president gerald r. ford was a distinguished member and minority leader of this chamber, a man of the house. he was vice president of the united states and our 38th president. a proud citizen of the great state of michigan, president ford served this nation at a time of great national pain and turmoil. he ablely served and held us heal our wounds. this resolution allows that the direction of the people of michigan, the rotunda be used for a ceremony for president ford's honor this year. it allows for the statue to be permanently displayed as part of the national staff wear hall collection. this bill, introduced by mr. upton, and our colleagues of the michigan delegation, should garner overwhelming bipartisan support. so i thank mr. upton for introducing it and i urge all my colleagues to support h.con.res 27. and i reserve the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from california reserves. the lady from california is recognized. ms. woolsey: mr. speaker, i yield myself such time as i

losses of conscious from now on sort of playing it gerald to what you were just talking about what do you make of this and also of you know what's happening next there nato is a code word for the united states they've changed the date change the language every time you read a new york times or any of these other so-called papers of record when people get killed or there are strikes in afghanistan that kill innocent people they always use the term nato it's mostly the us and yes the prime minister of turkey is one hundred percent correct again the hypocrisy is before our very own eyes look what's go on in the ivory coast as we have a look what's going on in the sudan as we speak look what's going on in bahrain with this happens to be as we speak and you don't hear hillary clinton say we have to take out those tyrants no it's about the bottom line and that's all it's ever about it's not about a humanitarian crisis and besides that it's a civil war and it's none of the united states business here it's talking about the republicans and the democrats about balancing the budget in the u.s.

so then gerald i mean it's very easy to say everything that's wrong here but what if you had a you know if i have minutes with president obama well how would you advise him on what's going on here well it's not advising him on anything i've made this very clear and over and over again if you want to see the problems in the united states obama's part of it it's called harvard princeton. bullets bombs and banks these are the people that run the country and i'm not making this up is rhetoric take a look at the supreme court oh really supreme isn't it all that and yeah well you look at wall street you look at the people in the administration and the greed ministration before that before that so that's what's going on and these are the people that are in charge who's the head of the federal reserve over princeton no this is all it is they have members of the club and this is the dirty business that the club does switching gears here jerrold i want to talk about sales of new homes that report came out recently that shows last month they fell fails new homes fell to the lowest level on record

law recognized in alabama courts but who cares about the facts right certainly not state senator gerald allen who isn't buying it he's the solo sponsor of as the sixty two a bill that would ban alabama courts from using sharia law or international law making legal decisions but there's something very fishy about his bill and tonight we want to show you what doesn't seem to fit the in the bill it defines therea as a form of religious law derived from two primary sources of islamic law the divine revelation set forth in the koran and the example set by the islamic prophet muhammad and when reporters now begin looking at this bill they did a little bit of digging and what they found was pretty interesting if you google shari'a law you'll find nearly the exact same definition on one very popular website so here's their definition most muslims believe shari'a is derived from two primary sources of islamic law the divine revelation set forth in the koran and the example set by the islamic prophet muhammad in the sooner i'll guess which popular website you can find this definition here's. clue

captioning sponsored by wpbt captioned by media access group at wgbh access.wgbh.org >> gerald stern was born in pittsburgh, 1925. his parents immigrated from poland and ukraine. gerald stern, who said, "poetry should be passionate and outrageous and political and most of all revolutionary." >> in all these rotten shops, in all this broken furniture and wrinkled ties and baseball trophies and coffee pots i have never seen a post-war philco with the automatic eye nor heard ravel's "bolero" the way i did in 1945 in that tiny living room on beechwood boulevard, nor danced as i did then, my knives all flashing, my hair all streaming, my mother red with laughter, my father cupping his left hand under his armpit, doing the dance of old ukraine, the sound of his skin half drum, half fart, the world at last a meadow, the three of us whirling and singing, the three of us screaming and falling, as if we were dying, as if we could never stop--in 1945-- in pittsburgh, beautiful filthy pittsburgh, home of the evil mellons, 5,000 miles away from the other dancing--in poland and germany-- oh god of

