byron, what about this?e aarp mentioned today, which says that there will be consultation between a caregiver and patient to discuss things like hospice care, and other issues, other end-of-life issues, and the question is whether there's any coercive element to this, and i think the problem for obama is that it mixes in with what he said a few weeks ago, that healthcare reform at the white house, when a woman got upset because her mother was 100 and needed an operation. she was vigorous and got it and now he she is 105 and still vigorous, and was there some way to take her spirit of life into account? and obama has said maybe it would be better to opt oust surgery and take the painkiller. that was kind of a chilling remark to a lot of people. senior citizens vote in large numbers, and i think this is going to be a big issue in august. bret: the white house is saying that this particular section of this bill is not mandatory. it is a consultation. it is to try to drive costs down in the long haul, but republ

leah bell and byron thompson i cued of -- accused of prostituting a 17-year-old and two 15-year-old girlsre in washington, dc and new york hotels. >>> officials trying to learn how a pipe bomb was planted in ocean city. near 40th street, they say a person stumbled upon the device and the device was disarmed without incident. >>> 5:46. separation of church and state. an issue that is brewing in one part of howard county. the glen mar united methodist church in ellicott city is asking the county to approve a tax-free loan of an expansion project but some residents say it crosses the line. church members say the constitution of the construction project would allow more community outreach but people opposed say this is not the county's responsibility. >> i think that the county should not be in the business of church expansion, period. >> we did not build a sanctuary so it's not like we have this holy place that, you know, is only dedicated to worship. >> the project costs abou stein -- about $10 million but with the help of the county the church would save money. a final vote is not likely u

byron thompson was convicted today in federal court for sex trafficking of a minor. now, thompson admitted he recruited the minors and sold sex with them through craigslist. two of the girls were 15. one was 17. he will be sentenced in october. >>> well, a dulles airport customs and border protection officers arrested a man wanted in nebraska for sexually assaulting a minor. he is 43-year-old john kennedy from the uk and he was taken into custody. kennedy had arrived to dulles from london. he'll be extra dwighted to nebraska -- extradited to nebraska by the end of the week. >>> and a bizarre discovery at an airport. they find a soap encrusted servered bird's head. what's even stranger, this is the second time it's happened. they were each fined 300 bucks and the birds were destroyed. it has a highly pathenogenic tz. >>> tony, i was out earlier today and now it is hot. >> yes, it's hot. but if you were out earlier this morning, the humidity was really high. the dew points were running in the upper 60s to around 70. and then later this afternoon, they fell off into the

lord byron, after shakespeare the second most popular war and terror of his day. so these two men essentially the rise in the sixth is robert burns poetry. lincoln in particular loved burns dialect, he identified with burns as a farmer. lincoln had this horrible illinois backwoods accent. in fact, when lincoln was a young boy he would have pronounced his name in his neighbors would have pronounced his name linked cornyn, we are was emphasized. its sound and. in fact, when they were both young boys learning from the columbian orator how to be effective public speakers, one of the things that the editor of the columbian orator said then that it was important to speak in sound like a democratic gentleman, not an ignorant hic. and he taught using examples going all boy back to classical antiquity how to practice a position in your tongue so that you could lose your accent's. i convey a sense of what the young frederick douglass and what the young lincoln actually sounded like and it wasn't particularly pretty when they were young men appear go and how they overtime fo

federal prosecutors say that byron thompson arranged sexual encounters with the girls at hotels and homes, made them solicit businesses on baltimore streets. police found the three girls at a truck stop in march and arrested thompson after they say he posted an internet ad in may. thompson will be sentenced in october. >>> a baltimore deacon who is charged with two sex offenses and assault has pleaded not guilty. curtis allen was a deacon at the beth el temple church of christ. in may, a teenaged boy came forward saying allen had meolaed him on three different occasions. then a month later, a teenaged girl came forward. allen's trial is set for october 20th. >>> it has happened a second time. u.s. customs officials say agents at bwi have seized another soap-encrusted severed birds head. agents say they found the head in a container of homemade black soap on tuesday. the discovery came less than four months after they seized another soapy birds head from a nigerian traveler. the traveler in tuesday's incident, a u.s. citizen of nigerian descent was issued a $300 fine. >>> well, president o

