to eckert douglas elmendorf today told the committee that the current budget all look as, quote, donner predicting $1.35 trillion deficit for fiscal year 2010. this hearing of the house budget committee is two and a half hours. [inaudible conversations] >> i will call the hearing to order. we meet today to consider and receive testimony from director elmendorf of the congressional budget office on the latest update on the economy and the budget. the number in the cbo report update released yesterday were

i am amused when i think about the fact that who stopped that fellow donner in fort hood. it was a woman and we can't have women in combat but they will tell you quickly at least in iraq that i've been reading about there is no frontline and the ones that are being hurt, killed, a respected what the gender may be, they are doing a great job. also the fact that we have a dentist daughter is an air force colonel retired has nothing to do with it. [laughter] there is one other thing that jack didn't mention. something i should have done earlier. is their anyone here that her i was thrown by a horse? no? you know better, you were there. >> i don't remember that one. >> okay. i thought the subject would come up. i did. on the front page of the army times, back on the week of 17 of october, 1975 there is a picture of me on the back of it worse. i had been in command of the first calv. division for about eight months. we were converting it from a triple capability to an armored division. and we train hard so i decided it's about time we get a break, something to celebrate so we d

this was very concise meeting in donner but like to express my thanks to the secretary mrs. hillary clinton. she has joined today in usually should have been at the union has given by the president but she has joined us and this indeed is an eloquent witness to the importance of the united states attaches to the help offered to yemen. indeed we have reason to support which has been promised by all, and especially the five member countries of the security council. you know that it was the ministers of foreign affairs who attended this meeting which shows that there is a true will and intention of helping and i would like to reiterate my thanks to the foreign secretary and would like to thank the prime minister gordon brown for taking the issue to hold this meeting. i'm not going to reiterate what mr. milibrand has said that what we achieved today does indeed achieve the requests made by yemen on how we are going to correct the economic problems which have led to the political programs and the biggest problem of terrorism in yemen. this meeting has reiterated a new that it is

we changed the property tax donner you ration system to eliminate the problems caused by the 150% rule. and we created new incentives for value diesel fuel, wind power development and transmission equipment. we've revised our campaign finance laws increase public access to government records while still protecting the citizens privacy. there is more information available now through the state websites -- over 450,000 pages -- than ever before. in response to a legislator concerns, we also created the open sd.gov website to display budgeted revenue information, salaries, the underpants and a host of other information on just from the state government, but for other local units of government as well. since october 2008, they're have been over 590,000 visits to the opensd.gov website. those are just a few of the things we've done together over the last several years. even though we didn't require the law, we also worked together with our congressional delegation to save ellsworth air force base from being closed. we were able to accomplish all of these things without the higher taxes of o

they come here and donner their ancestors. they remember them >> all of these tombstones and monuments here are more elaborate than we've seen before. what is the story of this section? >> this is section 1 of the cemetery. arlington began as a pauper's cemetery during the height of the civil war, 1864. after the war when we had time to think about and reflect upon what had happened, what we had gone through, we had time for more ceremonies come more and rituals and gradually won by one the officers from the civil war wanted to be buried here. it was a great honor to be buried here eventually after the smoke and blood of the civil war settled somewhat. this was the place the officers section in its day section 1, and remember this is the victorian period so they are basically no limits on on the design if you have the money and wanted to build an angel as your grave marker, even if he were a lieutenant you could have it be any size you wanted. so you see again at arlington it is a reflection of the times, the excessive ornamen

