mcgovern of massachusetts.nd of the resolution add the following, section 2, upon the adoption of the conference report the house shall be considered to have adopted the concurrent resolution, house concurrent resolution 191, directing the clerk of the house of representatives to make corrections in the enrollment of h.r. 2918. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from massachusetts is recognized. mr. mcgovern: with that i yield back the balance of my time. i move the previous question on the amendment and on the resolution. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, the previous question is ordered on the amendment and on the resolution. the question is on the amendment. so many as are in favor say aye. those opposed, no. the aye vs. it. the amendment is agreed to. the question is on adoption of the resolution as amended. so many as are in favor say aye. those opposed, no. the aye vs. it. the resolution is -- mr. dreier: i ask for the yeas and nays. the speaker pro tempore: the yeas and nays are requested.

was running against nixon and nixon was present, mcgovern said nixon was worse than hitler. i don't think the media said boo about it. that is a heck of a lot worse than saying "you lie." there is terrible incivility. george bush 43 before he came before congress, the democrats would snicker at him and boo at him. there is plenty of incivility to go around. the real problem is that 8 years ago we were united against the terrorists and now we're saying oh, let's defend the terrorists and make sure they get legal rights and get treated with kid gloves and treat them fair and square. let's apologize to all these countries around the world that treat us like dog dirt. come on, this is america! we behave like americans willing to defend ourselves n war, there is a lot of brutality. we're in a war. we're in a serious war. we used to all be united in world war ii. somehow we got a lot of people lost on the war that we need to do for this country. neil: every anniversary of 9/11, including this year, i note that the more time that passes, the more we forget. the australian prime min

mcgovern of massachusetts. mr. mcgovern: permission to revise and stepped my remarks. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. mr. mcgovern: i rise to express my strong concern over u.s. policy in afghanistan. i worry that we are getting sucked deeper and deeper into a war with no end. our mission continues to grow and grow with no clear sense of where we are going. it has been eight long years. we have lost too many brave men and women and we have spent billions and billions of dollars. the government of afghanistan led by president karzai is incompetent and corrupt. the afghan president has formed alliances with war lords and drug lords who have no interest in a better afghanistan. his military is not reliable and his police are a mess. by all accounts, forces close to mr. karzai stuffed ballot boxes in the most recent elections. madam speaker, if this fraud had occurred in any other country in the world, the condemnations from congress and the administration would be loud and forceful. after all the sacrifices our troops have made, after all the financial and dev

mcgovern: thank you. i thank my colleague for arranging this special order to honor an incredible leader and an incredible friend, ted kennedy. you know, in the mcgovern household, the kennedy name has always been magic. our family admired and respected president kennedy, we all supported and were committed to robert kennedy and the causes that he stood for. and we always felt it a very special privilege to be represented in massachusetts by ted kennedy. all of us, especially the massachusetts delegation, already miss senator kennedy. we miss his humor, his friendship, his advice, his leadership. i tell my colleagues from outside of massachusetts that i'm proud to call myself a ted kennedy democrat and a ted kennedy democrat is somebody who is a believer in dynamic and efficient and bold and effective government. somebody who believes it's important to stand up for human rights and for civil rights and senator kennedy did so with incredible integrity and with incredible character. you know, i believe as h

and the rest of us coming out there, us lowlings, we were out there ripping mcgovern up by name.helons of ethicacy for obama on health care. where is joe biden? why isn't he carrying the torch against this death panel stuff? >> he was overseas. but you're right, kathleen sebelius, you've got a lot of people. but go back to my basic point, which is, this is a president who, even though his job performance numbers have gone down this last six months, come down from historic highs, you know, his personal plart is still very high. >> yeah. >> so, clearly, the white house says he's personally popular, people like him, they're listening to him. but you know, the focus is going to be on health care. it can't be on race issues right now. >> all right, you guys. i'm convinced the personal popularity of the president will be eve higher after the letterman appearance because he communicates well and he's funny. i think he's going to go great head to head with david letterman. all right, thank you. so good to see you. we'll see you next weekend. >>> still ahead, the world's nuclear mystery.

