mr. stewart instead of their favorite rapper, actor, basketball, football player. mr. stewart has been accepted to u.c. berkeley for a principal's program and there is going to be some type of conflict with his schedule for that, and being a teacher, but he's willing to make those sacrifices and put his family on the back burner for 18 months and be a teacher to our kids and we're told that that's not good enough. what would you want to see? him be a principal and then we have kids wanting to be like mr. stewart, noonly -- not only a teacher, but a principal growing up. i want to know if y'all could come to carver just to hear the concerns. whatever's good for you, we will make you at home there. we are family over there. but that's one teacher that we do need to keep on board because he's about the children. he goes to therapists to speak to therapists. he goes out of his way. i mean, i couldn't tell he was married for a while because he's so involved with carver. so, you know, that's all i want to say. i took up over a minute. thank you for hitting the button but it's

mr. stewart what is your organization? >> well it is a group of writers and editors and similarly minded people mostly in the d.c. area who are very dismayed by the shriveling of book reviews space and sort of the standard media. a lot of book review sections have been folded. they have shrunk, and it is just harder to find information about what is going on in the world of looks these days. the coverage of the publishing industry has shrunk. so we decided to try to do something ourselves. this is really sort of from the old judy garland mickey rooney movies where they say let's put on a show. we decided well we would create their own book review and it is about 70 of us that have been engaged in it. we have just launched it and had a great response. hidtas been a lot of fun and very gratifying. >> and what kinds of books we'd be reviewing on the site? >> a wide range. we are going to really review nonfiction and fiction. we suspect for now we are not going to be looking at children's books and we won't be looking at roman

mr. stewart, what is your organization? >> well, it's a group of writers and editors and similarly minded people mostly in the d.c. area who are very dismayed shriveling of book review space and sort of the standard media. a lot of book review sections have been folded. they shrunk and it's just harder to find information about what's going on in the world of books these days. coverage of the publishing industry has shrunk. so we decided to try to do something ourselves. this is really sort of from the old judy garland mickey rooney movies, let's put on a show. well, we decided to create our own book review and there's about 70 of us who has been engaged in it and we've just launched and had a great response. it's been a lot of fun and very gratifying. >> and now what kind of books will you be reviewing on this site? >> a wide range. we're going to really review nonfiction and fiction. we suspect for now we're not going to be looking at children's books and we won't be looking at romance literature. but beyond that, we're q

mr. stewart, you say on your website that you got your seed money through the aiw freedom to write fund. what is that? >> well, it's associated with american independent writers which is a writers organization here in the d.c. area. and the freedom to write fund is a 501c3 that's affiliated with aiw. and we've done very modest fundraising and would need to do more. but enough to get us up and running and it's been a great sponsorship. >> david stewart is the president of the washington independent review of books. washington independent review of books.com is the website. .. >>> republican senator scott brown of massachusetts recounts his personal and professional life which includes his tenure in the massachusetts state senate and his election to the u.s. senate on january 19th, 2010, filling the term of the late senator ted kennedy. senator brown spoke of the ronald reagan presidential library in simi valley, california. [applause] >> well, before i get started i just want to say i had an opportunity to go around and try to meet everybody and say hello, and i know you talk about the we

mr. stewart of belle and is the inspector general. mr. frank and bill -- kendall. all witnesses will be sworn in. please, rise and raise your right hand. >> to u.s. currency tested money will be the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the church? >> thank you. >> all witnesses answered in the affirmative. we will move to opening statements. alydar appreciated if you keep your verbal comments to 5 minutes. you should have a live there. i would appreciate it if he could wrap up your comments. we have this nice and beautiful room. to make sure the button is pushed so we can all hear you. thank you. >> midmorning. b -- good morning. i am a former acting co-chair of the commission on iraq and afghanistan. a participating with me is commencing co-chairman michael tebow. i will talk about a few points. i am a retired u.s. army officer. i am an executive secretary to the national security council. he was also a army and served 35 years in the department of defense. he is also worked in the private sector as a consultant. we are here on behalf of all the commissioners t

mr. stewart baker is a partner of steptoe and johnson llp. we appreciate your credentials and look forward to your testimony. all witnesses will be sworn in before they testify. please rise and raise your right hand. do you solemnly swear the testimony you'll about to give will be the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth? let the record reflect all witnesses answered in the affirmative p. we will now start with opening testimonies. we would appreciate if you limit your comments to five minutes, but your entire written statement is part of the record. mr. rotenberg, you're recognized for five minutes. >> thank you, mr. chairman and members of the committee. i appreciate the opportunity to appear today before you. i also wanted to thank you personally for the leadership that you have shown on this particular issue which is of great concern to the american public. i also want to begin by saying that epic fully appreciates the important mission that the tsa has in the importance of protecting aviation security. there's no dispute abo

