the gentleman from massachusetts. mr. mcgovern: mr. speaker, for the purpose of debate only, i yield the customary 30 minutes to the gentleman from texas, mr. sessions. all time yielded during consideration of the rule is for debate only. i yield myself such time as i may consume and i also ask unanimous consent that all members may have five legislative days to revise and extend their remarks on house resolution 1487. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, so ordered. the gentleman is recognized. mr. mcgovern: mr. speaker, h.res. 1487 provides for consideration of a rule that allows for the same-day consideration of a conference report to accompany h.r. 4173, and any measure addressed by h.r. 4173. it allows for this legislation to be considered under suspension of the rules through july 3, 2010, and allows for consideration providing for adjournment during the month of july. mr. speaker, this is a simple and straightforward rule. it allows the rules for the wall street reform conference report and either the tax ex

the gentleman from massachusetts. mr. frank: i yield myself such time as i may consume. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized. mr. frank: we have just seen an elephant stick wielded on the floor of the house. the elephant stick refers to the man who is walking around the floor here in washington carrying a big stick and people say, why do you have that big stick? people he says, i have to keep away the elephants. people say, there are no elephants here. he says, right, my stick works. my friend from alabama is determined to prevent from happening what is not going to happen and what is not authorized in the bill. it is true, we have bailouts. what we also have is the latest in a sees of bailouts and a series of stunning repudiations of the bush administration from its former supporters. i believe president bush's administration will do the best they can work weak tools at the time to deal with the problem. what we have are ways to avoid that from happening. there was referee to too big to fail. they will fa

he's a senior united states senator from massachusetts. he's chairman of the senate foreign relations committee. i've had the privilege of serving with him ever since he came to the senate, and he's a decorated vietnam veteran from his ground breaking work on the iran-contra scandal to his leadership and global efforts to combat aids. senator kerry has distinguished himself as one of our nation's most respected voices on national security and international affairs and chairs the prestigious foreign relations committee. so senator kerry, chairman kerry, we're pleased to have you before our committee today. please go ahead, sir. >> thank you very much, chairman leahy, for those kind words of introduction. ranking member sessions and to all my colleagues on the important judiciary committee at this important moment. members of the committee, mr. chairman, 16 years ago, i had the privilege to introduce stephen breyer to this committee. and with the loss today of senator byrd, i'm particularly reminded of senator kennedy sitting beside me that

the gentleman from massachusetts. mr. mcgovern: thank you, madam speaker. i would ust want to point us to the previous speaker that the american people want us to fix this economy which we are trying to do. i would also point out that we have created more jobs this year than in the entire eight years of the bush administration. so i think we are doing the american people's work. at this time i would like to yield one minute to the gentlewoman from california, the distinguished speaker of the house, ms. pelosi. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlewoman is recognized. the speaker: thank you very much, madam speaker. i thank the gentleman for yielding and making the point he just made. i would also like to make a further point which is 87.5% of the american people support what the disclose act will do. which is to shed light on elections. mr. speaker -- madam speaker, nearly a century ago supreme court justice louis brandeis wrote about the dangers of corporate interest dominating our economy, stifling competition, and harmin

he was a political strategist for the scott brown campaign in massachusetts. he was executive director of the massachusetts republican party where he expanded the gop. i want to thank you both for being here. let me start with a softball question. what have you all found is the key or silver bullet to engaging young voters? >> we have to listen to young voters. the candidates to understand the needs and wishes and desires of young of voters3 . young voters are paying more attention to the nuts and bolts details of these campaigns than most of the other voters. you cannot bs them. that is a critical thing. politicians?kc, especially bely politicians, tend to be full of political rhetoric that they live and breed here in washington, d.c. if they use that rhetoric and continued to espouse what the talk is here in d.c., they will perform pretty poorly against a challenger or someone who does a much better job of connecting and understanding the needs and wishes of young voters. understanding and listening to young voters and what they need is really key. >> let m

