so i said, betsy, what was i doing when i write about einstein? she said you're writing about your father. interesting. my father is an engineer, loves science, a secular jewish humanist, wonderful person, and just as einstein was his hero, my father has been my hero. so i said, yeah. that makes sense. okay, smarty pants, what about when i was writing about kissinger? well, dad, you were write about your dark side. all of my careers i have always been interested in technology and the role of technology. i was once -- and technology is changing the way we do narrative story-telling. paper is a wonderful technology for narrative. electronic media isn't great. you jump from link to link, gather information like a hunter and a gatherer, as opposed to sitting round the fireplace saying, let me make it a narrative. that's why i think in the future electronic media will always co-exist with paper. i think we will some day realize that paper is an awesomely good technology, and as much as we admire electronic ways of getting information, if we had been ge

i can use my cell. i had a commercial license. i did not have an atp.as a co-pilot for 15 years. i gained the experience. it was an honest system. it took time. what we have seen is a you can take and hire someone and suddenly you have someone in the left seat for three years and some in the right seat with one year. that is where the system has shown its weakness. >> senator rockefeller. >> thank you. mr. babbitt, at your call to action is very important. i am getting the idea that these things ought to happen. you are asking for voluntary commitments from air carriers to implement flight operation in quality insurance, etc. and all of these things. some of these voluntary commitments are also sought from labor unions to establish special standards and new procedures. i want you to know that the bill includes that all of these will be mandated. it is not a question of discussion. i am interested in how you were doing on this. because the airlines are in trouble. everybody is in trouble. the word "voluntary" becomes a way of not crushing them economical

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i will do the best i can.ichael spent his grammar school year filled with basketball, bowling, swimming team, boy scouts, altar boy, and music lessons with games of ball on jordan street. he was always causing mayhem in school. it seems he had knack of sending his schoolmates into laughter and his teacher's hair to turn probably gray. with privileges denied, michael was a very repentant face with state i'm sorry, i will never do it again. that lasted about a week. he had a kind, thoughtful nature. he was always helping the neighbors and he had his own paper route, earning his own money. at the age of 16, summer jobs were hard to come by and michael sign up for a summer sayreville pull the cap in rock hill, n.y.. new campers arrive every two weeks meeting total care, feeding, bathing, dressing and exercise. he carried out every task required for the well-being of this charge. he finished this summer with much praise from the staff for a job well done. i believe michael posner some routes were planted during the

i was jewish, because i am.he came to our passover on a regular basis and participated and enjoyed it. enjoyed my family. and i will say, i was reticent, reticent about asking my wife, because we see the passover a basis of families passing tradition to generation to generation. so there are a lot of toddlers who make and scratch other people's legs, do all sorts of things under the table. is orderly, but it's still family and part of how i think it should be conducted. but he loved that. that was a family enjoyed religion. and part of his enthusiasm for the red mass, which is a portion of my book, this is a mass -- he attended -- as long as they kept attendance records, which for about 20 years, he attended more regularly than any of his catholic college. and some of his catholic college are very devout. because he enjoyed it and he enjoyed a group like lawyers who sought divine guidance, didn't think they were operating in abstract without divine guidance. he took great pleasure in going to the red mass. and i

>> no, i didn't see jett during the movie. i can't say i did. just working on the set, and john, he kind of keeps his private life sort of private and very low-key. so, no. when he's off and finally gets -- it takes him three hours to get in and out of that costume, so he's ready to go home and chill out once he gets out of that costume. >> larry: queen latifah -- >> i felt very, very bad for the family. >> larry: she's written an exclusive blog for him about hershey school. you can check it out at cnn.com/larryking. more after this. she wants to make up. we decide to turn in early. we just know. announcer: finding the moment that's right for you both can take some time. that's why cialis gives men with erectile dysfunction options: 36-hour cialis or cialis for daily use. cialis for daily use is a clinically proven low-dose tablet you take every day, so you can be ready anytime the moment is right. tell your doctor about your medical condition and all medications and ask if you're healthy enough for sexual activity. don't take cialis if you take

i don't like it. i don't want it. i won't listen to it.ut it exists. >> please. >> what did you think it was mrs. clinton was doing, she charged everything against her husband was a vast right wing conspiracy. that's all politicians do is blame other people for their problems. >> ben, this whole book is just about getting even, about settling scores. >> did you read the book? did you read it? >> i read it, every word. >> wow. oh, amazing. >> because i care when larry king asks me about it. i care. >> i know, i should care. >> larry: let me get a break. but first, let's check in with anderson cooper for a preview of "ac 360." >> new details on that story still developing. five americans arrested in pakistan. all with ties to a terror group. we'll have the latest on the case. and a troubling trend, americans involved in terror plots a t home and abroad. we'll talk to a man who tries to deradicalize young american jihadis. and the politic of health care and the democratic senator that may make or break the bill. is he ready to block the bill