gerald ford couldn't walk up and down a flight of stairs without falling.even eisenhower was incoherent and ronald reagan of course in the words of clifford that was the republican side. that is what the media has presented. how about if you're a black republican. are you exultant from this? not at all. in fact, you go from being a sacred cow if you're a liberal to being hamburger if you are a black conservative. here is without proving what follows come here is what steve said to clarence thomas when clarence thomas's book my grandfather's son can now. he's describing to thomas what his reputation was in the media circles. a man of little accomplishment, an opportunistic black conservative who sold out his race, joined the republican party, and was ultimately rewarded with an affirmative action appointment to the nation's highest court. a sold of intellectual lightweight so insecure he rarely opened his mouth and oral arguments. that's what they told clarence thomas to his face. they are not racist, of course not. and david grumet this could be the opponen

star the definition was in fact pulled from wikipedia and when asked to define shari'a law senator gerald allen couldn't because he said he didn't have his notes in front of him talk about incompetent sounds like senator george allen and his staff are really doing a bang up job for the people of alabama working on fighting threats that don't exist and basing legal language off of wiki pedia just with the taxpayers' knee. now do you remember when the obama administration pledged to be the most transparent in american history and what a promise that was unfortunately if you look at the situation from a legal perspective it ministrations actions couldn't be more opposite from their stated promises at least when it comes to whistleblowers and will and a little more than two years that obama has been in office prosecutors have filed criminal charges in five separate cases involving unauthorized distribution of classified national security information to the media compare that to the fact that in the last forty years that only happened three times so three in forty years versus five in two year

it is an honor of being involved with anything involving gerald ford's name. he was definitely a hero. i was asked to focus on legal ethics. the first thing i like to point out is that is not an oxymoron. what does that mean in this context? i was told once at that ethics involves being unethical person and someone who always does more than what is required but less than what is permitted. in the legal context, that is true. in the state of michigan, the bar association itself regulated. that means the discipline system is run by the lawyers, with ultimate oversight from the supreme court, but all of the attorneys are members of the state bar, it is self policed. i came up with some statistics. are trying to figure out, ethically, how are we doing in the state of michigan? into this one, there were 34,000 members of the state bar. that year, there were 3500 request for investigation, which means basically 10% rate of infection. -- rate of incidence. in 2010, there were 41,000 members. only 2800 requests for investigation. that would seem to indicate we are doi

it is an honor to be inviting to anything concerning gerald ford. i was asked to focus on legal efforts. that is not an oxymoron. when i sat down and thought about it, what does that mean in this context? i was told once that ethics and balls being an ethical person -- someone who always does more than what is required, but less than what is permitted. in the legal context, that is true. in the state and michigan, the attorney discipline system is run by the lawyers with the ultimate oversight by the supreme court. we felt the least. i came up with some statistics. i was trying to figure out how we were doing in the state of michigan. in 2001, there were over 33,000 members of the state bar. last year, there were 3000 under investigation. this means there was a 10.37% rate of retraction. in 2010 there were 41,133 lawyers and only 2803 request for investigation. that would seem to indicate that we were doing better ethically. it runs contrary to what one would think. we had to focus on a few things. one thing i would urge you to consider, there are a

so gerald ford loses to carter and reagan beats him. if gerald ford -- >> depending on the economy and the nominees. i went to a highly favored established democrat. ted kennedy in 1980, hill tree clinton in 08 and i found a first term new idea democratic senator who takes an audacious gamble and runs against him in the 1980 primary. >> charlie: gary huff. >> that's correct. >> charlie: he was a quote from the geography to topography, natural resources, the search for wealth migrations all set the framework but the random roll of the dice is as potent a force as any he writes. a shift in the weather, a slightly different choice of words, open up a literally limitless series of possibilities. >> perhaps it's not limitless that's an exaggeration but it's certainly extensive. >> charlie: what's interesting here is the theory of history how it can change and how history can change on the other side and does change by the assassin. lincoln take ravine, take kennedy. >> how about 1916 chen charles evans goes to california running against rich

