the secretary went to the criteria associated with that. no new missions or capabilities. life extension programs will focus on existing, tested designs. there are three principal categories of weapons, those categories of weapons, those that we refurbished, in the case of refurbishment, these are nuclear designs that were previously produced for the warhead type undergoing an extension. you have not changed anything associated with -- with "we would call the physics package, the primary and secondary, the nuclear part of this thing. that will not be touched. in a refurbishment, you are working around, the components that by their allies -- aged out and become obsolete over time or those that by replacing them with substantially improve the stockpile. in the case of reuse, those nuclear designs are currently or previously were in the stockpile but from different warhead types. we might be able to take one from 14 tie -- one warhead type, match it with another in order to be of the preserve that weapon. no new capability, no new mission, but that will allow us to take known

and we've begun the work associated with that. we have a number of related studies underway as well, including future of conventional long-range strike. the air force is looking at their proposal for a future alcm, air launch cruise missile, and we really need to bring these together. and this is analysis that is under way, but really is going to take a period of time to complete. >> let's do one more. perhaps there is someone that has not had a chance. [laughter] >> go ahead. >> i have a question for general cartwright. can you walk us through a little bit on the practical steps that need to be taken at strategic command operationalize these new policy changes? hell is our operational plan for nuclear war fighting being changed such that general chilton can meet his requirements with fewer warheads on hand deployed? >> there will be -- once we have this distributed and everyone gets a chance to read it, once we have start signed and we have all the annexes and all the pieces so that we have an understanding of what the guidance i

investments and steady efforts associated with command control and decision times. if you have followed this activity over the years, one of the issues has been a concern about alert status is. the secretary walked through what we have done with the bombers. we've done about as much as we can do with the physical capabilities and his architectuarchitectures. we are studying -- what can we do to make sure we have the maximum amount of decision time for national leaders before they would enter into any decision to use nuclear weapons? that can happen in better sensors, better command- control, and also and the architecture of the weapons themselves. today, the secretary described one of the activities is called open ocean targeting. what else can we do? that study began about three years ago. for the architecture and next- generation weapons, over the life of the 10 years, we will be looking at what we can do. the studies will start in fy 2011 to look at the actual vehicles and what can be done. we also talk about high level dialogue and establishing them with the rus

association and the american dietetic association. she has focused much of her work on breast-feeding. thank you, ms. saluja for joining us today and i look forward to your testimony. >> thank you and welcome. our next witness will be lucy gettman who's the director of the federal programs for the national school boards association. she began her career as the advocacy quartet with the children's hunger alliance in ohio. she has no policy a professional position with the ohio attorney general, and the energy diversity council of ohio. immediately prior to her work with the association she was director of federal relations. she currently specializes in early childhood education, child nutrition education technology and literacy issue for the national school boards association. welcome to all of you. you're prepared testimony will be placed in the record in its entirety. you're going to be given five minutes to explain the highlights of your testimony. and in budget you see the small boxes. when you begin, the green light will go on. wh

you might do if the number of things associated with those components but as long as it is aligned that way, it still requires a presidential approval and the congress would get a look at this, too. . . ,,,, ,, >> last slide. this goes back and restates everything that we have talked about up until now. one point that i would bring out is that the reality of the world that we live in today and the world we anticipate living in, we have to expand the spectrum that we guard against in this area. anything from nuclear weapons being used to influence, to terrorism, all the way up to icbm that would be coming towards the united states. our defensive capabilities must be able to address that entire span. a substantial amount of work in this nuclear posture review has not been emphasized as much as it should be. and making sure that we have the capabilities to address those types of threats as a go forward and that we develop those capabilities and we keep them robust and credible, which is a key attribute. i will ask my colleagues to join me and they will take questions. >> thank you. i want

who tapped out the following letter to the central association of german citizen of the jewish faith on march 25, disaster beckoned that and the letter is read by susan. >> also it is true that the lives of our jewish religion has not yet been distributed. bit by bit every jewish man and woman will be out any means a substitute. what is to become a german who can no longer earn a living here? if people of other faiths but cost against us then we jews need to hold fast together for each other. the union calls german jews to remain loyal. don't they see the writing on the wall? are we to go back into the ghettos of old? >> the central nazi boycott would last on one day, but because our own view is clouded by knowledge of the later horrors, we perhaps lost sight of the shot that went to the jewish community at government support of the boycott. this contemporary document who escaped to the u.s. in 1938 shows that some jews despicable misery was unimaginable. as it turned out, however, the following months and years would see surprising variation in german jews and ability to maintain no

