. >> our next call for michael pose any comes from bill in south omaha, nebraska. >> first off, merryhristmas. you use the term "principled pragmatism." that is a contradictions in terms i will suggest to you. but outside of that you started off this conversation talking about the united states is willing to admit to the united nations that we have -- and i don't agree with you -- but tortured people. but then you went on to say that united states was going to evaluate several other things. well, you evade -- you were not specific at all about what those other things with. and i probably would disagree with you. but there's one more thing. and that is it appears to me that what you're talking about when you talk about rights is not the rights we have in the bill of rights but a new set of rights that want to be created. and i will just say that when obama goes around the world bowing, what that is is the altruistic tenet of self-sacrifice. and what he is really doing is he's self-sacrificing the american taxpayer or the american people. >> we'll leave it there. michael posener. >> i h

please reach out to our omaha office or anywhere -- any of my offices, but you live in omaha. " taking a look at what you claim to be someone getting away with federal money that they should not be. i take that very, very seriously. we will take up that. we will pursue that. we will do everything we can to get that information in the hands of the right officials. i could not agree with you more, whether health-care reform or something other than that, we should not have a system where there is so much waste and fraud and abuse. i don't think anybody is doubting that there are parts of this medicare system, medicaid system, where there is significant abuse. it needs to be fixed. we are glad to help you. contact the omaha office. host: myrtle beach, south carolina. good morning. caller: i just have a couple of comments. it just amazes me that when it comes to health care, there is almost no question -- i apologize, when it comes to war and spending there is no question of the amount the taxpayers of this country are asked but when it comes to caring and loving and nurturing the people of

it's been described as the omaha stakes fix. i take issue, and i only wish my colleague from nebraska had stayed on the floor to hear this. i take issue with one of the premier businesses in the state of nebraska used in a matter of derision to outline something that is factually incorrect on the basis of how they are presenting it. you can twist and you can turn and you can try to distort what happens, but it doesn't change the underlying facts. the underlying facts are that this was pursued initially as an opt-in or opt-out for all states. it was impossible to do that at the present time, and so as a matter of fix, there was in fact the extension of the federal dollars from the year 2017 on. well into the future as a marker to lay down, so that every state could object to this manner of unfunded mandates. now, as a governor -- and my colleague is a former governor -- we fought against federal unfunded mandates. and as a senator back here, i've also fought against unfunded and underfunded federal mandates. and this was in fact

to omaha. who's taking one for the team? that's be me, sir. steve-o! that's what i'm talking about. steve, can you make it to buffalo by four? anyone seen steve? enjoy your trip. we will. thank you. we know why you fly. we're american airlines. >> the number of flu cases will soon be on the rise. and with the recent onset of the h1n1 virus, many people are concerned about their health and safety. we can all fight the flu virus by taking four simple steps. number 1: get vaccinated every year. number 2: if you do have the flu, stay home so you avoid spreading it to others. number 3: always cover your sneezes and coughs. and number 4: wash your hands frequently. [running water] for the latest information in flu prevention tips, please visit flu.gov. in flu prevention tips, please visit flu.gov. >>> moments away from the opening tip-off between miami and boston college, the third member of our broadcast team had a chance to sit down and talk with our head coach, frank haith. >> reporter: coach, your team off to a great start, 8-0. what would you say is the biggest reason for your team's

i don't know if they live in omaha or not, but i'm sure that to them and all the others on "star trek that surgical operations in outer space may be one of their priorities. it certainly isn't a priority of the citizens of my state. now, one of the great cultural events that took place in the 20th century was the woodstock festival, so in order to really do a lot more research on that great cultural moment, we're going to spend $30,000 for the woodstock film festival outinitiative. $200,000 to renovate and construct the laredo little theater in texas. people from all over america are flocking to the laredo little theater, and they want to invest $200,000 of their tax dollars into the laredo little theater. and the money would be used to replace worn auditorium seating and soundproofing materials. and so yeah, anybody got a little theater that they want -- worn auditorium seating and soundproofing, maybe they ought to apply to the senator from texas. $665,000 for -- i'm not making this one up -- for the cedars-sinai medical center in los angeles, california, for equipment and supplies

