. >> this week on "the communicators," a conversation with the new president of the national association of broadcasters, former oregon senator gordon smith. >> host: our guest this week on "the communicators" is gordon smith, the new president and ceo of the national association of broadcasters, senator smith served in the united states senate from 1996-2008, and he was on the commerce committee during that time which is very much involved in telecommunications policy. our guest reporter this week, john eggerton who is the washington bureau chief of broadcasting and cable magazine. thanks to both of you for being here. >> guest: thank you. >> host: senator, i want to start not so much with telecommunications, but with the supreme court decision this week, and i'm going to ask can you what their ruling on campaign finance means for your members. >> guest: well, i probably should admit i never voted for mccain-feingold, so i actually think it's a good decision for freedom of speech. but ultimately you can't get on tv or radio without paying for it. broadcasters have lots of costs and prod

there is a range ofñr feelings within the national association of broadcasters.ncy are different words. >> all of your competitors, @ r ones you have to competeÑkóçóÑói against anti-competitive in this multi channel world, c-span and might magazine, they can all speak to their community without the fcc. >> it does put us at a competitive disadvantage. i'll acknowledge sethat, and broadcasters want to produce what our constituents and viewers want to watch. they have all kinds of options today that are in decent to obscene, and yet we have to restrain you need to broadcasting that we have a public responsibility. -- we have restraint unique to broadcasting. >> and the movie sectors will be using the public's rectum -- public spectrum as well. >> everything ought to be regulated by the enfcc. >> the playing field is not level on that issue of indecency. >> do you want to talk about the opportunities there are, not only in terms of multitasking? >> i think the future is very bright for all those things. it takes time to wrap these things up and get the products to

now, people join the national rifle association and support us for myriad reasons.n collectors, some like to hunt, some are self-defense enthusiasts and some are competitive shooters. virtually our folks have a common thread that unites them that they believe very strongly in the god-given constitutional protected right we have under the second amendment to legally keep firearms. so what we try to do with our front lines program is to try to identify from this universal supporters who are those folks we think we can count on most in a pinch when we need somebody to step up to the plate and be activated? so we started this front lines program not too long ago. we have about 19,000 members in it right now. the way one enrolls is we have this form that as you can see up top kind of collects the essential information we'll need and ask them a series of short questions if a local activist can contact them for networking purposes, that i'll talk about in just a moment. that's the first question there. things like if they want to receive our email alerts, if they're a regi

national association of realtors and national association of home builders say lately one in four salesre scuttled due to appraisals. >>> general motors may have had a tough year selling cars in america, but not in china. they say 2009 sales rose 67% to record 1.8 million vehicles. gm expects 2010 to be even stronger. beijing gave a boost to auto sales with tax breaks and things for them to move to more fuel efficient cars. >>> wall street journal reports a group of broadcasters plans to use this week's consumer electronic show to promote plans to deliver news, sports, weather and local content to users on the go. programming available not just on cell phones but laptops, portable dvd players and devices in cars. ten years before it is everywhere. >> i'll keep thinking. >> thank you. >>> some dedicated people, really dedicated to the game of golf. 78 of them braved the snow around the gulf in illinois. the 46th annual eskimo open. you get the option to play 9 holes or full 18. can't use white golf balls, need colored ones. forty-two-dollar greens fee includes a hot drink and hot bowl of

>the attorney general oklahoma and i through the national association of attorneys general sent out a about one week ago inviting others to participate. the attorney general of american samoa signed on to the letter as written. there were other republicans and democrats who were interested but wanted to edit the letter further. some major and some are minor. we were running out of time to keep tinkering with the letter. we settled on the one that we had. as time ran out, that was the end of that window. anyone can file an amicus brief. and we often do on cases. >> have you gotten any response from senator harry reid or speaker nancy pelosi and did you make any effort to meet with them while you are here and if not why not? >> i wrote this letter which as the signatures of 13 attorneys general on it. we have not received, at least i have not received a response. i know of no response that any of the others have received i do not expect to receive one at this point. this letter is dated december 30. >> why did you make an effort to meet with them while you were up here? >> i do not beli

