you don't see a renewed level of sectarian tensions that gives you pause that there might be a -- dr no, we don't. actually, what we do see are in antigstisspation of parliamentry elections which are expected to be in january, we do see a lot of lockying for political position. we see shiite party reaching out to have a sunni partner and kurdish partner. these sorts of things are actually healthy. so what we see is a tendency to want to work welcome back the political system. but i don't want to sound poly anish about that because these are trends that are fragile and one that is need to be nur turd every day. >> thank you. your predecessor talked about this a lot, whether the violence of iraq, the gains that you've seen are irreversible or not. and you describe it as fragile but reversible. do you share that assessment? do you think we've gone over the hump on that? and then on mosul where a lot of the recent violence has taken place, do you think they'll be able to pull out of mosul? >> what i know is we're going to comply fully with our obligations under the security agreement. i thi

so again the rules should be at the end of this long debate no child worse off. dr. palfrey that i just quoted, denise lewis that a code of especially tricia urban are waiting to see when we do. our time to make a difference tricia urban paid a terrible price but again it comes down to basic choice in terms of what we do. in the status quo resist change. status quote forces reform. i know this is a tremendous challenge. i don't have a full appreciation for it because i haven't been valid as long as some my senator dog especially for our kids that you have. in is a great challenge but also believe it is a challenge or the of a great nation to help us make this nation and more perfect union. thank you. >> thank you. for in love of reasons you mentioned senator hatch and enduring child carriers leo and and all of our colleagues care about children but i'm been so pleased to have taken on this added cost in insisting that our children being paramount in our minds as we move toward an all this. i know everyone else shares are commitment to and the fact you've articulated

dr. johnniy holiday. >> johnny: no, master johnny holiday.three balls two strikes to ryan zimmerman, you can see he caught it for strike three. you can see the frustration for ryan as the nationals retire the top of the fourth cincinnati up 1-0. ♪ (tucci) more bars in more places. at&t. the best coverage worldwide. buy the lg xenon messaging phone for 99.99 after mail-in rebate and get one free after mail-in-rebate. . >> johnny: it's a 1-0 bal game, cincinnati with a run there in the top of the second as you can see. boat clubs with two hits, a 1-0 lead. we go to the top of the fourth, look who is coming along. >> rob: that's med wick. >> johnny: aflac. >> rob: the last draft pick to go directly to the majors? chip has been waiting all year for this, huh? >> rob: that's a great question. >> johnny: i know dibs will come up with an answer for this one. ramon hernandez having the first-base duties tonight. >> rob: was he their first overall pick? randy johnson. no, he didn't go directly.  . >> j

dr.. they trust you. that means that no matter how we reform health care, we will keep this promise. to the american people. if you like your doctor, you will be able to keep your dr. period. [applause] if you like your health care plan, you will be able to keep your health care plan, [applause] no one will take it away. no matter what. my view is that health care reform should be guided by a simple principle, fix what is broken, build on what works. that is what we intend to do. if we do that we can build a health-care system that allows you to be physicians instead of administrators and accountants, a system that gives americans -- [applause] a system that gives americans the best care at the lowest cost, a system that uses up the pressure on businesses and unleashes the promise of our economy, creating hundreds of thousands of jobs, making take-home wages thousands of dollars higher, growing our economy by tens of billions of dollars more every year. that is how we will stop spending tax dollars to prop up an unsustainable system and start investing those dollars on innovation and

there are certainly no controversy over the fact that minorities have poorer health status and often poorer healthcare, both the variables that dr. chandra spoke of. there's no dispute there. but the debate has to do with the causes of those differentials and the causes, of course, lead us to the remedies. so there are two starkly different perspectives on the causes, and dr. chandra spoke to them already. he characterized them in short as dynamics within the clinical encounter, biased physicians and even biased health systems. that's one perspective. versus the -- what i call a more socioeconomic focus. on inadequacies of health systems that disproportionately served low-incomed individuals who are disproportionately minority. the bias perspective came to the forefront of the health disparities conversation with the 2002 institute of medicine report and i want to spend a little bit of time on that. that report is called unequaled treatment. it got an enormous amount of attention and is largely regarded as a authoritative study. however, i wanted to outline some of the methodological problems with it. that study had an emphasis