to omaha. who's taking one for the team? that's be me, sir. steve-o! that's what i'm talking about.you make it to buffalo by four? anyone seen steve? enjoy your trip. we will. thank you. we know why you fly. we're american airlines. >>> we start with football. a lot at stake. nothing at stake all at the same time in indianapolis. the colts a victory away from the home field advantage throughout the playoffs and a new all-time consecutive regular season wins record. a loss, well, they still tie the record with 21 straight and home field will still be here later in the season. denver comes in a game behind san diego in the west. colts have already clichlged the south. peyton manning, 12-0. looking for number 22 in a row. manning, back in the end zone. later second quarter, marshall was active. gives the ball to a fan in a marshall jersey. didn't know what to do. bring on the tears. the best moment of my life. marshall catches his 20th ball of the game. five yard touchdown. marshall set the record, 2 # 1 receptions in a single game, breaking terrell owens' record. manning gets play act

it's been described as the omaha stakes fix. i take issue, and i only wish my colleague from nebraska had stayed on the floor to hear this. i take issue with one of the premier businesses in the state of nebraska used in a matter of derision to outline something that is factually incorrect on the basis of how they are presenting it. you can twist and you can turn and you can try to distort what happens, but it doesn't change the underlying facts. the underlying facts are that this was pursued initially as an opt-in or opt-out for all states. it was impossible to do that at the present time, and so as a matter of fix, there was in fact the extension of the federal dollars from the year 2017 on. well into the future as a marker to lay down, so that every state could object to this manner of unfunded mandates. now, as a governor -- and my colleague is a former governor -- we fought against federal unfunded mandates. and as a senator back here, i've also fought against unfunded and underfunded federal mandates. and this was in fact

canada, this is just harlem, and this is just a special deal," they're less likely to adopt it in omahaanada: and we're going to stick with them through college... >> cooper: so, how will you measure success? how will you know when the children's zone has worked? >> canada: when i see my kids, by the thousands, with degrees, i will say, "this is what we set out to do and we've done it." we've got our kids in the best schools in america. they're going to be successful. they'll be competing with everybody else all over the country. people will be looking for kids from harlem, saying, "oh, those kids are so great from harlem. we need more kids from harlem to come in." then, we'll be successful. >> cbs moneywatch update sponsored by prescription flomax. >> mitchell: good evening. kuwait sold its 4.1 billion stake in citi group today making a profit of more than i billion dollars. regulators shut down six more banks this weekend raising the total for the year to 130. and "the blindside" won the weekend box office. i'm russ mitchell, cbs news. >> simon: tim donaghy was at the top of his game.

to omaha. who's taking one for the team? that's be me, sir. steve-o! that's what i'm talking about. steve, can you make it to buffalo by four? anyone seen steve? enjoy your trip. we will. thank you. we know why you fly. we're american airlines. jarvis. >> steve: back at the woodsen classic. we're seeing a guy who is about as big as a blade of grass, 6'7", 175, ravern johnson, but this young man can shoot the basketball. >> marcus: just slide him underneath the door. he does -- he does one thing extremely well and that's knock down the open jump shots and a little bit of variety of the he's put it on the floor on a couple of plays, takes it down to the basket strong and comes off the dribble jump shot. ravern johnson has really been a surprise in terms of the impact that he has had on this game in the first half 16 points and 16 minutes out of lyon, mississippi. ravern johnson jarvis. >> steve: and he's also part of a defense that leads the s.e.c. in scoring defense, field goal defense and rebouncing, and they really humbled ucla in every area of that in the first half. >> marcus: va

the last hours of putting this bill together struck a special deal with two insurance companies in omaha, nebraska that they would be carved out of their responsibility in this bill to pay taxes. i found -- find it painful to even make knowledge that that's happened. i said at the beginning of this debate that changes of this magnitude affect the one sixth of our economy must be fair and they must be believed to be fair by the law. the special deal for nevada was wrong. i said that. in fact one of the six reformed principles i publicly outlined and took out two town hall meetings, i stand by today. and it just simply said no special deals. the special deal for nevada was wrong as is the carveouts for louisiana and the same applies for the backroom deal that was struck for my state, the great state of nebraska. all of the special deals should be removed from this legislation. if this bill cannot pass without the carveouts, the special deals, what further evidence could we possibly need to draw the conclusion that this is just enormously bad policy? if you literally have to sit down in the

