programs, development, and to our surprise, last week the congress adopted the blaw that states that hon doris can be used by all for all except for examination of budgetary affairs, the school, or economic matters or other social matters. what is the point? is it about asking whether the temperatures is hot or cold at night? what is a point? i was engaged in an actor says in keeping with the law. it was the first legal act that my government approved on the very first day we entered into power. it was necessary to govern. many changes were made to exact this. the law was eventually passed. this concerned citizen participation. citizens of the country have the right to request that they be compelled with general interest that affects them. i am applying that legal act. i've received forerunner thousand requests from individuals who -- 400,000 requests from individuals who asked to be consulted on reforms. i cannot carry them out because it will not to my cabinet in power. i received those and sought to launch a public opinion poll in order to find out what the honduras people wanted. this cons

they gave the impression that everything was fairly hunky dory. >> that is an unfair characterization. from the point where the government irresponsibly kicked out and number of ngo's, we're in the process of restoring humanitarian capacity to the country. he outlined very specifically that some areas were back to 100%, and some areas are working to get back to where they were. i'd read the comments yesterday, and i think it is in its characterization to say that just because things are not less worse than they might have been a few years ago, i do not think anyone would describe the situation -- it is urgent, it is dire, and the people of sudan deserve better. >> do you expect darfur to play -- would it be on the agenda at all? >> i would go back to the general's briefing yesterday. he identified a number of challenges they are facing, but in many ways, they are interlinked. you have to focus attention and energy on all of them if you're going to be able to resolve all of them. the focus is primarily on the challenge of the future of sudan itself. i would not be surprised if the issu

hi doris borders l. salvador, guatemala, and nicaragua, and south of nicaragua is costa rica -- honduras border as well salvador. guest: they are roughly the same -- the smallest country is el salvador, the size of massachusetts. you could put all of el salvador in one province of honduras. honduras is a large country and relatively -- not over populated. so there is absolutely no reason why honduras' wouldn't be an economically viable country. host: pomelo from florida. good morning. -- pablo. caller: good morning. i need to take you to task concerning or rebate -- rebate. you know the situation he inherited was utter chaos. has he made mistakes? certainly. but i just don't think it is fair to lump uribe basically along with chavez. uribe eventually it will leave power but chavez, ortega, and this guy in honduras and others, they are not going to leave. they are going to try to change the constitution. basically they want to be jr. feel castro -- jr. fidel castro s. guest: the caller has the ability to

doris from chicago, illinois. >>caller: thank you. a statement about health care. it is interesting that the republicans have a problem with the government is standing between a person and their doctors except when it comes for a pregnant woman and her doctor. they want government to stand pit during them. but anyway there was a hearing, three of the largest

i think in the -- this time of barack obama, one must read for everybody, doris kearns good win's book, i team of rives, the great story of how abraham lincoln not only bested his rivals but had the intestinal fortitude to bring all of them into his cabinet, each of whom thought he was smarter than lincoln and each of whom thought he should be in that swivel chair and not abraham link son and it is a great story and really illuminates a lot about american history. and another book i read this last year or so, is a book, i read a number of military histories, david halberstam's book, the coldest winter, a wonderful story, published posthumously by a great writer on the korean war. not a lot of single volumes on that period of american history and really well, well done. and rick atkinson is working on a trilogy and published the first two books on the second world war, and specifically, the first volume on the american involvement in north africa and this second on the italian campaign, which was a bloody, bloody affair and doesn't get a lot of attention in at thises and obviously deser

. >> does the obama administration and doris prime minister netanyahu to the palestinians must recognize israel as a jewish state? >> i know you're focused on the adjective their. we do think that, yes, to the palestinians need to recognize the right of israel to exist and on the sleeve at that. >> but hold on a second, is a the position of the obama administration that israel should be defined as a jewish state? >> i'm going to lead the president's words stan. you know that yesterday he said he was committed to the jewish state of israel, senator mitchell said and i will let it stand at that. >> president clinton said when he was tried to work a deal in 2000i believe that demilitarization was acceptable. and i'm paraphrasing but he did use the word demilitarization. has the obama administration tacitly agreed with israel that any palestinian state would not be allowed to have a standing military? >> well, i think i'll just say that in any solution that we work out -- israel needs to have its security concerns taken very seriously and worked out. but i'm not going to jump ahead and say w

one is the team of rivals, the abraham lincoln book by doris kearns goodwin and the other is by eighton meacham, "american lion" which is sitting at home. to history books of a need to read, want to read and in one case need to finish. the third book i want to read is written by a friend of mine who used to work at dow jones, which owns the "wall street journal" and it is called a restless genius. it is the story of a famous and very influential american journalist, barney kilgore, who was the editor of my newspaper, the "wall street journal" for years and years and treated the modern "wall street journal" and in many ways modern journalism. he is written and interesting biography of barney kilgore who will go down in history as a person who created much of what we think of in journalism in the '20s century. finally, for fun i want to read the rockets that fell to earth, the new book about roger clemens and how he sort of rose and tank as to the drug controversy has somewhat fall and. >> to see more summer reading lists and other program information, visit our web site at booktv.org.

obama was to hold his first rose garden conference today, but high temperatures have moved that in doris. white house spokesman says the president will open the afternoon event with remarks on healthcare reform, and i ran's disputed elections. all of his -- and iran's disputed elections. >> how is c-span funded? >> through donations? >> you get a little bit from the federal government. >> maybe from sponsors. >> they might get government funding. >> the worst? >> c-span is funded -- 30 years ago america's cable companies funded c-span. no government mandate, no government money. >> the federal reserve meets this week to discuss the nation's economic progress. this morning "washington journal" talked with a former official about the economy, including the deficit. it is about a half-hour. -- treasury undersecretary and has a new book "the road ahead." as the fed meets, a lot of eyes on what it is doing or not. your observations. guest: big challenges and doing the steps the undertook last fall and what speed. many are concerned those interventions could lead to inflation will lead to ques

friend, congresswoman matsui, from florida and say it is absolutely appropriate that congresswoman doris matsui leads off debate today on behalf of the rules committee because she has been one of america's most outspoken advocates for new clean energy economy. madam speaker, the american people's election of president obama was a call for a change in the direction of the country. especially our energy policy. america's energy policy is outdated. we rely too much on foreign oil. which has serious economic and strategy risks. we have not invested in renewable energy or in cost saving technologies as we should. meanwhile, carbon pollution is changing our climate and destabilizing global markets. unless carbon pollution is addressed we face an uncertain future. but thanks to the leadership of speaker pelosi, chairman waxman, and chairman markey, and many of my colleagues and businesses and citizens all across america, we now have a golden opportunity to act and to modernize energy policy and to bolster science and research. we are going to pass the american clean energy and security act and

i have confidence in a better race doris fda with more authority and one that is not overly prescriptive. i don't want to be overly prescriptive on what we tell the agency to do but hope we can allow to do is john based on a clear authority, adequate resources and sound science. in the case of food safety in this my first three months on this committee by been alarmed to find out what has happened that has put the public's health in jeopardy from salmonella to some questions about even the irb process and several other areas so we're here to help to treat a better come up stronger fda in this hearing is part of that and i thank you and all of the panelists were sharing their experience and expertise with us this morning. >> thank you, the gentleman from pennsylvania, mr. murphy. >> thank you mr. chairman and welcome dr. hamburg. pennsylvania's industry is agriculture and that comes food-processing and. we're honored to have national companies like hershey's, companies like welshes that grows grapes and more locally in the pittsburgh area regional distributors like giant eagle, national d