i think when you look at the other side we ought to move to north dakota because it seems to be the only state doing well but the only states doing well are north dakota, wyoming, states that have had somewhat of an energy base but as i say when you look at the number you have over 20 states, revenue, personal income tax losses between ten or 20% that means it is pretty broad. >> i just want to add it's interesting to us because if you look at the mid 70's period were early 80s early 90's you still have as raymond said a fair amount of states anywhere from six to a dustin doing fairly well primarily because energy. this is a very different universal with exception of a very small handful of states like wyoming, north dakota. you see this across the country in every region whether it is economy.com, philadelphia reserve, any data shows universal virtually 50 state downturn. yes? >> ai blogs wondering why you think this means for bond financing. will states shy away from it because they are expecting lower revenues or will they turn to bond financing to try to fill in gaps? >> i think it i

the presiding officer: the senator from north dakota. mr. dorgan: madam president, as i have indicated previously, the underlying bill on which we're going to have a cloture vote is bipartisan with over 50 cosponsors here in the united states senate? the last congress. republicans and democrats alike have supported it. we're apparently going to have a cloture vote that some, scwumming by what one of my colleagues said earlier, some feel they have to vote against cloture to stop this bill because they feel their right to amend was obstructed despite the fact that their right to amend was explicitly agreed to so, you know, working on bad information is thought a good way with which to vote, in my judgment. let me just make an important point. i indicated earlier, this is one of the few pieces of legislation that will be brought to the floor of the senate that actually reduces the federal budget deficit by close to $550 million. that's pretty unbelievable but the most important issue here, really, two issues. one is at a time when we are seeing

sorry, senator from north dakota. >> madame president, the senate is not in order. >> the senate will be in order. senator from north dakota. >> madame president i asked senator durbin be recognized following my presentation. >> without objection. >> madame president i just want to compliment senator don for his work on this bill and senator enzi and so many others. i want to make sure the record notes something we just agreed to today. symbol wondered what has happened to the legislation i indicated i would offer on this piece of -- on the bill of which we had a cloture vote. the real importation of prescription drugs. now, i intended to offer on this. i have received from the majority leader a commitment that put on the calendar under rule 14 and brought to the u.s. senate for a vote and he will do that very soon. on that basis, i voted for cloture. i know my colleague senator snowe, senator mccain and senator stabenow and many others feel very strongly about this, as to why. we've been at this eight or ten years. it's been a long, long time and the support allowing theory importati

and senator conrad also from a north dakota appreciate that as a resource to their states, -- their state, so even though they are democrats, even though you might ordinarily put on the other side of a column, when it comes to oil and gas production issues -- i think, again, it comes down to who they represent and the industries that provide for jobs and resources, so i think it is making sure that amendments are good and balanced, and we might be able to claim their support. >> do you expect any further changes into the bill? >> i do not think there is anything -- our amendment list is getting to be pretty trashed. no, it looks like everything we had out there was cleared or withdrawn. >> center, just to clarify something. -- senator, just to clarify something. revenue sharing. does it have to be both? >> that, i do not know. again, you are never quite sure how deep that line is that was drawn in the sand. i feel so strongly that in order to get meaningful production that that revenue sharing has got to being -- it has got to be part of the deal. but, sometimes, sometimes you have

north dakota is doing a terrific job up there in advancing their oil and gas reserves. and i think senator dorgan and senator conrad also from north dakota appreciate that as a resource to their state. so even they are democrats who are, you might ordinarily put on the other side of the column when it comes to oil and gas production issues, i think again it comes down to who they represent and the industries that provide for jobs and resources. so i think it's making sure that amendments are good and balanced and might be able to claim your support. >> over your. >> do you expect any further changes of the carbon capture title of the energy bill? >> i don't think there is anything -- our amendment list is getting to be pretty trashed. no, it looks like everything we had out there was either cleared or withdrawn. >> to clarify something, do you think that's where a lot of your college on the republican side of the packaging deal it has to be both, or simply you just need to bring more votes on that? >> that, i don't know. that i don't know. and again, you're never quite

