isn't this a great success story in new mexico? mr. heinrich: absolutely. and always better to be the leader that's creating jobs than the state or country that's following and watching those jobs go someplace else. mr. connelly: i might add to the point you're making, mr. polis. in my state of virginia, for example, we have a gubernatorial election going on now and one of the candidates has talked about, drill now, right off the shore of virginia. maybe that makes sense, maybe it doesn't. but the wind power potential off the shore of virginia dwarfs any he estimates of what possible oil and gas reserves there might be offshore. and could create jobs and could actually make virginia an enormous net exporter to the northeast and the midatlantic of a renewable source of energy forever. mr. polis: colorado's in this boat and new mexico, too, we are blessed with some natural resources, with natural gas and with oil and i have to tell you, it's a mixed blessing. first of all, it's highly cyclical. we've been through several cycles in colorado where there's been

polis: we hear about these wonderful things, battery storage technologies, jobs being created in new mexico and new york, clean electric vehicles, what we are talking about and the nexus to why this is important and what american families need to know, is the american clean energy and security act is the enabling law that allows all of this to occur. all of this great stuff that we are talking about, the job creation, the clean cars, the storage. this will all be dealt a huge blow if congress fails to act. that's why the stakes for this debate are so important. mr. heinrich. mr. heinrich: i think this whole issue of research and development is absolutely crit cam because we have fallen behind the entire world in things that we were at the very front edge of just a few years ago. we can do so much better. when you look around at the american innovation in new york, new mexico, virginia, and colorado there is no more innovative people in the world than the american entrepreneur. i had the -- i was lucky to have the majority leader visit my district last year, so i took him out to sandia natio

if i am working as a poll worker in new mexico registered to vote in new mexico and someone walks in to that polling place and says, i am steve king and i live at -- names the address that i live at -- even if they say they are me and i am working the polls, by law in new mexico i can't challenge that fraudulent voter. it's against the law to challenge voters in new mexico and many other states because  the liberals have so corrupted the process. first, they passed motor voter so when people get a driver's license they ask them, do you want to be registered to vote, well, who says no? and a test that you are a citizens of the united states. well, who says no? what if you don't understand the language, are you really going to read that as a legal document and know that if you attest that you are a citizen of the united states that you're guilty of perjury? by the way, out of 306 million or so americans does anybody know anybody that has been prosecuted for falsely saying that they are a citizen? no, it's an unprosecuted crime, a crime of perjury, which exists as a felony in every st

new mexico is second in the nation for solar energy potential. and we have a thriving clean energy industry in albuquerque, creating jobs today. so this is a natural partnership. however many federal agencies have discovered that the 10-year limit on federal power purchase agreements made these kinds of agreements uneconomical for their private sector partners in the solar industry. our amendment will extend the length of these contracts to 20 years, allowing more federal agencies to sign agreements with clean energy producers. this will put americans to work and ensure the federal government leads by example in the use of clean energy. i urge my colleagues to support this rule, this legislation, and i yield back the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields back the balance of his time. the gentleman from texas. mr. sessions: if i could please ask my colleague, the gentlewoman from california, if she could in an effort to get our time back to an even balance, if she could have one of her speakers up at this time . the spe

senator hutchinson and then it's all up to senator udall from new mexico. he's going to fix the whole problem. >> senator lautenberg, on your way out the door, i just want to thank you very much for this hearing, sir. and high-speed rail is critical. it's just really critical. i want to pick up on senator thune's comments about the funding. senator thune, i just wanted to pick up on your points about the funding because it's very critical. this $13 billion standing alone just can go so far. but in my state we had an election about putting in $9 billion funding package, and the people voted aye which was kind of remarkable given the latest votes that we had. so, you know, the people there really understand it. and our system, and i think -- i bet most everybody in this room has been to my state. it will eventually connect sacramento, our state capital, to san diego in the south. that is the first phase will be between los angeles and san francisco, points in between. i also want to point out the private sector has to be leveraged into this too. in california

