but if you were at a kitchen table on main street in my home state of maine you will hear a different story. rather than talk of large profits you'll hear about bank accounts that has nothing. you might hear cutbacks on food or health care instead of hearing terms like economic recovery and rebound, you'll hear terms like high unemployment and economic debt. the economic recovery may be at hand. but for the millions of unemployed workers and thousands of small businesses who are struggling to get by, the economic recovery is still a long way off. madam speaker, in my state and all across the country, there are millions of americans who want to get back to work. but they need us to lead the -- lend the same helping hand that we gave to wall street in its time of need. the rule before us today allows for consideration of the jobs for main street act, which will move us down that road. this legislation invests in our nation's infrastructure and puts more americans back to work by providing $48 billion to rebuild and repair our national transportation system. this investment provides meas

in maine, that program is known as maine care. it paid central maine health care just 60% of its allowable costs. moreover, maine care will owe central maine health care more than $50 million by the end of the year. the state is already unable to pay its medicaid bills. the failure on the part of medicare and medicaid to pay their full share, to pay the amount that is actually -- that it actually costs to provide the care simply results in cost shifting to private payers. in maine, this cost shifting means that individuals who have private insurance cover 130% or more of hospital costs. that shouldn't be a surprise to us. if both medicare and medicaid are not paying at a sufficient level to truly cover the cost of care, what happens? it gets shifted to private pay, to private insured patients. and because we have such a big gap in the state of maine, it's one reason that maine's insurance rates are the fourth highest in the nation. so this is an untenable situation. the c.e.o. told me that if congress passes this bill, maine's hos

chef at the press club for this maine-oriented lunch. i understand we had seen scallops from maine. thank you. i know that many of you recognize that maine is the home to many small businesses, and in fact this weekend i was home, and i was walking down main street, which we spell within e. [laughter] and i saw many of the people who really are the reason why i come to work every day. and they are the force that is behind the american economy. so i'm walking down main street and i was looking at henry and marty's restaurant. henry and march he retired three years ago and were able to sell the restaurant to their employees and continue the tradition of great scallops and lobster and food on main street because of an sba loan. and then i went by porch swings, and this was an entrepreneur who was the school nurse at the elementary school and she had historical design for an authentic porch swing and now she makes those in brunswick, maine and exports them all over the country and all over the world. so on maine street, you can really feel t

branded it maine boat and maine is now exporting boats as far away as shanghai. at the sba, this year we did it again. we saw that there were all these small automotive suppliers in hard hit areas, michigan. and i actually went to detroit and kicked off this cluster. they had expertise in the state-of-the-art area of robotics. and this expertise was very interested -- interesting to our department of defense. so we put this cluster together, and as i said, i went out. and it is extraordinary how, when you get the universities with the expertise, for small businesses with the expertise, and at this time, the department of defense, how many opportunities we are creating. because of these suppliers are now diversified out of the automotive industries and supplying unmanned military vehicles and much more. in 2010 we are going to expand this cluster to other locations in the united states, and we're going to establish even more regional innovation clusters. we're also going to push exports because we know we can help these high-growth, small businesses turn innovatio

and i know that my friend from maine was there. i hope very much upstairs when i raised this issue, i hope very much that she does have an opportunity soon. because as we talked about and this bill that is coming before us is an appropriations bill, again, for the first time ever we have the appropriations process shut down, shut down, denying members opportunity to offer amendments. never been in the history of the republic has that taken place. and we now have unfortunately seen that. but as we prepare to extend christmas and hanukkah greetings to our colleagues and our friends across the country, it's very unfortunate that we have now, if we do in fact see today as the last day of the first session of this congress, an entire session without any open rules. i will tell you that there are many people on the rules committee who work long and hard to deal with challenges. we, as ms. foxx said, met into the evening last night and then we were here at 7:30 this morning. one of our rules committee staff members, shane chambers, who ha

i understand we had main sea scallops -- maine c. scalps. thank you. know that many of you recognize that maine is the home to many small businesses. i was home, walking down main street, which will spell with an e, and i saw many people who are the reason why i come to work every day. they are the force that is behind the american economy. i'm walking down maine street and i was looking at henry and marty's restaurant. henry and marty retired three years ago and were able to sell their restaurant to their employees and continue in the tradition of great sobs, lobster, and main food on main street -- great scallops, lobster, and seafood on main street. then i went by an entrepreneur who was the school news -- the school nurse at the elementary school. she had an historical design for an authentic maine porch swing. right now she makes those in brunswick and exports them all over the country and the world. so on main street, you can really feel the pulse of small business community, and even in tough times like this, it is easy to see how small business