i think when you look at the other side we ought to move to north dakota because it seems to be the only state that is doing well but the only states doing well are no dakota, wyoming to the states that have had an energy base the when you look at the number you have over 20 states of personal income tax losses between 10 and 20% and that means it is pretty broad. >> i want to add it is interesting to us because if you look at the mid-70s when the early '80s and '90s is still have a fair amount of states anywhere from six to a dozen doing fairly well primarily because of energy in this is very different and very universally exception of very small handful of states like wyoming and north dakota. you see us across the country in every region whether economy.com, philadelphia federal reserve, any data shows basically universal virtually 50 stay downturn. all. >> bond financing, will states shy away from it because they are expecting lower revenues or will they turn to bond financing to fill the gaps? mack i think it is going to be depending on the states, i think the overwhelming majority

i went to north dakota in the badlands, the western edge. that is where he spent his ranging days, a theater roosevelt. he wrote an incredible book called "the wilderness hunter." there was an incredibly informed writing about the biology, the ecosystem of the badlands. he knew more about the badlands than any person alive 100 years ago. i fell in love with that particular american landscape. i was teaching at hofstra university with the late jon gabel, a professor to died of cancer, john and i posted a presidential conference. i was co-chair on theater roosevelt. i had papers coming in from everywhere. john helped me realize there had never been a book written on theater roosevelt on conservation. there was an diversity pres forum of a little bit of notes. i had a great opening there. i realized that between the civil war, the emancipation proclamation, and the second -- the first world war, roosevelt using the white house to promote conference erasicons, involvement with the audubon society, saving birds, and the u.s. fish and wildlife in

i think when you look the other side and we all ought to move to north dakota because it seems to be the only state that is doing well but the only states doing well are north dakota, wyoming, states that have has son of an energy base but as i sank when you look at the 20 states revenue personal income tax losses between 10 and 20%, that means it is pretty broad. >> i just want to add it is interesting to us because if you look at the mid '70s or the early eighties or early 90's, you still have as race and a fair amount of states, anywhere from six to a dozen doing very well primarily because of energy and this is a very different in their universal with the exception of very small handful of states like boiling in north dakota, you see this across the country and every region whether economy.com, philadelphia federal reserve, any data shows basically universally 50 stay downturn. >> [inaudible] i was wondering what you think it means for a bond financing, will states shy away because expecting lowering but will try and fill the gaps? >> i think it is going to been depending on the

i think when you look at the other side, we all ought to move to north dakota because it seems to be only state that's doing well. but the only states that are doing well with north dakota, wyoming, states that have had some what of an energy -based. when i say, when you look at the number, you had over 20 states revenue personal income tax losses between 10 and 20%. that means it's pretty broad. >> i just want at all so it's really interesting for us because if you look at the mid- 70s period for the early '80s or early '90s, you still had, as ray said, there was a fair amount of state you had anywhere from six to a dozen doing fairly well. primarily because of energy. this is a very different, very universal with the exception of just a very small handful of states like wyoming and north dakota. you see this across the country in every region. whether it's economy.com, philadelphia reserve, any data shows virtual antistate downturn. [inaudible] i was wondering what you think this means for bond financing, will states shy away from it goes they are expecting lower revenues or will t

i went to the badlands of north dakota. it's the western edge. that's where t.r. spent his ranching days as a cowboy and did some hunting. he wrote incredible books, particularly called "the wilderness hunter." the in-between was an incredibly informed writing by the biology, the ecosystem as we call it today of the badlands. roosevelt knew more about the badlands than any persona live 100 years ago. i fell in love with that particular american landscape. i was teaching at hofstra university with the late john gable who died unfortunately of cancer. we co-hosted a hofstra presidential conference. i was co-chair on theodore roosevelt. i had papers coming in from all over. i started realizing and john gable helped me realize this that had never been a book written on t.r. and conservation, t.r. on the wilderness of any magnitude. there was a little bit of note so i had this great opening. i started realizing that between the civil war, the emancipation proclamation of lincoln and world war i with woodrow wilson, roosevelt using the white house to promote conservatio

so, when people talk about wind energy -- that is places like north dakota and kansas who have a lot of wind. they cannot wait to get wind energy. but in places in the southeast we have on oil and gas, but not much wind on shore. we do have wind offshore. that is what this does not break down between democrats and republicans. it breaks down by region. some places have a lot of coal, some have a lot of gas. nuclear is interesting because it can pretty much go anywhere if people allow the plants to be built. it is about one part of the country saying we have these resources and want everyone to use a because there will make money. then it would cost my taxpayers more to have to buy wind from north dakota when they have natural gas in their backyard. that is what the debate is about and it is always a very heated debate on energy. host: missouri, on at the independent line. caller: good morning, y'all. guest: y'all, i heard that. caller: a comment on our energy policy. we should set a policy to reduce it each year the amount of oil consumed because it is a great pollutant. i basically

