international airport at the tom bradley international terminal at lax.ara finnstrom is there reporting for cnn. what's the security measures like at lax? >> reporter: well, larry, as you can see, huge crowds. this big crowd behind me, the line stretches out the door and down to the next terminal. these folks are having an extra wait today. this is normal during the holidays. when you pair it with all the extra screenings, these people have to wait a little longer. look behind me here, larry. you see these huge boxes. international travelers toting big pieces of luggage and big boxes of gifts to take home. i spoke with one woman going home to the philippines tonight, and she brought six large boxes. she says she just got her two hours earlier than she had planned because she wanted to make sure she got it all through screening. a couple other notes, larry. the international travelers see their luggage and carry-ons go through x-ray machines a couple of times, and also go through more of the personal hand checks. so additional screenings of the luggage, an

taxpayers were put on the hook by the lax regulation of the bush administration which cost this country and each and every citizen trillions and trillions of dollars and millions of jobs. four million jobs during the last year of the bush administration. in this bill with those institutions that are so big that they would create a domino effect such as we saw last year, we liquidate or closed those firms at no expense to the taxpayer. and i put in precisely provisions that any moneys get paid to the taxpayer first. i'd like our colleagues on the other side of the aisle, we do not want th firms to reorganize. we want to put them out of their existence. for no one is too big to fail. there is no guarantee for these institutions, and precisely what we do is provide preventive measures before this comes about. the vest tour, increasing capital -- the vestture, increasing capital, a whole variety of preventive measures before bringing about a liquidation. but ultimately, if an institution that effects the financial market is so complex, ultimately it's a liquidation. this bill is more about

averaging >> steve: the nice think about playing a team that's struggling, as is minnesota, they are laxnd you end up getting good shots. it's nice to see the wizards getting open shots. gilbert, when he is open, is not going to miss them. >> phil: you have a double pick, you have haywood, they want to make sure they keep it going. arenas is hot and raring to go. 15 points, six straight points or gilbert. >> steve: as a shooter when you are able to square your shooters for the target, it's a nice feeling, isn't it? >> phil: he has such good balance when he elevates for his shot. the shoulders are square. >> steve: butler gets with pushed out of the way. the rebound by jamison. the wizards can tie or regain the lead. foye spent the first three years of his career here in minneapolis. the shot not there but he is fouled by flynn and caron butler will get two free throws with a chance to tie the game. >> phil: i think flynn bounces off of foye there and makes contact on butler. he is a little upset with the call. >> caron averaging >> phil: butler is 6-6 from the free-throw line. >> steve:

if he did, that's somewhat understandable since nigeria is known for having lax aviation security. he ought to have been rescreened once he boarded the flight in amsterdam, especially since that flight was bound for the united states. that should have happened. if it did happen, why wasn't the device discovered then? if it wasn't discovered, it certainly should have been. it also points out, by the way, that there are a number of things that can be detected. we're not very good at detecting explosives and liquids as a number of people have said. this just points to continued vulnerabilities in our detection technology. just last week or a few -- about a week ago or so, there was in big snafu about tsa releasing its screening protocols. it underscores that it's easier than it ought to be to get guns and knives and certainly explosives which appears to be terrorist weapons of choice all over the world. >> it does bring it into two areas. one sa policy issue, whether or not we were able to track somebody who's connected to a terror network or whether or not this was somebody largely o

why given this decline is college admission still as competitive if not more so than it's ever been lax and the second question was what about technological literacy be in that there's a greater amount of that among younger people than there's ever been. >> i think there were two unconnected questions were that? i couldn't connect them. while technological literacy is marvelous if you know how to look things up. i wrote a piece once on the whole claim that what you're really teaching in school is how to learn not learning and how to look things up and use technological literacy and so on is what you chiefly need. but again i have this piece of added by the top psychologists in the country and it essentially said no, you can't just learn how to look things up because you have to know a hell of a lot to look things up intelligently. as for your first? college admissions, i don't know anything about current college admissions except that it's highly competitive. but obviously what the colleges are admitting is not quite at the same level as what they used to admit. so that's too bad. >> th