. >> i sought and received from the authorities that supported my main home designation. and indeed i spent more nights in london than the other residence. i never split my designation and only maintain one home. the committee recognizes that the taxpayers would not be worse or better off of the result of me making a better decision. >> a few days later there was an apology to pay 13,000 pounds in allowance. he came to the parliament to apologize and there was investigation of complaint that mr. nolte claimed this allowance. christopher was asked to investigate the claims of jackie smith and mcnotty. and this was brought further of what was claimed from moats to duck houses. mp's were told to claim properties. and this was to be scrapped and what they claim is to be phased out and a ban claiming relatives. there was a release from the bbc and stephen hammon who works for the parliament. >> i will start with you, it seems odd that mp's can hire relatives in the first place. >> i suppose it is, and your family is part of your lifestyle. i have worked for the parliament for

. >> so this particular item was in the public do main from march until december? >> yes, sir. >> well, i guess one of my concerns is you said you took swift, decisive and comprehensive action, that's after you found out? >> correct. >> so before that, it was in wherever? can you explain to the committee the protocols for putting items on the web? >> yes, sir. it's at least through the acquisition process. there are two approaches when we post actions. one is to when we have any kind of sensitive action, one is to post it to the secure site of the g.s.a. site which means that it is password protected or otherwise secured. the other is solisitations to get posted to the fed bizops. this particular solicitation got posted on the unsecured side and was not properly redakotaed. there are other ways that we also will give potential venders the opportunity to look at information and procurement actions. we might have a physical reading room where we invite the venders in and they can look at that in a reading room. >> thank you. was this a private contract? who did this

those are the main activities that the fed is obliged to undertake. to my mind, and i think to the mind of any fair minded person, mr. bernanke as chairman of nbd has failed in every one of these four areas. since bernanke took over, the unemployment rate has more than doubled 317% of our people are either unemployed or underemployed. not since the great depression has the financial system been as unsafe. more than 140 banks have failed since he became chairman. 140 banks. under his watch, the value or risky derivatives held in our nation's top commercial banks grew from 110 trillion -- $110 trillion. under his leadership, mortgage lenders were allowed to issue credit very long as they knew consumers could not afford to repay. the direct cause of the financial crisis we're in right now. it was allowed to continued even though the fbi warned in 2004 of an epidemic in mortgage fraud that had the potential to become the next s&l crisis, according to the fbi. after the financial crisis hit, bernanke's response was to provide three ends of dollars and 0% i

those are some of the day's main stories.'ll be back at the end of the program with a preview of what you'll find tonight on the "newshour's" web site. but for now, back to jeff. >> brown: and still to come on the "newshour," two views on how fed chairman bernanke is doing, and the return of keynesian economics. that follows our look at the plan to protect the world's forests. as ray and i discussed earlier: six nations: the u.s., australia, france, japan, norway and britain pledged $3.5 billion today for a program called "redd": "reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation." the money will finance a u.n.- backed plan to reward developing nations for saving carbon-rich tropical forests. can "redd" make a difference? jonathon miller of independent television news went to the heart of the world's largest rainforest recently to find out. >> reporter: there are many in >> reporter: we traveled 2,000 miles across the amazon basin, which contains more than half the worlds remaining rainforest, to ask brazil's amazo

senator lieberman is joined by a maine republican susan collins. this is 10 minutes. >> have you been moved by anything the democrats have proposed? >> this looks like it ronald reagan moment. >> have you been moved towards voting by anything the senator reid has proposed? >> as i said last night, we are having constructive discussions3 . it is not finished yet. we have learned in the last couple of weeks that we should all be looking at paper. this legislative process and we should look at specific legislative language before agreeing or not. if, as appears to be happening,

