same time stripping of the senate passed detainee fodor provision offered by senators lieberman and grammnference report is also being used by the appropriators as a back door for finding quote base requirements. house allocations for 2010 commonly referred to as 302 allocations cut defense spending by 3.5 billion and a reduced international affairs spending by 3.2 billion. in other words, this line of hand of adding on emergency program funding to supplemental appropriations is becoming all too familiar as a way of skirting fiscal discipline by increasing discretionary spending above the congressional discretionary catch out blind in the budget resolution. another riss mr. president we are continually that unfortunately, and also in the previous administration. again about cash for clunkers. in his remarkable. on june 16th, 2009, citizens against government waste wrote a memo to the members of seven sitting that this provision quote, is really another bailout for the auto industry. american taxpayers have already spent $85 billion and leaned out on to automotive companies, we and the uni

hostguest: regarding phil gramm, there are many people who can share the blame. it is not a party-specific or person-pacific, or regulator, specific. there was a grand failure overall in the system. people just messed up. in terms of the de-regulatory philosophy, they are trying to address that now. you will see stronger ones. the hope is not to go too far. that they find some way to balance it. host: you write in your piece about the release of trading secrets such as how many shares of stock have been borrowed and sold. you " richard baker, former member of the house. in that analogy, of the fried chicken analogies -- those also fall under government regulations in terms of food standards. so, what is his point? guest: essentially, anyone as a hedge fund manager says, look, we did not necessarily cause this. but mr. baker is saying is the hedge funds have largely survived or even thrive. their fear is that having all the information available will essentially cut off business. hedge funds operate on a scientific methodology. the ability for all others to see th

as senator gramm, on this committee, said recently, "the idea that we cannot find a place to house 250 detainee's within the united states is not rational. we have spent billions of dollars on these facilities. we can do that. prolonged detention, military commissions, both of which are being discussed. i expect that the attorney general, president obama, will face the commitment to value and the dedication to security that you have shown so far. i trust that you will work with us define the rights illusions -- to find the right solutions to these problems. last week's tragic events at the holocaust museum, together with other recent incidents made all too clear that the violence motivated by hatred brains a serious problem. across the political spectrum, we have once again introduced a bill to take important steps against hate based violence. it is crafted so that only those who engage in rural violence would be prosecuted. i know you have supported this. i know that the president has. you have taken steps towards insuring a much improved freedom of information act. we have worked on

let's go to john mccain and lindsey gramm. they said they wanted a harsh statement. once he said the statement they said that is what they wanted. when you said that they're still pushing him, it is a lie.

we will play you a clip from senator lindsay gramm in a moment. first, some of the coverage and international paper's. "the financial times" says opposition in iran considers its options. a look at the front page of "the financial times." y dinging pick -- widening it out. poster of a woman allegedly shot dead on saturday in tehran. that image was sent around the world and the poster was created of this woman. i am going to pull this off and show "the wall street journal" this morning as they have a picture of the same woman on the street in tehran. this leads their front page. they also have a story this morning about spying in iran. iran's web is buying aided by western technology. the report said that instead of confronting the political turmoil that consumed the country in the past week, iranian government appears to be engaging in a practice often called deep pockets inspection, which enables authorities to not only block communications but to monitor it to gather information about individuals as well as for disinformation purposes, according

secondly, you foment some things you are hearing like the colors in front of me who said that lindsey gramm and john mccain -- they are american citizens. you are pushing one side against the other and you need to stop it, ok? guest: on the first point, john mccain and linseed graham said it was a step in the right direction, not that they accepted the stigma. so, we disagree there. on embracing the new media, and meant that generally. i was talking about the first prime time press conference. . . i think it has become often too personal in this country in recent years, but this is a policy debate. there have not been personal attacks made by lindsey gramm and john mccain against president obama, and president obama can as he said yesterday, respects john mccain's passion on this issue. this to me feels like what washington does. host: scott wilson for "the washinton post," thank you for being with us. coming up next, congressman akin will join us. now a news update from c-span radio. >> president obama focuses on health issues when he meets this afternoon with several governors and hosts a

my question to you as a reporter for "the washington post" regarding john mccain and lindsey gramm attacking the president's response to the situation iniran, do you s a writer for net to be out of hand on their part and only politically motivated? do you think -- what are we supposed to do in response, technically, to what is happening andiran? should we sit back, observe, and be the third party like the rest of the world was to our own the elections? be thankful that there was a process seat that the people are responding to change? guest: it is a good question. on being out of hand i do not think so. i think the debate taking place captures the two wings of foreign policy thought. republic hawks believe and voke ronald reagan and the cold war has been unambiguous in their criticism of authoritarian government. the they are calling for obama to say clearly, we do not want this government in iran to be in power anymore. the obama administration believes that is counter- productive. pragmatism calls for dealing with the government in front of you and as you correctly noted at the end, what e

