. >> >> i think the union is a force in new york city as it should be.ink the union is here today and it is not going anywhere and to say you can get rid of it is a mistake. i am a unionist and my husband ran the largest union in new york city and i believe it is important. i believe by collective bargaining you get the best deal for everybody. >> the teachers' union contract is 6000 pages in length. it lays out all the things that teachers cannot do. it prescribes almost every aspect and limits prep time to 50-minutes per day. we think teachers need three prep periods per day to be prepared for that would be a violation of contract. we also think we should be able to work palaver to live with teachers -- collaborative lovely with teachers. we have an open-door policy and we watch teachers teach. that is prohibited in the union contract. it is hard to run a school where everything is pre-determined. what you need to do is you need to constantly refined the school of design and school schedule. if there is a problem today, we can fix it by the end of the

so you have to imagine that -- new york city. so you have to imagine that a fair number of city council members are tied financially to union donations. >> how long is this documentary? >> it's 80 minutes. >> is it available on the web yet to buy or do you have to wait to get to the theaters? >> it's in theaters right now. we're in washington, d.c. this week. and then we're opening in denver. we're also in palm springs, new york, and l.a. an then it will be available in dmb vd starting in august. -- dvd. >> how much will it sell for? >> i don't know. that's a good question. >> and how many people worked on this with you? >> i don't know the total number of people. we had a small crew. we had about seven people shooting the film and we have a pretty small team now. we're all wearing a lot of hats. >> did you edit it yourself? >> yes, i did. i don't always recommend that, but i didn't have the budget somewhat reflects my doing lots of things. >> we want to go to another clip. we're running out of time. here is eva talking about the

they spend the most dollars on lobbying than anyone else in new york city. have to imagine that a fair number of city council members are tied financially to union donations. >> how long is this documented? >> a 80 minute. >> is available on the web? do you have to wait for it to theaters? >> it is in theaters right now. we are in washington, d.c. this week and then we're opening in denver and palm springs, new york, and l.a. it will be available on tv -- on dvd starting in august. >> how many people work on this with you? >> i don't know the total number of people. we had a small group. we had about seven people shooting the film. now we're wearing of hats. >> did you ever edit yourself i don't always recommend that but it does someone reflect my doing. >> we want to go to another clip. here is the but rigid eva talking about educating kids no matter the circumstances that come from. >> we have families in very challenging circumstances and we do our best to support them. but the main thing to do is educate the children, no matter what the circumstances. you

a major concern to my area of new york, new york city. and i echo everything that mr. weiner said. we are very, very concerned. there are many teaching hospitals in new york city. they've been devastated by cuts on the federal and state level. whether it's dish payments, or in the health care bill that we passed. we had a whole fight over do gooder states provisions, things like that. they've been decimated back and forth. new york has 15% of the teaching hospitals. we train 15% of the doctors across the country. it's a really big thing for us. i kkow you said that it wasn't a $3.5 billion cut per say. and these teaching hospitals would still receive funding if they showed their further erg goals. but the yet to be established goals by the secretary of h.h.s. and the new york city teaching hospitals are very worried they would lose up to $450 million annually. and you know, that's just really untannable. i understand that, but what you said before about you want to make sure there's quality. of course you want to make sure, but at some point you can't get blood from a stone. i think

let me start with my longtime friends and the ccancellor of the new york city schools, mr. joel klein. wellcome. >> thank you, mr. share. it is a pleasure to be here. i want to thank you for the opportunity to discuss this bill and the new york city's approach to school turnaround, something we've been engaged in -- >> will you reset that? if you go over, do not worry about it. all of your statements will be part of the record in their entirety. you can summon up in five, six, seven minutes. if you go over nine minutes, i will get nervous. >> you go right ahead. you are familiar with my history. in new york state, we have no school where people are hired -- were the people are higher than the altitude. we are vice versa. in the past years, we've been engaged in our rigorous turnaround strategy. i commend the president for setting this talent. no child left behind brought accountability to public education and cast a spotlight, on the shameful achievement gap between our african-american and latino students and are white and asian students on the other. that has really gone u

in new york city, they have these high-rise buildings in midtown. years ago we used to call them vertical flea markets. multiple floors or compromise with counterfeit goods, whether it was movies, books, every type of product you could imagine were in these buildings. we look -- we did an undercover operation. to get into the building, to rent a room, we had to pay $25,000 key money. then you have to pay the rent. look at the flow of the traffic going in and out, with vans to come in, fedex packages, look at the amount of cash we paid just to get the room, it is a tremendous amount of money, at least equal to what you see on the narcotics trade with much less risk. >> one of the reasons it is important to understand the nexus between organized crime and whatever product is that law enforcement will allocate resources based on the privatization of the product that is known. to the extent we can show organized crime is involved, it means they have access to better international transportation routes, they are connected to other countries and cities ar

