love became the commanding officer of the ferry squadron in new castle, delaware, which ferre ideaed planes around the country from factories to airbases. not long after that, cochran became commanding officer of the 319th women's flying training detachment in houston, texas, which provided basic flight instruction for the army air forces. on august 5, 1942 -- 1943, the squadrons were combined to form the women's air force service pilots. over 25,000 women applied to become pilots and only some 1,900 were selected for training. of these almost 1,100 eventually earned their wings, many in the hometown of sweet water, texas, in the district i get to represent. the women who volunteered to fly planes faced a world that we can squaresly imagine. while complaints of sexism in the workplace still continue today, in the 1940's, sexism was not the exception but the standard operating practice. the women of the wasp were paid less, trained within with inferior equipment, -- trained with inferior equipment and faced an openly hostile working environment. they had to pay for their room and boar

one is that she had a case some years ago that involved searches on a ferry that operated between vermont and canada and the question was the extent of the search you could subject passengers to and she sided with the government. she said it was reasonable under the circumstances, that a threat of terrorist attack warranted search. she got that one right. that one -- there's a case right now called aror where it involves a challenge by an individual who said that the u.s. government made a decision to improperly transfer him to another country where he was subjected to abuse. this was a case that was argued before an onbank panel on the second circuit so all judges participated in it. judge sotomayor participated, but for some reason i'm not sure why. she wasn't in new york but she was a very active questioner. it is a has ardous business trying to predict which way a judge will go. it seemed from her questions that she did not agree with the government's position. she was taking a more restrictive view of executive power and authority than the government had advocated. based on those two

actually, if i could date when she decided that war was going to be necessary, it was with harper's ferryhn brown and after that, she realized that the only way african-americans were going to get their freedom was through war and so she supported the civil war. >> all right. was it sexism or racism that kept her out of the inauguration. you said frederick douglass went to the inauguration and she didn't. >> frederick douglass got in through the intercession of a congressman. and sojourner truth went with the officer she was working with in arlington heights. and so they went in -- or tried to get in on two different occasions and douglass made a fuss and the congressman saw him and went over and prevailed upon the guards and lincoln, by the way, to let him in. with sojourner and the officer, he said if she can't go in, i can't go in. and so he turned on his heels with her and left. so it was racism because apparently the rule was that no people of color were ever to be allowed at washington receptions. so dougass got in because he was confrontational and there was someone in the inaugura

that i am seeing, as the companies that are involved begin production on the second ship of each ferrying, so, you know, we are seeing the time to produce similar assemblies coming down which means that cost is coming down. we have a drive to bring the cost down. i know that -- and there are members of the industry here who have the same passion, to get the costs down, because when i talk about capacity, lcs is the ship that will alleviate the capacity issue. but we have to get the costs down and that is something that industry will be working on and that is something we will be working on, to ensure that we do not add anything more to that ship, that causes change to occur which then causes for costs. and we are all committed to that. >> a follow-up? on the question of this... [inaudible] also on lcs, are you confident that you are going to meet the congressional cost cap for the 2010 ships or will you have to ask for -- >> we're in discussions on the cost caps. but, with regard to the 313, my perspective is, is one of having been a fleet commander in the pacific and the atlantic. seeing

vehicles have military utility, i would not object to the navy leasing and converting these commercial ferries. but i do ask the chairman and the gentleman from mississippi to work with me in conference with the other body to find an alternate offset for this. though the g.a.o. indicated there may be more than $50 million in excess funds for the lightweight torpedo program, the navy is in gaucheuations to precure at least 30 more torpedo upgrade kits with part of this money. in addition, they're moving to a full and open competition for the upgrade kits starting in 2010. the reduction is more than a third of the request and would substantially limit the navy's ability to complete this pam and continue to buy more upgrade kits. the navy is using the pressure of the future computation is get the best price possible on upgrade kits this year. the upgrade kits are necessary to provide -- to upgrade grade the torpedos against quiet submarines. i reserve the balance of my time. the chair: the gentleman from new jersey. >> i'm pleased to yield one minute to the gentlady from illinois, ms. schakowsky.

