the states having to work out, of course, what the cost allocation is, but knowing that all of new england for example and acknowledge and maryland are committed to resolving and cooperating in the production of new renewable energy resources. so just opening up this whole question of the remote areas of maine for example most people don't know that 95% of maine is forest. it's woods. it's rural. there's a lot of opportunity there as well and it's a huge state as well. so i just raise that issue because we have to strike a balance here because we do want each region's indigenous resources to be developed as well. let me stop there and recognize the gentleman from california, mr. mcnerny for his questions. >> thank you, mr. chairman, i thought you would recognize mr. inslee. >> first i want to thank chairman wellinghoff for his testimony this week. i think your testimony was rational. i noticed one thing, though, you're seeming to advocate that the fed has a significant large role and the state regulators were all saying, well, the states should have a larger role and the fed should have a

so the cost of the endstar line is shared by everyone in new england. and massachusetts, we're about half of the load. we pay about half of the bill. similarly, the project that commissioner cohen referred to in vermont, other projects that are on the books in new hampshire and maine, and connecticut, all focused on reliability of the grid. our project for which even though they're not within massachusetts, massachusetts will consumers will pay half of. it's a vitally important component of cost allocation. and we're looking at reliability to be a willingness within an integrated power grid to share the cross across loads. the distinction i want to make here is that the issue of cost allocation from building lines to interconnect generation resources departs from that. we wanted in order for our consumers to be protected, we want the cost of developing generation, including the cost of meeting compliance measures, and the cost of delivering power reliably to load and making sure you don't adversely impact the reliability of the system, to be borne by the

our wholesale competitive markets in new england are critical for keeping prices low to consumers and not violating that is extremely important.@@@ and essentially back-stop planning mode, and require that regions, rtos, utilities, or interconnecting transmission owners, issue solicitations for long-term contracts or renewables on a delivered price basis. >> i want to make sure i have the other two, i want to get the other two witnesses, if you'd kind of wrap up. >> thank you. >> haunk, congressman. i'm optimistic that if congress sets the goal and sets the process and has a strong back-stop authority, that we'll be able to get this done. if we don't get it done, i think that's when the role of ferc steps in. so if ferc, if the states came up with a specific plan and the plan did not meet the objectives of congress, that congress set, i think there needs to be essentially an overseer. and i personally would be fine with that being the federal government. saying, yeah, this plan actually meets those objectives. but the plan itself has to be designed by the states. >> mr. chairman? >> t

whether it be maine or off the coastline of new england. i think and i will add this as well, one of the things that is not well understood about the east coast of the united states is that when you go out 10 miles, 20 miles, 30 miles, 40 miles, you are still only in 200 feet of water. when you go out that far on the west coast you are miles deep in the ocean. so in terms of the siting issues along the east coast for wind especially, you can go out miles and miles and still be just hundreds of feet from having to cite these wind facilities and then with superconducting technologies just bring them into the short and hook them into the preexisting grid that already is there in new england with the states having to work out of course with the cost allocation is, but knowing all of new england for example in new york for that matter in new jersey and maryland are committed to resolving in cooperating in the production of new renewable energy resources. just opening up this whole question of the remote areas of maine for example, most people do

so if transmission were coming from the dakotas, being put into new england, the price of that would include not just the cost of developing the generation, but also the cost of the transmission. we can then compare that price to other generation prices available to us within the new england market for local renewables, for demand resources or for more traditional regenerationth and ultimately, the projects that will go forward will be the ones that benefit ratepayers. >> as far as cost allocation i don't think we can actually speak to would be the best cost allocation of this point in time it should be tailor-made to the grave that is essentially play and. as i mentioned in my initial comments, if you pick a specific cost allocation right now it's likely to steer the plane in a specific direction and i'd rather have the physics drive, physics and economics drive the plan and then we can figure out how to pay for it after the plan is designed so that is my recommendation. >> as a vermont commissioner i would concur with my colleague from massachusetts as to from the naval perspective

