on in the market, and that applies to the study done by the columbia telecom think tank at columbia university. and what they are pointed out, and it is a big task, there will be two major investments involved in the networks over the next few years. one is to appeal seconds ago, cable company upgrades. the second is large phone companies upgrading the wireless networks to provide broad band of wireless. we know those things are going to happen. that is a profound change, probably the biggest change in the last five years. what we do not know is, number one, how consumers respond. we pointed out in september, they are suddenly saying, hey, we released but the speed and we are going to move up to higher levels. cable is going to be a fabulous position. and then we will be the only provider of the generally expected broadbent. -- broadband. but it is just as possible that they will say we do not need higher speeds. we want mobility. so just will buy the slightly more expensive wireless level, but we are not that interested in the fix because we only need for megabits or five megabits. we do not

in the following decade he was a visiting professor at yale, columbia university, and at the university of texas at austin. in 1998 he was distinguished visiting fellow at the kellogg institute of international studies at the university of notre dame. i am personally indebted to doctor brown and more than $0.01. in the early 1970s, i spent two years as a visiting fellow at saint anthony's where i was in exile writing my dissertation for columbia university. and that's where i met archie. in addition to our intellectual exchanges, one encounter was especially beneficial for me. in the spring of 1974, archie stop me near the library and asked, are you going to apply for the job at johns hopkins university? to which i responded in my most urbane manner, what job at johns hopkins university? [laughter] >> frg hadn't asked me that question, my own career probably would have followed a different and less happy path. i'm also intended to doctor brown and a more general scholarly sense. his major publications include the gorbachev factor published by oxford in 1996, seven years that changed the

other study we asked for which was the study done by the columbia telecom think tank up at columbia university. and what they're pointing out -- and it's a really big fact -- that there's going to be two very major investments in broadband networks in the united states over the next few years. one is we talked about it just a few seconds ago, the cable industry is updating. the second is two large phone companies are upgrading the wireless networks to really for the first time provide broadband on a wireless mobile basis, so-called lte or 4g, fourth generation. we know those things are going to happen. those are baked in. that's a profound change in market. that's probably the biggest change in the last five years. what we don't know is, number one, how will consumers respond to that? we pointed out in the september meeting that if consumers respond to those changes by suddenly saying, hey, we really love the greater speed and we're going to move up to higher levels of speed, cable's going to be in a fabulous position. and, in fact, they'll actually be the only provider of what will then be th

obviously and less than two years after landing in new york, he was enrolled as an undergraduate at columbia university. i was struck by the story the first time i heard it, struck by its various remarkable features, by its strum of course. among other things, it opened up for me a sense of wonder. having heard what deo winthrop i felt there anyway hoped i would never again look at the anonymous faces in quite the same way particularly the faces of people with foreign accents in places like new york, janitors, taxi drivers, and young men delivering groceries. who are they really? what memories and dreams to they carry? what abilities that they never get to use? but but jeremy two deo's story first of all, what made me think i might want to try to write about this was something rather small. telling me about this time of homelessness he mentioned before he headed for bed in central park he would look all around to make sure that no strangers were watching because anyone who saw him entering the park it that late hour would guess that he was homeless. when he told me this i thought of my daughter. once c

and less than two years after landing in new york, he was enrolled as undergraduate in columbia university. the story i first time i heard it, it instruct the remarkable features by its dramas. among others, it opened up for me to wonder having heard what they felt or any way i hoped that i were again to look at enormous faces in the way. the faces with people with foreign accents in places like new york, janitors, motel maids, young men delivering groceries. who are they, really, what memories and dreams. what abilities they may never get to use. what drew me to the story, first of all, what made me think i might want to try to write about this was something rather small. telling me about his time of homeless ness. he mentioned before he headed for bed in central park he'd look all around to make sure that no strangers were watching. because anyone who saw him entering the park at that late hour would guess that he was homeless. when he told me this, i thought of my daughter. who once years ago when she was a young teenager on the trip to new york. she started across the busy street. my w