i don't think anybody would have predicted in new mexico. now, granted, this is the same period where we hit the $4 gasoline and we're a terrible rule state and people are known to travel 120, 150 miles a day to work just to commute. it sounds a little bit like, governor rendell, you build and people are going to come. i think looking at art energy future. i don't know if any of you have comments on that, but it may be very hard to predict what reliable ridership is right now. please, governor rendell. >> if only be, cbo and gdl work predicting the success of columbia's adage that if they were advising queen isabella we would all be speaking italian. i guarantee you. you hit it right on ahead, senator. some of this we have to do because we know it works in other parts of the world, and some of this we have got to do on faith. when i invested the $74 million of commonwealth money, that's a lot of money down here, vice president mondale once said we spend that sum of money before breakfast and lunch. but for the commonwealth that still a nice

for what purpose does the gentleman from new mexico rise? >> unanimous consent to address the house for one minute. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. mr. teague: mr. speaker, during the memorial day weekend there was a solemn moment for one family of new mexico. enrique valdez was the 400th new mexican to have his name added to the vietnam memorial here in washington. he was injured during his second tour of duty in south vietnam. today i would like to say that i'm thankful for the service that sergeant valdez gave to his country. new mexico has always had a proud military history from the civil warle to the operations of enduring and iraqi freedom. new mexico's sons and daughters have always answered their nation's call. for those that serve during the vietnam war, we as a nation have been lax in our gratitude and appreciaon. as we remember the sergeant, let us not only honor his memory and sacrifices, but the price that was paid by all who served in vietnam. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields back the bal

i like new mexico because they sided with the union. you got a job working at their ranch after the flash flood. he was in this area, and 16 watched out fences. he recognized buffalo bones are much bigger. he spent his life trying to get somebody to look at them. he looked at the museum in denver, no one would come and look, he died about college in. he was drinking with a straw because he couldn't lift his head. someone finally came out and had a look and they found the buffalo were from an ice age animal which we now call the bison. there were a lot for jekyll points stuck in their spine and between their ribs. to that point there was no proof that man existed here during the ice age. it was almost like when copernicus proposed the notion of i heliocentric universe. because religious controversy. any religious figures attacked the finding because it was preposterous that it could have been native americans here 13 years ago. they ran into a herd of bison at a time when the mexico had glaciers, there were no cities anywhere, no agricul

the chair: the gentleman from new mexico is recognized. mr. teague: i do have an amendment at the desk and i guess it has already been read. the chair: the gentleman is recognized in support of his amendment. mr. teague: madam chairwoman, i'm an old man. but one thing that i learned as an oil man is no matter where you go roorned the world, when you visit oil and gas-producing areas, you mostly find america companies and american technologies, american equipment and of course americans. america is the pride of the oil patch. over the years that position has served us well. it creates wealth and jobs in our country and has been the basis for america's leadership in global economy. but the world is changing where before other nations could not compete with our economic mithe, now they can. and where before the hydrocarbons were the only solution to the world's energy needs, it no longer is. america will continue to lead the world in production of oil and natural gas, but must also lead the world in the production of renewable energy. america wil

sanchez: i yield two minutes to the gentleman from new mexico, mr. teague. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized for two minutes. mr. teague: mr. speaker, i rise today in support of h.r. 498, a resolution honoring and congratulations the u.s. border patrol on its 85th anniversary. this bill show ours support for the men and women who have served and are currently serving in our nation's border patrol. i encourage my colleagues to vote with me in support of this resolution. the border patrol has undergone incredible change others the last 85 years. they have grown from an initial force of 450 to over 18,800 agent is -- agents today. they have learned to deal with new threats such as terrorists and weapons of mass destruction and have adapted ground breaking technology such as infrared cameras and unattended underground sensors to better face the challenges confronting them. despite the changes, their primary mission has stayed the same to detect and prevent illegal -- illegal entry of person into the united states. they must p patrol over 8,000

skancke said, you have to do it. >> senator, in the texas-new mexico connection there, it's not just about the train system. we spent a lot of time talking about moving passengers, but it's about the transit oriented development and the additional demand in thesing me on liss that would grow -- the megopolis we refer to and it's hard to measure until it's in place. >> mr. skancke, did you want to talk about reliable ridership issue or comment on this? >> i think we have studied ridership in this country for hundreds of millions of dollars. i didn't say years. hundreds of millions of dollars. and as i said, we have to stop studying. we know on all the amtrak corridors throughout the country that there's a need and demand. as fuel prices go up, ridership goes up. as congestion goes up, ridership goes up. we don't have to guess. the problem we have is, we're afraid to do it. because it may fail. what we need to do is not set up our high speed rail and transit systems to fail. let's set them up to succeed. create systems that work, not pieces. so as we've all said, instead of doing 100 m

