christopher was asked to investigate the claims of jackie smith and mcnotty. and this was brought further of what was claimed from moats to duck houses. mp's were told to claim properties. and this was to be scrapped and what they claim is to be phased out and a ban claiming relatives. there was a release from the bbc and stephen hammon who works for the parliament. >> i will start with you, it seems odd that mp's can hire relatives in the first place. >> i suppose it is, and your family is part of your lifestyle. i have worked for the parliament for 25 years, and in the last general election of the retired i was of the election and my husband was there at the same time. and i thought it was the best way forward, i worked with stephen and i have years of experience in the commons. >> it does seem a little unfair doesn't it. do you think we will see mp's wives for this. >> that has been rumored and =6 >> it looks like unjust or unintentional enrichment. you either have money into your household or capital gain on the property. it may not be a loss to anyone els

please welcome christopher andrew. [applause] >> well, this is the most self-serving photographs-- can people hear me? anyway, people can hear me. the most self-serving photograph i am likely to see. in the birth of the television series, that is a bit of bassler in the united states so i am happy to say in the united states it is called mi5 juarez i noticed in the small print the mi5, not 95 or the small print at the bottom, mi5, not 95. they search for truth and the rest is a lie. this is the only authorized photograph indeed the only photographs ever taken of anybody entering the headquarters of mi5. you may wonder why that strange expression is on my face. it is going to be a difficult day. i am having to decide what shelley look at today, should it be more of the 50 volumes of anthony blunt's personal files or should i turn towards the i.r.a. and actually there has not been a dull day ever since i have been there. now, the other thought that this strange expression on my face their is that anyone who writes about,

sir christopher was asked to investigate those claims by jacqui smith and tony mcnulty. but the time scale was brought forward after claims that m.p.'s had flipped properties. m.p.'s were told to rent properties in future. there will be a ban on employing relatives. just ahead of the report, official release, i spoke to labor m.b. andrew, and sally hammond, wife of conservative m.p. steven hammond who works as his assistance. >> let's start with you. to the public it seems odd that m.p.'s can employee relatives in the first place. >> i think it does but an m.p.'s job is not just a job, it's a lifestyle. your family is expected to be part of it anyway. in my case, i've worked for members of parliament for 25 years and at the last general election, the m.p. i was working for retired, i was offered a job for his successor, but my husband was elected. i thought the best way forward was to work with stephen. i thought it would seem strange if i went to work for one of his colleagues. >> do you think we're going to see m.p.'s wives going back around? >> that's been rumored. i'

. >> sir christopher, we talked about the conditions that the united kingdom was attempting to join the americans in their policy. and towards military action. what were these conditions? >> i only found out about these conditions -- let me start again. there are two separate things here. the conditions were -- the violence between the palestinians and israel were winding down in some way. that is something which tony blair and the british government repeated very frequently. it was a necessary precondition of taking any action against saddam hussein. the construction of a coalition, and the reentry of weapons inspectors -- i only saw all these conditions formally listed as a result of the crawford meeting through elite when a cabinet officer -- a leak when a cabinet notice paper. there were part of the diplomacy we were pursuing. the coalition, the un, doing something about the terrible bloodshed between the israelis and palestinians. it was not clear that these were things that we would like to have, or the actual conditions of going further on iraq. as time went by, they did not look

and we have with us today christopher meyer, who was our ambassador in washington throughout the periodrning. >> good morning, and i apologize for my delay in coming. the reasons were beyond my control. >> thank you. without further adieu, we'll have the first question. >> my first question relate to the election of president bush. i wonder if you could tell us briefly what you learned yourself during those months of the views of the senior members of the incoming administration, in particular, donald rumsfeld, district cheney, colin powell and condoleezza rice with regard to iraq. >> well, it wasn't until fairly late in the day in that year that we knew who were going to occupy the chief's positions in the bush administration. so until that became clear, to find out what was going on, what was being planned, it became necessary to speak to members of a group who were known informally as the vulcans. the vulcans were a group of american advisors who advised george w. bush when he was the presidential candidate. and when i went down to texas in early 1999, which was shortly before he dec

s christopher cox. mr. khuzami, is the s.e.c. widening its investigation to include the issue of bank of america's failure to disclose to its shareholders the mounting losses at merrill lynch, known or knowable by mid-november, 2008, weeks before, weeks before the shareholder vote on the merger? >> congressman, we have been and are looking at all aspects of the activity with respect to the proxy statements including the fourth quarter losses of merrill lynch. >> is that a yes or a no? >> that's a yes. >> if it is a yes, then the work of this committee has been worthwhile, because you now have a chance to do your job because we have done ours and the information that we have uncovered should facilitate your investigation. i thank the gentleman. i thank the chair. i yield back. >> thank you very much. now i yield to the gentleman from missouri, mr. luetkemeyer. >> thank you, mr. chairman. mr. khuzami, mr. bernanke and paulsen were negotiating with merrill lynch and bank of america and sort of came to an agreement, yet they didn't d

