>> no by proxy. >> senator berkeley? >> no. >> senator whitehouse? >> no. >> senator enzi? >> aye. >> senator gregg? >> aye. >> senator alexander? >> aye. >> senator burr? >> aye by proxy. >> senator mccain? senator hatch? senator murkowski. senator roberts? >> the senator is recorded. senator, would you like to be voted as aye? >> chairman kennedy? >> no by proxy. >> 14 ayes -- or no, 11 ayes, 14 noes. >> the amendment is not agreed to. senator murray? >> mr. chairman, we are now ready to accept murkowski number 23 as modified. ask unanimous consent it be accepted. >> any objections to senator murkowski number 23 as modified? without objection, the amendment is agreed to. next up? >> mr. chairman, we have a meeting. >> do you have a meeting. maybe it's just as wise at this juncture. my view would be as i said earlier, i know our republican friends have a meeting to attend. >> if i could ask, i know the republicans are going to leave, how many more amendments we expect on this? >> i have no idea where we are -- four? judd, do you have any further ones on this one? this sect

obey. >> no. mr. murtha. no. >> no. >> no. >> mr. edwards. >> no. >> mr. lewis. >> aye. >> mr. lewis a. mr. youngful >> aye. >> ms. granger, aye. >> on this motion, there are three ayes and five nays. the motion is not agreed to. are there further amendments? >> there is, mr. chairman, you have my amendment. >> why don't you explain it and the clerk will suspend reading. >> as we try to move the house side back to regular order, we have made some progress. but as you can see from the amendments we have not. i move that in lieu of the language proposed in section 14103 of the conference agreement, the house rescind language in the senate section in their entirety they prohibit the transfer, release or iven cars ration of any guantanamo detainees who are within the united states and require the administration's to submit a comprehensive plan of threat assessment for guantanamo detainees. as we all know, the montana signed the executive order to close guantanamo in january. more than four months later, there is still no evidence of a plan to carry out this order and no consultatio

>> no, sir. we had planned to have an appeal process. >> does dealers that were close when they were given their notice, they were closing, they did not receive a way to appeal. you announced that wednesday and thursday, the process was made, e-mail to everybody and they had until monday to submit their documents on appealing, right? spirit yes, they needed to submitted document. >> does chrysler have any appeal process for any dealers that were closed? >> no, sir. >> so, if i may, mr. press, then the dealers you do closer could have been some mistakes made? >> our situation i think it's different than general motors, and therefore the conditions are not really -- would be saved under favorable for having an appeal process. >> because of the short timeframe lacks spirit no, not the short timeframe. the reason is and general motors, i believe and i'm not totally aware, i think they have a term agreement which is not being renewed and there's a process to go through for nonrenewal. our situation is

no one confirmed the accusation. no one did anything. as time went on -- and a pattern was established in all of these cases, and this was typical of the amiraults. mrs. amirault was then in her late 60s. she was then accused. her adult daughter, cheryl, she was accused. it was alleged to be a family conspiracy to molest children. they were arrested. they were convicted in two separate trials. they were given enormous sentences. gerald amirault, being the male -- and you have to understand it is the rule in all of these cases that gender matters. if you were the male, you were seen as a major perpetrator, although if you were a lone woman, as kelly michaels was, the weight falls on you. anyhow, they were sent away to prison. and i began writing about them after mrs. amirault and her daughter had both served about six years and gerald had served eight years. and a couple of months after the first piece hit "the wall street journal," they were -- the women were released on a plea, and gerald was kept. and there began our fight to free gera

no indication of what that was and no summary. certainly no text. -- quote -- "i participated in a panel entitled sexual harassment how to practice safe employment." no explanation. next -- quote -- "i spoke on the united states judicial system." next, i spoke on the topic of lawyering for social justice. close quote. i discussed my life experiences and the role of minority bar organizations, close quote. i participated in a symposium on post conviction relief. i spoke on the execution of judgments of conviction. i spoke on the implementation of the hague convention in the united states and abroad, close quote. -- quote -- "i praised in a discussion on sentencing -- i participated in a discussion on sentencing guidelines. i praise pra*euted in a round table discussion and reception on the art of judging at this event. that would be nice to note what she thought about the art of judging. i contributed to the panel, the future of judicial review, the view from the bench at the 2004 national convention of the -- where the official th

