say, except for glenn on the end -- several of you mentioned words about connection, collaboration, etc. but i did not hear any of you mention how groups and communities learn, and how societies learn. to me, that is linked with empathy. amounted to throw out the question. >> when i talk about the need to help young people work in groups because you learn so much from each other, i do not disagree with you. i think the success across disciplines is that we work with building community, helping them help each other. that involves understanding how to explain concepts and asked good questions. it also involves giving support to each other. it is important for all of our campuses to include community service. we find that students to go out and serve, whether with senior citizens or children in the city, are much better as people am prepared to live lives more richly as a result of giving back to others. >> we have one last quick question. >> i have two minutes for a comment and question. >> we do not have two minutes for a comment. >> when a kid heard a word you claim, he thought it was a

etc. etc.. there is virtually no planning process within the works within the department of defense to integrate contractors in the planning, other than a cursory mention of them. not even as much mentioned as was in the 2006 qdr. i would like your comments. >> i was very happy with what i got in theqd qdr. we had other recommended language that did not make it. for good or for bad, we have elevated the idea of operational contract and support to the level of there is a belief in the process going on and especially the policy folks feel that we are addressing those needs in due course as we go through what we're doing. a year ago, we would not have been able to sit here and a knowledge that the chairman has a three phase assessment on the use of contractors. do we have the appropriate mix? he is leading that effort right now. that did not exist. >> why do we have so much difficulty in getting these completed? >> that is only important in selected plans, but even that is only a handful of the spe

we heard some very good examples of what bank of america is doing around of the cards, charge cards, etc our team of mortgages is working very hard. it is just a big workload right now. but they are making good progress. host: we mentioned that you are the former ceo and an executive of du pont. are executives paid too much? guest: at dupont, we took that question very seriously. we had a limit on pay that was in a range of tying the ceo to other senior executives. sionwe felt that ceo pay back wo buy was just not the right thing to do. -- and that was too high was just not the right thing to do. i think there is natural outrage when it gets to be so far out of line. host: the you think the government and should step in and dictate how much executives get paid? guest: no. host: why not? guest: i think that is part of our free market system. are they going to step in and say how much a baseball player should be paid? where you stop? i think it needs to be about transparency, so that people understand the numbers in a clear and sensible way. and people need to understand the mechanisms. it

otherwise we will have to close plants, cut jobs, etc. please allow was some more latitude to not make those more stringen obligations.3 down the road. the economy turns around and trust us to make good. host: we have an e-mail rom san diego. our e-mail is journal@cspan.org. "the entire narrative of how this happened it is a cautionary tale of nearly epic proportions." guest: it really is. another way to look at this is if you go to an insurance company and get an annuity, it is essentially the same thing that the pension is promising, a fixed income stream down the road. the way we regulate insurance companies is you have to have more assets in the trust than of there are liabilities and promises at any point in time. there needs to be a capital surplus. there are severe penalties if the insurance companies takes on new risks with regards to the investment of his assets. not that pertain to pension plans whether in the private or public sector. we allow the annuity provider to operate in what would be an insurance context insolvent statu

right now we have a gulf oil spill, afghanistan, the economy, jobs issues, etc. but when i spoke with the president and i think about the southwest border, domestic relations, health care costs, law enforcement -- all those things have a drug nexus, and our foreign relations with colombia, mexico, russia. host: how does u.s. drug use, both legal and illegal drugs, compare with some of our biggest partners? guest: well, because we are such a large nation, so many people, we have the largest number of consumers. because our economy is still fairly strong in many ways, we do use far too many drugs. secretary clinton has mentioned this a couple of times. as i understand from the most recent reports, we are no longer the number one per capita consumer nation, but just given our size, we use too many drugs. reducing our own demand was certainly help us and it would help a lot of other countries. host: you mentioned the nexus between the drug issue and national security. i wanted to show you a headline from just this week, writing off fromresident statement mexican pres

everybody's concerned with the next baseball game, racetrack event, football super bowl, etc., etc., and there really is, in our culture, a disappearing sense, i think. free your mind instead. host: so should information should the american public have to classify, whatever it is, how you want to find information, especially the workings of government? caller: i think we have just about everything we need. you have to look behind -- as you points out in the book, it's all in front of us. everything that is the secrecy that we're talking about is actually right there in front of our eyes, but can we open our eye toss actuaaly see that? host: ventura, california, republican line. david, go ahead. caller: yes, hello. i'm very happy to have gotten through, and i -- i was called for jury duty, and i went to -- i had dodged my jury duty on several occasions, and i went for jury duty. host: let me stop you there and ask you about how much secrecy is needed in a democracy. caller: well, this is -- this gets to the core of the matter. the heart of our justice is in our jury system. host: i'm