>>ll right, christopher boucek and glenn carle, thank u very much. >> woodruff: now, e next chapter in our series about reforming the publ school system iwashington, d.c. the newshour'special corrpondent for education, jo merrow, has been reporting on this story for e past three year tonight, we goack to the beginning of a n school year-- the fallf 2008-- when chancell michelle rhee pushed a propal that attracted national attenon, on the questi of teacher pay and perfmance. >> the hardest job i er had d the hardest job in my mind that existis being a teacher in thelassroom every single day. >> in gust, three days before sool is opened in washington, d.c.chancellor michelle li dressed th city's 4,000 teaers and principa. >> we are going to chae thface of public education in this country. >> reporter: ihad been only 14 months since t rookieuperintendent acpted the job of turning around o of the worst blic school districts in the cotry. >> good moing. >>eporter: and in her whirlwind rst year she closed3 schools, replaced 58 princals and assistant principals, firenearly 17% ofer central of

for more on this we turn to christopher boucek from the middle east program of the carnegie endowment for international peace, and a frequent visitor to yemen; and glenn carle, a 23-year veteran of the c.i.a., including service as deputy national intelligence officer for transnational threats, where he tracked terror networks like al qaeda. he retired in 2007. welcome to both of you. we are still waiting for more information about the result its of these attack what is known about the presumed targets, these leaders, how important are they? >> if this proves to be correct this will be a huge victory for the struggle against al qaeda in yemen. 9 people who are talked about as being targets, is the commander of al qaeda in the peninsula. the resurgent ala organization. the merger that was -- between saudi and al qaeda affiliates as well as his deputy commander who had returned from guantanamo. >> what would you add about the significance of these two in particular? >> i think it is a very significant development. certainly in the straightforward sense of any time you have an operational

. >> our next witness is christopher miller. he is key member focused on the conservation issues of the peed mont area of virginia . >> thank you for being here. >> thank you for the opportunity to testify on behalf of peed mont conservation. we are an active member of the land trust alliance and working hard on this issue with them. i have a couple of maps i hope the staff can put up. we appreciate the time and attention this committee is taking to consider these issues. we appreciate the willingness to deal with the transmission. from our perspective, the transmission is only a tool for the electricity. mover importantly, the policy for modified peek demand so that the need in transmission structure is minimized and encourage clean depen operation that would reduce the losses caused by energy transmission. the transmission system has potential for the impact that conflict with federal state and local policies. in the brief amount of time i have, i want to focus on a couple issues that have not been raised yet. one example is u

group of our colleagues, including democratic senators, such as dianne feinstein from california, christopher dodd from connecticut, ron wyden from oregon, frank lautenberg from new jersey, patty murray from washington -- the state of washington, arlen specter from pennsylvania, mary can't well and mary landrieu from louisiana. they recognized how important this was. they recognized we were trying to solve major problems for people, especially in rural amplest i think it would be worthwhile to reflect back on the 2003 debate and remember the reasons this issue inspired such strong bipartisan consensus. you don't hear it at all from that side now. after the program has proven its efficacy and has proven that it works. we supported the medicare advantage program six years ago because we knew it was the right thing to do for beneficiaries and the same logic holds true today. we owe it to beneficiaries to provide a strong, adequately funded program that provides them with high-quality health care choices. during the finance committee's consideration of -- and by the way, every medicare beneficiar

in missouri, christopher bonn. in nebraska, mike johanns, in nevada john enson. in new hampshire, judd gregg. in north carolina, richard burke. in ohio, george voinovich. in oklahoma, tom coburn and james inhofe. in south carolina, jim dementhe and lindsey graham. in tennessee, alexander and bob corker. in texas, john cornyn and kay bailey hutchinson. in utah, robert bennett and orrin hatch. in wyoming, john bo rah sew and michael enby. please remember these names. these are people who have stole health care for this country -- who have staaled health care in this country. they watched as day after day, month after month, people get sick and even die because they have no health coverage. i assure each and every one of you that have done anything to obstruct health care, people will remember. maybe not the people who die, but the people who loved them. the people whose names i read at our website, namesofthedead.com. these are people who are gone but the names, the list grows every single day until we solve this problem. then in the end, when we do solve this prob

