would hold the dominant share of peak hour slots at heath row. nothing has changed. these slots are essential to the competitiveness of transatlantic services. b.a. was gifted many of those when it was privatized. no other carrier can get anywhere close to competing. last time we said that b.a. and a.a. would have an insurmountable lock on key airport pairs, nothing has changed. in fact, their market share has increased further since 2001. at the moment, they compete against each other on six key routes from heathrow, giving them im community would change all this. according to the official air lied guide up to the end of march, 2009, b.a./a.a. controlled 100% of all heath row dallas ft. worth capacity, 80% of heathrow boston, 70% of hooet row/miami, 64 of hooeingt row chicago, 64% of heathrow new york and 47% of heathrow los angeles capacity. given severe constraints at heathrow, there would be no chance for any carrier to try to mount a meaningful competitive response to these captive heathrow/u.s. pair city markets. is it right one group should have a 70 or 70 or

at heathrow, competitors cannot challenge ba's dominance. whether there's no meaningful competition, ba and aa would be able to increase fares on the most important air carriers in the world. in fact, if granted, immunity would ensure that the two largest transatlantic players will remain in lockstep and will result in abuse of market power. consequently the regulators need to show more than ever that they are guarding consumers interest. protecting monopolies is not acceptable to consumers who end up paying higher prices. and it shouldn't be acceptable to regulators. nothing has changed since 2001 when the regulators last look at these plans and demanded ba give up hundreds of slots at heathrow. how can they require anything less, if nothing has changed? the european commission is rightly opened a full investigation into ba plans because of federal observers are rightly asking how is it that two giants dominant airlines can be allowed to merge when already have such a tight grip on industry and consumers. ba and aa emerging is the equivalen

now to become north america and as it happens, the united states is the dominant power from this century in north america therefore it is the center of gravity. that does not necessarily mean it is the eternal or that it is powerful by itself just means by the geographic facts the way the world works, it is in the right place. it is also an extraordinarily powerful country because it dominates a united continent, it has no continental enemies, it is not in the 100 some odd years have a domestic war to devastated to which almost differentiates us from all of the powers and therefore extremely wealthy. but we speak of all the crises of the united states that are serious but the fact remains the united states economy is larger than the next four economies combined, japan, china united kingdom and germany and combine all of them they're not quite as large as the american economy. we speak of the industrialization of the united states and that has happened america industrial put out 2. 8 trillion per year which means the american industrial output is only larger than the combined output of ch

. -- don why the executive branch folks see congress as a dominating force. they see a president who is at the center of the news everyday making pronouncements that congress much responded to issuing budget proposals that congress merely tinkers with at the edges and articulating foreign defense and policies. political science has given a variety of names to the presidency'ies -- presidencies. the rhetorical presidency, national-security, administrative, the unified executive, the imperial presidency these are just to name a few. i suspect by the next time there is a conference to in toronto just before labor day, there will be a few more terms that will be attached to the presidency, global economy presidency, the hope and change presidency. by way of contrast to how many of you can't think of modifiers that are regularly put in front of congress when they talk about congress? you pause and think of one or two. how about "do nothing?" i think perhaps more important is how long the staff thinks about the balance of powers or how the american people tend to l

overbearing and domineering. there are a number of 4-star officers and others who are that way. it is a tough culture. when you look closely at a number of the major decisions, you can see that as much as rumsfeld is to blame for many things that went wrong, there were a number of senior officers who could have done more to stand up to him or call also be blamed for bad judgment and miscalculations. host: you also interviewed his wife, joyce. what kind of role did she have for his career? guest: i talked to her about five times. she is a critical figure in his life. the most important figure. they go back to high school when they first started dating. she is a tremendous asset to him. she has no detractors that i could find. she is perfectly charming, at engaging. she is very shrewd in her own way. host: she is also very bluntly honest with him on his career decisions. guest: yes, she was always brought into those decisions. she also had a certain appreciation for rumsfeld. even at the height of his popularity ar

he was completely dominating. hughes instrumental in selling the lies about iraq. he was talking about weapons of mass destruction. boo, you all get scared. he participated in the writing of the document called "project for a new american century suzy which basically said we should dominate the middle east -- anything less than that pearl harbor type of event would not be enough to motivate america to go off and meet that agenda. guest: donald rumsfeld did not fire a general shensecky. actually, he did not fire any general. he only fired tom white, the army secretary. a number of people feel ihe should have fired more people. his successor bob gates has dismissed six senior officials. he did pull the rug out from under shensecky by allowing were to be publicized 18 months early of who he would be replaced with at the end of his term, but shensecky was allowed to serve out his term. it is no question there were many strains between donald rumsfeld and the the general, between other members of the joint chiefs of staff. they resented being sidelined by donald rumsfel

