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mrs. aliato is here. after joseph aliato, there was george moscony and chris moscony is here representing george moscony. [applause] and after the moscony years, it was diane feinstein. and her husband, richard blum, is here. they actually got married in the chambers upstairs. [applause] now, in just a minute, the president of the board of supervisors is going to say the words that will allow you, the public, to know what the vote was in his chambers earlier in the afternoon. but mr. lee, there have been several people from across the bay, from sacramento and other places, who are here to extend their warm welcome. standing next to you is mayor newsom's chief of protocol, my chief of protocol, diane's chief of protocol, everybody's chief of protocol, who's ever had a chief of protocol in san francisco, charlotte schultz. and i hope she sticks around as your chief of protocol. [applause] one of your state senators, and we have two of those, only one is present at the moment. the other one is up working on the budget. but senator leland yee is here to welcome you. [applause] and a man who went to bed on sa

>> next time booktv, encore book knows what george soros. mr. soros talked about his book, the bubble of american supremacy, correcting the misuse of american power. he spoke about economic trends and advocacy for open societies and decency in world politics. it's about an hour. .. bubble of american supremacy." what does that title mean? >> i draw a comparison between the stock market bubbles and the -- let's say america getting off the rails under the bush administration after the terrorist attack on september 11. >> do you remember where you were on september 11, 2001? >> yes, i was in beijing, coming from monogolia. my son told me, turn on your television. i actually saw the second plane crash into the tour. even though you're in beijing, it's like being there, so that's the -- it has the same impact. >> what was the reaction of the people in beijing? >> they were polite, but sympathetic. >> what were you doing in beijing? >> delivering a speech on china's future and it was reconciliation with the chinese administration. neca the chinese adm

mr. meeks and george w. bush seem to be frozen in time, backward looking. and fearful, philosophical views of government, history and the constitution. strict constructionism, mr. speaker, runs contrary to the whole legal development of rights in human history. strict constructionists look back to the founders' original document before the 13th, 14th and 15th amendments and other progressive amendments to the constitution were added. before nonland owners could vote, before lincoln's getty'sberg a-- gettysburg address. strict constructionists, as thurgood marshall said at an event celebrating the 200th anniversary of the writing of the constitution, quote, believe that the meaning of the constitution was fixed at the philadelphia convention. that would require us to know their original intent and rythedly preserve the founding fathers' philosophy. even though they were all men, most were slave holders and they allowed slavery in the constitution. a strict constructionist interpretation of the constitution also means a reaffirmation of states rights as the pr

it is frightening, george bush frist. golly. mr.resident, we and our your post-presidential grace and i had the opportunity of seeing it on the ground. smiling, having a good side, but it is kind of sad. we are in there -- they are out there, and we're in here. you will see the interlocking relationship. at that point in time, president bush and president clinton locked together. two days later house on the ground with others who had been doing so much and had the opportunity to spend time with john frist who is doing surgery, seen response to one of the worst earthquakes in history. then president bush and president clinton getting together, raising a huge amount of money, invested, not throwing money at haiti, invested in creating hope for the future. you demonstrated so many ways that life outside of washington gives us opportunities to participate and lift people up in so many ways. i applaud your work in haiti. if had the pleasure working with you there. to my colleagues, harry reid and mitch mcconnell, the leadership -- the po

i know, -- i now call the right honorable chancellor of the exchequer george osborne. >> thank you, mr. deputy speaker. mr. deputy speaker. last year emergency budget was about rescuing the nations finances and paying for the mistakes of the past. today's budget is about reforming the nation's economy so that we have an enduring growth and jobs in the future. and it's about doing what we can to help families with the cost of living and the high price of oil. we understand how difficult it is for so many people across our country right now that we are able now set off on the route from rescue to reform, and from reform to recovery is because of the difficult decisions we have already taken. those decisions have fought economic ability. and without stability there can be no sustainable growth and no new jobs. without stability governments have to keep coming back to their citizens for more, more taxes and more spending cuts, in britain we do not have to do that today. we have inherited a record budget deficit, but we have set out a credible comprehensive plan to deal with it. we have had

