i think as an advocate in the clinton administration and other places you have tried to push the law in an ethical way. in a particular way consistent with your philosophy and your political leanings. and i just want my colleagues to know that is okay with me. the thing that would not be okay with me if i thought you were unethical and you did it in a way outside the process that we call the rule of law. so i wish you well and i know your family's proud of you and i think you've accorded yourself well for the last several days. >> thank you, senator graham. >> thank you, senat graham. let me -- i don't think we need to do this but let me just go over your 2009 confirmation hearings when you were asked about the partial birth abortion decision. you repeatedly stated that you would respect gonzales versus carr hart which the court rejected a facial challenge to the federal partial birth abortion act based on stare decisis. that's what you said in the last hearing. i assume that's your position today? >> absolutely, senator, that the gonzales case is settled law entitled to all the prec

he said, quote, there were problems except for the blip during the clinton administration. that's right. there was 40 years of democrat control in this house as they brought our financial situation closer and closer to the day we are now and as my democratic colleague pointed out, there was a blip during the clinton administration after the contract with america, when republicans took over. and they balanced the budget. the president can't do that, this congress has to do that. what we have to show this year? no budget. as one of our democratic colleagues said, back in 2006, if you can't put together a budget, you can't govern. this year, they didn't put together a budget, so according to our democratic friend, they cannot govern. and i'm proud to be joined by my friend, congresswoman virginia foxx, and i would be proud to yield to her such time as she needs. ms. foxx: thank you, congressman gohmert. i wasn't subjected to listening to the entire last hour, but i am responding to your email. we know for a long time that our colleagues who just preceded us have often been on

during the last year of the clinton administration we had a -- we added 1.9 million new jobs, i tell my friend from texas. 1.9 million new jobs in america, and it was a slowdown period. during the last year of the bush administration, after the economic policies that were pursued from 2001 and 2002 and 2003 and through 2009, even though we took the congress we couldn't do anything because the president would veto legislation and did in fact veto legislation, 3.8 million americans lost their jobs. that's a difference of 1 dch 9 million new -- 1.9 million new jobs during the last month of the clinton administration. is there any wonder why there is pain in america and families are in great distress and they are angry and they have angst and we share that? today does not solve the problem but today reaches out to those folks in distress and say in the short term on an emergency basis we are going to continue to give you help so you can support your families. in this the wealthiest nation on the face of this earth. you worked hard, you paid in and through no fault of your own you lost you

a stark contrast with the clinton administration that created 21 million private sector jobs in 96 hons as opposed to the net 1 million jobs created during the 96 months of the bush administration. oaf eight years of president bush, our economy added just a million private sector jobs. it was president bush who ran a 2.13 trillion dollars in deficits. and wiped out the biggest surpluss in american history. an inheritance of 5. trillion dollars, a national debt of some five plus trillion dollars turned into a national debt of 10-plus trillion dollars. that record is not an abrasion how far. a deck -- in decade after decade, the democrats performed better than on the economy than republicans. some may be surprised to hear that. market analysis -- analysts larry greenberg studied administrations from john kennedy to george bush and found that, and i quote, jobs grew more slowly for each of the republicans than for any of the democrats. princeton political scientist larry bartal studied administrations from truman to bush and he found to quote a summary of his work, quote, when a republican

it was the clinton administration that made the decision initially, not the bush administration. isn't that correct? >> yes, we found the clinton administration has omitted price thresholds from some of those that were issued. my administration would put price threshold on the new leases. there has been a lot of litigation about that. i will not -- not go through the history. >> in hindsight, we should have had a price trigger. we put them in place for future -- the clinton administration did not have it in place at the time. prices were so low that they were not honored. my time has expired. i thank my witnesses for being here. >> thank you. you were secretary when they had the bp continental well left. is that correct? >> yes. >> and there was a lease sale 34 million. we won the championship, but one thing we were struggling with was a bad act of policy. there were will fall by deal -- willful and valuations. -- violations. could you have said, we will not let you draw in this area based on your past record? >> i do not believe that is part of the current matrix. >> should it b

