mrs. reagan, it is wonderful to see you. i had a wonderful time visiting with you before we came here, exchanging stories about ronald reagan. but you are here today, smiling as always by president reagan's side. the talented sculptor said when he carved the statue he shaped the president's face in the familiar grin reagan would flash moments before one of his jokes. that grin came often. he told a lot of jokes. this is a fitting place to honor him. he began his first term telling the country that the americans held for more than a year in iran that they were on their way home. it was temperatures here that president reagan began his second term. the first inauguration i attended as a member of congress and the first and only time the president has taken the oath of office in the capitol rotunda. on that bitter cold day president reagan's characteristic confidence warmed and reassured america. here is what he said. shft a ribbon. he said it in this room. nearly quarter of a century ago. history is a journey. we think of those

mrs. reagan, with your presence here today i hope you know that we honor you, not only for your support of the president for turning that support and love into action. with your support stem cell research has made a significant difference in the lives of many american people. it has saved lives. it has found cures. it has given hope to people. it is appropriate that we hear from leaders from both sides of the aisle and both chambers of the house. i am privileged that my predecessor is here. thank you dennis for joining us. [applause] also joined by the former governor of california, thank you governor for joining us. president reagan understood that bipartisanship was important in all of our debates. i see bob michael. i could introduce every one of you and you probably think i will. the president understood the value of bipartisanship and civility. he would never question the motives of a person because he knew people in public office loved our country and acted on behalf of the american people.

mrs. reagan, it is wonderful to see you. erful time visiting with you before we came here, exchanging stories about ronald reagan. but you are here today, smiling as always by president reagan's side. the talented sculptor said when he carved the statue he shape

mrs. ronald reagan. [applause] [applause] >> today we are gathered to honor president reagan with the unveiling of his statue in the capitol. please remain standing for the opening ceremonies. >> ladies and gentlemen, please remain standing for the presentation of colors by the united states armed forces color guard. the singing of our national anthem and remain standing. @@@@@ rrh@ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ were so gallantly streaming and the rockets' red glare the bombs bursting in air gave proof through the night that our flag was still there oh, say does that star spangled banner yet wave o'er the land of the free and the home of the brave ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >> please be seated. >> let us pray. lord the light of lights how majestic is your name in all the earth. we marvel that you care about humanity. and have crowned us with glory and honor. today accept our gratitude for this congressional tribute to president ronald reagan. whose love for freedom inspired our nation to embrace our best hopes. thank you f

mr. reagan did say that. he did call for ending the evil empires.but at the same time, we were engaged with the soviet union, we have been engaged with them since the second world war. that allowed us to say those things and sit at a time with them at the same time and discuss other issues as two superpowers would do. he saw a moment, mr. reagan. and moscow was having a difficult time coming up with leaders. they had leaders dying over in a couple of weeks before mr. gorbachev came in. we have to remember we have to have the proper climate and the right attitude and take that and not just use the historical comparisons. >> maryland, thank you for waiting. caller: since we're hearing this through interpretation, i'm referring to the ia tolla. i like to ask here if -- is the language correct? i know some parts said death to the u.s. what were the other cheers? also, could you please clarify what he meant when he referred to hillary clinton. i heard it twice and i still don't understand it? am i missing something, please? host: go ahead. guest: i'm not

one with mrs. reagan that ended it up quickly. i had been working on rose velt. this is such an important thing to do. you were living in new orleans? >> yes. i was professor at tulane. i named my study center. the theodore roosevelt study center. >> at rice university nourks i teach a class on theodore roosevelt and conservation. meaning, i have been informing myself lady bird johnson. up until the present time viewing in the warming. i wanted to see all that. when did dot reagan diaries? >> what we have doing this year is bringing out the complete diary in a boxed set. i was working on this book for a long time. i picked one. when you go there. on my field-o notes you are the expert. help me. in the main office, we have the clippings. at that time when i'm writing it, it becomes chronological. in 1988, he wrote this whole book. i can't write about 80 of them >> before i forget it, your wife ann and your three kids. what are their names? >> so nice of you to ask. my oldest daughter is six named after the painter thomas heart benton. second i had an unkell that w