. >> host: and she's not leaving the white house, she has ordered the staff to make her donner. >> guest: the whole american army ran away but dalia said if i had a can and i would put one in each window of the house and fight to the end. >> host: said that is a little more than a hostess, isn't it? >> guest: she was an extraordinary woman in that respect and would keep her head in situations that most people, not just a woman but a man would be completely upset and lose all contact with reality but not her and also she played such an important role in madison's life in a disaster like this there was talk after the british burned the white house capital and major buildings the was talk of assassinating madison and he became a rather heated president but when dalia went out on the street people saw her and they cheered. >> host: she rescued him. he was a bland person. >> guest: he wore black all the time, he had a very soft wastes and was very charming and pride but with the public he became a recluse except when he went to a dinner party dolly was giving and then she was the presiding ge

lot of people will have smart phones in their pockets that had a large enough screen you can read donner and have the data plan so there's opportunities for people to do more reading. maybe it's in the ten minutes on the train and or moments in their day they might not otherwise have been lugging around a book and then also with these interactive screens we mentioned earlier the exciting things you can do, starting to do more multimedia with the book and connecting the books together and doing who notes and annotations and that kind of stuff is also very exciting. >> one of the things interesting listening to you folks -- negative spencer and i think to be to teach in central florida -- one of the interesting things listening to you is almost as if there's a conversation not happening. [laughter] life mean, given we spend a lot of our time looking into a room of her vibrant young people who immediately began falling asleep i know the way we talk doesn't always hit with the with the rest of the world thinks. at the same time, you've walked into a room when you hold up your book i can hea

and you can check this out by logging on to boston donner. actual numbers, 1.1 million votes for scott brown compared to just over 1 million for martha coakley. neil strine from albany new york. democrats won. your reaction, go ahead, please. >> caller: i just want to congratulate senator brown. i just want to tell you that my wife and i, even though we live in new york, drove over to massachusetts on sunday and volunteered and became brown volunteers in massachusetts and made phone calls for the senator. >> host: and what made you do that? >> caller: because we are fed up. we don't want the health care bill. the fact they would not put it on c-span we thought was all right bribery in the country and the part of our elected officials and nebraska and the unions convinced us that we have to do something. and i hope people are around the country have the same view that we found this weekend to do this because america has to turn a silver of four of our children and grandchildren. we have to start developing new industries. we have to drill for

bottle of blood would have a little tag which would say this blood comes from a white donor or black donner and a few were even almost don young and you were a white person you had the right to refuse this blood transfusion. it was unbelievable and i am so happy to have written this book not only because i think it is a great story. it was enormous success in europe but because also the royalties are going to this humanitarian action in india and africa and now also in south africa, in south america with the royalties of one copy of a dream of the night i can feed ten leopard children for one week. so it think it is an interesting story but also one new share when you get this book, and as all of this, the destinies of those when i mentioned today evolves around the most sacred thing that we have received from god that is the right to lift life. i would like to share with you just to conclude with only one minute more the message about life mother teresa had written once on the shore in the might of the monsoon 30 years ago and i found this message as a poster for one of the homes of their

movement even though it was very forceful in its criticism of racial segregation, racism of american donner proceed it really did lay the foundation along side of the civil rights movement while transforming this nation to have the first black president. >> host: you write the black power movement remains the most misunderstood social movement of the post war era. >> absolutely. when we think about black power in a popular imagination still we usually think of black power as a movement of violent gun toting black panthers and others, a movement that was antiwhite, a movement that really dragged down successful counterparts, namely civil-rights for social justice. basically a movement that practice politics without portfolio and the civil rights movement evil twin that wrecked dr. king's dream of a beloved community. when in fact when we think about the black power movement and look out what it occurred empirically black power grows out of the same historical context that produces civil rights. it is growing out of early 20th century african-american activism, people like marcus garvey, hube

i think i took something like 17 trips donner over that for and have your period and including the one month that i just moved my whole family down. >> and who do you want to read this book and what do you want them to take from it? >> i really think it is a book that could appeal to a wide variety of people because its written in an accessible style and it's not written primarily for lawyers. it's not really a book about death penalty -- it's not a book that is aimed toward an audience that was already knowing a lot about the death penalty. it is a book is a kind of courtroom drama is the way i try to think about it and go about it. so i think a wide variety. but i think certainly anyone interested infil law and civil rights and the death penalty would be interested. >> and what are kenneth rose and bo jones doing today? to the still have a relationship? >> they do. it's not particularly close. kent is continuing to work for other inmates on death row and he is a very important figure in that arena. he's probably one of the most -- it's hard to gauge exactly, but he is certainly -- he

