looking over the beaches below. so the way they figured they would combat that was to hit omaha beach with strategic bombing, with four-engine bomb he is, b-17's an b-24's. the problem is they were not accurate enough and fell inland so when troops went ashore at omaha beach they didn't have the fire support they needed for such a difficult mission. host: next call is george from logan, west virginia. george, you are a grandson of a world war ii d-day vet, correct? caller: yes, sir, i am. host: what did your grandfather tell you about landing on the beach on d-day? caller: he said it was one of the most scare yes, sir, one of the most exhilarating, he said you had to keep it, you had to keep your emotions in check if you were going to stay alive. he said there were people getting left right and left next to him and we lost him last year around he lived with it up to the day he died. and i just wanted to say to all the d-day vets that i'm praying for you, thinking about you and respect you. i'm a veteran also. i went

the american forces landed, numbered about 73,000, 23,000 250 on utah beach. 34,000 250 on omaha beach and over 1500 air borne troops. 21,400 britance landed on juneo beach. and 7900 british air borne troops came in from the skies. back to the phones. oakland, california. go ahead. caller: good morning. every time i watch your program on d-day, i never hear anything about the participation of africa or our ex-clone yl powers. oim from west africa. we have the second, the most natural beach in the world. the ships from all these powers came to our shores to collect possessions and water -- positions and water. our men were sent to these wars from my jeeria. a lot of them participated and i'm sure others participated for the french clone yl matters. yet, nobody ever talks about the participation of african countries in these wars. i was six years old and i coming into our city. so how come nobody ever talks about the participation of the african soldiers in this war? host: you have today, and thank you for enlightening us. caller: good morning. host: ron, you're a family member of a vet?

there's so many bodies littering the beach." the young german who took his machine gun and started to fire also felt the same nightmare as he looked at the vast spaces before him, littered with bodies, with hundreds and hundreds of lifeless bodies -- hundreds and thousands of lifeless bodies. 120,000 allied soldiers had disembarked in addition to the 32,000 men from the air divisions. among them were more than 10,000 dead, wounded, and missing. on the evening of june 12, after ferocious fighting, the allied soldiers had managed to establish a front that was 90 kilometers in length and 10-20 kilometers deep. the battle of normandy was to last until august 29. on that date, 2 million allied soldiers had disembarked. 38,500 had been killed, 150,000 wounded, and 19,000 were missing in action. on the german side, 60,000 were dead, 140,000 wounded, 200,000 or taken prisoner, and 20,000 civilians had also lost their lives. the battle of normandy decided the fate of this war, but this battle was won on the beaches and in the fields by t

the day after d-day, i walked up to the beach, went up and down the beach and saw guys lying in the beach who were dead. they were there with their eyes open, their rifles ready. they were solid in their death. mr. speaker, these brave men who cracked the nazi grip on europe began with the liberation of france 65 years ago. and then from there, they went on to germany. nothing like it has ever been done before in history. over 150,000 allied soldiers hit the beaches during assault landings on the 6th of june. by the fourth of july, over one million joined the invasion force through normandy. it was a miraculous feat from 1944. these young men were from every state and territory in the united states. they were young and hailed from places from the farmland to the big cities. many had never been but a few were miles from home until they went ashore from overseas. they have been called the greatest generation. growing up irk learned my dad, a farm boy, served in the great world war ii as a soldier in europe. he was only 18. that's all i knew. neither he nor my mom, a war bride, ever said any

if we would have failed on omaha beach and on the other beaches on the 6th of june in 1944, the struggle for europe would have been a struggle between hitler and stalin, and we would have been out of it. if stalin had won, the iron curtain would have been on the english channel. if hitler had won, i don't think he would have been able to take britain, at least not in the immediate future, but he would have gone all the way to the urals. hitler's plan was to turn the problem of conquering america over to the next generation, utilizing the resources that he intended to have as a part of the greater german reich as a result of victory. it really did turn on getting ashore and penetrating that atlantic wall. now, once that atlantic wall was penetrated and we had a beachhead and you could begin to move from england into the continent, this tremendous outpouring of america's factories that we had managed to get over to england by winning the battle of the atlantic in 1943, if you penetrated the atlantic wall then it was no longer a question of who was going to win. it was when is the end goi