i hope not. are really do. host: why? caller: i am 59, but i am disabled. i have had parkinson's. that is the only thing that is keeping me from bankruptcy. host: charleston, indiana on the democrats line. caller: good morning. i am so angry about this. i do not understand how anyone who is a christian can be opposed to health care for everyone. i do not know. i agree totally with the first guy. host: more headlines. here is "the hill." the headline in "roll call"this morning. "politico" this morning. the next phone call comes from florida. robert on the republican line. caller: in calling about the bill on medicare. it is a waste of money. it is unconstitutional. the democrats ought to be ashamed of themselves. it will not work. it is a disaster. host: trenton, new jersey, independent line. caller: i have two things to say about this health-care thing. i do not think we will ever get a bill of health care program in america. everybody is all about themselves. democrats have 60 people and the senate and they cannot give the health care bill done. it is a tragedy. host: let's hear

i believe that history is what it is. i cannot believe i just used that phrase. our history is irrefutable. we did do internment camps. we did do this institution of slavery. we have created separate systems, one that left african- americans holding the short end of the stick. it is difficult to quibble with that. we have come very far as a country. but at the same time, we cannot ignore the lessons of our history. >> he goes on to say -- >> you know how incendiary that was. they ran the clips. >> right, right. what is interesting about that, and we are not in church. we are not in the context in which that was said. as you know, preachers are also entertainers. i think, and i do not know this to be true, but i think that a number of pastors around the country that have said incendiary things in their pulpits to make a point. i think that is what he tried to do there. >> did he say anything wrong? >> let's go back through it again. >> government bills bigger prisons and they want us to sing god bless america. >> on a per-capita basis, the united states incarcerat

i started out -- i think i did this because i had no idea what i was doing. you know, it was really dumb about it. i thought it would take me a year to write u.s. history. i thought was going to be one volume -- >> host: of the entire 200 years or so? >> guest: yeah, i just didn't know what i was doing. so i just started out, and i sent the manuscript to a whole lot of publishers. i got a very nice rejection notes. i sent it to educators and got some real interest and that helped but i also put it in classrooms from the beginning and the response from kids was much greater than i thought. it was wonderful. and these kids were reading manuscript from then my matrix printer, no pictures but they were reading. kids who normally wouldn't read. so i just -- i was going around trying how publisher after publisher including oxford, everybody turned me down so i had about five or five and a half books written and at that point i had brought in -- leggitt friends of the university of virginia they had read manuscripts, and i knew i had something pretty good. but i cou

i wanted to see what i had said then. i was one of those talking about cooperation between member states. when there with the revision of the lisbon strategy, it was based on the difficult report and it was refused by member states. after this crisis, there's much more awareness of the need to have a real coordination and the response to the crisis. and i am going to fight for that. but we need the support of the member states to achieve this. we need them, because some of those policies are at national level, some are at the community level, and i am encouraged by the change of use in the european council. in fact, the new president of the council already announced about formal exchanges. i hope it will be a way of having more commitment of the european council for the strengthening of governance of the european union 2020 strategy. >> thank you very much. if i could just as the services -- asked the services are not a bad -- to give us and not at the head when the recognizes. this is providing some athletic activity. mr

i am not sure i know the answer to that. to some degree, the electronic media as it is and as it will develop over time can take up the slack. the pressure in the electronic media for a constant, 24 coverage enhances brevity. >> has the new media made it more difficult? it has made it more challenging and exciting. if i wrote for the next day's paper, who would care? everyone would know it by the time they woke up the next morning and got their newspaper. what they want to know at 11:00 on the day of the ruling is how the justices ruled, and what they want the next day is something that is more terms of reaction. >> critics have said that the press corps is essentially there on bended knee. we are part of the institution. we treat the justices as if they were untouchable gods, and that sort of thing. that kind of criticism simply misunderstand the role of the press. even though we tried to be as detached as we can be from the court as the court is from the political winds, it does not hurt, and i think it helps enormously fo

>> i do. >> i do. >> thank you.let the record note that witnesses answered in the affirm tichlt before we start, i want you to know that your full written statement will be part of the record. and i also like to remind you t remind you to please limit your oral remarks to five minutes. ambassador newman, we'll please proceed with your statement. >> chairman akaka, thank you for inviting me to appear again before you. as you know, i am not a security specialist. i speak to you as one who has lived with security issues, been under fire and served in three critical threat posts, two as ambassador. first however, i would like to pay special tribute to the brave and hardworking security officers who have protected me in my mission in dangerous times. i also would like to acknowledge my respect for the men of dine core and blackwater who protected me in afghanistan. they performed with courage and restraint. one lost his leg in the process. whatever a program now attaches to others i owe those gallant men, state departmen

