so they can make money in north america. and that's the focus of the activity. that is the only justification for taxpayer dollars, because we are trying to preserve american jobs in american communities and american supplies and american dealers because it is american taxpayers. but the assistance, as any good bolter capitalist would do before he put money in was to insist that there was a path to profitability and competitive, whether it be dealers or be employees or the debt level or be suppliers or be white-collar, whatever it was, to insist that general motors get competitive so they're good cars can find space in the marketplace and can be successful. and that's been the effort. and that's what we've tried to do it. >> thank you. >> thank you senator. before adjourning, senator shelby has one question and i have one question. my question is for doctor montgomery. i feel like you're sitting there alone. >> going to. >> i'd like to get back quickly how we get out. we are in the week, the taxpayer, the government is in, b

in north america therefore it is the center of gravity. that does not necessarily mean it is the eternal or that it is powerful by itself just means by the geographic facts the way the world works, it is in the right place. it is also an extraordinarily powerful country because it dominates a united continent, it has no continental enemies, it is not in the 100 some odd years have a domestic war to devastated to which almost differentiates us from all of the powers and therefore extremely wealthy. but we speak of all the crises of the united states that are serious but the fact remains the united states economy is larger than the next four economies combined, japan, china united kingdom and germany and combine all of them they're not quite as large as the american economy. we speak of the industrialization of the united states and that has happened america industrial put out 2. 8 trillion per year which means the american industrial output is only larger than the combined output of china and japan and it is utterly vital to understand the

so they can make money in north america. that's the focus of the activity. that is the only justification for taxpayer dollars, because we're trying to preserve american jobs in american communities and american suppliers and american dealers. because it is american taxpayers. but the insistence as any good vulture capitalist would do before he put money in, was to insist that there was a path to profitability. and to get competitive, whether it be dealers or be employees or be debt level or be suppliers or be white collar, whatever it was, to insist that general motors get competitive so their good cars can find space in the marketplace and can be successful. that's been the effort. that's what we have tried to do. >> thank you. >> thank you, senator bennett. before adjourning, senator shellby has one question. i have one question. dr. montgomery, you feel like you're sitting there alone with little to do. >> i would like to get back quickly on how we get out. we are in, we the taxpayer, the government, is in big time. we k

we are the largest audio book producer in north america. it gave us an idea of how to do this in the digital realm. at the same thing applies in broadcast television. we tried to pick a show the way forward for some of our core businesses. there is a distribution relationship. in any case that will show something about how these markets will develop. the same thing is true with amazon. people are getting comfortable reading full books on screen. this kind of behavior is certainly fascinating and how it is mapping the changes in our culture over all, but it is also fairly concerning. as things switch to digital, there is the danger of that a lot of value can leak out of the industry. we will not have enough revenues to pay for our own infrastructure. in the recorded music industry, it has declined quite precipitously. it created a market that was smaller than the former market. the same thing is true in the newspaper business. when you look at where these papers are today, based on where they were five or 10 years ago, the revenue model is u

and north america. in a way, why do we look at breaks? because these are the four large countries sitting outside of europe and of north america. but, you know, brazil again is not growing very rapidly, russia is big because energy. in the end, you know, i moon, potentially -- i mean, potentially the countries that are going to be important are india and china. and their trade relationship certainly is growing very rapidly. you know, india's trade with china was almost negligible. today merchandise trade if you look at it if i'm not mistaken, china has become india's largest trading partner, so trade side india and china their relationship has grown enormously rapidly, i think more rapidly than any other trade relationship of india with another country. so that's roughly where -- >> if i might just add to that, though, i think india's relationship with china, trade relationship with china is an interesting and complex one because at the same time that it is rapidly growing, it's filed more trade actions, many trade actions against china b

and ceo of the allegheny county airport authority representing airports council international north america and john keating president and chief operating officer oldcastle materials group fees representing american road and transportation builders association. we will begin with mr. brown. >> thank you madam chairman as a special note we have included a few figures that were correctly added and not have been fixed and we ask we have been allowed to submit the revised testimony is just a couple of technical changes. think you'll. >> my name is larry butch brown i am the director of the mississippi department of transportation serving vice president of the american association of state highway and transportation officials and m the incoming president this fall. i want to thank you for your efforts in securing transportation funding as part of the legislation. today want to emphasize three major points. allstate's of obligated 50 percent are more of the funds will before the june 30 deadline. projects are under construction and people are going back to work and states are directing funds were