. >> i thought an perceived -- and received written advice that supported my main home designation. indeed, i spent more nights in london than in redwich. i have never slipped my designation and i only one home. there is no evidence the taxpayer would be worse or better off if i made a different designation. >> another former minister apologized after being forced to pay 13,000 pounds in second home allowances. he said his second home -- he claimed a second home lived in by his parents. he came to apologize after the committee determine head claimed on the house after he married and moved out. sir christopher was asked to investigate those claims by jacqui smith and tony mcnulty. but the time scale was brought forward after claims that m.p.'s had flipped properties. m.p.'s were told to rent properties in future. there will be a ban on employing relatives. just ahead of the report, official release, i spoke to labor m.b. andrew, and sally hammond, wife of conservative m.p. steven hammond who works as his assistance. >> let's start with you. to the public it seems odd that m.p.'s can

if you go back and you didn't have them, then i think your main street banks would have gone in and done that. i think what actually happened is they came into the market and they crowded out a lot of small and medium-sized lending institutions, including small banks and community banks. i think if we had it all over to do, we wouldn't have the interventions we ha#x i have always said, the large companies on wall street, they could hire lobbyists, come to washington, some of their former executives are working at treasury or the fed. they are well connected. they can get along. if there's a lot of government regulation, they have the lawyers to cope with it. small businesses don't. and the more government involvement and management you have, it's almost impossible for

and that's the main argument, at least that i'm hearing right now. the humanitarian need to help the afghan people, particularly women and girls, but the afghan people more generally, protect themselves against the taliban. but at what price? is the cure worse than the disease? i think it's starting to look like that in afghanistan. and so, you know, in short i think that, you know, and there was a great need to find a new function for u.s. power after the end of the cold war, to find some new organizing principle to replace the idea of the war against communism. and there were a number of solutions to that problem. and humanitarian intervention was one among several, but i would argue it's the dominant one. at least it's the one i'm seeing most often, for example, in the opinion section of the new york times. >> it would have been easy for you to go with the usual account of yugoslavia's break up, and i commend you for the research you did. you must have done it with an open mind to look outside the box. my question is about the introduction. you kn

my colleague from maine is with us. it saddens me, madam president, to say that regrettably this is one of the few examples of bipartisan cooperation, where we've come together across the aisle, democrats and republica republicans, working together to figure out how in a practical way we can help solve the problems that our country faces. here we have an issue of what to do about the 7% of americans who are in the individual insurance market but receiving no subsidies from the government. according to the c.b.o., they are at risk of having their premiums go up. that's not right. particularly at a time when even people who are making more than $8,000 very often are -- $88,000 very often are struggling. so the question is, what can we do about that? senator collins, senator wyden and myself focused on these individuals because we want to do what we can, in the words that my colleague from oregon emphasizes so often, to provide choice and encourage competition to improve both price and quality. that's what our amendments a

the main question is, what is the reason?e of fossil fuels and massive and destructive intervention in the functions of the nations. however, there is a main more serious question. what is the factor responsible for the growing demand for fossil fuel and intervention in the functioning of the nation? i want to analyze the answer to this question at two levels. the first level which is based on the general outlook is the phenomenon of climate change as an environmental problem, or an issue having cultural, behavioral, and economic dimensions? dear colleagues, social and cultural developments at least in the past two centuries indicate materialistic thoughts predominate people's minds, behavior, and the relationship in the large part of the world. capitalism can only survive only through constant increase in the consumption of goods and widespread intervention in the work of the nation, the relentless race continues to provoke consumption to increase the wealth and influence of the large enterprises. development plans are based

the main point is that everyone got really, really worried because, no, no.we don't actually what this to happen. the whole government panicked and eventually they got it written into, we are going to do this in five years. the next five years really going to make an effort. and then another five years they will realize, this is going to be hard. revise the numbers, and they will find some way of dealing with the. basically this is just a very hard thing to actually achieve. that is why i think if we actually care about this when need to find things that are much, much more cost-effective, which is not going to happen with this problem. >> a quick question. everyone is being allowed to debate al gore? >> i don't know. that is al gore's decision. i certainly think it is the conversation we should have. >> i found your work fascinating. i have what i think is a yes/no question. you spent ten pages arguing that ipc over reported climate sensitivity and the new report said that it actually went up. about to know if you will acknowledge you were wrong about that.

