which was a celebration of billie holiday, this c.d.knew how much time doing a theatrical piece was going to take. so i thought going into the studio, if i could get these musicians i wanted to work with, and try and knock this out and have it sitting on the shelf and have it when we did the play. so when the play didn't happen, i had it done, and i was able to get christian mcbride on bass. tavis: you can't do much better than that. >> no. louis nash on drums. david, which you saw in our concert in spain on the day that billie holiday died, july 17th. so it was literally 50 years to the day. i put that as a kind of a affirmation that i had done something right. so universal who distributes me asked if they could hear the c.d., because they hadn't even heard it. when they heard it, they went crazy. they said if you are not doing the play, please book this out. and that's how it got started. tavis: you got go mezz and mcbride? >> yes. tavis: what are your feelings on doing this 50 years after her death, i have some thoughts, but maybe yo

some were mounted on horseback but all of them were armed with guns, tear gas, billy clubs and beyond them were dep ue tiesed citizens who were -- deputized citizens, some even had bull whips. then we heard that major john cloud, this is an unlawful march, you cannot continue. you have two minutes to go home or return to your church. we were preparing to kneel and pray. when the major said, troopers advance, and these troopers came toward us beating us, spraying tear gas, chasing us. i was hit in the head by a state trooper with a night stick and i fell unconchuss on the bridge. at that moment, mr. speaker, i thought i was going to die. i thought i saw death. the most brutal confrontation of the modern day civil rights moment became known as bloody sunday. it produced a civil rights indig nation around this country and around the world to pass the voting rights act of 1965. eight days after bloody sunday, president lyndon johnson addressed the joint session of congress and made what i believe is the greatest and most meaningful statement of speech any president has ever made on the im

for instance, 25 billi$25 billie stimulus project was given to private businesses.1.6 billion of that went to latino and black businesses. we have to figure out a way to close the gap intentionally by the government saying we have to target these communities because they are hardest hit and figure out a way to help them. >> there has been this rift between the naacp and the congressional back caucus over president obama, over him doing more to address these problems and target as you said he needs to. you've been critical of the president. what is your concern of how he's approaching this? >> obviously, i was one of the first african-american people to endorse mr. obama and stood by him and was a surrogate, but i think now that he's governing we have to hold him accountable as he asked to be held accountable. wolf blitzer asked him why would martin luther king endorse you. he said he would get america to hold us accountable. mr. obama has been loathe to embrace the issue of race, first of all, but secondly, to target these poorer communities which happen to be afric

>> billy walen from minneapolis, minnesota. >> jimmy: billy walen? very, very good.azad from texas. >> jimmy: shazad from texas. very, very good. ll, thanks for coming on the show. you ready to belt out tea party tunes? >> yeah. >> jimmy: all right, rocking. okay, here's how you play. you'll each stand with your back to the sharp 108 and sing the words you see on the monitor in front of you. the actual words of the tea party convention speakers themselves. they'll change from white to yellow to help you follow along, just like real karaoke. we'll decide the winner based on the audience response. steve, tell us what tonight's winner will be taking home? ♪ >> steve: well, jimmy, tonight's winner will receive a brand new gpx karaoke system. sing along to your favorite songs and follow the lyrics with it's built-in monitor. includes a microphone and av cable. ♪ jimmy >> jimmy: amazing. i know a lot of these things -- this looks really cheap and outdated. but trust me, it -- [ light laughter ] it is. it is. [ laughter ] let's get started. contestant number one. you can si

they all will get free health care even though they are unemployed. [ laughter ] >> there you go, billy. >> bill: just got in under the wire, miller. they just got in. you know? >> the last time i saw the bar set this low, i was at a dwarf's wake. [ laughter ] >> bill: so i just want to recap the miller time segment tonight. he is down on the canadian kids who won't hear ann coulter. he thinks that joe biden is bleeping us. is that correct? >> yes, i do. yes, i do. >> bill: that was a great line, miller. i think i'm going to send that to the vice president. that will probably cheer him up as well, do you think? >> yeah. i hope so. >> bill: we need cheering up. dennis miller, everybody. in a moment, did you see that? the funnier web site has obama impersonator. wait until you see this guy. right back with jane skinner. president obama: yeah, i took a trip to elkhart, indiana, today. elkhart's a place that has lost jobs faster than anywhere else in america. in one year, the unemployment rate went from 4.7% to 15.3%. companies that have sustained this community for years are shedding jobs