he started out in the silicon valley and ended up in ship rock, new mexico. the young lady who introduced him was a star student. she got up and did the introduction and she talked about how she won a computer because of her academic prowess, and then she took it home, but she didn't have a phone line, she didn't have the ability to plug it in. and he used that trip from the silicon valley to ship rock, new mexico, on the navajo reservation to show the huge digital divide. so i hope that your leadership there will move us down the road and this committee will step up to the plate. it's wonderful to see that tie on your son out there. very impressive young man. he seems to have disappeared. >> he's still preparing. >> thank very much, mr. chairman. >> thank you, senator johan. >> thank you very much. >> i can't be here long today because of other commitments, but i did want to stop by and offer you a few thoughts. first of all, we haven't had an opportunity really to meet or to talk at any length, so i look forward to that opportunity. i have to tell you, look

in new mexico.nd well, moments ago he talked with everybody about making his comeback. >> i feel good. i feel great. >> are you game ready? >> what do you think? i haven't played in three months. >> so how close are you? >> what do you think? >> how close are you? >> i don't know. figure it out. guy, i got to get ready for the game. >> what do you... did you feel anything yesterday, that whole atmosphere and the way everybody reacted. >> everything's fine. >> that was quick. >> quick and to the point, as is manny. >> even without manny in the lineup however, the dodgers continued to be the class of the national league, for that matter baseball has gone 26 and 16 since may 7th and managed to increase their lead in the n.l. west from 5.35 to 8.5 games. however, they are scoring a run less per game. here's karl ravech and the, evye "baseball tonight" crew.ne. an >> well, the fly in the ointment an anth manny ramirez and paying t. go watch him for the 15,000 orne so people that he did is hene. doesn't d

that was minor league rehab tour started in new mexico.albuquerque to be exact, where he played tuesday and wednesday. going hit-less in three at-bats with the walk. there's a runner on first here. and manaran stepping in schedule to play three more games for the 66ers after today. and sunday through tuesday in san bernardino. in new mexico, manny went hitless in three at-bats with a walk. he already touched them all today. and that ball goes high and sailed over the catcher's head. >> and the interesting thing, you mentioned it before, got this one home run. but the fact of the heat and the sell-out crowd it is over 100 degrees in southern california. >> 106 degrees according to our colleague there. can you imagine being a mascot right there on top of the dugout in 106-degree weather wearing the dreads in nod to his presence there. >> if one of us was going to be a mascot, that would be you. >> i don't think so. but here he is, taking another pitch. and now because the california league was on its all-star game break monday through wednes

the presiding officer: the senator from new mexico. mr. udall: mr. president, i ask unanimous consent to speak as in morning business. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. udall: mr. president, i rise today to honor a proud son of almagordo, new mexico. army specialist chris kerth died on thursday, june 4, after his vehicle was struck by an antitank grenade. he was 23 years old. in iraq, chris was responsible for escorting convoys, but this job description conveys none of the risk or the courage involved in the job. the military can secure a town or a base, but somebody must still travel the roads that cannot be secured. christopher kerth was responsible for undertaking this act of courage. chris knew how dangerous this job could be when he began his last mission. he was on his second tour of duty, and he had just recovered from a neck wound that won him the purple heart. but for chris, success was defined by keeping his fellow soldiers safe, and that's what he died fighting to do. the values reflected in this duty are as important in peace

the presiding officer: the senator from new mexico. mr. bingaman: mr. president, i come to the floor today as i did on the seconon the 2nd of june,e the quick action on the nomination of his particular nomination of hillary tompkins in the department of interior and the president has chosen well, in choosing miss tompkins to be the solicitor. she has broad experience in natural resource issues. she is extremely well qualified in all respects. she was chief counsel to the governor in new mexico, governor richardson and she has demonstrated her ability to lead a team of lawyers in that position and to provide sound legal counsel. it is unclear to me why anyone would be objecting to her being approved as our solicitor. now, i raised -- when i came to the floor on the 2nd of june about eight days ago, and talked about this subject, i asked unanimous consent we proceed to executive session and that her nomination be confirmed and that we advice the president of our action and that the senate go back to other business. senator mcconnell, on behalf of the repu

