mayo for carol and he is short. dezul and fouled by gilbert arenas. carol a rookie from missouri, a 27th overall pick last summer after a couple years in missouri. this ball is off of the front of the rim. brendon can't get to it and look at the pass to deman. steve: this team has four 7 footers. >>phil: hunter is out for the rest of the year. steve: one free throw made. gilbert and the ball went out-of-bounds. grizzlies two of 7 to start. washington four of nine from the field. gilbert arenas nice pitch and penetrates and no where to go. gilbert had nice big numbers the other notification 26 -- night. >>phil: he has got to find a way to reel that in and to protect the ball more. steve: here is randolph driving it and missed it and tipped up and in. against dallas, randolph made 9 straight shots in the first night. 4 points in the first 15 minutes of the game. jumper, good for three. eventually the mavericks had to double team him after he scored the 21 points. jump girlfriend for mike conley. >>phil: going back to randolph, over the last two games he

we would go christmas carolling.ld do much for other people but music was something i fell we could give back. opening presents by the tree. and having christmas dinner together at my grand parents' house. and it is just -- just fun things. we used to have talent shows. we used to do talent shows and have family -- take turns performing and stuff. >> i think when it snowed it made may little gray industrial town into this magical landscape. i used to work with my daddy on the run. we were the first people, 5:00 in the morning, to disturb the s snow. i loved the snow. it was cold and after a few hours i was pretty miserable. when we first went out there, this is great. >> the song that i sang -- that i sing called "god love the holidays," talks about bringing the family around the christmas tree and how that really does change everything. and just having everybody around, my family, my friends and people i really love. and just remembering what christmas is really about. for me, the birth of my savior. and that's a bi

carole's case is one example. carole did not realize the importance of having quality affordable health insurance until she was confronted with the gravity of her own health problems. she was a 24-year-old woman suffering from seizures an desperately in need of help. she remembers have occasional seizures as a child. they occurred mostly when she was tired. as carole grew older the seizures became more frequent. one day she had an episode when driving her car. fortunately, her passenger was able to assist her. but that frightening incident convinced carole to seek professional help. she learned about the -- the assistance of health care for all, a massachusetts organization dedicated to make quality, affordable health care accessible to everyone. she applied and was declared eligible for commonwealth care. and she immediately went to see a specialist and was given the health care she needed. carole expressed her gratitude in these words, i quote -- "i definitely feel blessed to be a massachusetts resident. i can't

did they sing carols? linus santa claus was a yankee but was that even recognize that the particular type? >> there was no santa claus in the south. that was something new. christmas trees were also basically a number invention. that was new and the first christmas carol britain and america wasn't written until about four years later in philadelphia and was a little town of bethlehem, so many traditions we associate with christmas or easter number or nonexistent. what the southerners like to do is shoot off their guns on christmas eve, and they would fire of their guns and then on the morning of christmas day, before they would give presence, to the people of a family of the web gannet dee dee to -- the mcginn and fire their guns, so it was a different kind of christmas the celebrated in the south. any other question? i should add about what you said about tax vicksburg is true grant had left off the land in that area and sherman learned from it but sherman wanted to make sure he had the wherewithal to liv

carole williams from dayton, ohio. she's 63, employed at r.j.reynolds for 16 years before being laid off. he started to receive a cobra subsidy in march, but is responsible for the entire premium this month. cobra is what you pay when you're employed. you lose your job, you pay cobra to keep your insurance, and you have to pay your employer contribution. almost nobody can do that after they lost their job for very long. that's why the subsidy that we nut the stimulus package back in february, that's why the subsidy that we want to put in this against authorization bill is so darn important to so many americans. because carole remains unemployed, and she suffers from minor thyroid problems an high blood pressure, her insurance options are limited. she decide to pay the full cobra premium in december. while they delay -- while they say, let's slow down on the other side of the aisle, carole thinks, let's see, my premium went up several hundred dollars, if i cancel, i won't ever have insurance. if i dig deep and don't heat my house as warm, don't e

>> thank you, carol. thank you, carol, it's good to be here today.as carol mentioned, i am old, experienced, mature, been around the block a couple of times. and what i've been asked to share with you today are some ideas about how to frame your messages as carol said or more likely how it is we take issues that are before us today and turn them into something that a campaign is going to be able to use in terms of finally making the proper end result for a campaign in getting 50% of the vote on election day come next year in 2010. what i thought i would do today to do that is to spend a little bit of time talking about what makes good political communications. then spend some time on the underlying thinking that goes into developing a message and framing a message. talk a little bit about choosing issues and then i'm going to show a series of ads which hopefully will demonstrate the thinking behind what it was we've chosen to do these ads and how they affected the public and why they were successful. ... >> that a walking, talking human being candida

