these two photographs or four actually, lake,meed, looks like that and the other lake, powell. >> this is courtesy of doctor read mond, you should. he's doing wonderful work on the climate. what we have here is a temperature slide from the lower basin starting about 1890 to current and it looks much like the slide of worldwide temperature. the annual data is red and the blue is $1,130,569 running mean and this two degree fahrenheit increase. the upper basin numbers are comparatively about 1 point 5 degrees and in the little inset here you can see, what's happening nationally during that period. you know las vegas wins the record for many many things and they win nationally for the highest temperature increase during that same period of time. another slide from doctor redmond, he swapped the colors to red is the $1,130,569 year running mean. what you see is very little trend over this one hundred year period. it's interesting to look that low period numbers here at the end and the lots of variability you see here in recent years. in 2002, and 04 and 06, the basin lost enormous amounts o

and we love fort meed. these are fehrly -- these are federal facilities. the fact is we have dropped in our business ratings significantly. we have 216,000 marylanders out of work. the tax foundation, various rating groups rate us one of the worst business environments in the country because we've gone from the 20s to the 40s. when i was first elected, is maryland a pro-business state? we were in the 30s. when we left office, we employed under four. we were in the 7 also. now we're back -- 70s. now we're back in the 30s. the largest tax increase in maryland, interest groups controlling the agendas of state government. job creation is the issue in this campaign. who best to create private sector jobs? governor, we're not talking about public sector jobs. maryland always creates public sector jobs. wear good at that. lieutenant brown has been in charge of that operation but we brought brac here that was the great success of our administration. we need to create private sector jobs, the jobs that really count to help with our underpinnings with regard to the

. >> it makes meed. >> they wouldn't say hicky. new yorkers to use that language. i wonder what they would have come up there if these same guys were in the business. whatever. >> let me say this. >> go to this question. >> let me say this if i may -- >> why don't you debate your opponent. it sounds like you have the goods on him here. he's basically an out of towner, you argue. >> what debate. >> you want to debate him. >> chris, we want a debate. we're going to have a debate. we'll have as many debates as they want. the problem that they have is that there's two other candidates. i was the secretary of state. i go around the state and we've got 42,000 kids to register to vote. teaching democracy. the other two candidates, we have a candidate -- two other candidates that basically they say, well, they're not really contenders but they qualify to be on the ballot and they should be in the debate. that's what it's all about. >> you want a four-way? >> well, you have to. how are you going to eliminate people to qualify to be on the b

journalist says that while putin enjoys the support, big businesses meed dvedev. >> a very intelligentan putin. sewell read. pretty sure of himself. >> some believe they are two sides of the same coin but pundits say when it comes to relations with the united states they are quite different. >> while putin is said to look more to the east medvedev is said to want a real partnership with america. he recently hosted california governor arnold schwarzenegger to discuss a role for california entrepreneurs in russia's planned silicon valley. he vowed to crack down on corruption to help facilitate foreign investment but so far has not. >> the country is totally corrupt. there is a great russian saying about the fact that a fish rots from the head. >> repex of dissent is also an ongoing theme in russia and a second group of students made a calendar on that scene. opposition rallies are regularly put down with strong arm tactics. analysts say russian leaders justify this in the name of stablizing the country. >> i mean they -- we had democracy in the '90s and we nearly collapsed. so now we wil

ford meed, florida. what it costs to operate congress. caller: good morning. mr. barton, i'm looking at the numbers that you are presenting and it's real numbers. the sad part about it is that while we have partisan bickering with everything else in this country, we see that we have a real bipartisan effort in making sure that we, the taxpayers, do not realize kind of the costs it's costing us for this government to run and these people's salary. and even after they leave, the costs that they'll cost us to keep maintaining them. that's one of the things i wanted to comment on. if you can comment on whether is this something that the federal government or the house will look into as far as to curb some of this cost? and if there's a report on that? and as far as, i just wanted to point one thing. this is one of the places where, as a citizen i go to real and -- news or comments as to what, how this country is running. the sad part this morning i'm looking, and i was very amazed. at one point i wanted to ask you whether or not you are sitting there on the, it sounds