from new york, mark hill, associate professor at columbia university and nationally syndicated columnist. finally, joining me here in d.c., peter beinart, senior political writer for the daily beast and professor for the city university of new york and author of "the good fight, why liberals and only liberals can win the war on terror and make america great again." we're out of time because you are all way too well credentialed. moving along you've written a book that sounds just right for this time. what do you make of what's happened today and the news that a report was at the cia about this suspect? >> well, clearly, this problem of sharing intelligence continues to be a major issue but i think the larger context here is that as we move further and further away from september 11, concerns about terrorism receded on both sides of the aisle. the balance between privacy and security tipped back toward privacy. that vote in the house on not allowing these body scan machines was a totally bipartisan vote. democrats and republicans didn't want to. now that we've seen the threat again is qui

but i managed to get out of high school in three years and went to columbia university and graduated school. this is just another challenge and just another opportunity for me to demonstrate in my life what on other frequencies so many, not only blind people but disabled people can do if given the opportunity. i don't know if you know this, larry, but 71% of bliebd people in this country aren't working and nearly 90% of deaf people don't have jobs. and some of the ridiculing and the sort of adverse humor that's directed at the disabled really gives a lot of credence to those who actually transmit that into believing that there is an ability. we have a great work force that we're not using in this country. >> we'll be back with more of governor paterson of new york. don't go away. (announcer) some people just know how to build things well. give you and your loved ones an expertly engineered mercedes benz at the winter event going on now. but hurry - the offer ends january 4th. >> another transit authority has had to cancel the free sboi service for new york's children who always previ

but i managed to get out of high school in three years and went to columbia university and graduatedaw school. this is just another challenge and just another opportunity for me to demonstrate in my life what on other frequencies so many, not only blind people but disabled people can do if given the opportunity. i don't know if you know this, larry, but 71% of blind people in this country aren't works, and nearly 90% of deaf people don't have jobs. and some of the ridiculing and the sort of adverse humor directed at the disabled really gives a lot of credence to those who actually transmit that into believing that there is an ability. we have a great work force that we're not using in this country. >> larry: we'll be back with more of governor paterson in new york. don't go away. i always thought calcium, and vitamin d, and exercise would keep my bones healthy. but i got osteoporosis anyway, so my doctor started me on once-monthly boniva. and he told me something important. boniva works with your body to help stop and reverse bone loss. my test results proved i was able to stop and r

mark lamont hill is at columbia university.everend al sharpton, the activist and former presidential candidate himself. and jeff johnson, b.e.t. news correspondent. okay, professor hill, is obama failing african-americans? >> i think failing is kind of a bold word. he is definitely not doing enough. >> larry: disappointing. >> certainly. i think plenty of reason to be disappointed. when you look at the public policies that are developed and not developed, he's falling short of bill clinton and jimmy carter in that regard. >> larry: what do you think, al? >> i think the overwhelming majority of the people i talked to think that president obama's doing exactly what he promised. he was given a terrible economy. he was given a world that was at war. and he's really dealt in a way that most african-americans, even pollsters are proud of. he was elected the president of the united states, not the president of the civil rights organization. he's doing exactly what he said. this morning, the chairman of congressional black caucus, barb

on in the market, and that applies to the study done by the columbia telecom think tank at columbia university. and what they are pointed out, and it is a big task, there will be two major investments involved in the networks over the next few years. one is to appeal seconds ago, cable company upgrades. the second is large phone companies upgrading the wireless networks to provide broad band of wireless. we know those things are going to happen. that is a profound change, probably the biggest change in the last five years. what we do not know is, number one, how consumers respond. we pointed out in september, they are suddenly saying, hey, we released but the speed and we are going to move up to higher levels. cable is going to be a fabulous position. and then we will be the only provider of the generally expected broadbent. -- broadband. but it is just as possible that they will say we do not need higher speeds. we want mobility. so just will buy the slightly more expensive wireless level, but we are not that interested in the fix because we only need for megabits or five megabits. we do not

recently, our two institutions collaborated with the fred friendly seminars and the columbia university school of journalism's workshop on race. we brought together a group of journalists, educators, and community leaders to grapple with questions many still find difficult to talk about and even more difficult to answer. when does race and ethnicity become part of the news? when do these issues matter in news reports? and how does it affect the newsroom itself? >> our moderator, charles ogletree of harvard law school, challenged our panelists with a hypothetical scenario. but while the people and places they encounter may be fictitious, the dilemmas they face are very real. >> we learned that the sort of events you might see in your newspaper on any particular day-- a prominent businessman returning to his hometown, a neighborhood fighting over a new multiplex, or the police releasing a description of a homicide suspect-- can raise wrenching questions on whether and how race becomes part of the story. >> and how we answer those questions can shape the future of our community. now, as ou