on that june morning, the young of our nations stepped out onto these beaches below and into history. as long as freedom lives, their deeds will never die. now, more than half a century on, it is an honor for me to speak for the british people, alongside friends, and with his royal highness, the prince of wales, each of us represent the peoples of our nations, as together we salute the brave fighting men of the largest amphibious operation in the annals of warfare. we remember those who advanced grain of sand by grain of sand, utterly determined amid the bullets and the bloodshed that freedom would not be pushed back into the sea, but would rise from these beaches below to liberate a continent and to save a generation. so this is sacred ground. this day marks the triumph of right over wrong, of truth over lies, the victory of human decency over hatred and the holocaust. it is the only place from which after five years of total war and 40 million deaths, liver -- europe could be liberated. this is a place where the break through to victory occurred, the place from where you could chart

particularly omaha beach you had a coast guard presence. that is lesser aspect of the normandy invasion. also some of the troop ships. host: we are about 15 minutes away from the president's scheduled peach at the normandy american ceremony -- cemetery, rather, and memorial. back to the phones, shreveport, louisiana. jay. caller: good morning. host: good morning, jay. caller: how are you doing? host: what is your connection to d-day? caller: well, my daddy was in the 116th infantry regiment of the 29th division. i will give you little different perspective. he was a replacement troop. he went in on may 9th. his first action was at verville and he was captured and spent the rest of the war as a p.o.w. but he came back and had some kids and he never talked about it much. but it was pretty hard on him. and he was a good provider and good daddy and i just honor him and i apologize for being a mush but god bless all of those guys and their families and thanks for c-span. you are great. host: thanks for your call and don't worry about the emotion

captain jack fawcett of the first canadian scottish regiment, we were so intent on getting to the beach that even if the engines had stopped or broken down, and sheer will power would have driven the craft a short period -- would have driven the craft ashore. [speaking french] the iron will of those troops, the careful planning of their commanders, and the unwavering support of their fellow citizens back home resulted in victory that day and in the eventual triumph of good over evil in the months that followed. this was the most spectacular achievement, what has famously and rightly been described as the greatest generation. the fathers and mothers of today's leaders, the fathers and mothers of my childhood. it was their most spectacular achievement, but it was certainly not their only achievement. for having fought against oppression, racism, and cruelty here in europe, they would return to canada and turn their resolve to building a society more fair, more equal, and more compassionate than the one that had left behind. with similar commitments, but this time greater patience, they wo

would define the progress then -- it wasunknowable then, it came down to the battle for a slice of beach only 6 miles long. nor particularly it came down to the man who landed here. those who now rest in this place for eternity, and those who are with us here today. perhaps more than any other reason, you, the veterans of america are why we still remember what happened on d-day. you are why we keep coming back. for you remind us that in the end, human destiny is not determined by forces beyond our control. you remind us that our future is not shaped by chance or circumstance. our history has always been the sum total of the choices made and actions taken by each individual man and woman. it has always been up to us. you could have done what hitler believed you would do when you arrived here. in the face of a merciless assault from these clips, you have all the boats offshore, made a brush of bullets that lit the night sky. you could have hit in the hedgerows were way behind the sea wall -- or waited behind the sea wall. but that is not what you did. that is not a story you told on d-day.

miller night beach night hits the beach bash friday night. 21,000 fans receive a beach towel. they -- fireworks after the game. come and join us friday night. the boys are coming home from new york. six game home stand, blue jays and red sox, then head to baltimore. here's zobrist that popped up to johnson first time up. the jam job and flair. there's the first pitch. 2-0. >> rob: not finishing off. he's lazy, i mean he's dragging the pitching arm behind him, falling forward. that doesn't give him time to catch up. you have to be on top when the front foot hits the ground. >> bob: you hate to see a walk to the leadoff man after being given a 4-0 lead. >> rob: that's in the dirt. 3-0. you'll see him fall forward first. he walks towards the catcher. you've got to get the arm up on top quick. much better. little high. [cheering and applause] he's going to come out and talk to the pitcher. he needs to take a breather here, try to get a ground ball. >> bob: willie harris comes in to join the conversation as an observer. >> rob: willy knows it's his 6 6th start and he's just a kid.

he said i would never afford a home in newport beach, which is still true. and he thought i needed to wear a bulletproof vest every day. i'm here to tell you i quickly learned there is a huge disconnect between theory and practice, which i learned in my halls of academia. because of on the very first day when i walked into my classroom in long beach, california i was absolutely clueless. the first day i wore polka dots and pearls and as i was about to go to the 45 minute drive from my home to the city my father called in panic and said no matter what you do please do not eat apples. he convinced himself all of the apples were either leased or had razor blades. [laughter] okay, dad. as i made the drive from newport beach into the city i learned in this community there was a lot of hopelessness. 126 murders had taken place along that summer. i walked through metal detectors, went into a classroom, it was elected. there were no textbooks, no technology and there was no eager reston's like yourself ready to dive in and learn about shakespeare. and i quickly foun

