and his mother, my maternal grandmother was illiterate until she died, never even came to the capital city. my mother was 50% indigenous, and happened to have been where -- to a -- wed to a german trader who left the country when she was at an early age, because liberia declared war on germany and they had to leech and in a way we represented both worlds, i mean, we never forgot our rural background and never forgot their roots and always went back to the village for village life but at the same time they were given to settler families and were able to get an education, and in a way you might say over time, through education, and profession, they also became part of the elite class and so, you know, that very complex background in a way represents the complexities and the conditions of our own nation and its beginnings and its evolution over time and experiences that we had, i hope that i try to capture a little bit of that in the book. >> you most certainly did. you most certainly did and what i appreciated about the book was that it taught me a lot of -- i didn't know, i thought i knew a

subcommittee was david solkal chairman of mid-america holdings company based in my state of iowa in the capital city of des moines. we're all very well aware that there are very divergent opinions on the so-called cap and trade program advocated by chairman waxman and subcommittee chairman markey. hearing witnesses are typically invited to share different positions and offer different perspectives on prospective policies. that was the case with the mid-america c.e.o. his company supports the cap on emission reductions in the bill but strongly opposes the trading component. in his testimony, he made clear his position that the trading mechanism in the waxman-markey bill, will impose huge costs on customers. the costs will come in two ways: first, to pay for emission allowances which will not reduce greenhouse gas emission and then for the construction of low- and zero-carbon power planted to reduce emissions so in those two ways customers pay. he indicated mid-america's customers would see an increase in electricity rates of somewheres between 12% at the low end and 28% at the high end under this cli

but john left the capital city before the inauguration of thomas jefferson. he left at six in the morning, at daybreak, and didn't stay for the inoculation of jefferson. he was so hurt. not only by losing office, but his son, his second son had just died. his son died the day -- he learned that his son died the same day that he learned that jefferson won the presidency. he was not a happy camper that day so he didn't stick around. other questions?

is not blood, but spray-painted stopped the protesters outside the presidential palace in the capital city of honduras. john is on the phone from frederick, maryland. caller: i wondering if the guest might explain what happened in honduras and how the president actually broke the constitution. and then the congress of honduras and the supreme court said he was gone. and what i would think we need from central america is pro- american governments, which honduras was leading us not down that route. i just don't know really why colombia and the rest of central america is brought in -- on c- span. i don't know why you guys keep using twitter -- 90% anti- american calls. it is not a good, fair source for c-span. e-mail is a lot better. but twitter, think about it, it is all democrats. host: thank you for the comment, one of many voices including e- mail and your phone call on the republican line but we appreciate your observation differed on the earlier point, ambassador -- i appreciate your observation. on your earlier point? guest: we need more democratic governments and central america but t

and as we condemn intolerance and racism in our capital city, we should ponder today, mr. speaker, what anti-semitic hatred and rage could mean on the international stage. i say with a heavy heart today with the deepest respect for the families affected by yesterday's tragic event, we would do well as a nation to reflect if one man can walk in the holocaust museum with a rifle, motivated by anti-semitic rage and bring about violence and death, what could a nation armed with the same anti-semitic rage do with a nuclear weapon? the american people deserve to know that the same hatred that drove this one lonely and deranged man to open fire at the u.s. holocaust museum i believe resides in the hearts of some of the most powerful leaders in an ancient nation of the world. and i am confident that when the time comes this congress, this government, this nation and our terrorist ally will do what is necessary to prevent a global manifestation of anti-semitic violence. the best way to honor the lives, the victims of hatred is to stand in the path of those who would continue the vi

it's plan city, strawberry capital of the world. but tampa, now, the winter home of thdyork yankees. >> bob: used to play at al lopez field, didn't you? >> rob: al lopez field and played the florida state league. extended through spring training, group 5 here. >> bob: stammen does not want to walk the leadoff man after getting three gift runs. and he gets an out. >> rob: he walked the leadoff hitter in his last start. the fifth start of his career, don't give up. if you give up a hit on one of your best pitches, come right back with it. see what matt garza did. >> bob: facing the stolen base king in major league baseball right now. carl crawford has 35 of them in 38 attempts. he is hitting .325, making him even more dangerous. crawford, number 7 in the league. this guy has been in the big leagues now for 7-plus years. after the rays drafted him in the second round in 1999. >> rob: you yo rocco baldelli went up to the boston red sox. but carl crawford and rocco baldelli had never been in the big leagues. lou piniella named them as h

