neither did john grisham. earl stanley gardner was writing courtroom drama in the 1930's and 1940's. "anatty of a murder" came out in 1958. first we have "to kill a mockingbird," which most lawyers and most lawyer authors will tell you is kind of the seminal work of why we got interested. and i started writing a novel as i was approaching my 40th birthday. i wrote most of it on a ferry going to and from work every day. it took me three years. and that book became "special circumstances," story of a murder in a big law firm. it came out in 2000 and spent seven weeks on "the new york times"' bestsellers' list. so for those of you who have bought my books, i thank you, because now i don't have to practice law full-time anymore. >> but all kidding aside, you know, i think crime novelists and readers of crime novels whether it's lawyer books or whether it's private detectives or cops, you know, in my world i'm like -- unlike tony's, i can control the outcome. i can get justice in my books because i can fix the endi

i describe my life as that two or so years ago, i walked into a john grisham novel. >> bergman: the phone-hackingal will roll on for years, uncovering connections to more people yet to be named. >> it's almost unstoppable, this process. so you have this very powerful judicial inquiry looking at the relationship between newspapers and the police, or looking at the relationship between the murdoch organization and politicians, which is going to be extremely interesting because of the possibility that the murdock people have been telling government how to behave. really ultimately this is a story about the power elite and the abuse of power, the cozy assumption that we can all look after each other because we're all part of the same elite... and the rules don't really apply to us and the law doesn't really apply to us. that's where the trouble comes from. it's a most extraordinary story, and it's still coming out. >> next timfrontline... the world watched helplessly as a tsunami took down the fukushima nuclear power plant. >> radiation levels are extremely high. >> if it can happen to japan, it can

yield myself 10 seconds to say that the american people care about jobs and economic growth, not a john grisham novel of intrigue. either the gentleman, the ranking member, like the policy and which case he can vote for it. if he doesn't like the policy he can vote against it. the president of the united states apparently supports it. at this time i would yield three minutes to the gentleman from tennessee, mr. fincher, the author of the jobs act. the chair: the gentleman from tennessee is recognized for three minutes. mr. fincher: i thank the gentleman for yielding. i want to thank my colleague, mr. carney, for his hard work and his staff for helping work on something good for the country, for the private sector, getting people back to work and that's what we were sent here to do. i'm pleased to be the lead co-sponsor or sponsor on h.r. 3606, the jump-start our business startups act. today, according to the bureau of labor statistics, the unemployment rate is currently 8.3%. however, in december last year, all but one of the counties i represent had a higher unemployment rate than the national