>> reporter: after the shooting cousins billy moore and omar dixon were taken into custody charged withrder and attempted robbery. moore was later sentenced to 40 years for pulling the trigger and dixon 30 years as his accomplice. on the day that benji died his simeon teammates decided to play their first game of the season without no. 25. earlier in the day students sobbed at simeon simply overwhelmed with grief, but benji's mother stood tall in the gymnasium. >> so today i speak in love of all of you who keep benji's memory and dignity and be strength v and strength and love alive -- strength and love alive. >> reporter: the wake was held on the gymnasium floor and 8,000 people came to see benji lying in his no. 25 jersey. the line stretched blocks outside of the school, mourners waited seven hours. >> i still have dreams about him like, you know, he came back and he was able to play again, but just dreams. >> sometimes i sit down and, you know, when i'm going through things, you know, i speak, you know, just like i would to my grandparents, you know. hey, benji, how you doing, that t

i mean, clyde's heroes in life are jesse james and billy the kid.more about the era that spawned that sort of mythology about the two-gun-toting law men and the bad guys and everything else. and i'm having a fascinating time working on a book that's tentatively titled "the last gunfight" which my new york editors thought it would be this heroic showdown on the streets of tombstone but what they're learning in my draft chapterers is the fabulous history of southeast arizona and the whole westward expansion of america. again not writing so much about what people did as how they did things and why they did of things. and i do want to say to the host city of tucson you have some of the best historians i've ever run into here. folks who are dedicated to trying to find out information and who share it very generously. this is -- this is a fun project. and when you're trying to decide what to buy every relative and friend you had for christmas next year, do keep it in mind. [laughter] >> for this year copies go down together. >> and jim you're moving right

his heroes of life for jesse james and billy the kid. i wanted to know more about the era that spawned the sort of mythology about the gun toting wall men and bad guys and everything else and i am having a fascinating time working on a book that is titled the last gunfight which my new york editors thought would be about this terrific show down in the streets of tombstone but which they are learning as i stand in my draft transfer is actually about the fascinating fabulous history of southeast arizona. and the whole westward expansion of america again not writing so much about what people did as how they did things and why they did things and i do want to say the whole city of tucson you have some of the best historians i've ever run into your folks who were dedicated to try to find out information and shared very generously. this is a fun project and when you are trying to decide what to buy every friend you have for christmas next year to keep in mind. [laughter] [applause] for this year copies of "go down together" are still in the bo

jim furyk is thinking, oh, billy. >> still a chance for a one-shot swing if furyk misses his par putt>> who knows. >> he uses a really fat grip. those are good grips if you want to quiet your hand action, the fatter the grip, the softer the hand action. >> there is maybe a future contender. >> strong grip. flat backed swing. >> he has no idea that johnny miller can telestrate a swing at any second with an umbrella. >> it is great to have the kids out. i remember going to the lucky international at harding park in the winter time and watching those guys slop it around in that rain. arnold palmer and all those guys. george bair popped it twice. >> you have a memory like a steel trap. he has not had a three-putt green this week. >> i think this would do an awful lot for his confidence for the next three holes to go, john. >> yes, it would. he could play conservatively at 16. he hit a bad drive at 16. yesterday he hit the tree. first things first is this one here. is this a vague putt, roger? >> i don't think it does much. if it had a tendency it would go fade left, but not much. >> there

billy has $6 the need to $11 to buy a video game the bill is in a poor family and he has to get his money to help his mother and father. then it becomes a problem. because the context is all important exercise is move all the contacts, strip things down. the problems with exercises thy give students 20, 12 years whatever does of exercise. you turn them into certainty junkets and they balk like mad if you give them a real problem would have before but the problem. there's not just one formulation. so you get in the problem of negotiation but you don't get that. as you go through technical education. exercises don't equal problems. and problems don't equal massive. a mass as a whole system, a set of problems that are dynamically interconnected and change all the time. one of my mentors put it, managers don't solve problems. they manage messes. and that's what president obama certainly has to do. it's not a single ill-defined problem, but how all these things are interconnected. so the health care problem is not separate from the financial recovery, and jobs recovery and all the rest of the

