this bill actually means earlier i spoke with james carafano national security expert with the heritage foundation and adam kokesh host of adam vs the man here in our team i asked them if they saw any change in the afghanistan of today and the afghanistan of ten years ago if i had to say in two thousand and one you hadn't pushed everybody out and then the united states basically went to sleep it didn't really do anything to capitalize on that success of the two thousand and five the taliban to build up their capacity and they started coming back then you got kind of war number three which is the united states coming back in two thousand and nine not giving the troops that the commanders wanted only about half as many as they wanted so they pacified one problematic area the country the cell they didn't pacify the other problematic area which is the north so now they're turning to the north but unfortunately we're we're cutting troops at the same time we're doing it so this is the beginning of the end but i don't think the ends going to be pretty honestly and your thought i mean has there been notic

actually means and for more i'm joined by james carafano national security expert with the heritage foundation in new york and here in studio out in cocoa beach host of adam vs the man right here on our t.v. all right guys a lot of people calling this you know the beginning of the end when that and will actually be it that still remains to be seen but i want to look at afghanistan itself how different is afghanistan today than it was ten years ago and james i'll start with you. well you i mean you really can't talk about ten years ago because there's been a lot of different afghanistan since then in two thousand and one you had to push everybody out and then the united states basically went to sleep didn't really do anything to capitalize on that success of the by two thousand and five the taliban had built up their capacity and they started coming back then you got kind of war number three which is the united states coming back in two thousand and nine not giving the troops that they commanders wanted only about half as many as they wanted so they pacified one problematic area the country the

i am with the manila town heritage foundation. the foundation was born out of the international hotel's anti- eviction struggle, which culminated in the eviction back in 1977. some of you may remember that. so we have a legacy of advocating for affordable housing, for low-income seniors. i am here today to ask you to restore the funding for our affordable housing program through the mayor's office and housing. today, we have our housing coordinator with a few of our clients today to give your testimony to our services. lastly, i ask that you restore funding for all affordable housing programs geared not just for ours, but for all of them in the city and county of san francisco. because we stand together in serving the clients, the low- income citizens of san francisco. thank you. supervisor chu: thank you. >> i am from manila town heritage foundation, and i am the affordable housing coordinator. your story here to appeal to fund our program, and it is a very small fraction of money we are asking for, but it is a great help for our

. >> i am from manila town heritage foundation, and i am the affordable housing coordinator. your story here to appeal to fund our program, and it is a very small fraction of money we are asking for, but it is a great help for our community. what we do -- we provide education and information and how to fill out housing applications, and we tell them to fill them out completely. so this kind of information, education, and also information about any affordable housing that is available in san francisco, since we all now -- we all know that there is not really a citywide housing database available, and we want to be accessible to our community about this kind of information. also, when there is a new building coming up, we reach out to our community. in some cases, we provide our time with our volunteers to call people on their house phones and tell them the information about the affordable housing, and when there is no new affordable housing, there are all these waiting list, but our clients or our communities do not know how to navigate on those, do not know how to look on thi

michigan has ohio state, alabama has auburn, the heritage foundation has the brookings institution. harvard has yale and let's remember the ivy league is an affleck conference. 1876 they split their second ever football game. the weather was lousy. it was cold, the winds were so strong the ships couldn't leave the harbor. roosevelt shivered on the sidelines that day and then he watched the game. the sport he saw was different than the one we know today. there were no quarterback, there were no wide receivers, there were no forward passes. football was in its infancy. before the play began, the captains from the two teams met to discuss the rules they would play by. what would account for a score, how many people would be on the field at a time? they were like school kids at recess talking about where the sightlines would be, how to count blitzes', whether they play touch or tackle, this is what they did before that game. when it can to football, harvard was the teacher and jail was the student. just a few years before that game and 1870's, harvard sent yale and elongated ball becaus