there are two main conclusions that i have arrived at that mi5 and one could say washington as a whole was far too late to realize the threat from transnational islamic terrorism. why? because it suffered from what i have called-- their colleagues in cambridge and colleagues in washington who don't pay attention to what you say and lessee use an acronym and i have had to invent an acronym for this which is historical attention span deficit disorder which is believing the experience of previous generations might have relevance to the current generation which is a pretty strange idea to be putting across at the end of the 20th century, but the few people who got islamist terrorism rights in the mid-1980s, mid-1990s, he was ahead of any western intelligence service i know of on either side of the plant. he coined the phrase holy terror. i got it right. the only reason i got it right was because i realize that bruce hoffman was right and i was even more hoffman night then kaufman was. before 9/11 he began to waiver and i did not waiver at all. i was producing the fall hoffman on the eve of

those are some of the day's main stories. i'll be back at the end of the program with a preview of what you'll find tonight on the newshour's website. but for now, back to jeff. >> brown: and still to come on the newshour: making tough decisions in the washington, d.c. schools; shoring up computer networks and fighting cyber crime; and sending holiday photos to u.s. troops overseas. that follows a conversation about the big money behind the health care reform legislation. gwen ifill has our look. >> ifill: when the senate votes out its version of health care reform thursday morning, hundreds of millions of dollars will have been spent lobbying for and against it. the center for responsive politics finds the health care sector spent nearly $400 million on the effort during the first nine months of this year. that includes lobbying congress, federal agencies and the white house, high-priced persuasion practiced by hospitals, doctor groups, nursing homes and other players. not included in that figure: another $122 million spent

madam speaker, chairman obey calls this legislation the jobs for main street act. i call it economic insanity. truly this is one of those rare occasions when i hardly, hardly know where to begin. it's because of legislation like this and the manner in which it was produced that the public has lost faith in this congress -- the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is correct. the gentleman will suspend. the house is not in order. members will take their conversations off the floor. members will take their seats. mr. lewis: madam speaker, i certainly want to -- the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized. mr. lewis: madam speaker, i certainly want everyone paying attention to every word and i appreciate my colleague caring for that. it's because of legislation like this and the manner in which it was produced that the public has lost faith in this congress and why confidence in washington is at an all-time low. this legislation repeats the failures of the so-called recovery act by pouring another $150 billion into programs included in the original stimulus pac

i'm sure it's great to have $1.6 million to study human genetics at the maine institute in brewer, maine. $3.5 million for a micro algae fuels project in hawaii. $5 million for the presidio heritage center in san francisco. $1.6 million for a space tpher -- i think that would match up with the $2.9 million we appropriated for the previous bill to study in outer space. $1.6 million for virtual business accelerator for the silicon prairie. $7.8 million to develop key technologies needed for the long-term operations in near-space conditions. so we've got surgery in outer space and key technologies needed for near-space conditions for the oryan high-altitude long endurance risk reduction effort. the aurora in mississippi. $800,000 for advanced tactical laser flashlight in wyendot, michigan. $10 million for the hawaii technology development venture. my friends, this is kind of a classic example -- i see my friend and colleague on the floor, senator coburn, a man of courage and integrity and one who i think has led in many ways this fight. but here's an earmark in this bill, never authorized,

i work on main street. -- i really see this from two sides. not people who gamble with on affordable mortgages. most part ordinary americans. due to circumstances beyond their control, they cannot get out. they are frightened, desperate, and losing hope. most of us do not realize that if anbar were becomes more than 60 days delinquent, the servicer rejects any subsequent mortgage payments unless at the same time that the bar workers default. they're still not allowed to resume making payments even if they want to and are able to. the result is that they become trapped in the foreclosure spiral. many would lead to resume making full or partial payments. when they come to me, they're terrified. they have tried to gain entry into the program, try to work with their services, fell victim to loan modification scandals when they were desperate. mcnall became my clients when foreclosure was filed. -- they all became my clients when foreclosure was filed. i set out to try to find them leverage. this is difficult since our system of forced them none. g

the main part of the book. and then i got into the diary at that point. >> what did you start to sense in reading the diary, about him as a person, as a writer? >> a good writer, clear headed. very clear evidence of his sanctimoniousness three he had so pitying quality that was not attractive. -- he had a self-pitying quality that was not attractive. all of these people trying to thwart me in what i am trying to do for the american people. that is the theme that ran through and not a very appetizing way. the interesting about him is that he never seemed -- and this is not a good trade for politicians. he tended to see ulterior motives in his opponents. he did not really give them credit for being honorable people with a different point of view. there was always a secondary, altar area -- ulterior motive in these people. john quincy adams was a sanctimonious man. jimmy carter was a sanctimonious man. george w. bush, in my view, was a sanctimonious man. maybe we can debate that. woodrow wilson was sanctimonious.