mr. reagan's thoughts?" who speaks for your party? caller: ron paul. the other republicans are republicrats. they are a bunch of socialists. ron paul is against the war. he knows who is behind it. he knows about the lobbies. he is not for socialized medicine. he is for free markets. and i appreciate some of the colors that got through to speak against socialized medicine. host: thank you for the call. colleen from new jersey. caller: the gop has never been missing. i loved mark sanford, and there is jeb and sterlihenserling. mark sanford, when he was a congressman, never took a penny of living expenses. he basically lived in his office during his three terms. host: going back to this peace in "the help" newspaper -- this article in "the hill" newspaper. host: caller from charlottesville, va.. who speaks for the gop caller: i do not think anybody speaks for the gop right now. nobody is really speaking for them. it is just a bunch of negativity. it is a lot of things that are kind of disturbing. rush limbaugh being a leader of the party is a sign of poli

mr. reagan much credit. did he have a sense of how history would be written or how history would say it, there are a lot of complaints about his bellicose rhetoric in his first term and after the soviet leaders stopped dying on him he was able to deal with mr. gorbachev. was it something he just thought he had to do regardless of the historical interpretation? >> i think there are a lot of people who got wrong idea about reagan. what he was doing at the time, when people got upset in '83 and '84, was that he did something that was unusual. he started putting together a large cache of huge weapons, all kinds of weapons. the reason he was doing that was because the soviet union was trying to get ahead of us and they were ahead of us. they started getting ahead of us inecember 9th and by the time he took office, they were way ahead and they keep getting further ahead. some people wondered why he didn't sit down and talk with them. his attitude was i will sit down with themhen we have arms ready to go and that i

mr. reagan, president reagan stated in front of the united nations that he was a citizen of the world. could you tie and the disconnect -- those who espouse reagan and yet strobel -- strobel in a plea at attempts to carry the banner of reagan -- struggle ineptly to carry the banner with shenanigans and over the top sound bites. guest: thank you for the assignment. i will look at it, and i appreciate your kind words about my work. i think the question you raised is a fascinating one, not just for the republicans in 2009 but any political group at any time looking back at certain leaders for inspiration, for solace. particularly, parties who are not having a particularly easy time of it are particularly prone to try to look back and find a plan and playbook and hope that that leads them out of the wilderness. it is completely understandable human and -- reaction. i'm a great admirer of president reagan. he was the president of my childhood and his examples in some ways got me interested in politics. i think he was, as president bush would say, consistently mis-underestimated throughout h

there was a stipulation, mrs. reagan wanted it out quickly. although i had been working on this roosevelt, i had to make a decision do i continue working on my roosevelt book or is this such an important thing to do. and my wife and i had endured katrina so we ended up saying let's bring our kids and let's go out to the reagan library, nearby, we moved to thousand occasion california. >> you were living in new orleans. >> yeah. we came back to new orleans. i was professor attu lane and even named my american studies center attu lane, the theodore roosevelt center and i was teaching classes attu lane on theodore roosevelt and conservation. at rice university now i teach a class on theodore roosevelt and conservation meaning when you say when you start writing a book, i have been informing myself on the research part of this story for a long, long time. it always was in my mind the main thing i wanted to do as a historian with my life is to write the history, of first off, t.r., but f.d.r. and the c.c.c., carson and the u.s. fish and wildlife, t