for example, the american heart association, the american diabetes association, the american institute of cancer research promote plant-based foods for chronic disease prevention. and the american medical association, the american public health association have called on federal food assistance programs to emphasize vegetables, fruits, legames and grains and nondairy feuds. it seems we could be making progress in improving our children's health and bringing down healthcare costs by expanding access to healthy vegetarian choices and reducing children's intake of fat, saturated fat. and some have allergic or other reasons. some children are allergic to milk and are lactose intolerant like i am and they miss out to other nutrients. so my question is twofold should we encourage healthful vegetarian options by making them more affordable and providing incentives for schools especially low-incomed schools to provide them? and secondly, do you believe that schools should offer nondairy milk alternatives that meet standards with usda for kids who can't drink milk or won't drink milk? >> curren

we have not changed anything associated with what we would call the physics package. the nuclear part of this thing. that will not be touched. in a refurbishment, you are working around the components that have become obsolete or those that by replacing them, would substantially reproved -- improve the safety or effectiveness of that weapon. in the case of reuse, those are nuclear designs from different warhead types. we might match the warhead from one with another and we can preserve that weapon. no new capability but that would allow us to take tested

head of the mundane brush of the central association of german jews report here on what happens when he complains [inaudible] about schoolboys singing a bloodthirsty for this report is read by jill pauly. >> last friday i encountered a unit of roughly 30 upperclassman who sang the lovely song about jewish blood spurting from the knife. yesterday i visited the headmaster and discussed the occurrence within. amanda was very uncomfortable for him and i really had that before the man. he's unfortunately powerless and could not hold up the prospect of any success from the complaint since he has already expired up a hornets master himself. i believe it would not be banal and welcome to him if we were to take the matter into our own hands. perhaps the headmaster will respond accurately to increase by his superiors. >> and indeed committee documents show you remember this after word of the central association of german jews made what seemed like a major breakthrough in march 1935 when the police president of not berg is an instruction to the not the storm troopers at the songs derogatory to

martha kramer, associate editor of the kipling your letter. luke russert, nbc news correspondent for congress and a new member of the national press club and genie friar, veteran associated press newsmen and a member of the national press club. [applause] kathleen sebelius, the and of the health of the apartment of human services lead the principal agency charged with keeping americans healthy and 80,000 employee institutions have been the focus of some of the obama administration's top priorities. as the country's highest-ranking health officials she has been a powerful voice in reforming the health insurance system along with coordinating response to the 2009 swine flu virus and it range of services from health care to child care to energy assistance during the economic downturn. kathleen sebelius whose father was governor of ohio and whose father in law with the kansas congressman has decades of political experience in her own right. she served in the kansas house of representatives until 1995 followed by eight years of the insurance commis

association and the american dietetic association. she's focused much of her work on breast feeding and is a strong and vocal let it for healthy babies and families. thank you, ms. carolyn for joining and i look forward to the testimony. >> welcome. the next witness will be lucey gettman. she began her career as an advocacy corps donner for the of hunger alliance in ohio and helped policy and professional positions with the ohio attorney general, ohio student aid commission and the university council ohio. immediately prior to work the national school board association she was the director of the federal relations for reading recovery council of north america. ms. gettman specializes in early childhood education, child nutrition education technology and literacy issues for the national school boards association. welcome to all of you. you're prepared testimony will be placed in the record in its entirety. you're going to be given five minutes to explain the highlights of your testimony and in front of you you see the small box is to b

would you just guess that's inherently governmental or closely associated? >> i'd break that down into two steps. the data collection and developing metrics and reports. i don't see that as inherently government. i would say that any action on that feedback with a contractor about their performance, i would call that inherently of government. >> assistance in the statement of work? >> again, not our line of business. but -- i don't see any inherently government function of drafting performance work statements that are the result of, you know -- i don't know how that process even works. but interviews and developing requirements and helping to quantify those works. the drafting of the work would not be inherently government. determining the government's requirements. >> and then finally the evaluation of contract proposals? >> that's a little bit tougher for me to say yes or no. i think that is something that's better referred for the government. -- reserved for the government. >> dr. raney, to close this with you. one of the questions that this policy docume

