another reason for joining reputation is daniel webster was an eloquent senator in the middle 19th century, so she calls it the i am not daniel problem. all right, let me give you some key dates of his life. he was born in west hartford, which in 1750 wasn't west hartford yet. it was called west vision. west hartford doesn't become west hartford until after 1800. in the 1770s he has all these forest gump moments related to the founding. so in 17 -- he goes to yale and his father, he and his father built on a horse and one of them walks and one of them rides the horse. we don't know who does what. they go to yell, they parkgoers at the president's house and in his freshman year at yuppie is his first forest gump moment. in june 1775, george washington was in town and a write about this in the book, george washington is in new haven on route 15 to 20 will take command of the continental army and webster is part of the of militia that reaching. this is kind of a forest gump moment where you contingently connect to history. i'm getting hooked -- computer virus. a decade later he will start to

ultimately it was negotiated by daniel webster who was the secretary of state at that point and they came up with a line in the treaty known as the webster treaty. i won't go to the answer now but it's fascinating about the treaty you'd probably think the said down opposite and they chatted and they knew each other before. webster is negotiating with maine and was a courtroom lawyer and a fabulous magician in the courtroom and he had a brilliant strategy to force me in a step by step by step to accept that it's not going to get the boundary that in fact it's probably legally entitled to and that is what i'm talking about. and may have been at times considered canada. [inaudible] lloyd fairfax through the inheritances had a title to an enormous portion of virginia along the potomac river and had a survey. this is on the colonial times so he could begin to sell planes and a tight lid and the surveyors, the boundary that in the colonial boundaries separating maryland and virginia was the source of the potomac river. will the potomac river is made up of different branches and when you get

i hereby appoint the honorable daniel webster to act as speaker pro tempore on this day. signed, john boehner, speaker of the house of representatives. the speaker pro tempore: pursuant to the order of the house of january 5, 2011, the chair will now recognize members from lists submitted by the majority and minority leaders for morning hour debate. the chair will alternate recognition between the parties with each party limited to one hour and each member other than the majority and minority leaders and the minority whip limited to five minutes each, but in no event will we continue past 11:50 a.m. the chair recognizes the gentleman from texas, mr. poe, for five minutes. mr. poe: mr. speaker, we've heard the song "this land is your land, this land is my land, from california to new york islands, this land was made for you and me." the greatest, largest landholders is uncle sam. uncle sam, the great landowner. he owns 27% of all the land in america. this poster here shows the holdings of uncle sam. all of the red in the united states, including alaska, is owned by uncle s

in the words of daniel webster, who said -- one cause, one country, one heart that is the kind of commitment these great challenges that are before , but i believe that the great people of this country are longing for a president who will listen to them and who will lead from the front and not from behind. [applause] i am michele bachmann. i am running for the president of the united states. together, we can do this. [applause] together, we can rein in the corruption and the waste that has become washington, and instead, we can leave behind a better future for the next generation of americans. together, we can make a better america if we stick together. together, we can bring the promisef

daniel webster etcoff maine. what did he ever really do? most of us don't know. i didn't before i started. stephen douglass, who is in the middle of this map and number of times to be to abraham lincoln. what else? some of them are people that we've heard of, but i've discovered that what i heard wasn't quite the whole story or in some cases was simply wrong. if you look to rhode island you will see roger williams. i was taught in school roger williams founded rhode island to establish tolerance. true enough. but i didn't know is that he did it for religious reasons. he wasn't kicked out the massachusetts colony because he was a lucey tuzee liberal guy but rather because he was to puritan for the puritans. [laughter] i will give you a quick example, there were other incidents in massachusetts the colonial charter that created the colony begins with the words charles by the grace of god king of england and roger williams said how do we know he has the grace of god? we don't know who we and who does not have the grace of god and therefore do we have the right to ta

daniel webster served here. webster. and john f. kennedy. he starts naming all these people and i am just blowing him off and not showing enough reverence at the elbows me and says you ought to be ashamed of yourself. look at you! you used to be a bartender on the strip. i used to drive a beat truck on the sunset strip. but we are here, members of congress. he is looking around and says did you ever just stop and wonder how we ever got here? by this time i had enough of him chattering. and looked at him and said i look around every day and wonder how you got here. [laughter] i went to law school and i'm still trying to figure you out. anyway a few months after i had that conversation with chairman hyde on january 5th, 1998, sunni bono was killed in a skiing accident and i tell you this for a reason to show you how fate works. on january 9th i went to palm springs for his funeral and they had all of us in a side chapel waiting for the service to start with president ford and all of these things. who sits next to me but henry hyde who also lov

my cohort are the presidents: john tyler, benjamin harrison, martin van buren, john calhoun, daniel webster, henry clay. these are the--the political stars of this generation. c-span: where did you write the book--what part of the country? >> guest: in los angeles--west los angeles. c-span: what do you do out there? >> guest: i teach history. c-span: at--at... >> guest: the university of california at los angeles. c-span: ucla. >> guest: ucla, yeah. c-span: how long have you done that? >> guest: i've taught history for 33 years and i've been at ucla since 1981. c-span: why history? >> guest: you know, i think--i have a theory about people and why they become what they become. i think there are about four basic ways to understand reality or understand the world. one of them is, obviously. through measuring and it, you know, it appeals to people who are--who be--who become scientists of observation and measurement. another one is clearly a religious sensibility. there's also, i think, a poetic and imaginative way of grasping reality. and another is to understand what has gone before--to see w