. >> it's close to vero beach. i would stay in vero beach which is in between st. augustine and palm beach on the atlantic coast. also, the darling national wildlife refuge, he was a cartoonist, but the national wildlife refuge is spectacular. roosevelt created the national forest in florida that links the atlantic to the gulf. if you look on a map you will see the big green swath of natural forest. that is a heavy manatee area he preserved. >> i've been interviewing you 15 years. how do you remember all this? >> i love history. you know that about me. i have a good memory, i guess, for things when i get into something. >> photographic memory? >> i don't know. but my enthusiasm is so high that when i find documents, i'm very excited about it and i'm able to incorporate all that because i like this. this really opened my eyes. before i wrote this book i was going to parks and i was not thinking about the back story of how we got this system. we're always looking for good news in america. i will give you a good news story. look at our incredible park system we have i

beautifully built fortifications, set up to fire enfilade down the beach. they had holes in the ground surrounded by cement, and they could set mortar crews in there. so those mortar crews were invulnerable. they had a spotter who was right up on the edge, and he'd call out the coordinates -- they had zeroed all this in advance -- and drop that shell in there, and off it goes and they knew where it was going to hit. that only begins to describe the complexities of the atlantic wall. the problem with the atlantic wall was, it had no depth to it. once through, you were through. there wasn't anything behind it. and once through, the guys to the left on the atlantic wall and to the right were immobile. they didn't have organic transportation. they didn't have trucks, they didn't have jeeps, they didn't even have bicycles. they were just stuck in the thing. so once through you were through, and that was the victory on d-day. we got through the atlantic wall. not very far. the british were supposed to get to cannes on d-day. they didn't get there until july, but

we have 52 mechanical employees and another 108 employees at our back shop in beach grove, indiana.and i expect the workforce at these two facilities will be returning the first of the m-fleet cars to service in the middle of july. the first of superliners by the end of july. at the end of july, we intend to award the contract for a team of regional project managers who will manage a slate of 394 projects with a total dollar value of $636 million across the country. many of these projects will be relatively small and they will be excellent candidates for small business set-asides. regional managers will oversee the effort and our expectation is that they'll achieve the goals of expanding the outreach and relationships with small business and disadvantaged business enterprises. we've built a procurement website. procurement amtrak.com. i should note that some of the $1.3 billion that amtrak is investing will lay critical groundwork and provide long-term benefits for the development of highspeed rail. the $10 million we're investing in positive train control on our michigan line. ther

we want to mention that his grand father and great uncle landed on omaha beach. there you see prime minister gordon brown on the left side of the screen and on the right side the french president. we want to thank john mcmannis for being our guest. we are going live to normandy as we await the speech by the president. ♪ ♪ ♪ [applause] >> president obama, your royal high ness, prime minister brown, prime minister harper, distinguished guests, ladies and gentlemen, please be seated. it's our privilege to welcome all the visitors joining us today. we extend a special welcome to the d-day and world war ii veterans and their family members in attendance who honor us all with their presence. [applause] today, we commemorate the 65th anniversary of the d-day landings that took place in the early morning hours of 6 june, 1944. today's ceremony will honor the soldiers, sailors, and airmen who made the supreme sacrifice so that europe might be liberated. included among those so honored are the 3,881 who lost their lives on d-day at omaha beach and the 9,387 of our dead who

the minutemen who gathered on a beach in lexington. of the men who gave their last full measure in vietnam. of all the young men and women whose valor and goodness still carry forward this legacy of service and sacrifice, it is a story that has never come easy, but one that always gives us hope. we cannot help but draw from those moments in history when the best among us were somehow secure a beachhead on an unforgiving sure. those men who achieve that victory 65 years ago, we thank you for your service. may god bless you and may god bless the memory of all those to rest here. [applause] >> ladies and gentlemen, four of the normandy veterans that are with us here today will be awarded the legion of honor in recognition of their efforts and bravery. the legion of honor is france's highest decoration. it was created by napoleon bonaparte in 18 02. today's recipients will be awarded the order of officer of the legion of honor. [speaking french] [but bugle plays] >> ladies and gentlemen, please rise for the legion of honor presentation for

mattachine my discussion groups immediately sprang up in long beach, laguna beach and fresno. by early 1953 groups that form as far away as san diego, san francisco, oakland, berkeley and chicago. emboldened by the triumph men and women of the mattachine brought the days of fear, silence and secrecy to an end. thank you. >> thanks, todd. again that is from "pre-gay l.a.: a social history of the movement for homosexual rights". i have a million questions, a million. i'm only going to have time for a couple of them and as you were both reading one of the things that struck me was the question of or the craziness of the senate invasion of private lives thinking about it now even in the construction of your two books of like to ask you both the same question and that is obviously you are doing research, you are wanted to talk to some of these people who are still around. in honduras subjects responded if they responded at all to your wanting to kind of give their lives another kind of look? karen? >> my book is based on archival research and i tended to speak with people interroga

