and mrs. white and mrs. thomason and ingraham and a great grandmother as well as aunts, uncles, nieces and nephews and in-laws. tomorrow, i will join this group of sergeant jordan's family at his funeral to honor the life of this brave sold year. mr. speaker, my prayers go out to his family and my deepest gratitude goes out to sergeant jordan for his selfless sacrifice, yes, for our nation. i ask all members, please join me in honoring the distinguished memory of sergeant jeffrey w. jordan. and i yield back the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: mr. goodlatte. for what purpose does the gentleman from virginia rise? mr. goodlatte: permission to address the house for five minutes and revise and extend my remarks. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, so ordered. mr. goodlatte: mr. speaker as we speaker here on the floor of the house right now, the house agriculture committee is holding a hearing on the legislation reported out of the energy and commerce committee, the so-called cap and trade le

host: yet, mr. white, she did not call it a coup. why? guest: because the minute the secretary of state uses the word coup, all assistance to honduras is cut off by law. i think the secretary of state handled this very well because she does not want to see 912 zelaya restored to power only to continue his quest -- to change the constitution. that is what has aroused the opposition of the other parties, and indeed, in his own party. host: us some background on our guest. he served in that -- in the foreign service, and maceda to. why and el salvador, stationed the columbia and latin american director for the peace corps. currently president for the center of international policy. there are an estimated 500 u.s. troops in honduras. can you envision more heading down there? guest: i would hope not. i think that what honduras least needs now is any sign of militarization. the army has no real function. they have no external enemies and they have a long history of coups against the constitutional order. host: guatemala, el salvador, nicaragua

or if they only believe it within their party is in the white house. mr. president, i sincerely hope senator republicans do not follow the lead of the house republicans. out of 435 members of the house of representatives, five republicans voted to support our troops. they had a different excuse in the house. different excuse. what they said, we're not going to do this because there's a small amount of money in there for the international monetary fund. there hasn't been a word raised here in this body over that because it's so important. it's supported by democrats and republicans over here, that particular provision in the supplemental. but here in the senate they have raised another issue: cash for clunkers. something saying it is not bad but they don't like this version. they could do a version more environmentally friendly so result of that i'm voting against it. now, everyone should understand, especially those that care about our armed services and i know our american people support them 100%, all the american people should understand if there is not

mr. ed montgomery, white house director of recovery for auto communities and workers. and tomorrow over in the house of representatives, the financial services committee will hold a hearing on salaries of workers in companies the government owns. another obvious contender for the car czar award today is the administration's new chief price fixer for the cost of labor, mr. kenneth fineberg who will review and approve how managers of car companies are paid. according to "the new york times" article on june 8, mr. fineberg is likely not just to tell government-owned car companies and banks how much to pay people. it's likely -- quote -- "everyone else's compensation will be monitored too." but there is time next week to honor all these worthy contenders. today's car czar award clearly should go to the members of the wisconsin and michigan and tennessee congressional delegations, each of whom met today in washington with g.m. executives imploring them to build small cars in our home states. in tennessee's case, of course, we were talking about the state your name plant in

white house? >> yes, sir. >> how about you, mr. press? > it wasn't made by the white house, it was made by our company, chrysler. >> so the basic question here is not just a matter of fairness although i agree with my colleagues on that, it is a matter of business judgment, and somebody is right and somebody is wrong. q2 gentlemen on behalf of your companies have come to the conclusion closing down of dealers including dealers in good standing who've done a good job long time in some cases generations it is in the interest of the company to close them down; is that right? >> in our case is this the only way we will survive, and forward. >> there's obviously evidence that has presented the pos dealers arnall costing money but actually can be a lifeline to reenergize sales in their local communities, so you are going to bear the responsibility if in fact it turns out that you are wrong and they are right; correct? >> yes. we will bear the responsibility. >> and on this appeal question -- here's the dilemma we have. the bankruptcy code is bru

mr. chair, i appreciate that. this white paper does confirm what some of the witness talked about which is that we have got three and a thousand megawatts of wind projects waiting in line is essentially to connect to the grid and they point out that the lack of transmission capacity is also hindering state's ability to meet multiple renewable energy goals and it just confirms what several of the witnesses have testified today. i want to ask mr. detchon about the greenhouse gas interconnection standard that your proposal has inc. and basically what essentially allow federal backstop authority in relationship to those sources that are low, zero greenhouse gas amending generators. could you tell us how you envision that working and by the way, would it help and it leaves some sense some of the concern of the northeast states who don't want to see they are offshore wind projects intruded upon by saying if we can call it dirty sources from far away in trading on their corridor? >> thank you for the question. i think there's a lot

