i disagree with ben. there has to be a way for bp to be held accountable for the vicious effects it is having on citizens and workers in the area. they have to be held accountable. >> i couldn't agree more. absolutely agree more. should be done under law. the president could have called the congress back into session asked them to pass a law for escrow fund. they would have didn't in 24 hours. >> larry: ben, ben, hold it. hold it. ben. >> stephanie. >> larry: ben, what did the president do that was unconstitutional? >> not sure he had constitutional authority to order a private company, especially a foreign one. >> larry: tell them or ask them. >> he shamed them into doing it. he threw his weight around. bullied them the way he bullied -- >> ben that's what politics is about. i don't think the president did anything illegal. he strong armed them. that's okay. i agree with you, ben, there should be a law in place that for future incidents we have a provision. the president didn't do anything wrong. >> the

[applause] tonight, we welcomed the chairman of the federal reserve, ben bernanke, to the center. he is an academic thinker and a policy maker in the tradition of woodrow wilson. he is a world-class scholar and like wilson, a princeton professor. dr. bernanke has become one of the country's most important and most respected policy makers. he happens to be greatly indebted to woodrow wilson. one of owen wilson's major legislative achievements was the enactment of the federal reserve act of 1913. not to put too fine a spin on that and skipping over a awful lot of history, i just want to point out that i don't think he would have a job today if it wasn't for woodrow wilson. [laughter] for the past five years, he has faced tremendous challenges, adversity, and frustration. that is the lot of an avid washington nationals baseball fan. [laughter] which he certainly is. he and i and the sports fans all know that with the first pick in tonight's amateur draft and stephen strassberg's debut on the mound, things are looking up for the nationals. [applause] that is not really my purpose toni

host: ben evans, one of the folks you spoke to is the 59- ye-old accountant who made his first run forgress in georgia. he says is a mild form of civil unrest. do iet a pulpit? yes. i am willing to spend my own money to speak to people. is that something you heard a lot? guest: yes. it iseople who are very frtrated and wand to make the point that things are not right in their own way. that gentleman had a successful career and had enough money stowed away to be able to do that. another guy i talked to said he sold a four wheeler to pay to run in florida. he is running for the senate seat there. several said, "i do not think i can win, but i am making a point." host: you write that the field is larger than 1976, years after the watergate scandal took down president nixon and the year the gop took control of congress for the first time in four decades. he said the next largest field was in 1992 when bill cnton, george h. w. bush and ross perot battle for the white hse. stronger numbers now? guest: we thought it was interesting, particularly the 1994 election. you thought there would have

in about an hour, ben bernanke at the woodrow wilson international center for scholars interviewed by sam donaldson. after that, thad allen saying that the cleanup could take years. and later, britain obama comments on the claims process. -- president obama comments on the claims process. a couple of live events to tell about tomorrow morning. the senate judiciary committee here -- hold a hearing on the exxon valdez court decision. members will focus on a proposed bill that will allow punitive damages in oil spill cases. that is on c-span3 at 10 p 8 -- 10:00 eastern. hear on c-span, president obama and mes with senior citizens on efforts to prevent scams and frauds. seniors across the country will be able to participate by telephone. >> c-span -- our public affairs content is available on television, radio, and online. you can also connect with us on twitter, facebook, and youtube. sign up for schedule alert e- mails at c-span.org. >> utah's senator robert bennett lost his bid for a fourth term when he failed to secure his party's nomination. the top vote getters will be on the june 2

. >> woodruff: and paul solman talks to harvard economist ben friedman about the college graduates who still flock to wall street, three years into the financial crisis. >> it's all the more troubling when i think that, after they leave us, so many of them go into activities that are not economically productive for the country, for society, even just narrowly, for the economy. >> woodruff: that's all ahead on tonight's newshour. major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by: and with the ongoing support of these institutions and foundations. and... this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. >> brown: the jobs numbers for may fell well short of expectations today, and that raised questions about the direction of the economy. but the direction on wall street was clear-- a sharp spiral down, fueled by renewed doubts about the recovery. on the surface, at least, the american work force made gains in the may jobs report. the labor department reported the economy added a net o