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s, and i'm talking recovery, and we have had to do it on our own at churches, etc. so we are very afraid of what's coming this season, and we've got a conference call coming next week with the new administration, what kinds of organization is there now? where would we turn now in terms of government agencies? how is it set up now? >> well, you know, i'm not there, but we had a very, very strong relationship with a volunteer organization through each state. and we worked with them very closely and depended on them, technically for the individual assistance and shelters and particularly in the longer term recovery and even short term. we even had agreements move on with people, we combursed them. also, we even had a -- the places were set up set up for people and would reimburse our cost if they would come in, they donated all their labor, which sometimes people want to evacuate if they want to take their animal to the shelter, which is not good. but i do not know -- you know, we had a whole division set up in fema that worked with volunteer organizations. i do not kn

published author and the list of his books is pretty impressive, primarily on policing and violent crime, etc. he received his ph.d. in public administration from ohio state university. i introduce to you dr. jeremy wilson. [applause] >> well, good morning. i appreciate the opportunity to share an academic perspective on counterfeiting, although it is a bit unfortunate for you that right before lunch you have to listen to a professor drone on and on about research methods, data, terry. but i think you'll find this very interesting and unique perspective. thwart his effort to keep powerpoint presentations out of the discussion by putting some in here. what i want to discuss today is part of the count of aiding and product protection program. if nothing else, we will throw another acronym, acap, into the discussion. this program must lost to be an international -- this program was launched to be an international help to the counterfeiting strategy. we addressed counterfeiting problem spite partnering with industry and government associations and other stakeholders in a developer the separate an

government -- the department of homeland security, hss, fema, etc. were all present and working around the clock. one of the things i think is not widely understood about the way economic assistance works is that for the most part we do not provide funds directly to a government. we will sign an agreement with a government that lays out a mechanism by which the funds are provided for a contract or a grant, or a cooperative agreement or whatever. normally, our agents -- the partners will work with could be the ngo , the private sector. they have accountability systems we approve in advance. we know, because it is our job to make sure, that they have the accountability systems in place to be able to well manage the money. so we more or less know where it all goes. if it was not that way, there would be no constituency for doing economic assistance. we simply our responsibility -- we simply are responsible for+ accounting for american taxpayer money. it is other people's money. we understand that and take that responsibility very seriously. what has bee

., etc., severaetc. there is virtually no planning process within the work within the department of defense to integrate contractors in the planning, other than a cursory mention of them. not even as much mentioned as was in the to keep -- 2006 qdr 3 of like your comment. >> how was very happy with what i got in the qdr. from my perspective, we got the acknowledgment of the total force, our main goal. we have other recommended language that did not make it. for good or for bad, we have elevated the idea of opera rational contract in support to the level that there is a belief in the process going on, and especially the policy folks, who feel that we are addressing those needs in due course as we go through what we're doing. a year ago, we would not have been able to sit here and in knowledge that the chairman has a three phase assessment on the use of contractors. and do we have the appropriate mix? and he is leading that effort right now. that did not exist. >> why do we have so much difficulty in getti

there was an effort to get it better documented, more transparent, etc.d i am assuming the fed is continuing to work on this process. the issue of exchanges, exchanges are good. they allow for price discovery, setting up margins and provided capital so that you do not have to worry about your counterparty when you make a traded derivatives. but exchanges are not always practical for very idiosyncratic, small, specialized types of derivatives. they exchange where you have a large quantities of homogenous product. that still does not mean they are not regulated. because in the new bill, and in the new regulatory rules, there would be substantial capital the banks would have to have behind it. there would have to be transparency and considerable responsibility for regulators to oversee it. one of the big concerns, as you know, in the aig case was that they were selling credit insurance and when things went bad, they could not pay. that is why it aig was in such deep trouble. in that particular case, there was no one looking at aig. the officer of supervision

from the leadership, from the faculty, deans, etc., it is important to create an effective system ofupport for the students. there are many things we know that work, from entering -- mentoring. >> you have a lot of faculty work with day in and day out. you are working to innovate with them. how do you get jack lee to think and behave in different waves crashed are it is how do you -- how do you get faculty to think and behave in different waves? >> we are a first-generation college. my family had no idea that i should or would go to college. our kids see a goal at the end of it. they see a job or profession. we make sure that everyone are students in a large university, that someone knows that they are round or not around. one of the things i think, you talking about what will change the system. for many people, the system is fine the way it is. kids drop out and do not learn. there is someone who is benefiting from the system the way it is working. for those who feel we have a responsibility to take leadership in this, we need to mobilize, to change the culture and its habits. it is

