as senator boxer pointed out the eda bill that we brought forward is about jobs. it is about offering jobs ine a underserved areas.ult these are areas which are difficult to create jobs in good times, but in hard times they get even harder. the eda program leverages a small amount of public support for private sector investment that creates jobs in underserved areas. in my state of maryland, eda projects have been very successful in bringing jobs to the world, to western maryland, to our eastern shore. they have leveraged private sector investment and we maintained and created jobs. yesterday on the floor, i gave specific examples of eda easrn projects in western maryland on the eastern shore of maryland. i talk about an old manufacturing plant that was saved under any eda grant, leveraged 10-1 with private sector investment saving over 100 jobs and creating another 20. these are jobs that areour commu important for economic growth in ourni community.recove we all understand that this di recovery has been a very difficult one for us to get moving at the pace of jo

the way eda works, mr. president, is there's regional offices, about six of them, and they get funded through the appropriations committee to commerce department and then each region makes the decision as to which projects really meet the goals of the legislation, which is to bring economic development to distressed areas, create jobs and leverage the dollars. so in addition to this, eda in '08, we gave them an extra 500 million in disaster assistance to give to areas which were experiencing disaster problems. and they assumed the role of a secondary responder working with affected communities to support long-term post-disaster rebuilding. an example of that, again, back in iowa, they provided funding to help instruct and install an energy efficient fire and gas broiler as an that had provided steam heat and hot water to st. luke's hospital and the college. we all know what happened when a hospital can't count on a backup generator, they can't count on energy. we know what happens when that occurs. everythi

eates one the eda project funding creates one job for every 2000 to $4,600 invested.o you can see the average cost is very of creating a job is very very invest low inme terms of the federal pgram investment. this is terrific. and ther this program reallye works and a still there are a couple of things we felt we have to take a look at duplication, the wayion, a for a community to buy out the federal government share of a project.roject we put that in theave reall reauthorization. so wye think we have really strengthened this law, and again i want to think the democratsenvirot and and the republicans on the environment of public works committee.s i went through this morning somethe stiff of the programs in california, the city of tax income of cre $3 million for a water system creat created ise expected to create a milon thousand jobs and leverage $40 million in investments. 3 million attracting 40 millionin priva in the investments. mlion 2 million for sewer and water. going t it's going to develop anable additional 600 acres to enableea continued growth of the eastt

her mother eda calls amanda the fresh-faced 20-year-old intent on adventure. >>> amanda knox was going into her junior year of college. her mother eda calls amanda the fresh-faced 20-year-old intent on adventure. >> she was going to study abroad going into college somewhere. she didn't know where yet. >> amanda would decide on perusia, italy. her sister remembers when she moved into this house which she shared with three other girls, two italians and one british student named meredith kercher. >> why was she so set on that apartment? >> i think it's because of the people really. it was close to the college and her roommates are the sweetest people in the world. >> but after only six weeks in italy on the night of november 1st, 2007, amanda's overseas adventure would take a bizarre turn. amanda claims she slept over with her boyfriend ra that night. according to her, they cooked dinner at his house, smoked hashish and made love. on that same night, meredith kircher returned home after watching a movie with friends. sometime between 11:00 p.m. and midnight a witness living in these apart

the hottest youth movement on earth is saying no to deictator and no to al l eda and demanding a better life. but what do these young muslims really want? >> announcer: from the global resources of abc news, witit terry moran, cynthia mcfadden and bill weir in new york city, this is "nightline," june 28th, 2011. >> good evening, i'm terry moran. an estimated 35,000 murders were committed in the last five years in battles over control of the u.s. market for illegal drugs. but those murders didn't happen here. they happened in mexico. meanwhile, the products keep flowing north and the cash throws south. well, tonight, we get an exclusive look at the drug war as few have ever seen it, on the border, and at a top secret facility. here's abc's peer yeah thomas. >> reporter: on a recent afternoon, "nightline" cameras were rolling as customs agents targeted this 18-wheeler. it was supposed to be carrying furniture. but an x-ray suggested something else was hidden inside. >> wow. >> reporter: jackpot. marijuana. pay dirt. you got what you were looking for? >> we did. we found packages containin