licenses, including the following two in my district, omaha, nebraska. les hall, who is the c.e.o.of san tan i.t.a.man communications says -- santana man communications says this will give a voice to the voiceless. he went on to say, quote, low-power f.m. is the beacon that lights up the future for us and bravo for lee to championing -- well, i don't have to read that part. les hall has been involved in the lpfm issue for years and believes this is the life that allows the community to come together. this is great news says tim clark. communities across the country will now have a real opportunity to increase the ability to effectively communicate issues, concerns, awarenesses, campaigns and to provide sensitive programming. north and south omaha will benefit positively from this channel -- challenge to develop unified efforts for the betterment of their constituents. i appreciate both les and tim's work on this issue, as well as other groups devoted to fulfilling the interest and needs of our community. i do believe this legislation is about empowering individuals who are making a

it has been described as the omaha steaks fixed.i take issue and i only wish my colleague from nebraska had stayed on the floor to hear this. i take issue with one of the premier businesses of the state of nebraska as a matter derision to outline something that is factually incorrect on the basis of how they present it. you continue to twist and turn and try to distort what happens, but it does not change the underlying facts. the underlying facts, this was pursued initially us the top 100 or opt out for all states. it was impossible to do that at the present time, so as a matter of six, there was the extension of the federal dollars from the year 2017 often come a well into the future so that every state could object to the matter of the unfunded mandates. as a governor and my colleague is a former governor we've fought against federal unfunded mandates and as a senator i have also filed against unfunded and underfunded mandates and this was exactly dapper while we run not able to get in this legislation the actual opt out or opted

program for california, arizona, texas, new york, florida, chicago, or near the midwest, maybe for omaha. so since medicare advantage was not a national program, and since medicare, since 1965, has been a national program, i set out in the medicare modernization act to bring equity to rural america just like we have urban america. so i fought to make sure that seniors living in rural areas would have the same choices as seniors living in miami, new york city, or los angeles. and that's simply saying wherever you live in the united states, you've got medicare -- traditional medicare. before then, where have you lived in the united states and most rural areas, you didn't have medicare advantage. but since medicare's a national program, people living in rural america ought to have the same choice as those in urban areas. and so today that is the case. seniors in every county in iowa have a choice between traditional medicare and medicare advantage. that's a big improvement since prior to medicare modernization act not all iowans had that choice. and i can narrow it down to one out of 99 cou

special carve out for nebraska, virtually no warning, no preparation to speak -- 2000 people gathered in omahaneb., nebraska and ends in one voice crying foul. nebraska ns are frustrated and angry that our beloved state got thrust into the same pot with all of the other special deals that it cut here. in fact, mr. president, they are outraged that a back room deal for our state might have been what it puts this bill across the finish line. there should be no special deals, no car out, for anyone in this health care bill, not for states, not for insurance companies, and not for individual senators. host: republican senator mike johanns on the floor talking about those so-called sweeteners in the senate health care bill. we are getting your reaction. michigan, barbara on the independent mind. caller: i love what everybody has had to say on your show this morning. i think the whole thing was ridiculous. i don't see where it is going to help any of us lower income people who used to be middle- class people. i can't afford part b on my medicare, so i don't have it. i have a sick daughter it will pr

happens that the three that qualified are blue cross, blue shield of nebraska and michigan and mutual of omaha. in other words, that satisfies the special interests in the state and against what the vast majority of nebraska and are telling him what to do, which was to not support this legislation. >> i think you have a half nelson, a three quarter nelson, a double nelson, and more. one is exempting many floridians. the three quarter notes and is that senator nelson has excluded the position on hospital construction in his state by changing the date that left 80 other investors throughout the country hanging out to dry in terms of billions of dollars of investment that will never come to fruition. but he protected the ones in his state. he also has written a permanent, into infinity, funding for the federal taxpayer, all of us were not in nebraska, for any impasse of medicaid that this bill would bring forward. how can that be the america that we're from? that we are going to take one group and treat you different than everybody else? we have 90,000 oklahomans on medicare advantage. we have th

matter is there were special deals here for insurance companies in nebraska, what has been coined the omaha prime cuts, the carveout. new fees for mutual of omaha and other insurance companies doing business in nebraska that no other insurance company in the nation is going to benefit from. and then there is the so-called gatorade special deal for insurance companies in florida. there is a $100 million hospital deal in connecticut, someone called uconn. of course there were deals for montana that were slipped in the bill, although, you know what? no one had the courage to actually messenger the name of the state. had you to start to dig into it, just like the louisiana deal. at least the senator from nebraska was brazen enough to actually have nebraska listed by name. the rest of them you have to dig out by trying to figure out well, who benefits from this deal and who doesn't? well, i want to ask what about the other states? my state under this unfunded mandate in this legislation will have to pay the state taxpayers taxpayers $21 billion in unfunded mandate medicaid liabilities over the n