this amendment had no objection then when his party controlled both houses of congress and the white house. mr. dicks: would the gentlelady yield to me? i want to rise in strong support of her amendment and the speaker's amendment. this is a very important project. and i urge a no vote on the campbell amendment. and i appreciate the gentlelady for yielding. ms. woolsey: reclaiming my time. madam chair, angel island is a national historic landmark that is in desperate need of repair and rehabilitation. i urge my colleagues and i thank the chairman for supporting this . to vote against this amendment. this project is not a bridge to nowhere but a bridge to our past. i thank you and i yield back. mr. dicks: the bridge from nowhere was not an appropriations committee project. this was a project of the house transportation committee and our committee had no responsibility for this. the chair: does the gentlewoman reserve? ms. woolsey: i reserve. the chair: the gentleman from california is recognized. mr. campbell: how much time is there remaining? the chair: the gentleman has 1 1/2 minutes remainin

i and i look forward to working with you and having future discussions with the senate and white house. mr. frank: i take back my time. you know have the answer listening the gentleman address myself, mr. markey, mr. waxman and mr. peterson. how many chairmen does it take to answer colloquy. could i have another minute to answer the colloquy. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from from massachusetts controls the time. the gentleman from massachusetts has another minute. . mr. frank: he's been an articulate advocate of the functions of the financial community in new york in which many of his people in new york live. we agree with him, myself and members of the financial services committee and agriculture committee. chairman peterson and i have worked with the gentleman from massachusetts, mr. markey and the gentleman from california, mr. waxman. and we are hard at work on a comprehensive and i believe responsible proposal for regulation of financial derivatives in their entirety. and it will under the terms of this bill become the operative war. so what we have here is a placeholder, t

mr. ayers. i am a white liberal democrat and group in the '60s and was very idealistic. quite honestly reforms in education that we have seen come from the left in the '60s have decimated education, literacy rates have skyrocketed, the jaw about rates have skyrocketed, as a result because we are no longer providing children with a classical education coming individual help when they needed, and free and honest discourse. i have seen education and become extremely ideological. we are not allowed to think for ourselves. in fact, we are attacked and censored when we dare deviate from the status quo of the far left, especially in higher education in. this is sensitive to me as someone who cares about social justice, rights and freedoms. i will hang up and listen. >> i am not sure where to begin except to say that what ever you are referencing about the slaughter of innocents and killing people is not true. i never killed or injured anyone. it is part of the narrative of the far right blogosphere as far as i can tel b

white. >> very good. thank you. >> mr. chairman? >> yes. >> can i just address three things? for the purposes of senator mikulski. there is nothing that precludes a 64-year-old who walks in for that 90 day period and says i want you to do everything to keep me alive you possibly can. that is a medical directive. two, part d medicare, we have a requirement, you have to decide which plan you're going to be on. it's a decision that we're asking every person that's gone on medicare to make, and we go further. we say if you won't make a decision, we're going to put a 10% penalty on you. that's going to accrue for every year you don't pick a part d supplier. and to the chair's comments, i would only ask staff to look at page 101 of the base text. specifically, the small business verification. i don't believe that this is a technical conforming language to interweave this into something else. this is basically a new dictate and therefore, we do get into finance committee's jurisdiction. >> all right. okay. senator hagan? >> thanks, mr. chairman. i used to serve on the ethics committ

white house. >> thank you, mr. chairman. welcome, attorney general, holder. very briefly let me first express my view that the release of the o.l.c. opinions was proper, was necessary, and was wise and was particularly important in light of the damage that had been done to that office by its politicization during the bush era. frankly those were opinions that had to be seen to be believed. it really i think gave the legal community around the country a far better appreciation of the depth of the dive that that office took in that period to have those out entirely apart from all the other considerations. i think it was the right call and i respectfully but completely disagree with the ranking member on that subject. following up on o.l.c., senator durbin asked a few questions about the o.p.r. investigation and its status. when we first asked we were told on february 18 of 2008 that this investigation was already pending. so we know it predated february 18 of 2008. we know that o.p.r. completed its investigation and provided a draft report in late december of 2