they seemed be to be enjoying themselves, laughing, cutting up, out there on the beach, the waves. those uighurs who have gone to palau, how many millions we pay, we don't know. i have got a bunch of constituents who are willing to go train in terrorist camps in afghanistan if necessary if our government will pay millions of dollars to send them to the beaches. also one other point, we know there's been no transparency with the auto task force. we don't know what they are being paid. we just know that this group that's never run anything in the car business is running the car businesses and dictating what will happen. well, i've got lots of people that are every bit as unqualified to run the car buness in my district who are unemployed. they want that job. where do they aly to run the car businesses of america and get on the auto task force? we want to know because they'd like that job. thank you. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman's time has expired. pursuant to clause 12-a of rule 1, the chair declares the house in recess until noon today. email at c-span.org, a

>> when i stay there, i stay in vero beach, between st. augustine and palm beach. and dean darling, a young cartoonist that roosevelt adopted for conservation. and he was spectacular. and roosevelt created the national forest in florida that links the atlantic to the gulf. if you look on the map, you see a green swatch of national forest and that's an area he reserved. >> i have been interviewing you, and how do you know about all of this? >> i love history, and you know brian, i have micromemory. >> photographic? >> i don't know if it's that, but my enthusiasm is high, and i incorporate that. this opened my eyes and i wrote the book to the parks, and not thinking of the back story of how we got the system. we are looking for good news in america, i will give you a good news story. look at park system, and national parks and forest. and we did that right and now have an obligation to maintain it properly. >> how do you when do you your research keep track of it all? what is your system? >> well, latest historian steve ambrose told me abandon knowledge on your own p

miller light beach bash on june 19, that will be friday night.first 10,000 fans 21 and over receive free beach towels, live music before the game. fireworks after the game. get your tickets at nationals.com. or the box office at ballpark.  bergmann had a good strin one inning appearances going on until recently.  >> bob: not to be forgotten the fact that back in the third washington had the lead, bases loaded, nobody out, zimmermann, dunn and dukes coming up, and scored one run on a ground ball. when the rays botched a double play. so the offense hasn't exactly been carrying its share of the load here lately either. if you take away the 10 game explosion against the giants and the seven run game against the mets, the nationals have averaged anywhere from one to three runs over the last two weeks. inside corner for a strike.  >> bob: four hitters, thr runs, three hits and a walk here in the sixth.  >> bob: red sox just scored five in the first at philadelphia. they've been delayed there. jason

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it's beach bash night. she could have worn that outfit to the beach and got a baseball. nice. adam dunn, 1-2 with a base hit up the middle. cubs, by the way, won that game against cleveland 8-7, so another one for the national league today. cubs scored a run in the 10th to win it. derek lee hit two homers today. adam dunn off the end of the bat. scott rolen drifting over for it. he'll catch a foul ball after running about 100 feet for that, two outs. nats were supposed to see roy halladay tonight, and, rob, are you glad they didn't? >> rob: i did want to see roy pitch, but not against our team. look at that. 10 wins, 103 innings pitched. he can rack up complete games. one of the best pitchers in the major leagues right there. 10-1 in 14 starts. he's got a bad groin. >> bob: his career record is 141 and 67 -- 141-67. >> rob: he's ridiculous. >> bob: there's elijah dukes. he'll pull it hard on the ground to scott rolen. that's it. leadoff man aboard. that's it for the nats stranding nick johnson. they've left seven runners. top of the sixth, 1-0, nats. - it's on. - oh, it's on,

you don't do laundry at the beach. you salt-wash everything and let it breeze dry.icate, permanent press... the ocean doesn't care. so grab your bag. . >> bob: come on out to the miller light bash. live bands perform, pre-fame and the nats face off against the blue jays. that will be our return a week from tonight. stay after and catch fireworks extravaganza. your tickets are available, nationals.com, 888-632-nats and always at the box office at the ballpark. washington and toronto sounds like a beach bash to me. top of the 4th, bard, hernandez and guzman. big breaking ball was a strike evidently when it crossed home plate. ball caught very low by dioner navarro. that was the 69th pitch of this game by matt garza. you talk about three long innings. this ballgame has been in progress for an hour and 16 minutes to get through a 3-2 first three in innings. >> rob: well, tomorrow night, the fans at home will only miss about an inning and a half. >> bob: it's possible. you get into the american league with the dh, everything slows down. >> rob: yes, sir. one season,

