i know that delaware is not alone. all 50 states and all the territories offer something special and i believe we should do everything that we can to spread the message. that's why i'm glad to be a cosponsor of the tourist act. it will remind people across the world what dell tell can offer. international traveling is booming. 48 million more international trips last year than 2000, but the united states is still not sharing that bounty. in fact, we lost travelers over the same time period. an estimate i saw says if we kept pace with the expansion of international travel, we would have seen 58 million more travelers since 2000. that would mean nearly 250,000 more jobs. in today's economy we could sure use that help. i urge my colleagues to support this bill. however, i cannot leave the floor without commenting on another great state for tourism and that is the state that the madam president -- of the madam president, that is the state of north carolina. i spent this weekend in north carolina and i can contribute to the

in delaware just before tom darfur, our senator was expected to vote the idea was delaware precipitation is rising by 37% that defense occurring more than two inches per hour i am sorry two inches per day over the entire period the interesting thing we had two articles and the paper everybody was up in arms 37% is a significant rise and it is. the only problem when you look at the actual document you will find it really is not statistically significant and they admit that but the delaware populace they have tried to get tom carper to vote for it even in the of publication it was not significant. these are the kind of extremes that we do with. climate of death and the death of our climate is chapter number six. pat talked about this so i will skip that. chapter seven, up versace -- pervasive bias and here is restored to give in to the politics the peer review of the but organizations and did geophysical union have weighed in and remember when the university of oklahoma in 1989 bob carell gave a talk and he said this is a red letter day for the climate scientists everywhere. we will get lo

what is the normal titled range of delaware? it is six feet so at high tide there should be the area that isn't inundated because that would be less than the tidal range. but nevertheless, what you see they have done is actually measured at 20 p by tried to play it off as two feet. number five, extreme climates floods, fires and droughts one of the things that is missing in this discussion of extreme climates are tornadoes by think of those because i spent nine and a half years in oklahoma and that scares everybody to death out there. but there has not been much thrust for a number of reasons and that is why maybe in this case left off of the table. one of the things the chapter does point* two is the environment america report when it rains it pours i have seen this all over the place particularly with the rising frequency of extreme participation in the united states. just before tom carper our senator was expected to vote on the lieberman warner build the idea was delaware's precipitation is rising by 37%, the extreme partici

castle of delaware. the chair: pursuant to house resolution 522, the gentleman from delaware, mr. castle, and a member opposed will each control five minutes. the chair recognizes the gentleman from delaware. mr. castle: thank you, i yield myself such time as i may consume. i offer this important amendment before us today for a variety of reasons. when a citizen or national of a foreign country is convicted of a crime or fond found to be in the united states illegally, immigrations and customs enforcement or i.c.e. officials often order a final order of removal. while most countries repatriate their citizens and nationals in a timely manner, there are handful of countries that often refuse or unreasonabley delay this process. u.s. courts have ruled that our government cannot legally hold criminal aliens in custody for longer than six months following their sentence of imprisonment if their home country refuses or delays in taking them back. as a result, i.c.e. reports that more than 17,000 convicted criminals, many of whom would serve time for crimes such as murder, kidnapping and

from delaware but he left there to go to the university of oklahoma for 9 1/2 years and delaware, whichstitution, by the way, in the united states that actually gives a ph.d. in climatology wanted him back at that program and that's why he is there now. david, your commentary.

a delaware corporation. it doesn't matter whether you're in illinois or arizona, corporations are incorporated in delaware. that's the way it used to be. one of the reasons is because delaware had very benign laws regulating incorporation of business. it was cheaper to do it and less regulatory hassle. if the distinguished presiding officer, for example, looked across the river to the west and saw a, an insurance company in iowa that could provide him better coverage at less cost, then the company that insures him in illinois, why should he be restrained from buying the policy from the company in iowa? you can buy your automobile insurance that wait a minute you can buy your home insurance that way. why shouldn't you be able to buy your health insurance that way? well, you can't. so just one idea. i'm going to conclude this discussion now. but just one idea is to remove some of the barriers to competition that would make it more likely that insurance companies could expand their coverage by competing, be req