the untypically western north america. a natural process. it occurs there very frequently. so let's not throw the baby out with the bath water, as it were. or on the other hand introducing fire into all systems where it was not present. fire occurred at a specific season and at that specific frequency at a specific intensity. we need to pay attention to the sorts of things. >> i teach conservation biology. i spent most of my time teaching a course called poetry inside out. inside the jail and also of the juvenile detention facility and outside in my honors course. we have this public conversations that last entire semester's. >> professor at university of arizona. his book is living with fire. >> i had no desire to do it. that was the condition in which i agree to take this on. >> coming up next book tv presents after words. an hour-long program where we invite guests to come interview authors. this week tierney cahill discusses her book. the story of her improbable campaign for u.s. representative on a dare from her sixth

about buffalo dung, what is left of vegetation after passing through the digestive circuitry of north america's largest native land mammal also known as the american bison. they burn with orange colored flame surrounding a whole black center, offering good heat, not many sparks and blue smoke that smells like nothing you expect it to. i did my face in the smoke and pick of the odors of cinnamon and cloves, pumpkin and sometimes the smell of walking into a battered after someone smoked a joint. if i were to leave my buffalo chip right now it would take me half an hour to stop my way through what separates me from the river, a fast flowing towards of glacial runoff that trails 14,000 foot peaks in south-central alaska. if i toss a stick in, it would drift through 3 miles of canyon before dumping into the gray squirrel of a much larger copper river. it would flow south, past a couple of small villages and dozens of fish traps that are dragged out of the banks by their owners to save them from the crushing flow of winter ice. after dodging past canyons, the stick would enter the gulf of alaska outs

they thought in terms of central america and south america so that the whole western hemisphere, north and south america, would be anglo-american in this end. >> you mentioned this what fox. over the years, i have read that it was largely a diversion, that he wasn't significant. would you expand on that? >> historians debate, there is not a uniform interpretation. i think it grows out of the fact that marion was a cantankerous, independent sort, who didn't always work particularly well with the continental army. when green came in and took command of the southern continental army, he had problems with marion. that said, as i tried to argue, the partisan leaders, not just marion, but sumter and others, waged a war that really turned things around, it through the british on the defensive, the british were beleaguered, there attrition rate was really serious through 1780, 1780 one. and the partisan fighters ultimately played a crucial role in saving the american revolution. >> returning to the question of could the british have won the war, what effect do you think it would have been had

particularly western north america.ire has its place. it occurred they're very frequently. so let's not throw the baby out with the bathwater as it were in throwing out fire or on the other hand introducing fire into all systems where it wasn't present. fire occurred at a specific season and frequency and intensity. we need to pay attention to those things if we are interested in maintaining biological diversity. >> what do you teach at the arizona university? >> and honors class called sustainable living, ecology and human experience and i spent most of my time teaching a course called poetry inside out. inside the jail and also the juvenile detention facility and outside in line of verse course of the high school we have this public conversation that lasted the entire semester about sustainable living. >> by mcpherson professor at university arizona his book is living with fire. >>> this summer book tv is asking what are you reading? >> sinner majority whip, dick durbin, what are you reading? >> the post american worl

there are only 3 herds in north america that have no internal retrogression. yellowstone and ted turner's branch. there's always a debate with buffalo. we have had debate about whether we should bother saving them all or let them vanish and drive indians onto reservations, whether we should call them bison or buffalo. now there is a debate about the notion of disease free, genetically pure animals, there's a movement that suggest we get rid of anybody who has cattle disease, and start all over again from scratch. it is funny because all the ones we're talking about that are genetically pure, don't act like buffalo as much as these guys act like buffalo. they're not wild, they don't get to go where they want to go. if i own a buffalo next yellowstone park, it steps on my land, that is not the case here, not the case of these animals. it is important to keep in mind that we need to adjust our definitions of wildlife and this notion of this genetic purity and disease free thing gets out of hand, we are going to take another step back, and be less close to restori

