>> i think jimmy carter shows a cautionary example, because what carter tried to do, he tried to lower speed limit to 5 miles an hour reduce our oil consumption. but people saw it as unrelated or very op tunistic. so he has to be careful linking his agenda to something that can come back and haunt him. >> struggling to gain control of the unknown. white house officials complain that they're caught between contradict rg narratives. that the president is not engaged enough in the details or that he is getting bogged down in them. he should spend more time in the gulf, or that his repeated trips down there are mere publicity students. >> the presidency is the class yick damned if you do, and damned if you don't. there will be people who say whatever you do is wrong. that's true in a crisis or not. but going back to op tunistic, i think america missed an opportunity in the crisis of 9/11. george bush in his magnificent speech could have looked america in the eye and said we need to raise gas taxes because it's our addiction to oil that is funding this terror and it has all sorts of negat

carter and mr. olson. mr. carter: reclaiming my time, let me say right off, i'm very, very proud to be part of a congress that instantly eacts to a crisis situation. you and mr. oberstar should be commended for that reaction. that's what we're asking for the entire government to do. let's react positively. let's work as a team. let's quit blaming previous administrations. let's go to the -- do the job to clean this mess up. i thank you very much. my good friend from texas who lives in the heart of all -- of oil country, u.s.a., houston, texas is in my way of thinking, the center of the universe for the oil industry. my good friend, pete olson, is one of our members of our houston delegation, very knowledgeable in this area. he has some legislation and maybe other things he wishes to talk about so i yield to my friend, pete olson, the member from sugarland and all points south, talk to us about how he feels about what's going on today. mr. olson: thank you for hosting this special order tonight on such an impor

carter: thank you, mr. speaker. i appreciate being recognnzed this hour. i'm pleased to be joinee by several of my colleagues. and i want to raise an issue that is of real concern to the people of the state of texas, state of alabama, state of %% florida. those who for now for generationn been invested in and proud of that great american accomplishment of our space program. you know, we are an exceptional people and there is an awful lot of people that seem to be ashamed of our exceptionalism. but one of the things we have been exceptional in our inception is our space program. i can remember as a young teenager when the russians put sputnik over the roof of my house and we watched that thing, this little flashing light and thought, oh, my lord, the russians are in space and we aren't there. what are we going to do? being the exceptional people that americansr we put our nose to the grindstone and our brains to work and in a very short time, we met the pledge that president kennedy made that we will put a man on the moon in the next ddcade. . we went from

congratulations, coach carter, on your retirement. and thank you for everything you have given to marietta school system. mr. speaker, with that, i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from georgia yields back. mr. rohrabacher of california. mr. rohrabacher: ask to address theous -- the house and revise and extend my remarks. the speaker pro tem: the gentleman is recognized for five minutes. mr. rohrabacher: recently, israeli military personnel intercepted ships headed towards gaza. world out cry has been deafening and also been misplaced. the israelis have been portrayed as committing violence in order to prevent food and humanitarian supplies from rching women and children in the crowded palestinian community of gaza. yes, that would certainly be an outrage if that was going on. but the actions taken by israel are aimed only at preventing rockets from being shot into israel, not denying food or medine to the palestinians. the image in the public's mind is totally distorted and what the world needs to do is take a close

carter. this recognizes the 235th birthday of the united states army and honors the valid commitment and sacrifice of the united states army and their families and civilians have displayed throughout the history of the united states army. i personally also want to know what the recognition of the army birthday means to myself and my district. three things i want to poubt point out to the floor, first off, of course, it is that it is my honor to respect hawaii's first -- represent hawaii's first congressional district which is home to the infantry division of the united states army. it is also home to the u.s. army pacific medical center and of course my army reserve unit. all of which i take great pride in representing here in the congress. second, i think it speaks to the strength and vitality and greatness of our nation and our nation's army that i for myself and child of immigrants from thailand and from china had the honor and privilege of calling myself an officer in the united states ar

carter: thank you for yielding. and i thank my friend from texas for yielding and let me say there is a real eye opener. i knew from seeing some of the things that b.p.'s claiming -- ads on television and other places and i do remember reading the "national journal," activities on behalf of climate change. but when you read this to me -- and i'm going to bring this up, but i have a question i wanted to ask because now you have talked about the difference between what we talked about, which was global warming and climate change. when i went to school back in the 1960's, i remember specifically a day when we and a bunch of buddies went out to play a round of golf. it was 89 or 90 degrees. we were in shorts and started playing a round of golf. before we got through with nine holes, a dust storm came up and we could hardly see the balls and hardly height them. then it began to rain and rained mud for about an hour through the dust storm. and the as the dust seemed to blow away, the temperature began to drop. and by the