the gentleman from massachusetts. mr. frank: i yield two minutes to a very important member of the committee who has helped in many pieces of this, the gentleman from new york, mr. meeks. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized for two minutes. mr. meeks: today is a historic day because of the job of our chairman, barney frank, who we are so proud of. very few people could have marshaled the bill the way he did. because of him and that leadership, today we end too big to fail and implement unprecedent condsumer protections and issue rules that will prevent taxpayers from footing the bills for the irresponsible behaviors of others while still, because i'm a new yorker, maintain new york's status. this bill has death penaltiers in greedy financial institutions. if you are a institution that's causing systemic risk this bill allows regulators to dire-solve you and dissolve you without the cost to any taxpayer money. i repeat, let me emphasize, taxpayers will bear no cost for liquidating risky, interconnected fin

in massachusetts. but i do think that we need to be astough on ourselves, and yes, i inclde my media self in saying this. we neeto be as tgh on ourselves as we are on the politicians. again, martha mccoy was absolutely right in saying that we nd to make the public sphere more inviting. we need to listen to each other better. we need to be more realistic out what we expect from government, and in the things that we sy. and yes, i love clear misses comment that people are dying to get into the very government that they think is broken. that was one of the contradictions that i was so grateful that she pointed to. just a word on false choices in ouinconsistency. to classic political scientist, lloyd and hadley, described america's as ideological conservatives and operational liberals. that means that in principle we say all the time that we can't stay in government d in practice we say we want a whole lot of things from government. i think that contradiction, or let's ll it attention within us, can be mis

the gentleman from massachusetts. mr. frank: mr. chaman, i claim the time in oppoon and yield two minutes to the gentleman from california, mr. sherman the chair: theentleman fro californ is recognized for two minutes. mr. erman: at best, we have a agile recovery froa massive recession causedy a precipitous decline in home prices. . i know the gentleman is well-intentioned but notng i re likelto cause a double dip in this ecession an the second precipitous drop in home prices that would be caused b pulling f.h.a and fannie and freddie out of the home loan market. right now f.h.a. is 30% of the home purchase finance market. but er half of that mark for african-americans. 45% for hispanics. are we goingo tell a third of american home buyers, almost half or over half hispanics and african-americans seeking to buy homes at they are not goingo be able to buy those homes because if theyan't get f.h.a. financing, the private sector may be there, but at much higher rates. and thers no way tat these individuals will be able to afford to buy

the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from massachusetts. mr. frank: mr. speaker, i yield one minute to the majority leader. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized. mr. hoyer: i thank the chairman for yielding and i congratulate the chairman for the extraordinary work he's done. i thank mr. bachus, too, who i think is one of the really responsible leaders in the minority in terms of issues of substance and where there are differences, there are honest differences. mr. speaker, i come to the floor and when i do i hear the portions of the debate, sometimes not all the debate. i want to make an observation, though, i listened to the gentleman from new jersey and he remarked on what the people were saying. and i think that frankly his remarks reflected the difference in the perspective between both parties. indeed, that perspective has been reflected in my three decades here, under mr. reagan and others who have served as president. and lastly with mr. bush. mr. obama's immediate predecessor. and that perspective was, if the regulator

charles joining us from springfield, massachusetts. good morning. caller: i was thinking that what is going on right now is sort of a reflection of what went on at kyoto. it seems as though america is being challenged by these emerging powers. you have the situation in north korea where we are completely reliance on the chinese. and the situation with iran, some of these shifting alliances and up having influence in afghanistan. but the thing that struck me this morning is this situation with israel. i lived there in the 1990's and i'm interested in absolutely how polarized people are that, you know, that israel doesn't bargain in good faith, return to the 1967 borders. everyone takes sort of an line. ve tist i think a lot of is right now, i think it will be interesting to see where the israeli politics shakeout, whether people support netanyahu. but i think you could make an but i think you could make an argument that, you know, the bush administration pushed for this idea of democracy in iraq, pushed it for a solution, like having a democracy woul

the gentleman from massachusetts. mr. markey: thank you, mr. speaker. i yield as much time as he may consume to the chairman of the full energy and commerce committee, chairman waxman from the state of california. the speaker pro tempore: the gentman from californiis recognized. . mr. waxman: i support this act. this is a bipartisan law when it becomes signed by the president. and it would be vital to protecting the nation's electric grid from cyberattacks, direct physical attacks and ectromagnetic pulses and solar storms. beginning in the last congress, a group of members on a bipartisan basis worked this legislation. ed markey, joe barton, fred upton and john dingell, rick boucher played significant roles in developing the proposal. john barrowad a very important part of this legislation as well. and i commend all of them for working together with me in preparing for this legislation that we're presenting to our colleagues today. e staffs of both the majority and the minority had extensive discussions with interested stakeholders and agencies

