"(d) national database. "(1) in general. the coordinating center shall establish and maintain a national, publicly available database to improve prevention programs, evidence-based interventions, and disease management programs for depressive disorders, using data collected from the centers, as described in paragraph (2). "(2) data collection. each center shall submit data gathered at such center, as appropriate, to the coordinating center regarding- "(a) the prevalence and incidence of depressive disorders; "(b) the health and social outcomes of individuals with depressive disorders; "(c) the effectiveness of interventions designed, tested, and evaluated; "(d) other information, as the secretary may require. "(3) submission of data to the administrator. the coordinating center shall submit to the administrator the data and financial information gathered under paragraph (2). "(4) publication using data from the database. a center, or an individual affiliated with a center, may publish findings using the data described in par

throughout our nation's conflicts, the national guard has been an integral part of our country's national defense. during world war i the national guard made up 40% of the america's combat divisions. the national defense act of 1933 established the national guard as a reserve component of the army and the 1947 national security act of 1947 established the air component of the national guard as a reserve component of the air force. more than 300,000 members of the national guard participated in world war ii. and over 180,000 members of the national guard participated in the korean war. and nearly 23,000 members of the national guard deployed in support of the vietnam war. more than 50,000 members of the national guard were deployed to the gulf states in support of hurricane katrina. today, mr. speaker, almost a quarter of a million members of the national guard have been mobilized in support of operation noble eagle, operation enduring freedom, and operation iraqi freedom. so today we are here to express our appreciation to those who serve in the national guard and their families who are a

presence host national light. we're here with steph levine. >> the best way to understand what's going on in russia and what's been doing on for the last several years is to look through the lens of murder. what i argue that under putin, under vladimir putin that there is a culture, a structure in which murder and death occurs with impunity. and it goes on with the indifference of the russian people. and i call that the culture of death. >> why does that occur? why don't the russian people know? >> they do know. but it's been going on for centuries. they've learned, i track it back to ivan the terrible. and people are so accustomed to hardship in their lives, to death, to famine, to all kinds of terrible hardships that we never encounter. and so if there is something that happens to something to someone very close to them, to your relative, to your mother, to your aunt, to your daughter, you care. if it's a murder of someone next door of the village next door, maybe you could care. but you don't care. and you go o

it's dominated by the national media. they don't know the national operatives very well.y don't know the national media very well. up pops this guy, john sears, who had ran ford's campaign but got passed over because, you know, drew spencer and rog morton and others were running it. so he ends up, you know, running reagan's campaign but this is a great acquisition in the eyes of the national media because they didn't know much about this guy, reagan, from california. even after all of his careers in hollywood and the lecture circuit. 3,000 miles is a long way. you don't have the internet, talk radio, cell phones. it's a big country. and most of those guys are 3,000 miles away. so the guy they do know, john sears, who has got all this national political experience -- he's going to run reagan's campaign. well, that really impresses the national media. but reagan comes close as we all know in 1976. some say because john got them close. others say because john messed up in new york. and in ohio and in new jersey and other primaries. but there wasn't a good, acceptable backup

national guard, the commander of the d.c. national guard.here was some kind of swearing in, i'm not sure what it was, but there was some kind of swearing in and everyone else who came in so that they were either sworn in at the national guard, or it -- it occurred, even though these were national guard. now, the d.c. national guard is a little different. because we're not a state. and therefore, -- but these were reserves people. they were on the ground at the inauguration. and my recollection is that although the d.c. national guard is technically under the president, that the commander of the d.c. national guard for in these troops as something other than reserve troops for purposes here, that may suggest there's some parallel there to avoid any constitutional issue of rising. because i do think we are truly preparing for the next one. we'd better assume, assume, that you will need to go beyond the national guard. national guard is best thing to do this. no question about it, from across the country. there are a whole lot of guards. it's n

we do not seek to occupy other nations. we will not claim another nation's resources. or target other people because their faith or a net -- or ethnicity is different from ours. what we have fought for, what we continue to fight for is a better future for our children and grandchildren and we believe that their lives will be better if other people's children and grandchildren can live in freedom. and access opportunity. [applause] as a country, we are not as young, and perhaps not as innocent, as we were when roosevelt was president. yet we are still heirs to a noble struggle for freedom. now, we must summon all of our might and moral suasion to meet the challenges of a new age. in the end of our security and leadership does not come solar -- solely from the strength of office. it derives from our people, from the workers and businesses who will rebuild our economy, from the entrepreneurs and researchers will pioneer new industries, from the teachers who will educate our children and the service of those who work in our communities at home, from the diplomats and peace