last hours of putting this bill together struck a special deal with two insurance companies and the omaha, nebraska, that they would be carved out of their responsibility in this bill to pay taxes. i find it painful to even acknowledge that that happened. i said at the beginning of this debate the changes of this magnitude affecting one sixth of our economy must be fair and they must be believed to be fair by the people. a special deal for nevada was wrong. i said that, and in fact one of the six reform principles i publicly outlined and took out to town hall meetings i stand by today and it just simply said no special deals. a special deal for nevada was wrong, as is the carve out for louisiana and the same applies for the backroom deal that was struck for my state, the great state of nebraska. all of this special deals should be removed from this legislation. if this bill cannot pass without the carveouts in this special deals, what further evidence could we possibly need to draw the conclusion that this is just enormously bad policy? if you literally had to sit down in the last hours o

please reach out to my omaha office or really any of your offices. but you live there in omaha.take a look at what you claim to be somebody getting away with federal money that they should not be. i take that very, very seriously. we will follow up on that. we will pursue that. we will do everything we can to get that information in hand to the right officials. i couldn't agree with you more. if we have health care reform or something other than that, we should not have a system where there is so much waste and fraud and abuse. i don't thinking anybody is doubting that there are parts of this medicare system, medicaid system, where there is significant abuse. it needs to be fixed. we're glad to help you, with sue. contact my omaha office. >> host: from mrytle beach, south carolina. >> caller: hello. i have a couple of comments. it just amazes me when it comes to health care there is no question. i apologize, when you comes to war there is no question that the amount. when it comes to care and loving and nurturing to people of the country, all of the sudden everyone is watching t

the last hours of putting this bill together struck a special deal with two insurance companies in omaha, nebraska, that they would be carved out of their responsibility in this bill to pay taxes. i find it painful to even acknowledge that that happened. i said at the beginning of this debate that changes of this magnitude affecting one-sixth of our economy must be fair and they must be believed to be fair by the people. the special deal for nevada was was wrong. i said that. in fact, one of the six reform principles i publicly outlined and took out to town hall meetings i stand by today and it simply said, no special deals. a special deal for nevada was wrong and is the carve out for louisiana. and statement applies for the backroom deal that was struck for my state, the great state of nebraska. all of this special -- all of the special deals should be removed from this legislation. if this bill cannot pass without the carve outs and the special deals, what further evidence could we possibly need to draw the conclusion that this is just enormously bad policy? if you literally had to sit

favored political story of the year, omaha, neb., here is julie.: it is it snowing blizzard in ahman. host: how much snow you have this morning? caller: i think about 11 or 12 inches on my driveway. host: still snowing? caller: oh, yes. i am a true democrat but i am very disappointed -- i know kay bailey hutcheson and the other gop have challenged the constitutional right of this health along -- of this health bill. the what i'm ashamed of with my party is that they have discriminated against other groups. discrimination in its definition as favoring one group over another. senator nelson and the center of floor have -- and on and on have taken things for their own people and left others. that is just discrimination. host: thanks for calling in, julie. about 15 minutes left, your favorite political health -- political story. it does not have to be health care. later this morning, we want to give you a heads up about a special hour about what you read in 2009, in particular, your top non-fiction book of 2009. that will be at 9:00 a.m. eastern this m

at omaha many republican amendments are democratic amendments would've voted on so far. can we get an official tally of that. i really think that a very minor element to stop the debate on the health care bill because we need to have equal number of amendments. can't grownups work things out like this with an understanding that we will resolve them? if we can't, then for goodness sakes don't subject us to these arguments on the floor that were not calling amendment for a vote. we just try to does in a row and republicans once again have stopped as with objections. and i would implore the leadership, not my friend from wyoming i know he's doing was instructed to by the leaders. i would employ the leadership to break this logjam. what's not at the end of the day say well we stop debating this bill would wish to debate me that we offered in good faith to days in a row to have actual amendments offered and debated. i would also say, mr. president, that this is the bill we are considering h.r. 3590 when we return to it. this is the welfare reform bill and this is the bill tha

