karen? >> my book is based on archival research and i tended to speak with people interrogated and i was unable to do that so i tried to go at an angle using our calves from the state archives in tallahassee, florida. >> right. maybe you can since we are here with you, why florida crimes you want to answer that? >> yes in the context of this decade with a national purges going on historian john de mello and others in david johnson have written about, the primary reason that we can look to florida is that in florida like many other southern states in this time after the brown of the import of an education supreme court decision in '54 and '55, florida and many other states that this investigation committees and in florida and was quite clear that the investigation committee was established to harass and intimidate solarize workers primarily members of the naacp to try to grandest desegregation efforts appear bound and the naacp was a fairly strong institution by that point and could rebuff th

but i think karen is right, it's just not enough spec we had a call and an e-mail at it we. this from daniel young who says my sister had cancer and went bankrupt because of it. 10 years later she has had problems getting jobs because she had cancer. >> this is another issue. bankruptcy we touched on. you know, if you go to other countries around the world, people are going to criticize all the countries. but you asked how many people go bankrupt because of illness in canada or in other countries. the answer in most cases is zero. it just doesn't happen. second of all we have millions of people today who are staying on their jobs. do you know why they are staying on the jobs? not because they are content or happy on their jobs. because they have decent health insurance and they are afraid to leave their jobs to go to another job with health insurance is not as good. does that make any sense from a personal point of view or from an economic point of view? and the answer is it doesn't. so what we have got to do is move away from employer-based health care to national health ca

host: karen is a republican joining us from iowa. caller: the biggest problem we have in america is agregreed. it goes all the way from the politician to the individual. whatever system is put in place ingreed will always find a loophole. people are not honest and people do not care about other people. i have kids on $5,000 per month, never went bankrupt, and never defaulted on a loan, and never had health insurance plan. i paid my bills. i did not buy a brand new cars and that is how i did it. my question is, what about putting a cap on how much these big ceo's can make? also, i'm looking for a politician who's willing -- you know what? people fought and died for this country. we do noneed a politician who is willing to sacrifice his drop- off. guest: she is right. we saw this from people on wall street who are not content making 40% rates on return. she is right. greed permeates almost every aspect of our life. i would say to karen, was not living with health insurance -- that's a dangerous position to be in because you never know

i also want to thank sam phillips, karen and the staff of the circuit executive's office for all the fine job they did to plan this conference and making sure that everything ran so smoothly. and finally you, the membership, at this conference. all of us judges look so much to be with you, and it gives us the opportunity to get to know you and form lasting friendships. this is our 76th conference, and i hope that you all had a wonderful time. our 77th conference is tentatively scheduled to take place next year at the greenbriar, june 24-26, and we look forward to seeing you all there. i wish each of you safely travels home, and we now stand adjourned. thank you. [applause] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2009] [captioning performed by national captioning institute] >> coming up next on c-span, stan kasten talks about his role as president of the washington analysis baseball team. a discussion with chief justice john roberts and a discussion on recent supreme court decisions. >> tomorrow on "washington journal," a look at what the unrest in iran means for the future

judge karen. >> i want to thank each of our panelists today and also professor howard for the wonderful job he did as our moderator. this term included decisions on a great variety of subjects. i thought you all did a masterful job of exploring those decisions and providing us with important takeaways. before adjourning, there are several other people i would like to take. first chief justice roberts for his willingness to address the conference at the banquet last night and to participate in the q&a this morning. i think this -- i think this session added a lot to our traditional discussions. to the most recent supreme court, my good colleague, i am so indebted to you for all that you have done as a program chair. this has been fabulous. i thought it was most informative and a great success. i cannot thank you enough for all of your dedicated service in making sure the conference was such a success. to my good colleague, judge j. harvey wilkinson. i might be the chief judge, but he is the dean of this court. i also want to thank sam phillips and the staff of this office for the fine jo