smile and a beautiful wife, ok, who spent 16 years in a chinese communist prison for no reason than speaking the truth. dr. shu win lee. >> translating for mr. shu win lee is his assistant. >> good morning, ladies and gentlemen. [speaking in chinese] [speaking in chinese] >> this year a fellow in new jersey wrote me an email asking me for my thoughts regarding the tiananmen massacre and the unknown rebels tankmen. the young men who bravely stood before the tanks in tiananmen in 1989. her email moved me tremendously. it has already been 20 years, and yet this young american girl was still concerned about the tiananmen square protests that happened 20 years ago in china, a land thousands of miles away from where she lives. unfortunately, i'm sad to say that due to the brutal suppression of information and sensorship by the chinese communist party, many of china, many of our own high school students do not even know of the tiananmen square purpose nor off the democracy movement of 1989. tell me, how can i not be saddened by this? [speaking in chinese] >> a fellow had asked me in her email, do you, professor,

and it's no wonder that you hear dr. frank come up with proposals for the republican side of the aisle which are then repeated here on the floor of the senate. on page 15 of his marching orders, dr. frank luntz wrote, "it's essential that deny and denial enter into the republican lexicon immediately." on page 24 he said of the state messages we tested, nothing turns people against what the democrats are trying to do more immediately than the specter of having to wait. on page 23 of the memo of dr. frank hrupbts he wrote the word rationing does induce the negative response you want he said to his republican followers. rationing tests very well against the other health care buzzwords that frighten americans. well, that last phrase really caught my attention. because more and more what we hear from the other side of the aisle criticizing president obama's agenda is fear. be afraid. be very afraid. be afraid of change. the american people weren't afraid of change last november. they voted for it. they asked for change in the

through his government plan, we are going to have exactly the same thing that we have no and it just doesn't work. >> host: dr. healy. >> guest: i think the insurance companies have done a terrible job in terms of not recognizing that the doctors are on the same page. the fact that they make these astronomical profits, some of which come i can't in for-profit organizations and they do so often in hostility with the doctor. telling-- in patient's, disallowing many legitimate treatments, making it impossible, impossible hassles to render care. lot of the administrative cost the president spoke about in recognize doctors are struggling under come from insurance companies, so i think the insurance companies have really lost an enormous amount of good will. there is concern that they are making a lot of money on the backs of patients and on the backs of administrative hassles, so i think that they have got to be cleaned up. i don't care what happens with the president's plan. the fact is we need major insurance company reform in this country, and maybe, maybe this is time for insurance companies to realize that th

dr. hacker, a couple of things. you know,no carrierringconnect central to improving outcomes. what i do see there's a great emphasis on bargaining power to decrease cost even though in your paper you mention that probably for physicians, that bargaining power has been used to excess and you can demonstrably show in some cases that physicians that access the decrease because of it indeed the cbo scoring of this or maybe the document, the cbo score said there would be limited access to some specialists because of rate -- because of rates paid by the public option. so i don't see that much innovative. and so let me bounce it back to you. if we're going to come up with a patient centered plan i think the only way that history subpoena by towing so -- and improve it by doing so -- and -- i keep on saying this but it's just -- i feel like a tree falling in the forest for a similar demographic, a similar set of benefits, hsas cost 30% less than do a fee for service plan. the patient is now in control. yesterday, i was speaking to someone -- they have an hsa. they said that their doct

dr. hamburg not in terms of yes and no answer session, but could do assure us that lab capacity is a priority of yours and assure us there will be adequate lab capacity for the anticipated the importation of food and for the standard in this legislation to work? >> absolutely. laboratory testing is an essential component of a strong science based food safety system, and we do not have any plans to restrict our laboratory capacity and i think as we move forward we will want to make sure that we are applying the best possible science including laboratory science to our testing and screening activities. i hope there will be advances in laboratory science and technology that will enable us to do our inspections in a more efficient and cost-effective way, but it's a pillar of what we do and they will continue to support it and we may as resources become available and aides suggest actually expand our capacity. >> well, i appreciate that and i'm not suggesting that our current lab structure be frozen in time. obviously if there are improvements in location or function we ought to embrace that, but

dr. hamburg congratulations the first question is a yes or no, well, the inspections are an important part of addressing food safety problems isn't this correct? >> yes. >> your agency does not have a good record when it comes to respecting food facilities last year you inspected 6,562 food facilities. in the united states 152 foreign facilities in the same time. was that enough inspections? how many should you have to do the job? >> i think we can do better with respect to the question exactly how many, i cannot tell you that now. >> i will submit your letter asking you these questions. >> i was warned you would do that. >> i asked the record remain open for my letter and the response of the administrator. >> so orders. >> would you support an increase frequency requirement? >> we clearly need to do more frequent inspections also smarter inspections and we'd need not to rely simply on inspections as a tool for a safer food supply. >> we agree on that. i am keenly aware there is substantial with conducting foreign and domestic facility inspections, how much do you need to do this properly?