our line for independence out of maine.aller: i am disappointed in cspan for helping to drum up the big terrorist scare. anybody that claims they are working with al qaeda, it should be clear they are working for the telecommunications -- the network operations that pulled up 9/11. it is kind of unfortunate that what we should put on the watch list are people like is a big new kozinski, dick cheney, the list goes on and on. how about the people who were working for the turkish government and other suppliespi. host: what you think the gentleman you listed wanted to harm to the united states? caller: 9/11 was pulled off in order to organize support for an invasion of iraq and afghanistan which is based on complete lies. al qaeda has been a useful tool ever since they were founded in afghanistan for use against the russians. for you to pretend that you don't know that is embarrassing. you really should stop playing this game that terrorism is not stage. host: chesapeake, va., on our line for democrats prin. caller: i read this

here they are, four main responsibilities. number one, to conduct monetary policy in a way that leads to maximum employment and stable prices. maximum employment. well, when you've got 17% of your people unemployed or underemployed, i do not think the fed or all of us or any of us have succeeded in that area. number two, to maintain the safety and soundness of financial institutions. well, obviously that has not been the case either. to contain systematic risk in financial markets. and, four, to protect consumers against the deceptive and unfair financial products. mr. president, not since the great depression has the financial system been as unsafe, unsound, and unstable as it has been during mr. bernanke's tenure. more than 120 banks have failed since he has been chairman, and the list of troubled banks has grown from 50 to over 416. mr. president, mr. bernanke has failed to prevent banks from issuing deceptive and unfair financial products to consumers. under his leadership mortgage lenders were allowed to issue predatory l

we are in many wies the main cause of it. but we d -- but we know we are the main cause of it.ow, the world works together. as we did in the economic crisis and in the financial crisis. so please, let us all in this period work together over the next 24 hours so that tomorrow at this point in time we will be able to meet again, in this hall, and show that we have understood -- we've understood the message. life cannot go on as it was. the world needs to change. so in this spirit, let us all work together, fruitfully and -- thank you very much. >> president of the islamic republic of iran. >> your excellence, mr. ahmadinejad. >> all praise by to allah, the lord of the universe and peace be upon our master mohammed and his pure household. [speaking foreign language] >> to his rightfulness, ladies and gentlemen, -- i don't have the floor. >> i thank the almighty god for granting me the opportunity to attend this important meeting. i also have the pleasure to express my sincere thanks to the government and people of denmark for this responsibility and for making excellent arrangeme

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brawley will attest our main concern not tb in prevention our main concern ought to be the gaps and out guns and the lack of access to exams and other diagnostic modalities and while this is most evident in the uninsured, co-pays create equal barriers to women with insurance. neither is the federal government doing enough. aetna example the virgin islands scored high on the breasting cancer exam application but was never funded. and tell everyone has access you can well imagine we will, i will not welcome these kinds of narrow recommendations, what is next colonoscopies training four colon cancer. it probably saved my life in not having one has caused me to lose to many fronts. the task force is dependent which i consider a good thing and it is very important to base recommendation like these on signs but the task force is not as the versus the needs to be to adequately and appropriately address the health care needs of all americans. the recommendations may have been very different orderlies more expensive that some of the recommendations that the american cancer society offered had be

the main thing that he focus on golf and he wins. don't know what's going to happen in terms of relationship. but it's going to be a very tough period of time. >> larry: by the way, we'll hold you a little bit. dennis rodman is up next. he was one of your apprentice guys. >> he was on "the apprentice," a really good guy. i will stay for dennis. >> larry: we want to get his thoughts on this. you and dennis may not agree. go to cnn.com/larryking. click on blog. tell us. we love hearing from you. donald sticks around. talking more tiger with dennis rodman in 60 seconds. (announcer) if you want directions to the stadium, push here. if you want to see the weather ahead, push here. if you want to access 10 gigs of music you just downloaded to your hard drive, push here. and if you want to pull away from it all, you can push here. the all-new-40-gig hard drive nav and entertainment system on the 2010 lacrosse. from buick. it's the new class of world class. oh yes hi. can you put my grandma on the phone please? thanks. excuse me a sec. anoth