carter has two sons he plans to rete friday topend more time with the congration. i'll always rember cheerfulness and encouragement, his quiet reading of the bibl anhis proud wearing a u.s. south carolilag pin. south carolilag pin. g speed, reverend carter. the chair:itutbjection, the five minute voting will continue. the unfinisd business is the quest foa recorded vote on dment number sev, printed in house report 111-503,y the gentleman from gegia, mr. price orange which furtr proceedings were postd and on which the nays pvailed by oice ve. thclerk willedesignate the andment. the clerk: amendment number seven, printed in house report 111-503, offered by mr. price of georgia. th cha: a recorded vote has been requested. those in support of the request for a record vote will re and bcounted. a sufficient mber hing risen, a record vote i ordered. members will record theirotes electronic device. this is a five-minute vote. fi-minute vote. [captioning made possible by thnaonal caponing institute, inc., in cooperation with the unittates house of representatives. any use

here, i'm going to put one of the most experienced of our time, carter phillips, who has argued before justice stevens many times. carter phillips says, i think what distinguishes justice stevens from the others justices are these hypothetical. the relief force one to understand how the limits -- they really force one to understand the limits of the case. my favorite was when he asked a lawyer -- and i'm going to tell you exactly what this is, but it is not important that you get exactly. when asked if the united states -- if the total into the airports where the manager, if united move into the midway airport, if o'hare did not fire the employee, was in the terminal that united operated from. the lawyer stood there for more than 30 seconds say nothing until justice scalia, leaned forward nd told him, the answer your looking for is no. [laughter] you can always count on justice scalia for some good lines like that. [laughter] in my judgment, carter phillips continues, justice stevens always asked the hardest hypothetical and he did it so gently, but the effect was particularly devastat

that goes back to jimmy carter and the iran hostage crisis, november of 1979. carter said, as you well remember, i'm not going to leave the white house until this crisis is solved. i'm just going to spend 28 hours a day working on it. the result was that his administration was chained to every twist and turn. >> woodruff: he was held hostage to what happened. >> he sure was. i think this is a minority view in america right now, but i think it may not have been a bad idea for him to say, barack obama a month-and-a-half ago, it may take a very long time to plug this leak. it's going to be very frustrating. if i look as if i'm spending 24 hours a day trying to stop this and it doesn't happen, people will think i'm in effective. >> woodruff: kathleen hall-jamieson, how much does it matter whether the president is seen to be devoting a lot time to this problem? >> it matters more to the media than it does to the public or the solving the actual problem. when the president said the other day in an interview with matt lauer that he wasn't holding academic seminars he

that was jimmy carter's message. it also fits pretty losely to barack obama's message who has said, that elick trissity costs will necessarily skyrocket under his plan of cap and trade. so what are we doing? we vn have an administration and the on for tunists in the senate and house that are looking at the oil slick over the gulf coast, which is an environmental tragedy, and seeking to capitalize on that environmental tragedy by pushing cap and trade legislation which will cripple american industry. for example, and i don't think, mr. speaker, that i can give the data on this, but i would just suggest that those that are interested should take a look at the american kiln sfwristri and understand that where we have kilns, it might be a dryer, you heat up asphalt and crank it through a barrel with heat in it and brings it through the other side kind of likeea cement truck cylinder, comes out the other side hot mixed asphalt. takes a lot of heat to do that, there's a lot of co-2 emissions. . it takes a lot of energy tha

i recall that during the carter administration when we were all standing in line to get gas the carter administration allotted lots of money covering the white house in solar panels. day allotted money for -- they a lot of money for solar and wind power. when reagan took office he tore down a solar panels on the white house saying that we americans can live as we have always lived. guest: she brings up a good point. again, there is always a cliffside. recently in california governor wanted to install a solar farm in the desert. environmentalists were concerned that it would affect the ecosystem of the desert and fought against it. nothing is for free. americans have to decide what they want. there is no silver bullet green technology that exists if we would only embrace it tomorrow that has to be developed. i think that the president understands this. this is why he came out with a more balanced energy policy before this bill. -- the spill. and not democrats and republicans understand this. -- enough democrats and republicans understand this. until we are willing to compromise on all s

