i thank the gentlelady from north carolina for yielding. before i take up the subject that i came here to talk about, i can't help but remark that the gentlelady from texas said that the people on our side had not had a good thought about how to invest in america. not a good thought. i'll submit, that would be a direct quote, i would submit that the good thoughts are right there on the immigration naturalization flash cards. what is the economic system of america? flip the cart over, if you want to be naturalized as a citizen you need to answer the question this way, free enterprise capitalism. free enterprise capitalism has been the enemy of this administration. tim geithner said that free enterprise capitalism is what brought us to the brink of ruin. can you imagine tearing asunder the very foundation, one of the principal pillars of americanism, somehow hadn't had a good thought about america. and i'd ask again, why do we need african-american hospitals? why can't we have hospitals that take care of god's children? why can't we all be me

mark eth aand north carolina state. > today, clemson takes care of south carolina a lot of you saw that ballgame by 11. ray grant having a double-double 12 points, 11 rebounds, they won that game with trevor booker only scoring seven points. a good sign for the tigers. boston college, we'll have the basketball at their own hoop. looking for raj cutting inside, jackson comes up with it. nice pass inside, raj with the pass! use the word crafty with him. at 6'6", knows how to get the shot off and create space for himself. 29 points rebatound coming off effort against michigan. one thing about him he will play a ton of minutes. malcolm dropping down his 20th three-pointer, shooting 20% this year. it's a key thing in this offense. a look inside raji makes a nice cutoff and finds himself wide open. >> mike: and he makes substitution with four different players, he can play as many as 10 players, all getting a lx pl minutes. i think -- i'm a guy that likes stars. i think eventually scott an grant will emerge as that guy. they n

the gentleman from north carolina. mr. kissell: madam speaker, i'd like to thank my colleague from virginia for his support and remarks. the 30th division after its historic stint at the battle of mortain. they fought in the battle of the bulge. they shook hands with the russians on the elb river at the end of the war. the 30th division is centered mostly once again in north carolina. the 30th, as i mentioned before, is currently over in iraq on its second tour of duty of service to this nation. so the great tradition of the 30th, the old hickory division, which began during world war i continues today. it is these troops, men and women, serve our nation. and, madam speaker, on a personal note, i would like to add that my father, richard henry kissell, was a sergeant in the 30th division. he joined the army in the early part of 1941 and he was with the 30th all the way through as a member of the 230th field artillery on the beaches of omaha, d-day plus one, and all of the battles that we talked about my father was there. b

>> marques: again, john wahl from kentucky is just a freshman, out of raleigh, north carolina. but watching him, especially in the early stages of the game against a very talented north carolina team, watching him take them apart, some of the stuff he was doing, people are saying he may be better than derick rose which is saying a lot, number one pick in the nba draft, derick rose of the chicago bulls. >> steve: defended by tyler honeycutt. >> marques: xavier henry is a good player. like him a lot. he could really use another year of college basketball to make him even better. >> steve: xavier -- maybe not. >> marques: maybe not. he's addressed that issue. a lot of people assume that's going to happen but do what's best for him, his family, the university. kind of looking things over, evaluate the situation. >> steve: kansas has their biggest lead of the afternoon at 15. >> marques: talked about all the nba personnel in the stands this afternoon. mike dunleavy, mike dunnly, looking at guys like xavier henry, sherron collins, the senior. >> steve: eight seconds on the shot clock

host: eden, north carolina. barry, the president says there on the prejudice of achieving how -- health care. what is your reaction? go ahead. caller: it is clear health care is a little messed up but the government never got enough and right, they screw stuff up every time listed the fingers and it because it is not about us it is about them fussing and fighting, that is all it will be about this. they will be screwing us again, taxing the crap out of us. host: got the point, barry, appreciate it. ronnie, independent caller from orlando. caller: i have to point out there is enormous difference between actual health care and health insurance. what i would like to say that in the beginning i was looking forward to supporting something that would extend health care to many more americans. now it seems what we have on the table is primarily in mandate to force people, many of whom can't even pay their mortgage payments, to go out and buy private insurance and people are not paying attention to that. here is preside

but the people in north carolina, the taxpayers of north carolina are going to continue to be charged for this expansion of medicaid when that's the most inefficient place for us to have put these 15 million americans that were promised health care. and while we do all this, according to the chief actuary at the centers for medicare and medicaid services, c.m.s., 20% of our hospitals and nursing homes are going to go bankrupt, they're going to go out of business, because, as the chief actuary said -- and i quote -- "they would be unprofitable within the next ten years as a result of these cuts." hospitals, nursing homes at a time that our senior population is getting ready to explode as the baby boomers hit it. we're cutting $466 billion from medicare and we're starving the infrastructure of hospitals and nursing homes and hospice and home care. well, providers, what's going to happen to them? c.b.o. said -- or, excuse me, the chief actuary again said if we go through and pass this pl plan, the result is providers will be unwilling to see medicare and medicaid patients. well, today, 4