>> i'm based in new york city. i live in the great state of new and i have an office in chelsea in new york city. dead crated -- dedicated crew. i'd say the core group is about six people. it stands massively to be about 50 by the time you bring in cinematographers, assissant editors, the people who mix the film, some of the outlying researchers. we employ people sometimes in different places aal over the world to do this or that ffr us as we're putting somethhng together. >> here's some more familiar faces. it's a republican national convention. don't have the year. maybe you can remember it. and some faces that we haven't seen for a while. let's watch this and get your reaction to it. >> ladies and gentlemen, the chairman of the college republican national committee, jack abramoff for purposes of addressing the convention. >> part of me wanted to give a rarara, we're all young people. they rejected my speech, and i got up to the podium, and their speech went up on the teleprompter. >> fellow republicans, i come be

so learning about the needs of customerssin new york city, learning about the needs of customers in upstate new york and in maine. and what's interesting is that while those are very diverse geographies, in many ways, customers need our lines they tend to be the same. it's interesting to see where is that alignment and how can we respond to customers and what things need to be different? what things need to be different for a customer in new york city versus in charlotte, north carolina. it's exciting to up the thi about finding the right model for serving customers in that diverse geography. >> how public do you expect to be? >> how public do i expect to be? well, you know, i don't know. i imagine i'll be a bit more public than i have been in the past but my -- >> you're in one of the biggest markets in the country. >> my passion is really operations. i love working with a team of people, responding to the needs of customers and developing and introducing products that make customers' lives simple and easy. that's realy my focus. >> thank you very much for talking to us. >> thank you. >> y

caller: is a new york city. $40,000 per year. host: that goes a long way? caller: it does in this area. host: some of these people that you know, have they lost a job because of the president's moratorium? caller: yes, i have a friend is not working because of this. host: here is what the president had to say about the moratorium yesterday. >> i have established a commission. already i have issued a six month moratorium on deepwater drilling. i know that this creates a difficulty for the people hat work on these rigs, but for the sake of their safety and for the entire region, we need to know the facts before we allow deepwater drilling to continue. host: arlington, va., patrick on the republican line. good morning. caller: that is great. i called on the second of many -- may, 10 days after the rig blew up. funny, we are almost in the same boat that we were in then. i watched it last night and i was not impressed other than we heard the typical bp is going to pay. we still have not heard anything about the cleanup. you do not have to wait until the leak is

. >> as you said earlier, your read to the graduate, lives in new york city right now, and i can assure about 27 years old. >> i am 27. >> we are out of time. "the lottery" is the name of the documentary. thank your joining us. . ♪ ♪ now, supreme court nominee the laity and an law. >> women always have to be aware of these things in a way that men do not. i wish it were different. but to be aware of the way people perceive you, i think women in public life, whether it is advocates in the supreme court or political figures, it is a set of questions that you have to be very aware of how other people -- >> being aware of it, how do you deal with it? >> i do not know. in the end, you have to be yourself. you have to have people accept you on your own terms, but i do think that there are those of the kind you are talking about. >> starting monday, watch the confirmation hearingssfor elena kagan. you can seer re-airs. this provides unique insight about the corporate is available in hardcover and as an e book. is the internet and information services, telecommunications or something else? mond

not a single member of the new york city assembly or senate delegation voted for the project because they considered it to be an upstate project, but the details of that story which i have acquid having come and been in this city for ten years caused me to wonder whether or not the erie canal could be built today. because we have become very risk-averse, and it's become more difficult to take on projects with almost any kind of risk attached to it. so i ve much apreciate your willingness to tackle this problem becausegetting our markets and regulating our markets -- and many of you have d experice both regulating and having diffulty doing what you believed and now is clea i'm looking at brooksly here, was the right thing in the 1990s -- regulating those markets so they remain viable, active and trusted by the american people and the world is an extrely important task, so i welcome you once more to new school, to new york city, and i congralate and thank you for myself and, i hope, for other americans as well for your willingness to tackle this problem. >> thank you much, senator. wod