i would like to call judge karen williams. >> i too want to thank each of our panelists today, and also professor howard, for the wonderful job that he did as our moderator. this term included decisions on a variety of subjects, and you all did a masterful job of exploring those decisions providing us with important take aways. there were several other people i would like to thank. chief justice roberts, his willingness to be addressed to the conference. this session added a lot to the discussion. to the most recent supreme court 7. my good colleague, paul newline, i am committed to you for what you did as program chair, this has just been fabulous, it was most informative. and a great success. to my good colleague, judge wilkinson. i might be the chief judge, he is the dean of this court. i also want to thank sam phillips and the staff of the executive's office for the fine job they did planning this conference and making sure everything ran so smoothly. finally, you, the membership at this conference call these judges look forward to being with you. the opportunity to get to know you

i also want to thank sam phillips, karen and the staff of the circuit executive's office for the work they did in planning this conference and making sure that everything ran so smoothly. and finally you, the membership at this conference. all of us judges love being with us, and it gives us the opportunity to know you and form lasting friendships. this is our 76th conference, and i hope you all had a wonderful time. our 77th conference is tentatively scheduled to take place at the greenbriar june 24-26, and we look forward to seeing you all there again in 2010. i wish each of you safe travels home, and we now stand adjourned. thank you. [applause] pplaus [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2009] [captioning performed by national captioning institute] >> up next, stan kansas ten. after that, a senate panel looks at regulation foss a banking derivative. >> this week on prime minister's questions, prime minister gordon brown discusseses the fate of british hostages in iraq. he also answers questions on government spending, the economy and u.k. jobs. following his speech,

allowed us to really understand, looking at large covered populations, the fact that parity in a managed karen environment is not only cost -effective, it's very affordable. so when we think of leaders in the mental health arena, tipper gore is clearly one of those people. i'd like to invite her up to make a few remarks today. [applause] 4 >> thank you. well, good morning everyone. thank you for the introduction and the leadership that you provide, david. we all really appreciate you, and i hear nothing but just wonderful things about you from so many different people. so i want to return the compliment. and i'm so delighted to be here with you, and to serve as the honorary chair for this year's conference. when i was asked, i didn't think twice. i wanted to be involved whenever i can be for mental health and mental wellness. it's a life-time commitment for me. and the mental health movement that began with clifford bears in 1909, we have encountered a lot of obstacles in the last 100 years, but with every obstacle we have had to climb, there was always the point of reaching the top that mount

american get presumptions and try to start telling them about canada -- thou be disastrous i think karen one more. >> i am from new hampshire, you used in blue highway what do you try to dig to do your story is? >> we are a four-cylinder family. i know when to give any plans here but we are four-cylinder people [laughter] >> your blue highways book is one of the most pleasurable i have ever read the and i go at journeying to a lot of authors of which i have forgotten their names. however, i have never forgotten your name. if you don't mind my asking, what is the origination of your name? >> i explained in the third chapter of blue highways. hong with the have probably forgotten myself in a nutshell perianth my background is english, irish and the sage. my father in the 1930's wanted to honor the osage part of our background, we did not know the last full blood osage name was. we do know that it was born in july. keep in mind from 1924 the indians are not citizens, so there was a lot of slopping england names onto it indians and inuit -- the indian names. it was an important so we don't k

to her right is judge karen nelson moore of the sixth circuit, who was appointed to that court by president clinton in 1995. obviously there is much more i could say about each of them, and when they speak, maybe they could bring in relevant parts of their background. to her right is the judge appointed to the d.c. circuit by president clinton. so his right is judge j. harvey wilkinson, who was appointed by president ronald reagan to the fourth circuit in 1984, which i guess makes you the senior -- no, judge ryan heart. to judge wilkinson's right was is judge -- a judge who brings a scourt perspective. >> last but not leeth, judge reinhart who was appointed by president carter in 199. to plunge in and taking them in that order, i wanted to get people talking about the topic of improving the courts. what are the major challenges facing your circuit? i would like to bring out the fact that, just like not all judges are the same, not all circuits are the same. they face different kinds of problems. sketch out for us what are some of the major challenges, problems, aspirations of life on your o