i worry about that. >> i was a governor and i think that this is a simple, straightforward way to buy out the states by saying the federal government will collect a national sales tax or make it a vat, it does not matter, and we will share it with the states on a formula basis. and you have to play with the formula. the germans do this by the way. it would be a windfall for states that do not have a sales tax, but there are very few of them. and then you have a uniform national test. >> and you put it in the constitution. >> i would be happy to. >> you had your hand raised but i want to get the question here. we were talking about the germans having a model that alice was to speaking up. >> the what the health care or do you want a move on? >> would you mind? >> we have a vat. at the last legislative period, it was a big political problem and a major problem for the start of the coalition. i think the vat principle is not really disputed, at least in germany right now. there are several rates -- the normal rate and a lower rate. there is a discussion on how to abolish the lower rate o

i know him and i like him and i respect him. and i wish to see him play golf. mean, he is rembrandt on canvas. you can't take that canvas away. you know, it's something he should be doing. i can't imagine him, larry, sitting home with his wife, holding hands, watching hundreds of thousands of people walking down the fairways and watching phil mickleson or somebody else winning the masters. he's going to be sitting there holding his wife's hand? i don't get it. i don't see it. >> larry: hasn't your respect for him diminished at all? >> i know him and like him and really respected him the most as a great athlete, great golfer. i know him as a golfer. i never knew anything about his private life. i can tell you the private lives of many people are not what they would seem. but i do say this. his marriage is seriously -- it's going to be a very tough one to put together, larry. these women are coming out of the woodwork and it's going to be awfully tough. i just don't see tiger sitting there, holding hands, watching golf tournaments every weekend with his wife. >>

i mean, i assume you at the s.e.c.t has to -- in my mind factor into we look at all the relevant results, and all the facts. i guess that that would be my response. >> with the bank and management, they were not necessarily completely liable because they were acting on government directions. to the tarp money whether or not that had become a material contracts that had to be disclosed under the rules and regulations. so that is certainly an issue. -- when did you guys first become aware of what was taking place here, the mounting losses at merrill lynch? when did you first become aware of that? >> unfortunately i wasn't there until march so i can't -- i don't know the answer to that question. >> why do you think, when we have the e-mail saying we don't want to discloseable event, why do you think there was a reluctance by the federal reserve to not have information be made known to the s.e.c.? >> i probably won't be appropriate for me to speculate about that. >> okay. mr. chairman, i yield back. >> thank you very muc

i would also say that i have spoken to your floor staff and i -- i -- as i indicated the republican leaderwe have to be in the white house for a while tomorrow afternoon. we'll give the republican leader that time, which will probably have to be in recess because the whole caucus is called. but it's my desire to make sure that we finish this tomorrow. i think that's to everyone's interest. that's what we're doing here. mr. mcconnell: would that include both sanders an hutchison? mr. reid: no, as i schaind to your floor -- explained to your staff, i would like that to be offered. if we have five hours of debate and the four votes we have planned on. mr. mcconnell: during the time that the democratic senators are at the white house, would we be in recess? mr. reid: i think we should be in recess. mr. mcconnell: do you know how long the meeting will be? mr. reid: it is scheduled for an hour an 10 minutes. mr. mcconnell: what time? mr. reid: i think at 1:30. i'm glad that we got the balancing back and forth of the unanimous consent request finally settled on these matters. the presiding office

and i thought i was going to get chewed out. but i said, hello, mr. secretary. he said, i understand you've decided against taking your case up to the supreme court. and i took another deep breath. and he said we appreciate very much the attention that you devoted to working this through and thank you very much, end of conversation. i felt a chill that not drew days but the office of the solicitor general stood in such high regard throughout the government that in this really critical matter, deference was shown. >> point 1, the most unpleasant and difficult by far in my experience was conflict. and conflict within the justice department specifically. every administration, regardless of who the president is, has its schizophrenic elements. or dimensions. i've seen no better treatment of this than charles freed's book, "order in the reagan revolution" where he talked about somewhat in the pejorative i lay of the police in the office of legal counsel. when he was taking more hamiltonian than jeffersonian. you find yourselves in the solicitor general's office being

and very easily, he could call you and say my wife and i had an argument, i went out in anger, i drove the car into a fire hydrant, i'm an idiot. and it would really let some of the air out of the balloon. the media is angry now that he won't speak to them. >> larry: swinging the club at the car to get him out, when that car's engines -- i have one of those cars. my wife drives it but i have it. >> have you ever taken a golf club to it? >> larry: no. she hasn't taken one to me either. when the engine is on in that car, you can't open the door from the outside. >> which is a perfect explanation for what transpired. at the same time, i agree with howard here, part of the problem is you've got somebody who does have a billion dollar brand. and billion dollars in earnings. he's jealously guarded his privacy. it's understandable. he's now in the middle of not only a criminal investigation of some kind because anytime the cops are involved -- >> larry: it's not a major criminal act. >> you're talking low-grade misdemeanors. but at the same time you're also talking about the media tabloid fre