. >> organization that sits firmly at the center of the nation's health reform debate. we have 1300 members that provide americans with their mental, health, dental coverage, long-term insurance plans disability benefits. in the organization is active in all 50 states and the boy is active in washington. the represents every large insurer, many of the small ones, bill allen of the alliance plan is iman for board members and is here today, welcome bill. we were formed in 2003 from the merger of american association of health plans and health insurance association of america. you may remember from its clinton era harry and louise commercials relevant today. an earlier in her career karen worked on capitol hill and for the afl-cio. she joined aahp in 1993 and has turned many accolades for her leadership. washington magazine named her one of three top guns of all the trade association heads in washington. in new york times wrote, in a city teeming with health care lobbyists, karen igagni is concerned -- considered one of the most effective. and she blends a detailed knowled

have a good day [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2009] [captioning performed by national captioning institute] >> up next a hearing on contractors in iraq. after that senate banking committee votes on a new term for federal resaid of chair ben better nan key. after that a house hearing on u.s. counterterrorism efforts. >> his mark on history includes "manifest destiny" and in his new biography of james k. polk, a country of vast delife and times of our 11th president. tonight on c-span's q and a. >> now friday's hearing on contract oversight for security forces training in afghanistan was held by the federal commission on wartime contracting. members recently returned from a trip to afghanistan where a training local security forces has been made a top priority by the obama administration. >> good morning. i'd like to call the commission on wartime contracting in iraq and afghanistan to order. our hearing. >> this opening statement is made on behalf of my cochairman michael tebow who is not here because of a family emergency, my fellow commissioners and myself. the other

rusher of national review was the conservative star in that series. isn't it time to revive firing line? surely the talent, the resources and the audience are there to make such acts of cultural reclamation worth attempting. this leads me to a final observation. i am a historian of american conservatism and i can happily report that sophisticated discourse is thriving on the american right. but it also appears to me that conservative spend much of their time in current problems cocooning with one another and that in this age of the internet too much conservative advocacy has been reduced to sound bite certitudes and sterile cliches. what do conservatives want? limited government the answer, free enterprise, strict construction of the constitution, fiscal responsibility, patriotism, traditional values and respect for the sanctity of human life. no doubt, but i wonder how much are these traditional formulations and abstractions inspiring their rising generation, present company excepted. how much are they resonating with america's new emigrants and domi

our nation fell into depression. and now 27 million americans are either out of work or working part-time jobs when they want full-time jobs. the trouble is, when you don't fix something right in the first place, the problem only worse worsens. this is what should have happened. the s.e.c. should have reimporesed regulations and used mark to market accounting. the fdic should have declared an emergency and claimed all depositors protected and should have used the emergency power to restore capital in banks. that wasn't done in time. even now we need to restore prudent banking -- separate prudent banking from speculation and restore and strengthen normal banking regulations and not depend on the overpublicized treasury department. yes, we have to increase capital, and eliminate cyclical rules and increase congressional oversight with the financial accounting standards board while strengthening the fdic. i have some other bills including recan you pleasing the bonuses, the over $140 billion in bonuses that wall street

afghan national police.n issue. it takes time to develop the leadership there. in iraq and other countries where i have been, you have the existing structure of police that you could use and generate while in afghanistan. we are building a plane while we are flying. it takes time to build that leadership an institution to support that leadership in order for the anp to sustain itself over time. we should realize what kind of difficult position we are putting the anp in because they have to fight every day to the last. >> do you consider the city to be secure? >> absolutely not. ghana city is interesting because the perception there will define the perception of security and the future. that is a battleground. -- that is of vital brent. ground. there is a balance of power there between criminals, tribes, economic power brokers pouring in a huge amount of coalition forces will not have a positive effect. i think we passed that stage. we handed over most of the security to the ana and we should focus on mentori

it's national parks, it's national forest, it's national wildlife refuges.do it by executive order. the congress stops it before the end and roosevelt pinchot set aside another 16 million acres and they have these rangers bring in these maps to the floor of the white house. i have a scene where roosevelt describes -- he says have you put in the upper flat head valley? i remember being up there once and seeing this magnificent herd of elk so let's include. and they are drawing these boundaries all over the west and -- this is why these original forest rangers -- they were called the arrangers. they were in on creation. they're drawing the boundaries and they're out of yale and they're given these huge magnificent forests for them to take over. so they create these national forests. but there's pushback. there's tons of pushback. remember, this is the end of the gilded age. you have never in our history have we had a bigger gap between rich and poor until just a few years ago during the wall street peak. but you have rockefellers, guggenheim, who hated rooseve

