the goldwater family in arizona is one. there was a day in which women's health care was not considered a political issue. unfortunately, times have changed. i think we are seeing help -- women's health care used as a political issue. >> you have a part in that. planned parenthood takes a political position. >> we do on behalf of women. we are not aligned with tea party. we support anyone who supports women's health care access. we are seeing this played out in this congress. the decisions that congress makes or that state legislatures make on women's health care access have an enormous effect on women's lives. it would be irresponsible of us not to be involved in advocating for both policies and for people to support women's health care. i am very heartened by the positions of some of the newer members of the senate and some of the tried and true supporters of health care in the united states. they recognize that this is not a partisan issue. i look forward to the day in which we can take the politics out of women's health

young testified before an mention goldwater-nichols.goldwater-nichols is an excellent example of how the congress helped incentivize the department of defense department of defense by incentivizing joint assignment as a useful tool for promotion at the department of defense and that was one example. when you have a program like to be 22, which has approximately 20 years development cycle, you've had five, possibly 10 program managers on that. you're different people people to set requirements and different people who do cost estimating. who is responsible? the people that do the requirements? people that do a cost estimate for the five to 10 program managers that you have. it's hard to incentivize when he don't know who to incentivize or how lengthier there. i'll just give another example. the joint strike fighter is a joint program as a result of the stack between services every two years, which can result in a different program manager every two years and possibly different acquisition roles depending on the service. two of the questi

[applause] you can trace his conservative roots at least to his running a students for goldwater campaign. after a legal career, he served three republican presidents beginning with ronald reagan. it was during his time at the justice department that he was tasked with shepherding justice scalia through his confirmation process. he served both bush administration's. s. it was during the tumultuous senate commission hearings that senator joe biden compared sending john bolton to the u.n. to send in a bull threw a china shop. -- sending a bullet through a china shop. it may be the nicest thing anyone has ever said about john bolton. at a time when we have not had a full discussion -- would have to have a discussion on what america is in decline. it is critical that u.s. foreign and national security is part of the debate. we have no one better to discuss these issues and our next speaker. a big welcome for john bolton. -- ambassador john bolton. [applause] >> thank you very much. they a of you for staying here all day. i want to thank steve king where the opportunity to join you today. this

both folks you put up there huckaby and michelle box box monday, barry goldwater got the nomination after one one primary, but it doesn't help you in the general election. helps you a great deal i guess but if you cannot get into the middle then you have a real problem. >> what did they say about the value of advertising at this point in the upcoming election, 2012? >> reagan. >> what did he say? >> he said people watch toothpaste ads more than political ads at this stage. >> president nixon once said that the general public only begins focusing on a presidential campaign about three weeks before the actual election day. i think both of those names, they might have the most intensity and passion on the conservative side, but i'm not sure either one of them is actually going to run. >> name omitted. >> sarah palin. >> don al trump! >> if you have no -- no recognition. >> jeb bush. >> was he up there. >> no. >> i think he was up there. >> john, if you have no name recognition now is a good time frankly to get yourself known cheaply with advertising, but somebody like trump is universally kn

they think they are going to win, as opposed to the barry goldwater generation who played really on the fringe of politics for so long or you saw paul wye rick after the last election and the impeachment battle in the number not being on their side during that. he wrote that memo, basically, saying he was going t check out of politics. he was through with it. these guys don't play like that. they want to return to the days of ronald reagan, and they think they will. and there is a sense of -- even though there's a sense of being -- there's somewhat a sense of being an underdog and they feel they have battled a liberal press, they feel they have battled liberal groups that are standing with the press in washington. they also believe themselves part of the process winners. they are part -- it is not an accident that they really became an important part of the republican party. >> let's talk a little about them. grover norquest comes from what era? is he married? does he have kids? >> grover is known sort of for his bachelorhood. he borrows a lot of lenon and marxist rhetoric to make his p

. >> senator, barry goldwater has been in the senate for ten years, a little better than ten years.as he accomplished anything there that you think is particularly noteworthy? >> from that first appearance what started out as terror turned into tena city. >> why does the governor of georgia after two years in office decide four years in advance that he's going run for president of the united states? >> but it was this exchange with presidential hopeful and texas businessman reciprocity perot in 1993 that broder later stood out as one of his most memorable. >> a friend of mine said why bother? he never gives you a specific answer. i want you to prove them wrong and help me win a bet. in your budget you have $141 billion of savings on medicare and medicaid programs. how do you get it? >> well, if you had told me that you wanted that i would have come in with a very detailed list and given to it you. >> in two months you haven't felt like you need to take up that challenge. >> yes, i have. i have it all written down. i didn't bring with it me. if you asked me to bring it i would have b

you are almost saying we needed a second goldwater, that we need to go further merging the command structuresof the military from the standpoint of spending. is that pretty much of the sustained part of your report? >> i think there needs to be some outside intervention in order to break some of the stovepipes that the movie. >> chairman davis, you've certainly seen this then you are here for the process. would you say that's one of the things the committee should look at us learned when they no longer belong to the military, yet they are still costing the taxpayers? >> the mckinney act was passed to think with the greatest of intentions, but at the end of the day i think the priority has shifted from how do we use this to happen we put this back on the taxco and hungry get money back for the federal government? for borrowing 40 cents on the dollar. it's not attainable. we have to start looking at cost. i agree. >> thank you your one last question to follow up is you've been very supportive. i remember your organization and several others were supported about us that the course of the ability