now, gerald ford, probably the best athlete ever to occupy the white house. all-american football player, champion skier, golfer. chevy chase was on that first season of saturday night live when they campaigned. here is what he said later. i wanted carter and and ford out. i figured, we are reaching millions of people every weekend. why not do it. do we think that teen if they had any more honorable motives in her weekly slender of sarah palin? i don't think so. now, as to the democrats, are they as smart as they appear to back but in 1956 with a little help from justice kennedy, a lot of help, he won the pulitzer prize. drew pearson, the leading mike richter of the day went on mike wallace's show and accused ted sorensen of actually writing that book. what the kennedys had sorenson do was to go on the air and swear under oath that he did not read the book. he had been leaking all along that he did. he finally admitted as much in his memoir. he wrote the book. jfk won a pulitzer prize for a book he did not right. that's not to say he stupid. just not as smart

actually close midway through the fourth, gerald wallace gave portland the leadç for good.pleted a sweep of the magic. 89-85. >>> hornets without their star, chris paul held out after suffering a concussion on sunday. david rose gave the hornets headaches all night. continued his mvp campaign with 24 points and nine assists. chicago won it, 85-77. >>> bit of history in minnesota, kevin love picked up his 51st consecutive double-double. that ties him with moses malone for the longest streak in nba history. unfortunately for them, not enough. they lost 108-105. >>> now to new york where joe fraser is gin a standing ovation. amare had 31. carm elo anthony had 34. new york's two stars didn't play the second half because this one over by half time. knicks won. >>> another game, another highlight reel dunk from blake griffin. off the fastbreak, clippers beat the bobcats 92-87. >>> finally, manly beat with spring training and that does not stop nick swisher from playing like it's the world series. taking on the phils. nick swisher of his horse, back handed grab and over the fence.

schwarzenegger, who is a leader in reducing green house emissions, and our legislator don perada and gerald huffman who you will hear from later on in the program, and of course our mayor, gavin newsom. gavin newsom has been a leader of the environment before it was the sexy thing to do. he has been responsible for putting solar power at moscone center; responsible for putting power at san francisco international airport; responsible for putting solar power at the waste water facility in the bayview hunter's point. he will be responsible for putting power on our libraries, on our schools, and everywhere possible in the city and county of san francisco. we're very fortunate that this mayor has been the first mayor to create a climate action plan that will reduce the green house emissions by 20 percent by the year 2012. this mayor has also been a leader and innovation and we're looking at creating -- in harnessing paddle power below the golden gate bridge and that will be done under gavin newsom's leadership. so please put your hands together and give a warm san francisco welcome to our mayor

france forecaster gerald celente says it's not support for the libyan people but interest in the country's oil fields that's driving us rhetoric and action. the only reason they're interested with libya is back to you oil we hear anybody screaming and yelling about all those people last week they were killed in the ivory coast or the sudan and i guess cocoa was that that you know as much of a national priority they don't try anything but we already heard hillary clinton say that they're willing to do anything for anybody in libya that needs aid so they're putting it out there already they're talking about no fly zones and they have pockets of sea is just beyond belief i mean for example they did has anybody called for a war criminal trials against mubarak as they all are for the you know in all of the the world is the western world of calling for his head but the other heads in bahrain and in yemen and in egypt you know they're ok tunisia leave them alone but they're calling for gadhafi said why because it's so loyal yet think we'd be in iraq if that major acts were right there was broccol