in a nation, mr. president, founded on freedom and sustained by unimaginable prosperity, as i mentioned before, this bill is long overdue and critically important. no american can be free from fear when getting sick could mean going broke. this fight is older than most of us who serve in this body. our path has been illuminated by a torch lit years ago in the days of harry truman and sustained for decades by good people, republicans and democrats, the nixon administration, the clinton administration, members like john chafee who worked tirelessly trying to craft a good health care bill. you heard others talk about the greets they had not acknowledging his ideas when he proposed them. we might have been able to address this issue years and years ago. so good people have tried to come up with some answers to this issue. it is with a note of sadness this evening that we're going to have a partisan vote on this matter. i wish it were otherwise. i'd like to point out that of course many others have fought

moreover, wars between nations have increasingly given way to wars within nations. things have increasingly trapped civilians in unmeaning chaos. in today's wars many more civilians are killed than soldiers. the seeds of future conflicts are so. economy's are wracked. civil society toward a thunder, children's garden. i do not bring with me today a definitive solution to the problems of war. what i do know is that meeting these challenges will require the same vision, hard work and persistence of those men and women who acted so boldly decades ago. and it will require us to think in new ways about the notions of just war and the imperatives of a just peace. we must begin by acknowledging a hard truth. we will not eradicate violent conflict in our lifetimes. there will be times when nations acting individually or in concert will find the use of force not only necessary, but morally justified. i make this statement mindful of what martin luther king jr. said in the same ceremony years ago. violence never brings permanent peace. it solves no social problem. it merely c

[captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2009] . . >> here are some of the events in washington that before, during and after the health care votes. made about all of the people that work at the capitol during the difficult an intense time. we thank you very much for your outstanding service. it's early and i'll be brief. the most obvious problem with the bill before us is it doesn't do what it was supposed to do. the one test for any bill was whether it would lower costs. this bill fails that test. it's also clear that even many of the people on this side who are going to support this bill don't like it. otherwise, the democratic leaders wouldn't have had such a tough time rounding up the votes. otherwise, democratic leaders would not have had to have votes in the middle of the night or at crack of dawn or over the weekend or even during a blizzard. otherwise, they wouldn't be rushing it through congress on christmas eve. the first time this body has had a vote on the day before christmas in more than a century. this

at the national and sub-national levels.ur overarching going, improve governance so afghans can see the benefit of supporty a lift government and the insurgency loses its support. as general mcchrystal pointsous, one of our major impediments faced, the afghan government's lack of credibility with its own people. to strengthen its legitimacy our approach at the national level is improving key ministries, increasinged number of civilian technical advisers and providing more development assistance directly through these ministries' budgets. by focusing on ministries that deliver essential services and security, we can accelerate the building of the afghan government to one that is sufficiently visible, effective and accountable. at the provincial and district levels we're working jointly with our military through our provincial reconstruction teams, our district development working groups and our district support teams which help build afghan capacity, particularly in the areas of greatest insecurity, in southern and in eastern

we see it all over the nation. you think about 20 years ago when president bush was first talking about points of light, we have gone to an additional 23 million people participated in national service. this past year alone, there was a 200% increase in the number of americorps applications. half of americans believe that they can create change in their community. that is a sense of empowerment that brings people to the national service table. we also believe that building on that legacy has to provide a new way of doing business. as for citizens and the government working together with philanthropic and private sectors. for citizens, it is not just about hours of service. it is not just about that one day of service may be in one year. that is a wonderful place to start. it is also about impact. we have huge challenges in this country together, we can work to address those challenges grid people have to start to ship their thinking about why engaging in service over a sustained period of time. at the same time, th

i know national review announces that every year. you do not absorb everything in the magazine so was her telling me that got me engaged. i applied to be an intern. i was accepted and this was the summer before my senior year. when i was graduating, this was 1977 graduating from college and this is a near where every humanity's major thought of going to law school. it was the defaulting. we would all go to law school. i took the law boards and i have no gift for law. none at all. now interest. i was on that track. i was corresponding with priscilla. she said what are you put off law for year and come to the "national review". and that summer has gone on longer. >> what was national review like at that time? >> among the causes was the defense of capitalism. which we did very intelligently. the bill was very savvy about economics. about to as well as a layman can. we were a pre capitalist institution. it was like buckleyland and the ruler was bill buckley. that was clear to everybody. he was a benign ruler. he was certainly an uncheck