we didn't have to donner -- people blight for the civil rights act. people died to change this country and wasn't our blood that was particularly shed and so we know a lot to them and that is why in some ways i wanted to pay the debt by going and working in the civil rights division. i think things could have gotten really bad after 9/11 and they did in many ways yet i feel like it has swann backed since when i think that as a nation sort of electing a person who repudiates -- adamle obama asking to ultimately do but i think we give a very strong statement that we do not approve of what the bush administration did and i think after fort hood if i can share a personal anecdote, you know, i went to a very subpar public high school in baltimore and after fort hood a lot of my high school friends i haven't been in touch with for years because facebook now we've reached out to foot hoard hid sifry when your community okay? is anything going to happen and that wasn't my experience after 9/11 and i thought there had been a sort of sensitizing that happened t

help to make the community, make the nation better. 1985 the new chinese government gave him a big donner as the scientist to made the most contribution to the science and technology. when he got that honor he said he was not excited because it is the only three times excited he just mentioned above and he says something very well that made me think a lot. he said if china abandons socialism, if china abandoned modern thought chinese nation will suffer and the chinese state will feel. at the time he said that, most people didn't think very hard about what he means. looking back today, i think he was right. this summer i was [inaudible] i will mention in my reading this afternoon. i was there on july feared and the riots broke out on july 5th. and it struck me to see 50,000 people came out with big knives and axes and began to kill people. i never thought china had an ethnic problem like that. and i thought a lot afterwards. i don't think that is an ethnic problem. it is a classic clash, and most people said is in the people who were trying to kill the high chinese and the height chinese t

station and it's been now sent to berlin across the world bhatia but there's also things that can be donner -- candy bomber. >> she was there and people were crazy applauding her. the candy bomber was a man named dale halvorson who was a mormon who later became provost of the university of utah who, like any -- he had an 8-millimeter spring loaded movie camera and he was not to use it and the first time he landed in berlin as a pilot she went around the periphery to the great bowl this temple of taking pictures of it and when he came to the runway by these apartment buildings there were a whole bunch of kids standing there watching the planes land. the kid loved watching that. and he talked to them for awhile. he actually spoke a little german and when he was walking away he realized that they had never asked him for anything. he had been serving in the pacific and europe and of course kids were always asking for candy, money or whatever and he realized these kids didn't ask for anything and he walked back and the only thing he had was a stick of wrigley's double mint gum and he tore into t

business other than plotting to kill americans on american soil and with regard to the christmas donneryou have the case where even absent the intelligence information that we apparently had back in the fall and august about abdul, even absent that specific information about his radical muslim aspirations he fit a certain profile. he was young, single, he was a male, he was muslim and he was ruthless. he had no permanent connections to his home country. he traveled the world extensively. he was paying everything with cash, and yet this person got a temporary visa to be here in the united states for a two-year period? there are already existing regulations in the state department and in federal law with that flag this kind of person as someone who should be inadmissible and should not be getting a visa in this country. but there is a major opposition to profiling of any kind and mind you this is not simply racial or ethnic profiling. it has to do with a certain type of behavior and a certain type of class profile so this is a theme of both invasion and in defense of internment. we have a

let's work together on it. >> i think that what donner and set about the importance of governance is absolutely fundamentalist as somebody that has worked on the middle east for a good many years. i can say that in fact quite of the problem with hamas and fatah has a lot to do with governments. so i think that this issue is absolutely essential. you wanted to see something? >> i wanted to say very briefly one of the ways to think about the demographic challenge of the middle east is instead of being a threat is being an opportunity and that is an important way to think about it. as population -- as fertility rates are declining very rapidly we are going to have a very large population of working age adults that can benefit the rest of humanity by being engaged in the expanding economies of the battle least if the right policies are in place and it is a critical time. >> i would just say there is also at least a case to be made for a more limited american role. don't prop up these regimes. you don't have to change them but you don't have to prop them up. >> the last question. >> thank