we see the school nutrition association -- the school nutrition association sees this as a wonderful opportunity to utilize cafeterias as a learning laboratory for healthy eating so that we can improve the eating habits of our children. we support coordinated school health programs so that we can work together with the total school community to be able to promote the school lunch program. we have healthy meals that provide, you know, healthy entrees, more fresh fruits and vegetables, more whole grains, and the model with the healthy meal is. if our students participate in their program, there are able to take that message home. in the -- in partnership with the total school committee, i think we can work toward having healthier students and reducing all of the chronic thomas's backers of from unhealthy eating. >> thank you. mr. john kline. >> thank you, mr. chairman and to the witnesses for being here today. i was struck that it seems everyone of you have something in common in that every program does seem to need more money. we have heard calls for adequate resources, enhanced meal

gettman, you were emphasizing representing the national school board's association. that there ought to be more local control. and that the federal government ought to be careful about how it intrudes in that. it does seem to me that child nutrition initiatives at the school -- or school district, local level, allow for more input and support from parents. which i think we all would agree is very helpful. the more parents are involved in education in general, the better we are. and not just on nutrition. could you address that. that involving parents and how that would relate to how much the federal government dictates in those process, ms. gettman, to you. >> thank you. mr. chairman, members of the committee, parents are absolutely -- play an absolutely critical role in the success of all of our collective efforts. and to maximize and capture the collaborative potential between local school districts, families and communities is absolutely paramount. one thing to keep in mind is that local school board members are either appointed by or elected by and from their com

this also takes steps to reduce the threat associated with biological weapons. states that are not compliant with their obligations, there is a different rules that. we still say that the u.s. would not use nuclear weapons -- would use nuclear weapons only in extreme circumstances. we specify that for these states. as was discussed by the secretary of defense, as long as nuclear weapons exist, we see the fundamental role of u.s. nuclear weapons to deter attack on ourselves or forces allies are partners, we look to strengthen conventional capabilities including missile defense, counter wmd capability to deter attacks with the objective of making the sole purpose of u.s. nuclear weapons being to deter a nuclear attack on the u.s. or our allies. with that, i would like to turn it over to general kurt right. -- cartwrithgt. ght. i will give you a couple more slides and try not to say anything over again. on this page, start. we expect the president in the next two days to sign with the russian president, the start treaty. if you look at the reductions, put together,

they are independence and free association and anybody concerned about the concept of free association. we have done it before. marshall islands, micronesia. those are free associated states with a relationship with the u.s. let's hear from the people of puerto rico. i want to speak plainly now. this bill has been unfairly characterized as a statehood bill. i am a strong proponent of statehood for puerto rico. yes, that's so. but this bill is not a statehood bill. that's one of the options. and it is not binding on this congress once we have the results, we will act accordingly. we will have discretion to deal with these results. residents of puerto rico have contributed so much to this country. our sons and daughters have served alongside their fellow citizens from the states on countless battlefields in europe, asia, and the middle east. during a late night patrol -- the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman's time has expired. mr. pier lee westy: i yield myself another minute. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized for an additional minute. mr. pierluisi: soldiers from pu

associates. first vice president national association of realtors. without objection your written statement will be made part of the record. you will be recognized for a 5-minute summary of your testimony. so let us start with mr. conrad. >> good afternoon, chairman waters and ranking member capito and members of the subcommittee. my name is david conrad. and i serve as senior water resources specialist for the national wildlife federation. the nation's largest conservation education and advocacy organization. we greatly appreciate the subcommittee holding this hearing today and your continuing interest in the reform and reauthorization of the national flood insurance program. i want to underscore three mainly points from my written testimony. first, while the national flood insurance program is broken, essentially bankrupt, with a debt of $18.7 billion to the u.s. treasury, many of its fundamental problems can be corrected. believe committee has an opportunity to pass meaningful reforms that wil

they have no trade association that represents their interests. we believe this group alone satisfies the requirement for a group of hedgers. in closing, better transparency is a critical component after well-functioning market. futures exchanges have proven their worth bringing transparency and greater price discovery to market participants. the box-office contract is designed to accomplish that same goal. when fully implemented the market for these accounts will benefit all participants in the motion picture industry providing additional capital at lower costs. in closing what i'd like to, reference now is that injected into the regulatory reform debate in the senate of course is the language prohibiting this contract. we obviously would like to express our view that we oppose that. thank you for the opportunity. >> thank you. we'd like to recognize mr. mr. swagger, chief executive officer, media derrytives. mr. swagger. >> thank you, chairman boswell and ranking member moran to invite us here to testify. i'm robert swagger, chairman and ceo of

