. >> this week on c-span's "newsmakers," senate minority whip john kyle discusses soom of the issues on the senate's agenda including health care and preparing for the confirmation hearings for supreme court nominee. >> i was reading last night. there's a lot of reading involved here and i was reading some very troubling things last night about her views toward international law, in effect saying that you can interpret the united states constitution by looking to see what public opinion is in europe. well, public opinion in europe has nothing whatsoever to do with what our constitution means. and if that's really her point of view, that's very troubling. i mean, i could not vote for a judge who believed that. she said it on several occasions. i'm going to have to ask her what do you mean by that? when people talk about a fill buster, understand that we couldn't do that on our ofpblete there aren't enough of us. so even if we wanted to. and by the way, none of us are talking about that. it's all in response to questions by the media. which are fair questions but we're not proposing th

kyle g. west post office building. introduced by our colleague, representative john carter of texas, on may 14, 2009, and reported out of the oversight committee and government reform on june 4, 2009, by unanimous consent, h.r. 2422 enjoys the support of the entire texas house delegation. a resident of huddle, texas, first lieutenant kyle g. west bravely served in support of operation iraqi freedom with the united states army's sixth squadron, ninth cavalry rentalment, third brigade combat team out of fort hood, texas. on memorial day, may 28, 2007, first lieutenant west and four fellow members of his unit were killed in iraq when their bradley fighting vehicle was struck by an improvised explosive device. the soldiers had been out on a rescue mission in support of comrades who had been downed in a helicopter. after graduating in 2001 from huddle high school in texas, first lieutenant west attended blin college and subsequently received a degree in business management from steven f. austin state university in 2005. in pursuit of his lifelong dream to serve in the united states military, first lieutenant west joined the

kyle gibson went. the twins got a bargain. he was seen as a top 10 or top 12 pick but his velocity johned -- dropped and now he is 83-87.e has a stress trash -- frank in his forearm. the uncertain diaround the stress factor, the fact he is still hurt now hurt his draft stock, and give the twins credit, they were willing to take a gamble. >> who is closest to making the big show strasburg or st. hstorn >> i think storn will sign first. strasburg could go right into a big league rotation. so you can argue he is more ready in the sense he can be a bigger contributor in the short term but because storen is likely to sign quickly, doesn't have a lot of mileage on his arm and relievers move quickly through the minors he will make an impact first. >> what trend did you see. >> the signability issues. i thought a number of them would fall out of the first round. but they were selected, by and large most of those guys -- matt to the rangers, jay to be turn tore the tigers. mill tore the cardinals, big arms, potential impact guys, number one for two starters. the word is they were asking for big bonuses and that had a lot of team