everyone seems to think you were the white knight and strong party, as mr. kucinich has indicated, you know, bank of america had its problems too at this time. but tell me what your strategy was and your negotiations there and what was the motivating force behind your decision to put forth this mac? >> thank you, and thanks for reminding us about -- we were in the middle of a pretty bad financial crisis and we had people of good intentions despite what they've said about me. the -- we grew more and more convinced that there was a distinct possibility that we had a mac as a result of these accelerated losses. >> you didn't disclose that to your shareholders though? >> but the acceleration really took place about a week after -- that's when you saw massive acceleration, not necessarily those days but as a result of the forecast increasing and. so there was -- there was not some wild bluff. we thought we had the real possibility of a mac. >> okay. >> mr. chairman, i yield back. >> the chair recognizes mr. mchenry. >> thank you, mr. chairman. were there specific

mr. chairman, i have before me a letter from the white house dated june 11, e 2009 addressed to chairman obee and to me. and it says the following. i am writing to urge you to oppose the mcconnell amendment, which is being offered in the conference on the supplemental appropriations bill. as you know, i have no higher priority than ensuring the safety of our troops in afghanistan and iraq. given the singular importance of providing funding for our troops, it is essential that congress pass the supplemental appropriations bill. passage of the mcconnell amendment would unnecessarily scompli kate the objective of supporting the troops and would accomplish no substantive purpose. on may 13, i announced i would resist the release of additional detainee photos because i did not believe it would add any additional benefit to our understanding of what happened in the past, and that the most direct consequence of releasing them would be to further inflame anti-american opinion and to put our troops in greater danger. earlier today, the second circuit granted the government's motion that will stay

also expressed doubt about industry stakeholders at the behest of the white house to help hold down health care spending. in that letter mr. elmendorf states and by quote the industry leaders attention to the schools and agreement that significant savings can be obtained are no doubt welcome. however, most of the proposals are steps that do not require the involvement of the federal government or are not specified at a level of detail that would enable cbo to estimate a budgetary savings. in other words $2 trillion may not be there is what cbo is saying. instead of saving $2 trillion savings proposals offered by the health care group might actually end up increasing the cost of health care. i think as we go through this we should adopt one consensus position. do no harm. and in fact cbo raced serious issues lot about what we are doing but about what the white house was able to get in commitments from those in the private sector about changes they could make. now mr. chairman, the president has included in the 2010 budget proposal $640 billion. as a reserve, a prepayment on health care reform. does that suggest we've alrea

mr. will. a first of all abc in the white house, there will be no money that will come out -- c-span news to talk about dick durbin and can i disagree with you on iran and north korea. i believe iran is more dangerous than north korea. north korea banks from the food and get it all from china iran, they fun hezbollah and libya, they fund hamas. there are finding al qaeda in iraq so myself i think they are a lot more dangerous. >> guest: the caller may be right, they may be more dangerous and he certainly right that they are dangerous. >> host: this is martha in rockland, maine on democrats line. >> caller: hello? this is martha clarke in that rock landed and out like to ask mr. well, why you included insurance companies in the health equation at all. they bring nothing to the table are in the business to make money and to prevent health care. thank you. >> guest: that seems to me is an eccentric view of the current function of history of insurance companies and our country. i don't know quite how to grasp the thought of there to prevent health care. are they trying to make a profit? yes and the w

mr. mollohan is well intentioned. i believe he's an honorable man. but my concern is that there could be a change of attitude by some in the white house. i appreciate that the white house has reconsidered and reversed their decision on taking control of the census, but unless we make this decision there's nothing to prevent them changing their decision once more. i am encouraged because the secretary of commerce has expressed the intention to not cede control of the census to the white house in his confirmation hearing, but nevertheless, in order to make sure congress retains its right to control the census and the $300 billion that will be disseminated as a result of the census, i think we need to make it clear by passing this amendment that it's up to the congress and not the white house to make this determination. with that, i yield back the balance of my time. the chair: the gentleman from west virginia has one minute remaining. mr. mollohan: i yield back the balance of my time. the chair: the question is on the amendment offered by the gentleman from indiana, mr. burton. those in favor say aye. those opposed, no. in the opinion of