reception of president reagan's statue here in the capitol will remind people of the many blessings shed on the great state of california. all who visit here are blessed along with mrs. nancy reagan, family collaborators and generations to come who will see this work and remember the words and work of the 40th president of the us. -- united states. everyone will be blessed. who hear this is and takes it to heart, let us be shy no longer. let us go to our strength. let us offer hope. let us tell the world that a new age is not only possible, but probable. . [applause] . [applause] [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2009] >> ladies and gentlemen, thank you for attending today's ceremony. >> here is a look at our schedule. coming up next, president obama at a ceremony in normandy, france, marking the 60th anniversary of d-day. then more with a joint news conference, and then house speaker nancy pelosi at a rally remembering the 20th anniversary of the tiananmen square protest in beijing. >> tomorrow on "washington journal," richard wolffe discusses his book. minnesota governor tim pawlenty discusse

of the company but with lee iacocca presenting a check for the loans plus interest to president reagan. mr. latourette: could i inquire how much time is left? the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman has 14 minutes. mr. latourette: thank you. i want to finish clue the travel edition, again, the game of clue, manufacturers by hasbr, -- hasbro, the weapon, not the pen but the ax to make several thousand people unemployed and in one of these rooms, around the board, mr. nardelli, larry summers, senior advisor on the economy to the president, president obama, of course. over here, ron bloom, who i talked about, here's mr. geithner, secretary of the treasury. here is former president bush. so this group forms our new clue travel edition and as we move forward, i think again it is important that the american public know who made the call to force these car companies into bankruptcy, who made the call to lie to 9,000 auto workers at eight plants across the country and who made the call that even though they don't cost anybody any money, we have to close all these dealerships and put people out of w

back when ronald reagan made those quotes? and is it -- mr. hoyer: would the gentleman yield on that question? mr. cantor: i will. let me finish, mr. speaker. that's number one. is it appropriate in the war spending bill for the taxpayers of this country to be guaranteeing $108 billion to the i.m.f. when we are only providing our troops $80-some billion? that's more than we are providing our troops for a global bailout. and that's the first line of questioning, mr. speaker, i'd ask the gentleman. secondly, does he expect to produce more than the 200 votes that the gentleman's side produced on the first go-round on this supplemental bill because if not, then he would need to have some support from this side of the aisle. mr. speaker, i'd say to the gentleman "the new york times" has pointed out, may 27, hezbollah, the shiite militant group, has talked with the i.m.f. and the european union european union about continued financial support. so is he aware that this money that we are affording the i.m.f. to extend to countries who are in need woul

reagan was sitting there smiling, looking over powell's shoulder wipeout was talking. so the general said he had to lean in more and he said mr. president, we cannot have the leaders, on and on. reagan finally stopped him and went like this, colin powell told me he stopped immediately because the president does this you stop talking. he said, hey colin. i put some acorns out in the garden last weekend looks like the squirrels are starting to pick them up. [laughter] >> and general powell said there and he turned to me and he said i immediately ran out of the room, picked up the phone, called my wife and said what have i gotten myself into? [laughter] >> what he figured out and what so many other people figured out about reagan was that, you know what, the screaming and yelling and the accusation, that was just a sidebar. in the end for reagan, he believed it was about giving his policies enacted in that respect he was not going to get engaged in sort of the nasty back and forth. i think that's one of the reasons the president obama right now is doing as well as he is because he has not found the center of american politics id

mr. moore, iysoo ronald reagan is introducing america's first trillion dollar budget today. she says i only have one question, how many zeros are there in a trillion? it was the worst interview i ever did in my life. i just melted down. it was all downhill from there. by the way, does anyone know how many zeros there are in a trillion? 12, and i know that now but the real question we have to ask yourself is what comes after 100 trillion, a gazillion? but i think you make a very good point that the numbers were talking about are so large there unfathomable and i actually think maybe the sinister part of me, but i think when the obama administration was talking about the silly economic stimulus package that the introduced that passed in january or february, i think they figured, we can ask for $100 billion or a trillion dollars, most of the american people don't know the difference between the two so we will just ask for a trillion and then our friend, arlen specter, said not a trillion dollars, only $800 billion they got the package through. when we started writing this book,