so for instance i couldn't make george mcgovern beat richard nixon or barry goldwater beat lyndon johnson, he says there's no soviet domination in eastern europe, he's given a chance to correct himself. no, i meant it. cost him a week. that election was decided by a sfu thousand votes in a few states. not the popular vote. now he's president. instead of jimmy carter. does the shah of iran fall a year later? his national security adviser who i interviewed said we never would have let him fall because the ayatollah comes to power. there's no hostage crisis. there's dozens of things big and small all changed by the merest little twist of fate. and that's the lesson of the book i think. >> how long did it take you i guess from conception to actually puttinged words on paper. because this had to be something you were thinking about for a long time. >> that's exactly right. from the idea of actually doing the book and persuading the publisher to write it maybe 15 months. from thinking about this to writing a book, 15 years. >> yeah, wow. >> and i've got to pick up the pace. >> exactly. just loo

you are almost saying we needed a second goldwater, that we need to go further merging the command structuresof the military from the standpoint of spending. is that pretty much of the sustained part of your report? >> i tnk there needs to be some outside intervention in order to break some of the stovepipes that the movie. >> chairman davis, you've certainly seen this then you are here for the process. would you say that's one of the things the committee should look at us learned when they no longer belong to the military, yet they are still costing the taxpayers? >> the mckinney act was passed to think with the greatest of intentions, but at the end of the day i think the priority has shifted from h do we use this to happen we put this back on the taxco and hungry get money back for the federal government? for borrowing 40 cents on the dollar. it's not attainable. we have to start looking at cost. i agree. >> thank you your one last question to follow up is you've been very supportive. i remember your organization and several others were supported about us tt the course of the ability to ma

goldwater. mr. herr, you're recognized. >> ranking member lynch and members of the committee, i'm pleased to be here today to participate in this hearing. today i will discuss the postal service's financial condition and outlook, and the actions needed to modernize and restructure it. the postal service financial condition has declined significantly since fiscal year 2006 and remains on gao's high risk a list. as discussed the challenges faced the postal service are linked to decreases in mail volumes, as customers have shifted to electronic indications and payment alternatives. more specifically profitable first class mail has been declining relatively quickly. while male use has been declining postal service has large fixed costs associated with delivering to 150 million addresses. it also has a large as coal network spanning over 500 mail processing facilities and more than 32000 post offices. it has 670,000 employees, about 80% work full time. and compensation benefits comprise 80% of its costs.

[applause] you can trace his conservative roots at least to his running a students for goldwater campaign, and after yale law and a legal career, john boldin served three republican presidents beginning with ronald reagan. it was during this time that john alden was task of shepherding justice scalia through his confirmation process. he also served both bush administrations, the first in the state department then as you and ambassador to the un. it was during these rather tumultuous senate confirmation hearings that then senator joe biden compared sending boldin to the un to sending able to china shop. in a berkeley, may be the nicest thing anyone has ever said about -- inadvertently it may be the nicest thing anyone has ever said about john bolton. at a time when we have not even really had a full discussion on whether america is in decline is critical that u.s. ford, and national security is part of our greater debate. we have no one better to discuss these issues than our next speaker. a big welcome to ambassador john boldin. -- john golsonbolton. [cheers and applause] >> thank you ver

[applause] you can trace his conservative roots to the students goldwater campaign [unintelligible] it was during this time that he was tasked with shepherding justice scalia through his confirmation process. he also served in both the bush administration'sns. it was during the tumultuous senate confirmation hearings that senator joe biden compared sending him to the un as sending able to a china shop. -- a bull to a china shop. it might be the nicest thing ever said about ambassador john bolton. at a time where we haven't even had a full discussion -- got we have to have a discussion of whether america is in decline. it is clear that it is part of our greater debate. we have no one better to discuss these issues that our next speaker. please welcome ambassador john bolton. [applause] >> thank you. thank you very much. thank all of you first day in all day and having patience for being here. i want to thank steve cain for having the opportunity to join you today. -- steve king for having the opportunity to join you today. i would like to joiturn the discussion to national security. ou

you are almost saying we needed a second goldwater, that we need to go further merging the command structuresof the military from the standpoint of spending. is that pretty much of the sustained part of your report? >> i think there needs to be some outside intervention in order to break some of the stovepipes that the movie. >> chairman davis, you've certainly seen this then you are here for the process. would you say that's one of the things the committee should look at us learned when they no longer belong to the military, yet they are still costing the taxpayers? >> the mckinney act was passed to think with the greatest of intentions, but at the end of the day i think the priority has shifted from how do we use this to happen we put this back on the taxco and hungry get money back for the federal government? for borrowing 40 cents on the dollar. it's not attainable. we have to start looking at cost. i agree. >> thank you your one last question to follow up is you've been very supportive. i remember your organization and several others were supported about us that the course of the ability

made a sandwich for barry goldwater. a moment in her life. frances casway from hollywood, florida.. a lot of neighborhood people did that. kept us safe at night. cecila finnegan from rocky point, new york. her secret is eating well and having a great sense of humor. i concur, as ke say. and searl watson from deer, ark. a proud world war ii vet, walks without a cane. straight as an arrow. charlotte stanley of boone, north carolina is 100 years old. passionate school teacher. her students still come visit her from time to time. harrison new york's bert askwith is 100 years old. founded his own coach bus service. still runs the business and goes in to work. i telle y you, that's the secre. carmen appel is 104 years old. very independent and absolutely a delightful person to be with. giving is living. that's the motto. back to new york city where the sun always shines. >> mr. scott, thank you very much. when we come back, mr. roker gets a little bit of a send-up on jimmy fallon's show. first this is "today" on nbc. >>> back now at 8:39 with one of the biggest rising stars of the democr