national health security budget. (a) national health security budget.- (1) in general.by not later than september 1 before the beginning of each year (beginning with 2010), the board shall establish a national health security budget, which- (a) specifies the total expenditures (including expenditures for administrative costs) to be made by the federal government and the states for covered health care services under this title; and (b) allocates those expenditures among the states consistent with section 1504. pursuant to subsection (b), such budget for a year shall not exceed the budget for the preceding year increased by the percentage increase in gross domestic product. (2) division of budget into components.-the national health security budget shall consist of at least 4 components: (a) a component for quality assessment activities (described in subtitle e). (b) a component for health professional education expenditures. (c) a component for administrative costs. (d) a component (in this subtitle referred to as the "operating component") for operating and other expend

our mission is to train and go the afghan national army and the national police force.that with about 1500 service members, army, navy, air force, marines and military professionals. also, number of police professionals, both from the united states and other contributing nations. we are a component of the international security force here that is the four star general headquartered also appear in kabul. -- up here in kabul. host: general, we're going to let our viewers call in with their thoughts and ask questions of you. we will get to that in just a moment. let me ask you, general, about the different roles that the afghan national security force and the afghan police take under. can you define that more clearly for us? guest: we call it the afghan national security forces, but the two main components are the afghan national army and the afghan national police. i will just start with the army. the army is about 100,000 soldiers strong right now and our goal is to grow them here in this year until october 2010 to grow them from 100,000 to about 134,000. that will impro

national standards.ealthy as possible and to limit some of these -- i do not know what you're calling them, but that competitive choices. then also, how we work that with the state because i can see they may have different kinds of food available in the state that are healthy. a long question. >> thank you. first of all, the whole idea of standards is that -- and if i could just give you an example. if you are a manufacturer in the school market and you make a small bag of gramm crackers and you make it for 1.5 ounces the 5 miles down the road, their standard says, no, you can have up to 2 ounces, and the next says you can do 2.5, then i go back to the manufacture and my district just said 1 ounce, now there are four different bags of the exact same crackers, and to me that is very costly. we are not all metropolitan districts, so we keep -- so when you cannot buy hundreds of thousands of them at the same time, the manufacturer is not going to make them just for you. without standards, we are eliminating

and national army in this mix.he plan yearly is that we will responsibility to the afghans until the afghans have the capacity in that district or that province to be able to manage the security situation on their own. with us and our allies initially in a tactical watch and strategic over watch situation. the reality is set the circumstances in iraq differ from province to province. the difficulty will depend on the circumstances in each of these areas. in sum, it will take your afghans. a big part of this is additional training will put more and more afghans into the site and into a position where they can take responsibility for security. one of the purposes of the u.s. going in with additional forces is not just to partner with the afghans or to train the afghans, but to degrade the capabilities. you have a situation where the capabilities are rising at a time when our combat forces are degrading the taliban. >> do i understand that there will be situations where our troops will be clearing in the area and not

it concerns our national security to be sure, but it also represents a grave challenge to our national character. i come at this exploration from several vantage points, some as you mentioned, an american arab leader, having worked with those and other arab communities as well. at a ph.d. in islamic studies and also someone who did postdoctoral work on the impact of religion in societies under stress, as a pollster with my brother john spog buy intensively polled communities of interest both here in the united states and europe and across the middle east and as a participant leader in ethnic coalitions in this country that has brought me into close contact with new and not so new americans watching them move from exile politics into the american mainstream. let me begin with a simple observation. despite real concerns that we all share about recent cases involving the arrests of some young men seeking association with dangerous international terrorist activity and the arrests of others who appear to be on the verge of carrying out such activity, we are not europe. our situation here is

you have said the goal is 160,000 afghan national police. affected the quality of the police? one of the ways to attempt this would be to shorten the program of instruction while dividing time to weapons -- while devoting time to weapons. what you think about the target of 160,000 in that bind? >> i would say that that was our proposal. that has not been accepted by the dod and by afghanistan, so it is not yet a goal. we have reviewed the program of instruction for all of the training we do on a regular basis. there is no doubt the current training for police was eight weeks. we have looked at whether it six weeks was achievable. it was done in a committee -- a civilian police professional. they are looking at the program of instruction to see if we could not reduce the amount of training but compressed into six weeks the amount of training required to turn and a police of the same quality. one of that is will were training days, -- one of that is warmer training days. -- one of that is longer training days. there was some compression in the

