i sat down with representative cartwright somewhere in the northern hemisphere. congressman thank you so much for talking to me today. >> my pleasure. i've been a big fan, stephen. >> stephen: well, the feeling is mutual? >> thank you. >> stephen: i mean about me. >> you're a big fan of yourself. >> stephen: i am. >> you should be. >> stephen: thank you very much, thank you. i think we might be done. we have some other questions, okay. my apologies. i got what i needed. ( laughter ). okay, i still have to ask some questions. congressman, tell me about the fightin' 17th. >> well, the fightin' 17th is the new district in northeastern pennsylvania. it's composed of scranton, wilkes-barre. >> the crayola company is in your district, right? >> right, that's down in easton. >> stephen: how do you feel about recent plans to rename the white crayon republican? >> i do not agree with that. >> stephen: do not agree with that. ( laughter ). now, when it comes to immigration, you say you'd like to turn undoimented workers into taxpayers. >> i think i agree with the president

the first witness will be retired general james cartwright. general cartwright serves and defense policy studies at the center for strategic and international studies. general cartwright retired on september 1, 2011 after a 40 year career in the u.s. marine corps. among other positions served under two presidents as vice chairman of the four joint chiefs of staff and the second highest military officer. he was commander of u.s. strategic command. general cartwright said at the university abaya air command, naval war college and the massachusetts institute of technology and is a native of rockford, illinois. general cartwright, thank you for your service and for joining us today. you're right in saying it will be entered into the record in your opportunity to testify, please. >> thank you, senator durbin and senator cruz and other distinguished members. it is an honor and pleasure to testify before this committee. thank you for inviting me. in the time allotted, would like to address three questions central to the topic of this hearing. first,

general cartwright coming year in afghanistan. do you have to wait them out before he shoots him quick >> it's a scenario of hostility. >> mr. bergen, that's the point. once your designated an enemy, we don't have to make it a fair fight, but i have to wake you up. we are going to shoot you. don't become part of the enemy. here's the problem, how do we know if you're part of the enemy? what i'm suggesting is a back cause i'm the considerable were trying to accomplish. what's your name again commissary? i don't want to miss pronounce your name. >> al-muslimi. >> okay. as a country of great turmoil, do a great? great conflict? >> it definitely has lots of com clicks. >> i understand that. dear the pakistani government to arrest in modern? >> it is rejected. >> can you imagine if it came out in the public who told the pakistani government aligns over here and got away. the reason president obama didn't do that is you can't trust the pakistan government to go after bin laden. to your country, there's places in our country i wouldn't t

bergen, professor brooks, general cartwright, thank you very much. this was a long and is abated hearing and the first kind in the senate. i'm sure not the last. there will be more that will be discussed. a number of groups that submitted testimony that will be added to the record without objection, including the american civil liberties union project,onstitutional human rights first, human rights watch and the open societies watch. i want to take a point of personal privilege to acknowledge the person in the audience who is sitting in the second row here. she is currently a deputy federal public defender in los angeles, but she returned for this hearing before the last two years, she she has been on detail to my office and served as counsel on this constitution subcommittee could before she left, she helped prepare today's hearing. i hope we did well based on your standards and what you have asked us to consider. she has made many important contributions to our work and included improving coordination by federal and state and local law-enforcement a

cartwright, a minute and a half. mr. cartwright: i rise in opposition to h.r. 249. on close examination, it is obvious that this bill is deceptive, unnecessary and even counterproductive. it's a bill that puts additional requirements on federal workers that the rest of the public does not face that of losing their job. it's a very difficult thing to collect taxes or any debt from somebody who doesn't have a job. the i.r.s. already has procedures in place to collect back taxes from federal employees. the federal payment levy program allows the i.r.s. to impose a continuous levy on federal and only federal employees up to 15%. this means federal employees already are held to a higher standard and the i.r.s. has additional weapons in its arsenal making the bill before us an over the top and punitive measure. a solution that will make it harder to collect taxes and i question whether this is a sincere effort to improve our nation or just another in a long series of unfair attacks on federal employees and the unions that represent them. these are people who haven't had a

colonel, andgin, then perhaps to you, general cartwright, knowing the nuts and of this this -- boltskind of weaponry, should the rules be any different for remotely piloted aircraft, a term which i agree is more aptly describing, then other targeted strikes? is thatnk the answer the rules should not be different. remotely piloted aircraft is simply a tool to meet our objectives once we have decided we want to meet those objectives and it is legal to meet those objectives. this discussion reminds me after world war i when the pioneer of air power, billy mitchell, was trying to make the case we could take out naval ships of the air. nobody could believe him and we thought it was ridiculous and there was a lot of angst over using the mutual of air power to meet our objectives. we eventually got to the point where we were comfortable using air power in certain circumstances versus ground forces or a naval gun fight to meet military objectives. i think this is a similar transformation we are going through. this discussion and the debate is all certainly worth having, and i think where we

