the city of treece, kansas, sits on the kansas-oklahoma border. this small rural community was once a world leader in lead and zinc mining, mining that lasted for nearly 100 years. as the mining companies shut down in the 1970's, the ground water began to rise and the pillars that supported the soil above the mine shafts began to collapse and you had a giant sink hole. shortly thereafter, in 1983, to be exact, the e.p.a. placed over 500 square miles in southeast kansas, northeast oklahoma, and southwest missouri on the national priorities list of the superfund list, including the city of treece. in total, cherokee county, kansas, where treece is located, has 115 square miles in the superfund program. now, last summer during a listening tour of this part of kansas, i saw firsthand how 100 men and women and children are living in absolute blight. they live day by day not knowing when -- and i mean when, not i if -- their homes will collapse into the earth, into the earth below into a giant sink hole. they remain there despite the loss of businesses

my great state of kansas on may 30, 1854, the kansas-nebraska act became law. frederick douglass deemed the new law -- quote -- "an open invitation to a fierce and bitter strife." those words proved to be very prophetic. shortly after the kansas-nebraska act became law there was a rush to settle kansas, both slavery and abolitionists alike were determined to settle kansas for their cause. the turmoil continued. we had bloody fights, we had stolen elections taken place until we did finally enter the union as a free state. there were passions surrounding that that ignited on the u.s. senate floor. passions that abolitionist senator charles sumner delivered a rousing speech on the senate floor called the crime against kansas accusing proslavery senators of siding with slavery and in retaliation congressman brooks attacked and beat charles sumner senseless with a cane, an issue of high memory on this floor, even still today. following on june 2, 1856, and there was retaliation, the battle of blackjack in my state ensued, it is widely believed is the first conflict

city, i'm actually from kansas. kansas city, you understand, spills over the state line. extremism has a history of being very, very useful on the right and very powerful. look at the language of what used to be 50 years ago considered extremism and today is commonplace. we have a whole tv network dedicated to this stuff, to constantly describing liberals and people like dr. tiller as moral outlaws, as people who are beyond the pale. you know, we are not real americans, that sort of thing. in kansas, demonizing dr. tiller was a ritual of the conservative -- of the republican right. you have never cared about abortion before in your life, but he would get up on a platform and start bad mouthing dr. tiller and, lo and behold, he would be elected to something or other. that -- you would be elected to something or other. they made a demon out of this man, a member of their community, and they attacked him for 20 years. it is a testimony to some aspect of the kansas personality that the man took it. you know, he would no

in kansas its 40% of hospitals. as for not-for-profit hospitals, they take care and all that comes to their doors. they provide excellent care but if they are forced to close their doors or stop practicing many americans in kansas will be left without a place for medical treatment. i'm interested during the administration plans to insure a health care system doesn't come to a grinding halt if they stop reimbursing that of all centers for freedom of choice. finally, you're intimately familiar s former insurance commissioner of the state of kansas ibid like to hear about your rationale for moving people from private health insurance to the public system. not only would this exponentially increase the cost for the taxpayer but also further ration hlth care. the administration expressed desire for public insurance, public insurance plan that would directly compete with private health insurance plans. employers will see this as a cost avoidance and moved there in peace and costs from their own pocket book and bank accoun

the event hosted by the kansas city public library in kansas city, missouri, is about an hour. >> in fact, i sweat like nixon. [laughter] >> what a great -- what a great venue you have here. the truman forum auditorium and it's a real pleasure to be here. it's my third time in kansas city. and each time i seem to enjoy it more and more. my brother, howard, who as henry said is helping me out on this trip -- he and i went to the baseball game last night. [laughter] >> we didn't stay the whole game i have to admit. if you haven't been to kauffman stadium lately to see the changes, it's pretty cool. the stadium's great. bess truman was a big baseball fan and in the truman household, bess was the sports fan. and as a kid she actually played a lot of sports. harry wasn't much of an athlete. as a kid he wore glasses and confessed to not being very coordinated but bess placed a pretty good short stop according to harry and in her later years, she actually followed the royals pretty closely. she was actually honorary cochair is it thomas eagleton in 1974 running for reelection of the senate.

