listened to the debate it sounds like the ghost from the hoover republicans trying to stop franklin d. roosevelt from rebuilding this country and making it a great nation again and putting it in a position where it could fight and win world war ii. what he did was invest in the people and invest in the country and we did it and it worked. and i make no apologies for our attempt to invest in the children of the grand prairie in stuttgart, arkansas. so i rise today in support of the funding for the art center of the grand prairie. the art center is a nonprofit organization that provides after school and summer programs for troubled youth. while the art center provides valuable artistic instruction and activities, we don't need to turn this into an argument over whether the federal government should be a patron of the arts. we need to look at the real point of the program. engaging at-risk youth and preventing crime. this is the benefit the federal government and society as a whole will derive from this project. it is a worthwhile investment in our children. the funds for this project come from the

also in the article they read that a paid home lodge to democratic icons such as franklin d. roosevelt and john f. kennedy and singled out gop bogeymen, too. without referring to the name of his likely republican opponent, former pennsylvania rep pat toomey, specter warned that his phone -- fell would be a senator who is far outside the mainstream, a senator who makes bricks santorum look like a liberal. that is from this morning's politico. joe, open phones. hi there, from -- on the democrats' line. caller: i would just like to talk a little bit about our mountain top removal issue here in west virginia. currently there has been approximately 1 million acres of mountain range removed in west virginia by the practice of mountaintop remover. they just basically go in and remove the entire mountain range, down approximately 1,000 feet on average, to read -- remove this -- remove the coal. what it does come it deforest our mountains, we have an undated -- we have been inundated with flooding. and those heavy metals are released during the mining process. more than 1,200 miles of streams h