additional layer of the 10-person financial council, which is a combination of regulators, including ben bernanke, including tim geithner and so forth, creates a situation where things can be dropped. we all know from working in different companies that the more meeting you have, the more people you get together looking at other details, the less potential there is for thoingz get done. i agree with him on that. and it is good that there's a way to resolve potential failure in investment banks, or in insurance companies and the like. the problem is that right now the biggest institutions that still trade a lot and still carry enormous risks and assets that they themselves evaluate because there is no objective means to evaluate them, are a bank of america combined with merrill lynch. goldman sacks is now a bank holding company. so it's under the purview, but it is still a company that takes on a lot of risk and trades quite actively in terms of its own profitability-- 80% of its profits come from trading. morgan stanley is a bank holding company. so what's happened in the last two years,

sound check owner ben jumper. >> it was really, really bad, and a lot of great musicians, famous andnfamous, work ing, everyday musician, work out of here, and it was devastating, the instrument loss here. i've literally 1,000-plus guitars thrown in dumpsters--. >> brown: troen thrown in the dump sterz? >> thrown in the dump sterz beyond repair. >> instruments for superstars like brad paisley and vince gill but also hundreds of musician like dave row, who has worked with the likes of johnny cash. row loss tonight bass gi tarz he stored at sound check. >> having insurance on that many instruments is kind of-- it's a big nut to crack. it could end up being a couple of house payments for you. so you put them in there and feel safe. obviously i-- we did. we all felt safe against theft and flood. keeping that many guitars around the house is a real liability. people see you coming in and out with that kind of stuff it's an easy target for thieves. but nobody thought about the river, you know. >> brown: ben jumper is now, of course, thinking about the river but he's rebuilding sound check

he ben ki bre for.s. trps, for japa prisone of war and for the ople hous by te military as often materis lft behi, cheaper to abandon than return me. so it wast the close of world war ii in the pacific the united states navy mp gave herman guerrero the baking material the liryupplied m to yufmentse with the tures and thcuomer bas he established, herman oened rman's bakery. not only was this e first bathis was the veryirst company foded in our postwar country. herman's busess grew. he openedheirstotel on the land of saan, a retail sore, a undry mt and a avel agey. in the 169's, following an expansion and upgrade, kery became known asman's modn bakery. today, the compa stribution chain includes several intnational franes. you can even find herman's thgs for sale othe internet. his fonde memy of the early baking cr was a sit to the shopy admiralhter nimitz. and flowing the 60-plus years of gwth, the relationship betweethuned ste milita and the bery nued. today, the u.s. commencesn guamherm has contracted an

and that's ben a focus and i think it will continue to be a focus.erator, if you are still there, it's hard because we can't see you but i assume you are still there. is there another question from the audience listening in? >> barbara from ken very, colorado. barbara, please ask your question. -- barbara from denver, colorado. barbara, please ask your answer. >> mr. president, i am barbara. >> how are you? >> i would like to have you answer a question. >> i'm all ready. >> ok. for health care reform, i am concerned about how any health care changes will impact seniors and choices around alternatives to having to go to live in a nursing home. my friends and i want to live independently. >> well, it is a great question. and let me just say, you sound like a woman that after my grandmother's heart because she -- some of you know my grandmother passed away a couple years ago. she helped raise me so i was very close to her and she lived in hawaii. after my grandfather passed away she had the same little apartment she had had when i was growing up over th

the landing r the people that we hired in a way that will allow ourconomyo turn to normal so we can ben to rede all thificispending? and the answ is, for every person w reresr voluntari vaces a position, at vacateposition, that vacant position wod be mov into aosition pool. and only half of the positions would be movedn the position pool. then the executive bnch of government, run out of th pside oice, would have toetermine whetr th positionwas essentia to that agencynd needed to be placed back in that agencynd the filled wh an employee or wheth that position should be ved to another agency that had a more iactfl mssioon our ameran economy on ernment relary needs. so iway over a 10-year periodo reduce the number of deraemployees through attrition. they leae, their position becomes vant, half of those osions gaway. that saveout $7 billion, t a all amount of money. some of theer ideas that republicans have filed go way back to the stimulus package. we sponsred a bill that would hae stulated economic growth inac would have cated twice as many jobs at half the cost of the majority party $78

capitol eps and lk at these kids at are eier juniors o seniorsn high schl anlook what tir future can ben the ne 10 years, and when wee alkin if it's $20.3 trillion in debt or $20.6 trillion in debt, coorgd to the treasury, we're in -- according to the treasury, we're in trouble. mrs. lummis: will the gentleman yield? lady mrs. lummis: wt do hear rom your conituents are they ready for the nd of reforms that you believe are necessy --hat do you he froyour constituents? are they rea for the kin reformshat u believe are necessary? mr. latta: they understand right f the bat that something has to be done. they understa that cuts- ey've had akdeep,eep cuts. i think until rectli served on theudget mmittee d as yore still a member an itting through those hearings with the congressial budget ficeirectoorheffice management and budget directr secrety geithner or we heardromr. bernanke, we heard the same thing. growth in this count and speing anit'sot to be stoppe they don't offer tolutions but it's a very simple solutio you don't spend what you don't have. was nbe19 ofnids on my mate granotr's side.

