and leading to major atrocities and acts of ethnic cleansing. but, again, it's important to note this was true of both sides and was at least as equally true of the kla as it was the serb forces. in late 1998 the united states tried to broker a diplomatic settlement to the fighting, and it dispatched richard holbrooke, a top dip diplomat with experiee dealing with the fall can problem, to try and impose a settlement. and in october the holbrook agreement, as it was known, was announced. the serbs agreed to withdraw most of their offensive forces from kosovo and establish a cease-fire. they also agreed to allow a peace-keeping force in the organization for security and cooperation of europe to observe the cease fire. this was an asymmetrical agreement because it imposed no requirements at all on the kla, only on the serbs. milosevic accepted it, nonetheless. the monitors were deployed, and the cease fire was declared. now, it was widely claimed after the 1999 nato bombing attack that it was the serbs who violated the agreement and led to the brea

-- ethnic -- ethnicity, race or status. now i'm going to give very brief introductions to our panelists. if i gave them their full introduction i would be introducing people for about 45 minutes to an hour. i would like to get to the substance, and their full biographies are in your package. but let me briefly introduced nancy lee jones, legislative attorney with the american law division of the congressional research service. by preparing impartial scholarly written analysis of various legal issues and by oral briefing and seminars. some of the areas that she covers conserves civil rights of individuals with disabilities. next will be ms. neas matches the input activities, especially those policies that help children and adults with disabilities to live, learn, work and play in a community. she was on the legislative staff of senator tom harkin, senate committee on disability policies between 1987 and 1991 where she worked at all disability legislation, including the americans with disabilities act and individuals with dis

it protected the ethnic albanians who were being oppressed and generally resolve the problem. i'm going to argue that based upon the evidence, all of these points are essentially incorrect. first, a bit of background. kosovo was a province of yugoslavia. it was within the communist yugoslavia state and it was part of serbia. and it was for a very long time essentially dominated by serbia. internally, kosovo consists of mostly two groups, the ethnic albania army which was approximately 80 to 90% of the population and a serb minority. at the time of the nato war, approximately 10 or 15% of the population. the two groups had a history of adversarial and largely negative interactions. the serbs historically being the privileged group, the better educated and the more affluent group. the albanians were the one of the very poorest groups in ula of europe. under communist yugoslavia, it was essentially the serbs who were dominant in the province and the republic of serbia that dominated the province. there was significant discrimination against the albanian majority. and it must be s

but the people who were speaking came from particular ethnic groups. do you want your reporter to make that plain to the belleville readers? >> if the reporters and their editors really understand that this is a story that's sort of breaking along racial or ethnic lines, as well as other lines, sure, i'd include that in a story. >> ogletree: okay. well, keith woods, you're the city editor. talk to the publisher about this. talk to mr. greenman. >> john, i think that every time there is this sort of obvious divide where one group of people opposing something or supporting something is white and one group opposing it or supporting it is black, there's a fairly good chance that race sits underneath that. so i'm going to make sure, when we send steve out to do this story, that he's asking that question. it may not be in the story. we may determine that it's not a part of the story. but we're going to ask that question, because, i think, beyond that, that there are probably some legitimate concerns about teenagers. i have some. there's probably some legitim

-- ethnicity, race, or economic status. i'm going to give very brief introductions to our panelists. if i gave them their full introductions, i would be introducing people for about 45 minutes to an hour. i would like to get to the full biographies in your package. let me briefly introduce nancy lee jones, the legislative attorney with the american law division. of the congressional research service. she provides legal advice to members of congress, committees and staff are preparing impartial, scholarly, written analysis, various legal issues. and by oral briefings and seminars. some of the areas that she covers concerns civil rights of individuals with disabilities. and next will be katie nees who manages the federal and state public policy activities, especially those policies that help children and adults with disabilities to live, learn, work, and play in their community. she was on the legislative staff of tom harkin on disability policies between 1987 and 1991 where she worked on disability legislation including the

a >> the only reason any ethnic or racial group is locked out of my account is because i didn't find a mate any charts for those groups. and to the extent that the gap was there. but you have to understand that the principle to my mind and the founding principle was precisely because this is a cosmopolitan racial country and always was from the start. that's exactly why we need common school. and the idea of the common school was not to say well we've got to be sure there is representation for all the constituent cultures that make up the school. no, we have to make sure there's a public dimension, common language, the standard english language. a common general body of knowledge, a common adherence to the political principles of toleration and the laws. and that's -- that's the core and it should be. as a matter of fact, the third chapter of this book that i called about is called trans- ethnic america and the civic core is the title of that chapter. and it speaks to those things and tries to get away from the idea that gu haven't had that kind of representation. no, it's everybody