ferris is still a whole panoply of things. we need a lot of government oversight. this is not a unregulated market that is terrible. it is way too complicated. >> how you propose flooring insurance companies over had? >> again, i think this is another case of where we are aiming at the wrong target. i don't like fancy suites and million plus a dollar bonuses, etc. but it seems to be what do we want to focus on? we pay you and assess you're quality of care. how you achieve that, that will take experimentation and a lot of different kinds of initiative and i am less worried about that. as a matter of fact if we paid them and demand high quality care i don't think those perks will have a lot of money left over for that. it seems to me what we have got to do is focus what we want out of the system instead of trying to find evil people everywhere and say that is the problem. chief executives and pharmaceutical companies, too rich chief executive hospital too much money coming there are more than enough evil people in that arrangement. seems to me we want to focus more o

senator ferris, ok? he said show mate any way in which you are -- he said show me any way in which you are barred, and we will move. he has not done anything, ok? host: burtonsville, maryland, john, on our republican line. caller: yes, i want to ask ms. brown a couple of questions. i want to ask if she is familiar with the congressional budget office's understanding that it is going to cost $62,000 per american for obama's health care plan, and there is no medical liability reform. then the last lady -- i do not know how old she is, but in countries where they do have single-payer, you know, what happens to people who have cancer who are 65 or 70 or 75? one last comment. for example, i know cuba is something that is always trotted out. what do they do with aids patients in cuba? do they not send them to an island and segregate them? host: kerik to take any of those questions? -- do you care to take any of those questions? guest: i am familiar with the cbo numbers. orrin hatch put out the numbers from the

. >> guest: that was a classic example of the maneuvering ferry deathly around controversial and difficult questions. senator hutchison was asking genachowski whether not in these difficult times we might be able to allow some more consolidation , frankly some of our jobs, and if you can tell, he very charmingly talked about his experience in the media, and did one of these on the one hand to the other. we need to pay attention to consolidation but we have to be careful about the marketplace. i think we are going to see a lot of that coming from him, trying to balance the needs of the advocates, some of whom have supported him greatly and businesses to say we can't handle more regulation. >> guest: i think he is a very good dancer. newspapers, the news business is good. i don't know if business is good but fawn and diet can agree on that. i think the issue that senator hutchison was raising speaks more to republican fears or worries about overreaching, sweeping regulations that are going to be almost the anti-martin administration, and it is noteworthy though, she was only one of two repub

how a test pilot, nancy love, became the commander of the w.a.f., the women's auxiliary flying -- ferrying squadron in 1942. it's the story of how the w.f.o. and the w.a.f. merged in 1943 to become the wasp. the wasps would go on and fly 60 million miles. they would fly every type of aircraft. they would be stationed in 120 bases across the country. on december 20 of 1944, when victory was at hand, the wasps were quietly and unceremoniously disbanded. 38 lost their lives in the course of serving their country. however families and friends had to pay for their burial expenses. survivors had to pay their way back home because they were not considered a part of the military in an official capacity. many of their records were sealed and unavailable to historians until the 1980's. they didn't get veteran status until 1977. and this was done without a white house ceremony and it was done without the kind of fanfare that we would expect them to receive in this day and time. the story, mr. speaker, is one of few being honored, and their honors being accorded them too late and not enough thank yous

one is that she had a case some years ago that involved searches on a ferry that operated, i think, between vermont and maybe canada. the question was the extent of the search you could subject passengers to. she sided with the government in that case, that it was reasonable under the circumstance, that the threat of a terrorist attack warranted a more thorough search than warned in other cases. i think the she got that one right. there's a case spending -- pending right now in the second circuit that involves a challenge by an individual who said that u.s. government made a decision to improperly transfer him to another country where he was subjected to abuse. this was a case that was argued before an en banc panel of the second circuit and all the judges participated. judge sew tai -- sotomayor also participated, though she wasn't in new york and marties pated by video conference. it's thoord predict which way a judge will go based on his or her questions during an argument. it seemed from her questions that she did not agree with the government's position. that she was taking a more rest