madeliene sackler is a duke graduate, grew up in greenwich connecticut living on 88th street in new york city right now. and my guess is about 27 years old. >> i am 27. >> we're out of time. the lottery is the name of the documentary. thank you for joining us. >> thank you so much. . . >> coming up tonight, prime minister's questions from the murders house of commons. and then president obama's and canadian prime minister stephen harper's remarks at the g-20 summit. then harry reid. then another look at "q&a." >> who left us in this mess? who left a budget deficit of 155 billion pounds with absolutely no proposals to deal with it? who put forward -- john >> order. >> now from london, prime minister's questions from the british house of commons. earlier this week, the british government unveiled some of the toughest tax cuts and british history. it dominated much of question time this week. david cameron defended his budget and answered questions on the mission in afghanistan and on the gulf coast oil spill. >> questions for the prime minister. lisa nandy. >> number one, mr. speaker. >> i am s

educational, social and economic equality of all persons. phe naacp was founded on february 12, 1909, in new york city. this was a centennial of abraham lincoln's pirt. the naacp is the oldest and largest civil rights organization in the united states today. in 1913, the naacp organized opposition to racial segregation in federal government offices. the naacp also played a key role in securing the rights of african-americans to serve as officers in world war i. throughout the past century, the naacp has worked to achieve equality of rights for all persons through nonviolence. the naacp's mission also includes the elimination of racial hatred and racial discrimination. after world war i, for example, the naacp expended significant resources in an effort to combat the limping of african-americans throughout the united states. the naacp centered its efforts around education and lobbying for legislation. in later years, the naacp's leadership was instrumental in bringing about the passage of the civil rights acts of 1957, 1960 and 1964, the voting rights act of 1965 and the desegregation of public schools

he's served temple bethal since 2002 and before that served at the central synagogue in new york city. he has a long distinguished career serving on the boards of many charitable organizations, interfaith coalitions and prestigious jewish organizations. he served as chair of the central conference of the american rabbis committee on justice, peace and religious liberties, vice chair of the commission on social action of reform judaism. he shares the commission's task force on israel and world affairs. rabbi davidson is a member of the hew brew nation's council and serves on the clergy advisory board of interfaith of new york state. rabbi davidson is a worthy entry into the long role of distinguished guests. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the chair will entertain up to 15 further requests for one-minute speeches on each side of the aisle. for what purpose does the gentleman from tennessee rise? mr. cohen: to address the house for one minute and to revise and extend. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, the gentleman is recognized. mr. cohen: thank you, mr. speaker. back

clair is joining us from new york city on the independent line. caller: as far as people having guns, i like to suggest -- it is outrageous [unintelligible] i also think they should take the survey. [unintelligible] it is awful to have a gun anywhere. it is only allowed may be in the mideast or far east. it is awfully dangerous to have it even within families, children. this has happened several times that a child takes the father's rifle and shoots children and the school. host: of you are listening on the radio, here are the numbers -- we are talking about yesterday's 5-4 decision by the u.s. supreme court and the final day for justice john paul stevens. we will show you the letter he wrote to a colleague, and moments from the final day inside the chamber. if you want to get more on the elena kagan nomination you can go to c-span.org/kagan. we are keeping track of all the developments in the hearing, and will explain some terms as they come up in the questioning. it is the second day of questioning. back to the ruling and more editorials. this f

[applause] we dodged a bullet that day, may 1, many people from the new york city police department andhas been ground zero for the last 10 or 15 years. unfortunately there -- i was there in 1993 when that raj bomb went off. i was there on 9/11 to witness that. but we have to be ever vigilant wherever we are in our country because you never know. i say to young people out there, whether you are in middle school, high school, whatever, be vigilant and aware of your surroundings, even on a small smallest of events. we have to keep that up front. i tell my son all the time who is a high school student that you must be aware, keep your eyes and ears open. this whole incident has actually brought our family closer together. my wife, linda, my daughter, tiffany, who could not make it here today, you just do not take things for granted anymore. you look deeper into our everyday existence as i have. i like to pay jan -- thank chant for having me here and the vietnam veterans memorial fund. i like to give you all little memento. i am in new york city street vendor at the corner of 45th and broad