>> no. >> it would take priority over that. >> no, it wouldn't. no. because it takes priority over messaging, not screening. messaging on breast cancer. okay? breast cancer is one of the five. cancer is one of the -- that's the fifth group actually. >> one of the successes we've had with breast and cervical cancer xreeng and it's been a great success has been in the media campaign and getting the information out. >> and they were not going to do anything any less than that when they were going to spend all this money and have a coordinated event. we're going to coordinate the message in terms of the media. we're going to chordor nate the same message. they can take the same program they're doing now. what we're saying we're going to take a new look at this and make it a priority. >> well, are we okay with that part? okay. >> take the strike out. >> the strike is taken out. good job, tom. >> thank you. >> i'd ask for all of those in favor of the modified coburn amendment as modified, say aye. >> mr. chairman? we don't have a forum. >> who had to make t

oh, no. no, no, no. you've got it wrong. we are already going to give them the money anyway, so it doesn't cost anymore. that's not reality. that's not the way it works. c.b.o. is right, $938 billion over five years. we had our president just maybe three weeks ago, four weeks ago, say, after spending this -- all these trillions of dollars, the president said, i'm going to ask my budget to cut a whopping $100 million from all their budgets across government. $100 million. that is this bill, just for one year. as the gentleman says, just one year. with the bottom line is, it's $938 billion over five years. you just can't have it both ways. you can't try and explain to the american people that you're really trying to do something good for them, but turn around and make it more difficult. i think our friends that are on the majority party don't understand that you just can't sneak up here to washington and do this and get away with it back home. people are going to pay attention to this madam speaker, at this time, i'd like to y

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i have no desire to make this hard. i have no desire to make it quick for the sake of making it quick. and she deserves to be challenged firmly and fairly and also she needs people to acknowledge that she has come a long way and has a lot to be proud of. thank you, all. >> if you can watch this program and all of the senate -- you can watch this program and all the visits at c-span.org. or you can what other recent programming by clicking on " america and the courts." join us for more at 7:00 p.m. eastern on saturday, on c-span. >> if president obama earlier this week delivered a speech from cairo, egypt. we will show you at 10:30 eastern on sunday, on c-span. >> our party needs a lot of work. >> sunday, mitch daniels on revitalizing the gop. >> look inward, think about how it can speak more meaningfully to the problems of today, to the americans of today, to the young people. maybe i can be a part of that. you did not have to be a candidate to do that. >> sunday night on c-span. also on satellite radio, or download the

oh, no, oh, no, no, no, it's here. it's right here. the full faith in credit of the united states is pledged to the payment of all guarantees issued under this section with respect to principal and interest. the term green portion means with respect to an eligible mortgage, the portion of the mortgage principal referred to in subsection 2 that is attributable as determined in accordance with the regulations issued by the secretary. so, we have a new government program and we're going to guarantee this with the full faith in credit of the united states. and on page 184, on april 1 or a later date established by the administrator under subconnection j of the calendar year in which the term offset credit expires, the owner or operator holds for purposes of filing, demonstrating compliance or allowance or a domestic offset credit. i read it because i cannot tell what you that means. on page 190 at the bottom of the page it talks about aljay. on page 189 we got renewable biomass -- algae. on page 189 we have renewable biomass. this is the t

no. >> no by proxy. >> no. >> no. >>> senator brown. >> no. >> senator casey. >> no. >> senator occasikagen. >> no, by proxy. >> senator murphy. >> no. >> senator whitehouse? >> no. >> senator enzi. >> aye. >> senator staalexander. >> aye by proxy. >> senator bird. >> aye by proxy. >> senator mccain? >> aye by proxy. >> senator mikulski? >> aye by proxy. >> senator kennedy? >> no, by proxy. >> i thank the clerk. further amendments, senator robert, you had an amendment you wanted to raise or senator enzi. >> i have one i would like to discuss based on what we discussed over the weekend. that would be enzi amendment number 2. >> clerk will distribute that amendment list. >> this is something i've been working on with senator bachus for a long time and he and i have agreed on a bill and it gets into the same area of liability. we need to make sure that there's some reasonable about the for people that have been injured to get paid and to get paid quickly, but there also needs to be some protection for the doctors to make sure they stay in the field. so we've come up with an award of grants to

yes or no? >> in our case, senator, no. >> in the parts of the appeal process that they have before june 9th or 12th, whatever that date is on the appeal process, is there any opportunity to extend that beyond the target date of when they have to sign? >> no. >> mr. chairman, i have plenty of questions and i know i have to go to another meeting. but i guess two documents i would like to have, if they can present them to us. one is i think senator johanns asked the question and that is in regards to your actual savings that you will achieve and chrysler laid that out in detail. i just looked through your testimony. it's kind of scattered through there. i would like a document that actually shows that. the same thing to gm. i recognize your issue about $1,000 a car. i want to know what you have calculated into the cost factor. the second thing is mr. henderson, you mentioned or both you did, actually, kind of aprocess you went through to determine dealerships and some criteria you used. you made a