dr. tiller does, and finding that it is quite humanitarian, and no longer believing thei lies of te right, but meanwhile, we are left with a corpse, in order. -- a martyr. you get people who are really extreme and irrelevant and more and more frustrated and angry. it is a danger. that is why i think obama's rhetoric of inclusion is more important than i ever imagined it to be. that is my thought on that. >> what are the truisms about right wing extremism and violence in the united states -- there are a lot of people who say, oh, they have a lot of power and in fact, they have so much power they are starting to go violence. that is not the story. the story is that they resort to violent tactics when they're losing power and they know it. this is a last-ditch effort of acting out and it is a sign of decreasing power and should be interpreted that way. >> in addition to being from kansas city, i'm actually from kansas. kansas city, you understand, spills over the state line. extremism has a history of being very, very useful on the right and very powerful. look at the language of what used t

>> no, there really weren't because my brother's dr. was one of the most renowned doctors and the whole world on the specific routine of treatment, and he had a very specific type of cancer that really had to be treated by that dr. macanack hospital at that time, any can't just, you can't just the well, you can have a couple of months down the road or you can wait. again, the attorney general's office realize thankfully, because it is headed by a medical doctor, that time was of the essence. >> just i can recall multiple times when i was in practice, he would come up on these situations and you find a way to make it work for the patient and i guess i am little frustrated with your situation. your situation is that you were essentially allowed or offered no other option and i appreciate the fact that particularly for that type of non-hodgkin's lymphoma that it may require a very specialized types of care. my frustration is as the physician, i just cannot tell you the times i found another hospital or another way to make it happen and not

dr. johnny fever. >> rob: oh, yeah, thanks for telling me. >> bob: no, in fact, johnny reportedly has appeared at the elementary school of everybody on their crew during their lifetime. johnny and captain dane were huge [ laughter ]. >> bob: guzman totally leaving his strike zone and his comfort area. hits it hard. he have sap longoria right there, two outs. and the nats have one out to work with and, ironically, it's nick johnson who made the error that led to the kapler homerun. verizon fios notice xtra is next with-ony and ray. lots of things to talk about in this one. unfortunately, two errors that gave the rays two runs might be two of the most important things they talk about. here is nick johnson, 1-for-4, breaking ball outside. j p howell in he is sons essence, trying to save -- in essence trying to save this game for himself much he is the pitcher of record here. 1 ball, 1 strike to nick. they have a right hander up in case they get to ryan zimmerman. that's jason isringhausen. >> rob: tampa bay. >> bob: nationals down to their last strike. i'm not sure how nick got his bat out to reach that

dr. brzezinski on hopefully by 12:20. that's the ambition. no later than 12:20 try to get back in the room to reconvene for our final session. thank you all. [applause] >> ralook live a. warm day in the nation's capitol a. look live at the u.s. capitol, where both the house and senate will be gaveling in to start the week. the house briefly started its day at 12:30 p.m. eastern with morning hour speeches, legislative work, gets underway in the house at 2:00 p.m. you can watch that live on c-span. meanwhile, the senate comes to order also at 2:00 p.m. eastern. after some general speeches lawmakers will continue work on a bill regulating tobacco products with a vote to advance that bill set for 5:30 p.m. eastern. live senate coverage right here on c-span2. and we have more live events for you later. while we wait for david simon at the national press club 1:00 eastern a short portion of today's "washington journal". a reporter looks tomorrow's democratic primary in the virginia governor's race. >> election day, primary election day in the state of

dr. brzezinski on hopefully by 12:20. that is the ambition, no later than 12:20, try to get back in the room to reconvene for our final session. thank you all. [applause] [inaudible conversations] >> the head of the congressional panel overseeing the treasury department 700 billion-dollar troubled asset relief program, elizabeth warren, will talk about her panel cost in report. live coverage starting at 10:00 a.m. eastern on c-span. also tomorrow, treasury secretary tim geithner and irs commissioner douglas shulman testified before a senate appropriations subcommittee about the budgets for next year. live coverage it 10:30 a.m. eastern on c-span3. >> now a house hearing on the use of the state secrets privilege. it allows the government to withhold national security related information during a trial. jerrold nadler of new york chairs the subcommittee on the constitution. he is the coates author of legislation that would make it harder to use the state secrets privilege. this is an hour, 30 minutes. >> this hearing of the subcommittee of the cons