when he was 15 years old he joined the national association of public address announcers, and -- >> thexecutive director called me and said, you're certify -- you're certified, you're the youngest announcer in the country. >> reporter: he won the public address announcer of the year. >> it was like wow. >> reporter: wow is right, but maybe not such a surprise, for the young man who always knew what he wanted. dave owens, 9 news now and wusa.com. >>> from the king op pop to the lion of the senate the world loss some great lumen nary lives this year. we leave you this morning as we take a moment to remember many people who were part of our lives. have a great week. ♪ smile when your heart is breaking ♪ ♪ when there are clouds in the sky ♪ ♪ you'll get by ♪ there is a joy you must keep on trying ♪ ♪ smile what's the use of crying ♪ ♪ you'll find the light is still worthwhile ♪ ♪ if you just smile ♪ though your heart is aching ♪ ♪ smile even though it's breaking ♪ ♪ when there are clouds in the sky ♪ ♪ you'll get by ♪ if you smile ♪ through your fear and sorrow ♪ ♪ smile as if it is tomorro

my stepmother was one of the attorneys, attorneys from the national association -- national bar associationwho did pro bono work for people who they thought could get arrested during the march. following that, looking at the excitement that was built up around the march, but because of his untimely death, was not there, but the marketplace. on april 4, 1968, when dr. king was assassinated, and i remember being on the playground in my junior high school. someone hollered, dr. king was assassinated. the district of columbia had gone through its transition at that time, so we had moved from a predominantly white school system with just a few schools were african-american kids would go to anymore -- i do not want to say integrated, because when we came, some folks left. i remember there was this young girl who was on the playground with us. when someone announced the assassination, had been shot, her response was, i hope they killed him. that is when i knew i and needed to know who this man must, and why was there so much hatred against him? i guess i do not have to say that we never saw her ag

the sheriff of los angeles county is testifying and on behalf of the vote national sheriffs' association. he leads the largest sheriff's department in the nation. he has over 18,000 officers and staff. i think you were going through the trouble of coming across the testimony and we welcome -- across the country and we welcome your testimony. >> thank you. mr. chairman, ranking members, and senators, i am pleased to appear before you today to express the associations that were identified by mr. lieberman that i represent in support of 2-1261. -- s-1261. as those who have testified before me talk about the problems, my testimony will focus on the critical need for a national standard for identification security. it from a local law enforcement perspective, it will help us effectively integrate what we're doing here to ensure that homeland security is in fact secure. hopefully my testimony will strengthen the core message of secretary the peloton and gov. douglas. -- secretary of napolitano. issuing a national standard for security has been a contentious one. however, we believe that pass i

tuesday the national association of realtors will issue the pending home sales index.ednesday we get the minutes from the federal reserve open market committee's last meeting. that could give us a glimpse into the fed's thoughts for 2010. friday the closely watch monthly employment report will b released by the employment department. >>> finally today, times square is trimming its electric bill. new year's revelers from around the world watch the famous ball drop in new york this week. the 12-football is powered by more than 32,000 l.e.d. lights. organizers say to light all 11,000 pounds consumes the same amount of energy per hour as two traditional home ovens. that'll do it for us today. thanks so much for being with us. next week i'll be reporting from the international consumer electronics show in las vegas. we'll check out what's new on the horizon in terms of electronics. it's the hottest developments in the consumer technology industry. be sure to keep it right here where wall street meets main street. have a great week, everybody. i'll see you again next weekend

tuesday the national association of realtors will issue the pending home sales index.sday we get the minutes from the federal reserve open market committee's last meeting. that could give us a glimpse into the fed's thoughts for 2010. friday the closely watched monthly employment report will be released by the employment department. this tells us how many jobs were lost or gained in the month of december. >>> finally today, times square is trimming its electric bill. new year's revelers from around the world watch the famous ball drop in new york this week. the 12-f

how can we partner with organizations like unity, whether it is the national association of black journalists or others, other professional organizations, that have those in the trenches but are not necessarily prepared for a national media spotlight, whether it is as a producer or broker or someone in front of the camera? if we're not having that substantive discussion, we are essentially just complaining behind closed doors. we really need to begin moving from that complaining and pontificating on the problem to the development of a strategic solution that has as partnering with organizations that can put this on a serious level with executives at each of these cable and network faces, and begin to have this conversation translating into jobs and opportunity and internships, as opposed to just being angry that we don't see ourselves and complaining about the fact that we're not in places that we need to be paid without further ado, it is my pleasure to introduce jamal. means we're going to go first? no? [laughter] victoria, if you would please come to the podium at this time. please give he

association of police chiefs committee. mr. aaron kinnard, executive director of the national sheriff's association, mr. george wright, executive director of the organization of public safety communications officials. and mr. allen caldwell, senior advisor of the international association of fire chiefs. i would like to thank the following companies for their cooperation in our efforts to acquire the d-block, they would be motorola, at&t wireless, the harris corporation, verizon wireless and northrup grum mono. there are retchtives from each of these companies here today and we thank them for their support. ladies and gentlemen, a little other eight years ago we experienced 9/11. one of the biggest lessons we learned that day was that we as first responders did not have the ability to communicate with each other. . to remove the d-block broadband spectrum and reallocate it to public safety. in the aftermath of 9/11, it became obvious to all public safety officials that we needed a better way to share information between federal, state, local and tribal authorities. it's not just voice communication but