that may be somewhat like a free association. but whatever the people of puerto rico decide it seems to me i would be, as one member, prepared to honor. i am hopeful that today after 111 years that mr. serrano spoke about and that mr. pierluisi talked about that we do in fact give to the puerto rican people the option that they deserve to have and that our principles demand they have. i hope my colleagues will support this rule. i hope they will support the bill, and i hope they will oppose amendments that will undermine this opportunity that can be an historic opportunity, not just for the people of puerto rico, but for the people of the united states of america to live out its pledge to people that have an association with us and indeed the principle that we ask other nations to honor as well of self-determination. and i thank the gentleman from colorado, mr. polis, for yielding, and i yield back the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields back. the gentleman from florida. mr. diaz-balart: mr. speaker,

think of all the phrases you associate with their leadership. they seem like they have not made up their minds about where they stand. so, the british public has made -- has found it hard to make up its mind about where they stand. what happens after a long time of one party in government? besides the change being attractive, the public puts a question mark over the public -- over the party trying to be the change. what is the change that i am getting? prior to 1997, gordon and i sought to answer the question. we told you we were eight new and aggressive force. -- we were a new and progressive force. even when we were 20. ahead in at the polls, some of my colleagues would say, let it go now. i would say, no. it was important to reappoint -- to reinforce and repeat the message that we had. we had worked out a second position that was clear and mutually coherent. we advocated a new policy on the economy and on a law and order. we talk about public services. it was a philosophical con sept woven across the whole fabric. we rewrote the party constit

the association of violence and crime with illegal immigration. what we have said here in arizona is that association is obvious. it's pervasive. and other people, the federal government, have denied it. there's no other theory that can explain the dramatic change in arizona from 250 murders to 125 as we have gotten our illegal immigration problem under control. >> okay. i want to get back to this. can a police officer -- sir, you the lawmaker down there. you passed the law. under the law you passed and was signed by the governor this week, can a police officer spot a car with five or six people in it who he thinks because of instinct, experience, whatever, evidence, whatever, can he stop that car and say i think these people are here illegally, i'm going to stop and check them? can he do that under the law without a crime involved? can he do that? >> no, he cannot. that would be -- that would be just simply racial profiling and that would not be permitted under the law. now, if he stopped them for speeding or something like that, he can inquire o

they are attending that association place. the government closed the association of iranian journalists in that 2009, and there were no people to support the iranian journalists. has been said, the regime has published images of the people. this is the new story that used photography as the power to identify the people. it was really dangerous for the photographers, you cannot carry your camera on the street. the people who were on the streets and showed their protests against the government, they identified an official [unintelligible] established by security, may be police, maybe other officials or the revolutionary guard. they showed some pictures of the demonstrators and they asked the people to identify them. this is dangerous for the photographers. they could not even say, we are from the press and people did not trust them. this was one of the situations with the photographers at that time that they saw with the regime. through the regime, how the regime has published images of the people sick -- connected to security c

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of realtors, the mortgage bankers association and the american bankers association. we should heed their advice and pass this bill. in sum, mr. speaker, to preserve the dream of home ownership in america's heartland, i urge all my colleagues to vote yes on h.r. 5017 and reserve the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman reserves the balance of his time. the chair recognizes the gentlelady from west virginia. mrs. capito: thank you, mr. speaker, and i would like to thank my colleague, mr. kanjorski, for his good, solid work on this bill and we've worked well together on h.r. 5017 and i think we see the results of that work together here today on the floor. this legislation extends the usda 502 loan guarantee program. this program is very important to home ownership tool for many rural americans, many of which live in my state of west virginia, providing a loan guarantee on privately issued loans. the 502 program has a very low default rate. over the last few years, demand for the program has increased and consequently loan commitment authority for