mr. acosta was u.s. attorney for the southern district where he handled the prosecutions for jack before or after for hard, jose padilla for terrorism and george taylor, jr. for torture. prior to that, mr. acosta served as assistant attorney general of the civil rights division where he led the justice department's efforts to combat the post-9/11 lack bash against the arab muslim americans. he served on the national labor relations board and worked at the law firm of kirkland and ellis. he received his b.a. from happy birthday college his law degree from happy birthday law school. he was an intern for samuel alito. i would ask all witnesses if you don't mind, to please stand and i will administer the oath. you affirmly the testimony you are about to give will be the truth the whole truth and nothing but the truth so help you god. >> i do. >> let the record reflect that all three witnesses have answered in the affirmative. ms. khera please proceed with your opening statement. >> great. good morning, mr. chairman, members of the subcommittee, on behalf of muslim advocates thank you for the opportunity to testify on the civil rights of american m

mr. speaker. i rise today to congratulate the george washington patriots for winning the west virginia class triple-a boys basketball championship. the third seeded patriots defeated top seeded wheeling park, 55-54 to take home the state title. this is a special win for the coach as he was part of the team that gave the school their first basketball championship 40 years ago. in a close, intense game the two teams battled to the end but in the final seconds george washington was leading 55-52 when wheeling park looked what would be a three-pointer, however a review showed it was a two pointer and george washington won, quite a finish. having two boys who grew up playing basketball in west virginia for coach green, i have sown both the nayses of elation and anguish. this shows the heart and dedication of the young men and their coaches as they put in all season to get to this game. i want to congratulate both teams for tremendous seasons and for giving us such a memorable game. congrats to g. dub. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from new jersey rise? mr. sires: to address

. >> can i now call the right honorable george osbourne. >> thank you, mr. deckty speaker. -- deputy speaker. last year's emergency budget was about rescuing finances and paying for the mistakes of thei past. today's budget is about reforming the nation's economy so that we have enduring growth and jobs in the future. and it's about doing what we can to help families with the cost of living and the high price of oil. we understand how difficult it is for so many people across ouu country right now that we are able, now, to set off on the route from rescue to reform and from reform to recovery is because of the difficult decisions we've already taken. of the difficult decisions we have already taken. those decisions have fought economic ability. and without stability there can be no sustainable growth and no new jobs. without stability governments have to keep coming back to their citizens for more, more taxes and more spending cuts, in britain we do not have to do that today. we have inherited a record budget deficit, but we have set out a credible comprehen

mr. and when you do it. should. we. should you. know in the lurch we can rule it we are. george bush the lesser or the younger. aunt if he decides he wants to have one must be walked resident. because that'll get reelected and even though. you have rank you do it because it moves becoming part of our national international consciousness we then have jewish bush slain in the same exact scenario we just didn't happen plays out in the movie you know first equally oh he has nukes and we realized oh well he's humanity as nukes do anything with him as he had planes and boats is no way to get here and then he says lay there steve hartman gay says. it could be suitcase bombs could give terrorists too much terrorists can it's not just the evidence i mean if you look at the way if we go back to for example the two thousand and three of iraq you had this whole pundit analyst complex right all of these former and current pentagon officials here are happily invited on c.n.n. on a sunday if the fox news tear out their ramp up to the war and so it really raises the question of how can you trust mainstream media when we so wi

