but eleanor and franklin -- i'm sorry, but eleanor and earl continued to be in touch, and eleanor would visit earl while she was first lady. in fact, i really believe that miller helped her make that transition to first lady by giving her self-confidence. he encouraged her to ride horses. he bought dogs for her to play with. these were kind of obstreperous dogs, i guess they were sort of protection to her, and he also taught her how to shoot a gun. because as first lady eleanor refused secret service protection. and so earl taught her how to shoot a gun so she could carry the gun in the glove compartment of her car. miller all during the period she was first lady even though he was married and divorced in there several times, he offered her relaxation from her high-profile life. now, once in the white house, of course, eleanor found that she had to play a ceremonial role, and here she is in what appears to be a heavily-reup toed photograph -- retouched photograph. [laughter] in an inaugural reception outfit. you can see that she's first lady. and i wonder how many of us are aware of thi

eleanor? >> well, there are a lot of up sides to jon huntsman. he is smart, he isgood- looking, he is comfortable with himself in a natural campaign in a way that mitt romney isn't. he definitely will cut into the romney vote, which you can call the grown-up vote. and i ththk he is not contest engine iowa. i think the showdown will be in new hampshire. i think if the party really is looking for someone who is unconventional, he has an ad out that shows himself riding a dirt bike out west, and he -- he's an interesting man. but if you believe that the republican electorate has moved to the hard right, it's really a challenge to see how he can defend working for president obama and defend some of his policy positions. i think he would be a formidable candidate if he can get past the primaries but pat is probably right, >>> what does mitt romney bring to the the american people. >> one, finance experience. 25 years of experience in high finance, medium finance, low finance. that means he has fina

eleanor? >> the war powers act is couched in these big constitutional terms, but it's really a turf war between congress and the white house. if congress is really serious about want to go stop this engagement, they use the power of the purse. this is a small group of members, kucinich and maybe two other democrats, and some republicans who mostly have an ax to grind with the obama white house. an institution they're claiming mostly they've been disrespected, but an institution that has 12% approval rating won't get much sympathy in the country. >> you're dead wrong on this one. >> i think it's a lot of table pounding. they're going nowhere. >> you're dead wrong on this one. >> me or eleanor? >> eleanor is dead wrong. kucinich and walter jones would have passed their resolution in the house defunding the libyan war if boehner had not run in a substitute. ask gaddafi if we're at war with him. we've attacked and killed his troops. the united states is -- ask those guys over there -- >> we killed

my next project is on eleanor roosevelt and world world war i. when i started writing on fdr i planned to have a chapter on eleanor to see how other people saw japanese americans. but she woulds so important and so interesting she was going to take over the entire book, and so i decided that i would -- had better let her go for the time being, and so in the meantime, i've been assembling stuff. the story of eleanor roosevelt and japanese americans, very briefly, is a story of dissidence. it's a story of eleanor roosevelt trying to find ways to push her husband against -- to dissuade him from removing japanese americans, then to help japanese americans, she approved emergency funds from her account with the american friend service committee nor emergency programs for the japanese american evacuees. she asked to visit a camp, and in 1942 this was forbidden, but in 1943 she actually visited the gila river camp. i wrote to a number of japanese americans who had been to gila river to ask for their stories of mrs. roosevelt's visit. the first thing the

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delegate eleanor know -- eleanor holmes norton said she reached out to the producers of "so you think you can dance" for a national dance day on the mall. it would allow for a flash maag dance as long as a permit is issued. right now it is illegal for people to dance at memorial sites. >>> an academy award-plans to join va's governor this afternoon to launch a campaign to feed hungry children. jeff bridges will be at our crop alimentary in arlington to kick off "no hungry kid" effort to connect low income students with federal food and egyptian programs during the school year and the summer. >>> a familiar face is joining abc news. katie couric, one time anchor of "the today show" and "cd news -- "cbs news" and hometown girl will host her new talk show and said she is looking forward to learn new challenge. >> hopefully there will be an appetite for smart conversation for fun discussions, for all sorts of different things there that is what i hope to bring to the table. >> her new daytime talk show is expected to premiere in the fall of 2012 -- all of 2012. in the meantime, she will h

