lamar odom has been there. his supporting cast hasn't stepped up. >> he can be there all he wants, but if he's not playing well, experience doesn't matter. it was open for the magic. kobe hasn't been himself. he's tired after the olympics, after the griexd of the season, after the whole playoff run. the magic just haven't taken advantage. >> but also kobe bryant has been able to help his team elevate their game because they clearly understand that he can do it by himself, but he tonight need. to trevor ariza has a big third quarter, lamar odom, pau gasol, derek fisher, even jordan farmar. we have not seen that from the orlando magic. dwight howard is supposed to be the leader. outside of rafer alston in game three, a lot of guys have not been able to elevate their game. someone please get rashard lewis off the milk carton. outside of game two that's where he's been. kobe hasn't had a great series, but others players have elevated, one of the reason the lakers up are 3-1. >> let's move to our next topic. michael

>> i was fine. >> okay. >> mike. >> kobe, what did you think of lamar tonight? he had a one of successful games and tonight a -- was he off tonight? >> he played well. want to talk about the offensive end. you can always improve on the offensive end. free-throws are given. we lost this game on the defensive end. a team that shoots 62%, and we have to do a much better job defensively. lamar was hot. >> dave, outside. >> kobe, did they make an adjustment on how they're defending you on the pick-and-roll and can you describe that play where pietrus got the steal? >> howard just made a great play with his hands. made a great play with his hands, and they came up with the ball. simple as that. >> right here in the front. >> kobe, didn't you talk about the execution of their last play, the final seconds? >> which one? >> well, where you took the three-pointer. was that what coach felt is designed in a time-out? >> that's what we were looking for. >> the three-point center. >> didn't go down. >> talk about the next game. >> just have to bounce back and be ready to go.

i recently saw a man i admire a lot, lamar alexander, former governor and now senator from tennessee. i told him early on in this adventure what i was doing. he said that is exactly what you should do. he said it will probably make you more successful candidate, but it will definitely make you a better governor, and he was right. >> let's quickly go through the different things you have done. monongahela, pa., what year did you come to indiana? >> my family arrived in indiana in 1959. i was about 10 years old. we had lived around the south. we never lived in pennsylvania. i was born in the same hospital room as joe montana. we lived in tennessee and georgia, and moved to the indianapolis area when i was 10. i went to north central high school. at that time, i believe it was one of the handful of best high schools in north america. we were fortunate to go there. it showed me that you can have uncompromising excellence in public schools if you have the right elements. i went to princeton university, law school at night school. i finished at georgetown while working out here. >> what was

lamar smith, for his leadership in making this a truly bipartisan effort. and i urge my colleagues to support this important legislation. and i reserve the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman reserves. the gentleman from california, mr. issa, is recognized. mr. issa: thank you, mr. spker. it's now my pleasure to yield for our response to the gentleman from south carolina for such time as he may consume. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from south carolina is recognized. >> thank you, mr. speaker. i appreciate the gentleman from california yielding. h.r. 2344, the webcasting settlement act of 2009, grants limited statutory authority to sound exchange. the government designated entity that is responsible for disbursing webcast royalties to

. >> lamar alexander, with me, senator kyl is going to join the senate humans. he is coming from the finance committee. we are introducing today the auto stock for every taxpayer act to require the treasury to distribute to individual taxpayers all the stock in the new gm and chrysler within one year following the emergence of the new gm from bankruptcy proceedings. this is the best way to get the auto companies out of the hands of washington bureaucrats and politicians and into the hands of the american people in the marketplace where it belongs. so instead of the treasury polling 60% of the shares of new gm and 8% of shares of chrysler, he went on them. if you are one of 120 million americans who paid federal taxes on april 15th. this is the fastest way to get the stock out of the hands of washington and back into the hands of the american people who paid for it. to keep it simple and to help the little guy also get an ownership stake in america's future, the treasury would give each taxpayer an equal number of the available shares. the treasury department has

we will next year for my good friend who i have enjoyed working with, lamar aga -- lamar alexander, we have worked on all sorts of issues and i admire him immensely. he gave me a wonderful book on the -- the little plaid a book and i will share with my colleagues another time. worthwhile period senator alexander. >> thank you mr. chairman. in this room and this is a rumor to predecessors and i see it as two important questions -- howard baker as what to the president know and when did he know in the watergate hearing and then fred thompson was his minority counsel and he said mr. butterfield, or there any recordings of the office of those became the nixon tapes. and as a matter of interest at that time the watergate hearings were on every day for five or six hours a day on all -- and there are only three television networks and it was on all three networks. a senator in no way told us after about a month george gallup came and told him it was only one person in the u.s. but in on the senator and it was president nixon because the whole country was riveted to that set of hearings in thi