the presiding officer: the senator from north dakota. mr. dorgan: mr. president, the legislation that is now the business of the senate on which we will have a cloture vote at 5:30 today is legislation that probably demonstrates once and for all that agreement is near impossible in this body. if you can't agree on tourism, what can you agree on? tourism ought not be the subject of very substantial controversy, and yet it is. last week in "roll call" it says "senate g.o.p. still saying 'no.'" the quote is when they bring bills up, we're going to extend the debate as long as we can, block everything. this piece of legislation is very simple and it's bipartisan. democrats and republicans have supported this. i was the author of it. we've got republican and democratic cosponsors. it is the travel promotion act. travel promotion. why should we promote travel? well, because if you watched the u.s. open golf tournament today, you might have seen the country of turkey advertising during that golf tournament. yes, they were running an advertisement for turkey sa

the presiding officer: the senator from north dakota. many dorgan: if i my make -- mr. dorgan: if i may make one additional point. unfortunately, in politics, there's too much of my team and your team. but in this situation, i would that thought this was our team. republicans and democrats working together that we both sponsored. on a bill that's going to reduce the budget deficit by half a billion dollars and at a time on a bill that when we're in a deep reregrecession promotes tour toe to this country who on average spends $ 4,500, to help us create new jobs. we have a substantial number, hundreds of thousands, 633,000, in fact, 633,000 fewer visitors to the united states from overseas than we had in the year 2000. think of that. 633,000 fewer people visited this country from overseas than did in the year 2000. every other country is experiencing a very substantial increase. france, england, italy, yugoslavia -- not yugoslavia, again, i made the mistake, it's turkey and japan and india and so many other countries, kosovo. they're all advertising, all pushing for inter

>> i think the senator from north dakota would prefer to call it dorgan. >> i apologize but that is the same amendment. i know the issue has been raised by senator enzi. that is the question of whether or not, whether it was the cochran or roberts language -- is it part of this bill or not? i don't know the answer to that? >> according to senator mccain's staff, it is not in here. they put safety provisions in there. they always mention that. i have gotten a copy of the cochran-roberts language which places some requirements for safety certification before the bill can go into effect, which is what we've always passed when this bill has come up. at some point they figure that with that amendment in there, it's a worthless bill. but i would ask unanimous consent to be able to offer this second degree amendment to the mccain amendment. >> mr. chairman, it's fine with me. let's have no doubt who wrote that, pharma and no doubt about the effect of it. it will kill the bill. you can vote for it, but it kills the ability to re-import drugs. let's not have the charade. i would be glad to do wh

i don't pretend to do as persuasive a job as senator dorgan of north dakota does, but we will hear arguments from the pharmaceutical industry of why the and then it should not pass. the most powerful lobby in washington today is a pharma who exercise their muscle with great frequency in contribute millions of dollars to campaign coffers. so, i understand the opposition here. we had a little intercepted e- mail from than the other day when senator dorgan and i were going to try to get on the floor and the arguments were that we needed, they needed to contact various people in order to stop this. they will argue they are not safe and that the fda does not have the resources to ensure the safety of imported drugs, but let's be clear, the almighty pharmaceutical industry's real concern is competition. the almighty pharmaceutical industry's real concern is competition. any claim that imported drugs will be dangerous is inaccurate. safety of imported drugs is of utmost concern and this would require drug wholesalers to register with the fda and institute strict safety requirements including manufa

i come from the state of north dakota.i learned to fly many years ago and i have been on airplanes, small airplanes with a lot of build up on the wings, watching with flashlights. i have flown in a lot of i sing with pilots and with others. so i think it is an important question -- how much training exists before someone is put in a cockpit for this specific kind of conditions likely to encounter? i want to ask about this issue of the time in an airplane because i think that is also important. in the buffalo crash we were told that that carrier had had a training, they train their pilots on the stick shaker but not the stick pusher and so if that is the case i guess the first question in mind is if you're in a cockpit with a device called a stick pusher which is going to be a device that is going to automatically move you toward a some sort of that safety function in that fight, and have never had experience with it or not been trained in it, is that a significant efficiency and how could that happen? capt. prater, can you