george bush-frist. ashley, speeded up, dolly. [laughter] mr.dent, we admire your presidential grace, and i had the opportunity to see it on the ground. it is funny, we were over there smiling, having a good time, but it was kind of sad. we are in there, they are out there. not you. [laughter] but we have life after the senate, it is fun. it has a great pace to it. time,t that point in president bush and president clinton walked together. today's letter, i was on the ground, and i had the opportunity to spend time with john frist, being on the ground, saying the response to one of the three worst earthquakes in history. and him and president clinton getting together and raising a huge amount of money, creating hope for hundreds and thousands of people. you really demonstrated life outside of washington gives all sorts of opportunities to participate and look people up in some ways. i applaud your work in haiti. to my colleagues, harry reid and mitch mcconnell, the leadership era, this portrait is fun and nice, and i am honored, but it represents

mr. manus. >> we're ready. thank you, president olague, members of the commission. i am going to do this presentation on behalf of both project sponsors and i am glad george provided you a little framework and the history of this because it's actually pretty remarkable and we have been patient. and this has been a collaborative process with the community and the department and project sponsors. i want to give you a framework on where the project sits and respond to the questions that you had at the last hearing and this is one of the projects that is not from scratch but offers the opportunity to finish it and the middle is the dotted line is the boundary and surrounding it as you well know are the variety of projects that have been in the process of being titled or everything from the brisbane bay lands to visitation valley on the west side of the freeway. rendered site plan shows things that are both to the east and the west in terms of relationship and on the east side of 101 and with that said, these are concentric rings and i realized after i had done this, this is a little scary, but it provides the rings of the distance and the most outer ring is a mile radius

mrs. palin and to quote teddy roosevelt, i couldn't leeve -- leave that cowboy one heartbeat away from the presidency. brian: you talk about -- at cato -- >> it's all george w. bush's fault? i'm not a big fan of george w. bush as you can get -- guess from my iraq experience. from my iraq experience. however, to blame the happless ex-president for all this is a bit much and it's a curious reactionary comment from our secretary of state when she says once we get over these little difficulties we'll go back to the way things were in the 1990's. it's a curiously reactionary comment for a supposedly progressive person. are we supposed to get in our time machine and go back? from a -- an american decision-making view point think about that. it means before 9/11, before afghanistan, before the great crash, before the multipolar world. of course she wants to go back! you could do anything in the multipolar world. you had give. you lose vietnam in a bipolar world, doesn't really matter. the amount of room for making mistakes was huge. in a multipolar world the margin for error is it very, very small and you can't do everything you want to do. that's something nobo

activity in the united states known as a bailout recently was in the initiative of the george bush administration of mr. paulson and mr. bernanke and it was bipartisanly supported. i agree we had to do them. we had to do them was because of failure in past regulatory policies. the fact is in the bill we passed last summer this money wouldn't have come from the treasury. it wouldn't have been added to the deficit. it -- the republican party popped it. not here but in the senate. i will make this announcement. i plan to reintroduce next week the prevention of the financial reform bill that would have taken the money for this program and other programs to alleviate the impact of foreclosure. the neighborhood stabilization program that helps gets foreclosed properties back into use, aid to homeowners who are unemployed and pay for it as we tried to do last year but republican opposition stopped us, not from the taxpayer but from the large institutions. and i don't mean to demonize but i think goldman sachs and wells fargo and bank of america and city corp and morgan stanley, i think they can pay for this -

activity in the united states known as a bailout recently was in the initiative of the george bush administration of mr. paulson and mr. bernanke and it was bipartisanly supported. i agree we had to do them. we had to do them was because of failure in past regulatory policies. the fact is in the bill we passed last summer this money wouldn't have come from the treasury. it wouldn't have been added to the deficit. it -- the republican party popped it. not here but in the senate. i will make this announcement. i plan to reintroduce next week the prevention of the financial reform bill that would have taken the money for this program and other programs to alleviate the impact of foreclosure. the neighborhood stabilization program that helps gets foreclosed properties back into use, aid to homeowners who are unemployed and pay for it as we tried to do last year but republican opposition stopped us, not from the taxpayer but from the large institutions. and i don't mean to demonize but i think goldman sachs and wells fargo and bank of america and city corp and morgan stanley, i think they can pay for this -