king, chuck jackson, billy preston and all these great blues artists. it's interesting thing to listen to the -- that is, the tape recording of lee and these blues artists, because he begins as someone just strumming along with b.b. king, trying to learn the tunes. and there's this engaging quality between the two of them. but after a couple of hours you hear lee telling the engineer how to handle things. and then by the second session lee's pretty much telling everybody how to perform their music. he did not -- he did not like to be anything less than a leader. and he was a quick learner and could be quite formidable. c-span: before we run out of time, i want to ask you this, then i'll get back to some more of the substance. but on the back, i don't know that i've ever seen this before, you say in order to get the index, you got to go to the world wide web. and we've actually plugged into the world wide web to show what it looks like, and there it is on the screen right there and i've got a hard copy here. why didn't the publisher want to put your inde

i joseph bubble game san francisco treat jackson expect $40 billi in coins to be delivered to my mailboxeb md. >> jimmy: so, while -- >> check out my new gospel group. knock knock, who there, not sully sullenberger. by now. joe got to go. >> jimmy: thank you, joe. that's joe jack-o-lantern. looks good. i honestly have no explanation for that. big reality show news. mtv announced thisupcoming sixth season of "the hills" will be the last for the show. [ applause ] planning to run the entire cast through a woodchiper at the end. [ applause ] actually the reason -- the reason they're can receiving it is, they've run out of places for the cast to eat brunch. so, they had to -- "the hills" was a big hit for mtv. how they're going to find another group of young people that are willing to be followed around by a camera crew, i have no idea. from the looks of it, it looks like the last season is going to be a good one. >> you've seen them sit. you've seen them stand. you've seen them look at each other. now they sit, stand and look at each other for the last time. "the hills." only on mtv. >> jim

billy payne, the augusta national golf club chairman reacted to tiger's decision saying in, quote, we support tiger's decision to return to competitive golf beginning in this year's masters tournament. we support and encourage his stated commitment to continue the significant work required to rebuild his personal and professional life. one important aspect that people need to realize about this tournament, it is invitation only. tiger wood his to be invited to play in this tournament so the masters knew he was coming back a long time before this. >> i thought everybody who wore a green jacket, yeah, it's automatically, but still you need the invite. >> what about the arnold palmer and tavistock? >> no. they are not. well, he said flat out he's not going to play them. tavistock, you have to be a member of the country club. arnold palmer, he and arnie have a relationship, but he said flat out he's not going play them. i don't agree with that decision from a golf standpoint. i don't think he'll make the cut by not having a warm-up tournament first. >> a lot of perspectives. we'll be all

>> reporter: after the shooting cousins billy moore and omar dixon were taken into custody charged withrder and attempted robbery. moore was later sentenced to 40 years for pulling the trigger and dixon 30 years as his accomplice. on the day that benji died his simeon teammates decided to play their first game of the season without no. 25. earlier in the day students sobbed at simeon simply overwhelmed with grief, but benji's mother stood tall in the gymnasium. >> so today i speak in love of all of you who keep benji's memory and dignity and be strength v and strength and love alive -- strength and love alive. >> reporter: the wake was held on the gymnasium floor and 8,000 people came to see benji lying in his no. 25 jersey. the line stretched blocks outside of the school, mourners waited seven hours. >> i still have dreams about him like, you know, he came back and he was able to play again, but just dreams. >> sometimes i sit down and, you know, when i'm going through things, you know, i speak, you know, just like i would to my grandparents, you know. hey, benji, how you doing, that t

and pill l billy payne is a vert man. a bomb that went off, it cost lives, and he did not say let's not talk about this bomb that went off. he knew it had to be discussed. if there is something that needs to be discussed, cbs will cover the news as well. >> jim, do you think the media as a whole have gone way overboard on the tiger woods story and have intruded into his personal life and pumped it up and sensationalized it? or is it an actual fall from grace, as christine says that needs to be covered as huge story? >> well, christine is right, and you're right. and it is excessive. i mean, there's a lot of things going on, as your program has pointed out already this morning. >> health care. >> tiger woods has gotten a lot of attention. he will be judged at the end of the day as a golfer. yes, a lot of this is very unpleasant, it's disappointed a lot of people. a lot of people who put their faith in tiger woods as more than a golfer had it misplaced. he has apologized for that wants to move on with his life. he will be o