the center of defense information and dr james carafano is a senior defense analyst with the heritage foundation gentlemen thank you so much for coming in time to see me through if you got a car phone i'd like to start with you you know the cold war is over world war two is over the world military situation has changed we have one of the most powerful military in the world and we spent quite a bit to ensure that it stays that way what's wrong with cutting the military budget in this time. well you said there's four wars going on the united states is the world's largest economy it's called global responsibilities not so sure why defense spending problem historically the level of defense spending in percentage economy especially near historic post world war two low so much for its inappropriate certainly not the cause of our fiscal problem so we can take defense spending because we may have contributed take defense spending to zero tomorrow and thirty years the country still goes broke because so security medicare and medicaid those are the big fiscal issues that they have to grab what we could we

he was to harvard what ed fulmer was to the heritage foundation. he was president for four years, longer than anybody before or since and radically rearranged the way harvard educate young people. he introduced elective courses, started professional school, eliminated compulsory worship. the list of his reforms is long. he also headed team sports. what bothered him most was competition and how motivated players conduct themselves in ways he considered unbecoming of gentlemen. if baseball and football were honorable past times, why did they require umpires and directories? a game that needs to be watched did not fit genuine sportsmen he once said. he thought a baseball pitcher throws a curve ball engage in the act of deception which was treacherous. .. he is the closest thing football has to a founding father. he invented the position of quarterback, the concept of possessions and down and line of scrimmage and formations, the way the game was sport on virtually every aspect of football camp left his mark. he was also a great salesman of this board

i am with the manila town heritage foundation. the foundation was born out of the international hotel's anti- eviction struggle, which culminated in the eviction back in 1977. some of you may remember that. so we have a legacy of advocating for affordable housing, for low-income seniors. i am here today to ask you to restore the funding for our affordable housing program through the mayor's office and housing. today, we have our housing coordinator with a few of our coordinator with a few of our clients today to give your

with the koch brothers and richard mellon scaife were the initial funders of things like the heritage foundation and major republican foundations that ultimately brought to power people like scott walker and the republicans in the state it was kinds. no irony in words. let's be clear these folks never believed in capitalism they never believed in free enterprise what they believe in is a monopolistic situation and make sure that they always win and the way they do that is by buying power and scott walker is really at the forefront of their national project he is somebody who with his legislative allies and fitzgerald brothers who run on the assembly and state senate in wisconsin is entirely willing to craft a budget who signed to reward all of their page of campaign contributors in this craft brewing issue is really just one easy to understand example of how it works but there are literally dozens throughout the budget it's incredible now if we just shift to the primaries here are the elections that are coming up. something i'm totally baffled by why would the democrats allow primaries and why w

and that's why i have to tell you standing here in a great think tank like heritage foundation and thework they've been able to do is absolutely phenomenal. we've got to roll of our sleeves and come up with a road map for the national security that looks at the threat, look set their goals and objectives because as it is said in the art of the to know your enemy and to know yourself and the environment in the countless number of battles you will always be victorious. if we don't understand that simple maxim then there could be some dark days not just for the united states of america, but for the entire world. because no matter what anyone says, we are that begin, that white house, as ronald reagan said the shining city that sits upon a hill. if the flight were to go out, it would take us into a new dark age. thank you all for having me today and god bless you all. [applause] >> thank you, congressman west i just have to say before i begin throwing these questions to focus on the need for strategic clarity is welcome in this town and we just heard a person with real vision. we have i th

tribute to red state dot com and big government dot com and director of government studies at the heritage foundation welcome to all of you and it was good let's get started here i have to. go ok after ten years we can now see just how damaging the bush tax cuts are to the economy bush's tax cuts created three million jobs would crash our economy while bill clinton stags ites created twenty three million jobs and balanced our budget but i guess republican presidential hopeful tim with plenty didn't get the memo his new taxes. puts the bush tax cuts on steroids costing our government nearly eight trillion dollars over ten years just to give people who make more than a million bucks a year a forty one percent tax cut and people who make more than ten million dollars a year forty six percent tax cut so what exactly is tim plenty trying to do because of the great depression or turn america into a banana republic like mexico. well that's i would say that plenty is definitely trying to rile up his base you know a lot of tea partiers want cuts and they like tax cuts they won't catch the government programs

