mr. thomas is one of the most respected journalists today. see of thunder and john paul jones. mr. thomas has been editor at large of newsweek since 2006, and the lead rider of major news events and author of more than 100 cover stories. he has won numerous awards. for newsweek's coverage of the monica lewinsky scandal. is 50,000 word narrative of the 2004 election was honored when newsweek won of national award for best single topic issue. he appeared on numerous television shows including charles rope and the pbs news hour. and a fellow of the society of american historians. mr. thomas lives with his family in washington d.c.. peter bergen is the author of "the longest war". the enduring conflict between america and al qaeda. he is director of the national-security studies program at the new america foundation. and author of the newly released book "the longest war". he is a television journalist, the author of holy war inside the secret world of osama bin laden. and the osama bin laden i know, an oral history of al qaeda's leader. both books are among the best nonfiction books of

mr. thomas accomplished is rare. "he does not reflect what it's like for the average taxpayer who owes the irs and attempts to negotiate on their own behalf." but deutsch's firm is being sued by california's attorney general for making exaggerated claims. she calls it "election year politics." but her firm is not the only one being investigated. >> we'll solve your tax problems. >> reporter: "world news" has also reported here on tax masters, under investigation for deceptive practices in at least two states. >> when you call, you think you're talking to a tax professional. you're really talking to just a salesperson who is trying to get you to sign up. >> reporter: but tax masters insists they deal honestly with customers, but ceo patrick cox refused to talk to abc news. in fact, we saw him leaving his mansion with a suitcase the day before we told him we would be in town. now, i did speak with the deputy commissioner at the irs who told me, cases like nate's should serve as a reminder that taxpayers should call the

mr. thomas. the lawyer was in the bakery.wen's aid but thomas began stabbing him. >> a stab in the chest up here, and then the one that punctured my lung over on the right-hand side. he left a knife in my ribs. >> financial analyst, jonah, saw him stumble outside with a knife still in him. >> he pulled the knife out. the assailant went for the knife. i kicked the knife away under a car. >> he chased him down the street and flagged down a cop, who made the arrest. sheller almost died when her jugular vein was severed. a doctor happened to be in the bakery. he saved her life by stemming the bleeding. >> i'm grateful that i had the opportunity to have made a difference in lauren's life. >> the school secretary, beth gray silver, helped chang while calling 911. this the stuff heros are made of. >> how life can change in just one second. you can go -- it can go from being so pleasant and so lovely to so horrific in a snap. >> on that day four years ago, good triumphed over evil. strangers came together to do the right thing. today

mr. thomas deeds, treasurer of fmc corp. in philadelphia. fmc is one of the foremost diversified chemical companies with leading positions in agricultural and industrial and consumer markets. mr deeds served as treasurer since 2001 and has responsibilities for worldwide treasury function including finance treasury operations and pension investments and insurance and risk-management bring in 20 years of experience in this field and i had the pleasure of having a number of discussions with mr. deeds particularly about the end user issue as applied to derivative use and i want to welcome you and thank you for coming to testify. >> mr deeds, you may proceed. >> good afternoon to you and ranking member shelby and the members of the committee. in addition to my role in fmc corp. i am president of the national association of corporate treasurers. fmc and 80 c r with a coalition representing thousands of companies across the country that employ derivatives to it managed a to a business risk. of the life to express my gratitude to you and ranking memb

mr. thomas accomplished is rare. he does not reflect what it is like for the average taxpayer who owes the irs and attempts to negotiate on their own behalf. but deutch's firm is being sued by california's attorney general for making exaggerated claims. she calls it "election year politics" but her firm is not the only one being investigated. >> we'll solve your tax problems. >> "world news" also reported here on tax masters, under investigation for deceptive practices in at least two states. >> when you call, you think you're talking to a tax professional. you're really talking to just a salesperson who is trying to get you to sign up. >> reporter: but tax masters insists they deal honestly with customers, but ceo patrick cox refused to talk to abc news. in fact, we saw him leaving his mansion with a suitcase the day before we told him we would be in town. >> now i did speak with the deputy commissioner at the irs who told me, cases like nate's should serve as a reminder that taxpayers should call the irs first and