the one model that a similar is the one in massachusetts.ifference between the massachusetts legislation and massachusettsçó has a stake neay -- neither really tried nor could address loring costs. t(çóand it is also -- massachuss as a state need your really tried nor could it address lowering costs. maine is an example of insurance regulations, but they did not follow the entire of it -- the entirety of the legislation. i think what we have learned from massachusetts, and this was incorporated into the legislation, is that you need to help lower costs. çó to take acti6qñ steps to reduce costs in the health care systems. that is why there is that in the legislation. but there are also new innovations on payment reform, ways with which we can reward doctors for quality instead of simply rewarding them for each test they do. those drivers are in the legislation that was not in massachusetts. host: next call from tampa, florida, good morning. caller: i have a problem that i do not know quite how to handle. i'm 63 years old and have exhausted a

mcgovern of massachusetts. mr. mcgovern: i ask unanimous condition sonet to revise and extend my remarks. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, the gentleman is recognized. mr. mcgovern: i rise to express dissatisfaction with our involvement in afghanistan. as we are being asked to consider tens of billions of dollars in supplemental funding for the war, i believe that now is the time for us to ask tough questions and demand straightances. -- straight answers. of all the problems president obama inherlted from the bush administration, afghanistan is the one that keeps get manager complicated. in just the past few week two brave young soldiers from my congressional district in fall river, massachusetts, lost their lives in afghanistan, this is a big deal. we need to get it right. last december, president obama told the american people that we would going withdraw our forces next july. the american people the serve to know if that plan is still in place, and how we're going to get there. much has been made abou

host: and that was lloyd in massachusetts. in about 25 minutes from now, some of you have mentioned b.p. this morning. we're going to talk with this author, charles wohlforth. he wrote a book called "the nature of nature." environmental in nature, as you can gather from the title, but parts of the reason we've asked him on is he was one of the reporters during the exxon valdez about 20 years ago, and we're asking him to talk and at least share his thoughts looking at this current situation in the gulf and from experiences that he learned while covering that incident. so that will come up in about so that will come up in about 25 minutes from now. until then, our discussions turn to secrecy in a democracy and questions specifically how much. the "new york times" has an article looking at prosecutions article looking at prosecutions by the white house of leaks to media of sensitive information, making the case that this current white house has surpassed others as far as prosecution of media leaks goes. this is scott shane if you

and you can do that in massachusetts.ome people call it a spite vote, but it is our right to do it. i believe we should do it. host: let's look back at the "the washington post", profiling the primary races on tuesday. the california senate -- former hewlett-packard chief executive appears to have pulled away from a former congressman. relying on personal wealth to fund advertisements and on an endorsement from sarah palin to build momentum. campbell switched from the governor's race earlier this year -- chuck devore is running is the true conservative, but has gained a little traction. the "new york times" profiles carly fiorina -- can the controversial former ceo become the next republican senator from california? california also has a governor race. according to the washington post, it is between meg whitman. it is then of roller-coaster ride. she began as an unknown but quickly changed that by expanding tens of millions of dollars on her campaign. that money paid for advertisements making the case that putting a bosto

for what purpose does the gentleman from massachusetts rise? >> request permission to address the house for one minute. revise and extend my remarks. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, so ordered. mr. neal: mr. speaker, we had an opportunity yesterday to witness another happy moment. 38 years after 13 of our men and women were shot dead in ireland on a day now known as bloody sunday, the families and relatives of the victims have found justice they have been seeking for decades. they learned the truth yesterday about what happened during a peaceful civil rights march in january of 1972. they heard the british prime minister david cameron say their loved ones were innocent and the actions of the regiment that day were unjustified and wrong. if bloody sunday was a defining day in the history of the troubles, let us hope the publication of the report will be a transformative moment for the people of northern island. today we remember those who lost their lives marching. we remember bloody sunday and those who were wounded. the innocent pe