we have donner none of those things and don't intend to. the saddest of all, our sister states at least 40 of them are doing the worst thing possible in times like these. they are raising taxes. adding to the burden on families already in distressed and making their economic climate even less attractive to new jobs than they were before. michigan, wisconsin, new jersey, at least 11 more of raised income taxes. ohio, oregon, minnesota and 30 more have raised gas taxes. many states have raised multiple taxes at the same time. i hope you will join me in saying to night to the people for whom we all work we will make the hard choices. we will stretch the available dollars. we will do whatever is necessary. but we will not take the easy way out and we will not make this recession worse by adding 1 cent to the tax burden of our fellow citizens. [applause] for us, economy and government did not begin with this recession. together, we brought the state from bankruptcy to solvency over a five-year period of careful budgets come stewardship and refor

i donner when it will ever happen if it doesn't happen in this budget year and so i join with thousands of others across the state in simply asking that you pass meaningful and real spending limits this year. and if you are not listening, i would ask that you make again respectful but loud noise for change in this notion of spending limits. while on the topic of spending by would say that there is one other thing we need to do and that is make our voices heard in washington. everyone knows my opinion on the fallacy of stimulus money and my belief that lasting jobs and economic growth can never come from a government bailout. i will restate my beliefs on how damaging those efforts are to the future generations, the american dollar and long term viability of both south carolina and american economies. but there is a new threat to the dollar, to financial stability and to this country is debt is spiralling out of control in washington, d.c.. so-called health care reform will bring immediate damages both to the state and this nation as for instance in south carolina alone it would expand me

the neighbor from across the street, and i tell and from brooklyn who married a yemeni donner was there with her son, tony. alan's sister, sandra, kept coming in and out of the house sitting on the porch swing. alves had been picnicing the day for the state fair grounds and joining the sunday afternoon with about 100 other people from the shiite mosque when they received words the riots were spreading. she hadn't been able to make it back to her mother's in highland park's she had come to ronnie's parents and sit with her young daughter. together, they watched the orange glow of the dusty skype 29 fires out of control but might in vietnam. is this what ronnie saw in vietnam, alan wondered, it looks similar to the news reels they watched in the states. they steered the black smoke as the black smoke rose from the building casualties. the dark haze hovered above dietrich much more ominously in the smoke the ford plant puffed into the south and every day. alan wanted to get out of here, finished college and by an ice house in a neighborhood where you didn't have to take windows shut to kee

were there for years one of the big problems when it ended was the number of young men who could donneremember where they left their cars and if they could find the cars they forgot where they hid their keys when they were told this is temporary duty for two weeks. we also strive to the airlines. in those days there were fewer flights. airline schedules were different in the winter because the lighting conditions were so much more difficult so that the government took not only the plains of american airlines but the pilots, the chief pilot of american airlines then was a man named arlan nixon who made $550 a month and the was a lot of money in those days. well, he went back to being the captain mix and at $140 a month and when he i arrived in frankfurt which is in the american zone and on the first what turned out to be the first day of the airlift went into a local cafe and acceded every german in the cafe, and they were the only people in there stood up, left their food and walked out. .. all the flying was instrument flying, and so that they flew totally by instruments and the planes

