or as we like to say at the time we had the second best tax policy in missouri at the time. after that, he went to the u.s. senate in the turbulent and exciting years of the 1990's when we balanced the budget, produced surplus, did do welfare reform, criminal justice reform, regulatory reform in a broad range of areas, as well as cutting taxes a number of times. mr. ashcroft was at the cent over much after thoove activetism he became attorney general of -- in 2001, i believe in february of 2001. those of us who knew him realized that at the time he was enjoying that office immensely for seven months. and then the united states was attacked in september of 2001. he's going to address, i'm sure, many of the issues he had to deal with in those days in the context of looking at the development of those issues constitutionally but i'll say, when i'm asked today, and i do get asked this a lot because i do a lot in the area of anti-terror, when i asked why the united states has not been successfully attacked again since september of 2001, i usually offer as the two top are reasons,

the gentleman from missouri. mr. graves: thank you, mr. chairman. i yield back the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields back the balance of his time. the gentlelady from new york. ms. velazquez: mr. chairman, i yield myself the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlelady is recognized. ms. velazquez: mr. chairman, the face of american small business is changing and rapidly. 20 years ago entrepreneurs were likely to rely on loans and credit cards to start up or expand their businesses. this meant delays of most. but stayed's start-up costs have grown dramatically. this has caused many small companies to turn to equity investment, particularly those in high growth, technology-based sectors which show the greatest promise to create new jobs. for this firm, the assets are not building or machinery. they are people, ideas, and skills. for this new generation, the old method of ensuring capital through debt is no longer sufficient by itself. in a world where revolutionary new products are conceived and companie

the chair: the gentleman from missouri is recognized. mr. graves: thank you, madam chair. thank you, mad cram chair for recognizing me -- madam chair for recognizing. i rise in support of the amendment to enact a program to target investment in certain industries. the selection of the applicant should be based on the likelihood the venture compap company will make those amendments. i believe it clarifies the bill and support it and yield back. the chair: the gentleman yields back the balance of his time. the gentlewoman from california. ms. sanchez: first i would like to thank our great chairwoman of the small business committee. i nooice she's a little under the weather today so we really appreciate she would come down and speak on our amendment. as a californian i continue to go back every week to my district and our small businesses are ailing. they are asking for help. they are holding on. a lot of them have not been able to make it through. those who are still holding on are waiting for us to help them, to do something. about a month ago i had our chairman bernanke be

the gentleman from missouri. >> thank you, mr. speaker. mr. chairman. i yield myself such time as i may consume. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized. >> thank you, mr. chairman, mr. chairman, today i rise in opposition to h.r. 5297, the small business lending fund act. although my colleagues on the other side of the aisle claim other side of the aisle claim this bill would

in a rural missouri. president truman regarded farming as good training for future managers of affairs. he said, "i thought that by passing mules and -- cussing mules and planting corn, i could overcome by shyness and amount to something." the world of agriculture is evolving. we must evolve with it in order for our rural communities to pight -- to drive. -- to thrive. unlike the young people here to stand so that we can recognize it -- i would like the young people here to stand so that we can recognize them. they are the future generations of farmers in our country. let us recognize them. [applause] we must expand international trade opportunities for our farmers. here in missouri, we have lost 37,000 jobs both upon the farm and off, -- we have 37,000 jobs but on a farm and off. world demand for our products is increasing, but so is competition among suppliers. we must be able to compete successfully for the export opportunities of the 21st century. there must be better trade and more open access to glo

the chair recognizes the gentleman from missouri. mr. carnahan: mr. speaker, i reserve the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman reserves the balance of his time. mr. smith: mr. speaker, i yield back. the sseaker pro tempore: the gentleman from nebraska yields back. the gentleman from missouri. mr. carnahan: mr. speaker, i, too, yiild back the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from missouri yields back the balance of his time. the question is willlthe house suspend the rules and agree to house resolution 1407. those in favor say aye.% those opposed, no. in the opinion of the chair, 2/3 being in the affirmative, the rules are suspended -- the gentleman from missoori. mr. carnahan: mr. speaker, i request the yeas and nays. the speaker pro tempore: the yeas and nays are requested. all those in favor of taking this vote by the yeas and nays will rise and remain standing until counned. a sufficient number having arisen, the yeas and nays are ordered. pursuant to clause 8 of rule 20 and the chair's prior announc

