local leaders left office, including bill jentee, scott gifford, keith hunt, dick hyde, cindy irwin, kathryn bartlett, rita mullins, tim perry, sal and john. their longstanding service embodies what leadership is about. our mayors often serve as the voice of our local communities and is the closest contact for people on government issues. i thank them for their dealings with my office on federal issues. i've enjoyed working with each and every one of them and wish them the best of success. they assisted our office in betting serving our communities and all illinois families. i ask unanimous consent to enter into the recordhis list of past presidents and mayors. thank you. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, so ordered. ms. bean: and i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlewoman yields back. for what purpose does the gentleman from virginia rise? mr. moran: to address the house for one minute and to revise and extend my remarks. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, the gentleman is recognized for one minute. mr. moran: thank you, madam speaker. madam speaker, for weeks

host: kathryn, little rock. good morning. caller: we had elections stolen from us twice by bush.hey did not protest because they were benefiting. the people of iran, more power to them. host: alice, from georgia. good morning. caller: thank you for c-span. there is one thing that people are forgetting. iranians are using their own tactics, throwing rocks and burning things. they should remember how we blacks had to fight for our freedom back in the day. we were jailed, killed, and everything. we kept on fighting. that is what they have to do. president obama does not have to say anything. why would we get involved in this situation? these people must follow a pattern that martin luther king said. maybe they will get something done. all those tactics they are using, throwing rocks, martin luther king did that do that. we did that do that at all. we marched peacefully. individually we sat in front of the bus. thank you. host: thank you for the call. in this twitter, "president obama speech in cairo and republicans say that he should worry about home. he rightly stays out of iran an

. >> a look now at the future of newspapers and technology in the publishing industry with kathryn weymuth, publisher of the "washington post." this is about 40 minutes. . this inaugural events will provide us with an opportunity to connect, share, and learned to experience the true power of women in technology. before i introduce this morning's keynote speaker, let's take a brief look at the women and technology to a parade of women face challenges in every industry, but i find that, although women make up half of the workforce in the united states, our ranks are declining in information technology. from 40% in 1986 to only 24% today. i am concerned this decline may continue. there has been a 79% drop in the number of women majoring in computer science in the last eight years. there are a number of factors including a long hours, travel, the glass ceiling, lack of mentors and role models, and a lack of the parity in pay especially in the lower ranks. despite these challenges, the information technology industry offers a tremendous opportunity to women and women are entering into the top r

i asked my friend, kathryn, at the center for disease control now has weight change over the decades, a little weight? tell me that in the 60's was going on and what's going on today and what was different and when she sent me the draft when you saw and what i saw was back in the 60's you entered your 20s and you may gain a few pounds until your forties and fifties but are relatively stable. a few pounds and then you plateau and then you lost a few pounds and you're 60's and 70's and in your senior years. the wait is relatively stable over an adult lifetime. today, you entered your adult years and the weight keeps on rising. certainly on till you're 50s it doesn't plateau but what is the most striking is when you enter your 20s back in the 60's if you were here, today you're entering your 20s. so as with tobacco, excess weight really does begin in childhood and adolescence at least for a significant part of the population. about what to do about this, don yet and exercise, if it were everybody would be doing. so i started trying to understand why was this so difficult? why couldn't we

this is the first tuesday in may, we are going to have kathryn joyce, talk about her book, quiver full which is about christian is patriarchal etiology their views marriage and sort of old testament terms and so on. so that should be extremely interesting. you are all welcome to come to that as well. now getting back tonight, again you can get a copy of the book up in front. you'll be glad to sign up for your. let me thank you all for coming, and let's thank our esteemed guest. [applause] >> jurgen todenhofer was a member of the german parliament for 18 years and is currently an executive at a german media firm. for more on the author and his book, why do you kill, visit his website. >> at next a history of the creation of the erie canal which expedited expansion of the united states and facilitated trade with the american west. author gerard koeppel recounts the canals and development and how it established new york city as america's economic center. this event hosted by borders bookstore in new york city is 40 minutes. >> i'm going to talk about 30 minutes and then we will have time

so with kathryn simply understood as a political activity she couldn't do anything else and in fact she was lucky in this sense no matter which way the argument went or the outcome went they had a political issue because if the supreme court struck down roe you could make the argument we have got to get a president that cares about reproductive rights and so, while it was high risk in the sense of catherine colburn may have lost the outcome it was not a political risk because either way they were going to have the kind of political argument they fashioned going in. >> that part of casey's or unusual. i would think there were two goals being pursued by the attorney. are there other instances where the lawyers arguing the case have a goal beyond the litigation that is being deliberate. >> most of the time when the case gets in the supreme court it's rare because the court gets something like 8,000 petitions and decide 75. i think most lawyers understand what they are doing is not simply getting a resolution of a fight between party a and b. another case that occurs was the 2005 decision i

we had -- i'm sure they'd all like to be peter the great or kathryn the great, have the great after their name, but i guess we can make up names for them. the question is why. i think it's a question the administration ought to answer. i'm not the only one asking these questions. the statement from senator be robert byrd said the rapid and easy accumulation of power by white house staff can threaten the constitutional system of checks and balances. at the, white house staff has taken direction and control of problematic areas that are the statutory responsibility of senate confirmed officials. he's raising the same issue i was raising a few minutes ago. that is these people don't go through the confirmation process. there's no senators looking and seeing what kind of reputation these people have, what they are doing-with a -- doing -- what they have done in the past. where their area of expertise is. whether or not this is the most qualified person. whether it's a person who would meet the constitutional requirements of serving our nation. i know these are hired by the president. we don't

kathryn serkes, the association of american physicians and surgeons. in. >> thank you, grover. i'm going to talk about three things today. number one is doctors and the hassle factor that is going on. and number two is what is going on with organized medicine as response to health care reform proposals and number three most of primly, the impact this has on patients. the first thing is i want to ask -- i don't see a lot of medicare eligible faces. i may see a couple, but most of you, have any of you heard your parents or grandparents say i'm having trouble seeing a doctor? i'm having -- it takes me a long time to get an appointment? anybody listening to us at home, ask your parents or your grandparents if they've had trouble. they are not alone. we have heard today now about government madison and that we already have government madison so what i'm going to talk about is what it is really like on the frontlines of government mike -- madison. what happens with doctors and patients not just a policy standpoint and from a political standpoint, what is really like out there. if you