so the cost of the end star line is shared by everyone in new england. in massachusetts, we're about half the load. we pay about half of the bill. similarly, the project that commissioner coen referred to in vermont, other projects that are on the books in new hampshire and maine and connecticut all focus on reliability of the grid are projects for which they are not within massachusetts, massachusetts -- consumers will pay half. it's a vitally important part of cost component. there would be a willingness to share that cost across load. the distinction i want to make here is that the issue of cost allocation from building lines to interconnect generation resources departs from that. we want -- in order for our consumers to be protected, we want the cost of developing generation and the cost of compliance measures and the cost of delivering reliability to load so you don't impact the reliability of the system including the price that they are charging customers. >> just one comment i think this is a new approach that some of us are suggesting. because the

i say this to you as part of the problem we have in massachusetts and new england as well, it is not you, it is your predecessor who just left office, pre-empting the state and local governments from setting authority on wholesale lector transmission lines, that issue is eliminated by the fact that it is completely and responsive to local concerns when it comes to be setting of liquefied natural gas facility in massachusetts. i have a facility in my district. mass. working with the federal government has licensed 2 facilities, 10 miles off of the coast line to bring in el n g, into our market and the new england market. 30% of the natural gas we use in new england, we have licensed 2 facilities, but notwithstanding, mass. saying we don't need another one on land, we are doing it offshore and we have license them. up until this time they have been saying you are going to have another one in massachusetts. even that decision itself could affect the amount of renewals that we need. notwithstanding the fact that natural gas maybe half in its use as cold it is not nearly as good as renewa

in an analysis we published in the new england journal in 1999, a decade ago, prior to the report that has been referenced many times, we showed that in medicare, blacks received this surgery 15% less often than bites with the same diagnosis. we showed that this was not due to greater morbidity amongst blacks or differences in socioeconomic status, we showed that we believed the achievement gap was the explanation for their survival lot comes. the study is memorable for me, one of the first major analyses published in the medicare database which is a cornerstone of cancer care and one of the few studies that demonstrates that treatment gaps were important in terms of disease outcomes. prior to that, treatment gaps were illustrated without a link to outcomes. we were unable to determine why treatment rates were lower for blacks. our study was not designed with that question in mind. and data was insufficient to address the granular patient little question. we had used national data covering many areas and tens of thousands of patients, we had little individual level information. other d

corey dillon rushed for more than 1,000 more yards in his debut season with new england than he did inincinnati. >> world cup qualifier action, david beckham starting in his first competitive match with the team. 1-0, england. rooney had more, his second of the game, making it 3-0. in the second half now, 4-0, beckham's kick on goal, da foe to clean up the rebound, da foe's second of the match. they're one win away for notching and clinching their spot in next year's south africa world cup. >> pirates-rays, look at this. anderson had just hit a two-out hitter for atlanta, but matt capps gets greg norton to fly out to end this one and end the danger, and the win snaps the three-game losing streak for pittsburgh. meanwhile atlanta sees their three-game winning streak ended as well. a full highlight ahead on "espnews." >> straight ahead, phillies and mets among our top stories, moments ago the mets had a 4-1 moments ago the mets had a 4-1 lead. i had a customer come in and she was looking for a gift for her husband for father's day. he was big on music, he loves to host parties and he lov

but right now we are getting routed in new england, the new west, the pacific northwest, because unpeopled think of the republican party they think of newt gingrich, george w. bush, tom delay, dick armey, guys with texas twang. >> host: what is wrong with that? >> guest: well, ronald reagan and barack obama both have been able to find in the middle of american political liability -- life and maybe it is a western sensibility. i'm not exactly sure what it is, but we just can't be confined in the south. you know, why did ronald reagan at venice summit people in europe? because of the time even though he was right and was proven right and i think he freed about 100 million europeans, there was that cowboys swagger that scare them. even reagan who i ever not saw that in him, but george w. bush had that swagger. the same with delay and it just doesn't translate well in new england. >> host: let's get to the book. i have a million questions. let me process that with this, when you were a young one coming up, a young man living in florida, at some point you became political and added decision to