the chair: the gentleman from missouri yields back the balance of his time. the gentleman from oregon. mr. schrader: i appreciate the gentleman from missouri's concerns. do i take issue with them. to prevent fraud and abuse, unfortunately that does happen in tough economic times, these payments are made to the lenders to make sure they go back to where they are supposed to be as the taxpayers have authorized under this amendment and bill. the 7-a program is the most popular program out there. it's something banks are familiar with. and it is the small struggling businesses that are likely to take a loan out for under 300,000 that are most in need. this program is targeted tell more rarery -- temporary, and timely. small business lending in my state is half of what it was two years ago. we need everything in the tool box so they lend to small businesses, this state, this country is willing to back them up and help these small businesses pay their loans if they need to during tough stretches and times. i think if you are in favor of small business and lending a

missouri alone, we bought out over 40,000 pieces of property. and in missouri, a little town, 18 businesses and 100 and something residents, when governor carnahan and i went there, the mayor proudly took us in to city hall and showed us high water marks with the dates on the wall. they kept moving their shelves up to protect the city reference. we relocated that spire town except one small business, and that was the mayor's business, a small engine repair shop. and we built a new school that was seismic resistant and also tornado resistant. it was one of the dome schools with natural lighting coming in to it. in iowa, we bought i don't know how many residents along the river, and what was unique about it, all of the property we bought out, we put deed restrictions on it where no one could ever build on it again. they could use it for soccer fields, baseball fields, recreational, but no building. and in iowa, they worked to plant all that area back in the natural flowers, natural grass, and in just two to through years, the ecosystem all came ba

and the gentleman from missouri has already plained e bull points of cap and the carbon tation, heah care taes, ployers tax, if th don't fer government-approved plan and medical dece manufturers taxed the sales price of their roducts and en of course the last two, the death tax, taxn inheritance, and capital gas tax. one that's not on that particular slide, mr. speaker, at is really tublesome, of course, is raising the x on dividendfrom 15% tohatever ons marginal rate might be. and with president obama planninto let the bush tax cuts expire, that mns all the marginal rates willasand the highestatll go up to 39.6. so, individuals ithat income tax bracket wilbe paying not only 39% on theirarned income, but 39% -- 36.9n fact, on capital gains -- 39.6%, i fac on capital gains. what a job kil mr. speak, to lleople, you're going to have to payhis mu to invest. the stock market is already struggling and do we want to deal it death low? it make noes sensehatsoever. you know, i wanted, ithe genem will allow me, i know 'll engagen a lloq back and forth, but, mr. speaker, i diwa to mention one

or as we like to say at the time we had the second best tax policy in missouri at the time. after th, he went to the u.s. senate in the turbulent and exciti years of the 1990's when w balanced the budget, produced surplus, did do welfare reform, criminal justice reform, regulatory reform in a broad range of areas, as well as cutting taxes a number of times. mr. ashcroft was at the cent over much after thoove activetism he became attorney general of -- in 2001, i believe in february of 2001. those of us who knew him realized that at the time he was enjoying that office immensely for seven months. and then the united states was attacked in september of 2001. he's going to address, i'm sure, many of the issues he had to deal with in those days in the context of looking at the development of those issues constitutionally but i'll say, when'm asked today, and i do get asked this a lot because i do a lot in the areaf anti-terror, when i asked why the unitedtates has noteen successfully attacked again nce september of 2001, i usually offer as the two top are reasons, the vigorous a

hazleton, missouri, bob on the democratic line. good morning, bob. caller: yeah, i think that a lot of the frustration people are feeling is that no one is being held responsible for this. the president has stated he is looking to determine who's as he should kick. quite frankly, if that was reagan, he would have went in there and fired the entire department can call the press in to show an empty office. host: can i get your reaction to president obama asking a former district attorney and inspector general to come in and be in charge of raising efforts for the mineral management service. partially to eliminate conflict of interest to eliminate ovvrsight. what do you think about that? host: -- caller: frankly,,i do not know why they make it so complicated. they had a job to do, pack their stuff up and get the heck out of there. if they are not doing their job we might as well have an empty office so that we can put cops on the street that know what they're doing and willing to do their job. most of florida, k, independent line. caller: i was not -- h

go. >> reporter: you could also say at least in springfield missouri these days that banks might still be too chicken to lend. putting credit out of reach of many a small business , no matter how earnest its efforts. >> brown: and now to the world cup in south africa, where tensions are rising in some surprising ways. after oh, so many low-scoring games there was a sudden glut of goals today as portugal poured it on north korea 7-0. but it's been the poor performances of several european powers that has stolen the headlines so far. england and italy have both played two lack luster ties. then there's the french who seem to be out to set the wrong kind of world cup record for the bizarre. this weekend french striker was dismissed from the team after a heated argument with the coach . in response, his teammates refused to practice. >> no one can permit themselves to act like that either in the dressing room or elsewhere. the exemplary nature of high level sportsman is something important especially in football. no one can act this way. >> brown: today the coach said some of his players m