watt of north carolina.chair: pursuant to house resolution 964, the gentleman from north carolina, mr. watt, and a member opposed, each will control five minutes. the chair recognizes the gentleman from north carolina. mr. watt: thank you, madam chair. i yield myself 3 1/2 minutes. the chair: the gentleman is recognized. mr. watt: madam chair, let me say at the outset that is my intention that the end of the short discussion and i ask unanimous consent to withdraw the amendment, but i thought it would be enlightening to colleagues and to whoever else might be listening at this time in the morning to talk about some of the practical problems that you have even when there's broad agreement on an issue. and i'll describe the process. both mr. campbell, who is a member of the committee, and i agree that automobile dealers ought to be exempt in their primary duties from the cfpa, the consumer financial protection agency supervision and what have you. and there was broad bipartisan and philosophical agreement on t

and north carolina state collides with wake.will be on hand for that one in winston-salem. action begins at 5:30 eastern. mike gminski, tim brando, jenn hildreth, saying so long. we'll take you to "the final score" in los angeles bringing you up to date on all going on. s and five breadsticks for just $14.99. that's enough to feed the whole family. carryout and we'll throw in a free two liter pepsi. happy holideal from pizza hut. who's it going to be, people? - i'll go, sir. - great. i need somebody in houston by five. i'm your man, sir. six a.m. to omaha. who's taking one for the team? that's be me, sir. steve-o! that's what i'm talking about. steve, can you make it to buffalo by four? anyone seen steve? enjoy your trip. we will. thank you. we know why you fly. we're american airlines. >>> we start with football. a lot at stake. nothing at stake all at the same time in indianapolis. the colts a victory away from the home field advantage throughout the playoffs and a new all-time consecutive regular season wins record. a loss, w

then north carolina state collides with wake forrest. mike and i will be on hand for that one in winston-salem. both teams battle for early acc supremacy. action tips on off at 5:30 eastern. you've got a feeling, mike, just watching this game unfold, that neither team is able to get in rhythm because the other squad is imposing their will. to one can take control of this game. >> mike: if you're al skinner, right now rhode island shooting 57%. >> tim: richmond again, two quick threes since coming into the game for the freshman from north carolina. >> mike: that's not how this offense was built. they average five made threes a game. they've already got four. that's been the difference so far for rhode island. >> tim: on an 8-0 run. they lead it by seven. roach remains in the game. sanders now being joined by jackson. he takes the pass from him. a tough fallaway jumper out of bounds. help from eaves and the ball will be to boston college. >> mike: richmond, good kick out and double team right there. he has to find. most dangerous three-poi

now, after i said that on the floor, the senator from north carolina, senator burr, stood up and said, have you seen factcheck.org? and i said, i haven't read the specific article, but we didn't see that corrected in the course of the campaign. but now i've seen the article. i wanted to know what the senator from north carolina was referring to so i went and got factcheck.org. and factcheck.org went through the obama campaign ads and their ads and factchecked what was being said. and the bottom line is the mccain advisors, a fellow named holtz-eakin, and in a conference call with reporters after the ad was released what he said was, no service is being reduced. every beneficiary will in the future receive exactly the benefits that they have been promised from the beginning. well, that's the same thing as we're having. no benefit is being cut. but he didn't say he wasn't going to reduce the overall amount of money. what he said subsequently -- and i'm quoting from factcheck.org -- here it is -- "as late as october 17, about two weeks before the election -- mr. holtz-eakin said in a tel

marquette had north carolina state by four and georgia tech, they have a pretty good team. 26 point win >> ron: derrick favor, double-double. number 18, clemson beat south carolina 72-61, that game came on the air before our game and florida state, a winner also today. and to jenn. >> jenn: this guy has seen a lot of basketball. the associate commissioner for basketball operations, carl hicks, thanks for joining us, tell us about your week and where you've been. >> this was a big week for the acc and big ten and the supervisor officials and i divide the games up. i was out in indiana nor the maryland, indiana game and next day went to wisconsin for the duke wisconsin game and flew back to the 0 office to take care of things then to the championship game in tampa and conference opener in boston a. busy week. >> jenn: you have a lot of miles. what have you been impressed with so far from what you've seen of the a krrcc basketball teams? one thing, what i've seen the race for the top team in the league is wide open. we have a lot of quality teams, 1 through 7, 8, 9. this game today is an e

but i see my colleague from north carolina ready to rise. it is -- i'm so happy to be joined on the senate floor with these two wonderful colleagues who have a great bill of their own that has gotten very little hearing, very little opportunity, certainly no opportunity for a vote on the senate floor. and as my senate colleague from north carolina gets his microphone ready to go. i would say, mr. president, that to be held to a false deadline of christmas day, something is -- as important as a bill that's going to impact the health of every person in this country, impact 1/6 of the economy of the united states, it's much more important, mr. president, that we get it right than it gets rushed through with speed and secrecy, with not being able to offer amendments when a 383-page amendment bill by senator reid is dropped on the table yesterday and a vote is going to be held at 1:00 in the morning on a monday morning. it's astonishing, mr. president, that we don't have bipartisan support. people working together to find solutions. it's astonish