we went to press conference to hear christopher kelly. the crackdown starts now. >> the most controversial of all the issues, is accommodation. main recommendation here is that support for mortgage interest should cease and that in future, members of parliament should only be reimbursed for the cost of rent or in a few cases with you that offer is better value for money, hotels. >> a new parliamentary standard authority is in charge of bringing in the rules. sir christopher kelly had a stern warning for them not to pick and choose from his recommendations. >> it is intended to a package as a whole. i hope you see it has been quite carefully constructed in order to address some of the issues people have been raised. i think sherry-picking is a very, a very bad idea because once you open up something like this, who knows where it will, where it will stop. >> next the expenses road show moved onto the floor of house of commons. speaker john burke, announced kelly would be head of new parliamentary standards authority. mp. were less than impr

bush, ben bernanke, while hank paulsen, and while christopher cox were there.when he was in charge of the s.e.c. enabled companies to leverage one to 30. republican has enabled me to lose my savings on wall street. now, to come on a show and jen ewe dplect genuflect may be good for your party but it doesn't do anything for me, the person who is out here, who invested, who lost his savings. guest: we have a lot of anger and a lot of anger towards what happened. we did have republicans at the treasury, that's true. we had the credit expansion that went on for 20 years. it went on under bill clinton and it went on under george bush. there is plenty of blame to go around. i don't think -- if you look, i don't think you would find too many innocent people in washington. one thing that i will say, and that's republicans in the house, during the clinton administration, we warned that these no-down payment loans, and extending loans to fannie and freddie and a lot of banks to people with bad credit without any money down and we did warn about that. we said that this wa

the harvard sociologists christopher jinx noted that the state of iowa, which was 90% white and 98% middle class commercial with the same decline in trouble, tense, and he analyzed various explanations and concluded the only plausible one was over the decades since the end of the second world war american schools had become less oriented to content to coherent academic subject matter. schoolbooks following suit had become watered-down in substance and vocabulary. this chart represents a calamity for the country. as tragic as a war or hurricane and in some ways worse because the effects are more widespread and they have been more in during. i guess my seemed his behalf to dig ourselves out of this educational hole and get back on track. this next chart shows that we are showing no signs of doing so. it's the longitudinal pattern of verbal competence from the nation's report card. the top line represents 12th graders, the middle line is great eight and the bottom-line greed for and there's been an uptick and fourth grade representing improvement and the teaching of decoding skills but no imp

thank you. >> christopher, was there a perception in the usa that participation would be inevitable?enior in the state. from the national security council, i warned london about this in the middle of the summer, that we were, i thought, being taken for granted. it was assumed partly because we were engaged in the contingency planning on the military side. i assume that what tony blair had said it in private to bush would be public the next day. there was an assumption. the brits were going to be there. i would say that london had been taken for granted. by the way, what about air services and steel tariffs? >> your suggesting that we did not use the interest that we had as positive things we could have done? >> if i put it charitably, we underestimated the leverage at our disposal. >> you are traveling about the country a lot, and there is not a lot of support for the war? >> it is not that it was building opposition to the war, it was simply that -- i went to 45, maybe more cities, and he did not get that patriotic surge of people punching the air, let's go get saddam. people were a

host: christopher, detroit. the morning. caller: i am 61. i served in vietnam.y the rules. 20% down on my first home. i used to have a great deal of hope for this country. a couple of comments, we appear to be the same country only on the surface. i am sorry to say things like this and be down and out, i used to be an optimistic person. i would never take the judgment of a stockbroker ever again in my life. i do not trust most politicians. i am not sure who to trust, anymore. to tell you the truth. i do not give up entirely. apparently the color of red is not in the spectrum of people that run this country. a wide spectrum of long-term capital management, we would think that we would have learned from that. the asian contagion. even the former secretary of state under clinton said that they made a mistake pouring money into thailand and suddenly the currency was not worth what they thought it was and a collapse like dominoes, speaking of -- and it collapsed like dominoes, speaking of domino theories. this is a structural and i am sorry to see that. one more thin

christopher dodd kept the flame of ted kennedy and the spirit of doing the right thing and doing a goodng and return to the highest about use of of this country. this is a happy day. mitch mcconnell said on the floor that we will go home and hear our constituents or elegances bel pre i don't believe that. i believe that the negativity that leader mitch mcconnell and others have continually displayed on the floor has peaked. now, when people learn what is actually in the bill and all the good it does, it will become more and more popular because it is good for america, good for the american people, and the true symbol of what we can do if we all pull together. [no audio] >> after the senate passed the health care bill, the president spoke briefly with reporters at the white house. >> members of the senate voted to pass a health care bill that was revolutionary purposes a century-long struggle to reform the american health-care system. ever since teddy roosevelt first call for reform in 1912, seven presidents, democrats and republicans alike, have taken up the cause of reform. time and ti