they spent the winter in what is now just an area about 40 miles north of bismarck, north dakota. and we celebrated the 200th bicentennial of the lewis and clark expedition and we had a lot of people come from around the tworld see that. the fact is, every -- the world to see that. the fact, is every state in this country has something that it is anxious to show the twocialtiond say look at us, look at what we're doing here, look at how beautiful this part of america is. and so what has happened is we have been unilaterally disarmed since 9/11 to say, well, we're worried about who's going to come into this country. we certainly want to keep terrorists out. we sure do, absolutely. but that message ought not be mixed with the message that we don't want to encourage foreign travelers to come to this country to vacation and to experience what america is. so at last, at long, long last, a group of us, republicans and democrats, have said, you know, if we disagree on so much, how about if we agree on tourism? can we agree on promoting trav travel, to say to the english, the italians, th

working with the national guard and north dakota and minnesota and provided some active duty forces to back them up at the request of the federal emergency management agency and we prepossession six aircraft. >> pardon me, you said your requests came from fema to you? does that have to originate at the state level? >> senator, the process by which we would activate north comm. would be at the request of the state and we wouldn't have assets within either the national guard or other federal assets and was appropriate. we would mission to ask the folks at north comm. to provide assistance. one thing we have done that goes back to the issues the chairwoman raised previously a lot of times these would be requested we haven't planned ahead of time. what we've done is after katrina and then after the hurricanes last year, we had developed what we call a pre-scripted mission which is essentially we put together the type of things we would be likely asking for from north comm.. we write these missions clearly what we are trying to accomplish and then north comm. trains those resources and h

guard in north dakota and minnesota and we provided some of active duty forces to back them up at the request of the federal emergency agency and we prepositioned -- >> pardon me, so you say your request can come from fema to you. now, does that have to originate at the state level? >> senator, the process by which we would activate northcom would be at the request of the state and we would not have assets either within your national guard. we would mission task the folks at norcom to derive that assistance. this goes back to some of the issues that madam chairman had raised about previously. a lot of times these would be requests that we had not planned ahead of time. what we've done is after katrina and then after the hurricanes last year, we have developed what we call a prescripted mission which is essentially -- we put together the types of things we would be asking for northcom trained those resources and has that ready to go rather than trying to describe our call up pieces to do something we could activate a mission package that norcom can go through our mission if it exceeds

to north dakota is theodore roosevelt national park. you are going to see buffalo in the wild, antelope. it's one of these great places in america. summers in montana, you are getting a lot of forest fires now. the whole skywmÑ is just lit up hope any the obama administration will do more to protect the missouri river. it's prayerry lands. so often, we haven't trezz you'red. these areas, i feel more happy in. better than the coast. >> had you been working on this wuke? >> i was. i have a pangs and have been collecting. roosevelts papers i had in harvard. library of congress has his papers on micro feachfeesh what has happened is people are looking in his correspondence for issues of panama canal. t.r., when he trained in san antonio had to have animals around him. he had a cougar cub, a gold eagle and a dog. to train his men, he had three animals with him all the time. he would write letters about the cougar biting a man's foot. in the white house, he had a pony in the elevator and a pet badger that he would feed potatos. he didn't have

. >> byron dorgan of north dakota, they are doing a terrific job and they are advancing the oil and gas reserves, i think that sen. dorgan and conrad appreciate that as a resource to their state, even though they are democrats who you may ordinarily put on the other side of the column when it comes to oil and gas production issues, this will come down to, who they represent and the industry that provides for jobs and resources. this is making certain that the amendments are balanced, you may be able to claim their support if this is balanced. >> are there any other changes to the energy bill? >> i do not know if there is anything -- the amendment list is -- everything that we had out there was clear for withdrawn. >> to clarify something do you think that for the colleagues that this is a package deal, or is this enough to bring more votes? >> this i do not know. you are never quite certain how deep the line is that has been drawn in the sand. i feel so strongly that in order to get meaningful production, the revenue sharing has to be part of the deal. but sometimes, sometimes you have

way, as one of my friends said, the long, dark years of dubya, there are no medieval knights in north dakota call it harley-davidson riders. history doesn't play a part in the formation of contracts. one of the cleverest things, of the most misleading things to describe the united states, the united states of amnesia. the impression that history doesn't matter to the american people is derived by the mind numbing phenomenon of social studies textbooks. can we, philadelphia, famous for firebrand causes, tonight in this room, at this moment, launched a campaign to abolish the dreaded word social studies? yes! [applause] we are going to call it history! history is about flesh and blood, memory. beach blockbusters are another door stopper in the life of benjamin franklin. john adams, alexander hamilton, americans live and brief history. it is the supreme court to interpret the wish of the founding fathers every day. it is in fashion to make the constitution that living, breathing, organic thing, work. or the closest to the british -- who tried to educate his own countrymen in britain on the vita