our next call is from david, from virginia beach. caller: i find it strange that we have not heard from any south carolina college yet. they call all the time. i was born and raised in south carolina, so i am rather familiar with the politics of that state. i feel sorry, first of all, for his wife and children, who should not have to go for this. where was the right wing when they were bashing clinton? that was ok. we use government vehicles, he used government computers to e- mail this woman for eight years. the reason why we need to know is because he is spending government money, and if you are going to turn down the stimulus funds to spend the hard earned tax payer dollars, they need to know. what is going to happen -- his press conference the yesterday was worse than robert gibbs, and i am a democrat. he even lied to his staff and his lieutenant governor, so how can we support him? we need to forgive everybody, not just the republicans, but we need to forgive the democrats. i am wondering when a republican is going to have a mis

host: pocono beach, florida, on our independent line. pompano beach, florida, on our independent life. caller: it is an american. they have been turning people down for years. everybody has preconditions. i met a woman who broke her ankle. they said that was a precondition for her health care company. the republicans and democrats, everybody running around calling themselves a democrat. they have to divide and conquer. they have more lobbyists. i work at two jobs for many years, ok? i am a v.a. i went two years with my right hand being injured. all i got was this and that. that had to remove all my bones in my wrist. two years. i have a woman in my office, a young girl, 22 years old. she is going through some kind of problem that women goes through. she is not going to get any health care. everybody is talking about the government paying for it, it will become worse. have you all woken up yet? host: we hear from the present one more time, talking about change of his proposals pass. >> if you like your health care system and your doctor,

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in myrtle beach we had a huge fire be the fire did a lot of damage to myrtle beach and it's not just hurricanes, the red cross was there so coastal communities can be hit in many different ways. rommel was born, the director of the emergency management addition could not be here today but he prepared a report about hurricane preparedness and i but like to submit that to the record. they are doing an exercise in south carolina, major exercise by ron is a great guy and i would like to put this in the record. >> without objection. >> one final thought as you talk about, you know when you go down to the coast of south carolina, way and is obviously very valuable, but when there are a lot of minority communities where do they go? the people have been their generation after generation after generation, and where do they go and what do they do from someone that may live in nebraska or the upper part of south carolina where the hurricanes are in such a factor i think we want to make sure our coastal residents can get help. people are not being irresponsible. they are not living in areas that

the 4th of july is a long weekend, going to the beach and getting sand in everything, coolers and beach towels, blankets, sunscreen and salty air. big fireworks display. making circles in the air with sparklers, bolt rocket wars, black cap fire crackers. buy one, get four free. it stum -- stump speeches by politicians, snow cones, kids, grand kids and pets all packed in the jeep. happy is everybody happy about the 4th july. nothing is sad about freedom. it's happy birthday to our country. the speaker pro tempore: any further one-minute requests? for what purpose does the gentlewoman from texas rise? jackson lee zwreel permission to address the house -- ms. jackson lee: permission to address the house and revise and extend. i wish our nation a very happy birthday, but i rise in sadness to celebrate, but yet mourn the passing of michael jackson. he was full of life, was in essence a joy to many who listened and those who danced. michael jackson loved america. he was truly a story that came from the very dreams that americans have. starting in the very bowels of the city called gary, india

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somerset maugham's short stories that i picked up and a bookstore in long beach last summer, of course one of the big influences on the writing so i love to read them together when i can. >> children's author emma walton hamilton, what is the key to writing a children's book? >> gosh, i would say respecting children as readers and not talking down to them. if any thing it is basically about trusting their judgment and their intelligence and hopefully speaking to what interests them and what they're passionate about. >> water children and interested in? >> well, just about everything adults are for the most part, their world around them among growing up, learning new things, music, arts, sports -- you name it, all the same things we're interested in. >> , have you written? >> i have written to us now about to release the 70 the children's book that i actually cowrite with my mother. >> what is it like working with your mother as a co-author? >> is a great pleasure. we weren't sure it would be a pleasure, we were both bossy and opinionated and we thought mother daughter working together

that's two regiments across a beach. that's not a lot of cacheability if you're going to invade another nation. so we would argue if you start getting below that kind of capability, that in fact the risk could be too great to launch an amphibious operation and the nation could lose its forcible entry capability. we think that's a worthy discussion that needs to be had in the q.d.r. almost as importantly is on a day-to-day basis, the combatant commanders out there have needs for security cooperation, theater engagement and those types of things. almost union formly they would say that the best means for doing that is an amphibious ship. it brings helicopter platforms to move back and forth, it brings medical capability that can be put ashore if need be. it provides the opportunity for enhancements, if you will work host nation training opportunities if marines are embarked, all those types of things. so what's interesting to us is if you tally up those requirements that the combatant commanders have, work in a navy rotati