no sense. host: dallas, taxes on our independents line. caller: dr. dean, i agree that we need to move to a not-for- profit health care. like you said, open medicaid to everyone. guest: medicare. caller: medicare, right. if we had to create a new tax, just like they take your fica out of your check before you have a say in it. i think 2% instead. if i am paying 90%, as long as everybody else will take 2%, i think that's a good idea -- if in the 2%, that is a good idea. guest: they do some form of it in every other democracy in the world. why is it that here we are struggling with their health care costs and making us economically and competitive. we're losing jobs. every country does it differently. yet, the conservatives are renting and reagan about too much government control. -- the conservatives are ranting about too much government control. we should at least give people the choice. the president is not trying to make anybody get into a system that they will like. why are the republicans against giving america the right to choose? host: the e-mai

dr. brzezinski on, hopefully, by 12:20. that is the ambition, no later than 12:20, try to get back into the room to reconvene for our final session. thank you all. [applause] [inaudible conversations]. >> up next a look at u.s.-iran policy with zbigniew brzezinski former national security advisor for president carter and foreign policy advisor for the obama for president campaign, lasts about an hour. [inaudible conversations]. >> okay. i think we are ready to go ahead -- those of you who haven't finished feel free to continue to enjoy your lunch. dr. brzezinski finished his which is the important thing. david aaron, my cohost for this event was supposed to do the introductions but i gather he is not feeling well today and i have the pleasure of introducing somebody who needs no introductions and i don't intend to give one. zbigniew brzezinski has spoken out on the issues, we here to talk about, openly and candidly and forcefully over the last several years and i think american policy is beginning to move in the directions he's acted. but i'm sure

no. all right. yes, sir. >> this will be the last one. >> okay. >> dr. brzezinski question. you mentioned the north korea and iran formulation and in iran there by saying we don't want, we don't seek the religious -- connotation but the same report you mentioned in 27 argued with confidence iran was seeking and did want nuclear weapons so how do we prevent them from the assimilating and chewing out the negotiations such as they've been doing their by pursuing the technical time on such as the time if and when they do ss the debt they want nuclear weapons? thank you. >> first of the reports said they were seeking nuclear weapons. >> were seeking, correct. >> and they were not at the present. >> you said they were keeping options open. >> that is different from what he said earlier. that's right. they are keeping their options open. that is different. the point of the negotiations is that these options are at some point closed. that is the point of the negotiations. the have as their object of an arrangement whereby we have confidence that what they are ostensibly claiming bec

i'd like to put on the record no objection of a letter from the university of california berkeley, dr. dan cammond, a letter describing the reason and the appropriateness of expanding new transmission lines. if i can put that into the record? >> without objection, it will be included. >> chairman wellinghov, i wanted you to expand your thoughts on how ferc could implement, if it does receive back-stop citing approval. how it could implement a greenhouse gas performance interconnection standard for new transmission. and/or some criteria associated with compliance or fulfillment of the nation's renewable energy goals. several other witnesses made reference to something of that nature. could you tell us how you think that could work, even though we've heard the physical explanation that an electron is an electron, is an electron. how could this function? >> thank you, congressman ensle. we would initiate role-making, as part of that, all stakeholders would have an opportunity to provide any proposals as to how to implement such a greenhouse gas performance standard. in doing so, there's

dr. brzezinski finished his. i have the pleasure of introducing the somebody who needs no introduction is and i don't intend to give one. he has spoken on issues we are here today to talk about candidly and openly and very forcefully over the last several years i think american policy is beginning to move in the directions he's advocated by mad shorty has a few more suggestions for the president that he can share with us today. the zbigniew? >> thank you. >> thank you very much. it's nice to be here. i'm sorry that i will send an on the sessions held this morning because i know i would have learned a great deal in fact i don't think i have much to tell anyone in this group you don't know on the subject but nonetheless perhaps i can provide a basis for the discussion. i have to say also i am very impressed by the publication's that rand produced on the subject. they took over most critical issues on the relationship with iran and i think they are an important contribution to the understanding of the subject which has been the object of my judgment oversimplification rather than analysis over the last several years.