the presiding officer: the senator from north dakota. mr. dorgan: mr. president, i ask consent the quorum call be vacated. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. dorgan: mr. president, i want to visit about two things today, the first of which is a bill that we passed out of the senate energy committee earlier this morning, and i want to give a little context of what we've done, because what we've done will perhaps not get as much notice as it should but it will be headed to the floor of the united states senate to deal with energy policy and it affects everybody virtually all of the time. all of us who get up in the morning, we in most cases use our hands to flick a switch and turn something on, or we plug something in or we turn a key and we have an engine, w we hava light bulb, we have a toaster, we have an electric razor. in every way, energy affects our lives in a very profound manner. and what we did today has a significant impact on that. first let me describe part of the challenge. out of this planet every single day, we stick little stra

cases they are roommates where there are a couple of kids from the york and southern california or north dakota and pr, and that breaks down walls and creates more understanding. >> most of those places have the first amendment. >> as you know, john, when you are preparing the guests on the show, you tell them to remember these are students from all over the country. it keeps the politicians honest. they have to answer these questions. >> it is challenging for them. they make assumptions about the audience and the ideas they have. >> we have a student here. welcome to close up at the newwseum. >> since you have been around for over 30 years, i know you have experienced a lot of changes in administration, congress, and it to american history. i was wondering, what was one of your most memorable stories about american history that you covered through the 30 years that you have been here? >> that is a good one. the fall of the berlin wall, it is hard to beat that. we were actually there covering history as it unfolded. most of the time, our show is not a news show. we look at things with prospecti

corporate income tax. 2009, current fiscal year, revenues exceeded expectations and wyoming and north dakota only which tended to be anomalies and we had budget gaps which forecasts were not meant in the 38 states. i would not be surprised as we end this fiscal year on june 30 that that number might grow. specifically sales tax collection was 3.2% lower, personal income tax, a 6.6% from a corporate income-tax, a 15. 2% this fiscal year over the last but unfortunately, i believe based on very recent anecdotal data those numbers may understate the decline in the tax revenue situation at the end of this particular fiscal year. what we finish up with the report conclusions on a balanced levels as a rainy day fund coupled with the end of the day balance it is another good indicator of fiscal health and what we have seen is they are down but they still lag in terms of the fiscal situation they look a little better than the actual fiscal situation. we see balances are currently over 5% of state expenditures. that is a fairly significant decline from about 9% last fiscal year away and roll over 10%

north dakota, good morning. caller: i just wanted to first thank you for this discussion. for understanding that there are people dying in to run right now. they tried, not because they love him, but because they want a leader to help not because of the weapon. sorry that i am shaking right now. somebody, please, many people have died. i just want to tell the american people to hear the young voices from iran. they hate the regime, they hate ahmadinejad. that is why we were the symbol. they were better than the worst case, which was ahmadinejad. please just hear the young people. say that please, if you hear me , do not say that you will sit at the table with ahmadinejad. host: you are originally from iran? caller: by m. i have been living in america for 10 years. i want to thank the newspapers for writing about this because of the injured and journalist. -- injured journalist. i understand that ahmadinejad is a stupid person. he is going to attack everyone. host: what kind of contact have you had with any friends or relatives over the weekend regarding the election? calle

senator conrad brought it up as you know, from north dakota and can you give us a few minutes? >> not particularly. i would rather have one of my colleagues here who is closer to that conversation but let me set it up with a sense to a bridge to many of the concerns that people fear that i think you will take us to in just a second so what about mental health? i am struck is a comparison with 1993 and today the contrast between we know now that was not going to happen on the one hand. on the other hand, we have a task force led by mrs. gore focusing 100% on mental health issues but this time around these folks are much more knowledgeable seem to think it will happen and i cannot identify one person who is in all the central in these conversations. it is not necessarily a bad things that parity has now been established and a lot of the land. but i still gets a little nervous because the most recent piece of big legislation that i have passed, the recovery act, if you said one doesn't and economic depression -- depression has anything like clinical depression, how much specific t