in fact, problems in our first set of hearings go all the way back to the clinton administration. let us make it very clear. those problems were well-known during the entire bush administration, and for those eight years, a change did not occur. sadly, mr. secretary, during the year and a half of your administration, the change did not occur. i know that it seems like a very little bit of time, but if in fact the 20 or so bindings that have occurred by your own gao and findings had been put together by the work of this committee sooner, i believe this could have been prevented. having said that, we need to look to the future. we need to look to real change in the minerals management service. i personally would not like to see it broken into three even smaller parts, but rather have the real success, either as an independent agency, or as one that has a level of clarity for the american people, much more similar to the epa. we need to have that. we need to have the american people understand that the proper revenue that has not come to the american people is a factor. the proper con

during the last year of the clinton administration we had a -- we added 1.9 million new jobs, i tell my friend from texas. 1.9 million new jobs in america, and it was a slowdown period. during the last year of the bush administration, after the economic policies that were pursued from 2001 and 2002 and 2003 and through 2009, even though we took the congress we couldn't do anything because the president woulveto legislation and did in fact veto legislation, 3.8 million americans lost their jobs. that's a difference of 1 dch 9 million new -- 1.9 million new jobs during the last month of the clinton administration. is there any wonder why there is pain in america and families are in great distress and they are angry and they have angst and we share that? today does not solve the problem but today reaches out to those folks in distress and say in the short term on an emergency basis we are going to continue to give you help so you can support your families. in this the wealthiest nation on the face of this earth. you worked hard, you paid in and through no fault of your own you lost your

miss kagan was also the point person for the clinton administration's effort to bl k block -- abortions. perhaps she was the key person who convinced president obama to cha who convinced president clinton to change his mind on that precedure.clinton to change his mind on that precedure. her actions punished the military and defeened our soldiers as they fought in two wars over seas. as someone who feels the burden of sending young men and women into harm's way, to ensure military resucruiters were treae fairly, i can't take this issue lightly. dean kagan also joined with three over law school deans to write a letter in opposition to senator graham's legislation for determining who was an enemy combatant for the war on terror. she most recently, the nominee served as solicitor general for little over a year. but her shortenure there has not been without controversy. in her first appellate argument, miss kagan told the court that the first amendment would allow the federal government of banniban banning pam plephlets -- thomas pain's common sense. to suggest that the government now has th

of the clinton administration. i look forward to their experience as former cabinet secretaries and former state elected officials. i question now as private citizens they can really provide the committee information as full and complete as we could otherwise obtained through agency documents through the current secretary of the interior. today secretary salazar will appear on a second panel. mr. secretary, mr. salazar, if you're watching on c-span, please come to the committee room. we need you appear. the american people need to hear. the people of the gulf coast of louisiana need to appear. this means oversight of the administration in power, not past administrations. committee request for documents from the department of interior have amounted to 2000 pages, a few e-mails, and other information. i hope we press for more cooperation, mr. chairman. by contrast, majority with minority support has aggressively investigated the companies associated with the disaster. 120,000 pages of documents all in the middle of o

cities had frozen other pullbacks because the palestinian authority as is widely known by the clinton administration and by the bush administration after that have made egregious violations of international law and murdered israelis so i wonder whether after the seven seventy degree lines it all did not whether it. was my mother look at at their i didn't hear you what were you saying go ahead robert go ahead what was that and so you would agree you do agree that the ninety five agreement and then why river did mean for the pull back which was not fulfilled by the israeli. go ahead dan you know both in one thousand nine hundred three exchange of letters the one thousand nine hundred three exchange of letters i'm sure mr fyshe is one of the great scholars of the middle east is aware was all based on the fact that there would be a complete end to palestinian terrorism violence indoctrination and incitement and in fact all of those four. acts of terrorism both verbal and diplomatic as well as physical terror has increased since israel in a very in a great move of passivism a state pacifism had conceded

a stark contrast with the clinton administration, that created 21 million private sector jobs in 96 monthss opposed to the net 1 million jobs of the 96 months of the bush administration. over eight years of president bush, out economy added just 1 million private-sector jobs. it was president bush to grant a $2.13 trillion in deficit and wipe out the biggest surpluses in american history, an inheritance $5.60 trillion, a national debt of some five-plus dollars trillion -- $5 trilli on-plus has turned into $10 to clean-plus. democrats have performed better on the economy that republicans . an economist studied the administration's from john kennedy to george bush, and jobs grew more slowly for each of the republicans than any of the democrats. a princeton political scientist studied income growth from the administrations from harry truman to george w. bush, and he found that "when a republican president is in power, people at the top income distribution experience much larger real income gains than those at the bottom. by contrast, democratic presidents generate higher income gains for all