>> ben points out the main problem here. which is we are inserting ourselves in the middle of a civil war. the president called this a war of necessity. but it's not. it's a war of choice. it's not clear what america's national security interests are. and as a result, the public is losing trust in this war. and there's inevitably going to be some kind of exit strategy which, again, as ben said, makes people in afghanistan feel they can't trust us there to stay there indefinitely because we're not going to stay there indefinitely. and the taliban is going to stay there indefinitely. so without clarifying our national security interests, escalating in afghanistan, is a really tragic decision. >> larry: governor, it would seem we're between a rock and a hard place. >> well, let's look at it that way. maybe that's why we're. there we have our troops in iraq and in afghanistan now. is an invasion of iran next? because that's the country in between both of them. so maybe that's the big picture and they're not letting us in on it.

. >> my main message in today's meeting was very simple. that america's banks received extraordinary assistance from american taxpayers to rebuild their industry and now that they're back on their feet, we expect an inordinate -- extraordinary commitment from them to help rebuild our economy. >> larry: let's start with miss cupp. what do you make of it? >> well, there's a couple of problems. tough talk is great, larry, but a little disingenuous when we're looking at a health care bill that's going to strangle small businesses. that's one. two, you know, i think this is a bit of a dog and pony show. these bankers are in a really tough spot, getting pressure from regulators not to lend, and now obama is coming in and saying lend or else. you know, the lend or else is what got us here in the first place. lending to unqualified borrowers. >> larry: what does he do with all of the people out there that need mortgages and need money? >> i understand but you have to appreciate the fact that these bankers are trying to be responsible at a time when

in its second year must one, work for main street not just wall street. no, -- two, always transabout with private parties on terms that are fair to the american public and three, address the underlying weaknesses in large financial institutions by cleaning urp up firms that are broken rather than continuing to hope time will heal all wounds. this week president obama spoke powerfully about the need to help solve the main street credit crisis so businesses can kre jobs and he spoke about the role t.a.r.p. might play in that mission. i look forward today to hearing in more detail about those plans and like the chair and mike, i'm very pleased to see you here today and thank you for your attention to the panel. >> thank you mr. silvers superintendent neiman? >> good morning mr. secretary. yesterday morning our panel issued a report analyzeing theÑi overall effectiveness of t.a.r.p. in a comprehensive year end review. and while the report criticized several of t.a.r.p.'s shortcomings to date, it also gave a large share of credit to the treasury department an

the main purpose of schooling, the founder scott, was to dampen loyalty to the individual states and elevate loyalty to the union. it was all the more needed, they believed, because a republic was a dicey political arrangement. madison worried about fractions, so did his lawyer and contemporaries, and you heard sauls anecdote about when franklin was leaving the constitutional convention and the worry then will we have a monarchy or at republic and alas republic and it is a very scary proposition. the received wisdom was all prior republics had collapsed because of their internal conflicts so how could we avoid the same fate? only by creating a new type of community minded citizen. madison was very big on this in the federalist papers. through schooling that would teach both rich and poor the enlightenment ideals of toleration and liberty and inculcate liberty to the common good. one of my goals in this new book is to bring the founding sentiments up to date. are they still felt? and can they still form the authentic foundation for american schooling and by the way with the res s.a.t.

the main thing that he focus on golf and he wins. don't know what's going to happen in terms of relationship. but it's going to be a very tough period of time. >> larry: by the way, we'll hold you a little bit. dennis rodman is up next. he was one of your apprentice guys. >> he was on "the apprentice," a really good guy. i will stay for dennis. >> larry: we want to get his thoughts on this. you and dennis may not agree. what do you think about tiger's troubles? go to cnn.com/larryking. click on blog. tell us. we love hearing from you. donald sticks around. talking more tiger with dennis rodman in 60 seconds. >> larry: donald trump is still with us. now dennis rodman is here, an athlete who knows all too well about being in the media eye of the storm. this might be the first time they've been together since the celebrity appearance, and rodman the greatest rebounder in the history of the professional basketball. the possessor of five championship rings. donald, give us your quick ten type of dennis rodman. >> here you go. >> dennis is

those are some of the day's main stories. i'll be back at the end of the program with a preview of what you'll find tonight on the "newshour's" web site. but for now, back to jim. >> lehrer: and still to come on the "newshour": cooking stoves and the environment in india; improving public schools in tucson; and fighting drugs in mexico. that follows an update on getting health care reform done in the senate. "newshour" health correspondent betty ann bowser has our report. >> we are going to finish this health care bill before we leave for the holidays here. >> reporter: a self-imposed christmas deadline loomed over senate majority leader harry reid and his democratic ranks today. but despite his insistence, it was not clear they'll make it. that's partly because president obama is hearing more from those on the political left who accuse him of giving up on key reforms like the government-funded public option. >> i think, at this point, the bill does more harm than good. >> reporter: former democratic party chairman howard dea

