byrd is fighting the freshman with the volunteers. kenny hall, he is also the freshman out of stone mountain, georgia. >> larry: both coaches went to their berj early. >> dan: sure did. >> dan: painter, truly one of the great young coaches. th >> da g oi ns mixed up with grant. goins with the basketball here. tough shot, and he's fouled. act r and that could go against bar lou. >> larry: going down the lane you have to have a little bit of help. bar lou t barlow trying to keep up with him. >> dan: bruce pearl said he might be his toughest kid. he had surgery and was back in practice in three weeks. >> larry: young man out of san diego, california. he went to college out there. and bruce pearl said i needed a guard. and i wanted to give some of my guys who play the point guard position a little bit of a breather and he's got a good one. >> dan: and now tennessee aflying the full court pressure. purdue can't get it in. they finally do. they can trap here in the corner. it's kicked out of bounds. off the foot of wayne chism. 10-8, purdue

byrd, presidet pro tempore. mr. reid: mr. president? the presiding officer: the majority leader. mr. reid: mr. president, on this saturday, the senate in one of its unusual sessions, it's very good to see one of the more senior members of the senate presiding over the senate. a lot of presiding is left to the more junior members, and it's indicative of the teamwork of the senator from vermont, one of the most senior members of the senate, the chairman of the judiciary committee, and someone who is always there when there is a need for something to be done, as is today to open the senate. i have such fond memories of my friend from vermont. i can remember the first time that we met. we were in florida. i was running for the senate. it was 1986. you were running for re-election , the senator from vermont was running for re-election. even then a senior member of the senate. even though the two of us are almost twins as far as our age goes, the senator from vermont has a significant amount of seniority, although he never uses it in any way other than to work for the betterment of the

byrd has represented west virginia 20,774 days, that is almost 57 years. byrd came to washington in 1953 along with the first eisenhower administration. it is not the only milestone he is marking in two days he will turn 92 years old. >>> the crew of the space shuttle "atlantis" is at the international space station. what they are doing there now and what it looks like from there. >>> astronauts from the space shuttle "atlantis" inside the international space station. the hatch was opened about half hour ago. "atlantis" arrived this morning. just before docking the shuttle did a back flip so they could scan for possible damage. nasa says a previous laser scan of the craft shows no damage thankfully. the "atlantis" crew will be at the international space station for about a week including thanksgiving. they are delivering spare parts. >>> a new jersey woman found a unique partnership between two unlikely bedfellows. helping those in need in this week's "leaders with heart." >> a natural disaster inspired mary marzano to help others. >> my sister lives in ga

as senator byrd pointed out, we already know how they feel about it. the american people do not want us to pass this bill. if they believe that we are rushing it that we are denying opportunities to change it, i think there will be even -- i think they will be even more enraged. i am confident that he anticipates that we will have a free-wheeling wide open process. assuming he has his 60 votes and it appears that he does, we will be ready to get started on amendments on november 30. >> do you expect the same type of agreements that we have seen in the past or will there be an effort on your part? >> anyone center campus in a 60 vote situation. -- any one senator can put us in a 60 the situation. but there also might be motions to waive the budget and this sort of thing. as is often the case in the senate, many of the amendment votes are votes that we cast that will be in a 60 boat contest. >> -- a 62 boat contest -- a 60 vote contest. >> [inaudible] i am not sure i understood your question. if 60 senators decide to go forward, we will obviously try to

invites three aides to join him and johnson is sitting in the head propped up with pillows with leedy byrd tossing and turning to sleep next to him lead out his vision of the great society. the great society was born within hours of the kennedy assassination. you get a sense of lyndon johnson as a visionary leader who had a clear sense where he wanted to take the nation and this in great compassion for the poor, his desire to push along the stalled civil rights legislation to do things for senior citizens. so there is you see i think it visionary johnson and also johnson who is a brilliant tactician. but he also see in these 24 hours the fall that would become the fatal flaw of the johnson presidency. lyndon johnson was devious and manipulative. he was so concerned and worried about the reaction of the kennedys that he made a member of the kennedy group somehow responsible for every major decision he made in the 24 hours. so he claimed kenny o'donnell told him to take air force one, kennedy claimed, the claim president kennedy flew in on when in reality the secret service that made the dec

of safeway, steve byrd met with both caucuses in the senate. he told of a very interesting experiment -- i program i should say at safeway. i believe it was 35,000 of their employees and they did the following. they said here's your health insurance plan. here's the amount that the safeway company will pay. and here's the amount that you pay. so that amount the employee pays is x. but you can reduce the amount you pay, the company said to the employees, if you do four things, you can reduce it in four steps. four things. you have high blood pressure, you have to be on medicine to control it and we'll pay for the medicine, the company said. you have high cholesterol, you have to be on medicine to control the cholesterol and we'll pay for it. are you overweight? then you have to be on some sort of weight reduction program and we'll pay for that. are you smoking? then you have to stop or be on a smoking cessation program and we'll pay for that. if you don't want to do those things, if you have high blood pressure, high cholesterol, smoking, you do