cartwright. >> it's something luke and i have been working on since we both got elected presidents ofur freshman class by working together, spending time to get. this is something the american public clearly wants. they want to see us spending time together, becoming friends, making it so we can work together because they're sick of the bickering and infighting so we decided early on to spend time together, have social events together. we've done that a couple times. tonight we're having pizza together and let's hope it doesn't degenerate into a food fight. >> neil: i assume there's room in the restaurant for all 60 plus of you, right? >> yeah, there's plenty of room there. listen, we're not pollyannas, we're not going to change the world overnight with a few dinners or a lunch but we believe it's far harder to demonize somebody you know. people sent us there 0 to get things done and it's hard to work together if you don't know each other. >> neil: the 12 at the white house know each other very well but they still seem on the surface to hate each other. i could be wrong but when you g

james e witnesses, cartwright. live on c-span3. >> the museum is meant to help a visitor relive the first eight years of the 21st century. the museum explains the decisionmaking process that i went through as president. and we hope the museum inspires people to serve. want to serve their community or serve their country and some -- in some way. we really didn't want to be a school. do-tag. to be a i don't know if there is a lesson there. i do know that laura and i decided to go in a different direction with the -- you know, apart from the museum with the component where programs -- from which programs will emerge. >> watch the dedication ceremony of the george w. bush presidential library and museum from southern methodist university in dallas live thursday at 11:00 a.m. on c-span3, c-span radio and korea.org. and join us with a conversation ith the former first couple. yesterday, u.s. representatives markey and lynch had a final debate in boston. the defocused on national security issues, highlighting the boston m

on capitol hill taping a story with democratic pennsylvania congressman matt cartwright, and this isdeo of the week. the kid president. robby novak, who's become a youtube sensation with those weekly web ep sides. he visited the real president in the oval office this week, and like any other kid, he picked up the phone. take a listen. >> hello? >> is anybody on there? >> nope. >> okay. well, quite sure not to cause an international incident. >> the president even showed the youngster a telegraph machine, which, of course, he had never seen. neither have i, actually. >>> there's a political action committee, would you believe, to promote candidates with beards? yes, it is true. the founder of beard pac says, "with the resurgence of beards in popular culture in today's younger generation we believe the time is now to bring facial hair back into politics." their ultimate wish, support a bearded candidate for president. >>> could north korea test a missile this week? back to the news and a report from the korean peninsula, next. >>> also, american space cowboys. nasa's latest plan to las

as president of the freshman class, reach across the aisle to matt cartwright and had a series of eventswe try get to know each other. it's in this process, it's easy to demonize people you don't know. and so when you take the oath of office, it doesn't say anything you vow to protect and defend the constitution. it doesn't say anything about your political party. part of the problem with the president, frankly, his idea of comprise would be similar to the budget he just put forward. the house democrats had a budget that raised taxes by a trillion, the senate democrats and the president was trillion one. nofts a comprise between left and the most conservative of the democrats. with a we're going to have to do to mover the country forward is find common ground. >> host: we go to indiana. >> caller: good morning. >> host: good morning. >> caller: [inaudible] talk about how the -- [inaudible] save a lot of money and save a lot of lives does the -- [inaudible] affect 70% over thirteen years. -- [inaudible] [inaudible] forty years ago nixon made -- [inaudible] president reagan made it. it mad

i'd like to thank the board members who served on the task force, general james cartwright, general medical hidden and tom pickering, ambassador tom pickering. the rest of the list is also incredibly progressive paper grateful to have task force members come associate diverse group whenever you have a former director of the cia and vice chair and former ambassador thomas pickering but saw his credentials as a powerful task force. let me turn over to stew eisenstadt to make some comments. the sites are being are being bought up the most important board members, he was president jimmy carter's chief domestic policy adviser and executive director of the policy staff. he was the deputy secretary of treasury and served as secretary of commerce for trade and international trade. we got to know each other better when he served as ambassador to the european union grenade to 93 to 1996. return the board the board to you. >> thank you very much, fred and thank you for initiating this task force. i want to add my thanks to barbara slaven, chuck hagel for the work is done, members of the task force and