house has five negotiators and house majority whip clyburn will attend as senators reid, bachus, donner berman and harkin and it's likely the five will represent the other chamber on the health reform compromise and one other headline before we go to calls, support grows for u.s. of exchange. it's a wall street journal story. they read the white house wants to include a national health insurance exchange in the health bill which would give house democrats on of the top remaining demands. would you care to speak more to that? >> i sure would. the house bill creates a whole national pool so there are lots of people that are going to be able to jews, people who are uninsured right now, self-employed, small businesses that can go into this national exchange that will have national guidelines and they will be able to choose from a variety of private plans within the exchange and the house bill we also have a public option that you can choose from. but we believe that by creating these national rules and national pool a will be much more successful than the senate idea of having stayed by sta

i still do to this day people ask what the hell is going on donner? what is it about the former country called texas that still behaves like a rogue nation, and molly found herself at a very young age trying to explain us. and i think she -- because she was predisposed to laugh all the time and half on the right up to the day she died she tried to have a little fun even about all of things in texas. she told people always when she went to college at scripps and smith and she was from east texas. geographically we can argue about that. the cows come home in texas. i think you here in texas know what they really means, right? what she liked saying because here's why. this is what she would say. over three years that she had grown up in east texas. i grew up in east texas to when i played basketball all over east texas. we used to play in a town called bid. it was a big joke, copley in bed. the texas woman of the meanest on the face of the earth. used to play on the small towns. but guards were invariably named after flowers. there would be willing, rose

to eckert douglas elmendorf today told the committee that the current budget all look as, quote, donner predicting $1.35 trillion deficit for fiscal year 2010. this hearing of the house budget committee is two and a half hours. [inaudible conversations] >> i will call the hearing to order. we meet today to consider and receive testimony from director elmendorf of the congressional budget office on the latest update on the economy and the budget. the number in the cbo report update released yesterday were daunting to say the least. but to fully comprehend the implications of those numbers, the bottom line to the budget is important to remain -- remember the context from which the merger. the year-ago the economy was in a freefall. job loss was at 10,714,000 per month january alone. americans were determined savings accounts that plunged by 2 million by the first quarter of 2008 and first quarter of 2009. the record budget surplus of january, 2001 has been converted to record deficits for jobs as far as the eye could see. if president obama and this compass began to those in mind this was

doesn't come out and volunteer his opinions but he said, on, man, just trying to become try to read donnert? he said, on man, just try. so i want to thank you all for what you have done for the written word for inspiring everybody at mcsweeney is and a26 international to honor the work of our literary predecessors. i have james salter at my table. can i say that? [applause] we are always keeping in the year opened two new voices. i'm proud to be among you and with you and with all of my strength i promise to try to someday and everyday rm this award at last i want to thank my wife, my best friend and partner in all things. she's the first person who has to listen to every ka khamenei idea that i have good or bad, so i share this first and foremost with you. thank you so much. [applause] the ceremony we present a program with t.j. stiles the winner in the non-fiction category for his book, the last tycoon. >> we are going to get on with the program in a minute. i just want two of knowledge some of the special guests that we have in our audience tonight in thank them for coming so i would li

all that we must do will be donner. but there are many things we should do that can be done and we will strive mightily. i know we can achieve anything the we want to do with hard work and with your prayers. i ask for your patience. some things cannot be rushed. a city is a continuum. projects begun under one administration continue into another and perhaps in another. it may seem as if little progress is being made, and the compromises, the give-and-take of government can be a slow and difficult process. but we have a range of zero voices and opinions in the council chamber because no one of us has of answers and all the pieces must be heard. sometimes democracy is a little messy but we get there. and feared, i'm going to ask for your perseverance. we are in this together for the duration. you must commit your time and energy to houston. we've rise or we fall together. we succeed or fail to get their. actually i will ask for a fourth thing. as much as we try to and as hard as we work, and for all the right reasons that

