before i have geren, i need to ask unanimous consent that the two letters from burke to chairman markey are put in the record. without objection, so ordered and with that our hearing is adjourned. [inaudible conversations] >> how is c-span funded? >> i have no clue. maybe government grants? >> i would say donations. >> advertising for products? >> public money i am sure. >> my texas? >> how is c-span funded? 30 years ago america's cable companies created c-span as the public service, a private business initiative, no government mandate, no government money. >> earlier today in new york the u.n. security council unanimously passed a resolution imposing economic and military sanctions against north korea. this follows the recent the underground nuclear tests in subsequent missile tests in violation of a previous security council resolution. you will hear remarks from representatives of the 15 countries on the council. this lasts about an hour. >> the 6,141st meeting of the security council is called to order. the provisional agenda of this meeting is before the council and document s, age

by the time of conservatism that edmund burke wrote about 200 years ago. a conservatism that was reaffirmed by russell kirk, by bill buckley. i love bill buckley. he was asked in 2005, i loved what he said about george w. bush. and what he said about the iraq war and the president's plan and the second inaugural address, due in journey across the globe. there's a conservative restraint concept. two in journey across the globe. buckley said sadly we conservatives are supposed to be restrained by reality and we haven't been conservatives are supposed to conserve. whether it's a taxpayer dollars whether it's military power. my god, the military fincher is a. the belief that you can export democracy to four corners of the globe. that you can send our troops everywhere. and again, president bush's words, and journey across the globe. that is not a conservative concept. that is a radical concept the type of spending that occurred over the past eight years. nonconservative. radical. entitlement spending. medicare and medicaid are going to go bankrupt. they are go

sidney cross burks alex ovechkin in washington, crosby in pittsburgh, you have to have big, tough, strongented defensemen to offset those guys. philadelphia has a real good team. they have a big addition with pronger, one of the top defensemen in the league. he is going to the hall of fame on the first ballot. the question as it always is, is the goaltending. they're making some changes there. chris pronger gives them great defense and makes them a dangerous team in the east. >> e.j., thanks for joining us here, we appreciate it. >> any time, mark. >> back to interleague all, beltway ball, nationals and orioles. this is melvin mora, in the sixth with two on. roped, to the left field corner, double. nolan ryan. we have 5-1. they're not done in the sixth. how about the baltimore chopper, aubrey huff there, brings in brian roberts and adam jones. orioles score eight in the sixth inning, tied for their most prolific inning of the season. they get their 100th interleague win. they're just 100-127 all time. >> meantime, in cleveland, the reds, facing the cincinnati. ryan -- facing the indians.

i sent a second letter to burke clarify i clarifying they should respond to the questions generically and not just look at mid americans specifically. a shared a draft of the letter mr. barton's staff and mr. terry's staff on wednesday night. immediately after they brought this issue to my attention. i responded immediately to their concerns. finally i reached out to inform him of what any intent was, toe clear up the understanding and make it absolutely clear that neither he nor his company are the focus of the sub committee's inquiry. so i want to say to mr. barton, to mr. upon the ento the members on the other side of the aisle publicly what i already said to them privately. i would never seek to intimidate or retaliate against a person from having to come in and testify before the sub committee. i value the perspectives all of our witnesses bring. i regret any misunderstanding or misimpressions that the contents of the letter or the timing may have raised. that's why i immediately after learning of the minority concerns prepared a second letter to direct them to respond genericall

. >> why did you deputy secretary steinberg said special representative paul burke and special envoy initial will also be aimed trieste, i think it is well known the afghan pakistan related meetings. but what is going to be ambassador michel -- senator mitchell's role in trieste? >> i believe it's also a quartet meeting. i hope i'm not ahead of myself by saying that they will be talking about middle east issues as well. >> so he would represent the united states at the quartet? >> he would participate. charlie? >> it on the sector is condition is she still in the business conducting business of any kind? >> i believe -- >> did she leave? >> i believe she has called a meeting outside the building. i'm not sure whether she is physically here right now. >> two quick questions. deputy steinberg is going to corfu which he has said that the end of the week so this is why he is not going to trieste on the way to corfu? why is bill burns going to that? because he's involved with iran or the p5 plus one or what? >> that's a good question. i think that is what just to collect we. segment my po

burke but, new york, is on the line. -- bert plan -- brooklyn, new york. caller: i wanted to talk about the health care plan president obama is pushing. what they create more debt? host: what do you think? caller: i think there will be a major problem. how come attacks more rich people? it will discourage people like me to donate or to help or to give by paying more taxes. host: let's move on to laura on the independent line from maryland. caller: i am a poor person. i never even thought to write it off my taxes. that is not the point i wanted to make. i wanted to talk about fox. rupert murdoch', owns several newspapers. he describes himself as a tabloid journalists. he owned a tabloid in england. he is fond of saying he does not report the facts. he is a commentator, like plan backed -- glenn beck says that he was. i would suggest you turn to c- span. i think rupert murdoch should know. host: thank you for calling. this is a picture of william jefferson. they are entering district court on tuesday. the federal bribery trial opens. they say he used his off