largest customer for our own audio book business which, you know, we're the largest producer in north america. and that kind of business as we saw it develop gave us an idea of, you know, how to expect developments in the digital realm overall for random house. the same thing applies for rpl and free mantle television production. so we try to make investments, and we have about 15 portfolio companies now, that can be lighthouse investments, that can kind of show the way forward for some of our core businesses. many times there'll be close connections where there'll be a supplier relationship or distribution relationship with our core division and these smaller innovative companies, but in any case, if these companies are successful, they'll show us something about how these markets will develop and how the digital media will be affecting these markets in the future. >> host: do you see a day where we move away from paper and television sets and 20th century technology such as that? >> guest: i do foresee a day, that day is today. i don't think there's any question that people's habits of medi

exploration of new york harbor and that was an adventure that really changed the course of history in north americat was a very daring forge for a lot of reasons. the first one being that he was supposed to go completely in the other direction and commission sale to china over the northern coast of russia and he sort of took a left turn and came to north america and send which led him to his discoveries. his exploration of the river. the author dove hunter is a terrific writer and researcher and also a sailor so he has done his own forensic navigation and redrawn the map that plot hudson's voyage to give us new insights into what that trip was really about. >> finally we are joined by george tipson, publisher and director of walker books. celebrating its 50th anniversary. what is walker books and who is the founder? >> walker and company is a division of bloomsbury usa fountain in 1959 by sam and beth walker, it was a completely independent companies until january 1st of 2005 when we were acquired by bloomsbury so we are a division of bloomsbury along with bloomsbury press and the main division, we

talking about buffalo or what is left of vegetation after passes to the digestive circuitry of north america's largest native land mammal also known as the american bison pick up the ships will burn with an orange colored halo of flames surrounding a black center. they put off the could he, not many sparks and a blue smoke this mills nothing like you would expect it to. i times they did my face into the smoke and pick up the odors of cinnamon and cloves, tri-star and pumpkins and sometimes the smell of walking into a bathroom after some months of the junk. it would take me about a half-hour to stop my way through the thickets of spurs and although this separate me from the river, a fast-growing torrent of runoff that drains a collection of 14,000 feet in the rangel mountains of south central alaska. if by tossing a stick into the river, it would stretch 3 miles of canada for dumping into the cold gray swirl of the larger copper river. from there the state would flow southward, past a couple of small villages and dozens of fish traps several recently dragnet of the banks by their honors to save

. >> guest: about america including north america. the americas, because we are americans in the south. >> host: absolutely. >> guest: we are american also and yes, i was trying in to rescue the collective memory of the americas in three volumes. this was something like 1,000 short stories and this is a mad project because it is the entire world. >> host: the entire world and the entire history. i thought of kafka as i was reading this because i have been a fan but i think people associate you more with the great latin american writers and i know this is to be in the same sentence with gabrielle garcia marquez is daunting, and those are authors who are household words in the united states. in latin america you are certainly as well known as they are. and what is interesting is all three of you are journalists, and you have this kind of immediacy even though we started out with a peace and we are going to read many more pieces that was at the beginning of everything when man meets woman will you talk about all of the war, to the limit o

that is the way of giving birth to the new relationship between the two americas, north america and latin america. friendship instead of leadership because the leadership was the plan described in the book spreading dictatorships all over in the name of democracy and in the name of i don't know what in the name of leadership, the countries of the world have to take examinations of the southern countries and say

that's a way of giving birth to a new relationship with the -- between the two americas, north america and latin america, friendship instead of leadership, because leadership was the conduct you described in your book, spreading military dictatorships all over our countries in the name of democracy, in the name of -- i don't know what -- in the name of the leadership. the right to take examination to countries and say, are you democratic or not? are you behaving well or not? like a professor and a pupil. so this is a world i don't like at all. >> host: we're almost ready to wrap up and i wanted to note that in many ways "mirrors" is a very dark book in many ways there's a lot of very terrible things told in this book. religion comes in for enormous criticism. europe comes in for terrible criticism. the united states comes in for terrible criticism. latin america is in many ways a victim. but i don't think of it was a pessimistic book, and i wanted to ask you as the final statement about your sense of optimism in the history you say is still unfolding. >> guest: well, the certitude that

with the genesis is it is all about latin america at the wind quote it is about america including north america, it is the america is because we are americans in the south. >> host: of some of the. >> guest: the languages suppress but we are american and also. i am using the collective memory of the americas in the three volumes. this is much more ambitious. because it is the entire world 87 the entire world and the entire history. i have been a fan but i think people associate you with the great latin american writers and i know that to be in the same sentence as others is daunting but others that are household words in the united states but in latin america you are certainly as well known as the they are. and what is interesting is that all three if you are journalist. and you have this immediacy even though we start off with the piece and we will read many more, at the beginning of everything when man meets woman, you talk about all of the wars, all of the cultures, the development of humankind and a the scope is amazing and daunting. i thought we would do and the autobiography before we go

