. >> david cam? >> the prime minister is right. of course it is the commanders to make a precise disposition. and un agrees that one of the keys to successful counterinsurgency is a dense population of troops to protect the civilian population. the figures to tell a final store that soon there will be 20000 u.s. forces responsible for some 30 percent of the population. under 10000 british troops responsible for some 70%. let me just ask them to begin. how quickly does he think is vital issue can be sorted out to have an effective counterinsurgency throughout southern afghanistan? >> thank you, mr. speaker i am grateful you raises these questions. we are part of the coalition that these decisions are made as part of the coalition to these decisions are made in him and with the americans and the other forces were there. yes, you decide to to thicken in certain areas at just the americas have laid the priority for the next few months and years on training afghan forces. that is what we are also going to do. i would say to him, we have

that the science case is in that there's serious impacts already occurring, that there are elodge cam impacts, there are serious humanitarian impacts, it's a serious humanitarian impact. the c.i.a. to the pentagon have this very high on the agenda. that these are issues that we must address and we must address them now and then the other part of the book, which is really important if they get through that part is there really are solutions and that is what we're all about, that's what we're working on here in washington, every single day. we know what the solutions are, they're available now, we need to put them in place, and we need the help actually across america to do it, so in the end, it's a call to action. we want people across the counselry to participate with -- country to participate with us, and we want them to feel like they understand the issue, so by picking up the book, reading through it, we're hoping that they will take action and really call on their senators, on their elected officials, so finally get us on a trajectory that reduces carbon emissions, that creates a

they haven't let up on going out and doing some cam tur kill operations. as you noted earlier it was two people released during the bush administration that wound up back on the battlefield in yemen. the bush administration is not dealing with that properly, so we wintd out up how to deal with terrorists? do we treat them according to our rules of law or put nem a military tribunal. throws them back so they can come back and fill us again, that's not a plan i believe in. >> can we really win a war against terrorism? that's right after this. [ female announcer ] treat yourself to something special for lunch. how about a coastal soup and grilled shrimp salad combination at red lobster? or maybe our new shrimp jambalaya simmered with creole spices. skewers of wood-grilled shrimp or your choice of shrimp paired with wood-grilled chicken. seafood lunches starting at just $6.99 that fit into your budget and your lunch hour. only at red lobster. new aches and pains, ...and new questions about which pain reliever is right for your body. tylenol 8 hour works with y

under fire or something close to that have happened and he tried to get backed into the admiral to cam back as far as he could and they got stuck in the low water and couldn't get back and had to be rescued but this was fortunate with the people of savanna because general theory took over. general g-e-a-r-y may be a man familiar to some of you in san francisco. there is a geary street in san francisco. he was the mayor of san francisco before he became general. and geary led the troops into savannah which was not touched. the city remains a beautiful city as it is now, and he became the military mayor of savannah, the second city that he had been the mayor of after san francisco. when sherman returned he found everything in apple pie order. the city was functioning fine. the only thing he had to do is find a hit quarter for himself. a hotel and wanted to take over the hotel but the hotelkeeper insisted on rent and sherman knew him from the past because sherman served in the military in the south before and he said he wouldn't pay rent. but in a blocked several gentlemen one of whom was

the memoirs of tony blair's press secretary, alistar cam basketball acknowledged there was no basic difference between the two sides. they were basically the same. in parliamentary hearings, the british minister of defense louder george robinson stated up until shortly before the nato bombing, quote, the kla were responsible for more deaths in kosovo than the yugoslavia serb authorities had been. so the image of this is a simple conflict in which it was, you know, the serbs were doing all of the aggression and the albanians were the victims simply is not accurate. okay? and there's very little doubt, i should add, one of the objectives of the kla was to ethically clean the serbs once they had won the war. there was an uptick in fighting in 1997 or i should add shortly after 1997 because there was a breakdown in civil order and the neighboring republic of albania meant the arms supplies was open and there was an enormous supply of weapons of kosovo which enabled the kla to begin a major insurgency and by 1998 full scale civil war had commenced. and the kla attacked serbs and policemen and there