president, i will put us in a quorum -- i will ask -- i will put us in a quorum call, and i guess it is equally divided among the two sides. the presiding officer: is there objection? is there objection? without objection, it is so ordered. the clerk will call the roll. quorum call: quorum call: quorum call: mr. kyl: mr. president? the presiding officer: the senator from arizona. mr. kyl: mr. president, i ask unanimous consent that further proceedings under the quorum call be dispensed with. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. kyl: thank you. mr. president, i want to speak in favor of the crapo amendment which we're going to be voting on here in a few hours. the crapo amendment essentially would protect the american middle class from tax increases in this bill. the president, of course, promised that nobody under -- making under $200,000 a year or families making $250,000 a year would see tax increases under the bill. but they do. and crapo amendment simply would send the bill back to the finance committee, make sure that they don't. i think that's a fairly straightforward

i love you. i am proud of you. i am so thankful you boys are over there to protect us and keep us safe. i will never forget that. you know how proud i am of you. guest: thank you. merry christmas to you. host: sergeant stiffarm, we want to thank you for joining us this morning. for the next 20 minutes, we will members and afghanistan, coming up in just a bit. inquirer about a christmas truce in world war one, christmas date in world war one. the author of the peace talk the author of the peace talk about the?stukno carrierringcon0 we accept that somewhat in afghanistan, there christmas carols on a battlefield as the world war continues. it is veterans who continue. it is the greatest challenges able to make the greatest effect on those that they touch, and the people in combat, in support, in whatever related to this, whatever your harshest events you face are -- host: thank you for your input. we are joined by a petty officer in afghanistan, but russell foreign -- russell sore neck. russell thorne. we want you to

i i didn't haved there in 2005.we saw big claims about how quickly we were going to be able to train up the iraqi troops. we were way off on those estimates in terms of quality, quantity, in terms of the time to train. what lessons have we learned from that, and what kind of measure should we be looking for to be sure we are getting the afghan army and police trained in the numbers that we need? and for admiral mullen and secretary gates. >> i think we have learned those lessons. we see similarities in the sense that the police are not coming nearly as quickly as the -- as the army, for instance. that was the case in iraq. we really have taken those lessons and used them to focus on what we need in afghanistan. but it's a big challenge and i indicated earlier, that's a high risk part of this strategy, is training and equipping the afghan security forces. that said, it's a good fighting force. we have had a considerable amount of -- made a considerable amount of progress on the army. we're way mind blind on the polic

when i did, i realized that i was one of the lucky ones. i am still working and able to support myself. i devoted myself to the next six months to working completely on a pro bono basis helping hundreds of destitute madoff investors and their 70's, 80's, and 90's, who had been hit by financial tsunami who can never recover. this committee has dealt with that financial tsunami in the investor protection act of 2009, and i'm not here to speak about that. unfortunately, the madoff investors who i represent, and i represent hundreds of them, have been hit by two financial tsunami is that this committee can do something about. my client profile is a person in his 17's, 80's, and 90's who worked hard his whole life, who trusted this government -- many of my clients served in the second world war with distinction. i have climates@@@@@ @ @ @ @ @ m been repeatedly investigated, and always come out clean. these are people of whom we should be proud and whom we should be protecting. and instead, these people have been victimized by the government sinc

first i decided i would be a teacher, then i felt like teach? english.who would want to greet all of those things? and i didn't get poetry very well and i felt no liable to think that's it. history just didn't cut it for me. i didn't feel the passion. i go to mass, that's easy. the papers or easy -- i will be a math teacher. [laughter] and for 23 years i got to live that dream. for 23 years i got to do what i started dreaming about in seventh grade. and so, i believed back than what they were all singing to me that the way to make a difference, the way you have an opportunity to go where you want to go is through education. i believed then and i believe it now. the idea in this country that in this country, the richest most powerful nation in the world we have designed a system that for the last 20 or 25 years guarantee's 25 to 30% of kids will not graduate high school. if you're hispanic or african-american it's close to 50%. it happens every single year. that system is designed to do that. it was designed at a time we didn't need everyone to graduate h

>> i didn't do anything. i mean, i -- i don't know where she's at. i don't even know where to start looking. >> larry: chuck, they've called him a person of interest. do you frankly think he could be involved in his wife's disappearance? >> well, he's been my son-in-law for about eight years, and i don't think -- i don't want to think that way, and i don't want to speculate. he's been determined to be a person of interest, and i have to believe the police have a reason for doing that. >> larry: is he a good father? >> i believe he's a good father. he's excellent with the children. >> larry: michael, you've known her a long time, susan. your wife, by the way, acted as family spokesperson today. she wasn't surprised joshua is a person of interest. are you surprised? >> no, not really, because of the comments that were made after he was being interviewed. just some of the things that have transpired during the week. we've been, like everyone else, kind of watching as things go, and it looked like they needed to go that direction. but when a police depar

