the reading is extremely important to. just as making sure when blacks or other minority groups have our tax they get repro fused at the same point as white patients at high performing infusion. institutions. i have lots of health care things that i could rattle off. >> commissioner abigail thernstrom is right, i thought i had one in here, sorry i don't, of cultural competence, mind-numbing leave they. the distinctions you made between linguistic competence and anthropological competence, especially when you work with either a population, you want to know what home remedies they use, this is extremely important. at its worst, cultural competency training has devolved into a version of racial sensitivity training with stereotypes, i wonder how i am supposed to treat my black patients differently than white ones, you mentioned joseph betancourt, a have a quotation from him which is revealing. what he really shows is what you said, which is that this is about universal factors in dealing with other human beings, in this case

capability will become important. it will remain important in the capability will be how do you address and how you work in this hybrid environment in which we will live and operate. i believe that the high and capability can go low but below and can go high all the time -- the low end ken gough hi all the time. we have seen the reach of the destroyer to rescue captain phillips. that is a good investment that we have. we see demand from our combatant commanders for increased maritime ballistic missile defense, increased numbers of submarines, and increased intelligence surveillance and reconnaissance. as i mentioned before, for us, flexibility while we are deployed and while we are spread is very important. when the situation develops, you do not go home to get your gun. you have to be there ready to respond with the kit to that you have and the training that you have provided your sailors before they go forward. the challenges to get to way structure that can service the world that we are going to live in is going to

arguments have been advanced about the importance of customized derivatives, about the importance of these instruments which represent a small percentage of total activity. customized derivatives are important but they come with significant operational risk, model risk and financial risk. we should permit the continued use of muchized derivatives with a properly heightened regulatory capital requirements and far clearer risk disclosures to nonfinancial end users. these arguments are nothing more than a strategy to on fuse skate the reel issues at hand, principally the need to bring much overdue modernization to our market place. this problem has an international dimension. we must work to coordinate our actions with for regulators otherwise we face the risk of cross-border arbitrage. the status quo cannot be allowed to continue. we must work together to drive market structure, in a form that fosters orderly and transparent markets and facilitates the growth and strength of the american economy and protects taxpayers from losses such as those that we have witnessed in the last year. t

and you know how important it is to [unintelligible] the training in pakistan will be an important part of the success. and how do we communicate, how do we counter the radicalization? the individual soldiers and marines, and the navy seals have developed skills that are invaluable, they have proven to be more valuable to the department of defense, in understanding what we are up against, what has been learned out there on the battlefield has been very helpful in terms of preparing us on all of these issues and we know that you take a strong leadership role. we know that there will be battles over funding, but you do a great job with what we provide and i believe that congress recognizes the importance of this role and we recognize what you need to fight the fight. with that i will turn it over to the ranking member. >> i also have a statement for the record, i would like to welcome the admiral, thank you for the hospitality, i had a wonderful chance to visit with you, and we thank you so much for hosting us and we look forward to your testimony. >> atmel? >> good afternoon. thank you v

that they import. they can handle any type of fda related products internet required to have any specific training to do. is that not correct? >> that is correct we would like to make sure it individuals importing food and the united states follow standards and guidelines the we expect with domestic food production. >> the domestic draft, the discussion draft establishes a program to required importers, customs brokers of foods, drugs, devices to register with the fda and require good importing practices are maintained as a condition for maintaining registration. do you agree with that requirement? >> really like importers to be registered. >> one more question i will tell you what i know my time is up. madam administrator i will be submitting a letter, mr. chairman thank you for your patience i would no to the changes in the draft we have before us today have largely been done in consultation with fda and in consultation with my minority colleagues. and exchanges will originate the same way. thank you

i reallyize how important it is to -- i realize how important it is to have these elements of science. the $1.3 billion including the $150 million to deal with space-based climate measurements is important. for those of us on the golf region, the issues dealing with -- gulf region, the issues of dealing with hurricanes and noaa is very important and the national science foundation but let us work together as we look at science in its totality to view the international space station as something we created, something we built. this massive football field that is in space is a miracle in essence. let's utilize it in a vital way by supporting our human space flight. i thank my colleagues and i ask my colleagues to support the rule. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlewoman's time has expired. the gentleman from florida. mr. diaz-balart: thank you, mr. speaker. and i want to thank my friend, mr. arcuri, for his courtesy and all who have participated in the debate on the rule bringing this appropriations bill to the floor. mook, i will be asking for a no vote -- mr. speaker, i