bill lee jean, a -- billy jean, a spectacle bear, giving birth to two cubs.pictures of the newborn yet. but they are all toothless, blind, we're told. the zoo has set up the web cam. so you may see it. >>> the war vet says that the pet dog gave them a second chance to see life as being worth living again. >> and now he's the founder of the articlington based organization that offers other vets that same chance at the connection. >> and there is a time when i wanted to take my own life. she walked in, little puppy. that meant she was. she would walk in and lick my face. >> reporter: when dave sharp first got a pit bull puppy, he was suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder. they say that cheyenne gave them a friend to talk to. about their experience serving in afghanistan. >> she didn't judge me. and i felt completely at ease. >> reporter: now, sharp is giving other veterans a chance to feel that unconditional love. the founder of pets to vets. a nonprofit that is matching veterans with the local sheltered animals for free. when their minds are so cloudy,

. >> lehrer: so the speaker is not going to say "hey, billy bob, if you will vote for us on this, we'llet you so many paved roads." they're not making individual deals, is that right? >> well. >> lehrer: (laughs) okay. none that we know of. >> they can't make individual deals on this bill but that's not to say they can't make individual deal on other bills down the road. >> lehrer: but to get to 216, the last two or three or four are going to be very very well-known people when this is all said and done. is that not the case? >> well, it certainly was in the senate. it might not be the case in the house. so far they've managed to keep this pretty quiet but, yes, certainly on something like this abortion issue where they're dealing with five or six fairly well-known people, that may be the case. >> lehrer: now, the timetable, they say they're not going to make march 18 which is just a week from today. forget that. what happens? >> they were never going to make march 18. that was when the president is leafing and that was something the that the president's spokesman threw out there. >> le

>> reporter: after the shooting cousins billy moore and omar dixon were taken into custody charged with murder and attempted robbery. moore was later sentenced to 40 years for pulling the trigger and dixon 30 years as his accomplice. on the day that benji died his simeon teammates decided to play their first game of the season without no. 25. earlier in the day students sobbed at simeon simply overwhelmed with grief, but benji's mother stood tall in the gymnasium. >> so today i speak in love of all of you who keep benji's memory and dignity and be strength v and strength and love alive -- strength and love alive. >> reporter: the wake was held on the gymnasium floor and 8,000 people came to see benji lying in his no. 25 jersey. the line stretched blocks outside of the school, mourners waited seven hours. >> i still have dreams about him like, you know, he came back and he was able to play again, but just dreams. >> sometimes i sit down and, you know, when i'm going through things, you know, i speak, you know, just like i would to my grandparents, you know. hey, benji, how you doing, tha

data norfolk, virginia, there was a mock funeral for john barleycorn led by a man named billy sunday.he was an evangelist and former baseball star and at his mock funerals he preached the eulogy. and in his eulogy he said, could i., john, you were god's worst enemy and the double's best friend. farewell, i hate you with the perfect hate and by the grace of god i love to meet you. [inaudible] >> and of course, prohibition when to affect the next morning but things turn out quite differently than the temperance movement had expected trade >> john barleycorn, what's that? tonight that was an old nickname for alcohol also known as demon rum. >> so when you're doing your tourwhen you're done with a calvary baptist church, what is next? the mac would jump on the subway and go to kalorama worst of the woodrow wilson house and he was the president when prohibition went into effect in 1920. >> military or did you magazine editor roy morris recalls samuel clemens transformation from an unemployed riverboat pilot in mississippi to a celebrated writer, mark twain. from book passage bookstore in c

in norfolk virginia, there was a mock funeral from billy sunday who was a evangelist and a baseball star and he preached the eulogy and he said goodbye, john. you were god's worst enemy and the devil's best friend. farewell. i hate you with the perfect hate and by the grace of god, i love to hate you. >> there are arguments against prohibition are out there. when you prepare prohibition at its worst and -- [inaudible] >> and, of course, prohibition went into effect the next morning but things turned out quite differently than the temperance movement had and he could. -- expected. >> john barley corn? >> that's an old nickname for alcohol also known as demon rum. >> when you're going your tour and you're done with the cavalry baptist church, what's next? >> we jump on the subway and go calarama where we see the woodrow wilson house and he was the president when prohibition went into effect in 1920. >> this was a portion of a booktv program. you can view the entire program and many other booktv programs online. go to booktv.org. type the name of the author or book into the search area in t