also noteworthy that lieberman and ben nelson from nebraska votedd% against the measure that had this. the entire package should be for. you have this benefit versus concern that is clashing. a lot of finger-pointing. host: democrat, dallas, texas. caller: i am calling in regards to some against president obama. from day one up to the presence t [unintelligible] the republicans stood up and not going to let anything pass. i have never seen any democrat and as many caucasiaa people on right to hate this man as as anybody has ever hated somebody. i am a 62 year-old disabled veteran. that makes me feel really bad to american. i fought for this country. and they are going tootreat a black man like thaa? guest: this is part of the why the conservative -- the right was not fond president bush. some on the left have been by president obama. they have been disappointed. overall, many are saying, give break. he has done aa lot for what was on his agenda. he has accomplished most of it. he has more to do. republicans believe the has helpedspending them tremendously. they will try to get one cha

so thank ben for an introduction and brookings for hosting and all of youor coming out. i've been asked to talk about role of law nforcemt by which i mean the rest interrogation prosecution that kind of ting. as atool for counter terrorism and as ben was saying this is a timely subject f you ha tside the beltway and you are at all conscious he will have noticed talk recently about whether and t what extnt the federal court should be used against international terrorts, and there a i think some pretty strony held views on the subject there are those who thik rely i think law enforcement should be the main or the only ssage with whiche combat terrism anthen there are also those who think we ought notto use all enforcement at all ainst terrorism d a suspect members of both caps are well and abl represented in this audience which is a great and with my luck the only thingou will be ableo ree on the end of this, whatever i say is clearly fr. so noetless, i'm goi to try to talk about the subject in four parts. first, i will review some of the cent history of our national count

in a while we will speak with ben evans, the writer of that piece.ut let's look at "the washington post" now, and the primary battles going on on tuesday. we will look at some of the key races to watch -- nevada, state senate battle. that is the senate seat held by the senate majority leader harry reid. looking at the republican race for the right to challenge harry reid could go and a number of directions on tuesday. former state assemblywoman sharon engle is a slight front runner, due to significant expenditures. but former state party chairmen, sue lowdon, who suggested of barter system for health care remains in the game because of her considerable spending. then there is a businessman, danny. he is the son of a former unlv men's basketball coach. we will look at other races coming up on tuesday. let's go to our first call. chicago, democrats line. what motivates you to vote in primaries? caller: good morning. what motivated me was watching channel 11. i thought i knew the history. i saw the history of the suffragettes and i was so embarrassed i

the fort ben baptist eagles have proven role models for their school and community. through hard work and dedication, they have achieved the goals they set for themselves at the beginning of the season. mr. speaker, i congratulate the fort ben baptist eagles on their back to back championship titles of the i thank them for representing their community and their school with pride. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the chair lays before the house the following personal requests. the clerk: leaves of absence requested for mr. carter of texas for today, ms. kilpatrick of michigan for today and the balance of the week, ms. richardson of california for today. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, the request ares granted. -- requests are granted. mr. poe: mr. speaker, i ask unanimous consent that today following legislative business and any specialereders heretofore entered into, the following persons may be permitted to address this house, revise and extends their remarks and include therein extraneous material. mr. burton for today, june 9, 10 and 11, myself,

eastern on c-span. >> federal reserve chairman ben bernanke says he expects the u.s. economy to continue to grow through next year but worries that federal funding appears to be on an unsustainable path. he testified before the house budget committee for a little more than two hours. >> one, two, >> we need to discuss -- still lie ahead of us. we are pleased to have as our witness the chairman of the federal reserve system, ben bernanke. when the 111 congress began the current administration took office the economy was shrinking at an annualized rate of negative 45%. a year-and-a-half later the economy has experienced it straight quarter of economic growth in putting 5.6% growth in the fourth quarter of 2009 and 3% in the first quarter of 2010. the chart will illustrate that. a year and a half ago the economy was losing jobs, hemorrhaging jobs. in the mud and debris, to thousand nine we lost 779,000 jobs, one month alone. now in players added nearly a million jobs between january and may of this year and the chart shows the job growth of the last span of time. the ult