you heard the president's speech last week, an important step in that event and again it is importantto inform that with intelligence so that it can be done in a smart way. as frs regional actions are going on, we are supporting field units and continue to support field units in iraq as our presence there is being drawn down and shifting our emphasis to afghanistan and pakistan where the effort is ramping up now. last week, during my trip, i was checking on intelligence support both for military and the civil units we have there. we sent analysts, we have increased card collection, we have thick in the communications network and the objective is to give a fine grain understanding of both the physical and human terrain in order to enable success for the military and civil units that are there. but, at the same time that we are focusing a great deal at the tactical level to success, we are also in the business of assessing how that policy is doing. so, for example, when the decisions were made by president obama on the iraq policy, the withdrawal of forces there, the further shipped to

house for re-importation. and we have an administration and a president who are for re-importation, and he's on record in that regard in his service in the u.s. senate. in addition, we have an important issue that can save all of a sudden and can save our health care system billions of dollars as we go into health care reform, surely we need to be talking and acting in ways that can cut costs in health care without endangering the public, without hurting patient care. and this is a great opportunity. the c.b.o. has estimated that americans would save about $50 billion -- $50 billion, with a "b" -- over the next ten years if re-importation were enacted. so we have a true bipartisan issue which has true consensus support in the senate, in the house, in the administration, which can save all of us and our health care system $50 billion. let's act. surely this is a recipe for something we can act strongly on and produce positive results. so what's going on here? well, i'm afraid what's going on is exactly what my

they spend their time on something more important. you spend your time on something more important. your employer is happy. there's a win here for lots of interactions that happen in the system. for everything, it's not that it absolutely can help take some of the expense out of the system. so this is just a quick screenshot of what that looks like. we're actually talking about a video transmission from the patient and the physician. we think it has a lot of applications for the rural parts of our state. and about being an role minnesota and being able to have an interaction with somebody at mayo on the phone line or somebody at the fairview health system. there's lots of opportunity here for that to take off. in summary, we have been tackling cost. we have been looking at improving the care through collaboration. we see ourselves as a health company. i know i went through this quickly, but we are committed and passionate about what we are doing there. and the last thing i will leave you with is a couple of comments for this process here in washington, d.c.. payment reform and medic

it's a very important issue and i think it's important for us to raise them in advance so that sotomayor at least has some idea what some of the questions will be. this is a very important question for us, the second amendment means a great deal to us. it took a long, long time to get the heller case that finally decided that the second amendment is a personal right. and i think the distinguished from alabama has explained it quite adequately. the senate has to look at judge sotomayor's entire record to looking at hir philosophy and her speeches as well as her cases. now, her second amendment decisions appear to have unnecessarily minimized and confined the scope and vitality of this second amendment constitutional right. even after the supreme court in heller indicated the second amendment protects not only an individual right to keep and bear arms but a preexisting fundamental right. judge sotomayor continued to say the right to keep and bear arms is not a fundamental right. this appears to be an approach focused on politically correct results rather than on the -- a judicially correct

the important elections over the course of this year -- and important steps that need to be taken on the path to political reconciliation -- the promise of today to be met by all iraqis. >> walked to the differences between the administration goes a decision to take a position on paris -- on honduras? dawson that is the statement of the week. i suggest you have your plan come in a little lower and to take a look at maybe 10,000 feet. >> part of the reason -- part of the reason was because we wanted to address rumors that were involved. what was important was, as in the international community into the oas done, despite whatever political disagreements you might have, there are democratic norms that it should be followed. >> are there any plans to recall the ambassador to washington? >> not at this point, because the administration believes that having him there is important for -- an important player on the ground in seeking an ultimate solution to the problem that we face now. >> been following in the question on the issue of victory or lack thereof, on the issue of iraq, there was

i thank the chairman for consideration on this important issue. mr. dicks: i understand my colleague's problem and with our -- we are going to work with him and try to work this out. with the other body. but i realize how serious this is and we'll work with him until we get a satisfy -- satisfactory solution. mr. tiahrt: i thank the chairman. . mr. dicks: i would like to yield -- if i could be recognized again. i want to welcome -- yield two minutes to congressman connolly of virginia for the purposes of a colloquy. the chair: the gentleman from virginia is recognized. mr. connolly: i thank the chair and i thank my distinguished friend, chairman of the subcommittee. heritage programs have been proven to be effective vehicles in improving tourism and conservation. many citizens have worked with members of congress to designate new heritage areas. one of the areas is the journey through hallowed ground. i appreciate the chairman including funding and other heritage areas in his markup. i ask if he perceives an opportunity to see that in financial cycles