>> we have no bond. the equity holders will receive approximately 29 cents on the dollar. >> 29 cents on the dollar. okay. here's my question. shareholders basically out of luck. bond holders, pennies on the dollar. dealers, not doing any better. i could go on and on. does it occur to you that in this process, as you were putting this together with the very large investment of tax payer dollars, in chrysler's case, that would be how much? >> well, we have received $3 million and $4 million for debt financing so far. there will be additional funds coming for the outlaying company. >> don't you think there was some justification for congressional oversight here? >> from our standpoint, the reality is our relationship with treasury has been one of -- as being a bank, being an investor in our company. they have been excellent to work with in terms of assisting us as an equity fund would, and the funds have really been invested in a way that the taxpayers' interests have been looked at very carefully. >> you

did you ever once think maybe not. >> no, no, no. i was never intimidated. i always knew the competition was fierce and i knew that, you know, once had to really find the right strategy to be able to win. but no, i have never been intimidated and always had great confidence in myself. >> all right. now. [applause]. >> you said during the run off that you released your secret weapon. no one saw coming, what was that secret weapon? >> women. [cheers and applause]. >> and just what did that secret -- those women do? >> everything. i mean,... they did everything. like i say, women from all walks of life, rural women, urban women, illiterate women, professional women, poor women, rich women, they all decided our time has come! [applause]. >> amen! >> amen, amen. i also noticed a lot of similarities in watching the documentary with, you know, a little event we had happen this year, november 4th, where the odds seemed against a particular person, but -- and when i say a lot of the similarities, i notice that you talked a lot about change, in your speech, in your sp

now, my understanding, there is no appeal. there is no appeal whatsoever. so we're all left, you know, from what i hear about the letter, if we sign it, we sign all our rights away. at one time we had a thing in west virginia where consumers, we wanted to video the closing so everything was above board, and i think the attorney general ruled on it that we took away our consumers' rights and i don't think you can do that. that's what they're doing to us. they're taking our rights away. >> thank you, sir. senator hutchison? >> thank you, mr. chairman. mr. whatley, did you get a call from chrysler earlier this year asking you to buy inventory to help the cpanm@ rrarrrrk%á@ @ ' the assurance that you have given to me and you have said that you plan to give. it's not forthcoming to them. so could you explain how it is that you are going to take this inventory from the dealers, you have mentioned 89% or 90%, but that isn't happening, at least they don't see it. so could you help me with that? >> yes, i will. thank you. >> and perhaps help them. >> of course. we h

so to say no is a respectable thing to do. but beyond that, i would like to think i have solutions to a lot of america's problems. not all of them, but i have ideas. they don't involve expanding the government. now some people say if you are against expanding the government, you are generally negative. that's not true. i am for the market and initiative and for entrepreneurship and for light taxes and regulation. in health care, insuring the un insured. the simplest thing, give them money. vouchers or a debit card loaded with a value. that's simple. that empowers individuals and not make them dependent on the government. host: i wonder in your life and you have said in "the washington post" and before that you were writing and teaching. did you ever consider running for office? guest: not seriously, i have lived in maryland since the mid-70's. and in 1982 some republicans wanted to know if i was interested in running for the senate. and i said no, there were only two republicans in maryland, as far as i could tell, i was one a

>> no. but if you wish to were we could arrange that. >> no. i don't want a trip to california. >> no. i think we're okay. we're not asking about that, this is a committee investigation and we would be exempt. >> can council answer that question for us? >> would you care to comment? >> we are official setting. this is an official of the u.s. congress. speech and debate protection certainly helps us, i don't think any of us will ask about the class action suit. the speech and debate clause. >> i thank the chairman. >> again, i thank the three witnesses. i want to make a comment on what ms. baiten said about myself. there are 435 congressman and every one of us, our job is to help constituents. i have four full-time caseworkers. mr. wright to my left here. -- was my district director at the time. i had christie and jody and ron and linda all intervened for you. i came in at the very end and talked to the president. but not just myself but every member of congress, we've helped hundreds, sometimes thousands of people every year. your case just hap

make no mistake about it. the regime in charge is the one that turns on and off the spigot of democracy. no matter who comes out on top in that election, and they have announced is mr. ahmadinejad, make no mistake about who is in charge. we have seen the brutality of that regime on the streets of tehran on our television screens of the last several days. he gives us all great cause for alarm. that is why we are calling on our allies across the world, as well as urging president obama to speak out strongly on behalf of freedom. we can make a difference for the iranian people. with that, i want to turn over to chairman mike pence who has been the primary sponsor of the resolution just pass. >> i want to thank all my colleagues, but most especially i want to thank eric cantor, who led the effort in so many ways of the last week on behalf of giving the american people an opportunity through their elected representatives to be heard on the question of freedom and iran. i also want to commend the ranking member of t