i don't know if they live in omaha or not, but i'm sure that to them and all the others on "star trek" that surgical operations in outer space may be one of their priorities. it certainly isn't a priority of the citizens of my state. now, one of the great cultural events that took place in the 20th century was the woodstock festival, so in order to really do a lot more research on that great cultural moment, we're going to spend $30,000 for the woodstock film festival outinitiative. $200,000 to renovate and construct the laredo little theater in texas. people from all over america are flocking to the laredo little theater, and they want to invest $200,000 of their tax dollars into the laredo little theater. and the money would be used to replace worn auditorium seating and soundproofing materials. and so yeah, anybody got a little theater that they want -- worn auditorium seating and soundproofing, maybe they ought to apply to the senator from texas. $665,000 for -- i'm not making this one up -- for the cedars-sinai medical center in los angeles, california, for equipment and supplies

favored political story of the year, omaha, neb., here is julie. caller: it is it snowing blizzard in ahman. host: how much snow you have this morning? caller: i think about 11 or 12 inches on my driveway. host: still snowing? caller: oh, yes. i am a true democrat but i am very disappointed -- i know kay bailey hutcheson and the other gop have challenged the constitutional right of this health along -- of this health bill. the what i'm ashamed of with my party is that they have discriminated against other groups. discrimination in its definition as favoring one group over another. senator nelson and the center of floor have -- and on and on have taken things for their own people and left others. that is just discrimination. host: thanks for calling in, julie. about 15 minutes left, your favorite political health -- political story. it does not have to be health care. later this morning, we want to give you a heads up about a special hour about what you read in 2009, in particular, your top non-fiction book of 2009. that will be at 9:00 a.m. eastern

three years later, commemorating the fallen warriors of omaha beach, reagan said, "we will always rememberll always be prepared so that we may always be free." today our freedom is defended by 1092-foot aircraft carrier on the ronald reagan. their motto is , "peace through strength. i'm confident his legacy will be attacked for generations to come to me if you study the man, at time you will see the rhythm of life described by shakespeare. "all the world's stage and all the men and women are merely players, and one man in his time will play many parts." ronald reagan played his part is brilliantly, with words, and deeds, he inspired his countrymen to great heights and inspired a clear vision. we are honored to add his likeness to this great hall of statesman's and patriots. [applause] >> ladies and gentlemen, the republican leader of the united states senate, the hon. mitch mcconnell. >> friends, fellow members of congress, trustees of the ronald reagan presidential foundation, mrs. reagan, today we celebrate a great man's life. as we dedicate this statute in this place of honor, we affirm

i don't know if they live in omaha or not, but i'm sure that to them and all the others on "star trek that surgical operations in outer space may be one of their priorities. it certainly isn't a priority of the citizens of my state. now, one of the great cultural events that took place in the 20th century was the woodstock festival, so in order to really do a lot more research on that great cultural moment, we're going to spend $30,000 for the woodstock film festival outinitiative. $200,000 to renovate and construct the laredo little theater in texas. people from all over america are flocking to the laredo little theater, and they want to invest $200,000 of their tax dollars into the laredo little theater. and the money would be used to replace worn auditorium seating and soundproofing materials. and so yeah, anybody got a little theater that they want -- worn auditorium seating and soundproofing, maybe they ought to apply to the senator from texas. $665,000 for -- i'm not making this one up -- for the cedars-sinai medical center in los angeles, california, for equipment and supplies

literacy, for which i think should be in every school and classroom and the u.s., we're doing it in omahalot program in public schools having them distinguishing between advertising and programming. when you have not -- when it is indicted, children have to understand that. they need the judgment to do a very basic media literacy program can teach them how to think critically about those messages. one of the great parts of the digital media literacy program which will be part of the broadband efforts is that it will give children the ability to distinguish between advertisements and traditional programming. if you put all those together, a lot of the challenges that advertising presents children would be dealt with any serious way. >> thank you. >> thank you, mr. chairman. thank you to all of our witnesses. i will say that i found this a hard issue because i think parents are on the front line and have to make a lot of the decisions. i which there was some technology that would allow them to do that. my first questions will be about that. we also have to be careful about what is on televi