it will also be important to incent the right kind of procedures. so one of the benefit plans we see taking on a lot of interest are benefit plans where the consumer can have a reduction in their premium by managing their numbers and when i safe their numbers, being aware of your blood pressure, being aware of your cholesterol, being aware of your body mass index, an we make that available thank you a number of employers today, and those employers set bench marks and then as you move towards improving those numbers and demonstrate that you've moved towards improving those numbers, you actually get a premium reduction. those are incentive-based benefits. those are important to this overall reformest that we're all talking about. some of the other things we've tried to do is certainly minnesota is one of the early leaders in retail clinics and we now actually waive co-pays if you use the retail clinics, to trying to put incentives in the benefit package to use the right place for people to be accessing care, where you can get quality, and where you ca

this is not what importation is. importation will come through a variety of trade routes for which there will be inspection and there is a lot of counterfeiting. if you want to vote on it and think it's so, don't imply those who are voting for safety are showing for the drug companies. >> let me echo that point, as well. it's always a dangerous ground when we get into attributing motivation why people cast votes. i do support the mccain amendment, but i don't believe people necessarily worry about safety and efficasy are cools of the drug industry. >> i apologize if that's what people thought my comments indicated. >> senator sanders? >> i don't often agree with senator mccain, but i think he is absolutely right on this issue and concur with what senator brown just said. i live an hour away from the canadian border in northern vermont. i think i was the first member of congress to take people over the border. i will never forget as long is a live. we were with a bus load of women and dealing with breast cancer, and t

any claim that important -- imported trucks is inaccurate, safety is of utmost concern in this amendment would require pharmacies and drug wholesalers to register eight yen is industry safe requirements including many fratricide inspections. additionally require strong anti counterfeiting measures and chain of custody rules to ensure that only authorized persons handle medications. it would provide the fda the resources and authority to ensure the safety of imported drugs and stop illicit sales. i don't know whether this will pass on this bill particularly when it may have some additional courtesy given the fact we're trying to find ways of paying for the universal health care making an affordable to all americans. i have watched the pharmaceutical industry and a powerful army and they may be able to do so and again, but i have been around this kind of issues where we taken on the special interest for a lot of times over the years. we will do what is right in the long run. maybe not in this committee or on this bill but as some point in time because it benefits the american consumer and

this is important relief to ensure that we have strong global trade. i don't think given where we are in the world economy that we would want to see a pullback in that commitment and i think we should understand that exports create jobs right here at home. >> robert, what is the recent delay week after rick and some are saying because we're losing ground in this world in discussions. >> unfortunately the scheduled year is always a work in progress and for those reasons the meeting has been i think rescheduled to i think the 25th and i have it off the top of my head, but the president remains committed to working with congress to seek changes in our immigration law but that doesn't, that is not shifted because the meeting got pushed back in the schedule. >> the house majority leader said he has reason to believe the president is considering an executive order that would prevent the release of detainee abuse photos -- is that something the president is considering? >> all i'm going to say on this is the president has committed to all interested parties t

finally, we believe that it is important to have greater transparency and independence.he sale on pay legislation chairman frank has long sponsored which president obama and senator obama was a co-sponsor and senate would be a very significant move forward in terms of transparency and accountability, the evidence in the u.k. shows it has had a positive impact and in terms of the independence of compensation committees i will say briefly we start with the same premise s chairman frank that independence in the name doesn't mean in fact but we do believe if you gave the committee the funding and the authority to be the haulier some of the compensation consultants and the council and you had the sec go forward to ensure reduction or elimination of conflict of interest for compensation consultants it is our hope we would at least make progress and move the ball forward. thank you. >> thank you, mr. alvarez. >> thank you for the opportunity to offer the federal reserve's. compensation practices and financial firms and other business organizations can have a significant effect