>>> this is the ovechkin cam. alex always has fun before and after the game.me, having fun with the workers here on csn. nice hitting by alex ovechkin. the first 40 minutes, not much going his way. a lot of body contact. in the third, a different story. he single-handedly took it over for the caps. the caps have dominated because of those two quick goals for alex ovechkin. his 8th multigoal game of the season. >> joe: in case you're wondering, the capitals have never had a hat trick in this building, not even the great craig laughlin could do that. cogliano on the passing play with potulny. quinn lynn laing back in -- quinten laing back in the lineup after the broken jaw. his dad was one of the original oilers, joe. back in 1972 in the waj. phil played for the oilers, played a couple of seasons here. it must be really cool going back and forth with both generations playing here in edmonton. >> joe: sheldon souray switching it up for gilbert. quinten joke the jaw with a slap shot to the face. quinten finally got to sink his teeth into a prime rib the other nigh

ironically, some people have gotten the message about the loan foreclosures cams and that are not working with those people. too often, what we hear is that these third-party contractors that the servicers are using do not identify themselves as coming from the servicer. so, it is some other company and the bar or having heard, do not get sucked into one of these scams, will not deal with them. it is one other thing that is clogging up the pipeline. it seems like it should be easy to fix, but it has not been fixed yet. >> good morning, i'm charlene brown with fannie mae. i particularly want to say i appreciate your comments about the loss of wealth to the minority communities. as lenders retreat, you know that is only going to exacerbate the problem. there is another way if that is coming that was not mentioned today in terms of foreclosures, and that is, what we're hearing from some of our partners is strategic for closures. the families who are not in the delete with the situation, but a situation that may be more appropriate for a harp and are deciding to foreclose. they will -- in som

. >> there's less than a month left to enter the student cam contest. $50,000 in prizes for middle andigh school students. top prize, $5,000. create a video on one of our country's greatest strengths and must incorporate c-span programming and show varying points of view. winning entries will be shown on c-span. don't wait another minute. go to studentcam.org. >> now a discussion on the lobbying profession in washington. this is part of a lecture series hosted by public affairs and advocacy institute. it's about an hour and 20 minutes. >> good morning. american university that trains people in advocacy and lobbying. i'm pleased to introduce a colleague of mine who has been an professor here at the american university and been working here for 27 years and a senior specialist and there are only about 20 of them left in the congressional research service in american national government. and he's been there since the 1960's, but most importantly, he is really a world class scholar when it comes to understanding congress and congressional procedures. he has the best book on congressional p

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. >> there's just about one month left to enter the 2010 s student cam contest.he top prize is $5,000. just create a five minute to 8 minute video. it must incorporate the c-span programming and show varying points of view. do not wait another minute. host: beth chappell, president and ceo detroit economic club. your group held a national summit last summer where you have government officials and ceo"bjj come together and talk about aid to do list for the american economy. at that summit, commerce secretary gary locke was there. what happened in this meeting? what is in this list? what was the reaction from the secretary? guest: we hosted a national summit last june. we had 101 of our country's leaders. ceo's from all industries and disciplines. we put a process in place. we had 30 sessions. we were trying to aggravate the voices of america's leadership. as a result of that, we took all of these inputs and aggregated it into what we're calling america's to do list. we did meet with secretary gary locke yesterday. basically, the list is 10 priorities that was agre

there's less than a month left to enter the student cam contest. $50,000 in prizes for middle and high milam 1998 to 2001. there at a pivotal time. >> well when the military took over again, yes but i wasn't there at 9/ll so i missed that transition. >> let's look at the top news stories right now. "washington post" suicide bomber strikes shiite in pakistan. 30 killed in blast. what do we learn from this? what are we seeing happening in pakistan right now? >> things go on. have been attacking the state and people of pakistan continue to do so, and the old sunni shiite violence continues and that's been a history for the last 30-years. since the late 70's. host: judging whom what your seeing how are things to day verses when you were ambassador? >> it's like night and day as far as can i tell. in fact, it was safe to go around almost anywhere in pakistan in my day if váu were a foreigner and even a shiite except during certain periods and it's totally different now. so i think, you know, just the security situation is far different. host: ambassador ronald neuman. give you initial refle