>> born in north carolina. moved at age of 11 to tennessee with his family.real pioneer place in those times. it was dangerous. a man or woman or child of the caucasian race was killed. it was very dangerous. his family had become quite prominent and lands. they speculated in plant in north carolina and made a fair amount of money. they went to tennessee with what they earn their. they were quite prominent. they were very friendly with andrew jackson and all of the high-and society at national and tennessee during that time. >> how did he meet sarah? >> her brother had been a classmate of polk's. she met her at a reception or party -- he met her at a reception or party and saw her reflection in the mirror and was immediately smitten with that in the cheese sauce. he made his way to find her but through the crowd he lost her. when he finally found her he was wishe was with her brother. they were together ever since. >> he graduated from the university of north carolina. did he have a law degree? >> he became a lawyer. he studied liberal arts and sciences and w

they speculated and land in north carolina. they went to tennessee with what they have earned their. they did it again on a bigger scale. they were quite prominent, very friendly with enter jackson and all his coterie. all that high and society of the nashville, tennessee. >> how did he meet sarah? >> sarah childress, her brother had been a class make a poll. she was quite a bit younger. he may have known her when she was 11 and 12, and met her at a reception or party for a prominent tennessee and who later became governor. he saw her in the mirror, a reflection in the mirror, and was immediately smitten with the visage that he saw. he made his way to find her, but through the crowd he lost her. by the time he found her, she was with her brother, who he had known from school. there were pretty much together ever since. >> he graduated from the university of north carolina, studying? he got a lot agree? >> it became a lawyer but you did not get a law degree in those days. he studied liberal arts and sciences. it was gradual did

for what purpose does the gentleman from north carolina rise?i ask unanimous consent that today following legislative business and any special orders heretofore entered into, the following members may be permitted to address the house, revise and extend their remarks and include therein extraneous material. mr. inglis today for five minutes. mr. poe, december 21 for five minutes. mr. jones, december 21 for five minutes. mr. lincoln diaz-balart today for five minutes. ms. ros-lehtinen for today for five minutes. and mr. frank, december 15, 16, 17 and 18, five minutes each. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. for what purpose does the gentleman from pennsylvania rise? >> i ask unanimous consent that today following legislative business and any special orders heretofore entered into, the following members may be permitted to address the house for five minutes to revise and extend their remarks and include therein extraneous material, mr. altmire of pennsylvania for five minutes, ms. woolsey of california for five minutes, mr. defazio of ore

and that is cited at 81 north carolina law review, 1703. within the framework of the legal theory that might address the achievement gap, the constitution itself, especially school integration today, probably wouldn't cover it under various strenuous tests about intent. and under restrictions on remedies, especially after the parents involved, case involving louisville and seattle in 2007. the state school equal financing case that have been brought, indirectly addresses it such as the avid versus burke case in new jersey, and the horton versus method case in connecticut. yet, we found that equal financing doesn't merely address the structural inequality of based upon high poverty concentration in low achievement. there's a new new way of cases in the past 18 years known as the adequacy and education cases. and the legal in that category is certainly the campaign for fiscal equity from new york city. but again, can at least indirectly touch upon resources education program. however, i interpret your question asked, could we really bring a s

the gentleman from north carolina. for what purpose does the gentleman from north carolina rise? >> mr. speaker, i request permission to take mr. jones' five-minute special order. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, the gentleman is recognized for five minutes. mr. poe: thank you, mr. speaker. as yeahened -- as we end the month, the year, the decade this session of congress, some observations. 15 million americans are unemployed. we have 10% unemployment and higher throughout the united states. spending is totally out of control. the country is broke, so we borrow money from china and japan and it seems they own our nation. the cacks contracts -- the taxocrats have not seen a tax bill they didn't believe in. domestic policy is simple, spend money. spend money we don't have, then borrow it and then raise taxes on the american people. the government financial system is also simple. if it moves, tax it. if it keeps moving, regulate it. if it stops moving, subsidize it. today, we raised the debt ceiling so more money can be spent as soon as we get back in january. now we're o

she was born in north carolina, burlington. before returning to burlington -- she had a lot of foresight for someone so young. she left and came to d.c. we have not talked a lot about that. there were no opportunities there and she did not just want to do what they did -- what black women of a certain age did. she came here and worked and met my father and they got married in 1963. i came along a few years after that. my brother, two years after me. my mother was home for a long time. i finished my bachelor's degree and then two master's degrees. >> you had a ph.d. from howard university? >> absolutely. i had a lot of family connections to howard. my uncle graduated from howard. he was a tuskegee airman. he developed the metro rail system in d.c. >> let me go to something that i read that you wrote. "as a senate bid use almost everything in political terms." >> if all you have is a hammer, every problem you have is a nail. anything other than political terms, when i look at a debate about what ever is going on in the world, i a