and i associate your founders can i associate them in part from talk about that. they were always these great diplomats who set the agenda for the next 100 years. they were always walking in the woods. workday? and why are we here today? it is people outside that they pull the curtains are you can't see the woods where we really ought to be walking. but there we are. those people also set an agenda, and it is extraordinary, 50 years at least and probably longer, and that agenda had big words attached, democracy and peace and freedom, and that was going to be calm and prosperity. and that was going to work through cooperation. and who are we? we are in a sense, we could say foot soldiers, but that is too militant an image. we are the professional people. that's judges, too. we are the professional. who were in part designed to carry out that vision. maybe not all of you are. but very few presidents of countries on the on the phone. and want to know what to do. why do i see very few? because i would like one, but not even one as. so we are professionals. and the que

your next chair of the radio tv association, peter slen of c- span. from my far right, you're left, mike mondrian, jim manley, senior communications director to senator harry reid. fox news channel. senator lamar alexander, republican of tennessee. chairman of this dinner in 2012 and everybody's favorite cameraman, jay mcmichael. chair of the house rules committee, straight from health care debate centro, louise slaughter from new york. dave mcconnell. rtca executive committee outgoing treasurer, linda kenyan of crn news. and of course you know mr. vice president. you can clap. [applause] our association is fortunate to have the house and senate radio tv gallery staff. they help us do our job every day. i want to expand a special thank you. these folks are the heart and soul of making the daily coverage of capitol hill possible. on the house side, olga ramirez, gayle davis, helen debarge, and anthony keller. on the senate side, a crhichris boyd and arlen salazar. >> ladies and gentlemen, awards coordinator jill jackson of cbs news [applause] ] >> good

joining us is president and ceo of american banks association, mr. ed yingling. welcome back. >> good evening. >> you have this goldman fraud case from the s.e.c., the conventional wisdom, not always right, is that it puts huge pressure to get a financial regulation bill through and the white house is running with it. what's your thinking? >> i think it address a bit to the pressure, though the disclosure today about the s.e.c. vote probably muddles that. however, i've been on the hill today, and so have other staff, and we don't see it changing votes at this point. you have wanted that prefunding out and you say we can financial any bankruptcy resolutions later. does that make you happier? >> if they take it out, we think that's an important step. as you know, the irony is that the administration originally opposed that, and then republicans came along and said the up-front fund is a bad idea and now it appears it would be dropped. that's important, because that fund did send a signal to the market that we were going to have too big to fail. a lot of it was a pe

guest: we're a trade association here in washington, d.c. we represent about 250 data companies here in the united states. those companies produce a whole range of data tools, credit reports which are used to estimate risk and a lending decision, identity verification tools which protects us from identity theft, fraud prevention tools hah help lenders manage theft. a whole raft of risk decisions in this country involve data that our members are putting together and that are making available in a business-to-business context. host: this is a story from the daily finance. most americans have seen the humerous television conversations like free credit report and free score that claim to help consumers protect their credit profiles. it turns out that many who sought to take advantage of those offers for free credit reports were often misled into signing up for credit monitoring services or other products. what is going on here and how are your -- these companies that you're representing responding? guest: well, so we need to pull apart the wheat

that e-mail was obtained by the associated press. irv miller is the executive who sent it and he since retired. in the note he said he hoped toyota would not be put out of business while finding a solution to the accelerator problems. >>> an airline merger could be in the works. yet another one. associated press is reporting that united airlines and us airways are in talks about combining their operations. if that merger happens, the company would become the second biggest airline behind delta which merged with northwest back in 2008. the associated press reports the combined company would be able to cut its costs and it could compete better with delta. >>> coming up tonight, the governor of virginia adding new language to a proclamation about confederate history month after a national outcry. >>> big fire blew out the windows of a highrise in boston. >>> nike out with a new commercial. >>> the orlando magic getting a little bit tricky against the wizards tonight. baseball season is in full swing. nationals trying to crack into the w

of black -- she took on the job as president of the national association of black journalists.er job included keeping the group on the top of digital technology and battling to keep jobs of minority journalists in newsrooms across the country. she is a fellow of the george washington university school of public affairs, where she runs prime movers. . [applause] >> dorothy gilliam, we salute you. and now dole will introduce another trail blazer from the world of american politics. >> i've been out of congress since 2001. you hear about how things have gotten so much worse. how things have become more shrill and so much more angry, and it never really hit home how true that was until i was reading "the washington post" last week and the question was asked, is tom coburn too nice? [laughter] no, that is not tom's problem. he is of fran but that is not close to his biggest problem. but tom had been attacked for daring to say nancy pelosi is a nice person. [laughter] i want to commend -- because i say that. people think that i do not like you, nancy. i'd have no idea where they get