lamar odom says he wants to stay with the champs. the power forward is an unrichted freeing.hat's a problem with trevor aariza also in the same situation. he averaged 14 boards nine points a game. >> i know i can play and i know i can help any team that i play on. you sit here today, it seems like it just went by so fast. you know, from not making the playoffs to winning the championship, now being an unrestricted free agent with the opportunity to leave. feels a little surreal, as a champion as well. hopefully embling will work out and i get to stay hope. >> he brings up a good point. she getting paid. >> 14.1, that's paid. >> let's get paid again. with kobe on board, lakers don't need odom to score as much. but look at the points and what they did in the playoffs. odom made quite a difference in making them a championship team. coming up on "sportscenter" -- how do you like my role now? what's keeping pedro from pitching in the majors again? mark martin showing the young guns a thing or two. see how he's doing snag m.j., the robert, brett favre couldn't. only one way to mak

other notable selections include terry cummings, danny manning, lamar odom and darius miles. >> the angels have won five straight and sit atop the a.l. west. a game and a half ahead of the rangers. they begin a three-game series in arlington. crushes the offering from padilla. a two-run jack. his 13th of the season. angels up 3-2. next batter, moralis. back-to-back jacks for moralis. angels win it 5-2. easy out there, guys. always a lot of fun until somebody gets hurt. rivera, his eighth home run in june that ties him for the second most in major league baseball. the angels have won six straight and 13 of their last 16. >> the a.l. central leading tigers continue their nine-game three city road trip in oakland. 6-1, they trail. rick had been 7-1 in his last 10 starts, he goes 4 1/3, allowing five earned runs, mark ellis and sweeney both homer. oakland has -- [inaudible] >> back to wimbledon now, serena williams on a collision course with her sister, taking on daniella, first set on serve, serena, big two-handed backhand. set up break points. gees. the ball clips the net, falls in. serena w

other notable selections include terry cummins, danny manning, lamar odom and darius miles. >> the indianshalf ahead of the angels. they began a three-game series in arlington. top of the sixth, crushes the offering. padilla, a two-run jack. his 13th of the season. next batter, moralis, oh, boy, back-to-back jacks for moralis. his 13th of the season. the angels win it 5-2. easy, easy out there, guys. >> always a lot of fun until somebody gets hurt. for rivera, his eighth home run in june, that ties him for the second most in major league baseball. the angels have won six straight and 13 of their last 16. >> how about the a.l. central leading tigers. continuing their nine-game three city road trip in. oakland the a's up 5-0. top of the sixth, one out. suzuki, an rbi single. back to wimbledon now, serena williams on a collision course with her sister. taking on daniella, first set on serve. serena, a big two-handed backhand that set up a break point. gees. the ball clips the net, falls in a little luck there. match point here, in the second set, crosscourt, backhand coming up for serena. she

conyers: and i yield to the distinguished ranking member of the committee, lamar smith of texas, and ask by unanimous consent he be allowed to control the time on his side for purposes of debate. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. mr. conyers: i yield myself as much time as i may consume. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized for as much time as he may consume. mr. conyers: we're here today to perform one of the most solemn duties under the constitution, which is to consider the impeachment of a sitting member of the judiciary, a federal judge, who but for the congressional power of impeachment holds a life tenure on his office. the judge in question, samuel b. kent of the united states district court for the southern district of texas has already pled guilty to obstruction of justice and has entered in and is residing in a federal prison at this moment. the judiciary committee's independent investigation conducted admirably by a special task force established for that purpose and led by the gentleman from california, mr. schiff, has concluded that the charge

where they're coming from, who's coming, and he'll start kicking that ball out to myself, trevor, lamar, jordan, whoever's open, and we'll make the plays from there. >> as opposed to just watching him do what he does and then turning to the shooters on the weak side, we've got to cut to the lane, fill gaps, we've got a lot of really good passers on this team. >> i've got to get my guys involve. sometimes that means sacrificing your rhythm and trying to rebuild it, and last night i couldn't regenerate it. as far as me hitting the wall, so what if i did? i didn't, but so what if i did. >> what does it mean if you did? >> it means nothing. >> because? >> because i'll run straight through it. >> a day later the shots were definitely still dropping for the magic. >> there it is. there it is. oh! but in the locker room remained a nagging concern. the game was extremely close. >> it's on our minds. we talked about it. but it's hard sometimes especially when you're making shot after shot after shot, it feels so great, your mind drifts a little bit. >> i think the thing that kept the lakers in t