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we took a very nice fisheye lens on the flat part of our last eda. greg chamitoff was able to sit on top of the world, top of the space station and look back and we have a couple of really nice shots where we can see and into the space station, the shuttle on one side, the european automated transfer vehicle on the other side, the american segment, the russian segment and the european japanese and it is just really a stunning picture. i think greg said some nice words that we got to see that for real. is not the only picture we are going to see but i think when pollock took the shot from the soyuz they will be spectacular. i think we should all be impressed how big and magnificent that space station is. we sought on the rendezvous, undocking and the rendezvous for the storm and we were just, we were kind of show we say not jada guys but not easily impressed any more. we have been there, done that. we were impressed. we were excited like 5-year-olds at a rollercoaster park. it was pretty impressive. >> brian, if this struggle grandma sent winding down

that is the fact it has been documented a congressional testimony that is the history of that m eda. people say how much it is here is what we know.arou >> is an average of $3,000 a job. that is a good return. 220 and 500 jobs are created for every $1 million of investment. here is what we know. between 210,450,000 jobs were created everybody in the senate i think, although it could bed wrong has been asked what is the mosto important thing we have to do today? help to spur job creation in the private sector.co and most of these are in cooperation with the privatetime sector and the sewer projects and water projects and i will give you some examples. >> says via authorizing this bill, how many would be created each year? it looks like it would create 200,000 jobs per year between 430,000 and 1 million jobs over the life of the bill. and i want to give you some examples. some examples because this is not rhetoric betteram t program in place since 1965. the city of dixon in my house stake g of $3 million for a water system that will increase the city's water supply and storage capacity

and they don't have very many because iran with is shia and persian where most of the arab world as eda brother and persian and sunni both lebanon and iraq there are two countries where there are a substantial number of shia muslims and the minority in lebanon and they are willing to accept the iranian assistance in exchange for acting out iran a proxy against lebanese christians and sunnis and the israelis. >> it is a mutual win-win relationship for both of them because the iranian revolutionary guard corps now has a forward base on the mediterranean. >> host: after all, the shia of lebanon where they were concentrated has welcomed the israelis when they came in a couple of years earlier. >> guest: that's one of the great ironies of the situation because the reason they initially welcomed the israeli invasion as because the shia in south lebanon were being governed by yasser arafat's palestinian state which was sunni for en and planned and was sunni and the plo was rather contemptuous of the shia us who live in south lebanon and also putting them in danger by using south lebanon as a l

this lost story, that there were some al eda elents that had penetrated the pakistan levee and thereas some kind of negotiation going on and al qaeda wanted that dwo to stop and there was some kind of negotiation going on so there were a couple of other attacks against new year's eve and there was a final attack agains a naval base in karachi. his talking about the internal elements within navy who got recruited into al qaeda or who got courted by some other related affiliated extremist group, this speaking out and saying that this is the real factor behind the scenes, internal divisions, he was hinting towards internal divisions. i think that was seen as damaging. it hurt the pakistani intelligence and the pakistani military, it was also devastating for al qaeda, for them to be exposed in this fashion. >> rose: at the bottom is this fear that in fact, if there had been a penetration by militants, whoever that means, al qaeda, or whoever it might be, even not known by the leadership, it's a threat to a country that has nuclear weapons and takes crucial element of stability in the reg

perhaps the senate should tell the eda they will be defenunde insteadd giving them more money.nswer to job creation is simple. remove aggressive taxation, the regulate, and the jobs will be created. stop penalizing the job creators. i love what michelle bachmann said during the debate when she challenged even the epa. she was right. i have news for even donald trump. now is exactly the right time for leadership to change our entitlement. [applause] as someone just said, if not now, when? the we go through another generation, another year, another six months? i wish 2012 was today. the momentum in our society today, we can get rid of the people in the white house and senate better stopping progress in this great country of ours. today is exactly the time we have to destroy entitlement. just the back of the call them entitlements, show me in the constitution where you are entitled to make me pay for your health care and social security. [cheers and applause] and vice versa. i think every middle school teacher should have to read "a la." law."the 40% of all births in this country

are suboptimal and i will return to the point at the outset which is one of the good things of the eda spring is it's not about us and it's not about israel but it will become, at least in part about israel wants elections start happening in these places and it will be partly about israel as to divert attention to not pose that so long and syria and i think israel has an interest in getting out ahead of that. >> can my push you on this comment for a second because this is from the senior obama officials it's not about them it's about us your support and many of these regimes with billions of dollars for five decades how was it not about us? it's almost the since we are pretending to be this innocent bystander watching this and supporting that for the arab people when we were never mutual in this and in fact fighting with the wrong side and it's been a perspective of our people. >> who continue to -- >> pure is bahrain on the table right now wanting to negotiate with their own people. where is it going to be actively quietly doing something, overtly doing something or -- >> i've got it.