christopher was diagnosed with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder. when he was 9-year-old he was secluded 75 times in the time out room uc shown on both monitors. although this room was unlocked, a staff person would hold the door shut so that christopher could not leave. you might wonder what this boy did it to be secluded in his room 75 different times. i have in my hand copies of the 75 locks that document these incidences. the monitors show excerpts from these logs. as you can see, christopher was being punished for making noises, waving his hands, chewing on his shirt and fidgeting. he teams from our 10 cases include, first, as i mentioned, most of these children had disabilities. the second, prone or the restraints the restrict breathing can be deadly. third, staff were not properly trained, and fourth, those found responsible for the abusive use of seclusion and restraint continued to be licensed and work with children. for example, one teacher was found to have physically abused the boy by restraining him until he died. this teacher was place

he turned over that mantle to senator christopher dodd of connecticut, who did an admirable job with the senate health, education, and labor committee. they prepared and had hearings. they entertained hundreds of amendments, and, in fact, i believe there were over 160 amendments that were considered by the republicans and many of them were adopted in the "help" committee. senator coburn of oklahoma filed 212 amendments during the "help" committee markup. he offered 38 amendments to the bill. 19 of his amendments -- half of them -- were agreed to. of those that were not agreed to -- of those that were offered, 15 were not agreed to, all by roll call vote. so 13 amendments offered by the senator from oklahoma were included in the bill that is before us today. he has questioned whether or not the current procedure gives him an opportunity to offer amendments. the fact is, we are now on our 21st day of considering health care reform. exactly four amendments have been offered by the republican side of the aisle, four substantive amendments to change provisions in this bill of 2,000 pages.

christopher hitchens justified it in those terms. the intervention in iraq was a disaster. it took a situation that was bad, it certainly was bad under saddam hussein and made it much worse. afghanistan was certainly in a very bad situation under the taliban who were doing some terrible things and the situation now is a good deal worse with no end in sight. and the taliban at the very least there was security for most of the country. now there's a generalized insecurity. it seems to be getting worse, not better. so again, there's lack of consideration for the potential of humanitarian intervention to do tremendous harm. another problem with humanitarian intervention is cost. acts of war are extremely expensive. in the case of yugoslavia it was relatively cheap. a mere of tens of billions of dollars. the current estimate for the long-term cost of war in iraq is about $3 trillion. that's from linda billman's of harvard and george stiglitz of columbia. for afghanistan, i haven't seen any estimates but it also undoubtedly would have to be at least in the hundreds of billions. a

if you ask people like paul berman or christopher hitchens why, for example, they supported the war in iraq, they will tell you that it was in the former yugoslavia that they got the idea that intervention could be a positive force. and so yugoslavia, i would see, as a central point here. and much of the humanitarian discourse that we have today -- and again, that acts as justification for the u.s., continuing u.s. intervention in the near east and persian gulf region -- much of that comes from a certain understanding of what happened in yugoslavia. i am going to argue in this talk as i argue in my book, this understanding is incorrect. the generally-accepted view of what we know about what happened in yugoslavia is substantially wrong, all right? and, you know, we now have a great deal of new information on the yugoslav war, and in particular the new information is a vast number of memoirs by participants, reports by governments including a 6,000-page analysis by the dutch parliament, and i think most importantly the war crimes trial by the international criminal tribunal at the hague

by europeans brought with it beginning with christopher columbus tremendous slaughter of native people urge other countries to confront their histories and we may as well do that as well. on health care issue, i happen to think it is a human rights. we may not like or empathize with some people. still, it is a human right as should be education. if someone's house of business were burning down, with the look of their insurance card to decide whether to send the fire department first? people's bodies are sometimes on fire with disease and illness. if we do not believe it to be a public trust are human right, then we have not yet ascended to a sense of human responsibility and social compact to each other. host: let -- back to the president's speech in oslo. the president tried to address history in terms of the evil we have faced in this country and around the world. >> another is nothing week, nothing passive, nothing naive in the greed and lives of gandhi and dr. king, but as the head of state sworn to protect and my nation, i cannot be guided alone by their principals. i face the wor