dave sir says liaison between the national association of realtors and the state and local associations around the country in conducting issue and candidate campaigns. he had also worked for the party. before he joined national association of realtors reworked for former president george w. bush so you know he is a republican. texas senators john cornyn and kay bailey hutchison and five different members of congress. he has worked in politics only since 1982. but, to me that is only. managing races at the county, state and national level and we are delighted to have dave back with us again to talk about coalitions which feeds into what i just finished talking about in strategy in strategic thinking, so dave. >> thank you guys for having me. yes, i am an african-american republican. i am a member of a small, but i like to think loud coalition. as i tell my friends, we like to think that we are small but that means we have got a lot of room to grow. my democratic friends say we will never grow but i always hold out hope. right now we are 45% away from being the majority. maybe before my l

national association of gramaries taking a stand, saying they decree this year should be pronounced twentysubsequent years twenty will he have en, etc. they laid it out there. twenty tennis what we are supposed to call it. who knows what society will call it. i am going with twenty ten. >> i like 2000 ten. let be different. >>> which movie is the first number one of 2010 coming up. >>> and something scientists found on the near side of the moon could make it easier for humans to live there. >>> slow going for opening slot parlors. >>> snow removal for virginia. asking for federal aid to help pay for costs from the recent storm. learn more today in the washington examiner. 5:52. xóxó (announcer) itchy dry scalp? get new selsun blue for itchy dry scalp. strong itch fighters target scalp itch while five moisturizers leave hair healthy. selsun blue. got a clue? get the blue. >>> what's buzzing in entertainment starting with box office. avatar third straight weekend at number one. the studio estimates it made more than a billion worldwide, could potentially outbeat 1977 titanic, a top earning f

costarred as this week is gordon smith, ceo of the national associate broadcasters come a familiar face to c-span viewers. desert in the united states senate from 1996 to 2008 and he was on the covers committee during that time which is very much involved in telecommunications policy. our guest reporter this week, john edgerton. i want to start really so much but not communications but with supreme court decision this week. and i'm going to ask you what they're ruling on campaign finance means for your members. >> guest: well, i probably should just admit i never voted for mccain so i actually think it's a good decision for freedom of speech. ultimately you can't get on tv or radio without paying for it. broadcasters have lots of costs and production of content. and the american people rely on tv and radios and ultimately i suspect the means there will be more political advertising. but i think the best part of the ruling was full disclosure. i think the more that's disclosed, the american people can make judgment as for who is for whom and why. and an informed citizenry is the best. i

tonight at 6:30, gordon smith, former senator from oregon, and he is the current head of the national association of broadcasters. we'll talk about issues relating to that industry. again, you can see it tonight on c-span at 6:30. chesterfield, missouri, on our republican line. ridge reginald, go ahead. caller: good morning. host: good morning. caller: a couple of things. the short-term memory and the blissful ignorance of many of of the american people is astonishing. and this is simply calling what it is. when was the last time you heard the term outsourcing? do people think they're outer sourcing is a good thing and all the sudden we're magically in the snole it's been screaming out of this country since the mid 1980 's. we've even had union drives, who many people find it fashion tooble despise, many of whom our grand parents and parents were union people perhaps, which includes us upstanding and stable household for them, be it's somewhat ridiculous. scommoip can i ask how those thoughts relate to mr. bernanke. caller: because why are we talking about bernanke instead of chris cox? this guy'

academy of elder law attorneys, national active retired federal employees' association, national alliance for caregiving, national asia-pacific, national association of area agencies on aging, national association of professional geriatric care managers, national caucus and center on black aged inc., national committee to preserve social security and medicare, national council on aging, national senior citizens law center, the national consumer voice for quality long-term care, owl, voice for midlife and older women, service employees international, seiu, the jewish federations of north america, volunteers of america, wider opportunities for women. i think that letter speaks for itself, madam president, but i do ask that it be printed in the record. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. baucus: i might also add that there's another letter i have here. i've referred to it -- i've referred to this organization already but i'll read their letter. this is o.w.l., the voice for midlife and older women. it says, "dear president obama, speaker pelosi, and senate majority leader

