i think it might be a good idea but i'm not at all sure that it's in the law. >> suarez: daniel farber, the advantages of having money set aside well before the years of litigation begin, is there something in it for bp as well as for the claimants? if that can be agreed to? >> yeah, i think there is. i think bp is facing a situation where there is enormous distrust about its capability for dealing with this, about its good faith on the part of a lot of people inside the u.s. government and among the public. i think setting up a fund like this would be very helpful for them in terms of showing good faith, of assuring people that they are going to take responsibility for what happened. so i see a lot of reasons for them to do it. whether they have to do it though is something that's less clear. >> suarez: steve yerrid, there have been some very large dollar figures thrown around in speculation about what this escrow fund would hold. how do you determine how big it has to be, and that must be a part of the negotiation that precedes setting it up, no? >> first, let's set the record straig

mitch daniels was elected as the 49th governor in 2004.comes from a highly successful career in business and government, holding numerous top management positions. on his first day in office, he created the office of management of the budget, to look for a efficiencies across state budgets. he led the state to its first balanced budget in eight years in 2005 without a tax freez -- without a tax increase. . . health conference website. if you do have a question for the governor, please identify yourself and we'll repeat so it carries on the webcast. for those watching on the webcast that would like to suggest a question through twitter, you may submit your questions electronically. we are fully into the 21st century here. i know, it is a heck of a deal isn't it? help me in welcoming the governor. [cheers and applause] as long as it takes you to tell us everything we need to know. >> it's my first visit to our visitor center. hmm. i'm going to restrain myself for once. the only problem was that they're highly efficient security system out th

and also daniel griswold of the cato institute. what impact do you think that nafta will have on the u.s. economy? guest: it has been in effect for 15 years. i think the impact has been positive. more importantly not only on the economy, but on foreign policy. the u.s. is 17 times larger than mexico. low. it has been a foreign policy success with mexico and canada. it has built bonds of friendship. mexico is a different country than 25 years ago. it has a multi-party democracy. they are on the road to modernization. it has been a modest success. host: todd tucker, is it working? guest: agreements of nafta combined with the world trade organization which is global, you can see that the u.s. has said burgeoning trade deficits and a loss of 5000 -- 5 million manufacturing jobs. a significant chunk of it is due to nafta and. the real purpose of agreements like nafta and to some extent the world trade organization is to make the world safer for multi-national corporations and give them enhanced rights in developing countries, to challen

daniel wyss and kenneth greene. >> thanks. >> lehrer: and, again, the major developments of this day.b.p. ramped up efforts to capture and burn more of the oil flowing into the gulf of mexico. the oil giant also announced c.e.o. tony hayward will give up daily oversight of spill operations. he's been roundly criticized for his statements on the crisis. on the newshour tonight, ken feinberg, the man in charge of the oil claims fund, pledged it work to accelerate payments once the fund is fully set up. he said it was premature to say whether $20 billion would be enough to pay all the claims. the newshour is always online, of course. hari sreenivasan in our newsroom previews what's there. >> mark shields and david brooks stom by the rundown next. check back later this evening for our conversation. on the world cup, fans in washington and baltimore give their theories on why professional soccer isn't as widely popular in the u.s. as it is abroad. gwen isle talks about covering the oil disaster. and on art beat, jack previews the summer movie season. jeff. >> brown: and that's the newshour

guest: i think daniel has won fair point that i would agree with, is both parties -- danielle has won a fair point i agree with. both parties. i have a couple of chapters in the book talking about overspending. i said, this is the damaging thing. remember, we did the medicare prescription drug bill, we did the education spending, we did a lot of the spending across the board that i don't think was necessary. so let me be very clear -- i think both parties are responsible for this debt. we need a leader in congress and the white house to get us out of this debt crisis. the problem i have with what is happening in washington right now is nobody, especially in the democratic party, is getting serious about bringing the debt down. not tomorrow, not bringing it down next year, or 10 years from now. i think this is a great, great country but it will be ruined by debt. the thing i worry about is what kind of future are we leaving to our children when we are talking about adding $10 trillion of debt over the next 10 years. host: time for two more calls for stephen moore from "the wall street