her mother had been one of the great beauties of new york society, and apparently when eleanor was a little girl, her mother said something like, well, you better be good because you certainly aren't beautiful. and eleanor did not have good memories of her mother, the love she got as a child came from her father. but then, of course, he was a desolate individual who die inside a drunken stupor, a fire involved at the home of a mistress. and he was a disgrace to that side of the family. .. >> this book is part of the university press modern first lady series. visit kansaspress.edu. >> now booktv begins live coverage of the 2,011 roosevelt reading festival. thanks for joining is. for the next seven hours we will discover presentations from the franklin d. roosevelt presidential library and museum in hyde park, new york. coming up in a couple minutes, todd moye on the tuskegee of world war 2. and literary editor philip kerr's the presents "architects of power: roosevelt, eisenhower, and the american century". in two hours we will take a break from our live programming to show an event f

. >> eleanor? >> he doesn't have big mo!e may be the last man standing -- >> got some little mo, though! >> are you laughing at your own candidate? >> punitive front-runner. >> that's about as far as you can go. >> he has some mo. i think -- not big but some. >> he's in a better position >>> issue two, afghanistan exodus? >> these additional american and international troops will allow us to accelerate handing over responsibility to afghan forces and allow us to begin the transfer of our forces out of afghanistan in july of 2011. >> this was the president's statement at west point in december, 2009, a year and a half ago. and the transfer of power in afghanistan has begun. defense secretary robert gates, a veteran of 28 missions to afghanistan, elaborated on the commander in chief's decision. >> we're making substantial military progress on the ground. i also reiterated my belief that these gains could be threatened if we do not proceed with the transition to afghan security lead in a deliberate, organized, and coordinated m

. >> eleanor? >> oil rich part of the world, i think going in there was a huge mistake because we have emboldened iran, we made them the powerhouse country in the region but we do have this large embassy, and there thereby a residual american force. but this president is making good on the deal negotiated by former president bush to get troops out of there. so i don't see a big footprint continuing in the future, and whatever happens in iraq will be their problem and they could well still have difficulties along the lines of the civil war. >> michelle? >> you know, it's a difficult balancing act. i've worked with lots of iraqi women over the years, and we have -- united states went into iraq under one mode. there were no weapons of mass destruction. but the bottom line is we went in as a nation, we have started promoting democracy, we're seeing the promotion of women's rights in iraq, and it's in the best interests of the united states to have a stable iraqi government. it's not there yet. i fully

and this is how eleanor roosevelt would kiss. >> whoa.y: please welcome to show a talented actor, nick offerman, everybody! ♪ [ cheers and applause ] ♪ i want you to show -- >> jimmy: thank you for coming on the show. and thank you reading letters -- and thank you for being you, my man. >> thank you for having me. >> jimmy: we've had you before. you did a bit on our show. >> you have had me. [ laughter ] >> jimmy: don't -- >> three of the roots have also had me. [ laughter ] >> jimmy: don't tell us which three. let us just guess. speaking of having you -- "parks and rec" has really, i think, hit its stride. >> thank you. >> jimmy: it's phenomenal. it is one of the best shows on tv, i got to tell you. [ cheers and applause ] >> thank you. >> jimmy: it's so funny. it's well written, but it's very also -- it's very heartfelt, too. that's why i like it best. >> thank you. i do, too. i love that kind of tv. it reminds me of when i was a kid and watching "cheers" or "taxi" or "m.a.s.h." >> jimmy: ooh, i like the sitcoms that made you cry. >> ye

kind of is an invitation to racial profiling i want to thank you very much for joining us tonight eleanor the one that really baffles my mind is that you are not supposed to help anybody if you think they might have documents and that's that's just and humane and thank you so much thank you. tonight give me he compared them to children and tonight we're giving them art old time award for their lack of leadership and then stick around for happy hour and that's n.b.c. suspend the contrary. calls obama a derogatory name for the male anatomy and we say goodbye to the big chubby crybaby over a fox news thank you so much. it also gives you a story and it seems so silly you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else you hear or see some other part of it and realize that everything you thought you knew you don't know i'm sorry welcome to the big picture of. the world we are the elite and yet. fuck fuck fuck fuck. let's not forget that we sat in apartheid. i think. well. whenever the governor says they're going to keep you safe get ready because freedom . time for tides tool time