the gentleman from missouri. mr. akin: i think we were just talking a little bit about the situation in the gulf that has gotten everybody's attention. my background's engineering, gentleman, and my first reaction when there's a problem is how do you fix it. and what is puzzling me and made me pretty frustrated, it seems the administration is more in affixing blame than the problem. president bush took a whale of the beating after hurricane katrina because it took him two or three days after he had been rebuffed by the governor and mayor of louisiana there -- new orleans and took him a couple of days before they got going and our fema didn't respond very well, federal response was a bit weak in terms of the magnitude of the disaster. and yet by comparison, what we're dealing with here in the gulf is it took 50 days for the president to call ahead of b.p. he had the power, if i'm not mistaken, he had the power to basically declare that a national emergency and get a team of people, fusion cell, get the top resources i

. >> the chair recognizes the gentleman from missouri. the chair recognizes the gentleman from oklahoma, mr. sullivan. >> i waved my opening statement. >> the chair recognizes the gentleman from alabama, mr. griffith. >> i want at thank you for calling this important hearing+ today and the witnesses for taking time to come before a subcommittee to discuss drilling in our current and future energy portfolio. our number-one priority must be stopping the flow of oil. it is the job of this congress to do whatever we can to aid and unified command to reach his goal. this is engineering inaction. is not time to put together knee-jerk energy policy that could jeopardize our security in the future. it is imperative that this committee remember that the united states is one of the global eeergy economies, and therefore it must take into consideration that we are only 4% of the world population. if we enact policies that draw drilling and out of u.s. waaers, these companies will not cease to drill. we will cease to be able to ensure that oil and ga

he is a fellow missouri him. he has accomplished so much across a wide range of responsibilities and offices across the year. it would embarrass him for me to try to list them all. i do want to touch on the highlights. john ashcroft entered office for the first time in 1973 when he became missouri state officer. he followed that with two terms as missouri's attorney general. he followed that with two terms as governor. silage is summarized as by saying and i would summarize those pressing wheat traded 330,000 jobs. the balance the budget eight years in a row. he left office with a surplus. we had the 49th lowest tax burden per capita in the whole country. we had the second-best tax policy in the country. after that, he went to the united states senate. we did criminal justice and regulatory reform on a broad range of issues as well as cutting taxes. dealers said the center of much of that activity. he became attorney general in 2001. those of us who knew him realize at the time that he was enjoying that office im

organization prepares for its convention, one nation, one dream, the title, to be held in kansas city, missouri, on july 10 through july 15. at that time hundreds of naacp leaders and members will consider bowled and innovative a-- bold and innovative approaches tackling the 21st century. among those leaders will be benjamin todd jealous, the president of the naacp, the current chairman, roselyn brock, former chairman, washington bureau director, hillary shelton, and wendall anthony. all exhibited the fearless dedication on building on the naacp's great legacy. this includes many great heroes that we know, dr. martin luther king jr., who abust is in our capitol rotunda, coretta scott king, his widow, rosa parks, medgar evers, benjamin hooks. and i must mention, a.w. willis, johnny turner and others. that you are unwavering commitment to promote civil rights for all americans is a great tradition that the naacp continues today. i am a member of the naacp and am proud of it. i encourage members to support the naacp. i congratulate the naacp on its 101st milestone and urge my colleagues to support

. >> the chair recognizes the gentleman from missouri. jayden thank you, mr. chairman. thaak you for holding this hearing. i have a prepared statement that i will put in the record. let me summarize that a little bit. i am glad to have the hot individuals here who was mr. barton said have so much at stake and has so much potential to be part of the solution. i hope we can use this hearing to understand why our government and british petroleum could possibly have been so poorly prepared for this disaster. certainly the people in the fishing industry and tourism industry want answers to this problem and thhre's plenty of blame to go around. i don't think the administration or the government ageecy has done everything that they have -- that they can to be prepared. incredibly, seven weeks after that deepwater horizon explosion, we're still lacking resources for containment. the booms, the skimmers, the things they should have been readily available, they're still not apparently there in the ways that we need them to go. weeks ago i introduced legislation that would require

chairman, i'd like to yield such time as he may consume to the gentleman from missouri, mr. graves. the chairman of the -- the ranking member of the small business committee. the chair: the gentleman reserves. the gentleman from texas reserves. the gentleman from virginia. mr. nye: i yield to my colleague from new york, the chairwoman of the small business committee, one minute. the chair: the gentlelady from new york is recognized for one minute. ms. velazquez: thank you. i want to thank the gentleman for yielding. mr. chairman, since the financial crisis happened in 2007, much is being done to help banks and financial institutions stay solvent. those steps were necessary. i firmly believe that without them the financial crisis would have deepened. unemployment would have been higher, more americans would have suffered and our economic recovery may have been delayed for many years. despite these efforts, our entrepreneurs are still struggling to tap into the credit that they need. as we look at this problem once more, it's vital that we ensure that the benefits of this bill reach s