they resented being sidelined by donald rumsfeld who could be very domineering. a number of four-car officers and other officers were also the way. it is a tough culture. when you look closely as i try to in this book at a number of major decisions you can see that as much as donald rumsfeld is to blame for many things, there were a number of senior officers who could have done more to stand up. either stand up to him or also to be blamed for misjudgments and misthis cut commissions. you write about his wife joyce. how many interviews to do have with her? what advisory will did she have? guest: i spoke with her about five times and she is a critical figure in his lap. they go back to a school when they first started dating. -- bigger back to high school. she is a tremendous asset to him. she has no detractors that i could find. she's perfectly charming and engaging. she is very shrewd in her own way. host: she is also bluntly honest with him on his career decisions. guest: yes, she was a was brought into those decisions. she also had a certain appreciation for hi

and i would maintain that this dominance by the executive -- president over the congress really goes back a century. at least to teddy roosevelt and not to mcginley in the spanish-american war and was of the modern presidency emerge in the u.s. emerged as a world power but i suspect the reason a lot of these a second branch civil servants think otherwise is because they see congress as a constant irritant and annoyance, a micromanaging that controls their purse strings. impulses all kinds of reporting requirements and restrictions on the departments and agencies and it eats up their budgets with the senseless earmarks. so i think that is one perspective to keep in mind and why the executive branch folks see congress as dominating the executive. congress, on the other hand, sees things quite differently, they see an executive bureaucracy that cannot begin to get its arms around and it comes to doing decent oversight of the executive, they see a president to is at the center of the news every day making pronouncements that congress must respond to, issuing budget proposals that congres

beyond, which was dominated by one man called jermimia wright. i'm sure you remember him. it was compounded by candidate obama saying people were bitter in america. this was the worst coverage of any candidate in any election. so i guess if you sit at that side and say that never happened, then you could make a case. but then you would also have to set aside the media's absolute fascination for sara palin, because for the initial week or two of her rollout, she was a super star. you know, and then candidate obama made jokes about the fact that she was getting more magazine covers than he was. there were -- let me scale this back a little bit and say, look, when you are winning things, generally the coverage gets a lot better. you know, it's true in sports, it's true in politics. obama won more than he lost. but when he was losing, the

he has that dominating stuff when he only has to pitch one or two innings. >> in the a.l. east, boston, yankees and ray, but you can only pick two to get to the postseason, which of those two of the three? >> i still think the bullpen for the rays will rear its ugly head somewhere. they don't have a closer yet. they're using j.c. howe there now. i think that will be a concern down the stretch when their pitchers start getting tired and they can't go deeper into games. i think the rays will be the odd team out, but don't ever count them out. that's tough to do. but i'm doing it. >> you've done it all you life. , no i'm just kidding. the talk continues on "baseball tonight" at 10:00 eastern tonight. >> top stories coming up, including a look at what's going on in wimbledon. another williams-williams final just two wins away. plus on the eve of nba free agency, we ask who is the biggest difference maker available. opinion coming up on "aircheck." opinion coming up on "aircheck." creer we only shoot beautiful things you see. action. cut. mmm...she's had work done. cut it. take

he was completely dominating. he was also instrumental in the life of iraq. he was talking about this weapon of mass destruction and the entire district of the united states, boom, a worldly to get scared. he also participated and i recommend everybody look it up it is called project for a new american sentry which basically says we should dominate the middle east and anything less than a pearl harbor type of event will not motivate the united states and attack iraq and afghanistan and get a out of there. >> host: lots there, we will get a response. thanks for the call. >> guest: rumsfeld, just to correct the record here, did not fire general shinseki although it is commonly thought that he did. he actually didn't fire any general. the only person he fired was the army secretary, tom white, a number of people feel that perhaps he should have fired more people. his successor, bob gates has now dismissed the number is six senior officials. he did pull the rug out from under shinseki by allowing the word to be publicized 18 months or so early of who shinseki wou

according to one approach, the government plays the dominant role by getting into -- into the health care business and leverages taxpayers' money to muscle everybody else out of the way. under this approach the vast majority of americans who like the health care they have, risk losing it when a government-run system takes over. the other approach is to find ways of controlling costs such as discouraging the junk lawsuits that drive up the cost of practicing medicine and limit access to places -- and access to care in places like rural kentucky. lifting barriers that currently diminish effectiveness of prevention and wellness programs shown to reduce health care costs like quitting smoking, fighting obesity and making early diagnosis. and, finally, letting small businesses pool resources to lower health insurance without imposing new taxes that kill jobs. this second approach acknowledges that government already plays a major role in the health care system and that it will continue to play a role in any solution that we devise. but this approach is also based on the principle that gov