quorum call: the presiding officer: the senator from kansas. mr. roberts: i ask unanimous consent the call of the quorum be dispensed. .the presiding officer: without objection, so ordered. mr. roberts: mr. president, i ask unanimous consent i may proceed for about 12 or 13 minutes as if in morning business. the presiding officer: without objection, so ordered. mr. roberts: i thank the president. mr. president, i rise today to talk about health care reform. what else, in regard to the interest of the american people and what we are doing here. as the republican leader, senator mcconnell has pointed out, the disiefe desire for heae reform on both sides of the aisle unites this chamber across both political and geographic boundaries. our system of health care produces some of the best care in the world and it is the driver of a substantial share of the medical innovations that wiped out diseases, improved our comfort and extended our time on this earth. however, this system is not truly accessible to everybody. that's the problem, and that's what thi

city but kansas and kansas city spills takeover state line, and extremism is or has been, has a history of being very, very useful on the right and very, very powerful. all right? look at the language of what used to be 50 years ago was considered extremism, and is today common place. i mean, we've got a whole tv network dedicated to it constantly describing the doctor as moral outlaws and people beyond the pale. we aren't real americans, that's the thing, and in kansas demonizing the doctor was a ritual of the republican right. i mean, every -- you could come in there and you've never cared about abortion in your life but you'd get on a platform and start bad mouthing the doctor and low and bre hold you'd be eleblingted to something. they made a demon out of this man, a member of their community and they attacked him for 20 years, and i think it's testimony to the man's, you know, to some aspect of the kansas personality that the man took it. you know? and he wouldn't give up. and he stayed there, by god, in wichita, and they shot him in his church, there's something that's just -- i m

kansas city included parts of missouri and kansas that were not metropolitan areas by any means. it was supposed to the metropolitan area. there were 428 home health-care entities or businesses in this region in kansas. of the 428, i know 2/3 never even knew that they were in a competitive bidding process. they did not even know that that directive had come down and that they had x number of days to respond. i did hear from some of the bigger ones. they said that this was not the way to do business, we cannot do that. there is a lot of back and forth on that. finally, cms came down and recognized 24 in the bidding process. if you have 428 people involved in home health care and you recognize 24 eligible for medicare, what happened to the other 404? that is where we were. if you have an elderly person who relies on home health care and they did not know about it and was a did they are trying to cash up and that was impossible because the number was always busy and when was not someone cannot answer the question -- it was a real problem with 404 of these entities out there. they ca

in kansas city, that region included parts of missouri, parts of kansas that were not metropolitan areas by any means. it was supposed to be a metropolitan area. there were 428 home health care entities or businesses in this region in kansas. of the 428, i know at least two-thirds never even knew that they were in a competitive bidding process. didn't even know that that directive had come down and that they had "x" number of days to respond. but i did hear from some of the bigger ones who said, whoa, wait a minute. this is not the way to do business. we can't do this. and so there was a lot of back and forth on that. finally, cms came down and recognized 24 in the bidding process. that were eligible for medicare. my question is if you have 428 people involved in home health care you recognize 24 eligible for medicare, what happens to the other 404? and that's where we were. so if you have an elderly person who relies on home health care and, number one, they didn't even know about it but once they did they were trying to catch up and to catch up was impossible because the 1-800 number w

tiahrt of kansas. the chair: pursuant to house resolution 552, the gentleman from kansas and a member opposed will each control five minutes. the chair recognizes the gentleman from kansas. mr. tiahrt: i thank the speaker. mr. speaker, earlier this year the obama administration told us the stimulus bill was going to be the salvation of our economic woes. they predicted unemployment would top out at 8% and they claimed that jobs would be created or saved immediately. well, we've been significant amount of time since it was passed and our economic woes haven't changed. in fact, the numbers are in stark con draft to who we see today. unemployment is headed toward double-digits. just this week cn thrvings reported that americans saw $1.3 trillion of wealth vaporize in the first quarter of 2009. despite the massive spending -- government spending, foreclosures continue. car keelership -- dealerships are closing and layoffs continue. home values have continued to decline and the stock market is down 40% from