this is carol on our independence linemen.aller: my favorite book, i read the paper back, "the hemmings of monticello." host: she won a prize. caller: national book award. it is so well-written and so well documented. it brings a whole new point of view to the complexity of race relations in our country. i'm devouring it. it is wonderful. host: thank you for the call. carl is up next in dallas. caller: one of your callers mentioned "it takes a village." it is wonderful. insider's account of wall street. one i enjoyed that featured in april is called "recarburize the russian war." an objective, an evaluation of all of our american presidents based on principles of peace, prosperity, and liberty. it is a different perspective on our presidents. we tended to rancor president's highest who have been involved in war or a great conflicts or imposed interventionist economic policies. this looks enroll the president through the lens and it is a unique look. john tyler is number one. wilson at the tail and. host: thank you for that to

rights, as well as on the ethics of international development with one of my longtime colleagues, carol lancaster, the acting dean of the school of foreign service. i want to commend the faculty here who are helping to shape our thinking on human rights, conflict resolution, development, and related subjects. it is important to be at this university because the students here, the faculty, every single year ad to the into religious dialogue. you give voice to many advocates and activists who are working on the frontlines of the global human rights movement for the human rights institute here at the law school and other programs. . . thank you for all ofthat you do. [applause] today i want to speak to you about the obama administration's human rights agenda. it is a subject on the minds of many people who are eager to hear our approach. because it is a critical issue is that warrant our energy and attention, my comments today will provide an overview of our thinking on human rights and democracy and how they fit into our broader human policy. let me also say what this is not. it could not

stukno carrierringcon0 we accept that somewhat in afghanistan, there christmas carols on a battlefield as the world war continues. it is veterans who continue. it is the greatest challenges able to make the greatest effect on those that they touch, and the people in combat, in support, in whatever related to this, whatever your harshest events you face are -- host: thank you for your input. we are joined by a petty officer in afghanistan, but russell foreign -- russell sore neck. russell thorne. we want you to tell us a little bit about yourself, why you are in afghanistan, what your mission is. >> i have been and afghanistan about five months. my mission is to drive around distinguished visitors, escort them from place to place, any kind of space they need to go to. >> so you drive around distinguished visitors. does that include distinguished visitors from the united states? who would they be? guest: it includes a bunch of senators and stuff like that. we have had the secretary of defense, secretary of the navy, the joint chiefs of staff, people like that over here. host: as troops i

this is carole talked about, to actually having it on the market.r places we have to call sharing on the building of this facility is part of the way we're helping them. >> just expand on that a bit in the mind of i'm sure all of my colleges the best way to get the stability to the system where the companies have a degree of confidence that things not going to roller coaster on them is to get more and more people vaccinated each year. influenza over the last several years with increase and expansion of the recommendations from the cdc. we've gone from 50 million up to now over 100 million. as a public health person, i would think that the goal that i would see to really stabilize theñlsystem and therefore make t less of a crisis issue when you get to have a pandemic flu which we know will again occur as was predicted even though they're rare they do occur is to get as many people vaccinated as possible. and what we foresee in the future is influenza vaccine will be a routine vaccination for everyone. if we then transition that into the universal vac

his mother, carol, tells me she visits the grave daily. mr. speaker, we mourn with ashley, brooke, and carol. the loss of specialist cote. let us celebrate the patriotism, the dedication to country, and sacrifice on behalf of our security. we are forever indebted to the men and women of our armed services, soldiers like michael cote who put themselves in harm's way so we may have freedom and peace. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: mr. deal of georgia. mr. defazio of oregon. for what purpose does the gentlelady of texas rise? >> mr. speaker, i'd like to address the house for five minutes and speak out of order. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. you have five minutes. ms. jackson lee: mr. speaker in the rush of the debate earlier, it's not -- the earlier one-minute is not able to capture the somberness of the moment. as our colleagues have finished their work and have in fact recognized the need of this nation and think it is important to summarize how important it is to keep our minds focused as we return back in the new year. w

this is carol on our independence linemen.aller: my favorite book, i read the paper back, "the hemmings of monticello." host: she won a prize. caller: national book award. it is so well-written and so well documented. it brings a whole new point of view to the complexity of race relations in our country. i'm devouring it. it is wonderful. host: thank you for the call. carl is up next in dallas. caller: one of your callers mentioned "it takes a village." it is wonderful. insider's account of wall street. one i enjoyed that featured in april is called "recarburize the russian war." an objective, an evaluation of all of our american presidents based on principles of peace, prosperity, and liberty. it is a different perspective on our presidents. we tended to rancor president's highest who have been involved in war or a great conflicts or imposed interventionist economic policies. this looks enroll the president through the lens and it is a unique look. john tyler is number one. wilson at the tail and. host: thank you for that to