. >> there is about a month left to enter c-span's 2010 student cam contest, with prizes for middle andessay -- it must incorporate different points of view. winning entries will be shown on c-span3 do not wait another minute. >> word from politico this morning that representative parker griffith, a freshman from alabama, will announce that he is switching parties to become a republican. the story says that his party switch comes on the eve of a pivotal congressional health- care vote and will send a jolt through the house caucus. and that represents a coup for the house republican leadership, which had been courting him. again, politico reporting today that congressman parker griffith, a freshman democrat from alabama, will switch parties and become a republican. on c-span, it is today's white house briefing. at the last white house briefing of the year, many questions focused on the last steps of the health-care debate. house and senate negotiators, if it is passed this week, will have to work out their differences in a conference committee. robert gibbs speaks for about 45 minutes. >

particular note is is being declared persona non grata bipa live cam presidents morales in september of 2,008. the committee has looked at this incident and members may have a few questions, but it is pretty clear to me that ambassador goldberg had no blame in this matter. mr. wagner by contrast as a career intelligence professional beginning as an army officer in rising to the level of captain. after three years on the house intelligence committee she joined the senior ranks of the dia before becoming director of intelligence community management staff and subsequently the assistant deputy the and i and chief financial officer. she returned to the house intelligence committee as budget director and is now a faculty member of the intelligence and security academy llc. she is being nominated to head the office of intelligence and analysis at the department of homeland security which unlike inr is the young intelligence agency and one that has struggled to identify a clear mission and bring together and a appropriate workforce. we have discussed that earlier. the committee's report acc

. >> cspan's 2010 student cam contest is here. the top prize is $5,000. just greed to a 5-8 minute video. it must incorporate c-span programming and show the varying points of view. the deadline is january 20. grab the camera and get started. "washington journal" continues. host: here is the headline today, momentum builds toward public option, new talks of medicare buy-in picks up steam. centers working on a compromise indicated momentum is building for a series of alternative proposals include letting people under 65 buy into medicare -- that is senators working on this compromise. about 10 senators, both moderate and liberal are working behind the scenes on some type of compromise. we want to hear from you. we are dividing the phone lines by age. a little bit more from the headline which says that senator chuck schumer from new york says the group is considering raising the income threshold to allow more people into medicaid. these are two proposals being talked about behind the scenes this morning. the group working on it is expected at 10:00 a.m. eas

. -- student cam contest is here. deadline is january 20.when the entries will be shown on c-span. >> now a free-lance journalist talks about being held in a prison following his reporting of the disputed iranian election. it is about 90 minutes. . . learning and public policy through its sponsored research and some 800 meetings a year that we host of which this is one. today we're particularly pleased to be partnering with the pulitzer center. a relatively new organization that's already made a -- quite a mark on the field as the news industry goes through the transformation that it's going through. the pulitzer center is providing a really unique product and we are going to hear more about that today and have an example of it. i would because i just heard a cell phone, i ask you all to please turn your cell phones and other such guyses off. today, we are being broadcast live. with that let me turn the floor over to john sawyer which is the founding director of the pulitzer center. john created this organization, founded it and for many yea

ironically, some people actually got the message about the law cams and they are now working with those people. what we hear is that a third- party contractors do not identify themselves as coming from the servicer. it is some other company, and the borrower, who has heard do not get sucked into one of thesescams will not deal with them. it seems like it should be an easy fix that has not been fixed yet. >> the morning. i'm with fannie mae. i particularly want to say how much i appreciate your comments about the loss of wealth to the minority communities, and as lenders retreat, you know that is only going to exacerbate the problem. in other ways, something was not mentioned today in terms of foreclosures, what we hear from some of our partners, strategic foreclosures three families who are not in the delinquency situation but a situation that may be more appropriate for a harp, which we did not talk about today, deciding to foreclose and in some cases they have investment properties, they will foreclose on their primary residence, and move into an investment property. or you have a sit

[applause] >> there is just about a month left toñr enter c-span's 2010 student cam conference. $50,000reat five-minute video on one of our country's greatest strengths or a challenge our country faces. it must incorporate seas and programming and enter a point of view. winning entries -- it must incorporate c-span programming and enter a point of view. winning entries will be aired on c-span. >> we will look into the training and oversight of afghanistan's army and police. witnesses will include representatives of the department of state as well as private contractors. that is live on c-span at 10:00 a.m. eastern. [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2009] this morning we spoke with the democratic senator of new mexico about climate change in health care legislation. he is a member of the senate finance on health committees. this is a half hour. >> senator, you know better than any of us what is happening behind closed doors in the senate. let's start with healthcare. after yesterday's' proceedings, things got very h