and i just want to tell you, with the support of mayor bloomberg in new york and commissioner bruno, and the new york city firefighters and emergency management and the team that they volunteered to use to help us to do the training, we just -- sean penn has an n.g.o. organization in haiti, and they're managing a camp of 60,000 people in haiti. so he volunteered for his organization to support us, to train in their camp first. so we just completed the training and the certificate ceremony for 415 haitian women, train the trainer in haiti, and that one camp, and it was so well received that they had literally -- literally had to turn people away. they wanted to help so bad. and our hope is now that some n.g.o. and organization will pick this up and help us. our goal was to train 20,000 people in haiti in one year. but, of course, now it's more difficult, but we can still do it, but we're going to have some help to do it. i'm going to close with this, and i know you're very glad. each of us, no matter who you are, you can make a difference in someone's life. you can help a neighbor. you can help yourself an

the emmy winning journalist and sister of jennifer, and they join me from the sip rcipriani t in new york city about it. >> it is a foundation that lynda and i have talked about forming for years, and when we both got pregnant, it is something that we decided to do now. obviously, when you become a mom, your perspective and your whole kind of view on life changes. and it did for us. we always wanted to form a foundation that helped women, and children and education and health care, and tonight, we are here like you said at ciprianis doing a big samsung fund-raiser as part of helping our telemedicine program with samsung. >> larry: all right. lynda, why maribel? >> we named the foundation the maribel foundation because it has special meaning for us. maribel is marc's sister, was marc's sister, who passed away when she was 9 years old of a brain tumor and marc was 8 when she was 9 years old. when jennifer and i were pregnant at the same time, we thought a lot about the kind of care that mothers want to be able to give their children, the kind of health care and the level and quality of care that

you think a colored man could become an electrician in new york city? >> brown: this is a funny man. this is a natural story teller. >> of the highest order. >> brown: does that help you put it out there? >> it's fantastic. it's fantastic. i wish i could tell stories as well as i know he did. >> brown: as an actor doing a one-man play like this, you go from being an elderly man to young. you have to put... present what is in essence a 90-minute speech. how do you pull that off on stage? >> well, that's why i'm the actor. (laughing) that's why they call me an actor. we do that. you hear this thing, you know, the one-man show, the one-person show, blah, blah, blah. i have a scene partner. my scene partner is the audience. i get a new scene partner every night. and i have to sort of read the room, you know, and sort of check the temperature of the room all the time to know where or how to take the audience on the journey that i'd like to take them on. >> brown: nobody else on stage to playoff of. >> but someone certainly to play with. and to listen to. >>

joining us now is the reporter from public radio in new york city. she was inside the courtroom this afternoon. and steve coll is president of the new america foundation. he's written extensively about the taliban, pakistan and afghanistan. to you first, was the plea of guilty a surprise? >> i don't know if you can call anything a surprise in this case. remember they had shahzad without even appearing in court the first two weeks after his arrest which is quite unconventional in these types of cases even in terror cases. nobody was really saying anything was a surprise at this point. >> woodruff: what exactly did he plead guilty to? >> he pleaded guilty to all ten federal counts against him, including attempted use of a weapon of mass destruction , attempt to commit terrorism, transcending national boundaries, attempted use or use of a firearm during an attempt to commit violence. every single charge that the federal prosecutors brought against him he pleaded guilty to today. >> woodruff: we just quoted , elsa chang, two of his comments in the courtr

years ago, as a college student, i was driving from new york city to washington, d.c., when an officer stopped me on the highway. he said he wanted to search my car for weapons, and he asked me to open the trunk of the car. i had done nothing wrong. i had not done anything that might have aroused suspicion. although it has been years since that day, i can still remember how humiliated and how angry i felt as i opened the trunk of my car. but my story was not unique, nor does it represent a worst-case scenario. we have all seen heart wrenching stories of misguided racial profiling in the past few months alone. but we must always remember that virtually all of our nation's law enforcement officers serve their communities honorably and risk to their personal safety every day. their work it improves all of our lives. the justice department will not stand idly by as the discrimination by a few unfairly punishes the a standing work being done by some money, and nor will we stand idly by as law-enforcement agencies engaged in discriminatory policing of any kind. our nation is better than that