dr. angell, should we begin with you? >> if you start with administrative costs there is no question a single payer system would have much lower administrative costs. as i've mentioned, the administrative costs of the biggest insurers average roughly 20%. that's administrative cost marketing profits compared with 3% in medicare so there is no question we realize great savings in administrative costs. if you look at the use of technology, it's not the technology itself. all advanced countries have the same technology. we have no secrets here. it's how we use the technologies we use them much more widely because it's profitable to do so. many of the technological tests and procedures are done and freestanding imaging centers, laboratories, outpatient centers in, and they are paid handsomely for using them so it is a matter of generating income, not targeting medical need. in this country if you are willing short and can afford it you may get an mri you don't need. you might get many mri is you don't need because it is profitable for someone to do that. but if you are not well in short you may go without an mri that you do

dr. montgomery, i admire you taking on this job. we have confidence in you. you have nobudget to operate with. all of us, our colleagues from detroit and michigan and ohio, senator brown, all of us are being adversely affected by job losses, some more than others. we want to help our communities during times of adjustment. what an initial tools will you be asking of us, be helpful to perform your job? wonderful things to do. i suspect they want to know what kind of help is they're as they try to find a new economic path for themselves and their families. we need to get some initial specificity as to what you are asking of us, how to minimize the economic blow the community is facing. >> let me try to adjust your 3 questions. in terms of the equity stake, let me answer this way. the size of this state and determination was done through the following process. the first thing that happened is the companies put forward a business plan which we vigorously reviewed and challenge, he eventually came to a business plan and through that, a financial need was determined. we saw ho

dr. rockwell is talking about, there's tremendous redid the tremendous safety record. --, the tremendous safety record. there is no reason twait for yucca mountain. one thing i would mention about waste management is that the back end of the fuel cycle is the one part that is not in the hands of the private sector. it is in the hands of the government. it is the one part where we see the most problems. we have an alternative proposal that would essentially put responsibility for ultimate storage of the waste in the hands of those companies that produce the energy in the first place. we feel they would come up with practical solutions. of course, that would be subject to government safety oversight. that would be the way to solve things instead of waing interminably for yucca mountain to open. >> i have another line of questioning. you may want to jump in and take a few moments. then i will take another turn. >> yeah. i have lost my train of thought. i was waiting for you to finish. >> you thought i never would. [laughter] >> no, i just wrapped up in mr. lieberman's comment. go ahead. it will come to me and then i

no. all right, yes, sir. >> this will have to be the last question. >> okay. >> dr. brzezinski, question for you. you mentioned the north korea-iran formulation and iran, saying we don't want, don't seek and the religious connotation, but the same nix report you mentioned in 2007 argued with high confidence that iran was seeking ostensibly did want nuclear weapons and so how do we prevent them from prevaricating and drawing out negotiations such as they have been doing and there by pursuing the technical timeline, such as a time if and when they assess they want nuclear weapons. thank you. >> first of all, the report said they were seeking nuclear weapons at one point. >> were seeking. >> were. were and they were not at this present. >> said they were keeping the options open. >> that is a rather different thing from what you said earlier. and they are keeping their options open, that is rather different and i think the point of the e negotiations is that these options are at some point closed. that is the whole pointed of the exercise. the negotiations, presumably have as their objective, an arr

dr. hacker about that in a second, dealing with catastrophic costs clearly that's something we have to deal with it, there's no doubt about it. and i could go on and on. i do want to pick up on the regional and geographic disparities question. i'm from iowa which may not surprise why i want to pick up on that. iowa as maybe everyone on the panel, maybe everyone not is consistently ranked at or near the top in terms of outcomes and deficiency, quality of service, all the rest. we're among the best if not the best. yet iowa and not just iowa but there are a number of states that rank high in terms of outcomes but rank low in terms of reimbursement rates. i want to ask any of you here to offer any remarks that you might with respect to the current bill and whether it really gets at that issue or not. and what we might be able to do to really remedy some of those geographic disparity that is we see. in particular, i think mr. pollack and mr. shea might be willing to speak to that. >> i appreciate the question, and i think you're right on track. one of the ideas that has been widely discussed is the notion that we