one of the thing -- this was in missouri in 2008. about 75% of the registrants were people who are not new registrants, but people had moved from one place to another in missouri. why not have a system in the agency's system of when people move within the same state, the registration moves with them for some marc and finally for those that fall within the cracks, why not allow them to register and states to have the highest participation levels in this country are those who have election day registration. so those are some ways that we can really advance the process forward, have millions of more people but during the process, and create a simple, more effective sample of voting. thank you. [applause] >> thank you, john. we're going to move into the portion where do it question and answer period before we do, i wanted to welcome and thank spencer over 10 who is here from the department of justice for being with us. thank you very much for coming. we're going to open this up for questions and answers, and that the of our panelists a c

this graduate student out of the university of missouri started barack obama-1 million strong. i said i might -- i would sit on my couch and refresh this facebook group every couple of minutes and watch the increase in size and it was dramatic. that was our first first look at facebook and what it potentially was going to matter for the presidential campaign for barack obama. from there, i reached out to meredith and tobin and others involved in the obama facebook groups to develop direct connection with them. i want to get an understanding of what they were doing and why they're doing it and what was motivating them and why barack obama and white 2008. all of those questions, but from there, one of the first people hired in the campaign was chris hughes who developed facebook sites. we really let young people develop the programs to communicate with young people. it was not me or others in the campaign in the older category trying to figure this out for it was empower young people who got this and frankly were part of it and did it to figure out how to do that. it was letting

they had a small facility in missouri and one to decide where to consolidate. i was asked to call the ceo of this company and explain to him that we have an education system that was on the move and would work with his employees if they chose south carolina. the day after i called, they chose south carolina. he said it was the first time anyone running the education system had called him for a precaution this is of -- a relocation decision. >> centre shaheen, you say rural counties cannot be left behind. you say you would provide desperately needed funds for these areas through banks. how can you help the worker in marion county whose plants were shut down to get back to work? >> the key there will be the new department of work force. the matching of employees to jobs is something that south tirana has not done well over the past few years. we have an opportunity to control this agency and we have to do that. the second thing is the use of our technical college system. we have one of the best systems in the country and we should be proud of this. there is poten

congressman tom akin, republican from missouri. he also has a son serving in the region. we would like to ask his perspective of the decision and policy in afghanistan. that will beginning at 8:30 eastern time. next, we'll introduce you to the white house national drug control policy director. he will talk about this nation's policy about illegal drug use and the effect on society. we will be right back. [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2010] >> this weekend on c-span2's "book tv," recounting of the 1945 death penalty trial of willie mcgee and the beginnings of the civil-rights movement. on "after awards" 45 days in a dark cell after being captured by taliban fighters. he writes about it in "captive." veteran wall street journal reporter on an inside account of rupert murdoch's purchase of "the wall street journal." find the entire schedule at book tv.org and find us on twitter. >> starting monday, once the confirmation hearings for supreme court nominee elena kagan, live on the c-span network and a

david, and it is columbia, missouri. i can hear everybody talking about all kinds of problems and stuff like that but nobody is trying to look for the solution. a simple solution would be to get a big casing made of steel and bring it out and set the casing on top of the oil leak with the hose coming off of the back so that all of the oil that is running free can be collected and place on the oil tankers such as the valdez and i'm wondering why nobody thought of doing that? why not captured the oil that is running free into the ocean instead of just letting it keeps running crazy? host: "the washington post" has -- yesterday there was disclosure and -- a lot of disclosure on capitol hill. looking at the connections between members of congress and their holdings in oil companies. let me move over to the chart next to it. back to telephone calls. texas, michelle, a republican line. caller: good morning. the $20 billion, i think that is great. i think the people in that region deserve to be compensated as fast as possible.

. >> lehrer: but republican kit bond of missouri said it would be too costly for small companies. >> i regret to say that this bill should be calledded the big oil gulf monopoly bill. the menendez bill would make operating in the gulf so expensive that only big companies could afford it giving them a virtual monopoly in the gulf. >> lehrer: in the meantime, members of the house began working on their own proposals. speaker nancy pelosi asked committee chairs to draft new regulatory legislation by the fourth of july. we get some reaction now from two senators, bill nelson is a democrat from the state of florida. john barasso, a republican from wyoming sorvtz energy and natural resources committee. senator barrasso , to you first, how do you feel about the way the u.s. government, the federal government has reacted and handled the oil spill thus far? >> i think they have not done an adequate job. it is day 51. it took them much too long, in my opinion, to get engaged, and even yesterday, the report came out that the president of the united states had still not talked to the c.e.o. of b