. >> riff tom brady returning to in the patriots, new england, at least for the moments, appears to berybody's favorite to win the afc east this seen. almost everyone. six days good new jets head coach said he is not here to kiss bill belichick's ring. there won't be a a board big enough to hold off the stuff. >> i'm not going to concede anything. do i recognize the fact that belichick is a heck of a coach? absolutely. my thing is i'm not intimidated by him or anybody necessary this business, period. >> you didn't think rex ryan was going to back down, did you? rex ryan said he didn't come to new york to kiss bill belichick's ring, and his loss wouldn't hurt him. >> you don't come here to bow down -- nobody is entitled until you step on the field. >> he let us know we shouldn't be afraid to say what we want. it's my first year and they already engrained that in me, we play for the super bowl. that's the way he plays. >> you have respect for the three rings he has and at the same time we're not going to submit to anybody. >> rex line learn that from the man. >> you can't worry about tha

currently, she pointed out, new england carries a heavier surcharge than others, which damaged their trade. sensing then perhaps that she was on a role, abigail next introduced a topic that the delegates had purposefully avoided. i have sometimes been ready to think, and she backed into her subject before delivering her blow, that the passion for liberty cannot be equally strong in the breaths of those who have been accustomed to deprive their fellow creatures of airs. artfully proposing her comments in the conditional form, she then stepped audaciously into the hornet's nest of slavery, that congress had cautiously avoided in order to maintain unity among the states wile engaging in the war for independence. the one topic that would certainly spell the end of cooperation between the southern and northern states was slavery. abigail, however, reminded john that political expediency contradicted both morality and religion, to say nothing of its hypocrisy. of this i am certain, that it is not founded upon the generous and christian principles of doing to others that we would as others

what you see there is a strong association from northern new england states, along with other states like montana. then there is a gradient that is moving down. for the purpose of this analysis, california looks like a southern state. its

service dealers of america, the united egg producers, the peanut growers, friend of the earth, and new england fuel institute. all of these organizations for different reasons are worried about the impact of rapidly rising oil prices on consumers. madam president, all of us took economics 101. what they told us in economics 101 is that when supply is low and demand is high, prices go up. and when supply is broad and demand is minimal, prices go down. well, right now, unfortunately, it seems we can throw out mocks 101 right out the window because at this moment the supply of oil in the united states is as high today as it was 20 years ago and demand for oil in this country is lower than it was a decade ago. so the question that we are wrestling with now, if supply is high and demand is low, why are oil prices soars? up until today, as a matter of fact, madam president, gasoline prices increased for 54 treaty days, the longest streak on record dating to 1996. today the national average for a gallon of gasoline is $2.69 a gallon, up more than $1 since late last year. madam president, there is mou

i want to call your attention a documented letter that was in the new england journal of medicine on june 4th, 2009, edition. it says that the insurance industry has ever $4.4 billion in investments in tobacco companies. the you have any comment on that? >> my first comment would be we with the first major change in the u.s. to stop selling cigarettes. >> i am asking about the industry. >> i guess i would say with respect to that, i haven't given that a lot of thought. insurance companies most likely have a fiduciary responsibility to do the best they can with their investments. i am not an economist. >> milton friedman said this. i do not often quote him but it is worth quoting in light of what you just said. he said few trends could so thoroughly undermined the very foundations of our free society as the acceptance by corporate officials, of a social responsibility other than to make as much money for their stockholders as possible, that is included in this article in the new england journal. i would just like to say, the fact that insurance companies can invest in tobacco companie

and national leadership positions including the chair of the consumer affairs committee of the new england conference of public utility commissioners. we welcome you, sir. whenever you're ready, please begin. >> good morning, mr. upton, and ranking subcommittee. i also served as the first vice president of the regulatory commissioners also known as neru. i offer a state view on transmission. i'd like to thank representative wells for his kind introduction and his service to our state. he is certainly my favorite congressman from vermont. at the state level, we deal with transmission planning and siding requests regularly and the issues and concerns are not policy or procedural, and do not lend themselves to a one size fits all solution. state commissioners are obligated to act deliberately to ensure that any new projects would benefit the public. this means regulators must determine whether demand respon response, energy efficiency or local energy source is more appropriate than putting transmission towers in the ground. a major impediment is a great difficult no getting public acceptance.

discriminated against their minority patients, and i noted a few years later in the essay of the "new england journal of medicine to speak that the invocation of racism as the cause of treatment disparities moves the problem, if you will, from one of the health-care system quality to moral failure. our research group saw the potential for another potential explanation that dr. chandra has mentioned. one blade the system rather than the doctor. a key reason that blacks receive a lower quality of care than whites could be that it went to doctors who were less able to provide the higher quality of care, for whatever reason, than whites. it could be that they were less well-trained or simply less knowledgeable, so a few years later, we published another study in "the new england journal of medicine" and we documented two things that supported our care. first, we demonstrated that the first key precondition existed, blacks and whites were indeed not treated by the same doctors. we looked at medicare patients, and we were able to show that black cure was heavily clustered among a small group of doc