president was initially going to release and then backpedaled, there was a provision sponsored by senator gramm and lieberman, there is a court case going on. the language has been stripped out. there will be more and zero votes in the senate. it will be a very close vote. host: we talk about detainee photos. photos here in the new york time up of former detainees free from guantanamo. the story here about some of the muslims that were released from guantanamo, sent to bermuda. four days after the surprise, the man asked in their new-found freedom in the bermudas. there are pictures here of some of the men from the guantanamo prison. it is the first time ever that had been in the ocean. the men, members of an ethnic minority from western china they are luxuriating in the freedom in bermuda. they expressed wonder in their good fortune to be released from captivity after four years. florida, good morning. what are your thoughts on taxing employee health benefits? caller: good morning. i strongly disagree. what happened to obama saying on cut taxes? that is just a lie. i like my health-care, just

oklahoma to california -- ok, what happened was they past the glass-stegall act in 1932 and when phil gramm was chairman of the finance committee he directed investment-banking which began appreciable rate markets. people would have $800 escalate to $3,000. what obama is doing is deregulate commercial and investment banking. it is simple. anyone who is well-read in knows -- i majored in history and political science at southern university. if you know what happened, you know this happened. he calls us whiners last year, but they did. he needs to get it back like it was. that is all they need to do. guest: that is a nice history lesson there. and might be the first time i have herdsmen suggest that president obama is trying to remove some of the regulatory walls there. many people accuse him of trying to put too much regulation into the system. he has said he is trying to have a light touch. but certainly the umbrella would be expanded under his proposal. there is concern about the removal of walls between commercial and investment banking and the extent it has had on this crisis. it is deba

. >> i understand you had exchanges with senator gramm, feinstein, and call about prolonged detention. i urge you and the department to consider the various legal and policy concerns that are involved. i would say even with the kind of due process protection that you discuss, i think this could be a very big mistake especially because of how its system could be perceived around the world and after the progress the administration is making. i wrote to the president about my continued concern that the administration is not withdrawing certain legal opinions including one that provided legal justifications for the bush and ministrations wired taping program. -- bush administration's wiretapping program. one person says the program was not illegal and later clarified it. you said i would never see the day by allowing certain things. the president said the campaign was illegal. is there any doubt in their mind that it was illegal? >> do warless wiretapping program that existed at that time was put together without the approval of congress. as a result, it did not have all the protections,

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case economy the way i am looking at it, you have to change your infrastructure. 2026, if things are gramm, in all likelihood. something has to change to have that much flexibility. i will just quickly summarize -- we see this $100 per metric ton carbon dioxide figure bandied about as though it changes the behavior price of carbon dioxide. yes, that will change behavior. the u.s. economy cannot grow with that price based on our current usage patterns. that is not possible today. you also see nuclear power as three times as expensive as coal when you compare it to apples to apples, but if you look at it, at some of those apples are not apples. some of the apples are oranges. the cost of electricity are lower than a look at the outset of the project. if you compare that to natural gas prices, which right now blow away by far the price of any other source of energy generation evening get from conventional sources, those change. natural gas prices could easily be on a very low carbon prize, and historically, it would be much more expensive. that concludes my testimony. i look forward to any qu

comments come of one is that i am half of the african-american and men at that the women represent our gramm the black women aren'tÑiçmk year two and u ought to be congratulated for that. >> the second thing i but like to do is make a commitment that i will make all efforts to make sure the public library places this book for cryer will also make sure that i make america i will try to make sure it isxd a caucus for thisxd and i do they did is something every library should have in school and i could make the commitment we can make that happen for you. thank you [applause] we wanted to thank the contributors to our here today for stepping up and speaking now part of this is the first time for many of them we have had an opportunity to see face-to-face and put a face with the name and the e-mails back and forth. because of this book we have the unintended consequence which is the development of the network of sisters and it is growing because we are continuing to receive,"tters and we hope to have the online "go, tell michelle" book soon propose of those letters that were not able to be placed