in a world increasingly dominated by technology, i believe our economy, our environment and our future depends on improving stem research. i ask consent that the text of the bill be printed in the record. thank you, madam president. i yield the floor and suggest the absence of a quorum. the presiding officer: the clerk will call the roll. quorum call: mr. reid: madam president? the presiding officer: the majority leader. mr. reid: i ask unanimous consent that the call of the quorum be vitiated. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. reid: i now ask unanimous consent that the senate proceed to a period of morning business senators allowed to speak up to 10 minutes each. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. reid: i ask unanimous consent that the senate proceed to consideration of calendar 38. the presiding officer: the clerk will report. the clerk: calendar 38, s. 256, a bill to enhance the ability to combat methamphetamine. the presiding officer: without objection, the senate proceeds to the measure. mr. reid: i ask unanimous consent that the bill be read a third time pa

they have come to dominate the iranian economy. if you look at what happened two years ago, there was an iranian that cannot and said that the system is corrupt -- that came out and said that the system is corrupt. he basically accused the system of assassinating revolutionary guard members. that shows that there is a lot of attention not just between the right and left anbut with them the right and the right also. what i am not an economist. it is hard for me to avoid bidding you to speak about the political issues. i will try to get you to stick to numbers rather than political implications. first is the youth vote. i have heard others say that iran actually got a handle on the democratdemographic challen. this is obviously not attend to the challenge so we have today of creating jobs -- akin to the challenge we have today and of creating jobs. iran will look something like japan, where you have a very elderly population being supported by a relatively small young cohort. the second question is more political. looking at your pre

later the chief justice will come to grips with the dominant role of the congress, and says that when the court takes over, the judicial lawmaking, this is something that is recognized to be an area that should not be transgressed. this is up to the congress to make the law, and the court will interpret them. in a hearing on the voting rights act on april 29, northwestern austin municipal, on the issue of the sufficiency of the record. we had 16,000 pages of testimony, 21 different hearings, 10 months of action, and congress reauthorize the voting rights act. and now, listening to the supreme court argument and reading the record, you cannot draw any conclusions, it looks very much like the court may be on the verge of finding the record insufficient. the chief justice had this to say in the course of argument, one 20th of 1% of the submissions are not clear, this suggests that they are sweeping more broadly than they need to to address the intentional discrimination. that is the elephant whistle, this is keeping away the elephants. but there are no elephants, so this must be working.

we have focused purely on the idea of strategic bombing, which is dominated by the theology of an italian general from world war run -- world war i who wrote the seminal book on bombing. he presented his theory which the u.s. air force jumped on with glee and has adhered to ever since, the idea that by simply bombing the enemy, you could win wars without any land forces at all. that is an appalling lease to the idea and you will see why as we go through the historical evidence. this is at the root of everything we're doing in their power today across all the surfaces. separate from that but related to it is the question of the wrong aircraft, in part because of the incentives, we build airplanes that are vastly too in this -- expensive, and related to combat and too few, and the incentive plays into this, and the reason for the other things happening, which is officers get promoted to maximize the budget, officers who hurt the budget get pushed out. it is that simple. and the result is obvious. as you keep pushing, you see what my colleagues have shown, shrinking forces, aging forces, eve

because they know that by restricting advertising, it restricts the measures by which it's market dominance can be challenged. it's what is called regulatory capture, and industry delighted to be regulated because of it freezing their advantages. and the mere fact that they are regulating tobacco does not immunize them of liability. that's protecting another strong measure here in washington. host: in your paragraph, ironies abound by the state tobacco taxes. guest: all over the country state companies are addicted, i use the word intentionally to tobacco prices. they have to price the tobacco, to not discourage too much smoking. because if they do, there goes their revenue source. you couldn't loot the tobacco companies unless they have loot to be looted. and in 1948, 46 states came to a compact with the tobacco companies to get $246 billion over 25 years. they have to make sure there is a continuing supply of smokers to keep the revenue flowing. and it's compounded with s-chip, state children tobacco program. and to fund this improvement, we need to have self-damaging habit of smoking flo

