there are 200,000 navajos. but wanted years ago, there were 5000 navajos. 500 years ago, if someone does the north america, no one would have guessed that navajos would be the most successful and made of north american tribes in dealing with the modern world. why? some of it is the luck of geography, where they live but a big part of it is navajo social flexibility. navajos can continue to speak navajo and to live in big traditional tribes while at the same time driving trucks and herding sheep which they never have and making great silver jewelry which they never did and playing basketball which they never did and mary non-navajos. they still consider themselves navajos. the navajo are in extending example of social flexibility, selective change. the navajo manage to to change things inside the fence like playing basketball and driving trucks and changing single pieces of their culture is well outside the fence, there remained navajo. they have been set the -- they have been conspicuously successful. these que

yet they still speak navajo and considered himself navajo.hey are extending example of flexibility. they managed to draw a fence and change things inside the fence, like play basketball and driving trucks, changing single pieces of their culture ball outside the fence they remained navajo. these questions about selective change, something new under the sun, a rise not just with individuals and tribes. going up to the next level, they also rise four successful companies. why is it that procter and gamble is held up as an example of the success story of a company that has gone through changes and has cope with changes? successful companies are ones that succeed in drawing a fenc. e they keep reinventing themselves. they retain their corporate identity outside. they cope with crises in a changing business environment, but still retain their longstanding, corporate entity -- identity. the final level after individuals and tribes and companies is the level of countries and whole societies. they also face crises. some societies refused to adapt, an

he carried mail 40 miles one way and came back on horseback this was in the 20s on the navajo reservation and i would like to ask please do not do away with the small post offices are small communities. that is the only way they get their mail. mail is not delivered to their homes. the people come and my family has to go 30 miles one way to get their mail. i sure you hope you keep that in mind. i love your recent beautiful stance and my love and blessings to the troops. figure very much. >> host: a snapshot of the commentary you will be hearing as you set out to get public opinion on the postal service plans. let's close with a timetable of people are interested in how much time is the comments section of been? >> we have opened as of this today and on april 273 will have an announcement of what the full agenda will be for the hearing process. there will be an opportunity for people to participate in formally in the com mentor files through its participants through the internet and will accept comments on april 27 then will tell you exactly what the format will be but we expect the proces

these individuals were not limited to the navajo nation.in my home state of new mexico, the pueblo of laguna was home to the nation's largest open-pit uranium mine. workers from across the state came to the mines, especially from the economically struggling communities of rural new mexico. in the late 1970, my father, stewart udall, took up the fight for these workers. the in 1979 my father filed 32 claims against the department of energy on behalf of widows of deceased navajo uranium miners. in many ways this marked the beginning of the fight for compensation for all uranium workers. i remember working those years with my whole family to collect information and push for recognition. it was a family effort to fight for justice. and for me, it continues to be a family priority. ten years later the original rica legislation was introduced in the united states senate. it passed in 1990, giving a level of restitution to sick miners and mills as well as -- miners and millers as well as individuals living downwind of nuclear tests. amendments to

gallup and mexico house in the late 1800's and in the free time with ride out on the force and to the navajo reservation and start getting to know julie makers and drugmakers. how many of you have been to santa fe or to the southwest and how many of you came back with little pieces of turquoise and silver jewelry? come on, everybody. you may be under the impression that this jury was designed and created by native americans. it was in fact created by native americans but it was designed by herman schweitzer. hermann schweitzer realized early on most tourists didn't want to take home real native american jewelry which is big and heavy and big hunks of turquoise, huge pieces of silver so he made a deal with the craftsman. he took them leiter silver smaller pieces of turquoise and showed them how to make the designs more tourist friendly which is a controversy elving people still talk about in the southwest today. however what he also did and what the fred harvey company stood for in terms of the to readership is that also saved the craft of the artful jewelry making and rug making so fred harv

the issue of nuclear power we were working out in the west where there was uranium reserves on the navajoreservation, which a lot of coal as well. and now, there are people who are sane well, nuclear power in people i respect sandefur not going to block mountains, we're going to have nuclear power. and so i think that then we tried to not think about that alternative and now nuclear power seems to be on many peoples minds, the greener option until we get windmills on the landscape. and i'd rather actually has nine waste or nuclear power waste or it somewhere in nevada than have all the mountain tops and west virginia blow not if that is the choice, but i'm not sure it is. >> if any of the stress because we know mountaintop removal divides less than 9% of our coal production. i mean, it's tiny. with millions of tons of coal sitting on the ducks now. for the first time in 20 years restocked protocol in the summer. with coal coming out of our ears. in the old days in eagle creek with so much coal by brother would give coal to the pigs. he said the pager charcoal pig work. [laughter] and of c