even fed chairman ben bernanke says this budget is, quote, unsustainable. facewithimilar challens in your rsonal budget, thee is talk aund the kitchen table, the children's allowances would be cut, alongith many oer uxuries. its that discussn the undethe theory that if they ignore it, it mighto away. ortunately the debt will n go away. thpain will traferred for our children and grandchildren in the hopes thathey will ve the guts to face realit i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: at purseoes the gentlelady from ohio rise? without jectn. ms. fudge:hank y, mr. eaker. mr. spea congress must decide wther to protect the interest of a few deceiv banks who ruin the industry for otrsr t protect the hardrkg americans ofhis nation. usdemoats have already decided, we dided to choos main st ove wall street. we hav decided tohoose pares o want t their chiren and fr people who are saving for rement. havided, mr. spker, that the americanple e more important thane overalous bankers. mainining the status quo is t the answer. look at what the current situation has done fr

but we come back ben bernanke will be testifying before the house subcommittee. we will be right back. ♪ >> no candidate in this race, democrat or republican, has given more opportunities to rest questions and see what he is made of. >> faces that you see every day, see some of their early television appearances at the c- span video library. one quarter century of political history. you can search by name, title, at issue, interest group, and more. all for free online. >> we have three new c-span books for you. abraham lincoln, the supreme court, and who is buried in grant's tomb. to order, go to [unintelligible] c-span.org -- 02 c-span.org /books. each was a great gift idea for father's day. >> "washington journal" continues. host: the congressman is the vice ranking member of the president's bipartisan deck mission. federal reserve chairman, ben bernanke, will testify today. what do you want to hear from him? >> i think that what we want -- guest: i think that what we want to hear is that america wants to get serious about the spending crisis. we have seen what

the end in fact, just lasweek ousands of sentizen rapp into eoughnut hole escription drucoragethey ben ceiving a one-ti tax-frechecfor $250 mailed over the next severa nths as siors enter the covage gawithn stated four millioneniors receiving seef benninnext yea seniors will get a 5 discount on prescrtion drugsf ey are in thi doughnut ho. the ages of 5nd 64 and t thkingf ki an earl etirement over t next years and many -- a know -- andan mage group are thinking about this, if your loyer pred extend coveragewe create a temporar nce rap reduce premiums foryou and your employer. you rrenvevate iurance, eierurcd indidually ohroh ur emoyer, by sepmb of this ye a new pl will b prevd fr denying coverage childr with e-isti nditionsdrop your health e covege if yot ck, ean, this is mind boggling, to thin you pay your premms r health care and then the insurance coaniecan drop it if y get sk. my sh. justor treasonlong, everyshou have voted r this bill. it will begin to place a fetime c on the amou of vera y can recv tes tifetime capaway. soin aition, n pns eive su don'tcover ha to y co-payand e cos

dawn, and throughout the day, israeli buses carried hundreds of detained, pro-palestinian activists to ben gurion airport and to the border with jordan. nearly 700 people were captured. commandos raided six ships trying to break a blockade and ferry aid to gaza. nine people were killed in fighting on one of the ships. israel's military released video that showed activists attacking the soldiers. but the group sponsoring the convoy insisted the israelis fired first. initial leash the israelis planned to hold 50 activists with alleged ties to al qaeda or similar groups, but today, government spokesman mark regev announced the change of plan. >> we have no desire whatsoever to see these activists lingering in an israeli detention center. and we're asking now for their immediate return to their countries of origin. >> woodruff: that decision came after days of mounting criminal , culminateing in an order from the israeli attorney general. it said of the detainees, keeping them here would do more damage to the country's vital interest than good. ( applause ) as the deportations proceeded, 120 o