." >> there is less than a month left to enter c-span's 2010 student cam contest.prize, $5,000. just create a 5 to 8 minute video on one of our country's greatest strengths or a challenge the country faces. xdi]it mustç incorporate c-span programming and show varying points of view. interred beforew3 midnight, january 20. cannot wait another minute. -- do not wait another minute. >> how has military strategy changed? the house committee look into how military strategy is taught at u.s. war colleges. arkansas representative vick snyder chairs the armed services oversight subcommittee. the hearing is an hour and 50 minutes. >> good morning. we are going to go ahead and began. mr. whitman will be joining us shortly. this is a subcommittee on oversight investigation, second hearing on professional military education, specifically today, officer in residenceç pme. institutionalizing what we called joined us. we also discussed the efforts of the 1989 skeleton panel to review pma to insure that it became part of the culture. today we are looking at the six senior school

c-span's 2010 student cam contest is here. $50,000 in prizes for middle and high school students. top prize is $5000. just create a five to eight minute video about one of our country's greatest strengths. deadline is january 20. winning entries will be shown on c-span. grab a camera and get started here it go to student cam.board for rules and info. >> the senate voted to remove an amendment that would bar federal funding and health care bill for most abortions. here's in our portion of that debate. >> madam president, i rise today to talk about another amendment that is pending the nelson patch casey amendments. and this is the amendment that i think has been discussed in the last day as well. that is the amendment that would assure that no federal funds are spent for abortion. that was unclear. it is unclear in the underlying bill and i think it is very important that we talk about it, that we make sure that it is very clear, exactly what the nelson-hatch-casey bill does. it would bar federal funding for abortion which is basically applying the hyde amendment to the programs un

. >> c-span's 2010 student cam contest is here. $50,000 in prizes for middle and high school studentstop prize $5,000. just create a five to eight-minute video on one of our country's greatest strengths or a challenge the country is facing. it must incorporate c-span programming and show varying points of view. winning entries will be shown on c-span. grab a camera and get started. go to studentcam.org for contest rules and info. >> the demand for hunger assistance has risen by 26% over the last year, according to a new report released by the u.s. conference of mayors. it's the largest average increase since 1991. more now on that report from a group of mayors and urban development secretary shaun donovan. this is half an hour. >> good morning, everyone. i'm tom cochran, c.e.o. and executive director of the united states conference of commares. -- mayors. in october of 1982, the conference of mayors, led by mayor dutch morrell, mayor of new orleans, led to the question of whether or not the federal government was responding to the demand that we had throughout our country at that time

hard to coordinate our operations more effectively with our pakistani partners so they know what our camlain plan is and can anticipate and be there with a catcher's mitt or an anvil, what are the it may be, to create these individuals. we have actually conducted some operations of medium scale in the regional command east where that kind of coordination was conducted. and before we launched the operations, the marines, we also briefed our pakistani partners. we have in fact gun just recently, literally in the last several weeks an effort to lay out in real detail our operational campaign plan and then to coordinate that with the actions of the pakistani elements. >> i appreciate your description of what we're doing and what we're laying out to the pakistanis. isn't it the case that they're going to have to move against all the militants in that area if this is really going to work? >> well, they're going to have to move against enough of them so that obviously their capabilities sufficiently degraded. i don't see any of these kinds of efforts as unconditional surrender, planting the fla

the group will hear about cam 9 -- campaign finance. we will have that for you.his session should get underway shortly on c-span2. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] >> okay. alright. hello. hello, everyone. welcome back to american university's campaign management institute. we are very excited to talk about absentee and early votes which wouldn't be very exciting except for our speakers. this is sarah simmons who served the john mccain presidency campaign. arnold schwarzenegger campaign which i know you will talk about, she is a graduate of american university and a personal friend of mine which shows that bipartisanship can exist in washington d.c.. let them have it. >> thanks for having me this morning. i want to say that if you are serious about working on campaigns, this is the best piece of education you can take with you. i occasionally -- you have better bound books than we had in and 90s. i occasionally go back of i am stuck with a task i am not familiar with to review the course materials i had. there are a lo