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nuclear wants etc. etc. if you view this from a distance, you tend to see the carbon-burning industries as a kind of unified front. that is really not the case, especially when it comes to coal versus gas. these guys are kind of stabbing each other under the table and left and right. gas suppliers are growing very rapidly in this country. the gas industry is trying to grab market share from coal. it is kind of interesting that you have a lot of people who otherwise would be opponents of a climate bill, people who deny the science on climate who are now in a position where it is in their interest to advocate for some sort of climate -- that is to say, the natural gas producers and companies. you have another dynamic there, which is these industries fighting. the question of the, do they support a bill so that they can -- so that they are at the table? or do they fight a bill so that nothing happens until the political dynamic changes? a lot of people expected to be a lot fewer democrats -- expect there to be

do we have to wait for legislation that requires more hours and experience, etc.? >> we support all improvements in safety. safety is incredibly important, as you know. the weber, the combined carrier will not be flying mainline aircraft into small airports. that service will always be provided by third parties. >> you could operate a subsidiary that provided that service, or you can -- there are different levels. >> sure, i appreciate that, but our practice at continental and united and practice at the combined carrier will be used third parties to do that, but we are very committed to safety for ourselves, for our regional carriers, and we, like united, share best practices with them. >> i am out of time, but i just want to say i think there are a lot of people out there trying to run airlines well and safely and respect their employees, but we have seen is this pattern of destructive competition. it may be a transient and trebek goes away, or maybe other people who persevere longer but drag down the standards. i think the industry should hold the support setting

., etc.conomists have broadly agreed that a strong growth -- source of growth is free trade. we did not want to have that cut off because people are concerned about inequality. there are not easy solutions there, but fundamentally the problem is skills and the real solution is getting skills. i'm going to go on wednesday afternoon to talk to a conference which is about the workplace worker skill acquisition. junior colleges, state programs, and so on. get people skills, and then they can get the kind of work that will get them a decent wage. it is more critical today than normal because one of the very disturbing aspects of our labor market situation is that about half the unemployed have been unemployed for six months or more, which means they are losing skills and contracts in the job market. if they simply sit at home, or were very irregular, when the economy gets back to normal state, they will not be able find good work. even now it is more important than ever that we make available in e

pricing carbon, cap and trade, etc. will he accept a bill out of the u.s. senate that does not have this? >> you have heard the president' for 3.5 years now tak about his approach to comprehensive energy. i don't think that has been unclear. he reiterated a call last night and said that the greatest price we pay is the price of inaction. this morning, the president spoke with senator kerrey and senator lugar are, each of whom have energy legislation that the senate is likely to take up in the next several weeks. we announced that networknext wy we will have a discussion on moving forward. it is safe to say that the president's direction on energy is similar to the one in the carried bill, and tte president feels strongly that including upon to deal with climate is important. there are a number of proposals. that is why senator lugar and senator kerry both got calls. there have been ideas about increasing energy efficiency standards in buildings, much as carol has worked tirelessly to do with cars, light trucks, and heavy duty trucks. the president met with

in regards to empathy, civil rights, the right to freedom of speech, etc., are these not human empathy rights? host: anything you want to respond to? guest: on scrutiny, i think most people would agree. keep in mind, this is a lifetime position she would be confirmed to, if she goes through. there is quite a good case to be made for a higher level of scrutiny than you do to term- limited members of congress. on empathy, i'm all come back to what i said about the debate when it comes back to congress. the proper role of the justice. most democrats will say that a justice's role is to think about the impact of the ruling on a person in the real world now. conservatives, more often than not, republicans, will say that that is inappropriate. you think the constitution as it is written, and that is the rule. host: florida. gerald on the independent line. caller: pontoon beach, illinois. host: sorry about that. go ahead. caller: i have two issues. i placed a fax design to the white house for a solution to this oil spill. i am not also understanding why the saiseanate cannot take their discus