. >> larry: harvey, do you agree with tom ridge that we get a little lax? >> yeah, i certainly agree with him. i think more importantly what this former secretary said, which i think is key, he talked about culture. i could tell you this, larry. there are different cultures even within different agencies that need to cooperate with each other and get data immediately to those who need to know. actionable data. larry johnson has worked for the state department and caa. there are different cultures in those agencies, and we don't have a unified system with dhs in which we have information, even let's say we had 500,000 pieces of information. shifting it back and forth between agencies and getting it to tsa or local or state law enforcement is a monumental efforts. working with local law enforcement, we don't get real time data quickly enough from so-called feds. i think that reliefs the issue. i don't know if what the president said will rectify that situation. >> larry: larry, do you agree with tom ridge when he said need to know became need to share and we

less well-defended, in 1999 the turn of the millennium, october med, a syrian attempted to blow up lax and was coming from across the border of canada. host: on the front page of "the new york times", cash flows where the u.s. and mexico meet and they are awe talking about clamping down on banking and money laundering schemes. it means people are trying to find different ways of getting cash across the border. they say american shiments and scuttleling money laundering are key to crippling the cartel in mexico that have unleashed a wave of violence that has claimed more than 15,000 lives since president felipe took over. guest: the degree to which the drug cartels are wreaking havoc in mexico is amazing. it's really a very serious problem and i think americans are dimly aware of this. mexico, it can be a controversial subject mexico being in danger of being a failed state. i know there are have been lots of security forces to beef you have security forces and president coldiron is to be commerneded for taking on the drug cartels but texas, california, other border states can have great

the fewas lax in its approach to the regulation ofhe fincial system at that time.nd, the crisis ppened on his wah. in a sense, was the admiral of the fleet. it wenaground. seems to me that, in the principle ofommand responsibili, the institution shld get new leadership at this time. >> lehrer: ali rivlin, you see differently. >> i d >> lehrer:ell us why. >> think the whole financial commity bears a lot of responsibili, and there were regulatory failures, a the fed actetoo slowly, but when the cris came, ben bernanke was absolutely the rig person to be there. he w calm and collected. he was very knowledgeable. he was bold in using the pers of t fed to stabilize the financial system. itas a really dangerous, chaotic situation. weould have had domino effect, big instution after big institution going down and total meltdown you othe financial system. he aided that. >> lehrer: but you don believe -- you d't buy professor galbraith's ptain of the ship analog-- right? th it happened to his watch so he suld go? no, i don't. i n't have a good explanation of why so many peop

the fed was lax in its approach to the regulation of the financial system at that time.nd, the crisis happened on his watch. in a sense, he was the admiral of the fleet. it went aground. it seems to me that, in the principle of command responsibility, the institution should get new leadership at this time. >> lehrer: alice rivlin, you see it differently. >> i do. >> lehrer: tell us why. >> i think the whole financial community bears a lot of responsibility, and there were regulatory failures, and the fed acted too slowly, but when the crisis came, ben bernanke was absolutely the right person to be there. he was calm and collected. he was very knowledgeable. he was bold in using the powers of the fed to stabilize the financial system. it was a really dangerous, chaotic situation. we could have had domino effect, big institution after big institution going down and a total meltdown you of the financial system. he avoided that. >> lehrer: but you don't believe -- you don't buy professor galbraith's captain of the ship analogy -- right? that it happened to his watch so he sh

they would take our toothbrushes away or give us food that had laxative and at and cut the water off for two or three days and turn the heat on in the summertime to make it miserable. but we made it through. and after i was released and came back to nashville as you heard i worked here in national and c.o.r.e. for your with jim former and came back to national again and continued working and then moved away. so if we were entertaining questions i believe? >> just a very few. what i would like to say is if you really want to talk to these gentlemen, up to the book signing because i know there will be ample opportunity to do that. but let's have one or two quick questions. >> i wanted to ask real quick how you were greeted in angola, or and sorghum parchment. were you viewed as heroes or were you resented? >> we were presented. to give you a little graphic here we were already searched when we were first arrested. we were given our clothes back but we went to parchment we had to strip, male and female, down to nothing. and if you can think of every cavity in your body it was searched t

we are here because over the course of several years, lax regulation and failure and inadquacy of law landed us at a -- inadquacy of law landed us at a point where we have seen two million foreclosures this year alone. by september of 2008, the average house price had climbed by 20%. more 60% of subprime loans went to people who could have qualified for her costs. nearly one in four borrowers owes more than their home is worth. this in large measure happened, madam speaker, because mortgage brokers unregulated family -- mortgage brokers, unregulated, leuered families with low teaser rates and incomprehensible terms and conditions that brought on the housing crisis and undermined the financial system. i want to rise in favor of the wall street reform and consumer protection act which includes a strong consumer financial protection. one of the most important causes of the financial crisis is the utter failure of consumer protection. the most abusive and predatory lenders were not federally regulated, were not regulated at all in some cases, while regulation was overly lax for banks and

