douglas laird, a foer security dirtor at northwest airlis. he, too, is now consultant specializing in aviation security. d juan carlos zara served as deputy naonal security adviser for combattinterrorism from 2005 to 2009. he's now athe center for rategic and international studies. douglas laird, theuestion we all a wondering ishow come this n was n caught? >> well, it's very simple. he wasn't caught becse the reeners are not provided th the technology that would enable them to find this llow. it's simple a that. the are a number oother things that wnt wrong. d i'm certaly hoping what the president saids correct and that ere will be a top to bottom investigation. because there's been som real serious errors made re. >> ifill: yosay they weren't provided with th technology. doethat technology exist? >> yes, ds. anwhat we're talking about is bkscatter x-ray is the most prominent. it's being tested by the@ñ t, theransportation secity administration. d what it does, basilly, shows what is on the surface of the body a in yur pockets. i have heard

douglas laird, a former security director at northwest airlines. he, too, is now a consultant specializing in aviation security. and juan carlos zarate served as deputy national security adviser for combatting terrorism from 2005 to 2009. he's now at the center for strategic and international studies. douglas laird, the question we all are wondering is how come this man was not caught? >> well, it's very simple. he wasn't caught because the screeners are not provided with the technology that would enable them to find this fellow. it's simple as that. there are a number of other things that went wrong. and i'm certainly hoping what the president said is correct and that there will be a top to bottom investigation. because there's been some real serious errors made here. >> ifill: you say they weren't provided with the technology. does that technology exist? >> yes, it does. and what we're talking about is backscatter x-ray is the most prominent. it's being tested by the@ñ tsa, the transportation security administration. and what it does, basically,

not far from here in the blue room is the official white house christmas tree, and 18 foot tall douglas fir from west virginia decorated with hundreds of ornaments designed by people and children all across the country, each one a reminder of the traditions we cherish as americans and the blessings we are thankful for this holiday season. >> that is right. we have parents without a job who have struggled to put things on the christmas tree, families and neighbors who have seen homes for clothes, and folks wondering what the new year will bring. but there is still so much to celebrate this christmas. a message of peace and brotherhood continuing to inspire more than two dozen years after jesus' birth, the love of family and friends. the bonds of communities. men and women who are far from home, risking their lives to protect hours. soldiers, sailors, airmen, marines, and coast guard men, i have no greater honor than serving as your commander in chief. i have been altered by your eagerness to serve at the naval academy at west point. i have been energized by your dedication. we have been

douglas, and i think it would be far better to see judges doing the work. i'm not quite interested in what a 27-year-old thinks about a problem. the where near as interested as i was 40 years ago. [laughter] >> yes, sir. >> mr. powe one of the conventional wisdom is the supreme court justices once there political considerations could go off their own way and become mavericks and justice souter's the most recent example of that, in your review of the history of the court is that actually a very common phenomenon? >> no. you get what you appoint. and, you may not understand who you have a pointed, and that may move somebody come up but fundamental changes and was the justice thinks about the issues facing the united states do not occur on the court. tendencies will move. some judges, byron white, became more conservative as he aged, and i think it is fair to say that john paul stevens became more liberal as he aged, but there are bits of this-- white may have been moving with the country and stevens may look more liberal because the country looks more conserv

douglas dillon and his wife near westminster, england.nels were only eight feet high when they arrived from their home in england. here our ceilings were 11 feet high in that room, so the upper portion and lower portion were painted in. >> from 1948 to 1952, blair house became a president's home. harry truman and his family moved there because the white house was under renovation. in his biography on truman, david mccullough wrote about the president's temporary quarters. "the house itself, even with the quick cosmetics applied the year before, was not only nothing very grand, but a bit dowdy. it creeked and groaned, trembled noticeably when streetcars passed by outside. its dark old cellar was full of rats, as was well known by the seet hated ever to go down there. of all the presidents they had known, some of the secret servicemen would later say, only harry truman would have been willing to live in the place." but not everyone felt that way. margaret truman remembered it this way in her biography. "i fell in love with the place the mom

my name is norman douglas. i've been concerned over the years. i grew in an environment, and i was the only black, and he touted 10000 people. i used to say i would do a public school and a private town. [laughter] >> i think that at a certain point, unit, what gets overlooked a lot in this country is class. one of my favorite examples, i've are glass, or most people are, the guy who does this american life. and he prefaced one episode that documented the life of a single black mother, by saying that something like 70 percent of black children, versus 25 percent of white children grow up in homes that are run by single mothers. if you do the math, actually, the number of -- that means because there were only 10, 11 percent of the population that if you do the math, that means actually twice the number of white children are going up with a single mothers than black children. in other words, in this country there are more white people living under poverty and what's the official poverty line than there are black people, period. but the media consta