meanwhile smith also makes clear donner university of the of the market is essential to its civilizing effect upon individual workers as well as large corporations. as for individuals too are shielded were excluded from the market the organizing and discipline in power of the system will lane dramatically leading the vacuum that will no doubt be filled by eager legislators brimming with ideas. the modern welfare state has had just this affect. welfare rose as an understandable response to the dislocations wrought by capitalism and to the poverty we will always have with us. when it comes to the poorest of the poor cannot subsist without help a decent society is not only bright but obliged to offer help. the modern welfare state extends well beyond the individual. the largest portion of an tire, systems by far is directed to the elderly and is not means tested to be sure only those among them who need help receive it. other middle class entitlements abound with more to come. the health care bill now being advanced by democrats in washington for instance would offer a premium subsidies t

i had the great privilege of addressing one in my hometown at donner park. this spring. the profound privilege to address a national tea party on september 12th. i know the "new york times" said there were only a couple of thousand people there. [applause]. and fox news channel reported a billion. but - the truth is there were maybe you were among them. by my lights were between half a million and a million in washington d.c. that set aside they're productive lives to take a stand for freedom and liberty and limited government and personal and fiscal responsibility and it was inspire together me. that's why i said since i got off the plane from afghanistan and started my year, i arrived at 2010 terribly encouraged. not by washington d.c., heavens no. but i'm terribly encouraged by men and women like yourself who have businesses to run, families to raise. lives to live but you have said, i'm going to become involved to see a crowd like this on snowy day and to see the hundred here's in bluffton the last time we were here. to read my e-mails from all over the country and h

rules and participation for health plans, excuse me to negotiate premiums a choice of high value donner plans. tim jost is bring to provide more detail but we house and senate bills on the exchanges as he does in his excellent paper included in your packet today's i'm going to skip the slide and leave that discussion for tama and get you what i view as the key issues regarding the structure and implementation of exchanges as we move forward. those include federal versus state operation or control of exchange, exclusivity of exchange and by that i mean whether the exchange becomes the whole market or if the individual and or the small group markets are allowed to exist outside of the exchange. the extant which the exchange has authority to negotiate premiums and set rules of the participation and whether the rules for participation are aimed at encouraging, plan innovation and value in health plan design. and finally whether the exchange will have the ability long term to the risk of justice of the competition between plants is focus on value and not risk. thank you. >> thank you very mu

speaking the lubber donner and 300 billion because the 32010 to 19 you had 10 billion now you were upto 300 billion by just changing one year? >> i think that's right. i think the elks as about three and a billion and maybe it's less. i don't know the exact number. i don't think we provide an exact number. it's true heading a european -- it's true adding a year -- >> [inaudible] >> just to thoughts -- one is -- >> i'm asking you changed one year and increasing the estimate buy almost 50%. i would recollect -- sprick i think the cost would be more than the 200. it depends exactly what the policy experiment is that one is describing and we have released a lot of estimates for a lot of very dense that will all come under the general heading of the dak fix the mess which isn't true adding one year will add 50% to the cost. >> there were many proposals considered last year had costs ranging from under 212 over 20 billion over the ten year period. >> you may have dealt with this already and i apologize for going over familiar ground, but if you were to score the jobs bill that came through

. >> the story had line is something to the effect the christmas donner was singing like a canary untilthe obama administration read him his rights. i remember there was a briefing last weekend, and john brennan said something like i don't know if he put this fine point on it, but is it true that the fbi satisfied that they've gotten all the information that they could out of the suspect before he lawyer gup? i thought i heard something like that. >> i think what i have said and what john said is the fbi questioned the terrorist suspect after the incident, and were satisfied with what they -- the usable information they got, absolutely. >> there's no feeling they left something out of the field there? >> or on the table. >> robert, why isn't the president going to campaign for martha coakley? is a tight race, very important to his agenda potential. >> it's just not on the schedule to go to next week. >> has he been asked by the coakley campaign to come? dak not that i'm aware of. >> has he been asked to stay away? >> not that i'm aware of. [laughter] >> is to conserve -- it just doesn't