. >> may as well go after new york and new england while you're at it. >> that's right. terrorizing the eastern seaboard, john lannan here's austin kearns, zero for one, but been on base twice. >> a lot of guys think we should have taken two out of three with the rays. >> the nats could have swept the yankees. tuesday night's game they had the lead. kearns batting .1 ninety two, but on base up around .330. hit by a pitch and a walk. fastball up. 3-0. hits it well, but it's going to slice out of play. we saw jeremy in two scoreless innings friday night. he gets jammed. easy to hill for the first out. austin kearns is zero for his last 15, zimmerman zero for his last 16. a rough go today for the numbers three and five hitters. alberto gonzalez will be in there. looks like he's reaching for his groin. >> he's done. you can't pitch if you can't extend and land. you've got to be flexible and stretched out, and sometimes you go to just push off the mound, thinking well, i've done this tens of thousands of times, and that one time it gets you. that looks like brandon league. wh

your dad was a long time journalist in new england. >> yes, he was. my father was a newsman, unfortunately passed away about 13 years ago, but he passed on the voice to me. i don't personally love the voice, but my dad had a low voice like this. he went all the way back with bob crane from hogan's heroes fame back in the 50s when bob crane was on radio in new york. there's a lot of news in my blood, although i happen to play sports. >> my dad was a welder at the shipyard on the mississippi. he didn't pass along many welding skills to me, but he did teach me what hard work was all about. >> that's what my dad taught me, work ethic. >> yep. >> my dad often holding down two, three jobs to support kids that could eat a lot. >> that's hard to believe. >> my two sisters were almost as big as me. >> a busy man this weekend. the bottom of the 5th, nick johnson. so whatever your dad does, honor him today. i think adam dunn had a great comment earlier. he said, to him father's day is not about him being a dad, it's about his dad. i think a lot of us think that

administration, as the chairman of the senate judiciary committee, i remember being frustrated, which is a new england understatement, with the attorney general, about what was going on, the manipulation of prosecution. when i was in law school, i was interviewed by the attorney general, there were trying to get some students to come to the department of justice. and i said to the attorney- general, i said, would you allow interference from the white house? in a prosecution. and they said, under no circumstances. i would tell the president that neither he nor anyone from the white house can be involved in prosecutions. they had over 400 people involved last time. and i said, thank you, robert kennedy. he ended up prosecuting a man who was vital to the election as president. but the man committed a crime. they ask of this would be a problem, he said he would not go too many family reunions. let me just close with one word to the students. i was fortunate to be a student here during the time of john kennedy, i remember the sadness -- she was working as a nurse, to put me through law school. and we were

had gone better the british were hoping to hole up vote southern colonies, the rest interested in new england. do you really think it was politically possible for apiece to be arrived at in which the british would have consented, king george setting of independence of a large part of the colony's, if they had secured the whole area. including possibly virginia for many of the revolutionary leaders from virginia. >> there is a tendency in stalemated wars, when a war is stalemated and there is a negotiated settlement to simply leave the belligerents in control of what they possess at the time of the armistice. so had there been a european mediation conference in 1781, assuming there hadn't been a decisive victory that year, and had the war been settled in that fashion, i think south carolina and georgia, certainly possibly n.c. as well, would have gone to the british. board no.'s majority was dwindling, and the opposition was growing more powerful every day, and wanting to get this war over at that point. there is a realistic possibility that it could have ended that way had it not been for yor

if they control the hudson river, then new york, the new england states would be divided, all the states on the other side of the hudson river. probably would have been unthinkable for the americans to have continued the war in that situation. >> you mentioned the disagreement rauchambeau had with washington about the northern campaign. rauchambeau summoned the grass as far as the chesapeake. july take it that rauchambeau maneuvered washington maneuvered wisely into falling on and taking on -- >> i am glad you raised that point. i didn't have time to develop that earlier. when washington met with rauchambeau at the conference, and rauchambeau wrote the letter to come to the chesapeake, washington and rauchambeau knew at that point that there was a fairly small british army, 2500 men in virginia. washington thought that was pretty small potatoes, and he wanted to go at the bigger force, bigger prize in new york. into virginia, weeks went by. by june, if they did know that cornwallace was in virginia and they knew that clinton, the british commander sending reinforcements to cornwallace so