>> no. there's a big distinction in the management of two companies and we in fact make it a point not to be part of the management team. >> but you could see the potential for a conflict of interest in -- you have to have some control over them? >> we actually don't. but i do see the cosmetics of the potential conflicts. >> and cosmetics are becoming important? >> yes, they certainly are. >> how about the appearance of conflicts or i am propriety in that vein? >> you make it very clear in terms of how the company is managed that you have nothing to do with the management and it is pretty clear in the biby laws that we do not manage the company. >> very good. thank you. >> we know go to one of our senior members in congress in terms of service, not age. >> thank you, mr. chairman, very diplomatic man. mr. lewis, thank you for appearing this morning. as you can tell, there are serious questions being raised about how much you actually knew about merrill lynch's condition and indeed of conditi

" this or "no" that." weapon you say nwhen you say no public option you say you want the private insurance companies, under the guise of competition, run the show. and if you believe that will work, fine. but then you also will believe the public option won't be a threat to them. some of us who were worried that left to their own devices the priefs insurance companies will not -- the private insurance companies will not serve either all or most of the public as they should be served say, let there be the competitive advantage or the competitive competition, being redundant, of a public option, on a level playing field that has no particular built in advantages but has a different model. no profit, no merchandising, serve the patient first. and this debate will continue. but i would just say to my fellow members out there who might be listening to this, when you hear the other side say no public option, ask them, who will provide a check on the insurance companies? and do you believe the insurance companies

no government money. but up next, a portion of a rally marking 25th anniversary -- the 20th anniversary of the tenements where protests. this took place some glass lot -- on the west lawn. it's about 50 minutes. of communism memorial foundation. this is a wonderful monument on mass avenue that silently every day as we drive by pays tribute to the millions and million victims of communist tyranny. dr. edwards. >> thank you, jim. and good morning, ladies and gentlemen. like karl, i am so honored to be here and to stand where those heroes of tiananmen square stood. six years ago, i lectured in beijing and shanghai at the invitation of the chinese communist government. and my subject was american conservatism. but as i explained to my host, i could not discuss the american conservative movement without explaining the centrality of anti-communism to its philosophy. and my host said, ok, we understand. and so i talked about the horrific loss of human life and the great leap forward when at least 30 million chin

i said no i didn't. so he brought me in the next room and showed me this book shelf full offed a candidate paraphernalia, and he said osama's philosophy book is in that backpack but i promised i went touch it. i said, so who is the guest you're so worried about. he says this guy was left behind al-zawahri. i thought it was time to get back to the hotel. >> host: you had already eaten so didn't spoil your appetite. >> guest: . no the next day we called this guy as were we about to go to the taliban spans, response -- e said we we are having second thoughts and he said, no way i'm going with you guys. >>> those guys are extremists. >> host: so this guy had a house guest, is scared of the other taliban guys you were on the road to meet. >> guest: right. so a day alert we are invited by the ones causing all the problems in swat. this is october 2007, before the pakistani army rolled in, and everyone knew the taliban were gaining strength nut not to what extent. so there were two ways to get to the camp. the

this is not yes or no. >> i appreciate that. i think what the public option within the market place does is use market principles, competition and choice, to lower costs and provide consumers a choice of plans. i think that a public auction -- option, 2/3 of might state for and instance, there would only be one choice which is not terribly effective in terms of holding costs down and does not provide consumer choice. that is why states in state employees plan to create public options that stand side-by-side with private. but many states have done with the children's insurance program, are side-by-side options to provide choices. >> as a former governor and former commissioner, you were able to speak to this question. state insurance regulatories and ed able to do that except with regard to solvency of the insurance company. is that correct? >> they can regulate solvency and also have some cost regulation, but frequently, if there is no choice in the market, cost regulation is almost irrelevant. >> competition would be the one th

it is all pain and no game. i urge my colleagues to vote no. >> when the republican party becomes a protector of the poor is the day i've been waiting for. i will yield to two minutes. >> i am thank the distinguished chairman. it has been an interesting day listening to the claims that have emanated from the other side of the aisle. these are claims about honesty, claims about being forthright. we had the president of the previous administration get on the floor in claimed our addiction to oil. everybody put their head in the sand. they did nothing as we continued to export american dollars over the seas. we sent american taxpayer dollars overseas. recent into russia, saudia arabia, libya, venezuela, all the people that yet time and about today. that is the real tax that we are paying. this is because of our increasing addiction and our need to stand up and rid ourselves of dependency on foreign oil. the challenge faces us once again. it was here 30 years ago. we did have the courage to make the stand near the p

no. aye. aye. enzi --no. gregg -- no. [roll-call] mccain -- aye by proxy. [root calloll call] senator roberts? no. senator kennedy? aye by proxy. we're waiting on senator coburn -- has he voted? pass. this is senator dingham boats no by proxy. senator sanders -- aye. vote is 10 ayes, 12 nays. >> the amendment is not agreed to. all that i can say is that my nose count was correct. where are we at this point? are there any additional amendments? . . at this point now? are there any additional amendments? >> mr. chairman? >> senator casey. >> i just wanted to get back to the fraud and abuse section for a couple of moments. i know senator enzi had some comments before. we were dealing with senator mccain's amendment so i wanted to just respond to a couple of things. first of all, i wanted to commend the way senator enzi, along with our chairman has conducted himself in this whole process over these many days and weeks, and grateful for the way he approached this bill, as difficult as it is. and as much as there is conflict on a lot of major elements. with regar