dr. martin luther king's niece has had two abortions. she now heads up an organization called the silent no more awareness campaign. and she speaks out and says that this is the new civil rights movement, protecting the unborn child. but equally protecting women from abortion. it is violence against women, it is violence against children. the new global office on women's issues ought to at least be neutral, i would say, affirm the unborn but at least neutral when it comes to respecting unborn human life. i thank you. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from new jersey's time has expired. the gentleman from florida reserves the balance of his time. the gentleman from florida is recognized. mr. hastings: mr. speaker, i'm very pleased to yield three minutes to the distinguished gentleman from colorado, my colleague and a good friend of the committee on rules, mr. polis. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from colorado is recognized for three minutes. mr. polis: thank you, mr. speaker. today i rise in support of the rule and h.r. 2410, the foreign relations authorization act for 2010 and

dr. weiss won't be able to practice the way he's practicing, because all the things i mentioned will no longer have the flexibility that he has now and medical liability will increase. it will be a tinderbox and no one is looking at that aspect, because it is the freedom of the doctors to practice sound medicine. it is one of the big things that cuts malpractice, and that goes away once the government tells people how to practice medicine. civil justice reform is spoken about by the president about others and they talk about medical malpractice. i just shared this with all of you, particularly media here. torque law, which has been my life. i wrote the basic book. it's like a child's kaleidoscope. you switch one part of it and the whole thing changes. if you limit liability for doctors and don't do the same thing for pharmaceuticals, all the liability shifts and the congress is not going to be ready to assist pharmaceutical companies that way the last time i looked. i think another key point is federalism. states have acted on medical liability. doctors' rates are fixed by states. ironically,

dr. and dues, you knew he was considering playing football again and you know that means with the minnesota vikings. if there's no team interested in brett favre, you know, then this isn't a story. my understanding is brett's not just having the surgery so he can have quality of life. however, let me add one last note, so far three or four weeks removed from the surgery, he's not feeling all that great according to our sources. so there's still question as to whether this will happen and at some point the vikings have to make a decision how long they want to wait. >> what do you mean he's not feeling all that great. has he been throwing a football around? >> on a very limited basis. which is expected. originally when we reported about the possibility of arthroscopic surgery, we were told it would be a three to six week rehab. well, he's in that time frame right now. so one advantage, the vikings are getting ready to wrap up their summer section of ota activities on the field this week. one advantage that brett has with the vikings and it's been noted many times is that the vikings' play book is basically identica

there is certainly no controversy over the fact that minorities have poor health status and often poor health care, both variables which dr. chandra spoke of, but the debate has to do with the causes of those differentials, and the causes, of course, lead us to the remedies. so there are two starkly different perspectives on the causes, and dr. chandra spoke to them already. he characterized them in short as dynamics within the clinical encounter, biased positions, and even body is to help systems. that is one perspective -- by his physicians. and even body is to help systems. -- biased physicians and even biased health systems. there is the 2002 institute of medicine report, and i want to spend a little bit of time on that. that report is called on equal treatment. it got an enormous amount of attention and is largely regarded as an authoritative study. however, i wanted to outline some of the mythological problems with it. that study added emphasis on the clinical and counter and concluded that there was bias among physicians toward minority patients overtly as well as heavily -- as well as supplely -- subtley. this rea

dr.'s bonus is going to be a big mistake. we have all seen what happened in the financial markets with the bonuses, and doctors are no different than the bankers. we do not need to tie tests to the doctors getting illnesses. host: when netiquette -- wingate, north carolina. caller: i did not know where they are getting information from, but i have been on medicare and i only pay less than $100 a month. my wife had -- they were charging her almost $500 a month just for me. who would not rather pay less than $100 and pay $300 or $400 a month. host: for the $100 a month that you pay, give us the scope of your health care. what do you get for that? caller: hospital, doctors, prescription drug plan. host: how often do you take advantage of it? caller: once a month. host: what is that once a month, a doctor's visit? caller: doctors i go about every two or three months. host: thank you. compared to $500 a month for a private plan, he gets to pay $100 a month. guest: that is the argument, that a public plan will save people money. right there is a i think the exhibit for that argument. at the same time, you know, that brings us to a p