and also daniel griswo of the cato institute. what impact do you think that nafta will have on the u.s. economy? guest: it has beenin effect for 15 years. i think the impact has been positive. more importantly not only on the economy, but on foreign policy. the u.s. is 17 times larger than mexico. . . it has a multi-party democracy. they are on theoad to modernization. it has been a modest success. host: todd tucker, is it working? guest: agreements of nafta combined with the worl trade organization which is global, you can see that the u.s. has said burgeoning trade dficits and a loss of 5000 -- 5 million manufacturing job a significant chunk of it is due to nafta and. the real purpose of agreements like nafta and to some extent the world tra organization is to make the world safer for multi-national corporations and give them enhanced rights in developing countries, to challenge an firemen to policies and oher public interest laws. host: in 2008 $1.10 trillion in u.s. goods and services between the u.s. and nafta parers -- abou

. >> and danielle. >> and danielle. they're beautiful pr people. [laughter] >> were you expecting that many people? it was unbelievle. >> i wanted it to be nice. they need to know what they need. they knew. -- they note i knew. >> we went to high school together. he went off to be a movie star and left us here on the west bank. [laughter] >> are you feeling better today? >> better. i am dragging. i'm not going to stay long. i wanted to tell you so you could stay with us. early on, we saw right after the accident, we knew that we were going to have problems. they said that the dispersants would make it sink and it is not coming ashore. so we had asked for, because businesses right here, and we knew we had to stop the oil here. we have asked that jacked up votes -- we have asked that jack-up boats, the president did not hear about a plan so he said put that in the plan. we've gotten one placed here. one on this side. and at the or kamen, we send additional boats. they sent does no more additional boats. we go by the coast every morning and ght lookin

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caller: daniel white. he pretended he was from another organization. host: i am not sure i was even on the program that day. tricia from alabama. independent line. caller: good morning. i was really trying to get through on intelligence. i just want to make a statement and ask a question. my son is a sergeant in the marine corps. he was coming home for a visit to me. london but not let him through with his passport. it makes me curious how easy it is to get through? host: staying on the topic of the war. congress is set to take up a supplemental bill. clearly, there are members of the democratic party who are not voting for more war funding. is this an area where progressives feel like the president has let them down? guest: yes, a lot of people do. i personally do not. what they're trying to do in afghanistan is tremendously hard. but yes, i think there are some progressives who are upset about that. the facts on the ground are fairly dismal. counterinsurgency is very hard. i do not know where this is going to go. i do not know how many liberal votes

. >> in mid june, centered daniel inouye week from hawaii led a group of senators and their spouses on a trip to france. >> that was an eight-day trip with spouses, spending thousands of hotels and meals. >> this story is about the huge increase in travel that members of congress are doing overseas. the world is changing. members of congress are involved more and more in international politics. economies are more and more in alliance. our stock market is crumbling partly because of the problems in greece. it is important for members of congress to go overseas and meet with lawmakers over there. what we found was that on a lot of these trips, they are bogus. you say you are going on some good government trip, but then you bring your spouse. you are partying and staying in expensive hotels, flying on government planes. they are pretty fancy tricks. i have gone on a whole bunch of work tricks myself, and have never brought my wife. as soon as i am going on a trip where i am bringing my wife, i am probably not working that hard. >> in october, resented but kramer spent two weeks in europe

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filly, daniell pletka.a ve presidt of foreign and defense policy studies at the amerin enterprise instute. and is an alyst on the region'smplex politics and al a former senate foreign relas staffer. am i corrt? that's correct. okay. lcome back. we thank our witnessesnd w look forward to their insights. ani -- at thi time i would like to turn to senatororker if he has any opening comments. >> i'm far more iereste in our witnesses and thank you for being here thank yor your service, too. >> i want to thank senator corker for being wit us. 'll have oths joining us as th hearing proceeds. we'lturn to the oning stat from our witnesse iould encoage you to keep your remarks -- we always say brief and succinct we have a gavel. we try not t use it. but we don't want to gooo long. youhould know and the range we're talking abouts 5 to 7 minutes, but yr whole statement ll be made par of the record so you d't have to ad all of it, and if it's particularly long, we don't want you to read all of it because of those timons