. >> dave: the navc, the national association of basketball coaches has one day a year where they createoaches all across the country trying to raise money in fight against cancer. got to look at rick stansbury who is in his 12th year. thoord believe the guy they call "billy the kid," billy donovan is in his 14th season. >> joe: stansbury, 12 years. making it to 12 years is an accomplishment in and of itself. his success at mississippi state is unparalleled really. >> dave: mississippi state has done a lot of things well. offensive rebounding is not one, but johnson got one there. and stewart tried to draw the foul. excuse me, turner. check that. turner who came in off the mississippi state bench. phil turner gets the three. and that is the first three of the day and the first three in a long, long time for this bulldogs club. mitchell. couldn't get it to go, but he will go to the free-throw line. 7-0, the bulldogs of mississippi state take the lead. when you have a guy that can control the middle like this, it's an easy thing to do. >> dave: in the earlygoing, mississippi shooting woes

i'm a certified level one with nar, national association of rocketry. whenever you launch high-powered rockets you call for faa clearance, what i'm used to doing. >> larry: you also called the television station apparently? >> i called for a helicopter. i want to make that very clear. i called the faa. they told me, and i asked them if they had a helicopter, she told me i had to call 911. i called 911. i have given you guys the actual phone records to prove that, and this is what everybody's got all wrong. after the 9/11 call after two minutes of me talking about it, it went to ft. collins city. it was not recorded at larimer county. they transferred it later on. so after i give the phone to mayumi you can hear me clearly in the background talking to what i say is the people in the helicopter. she handed me a number and said call them. she didn't say call channel 9 news. >> larry: i don't want to get confused here. mayumi is your wife. she took a polygraph test, showed deception on key questions. according to police she told them you and she had instruc

now, recently michael mcgrady was struck of instruct other national association of insurance commissioners, told the senate banking committee, he said if aig had gone in bankruptcy, we would have to take care of it. we would have been an orderly disposition. this is what he said. aig's insurance operations and there are other companies we would have simply bought of aig's insurance assets allowing a seamless delivery of aig's insurance obligation. so the question is, considering the state insurance commissioners would likely have seized aig's insurance subsidiaries, protected policyholders in an aig bankruptcy, why was it necessary to bail out aig with taxpayers money? based upon the testament of the drug other national association of insurance commissioners. >> i respectfully disagree with them and i agree the biggest so you disagree with all his years of experience? >> i would say many people with years of experience have some regular response was with regard to energy, but this company was at a huge problem. and it is case number one on what is wrong with the regular tour system, there

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in a sign that the housing market remains weak, a national association of realtors monthly index, whichover 1 percent in november. that comes a day after news that factory activity in december rose to its highest level since april 2006. recent jobs numbers have also been mixed. while the unemployment rate remains in the double digits, new jobless claims dropped last week. so what does it all mean? is the economy on track for a strong recovery? or will we remain stuck in a slump? we get two takes: robert barbera is chief economist for i.t.g., a research and trading firm; and dean baker is co-director of the center for economic and policy research. gentlemen, thank you both for being with us. i want to start with you robertçó barera, you believe that the country is on the cuss-of a real recovery. what do you base that on? >> i think the giant challenge for the obamaç add m.was to rescue the banks and to get the financial system back in order. it was a giant challenge.ç but i think they succeeded. that panic that really took hold throughout the country,¿d5é recess. as a consequence, i th

smith, we welcome to this committee for the first time in his new role as president of the national association of broadcasters. and we look forward to a long and successful partnership with you. dr. ray johnson is the senior vice president and chief technology officer of the martin corporation, and mr. thomas stroup is the chief executive officer of shared spectrum company. we welcome each of you. without objection your prepared written statements will be made part of the record and we would ask that you keep your oral summaries to approximately five minutes. mr. hatfield, we will be happy to begin with you. >> thank you mr. chairman, chairman boucher. >> if you could be sure that mic is on and pull it very close to you. >> chairman bout tariff and ranking member stearns and members of the subcommittee i am very pleased and honored to appear before you today to testify on the topic of radio spectrum management and on the issues raised by h.r. 3125 and five h.r. 3019. my name is dale hatfield and in addition to the position you just mentioned i am the executive director of the silicon flatiron