mr. thomas a. macke i want to back into the question or war is really necessary with teddy roosevelt ralph flattery take you too july 1st with 8098 the day he said was the most important day of his life standing near a health near santiago cuba the 4:00 in the morning he put on his uniform specially ordered from brooks brothers tirade day bandanna around his head and set off on his horse. like a lot of the powerful people he brings to have a newspaper reporter buy to cover this and mr. davis wrote does roosevelt headed pepsi and one held ar nobody who saw roosevelt take then ride expected him to finish its allies.t ex he was in front of his troops there were shooting at him he rested then. started down the other sideen toward the next hill shocking out holy god and what five. [laughter] at the end of the day he took out his pocket diary half and he wrote to frozen at 4:00. big battle held the extreme front of the firing line then he wrote to his friend henry cabot lodge did i tell you i killed a sp

mr. ppt ad vice president. thank you very much for calling my name. [laughter] i'm thomas robert simpson. the director of an arts organization called afro solo. we focus primarily in the arts-related issues around the african-american community. we use our arts to deal with issues that are of importance to our community. one of those issues is health. and the idea of the health disparity that is oppressive lant in our community. we began with -- in 1999 by doing forums, performances, discussions around h.i.v./aids. as i learned more about the disparity, we ban to look at -- began to look at other issues such as cancer. we decided to have health fairs with the idea of providing people in our community, primarily the western edition, information, access and screenings with the idea that if we found people that had issues, they would know where to go take care of them but hopefully have people in those situations that did not have a problem. so if a crisis occurred they would know where to go. i'm very happy to say that one of our significant community partners has been cpmc. they have been

mr. bush's appointment to the supreme court of clarence thomas. so she had a certain amount of concern, but then came the clintons. and things with the clintons started out on kind of a strange footing. a magazine concocted what became known as the great cookie controversy. some of you i can see nodding your heads. the question who baked the better chocolate cookies? was it barbara bush or was it hillary clinton? and hillary clinton sort of dismissed this and said, i'm too busy to bake cookies, you know, let's get about this and mrs. bush said she thought the whole thing was forgotten. and a few minutes later the same magazine ran a story saying that in a taste test people liked hillary clinton's cookies better and barbara bush said that's really interesting because that's not my recipe. well, i mention it because even though it seems like a silly thing perhaps, it garnered all of a sudden some very serious comment from reporters and columnists. and this also gave mrs. bush a certain amount of growing disease with what she developing here. she gav

please give my regards to justice thomas. and mr. womack as well. it seems strange he's not here this year but anyway, we appreciate so much that you all are here, and look forward very much to meeting with you. and we will do our best to meet your resource needs this year. an independent judiciary trusted by all citizens and commit to fairly and expeditiously resolving difficult and controversial questions is fundamental to our nation. although the supreme court budget has not large in comparison to other federal programs, i am pleased you're here today because outside the confirmation process, today's hearing is one of the few instances where we actually get to interact with the judicial branch. it is in my opinion a worthy interaction, and as we recognize and respect the prerogatives of each branch. as you all know the committee is working to reduce overall nonsecurity domestic spending to fiscal year 20 -- 2008 level and we will ask you all if there are any areas of your budget that could be reduced. but also at the same time be sure that we wil

. >> that was a preview of thomas allen's new book, "tories" fight the for the king in the first civil war. book tv covered mr. allen in an longer event. if you'd like to watch the full event, go to booktv.org and use the search function in the upper left hand corner to watch the full event online. >> here's a look at some of the upcoming book fairs in the country. :

thomas? >> thank you, mr. chairman. dr. hall, the government is providing unemployment insurance for 99 weeks. what effect does long-term unemployment havel worker's future employment prospects? >> that is one of those areas where the economic research is pretty clear. the longer somebody is unemployed, the hotter it is for them to become reemployed -- the harder it is for them to become reemployed. >> the important things to what's coming out of this recession is what happens to the long-term unemployed. it is that a very high level. >> when unemployment benefits run out, what hapns to the unemployment rate? >> i am not sure that i see a big impact on the unemployment rate went those numbers work out. people are more likely to stay in the labor force when they are receiving benefi. there may be some issue where people stop looking -- start plucking when the benefits run out. that may have an impact on the bour force. >> been arguing for stimulus, the president's economic adviser ised a repor that projected the unemployment