we have to get our tax burden under massachusetts. with the legislation just passed, we are still 12% higher. we have to bring down taxes, we have to squeeze waste and fraud out of government spending. our computer systems do not work well. >> let's move onto education. i pose this question to each of you. try to be specific. many parents feel they are not getting the bang for their buck when it comes to public education in rhode island. do you feel the public education system is broken and if so, what would you do to fix it? >> absolutely, as an employer, it is difficult for me to find the trained staff that is needed to fill businesses. our schools are not graduate and of well qualified students to even enter college without getting the basic skills. our educational system absolutely needs to be refurbished and we have to bring up the level of quality of education we have. my wife is an educator. she is a seventh grade science teacher. my father is a college professor. i and steeped in education. it is the answer for lifting people

all those years, and not really -- the whole delegation in massachusetts is totally democrat. but the people in the bay state -- when scott brown was campaigning, mr. speaker, what was his main point to make on behalf of his candidacy? i am going to go to washington if you give me this opportunity, a decent candidate in her own right. you give me this opportunity, and i am going to be the 41st vote in the united states senate, and you know what that means, that means that stops this bill dead in its tracks under regular order, under normal operating procedures. and the people of massachusetts understood that, understood that very clearly. they were, mr. speaker, very concerned, weren't they, about commonwealth care. they had had about two, 2 1/2, three years of that, and they knew, that the cost of health insurance with that kind of approach, those premiums didn't go down, they went up. they wanted no more of that. they wanted the honorable senator scott brown now to go to washington and be that 41st vote so that cloture could not be invoked, the filibuster could not be overri

the gentleman om massachusetts. mr. frank: i yield myself such time as i may consume.the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized. mr. frank: we have just seen an elephant stick wielded on the floor of the house. e elephant stick refers to the man who is walking around the floor here in washington carrying a big stick and people say, why do you have that g stick? people he says, i have to keep away the elephants. people say, there are no elephants here. he says, right, my stick works. my friend from alabama is determined to prevent from happening what is not going to happen and what is not authorized in the bill. it is true, we have bailouts. what we also have is theatest in a sees of bailouts and a series of unning repudiations of the bush administration from its former supporters. i believe president bush's administration will do the best they can work weak tools at the time to deal with the problem. what we have are ways to avoid that from happening. there was referee to too big to fail. they will fail. the question is will their failure lead to consequences

>> boston, massachusetts. i teach at harvard. >> how long have you been at harvard? >> 20 years. >> where were you born? >> i was born in manila three months before the war began. i spent my toddler years in a japanese internment camp. my father was a missionary. they went back after the war. i recently read an excellent biography about a missionary's son. we had some things in common. we left the philippines and came back when i was about nine. my family lived mostly in maine after that. i went to prep school in connecticut. i am kind of a rootless person. after my education was over, i taught at university of virginia here in college park. then i went to harvard. >> the three schools you went to? >> undergraduate, yale. two graduate years at cambridge. then i finished at princeton. >> how many years were you in the internment camp? >> the better part of the three. i was three when there was a brilliant rescue. they dropped paratroopers into our camp which was a perilous situation. the americans had landed. the guards were panicking. we might not have lived. they go

i am from massachusetts. when you are saying is another spin, lie. there will not be a shortage of doctors. i do not know how you can just be on there and lie. host: rates are not going up and there is no doctor shortage. guest: i hope in his case that they do not and you are able to see a doctor, but across the board, the figures are that they have to cut back. police have been cut back. there need to be money for health care because expenses are going up. they are going to start limiting people in terms of what is available for care, what hospitals they have to go to. what i talk about on the senate floor are things that we can verify, things that are in the national publications. there are things that people have researched the early, and we will continue to bring that information onto the floor as part of my "a second opinion" to the american people. host: richard. your next. turn down your volume. we are going to move on. caller: good morning. i wanted to ask you a question about illegal aliens and health care. i sppke to you in december and i w

host: next call from massachusetts.ing ship was offered from sweden or switzerland. if it had not had the jones law that it had to be run by americans and shipped by americans, the only way to lead in the waters -- and it was given for free and it was a mopping ship used for all those bills. what about that one? guest: i am not familiar with that particular incident. it seems an unusual application of the jones law. the jones act says if you're going to transport goods like a bunch of groceries from one bunch of groceries from one point in the united states to place in an american-built, american flagship. if you're talking about a deep water reagan, that -- a deep water rig, which is a vessel, that is not transferring from one place to another. one place to another. i think it is safe to say that a skimmer is transporting from one place to another. i am not sure that the jones act would affect that. host: the next call comes from paul, republican line, kalamazoo, michigan. paul, are you live with -- are you with us? i