: in your reading of that decision today, would it apply to say places like new jersey or even new york city which have other kinds of limitations placed on individual gun ownership? >> gwen, it applies to every city and every town in the country. i understand, look, i mean there will be groups like paul's that we're going to have to fight to make sure this constitutional victory is not transformed into a practical defeat. there are going to be groups like paul's, politicians, defiant city councils that seek to nullify or reverse reverse this decision by a labyrinth that make this freedom inaccessible and unaffordable and impossible to access for the average citizen. imagine, imagine listen to paul and then put the right to vote or the right to file a petition for habeas corpus. >> i'm quoting the supreme core. all of this is not paul. >> ifill: let him finish and i'll let you respond. >> all of these restrictions and rules. next thing we'll be bringing back the poll tax or the tax for... this is a freedom for all. >> the court first in the heller case and they repeated the language here. th

progress for new york city cab drivers, like ossman ali is being able to carry people, who aren't carryingore convenience for passengers, and more business for cab drivers. all thanks to the ease and freedom of visa digital currency. now that's progress. visa. currency of progress. >> logan: for someone who has devoted his life to exploring the ocean, bob ballard was born in an unlikely place-- kansas. as a young boy, he was inspired by the explorer captain nemo, in jules vernes' "20,000 leagues under the sea." since then, he's been on more than 120 undersea expeditions all over the world. what still excites ballard most is making new discoveries, and he's done it time and time again. it may surprise you that the man who found the "titanic" would really prefer to be known for this-- six-foot-tall tubeworms bob ballard found by accident on an expedition he led near the galapagos islands. so, when you went down that day, you went down thinking that the origin of all life on earth was sunlight. >> ballard: the sun, exactly. when we began this expedition, we weren't even thinking about that. >

went to a middle school near venice to talk to three doctors from the children's health fund in new york city who were there to listen to their concerns. >> there's literally a haze as far as you can see all the way to the ground. when you come out, the smell of petroleum hits you in the face. >> reporter: dr. redletter is president of the group and also heads colombia university's national center for disaster preparedness. he said a lack of information only exaggerates people's worrieds about their health. >> there are people that live in lowery plaque min parish who have dimpt accessing health services. there are people who are not insured, not well insured, yet there are costs to getting health care, which a lot of people can't afford. there's an ongoing series of challenges. >> reporter: people here have been frightened by stories they've heard in the media about the possibilities of dealing with cancer and other illnesses in the years to come. >> our lives are down here. our kids are down here. my biggest fear is 10 years from now is my child going to be in a wheelchair, mentally able to

l notdd up my fan club in new york city. but i will say this -- u.s. corporations have struggled for a lot of reasons, and another grit co., eastman kodak, his laid off 30,000 workers -- another great co., eastman kodak, as that of 30,000 workers, and it has to do with digital cameras. would you think of a politician who said that we need to ban the sale of --hat would you think of a politician, said that we need to ban the sale of digital cameras to save jobs at kak? yowould say they are crazy. yet the logic behind trad barriers is the same faulty logic. ask people where they work. the vast majority of work in the service sector -- health care, education, information servicc, business and professional services. of those jobs form the backbone of the american middle class. we will not go back to the days of the 1950's where you could just have high school e grey and work for a manufacturing -- have a high school degree and work for a manufacturing company for the rest of your life. it is a cruel hoa to say that if you tinker with nafta, you will restor

guest: i will just say to the color that you will not add up my fan club in new york city. but i will say this -- u.s. corporations have struggled for a lot of reasons, and another grit co., eastman kodak, his laid off 30,000 workers -- another great co., eastman kodak, as that of 30,000 workers, and it has to do with digital cameras. would you think of a politician who said that we need to ban the sale of -- what would you think of a politician, said that we need to ban the sale of digital cameras to save jobs at kodak? you would say they are crazy. yet the logic behind trade barriers is the same faulty logic. ask people where they work. the vast majority of work in the service sector -- health care, education, information servicc, business and professional services. of those jobs form the backbone of the american middle class. we will not go back to the days of the 1950's where you could just have high school the grey and work for a manufacturing -- have a high school degree and work for a manufacturing company for the rest of your life. it is a cruel hoax to say that if