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then taught tucker and daniel griswald on the north american free trade agreement. and then sam gerdano of the national banking institute joins us. "washington journal" is live every day starting in 7:00 p.m. eastern on cnn. tomorrow, a look at new orleans in the wake of the gulf oil oil spill. our coverage is under way at 1:00 p.m. eastern on c-span2. his government broken? the brookings institute is hosting a panel tomorrow asking that question. it talks about current challenges to good governance and ways to strengthen democracy. this gets underway at 1:00 p.m. on c-span. all next, our reason number of commencement speeches. leigh ann tuohy, the mother of baltimore ravens football player michael oher. she was betrayed by sandra bullock in her academy award winning performance in the movie opened "the blind side -- she was portrayed by sandra bullock in her academy award winning performance in the movie: "the blind side." >> it is my privilege to introduce for the first time dr. leigh ann tuohy. >> it's good to have some women appear instead of men helping me. i a

we will return to the environmental impact of the gulf oil spill coming up next with daniel weiss. we will be right back. ♪ >> book tv continues today with a look at politics and the role of government in our lives. the future of the conservative movement and black power to barack obama. all this week on c-span to. -- c-span t2. >> david cameron takes his first series of questions from "prime minister's questions" today at 10:00 a.m. eastern on c-span. >> this weekend, the university of chicago law professor martin of tha nussbaum contributes to 3 hour discussion on "in that" live on sunday on c-span 2. >> we have three new seats mandatory on abraham lincoln, supreme court, and the grave sites of america's presidents. to order, go to c-span.org /books. each was a great gift idea for father's day. >> "washington journal" continues. host: daniel weiss is a climate strategy director for the center for american progress action and is here to talk about the environmental impact of the oil leak. the announcement yesterday that the attorney general's office is going to do a criminal probe

daniel, and then the other general -- the other gentleman. >> i am daniel king from the urban instituteone of the things that marla and i controlled for was the employment while a teenager. that is something that harry touched on. all of these differencessare after holding teenage employment. my question is what people think of new-hire tax credits and has this come up in the discussion, and specifically if he know what these kinds of hirings yield? >> we have not had a chance to evaluate al hunt -- how well it has worked yet. a specific attempt was made to address this specific population. >> two very different models -- one, that you referred to as a new jobs tax credit, which is really an anti-recession device, for any firm, regardless of the employee is, you give them a tax credit. i wish we had done more of that. that tax credit was too mild to make any kind of difference. there are some nice proposals of their on that front -- out there on that front. the other model, a targeted credit -- that is not cyclical. it is targeted at disadvantaged population. there has been a debate abo

governor daniels employing a system of consumer directed health care in his state of indiana has held health care costs down by 11% in the past year. i wish medicare and medicaid could say the same. i yield back the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman's time has expired. for what purpose does the gentleman from virginia rise? without objection, the gentleman is recognized for one minute. >> thank you, madam speaker. abc reported yesterday that roughly 600 people were killed in darfur in may. mr. wolf: a new high since peacekeepers were deployed in debate. additional thousands have fled their homes. against this backdrop internationally war criminal was inaugurated as president of sudan and unbelievably the obama administration sent a u.s. government representative ceremony. add vowcy groups expressed their dismay, it was said, quote, the administration missed an opportunity to lead by example. getting nothing in return for this reversal of long-standing u.s. policy is baffling and ineffective diplomacy. i could not agree more. vice president biden is leading a d

said in 1830, in january of 1830, january 19th, 1830, which if my memory serves me was a thursday, danielwebster and mr. haine engaged in ooe of the most famous debates in american history, and off he went. for the next 15 minutes without a note, robert c. byrd tried to explain a very basic principle, and it was this: the senate is created to give every state the same number of senators, two senators. the house is elected by popular vote. a small state like west virginia doesn't have much of a chance in the house of representatives. it is small in a body of 435 members. but in the senate, every state, large and small, virginia and west virginia, illinois, new york and california each have two senators. and the point that senator byrd was making was if i don't put the projects in in the senate, we'll never get them in in the house, and that is what the great compromise, the constitution and the senate and house are all about. well, it was a masterful presentation which led to a compromise you might expect at the end of the day in which senator byrd did quite well for his state of west virg