regulating imported crude to ensure equal treatment and fair standards for imported and domestically produced food. it should be maintained for all provisions section 213 support the intent to require importers to register with fda and comply with importer practices. this is the standard protocol and the limitations and restrictions envisioned in section 100 by provide very extreme authority to be used by fda only in the worst-case scenario when required to minimize the risk of severe adverse health consequences. with imports we have a safe and secure importation program in section 113 that the bill require fda to implement a program with clear direction that it shall be implemented rather than maybe. 143 and country of origin label the fresh produce agency is already required under the 2008 farm bill to provide mandatory country of origin labeling we have moved rapidly to ensure compliance and urge those products that are already covered be specifically exempted from new coverage from the act. let me conclude with a comment about public health. the very department of health and huma

this issue promises to be one of the most important regulatory reform legislation. recently there's been a number of characterization's of efforts to reform executive compensation structures on wall street in the wake of the worst economic crisis since the great depression many financial industry leaders have insisted ceo compensation is self correcting. the urge inaction on reform existing shareholder media scrutiny has moderated pay for leaders of poorly performing companies. they claim if we enact stronger reform our financial talent will be driven overseas and economic recovery will be delayed. what is missing from the argument is clarity and reason. for the 175 executives whose companies helped fuel the current economic crisis that required hundreds of billions of dollars in taxpayer assistance i believe a compensation overseer should have the discretion to determine whether or not these companies compensation packages or reasonable in any other industry when someone takes excessive risks that lead to a monumental failures there are repercussions. wall street s

having playgrounds is important. having adults were willing to volunteer for little league, basketball, that is all important. we've got to get our children into healthier habits. then in turn will lead to a healthier adults. government cannot do all of it, and i am the first went to the knowledge it. people got here creating the bogeyman about how obama wants a government run everything. i do not want government to run stuff. i have enough stuff today. i have north korea, iran, afghanistan, iraq. [applause] i do not know where people get this idea that i want to run all of this stuff, or i want government to run all of it. i think it would be great if the health-care system was working perfectly. that would be wonderful, but that is not how it's working. so, i actually think that if everybody has a pragmatic attitude about this problem, they say we need to do our part, families have to do their part by being health care, employers do their part by encouraging their employees to be healthier, government does its part

platts: madam speaker, i urge a yes vote in support of this important resolution and commend mr. poe for his sponsorship and mr. lungren for his work in the foundation of the national center for missing and exploited children and i yield back the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields back the balance of his time. the gentleman from new york. tonchingtonching the resolution before the house, 454, in recognizing the 25th anniversary of the national center for missing and exploited children is one that brings with it many happy endings for at least 138,000 families. and while not all of the stories are those happy endings, the center has provided itself as a resource and network that i has devoted itself to the reconnection of our youth to their families. and so, with that outstanding record and with the concerns for missing children still alive and haunting us as a society, i strongly encourage a yes vote on the resolution. and i yield back my remaining time, madam speaker. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields back the balance of his time. the g

i think this is an important point. the other area that think we have to remember is that we are the yo-yo dieters when it comes to energy in the u.s. weekend, we crash, we start, we've been again. the problem is if you binge long enough, it is harder to get lean. energy companies are doing the right now. that leaves the energy infrastructure vulnerable to greater costs of imported energy sources. the very price signals we are talking about encourage leaner growth to spend the money that we need to build energy muscle. 2009 looks like it is going to be year no. 5 and that is going to be a doozy. basically this is a yo-yo dieter buying a swimsuit for win -- when you are thinnest. i do not think we should build our policies at the time when we are our sixth guest. if you look a figure eight on page 10, and it shows a picture of what you get for free allowances. there is a trend line that goes up a little bit and down and falls historic the at the end. there are two scenarios and one from iaea. no matter what, there is a p

important relationship with israel. through this outreach and advocacy efforts, hillel communicates to our nation and the world the highest values of the jewish community. mr. speaker, i'd encourage everyone to take a moment and appreciate the contributions made by hillel. i urge my colleagues to pass this resolution. i reserve the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman reserves the balance of his time. the gentlewoman from washington is recognized. mrs. mcmorris rodgers: thank you, mr. speaker. i yield myself such time as i may consume. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlewoman is recognized. mrs. mcmorris rodgers: mr. speaker, i rise in support of house resolution 493 which would recognize the significant contributions of hillel: the foundation for jewish campus life to college campus communities in the united states and around the world. hillel is a jewish campus life organization that has provided support and education to jewish and non-jewish students around the world. it was originally named aft