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i need help in understanding how the sec could ignore expert testimony, be lax in its investigation, be influenced by the aura of madoff and not carry out its duties. i find it tragic and ironic that the interpretation of the language by the sipc leaves out the indirect, hard-working people like myself who are not wealthy and who are now struggling to keep up because their lifetime of hard earned savings for their pension has been stolen. the so the very investors for whom the sipc insurance protection is most important. congress these to take action to restore confidence -- needs to take action to restore confidence for all future investors. i understand that an update to the definition of the word customer and sipa would ensure that the sipc symbol protect both indirect and direct investors in the financial markets, and would begin to restore a sense of trust. if nothing is changed, the current situation would be similar to having a catastrophic landslide, and the government came in to assist those on one side of the street but not the other. i cannot believe this is the intent of

what was the one thing that the ira was most lax about complying with?decommissioning, putting down their arms, because once they're gone, you have no credible threat with which to enforce a deal. so land for peace and peace for land are both formulas that are doomed to failure. i do talk about a mechanism that could incentivize both sides to he is chew violence without any need of their trusting each other or getting along with each other, but you have to read the book to find out about that. >> having suffered through the first health care bill, what do you predict about the current health care situation? >> i have no predictions sadly. i keep trying to get people to give me the data, and i have some people lined up, but now it's pretty late. and i don't have the data, so i will speculate that what we will get will have a very weak public option element to it that will have very severe triggers for it to kick in. that will satisfy some of -- enough of the democrats to go along with a bill that also will get snow to vote for it, but that's pure speculat

. -- and enforcement is lax.n intellectual property rights in many ways. i think it will be imported to prioritize this issue among all of the important and hard work they're doing. second, i would say, if we can bring the u.s. site to services up to best practices, then we have of guadalajara model we cao say this is how it can work. this is how on the one hand of the sites and services can do legitimate things that they offered and at the same time protect copyrighted works. >> thank you. after watching our president, global solutions seem hard to come by these days. does the u.n. have all role in this? we have very creative lawyers here. >> there are a number of them that have established minimum treatment. that is an area that i agree should be pursued it, but it will need having signatories to the treaties and the treaties are already clear in our view that this type of piracy is violating. >> wait until the ambassadors years about this. -- ambassador hears about this at the u.n. >> i am not an expert in tec

sanctioned this business i need help in understanding how the sec could ignore expert testimony, be lax in its investigations, be influenced by the aura of madoff, and not carry out its duties. i find it tragic and ironic that the interpretation of the language by the sipc leaves out the indirect, hard-working people like myself who are not wealthy and who are now struggling to keep up because their lifetime of hard earned savings or their pension has been stolen. these of the very investors for whom the sipc insurance protection is most important. congress needs to take action to restore confidence for all future investors. i understand an update to the definition of the word "customer" in the sipa to include indirect investors would ensure that the sipc symbol protect both indirect and direct investors in the financial markets and would begin to restore a sense of trust. if nothing is changed, the current situation would be similar to having a catastrophic landslide, and the government came in to assist those on one side of the street but not the other. i cannot believe this is the in

less well-defended, in 1999 the turn of the millennium, october med, a syrian attempted to blow up laxnd was coming from across the border of canada. host: on the front page of "the new york times", cash flows where the u.s. and mexico meet and they are awe talking about clamping down on banking and money laundering schemes. it means people are trying to find different ways of getting cash across the border. they say american shiments and scuttleling money laundering are key to crippling the cartel in mexico that have unleashed a wave of violence that has claimed more than 15,000 lives since president felipe took over. guest: the degree to which the drug cartels are wreaking havoc in mexico is amazing. it's really a very serious problem and i think americans are dimly aware of this. mexico, it can be a controversial subject mexico being in danger of being a failed state. i know there are have been lots of security forces to beef you have security forces and president coldiron is to be commerneded for taking on the drug cartels but texas, california, other border states can have greater

