but the hummer is not made by the military. guest: that's separate, g.m. had the rights to the hummer brand. and the h-1 is discontinued. so these are smaller versions. host: round rock, texas, good morning. caller: good morning, i have a chrysler now and i am unemployed and i tried to get them to go down on my payments so i can afford to make my payments. they don't want to listen to me. why should i want to give money to chrysler and chevrolet, because you have to have more money to put down a down payment. i am for the u.s. cars, but why should i help them if they don't want to help me? people aren't talking about this, but people need to call in about how they are treating people that are laid off. host: how much are you paying? caller: i have a 2006 durango and paying $270. host: thanks for the call. guest: now they have funds that gmac controls both of those, and that's something that consumers have to deal with finance arms on. host: he talked about chrysler and the company and market are talking about the times to foil the fiat deal, what does that

the house bill would subsidize the purchase of a new hummer, or new ram.t talks about a companion bill in the senate which they say is better. but the bill being pushed for the auto industry is bad policy. it's as these bills are expertly designed to provide it detroit one last windfall to sell off gas-guzzlers' currently sitting on dealer lots. guest: nothing is perfect, right? my bill would have been a little different. but you must work with your colleagues. the bill that we passed in my committee the do you know the committee well in terms of a balance between democrats and republicans. 50-4. then, on the house floor, an amendment, better than a two- thirds vote -- a hummer -- one of the provisions was that your car has to have worse than 18 miles per gallon. as we think about hummers, most of those would use the head as a stereotype and gets less than 80 miles per gallon but the new car or a police car has to be at least four mpg better. -- or those lease car. if you want to take full advantage id should be a 10 mile per gallon differential. if you tu

. >> host: at eeyore katsas about three-- hummer. hummer's are used by the military. >> guest: a.m. general manufactures the bomber and when i was in the armed services committee we have dealt with those issues but that is separate. gm had their rights to the hummer brand. and h1, which was the original variation is even discontinued so these are smaller different versions. >> host: round rock, texas, good morning for david mccurdy. >> caller: good morning mr. mccurdy. i have a question. i am a self-employed. i tried to deal with chrysler finance to get them to go down on my payments, just to adjust them a little bit so i could afford to make my payments. they don't even want to listen to me. why should i want to give money to chrysler, chevrolet or anybody else when everything they are doing seems to be-- chrysler is going up on their cars. you have to have more money to put a downpayment on the cars. i am for u.s. cars that why should i want to help them when they don't want to help me? people are-- people should call in and let you know just how chrysler and other car companies a

you can buy literally buy a hummer, now, a hum ser not a great car, i presume. but you can take this money and buy a hummer, which makes no sense at all, and you can take this money and buy a car from that's made in japan or germany or made in south korea. so what are we doing for our economy if the argument is that this is an economic initiative? this language should be free standing or should come through the regular appropriation process. it should not have been stuck in this bill. there's plenty of time to do this language. there's no rush to do this language. you're going to have imnew mexico rable opportunities to bring it forward in regular order. and, therefore, it just makes no sense at all to put $1 billion of new debt on our children's back on a policy which isn't well thought out or excuted and is in contradiction to a really much stronger and more solid policy which has been proposed by the senator from maine and california. so i believe we should strike this. and i don't think it slows the bill down. i heard the chairman of the house committee say

a hummer. getting 16 miles per gallon. and yet a lower income consumer who traded in a gas guzzler for a 2-year-old ford focus, which gets 27 miles per gallon would not receive assistance. so that does not strike me as the right direction in which to go. furthermore, toicht emphasize the point that all versions we had put forth for consideration were paid for. i had proposed using tarp money that had already been set aside for the automobile industry to pay for this, to accommodate some concerns for the other side of the aisle we came up with a proposal to allow o.m.b., with congressional consent to use some of the funds set aside in the stimulus bill. but instead, what we have here is a proposal that is not paid for. so i'm disappointed in what's produced and i'm disappointed we have not had the opportunity of a full debate on this issue to try to forge a compromise bill that would both improve our environment and help stimulate the economy and that would help low-income consumers who may be interested in a used car. than