and if you could share with us your experiences, not all in the insurance industry in kansas, and how that has impacted consumers, i would like to know if there are lessons with this experience that can be applied across the country including in health-care reform legislation. >> congresswoman, i share your concern about oversight, and my colleagues who are serving as insurance commissioners across the country? have jurisdiction to review everything from loss ratios to appropriate setting, and some are aggressive, and others, frankly, have very little choice, because often, there is a dominant carrier and a single provider, because the opportunity to have oversight is limited. limited. we did have a situation in kansas when i was commissioner of proposed takeover of the blue cross blue shield plan of kansas by an out-of-state company, and i ended up ruling against that takeover ultimately because after reviewing the testimony after having a series of hearings, after having providers and hospitals come before us it became clear that the only way really to produce a profit statements to

we get that a lot by kansas by the way. but, we do share that and so, my question for you is what is the best way to ensure people in of rural america have not access to coverage but actually access to care in their home communities? >> i think it is a great question and one that i worked on as governor in kansas and share your concerns about the distribution of health care providers and incentive to stay in practice in a rural community and certainly continuing to examine the pay differentials of medicare as a piece of the puzzle and one that i take seriously and will make sure we continue to look at whether or not that provides incentive for all sorts of things. there are people who suggest there's also disincentives for lower-cost care to be delivered in some areas because the turnaround and get penalized with lower reimbursement rates. i think there's a lot in the investment you made in health technology can also do to enhance world practitioners by connecting with telemedicine to specialists and consultation experts wh

i was in kansas city, she was in new york. i know what the environment is in these prosecutor's offices. there are a lot of aggressive type-a personalties, and it's very difficult to begin to handle serious felony cases. because everybody wants to handle the serious felony cases. in only six months judge sotomayor was promoted to handle serious felony cases in the courtroom. she prosecuted every type of crime imaginable including the most serious crimes that are committed in our country. she had many famous cases. one was the tarzan murder, where she joined law enforcement to scour looking for witnesses and after a month of trial she convicted richard mathis on different murders. a new york detective had a hard time finding a prosecutor willing to take his child pornography case. judge sotomayor stepped up, winning against two cases. these were the first child pornography convictions after the supreme court had upheld new york's law that barred the sale of consumely explicit films using children. and after her time as a prosec

he opened a haberdasher with his friend in kansas city. and in early 1922, there was a financial crisis in the country, a panic and he and jacobson lost the business and he was 38 and living at his mother-in-law's. at the time bess told her mother don't worry harry going places and her mother said, he better hurry up. the circumstances did not poor trend greatness but fate, destiny, chance, god -- something intervened as it would time and again, in harry truman's life. and in this particular instance, in the summer of 1922, as an old army buddy who he'd served in france with, and jimmy had an uncle named tom who was the big political boss in kansas city, in jackson county at the time and they were looking for a candidate to run for judge. which you probably know is sort of like a county commissioner. and truman fit the bill perfectly. he was a baptist. he was a mason. he'd been a farmer. so in 1922, he was elected judge. twelve years later in 1934 they were looking for a good candidate to run for united states senate]"çát'p)ry fits the bil

. >> kansas? >> kansas. >> governor of kansas. this kansas have a but we have a state budget requirement? >> yes. >> when you are the government of kansas, by law, you had to submit pay-fors when you did a budget that had money. >> we spend money within the revenues we had. >> yes. my numbers may not be the number, but they are definitely in the ballpark. if i give the president the benefit of a doubt that there are out there $600 billion over 10-years and savings, $60 billion a year, this one expansion in medicaid is still $60 billion a year short. you are the secretary of health and human services. i assume you have some interaction with the chairman rangel and chairman waxman and chairman miller. you have to have some idea how you will pay for this bill. i'm giving you the benefit. if the president says he can save $60 billion a year, say $60 billion a year. i think you need to put 60 more billion dollars in savings on the table. you had to do it when your governor. >> that is true. this is a discussion draft. whatever bill was

kansas and others who spoke today.o that others will be -- i know that others will be speaking in the next few weeks. many of my colleagues will be speaking on this nominee as well. we are very excited about this upcoming hearing. we are glad we are able to be here. thank you. i yield the floor. ourç coverage of judge sonia sotomayor's nomination to the supreme court continues which remarks from republicans. later, comments from democratic senator arlen specter on his question -- his plans to question sonia sotomayor on allowing tv cameras on supreme court proceedings. >> good afternoon, it is good to be with you. we thought we would share a few thoughts about the judge sotomayor nomination. she deserves a fair treatment and we are here to metra that happens. it always raises quite a number of important questions and some of those questions have been discussed in recent days. it is quite appropriate that senators who have concerns want to -- who are concerned about matters, that they come to the floor and raise them.