i really wanted to understand the dominant religion there. >> any advice for making traveling especially airports easier for someone walking with a cane? >> well, if you have concerns about your physical ability to travel, remember, the most grueling things of travel is heat and thunder. go in the end of the season, march or october. much easier, much, much easier. >> did you have the opportunity to eat in the home of a persian family? if so, how was your meal? what did you eat and are persians as hospitable as i've heard, yes. >> yeah. i get a little trouble because i'm not crazy about persian food. >> you hadn't mentioned that earlier. >> i try not to but i wanted to know. it doesn't make you sick. [laughter] >> i find it better than norwegian cuisine. >> better than salted cod. then people you haven't eaten in a persian home. in restaurants -- i should stop talking about this, probably. in restaurants i found it fairly predictable. and it was wonderful cabob and rice and all that kind of thing, okay, but you get into a persian's home which we did which i really wanted to do and they p

members focused on the economy with unemployment insurance and jobs been the dominant issues. earlier this week the conservative party and the main opposition party, the liberals, agreed to a deal that would preserve the conservatives minority government temporarily. this is 45 minutes. ♪ >> the honorable leader of the opposition. [applause] >> mr. speaker, the acetone crisis isn't just a health care issue, it is about leadership. the government has not shown canadians that it has a plan to deal with the crisis. canadians need to know what is in the current and projected isotope shortfall which patients will get treatment and which will not and who will pay the skyrocketing cost of medical isotopes. of the prime minister promised canadians a plan, this plan should be public, where is it? [applause] >> the prime minister. >> mr. speaker, this issue is of great concern to all of us on all sides of the house and the garment has been clear the minister of health and officials have been working with their provincial calaveras to ensure the health care system response to this, they

concluded -- colluded to build managers for themselves and the economy prior to the civil war was dominated by independent livelihoods. as abraham lincoln told me wisconsin agricultural association, in 1859, it had room for any one of energy and ideas whether they lived in a mud shack or behind brass knockered doors. foreign visitors were dazzled by the energy released by a society so revolutionarily egalitarian, and which makes them all learning from one another. the civil war changed everything, in the northern industrial state which emerged in its wake, entrepreneurialism was unwelcome. factories and finance came to rule the roost when that transformation, people with minds of their own, became troublesome, to management,... to follow orders or from a management perspective, best kept childish, childish people at bay. children make the best customers. they have no sales resistance. since plato, a long string of you tone yep thinkers has worked to supply society's managers with algorithms, which lead to childish lives. they all begin with wiping the slate as clean as possible of close emo

in a sense, creating publicly a sense of an american perception of the world of islam dominated by these people and, in effect, putting in the same box the moderates and extremists. how would some other people feel in the case of ira activity in northern ireland, if we only spoke about papast terrorism, catholic terrorism, roman catholic papacy and so forth? my guess is that the 60 million americans in this country would find that offensive. it would not be helpful in isolating the ira. that is what he did. it was foolishness, stupidity, mindless. it goes further than that. our previous president, in his last state of the union message , confidently predicted that the struggle against terrorism would be the defining it ideological challenge of the 21st century. when he delivered that speech it was february 2008. would anyone in 1908 predict that the 20th century would be dominated by the rise of hitlerism and communism? would anyone in 18 08 predict that the rise of nationalism would define the politics of europe? it took enormous intellectual courage on the part of our previous presiden

venus dominating. up 5-love. huge forehand win. takes the first set 6-1. this is the first game of the second set. ivanovic would need treatment. she would have to retire with a thigh injury. venus only on the court 47 minutes. now the top fourth ladies seeds could break through to the semis at wimbledon for the third time since 2003. serena, next play, victoria azarenka from belarus. she's beaten her in each of the last two years at the australian open while older sister venus gets -- >> become the first one trying to -- murray in the near court, with a great crosscourt forehand running winner. this was second set action, murray took the second set 6-3 and third set 6-3. fourth set. a break point. we're on serve at 5-all. and murray, nets the backhand. wawrinka gets the break and goes up 6-5. next game, with a are inca, the big ace down the middle. wins the fourth set 7-5. fifth. now, prior to this year play at this time would have been us is defended due to darkness but because of the new roof over center court it was closed throughout the match and they

she dominates in 56 minutes. 6-3, 6-1. her sister chasing her sixth wimbledon title.ber one anna. venus dominating. takes the first set 6-1. this is the first game of the second set. she would have to retire with a thigh injury. venus only on the court 47 minutes. the top four lady seeds could break through to the semis in wimbledon for the third time since 2003 serena's next play, she's beaten her in each of the last two years at the australian open while the older sister venus -- >> trying to become the first male brit to win the wimbledon's series title since 1986. taking on wawrinka. murray, second set action, took the sister and heard the set. wawrinka, break point. wawrinka gets the break and goes up 6-5. next game, wawrinka, the big ace down the middle. wins the fourth set, we go to the first. prior to this year, play at this time would have been suspended due to the darkness but because of the new roof over center court it was closed throughout the match. they play on. murray, near court. on serve 4-3. look at that, huh? what a sweet lob. the fans are fired up