written back in february of this year by tricia urban from but county, pennsylvania, from the -- burkes counselee pennsylvania. the east side of pennsylvania. i will read portions of her letter that will tell the story as well as anyone's could. and unfortunately in this one in the case of a tragic circumstance. she wrote, talking about her husband andrew. he had to leave his job for one year to complete an internship to get his dock trit in psychology. and the internship was unpaid and they could not afford cobra coverage, extending health care coverage. i'm quoting from the middle of the letter. she says -- tricia urban says and i -- quote -- "because of preexisting conditions neither my husband's health machine isse had some heart problems. she mentioned that she was pregnant. that neither his health issues nor her pregnancy would be covered under insurance. i work four part-time jobs and not available for benefits. we had a second-rate health insurance plan through my husband's universities and when the bills added up the insurance company stated the internship did not qualify us fo

jamie burke told me that nobody reached out to him early on but jamie walker. that's something that had to be discussed over the last few days. you know, obviously, his last appearance in seattle was the one that finallized it. walker was a great teammate and a tremendous person on the club for us. he totalllly understood and, yo know, we just left it at that. but i'm -- we'll miss what he brought other than, you know, just out there pitching because, like i said, he was a great teammate. he earned a lot of respect and had been through the wars for a long time. >> >> amber: now, it's alberto castillo's job to bring something to the team. he does have big league experience. he was with the team a little bit last year. he told me down in aaa, his job was to throw that in a 3/4 position. he was sidearming a lot. he has been consistent with the arm strength. he is ready to take on the oakland a's, if he has to. last year with the oriole, they were hitting .256 against him -- lefties were hitting .256 against him. we'll see. a lot of left handers in that oakland lin

more importantly it is our local state officials and volunteer organizations burks ultimately it is our citizens that are part of that team. and if nothing else, i'm trying to get people to recognize that the public is not the liability, they are the resource. but we also have to be there for their needs when disaster strikes. as you know, the post katrina emergency management format established a position of administrator prosiding for the authorities and additional functions that we now have at fema, more tools that as you pointed out last year began showing the improvement. but again we still have a ways to go. it allows us to further strengthen that relationship with our governments as part of that community, contributing to our increased operation qual capacity to manage all types of emergencies. one of the challenges was not being able to remove and release items until there was a deck claration and the challenge of prepositioning and now clarity has been brought because of the work your committee did and the findings that said we need to enable the administrator and team to sup

greg burke strikes out matt kemp, casey blake picked off trying to steal third. correia gets the win on three days' rest. he retired the final 15 batters he faced. keith fell gets his 18th save, top in the majors and the padres get their first win at dodger stadium this year. >> biggie as small as might have said it best. "when i was dead broke, i couldn't picture this." ah, to be in college. a few months back mark sanchez was a college student playing quarterback at u.s.c. on april 25th he became an nfl player, drafted fifth overall by the new york jets. on wednesday, he became a very wealthy man. sanchez according to chris mortensen has agreed to a five-year deal worth $50 million, 28 of it guaranteed, the quarterback with a record-setting performance. in the rose bowl. >> tuesday espn's ed werder reported the vikings gave brett favre a deadline to report to off-season workouts this week if he wanted to play for minnesota this season. wednesday, coach brad childress said unless favre's wife wants him out of the house, the team did not set a deadline. >> was the

what are their rates of c-sections and hysterectomies, again, down to the physician using the wind burke steel data but at the individual physician levels but it's actionable. it's one thing to say minneapolis and miami are spending different rates, but you have to get down to one physician and office next to theirs, why is one performing for every case of reflux disease and one rarely performs and get them talking about that to see what the evidence actually shows. so what's in the global budget that we put in? it's all medical expenses, primary care, specialty care, hospital care, behavioral health and pharmacy. we want to deal with one of the biggest problems identified in the institute of medicine report which is in tents fragmentation in the delivery system. we know from a safety perspective on of the greatest risks for safety and handoffs and not just handoffs in hospital and the home or hospital and nursing home but handoffs within the hospital itself in the intensive care unit to the regular floor to skilled nursing facility. we are also offering as part of our payments infrastru