. >> reporter: jim mcgovern describes himself this way. >> i'm a proud liberal democrat. he strongly supports a government run health care option but says the president's address helps convince him to be willing to compromise. >> we need meaningful health care reform and it may not be everything i want. i'm a single payer person. at the end of the day if it moves the ball forward, it could be worth supporting. >> reporter: to be sure some liberal democrats are still firmly entrenched. >> we don't have health care reform unless we have a public option. >> the house speaker softened her stance and this often repeated line in the sand -- >> there's no way i pass a bill without a public option. >> reporter: now noticeably absent. >> this is about a goal and not provisions. as long as our goal of affordability and accessibility and quality, we'll go forward with that bill. >> reporter: that's a sign that liberal democrats are now more accepting of this reality. any health care bill must be conservative enough to pass the much more moderate senate. pelosi even signaled the hous

. >> there has been money already8 raising for him and dana bash and tim mcgovern. >> and make history>> we need health caref;n;n;n3l; and and supported. >> democrats even more right now. athe conservative base or do both joining me right now. and strategist and cnn contributor and welcome to everybody, let me play this for you. congressman wilson video posted on his twitter and -- >> i scenes and pass complaint, and if you're agreeing with me that the government health plan go to congressman.com and speak to proponents of health care. and how this guy, million bucks á"("á"( that. >> seriously? >> of course, look -- >> the same day that he called the president or the white house and apologizes, in like, what, less than 24 hours later he's having a fund-raiser? >> he's having a fwund raiser and he's agreeing on let's agree that a congressman wishes that committee gain worldwide attention. he probably won't be doing this again. he made a mistake politically. and this helps the democrats in the sense that obama has one job. to get his democrats together. he has enough votes to get what he

nixon in '72, we didn't mention mcgovern's name. he didn't. everybody else goes after him.hat's the way to do it. >> you are assuming that this is a hatchet job that is being done on the president. , no it isn't a hatchet job being done on the president. and so hatchet people shouldn't be the people answering. he needs to say, i've got to put on the docket a vote on whether or not an insurance company can turn you down. i'm going to put on the docket whether or not insurance companies can bounce your numbers up on the co-pay side. and i want a vote on each one of those. he should go one after another. >> you said earlier, he's got to say they're laying without using the words. in other words going after them. don't use the president of the united states. >> mr. mayor, your final thought on. this up he should go on the sunday shows and do his things? >> he is going to do his thing. he is going to be spectacular. no matter what question they put to him, this is guy who can arns. he is persuasive. people voted for him out of hopeful he has to reestablish that in order to contr

bill clinton and taylor branch actually shared an apartment together in texas while working on the mcgovernso this tiny little apartment in texas with a future president, secretary of state and pulitzer prize winning historian all coming together for a presidential campaign. >> i'm wonder what fast food they were eating. so they got together later when in 1992, the president, he called them out of the blue, taylor branch and what was his offer. >> taylor was very surprised because he said when they parted ways in 1972, there was a bit of a disconnect between him and bill clinton in particular. and in that disconnect, he felt like hillary was split between them not in any personal way but as a political matter. taylor felt after the '72 campaign that he had been disillusioned by the whole process of the campaign and recognizing that not a lot was going to be done for the vietnam war. so he felt like bill clinton's ambition to get into politics was a self-serving desire. >> it's interesting because these tape roerds happened all over the place, day and night. the extent of which those recordi

i mean, richard nixon was what, 142 points ahead of george mcgovern when watergate started. it's all about the human frailties and human stupidities of people doing things that they knew in kindergarten they weren't supposed to do. and most of those scandals are in my opinion just that simple. i mean, as soon as you see it on television, nobody has to say, well, boy, what a dumb alings. -- what a dumb ass. and there is that basic level. the second thing that usually happens is sort of a two-edged -- two sides of the coin. they are usually all personal. you don't see people having scandals about substantive policy issues, about what we should do fixing the price of prescription drugs. it's about women and sex and it's personal scandals that drives so much of this. and not policy issues. and the flip side of that is one of the seven deadly since is hubris. the notion that somehow it doesn't apply to me, the rules. i can get by with this. i got 48 staff guys running around here all day telling me i'm the greatest thing since sliced bread. and standing in line to figure out ways