we are at unemployment for 9%, but we have added about 16,000 jobs in massachusetts. host: to you know what industry most of those jobs came from? caller: i applied for a job, but did not get one. half those jobs came from the census bureau, i guess. we are still at 9% unemployment. i do feel independent, very optimistic, i am sorry, that we are making economic strides in the right direction. host: we have an early phone call from san francisco. joe on the republican line. good morning. caller: i think the money comes from the people, and they absolutely should support the states. the federal government should only be doing three things based on the constitution. the second thing i would like to say is that the former chief executive officer -- as a former chief executive officer, i would like to challenge the myth is that every time you cut taxes, you will create jobs. host: can you weigh in on the estimate that when you cut the corporate tax rate you only get about -- for every dollar you cut it, you only get 32 cents back. you agree with that? caller: absolutely, i

midway through the convention, a massachusetts delegate suggested that federal judges to be appointedby the executive with the advice and consent of the senate. madison proposed a variation. that is, the executive appointment of the jurists with the concurrence of 1/3 of the legislature's upper house. this with your night madison declared the advantage of responsibility in thh executive with the security afforded to the second branch against any corrupt nomination by the executive. in judicial appointments, the convention began moving toward a variation on that theme of separation of powers that included another component of constitutionalism, namely, checks and balances. the branches would not be separate. they would interact in a contrapuntal mode. as medicine rights, to promote the constitution's ratification , the great security against a gradual concentration of the powers in at the same department consists in giving the administrators of the necessary means to reduce encroachment of others. or as he expressed it, ambition must beemade to counteract ambition. the interest of the

>> boston, massachusetts. i teach at harvard. >> how long have you got there? >> 20 years. >> where were you going? >> i spent my toddler years in a japanese internment camp. my father was a missionary. they went back after the war. i recently read an excellent biography about a missionary's son. we had some things in common. we left the philippines and came back when i was about nine. my family lived myin maine after that. -- my family lived mostly in maine after that. after my education was over, i taught at university of virginia. then i went to harvard. >> the three schools you went to? >> undergraduate, yale. to be a graduate years at cambridge. then i finished at princeton. -- two graduate years at cambridge. then i finished at princeton. >> how many years in the internment camp? >> they dropped paratroopers into our camp. the americans have landed. the guards were panicking. we might not have lived. they got us all out alive. that was my first memory was being rescued from that camp. >> do you remember the first moment this was an idea for a book? >> i d

in economics in 1979 from the massachusetts institute of technology. he and his wife and i have two children. born in georgia, he grew up in south carolina. the format tonight is not for a speech by dr. bernanke, but he and eric inevitable president of the wilson council, a distinguished newsman sam donaldson, will provide the program. sam will interview the chairman. i would ask the two of them to come forward now and after the interview we will have questions from the audience. sam and chairman bernanke? [applause] >> hello? chairman bernanke, i am delighted that you would do this. by the way, what do you think of the great wall of china? >> can see it from the plane when you come down from beijing. very impressive. >> that matches mr. nixon's statement. let's get to substantive matters. we seem to be in a recovery from the great recession we have gone through, fragile but it may be. hull convinced are you that that recovery will continue at a reasonable pace? do you see troubling signs we may indeed slip back into a double dip recession? >> we have

land in massachusetts for a private high school where tuition is over $29,000 a year. and a building in florida the federal government now leases back at a cost of over $100,000 a year. this proposal would amend federal law to require a expedited process for selling unneeded federal property with 80% of the proceeds used to reduce the deficit. in order to provide for consideration of this commonsense legislation, i urge my colleagues to vote no on the previous question and no on the rule. i yield back the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlelady yields back her time. the gentleman from colorado. mr. perlmutter: mr. speaker, small businesses cannot grow if they aren't -- if credit's not available to them. over the course of the last year and a half, credit has tightened substantially. this bill provides for a loan fund to small community banks and regional banks so that they can work with their small businesses throughout the country. so this is not focused on wall street but is focused on main street so we can get small businesses really back strong