illinois is maxed and this is carol on a democrat plan. >> caller: hi. my favorite book i know it came out a year or so ago. i read it in the paperback edition. couldn't afford the hardback. annette gordon reid. excellent writer. >> host: she won the booker prize >> caller: pulitzer and national book award. and that's just so well-written and and so well documented and it just brings a whole new point of view to the complexity of race relations and in our country. and then just devouring it. it's wonderful. >> host: thanks for the call. carl is next in dallas. what was your favorite nonfiction book of 2009? >> caller: one of your callers has already mentioned one that i could not agree more that everyone needs to read. it takes a village. it is just a phenom all insider account. when i really enjoyed that you featured in april is called re-carving rushmore by ivan eland. >> host: what is it about? >> caller: any book is objective but it is an evaluation of all of our american presidents based on principles of peace, prosperity, and liberty. and it's a di

amican soldiers in afghanistan sang carols and ata hearty ristmas lunch. some even essed for the occaon. i miss my family tremendously, buif you look around at everyone tt wears one of theseniforms, gardless of whether it's arm navy, air force or marine,e're all fami and i'm here to, hopefull make it a little easier for them being away fm eir family. >> brown: but for one amican in afghanist, it was a ristmas in captivity. the liban released video of army private bowe berghl, captured five months ago. he said he'd been treated ll but he saiof the war: "this is just going to be the next vietnam." such statements e generally assumeto be made under duress. and nato forces infghanistan condemd the video's timing and conten president obama dressed u.s. troops abroad, as he beg a holiy stay in hawaii. he spoke in a pre-record message, joined the first lady. >> to all oumen and women in uniform spendi the holidays fafrom home-whether its at a base here the states, a mess hall in iraqr a remote outpost in afghanistan, know that u are in our thohts and our prayers.

sene has turned back restrictionon abortion funding in the heah carol bill. the langua was similar to a provion already included in housversion of the bill. for now the sete measure allows insurance planso cover abortionbut not with federal funds. this decad this decade coulturn out to be thwarmest going back to 1850. that word ca today from the ad of the u.n. weather agenc he made those rerks at the conferce on climate change in copeagen, denmark. >> the decade 2000-2009 very likely to the warmest on cord. so, in other wds, this decade is going tbe warmer than the 19s, which itself were warmer than t 1980s and so on. so it isikely to be the warmest onecord. >> hari: t u.n. agency said only the u.s. and canada hav been having cool conditions than avera. an ely blizzard has moved to the u.s. midwe, in the region'sirst major storm of the season. the storm blasted westn states a day eaier. by today, ateast a foot of snow was eected to blanket rts of iowa, illinois, and wisconn. the arctic bla brought winds guing to 40 miles an hour. forecasters also wned flights

this is a 2009 william and carol stevenson conference here at the miller center at the university ofrginia. i am not catteds lean mack namarea as you may have guessed. i am john owen, on the faculty of the department of politics here at u.v.a. i'm very glad to be what you know, the whip cracker here on panel three to make sure every, everything moves along briskly and we keep within our time limits. let's get right to it if we could. i do want to thank ann for all that she has done to make this happening. and she seems to have left the room. thank you, ann, very much. the format will be as in other panels, after i am done in about 30 seconds we'll take our panelists in order. let me introduce them to you briefly. first is mary, who is professor of international relations at the university of southern california's school of international relations. professor serati is a historian. she has just come out with a book with princeton university press, 1989 the struggle to create post-cold war europe. this just received the prize for distinguished scholarship in german and european studies.

senate has turned back restrictions on abortion funding in the health carol bill. the language was similar to a provision already included in house version of the bill. for now the senate measure allows insurance plans to cover abortions but not with federal funds. this decade this decade could turn out to be the warmest going back to 1850. that word came today from the head of the u.n. weather agency. he made those remarks at the conference on climate change in copenhagen, denmark. >> the decade 2000-2009 is very likely to be the warmest on record. so, in other words, this decade is going to be warmer than the 1990s, which itself were warmer than the 1980s and so on. so it is likely to be the warmest on record. >> hari: the u.n. agency said only the u.s. and canada have been having cooler conditions than average. an early blizzard has moved into the u.s. midwest, in the region's first major storm of the season. the storm blasted western states a day earlier. by today, at least a foot of snow was expected to blanket parts of iowa, illinois, and wisconsin. the arcti

this is carol on the democrats won three >> caller: my favorite book i know it cannot year or so ago but -- >> host: that's all right. >> caller: -- i couldn't afford a hardback, the hemingses at monticello by annette gordon-reed. excellent writer. >> host: she won the booker prize or the pulitzer -- >> caller: pulitzer and national book award. it is so well-written and documented and brings a whole new point of view to the complexity of race relations in our country, and i'm just devouring it. it is wonderful. >> host: thanks for the call. carless next up in dallas. what was your favorite nonfiction book of 2,009? >> caller: when of the callers mentioned 1i cannot agree more everyone needs to read, neil me, it takes a pillage. it's an inside account of wall street and what's going on. but what i really enjoy that he featured in april is called free carving flourished more come negative from the independent institute. >> host: what is it about? >> caller: it is objective, any book is objective. its evaluation of american presidents based on principles of peace, prosperity and liberty