labs in the impact that would have on major ports of entry, like the ports of los angeles and long beach, my district happens to be there. that are the plays were enormous amounts of imported food and to the country, so i just want to give a chance dr. hamburg not in terms of yes and no answer session, but could do assure us that lab capacity is a priority of yours and assure us there will be adequate lab capacity for the anticipated the importation of food and for the standard in this legislation to work? >> absolutely. laboratory testing is an essential component of a strong science based food safety system, and we do not have any plans to restrict our laboratory capacity and i think as we move forward we will want to make sure that we are applying the best possible science including laboratory science to our testing and screening activities. i hope there will be advances in laboratory science and technology that will enable us to do our inspections in a more efficient and cost-effective way, but it's a pillar of what we do and they will continue to support it and we may as resources b

i went at night with the great turtle expert and watch the turtles lay eggs on the beach. after they lay their eggs they move into the ocean. it felt like the birth of mankind. it was like biblical to watch these turtles interact. when i go there, i wasn't just looking at documents. i was trying to experience some of the wildlife that directly, or indirectly that roosevelt saved. there wouldn't be manhattanty if he didn't create the refuge. >> when did you the gerald ford book? >> i did it for a series that came out around that time. when you write a lot like i do, there are big books and small books. there is a book like that, gerald ford is a very small book mainly for the general reared. >> all that series was about 200 pages. >> yeah. this book was for me, the book i was going to live and die by, i was putting everything i had as from my childhood experience in national parks to my knowledge of theodore roosevelt . many women recently have written incredible books on t.r. like pa tricia o'toole and kathleen dalton. there is great literature out there and we have known

in myrtle beach we had a huge fire. the fire did a lot of damage to myrtle beach. it's not just hurricanes. the red cross was there so hurricanes are what we're talking about. so coastal communities can be hit by many different ways. ron osborn, the director of the emergency management division office of the general could not be here but he prepared a report about hurricane preparedness and i'd like to submit it to the record. they're doing a major exercise in south carolina today. ron is a very smart guy and i'd like to put this in the record. >> without objection. >> and one final thought, as you talk about -- you know, when you go down to the coast of south carolina, land is obviously very valuable. but when -- there are a lot of minority communities. where do they go? their people have been literally there generation after generation after generation and where do they go and what do they do. from someone who may live in nebraska or in the upper part of south carolina where hurricanes are not such a factor, i think we want to make sure that our coastal residents

it's a lovely day at the beach earlier today.tioners getting sun and surf here at land shark stadium. look out for the land sharks. marlins have a 2-0 lead. bonifacio, ramirez and cantu against jason berken in the third. bonifacio first ball swinging center field chases pie, but felix has the play. one pitch, one down. ed speedy bonifacio is retired. >> buck: that's exactly what you want with him. quick resolution. that's his best bolt fly ball to medium center field. it's an opportunity to get that speed off the bases. scored run a here tonight. scored the winning run last night. you don't want him on the base pads. >> jim: hanley ramirez, base hit to drive in two. the difference in this game so far. he hit the grand slam last night. first ball swinging center field. pie is there. that ball is smoked. it hung up for pie for the out. two pitches, two down. >> buck: just the way you like it. that will bring down your pitch per inning average. this is a bullet sent right at the center fielder. pie gets a good read on it and takes i

[laughter] i write this beaches separately for each event so it was a problem. the opening of this wonderful cancer clinic in montana was something i wanted to talk about but not here. so this afternoon i got to rewrite the speech. so, i will probably look down a little more than i should but i am doing it because it is important for me to say something that was a particular to what ewald do. it is honestly and immense honor to be with you tonight to say that i admire you, i applaud how you decided to spend your lives would be a tremendous understatement. when the high school chorus often sings the angels ominous. ifill that i am among angels when i sit with you and i am amazed by that. nancy was saying that lia has a halo over head and i honestly think that is true of most people in this room. you represent the best of boss. from compassionate cam angerame and a hope and with determination, and probably the hardest thing is that longstanding every day getting it done year after year, the hard work of making a reality. again, you have made an immense difference

