francis collins, then head of the government's human genome project.now director of the national institutes of health. francis collins, welcome. >> nice to be with you. >> brown: so ten years later, give me an overview, how far have we come? >> we've learned a prodigious amount about our own d.n.a. instruction book, the human genome. after revealing in the draft form in 2000, getting a completed form in 2003, and then applying some of the best and brightest minds on the planet to try to figure out how it works. we know about the variation in the genome, that half a percent that makes you different from me. we've cataloged most of that. >> brown: half a percent? >> half a percent. that's all. and we've actually learned how a lot of those variations play a role in risks of disease. almost a thousand of them that you can pinpoint and say that one increases your diabetes risk. that one increases your cancer risk. the risks are modest, but those are really important insights. >> brown: let's try to break it down a little bit. you wrote in a recent article "

jackie collins, suzanne somers, lily tomlin, chris bodie and sidney poitier. >> in your face, king.t's got to hurt. that's got to be like a dagger in your heart. >> larry: i've had dinner with sidney many times. >> come on. >> larry: how did this come about, you, a d-lister, what are you doing with these people? >> it's a sham. it's a traf es ti, but yet i'm determined -- here's why. i'm friends with sue mangers. she used to be a big power agent and gives these incredible dinner parties. i thought i would try one there is a lot of people in what i call the beverly hills mafia, and one of them is suzanne somers and jackie collins who between them have so much money it's ridiculous. they might as well eat it for lunch and crap it out. honestly, it's an insane amount. so they are beholden to no one, which is why i admire them. they don't really need -- >> larry: anyone. >> no, they don't. >> larry: but they plug their books. they go everywhere. >> of course, it's fun. they love it. they have the tiger and the hunger like you and i do. so they're friends with all these types of people i

senator collins, thank you. >> thank you, madam chairman. >> dr. salazar, it's great to see you, even if it is under a difficult circumstance discussing issues that are absolutely critical. i want to follow-up on the point that both senator feinstein and senator alexander make. and that is, that just reorganizing the mms does not deal with the essential issues of accountability and culture. senator tester was starting to get into those issues. i've read both the september 2008 i.g. report, and the report fr may of this year. and they both paint an absolutely appalling picture of an agency that is ripe with cronyism and corruption. the i.g. said back in september 2008, we're talking about very serious misconduct. my basic question is, are the employees who were cited for serious misconduct still workin for the department? you mentioned that in some cases there had been criminal charges brought. but are you confident? can you assure us that allf the agencies, employees that were cited for serious misconduct, such as taking gifts, negotiating employme

either senator susan collins or columbia snow, both from maine. adjacent on the democratic line from cincinnati -- jason on the democratic line. caller: i honestly believe that we are going into a double-dip recession. it is god awful we are getting to this point, but truth of the matter is, the economy is drastically going down each and every day and millions and millions of americans are suffering at the hands of the government. congress needs to go ahead and pass the emergency unemployment bill. no one is going to get rich on $335 a week unemployment aid. that is my two cents. host: back to financial regulations. just read that senator brown was able to get the bank be out of the legislation. what happens next? guest: the big question is, who is going to, especially among moderate republicans, who will join the bill to give the democrats the 60 votes they need to move forward. host: and as i said, the papers are saying all eyes are on olympia snowe and susan collins of maine. guest: really we are looking at snowe and collins to see how they wil

that is the amendment from senator collins. to ensure that future capital standards or banks are not weakened. we worked with our colleague and her staff to modify the house offer on the amendment. it included a number of provisions to clarify section 171, including phasing in capital requirements, grandfather in the treatment of securities, bank holding companies in carving out the federal home loan banks under $500 million, and assets for the requirement of the amendment. in addition, the house offer contained a provision that could undermine section 171 byline regulators to effectively it ignore the primary requirement. we would strike this provision. we would modify the house ffer to grandfather bank holding companies rather than a grandfather and all bank holding companies. i realize there is a difference of opinion on that. i think there may be an amendment to that counter offer that i am making to you. we would add a study on expanding access to capital. we can also accept the following language, adding four nonvoting me