administration, the loss of these eight million jobs compared to 22 million jobs created under the clinton administration? we're going to come to that during this discussion. it's a fundamental question because it is the question of national policy. during the entire period of the bush administration, by contrast, one million jobs were created in america. again, enormous difference, 2 million versus one million -- 22 million versus one million. again, why? what's the reason for this? and the policy decisions that were made that led to this emore mouse difference here. i tell what you -- enormous difference here. i tell you what we'd like to do for the remainder of this year, create some 900,000 jobs and we're on course to do that. it's going to take a lot of work and it's going to take a lot of changes in policy. beginning with the obama administration, a series of pieces of legislation were put into place. and i'd hike to -- like to just review those pieces of legislation and what they were doing. many of these were designed specifically to deal with the great recession and to prevent the american econo

her praise for certain actions in the clinton administration and as harvard law school dean. miss kagan's record shows that she supports an activist judicial philosophy and that her personal and political views drive her legal views. unfortunately, her hearing before this committee did nothing to counter her record. it stood in stark contrast to criticism of past heari ining v and hollow charades. she was unwilling to discuss what was necessary. she was, of course, free to do so, but her choice added very little to the judiciary committee's understanding her record and her qualifications for serving on the supreme court. to repeat there must be clear and convincing evidence that a judicial nominee, especially a supreme court nominee, understands the power and proper role of judges in our system of government. she must be committed to the principle that the constitution controls judges. that judges may not control the constitution. looking where miss kagan directed to her life and her record, i concurred that she does not meet this standard. i like her personally. i respect he

not since the heyday of the clinton administration was there any execution of a description of what community policing is. and you look at that, it's a vague two-line sentence about what community policing is and has no reference whatsoever to the modern techniques, to the modern techniques, of community policing. interesting enough, in 1994, that was when proposition d, a charter amendment, was put on the ballot. and it was that charter amendment that created a floor of our obligation to have 1,971 police officers in the city and county's police department. that may have been an effective tool now. but if you ask me, when you talk about ideas of now having community policing and if there's really going to be substance to the talk about really unfolding community policing in 10 district stations, which has not happened yet by the way and we'll get into that,en that 1971 figure is now, in my opinion, obsolete. and the employment should seriously look at revising it. not only has it become a blessing for them back then to have a floor of what their offices are, it's become a psychological ceili

good times you're supposed to run a surplus where this kind of got messed up was during the clinton administration they did run a surplus during good times during the bush administration there was a lot of borrowing. there was a lot of spending that's when the deficit started climbing and that was still during good times so then when the deficit got handed over to obama it was nine point two percent of g.d.p. which is the nation's output which is very high now and worse than our interests and now yeah i had a tough position but i think the defense spending is something that is serves a good hard look and no one here in washington is willing to give it that those lauren lyster giving us our economic outlook aren't still ahead tonight's tool time winner just can't keep his mouth shut on a constant pissing off potential voters we'll tell you what g.o.p. senate candidate ken buck said this time that's left him begging for forgiveness and is affirmative action still needed in this country some say yes some say no and as affirmative action which also now applies to asian and latin americans discriminate

when the clinton administration left, they left. and after hearing president obama talk about the cozy relationship between the people in the government managing minerals and big oil, i had a hunch and checked and sure enough, one of the persons, i was told had been involved and had direct knowledge about the language being pulled that cost us so many billions of dollars and made it for companies like b.p. found out she had gone to work for british petroleum when she left the clinton administration. and in june of last year, she came back to work for the same people that manage the affairs of british petroleum offshore. . the president knew what he was talking about. he helped create a can cozy relationship tweep those who were supposed to keep big oil hoppest and big oil. we found out -- honest and big oil. we found out b.p. had safety violation understand that administration dealt with those in a strong way. by giving them a safety award for wonderful safety record. and yet they were apparently the only company that had that kiped