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. ♪ the dude in the white tank top leaning his head on his hands ♪ >> reporter: so he's no billy joelmi italian looking just like his parents had plans ♪ >> reporter: but this piano man is youtube's latest hit. video of his chat roulette performance has received more five-sr ratings than any other, making it the highest-rated youtube video ever. >>. ♪ you guys have a thumbs-up situation over there ♪ >> reporter: so who is this guy? at first many suspected musician ben fultz. though they do look alike, both have denied it which means much is still a mystery. until now. sort of. we asked merton for an interview, and he agreed to talk to abc news only if we agreed to a few ground rules first. we can't reveal where he lives, who he works for, or his real name. oh, yeah, the hoodie stays on too. >> i'm not trying to create mystique to build up publicity or something. i'm not making my money off of anything. it's easier for my personal life. and i just think it's more fun for everybody. >> reporter: we do know he lives somewhere in the rocky mountains and works with computers. he taught him

amy gardner writes -- billy and houston, independent line. have you talked to your doctor about health care reform? caller: two concerns. one concern was administrative cost and then he spoke of the hidden cost of the emergency room services. he made a couple of comments. he talked about how he purchases materials. he does it through group purchasing. the more people in this group, below what it costs. he sort of used that analogy. i would like to make one other comment concerning the politics of this. he made a comment that when you speak of the american people don't want this, well, you have the national minorities combined and non-minorities who support this plan, that would be a majority over all the people. i think we should all just come together and get this issue solved once and for all. host: on our democrats line, william, west point, mississippi. what has your doctor said about health care reform? caller: they are really not talking for it, but as a democrat i'm all for it. host: why is a doctor not for it? close up one of the thin

because it will not cover a lot of the illegal immigrants and arrested because the mandate has some of billyfor individuals to opt out. for example, if health insurance cost you more than 8 percent of your income you're not subject to the mandate. so it's a mandate but with some opt out policies. for those reasons while we cover a huge number of uninsured, this is far from universal bill. the second thing it does, we have to be clear on this, it doesn't and it budget reducing fashion. john conyers and we're spending $950 billion. that's what we're spending but we are also raising more than that. in fact, over the next decade, this bill would raise $100 billion more than it actually spends. now i don't know if any of you watched the blair house which project for seven hours on c-span, but it was actually quite good, i thought. i me, i probably would've three people who thought it was quite good, but there was a lot of discussion of this budget deficit. let me clue of what's going on. what is true is over the first decade there's more years of spending cuts and spending. so someone will point

>> reporter: after the shooting cousins billy moore and omar dixon were taken into custody charged with murder and attempted robbery. moore was later sentenced to 40 years for pulling the trigger and dixon 30 years as his accomplice. on the day that benji died his simeon teammates decided to play their first game of the season without no. 25. earlier in the day students sobbed at simeon simply overwhelmed with grief, but benji's mother stood tall in the gymnasium. >> so today i speak in love of all of you who keep benji's memory and dignity and be strength v and strength and love alive -- strength and love alive. >> reporter: the wake was held on the gymnasium floor and 8,000 people came to see benji lying in his no. 25 jersey. the line stretched blocks outside of the school, mourners waited seven hours. >> i still have dreams about him like, you know, he came back and he was able to play again, but just dreams. >> sometimes i sit down and, you know, when i'm going through things, you know, i speak, you know, just like i would to my grandparents, you know. hey, benji, how you doing, tha