we now conclude with christopher yoo, university of pennsylvania professor of law.oks and articles that flowed from his pen. he has clerked for justice anthony kennedy and appellate judge arthur raymond randolph, and is taught that brand of bill university law school, and as usual he is a harvard university law graduate. we welcome you today, sir. >> thank you chairman conyers, ranking member smith and members of the committee. i'm grateful for the opportunity to testify in the subject of piracy of live sports broadcasting. today mosaddegh intention has been focused on the unauthorized copying of pre-recorded television. today's hearing provides welcome attention on the unique problems and challenges posed by piracy of live television. the wide range of companies offer devices that take advantage of what is known as the analog whole to enable users to copy high-definition television programming directly to personal computers. these devices typically connected the component videoport on cable and television set-top boxes which are the trio of red, green and blue jack

host: christopher, thank you for your call. the president traveled to allentown on friday, and on tuesday of this week, at brookings, he will be delivering what the white house is calling a major speech on jobs. the president giving a preview in his saturday address. this is part of what he said. it is true we as a country were in eye different place than we were in 2009. because of the recovery acts and other zeps we've taken were no longer facing the financial collapse of our system or a second great depression. we're no longer losing jobs at the rate of 7,000 a month, and the country is growing. in the coming days i will introduce programs aimed at accelerating job growth and emurging from this economic storm. so we don't face another crisis like this again, i am determined to meet our responsibilities to do what we know will strengthen our economy in the long run. that's why i am not going to let up on giving our children what is the best education in the world, and energy independence by investing in a clean nfering energy

nobody would turn down christopher reeve so anybody you ever heard of in hollywood is in this series. and they all did it free. astonishingly. and they had a choice. big names. they had a choice and they turned down astonishing people. that is available for teachers and schools. >> host: it is a dvd but you told me the book? >> guest: the book is out of print and that is awful and that is because of the war between texting and trade it was called a trade book so folks -- schools could not buy it. i said in west virginia with the state school board and they wanted to buy the books for all of the students in west virginia. that is a lot of students they would not sell that to them because this salesperson did not have it in his list. what ever. it was a lose louis. the school people were furious and they have a chip on their shoulders. we are not good enough? that is one of the frustrations of trying to bring through a new idea to have real books in the schools. i got an e-mail from an administrative it wanted to buy 1,000 copies price said i am sorry there out of print and last i heard

s christopher cox. mr. khuzami, is the s.e.c. widening its investigation to include the issue of bank of america's failure to disclose to its shareholders the mounting losses at merrill lynch, known or knowable by mid-november, 2008, weeks before, weeks before the shareholder vote on the merger? >> congressman, we have been and are looking at all aspects of the activity with respect to the proxy statements including the fourth quarter losses of merrill lynch. >> is that a yes or a no? >> that's a yes. >> if it is a yes, then the work of this committee has been worthwhile, because you now have a chance to do your job because we have done ours and the information that we have uncovered should facilitate your investigation. i thank the gentleman. i thank the chair. i yield back. >> thank you very much. now i yield to the gentleman from missouri, mr. luetkemeyer. >> thank you, mr. chairman. mr. khuzami, mr. bernanke and paulsen were negotiating with merrill lynch and bank of america and sort of came to an agreement, yet they didn't d

. >> my second question is, what do you think about christopher buckley's book?>> chris has been a friend of mine for a long time and an editor of mine. i notice that he ran forbes fyi, he was the first editor for a number of years. he also sent out three by five cards every time i wrote a piece. and i thought that is very nice to see that being carried out. chris is writing about his parents' death, and i was writing about billy's life. so it was two different tasks, two different books. >> another question, going towards the back gentleman there. >> up from liberalism, i think 07 team. early '60s. in the course of my life, i watched conservative reached a pinnacle with the election of ronald reagan. would you agree that it has changed, and do you think that is a good or a bad thing? >> i think there was a very depressing consequence of republicans taking over the house in 1994 and running it through 2006, and the consequence was corruption. it was just getting to used to being there, the case three -- the k street connections. who was the congressman from penns

among those taking part, majority leader harry reid, finance committee chair max baucus, christopherhealth committee chair, tom harkin. that will be at 1:15 p.m. eastern. also, president obama will be making an announcement about government efficiency. live coverage from the white house when it gets underway at 11:30 a.m. eastern. we will have it here for you on c-span. until then, united nations secretary-general ban ki-moon on the climate change summit in copenhagen. he discusses the group reached between the u.s. and several large developing nations. this is about 25 minutes. >> good morning. it is a great pleasure to see you. i just came back yesterday afternoon after attending this conference on climate change in copenhagen. on saturday morning in copenhagen, i had a press conference with your colleagues who were attending copenhagen. today i am pleased to meet with you basically to the answers the questions of which you may have the last time i did not have much time to answer questions. i have a security council briefing at 10:00 on important african issues. first of all, let