at the national and sub-national levels. our overarching going, improve governance so afghans can see the benefit of supporty a lift government and the insurgency loses its support. as general mcchrystal pointsous, one of our major impediments faced, the afghan government's lack of credibility with its own people. to strengthen its legitimacy our approach at the national level is improving key ministries, increasinged number of civilian technical advisers and providing more development assistance directly through these ministries' budgets. by focusing on ministries that deliver essential services and security, we can accelerate the building of the afghan government to one that is sufficiently visible, effective and accountable. at the provincial and district levels we're working jointly with our military through our provincial reconstruction teams, our district development working groups and our district support teams which help build afghan capacity, particularly in the areas of greatest insecurity, in southern and in easte

in nations that don't have a strong national identity. we try to do that in iraq. and it appeared that we effectively armed and equipped every side in the sectarian civil war. the video, the cell phone video, the execution of saddam hussein and the taunting by the shia militia did us great damage, created the impression that was a sectarian revenge killing, not the execution of justice in a society with a legitimate rule of law. what is the desertion rate now? where are those folks going? how are we going to make sure that the military we build is not going to dominate the government and how are we making sure we're not training and ee equipmenting the forces provided for war lords in a short time? >> i think it's important that i start with the fact that one of the things afghans fear most is militias and war lords. there will be security forces that form in afghanistan whether we form them or not. they will form in their own defense. and i think that it's important we form a national army and national police capacity, a recognized legit

[captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2009] [no audio] [no audio] >> this morning on c-span, the senate voted of its version of the health care bill with reaction by president barack obama. today's "washington journal." later, michelle obama at the dedication of the christmas tree decorated earlier this month. this week and newsmakers, our guest is director of the national institutes of health. he discusses stem cell research, genome technology, and that was agency might be affected by health care legislation. that is sunday morning at 10:00 eastern, and 6:00 eastern on c- span. beginning monday, a rare glimpse into america's highest court for unprecedented, on the record conversations with 10 supreme court justices about the court, their work, and the history of the iconic supreme court building. five days of interviews starting monday at 8:00 p.m., on c-span and get your own copy of the original documentary on dvd. it is part of the american icons collection, 83-disc set. it is one of the of many items available a

they can brand a single nation or even a couple of nations, but hard to brand 44 nations, particularly small nations who would otherwise have no reason to operate in that part of the world as anything but with the best of intentions. now, that 44 nations is together but it's backed up by young men and women more than 2,800 canadians and their partners that they share the task with. if i go down to southern afghanistan, as i do many times, if you look them in the eye and ask them about the mission, you have no doubt about what they can accomplish. i'm fortunate and honored to serve with all of these great people. and i thank you very much. i'm pleased to answer your questions. [applause] >> i just want to say that there is a media opportunity that has been arranged after the question and answer period in the drawing room directly over there. so i would ask the press and media to refrain from asking questions during this period. for those of you who will be asking questions, time is relatively short, so please, no significant preamble to the question, yet, please do use one of the three

lilian sparks serves as the national director of the national indian education association which wasded in 1970 to give american indians, alaskan natives and native hawaiians access to improve in their educational opportunities. in october, president obama nominated her to be commissioner of administration for native americans which is part of the department of health and human services, and she is awaiting senate confirmation. lily eccleson is the vice president of the national education association. she is one of the highest ranking labor leaders in the country and one of the most influential hispanic educators. after teaching for only nine years, she was named utah teacher of the year in 1989, and she used that title as a platform to speak out against the dismal funding of utah schools. sharon lewis is the senior disability policy adviser for the u.s. house of representatives, education and labor committee under the chairmanship of congressman george miller, which she handles issues involving disability policy. she originally came to washington, d.c., from portland, oregon, to wor

guest [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2009] >> you are watching c-span. next, edward brooke received the congressional and gold medal. then the dalai lama becomes the first person to receive the lantos prize. then the funeral mass and burial for senator edward kennedy, who died in august. right now on c-span2, continuing coverage of what measures and bonn political campaigns from american university. today's topics include strategic messaging and grass-roots organizing. later, interviews with supreme court justices. tonight, and then scalia and prove spader ginsburg. justice scalia has served on a court for almost 25 years. justice ginsberg has served since 1993. she will discuss her life before serving. see those interviews tonight at in o'clock eastern on certification -- on c-span. >> it is the business. judges are in. we cannot decide who want to win. we decide who wins under the law the people have decided. >> a rare glimpse into america's highest court. 1