let's go back to north carolina. north carolina would like to change their plan further now that they've learned things that they can do. they asked the centers for medicare and medicaid services for a waiver. religiously what happens, they're denied the waiver to change their health care plan to raise the quality and to reduce the cost. sound eerily similar to what we're talking about potentially in a health care plan that we're going to roll out for the rest of the country? maybe an opt-out plan where states could opt out where they say it's not a government takeover. if you've got to go to the government and ask their permission to change it to increase the quality of the care and decrease the cost because of the efficiencies you get through how you design it, i would tell you that's a government-run plan, plain and simple. we talked to self-insured companies. there was a gold mine of great ideas. companies like dell and sas and safeway and pitney bowes. companies that had frozen their health care costs year after

>> born in north carolina. moved at age 11 to tennessee with his family. that was a real pioneering frontier period or place in those days. it was dangerous. a lot of indian attacks. when jackson went to tennessee a man, woman, or child of the caucasian race was killed by indian attack every 10 days or so. so it was very dangerous even when polk was a boy. and his family had become quite prominent in land. they speculated in land in north carolina, made a fair amount of money, went to tennessee with what they earned there, and did it again on a bigger scale. so they were quite prominent. they were very friendly with andrew jackson and all of his coterie and all that sort of high-end society of the nashville and tennessee during that period. >> how did he meet sarah? >> sarah childress, her brother had been a classmate of polk. she was quite a bit younger, so he had actually known her when she was maybe 11 or 12. he met her at a reception or party for a prominent tennessean who later became governor, a guy by the name of caroll, as i recall. and saw her in

high point* north carolina this is david kennedy's project he is a john j. now we were together at the kennedy school. we were thinking about cracking down on the drug markets and it turns out that from a pressure point* of new york that if you put enough cops in a flagrant job market area and make enough arrest you can break the market and when it is broken, it stays broken because it only exists because people expect me to come and buy and sell and you can put the market out of business it is ferociously expansive. operation pressure point* 1,000 copps, a six months and the convictions did not go up with somebody not being convicted of a burglary so david and i was sitting around trying to figure out how you can shorten the time it took the drug dealers to figure out you cannot deal here anymore and david said what if you put up posters? would you just put up posters saying the market is closed as of november 1st? nobody would be here dealing because you will be arrested. who will show up to deal that day? if the answer is only a few people than you can re

texas and north carolina were playing today. a lot of big games on css as well. roberson. double header to come. roberson hooks it in. 13 points for roberson. austin peay not going to go away. down eight with 9:9:45 to play. last time they played in the tubby smith era, wildcats won by only eight. that's where we are now. tied up by channelsment number three on him. bledsoe will be at the line. as i mentioned earlier had 23 in the last ballgame against indiana. has only three today. tine in monday at 10:30 eastern for the ride on css. join nfl player and coaches as they take eight high school quarterbacks through training and emotional development for shot at the u.s. army all american bowl. monday at 10:30 eastern. channels off a screen. ball up in the air. lost it. >> that is where he gets in trouble. >> matt: speaking of being in trouble. that rim was in trouble! [ cheering ] [ cheering ] >> nine minutes to go down 12. austin peay needs to recognize every possession is huge. they won't have a 12-point shot. but chip away at the lead. if we get it to single digit by the

let me recognize the gentleman from north carolina, mr. kobul for his questions. >> thank you, mr. smith and thank you all for being with us. mr. von spakovsky, the attorney general recently told the "new york times" it is legal -- approved prior to laws that were enacted that prohibit acorn from receiving money. do you believe this is an accurate reading of the law? >> no. i've read the opinion released by the office of legal policy. i think it's quite a stretch to come up with that opinion. and it ignores, for example, the federal acquisition rules which specifically say that all government contracts have to have a provision in them that specifically say that all payments are "conditioned upon availability of funds." and congress has said there is no availability of funds. so i think they are misinterpreting the law. >> i concur with that. mr. caldwell, in north carolina's early days there was a popular presbyterian minister who answered to the name of david caldwell. any relation? >> no relation. >> well, he would have been a good ancestor for you. >> then i might be related to

and then i heard one of our other senators from north carolina yesterday said, well, really we should call this the price is right. because we know a number of senators held out for various inducements -- financial inducements to encourage them to get to the 60 votes. so we don't know what kind of deals have been cut behind closed doors. what kind of deals individual senators may have made. but the american people need to know what's in this legislation and how it will affect them. and, unfortunately, notwithstanding the fact that the president of the united states said, you know what? when i'm elected president, we're going to have negotiations around a big table and televise it on c-span. good luck. so much for that broken promise. we know that other senators who express the same concerns that the senator from -- the senator from georgia did about having at least 72 hours by posting this on the internet, at least 72 hours so that the american people can read it and so we can consult the with our constituents, the hospitals, the small businesses, the doctors who say, you know, how do