if we fall back to the statement made by jimmy carter back in 1976 in iowa as he campaigned for president of the united states, impressed me -- i didn't support him, i want that to be clear, but he impressed, that people who work should live better than those who don't. i don't think he lived by that but it impressed me, the logic of clarity that shoold be delivered on this floor. of course the people that woirk should live better than those that don't. he had problems following through on that. he was a piker. by today's standards, anybody who doesn't live up to an average standard of living can go to the public welfare rolls and have their rent and heat subsidized and other programs that they can have access to. we have become a welfare state. that works good. that is clearly what is going on with the obama administration, establishing and expanding the depend si class in america because they understand that people who are dependent want to make sure they go vote for the people whh require them to be dependent before they will send more benefits their way. independent people say i want

carter: thank you. mr. hall, we're awfully proud to have him and he has been working a long and hard for any, many years to make sure that eeery time we shoot a human being into outer space we've ad to bring him back. you know, it's easy to develop a space program whether you can say, well, if the guy we shoot out there, if we lose him, it's no big deal, and there's some who develop the space programs this way. but we never developed it that way. and some people with say we're a greet dinosaur, this nasa. this great dinosaur comes from the basic premise thht makes --% part of what makes americans great, that every human life is impootant. therrfore you test and retest and retest again and you take another path and you find a new direction until you are assured% of one thing, that that precious human life you put upon that exploding bomb called a rocket, you're capable of putting that human life out into space and bringing it back. bringing he human being back alive.%% and i would argue that we're the only s

. >> carter hopes the word spreads so baltimore can get closer to some answers. >> one would see that there is no hope. however, there is hope and we have to be optimistic. >> rewired for change is about to host some summer workshops. for more information, you can visit our website, wbaltv.com. kim dacey, wbal-tv 11 news. >> a man will be given a new trial. two men were convicted of killing brian jones. >> we have learned today that this kid was overturned as a result of a decision the court made in front of the jury. that would mean prosecutors would have to move forward with the new trial. >> the court of appeals sided the suggested language during the trial indicating the judge asked potential jurors if they would be able to convict the pair even without scientific evidence. the manhunt for a suspect wrapped up over the weekend. brian hill was on the run after he fled when is a gun jammed firing and a deputy at a traffic spot. he faces several charges including attempted murder. >> a man is behind bars after reportedly stabbed a man in the chest. this happened in little towns like

carter sitting right there. we have all sorts of talented people. differ a little because i do not want to close any of the schools ddwn. we have a 33 public supported institutions you have a q s c branch right next to a -- you have a branch rednecks to wait committed to college. i want to fill the mouth. the answer is getting children through school is the only way to get into the knowledge-based economy. a hot every time you see great economic prosperity across the country, every time the see a great research universities involved, you see a network of educational institutions that are pushing people. the personal pathways to success is what we've follow. and we have to get those children on the first round of that letter -- rung of that ladder. if we do that with all the innovative businesses that we have, if we form a network or the government is leading that charge, we can compete with the entire world. >> that was dr. fred carter, the president of francis marion. >> i think the answer for the schools is to make sure we hold all of higher educa

carter will explain the elements of this initiative in more detail. earlier today dr.carter met with hundreds of ceos and military acquisition leaders to discuss the way ahead for this project. like all important and necessary changes, this process will take time, but i am confident we will succeed. how ultimately we as leaders in government look to our men and women of armed services to do what we can to provide them with the best support possible. >> thank you, mr. secretary. good afternoon, everyone. what i am going to describe is part of the efficiency initiative that secretary gates launched at his abilene eisenhower's speech some weeks ago and which debbie keri secretary of defense is also discussed with you in the press room th. the motivation is that the senior leadership has concluded we cannot support our troops with the capability they need unless we achieve greater efficiency. i am going to describe the framework for a process to obtain 2% to 3% annual growth in war fighting capabilities without a budget increase by identifying and eliminating unproductive