and these are important because they develop local content and they are important to the very community interest. i certainly have opposed media consolidation particularly with the cross-ownership and i don't think it's really the way that we're going to save newspapers. i don't think that's the issue. i think that there is an important role, though, for police, education and government, the peg channels. and their service. and peg channels provide an outlet for people in the community to create and distribute their own television programming. but i'm concerned if the -- i know you're working on a rule-making, but if the translators get priority and fill all the available frequencies, even if congress were to allow low-powered stations to operate in the adjacent channels it wouldn't be operational. i want to understand what you're doing to make sure you're keeping the diversity of voices and having low-powered stations. >> senator, yes, we spoke about this a little bit before the wide dissemination of spectrum licenses, diversity of ownership is, i think, in the communications act. it's

important. and i think about the capacity of the workhorses, the combatants, the cruisers and the guided missile destroyers that i talked about earlier and the la toarl combat ship which i'm very pleased to say we've turned the corner on that important capability for our navy. but capability will become important, will remain important, and that capability will be how do you address and how do you work in this hybrid environment in which we will live and operate? i believe that the high end capability can go low, but the low end can't go high. all the time. we saw the range of the guided missile destroyer from providing ballistic missile defense to rescuing captain phillips. that's a pretty good spread and a pretty good investment and versatile investment that we have. but we see demands from our combatant commanders for increased maritime ballistic missile defense and increased intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance. and as i mentioned before, for us flexibility while we're deployed, wh

the importers and exporters had to be qualified and, they have to be licensed. they have to be reviewed and if they break the rules of their kicked out. the madisons are checked, the medicines are the same chemical formats they claim to be, they have the same efficacy as their counterparts in the u.s. and all of that is in this bill. all of that is in this mccain eminent so all the commentary about fraud and is commentary about fraud and that is importation outside the structure of law. and by the way i am sure members of this committee understands there is fraud within the boundaries of the united states of america. cases that have occurred with the drugs delivered have been prepared in someone's raunch and are simply not chemo treatment that will be just a bag of it salim solution with a label on it. so the issue is neither bounded by the boundaries of this country and it is not about whether or not there is a structure, it is about the lack of structure and so just as we have established a system within the u.s. to combat fraud and this is about extending tha

it is very important to look at this when we deal with africa. the way we live can be tough on people. on the other hand, we should also address how certain things can be dealt with more efficiently. it was a very good experience to read this book. >> thank you very much, everybody. [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2009] >> this week saw the release of more than 150 hours of secret cordons -- recordings from the nixon white house. >> they are not to have any advance information street is that clear? the message is not to be funny. is that clear? it should be from the whole state department. >> we will have more from the tapes this afternoon on c-span radio. >> how is c-span funded? >> publicly funded? >> donations? >> government? >> surtaxes. >> federal funding? >> 30 years ago, america's cable companies created c-span as a public service. it was a private business initiative with no government mandate or money. >> this is a look at the conduct of the justice department dur

think it's important for u.s. firms to gain access to markets of fast-growing developing nations abroad. our economy will revive only if we create jobs. enacting this colombia free trade agreement will help to do that. america's two-way trade with colombia reached $18 billion in 2007, making colombia our fourth largest trading partner in latin america and our largest export market for u.s. agricultural products in south america. exports are the only major sector of the private economy actually making positive contributions to u.s. economic growth. in my own state of arizona, nearly 40% of all of our manufactured goods were export exported. on average, net exports added more than one percentage point overall to our economic growth last year, in part offsetting the negative consequences of the housing downturn. so if u.s. manufacturers and farmers were not able to sell their products abroad, the current economic downturn would be much worse. enacting the colombia free trade agreement would help more than 10,000 u.s.

is going to be important to have critical mass as we move to that. a variety of other instruments have been put into place to sort of get at the cost issue because there isn't one flagrant than suits everyone and you have to have a lot of different approaches so certainly we have done a things two-tier networks so some of the smaller employers who aren't making it more cost related choices are making them around when delivery system worse for them. we have done work around centers of excellence. minnesota happens to have cystine dozen new centers of excellence within the blue cross system so it gives us lots of choices and opportunities and air. we profile providers on their quality of and use that data and a that dated transparent in our market and that has been important. has it taken on the full flavor that i think it will in the future? now, but daschle has put information out there and it will become increasingly more information -- important as the information becomes more robust. will also move to let recall a care comparison tool which allows