he is a graduate of yale, of the university of north carolina where he got his medical degree and the university of virginia where he got his undergraduate degree. he was former director of the nih national human genome research institute. you were home schooled up until the sixth grade. earlier this year, you founded in institute for religion and science. >> a foundation. >> is there a concern that your named the director of nih when you are an evangelical christian? >> there are concerns that perhaps is scientists who also happens to have talked openly about his religious faith but somehow not be as hard-nosed at making decisions about scientific projects as he should be. anybody who worked with me at the human genome project would have stood up and said that this is not an issue. no one can say that my own particular interest in spiritual matters ever gone the way of signs. i do not want to be distracted in any way from what the president has asked me to do. >> we have time for one more round of questions. >> can you say a little bit about the flap could you got about a that? why s

they also got what you would call quality losses against missouri state and north carolina state, teams both in the top ten in the rpi right now. hargrove back to reed. auburn gets sloppy with it and hargrove travels. >> daymeon: wow. you saw awhile ago, four turnovers, aim he sorry four field goals totaling. right now, his biggest strength can be his biggest weakness. he goes 100 miles per hour and the staff loves that but he has to learn to switch speeds sometimes and slow down on the offensive end. >> matt: evans late time in their last ballgame. zeglinski. that is his second three-pointer. >> daymeon: if you are an auburn player you have to know where he is on the floor at all times. >> matt: ross. and zeglinski with the rebound for the cavaliers. sophomore out of philadelphia. jeff lebo really wanted to get landesberg out of the paint. did everything but knocked down that shot. half waydown. sherrill's defense forcing them to put up a bad shot. >> daymeon: the size of sherrill making it tough for lucas hargrove. usually have some type of advantage, or size, and right now sherrill i

mccain: i'd dwreeld for yield for a question from the senator from north carolina.and then the senator from tenton. mr. burr: i would make this point and ask this question: the senator set out this this debate and he targeted two things -- quoalt and savings. he assured the american people we were going to save health care and maintain quality. would it not be accurate to say that as you take moneyway from home health that, one, you remove from that population that tool that maintains disease, that keeps that from getting worse, and you chase seniors back to the hospitals for the services? so, one, the acoul acuity of the senior patient is much worse. two, the cost of the delivery of the sel service because by the time they hit the hospital it has deteriorated. so we don't decrease the costs. we increase it. from the standpoint of the quality, the outcome of the patient is worse because we put them in a hospital setting. is that not what we're trying to eliminate, i would ask the senator from arizona? mr. mccain: it seems to me. the senator from tennessee. mr. corke

foxx of north carolina. mr. holt of new jersey. mr. holt: madam speaker, today, members received another classified briefing on our policy in afghanistan, a briefing that raised questions that need answers before our country commits further troops. these are not loaded questions or simply rhetorical but real questions and some of the real questions that people in central new jersey are asking. with this proposed troop increase bring us closer to killing those responsible for the 9/11 attacks? if the al qaeda realm napts americans are seeking to capture or kill are on the pakistani side of the border or in yemen or east africa how will more troops help us to get those terrorists who attacked us on september 11 or might attack us in the future? should we send troops to where al qaeda isn't? should we expand our aerial strikes? would an escalation in air attacks do more good than harm? is our intelligence capable of giving our military and political leaders the intelligence they need to wage this war? given our lack of foreign language ca

it came to my attention this week that north carolina granite corporation, a small business in north carolina, was recently informed it lost a bid to supply cut granite for the national september 11 memorial. it was reported that they lost the contract to bidders in italy and africa. this is very disturbing and i hope the decision makers at the memorial will reconsider their decision to ship this important work overseas. the people of north carolina granite are highly talented work wers experience on projects such as the world war ii memorial in washington, d.c., who are eager to help complete the national september 11 memorial. in the midst of an economic downturn, it makes more sense than ever to use american craftsmen to help build a memorial in honor of those who sacrificed so much on that day eight years ago. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from colorado rise? >> i rise to address the house for one minute and revise and extend my remarks. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. >> mr. speaker, i rise to to speak in strong opposition

our senate, the north carolina senate and house passed a bill that um...rbitant. it's just too much. we really need this health reform any way. host: robert, you're a state employee? do you see yourself getting off your current plan and maybe getting public or maybe through an exchange plan or what? caller: without yeah. what has happened is i recently went for diabetic. i became a diabetic and i'm just on the pills riu now but i went to get diabetic education, and when i did that, they sent me back a bill that was you know, like $306 dollars. i turned around and they said what does your healthcare pay for this? because this is something to prevent you from losing a kidney or eyes and all this other type of thing. what they did was blue cross blue shield sent me back, we'll pay half but we're not going to pay it off. we'll have to wait until you lose a kidney or liver sore something before we pay the amounts and then we'll drop you. see what i'm saying? host: glenda in missouri. your on the air. caller: hello. i'm opposed because i was reading on your web