leah bell and byron thompson are accused of prostituting two 15-year-old girls and 17-year-old girl.cutors say they put the women to work in more than 100 hotels in the maryland and dc areas. >>> who planted a pipe bomb on the street? police say a person walking on the beach near 40th street stumbled near the device. officials evacuated the area as the bomb squad moved in and disarmed the device without incident. >>> the orioles just can't straighten up and fly right. game two ended like monday, not good for the birds. one bright spot of course came from adam jones. hit a home run in the first. tying the game 2-2 but took 11 innings, in the end the royals won 4-3. game three tonight at 7:05. >>> somebody's about to get dad of the year. this is a game between the texas rangers last night. look at this. a fan in the stands. michael young, who dumps it into right field -- the dad sees the ball coming fast and catches it. while holding on to his infant son. what a catch! mom takes the baby. the baby cries a little. he's ok. everyone in the stands took their hat off to dad. what a catch.

. >> whether it is my tournament, jack's, arnold's, byron, really doesn't matter, you go out there withe intensity to win. >> and he did. we will have complete team conference from congressional including the record breaking day from a young american who almost tracked tiger down. the final day let down by defending champion anthony kim. this tournament is leaving town for the next two years. join us with sports plus. final home game before the break for the nationals. not only do they leave town with a win streak they head out with a young star. comments from ryan zimmerman upon hearing the big news. i was late for golf this afternoon. epic wimbledon. making history in more ways than one. and what tiger had to say to his good friend roger federer about his victory today. that and much more coming up when sara walsh and dave owens join me for sports plus in about 4 minutes. stick around for that. >> can you imagine that? unbelievable. >> 30 games. >> 30 games in the final set. >> yeah. >> one more look at the seven- day forecast. slight chance for a shower tomorrow. make it up to 83. >>

figures early on in his campaign who were little hesitant, but the clintons can out, al gore came out, byron dorgan, a very serious senator, cannot. but time and time again he got big figures out because they supported him and they did a lot of fun raising early on. so i think he will be just fine as a fund raiser going forward. host: mich., tom on the democrats' line. caller: of good morning. thanks, as always, for c-span. i find it interesting that the republican callers who elected an actor from "love boat" and ronald reagan to run the country, both actors, they find it distasteful that there is another actor only has a democrat in front of his name. but i would like to ask if she believes that now that the democrats have control of the house and senate in the white house, if we will actually get the change that was promised us, because that is why al franken one. host: what are you looking for? give us an example. guest: i think we need a completely sustainable grain economy on all levels. not just energy, but energy should be the first job tackled. wind turbines, water, so loss six -- c

host: byron center michigan, independent line, vicky. caller: hi. thank you for taking my call. first i'm going to quote gwen ifill from the washington weekend in review. first she said let's kill all the lobbyists. i heard george will on your program. he said to himself -- he set himself up as an expert in healthcare. however, when a caller said that she worked for one company, or her husband worked for one company and they had a combined yearly amount they had to pay out f poof pocket of $10,000 ea before the coverage kicked in while her daughter worked for another company and that her deductible was $300 a year, it is very simple. the insurance company is in business for making money. what they do with the various actuarial things and decide how much it will cost to ensure the employees of a company, and the company decides how much they want to pay. so they pick from a variety of optio options, and the insurance company collects the premium up front, puts it in the bank, invests in various holdings. host: any question specifically for the guest? caller: well, it has already

lea bell and byron thompson are both accused of prostituting two 15-year-old girls and a 17- year-old girl. prosecutor says the three were put to work in more than 100 hotels in maryland, d.c., and new york. >>> a brooklyn parks beauty salon owner says she eis staying put after thieves spray painted racist graffiti on the walls of her shop. police say over the weekend, the vandals broke into heavenly hands beauty salon and stole a computer and other equipment. they then painted racist graffiti on the walls and sprayed flammable liquid all over the place. >> you know, i was looking in the office. i'm not going to say here. this is not for me, you know. they want me gone, they won. but then when my kids mom, where you going? my sister, she lives around the corner. don't leave, don't leave, and i have to travel. i don't have a car. i'm not going to leave and hang them high and dry. i'm going to stick it out. i've been here two years. i'm going to be here until god tells me it's time to move. >> a reward is being offered for information leading to an arrest. to leave a tip, call metro cri