but few, no. when they need care, the insurance company has been collecting their -- that has been collecting their premiums may now go back and comb through their personal history in order to find an excuse not to pay, just when the policyholder needs the coverage the most. there are some who argue that recisions are used to stop fraud on the part of enrollees who misrepresent their health histories in order to obtain coverage. one has to wonder why we would put up with a health care system when people have to hide their illnesses in order to get access to care. but we also know that this isn't about that. it's about a company -- most often about a company looking for an undisclosed headache ten years ago to deny coverage for a brain tumor today. it has less to do with the consumer and a lot to do with company profits. as we move forward with health care reform, we have to put an end to practices that discourage patients from seeking out care. insurance coverage should be a pathway, not a barrier

and they have no place to live. you would be shocked and surprised to drive around and see the state of michigan right now. also, the last eight years of administration, their policy was to take everything from the middle-class and the poor and bring us down to zero, which is where we are. everybody in america needs to wake up and see what is going on. president obama cannot straighten it out in 100 days. it is not possible. i do not know what the answer's going to be as far as general motors and chrysler in what we can do. $3 per gallon gasoline. host: "one of the watergate burglars, bernard barker, 92- years old, died on friday. he was born in cuba. back in 1971 he was involved in the break-in involving the pentagon papers. he was one of the burglars found crouching under a desk in the democratic national committee headquarters in the watergate building. he served a prison sentence that was suspended in 1975." joe, south carolina. caller: i used to know plenty of people in chicago that were in construction and the

>> no, sir, that is not true.i haven't been produced to the discussions between my staff and your staff on this issue. we have been trying to come to an understanding about how to best provide the data in a format that is easily understandable but let me just say -- >> can you say what conditions the computer considers for a possible investigation? >> no single factor is used to trigger an investigation so we look at the system looks as its screening claims that come in at the effective date of the policy, effective date of the procedure, severity, type of service and diagnose code, those are all factors that go into the algorithm -- >> the algorithm no one from the company could tell what you commit to produce whatever the witnesses or documents are necessary to explain your algorithm, computer selection process, could you do that? >> yes, sir -- we are trying to put it in a format that would be acceptable to the committee. >> dr., professor pollitz do you see a common threat? heat got 1400 conditions, 2000 condi

part and in no large part from the insurance industry as well? >> yeah, i think in many ways we hear the same discussion. you'd be pleased to hear it is an economic and financial services committee that i'm involved in today, we would be talking about the same issues and classically we would be talking about derivatives and the effects they've had. i think as one of your honorable colleagues said already, the securitization issue is actually a kind of a re insurance in itself, isn't it? the spread of risk. so the insurance industry as a whole is not immune from systemic risks as such. we believe it's about the management of the risk and having -- >> coming up to this point in time, would you agree with some others who have said here that you can't point at this company or that company as being a systemic problem as some of the members of the panel would be arguing for as far as this country is concerned. it's true to say that you have to put to one side. the individual identifies certain companies and you have to start talking about the industry

there's no question about that. the count is no balls and two strikes. lannan ahead of him with rosales down at 2nd base. no rbi on this error charged to zimmerman. and owings swings and fouls it back. count stays 0-2. cincinnati, when they get the advantage with the first run against their opponents are 22-4. >> rob: that is a good record right there. a lot of it probably has to do with their bullpen. >> johnny: mr. baker says i will drink to that. >> rob: he is a player's manager. he kind of got in trouble back in chicago for that. >> johnny: check swing but he went around. owings strikes out but cincinnati get as run. they lead 1-0 as we go to the bottom of the second in washington. times may be tough today, but the things we all look forward to haven't changed. like owning a home. watching our children grow. and retiring with confidence. so whatever you're looking forward to, m&t bank is here to help you get there. m&t bank. understanding what's important. so, what's the problem? these are hot. we're shipping 'em everywhere. but we can't predict our

watch the catcher set up no, no, no -- oh, man. he wanted a change-up down and away. that almost went up and away. >> bob: 2-2 pitch. he goes around the plate with a side door breaking ball. the count's full. >> bob: we're going to see anderson hernandez pinch run if they walk dunn. elijah dukes is next. adam dunn gets around it and fouls it. 18 homeruns this year, four away from 300. 48th rbi last night. i interairport hill is 20 feet behind the dirt. >> rob: i aaron -- aaron hill is 20 feet behind the dirt. >> reporter: that's going to get him. >> rob: come on, that's not even close. i think the first time this ball gets the plate is when the catch erythros it around the horn. let's see how far that pitch is. >> bob: that's unfortunate. >> rob: it looks pretty, a pretty pitch called the back door slider but the baseball needs to get over that white thing that's called the plate. >> bob: here is dukes. >> rob: elijah was really swinging the bat well. in the batting cage. he carried it into the game. >> bob: a couple of knocks for elijah tonight. a base hit and a doub