douglas paul and professor holm, thank you both very much. >> you're welcome. thank you. >> brown: now, in a weak economy, what may be a ticking time bomb for many states, cities and towns. hundreds of billions in pension liabilities that are currently underfunded. in california, governor arnold schwarzenegger warned just this week that his state will need billions more from the federal government for basic operations, even as longer-term pension requirements loom. "newshour" correspondent spencer michels reports. >> reporter: when 86-year-old john canfield retired from his california state job, he was making about $50,000 a year. as a senior engineer, he had designed highway bridges used by thousands of californians. >> destructed all over the state of california and i take pride in that. >> reporter: today with yearly increases for cost of living, his state pension totals about $63,000. that's more than the average for state workers because canfield was one of the higher paid employees. >> i feel that i earned that retirement pay. i considered it a contract b

not far from here in the blue room is the official white house christmas tree, and 18 foot tall douglas from west virginia decorated with hundreds of ornaments designed by people and children all across the country, each one a reminder of the traditions we cherish as americans and the blessings we are thankful for this holiday season. >> that is right. we have parents without a job who have struggled to put things on the christmas tree, families and neighbors who have seen homes for clothes, and folks wondering what the new year will bring. but there is still so much to celebrate this christmas. a message of peace and brotherhood continuing to inspire more than two dozen years after jesus' birth, the love of family and friends. the bonds of communities. men and women who are far from home, risking their lives to protect hours. soldiers, sailors, airmen, marines, and coast guard men, i have no greater honor than serving as your commander in chief. i have been altered by your eagerness to serve at the naval academy at west point. i have been energized by your dedication. we have been move

douglas said i think in an article in usa today, quote medicare and finished plants can compete on a level playing field. the changes in this bill, me speaking now the changes in this bill will help reduce these overpayments and they bring us closer to that level playing field that was suggested last year. my friends on the other side of the aisle say that reducing the government subsidies to private medical plans is going to increase the cost for seniors. again this statement is fiction. the overpayments, private insurance companies received under the current law to deliver medicare benefits have increased the cost for seniors today. so mr. president i would ask -- the in fact result in a 90-dollar increase to seniors to pay for the difference. so i would ask unanimous consent the full text be placed in the record and not in full, and i hope as we go forward here that it is the truth and fact that will prevail, not fiction we keep hearing to scare seniors. >> without objection. >> mr. president. >> the senator from wyoming. >> i would also ask unanimous consent that an article immed

police training exercise was actually run by an extremely competent british former chief constable, douglasbrand, who the americans accused respected. he had hardly any resources to do with. he had to invent a training program which we eventually did with jordan which produced a far lower number of recruits going through the system in for a shoe -- far too short a training time and was realistic to create a decent police force on the ground. the sense of party that we have from our two capitals militated against the production of well- trained, well-b haven policeman on the ground. there was a tension there. >> into that gap, where there was a police force, the americans because of the sunni trialge, the british forces had to go. did you have any sense of how the people who were interrogated handle? >> not the time because there were no british in that system. the prison system was run by the american military primarily in the american area. i cannot speak for mmd s.e.. they must of had detention facility but i regard that separate from the question you're asking. i had no input into those

to douglas he said, listen, how many legs does a horse have? douglas said, why four, of course. and lincoln said if you call the tail a leg how many legs does a horse have? douglas said five. and lincoln said, no, calling a tail a leg doesn't make it a leg at all. that's what my colleagues have done. suggesting that the amendments that we offered is for untested, unregulated drugs. it is just not true. the only drugs we're talking about here are f.d.a. approve drugs made in an f.d.a. inspected plant that are part of a chain of custody that is the equivalent to the united states chain of custody. it is limp si not true that we're talking about -- simply not true that we're talking about untested, unregulated drugs coming from what used to be the soviet union. that's simply not true. simply saying it doesn't make it true. here's why we're on the floor of the united states senate. we're reforming health care. right? we're going to have health care reform. part of health care is prescription drugs. a lot of people take prescription drugs to keep them out of the hospital bed. it mana

i don't know what the general did, but if he got in as much trouble with douglas mcarthur, it must havety big. but the important thing is, we lost time. we lost two months and had to take three months to get general mcchrystal comfortable with the situation on the ground. instead of an operational plan being delivered in may, it was delivered at the end of august. in the interim, the military situation in afghanistan deteriorated sharply. and more importantly from the president's standpoint, support for the war and among democrats on the hill dropped through the floor. what had been the good war a year ago was just like every other war, a bad war and skepticism about the war had become widespread among the president's core supporters. the second thin that happened was on the -- thing that happened was on the political front. the expectation in march was that we would be able to work with the then afghan government and with the international community to produce something that would look like a legitimate and credible presidential election. instead, we got a fiasco followed by a disaster