but to their letters and wanted to meet a person that was the destination of between missouri and new mexico most of the events that occur in that section happened. that is where the serendipity comes in. but how do i put these together? it finally dawned on me because my wife's name is joe weigh in and she has never been happy with that name given that she is largely a tomboy, joe would be a better name for her but she does not go for that. she told me when i first met her she always wanted a name it is a son of a state named an old mexico. self she became quintana but then short end at q. when a husband decides he will rightabout day spouse and if they are an attorney and if that spouse is trained to understand libel and invasion of privacy that writer had better know what he is doing i'm a fellow who writes not knowing what i am doing that is the purpose of writing to figure out what the hell i'm doing price i will make assertions how many of these may be libelous or and patients of privacy? but if she goes by another name that could change things. so for a while i struggled how to presen

speaker, i would yield three minutes to another new member from new mexico, mr. teeing, he's also -- mr. teague, he's also on a committee that has half of our committee has new members, they have add add real element of dynamism. we thank him for his commitment. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from new mexico is recognized for three minutes. mr. teague: i rise today in support of h.r. 1016, the veterans health care budget reform and transparency act of 2009. i would like to thank the distinguished gentleman from california, bob filner, for introducing this bill. i'm happy to be a co-sponsor of this legislation. it is through his leadership as chairman of the committee on veterans' affairs that we will finally be able to make advanced appropriations. v.a.'s health budget a reality. i simply do not believe that it is right that we have lapsed in our care for our veterans when they have never lapsed in the defense ever our country. i do -- defense of our country. i do not think it's right that out of the last 22 budgets we have passed for the v.a., 19this been

for what purpose does the gentleman from new mexico rise? >> i ask unanimous consent to address the house for one minute. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. >> mr. speaker, over the memorial day recess our nation lost two individuals that i consider be to be national treasures. two marines that were known as navajo code talkers passed away. john brown jr. of crystal new mexico and his compatriot, thomas claw, both were 87. in world war ii marines recruited members of the navajo nation for the specific purpose of devising a code based on the half hoe language. the japanese were never able to break the code and the code talkers were credited with helping save lives and contributing to the military's success in the pacific theater. the code talkers' contributions were invaluable and we should always be grateful for their service. they did so much and their contribution can be summarized best by what john brown said when he was presented with the congressional gold medal. we have seen much in our lives, we have seen war and peace, and w

we should not lose the yag waters along new mexico and arizona. we should not lose the polar bear in alaska. this is where they're fighting for species survival. this is where the endangered species act is real. these are the people at fish & wildlife that are out there on the ground. and so my book isn't just about theodore roosevelt. it's about how we got to where this triumph story. we do have a great system. look at the map we have. we're not maintenancing properly due to not enough funding or wildlife refuge system. and commercialization is always encoaching on these. people don't like it in florida if you want to build a development. you mean i can't build a condo complex because of a panther? it's always that balance. >> how do we look to other countries? are there other countries doing the same thing we're doing? >> all around the world, theodore roosevelt was in my opinion the progenitor of the global wildlife projection movement. if he were alive today, it's like a cover of "time" magazine had lately, he would be fighting, as his great g

it was taken outside of new mexico. folsom mexico was destroyed by a flash flood in 1908 because the guy who live nearby at a ranch called crowfoot ranch was a slave who was freed at emancipation and taxes proclaim move to new mexico to work on a ranch. he always liked to mexico because they had sided with the union. he got a job working at crowfoot ranch. after the flood he was in this area, the area beneath my feet, fixing washed out fences and those peculiar bones eroding out of the walls. he recognize them as buffalo bones but they were much better. he spent his whole life trying to get someone to look at them. he contacted the smithsonian institute, and no one would look. he eventually died a backlog of some. it was reported he was drinking whiskey to raise tra because he could not lift his head, but after he died, someone came out and had a look and what they found was that the buffalo were from and i say jammel which we now call bison into a quiz, and not only that but there were a lot of projectile points stuck

