i remember mark foley. hit me with a tree branch of science called my teacher so i called social services. and then i don't know i think i cried i'm sorry in the me and when they were like checking me and i said i want to stay home and never had a. child lie in school forced me as a call child line because that lice or burns on the inside. and nothing happened after that conversation only kids company pursued florence texting and phoning to make sure she was ok over a period of nearly a year a continuity of care that traumatized youngsters desperately need and getting from the government mental health and children's social services hasn't changed since the victorian times we renew our railways we renew our airports we renew our hospitals but actually we haven't bothered to renew really this structure that deal with almost one rouble kids and make them fit for purpose repeated requests for a government response to that yielded nothing about his company i probably would have five kids right now instead of twe

ever imagine the extent of regulation that you would actually experience lead the next will be mark foley, editorial director of national mortgage news. marquez cover the mortgage business since 1984 so he is now on his fifth real estate cycle, and brings us wisdom accordingly. mark directed in his team that won the george of award for financial journalism and his editorials have won awards from the american society of business press editors and the native american journalist association. third will be desmond lachman, resident fellow at aei, known for its accurate pessimistic forecast. [laughter] previously desmond was a managing director and chief emerging-market economic strategist at salomon smith barney, was, a deputy director of the international monetary fund's policy development department. focused on the global macro economy and global currency issues, desmond has written extensively and with great insight on the international economic crisis, u.s. housing bust, the u.s. dollar, and the strains of the euro area, which he will touch on again today for us. next will be chris whalen

mark, you knew tom foley well. what legacy -- it was a very different time in washington. >> it was. it's only 20 years ago, judy, but he brought to it -- to his whole public career a meticulous sense of fairness and a genuine respect for the opinions of others. tom foley i heard him say time and again "you are the speaker of the house." he was a great historian, scholar. he said "there are only two offices defined in the constitution, the president of the united states and the speaker of the house." and he said "you're not speaker of a party." and he wasn't. he was always -- he would -- bob michael, the republican leader, was a good friend. he gould to bob michael's office for meetings. which is in the protocol of washington not done. you come to the president or you come to the speaker. and he was just a -- he believed in the institution. in terms of substance there were three individuals who were responsible for food stamps in the nutrition plan in this country that according to to the census bureau lifted four

foley was 84. we'll be right back. >>> now some fresh pickings from the political grapevine. today markednd of what pro-choice activists called the one in three week of action. it was a national series of events aimed at destigmatizing abortion. promotors say they want to fight back against the message that women should feel ashamed or immoral for having an abortion. one in three refers to a study that says one in three women in the u.s. will at some point have an abortion. while neither side disputes the statistics, pro-life groups look at the one in three differently. marjorie told us with this new campaign the abortion lobby tries to put forth the argument that this is somehow a morally murky issue and that abortion should be normalized in our society. this is just another example of how proabortion forces put the institute of abortion above the well-being of individual women. doctors say a number of military personnel are turning to liposuction so they can pass the body fat test. service members say they have no other choice because the method of estimating body fat is weeding out bul

mark his life and remember his legacy. bless this gathering and comfort us as we comfort one another in remembering a great american and a genuinely good man. amen. >> tom foley my friend, mentor, and colleague in the house of representatives. i first met him at the university of washington law school in 1965 during his freshman term. he was a brilliant young man with a warm and friendly smile. it was his intellect and love for this country that made him an outstanding leader. he served as chairman of the house agriculture committee and twoed hard bringing these issues together allowing chairman foley to have support .n the house for both he believed in and practiced ability and bipartisanship. his view was after the elections were over, democrats and republicans should work together to deal with a national legislative agenda. seeing his strong leadership qualities and the belief in getting things done for the tipican people, speaker o'neill appointed him to be the with and he was unanimously elected to be our majority leader and then our speaker in 1989. he worked closely with bob michael and they remain great friends after they left congress. later, preside