the other study we asked for which is the study done by the columbia telecom think tank up at columbia universityat they are pointing out, and it is a really big fact, that there is going to be two major investments in broadband networks in the united states over the next few years. one is, we talked about it just a few seconds ago, the cable industry is updating docsys 3 and two phone companies are upgrading wireless networks for the first time to provide broadband on a wireless mobile basis, so-called lte or 4g, fourth generation. we know those things are going to happen. those are baked in. that's a profound change in market. that is probably the biggest change in the last five years. what we don't know is how consumers will respond to that. we pointed out in the september meeting that if consumers respond to those changes by suddenly saying hey, we really love the greater speed, and we're going to move up to higher levels of speed, cable is going to be in a fabulous position, and in fact, they will actually be the only provider of what will then be the generally accepted broadband. that is an

capital to communities and promoting economic mobility purity is also a visiting professor at columbia universitytax policy for the congressional budget committee, and he holds eight degree in architecture from columbia and a master's of see the and regional planning from the university of pennsylvania. robert steele is a former president and ceo of wachovia. he served as undersecretary of the treasury for domestic finance from 2006-2008. previously, he spent almost 30 years at goldman sachs, found in the firm's equity capital markets group. he is currently chairman of the board of the aspen institute 3 he served on the board of a bank and currently serves on the board of wells fargo. he is also a past chairman of the duke university board of trustees, and holds a degree from duke university and an m.b.a. from the university of chicago. i want to thank all of you for coming and i would first recognize mrs. bourne and then go down the line 3 and you are recognized for as much time as he may consume. [inaudible] [inaudible] congress passed a statute in 2000 that eliminated virtually all regulation

my father wound up teaching at harvard as a psychologist and the 1960's he was teaching at columbia university and got tired of all of the riots and wanted to go overseas. i was a teenager. i just love the country. i knocked all around it. my parents were kind of irresponsible. are knocked off a round of afghanistan by bus and visited nall over. i went back in 2002 and also in 2004 for a quick visit. i used to go skiing in the -- in afghanistan. i was a member of the afghan ski patrol, junior grade. it is a beautiful country. take colorado and give it bounced twice as big. that is the essence of afghanistan. -- give its mountains twice as big. that is the essence of afghanistan and heart is more like, say, and albuquerque. -- kandahar is more like say, of albuquerque. up in the north where the air strike was recently that killed a bunch of people was the oldest greek city state ever found, a colony of ancient greece built in what is now northern afghanistan. host: ofville, north carolina, steve, good morning. caller: 5 questions about the culture of a waziristan. are these people committed to

. >> for we will hear from a professor at columbia university law school. >> thank you. i am pleased to be here but disappointed on this first anniversary of mr. madoff's debt. they have done so little to prevent the reoccurrence of ponzi schemes. ponzi schemes are predictable. they cost investors on average something like a billion dollars a year. before we even heard of mr. madoff, in 2002, the ponzi scheme losses in that year were $9.6 billion. this is a recurrent problem. it will continue as long as the government persists in allowing advisers to be their own custodian. i will put this in a sentence. mutual funds used an independent custodian. so do hedge funds. set mr. madoff used his own brokerage firm. his own brokerage firm was serving as the watch dog as a burning madoff the investment and pfizer. when you are your own watchdog, and nothing works. the sec has taken some effort to discourage the use of self- custodians. they have backed off under pressure. we need a true watchdog. that can only come from an independent custodian. that is not a topic today. i will

. >> for we will hear from a professor at columbia university law school. >> thank you. i am pleased to be here but disappointed on this first anniversary of mr. madoff's debt. they have done so little to prevent the reoccurrence of ponzi schemes. ponzi schemes are predictable. they cost investors on average something like a billion dollars a year. before we even heard of mr. madoff, in 2002, the ponzi scheme losses in that year were $9.6 billion. this is a recurrent problem. it will continue as long as the government persists in allowing advisers to be their own custodian. i will put this in a sentence. mutual funds used an independent custodian. so do hedge funds. set mr. madoff used his own brokerage firm. his own brokerage firm was serving as the watch dog as a burning madoff the investment and pfizer. when you are your own watchdog, and nothing works. the sec has taken some effort to discourage the use of self- custodians. they have backed off under pressure. we need a true watchdog. that can only come from an independent custodian. that is not a topic today. i will