kumatashi, from the office of tibet north america. thank you. [applause] [speaking chinese] [speaking chinese] [speaking chinese] [speaking chinese] [applause] >> it is my pleasure and honor to read his holiness, the dlai -- dalai lama's statement. on the occasion of the twentieth anniversary of the tenements where student democracy movement -- cannon in square student democracy movement, i respectfully honor all those who died expressing the demand for the government to be more accountable to its people. the students involved in the teen and then-- in the movement or not anti-social list. they were speaking out indifference to the chinese people oppose the constitutional rights in favor of democracy, and taking a stand against corruption. conform to the underlying belief, the governor's got -- this was confidently stated by the to party chief. the upcoming anniversary of the founding of the people's republic of china represents a great opportunity to the -- to review the events of june 4 no, 1989. today, it is a global economic power poised to

these jewish people in europe and in north america thought there were entitled to invade palestine. to take over that territory. there has been a war ever since. host: connected to the iranian election? caller: i america does: iran just the way it did not like iraq because they are the biggest enemies of israel. host: a republican as a line from minnesota. caller: good morning, i think the president is taking the right approach. in the past america has been blamed for meddling in the affairs of other countries throughout the world. many callers yesterday work using the president of meddling in the iranian effort. since he based his foreign policy by coming into office on a general policy he would like to establish and it is unclear whether ahmadinejad will prevail or someone else will take power he cannot undermine ahmadinejad because he may have to sit down with him and negotiate for resolution to this 30-year lull in foreign policy with the country. however, there seems to be more -- what is going on in iran is to be more of an internal battle between the muslim head of the revolut

have your bible -- and while we're doing this, let me welcome again the 80 congregations around north america that are joining us via a live internet feed and the horizon radio broadcasting networks as well as the c-span viewers. thank you and welcome and i'm glad you're here with us today. let's say thank you to that. [applause] >> in esther chapter 1, the first few verses we get an interesting picture. now, it took place in the days of those who reigned from india to ethiopia over 127 provinces and in those days the king sat in his royal throne in the citadel in persia. and in the third year of his reign he gave a banquet for his princes and attendance and the army officers of persia and madea. the nobles and the princes of his provinces in his presence. he was the leader of persia. my father was raised orthodox jewish, some jewish on my father's side and gentile on my mother's side, it's a long story, good story. maybe we'll find it during the q & a side. my father who he was growing up in temple he was in a forum play, a play about these very events and he was supposed -- he was the guard

everglades, some of the best fishing and snorkeling in the world, and the oldest settlements in north america, the tourism industr accounts foe than 25% of all of the state sales tax collections. last year the united states had a $633 -- had 633,000 fewer international travelers than we had in the year 2000. florida has taken a harder hit, losing $1.3 million visitors over the same period of time. numbers don't lie. our lack of attention to self-promotion is costing us money, jobs, and opportunity. it's not just that people aren't traveling much the fact is that people are traveling to some destinations other than the united states. the world competition for the travel dollar is keen. countries all over the world are doing all that they can to attract visiters to their country. we are competing in a world marketplace. this is an alarming trend that we're seeing here in the united states and it clearly hurts our economy, but it also has an impact on our image around the world. studies show that a person's opinion of our country is greatly improved when they visit our country. we're our own bes

similarly, with tar sands, shale oil, those sorts of things that we have in abundance in north america we appear to be saying we ought not to take a look at those. similarly, we have abundant sources of petroleum offshore. offshore my state of california, offshore some of our states in this union, and yet we have a policy which basically says we ought not to utilize american technology which is being utilized around the world to safely extract petroleum. if you look at my state in california and you go to santa barbara you see historically there have been leaked from the bottom of the ocean there because of the pressure, because of the petroleum that lies under the ocean floor. we can actually take some of that pressure off by drilling and producing there. lastly, i would say it would be -- someone would have to be a hermit somewhere stuck in a cave to not understand that we have a terrible economic problem in california, a terrible problem with our budget, terrible deficits, and one of the ways that we could achieve some sort of stability with our budget in california, our state budge