yes, as a boy, i thought i might become an american hero like frances marion, daniel morgan, or patrickhenry, james madison, and then there was a time that i thought i might become a great baseball player. i like to play catcher. with that violin i had dreams of becoming another fitch chrysler. so i had all of those boyhood dreams. i wanted to be everything. i. koch are rabbit once -- i caught a rabbit once, and mamma broke his neck at the next morning and i took it down to what we call the hard road 3 miles away and gave it to mr. fred f. jennings and he gave me 15 cents for it. then i had dreams of becoming a great game hunter. [laughter] i had all of those dreams, but i never dreamed of becoming a united states senator. thank you for those questions. [applause] >> robert byrd served more than 50 years in the u.s. senate, a longer than anyone else in history. he was 92 years old. looking ahead to our live coverage, and about 20 minutes we will take you to the center for strategic and international studies from -- for remarks from steny core year. he will be joined by the national secu

and daniel from arne's office? we only pick beautiful pr people. >> were you expecting that many people? it was unbelievable. >> i won against the odds. they knew that i knew. >> good morning. >> we went to high school to get there. she went on to be a movie star and left us. >> are you feeling better? >> yes. i still have a little fever and then dragging. i am not going to stay lot -- stay long. early on we saw right after the accident that we knew we were going have problems. they kept saying, "no, the dispersants will make it sank." dennis is right here. but we knew we needed to stop the oil over here. we asked for jacked up votes. -- jack oup boats. when the president came down, he did not hear a better plan so he said to put our plan into place. we put a boat here, here, and one on the side. they never did approve any more boats. we would ride the coast every morning and every night. the first oil to come ashore came in a storm. the next morning at 6:00 a.m. it was there. it was over in this area. three weeks

and we have the department of commerce preparing and documenting the daniel they're experiencing. what we need is b.p. being quick and responsive to the needs of these local communities. we have a -- individuals are sao assigned to ride herd on b.p. to make sure that's happening. we want the people this charge of b.p.'s claims process to meet with us on a regular basis. we're going to insist that money flows quickly in a timely basis so you don't have a -- a shrimp processor or a fisherman that is going out of business before b.p. can make up its mind as to whether or not it is going to pay out. that's one of our top priorities because we know that no matter how successful we are over the next few weeks in -- in -- some of the containment efforts, the daniels are still going to be there. and the second thing that we talked about quite a bit is the issue of -- the issue of the health of work wars are out there, dealing with this spill. and so far we have seen that on shore, we're not seeing huge elevations in -- in toxins in the air or in the water. and -- but that may not be the c

daniel, and then the other general -- the other gentleman. >> i am daniel king from the urban institutee of the things that marla and i controlled for was the employment while a teenager. that is something that harry touched on. all of these differences are after holding teenage employment. my question is what people think of new-hire tax credits and has this come up in the discussion, and specifically if he know what these kinds of hirings yield? >> we have not had a chance to evaluate al hunt -- how well it has worked yet. a specific attempt was made to address this specific population. >> two very different models -- one, that you referred to as a new jobs tax credit, which is really an anti-recession device, for any firm, regardless of the employee is, you give them a tax credit. i wish we had done more of that. that tax credit was too mild to make any kind of difference. there are some nice proposals of their on that front -- out there on that front. the other model, a targeted credit -- that is not cyclical. it is targeted at disadvantaged population. there has been a debate about

there is a photograph in your of daniel webster.the you know when photographs were first taken of senators? >> i do not remember. >> talk about daniel webster. and what you like about him in history? >> he was a great orator. we have to keep in mind, however, that in those days, senators had more time to they could memorize their speeches and after they spoke them, they could take their transcripts to the boarding houses. few of them had homes in the area at that time. they could take the transcripts of the speeches to the boarding house and work on them, edit them. what we read is not necessarily the speech as it was given. >> do you think he would be a great orator today compared to what we read about him? >> i think he would be a great orator any day. but if things are different now. -- but things are different now. men do not have the time to reflect and right. and i assume that he mesmerized many of his speeches, as great orators did in that day. >> you mentioned clay. >> he was a remarkable man. he became speaker of the house

megna daniel, i have a question for you about the events of the crisis. and when you look back at the financial crisis, i wonder if it the legislative requirement -- that if the legislative and format that as investors to invest only in rated securities, it that had not existed, how would your business be different? which to compete on different terms and what you have had to reward people differently? >> 2 i do not know exactly how the business if it were different or lesser regulatory uses of the ratings. nonetheless, i am supportive of a reduction of use of ratings and regulations. i think that the use of rating and regulation offers rating agencies of basis for competing other than on the quality of their ratings. they creep on the effect, the certification that they have -- they compete on the effect, the certification that they have. and i think rating agencies should prosper or not based on whether market participants about you the ratings and value the rating opinion and to research the company has. >> 2 with that mind -- with that in mind, we had