at a reception or party for a prominent tennessean who later became governor, a guy by the name of caroll, as i recall. and saw her in a mirror, saw her reflection in a mirror, and immediately was smitten with the visage that he saw. and made his way to find her, but through the crowd, and he lost her. and then when he finally found her she was with her brother, who he had known from school, and they were pretty much together ever since. >> did he know her brother at the university of north carolina? >> yes. >> and he graduated from there, and what was he studying, and how -- he got a law degree? >> he got -- he became a lawyer, but you didn't get a law degree in those days, but he studied sort of liberal arts and sciences, and was graduated number one in both. but in those days i don't think you really majored in anything in particular, you studied the curriculum of liberal arts. >> you took three years to do this book? >> yes. >> when did you change your mind about anything that you thought you believed about polk? >> i knew very little about polk, so that wasn't a big thing. i think th

in a letter from charles carol to charles wateren, charles carol was a signer of the declaration of independence, one of the 56, he said, on the mercy of my redeemer i rely for salvation and on his merits, not on the works i've done in obedience to his precepts. william curbing wag the first associate justice appointed by george washington to the supreme court. william in his will said, sensible of mortality but being of sound mind, after recommending my soul to almighty god through the merits of my redeemer and my body to the earth. john dickinson was also a signer of the constitution, in his will he said, rendering thanks to my creator for my existence and station among his works, for my country enlightened by the gospel and enjoying freedom and for all his other kindnesses, to him i resign myself, humbly confiding in his goodness and mercy through jesus christ for the events of eternity. again, john dickinson, signing of the declaration of independence. john hancock, we know signed the declaration larger than anyone else. president of the continental congress in 1776 when the declaration of i

carol brunson day. >> thank you, representative scott. nice to be here.i appreciate the invitation. dr. darling-hammond mentioned, and essentially described early education for all children as a major factor in working to eliminate the achievement gap. it actually is a way to prevent the dramatic consequences that we see at the end of twelfth grade. in fact, at least half of the black/white achievement gap at exists at the end of 12th grade can be attributed to a gap that already existed at the beginning of the first grade. so when we look -- when we think about early childhood education, it is a preventative measure in terms of children's achievement. and we can create programs with the right kind of policy that encourages high -- investments in early education and care experiences. and when we do that we can ensure that all children, regardless of economic status, of ability status, of race or ethnicity enter school equally ready to learn. there's a great deal of evidence supporting this and it comes from a variety of domains. hard science has made a co

carol heilm heilman.she is director of the division of microbiology and infectious diseases at the national institute of infectious diseases. >> good morning. it is a pleasure to be here and give you an idea what is going on in the program with respect to the development of new influenza viruss. i would like to give you an orientation as to what our mission is within a program and briefly we are supposed to be responsible for a lot of basic research that does occur in influenza but this basic research is guided towards the development of new therapeutic vaccines and diagnostics. to do that we also need a lot of resources to help us guide the development of new ideas and we have an opportunity to do a lot of clinical testing. the major goal of this program is to essentially discover and lower the risk with respect to the ideas behind new vaccines and other product technologies. also to give you a perspective and i am sorry this is difficult to see but the extramural program is 93% of the extramural program

carol brunson day. >> thank you, representative scott. nice to be here.appreciate the invitation. dr. darling-hammond mentioned, and essentially described early education for all children as a major factor in working to eliminate the achievement gap. it actually is a way to prevent the dramatic consequences that we see at the end of twelfth grade. in fact, at least half of the black/white achievement gap at exists at the end of 12th grade can be attributed to a gap that already existed at the beginning of the first grade. so when we look -- when we think about early childhood education, it is a preventative measure in terms of children's achievement. and we can create programs with the right kind of policy that encourages high -- investments in early education and care experiences. and when we do that we can ensure that all children, regardless of economic status, of ability status, of race or ethnicity enter school equally ready to learn. there's a great deal of evidence supporting this and it comes from a variety of domains. hard science has made a cont

bruce gallon, gary nabel, carol heilman, robin robinson, jesse goodman and especially tony fauci his leadership over the years has put the united states and the position of international prominence in terms of the technology and the way in which vaccines can both be developed and tested. so i think it is going to be an interesting morning and again feel free to send in questions through that a dress that was mentioned a moment ago by bill hall so that there can be a chance of it back and forth for people in the room and people beyond the room. finally i would just like to say our thanks to the secretary, secretary sebelius it could not be here this morning but the u.s. played a critical leadership roll over the course of these many months of pandemic flu. she made a joke about how she didn't expect to have a pandemic in her welcome wagon, but she has adapted to that i think quite brilliantly and certainly i would like to give a great deal of credit to her leadership in pushing the agenda forward, and making sure that all of the areas that needed attention got that kind of attention.