then one of the things that he did quite a lot of is he helped tenants in new york city, the neighborhood that we live in was in the process of some change as i was growing up. and many people were sort of being forced out of their homes. and he made it part of his work to ensure that either they could stay in their homes or at least if they did need to move to another neighborhood, they could -- they could take something with them to establish a good life there. and he was also a person who spent an enormous amount of time thinking about that neighborhood. he was involved in lots of community boards and citizen groups of various kinds thinking about environmental projects and land use projects. he really treated that neighborhood of new york city as just, you know, he -- he just so much cared about the welfare of it and poured his heart and soul into trying to improve it. and i think what i learned from him was just the value of public service, was just the value of doing what you can in your neighborhood or in your nation or wherever you can find that opportunity to -- to help other peo

one sanctuary city is albany, the capital of new york state. it is the east coast epicenter of the kind of dishonest debate, abuse of the rule of law, and abandon of -- abandonment of the people that i have been telling you about this morning. if you want to see where it leads and where it costs honest people like you, watched this video showing what life is like and what life is worth in albany today. look at this for just a minute. >> drugs, guns, illness. >> drug laws mean nothing. gangs know they can beat the system. >> they run back down the scene -- they run down the street and get their gone right back. >> it looks good from the outside wall locations are bleeding to death on the inside. >> the better off the gangs and the criminals are. >> the system does not meet the challenges. >> albany, the state capital of new york, where lawmakers in their gilded and guarded chambers pass countless gun laws. but just blocks away many of those laws have already been broken by drug dealers and rival gangs. >> this is like a third world nation. it is

new york, new york, good morning. caller: good morning to you. i lived in new york city. i have the privilege of attending some of the ration rallies in union square. -- some of the immigration rallies in union square. americans are not anti- immigration, we are anti-a legal immigration. every rally i have ever gone to+ they never distinguish them. it is either immigration all the way or you are a racist if you do not go with it. understand? i do not know why the media does not separate them. we are anti-illegal immigration. we are anti-illegal immigration.

spot in new york city is it the same as it would be if illinois for a teaching -- or is there a cost of where the education is going? is there a percentage ratio there? >> well, we've got, as i said to chairman pallone. we've not two different types of g.m.e. payments. the direct payment for salaries and the like. and then we have the indirect add-on. the direct payments are set at a hospital-specific amount. so there's a base year. based on the actual costin occurred for salaries and in that year and then that's been inflated by the c.p.i. since. the indirect piece is a percentage add-on to whatever they get paid for medicare admission. so that does reflect different wage indices and different cost of care. >> so i'll end on this and i appreciate the chairman's permission to just finish with a statement. we need more. in this environment, with doctors talking about leaving the profession. we need more doctors. we need more g.m.e. slots. and i believe in supply and demand and the higher supply you have the more supply you'll have lower costs, but we've got to debt them out and we've

new jersey. caller: i am a retired york city police officer. we should have a line -- host: that is a good idea. caller: throughout the country, every police officer will tell you and can express and inform mr. lott that the amount of calls that we respond to where

from new york city, this is one half hour. [applause] >> dry mouth. wow. thank you, all. thank you, president, president tillman, members of the board of trustees, a distinguished faculty, proud, swelling parents and family, and gorges class of 2010. -- gorgeous class. if you are all really, really lucky, and if you continue to work super hard, and you remember your thank-you notes and everybody's name, and you follow through on every task that is asked of view and also some hal anticipate problems before they even rise, and you somehow sidestepped disaster and score big, if you get a great test scores on your lsats or mastas or ersats or whatever, and you get your dream job or dream grad school or internships which leads to a super job with a paycheck commensurate with responsibilities of leadership, where i somehow get that documentary on a shoestring budget, and it's accepted at sundance, and maybe an winds sundance, and then you go on to be nominated for an oscar, and then you win the oscar, or if that money-making website that you designed with your friends somehow s

new york city. caller: thank you, c-span. my question has to do with stanley mcchrystal's policy, once they defeated the taliban. we defeated them but the reports are that they are creeping back in and people trust the taliban more than they do the karzai government. how are we going to make that strategy work in kandahar, when it is not working, by all reports coming in to color -- reports, -- guest: again, and believe we have the best counterinsurgency forces in the world, but it will take time. the resources can be helpful to the country. it will take time. i have had the opportunity to visit nine times. i have seen from all progress. when i first arrived in 2002, the rubble was feet around the room to. there was devastation during the occupation from the soviet union. for the first time, roads were paved. the last time i visited, in little shops, the beginning of an economic recovery. now there are sidewalks. to see children going to school, little boys with baseball caps going to school. little girls with white scarves.