i think, are extremely important. one of the outgrowths of my visit to china was an invitation that i extended to my counterpart, to have him send a couple of doctors down to our hospital ship comfort for a couple of weeks. normally, that is a have lengthy process. -- that is a very lengthy process for them to approve and doctors were on board within about four weeks. so i think it is important that we have these discussions. that we continue to meet, that we make sure that we can articulate our interests, and positions. but, professionally, be able to work our way through that. so i am hopeful we will see increasingly robust opportunities. >> admiral, we have time for one more question. >> okay. yes, sir? >> currently you have combined task force operating in the persian gulf. stressing the mill-to-mill relationships, if china were to become part of that, because they are going to come into the gulf for energy, and it is known to everybody, would you entertain allowing some sort of mill-to-mill contact, vy -- be esta

beef imports from the u.s. to korea. after defusing a sensitive political situation that temporary halted our imports of beef to south korea. his determination to settle the beef issue underscores the importance commercial ties between korea and the united states. mr. speaker, i wish to close my remarks by offering a few thoughts of importance of reaffirming our alliance with south korea. the history of relations between our two countries which can be tracked back to a treaty of friendship more than 125 years ago has been marked by consistency and mutual solidarity between our two nations. with that, mr. speaker, i ask my colleagues to support this resolution and i reserve the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman reserves the balance of his time. the gentleman from florida is recognized. mr. bilirakis: thank you, mr. speaker, i yield myself such time as i may consume. i rise in strong support of this resolution. put forward in march by my good friend and homeland security ranking member, p

that context was an important precondition. and it should not have been assumed that blacks always lose elections as a consequence of racial hostility, as the consequence of racial hostility. partisan and other normal political factors defeat candidates of every color. the creation of race-based districts in the region of historic disfranchisement was analogous to high tariffs that help the infant steal industry get started. they gave the black political industry an opportunity to get on its feet before facing the full force of equal competition. today, african-americans are on their feet and playing a decisive role in the outcome of many elections. no democrat since lyndon johnson would have become president without the nonwhite vote. political bargaining over districting maps is intrical to self-government. the voting rights act was built on legitimate distrust of such bargaining in the south. but for how long should that distrust have continued? the answer -- the question has no clear answer. some have argued only through th

first it's important to distinguish what it is that we're going to be regulating. currently most interest-based advertising is conducted through the use of web browser cookies. these encoded text files help indicate an user's online activity, thereby enabling advertisers to customize ads based on a series of preferences. however, as we have seen in the it industry, particularly over this last decade, technology moves very quickly. if we are to propose regulations for this industry we must make the determination of exactly how and what we are going to regulate. mr. chairman, we must also examine which federal agency would be best suited to coordinate any potential regulation. both the federal communications commission, fcc, and the federal trade commission have jurisdiction over elements of behavior advertising. therefore for the sake of consumers, if regulations are necessary we must coordinate the efforts and responsibilities of these two governmental entities, thereby allowing for industry growth while at the same time safeguarding an individual's private informa

if they were able to buy imported drugs. according to in april 2008 poll by kaiser public opinion, over half all americans say they take prescription medicine daily. there is no better stimulus for the 50% of all americans who take prescription drugs daily and for the millions more americans who are prescribed medicine when diagnosed with an illness. now we are going to hear -- and by the way, i wish that my colleague and friend senator dorgan were here. he is far, far better at this than i i have seen him about 30 or 40 times and always enjoys seeing his act again. he does such a great job. i think it is lipitor he carr

the importance is the actions of which the government takes. let's not get ahead of where we are. >> they had a fair election. >> as i believe, the government said they were going to do dohamas was elected --to do if hamas was elected. i think pretty clearly -- again, i'm finding myself in the uncomfortable position of being the bush administration's spokesperson for if you look at what was going to happen to u.s. aid were hamas to win in those elections -- again, helena, before i can even answer these i think you need to look at exactly what was said prior to the election and what was implemented as a jet -- as a direct relationship to that election. >> the vice president went to 11 on. >> i cannot say the people around the world do not listen to the news. >> the biggest thing to come out of the g-20 was the international monetary fund. the u.s. portion of that is now hung up in congress because republicans are calling it a global bailout and will not votes on a bill that has that im itf money on it. what does the white house wanted you to uns