>> reporter: after the shooting cousins billy moore and omar dixon were taken into custody charged withd robbery. moore was later sentenced to 40 years for pulling the trigger and dixon 30 years as his accomplice. on the day that benji died his simeon teammates decided to play their first game of the season without no. 25. earlier in the day students sobbed at simeon simply overwhelmed with grief, but benji's mother stood tall in the gymnasium. >> so today i speak in love of all of you who keep benji's memory and dignity and be strength v and strength and love alive -- strength and love alive. >> reporter: the wake was held on the gymnasium floor and 8,000 people came to see benji lying in his no. 25 jersey. the line stretched blocks outside of the school, mourners waited seven hours. >> i still have dreams about him like, you know, he came back and he was able to play again, but just dreams. >> sometimes i sit down and, you know, when i'm going through things, you know, i speak, you know, just like i would to my grandparents, you know. hey, benji, how you doing, that type of thing. i j

in return, the marchers were met with billy clubs and tear gas.ut the marchers confronted terror with courage. their dignity in the face of brutality moved this house to pass the voting rights act, which reaffirmed this nation's commitment that every citizen has the right to participate fully in the political life of the nation. this past weekend my family and i traveled to selma to honor the 45th anniversary of "bloody sunday." kate, my wife, our two daughters, betsy and sofia and i, we marched from brown chapel to the top of edmund pettis bridge. and along the way, not only did we learn of the significance of the march but also the love and adoration that the people still have for the historical marchers, among those was john lewis. i commended them and firmly believe today that i owe so much of my personal and political success to the struggles of the african-american community. because of their perseverance and sacrifice, doors have been opened permanently to every minority community in america. mr. speaker, it was a honor to have been a part

host: in the four corners new mexico, billy on the independent line.rimary doctors for her. they have either gone to new york or gone back into specialty or gone to the south pacific islands. and one just quit. host: what is behind them leaving? çócaller: what is the reason? a about 10 years ago i was comingñr out of an eye doctor's office in the colorado areaÑiçód i ask his secretaryÑiçó --ñr sh, however are you going to pay for this and i said, what difference does it make? she said, ifñ2hváu have medicar, and you'll get -- we will get $13 for this. if it is blue cross, about 45 days. ifÑi you have medicare, it wille at least $990 days and will get $13. blue cross will be about $40. i can remember what the other one would pay. -- cannot remember what the other one would pay. but the time line was that all ñrof them were late. it was not a 30 day turnover. host: the flight of doctors from her area, have you seen that? guest: for the lost nine years, medicare payments to this -- to physicians have not changed. they're theñr sameçóñr now as te were nine

in part, in large part i would say because they were headed at that time by former representative billytauzan, formerly a democrat and then a republican in congress. and he -- host: who was forced out as the head lobbyist. host: and he was simply the head of the association but he did register and we were able to see his activity. but they were spending phenomenal amounts of money and have been able to acquire a lot of influential folks who again have expertise, the ability to navigate the train in congress, and have for many years been seen as having undue influence, the ability to skew policy toward the pharmaceutical industry and away from the public interest. so it is -- i think their clout throughout this process has been as enormous as the insurance industry. although, again, they're seeing some difficulty now as -- host: one specific example who says big farma negotiated the ban of the importation of cheaper drugs from other countries. guest: right. and their patent protection legislation and the ability to negotiate that, the medicare part d. i mean, there are many facets of leg

billy. caller: thank you for taking my call.hink the oil is the resources of the the rhetoric -- american people. just like iraqi oil is theirs, this is our. if they do it in the right way, it would be beautiful. but if they drill it out at a cost that -- to get it out of the ground, let the companies make a little profit but not sell it on the world market for the highest prices they should get appeared that oil should be to counter the price, bring the price down four american oil over here. so it should be sold only to america because it belongs to us. no need for us to get resources to other countries just for profit. and that thing that is where the problem comes in. it would just before oil companies and they will make more money. the other thing i want to say is why is oil cheaper now, especially in the first year of the obama administration. it came down as soon as bush came out of the chair. this was never investigated. cheney had a secret meeting with the oil companies. i don't understand the price of oil was so high -

well, coach friday, four of those kids, my kids, billy, now 38 years old,, where in the world did the time go? coach friday, i can tell you that those four children that you mentored and coached, three of them cheerleaders, one of them a wide receiver for the blue devils, they miss you, too. it's your attitude of putting students and players first that made you, coach friday, such an outstanding teacher and a football coach. mr. speaker, he will, indeed, be a tough act to follow. and i yield back the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields back the balance of his time. the gentlewoman from nevada is recognized for five minutes. ms. berkley: i thank you, mr. speaker. during the campaign, president obama pledged the citizens of nevada that he would kill the unanimous consenta mountain project. he has -- yucca mountain project. they pulled the license of the dump. the president's blue ribbon panel will find an alternative to yucca mountain. but it's important for me to re-explain why the opposition to yucca mountain is so strong throughout nevada and the united