white house today. i would be interested to know whether mr. steele believes we can make progress working together or if the tone of his rhetoric is something that might prevent him from working constructively with the president of the netted states. >> there was a resolution by john mccain coming out of the senate for the president to pardon jack johnson who was sent to prison nearly a century ago because of his romantic ties with a white woman. do you have any comments on that? they what the president to pardon him. >> i can take a look at that. >> in the speeches about the $80 billion deal with pharmaceutical companies, i have not heard about in negotiating price. i wanted to know if that was one of the trade-offs that we are not going to pursue that now? >> the structure of part of that agreement was to use a portion of that $80 billion to pay up to 50% of the cost for a name-brand drug for a senior that falls between the point of which medicare part d stops providing help and when it catastrophic coverage, i think a little more than $6,500

i just -- i don't want what appears to many people to be one rule for white america, a different rule for black america. >> mr. chairman, can i just cite, i share those concerns. senator hatch and iish guess, for nine years have had legislation to make a substantial improvement in that. senator cornyn and senator prior and former senator, now secretary salazar, bipartisan bill for former attorneys generals have also supported substantial improvements in the way that is done. i think the not healthy now. we need to fix it. i would just note one reason we're having a hard time, mr. chairman, on our side is finance committee. that was masters of the universe setting our health care policy. senator grassley het me know that he is ranking on that committee. senator hatch, senator corner and senator kyle also are members of that important committee. so i'm glad they can at least be here for a while. >> thank you. i'm glad, too. of course i will keep the record open for the rest of the week for additional questions to be submitted. senator corner -- senator cornyn. >> thank you, mr. chairman. i want to note for the

. >> whited nike to this question that was started by mr. fortenberry. you have boys the stated in my view that we do need a new regulatory regime to protect the economy from systemic risk. there really to approaches that can be taken in the congress has been making judgment which is the better one to go. one is the supersize regulator or some entity that has the capacity to monitor their risk of these huge financial conglomerates that bring us all with them. that is one approach. the other approach is to take the view that if an institution is too big to fail it is too big to exist. and the virtue of that frankly is that it brings them down to a size where we don't have to depend on the vigilance of regulators being overcome by the influence of the financial industry. so, my question to you is, does it make sense for congress to pursue a policy that says an institution is too big to fail without threat to the economy and is that in fact a big to exist and instead of regulating it we should break it up? >> there to options. one is to allow large banks to

mr. henderson about e-mail traffic to i think it's in the white house that might i understood you to indicateyou would supply that e-mail dak george's approach would be to follow up in the letter of request but eissenstat isn't a problem for you to provide those e-mails. ms. sutton? >> thank you come mr. chairman. i want to add of course as you can see who stayed here at the end as was pointed out the car act we passed this week represent braley, and our original cosponsor and chairman stupak and chairman dingell were involved in the process of getting that bill done and it is intended to have a concrete impact because we do believe that mr. keikenapp said, we want for chrysler and gm to be a success because it is linked to our work communities and jobs and the food it puts on the tables of the people we are honored to represent and so it's painful for us to be here and in this position but the payment that we feel listening to this is nothing compared to what we have heard displayed here on the folks losing their dealerships and i want to thank all of you that came here today to put a human

mr. speaker, here are some of those americans that never came home. 9,387, to be exact. still buried in graves in normandy. buried on the cliffs, their white crosses and stars of david shine and glisten in the morning sunshine over omaha and utah beaches. mr. speaker, others are buried in unmarked graves all other europe known only to god. they were great americans and we should always remember them, we will always be proud and we will always be free because of them. that's just the way it is. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman's time has expired. the gentlewoman from california, ms. woolsey, is now recognized. the gentlewoman -- the gentlewoman from ohio is recognized for five minutes. ms. kaptur: mr. speaker, i rise this evening to remember al william seidman, known to many as bill. among his many life accomplishments he served as chairman of the federal deposit insurance corporation through the recovery of the savings and loans industry following the massive scandals and excesses of the 1980's. he was a patriot, a wry intellect, and a very sharp financial system regulator. sadly, america lost bill in mid may, but his l