the court held it, a kidding paid $160 million, the most egregious situation is okay, the court in delaware. >> this litigation, one specific case was 7 years. >> the gentleman, ranking member from alabama is recognize. >> thank you. i was on the first panel, heard the testimony. mr. sperling, i have a lot of respect for him. he talked about some of the executive compensation decisions that actually led companies -- they actually increased risk. when we hear that we think of a ig, the some prime lenders, mortgage originators were paid by the volume without regard for the degree of pay. how many -- i will ask each one of you, whether you were here or not, give me a percentage of companies that you think engaged in this risky, dangerous behavior? i will start with the professor. >> the short view that i alluded to before, incentive structures were flawed, applies to the financial sector across the board. most of the companies in the financial sector, this made the financial crisis so difficult. most of them made decisions, seem to have involved excessive risk-taking. they all generally had th

why don't i turn it over to mike castle from delaware. >> i agree with jim completely on the legality of the situation in the senate. i think they are going to need 60 votes. that means it is going to have to be a bipartisan piece of legislation. but that is exactly what the american people want. you often hear that disease does not choose whether you're a republican or a democrat and i think the solution to this does not choose either. we need to work together hard on getting this done.

canal, a very short but very important canal connecting the chesapeake bay and delaware bay. right is the chief engineer and john randall is the chief contractor and after a few months, right to consider brandel a line nincompoop in a private letter, it gets randall fired from the chesapeake and delaware canal, randall's use in the case eventually goes to the u.s. supreme court. brandel wins a quarter of a million dollars which is in a store near amount of money, about a tenth of the value of the sea and the canal, and he builds a mansion overlooking the canal which is eventually build exactly on the lines that he has suggested and that wright had claimed was wrong. and goes down every morning to collect tolls. [laughter] which is how he collected his quarter million dollars because the canal company was not -- didn't believe pay off the judgment against him. and in any case, there are other aspects of the book that i think our new material which i don't think we really have time to go into your. you have a very long competition between new york and virginia about which state

>> delaware. >> no, no -- >> oh, further out? kentucky, south dakota, arizona, wyoming. >> okay, the western states but on the eastern sea board, and the reason i raised this issue at this hearing in the beginning of the season is that the predictions that i've seen or the feeling about this season because the storms have been so intense in the gulf coast -- >> that's correct. >> -- there's some sense that this is the east coast's time. and i just need to reinforce that i know that people in the northeast have not had a storm in a long time, but there are some significant studies that show what will happen if there is. and it is not a pretty picture. and in 1938 there was a major storm that hit long island, and you can just understand and think about what the population was then but what it is today. you know, 80 years plus later. and i'm asking you or you're testifying that actually in that part of that highly-urbanized area that there virtually is no communication of people outside of your 911 if you want to report an emergency

canal, a very short but important canal connecting the chesapeake bay and delaware bay. wright is the chief engineer and randel is the chief contractor. and after a few months wright who consider randel a line nincompoop, in a private letter, gets randel fired from the chesapeake and delaware canal. randel says, the case eventually goes to the u.s. supreme court. randel wins a quarter of a million dollars, which is an extraordinary amount of money, about a 10th of the value of the sea and the canal, and build a mansion overlooking the canal which is eventually built exactly on the lines that he had suggested and that wright claimed was wrong. and goes down every morning to collect tolls. [laughter] >> which is how he collected his quarter million dollars because the canal company didn't willingly pay off the judgment against them. in any case, there are other aspects of the book that i think -- new material which i don't think we have time to go into here. you have a very long competition between new york and virginia about which state will get west first. and it's been

and it is concerned that there are gaps along the way, all the way up to delaware, l.i., world georgia, and the panhandle, some areas. that is significant. we would also be allowed the telephony capacity to be connected. we are blessed in louisiana for money given after katrina, and i gives us the opportunity to move around, which is an incredible opportunity. the capacity through technology is critical. >> if you could take that down for a minute and leave the state issue, am i seeing that you are shaking your head in new york and new jersey and pennsylvania, and is that kentucky, west virginia, or delaware? >> kentucky, south dakota, arizona, wyoming. >> the reason i raised this is because the predictions for the feeling about it, because the storm is there, there is some sense that this is east coast time, and i need to reinforce that -- reinforce that the people in the northeast have not had a storm in a long time, but there are significant studies showing what will happen if there is, and it is not a pretty picture. and there was a major storm that hit long island, for you to unde