ben bernanke offered that outlook today to congress. >> although the receipt fall in equity prices and weaker economic prospects in europe will leave some imprints on the u.s. economy, offsetting factors include declines in interest rates and treasury bonds and home mortgages, as well as lower prices for oil and some other globally traded commodities. >> sreenivasan: the fed also issued its latest survey of regional conditions and showed modest growth in all parts of the country. that hasn't happened since the end of 2007. the economic news sent wall street higher for a time before a late-day drop. worries about b.p.'s future sent energy stocks lower and the selling spread across the market. the dow jones industrial avenue lost more than 40 points. the nasdaq fell more than 11 points. president obama warned today the situation in the middle east is unsustainable. he met with palestinnian president abbas at the white house and said israel needs a better approach to its three-year blockade of gaza after last week's sea raid that killed nine people. the president also announced another $4

again, if you would say your name, it would be great. >> i am ben.m a senior citizen that lives in silver spring, maryland. i want to thank katherine sibelius' for allowing me to ask this question. i'm speaking on behalf of my children, grandchildren, and greet grandchildren. i have spoke -- i have heard from some of my friends who have spread the myth about the health reform. they told me about the death penalty, which is now dead. [laughter] >> i heard the same argument in 1965. providing medicare, and we might our ages, but our children may be. the programs might soon run out of money. the concern is not so much for me, but for my children, and their children. >> it is a wonderful question. let me talk about the finances of the health-care bill, medicare, and i will throw in social security. we have a genuine, long-term problem. i can describe it very simply. we have a population that is getting older. so, you will see a bulge in the number of people that are using medicare and medicaid. more recipients, fewer workers -- more money going out, less

she and her husband ben have two young children, but her seizures make it hard for her to take care ofem. why did you decide to get this experimental procedure? >> monica lovelace: absolutely, for my kids. absolutely. i won't... i wanted to be able to walk my kids to school. if i'm walking them... them to school and i have a seizure, are they going to walk into the street? >> couric: she is getting a device implanted in her brain that will detect the beginning of a seizure and give her a pulse of electrical stimulation to make it stop, like a pacemaker. dr. peter weber, a neurosurgeon, uses a computer to calculate the safest route to implant electrodes in her brain. >> dr. peter weber: the wires come from the back forward, deep inside the brain. that's the way they look from the front-on view. >> couric: implanted in the skull, the neuro-pace device is smaller than a cell phone. when it's turned on, it immediately detects monica's abnormal brain activity. >> weber: these are abnormal discharges that lead to seizures. >> couric: we followed up with monica three months after the device w

president obama voiced confidence today after meeting with federal reserve chairman ben bernanke. >> senators hopefully on both sides of the aisle recognize it's time we put in place rules that prevent tax payer bailouts and make sure that we don't have a financial crisis that can tank the economy. i think there's going to be enough interest in moving reform forward that we're going to get this done. >> sreenivasan: on another front the top economic officials at the united nations called today for less dependence on the u.s. dollar. they said the global financial crisis exposed the danger of relying entirely on u.s. monetary policy. the u.s. supreme court has reaffirmed a ban on unlimited giving to political parties. the ban against so-called soft money was a key part of the 2002 overhaul of federal campaign finance law. last january the court allowed corporations, unions and other groups to fund federal elections. the republican national committee unsuccessfully argued political parties should have the same rights. tropical storm alex has forced crews in the gulf of mexico to halt t

we know it shows ben effects in colorectal cancer and breast cancer and a variety of other cancers.this is the first real test of this drug in patients with advanced ovarian cancer. and in this trial patients either received standard therapy with chemotherapy or received chemotherapy plus avastin. and the combination of the blood vessel drug with the standard chemotherapy drugs prolonged the time to which patients had progression of their disease. >> suarez: so by establishing long-term use it's safe you have accomplished something pretty significant but avastin is a very expensive drug and using it even longer means, you are talking about perhaps hundreds of thousands of dollars per individual patient. >> yeah. i think cost is a real issue here, ray. and i think the challenge to us in the oncology community is to find out exactly which patients are likely to benefit from the addition of avastin so we can narrow the focus of our treatment for patients with ovarian cancer and other cancers. and of course there is a great deal of research going on right now to find exactly that. >> su

ben bernanke. when the 111th congress began, when the president took office, 1.5 years later, the economy has experienced its third straight quarter of economic growth, including 5.6% growth in the fourth quarter of 2009 and 3% growth in the first quarter of 2010. there is a chart to illustrate that. 1.5 years ago, the economy was losing jobs, hemorrhaging jobs. morrhaging os the d and debri to thousand nine wels79,00 , e moh alon noin play ade narly a million bsbetween january and maof tis ye athe cha ows the jo growth the last span of tie. he uim the actions taken by this congress and this the administration also played a significant role. there was the recovery act, which we passed in 2009, and that has contributed to significantly to the economic turnaround, raising real gdp to 4.2 percentage points in the fourth quarter of 2010 and increasing employment between $1.20 million and 2.8 million jobs. the fedeeal reserve nd the fdic have engaged in an unprecedented and coordinated efforts to stabil