in no way does it change the collins amendment. and i hope we are able to change it over time. it does put in place a study involving others to do a study on how these various hybrid instruments that the system. i hope we can take it and move on. >> all those in favor? those opposed? the men and is adopted. >> i have -- the amendment is adopted. >> i have one more and then i will stop. uni both sat through the multiple discussions regarding title to and resolution. i know it has been one of the most contentious issues. we spent a lot of time discussing it. we have talked about refunding, opposed funding. one of the issues we have never had the opportunity to really look at was changing the bankruptcy code. we have talked to senator leahy and senator sessions. there are multi jurisdictional issues relating to this. the fact is that we never did the work. i know that is not our jurisdiction to do, but we didn't do the work to look at bankruptcy. we're also balancing of mechanism almost in a vacuum. we're looking at the way things were a couple of years ago when, in fact, this bil

that is what gail collins says it is all about. we are asking you whether it is the year of the woman and whether it affects your voteefor a candidate. jacksonville, florida. john, democrats like betty caller: good morning -- john, democrat's line. caller: you got off on a tangent with the gentleman caller from pennsylvania about the rich. host: talking about whether having women on the ballot makes you react positively or negatively. make me reactsn't positively or negatively. i look to see who is backing her, who is backing him, -- if it is big money, i don't want it. i want a regular person in office, -- host: someone close to the people. not the ones whose life experience isn't like everyday americans. caller: i don't want the country club set in power. i want the everyday -- it could be a woman, it could be a man. it does not -- doesn't it say in the bible that a child shall lead them? host: that is reflected by em up on twitter -- emma on twitter. salem, oregon -- oregon. darren on the independent line. you got your volume on

guest: susan collins is another to watch. she is the main republican. she successfully amended the senate bill last month when it was on the floor to include some tougher capital requirements for banks. and that has become a big focal point for the banking industry to rework that amendment. there has been some back and forth among house and senate negotiators on it, but in the end, susan collins was one of the three republicans in the senate who supported the bill. you do not want to disenfranchised in need of them, because once the bill gets through conference, you will have to clear 60 votes in the senate to proceed to the final bill on the floor and to pass it. host: this is stephen sloan, staff writer with congressional quarterly at cq.com. thank you. looking at this -- tentative deal to limit debit card fees. the house and senate democrats announced a tentative agreement to impose new limits on the big card fees which would resolve the main difference between the two chambers as the race to complete financial legislation before the fourth of july.

ed collins with the insurance company, he's really been tireless about this. so i will shut up, and i know you're glad. i'll tell one more story real quick. i've given a speech one time like this, and the audience made me look bigger, and i've given that speech, and this guy was in the front row, and in the middle of my speech, he gets up and starts walking out, and i said, where are you going? you get a haircut. why didn't you get one before you came? didn't need one. but i see you've got your hair cut. you're all right. but i'll be happy to take any questions if y'all have some that you'd like to ask, and let's not -- let's go. >> please raise your hand so we can recognize and you then wait for the microphone to get there. let me take a point of -- a personal thank you for coming. welcome. welcome. and you did a great job. would you comment, if you can, on the oil spill? this is probably the laggers catastrophic event our country has ever seen. we thought the val disease oil spill was at that time, but this is very, very devastating. we've been working in lo

>> no, i am not aware of the report, senator collins. as secretary gates said, we have consistently told the russians that if they want to work with us on missile defense, we are open to working with them. maybe there is something lost in translation here because we have consistently reached out to them. we would like them to be part of a broad missile defense system that protects against countries like iran, north korea -- both of which the border, by the way -- so it is in their interest. secretary gates mentioned that in his opening remarks. if i can ask him to add on to what i said. >> i have seen just a reference to the newspaper story that you described, and what i added in my opening statement was that whenever talks are going on are simply a bowel -- about trying to elicit their partnership with us in terms of regional missile defense, but there is nothing that in any way, shape, or form would impose any limits on our plans. >> thank you. secretary clinton, and perhaps secretary gates and dr. chu as well, one of my chief concerns

collin peterson, chairman peterson, said there's no requirements that end users post margins. and we all agree that if they had to, it would be $1 trillion out of these companies and $1 trillion, according to joe biden, will produce 700,000 to 1347b9 million jobs and will %- produce as many as 200,000 jobs a month. so that's the hit to this economy if this does a i ply to end users system of we have a motion to recommit. first it says there's an exemption on end users. now, you have said that there is one, thuff letter from chairman dodd and blanch lincoln saying there is one. that's half of it. you'd vote for that because you're saying it's in there. secondly, there's the federal audit. and we need, the taxpayers and voters are demanding, and mr. hoyer, transparency at the fed. they're spending trillions of dollars, committing trillions of dollars let's have this audit of the fed. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from massachusetts. mr. frank: i yield myself as much time as i may consume. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman has 7 3/4 minutes. mr. frank: mr. speaker,