>> this is delaware. >> further out -- >> this is the western states. the reason i raise this issue is because the predictions is that the feeling about this season, because the storms have been so intense, there is a feeling that this is the time of the eastern coast, and i want to reinforce that i know that people in the northeast have not had a storm in a long time but there are significant studies, showing what will happen if there is. this is not a pretty picture. in 1938 there was a major storm on long island, think about what the population was back then, and what this is today. 80 years later. i am asking you, you testified that in this area, that there is virtually no communication of people outside of 911, if you want to report an emergency. in terms of where to go for a shelter or a meal for your child, this is the service that you provide. >> this speaks to the urgency of this act that you are supporting, and we know that this was never more vividly described were illustrated than after 9/11, the state of new york did not have this by seven

a very short, but very important canal connecting chesapeake bay and delaware bay. the chief engineer. the chief contractor. and after a few months he gets rendell fired from the canal. the case eventually goes to the u.s. supreme court. he wins a quarter of a million dollars which is an extraordinary amount of money. the tenth of the value. it builds a mansion overlooking the canal which is eventually built exactly on the line that he had suggested and that right time was wrong. because down every morning to collect tolls, which is how he collected his quarter million dollars. the canal company was not -- did not willingly pay off his judgment. in any case there are other aspects of the book that i think our new material, which i don't think we really have time to go into here. you have the very long competition between the new york and virginia about which state will get what first. it has been talked about and of the box. i think a stress it in this one. for decades washington, george washington and thomas jefferson who owned land in the ohio river valley, specul

in '99 it chose to become a delaware corporation at the time the executive vice president said delaware laws were conducive to corporations. why does the naic believe they should be able to choose where to incorporate based on what was in the best interest of the naic, but with insurance companies shouldn't have the option of a federal chart tore streamline their operations to better serve their customers? >> excellent question, congresswoman. let me first comment on the re insurance collateral issue with this very brief anecdote which is the -- my colleagues on the@ t is not delivering directly to consumers the products and it is also not a company. so it is not delivering products. it doesn't have solvency requirements. it is not selling complicated insurance policies to people in every state around the country and for that reason companies should be domiciled within the states and subject to the regulation of those states in which they sell products. >> i yield back. thank you. >> thank you very much. >> i have no further questions. >> you have further questions. thank you, mr. chair

quorum call: quorum call: the presiding officer: the senator from delaware. mr. kaufman: i ask unanimous consent the call of the quorum be dispensed. .the presiding officer: without objection, so ordered. mr. kaufman: madam president, i would like to ton where i began by honoring the contribution of our federal employees. on may 4 i came to the floor to discuss the importance of recognizing the hard work and dedicated service of our federal employees. this is especially important because our recovery acts during cheese challenging economic times. the programs we enact, it is easy to say, will be carried out by a federal workforce that requires people's confidence. i know from personal experience how industrious our civil certificate e.p.a.s are. -- civil servants are. we need to encourage graduates to enter a career in federal service. we need them to lend their talents and their ideas, their creative minds. this is why i make it a priority to call attention to what federal employees can and do accomplish. in my previous remarks i promised it highlight excellent

i'm from delaware. in my state, there is a lot of free or subsidized medical health, for federal committee health centers. there are drug programs exist throughout the country. there volunteer position programs. i read about the cancer program we have in delaware for people who were low income. the employer based clinics. we have hospital clinics. if we go to a universal system, what is going to happen to those programs? my concern is that people will say that everyone is insured now and we do not have to do these and we are going to lose a lot from an economic point of view -- a lot of men relatively free medical health care. it had been factored into what is being done at the white house or in this legislation or anywhere else? >> we do know there is a lot of uncompensated care in the country. a lot of the end of being paid for by the government. i would think as we move from government to run programs that are providing uncompensated care, we just would be changing how they are paid for, by making th