. >> reisterstown man pleads guilty to a sex trafficking conspiracy. 25-year-old byron thompson saidwas a pimp that recruited minors to be in sex acts. sentencing is set for october, he faces 10 years in prison, at least. >> a 5-year-old girl shot in he had head. the suspect is a 17-year-old girl supposed to be monitored by the department of juvenile services. crime and justice joy lepola, has the latest. >> total nonsense. >> outrage tonight by youth advocates. over news that 17-year-old lamont davis was still wearing his gps tracking device despite statements made by the department of juvenile services. >> what do we have? we have a 17-year-old who shot a 5-year-old in the head. who was on a gps system. a couple of months ago, we have a 15-year-old, who was found dead in a vacant building in west baltimore, that was on a gps system. so clearly the government's plan for juvenile services is not working. >> the track is a company that received the contract from the department of juvenile services, in april. this is the gps system it is supplying the state. it is in two pieces. one pa

. >> whether it is my tournament, jack's, arnolds, byrons, doesn't matter you go out with the same intensity to win. >> reporter: here's a look at the leader board. tiger wins at minus 13, mahan is second. anthony kim finished third, followed by molder. and a nice move by vijay singh. he finishes tied for seventh. we will see tiger do something you may never witness again. coming up in sports. >>> plus, dozens of people are lucky to survive the 4th of july after a bridge collapsed sending them plunging in to a lake. >>> an investigation is underway at disney world after a collision between monroe rail trains. b@fa >>> no problems to route on 50 in more more. it is angie with -- on 50 in maryland. it is angie with the realtime traffic report coming up. >>> many people in gaffeny, south carolina did not venture out over the 4th of july weekend. five people have been killed there in the last couple of weeks. all of the victims were bound and shot possibly pointing to a serial killer. >>> a train operator at disney world is dead after a collision between two monroe rail trains. it happened at th

. >> whether it is my tournament, jack's arnolds, byrons, it really doesn't matter. you go out with the same intensity to win. >> tiger's biggest competition came from haman who shot a record tying 62 but finished one stroke back to put him in second place. >>> in ten minutes why you are paying more in taxes every time you travel out of town. >>> in three minutes an old view is new again. we will take you inside the newly reopened crown at the statue of liberty. >>> but first the focus on traffic and weather. here's kim. >>> we do this every morning at 6:08. virginia your weather is coming up within the next ha lfhour. the focus on maryland, let's look and show you the spotlight as we zoom in. temperatures are looking nice and comfortable this morning. problems up to frederick and west of cumberland where there's some fog. but this time of the year, 50s in the morning fantastic. after the fog leaves us a wake of sunny skies today. we will take you to 83 in bethesda and budd's creek looking good, mostly sunny and 83. >> things are looking great as we take a live shot

the senate democratic policy committee chairman, senator byron gdorgan squashed the effort saying "ofl the agencies, the bureau of public debt should know that there is very little that is funny about today's economic conditions." embattled south carolina governor mark sanford's reputation as a fiscal conservative has taken a major hit after the release of his travel expense records. the republican has charged the state almost $38,000 for one first-class and four business class overseas flights since 2005. other state employees flew the same flights for a fraction of that cost. sanford's tickets to brazil last year cost almost $9,000, while other state employees flew for0th under two grand. those visits included a liaison with his arg tinian mistress. sanford has reimbursed the state $3,300 for that trip. he was criticized for lavish spending on airfare and hotels, and said he would fix that problem. he criticize add state employee for spending $269 a night in a new york hotel which he pointed out at the time was $61 above the federally accepted rate. senator chris dodd sent out a fun