and number nine in a recent ranking of all beaches as the best beaches in the u.s. so clearly, this is good for florida. it's good for the u.s. and i hope we will get on with it and pass this legislation. now, while we debate this tourism promotion act, i think that we are remiss to not mention the fact that as we are going into this travel and tourism season of the summer, what is happening with gas prices. gas prices have risen for the last 50 days. it's been the longest record streak of rises dating back to 1996. and the national average of gas has gone from $1.61 a year ago to more than $2.67 a gallon today. crude oil is now over $70 a barrel. it has doubled in the last four months. well, how soon we forget the lessons that we learned a year ago during last summer. in the run-up of the oil and gas prices, it wasn't the result of the fundamental concepts of supply and demand. but it is largely run-up due to excess kwreufp and unchecked -- excess kwreufp and unchecked speculators on unregulated commodities futures markets running up the price of oil as they specul

the posts of state, local and federal level will help our fellow citizens with disaster in myrtle beach which a huge fire. the fire did a lot of damage to myrtle beach, not just hurricanes, the red cross was there some hurricanes are what we're talking about today but also committed these can be hit in many different ways. it ron osborn, the director of the reasons he management division, madam chairman, could not be here today but he prepared a report one about hurricane prepare ness and out like to submit it to the record in. if they are doing an exercise in south carolina today but ron is a very smart guy and now like to put this into the record. >> without objection he met in one final thought as you talk about when you go down to the coast of south carolina when, bland is obviously very valuable. where there are a lot of minority committees and where they go? when i mean, there are people who have been there literally generation after generation after generation, and where did they go and what did they do? from someone that may live in nebraska or the upper part of south carolina w

normandy we sent all our troops to shore and scrambled off those landing vessels, stormed the beaches. that took place after literally months of planning, months of preparation. and finally the day of excuse came. -- and finally the day of execution came. in a way, the census is like preparing for the senator man did i invasion. it is the efforts under way now -- they have been under way for months and will continue until april 1 and beyond that day as we try to count everybody. yet at this critical time, as we approach the need to do this -- conduct our census, to do it in an accurate, cost-effective way -- we don't have a leader there. we have some good people, but they lack a director. fortunately for us -- well, let me just back up. last month i held a hearing on our homeland security/government affairs committee, and we invited people who have been high-level officials and i think -- in i think every census in -- since the 1970's. we asked them to come and talk to us about how they think we're doing in preparation for the 2010 census. and at the end of their speeches, i asked the

i used to run the beach every morning. >> johnny: staying in shape just in case. >> rob: i had to prove was healthy. the white sox gave me a contct it was worth while. i made great friends down ere. johnnyalex gonzalez now 1 hive 1 -- 1-4 double in the 2nd. nobody out. bruce at 1st. the runner is safe. slipped on the t right in front of the mound. >> rob: ryan tried to make a dn t the chance . ck it up. you're going toh him throw it before he gets the ball in his glove. he tried to recover a little bit ere. >> johnny: the error charged to ryan villone. >> rob: good save there by belliard. they'll try to figure out what to do defensively here at 1st and d with no outs. villone has got get off the mound ancover so zimmermann can stay loam. stay home. >> johnny: johnson onhe grass at. >> rob: 1st. body -- goes off the glove. watch ry zimmeann re. >> johnn fastballwhat happened there, lack of communication. manny acta will come out to the mound after break. we'll be back 2-2 ballgame here in the top of the 12th. gecko: , well maybe how geico's the third-largest car insurance company in ame

. $620,000 to build a skate park for our children in long beach, california. now, i don't know about mr. coburn in oklahoma -- they have fewer people there, that's true. i have a state of 37 million people. we have a lot of kids. we have a lot of kids who get in trouble after school. we have a lot of kids that drop out of school. we have a problem. they love to skateboard. as a matter of fact, we had a group, a former gang in oakland come forward and actually construct it themselves. so building a skatepark for our kids is not a boondoggle. it is a safe place for them to go, and you create jobs when you do it. we're installing energy-efficient runway guidance lights at the san diego airport. yes, energy-efficient lighting saves money. as a matter of fact, this thing has a payback -- it costs $5 million. this has a pay-back of two years to five years. when you put in efficient lighting it has a payback. it uses less electricity. it lowers the cost. but, no, senator dough burn comes to the floor and bashes it. so those are examples -- some examples of what he's

brian persons is civil director of the naval system command, he began as a ship architect at the long beach naval ship yard. a michigan native and a graduate of michigan state, brian went to work in 1981 for the navy department designing an maintaining the ships of our fleet. brian distinguished himself in the design division and made supervisory architect within a very few years. while there he worked on the overhauls of service ship including the u.s.s. new jersey and u.s.s. new jersey. in 1988 when the u.s.s. samuel b. roberts struck a mine in the persian gulf, the navy sent brian to provide analysis options. though he only asked to spend a week in the gulf, he remained with the stricken vessel for 45 days until it was again sea worth yism describing the experience he said i quote -- "i'm still amazed at authority i was given to execute this project. i was lucky to have an opportunity at such an early stage in my career." i want our nation's graduates to know that careers in public service are full of opportunities like the one given to brian. federal employees at all levels get to work