this vision and expand on it, provides a direct grant of $1.3 billion for capital improvement, funds the high-speed rail, in a city passenger rail and rail called congestive mitigation grant programs with $8 million of capital fund, it will focus attention and funding on those projects that can be accomplished in the near term, essentially in the next 5 to 7 years, to address longer-term development needs, president obama has proposed to make $1 billion a year available for grant funding. a lot of the discussion that has followed has been about speed. but the real issues are tripped time and market relevance. the natural yardstick for comparison is the automobile. when we talk about improving speeds, we need to be thinking of those increases in the context of their effect on trip times. frequency is a major component of relevance and we need to make sure we are developing the sufficient number of frequencys on our services to provide travelers with a range of choices. there are 3 ways to build, develop or improved passenger train speeds, the best known method is one that lot of people have in mind when they say hi

capital. they wreak havoc and i nation's cities and towns. through the issue with mexico and partnerships for of the hemisphere, we must help our southern neighbors help themselves and a concerted effort to stop drug trafficking -- trafficking and provide security for their people. general fraser i look forward to hearing your thoughts on how to solve the these problems. i am looking forward to your testimony today. thank you. >> thank you very much. before we call on their witnesses, introduce their families. >> thank you, mr. chairman. i am honored this morning to sit before you come to introduce a general douglas fraser. he is coming by his wife, his son and daughter, and i a understand her husband as well. i have had the pleasure and the privilege to come to know not only general fraser, but his family also for the time is spent in alaska. he comes before the committee this morning for confirmation to the rank of general, tapping off the 34-plus year air force career. that career officially began in 1975, on his graduation from the air fo

. >> he knew in the case of citi we could use both capital and ring fence so that was an options. >> started. >> you widely stated in my view that we do need a new regime and there's really two approaches that can be taken and the congress has to make a judgment which is the better one to go with. one is a supersized regulator or some entity with the capacity to monitor the risk of these huge con gloom mere rats that bring us all with them when they go down. that's one approach. the other is to take the view that an institution is too big to fail, it's too big to exist. the virtue of that, frankly, is that it brings them down to a size where we don't have to deepened on the vigilance of regulators as being overcome by the influence of the financial industry. so my question to you is: does it make sense for congress to pursue a policy that says if an institution is too big to fail without threat to the economy, it is in fact too big to exist and instead of regulating it, we should break it up? >> well, there are two options. one is to aallow large banks but protect the economy if one

capital. now it became really represented as a more elite, luxury-type city and a city that could be, you knowprominently placed in advertisements in association with products that wanted that kind of cachet. >> in fact, in your book, "branding new york" you talk about a very famous brand, i heart ny. >> that's right. >> what was the effect of that? >> well, i think that campaign kind of had two phases. in the initial phase of that campaign, this famous campaign that was designed by melton glaser the artistic director of new yorker magazine and a greater graphic designer in his own right, i think it really stimulated a kind of solidarity with new yorkers and made people think about what were the essential qualities of new york that they loved and which they would be really sorry to lose because, you know, when i say this was a severe crisis, there was media and there was a lot of hype nationwide to the glee of some people that new york was going to cease to exist, you know, and there were kind of satires about new york sinking into the ocean. you know, the famous scene in planet of the apes an

>> he knew in the case of city for example that we use both capital so clearly that was one of the options we were discussing as part of the transaction. >> whited nike to this question that was started by mr. fortenberry. you have boys the stated in my view that we do need a new regulatory regime to protect the economy from systemic risk. there really to approaches that can be taken in the congress has been making judgment which is the better one to go. one is the supersize regulator or some entity that has the capacity to monitor their risk of these huge financial conglomerates that bring us all with them. that is one approach. the other approach is to take the view that if an institution is too big to fail it is too big to exist. and the virtue of that frankly is that it brings them down to a size where we don't have to depend on the vigilance of regulators being overcome by the influence of the financial industry. so, my question to you is, does it make sense for congress to pursue a policy that says an institution is too big to fail without threat to the economy and is that in fact a

citi, ubs, morgan stanley. they are not being forced raise a whole bunch of capital now.you probably got a little bit more questions but thanks for very much coming along or if you want to grab me or -- >> gillan tett?k was named brih journalist for the coverage of the market decline in 2008. she was also awarded the wincott prize for financial journalism in 2007. right now she runs the global market coverage for financial times newspaper. to find out more on the author, please go to ft.com. >> alex storozynski recounts the life of thaddeus kosciuszko who became an engineer in the continental army. mr. kosciuszko worked on victories in saratoga and hevk returned to poland and became commander in chief. the washington embassy hosted this event. it's over an hour. >> ladies and gentlemen, thank you for coming. just to make sure everybody is in the right place, for those of you who thought that this was a public hearing on the bridge, that will be taking place at the d.o.t. headquarters. [laughter] >> this is also not about&; th twin bridges north of albany new york and th