dr. bobo's motion for double jeopardy, i mean motion to dismiss based on double jeopardy grounds, and the government then filed a motion to disqualify mr. siegelman's lawyers. and i granted the motion. no theless, the united states attorney, with the wreckless impermada of the highest levels of the justice department filed a motion asking me to disqualify myself. of course dinid the motion and the justice department rushed to the 11th circuit to have me removed from the case, but the panel of two democratic appointees and one republican denied the requested mandamus petition. in the meantime the united states attorneys office rather blatantly attempted to poison the jury pool. on a friday afternoon, mr. siegelman filed a motion requesting the sealing of any other bad acts evidenced under rule 404-b that the government was expected to offer at trial. on monday morning, with the very purpose of preventing the court from ruling on the motion, the government currently files highly prejudicial material, some of which was used in the subsequent trial in the miller district, and it filed these materials as a matter of public record. and so the "birmingham news" and other media had a field day

dr. montgomery i admire you taking on this job, the president has a lot of confidence in you. as i understand you have no budget to operate with other than what exists around. so we need to know if we can do anything to help. obviously all of us, some more than others, our colleagues from detroit and michigan and ohio, senator brown, senator bayh, i presume all of us here are being adversely affected by job losses. some more than others and obviously we want to help our committees during times of readjustment like this. so what additional tools are you going to be asking us of the administration asked of us and the congress to be helpful for you to perform your job holding town meetings are great, listening to people are wonderful things to do, but i suspect the people who show up at those meetings want to know what if any kind of help is going to be there for them as they try to find a new economic path for themselves and their families in this economic hardships on any to get some additional specificity as to what you'll be asking us and how we can help minimize the time of economic blows the committee

no reason to raise that issue? it is already permitted under current law. >> the last thing in this is more of a comment than anything else. i think the issue that dr. burgess discussed with you about those who are now being excluded because of preexisting conditions etc., i think we all know that are high risk pools that have not effectively operated answered by another assisted in states like mine for example. i think we need to be looking at a policy where we would maybe take those funds that are available for high-risk pools, some of which are not being utilized with them into an environment in which we could perhaps with the sharing of some of those costs with the insurance industry bring these individuals into the pool with the additional revenue that would be available for available sources. i just simply suggest that is something we all need to think about in thank you mr. chairman. i yield back. >> mr. burgess do you want to question now or do you want to come back? you only have five minutes so i will have to holdou tight. >> i can be very brief. >> i have not seen it yet but go ahead. >> we have heard the discussion of the public option p

dr. wilkins. based on that examination, orioles will determine whether or not he is able to make his scheduled start on sunday against the nationals. now, it is no secret that this injury is just the latest in a long list of what many might call durability issues with uehara. it's not secret that koji is very effective through four or five innings of his start and then seems to hit a wall. naturally, a lot of reporters were asking the qens questions once again whether or not the orioles are considering putting him in the bullpen. dave trembley had some answers. >> i haven't talked to anybody about it, but i've thought about it. i think right now our first -- our first thing that we need to get through is we need to get him checked out tomorrow with dr. wilkins and see where we're at. after we see where we're at, then we can kind of map something out through the all- star break and then just like with everybody else. try to get everybody to the all- star break. get those four days off and then regroup. >> so, we'll have more information tomorrow after koji visits the doctor. if he is not able to make the start on sunday, it's likely that david he

no different. if you give people the information and transparency and equality, they will do the right thing. competition is the american way. thank you. >> thank you. drwelcome. >> thank you, chairman miller and members of the committee. >> your microphone, please >> thank you chairman miller and members of the committee. it's an honor to speak with you today. healthcare is at the epicenter of the economic insecurity in the united states. a reflection of our nation's uniquely fragmented and costly framework of health insurance. now, this framework is distinctively american and any effort to improve it must be distinctively american as well building on the best elements of the present system, large group health plans in the public and private sectors. but an american solution must also fix what is not working. by allowing americans without access to secure workplace coverage to choose among group insurance plans to provide strong guarantees of quality, affordable coverage over time. to succeed, these reforms must be based on three strong pillars. shared risk, shared responsibility and personal responsibility. shared risk means we need a new national in

regulating derivatives is no less difficult and all know that this task is essential to make sure that food is indeed on the table for everyone. thank you very much. >> thank you very much, dr. hu. mr. griffin, please. >> chairman reed. senator bunting, members of the committee. i am kenneth griffin, president and ceo of citadel investment group and i appreciate the opportunity to testify and share our views regarding effective over sight of the otc derivatives market. the appropriate oversight is of paramount importance to at the safety and soundness of our financial system. the events of recent months have made it abundantly clear that large financial firms are not too big to fail but, rather, too interconnected to fail. the idea that if extreme measures must be taken to prevent the failure of a single firm such as bear stearns, which had just over $10 billion of shareholders equity, and a few thousand employees drives home the point that greater regulation of our financial markets is warranted. derivatives serve an incredibly important role in our financial markets, current rules exceed several hundred trillion dollars and reflect the importance role of these risk transf