you don't do laundry at the beach. you salt-wash everything and let it breeze dry. knit, delicate, permanent press... the ocean doesn't care. so grab your bag. >>> thanks to our united st army to protect and defend our great nation everyday. >> bob: thank you adam dunn. 240 years ago, the army was established. we salute all of america's army to build a better future. well said adam. you're entitled to some today. he's 1-2. he could always say hi to mom and dad, his wife or kids. >> rob: we could have a contest, have adam say hi to you. >> bob: we'll call it "have adam adam. "how about this? there's dukes, it is beyond the reach of upton. dunn will stop at 3rd 3rd. elijah dukes is putting on a power display today. >> rob: how do you like me now? looks like a hanging curveball. it is. 85 miles per hour north on the pitch track. it's a double off the wall. second one of the day. >> bob: the ball got out there so quickly. adam dunn who could see off the bat it wasn't going to be caught couldn't get beyond 3rd

three years later congressman rating the fallen warriors at omaha beach, reagan said we will always rememberways be proud. we will always be prepared so we may always be free. today our freedom is defended by 1,092 foot long air carrier and 5,500 sailors on the ronald reagan and their motto is peace through strength. ronald reagan's legacy is intact, and i am confident it will be for generations to come. if you study the man and his times you will see the rhythm of life described by shakespeare. all the world's stage and all of the men and women are merely players. and one man in his time will play many parts. ronald reagan played his parts brilliantly with words and deeds. he inspired his countryno one great heights and inspired a great vision. we are honored to grab his likeness. [applause] >> ladies and gentlemen, the republican leader of the united states senate the honorable mitch mcconnell. >> friends, fellow members of congress, trustees of the ronald reagan presidential foundation, mrs. reagan, today we celebrate a great man's life. and as we dedicate this statue we affirm that man's

host: north miami beach, florida on the republican line. go ahead.aller: the last caller, he was right. i'm glad that the people here in america are listening to the calls. i've been listening to you guys for a very long time. thank you for c-span. it is not about oil. it is not about any of those things. it is about freedom. i believe the iranian people have the same rights as all of us. the instanity that goes on not only there but here. when you start labeling -- it just saddens me going forward again, thank you, again. i'm not well. i just need to say thank you. host: leave it there. missouri on the democrat line. caller: good morning. i wanted to express that even though it may not have been maybe the choice that we would have liked to have seen as a nation but they ran an election. if there is any propriety as far as some fault in the election, they can always call in, i believe, the u.n., and jimmy carter and that kind of thing and maybe have a reelection like they did. where was that russian revolution. they had a whole newó2 vote again. it

beach blockbusters are another door stopper in the life of benjamin franklin.n adams, alexander hamilton, americans live and brief history. it is the supreme court to interpret the wish of the founding fathers every day. it is in fashion to make the constitution that living, breathing, organic thing, work. or the closest to the british -- who tried to educate his own countrymen in britain on the vitality of the enduring vitality, the precise difficulty that is always open to discussion, debate and interpretation of the constitution and sometimes when one listens to the historian in chief in the white house who can barely make a speech without invoking, somewhat mournfully, washington staring glumly at the ice fields when crossing the delaware at the inaugural speech, quite a moment for the folks, as freezing as we all were on that great story of the day. you sometimes have the impression that obama is getting supply from a crack cabinet. thomas jefferson and alexander hamilton and abraham lincoln would compulsively identify. the founding fathers debated what am

stammen holding the best offense in baseball in terms of runs scored to two runs in five. at the beach. you salt-wash everything and let it breeze dry. knit, delicate, permanent press... the ocean doesn't care. so grab your bag. . >> bob: the curly w road, decked out in blue. since we are talking about draft pick, the two number 1 overall picks turnedly on the rays' roster. >> rob: david price and last year's first round pick was beckham? >> bob: we are talking about overall number 1 picks. >> rob: yes, overall number 1 pickses. that's why it ways number 1 overall picks. >> bob: 98th pitch of the game by matt garza, fouled away by josh willingham. inning number 6 underway. well, the rays, as i mentioned, never had a winning season until they won 100 games last year, never had more than 71. i think nats fans can take a lot of hope from what we are talking about here tonight with the fact that you can struggle but if you draft well, and have a plan, and stick to it and have good scouts, you can succeed at the major league level. and, again, if these guys can win the american le