and public policy center, tom miller of the american enterprise institute, and bob moffit of heritage foundation. and it has really been a wonderful collaboration. i want to thank also our editor at harpercollins and her publicist, our editor and our publicist, as well as a terrific team at all of our think tanks that really helped us so much and are helping us to make sure people know about this important new book. it really was a pleasure and a remarkable pleasure to work with the four authors, or three co-authors in myself, to put this book together. it's not a collection of chapters, each one of us were and took individual ownership of. this is a seamless book. we really wanted to tell the story of what obamacare is going to mean for the american people, how it's going to affect families, and young people and seniors, and employers and employees, and taxpayers and citizens. and most importantly, doctors and patients. and the book is written to really help people understand, written by policies but it's accessible book for people to understand what is coming with this law. i'll be talking a b

here to talk more about the issues jack spencer research fellow nuclear energy policy at the heritage foundation jack welcome great to be here great to have us we had to have you with us first of all your response to this screaming headline financial times which is the business newspaper of the world or germany to close nuclear plants and i think it's really unfortunate for germany i mean it's a tremendous waste of resources quite frankly those are good nuclear power plants providing a lot of power but if that's what the germans want to do then that's what the germans how do you know mr miller with their million rooftops program i am putting solar panels on a million rooftops and that's fine what are what my generate right now they're generating enough power to equal eight nukes and they generated ten good gigawatts of electricity so with our certainly good for them if they want to invest in expensive solar power they were welcome to do they actually didn't cost them anything although there because they haven't really didn't cost government but it will cost someone has to pay for solar panels th

so -- >> she is a former intern at the heritage foundation. >> that was kenya's call. i have a green heart. anyway, you know that a significant portion of china's overseas investments goes to energy and resources sector. china has been building lots of summer power plants in hydro dams in developing countries like india and brazil and how to channel china's overseas investment to low cap and development is a really important problemic. so i understand that the driving force we have to come from the government be and that's the focus of our work. the perspective what kind of international neck nix we can lefrnl it to chi-- i'm adding t final question, i'm been saving. has former ambassador to china taken the stance or compressed views on the question. during his time as ambassador. you have two minutes between you to answer the questions. >> plet me try to touch on three thing here. the questions are related. what particular opportunities for the united states arising from the glflowing outflow development. i see lots. wherever there is a comparative disvaek for china,

and there's a heritage foundation party for ann coulter. and linda hogan writes about the native american experience and the responsibility she believes people have to the environment and other species. look for the entire three-day schedule on a web site and sign up for the "book tv alert. weekend schedules in your in box. >> c-span has launched a new easy to navigate web site for for politics on the 2012 presidential race. it includes twitter feeds the candidates and political reporters and links to c-span media partners in the early primary and caucus states and more. d>> ""washington journal" continues. host: former congressman pete hoekstra and now a senior adviser at a public policy and law practice. he also is doing education worked at heritage. welcome back. guest: good to be here. thank you. host: let me begin with afghanistan. here is "the washington post." this was guarded primarily by afghan security. what you make of this going forward and implications of it for the transition? guest: if you look at any single event and say now

the heritage foundation is not used to being in the middle and compromising on anything. but that's where i ended up in this typology. this is actually the right position and i'll tell you why. there are substantive and technical positions. we disagree on policy and i'll tell you where the disagreement comes from. everybody who's in this community, the people up here, the people out there, certainly myself, has had this experience of how do we get china to change its behavior economically? we want the chinese to change. we want them to move to where the market -- i have a long argument that the chinese have been moving away from the market for a good 5 or 6 years now. but even if you don't buy that, we want china to move. people in the administration, people in this room, everybody in the community -- you always have this problem well, where's our leverage? there's the answer. the u.s. has all leverage. we threaten them and we cut off their market access and we punish them and people are uncomfortable with this. it undermines the existing -- it undermines the u.s. economy