kansas city, on the democrats lined.caller: our jobs went overseas and in general tend -- january 10th when obama -- we had we had 100 to seven jobs. on general 12, they just disappeared. we had 157 jobs. all of the company's all of a sudden, no longer employed americans. most of them went overseas. it just darted a free paul. host: another story in the new york times about education. education chief arne duncan warning people that charter schools harm the effort of the administration. education warns advocates of charter schools today that low- quality institutions are giving their movement a black eye. charter movements are putting themselves at risk by allowing too many second and third grade schools to exist. he is scheduled to deliver these remarks today at the gathering of the national alliance for public charter schools. the economy has improved the savings rate. in the section of the washington times, consumers rediscover the concept of thrift. the savings rate rebounds after the collapse. to cleveland and -- on

kansas city stopped the blue jays 6-2. elsewhere in the american league east, boston red sox wound upbeating the texas rangers 8-1. how about this, david ortiz going to have an eye examination on monday and mike lowell hit home runs. john with his fifth win. detroit tigers beat angels 2-1. jackson, remember him. complete game against the angels. now 6-3. rbi single. sacrifice fly. complete look at the american league east score board. rich hill will start for the orioles tomorrow. we'll preview the orioles find game against the oakland a's in oakland when we come back here on masn in a moment. expnchts welcome back. placed on the disabled list by the orioles after an emergency appendectomy. he will return with the club tomorrow night. oscar will be brought up from the minors from norfolk to replace him. the or joels have to make a roster move because of the emergency anen connectmy. the orioles will have to use robert at shortstop now. pretty much the rest of the way probably over the next three to four weeks. go back to o

kansas city, kan. on our republican line. caller: i really like c-span and watch in the mornings before i go to work. i am a retired industrial arts teacher. i do homer modeling. -- home for modeling and things like that. business has been good. people are not buying new homes, but are fixing up what they have. it is not great, but steady. host: how long did you teach industrial arts? caller: about 20 years. i was glad to hear someone say something about nursing. the health industry here in kansas is doing well. the key to getting a job these days is to be trained. if you do not have training, i'm sorry for the delivery guy and truck driver and others, but let's say that your train in hvac, you have a job, or in any other high-demand too many people are getting degrees in political science, things that are marginal to begin with. but all the basics, the basic types of jobs, the skilled and help career jobs -- they're still jobs for those people. in kansas city if you want to residential route you have an immigrant put it on o

i believe that the cost figure for kansas was right at $190 million for kansas to have illegal aliens in 2006. it is breaking us. host: thank you very much. guest: first of all -- is that my camera? host: that is your camera. guest: first of all, under president bush, which significantly increased the number of border patrol agents at the southern border, immigration and customs enforcement wrapped up its enforcement capabilities, and toward the end of his administration this became a very high priority. i will take it one step further, though. it goes beyond president bush. it goes beyond president obama. this country really does not have an immigration policy, let alone a policy dealing in a constructive and appropriate way with our land borders to the north and south, particularly with mexico. unless and until we have an immigration policy and a southern border strategy and then it in law, we are still going to have these anecdotal incidents that you referred to. we are still going to have people getting across the border. so sometime hopefully in this administration, the president

kansas, as well as part of my district, which is rural america. and some of the barriers of care there. first i want to take advantage of your expertise as insurance commissioner for a state. have you share with us briefly about some of the types of reforms that are needed to improve our current insurance market. some of the common abuses that you have seen and how you believe there bill will address that and that will be a cost saving as well. >> i think there's no question, particularly in the individual market, but also, often in the small business market there are constantly cherry picking activities by private insurers which do one of two things and often, both, simultaneously. costs can be dramatically increased year after year, driving people out of the marketplace. but also, in the individual marketplace, the pre-existing condition barriers often either make insurance impossible to obtain or totally unaffordable to obtain. so it is a huge barrier to americans accessing quality health care. >> are there provisions specifically in this legis