daniel silverbuug, ed rice, and robert marcus. and with that, i urge all my colleagues to suppprt the legislation and i yield back the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields back. those in favor say aye. those opposed no. the rules suspended. the conference report is agreed to. without objection the motion -- mr. berman: mr. speaker, may i ask for a recorded vote. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman asks for the yeas and nays. all those in favor, those remain standing. sufficient number having risen, further proceedings on this motion will be postponed. pursuant to clause 8 of rule 20, a motion to suspend the rules previously postponed. votes will be taken in the following order. motion to suspend the rules by the yeas and nays. motion to suspend the rules on the conference report of h.r. 2194 by the yeas and nays. the first elect tronic vote will be conducted, it's a 15-minute vote. the second vote will be conductee as a five-minute vote. the unfinished business, gentleman michigan, mr. levin, to sus

on tomorrow morning's "washington journal," daniel weiss from american progress on the response to the bp oil spill. paul light on ways to streamline the federal government. later, an update on a tax package that congress has been working on. "washington journal" each morning at 7:00 a.m. eastern. on c-span2, warren buffett testifies before the financial crisis inquiry commission. live coverage at 8:30 a.m. eastern. >> we've got three new c-span books for you. abraham lincoln, the supreme court, and whose it is buried in grant's tomb." -- and who is buried in grant's tomb? to order, the two c-span.org -- go to c-span.org/books. >> this weekend bp announced the failure of their top kill effort to stanch the flow of crude oil into the gulf of mexico. the radio program of inside new orleans" has spent much of the last few weeks discussing the rules be -- spill. here's a portion of monday's show hosted by eric asher. >> welcome back. for those of you watching around the nation on c-span, i don't have to introduce you to our next guest. he is a true louisiana hero. a hero cents katrina, and

. >> on "washington journal, "daniel weiss joins us to discuss the government's response to the p oilll. after that, paul light on ways to streamline the federal government. later, an update with martin obama of the dow jones news wire on tax practices that they have been working on. later, warren buffett testifies before the financial crisis inquiry commission. he'll talk about the reliability of credit rating agencies. live coverage begins at 8:30 p.m. eastern. >> new british prime minister david cameron those questions from members of parliament in his first prime minister's questions. it is live from the british house of commons wednesday on 10:00 a.m. eastern on c-span. >> this weekend, noted feminist author martha: nussbaum written or and treated to more than 20 books on liberal education. to join our 3 our discussion. >> we have new c-span books for you. each has a unique, a contemporary perspective and something new to use about lincoln, the nation's highest court, and the lives of america's president. to order, it could to c- span.org/books. each one is also a great gift idea

among those testifying, daniel benjamin and former bush administration ambassador ryan crocker. and this morning, president obama will be holding a health care for senior citizens lunch in wheaton, maryland. there with the president will be kathleen sebelius. >> we have three new c-span books for you, "abraham lincoln, " "the supreme court, " and " who is buried in grant's tomb?" each is a great gift for father's day. host: our guest is julie hersh field davis of the associated press, talking about some documents talking about a later occasion. who did the documenting and how much has been released? guest: the bill clinton presidential library in arkansas released 46,000 pages of documents from the land taken's -- elena kagan's time as deputy counsel. those will probably have some of the more potentially controversial documents that are actually written by her. a lot of these are written to her. this is just the first batch. host: what has been the most interesting thing so far? guest: you can really see how she worked in the policy process and was a pragmatist. it is clear that

to just impose an unlimited caps on liability could be a very serious and daniel -- damaging measure. first of all, let me say, i believe that b.p. must be held accountable, fully accountable, and certainly that company has the resources. they must be responsible for the cleanup, they must also be -- even though there's a limit under the current 1990 statutes of $75 million, they must be held accountable far beyond that for economic damages. what we don't want to see is that we make the terms for liability, say a high, that only a few multinational corporations will ever be in the oil business. producers in texas and throughout the gulf, there are thousands of people in business that do a good job day in and day out. 3,500 to 3,600 i believe active rigs in the gulf are shallow water, but they shouldn't be penalized by the failure of government, by the failure of a big corporation. let's hold their feet to the fire. so we're going to work with the democrats, we're going to work with the administration, we're going to try to craft something that is fair and reasonable, holds people acco