mr. stewart baker is a partner of steptoe and johnson llp. we appreciate your credentials and look forward to your testimony. all witnesses will be sworn in before they testify. please rise and raise your right hand. do you solemnly swear the testimony you'll about to give will be the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth? let the record reflect all witnesses answered in the affirmative p. we will now start with opening testimonies. we would appreciate if you limit your comments to five minutes, but your entire written statement is part of the record. mr. rotenberg, you're recognized for five minutes. >> thank you, mr. chairman and members of the committee. i appreciate the opportunity to appear today before you. i also wanted to thank you personally for the leadership that you have shown on this particular issue which is of great concern to the american public. i also want to begin by saying that epic fully appreciates the important mission that the tsa has in the importance of protecting aviation security. there's no dispute abo

mr. stewart baker is a partner of steptoe and johnson llp. we appreciate your credentials and look forward to your testimony. all witnesses will be sworn in before they testify. please rise and raise your right hand. do you solemnly swear the testimony you'll about to give will be the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth? let the record reflect all witnesses answered in the affirmative p. we will now start with opening testimonies. we would appreciate if you limit your comments to five minutes, but your entire written statement is part of the record. mr. rotenberg, you're recognized for five minutes. >> thank you, mr. chairman and members of the committee. i appreciate the opportunity to appear today before you. i also wanted to thank you personally for the leadership that you have shown on this particular issue which is of great concern to the american public. i also want to begin by saying that epic fully appreciates the important mission that the tsa has in the importance of protecting aviation security. there's no dispute abo

mr. strauss, jr., and his family. and also to the stewart mott foundation that is the our gracious host tonight. we are also delighted to be partnering once again with the project on government oversight and to have its executive director with us tonight to be our discussion moderator. so thanks again for coming and without further ado, i hand over the proceedings to daniel. >> it's a pleasure and honor to play the role of moderator for this event. i have been mentored by the gentleman to my right before i realized about 30 years now. i don't know what it says of all of us, but immediately to my right is spinney, the truth teller, philosopher, historian, who i think it is funny hiding behind the innocuous staff analyst all this time is the office of secretary defense of the pentagon repeatedly testified for the congress extraordinary prolific gentlemen who leaned on the cover of "time" magazine in 1983 for his truth about the defense budget. he still is engaged in a relevant as all of the panelists are as he was at the time even though he is

stewart bowden. >> i'm grateful, mr. deputy speaker, for the opportunity of speaking earlier and for the hollingable member and i raised three points i would like to take up. the first one he referred to the reduction in the deficit over the next 45 years. and he said that he thought that this would give grave concern in the future and bring great pressure to bound the government not to continue with the program. in this sense he's perfectly right. 146 billion reduced to 122 billion. reduced to 70 billion, reduced to 26 billion for the years 2015 and '16. that's a massive drop and it will have consequences for the public sector which in the end he acknowledged. in the budget speech of the chancellor he did not make any mention to the welfare state. nor did he mention the point which the honorable member finished on which is the balance between the public and the private sector. and that is a clear imbalance that we're going to see between the public and the private and whether the public sector can shed jobs and whether

stewart bowden. >> i'm grateful, mr. deputy speaker, for the opportunity of speaking earlier and for the hollingable member and i raised three points i would like to take up. the first one he referred to the reduction in the deficit over the next 45 years. and he said that he thought that this would give grave concern in the future and bring great pressure to bound the government not to continue with the program. in this sense he's perfectly right. 146 billion reduced to 122 billion. reduced to 70 billion, reduced to 26 billion for the years 2015 and '16. that's a massive drop and it will have consequences for the public sector which in the end he acknowledged. in the budget speech of the chancellor he did not make any mention to the welfare state. nor did he mention the point which the honorable member finished on which is the balance between the public and the private sector. and that is a clear imbalance that we're going to see between the public and the private and whether the public sector can shed jobs and whether

mrs. vanderbilt. actually they can be an affordable option to pricey hotels. kate maxwell is here from conde nast travel. >> we did that one time. with our family. >> let's clear that up. with our families. >> martha stewart'sounds perfect for today. you can see on the table that bacon is involved. >> mushrooms, garlic and bacon. the smells are intoxicating. >> i love it. >> also coming up, there are so many different kinds of websites out there. especially for online dating. there's a site out there for people who want to have an affair. >> yeah. >> the tagline is, life is short, have an affair. we'll introduce you to people who have been doing this. >> i wonder how much money that site is making. >> do they charge? >> they must have some way. let's get a check of the weather from mr. roker. >> here in the northeast today we'll be looking at more rain and snow. you can see strong storms in the upper ohio river valley. heavy rain on the west coast. mountain snows. then for tomorrow we have snowshowers left in the northeast. cold around the great lakes. the heavy rain continues for the west coast with the snow and mountains. hot through texas. mild and sunny through the gulf coast into the southeast. >>> goo