to have them earn their way to get the opprobrious waiting period -- to get the appropriate waiting, etc., but sometimes, they can become citizens if they continue to be productive, and it would be forgiveness, and that is not right. i am talking about doing the probation before you get penalized in court. it is kind of like a probationary period to work your way into citizenship. one of the ways is through the united states military. that appears to be a fast track, and i am glad to see the resurgence of rotc programs. a way to work their way here. >> our next report is up. thank you for being with us. your question going to mr. cunningham. >> the senate is set to take up medicaid assistance funding this week. the house had an extension through 2011 that many states, including north carolina, down on federal assistance money. would you add to to put that extension -- >> i actually have not looked at what you are talking about, gurnal. we need to make sure there is supplemental assistance for medicaid for north carolina, but what i called for first and foremost is for protection for teac

hard to get a broad sample of the population that looks like it should in terms of its demographics, etc. host: again, if you would like to see an interactive global map database of the nation's attitudes toward the u.s., you can go to their website, pewglobal.org/database. tell us about how this works. if you actually click on the countries, different information comes up about the research coming from that country. >> that is right. if you are interested in one particular country, you can go to our website and pull up a range of questions just for that country, or if you want to compare countries across a given question, you can do that as well. we have maps, charts, so we tried to make it easy for people to access the data in a way that is friendly and where they want to do it. host: back to the phones, seattle, washington, attorney on our line for independence. -- ernie. h caller: my question is around how the survey got started. what prompted the need for this type of information? how is it used? in other words, among -- one of the lower rating countries i noted with turkey. does th

we would have a need for 100 trucks per day, and you described the need for ammunition, fuel, water, etc.. that grew to 200 missions per day. when we first signed the contract, there were about 30,000 troops that were in afghanistan and it was growing to about 60,000 and now we are growing to about 90,000. the afghan national army -- president karzai made a declaration to the government awhile ago that said that we wanted to migrate all the contractors to the afghan national police or the afghan national army or another agency and the one that to occur within two years. i think we are about six months down the road towards that peace. it is going to take a while for us to build up the appropriate forces to take over the private security mission to include convoy escort. >> thank you very much. here is the worry that i have. i would just ask you to comment on it. well we're trying to make that transition, there is great effort being put into it by general mcchrystal and others, there is a $2 billion contract that is going to read private individual who now has come under their command, mi

there can be shocks to the system such as a significant downfall in business such as the crash in 2008, etc like that, even help the companies cannot frankly meet the minimum funding requirements. they sometimes applied for a waiver from the irs. that can be granted. companies that do not want to go but can no longer afford their obligations can ask the pbgc to take over those pension plans in a distressed determination. in those cases, sometimes benefits are cut back for the most highly compensated. in answer to the airline employee question, was the airline doing him a favor? it depends on what the collective bargaining stated. it also depends frankly on how adequately funded the plan was pri. with respect to investments, the plan sponsor, usually the investment committee, are fiduciaries with respect to the investment. they must be paid as a prudent expert would with a large pension plan. it might be prudent to be in what e normal people would not be in. derivatives are involved in pension plans, hedge funds. as long as it is prudent and not overly concentrated in that area, it would be

hard to know if it will work as the plans would be based on a certain amount of contaminated water, etc.. did you have any comments? i guess it is not your area to talk about, how muuh oil is in the water? >> i understand your question, and i will leeve it is within the authority an obligation of the area unified command to make the decisions to ddploy the necessary resources to combat >> does bp had a budget for this cleanup? >> i have not seen or heard of any indication of a budget. i can tell you that the full resources of btr being brought to bear to support this response. it is the single most important priority of our company around the world. >> let me ask about specifics in your claims process. one of the earlier witnesses said that some of his local folk have filed claims and maybe not heard back yet. i am curious about your process in terms of how rapidly you tried to except, the night, or ask for more information. what was your process -- tried to accept, deny, or ask more information on those claims. >> let me say a few words on the claims process. as you heard my colleagues

instead he was a very -- the oil companies will pay, etc., and i do not want to pay $10 per gallon ofas and that is what will happen when we have the environmentalists insisting that we get clean technology. they always insist that it is in the cars but in fact plastics use more oil than cars. we need to stop using plastic this and plastic that. we need to get real. burial little oil goes into gasoline -- very little oil goes in the gasoline. we need to act in a responsible way and we need to act quickly, not just merely getting on our soapbox to talk about we will punish people. guest: first of all, about 70% of the oil used in this country goes for transportation. of that about another 70% or two-thirds goes to cars and trucks. motor vehicles have the number one use of oil in this country. interestingly enough, this oil spill has not had any impact on oil prices. in fact they are about $10 per barrel less now than when the spill occurred. the reason for that is because no individual well produces that much oil and in fact the u.s. imports close to two-thirds of its oil. shutting dow