the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from new mexico rise? >> to address the house for one minute. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized for one minute. >> mr. speaker, we are at a tipping point in our country's energy policy debate. today, americans are realizing the potential jobs that are at stake in our country's energy policy. in new mexico's first congressional district, shot solar is on track to employ 1,400 people in albuquerque. another one 1,000 people. hundreds have already built the high lonesome wind mesa project. and another continues to partner with multiple clean energy startups. these clean energy jobs earned albuquerque a second-place ranking in kiplinger's magazine leading the country in key job growth areas. the kinds of jobs that are leading america towards economic recovery. mr. speaker, to realize the promise of a clean energy economy, to leave a healthy environment to our children and to end our dangerous dependency on foreign oil, i urge congress to take bold, decisive action on america's energy policy.

new mexico was a territory, arizona was a territory. he could use the power of the executive office >> how old was he when he was president? >> he died when he was 60 years. he was at that point our youngest american president. later, there's always a trick. john f. ken di was the youngest elected. there's a psychiatrist that wrote a book he argued that he had a form of manic depression where he couldn't turn his mind or energy off. he would hike sometimes 40-50 miless >> if he entered a room, he took it over. he have found a lot of relief from nature. i go on nature hike was my kids. i'm living in austin. we go to a place called the wild bay son a lot. my parents were high school teachers. we had a trailer and used to go around the country and camp. i am like t.r. for my love of animals. we just had a kid of ra queues born under my daughter's bedroom. i like to have wild life around me. the bad lands there helped me understand that. there's a woman named twila shaffer. many people go on vacations in the summer to south dakota. some of

california, texas, colorado, new mexico, washington, south carolina, tennessee, idaho, georgia, anybody live there? those are the states that are expecting this cleanup money. your governors are expecting this cleanup money. mayors of communities are expecting this cleanup money. this isn't just little slush in tanks that we are trying to clean up, ladies and gentlemen. this is a 50-year residue of the cold war, dangerous, dangerous proliferation risks, dangerous health and safety risks. these states have agreements -- usually because they sued the federal government to this money be spent for this cleanup. if you think this is a triviality and your phone is ringing from your governors, they are saying our communities are at risk. you need to pose this motion to recommit. we have had hearing after hearing, subcommittee markups, committee markups, none of this was brought up. support this mark. defeat this motion to recommit. mr. skelton: i yield two minutes to the the gentleman from hawaii, the chairman of the air, land subcommittee. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman may not yield

recommend to the chair the appointment of senators mccaskill as chair, klobuchar, whitehouse, udall of new mexico, shaheen and kaufman. the presiding officer: the republican leader is recognized. mr. mcconnell: mr. president, in accordance with the resolution on the appointment of an impeachment trial committee, i recommend to the chair the appointment of senators martinez, demint, barrasso, wicker, johanns, and risch. the presiding officer: pursuant to the resolution on the appointment of an impeachment trial committee and impeachment rule 11, the chair appoints upon the recommends of the two leaders the following senators to be members of the committee to receive and report evidence in the impeachment of judge samuel b. kent: senators mccaskill, klobuchar, whitehouse, udall, shaheen, kaufman, martinez, demint, barrasso, wicker, johanns and risch. the majority leader is recognized. mr. reid: the resolution on will meet at a time to be determined. the presiding officer: the senate will take proper order and notify the house of representatives and counsel for judge kent. mr. reid: mr. president, i

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there's a guy that would love the job, the former new mexico state coach, he could be an option becauseis not attached to the program but the kind of guy i'm talking about is jamie dixon of pitt. you would think this would make a lot of sense for him but not at this time, not with everything going on at usc. >> andy, you mentioned tim floyd and the coaches that could go potentially to usc. what about the flip side. a guy that was linked with arizona, memphis, turned those jobs away. do you think tim floyd coaches again at the college level? >> i don't. unless he is completely exonerated i would be very surprised if he does. he as a good friend in the general manager of the chicago bulls who tim hired to go to chicago when he was head coach. they were at ohio state together. i can see him bringing tim back into the fold with the bulls. that would make more sense than tim going back in college. the only job i can see right now is helping his good friend down at southern miss. >> espn.com, andy katz. thanks for the insight. >> riff tom brady returning to in the patriots, new england, at le