how can you make the claim that you're going to reduce youth usage when there's no commitment, no requirement to cessation? secondly, our amendment assists current smokers who are unable and unwilling to quit by acknowledging a continuum of risk of tobacco products. exactly what i showed you here. more specifically our amendment does not preclude reduced products from entering the marketplace. this piece here, they like this end, we pull this, the 90%, to less harmful products. because the objective in this bill should be to reduce death an disease. -- and disease. there's a great debate under way in the academic world on tobacco control. some advocate abolishment of tobacco. straight abolishment is hard to achieve and can bring many unintended consequences such as illicit trade and we all know that. since abolishment is not an elective solution, the question remains: how do we

we have a structure that's supposed to be a school or clinic somewhere but no teachers, no nurses, no doctors nocy thames that work because it's been a total lack of accountability. this substitute amendment would continue that lack ever accountability. on the security side of things, we have a situation where we had $6.2 billions in the coalition support funds which were a blank check to the military over there. what we got in return when we finally doing some oversight in january of 2007, and afterwards, was a determination that some 40% of that had vaporized. cannot be accounted for. it was supposed to be going for things that would counterinsurgency. it disappeared somewhere. this particular bill that the substitute is trying to undermine would put in place the accountability provisions. they are flexible enough. they simply say you have to fight those extremist that are mutual problems. you have to make sure you stop people from going over the boardtory create problems in afghanistan. you have to cooperate on nuclear nonproliferation. reasonable things. the american people have a

>> no, no, no. and i think justice souter wrote a pretty careful opinion because the schools really wanted some guidance. as the chief said in his conversation with judge wilkinson on some of these issues, you know, you don't always want to be looking to the supreme court, but the law in some of these places is pretty unclear. obviously, the court in this case in some states, certain in fact, have gone on to outlaw all strip searches. but in this case the court put limits on strip searches, as i said, you had to have basically a really good reason and really good suspicion they're going to be in their underwear and ibuprofen is cannot a good reason. but it gives schools flexibility when there is real danger to students if there's an urgent danger, they can still do it. a lawyer for the school boards' association told us, you know, that they were worried, that he would have preferred justice thomas' dissent which gave schools quite a lot of deference to do this kind of searches, but at the end of the

guantanamo bay, no matter that it is the best place in the world for these gitmo detainees, no matter that it's air conditioned and nine islamic meals to choose from and outside exercise and indoor climate control and arrows for prayers and the fansier prayer rugs, i don't know he anybody that has russian this fancy in their house -- rugs this fannie -- fancy in their house. no bibles by the way. one of them requested a bible. but it caused too much unrest among the rest of them. so bibles are not allowed. neither are american guards allowed to touch a koran, it comes in a special little bag carried in and everybody gets this koran. well, of all of these things going on down there at gitmo, they have a promise, no matter how logical it is to keep it open, no matter how logical it is to process these enemy combatants through the procedures that this congress has lawfully set up, gitmo will be closed, despite all logic, and it convinced me of that when i saw the bulletin board with the executive order on it. the president's not going to rescind any executive order that they have posted

no ballpark was ever built like that. so these were inflated numbers he has put up some huge rbi numbers. the same thing is not going to happen in oakland. i know, because i played through there a lot of years. the air gets heavy and cold at nighttime and the ball just does not travel at all. right now, he is hitting .289, that's a respectable batting average but the homeruns and rbis are not up to par. >> jim: the other night in seattle, the orioles lost the rubber game. but brad bergesen gave them a start that was good enough to wifnlt he ended up with a no- decision. following the game at safeco field, he talked about the start. >> i felt good. that two-run homerun was a setback. i just tried to come back and brush it off and get abig starred. >> amber: when did you talk about on the beltre. >> we went about it. sinker away, but sure enough, i left the fastball in the middle and he got it. >> jim: 15 innings combined, he has given up only 12 base hits, 4 earned runs combined in three starts. the one homerun to adrian b