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all material, biographies, etc., for today') conference can be found on our website. click the public affairs button. i am not sure if rita lewis is in the house yet, but i wanted to introduce her. rita? i do not see. grand entrance. she is one of our senior leaders, for intergovernmental affairs. i want to in knowledge her because she is not on the program today. we also have with those a congressman from the great state of new jersey. don, please stand up. give him a round of applause. and finally, i thanks to mr. samson and managing every aspects of this. it akes everyone look very good when they are in league. we thank you very much for that. now like to introduce my balls. he is the state department spokesman and he is so little late coming down because he is at his other day job, briefing the press. this is p.j. crowley. [applause] >> looks like a much less one read audience than the one i was just visiting with. thanks very much for being here and welcome to the department of state. it is important that you are here, because we recognize that the future of afri

theyhould be geting 100% of wht, sugar, food splies, medines etc.. so our main demands how to and that blockade in gaza and i believe thathe world, the entire world stands with us because ere are pele 32 countries that took part in this flotla a many were countries who sympathize with what happen, particularly since israel first of all attacked this convoy in international wate, which is unlawl, unacceptable internationally in addition to the fact that they attacked innocent people who had no weaps or aggressive motivations but were simply carrying humanitarian goods to gaza. these are the issues ahand now as i said, we talked with president obama on all thse issues and we will continue that dialogue in thnear future when mr. mitchell comes and we hope he will bring with him positiv encouraging views tocontinue the dialogue. and here, i would like to express some concern that the situation is extremely difficult and that we ope in a two-state solution, a state with palesti independent, contiguous, living side-by-side in peace to say to israel this co

amendment and incorporating the second amendment to apply to the stage just as the first and fourth, etc., have already been. one of my concerns is if you read the heller decision there is a huge hole in it. they say any right does not unlimited and they can make restrictions on dangers or unusual weapons. they did not really define which type of weapons were protected, just that you cannot absolutely ban everything. my concern is, if areas like chicago want to have a restrictive gun control laws, are not able to enforce them on their own cities, as people will be forced to enact federal legislation that will affect everyone. host: let's return to the editorial, in conclusion -- elena kagan may soon replace john paul stevens on the court. david is joining us from flint, mich., on the democrats won. caller: good morning. yes, i agree with that caller who called republicans hypocrites. they pick and choose what things they like, and what things they do not like we had the most activist supreme court ever -- they have done so much to support the republicans since they got clarence thomas on

the doj 's office on violence against women offer to a woman who has been domestically abused, and etc.? guest: what we do is set policy through the administration bus to grant funns that are prorated to us by congress, -- through the administration's grant funds that are appropriated to us by congress. kantor discretionary grants -- and through discretionary grants, for example, a court system, or a collaborative group, law enforcement, community leaders, could come together to apply for funds to improve their own community response. host: what about ngo's? guest: they can as well. host: for example, a shelter? guest: mm-hmm. host: what other kinds of grants do you provide? guest: we have grants for prosecutors, law enforcement, we have transitional housing, and victims in rural jurisdictions are in a a more unique and potentially more dangerous situation. i remember one time being in wyoming, and it has the largest geographic county in the country. we have a few law enforcement officers who need to cover the territory and provide resources and safety and is very hard for rural settin

when those bonuses go too well rewarded, compensated individuals, that would impact on business loans, etc. i find it hard to understand why we are rejecting the initial proposal, and this proposal does what had not been done enough over the last 10 years, it actually pays for, under the cbo scoring, the official scoring, a major initiative. the final point i will make is that all of this discussion about takeover rigid -- paygo, if nothing changes, the winner is wall street. derivatives will be unregulated. responsible capital requirements will be set aside. and the winner will be wall street, not main street or the american people. i would have preferred the first proposal but i think this proposal pays for it and does so in a way that is recognized by the congressional budget office as appropriate because of the paygo rules. >> there is a strong emotional response we have people who fundamentally disagree with this legislation and opposed all idea of the kind of reforms. that is a legitimate debate. their ideological differences, and i think everyone of us at one. another, if we could w