my favorite book is douglas black men. i believe he cover this book on c-span as well. the subtitle is displacement of black americans from the civil war to world war ii. and i learned a great deal from that book. >> host: tell us a piece that learned from it. what did you learn in particular? >> caller: well, i learned how the christians back in those times could be arrested simply for just walking out in the street and not having a job. and they were reinflate to coal mines to work in coal mines and to be treated so poorly. i'm amazed that african americans survived in this country at all with the treatment that we suffered. also, bill, i went to your book see because i was introduced to ronald to e. and i went there to read and watch the interview. there was a note saying he died this year. do you have any information or you can show the video highlights? >> host: i will ask our producers to get that information for you. thank you. there is a piece this morning. actually we came in yesterday in the book section of u.s.a. today. their work will live forever on the doc

organization huma ghts in chine aa long-time pressor at the city university of new york school of law,nd douglas paul, ce president for studies at the carnee endowment for ternational peace, he seed as an asia expert and a directoon the national secury council staff during the reagan and gege h.w. bush administratis. welcome to you both. miss holm, how big a deal this? how significana development? to have a leading chinese intellectual like thiset this kind of convicti and sentence. >> it's an extreme significant case botdomestically and internationally, oneecause it's not theirst chinese intellectual or lawyer o journali or activist who has been charged, convicted and sentenced for this crime o incitement to bvert state power, and sadly, he won'te e last, so it's extremely significt as what's really on trial is the chinese constitutional rights that a supposedly procting and the man rights amendment and chinesea's willingness to respect internatiol human rights includingreedom of expression, so the signicance of the case is whait's really denstrated is that the chinese governme cannot and will

and i wanted to share with you some of the words of douglas holtzs eakin, who is the former director of the congressional budget office, who we talk about here regularly and point out as being a nonpartisan office. and he spoke recently at the senate committee on the budget, relatively recently. it was november 10. but this is kind of what he said. president barack obama took office promising to lead from the center and solve big problems. he has exerted enormous political energy, attempting to reform the nation's health care system, but the biggest economic problem facing the nation is not health care. it's the deficit. recently the white house signaled that it was getting serious about reducing the deficit this year after it locks in place the massive new tech entitlements. this is a recipe for disaster, as it will create a new appetite for increased spending and yet another powerful interest group to oppose deficit reduction measures. our fiscal situation has deteriorated rapidly in the past few years. the federal government ran a 2009 deficit of $1.4 trillion, the highest since w

my name is norman douglas. anyways, i've been concerned our the years, you know, i grew up in a predominantly white environment, so, in fact, our family was the only black family in a town of 10,000 people. i used to say i went to a public school in a private town. but -- [laughter] i think that at a certain point, you know, i've found what gets overlooked a lot in this country is class. and one of my favorite examples is everyone's familiar with the guy who does this american life. and he prefaced one episode that documented the the life of a single black mother by saying that something like 70% of black children versus 25% of white children grow up in homes that are run by a single mother. and if you do the math, actually the number -- that means because there were only 10, 11% of the population, if you do the math, that means that actually twice the number of white children are growing up with single mothers than black children. and in other words, in this country there are more white people living under pov

douglas inglesby wrote, i am a small business i employ 11 people. i've been in business in california since 1972. he says, i used to provide health care for all my employees and all the members of their families and if i want to remain profitable enough to stay in business now he says he can't do it anymore. you can only cover the employees, not their families. he feels terrible about it and he says he may have to cut off his employees as prices keep going up. and i want to say to this fine small business owner, douglas, help is on the way. and mrs. linda schumacher wrote and this is the one i'll close with and this is a series of stories. i am a republican. to me repeat what she writes. i am a republican and my husband and i are small business owners. the senators and congressmen of both arteries who are against president obama's plan have their own insurance. and it is my understanding, she writes, that it does not cost what we pay. they do not understand what a huge expense this is. leaflets into the middle class who are in our position or who no

[laughter] so i think -- the ultimate dilemma is quite clear as douglas holtz-eakin's successor doug elmendorf put it that the american people ask the government for benefits, many of them for retirees that exceed the amount of money that the american people so far are willing to send to washington to pay the bills. so i admiral of these people for once again trying to deal with this issue. some of them have been dealing with it since i was a lot younger. and i think it's important to note that not all of them are on social security. douglas holtz-eakin is only 51 but as he pointed out to me, the way things are going in the senate health care debate, she may soon be eligible at least for paying for medicare. with that let me turn over to the panel. this is about discipline, and so that's not only physical, it is in use of time. what we are going to do is i'm going to ask bill frenzel to speak about ten minutes to outline the plan the commission has put together and i'm going to ask each of the people appear to speak about five minutes so we have plenty of time for questions. bill? >>

