but today john lee hooker is a monument. i mean, he is bigger than big, you know. with the way he was doing, he had a style that was his. there was no copying. he's got people running around trying to figure out, "what are you doing? how do you do that," you know. so i decided to try to play like muddy waters, elmore james, and all these different blues people. i tried to learn this when my mother went to the a&p. [laughter] you understand? see, 'cause she didn't deal with the guitar. she didn't like it. she loved that violin, but that guitar was just not the right thing to have in her house. you understand? and she told me many time, "don't bring that in here, boy." and like, she wanted to kill my sister for giving it to me. you know, like, she said that i was going to be worthless. and back then, i can kind of understand that i wasn't even allowed to have a funny book in the house. mama said that was bad news for the brain. and i agree with her. it is. it's something-- when i should have been learning arithmetic and all, whatever, you know, looking at batman and

john lee is actually my grant grant grand father. you might think it's remarkable to be a descendant of the guy, but he had 21 lives and by my count about 2500 descendants right about now. let's go to the next. you probably all know the overview of the river. those that never heard of the colorado river let me give you facts. 7 states and two nations share it. the fastest growing part of the nation by percentage or numbers. including utah, arizona, and nevada and california just on sheer numbers. 8 percent of the land area in the united states and it has 60 million acre feet of storage and that's closest to the highest in the world relative to it's annual flow of 15 million acre flow a year. it's about five to 25 million acre feet. there are 35 million people served in an enormously complicated legal environment. what happens after 7 years of drought on the river. these are two parts that have 50 million of the river in storage and we started out with full reservoirs and you end up with these enormous drops and we're at about 50 perc

i think from memory it was john negroponte that was given some role within the administration whereby fictive lee corporations who at the end to be a national security of national security importance could be given a free pass respects all financial reporting so i would make the argument that even if you say that the regulates could come in and things could be enforced in this that i'm personally of the view that things are happening in such a irregular context particular a lot of that executive order that. b.g. b.s. about how one can can expect j.p. morgan to be forced out of their positions look i would very much hope that happens all of us investing in silver see that as rocket fuel to the outside if they're forced to cover yet mad well what about all the government money that j.p. morgan takes out if they return all the government money we stop subsidizing this financial terrorist we. stop making jamie diamond's life easier by just make itself so short sighted over all day long for the bogus christmas bonuses that he doesn't deserve never work for our network then his life this guy while we j

i would like knowledge that people from the congressional black caucus, and barbara lee here today. john lewis has been called the conscience of the congress, and to date -- and today the challenge is that this injustice has been partially corrected by giving the recognition that we do. it is -- also like to recognize at least two leaders from the african-american community. the clerk of the house [applause] and terry is the ceo of the capital visitors center. thank you, terry. and i do not know where lorraine is. still working. making sure everything is every -- going ok. over the past decade, the slave labor task force work to document the history of slavery constructed walls of the united states capitol. we know that and the contribution of the reid family. it was a dark chapter in our past, and with equality denied, rights reviews, a dream not yet realize, they gave us this house of liberty and the beacon of hope for our nation and indeed the world. history books up until now had not reported their story or the pivotal role that they played in erecting the capital. the tale will be w

lee brightmental. this time we'll call jonbenet and derek english for the next award presentation. >> hello. i'm derek english. >> andersen john ben with a. the native american aids project is one of the country's most comprehensive h.i.v. programs for native americans and the only native-specific h.i.v. organization in california. we're committed to providing a wide range of culturally competent services for all native american people affected by h.i.v. and aids and other diseases by promoting and maintaining the overall health of our diverse community. we worked to build a community or an extended family which serves as a foundation for personal growth and healing. all of our services draw upon native cultures, spiritual, behavioral and medicinal traditions to communicate h.i.v. messages and care for our h.i.v. positive brothers and sisters. >> it's my pleasure to introduce our second nominee -- honoree, it gale burns. she was born in new jersey. her mother, her paternal grandparents relocated to new jersey and new york from the southeast homelands and they were descendents of muskogee. many of her uncles served in world war

host: we have one more call, john on our independent line. caller: good morning, mr. lee. i am wondering, i see this -- i see trips like this where the secretary of state and miscellaneous other individuals go around the world all the time talking about the same subjects making the same threatening remarks, continually over and over again, contrary to a call a couple minutes ago where someone was praising the current secretary of state to the skies. and really, there never seems to be any purpose that's very clear. remarkably enough, when you watch certain commentaries, for example, some documentaries about the george schultz years that are currently on pbs and things like what eisenhower did with the sput nick controversy and how it was kept quiet for years, you learn about things going on 20 years hence that actually went on but they never seems to be any actual point to these trips and the things and the idle threats that people say. can you clarify that anything is actually going on behind these visits that you are attending with them that is more meaningful than the r

pretty pecliar fact, curtis lee, my good friend danny napolitano for my own neighborhood and john fromn't know what this means. but i am happy to know i am not the only conservative coming out of that state. [cheering] but i can assure you i am not introducing snookie as the next speaker. my job today is to introduce our next speaker. she has applied for a job and like many people applying for a job we review the resin of this individu. she is applying for a position happens to be a government job with nevada and washington. the joblessness sharon entel. [cheering] and we should always review the candidates resonate so let's talk about her resonate she married her college sweetheart and has been successful in her family life with her children. she has been a teacher, she has a school, terrific resonate she serves on the part of legislature as many of you know and in the nevada legislature during her term she had a term for her rvice pool 41-engel against tax hikes and overspending. at one we even taking them the governor of nevada to court to protect the constitution of the state and w

jackson lee: i want to thank the gentleman from virginia for being a champion of this issue of eliminating the disparities that have so long plagued so many communities. i thank the chairman, john conyers, for being persistent over the years on the criminal justice issues, even coming to houston, texas, and listening to a teeming room of individuals who came to tell him how they had been discriminated against by this overwhelming inequitable law dealing with crack cocaine. thank you. today we are doing something that is not going to be soft on crime. but let me see if you understand this. it takes 500 grams of powder cocaine to trig they are five-year mandatory minimum. it takes just five grams of crack cocaine. it takes five kilogramms of crack cocaine but 50 grams of crack cocaine. it's important that this one to 18 be put many place. in response to the 1980's and we thought the devastating act of using drugs was the underpinnings of crime but what we have seen is that we are creating crime by throwing these individuals in jail instead of rah habilitation and by keeping this oppressive sentencing structure. so for the first time we're i limb nating the five-year mandatory pri