ethnic tensions were unestimated. afghans were intolerant of foreign troop occupation and a military solution was proven not sufficient. the vietnam war in 1966 saw 200,000 troops committed to vietn vietnam. at the peak of the war, 543,of our treasure lost. general, the cia has indicated that afghanistan is 4,000 feet versus up in the air versus iraq that is flat. you asked for 40,000 troops. we've got 30,000. what is your commitment to protect troops as they travel up into those mountains and to save lives? >> my commitment is absolute. our rules of engagement provide them every responsibility and right to defend themselves. we believe that the equipment we're providing them is as good as we can and we will continue to do that better. i will push for every asset we need to protect there will be. >> i thank you for that. i think the terrain is so difficult. it brings to mind the pat tillman story that opportunities for friendly fire and loss of life are heightened. there is a theory of clear, whole, build and transfer

awareness of young women's knowledge regarding- "(a) breast health in young women of all racial, ethnic, and cultural backgrounds; "(b) breast awareness and good breast health habits; "(c) the occurrence of breast cancer and the general and specific risk factors in women who may be at high risk for breast cancer based on familial, racial, ethnic, and cultural backgrounds such as ashkenazi jewish populations; "(d) evidence-based information that would encourage young women and their health care professional to increase early detection of breast cancers; and "(e) the availability of health information and other resources for young women diagnosed with breast cancer. "(2) evidence-based, age appropriate messages. the campaign shall provide evidence-based, age-appropriate messages and materials as developed by the centers for disease control and prevention and the advisory committee established under paragraph (4). "(3) media campaign. in conducting the education campaign under paragraph (1), the secretary shall award grants to entities to establish national multimedia campaigns oriented to

it is not through possession of a single ethnic community or a single ethnic group has the right to define american with generations diverse communities and religious people of different religious background from every corner of the globe have become american, and the important thing is that not only do they become american, but america becomes changed as well. because of this rich experience, recent immigrants from arab and muslim countries come to this country in effect with the table set for them. and they find it to be a fertile ground for the ever-broadening definition of being american. another important difference between our situation and europe is that people here do not stay on the imaginal. in fact, because of the extraordinary social and economic mobility available to immigrants, they in fact move into enterprise, the yemeni community in calf i first met 30 years ago picking grapes in the valley are today business owners throughout the country and their children are in colleges and in fact becoming quite successful. it is true we have a problem. but i think we need to put the p

individually designed major in race and ethnic relations. a sense of my life and how race and that the city -- ethnicity play a role. i'm 38 years old. >> how does this will look to you? in terms of the future of this country? >> one of the things most exciting to me about the obama victory is that historically, when there have been major successes as relates to racial equality, they happen in very strange political times. you're talking about the civil war, slavery, the civil-rights movement, which in a way has the assassination of john f. kennedy. it is french politics. and what is encouraging to me about what happened in the last few years is that obama build a winning majority. he did not win because there was a third-party candidate. there was a broad coalition that came together. i was skeptical of his ability to win because i doubted the capacity of this country to make that coalition. there is clear proof that people are willing to in a very significant way build coalitions as a function of normal politics. it does not have to follow

can yout( describe the ethnic composition of the afghan security forces?>> yes, ma'am, i could get it to you an exact numbers. çç42% of the population is pashtun. çpashtun participation matches that. it is not represented from the south, as you mentioned. kandahar andç helmand, which bn under talbian control -- taliban control or threat -- it is important that we get security there. the effort now is to increase security, make their families feel comfortable. the rest of the breakdown of the afghan national army falls pretty much along ethnic percentages in the country writ large except for the tajiks who are slightly over represented in the army. >> dozen at the plate on a balanced afghan security force -- does an ethnically unbalan ced afghan security force cause problems in the helmand province? i understand the tajiks speak a different language. >>ç it is a challenge. everyç afghan battalion that we feel it is at the balanced as it comes out of training. we fieldç of force that has a mix. i]çt(>> but you have enough of different ethnicities to

improving minority health and the quality of health care minorities receive, and eliminating racial and ethnic disparities. in carrying out this subsection, the secretary, acting through the deputy assistant secretary, shall award grants, contracts, enter into memoranda of understanding, cooperative, interagency, intra-agency and other agreements with public and nonprofit private entities, agencies, as well as departmental and cabinet agencies and organizations, and with organizations that are indigenous human resource providers in communities of color to assure improved health status of racial and ethnic minorities, and shall develop measures to evaluate the effectiveness of activities aimed at reducing health disparities and supporting the local community. such measures shall evaluate community outreach activities, language services, workforce cultural competence, and other areas as determined by the secretary."; and (b) by striking subsection (h) and inserting the following: "(h) authorization of appropriations. for the purpose of carrying out this section, there are authorized to be approp