he has a large farm in taos, new mexico. i met with him in his office which he still maintains here in washington. he was wary, although cooperating with me -- he wanted to make certain this could not be seen as an authorized biography. it is not. he had no control over it. i think you felt in the and that would write the book anyway so is probably better to cooperate. host: and you read about the ambitions, successes, and ultimate failures. he has had quite a distinguished public and private service as a figure. what are the ultimate villiers'? with the former secretary agree with your assessment? guest: he is a tragic figure. he was enormously successful for much of his life, both in government and in business. he entered the pentagon under george bush at age 68 with a lifetime of accomplishment. he was the on the person ever to get a second shot at the position. he had held the same job once before under president ford. he had enormous potential, lots of talent. much of this story is how he ran into trouble and was eventu

new mexico is building a spaceport for us in the desert there. that is going to be incredible. it's the birth of i think a whole new era of space travel. very entirment tally friendly. the cost of us putting somebody in space will be less than flying to london and back on a commercial plane, so massive difference to the environmental cost of, say, a nasa space ship going into space. we'll also be able to put satellites into space at a fraction of the price that satellites currently go into space for. so exciting days. now, whether we'll ever go to the moon, i think we'll just give the moon a miss and go straight to mars. thank you. [laughter] >> we are almost out of time but before asking the last question we have some important matters to take care of. first of all, let me remind our members of future speakers. tomorrow john roe, chairman and ceo of exxon will discussion national energy policy in a time of economic uncertain. on may 21, ray lahood will discuss his eighth's involvement in president obama's $787 billion economic stimulus package aimed at turning around the u.s. e

i might also add a point that was raised by senator udall of new mexico. judge sotomayor is no stranger to this chamber. she was nominated first for the district court bench by president george herbert walker bush and then nominated for the district court by president clinton, and that's an indication that we have seen her work before, we are aware of her background. the last point i would make, and consistent with the senator from california, is that judge delayed could be justice denied. in this case, if we continue this hearing for a record-breaking period of time, which has been requested by the republican side, it will mean that we will have a vacancy on the supreme court when it begins its important work this fall. what chairman leahy has asked for is reasonable. it is consistent with the way judges were treated under president bush at the time the republicans had no objection or complaint about it. this is a reasonable timetable and i urge my colleagues to support chairman leahy. i yield the floor. the presiding officer: morning business is closed.

improvements to our energy ports, our general infrastructure, just like the state of wyoming and new mexico last year. wyoming received $1 billion, the people of wyoming, from sharing the revenues on federal land. we believe the coastal states should share as well so it is going to be a big fight on the floor of the senate. we helped to build coalition of interior and coastal states that believe that go it alone is not the right way, partnerships guest: i am encouraged by his goal of energy independence for our nation. i am encouraged that he wants to move to cleaner and more renewable fuels. i consider nuclear part of that option. france is generating 80% of its electricity from nuclear. we are at 20%. we need to increase perhaps up to 50%. it has been proven technology, particularly third-generation and clear. however, his proposal to put a $34 billion tax on the oil and gas industry on top of the fragile economy is wrong. it will lose many jobs in america. not only in louisiana and texas, but illinois, new york, new jersey, california as well. we are trying to modify the tax increases or

. -- new mexico. caller: i have a question about the marshals on the plant. i am a million miles plus travel and work for the department of defense. i am in the habit of observing people's behavior. i have not used on many occasions that the marshals pre-board. we have these healthy young men or women wearing hawaiian shirts or otherwise baggy clothes that board the plane in advance of all other passengers and they're not even handicapped. it is a clear indication. i have no idea if they want to keep a low profile why you see the gate agents letting them run ahead of time -- and in many flights from washington to other parts of the world i see these guys or gals were given this special privilege. to anyone who is observant, i imagine someone who wanted to study the system carefully, and the observance person with bad ideas could spot one of these people easily because of that. guest: sure, that is a good question. the answer is, because there is more than one federal air marshal on the flight. sometimes it is good to have someone go on ahead of time and watch