i think it is important. in certain kinds of cases, when you're giving guidance to businesses about antitrust actions, what is a contract, how should they conduct themselves when they are engaged in business. it is important that they know what the courts think. there's other kinds of cases where you're not looking for stability, you're really looking at the right answer. and in some of the circuits there's a much greater desire to come up with an answer that they'll all agree on rather than an answer that some judges think is really right. i don't think that's true of the dc circuit and i did not intend to suggest -- i enjoy reading the dissents from the dc sector. >> i've read some very strategic david tatel dissents. >> there's just not time to dissent in every case and you lose credibility if you dissent at the drop of the hat. oh, there's somebody popping off again and everything. but if you reserve it for the really important cases and when you do dissent, there's a greater chance that your colleagues m

i actually believe the importances wider. i believe the regional stability of afghanistan and pakistan are linked and a lack of stability in that area is going to cause geopolitical problems, even if there were no al qaeda. i think it would still be an important region. i think our credibility in the world -- we have the ability to support the people of afghanistan then move and shake a better future that they want. i think that will make a difference in how we are viewed worldwide. about the linkage between it tell the bad and al qaeda. there have been people in recent months -- that taliban and allocated. there are people in recent who have said that it is possible to break off that taliban to cooperate with us. he made very strong statements about your skepticism -- you made a very strong statements about your skepticism about our ability to do that, to break the taliban from al qaeda. not so long as they think they are winning, i want to ask you did speak in the open to the tally bad-al qaeda -- taliban-al qaeda a linkage

would be important. now, president sarkozy, as an actual member of the e.u.as a different view, but i think it's very important to note he strongly supports the work that turkey is doing in nato. i believe he's interested in further economic integration and what the united states wants to do is just continue to encourage discussions and talks and a process whereby turkey can feel confident that it has a friendship with france, with the united states, with all of europe and that to the extent it's defining itself as part of europe, it has an opportunity to be a party. but again, that's something that's going to have to move forward not based on what the united states says but rather a dialogue between the european union members and turkey. in all of this, i think europe and france has a critical role to play just as the united states does, in sending a message to muslims around the world that we welcome and want their participation in a world community that is peaceful, that is prosperous, that is economically integrated, that is developing on behalf of all pe

she thought it was an important topical issue.e time she finished it, it shouldn't be so unusual anymore. it's something people still have an issue about. this is a book that travels from the civil war right up to the present and looks at the many different groups that have been defined as nonwhite and the laws that have been made against all sorts of unions and love relationships in this society and how people got basically taken to court and other people judged what their race was. and she ties this in to gay marriage today so it's a very, very topical book that the propositions in california is not different than what that law what you >> and peggy pescoe won what awards? >> she won the holly prize which is for political institutions and political history. and she won the lawrence levine prize for a beloved historian who passed away a few years ago. >> and who is she? >> she's the beakman professor of northwestern history at the university of oregon. this is her second book and -- it's a labor of love. >> the day wall street ex

>> these are imported and powerful authority is that should not be used lightly. however, i think that experience shows that senior level officials can be entrusted with these authorities along with the commissioner, but it is really something that we would want to work with congress on in order to put in place the system that people have the most confidence then. >> i thank you, and i am certain that we shared concerns about experience in making sure things happen in a good time. i think your answer on the way that the recall authority would work, you having the mandatory authority would give you an opportunity to encourage even more strongly, they would be necessarily encourage, the companies come unto it comply on their own as well so thank you very much the mack thank you. mr. green. >> thank you mr. chairman and dennis dr. hamburg come i appreciate your patience today, but if you think this is tough you have the fda to work on a, which is i laugh because in a 07 we spent a great deal of our time both of the subcommittee and full committee in reforming fda and

>> this is an enormously important set of questions.as we said before, the president said, we are extremely reluctant investor. we're -- we don't want to be in the business of managing these companies on a day-to-day basis. we would like to make sure we have the ability to get out as quickly as we can and have these companies emerge as their own as viable entities without government assistance and have the commaft to raise capital in the markets to repay the government's investments. to underscore that, we are -- we've designed a set of policies and mechanisms that will ensure that people understand we only tend to use our voting rights for a very limited number of core judgments about financial structure of the firm, make sure that there's a strong board and management in place at the time we take our equity investments so the taxpayers are protected. so we have confidence in their ability to oversee a sufficiently robust restructuring plan. we do not want to leave the impression or the reality in place that the government of the unite