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i commend this statement to the house. >> the european council covered three main areas. i want to ask about all three as well as the vital issue of afghanistan. as the prime minister knows, we have supported the increase in u.s. and u.k. trips. at christmas time, we should all be thinking of our forces and their families and i would like to pay tribute to all of those charities and organizations that send gifts and cards and presents. they should be on our minds for all but they are doing. we believe that this is the last best opportunity to get this right. the prime minister talked about the killing troop presence. we look forward to hearing more about that. perhaps he will tell us when he will update the house to make sure that british troops cover fewer areas but in greater density. that is absolutely vile to bob dahuk -- a vital that -- that is absolutely vital. there is a danger that the quality of troops will suffer. can he tell the house about what is being done with troops that are trained and then sent to the south of afghanistan and that the unit's function pro

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those e some of the day's main stors.ll be back at e end of the broadcast with a look what you'll fintonight on our website. but for now, back to jef >> brown: and we turn to the storof a gro of young americans who may have bee preparing to joiterrorist groups. the five americans we arrested wednesy at this house in eastern pakist. a laptop computer and extremist literature were also szed. >> they re u.s. nationals, one was from egypt, one was om algeria, one was from hiopia, but they had u.s. passrts, valid passports, with vad pakistani sas and two of them were pakistani-born ericans, and they were here for jad, >> brownpolice said the men told them they wanted train with a milant group tied to al-qaeda, but were turneaway. the arrests to place in the ci of sargodha, 125 miles south of the capital, lamabad. >> ( translated ): the were four forei people in the hoe, and we thought they were from america. thowner of the house also lives outside of theountry. he came here recently and somebody called the lice that foreigners

shouldn't let that happen and vote against that happening today and vote for a jobs bill that works on main street. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman's time has expired. the gentleman from california is recognized. mr. lewis: i recognize the gentleman from new jersey for two minutes. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from new jersey is recognized for two minutes. . mr. fraying: since the start of this recession in 2007 6.9 million people have lost their jobs. a third of those without jobs have been unemployed for more than six months. that a post-world war ii high. clearly congress needs to find a way to spur private sector job creation. a bipartisan way not one rammed through without public hearings. mr. chairman, a famous son of new jersey once said, and that's yogi berra, it's deja vu all over again. congress and the president acted in february a trillion dollar stimulus package with the promise of its shovel ready spend would go prevent unemployment from exceeding 8%. while the nation's official unemployment is about 10%, the real unemployment and underemployment now exceeds 1

i work on main street. -- i really see this from two sides. these are not people who gamble with on affordable mortgages. most part ordinary americans. due to circumstances beyond their control, they cannot get out. they are frightened, desperate, and losing hope. most of us do not realize that if anbar were becomes more than 60 days delinquent, the servicer rejects any subsequent mortgage payments unless at the same time that the bar workers default. they're still not allowed to resume making payments even if they want to and are able to. the result is that they become trapped in the foreclosure spiral. many would lead to resume making full or partial payments. when they come to me, they're terrified. they have tried to gain entry into the program, try to work with their services, fell victim to loan modification scandals when they were desperate. mcnall became my clients when foreclosure was filed. -- they all became my clients when foreclosure was filed. i set out to try to find them leverage. this is difficult since our system of forced th

those are some of the day's main stories.i'll be back at the end of the program with a preview of what you'll find tonight on the newshour's website. but for now, back to jim. >> lehrer: and still to come on the newshour. why biodiversity matters, and shields and brooks. that follows an update on dna exonerations. >> brown: james bain is a free man tonight. yesterday, he was released from a florida prison where he'd spent 35 years for a crime he didn't commit. a court-mandated dna test proved bain was wrongly convicted of sexual assault in 1974. >> i am going to see my mom, the one i just got off the phone to. that's the most important thing in my life at this moment besides god. one thing i have to say about this dna, ladies and gentleman, it's gonna do one of the two... free you or lock you. >> brown: bain's release was in fact the third of its kind just this week, all the result of work by the "innocence project" based at the benjamin cardozo school of law at yeshiva university. according to the project, since 1989, there