. -- douglas hotels hotels -- douglas holtz-eakin said -- i think it was an article in "usa today" -- "medicare advantage plans should compete on a level playing field with traditional medicare." the changes in this bill -- this is me speaking now -- the changes in this bill will help to reduce these overpayments and bring us closer to that level playing field that was suggested last year. now, my friends on the other side of the aisle also say that reducing the government subsidies to private medical plans is going to increase the costs for seniors. again, this statement is fiction. the overpayments private insurance companies receive under the current law to deliver medicare benefits have increased the costs for seniors today. so, mr. president, i would ask -- they, in fact, result in a $90 increase to seniors to pay for that difference. so i would ask unanimous consent that the full text be placed in the record in full, and i hope as we go forward here that it is the truth and fact that will prevail here, not the fiction that we keep hearing to scare seniors. the presiding officer:

douglas inglesby wrote, i own a small business and i employ 11 people. i've been in business in california since 1972. he says i used to provide health care for all of my employees and all the members of their families and if i want to remain profitable enough to stay in business now, he says he can do it anymore. he can only covered the employees, not their families. he feels terrible about it and he says he may have to cut off his employees if prices keep going up and i want to say to this fine small business owner, douglas, help is on the way. mrs. linda shumaker wrote, this is the one i will close with in this series of stories. i am a republican. let me repeat what she writes. i am a republican and my husband and i are small business owners. the senators and congress made up of both parties who are against president obama's plan have their own insurance, and it is my understanding she writes that it does not cost what we pay. they do not understand what a huge expense of this is. please listen to the middle class who were in our position or who no l

douglas dillon and his wife near westminster, england. eight feet high when they arrived from their home in england. here our ceilings were 11 feet high in that room, so the upper portion and lower portion were painted in. >> from 1948 to 1952, blair house became a president's home. harry truman and his family moved there because the white house was under renovation. in his biography on truman, david mccullough wrote about the president's temporary quarters. "the house itself, even with the quick cosmetics applied the year before, was not only nothing very grand, but a bit dowdy. it creeked and groaned, trembled noticeably when streetcars passed by outside. its dark old cellar was full of rats, as was well known by the seetervice men who hated ever to go down there. of all the presidents they had known, some of the secret servicemen would later say, only harry truman would have been willing to live in the place." but not everyone felt that way. margaret truman remembered it this way in her biography. "i fell in love with the place the mom

douglas was prepared you must for the job? >> i think that they all helped me.working on the solicitor general's office was most directly related to it. it was a tremendous experience for me. >> explain what the solicitor general does. >> he handles all of the u.s. government's litigation in the supreme court. he must also authorize any appeal taken by the government in any of the lower courts or any requests. why was there, i had the opportunity to brief many cases here and argue 12, as you mentioned. it was a tremendous learning experience for me. >> another "i saw of years that ended up in the princeton your book -- the prince in your book -- you hope to warm a seat on the supreme court. >> i did write that but it was really a joke. it was like my ambition was to be a quarterback at the super bowl, or winning pitcher in the world series. it was a dream that i never thought i would come close to realizing. >> when did you first know that you had a chance to being on the court? >> i knew that i was a possibility. i would not permit a good chance. when i was fir

i am a history buff, and my father would say things such as i shall return, and i would yell out douglascarthur. history was all around us. especially american history. my job has taken me into an awful lot of schools in rural areas, and you'd be hard-pressed today to find a picture of lincoln or washington in any classroom. american history is taught for only one year here. i find it not only appalling, but depressing. and you touched on it earlier in your conversation. if you have any observations that this would change, by any individuals or groups ashamed of who we are -- sick of it. guest: we should be teaching history. the idea is that we should teach for the test, and the test is breeding. you do not balance. he talked about lincoln and washington. most kids, the only heroes they know our sports heroes. i have a friend who is a great teacher who wrote a book on heroes for kids. if you get up there and preach about things, it is boring, and they figure out you should not be doing that. but if you study people -- other chapters, you can make judgments. kids can make judgments. so ta