what is ben nelson going to do? what is senator levin -- senator lugar going to do? what is -- what the people in the middle to is where it will be made or broken. >> that her mind the -- that reminds me of something said earlier. it used to be regional, and now it is partisan. when you talk about individual votes, you have to think about corn in the midwest, royalties and the gulf coast, -- royalties in the gulf coast, and other sorts of energy projects, including home state jobs. that is how you win over votes. that is how they broke through last night on financial reform. digital will carve out four massachusetts banks -- they did a little cart veout for massachusetts' banks. they need to buy off a few. what are some of these home state issues we could see emerge? >> david, you're familiar with this. how do you get lugar, collins, a gulf state senator? >> again, i think, the larger issues are still in footfall. while it is true that the middle will be the ones that decide, if there is also a question of what the senators who are most committed to this will accept.

i ben reading. john mitchell while attorney general of the united states controlled a secret fu. said jesus. i read a few more words by which time it said john mitchell well attorn-general controlled a secret fund andaid for undercover activities against the political opposition. i got that far and he said je sus. i g to the end of the third paragraph by the time the draft was clear, he said jesus christ. you are going to print that crap if you run that, then a person from the washington post is going to get her tit caught in a big effect render. i was not accustomed to talking to an attorney general. i mped back from the phone myself because of fear ofy own parts because this can certainly have the power to squeeze them. he went on to say when this campaign is over, we are going to do a little story on you boys, too. in retrospect, it is an amusing story, but i was 28 years old at the time. it was about the most chilling time in my 50 years of journalism that i ever experienced. this was a man of enormous power and the threat was real. i believe to this threat in terms of being

so i called ben bradley, the editoo of the "washington post," to tell him what had happened in this exchange. and he said mitchell really said that? i said, yeah. he says you have it in your notes? yeah, it's all in the notes. and he said, ok, put it all in the paper except her tit. >> i think the language was leave out her tit. >> leave out her tit. and that's what we did. and the next morning mrs. graham came up to my desk and wasn't used to seeing her around my desk, either, and she said, carl, do you have any more messages for me? and it was also just before that story that when we had the information about mitchell and we started to understand about this -- the money and how it went from more than just the bugging at watergate, a couple days earlier we were discussing how to write this story and we met bob and i in the vending machine room off the newsroom floor and i put a dime in to get a cup of coffee, also to show you a difference in that year -- era, you could get a cup of coffee for a dime. i felt a chill go down my spine literally. it's the only time i ever felt a chill. >> mitch

ben bernanke said no. so they added an amendment. this is about finance reform. something the media does not relieve report on. he said that there was no bipartisanship. 62-37. they had no problem there when it came to the fed. no problem whatsoever with bipartisanship. you might want to comment on that. i do not think the people give us the real story ever. host: lots of people are mad at washington because of the bank bailout. because of the -- guest: lots of people are mad at washington because of the bank bailout. because of the tarp. big banks did not have to fend for themselves. when people voted for members of congress they felt that if they did not bailout the banks, if they did not provide temporary funding that to cover the troubled mortgages that were causing meltdowns, the economy would get worse. 85% of the money loaned to the banks, it is still difficult to explain why he did that. ever since there has been a lot of agreement on both sides of the aisle that the federal reserve should be audited in congress and that there should be oversight. that is

last week during budget committee hearing, ben beke responded tme when i outlined our actio to help our small businesses. he said, quote, i'glad that toness is explori these diffent programs, r making credit ailableo our sml businesses. and he talked additionay out the need to parcularl attentive to new and startup compies, a critical to our economic recovery and job growth. all these comments demonstrate the wisdom of the action that we e tking today to sport small business growth. i urge my lleagues to vote yes on this latest iniate,to rk with sinewnerin the ivate sector, to strengthen our economy, spur notion and ejobs d i yield back. the speaker pro tpore ntwoman yields back e bance of her time. the gentlen from miig. tentleman reserves. mr. levin: l me now yield two minuteto the very distinguished memberrom new jersey, mr. andrews. the eaker prtempore: ntleman's recognized for two mutes. mr. andreask anims consent to revise and extend my marks. the speakerro temre: without jection,o ordered. mr. andrews: ihank the airman for yielding. s inmerican politics and othis flo that memberc

