they featured basketball, cuyahoga, and healthy eating -- yoga and healthy eating. we will watch this for a couple of moments. ♪ [easter parade] >> congress continues spring recess. this morning, "washington journal" talked about plans when congress returns. host: congresswoman donna edwards represents maryland's fourth district. she is heading the red to blue program for the 2010 election. we identify can't dats running in seats currently held by republicans and we try to flip them. it's been a way to boost can't cats they have already demonstrated on their own host: your job seems even tougher. caller: it is and it isn't. part of our defense is to make sure the candidates in really tough districts hold the seat. the flip side is the red to blue program. we try to identify those seats there are some out there. there's an opportunity to change a republican seat to a democratic seat. host: are some of those red seats you can share with us? guest: sure. we haven't listed on the website. host: which is? guest: dccc .org. i better get that right. we have the candidates

i think we first need to acknowledge that we've made a lot of progress since the cuyahoga river in ohio caught fire in 1969. made a lot of progress since the uncontrolled air pollution that killed 20 people and sickened 7,000 people over just a few days. that happened in denora, pennsylvania. we've come a long way since the expose on the new york love canal where toxic waste was dumped into neighborhood streams. we've made a lot of progress. i think the most important symbol of that progress of that environment is now in main street america. it's mainstream politics. it's way of life for us. and that is really good news. it has given us the political strength to pass important environmental laws. we've passed the clean air act, the clean water act, the super fund law. i'm particularly pleased about the chesapeake bay program. i remember when we started that program over 30 years ago -- almost 30 years ago. and it was a difficult start. and people wondered whether we would have the staying power to stay with this issue so we could try to reclaim the chesapeake bay. well, we did. it's sti

i'll be honest it's what cleaned up the water more than any other fact weird to cuyahoga river caught on fire and has gotten better. everything we know needs to be done is clearly identified by the scientific community today. in fact the we know most of us that for about 15 years. you reduce nitrogen can reduce phosphorus, the oxygen bubbles in the day will come back and make sure the sediments don't inundate the day and you harvest no no more resources that will replenish themselves in any given year. a social scientist like myself can understand that. are we capable of doing it, you know, in our political system? will see. i hope so. >> so you're seeing there was no political deal or arrangement with lake erie. it was the buckles and other fact your. >> yes. it was not enlightened management. >> there is also a decline of industry in cleveland. [laughter] >> the black sea has refined it but it wasn't because of management there either. >> okay, we have time for maybe one more question. there's actually a mike -- sure. >> hi, howard come i read your book and it's great and i recommen