douglas holtz eagen mentions. we must fix our health care system system to help the millions of americans without insurance and those struggling to pay their health insurance premiums. we must make it easier for small business and individuals to purchase insurance and reform our medical liability system. now, we know -- reforming. i call this malpractice lawsuit abuse reform. we should have done that a long time ago, but the fact of the matter is that the trial lawyers do not want that to happen, and so we're really doing nothing about a problem that's causing physicians to -- to have -- to get unnecessary tests that are driving up the costs of health care in this country. and most importantly, we need to focus our efforts on jobs. jobs, jobs, jobs, jobs, because one of the best things we can do to increase health care coverage is to help businesses start to hire again. i need a job. one of the reasons why i need a job is when i have a job, in most instances, i have some form of health care. we have a lot of peopl

we had a dramatic case of a doctor attending a basketball game in douglas. and the reason that he chose that to announce his retirement because he couldn't afford the -- the insurance that he had to pay -- the reason he did that is because he had birthed almost every kid on both teams. and the mothers there don't have ob-gyn help as a result of his retirement because of what it costs him for insurance. the presiding officer: the senator's time has expired. mr. enzi: i thank the chair and yield the floor. mr. brown: madam president? the presiding officer: who seeks recognition? the senator from ohio. mr. brown: thank you, madam president. i appreciate that. i come to the floor pretty often reading letters from people in my state who have had problems with their health insurance. and what's interesting, madam president, about this -- these letters are -- in almost every case, you had asked these people, you know marion from madison county, ann from montgomery county, sheila from richard county, if you asked them a year or two ago, are you happy with your insur

police training exercise was actually run by an extremely competent british former chief constable, douglas brand, whom the americans hugely respected. but he had hardly any resources to do it with. he had to invent a training program, which we eventually did with jordan, which produced a far number of lower recruits going through the system in far too short a training time than was -- to create a police force on the ground, so the sense of hurry we had from our two capitals -- depens the production of well-trained, well-behaving policemen or not ground. so there was attention there. >> and into that gap, when it wasn't a police force, the american particularly because of the tribe but also the british forces have to go. did you have any sense of the way that issues of detainees and interrogation and so on were being handled at the time? >> not in detail, because there were no british in that particular system. the prison system was run by the american military in primarily in american area. i can't speak for the southeast. they must have had some things but i regard it as separate from the

susan douglas shows is how the media that we are surrounding with -- surrounded with has overshot the actual reality of the way women have lived in our society. for it is often suggested that women have made it. in real life, we have not caught up. after lunch, we have a session on business. we will and our day with the chairmen. he is one of the leading voices in establishing caregiver guidelines for their [unintelligible] yesterday we were on "to meet the press." it was fantastic year everyone talks about these issues. before i stepped down from the podium, i want to give a shout out to someone that has been so important to help us with the report. histhey were our fantastic edit. in a big project like this, we know that they did all of the work to make these things happen. i wanted to thank you all. what i'm interested in addressing the regional differences. >> there are some places where regional differences do play important roles. >> do you have anything on the role of the union? >> there are a number of places where we focus our attention on that. there is a great chart in the

it is an 18-foot tall douglas fir from west virginia, decorated with hundreds of ornaments decorated by people all of the country, each a reminder of the traditions we cherish as americans and the blessings we are thankful for this holiday season. >> that is right, especially as we continue to recover from the extraordinary recession which has left some americans. and, parents without jobs who are struggling to put presents under the christmas tree, people who have had their homes for closed. in these tough times, there is still so much to celebrate this christmas. a message of peace and brotherhood, that continues to inspire more than two dozen years after jesus' birth, the bonds of community and country, the character and courage of our men and women in uniform who are far from home for the holidays, away from their families, risking their lives to protect cars. to all of our soldiers, sailors, marines, air force, coast guard, i have no greater honor than serving as your commander in chief. i have been awed by your selflessness, eagerness to serve. i have been energized by your ded

douglas who described justice brandeis as being dangerous because he was incorruptable. i urge the members to support h.res. 905 and i reserve the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman reserves the balance of his time. the gentleman from tennessee. mr. cohen: thank you. mr. speaker, i yield as many minutes as the gentleman from kentucky, mr. yarmuth, needs. mr. yarmuth is the genesis of this particular resolution. he hails from the same city that mr. brandeis, justice brandeis did and brings this to memorialize this man's great talents. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from kentucky is recognized. mr. yarmuth: i thank the gentleman from tennessee. mr. speaker, in lieu -- louisville we are proud of many of the great things residents have achieved. from muhammad ali's success to diane sawyer's groundbreaking work in journalism. there's evidence of their legacies throughout our community. it's in the stories we tell, it's in the history embeded in our neighborhoods, and it's seen on the banners hung in their honor throughout town. we are proud tha