gramm mentioned is one that we're dealing with. we do not have enough interpreters to speak to the spanish population that we are serving. we have been told by leaders in the hispanic community that many of their citizens to not come to the hospital. that is a factor that weighs on the care that the individual receives. in 1996, in the new england the journal of medicine, there was a study with the university of california san francisco and it showed that black or hispanic physicians were three times more likely to establish their practices in black or hispanic areas. the health care in their communities improved. one might say that this is not due to bias in the system, but i think that depends on how you define that. i think -- i do not refute the fact that when one looks very closely at a lot of kattegat's, you may not find differences if you look very finely, but there are gross discrepancies in the health-care system that have an impact on people's lives. i think it is important that, as we are working to improve the health of

orfigure that anyone who has earned the admiration and respect of senator gramm and senator jim demint is a person o wgreat ability. hhe ability to bring people together and win their respect means so much in the role you goigoing to play. miley have one question. i will preface it with some remarks that will show where my ayss is in protecting children. it always has been, i know you come from that place as well. i just want to make sure you regu that in the 80s when i came to congress, all of our regulations were based on protecting and 155 pound man. that was -- everything that was est., including all of the tests, there were no women in the tests, there were no pildren in the tests, we worked together, all of us across party lines, to change that. the beauty of our work is very simple. when you protect the children you protect everyone. if you protect 155 pound healthy man, it is good for all the guys in that category but the venerable folks, the pregnant women, those with disabilities are not protected. it is such a win/win to protect the children. that was our goal when we wrote

and we try people of all people, think of oklahoma city bombing, timothy mcvay and senator gramm on this committee said recently, quote, the idea that we cannot find a place to securely house 250 detainees in the united states is not rational. we spend billions of dollars on high security facilities. we can do that. and key questions remain for military commissions that are being discussed by the administration. and carry with them the use of abuse. and i ask that you address these commissions the same of law and values. and the same that you and the president have shown so far. another era, we have to come together is a sadly resurgent problem of hate crimes. last week's tragic events at the holocaust museum, is that violence motivated by hatred remains a serious problem, and world consequences. senator kennedy and bipartisans across the political spectrum, once again introduced a bill to take a stand in our enforcement of hate violence. it's to do in the first amendment, and only those who engage in brutal acts of violence will be culpable. and it's time to act, and i know you have sup

cover the bradley gramm has a book that goes on sale today. -- bradley graham has a new book that goes on sale today. how did donald rumsfeld du public-service? guest: he was interested in public service from a young age. he was inspired in his senior year of college when adlai stevenson came to speak to his graduating class at princeton. he urged the students there to use their educations and put them to work in public-service. not long after that, rumsfeld ran for congress. he became the youngest republican member of congress in the 1960's. he believed very much in public service. he served not only in congress but in the nixon and ford administrations. he then came back in the bush to administration. even in between, when he was a corporate executive, he stayed involved in government serving as a presidential envoy and on a couple of government commissions. host: the book is 800 pages. it is an extensive biography. some presidents do not get this kind of treatment. he spoke about him running for congress. did he ever have presidential aspirations? guest: he did. some of his old clas

have you seen the lieberman- gramm amendment that prohibits the release of these photos for three years? >> i have not seen that. >> fair enough. i will get it to you. do you agree with me that the preferred route in terms of impressing the court that congress would act on the subject matter rather than executive order? >> yes. i think having congress act would be preferred ways -- >> would give us a stronger hand and better way to deal with the issue. >> yes. >> my beef is not with the court. unless the documents are classified, the courts are making a reasonable interpretation of the freedom of information act as it exists today. i want to applaud the administration for acting them to stay and have the supreme court review that case. i would not be surprised if the supreme court decided not to hear this case or honor your petition and let the order stand. i think it is imperative that one of us act. the congress and administration has been assured by rahm emanuel and yourself that the president's position is not to let these photos see the light of day. the majority leaders do not giv

in the process of drawing funds to the federal emergency management which is the executors of the gramm-- >> how much was it? >> $100 million total. and we're in the process of drawing from that reimbursement for expenses for the last hurricane season and it continues until the end of this fiscal year. in addition to that we have taken a number of activities to basically come within budget and looking at our finance and part of that is we have restructured our organization fairly substantially, our national headquarters and are chapter structure to reduce costs and we're still in the middle of that at this point. in addition to that an aggressive fund-raising campaign to get in this time one of economic instability had to be able to raise funds one and have these big disasters on ongoing basis so we believe that the accommodation of cutting back and restructuring the organization at reducing expensive, aggressive fund-raising in the use of the appropriation that we should balance our organization, we do a project for the next fiscal year which begins that will have a balance budget and

