mr. brown: thank you, madam president. that 155,000 new workers have been certified -- that the new t.a.a. program since may 2009, 155,000 americans have been assisted under t.a.a.? mr. barrasso: madam president, i would be happy to, as a matter of record, submit for the record the government accountability office study that was reported by senator coburn and senator enzi to outline the entire study and the reason that i am objecting today. thank you, madam president. mr. brown: fair enough. madam president? the presiding officer: the senator from ohio. mr. brown: senator barrasso, if you'd be willing to give us more specifics, i -- first of all, 155,000 workers are -- i'm willing to go on the record with that. it's fact. it's very important to those 1 155,000 workers. i know a lot of them live in pennsylvania and ohio. i don't know how many of them live in wyoming. i could certainly find that out too. could you give us -- i understand your criticism of the recovery act. that's a debate for another time. i understand senat

. >> thank you very much, mr. brown. hello? >> yes. you're on the air. go ahead, joe. >> mr. brown, you sound like a very knowledgeable man on egypt and the middle east. aren't you proud that egyptian government didn't go chinese or iranian on their people? the military has stayed back, they've stayed out of the way, and they haven't done any shooting that we know of. secondly, shouldn't other countries where democracy was a form, i'm speaking about china and japan. although a lot of people know about china, japan is a very repressive country. political prisoners. please let's start a new system in japan and overthrow their system of corruption. thank you very much for your time. >> to joe's first point about the military and these scenes which we've been seeing over the last 12 days, tanks moving in but for the most part remaining peaceful. there have been some outbusses of demonstration, many deaths, but not to the level that one might have anticipated going into this. >> yes. i think that military right now is playing a fairly kind of dangerous game, or a game that's a litt

mayor, mr. brown. >> we have had tremendous leadership from the mayor's cabinet, city attorney's office, but also from the board of supervisors. with us is the president of the board of supervisors david chiu. welcome. >> thank you. first of all, i want to thank all of you for being here at this wonderful announcement. i want to thank all of my colleagues from the public sector world and your leadership for helping to rescue this incredible institution. as mayor brown said -- and i do not need to restate it. this institution is of critical importance to the arts world, to the asian community, to the storytelling of who we are as human beings. i am so honored to be an asian american representative here in san francisco and to have the largest art collection in the western world in our cities across the street from where i work is truly special. to have the 6000-year history, as depicted in the 17,000 artifacts that are here, i do not think any of us can question our fortune. the work that was done to p

has been blamed for allan's financial crisis which led to a bailout of the country's banks from mr brown colors but standing in the election which comes a year early in his power to quit coming about. let's return to our breaking news the russian authorities are on the hunt for the culprits behind an attack on an f.s.b. security services building in the republic of congo in a car or president of the republicans dismissed reports that dozens were injured and son killed he insists that only one police officer was wounded in the attack and i just remind you of what happened there in f.s.b. security services building was shelled with a grenade launcher in the city of knowledge chick and it will of course be bringing all the latest on this breaking news story as soon as we get it. well i'll be back in a few minutes with the latest headlines but first as promised business news is next with creeping. back into business global equity markets seem to be breathing a sigh of relief as oil prices moderate prices for crude threatened. retreated late on thursday from their twenty three month highs ove

. >> brown: mr. foukara, i want to bring you in. does al jazeera see its role as you're clearly reporting this story but ear also clearly a player here, right? >> al jazeera just to add to what lawrence said just a little while ago. al jazeera is obviously the scope of the viewership is much much bigger. and for al jazeera you don't need to be educated. you don't need to be fluent in arabic. you don't need to be fluent in the internet. the picture speaks for itself. i think what's happened both in tunisia and in egypt is there's been a marriage of al al jazeera conventional television with new media in terms of reaching the information. al jazeera both in tunisia and egypt relied on information relayed through the internet and gave it a bigger platform, not just within egypt but also in terms of informing other people in the region about what's going on inside of egypt. you know, the old political axiom in the region, if you will, is that if it happens elsewhere in the arab world, it does not necessarily mean it will happen in egypt

