even senator dorgan could see, he made this sort of. about the unsubscribe notice at the bottom of the mess. one of the things we want to do is have this baked into the interactions that companies have with consumers and though what -- in a way that consumers can clearly understand it, and we hope the companies do it themselves. if they do not, we will work with you to craft legislation. >> when you ask large and successful companies who were riding the waves of success and popular demand to do something on a voluntary basis which they do not want to do, do they generally not do it? >> i think it is different critic different responses by different companies. a lot of companies recognize that their brand is enhanced if they are not doing things that are not in a gray area. some companies, and you have to push and prod to get them to do the right thing, and then some companies just do not. we brought a major case against sears for data mining without giving consumers notice. they just didn't know -- they were taking it without the permis

today only 70 dorganization organization, chance of showers. 66. roseburg, same for you.louds should be at bay but still only in the 60s. we'll take a look at tuesday forecast later. >> bill, thank you. >>> so what will wall street look like for the week? who is looking to gobble up who, and the dictionary goes digital. your early morning business headlines are straight ahead. >>> plus, this time paris hilton is really in big trouble with the law. >>> coming up, the most drawn out home run celebration you'll ever see and which team is taking a chance on manny ramirez. you're watching "early today." >>> coming up, the most drum up >>> good morning. welcome back to "early today." i'm thomas roberts. here's some of your top headlines this morning. as the u.s. draws down its presence in iraq, new reports show more than $5 billion in american tax dollars, more than 10% of what the u.s. has spent on reconstruction in iraq, has gone to waste on unused or unfinished building projects. the man in charge of the reconstruction program in iraq, led by the army corps of engineers ackn

it's sponsored by senator dorgan of north dakota. and it's called the indian energy parity act.nd it would help make some of these problems go away. of course, what we have now is a congress that seems unwilling or unable to act on most energy legislation, and the fear is this is just landing on a stack of bills that seems to be going nowhere. and the tribes say we don't have time to waste on this, this needs to happen now. >> belva: well, there's something called the bureau of indian affairs -- >> yeah. >> belva: -- who have been either friend or foe, depending on your point of view. where are they on this issue? are they mounting or hitting up this legislative drive to improve things? >> they're not. and what you hear from the tribes is sort of the accumulation of years of frustration with an agency that they say does not represent them, does very little except sort of throw up obstructions to these projects. the amount of red tape that tribes have to go through to do pretty much anything on indian land is formidable and is a real obstacle for them. so one of the things that t

. >> thank you, senator dorgan. i total al greefment i think you've all raised more questions than probably you answered today. so i have questions for all of you, but i'm just going to pick one for now, and if we have extra time later, maybe i'll come back up. you had mentioned the desperate circumstances that people are under in china and the risk that they take, the incredible fees that they pay, and clearly they're wanting to get out for many reasons, but we just focus on the economic reasons. but i'm wondering, what other factors have you noticed in your observations or research that are pushing people to take such leaps of faith and risk to come out of china? have you noticed any other factors driving this? >> yes. and this gets very quickly into very tricky terrain. people flee and often pay snake heads to flee because they're experiencing persian cushion of one sort or another. there are many instances of people run afoul of the one-child policy when it has multiple children and it really gets down, not just

even senator dorgan could see, he made this sort of. about the unsubscribe notice at the bottom of the mess. one of the things we want to do is have this baked into the interactions that companies have with consumers and though what -- in a way that consumers can clearly understand it, and we hope the companies do it themselves. if they do not, we will work with you to craft legislation. >> when you ask large and successful companies who were riding the waves of success and popular demand to do something on a voluntary basis which they do not want to do, do they generally not do it? >> i think it is different critic different responses by different companies. a lot of companies recognize that their brand is enhanced if they are not doing things that are not in a gray area. some companies, and you have to push and prod to get them to do the right thing, and then some companies just do not. we brought a major case against sears for data mining without giving consumers notice. they just didn't know -- they were taking it without the permis

even senator dorgan could see, heade this sort of. about the unsubscribe notice at the bottom of the mess. one of the things we want to do is have this baked into the interactions that companies have with consumers and though what -- in a way that consumers can clearly understand it, and we hope the companies do it themselves. if they do not, we will work with you to craft legislation. >> when you ask large and successful companies who were riding the waves of success and popular demand to do something on a voluntary basis which they do not want to do, do they generally not do it? >> i think it is different critic different responses by different companies. a lot of companies recognize that their brand is enhanced if they are not doing things that are not in a gray area. some companies, and you have to push and prod to get them to do the right thing, and then some companies just do not. we brought a major case against sears for data mining without giving consumers notice. they just didn't know -- they were taking it without the permis