let me associate myself with the words of both my colleagues. i want to thank mr. wu for sponsoring this legislation. i want to thank mr. coble for his service, not only to the united states coast guard, but to our subcommittee. he is one of our strongest members and has a tremendous passion about the coast guard. and as i was listening to both of them, i can't help but this about the fact that, madam speaker, the coast guard does not always get the recognition that it deserves. a little bit over 41,000 members. it's a small agency, small organization, but i call them the thin blue line at sea. and certainly coast guard group astoria is typical of the men and women that i see all over our country as i travel and commend them on so many things they have done so well. and on that note, when we look back attica trina, out of all the agencys that operated during katrina, there's absolutely no question that the united states coast guard was that agency that went far beyond the call of duty rescuing some 35,000-plus lives. many of these people would have perished were it

it is a challenge we have taken on with the american hospital association. there are some pretty simple checklist that have been shown to dramatically reduce hospital- associated infections. two-thirds do not require new equipment, do not require fancy training. they're just not implemented in hospital after a hospital. they are not in place in way too many of our medical care -- we currently pay the same amount for incidents whether or not something happens related to hospitals if you were not, we still are paying up until last year for so-called "never" incidents were the wrong limb is amputated. you did the same payment of the public insurance system as the best possible result. we can use, i think, the payment system to begin to drive and put in place incentives, initially incentives to promote better care, but eventually disincentives for bad care, and i think we have to start doing that very quickly. " there is a serious shortage of gerontologist, which is a concern as the population ages. -- >> there is a serious shortage of gerontologists, which is a

associated infections, and that we continue to generate knowledge so we can better prevent problems that we don't yet have good tools to prevent such as community associated methicillin resistant. >> doctor, you want to comment on data tracking? well, i want to say in my district back home, we have a researcher that is working on the antibiotic resistance, and he -- this is a doctor at the university of south florida. and his research is mrsa based, and he is particularly looking at the design and develop in a nano particle-based technology for drug delivery. but in his comments to me and his answer to the hearing, he was right on point with what you are saying of what happens from the basic research level and then turning that into some kind of new antibiotic so that it's a real issue, and along with the lack of funding at nih, cdc and d.o.d. it is practically non-existent. we simply cannot get the product companies to take any interest. thank you very much. >> thank you. gentlemen, mr. shimkus want to ask additional questions or and and if anybody else does, i will allow it becaus

-- associated with a bubble. the policymaker might be ridiculed by a true believer about lack of understanding about the important nature of the innovation, but i suspect over time, a central bank that laid out risk clearly would gradually gain credibility with market participants. use of the bully pulpit would allow the central bank to signal its concerns. this might be useful in shifting the risk-reward tradeoff by raising the risk that the talks might foreshadow more forceful action. that by itself could temper behavior. announcements of facts can be powerful, especially when they are followed by changes -- announcements' effects can be powerful. the second include macro- provincial. i define that as regulatory and supervisory actions that are not applied on the firm's specific basis. these include tools designed to temper demand or increase the supply in the assets subject to the bubble or increase the ability of skeptics to take the other side of the market in which the bubble may be occurring to counteract

what can we do to protect ourselves from emp's seth porter the associate eder to of popular mechanics. i wish this was an episode of "24" is this something jack bauer could help with? >> maybe, maybe not. we see this on shows in video games. guy in ocean's 11 used one. it is when a nuclear device goes way up into the atmosphere blows up. instead hurting people with the explosion it shuts off and fries all electronics around it. >> all electronics that wouldn't just include people's cell phones and stuff like that >> everything from your ipad to your car has electronics in it these days. it goes up and >> yous with the earth's atmosphere that -- up and screws with the earth's atmosphere. it sends thought electro magnetic pugs in three parts second lightning surge and third like a solar flare the