we also launched white house -- whitehouse.gov \recovery. i will not turn things back to mr. gibbs. >> in january you issued your recommendation for the stimulus that turned to be domestic. he said without the stimulus the unemployment rate would be over 8%. it i 9s 9.4%. how do you assess that now? >> the first part of the question, when we made our initial estimates, that was before we had fourth-quarter results on gdp, which we later found out was contracted at an annual rate of 6 pe%. the important thing to realize is that our estimate, whether it 600,000 jobs or $3.5 million -- jobs over the life of the plan, that is the difference between what we believe would have occurred in the job market in the absence of this plan and what we observed in the job market. in the absence -- were this plan not to be implemented as i have described, and as the doctor and i articulated then, in the absence of the plan, job losses would have been deeper for what ever they occurred. the unemployment rate would have been by our estimate by the end of next year between 1.5 and two points hig

mr. speaker, i again ask those, my colleagues, and those at the white house, the automobile task force is it a political consideration that's occurring to encourage general motors and chrysler to disenfranchise their franchisees, or is there some market-based decision which this is based? yet no one can provide that answer. thank you, mr. speaker. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from michigan rise? >> mr. speaker, i ask permission to address the house for one minute. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, the gentleman is recognized. >> thank you, mr. speaker. i was listening to the colloquy this evening as we were talking about what next week might bring in terms of the business. and as the majority leader as the minority whip were going through the process, the question that was asked is, is the intelligence committee or the intelligence committee was assumed to be moving forward on investigating the allegations that the speaker has made that the c.i.a. over a long period of time consistently lied to congress? i can inform the members that that process

mr. chairman. if any other members want to comment please feel free and white to me. >> the chair recognizes the gentleman from california. >> or better yet you could furnish your answer for the record and we could all know. >> thank. i would point out that criminal law can't be exposed facto, but as i believe mr. turner pointed out, we can ban some of these people from ever serving on the board of a publicly traded corporation again. we might also look at the civil ball to see whether those whose actions have cost perhaps $700 billion, perhaps less would be liable to the federal government. expos facto criminal laws are much more constrained by the constitution. i would think that wall street itself would keep some of these people off the board except i could see some of them singing these folks didn't show remarkably bad financial judgment. they showed tremendous political skill. they separated the taxpayers from $700 billion of assets. now, mr. verret, you've been talking about how we need to keep talent motivated. but i think it has been pretty well illustrated by the gentleman from texas nobody is mo

host: joining us from the white house domestic policy adviser to the vice-president, jared bernstein. mr. bernstein, why is the president traveling to green bay today? guest: declared, i am economic policy adviser. the president wants to do one of the things this president does best, which is to take his message to the people. and this case, it is the message of health care reform. obviously one of the most important pillars of the new economic foundation that the president has set out in his budget as part of his first term, and we are deep in the process of moving this important policies for come in ways that strike us to highly promising. host: in what ways? guest: there is a lot of talk -- talking washington and throughout the nation about our fiscal future, and the ability of our economy to be healthy down the road. if you look at health care expenditures, right now they are about 18 percent of the economy, bp. -- gdp. you're talking but adding 10 percentage points to health care, that means 10 percent of gdp last for all of the other things that we think are important. schools, par

mr. chairman. [inaudible conversations] >> up next on c-span, senators meet at the white house to discuss health care legislation. >> aviation safety. this is in response to safety concerns raised by the crash of a regional airliner in new york in february. that hearing is coming up shortly. >> and later, a state department briefing on pakistan and afghanistan. >> on tomorrow morning's "washington journal," congressman fred upton will take questions on the u.s. auto industry. after that, congressman steve scalise discusses a republican energy proposal. >> later, jared bernstein on health care legislation. >> and then mary landrieu tauks talks about oil drilling in the gulf of mexico. "washington journal" begins each day with the day's news. >> president obama met with the chairman and ranking member of the committees working on health care legislation. the senators worked -- spoke with reporters after wards. this is eight minutes. >> the president wanted to meet to discuss health care rosm. the main point is, we have to act now together, which is probably one of the more important messages we wanted

whites, and latinos increasing. there are signs that all is not well on race. i would think that mr. roberts from his line of questioning in the case we just talked about, that this case probably will come out in a negative way on these matters. i do think we should all work and strive to make the situation where race does not harm someone. our history and experience tells us we have not quite gotten there yet. host: we have mike from california on the independen ts'line. caller: i'm going to make it quick. i was born in 1969. is it true that the 1964 act was created by kennedy specifically for black people? if that is the case, why is it that white women, mexicanswomen, asians seem to benefit from it? does illegal immigration undermine the civil rights act? who named black people of black? i would rather be called colored, to tell you the truth. guest: because of the problem that existed in the 1960's that was in the south, it involved mostly black and white relationships. the civil rights act was focused on that. you can see that in the record. it was just as reconstruction focused