someone from c-span revenues article quoting ex-senator mcgovern, saying we should open of medicare. last night i saw special on pbs with an american doctor who said the same thing. the doctor last night said opening medicare to the uninsured -- and they say many of the uninsured are eligible for medicaid, and if the woman who called in previously is correct that it is difficult to get into medicaid -- then if that is true, it should be made easier. what about a flat 5% tax coming off your income tax to buy into medicare if you earn $50,000 or less? if you earn $100,000 or less may be 7.5% tax. maybe with a cap of 10%. that is my first idea. my second idea -- and i will be quick. liability insurance to business. could the insurance companies' form together to deny liability coverage to businesses for claims that arise out of the employment of undocumented workers? this would force all businesses in the west to hire illegal workers. it would have read away -- it would help right away. -- this would force all businesses in the u.s. to higher legal workers only. host: this editorial doe

in a few minutes, we are going to speak with william mcgovern of the "wall street journal" serving as board member. he says the obama presidency needs to move more to the right in order to get an agenda done. first, a news update. >> president obama starts september with a briefing on the h1n1 to one flew virus. hhs secretary kathleen sebelius, janet napolitano, and director of the cdc will outline the government's plan in response to an outbreak. later on, there will be a dinner highlighting the contributions of muslim americans, and celebrating ramadan. the recommendations, after a year-long investigation of the air ambulance industry, following nine helicopter crashes from december 2007 to october 2008. more on the release of the convicted lockerbie bomber. a columnist is responding to remarks by chuck schumer who suggested that sanctions be imposed against britain for the release. he says the senator's comments are deeply on helpful and insulting at a time when more than nine dozen trips are fighting shoulder to shoulder with u.s. troops in afghanistan. those are some of the lates

this from george mcgovern says -- is simple. medicare for all. the ft one simple healthcare we can achieve it with a simple sentence, congress hereby extends medicare to all americans. meanwhile, from those washington paper, their view is that it takes guts for democrats to claim that a bill takes health insurance will encourage more people to get private insurance. this fine pint -- at every turn costs are increased with no way for industry to recoup the money. over time this will drive private companies out of business. we're asking you about these tea party protests with hundreds along the mall in washington yesterday. what is next? how is this impact the debate here on the hill? good morning. caller: yes, i am concerned about how the money is being channeled to these two parties -- tea parties and his wonder if the k-street corporate lawyers who are leading us into corporate international fascism as with united healthcare with the $1.3 billion parachute plan for his retirement, and you think back to 1922 when henry ford wrote a book about the

the unions went after george mcgovern his many of you are old enou to remember. in deference to george i want to read -- it is interesting with return code. pending legislation is a disturbing, un democratic overreach, that legislation is call the employee free choice act. i am sad to say it runs counter to ideals that were once at the core of the movement. workers would lose their freedom to express their freedom in private, the right to make a decision without anyone peering over their shoulder free from fear of reprisal. even on arbiation, mr. mcgovernment compulsory arbitration, was the government is dictating to employees what they will win or lose in the deal with no opportunity to approve the agreement, watch employees pay union dues to get such a contract? for the employment choice act. i do not believe the votes will be there. it is just a question of time of actually educating policy decision makers so they know what is in the bill. employee free choice act is out there. it appears that the majority it is not moving until the free choice act is done wit