the mayor of slater, missouri, says, "i totally agree with you on the fact that people do not correspondil any more, and i am curious if you ever received this letter." let me see. no, mr. mayor, i don't think i ever got your letter. maybe it was lost in the mail. i frequently get a lot of letters about what i look like. this one from dennis ryan in clifton park, new york, says "i notice you wear your wristwatch with the dial facing inward. my dad did the same thing." yes, i wear it that way because it's easy to see what time it is, mr. ryan. didn't your father tell you that? my least favorite mail comes from people who want me to promote something. obviously, they don't know that i don't do that. i guess that's why someone sent me this michael jackson cutout paper doll book. here's a nice letter to the producer of "60 minutes" from someone named m. titus. mr. titus says about me, "he's not funny, he's not clever, he makes me dislike old men in general." next week, maybe i'll do a funny and clever piece about you, mr. titus. >> pelley: i'm scott pelley. we'll be back next week with anoth

toll from a flash flood in arkansas climbed to 20 today when another body was found in the little missouri river. last friday, before dawn, heavy rain sent a wall of water through a popular campground, while campers were still sleeping. flash floods also hit oklahoma city, oklahoma today, closing several interstates and streets. crews rescued at least 50 people, including a teenage girl clinging to a tree. japanese scientists have retrieved the first space capsule to return from a trip to an asteroid. it parachuted from a mother ship into australia's outback overnight. the larger spacecraft burned up as planned after a seven-year four-billion-mile journey. helicopters then ferried the scientists to a remote desert area to pick up the payload. the capsule was flown to japan where scientists will try to determine if it brought back any all street lost ground late in the day, over new worries about europe's finances. that's after the greek government's debt was lowered to junk status. the dow jones industrial average lost 20 points to close below 10,191. the nasdaq rose less than a point to c

they go straight up to northwestern arkansas and southwestern missouri which is the epicenter of the poultry industry and that is low costo us.. this can affect all of us as far as eating chicken. at this population crashes like the herring after the exxon valdez, chicken will skyrocket. >> on the way out, what would you say to the people around the country that are watching about why it is so important to build the science is there to treat the soil. you can treated with microbes so it will be safe. more importantly, resilient that can hold those islands in place and rebuild louisiana's wetlands. >> everybody needs to realize this is not a state problem. this is a national problem. this is by far the largest disaster that you are going to see in history i would say. especially if the oil keeps pumping like it is until late august or even longer. we need to do somethi to try and secure the coastline of louisiana. we already lost most of our first line of protection against her recants for new orleans. it is all to win to go away. once a tropical storm comes and washes that oil up int

the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from missouri controls the time. mr. akin: i'd yield to my good friend. >> thank you. i thank the gentleman and i'll be brief. i risen support of everything that my colleagues have said. the u.s.-israel relationship is a special relationship and it's a relationship that needs to be strengthened. mr. engel: the united states is israel's only true friend. in fact, when you look at the united natio or the so-called human rights council in the united nations, it's really a kangaroo cou stacked up against israel. no wonder israel doesn't accept what the so-called international body says about th because they can never do anything right. they're always condemn nod matter what they try, no matter what they do. my colleagues have pointed out that israel, like every other sovereign nation, has the right to defend itself, that israel has at least twice seized large catches of arms aboard iranian ships bound for hamas and hezblah and a blockade is an important security measures when employed in the face of hostility, such as that d

missouri, mike, independent line. what do you think about drilling in the gulf? caller: no, not the way they are going. it was your program that i've learned there was another valve that they could have put on their well, that a lot of the wells off the coastal have for one reason or another. this was a show yesterday or the day before. host: are you talking about the types of valves that the norwegians and the english use? caller: yes, sir. i have not seen anything on any of the other news channels pertaining to that. the only place i heard about that that it costs a half a million dollars for it to be installed. i understand they want complete control -- they have to get the oil, but they have to know what they are getting out of the well. all of these figures, i wondering if it is supply and demand. if somebody finds out how much oil is coming out of the holes and do the math and the average, it is like, the corporate world has got some control. if everybody else finds out how much there is in the ground, supply and demand, it would affect the cost. they are t

missouri, joe, independent line. good morning. caller: good morning.his might seem minuscule in the grand scheme, but i will tell you where i would like to see cuts, cuts in the salaries of the senate and the congress. they only need for 100 days each year. that is just ridiculous. also, in your retirement, there is no place in the private sector where it for a sinking codeword for eight years and draw retirement for the rest of their lives. that is just utterly ridiculous. host: congressman, do you make too much money? [laughter] guest: not according to my wife. [laughter] members of congress are paid well, no doubt about that. since arriving i have never voted for a salary increase. i never intend to. if one day we wake up and balance the budget, maybe at that point i might think i had earned it. there are many reasons i ran for congress but retirement was not even one of them. frankly i do not even know what the retirement program is. every american should be able to qualify for health care programs. i think that the main thing that joe has to say i

