mr. goodwin. i hoe the man. he's been part of some landmark legislation. the president will attest to that. i don't need to tell you all if you don't know cart, he's fiercely indpebbed enter. we have gone toe to toe many times when we made our decision, i had nobody that would carry out the tuties and wishes of the he can it's important to have someone who understands how important it's to bring all sides together. we appreciate and respect where everywhere is coming from. it's about respect. we don't have to come from the same background and go down the same highway, if you he's done that as well as anyone i have ever seen. when i knew there's two men we have missing. we had more than 60 rescuers trying to find two men all in jeopardy friday night, i got there thursday. i don't think it is going to be good. i want you to start tonight, the speaker in the presence, they brought the speakers back in monday morning. we changed the safety of minutes around the country because of the hard work and commitment and dead >> the goodwin family has embraced a long l

mr. goodwin -- [inaudible] >> welcome to the senate. [laughter] >> needless to say there are issues facing our state and scores of pieces of legislation in the united states senate. i'm anxious to roll my sleeves up, get to washington and really delve into it. i'm a little reluctant to get an extensionive policy adjustment. but that being said with regards to cap and trade, they simply are not right for west virginia. >> i will submit that the legislation being championed by senator rockefeller now that would focus investment in cole, more broadly, let me answer your question this way. ly not support any piece of legislation that threatens any west virginia job, any west virginia family or jep dices the long-term security of this -- jeopardizes the long-term security of this state. [applause] >> i'm going to go right down the side there. >> you must be refering to the first question, none of them. [laughter] >> why did i go to you and stop

mr. goodwin, aye. >> and with that, president obama seems to score a big win on unemployment benefits. >> as british prime minister. >> it's a very important opportunity for me and for britain. >> our diane sawyer introduces us to david cameron. >>> and, short stay. lindsay lohan wakes up in jail this morning but she's not going to be there that much longer. it's wednesday, july 21st. >> from abc news, this is "world news now." >> i think it's safe to say that no one's really surprised that she's not going to do the full 90 days. >> no, i think they said roughly three weeks, 23 days, because of overcrowding. she will not be there too long. >> i would have to say that is a bit longer than what i anticipated. three weeks is still a good chunk of time to be in jail. >> probably a long time to her. >> lifetime to her. >> we'll see. >> good morning and thanks for being with us, i'm vinita nair. >> i'm rob nelson. good morning, everybody. >>> democratic leaders have put off final action on an unemployment benefits bill until today. it would provide those benefits up to 99 weeks to more than 5 m

mr. goodwin will have an immediate impact on the senate, starting with extending unemployment benefits. here is the governor's announcement. it is just under 30 minutes. >> you all can sit down, please. >> senator rockefeller, mr. president, first lady, the entire family, the first mom. just a few moments ago i signed the appropriate paperwork with the secretary of state to make this announcement official. robert c. byrd was a giant. he can never be replaced. i have said it can never fill his shoes, we just hope we can follow in his footsteps. i have waited to make this appointment because it is important to do this right. i want to thank the white house. i want to thank majority leader reid. i want to thank especially senator rockefeller in the entire senate for making this procedure and this process works flawlessly. for allowing west virginia to go to the process we have, they have been most gracious, and i truly want to give our thanks for that. the time has come to appoint someone to the senate who will look out for west virginia, who will work hard for west virginia and is a proud

mr. goodwin: i solemnly swear that you will support and defend the constitution of the united states against all enemies foreign and domestic; the vice president: that you will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; that you take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion; and that you will wellnd faithfully discharge the duties of the office on which you are about to enter, so help you god? the vice president: congratulations. [applause] the obama administration mighto become as well-kno opposition to this amendment >>> good morning. before we start, i would note that at the end of this hearing, we were all trying to rearrange things. so many of us, both parties, could attend the funeral of the longest serving member of the united states senate, senator byrd. and many of the members of this committee were there. i know that in the final hearing with the outside witness, senators cardin and schumer and koffman stepped in to take the gavel. i see senator cardin here. i want to thank all senators, republican and democratic senators alike, for the amount o

mr. goodwin will be taking over that seat. cart could win will be set -- carter goodwin will be joining the senate as its youngest member at 36 years old. let's get back to this topic, national security and intelligence. are they keeping us say? stephen, an independent line. caller: can they really tell? there is no way of telling really, with respect to the color, those colors you wonder if they were randomly picking them or if something was going on. how can we know? thank you. host: college park, maryland. robert. caller: i work in the field. for those of you worrying about us listening in on you and paying attention to you, first of all we do not have the manpower to look at all 300 million americans. second of all, we do not care what you do with your private lives, most of us in the field know it is a boring life. we are defending the nation against people that want to kill us for religious purposes. that is all that we are doing. if we have to listen in on cell phones, then that is what we will do. host: do you see them

mr. goodwin was appointed to fill this seat by the late senator robert byrd last friday by joe mansion. he is expected to remain in the seat until november, when a special election is expected to fill the seat. what is the update on this special election? caller: late last evening the legislature came to a final legislation about what would happen, that there would be a full primary for both parties on august 28 to choose who would run for senate in the primary election on november 2. the full election will be on november 2. this is an interesting thing, saying that there is a distinct from the general law election in west virginia, and this would be odd, selling more capital for congressman from the state could run through both the senate and house. i do not know of that will happen, but someone else could win the nomination. host: what about on the democratic side? caller: the governor is the only person really being mentioned on the democratic side. no one else has indicated any intent for running. host: thank you for your time this morning, paul. caller: thank you very much. host: a

senator goodwin, do you have any more questions? >> no, mr. chairman. okay in that case, we thank you for your service. we can try to see if we can't get you on the job here, just as quickly as possible. hopefully in a matter of days. but i know there's very broad support and very strong support for your nomination. so we'll try to take this to the senate floor as quickly as we can get a quorum together her so we can g the >> and we stand adjourned. [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2010] >> tomorrow, the special representative to pakistan and afghanistan richard holbrooke will talk about aid to afghanistan. he is scheduled to testify at a house appropriations sub some -- subcommittee. you can watch it live on c- span3, and c-span.org. coming up next on c-span, i house hearing on how cold coast tourism has been affected by the oil spill. education secretary arne duncan talks about the national race to the top program. and the national league of cities issues a report on job cuts in