thailand, cambodia, madagascar, chad, brazil.each place, the poor and disenfranchised are usually the ones bearing environmental burdens. it happens there, and it happens here. in 2005, the associated press found african-americans are 79% more likely than whites to live in neighborhoods where industrial pollution is suspected of posing the greatest health danger. >> how do we improve the quality of life for everybody? >> majora is the founder of the sustainable south bronx. an organization that fights environmental racism in new york and around the country. >> right now race and class really determine where you find the good things like parks and trees or where you'll find the bad stuff like waste facilities and power plants gl the argument against your positions is an economic argument. most often it's, well, look, it's cheaper to have plants in this neighborhood than it is anywhere else in this very expensive city. >> you think you're making the argument that it's better to have it up here because, you know, the real estate val

as many of my colleagues may recall, cambodia and the u.s.e partners in the pie nearing project called -- pioneering project called better factories cambodia. this sought to promote labor standards through our trade agreement at a time when many in the world were demonizing this. and the effort bore fruit. significantly improving the conditions for workers which in turn can help expand our freedoms. however, that industry is now under siege as a result of global recession and competition, including from china and vietnam. according to testimony provided in the recent ways and means hearing, nearly one quarter, 80 of 340 of all exporting factories have been shut down. and nearly 80,000 workers, most of the women, have lost their jobs in cambodia. we need to know whether the preference programs are doing enough to help these enormous challenges. the extension we are voting on today gives us the time. we need to look carefully at these important issues. the ways and means committee and trade subcommittee plan to hold hearings and work with the a

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. >> yesterday i asked mark about cambodia. did you get an answer to that? >> no, i didn't get an answer to that. basically i think what we told you yesterday is our -- >> well, you told me nothing yesterday. >> we're not going to tell you anything today. it's a matter of policy. >> that's not my question. that's great that you don't as a matter of policy. but that's not my question. do you think that these leaders should be deported to china? >> i don't think it's -- i don't think it's appropriate for me to discuss this case. >> oh, can i ask why it wouldn't be appropriate? considering that you guys have taken a great interest in leaders? >> i'm not trying to diminish any particular case without reference to this particular -- >> are you suggesting that the u.s. might be interested in offering? >> i'm not suggesting anything. i'm just saying i'm not going to comment. >> i don't understand why not. surely, you speak out when people are going to be -- as the matter of policy, the administration opposes sending prisoners, and won't to countries where they migh

vietnam's, cambodia, it needs to be engagement regardless of the other issues to push for the kind of priority by those governments to get what they can because we just learned the certification decision on vietnam is being dropped in congress so there is no longer a reason that the administration will have certified that vietnam is doing what it can and cooperating as they should to provide records. it was in there from 2001 until now and we understand it is being dropped. >> as of yesterday, quote, north korea is ready to read engage on the issue and we didn't shut it down. you shot it down in 2005. as far as getting back into north korea is a u.s. decision. that is perfect. you will never increase recovery remains and identifications if you do not have the personnel. i don't care how many buildings you put up. if you want to find out for yourself, i have been telling this committee, go to hawaii and talk to the personnel on the ground. lot of what you are hearing is supposedly being done, quote, by admiral crist, is just a smokescreen. nothing positive has come out of any of our re

the first thing i wrote for the review was about cambodia.there was a jesuit there, and he said the khmer rouge has killed several hundred thousand people. he was low balling it. they killed millions of people. and the communists, it was there enablers on a left that enabled them, but also there was a final piece of that. reagan, the things he did, he teaches a lesson that you cannot do many things, you can do a few things as president. he stopped the economic slump. and he said, here is my strategy for the cold war, we win, they lose. and he stuck in place the conditions for that happening. it happen on george bush's watch, but he put it on place. it was thrilling to be in jack kemp's presence. he was soaked abelian and energetic -- energetic. >> george w. bush. >> i'm going to see what i said at washington and lead just before he left. there was a dinner with contributors and i was giving a talk, and they were asking me as a historian, not a conservative, what about this guy? a very negative group of people. and i said if president our stoc

if this course of america -- if this were south america, even cambodia we could walk away from more easily than the middle east. there are always these conspiracy rumors about unocal and so on. there is gas up in the central asian region, but afghanistan is a resource for country. -- is a resource poor country. host: garrett from massachusetts. caller: i was wondering three or writing for the "washington post" -- through your writing for the "washington post" you know if there is a technological of vantagadvantage to try to ger outcome in afghanistan? guest: on the question of technology, the answer is, unfortunately, i do not think so. the job i really doing right now is writing the history of the last 50 years of american military operations since world war ii. one of the things that you see is a constantly looking for technological solutions. we are very technological and we like the idea of fixes through technology. the problem is that our problems are not technological. they are human. in fact, we have spent at least $10 billion in the military on finding technological answers to road

if this course of america -- if this were south america, even cambodia we could walk away from more easilythan the middle east. there are always these conspiracy rumors about unocal and so on. there is gas up in the central asian region, but afghanistan is a resource for country. -- is a resource poor country. host: garrett from massachusetts. caller: i was wondering three or writing for the "washington post" -- through your writing for the "washington post" you know if there is a technological of vantagadvantage to try to ger outcome in afghanistan? guest: on the question of technology, the answer is, unfortunately, i do not think so. the job i really doing right now is writing the history of the last 50 years of american military operations since world war ii. one of the things that you see is a constantly looking for technological solutions. we are very technological and we like the idea of fixes through technology. the problem is that our problems are not technological. they are human. in fact, we have spent at least $10 billion in the military on finding technological answers to roads