same rate they do now under the traditional program because let's remember medicare pays providers eda present what they will receive in the private market. this will fall to about 40%. so, do your projections assume providers continue to accept medicare patients at the same rate now in the traditional program and as your analysis assumed despite the additional provider cuts coming this will have no effect on the quality or access of care? >> we don't model the behavior of physicians. we don't more of the access to carroll quality-of-care. >> it stays as is. >> we noted in the letter analyzing your proposal that's a gap in the tool kit that we are trying to fulfill but under the current circumstances we don't model in the regular baseline projections or analysis of the proposal the affect it might happen under the current law or alternatives. >> your analysis effectively assumes no matter how much the government pays providers for health care services providers continue to deliver the same quality care and access. that's the gap to talk about one of you accept the premise and position

are suboptimal and i will return to the point at the outset which is one of the good things of the eda spring is it's not about us and it's not about israel but it will become, at least in part about israel wants elections start happening in these places and it will be partly about israel as to divert attention to not pose that so long and syria and i think israel has an interest in getting out ahead of that >> can my push you on this comment for a second because this is from the senior obama officials it's not about them it's about us your support and many of these regimes with billions of dollars for five decades how was it not about us? it's almost the since we are pretending to be this innocent bystander watching this and supporting that for the arab people when we were never mutual in this and in fact fighting with the wrong side and it's been a perspective of our people. >> who continue to -- >> pure is bahrain on the table right now wanting to negotiate with their own people. where is it going to be actively quietly doing something, overtly doing something or -- >> i've got it.

we did for eda's which are very, as many of you know, are buried very high risk things to do and they went flawlessly. we got everything done we plan to do. we installed the alpha magnetic spectrometer on flight day four of the mission which was a pretty exciting milestone for us. it will be a new day for astrophysics in space to have a very high-tech cosmic particle detector outside the earth's atmosphere. dr. king and his team of over 600 scientists and engineers are now really really busy analyzing 50 million particles a day. i have no idea how they do that. how do you sort through 50 million of anything? but he is managing to do that and hopefully people see some amazing discoveries. but now i guess we will just go around the room and take your questions. do i get to pick? [laughter] >> we have a few moments -- [inaudible] >> commander kelly, peter king from cbs news radio. we will get this one hopefully out of the way. did you truly say to your wife in your first conversation, i am back and how did that first conversation go and how did she sound you? >> i haven't spoken to her y

campaign to inform do the good of the advisory and ask them to voluntarily closed their caves of the eda caves we sent letters to only three refuse to sell the remainder did. land owners are responsible for the disease threat. the cave closures have been the only controversial approach to controlling the disease in kentucky. once we found it this spring, we -- once it was found in a high we revisited a sample of caves across the state to be sure we haven't missed it. unfortunately we did turn the disease of in western kentucky so we consulted with our federal programs because there were federal bats involved and began an immediately, and it my all radius and it turned out this was an isolated event so we took what some people would say drastic measures and made and evaluated situation determined we could protect the threatened and endangered bats but we could remove infected but remove the infected non-endangered bats. we did so and removed approximately 60 bats which were all we could get to that time. we made a difficult call to hartel to the cultural official with the bats were infect

the same rate ey do now under the traditional program because let's remember medicare pays providers edasent what they ll receive in the private market. this will fall to about 40%. so, do your projections assume providers continue to accept medicare patients at the same rate now in the traditional program and as your analysis assumed despite the additional provider cuts coming this will have no effect on the quality or access of care? >> we don't model the behavior of physicians. we don't more of the access to carroll quality-of-care. >> it stays as is. >> we noted in the letter analyzing your proposal that's a gap in the tool kit that we are trying to fulfill but under the current circumstances we don't model in the regular baseline projections or analysis of the proposal the affect it might happen under the current law or alternatives. >> your analysis effectively assumes no matter how much the government pays providers for health care services providers continue to deliver the same quality care and access. that's the gap to talk about one of you accept the premise and position of pri

are suboptimal and i will return to the point at the outset which is one of the good things of the eda spring is it's not about us and it's not about israel but it will become, at least in part about israel wants elections start happening in these places and it will be partly about israel as to divert attention to not pose that so long and syria and i think israel has an interest in getting out ahead of that. >> can my push you on this comment for a second because this is from the senior obama officials it's not about them it's about us your support and many of these regimes with billions of dollars for five decades how was it not about us? it's almost the since we are pretending to be this innocent bystander watching this and supporting that for the arab people when we were never mutual in this and in fact fighting with the wrong side and it's been a perspective of our people. >> who continue to -- >> pure is bahrain on the table right now wanting to negotiate with their own people. where is it going to be actively quietly doing something, overtly doing something or -- >> i've got it.

same rate they do now under the traditional program because let's remember medicare pays providers edain the private market. this will fall to about 40%. so, do your projections assume providers continue to accept medicare patients at the same rate now in the traditional program and as your analysis assumed despite the additional provider cuts coming this will have no effect on the quality or access of care? >> we don't model the behavior of physicians. we don't more of the access to carroll quality-of-care. >> it stays as is. >> we noted in the letter analyzing your proposal that's a gap in the tool kit that we are trying to fulfill but under the current circumstances we don't model in the regular baseline projections or analysis of the proposal the affect it might happen under the current law or alternatives. >> your analysis effectively assumes no matter how much the government pays providers for health care services providers continue to deliver the same quality care and access. that's the gap to talk about one of you accept the premise and position of price control to actually red