s. res. 504 which was submitted earlier today. the presiding officer: the clerk will report. the clerk: senate resolution 504,

i had asked -- either asked or fred just acted to go get the contents when they opened the safe.n they were brought to me in boxes. and we gave some of them to the fbi. we gave some of them back to the state department. we gave some of them directly to pat gray. and some of them were destroyed. >> host: did you always intend to be a writer or did you just a evolve into this? >> guest: you know, it's interesting. i was an english lit -- american english -- american literature and english literature undergraduate. i did a lot of creative writing as an undergraduate. >> host: at colgate. >> guest: and the college of wooster. i now -- an aunt reminded i wrote my first book at eight years of age. so there must have been some instincts. the short answer is yes. and i -- when i got in business, i said you know what i'd really like to do. i did "blind ambition." it was the first book, struggled how to do it right and what have you. did "lost honor" from then on. all on my own. don't use research assistants but i enjoyed it tremendously doing those first two books. then went into business

they asked if she would do the test. will not be taking a paternity test ever, and i'm guessing that's the last we'll here from oprah on the subject and from the post sdrigs sounded like oprah wasn't thrilled with the question to begin with and quite frankly, i can't blame her. can you? >> it's pretty invasive, and she's made her mark. i would think she probably has some trep additions or concerns about who might be wanting to connect with her at this point. >> if she really wanted to investigate something like this, she would. she's oprah winfrey and certainly could. coming up today, we'll have much more on oprah winfrey striking back ought of the explosive new oprah drama. 5:00 p.m., we're live at 5:00 and we look forward to seeing you then and back at 11:00 p.m. eastern. >> looking forward to it as always. thank you, a.j. >>> parent hes, you have several options for educating your children. you have public school, private school, home schooling, and maybe none of the above. some parents decide their kids should be uns

and we ask: how can this be again? everything we know at this time tells us that this accident did not have to happen, this explosion could have and should have been prevented. if you're asked by a coal miner, "does an explosion have to happen?" the answer is no. is it preventable? yes. that's easy to say and hard to do. but in the real world of serious work and mine safety, it is preventable. miners don't have to lose their jobs and their lives. and so our responsibility now is to learn from this new and terrible incident. we have to look at it carefully. we can't rush to judgment. i'm going to explain a couple of things that are being done. and we don't know exactly what went wrong at upper big branch. that was the mine. but i promise you, we will demand answers and we will get answers. msha, which is the mine health and safety group, will conduct a complete investigation into this tragedy and that will tell us a lot. the agency's quick response, frankly, and leadership after this explosion have been, in my judgment,

i would like to ask dr. martinez what he thinks about the initiatives so far and what does he think -- how could ieee help nhtsa in the future? >> when people think black box, they get the wrong idea. this is like a five second refreshen buffer. it does not say if you were drinking or if somebody should to be there. it just gets a vehicle information. with some protection put in, it helps allays some of those fears. you either give the data to somebody like you when you get your car fixed, and you give it to your insurance company and put a claim in, or it turns out there is a legal discovery process. we take your car anyway and maybe come up with the wrong information, or third, there is the legal proceeding where the car is impounded. we can go forward with the proceedings getting your claim* as we have better error formation. in some states, one at a five claque -- crashes are fraudulent. i think it may help the administration now. >> we have run out of time, but i want to thank you for being with us. in

but don't ask, don't tell. i supported the don't ask, don't tell when i was on active duty. i'm still supporting it. i will change that position if operational commanders like h.r. believe that it's not going to break down the cohesion of our fighting operation by having home -- homosexuals serve. it's an operation that has a mission to win on the battlefield. it has to be train organizations to be successful. the only way that we can get people to perform highly -- under that high degree of stress is they have to care about one another and they have to trust each other. so much so that the psychological variable that operating to keep that unit functioning under tremendous stress and going forward and doing what it needs to do is the individual soldier does not want to let down their fellow soldiers. that gives that soldier to courage to overcome their fears. it's the basic training crucible. so the cohesion of that organization is paramount to us. it's one the reasons why in the fighting organizations we do have women in the organizations. because we believe -- our judgmen