it is not through possession of a single ethnic community or a single ethnic group has the right to define american with generations diverse communities and religious people of different religious background from every corner of the globe have become american, and the important thing is that not only do they become american, but america becomes changed as well. because of this rich experience, recent immigrants from arab and muslim countries come to this country in effect with the table set for them. and they find it to be a fertile ground for the ever-broadening definition of being american. another important difference between our situation and europe is that people here do not stay on the imaginal. in fact, because of the extraordinary social and economic mobility available to immigrants, they in fact move into enterprise, the yemeni community in calf i first met 30 years ago picking grapes in the valley are today business owners throughout the country and their children are in colleges and in fact becoming quite successful. it is true we have a problem. but i think we need to put the p

there is a real problem there with the ethnicity. and the belief with the pashtun is that the tajiks have been kind of lording it over them in recent years. it is a problem that we have to address. i think sensitivity to ethnicity is really important, but i also think afghanistan can be stable and has been stable. it has been most stable when there is a pashtun rule in kabul. yes, you do 1 pashtun representation and even leadership in the government, but not taliban leadership. the question is, how do you get that? host: to read more of thomas ricks works, go to his blog atollricks. foreignpolicy.com. we appreciate your time this morning. a reminder, tonight, we will have coverage of the president's speech on the c-span, c-span2 and c-span.org. thanks for watching today. we will be back tomorrow morning at 7:00 a.m. eastern time. [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2009] . . >> again that starts at 8:00 p.m. eastern. check c-span.org for our complete coverage plan

so all of your press kits have one of the questionnaires in it, and you'll see that ethnicity is onethe questions. a cool thing to do if you have nothing to do one weekend is to look at how that question has been asked over the decades. every decade almost it changes as our country changes. this is always a question about which there are debates when the census arises, and these debates are good. there are many people who look at that question and say i don't see how i fit in exactly. it's kind of hard for me to classify myself in the categories you've given us. i don't think of myself in these categories. and for them we have a box at the bottom that says, if you don't fit in any of the check boxes above, write down how you think of yourself in ethnic terms. there are 30 spaces in that box, and we know i was with a group of indian tribe leaders, and we know when there's tribal marriage to put both tribes down, and it goes beyond 30 characters it's really -- this is a tough job to get right. but that's where we want them to write in what they call themselves, how they think of themse

ethnic tensions were unestimated. afghans were intolerant of foreign troop occupation and a military solution was proven not sufficient. the vietnam war in 1966 saw 200,000 troops committed to vietn vietnam. at the peak of the war, 543,of our treasure lost. general, the cia has indicated that afghanistan is 4,000 feet versus up in the air versus iraq that is flat. you asked for 40,000 troops. we've got 30,000. what is your commitment to protect troops as they travel up into those mountains and to save lives? >> my commitment is absolute. our rules of engagement provide them every responsibility and right to defend themselves. we believe that the equipment we're providing them is as good as we can and we will continue to do that better. i will push for every asset we need to protect there will be. >> i thank you for that. i think the terrain is so difficult. it brings to mind the pat tillman story that opportunities for friendly fire and loss of life are heightened. there is a theory of clear, whole, build and transfer

there's not an ethnic nature to it. how can a man because of some ethnic problem, instead of trying to improve his life and participate in building his community will where a suicide belt and go into a mosque full of other pashtuns on a friday and go and kill himself? how can we explain that, that young men will go into a mosque or market in an hour full of women, mostly christian women, and explode himself backs which have to find out why they had been recruited. ethnicity does not play a role there. it is a lack of services and other historic grievances. >> thank you. i am from gannett. the president talked about an 18-month limit. you said three to five years. is he being realistic? first, he said it will begin in three months. it was a responsible drawdown. if you put it all in context, we will see the drawdown will not be actually at the day. conditions should be re- evaluated. the main objective is really to defeat the enemy. if we accomplish that sooner than 18 months, we should do it. but i think overall, consid