well gerald from the trends research institute says nato is just a cover for the u.s. and the libyan mission is about control of the country's oil. when people get killed or there are strikes in afghanistan they kill innocent people they always use the term nato it's mostly the us and yes the prime minister of turkey is one hundred percent correct again the hypocrisy is before our very own eyes it's so all this is is the united states doing what it's become accustomed to do and that is that attack any country it wants to have any tied to any reason that it could make up and the new reason that they made up is perfectly orwellian a humanitarian crisis so you kill people to solve the humanitarian crisis and you take dictators out that you don't like because really what's behind this and i've said it before would united states be in iraq if their major export was broccoli or would they be in libya. if they weren't holding on to those sweetest of sweet crude oil on the planet. several un members including rostov express their concern over the risk to civilians in libya as

skeeter all of our reporting from cairo meanwhile trans forecaster gerald celeb to says it's not support for libyan people but interest in the country's vast oil fields that's driving u.s. actions. the only reason they're interested in with libya is matthew oil we hear anybody screaming and yelling about all those people last week that were killed in the ivory coast or the i guess cocoa was that that you know of much of a national priority if they don't show anything but we already heard hillary clinton say that they're willing to do anything for anybody in libya that needs aid so there's a pretty good out there already that fluffy about no fly zones and they have popular sea is just being on the police i mean for example they it has anybody called for a war criminal trials against mubarak as they are for gadhafi in all of the the world is the western world are calling for his head but the other heads in bahrain and in yamin and in egypt and are are you know they're ok tunisia leave them alone what they're calling for gadhafi said why because its soil you think we'd be in iraq it's a maj

that's one of the reasons why a country like japan but yeah i remember jimmy carter saying it ok gerald ford excuse me but you know that's why countries like japan go to this guy because the ok all right does anybody want to topple you and here i think you're right but richard nixon. and this is why countries go this route to make specially island country like japan. there's a limited resources for energy they've done this i mean we have to remember the obvious truth this is a country that was the first victim of that of atomic weapons i mean they know it's power ok my point is is that they would have already gone down all these green routes wouldn't they if they had could have been a paper that was beneficial on a massive scale. take of actually for years been sort of have government programs to subsidize the construction of solar and wind energy and the problem is it has not made a huge contribution the utilities of course are huge companies and can and they prefer to focus on the large plants nuclear power was seen as a way as in france of getting a fair amount of independence althou

. >> reporter: signing the bill gerald schumer just passed similar legislation. they have to fix the recall within three months. enterprise says it now completes 90% of its repairs in 30 days. >> the last thing you want to think about when renting a car. you are in a hurry, you've got bags and the whole thing. you've got someplace to be. you don't want to be looking up whether it is okay. >> but if you have a smart phone you've got the vin number and if you've got a toyota type in the vin number and double- check. >> that is easy and it is worth it. julie, thank you. >>> the barry bonds perjury trial now. today a former childhood friend of the baseball king says that bonds knowingly took steroids and there are audio tapes to support that claim. joe vasquez with what's on those tapes? >> reporter: allen, it is stormy out here and it was stormy in the courtroom, too. the friend put a tape-recorder in his jacket and had a conversation with barry bonds' personal trainer. steve hoskins a former personal assistant to barry bonds took the witness stand where he immediat

gerald, thank you. caller: the old same, if you want to live like a republican, both for a democrat. by and large, the economies have improved under a democratic president and there has been more business expansion. i mention of the clinton era. it has been one of the more positive in recent times. i want to address what he said about not making a sacrifice. we need to overcome that. i would say, and gerald, you might not be able to identify what this government has spent in that effort to help you, but a lot of it has had to do with the security of our nation and building infrastructure. we all consider to be the greatest nation on earth, and we need to make certain that we right the ship, which means in dealing with the deficit in honest terms. the deficit report was a bipartisan effort to put everything on the table and deal with our issues. here is the thing that is not sustainable. for every dollar we spend, we borrow 40 cents. we bar would primarily from china and the opec nations. these are not t