other side of the aisle on this legislation and think of that famous christmas movie, "a christmas carole" and think of ebebbenezer scrooge when asked r a contribution replied, what? are there no poor houses? our colleagues on the other side are holding on so tightly to their tactics, they forget the democratic values they professed so clearly to protect. i urge my colleagues on the other side to seek victory not in delay and obstruction, but in doing what's right for the american people. do what's right for our military men and women who will spend this holiday season in iraq and afganistan in harm's way. and assay if -- and i say if the tables were turned, my colleagues on the other side would come to the floor, wave the flag and claim themselves as the only patriots and vilify the other side as unpatriotic and undemocratic. the fact is we are all patriots. and as patriots we have a job to do. and that job is to make sure that those men and women have everything they need. even when we we disa-- when we disagree as to whether or not it is an appropriate disengagement. once they engage,

michael adams and an attorney carol robertson. they are on the faculty of the barbara jordan-mickey leland school of public affairs at texas university. mr. robertson was named in 2000 to the list of 100 to watch. i ask consent that their entire letter, which is dated october october 25, 2009, be placed in the record following my remarks. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. hatch: let me share here just an excerpt from these two people, and this is -- or from from -- an excerpt by dr. michael adams, ph.d., and carroll g. robinson, esquire, and barbara jordan from the mickey leland school of public affairs, texas southern university. "our reading of the constitution and supreme court precedent could not identify any reasonable basis, expressed or implied, for granting congress the broad, sweeping and unprecedented power that is represented by the individual mandate requirement. in fact, we could not find any court decision, state or federal, that said or implied that the constitution gave congress the power to mandate cit

willmington, north carole. you are opposed to this bill? caller: absolutely.o think we need to do some things and how much we can sue. but to push it through like they are without a lot of debate and making sweet heart deals is just wrong. they are still pushing the vote through to the point where they push the the vote down so they can go home. host: what kind of work do you do? caller: i'm a bread vendor. host: we heard your senator there vote against the bill. next call from houston, texas. supportive of the bill. caller: yes. just of the fact that more people can get healthcare coverage is a great thing. not only that, we have seen conditions now that get insured. my sister is in the healthcare field and she doesn't even have insurance because it's not affordable. when they said more people are against this bill. who did they interview? they didn't talk to the mother of a child with a preexisting condition. the fact that it is even happening, i'm just elated about it. i'm excited. host: "washington post" off beat story today. the headline, senate and house

willmington, north carole. you are opposed to this bill? caller: absolutely. i do think we need to do some things and how much we can sue. but to push it through like they are without a lot of debate and making sweet heart deals is just wrong. they are still pushing the vote through to the point where they push the the vote down so they can go home. host: what kind of work do you do? caller: i'm a bread vendor. host: we heard your senator there vote against the bill. next call from houston, texas. supportive of the bill. caller: yes. just of the fact that more people can get healthcare coverage is a great thing. not only that, we have seen conditions now that get insured. my sister is in the healthcare field and she doesn't even have insurance because it's not affordable. when they said more people are against this bill. who did they interview? they didn't talk to the mother of a child with a preexisting condition. the fact that it is even happening, i'm just elated about it. i'm excited. host: "washington post" off beat story today. the headline, senate and h

you tell me how that's fair, carol, down in florida i love the way you asked her the question does sheit's fair? of course. she's getting everything taken care of down there in florida. an absolute travesty for this country. host: democratic line, go ahead. caller: hello. i just wanted to call in to say i'm so sick and tired of people calling in and claiming this is terrible and that we shouldn't pay for abortion was their tax dollars. i doubt there are many people who make a quarter of a million dollars a year spending their time calling c-span. which probably means that the vast majority, including myself, are people that call into c-span don't pay any appreciable amount of federal income tax. this business about my tax dollars is ridiculous. we have a clinic in farmington here that they don't -- you go in there for a physical and there ain't three people there. they are--there are primary care facilities out there that don't have patients. if you increase the population of patients coming to them and stop them from having to argue on the phone with insurance companies. doctors will