it was to the philippines that general douglas macarthur vowed to return after the courage of the defense of the agony of the baton death march. american blood was shed, american treasure expended, american youth lost to give birth to the philippine democracy in the post world war ii world. that is why the massacre of november 23 must be a concern to all of us as the political airs to the brave veterans of the philippines campaign. anything less, madam speaker, than a thorough, transparent and independent investigation of this massacre is unacceptable. the success of the global war on terror in this volatile southern region in the philippines depends on a full implementation of transparency and the rule of law. the people power revolution of 1986 which the united states both celebrated and assisted requires open, fair and violent-free presidential elections in may of 2010. anything less would besmirch the memory of those who have fought and died so that the philippines might have government of the people, for the people and by the people. this dream, madam speaker, may only be achieved if

says we should not do this through this is a gentleman i respect, but he voted for the misadventure douglas tragedy in iraq. i am only siworried about the security of this nation. the people of pennsylvania are independent-minded. this is what is needed for the station. my job does not matter. host: thank you for being on the program. we will continue our conversation with a representative raul grijalva, democrat from arizona prefers, this update from c-span radio. >> president obama returned to the white house after delivering his speech at military academy at west point. today he meets with advisers in the oval office. he says he expects the allies to boost to the nato led force by more than 5000 soldiers. the white house focuses on afghanistan. congress is working on a number of issues. the senate continues debate on health care reform. the house against a bill that would put restraints on big wall street institutions and calls for openness from the federal reserve pretty house boats on a bill that would give the government -- calls for openness from the federal reserve. an update on the

lock heed and mcdonald douglas are no longer in the business. department of defense stubbornly refuses to include any provision in the tanker solicitation that accounts for these subsidies. this simply isn't right and i ask to put my statement in the record. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman's time has expired. for what purpose does the gentleman from kansas rise? >> i ask unanimous consent to address the house for one minute, revise and extends my remarks. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. >> madam speaker, over the past several months, airbus and their congressional allies have been pushing the pentagon to change the requirements for the air refueling tanker. so that the french company will win the contract. just last month the airbus team sent the department of defense a clear ultimate tum. if you don't change your requirements, we won't bid. the air force needs an air refueling tanker that meets the needs of the war fighter, not the needs of the french. airbus is gambling that the threat of not having a competition will force

host: next up is douglas from arizona. caller: good morning.hroughout the course of 2009. i had my roof replaced. i change the air conditioning unit at my home. i heard that i can write these costs off unqualified as a home improvement or i haven't told you can only claim those at the time you sell your home. which is true? guest: the benefit for what you did, if you did energy efficiency improvements, you can get a credit, not a deduction for the things you mentioned on the phone stare. that would be a percentage of what you spent for it all of those improvements at to the cost basis of your house and ultimately, when you sell, you have a higher basis so you'll have a lower gain. you'll get a credit benefit immediately but in the long term, you are increasing the basis of an asset that to hold and therefore, you will have less of a game when you sell or dispose. host: next up, hamilton, alabama, go ahead. caller: hello, my question is -- my husband and i have updated to a more energy efficient furnace. unfortunately, we are retired. we have no

former congressional budget office directs that douglas holt eachen released a study that eliminating the death tax would be to increase small business capital investment by $1.6 trillion and create up to 1.5 million jobs. something this country, mr. speaker, desperately needs. unfortunately this closed rule and underlying bill look to break the commitments made by congress in 2001 by extending the estate tax at 2009 level in perpetuity. i'm also concerned that although the exemption level is $3.5 million under h.r. 4154, it's not properly indexed for inflation and we could therefore find ourselves in a situation similar to the alternative minimum tax where individuals could inadvertently be subjected to the tax in the future. so, mr. speaker, i urge all of my colleagues defeat this rule. let's go back, have an open debate, as the gentleman from florida said, on the repeal of the estate tax. that's what we should do. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields back the balance of his time. the gentleman from colorado. mr. polis: i would like to inquire of the gentleman

douglas englesby wrote i own a small business, employ 11 people. he says i used to provide health care for all my employees and all the members of their families. and if i want to remain profitable enough to stay in business now, he says he can't do it anymore. he can only cover the employees, not their families. he feels terrible about it, and he says he may have to cut off his employees if prices keep going up. and i want to say to this fine small business owner, douglas, help is on the way. and mrs. linda schumaker wrote -- and this is the one i'll close with in this series of stories -- i am a republican. let me repeat what she writes: i am a republican, and my husband and i are small business owners. the senators and congressmen of both parties who are against president obama's plan have their own insurance. and it's my understanding, she writes, that it does not cost what we pay. they do not understand what a huge expense this is. please listen to the middle class who are in our position or who no longer have insurance. it keeps me up at nigh