we now conclude with christopher yue. we welcome you today. >> thank you. i am grateful for the opportunity to testify today on the subject of piracy of blood sports broadcasting. today most of the attention has been focused on pre-recorded television. today's hearing provides welcome the attention on the unique problems and challenges posed by piracy of live television. a wide range of companies offer devices that take advantages of what is known as that analog hole. because these ports have data and an analog format that lack the sophisticated copyright protection built into the digital format, once live television program has and captured and stored on the computer, the person must find a way to distribute it. one plate of doing so is streaming video, in which the copier establishes an internet connection. those making unauthorized copies of live television program have increasingly used this method. the content is saved in a file that is sent to and stored by multiple and users throughout the network. because the syst

host: in houston is christopher. you support the bill. caller: thank you c-span and the congress. for too long, there have been healthcare gaps. we all discern quality healthcare i had to get my shoulder looked at. it wasn't anything major. the emergency roam was full of people. real diverse. i put down my united healthcare card. i was called right away. they got a wheelchair for me. i saw a doctor immediately. all those people were looking at me. i got my x ray. by the time i came out, everything was on the computer. they told me ied a simple strain. prescribed me. host: given that story, why does that make you supportive of that bill? caller: i'm not a person that because i got mine and you got yours, hey, too bad. i'm a christian but i'm a person as a christian, i can't just look at what i have and not a lookout for the next person. for your children to be able to live. host: how closely have you been following this debate? caller: from the beginning to the end. the sdrats, they did a good job. punch yourself out. they did that. democrats won in the end. this bill will be passe

by europeans brought with it beginning with christopher columbus tremendous slaughter of native peoplecountries to confront their histories and we may as well do that as well. on health care issue, i happen to think it is a human rights. we may not like or empathize with some people. still, it is a human right as should be education. if someone's house of business were burning down, with the look of their insurance card to decide whether to send the fire department first? people's bodies are sometimes on fire with disease and illness. if we do not believe it to be a public trust are human right, then we have not yet ascended to a sense of human responsibility and social compact to each other. host: let -- back to the president's speech in oslo. the president tried to address history in terms of the evil we have faced in this country and around the world. >> another is nothing week, nothing passive, nothing naive in the greed and lives of gandhi and dr. king, but as the head of state sworn to protect and my nation, i cannot be guided alone by their principals. i face the world as it is

host: in houston is christopher. you support the bill. caller: thank you c-span and the congress. too long, there have been healthcare gaps. we all discern quality healthcare i had to get my shoulder looked at. it wasn't anything major. the emergency roam was full of people. real diverse. i put down my united healthcare card. i was called right away. they got a wheelchair for me. i saw a doctor immediately. all those people were looking at me. i got my x ray. by the time i came out, everything was on the computer. they told me ied a simple strain. prescribed me. host: given that story, why does that make you supportive of that bill? caller: i'm not a person that because i got mine and you got yours, hey, too bad. i'm a christian but i'm a person as a christian, i can't just look at what i have and not a lookout for the next person. for your children to be able to live. host: how closely have you been following this debate? caller: from the beginning to the end. the sdrats, they did a good job. punch yourself out. they did that. democrats won in the end. this bill will be passed an

former congressman christopher shays is one of the cochairs of this group. they are hearing from people from the defense department, department of state, talking about wartime contract in iraq and afghanistan. it began there could be a civilian police experience. these are individuals and the police and they are uniformly drawn from civil policing personnel from the united states and civil policing is one of the critical functions that is being mentored to build up the afghan police. moreover, their presence and the way they conduct themselves provides up corporate professional model, an ethical models of how a police officer should conduct himself in performing civil police think operations. as the ministry -- i believe the government contractors that we have worked with discuss various issues related to the development of those ministers over last several years. they're exceptionally well qualified. these are major challenges of course in terms of building up these ministries. it is for them to have the capability to manage themselves and to manage the arm

we see where christopher dodd is in the polls -- he was in it right from the beginning, all the way throughgetting a sweetheart loans, no? you seem to have the same nam you seem to have the same nam but you don't seem to agree what you seem to have the same name, but you do not seem to agree with what he said. what is a good example for government? host: thank you for that. guest: you raise a lot of issues. one of the reasons we talked about the reckless loans, and a lot of irresponsible lending was going on. the are aiming in the wrong direction. they are aiming at community borrowers as opposed to the financial institutions. u.s. -- he referred to the community reinvestment act. the federal reserve board did a study last year. only 6% of the problematic ones -- 6% -- where recovered under the community reinvestment act. again, 6%. almost 95% had nothing to do with that. they had nothing to do with -- they had to do with wall street investment bankers and others who had no involvement with cra. i absolutely understand your concern about deficit spending. we are really in a mess. here is th