north carolina, 251,738. people enrolled in medicare advantage, who love the program. orth dakota, 7,633. ohio, 499,819. goo geewhiz, that's a lot of people who are satisfied with medicare advantage. oklahoma, 84,980. oregon, one of the most liberal states in the union, 249,993. pennsylvania, 864,040. puerto rico even, 400,991. rhode island, 65,108. south carolina, 110,949. these are senior citizens. south dakota, 8,973. tennessee, 233,024. texas, 532,242. my own state of utah, 85,588. vermont, only 3,966, but 3,000 people -- 4,000 people in vermont. virginia, 151,942. washington, 225,918. west virginia, 88,027. wisconsin, 243,443, and wyoming, 3,942. these are people who benefit from medicare advantage that would not like to get off of it. well, this choice in coverage has made a difference in the lives of more than almost 11 million people. 11 million individuals nationwide, families that benefit from this. the extra benefits that i had mentioned earlier are being portrayed as gym memberships as opposed to lower premiums, copayments and deductibles. let me read you so

think in north carolina. and convinced them to let him go to harvard. ben bernanke's parents were somewhat reluctant to let them go. and one thing they told caymanian who later became a professor of the history of science at mit was that they were worried that he would lose his jewish identity by going to harvard. ken manning, this black guy assured them that actually there are in boston also. >> and in fact, ken manning because he had become friendly with this family of a jewish pediatrician in north haven connecticut whose mother lived in brookline, he made sure that ben bernanke went to rosh hashanah services is first year in hard and took him to brookline for rosh hashanah dinner. bernanke told his parents have always been upset that can mannings down more meaning and judaism than he did. [laughter] >> but it turned out all right for both of them. bernanke goes to harvard. he gets a phd in economics, mit. is a shy, introverted guy. a fan of baseball statistics which seems to be a habit of central bankers.

consider the case of north carolina, which is in recent years lost a lot of textile and furniture-making and tobacco jobs. and has directed a lot of funding to research institutions creating one of the largest and most important bio tech centers in the centers. i met a woman named rerega whitiker who right out of high school went to work in a textile plant and as production started to shift to latin america and asia, she started to get nervous that she was going to lose her job and she took advantage of a new training program that north carolina created for workers like her to train her for an entry level job in biotech and when i met her she was working as a lab technician at a company, a biotech company spun off from rj reynolds and now they're using it and repurposing it to use the term of art to try to attack alzheimer's. well, this is precisely the sort of transformation that our whole country has to go through. and i want to note, though, that we don't necessarily need the next big thing to be a big thing. and we should remember that constantly looking for that next big thing is pa

the sophomore out of spartanburg, south carolina, dropped 29 in the dome against north carolina. bill: he's really a good all-around player. here you see in transition, presbyterian running out and attacking pressure. that time holmes off the dribble. coach nibert told us today that one-on-one, he's the best player he's ever coached. and he said he finishes at the basket better than any player he's ever coached. so those two qualities will bode well for this presbyterian team. when you got a guy that can put 29 on carolina in chapel hill, you got a basketball player. matt: holmes, the sophomore out of chesny high school is the leading scorer for this team. right now, presbyterian having a tough time getting that lid off the basket. a lane violation and holmes is going to get another opportunity. bill: florida has checked derek murphy into the line-up. another big guy. they've got walker back in now and murphy back in. murphy has that shoulder issue. that bruised shoulder that's been a factor and they need to get him on the court and get him some experience going into conference p

when i go back as governor, i'm bringing the people of north carolina with me.the difference is leadership. >> pat mccrory for governor. >> again, taking an issue or personal safety, crime, which is, often hard to use in a campaign. reason it is hard to use often hard to distinguish yourself from the other side. in this instance he was able to use an opponent, not his exact opponent. running against a lieutenant governor but able to use the person who was part of that administration to be the difference in the campaign. it wasn't directly attacking perdue, but he was attacking raleigh and what was going on in raleigh at the time. we had an issue important to people in terms of growing problem of gangs in north carolina, in all the cities was a problem. as republican if you do well in the cities you will win. rural areas are more republican. we had shared values in terms of better safety for my family and better safety for myself. we had a differentiation with our opponent wasn't draebt directly our opponent, republican outsider what was going on in state capital

what they have done for example,, they have on a trash heap bid north carolina they are sucking all the methane guest. 23 more times as powerful as carbon dioxide. they turn that into co2 which lowers dioxide levels. google pays them to do it because google gets the greenhouse guest credits because they are destroying methane. what does google do? they say we are curbing neutral but if the government mandates you have a credit to run a factory, a power plant, than general electric is making becomes worth, morrice to make maybe that is capitalism but but since the guest of this insurer is a global power company building coal-fired power plants in the third world. they have clean-air plans that appear that in effect but what else happens if you tax coal effectively? you make a few were american companies by coal, it is cheaper for the third world to buy coal. the nuclear power plants are getting subsidized day of the coal-fired kidding cheaper coal but ge and atheist did not invest station ventas. it was stopped in 1990 and that company was called enron but ge picked up the windmills and