[laughter] after she graduated from mount holyoke frances perkins went to work at ferry hall which is the women's college in lake forest. the rules there were very rigid, even the teachers were required to live on campus and their lives were very circumscribed, but she managed to to get over where she became a close ally of jane addams and the whole house lemon and became a very big advocate of the supplement house movement. she learned a lot there and learned a lot from them but she also learned a lot about what they were not succeeding at. they were very effective that raising consciousness and making people aware of problems but they didn't have a lot of success at implementing legislation that could change some of those problems. and provide solutions. she began to think very early in her mid-20s that she needed to, she needed to bring new ways to solve some of these problems and one of the first thing she did was begin to change who she was herself. she wasn't born frances perkins. she was born fannie cora lee perkins. it would have been hard for fannie to become secretary of lab

i noticed in the book that most counterinsurgency ferris talk heavily about a role of intelligence and when i read the book and noticed an absence of that so you get to the very end and talk about the need to restructure the intelligence community for purposes of going after non-state actors. could you elaborate on that a little bit? i was just struck by the absence of the intelligence story. >> is tom here? like can't see him. i actually writing a chapter on intelligence for tom's upcoming book. haven't got injury for on it i'm afraid. i had a sort of a editorial issue in the book about how much to say about the intelligence process and conflicts that are currently ongoing. i had a lot of material how we did intelligence and iraq and how the intelligence process has worked in afghanistan. ultimately i decided not to put that in the book. i felt like i don't want this to become the cooper book so i pulled back from putting that in but what i did leave was all that stuff about the anthropological characteristics and the way the politics of these groups work. so i tried to leave the disc

as something of a hero that the straits on campus did not come to work on me as they did the other ferries. he himself would be honored to do such a thing but, of course, he had too many familiar responsibilities. jennings said, i was to be the lucky one. after breakfast had called an emergency meeting and the mattachine clan contained in jennings' house leader that i to hear the news and discuss a strategy. however, his recollection of the rest differ somewhat. from jennings version. quotes, dale had just broken off with bob hall and was not i know the feeling very great. he told me that he had met someone in the can at was like park and the man had his hand on his garage the bill was an interested, he said the man insisted on calling him home and almost pushes way to the door. he asked for coffee and one tail got it he saw the man moving the window blind as a signaling someone. he got scared and bill started to say something when there was a seven pounding on the door and dale was arrested. of course, no one will ever know exactly what happened that night except, of course, for jenning

hours, for example, which is the legal amount during the day and then continue on in a part 91 or a ferryhere's no passenger in a character which they move it to a maintenance site. we believe that needs to be changed >> all right. then the second thing i was thinking about from just commonsense is that the pilots for the regional carriers are flying these shorter distances and they are flying at lower t altitudes it seems harder when you're down close; is that right. >> certainly you're exposed to more convective weather although i would note almost humorously every airplane i flew i got one that would clear all the weather and i never indigent one that would. >> you'd have an argument because they're on these shorter flights and they might be more -- deal with this worse weather i'm just thinking it again goes to the training requirements that they may have to deal more often with more difficult situations if they're doing multiple flights that are at lower altitudes. >> that's absolutely true and the focus of shooting a very tight instrument approach -- if you're going to shoot an appr

located in the eastern panhandle of the state near the famous civil war sites of antietam and harper's ferry. founded by thomas shepherd in 1734 and chartered by the virginia assembly in 1762, it is the oldest town in the state. today shepherdstown is home to a division of the u.s. fish and wild life service, a bureau of the department of interior. that's where q&a campers went in late april to talk to historian douglas brinkley about his book on the influence of our 26th president on the history of the conservation movement. the book is titled, wilt chamberlain -- "the wilderness warrior: theodore roosevelt and the crusade for america." >> doug brinkley, why did you want to start our conversation about your book at this center. well, this is the national conservation training center. this is where biologists get trained and make sure that our rivers and that our marshlands are taken care of that manage endangered species, it's the headquarters of fish and wild life but conservationist leaders come all over the world for seminars and learn proper methods and techniques. here on the side like

eight hours for example which is the legal amount during the day and then continue on in part 91 or ferry status where there's no passengers on the aircraft and they loved and maintenance site which could be another hour or two or three away. we believe that needs to be changed. >> the second thing i was thinking about from the common sense are the pilots from the regional carriers flying shorter differences and low were altitudes and can that lead or at least that's how i feel it feels harder when you were down close. is that right? >> certainly you are exposed to more convected whether although i would note humorously every airplane i ever fluke was. [laughter] >> but you have an argument because they are on these shorter flights and might be more -- deal with worse weather and going back to the training, do they have to deal with more difficult situations if they're doing multiple flights edouard altitudes? >> that is true and there's another thing we have to take into consideration and that is where the science comes in again, the focus at shooting a very tight instrument approach, if