they were ready to talk about this and the palestinians waited until august after the congress in bethlehem said it has not been a full year do remember one year ago israelis and palestinians were just coming out of a war. now both sides have reaffirmed their commitment to reduce state solution is so pre-can move ahead but one of three real looking at as going together to a mutually reinforcing and the second area of security by the palestinian security performance, a good performance is absolutely essential to move ahead. i think of security as a second track there has been frankly quite a bit of success when you talk about security in the west bank. the third is the institutional developing call it the ground up supporting the prime minister plan to build palestinian institutions that are worthy of their name and can take the means of a palestinian state as a functioning accountable state in which the citizens feel they need to be matched. these three things have to go together. if you neglect day security track it is obvious. of the constitutional track it is creating conditions for what

and about how this will cost them $23 million, just as one company in bethlehem, pennsylvania. they say this tax is 100% cash flow. they will reduce employee spending. that means layoffs, fewer jobs. they will reduce spending on advanced research. they will reduce spending to pennsylvania vendors, reduce spending on capital equipment and forced to attempt to pass on as much of the tax as possible onto their customers. effective tax rate would be raised to over 73%. the burden would increase by 77% so this is a very big deal. the bottom line is this is a tax on research and it will lead to people being out of work. the patients of america will suffer. this cost most assuredly will be passed on. if we are going to raise the price of a or raise the price of a wheelchair or a timed oppressor or whatever it is, a scope or a probe made by olympus this is going to be passed on. i'm extremely concerned about the implications to those who work in this field and in pennsylvania and in new jersey, we are very much impacted by this. we are rich in a biotech industry and this is so serious

the bethlehem steel plant closed , he was the first guy to convince bethlehem steel to keep the plantfor another year. fought like the devil to find places for those 10,000 folks who lost their job. because to jack it was more than a steel plant closing. it was a way of life shutting down. it was a ethic that was being lost. it was about dignity. it was about respect. ladies and gentlemen, you-all know and you can tell 1,000 stories about jack more than i could tell, but i didn't have to be around him as much as you were to know the man that he was. i didn't have to be around him as much as you were to know that as nancy said, we are not going to see his like again. i think of jack, there's a civil war poet, guy named richard watson guilder who like jack's great grandfather fought in the civil war. he wrote something that could have been put on jack's tombstone. he said better than honor and glory than history's iron pen was the thought of duty done and love of his fellow man. i don't know anybody who did his duty better than jack. i don't know anybody who cared about his neighborhood

when the bethlehem steel plant closed, he was the first guy to convince bethlehem steel to keep the plant open for another year and fought like the devil to find places for those 10,000 votes he lost a job. because of jacket was more than a steel plant closing. it was a way of life shutting down. it was an ethic that was being lost. it was about dignity and about respect. ladies and gentlemen, you all know and you can tell 1000 stories about jack, more than i can tell but i didn't have to be around him as much as you were to know the man that he was. i didn't have to be around him as much as you were to know that as nancy said, we are not going to see his like again. you know i think of jack, there is a civil war poet, guy named richard watson gilder who like jack's great grandfather fought in the civil war and the world something that could've been put on jack's tombstone. he said, better than honor and glory and histories iron pan, was the thought of duty done and love of his fellow man. i don't know anybody that did his duty better than jack. i don't know anybody who cared about his ne

the bethlehem steel plant closed , he was the first guy to convince bethlehem steel to keep the plantopened for another year. fought like the devil to find places for those 10,000 folks who lost their job. because to jack it was more than a steel plant closing. it was a way of life shutting down. it was a ethic that was being lost. it was about dignity. it was about respect. ladies and gentlemen, you-all know and you can tell 1,000 stories about jack more than i could tell, but i didn't have to be around him as much as you were to know the man that he was. i didn't have to be around him as much as you were to know that as nancy said, we are not going to see his like again. i think of jack, there's a civil war poet, guy named richard watson guilder who like jack's great grandfather fought in the civil war. he wrote something that could have been put on jack's tombstone. he said better than honor and glory than history's iron pen was the thought of duty done and love of his fellow man. i don't know anybody who did his duty better than jack. i don't know anybody who cared about his neigh