even though barack obama invoice todoval rating around 60%, racism is the dominant cultural factor in america today, it is hard not to drag the chains of that history in to the present. is goal seems to be to keep america's minorities angry, which keeps america divided. >> we should be angry about the reality that bernardine the scribe, five million americans eave lost their citizenship, you can't vote. that is odd if you think about it, we will reject that notion, because you are convicted of a ouldny, you can't vote. the number of african-american men disenfranchised in florida would have made the difference andhe 2000 election. disenfranchisement is a serious problem and it is race related. if you look at capital punishment, the death machine, aoy davis and in georgia is lcing imminent death for a crime that it is doubtful that he committed. the rest of the world looks at us and says really. de this is civilization. this is a high form of democracy, and the death penalty is race correlated. ted can actually take a map of lynchings all over the united states at the turn of the last

i think in terms of a government plan, there is a lot of concerns it will become the dominant market player and we can what we have now that is working and not really help those folks who need access to affordable coverage. >> if it meant getting something past, but will the afl-cio go along with not having a government plan? >> i again, it is not coming it is the total package what we can achieve to cover everyone the delivery system will improve quality and better value for spending and bring down costs to affect the future trend that slows family budgets, business and federal budgets itself. at the end we have to look at if it achieves those goals and rethink the public health insurance option is sent with that. >> speaking for a few minutes on the cooperatives and do work with the orange growers and other cooperatives in america and i am joking. [laughter] i thought at least we should spend a few minutes on it because it is out there. senator conrad brought it up as you know, from north dakota and can you give us a few minutes? >> not particularly. i would rather have one of my c

for 30 years french values went against the grain of those that dominated policies, but this creates circumstances that is favorable to france. our hope to put economy to the service of man and not the opposite. everything brings us back to this. at a time when it becomes obvious for everyone that economic development can only be sustainable if it respects mankind and nature at a time when the world discovers the limits of the logic based on the market, at a time when we understand we need to regulate our markets and globalization now more than ever the growth model for tomorrow will not be the model of the 30 years after world war ii. the digital revolution will radically transform the patterns of consumption and production, but nonetheless, they will be similar in nature. without fully realizing it, we have given too great a role to the financial markets and listened to much to those who were using debt themselves for undue speculation. in the new growth model that france hopes for, that france is striving to set up cannot we need to get a greater role to labor and entrepreneurs, i

and murray serving for the match, and murray, 37 winners and was in dominating fashion, 6-2, 6-3, 6-4 get the engines revved up. nationwide race in new hampshire motor speedway and joey logano and carl edwards. and edwards and logano are pushing and edwards in the 60 cars. he is in the hit having problems. >> shake it off, shake it off. the crew down there, you are an excellent crew. that's all i will say. it is a rare mistake. don't sweat it. >> they dropped lug nuts. and back to eighth place. and led, and busch and logano are battling and busch squeezes ahead and stays ahead for the final turn. the final lap, busch comes around and takes the checkered flag and the fifth win of the year in the nationwide series. and 23 different winners in 23 nationwide race test oval track and new hampshire. and busch also has 10 top five finish this is season, which is tied with carl edwards for the most. and busch finished first or second in each of the last four races. >> still to come the rangers appear to be heating up after a recent offensive drought. can texas put up more eye-popping numbers?

which testified so emphatically at his confirmation hearing as to the role of the congress being dominant. and it was really, as he put it -- quote -- "as a judge, that you may be beginning to transgress into the area of making a wall." so, those are issues which i'm going to be addressing to judge sotomayor in the course of the confirmation hearings. i'm not going to ask her how she's going to decide a case. that's outside the bound. but i think it is fair to inquire as to what is the standard. is it the justice harlan standard of rational basis? or is it a standard of congruent and proportionally? a standard which is of recent vintage in the city of bernie case, that having been applied in cases where it is very, very difficult to understand the conclusions of the court. if you take tennessee v. lee, where one article of the americans with disability act was upheld and contrast it with the garrett case where it was stricken. justice scalia, in the argument of the voting rights case, took issue with the congress on a 98-0 decision, suggesting that if it's 98-0, it must not have been too

would anyone in 1908 predict the 20th century would be dominated by the rise of hitler, would anyone in 1808 predict the rise of nationalism would define the politics of europe? it took enormous courage on the part of the previous president to act as a historian of the future to make that statement. but that was the official vision of the future. by the president of the united states private i think it is a good thing obama is offering an alternative vision of the future one which i think is more compatible the spirit of the times, one in which in fact we need a reconciliation of civilizations and not moral sanction in a clash of civilizations. so i approve entirely with what he said as a philosophical statement this was a politically philosophical statement defining his sense of what we are about and where we are headed in this century. it does imply policies i happen to favor. yes, please? >> john from the national council -- [inaudible] thank you, john duke anthony, national council on u.s. eckert relations. to add to the further leverage of line of questioning and your response o