he said after president reagan broke inflation and we got the economy on a soundtrack, the economy grew, mr. president, about 3% a year. and inflation was about 2%. he said, what i'm worried about is, what we're going to see in the next ten years is inflation about 3% and growth about 2%. that's not good. you want your growth to exceed the inflation rate, and so i don't know what'll happen. i can't predict it. we're going to have less money to spend on the things we need because we're going to have to be paying out a huge amount of known interest. those are real concerns. this matter is not going away. i believe the american people are becoming more and more attuned to these matters. that's what the tea parties were about and other things, a sort of spontaneous reaction by the american people saying, what are you guys doing up there? surely you know this isn't the way to handle america's business. so i would just say, i'm going to continue to report on things that are developing. surely we'll begin to see shom improvement in unemployment rate and maybe some economic growth in the weeks to c

gentleman would urge his party to support this consistent with the principles of ronald reagan and george bush. i yield back. mr. cantor: i thank the gentleman. i think as the gentleman knows, we're probably going to have to leave this topic and just agree to disagree. it's very concerning, given the new times we are in and frankly the facts and information has come forward about the special drawing rights about the fact and knowledge that we have at this point knowing u.s. taxpayer dollars will help facilitate countries like iran, venezuela, burma, and others to access more money to do what it is that they think is in their interest and certainly not in the interest of the u.s. but i would like to turn the gentleman's attention back to his statement about the intention of this bill and the primary purpose of the war funding bill which again to loosely paraphrase was to provide for troop safety and security and that's the underlying purpose. and the gentleman indicated that the president has already taken the same position that most of us, i believe, in this house have taken so far as these photos are concerned

when ronald reagan went before the brigade, he did not say, mr. gorbachev, that was none of our business. he said, mr. gorbachev, tear down this wall. >> i think that we have been very clear. obviously, we do not support the decision of this administration to engage with a terrorist regime. obviously, when you have a regime that conducts itself the way it has over the last week on display for the world to see, brutalizing and killing people because they're standing up for their rights, had it calls into question the ability for us as a country, as a civilized world leader to trust anything that this regime may represent. i believe we would come down on the side of trying to bring forward the refined petroleum sanctions act, to go ahead, and this administration is going to engage with a terrorist regime, let's at least go in and say, look, we want results out of those engagements. the results can only come if the regime itself feels the pressure of the world community. that its actions are unacceptable. >> thank you very much. [captioning performed

mr. harold koh has a long and distinguished history of serving this country and the legal profession. during the reagan administration -- a republican president's administration -- he was a career lawyer in the office of legal counsel at the department of justice. in 1998, unanimously confirmed as the u.s. assistant secretary. mr. koh's academic credentials are amazing. a marshal scholar at oxford, a graduate of harvard law school, editor of the harvard law review and he went on to be a clerk at the supreme court across the street, which is about as good as it gets going out of law school. since 2004 harold koh was a dean at a law school. he's been awarded 11 honorary degrees and 30 human rights awards. i don't know that you could present a stronger resume for a man who wants to serve our country to be involved in public service and step out of his professional life as a lawyer in the private sector and with law schools. he's been endorsed by leaders, legal scholars from both political parties including former solicitor general ted olson, ken starr, josh bolten, seven former department of state legal a

mr. obama rescinded the mexico city policy, a pro-life reagan era executive order, that ensured that the half billion dollars in population control funds appropriated by congress each year only went to foreign nongovernmental organizations, family planning, organizations that did not promote, lobby, or perform abortions as a method of family planning. as a result of owe bam obama's new policy, they are flush with cash and will continue to get hundreds of millions of dollars annually to push abortion around the world. all of it decoupled from pro-life safeguards. i mention the mexico city policy which is not on the floor today for context. to underscore what is actually happening 24/7 in the obama administration. add to this the fact that the administration has stuffed pro-abortion activists, a literal who's who in the abortion rights organizations, in key gatekeeper positions and you get the idea. you see that abortion is a serious undertaking by this administration. even the gatekeeper, the woman, and a fine woman, who heads up the u.s. agency for international development, wendy sherma