quill verses north dakota decided it was own rouse to ask catalog companies to pay tax on those out oftate sales. just the 7,000 tax jurisdictions in america. in kentucky, cotton candy is taxes as candy in ohio it's taxed as food. there's no way for us to know the tax rates on every product in 7,000 places for that reason it's impossible for them to tax. however they're talking about getting around that by creating database updated and then they would argue that knocks down that objection. but still there's about 07' pse&g 80 percent americans against paying taxes on internet purchases. it would wipe out e-bay because everybody would start to have the to pay and collect taxes and thus. the internet is a friction less environment now and that would impose it on that. >> it's happening at the state level and it's also, congress is looking to pass law to enable it, that sort of enables getting around, enables the central data base to get around the objection from the supreme court. the state legislators are starting to sort of reach and try to find ways through that. could the states make

uh, that was north dakota. ah, you're right. you're right. minnesota -- you got the yoopers.hat would be michigan. uh, upper peninsula, u.p. -- "yooper." oh, yeah. you ever meet prince? no. >> the lakers defended their home court advantage in game one. now, kobe bryant just three wins from a fourth ring. the magic have surprised in the underdog role throughout the playoffs and know how to fight back. game two of the nba finals. coverage begins sunday at 7:30 eastern on abc. >> sunday game two of the nba finals. the magic hope superman emerges from his fortress of solitude. l.a. held dwight howard to just one field goal in game one. orlando had no answer for kobe bryant who had 40. >> no, feel like i'm a much better player now than i was last year. i feel like i've improved a lot, areas of my game i needed to work on, i worked on those and i think i'm better because of it. >> right now, my plan would be to play in the same rotation but again, like i said yesterday, i thought it was a mistake to play in his first game back -- to play jameer 12 straight minutes. i thought he pla

in north dakota, the estimate has gone up by 25 fold, 2500%, the amount of oil available. natural gas has produced a 100 years' supply of national-. we have three times the reserves of saudi arabia. brazil proved that you can go offshore, and they have gone from 10 billion barrels reserve to 90 billion barrels of reserves in the atlantic. kohl on the planet -- we have the largest supply of coal in the planet. that is an enormous potential asset. we have by officials and ethanol, new breakthroughs in hydrogen, wind, and solar. america today is artificially weakened by bad government policies, which favor imports over american energy. dowling to the saudi king is not an energy policy. [applause] for national security, for the national economy, we should keep the money here. the next grade building boom ought to be in denver, not to buy. the american people agree. we launched a petition drive of drill here, drawn-out, payless. it 79 percent of the american people agree that both for economic reasons and national security, we should develop american energy, and that it is a ke

airlines would serve my state would fly if the jet carriers into that city, one of four cities in north dakota with 720 sevens, had a pilot and copilot and flight engineer your and i assume the pilots that have been on those routes were probably pilots with less time in the company then somebody who'd been on a san francisco two-door reda root. so i understand that there are longer routes and bigger planes and so on are going to get the pilots with more expats. it just seems to me that the way this hub and spoke system has morphed is that the network carriers have decided, you know what, we're going to move a lot of these spokes onto a commuter carrier and that commuter carrier is going to be out there with smaller planes, in most cases. it's going to cost us less, although they're going to wear our name on the fuselage, but it's going to cost us a lot less because, frankly, they can be a carrier that we have perhaps 100% ownership of or substantial ownership but not the same contracts we have. so it will have pilots with less expense that they can hire for an entry-level of $18000 a year. it

airlines served my state, it would fly its jet carriers into that city, one of four cities in north dakota with 727's with a pilot, co-pilot, and flight engineer. i assumed they were pilots that have less experience and were bet on. i understand longer routes and the bigger planes are going to get pilots with more experience. the way this hub and spoke system has morphed, the network carriers have decided, we're going to move a lot of these spokes off to a commuter carrier. that commuter carrier is going to be out there with smaller planes in most cases. it is going to cost us less. we're going to wear our name on the fuselages. it will cost us a lot less, because frankly, it can be a carrier that we have perhaps 100% ownership of and not the same contracts we have. we have pilots with less experience at an entry level of $18,000 a year. you have, without the meeting a pilot or the pilot's ability, you do have the potential of a separate standard of capability. i'm talking about a separate standard of capability. the major question that started with a day is, the faa said in the mid-1990s,