it is disappointing no one has been carrying it -- people just doing their regular programs and this is a humanitarian crisis. yes, we need to do something, we don't want -- like dr. brzezinski said, the neocons first response -- people who think that any war is a good war -- senator graham obviously is a neocon and he said we do not want our neocons conflicting with theirs. this is a man that won the nobel peace -- peace prize. i think he knows what he is talking about and i agree with him completely and with the people, that they do need our help, they need help from the u.n. i have not seen anyone picketing the president. i have not seen anyone asking the president to help. they want help from us, as in support, for example, people can reset the times on their computers or on twitter to tehran time, that helps. host: how does that help? caller: being able to find people. i did not have as much computer expertise. i'm a recent twitter user. i have a little troublesome * -- sometimes. i used to be a computer geek, the ninth 52 years old. not that i'm against new technology but i am a little slow on the uptake on this one. host: @ thank you for updating all of us

no reason anybody would raise that issue? >> it is already permitted under current law. >> last thing, and this is a -- more of a comments than anything else, the issue dr. burgess discussed with you about those who are now being excluded because of preexisting conditions, et cetera. i think we all know that our high risk pools have not effectively operated, certainly are nonexistent in states like mine for example, i think we need to be looking at a policy where we would maybe take those funds that are available for high risk pools, some of which are not being utilized and put them into an environment in which we could perhaps with the sharing of some of those costs, bring these individuals into the pool. with the additional revenue, that would be available from federal sources, i simply suggest that is something we need to think about in my opinion, thank you, mr. chairman, i yield back. >> mr. burgess, do you want to question now or come back after votes? we only have five minutes and i have to told you tight. >> you know me, i can be really brief. >> i have never seen it yet, but go ahead if you want to try. >> just ask you, all three of you briefly

dr.. sought and sustanon been called for health professionals. of all times. >> as a raid, there is a lot of agreement normally in the race to have fundamental disagreements. there is no fundamental disagreement and i think the point and bob casey has a great interest in the subject matter and i have had over the years. the one area that, in fact, there hasn't been in a race to specialization is in the pediatric area and esso anomaly in a way that has been obviously an the other is a plan from the area of pediatrics has been the opposite case paramount so the sweeping statements we made which have a lot of accuracy is about correct. we have all made the point on some occasions over the last nu

no side should resort to atrocious acts of violence such as this. since 1977 there have been more than 5,800 reported acts of violence against providers like dr. tiller. since 1993, eight people have been murder and there have been 17 attempted murders since 1991. clinics like dr. tiller's over a 20-year span have been bombed 41 times and faced 175arsons and 96 attempted bombings andarsons. i understand this is a compassionate issue for both sides. we cannot allow this to continue. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman's time has expired. the gentleman from north carolina. mr. coble: i continue to reserve the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman reserves. the gentleman from new york. mr. nadler: i now yield two minutes to the distinguished gentlelady from new york, miss maloney. -- new york mrs. maloney. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlelady from new york is recognized for two minutes. mrs. maloney: i thank the gentleman for yielding and for his leadership. rochester, new york, has historically given this nation some of our greatest women leaders. elizabeth cady stanton, susan b. anthony, and louise slaug

dr. walden, we have this in the binder. attorney general's office wrote and i quote, i find the behavior on the part of this health to be extremely troubling if not unethical. clearly there's no justification for rescindsing the gentleman's insurance beyond have avoiding cost of future treatment. to rescind and terminate his policy is not only devastating but probably fatal. and then in the second letter, the company finally reversed its decision. how did your brother know to enlist the assistance of the attorney general, was that through you? >> absolutely through myself. even i had difficulty in finding that outlet. it took me a while to get the attorney general's office. but we're fortunate in the state of illinois to have a health bureau in our attorney general's office. we're lucky to have an aggressive unit and they're available for the citizens of the state of illinois who go through the same situation my brother did. but again, most people don't have the knowledge that i have and, by the way, it took two appeals. the first time she wrote the letter they said, "no." it took a further letter to them before they did reverse their decision. >> thank you. mr. barton, quest