>> the main focus of our strategy has been in the south.n that area, it was about one afghan security force participants to five coalition. by the end of january, we will have one-2.3. >> the british and australian insist on one-one. they are mainly their 4 partner in -- therefore partnering. why do we not have the same insistence that that be implemented in our doctrine, since partnering is such an important part of our mission? >> i could not agree more. there simply are not enough afghan national army to do that. we are seeing 1900 additional afghan army soldiers between december and january, 16 new companies going into the area. >> we will have 20,000 thereby what time? >> by spring. >> so the ratio will still be overwhelmingly u.s. to accept him, isn't that right? -- to afghans? >> we are flowing everything we can build in the afghan army into that area. i agree with your point. >> we have been told, general jones indicated, that seven of the 34 provinces today have conditions for successful transitions right now. specifically, securit

lack of documentation was one of the main contributors. jp morgan chase recently disclosed in november that 25% of their modifications failed to make the first payment and nearly 50% of the borrowers failed to make the first three, all three of the first three payments. furthermore, the federal reserve bank of boston cites the 30% to 40% of borrowers who received modifications end up within default of six months. clearly, we need more trpts in this program. we need to find a way to make this program work and make the goals of the program to help those who are having difficulty, who are suffering unemployment or real estate collapse in their areas or unable to meet their obligations, we hear from constituents all of us do who are struggling. but this program has obviously has great lapses and challenges. with that, i reserve. the chair: the gentlewoman reserves. the gentlewoman from california is recognized. ms. matsui: i yield one minute to ms. castor. the chair: the gentlelady is recognized for one minute. ms. castor: i rise in support of

this was one of the main venues for social entertainment between president jackson and lincoln. sterling in them duricertainly'i me. >> i am sure it lincoln felt he could come across the street any time for a chat. i think dennis l. blair house function. it could be an escape, and a place for privacy where things were not overcome. the president could relax in front of a warm fire with an ice and brandy and talk over difficult issues and get good, sound advice as well as a sympathetic shoulder. he was just a boy and remembers abraham lincoln sitting in his father's study of the blair front entrance, deep in conversation with their feet propped up on the fireplace mantel. confidences were still share. there was a closeness. and certainly the night robert e. lee was invited by makori blair and his father to dinner at blair house -- over dinner at the blair and dining room table and continuing into the study with cigars and wine. they offered the command of the union army to robert e. lee in blair house. fedders testimony to the blair family influence in power. >> there are large e

guest: there are three main issues that are sticking right now. one is just how much cuts in emissions? greenhouse gases, how much will they cut? and how will they make sure they do what they say they will do? that one's starting to make some movement. and the third one is money. financing from the rich countries, which have produced most of the greenhouseb(páqj that caused most of the global warming to the smaller ones that have more of the harm than the rich countries do. we're talking $10 billion a year in the short term and $100 billion a year after 2020 and that's not just from one country but from many countries. host: seth borenstein, a lot of the talk has been about country, can you describe what that means? guest: i think it means different things to different parties which is one reason they are not in agreement. once the once china says we are going to cut by this much percent the rest of the world wants to know how do we know you're really cutting by that much percent and can we go in and check? that's the issue countries like china an

he then next year i researched the remainder of the presidency, which was the main central part of thegot into the diary at that point. >> what did you start 2 cents in reading the diary about him as a person in a brighteand writer? >> she was a sanctimonious man. he had a certain self pity and qualiing quality. -- he was a sanctimonious man. that was the theme that ran through the diary. sometimes not in very appetizing ways. the interesting thing about him it was he never seemed -- he tended to abhosee alternative motives in his opponents. he always thought there was an unfortunate motive and these people. most of the sanctimonious presidents have been failures. john quincy adams was one. george w. bush, in my view, it was a sanctimonious man. woodrow wilson was a a sanctimonious man. sanctimony at that level of politics tends to be a trait that causes problems. he was probably the most successful. people argue about woodrow while seilson. >> you talk about people that i wanted to expand on -- gadahjohn quincy adams approached. what did he do when james was inaugurated president? >>