new york city, democrat. caller: good morning. thank you for c-span and thank you for taking my call. two points i want to say to correct mr. moore from "the wall street journal." he points out that reagan cut taxes and that was this possible for the great boom we had in the 1980's, but what he does not tell you is that reagan raised taxes three times during his administration. he neglects telling you that. it should be pointed out. that he realized he had made a mistake when it cut the taxes of the compensated for it by raising them before he left office three times. the second error he made is he tells you, moore tells us that the reason companies are leaving the united states is because of our high taxes. that is not the reason the reason they are leaving the united states is because -- that is not the reason. the reason they are leaving the unit -- united states is the low cost of unemployment. the three components in business our overhead and labor costs and material costs. those are the three major components in business. an

years ago as a college student, i was driving from new york city to washington, d.c.n officer stopped me on the highway. he said he wanted to search my car for weapons. opened the trunk of that car. i had done nothing wrong. i had not done anying that might have aroused suspicion. in the years since that day, i can still remember how humiliated and how ang i fel as i opened the trunk of my car. my story is not unique. noroes it represent a worst- case scenario. we have all seeneart wrenching stories of misguided racial profiling in the past few months alone. t we must always rememr that virtually all of our nation's law enforcement officers serve their communities honorably, and risk t personal safety every day. their work includes all of our lives, and the justice department will not stand idly by as the discrimination by a few and fairly tarnishes the outstanding work being done by so many. nor will we stand idly by as isolated law-enforcement departments engaged discrimitory policing of any kind. our nation is better than that. [applause] third, and finally, in add

the broader oil spillas i said wouldo all the way to new york city. that's an extraordinary stretch in terms ofhis oil spill. this oil spill could have been preeventualitied. in 1969 an oil well spilled 200,000 gallons of crude oil on a lifornia coast. in respons, like -- to this and other environmental issues like the burning of th cuhoga river, congress passed the national environmental picy act in9. act in9. epa requires companies to plan

new york city, robb, democrat. let me see if i can hit the right line. what do you think? caller: no more drilling. this is the reason why we need regulation of all of these types of industry -- oil, financial. i heard a statistic that said that this oil spill in the gulf now is the equivalent of one exxon valdez per week. every week we are getting what that spill was in alaska. i don't know how to gauge such a disaster as this, but to me, when people talk about three mile island, i think if there is any kind of comparison of global environmental catastrophe, one ought to think something more like chernobyl. two more points -- if i lived in the gulf, and actually all americans, but especially those living in the gulf who are directly affected by this horrible disaster, my next car would be a nissan -- the first fully electric car with a range of 100 miles plus, put out by nissan. i am going to get on the waiting list. to send a message to toyota, honda, and ford -- if americans get serious about getting off of oil. i would not by another drop of oil if i could help it from

season of the series on fox, "24," they were using grounds to follow the good and bad guys on new york citythey would get information back like the lettering on license plates or what color jacket the person was wearing, shoes, very detailed kind of things. how much of this is based in fact and how much is total fiction? guest: there are some unmanned aircraft that can fly 60,000 feet and had the capability of identifying objects the size of a milk carton from that height. [laughter] you can do a lot with them. host: 1, oklahoma. go ahead. -- lawton, okla. caller: what i am worried about is the imaging. is any of the cancer causing? does this have anything to do with with the sec tried to open the bandwidth for? that high range of band width does cause cancer. military equipment has never meant to be friendly to whoever it is being used against. it just makes me think of an issue of profiling here. it is not ok for law enforcement, but the military is already doing that. that belongs somewhere else. not here. guest: i understand the privacy concerns. i am not aware of any health concerns wi

host: in new york city, mayor bloomberg just announced raises to save jobs. guest: in state budgets, how do they balance the state budget? they do not have the freedom of the federal government of not balancing the budget. it is between management and the school board and employees to say how is it we are going to meet the requirements. as you go across the country, in some states and districts, they are shortening the school weeks to four days as a way of saving money. tough times and tough decisions. that is what the jobs bill in congress right now is so important, to save those 300,000 jobs. host: georgia, mike, independent line. you are on the air, mike. caller: the problem is that nea gets most of their free literature from tax-exempt organizations. the problem is that our united states and russian science boys got together in an attempt to make us citizens, and since they are not allowed have override on primacy, they have determined to go through these steps that exempt organizations that give out awards and medallions on books to propagate whatever th