this is what senator gramm said and i quote i believe we could handle 100 or 250 prisoners and protect national security interests because we had 450,000 german and japanese prisoners in the united states so this idea they cannot be housed somewhere safely i disagree. and of quote, senator graham. people who suggest we can on detain terrorists in our prisons should show more respect for the brave corrections officers who put their lives on the line every day to keep us safe. just the week before last i went to the prison in southern illinois. it was once our maximum security prison in the united states before the super maximum facility was opened at florence colorado. it was interesting as i met with the corrections officer in the lockup of the mary and federal prison, and after a little bit of a tour i asked what do you think of this notion that we hear from senators on the floor like senator kyl and senator mcconnell that we cannot safely incarcerate guantanamo detainees in the presence of the united states? the one corrections officer said senator, in salted by the comment. at this

you told senator lindsey gramm that you agree with him, that "every person who commits to going to war against america or any of a peaceful nation should be held off the battlefield as long as they are dangerous." i do not think your actions that we have seen so far are consistent with that commitment. accenture confirmation, you have done a number of things that i think you have -- since the nomination, i have seen you a number of things that i think our against what you pledged to do. one such instance came when he rejected the office of legal counsel on its conclusion that congress' recent legislation on the district of columbia voting was unconstitutional, as it appears plainly to be. during a confirmation hearing, you emphasize your review of olc opinions would not be a political process. when the office of legal counsel, who has this responsibility, has prepared an opinion for you and said that congress' legislation was unconstitutional, i would expect you to listen to their opinions and follow them or explain precisely why you do not. instead, you have moved around them and soug

. >> host: bradley gramm is the guest, his book "by his own rules" released today. washington, d.c. two ralph on the democrats' plan. >> caller: i think that you are the [inaudible] first of all when you said something about the generals supporting rumsfeld, rumsfeld fired any general report to the eckert told him he needed three or 4,000 troops. he wanted to go to 75,000. he fired since hecky so it's either you agree it me or are out the door. he was completely dominating. he was also instrumental in the life of iraq. he was talking about this weapon of mass destruction and the entire district of the united states, boom, a worldly to get scared. he also participated and i recommend everybody look it up it is called project for a new american sentry which basically says we should dominate the middle east and anything less than a pearl harbor type of event will not motivate the united states and attack iraq and afghanistan and get a out of there. >> host: lots there, we will get a response. thanks for the call. >> guest: rumsfeld, just to correct the record here, did not fire general

but i don't think people realize like senator gramm just said how many people live near this coast and not everyone that lives near the coast has an automobile. not everyone is well. not everyone is strong enough for young enough to move out, they have got to have help moving out or wealthy enough to afford the several thousand dollars at a minimum that it costs to leave your home for several days even if you manage to just find shelter in a tent there some expense associated with this. and i just don't think people have an idea of this that have not recently gone through what some of our states have gone through. so that is going to be an interesting focus and i think that you've identified this situation as something of the national guard and north palm can be helpful because as you know states normally governors might have one helicopter the move them around but we don't have helicopters that move like all the citizens so it would be helpful to have these federal assets being able to do this evaluation. did you have a comment or question? >> very quickly. it's not a question of lack

also know that deeply know that we need to transform our health-care system as a quote buy senator gramm there is an example of that trying widely to find a resolution and it requires a lot of education. one of my biggest problems in getting the health care reform legislation passed is it is so complex and so difficult. we all have a very steep learning curve and some of us in his article. so it has been a lot of time spent and that is why we have always meetings getting people up-to-date and up to speed and how does this work, was good and you know ignorance breeds fear so the more we dig into it we have a lot of meetings on so-called public auction. in many daily with other senators particularly key senators and especially senators and republican side who i think, i know are trying to find a solution to see how we spread the needle. but it is that letter i think to be honest about it is an indication, i don't want to overstate it but so what positioning. getting ready for resolution to come up with but we will find a resolution. >> time for one more question in the back in mack nationa

components and gives me a chance to start looking and programs that can come in such as hd development gramm, training dollars from the department of labor, working with congress and other groups and s.p.a. to make sure that sometimes disasters happen as a committee is planning economically and it doesn't make sense if you don't recognize just putting a ' change the economic out, and we still end up with a failure. so looking at something that may not be the best week in certain cases but from the standpoint of giving us a focal point to start driving recovery and not just merely administering the stafford act and getting to the point where community has their tax base intact which is a good indicator that it can continue to have services, we have been successful and housing mission getting schools open provided public safety setting the stage for business to thrive. helps me articulates a view that says as much as we work as a team to respond to the governor in a disaster in is not fema, we are a particular and the on behalf of the president and team approach of our federal agencies. that a