we give small business every opportunities to succeed, which is why i joined with representative christopher carney to urge the extension of an immediate tax break for newly purchased business equipment. extending this tax break will provide immediate relief for businesses that purchase deappreciateable property, such as equipment, vehicles, furniture, machinery, buildings and other items. our small businesses need ever break they can get these days. they are the engine that drives our economy and creates jobs. this tax break helps small businesses and stimulates the local economy. we cannot afford to let it expire. and i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields back the balance of his time. for what purpose does the gentleman from georgia rise? mr. gingrey: to address the house for one minute and to revise and extend. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, so ordered. mr. gingrey: mr. speaker, i ask you to take a look at the economic challenges that faces our country. across the united states, employment is at a 26-year high, 10.2%, and more than 2.8 million jobs have

we now conclude with christopher yoo, university of pennsylvania professor of law.numbers of books and articles have flowed from his pen. he's clerked for justice anthony kennedy and appellate judge arthur raymond randolph and has taught at vanderbilt university law school and as usual he's a harvard university law graduate. we welcome you today, sir. >> thank you, chairman conyers, ranking member smith, members of the committee, i'm grateful to testify on the subject of privacy of live sports broadcasting. to date most of the attention has been focused on unauthorized coping of prerecorded television. today's hearing is the unique challenges of privacy of live television. a wide range of companies offer devices that take advantages is what is known as the analog hole to enable end user does to copy high definition television programming directly to personal computers. thedevices typically connect to the component video ports on cable and set-top boxes which are the trio of green, blue jacks on the back of a wide range of boxes. because they comport data in a analog

colleagues, including democrat senators, such as -- democratic senators such as diane feinstein, christopher dodd, ron by deny, frank lautenberg, patty murray, arlen specter, mary landrieu, and maria cantwell. now, mr. president, here's a letter dated 30 september, 2003. and it says, "dear medicare conferee:" it says united states senate, and it's signed by a number of senators, including my colleague, senator kerry. "we're asking" addition -- "we're writing to ask you as a member of the medicare conference committee to ensure that the final medicare bill includes a meaningful increase in medicare choice funding in fiscal years 2004-2005." so i guess that my friend and colleague, senator kerry, was against cuts in funding before he was for it. he was against them before he was for them. so anyway, it goes on to say, "you strongly support additional medicare choice funding for two very important reasons. one, to protect the health care choices and benefits of the nearly 5 million medicare beneficiaries who are currently enrolled in private-sector health plans. and, two, to strengthen the foun

sir christopher other telegrams or communications not made available to him from the archive we shall be pursuing fact assuming there is a documentary survival we shall have those in the information we have already got and that is still being added. that includes the first of our sessions on the anglo u.s. dimension. tomorrow we pursue the same theme with mr. green stock of our witness in the morning with the united states and interlocked united nations aspect for i thank you for your time this morning and our witnesses. thank you. >> thank you very much. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. reid: mr. president, i said when the senate opened today and when the senate opened today and >> mr. president i said with the senate opened today and i will say again, because of the long hours we have spent here, four weeks, there is a lot of tension in the senate. and feelings are high and people have very strong concerns but what we have done and have to do but i hope everybody would go back to their gentlemanly ways and i would hope, i am trying to figure out how to say this, johnson

we see where christopher dodd is in the polls -- he was in it right from the beginning, all the way throughng a sweetheart loans, no? you seem to have the same name but you don't seem to agree what went on. and now our government is continuing to borrow and cent -- said a poor example. almost thing they want to make businesses take loans they probably shouldn't be taking. where is the good example from the government? guest: you raise a lot of issues. let me walk through a few. one of the reasons that he -- we hear so much about the reckless loans, and most people now have come to understand that there was a lot of irresponsible lending. but they are aiming in the long direction. they are aiming at the community and the borrowers as opposed to the financial institutions that offer these data products. for example, you referred to the community reinvestment act. the federal reserve board actually did a study because they wanted to purge the misperception offered in the market -- only 6% of these problematic loans, 6%, were excellent covered under the community reinvestment act to low and mod