politically viable and we need to replace this moment with reform that would not control costs to improve karen -- or are leaving the american people feeling the moment is wasted they cannot trust their government to generally act in their interest? enact single payer and put patients first semi thank you entire artistic and it will be made part of the record. thank you dr. >> congressmen andrews and ranking member and members of the health committee i am a public position and my name is walter tsou. if you believe every american has the right to quality affordable health care then the only affordable means to achieve that goal is to properly financed single para national health insurance program. attending to reconcile the imperative of the universal coverage and cost control through alternative methods besides a single pair is an exercise of futility purpose is clear cost-control means someone's ox gets gored either the taxpayers, physicians, hospita ls, private insurance industry. monday as a quote single payer is off the table they are saying insurance will be protecting we've been the pain

on a host: democrats line, karen from new york city. caller: hello, i have been listening now for a year and half to obama promising to make health care affordable. the only way health-care can be made affordable is if it is related to income. affordable as very different from someone making $17,000 a year than it is to someone making $250,000 a year or more. it is my belief the only way affordability will happen is that whoever -- and it should include the insurance industry -- are mandated to charge for health insurance based on a factor of payroll and i would say a factor of payroll should not have to exceed 5%. guest: i think you raise a lot of great points. first of all, one of the points that underlie your question -- and it is absolutely correct -- is that for many families -- and i am even talking of people who have health insurance through their job, because they are paying for their premiums on a monthly basis, they are paying out-of-pocket costs, many of those families, health care costs have far exceeded income growth. we kn

. >> one reason i raise it is because congresswoman karen maloney has offered the same thing.if you haven't talked to her i was hoping you would talk to her so there might be some mechanism for keeping the two acts separate. >> i can comment on that. she and i held a press conference supporting an identical bill in the house and the senate. i was very pleased to be a lead sponsor here in the senate. her bill, or this combined bill, it goes further. it gets into things such as tax credits and so on and so forth. we tried to take care of the simplest elements, and i think this is a foundation we can build on in the future, but to take the simplest elements of flexible break time, break time that is not expected to be paid, it's unpaid break time. most states have pursued in that manner, and simple privacy. those two concepts would go a great long way in this effort. >> i think we accept that amendment. but i would appreciate it if you would at least check and see about this interweaving the mfla with state fairness act. >> i don't know the answer myself on that. i think there's

secretary a laho lahood, we have not had a chance to work together but we have the pleasure of being with karen ray at one of the outreach sessions. they're fully capable of developing the system throughout the nation. in order for america's moonshot to become a reality, members of congress must work in concert with the same bold vision. we must consider this revolutionary initiative in its proper context and recognize the clear view of this administration combined with mounting public and private sector for groups such as the high-speed rail and texas compensation, the florida high speed rail authority among many others, working closely with bill miller and other organizations, represent a once in a century opportunity to make a real and positive impact on the country's transportation and economic development lansky. let's be certain we have our eyes on the same prize, passenger trains traveling and 195 miles an hour or more, on a new dedicated track system. if we have that support infrastructure, improve safety, reduce pollution and improve economic benefits to the community. as we look to bu

of the max that do not in to appear with fundamental rights or a single i suspect classifications karen with a strong presumption of constitutionality and must be upheld related to legitimate state interest. i think barely read and she says this does not interfere with it on the mantel right which we believe, i believe among that every american and of the second amendment has a fundamental right to keep and bear arms unless the have been convicted. >> wasn't that the issue of whether or not conservative sort of this amendment and as with the supreme court said and run the signing to manicure right to

karen pollitz who is the research professor georgetown university health policy institute. welcome to all of our witnesses. is the policy of the subcommittee to take your testimony under oath. please bid bison of the right and the rules of the house to be it buys the council during your testimony. kiewit to be represented by counsel during your testimony? mr. hamm you would? any time during the questions if you want to get advice from counsel, just let us know and we will allow the. council cannot testify but the cannon fisa. mr. collins? mr. sassi? ms. pollitz? so then let me have you raise your right hand and take the oath. do you swear or affirm the testimony you are about to give is the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth in the matter pending before this committee? let the record reflect that the witnesses replied in the affirmative. they are now under the beginning with their opening statement. you have five minutes for an opening statement in you may submit a longer statement for inclusion in the record. mr. hamm if you don't mind will start with you, st