president carter's i kar --zai and the government -- karzai and the government have committed themselves against corruption. i am confident the afghan government wil dits utmost to fight the rrtion. i fully aee that it is key to establish confidence in government of in ortiz afghanistan. government authorities in afghanistan -- establish confidence in government authorities in afghanistan. >> general mcchrystal is ncerned of the rollback o merips next year. he expects otherllied countries to hav similar plans and that it isealistic. do you share that assessment? do you eect others to start growing back troops next year? >> this statement is not a new statement or a newssessment. it has been clear for quite some time that 2011 will be a year for evaluation of the troop surge. weave decided on a troop surge. in this interview, general mcchrystal has ssed that the transition will be contion based. it will not cendar driven. if we are in a pition to ange the role oficef troops during 2011, it will be because conditions permit and the capacity of the afghan security forces has been so well de

that led to the election of jimmy carter. that example is what the american people, especially caucasian people in america, need to wake up and find out what they need to do to get a government-back -- they government back -- host: you need to connect the dots, because i am not sure i follow your analogy -- caller: people are in bankruptcy and they have no jobs, and now -- host: 08 jet -- go ahead. caller: well, i disagree with that. it is frustrating. thank you. how do you deal with his frustration? guest: you deal with bank failures. the fdic is on track to take over more than 100 banks this year because of the lingering economic problems. many are real estate-related and it will take a while before that worked through the system, and there can be general health beyond the beltway. host: of the were saying that bankruptcy is almost synonymous with unpayable costs. how are we dealing with this issue? guest: it is part of the overall debt burden that individuals are facing. many hope that the health care bill will make health

you might want to have a beer with ronald reagan rather than jimmy carter. you would rather have a beer with george bush or senator kerry. that personality factor in the political world is overlooked because we are motivated by issues. with the scott brown campaign and how we used on-line video is to make a personal connection, is possible for all types of voters. that is something that cannot be overlooked, flexibility is a huge. >> i will ask you the same question. we will take q &a from the audience and a couple of seconds. something we have not talked about tonight and that is an important thing. it is hard to like some of these people if democrats are successful in talking about their record and successful in talking about health care, not just as a record of achievement but what it means -- young voters are no different than the rest of thh american. american they still don't understand the nuts and bolts. there are young parents to have 22-year-old coming home from college who do not have a job and need to stay on their parents' health care plan. they

he thought this raffish carter could not -- character could not have been governor of the state. people of tennessee had sent to the congress and individual who could not read with ease and had no fixed address. he saw houston as a really interesting guy with a wealth of experience. houston gave him this idea -- the indian has been brought up from infancy to be totally self reliant, to make every decision for himself, to be put in life- threatening test which only he can surmount. he will never surrender an iota of that liberty to and the authority, there for the cannot assimilate, therefore they are going to beat some -- exterminated. he said the black slave was at the other extreme. he has never been person -- permitted to make one choice for himself. he has lost the language of his ancestors. does not know what their religion was. he is no culture from his former land. white society will not accept him. there was a little in between. that was what tocqueville was working from, not just the politics, but the tragic rights. >> you have been more public with this book than in the

the audience are, the counter ied task force to discourage her by general paxton and undersecretary carterever was intended to last more than another two or three months now. i think that in at least three of these areas that we will be able to move back towards the the traditional structure in the part of defense. but long term, it is a serious issue for the department and frankly one that i have not yet found the answer to in terms of how to give urgent action in an area supporting men and women in combat today that ranges across the entirety of the department both uniformed and civilian and the different defense agencies. with respect to the balance between future threats from your peers and others as opposed to the focus on your regular warfare, i would just remind the committee that if you took a broad look at our budget about 50% of our procurement budget is for what i would call long-term modernization programs that deal with the country's about 40% is dual purpose like the c-17 and of the things we will use the matter what kind of conflict with iran and about 10% has actually been

jimmy carter was consumed the by the iran hostage crisis. the clinton people with the scan dals, they couldn't get anything else done. i think they have done a right thing is get serious people involved but still have most people going about the regular job of the presidency which is the right way to handle it internally. >> woodruff: and mark, you said last week that you thought the president needed to show more feeling. i don't remember the word that you used but you you said he needs to -- >> i was going to say, today or yesterday i guess he told in an interview he said on cnn that he doesn't think he should do that. >> well, i think part of the job description of the president is not simply could pander in chief, it's comforter in chief. it really is. ronald reagan did after the challenger crisis, really wound up the nation, at a terrible time. and president clinton going out and welcoming back the caskets from the embassy assassinations and murders. i mean those are important acts for a president. and i really think that that's part of

