there's a great deal of anger and dispair, and it shouldn't shock anybody in this room that we're all looking at bad guys, and other considerations voluntary manslaughter going stifel fomple that depending on creating artificial demand. some will say it's the unions to have get -- that has allowed us to consume a lot of goods in this country and allowed us to have the trajectory of economic growth in this country. some will say it's the president. some will say it's congress for authorizing the funds in the first place that are being utilized to be invested in these companies, some will say it's the people who sold subprime mortgages to people who couldn't afford them. the bottom line is we're all going to indulge today in a little monday morning quarterbacking. the alternative to what's happened is a much more drastic result, and if we're all honest about it we woif to acknowledge in the actions had not been taken takeover past 30 days two giant american manufacturers would cease to exist and there would be no one left standing and tpwhoun would go twork proudly -- and i think all of

participatory research is a vital tool in helping to not only analyze, but hopefully address many of the dispairs we're seeing in minority population. a research methodology that involves engaging the community at the grassroots level in terms of research agendas and then feeding back those research agendas to the community that was initially engaged in that research. i wanted to talk about some of the examples we have done in terms of cbpr type study z and highlight the roles of other agencies such as the minority center for health disparities that has done a tremendous amount of work on research. two years ago we sponsored the cities initiative, an initiative looking at stroke as well as hypertension within the black belt, that's that area along the southeast corridor of the united states where we've seen elevated rates of hypertension, ie, kidney disease and stroke, and we looked at interventions related to possibly eliminating, if not reducing those disparities. many times when people just understand in terms of the actual diagnosis they have and realize there are certain thing they can do to

part of the electorate, and that's an extremely difficult balancingal act and one that i sometimes dispair at republicans being able to pull off. >> roger, your own views on this are prominent and important. could we hear them? >> well, thank you. the center for equal opportunity believes very strongly in the principal of e pluribus unum but we also are on the side of the conservative that relatively high immigration levels are not a bad thing, that nsket they are something that's necessary for the economy to work well, but in order to ensure that those relatively high immigration levels do not jeopardize the principal of e pluribus unum, there needs to be more attention given by the got to the to assimilation. assimilation is not a dirty word. i like mitch's three-part test. as you note, arthur, i've expanded that to a to 10 a top 10 list for immigrants that include not only speaking english and following the law but some other things as well. working hard, studying hard is not -- i have written also about the importance of keeping -- of having children after you are married. i should say

but certainly in terms of the outcome, there is quite a dispairate allocation there. now, preemption that you've been waiting for so much. the court had three preemption cases and this really is important because it has to do with the allocation of government power between the federal government and congress and the agencies of the federal government and the states. the three cases were altry vrted goode and cuomo versus clearinghouse, which is one of the three cases coming down on monday. so we don't know much about that. altria versus goode was the degree to which the sig rate language preempted state laws that would provide the opportunity to sue tobacco companies for misleading labeling or advertising. the statute said in order to have a uniform national policy with respect to the advertising or promotion of cigarette products, prohibitions or requirements by states on the advertising and promotion of cigarettes based upon smoking and health will be out, you know, they will be precluded. the altria versus goode case came up, someone is suing because they argued th

but certainly in terms of the outcome, there is quite a dispairate allocation there. now, preemption that you've been waiting for so much. the court had three preemption cases and this really is important because it has to do with the allocation of government power between the federal government and congress and the agencies of the federal government and the states. the three cases were altry vrted goode and cuomo versus clearinghouse, which is one of the three cases coming down on monday. so we don't know much about that. altria versus goode was the degree to which the sig rate language preempted state laws that would provide the opportunity to sue tobacco companies for