host: fed chairman ben bern appingy was on capitol hill yesterday. i want to show you two conflict high pressures hoirps. "the wall street journal," economists expect slow u.s. growth. "usa today," ben angie highlights good news for economy, predicts growth and stability despite european issues. going back to "the wall street journal" there is a chart about employment forecasts, and let me show that to you. challenges ahead, economists who were surveyed by "the wall street journal" are suggesting over the next several years employment will trend only slightly downward from its current high of 9.7% to about 8.6% in 2012. if they are correct and job growth is slow in returning, what does this mean in particular for older workers? guest: it's really going to require older workers to think a little more creatively about employment opportunities. aarp is conducting about 45 career fairs across the country this year in an effort to help older individuals and our members really be prepared for the job search process. and i think the important thing to think

ben bernanke is question about the economy by the house budget committee.n "washington journal" tomorrow morning, more on the gulf of mexico oil spill. gene taylor has districts on the gulf coast. john grasso will discuss the new health care law. we will be joined by deborah russell of aarp to look at the economic outlook for those over the age of 50. it is live every day on c-span at 7:00 eastern. >> thad allen's daily briefing included the claims process of those affected by the gulf oil spill. it is wonderful to be here and i want to make a couple of quick acknowledgments. you may know this guy behind me. the is the vice-president of the united states, joe biden. [applause] also have the lieutenant governor of maryland, anthony brown. [applause] we have the mayor of hyattsville. [applause] of course we have to acknowledge the big man here, and he is big. owner of the company, stephen neal. [applause] i want to thank k neal for having us here today and given us eight or to look at all of these trucks. this is a business that has been selling commercial tr

i ave ben the manufacturing cu-- industryor 25 yars. this is a great industry. one thing i acerned about is our energy supply long . if we c be leader in energy, whh i know we can b i think debt -- hat brings our ability to manufacture down and our just look at how many foreign mpanies are manufacturing here. ho:ext phon call,obile, alabam republan line, ruth. caller: high school science at teaches usow easy it is to turn any kind of ener int someth else, emical into heatenergy, electricity io motiond solar into heat energ. i have house that is worse -- worth less than $100,000. i called ut solar panels on my house, a company that said that ty could do it for $45 Ñi said it would pay for itself in 26ears. i am 86 years old and cannot wait. t only one at that could benefit from this is g., who is caught up this cap and trade thin g., who was caut u in his cap and tradin guest: the numrs you descre are wh we're proposings somethin more efficient and out of it.tive, and you get more and secondwe are doin the studie of that we can brin down the stallation cts. it is

heading to the gulf he will be there today and tomorrow visiting mississippi first then alabama and ben florida. congress has a couple of key areas which we will cover on c- span 3. here is a story about the president's visit to mississippi. the governor argues that the coverage of this bill of the -- of the oil spill has heard is state more than the actual spell. ill. heavy cancellations dragged down revenues in motels last month in mississippp. it was down 50% on average rate a local hospital is cutting employee hours because of fewer tourists and your patience. wingate, north carolina, go ahead caller: i think the president [unintelligible] bp should say it is your problem now clean it up. bp wants that -- wants them to do that. host: baltimore,jnck maryland, independent caller, go ahead. caller::this is my first time calling. host: welcome. caller: i hope you give me a+ little bit of time. i am 24 years old. i am not heavy into politics. i first had a problem when they looked at the cap on companies being able to devote as much money as they possibly could on presidential campaigns

i called ben bradlee, the editor of "the washington post" to tell them what happened and he said mitchellu have it in your notes? he said put it all in the paper except for the tit. [laughter] >> i think the language was leave out the tit. [laughter] >> that is what we did. mrs. gramm came up to my desk. i would not used to seeing her. she said to you have any more messages for me? [laughter] it was also just before that story that when we had the information about mitchell and we started to understand about the money and how it went for more than just the balking at watergate, a couple days earlier, we were discussing how to write this story. we met at a vending machine room off of the newsroom floor. i felt this chill go down my spine, literally. it is the only time i really felt a chill. >> and john mitchell jumped out of the vending machine. [laughter] >> i said oh, my god, this president is coburn to be impeached. this is about eight weeks after the break-in. you said you are right. i do not know where it came from. woodward said we can never use that word impeachment around this new