she's already had thrown back at her comments she wrote in a book review of, i believe it was steven carter's book the confirmation mess in which she wrote how vapid confirmation hearings are. >> woodruff: 15 years ago she wrote that. >> but she's in a very different position now. it will be interesting to see if she can bring more substance to the answers to the questions the senators ask. >> woodruff: they'll be challenging what she wrote for the daily princetonian, the college newspaper, because there are.... >> they have. >> woodruff: because there are no opinions to go after. >> they have to go all the way back to her college writings. >> woodruff: marcia coyle will be back with me tomorrow to cover the first day of questioning of elena kagan. thank you, marcia. >> my pleasure, judy. >> brown: next a modern spy story involving russia and the united states once again. the announcement came late this afternoon from the justice department. ten russia intelligence officers arrested for allegedly searching as illegal agents of the russian government in the united states. a statement was relea

president carter says.... >> brown: cnn struggled to gain credibility as a serious news source at first but its ability to jump on and stick with big stories helped make its mark. one was the 1986 challenger disaster. >> this morning it looked as though they wouldn't be able to get off. >> brown: a year later round-the -clock coverage of a toddler who fell into a well in texas turned baby jessica into a national drama. >> you could hear the applause >> brown: in 1991, cnn reporters continued to broadcast live from baghdad as bombs fell during the first gulf war. >> one u.s. military officer said this is a test of wills. >> brown: the on-the-ground first and longest approach has continued to define cnn through the years but now at 30 it finds itself struggling anew under the hugely changed cable news world that's moved away from non-partisan reporting and toward sharp opinion. dominated by major personalities at rivals fox news and ms-nbc that have overtaken cnn in the rate ratings especially in some of the lucrative prime time hours. that's turned the network's birthday into a moment of

she served in the carter and clinton administrations. elliot cohen, a professor at the johns hopkins school of advanced international studies. he served in the bush administration. and david ignatius, a columnist with the "washington post", who has covered the conflict extensively. let's start with all of you by talking about this eventful day. what was your first reaction, jessica matthews, not only to stanley mcchrystal's firing but also david petraeus' return? >> i thought the president had no choice. he did exactly the right thing and what had to be done. and if there was a way for this to happen with a minimal consequences for the war, he found it in the appointment of petraeus, that this was to make a personnel change without a hint of policy change , this was the only person. and petraeus was willing to do it, and i thought the president hit every note right today. >> ifill: elliot cohen? >> well, as someone who has been very critical of the president, i have to say i agree with jessica, i thought the speech the president gave was

jimmy carter is one. but in order to have diplomats on the ground engaged with authorities in gaza, we need to have a different political situation in gaza. >> if diplomats wanted to gaza, what is preventing them from doing it? >> we will engage with any political group that is willing to meet our basic red lines for playing a constructive role in the region. those red lines are clear. hamas has made clear they have no intention at the present time of agreeing to those. as a result, we do not have political relationship with hamas. yes? >> you said yesterday -- does that mean you expect a statement ? >> just to clarify to be sure that you didn't mishear me, the south korean government has sent a letter to the president of the security council. we do expect the matter to come up within the council in the next couple of weeks. we would expect to have you know, per the south korean request an appropriate response from the u.n. security council, but what that specific response is, well -- will be part of the

carter phillips continues, "justice stevens always ask the hardest hypothetical, and he did it so gently that the effect was particularly devastating. often, these gentle, unassuming questions point the way for resolution." i mentioned before that justice stevens' questions very frequently come late in an argument. bides his time before actively engaging council. this is, i think, because justice stevens is simply the best listener on the court. said another way, he is the person who most understands the value of listening. he listens to learn himself, and he listens to understand what is on the minds of his colleagues, so that when he does step in, he does so with a real sense, a real understanding, of what matters in the case, of what may move his colleagues, what approaches might bridge differences and attract a majority. that aspect of his questioning might be viewed as strategic in nature. indeed, ever since justice stevens announced his resignation, we have heard a good deal about how he has served as a strategic leader for one part of the court. this, i think, misunderstand justic