mr. brown: thank you, mr. president. the presiding officer: the senator from ohio. mr. brown: i thank the senior senator from west virginia. i rise in support of senator nelson from florida, in support of his amendment. he was tied up in committee and i wanted to speak in support of it. it would strike section 605 from the bill t. would establish -- to consider transferring responsibilities for civil aeronautics research and development from pass this to other departments. the sole purpose is to take away aeronautics from nasa. that's simply unacceptable. it belies the very purpose of nasa in our nation's aeronautics mission. nasa stands for the national aeronautics and space administration. his ality -- amendment assures it stays that way. this assures our economic competitiveness. remember that one of our nation's top manufacturing exports -- and we don't export nearly enough manufactured goods -- one of our nation's top manufacturing exsports aerospace, which includes civilian aircraft components. ohio, my state, is a -- is -- is a center for the aerospace industry. w

mr. blair, less so under gordon brown, was used more for briefing of cabinet colleagues and discussion of that kind rather than for acute decisions. i mean, it depended on the issue. >> i think we'll talk about some of those issues later on. up now also lord williams has been -- >> williams or wilson? >> williams. yes. they all become lords eventually. as the then dr. williams noted in his statement, there was -- for some reason you say he was a very assiduous -- the text hadn't been cleared with the proliferation office in the foreign office, it was quite an important discrepancy between the sort of standard intelligence line as it were and

mr. brown: mr. president? the presiding officer: the senator from ohio. mr. brown: i appreciate senator blunt's maiden speech too and having the honor of listening to it. of course i disagree with his comments. i've heard all this before, mr. president. i've heard republicans say this is a bad law that we've got to deal with all these issues. i hear that over and over. but i also notice by even a cursory observation or look back in our nation's recent history that when president bush was in office, when republicans controlled the house of representatives, republicans controlled the senate, the only thing they did on anything relating to health care or pensions was try to privatize social security. they didn't really do anything to try to provide health insurance for people that don't have it. they pass no real consumer protections in terms of eliminating preexisting condition. they did minor things, but in terms of eliminating preexisting conditions, they did nothing for 23-year olds to stay on their parents' health care plan. they did -- they were woefully in

brown. [applause] >> mr. davis, thank you very much for that kind introduction.i, mirrored jordan, others assembled here in, those associated with the foundation and with this application and this event, you know good and well the spirit of the general award is given to that individual who exhibits extraordinary commitment to making san francisco general hospital what it is. this year, the recipient is one of whom all of you know very well. you know her because, i suspect you will hear, because she ask you to come. there is nobody that she has encountered in the last several years that she has not said, you have to do something for the general. when i see her coming now, i go the other way. i have given all i can give to the general. [laughter] that is the nature of who our recipient is. she came on the board of the foundation, some 11 years ago. by 2003, she had been elevated to the president of the board. and in that capacity, she guided the general from being a place that most of us looked at as a place for the disadvantaged and poor people only, into an extra

and the major opportunity for us as we are looking at our coverage of the 2011 elections. >> brown: mr. armstrong, to play devil's advocate here, does a.o.l. risk something to its brand by partnering with huffington post, given its reputation as a liberal left commentary site? >> i think first and foremost i think arianna huffington has moved that brand well beyond that description. i think kind of going beyond left and right as a tag line i think ms. huffington talks about. more importantly we have a stable of brands at a.o.l. and i think huffington post, renaming the stable of content programs the huffington post media group of which she will be president and editor in chief that includes tech crunch and movie phone and map quest and patch and all those things. i think from a standpoint of editorial, you know, a.o.l. historically has played in a very deep way across many different verticals in the content space. huffington post adds a very large new dimension to that. but my guess is she has the same interests we do which is serving consumers' needs and going beyond the just straight

. >> brown: mr. foukara, i want to bring you in. does al jazeera see its role as you're clearly reporting this story but ear also clearly a player here, right? >> al jazeera just to add to what lawrence said just a little while ago. al jazeera is obviously the scope of the viewership is much much bigger. and for al jazeera you don't need to be educated. you don't need to be fluent in arabic. you don't need to be fluent in the internet. the picture speaks for itself. i think what's happened both in tunisia and in egypt is there's been a marriage of al al jazeera conventional television with new media in terms of reaching the information. al jazeera both in tunisia and egypt relied on information relayed through the internet and gave it a bigger platform, not just within egypt but also in terms of informing other people in the region about what's going on inside of egypt. you know, the old political axiom in the region, if you will, is that if it happens elsewhere in the arab world, it does not necessarily mean it will happen in egypt