i note also that those number of combat strides are comparable to those on the sleeve of generals daniel -- general stan mcchrystal. i was very pleased to mention -- to hear you mention him the number of times that you did in his own -- in your opening statement because he certainly has laid the groundwork for a successful operation in afghanistan. general mcchrystal has been a great military leader. he is a great man and military office that ordaz -- military officer that i had the privilege of visiting in theater when he was under your command, and i note the great work that he did there and i know it was recognized by you. i also know the great respect he had a of the men and women that served under him. where life takes in now, we all wish him the best and thank him for his service. general, i want to make sure that you appreciate the seriousness of this issue of the deadline, as well as the issue of the rules of engagement. i will not really get into that because i think you have had the opportunity, and you have, adequately addressed those two issues. but if we are going to have mi

daniel e. lgren moves to -- mr. lungren: i move to dispense with the reading. the speaker pro tempore: without objection -- mr. brady: i object. the speaker pro tempore: objection is heard. the clerk: strike section 401, insert the followwng. section 401, treatment of certain lobbyists as foreign nationals. section 319 b of the federal election campaign act of 1971 as amended by section 102a is further amendmented, -- amended, one by striking or at the end of paragraph two, two, by striking the period aft the end ofparagraph three and inserting o, -- ierts or, and three by adding at the end of this of the following paragraph, anyone who is a registered lobbyist under the lobbyist act of 1995 whose clients include, a, a country the government of which has been determined for purposes of the export administration act of979 as continued in effect pursuant to the international emergency economic powers act, section 40 of the arms export controlct, section 620-a of the foreign assistance act of 1961 or any other provision of law is a government -- as a government th

among them are the cases of daniel ellsberg, a defense department consultant who gave the pentagon papers to the times in 1971, and samuel morrison, the navy analyst who passed satellite photographs to jane's defense week until 1984. pnder president bush, no one was convicted for disclosing secrets directly to the press. but lawrence franklin, a defense department official, served 10 months of home arrest for sharing information. and i. lewis libby, top aide to and i. lewis libby, top aide to mr. cheney, was convicted of perjury for lying about his statements to the journalists about an undercover c.i.a. officer. buffalo, new york, up next on our democrats line. caller: hey, how are you? host: fine, thanks. caller: first off, i'm not a caller: first off, i'm not a democrat. i'm actual until new york state. we have a very, very good system of voting called fusion voting. my only three choices are democrats, republican, independent, i guess i got to go with democrat. however, i do believe our democracy is safeguarded for such an event like this, for a leak, and i believe that corporations,

i note also that those number of combat strides are comparable to those on the sleeve of generals daniel -- general stan mcchrystal. i was very pleased to mtion -- to hear you mention him the number of times that you did in his own -- in your opening statement because he certainly has laid the groundwork for a successful operation in afghanistan. general mcchrystal has been a great military leader. he is a great mannd military office that ordaz -- military officer that i had the privilege of visiting in theater when he was under your command, and i note the great work that he did there and i know it was recognized by you. i also know the great respect he had a of the men and women that served under him. where life takes in now, we all wish him the best and thank him for his service. general, i want to make sure that you appreate the seriousness of this issue of the deadline, as well as the issue of the rules of engagement. i will not really get into that because i think you have had the opportunity, and you have, adequaty addressed those two issues. but if we are going to have military s

washington journal" welcomes north carolina policy coordinator wendy sherman and then todd tucker and danielold and later sandra dano to have bankruptcy institute joins us. "washington journal" is live today and every day starting at 7:00 a.m. herein here on c-span. also a look at the gulf of mexico oil spill. hosted by eric asher. our coverage gets underway at 1:00 p.m. eastern on c-span 2. is government broken? the brookings institution is hosting a panel discussion later today asking that question. we'll talk about ways to strengthen democracy. this gets underway live at 1:00 p.m. eastern here on c-span. >> this weekend on book tv's in depth, noted feminist and scholar martha nussbaum. join our three-hour discussion with your phone calls, emails and tweets on book tv in depth on c-span 2. menopause applause >> meryl streep addresses graduates at barnard college. she has received a record 16 academy award nominations. she talks about her background and career. this is about a half-hour. >> dry mouth. wow. thank you, all. thank you, president, president tillman, members of the board of trus