city kids. those three guys really started building it. >> in this "imprimis," i saw somewhere there is a $608 million capital endowment campaign to run for 2012. my first question is, why is it $608 million? why not just $600 million? >> that is an excellent question. i think it is because we add up what we think we need and multiplied by the number that it takes to get that much out for year. i think he came to that, and i think there was some demand that arose. it started out to be $500 million, and we have made that. we get gifts and pledges and all that, we have gone past that. not by much, but a little. we are still working on it. when we redid the budget, that is what came up. another issue has won with rush limbaugh. do conservatives need to get beyond reagan? here is one by mark steyn who lives in new hampshire. there is one by a john o'sullivan margaret thatcher. did i read you have a statue of her on campus? >> yes, we do. the college had a relationship with her. she spoke at the college on several occasions. it just so happened that i knew her for a long time. so i had a crazy idea -- we have a great art department at hillsdal

if you look at beirut, the capital, which is not even in the south, it's really more in the center, on the mediterranean, you look at the northern citiesof israel, whether it's-dwra -- haifa to the south, there used to be a train that would get through in less than a couple of hours so it's a very small distance. this is an area -- that's why palestinian refugees went there, thinking they were going a few miles with a from what was then northern palestine. we speak about the lebanese population, which is roughly about four million people. and very mixed. christians themselves are divided between marinites, greek orthodox, greek catholics, the muslim. there's armenian also. roughly 4% of the population. there are also about 400,000, maybe more, palestinian refugees who are stateless, roughly 10% of the population of lebanon that don't have any status in lebanon, that still are there that are not i except grated into political systems. they obviously didn't have a chance to vote. host: those familiar with lebanon say it is a microcosm of the middle east of the all of the dynamics in the middle east, you can find in lebanon. can you elabo

jpmorgan made are nowhere near the scale of a city, marolt, ubs, morgan stanley and there was one reason why. guess what? they are not being enforced by capital now. you probably have more questions. thank you for coming along. [applause] >> gillian tett was named business journalist of the year for coverage of the market decline in 2008, she was also awarded the wincott prize for financial journalism in 2007. right now she runs a global market coverage for financial times newspaper. to find out more on the author please go to f t.com. the c-span 2 booktv civics bus is visiting libraries, bookstores, festivals and authors. here are some of the people and places we visited. >> we are with mark bauerlein, author of a "the dumbest generation". you also have a a title that says or don't trust anyone under 30. you put a lot of statistics in your book. a pull out the one statistic you like the most when you have to talk to groups about this particular book. >> i think one thing that happened was the speech i gave at the university of maryland a few years ago, there were about to and 50 students in the audience and i cited a statistic for them that

cities pop-up across america i.p. understands that. and what we need to do is to make sure that people in the capital ummah those in the house and senate and those understand what is going on in the committees, the only people that can do that is us. we can be the drumbeat for change and the tools for change, the leaders for change, we can be the movement i just you and elections but to transform our country and have a progressive agenda that really will mean the difference for all of us and a living wage for everyone in america, health care for every single person from birth, an immigration policy that works out in the future, and a planet that is secure for the future generations, and education system that gives our kids a better chance for a better world. i believe the progress of women to gather all of us on this panel across the room and across our world will make a difference and thank you. [applause] >> thank you, anna burger. the campaign director of a move on.org, any move on members in the audience? [applause] you know all those e-mail's f. ledger inbox, elisa are the ones you respond to your money. go and prior to joining mo

cities. they were actually convicted of criminal conspiracy and given a tap on the wrist, a $5,000 fine. the federal government then took over. it relocated infrastructure and capitalstock in disturban areas and also created a huge interstate system under the unusual pretext of defense. railroads were displaced by government finance to motor and air transport. the public played almost no role apart from choosing within the narrowly structured framework of options that are designed by state corporate managers. they're supported by vast campaigns to fabricate consumers with created wants borrowing evelyn's terms. one result is the adamization of the society and the entrapment of isolated individuals with huge debts. these efforts grew out of the recognition that i mentioned a century ago that democratic achievements have to be curtailed by shaping attitudes and beliefs. as the business press put it, directing people to superficial things of life like fashionable consumption. all of that is necessary to ensure that the opulent minority is protected from ignorant and meddlesome participants. i was joined in the jewel of the crown of the new high speed railroad technolo

