one is the former mayor, willie gramm, who deserves a tremendous amount of credit for envisioning the bonds that brought us here. i want to thank in particular the leadership of the city attorney, who in some ways is responsible for us being here because she created that impetus to initiate a federal lawsuit against a tobacco company back when few people thought there was any hope and that there should not be much expectation of success. she carried that torch. she succeeded in that effort. she moved on, but she did not move away. she not only created the framework that allowed us to generate, all told, $141 million that contributed to this project today because of that tobacco settlement, but she said it is one thing to have a bond and another thing to have a settlement. minutes and equipment. we need new things to provide dignity that this building's physical architecture can supply. that is louise gray. thank you, louise, for your extraordinary leadership. when mitch was referencing -- it is interesting. i was elected mayor and one of the first stops i had was, literally, within 7

probably creates the same type of energy because the gramm weight of this is 60 grams. i know that is a little bit later. i could pass this around. you can see the type of particular round is a little bit heavier. that is why this technology has a faster, hotter charge in it. it is creating the same kinetic energy. it is just a little bit like to. commissioner hammer: i don't want to go into the details tonight. hopefully our colleagues can do that and come back with us. one of the things that intrigued me about this particular weapon and this what expert told us it is effective up to 100 feet. is that correct? >> 30 yards is the optimal distance. you can get it to about 35. when we train, we train up to about 20 yards with this one. we have a single shot version of it. we have an optic on it. we use it up to 25 yards. commissioner hammer: the tasers, you have to get within 20 feet or so. with this, you might be 20 yards away. >> that is the nice thing about it. in close proximity, it is easier to manipulate. commissioner hammer: depending on the situation, there are ad

i'm thinking of phil gramm in texas. he had been what elected as a democrat to congress, senior as i was, 1978, and came to town, but he believed in a lot of the same fund that the principles that president reagan believed then. he signed on and joined us, and we had a number of conservative democrats who worked with us and help us pass that legislation. for the first couple years, that first term, we actually had a situation where even though the republicans were in the minority in the house, with our conservative democratic friends on the other side of the aisle, we put together a majority on economic issues, budgets, tax policy, so forth, and it was enormously successful it was also a big tribute to ronald reagan, and the democrats as i recall overreacted and penalize some of the guys on the other side. i was thought it was a it. principle to move on phil gramm's part. he resigned as a member of congress, announced he would be republican, went back home, and ran in a special election at. he switched parties, but he wa

phil gramm pushed real hard for its removal. they were able to do what they did, they were not able to do what they did because of glass- steagall. we got stuck with the cost of their bad investments, something the would not have happened if glass-steagall had stayed in effect is that not true? do you think reinstatement of glass-steagall would help pull the please answer these questions. go in more depth. how glass-steagall

nothing gramm. nothing strange as in creepy. not all creepy but he was an odd duck, my father. almost too good sometimes. he never gossips' about anybody. never heard any gossip. he never blustered be there. most men can be counted on occasionally to come home and i am going to kick that saw then. not my father ever. not once. never raised his voice. he once almost knocked mike deaver over with a set of keys by firing at his chest but i'm not sure what he was upset about. he never yelled during a thing like that. he was a soft-spoken sort of guy. if he wanted to make you feel bad if you had done something wrong his tone would just requires this kind of gravitas. he was start speaking slower and softer until finally you are wining vigorous little sound like gerbils squeaking after a while. but i was conscious of the fact when i started, my father has this sort of scarcely reachable court to him. the 90% that all of us saw in the president of the united states, governor of california and actor, what you see is what you get. same guy at the dinner table as delivering state of the

but they always use the word gramm.that they found the body they can use the word dead. barry said fervor but covering the story. it is a very small community, people who stand on the streets sheikh's signs, to draw attention to business. one lady will sign was pictures of guiliani. the community is devastated. >> thank you for your insight. at 10:38 a.m., i will speak bring you up to speed. 911 received a call in merced county that a body that match the body of four year-old juliani cardenas was found in the canal. a corner is on route. we will get confirmation on the identity hopefully this morning, we are looking for an update from the sheriff's department sometime before 11:00 a.m., we will bring that to you soon as we get it. at 10:30 a.m., we will take a break. 1040 2:00 a.m., breaking news story of a body has been an additional 30 mi. south of paterson. that description does at this point appeared to match for year-old juliani cardenas. patterson is at the top but the screen 30 mi. out the locator where the body