host: this is dan come on the independent line, from massachusetts. caller: thanks for having me on. i am with a lot of colors this morning -- with a lot of callers. this is not a news story. it has been going on for quite some time. we are paying the enemy to get our supplies in there, and the same enemy is fighting us. it is crazy. i think in our country what has happened, generally, taking a broad look at it is we have put a premium on faith and a discount on facts. we think we know people in office, or who have been in office, and would not think it would do such bad things, so all these conspiracy things people business. people who have faith in these people -- it is blind faith and then they discount the facts of reporting about things that have actually happened where the person is not telling us the truth. but all these people who have this mysterious thing called faith --no one is accountable. if everyone just has faith in things, then there is no accountability. that is where we are as a country. we put a premium on faith, and a discount on

. >> reporter: they seem happy in their cambridge, massachusetts, department. derek bok, the former president of harvard, and and sissela bok. sissela bok's book comes out this fall, and as the title suggests, takes the long view. >> i felt it was so important to look at everything that's been done for millennia, really, in religion, and literature, in philosophy. and to bring that together with all the new research, and what's been done, really, in the last three decades with the social sciences and last 15 years in brain research to try to bring all those things together. >> brown: derek bok's book, "thhe politics of happiness: what government can learn from the new researchh of well-being". was published this spring. >> i'd always been interested in heapness research. i noticed the one thing that wasn't written about very much was what implication did this have for public policy. and since the great champion of happiness jeremy bentham that happiness should be the sole objective of government, it seemed natural to take that forward and say now that we know s

retiring senator from connecticut, and barney frank, unretiring democratic house chairman from massachusetts really deserve credit. it was a dodd-frank. it was an interesting pairing, even with the wind at their backs politically because they were opposing the big banks and everything else. there was enormous political and economic power to00 dilute and diminish what they were about. and i think what they've accomplished is significant. obviously, it enhances the president's hand as he goes to the g-20 in toronto, unlike his trip to copenhagen where he went without any prospect of an energy , climate-control bill to the last conference. i think he's in an enhanced position now to request, demand, insist upon similar measures by our allies. >> woodruff: i'm referring to what the markets having gone up today and the credit being given to the fact that banks felt this is better than what they could have-- >> oh, okay. >> woodruff: does this prevent another meltdown? >> does it prevent-- i think it certainly is a vast improvement. whether in fact it does -- doesn't guarantee a meltdown. we never

here to update the situation: simon johnson is an economist and professor at the massachusettes institute of technology's sloan school of management. he is also senior fellow peterson institute for international economics and co- author of "13 bankers,," an assessment of the recent financial crisis. and sophie pierson is a freelance reporter for french public television and other media outlets. born and raised in france, she holds french and american citizenship. >> the fears spread to spain, which is somewhat in a different category. now they're looking at countries like france that previously were thought of as safe havens that are under a great deal of pressure from the bond markets. >> brown: so this is the market... this is investors demanding that governments make these... take these steps? >> it's investors demanding that they be reassured that the governments can get their debt on to a sustainable path. this is a question all around the world. that is question even in the united states and it's not an unreasonable question. the problem is the europeans have been in denial for too

massachusetts democrat ed markey chairman of the house energy and environment sub committee said b.p. withheld the higher estimates intentionally. >> b.p. has either been lying or grossly incompetent from day one. i think that they have been trying to limit their liability . >> ifill: b.p. however said the higher estimate was a worst case scenario that would only occur if the blow-out preventer was completely removed, something they said they have no plans to do. coast guard admiral thaad allen, the top u.s. oil spill official said today experts are still trying to determine how much oil is leaking from the well. exact numbers he said will not be available until a new containment system is installed next month. additional reports from the "new york times" and the bbc also raised questions today about how much b.p. knew of existing risk that could have compromised the blow-out preventer designed to seal the well. >> we saw a leak on the pad. by seeing the leak we informed the company. they have a control room where they can turn off that pod and turn on the other one so that they'll ha

it may not be able to push that to the scale of the united states and people of massachusetts are struggling with how to pay for health care under the universal plans they put in place, where everybody was mandated to have insurance. doesn't look like it's working, so why would you want to take that policy and extend it across the united states. i don't think you would. an area where it has worked and i'll brag on texas, six years ago, texas put a tort reform program that limited the punitive damages on medical malpractice suits. we have had a six-year experiment involving 25 million people in texas and it has worked. the rates are lower. the citizens are getting the care they need. when a hospital or a hospital or physician makes a mistake, the economic damages putting that person back to whole, that gets done. but the punitive damages which sometimes are just defined -- defies logic is no longer on the table. as the president called for in his health care speech to test medical malpractice reform around the country. we had a six-year test working with the state of texas working on tort ref