it is also noteworthy that senator joe lieberman and ben nelson from nebraska voted against the measure that had this. the entire package should be paid for. you have this benefit versus fiscal concern that is clashing. a lot of finger-pointing. host: democrat, dallas, texas. caller: i am calling in regards to some against president obama. from day one up to the presence t [unintelligible] the republicans stood up and said we are not going to let anything pass. i have never seen any democrat and as many caucasian people on the right to hate this man as much as anybody has ever hated somebody. i am a 62 year-old disabled vietnam veteran. that makes me feel really bad to be an american. i fought for this country. and they are going to treat a black man like that? guest: this is part of the reason why the conservative base -- the right was not fond of president bush. some on the left have been disappointed by president obama. various issues, they have been disappointed. overall, many are saying, give him a break. he has done a lot for what was on his agenda. he has accomplished most of it.

how quickly you forget that it was president bush and secretary paulson and ben bernanke, appointed by chair of the federal reserve, that asked for that bill and that your leadership, for the most part, supported and urged its adoption. so with all due respect, it was president bush's administration that asked for that bailout, not democrats. what democrats did when they said there was a crisis acted in a bipartisan way to respond to that crisis. very frankly, i think we precluded a depression. americans have an obligation of responsible borrowing. but financial companies also have a responsibility to make loans fair and transparent. by creating a consumer federal protection bureau we can ensure that both sides live up to that bargain. the consumer financial protection bureau will strengthen and modernize the oversight of wall street by putting the functions of seven different agencies in one accountable place. it seems to me that that would appeal to people who want not so many proliferation of various agencies crossing one another. in addition, corporations like a.i.g. and lehman bro

jerusalem refugees in the second question, we are hearing in washington all sorts of reports of tension ben the thoughts and members and the fayyad gernment. some believeeen fought the end americso focused on the peac procs that they don't care abou reform anymore on t palestinians. can you clarify where you stand in this tension between thout-out members and the fayyad government? >> there are some people who are against subseven. with hamas they will become mad, serious. i believe fire dodd god is a good man and i trust him. and he is my-- about the firs question, of course when we talk about borders and security it is the first stage, because if we comeo an ageement on se two issues, it doesn't mean the is isn't agreement because nothing agrees until everything is agreed is our slogan for 20 years. >> jerusalem is part of the occupied territory. not only the palestinians, even here in americ secretary rice who was the secretary, told us the occupied territories followi west bank and aza. i don't know whether you follow it or not. east jerusalem is unoccupied. i'm not asking to read abide

i was taken recently in a meeting of about 100 spouses at fort benning about one month ago. i learn every time i do this. i will take this as a target of opportunity in a two-step. one of the things that we do -- medical is a big deal. it is a big deal for all of us. for some it is a bigger deal than others. in families, it is a huge deal. we have a policy that when i call you up, and you're working for whomever, you come in to try care. what it forces a family to do is change options. if we like our doctors, none of us want to change doctors. it is from my perspective we need to put a first principle out there that says we sustained the medical relationship. we sustained the family care and figure out a way to work with employers -- i do not have this soph. figure out a way to work with employers through try care. but they do not have to change their doctors. in the end, it is who pays the bill? how do we pay that? this makes all of the sense to me. i have medical care, doctors. thinking through things ike that -- would we are asking to sacrifice so much, it is medical, sch

bryan is survived by his father melvin hoover, his brothers richard and ben, his sister samantha, his grandfather ray bradford, his stepmother, and his fiancee ashley tack. his mother deborah jean preceded bryan in death. it is my sad duty to enter the names of sergeant first class robert fike and staff sergeant bryan hoover in the record of the united states house of representatives for their service, sacrifice, and commitment to our country and to our freedom. while we struggle to express our sorrow over this loss, we can certainly take pride in the examples robert and bryan set as soldiers and friends. today and always, they will be remembered as true american heroes, and we cherish their legacies. may god grant strength and peace to all those who mourn and may god be withhall of you as i know he is with robert and bryan. and i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the the gentleman from north carolina, mr. jones. the gentlelady from california, ms. woolsey. the gentlelady from indiana, -- the gentleman indiana, mr. burtoon. the gentlelady from ohio, ms. captor. the gentleman from v