new mexico contrast, stakeholders representing consumers and public interest groups do not hear from them. i hope you're not satisfied with that. >> no. no. >> i call on the ranking member. >> thank you, mr. chairman. on the broadband issue, how do you view the issue of no service versus underserved areas as priorities. >> senator, the first thing i would say is that in working on the national broadband plan that congress entrusted the sec, i would start where congress started. congress asked the sec to look at deployment, national purrs and the fcc i expect would do that. with respect to unserved and underserved areas, i think wi with -- the first principle the agency should photo to the extent of its own work and it follows other agencies on grants is the taxpayer should get the biggest bank for its buck for taxpayer dollars. and the first priority is to do what can be done to extend broadband to unserved area. there's a divide in taurts of country that have broadband. people who don't have broadband at all, and i think congress was leer that working on providing broadband to unser

he was from new mexico. he went to harvard, but you know, he could not help that. basically, we said down in visited about it. i prepared him a list of five questions that i had received primarily from doctors and primarily from hospital administrators and home health- care people, a clinical labs, etc., mainly on the reimbursement and regulations. he thanked me for it. he said he would get back immediately. he did. he said that a five page, single spaced, response. i thought it was cms junk. i called him back and said i cannot understand this. nobody on my staff could understand it. that was really his problem. he came back. he looked at and said, and would you are right on " he sai." this is what happens when we turn things over to people and they are not even aware of what happens. he sent back about a two page letter that made sense. he promised he would watch very carefully for these regulatory overkills and the things that were driving our people not out there. i voted yes and hoped for the best. i saw him later on an airplane. and did not recognize him becau

new mexico, this is margaret on the republican line. caller: yes, hilary clinton secretary of state sent $900 million to the palestine authority in december 2007 united nations pledged $7.7 billion to the palestine authorities. this will probably end up in terrorist bank accounts. or under hamas and hezbollah to bomb is true. host: that will about due for this morning's program. we will be back tomorrow morning at 7:00 a.m. eastern for 3 hours of conversation and your calls. hope you have a great day. ♪ [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2009] . .

. >> albuquerque key, new mexico. >> hi. there. with regard to education, one of the real problems is the fact that most - in most of the states, most of the teachers in thek pse&g 12 system are processed through colleges of education and these colleges of education, the students are out the by professors of education rather than professors of english or mathematics or chemistry and physics and they wind up with degrees in education but not really a degree in physics or math or history or energying len englis people go on to teach and that's, really a shame. i think until we change that, we're not going to have a really first class kindergarten through 12th grade system. >> houston chronicle has a story looking at stimulus money. as state gets money from feds. governor rick perry's texas be came hold energy to the press to keep the unemployment trust fund solvent even after refusing to take money in federal dollars. the number of job less being paid benefits from texas jumped up to 353, 851 in 2009 costing additional 208 million fo

. >> host: new mexico, good morning on our republican line. >> caller: good morning, i have a comment and an observation about the marshals better on the plains. i am a million miles plus traveler cannot work for the department of defense, and i am sort of in the habit of observing people and behavior. one of the things that have notice in many occasions is that the marshals preboard. we have these healthy young men or young women wearing hawaiian shirts or otherwise baggy clothes that actually board the plane into bands of the other passengers and not even handicapped or anything like that. it is kind of a clear indication and i have no idea if they want to keep a low price file why it is that you see the gate agents letting them on the head of time. many flights from washington and other parts of the world i see these guys or dowels who are, in fact, given in this special privilege and two anybody who is observant i imagine somebody who had, wanted to study the system very carefully, and the observant people with bad ideas could spot one of these people fairly easily because of that

picking on him, but you have the others like blagojevich of illinois, you have a correction in the new mexico governor because of alleged wrongdoing. i could go on and on. quite frankly, there's probably corruption on both sides of the auto, although it seems to be the hierarchy of the democratic party. yes, i am biased because i am republican. i think that the republicans are the lesser of two evils. guest: sam, i share your frustration, but in this case at the ticket has much to do with the media as much as with our legal system. lawyers have got and sophisticated in good a dragging things out. these things can go on for years. that is what this is all about. this is not something i think we in the media can do much about. we can keep pushing. we can do our own investigations, but it is the legal system and it the length of trials that i think is causing the frustration you are talking about. host: by the numbers here is a statistic since 1985 that the number of u.s. newspapers with reporters, down 72%. guest: this is one of the great concerns now. it really worries me. will newspapers surv