bingham. >> no by proxy. >> senator murray. >> no. >> senator reid. >> no. >> senator sanders. >> no. >> senator brown. >> no. >> senator casey. >> no. >> senator hagan. >> no by proxy. >> senator berkeley. >> no. >> senator whitehouse. >> no. >> senator enzi. >> aye. >> senator greggg. >> aye by proxy. >> senator alexander. >> aye by proxy. >> senator burr. >> aye by proxy. >> senator mccain. >> aye by proxy. >> senator hatch. >> aye by proxy. >> senator macao ski. >> aye by proxy. >> senator kennedy. >> no by proxy. >> 10 ayes, 13 >> number 783. coburn number 73. >> this is just another level of trying to keep us accountable. since we don't want the states to do it, and we don't want to give the states flexibilities, how about if we find that a work force program is ineffective, allowing the secretary to say so and redirect the funds to where the program is effective? that's all this amendment does. if the secretary says this isn't accomplishing anything, we're throwing money out of the door, i would like to redirect this money to a program that's working. >> it just gives the secre

no such thing was considered in the debate on legislation. that historic law which limits felons voting are to be just wiped out even allowing felons still in jail to vote? i don't think so. neither did most of the judges who have heard these cases. with regard to the new haven firefighters case, i would just say madam president and we will be looking to enter that days in some length. stewart taylor did a very fine analysis of it in his writing i believe in the national jourm, he recognized that no one ever found that the examine nations these firefighters took was invalid or unfair as he has explained if the belated weak and speculative criticisms obviously taylored to impugn the outcome of the tests are sufficient to disprove and examines of validity or fairness, no test will ever withstand a desperate impact lawsuit. that may or may not be judge sotomayor's objective but it cannot be the law. says mr. stewart taylor in his thoughtful piece. the firefighters were told that there was going to be a test that would determine eligibility for p

>> no, it's mr. barton's unless he yields his time. >> this is purely, i noticed with so many lawyers around me there is active -- >> you should feel secure. >> it's the opposite of secure. there's an active class action suit on one of the witnesses before us? >> in california it's been going on for some time, i believe ms. horton is a plaintiff in the action. >> the switch and debate calls notwithstanding, are we subjecting ourselves to possible subpoena in back to testify in the court by the questions today for our hour opening statements today -- >> know but if you wish to we could arrange that. >> i don't want a trip to california, last thing i want -- >> i think we are okay. we aren't asking for the nitty gritty of the lawsuit. this is an investigation and we would be exempt. >> can the council answer that for us? >> would you care to comment on that? we are an officials setting. this is an official meeting of the u.s. congress. the protection certainly helps but i don't think any can ask about

[applause] >> there is no world sovereignty, there is no world system of law. there is in fact no circumstance under which i would like to be a citizen of north korea, zimbabwe, venezuela, cuba or russia. i am a citizen -- [cheers and applause] >> i am a citizen of the united states of america. and the rest of this speech is about the united states of america. [cheers and applause] >> america is an unique civilization. calista and i a couple of years ago did a movie called "rediscoverying god in america" which ises a walking tour of this city. we did it deliberately. it was our answer to the ninth circuit of court which is in fact irrationally out of touch with this country and irragly ruled that one nation under god was unconstitutional, grounds for my thought we should abolish the court and -- thomas jefferson eliminated 18 out of 35 federal judges, over one half of all federal judges. i am merely proposing one court of appeals. i am a moderate on this issue. [applause] >> but the core of this is a very historic straightforward debate. it's not a theological

there is no education in h.r. 1256. let me say it again: there is no education in h.r. 1256. if the goal is to reduce the risk of death and disease and education is the only way to accomplish that, if the goal is to reduce youth prevalence of smoking and the only tool to accomplish that is education, then i ask the sponsor: come to the floor, show me where the education is in f.d.a. regulation. well, i'm on day five, now, maybe day six if you count that i was here for a short period of time last monday but i didn't make it yesterday. i'm on day six yet to have anybody come to the floor and, one, ask the question, refute anything i've said, question the facts that i've produced. why? because i'm using the same agencies that most members come to the floor and reference to. the centers for disease control, the congressional budget office, it's hard if you tell me they're wrong, that they're not reputable entities within the federal government and turn and next week and bring your own statistics down here using the things we use as a gauge. one can question whether the royal coll

>>no. >> no by proxy. >> no. >> aye. >>aye by proxy. >> aye by proxy. >> aye by proxy. >> aye. >> aye by proxy. >> aye by proxy. . >> aye. >> no by proxy. >> thanks our colleagues. -- i thank our colleagues. >> could i inquire -- senator mikulski was very straightforward and honest about what was really intended in the cer stuff. wintus asked about senator gregg -- when she was asked about senator gregg and the intentions -- i just have some questions like and understand. i think we -- i cannot remember the examples -- let's say cer comes out and says one is better than the other. what is going to be the requirement? what is going to be the requirement for somebody was practicing medicine and some allegra does not work for their patience but clear 10 -- by clariten does? >> the doctor decides for the patient. >> does get a document that he did not follow cer guidelines? >> i do not know what the rules would be. that would be part of what the secretary puts together. >> that is my whole problem with this. what is the secr