most states except north dakota and texas are in a deficit. this is an economic collapse we have not seen since the second world war. this is a moment where we just have to deal with. it is not unreasonable for state governments to live on 97% of what they were doing produces. caller: i am a registered republican and was trying to get in on the independent line. i am a retired state california employee. i told the governor not to raise my taxes. if the illegal immigration thing is encouraged by the government because clinton passed the law -- because the mexican consulate has roving consulates, of a hand up this matriculate forms so that they can get a driver's license. we have to apply when i registered to vote, the first time i did, i filled up the application in the persian read it over and asked for my naturalization papers were -- and asked where was. and i said they were in a safe place a home. she said she could not register me until she saw them. now anyone can give a funny name and is encouraged by the government. the mayor of los ang

host: the next call is from north dakota. caller: i am calling from new jersey. lived in europe for 11 years. host: where? caller: i live in greece and travel south. when they are saying they could be more efficient -- as far as the quality of care. as far as cost goes, over here you have medicare, a certain amount of your paycheck. in greece is 16% from your paycheck and another 32% goes up to 48% in get horrible health care. in northern europe is even worse. i think it is 60% in france. there is so much waste because it is all government. the problem is we have the best health care in the world in america. it is expensive, but why? 30 years ago you never used to see advertisements -- lawyers. it is because of lawsuits. these class action suits. malpractice insurance. in europe the one good thing is that because the government does this they cannot be sued. that is why your name brand prescriptions are one-tenth the price. because the legal system has taken advantage. host: let's hear from the democratic line in canada. caller: i am so tired of hearing that amer

cases, they are roommates for the week, two kids from york, two kids from southern california or north dakota and for recovery -- and puerto rico. that creates more understanding between the students. >> most of those places have the first amendment. >> as you know, in the green room, when you are preparing the guests for the program, you tell them to remember that these are students from all over the country. it keeps the politicians honest. they have to enter these questions. >> it is challenging for them. economic assumptions about the audience and what kind of ideas they have. it is never monolithic. >> hello and welcome to close about the newseum. >> i am from washington, d.c. since you have been around for over 30 years, i know you have probably experienced many changes in administration, many changes in congress, and many changes to american history. i was wondering, what was one of your most memorable stories about american history that you covered through the 30 year you have been here. ? >> the fall of the berlin wall and that story -- it is hard to beat that. we were actually there

we recently responded to flood in the red river in the north in north carolina north dakota and we provided some active duty forces to back them up at the request of the federal emergency management agency. >> so you say your request also can come from fema to you? does that have to originate at the state level? >> senator, process by which we would activate northcom would be at the request of the state. and we would not have assets within either your national guard or other federal assets and if it was

the presiding officer: the senator from north dakota. mr. dorgan: i ask consent that the quorum call be vacated. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. dorgan: i ask consent to speak in morning business for as much time as i may consume. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. dorgan: mr. president, as this country tries to pull itself out of a very significant economic crisis, in which millions of americans have loss their jobs, lost their homes, lost hope there are a number of things that we have to do that also threaten the future of this country in addition to trying to restore some economic health and those are health care, to be

i believe the senator from north dakota's amendment and i would agree to a time agreement within an hour -- hour equally divided or half-hour equally divided and vote on it. but i think the american people ought to know whether we're going to be able to import prescription drugs into this country so to save them billions of dollars every year rather than take so much of their hard-earned money, especially retirees. mr. reid: madam president? the presiding officer: the majority leader. mr. reid: w we have been trying for two days to move forward on germane amendments. i have had several conversations with senator dorgan. i know how important he feels. i voted with him and you every time this matter has come up. and i would be happy, ace indicated here earlier, to work out some kind of an agreement on this. but at this time, until we get some ability to vote on the germane amendments, it just doesn't seem like the right thing to do. i'm willing, as i've indicated to my friend, senator dorgan, to work out some arrangement for him to offer this amendment. this is something that should have b

uh, that was north dakota. ah, you're right. you're right. minnesota -- you got the yoopers.gan. uh, upper peninsula, u.p. -- "yooper." oh, yeah. you ever meet prince? no. >> edwin jackson 4-1 with a 1 elephant 49 e.r.a. in his last five starts trying to finish off the angels. bobby abreu staring at a 97-mile-per-hour heater. vlad guerrero tips one at 99. torii hunter. helpless. jackson, complete-game four-hitter. he's got the second lowest e.r.a. in the a.l. >> keeping you current. defending champion rafael nadal is in doubt for wimbledon because of a knee injury. his coach and uncle told french radio r.n.c. that he's not too optimistic. nadal had already pulled out of next week's wimbledon warm-up grass court tournament at queen's club.