congressional delegate eleanor holmes norton, the first woman to lead the equal employment opportunity analyst jeffrey toobin. congresswoman norton, i'd like to start with you. you fought for equal rights all of your career. in your view, is this a setback for women? >> it's a setback, particularly since this is a court intent upon breaking new reactionary ground. remember the ledbetter case, the case that congress had to overturn because they gave a similar procedural interpretation of equal pay for equal work. now, here, they're saying that there's not enough commonality. in my judgment, that's clearly not the case. >> commonality, just to be clear, you're talking about the glue that sort of holds the lawsuit together as to the 1 million or so people who had actually filed to try to come into a class-action lawsuit? >> precisely, but let me tell you what there is commonality in. walmart had a centralized personnel system, and supervisors had unbridled discretion to hire and promote. as a result of that discretion, look at what you have in walmart. 14% of the managers are women. 80% o

there is repeated testimony by those who knew him best including eleanor of the importance of religion and particularly his christian faith on his ideas. this is confirmed by his own words including those in speeches and public documents included in the book which constitute an important part of it. roosevelt acknowledged the guidance of his father and the instruction of his head master for his moral and religious convictions. he repeatedly invoked the religious imperative to economic justice. tea often cited religious forces for his thinking and he was very much the child of the social gospel, so influential in america during his formative years. we all know franklin roosevelt as among other things a shrewd political operator and political thinker. one of his speeches he quotes a papal honoring the 40th anniversary of leo xiii. both of these deal with economic and social justice and rail against the excessive concentration of power. knowing his audience, roosevelt quoted the to defend his program knowing his audience very well, he then proceeded to quote a rabbi and protestant ministe

there was a story about eleanor roosevelt where there was an actual black pilots e she agreed to go upd with him and everybody said don't do it. and realize they were capable of being fighters. is thatin true? what can you tellue us about the western pennsylvaniaenns area? >> the second part first. the gist of the story ision. true but a mythology has grown up around it. mrs. rose about was in tuskegee 1939 or 40. which was a board meeting and on the board of directors doing a lot the charity work building schools for african-american children. she was there and was at tuskegee several times because of her interest in the infantile paralysis research going on there but people don't remember that they had to do the research at tuskegee because they did not allow blackspato have warm springs. she knew about the great work dr. carver was doing and when she got there she did hear about the training program the tuskegee institute had going on for civilian students. the chief instructor pilotscoul less asked if he could take care for a plane ride there was era pitcher of them the along with l

. >> congresswoman delegate eleanor holmes norton, always come in -- thank you for coming in tonight. >>> a violent attack and robbery at a maryland bar, how it went down and you can help police solve this one. >> and get ready for another day, our temperatures are soaring and a hot advisory is issued for tomorrow. the details in the forecast are coming up in just a bit on the news channel 36 edge at 6. come on back. pnua .ui. >> the news channel 36 edge in maryland now. howard county police are trying to track down a woman who assaulted and robbed another woman. the attack happened at the second chance saloop in columbia and caught on video. the victim was -- saloon and caught on video. she was knocked to the group. the suspect grabbed the victim's purse and appears to punk error error her in the face again before running off. there is a closer look at the suspect. the police don't believe they knew each other. if you recognize that woman, police want to hear from you. >> the search for a man who disappeared in the tridelvia reservoir last week. the county fire res

delegate eleanor holmes norton is throwing support behind people who want to dance on the mall. it show that people want more events on the mall. she said she plans to meet with the national park service to bring more people-related activities to the mall. she plans to host a national dance day on the mall on july 30th. >>> what a beautiful setting to have a nice dance party. >> great place. . big band sound. >> it's going to be hot come july. it's already feeling hot now. >> it's feel more like our typical mid and late summer heat. astronomically it's still spring. we're off to a pleasant start. very cool. good morning. i'm meteorologist tom kierein. right now we're near 60 in prince george's county. arlington, fairfax near 60 degrees. a pleasantly cool start to this day. right now at reagan national, 69. upper 60s on the bay waters. bay water temperatures in the low 70s now. meanwhile, we have it down into the upper 50s in many locations where you see this area of green here, right around west central virginia, western maryland, panhandle of west virginia. some of the high spo