ethnic tensions were underestimated.fghans were highly intolerant of foreign troop occupation and a military solution was proven not sufficient. the vietnam war in 1966 saw 200,000 troops committed to vietnam, and that the peak of the war 543,000, 53000 of our treasure lost. general, the cia has indicated that afghanistan is 4000 feet versus up in here, versus iraq, that is why. you asked for 40000 troops, you got 30000. what is your commitment to protect troops as they travel up into those mountains and to save lives? >> my commitment, our rules of engagement provide them and responsibility and right to defend themselves. we believe the equivalent where providing them is as good as we can and we will continue to do that there. i will push for every asset we need to protect their well being. >> i thank you for the. i think the terrain is so difficult, it brings to mind the pat tillman story that opportunities for friendly fire and lost life are heightened. there is a theory of clear, hold, building transfer. resident kar

ethnic, race, i think is.can-american, caucasian, hispanics, asian, pretty much sums up. but ethnic is much more county of origin, french, irish, jewish. it's very, very hard to get these no matter how good the service is you employ, i think he's a pretty good service. a combination of surname, first name, and geocode. a stein. in of milwaukee might be something than one in new york. however that works to try to have some separation between the surname and something more complicated than that. but there are limitations. not only to do it people not vote according to theeth anything necessity, i would submit most of the time they don't. there used to be an italian in the community. you can sure italians or irish will go today. that's in our history. not so much anymore. but people still like to use it. and make assumptions. whether i agree or in the, they are going to use it. i like to point out there are limits. shaquille o'neal is not irish, robert e. lee was not asian. there are names that can't be categoriz

and ten years ago, i don't mean you look at the race, ethnicity or size of his body. you look at the fact that he bought a ticket, no luggage. and you are going to detroit in december without a winter coat? that ten years ago would have forced the airline to pull him aside and say, what's up? and suggest specific training with trace detectors. it's unfortunate that the informs hadn't become instantaneous. who is going to happen, if we say you don't connect the dots, it is going to get a reaction where everything is going to come from the top. you are going to have a blizzard of information and nobody will be able to see the real threats. there are hundreds of bogus threats to come through throughout the day. after the fact,some guy was identified as saying, i'm going to blow up a plane, and everyone started going through the files. if his father had gone to the embassy said he has exploding underwear and he is going to try to blow all plane, yeah, they would have done that but they did not have that information. >> larry: we are going to have you back soon. thank you

>> race and ethnic relations. >> duwaik figure 39 or 40 right now? >> 38. >> how does this world look to you? >> in terms of any particular thing? >> es. >> one of the things that is most exciting about the obama victory is that, historically, when there have been major successes as it relates to racial equality, they happened in very strange political times. you were talking about the civil war and the abolition of slavery and the civil rights movement which had some of its biggest victories in the wake of the assassination of john f. kennedy. what is very encouraging to me about what has happened in the last few years is that obama built a winning political majority. it was not -- he did not win because he was a third-party candidate. it was a very broad coalition that came together. as much as i was enthusiastic about his candidacy, i was very skeptical about his ability to win because i doubted the capacity of this country to make that kind of coalition. one thing that gives me great optimism about the way the country is going is that there is pr

and how are they going to get the pashtuns and the other ethnic groups to sit down and negotiate and become part of the government? and i'm very wary, also, i understand many pakistan the intelligence services there for years, they've been collaborating with the taliban. is that true? guest: those are very important questions. first of all, on the issue of the afghan army and police, i think it's absolutely correct that that's a long-term project. and however, that is why the u.s. military is really looking in multiple directions here. the goal is not to have the perfect afghan army and police to take over in two years, although the military is thinking in terms of deadlines even if the president hasn't set them. the goal is to get afghans to stand up and in many parts of the country tribes traditionally have had fighting force that is they stand up to defend their territory. early in this decade tribes were willing to stand those forces up against the taliban but they needed some support in the background. they didn't get it either from their own government or from us. the hope is t

the attachments of these non-jewish ethnic religious groups to the democrats were steadily declining in direct proportion to the improvement in the economic and social conditions. but not the jews your the substantial majority of whom kept on voting for the democratic candidate in every presidential election. it was this phenomenon that gave rise to milton deservedlyaying in this epigram. jews, he said, are like episcopalians and vote like puerto ricans. [laughter] >> in short, i told you it was deservedly famous, in short, by 1967 the jewish commitment to the democratic party was already an anomaly from a social economic point of view. and so far as discrimination was concerned, most of the barriers against jews had already been toppled. the principle that was responsible to this development was the belief that justice required individuals be treated on their own merits as individuals without regard as the old liberal catechism we used to recite when i was a kid in public school. without regard to race, color, creed or country of national origin. but by 1967, this formally sacred li