mcgovern, for five minutes. mr. mcgovern: madam speaker, i ask unanimous consent to speak for five minutes and to revise and extend my remarks and insert extraneous material into the record. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. mr. mcgovern: madam speaker, on sunday an historic event took place in havana, cuba. 2.2 million attended an all-star concert made up of the top pop, salsa stars. the concert known as paz sin fronteras was the dream of cuban grammy winner juanez and miguel bozella of spain. the message of the peace without borders concert is to circumvent politicians and using the medium of music, speak directly to young people and encourage them to think in fresh ways. the change -- to change their way of thinking and leave behind the old way of politics, hatreds and have locked too many people into violence, poverty and dispair, dividing them from one another. it's an attempt to break down barriers and ask people to join in common purpose. both the united states and cuban governments helped facilitat

recently, the unions went after george mcgovern, which many of you remember, for his opposition to the employment free choice act. i want to read what exactly he did say. i find it is interesting now that the union is a turncoat. as a longtime friend of labor unions, i must raise my voice against pending legislation about management and labour. that legislation is called the employer free choice act. i am sad to see it runs counter to ideas that were once at the court to the labor movement. they would lose the freedom to express their desire to make a decision without anyone over their shoulder without fear of reprisal. and even on arbitration, he said that it is a government dictating to employees with no opportunity to approve the agreement. why should employees' pay union dues to pick get such a contract? i do not think the employees are there for the employment choice act. i do not believe the votes will be there. it is just a question of time of actually educating policy decision makers so they know what is in the bill. employee free choice act is out there. it appears that the ma

. >> reporter: massachusetts congressman jim mcgovern describes himself this way. >> i'm a proud liberal democrat. >> reporter: he strongly supports a government-run health care option. but says the president's address helped convince him to be willing to compromise. >> we need meaningful health care reform. and it may not be everything i want. i mean, i'm a single payer person. but at the end of the day, if it moves the ball forward, then i think it's going to be worth supporting. >> reporter: to be sure, some liberal democrats are still firmly entrenched. >> we don't have health care reform unless we have a public option. >> reporter: but the house speaker even softened her stance. this often repeated line in the sand -- >> there's no way i can pass a bill in the house of representatives without a public option. >> reporter: now noticeably absent. >> this is about a goal. it's not about division. as long as our goal of affordability and accessibility and quality, then we'll go forward with that bill. >> reporter: that's a telltale sign that liberal democrats are now more accepting of t

recently, the unions went after george mcgovern, which many of you remember, for his opposition to thent free choice act. i want to read what exactly he did say. i find it is interesting now that the union is a turncoat. as a longtime friend of labor unions, i must raise my voice against pending legislation about management and labour. that legislation is called the employer free choice act. i am sad to see it runs counter to ideas that were once at the court to the labor movement. they would lose the freedom to express their desire to make a decision without anyone over their shoulder without fear of reprisal. and even on arbitration, he said that it is a government dictating to employees with no opportunity to approve the agreement. why should employees' pay union dues to pick get such a contract? i do not think the employees are there for the employment choice act. i do not believe the votes will be there. it is just a question of time of actually educating policy decision makers so they know what is in the bill. employee free choice act is out there. it appears that the majority it

recently, the unions went after george mcgovern, which many of you remember, for his opposition to the employment free choice act. i want to read what exactly he did say. i find it is interesting now that the union is a turncoat. that the union is a turncoat. as a longtime friend of labor unions, i must raise my voice against pending legislation about management and labour. that legislation is called the employer free choice act. i am sad to see it runs counter to ideas that were once at the court to the labor movement. they would lose the freedom to express their desire to make a decision without anyone over their shoulder without fear of reprisal. and even on arbitration, he said that it is a government dictating to employees with no opportunity to approve the agreement. why should employees' pay union dues to pick get such a contract? i do not think the employees are there for the employment choice act. i do not believe the votes will be there. it is just a question of time of actually educating policy decision makers so they know what is in the bill. employee free choice act is out