cartwright: trucking accidents cause too many deaths and the 3,373 victims in 2011 alone were disproportionately people who were driving in cars caught in these heavy truck crashes. these oversized trucks also inflict disproportionate damage on our roads. especially on our national bridge system. they impose a significant cost on the rest of taos pay for these repears, plus allowing larger and heavier trucks would divert freight away from our rails and onto our highways, increasing congestion and emissions at a time when we are working hard to reduce both. thank you, mr. speaker, and i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from texas seek recognition? without objection, the gentleman is recognized for one minute. >> mr. speaker, i rise today to recognize the extraordinary students, parents, and faculty of cathedral high school in el paso, texas. yesterday, i had the privilege of meeting with manufacture oka need ral's best and brightest, along with their principal, brother nick gonzalez, and chief justice barajas who leads the advanced studies. mr. o'rourke: th

general cartwright, one of the key officials in shaping the counterterrorism strategy will be testifying bombed last week. i met this young man when he was in yemen. very, very credible, interesting young guy. he'll be testifying today. what i saw in yemen is that it was increasing support for al qaeda in the areas where we were bombing. some of these tribes that are out in the middle of nowhere, you go in and you bomb it and you aren't explaining to them, we were going after this guy but sorry we hit a bunch of sheep herders, those people are now so angry. it is an enemy by enemy is my friend scenario. a number of civilians have been killed. in a country like yemen that's a place where the united states could have taken a totally different path. long-time dictator had fallen as a result of arab uprisings. i think it was really a place that could have gone a different direction. by intensifying the drone strikes we are are making new enemies. >> and in countries where we haven't declared war. that's thing that stuns me the most. how many countries are we dropping bombs on now where we ha

would like to particularly thank the board members who served on the task force, general james cartwright general michael hayden, and tom pickering, ambassador tom pickering. the rest of the list is also incredibly impressive. we are really grateful also to have with us today task force members greg steelman and trita parsi. it's a diverse group when of you of a former director of the cia and a former vice chair of the joint chiefs on the task force, and former ambassador thomas pickering with all his credentials, you know you have a very powerful task force. so let me turn over to stu eizenstat to make some opening comments. aside from being atlantic council boardman and one of our most important board members, he was president jimmy carter's chief domestic policy adviser and executive director of the white house domestic policy staff. he was president bill clinton's deputy secretary of treasury, under sector a state for economic business and agricultural affairs, and also served as undersecretary of commerce for international trade at the international trade administration. we got to kn

cartwright: last week i visited the executive director of the wyoming county head start in pennsylvania. an agency which serves 1,000 students and has a waiting list of 7,000 -- 700 already. it will have to accept 49 fewer students because of the 5.2% sequester cut. and i yield back, thank you. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman's time has expired. for what purpose does the gentleman from florida seek recognition? the gentleman from florida is recognized for one minute. >> mr. speaker, i'm here to congratulate a team that captivated the nation with style, swagger, heart and class. i'm talking about four letters that few people have ever heard of until just march. fgcu. put on the map by their men's basketball team. as a representative and servant of southwest florida, i am so proud to have florida gulf coast university in my backyard. our home now known as dunk city. mr. radel: the men's basketball team and the university itself have only been around for a few years. heck, the players are actually orlando than the school itself -- older than the school itself. this is only fgcu's se

among the witnesses james cartwright. live at 4:00 on c-span3. >> one of the problems when the judges are appointing the public defenders is that the public defenders' job is reliant on their approval. on their are judged efficiency. how fast do they process cases. how quickly do they get through the docket? they are going to want a public defender that goes along and gets along. that does their bidding. that's a real challenge. in new orleans, for a long time. the system was also one public defender was assigned to one courtroom. and the same judge. so they were always arguing before the same judge. and the problem with that is that they were then kind of trading clients in a way. like, ok, my private paying client if you let me take his case to trial, i'll persuade this client to plead guilty. there was a sort of trade off going you could get your favors only on some of your clients. it really made for a corrupt system down there. >> if can you not afford an attorney, one will be provided for you. karen hooper on the ri

bergen, professor brooks, general cartwright, thank you very much. this was a long and is abated hearing and the first kind in the senate. i'm sure not the last. there will be more that will be discussed. a number of groups that submitted testimony that will be added to the record without objection, including the american civil liberties union and the constitutional project, human rights first, human rights watch and the open societies watch. i want to take a point of personal privilege to acknowledge the person in the audience who is sitting in the second row here. she is currently a deputy federal public defender in los angeles, but she returned for this hearing before the last two years, she she has been on detail to my office and served as counsel on this constitution subcommittee could before she left, she helped prepare today's hearing. i hope we did well based on your standards and what you have asked us to consider. she has made many important contributions to our work and included improving coordination by federal and state and local law-enf