. >> i am karen. >> absolutely, i think there to issues. one is, the work that is done especially in these data syntheses meta-analysis petr take into many different studies we at to see what goes into it and what doesn't go into it, but i think the bottom line though it is because it is such an issue of interpretation that the interpretation has to be done by scientists you don't have the financial interest. there was a huge separate couple of years ago when the national institute of health had the panel that opined on what level cholesterol should trigger taking different sorts of statin drugs, and it turns out seven out of those eight scientists who were on the panel had a financial connection to the drug makers to make the statins. and of course many people were skeptical. we can't have advice given in a way that is questionable that raises the level of skepticism. these are multi-billion dollar decisions. we can afford to hire scientists, the government can pay for scientists who have no connection, so they can look at the data indepen

looking for books to write i always roundup to give myself in the head when eric since copies i love karenf sin in the second city and i think to myself with this book it was another kick in the head. why didn't i know this? why didn't i know this story? why didn't i know this story, jason? >> because he was good at what he did, he kept quiet many years. the crimes he was committing. i think he didn't want you to know it so that is why. >> but even after the fact of all of that stuff why isn't this kind of character and he's a very careful wifely tortured human being why isn't he famous in chicago? do any of you notice, can you tell me any counterfeiting story about chicago? >> he's famous in bridgeport. >> and they don't talk to each other. >> yeah, you keep your mouth shut. >> in doing this to do believe him immediately? there is a con man who anybody would seemingly get into the counterfeiting game is not only a high class criminal but there is the common element, you know what i mean, they must drifting to personal life. >> he's a very charming guy, a great storyteller and i definitely

inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] karen graves, author of the "and they were wonderful teachers: florida's purge of gay and lesbian teachers", and it c. todd white, author of an "pre-gay l.a.: a social history of the movement for homosexual rights", part of the chicago tribune printers row lit fest will return. >> this summer booktv is asking, what are you reading? >> i am amy, a reliable source, is for the washington post and i'm looking for to my summer reading list. a lot of people think that summer is the time for light reading and as far as i'm concerned is the time for reading the heavy books. last year i tackled the fountainhead of a ricin vacation. it this year i am looking forward to pushing anna carona, i tried to read it 15 years ago and could not do it and came up with a new translation would just aren't on vacation in february from a chipping away at it but i'm half way through and probably on vacation will be able to finish most of it. with the new pulitzer prize-winning novel by elizabeth strauss the, i will

and with karen ray, we had a pleasure of being with her in houston at one of the outreach sessions. they're fully capable of developing the system throughout the nation. in order for america's in the broadest sense of the term moon shot to become a reality we, all of us here, and congress must work in concert with the same bold initiative. we must recognize that the clear view of this administration and congress combined with the mounting public and private sector groups such as the texas high-speed rail and transportation corporation, the california high-speed rail authority, the florida high-speed rail authority working with nafta, with other organizations represent a once in a century opportunity to make real and positive impact on our country's transportation and economic development landscape. let's be certain that we all have our eyes on the same prize, passenger trains traveling at at least 185 miles an hour or more on a new dedicated, as mr. boardman talked about, high-speed rail infrastructure. if we have that separate infrastructure, we improve safety, reduce collisions an

i have worked with people who are trying to come up with alternative karen begins. one of my friends and supporters is putting in a huge wind farm in indiana. we have two basic areas we could put wind farms in. we might get to 4%. but we can't reach the target in these bills. but we don't have as much wind and solar. we have to have oil, gas, nuclear and coal, not just the alternative forms, especially if they are going to put limitations on ethanol and biodiesel. we are trying to decide, are we going to have manufacturing or aren't we going to have manufacturing? are we going to have high-service jobs and high-tech jobs. yes, at coffee houses, they say this sounds great. and others in their beach houses on the coast say this sounds great. we are getting two classes of people. and the blue collar class of people who made things and had a decent living where they could get a house, boat on vacation, they're disappearing. and the knowledge class, the upper liberals in the democratic party are saying good-bye to the working class and they are saying you could bring us