written in three languages, spanish, english, and navajo, it reads simply he left a mark that will never be forgotten in the hopes that others will follow." el senator makes me proud to be a new mexican and humbled to follow in his footsteps, representing the great state of new mexico. america is a better place because of senator chavez. for that, we honor him today. thank you, mr. president, and i note the absence of a quorum. mr. udall: i would vitiate the quorum call. the presiding officer: the senator is recognized. mr. udall: i would ask unanimous consent that randy farm billnit, a detailee to senator reid, be granted the privileges of the floor for the remainder of the 111th congress. the presiding officer: without objection, so ordered. mr. udall: mr. president, i note the absence of a quorum. the presiding officer: the clerk will call the roll of the senate. quorum call: the presiding officer: the senator from south carolina is recognized. mr. demint: i ask the quorum call be suspended. thank you, mr. president, and good morning. today i rise in opposition of the piece of legisla

. >> i will just finish that thought i have spent time navajo and at one point requesting a study of the gao issues shutting down the air-traffic control system but it did some nice work on the electronic structure not on the consumer side but the bank side where for all of the terror and consequences in new york city those wires and systems were preserved and continue to function there is a lot of integrity that needs to be protected. are one to turn to the floor to have a little bit of dialogue as the individual or group but do not feel obligated to respond to every question. >> thom brown. thank you for putting on a wonderful conference broker question picking up on the thread that bob introduced i do a fair amount of work with various payment systems and as we have discussed another context the paulson blueprint identify the loophole in the regulatory structure of the payments basis between big providers and nonbank providers and it seems that has been lost in the discussion never good to reformist mayor distracted by discussions of cfpaduc anything that will address the oddity o

this was in the 1920's on the navajo reservation. i would like to ask, please do not do away with those small post offices or small communities because that is the only way to get their mail. mail is not delivered to their momhomes. the people come to get their mail and my family has to go a 30 mile trip one way to get their mail. i surely hope you keep that in mind. my love and blessings to the troops. thank you very much. host: a snapshot of a kind of commentary that you are going to be hearing as you set up public opinion on the postal service plans. guest: i think so. host: if people are interested, how much time is the comment section open? guest: we have opened it as of yesterday and on april 27 we will have an announcement of what the full agenda of the hearing process will be. there will be an opportunity for people to participate in formally -- informally or formally as participants through the internet. we will accept comments on april 27. we will tell you exactly what the format will be. we expect the process to last about

this was in the 1920's on the navajo reservation. would like to ask, please do not do away with those small post offices or small communities because that is the only way to get their mail. mail is not delivered to their momhomes. the people come to get their mail and my family has to go a 30 mile trip one way to get their mail. i surely hope you keep that in mind. my love and blessings to the troops. thank you very much. host: a snapshot of a kind of commentary that you are going to be hearing as you set up public opinion on the postal service plans. guest: i think so. host: if people are interested, how much time is the comment section open? guest: we have opened it as of yesterday and on april 27 we will have an announcement of what the full agenda of the hearing process will be. there will be an opportunity for people to participate in formally -- informally or formally as participants through the internet. we will accept comments on april 27. we will tell you exactly what the format will be. we expect the process to last about s

it includes the best-known example, the brave and honorable service of the navajo code talkers who savedhe lives of countless americans in world war ii and the korean war by using denai to transmit sensitive military communications. and it continues to this very day as native americans serve proudly and honorably in iraq, afghanistan and around the world. . today the department of housing affairs that 20% are native americans are veterans or currently serving. that's the most of any ethnic group. despite this service, far too many native american veterans return home to tribal land to face extraordinary challenges in finding safe, quality, affordable housing. service disabled veterans returning to indian country face the added challenge of having to make every dollar of their disability compensation count as they deal with circumstances unique to tribal land. including very long distances to v.a. medical centers and underimproved surfaces, we call them washboard roads, that accelerate wear on prosthetics and wheelchairs. i am a member of the house committee on veterans affairs where we h