capital of south korea, seoul, at risk. it's very close to where north korea has all of its artillery. seoul is a beautiful and very vibrant city. so we really have to be careful about military actions that -- it wouldn't just be a one-off action. we have to be really concerned about retaliation. host: let me go back to this headline, front page of the "u.s. times." in listening to some of the discussions over the last 24 hours or so it seems like there are two different tracks dealing with these two journalists and getting them freed and the larger issue of trying to bring -- to keep north korea from developing nuclear weapons. how do they connect? guest: i think the north koreans are trying to connect them and we're trying to disconnect them so north koreans are looking for any way to get international attention to get the u.s. back to the table to extract concessions from the united states. meanwhile, the united states is trying to disconnect them by going through asia right now and trying to get tougher sanction out of north korea and responding in a fairly tough fashion. saying, you know, we're not going to go back to the

to keep a roof over their kids and and as 10 cities pop-up across america he understands that and what we need to do is to make sure that people in the capital those leaders in the house and senate and those votes understand what is going on. the only people who can do that is us. we can beat the drum for a change among we can be the tool for change, the leaders for a change, we can be the movement not just to win elections but to transform our country and transform it and have a progressive agenda that really will mean a difference for all of us a living wage for everyone in america, health care for every single person from birth and immigration policy that works now and in the future, with and a planet that is secure when future generations and education system and gives our kids a better chance for a better world. i'm of the progressive movement together all of us on this panel of cross the world will make a difference and thank you derrin descant [applause] [applause] >> thank you, speak of. ilyse hogue is the campaign director of moveon.org. any move on members in the audience? [applause] you know all those e-mail's that plan you're in

capital, even more so than it was to be after the war. i went to little towns in ohio and little towns in virginia and cities like chicago or columbus, ohio. i just wanted to see what happened in those cities. and then i started going around the world. in rome there was already a celebration going on -- they had just been liberated -- and it just got bigger. and anne frank. i got out the diary, because i remember vaguely in the back of my mind that she had written something about d-day. well, it turns out to be -- i mean, you have to be a stone not to cry at that anne frank entry on d-day. gertrude stein was up in the hinterlands where italy and switzerland and france come together, trying to just get through world war ii. i've always liked her writing, and i wanted to see what it was like for gertrude on d-day. well, she gave me a hell of a good story, about the germans bowing to her because she was an american. bowing to them -- they'd never done that before. and her friends calling her on the telephone and saying, "congratulations on your birthday." "well, it wasn't my birthday, but we knew what they meant." c-span: there is a headline

city light, public service enterprise, p&m resources in new mexico, shell oil, conoco, b.p. america, energy energy, g.e.,al could hea, dupont, dow chemical, johnson&johnson, national venture capital association. these are american companies that understand the point you were making a little bit earlier, mr. polis, that to stand still is to lose ground and that actually we have an enormous opportunity here to regain america's competitive edge, create jobs and once again lead the world in innovative technologies and techniques. but we've got to make that initial step. this bill creates that framework. >> mr. connelly, one of the things mr. heinrich talked about, if these jobs aren't created here they're going to be created elsewhere, the research will be done elsewhere, the fact that the american industry, the companies that you recognized who are, you know, many of them american-based companies, feel that this is a good policy, i mean, these are global problems we're facing. some way or other the world is going to need to wean itself off of fossil fuels. don't you think that this policy helps make sure that those solutions happen here in this country? mr. connelly: absolutely and

from the city of emeryville and also an anticipated local bond of between $40 million and $75 million, that would also direct some funds to the project. the remainder of the necessary capital, which is expected to finish this project, will will come from state, local and federal sources, including school facilities funding, competitive state bond programs and federal development or infrastructure grants. several years ago an evaluation of the emery secondary school gymnasium was connected based on fema's criteria for structurally sound facilities and came to the following conclusion, without seismic strengthening of the buildings, they could experience high levels of localized structural and nonstructural damage in a moderate or large earthquake sufficient to pose unacceptable high levels of risk to the life safety of the building's occupants. the hayward fault which runs through emi have really and the two neighboring cities is is considered one of the most dangerous earthquake vaults in the world. scientists agree that the hayward fault could soon experience a large earthquake with an impact on many densely populated cities throughout the bay area. the heyward fault has

city of london than and wall street but by and large not covered. so i thought i would make noise about that and one thing led to another and i moved across to the capital market team in early 2005. and at this stage that wasn't viewed as a particular glory move and have been writing capital market pages and covering the debt markets for many years in a very sordid manner. but the glory positions of the banking editors and things like that, it wasn't the capital markets as that in attics and most of the capital markets coverage was on page 423 and, in fact, one person pointed out to me i had just gotten pregnant i'm going to the capital markets would be great for a new mother because it would be also quiet. nothing ever happened, i kid not. but i arrive at capital markets and of the first things i decided to do was the jpmorgan group came into being and we attended a conference of a body called the european securitization form that they held once a year. i went down and walked into the acropolis center in nice, a bit of french architecture planning and into a plush velvet ceded to conference room to find out what was going on in the credit world and tha