i was in kansas city, she was in new york. i know what the environment is in these prosecutors offices. they are a lot of aggressive type a personalities and it's very difficult to begin to handle serious felony cases because everybody wants to handle the serious felony cases. and only six months judge subtle am i are was promoted to handle serious felony cases in the courtroom. she prosecuted every type of crime imaginable including the most serious crimes committed in our country. she had many famous cases. one was the tarzan murder where she joined full enforcement officers in scouring dangerous drug houses for evidence and witnesses and after a month trial, she convicted richard mattocks on three different markers and he was sentenced to 67 years to life in prison. a detective had a hard time finding a prosecutor willing to take his child pornography case. sotomayor stepped up. winning the convictions against two men for distributing films depicting children engaged in pornographic activities. these were the first child po

and he was one of just seven doctors in the entire state of kansas. where will women go for the medical help that they need? we have seen throughout history that hate is not just ugly, it can be deadly. i hope that leaders on both sides of this debate will look at the savage killing of dr.

i was in kansas city. she was in new york. i know what the environment is in the prosecutor's office. there are a lot of aggressive type a personalities. it is very difficult to handle serious felony cases. everyone wants to handle the serious felony cases. in six months, sonia sotomayor was promoted to handle certain cases in the courtroom. she prosecuted every type of crime imaginable, including the most serious crimes that are committed in our country. she had many famous cases. one was the tarzan murderer. she joined a law enforcement officers scouring houses for evidence. after a month of trial. she convicted of one person on three district -- three different murders. he was sent to life in prison. so my york -- sonia sotomayor stepped up to deal with a case dealing with child pornography convictions. she helped to bar those that had sexually explicit use of children. a trial judge is an unusual kind of experience for a supreme court justice. keep in mind what they do. they look at the record of the trial. they are trying

kansas city, good morning in kansas. this is the democrats' line.ller: good morning, our jobs are overseas. on january 10, when obama was elected we had 157 jobs and on january 12 but they disappeared. cnn was running aboard showing all the american companies that all of a sudden in two days no longer employed americans. they moved those jobs overseas. now we're left. those 157,000 jobs, it just began a free fall. host: were some of these jobs in your area, and kansas city? caller: i'm 60 years old and retired in not looking for a job. host: here is another story concerning education. duncan is warning advocates that inferior charter schools harm the effort. it says the obama administration has made opening more charter schools a big part of its plans for improving education, but the education secretary will warn advocates the lotus quality institutions are giving their movement a black eye. they allow too many second-grade and third-race schools to exist he said. he is scheduled to deliver remarks today. the economy has improved the savings rate. t

the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from kansas. >> mr. speaker, i ask unanimous consent to address the house for one minute.

of kansas. madam secretary, and since-- >> mr. chairman i am happy to join you in welcoming the secretary to the hearing. thank you very much. >> thank you. i will leave this record open for your statement. >> please proceed as you so desire. >> thank you chairman harkin and senator cochran and members of the committee. i want to thank you for the impartation to come and discuss the 2010 budget and for a start by thanking you for your hard work gang leadership on a fulbright the of health issues. we certainly face great challenges in the country today and i look forward to working with you to tackle those challenges together. health reform is one of the issues i know that is front and center and the senate and house right now and i think that there is great agreement, we can't continue with the status quo. the president is committed to health reform. we have seen businesses and governments and families and providers come together two of knowledge that the crushing costs are influencing families

. >> good morning, i'm lynn jenkins from the great state of kansas. health care is not just a policy issue for me. as a daughter of aging parents and a mother of two children, i have spent a fair amount of time in dr.'s offices and emergency rooms in recent years. when it comes to health care for my loved ones, i want their doctor working with us to explain treatment options and helping us make important decisions, not a distant government bureaucrat or a washington politician who does not know the situation and does not know my family. we have a healthcare crisis on our hands. it is definitely a crisis when a family is denied the ability to choose the doctor or hospital that is best for them. i am concerned with some of the proposals being discussed here in washington that will take that choice away and put a government bureaucrat in charge. health care decisions are personal, and one thing we know for sure is that a one-size- fits-all government takeover of health care will result in fewer choices for patients. it is not a matter of if there'll be f