the biggest measurement for us came from all places the heritage foundation, which ranks cunning on economice u.s. ranks 9th out of 179 considered mostly free. so it's just -- >> what about in the long term? how much is government a part of our economy now as opposed to the past? >> no question the government's role has grown some. if you are look by different measurements, whether it's taxation, some other measurements, government has grown, but still this is overwhelmingly a free markets and we are not inches away. >> sarah palin, she claimed that president's drilling moratorium will reduce gulf oil output, 200,000 barrels a day the year after. she said this on fox news on may 31st. what do you give her? >> barely true on the truth ometer she is right about the statistics. indeed those predictions are what the energy administration projects, but you have to go back and look at what they were before the moratorium. they were essentially the same, like 100,000 barrels reduction instead of 130,000, and so 130,000 to 150,000, so she's blaming in on the moratorium. the moratorium is a small par

congressman west, the heritage foundation. several of the reporters that are joining watching online have sent me this question. they want to know your thoughts on president obama nomination of general martin dempsey as chairman of the joint chief of staff and what you think about that nomination? >> well, i tell you i have met general dempsey before. i've had discussions with people over the weekend who have known him. he's a soldier's soldier. i think. but the important thing to understand is now we are taking someone away from training in the army, taking him away from being an operational combatant commander. now we're talking about him being a force provider and the number one advisor to the president. i would hope that he will understand the battlefield and help the president to make the right type of decisions based upon the council that he receives from the respective service chief. i look forward to general dempsey continuing on his lifelong career of service. i got to tell you i'm glad that the army has a chairman of

[applause] >> well, first of all, thanks so much to the heritage foundation for hosting me. it really is an honor and a pleasure. i do consider heritage to be the foremost organization leading the fight for restoration of constitutional values in america. and it's a privilege to speak about my book here. but let me begin by asking you a question. what's more powerful in shaping our views, narrative or argument? here's an argument against abortion. this is an argument. by the end of the first trimester fetuses have brain waves. they have five fingers on each hand. they have a stomach and functioning kidneys they have an operational hearts and fingerprints and yet each year 1.6 million abortions are performed and 91% of those, 1 million 456,000 abortions are performed in the first trimester. .. the narrative matters. conservatives unfortunately have abandoned the narrative as an emotional toll - whistle to the trap of thinking intellectual argument tends to trumpet emotion you sure on talk radio all the time. we have all the facts on our side. but they don't rely on emotional t

she's now a research fellow at the heritage foundation. >> he welcome to both of you. gordon adams i will start with you. frame the debate that leone panetta is stepping into. is everyone agreed that some steps are necessary so it's how much and how to do it. >> i think almost everybody now believes we are at the edge of a builddown in defense. and the question is going to be how fast do you go, what things do you choose to make a priority. what period of time do you cover with it. i don't think anybody at this point is really arguing we eier can or ough to increase the defense budget. and frankly with the end of the wars and with attention on definite fit-- deficits and things like that in the general public, looking at defense as part of the equation we have to deal with to solve the debt and deficit problem is clearly where much of the congress is at, where the administration is at, and where the american people are. >> brown: can we get an agreement on this part? and how would you frame where things are at? >> well, i would say though that we're almost there. presi

however, it was also originally a heritage foundation plan that i as a columnist supported in 1994 with>> in the tweet, governor paw lenny said he had a better health care plan. here's one way to look at it. in massachusetts, the percentage of uninsured are 5% of the population. in minnesota, the percentage, 9% of the population. can governor pawlenty make the case, i assume he means he didn't use a mandate which romney used in massachusetts. who wins this one? >> you know, i think this is, this tweet is tim pawlenty's message of trying to overcome this past week and move on. and actually, build ground again. i think he is going to start making this more his message with this tweet and he will have to build up his case that how is 9% uninsured in minnesota better than 5% in massachusetts? because it doesn't use an individual mandate will be his argument. that will sell with republican voters. he only has a limited amount of time before someone like a rick perry goes in and making his case and making him tone anti-romney wing of the party. >> you can close the conversation. all yours. >>

madam president, since i have filed my bill this week and have had the opportunity with the heritage foundation and the media to talk about my plan, we're getting some good support. of course we're getting the people who say no cuts, no way, no how. we expect that. but it just is burying your head in the sand if you say no way, no how. so we're getting some support. the founder of the association of mature american citizens, dan weber, who on their website says they now have 160,000 members, the fastest growing organization for older americans in our country, has stated his support for my proposal. they see that changes have to be made. they they have avenue even gone a step further and talked about private accounts, which i certainly support but it is not in my plan. soy appreciate the association of mature americans being willing to do what's right for their constituents, their retirees, but also for the long term, to say we know that if we're going to have a responsible approach, entitlements must be on the table, and social security is one that we can do if it's bipartisan together. my plan

