. >> cathy's loan is vice president of the computer information industry association. whattare the benefits in re- regulating broadband services to title ii? >> we represent a diverse array of companies in the cooputer communications industry. microsoft, yahoo.com, oracle, into it, t mobil, facebook. >> what are the benefits that your member companies would seek broadband is reclassified? >> well, first of all, let me clarify that we are not looking for regulation. our association has been around for 40 years, as long as the internet itself, since before it the breakup of at&t. our members are all business members. they're not nonprofits. they want us to support open systems, open markets, open networks, and competition. i did not mention that we do have smaller companies like data foondry. what we want to see is protection for consummrs and small businesses and nonprofit. that way they have nondiscriminatory access to the internet for their daily personal business activity. >> in the way that broadband is currentlyyregulated, is there harm to your member companies? >>

host: we are going to leave it there so i can move on to cathy in new orleans. she will be our last phone call. caller: i have lived in new orleans all my life. we have had katrina and disasters, and to blame the president for not being able to take care of things i think is ridiculous. the president has made many trips to our area. just because newspapers put them in print does not make it true. i think we are always blaming the president for something that is beyond his control. host: that will have to be the last word. thank you for joining us.+ the house of representatives is getting underway now. we will bring you there now. . . , thal of northern westchester new york. the chaplain: o god, source of the spirit of living things, you created humanity with all its diversity in your image and placed us upon this earth to tend it, guiding us alon whichever spiritual path we call our own toward goodness and peace. in this great hall where dreams come true, we ask your blessing upon these men and women, these representatives of the people. they have devoted their

. >> cathy is about assessing sure library when oil comes ashore, find it, says what it means, and the cleanup. that and forms what our team does. we have teams in the field right now in helicopters and aircraft and on the ground and in boats and offshore lies. be a track and document ready oil as. unified. we have people from the federal noaa and coast guard and other landowners who are stakeholders. we got together and finding oil and documented expertly nd consistently and we make decisions about what to do. you have a arsh areas around here and sunny beaches so there are different cleaning techniques to achieve different results. the critical thing here is to recognize what kind of sure line might weehave, where the sensitivities, and how do we clean them? >> we will leave this segment to bring you ive coverage of british prime minister david parliament on afghanistan. >> our thoughts and our prayers should be with their families and friends, their service of their sacrifice for our country must never be forgotten this is my fifth visit to afghanistan but my first as prime minister

two years with caffeine -- cathy sloan and walter mccormick. that will be on c-span [applause] host: we want to focus on pensions. we are joined by the former executive director of the pension benefit guarantee organization. let me more broadly ask you about how many people in this country currently receive pensions and what impact the economy is having on state and local budgets in cut -- in pain for government pensions?+ guest: 20% of the private sector purges. in a traditional defined payment plans. many of them have been frozen and are no longer accruing benefits. in public sector, it is much greater.. we have closer to 90% penetration which has caused a lot of heartburn, a lot of pressure, on state and local governments. we see this in california, illinois, new jersey, and other states and localities. host: that we sell -- let me separate private and public. what are the chances you'll get a pension if you stay with the cut -- still with the company for 25 or 30 yyars? guest: less than half of the fortunate hundred companies offer a tradit

i'll give you one last reading and recommendation, c -- cathy kramer walsh.'s looked at the democracy and open to cities on people who are doing work with racial equity. we need to build on the practices and knowledge that we have and tap into the growing network of elected officials, noprofit, and practitioners to take this to scale. this is urgent and doable. it is doable. this would offer hope for bridging ou largest divide and helping us solve some of the most critical problems. those of us working on participation and collaboration cannot do this alone. we need to work with other parts of the democracy reform movement. media reform, electoral reform, civic education, natial and community service and transparency. that's why we are all here today. that's why we are committed to working together to strengthen our democracy. thanks. [applause] >> lest i be misunderstand in the remarks i'm about to make, let me be very clear that i'm very high on the agenda that's being discussed at this conferce. i've been personally involved in campaign finance reform, and