>> absolutely. >> thank you, senator gramm. senator hagan is next. we have a vote in the senate scheduled for 12:10 and we will try to work around that grow -- vote. i will turn the gavel over to senator udall because i have to leave for a few minutes as well. we will try to go right through that the best that we can. senator hagan? >> i will cut my own question short as i have to trot -- chris side of the senate floor at noon. i also want to say to altria the individuals, thank you for your service in your testimony -- say to all three of the individuals, thank you. i agree with senators reed and graham and concern about the funding for the state department and the foreign aid. i did want to talk about the health of the special operations forces. in the your prepared remarks, your knowledge the continued stress from nine years of constant conflict. last week, the commander of the u.s. special operations command said that difficult and repeated deployment force special operations personnel are causing some fraying. given the demand for the special op

phil gramm pushed real hard for its removal. they were able to do what they did, they were not able to do what they did because of glass- steagall. we got stuck with the cost of their bad investments, something the would not have happened if glass-steagall had stayed in effect is that not true? do you think reinstatement of glass-steagall would help pull the please answer these questions. go in more depth. how glass-steagall separated the commercial phase from the public. guest: you're right. i did not want to dwell on that. i can give you a litany of what i think were bad moves and that steps. the time on this program is so valuable to me to be able to talk about whether what is the best thing going for. i do think is separation of commercial and non-banking interests served this country well. you've made those points. i do not know what it serves now to go back and say, this is a who caused the problem. this is who is to blame, one party versus the other. i could do that. i'm more concerned that we in up with a system of finan

. >> there was another piece of legislation introduced by republican senator lindsey's -- lindsay gramm. what can you tell us about that piece of legislation? >> this is legislation that would allow states to opt out of some provisions in the bill, such as requirements that most people have insurance or else pay tax penalties, the requirement for employers to offer insurance to their employees, for states to extend medicare rolls -- lindsay gramm was honest about this. he said it was a way to bring the law down. no states opt out, the fine. the law becomes financially on workable. he would be a mess and a disaster. >> in terms of the mechanics in getting to a debate on that legislation, that, too could be an amendment to a future bill? correct? >> exactly right. >> and molly elkridge, thank you for joining us. >> thank you. >> still waiting for the state department briefing. we will have that live, here on c-span. los angeles times writes that the nobel peace prize laureate emerging as egypt's paramount opposition leader said he feared the violence in cairo could escalate into a bloodba

and the of guys like phil gramm from texas. he had been elected as a democrat to the congress the same year i was a, 1978. but he believed in a lot of the fundamental present -- principles that president reagan believe in. he joined on and we had a number of bold weevil democrats, conservative democrats who worked with dozens to pass that legislation -- to work with us to pass that legislation. in the first couple of years we actually had a situation that even though the republicans were the minority in the house, our conservative democratic friends on the other side of the island -- we put together a majority on budget and tax policy and so forth. it was also a big tribute to ronald reagan. and the democrats, as i recall, overreacted and penalize some of the guys on the other side of the aisle like phil. i always think this is a principled move on his part. he resigned his post and went back home and ran a special election as a republican to replace himself. in other words, he switched parties, but was honest about it. he did

let me just ask a question, i had the privilege of attending a briefing by senator gramm and the naturaltee, and my colleague from alaska suggested at that time that the commission members call me have had an initial by yes against offshore oil eploration and drilling, and i was pleased to see that in the foreword to the report, it suggested on the last page offshore energy nterprise is threatened in the nation's econy security are threatened and i couldn't agree more wholeheartedly. of maryland, which is one of the frontier areas described in the last part of the book our coastal counties have an unemployment rate between ten to 18% of seasonal employment, but it's how i and i personally feel perhaps we should be looking at offshore exploration drilling off the shore. in the chapter where yo talk about chapter 10 of the report, you do say that the biological and environmental factors are well understood in those areas unlike the arcic, and therefore my question is do you think if we implement what's found here, and this is specifically for dr. boesch d mr. garcia, do you think we should

let me just ask a question, i had the privilege of attending a briefing by senator gramm and the naturaltee, and my colleague from alaska suggested at that time that the commission members call me have had an initial by yes against offshore oil exploration and drilling, and i was pleased to see that in the foreword to the report, it suggested on the last page offshore energy enterprise is threatened in the nation's economy security are threatened and i couldn't agree more wholeheartedly. of maryland, which is one of the frontier areas described in the last part of the book our coastal counties have an unemployment rate between ten to 18% of seasonal employment, but it's how i and i personally feel perhaps we should be looking at offshore exploration drilling off the shore. in the chapter where you talk about chapter 10 of the report, you do say that the biological and environmental factors are well understood in those areas unlike the arctic, and therefore my question is do you think if we implement what's found here, and this is specifically for dr. boesch and mr. garcia, do you think w