lamar alexander, you're up. >> thanks, mr. chairman.i have an amendment to title three, section 311. the purpose of it is to make sure that the right choices program which is in that title doesn't require the states to spend any money on it, and this is a relatively small item, probably, but i would like to make a larger point in making my proposal, if i could say just a word about it. >> certainly. >> we have talked a lot here about cost and usually the cost is described in terms of cost to the federal government, and the cbo, congressional budget office, score has said that the kennedy bill even without three of its major points would add $1 trillion over ten years. senator gregg has said that once the program is implemented fully by the fifth year, it would be more like $2.3 trillion. but i would like to talk about a different sort of cost that i'm particularly sensitive to because of my experience as governor, struggling with the medicaid program and watching every other governor struggle with the medicaid program. in 1980, shortly

i am senator bob bennett from utah, i joined by senator lamar alexander from tennessee and senator jim bunting from kentucky and we are expecting some other senators to join us in the time period we have, we are planning to run until 3:30. rois is a hearing to investigate the effect of the proposed cap and trade national energy task on job growth. and to probe the ways in which building 100 new nuclear plants could help the economy and keep ame american economy competitive while at the same time protecting our environment. we are going to talk about limaate change. when people ask me about climate change and should we pay attention to it i always say yes, we should pay attention to it, climate change has been affecting the human condition for millennia. ise one major challenge we have that our ancestors didn't have is that there are now seven billion of us on the planet and its jacob should take his family to israel to escape the drought eocause of climate change he would find ninety million people already living there, and therefore the adjustments you might have been able to make to

. >> we just adopted lamar alexander's amendment, which i thought was a good amendment. we're not talking about adding cost to the states. we only have 23 states that get any kind of funding from cdc for coordinated school-based programs. we do almost very lit until the cardiac area nationally. so we're trying to increase in these areas of prevention, which we know in those four areas. put aside the school-based stuff. we do almost nothing in oral health. so on matters that are in at least two of the chronic areas, not even half the states are getting the kind of support nationally without man dating that states have to raise their costs. >> i don't disagree with you. let me just pose this question. if we have obesity programs in 25 of the states you said, do those 25 states have an obesity program? and the answer is they probably do. >> here's the point. we're listening to anecdotal statements, rather than saying we're going to spend all this money on programs we don't know whosht they're effective. so why are we going to spend the money until we know -- why aren't we g

lamar alexander said the government competitor is like an elephant in a roomful of mice.overnment will not compete fairly and we need to have more competition, not less competition. republicans would add to that statement, if you like where you have you can keep it, and you should also have even more choices than you have now. more opportunity to get into a system that everyone can find coverage in. we are for a system that everyone can have access to regardless of their pre-existing conditions. we think competition and better management, transparency, liability reform, make the system more affordable not less affordable. we also want to get realistic about the number of americans now that do not have insurance. that mine -- that number may be 45 million, but an awful lot of them could get insurance at work if they wanted to. a lot of them are healthy people under the age of 30. we're not satisfied. 10 million people can't get to the system now, we want everyone including this 10 million people who do not have access to have access. we want sick americans to have a pre-ex

i'd like to thank our judiciary committee chairman, john conyers, and ranking member lamar smith, and all the co-sponsor of this bill. i reserve the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman reserves the balance of his time. the gentleman from texas is recognized. mr. gohmert: thank you, mr. speaker. i recognize myself for such time as i may consume. thank you, mr. speaker. thomas jefferson observed that, quote, the only security of all is in a free press. the agitation it produces must be submitted to, it is necessary to keep the waters pure, unquote. were he alive today, jefferson would not take too kindly to liable tourists. the subject of h.r. 276 5 -- 2765. oh, it seems true that some u.s. media more recently have become fan clubs rather than objective pursuers of truth, there's still some very dedicated journalists in the united states who should be free from harassment from inappropriate liable suits in overseas courts. in the wake of 9/11, the american media have been -- become increasingly alarmed over a phenomenal called liable tourism. the term refers to a

that dwyane wade is totally different from rafer alston and rafer alston is totally different from lamar odom and so on and so on. i think that's the way... one way i see his adjustment from then to now. and now he's more into being a little more uplifting as opposed to so negative as he was in miami. you see him rant and rave down the sideline, but i can tell you, the next day in practice and film session, he's more inspiring than he is... than what you see on the game floor. >> how much a role does he play in your ability to bounce back? what does it say to you after those tough losses, like a lebron shot or those plays in philadelphia? >> he is instrumental in a few ways. one, he tells us to keep believing, to understand that we're a good team. there's a reason we've gotten this far. and two, he's really big on taking the blame. you don't see that from a lot of coaches. if he makes a mistake, as you mentioned, the lebron shot, the glen davis shot, he quickly takes the blame and tells us he's failed us. we quickly turn around and tell him, we're the guys on the floor. we should have ma