>> i think it is a reasonable goal, and we, the school nutrition association has been working closely with usda, and, you know, they are looking at some of the paperwork criteria to make it easier for school districts to be able to apply. because when we used is the big application that we had to fill out, it made it more complicated. but the benefits of the healthier u.s. school is bad, not only does it have requirements in the menu planning, which is very key to the healthier schools requirements, but it also has a component for physical activity. and in the first lady's let's move campaign, one of the pillars is school meals, but one of the other pillars is physical activity. and so the healthier u.s. schools is a wonderful, you know, recognition that school districts can achieve that promotes both nutrition and nutrition education and physical activity. and so a wonderful program, and it is going to be, you know, really encouraging more of our members to participate, and are going to be promoting it at our meetings and conferences and publications and everywhere we can. to help sc

in the hispanic community to increase the census participation with arturo vargas from national association of latino elected and appointed officials. "washington journal" is out. host: the government accountability office says gm and chrysler must pay $72 billion in pension funds to reach the minimum levels. the report saying it either of the company's plans terminated, the u.s. is held liable. if current tax cuts for high- income earners are allowed to expire, about 1 million americans making about a half million dollars to a million dollars would see tax increase to -- up to $15,000. firstly michelle obama host a town hall on childhood obesity live at 11:00 a.m. today. you can see it live on c-span, as it features eight c-span studentscam winner from honolulu. yesterday a three-judge panel ruled the federal communications commission did not have the power to regulate high-speed internet. some say it may be problematic in efforts to improve broadband access and the united states. here are the numbers -- the story we are about to get into for the first 45 minutes in all the papers this mor

there is equipment that was never associated with units, but was bought for iraq and put in iraq, so-called theater-provided equipment. that's all the green equipment. there's also white equipment, which is non-military standard equipment, bought to support the fight over the years. some of it in the hands of contractors, some of it in the hands of troops. refrigerators, air conditioners, desks, so-called white equipment. 41,000 vehicles, which is now at 29,000. we've moved 12,000 vehicles in the last few months and we're going of to have to move many more, so this is an enormous migration of equipment. one of the things that has paced us is deciding where something goes. we know it doesn't belong or isn't needed in iraq anymore, but where does it go? does it go home to become part of the army or the marine corps of the future, do they want it, does it fit in? if not, guard, reserve, i mean -- so guard, reserve, active-duty. if not, where does it go? does it go to kuwait for a future contingency? does it swing to afghanistan? do we leave it behind for the iraqi forces. do we give it to some

officials tell the associated press that toyota go not contest the $16.4 million fine.overnment find toyota because it said toyota knew about sticky gas pedals in december but did not issue a recall until january. >>> gun rights supporters will show their support for the second amendment in two ballots today. there will be a demonstration of the washington monument. however, dozens of people will be armed with weapons when they gather at bradley point park in northern virginia today, the closest site where guns are allowed. >> the tea party is made of two very different factions with a similar goal. >> now some results of a new poll by "politico." good morning, jim. >> good morning. >> there's a diversity of opinion among the group, but that might lead to a rift. >> there's the sarah palin camp, which identifies itself with some cultural issues we have been familiar with for several years now. then there's the ron paul camp which is against big government. people who came for the rally on a weekend, over 400 people, there was a direct split between the two camps. sarah

in numerous forms all over the world as we know and probably will for some time and yet we always associate about don ghandi get your gun to be curious what your thought of the nonviolent protests and also of the role of the media and the revolution that we've seen in the last decade or so in order to protect the fangs that are so impassioned to do over the last several years. >> well, actually i must admit negative views have changed over the past few years because i

-- speaking to is the associated procuracy and waste associated with a lot of these programs. if class were in place, the day you walked into that assisted living facility, you would walk in with $50, $75, maybe $100 a day to help you pay for assisted living, which right now is either coming out of your pocket, or if you are in a state that permits medicaid payments for assisted living -- and most do not -- you would not be eligible for assisted living. the good thing about class is, you have got money as a consumer to help you take that first step to get care where you need, when you needed, in -- and in a place to call home. caller: it makes me so happy that no americans are paying attention to what is going on. i was with my job for over 19 years and i'm on long-term disability now and as citizens, we all say we do not want the government to run our lives, [unintelligible] once i got on -- i was going to have to get my son of college to take care of me. i'm a person that need insurance. in my job i have a long-term disability insurance and i got to supplement that insurance

here are the numbers as they're coming into the associated press. x miners killed. 21 unaccounted for. just within the last couple of days, the top federal agency that looks into the mine safety in this country said more needed to be done since sago. the high tech equipment that was called for in these mines in case of accidents like these. now we have this. >> of course 12 people died at sogo four years ago. anything about the number of explosions. >> she says the first call in about half past 2:00. state police responded immediately. they are setting up tents. she couldn't confirm the number of explosions nor could she say whether or not six numbers were killed. the numbers are changing as we speak. >> the questn is where are the exits and how do you get to them? can you see and find your way to them? i know you'll be monitoring everything, david. >>> also in the news today, the federal government accused toyota of, in essence, a coverup, proposing to hit the company with a $16 million fine. the announcement said toyota had five days to report pro