what we face in afghanistan is a postulant insurgency which is confined to the ethnic community. the soviets face a national uprising. virtually the entire country was in the opposition to soviet occupation. soviet behavior reinforced that opposition. we face an insurgency which is, for the most part, confined to the postulant community. by definition, that means the majority of afghans do not favor of them. we know from reliable polling that the majority of them do not want to see a return. no one in their right mind would want to go back to living in a medieval hell that omar created in the 1900 -- 1990's. thirdly, let me talk about pakistan. there are today the strategic prize in this part of the world as well as the most dangerous country in the world. why do i say that? all of the things that should worry americans about the future of the world in the 21st century come together in pakistan in a unique and combustible way. nuclear war and peace, proliferation of nuclear technology, terrorism, the future of islam, the future of democracy in the of the lot -- in the islamic wor

it's a mistake to think that particular ethnic segments of the united states rather than think we are all in this together. >> larry: but, unemployment among black youth is very high. is a concentration in that area? >> it's one thing to say that a risesing tide lifts all boat. but black people have a hole in their boat. and because of that, you need race targeted policies to help black people. they don't get job wednesday they are qualified for them. we pay for insurance. we are net knot getting access to mortgages. all these things are happening to black people. there has to be a response. >> larry: do you agree with is that? >> absolutely and we fight for it. 9 question is whether president obama and his administration has not addressed that. and they have. when you look at the fact that he has appointed an african-american, eric holden, who will deal with protecting civil rights in blacks in the works place and the arguments with a23ir78 tifa. when we look at the fact that hes a drissed the naacp. so i think there is a difference between trying to make the president an activist le

we don't want ofiling on race, ethnicity or religion. t we can profile potential teorists and go through a rigorous screeni. i don'see any other way around it. >> gn: congressman, do you think the administration i acting quick enough and thoroughly enougto address at is turning inta bigger anbigger problem. >> the predent son this case. no question iny mind. talk to people on intelligen with t president in hawaii now. he doesn't he to be in washington to ben top of. this we ed quick answers. the president willet answers tomoow on who dropped the ball. support our intelligence agenci but we haven't gone over the bump or the hurdlto get them to talk with e another. obvisly someone dropped the ball here. point fingers at the cretary i think is short ange. if she blew this i would be e first tosk for her signation. we can not have seco chances. i'm glad jason said what he id out profiling. the on thing we should do with priling is beha i don't havior profiling. i believe behavior profing is acceptd and ould be followed in every sense of the

that afghans for centuries have been governed loosely through the social compact between all the ethnicgroups under a sovereign king, so again, how do you envision transitioning to local security forces, and to what extent must those forces be directly the local? >> the balance we have to strike, and i have believed ever since i got this job that we have been too focused on the central government in kabul and not enough on the provinces and the districts and the tribes. the key here is a community security organizations that are willing to work with the government in kabul and that do not:asíñ become the militias for warlords. the balance we are trying to strike, and what general mcchrystal cares about a lot, as does everybody else, it's how we encourage these local policing functions? some of the efforts i have seen where they recruit locals and the tribal elders are telling me that the roads that have been closed by the taliban for years have been reopened by these mobile groups, but they are within the framework of the provincial governor and the district leadership, so that they are

there is a real problem there with the ethnicity.and the belief with the pashtun is that the tajiks have been kind of lording it over them in recent years. it is a problem that we have to address. i think sensitivity to ethnicity is really important, but i also think afghanistan can be stable and has been stable. it has been most stable when there is a pashtun rule in kabul. yes, you do 1 pashtun representation and even leadership in the government, but not taliban leadership. the question is, how do you get that? host: to read more of thoma >> house members still taking a break. earlier, the u.s. house debated seven noncontroversial bills including one on ovarian cancer and one on water and energy research. members returning at 6:30 p.m. for recorded votes and speeches. more live coverage here on c-span. u.s. senate continues debate on its health care legislation and moving towards first votes on amendments later today. the associated press reports a bipartisan amendment to increase insurance benefits for women through yearly screen

shall represent the various geographic regions of the united states and shall reflect the racial, ethnic and gender composition of the population of the united states. (3) terms of appointed members.-individuals appointed under paragraph (1)(b) shall serve for a term of 6 years, except that the terms of 5 of the individuals initially appointed shall be, as designated by the president at the time of their appointment, for 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5 years. during a term of membership on the board, no member shall engage in any other business, vocation or employment. (c) vacancies.- (1) in general.-the president shall fill any vacancy in the membership of the board in the same manner as the original appointment. the vacancy shall not affect the power of the remaining members to execute the duties of the board. (2) vacancy appointments.-any member appointed to fill a vacancy shall serve for the remainder of the term for which the predecessor of the member was appointed. (3) reappointment.-the president may reappoint an appointed member of the board for a second term in the same manner as the origin