his name of new york harbor that was an adventure that really changed the course of history in north america that had a very daring voyage the first being he was supposed to go completely in the other direction he was commissioned to sale to china over the northern coast of russia and took a left turn and came to america instead which led him to his discoveries here and exploration of the river. the author is a terrific writer and researcher and also a sailor who he -- so he has done his own navigation and has redrawn the map of his voyage to give us a new insights into what that trip was really about. >> george gibson publisher of walker books it is celebrating its 50th anniversary what is walker books and was the founder? >> walker and company is a division of bloomsbury usa founded 1959 by santa and beth walker a completely independent company until january 1, 2005 when we were acquired by now a division of bloomsbury the three of the old divisions and we are one of them. >>host: how long have you been with walker? >> since 1993. as the publisher then i became the publishing director with

flipped out one afternoon when i came across an inuit and later that day and then i thought all of north america comes together because than and those combinations but feel people who run america will not be happy but to see the crosses of the world i thought in this that way is the fulfillment as i see it what we're doing in this nation. on that second book tour i was stopping to get a haircut and talking with the man sitting next to me while we were both waiting we get to know which other, not the way dogs and do, and then do that now buy sniffing the buy asking a simple question what do you do? it seems every now with the other fellow does, what is his line we have a fix. so we were chatting and that came up pretty quickly he was a high school mathematics teacher he asked me what i did and i never want to answer the question because certainly in those days when i was a fresh writer if i asked me what i wrote i never knew how to describe and have not gotten much better. i am not quite sure what my books are about. the hardest question for me to answer is if they interview alt a opens with what

that than above-ground lines, the costs are significantly know creased projects undertaken in north americaover the past 15 years, utilities have found ways to increase the utilization of their existing facilities to meet increasing demands without adding significant high-voltage equipment, end quote. clearly, there is a significant need for an increase in transmission capacity. this need is amplified as we consider adding more and more renewable energy to the grid. while i'm fully supportive of adding more capacity, i believe we do need to keep in mind the legitimate desires of localities to preserve green spaces and historic sites. my district includes some of the most pristine, historic landscapes in the mid atlantic. my district also has some of the most productive farmland in the united states. chester koirnths the home of valley forge in the brandywine county where i come from is one of william penn's original three counties. the tradition of preserving land and being good stewards of the earth have been passed down from generation to generation. we're not against progress, but we wan

at that time, i believe it was one of the handful of best high schools in north america. we were fortunate to go there. it showed me that you can have uncompromising excellence in public schools if you have the right elements. i went to princeton university, law school at night school. i finished at georgetown while working out here. >> what was the first thing you did in politics? >> the lowest person on the totem pole for a campaign for bill ruckleshouse for the senate in our home state. he went on to renown in the nixon administration, and resigned in the saturday night massacre. >> you worked for him when he was the first head of the epa? >> no, just when he ran for office. i finished school and fell in with the boy-mayor of indianapolis, dick lugar, our distinguished senator. he was an idealistic and very active young mayor at a time when cities were at the forefront of american consciousness. he was making great transformations in my home town. i went to work for him a couple of summers, and he talked me into sticking around for a little while, namely 13 years. >> y

congress is the representative body of all of north america plus mexico plus south america plus egypt and germany. and you put all of that into one congress and say okay now make legislation and keep everybody happy. that's india. so if that country can succeed in its own right, in it's own development, keeping peace, you know, avoiding programs and things that happen and protecting against terrorism, developing, you know, consuming or burning less fossil fuel, that's a strategic gain for the u.s. and for the world. that would enhance u.s. security. that would enhance global security and i think that's how we generally ought to think about it more than our tendency which again is very natural, where are they going to sail us to do or which of our stuff are they going to buy or, you know, are they going to switch their vote on a trade thing because they're now a partner? we have an interest in india and i think that's the central point i would stop with here. >> thanks, george. i must say i'm intrigued by the idea of germany being ruled by the indian parliament. >> the u.s. congress. >

have your bibles, and while we are doing this let me welcome again the 80 congregations around north america that are joining this via live internet feed and the horizon of radio broadcasting network as well as the c-span viewers. thank you and welcome and i am glad that you are here with us today. [applause] amen. yes, let's say thank you to that. [applause] in estherville chapter 1, the first few verses we get an interesting picture. it took place in the days of the rain from india to ethiopia over 127 provinces and in those days the king sat on his royal throne which was and susana which is in persia. in the third year of his reign he gave a banquet for all his princes and attendance for the army officers of persia and matteo. the nobles and princes of the provinces being in his presence. the leader of persia. now, miers' almost as tough as you were to say as ahmadinejad. my father was orthodox jewish. that as a whole other story. a good story. [laughter] maybe we will find it during the q&a time. my father, when he was growing up in temple was in a play about these very evens and he was