mr. dent: i took a good look at the whole body imaging machines over at reagan international airport. i have to say a couple of things about this. i was impressed by the technology. it seems that over -- we have a great deal of satisfaction from passengers who utilize that type of screening. there are limitations to the magnatrometers. they can pick up keys and other prohibited items like liquids and c-4, potential explosives. it will be detected under the whole body imaging technology but not under a magnatometer. the privacy concerns that have been raised, while i understand them, i think they have been overstated. there are strong, strong restrictions in place to make sure that those individuals, the trngs security officer who actually helps the passenger go through the whole body imaging scanning is not in contact with the person who is actually viewing the image in a separate room. they're separated. the face of the individual is also blurred so that's another protection. so i do think that this technology is very valuable. it will help make us safer. and, again, i think it is a

reagan, just say no. and i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman's time has expired. the gentleman from california. mr. waxman: may i inquire about the time each side has remaining? the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from california has 44 1/2 minutes remaining. the gentleman from texas has 53 1/2 minutes remaining. mr. waxman: thank you. at this time i'd like to yield one minute to the gentlelady from illinois, a distinguished member of the committee, ms. schakowsky. the speaker pro tempore: gentlelady for one minute. ms. -- the gentlelady is recognized for one minute. ms. schakowsky: for over the century the united states has embraced on energy policy based entirely on fossil fuels that have had several dangerous consequences for today. this outdated policy has compromised our national security by making us reliant on foreign oil, has led the united states to lag behind other countries in the research and development of new energy text nolings that would -- technologies that would created more jobs. now we have an opportunity to change directions. when i was back in my district last recess i coul

mr. gorbachev. was something he thought he had to do regardless of historical interpretation? >> i think there are a lot of people that got the wrong idea about reaganand what he was doing at the time when people got upset to in '83 and '84 was that he did something that was unusual. he started planning to gather in large cache of huge weapons, all kinds of weapons. the reason he was doing that was because of the soviet union was caught trying to get ahead and they were ahead. they started getting ahead of us in december 9th and by the time he took office they were way ahead and kept going further ahead. some people wondered why he didn't sit down and talk with them and his attitude was i will sit down with them when we have arms ready to go and that is what he did. he got enough strong weapons with him and finally said, look, you want to sit and talk let's do it. now, while he was doing that a lot of people got the wrong idea. i think that's it, but then when it turned around and went the other way i remember any of those people saying he had the right away. the summit else want to try something to? >> thank you. president obama right now has menti

reagan said, " general secretary gorbachev, if you seek peace, it d.c. prosperity for the soviet union and eastern europe, if you seek liberalization, come here to this gate. mr. gorbachev, open this gate. mr. gorbachev, tear down this wall." last week in france, president obama took a different approach. he demanded nothing of our current adversary, iran. he challenged them to do nothing, saying instead, "we are ready for direct negotiations with the iranian, a whole range of issues without preconditions in an atmosphere of mutual respect." ronald reagan demonstrated the power of an american president's standing firm for human freedom and liberty and against tyranny. president obama is pleading with a tyrannical, radical regime that sponsors terror and has killed americans to please talk to us. he is offering to convey a tremendous benefit to them in exchange for no cost from them. president reagan knew there was no moral equivalency in america and our adversaries and he was not afraid to say so. he also knew that negotiating from a position of weakness could never secure america's national interests. after he left the middle east, president obama made an em

president reagan said, quote, general secretary gorbachev, if you seek peace, if you seek prosperity for the soviet union and eastern europe, if you seek liberalization, come here to this date. mr. gorbachev, open this gate. mr. gorbachev, tear down this wall. last week in france president obama took a different approach. he demanded nothing of our current adversary, iran. he challenged them to do nothing saying instead, quote, we are ready for direct negotiations with the iranians on the whole range of issues without preconditions in an atmosphere of mutual respect.