. ♪ fifth >> this week, the former head of the national association of broadcasters, gordon smith, talkingbout the plan to offend the broadcast spectrum and what it might mean for broadcasters. that is tonight, c-span 2. wednesday, the president lays out his vision for the future of the country and his plan to deal with issues like unemployment, health care, and the wars in iraq and afghanistan. the state of the union address, our coverage starts on c-span at 8:00. you can listen to the address live on your iphone as well. >> book tv welcomes the former adviser to margaret thatcher, paul johnson. his latest book is on winston churchill. join our conversation, live from london, sunday, february 7. >> in the nation's capital and across the country, listen to cease and radio. it is also a free application for your iphone. c-span radio, covering washington like no other. >> "washington journal" continues. host: this week in congress, the second year of the obama administration. more liz sidoti liz with the associated press and jennifer haberkorn from "the washington times." good morning, welco

again, you have the organizations like the national association of manufacturers who complained thathe controls on high-tech exports to countries like china and india are archaic, that china and india can buy equipment from our nato allies and yet americans are not allowed to sell the same equipment. so they would like a preview of this because they say it would create hundreds of thousands of jobs if we were allowed to sell these products. they also want a reduction of the corporate income tax, to 23%, which would be an average of the big industrialized countries. they claim that would make our country very attractive to foreign investors who want to build a plant someplace, and that would increase and women. that will be part of the debate on the hill. host: on the issue of exports, "the new york times" writes that the trouble is meeting the ambitious goal would require the president to engage in a fight to the death with the liberal wing of his own party, persuade china to allow its currency to appreciate 40%, get global economic growth to outperform the salad days of 2003 through

attorneys general of oklahoma, and i, through the national association of attorneys general, sent outtter about one week ago, inviting others to participate, and the attorney general from american samoa signed on to the letter as written. there were other republicans and democrats to interested but who wanted to edit the letter further, some major, minor, but we were running out of time to keep tinkering with the letter, and we settled on the one that we had, as time ran out, that was the end of that letter, but anyone can file an amicus brief, and we often do on cases. >> mr. attorney general, a, have you gotten any response from senator harry reid or nancy pelosi, and did you make any efforts to meet with them while you are here, and if not, why not? >> i wrote a letter. i wrote this letter. it as the signature of 13 attorneys general on it, and we have not received -- at least, i have not received a response. i know of no response of the others have received, and i do not expect to receive one at this point. this letter was dated december 30. >> so why did you not make any effort t

this week, on "the communicators" -- gordon smith from the national association of broadcasters on the plan to expand the broadband spectrum. that is tonight. wednesday, president obama delivers his first state of the union address to congress, laying out his vision for the future gfz the country and its plan to deal with unemployment, health care, and the wars in iraq and afghanistan. the state of the union address -- wednesday night. our coverage begins at 8:00 eastern on c-span. you can also listen live on your iphone with pcs and radio app. >> an organization formed by senate majority leader's have formed a bipartisan debt reduction task force. it will be led by senator pete domenici of new mexico and alice rivlin to serve during the clinton administration. this is about 45 minutes. >> good morning, everybody. i am the president of the bipartisan policy center. it is a pleasure to welcome you here today. this is the first event near having in our brand new conference room. we have to make it a good one. i guess we should have a few words about the bipartisan policy center before we

talked about, you have the american public power association, which represents the publicly owned, the municipal utilities i mentioned and then you had the national hydropower association. : decision to outside of the realm of these trade associations pool resources and hire a team of consultants that could help drive this issue forward. importantly, our effort was done not only with close coordination with these trade associations they were literally at the table. they weren't paying participants of the effort. it was critical from our perspective and from the perspective that it be done under one coordinated roof. one of the real pitfalls of this type of legislative type of advocacy is that if you don't have a coordinated effort, if you have two or three different entities all working towards the same end but doing it independently, it's a train wreck or multiple train wrecks ready to happen. we knew at the outset that there would be value in us all working from a coordinated posture. we were the only ones as we were told afterwards that brought to the table that this acknowledgement that there was this whole world of third-party advocates that

attorney general of oklahoma, drew edmundson and i, through the national association of attorneys general, sent out a letter about a week or eight -- a week ago, inviting others to participate. and the -- the attorney general in american somoa signed on to the letter as written. there were other republicans and democrats who were interested, but who wanted to edit the letter further. some major, some minor, but it was -- we were running out of time to keep tinkering with the letter and we settled on the one that we had, so as time ran out, that was the end of that window. but anyone can file an amicus brief, and we often do on cases. >> mr. attorney general, a, have you gotten any response from either senator reid or nancy pelosi and did you make any effort to meet with them while you're here, and if not, why not? >> i wrote a letter, i wrote this letter. : >> he told me that as i recall, and i'm fairly confident this is precisely what he said, was he did not ask for that to be in there. that he preferred a similar provision or all states. but he only got it for nebraska. but he did not a