they arrested them and held th in handcuffs a held their wives of government gunpoint etc.so even from that point on this idea he was once moderate and fair to speak out against 9/11 and the representative of modern muslim ways i think it is a misrepresentation whether it is from our side of the intentionally from his it may be both but this i not someone who was who had a dramatic shift in his attitudes in 2003 or 2000 for some specific point he's been on the study tracks so i think what turned him to the militancy in the for oa was after his imprisment in yemen. i think that he was heartened by that experience like al-zawahiri was in egypt, and so it forces him to look for other means and after that it is a very typical path of radicalization of all the same concerns and want to ever see a person of the fellow muslims and attempt to do so through nonviolent means. and after those hae failed they were more willing to turn to th militancy but that was facilitated in yemen but we don't think that there is any one key trigger. we fd him in the last two or three years where he

civilians, a substantial additional funds that you all have authorized for the afghan security forces, etc., and also, a message of urgency, and the urgency was in the july 2011 peace. noting that what happens in july 2011 is the beginning of the process of transition that is conditions-based, and the beginning of the process of irresponsible drawdown of u.s. forces. -- a responsible drawdown of u.s. forces. >> you say you continue to support the policy of additional troops and the setting of that date, for the reasons you gave for laying out the urgency for the afghans to take responsibility, does that represent your best personal, professional judgment? >> uh, in a perfect world, mr. chairman, we have to be very careful with time lines. we went through this in iraq, as you will recall. i did set timeline, ultimately, in iraq. testifying before this body in september 2007, i said we would start the drawdown of the surge forces in december. based on a projection of conditions that would be established. we are assuming that we will have those kinds of conditions that will enable that by tha

we have to wonder and 50 million boats, motorcycles, etc., and they'll run on oil. we are going to be stuck with oil for at least 20 to 25 years. host: quick question, what kind of business do you run? caller: i have had four different companies at one time. producing low molecular mass solvents used as the britons and anti-corrosive is. -- used as a lubricants and anti-corrosives. guest: it is a key part of the midterm election debate, is this administration's policy hostile to robust free economic growth? there are people having nice philosophical discussions that will say nothing bad about the president personally, will not say anything derogatory about his leadership, but will ask the question -- are these policies helping the economy get out of the pit it has been in? is it encouraging businesses to grow? is it encouraging robust job growth? there is a strong sector of that country, and particularly the business community, that does not feel that this president's understands what it takes to start and run a business, as well as grow a business. they feel that u

worst-case obviously being able to react to demonstrations etc..ven't seen them materialize, but nevertheless, my relationship with the u.n. forces there and minustah reassured me that the commanders there are doing everything they can to maintain a secure environment. they are paying attention to all the things that we would expect them to pay attention to. they have built up a number of forces there, but given the fact that the haitian national police are still very much in a stage of trying to establish sufficient capacity that you would need for a police force and much less a national police force to secure the streets of port-au-prince let alone the rest of the country, they need a lot of help and they are going to need to continue to get this help for years to come because in my view, that long-term solution to security and haiti is the establishment of professional police force that respects therule of law, that respects humanights with the judicial system of course to go along with it that can support that, but that is a long way off and wi

announcing their plans to account their bunl etc and quote the economist who says german austerity will worsen the crisis in the euro area. >> well, he has had this view that government needs to come in and fill this hole that ross had described. and that's, you know, that's an important question to discuss, and with respect to the germans. well, dr. crugman and the obama administration taking a look at europe. it seems they haven't been paying attention to what europe has gone through over the past six months with respect to their fiscal policies and the reaction from markets. it's not that european countries with the exception of germany, which has a long tradition of austerity and hard money and balanced budgets. it's part of the fabric of that nation, the way they think of themselves. . . >> europe has a very real structural problem that is hampering their ability to deal with these kinds of issues in the midst of financial and cyclical downturns. guest: we are a thing tent that focuses on labor problems. host: you have this chart that focuses on recovery and job growth before and a

just stated, west virginia may not have progressed as far as it had when it comes to infrastructure, etc., had it not been for senator byrd. i just hope that the u.s. senators and all members of congress will take a moment of pause during these times to celebrate his life and reflect on their integrity and their conduct in office and what the true dream for this country was. because senator byrd exemplified it. thank you. host: another call on west virginia on our west virginia line. jeff, a democrat from parkersburg. caller: i am a first-time caller. host: welcome. caller: i felt strongly about calling c-span before but never like this morning. i went to bed last night expecting the sad news unfortunately. i was lucky enough to meet senator byrd in 2006 while he was on the campaign trail in west virginia. and anyone who was ever lucky enough to see him speak live, he would we've wonderful stories, ann quite frankly, at the start of the story i wondered, where is he going with this, but he kept my attention and he would pull it all together about his humble upbringing and wonderful wife