george humphrey, what would this mean? he promised to get out of korea, balance the budget, and cut taxes. mr.umphrey says it will mean a deficit. eisenhower says that is the end of it. boy do i miss this. >> do you think it was that simple? >> i do because i think eisenhower on like the guys in both parties now have a pet -- at a basic fundamental simple strategy. he had five or six things you live your life by one of them was to have to live within your means. whether you're a government or a person and you don't, you can do that for a while and we can print money for another 10 years. nothing much will happen for awhile. you can do that. in the long run, you are selling the silver to pay the butcher bill and that is a bad idea. all of our strength is economic strength. the fact in world war two that week ago from an army of to a thousand people to an army that had 7 million people only makes sense if you understand the economic wherewithal the general marshall understood about the united states. that is the notion of our strength. if we lose that, very quickly, we cannot do that. that is th

activity in the united states known as a bailout recently was in the initiative of the george bush administration of mr. paulson and mr. bernanke and it was bipartisanly supported. i agree we had to do them. we had to do them was because of failure in past regulatory policies. the fact is in the bill we passed last summer this money wouldn't have come from the treasury. it wouldn't have been added to the deficit. it -- the republican party popped it. not here but in the senate. i will make this announcement. i plan to reintroduce next week the prevention of the financial reform bill that would have taken the money for this program and other programs to alleviate the impact of foreclosure. the neighborhood stabilization program that helps gets foreclosed properties back into use, aid to homeowners who are unemployed and pay for it as we tried to do last year but republican opposition stopped us, not from the taxpayer but from the large institutions. and i don't mean to demonize but i think goldman sachs and wells fargo and bank of america and city corp and morgan stanley, i think they can pay for this -

because real bail mr wolford eight hundred yes no there wasn't yes there was no force washington was the first president to sign a bill to care for poor indigent homeless people george washington you know we don adams also cited us in the not true and absolutely not in the first veto of the james madison administration james madison's first veto was when they wanted to change there from a being a government program to the government giving the money to churches to do and james madison comes his mission so well that was his first veto he said he and the reason why was he said churches shouldn't be involved in this this is a civic puncture of government this is the guy who's the father of the constitution yeah i need a check in fact you need to check your facts because what you're so you and i watch more about is that you've written a lot of books i've read some of these not all right these guys they you know. they can't know they were only occurring within the federal city you know in russian d.c. because that's what they thought they were responsible for but they were doing it they ran the poor house in washington d.c. it was paid for with federal. or tariffs actual

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george h.w. bush. what began as an exchange about foreign policy ended up being about much more. here's a portion of that debate. >> i think i just heard mrs. ferraro say she would do away with all covert action. if so, that has very serious ramifications as the intelligence community knows. this is serious business. and sometimes it's quiet support for a friend so i'll leave that one there. let me help you with the difference, ms. ferraro between iran and the embassy in lebanon. iran, we were hold by a foreign government. in lebanon, you had a wanton terrorist action where the government opposed it. >> let me just say, first of all, that i almost recent, vice president bush, your patronizing attitude that you have to teach me about foreign policy. i've been a member of congress for six years. i was there when the embassy was held hostage in iran, and i have been there and i have seen what has happened in the past several months, 17 months of your administration. secondly, please don't categorize my answers either. leave the interpretation of my answers to the american people who are watching this debate. >> ifill: jim lehrer asked ferraro

george humphrey, what would this mean? i made three campaign promises in 1952, get out of korea, balance the budget and cut taxes. what would that mean for two of those three promises? and mr. humphrey says it will mean a deficit, mr. president. and he says, well that's the end of it. boy, do i miss this. brian: do you think it was that simple? >> i do because i think that eisenhower, unlike the guys we have now in both parties, had a strategy, a basic, fundamental, simple view, five or six things that you lived your life by. one was you have to live within your means, be you a government or be you a person. or be you a person. if you don't live within your means, yeah, we can print money for another 10 years and nothing much will happen until the bond markets attack dollar, but in the long run you are selling the silver to pay the butcher bill and that's a really bad idea. all our strength is economic strength. look at world war ii, which eisenhower knew intimately. the fact that we could increase the army 35 times only makes sense if you understood what general marshall and he understood about the united states. that's the notion of our strength. if we lose that, if we s