i am in the office with mayor willie brown, who i still could not find enough mr. mayors to say his name. louise comes in to discuss the future of laguna honda hospital. she had just won this huge settlement with the tobacco company. she was the first of any local city attorney to join in that lawsuit. at the time, a lot of people were arguing tobacco companies would overwhelm us. there will be all of these freedom of information act. you should not do it. she stood bravely and did it. she said to the mayor, and i will never forget -- she said "we have this opportunity. we can either use this money to rebuild laguna honda or we can pass it away -- piss it away." that was the exact quote. [applause] before i bring her up, i have to ask one more question. almost all of you are residents of the state of california. where is the tobacco money from the state of california? it was much larger amounts of money because it was a whole state. do any of you know? it is just part of the hole in the state's budget. it went into the general fund. what do we have because of luis?

mr. mubarak was going to give to the... to general suleiman, the newly appointed vice president. >> brown: and what do you make of mr. suleiman now, given the speech by the president and then by the vice president? >> the vice president and the president are out of touch. >> brown: out of touch? >> out of touch. >> brown: together but out of touch? >> together but out of touch. and the president is simply moving, shifting, some of his responsibility to the vice president so that instead of the crowds focusing on the president they now have two people to focus on and he can sort of move back behind in the shadow and leave suleiman to face the music. >> brown: but there was some sense that he might be-- suleiman, that is-- the kind of transition figure. but you're saying not anymore? >> he's done. he's finished. basically suleiman always wanted to become president. he was the major contender for presidency with mubarak. and now in a way he has burned his boats in terms of any expectation that there would be support for him among egyptians. >> brown: samier, there were references in this speak to constitutional amendment

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mr. mehta ] honey, touch of brown sugar, crunchy clusters -- any cardboard? no, delicious yes. so where's the fiber? maybe it's in the honey clusters. [ male announcer ] fiber one. cardboard no, delicious yes. >> welcome back. 4:47 on this tuesday. look at the arctic air mass taking over nearly half the country. highs in the single digits. denver, fargo, minneapolis. in the teens in chicago and st. louis. still warm everywhere else but this air mass is on the move. you can see the snow that it is creating from denver heading to st. louis, memphis, little rock, another batch of snow moving into new york and boston. no delays right now but they may develop and our flight tracker will have them at abc7news.com. >> it's 4:48. embattled egyptian president hosni mubarak took his first concrete step toward implementing some of the reforms he promised opposition leaders he would enact. he set up new committees to discuss and recommend constitutional changes that will relax eligibility rules for who can run for president and imposed term limits. it's his latest effort

mr. mehta ] honey, touch of brown sugar, crunchy clusters -- any cardboard?ardboard no, delicious yes. so where's the fiber? maybe it's in the honey clusters. [ male announcer ] fiber one. cardboard no, delicious yes. >> google announcement last week that it has 6000 job option triggered a virtual flood of applications. more than 75,000 people around the world have applied for those jobs. record for the giant. if you are looking for work we are sponsoring a hire he vep job fair next tuesday at in concord. find out the hours and details on our web site under see it on tv. >>> shoe designer tweet about egypt enraged on line communit community. this afternoon kenneth cole tweeted millions are in uproar in cairo. rumor is they heard our new spring collection now available on line. that tweet people calling cole insensitive and opportunistic. cole since apologiesed for what he admit was in sentive comment. still some people are calling for a boycott of had products. >> oops. foot in the mouth literally. >> absolutely. larry is here now. >> sometimes the best tweet

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brown liquor. and he is also been the finalist for the 2006 poetry prize. please, join me in welcoming mr. sean hill. [applause]. >> i want to read from blood and brown liquor today. this book is about my home town in georgia. it's also where [inaudible] is from. and i started researching the history of [inaudible] and sort of fell into the history of black people there because it was not taught in school. so -- in order to write about the history i had to invent a character to explore this history. the character's name is si loss wright. >> first poem i will read is titled silos write at age 71914. it's about silos follows a fishing riggel in the shallows. he describes the line in his tablet as much pride in that line as a man and his son. he giggles and goes on. the next letters come easy. with this he will have more than a mark to bind. rambling across the page again and again in messy rows along it flows until he goes off the page's edge. he smiles. he's surprised to hear when his mouth opens. that's mine. so, this really lovely book that georgia put together for me has great painting o