mike had terrific years with kansas city. 68 games he pitched in 2003. came back a couple of years later, did the same thing. 54 with the white sox two years ago. he racked up 144 innings with kansas city in omaha before he got to the big leagues. 1-2. fouled off the plate at his foot. left hander getting ready in the nationals bullpen. this ballgame began four hours five minutes ago. >> rob: the first 8 1/2 innings took 2 1/2 hours. >> johnny: this is the 10th time in all the home games there's been rain which has forced delays in nationals games games. i don't think any team in baseball has had this much problems with weather. >> rob: still holding on to the conspiracy, bad karma. >> johnny: 2-2 to brandon phillips. nobody on and one out in the 11 11th. macdougal delivers. phillips on with the potential go ahead run. 5th base hit tonight for cincinnati. >> rob: kind of a four iron shot to right center field. pretty good pitch went with it. >> johnny: phillips on base for the first time tonight. phillips hit by a pitch in the 1 1st inning, grounded out

dicks: i'd like to yield two minutes to the gentleman from kansas for the purpose of a colloquy. mr. tiahrt: i thank the chairman of the committee and chairman dicks for the opportunity to discuss this important issue. after serving with chairman dicks as ranking member of his subcommittee during the 110th congress, i know how hard he has worked to make sure communities have access to e.p.a. grants to help with their state and tribal assistance grants and clean water needs. it has come to my attention that in the fiscal year 2009 appropriations act, contained money for the city of manhattan kansas and riley county for the sewer line. however with the delay in getting the money, the city had to go ahead with construction of the sewer line and now needs to use the money for a water line. e.p.a. is supportive of the correction. and i ask unanimous consent to include a record of this from the e.p.a. region 7 office expressing their support for the correction. the chair: the gentleman's request will be covered by general leave. mr. dicks: mr. the gentleman yield? it is my understandin

frederic loved kansas. as part of the university for 30 years beginning with his bachelor and master's degrees and walking onto the basketball team, to his years of serving as assistant basketball coach, athletic director and finally as an administrator and assistant professor, it was clear dr. frederic and kansans were meant for each other. dr. frederic is perhaps best known for his bold hire of then unknown assistant basketball coach roadway williams -- roy williams in 1989. williams, who would achieve the winningest decade of any first-time head coach in ncaa history, said of dr. frederic, he is the finest gentleman i've ever known in my life. a basketball coach himself at russell and laurence high schools as well as coffeyville community college in kaas, dr. frederic was cherished on all sides of our state. i wish to offer this tribute to an outstanding gentleman, dr. frederic, and express my sincere condole ens to his wife and their four sons. my thoughts and prayers with their their family. i -- with

from kansas city but from that jazz others. michael jackson of course passed. many great musicians whose music needs to be remembered and young people need to learn this is a great way to pass on our culture and enjoy their own life. i'm pleased this is the 30th anniversary of black music month and we need to enjoy music and soothe the soul. the speaker pro tempore: any further requests for one minutes? the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does texas rise? mr. conaway: i ask unanimous consent that today following legislative business and special orders heretofore entered into, the following members may be permitted to address the house, revise and extend their remarks and include extraneous material, mcclintock today for five minutes, conaway today for five minutes. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. for what purpose does the gentleman from rise? >> i ask unanimous consent that today following legislative business and any special orders entered into, the following members may be permitted to address the house for

host: our next caller is phillies from kansas city, kansas, on the democrat's lead. caller: good morning. i believe something has to be done with medicaid and medicare, but i also think there has to be something that has to be regulated somehow with a dental costs to america, in the way prices are quoted to patients because workers are paying for because workers are paying for dental costs , but some of these programs are offering 28 e's, which means the patient pays 20% of the bill. then the company pays 80% of the bill. we end up paying more than 20% after what is quoted to us. he has been going on for years, and i think that area needs to be looked at to see what can be done to decrease the deficit in that area. host: well, health in general suffers from a lack of transparent pricing, and i think in large part it is because it has not been allowed to be a flourishing private market the way other markets are. host: our next caller is jim on the republicans line, calling from leesburg, virginia. caller: good morning. the thing that is a little bit disturbing about t