carol murphy, the committee clerk, mary arnold, tim peterson, walter hern, donna chavez, kelly shea, and liz dawson. in my book they personify the best ideals of public service. with this bill dip dip the gentleman's time has expired. mr. olver: i yield one additional minute. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized. mr. edwards: mr. speaker, with this bill we keep our promises to those magnificent americans who have kept their promise to serve our nation and the american family. i reserve the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields back the balance of his time. the gentleman from iowa, for what purpose does do you rise? mr. latham: mr. speaker, at this point i -- number one, how much time is available? the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman has 18 minutes remaining. the gentleman from massachusetts has 17 1/2 minutes remaining. mr. latham: at this point i'll be proud to give three minutes to the gentleman from kansas, mr. tiahrt. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from kansas is recognized for three minutes. mr. tiahrt: i thank the gentleman

you tell me how it is fair, carol, and down in florida i love the way asked her the question the biggestear -- of course, because she is getting everything taking care of down there in florida. absolute travesty for this country. host: minnesota, the white on the democratic line. caller: -- host: dwight on the democratic line. caller: i am sick and tired of people say this is terrible and said they don't want to pay for abortions but tax dollars. i doubt there are people making a quarter billion dollars a year policies. but the vast majority, including myself, we don't pay an appreciable amount of federal income-tax. so this business about my tax dollars is ridiculous. and we have a clinic in a farming to hear it, they built new, and you go in there for a visible and their 83 people there. -- there are not three people there. their primary care facilities to don't have enough patients. the truth is, if you increase the population of patients coming to them and get them to stop spending half their time on the phone arguing with insurance companies, even with lower reimbursement rates, doc

guest: [laughter] host: booker raton is our last call, carol, are you on the line?caller: thank you for taking my call. my son graduated from mit and i'm very proud of him. i did read that carbon dioxide is it -- is an odorless gas and is heavier than air and it passes out of our lungs and then is absorbed by the plants convert it into surrender or hydrogen and release it into the air. how could it possibly be a pollutant? that is my question to you. my son lives in the north pole with eskimos and i wanted to ask you, have you ever lived there? and the polar bears are fine, by the way. they are multiplying like bunnies. host: anything you want to respond to? guest: i have been up to alaska, in your beautiful place on earth. you have beautiful landscape and a lot of development. i think the two can go hand in hand very well. the way that the science shows that there's probably a contribution of humans to an excess amount of co2 -- you are right, there's a lot of naturally caused co2 -- is getting out of bonds. -- out of balance. we can make real progress in being sur

host: missouri, carol, you are on with carolyn engelhard.left to the people with the malpractice reform has caps? and my other thing is, if not, isn't it ironic that we are worried about what doctors have to pay for insurance when nobody cares what people have to pay for insurance? host: professor? guest: no, the individual's health insurance is not determined on whether or not there are caps. i would say that in the states where there are caps, the premiums for malpractice tend to be slightly lower, and there is some evidence -- although there are lots of studies that contradict each other, that states with caps -- it changes practice patterns slightly. we are talking about 0.2%, the cbo came out this fall and said. it is important, i think, that listeners understand that what we do know is that states that have caps, it still doesn't mean they necessarily reduce defensive medicine. we have lots of data that suggest that states that have caps spend just as much money in medicaid. -- medicare as states that don't have caps. one would expect

annual ma nothing fi starting at the age of 40 and continue for as long as they're in good health, said carol h. lee, chair of the a.c.r. breast imaging commission. the task force is a panel funded and staffed by the health and human services agency for health care research and quality. the medicare improvement for patients and providers act of 2008 gave the u.s. department of health and human services the authority to consider the uspspf recommendations in medicare coverage determination. private insurers may also incorporate the measures as a cost-saving measure. i79 to repeat that. i think that's the most chilling revelation i've uncovered in this whole breast cancer debate. the medicare improvement for patients and providers act of 2008 gave the u.s. department of health and human services the authority to consider this task force's recommendation and medicare coverage to termings, private insurance may also -- to termination, private insurance may also incorporate the recommendations as a cost-saving measure. i'm quite alarmed. and i think most americans are as well. i've been joined by

. >> one note on that i was on a stage recently interviewing carol on this topic.e the green azar inside of the obama administration and one thing she did acknowledge was that green stimulus will hopefully be a green and create these jobs but may be less stimulating than one might think thus far that the nature of some of these investments will take time to play out so it is actually not the boss for this year but perhaps next year or the next year and have you will see more of this money coming into concrete jobs and projects and to put it in perspective, china is putting in perhaps ten times as much in real terms specifically toward green stimulus, not whether the money is spent wisely or whether it will crowd out private investment or whether there will be a cliff for example in eckert coming year and a half, what comes next when the green stellas runs out but you still have a wind belt that isn't quite economic without the funds come so there are some difficult challenges that the history of energy subsidies and investment say you need to work out but there is