>> we have national, technical rules. >> not everything, no. there are certain things that are legally must be read about and put in here. but we're confident that we have the kind of measures in place to be able to monitor and compliance and monitor russian strategic alliance. spell that? botkinsk. >> also given here and there, but when the prime minister says, what was he doing improvising on this time also in the support? >> uh-huh. first of all, let me just make some comments on the the -- on the attacks. we extend our sympathy to today's attacks, and to the families in terms of those who lost their lives in these attack. these attacks highlight the vicious nature of the enemy. pakistan and security of all pakistan, you don't have any information of any americans were injured in this. and i just highlight the -- the need for us to support the government of pakistan and fight this common enemy, and this common challenge that we have. and we will continue to support them. we can fight this terrible surge. >> secretary clinton, did he do the r

there's a proposal to grow the afghan national army.that has not been decided on that specific number. >> all right. the goal is by the end of this year to have the afghan national police to be an 96,800. it has been proposed that we reach a total number of wonder and 60,000 by the year 2013 but it has not yet been proved. -- a total number of 160,000. >> general, first of all, thank you for your servers particularly in this last year on an assignment that i now had to be extremely challenging and may be frustrating at times. congratulations on your upcoming promotions. you will be moving too beautiful hot still, alabama. we have danced around -- he will be moving it to be a full huntsville, alabama. i would like to take this to the next debt. counterinsurgencies is very leader, jerk -- leader-centric. there are many who believe we should do more to improve the officer and an c.e.o. court -- and nco corps as opposed to bring them to fast. what does this have to do with training? obviously, we create a need for additional mentors and so

increasing the national debt. you know, it's moments like this that i really got to say that the american people have had it. i mean, at a time of economic difficulty for working families, small businesses and family farmers all across this country, a time when families are sitting down at kitchen tables, around aluminum desks, in basements with small lights hanging, they're figuring out where to cut back. they are just figuring out how to make it from one month to the next. and those families and those small businesses don't have the ability to walk down to the bank and just increase their debt limit with the wave of a hand. i mean, they got to make hard choices. and to their undying credits, the american people are making those hard choices. and the reason they're so frustrated looking to washington, d.c., today is they see a national government that is completely out of step with the character and the values and the sacrifice that the american people are practicing every day. not that it's anything new. as the

they don't know the national operatives very well, they don't know the national media very well and this guy john sears, who got passed over because stew spencer and roger martin and others were running at. so he ends up running reagan's campaign but this is a great accusation in the eyes of the media because they didn't know much about this guy, reagan, from california. even after all of his career in hollywood and the g and the lecture circuit is 3,000 models is a long way, a telephone call. he didn't of the internet, cable television, talk radio, cell phones. it is a big country and most of those guys 3,000 miles away. so the guy that they do know, john sears call this national political experience, he's going to run reagan's campaign. well, that really impresses the national media. but the reagan comes close as we all know in 1976. some say because john got him close and others say because john s. tuck and new york and ohio and new jersey and other primaries. but there wasn't a good acceptable back up, which is why it took so long to fire john in 1980 because there wasn't anybody o

there are not contributing nations. japan being one. recently contributing, agree to contribute up to $5 billion to afghanistan. pakistan shifting their strategic calculus. do we see that happening because we have got to work with them to get at the safe havens for the al qaeda so those are some of, at the major level. >> i would hope we could be more specific. let me just challenge you and one, the corruption of the karzai government which has been well documented. this that mean that if progress is the thought made we reduce their troop levels quicker or if progress is made, we keep more troops there? how does that translate to u.s. troops being in the heather? is it a positive side for removing troops or a negative side, corruption? >> senator what we are looking for is capacity and effectiveness. we believe corruption is one of the reasons why the karzai government has not developed the capacity it needs nor has it been effective enough. i mean i don't want anybody to think that we are trying to aim toward some zero corruption stand

go national. go like a pro. >>> ali velshi here in new york with breaking news coverage of what the white house is calling an attempted terrorist attack. if you're just joining us here in the united states or on cnn international, here's what we know. you're looking at a passenger jet, northwest airlines flight 253, branded delta with delta markings on it. allegedly someone frooid tried to blow it up. this flight was an approach to detroit from amsterdam. a passenger tells us what she saw. >> we were in the back of the plane and all of a sudden heard some screams and flight attendants ran up and down the aisles. i think we knew at the point when we saw the fear in the flight attendants' eyes and they grabbed the fire extinguishers and all of a sudden we smelled a bunch of smoke. apparently someone in the front of the plane -- i don't know if he lit himself on fire or lit something on his lap and it went up in flames. >> the would-be bomber was subdued. he is now in custody, a nigerian national acc

[captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2009] the speaker pro tempore: the house will be in order. the chair lays before the house a communication from the speaker. the clerk: the speaker's room, washington, d.c., december 3, 2009. i hereby appoint the honorable ed pastor to act as speaker pro tempore on this day. signed, nance nabs, speaker of the house of representatives. the speaker pro tempore: the prayer will be offered by the chaplain, father coughlin. chaplain coughlin: in you, lord, is found the fullness of life and love. no wonder then the human heart always longs for more. we seek you, lord, sometimes without knowing it. lord, our god, people within our borders, within this chamber, pray for this nation. others around the world, pray for the united states of america as well. so many see our potential for good, for doing the right thing in the search for justice and peace. they long for our success. answer the longing of your people, lord. draw closer to us. help us realize the promise you have placed within

if you own land, you own the nation.to ensure success for the land rush and perpetuate economic growth, monroe promoted construction of roads, turnpikes, bridges and tunnels that linked every region of the nation without lights to the sea and shipping routes to the world. the massive building programs transformed the american wilderness into the most prosperous, productive nation on earth. the economic recovery converted u.s. government deficits in to such large surpluses at monroe abolished all personal federal taxes in america. monroe's presidency made poor man rich. it encouraged the arts, literature, music and fine art. he turned political allies and friends and united divided people as no president had done since washington and never but again perhaps until the second world war. political party is dissolved, disappeared. americans of all political persuasions rallied under a single star spangled banner and every elected him to the presidency without opposition. the only president other than washington to win the pre

we had the national guard from montgomery all the way to jackson, the alabama national guard on the bus with baronets. then we got to the line and they changed the mississippi guards. we were taken to jail. i managed to get inside the bus terminal and sit at the counter with my friend, john lewis, and then we were arrested which meant time in the city jail, county jail and then some of us were taken to the county farm where we spent a couple of days from back to the county jail and then transferred to department penitentiary and spent time in parchment. they had a way of trying to break you down. one of the things the movement it was a lot of singing. we would sing all the time. and they got tired of the singing so they would do things to try to stop loss from singing. one, the top mattress is a way and we slept on the steel blanka. they would take our toothbrushes away or give us food that had laxative and at and cut the water off for two or three days and turn the heat on in the summertime to make it miserable. but we made it through. and after i was released and came back to nashvill

[captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2009] cycle, the ordinary manufacturing routine, the busy swirl of business, economic freefall or the data of any computer is the unimaginable picture of global security. so impossible to communicate. no wonder we are not sure what steps to take if we do not have a picture in mind. how do we pray? except to lay the words themselves before you, o lord, as if it were your problem or of your making or so now in need of your healing power. to which part of the world's prayer for global security is any of us willing to say amen, lord? yet, deep down we know, you know we need global security. help us, lord, in word, in deed, in heart, at least in prayer, be united as we pray for global security and today say amen. the speaker: the chair has examined the journal of the last day's proceedings and announces to the chamber her approval thereof. pursuant to clause 1 of rule 1 the journal stands approved. the pledge of allegiance will be led by the gentleman from texas, mr. poe. mr. poe: pl

capito: -- [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cableeland security wrapping up their hearing. they'll be back this afternoon. the house is out for its holiday recess. but the senate continues work. they're putting health care aside somewhat to concentrate on the $636 billion defense bill which passed in the house yesterday. that's for 2010 included in that is the there are 128 billion for the wars in iraq and afghanistan. president obama had yet to ask money for congress to fund his recent afghanistan surge proposal. so no funds for that are included in the spending bill. majority leader harry reid has said he'd like the measure to be completed by the end of the week and also still expressing hope that a health care bill can be completed by christmas. the chamber should conclude that spending bill. the senate is live on c-span 2. the hearing on civilian contracting in afghanistan this afternoon. the committee will look at ways to prevent abuse and corruption and some of the lessons learned from contracting in iraq. testimony from state