thomas? >> thank you, mr. chairman. dr. hall, the government is providing unemployment insurance for 99 weeks. what effect does long-term unemployment havel worker's future employment prospects? >> that is one of those areas where the economic research is pretty clear. the longer somebody is unemployed, the hotter it is for them to become reemployed -- the harder it is for them to become reemployed. >> the important things to what's coming out of this recession is what happens to the long-term unemployed. it is that a very high level. >> when unemployment benefits run out, what happens to the unemployment rate? >> i am not sure that i see a big impact on the unemployment rate went those numbers work out. people are more likely to stay in the labor force when they are receiving benefits. there may be some issue where people stop looking -- start plucking when the benefits run out. that may have an impact on the labour force. >> been arguing for stimulus, the president's economic adviser issued a report that projected the une

. >> charlie: this is thomas pickering former secretary of state -- were heading of an afghan possibility and here is what mr. pickering said on this program. >> i think we didn't come to your table to say the taliban are simply plement did. if we came to your table charlie to say look there are pressures on the taliban that are building up, more weariness, people who don't like their strict moral code smg there are things that the taliban have begun to move on, they're not eliminating all women schools, that kind of thing. there's an opening here. when you're in a stalemate or a deep hole it may be time to stop digging. >> charlie: when you hear tom pickering say that, do you agree with him or is he uninformed. >> i think he needs to be better than informed. while i accept the logic, the logic might apply to other situations but not to the taliban. the idea of taliban changing their policies on women on education, that's absolutely out of question when it comes to the taliban and the taliban leadership. they have not said it, they have not done anything to prove that that's the right conclusion. i would say

thomas? >> thank you, mr. chairman. dr. hall, the government is providing unemployment insurance for 99 weeks. what effect does long-term unemployment havel worker's future employment prospects? >> that is one of those areas where the economic research is pretty clear. the longer somebody is unemployed, the hotter it is for them to become reemployed -- the harder it is for them to become reemployed. >> the important things to what's coming out of this recession is what happens to the long-term unemployed. it is that a very high level. >> when unemployment benefits run out, what happens to the unemployment rate? >> i am not sure that i see a big impact on the unemployment rate went those numbers work out. people are more likely to stay in the labor force when they are receiving benefits. there may be some issue where people stop looking -- start plucking when the benefits run out. that may have an impact on the labour force. >> been arguing for stimulus, the president's economic adviser issued a report that projected the une

billington, the library announced the restore thomas jefferson's library and the donor was jerry jones, the owner of the dallas cowboys and with his wisdom he compared mrjones ambition and mr. jefferson's ambition both of them turn out to be wonderful friends of the library. secure listening to john cole, the co-editor of the encyclopedia of the library of congress. for congress, the nation and the world along with jane akin also with us of course is mick. i mentioned in the introduction that early on the appointment of the library of congress was a political one. the clerk and the senate and the library went together as did the space. mckinley appointed the only professional library and herbert put on and i was curious how did putnam workout as a library in being the first professional library to take the job? >> a small correction? >> sure. >> actually, she was inexperienced library in and then the head of boston public. he was able year. he wasn't trained as a library and except for his experience in many at minneapolis as the head librarian. >> was he related to the putnam potion? >> yes he was, he was from the boston put on family. he worked out w

thomas jefferson third president james madison father of the constitution it is a concoction that is totally and completely hollow and with regard to your statement about war the secretary of defense mr gates said in congressional testimony well of course if someone threw a tomahawk missile at new york city we're at war and there was as well that are we at war if we do the same at libya and he said yes of course we are who are not so i can't believe that anyone would still try to deny it but let's go back to your thinking about the carnage the founding farmers here writes of our first president let's go back to more recent history you also said that perhaps obama has been more bold than any other take away which is that of course let's look at perhaps clinton what about clinton and what we did in bosnia and kosovo to get in those cases there's no doubt that in my view they were flagrantly unconstitutional wars in fact it was a god to bosnia clinton ask congress for declaration he couldn't get it you've been bombed anyway and i would agree it wasn't quite as flagrant as obama for this reason just minutes he didn't even ask period i mean i don't know if you ask and then they say no i'm