one would place a statue of former president gerald ford in the u.s. capitol.n c- span. tomorrow members will consider a sixth short-term spending bill for the federal government that would cut about $6 billion of current spending levels and it would extend until april 8. you will be able to see that on c-span3 at 5:00 p.m. eastern. >> tonight, technology and telecommunications policy with chairman of the house subcommittee on communications, represented greg walden, on the communicators, on c-span2. >> right now you can listen to c-span signature programming with iphone or on your md 3 player. the latest books and authors, people in the news, an interesting conversation on "q&a". listen to a variety of public affairs broadcasts whenever you want. everything you need to know is on line at c-span.org/podcast. cracks walter dellinger last week predicted president obama as health care law will be upheld by the supreme court. this is the second of the three day meeting the organization held in washington. it is about an hour and 15 minutes. >> we have an all-star p

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gerald, thank you.ame, if you want to live like a republican, both for a democrat. by and large, the economies have improved under a democratic president and there has been more business expansion. i mention of the clinton era. it has been one of the more positive in recent times. i want to address what he said about not making a sacrifice. we need to overcome that. i would say, and gerald, you might not be able to identify what this government has spent in that effort to help you, but a lot of it has had to do with the security of our nation and building infrastructure. we all consider to be the greatest nation on earth, and we need to make certain that we right the ship, which means in dealing with the deficit in honest terms. the deficit report was a bipartisan effort to put everything on the table and deal with our issues. here is the thing that is not sustainable. for every dollar we spend, we borrow 40 cents. we bar would primarily from china and the opec nations. these are not the easiest credito

with the wakefield paper, all or did it go back further and the reference was to the 1976 effort by gerald ford to do a swine flu immunization campaign that was a debacle for a number of reasons. this specific fear about autism started here, but i think your point is absolutely correct, that there have encyclical scares about vaccines as long as there have been vaccines. most of the time what has happened is when a disease is endemic in a society, everyone wants the vaccine and then when a vaccine is effective, people then start to, people then start to become more concerned about the vaccines potential repercussions. sort of this vicious cycle and paradox of vaccines. the more effective they are the less necessary they seem. and so, and then there had been again throughout history incidents in which vaccine safety was poorly handled or communication about vaccine efforts was very poorly handled, and because this is what -- what i'm about to say is probably a situation people are more familiar with than with a swine flu in 1976. the example i bring up is the current, the current situation

he's an award winning writing winning the gerald r. ford award three times on national defense. i believe that's a record. james has twice won the military reporters and editors award as well as in the diehl school of journalism for excellence in reporting for his first-hand coverage of the war in afghanistan and the surge in iraq. he's an author of "war and destiny," and prodigal soldiers" please welcome james and deputy commissioner aguilar of the borders protection. [applause] [applause] >> good to meet you. gerald f. ford was a good man. i miss him dearly. i've been covering this beat for a long time. as we've been watching what's unfolding in japan, the middle east, i forget there's a very serious crisis with the country much closer to us, which is in mexico, which is fighting really a life and death struggle i think for the future of that country with these very poweful drug traffic and organization. 30,000 mexicans have lost their lives in that struggle. we are intimately involved in this. the country's veracious appetite for drugs that is fueling that war, basically, goi

who was on that first season of "saturday night live" when the campaign against -- between gerald ford and jimmy carter was in progress. here's what chevy chase in i wanted carter in and wanted ford out look we're reaching millions of people every weekend, why not do it, right? do we think tina fey had any honorable motives in her weekly slam of sarah palin? i don't think so. now, the democrats, are they as smart as they appear. let's start with jfk. in 1956, with a little help from joseph kennedy, a lot of help that from joseph kennedy, he won the pulitzer prize from profiles of courage. joe peterson went on mike wallace's show on abc and accused ted sorenson of actually writing that book, profiles in courage. what the kennedys had sorenson do being the servile on retrain go under oath and swear he did not write the book. he had been leaking all along that he did write the book and he finally admitted as much in his memoir called counselor. he wrote the book. jfk won a pulitzer prize for a book he did not write. that's not to say he's stupid. it's not to say as stupid. they are not as