delegate eleanor holmes norton is throwing support behind people who want to dance on the mall.esswoman says the dancing flash mobs at the jefferson memorial this last month show people want more events on the mall. she plans to meet with the national park service to talk about bringing more people-related activities to the mall. she also plans to host a national dancing day on the mall on july 30th. >>> national dancing day? >> why not? >> hey, i'm in. >> not later this week, though. it's not outdoors. >> no. i had a few people on my facebook page say, our a.c.'s broken, please don't allow it to get that hot. it's going to get very hot over the next couple of days. i have some great pictures for you. this is a volcano out of chili. notice the eruption. but watch what happens. you get some lightning out of these. look at that picture. just a spectacular picture of that volcano, lightning occurring around that area. you can see lightning in volcanos. it is very amazing when you do see it. you have to have quite an eruption to get a column of air that high. now, as far as our temp

and i'm not quite sure that that much was lost by its injection bus on the internet mr mastery it's eleanor to step down let's say hypothetically yes congo i jump in there go right ahead yeah i'd like. yemen is not bothering ok in a saudi intervention all about i mean in yemen i think would be a disaster any arab country. generally any country that's tried to intervene military many in yemen has lived to regret it certainly the gyptian good and the saudi intervention these are the of two things was on the side of the president against saddam but where the saudis have influences with the pocketbook great deal of resources flow from saudi arabia into yemen and there are recent indications that the. saudis are using that as a significant lever. i'm a little bit more positive on the g.c.c. initiative also then. mr pipes i think it was a well designed effort i think it got for i think developments in the region really complicated because when you started to see what was happening in egypt with hosni mubarak i think president saleh got cold feet and really questioned whether or not he wanted to g

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bush one to hail from texas and they're very proud of that so you get an identity from chicago and eleanor we're very proud that he hails from there. you mentioned meeting people you told me when you came into the studio today that the that you use the television you are used to giving their like for us conferences that we easily you know moscow may russian politicians are the scale they meet like once one a year do you envy them or should they envy you well you know one thing you know i am going to talk about whatever the moscow regime piers. but i made it a point to military for days and even saturday i can't i work there is saturday to make sure because the public is not working so this one america should be out and so we get there we not jewish and. i was not there all the time and working in and so that press always had access to me and so that was that was something i was proud of and they ask any question any any question whatsoever and so that's all part of communicating with the public as well well the press but they do give you a hard time i mean and these to do in the st louis f

chicago and eleanor we're very proud that he hails from there. you mentioned meeting people you told me when you came into the studio today that that you use a television like you used to giving them like for news conferences that we. must kill me russian politicians are of this scale they meet like once one day here do you envy them or should they envy you well you know one thing you know i am now not to talk about whatever the moscow or is in petersburg but i made a point to three or four days and even saturday i can i work there is saturday to make sure because the public is not working so that's when the marriage should be out in so we get there for the not jewish. i was not there all the time and working in so that press always had access to me so that was that was something i was proud of and they ask any question any any question whatsoever and so that's all part of communicating with the public as well will the press but they do give you a hard time i mean i mean and these two do it in the state and we were for example your your your gove

. >> eleanor holmes-norton is working on a national dance day. >> the congresswoman says dancing flashmobse jefferson memorial this past month show people want more events down on the mall. she plans to meet with the national park service to talk about bringing more people-related activities to the mall. she plans to host a national dance day down on the mall on july the 30th. get your boogey shoes on. >> are you going to do tap or more of a salsa kind of guy? >> we'll wait and see. >> tom, this forecast heating up. >> yeah, indeed. this is the beginning of a heat wave. today we'll get about 10 degrees above the average high by later this afternoon. right now it's pleasant to walk the dog and get ready for work and school. right now we're just in the upper 50s in the rural areas of maryland and virginia. closer to washington, nearby suburbs in prince george's county in the low to mid-60s there. meanwhile, montgomery, arlg, 60s. shenandoah valley and parts of western maryland it's in the 50s. a cool 52 at some of the higher elevations. the last 12 hours a few streaks of high cloudiness from