i suppose that i enjoyed the oral arguments and i like the court room, i really do. i enjoy my own office. one of the most interesting places in the court is the spiral staircases, well worth seeing if you come in. >> have you spent much time studying the history of this place? >> if picked up a good deal of history but i have not made an independent study. some people have made it of the white house, very interesting work on the white house. >> what are those books behind you? >> those of the u.s. reports. they are the last 40 years of the u.s. report, and over there i have the reports from the beginning. >> what are the u.s. reports? walk around his desk and i will meet you on the other side. >> they are the reports of the decisions by the court. they include all the majority opinions and all the dissenting in separate opinions that have been written. >> we have read for years that you figured out a way to spend part of your time here and part of your time and florida. when did you start running a couple of weeks in florida and doing work down there? >> i had been

i just did what i was led to do. if i had thought about it i might not have done what i did that was intuitive. the lady who created mothers against drunk drivers did it because her little girl was hit by a drunk driver. i created operation hope because of the injustices i saw and the financial predators eyes son south l.a. when i grew up in my mom and dad divorced over money. they love each other but they couldn't agree on money and without going into a lot of detail i didn't want that to be a hindrance or anybody anymore and today if you don't have a bank account your and economics layed so the issue in the 20th-century what andrew young and dr. king walked the streets of atlanta for the civil-rights you had emerging democracy all around the world. from india to south africa to the southern states. the only way you codify democracy in the rights of people in the hands of people was the right to vote. within the global economic system, if you don't understand the language of money and you don't have access to, what

i call today's meeting with this in mind, and i told workers at -- i told the group to look forward to the process in weeks and months ahead. thank you very much. >> bank executive also spoke briefly following their meeting with the president. >> good afternoon, everyone. i am richard davis from u.s. bank. this is bob kelly and jim. we are pleased to tell you about the meeting we just concluded with the president. it was very productive. he gave us strong outlines about things he expects from us to recover the economy. we talk first about credit availability. we talk next about housing and modification. we talk about executive compensation and financial regulatory reform. to your pleasure, we aligned on both the region most of those issues, and we think we do a better job of working with the american public to make loans available and did our best to tell the story of regulatory reform and how much that matters to all of us for the great economy. finally, we agree very much on the principles of executive compensation, and we're looking forward to seeing the good efforts we have taken i

i am who i am. >> i don't like the spotlight, larry. you know that.he light just finds me. >> see, see! >> larry: you opened your refrigerator those ten minutes. tito, do you get into the swing of it, forget cameras are there? >> pretty much. after a while, it was a little rough in the beginning, knowing there's a camera, but i'm now pretty used to it. >> larry: how long are you committed to it for? >> i'm sorry? >> larry: how long are you committed to the show? >> we did the five episodes, the five one-hour episodes. >> larry: that's all it's going to be? >> right now. >> larry: what if they want more? >> then we have to sit down and talk. sit down with the brothers. >> back to the drawing board. >> larry: oh, good luck. we've got another clip from "the jacksons: a family dynasty." this deals with the aftermath of michael's death. watch. >> a great experience of carrying my brother and all the brothers carrying him. if i had to carry him for like 100 miles, i would do it, you know. >> whether you're feeling good or bad, you start thinking about that

what i arrived at, i think it came and i think he did to. u.s.and grazers in the book about senator specter asked an oddball question -- we won't have enough time here, but oddball question about real property laws bringing users and shifting, unit, and then justice scalia was telling this great story about two lawyers in new york and a taxicab. >> guest: he hijacks the question. and that happened throughout. he hijacks the questioner gives his own itch and it's like okay okay, we're out of time. later, i asked jess is going about that complaint from senator specter about how he sort of shifted the question to answer when he walked into. who knows, probably not? >> host: either time jesses clia catfish with his answer he had forgotten what the question was. >> guest: the senator had, right, right. >> host: jesses clia calmly he is so outgoing in his opinion. sometimes pretty rough. when you say in the dissenting opinions, or even the opinions that he writes challenging views of his colleagues. how does he get along with his colleagues? i'm going

>> i know i was not invited. [unintelligible] >> the tarp money was intended to solve an economic emergency in the financial sector and now that that money is being paid back, it should be used to lower the federal budget deficit and the national debt. and this idea that we're going to take this -- this money, that is being paid back to the government and then turn around and spend it on useless government programs is a -- is a very big mistake. >> i have a question. >> thank you. >> senators are continuing their debate of the health care bill through the weekend. [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2009] [captions performed by the national captioning institute] >> mr. president, i believe ben bernanke should not reappointed. i place a held on his nomination. and mr. president, everybody in this country understands we're at the midst of the worst economic crisis since the great depression. we're looking at 17% of our people being either unemployed or underemployed. and we are looking at -- at avera