scheduled sooling in venezuela -- soon in venezuela and nicaragua with a, we've seen both hugo chavez and daniel ortega pulling out all the stops to quell their opposition. from the media to the courts, chavez and/or takea have no chame -- and ortega have no shame in the dismissal of the democratic processes in their countries. as critical as it is to call out those who affront the principles of a democratic society, however, it is equally important to recognize those who embrace them which is why we are here today, madam speaker, standing in support of house resolution 1465. colombia represents to many the light at the end of the tunnel. colombia shows that with hard work, determination and a commitment to fundamental freedom, a democracy can flourish no matter what the odds. instead of falling into a deep division, colombia is ascending the peak of freedom and democracy. and i have no doubt that the vital alliance between our country and colombia is poised to become ever closer and more successful than ever under the leadership of president-elect santos. and i remain ever hopeful that this all

. >> this is danielle, from arne's office. >> [unintelligible] [inaudible] >> we went to high school together. then she went off to be a movie star. [laughter] >> are you feeling better today? >> i feel a little bit better. i still have a fever. >> get him out of here pretty soon. >> i do want to tell you, so you understand what we did. early on, we saw right after the accident, we knew it was bad. they said the disbursement would make it sink and it would not come ashore. we knew we had to stop the oil out here. we sent out a jack up boats. they kept telling us we do not need that, it is not coming ashore. we needed to put a plan in place. we put boats here on this side. as the oil came in, we put additional boats out. from these boats, we would ride the coast every morning and every night looking for oil. the first oil to come ashore came during a storm. the next morning it was there. it was over in this area. three weeks later, it still had not been cleaned up. it killed everything in that march. >> why did it take so long? ?hy didn't people mobilize everybody was so worried about

danielle brian, executive director of the project on government oversight commonly referred to as pogo. debra avant, professor of political science at the university of california at irvine and the author of "private security, the market for force." and john nagl, ph.d., president of the center for a new american security, co-author of its newly released report, contracting in conflicts, the path to reform. our witnesses are notable not only for their deep involvement with issues before us today, but also for the different conclusions to which they did their research and thinking and to which it has led to their views tak vi views today. we welcome this diversity of informed judgment and we encourage our witnesses, in kt farkts i would like to demand our witnesses engage with one another's arguments during the question period. vigorous debate will be a service to the commission and to the american public. we have asked our witnesses to summarize their testimony in five to seven minutes in order to ensure adequate time for questions, answers and debate. we also ask that witnesses submit

and danielle, from arnie's office? we have such beautiful pr people. >> the fund-raiser was all you could do. it was unbelievable. >> were you expecting that many people? it was unbelievable. >> i wanted it to be nice. they need to know what they need. they knew. -- they note i knew. >> we went to hig >> are you feeling better today? >> i still have a fever. i am still dragging. >> we need to get him out of here pretty soon. >> i am not going to stay long. i want you to understand what we did. early on, right after the accident, we knew we were going to have problems. they kept saying the dispersant was going to make it sink and it was not coming to shore. venice is right here. we knew we had to stop the oil out here. we had asked for jack-up boats that get out of the way of wave action. we kept being told we did not need that on the shore. when the president came down he did not hear about our plan. he said to put those in place. we have a jack-up boat placed here and another on this side. they never did improve -- di

daniel silverbuug, ed rice, and robert marcus. and with that, i urge all my colleagues to suppprt the legislation and i yield back the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields back. those in favor say aye. those opposed no. the rules suspended. the conference report is agreed to. without objection the motion -- mr. berman: mr. speaker, may i ask for a recorded vote. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman asks for the yeas and nays. all those in favor, those remain standing. sufficient number having risen, further proceedings on th >> today on c-span, a senate hearing for millinery -- military nominees to lead the forces in iraq and the afghanistan. then, republican senators discussed elena kagan. then, canadian prime minister stephen harper holds his closing comments at the g-20 summit in toronto. followed by that is a news conference with president obama at 6:00 p.m.. monday on "washington journal," a look ahead at the confirmation hearings for supreme court nominee elena kagan. our guest is jess bravin o