national colors. we have to thank our chief coach. our ratings in the soccer world have gone up. as far as club soccer, they are pretty good. as far as the union of european football association and others, this is not something the city should be patted on the shoulder for. i think we should just come down and draw the conclusions and continue to support our national squad and are closed so that they will play even better. >> speaking of soccer, what time do you get up and what time you go to bed? >> according to my schedule. as far as when i go to bed, it is pretty late, usually 2:00 in the morning. there is a lot there are a lot of things to be signed. sometimes i will be signing documents before i go to bed. that is not a great thing, but what can you do? >> do you have time to read? >> even in a regular day, i spent 15 or 20 minutes to look at a book, to prepare myself for sleep. >> what is under bedside reading table? >> as most book lovers, i believe that we in russia love reading, and reading has always been a national pastime. i have several books, and i always try to read several books. i find it more interesting. sometimes when i come across something extraordinary

$627.9 billion, up 5.4% less than a year earlier, says a study released last month by the national associationate budget officers and national governors association. despite cuts, shortfalls for the 2010 fiscal year, which in most states began july 1, our 14 $20 billion. the gap in 2011 is $21.9 billion beer " verlaine, co-head. what you think about the democratic -- $21.9 billion." maryland, go ahead. what do you think about the democratic plan to bypass the republicans? caller: it is about time. for the people that call in saying that the republicans tried to be bipartisan, that is not true. if they really felt that all of these ideas were so afraid -- were so great, why did it take them eight years to do nothing? nixon, they did nothing. the so-called best republican in the world? ronald reagan, he did nothing. they had a four -- first to george bush, who did nothing. they had little bush, who did nothing. clinton tried but it did not work because they use the more ignorance from the gop party. now that president obama is trying to do something, it is like they do not want to work with him

frequency in corporation is chosen by those to associate to defend and promote particular ideas, such as the american civil liberties union, the national rifle association, parties to this case" -- in other words, these are entities that file briefs in the case before the supreme court at that time. and so, again, what we have the spectacle of in essence was an attempt to promote a film, a so-called documentary -- i don't know how wonderful it was or how bad it was -- and they said it couldn't be shown because it was near an election time and corporations had given some money to putting it on. and i think that's not healthy. in fact, the whole approach to constricting and limiting people in pooling their money and running ads is, i think, pretty clearly in contact -- in conflict with the first amendment. i would just say this: the supreme court ma made clear that all of the limits on corporations about giving to political campaigns, those were not instruct down. and didn't apparently deal with any of the individual rights. but we've had a number -- we've had a debate over this for a long time. it's roared in this senate for many years,

i think we need to continually reach out to prosecutor coordinators and to you know, national associations that can provide us with lists of prosecutors who we can go to and say please, we need -- we have this training. we're making it available with funding and actually we have been quite successful in doing that but we can always do better and we continue to try to enhance, as you said, those databases of judges, prosecutors and law enforcement officers in every state. i have to say, we have created, as a result of that -- those educational programs, dedicated units like in minneapolis and st. paul and other parts of the country. >> i think in virtually every community has a more specialized units, protective houses for women and children who have been abused and that. i'm real pleased by that but i would say continue the good research. continue to get the information out so it can be utilized and we'll have fewer of these cases like kristin, it is my personal view that a lot of individuals unfortunately are very dangerous and the number of people who would actually kill somebody or stal

there was a lot of attorneys from the national association and other bar associations that did pro bono work for the folks that they thought might get arrested. just looking at all the excitement that was being built up around the poor people's march, but because of his untimely death, that march took place here in washington d.c.. on april 4, 1968, when dr. king and was assassinated, i remember being on the playground of my junior high school and i was hanging out. someone hollered out that dr. king was assassinated. the district of columbia have gone through its transition at that time and we had moved from a predominantly white school system with just a few schools and more integrated time. when we came in, folks left. i remember a white girl her response was that they hope they killed him. i needed to know who this man was. why was there such hatred for him? i do not have to say that we never saw her again. i hope that she is doing well, but that was a sad day of the playground. we were both in junior high school and it was a sad day in washington d.c. and cities across the country.