carve outs for nebraska, virtually no warning, no preparation to speak up, 2000 people gathered in omahaebraska, nebraskans, to in one voice cry, fowl -- foul. nebraskans are frustrated and angry that our beloved state has been thrust into the same pot with all of the other special deals that get cut here. in fact, mr. president, they are outraged that a backroom deal for our state might have been what puts this bill across the finish line. there should be no special deals, no carve outs for anyone in this health care bill. not for states, not for states, not for insurance companies, and not for individual senators. host: republican senator yesterday on the floor of the senate talking about those so-called sweeteners in the senate health care bill. we are getting your reaction. barbara on the independent line. your thoughts. caller: good morning. i love what everybody has had to say on your show this morning. i think the whole thing is ridiculous. i don't see where it's going to help any of us, any of us lower income people who used to be middle class people. i can't afford part b on my

omaha, nebraska. caller: yes, this is catherine.azing to me that there are two people that just spoke -- this one trillion of us. you want to get down to dollars and cents. this part i want to know -- the book of walton -- where would i get that information? it is so needed. i really cannot believe i am listening to your show. we have a terrible storm here. having been retired now since 1990 by -- since 1995, there is much that i've experienced, and i really cannot give you all of my personal details, because i've already answered some of your surveys. i will let you look of those if you have all the statistics. host: i will let you answer the question about where to get the book. guest: there are actually two books. the one we are merely discussing is -- the one we are merely discussing this sort of a scholarly book. it is available at aei.org and amazon and other places you can buy it. the other is the open season guide. that is the guide to health plans for federal employees. host: that comes out every year? guest: that comes out

. -- and omaha and moving beyond. problems cross national borders. we need to think of it from that perspective. absolutely, people are right to think first about taking care of themselves and then branching out to what can be done throughout the world. host: alex katz, president and ceo of the -- alex counts, president and ceo of the grameen foundation, thank you for sharing your time. we are back tomorrow morning with "washington journal" at 7:00 a.m. eastern time and a chance to weigh in on the senate vote that will take place on c- span2. "washington journal" gets under way at 7:00 p.m. eastern time, 4:00 on the west coast. thanks for joining us this wednesday, and have a merry christmas. [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2009] >> u.s. senate gaveled in about 15 minutes ago. for more debate on health-care legislation, holding procedural votes at 2:15 eastern today with the vote on final passage set for thursday morning at 8:00 eastern, later on thursday, a vote on increasing

three years later, commemorating the fallen warriors of omaha beach, reagan said, "we will always rememberpared so that we may always be free." today our freedom is defended by 1092-foot aircraft carrier on the ronald reagan. their motto is , "peace through strength. i'm confident his legacy will be attacked for generations to come to me if you study the man, at time you will see the rhythm of life described by shakespeare. "all the world's stage and all the men and women are merely players, and one man in his time will play many parts." ronald reagan played his part is brilliantly, with words, and deeds, he inspired his countrymen to great heights and inspired a clear vision. we are honored to add his likeness to this great hall of statesman's and patriots. [applause] >> ladies and gentlemen, the republican leader of the united states senate, the hon. mitch mcconnell. >> friends, fellow members of congress, trustees of the ronald reagan presidential foundation, mrs. reagan, today we celebrate a great man's life. as we dedicate this statute in this place of honor, we affirm that man's trea

he was with the 30th all the way through as a member of the 230th field artillery on the beaches of omaha, d-day plus one, and all of the battles that we talked about my father was there. but he was just one of many to serve our nation in the 30th and all the other forces during world war ii that we call the greatest generation that came back and did so much to make this nation the great nation that it continues to be today. so it's with great pride and enthusiasm and noting the aspect of the 30th division to the relationship of not only my state, to my family, to the nation, that i encourage all my colleagues to join me in voting for h.res. 494. i yield my time, madam speaker. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields back the balance of his time. the gentleman from virginia. mr. wittman: madam speaker, i have no further need for time and i yield back the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from virginia yields back his time. the question is will the house suspend the rules and agree to house resolution 44 as amended. those in favor say aye. those opposed, no.