scored three runs or less, kansas city's 13 out of 20. toronto 12, seattle 11. chicago 11 and the orioles ten of their lost 20. that's a base hit into right field. so luke scott picks up a lead off single. the orioles get the lead off man on. >> buck: when you don't score many runs, 1-9 in their last ten games. i don't care how well you're pitching, we know kansas city has pitched but you've got to score some runs. >> gary: all of those clubs you saw there had real tough times when you're getting three or less runs per game. aubrey huff at the plate. he's grounded out twice. 0-6 in the series. five hits on the board for the o's. 9, 11 for oakland. 5-0 for the o's. that one to short. nice stop cabrera. can't get it up in time. and neither can they get it over to 1 st. so runners on at 1 st and 2nd. >> buck: be a base it hit as cabrera had to slide on his knee and couldn't get the ball out of the glove cleanly. see the possible once it hits the ground. everybody is safe. >> gary: gives a whole new meaning to the term the hole at shortstop. >> buck: that's going to

didn't the boston brave go to kansas city and milwaukee and then atlanta? >> bob: no, they went to milwaukee first. the philadelphia athletics went to kansas city. >> rob: some teams have traveled around a little bit. they have gone and then. >> bob: and they are in oakland. it's i how can you deny the history. that's baseball. at the end of the day, that's all good. >> bob: and the royals fans have the st. louis browns who came there in '53, how their team moved around. i mean we have lost two teams in this town. 1 ball, 1 strike to dunn. that ball gets away the nick johnson never saw it. he just fell right out of the glove of raul chavez. he had the catcher and the umpire in his line of sight. >> bob: that ball. >> rob: that ball gets out of the sight. did you see barajas -- or not barajas but chavez much he was looking at the runner. >> bob: thighs try at the breaking ball. >> rob: i think nick was shaded by dunn and the catcher and didn't know where the ball was. >> bob: yes. screened. >> rob: i'm thinking of the hockey term. >> bob: like screening the

data roosevelt felt the most at home on a horse in kansas and nebraska. he would get terribly seasick. he was our first president to go abroad. he went to panama. then he went to puerto rico. what he's writing about down there, he's taking notes of the wildlife of panama. he saved forests in puerto rico and the philippines. is this imperialism, and for the spanish-american war, president, we control these properties. he had a big concern of protecting eckler systems and species in the place is required. >> why the gloves? >> they make you wear them here. they do and a lot of archival places. this is from 1902. it's the birth -- this document are molding, you could call it the birth of u.s. fish and wildlife right here. in that little matt. that is what made roosevelt started it all with the wildlife protection. >> has that ever been seen outside of your? >> you would have to ask mark. i don't know. it is probably a minor when something with the pelican island site. c-span should go to pelaton island some time. u.s. fish and wildlife has built an incredibl

host: next from kansas on airline for democrat -- our line from democrats. caller: i am a democrat but have voted independently. have either one of you ever gone without insurance? i have been a type 1 diabetics for the last 25 years in the last 17 years i have been without insurance. three weeks ago i was diagnosed with a cancerous condition in my lungs. i have had to make these decisions myself. as to how to get insurance -- how to get coverage, how to get my health situations covered. that is just so that i can live. this is real life. this is not some kind of a theoretical thing for you. to people who are uninsured are happy with their insurance -- hell, i am not happy with many things that go on in my life except that over one-third of my income has gone to pay for just maintenance of my diabetes. now i will need to cover the need to stay alive. i am 61 years old. i do not fall under medicare or medicaid. the gentleman that i work for, honest, good man, a republican, cannot afford insurance for those i work with because of a guy like me. get real. this

at the authors reception for the kansas city literary festival.ase tell a little bit about the linda hall library. >> the linda hall library is one of the world's great libraries of science, engineering and technology and in fact we think the collection here is as strong as any library in the world in our areas of subject coverage and would cover all areas of science, engineering and technology. this includes all of the recent monographs and journals and publications in the sciences as well as all of the old publications, the rear and historical materials in the science and engineering. >> please describe the room we are in now and tell about the book fault. >> we are in the rare book room. this is where people come to consult and use the referenced material we have at the library. at the end of the room we have the rare book fault, a climate controlled, secure area where we can keep the books and preserve them for future generations. they are safe and the environment is such a well-preserved paper and bindings and make them last several generatio