i know, i have my own views that i hold tight.r of meetings with senators know. what does that mean? >> every major piece of landmark legislation has had some bipartisan support. social security and clearly civil rights. at the challengee is, if you can't reach what they're after, you cannot make it happen. the voice levels have risen so high that the price of doing anything has gotten very high. it is easier to do nothing that is to do something, but it is not always better. -- that is to do something, but it is not always better. -- than it is to do something, but it is not always better. i thought the president was right. i opposed when i thought the president was long -- were wrong -- was wrong. i sought to do that been an icy to do that now. >>-- i seek to do that now. i wish i could remember exactly how that occurred. i would like to say that this was an evolving process where, if this proposal did not work, then there were efforts to see how you would modify it to try to find another way of getting the same result. there is

i mean, i was looking at it from afar. that there was just a little simmering anger with the president? is what jeanne is reporting part of why it seemed to be ratcheting up out there? >> i think it clearly is for a number of reasons. you're absolutely right. in the president's body language he is much firmer than yesterday and in his language calling for accountability saying there were systemic failures. he didn't touch any of that yesterday. what happened between yesterday and today? well just in the last few moments we've learned from senior administration officials that basically late last night some new intelligence came into the white house basically suggesting as jeanne is reporting that all of the pieces were not put together by the intelligence community. what senior officials are now telling us that squares exactly with what jeanne is reporting is that if more dots had been connected, if more people had been talking in different agencies they believe they could have thwarted this terror attack much sooner. we're

and so i think -- i leave it at that. we make no apology for increasing discretionary expenditure on our own people and the needs of our own people and that should continue, in fact. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman reserves the balance of his time. the gentleman from iowa, for what purpose do you rise? mr. latham: mr. speaker, first of all i want to thank the gentleman for recognizing the fact that we were fiscally responsible before and that -- to catch up in two years spending 85% more, increasing spending by 85%, is truly more than catching up, i would say. i would now yield three minutes to the distinguished the gentlewoman from missouri. >> thank you, i'd like to address the financial services of the omnibus and first want to commend chairman serrano for his efforts in crafting the bill. it's been a pleasure to work with him and while we don't always agree, he has at least an open to listening to the minority's idea. while i appreciate chairman serrano's efforts, i've got a lot of concern with the financial se

i remember when i started my position. i said to one of my colleagues. i started at the new york times. i said tam, what do i do? it's easy. it's easy. you call people on the phone and you write what they say. it doesn't really work for the supreme court. you're also a little bit constrained and it's easy to fall into this. the court has so much invested in his prestige and authority. they are don't have an army. people do what they say because why? because we believe in it. they want you to take it seriously. there's nothing wrong with a little mischief. and there's nothing wrong with trying to find thems in left armer points. it's sometimes disappointing to me. there was a decision yesterday. i read my story in the washington story. i read the eblings lent story in "the wall street journal." they're pretty good stories. but i think the coverage is of very high quality. they're very little different. i'm not sure if we need four of them. it's kind of a commodity. you try to -- you know, i remember writing a few stories last year that i thought maybe sta

>> i called people that i knew when i lived there or people that i had met in the demonstrations who were clearly taking some kind of leadership role. we had come to a demonstration at university, which had become a focus of protests, and i met a student there, who was clearly one of the organizing elements. in other day i found myself in a room in one of the tehran university dormitories with one of the student protest leader is glued to his cell phone, directing people where to go, the idea of stretching the police so they would not all focus on one area, tiring the mouth, or these impromptu traffic jams that you saw, which were not so impromptu because they blocked the passage of those columns of riot police that would go and basically sort of engaged in firefighting. this is also something that came up when i was in my interrogation cell where the younger in teradata said to me that i'm a work for the intelligence ministry, but it was all hands on deck during the post-election on rest -- unrest, and i was on a motor bike riding behind the guy who was steering, and the only thing

it is not that i am not trying. when i try, i get a resistance. . .a very good comparison. i understand that there is a partisan disagreement over how this challenge came into existence. but there are a lot of statements on the other side of the aisle but say that rebound going -- rebundling and other things were the problems. if that was the fundamental matrix of those entrants, if they had performed as one would expect them normally to do so, none of this would have happened. all of the derivatives would have been fine. i am not suggesting it was a perfect system but that the problem, the thing that caused this problem, was that bad loans were made. and certainly the cra but a great deal of pressure on banks to make bad loans, and banks to do their own fault or to the pressure that was in the system did away with the three main legs that hold up loans. one of those as income, one of those is credit history, and of course one of those is the collateral -- how much money they put into the loan in the first place. when you take those three things out,

mccain: i do, but i -- i just saw -- i have been around here 20-some years. the first time i have ever seen a member denied an extra minute or two to finish his remarks, and i must say that i don't know what's happening here in this body, but i think it's wrong. and so i -- it's fine with me that it be ten minutes, but i'll tell you, i have never seen a member denied an extra minute or so, as the chair just did. mr. levin: if the senator would yield for that? i don't object to the unanimous consent request on that condition. i think that the same thing did occur earlier this afternoon for reasons which have to do with trying to get this bill going. mr. mccain: i just haven't seen it before myself, and i don't like it and i think it's -- it harms the comity of the senate not to allow one of our members at least a minute. i'm sure that time is urgent here, but i doubt if it would be that urgent. so i renew my unanimous consent request that the senator from rhode island be recognized for ten minutes, the senator from michigan be recognized for ten minutes and th