white house, this is about 10 minutes. >> i want to thank you for having us here, mr. president. we certainly appreciate it.rp is proud to stand with you, chairman baucus, senator dodd, to announce that the gap in medicare, the drug coverage gap known as the dougnut hole to all of you, will be substantially filled for millions of middle income americans as part of health reform. i want to applaud chairman baucus and senator dodd, who continue to be champions for this issue and have always fought for people who are struggling to make ends meet. we are honored to stand with both of you. senator baucus, it is your strong leadership of the senate finance committee and your creativity which led to the development of this very unique solution. we also support your finance committee's process, and we look forward with

white house, this is about 10 minutes. >> i want to thank you for having us here, mr. president. we certainly appreciate it. and aarp is proud to stand with you, chairman bauccus, senator dodd, to announce that gap in medicare, the drug coverage ban known as the doughnut hole to all of you will be substantially filled for millions of middle income americans as part of health reform. i want to applaud chairman bauccus and senator dodd who continue to be champions for this issue and have always fought for people who are struggling to make ends meet. and we stand with both of you. senator bauccus as your strong leadership of the senate finance committee and creativity which led to the development of this very unique solution. we also support your finance committee's process and look forward with optimism to its next steps. but bottom line, without you, chairman bauccus, we certainly would not be here today and we offer all of our thanks for that. >> when the president issued his clarion call for all parties to come together to address the issues of healthcare reform, aarp representing over 40 million members w

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white house, gives to those people. i yield back the balance of my time. >> who seeks recognition at this time? >> mr. speaker, could i get a calculation of the remaining time on both sides? >> i can give you that with precision. the gentleman has 9.5 minutes remaining and the gentle lady has for 25 minutes remaining. >> i am pleased to yield one minute to the delayed from new york. -- to the gentle lady from new york. >> thank you very much. today i stand with my colleagues in this congress. i stand with president obama and vice president biden in support of the iranian people, their right to express themselves, their right to have peaceful demonstrations, and i stand in support of this resolution. . i hope that the ayatollahs understand that these demonstrations are about the future of iran and the right of their people to have a voice in their government. young and old, liberal, conservative, all ages, all economic groups are part of these demonstrations. as president obama has said, the entire world is watching and the world is inspired. we applaud your efforts to move we applaud your efforts to m

mr. johanns, and it's not coming together for me, either. i'm going to refer to the march 30th white house determination of viability summary for the general motors corporation in response to their viability plan of february 17, in which the document states the company is currently burdened with underperforming brands, name plates and an excess of dealers. the plan does not aggressively enough act to curb these problems. it goes on to say that gm has been successfully pruning unprofitable or under performing dealers for several years, however, its current pace leave it with too many dealers which create a drag on the overall brand equity of gm and hurt the prospects of the many stronger dealers who could help gm drive incremental sales. then on may 15th, the treasury department says that as was the case with chrysler dealer consolidation plans, the task force was not involved in deciding which dealers or how many dealers were part of gm's announcement so it seems to me that the task force and the treasury is saying you didn't act aggressively enough, you haven't cut back on enough de

white house. audit of -- caller: i am not necessarily speaking on a partisan stand point, but observation. mr. bush, even while all of the economy was going down, i remember specifically two years ago or 2 1/2 years ago, it was reported that -- there was a debate at one time whether or not we were in a recession because we have not had two consecutive quarters of being in the downturn and all the way up until the time it crashed -- and one point, if i could. because andrea mitchell -- i'm a fan of hers -- but because, i think, andrea mitchell is though related by marriage to mr. greenspan, he is not being covered. not only on msnbc but fox are anybody, they are showing the courtesy because he was married to her, but this gentleman was a big reason, in my opinion, why the economy full of the way it did. host: i will ask a question to john taylor for served in the bush administration is here to talk about the fed. thank you for your call and your observations. two other headlines from another tweet your phone call. the newspaper -- dams ignore obama cut. congressional democrats are largely ignor