want to give so i want to make one quick point that there was an impression on my panel that i was a donner, a gloom and doom so i want to start on a positive note and that is i still think we are a very rich country, a very good country, and i will say we are probably the best looking worse in the glue factory, too. [laughter] now, having said that -- >> that was cheerful. [laughter] >> it's a tough question, but first of all i would say unfortunately, and we will probably have a discussion about this, let's go first of all to whether or not the group of the uninsured, and i will get back to the uninsured it is primarily this focus of this bill has been on the individual market and the small durham, not the big guys, not the national council and all that, not the signals, that small individual and that individual is the young people back here who if they had to go out and buy health insurance on their own they would find it extremely expensive because they are not in the pool. i support all of the mechanisms, the exchange mechanism and bringing them in. unfortunately, because -- and this g

want to give so i want to make one quick point that there was an impression that on my camel i was a donner gloom and doom are so i want to start on a positive note and that is i think we are a rich country, a good country. but i will say we are probably similar to being -- we are the best looking horse in the glue factory, too. [laughter] now, having said that -- >> that was cheerful. [laughter] >> it is a tough question that first of all i would say unfortunately and we will probably have a discussion about this let's go first of all to whether or not the group of the uninsured out there and i will get back to you, the uninsured is primarily this whole focus of this bill has been on the individual market and the small group, not the big guys, not the national accounts and all that, it's been the small individual and that individual as the young people back here who if they had to go out and buy health insurance on their own they would find it extremely expensive because they are not in the pool. i support all the polling mechanisms and exchange mechanism bringing them in. unfortunately be

i don't think that jarret would say abu yahya is the donner 100%. there's other folks out there and by the wish to ask the questions because one thing that made bin laden bin laden is he was effective. he got stuff done. the embassy bombing of 1998 and the american response with cruise missiles raised bin laden's stature with inside afghanistan, and pushed mullah omar to give him more influence over the foreign groups operating there. so it's true, and so the answer to your question about is our attention being paid to raising his stature i would say yes, absolutely it is. we should be careful because there's lots of some ways we could go about undermining somebody might al-loki because he's written things in the past criticized, he has been -- he was declared by abdul the faisal -- ceramica arrested for prostitution krug to the eckert -- charges. speed there's a lot of things we could be talking about al-loki and from the communications standpoint would be great for us as a nation to be talking about to undermine this guy. but we have a problem whe

sustain small businesses like southern aluminum and clinton or roofing in some central or that matter donner and estherville. it's evident in a lot of different fronts. we talk about change in the way that colombia works and once again we have this land where we would like to end that we have made real changes and efforts year i thank you. for too long to many votes were not recorded in the chambers and there can be no accountability with out transparency. get niki hanly and najaf and valentine in the house and harvey in the senate led efforts to change this on the simple belief is an idea was important enough to be voted on by the general assembly of south carolina, it was an idea important enough to be recorded and i thank all of you for when you did to change this and if you wouldn't mind what you get a round of applause to niki and nathan and harvey for spearheading the effort? come on, stand up. [applause] we now have online transparency to allow taxpayers to see more directly how their money is being spent in state government and on the front would you give the comptroller general a ro

meanwhile smith also makes clear donner university of the of the market is essential to its civilizing effect upon individual workers as well as large corporations. as for individuals too are shielded were excluded from the market the organizing and discipline in power of the system will lane dramatically leading the vacuum that will no doubt be filled by eager legislators brimming with ideas. the modern welfare state has had just this affect. welfare rose as an understandable response to the dislocations wrought by capitalism and to the poverty we will always have with us. when it comes to the poorest of the poor cannot subsist without help a decent society is not only bright but obliged to offer help. the modern welfare state extends well beyond the individual. the largest portion of an tire, systems by far is directed to the elderly and is not means tested to be sure only those among them who need help receive it. other middle class entitlements abound with more to come. the health care bill now being advanced by democrats in washington for instance would offer a premium subsidies t