durso explained, the situation is unclear and enforcement is lax.so one essential part of an enduring solution is, we think, going to need to include improved cooperation with our trading partners and, of course, the government and the agencies in the united states government are involved in intellectual property rights protection and enforcement internationally in many ways. i think it would be important to prioritize this issue among all of the important and hard work that they're doing. and then second i would say, if we can bring the u.s. sites and services up to best practices, then we have a model. that we can show, let's say the chinese government or other governments and say, this is how it can work. this is how on the one hand these sites and services can do the legitimate things that they offer. and at the same time protect copyrighted works. >> well, thank you very much. after watching our president, global solutions seemed pretty hard to come by these days. does the u.n. have a role in this? i mean, we have very creative lawyers in back

at lax new ones. if done right, tickets to the point.es away somewhere and pakistan. that is not to diminish the hard work of our soldiers, our intelligence officers, and our diplomats, and our allies in fighting al qaeda. it is not to diminish the accomplishments we have made. but the fundamental fact is that al qaeda today remains a deadly enemy of the united states of america and our allies. it is the first truly global terrorist organization in history. its reach and scope in the last eight years is almost breathtaking when you think about it, from l. sheer, to washington, to algiers, to bali, to madrid, this organization has struck again and again all around the world. it has developed franchises. it has developed surrogstes. it has acquired allies. it increased its reach. it has become more than a terrorist organization. it is become an art -- an idea, and narrative which inspires a small minority of muslims. a small minority to carry out acts of mass violence. most of its attacks are indiscriminate, but it is also demonstrated a c

sanctioned this business i need help in understanding how the sec could ignore expert testimony, be lax in its investigations, be influenced by the aura of madoff, and not carry out its duties. i find it tragic and ironic that the interpretation of the language by the sipc leaves out the indirect, hard-working people like myself who are not wealthy and who are now struggling to keep up because their lifetime of hard earned savings or their pension has been stolen. these of the very investors for whom the sipc insurance protection is most important. congress needs to take action to restore confidence for all future investors. i understand an update to the definition of the word "customer" in the sipa to include indirect investors would ensure that the sipc symbol protect both indirect and direct investors in the financial markets and would begin to restore a sense of trust. if nothing is changed, the current situation would be similar to having a catastrophic landslide, and the government came in to assist those on one side of the street but not the other. i cannot believe this is the in

term because, as we have seen in the aftermath of hurricane katrina, the federal government can be lax in funding and finding permanent housing solutions for families temporarily living in these housing units. the house already passed this legislation during the 110th congress, and i hope the senate joins us in sending a bill to the president for his signature. i urge my colleagues to support this legislation. mr. speaker, i reserve the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlewoman from california reserves the balance of her time. the gentleman from virginia is recognized. mr. wittman: thank you, madam speaker. i yield myself such time as i may consume. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized for as much time as he may consume. mr. wittman: thank you, madam speaker. i rise in support of h.r. 320, c.j.'s home protection act of 2009. and i'd like to thank the chairman for expediting this important bill to the floor. i'd like to thank my colleague and author of the legislation, the gentleman from indiana, mr. ellsworth, for putting this bill together. this bipa

why do you think that is lax could it be that the government who is setting the payment rates created a maldistribution in butyrate into primary care physicians. therefore, they choose to go where they can make 200% more over their lifetime by spending one additional year and residency rather than doing primary care. and what this bill does, and what the senator from arizona is trying to do by sending this bill back is to refocus it on the fact that medicare money out to be used for medicare. and if in fact we're going to slow the growth of medicare, can we do that without cutting benefits? and to slow the growth in this bill for 11 million americans who now have medicare advantage. he will diminish their benefits. that's out of the 120 billion that's going to come. you can't tell a senior who's in a rural area today who is on the economic lower rungs of the ladder he uses medicare advantage to equalize their care to some of you can afford a medicare supplemental policy. you can't tell them that this is not going to decrease their benefits and decrease their care because it is. and in

and i believe that we've been lax in the funding, you know, it's always easy to cut funding for the vulnerable. we don't have to roar which are about -- worry about any funding for the vulnerable because their voices cannot be heard. we know that just across the country the university of either southern california or berkeley has students who are picketting and sitting in for weeks because of tuition increases. so we know our disadvantaged students are more disadvantaged as they raise tuition costs and they don't have a support system. so, for example, here's what trio has done. college rates for trio versus nontrio students, all local income students, 40% enroll in college. 77.3%, upward bound students. upward bound math students, 86.35% and talent search, 79%. what is there to convince that trio works? that the support system works? student support services, low income bachelor degree attainment with a six-year period, student support services, 30.9% receive pell but no support. 21%, way down, receive neither pell nor support. 8.9%, they just don't make it. ms. moore: will the gentlelady yie