in nations that don't have a strong national identity. we try to do that in iraq. and it appeared that we effectively armed and equipped every side in the sectarian civil war. the video, the cell phone video, the execution of saddam hussein and the taunting by the shia militia did us great damage, created the impression that was a sectarian revenge killing, not the execution of justice in a society with a legitimate rule of law. what is the desertion rate now? where are those folks going? how are we going to make sure that the military we build is not going to dominate the government and how are we making sure we're not training and ee equipmenting the forces provided for war lords in a short time? >> i think it's important that i start with the fact that one of the things afghans fear most is militias and war lords. there will be security forces that form in afghanistan whether we form them or not. they will form in their own defense. and i think that it's important we form a national army and national police capacity, a recognized legit

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you say they will have a national energy tax. archer campaigning, also?>> know, what we're trying to do is to fend freedom in america and put enough pressure on democrats to stand up against the liberal leadership of the house and to the right thing for the country. it was amazing last night on the floor of the house the number of arms that the speaker had to break in order to increase the deficit. when it came to the $150 billion senate stimulus, they were woefully short and continued to break more arms in order to get it passed. there are some very unhappy members in the democratic caucus who have had enough of the liberal policies, and of this congress. >> there has been talk about liberals going against the leadership and the administration. is that some during the republicans will exploit? >> they do seem to be having a field day with each other, tearing each other apart. i have read all of these quotations than headlines -- and kentland and republicans will continue to stand on principle and we will continue to offer what we pay for better solutions

and sub national levels.ur overarching goal is to encourage and improve governance so afghans' see the benefit of supporting the legitimate government and the insurgency loses support. as general mcchrystal has pointed out, one of the major impediments to our strategy is the afghan government's lack of credibility with its own people. to strengthen its legitimacy, our approach at the national level is on improving key ministries by increasing the number of civilian technical lead visors and providing more development assistance directly to these ministries budgets. by focusing on ministries that deliver essential services and security, we can accelerate the building of the afghan government. . . services and security we can celebrate the building of the afghan government to so social security accountable. we're working jointly with the military. through district development working groups and district support teams which help build afghan capacity, particularlies in the areas of greatest insecurity in souther

i know national review announces that every year. you do not absorb everything in the magazine so was her telling me that got me engaged. i applied to be an intern. i was accepted and this was the summer before my senior year. when i was graduating, this was 1977 graduating from college and this is a near where every humanity's major thought of going to law school. it was the defaulting. we would all go to law school. i took the law boards and i have no gift for law. none at all. now interest. i was on that track. i was corresponding with priscilla. she said what are you put off law for year and come to the "national review". and that summer has gone on longer. >> what was national review like at that time? >> among the causes was the defense of capitalism. which we did very intelligently. the bill was very savvy about economics. about to as well as a layman can. we were a pre capitalist institution. it was like buckleyland and the ruler was bill buckley. that was clear to everybody. he was a benign ruler. he was certainly an uncheck

the clerk: senate resolution 3 383, designating january 2010 as national mentoring month. the presiding officer: is there objection to proceeding to the measure? without objection, the senate will proceed. mr. durbin: i ask unanimous consent the resolution be agreed to, the preamble be agreed to, the motions to reconsider be laid upon the table with no intervening action or debate, and my statements related to the resolution be placed in the record at the appropriate place as if read. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. durbin: mr. president, i ask unanimous consent the controlled time be extended for an additional 30 minutes under the control of the republican side and that all additional time, including that already utilized by senator menendez with postcloture time continue to run during this period. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. durbin: mr. president, i ask unanimous consent that when the senate completes its business today, it stand adjourned until 7:00 a.m. tuesday, december 22. that following the prayer and pledge, the journal of proceeding

was running the national zoo.does this really mean that we should put him in charge of the national health insurance plan? the office of personnel management has consistently been criticized for being out of date and being inefficient on everything from processing national security projects to administering federal benefits. and we've all heard about the massive backlog in people waiting for social security disability benefits. some 833,000 americans get it. 833,000 americans are currently on a waiting list to see if they calqualify for government disability benefits and some members blame o.p.m. for this backlog. so i'm going to put a chart up here from a person that i trust in the house of representatives, representative earl pomeroy, because i think he does very excellent work. and he heard about this backlog, so he made some comments about o.p.m. congressman pomeroy is a democrat from north dakota and a member of the very powerful house ways and means committee. he said -- and the quote is up here -- "the offi