douglas i don't know that a lot of families are even aware of the refi. >> we should talk with that -- talk about that. that would help. >> last question. >> i counsel people locally go into foreclosure. those foreclosure scams were people reach out and request up- front funding are legal. i've seen them in d.c. calling them scams are misleading because in most in this sodalities -- -- most municipalities fairly low. it's unfortunate but keep that in mind. although the treasury program is very well intended, it is not indexed to the price of the home. as a result, just as we have seen the first-time homebuyer credit stop up the demand or supply of the low-priced homes, it strikes me by not making it based on a percentage of home by you, we're emphasizing homes on the lower end and we name -- we may not be reaching to the higher end. if that thousand dollar payment makes a hundred thousand >> home mortgage modifiable but does not make the $400,000 home modify out, i wonder if you would index that based on percentage. >> the indexing of the percentage of the servicers. i just wanted to

i do not know what the general did, but if he had as much trouble as douglas macarthur, it must haveround and to give his recommendations. instead of an operational plan being delivered in may, it was delivered at the end of august. in the interim, the military situation in afghanistan deteriorated sharply. more portly, from the president's standpoint, support for the war among democrats and the democratic party dropped through the floor. what had been a good war a year ago, was now just like every other war -- a bad war. skepticism about the war had become widespread among the president's core supporters. the second thing that happened was on the political front the -- the expectation in march was that we would be able to work with the then-afghan government and with the international community to produce something that would look like a legitimate and credible presidential election. instead, we got a fiasco, followed by a disaster. no one can pretend that this afghan presidential election was legitimate or credible. in the first round, president karzai's supporters produced 1 milli

douglas holtz de can who worked for the senator for arizona, said that the savings from medicare and medicaid. the idea of saving money in medicare is certainly not something he's unfamiliar with. we all understand that there are responsibilities for savings that don't jeopardize basic services for seniors. we also understand that left untouched, medicare is going broke. ignoring the problem will take it worst. if we want to put medicare on sound footing, have to tackle this issue four square. we can't afford the subsidies for medicare advantage. and we can't afford the waste that's going on in the system today. i might also tell you that the increase in payroll taxes for those individuals making over $200,000 a year, and families over $250,000 a year, that's the increase in the medicare tax, it's going to be buying five years of solvency for medicare. so when they talk about our raising taxes, true, at the highest income levels. what they don't tell you is the other side of the coin. the money goes into the trust fund to keep it have solid for medicare. what else does this bill do?

participants include former congressional budget office director, alice rivlin and douglas faults-e kendrick-eakin. and as congress considers reauthorization of the elementary and secondary school act, educators and activists and government officials discussed ways to eliminate the so-called achievement gap. live coverage at 1:00 p.m. eastern on c-span 3. "washington journal" continues. host: matthew levitt is the counterterrorism director for the washington institute for near east policy come here to talk was about what is becoming known as homegrown terrorism, particularly in the wake of the five young men arrested in pakistan in the last week or so. reports from pakistan indicate that that country's judiciary will not release those five suspects to the united states. what is behind all of this increase, or is there really an increase and what is called homegrown terrorism? guest: we are seeing the product of a radicalization process that for a while we were noticing in europe and has now come to the united states. for the past couple of years, people have been saying that europe is very d

that happen when douglas mccarthy said he had turned back the north koreans with one hand tied behind his back a couple days after the war began in 1950 in a month later he said they have better artillery and service, tang formations and the japanese did in world war ii. it just goes on, but if you have an independent army of over a million men you have a garrison state dug into some 15,000 underground national security chambers or facilities of one type of another, and a leadership that believes that both the soviets and the chinese have screwed them in recent years, the soviets all the will of the other history, you can begin to appreciate why that regime has a collapse. there are not plus easy to pull on that regime. and we might discuss that evening -- discuss that question in the question and answer time. in my last minute i will tell you please read my last section where i quotes friedrich nietzsche on metaphor. and the way in which we human beings have a wonderful and terrible tendency to sink in that report terms to say the word terrorists in our minds, someone who looks like

an american history buff, but my father would say things such as i shall return and i would allow douglas macarthur or my dad would say we have nothing to fear but fear itself and i would yell roosevelt. history was all around us whether at school or home, especially american history. and i guess what bothers me is my job is taking me into an awful lot of schools in the rural areas, and you would be hard pressed today to find as i did when i was in elementary school a picture of lincoln or washington in any classroom. american history is taught for one year and one year only and i find it not only appalling but depressing and you touched on this earlier in your conversation. do you have any observations or do you think this may change or do you think this is a concerted effort buy any individuals or groups that are ashamed of who we are? it just bothers me a great deal yet that is why i find this topics interesting and i will hang up and listen to you respond. thank you. >> guest: thanks for the question. i don't think anyone is ashamed of what we are. it's just incompetence or ineptness