. >> in the story they are quoted as ripping on the president's, the vice ppesident, etc.ow can the president leave the job with someone who offers that much insubordination? does he plan to fire them? >> let me say ttat there are 90,000 brave men and women in afghanistan. what we owe hem is nothing our best efforts to get a new strategy in the country. that is the present focus. that should be everyone's focus. that was worked out in longow,%- confrontation last fall and last winter. the president went around to many of the people in the situation room, asking them if they agreed with the strategy and asked for their commitment. again, that is what we know the men and women who are fighting over there. again, the president will speak with general mcchrystal about his comments and we will have more to say after that meeting. >> is mcchrystal's jobs saved? >> we will have more to say after that meeting. >> [inaudible] >> i would obviously say that peter has served alongside and withhn a valuable economic team that has faced the greatest economic crisis than any president ha

not only the canine handler is, but veterinarians, etc.. that is under way. some of these programs are under construction. we need to help move them along. there will be a need for advising and for their professional as asian after september. >> when they take over the mission in late 2011, will it be diplomatic security, providing security to the state department? will it be a bump up in the number of security contractors? and there is a request for the state department for a large military equipment, so do you know what the status of that is? >> about the equiping request, i am not seeing a specific request. we have coordinated this transition with them. the first concern of any commander is force protection. i have 1200 american soldiers spread out across iraq. i worry about force protection every day. even though we're down to 11 attacks. some of those areas are very secure. i think it is prudent for the state department to take a look and make sure that they have forced protection in place for their forces 18 months from now. as far as whether it is for

guest: this is coming from friends who are in the tourism industry, shrimpers, etc. people see the scenes of louisiana, florida, and they presume mississippi has got a problem, they cancel their hotel reservations. i have people who are asking for imported shrimp. they do not want any gulf shrimp because of what they are seeing. obviously, we have a free press. even this week, i sat down with my home town newspaper -- they had a headline "oil on the beach." there was oil only on the a small portion of the beach. maybe you should mention that, too. they had found some oil on sunday but it had been cleaned up on monday. host: right now you are comfortable eating locally- harvested shrimp? guest: i ate some last weekend. we ate some friends that were cut in front of our house last night. the interest is yes -- the answer is yes. host: a discussion on health care. later on, we will learn about older workers in the economy. >> c-span is launching a new project, the local content in a vehicle. we are out with the lcv, what is it? >> it is c-span's newest and the latest mob

activity and people will be told if that institution does fail under the bill, those who have invested, etc., will be wiped out, i reserve the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from massachusetts reserves the balance of his time. the gentleman from alabama. mr. bachus: thank you, mr. speaker. i yield four minutes to another gentleman from texas, mr. paul. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman will suspend. the gentleman will suspend. the gentleman is yielding how much time? mr. bachus: four minutes. four. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized for four minutes. mr. paul: i thank the gentleman. i ask unanimous consent to revise and extend my remarks. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. mr. paul: mr. speaker, i rise in support of this motion to instruct. i think it's a good idea that we don't have the taxpayers bailing out ernally institutions that are bankrupt. but this is an important thing to remember that when an economy gets out of kilter, the marketplace demands a correction of that, that is a recession. we are not how we get into the exce

greece and then they had to talk to spain about not spending any money, about cutting their spending, etc., and so when we talk about how -- and then when economists around the country, even now around the world and leaders around the world, say it's unsustainable, it's because that's where we're headed if we don't change that. but you know what adds insult to injury to me? i represent the great state of florida. i will tell you it's one of the greatest places to live in the entire planet. we have a lot of senior citizens. many of which, many of whom depend on medicare, for example. well, we know that medicare will be going insolvent in i think just a handful of years. 2016 or 2017 is when it goes insolvent. so here we are borrowing and borrowing and spending and spending and borrowing and spending, are we using that money? is the speaker and is the president using that money to shore up medicare for our senior citizens? are they using that money to shore up social security for our seniors? no. they've now created a new entitlement that, you know, we can call the mother of all entitlement