i had the great privilege of addressing the tea party in my hometown in donner park this spring.d a profound privilege of being able to address the national tea party. i know that "the new york times" said there were only a couple thousand people there. fox news channel reported there were 1 billion. [laughter] the truth is in my mind there were between half a million people who set aside their lives to go there and take a stand for freedom, liberty, limited government, and personal responsibility. it was inspiring. i was in afghanistan. i arrive in 2010 and currentltey encouraged. i am terribly encouraged by men and women like yourselves. you have businesses to run, families to raise, lives to live. you have said that you are going to become involved. to see a crowd like this hour on a snowy day, to see the hundreds who were here the last time we were here in bluffton, i read all my e-mail. to see all the letters and emails from all over the country from people who have never been involved before i had a gentleman yesterday tell me why i put on the uniform and walked into harm's

a tactful to critique the point out those things and thank the institutions and people i talk to donner during the speeches, one of the participants as a comments. jon? >> [inaudible] >> dee dee to -- about the running exchange on the federal budget. it actually happened -- i've been reading -- i got it on my way down this morning because it is a critical piece of technological -- of technicality that i wouldn't answer we see 6i no position to dispute. my point is only if that is the controlling consideration i do not believe that there will be any small your enrollment and there are a whole lot of senators and congressmen who look to the exchange to be a bit of a panacea for small groups, small employers suffering horribly with increases and it's a problem. i actually would read this by the way as suggesting -- as clearly indicating that under the senate version we are -- where states are given the option to run caminhas prepare exchange or not, and where there is a broad range of benefits that are qualified health plans down to 60% at a real value that under that construction the prem

[cheers and applause] we especially today at my ear and donner the extraordinarily courageous post abortive women who are silent no more. their voice and their witness showed the path to reconciliation for all women who have been first deceived and then victimized by abortion. and president obama, the abortion president, you should know this: even though you have unleashed the full might and power of your administration in the noble promotion of abortion, both here and around the world, especially in africa and latin america, we pray for you, and we will fast for you even as we tenaciously fight your entire life policies. [cheers and applause] years ago -- and years ago, a friend of mine, dr. jean gordon wrote a book with the title inspired by the question of a young child who unexpectedly walked into a room as she was preparing electoral on abortion. her 3-year-old took one gasping look at the total of 80 badly bruised and battered of an aborted baby and shouted "mommy, who broke the dee dee." that child is all the brutality of abortion and understood. that charnel salles and immediately n

, this was my position and the british position and very, very clearly so from september 11th and donner words we obviously had to deal with afghanistan but from that moment, iran, libya, north korea, iraq, the machinery as you know of a.q. khan was the former pakistani nuclear scientist and who had been engaged in illicit activities and disturbing this material, all of this had to be brought to an end. >> so that was your exception of the way the global risks had changed that one had to think about them differently. but saddam himself was not a sponsor of al qaeda. he hadn't been involved in 9/11 in any way, shape or form. had saddam hussein at this point become more of a threat than he was before 9/11. >> i think jack puts it correctly in his letter to me it wasn't the object for he had done for it is that our perception of the risk of shifted and the reason for dealing with iraq, and i think i said this at that time was because it was iraq in breach in the united nations resolutions and ten years of defiance and we felt it was important that we make it absolutely clear he is to come b

i donner when it will ever happen if it doesn't happen in this budget year and so i join with thousandsof others across the state in simply asking that you pass meaningful and real spending limits this year. and if you are not listening, i would ask that you make again respectful but loud noise for change in this notion of spending limits. while on the topic of spending by would say that there is one other thing we need to do and that is make our voices heard in washington. everyone knows my opinion on the fallacy of stimulus money and my belief that lasting jobs and economic growth can never come from a government bailout. i will restate my beliefs on how damaging those efforts are to the future generations, the american dollar and long term viability of both south carolina and american economies. but there is a new threat to the dollar, to financial stability and to this country is debt is spiralling out of control in washington, d.c.. so-called health care reform will bring immediate damages both to the state and this nation as for instance in south carolina alone it would expand med