one of the things that really frustrates me is it is really ethnically concerned consumers are not taken the time to investigate how are uprooted is produced. let me just give you a couple of examples of how of food miles and an emphasis on food miles can lead to counterintuitive results and there are two studies both which i summarize in my book. one has to do with it lamb. the study which was funded by the new zealand government which certainly has an interesting outcome here, but the study found that in great britain in made actually more sense energy wise in terms of energy efficiency, it made more sense to purchase your lamb from new zealand environmentally than it did to purchase your lamb locally in the uk. you say, how is that possible? that can be possible with all the traveling across the world. transportation is a matter compared to the fact that the lamb produced in new zealand is produced under natural conditions, it is grass fed lamb. anyone that the land they were comparing it to was produced under confined animal feed lot conditions, industrial conditions. the energy sink

we don't want profiling on race, ethnicity or religion. but we can profile potential terrorists and go through a rigorous screening. i don't see any other way around it. >> gwen: congressman, do you think the administration is acting quickly enough and thoroughly enough to address what is turning into a bigger and bigger problem. >> the president son this case. no question in my mind. i talk to people on intelligence with the president in hawaii now. he doesn't have to be in washington to be on top of. this we need quick answers. the president will get answers tomorrow on who dropped the ball. i support our intelligence agencies but we haven't gone over the bump or the hurdle to get them to talk with one another. obviously someone dropped the ball here. to point fingers at the secretary i think is short change. if she blew this i would be the first to ask for her resignation. we can not have second chances. i'm glad jason said what he said about profiling. the only thing we should do with profiling is behave i don't behavior profiling. i b

that afghans for centuries have been governed loosely through the social compact between all the ethnics under a sovereign king, so again, how do you envision transitioning to local security forces, and to what extent must those forces be directly the local? >> the balance we have to strike, and i have believed ever since i got this job that we have been too focused on the central government in kabul and not enough on the provinces and the districts and the tribes. the key here is a community security organizations that are willing to work with the government in kabul and that do not:asíñ become the militias for warlords. the balance we are trying to strike, and what general mcchrystal cares about a lot, as does everybody else, it's how we encourage these local policing functions? some of the efforts i have seen where they recruit locals and the tribal elders are telling me that the roads that have been closed by the taliban for years have been reopened by these mobile groups, but they are within the framework of the provincial governor and the district leadership, so that they are not

concerning- "(a) demographic factors associated with congenital heart disease, such as age, race, ethnicity, sex, and family history of individuals who are diagnosed with the disease; "(b) risk factors associated with the disease; "(c) causation of the disease; "(d) treatment approaches; and "(e) outcome measures, such that analysis of the outcome measures will allow derivation of evidence-based best practices and guidelines for congenital heart disease patients; and "(3) may ensure the collection and analysis of longitudinal data related to individuals of all ages with congenital heart disease, including infants, young children, adolescents, and adults of all ages. "(d) public access. the congenital heart disease surveillance system shall be made available to the public, as appropriate, including congenital heart disease researchers. "(e) patient privacy. the secretary shall ensure that the congenital heart disease surveillance system is maintained in a manner that complies with the regulations promulgated under section 264 of the health insurance portability and accountability act of 1996

ago you would have profiled this individual, and by profiling, i don't mean you look at the race, ethnicity, size of his body, you look at the fact that he bought a ticket going one way with cash with no luggage, and you're going to detroit in december without a winter coat? that immediately ten years ago would have forced the airline to pull him aside and say, okay, what's up? and start looking at him and maybe subjected him to very specific screening with trace detectors. that could have been done. it wasn't. so yes, it's unfortunate that the information hadn't become instantaneous. but what's going to happen, if we go this route with the criticism that says you didn't connect the dots, it will create from the analyst standpoint a reaction where everything will come to the top. you'll have such a blizzard of information that nobody will be able to actually see the real threats from -- there are hundreds of bogus threats that come through every day. and sometimes only after the fact when this guy was identified firmly as having said, you know, i'm going to blow up a plane, then everyone st

or target other people because their faith or a net -- or ethnicity is different from ours. what we have fought for, what we continue to fight for is a better future for our children and grandchildren and we believe that their lives will be better if other people's children and grandchildren can live in freedom. and access opportunity. [applause] as a country, we are not as young, and perhaps not as innocent, as we were when roosevelt was president. yet we are still heirs to a noble struggle for freedom. now, we must summon all of our might and moral suasion to meet the challenges of a new age. in the end of our security and leadership does not come solar -- solely from the strength of office. it derives from our people, from the workers and businesses who will rebuild our economy, from the entrepreneurs and researchers will pioneer new industries, from the teachers who will educate our children and the service of those who work in our communities at home, from the diplomats and peace corps volunteers to spread hold abroad, and from the men and in uniform who are part of an