he likes new england. he likes the east coast feel i think. i was born and raised in connecticut, lived in cincinnati when i play there had, moved back. i am an east coast person. can't say i love all this rain and humidity. >> johnny: don't you hate it? >> rob: i can't say i hate it. i was in california those years. >> johnny: enough is enough. dukes drifting back. tagging up at 2nd. down to 3rd goes gonzalez. two out here in the 2nd. >> rob: we talked about needing punch in the middle of your lineup. since he went down for the reds, they're 4-6. look at that. almost every offensive category. bruce has been struggling. a lot of guys have been struggling this year. >> johnny: if you look at the batting average, nobody is above .300. nix has the highest at .277 harang quickly falls behind. >> rob: overall they've raised their team batting average. about a month ago they were hitting .215. >> johnny: fired to 1st to johnson. gets him. we go to the bottom of the 2nd 2nd. 2-0 cincinnati. we'll be back in a moment. ú boss: so you've been ing a

the british made coastal raids, particularly in the middle states and in new england and in virginia, destroying property, killing people. in the first two years of the conflict, when men were asked to enlist for a period of just one year, the army was a pretty good cross-section of the free population. most freemen at the time were farmers who were artisans and most of the men who soldiered in the continental army were farmers or artisans. so a great many families had to struggle along in 1775 and 1776 with their husbands away. somehow, they had to find the money to pay the tax collector who came knocking at their door, or to grow crops and sell crops and whatever. and they had to pay extraordinarily high taxes during this conflict. so civilians suffered. and we think of, we are all familiar i think with the images of the threadbare, ragged american soldiers. and sometimes we don't realize that those who fought for the british suffered as well. during the first winter of the war when boston was a deceased by washington's army, the revolutionary war, revolutionary army, continental ar

one of old castle companies in new england has been awarded $105 million for the three states and operates. much work is underway or will begin soon. in new hampshire after several early jobs had begun, pike decided to hold a job fair advertising 50 jobs but over 400 people showed up and they fill those positions and is expecting the stimulus job to save or create as much as 250 jobs. another great story within the example involved in a project taking place in the state of maine. last year we were fortunate enough to rebuild a large section of by to 95 this year the main entity into the fiscal season with the understanding it would not have the funds to support the sister project of the northbound by 295-barrel. as a result of the recovery act it has been able to move forward with great coordination between the dot this project has been advertised bid, awarded and will be completed by mid august. mid is pretty significant job involves 23 miles of roadway to completely rebuild and repave. all of it will take place and 120 days. the other nice thing is that at its peak it will support 350 jo

the past and i want to come and show them this is the reason you brought me here. >> and going to new englandeant good things for offensive players. welker with 112 receptions in the first year, and randy moss with a single season record with 23 receiving touchdowns in the first year and corey dillon rushing more than in his first season with cincinnati. >> and the top of the second, it's soto. and soto going solo. the third homer of the year, second in the last four games. the bottom nine, 1-1 game, bases loaded. and here comes tajada and the astros win in walk-off fashion 2-1 on the second career walk-off hit. the card and marlins, st. louis trying to snap a five-game losing streak. a 22 year old rookie in the first inning, the three-run home run his seventh and they snap the five-game losing streak. and england taking on andorra. and rooney getting it done, he has the header and a goal, 1-0 england. and a 2-0 game and rooney again. he got three goals in the last two world cup qualifying match-ups, 3-0 england. and the second half and a 4-0 game and beckham off the free kick and the rebound

applause] >> i was impressed with what's there in the early days of the industrial revolution in new englandworking people just took it for granted that those who worked in the mills should own them and they also regarded wage labor as different from slavery only in that it was temporary. also abraham lincoln's view approximate. there's been immense efforts to drive these thoughts out of people's heads to win what the business world calls the everlasting battle for the minds of men. on the surface they may appear to have succeeded but i don't think you have to dig too deeply to find out their lane and they can be revive and there have been some important concrete efforts one of them was undertaken 30 years ago in youngstown, ohio, where u.s. steel was going to shut down a major facility that was at the heart of this steal town and there were substantial protests by the work force and the community and there was an effort to bring to the courts the principle that stakeholders should have the highest priority. well, the effort failed that time. but with enough popular support it could succeed.