the heritage foundation reported last year that the burden of regulation on americans increase at an alarming rate in fiscal year 2010. with a record 43 major new regulations costing costing $26.5 billion alone, far more than any other year for which records are available. that's just in one year, year, $26.5 billion. that's on top of the the $1.75 trillion in annual regulatory costs. that's just one year, year, $26.5 billion. i mean, it's clear that the administration and the agencies have gone on a regulatory rampage. so, again, it's that detachment from the real world and what this means. what are the real practical implications for the person running a small business and trying to calculate the costs or anticipate future softs? so why are they going to hire new employees to take on new costs? why are they going to make investments? they don't dare, they can't take the risk. they say we don't know. i meet with small businesses regularly, i talk to them. they keep saying it's uncertainty, the regulations. well, this demonstrates it. just in 2010 alone. the heritage foundation said

. >>> joining us now peter brooks with the heritage foundation. >> good morning. >> elaine laid out thosethe infrastructure. as you look at those three areas, which is the most vulnerable? >> well, it's hard to say. it depends on what you're thinking about in terms of a threat. the pentagon and the military worry about cyberwarfare in case we were to go to war with somebody. the government and congress and private industry are worried about cyberescyberespionage, then there are cybercriminals which are people stealing financial data for uses of fraud it. depends exactly where you're putting the threat. obviously, national security economic security should be the forefront of our concern. >> we just heard in elaine's piece, the challenge that your data as an average american that you're information has been hacked pretty good. anything that i can do about it? >> of course, the companies that hold that data need to step up and take the necessary cybersecurity measures to protect your data. you should also be very careful. i mean we have our virus protection software. people should take good

james, a senior research fellow at the heritage foundation. mr. phenomenal covax, a senior vice president at the u.s. chamber of commerce, and mr. david goldston at the natural resources defense counsel, and with that, gentlemen, you are aware that the committee is holding an investigative hearing and with doing so have the practice of taking testimony under oath. do you have any objection to taking testimony under oath? no. the chair advises you the rules of the house and rules of committee you are can be adviced by counsel. do you want to be advised by counsel today? no. please rise, and i'll swear you if -- in. you swear to tell the whole truth nothing but the truth so help you god? you're now under oath and subject to the penalties set forth in the united states code. now, if you would give a five minute summary of your written statement, we'd appreciate it. >> thank you, mr. chairman, and ranking member. i appreciate being invited here to discuss executive order 13563 which calls on agencies to eliminate the outdated and unnecessary rules. th

join a heritage foundation forum with ann coulter.tive american experience and responsibility that people have to the environment and to other species. weekend schedules in your inbox. >> a brookings institution discussion on u.s.-india economic relations. panelists include u.s. treasury secretary timothy geithner. we touched upon various issues which focused on the economic and financial partnership opportunities between our two countries. while many industrial speakers, government speakers, regulators, institutions air their views and debated several topics during the course of the day, this was a session that we have been waiting for, to hear our two leaders. and we are honored to welcome them in the midst of this fantastic gathering of had in washington today. and while we welcome our leaders, what we have discussed over the course of the day have posed several issues, and have identified challenges we have in taking this collaboration and partnership forward. we talked about the u.s.-india two-way trade which has grown exponentia

if you explore the mandate, which the heritage foundation looked at, when you get into an mandate, it has unconstitutional powers, it allows the government to define virtually everything. if you can do it for health care, you can do it for everything in your life and we should not have a mandate. i want to answer sylvia at a different level. this campaign cannot be only about the presidency. we need to pick up at least 12 seats in the u.s. senate and 30 or 40 more seats in the house. if you're serious about repealing obamacare, you have to be serious about building a big enough majority in the legislative branch you can in the first 90 days pass the legislation. it's important to understand it's not about what one person in america does. it's about what the american people does, and that requires a senatorial majority as well as the presidency. >> let's get down to the floor. >> hi, john. thank you very much. meet terry pof. granite state, born and bred? >> yes, ma'am. >> what's your question for the kntds tonight? >> i'm a new hampshire native and been an active republican for years