he has no homeruns. keep that in mind. but that thing was a shot. >> rob: it hit off the exxon sign in foul territory down the left field line. >> johnny: about 350 feet away isn't it? >> rob: yeah. you saw him shorten up the swing with two strikes on him. >> johnny: johnny holliday, rob dibble, debbi taylor with you this afternoon on a rare thursday afternoon ballgame for the nationals. 2-2 to gomes. 3 balls and two strikes. >> rob: julian got a little bill squirrely right there. overthrows the slider a little too much. >> johnny: 2-1 ballgame in the top of the 8th. bouncing ball foul down the 3rd base line. keep in mind coming up after this ballgame on our nats xtra post game, it will be byron kerr and ray knight talking about lannan's attacking the cincinnati line-up today. man in acta's press conference as always and a look ahead to the ballgame tomorrow night in tampa. and gomes draws base on balls. so, gomes is on with two outs and ramon hernandez looking for his first hit of the afternoon. we will see what he can do

no, you'll do less. we have more limited access all the time. so the best example we've already talked about is medicaid. how many doctors want to take care of medicaid? once one is the reimbursement and the hassle factor. the more government we have involved in the system. i would ask everybody to take the time, this is 28 1/2 minutes. watch this. get on our websiting look at all the different interviews. talk to people in other countries. don't rely on us. talk to people who tell everybody the problem with government health care. you, your kids, your daughter, your son, your parents are not going to get the same health care they get today. thank you very much. >> the website? >> you can get on -- the easiest is facesofgovernment healthcare.com. there's probably nine different interviews with doctors and with patients and it tells about the problems of getting health care in nose countries. thanks a lot. >> 1992 if the goth was was running -- somehow if the government was running health care and they decide if they don't have enough for cancer

no runs, no hits, no errors and nobody left on base. we go to the bottom half of the sixth inning with the mets on top.  >> amber: welcome back, everybody. time to check in on the minor league minor league. i think everyone saw this one coming. the draft pick has been promoted from double-a bowy. he will pitch tomorrow night for the bay sox. orioles have been busy signing some of -- some of their draft picks from the 2009 draft. they signed 11 picks including bumbr y's son including mikeflacco. the top three picks that they took will probably take longer to get them signed. we'll keep you updated on that. gary? >> gary: the sliding begins as top agents like to try to get those top picks signed. top picks are always the toughest to sign. orioles can't wait a lot longer as pelfrey shutting them down. they left the bases load -- loaded in the fifth inning. jones, daix and huff due up. pelfrey gets it in on the inside corner. coming into today's play, the american league has the advantage in interleague play

they said no one had taken the test it. the court said no one was hurt here. no one lost an opportunity. >> the judge said no one was hurt here either. >> if they did not refuse to fill vacancies, this would be lieutenants and captains. half of the marriages were strained. they spent two months holed up in a room. a fundamental failure is the application of these concepts. this is a command position. the book to see piled on my desk are fire science books. these men face life-threatening circumstances every time they brought -- they go out. you need to know, this is not an aptitude test. this is a high level command position in the post-9/11 period. i opened the brave with the treatment -- with a plea to the court to treat these men as if they were -- not treat these men as if there were unskilled labor. we trade firefighters as if it does not require knowledge to do the job. when they open? -- when i opened my brief, eddie ramos died [unintelligible] because [unintelligible] the nature of the pins that hold teh trusses together collaposed. the -- i am not bei

no government mandate. no government money. >> and now a house hearing on executive pay practices and how they may have contributed to the current state of the financial markets. the house financial services committee hears from obama administration officials about their proposal to regulate executive pay publicly traded companies. barney frank chairs the committee. this is just under four hours. >> the hearing will come to order. i am told that the ranking republican is on his way, so we will begin. we're going to have 30 minutes of opening statements by agreement between the two sides, and i will begin. >> first i want to make a very important distinction that doesn't always get made. we are not here today talking about the pay restrictions that apply to recipients of tarp money. there is his separate set of considerations there. we're talking about entities which receive capital infusions from the government. this hearing today is looking forward as to whether or not there should be built and acted that

>> no. i'm not that anxious. no, i'm not., you know you always want to see that. >> is the plan for you to see him throw at some point? does that leave the door open for you? >> i don't know. that's down the road stuff. the guy's retired right now. we have to talk to him about that. is it something that can extend to the week before training camp? into july? is that something you need clarity on? >> that i need clarity on? you know, again, it's hard to speculate. hard. like i said the other day, deadlines, you know. >> >> hmm? when you compare what favre did with the jets, and all the quarterbacks of the vikings roster, that is sage rosenfels, john david booty and taveras jackson. it's no surprise favre comes out with the better numbers. you don't sound that excited read being this. >> just another day in paradise. >> well, the ncaa has placed alabama's football program and 1550 of the school's athletic teams on three years probation for major violations due to free use of textbooks. the football team had 201 student-athletes

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