. >> you went to the university of washington and the university of columbia.for something called -- you wrote for something called "the national observer." it was a weekly newspaper. >> most people thought the writing was sparkling. i loved working for it. on the last date of june, 1977, the chairman of dow jones took a helicopter down from new york to tell us they were closing it down. >> what did you do after that? >> i ended up congressional quarterly as managing editor. i spent 2.5 years at that job and seven years as executive editor in 12 years as ceo and president and turned cheap at congressional quarterly. >> it was owned by the newspaper. it was sold recently to what organization? >> the economist group of london. they focus on congress. the economist emerge tod and hao ceo's for one news organization i was the one standing when the v-6 stopped. on august 4, at 4:15 my dad came to an end -- my job came to an end. >> polk promise somewhere she would be only there for one term. >>-- promised he would Ñionly be there for one term. >> he did not believe

. >> for we will hear from a professor at columbia university law school. >> thank you. i am pleased to be here but disappointed on this first anniversary of mr. madoff's debt. they have done so little to prevent the reoccurrence of ponzi schemes. ponzi schemes are predictable. they cost investors on average something like a billion dollars a year. before we even heard of mr. madoff, in 2002, the ponzi scheme losses in that year were $9.6 billion. this is a recurrent problem. it will continue as long as the government persists in allowing advisers to be their own custodian. i will put this in a sentence. mutual funds used an independent custodian. so do hedge funds. set mr. madoff used his own brokerage firm. his own brokerage firm was serving as the watch dog as a burning madoff the investment and pfizer. when you are your own watchdog, and nothing works. the sec has taken some effort to discourage the use of self- custodians. they have backed off under pressure. we need a true watchdog. that can only come from an independent custodian. that is not a topic today. i will

the children's çhealth fund but also directorf national center for disaster preparedness at columbia universityand have the honor to serve in the national commission and chaired the subcommittee. by way of background, shortly after hurricane katrina we dispatched severalw3 -- medical health care for a that kiwis. those became permanent programs in the gulf, and ben, filling in with lsu, and other institutions. to date for the record, we have seen over 60,000 health and mental health and counters and children. in addition to that, the national center, by center has conducted long-term periodic interviews with 1000 families, and i want to summarize a couple of the key points out of many that i think guard jermaine. more than three in five parents have felt over time that their general situation currently is worse or significantly worse than it was since hurricane katrina. suddenly, a third of this place children are one year or older from their misplaced school. more than 2/3 of children displaced by a hurricane experience emotional or behavioral problems as we speak. in a study last fall of our

from the university of pennsylvania and last but not least, definitely is allen west tin from columbia university i'd also like to present to my right, chris olsen comoderating this discussion. >> can i intercede to say i can't forget about the consumers. >> oh i'm sorry. joel kelsey, consumers union. my apologies. okay. those in the audience, if you have a question for any panelists write it on a question card, it will be collected by one of the staff circulating. for those listen, e-mail questions to privacyroundtable at ftcgov. we'll talk about a number of studies during this panel. those are available on the agenda as pbs links. if you want to explore the issues in more detail you're certainly welcome to find those materials there. i would like to throw out a general question, what do consumers know about data flows and the collection and uses of their personal information both online and off-line? and, joe, why don't we start with you, because, what i would like to do is have each of you talk at a high level about the various studies and research that you've done, and what you're findings ar

allan weston from columbia university. >> may i intercede to say that we cannot forget about the consumersoe, kelsey, the consumers union. bias -- my apologies. if you have a question for a panelist, right in on a card and it will be collected by the staff. those of you listening can e- mail us. we will be talking about a number of consumer surveys and studies during this panel. those are all available on the agenda. so, if you want to explore these issues in more detail, your welcome to find those materials there. i would like to throw out a general question. what do consumers know about data flow in the use of their personal information, online and offline? joe, we should start with you. i would like to have each of you talking about various research that you have done in your findings. >> at a high level, as you said, there have been national surveys over the last 10 years. some of those studies have data about what americans know. it is not just their opinion. it is fair to say that generally speaking they know very of little about what goes on under the hood and online. the kinds of t