life, people, did i ever think i'd have a conversation with warren buffett, but there was i was in omaha at this steakhouse, and he is a d.c. public school graduate. and he said to me, you know, michelle, it is very easy to fix the problems in public education in america today. and i said, wonderful. please, tell me how to do it so i can run back to d.c. and start to implement that. and he said, all you have to do is make private schools illegal and assign every child to a public school by random lottery. so think about that for a minute. if we did that in d.c. which would mean that every ambassador's child, every ceo's child, every congressman's child and the president's children would all get assigned to a random dcps school by a lot lottery which would mean that a huge percentage would be going across the river to anacostia every day, you would never see a faster movement of resources from one side of the city to another as you would in that circumstance. and i guarantee you that very, very quickly we would have a system of excellent schools. so in my mind it's not a matter of is it p

the last little piece of that was omaha, neb. for a moment, the decision to create segregation.e is only 2 factors segregation only in new jersey, only in connecticut where i have been involved with the o'neill case at the courts under a state constitution recognizing de facto segregation is actionable. so, that is why we can't really challenge the racial segregation that creates the achievement gap under a federal equal protection standard because it was not deliberately created. >> i think what ms. robbins has suggested is if you give them notice of alternatives that are not racially discriminatory and alternative ways of doing education in a racially identifiable achievement gap, then that would show intent. >> that's why i referred to my colleagues article that we just can't bring shall we say in education malpractice case dealing with the achievement gap the way that it can bring medical or legal malpractice cases because the courts say we don't know what is a standard of minimum education. and we don't know how you measure it. in short, i would say that the no child left b

insurance companies that qualify are blue cross-blue shield of nebraska and michigan and mutual of omahads, satisfying the special interests in his state and going against what i think the vast majority of nebraskaens were telling him what to do which was don't support this legislation. >> well, i'd just like to follow up on it. i think you got a half nelson, a three quarter nelson, a full nelson and then the double triple nelson going on here. the half nelson is exempting 1 million floridians from any cuts in medicare advantage. the three quarter nelson is that senator nelson has excluded the position on hospitals under construction in his state by changing the date but left 80 other investors throughout the country hanging out to dry in terms of billions of dollars of investment that will never come to fruition. but he protected the ones in his state. he also, as noted by the leader, wrote a permanent into infinity funding for the federal taxpayer -- that's all of us that aren't in nebraska -- for any new costs in medicaid that this bill would bring forward. how can that be the america

from both sides of the aisle, including the bill's lead co-sponsor, my good friend, lee terry, from omaha. when the federal communications commission created the low-powered f.m. radio service, they sought to create opportunities for new voices on the airwaves and to allow local schools, churches, and other community-based organizations to provide programming that would be responsive to local community needs and interest. congress, however, passed the radio broadcasting preservation act in 2000 and many of those organizations were prevented from communicating to their members, supporters, and residents on the f.m. radio dial. that bill called for a field study performed by the mitre corporation and for the f.c.c. to recommend to congress what we should do. in 2004, on a unanimous bipartisan basis, and for a second time in november, 2007, and for a third time, once again, in september of 2009, all five f.c.c. commissioners agreed that congress should lift the restrictions on lpfm stations and allow the f.c.c. to license new stations in more communities. the bill we debate today, the local

2,700,000 for supporting surgical operations in outer space at university of nebraska medical center, omaha, nebraska. $30,000 for woodstock festival youth initiative, $13.9 million for fisheries. the $200,000 to renovate and construct the laredo musical theater. the american dollars shouldn't be used for seating and sound proofing materials. $800,000 for jazz at the lincoln center. $3.4 million for a rural bus program in hawaii. you'll note that hawaii pops up all the time here. $1.6 million to build a tram between the huntsville botanical garden and the flight center in alabama. $750,000 for design and fab gaition of exhibits to be placed in the world food prize hall of lauretes in iowa. i'm not making these up. i'm not making these up. and this was the same party and president that promised to scrub each one of these appropriation bills and get rid of the unnecessary ones. so we'll be talking a lot about this -- about that in this bill. six bills, not one, six bills totaling $450 billion, 409 pages of earmarks, 4,752 earmarks totaling $3.7 billion, and spending on domestic programs has i

which should be in every school, in every classroom in the united states -- and we are doing it in omaha, a pilot program, and thanks for the bucks for doing that. it should include education for kids as young as kindergarten about how to distinguish between advertising and real programming. when you have embedded and product placement, kids have to understand that. they need the judgment to do that. media literacy programs and schools can teach them to think about that. one of that big part about the program that you oversee, which can be part of the new broadband efforts, is that it will in fact give kids the ability to distinguish between ads and traditional programming. if you put all those together, a lot of the challenges that advertising presents tickets, which are enormous, would be dealt with in a very serious way. >> thank you. >> thank you, senator nelson. senator klobuchar. >> thank you, mr. chairman, and thank you to all of our witnesses. i did think that parents are on the front line and have to make a lot of the decisions. always there was some magic technology that would