>> that is, correct. >> and then is that kentucky gripes west virginia. >> delaware. >> know, furtherout. >> kentucky, north dakota, arizona, wyoming. >> but on the eastern seaboard and the reason that i raise this issue at this hearing in the beginning of this season is that the predictions i have seen and the feeling about this season it is the storms have been so intense in the gulf coast. there is some sense that this is the east coast time and i just need to reinforce that and other people and minorities have not had a storm and a longtime. but there are some significant study is that show what will happen if there is and it is not a pretty picture. and in 1938 there was a major storm that hit long island and you can just understand and think about what the population was then but what it is today. 80 years plus later and i am asking you are you testifying that actually in that part of that highly urbanized area that they're virtually is no communication of people outside of your 911 if you want to record an emergency but in terms of where you could get a shelter, where you could

the presiding officer: the senator from delaware. mr. kaufman: i'd like to ask consent to speak in morning business for 25 minutes. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. kaufman: mr. president, i rise today to discuss president obama's nomination of sown ya sotomayor to -- sonya sotomayor to be associate justice of the united states supreme court. justice sonya sotomayor has impeccable legal credentials and a record of excellence and integrity. equally important, she has the experience not only to make an excellent justice but also to have a significant impact on a court that today reflects too narrow a lice of america. -- a slice of america. judge sotomayor's deep preervetion how the law affects -- appreciation of how the law affects the lives of ordinary americans is borne from her compelling personal background. as well as her times as assistant district attorney, a commercial litigator, and later as a judge. once confirmed, she will become the first hispanic justice and just the third woman to serve on the nation's highest co

[laughter] so he built forts across the river, the delaware river from philadelphia at fort emmerson and billing support, and while he was building the sports, they realized the british ships would sail into the delaware and try to bombard philadelphia. so he started building what is known as a cheveaux and they would put tips on the end and put them under water so that when the british ships would sail in they would puncture the bottom of the ship and then they would sink. the americans said this guy knows what he's doing so they made him a car all of engineers and paid him a reward and ben franklin went to paris and suddenly there was a battle for who would kosciuszko work for next. well, he got the attention of general horatio gates, the commander of the northern army for the continental army. and general gates was in charge of new work and he knew the british would be coming down from canada and attacking from the three sides. so he sent kosciuszko to a place called fort ticonderoga and said figure out of the fort secure and if it's some place we can make our stand the rigors of

and while he was building these forts, they realized that the british ships would sail into the delaware, and try to bombard philadelphia. so he started building what is known as a chevaux de frise, they were tree trunks, saved down and put iron tips on the end and put them under water and when the ships would sail in, they would puncture the bottom of the ship. and then they would sink. the americans said, this guy knows what he is doing and made hum a colonel of the engineers and paid him a reward, and ben franklin went off to paris and suddenly there was a battle, for who would kosciuszko work for next. well, he got the attention of general horatio gates, who was the commander of the northern army for the continental army. and, general gates was in charming of new york and he knew the british would be coming down from canada, and attacking from three sides. so, he sent kosciuszko up here to a place called fort tie con droing ga and said find out if it is secure and a place we can make our stand. ticonderoga and he got up to the fort and said you have a fantastic for the here and you h

the presiding officer: the senator from delaware. mr. carper: madam president, i ask unanimous consent that the quorum call be vitiated. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. carper: thank you very much. madam president, in the constitution, we see laid out before us a framework of how our government is supposed to work, three branches, legislative, executive, judicial. and we also find in the constitution what our relative responsibilities are, not with great detail but with some definitiveness. ironically, one of the requirements that the constitution provides for us in this country is that every 10 years we try to count everybody. we have a census, and most nations do that, and we've been doing that since really for over 200 years. it doesn't get any easier. in fact, every year -- every 10 years it gets harder and it also gets to be more expensive. the record of the census does not serve a finite period of time. the director of the census really serves at the pleasure of the president, and we've had census directors who have s

quorum call: quorum call: the presiding officer: the senator from delaware. mr. kaufman: thank you, mr. president. i ask that the quorum call be dispensed with. the presiding officer: without objection, so ordered. mr. kaufman: i ask to speak in morning business for up to 15 minutes. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. kaufman: mr. president, i rise today to congratulate the american society of mechanical engineers on its 125th anniversary of its codes and standards. as the only serving senator who served as an engineer, i worked as a mechanical engineer, i was proud to sponsor a resolution with a lasting impact, asme codes and standards have had on our nation and other parts of the world. may sound like a lot of jargon and pretty boring stuff. but as an engineer, i'm proud to say that i believe that the nuts and bolts of how to build things, how to create hour to standardize and grow equipment and industries have been at the very heart of american economic growth engine for more than a century. that kind of nuts and bolts thinking and creativity will b