how do you get lugar, collins, a gulf state senator? >> again, i think, the larger issues are still in footfall. while it is true that the middle will be the ones that decide, if there is also a question of what the senators who are most committed to this will accept. it is still a kind of chess game, as it often is. in terms of what specific issues, i would say there are two different kinds of regional issues that come up -- or individual issues. there are fundamental, real, structural issues on the ground. then there are things that you need to do that kind of sweeteners, which can be legitimate -- it is a legitimate process. those two or sometimes inflated, especially now when people are so cynical about the government. i bring this up because, for example, people say, well, we do not like some of the deals in the house bill. you look at some of these "deals" -- there are ways to help midwestern utility customers because their utilities are more cold-based, to make sure they did not see an unnecessary spike in utility rates. that is

>> the two main centers, as susan collins and a libya's know. those of the three being targeted. -- and olympia snowe. those are the three being targeted. >> will democrat said the 60 votes? >> you always have to wait to the vote. i think folks generally feel fairly confident at this time that wwth this change, which they said collins and snowe were signing off on for the most part, lawmakers are not publicly endorsing it wholeheartedly. behind the scenes, a juror saying they felt confident this would get them. >> thank you for talking with us. >> have a good one. >> on tomorrow mornings "washington journal" we will talk tabout energy legislation after that, republican congressman buck mckeon on a u.s. strategy in afghanistan d. after thatinennis -- that, dennis henigan. it is each morning at 7:00 a.m. eastern here on c-span. >> west virginia senator robert byrd served more than 50 years on the u.s. senate, lumber than anyone in history. he appears on c-span more than 1200 times. what are 1980 profile with the signature on the history of the sen

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>> no, i am not aware of the report, senator collins. as secretary gates said, we have consistently told the russians that if they want to work with us on missile defense, we are open to working with them. maybe there is something lost in translation here because we have consistently reached out to them. we would like them to be part of a broad missile defense system that protects against countries like iran, north korea -- both of which the border, by the way -- so it is in their interest. secretary gates mentioned that in his opening remarks. if i can ask him to add on to what i said. >> i have seen just a reference to the newspaper story that you described, and what i added in my opening statement was that whenever talks are going on are simply a bowel -- about trying to elicit their partnership with us in terms of regional missile defense, but there is nothing that in any way, shape, or form would impose any limits on our plans. >> thank you. secretary clinton, and perhaps secretary gates and dr. chu as well, one of my chief concerns

thank you and thank you seniority collins. senator hagan. >> thank you, mr. chairman, and thanks again to sact flournoy and secretary petraeus for being here today with us. i want to talk for a couple of minutes about president karzai's reconciliation and reintegration program. and i know it's important that reconciliation and reintegration efforts operate within the context of a broader counterinsurgency strategy. it's not possible for the afghan government to reconcile with senior level taliban or reintegrate low-level taliban fighters as long as the taliban remains militarily strong and convinced that they are winning the war. and i believe that we need to avoid a situation where warlords and power brokers retain their militias. it's certainly too high a price to pay for reconciliation. financial incentives alone are not sufficient to reconcile with low level taliban fighters because they will be subject to brutal retaliation against themselves and their families. and if the government of afghanistan cannot protect them from rett ribbution it would be suic

thank you and thank you seniority collins. senator hagan. >> thank you, mr.hairman, and thanks again to sact flournoy and secretary petraeus for being here today with us. i want to talk for a couple of minutes about president karzai's reconciliation and reintegration program. and i know it's important that reconciliation and reintegration efforts operate within the context of a broader counterinsurgency strategy. it's not possible for the afghan government to reconcile with senior level taliban or reintegrate low-level taliban fighters as long as the taliban remains militarily strong and convinced that they are winning the war. and i believe that we need to avoid a situation where warlords and power brokers retain their militias. it's certainly too high a price to pay for reconciliation. financial incentives alone are not sufficient to reconcile with low level taliban fighters because they will be subje to brutal retaliation against themselves and their families. and if the government of afghanistan cannot protect them from rett ribbution it would be suicidal