citizen, and worked her way through school, eventually earning a masters in library science from columbia university while raising five children as a single mother. she came to the northern mariana islands to help prepare for the first library conference in 1979. she fell in love with the pacific and soon returned. she's trained school librarians and raised public awareness about the importance of reading in enriching the quality of our lives. ruth eventually turned from managing the books of others to writing her own. she also established her signature column, "on my mind." over the many years of commenting on island issues, she's strived to be fair, objective, informative, and entertaining. judging by the popularity of her column, today a much-read and respected blog among people if many different backgrounds, i believe she has succeeded. at the age of 50, she took up scuba diving and has accumulated a record of over 400 dives. enamored with the rich coral reefs she encountered under water she became a fierce defender of all natural environments. she advocated for forest the cleanup of p.c.v. cont

the other study we asked for which is the study done by the columbia telecom think tank up at columbia university, and what they are pointing out, and it is a really big fact, that there is going to be two major investments in broadband networks in the united states over the next few years. one is, we talked about it just a few seconds ago, the cable industry is updating docsys 3 and two phone companies are upgrading wireless networks for the first time to provide broadband on a wireless mobile basis, so-called lte or 4g, fourth generation. we know those things are going to happen. those are baked in. that's a profound change in market. that is probably the biggest change in the last five years. what we don't know is how consumers will respond to that. we pointed out in the september meeting that if consumers respond to those changes by suddenly saying hey, we really love the greater speed, and we're going to move up to higher levels of speed, cable is going to be in a fabulous position, and in fact, they will actually be the only provider of what will then be the generally accepted broadband. th

my father wound up teaching at harvard as a psychologist and the 1960's he was teaching at columbia universityand got tired of all of the riots and wanted to go overseas. i was a teenager. i just love the country. i knocked all around it. my parents were kind of irresponsible. are knocked off a round of afghanistan by bus and visited nall over. i went back in 2002 and also in 2004 for a quick visit. i used to go skiing in the -- in afghanistan. i was a member of the afghan ski patrol, junior grade. it is a beautiful country. take colorado and give it bounced twice as big. that is the essence of afghanistan. -- give its mountains twice as big. that is the essence of afghanistan and heart is more like, say, and albuquerque. -- kandahar is more like say, of albuquerque. up in the north where the air strike was recently that killed a bunch of people was the oldest greek city state ever found, a colony of ancient greece built in what is now northern afghanistan. host: ofville, north carolina, steve, good morning. caller: 5 questions about the culture of a waziristan. are these people committed to t

and the 1960s my father got sick of all the student riots, he was teaching at columbia university, and said i want to go overseas. they had an overseas professor program, so off we went to afghanistan. i was a teenager. i just loved the country. i knocked all around it. my parents were kind of irresponsible. they had six kids, they were outnumbered. i knocked all around afghanistan by bus, visited, went down to pakistan by bus because the nearest english-language bookstore was in pakistan, and i was 14 years old and i'd say, hey, give me $100, i'm going to go to pakistan for the weekend and buy some books. okay, off i went. >> host: have you been there since then? >> i went back in 2002 and again in 2004 just on a quick visit. i love the country. i would go there on vacation if my wife would go. i used to go skiing in afghanistan. i was a member of the afghan ski patrol junior grade. it's a really beautiful country. take colorado and give it mountains twice as big. that's the essence of afghanistan. kabul has a climate very similar to santa fe, kandahar more like, say, albuquerque. but

but i don't see that columbia itself, for most of the major universities, have that character any longer. i find them conformists, slavishly conformist. and tolerant, incapable of entertaining positions on the other side, and dogmatic about their beliefs rather than critical. and i think that has been well documented by studies of the contemporary university's. >> how are you doing, sir? i have two questions for you. i believe abraham lincoln once told us that a house divided will not stand. that was recently displayed in black and white in new york with the psychopolitical division between the republicans rep and the conservative rep. and in the end, two of them became -- >> who are you talking about? >> the election in new york, for the congress. >> are you talking about new york 2003? >> gas and at the end they became politically helpless and useless. so within 24 hours, you had the democratic winner playing an important role. so that is the question on division. the last question to you, just monday i believe, the prime minister of israel, made a bold statement, stating that the un s