the program is running better at this gaithersburg car lot where byron is trading in his infiniti. >> i heard about the program. i was in the market for a new car. >> reporter: under the program the federal government will issue $4,500 to the purchase of a new car. >> i'm at the point where i need transmission work done on my infiniti and other maintenance that would have put me at the market so it is a good time for me. >> fitzgerald auto mall has been doing well, selling 35 cars since the program started. that is roughly 50% of the business. >> we worked very hard, my manager worked hard to make sure we can get our i.d. number on friday. we got it on friday afternoon. since then we have been selling. >> reporter: the cash for clunkers program is a voluntary program for car dealers. it runs until november 1st or when the $1 billion program runs out of money. >>> the virginia department of transportation is issuing hundreds of pink slips on the. nearly 600 people began to learn today they are going to lose their jobs. the layoffs are part of the plan to eliminate 1,000 full- time empl

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>> i can remember when justice byron white decided to retire. he was from colorado. the supreme court during my years there had a number of faces involving water right issues and disputes in various states. if you live in the west, and it is about water, it is important. you would be amazed how justices who are just a product of these of the mississippi do not understand water law out in the west. this is a specialized area. i was very concerned when byron white stepped down because i could see the immediate effect of people on the court who just did not understand those issues. i would love to see a few more from the west, to tell you the truth. >> justice breyer seeded justice white? >> [inaudible] >> or with american indian law. >> look, i'm from san francisco. if you want to know that has an effect on a person is where you went to high school. at the time, it was there. >> he fixed the qualifications. >> thank you. [laughter] >> do you want to weigh in? >> no. >> empathy is important. what about the confirmation process? has it become too much of a quasi-ritualiz

meter maragini was an advisor to the clinton-gore campaigns and byron rowe was advisor to the mitt romneyampaign. welcome both of you. i want to bring up something that tina brown wrote. she says "hillary finds herself in a familiar bind with a different twist. if she allows daylight between herself and the president, she becomes the kind of lame duck that colin powell became once foreign powers that he was nowhere near bush's inner circle. it becomes clearer by the day how brilliantly obama checkmateed both clintons by putting hillary in the top most cabinet job. " peter, do you agree? >> well, i wouldn't say it was that conspiratorial that he checkmateed the clintons by doing it. i think it was a wise decision, because hillary clinton does have a breath of experience working within the clinton administration, and was on a lot of foreign trips and brings that to this job. i think that she is a forceful advocate, very outspoken, i think can carry the message of the administration forward. i think she was hung up with a couple weeks with an injury and now she is back in action. >> jason, w

i can remember when justice byron white decided to retire from the court. and he was from colorado. the supreme court during my years there had a number of cases involving water right issues and disputes between different western states overwater issues. now believe me, if you live in the west and its about water, it's important. and you would be amazed how justices who are just a product of beast of the mississippi do not understand water lockout in the west. and this is kind of a specialized area. and i was very concerned when byron white step down, because i could see the immediate effect of people on the court who just didn't understand those issues. so i would love to see a few more from the west, to tell you the truth. >> i may point out that justice breyer succeeded justice white. do i remember that correctly? also presumably did not have much really hands-on experience with water law, or with american indian law. >> i am from san francisco. i went to a lower high school and if you want to know what has an effect upon a person in america is where you went to high school. and

byron kerr wrote a great blog on masn.com, and i concur that kerr should get that interim label taken be the full-time gm. >> bob: no balls and two strikes to gonzales. target in. he goes up and in, misses with a fastball. and there's a good hitting pitcher, jason marquis. 1 for 1 tonight.    i posted mean today abo challenges facing the nationals pumping staff in colorado -- pitching staff in colorado and houston this week. >> rob: are they trying to climb a mountain, bob? >> bob: no, it's pretty flat down in texas. that's a swamp. but between now and sunday, 8 games will be decided, not seven. guzman to his right, knocks it down, and loses the play at first. ian stewart with the ball hitting in front of him, industry staying home at second ways. >> rob: well, he goes toward third base also right there, and the ball, and actually i think -- did that hit him in the leg? i don't think he saw it, because he saw it coming out of the shadows, and ian stewart, i don't know how you give an error, never touched a glove, hit him right in the shin. >> bob: just wonder