that's why he was going home every night not socializing with billy young or the rest of us for that i feel quite certain that the caliber of person that he was, the specialness of his personality, the obedience to his grandmother to make a difference, his patriotism to his country, his love of his family, his mastery of the legislative process made jack murtha very special. i am quite certain that we will never see his like again. i also mention in pennsylvania about jack those of us knew him here knew it was important. he loved this institution. and he loved it as others have acknowledged -- acknowledged. i think that love was inkindled -- is that the word? kindled by his friendship with tipo neil. he loved tip o'neill. tip was his mentor. tip was his friend. tip loved this institution. and together they made progress for our country. they made friends with each other. and it's a special part of who jack murtha was. i, too, have a flag. this flag was flown over the capitol, joyce, the minute that we heard that jack had left us. on behalf of the congress of the united states, i want

jimmy doolittle, billy mitchell?i could ask a famous names of pilots from world war ii and you would recognize them probably. but i could name off famous interrogators from world war ii and you would not know who they were. these people, one of them wrote a guide for interrogations after he successfully interrogated japanese p.o.w.'s and he should -- said everybody should be a trained linguist. i don't think that is a requirement but certainly it is a help. >> i am from voice in america,, and the nation's service and i have done a lot of translation for the state department program my question is, the way they described the-- is like they have already adopted all these new techniques, but i am a bit skeptical about it. isn't this one of the tools are they also retain all their old methods? i think it has big invocations particularly since indonesia is going into more depth into democracy, because with obama's visit coming up this next week and then also there is our ready talk about resumption of military aid to the

that's why he was going home every night not socializing with billy young or the rest of us for thatmatter. i feel quite certain that the caliber of person that he was, the specialness of his personality, the obedience to his grandmother to make a difference, his patriotism to his country, his love of his family, his mastery of the legislative process made jack murtha very special. i am quite certain that we will never see his like again. i also mention in pennsylvania about jack those of us knew him here knew it was important. he loved this institution. and he loved it as others have acknowledged -- acknowledged. i think that love was inkindled -- is that the word? kindled by his friendship with tipo neil. he loved tip o'neill. tip was his mentor. tip was his friend. tip loved this institution. and together they made progress for our country. they made friends with each other. and it's a special part of who jack murtha was. i, too, have a flag. this flag was flown over the capitol, joyce, the minute that we heard that jack had left us. on behalf of the congress of the united states,

the stimulus legislation, which we now know is going to cost somewhere in the neighborhood of $862 billi $862 billion, without interest, with interest, well over a trillion dollars, was all borrowed money. it is going to add a trillion dollars to the national debt. now, despite that amount of spending, only $6.2 billion was spent on tax incentives for small businesses and another $730 million was spent in funding for the small business administration. so i want just to think about for a moment what that means in terms of the dimensions of the bill that was passed last year. we had a trillion-dollar bill. together, the incentives for small businesses in that bill represented less than 1% of the total cost of the bill. now, we all know that small businesses have a much greater impact on the economy and on employment than that number represents. small businesses employ more than half of all the nation's private-sector employees. they create nearly two-thirds of all the new jobs and create a disproportionate number of the patents that are issued in our nation. i believe that the time -- at t

amounat every year b6 $683 billi tthe council of econs writes the total slowing of private sector costgrowth will be approximately one percentage point per year. why does this happen? this happens because the bill begins to streamline and modernize our disorganized and illogic will gd health care outcomes, procedure. it funds comparative effectiveness research sung worksr not before you pay for it. it creates financial incentives for low quality but high cost providers to improve their performanc and for transparency so you will know who they are and you can avoid them. it makes investments in wellness and prevention, to reduce costs by keeping you healthy in it improves the cin for chronic. anyone with aamily mr. that -- member in that situationo organize their care d pilot projects in medicare to createciencies i that will spreo the privateector.fe keystone prn which reduced infections, respiratory complications and other medical errors in michigan's the intensive care units. just in the participating intensive care units, it saved more than 1,800 over 140,000 days that patients othe