thomas cut. because and tommy. nice to see you, mr. castro. one doctor. should i call you dr. castro? the pay. how about mr. vargas? all right. i'm going to just give a short introduction for each of you. we are happy you are here. we appreciate your presence in testimony. daniel castro is a senior analyst with the information technology and innovation foundation specializing in information technology policy. his research interests include itt, that's one of mine, privacy, the commerce, government, electronic voting information, security and accessibility. he has experience in private nonprofit and government sectors. before joining the information technology and innovation foundation mr. castro worked as an anti analyst at gao. is that correct? all right. and we studied and audited id security and management controls at various government agencies. he has a master's degree in foreign service from tourist town university and a master's degree in information security technology management from carnegie-mellon university, two very fine universities. dr. cook, thomas m. cook, co-chair of the nati

headed his way here at augusta. [ thomas ] my sophomore year, i was pretty confused, didn't really know what i wanted to do. didn't like high school. and then i met my teacher, mr. mccooey, and that click happened. i would never have even thought about going into the engineering field if it wasn't for these ap classes, these teachers and them helping me realize that this is a major calling in my life. ♪ i didn't always know that i would like math, but now i think it'll change my life. a living, breathing intelligence that's helping rethink healthcare. where's peter? ♪ i got him. [ male announcer ] in here, medical history follows you... by putting access into the cloud. so doctors can see a patient's history... even when they're far away from home. you're quite the little daredevil, huh? [ male announcer ] it's the at&t network -- a network of possibilities, creating and integrating solutions, helping business, and the world...work. rethink possible. helping business, and the world...work. in the past, when we thought about computing, we thought about boxes. on a smarter planet, computing has left the box. generating 2.5 quintillion bytes of data every day. tod

mr. unger spoke and took audience questions for about an hour. >> there is nothing so easy as to persuade people that they're badly governed. those words were spoken by the 18th century massachusetts governor, thomas hutchison. i'll tell you more about him later. let me tell you what else he said because his word to mean as much today as much as they did then in 1774. governor hutchinson said you can take the happiest and most comfortable people can use malicious rhetorical skills to arouse popular discontent with their government power with their rulers, it even themselves one of the weaknesses he said, these are his words. this is one of the weaknesses of human nature, which ambitious politicians make use to serve their purposes. a year before he uttered those words, a group of boston rabble-rousers had convinced americans they were miserable and quote, hutchinson does who thinks they are miserable are so despite all real evidence to the contrary. i doubt if there is a single one who knows that the original tea party movements are about. far from being patriots, those original tea partiers for most smugglers. some of them among the wealthiest and in america, john hancock, yes the john hancock wi

mr. unger spoke and took audience questions for about an hour. >> there is nothing so easy as to persuade people that they are badly governed. those words were spoken by the brilliant 18th century massachusetts governor, thomas hutchinson. i'll tell you more about him later. let me tell you what else he said, because his words hold true today as much as they did then in 1774. governor hutchinson said that you can take the happiest and most comfortable people and use malicious, rhetorical skills to arose popular discontent with their government, their rulers, everything around them even themselves. this is one of the weaknesses, he said, these are his words. this is one the weaknesses of human nature, of which ambitious politicians make use up to serve their purposes. a year before he uttered those words, a group of boston rebel rousers had convinced americans that they were miserable. and quote hutchinson again, those who think they are miserable are so. despite all real evidence to the contrary. now i doubt if there's a single one of today's so-called tea party patriots who knows what the original tea party and tea party movement were about. far from being patriots, those original tea partyers were mostly s

