dr. mohammed was known as the human rights laureate and in addition to his work as a physician he is a respected community leader, peace negotiator and human rights advocate. and finally susan page is the regional director for southern and east africa for the national democratic institute. from 2005 to 2007, miss page directed the rule of law program for the united states mission in sudan and she's advised those involved in both the cpa and the darfur peace process. senator lugar? >> i thank you, mr. chairman, for calling this hearing and for your very thoughtful opening statement, which in a comprehensive way sets forth many of the problems. i enjoy also in welcoming our distinguished witnesses. i appreciate that general gration has taken time to join us today. i know that he understands congress' deep interest in this issue. and i applaud the appointment of a special envoy underscoring the president's intention to provide international leadership on the darfur crisis but time is perhaps not on our side. the crisis is in the sixth year. in the face of destruction, its humanitarian efforts proba

mohammed. >>> a lot of people twittering about the story on lucia whilen. >> i think the 911 caller should be invited to the white house, even for a glass of wine. >> great segment with dr. gupta on the drug that was use the by michael jackson. >> she did the right thing but the police was still wrong to arrest a man in his own house. >> they are going to have beers on it tomorrow. we want to know why lucia whilen isn't going as well. >>> if you haven't seen this next piece of video, you need to and you may want to show it to yo your kids. texting may be more dangerous than a lot of other bad driving habits. we will show you just how dangerous. >>> texting while driving, i have to tell you, i am so guilty of this. i have resorted to actually taking that blackberry and the phone and putting it in the trunk. i am addicted. that's what i have to do to force myself not to text or telephone while i'm driving. well, tom foreman is going to show you exactly why that may be a very good thing to do. take a look at this demonstration when he tried to do it in a controlled circumstance. up to six seconds before an accident is a critical time in which you might be able to avoid it.

dr. mohammed, as you know, with your efforts over all these years. thank you so much for your courage and your leadership and thank you, all of you, the national democratic institution, susan, we greatly appreciate what you're doing. as i said, we will leave the record open. i know there will be some questions submitted and if you could help us complete the record, that would be trek. so thank you -- terrific. so thank you, it's been very helpful to anybody. senator lugar? thank you. we stand adjourned. thank you. [inaudible conversations] >> how is span funded? >> publicly funded. >> donations. i have no idea. >> c-span gets its funding through the taxes. >> federal funding. >> sort of a public funding thing. >> maybe. i don't know. >> how is c-span funded? america's cable companies created c-span as a public certificate vest, a private busy initiative. no government mandate, no government money. >> the senate gavels in in a few minutes. for work on agriculture spending. yesterday, tennessee senator lamar alexander became the sixth republican to ann