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i don't kow what year but probably around 92 he comes back to fort collins colorado wearing an afghanhat digging people asking where i spent my summer. it's clearly a poin of pride with him to have been there. this was like, you know, the great triumph, the mujahideen against the infidels and he's living here and then it's really 9/11 comes along and i totally agree that this mrch of to the o speech after what are sometimes called the sarraute rate -- faar were on institutions where he knows a lot of people. that seems to have been his voice is shaking with rage during this talk. that is when a key first uses the language of america is at war with islam although it seems to be a little bit metaphorical at the time, but he seems kind of shocked by this and that comes at a time in the weeks after 9/11 where he seems to be tryingon different roles partly with the connivance of the in the news media. he is often called upon as a fluent speaker of accent english to explain various aspects of islam to comment on 9/11 and he reveled in the limelight according to his colleagues and he said so

let me say, thatas an amendment to the collin amendment that our colleague mr. moore had.e made and i appreciate the bipartisan efft here. we made, i think, significant prgress in amending the amendments. but it's not nearly -- some of the probls some of us saw have been resolved. so with that, mr. chairman, we agree totally to title one. next, i have on title nine subtitle d, which is risk retention. move that we accept the senate counter offer with three modifications. have those been presented to the members? let me ask the staff. well, maybe i can't move that. have the modifications been distributed to the members of the conference on the house side? let me again say i do not want to move anything where there has not been a distribution. on title one, there's no reason for adding anything. have they been distributed? >> yes. >> these are first on 9-d? >> yeah. >> the amendments deal with, i believe, fiduciary responsibility. there was a senate proposal for a mandate to the s.e.c. to do a study which we acquiesce to with some changes, but the essence of it. with regard

what are collins is doing, the war excellent, the more disciplined.he more you understand you cannot be an elementary school teacher unless you do know math. we will attract excellent students. the opposite is what is happening. we have let them slide. if you teach in a low performing, high minority school, you really can just slide by. but we have to be the people that say this is a career of choice. you are not good enough, you cannot be in it. this will attract increasingly excellent people, that the public will be thrilled to pay a lot of money, because they do not want to lose them to another profession. if we raise standards, and i think we were raised demand to get into our school as well. >> dwayne, you wander around the country and make investments. you and your board focus on trying to stimulate change. what do you see health care that make your choice is so difficult? >> the attitude change is a big piece of this. higher education plays kind of a mythic role in american society. we have a belief in what it so many people here have talked ab

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he comes back to fort collins, colorado, wearing an afghan hacked and kind of dead people, asking where is that my summer. it is clearly a point of pride with him to of been there. this was like a great triumph. he is living here and then 9/11 comes along and i totally agree that this march 2002 speech after what are sometimes called the saar raids, that seems to have then -- his voice is shaking with rage during that talk. that is when you first uses the language that america is at war with slam, although it seems to be a little bit metaphorical at that time. he seems kind of shocked by this. that comes at a time, in the weeks after 9//1, worry seems to have been trying nine different roles. sa flnt speerof accent eglish to explain various asets of reved in the limelight11 and he accordinto his colleagues an he said som very merate stuff. heaid in fact to "the new york times" in the past we were livious. we meaning of the muslimimm because weidn't expect things to happe now i think things are fferent. wh we might ave tolerated in the past we on't tolerate any more. there were statement

ed collins, with the insurance company, has really been a tiger about this. so i will shut up. i know you are glad. i will tell one more story real quick. [laughter] i gave a speech one time like this to an audience may be a bit bigger than this. i was giving the speech and a guy sitting in the front row, in the middle of my speech he gets up and started walking out. i said, "where are you going?" he said, "to get a hair cut." i said, "why didn't you get one before you came here?" he said, "i did not need one." [laughter] i would be happy to take your questions if you have some you would like to ask. >> let's give him a round of applause. [applause] please raise your hand so we can recognize you and then wait for the microphone to get there. first of all, thank you for coming. and you did a great job. would you comment, if you can come on the oil spill and what you see? >> this is probably the largest catastrophic event our country has ever seen. we thought the valdez oil spill was at that time, but this is very, very devastating. we have been in louisiana since katrina and gus