. >>> pilot had to make an emergency landing yesterday after byrds hit the plane. this happens every day. the delta flight was headed from phoenix to salt lake city when this happened. impact left a teeny tiny hole above the cockpit window. there was only surface damage so the pilot circled back to phoenix and did land safely. >> the pilot just calmly says, you know, we've hit some birds, and nothing to worry about. we're going to turn around and go back to phoenix. but then when we got on the ground we heard people say, you know, they were near the front, they heard thud, you know. >> kind of scary, right? remember miracle on the hudson? it was a bird strike then that forced hero captain to land his plane in the hudson river back in january if like i said, the faa says this happens every day. didn't realize that. >>> we are now hearing from a mother who watched her baby fall in front of this on coming train when his stroller tumbled on to the tracks. watch. >> there was a moment they thought i should jump. for a second i should have a look, what has happened to hi

he was flipping the byrd. i can say it. >> free bird! >> that's a lot of money.u're saying about it. danny wrote, i think the punishment should be more of community service. something teaching kmirn that that type of behavior is disrespectful and uncalled for. interesting. >> embarrass him. >> joy yoet wrote, the only thing worse than a sore loser is a sore winnerer. too hash harsh? no way. they did win the game. go to cnn.com/robin, tell us what you think. we'll read them all morning long. there are some great posts. >>> lastly, one of my favorite former players, dennis rodman, was temporarily detained in germany for allegedly skipping out on a on a $5,000 bar tab. that's a lot of booze. german officials say robin was playing in an exhibition game there, and organizers agreed to pay for his hotel bill, but not the extra 5,000 bucks for drinks consumed at an after party. so they say he was pulled over, he paid the $5,000 tab and then threw another 2500 bucks to avoid legal proceedings. dennis, save your money, please. >> that's the card they take for incidentals.

they are discouraged by it health care system that has become so intrusive, byrd and son, and the meaning -- bergen s -- burdensome and demea ning, that they are retiring early. we are leaving the practice of medical -- medicine in tallied to join the ranks of health care administrators who look to the cost of health care but not to the delivery. for me personally, the antidote to discouragement has been activism. i am proud to say i am one of the 17,000 members of decisions for national health program. educating and advocating for a single payer national health program. it is something that i did joyfully and in a spirit of compassion and good will. for all patients, all my colleagues, and everyone living in the united states. and it does also something i do for my own peace of mind. pnhp is a wellspring of evidence-based research that clearly demonstrates the flaws and the proposed legislation. i will let go over that again but i would encourage everyone who is listening to go to the pnhp web site, pnhp.org, and the president obama, in 2003, when you were a state senator, you said you s

byrd of west virginia, passing karl hayden of arizona.e served 50 years in congress and turned 92. host: we'll go to north carolina. good morning. caller: i'd like to say welcome to your two columnists. i read them pretty regularly. i'd like them to comment on the -- well, i don't know if it's a fact or not. if the senators have taken their inducements for voting for closure outside of the capitol, that they be subject to criminal sanction for corruption. i'd like to hear the columnists' comments on that. guest: that's a very interesting way of looking at it. $300 million sitting across the table at a restaurant is a crime. well, who knows. maybe harry reid and the senator did have lunch. it's not an appealing way to make our laws. guest: no. it's disgusting. but it was also foreseen by the people who di advised the system, the framers. and i think they understood that when you have 535 members of congress in the combined chambers, you have 535 separate interest. that's why you have the president, whose job is to keep the national interes

. >> host: finally, we just marked a mile stone of senator byrd, longest serving member of the house or senate. does bob dole miss the senate? would he still be in the senate if he had not resigned in 1996? >> i will let him answer that question. my hunch is -- let me ask a question you haven't asked, would things be different? i was talking to someone yesterday, a veteran of the hill saying with ted kennedy and bob dole were still in the senate, let's just say the healthcare debate would have unfolded very differently. >> host: richard norton smith, thank you for joining us, former director of the dole institute and the interviewee, interviewer in the >> coming up, a look at the november 5 ford could shooting, with remarks from senators joe lieberman and carl levin. then, a discussion on the military's court-martialed system that alleged for a good shooter a major new doll house on will go through. -- major nidal hasan. >> the president of the american -- "washington journal" is like every morning at 7 eastern and c-span.org. >> three nights of c-span original documentary on the ico

and byrd and our children with taxes. >> dr.rmey, obviously spending 167,000 for each job and it's only a job for one year. it's one year full-time equivalent could be compared to the private sector. can you imagine your wildest dreams somebody saying if you give me 167,000 what i can do is create one job for one year. can you imagine an investor being asked to do that? wouldn't it typically be if you invest what say 1.6 million other words ten times that figure i will create ten jobs in perpetuity, isn't that the normal business model something along that line of about ten jobs per million that are permanently created in the private sector? >> that's right because the private-sector produces a product people want and there is a productivity enhancement that generally comes from expanding the capitol stock and apply a new science and engineering. but there is repeat sales. the fact of the matter is the government doesn't produce anything. >> last because my time is expired, the old axiom if you get a man a fish he will eat for g

to talk about different parts of the bill, let me call on senator byrd from north carolina. >> thank you. i know this has been a long week for everybody in the room, but just remember, this 20 pounds is the size of many people's turkey next week. that is what most people in north carolina think about the bill, too. we are here to talk about what we're hearing at home. what are north carolina residents concerned with right now? jobs. we are at 11% unemployment. they look at this bill and ask how it affects them. i have to look at them and say, the engine that is going to pull us out of this economic crisis, small businesses, and i look at a bill that says, if you are a small business and you cannot compete and offer health care today, if you add your 51st employee, we will send you a tax bill of $38,250. there is no incentive in this bill for small business to succeed. this bill is actually the cause, potentially, of a continuation of high unemployment in this country because small business sees it as a limiting factor to it. two, i come from a state that probably has had more investm