the presiding officer: the senator from delaware. mr. kaufman: i ask consent to speak in morning business for up to ten minutes. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. kaufman: madam president, i've spoken here a few times already about federal employees and the great work they perform. i'm honored to be in a position to come here and do it again. i enjoy sharing stories about excellent public servants. the stories are not only a -- are only but a few pieces in the vivid mosaic of our federal workforce. the stories are exemplary, not exceptional. these are regular people doing a great job. the real story of our federal employees and that of their dedication, their talents and important contribution needs to be told. service in government is characterized by sacrifice. many of our federal employees wear a uniform and sacrifice in the battlefield. others work in civilian jobs but still make great sacrifices by working long hours and foregoing opportunities in the private sector, such as substantially better pay and bonuses. their bo

my state of delaware, particularly hit hard by the automobile industry. lower job great loss is not our goal. less bad is not how we will measure success. we will not be satisfied, until we are adding jobs, providing working americans with a stable job, dependable income, and making sure that everyone has a shot to get into the middle class. we are continuing to do everything to turn this economy around. we want to american -- jump- start the american economy. just over 100 diet -- days, the recovery act is over -- just 100 days old. has created job creation in every state in this nation. more than $11 billion in highway funds, highway construction funds have been made available, for a total of 3000 + projects across the nation. i am pleased that today's report shows some signs of increased. there is some direct signs, that what we are doing is having an impact. it is an encouraging sign. i want to make it clear that there will be more setbacks on the road before we get to recovery. we still have a long way to go on the road to recovery. that is why on mo

kaufman, a senator from the state of delaware, to perform the duties of the chair. signed: robert c. byrd, president pro tempore. reid plap? the presiding officer: the majority leader. mr. reid: following leader remarks, the senate will be in period of morning business. senators will be allowed to speak for up to 10 minutes each. there will be no roll call votes today. senators dorgan and martinez, the managers of the travel bill that's before the senate, have indicated that they're ready to move forward on amendments being laid down. we'll have a series of votes monday night. and we'll move toward completing that legislation as quickly as possible. important legislation it is. we look forward to completion of that legislation. as the debate escalates over the best way to ease the crushing burden of health care, it is easy to become sidetracked by misrepresentations or attemp teo point fingers. when we do those things, we lose sight of what is at the heart of this debate: this reform. i want to remind all of us what this is all about -- the health care debate. it's

without invoking, somewhat mournfully, washington staring glumly at the ice fields when crossing the delawarethe inaugural speech, quite a moment for the folks, as freezing as we all were on that great story of the day. you sometimes have the impression that obama is getting supply from a crack cabinet. thomas jefferson and alexander hamilton and abraham lincoln would compulsively identify. the founding fathers debated what america was to become. the possibilities of america. america was founded as an act of separation from the misdemeanors and errors of the miserable old world, it would be a new thing in the world, a place in which you could become an american irrespective of fraud or origin port nation or class, simply by virtue of subscribing to the great democratic ideal of freedom, unless you were black, something that is now at last, that disingenuous hypocrisy has been exercised. there's a sense in which history matters in america. out of the crushing tyranny, the social studies curriculum text book. part ii of our campaign, there are subscription envelops, we all just abolished social

. >> the gentleman from delaware is recognized for two minutes. >> thank you mr. chairman.i believe we need to be cautious in the path we are going. the form of capitalism we've had in the country for decades, generations and even sentries at this point has worked well. states have created the corporate laws and shareholders and injector's set pay. obviously there's been abuses in the area i think we all agree on that and i think the compensation structure should have affect on systemic risk but does that mean the federal government should step in with legislation and try to correct this is giving stockholders and stockholders themselves can the individuals who are not necessarily a person owning ten shares or 100 shares but corporations and others who owned tens of thousands of shares mutual-fund or whatever who may not have the interest of the future of the corporation in mind other than the immediate profit possibilities so as a result that potentially can be dangerous. i think we need to emphasize to the stockholders to have a right to change directors and we need to em

this day my 40-year-old son is attorney in state of delaware and my 29-year-old son and my daughter. and if captain biden walked in the door today, the first thing he would do is give me a kiss. i mean it. and the point is that it gives me more joy. and it gives every father in this room more joy than any other thing that happens in your life. mr. president, you are a great president and dad, and you are really good to be doing this. it's a big deal. >> all right, thank you. [applause] anybody back here want to comment on some of the things they heard or saw. go ahead. >> i would like to ask you a question. at one point you had decided you want to run for president, with two young daughters. can you share how you had to wrestle that decision. >> it's a great question, and i think i have said this before, the threshold question i had to ask in conjunction with michelle. because this was a joint decision, was could our family handle it. and frankly if it hadn't been for michelle's extraordinary strength and commitment, i would not have done it or could not have done it. and she was abl