mr. durbin: i would say to the senator from kentucky, he is correct in his statement that not only president george herbert walker bush but also george w. bush came to congress and really kind of broke precedent. thathat hadn't happened in korer vietnam. congress deliberated those wars and voted. and i will tell the senator from kentucky since he's my friend and he's new here, it is one of the most compelling votes you will ever cast and i hope you never face it, but if you do, it is one of the votes that will keep you up at night trying to think what's best for america and what's best for the young men and women who may lose their lives in the process. so in fairness to both presidents bush, they did come to congress. their circumstances were somewhat different. the leadup to the invasion of iraq went on for weeks, if not months. the same thing was true for afghanistan. but remember, in the situation with afghanistan, after 9/11, we were here in this building when it happened. we knew what 9/11 was about and we responded accordingly. this is what i will say. the senator from kentucky has the right

mr. president, i would suggest that agriculture is the very foundation of our country's rich heritage. our founders clearly understood and appreciated the importance of agriculture. george washington once said that he knew of no pursuit in which more real and important services can be rendered to any country than by improving its agriculture. and thomas jefferson noted -- quote -- "agriculture's our wisest pursuit because it will in the end contribute most to real wealth, good morales and happiness." national ag week is a good time to reflect on the rich agriculture history of this great nation. it is time to celebrate the exciting scientific advances and the new opportunities. one thing that all of my colleagues should be able to agree on, we owe our nation's farmers and ranchers a sincere thank you. every time we go to the grocery store, we are reminded a little of our disposable income we spend in this great nation because of the good work of our farmers and ranchers. we compare better in our country than just about any country in the world, so we are grateful today for their good work. we say thank you to them for the food, fiber and fuel that keeps our nation stron

mr. akin, i really get kind of tired of yelling about entitlements. but living in missouri we are in a state that makes defense products. but when george bush was in he built a new aircraft carrier, i think it was $6.9 billion. and right now everybody is wanting to cut everything. but at the same time i have seen you on the floor asking for fore aircraft carrier just a few months ago. so, i think that is another $6.9 billion. would you like to answer that for me? guest: sure. first of all i don't recall being on the floor asking for another aircraft carrier. we have currently 12 or 13 aircraft carriers we operate depending on which year you are talking about. those are nelson for us because -- those are necessary because believe it or not and those from missouri why would you say america is a maritime nation but we are because much of what we use and products we consume come from all over the world. the aircraft carrier allows us to project force to where the different people we are trading with are. and america, if you think about it, is a little bit isolated. we are on a separate continent and we have to trade either over to europe o

george w. bush, a founder and chairman of the faith and freedom coalition, and chairman and ceo of centuries strategies and public relations firm. it is my honor to introduce to you, mrralph reed. [applause] >> thank you. thank you very much. are you ready to begin the process of choosing barack obama's successor here in iowa? [applause] i do not know about you, but this could not get started soon enough. march 7 is a little early, i said, i could have gotten started march 7 of 2009. we are here tonight, not just to listen to speeches, and not just to hear from those who seek the mantle of the leadership of our nation, but we are here tonight to do something that is more fundamental. that is to assert a truth. it is the most transformational truth, the most transcendent truth, apart from the gospel of jesus christ. it is an idea as old as america itself. it asserts that all men and women are created equal and the eyes of almighty god. they are endowed by their creator with certain inalienable rights, rights that are inherent to their very humanity. come on which our life, liberty, and upper -- among which are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. the sole reas