really earlier in the season he was so dominant, guys, then he went to field the ball, it was raining, and he hurt his hip. he went on the disable list, and he had a hip flexor injury to that back hip. ever since he came back, he has not had the huge overhand curveball that he had earlier in the season. >> jim h.: markakis now curveball, high fly ball to center field, andino will tag as willie harris has the play, almost to the warning track, wigginton also tags and he moves up to second base. that's a sac fly and an rbi. o's get a run but beimel gets an out. >> jim p.: ty wigginton, i think he really understands how to play this game. willie harris, he's going kind of saunter back after it, ty tags up. double play not in order. well, there's two outs anyway. but you have yourself a chance to score another run with a base hit. the nationals still have to get, what, four outs? and maintain this lead. >> rob: it's not been that easy this year. >> jim h.: there are a lot of players that wouldn't have paid attention early on when this routine fly ball just kept going, going, so they don't

within bid dominant majority sunni tradition it also breaks down. there is a small section, but then there are the taliban they have most of the met process in a country they have about 10,000. >> host: what was very unorthodox school of islam you describe that very well in the book but the influence is particularly strong in prune jab and it expires -- extends to the northwest frontier province but there is archipelago of shrines. that they will go and visit and spend hours in the evenings studying poetry and dancing and it is a very, very and orthodox. >> as the taliban come at what was happening is one of the first things the taliban did was to take over some of the shrine and say now we're running these and nobody comes in here. it is a direct threat. and intimate relationship with god. >> host: and often enjoy is, the celebration of this form of islam is not all walking women away but pure celebrations. >> when it went back august 20086 months after being kicked out i went to check out celebration it is the annual celebration and it is the larg

in addition, many large urban areas dominated by one or two insurers that seven more than 60% of the market. in fact, there are seven states where one insurer has only 75% of the market share. a public auction can -- option can help americans expand their choice of provider. a public option could take various forms and i think the committees are the proper place to determine the appropriate contours of public option. but i think a good starting point for discussion is the proposal put forward by my colleague from new york, senator schumer. it delivers all the benefits of increased competition without relying on unfair built in advantages for the federally-backed option. this public option would not be subsidized by the government or partnered by medicare. it would not be supported by tax revenue and it would compete on a level playing field with the private insurance industry. and if a level playing field exists, then private insurers will have to compete based on quality of care and pricing instead of just competing for the healthiest consumes. this is just one proposal for a public

both -- one topic is dominant the in the news and in people's loss, the other is not dominant in the news that there is a quiet revolution going on around the country on education reform. being led by the administration and arnie duncan. whatever you want would be great. exactly what a middle child like me would love to see happen. if you haven't seen the president's interviews he did with the wall street journal, nbc, besides killing the fly, his basic premise, when we came into office, was the economy over the last 20 years lived through a series of bubbles which is where we got our growth. we had to have a more sustainable economic growth strategy and package that were essential for steady, long-term growth. there were a number of game changers that prevent the bad economic growth. rattle them off in this field of energy, education/job-training, health-care, what i would call for research and development, that whole space. which is one of the notes i would make in the economic recovery act, dramatic increase in research and development, we have leapfrogged in certain areas like a

the proposed regulations of tobacco by numerous agencies or an agency that the president has given dominance over the other agencies in the federal government too regulate big tobacco, i look at it as something has to be done in that area in order to curb the abuses, abuses being that the general american public suffers from this product and if mr. will does not believe that is a positive step, what proposals do you have? we know that this is an issue that's been -- that's adversely affecting -- a product that's adversely affecting the american public. it seems that in the united states, if there's a product that adversely affects the health 240e6 -- health of the general public, such as illegal drugs or marijuana or something of that nature, it's regulated. there's an enforcement agency that steps in and does something about it. we know for years, the american public has been adversely affected by tobacco. host: thank you. guest: he used an interesting word, the abuse of this product. again, what makes it fascinating, tobacco policy, is that you don't have to abuse cigarettes to be injured