sanctioned this business i need help in understanding how the sec could ignore expert testimony, be lax in its investigations, be influenced by the aura of madoff, and not carry out its duties. i find it tragic and ironic that the interpretation of the language by the sipc leaves out the indirect, hard-working people like myself who are not wealthy and who are now struggling to keep up because their lifetime of hard earned savings or their pension has been stolen. these of the very investors for whom the sipc insurance protection is most important. congress needs to take action to restore confidence for all future investors. i understand an update to the definition of the word "customer" in the sipa to include indirect investors would ensure that the sipc symbol protect both indirect and direct investors in the financial markets and would begin to restore a sense of trust. if nothing is changed, the current situation would be similar to having a catastrophic landslide, and the government came in to assist those on one side of the street but not the other. i cannot believe this is the in

insurers take advantage of lax regulations that allow them to deem all care for a person in a clinical trial as experimentation. even the routine services they would get if they weren't in the trial like x-rays and blood tests and doctor visits. this draconian policy scares many patients away from potentially lifesaving trials. patients can't afford to pay out-of-pocket -- understand they don't expect the insurance company to pay for the trial itself. no one is suggesting that or thinks that. but insurers shouldn't be allowed to use a patient's participation in a clinical trial as an excuse to deny them coverage for standard care. to address this problem, senator hutchison of texas and i have filed amendment 281. this amendment requires all insurance companies to simply live up to the promises they have made to their premium-paying policyholders. it means covering the cost of routine care for clinical trial participants. 30-some states have enacted a similar clinical trial policy for their state regulated insurance plans. medicare has already enacted a similar clinical trials policy fo

eight mortgages is in default, a global climate crisis and a financial sector ravaged by greed and lax regulation, we're not going to rely on any excuse, we're going to get after the problem and we're going to do it now. in short, the greatest economic and financial crisis since the great depression is visiting the american economy right now and people are feeling it and it's time to do something about it. and this is why we're proposing and i'm proposing and i'm encouraging other people to support it a jobs bill that would do a few things. american jobs, invest in transportation and schools, schools all over america are crumbling, schools are all over america have old pipes, schools all over america are drafty and need windows replaced and the paint peeling in many of them. not all of them but many of them. and any school teacher or any principal or any school kid can tell you that. we need people to do the work. we have people who are willing to do the work and we have things that need to be worked on. what we have to do is bring the two together, invest in transportation including t

we have not had a terrorist attack and a long time, the people are lax with security.ow that is normal human nature and that cannot be allowed in the world we live in today. this is a very important matter and needs to be looked at very carefully. >> i agree. i appreciate your line of questioning and what you just said. maybe we will do one more round. i wanted to ask questions coming off of this troubling case of the american citizen known as david headley. charged in federal court with six counts of conspiracy to bomb public places in india and had to murder and maim persons in india and denmark. to provide material support to a pakistan-based terrorist group affiliated with al qaeda and six counts of aiding and abetting murder of u.s. citizens in india. he is alleged to have made five trips from chicago, where he was living, to mumbai from 2006-2008 to conduct planning. and surveillance of many of the targets struck on november of 2008. because, travel based on entry and exit did not raise suspicions, although it may have in other ways. he was able to use the u.s. a

if they do not, we will see more stations like whyy take advantage of lax policies.e will have more citizens in more communities left with little or no local programming. the complaint filed by the city of wilmington last week against whyy's license provides the f.c.c. with a perfect opportunity to give real meaning to a broadcaster's obligation to its community of license. i strongly, strongly encourage the f.c.c. to use this chance and act decisively to protect the public interest. mr. president, i yield the floor and suggest the absence of a quorum. quorum call: quorum call: a senator: mr. president? the presiding officer: the senator from georgia. a senator: i rise for a moment to address the -- the presiding officer: the senate is in a quorum call. mr. isaacson: i ask -- mr. isakson: i ask the quorum call be vitiated. mr. isakson: i rise to take a few minutes to talk about a couple provisions of the bill that are very important to my state of georgia, but in particular also point out something important for us to recognize as members of the united states senate.