tiny fraction of the land, and the settlement blocs even under the bush administration and clinton administrationere supposed to be part of israel. we are feeling sometimes that when the palestinian pushes it to the corner, want first of all to make the continuation of moratorium a litmus test. it's bringing things ad absurdum. >> charlie: you have said how important it is to have these direct talks now. if it makes it more politically viable for them to engage in the direct talks, why don't you simply say what you have just said, which i read to what you have just said to say, "we're prepared to perhaps do a mortum but come talk before we make that announcement." why not do the moratorium and then talk? >> i say the palestinians cannot hold the kind of -- the two ends. when we initiated, it was unprecedented. my government never did it. rabin never did it. olmert didn't do it. the negotiators, all of us. out of all people, bibi did opposite end of spectrum, now they treated it as something -- it's nothing. they say it's nothing. doesn't matter. now, they said just few months ago doesn't matter.

in 1995 miss kagan joined the clinton administration as a associate counsel, but i know of no policy that she had with don't ask don't tell with whether clinton. when she was appointed dean of the harvard law school in 2003 she began to loudly condemn the law calling it a profound wrong and moral injustice of the first order, disregarding the fact that the 1993 law was approved by strong bipartisan majorities in congress. she also knowingly defied the particular law that we've heard about the solomon amendment which concerns military recruitment. as dean, miss kagan treated military recruiters as second-class citizens and she did not allow the military to recruit an equal basis and called onher students to criticize military personnel. as we've heard on some occasions, she has expressed support for those in uniform, but such superficial gestures could not mitigate her official actions. she apparently was encouraged by a ruling in 2004 by the third circuit court of appeals that the solomon amendment was unconstitutional, but this court had suspend its own ruling pending review by the

and richard clarke, the former white house point person on counterterrorism in the clinton administration and early days of the george w. bush administration. he is now the chairman of good harbor consulting. richard clarke, we heard senator bond say for... we're six years into this experiment of intelligence reform. we have a long way to go. why? what's the basic problem? focus first on the d.n.i.position. >> the problem is you do have these 16 agencies five of which are very large. and suddenly someone is put on top of them who says i'm in charge and i'm going to tell you what to do. when before they were independent. in washington everyone is concerned about their turf, their rights, their prerogatives. no one wants to give up what they had which was control of their own agency to some new coordinator so they've resisted. there's been a whole series of bureaucratic battles fought in washington over the last six years to reassert the influence and control of the agencies as opposed to the this new thing that's been put on top of them. it hasn't worked very well. there's also been sort o

that the clinton administration did not manage to make progress on that issue. president obama said there's no real rational distinction between crack and powder cocaine. for sentencing purposes. the -- and that distinction that does exist is a distinction that has a great deal of racially s disproportionate impact. i know that congress has struggled with this issue. it is a policy issue. quintessentially. it's one that justice kennedy could have said this is a good idea or that's a good idee, but it really is one for congress. it's nothing that the supreme court or that any court can do about it. it's really one that congress has to decide what the sentencing rules ought to be with respect to crack and powder cocaine. president clinton said strongly that it should go down. i tried to the best of my possibility to implement his policy view on that question. president obama believes the same, but as a judge, the only thing that would matter would be the actual statute. and unless and until congress changes that statute, the current sentencing system would be the

, served on the council of economic advisers and the national economic council during the clinton administration. professor cutler has held positions with the national academy of sciences. it is now what the bureau of economic research and a member of the institute of medicine. profsor cutler is the author of of " your money or your life: strong medicine for america's health care system." let's have a great welcome for dr. david cutler. [applause] >> thank you so much for the introduction. thank you to my own wonderful governor and everyone for having me here. that is a great privilege and honor to be here. i suspect, given the health reform debate over the past year or 18 months, you feel a bit like a friend once told me he felt, where it took all the health care economists in the world and you line them up end to end, that would be a good thing. [laughter] i will try not to -- not to play the usual health care economist and tell you what must be done, but rather give you a sense of what might be done and a few thoughts about how to make it happen in a productive way. and i will follow along so

it is a stark contrast with the clinton administration that created 21 million private sector jobs in 96 months, as opposed to the net 1 million jobs created during the 96 months of the bush administration. over eight years of president bush, our economy added just 1 million private sector jobs. it was president bush iran a $2.13 trillion in deficit and wiped out the biggest surpluses in history. the national debt was more than $5 trillion turned into a national debt of more than $10 trillion. that record is not an aberration. decade after decade, democrats are performed better on the economy than republicans. some may be surprised to hear that. market analyst larry greenberg studied administrations from john kennedy to george bush and found that "jobs grew more slowly for each of the republicans than for any of the democrats." princeton political scientist larry bartell studied income growth from truman to george w. bush. he found that when a republican president is in power, people at the top of the income distribution experience much larger real income gains than those at the botto