thomas. she and her journalism class were instrumental in the release of anthony graves. she joins us this morning. mr morning. >> hello. >> this man served 18 years. now, in your mind, what was the one piece of evidence that proved beyond a shadow of a doubt that mr. graves had nothing to do with the commission of this crime? >> you know, there were actually a number of things. the state evidence that supposedly convicted him really didn't stand up. once we took a look at it, the quote/unquote evidence that convicted him was just really nothing. there was no case. but, then, on top of that, anthony had alibi witnesses to show where he was at the time of the crime. so i would say probably he was with his girlfriend that night, and she swore that she was with him all night, that he never left. and i guess, you know, she told me years later, why would i lie for a baby killer? i'm married. i have children of my own. and why would i continue to lie these many years later for someone who killed children? >> okay so you find all this evidence. it looks on the surface as though he had nothing to do with this

mr. pardee, thank you so much for joining us today. >>> dr. thomas cochran.e have a senator named cochran. >> not related. >> uncle thad? >> not related. >> okay. >> chairman carper and also chairman boxer and members of the committee, i want to thank you for providing nrdc and me the opportunity to present our views on the japanese nuclear disast disaster. i've submitted my complete statement for the record. i will briefly highlight a few things here. you requested that i offer my views regarding the implications the disaster has for reactor safety in the united states. first, i think we all are in agreement that the first priority is to provide assistance to our friends in japan. but eventually and even today we're turning to the issue of the implication negligencs in t. before turning to that issue, twoish make two observations. first, my colleague, dr. matthew mckenzie, with my colleague dr. matthew mckenzie we made a rough preliminary estimate of the radiation dose of the external monitoring data from japan. we should be mindful the uncertainties at the

mr. pardee, thank you so much for joining us today. >>> dr. thomas cochran. we have a senator named cochran. >> not related. >> uncle thad? >> not related. >> okay. >> chairman carper and also chairman boxer and members of the committee, i want to thank you for providing nrdc and me the opportunity to present our views on the japanese nuclear disast disaster. i've submitted my complete statement for the record. i will briefly highlight a few things here. you requested that i offer my views regarding the implications the disaster has for reactor safety in the united states. first, i think we all are in agreement that the first priority is to provide assistance to our friends in japan. but eventually and even today we're turning to the issue of the implication negligencs in t. before turning to that issue, twoish make two observations. first, my colleague, dr. matthew mckenzie, with my colleague dr. matthew mckenzie we made a rough preliminary estimate of the radiation dose of the external monitoring data from japan. we should be mindful the uncertainties at th

mr. inslee: i appreciate my republican colleague's statement but the clear fact of this bill is if it passes, what does it do? it basically says that sir isaac newton, albert einstein and thomas edison didn't know what they were talking about. because this bill in rather clear form caters to a narrow sector of a narrow political interest to ignore clear science and there is no way you can get around this or sweet talk your way around this clear rejection of science. now, this isn't just us. who has said this statement that we seek to put in this bill is correct? only the national academy of sciences, noaaa, the department of defense -- noaa, the department of defense, the centers for disease control, the american immediatelogical society, the geological society of america, the american association for the advancement of science, the american institute of physics and the american chemical society, but one side of the aisle thinks that the tea party has greater scientific credibility and that's who you're catering to when you refuse to adopt this amendment. let's have a bipartisan statement of the problem so we can have a bipartisan statement of the solution. the chair: the gen

thomas paine. i would like to pose this to ms. dickenson. what would you write if you could write a simple pamphlet right now, similar to mr. pain e's, "common sense." what would you call it? would you consider peggy noonan a writer or a rhetoricist? >> well, what a question. beautifule's a writer. that is why i read her. she is a thinker. i do not always agree with her thesis, but i really do love to read her work. thank you. that is a great question about pamphlet, and i got to think about that. beautyessence of the pd o of paine is common sense. the essence of a virtuous society, which is what the founders or striving for and about which they were mildly concerned, that we would not be educated enough, participatory and off, moral and ethical, and reasonable enough, and applied common-sense across the same spir -- across these things. teenagers are having babies, we have 35-year-old grandmothers. we could all and there is a good thought exercise. >> yes, sir. >> one of the reasons of listen this is a for instance, when there is an issue about health care, and who is going to provide for it, and then you break for commerc