i remember when she was in the white house, you know, eleanor roosevelt had press conferences so when harry became president they said is mrs. truman going to have press conferences and i think his answer was, i need to get back to you, which is smart. he wasn't going to answer for bess. they had to run this by bess first. she didn't want to have press conferences. she finally submitted to written questions and all the answers were yes or no. [laughter] >> she just didn't -- she just didn't take -- just didn't take to the -- you know, being in public the way harry did. so, yeah, but she loved her hats. >> when president truman left office, he was not the most popular of presidents. my question is, on this trip did he run into any animosity or any people shaking fists or anything of that nature? >> honestly, i did not find -- i can't believe it didn't happen but i didn't find a recorded incident of that. and you're absolutely right. his approval rating was about 22% when he left office in early 1953. which is just about where george w. bush's was when he left office in january of 2009. it's interesting that george w. bush ha

white working folks in the rust belt states. host: good morning. caller: good morning. afe couple of questions for mr. wolf and then i will make a comment. i would like to ask him where he comes from. it appears he has an english accent. how long has he been in the country? where was he educated at? and is he a citizen? host: your question? caller: mr. obama comes out of the most corrupt political system in the united states, which is chicago, cook county. the other system that was more corrupt was in the 20's and 30's and so i think the country ought to know what type of a system this man comes out of. guest: background, sure. i was born in england, raised there, educated there, went to oxford university. came out to "washington post"ed by the financial times and then moved from the early this week. so that makes three presidential election that is i've covered. the proud father of three american children. look, he's a chicago politician. but as people in the circle tell me there are two strands to chicago politics and illinois politics. there is the reformists and the party machine. and obama was ne

mr. president. before i asked my question, is the public plan nonnegotiable? >> that your question. [laughter] >> argue the ombudsman for the white house press corps? is that your question? [laughter] >> okay, i have a two-part question. [laughter] and while i appreciate yours talking about the logic of the health care plan, the public plan, it does seem logical to a lot of people that if the government is offering a cheaper health care plan, then lots of employers will want to have their employees covered by that cheaper plan, which will not have to be for-profit unlike private plans, and they may possibly benefit from some government subsidy, who knows. and in their employees will decide if this public plan which would violate what you are promising the american people that they will not have to change health care plan if they like the plan they have. >> your pitching, i'm catching. i got the question. first of all, with the reverend of spock, is that a crack on my ears? [laughter] >> i would never meet one of your ears, sir. >> in answer to david's question which you co-authored, we are still early in this process, so we have

leader said he has spoken to the white house auto task force and an acknowledged that the automakers will say no immediate cost savings from closing the dealerships. mr. henderson, you say gm is going to be more accountable, let's talk about accountability -- two mid the closure decisions, however, the maine, where they may come amid the recent decisions to reverse closures of 41 dealerships. mr. anderson, you say gm will be focused on customers and less talk about customers -- how is it the mustard eliminated dealerships which compete with each other for price, quality and service. it has been set our domestic automakers on a rural america and you know how it is to serve rural america to limit the loan dealership in a place like burns, oregon. we're still not to idaho by the way it. we did past stinking water pass. in this alice-in-wonderland world of rationalization were up is down and less is more our customers are by less competition and higher prices while on the taxpayers a dime better served. in bend, oregon and the general motors terminated the only gm dealerships substantial service repair facilities servings -- servicing thousands of assist

result of him taking the advice of white house officials and the choice of wolfowitz and then wolfowitz interim bringing douglas feith on board. >> host: how for did mr. wolfowitz and donald rumsfeld go back? >> guest: they went back and number of years. there were not particularly close friends but they served together on various groups and

result of him taking the advice of white house officials in the choice of wolfowitz and then wolfowitz in turn bringing doug feith on board and so on. >> host: how acted mr. wolfowitz and donald rumsfeld go back? >> guest: they went back quite a number of years. they were not particularly close friends but they had served together on various groups and commissions. >> host: in government? >> guest: in government, yes. >> host: chicago independent line. >> caller: i want to say i support what president obama spending. he had ice cream on saturday and went golfing on sunday and i enjoy those activities myself. thank. >> host: thanks for that call. new york, caroline in westchester on the democrats win. >> caller: good morning. i was wondering how mr. graham felt when he found out that donald rumsfeld, wolfowitz and, and the other neocons promoted saddam hussein -- kept telling us that he had weapons of mass destruction when the man was contained for 12 years and now they all have rudolph into the sunset with big money in their bank accounts and i would like to know when are they going to give some of that money back to the american people because now we ar