again this, you've got a regime that's concerned abt movements that mig emerge, that's terrifi of ethnic violence andepression in -- in sinjian and tibet,ho had to confine president oba during his sit to china so that he wouldn't be able to reach th chinese people, sot's a ntradiction between the se-confidence of power, of prestige, sources, over against fear of intern threat. >> warner: and aontradiction that will continue, no doubt for many years to come dougs paul and professor holm, thank you bo very much. >> y're welcome. thanyou. >> brown: now, in a weak onomy, what may be a ticking time bomb for many stas, cities andowns. hundreds of billions ipension liabities that are currently underfunded. in california, goverr arnold schwarzeneer warned just this week that histate will need billions more from t federal governmentor basic operations, even as longer-term pensio requirements loom. ewshour" correspondent spenc michels reports. reporter: when 86-year-old john canfield retired fromis cafornia state job, he was making about50,000 a year. as a senior enneer, he had designed highway br

tens of thousands of democracy and human rights activists are victims of religious persecution and ethnic cleansing come to our borders to seek protection. these really are the huddled masses. and our asylum and refugee programs which protect these people and welcome them to our country are an important part that make us -- of what makes us the land of the free. and minnesota has a special place in these programs as recently as 2006 we took more refugees than any other state except california. but right now ice is detaining thousands of applicants for asylum obvious for months at a time. -- often for months at a time. it's suggested more asylum seekers are being detained for longer. your department has discretion over whether or not to detain asylum-seekers. why are we frequently detaining asylum-seekers? >> someone in our country has declared asylum. we have some categories of individuals who are seeking asylum that we are looking at en masse as to whether or not they should fall within asylum eligibility. that's an interagency process when working on with the state department and the ju

there's not an ethnic nature to it. how can a man because of some ethnic problem, instead of trying to improve his life and participate in building his community will where a suicide belt and go into a mosque full of other pashtuns on a friday and go and kill himself? how can we explain that, that young men will go into a mosque or market in an hour full of women, mostly christian women, and explode himself backs which have to find out why they had been recruited. ethnicity does not play a role there. it is a lack of services and other historic grievances. >> thank you. i am from gannett. the president talked about an 18-month limit. you said three to five years. is he being realistic? first, he said it will begin in three months. it was a responsible drawdown. if you put it all in context, we will see the drawdown will not be actually at the day. conditions should be re- evaluated. the main objective is really to defeat the enemy. if we accomplish that sooner than 18 months, we should do it. but i think overall, consid

much of the ethnic divides that we hear so much about now really came at the end of the fight againstwith the rise of warlords in the civil war. and most afghans want to repair that and get behind them. >> second question, the same line of thinking of the governor ans. one thing mentioned to us a lot when were visiting last time was a new developing classification, people in the ministers. and while we have concerns about president karzai, mr. ambassador, if you could address that briefly for me, please. >> as i said earlier, congressman, there really is a very impressive group of ministers right now in the afghan cabinet. and, indeed, their president karzai's ministers. he does get the credit for naming of those ministers, finance, commerce, health. i could go on. and he's also committed very publicly in his inauguration speech to improve upon the quality of those important ministries. we're waiting to -- for his announcements to be made. we expect the first round will be within the next several days. we have a degree of confidence they'll be improvements in the central government. >

thailand s closed down a refugee ca of more than 4,000 ethnic hmong,nd begun forcibly deporting thembacko laos. gornment troops accompanied every truckload of portees today. the thai goverent said they are illegal immigrants and not political refugees. han rights groups said they fear thhmong will be persecuted in laos. the u.s. statdepartment asked thailand to stothe action. there was good newsoday for u.s. retlers. new data from master ca showed holiday spending was more than 3.5% over last yea and wall street gained todaas well. the dow jones industrl average was up nearly 27 pots to close at 10,547. the sdaq rose five points to close at 2291. those arsome of the day's main stories. i'll be back at the e of the prram with a preview of what you'll find tonighon the newshour'seb site. but for nowback to margaret. >> warner: now, weurn to the confntation in iran. the regime struck at its oppotion again today on the heels oyesterday's widespread bloodshe >at least seven leading reformctivists were rounded up today in iran. state sponsored press tv made he announcement. >> ports say se