host: republican, kansasscity, missouri. caller: i think we should get out of afghanistan. we might have been doing the right thing at the very first trying to get obama -- but i think the heroine issue is something that we don't talk about enough. there may be money going to the taliban for the heroine, but we can take care of that problem in the united states by just making it worth nothing. that would take a lot of that money out. and i think our own government kinda fun of that money, too, because there is so much power when in this country right now, how could we actually be trying to stop it? host: this from "usa today," some numbers about the gulf oil spill. 67 days at has been spelling, up to 125 million gallons, according to recent government estimate -- this is also "usa today" this morning. it just an idea of some of the beaches that are open and some that are closed and some with warnings. and an idea of where the oil spill, the slick, is seen. you can see it here. this is where the sunken oil rig, this is where it all began. the only close the beach at this poi

joe, missouri. julie. caller: i have a couple of comments. one thing that bothers me is that he mentions that she has great empathy. in my view, and that they should not have anything to do with a supreme court justice. it is supposed to be about the constitution and law, not about feelings for a particular people. host: anything else? you said you had more. caller: yes, i had heard the press had tried to get some ideas from her brother, who supposedly has a radical liberal list views, and the press was shut out of his classroom when they tried to do that. i wonder why we do not see that in the press. host: have you seen that in the press? guest: yes, one of the papers released was her senior thesis from princeton university where she wrote about socialism. in the acknowledgment section, she references her brother and how he had been an inspiration to her, in terms of her course of study in the issue. of course, the press wanting to know about her, try to track him down. i was not one of them, so i cannot speak to that, but i understand he wa

host: kansas city, missouri, democratic line. paul. caller: thank you very much.ous callers just stole a lot of my fire, but i want to add a couple of things about the dispersements. ok, number one, i think they should just totally remove them. i saw something on tv where they've got a tube running down there and they're shooting there and they're shooting dispersement into the upcoming oil. now, here's the thing. while there may not be any specific research on this, there's tons and tons of information about the ecology of spreading pollution. and what they're doing here is they're going to have what's called utropicatio in n, an overabundance of one of the levels of plants and animals in the ocean. they're going to suck up the oxygen and cause dead zones. they're doing this to hide the oil. i agree with the guy. i don't agree with his solution that we should fire people. i think we need oil, and i'm 100% behind doing oil, but these guys tried to do this on the cheap. and they need to be accountable for that. we make sure we get it and get it safe. but right now,

louis, missouri. gloria democrat's line. caller: good morning. would just like to first of all refer to what an earlier caller said about opt 86 and what you have been discussing about optics. i am sick and tired about optics. that's an optical illusions. the media is portraying that optical is as important as being. it's not. i do have a question. why do you think president obama doesn't take the quote unquote opportunity of this disaster to lay the disaster squarely at the feet of the bush-cheney administration where it belongs? i do think it's time to put this disaster, this trageey of gigantic proportions exactly where it belongs. and one last comment to the gentleman who just called a little earlier about the leadership of barack obama. i shiver to think what would have happened if we would have had the alternate leadership in place during this dire situation. guest: well, i think that barack obama has suggested that bush's administration bears some of the cuppability. but i don't mean to focus on optics too much because i share your concern

louis, missouri. gerald on our independent line. thanks for waiting. go ahead. caller: yes. i'd like to ask your guest his thoughts on goldman sachs and b.p.'s c.e.o. selling stock days before the oil accident happened. guest: i help heard that one. i think for all of the -- i hadn't heard that one. i think for all of the incompetence and errors and inability to deal with this, it's the last thing that i think they would want to have happen. so it's hard for me to believe that they would sort of be aware that it was going to happen or a conspiracy theory on those lines. i don't think i buy that. host: los angeles, california, republican line. robert, good morning. caller: good morning. thank you for the call. i have a few quick questions that seem really obvious to me that have not been asked. what is b.p. going to do with the oil that they recovered, still? and what do we do with waste management with the snoil once you ccpture it, skim it? that's my question today. thanks for c-span. guest: good question. i'm now speaking from media reports that i've heard that there's dis