host: it your asks us, hummers are used by the military, but is it a good idea to sell to china? but the military are not made -- guest: when i was in the armed services committee would dealt with those issues. but that is separate. gm just have the rights to the brand. host: the commercial. guest: the h1, the version of the military one, is even discontinued. texas host:, good morning for dave mccurdy. caller: i was self-employed and at the time was unemployed, i tried to deal with chrysler finance to get them to go down on my payments, adjusted just them a little bit more so they can afford to make the payments. why should i want to give the money to chrysler, chevrolet, everybody else, and chrysler is going up on the cars, you need more money to put a downpayment on the cars. i am for the u.s. cars, white will i help them when they don't want help me? -- why should i help them when they don't want to help me? chrysler and other companies treating people getting unemployed and laid off? host:, prepaying, what kind of car? caller: to about six during go, and i pay $735 a month -

unit. -- hummer unit, saying it conflicts with goals. u.s. district judge sam can't turn over a letter of resignation to a senate official serving a subpoena at the prison where he is serving a 33-month sentence. those are some of the latest headlines on c-span radio. >> conservation and the beginning of 20th-century, there were two sides -- just like now. >> teddy roosevelt and his leading role in the early days of the conservation movement. >> he was not what we would call by modern terms a kind of holistic -- he believed in hunting, but he did not believe in hunting so you would make a species extinct. so, yes, he cared about snail darter, butterflies, wild flowers. he wanted to make sure we had a place for that in modern society. >> sunday, part two with douglas brinkley on "the wilderness warrior." federer roosevelt and the crusade for america. sunday night at 8:00 p.m., or listen on satellite radio, down lied that c-span podcast and watch part one c-span.org. >> "washington journal" continues. host: joining us is congressman jay ai

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caller: hello, i was wondering why gm does not look for merger instead of selling out hummer?as an executive branch maybe they could put a limit on the president's spending. as a veteran i can hardly afford to go to the movie theater. host: we will talk a bit more about the auto industry in an upcoming segment, but go ahead, if you would like guest: when the government rescued the auto companies the key was putting together a program to move the company's ford with a new slimmed-down structure. seen some of these brands sold off this week expected when they received government host: aiaid. host: d.c. any parallels between the auto and -- do you see any parallels between the auto industries and of the banks? guest: there has been this belief that we have to get the banks going again, get liquidity back into the system. it will start with lending. we have yet to see that. banks, lending has fallen again -- which you would expect to see and a recession. host: this viewer asks if this is strictly an american concern? regarding specifically at executive pay. guest: all these financ

the right con of conference to get the right kind of job, and of the many thing we can't afford, hummers, we can't afford that higher instruction. but short life. just write cooking. but plum gave me my first review. i remember it very well in 196 5 an undergreatwall. a book about the battle of waterloo. a terrific book and for the saturday evening post, that's how old i am, everybody. and i got five dollars for it and it was fortune and i framed the check, and it was the kind of my hippocratic oath. it solved the problem about green eye shadow journalism or live the life of a scholar. they're not mutually depleting. they are necessarily self-nourishing. you right for the public, you do scholarship, that you may write for the public, and you write for the public as a friend and companion but above all as an authority with impeccable integrity of research and primary sources. so you want to say it's a good thing, boys, make up already, bishop, thomas carlisle, enough already. so, i have been lucky enough to do that, and the american future was born in some sense of this complicated marria

hummer, but i want to focus on the medicaid and medicare issue and the concern that we would need to point some costs savings through that. in california, new york, people get nervous about this, we looked at those costs. could any of you comment on that and whether or not -- she mentioned limiting itemized reductions for medicare and medicaid, that would be a place of picking up savings. do you have experienced enough, what are we talking about conlan and does that bring us to a question of whether the large states or small states, the competition is going to be such that both are paying essentially the same thing for that care which we know today is not true. >> if i understand your question correctly, let me answer it this way. it has been underway since the first of medicine reports and after a cooperative effort across the board in health-care to understand how it is that we address the system and quality problems because it is clear we have rollins and there are enormous costs linked to that. the bonet -- the estimate is that 35% of the money that we spend is for every year, fo