i would say to my colleagues, i was just over in -- over at the heritage foundation giving a speech. they're studying the role of china in the world. the rise of china. but particularly what i was concerned about and the subject of my remarks was the fact that the treasury department estimates that $1.1 trillion of u.s. debt is held by the communist chinese government. that's about a third of all of our outstanding debt. and we know that at least on one occasion a retired chinese general said that if we didn't do what china wanted, that they would then threaten to disrupt our economy by selling off the debt that they own. but i would just like to ask my colleagues if they would care to comment. i know larry lindsey, the renowned economist, wrote an article recently where he cited there are three things that worry him most about high unemployment and the -- really, the has tiewd of the -- the lacitude of the private sector. he said it is slow economic growth, of course, because many in the private sector are discouraged, the entrepreneurs who create jobs, the job creators who would ot

host: the heritage foundation weighs in on the paycheck act. moving against it. do you have concerns it would increase the rates of lawsuits and things like that? guest: the first thing i would say that we do have an equal pay law on the books and it is obvious that it is not adequately enforced. it will take us another 40 or 50 years to get to equal pay for women. we need to do something differently. the paetec act is designed to allow people to exercise their -- the paycheck act is designed to allow people to exercise their rights. it will bring the full law -- the law for equal pay for women into the light. there is a -- an important class-action case going on now before the supreme court. however that comes out to my highlights the importance of women being able to band together to enforce our rights. it is not possible for a greeter and wal-mart to hire her own lawyer. she does not make enough money to do that. and if a man cannot stand together, we will have a problem with -- if women cannot stand together, live a problem with justice. host: it did pass in

the heritage foundation started a lot of it. we have to listen. so, ok, we have to listen to what is going on. stop listening to republicans, talkingts, independents' points. find out for yourself. guest: i think this caller raises a lot of important issues. health care is an issue and we found this during the debates on the hill -- health care is an issue that is unlike decisions of congress. people feel intimately about their health care decisions, and they should. so, it is an area where people to get very anxious and can be easily scared. i think one of the sad parts of the debate on health care reform has been that people see it as a political opportunity. things like death panels and making decisions about whether your grandmother would receive the care which is totally false. they are leading members of the opposing party on those charges. i think it makes sense to find out information about the law, and i think it makes sense for people to look at independent news sources and other information to get real information on the benefits and an

the senior legal fellow deputy director at the center for legal and judicial studies at the heritage foundation. he specializes in constitutional law. mr. alt received his law degree at the university of chicago law school. mr. alt, please go ahead. as with all witnesses, please go ahead. >> thank you, chairman leahy for inviting me to testify before your committee once again. i share with senator graham the title of this hearing suggests conclusion that the recent decisions will somehow create barriers to justice and accountability and adverse incentives for corporate behavior. i do not believe the facts support the conclusion. reviewing business cases for terms of the court leads to several conclusions. a frequently speaks on in the fractured voice carried to raise her critics, that unanimous or see their majoritarian voice too far from creating new barriers to justice or accountability, the courts decisions in today's hearing reject new, novel infrequently as worded advancer trailers for existing requirements which were designed to present frivolous legislation in the church you process to a

according to figures compiled at the heritage foundation based on gay that given by the government accountability office, federal agencies promulgated an unprecedented 43 major regulations during fiscal 2010 alone proposing annual cost calculated by the agencies themselves of at least $28 billion. in the same period, a handful of rule makings were completed that reduced burdens of $1.5 billion. it is in this context that president obama launched his regulatory review initiative. to address the issue, the president promised a government wide review of rules which was a welcomed step, but it is the existing regulationings, however, is not a new or ground breaking idea. they have been required to prepare plans since 1993 under president clinton's executive order under regulatory review. there's little evidence such plans had any impact. moreover, the obama initiative was hardly government wide. it excluded independent agencies such as the federal communications commission, the security and exchange commission, and the new consumer protection bureau, and in so doing, the president excludes from scrut