a stark contrast with the clinton administration that created 21 million private sector jobs in 96 hons as opposed to the net 1 million jobs created during the 96 months of the bush administration. oaf eight years of president bush, our economy added just a million private sector jobs. it was president bush who ran a 2.13 trillion dollars in deficits. and wiped out the biggest surpluss in american history. an inheritance of 5. trillion dollars, a national debt of some five plus trillion dollars turned into a national debt of 10-plus trillion dollars. that record is not an abrasion how far. a deck -- in decade after decade, the democrats performed better than on the economy than republicans. some may be surprised to hear that. market analysis -- analysts larry greenberg studied administrations from john kennedy to george bush and found that, and i quote, jobs grew more slowly for each of the republicans than for any of the democrats. princeton political scientist larry bartal studied administrations from truman to bush and he found to quote a summary of his work, quote, when a republican

>> i was two things in the clinton administration, i was a lawyer for about half the time and i was a policy person for about half the time. >> okay. well, when it came to the partial-birth abortiondebate, there's a memo we have here that talks about if certain phrases were used by the -- what was the group, acog, what was the acronym? >> the american college of obstetricians and gynecologist. >> as i understand it they were going to issue a statement that you thought would be a disaster. and you waned to get the full statement into place. was that because you were worried that if you didn't get what you wanted in place, the court might seize upon that statement and make a different ruling no, sir. it was not. i mean, m -- this was. >> miss kagan, i'm shocked that you say that because if i believe the way you do, that's exactly what i would want. if i really didn't d believe tt partial birth abortion as being proposed was too restrictive and i think you honestly believe that, that you wanted to have the broadest definition possible when it came to partial birth abortion to allow more

lew held the same position in the clinton administration from 1998 to 2001, and he would replace peter orszag, who is leaving at the end of the month. >> if there was a hall of fame for budget directors, then jack lew surely would have earned a place for his service in that role under president clinton, when he helped balance the federal budget after years of deficits. >> lehrer: if confirmed, lew would inherit a budget deficit which has already exceeded a trillion dollars, with a quarter of the fiscal year still left to come. at the same time, a new "washington post"/abc news poll shows the president's handling of the federal budget deficit is the weakest of any issue surveyed. just 40% approve of mr. obama's handling of the deficit, while 56% disapprove. the poll also found that 54% disapprove of the president's handling of the economy. and when respondents were asked how much confidence they had in the president to make decisions for the country's future, 57% said "just some" or "none at all." still, americans showed greater confidence in mr. obama than congressional democrats, who

a stark contrast with the clinton administration that created 21 million private sector jobs in 96 hons as opposed to the net 1 million jobs created during the 96 months of the bush administration. oaf eight years of president bush, our economy added just a million private sector jobs. it was president bush who ran a 2.13 trillion dollars in deficits. and wiped out the biggest surpluss in american history. an inheritance of 5. trillion dollars, a national debt of some five plus trillion dollars turned into a national debt of 10-plus trillion dollars. that record is not an abrasion how far. a deck -- in decade after decade, the democrats performed better than on the economy than republicans. some may be surprised to hear that. market analysis -- analysts larry greenberg studied administrations from john kennedy to george bush and found that, and i quote, jobs grew more slowly for each of the republicans than for any of the democrats. princeton political scientist larry bartal studied administrations from truman to bush and he found to quote a summary of his work, quote, when a republican

and how we got there with the -- were the basic policies, the clinton administration left a surplus a continuing surplus, for the george w. bush administration and had they not changed the policies, it is estimated that by the middle of this decade, we would wipe out the american debt. period. gone. history. but no, they changed the policies and now we're saddled with this debt. the crash. the crash of this economy was caused by reckless action on the part of wall street. reckless, river e-- irresponsible action on the part of wall street. basically, driven by the grossest greed you could possibly imagine. all kinds of inducements to homeowners to engage in mortgages that there's no way they could possibly pay. i know that you're faced with this in your community and action taken on this floor not more than five hours ago, we're coming to that in just a moment. but share with us the experiences in your community about mortgages, about all of the problems of the housing industry and the crash and what's happened in your community. mr. ellison: if the gentleman will yield, you're so rig