the situation is really -- imports, i might come back to that. 40% of the gasoline is imported. what has happened is there is a debate on who gets the money. if you look at the first debate, ahmadinejad debated with mir hossein mousavi. he said that he had these files, and i am not debating one person, i am debating everything. it means that i have got something on you. this is something that could take you to jail. that threw off the entire debate. suddenly we saw the unity breaking apart, as robin so eloquently described. how is the money going to be separated? but this -- what is the role of the economy? housing? much much faster than the inflation rate. imports of food have gone through the roof. inflation has gone through the roof. the central government is giving money. salaries are not keeping up with inflation. in the presentation, everybody shows numbers. multiplied by 12, you can get the year. in any case, this is the central bank of iran. if you add to unemployment -- sorry, thank you. if you look at unemployment, it is an interesting statistic. the government gives y

it's an important one. the issue per se has almost been denied by the other side when we have these discussions in committee and otherwise. it should be known by your public and my public that four of these people were released to bermuda just this morning we learned. that's a british entity. but what's next? our territories? we know that gi lanny -- galina was sent to new york for trial. these people, very dangerous people, could be released in the united states. i would be glad to yield the gentleman an additional minute. mr. lungren: i appreciate that. here's what people have to  understand. there is a difference between holding someone to try them for war crimes or any other crime. and then you do have them within a criminal justice system. in the past it's been a military tribunal. remember what happened when abraham lincoln was assassinated? we established a military tribunal here in the district of columbia that actually tried those individuals and they were executed. that was a military tribunal.

, they are also important economically. and to the extent that they put their shoulder behind the wheel, that can move the process forward significantly. >> it is not for me to speak for the minister of foreign affairs of iran. i can tell you what i told him. i said to him that he had to take his hand stretched by barack obama and set a meeting so that the group of six party talks start again. secondly, that we all are allowed iran once access to nuclear energy, to sit idle. but if he wants military nuclear , the answer militaryno. you have to understand this fair and square. -- the answer is no. if your interests are peaceful, then except control. we cannot except the iranian leader to make aggressive statements on the one hand. . aie -- and aie checks to not be accepted by the iranians, and at the same time give them access to severe -- given access to civilian nuclear energy. iran is a great nation, a great civilization. we want peace, we want dialogue and we want to help them develop, but we do not want nuclear weapons

. -- is extremely important. that is part of the nuclear posture review. >> for the past week, we have been getting reports about one of our destroyers shadowing a north korean ships that may or may not be carrying weapons parts or contraband according to the latest security council resolution. can you give us a sense -- what that would mean in this particular case but also in future cases where we have intelligence that allows us to shadow other ships. >> going back to my point on being a global navy, the ability for the u.s. navy and the western pacific to be able to maintain contact on that ship is a function of being there. you do not whistle it up and send it forward. the fact that we have some good information is no coincidence. you made the comment about no enforcement. i think the resolution that is in place has significantly close down on a lot of options for that type of proliferation to occur. because the ship is prevented from bunkering for either fuel or water. and there are some provisions in the re

their role is very important and the role of the arabs is very important. i think that is something that he stressed in his speech in cairo. host: if you just joined us or are you -- or if you are listening on c-span radio, our guest is abderrahim foukara, the washington bureau chief for al jazeera arabic. our next call is vincent. good morning. caller: good morning. the middle east did not have on the region did not have any oil. if there was no oil in the middle east, do you think that the united states would be so evasive and worrying about what we call human rights in the different countries? my basic comment is, i believe the united states has totally, absolutely been one-sided in this whole issue. we have not addressed with the united states has done with the shah because it was conducive to the united states. some people in the united states, we say that the muslims are terrorists. is in one man's terrorist another man's freedom fighter? when you allow israel to be able to do whatever they choose to do and to allow the palestinians not to have their

it's important to keep this in mind. this is sort of the central part of this bill that the renewable energy standard that we set forth. this bill is being marked up and going through committee as we speak and will likely be on the floor before you know it. don't miss your opportunity to be a part of this conversation. it can't just be a beltway conversation, but a conversation that engages americans from minnesota, my own state, california, oklahoma, texas, all over. we got to hear from america. we've got to hear from america's progressive community on these issues. let me also talk about the importance of this bill. we talked about the investments in clean energy. we talked about the money allocated for that. but i did not mention yet that this bill will promote deployment of smart grid technology and enhanced transmission planning. this is an important part of the bill. this smart grid technology and the promotion of the use of it will help cut carbon emissions, will help have a more reliable grid and will improve our