that did not have a positive return last year -- g.m., united airlines, time warner, ford, cbs and macy's -- all these companies lost billions in what financial analysts tell us was the fortune 500's worst year ever last year. there were two sectors of the economy that did well: the oil industry and the health insurance industry. the top four health insurance companies in america -- united health group, well point, aetna and humana -- made more than $7.5 billion in combined profit last year, while the bottom fell out for sreurt wastefulry other company, short of the oil industry, across the board. the goal of the democratic health insurance bill is to create health care and quality. republicans want to preserve a broken system, one with escalating costs and no guarantee that the policy is going to be there when you need it. rather than health insurance companies, democrats want to put american families first and help those who are struggling with high health care costs. i think this is a moment of truth for us in this congress. this isn't an easy issue. right now the finance committee and

personal empathy or relationship with at basically the religious mafia boss who would die violently in macy's to standoff. talked of how that worked. >> i promise my parents and my wife and i would not get involved in the jihadi is. that is the pledges so i spent one and a half months and then i said i feel like i am skirting around the issue i need to start working my way into this part of the impression that i was had 81 to understand jihadi you need to be an karachi or the border area little did i know there is a mosque right across town in islamabad called the red moscow islamabad is an incredibly dull place. no night life. one friend called it low self-esteem abad. it was run by a charismatic said the brothers and the youngest ran the media operations while the other ran the religious side. i needed introduction to dead-end and a guy who introduced may actually was the same individual, a very close friend of osama bin laden and the person. >> host: let me interrupt. you are talking to someone who is a close friend of osama bin laden your brother is fighting afghanistan or in iraq in the

i thought of all the skylines, i thought of the president's, i thought of macy's day parade, the rose bowl parade, the small towns, the farms, where i grew up of route 66. allen did all these 76 new american citizens and as of the fireworks climaxed i realize that for me my journey to capture and to photograph democracy could never be taken as a single image. it never be accomplished in a single iconic moment. instead in my portrait of democracy would be an gigantic mosaic. if you think back to your art history and think of pointless some each single little got if you look at every single little thought it doesn't tell anything. tell you back up and you get that bird's-eye view. if you look down and suddenly all those dog start to come together to create a larger vision of america. we are all docks and the 1300 pitchers that appear in my book basically began as a singular vision of america, but the khatami,, what i came away with is that basically it is not my vision of america. it is a plural because its visions of america. because you and i are part of that mosaic so every time you

follow the money it is not the congressmen day macy powerful to you but they are inconsequential compared to the money behind the lobbyists and corporations. if you are going to change washington you can try to accomplish through the vote but i believe you will be unsuccessful. i believe not only if you run for office think he will clean up your congressional district if you run into an incumbent with $15 million of money to run campaign ads, some strikingly against you that you would not recognize yourself when they get done with you and running for senate they have 25 1/3 the million but in addition ed did i tell you they gerrymandered and reorganize the entire congressional district so it is all republicans and to allow that? the democratic crosstown who redo his district so it is all democrats so the reelection is inevitable. i don't think our votes means anything so i am going upstream and following the money and going after the corporation's. how can we get corporations to see it is in their interest to get out of the law of the business and quit giving money to our government? >> o

designed by the same architect who designed new york city's grand central stages and -- station and macy's building. today it is a fully operating theeter with a capacity to seat an 843-seat audience. terry town music hall is known for its excellent acoustics. in fact, in 1997, jazz singer tony bennett performed there in celebrated fashion without a microphone. mr. speaker, the question i guess is, should taxpayers fund the restoration of a music hall where acclaimed artists such as bruce springsteen, lyle lovett and james taylor have performed? this theater was also the site for sceneses in movies such as "the preacher's wife" and "the good shepherd." is such a site not able to sustain itself with private donations? and if that is the case, that it cannot sustain itself with private donations, then i would suggest that, is there sufficient public interest to restore this hall so much, if private money can't be raised, that we should force taxpayers to pay for it? the fact -- in fact, according to its website, in the past year the theater itself donated over $80,000 of space and recently p