guest: there pushing the faa.hey had a big meeting with the faa one year ago to try and push them to go faster. the wood to create new rules and have a plan to let them use them in civilian air space. they already contest them in restricted airspace. a lot of places around the country over military facilities have restricted air space. civilian aircraft cannot fly there. the military is free to do with the one. they can test these as much and use them as much as possible. that apparently wants more areas to do this than that. host: in california, richard on our line for democrats. caller: thank you for c-span. i am a first-time caller. i notice to have been talking about the smaller size drones, printer and a smaller. out here we have the global hot. would your guest like to talk about that, please? guest: i wish i could. i am aware of the global hot, i've -- global hawk, but i do not know a lot about it. caller: i am a civilian. i do not know a lot about them. we have a base out here. they also operate them overs

the faa. am i pose it to you because it is your responsibility. >> the faa fulfills its responsibility with respect to such facilities, yes. >> you must be aware of earlier testimony before the subcommittee the fda does -- the faa does not regularly inspect to the same degree. am i am not aware of that testimony. >> we will get it for you. >> i appreciate that. >> with regard to the question of continued outsourcing, the question about pilots was asked. i want to follow up. our foreign pilots in the left and right seats of united airlines jets? -- are foreign pilots in the left and rights of united airlines jets? any for pilots? >> what are your plans? >> yes. >> no. >> thank you. could you describe the personal benefits the two of you would receive as a result of this merger, golden parachutes and the like. >> i know how i have made the decision already, i dunno if jeff cavs, that anything i receive will be converted into shares of the new company and deferred until such time as i eventually

we know the military, the faa, and other agencies will continue to require priority access to many of the most valuable portions of the public airwaves. since most of this capacity is not used, we strongly support the administration's efforts to develop the policies and resources that can take it vantage of smart radio technologies and open these bands the private sector for shared use in the future. finally, i would like to thank not only larry summers for his attention to this issue, but also the leadership of the commerce department. i would like to thank the white house office of science and technology policy. i thank them for supporting the fcc's national broadband plan. i know julius genachowski had wanted to be here. some of his key staff is. it is gone to take a team effort to move these issues to the top of the nation's economic and technology agenda. larry summers hardly needs an introduction. for the record, he serves as assistant to the president for economic policy and as director of the president's national economic council. previously, he has served as secretary of the

do we need more inspectors at mms, do we need more inspectors at the faa? absolutely.e have to find a way to deal with a collar's concerns. we have to put pressure on the middle and upper levels by forcing agencies to defend those jobs as they are being exited. we tend to view the retirement of baby boomers as a great crisis. it is actually a great opportunity. if people like me leave our job, we have an opportunity to say, do we still need that john, do they still want that job? it is an opportunity for us to do some hard thinking about the dynamics that the caller is addressing. host: natural. iraq on the democratic line -- national, tennessee. wreck on the democratic line democraticnashville, tennessee. rick on the democratic line. caller: there was an author who noted that significant events like the revolutionary war, world war ii, occur about every 80 years, and caused a major shift in society because of it. that book was written in 1986. unfortunately, he did not live long enough to see what happened in 2008. and i believe it validates his theory that about ever

and if you had an faa type system where the overall system was relatively reliable, what you do after an accident is less severe. industry understands that regulatory system is one of interest. and now we are so ideological that lesson gets lost. we will see. but i think it will take a while for people to come around. we hope that enough individuals in the senate, which used to be not so good about simply voting along party lines. can have an actual discussion of these issues and move us ahead. >> one thing that cries opportunity, you mentioned that politically regulated an agency with problems seems to be the easy part. but what the general public and what voters will hear about and what will resonate in campaign ads, is cap and trade. those that were in areas whether southern virginia and are getting crushed in the campaign ads. but cap and trade are the one things you are hear. what are the chances of that getting any where near 60 votes in the senate. is there some sort of scaled back alternative where it's sector by sector or just utility version versus economy wide. let me start

transportation reporter for the associated press gives details about a defense of our request to the faa to open up u.s. airspace to unmanned drones. that is live at 7:00 a.m. eastern here on c-span. >> he was a volatile, emotional, very complicated, kind of a depressive young man. he was very adventurists. when he was in america, he was 25 and having adventures. >> take a new look at alexis de tocqueville and his tour of america. there's a new book about it. we will discuss it sunday on c- span's "q&a." >> admiral thad allen says there is a major push to acquire more ships for skimming and additional protective booms. admiral allen is the government coordinator for the bp oil spill cleanup. he briefed reporters in new orleans for about half an hour. >> good morning, folks. i will give you a couple of updates on what is going on at the wellhead. i will be happy to take any questions you might have for me. i am pleased to report that in the 24-hour period ending last night, we were able to cover 25,000 barrels of oil. this is our new system of boats. enterprise and our exploitation of the

faa for one minute. -- fattah for one minute. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized for one minute. mr. fattah: the american people get it right. when they wanted to pick a party that would rein in the abuses of wall street they gave the majority in the house and senate to the democrats. you can hear from the other side that they obviously made the right choice because there is no willingness to deal with some of these challenges from my colleagues on the other side. i want to congratulate chairman barney frank. i met with him over a year ago about some of the challenges in terms of foreclosures in our country. in this bill is the result of language that i offered which replicated a very successful program in pennsylvania that we believe will help others throughout the country and thank migrate colleague from california, congresswoman waters, for her efforts to make sure that this was fully engaged by the committee. but beyond my proposal that it's included in terms of homeowners' assistance, in terms of foreclosur

we know the military, the faa, and other agencies will continue to require priority access to many of the most valuable portions of the public airwaves. since most of this capacity is not used, we strongly support the administration's efforts to develop the policies and resources that can take it vantage of smart radio technologies and open these bands the private sector for shared use in the future. finally, i would like to thank not only larry summers for his attention to this issue, but also the leadership of the commerce department. i would like to thank the white house office of science and technology policy. i thank them for supporting the fcc's national broadband plan. i know julius genachowski had wanted to be here. some of his key staff is. it is gone to take a team effort to move these issues to the top of the nation's economic and technology agenda. larry summers hardly needs an introduction. for the record, he serves as assistant to the president for economic policy and as director of the president's national economic council. previously, he has served as secretary of the

i guess i think we have a couple new areas be on the faa's top region. we have eqat operating in yemen. and we know abdulmutallab came out of that. now we seem to have the pakistani taliban going. so we have some new nodes that can produce externally directed terrorists. we have u.s.-per cent recruits. zazi and others, rather than what you saw earlier which is people coming in from outside and infiltrating are penetrating. in fact, would you have, and david headley has a weird situation. that is not the right word, but it is unusual. which is a u.s. person here, physically here, but extra only directed out of the united states for a tax with a double- attacks with an a.q. affiliate. the kind of turns our head. in this area of life as in all others, the increasing relevance of the internet is there, which does not respect geographic boundaries. that is my sort of amateur assessment of the threat environment. i do think it is a very serious in our men. and what i said when i was standing there before, which is a think there are a lot of people out there to