president, this carols legislation reminds me of a cautionary tale that's still being played out in anotherart of the world, and that's what happened in the early 1990's in japan. a surging economic giant at the time, suffered a severe economic recession at the time, in the early 1990's, of which the effects are still lingering even today in japan. during japan's lost decade from 1991-2003, their gross national product through a paltry 1.4% annually, creating a decade of stagflation -- that's where you have a stagnant overall growth but inflation in the economy -- and limited economic growth. most economists believe that japan's economic recession would not have lasted nearly as long as it did had it not been for one fatal big error that the japanese government did. in the late 1990's, as their economy was recovering and appearing to pull out of its economic slump -- so the economy is just getting going, starting to pull out of the economic slump, the japanese government made a catastrophic decision to raise taxes. the result was that this one decision aborted the strong recovery the japane

in the classic tale called "christmas carole" scrooge is given the opportunity to see the christmas past, present and future. while the democrats are trying to paint the g.o.p. as scrooge, they would do -- we don't want to wake up next christmas an having americans pay more than they are today for health care or being unable to get health care and losing their jobs, but under the majority's latest backroom deal, that is the future. next christmas we don't want to see small business that's still can't afford to offer health insurance to their employees or, worse, small businesses struggling to keep their doors open because the costly new burdens in this bill. but under the latest backroom deal, that is the future. a year from now we don't want to hear that seniors have lost access to care. unfortunately, that is the christmas future we face -- if this bill passes. christmas future several years from now could look even worse. that's why in my night before christmas pairedy as it was -- it was not funny as it was scary and true, but i could not catch the holiday spirit myself, how far away

carol and i are more morning people, liz is more of an evening person but we pretty much have it covered 24/7 except for 2:00 and 6:00. but time as on a campaign time is your enemy so you want to take advantage of things. we'll start -- the course will progress pretty much the way a campaign would progress. neil is going to talk firsthand about the political environment going into 2010. bob will be in to talk about senate races. david winston will be in this afternoon to talk about strategy and message. and then we'll round out the day by talking about survey research. and then tomorrow we'll continue talking about research and how to use issues to frame a message. then tomorrow afternoon we'll talk about targeting and voter files and those are really the things -- the building blocks of any campaign. you know, what is the political environment, how do you develop a strategy, who are you going to talk to? then we'll get into more of the tactics. we'll talk about budgeting on wednesday. management and organization. we'll spend a good part of really wednesday talking about money. and into

this is a 2009 william and carol stevenson conference here at the miller center at the university ofm not catteds lean mack namarea as you may have guessed. i am john owen, on the faculty of the department of politics here at u.v.a. i'm very glad to be what you know, the whip cracker here on panel three to make sure every, everything moves along briskly and we keep within our time limits. let's get right to it if we could. i do want to thank ann for all that she has done to make this happening. and she seems to have left the room. thank you, ann, very much. the format will be as in other panels, after i am done in about 30 seconds we'll take our panelists in order. let me introduce them to you briefly. first is mary, who is professor of international relations at the university of southern california's school of international relations. professor serati is a historian. she has just come out with a book with princeton university press, 1989 the struggle to create post-cold war europe. this just received the prize for distinguished scholarship in german and european studies. and she is

you can hang bombs on these things and their noses carry a bunch of different sensors, carol -- camerasnd things like that. they can stay in the air a long time. it is not impossible for one of these to orbit for a whole day, soaking up vast amounts of imagery and data, peering down and taking radar snapshots of terrain. he could think of them as manned aircraft, except the man in the aircraft is actually sitting on the ground. it is still talking to the ground troops and the air controllers. they actually use a chat program like instant messenger to do a lot of the communication with the guy's receiving the support from the drones. there are fairly precise. they did not carry large weapons. it is a far cry from a b-1 bomber dropping a 2,000 pound bomb. >> this printer is about a quarter of the size of the reaper -- the predator is a quarter of the size of the river. it is very efficient for what is does, which is stay airborne for a long time. the payload it can carry as much smaller. it can carry to missiles. weight is fuel, and fuel is time aloft. the payload is a little smaller, and

rights, as well as on the ethics of international development with one of my longtime colleagues, carolacting dean of the school of foreign service. i want to commend the faculty here who are helping to shape our thinking on human rights, conflict resolution, development, and related subjects. it is important to be at this university because the students here, the faculty, every single year ad to the into religious dialogue. you give voice to many advocates and activists who are working on the frontlines of the global human rights movement for the human rights institute here at the law school and other programs. . . thank you for all ofthat you do. [applause] today i want to speak to you about the obama administration's human rights agenda. it is a subject on the minds of many people who are eager to hear our approach. because it is a critical issue is that warrant our energy and attention, my comments today will provide an overview of our thinking on human rights and democracy and how they fit into our broader human policy. let me also say what this is not. it could not be a comprehens