. >> you went to the university of washington and also columbia, that master's degree. you wrote for the "national observer," which a lot of people do not remember. and then the "wall street journal quoted >> dow jones started "the desert -- all the good the observer" in 1962. most people thought the writing was particularly sparkly. i loved working for them. the last day of june, 1977, the chairman of the dow jones took a helicopter down to tell us that there were closing as them. at that point i went to the washington bureau of the "wall street journal quoted >> what did you do after that? >> i ended up at congressional quarterly as managing editor. i spent 2.5 years in that job, and seven years as executive editor, and 12 years as ceo and chief of congressional quarterly. >> it was sold recently to what organization? >> the economist group, which also owns "roll call." ruckuses on congress at did "congressional quarterly quality -- as did "congressional quarterly qu." i was the one standing when the music stopped. my job came to an end and at 6:00 the next morning, i

columbia. >> could have stayed at the university and been under american protection but he's a brave person. he's taken on the state in the most direct way that an intellectual can, and he represents a big threat to the state as an individual and as a representative of this movement. >> warner: professor, what does this is a, do you think, about the often-advanced theory that the more that china experiences prosperity, the more it gets integrated into the global economy, the more that will lead inexorably to greater political freedom? is that just not going to be operative in china's case? or do you think that the chinese government is trying to hold back a wave here? >> clearly, there has been -- in terms of macroeconomic growth, there has been progress in china, but at what cost? and the cost has been the sustainability of the environment. there is massive environmental degredation. and really at the cost of cracking down on an independent media, on an immediate civil society, so there has been economic development but it has also been at the cost of resource extraction from tibet and that

the professor returned to legal agony in june of 2009 as a professor of law at the university of district of columbia, prior to that he served as chief counsel and senior deputy director of the lawyers committee for civil rights under law and washington, d.c.. is a former law school dean, law professor of public interest or wechsler with a grant of over 40 years. veronica rivera is a legislative staff attorney with the mexican-american legal defense and education fund where she focused on educational policy pitches a former schoolteacher and work in the state of texas office of the governor, criminal justice division. bob carr is executive director of the national bar association, goes and largest national network of attorneys and judges of color. early in his gritty practice law with an atlanta-based firm and served in government and staff physician in a state house of representatives and u.s. department of labor. cynthia robins currently serves as a consultant to time banks u.s.a. and a long with doctor edgar khan, his codirector, cofounder of racial justice initiatives. and initiative was launched

. >> you were originally from the state of washington, went to the university of washington, and also columbia, got a masters degree, but you wrote for something called the "national observer," which only people my age remember, a dow jones publication and then the "wall street journal." how long were you with the "national observer?" >> i got in on the last two- and-a-half years of the "observer." dow jones started it in 1962. never made a dime for dow jones, but they had great hopes for it. it was a weekly newspaper, and it was journalistically a great success. most people thought the writing was really particularly sparkling, and i loved working for it. but on the last day of june, 1977 warren phillips, the chairman of dow jones, took his helicopter down from new york to tell us that they were closing it down. so at that point i went into the washington bureau of the wall street journal. i had 10 glorious years covering politics and congress and the white house. >> and what'd you do after that? >> after that i ended up at "congressional quarterly" as managing editor. i spent two-and-a-half

columbia circuit. before that he'd been the deaven the university of iowa law school and he taught at other law schools in his career as well. >> what year did you clerk for him? 1947. the 1947-1948 term. >> what did you learn from that experience that you still hold on to today? >> i learned an awful lot, to tell you. i learned to take the time to draft out your own opinions and make sure you understand a case before you turn it over to someone else to work on. i learned that every case is important, not just when there's a lot of money involved or a very important public issue. every case is important to the people involved in this. >> back to the writing of the first draft. is that unique to you? >> no, i can't speak for my colleagues. i'm sure some of them do the first draft. one of the reasons i did that is justice rutledge used to write them out on a yellow pad. now i type them on computers rather than the yellow pad but he would write out in longhand a full dirs -- first draft. then his secretary would type it up and usually that was it. we would maybe supply some footnotes or suggestions but yo