. >> phyllis dominic lapierre? >> dominic lapierre is a well-known author it has a history of "new york times" of best sellers by minded and the book we are doing this fall is called the rainbow in the night, about south africa. covers the hole at apartheid period and all the turmoil that country went through. >> what kind of books the laforet da capo? >> we have publish non-fiction primarily. one of our missions is to make sure they books fit into our core areas where we know we are going to be able to find success for readers. it is a lot of military history for us, a general history, a little politics, a little current events and a lot of pop culture to mix it up a little bit, music history. >> speaking of pop culture what is this book? >> this is a book called goodbye 20 a century ago it has been favorably reviewed in hardcover and which is part of the paperback edition. it is about the band and the whole grunge music movement. the. >> allyssa born is vice president of da capo press. >> sunday on c-span's to's

i want to emphasize that while there are other matters dominating the attention of the senate right nowhe senate banking committee is working on drafting ideas and proposals in consultation with barney and the white house on deep -- on the part -- on the proposals the president made this morning. >> [inaudible] >> they have a great -- they have threatened us with a severe chastening. this is very pro market. you have investors who do not want to invest. that is not good for the economy or the businesses. you have a great majority of perfectly responsible people under competitive prices who want to cut corners. this is in an effort to avert the kind of problems we have had before and to fully reinvigorate this market and away that is going to be pro market and pro consumer. unless you have got investors that are well protected, you do not have a market. >> on the markup of the health care bill, how can you do two things of this magnitude at virtually the same time? >> as i mentioned, it takes the leadership -- and nobody wanted senator kennedy back more than i did. i had a long conversat

the ideologies that is taking control of us are the metaphor that has nominated -- dominated our education is like a product. education something you buy or sell in the marketplace like a box of bolts or in refrigerator. that is not true. otherwise it makes sense like kill the union and privatize all of the services but it is not true. we need to build a more robust public space and public system and a charters are not really proven unless you are a part of that. >> host: what is your day job? >> guest: my day job? i have so many pacoima professor at the university of illinois in chicago and have been there 22 years. began when i was 43. i think of my work as an activist and it continues to be that even though i do a lot of writing and teaching and sponsoring dissertations and all of the rest of what a professor does by have thought of myself during my adult life as a political and social activist. >> host: what we're teaching last semester? >> guest: i am so exhausted i don't want to talk about it i just finished this week. any professor that winds about being a professor should be taken

and it's true who dominated the political system for a long time.still dominate certain aspects of israeli. but that was a huge divide in israel. in a way not only class divide but a political divide and cultural divide. it has actually been to a large extent bridged. not gone but to a large extent bridged. there are many different categoriesation. you have the russian immigrants who came in. you have a significant group of russian immigrants who came in and they forged a block that is really distinct from the historic ashkinazi community that came in. there's been a transformation of israel that is more idealogical over time. initially it was a socialist country. most of the immigrants came in with socialist ideas, establishing the collectists. and more secular and less religious. and clearly what was seen in israel is more moved toward religious groups. still not a majority but a significant group. and certainly the economy and the culture has changed. so there are far more important divides in israel today than simply the safartic divide. host: a

restricting advertising it restricts the measures the advertising promotions by which its market dominance could be challenged so again, it is what used to be called regulatory capturing and industry delighted to be regulated because it freezes the and bandages. second, the bill goes out of its way to say the fact the fda will be regulating tobacco does not immunize the tobacco companies against liability for damage done by the product. that is simply protecting another strong battalion in washington. >> host: you also in the irony is abound about the state children's health insurance program being supported by tobacco taxes. >> guest: all over the country state governments are increasingly addicted i would use the word intentionally to tobacco taxes therefore they have a difficult problem they have to price the pack of tobacco most of which nowadays the vast majority in most states is taxes. they have to price it so as to not discourage too much smoking because if they discourage too much smoking there goes there revenue source. you cannot let the tobacco companies unless the tobacco

one topic is dominant in the news, the other one is not dominant lly in the news. it is being led by the administration and by arne duncan, top to bottom. is it me, am i to closo close? exactly what the middle child like me with love to see happen. if you have not seen the president's interviews he did yesterday with "the wall street journal"

so it dominates tv, there's a 72-hour peerpped when these are on a total loop. the candidate and his people know this is a moment of real peril and his sits down and starts writing this speech. he does it after a long day of campaigning and shooting tv ads. he ends it finishing up 2:00 in the morning before he is giving the speech. and the people liked it. they liked the fact that he put it in context. again, they were watching him respond to a crisis. and that's what he did. but of course it wasn't enough because wright came back. that was an even more pair lust time for them. -- perilous time for them. >> the remarks that have caused this recent fire storm weren't simply controversial. they weren't simply a religious leaders' efforts to speak out against perceived injustice. instead, they expressed a profoundly distorted view of this country, that sees white racism as endemic and elevates what is wrong with america above all that we know is right with america. a view that sees the conflicts in the middle east as rooted primarily in the actions of stallwart all