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a democrat from massachusetts the findings of this report fm severing too shocking. he wrote that in introduction to the report. so, that is what we will talk during this first segment. we're wondering what you think that? is it a necessary part of war? does it just happened in afghanistan to increase security there? we will learn more about the report throughout the day. congressman tierney is part of ppthe committee on house ooersit and reform. he said in an interview on monday that he hopes to report help members of congress to the analyst with the they think is the most effective way to go about dealing with terrorism, or the most effectively. the report's conclusiins will be introduced at a hearing today in which offia are scheduled to testify. the lawmaker will not comment, give fleet from arizona, until he has seen the entire report. looking at how the of t papers are covering this issue. here is one concerning the taliban taking u.s. fus. the trucking contractors say as $150 -- much $150,000 per month to warlords in protection money. let's go to the phones an

i cannot say that i thought teachers in massachusetts necessarily -- >> i will say yes. think teachers should be certified and everything they teach. >> that are now. that are certified. >> we need to enhance certification. >> elementary teachers need to know algebra at least. you have to know something higher than the arithmetic. but i understand what you were saying. >> [inaudible] >> that would only work if we had professional development to help our teachers in the classroom get all of that. >> [inaudible] >> michael, first of all thank you for gathering this release date group. he must have a great staff. >> they are standing around. they are everywhere. >> i am an old arizona state university graduate from teacher education. i have linked question. my name is paul love donnelly -- paula donnelly rourke. i have been a teacher and am now sociologists on how people learn. this past week, the "the washington post reported a new study -- this past week, "the s

digital will carve out four massachusetts banks -- they did a little cart veout for massachusetts' banks. they need to buy off a few. what are some of these home state issues we could see emerge? >> david, you're familiar with this. how do you get lugar, collins, a gulf state senator? >> again, i think, the larger issues are still in footfall. while it is true that the middle will be the ones that decide, if there is also a question of what the senators who are most committed to this will accept. it is still a kind of chess game, as it often is. in terms of what specific issues, i would say there are two different kinds of regional issues that come up -- or individual issues. there are fundamental, real, structural issues on the ground. then there are things that you need to do that kind of sweeteners, which can be legitimate -- it is a legitimate process. those two or sometimes inflated, especially now when people are so cynical about the government. i bring this up because, for example, people say, well, we do not like some of the deals in the house bill. you look at some of these "dea

host: kurt from massachusetts. don't cut, raise taxes. connecticut, what do you make of this 5% proposal? caller: i think if it is done right, it is ok. there should be a drastic cut in the military budget because we are spending, what, $700 billion a year and we are not solving that much. we have not called bin laden and dave do not have a defined mission. i don't want to see them hit the scene years any harder. we paid -- i don't see him hit the seniors any harder. we paid into social security and the money was taken out to pay for other things. host: you are saying cut defense, protect seniors. where else might you cut to achieve the 5%? caller: i would say some aid to foreign countries. i don't know why we just gave israel more money and they have health insurance. and other countries we should not be giving aid to, either. we've got to help our own country first. it and we've got to get tougher on letting people into the country and taking, like, illegal aliens and taking advantage of our medical system. we've got to take care of our

to the state of massachusetts and john. john, welcome. hey, john. >> i am with him.t so you know right off of the bat, massachusetts is definitely behind in new orleans, -- behind new orleans. i was not fighting or anything, but i was an engineer,,and i agree that the engineer was sub work. the money was not spent the way it could have been. that is money. no doubt about it. they use it because it was a the money. i think pp, what we really need, like he was saying, somebody needs to step up -- because we need the money. i think really, that is what we need. b.p. is out of here. >> i would agree. bp has the expertise. again, that is doubtful. doubtful. we were sold a bill of goods. how can you drill in deep water if you did not have a contingency plan in case something goes wrong? because of the incestuous relationship between mms and they will companies and lobbyists role they state and country, the people of the analis of america were not told the truth there were not told about the ability to drill safely and deep water. bottom line is at this point, the federal g