. >>> the national beef association has filed court papers to challenge the epa endanger finding rule. asked ncba says the government's finding is not based on riggerrous scientific analysis, yet it would trigger a cascade of future regulations to a sweeping impacts across the entire u.s. economy. the ncba fears epa will be able to tell farmers they can only eplit a certain letter of ghg's and might face severe penalties if they don't comply. that's it for the headlines. now, back to john for crop watch. >>> crop watch is brought to you by syngenta's agri-sure 3,000 gt. launch your yield with syngenta's agri-sure 3,000 gt hybrids. >>> in today's crop watch, we head to ontario. a canadian grower says he had a good crop of nato soybeans this year. he says they're very small and popular in japan. he yielded just under a ton an acre. he says the long term average has only been a half ton. in eastern north carolina a- grower was trying to finish up his soybean harvest before the holidays. he says it's been a real strug until that part of the state. the grower says these delays prohibit him

national association of is your ban hospitals are calling on members of to rethink regulations, especially cutting medicare payments. molly henneberg takes a look how tt affect hospitals treating low income patients. >> at howard university hospital in washington d.c., also a level one trauma center, about 20% of patients walk in the door uninsured. although many may ultimately qualify for medicaid, leaving the hospital stuck with much of the bills. doctors here say health care legislation expanding insurance coverage, via the private sector or a taxpayer funded government-run plan may alleviate some of the hospitals financial burden. >> we expect to get reimbursed for the services we provide and i think that with health care reform, it's going to be better than having nothing and hopefully, that the pace that we provide the services to will be able to make any extra payments they need to make. but the doctor says he's concerned that the legislation may cut medicare reimbursement rates to this and other hospitals, as well as cut the additional government subsidies, howard receives for trea

commending me for my questions, and i guess i would return the compliment, in that i know the national association of attorneys general with whom i've worked extensively, and a north american security administrators association, are on top of this and a whole bride of other things. i guess i would remind all of us as commissioners how important it is to empower the front line and the local officials. i don't mean to not include you, mr. theobald, to empower people who actually the closest to the problems. because you are the early warning systems in many respects for these issues, which ultimately make him to federal attention at some point. but abuses are more quickly identify to you and the problems are brought to you at the local and state levels, and securities and attorneys general, and law-enforcement authorities. and i guess i think that we need to examine the extent to which we've, you know, we've reduced the authority of the locals to the point where we create a greater systemic risk. as a result. thank you, mr. commissioner. >> thank you. ms. murren? >> thank you, mr. chairman. i have a

. >> most people think of things run by the sierra club or the national right to life which are associationsthose sorts of advertisements. this there a way to carve out corporations separate from those and allow the interest groups? >> no. the entire point is that you cannot differentiate. you can mainline directly from corporate treasurers on to the campaign field without limitation. >> i imagine that many people would not mind having those groups being able to run ads. >> they can do it. those groups can do it. it is not changing things for those groups. and, you know,there are corporate groups that do it to but there are certain petitions that have always been out there. this just brushes away all of those limitations. >> can you give an example of a candidate about what type of ads in volume of ads this effect. >> you have a member of congress that wanted to make sure that we hold aig accountable. let's say we had a member of congress who wanted to holdmaybe another big wall street bank. they decide that this legislative effort to protect the public good ran contrary to their interests.

have a very moderate republican, a person who is pro-choice, who has a d-rating from the national rifle association, so he's anti-gun. he has got a strong rating from the human rights coalition in terms of gay issues. he's voted for cap-and-trade. so it's going to be very difficult for any democratic candidate to paint him as a far right person. and i think that creates here in illinois a blue state not quite as blue as massachusetts but certainly a blue state. it's a republican who has the best chance of winning of beating a democrat. >> ifill: in a state where barack obama was so recently the senator and where there is some residual affection for the president, one presumes, why isn't this seat a lock for the democrats? >> well, i think the republicans will likely, assuming mark kirk is nominate-- and i think he will be-- he's a very strong candidate. i think the democrats have not come up with a very strong list of candidates to oppose kirk. in addition, given the problems of our ex-governor blagojevich, it's not a particularly good year locally for democrats. governor blagojevich or former gaff

they looked at the guidelines and drafted from the christian societies and the national association for the evangelicals and people for the american way, groups who litigate over this bible issue are signed on to the guidelines so that the state board, a local board has some way of telling is this legit? is it not? under current law. so that bible guide has been recent. and a small number of organizations that worked on but still important on how to deal with sexual orientation in public schools. it's a process guide and not a proscriptive legal guide but how do you get down to a conversation about this and maybe find some common ground? and i can tell you there are a number of school districts around the country that have used that process and that guide to find some common ground on that volatile issue in their public schools. so those are some concrete ways in which this kind of agreement can actually change life in local communities in ways that bring people together rather than send them to court or bitterly divided arguments. >> let me try another couple examples in the broader