with that i yield two minutes to the gentleman from north carolina, mr. etheridge. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized for two minutes. mr. etheridge: permission to revise and extend my remarks. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. mr. etheridge: thank you, mr. speaker. i thank the gentleman for yielding. i thank mr. rangel for his hard work on this legislation. i support the bill. the tax extenders act of 2009 reduces taxes by more than $30 billion for individuals and businesses that support small businesses and fuel job growth. to help create high-tech jobs, h.r. 4213 extends r&d tax credit. north carolina's growth has been supported by technology and the health and energy industries. the r&d tax credit is vital to this sector of the economy, a sector that spurs innovation and creates new jobs across america. h.r. 4213 extends accelerated cost recovery credit for retail improvements and incentivizes more businesses to grow, retool, modernize,'s expand their facilities. to help struggling their communities, the bill extend incentives like th

our senate, the north carolina senate and house passed a bill that um...ant. it's just too much. we really need this health reform any way. host: robert, you're a state employee? do you see yourself getting off your current plan and maybe getting public or maybe through an exchange plan or what? caller: without yeah. what has happened is i recently went for diabetic. i became a diabetic and i'm just on the pills riu now but i went to get diabetic education, and when i did that, they sent me back a bill that was you know, like $306 dollars. i turned around and they said what does your healthcare pay for this? because this is something to prevent you from losing a kidney or eyes and all this other type of thing. what they did was blue cross blue shield sent me back, we'll pay half but we're not going to pay it off. we'll have to wait until you lose a kidney or liver sore something before we pay the amounts and then we'll drop you. see what i'm saying? host: glenda in missouri. your on the air. caller: hello. i'm opposed because i was reading on your web page

the senator from north carolina. mrs. hagan: i rise in support of the amendment offered by the senator from maryland. this amendment tackles a serious problem: women are increasingly scripg health care screenings because of cost, even when they have health insurance this. summer i received an e-mail from a woman named julie in raleigh, north carolina, about her sister who had no insurance and waited years to get a mammogram because she couldn't afford to pay the $125 fee for a mammogram. then she found a lump in her breast. the mass grew so large that julie's sister finally got her mammogram and paid for it with cash much the mammogram confirmed what she had suspected -- that she had breast cancer. but now that she had a diagnosis, she had no way to pay for the treatment. she lost her battle with breast cancer in march of this year. julie's sister perhaps could have beaten this cancer if she had access to affordable preventive care and after her diagnosis access to insurance or medical care to cover her cancer treatment.

a software company in kerry, north carolina, sass, developed this technology.s amendment will require the department of health and human resources to put in place systems that will detect patterns of fraud and abuse before any money leaves our federal coffers. another source of waste in the system is people not sticking to their medication regiment. as much as one half of all patients in our country do not follow their doctor's orders regarding their medications. the new england health care institute estimates that the overall cost of people not following directions is as much as $290 billion per year. this waste can be eliminated with medication therapy management. that's a program where seniors bring all of their prescriptions in a little brown bag, their over-the- counter medications, their vitamin supplements to the pharmacy to be thoroughly reviewed in a one-on-one session. the pharmacist follows up and educates the patient about his or her medication regimen. north has has successful medication therapy management programs already in place. in 2007, the no

let me recognize the gentleman from north carolina, mr. kobul for his questions. >> thank you, mr. smith and thank you all for being with us. mr. von spakovsky, the attorney general recently told the "new york times" it is legal -- approved prior to laws that were enacted that prohibit acorn from receiving money. do you believe this is an accurate reading of the law? >> no. i've read the opinion released by the office of legal policy. i think it's quite a stretch to come up with that opinion. and it ignores, for example, the federal acquisition rules which specifically say that all government contracts have to have a provision in them that specifically say that all payments are "conditioned upon availability of funds." and congress has said there is no availability of funds. so i think they are misinterpreting the law. >> i concur with that. mr. caldwell, in north carolina's early days there was a popular presbyterian minister who answered to the name of david caldwell. any relation? >> no relation. >> he would have been a debt and sister . >> i may be related to him. >> a cousin?

i'd also like to address a remark made by my colleague from north carolina, dr. foxx, that she called this the biggest increase ever in the inheritance tax rate. again, this is a decrease, a decrease in the inheritance tax. yes, there is a one-year effect. for the year 2010 alone it's an increase, for every other year it's a decrease. instead of 55% and a $1 million, every dollar above a million would be taxed at 55% if we don't pass this in the year 2011 and beyond, we are reducing that, this is a substantial decrease, one of the largest decreases in the inheritance tax rate to 45% from 55% in 2011 and beyond. we are increasing the deduction, we are starting at $3.5 million estate, that's a $7 million estate for a couple that passes away instead of a $1 million deduction to be clear. i further like to make it clear that repealing the estate tax and replacing it with a capital gains tax on the increase in basis would be a tax increase as proposed by my colleagues on the other side of the aisle. this would be a tax increase for the upper middle class families. and