district attorney leone in his discretion determined that he wasn't -- byron asked this earlier -- goinggo forward with this case. and he has many considerations, i'm sure, with regard to trial length, judicial resources and the like that he has to consider in a situation like this. but at no time has he concluded, to my knowledge -- and i don't believe this to be the case -- that anybody -- that sergeant crowley did anything wrong here. so, his decision to not go forward with those charges is not the same as a finding that anyone did anything wrong here. i want to emphasize that, because that is not the case. he has simply made a decision not to go forward. but, again, that is a big difference between that. and i think some people are attempting to interpret that as meeting a finding of wrongdoing. far from it. i don't believe that has happened and i don't believe will happen in these circumstances. >> you said that you think an apology is warranted from the governor as well as the president, i think you mentioned in error. what has the governor said that was -- against police officers?

he will be replaced byron bloom who is a former investment banker.ississippi, on the line for democrats. caller: good morning. thank you for having me. i am watching the show and sometimes it makes me upset, and sometimes they're good things. i'm from the south. this center called in from alabama -- we know what is happening here, but we cannot let race -- all the questions and comments have been raised concern race. anything that obama appoints the republicans will go against, and vice versa. it is time now for this. we have four wars going on. the biggest one is in the white house. we're not going to get anything whether good. if you do not do anything and you are in the dungeon you will never get out. host: put that into a question for the judge? caller: i would tell her to just be yourself and be fair. no one is without fault. he who is without fault cast the first stone. the question coming from the people -- need to check themselves before they start to point fingers at sonia sotomayor. give her a chance. i think she would do a good job. host:

byron, you are on the air. i'm laughing because once again, i did not push the button. my fault. sorry about that. caller: no problem. i just want to say good morning. anybody who thinks a government- run health care plan is going to be good should go to the va. that is run by the government and it really stands. -- really stinks. it took me six months to get an appointment. if that is what you want, that is what you will get. host: thank you for the call from san antonio. it is health care thursday on "washington journal." our final guest for the morning is congressman earl pomeroy of north dakota. we will be right back with him. >> this week, as expected, the senate judiciary committee voted to recommend the confirmation sonia sotomayor as supreme court justice. what the debate and see the vote this saturday on c-span. next week, for confirmation moves to the senate floor. live coverage of the full senate debate on c-span2. coming in october on c-span, tour the home of america's highest court, the supreme court. >> on c-span radio, hear 1968 lbj phone calls with his secretary o

she was a clerk for the court of appeals in the district of columbia and 4 associate justice byron wrightthe supreme court. thank you for being here and we look forward to your testimony. >> thank you for the opportunity to comment on the nomination of judge sonia sotomayor. i have known her since she became a judge in 1992. as you noted before i joined the faculty at yale law school in 1985 i was a prosecutor in new york and special assistant to the department of justice in washington. the federal prosecutor, i had the pleasure of working with louis freeh. this is an exceptionally strong nomination. my judgment has nothing to do with sonia sotomayor's sex, ethnicity or personal story. i am judging her on the same criteria that i use when i was asked by that yale daily news some years ago. i answered yes then and i answer yes now, specifically, i am confident that sonia sotomayor will serve the nation with powerful intelligence, vigor, and an abiding commitment to the constitution. moreover, her service as a state prosecutor and district judge will make her unique on the court to which sh

there is no day that in a byronic diseases are becoming health minister many high priority response.increased tension to the issue response has been inadequate. part of the problem is been the fda failure to properly address to the effect of the misuse of the antibiotics and efficacy of human use. and although the fda can withdraw its approval for these antibiotics, is record of what reviewing currently approved drugs in the current procedures in the case would take nearly a century to get these medical imports antibiotics out of the seated into human -- and in october 2000 for example, the fda began consideration of a proposal to withdraw its approval for therapeutic use of antibiotics and poultry. and there a few an eventual withdrawal of approval to provide the five years to complete on its current regulation of the fda must review each class of antibiotics separately. the legislation we are here to discuss today we face of the use just of the seven classis of a medically significant antibiotics that are currently approved for non therapeutic use in animal agriculture. ming no mis