right, you ought not to be denied that right based on the economic circumstances, your gender, your ethnicity in this nation. you ought to have access to that health care as a fundamental right in our nation. obviously we need to participate, engage in responsible activities that will make sure that we contribute to the well-being of all of our nation to reduce the cost of health care. this is a comprehensive bill. it's been more than not just a year specifically on this effort, but goes back 40 or 50 years in terms of drafting and efforts have been made to achieve what we're trying to achieve this evening. at the end of the day, however, this legislation is really about freedom from fears, i said a moment ago. the bill frees americans from the fear that if they lose their job they'll never find insurance coverage again. the bill frees americans from the fear that they might get sick and be unable to afford the treatment they need. and the bill frees americans from the fear that one illness, one accident could cost them everything they built -- their homes, their retirement, their life saving

and you know, i think it's a mistake to start thinking in terms of particular ethnic segments of thenited states rather than to think that we are all in this together and we're all going to get it out together. >> larry: but, unemployment among black youth is very high. young black men in prison. does it require some concentration in that area? >> of course it does. there's one thing to say a rising tide lifts all boats. but black people have a hole in their boat. and that's because of negatively directed policies against black people. black people disproportionately go to prison, they don't get jobs when they're qualified for them. we pay more for insurance. we're getting red lined, not getting accesses to mortgages. all these things are happening to black people. so there had to be a response. >> larry: do you agree with is that? >> absolutely and we fight for it. the question is whether president obama and his administration has not addressed that. and i think they have. when you look at the fact that he has appointed an african-american eric holder, who will deal with protecting

a gender gap is far more pronounced among racial and ethnic minorities. specifically an average of 59% of african-american girls and 48% of african-american boys earn a high school diploma. among hispanics the graduation rate is among 56% for girls and 49% for boys. the impact of this phenomenon on our community is nothing short of catastrophic. as it perpetuates the size of poverty that we all fight so hard to try to end. high school dropouts are almost twice as likely as their counterparts with high school diplomas to be unemployed and unemployment is a chronic problem as well. high school dropouts to find employment they are much more likely to work at on skilled jobs that offer little opportunity for a port mobility, promotion or stability. the median earnings of high school dropouts remains between $20,000 and $30,000 throughout their lives with little increase as they get older. we talk about the challenges of one generation providing for another generation because we are locked into this income gap. the fact that dropouts are concentrated in africa

a gender gap is far more pronounced among racial and ethnic minorities. specifically an average of 59% of african-american girls and 48% of african-american boys earn a high school diploma. among hispanics the graduation rate is among 56% for girls and 49% for boys. the impact of this phenomenon on our community is nothing short of catastrophic. as it perpetuates the size of poverty that we all fight so hard to try to end. high school dropouts are almost twice as likely as their counterparts with high school diplomas to be unemployed and unemployment is a chronic problem as well. high school dropouts to find employment they are much more likely to work at on skilled jobs that offer little opportunity for a port mobility, promotion or stability. the median earnings of high school dropouts remains between $20,000 and $30,000 throughout their lives with little increase as they get older. we talk about the challenges of one generation providing for another generation because we are locked into this income gap. the fact that dropouts are concentrated in africa

. >> ethnic minorities -- >> define ethnic minorities. >> african-americans and hispanics and other ethnicies. >> assuming that we do 100% of what has been called to our attention, that we are efficacious as humanly possible, will this negate the desperate impact that we discussing currently? >> i don't believe that these programs by themselves are going to negate the desperate impact on those communities. >> thank you. >> no. when i did work with indymac, as communities throughout southern california that were already infected. -- already impacted. >> thank you. >> there is a lot more work to be done. we are nowhere near the solution. >> if we're going to abandon the arc of the moral universe toward justice and the work of god is truly our own, would you agree that we must and should do more to negate the-desperate impact -- the negative disparate impact upon some committees? >> i would agree. >> i would concur. >> i agree. >> do you agree that a way can be forged if we have the will to do it, a way can be found to negate this disparate impact? >> yes, sir, i do. >> i do. there are diffic

there's not an ethnic nature to it. how can a man because of some ethnic problem, instead of trying to improve his life and participate in building his community will where a suicide belt and go into a mosque full of other pashtuns on a friday and go and kill himself? how can we explain that, that young men will go into a mosque or market in an hour full of women, mostly christian women, and explode himself backs which have to find out why they had been recruited. ethnicity does not play a role there. it is a lack of services and other historic grievances. >> thank you. i am from gannett. the president talked about an 18-month limit. you said three to five years. is he being realistic? first, he said it will begin in three months. it was a responsible drawdown. if you put it all in context, we will see the drawdown will not be actually at the day. conditions should be re- evaluated. the main objective is really to defeat the enemy. if we accomplish that sooner than 18 months, we should do it. but i think overall, consid