i am in new york city street vendor at the corner of 45th and broadway. [applause] old-fashioned american capitalism at work. to jan, i like to present this t-shirt. if you see something, say something. [laughter] [applause] the thank you for having me. god bless america. [applause] >> when we go to new york, we have to drive by and get one of these. is is a really cool t-shirt. i am looking forward to wearing it. well, we have with us today brianna hakahane, who first picked up the violin at the age of three, she appeared on the cbs evening news, the ellen degeneres show, she has travelled and intercurrent -- entertained and moved people in very significant ways. some of the notes and the rhythms she is able to reach with this instrument, the violin, will really touch your soul. it is quite extraordinary. and by the way, she has reached the ripe old age of eight years old. ♪ ["star spangled banner" playing] ["america the beautiful" playing] pplause] >> just amazing thing, the way that she hits these notes. i've never seen anything quite like it. to intro

new york city, barbara, back to the budget cut its. caller: i have a couple of ideas. number one, i would raise taxes on all corporations, especially those who have their work force offshore. i would raise gasoline to $5 a gallon. i would cut the interest deduction for home mortgages. i would cut charitable deductions. i would cut medical deductions. i would tax educational institutions, religious institutions. eliminate the military base is not on united states soil, including guantanamo. keep medicare at 65 but raise social security to 70 and take the cap off of social security. everybody would pay into it regardless of their income level. i would do that the first week and then i would think of some other things the second week. host: a lot of ideas. north carolina. mark on the line for democrats. caller: i have like four points. for the oil, in our sound, the body of water, like some people have a day -- bay, the dredged keeps it clear. if they could dredge it and suck the oil out and figure out a way to separate, almost like a vacuum cleaner that takes the stand o

we are very proud at bank of america that our new building in new york city is one of the great his buildings in the world. we have a co-generation plant, we use low-cost electricity at night to generate ice to cool the war occurred during the day. we take water from the wash basins and recycle it for toilets. i think there are examples and i am proud the bank is doing that, taking steps to make a difference. host: edward on the democratic line from wisconsin. caller: on the advisory board -- they are talking about $10 million investment from taxpayers. the government -- taxpayer should on the money. just like a gamble that money to bank of america toobail them out. we own part of it for a little while, and now we don't, if we have any innovation that comes from the taxpayer money, the taxpayer should on that. host: we should have shares of whatever comes out of it, a business comes out of it? caller: exactly. we should not have to buy it back from the private -- from the private sector. guest: we are in agreement. i think it is important of the government makes these investments, that the ta

the city of new york has developed multiple pathways to graduation.is a very innovative program. we would like to see more evaluation work on that. that is another option. strengthen the ged, or provide other pathways. this would be meaningful in terms of getting people access. >> i feel very strongly that we have to, and i do not know if strengthening its is the right way to look at it, it is sort of normal at 60%. individuals that get a ged perform at the same level as high school graduates. i think the perception is the kind of other thing you should wrap around the preparation, to make sure that a person can succeed when they move forward. i do think that ged models that strengthen the ability is something we need to do. i think harry is right. it is not just charter schools, or alternatives, but alternative ways that others allow a young person to get that credential that meets the state equivalency, so that they are on par with everyone else and can succeed. we have to expand more of those models. the other thing is how do we get the educational

deborah russell joining us from new york city this morning. now we take to you live coverage of the house of representatives. [captions performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2010] tha them the busy dom of some mon, the courage ofester, and -- the wisdom of solomon, the courage f esther. bless president obama and his family a all the leaders of this great nation in your son, jesus christ. amen. the speaker: the chair has examined the journal of the last day's proceedings and announces to the chamber her approvathereof. pursuant to clause 1 of rule 1 the journal stands approved. the pledge of allegiance will be led by the gentlewoman from north carolina, congresswoman foxx. ms. foxx: please join me in the pledge to our wonderful flag. i pledge allegiance to the flag of the unitestatesf america and to the republic for which t stands, one nation under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. the speaker: without objection, he gentleman from georgia, congressmanohnson, is recognize