be thing that there are kind of know medieval knights clanking around rusty suits of armor in north dakota call harley-davidson riders. [laughter] but what they mean is that history doesn't play a part. they said absolutely not. one of the cleverest things and most misleading things he ever said was to describe the united states as the united states of ambition. the impression history doesn't matter to the american people is to arrive understandably by the mind numbing phenomenon called the social studies textbooks. [laughter] in fact, folks, can philadelphia famous for firebrand causes to light in this room at this moment launched a campaign to abolish the dreaded words social studies. [laughter] yes, take back the discipline. we are going to call it history. [laughter] [applause] because history is about flesh and blood, about memory and of course all you know that bleach blockbusters are in the life of benjamin franklin and david mcauliffe and alexander hamilton. america's live and breathe history in the way of which europeans understand because it is the supreme court in the first plac

this started with a very good idea -- an idea from the senator from north dakota -- but it has evolved into simply another name for a government-run insurance company. as we all know, a co-op, in its pure form, is a business controlled by its own members. co-ops form when communities unite to solve a common problem oir exchange goods or services. in arizona we have more than 100 co-ops all across the state. some communities use them to get fresh food, electricity, hardware, heating fuel, or create credit unions. a bloated washington-run health care bureaucracy forced upon the public is not a co-op. as michael leavitt has written in a soon-to-be published fox news articles, "a co-op that would be federally controlled, federally funded, and federally staffed sounds like the public option meets the new general motors." well, mr. president, in the era of the gm takeover, as we know, washington controls the purse strings, pays the bills, dick taits the rules. the same would be true of a washington health care co-op. as leavitt put it, washington health care would result in americans be co-o

and at least with respect to the closer of two dealerships with respect to north dakota it appears to me those folks will get in their pickup trucks and cars and drive a three-hour roundtrip we don't exr three miles very much but a three-hour roundtrip to get serviced. i think those questions need to be asked of you, did you consider all this until and finally sthrl a process for a dealer having heard from on high at 30,000 feet that your view was as described on ground. was there a process to say you know what? you made a mistake and we want to make a case to you and perhaps you have made some mistakes. i think it's important for you to answer those questions to dealers many of whom have been loyal for many, many decades to the automobile representatives here. >> thank you. senator snow? >> thank you. chairman rockefeller, welcome back. and thank you for holding this very critical hearing today, mr. chairman, because obviously we're all grappling with the devastating effects of the sad state of affairs when it comes to the domestic autosthri, the past leadership that did not provide

carries around to different bottles so i don't pretend to do as persuasive a job as my friends of north dakota but we're going to hear arguments from the pharmaceutical industry on why the amendment shouldn't pass and the most powerful lobby in washington is pharma and they exercise their muscle with great frequency income should be millions of dollars to campaign coffers. this i understand the opposition here. you are going to hear the industry. we had a little intercepted e-mail the other day when we were going to get in on the floor and the arguments were they needed to contact various people in order to stop this and they will argue they are not safe and argue that fda doesn't have resources to ensure the safety of imported drugs. but let's be clear, the almighty pharmaceutical industry concern is competition. any claim that important -- imported trucks is inaccurate, safety is of utmost concern in this amendment would require pharmacies and drug wholesalers to register eight yen is industry safe requirements including many fratricide inspections. additionally require strong anti counterfe

we undercare, and then have the pictures every year given by our colleagues by north dakota and southkota about how bad it is. yet we don't give them what we promised in the treaty we would, access to affordable care. let me tell you, accessing de d is care denied. having to wait is care denied. we can live up to our commitments and we can do all of it and not spend a penny more and we can get everybody in this country countried. we can eliminate low birth weight babies. we with can do the prevention we need, control chronic disease. but we can't if we won't listen and talk to each other and touk talk to people outside of washington who knows what's going on. like dr. cooper in texas. look at el paso schools. they put an exercise program in there that has dropped bmis, dropped the dropout rates, raised education, decreased drug use, and increased graduation rates. just through exercise because the new neuroscience today says that you learn 20% more if you've been exercising before you go into class. but we ought to incorporate all of that, all of the incentives to help us do what we w