the united nations wrote that by the year 2020 the death rate in cities in north america, that's hereated deaths in heat waves will increase several fold. you know, obviously, the temperature has been going up so let's take a look. the cities provide us is wonderful natural laboratory. before we do that let's take a look at the heat wave of the summer of 2003 in europe. which we all know was caused by global warming. this is the integrated atmospheric temperature in the lower atmosphere. this is published by chase in 2006. i talk about it in my book. this is the best way we measure temperature and you can see if you look at the temperature departures from normal, that most of the world is kind of this color right here for the summer of 2003. in other words, it was a cool summer. embedded in this cool summer is this tiny bubble of hot, very, very hot air which just happened to be centered over europe. if you take a look at other summers, particularly, el nino summers, you'll see this entire map might be a little bit orange or have an awful lot of orange on it. this was not an unusual s

congress is the representative body of all of north america plus mexico plus south america plus egypt and germany. and you put all of that into one congress and say okay now make legislation and keep everybody happy. that's india. so if that country can succeed in its own right, in it's own development, keeping peace, you know, avoiding programs and things that happen and protecting against terrorism, developing, you know, consuming or burning less fossil fuel, that's a strategic gain for the u.s. and for the world.

from the southern baptist convention to the islamic society of north america. it's supported by the american lung association, the american heart association, the american cancer society, the groups that are best situated to understand the damage caused by tobacco and to recognize that a renewed f.d.a. can and must take on this new authority. the diversity of support for this bill shows just how critical it is to all americans. tobacco does not discriminate when it robs people of their health, their productivity and their lives. and that's why we must come together to rob tobacco of its fluence -- influence over americans. finally, i want to note this bill has a number of changes to respond to specific concerns that we've heard. in committee consideration of this bill over the past two years we made changes to ensure fairness and flexibility for convenience stores, tobacco growers and small manufacturers. we worked with the -- our republican colleagues to incorporate their suggestions. we worked with members of the congressional black caucus to ensure that ment

a large distribution company that has a wide variety of publishers that we distribute here in north america, and chicago review press is kind of our publishing editorial on. >> we've been talking with elizabeth malzahn of chicago review press. >> this summer bookie is asking what are you reading? >> this summer in addition to a big stack of pretty trashy novels i have a couple of other books on my nightstand table. first of all i want to read a homemade life, stories and recipes for my kitchen table. she is a really fantastic food blogger. her blog is called orange and she is also a columnist for bon appÉtit magazine. i'm excited to read her book. next up is handed this gets posted scans and other southern specialties. and entertaining life with recipes. and as by julia reith, a fantastic vogue writer and it's a recollection of her southern upbringing. i love reading the food books in the summer. and then something a little more serious. it's called a plain honest man, the making of the american constitution. and that chronicles the constitutional convention. also on my serious reading book

and i met yesterday with the president of gm north america and also the president of chrysler. and i see the management side of this, the manufacturing of the business side of it. it's a different era and we have to make tough decisions to keep u.s. nameplate manufacturing cars and trucks in america. i understand that. in but there is another side -- there is a human side. a dealer side and we are going to hear from mr. frank that is from a water taxi, texas. he is a fourth generation gm dealer and i think a second generation the jeep dealer. his grandfather started selling chevrolet in texas in 1926. he made it to the great depression, he made it his family -- his family minute through world war ii when you have quotas, they made it to the boom years of the '50s, they made it through the gas rationing of the '70s. boom or bust and there has been blank and tackler selling cars in texas for over 80 years and then bang he got letters on i think back. >> terminating his contract immediately or within three weeks ended gm say they weren't going to renew him. now, when the gm and ch