and that may be a question of management in part burke it's a question of what resources do we get them and where do we direct them. insenator harkin's efforts and the attention that prevention is getting in this legislation, the discussion that swirls around it as we move forward and this $10 billion or $8 billion a year or so will help them focus much better than they have on the big issues. i yield to the senator. >> my point was the numb befr one issue relative to the prevention side. clearly not to their response side. i think senator isakson might take objection to being flat lined fund he's their hero right now. >> we just adopted lamar alexander's amendment, which i thought was a good amendment. we're not talking about adding cost to the states. we only have 23 states that get any kind of funding from cdc for coordinated school-based programs. we do almost very lit until the cardiac area nationally. so we're trying to increase in these areas of prevention, which we know in those four areas. put aside the school-based stuff. we do almost nothing in oral health. so on matters that

tom burke. but the rest of the list was next, why? because it cost money. let me say again. if we want to do prevention, wellness and disease management correctly, then you've got to design and architecture that invests in people participating in a. if you talk to safeway when they offered for free disease management to their employees about 20% of those with a chronic disease enrolled. it wasn't until they wrote a check to enroll they actually got their participation level up above 80% and the same is true at dell and sass and most self insured companies around the country. as a matter of fact, at del monday decided to do this in 18 months for every person who enrolled, dell saved $17 per every employee that and rolled and my point is we are talking about how to design a health care so that it's a sustainable and to the future. i think we all agree. 70% of gdp is too high. 19.5% at 2020 is going in the wrong direction. 34 cents of every dollar at some plants in the future is the wrong direction. how do you actually get percentage down? there's only three places. prevention,

you never say never in this world burke the basis of our analysis has been this is a one-shot affair, we're going to do this and then construct an orderly exit and then it will be back to business as usual. >> what if gm and chrysler, what if it wasn't work out as you're anticipating? will you then recommend more money, just to keep it going and keep a few people employed? maybe more than a few, a lot of people employed. >> it's very hard to speculate about a hypothetical, senator, but i can tell you -- >> that could be more than a hypothetical. >> well, i believe it is a hypothetical, because i believe that we conducted a conservative plan. we stress tested it, we've looked at cases where the recovery is slower than most economists believe it will be, where the company is not fully capable of executing its turnaround. we've look hard at this question and it's our confident belief that this will be the last trip to the well. >> i have just a few seconds. the federal government is now the principal labor, environmental and safety regulat regulator, a customer, tax collector, financeer

. >> hello, my name is molly burke and we will be talking to bob schieffer about politics and the media. >> i am frank bond. we are in the night studio located on pennsylvania in washington d.c. where each week we bring students face to face with current events and the workings of government and of the press. our students generate most of the questions and comments in the discussion. this week our audience consists of students from the close-up academy and the washington center as well. let's meet some of them now. welcome to close-up at the newseum. tell us you are and where you are from. >> i am stotland kester from crofton nebraska. >> what has been the highlight of this week in washington? >> basically being in washington dc. being from a town of 700 people we don't get an opportunity to come to a place like this, the national capital. >> did you get to spend time on capitol hill? did you visit your congressional what is on their minds? >> we ask them questions, a lot about agriculture since that is a big part of nebraska and stuff like that. >> tell me something, how does the reces

or not we conservatives are chained to reality with to that is what two help me out on the edmund burke. if you want to foil that message down it is matt we are part of our time, we are chained to reality. we can give inaugural addresses -- you respect reality. you don't as buckley said of bush, you don't go into iraq and say you are going to bring democracy to these people and are going to throw flowers at us and everything's going to be okay. you don't give inaugural addresses where we're going in tyrrany on the globe, the president's words, that is utopianism that is wilsonian. in so the last best hope. >> host: oddly where the aggressive. >> guest: as you said messages inebriation also. but here is the deal, it is one of the reasons republicans are having such a hard time i now is that they are being told and some republicans are thinking have lost power because we haven't been conservative enough. no, that is not the case. it is also not the case that they lost power because never too radical. they weren't conservative, they were radical. when you take $150 billion surplus which is

congressional budget office for their hard work on the bill, the efforts and dedication of tim brown, warren burke, alison bell, pope barrow and their colleagues in the office of legislative council who were indispensable for writing this wide raining and historic legislation -- ranging and historic legislation. similarly, colleagues at the congressional budget office were essential in analyzing the complex financial and scoring issues associated with this bill, both the staff of the legislative council and the c.b.o. deserve to be thanked and congratulated for their outstanding work over many late nights and weekends and we're very he grateful to their -- for their service to the nation. and i would like to add my appreciation to the fantastic job that our committee and subcommittee and select committee staffs have done in getting this legislation before the congress of the united states. mr. speaker, i would like to yield to my colleague on this legislation, congressman ed markey. mr. markey: i thank you, henry, very much. the speaker pro tempore: will the gentleman suspend? the house will be in