. >> steve: perhaps when north carolina won last year, maybe cole aldrich will be it this year and sherronollins. >> marques: great to have that inside/outside talent those two possess. >> steve: the crowd yells behind me.h"hñ)e a nice job wedging himself between two defenders. the jump stop. a bo-bo sighting in pauley pavilion. a positive sighting. >> steve: he had a good week in practice. with gordon out he7v$nhç gettina lot of playing time and his confidence, he knows he is going to get minutes now. >> marques: i'm not going to name names but talking with people close to the program they are not sorry to see drew gordon go. they liked him as a person. they thought his attitude was a bit of a distraction to the basketball team. it's going to mean more minutes and opportunities for guys like morgan. >> steve: anderson, it doesn't go. markieff morris. >> marques: their style of play is geared to their talent. >> steve: life is about fighting through challenges. >> marques: i don't care about the nba. i'm not preparing for the nba. i'm preparing guys to play here. >> steve: tyshawn taylor w

the other four schools with 1800 victories are north carolina, kansas, duke. good company. >> matt: the star watch, coach calipari and legenda lege rupp. today he could break the record. >> kyle: he has done everything right. he's saying all the right things and showing up in the right places. recruiting a great class. he has not lost a game at kentucky. being compared to adadollph ru rupp shows what he can do. >> matt: and john wall the freshman continues to grow with each passing game. john wall and the wildcats take on austin peay. starting line-up and opening tip up ne s ars are down and the wildcats putting on their customary opening at rupp arena. the best start since the 1998-'93 final four team started their year 11-0. number three in the espn and a.p. poll, won first place in each. the kentucky wildcats with john calipari joined eddie sutton and frank mcguire as the only three coaches to take three different teams to the top three rankings in the nation. the starting line-up for austin peay at 7-4, 2-0 in the obc. it's caleb brown, wes channels, and t

good morning, rufus, in north carolina. caller: i think some form of this is a good idea, anything except for those 2000 page or more monstrosities. they have a pretty good federal program and i don't see what they can clean that and the medicare and medicaid programs up. get rid of some waste. just one little example that i'm familiar with, medicare will rent a wheelchair for a patient for up to one year at about $150 per month and set of just buying a wheelchair for about $300 and giving it to the patient. such as that. i know that many of us believe that some of these medical programs are favored-giving programs. you have to know someone to get these programs and you get rich. some of the stuff they do is completely a regis. host: minnesota, edie. good morning? caller: hello. host: i'm sorry -- eddie. caller: i would like to see medicare for everybody. if everybody got on it for maybe $120 per month, then i'm sure we could probably get medicare back into solvency. it would probably be a lot cheaper. you realize that peop

[cheers and applause] out to little rock arkansas and from wilmington, north carolina -- in the northarolinian is here? [cheers and applause] from philadelphia pennsylvania, any pennsylvanians here? [cheers and applause] you that. and we've even been down to my home state of leesburg virginia and across the commonwealth. where are the virginians here? [cheers and applause] jeffersonville indiana, right there. you bet. we've been to evansville myself. across this country, the crowds were big and the passion is intense and we've learned something that we already knew, folks. when americans face a challenge, we stand up and fight for our freedom. and that is exactly what you're doing. [cheers and applause] that's exactly what you're doing today and every day across this country. out on the road at the defense i hear one question more than any other question and it's this: can one person really make a difference? you've heard that, right? [cheers and applause] all the grassroots activism and tea parties and town hall meetings, does that really make a difference? [cheers and applause] you

her development group further from her work and the southern states north carolina through mississippi photograph being in sharecropper's parker she made more photographs of people of color, approximately one-third of her total output to than any other photographer until gordon parks joined the staff at the very end of the project. this fact is not well known because she did not own or control any of the photography but there was all property of the federal government and she was supposed to send roth, undeveloped film to washington. they distributed free of charge to media but they decided what to distribute and what they considered acceptable to the mainstream. a few years later, when she tried it once again to do something that she controlled she defied not only the u.s. government and unanimous public opinion but the organized left two which many friends be launched in the art risque opposition to the internment of japanese-americans, which i don't have time to go into now but i will let you know, , if you are interested, that is a few years back. with norton i also put out date of

when you see north carolina growing clean energy jobs at twice the rate of overall jobs or tennessee, or iowa, growing clean jobs at seven times the rate of the average, or south dakota, who mentioned to beat them all with 19 times the job growth in the clean energy sector than overall job growth, we know that it's common sense and good for our economy. when we receive billions of dollars going to other countries, many of whom might not have our security interest at heart, and every year, see ourselves despite rhetoric of after rhetoric, watching our increasing reliance on fossil fuels and on oil that comes from offshore, leave us vulnerable, we know that energy independence is a common sense solution for our country and for hour national security. but for me, most importantly, when we see polluted air, when i see water that is literally in parts of our nation today making people sick, when we experience historic droughts or in my beloved hometown, horrendous historic flooding, we know that clean energy is just fewer common sense for our environment, for reducing climate pollution, re