these are like the germans who came into new england in the second world war and we executed them. host: so, do think that george bush was right in his detention policy? caller: yes, but he squandered an upper to do with his family congress. he could have gotten this through them. -- with his friendly congress. caller: this is hamilton, montana. host: excuse me, my mistake. caller: there is a telecom appear that once every one of them. we have a prison that is ready and waiting. we could take care of them right there. the way this whole thing started -- everything seems to be contracted out. you usually their people over there doing their laundry in running their mail. a have turned it into a big business for that pay everyone, other people but hardly pay, the common people anything. the blackwater people, the halliburton people are getting mountains of money while the people doing the fighting are getting nothing. host: you mentioned you are in montana, a small town which you say will take detainees. where is that? caller: it is in harden, montana, east of billings. it is open and

you see a strong association from new england states with states like utah and montana which are able to deliver with the dartmouth people call highly effective care and not particularly high prices and the gradient in the southern states including california. california looks like a southern state. there is a world difference driven largely by a handful of extraordinarily good academic medical centers that are in urban areas. that is not automatically the case that urban hospitals outperform rural hospitals. in general, you also see gradients aligned in ways we don't understand. there appears to be some linkage of quality. we can have a separate conversation about what quality i have in mind. we have highly effective care that is very cheap including flu shots, medicare beneficiaries, mammograms. if you look at those measures of quality, it also appears to be the case that areas of the united states that have greater specialists relative to generalists, in an absolute sense, the composition of the physician work force is biased towards specialists. those are the areas that do poorly

if you have resources, you can opt out and have the ability to go to a private facility in new england. that is

you know, when i have went, for example, to -- i spoke at the western new england school of law, i had dinner with the federal society students, and their one complaint about their constitutional law professors was that the names clarence thomas or just cies scalia never came up without a snicker. which is a way of demeaning and depreciating and basically eliminating the conservative's perspective, because the students then understand that the people they look to as authorities, they're law professors, who if they don't look up to them as their authorities, they know they have the hammer of the grades over them, regard scalia and clarence thomas as ridiculous, as not worthy, having opinions not worthy of consideration. so any conservative student going through school today in america, will know that this is not a really good institution to try to succeed in, where, the judgments are all subjective. of course, if you're a nuclear physicist, it doesn't matter. and in fact, when i went to columbia to speak, i was introduced, the college republican, who was the public face and introduced m

how is it that rich doesn't have that very distinctive, new england boston accent? >> i don't know. maybe as he was growing up, as my brother said, he was either launched in the pool too many times or dodging balls from us. >> buck: he was certainly the younger brother of all of you boys a-and -- and the athletic atmosphere so great in boston. you have who canny. i know his favorite team are the boston celt celtics. you guys made sure he was involved in everything you did and i think that inspired him to fofl in your -- follow in your footsteps. >> thank you. i obviously my mom and dad having four kids within five years and then having a little hiatus for 15 14, 15 years took a lot of energy. so, all the praise goes to my mom and dad for that. >> it's petro -- >> jim: it's prez pretty amazing when we are told that you are 19 years older than your younger brother rich hill. it's an amazing age difference, yet you're still very close. >> well, we were born on the same day actually 19 years apart. he continuously reminds bhe that as i've changed into the hair color change. it was a gre

there were mostly new england preachers who were also evolutionist.e think our charter is the first one ever written that guarantees men and women, black and white, all alike. they came out to the northwest territories and founded this college. it was first in jackson, michigan, about 30 miles from us. they moved down to hillsdale after 11 years to get to a big town. it was on the railroad, and that was the way back then. hillsdale was a very large, a thriving community of probably four thousand. now it is a metropolis. >> how many other colleges or universities in the u.s. have the same basic rule of taking no federal or state money? >> i have heard of grove city and others that make claims. >> i want to show you an excerpt from 1991. i will ask you to tell us about the individual, but listen carefully to what he says. >> is there such a thing that has built up over the years as a martin gilbert inc.? have you got a big force behind you that helps you do research? >> i have always believed in doing to it myself. i have always done my own research. i