to interesting republican votes, mike castle from delaware, these are states that trend to blue. this could help them down the line. the other gases, one from new jersey. those were surprising on the republican side. on the democratic side, there were probably a larger number that wanted to vote no but nancy pelosi held onto them. some struggle with the vote all week. john salazar was a no vote. >> what was john painter up to, mounting a house filibuster? >> the minority leader can speak as long as he wants. it was about an hour and 10 minutes as he was talking, reading through the bill. there were a lot of questions about what was in it and who was in it. it was an opportunity for him to make sure his life was heard. a lot of people say of the vote in 1993 led to the republican takeover in 1994. republicans are trying to bring back some history. >> thank you for bringing us up to speed with the process so far on the energy and climate change bill. this week's on-line addresses also focus on the energy bill. president obama followed by house minority leader john boehner. we have

host: market joins us on the democrat blind from wilmington, delaware. caller: 01 to echo the comments from the jump in from tacoma, washington. like he said, most americans do not know that the federal reserve couperins the currency -- who prince the currency in makes monetary policy is a private entity made of several banks. it is the largest. am i correct in that it is the largest entity in the world that is private? guest: the federal reserve is both public and private. the board of governors in washington is a government institution and operates under the aegis of the government in terms of sellers. there are 12 reserve banks around the country better non- government institutions. caller: and they are private, right? guest: yes. caller: is it true that the internal revenue service is also under the auspices of the treasury, but managed and run privately? guest: i believe most of the irs is run as a government organization. there are some elements that are outsourced for collection. caller: my last question, one of the founding members of the fed mad

quorum call: the presiding officer: the senator from delaware. mr. kaufman: i ask that the quorum call be dispensed with. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. kaufman: i ask consent to speak as if in morning business for up to 10 minutes. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. kaufman: thank you, madam president. once again i rise to honor a federal employee whose service to our assassination exemplary. -- who service to our nation is exemplary. i want to thank senator cochran for his statements about federal employees on june 11. i want by those who work in the federal government. mr. president, last week i shared the story of a federal employee who spent his career working at redstone arsenal in alabama. he designed and tested the advanced missile system to defend our military overseas. this week i wish to share the story after federal employee who works to advance our interest overseas, that of a humanitarian good works. both are vital to our global leadership. i spoken before about the groundbreaking research performed by our fede

host: new castle, delaware, good morning. caller: good morning, i guess part of the reason to go there it was to pick up the monolithic of the modern arab, muslim nation, or something like that and create independent entities over there that could be dealt with better and are better able to create democratic governments in the region. do you think the new administration will continue the goal? as opposed to promoting the modern arab man who goes beyond international boundaries? do you think this has given the people who drive for democracy there hope that someday their country might be part of the franchise of freedom? guest: it is a great question. i do not think the stated causes for the invasion of iraq in march 2003 had much to do with this idea of broader arab identity. the probable causes were the aftermath of 9/11, war against al qaeda, and the belief that saddam hussein had a wmd's. that said, the results, despite the carnage, the loss of a number of my friends, and a large number of iraqi civilians has resulted in a

the other two interesting republican votes for the bill, mike castle from delaware and mick kirk from illinois both are weighing senate bids in 2010. those are both states that trend blue, so a vote for the environment for these two could help them down the line. the other yeses were leonard lance, and also from new jersey, and i might have left one or two off. those were surprising on the republican side. on the democratic side, there were probably a larger number that wanted to vote no an nancy pelosi was able to hold on to some of them. some of them were in tight districts like kathy dellhamper from pennsylvania, she was struggling throughout the week and turned down invitations to talk to obama officials. john salazar from western colorado was a no vote, despite lobbying from senator mark ewe daw who came over from the senate side to work him, a former colorado congressman trying to win one of his former colleagues. >> what was minority leader john boehner up to late in the house process sort of mounting a house filibuster? >> yes, people were wonder iting if he had a patch on his