ronald cam says i am in the construction industry and my work is very slow. he says he is in the design industry. i am in danger of becoming financially ill and i am looking for ways to stay healthy and one way may be to eliminate my medical insurance. it is a significant part of my budget. this may have been forbid lead me to financial ruin if i get injured or sick. this is my situation. i want to say to mr. kim, help is on the way. mrs. madaleine foot wrote, these are alf californians, my constituents. i recently turned 25 and i lost my health coverage under my parents. i attempted to get coverage under a blue cross plan created for young people my age but because i had taken medications, i was denied. i applied again for another plan, was offered a plan with a 3,000-dollar deductible and it was $300 a month on top of that. as a young person working in a restaurant paying student loans in trying to make it on my own, this is a huge financial burden. i cannot afford an insurance that charges me so much in won't be any benefit for me until late shell out a hu

hard to coordinate our operations more effectively with our pakistani partners so they know what our cam plain plan is and can anticipate and be there with a catcher's mitt or an anvil, what are the it may be, to create these individuals. we have actually conducted some operations of medium scale in the regional command east where that kind of coordination was conducted. and before we launched the operations, the marines, we also briefed our pakistani partners. we have in fact gun just recently, literally in the last several weeks an effort to lay out in real detail our operational campaign plan and then to coordinate that with the actions of the pakistani elements. >> i appreciate your description of what we're doing and what we're laying out to the pakistanis. isn't it the case that they're going to have to move against all the militants in that area if this is really going to work? >> well, they're going to have to move against enough of them so that obviously their capabilities sufficiently degraded. i don't see any of these kinds of efforts as unconditional surrender, planting the f

. >> there is less than a month left to enter the 2010 student cam contest.op prize is $5,000. just create a video that is five minutes to 8 minutes. it must incorporate c-span programming and show varying points of view. open before januarmidnight januy 28. >> under a recent agreement between senate leaders, a bill creating an independent commission for the budget process comes up for a vote when the senate returns in january. last week, the senate passed a measure to increase the debt limit, allowing the treasury department to keep borrowing for a couple of more months. next, a recent budget committee hearing on the national debt. it is about $two hours and 45 minutes. >> senator lieberman and senator voinovich teamed up for special bipartisan process. senator feinstein -- introduced a proposal with senator domenici and is now working with senator corn in. -- senator cornin. representatives cooper and wolf author to their own bipartisan process proposal on the house side, which is very thoughtful and very constructive. all of your proposals are similar to w

. >> there is just about one month left to enter c-span's student cam contest.our country's greatest strength or the challenge the country is facing. it must present varying points of view. winning entries must be -- will be shown on c-span. don't wait another minute. >> the u.s. house is not expected to conduct legislative business again until next month, january, after the holiday break. the senate is heading into its third consecutive weekend of work. today, a defense spending bill, at a final vote tomorrow morning. afterwards, the senate returns to health care with three procedural votes required to move forward. each of those are requiring 60 yes votes to pass. more now from capitol hill reporter. >> as you probably know, the senate is still involved in their health care debate. we wanted to get up to date with the managing editor of "congressional quarterly. where is the senate when it comes to health care? >> de turns to night and turns today again. Ñithe action is clearly off the floor. outliars who are with holding their vote. not so much for the bill i

even if you've worked in a couple cam campaigns, you've worked on those specific campaigns, it's also get what the people think from the people that you're trying to persuade to vote for your candidate as opposed to just thinking you know and going on that assumption. that can lead to some very bad things and put you in pretty awkward positions. and, again, you're just much better off actually knowing what the people are thinking as opposed to just assuming what they think. and, you know, again, if you're on a conference call and a lot of people are saying i think, i think, i think, i think, you're having a very bad conference call, and you're probably about to make a very bad decision. you're much better off having a conference call that says, well, we know that -- and going from there. i'm sure we've all, or some of us in this room have been on those conference calls. all right. so now you did your baseline poll, you're starting to really get into the flow of the campaign, now you have your midway poll. issues and, you know, i talked about it before, if you tested an issue two month