i thank the judiciary committee chairman conyers, ranking member lamar smith and trent franks, ranking member on the subcommittee of communicative law for being co-sponsors that common sense bill that rightfully has strong bipartisan report. i reserve the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from texas. mr. gohmert: i join my colleague in support of h.r. 2247, the congressional review act improvement act. the congressional review act provides quonk a vital but underused tool to oversee how agencies exercise the legislative authority congress delegates to them this is an important first step toward improving the act's efficient sained effectiveness. as a measure first proposed -- 106th congress by the late henry hyde. it had bipartisan support then as it does today this legislation will streamline the house parliamentarian's role under the congressional review act, shifting some of the parliamentarian's paperwork responsibilities to the comptroller general. the day-to-day volume of paper work that the small staff at the parliamentarian's office under the act is lar

. >> we all agree on that, lamar. it is promising. want to make sure we do it in a way that is fair and doesn't discriminate. i thought kay's point was a good one. if people are doing things to minimize additional costs, that young woman today has got that pump. she uses it. she does all the things she should be doing. she's still got that problem but she's managing her health care well and that seems the situation where you want to reward a person who is doing that. the fact she's not getting the outcome you'd like, she gets rid of diabetes somehow should not be the ultimate test. >> it wouldn't be. she's probably the perfect example of someone who would benefit from having a higher differential because -- >> i can tell you right now -- >> maintain a healthy lifestyle within her -- >> we're on the same page. i think senator mikulski's question. i thought as we were sitting around talking about this. the safeways, the starbucks, the costcos, the connecticut pitney-bowes. a lot of wonderful examples of very well run corporations that d

. >> lamar odom -- he had a double-double in game one. kobe bryant put up big numbers. andrew bynum came up big and pau gasol had 16 and eight. l.a. leading the series 1-0. game two on sunday. >> after every nba finals game is over on abc, turn over to espnews for the post-game news conferences. >> coming up on espnews. more baseball. when we last saw carlos zambrano, he was using a bat to smash a water cooler. friday he used a bat to smash something else. >> no smashing involved when it comes to zack greinke this year -- at times unhittable, major league leader in e.r.a. coming for some reason greinke forgot to take his best stuff to toronto with him resulting in his worst outing of the year. plus, who would have ever thought it would end this way. we'll tell you what has tom glavine feeling betrayed and still wanting to pitch. and with rafa nadal out at the french open, the road to history should have been an easy one for roger federer, right? you are so wrong. we'll fill you in. and roger's buddy, tiger woods, playing a tournament he has won three times but woods wil

we attacked and allowed us to get easier shots instead of us shooting the ball with a big guy, lamar, or gasol in our face. we did a good job of getting to the rim and skip did a good job of attacking and allowing guys to get open for free shots. so we have to do that against a team like the lakers, make them move and try to get easier shots, and we did a good job of that tonight. i think rashard did a great job of getting open. we found him in good spots and he knocked down shots. >> what's the difference on the bench when you guys are shooting like that versus maybe in some certain times in the last couple games you were shooting maybe 30%? >> they wanted to shoot more. once they see they're making shots, everybody wants to shoot, so u think our confidence rises once a couple guys make shots, and we don't hang our head. even though we did miss some shots tonight, we kept attacking, and hedo was great attacking the rim. skip did a good job of attacking and finding guys. open shots, we did a great job of getting open shots tonight. so i think we got to continue to do that if he want t

david weston yesterday, in response to the media fairness to ligs, which is lamar smith's project in the house, responded by saying we've been giving fair coverage on the health care crisis for years. the first thing to point out, if you're calling it a cry circumstances you're not giving it fair coverpbing. second of all, if he's been doing it for years, let's take january 20 to june 19 of this year, there have been 55 obama -- obama himself or 55 proponents of obama medicine on the air on abc and health care stories versus 18 offering free market or alternatives to what they're proposing with the government takeover. so as we go into this day, and, again, we don't want to preemptively say it's going to be terrible on this, but as abc does its four hours of live coverage from the white house, with that track record going into their coverage of this today, it leaves you wondering what they're going to do today. i think we all have an inkling. i want to thank everybody, and thank you, grover, for having us. >> thank you. i'd like to call up douglas holts eken to talk about some of the