colorado, wyoming, new mexico, nef and the country of mexico -- nevada and the country of mexico have an agreement that was reached 0 years ago on how -- 80 years ago on how to divide up the colorado river. we thought there were 16.5 million-acre feet of water to divide. we now believe that time period when we took those numbers into account was a particularly wet period in the history of the colorado river basin and our best guess now is only $14.5 million-acre feed available and 16.5 million versus 14.5 million, there is a two million acre foot deficit there. and it's causing increasing concern. so these water shortages that are possible because of climate change combined with drought cycles that are normal, have the potential to cause great political tension and couldn't vers--controversy. the river levels in the colorado river basin is most likely to get lower. that means serious impacts for businesses, homes, for farmers in seven states an two countries. -- and two countries. so the longer we wait to take practical steps to adjust climate change, the harder it will become to deal

rather have this monday spent sending kids to ranches in the sum they are in montana and nevada and new mexico and than sending them back to left-brain thinking institutes. and the government is a left-brain-thinking institute. host: bob, thank you. what do you do out there in montana? caller: what do i do? well, i meet brian lamb when he comes out here. i love that man. but i sell cigars and deal in real estate. host: so as a realts real estate cigar fish nodo and entrepreneur, what do you think it could offer a kid versus being in a classroom in baltimore? caller: that's a good question. 80% of all children born are right-brained and our government teaches them to be left-brained and they hate school and when they get up in the morning it's like don imus' ranch out there. they teach home the rope animals and keep their brain right. and this left-brain stuff has got to go. kids are being killed with it. host: i think there's certainly a place for high-quality, outdoor camp experiences. guest: and in fact many of the highest quality summer programs we've seen and done research on do exactly wh

he has a large farm out in taos, new mexico. i met with him a number of times in the washington heat maintain -- in the office he maintains in washington. i have been to his home. he was wary in cooperating with me. he wanted to make sure that this could not be seen as an authorized biography. it is not. he had no control over it. i think he felt was going to write a book anyway, and it was probably better for him to cooperate with me more than not. host: by any stretch, he has had a distinguished career as a private and public figure. what are some of these public failures? with the secretary agreed with your assessment? guest: in my view, he was a tragic figure. he was enormously successful for much of his life in government and in business. he entered the pentagon under george bush at 68 with a lime time -- with a lifetime of accomplishments behind him. he is the only person to get a second shot at secretary of defense. he held the same job before under president ford. he had enormous potential and a lot of talent. much of th

host: steve is on the phone from robert p., and mexico -- albuquerque, new mexico. caller: you guys said so many things are would like to question, but -- i get the feeling that the administration is trying to create an insurance plan for the 50 million -- and i believe that number is to be greatly inflated -- at the cost of the to under 50 million of us that have insurance paren. i think as a result of your programs, the insurance costs will go up to employers and their employees. therefore, what we have down the road will not be as good and will cost us more. you say this that and the other thing, he has told us an awful lot of things that he has planned since the campaign and into his presidency that are not the same as what he says. just to say that he is saying something does not mean a lot to me. guest: first,ç the goal here is to reduce your costs. i'm gathering from what you say you get your health insurance from your work. i'm releasing a report today that is going to show that for folks who get their health insurance at work, those rising costs are forcin

i had taken a class at the university of new mexico. it was african american history wind. i was so addicted to it because i always love history. left political science. i remember challenging my professor and saying, you know, every history book i have read lied to me or you are telling the truth. i can't believe i've never heard any of this before. the kind of difficult. where did you grow up? where did you grow up? reno nevada. and i was in predominantly caucasian and middle-class schools. black history to me was martin luther king. that is said. >> the beginning of the end. >> that was pretty much it. i found a new frontier in african-american history. i was very, very excited about it. tick every class i could. got a minor in african-american history. >> civil-rights law, i take it. >> yes. very, very interested in pursuing a degree in civil rights. went back to that and told them. >> why are you doing this to back and i told him about discrimination and intolerance and haven't bothered me deeply and i wanted to go out and make that my life's work. he said okay. all ri