host: delaware on our independent line. caller: i pretty much agree with that nurse even though i am a basic secretary in the health- care industry. we have an aging population and we need to have long-term care and hospice care, dental care, it needs to be all inclusive. the current model does not work. it is crazy. host: how you pay for? caller: i'm one of the few who probably has my coverage to my work system, but you really have to know the plan -- is a pain. it is a pain to be sick. it has taken me four months to go through the system for a simple problem with my knee. you have to get a consultant to consultant to confirm -- by the time that happens -- he knew. i could have had this done 10 days after they knew. host: in the "usa today" lawmakers target health insurance tax breaks from employers which could be scaled back to pay for president obama's overhaul. committees in congress are considering a cap on the tax break so that higher income employees would pay taxes on part of their value. senate finance committee ch

the presiding officer: the senator from delaware. mr. kaufman: i ask unanimous consent that the call of the quorum be dispensed with. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. kaufman: i ask unanimous consent that speak as if in morning business for 18 minutes. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. kaufman: mr. president, i rise again to speak out about the problems in the financial markets caused by abusive short-selling activities. it can accuse abuse of the credit default market by planting false suggestions that aaron of you isvival is in doubt. my focus is on naked short selling. let me be clear about my main point. the public believes the s.e.c. has yet to discount that the effects of abuse of naked short-selling practices helped cement the demise of bear stearns and lehman brothers as well as made it harder for banks to raise capital in the throes of this financial crisis. it is no exaggeration to say that abusive short-selling at a critical moment further endangered our financial system, and economy and thereby helped

working with the members of that area, we are talking about major downsizing and sending people to delaware, now that we have the funds for fixing the facility, we did our job. i think that is the way it should work. >> yes, ma'am. >> thank you. >> mr. bozeman, it is your time. >> in your testimony, you said that the effort by of the states was proving to be a challenge. how will dot will insure -- how will the dot insure -- >> what we have done with the effort is that this is something that the state dot paws were not used to. in their first response to provide the certification, when we received those, we received a revised -- a variety of responses. there were contingencies and other things that we didn't feel complied with the law. we provided additional guidance to the to states. we received conforming certification back from all but one state. just recently, we should guidance to our state divisions to go sit down with each of the state dot's to review with the state how they'd refuted the numbers in the stratification, to make sure we are comfortable with the competition. -- with of

i can vividly recall talking to physicians from vermont -- and i'm sure the same is the case in delaware and every other state in this country -- who told me that patients walked into their office very, very sick, and they said, why didn't you come in here before? you are very, very ill. and they said, well, i didn't have any insurance. i didn't want tragedy. i didn't want charity. and i just thought i would get better. and by the time people ended up walking in the door, their case -- the situation was so bad that the doctors lost those patients, people who should not have died. and this is happening close to 20,000 times every single year in this country. recently, "the boston globe" had a big story -- and this is in the state of massachusetts, which supposedly has universal health care -- and reported that patients with chronic illnesses, such as diabetes, heart disease, were not taking their medicine or not getting the treatments that they needed because they couldn't afford the 25% copay. and massachusetts has almost everybody covered. so when we talk about the health care crisis, i

in states hardest-hit, i might add my state of delaware in particular was hit hard by the automobile industry. this is along with michigan and other big states. let me be very clear. a lower job rate loss is not our goal. less bad is not how we're going to measure success. we measure success -- we will not be satisfied until we are adding jobs, providing working americans with a stable job, dependable and comes. . . more than $11 billion in highway funds and highway construction funds have been made available for a total of 3600 projects in states all across the nation. i am pleased that today's report shows some signs of all this activity having its desired impact. construction unemployment, for example, is down 59,000 jobs in maine, cutting in half the average -- jobs in may. there is some direct sign that what we are doing is having an impact. it is an encouraging sign, but i want to make it clear that there is certainly going to be more setbacks on the road before we finally get to recover, as much progress as we have already made. we still have a long way to go on the road to re

they are both good opportunities as is delaware.ost: i realize it is early, but is there one state or race that says if this goes a certain way it will be good for the republicans deaths guest: let me say this about mid-term elections. this will be the referendum on obama and that the democrats. they will not re-hire governments to run the government, but they might want to put a check on obama. that works in the favor of republicans during the mid-term. only three terms as the party in power pick up seats in the house as ithistory shows. i think it will be determined by events in campaign committees. there is a basis for some optimism for republicans at this time. host: we're joined from philadelphia on the the republican line. caller: good morning. i have a question -- a longtime republican and it seems to me that everywhere the democratic liberals take over. they control california and new york. they ruined the economy. they overspend. i think obama will do this for the entire country. i could speak to you for one hour. he will p