. >> thank you, senator gramm. senator akaka. >> thank you very much, mr. chairman. i want to welcome ambassador jeffrey and general austin to our hearing today, and thank you for your testimony is today, and your continued efforts to insure that iraq becomes a stable, self-sufficient, and democratic nation. i also would like to recognize the outstanding men and women you both lead in iraq, and we appreciate their sacrifice and hard work. ambassador jeffrey, in our transition we are looking at many ways of bringing that about, and in particular, the prudential reconstruction teams have been in place since november, 2005, throughout iraq, and have worked toward building up prudential and local economies -- prudential and local economies. my question is, could you discuss the current status of the reconstruction teams as they handle their mission to our consulate office? >> yes, sir. we have gone from a total, including out liar post, of roughly 30, down to 16 right now. these are co-located, with the exception of irbil, with the u.s. military. they are embedded in the

[laughter] let me refer back to something that gramm said earlier. i am not at all sure that the military wants to do anything other than get out of what they are in right now, as far as running the business. i cannot imagine that they would be interested in running the economy, or taking on the issues of entitlement. we used to joke, and tex probably join us -- who would want to be king of egypt and take care of all those problems? i think the military is smarter than that. >> about the industries -- currently, the way the military takes care of themself -- they do not want to be dependent on buy supplies from the civilian sector. they raise their own chickens and secure their own water. that is important. it is their autonomy and security. if they do make money in the private-sector, if they produce more bottles of water than they consume, the money generated there is used in the military budget. it is not going into the pockets of the guys running the factories. it is just a way they can stay on budget. i am sure our pentagon would love to be able

we had been democrat representative phil gramm and republican representatives mickey edwards, and weir efforts a discharge petition in the house. and so we brought it to a vote in the house. we got a huge majority, but not the two-thirds vote that was required. interest in constitutional amendment over time, but with the resurgence of conservative feelings and the wellspring for human liberty and for control over this crazytown fiscally, has returned this issue to the top of the issue list. so we are looking forward to working with everyone at the grassroots level and working on design of the amendment as we proceed. says while reagan was president, a new body of information has emerged called the optimal or right size of government, we are all for limited government. now we know what we have to do in order to make it a government that is maximizing economic growth, which is what we must have if we're going to work out is bankrupt situation in which we find our nation. and it is with that in mind that some of the new amendments have been talking about, percentages and aspects of gros

the questions that people have had in the past, there were previous bills that tried to -- you had gramm-rudman you had other kinds of bills to try to really keep washington fiscally focused. those bills required 60 votes. this would be a higher threshold. yes, if there was some type of national emergency and we needed to move beyond this straitjacket for a year or six months or something like that, with a two-thirds vote, you could do that. without that, i mean, 67 votes is a pretty tough threshold. hopefully it's the kind of threshold necessary to keep the kind of discipline in place we need. it's a ten-page bill. again, very elegant. i think it lays out a solution for us that hopefully will be a part of anything that we do over the next several months. i think all of us, i know in talking with you over the last several days, traveling to these various countries, i think there are many people like you that came here. i know myself, came here to solve problems, not to message. it seems like in a body like this, it's tough to solve these kinds of problems. but the only way to do it is to offer

there were boll weevil democrats like phil gramm from texas. he had been elected as a democrat to the congress the same year i was, 1978. he came to town, but he believed in a lot of the same fundamental principles that president reagan believe in. he signed on and join us. we had a number of democrats, conservative democrats, who worked with us. the help us pass the legislation. for the first couple of years of that first term, we had a situation where even though republicans were in the minority in the house, with our conservative democratic friends on the other side of the all, we put together a majority on economic issues and so forth. it was enormously successful. it is also a big tribute to ronald reagan. the democrats overreacted and penalized some of the guys on the other side like phil. he made what i thought was a principled decision. he resigned. he announced he would be a republican. he went back home and ran a special election as a republican to replace himself. in other words, he switched parties, but he was honest about it. he di

let me just ask a question, i had the privilege of attending a briefing by senator gramm and the naturalresources committee, and my colleague from alaska suggested at that time that the commission members call me have had an initial by yes against offshore oil exploration and drilling, and i was pleased to see that in the foreword to the report, it suggested on the last page offshore energy enterprise is threatened in the nation's economy security are threatened and i couldn't agree more wholeheartedly. of maryland, which is one of the frontier areas described in the last part of the book our coastal counties have an unemployment rate between ten to 18% of seasonal employment, but it's how i and i personally feel perhaps we should be looking at offshore exploration drilling off the shore. in the chapter where you talk about chapter 10 of the report, you do say that the biological and environmental factors are well understood in those areas unlike the arctic, and therefore my question is do you think if we implement what's found here, and this is specifically for dr. boesch and mr. garcia