in a national national association civil service, to what extent will the old prussian civil servantssensitivity prevailed over a long long nurtured anti-semitic instincts and be allowed to prevent chicanery towards jews in the abridgment of their legal rights. to what extent will the police force or the national socialistic be reliable and impartial in every case involving jews? last communist citizens. only the future will review whether these questions and concerns are justified. >> we could read this in several ways. we could say that contemporaries in and the u.s. president know better horribly underestimated and capable of an overestimated the degree to which the constraints of government of coalition government in the affirmative with the nazi could do and we could be sure that no one knew what was coming. but before january the 30th, the german jewish press had not held back in its warnings about hitler. [inaudible] the well-known jewish bank of max warburg in a powerful and much publicized enunciation of the nazis of his great friend of his great friend of his great friend ja

posted by the federal communications bar association. this panel focuses on the future of journalism, and is a little less than an hour and a half. >> i am barbara cochran, president emeritus of the radio television digital news association. a hush fell over the rims off that you're you're probably ready to get going here. our topic today does sound rather daunting. the future of journalism, is it time for a bailout? journalists and news consumers alike recognize this is a time of tremendous change in how news is gathered and delivered. americans are getting more news from a wider varty of ses than ever before, but at the same time the digital revolutiorevolution is demolishing some of the pillars of traditional news business models. than data, the former executive editor of the "washington post" and michael shifter, published a report last fall that said the economic foundation of the nation's newspapers is collapsing in newspapers themselves are shrinking. the knight foundation commission on information needs of local communities said,

that number is one that is associated with product negotiation, and while parity is certainly not as important as it appeared in the cold war, we still believe is appropriate with respect to deployed strategic systems to make sure that they're not misperceptions are misunderstandings on either side. that is the sense that as we go down a new start, following ratification, we ought to do it working to get there. do you want to speak to the specific programs? >> absolutely. the npr makes clear that this is not just about warhead, but it takes the totality of the administration in the executive branch to move forward. our proliferation programs are the largest nonproliferation program in the world. we have significant increases on bringing materials, securing materials at the site where they're located, installing radiation detector equipment to make sure that they were there, and the gentleman asked a question about exercising scientific capabilities. the scientific capability does not take care of the nuclear weapons stockpile. it is essential for nuclear counter-terrorism, intelligen

the thought must be that to associate traditional marriage with the sex acts of same-sex couples is todefile or contaminate as it were the body of marriage in much the way eating food served by a dollet used to be taken by many people in india to contaminate the high caste body. nothing short of a primitive idea of stigma and taint can explain the widespread feeling that same-sex marriage is defiling. while the marriages of immoral and sinful heterosexuals are not. if the arguer should reply that marriage between two people of the same-sex after all cannot result in the procreation of children and so must be a kind of parody or sham marriage well, then we're right back to the earlier argument, the procreation argument. and those who insist is so strongly on procreation do not, of course, feel that the marriage of two heterosexuals -- 70 years old is a sham or a parody and they don't try to get lawmakers to make such marriages illegal either. if we're looking for a historical parallel to the anxieties associated with same-sex marriage we can find it in the history of views about woman-h

i would like to thank the radio and television correspondents association for having this dinner. i would also like to think anybody who made it tonight that may have crashed the party. i am sure we will hear about you on "tmz" in the morning. now that arnold schwarzenegger will no longer be governor of california, i wonder if he would be at these events. i think we would have a lot less party crashers when someone's credentials did not check out, arnold could scream, "get out of here." but that is just me. i coupe -- i could have been a fox news reporter. i have the legs for it. if that joke offended anyone, do not worry. i will invite you to a beer some of and everything will be ok. just the other day, joe biden invited me to the st. patrick's day after party. i told him i was not irish. he said that i was. he is still convinced that my name is o'bama. i told him that he did not have any good examples. he said, "oprah." the two-party has become a phenomenon of they are all energized and stuff. perhaps they should switch to decaf. if they slow down just below a bit, maybe they wo