i would urge my colleagues to read a recent on-ed in "the new york times" by nicholas christophe. he said for the cost of one u.s. soldier deployed in afghanistan we could build 20 schools in afghanistan. let me repeat that. the cost of one american soldier in afghanistan for a year we could build 20 schools in afghanistan. not only that, it seems the administration have failed to look into the best way forward. madam speaker, without the support of the local leaders who have the respect of the afghan people, nothing we do will work or be sustainable. madam speaker, i ask unanimous consent to insert the article into the record. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, so ordered. mr. mcgovern: i also continue to be deeply troubled about the karzai government. today, president karzai's scheduled to convene a three-day conference on corruption. at a minimum, this conference is supposed to provide a forum where the afghanistan government admits publicly that it runs on bribery, cronyism, which in turn fuels the taliban insurgency. president karzai called this conference not becaus

we expect christopher dodd to present this next year. >> that is an update. thank you for joining us. >> happy to. >> you can watch the house tomorrow as members continue to work on the regulation bill. live coverage at 9:00 a.m. eastern here on c-span. coming up tonight on c-span, treasury secretary timothy geithner speaks about tarp program. then nancy pelosi's weekly briefing. democrats on the house energy committee to discuss the controversy surrounding leaked emails from british climate researchers. then an update on the swine flu. on tomorrow's "washington journal" we will discuss health care with allison shorts. we will discuss about the future of iraq with general robert caslen. >> this weekend, a look at climate change with former and vice president al gore. then a discussion about those that deny the existence of a global warming. and then we will discuss a book about antonin scalia. afterwards, a book on google. >> timothy geithner told a panel overseeing the tarp that the government had to beware of declaring victory too soon in the financial cris

the stage for these violations set by former sec chairman christopher cox.hairman discouraged formal investigations are and security fraudsters. bank of america's country was the corporate reaction to years of weakening enforcement at the sec under chairman cox. chairman shapiro made efforts to turn the policy around. i applaud the sec for enforcing the law in the case of the nondisclosure of 9 merrill, failure to disclose accelerated losses at merrill lynch before the shareholder vote is more significant. indeed. those undisclosed losses dwarf the amount of undisclosed bonuses. the reliance on counsel defense asserted by ken lewis raises the broader question, will the securities and exchange commission allow corporate management to rely on the advice of counsel defense and then allow the counsel to avoid liability for their advice? the investing public, and now this congressman wants to know, where is the sec? as of yet, we don't know. thank you. >> thank you, gentleman for your state. i yield five minutes to the ranking member of the domestic policy subcom

christopher kelly is the chief privacy officer at facebook. mr.dible] we want to thank the witnesses for their patients and appearance before the subcommittee this morning. will you please stand and raise your right hand. do you solemnly swear to tell the whole truth, and nothing but the truth? let it reflect that all the witnesses were silent and their affirmative. we now ask the witness is to enter into opening statements. you are recognized for five minutes. please turn the microphone on and go. >> thank you. my name is edward feldman. i am here as a technologist. i am a computer science professor and like to explain some of the technology behind the liberal advertising. the most serious privacy concerns are raised not by advertising but at the gathering of information about users that can be used either to target ads or for other purposes. i would like to describe what technology makes possible. response will add services do not do everything that is possible and i do not mean to imply otherwise. otherwise can describe what their own systems d

i am christopher shays.e commission on wartime contracting in iraq and afghanistan. thank you for attending this hearing on contractor training of afghan national security forces. this opening statement is made on behalf of my co-chairman, michael tebow, who is not here because of a family emergency. our fellow commissioners and myself. the other commissioners at the dais are grant green to my right. to my left, charles tefer and also participating is robert dixon, the executive director who heads our staff of 50 and deserves your sympathy for having eight commissioners who are the bosses. our hearing could not be more timely. after eight years of throwing the taliban machine that it sheltered al qaeda terrorists, the united states has about 70,000 troops in the country. our president has decided after consulting with military leaders to send another 30,000 americans there. the congressional research service estimated just this week that the troop surge in afghanistan could raise the number of d.o.d. contrac

we see where christopher dodd is in the polls -- he was in it right from the beginning, all the way throughgetting a sweetheart loans, no? you seem to have the same name but you don't seem to agree what went on. and now our government is continuing to borrow and cent -- said a poor example. almost thing they want to make businesses take loans they probably shouldn't be taking. where is the good example from the government? guest: you raise a lot of issues. let me walk through a few. one of the reasons that he -- we hear so much about the reckless loans, and most people now have come to understand that there was a lot of irresponsible lending. but they are aiming in the long direction. they are aiming at the community and the borrowers as opposed to the financial institutions that offer these data products. for example, you referred to the community reinvestment act. the federal reserve board actually did a study because they wanted to purge the misperception offered in the market -- only 6% of these problematic loans, 6%, were excellent covered under the community reinvestment act to low an