. >> guest: let me start of the first point that karen made it -- she is right. we're in a moment of history and we saw this on the people on wall street who are not content with making 30 or 40% rates of return, how to make more in a hedge fund managers making a billion dollars in personal gains and it need to make more. i think agreed remains almost every aspect of life. but i was a two care and who is my understanding with no health insurance because she doesn't have a lot of money, that is a dangerous position to be in because you never know what's going to happen tomorrow. you don't know what kind of illness can develop an accident your kid could have. so i think as a nation we have got to move toward health care for all people. in terms of putting one's job on the line i think there are people in congress who are prepared to stand up to the big money interest and take on the drug companies and insurance companies but i think she is right in the sense it is not enough. >> host: we have an e-mail entry to from daniel who says my sister had cancer and went ban

as i mentioned earlier we're on the eve of passing major health karen reforhealthcare reform le. the centerpiece is prevention. that's the one piece there's a great deal of unanimity about. how could we deal with health care reform? the best way to treat the disease is that it never happen in the first place. this bill we're talking about may do more in the area of prevention if it is adopted than anything else we may include in the health care bill. at least in the short-term. the estimates are that as much as 11% to 12% of young people could not begin the habit of smoking if this bill is adopted. imagine 11% or 12% young people not smoking of that 3,000 or 4,000 every day that start. that in itself would be a major, major achievement. my friend from north carolina, senator burr, does in the give authority to the f.d.a. the f.d.a. is 100 years old. it creates a completely, on his bill, a completely new agency, a new and untested acknowledge to oversee tobacco products. the food and drug administration is the right agency, mr. president, because it's the only agency that regulate

a country where we have unalienable rights karen guaranteed to us by our nation's founding documents in the knowledge that our government is set up to protect those rights. we know we are guaranteed the right to peaceful public protest and we see many great americans utilizing that right here in washington, d.c., on a daily basis. it's not until haunting and disturbing images of blatant violence and oppression run across the front pages of our newspapers and tv screens we realize how important these rights are. the people of iran are expressing themselves peacefully in the streets and being attacked by armed guards and police. the violence needs to end now and the people of iran should be heard. i want to commend president obama for his leadership and his judgment in such a difficult and tense foreign policy crisis, and i agree with his resistence to instigate a foreign nation through demagoguery. a distinct difference from the carelessness that sometimes was used by administrations in the past. let me be clear, i know the world understands that the united states will always developm

he owns stock, but what company did he karen? berkshire hathaway. what was the basis for is a delegation in berkshire hathaway? pretty close to zero. now you take the market capital and that is what his wealth is, in what we call on realized capital gains. if any of you know what the tax rate is on the unrealized capital gains, it is zero. steve is cutting capital gains in market thinking about cutting capital gains. it gives it to the belen melinda gates foundation it will never see a tax. but, when you look of this, when he says that they lacked hecht's is the my secretary he is telling you the truth. it is a bad tax bill and i am not blaming you for finding a tax way of having all this wealth. the last thing is rich people can change the volume of their income, so when you look of the tax codes of the last 25 or 30 years the top 1%, the top 1%, i forget what the member is but the top 1% in 1980 i think they'd 17.5% of all the income tax in the united states. the top 1% today paid 42% of all the income tax than the united

all the way karen dropped out of her ph.d. program. her savings were depleted and she had no one else to turn to. we're not going to pass a public health insurance option? the public health insurance option would offer american workers and their families like karen and her son affordable transition insurance if you lose your job and lose your insurance. we can't let the health insurance industry dictate how our health care system works or limit the coverage options that americans deserve. anyone who had to shop for health insurance coverage knows how expensive it can be, even if you're healthy like peter from since gnatcy. he retired after years as an architect. after he retired he thought he would have no problem affording private health insurance. but despite never filing a claim, his premiums and his deductibles kept rising him forcing him to buy a second policy. in merely two weeks after total knee replacement surgery, his secondary insurer dropped him and left him with a bill of $27,000. peter asked that we fix what's broken and w