caller: it is very much like jimmy carter said, a state of apartheid. a gross use of our military and other funding. theyre the largest recipient of foreign aid from the.s., $3 billion a year. host: but it is a democracy. the people elect their leaders. caller: it is notemocracy if u don't have equal rights and travel and free speech and it just representation. host: what would you call that? caller: an apartheid state. there is a clear distinction where the guidelines or the lines set out have fostered a frenzy. unfortunately like a child that has been spoiled, it has just taken more and more. but the problem was not the establishment of israel, the problem was jewish people, like all other people, should have gotten their respect. and that the conclusion of world war ii, the germans, belgians, the french, the english, the u.s., all should have said, jews can live anywhere and instead we set up like a reservation. we put a false model out there that usurps clie did -- usurped land. host: you are going back to the history and clearly there is lot dely r

carter sitting right there. we have all sorts of talented people in our colleges. i differ littleefrom some of my colleagues. i do not want close any of the schools down three we have 35 publicly supported institutions here in south carolina. we ought to use them all and we are not doing it. some of them want to be cutting back. yet the u.s.c. branch right next to a technical college. some people see that it duplication. i see that as opportunity. i want to fill them up. i note that the answer is getting children through school and getting them educated, the only way we will get into this new knowledge-based economy, that we have all the assets for 33 major research universities -- every time you think great economic prosperity, every time, you see a great university involved in there somewhere. and you see a network of educational institutions that are pushing people to the top of the personal pathways to success that was a trail blazed here, that's what we ought to follow. we need to get those children on the first rung of that water in early childhood education.

i think jimmy carter was there. but i do remember that bob byrd was there.when i came to the senate, i thought i can't wait to see or hear him play that fiddle again. i heard that after his grandson died in an automobile accident, he said i will never touch it again in memory of my grandson. that's the kind of family commitment he made as well. he would sing and would occasionally have a christmas party downstairs and a few of us would be lucky enough to get invited, and he would sing, but he was a man who had gone through some life experiences and family experiences which were very meaningful to him. i remember another day when i was on the floor of the senate here and there was a debate about the future of the national endowment for the arts, and senator ashcroft of missouri wanted to eliminate the national endowment for the arts and take away all its money. i stood up to debate him. i wasn't -- i was brand-new here, wasn't smart enough to know when to sit down and shut up. i started debating him and saying i think that's wrong and the arts are important a

believe 20% of the representatives were women and i noted that at my press conference with president carter'si. the entire british press was made up -- president karzai. >> the prime minister has recognized the integrated nature of the military operation and the coalition forces together are trying to achieve security for afghanistan. does he have the commitment of our coalition partners that they have understood this message that we can only leave once therefore the population in afghanistan has to believe we of the commitment to see the job through to the end? >> i think the hon. gentleman makes a good point. the canadiens and dutch have made their own decisions about timetables. %+think it's important to do all we can to encourage other nato allies. i met with representatives of the danish and estonian military's while there. all of our partners remain particularly this year when the number of troops has increased and there's a real chance of delivering a proper counter-%+ insurgency strategy thht rotect the people and pushes the taliban out and delivers the basic level of security we want

making introductions is zbigniew brzezinski, former national security adviser in the carter administration live coverage now on c-span. >> we're delighted to have our speaker today, one of our national leaders. nationwide as a person who plays not only a decisive role in our congress, but plays a critical role in the shaping of our national policy, collaborating in that respect with the president and the white house. he is going to address us today on the critical issue of what ought to be the national strategy of the united states at a time of the extraordinary complexity. national security, in that context, has to be broadly defined. it also has to be historically relevant. a security policy has to take into account how the world is changing. it is in this context that congressman hoyer is going to be speaking, and his speech is going to be focusing on a broad range of issues. in addition to playing a leading role in our national leadership, congressman hoyer is of course the distinguished and enduring representative of the state of maryland. i am not going to go through his biograph 8y

in the 1970's and 1980's, president reagan, president carter started a comprehensive training act. put $50 million in it and hired 20 million americans across the country. we need such a jobs bill today. this congress has done something. the president has worked with us and we've passed legislation and bills that have helped small business to hire and to get tax incentives. but what america needs is to address the emergency now. home sales are down, foreclosures are up, americans want to work. it's our responsibility that we help them do so. today, let's pass a real jobs bill, similar to the comprehensive employment and training act. is it an emergency? yes, it is. should it be offset? are the american people an emergency? i believe that they are. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlewoman's time has expired. for what purpose does the gentleman from south carolina rise? mr. wilson: madam speaker, i ask permission to address the house for one minute and to revise and extend my remarks. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, the gentleman is recognized. mr. wilson: m