. >>> congresswoman eleanor holmes norton is here to sound off on the anthony wiener scandal and theroubles facing city leaders in the district at 6. >>> and this evening, an unthinkable crime. thieves hitting cemeteries and stealing everything from grave markers to bases and to sell the scrap metal. >>> a violent attack and robbery at a maryland bar. police need your help tracking down the suspects. >>> and the latest trend in dating, we're going to take a keyser look at choking. -- a closer look at cheeking.  >> star power is the campaign to end hung inia virginia. actor jeff bridges joined tom vilsack and governor mcdonough there and visited barcroft elementary school in arlington talking about how to end childhood hunger by 2015. virginia joined other states participating or starting the participation in the program no kid hungry. you're an important element, we're going to need you guys -- who are you going to call? >> 211. >> mcdonough said 216,000 virginians are underfed, either occasionally or constantly. >>> thank you very much for joining us atfo. the news channel 36 edge

delegate eleanor holmes norton is trying to prove a point by dancing. norton says the dancing flash mobs at the jefferson memorial this past month show that people want more events down on the mall. norton is planning to meet with the national park service to talk about bringing more people-related activities to the mall. she's talking with tv producer and judge nigel lythgoe from "so you think you can dance" about possibly hosting national dance day on the mall july 30th. >> good thing it's not tomorrow. people would be cooking. >> be a little too hot. >>> when news 4 at 4:00 continues -- the "today" show gets ready to give meredith vieira a send-off. >>> and kanye west's music video is stirring the controversy again. >>> plus, lip-locking on late night. we're going to show you what you missed. >>> big change coming to morning television. meredith i havary's last day on the "today" show is tomorrow. >> matt lauer will be working with a brand new partner. here's michelle franzen. >> from nbc news -- >> reporter: for more dith vieira, saying good-bye as

look, i've been reading about fdr and eleanor rooz velt i was prepping for a class i'm going to teach on america's first ladies. the fact that is questions of extramarital affairs, they're deeply human complex anxieties. they go way back in our history. the fact is in this new media environment to be a steward of your constituent's interests requires in part making choices in your private life that can be displayed in a way that is respectable by the standards of our kind of con temporary, political and social norms. >> so, i feel like i agree with you and that all totally make sense for me and viscerally i believe in people's right to be icky. >> yes, of course. >> as long as they're not victimizing anyone and not being hypocritical. i think you're right. the way to measure the impact is to talk about the way it detracts from their ability to speak up for things that they want paid attention to. >> absolutely. i believe in how -- i am descended from mormon ancestors. i had mormon ancestors what were imprisoned for bigamy. my sense is if people are adults making a choice to be in comp

. >> maureen beasley recall the lenore's--eleanor roosevelt's years as first lady and her involvement in politics and her transformation of the position of first lady from one that was not acknowledged to prominent political actor. this beasley speaks and takes audience questions for a little more than an hour. >> our speaker today, maureen beasley is professor of merit of journalism at the university of maryland and as i was reading her bio i noticed the connection with the state of missouri. she attended university of missouri's journalism school which if you know anything about

eleanor roosevelt said afterward as she talked with reporters in the white house.the crowds were so tremendous that you felt that they would do anything if only someone with tell them what to do. [applause] >> okay susan, what do you think? [laughter] >> it is magnificent writing and here in here you see political scientist at work, but also a historian's art and some of the lyrical descriptions and jim's incredibly rich vocabulary, the golden trees in the numbing crisis and the invading army of fear. that is not the way someone writes an encyclopedia. that is an artist writing and certain key lines about fdr crossing out the word humble. i don't know if you remember george washington's inaugural address. and his other addresses whenever he accepted a position of authority. he was always hedging his bets and emphasizing his deficiencies and inadequacies and saying to people, you were the ones who elected me in case things go wrong. [laughter] but fdr realized this was no moment for washingtonian humility because if he spoke about his deficiencies, there could be ma