here's sister carol keyan, president of the catholic health association. "clearly catholic health thinks the possibility that hospitals might find hospitals to be very, very unfounded." i've heard the legislation that this legislation is going to -- i've heard the climb that this legislation is going to -- he have a had so many quotes here. people believe this is okay. they're not going to pull out. "hospitals will always stand by senior citizens." the president of the federation of the american hospitals. we also know, as i said, some providers will do really well under this reform legislation. wall streetagessists have suggested that many providers including hospitals will be -- quote -- "net winners." hospitals will be net winners, according to generally the basic feeling among wall street analysts. because under our bill they estimate that hospital profitability will increase with reform because more and more hospital patients have private health insurance. so nobody is going to pull out. there are not cuts in medicare benefits. it is true there is a r

their giveaway to the drug companies and the insurance companies in their attempts to privatize med carol. now they say they're all -- privatize medicare. now they say they're all for medicare. but understand, charles knows what this bill is going to do. it's going to strengthen medicare, it's going to lengthen its life expect circumstance the life span of medicare. it's going to give free physicals, once-a-year checkups and colonoscopies and mammograms for people in medicare and it's going to close the doughnut hole so more -- so fewer people will have to pay so much out of pocket. last letter, mr. president, raymond from delaware county, my wife and i had to drop our coverage because it costs $30,000 a year. the country needs reform that bars insurance companies from denying coverage or charging higher premiums on the basis of preexisting conditions. health reform is the right solution for the people of ohio. raymond from central ohio. okay, thank you, mr. president. a senator: mr. president? the presiding officer: the senator from wyoming. mr. barrasso: mr. president, i just heard my c

this is the 2009 william and carol stevenson conference here at the miller center at the university ofa. i am not kathleen mcnamara, as you may have guessed. [laughter] i am john owen, i'm on the faculty of the department of politics here at uva. i'm very glad to be, what, emceeing? no. i'll be the whip cracker here on panel three to make sure everything moves along briskly and we all keep within our time limits. and let's get right to it, if we could. i do want to thank ann mulligan, though, for all she's done to make this happen, and she seems to have left the room but thank you, ann, very much. the format will be as in other panels, after i am done in about 30 seconds we'll take our panelists in order, and let me introduce you to them briefly. first the professor of international relations at the university of southern california's school of international relations, she's a historian who studies international relations in the 20th century. she's just come out with a book, 1989: the struggle to create post-cold war europe. and this book just received the 2009 daad prize for distingui

and has told carol and i this morning is done his presentation for 10 years. which is unbelievable.personal friend and a lovely, lovely person. he will walk you through some very competent steps. pay attention. you do get to use one team ever, not every team member but you can do that. tom, take it away, man. >> thanks. thanks a much. thank you for having me here. i will start off with a little, i got a little bit of a throat issue going on but i got sort of his bronchitis thing. so i have a coughing fit stay with the. if i lose my voice, we're going to have 90 minutes of targeting charades. that might even. i will say up front, and i apologize, i try to keep this as interactive as possible because targeting can be sort of dense subject. this is going to be one of the more unique sessions that you will have. because generally you're sitting here and you're learning broader, broader pieces of information. here you are actually taking a scale where you're going to have to leave here and create something from that. i want to teach you how to create a need to. so it's important that we

guest: [laughter] host: booker raton is our last call, carol, are you on the line?caller: thank you for taking my call. my son graduated from mit and i'm very proud of him. i did read that carbon dioxide is it -- is an odorless gas and is heavier than air and it passes out of our lungs and then is absorbed by the plants convert it into surrender or hydrogen and release it into the air. how could it possibly be a pollutant? that is my question to you. my son lives in the north pole with eskimos and i wanted to ask you, have you ever lived there? and the polar bears are fine, by the way. they are multiplying like bunnies. host: anything you want to respond to? guest: i have been up to alaska, in your beautiful place on earth. you have beautiful landscape and a lot of development. i think the two can go hand in hand very well. the way that the science shows that there's probably a contribution of humans to an excess amount of co2 -- you are right, there's a lot of naturally caused co2 -- is getting out of bonds. -- out of balance. we can make real progress in being sur

a run away with whom he fell in love during his early days on the streets and this is long before carol, his current love. it is now one of the final chapters and "land of the lost souls." i read it with increasing excitement enough to send it to "esquire" who would run in excerption then traveling to bloombury who gloriously saw fit to make it a book. they handwriting was a little norrell but as the fits the hand that is delivered a punter to and it's time that there was a story there with dialogue, with wit, and have the sensibility of an older new york. it was courtly and suwannee at the same time like something out of damon runyon. it damon runyon had been a homeless guy in love with the run away. the next that went back to cadillac and ask him if he had any more to read, and he did, lots more as it turned out. hundreds of pages as it turned out. pages about street fights, about wizard sands lost the old men who talk to themselves, who drank and lived alone, about streetwalkers and pimps, about how much you can come to hate christmas music when you are homeless, about how to find a