table the second panel, the honorable david walker, the president and ceo of the peterson foundation, douglas told deacon, the president of dhe consultants and its former head of the congressional office, a senior fellow at the brookings institution, and the president of the committee for a responsible federal budget. thank you all for your willingness to testify here today. we very much appreciate your time if you're taking the time to do that. >> mr. chairman, i apologize for being a little late. i just want to reinforce the necessity that you have pointed out in doing this not by regular order. i do not mind giving regular order an opportunity -- i think we should -- but they have had an opportunity for years. and why the structure that we have come up with, which is essentially members of congress and the administration and a non-amendable event is a very important structure for the purposes of accomplishing our goals, and the logic behind that is very simple. you have to have the american people feel that this is an absolutely bipartisan and fair process, and for that, you need supermajo

i do not know what the general did, but if he had as much trouble as douglas macarthur, it must havesomething pretty big. the important thing is this. we lost time. we lost two months of his time, and we had to take three months to get general mcchrystal comfortable with the situation on the ground and to give his recommendations. instead of an operational plan being delivered in may, it was delivered at the end of august. in the interim, the military situation in afghanistan deteriorated sharply. more importantly, from the president's standpoint, support for the war among democrats and the democratic party dropped through the floor. what had been a good war a year ago was now just like every other war -- a bad war. skepticism about the war had become widespread among the president's core supporters. the second thing that happened was on the political front. the expectation in march was that we would be able to work with the then-afghan government and with the international community to produce something that would look like a legitimate and credible presidential election. instead, w

i don't know what general mckiernan did, but if he got in as much trouble as douglas macarthur, it mustave been pretty big. the important thing is, we lost time. we had to take three months to get general mcchrystal comfortable with the situation on the ground and to give his recommendations. instead of an operational plan being delivered in may, it was delivered at the end of august. in the interim, at the situation in afghanistan deteriorated sharply. from the president's standpoint, support for the war in the democratic party dropped through the floor. what had been a good war a year ago was now just like every other war, a bad war. skepticism about the war had become widespread among the president's core supporters. the second thing that happened was on the political front. the expectation in march was that we would be able to work with the then-afghan government and with the international community to produce something that would look like a legitimate and credible presidential election. instead, we had a fiasco followed by a disaster. no one can pretend that this afghan presidenti

douglas greenway who is the executive director. this morning will focus on the critical role of the wic program in that role it plays into curing the nation's health. they have demonstrated that it is a potent force in improving the health, nutrition, and well- being of women and infants and children living in poverty it is poverty that we're talking about with respect to the problems of under-nutrition and poor- nutrition. over 13 million children today below 18 years of age, 18% of the population is living below the federal poverty level which for 2009 is set at $22,000. the number rises to 21% when we look at children below five years of age. it is even higher in the african-american population, hispanics, and children living in female-headed households. we have a considerably large number of children and families at risk. between 2000 and 2007, the number has risen considerably with a 50% increase. another 1.7 million children we are dealing with. the census bureau estimates that over 12 million children are food insecure as me

there was no central database is douglas or requirement for schools to check for police or cbs reports, so the district had no warning. to this day, she still holds a california teaching license. page is now 15, but has never recovered fully. she lost her former at enthusiasm for learning and has never been a stellar student that she was. she is still a friend at school, but she does not hide any lager under dusk as she used to do at your old school. these incidences delayed an accurate diagnosis for years and delayed opprobrious services and supports for page. i love my daughter with all my heart and i believe she will achieve great things with her life, but i am saddened at the tremendous loss of potential she has suffered. i hope you can help children like her. again, thank you for the opportunity to testify today and i will answer any questions that you may have. >> thank you. welcome, thank you for being here. >> thank you, chairman miller. >> ms. price, if you could pull the microphone a bit closer to you. >> thank you, chairman miller and the committee for holding this hearing t

i don't know what the general did, but if he got in as much trouble with douglas mcarthur, it must havety big. but the important thing is, we lost time. we lost two months and had to take three months to get general mcchrystal comfortable with the situation on the ground. instead of an operational plan being delivered in may, it was delivered at the end of august. in the interim, the military situation in afghanistan deteriorated sharply. and more importantly from the president's standpoint, support for the war and among democrats on the hill dropped through the floor. what had been the good war a year ago was just like every other war, a bad war and skepticism about the war had become widespread among the president's core supporters. the second thin that happened was on the -- thing that happened was on the political front. the expectation in march was that we would be able to work with the then afghan government and with the international community to produce something that would look like a legitimate and credible presidential election. instead, we got a fiasco followed by a disaster