columbia circuit before had been elevated. >> did he teach law? >> guest: yes. he topmost at the university of chicago, but he also had ties up at georgetown university and also at -- you're talking about the justice? >> host: yes. >> guest: because his father was a professor. he taught at stanford for a semester, for a full calendar year and also at georgetown. he liked it but he did not get into it as much as you would expect it because he is so brainy and intellectual. you would have thought he would have been drawn much more into teaching, but it was easy enough for him to leave it, frankly. he was excited about something that you enjoy. he liked being in the executive branch. >> host: what was his job and what did he do? >> guest: sure, sure. he started in the nixon administration, and he started with a new office created while he was there, the office of telecommunications policy. and he was general counsel for that. and then he moved into more of an administrative position where he was in charge of sort of ideas to streamline the bureaucracy. is real break came when president nixon,

britton returned as a professor of law at the university of the district of columbia.ior to that, he served as chief counsel and senior deputy director of the lawyers committee for civil rights under law in washington, d.c. he's a former law school dean, la professor and public interest civil rights lawyer with a career of over 40 years. veronica rivera is a legislative staff attorney with the mexican-american legal defense and education fund where she focuses on education policy. a former schoolteacher and worked in the state of texas, office of the governor of critical justice division. robert -- bob carr, the international bar association, the oldest and largest national association of attorneys. earlier in his career he practiced law with an atlanta-based firm and served in government and staff positions in the united states house of representatives. and u.s. department of labor. cynthia robins currently serves as a consultant. and along with edward kohn is co-founder, director of racial justice initiatives. initiative was launched earlier this year to address the

columbia circuit and before he'd been elevated to the supreme court. >> host: did he teach law? >> guest: yes. he taught mostly at the university of chicago. but he also taught a little bit at georgetown university and also -- you're talking up the justice? because his father of course was a professor. he taught at the university of chicago mostly but then also stand to become stanford for a semester and full calendar year and also georgetown. he liked it, but he did not get into it as much as you would have suspected because he is so brainy and intellectual. you would have thought he would have been much more drawn to teaching but easy enough for him to leave africa. he was excited about something that you have enjoyed. he really liked being in the executive branch -- host katulis about the expected -- what was his job and what did he do? >> guest: sure, he started in the nixon administration and he started with a new office created while he was there. the office of telecommunications policy. and he was general counsel for that and then he moved into more of an administrative position where he was in charge of sort of ideas to streamline

columbia. michelle is an amazing story of a young woman who was attending cornell university and she decided when she graduated to consign sign up-- --sign up for teach for america. she taught in baltimore, took a hopeless classroom situation and in two years turned it around. kids from the nation had test scores nobody dream of because of michelle's skill. brought nontraditional teachers into the teaching classroom. it is a reform which will move us toward pay-for-performance where those teachers who do a good job and improve test scores arare brie rewarded. the results are starting to show. this week in the district of columbia, they reported math scores that showed dramatic improvements compared to cities around the nation. she has another responsibility. 45,000 kids are in the public schools, 28,000 are in the charter schools. the chart schools have to match the performance of the public schools or improve upon them. same thing for the voucher schools, the drk opportunity scholarships much the senator from south carolina stands up us and says, i eliminate the program. well, where does that $1

university research labs, and utility companies. this waste is generated all over the united states, but finding permanent disposal sites has proven difficult. currently 36 states and the district of columbia have only one approved site to store all the waste generated in those industries. that site is located in utah. the site stores 99% of the united states low-level radioactive waste. however the nuclear regulatory commission is currently considering the importation of 20,000 tons of italian low-level waste to be permanently disposed of at the utah site. this would be the largest importation of foreign waste ever. the united states stands alone as the only country in the world that imports other country's radioactive waste for permanent disposal. other countries are reading the signs that the u.s. is poised to become a nuclear dumping ground, permit applications are also pending for importation of brazilian and mexican waste. foreign waste threatens the capacity that we have setaside in this country for the waste generated by our domestic industries. it is critical that congress protect the capacity by providing -- prohibiting these imports. i support nuclear power as part of our energy