want to talk about bill clinton and the cover day. 79 interviews given to taylor branch, george mcgovern'sampaign manager in texas in 1972. but a lot of really interesting stuff. he'd call up clinton -- clinton would call up taylor branch in the afternoon and say i've got a couple of hours at night. clinton loves to talk, loves to talk about himself, obviously. and interesting things that happen. here is one tidbit. boris yeltsin's late night drinking in 1995 almost created an international incident because the russian president was standing outside blair house in the middle of the street in his underwear just slurring and stumbling when the secret service a little found him there, only in his underwear, standing alone on pennsylvania avenue trying to tell a cab he wanted a pizza. >> boris yeltsin. >> then they found him the next night, the same thing. avoided security, was drinking again and almost got shot by somebody. they thought he was an intruder. >> the rules behind interviews were, i'll tell you this stuff but you can't use it until -- >> i guess so, until after his on memoir. ther

>> reporter: jim mcgovern describes himself him this way. >> a proud liberal government. >> reporter:ss to him that he needed to be willing to compromise. >> we need meaningful health care insurance. i may not be everything we want. if it moves the ball forward, i think it's worth supporting. >> reporter: some liberal democrats are firmly entrenched. >> we don't have health care reform, unless we have a public option. >> reporter: but the house speaker even softened her stance. >> there is no bill i can pass a bill in the house of representatives without a public option. >> reporter: notably absent. >> this about is about a goal of affordability, quality, and acceptability, we'll go forward. >> reporter: liberal democrats are more accepting of this reality. any health care bill must be conservative enough to pass the much more moderate senate. pelosi signalled the house will not act until it's clear what the senate finance committee will produce. their proposal has no public option. and on other issues, democratic chairman boasted the president's new man tracks with their theirs. >> v

it says that the administrative costor medicare are very hoe and it is -- very low and i think mcgovernhas said, several people have, but for me to say my quick few points. quick conditions, exclusions, deductibles, co-pays, i think you are right on. you should be the healthcare czar as far as i'm concerned. but i don't understand how when you have an insurance policy, healthcare insurance policy and you have this myriad of exclusions that the average person doesn't even -- when you buy insurance, you should have insurance. but a simple guy like myself must understand, i have a deductible, i know what it is. i understand if i have a co-pay i know what it is. but when you have exclusions written in fine print and of course the issue of preconditions is now being dealt with supposedly. i don't know how they can get away with it. you would think you buy an insurance policy for yourself and you anticipate that you are covered and then when it comes -- i think a lot of people you see the c-span moderate oors as are you happy with healthcare i think a lot of people you are asking are people w

in the house, congressman jim mcgovern, a democrat, has talked about it as well.ident. we think the president is doing a much better job in this area than the previous president. but we owe him the advice that the senate and the house are supposed to provide on foreign policy. and it's essential. we lost over 45 americans in july and over 50, probably, in august. this is something the american people have to have explained to them. >> you're suggesting a flexible timetab timetable under which u.s. troops would be removed from afghanistan. the question many people might raise is, could that cede parts of afghanistan back to taliban control and then they invite al qaeda back in and then the united states is back to square one. >> you can draw that scenario or look what's happening right now. significant areas of afghanistan already under the control of taliban. we may be losing ground there, and many people believe that continuing an occupation or something that's seen as an occupation, continuing to build up foreign troops in afghanistan is the exact formula to inc

i mean, mcgovern, all these people lost children to suicide. the secular success were the solution then you won't have wealthy people losing children to drug addiction or suicide. so whatever you do, it has to have a moral and spiritual dimension to it. and that's what our kids are excited about. they don't believe the conservatives know how to have fun. [laughter] >> god bless you. [applause] >> thank you. i'll take questions. [applause] >> thank you. >> bob's agreed to take a few questions. and please don't yell them out. bob, you choose the people and i'll bring the microphone to them. >> this lady? hold on. >> you're right on. i'm a god-fearing christian. my question to you is the following: i say this to people. i'm not from colorado. i'm from wisconsin. but i've lived all over, including the dreaded california. but my question is the following, and probably an answer as well. it appears that america has lost -- or at least the american government has lost its first two loves, the love of god and thinking that they're above god and losing