been fighting for for a long time but these are issues that have been blocked by the conservative dominance of this town but there are new issues that we need to begin to lay the groundwork for, emerging issues we need to lay the groundwork for. we heard some of that this morning in hearing about the need to create a new kind of economy that works for everybody. we are seeing leveless of inequality and racial exclusion in our country that have been fundamentally incompatible with a driving economy or democracy. people used to say that inequality of the kind in our country today is the necessary consequence of a capitalist economy and a growth economy that we just had to live with that reality. i think there's one lesson that this crisis has taught us, it's that inequality is actually bad for the economy and bad for our democracy. [applause] so in my mind one of the worst things that's happened over this period of conservative dominance is it has taken whole subjects and put them outside the pale of polite discourse. among elites in our country. issues of deep poverty and unemployment and ra

always remember every defense dollar spent to bolster an area where we dominate is a dollar we don't have to spend to take care of our soldiers, strengthen our force, and improve in areas where we may be vulnerable and our 10e8ders -- soldiers may be vulnerable. again we have to simply stop spending more and start spending smarter. our soldiers deserve it. the taxpayers deserve it. thank you, mr. speaker. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields back the balance of his time. the gentleman from florida has 6 1/4 minutes remaining. mr. diaz-balart: i ask my friend if she has additional speakers. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlewoman from maine. ms. pingree: i have no remaining speakers. i reserve the balance of my time. mr. diaz-balart: i thank my friend and thank you, mr. speaker, for your courtesy. i want to thank all who have come to participate in this debate. this legislation enjoys extraordinarierly wide extraordinarily wide bipartisan support. it's unfortunate that the rule that brings it to the floor is not fair. as i pointed out it makes about 2/3 of the

the difference is our system is dominated by private health insurance companies and i hope i will not shock anybody on this committee or anybody in this country by suggesting what everybody knows to be true. the function of private health insurance company is not to provide health care. the function of a private health insurance company is to make as much money as possible and quite often the way you make money as a private health insurance company is to do not healthcare. every dollar id malae, every pre-existing condition, every time i terminate somebody's health insurance because they were really sick last year and need it is a dollar more i make. it is no secret private health insurance companies hire people to find out who was sick. go over the records to make sure we don't continue that policy. i'd think that is basically in saying. that is obviously endemic within our system. and the we don't ask apparently we are not about to talk about in terms of the role of the private health insurance industry is they are responsible for giving the most costly wasteful comprehensive your c

ayers insists that racism it the dominant cultural factor in america today. it's very hard not to drag the chains of that history into the present he said last week to though washington times. his goal seems to be to keep america's minorities angry which keeps america divided. >> guest: no goal to keep anybody angry but i think we should be angry about the reality that bernadine described. we have something like 5 million americans who have lost their citizenship because of felony convictions. can't vote. that's odd if you think about it. i think some day we will reject that notion that because you're convicted of a felony you can't vote. the number of african-american men who were disenfranchised in florida would have made the difference in the 2000 election. so disenfranchisement is a serious problem and it's race related. if you look at capital punishment and the death machine. troy davison in georgia is facing imminent death for a crime that is very doubtful he committed, and again, the rest of the world looks at us and says, really? this is civilization?

so, the summons pop out and it dominates tv as a 72 hour period when they are on a total loop. the candidate and his people know this is a moment of real apparel and he sits down and starts writing this speech and he does it after a long day of campaigning and shooting tv ads and he ends finishing up maybe two or 3:00 in the morning before he is giving this speech and the speech, people like it, they like the fact he put it in context and again they were watching him respond. i think people want to see politicians especially candidates respond to a crisis and that is what he did but of course it wasn't enough because jeremiah wright came back and that was an even less powerless time. >> host: here is what can date obama said march of last year. >> the remarks that caused the recent fire storm were not simply controversy of. they were not simply efforts to speak out against perceived injustice. instead, they expressed profoundly distorted view of the country. the view that sees white racism as an dennett, that elevates what is wrong with america above all that we know is right w

and for american dominance and superiority. yes, the chinese and indian nations are out there competing. we want to compete against them because we have better technology. we just have to make the investment here. and not in saudi arabia and libya and venezuela and russia and that's what the policies of previous administrations have led us to and that's where it must end today on this floor. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman's time has expired. the gentleman from michigan. mr. camp: i wish his passion was directed at helping the american people. i yield two minutes to the gentleman from california. >> this legislation is not only not the right thing, it's one of the most overreaching, damaging pieces of legislation that's ever come before this house of representatives. this national energy tax is a job killer and will cost american families over $3,000 per year. while doing very litting to affect global temperatures. rural america, low and middle income families and our farmers will suffer the most under this new tax. mr.