of the roosevelt family, we forget that, n., they -- i mean, alice longworth used to make fun of eleanor roosevelt and this, that and the other, but they were closer than we think. and, in fact, not only did franklin roosevelt marry theodore roosevelt's favorite niece, but he also regarded theodore roosevelt, as he said, as the greatest man he ever knew. and i think theodore roosevelt's influence on his distant cousin, franklin, was a reality in his life up until his death even though we tend to ignore it. remember, too, that theodore roosevelt became prominent at strategic moments in fdr's life. franklin roosevelt was a schoolboy when theodore roosevelt became mckinley's assistant secretary of the navy. he was at school when theodore roosevelt charged up san juan hill. he had just become, just entered his sophomore year at harvard when theodore roosevelt became president. so roosevelt's vision of an american sentry, of a globally-assertive united states was something that was bred into franklin roosevelt really in his youth. and i don't think ever left him. and all through his public ca

not obviously know any of this, but the fascinating thing is that to to frankland's girlfriend and eleanor is turned out to be essential to helping these two figures become the great heroes of american history who led us through the great depression and the sec said -- second world war. an essential piece of the story. it is an important piece which has been long ignored. >> you can watch this and other brands online at booktv.org. now on book tv rick baker, former mayor of st. petersburg, florida, presents his thoughts on the revitalization of american cities. this is just under an hour. .. >> here in the comes weeks, you'll be hearing a lot. whether it's examining public employees and their relationships with the public p- the governments for which they work, pension systems, retiree health benefits, whether it's talking about new public health safety or working on issues as diverse as prisoner reentry like newark or assimilations into the cities and states, the institute is at the core of the policy debates taking place. you urge you to visit our web site, manhattaninstitute.org to lear

and i remember eleanor shmiel, remember patricia schroeder walking up the steps and saying this guy, we are going to take a stand against this guy for sexual harassment, serial sexual harassment. so i watch these hearings like a spectator wanted to see somebody fall, like ed lyons mulling the romans. i watch day one and watch the to and watch the entire thing. i went from wanting him to be taken down to wondering where's the beef lacks what is going on here? i don't understand what i'm watching. i don't understand the color commentary that is on the screen where they are saying oh this is outrageous. i didn't understand the bumper stickers going by me on the street saying i believe anita. i said i believe anita what? what is going on here? i don't understand what is going on here. everything that i picked up at college in my american studies cultural marxist oppressor oppressed black people are always right, white people are always wrong, i didn't understand how ted kennedy, the ted kennedy of the chappaquiddick phase, how howard metzenbaum and a series of white privilege man could s

>> the chapter turned out to be the eleanor roosevelt/franklin roosevelt white house. he had his girlfriend living next to him, she had her girlfriend, lorena hickok, living next to her in the white house. the american public didn't, obviously, know anything about this. the fascinating thing about the story is that the girlfriends turned out to be essential to helping these two figures become the great heros of american history who led us through the great depression and the second world war. it's an essential piece of their story, these extramarital relationships. and it's an important piece which has been long ignored by historians. >> you can watch this and other programs online at booktv.org. >> this june on "in depth," the balance between security and liberty, the difficulties of a climate change treaty, and the limits of international law. your questions for author and university of chicago law professor eric posner. his books include law and social norms and the perils of global legalism, and he'll take your calls, e-mails and treats. live sunday, june 5th, on c

>> my favorite chapter turned out to be the eleanor roosevelt and franklin roosevelt chapter. it was complicated. he had his girlfriend living in a bedroom next to him. she had her girlfriend nexto

eleanor holmes norton rise? ms. homes norton: i rise to offer an amendment -- the chair: the clerk will report the amendment. loiment amendment offered by ms. norton of columbia. page 19, insert after necessary expenses -- >> mr. norton: i waive the reading of the amendment. the chair: without objection, the amendment will be considered as having been read. for what purpose does the gentleman from alabama rise? mr. aderholt: i reserve a point of order. the chair: the gentlewoman is recognized. ms. norton: this would help the department of homeland security that was cut by this appropriation. this is the most construction, private or public, ongoing in our country today because it involves the -- a secure facility that the congress has voted to consolidate in order to protect the united states of america on the main land. the -- this entire appropriation cuts millions of dollars in -- or billions of dollars in order to reduce spending. i wager that there is no cut quite like this one because this cut guarantees that

