i thought it was ironic that jefferson and mason were the two great law-givers in the united states. neither one of them signed the constitution. jefferson wasn't present at the time. and george mason spent the entire time at the constitutional convention and at the end of that time, still refused to affix his signature to the document itself. as i was teaching school, i insisted every one of my kids had to say why mason didn't sign the document and it was because the document did not have a bill of rights. i was always hoping one of my students would always ask what i think is a significant question which is why did mason did not sign but why washington, franklin, mad ison, hamilton, wilson, why did they not go along with mason and add a bill of rights intohe base document. it was certainly not because these founding fathers did not believe in the idea of individual liberty, but they had another method, another mechanism that they thought more specific than actually listing down what our rights are and are not. it was the structure of government. though not specifically named in the

our guests include the george mason university professor jeremy mayer on the gulf coast oil spill. oil spill.

carpenter, plumbers, electricians, masons, painters, landscapers, roofers. we've got to put those americans back to work. in the words of allen jackson, there's nothing wrong with a heart and a hammer, the kind of world that sticks this world together. our amendment adds construction and land development loans to the loans that qualify as small business lending you under the program so we can put the working man back to work. god bless the working man and woman. i now reserve the balance of my time. the chair: the gentleman from north carolina reserves the balance of the time. the gentleman from texas. for what purpose? >> i rise in opposition although i'm not opposed to the amendment. the chair: the gentleman is recognized. mr. neugebauer: thank you, mr. chairman. i appreciate what the gentleman's amendment is trying to do. i think the intent if this bill goes forward is that all small businesses would be eligible under this program, but i think the gentleman's trying to show the fact that land developers and homebuilders in america are also small businesse

this nominee will get through or not, i think that again, barring some incredibly unexpected perry mason moment where someone comes in wwth photographic evidence that elena kagan is a robot brought to our planet by aliens intent on taking over our entire solar system. barring something like that. odds are she's going to make it through. 59 democrats and independent as lioned with president. 41 republicans. at least some of them visibly pimp a thet toik hep visiblysympathetic. there's going obstacle almost 60 votes to break any fill buster attempt. >> florida. democrat line? cal caller: in regards to the military recruiters from the school, all law school deans to my understanding a cross the country did what she did except for some of the fundamentalist christian law schools because of where their stands are with day marriage and they could still go in if they had funding for testimony veteran's association, as i understood it and the two other points is i've heard opponents she doesn't have a paper trail but i thought she had tens of thousands of archives from the time in the clinton wh

germai jeremy mayor, with george mason university.ou can call our democrats line, 202-737-0002, republicans line, 202-737-0001, and independence line, 202-628-0205. caller: i have several comments. the first comment is that i think it is unreeled to compare hurricane katrina to this oil spill -- it is unreal. bush -- he got involved. you have a democratic governor there. he waited too late. the media was in there showing these dreadful pictures of people dying. the american people could not understand, if the media can get in there, why can the government? with this oil spill, everybody knows the federal government does not do any drilling. they are not involved in doing any kind of drilling. so, there is nothing the government can do itself. hope that the peak can get fixed and go in there and do the cleanup. -- hope that bp can get it fixed. guest: right now we are dependent on bp. the federal government does not have resources that would be applicable to this issue. that is a key distinction. but i key similarity between this situa

and i would like, before forget, to also acknowledge the voice of polly cleveland, mason gaffney, alexholick who contributed lot of the ideas to this. so the basic concept is fairly straightforward. you automatically increased down payments when hoing prices start to rse rapidly. the ideashat this is a feedback mechanism that will dampen or eliminate housing bubbles. its not an attempt to regulate the absolute value of asset doubles. simply the rad osciation in them. that is is the point i will return to so this is not a form of price control. nothing in this will keep san francisco housing from being more expensive than detroit and so on but it should i hope get d of the very destctive boom and bust cycle we are suffering through right now. so this is a feedback loop. this is well-known from engineers control. there are some examples of this that you are all familiar with. the thermostat is one where you monitor the temperature and if it is to love you turn on the furnace, and turit off if it is warm enou. the governor on a lawnmower engine. when you listen to a lawnmower going to the