mrs. hutchison: thank you. madam president, i think it's obvious all around our country that americans are struggling right now with gasoline prices. the average american family spent more than $4,000 a year last year and it will be more this year before the additional devastating price increases that we're seeing now just wreak havoc on our economy. the national average price of a gallon of gasoline has gone up every single week, every single day for the last three weeks. every single day for the last three weeks. in many parts of our country, prices at the pump are around $4 a gallon. but instead of encouraging an all-of-the-above approach, which the administration has said it is doing, the administration instead has been frustrating every domestic source of energy production that doesn't conform to a narrow view of alternative fuels. the president is opposed to increasing drilling in the arctic nationaarctic national we preserve and opening additional areas of the outer continental shelf off the alaskan coas

mr. hutchison looks at how byron white's early celebrity shaped his career on the court. this is about 40 minutes. >>> thank you for that round of applause. it is nice to be home. i grew up colorado and have been in exile for the last 35 years. a few day after john f. kennedy was inaugurated president of the united states in january of 1961, byron white, the deputy attorney general, slipped out of the department of justice building for a quick lunch at a nearby restaurant. after the sandwiches, his coffee was poured, the waitress looked carefully at white and asked, say, aren't you whizzer white? white took a sip of coffee, measured her slowly, and replied in a soft voice, "i was." f. scott fitzgerald famously said that there are no second acts in american lives. but there must have been times when byron white wish that his first act could be forgotten once and for all. for his entire public career, white was constantly framed in the public eye by his headline making first act -- an act so to speak, that made him a nationwide household name while he was still a teen abler

mrs. hutchison: mr. president. the presiding officer: the senator from texas. mrs. hutchison: mr. president, i want to thank the distinguished chairman of the commerce committee for all that he said, and i really appreciate working with him because we have had clearly, because of 23 extensions, you know that this was a hard bill to pass. since 2007, we have been trying to reauthorize the f.a.a. and particularly increase aviation safety and put our nextgen air traffic control system in place. that has been the primary moving force. but as is often the case, it is other issues that have come to the forefront and caused delay after delay after delay process in passing this bill. we did pass it through the senate, and now have come out with a court between the house and senate. so i really first have to say thank you for the leadership of senator rockefeller, which has been quiet and effective, and letting the different members with different interests -- of which there were many on this bill -- have their s

mrs. hutchison, proposes amendment number 1500. at the end of the amendment insert the following: "prohibition on unauthority earmarks --" mr. inhofe: i ask unanimous consent to dispense with the reading of the officer without objection. mr. inhofe: i would like to ask unanimous consent that senator susan collins be added as -- withdraw that request. mr. president, today i'm -- i understand that senator toomey is going to be introducing an amendment that will -- it is quite an oversimplifying to say it that way, but it would make permanent the temporary ban on earmarks. and i think this is something that we have talked about and talked about and talked about on this floor. in fact, the last time we talked about the amendment to do -- to put a moratorium on earmarks, my conservative rating of number one in the united states senate moved to number 20 because i was telling the truth, not demagoguing an issue. the problem we have is this: when the -- when we -- the house of representatives first of all came up some time ago -- two years

mr. mayor. i am laura haber, director of marketing/planning for city car share. as was just alluded to, i'm here on behalf of rick hutchison who sends his regrets. as mentioned, this program is two years in the making. rick is the c.e.o. and now presenting at the international car association in montreal as we speak. car share is being promoted worldwide. just so you know, not just here in san francisco. i want to thank again mr. mayor, president chiu for the early vision and leadership in this program and sfmta and city administrator's office, who's been a pleasure to work with operationally. we're very excited about the launch of this pilot program for a number of reasons, not the recent of which raises profile of car sharing. one of the aspects is making it more visible in the community with the very prime locations and congested neighborhoods and also makes it more accessible for people because many of our what we call pods, which are where cars are located or private garages or public garages and they're not as visible to the community. in these dense neighborhoods, car sharing does a couple things. number one, it put