i think i will tell a story. i, fresh out of auditing in the state of missouri, having run a government auditing agent for a number of years, came to the united states senate and was honored to get a seat on the armed services committee. so, as i began to learn about the conflict in iraq, i kept coming back to contrasting, because the auditor in me was surprised at some of the things i began learning about contracting in iraq, so i went to iraq. and the purpose of my trip was not to do what many senators do when they go to iraq, which is to look at the conflict through the prism of the military mission, i went specifically for the reason to oversee contract thing. and what was going on with contrasting. i spent more time in kuwait which won't surprise some of you then actually spent in the theater and i have many different things that happened on that trip that are seared into my hard drive. realizations about the lack of coordination and integration between various pots of money. amazing lapses in scoping contra

i amendment. although well intentioned, it does not guarantee universal access to preventative and screening services for women. it does not remove the cost barriers of high payments and codeductibles. it is -- co-deductibles. it is opposed by the american cancer society and the american heart association. it primarily provides information on those matters. we salute her intention, but we think that her amendment is too limited, and really to quote the american heart association, that it would be an actual step backward in the area of making preventative services available, particularly not only in the area of cancer but in heart and vascular disease, the emerging number one killer for women. i urge the defeat of the murkowski amendment. the presiding officer: the senator's time has expired. the senator from alaska. ms. murkowski: mr. president, i don't believe that the body is in order. the presiding officer: will the senate be in order. thank you. the senator from alaska. ms. murkowski:

>> i should know the answer to that, but i don't. i may in fact be the highest level official who quote-unquote decided, but senior levels of the department were made aware of discussions going on. i tried to make clear both by written testimony and in a reresponse to previous questions, we're working in an active supporting role to our partners at cstc-a. this is not the kind of thing we push back against, it's something we try to find out if we can play a helpful role to respond to their desires for perhaps a more adroit way of accomplishing this task. >> were you aware of the participation of higher levels in the defense department? >> i was not personally, no. >> would there have been a decision document of some kind making its way that would that the justifications for the decision? >> the documents that i can recall now were in the form of memoranda and cables coming from embassy kabul that were making known to us the desires of our colleagues in the mill and how they wished to shape -- in the military and how they wished to sh

i mean, it is bright. and i was -- i saw a place that i was supposed to go.hat halo, and something was saying, go toward the halo. >> reporter: he says he was dead for two minutes and 40 seconds. >> powerful stuff. bob schriever will tell us more about his near-death experience when we return right after this. what can i get ya? i'd like one of those desserts and some coffee. sure, decaf or regular? - regular. - cake or pie? - pie. - apple or cherry? cherry. oil or cream? oil or cream? cream... please. when other toppings are made with hydrogenated oil, the real dairy cream in reddi-wip's sure an easy choice. nothing's more real than reddi-wip. fork or... spoon? nothing's more real than reddi-wip. [audio: gavel hits the desk] this bill will let americans keep the coverage they have now. ...and guarantee no one is denied coverage for getting sick... ...or for a pre-existing condition. this bill keeps all medical decisions between doctors... ...and their patients. it'll lower the cost of health insurance, and still lower the deficit. this bill... this is the bi

anything that maximizes transparency is what i support, but i would i have thought that the details of how we do it are best left to the members estimate committee, and it is for the shadow leader of the house to put his views there. i think, if i am right, that we were trying to reach a consensus about how we would move forward on these issues. i think we should all say that the sooner we can deal with all the issues the better, but the best way of dealing with them is by the process that we ourselves agreed. >> with respect -- >> [unintelligible] >> with respect, the question of whether you publish the totals is not a matter of detail. it seems to me pretty profound. you have got to publish the totals so that the public can see that we are being open, transparent and straightforward about this issue that has done so much damage to this house. after the queen's speech -- >> [unintelligible] >> order. government back benchers do need to simmer down. mr. cameron. >> thank you, mr. speaker. after the queen's speech, i offered the prime minister our support if he brought forward the legis