design improffering the integrity of the road bed along 230 miles of the new york, mid-atlantic and new englanddivisions. similarly, we're making good progress in our $100 million equipment plan. we do most of the work in-house with an amtrak workforce. we've also have existing agreements in inventory levels for parts. in some cases progress is still subject to the ability of suppliers to get us needed components but we're moving ahead. we have 52 mechanical employees and another 108 employees at our back shop in beach grove, indiana. and i expect the workforce at these two facilities will be returning the first of the m-fleet cars to service in the middle of july. the first of superliners by the end of july. at the end of july, we intend to award the contract for a team of regional project managers who will manage a slate of 394 projects with a total dollar value of $636 million across the country. many of these projects will be relatively small and they will be excellent candidates for small business set-asides. regional managers will oversee the effort and our expectation is that they'll ach

from revolutionary war patriots and always considered herself a the way older and was proud of her new england heritage. her stoicism and strength in the face of adversity that turned out to be enormously valuable when she got to washington. she grew up middle class. by the time she was born the industrial revolution was in full swing. the gap between rich and poor was growing larger and larger, and a huge surge of immigration changes the country. it wasn't really that great of the time to be a woman. women didn't have the right to vote in fact frances perkins was 40-years-old before she had the right to vote. when she went to college only 3% of american woman got college educations so it is extraordinary that she had the self-confidence to take on things that she did. fact people were even afraid of when getting higher education fearful they would become intellectuals and injured themselves. [laughter] after she frances perkins went to work at very hall which is a woman's college in lake forest. the rules were rigid. even the teachers work required to live on campus and their lives are circum

he does become a freed black in new england at the end of the war. >> and finally comanche's empire. is the book i'm most proud of and the press is most proud of. the author received his degree from the university of helsinki and did an asounding study of the comanche from 1700 to 1850 so it's got 150 years' time frame where the comanche completely dominated the southwest. and what comes through is their intelligence, their decentralized political organization, their escape from disease because they were nomanic. they would enslave whoever captured but if you wanted to be a comanche they would have groups. they were the first understand the horse and its importance in the western economy and the buffalo so they were very well armed, very well funded and very smart. and so they outdueled their rival tribes, the apache especially, and they absolutely ruled the spanish and anglos who came in and tried to take over and then finally the american government in 1857 send all the troops you can there and let's get the comanche problem settled and they basically took care of the comanche but

this has completely wiped republicans of the new england landscape. it has treated a different dynamic within the party. -- has created a different dynamic within the party. it makes it easier for obama to play to the middle and disappointed liberals as he has already and will continue to on both big issues and important domestic issues like climate change legislation. certainly the last four or five months have been enormously busy but also a successful months for congress and the president. they have worked together on some enormous bills that have passed in a very short amount of time. this is a congress that has done very little over the last four or five years. there's a lot of pent-up desire for action so we saw a lot of bills go right to the process. once they had a president that was willing to sign them it happened. the stimulus was obviously the largest of those, but there were some other significant bills that passed with that -- without a lot of attention. this is an issue that would have been an enormous point just a few years ago but now

but the figure is considered conservative by the new england journal of medicine. 2008 government why proper payments cost the united states treasury $72 billion or 4% of the total outlay for related programs. medicaid had an estimated improper payment rate of 10.5% or $18.6 billion for the federal share of medicaid expenditures. the highest rate of any federal program. and it is my belief that in the second half of the legislation that we are going to consider we are actually going to consider and i expansion of the medicaid program. and that it will probably be presented at the federal government is going to pick up 100% of the expansion cost for a period of four years and the states will be partners again. i think i know why we are not seeing the legislation will in advance because the state's, the governor's regardless whether they are republican or democrat would be opposed because its medicaid that's not the bogeyman in the state budget right now. they've got to get control but we do nothing in this bill to address the problems that exist in medicaid and at the top of the list.