director of the allegheny county airport authority representing the airports council international north america and in mr. keating, president and chief operating officer of oldcastle material group east representing the american road and transportation builders association and will begin with mr. brown and. >> thank you madam chairman. as a special low before i began we have included a few figures which are incorrectly added it in now have been fixed and will ask that we be permitted to cemented that revised testimony for the record, a couple technical changes. >> without objection can i thank you. madam chairman and members, my name is larry butch brown, the executive director of the mississippi department of transportation currently serving as vice president of american association of state highway transportation officials and will be the incoming president of that association this fall. on behalf of the state department of transportation i want to thank you for your efforts in securing transportation funding as a part of the economic recovery legislation. today a want of a size three major p

i thought this is marvelous, all in north america coming together here but then everly was fascinated because i began seeing combinations of those people feel that the lost strain is the only one in america are not going to be happy with this but seeing these crosses of the malcolm of the world, thought this really in that way is the fulfillment as i see it of what we are doing in this nation. on that second book to were their bows, i was stopped along the way to get a haircut and was talking with the man sitting next to me while we both were waiting for a haircut. then we got to know each other kind of-- not the way dogs do. dogs that each other. men do that by knots niching i hope that by asking a simple question, what do you do? if we know what the other fellow does we have some kind of a fix and we can talk, so we were chatting in that game of quickly and he asked me-- he was the high school mathematics teacher. he asthma what i did and i remembered i didn't want to answer that question because certainly in those days when i was a fresh writer if they ask me what i wrote i never k

bank of america's presence is certainly felt in north carolina in my district and north carolina generally. the tenth district has become particularly hard hit in the economic recession. bank of america employed 17,000 north kacarolinians. >> it's a long standing tradition that we swear our w z witnesses in. do you solemnly swear to tell the truth, nothing but the truth, be seated. let the record be set that the witness answered affirmative. you may now -- let me just sort of explain to the light situation here. first, you have five minutes to sum raise your statement. then the yellow light will come on. that means you have one minute. after the yellow light comes on, then there's a red light. that means stop. of course, after that, we'll allow the members an opportunity to raise questions with you. so you may begin. turn your mike on. push that button. >> chairman, sub committee chairman kucinich, ranking member jordan. my name is kent lewis. i'm chief executive officer of bank of america. this committee is reviewing important issues. i hope my remarks will be helpful to you. our business

in the americas we want to not just the united states but all both north and south america for peopleo be able to have sustainable communities because we have responsibility to that act latin american doesn't have the kind of economy that is human wealth and natural wealth would indicate. it is selling some way for to put start -- smart billion beautiful people in america or a lot of minerals and resources so the reason people want to come here is because we have not let those economies prosper in here and and we need to have a policy that says let's have sustainable development throughout the hemisphere number one. number two, anybody who works here should be respected as a worker because of we don't do that we heard everybody. we can't have first and second class citizens in our workforce just like we can have first and second class citizens elsewhere. so the point that she made with regard to immigrants and in first with a population which i have worked with, i was simply say this without going into a long story about it -- we get a chance to billy green economy now and i hope dr.

bank of america's presence is certainly felt in western north carolina in my district and across north carolina generally. the tenth district has become particularly hard hit in this chick recession and bank of america employs about 17,000 north carolinaance many of whom are my constituents and are proud to work for a strong institution and we look for stronger days ahead. thank you for your testimony and your presence. >> it's a long standing pradigs that we swear all of our witnesses in. would you please stand and raise your right hand. do you solemnly swear to tell the truth, nothing but the truth? if so answer in the affirmative. be seated. let the record reflect that the witness answered in the affirmative. you may now -- let me sort of explain as to the light situation there. first of all, you have five minutes to sum rise your statement. and then the yellow light will come on. that means you have one minute. and then after the yellow light comes on, then there's a red light. and of course that means stop. and of course, after that then we'll allow the members an opportunity to r

and sustainability, all of our constituents, regardless of where they're from the north, south, west, east, middle america, share in the peace of mind they can feed their families with clean, healthy safe food. while those benefits are shared by all, it makes sense that the cost be shared as well. this project we are discussing today focuses funding on food safety and sustainability in a location that produces a large portion of the nation's seafood. by prioritizing the funding of the institute for seafood studies at nicholls state university, we are investing in a food supply we enjoy. this is about safe seafood, whether it's sthrimp or fin fish. it's about the study and making sure that the products that are delivered to america are safe for the people to consume. with that, i urge a no vote on this amendment and hope that the congress of the united states will recognize the importance of the working coast. we're not the sun coast. we're not the sand coast, we are not the condo coast. we are the coast of the united states that produces over 30% of the seafood and good quality, safe seafood that we hope