. >> join the heritage foundation book party for an coulterville and her new book is "economic -- party for ann coulter and her new book "demonic." weekend schedules are in your in box. >> good morning karen >> temple linty criticize the foreign policies of president obama -- >> good morning. >> tim pawlenty criticized the foreign policies of president obama. >> advance in the cause of thoughtful and discussion and debate. i am thankful for your hospitality and your presence here this morning. i want to speak plainly about a number of opportunities and dangers we face today in the middle east. we have a situation where the revolutions now roiling that region offer the promise of a more democratic, more open, and more prosperous arab world. from morocco to the arabian gulf, the escape from the dead hand of oppression is now a real possibility. now is not the time to retreat from freedoms rise. yet, at the same time, we know these revolutions can bring to power forces that are neither democratic nor forward-leaning. just as the people of egypt, tunisia, libya, syria, and elsewhere see a c

the heritage foundation has reported that subbing federal employee positions which are in commercial to a private-public comparison will have a cost savings regardless of who wins that competition. rather than market come pigs, we should be encouraging agencies to find the best way to deliver services to services of this great nation. the role of government should be to govern, not to operate businesses with inside the government. our nation's unemployment rate stands at 9.1%. we must allow the private sector the ability to create jobs without an unfair disadvantage. we must get more money for -- we must get more results for our money. i urge all my colleagues to support this commonsense taxpayer first amendment and ensure that it is available to the managers within this agency. congress should be looking to use all the tools it can find to help save taxpayer dollars and i yield back my time. the chair: the gentleman yields back the balance of his time. for what purpose does the gentleman from california rise? mr. farr: claim time in opposition and strike the last word. i rise in op

deputy director of the senate are legal and judicial studies at the heritage foundation. we specialize in constitutional law. mr. alt received his law degree at the university of chicago. we're glad to have you here. please guide. as with all witnesses, it will be placed in the record. these go ahead. >> thank you, chairman leahy for inviting me to testify before your committee once again. i share with senator grassley the concern that the title of this hearing is just something a predetermined conclusion that that decision the supreme court will somehow create barriers to justice and accountability must somehow create adverse event is for corporate behavior. i do not believe facts support the conclusion. or doing business cases for recent terms of the court based to some important conclusions. one, the court court frequently speaks and business cases, not in the fractured was characterized by critics, but a unanimous or super majoritarian voice too far from creating new barriers to justice or accountability, course dishes and in today's hearing project new novel infreque

according to figures by the heritage foundation data provided by the accountability office, federal agencies got an unprecedented 43 major regulations in fiscal 2010 alone. .. themselves of at least $28 billion. in the same period, a handful of rule makings were completed that reduced burdens of $1.5 billion. it is in this context that president obama launched his regulatory review initiative. to address the issue, the president promised a government wide review of rules which was a welcomed step, but it is the existing regulationings, however, is not a new or ground breaking idea. they have been required to prepare plans since 1993 under president clinton's executive order under regulatory review. there's little evidence such plans had any impact. moreover, the obama initiative was hardly government wide. it excluded independent agencies such as the federal communications commission, the security and exchange commission, and the new consumer protection bureau, and in so doing, the president excludes from scrutiny the largest producers of red today, and i do understand that oira invited agen

if you explore the mandate which even the heritage foundation at one time looked at, when you get into a mandate, it not only ends up with unconstitutional powers, it allows the government to define virtually everything and if you can do it for health care you can do it for everything in your life. and therefore we should not have a mandate. but i want to answer sylvia at a different level. this campaign cannot be only about the presidency. we need to pick up at least 12 seats in the u.s. senate and 30 or 40 more seats in the house because if you are serious about repealing obamacare, you have to be serious about building a big enough majority in the legislative branch that you could actually on the first 90 days pass the legislation. so i just think it's very important to understand it's not about what one person in america does. it's about what the american people do and that requires a senatorial majority as well as a presidency. >> we'll have more time to discuss health care. let's get down to the floor. jennifer, a question from a voter. >> terry, granite state born and bread? >>