. >> a follow-up question because this study that appears in the "new england journal of medicine", and has become a contested terrain. and the book you focus on the grievous cases where there really are scientist for higher but in regulatory science a lot of it would be eight parts per million or seven parts per million? and scientist many industry funded will go for the higher standard and some were government-funded well maybe pushed for a lower standard and it becomes a contested terrain. and then it's out is there in the science and it is not clear cut that it is the science were higher that you are looking at the. so you have a couple of paragraphs new the end of the book where you talk about the sarbanes-oxley for science we raised the possibility of government-funded science or dba user fees system being the more ideal way to determine regulatory somalians. can you think of some good reasons why this would be good for industry to go that route? >> i think as the level of skepticism around the industry science prizes they will want good science. they will see whenever there is a

how the recovery and stimulating our economy -- one oldcastle companies by industries in northern new england has been awarded $105 million worth of projects in three states it operates. much of this work has under way that will be done soon. in new hampshire after several early jobs have begun, mike decided to hold a job fair in concord advertising and 50 jobs. over 400 people showed up, pike fill the positions and is expecting a stimulus work to create as many as 250 jobs. another great story within the pike example of all the project taking place right now in the state of maine. last year we were fortunate enough to rebuild a large section of eid to 95. this year the main dot entered its fiscal season with the understanding it would not have the funds to support the sister project in the northbound interstate 295 ferrell. as a result of the recovery and this project has been able to move toward. as a result, with great coordination between in the dot and the contrasting committee, this project has been advertised, bid, awarded, and will be completed by mid october -- mid august. it's signi

witnesses include the former editor in chief of the "new england journal of medicine." live coverage beginning at 10:30 eastern on c-span3. in the afternoon, the senate banking committee holds a hearing on the u.s. auto industry. they'll hear from white house and treasury department officials. that's live at 2:30 eastern also on c-span3. both hearings also online at c-span.org. >> every weekend the latest non-fiction books and authors on "book tv." saturday, how do you run for congress with $7,000 and your sixth grade students managing the campaign? tierney cahill gave it a shot. she's interviewed by delegate eleanor holmes norton. sunday, joe rosenberg takes you inside the revolution. how the followers of jihad, jefferson and jesus are battling to dominate the middle east and transform the world. and what's next for the economy? steven moore and former reagan economic policy advisor arthur lafer on "the end of prosperity." and later, a real estate attorney on the housing crunch and where it's headed. every weekend's filled with books and authors on "book tv." look for

and was very proud of her new england heritage, her stoicism and strength in the face of the diversity. that turned out to be enormously valuable to her when she got to washington. she grew up middle-class. the time she was born in the industrial revolution was in full swing. the gap between rich and poor was growing larger and larger and a huge surge of immigration had changed the country. it wasn't really that great at the time to be a woman for the women did not have the right to vote. in fact frances perkins was 40 years old before she had the right to vote. when she went to college at mount holyoke only 3% of american women got a college education sodas extraordinary she had the self-confidence to take on the thing she did. in fact people were even afraid of women getting higher education, fearful they would become intellectuals and injure themselves. [laughter] after she graduated from mount holyoke frances perkins went to work at ferry hall which is the women's college in lake forest. the rules there were very rigid, even the teachers were required to live on campus and their li

frt payne was incorporated in 1889 as investors from new england saw coal as an opportunity. during that time period, this particular building, the fort payne coal and iron building was the first building that was constructed. it served as the administrative building and headquarters for the fort payne coal and iron company and it was from this building that the city itself was planned. this year marks the 120th anniversary of the building as well as the town of fort payne. and this has been a project that has not been dependent on federal funds alone. and that's as mr. campbell pointed out. the city of fort payne has spent $150,000 of its own money working on this project. the state of alabama has committed another $135,000 for this project. the coal and iron building will house a cultural center. the building is on the national register and it will be a valuable asset to encourage tourism and heighten awareness of the cultural heritage of northern alabama and southern appalachia as it will provide educational opportunities which augustment certain other activities in the re

because the americans knew that the british would try to contain the american revolution to the new englandstates where they began. and if the americans could control the north river at the time which is now called the hudson river, they would be able to keep it all in one place. and because the americans didn't really have a navy, they realized that what they can do is fire on the ships from the water. so they put a giant chain across the river and decided they would build a fort right here to shoot down at the british when they tried to make this turn in the bend in the hudson river. kosciuszko looked back here and saw these hills and knew that he had the same problem at the fort. you need to cover the high ground. now, the americans weren't too sure about that again and for them the only important thing was the chain. if we put this heavy chain across the hudson, this chain stands at west point the british won't be able to sail up and down the river. so kosciuszko kept arguing that you need to put these high points up there. and eventually they listened to him. now, while he was at west