>> first of all, i feel i can relate to her. i am a mom and i have two kids. to me she seems like a genuine person. she is intelligent, well- educated, well spoken. i think she puts her family first, which i've admired. i know it is hard to get caught up in the whole washington white house, but i feel stupid family purse. >> i agree with what sherrill said, very genuine. she does not forget the average, hard-working person. extremely intelligent. >> she reminds me a lot of jackie kennedy. >> does anybody else feel she reminds you of jackie kennedy? let me see the hands. more than half the group say she reminds you of jackie kennedy. and why? >> she is very refined, poised, eloquent, gracious. >> she just seems to carry off her position in the white house with grace and poise. she just seems to always have herself together. she does not seem to be flustered at anything. >> except the encounter in france, when they were supposed to kiss the cheek of the president of the country. she seemed a little standoffish. that is not exactly what you are supposed to do. wh

when i saw the president, i saw the word yes. yes, these are troubling and difficult times, some of the worst that we have experienced in our lifetimes. as leaders and public servants, the people of this country and the world are looking to us. they need to see a face that says yes. the contrast between our conservative vision and the policies being pursued by those in charge is stark. while they push for driving us deeper into debt, we will stand for the very tuesdays of restraint. while they seek to expand government control, we will promote common sense solutions that have been proven to work. if our faces say yes and we lead with character, enthusiasm and also with an attitude toward seizing the opportunity before us, america can get across the recover and continue to build that land of freedom that can and will lead the whole world. thank you very much, again, for all of you and what you do towards the pursuit of service to that dream. thank you to heritage for having me. thank you. [applause] >> the congressman has some tim

i go back to my home state of arizona, i talk to the providers and i say what's going on?you made a deal with the lobbyists. that's my answer to you. you made a deal with the lobbyists. not the home health care providers. not the nurses, not the doctors, not the people that are the users of pharmaceuticals that this year have seen an 8% to 9% increase in costs of prescription drugs because your deal is going to protect them. so my answer to you is, i don't know what you bought that letter for, but it probably was a pretty high price. >> would the senator let me answer the question. >> would the senator -- the senator from arizona has the florida. >> -- the senator from arizona has the floor. >> i do know the answer to it. i just gave you the answer. >> i will have to agree with my colleague from arizona and it is astonishing that the senator would read a letter from a national organization instead of one from his home state, because what i see is that some of these are in communities where people don't even have hospitals. we have colleagues on the floor here from rural st

i want to be clear as to what i am hearing you say.e 134,000 by the end of october 2010 and then to have another 106,000 by the end of 2013. that is the goal stated. >> if i could just be clearer in wording created the program is 4 1/3 to 34,000 by the end of 2010. -- the program is for adoption 134,000. that has been approved. there's a proposal to grow the afghan national army. that has not been decided on that specific number. >> all right. the goal is by the end of this year to have the afghan national police to be an 96,800. it has been proposed that we reach a total number of wonder and 60,000 by the year 2013 but it has not yet been proved. -- a total number of 160,000. >> general, first of >> that's correct. >> but that has not been approved. >> correct. >> general, thank you for a service i know must have been challenging and frustrating at times and congratulations on your upcoming promotion and your move to beautiful huntsville, alabama. >> thank you. >> we've danced around this issue of quality/quantity, particularly as it

what i see, and i meet, i go to almost all of these or as many as i can. i try to talk with every family member that attends. i don't really see an appreciable difference in how we interact with the family based on the conflict. each case is an individual case. each family is handled individually. what i have observed is that the interaction is based more on the circumstances of the individual lost than on the conflict occurred in. we have, in the time since we have been organized, in our family updates reached out to over 14,000 people. we just recently last weekend, in fact, did one here in bethesda, maryland. we had 122 family members attending. seventy, over 70 of those, by the way, were first-time attendees. and over, i want to say, 60% of the attendees were korea, cold war. as you walk around the room and talk to people unless they told you what were their relative was missing and you could not tell. >> and you said you are going to provide transparency and community efforts as part of your strategy? >> yes, ma'am. >> what will be different. >> well,

i am proud. we will continue to upgrade the equipment available to our forces, in addition to the defense budget, several billion vehicles, helicopters, equipment to deal with ied's. some very notable firms are responsible for these advances that we are making in both technology and equipment. >> with regard to the london conference, will the prime minister undertake to invite russia, china and india to take part? willie except that this is not only appropriate is they face -- will he accept that this is not only appropriate as they faced the same terrorist threats, but their presence would reassure unlike iraq, our presence in afghanistan has the unanimous support of united nations security council? >> mr. speaker, the former foreign secretary is a blip -- absolutely right, that any sentiment that will insure not interference by other members -- it will have to include members of the countries mentioned. they to be part of better security arrangements for afghanistan. as far as specific details

>> when i first came board i had some problems. but things are getting better the more that i get out there. . we may want to provide some of that information to louisiana. it may help with the claims. >> ok. thank you all so much. >> thank you, gentlemen. certainly part of the reason we're holding this forum today is so that we can shed light on the lack of fire corporations -- lack of firewalls for these corporations perhaps making the case these corporations do not deserve separate identity. normally piercing the corporate veil has to do with is it operating as a separate corporation or not. and with that i would recognize for his questions the gentleman who will probably be sundown as the acorn king -- probably be known as the acorn king. >> thank you, mr. issa, for pulling this forum together and working in cooperation with the balance of the people in this committee. first reflection is, i better come to the end and do that. i'd like to conclude with ms. moncrief. it really caught my ear when mr. von spakovsky made the statem