bipartisan policy center, the american enterprise institute, the center for american progress, the heritage foundation, the roosevelt institute -- all of them saying, we need to get this debt down. mr. president, here's where we're headed, according to the congressional budget office. this is not the gross debt. this is the publicly held defnlts it's headed for 233% of the gross domestic product if we pail to act. if instead we adopt the commission proposal, you can see we'd actually work the debt do down, the publicly held debt, to 30% of g.d.p. mr. president, every part of the budget has to be scrutinized and has to generate savings. here's what's happened to defense spending since 1997. it has gone straight up from $254 billion a year to $688 billion a year. mr. president, secretary of defense gates said this. "... the budget of the pentagon almost doubled during the last decade. but our capabilities didn't particularly expand. a lot of that money went into infrastructure and overhead and, frankly, i think a culture that had an open checkbook." mr. president, i think he got it right. and when we lo

the heritage foundation has reported that subjecting federal employees -- federal employee positions which are commercial in nature to a public-private cost comparison generate on average a 30% cost savings regardless of which sector wins the competition. even a recent office of management and budget study states that the act of public of private corp. decision squen rates costs savings from 10% to 40% on average. during this time of stretched budgets and bloated federal spending, congress should do all they can do to find taxpayer savings and reduce the cost of services provided by the federal government. i urge all of my colleagues to support this common sense taxpayer first amendment and to ensure cost saving competition is available through the department of homeland security. i reserve the balance of my time. the chair: the gentleman yields back the balance of his time. mr. sessions: i reserve the balance of my time. the chair: under the five-minute rule, the gentleman cannot reserve his time. for what purpose does the gentleman from north carolina rise? mr. price: i move to str

doing some work for heritage foundation as well. we will go to fill, a republican in connecticut. caller: two quick points. the united states is the most profitable nation in the world. it is like anything else, when you are used to something, you want it your way, and that will continue, but what i am saying is this is reflecting to the reef -- to the political process. we need to take a deep breath as americans and be grateful for what we have and not be so reactionary to other political situations because we have the power -- and the great country wants what they want when they want it, but we need to take a deep breath and look at getting into the conflict. the fact that congress is now complaining about what obama did as far as >> we take you live to a senate subcommittee hearing on the diplomatic security. there is a new government accountability report that says that the diplomatic security service is not well prepared to handle tasks such as downed aircraft recovery and more. that is senator akaka, chairman of the subcommittee, and the hearing is just getting under way liv

milton copulus, an advisor to president ronald reagan, a veteran of the heritage foundation, head of the national defense council foundation, testified before congress in a recent year on -- quote -- "the hidden costs" of imported oil. mr. copulus stated that by calculating oil supply disruptions and military expenditures, the hidden cost of u.s. dependence on petroleum would total up to $825 billion per year. the military expenditure is equivalent to adding $8.35 to the price of a gallon of gasoline refined from the persian gulf oil. there is no hidden -- this is important about ethanol because there is no hidden u.s. military cost attributable to homegrown renewable environmentally good ethanol. here's another statement i'd like to refute -- quote -- "there is a big difference between a subsidy that is a tax credit and allowing someone to advance depreciation because they are going to write it off any how. the net effect to the federal government revenue if you take all those away is still zero." now, that statement wants you to believe that all the tax benefits that the oil indust

he doesn't balance the budget even under his rosy scenario written by the heritage foundation until 2040. that's a serious attempt at dealing with our debt and deficit. that's the ryan budget. the obama budget is even worse. don't know if it gets there by 2050. neither side is dealing seriously with these issues. we need to focus people's minds and a balanced budget amendment to the constitution is the best way to do that. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman's time has expired. the chair recognizes the gentlewoman from texas, ms. jackson lee, for five minutes. ms. jackson lee: i thank the speaker very much. and i thank my colleagues and ask to address the house for five minutes. it's important to be able to discuss with my colleagues just what we are doing in this house . and what is considered important and urgent and what is the impact on what we are doing. as my friends, the republicans, on the other side of the aisle are now spending time with the president, i hope they will have visions of president ronald reagan, because in 1983 ronald reagan begged and asked the congress at tha