tax and reaching back to the high rates of taxation we had in the carter administration. mr. rogers: this is unconscionable behavior, and if it doesn't make you mad, it ought to. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields back the balance of his time. for what purpose does the gentleman from california rise? >> request one minute. and revise and extend my remarks. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, the gentleman is recognized. >> it's time for america to end its addiction to oil. mr. garamendi: our national security is at stake. we spend $1 billion a day sending our money overseas to the oil companies. many of them owned by foreign nations. some of whom are not at all friendly to america. i hear a lot of whining from the republican side of the aisle about we can't do that. well, we cannot continue doing what we are doing today. we see the risks, $20 billion worth of economy destroyed along the gulf coast. big oil has had its day. $12 billion. you want to save some money on that side? let's retrieve the $1 billion subsidy we send to the oil industry every day. it's

president carter was seen as a hollow army.n reagan increased the amount of money to the military and restored them. that is part of the narrative. republicans are stronger on the military. then clinton had problems with gays in the military. he was resisted by the joint chiefs. that was very rocky. president obama is very aware of that and did a number of things that work mitigated against that feeling. he kept on a republican secretary of defense that was popular with military leadership. he put a lot of senior military guys on his security team. jim jones. the u.s. ambassador to afghanistan is a former three- store ambassador, eikenberry. there was no time for a shakeout. i think that the most important thing was he basically double doon and adopted a strategy3 win in afghanistan, or try to lead us to a place we could accept. that is what the military was hoping he would do. to ay that president obama has sort of roiled the fetters of the military and secretary roiled the feathers of the military. obama has done a lot to mit

the surface mining ann reclamation act passed in 1977 during the carter administration was inadequate to begin with. coal mining techniques outdistance regulation immediately, not to mention the appalling lack of oversight, reporting, and enforcement. as shocking as strip mining was then, mountaintop removal is warp speed, overdrive, " streamlining on steroids. -- estrin -- estrin -- stripmining on steroids. first, a permit is applied for. often, aa least until recently, with lisa jackson at the epa taking over that administration, they were largely rubberrstamp. a friend in west virginia called it creeping permititis. what few restrictions therr were on the permit process could easily be waived by merely applying for a permit variation. often, however, a coal company did not even bother to apply for a permit. that sounded more convenient to mine without any permits and simply leave. others were good enough to sell the report, and state often -- self-report, and the state often showed them leniency for having done so. access roads are made. the timber on those mountains, one of the mo

happened during the administrations of president eisenhower and kennedy and johnson and nixon and carternd president george h.w. bush and ronaldeagan before president bush and president george w. bush, president clinton and now president obama and one of the distinctions that he made early on was the fact that in the senate we serve with presidents. we do not serve under presidents. i think that was a calng card by senator byrd as a constitutionalist on the separation of power. and he was a fierce fighter for that separation of power. and when the le-item veto was passed, he took uphe battle to have it declared unconstitutional as an encroachment on article 1 powers in the united states congress on appropriations. and the bills which we present to the president have a great many provisions, and senator byrd was looking upon the factor of a president perhaps taking some provision he didn't like too well in order to take the whole bill. and i'm sure that on senator byrd's mind was the largess which came to the state of west virginia. the and that part of our federal system, part of our dem

caller: first my comment if we let jimmy carter continue his program with retphubls we would be farther ahead than when ronald reagan took over. my question is, is the oil that comes out of the united states deep water, who is it sold to, the united states or the international market? guest: if i understood the question, who buys the oil that is imported into the united stat states. different companies. those are all private company transactions. the government doesn't buy oil and distribute it among companies. host: what about the oil that comes out of the gulf? this is a b.p. well. is that exclusively b.p.'s oil or do they sell it? guest: the oil is shared among the partners according to their working interests. and until recently some oil produced in the federal offshore went to the government under the royalty in kind program of the interior department. now secretary salazar has terminated that program, so the government gets its share of the production in dollars rather than barrels. but the companies themselves own the oil. now, they can sell it or take it to one of the refineries