as he did mournfully i have to say washington's staring at the ice floes of the cross and of the delawareend of the inaugural speech. there is a warm and cuddly moment for the folks as freezing as we work in washington on the great glorious day. you sometimes have the impression obama is giving the best advice that because it consists of thomas jefferson and alexander hamilton and abraham lincoln with whom some but compulsively identifies. so there is this a sense at we i think the founding fathers because the debate what america was to become, the possibility of america. america was founded as an act of separation from the of vice and misdemeanors and errors of the miserable old world of so many. it would be a new thing in the world. there would be a place in which you would become an american perspective of the class simply by virtue of subscribing to the great space ideal of freedom on less of course, all this, you were black. [laughter] something that is now at last the art of genuine hypocrisy. so there is a sense of which history matters. it matters deeply in america and it matters

love became the commanding officer of the ferry squadron in new castle, delaware, which ferre ideaed planes around the country from factories to airbases. not long after that, cochran became commanding officer of the 319th women's flying training detachment in houston, texas, which provided basic flight instruction for the army air forces. on august 5, 1942 -- 1943, the squadrons were combined to form the women's air force service pilots. over 25,000 women applied to become pilots and only some 1,900 were selected for training. of these almost 1,100 eventually earned their wings, many in the hometown of sweet water, texas, in the district i get to represent. the women who volunteered to fly planes faced a world that we can squaresly imagine. while complaints of sexism in the workplace still continue today, in the 1940's, sexism was not the exception but the standard operating practice. the women of the wasp were paid less, trained within with inferior equipment, -- trained with inferior equipment and faced an openly hostile working environment. they had to pay for their room and boar

working with that area, we were talking about doing a major downsizing and sending the people to delawareow, you know, that we've gotten the funds we're fixing up that facility. and so we did our job and i really think that's the way it should work. >> yes, ma'am. >> thank you very much and i yield back the balance of my time. >> mr. boesman. you now get your time. >> thank you, mr. chairman. in your testimony, you said that the -- that the maintenance of effort by the states was proving to be a challenge. how will d.o.t. ensure that states are continuing to use the recovery act's money that they're getting to supplement rather than use it to plan state expenditures that will be done anyway. >> what we've done with the maintenance, this is a provision that the state d.o.t.s were not used to. so in their first response to providing the certification and maintenance of effort. when we received those, we received a variety of responses. some with contingencies on them and other qualifications that we did not feel complied with the law. the secretary made the determination to go back out and

host: from delaware on republicans line. caller: 5 like to know why the -- i have liked to know why the 1151 windows were singled out to not get? wrongful death in the health- care? guest: i'm not familiar with the issue. caller: thank you for c-span. i have a question regarding smokers in the country. what is the health cost incurred by smokers in death and all the illnesses versus the taxes at a race? i do not understand why smoking is still legal in this country. that is my question. thank you very much. guest: as a physician, i have fairly strong feelings about smoking and how bad it is for you. we tried prohibition with alcohol and they did not work. the voters get to speak in this society. whether making smoking illegal would really ban it, who knows about that debate? i think what the state and local and federal governments have done is make smoking more expensive and try to take the revenue and put it to health care. that makes a lot of sense. most insurance companies charge you more if you smoke because they know yo

and i suspect the senator from delaware and georgia may have some other ideas for where people can use their savings. but the point is we will have created a market where there is none now. i consider the current health care system today for all practical purposes a money laundering operation. what we have done large the since world war ii is set it up so that third parties really call all the shots and there really aren't any opportunities for individuals who want to make a cost-conscious buy for a good-quality package to benefit from it. in effect, the individual has been divorced from the process completely. now, i am not calling for individuals to go off into the health insurance marketplace by themselves. what i am saying is they ought to have the opportunity like we have as members of congress to be part of a large group where they can have clout, where they aren't discriminated against, where they do have power in the marketplace to make a sensible choice for themselves and their family. so in each of these areas, mr. president, and it's why i wanted to come to the floor of the