named a lot of them -- hughes and brennan and warren and frankfurter and scalia and wilson and daniel webster, i didn't mention earlier, and landis and madison and reich and havel and weber and hayek and tocqueville -- who would you recommend if someone wasn't as familiar as you are with all this that they go out and pull the book off the shelf and spend some time with it? >> guest: i think i would read cardozo's "the nature of the judicial process," which is still available in paperback. i would read posner's compendium of holmes' writings. c-span: this is richard posner from chicago? >> guest: yes, richard posner. c-span: the judge? >> guest: the judge. i don't think i would read landis or hayek. they go on too long. havel is brilliant on this subject. vaclav havel understands how anti-human western democratic structures have become, and every year or so he'll write an op-ed article warning us against the effects of rationalism, the idea that we can figure everything out in advance and lay it out in a government structure and in a law. havel is wonderful on the subject. c-span: here's what

and here's how florida republican congressman daniel webster's constituents weighed in. >> people arey tuned in and we saw approximately 60% of our calls were saying, you know, we'd like to see a compromise, it is okay to raise the debt limit and 40% say, no, we have reached the point where we need to not raise the debt limit. >> we seem to be willing to compromise to try to get something done. >> the congressman's priority has been to cut spending without raising taxes and that is a principle he stood on consistently. alisyn: the capitol hill's call center said phone circuits were near capacity and received 40,000 calls in one hour, twice the normal volume. bill: and the phone calls are continuing today. many americans are voicing concern in person, not by telephone. out of houston texas we have the constituents gathering inside and outside of republican congressman john culberson's office. >> i expect to provide things in my classroom, school districts don't provide and funding is cut and people in washington continue to take care of themselves first, before they take care of the am

i believe the language in daniel webster's bill does that as well, but in any case, his services the debt first, pays the military second, provides that the president can direct funding into national security issues third, pays the social security fourth and the medicare bills fifth. i actually think his is the best bill. i would take it and massage it and flip a couple of things within it. but i'm not taking a deep objection to it, nor do i think we wouldn't get the job done with dan webster's bill, i think we would. i would like to see a prioritization bill be moved here on the house of representatives and send it over to the senate. we've already passed cut, cap, and balance, we said, here's the debt ceiling increase, send a constitutional amendment to the states so they can ratify an amendment that guarantees that this congress would be bound to a balanced budget. a balanced budget amendment passed here in this house in 1995 and it was messaged down that hallway to the senate in 1995 and it was brought up on the floor of the senate with the votes counted for passage an one senato

i hereby appoint the honorable daniel webster to act as speaker pro tempore on this day. signed, john boehner, speaker of the house of representatives. the speaker pro tempore: pursuant to the order of the house of january 5, 2011, the chair will now recognize members from lists submitted by the majority and minority leaders for morning hour debate. the chair will alternate recognition between the parties with each party limited to one hour and each member other than the majority and minority leaders and the minority whip limited to five minutes each, but in no event shall debate continue beyond 11:50 a.m. the chair recognizes the gentleman from north carolina, mr. jones, for five minutes. mr. jones: mr. speaker, thank you very much. i plan to come to the floor at least once, maybe twice a week until we get our troops home from afghanistan. i do that because i have the privilege to represent the third district of north carolina, the home of camp lejeune marine base, cherry point and seymour johnson air force base. i have been privileged since i didn't serve to have great

daniel webster to act as speaker pro tempore on this day. signed, john a. boehner, speaker of the house of representatives. the speaker pro tempore: pursuant to the order of the house of january 5, 2011, the chair will now recognize members from lists submitted by the majority and minority leaders for morning hour debate . the chair will alternate recognition between the parties with each party limited to one hour and each member other than the majority and minority leaders and the minority whip limited to five minutes each but in no event shall debate continue beyond 11:15. the chair recognizes the gentleman from california, mr. schiff. for five minutes. mr. schiff: mr. speaker, there are moments in the lives of nations when existing order is suddenly revealed as legitimacy and no longer viable. the wave of unrest spreading across the arab world, a tunisian fruit vendor, has exposed the rot of decades of incompetence. if this one man's desperate act can lead to the fall of tunisian, perhaps yemen, is a testament to the pent up frustration of millions of pe

i hereby appoint the honorable daniel webster to act as speaker pro tempore on this day. signed, john boehner, speaker of the house of representatives. the speaker pro tempore: the chair will receive a message. the messenger: mr. speaker, a message from the senate. the secretary: mr. speaker. the speaker pro tempore: madam secretary. the secretary: i have been directed by the senate to inform the house that the senate has passed s. 1188, an act cited as the all-american flag act in which the concurrence of the has is requested. the speaker pro tempore: pursuant to the order of the house of january 5, 2011, the chair will now recognize members from lists submitted by the majority and minority leaders for morning hour debate. the chair will alternate recognition between the parties with each party limited to one hour and each member other than the majority and minority leaders and the minority whip limited to five minutes, but in no event will the debate go beyond 11:50 a.m. the chair recognizes the gentleman from south carolina, mr. wilson, for five minutes. mr. wilson: th

. >> you think about the great speeches that daniel webster gave, and these great speeches that abraham lincoln gave come and they lived through the ages but they were never televised. it did happen. >> people say other government institutions have been opened up, but it would be interesting to see what they think what government institutions function better. we of the most transparent branch of government. everything we do is done in public. you see are worked in public on the court. the only impact we have is on the arguments. you see the material we look at in the briefs. what is not public is our internal discussion and argument. the long and short of it is that it is being looked at and we will see how the pilot program does. but does raise concerns, and i have been sharing my views and not just those of my colleagues. >> chief, i'm want to thank you so much for being here. it means a lot for us to have you as our guest and to have this conversation to begin our supreme court review. i hope you will return every time before the circuit has a conference, because you are always our n