take the responsibility to stop such measures in the historic archaeological sites in jerusalem, bethlehem, and galilee, and the rest of the occupied palestinian territories. save it from the israelis. there are more than 150 such archaeological sites. the israelis are working to include them as archaeological jewish places, as they claim. they need to send international monitors to observe the israeli breeches on the ground and to prevent them from happening and to provide international protection to our people. no. 2, the arab group in new york needs to call for a special session of the general assembly to condemn the actions of israel in jerusalem and to impose the international illegality on israel as an occupying force that has no right to change the situation in jerusalem. number three, to mobilize the support of the arabs and moslems and incorporate with the islamic conference in jerusalem to stop the actions of israel in jerusalem and to mobilize international opinion to stop the aggressions on christian and muslim heritage in jerusalem and to realize that east jerusalem is an occu

this, and the palestinians waited until august, after august when after the congress in beth he bethlehem. so it's not been a full year we've been able to engage, but do remember that a year ago the israelis and pal palestinians we just coming out of a war. and now both sides have reaffirmed their commitment to a two-state solution, and let's hope we can move ahead to the negotiating track, but it's only one of three that we're looking at as interlinked going together and mutually reinforcing. second area is security. palestinians need security, the israelis need security, but the palestinian security performance, a good palestinian security performance is absolutely essential to being able to move ahead on the negotiating track toward a peace track. and the palestinians need to feel secure as well, so i would put security as a second track. there's been some success, there's been, frankly, quite a bit of success when you talk about security in the west bank. the third track is exactly what elliott was talking about, the institutional development -- you can call it ground-up or whatever -

next is a call from bethlehem, pa., on the democrats' line. caller: i don't think earmarks are the big to a problem. some are correct, of course. the real problem is logging. when george bush took office there were 5000, when he left there were 35,000. if that is not an indication that people were going there with whellbarrows full money and dumping them on congressmen and senators -- i don't know what is. thank host: let's take a call from pennsylvania, on the republican line. caller: i am one of these old republicans who was in the air force watching russia from alaska long before sarah palin came along. my only comment is that the dems are now trying to sell less a penny wide, pound foolish idea it to take attention away from the fact of their spending us into the poorhouse. host: to go. this comment is from twitter. next to the call from flint, mich., on the independent line. caller: basically, as long as we are willing to spend every dime that we have in this country on security and paranoia -- and negate our welfare, our expectation is m

take the responsibility to stop such measures in the historic archaeological sites in jerusalem, bethlehem, and galilee, and the rest of the occupied palestinian territories. save it from the israelis. there are more than 150 such archaeological sites. the israelis are working to include them as archaeological jewish places, as they claim. they need to send international monitors to observe the israeli breeches on the ground and to prevent them from happening and to provide international protection to our people. no. 2, the arab group in new york needs to call for a special session of the general assembly to condemn the actions of israel in jerusalem and to impose the international illegality on israel as an occupying force that has no right to change the situation in jerusalem. number three, to mobilize the support of the arabs and moslems and incorporate with the islamic conference in jerusalem to stop the actions of israel in jerusalem and to mobilize international opinion to stop the aggressions on christian and muslim heritage in jerusalem and to realize that east jerusalem is an occu

take the responsibility to stop such measures in the historic archaeological sites in jerusalem, bethlehemalilee, and the rest of the occupied palestinian territories. save it from the israelis. there are more than 150 such archaeological sites. the israelis are working to include them as archaeological jewish places, as they claim. they need to send international monitors to observe the israeli breeches on the ground and to prevent them from happening and to provide international to provide international protection to our peopl

[applause] in just over two months, in bethlehem, we will hold the second investment conference.n getting the second-biggest direct investment product palestine has seen. we will show it tourism and viability. two years ago, i could not have gone to jenin. now i go freely. there, we will open a new industrial park where some months back, i sat on the israeli side of the line, talking to the mayor, and his arab deputy mayor. my point is this. yes, the obstacles remain huge. of course. the distance is immense, the mistrust deep. but what you see nightly on t.v. is only one part of the story. too often, we see the hate. there is also the hope. [applause] sometimes people say to me, you used to be prime minister, now you spend your time in obscure parts of palestine, arguing why hospital workers should be able to travel into east jerusalem. they think i have gone down in the world. i feel sorry for them. but there is one thing i have learned. in all the years of painstaking peacemaking in northern ireland. details matter. [applause] they may seem trivial to bus, but to the people who