if you could actually look and compare products effectively, the massachusetts connector, their ambitionn 20 minutes to make a decision looking at the different choices and have good standardized comparisons -- that helps, and then the leverage and exchange can bring in negotiating with insurers, that would help the marketplace, too, and ideally would that make this work right through these exchanges. we can provide the same value proposition for individuals and small businesses that and large business gets in its negotiations with insurers. it will make the business of little tougher for diane, margins may be lower, but getting 30 million customers is part of the deal, too, so it would still be a good opportunity for the health- insurance industry, i think, and i think it will lead to improved competition but we have a lot of work between now and 2014 to get ready. >> diane. you are the one non-enforcer here. new i like the parents make sure we don't get into things we should not be into. what do you hope for from regulators and would you are worried about? >> this is a great panel you

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one, what is the status of the massachusetts? has it returned from mobile yet, and when will it begin the discover enterprise for anotherand then the second, if you could just run through, again, what the considerations will be in july 1st, assuming that the -- all the oil that is escaping is being captured? i know the ability to operate during a hurricane will be one, but what else will you consider in deciding whether to take the something else in its place? first of all, let me apologize to everybody on the phone. i just realized that when i was giving my brief i had a piece of paper over the top of the speakerphone. so i am the source of your problems this morning. i'll try not to do that tomorrow. the massachusetts is the tanker that we use to offload the amount of oil that's been shuttled to mobile, alabama. location, but we will release that later on this morning. we'll just go find out. i just -- i just was not aware of that when i came in this that. just to restate, because the question was asked here in the room, let me

next is a call from eddy, airforce base in massachusetts. independent-minded caller: how are you guys doing? for me, i am active duty military. for me, there is no way the president had to keep the general on. i am an and listed service member. but you can't send soldiers out on the field -- and i was in iraq and we do what we have to do -- but there is already discourse anyway, naturally, because you are fighting a war and thinking about your safety. the thing that gives us confidence the -- there is a purpose. even though we don't see the purpose. we all complain among speech other. but we go in and do the mission there but if the general that it is in charge, if he is saying the same thing, it is harder for me to get my soldiers under the to take anything serious that i am saying. in my opinion, it had begun. host: from a command standpoint, it makes sense. how about specifically, do you have a reaction to the selection of general petraeus? caller: it makes sense to me also. it is obvious that he wrote the book on what we call counter ins

to the state of massachusetts. >> how are you?ully with billy brought off the bat, just a you know, massachusetts is definitely behind new orleans. you guys have been through hell. i was an engineer in the army. i agree that the engineering was sub work. the money was not spend the way it should have ben. this is all due to money. the dispersants, that is money. there is no doubt about that. they use that because they had some and because it was saving money. somebody needs to step off. that person needs to be our president. i voted for him. i think we should not -- he should not stand up and say, i can sign an executive order. bp is out of here. >> i would agree. the federal government needs to take control. we got involved with deep water drilling and we were sold a bill of goods. how could neutral in deep water if you do not have a contingency plan in case something goes wrong? -- how can you drill in deep water? the people of the united states of america were not told the truth about the ability to drill safely in deep water.

republicans won massachusetts because the democratic candidate decided to insult every living persone state one by one starting with sports fans and english catholics. the other one in why a -- in hawaii. the democrats have been holding on by running a campaign that is pretty apologetic about how bad the economy is, but basically saying, you do not want the party activists to win because they're going to repeal social security. these are hardly things we're used to them saying. it is not even clear this is going to lead to a huge republican victory. it is clear it has changed with the congress passed and the most powerful democratic majorities in the 1970's, and that is enormous. in makes it clear whatever this this is, with what is being said on the op ed ages, less power is going to come from them. more often they are going to be reacting to people with facebook accounts. i always glaze over when people went at an ipad about how force for is changing the world. getting this rump of americans who did not represent the coalition that elected this congress, that changes everything. we