is going to come and raise billy cane on your head if you don't buy this insurance so the insurance companies are feeling ok with this. and the pharmaceutical companies, yeah, they came to the table with the big bunch of money, yeah, they gave up something to get this health care bill passed. but at the end of the day the closure of the doughnut hole, yeah, but it's for brand name products that you get that discount, so they're going to sell a lot more of their branded products which are the most expensive products. and people are going to blow through that -- blow through that area where they have to match some of the expenses and the catastrophic coverage will kick in pretty darn quick. that pharmaceutical company, excuse me, may stand to gain a great deal from the passage of this bill. so, the really no surprise the stock market went up today. drug companies, insurance companies, they may look to be doing ok in this new, brave new world order that we gave to the american people last night. you know, very famous quote from the speaker, earlier in the debate on all of this was, we need to go

billy tauzin -- "by the way i understand salary of over over $2 million a year -- former republican house member from louisiana who now leads the group said wednesday who is ever going to go into a deal with the white house again if they don't keep their word? they are just going to duke it out instead." the deputy white house chief of staff confirmed mr. tauzin's account of the deal in an email message on wednesday night. the president encouraged this approach, mr. macino wrote. he wanted to bring all the parties to the table to discuss health insurance reform. so i say to my friend from new hampshire as we're awaiting approval of the other side of this amendment, you know, how many deals were cut with phrma? who were the deals cut with the a.m.a.? what were the deals cut with the hospital association? what were the deals cut with all of these organizations that has caused americans to be so unhappy with this process that we have gone through? so there really isn't any way, i would say to my colleague from new hampshire, that i can amend the phrma deal. we tried to have drug reimportatio

today i heard a couple of things on saying safety by billy as a given.hat i'd like to explain to, i became the chief in late 2000, the first space shuttle launch under my watch was columbia. the ill-fated mission. so i lifted a, lives to the office for a couple years after borked true to return to flight, came back on her feet. and taken a look at where do we go from here? one thing became very evident to me was a couple of things to the entire office to him by the way our frontier, ken bowersox was on orbit when the accident happened. so spend time talking to him from houston on orbit. but what we work through was where do we go, what's the right thing to do? what was interesting was initially emotional pretty rapid and some of the real high time flyers were kind of the immediately, emotions were running rapidly. the shuttle is too risky to fly. we shouldn't play. over half of the office had never flown. they didn't care, they're going to go climb on the spatial. we came together and said where to go, what do we need to do? everything in life is a rewar

what wall or walls will this billy rect? bill erect? on what bedrock is this nation to rest for another 60 years of financial stability? better and smarter regulators, plain and simple. no great statutory walls, no hard or fast division or limits on discretion, on a set of regulatory powers that already exist. remember, it was the regulators who abdicated their responsibilities and helped cause this crisis. thus far, the central aspect of too-big-too-fail, financial reforrereform consists of giving regulators the ability to simple fire institutions that are already too big and then the ability to resolve those bhangs they are about to fail. upon close examination, however, the former is virtually the same authority regulators currently possess while the latter, an orderly resolution of a failing megabank, i believe is an illusion. unless congress breaks up the megabanks that are too big to fail, the american taxpayer will remain the ultimate guarantor of an almost certain to repeat itself cycle of boom, bust, and bailout. the first ques

if i ask anybody in here who francisco press the is the world war ii a's, jimmy doolittle, billy mitchell -- i can ask you famous names of pilots from world war ii any would recognize them probably. but i came off others from a famous interrogators from world war to anyone of who they were. but these people, one of them, wrote a guide for interrogations' after he successfully interrogated numerous japanese p.o.w.'s and he said everybody should be a train linguist because there's an innate ability once you understand the language to understand a culture. i don't think that's a requirement but certainly it's a help. >> my name is jimmy, i am from the voice of america in the nation's service i have done a lot of translation for the state department program. fi question is, the way that you described it is like they have already adopted all these new techniques, but have a bit skeptical about that. is in this one of the tools where they have also retain all the old methods and i think this has big implications particularly since indonesia is going into more depth into democracy because with