they lived in johnson county, missouri. one named burton, owned a dog named old drum.he was a great hunting dog. i'm quoting senator byrd. any time that dog barked one would know it was on the scent of a raccoon or other animal. a man raised live stopl and -- livestock and some of his calves were being killed by animal and he vowed to kill any animal that appeared on his property. someone said there is a dog in the yard. hornsby said shoot him. the dog was killed. the man didn't take it lightly. he went to court. thefs old drum -- this was old drum who was killed. he won the case and was awarded $25. he employed a lawyer by the name of george vest and he read -- senator byrd did -- the summation to the jury, and he did it without a note. and it so reminded me of all the things i heard on the floor of the senate from senator byrd. yes, the ambulance down in the valley, a piece of lengthy prose, and this without a note. he recited the summation to the jury by george vest. gentlemen of the jury, the best friend a man has in the world may turn against him and become his en

governor carnahan, missouri, and i said, mr. president, we cannot let people go back into those areas. do you know that he supported -- the senator supported with that money -- we were able to buy out and relocate people out of a floodplain so that they would never be flooded again. in missouri alone, we bought out over 4000 properties. in missouri, a little town, 18 businesses, 107 residents. when the governor and i went there, how the bamir proudly to bust into city hall and showed us the high water marks with the dates. they kept moving their shelves up to protect the city records. we relocated that entire town, except one small business -- and the mayor's business of a small engine repair shop. we built a new school with seismic resistance. it was also tornado-resistant. it was domed with natural lighting coming into it. in iowa, we bought out i did not know how many residents along the river. what was unique about it was that all the property we bought out -- we put the restrictions on it where no one could ever build there

i know that the secretary said retained.have been we are proud to house those weapons in missouri. what can we expect in terms of expect -- in terms of inspection and verification? how can i reassure all the great folks in missouri that the technology and the secrets that we have wicca b-2 fleet will not be in any way compromised? >> the capability that you describe is absolutely critical. one of the areas we look very carefully at was the preservation of the three legs. what does that mean in the future structure? we do not need to make any decisions with respect to that until seven years into the treaty. in terms of preserving the capability that we have, the technical capability that we have, there is nothing, from my perspective in terms of verification that would threaten that understanding. the treaty has a provision for 18 inspections per year, 10 of which are what i would called operational inspections. eight of those would be administrative kinds of inspections in support of the verification regime. there are more in terms of verifying the number of warheads that is there

a gun on senator thomas hart benton of misery on the senate floor, the old senate chamber -- of missourion the senate floor, the old senate chamber. you talk about fireworks, bitterness, and anchor and passion. -- and anger and passion. they were arguing over abolitionist legislation, petitions, the free state vs. the slave states. deep passions. foot do 8-foot drew a gun on thomas hart benton. -- foot drew a gun on thomas hart benton. he had made a vitriolic speech title of quote the crime of kansas," and he was sitting at his desk striking out the speech to his constituents, and a relative of sandrenter becker, o had been a subject of senator possible vitriolic invective, came in and said, "i want to settle a little matter with you. i did not like what you had to say about my kinsman. he proceeded to beat charles sumner with a cane. as sumner was rising, he ripped up his desk and he was out of the senate for about three years. things like that have happened. clay fought a duel with john randolph of virginia representative randolph. clay shot a hole through randolph's coat, whereupon ra

kansas city, missouri, justin, an independent color. caller: hi, thanks for taking my call. i think it is completely ridiculous. the first reaction -- we got into this for money, and now we're spending money and getting troops killed in general. it is ridiculous that 50 years ago people would be marching hundreds of thousands of people protesting the war like this, and now we just have to sit back and make the dollar just to survive. it is ridiculous that people are living homeless and starving here -- what can we help them? it is blasphemy have people have gotten so used to bloodshed that we just sit back and take it. host: the paper is reporting that drug use has increased in afafghanistan. it is taking a toll on the afghan population with roughly 800,000 afghan adults now using opium and other illicit drugs. jumping down, the defense the permit has identified over 1000 american service members who have died as a result of the afghan war. let's go to yardley, pa., rick, on the republican line. caller: the media tells us in so many ways, but they don't tell us that the tali

let's try to missouri, on our independent line. caller: i am a federal employee retired.ney in the gsp program and when the government runs out of money usually towards the end of the year, they take our money. is it my money at this point or does it belong to the federal government? if it is my money, do i have the right to tell them they cannot do that? guest: i have heard only good things about that particular program. the rates are reasonable. the fees are extraordinarily low. i have not heard that pension checks are withheld or held up for late. if that is happening, clearly you should speak to your representative or hr department. i have not heard that being an issue. host: we will try fort lauderdale, fla. again. caller: i was wondering, in the 1980's, there was a change in pension regulation. 35% of pension overage was determined an asset of the corporation. i was wondering if that percentage has gone up and what type of role does it have in current pensions? being from florida and our state legislature keeps trying to change our employees from a defined benefit p