oklahoma, attorney general who's been there several terms, if he would join with me to go to the national association of attorneys general, and as we often do, send out a letter asking other people to participate if they would like. and it was sent out about a week ago. we had a number of regimes, both republicans and democrats that were quite interested. one actually signed on. others were interested in signing on but they wanted to change one word savitt editorial comments on the letter and it finally got -- we ran out of time and so we now had 15. but there were others interested in the question and others interested in other questions as well. probably the most prominent of which is the individual mandate, which is i believe and presume others believe all the wit is not a subject of this particular letter, we believe that is constitutionally suspect as well. and that would come under the of course as the tenth amendment question the congress has power to spend, the congress has power to tax the individual mandate is neither of those. congress has the power to regulate interstate commerce. but thi

financial services roundtable is a trade association, led the american hospital association, national associationrealtors. virtually everyone in america is part of a trade association whether they know it or not. it is part of the constitution. that is the way the system works. powertrain association is 100 companies, the larger companies operating in that country. we operate about 60% of all the financing done in america. you cannot finance the economy this size without the larger companies. our trade association is 100 of those of larger companies. if you live in it, work in it, one of my companies will finance it. my first job before college was working on a daily farm and picking cotton in texas, by the way. my first job of college, -- out of college, i was a real-estate agent. i make about $1.5 million a year as bessie ito -- the ceo. i have to say, it is a good job, a chance to be in politics. host: and you were the mayor of dallas? guest: yes, go cowboys. caller: i called to say that you said that you made some mistakes. the problem is, when they got the bonuses, they kept them. remember t

attorneys office, and national basketball association all say they're investigating. the "new york post" reports arenas and teammate kritenton drew guns on each other in the locker room over a gambling debt. >> i can't speak on that. if you've known me, you've been here, i never did anything violent. anything i do is funny to me. >> reporter: team owner says arenas kept weapons in his locker with no ammo. quote, guns have absolutely no place in a workplace environment and we will take further steps to ensure this never happens again. >> i agree. that's bad judgment on my part storing them here. i take responsibility for that. >> reporter: when players are working there's a great deal of security, but away from the spotlight, it's a whole new ball game. some professional athletes own or carry guns saying they consider themselves potential targets and need protection. protection from attacks like that suffered by washington redskins defensive back sean taylor who was murdered in his miami home during a robbery. carrying a gun can be costly, even for a celebrity. ex-new

attorney's office and national basketball association all say they are investigating. the new york post reports that arenas and team mace crittenden drew guns on each other january 1st over a card-playing gambling debt. i can't speak to that if you have known me, i have been here, never did anything violence, do anything funny, it is funny to me. >> reporter: team owner says arenas kept the gun in his locker without ammo, a practice they call dangerous. guns have no police in a work police environment and we will take further step tones sure this never happens again. >> i agree. that is bad judgment on my part. i take responsibility for that. >> reporter: some professional athletes own or carry guns, saying they consider themselves potential targets that need protection. protection from attacks like that suffered by washington redskins defensive back sean taylor, who was murdered in his miami home during a robbery, but carrying a gun can be costly, even for a celebrity. ex-new york giants wide receiver plaxico burress is currently serving a two-year prison sentence for

with scott patson, head of the national association of state budget officers.so the political outlook and the 2010 midterm elections with peter hart of hart research societies and bill mcinturff. following that, anne cornbluth talks about her latest book "notes on the cracked ceiling: on women and politics." >> here's a looth look at our schedule. a discussion on new credit card rules that go into effect next month. after that, a look at the ongoing house and senate negotiations for a final health care bill. and later, state of the state addresses for california and new york. a discussion now on new credit card rules taking effect next month. from "washington journal," this is about 45 minutes. 00 in the evening. our guest for this final segment is a reporter for couple interest magazine. there's something called the credit card act of 2009. what was the purpose of this? guest: it was mainly to make this better for consumers. people are angry at the banks. they feel as if they have credit card rates going up, or what, that they were being treated really poorly,

host: in addition to the national association of state budget offices if you want a site with detailion you can go to the nelson rockefeller information for government. this is what it looks like and they outline a state by state basis and most revenue is down from 8-15 percent this year. republican line. philadelphia. how are you. caller: good morning. i have been listening with dismay and the comment i would like to make is that the end result of all of this red inc. is a constitutional crisis. i believe the states make the federal government and made the federal power and states and state's alone, if need be can break the cycle of power. the problem here is, is that, if this government bankrupts itself, then the state may decide on their own we have to be separate entities on our own. print our own currencies and form ou) own national army's and protect borders because the federal government has failed us and we cannot continue to subsidize their mandate or pay their taxes. the burden is on many states especially southern states are absolutely crushing and it threatened the entire