host: eleanor is on the republican line from frisco, texas. caller: i watch c-span every morning. i was curious about the article in "the dallas morning news" about warren buffett buying a real road. it was to carry commodities in the southwest. it did not say anything about passengers. i am curious about that. we're kind of stranded down here as far as railroads are concerned. this used to be a railroad center. it was named for the san francisco something. would you comment? guest: i did not see the article. i am not sure what warren buffett is involved in other than the burlington that is a major carrier of commodities. the burlington northern also carries a large portion of amtrak passengers. in 1971 when we were set up, we have a right to operate on the freight railroad facilities. we also have to pay them for the incremental costs. the southwest chief is almost all on the burlington northern santa fe. zephyr toor these effo denver. the northern part is largely burlington, no., and santa fe. the rest of the west is largely union pacific. that is how we operate from chicago wes

host: eleanor is on the republican line from frisco, texas. caller: i watch c-span every morning. i was curious about the article in "the dallas morning news" about warren buffett buying a real road. it was to cry commodities in the southwest. it did not say anything about passengers. i am curious about that. we're kind of stranded down here as far as railroads are concerned. this used to be a railroad center. it was named for the san francisco something. would you comment? guest: i did not see the article. i am not sure what warren buett is involve in other than the burlington th is a major carrier of commodities. the burlington northern also carries a large portion of amtrak passengers. in 1971 when we were set up, we have a right to operate on the freight railroad facilities. we also have to pay them for the incremental costs. the southwest chief is almost all on the burlington northern santa fe. zephyr toor these effo denver. the northern part is largely burlington, no., and santa fe. threst of the west is largely union pacific. that is how we operate from chicago west to a la

this is, as eleanor, i tell you, this is an interesting discussion or and as an officer of the court, i wholeheartedly agree with the chairman that i, too, and i think everybody on this side of the aisle wants to make sure that anyone who is responsible for brian terry's death to be prosecuted. i think it would be a sin and shame if that did not happen. and it is in that vein that i am posing these questions. now, professor tiefer, i've contended that both executive branch and congress have legitimate inches, justice department is trying to prosecute alleged murderers and gun traffickers. as a matter fact, come june 17 someone will be on trial with regard to the murder of brian kelly -- terry, i'm sorry. and we are trying to investigate allegations of abuse and mismanagement within the same agencies. i think we should be able to achieve both goals, and i think you talk about negotiations. i just think we have an interest in achieving both. i agree that congress has the authority to investigate. we can issue subpoenas. we can demand documents, and we can have depositions. but we have e

phyllis is joining us from lagrange eleanor pitsch caller: good morning, a young man. i am 73 years old as of june 6. caller: happy birthday. caller: civic duty since i was 25 years old. hello? yemen -- host: i am listening to you. caller: they are talking about creating new jobs when you need the middle class workers who are in the manufacturing industry. they are overseas. put a 20% tax on all the imports. number one. bring the troops home. $670 billion a year, plus what it takes for us to buy the fuel and ammunition and the tanks. there's another almost $1 trillion a year. if you bring the troops home you put them on the borders and you put them in the railway stations and airports and protect ourselves from terrorists. ok? in the meantime, both members of congress are debating about nonsense instead of getting down to the actual business of putting america back on its feet. it is a shame what our congress is doing and john mccain now is pushing for more war? they ought to get rid of this money maugre because he did nothing but cracked up a plane and try to get a pi

he is survived by his wife, eleanor, and children, william and hanna, as well as step-children. my heart and the heart of the third district is with him and his family during this difficult time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman's time has expired. for what purpose does the gentleman from the mariana islands rise? without objection, the gentleman is recognized for one minute. mr. sablan: mr. speaker, it's getting ridiculous. that's what the chamber of commerce said about the department of homeland security's failure to issue regulations implementing federal immigration in the northern mariana islands. and i agree. it is getting ridiculous. three years since the law was enacted, 18 months since it took affect, two oversight hearings, letters from congressional leaders, meeting after meeting and still no regulations. workers don't know what their status will be five months from now. businesses can't plan for the future. it's putting the breaks -- brakes on the economy, the chamber president says. and what does d.h.s. say? the regulations will be released when the regulations