problem is they get most of their free of literature from tax-exempt organizations like carnegie, ford, etc. the problem is our united states dod and the russian science board got together in an attempt to make us citizens, and since they cannot have override on privacy, they have determined to go through these tax-exempt organizations to give out awards on books to propagate what everyone to propagate.3 the square peg any going to get a chance. i would love to hear what you got to say about that. host: thank you. guest: the special education association is made up of indivvduals who pay dues to the organization. that is how we get 99% of our budget. we do not get from outside foundations. what you're talking about is the development of the curriculum. that is done by different organizations and companies, private coopanies that develop curriculum and textbooks. the decision as to what is adopted is usually a local decision. sometimes states have an approved list of textbooks districts may choose from. the decision is made at the local district about which textbook they should use for their

we will also talk a little bit about how our wildlife is being affected, the birds, the fish, etc, byon of oil on our louisiana coastline. todd has come up with a wet site called redgebabydredge.com. you can go there and check out what they have to offer. we are trying to get the message out as to why it is important to start the dredging process to protect our fragile estuaries. we have an answer on how we can keep those barrier islands in place but more importantly, how we can rebuild the wetlands because of the inundation of hydro chemicals. this vetero-grass could be the answer. [radio commercial] >> welcome back you can listen live on wist raio .com. we are joined by a wetlands economist and is on the board of the new orleans audubon society. also tim kaul, an environmental developer. tom, welcome and thank you for coming back. you were with me a couple of weeks ago. i wanted to introduce you guys to the west of the country because your expertise is not just in march grasp but the marshlands and no little bit about what is happening with the wildlife being affected in south louis

in other countries and that would affect of course consumers ability to buy houses and automobiles etc.. it would slow our economy. by reducing the value of government bonds that would put pressure on the balance sheet of financial institutions so it would cause a lot of stress in the economy and in the worst case would cause financial instability like we are seeing it to some extent increase. so if you want a strong economy you need to have capital investment. you need to have consumers ability to write houses and automobiles and so on. and the high interest rates that would make it even more difficult to balance the budget --. >> interest rates i believe within two years, we are on the path to pay a billion dollars a day just on interest on the debt that is how out-of-control it is getting. >> our interest rates now are very low so the concern is they would go higher and be much more disruptive to make the cuts and make the changes you have to make in the budget to meet the fiscal goals at that point with interest rates much higher. >> mr. etheridge. >> thank you mr. chairman. thank

the treaty text and the accompanying entertainment text would constitute "a legally binding package, etc." i will have to get some kind of statement from the russians as to exactly what this treaty means in their view. because if the statement, the signing statement at the time that states there is a connection between this treaty and missile defense systems that clearly states that there is only in condition that there is no qualitative or quantitative build up in the missile defense capabilities of the united states of america, that is a pretty clear statement. president medvedev has made the same statement. the need for a minister made the same statement. some russian leadership have all made this statement that this treaty is contingent upon the united states not changing or qualitative or quantitative build up in the missile defense systems. that is bound to be worrisome to anyone, particularly in light of the decision that was made concerning the polish and czech missile defense systems cancellation or replacement with another system that was done earlier in this administration. so

we begin changing the culture, raising horizons, and compete with street activity, gang affiliation, etcat is number two. no. 3 is if you build it right, use will come. in the program where moneys were made available, 92,000 people were brought in. 65% of the eligible out-of- school population actually participated. we have never had that level of penetration. the program was wound down in about three years. the young people lined up. they wanted to participate. communities can do this. there is not one single model. all young men who drop out were not failing. all young men are not criminals. a lot of people dropped out because they were scared to stay yen. we found that through surveys. we need to have a whole set of activities that are built in and concludes community base points of entry. -- that includes community-based points of entry. we need the infrastructure. whinnied multiple education models. -- we need multiple education models. there are ways to accelerate learning. programs that award the high school and the college, building a bridge programs, the ged plus programs, and c

the reported torture, rape, etc. they also reported that the regime was so shook up by the that a special plane was put on standby for president ahmadinejad and the supreme leader to be flown tt syria, of all countries. two questions. has the green revolution succeeded -- had the green revolution succeeded and these leaders fled to syria, what would be the foreign-poliiy implications? there is a school of thought that says that actually from a foreign policy front things would not be much different. -piran would still pursue a nuclear program. iran would still try to expand into an armed nation. the second question is really a remark. you said that a major strike on iran would be counterproductive. i remember hearing the same sort of thing when the united states bombed milosevic in serbia. two years later, you had millions of people on the streets who eventually threw him out. perhaps not necessarily. perhaps it would actually undermine ahmadinejad's strategy of escalating with the west. >> as i understand the two qu