a huge political incentive to inflate the currency, maybe inflation rates like we had under jimmy carter 10, 12, 14%. matt welch with -- totally destabilize the economy. at some point you have to pay the piper. there is no such thing as a free lunch. we may be bar when the putting of the day of reckoning. host: is he correct when he says the borrowing is for 20 or 30 years from now. it is not for immediate use. guest: it is true the government is issuing bonds -- actually, peter, when the government is doing is borrowing, it issues bonds at anywhere from one year up to 30 years. actually what has happened in recent years -- this has started obama -- we are actually issuing more short-term wrote it -- notes because short-term interest rates are low. the average maturity of the average bond out there and i believe is only three or four years. every three or four years you have to turn over the debt. if the interest rate -- the cost of servicing this debt will rise. just to give you a sense of how badly this debt can be paired -- can be pared by congressional budget office and 01 b, if we s

jimmy carter is another. if i'm not mistaken but in order to have diplomats on the ground engage with authoritys in gaza, we need to have a different political situation there. >> well, as we've made clear. we will engage with any, you know political group that is willing to meet our basic you know, red lines for playing a constructive role in the region. those lines are clear and hamas made clear they have no intention at the present time to agree to those and as a result, we do not have political relationship with with hamas. >> you expect - north korea [inaudible] you expect - you know, just to clarify to be sure that you didn't mishear me. we, the south korean government has sent a letter to the president of the security council. we do expect the material er to come up within the council in the next couple of weeks. we would expect to have you know per the south korean request an appropriate response from the un security council but what that specific response is, we'll or will be part of upcoming debate.

my history is one of unique -- i was in the marine corps back when carter sent us into the indian ocean for the first time, when tehran had our hostages. we were with the nimitz when they launched the rescue -- attempt that failed. i was in the army during reagan and bush. i did not think we will be able to get out and afghanistan unless we allow sanctuaries. it will not be about the money because we spend money on much bigger things that are wasted. and it won't be the lives lost. 4000. we lost more in shiloh. host: when you say sanctuaries, what you mean? caller: copps and firemen, there -- like cops and firemen, there are not parts of the world -- city that they don't police. if we let them go back and do what they have been doing, they will be a sanctuary. people can plot and do what they want pretty much free of normal civilization. if we allow that -- i know the russians try and they were certainly motivated and have logistical advantages that we don't -- they can just drive across the border. where they failed is their country had to turn inward. they might have had some motives

so, when you have a big market like china companieslike carter perform and others are going to prefer and are to make product in china to be able to sell it successfully there. there are many american countries like that. host: we have a call from east like, ohio, tom on the democrat line. caller: good morning. my question is primarily what does the chinese need that we can produce? host: flipping it around. what do the chinese want from the u.s.? guest: there is fairly broad range of things. we start with the obvious ones like aircraft. they are one of the biggest purchasers of aircraft. they purchase a lot of computer chips, integrated circuits. huge on intel and other companies like that are selling billions. they are the big he gest importf toes things and a large portion of them are made in the the united states. they also are the biggest market for soybeans and u.s. produced cotton. so it is a range of things from sophisticated manufactured goods to certain agricultural products in in which we have a strong competitive position. host: our guest has written a couple of books on c

obama turns into a transformative the leader, or a disappointing leader like bill clinton or jimmy carterly partly about how you response to t crisis our country faces. it is mostly about what we do. let me pick up the first point about what we have achieved. i confessed to feeling somewhat puzzled about how much we have collectively accomplish in the progressive movement and how badly many of us feel about it. if you think back, what is the policy scorecard during the last 18 months? we have achieved legislation to cover 4 million additional kids with health insurance, including 400,000 legal immigrants. the economic recovery package, bill is in sufficient -- bill insufficient and lot large enough. achieve health care reform that extends coverage to more than a 4 million people and provides basic protections against insurance company abuses. this has been a progressive dream for over a century, and we finally have won it. it also represents a major step against inequality in our country, and will make a huge difference in the lives of the poorest people in the country. we seem to be pois

host: this article was from the carter administration.found there were a lot of sites around the country where people had dumped materials. whatever they did was not necessarily illegal at the time, but it was improper. the idea was to go in and clean up or deal with these hazardous- -pwaste sites. host: established in 1980 and paid for companies -- paid by four companies responsible for the waste. the money ran out in 2003. where are we? guest: there are two types of money. most of the sites were being dropped -- dealt with directly by the companies that caused the problems. others are being cleaned up directly by -- about 75% of them are being cleaned up directly by the companies. there were additional moneys that did run out a number of years agoo we get $1.2 billion per year to deal with the superfund. money. probably enough people have given the impression that it is somehow running out of money, and it is not. host: our phone lines are open, divided among democrats, republicans, and third-parties. if you live in the gulf coast, the