the presiding officer: the senator from kansas. mr. roberts: mr. president, i ask unanimous consent that the quorum call be dispensed with. the presiding officer: without objection, so ordered. mr. roberts: mr. president, i ask unanimous consent that i may proceed for approximately 16 minutes as if in morning business. the presiding officer: without objection, so ordered. mr. roberts: i thank the distinguished acting presiding officer. mr. president, last week i came to the senate floor to talk about the flawed process of our current attempts to reform the health care system in this country and the urgent need to fix those flaws. those efforts included a letter, my letter, which every republican member of the finance and the "help" committee -- health, education, labor and pensions -- signed requesting some very reasonable steps to be taken by chairman baucus, chairman kennedy and senator dodd, who is standing in for our friend and colleague, senator kennedy. and we asked the chairman to release the details of their plans to reform health care. we

in many states including kansas we require everybody who drives to have car insurance. the result is we have a fundamental insurance package for automobile, for car insurance. we could do the same thing for a basic health care policy that includes a certain number of visits to physicians, clinics and putting hospitals, we could have an annual physical which i think would be very good including counseling for a healthy lifestyle which would avoid a lot of cost in the future. we could have an annual dental visit which many people need as well. and it would provide -- we could provide tax incentives for everybody to purchase a basic health care policy and it couldn't afford it a voucher for those on the poverty level where they could go out and shop for it. it would have a provision that i think what address of the need mr. kennedy brought up, very compassionate man knows there are some people that get denied coverage and the examples although insurance we have a high risk pool where each provider takes a turn drawing in and from a pool which would cover people who had pre

this happened in kansas, there's a component of that that's being done by the local prosecutors, being done by us. >> i understand that. do current hate crime laws cover that act? in arkansas? >> if there were a determination made that the killing was based on the race of the victim, yes, i think there's at least arguable that is but if the motivation was because his mailtary status, i don't think that would be under the hate crime status. >> regardless of what his stated motivations might have been. >> well, that would be one of the things we'd have to consider. what's the motivation of the person. >> should we consider legislating proposals to protect u.s. soldiers at recruiting offices? >> well, i mean i guess we have to look at the ex department of the problem -- extent of the problem. that's not to minimize the seriousness of what happened there. what happened there was deplorable. and not something that should in any way be tolerated. but i think we want to get -- look at what is the nature of and the extent of the hate crime that we are trying to legislate, the categories that w

i have 350 hospitals out there and i have 83 critical access hospitals in kansas, and i know a great many other people in other states here that have the same situation where the rural health care delivery system, and i can tell you that they are very frightened and they are very frightened of cms because they've gone through this before, and i went through the whole case with home health care yesterday. this is a very real problem that's happening every day. i'll give you a personal example of this, and i'm not trying to use this to frighten anybody or a scare tactic. it's real. i know a person who is a little mature in his years who just went -- who just went through knee surgery, and it was not a knee replacement, that there were three mris and he needs another one within three months. i know that's not going to be permitted by cms because it's triple imaging and i know there are people in this committee that know that there's a lot of fraud accused that if a doctor doesn't feel he's confirmed enough this he'll add all sorts of tests and things of this napeur and we have to get to

how the work we were doing in kansas could work with some early-education money, and i have circled back around as the new secretary about ways -- have a very collaborated and coordinated strategy. i think it is very important to have all of the childhood providers at the table, to have a neutral goal of where this money is best directed based on the science and evidence-based research and also to recognize that all children do not thrive in identical programs, that we need a variety of programs for parents and children to succeed, but i can assure you that those conversations are very much underway, and that is a passion that we both share. >> the early-learning grants, do you have any idea how those are going to be implemented? >> hef i think, again, those conversations are just under way, but i think what is important is to set up some kind of a platform for a program basis that is based on what we know works in the long run, what gets children ready to go to school. we did an alarming study in kansas a couple of years ago, conducted by the board of vegetation, that found that about 5

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i noted the presence of the kansas call. [laughter] and we welcome that, too, today. madam secretary, when i was in the legislature i served with a fellow by the name of harvey do helm who was a retired dairy farmer, on lee as a basset hound on a bad day. [laughter] and he was probably the best human being i ever served with anywhere. and one of the things he always said he said you know one of the problems with this country is all too often the poor and the rich get the same amount of i support it there's in the wintertime, and it is my understanding that you have the outrageous view that can change, and it's my understanding that you are coming in here today intending to do something very radical, which is to try to provide health care coverage for every american and i would like to know where you get that crazy idea. because it seems to me that we have already seen hundreds of billions of dollars go out the door to help strengthen banks and insurance companies and auto companies under both president bush and under president obama, but now evidently you have the the