cardoza: my colleagues forget that in the clinton administration we created -- not we, because i wasn't here, but the democrats and mr. clinton created 22 million new jobs for america. mr. bush, when he took over, did not in fact inherit a recession, that recession happened after he was in office and it was a severe one. we started to come out of that and again the bush administration policies caused a second recession. when you look at mr. bush's term of office, he did not create all the jobs -- there were some jobs created but they were not private sector jobs as the gentlelady is so fond of talking about. in fact, if you look at the statistics, there were no new private sector jobs created during the bush administration and when mr. bush left office he in fact left a recession that was shedding 750,000-plus jobs a month. and when the good lady from north carolina talks about the fact that there has been job losses during the obama administration, many of those are the carryovers that it took us a while -- you don't turn around the economy overnight. mr. obama can't flip a light switc

those were put in place during the clinton administration, and the clinton administration left as the can see. this is an issue where democrats and republicans will have to work together. i believe in extending tax cuts. this is not a time to be raising taxes, in a recession like we're in right now. extend them. extend them. but let's begin a process, a long-term process of supporting the debt commission that was proposed to come back to congress with some long-term solutions. rand paul wants to say the next year he will propose a balanced budget, but he will not show you what is in it. we have to get back to fiscal responsibility. i challenge him right here and right now to put forward a balanced budget proposal he says he will submit next year in the united states senate. >> the next topic is immigration and foreign labor. agriculture is a labour intensive industry. lately, a finding workers has been quite a challenge. the chair of the farm labor advisory committee knows firsthand how difficult it is to find farmworkers. he has a tobacco, beef and a farm -- tobacco, beef and hay far

under the clinton administration we college the dot.bombs. this second bubble did not come until the later housing boom. there are many causes for that. the bush administration got blind. people turn to the other se. now the economy has not yet turned around. much of politics is time and place. if you were there during good times, you don't have to be that good to survive. a lot of this has to do with time and place. there are a lot of second guess ers. it is very complicated. i and most people would like to see people sitting across the table solving things. we don't have that in washington right now. as long as democrats control both houses, there is no real incentive to talk to us. host: tom davis serve the 11th district of virginia from 1995 until 2008. what about your current group? guest: we are group of republicans now believe in governing. we like to work across party lines, if that is what it takes. we focus more on economic issues than on social issues. we are main street. we have over 40 members of the house and senate who are membe

notwithstanding the fact that i can point out to you that during the course of the clinton administration the dow jones 226% and the nasdaq grew by almost %300. those same statistics are all negative during the bush administration. from decade to decade, democratic policies have supported innovation, the interests of working people, and a better standard of living for all americans. republican policies have objectively favored the privileges and left working americans behind. we might be able to write off their record if republicans gave any indication that they have reconsidered the policies that created it. but, again, as they put it themselves, "we need to go back to the exact same agenda." i do not think americans have that in mind in 2006, 2008, and i do not think they have that in mind in 2010. when you remember that republican behavior over the past month, going back to the agenda makes perfect sense. apologizing to bp when democrats held accountable for its disaster in the gulf of mexico. working with bankers and lobbyists to portray wall street reform as a bailout, putting taxpay

guest: at the end of the clinton administration the top rate was 39.6%. the top rate now is 35%. the top -- the second rate was 36 percent under clinton, now it is 33%. the other rates in the tax rates have been lowered a little bit and the bush tax created 10%. the marginal -- across the board the marginal tax rates went down. under the clinton administration along with republican congress created a new tax credits -- and cut capital gains. host: tax rates for long-term capital gains by middle and upper, people would rise of 50 -- 15% to 20%, and unqualified dividends earned by middle and upper income people would rise from 15% to ordinary wage tax rates. guest: before the bush tax cut dividends were taxed as ordinary income like wages. bush tax cuts in 2003 made it on par, and qualified dividend's the same as long-term capital gains. long-term capital gains would go from 15% to 20% if the bush tax cuts expire for upper-income people. caller: i am calling because i feel like whether you are a republican, democrat, or independent, these situations will affect us all equally. i wan

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