. >> i am from missouri. >> right. go ahead. >> i think all of the incumbents will be out this year. >> all of them? >> yes. one of the things that the american people have to ask is if they support nafta. most of the incumbent's support this. if you vote for them, you are voting for outsourcing our businesses and our jobs in this country. >> ok. >> also, the lobbyists thing, we have to do something about that. it is very simple. we should put it on the vote in november. all lobbyists go to their local revenue office to give their contributions and then go from there to the democratic side or the republicans or the independence. do away with the lobbyists and it will turn this country around. the lobbyists are bought and paid for. they're not looking out for the american people and the american dream. >> looking at the brown campaign headquarters, he was elected governor back in 1974. he ran for president in 1976. he served as california governor and then served as mayor of oakland, california. now he is the california

graves of missouri. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized for two minutes. mr. graves: thank you, mr. speaker. mr. speaker, everyone agrees it's critical to restrict urel the regulatory side of our nation's financial sector to help prevent future crisis. unfortunately, not only does this conference report fail to achieve the most basic goal, it compreats harmful new hurdles for small businesses. as ranking member of the house small business committee i cannot support this legislation. some of my colleagues are quick to state publicly that small businesses are going to bring us out of this economic downturn yet they turn their backs from small firms and promote policies that hinder their growth. through this legislation, congress is once beginning ignoring the voice of the entrepreneur. the conference report includes a massive new government bureaucracy that supporters claim will take consumers from oversellers of credit. it will affect millions of credit transactions between businesses and their customers. even if it is credit regulated by institutions, it will

barack -- missouri. i do not know what the crime rate is over there. i don't imagine it is too high because everyone over there has an on regulated gun and kill themselves anytime they want. -- the national rifle association seems to make a big play and they have lobbyists and some of the politicians -- one lady said we have to use the second amendment to strengthen -- to straighten out the government. there are enough nuts out there running around with guns and people do stupid stuff like that. host: roy from richmond, virginia. caller: good morning. it is typical of the liberals. it is the thugs and the gangster culture and people living in miserable conditions and spreading misery with bullets and anything else they can spread it on america. liberals look for someone to sue like a gun manufacturer or someone to blame. the love to play the blame gamm. personal responsibility, people. individual freedom. that is what makes america great. if someone needs a shot gun to protect themselves, let them have their shotgun. fix your own problems. bring americ

for what purpose does the gentleman from missouri rise? >> to address the house for one minute. . the speaker pro tempore: without objection, so ordered. mr. cleaver: thank you, mr. speaker. i received a phone call. we spoke extensively but painfully about the pitiful action taken in this body yesterday. we denied unemployment benefits to american citizens who, through no fault of their own, became victims of the worst recession in u.s. history. they lost their jobs. this for me was a very, very low point. the senate has failed to approve summer jobs for youth as well as emergency tanf relief, temporary assistance for families in need. mr. speaker, when i came to congress i didn't sign up to make a mess but to make a difference. we are damaging the lives of men and women and painfully it is for political reasons. i went home last night ashamed of being in this body. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields back the balance of his time. for what purpose does the gentleman from indiana rise? >> i ask unanimous consent to address the house for one minute and to rev

kansas city, missouri. what is your comment is this caller: yes. how are you doing this morning? host: fine. thank you. caller: congress should be a war zone. we're fighting two illegal and immoral wars based on the lie of 9/11. so until they get it straight stnd people are held accountible who commit that had crime, they'll be at war for a long time. look what's happening in the gulf. we have more oil than we know what to do with. host: our address on the twitter account, twitter.comm c-span wj. good morning to you, elizabeth. caller: good morning, c-span. i just wanted to sy, i'm listening to all these callers. it is appalling to me that race has been the thing that the republicans are being blamed for. everybody says that they can't get along. that is not true. republicans and democrats have ideology that they don't agree with in many issues. they need to work together. yes. my opinion is that both parties have too many old, old-timers in there, and we need to get young, fresh blood. there are many issues in this country today that have never existed for years as long as i can

here is a call from missouri. jim, democrats line. caller: as terrible as the oil spill is -- and i'm glad criminal prosecution is aimed at bp -- but nobody seems to call into prosecution, the whole oil spill happened because of human negligence. when people die because of human negligence, it is called negligent homicide and no one is checking who is responsible -- which people made the wrong decisions that caused the deep water horizon to blow up and kill 11 people. i think that needs to be talked about. host: thank you. robert crawford tweets us -- >> is a call from tampa. -- next is a call from tampa. caller: we keep wanting to put the blame on this person or that person. that is not the issue. who cares who is to blame? what we need to do is get together as american people, we the people, like we used to be back in the early 1800's when people stood together and did what needed to be done. we need to get this oil picked up before it gets to our shores and stop laying around and saying, blame this one or that one. we need to get t