eastern on it c-span radio. online at c-span radio and nationwide -- nationwide xm radio channel 1302. >> direct aid to colleges is a late 1950's earn these sixties and has grown rapidly since then. >> hills state college has never accepted government funding and even student loans are not permitted. >> title for his roughly 400 pages long. we have a lawyer here in town who tries to keep from giving the government money he said it was no use i could not read it. >> hills a college president sunday 8:00 p.m. or listen on c-span radio or xm satellite radio or download the podcast. >> during the senate hearing on aviation safety we will hear the circumstances of crash 34 '07 back in february witnesses include members of the faa byron dorgan chairs the subcommittee it is one hour 45 minutes with a. >> we will call the hearing to order i want to thank you for joining us to talk about an important subject of aviation safety it is a subcommittee of the u.s. commerce committee. the first of two hearings and one of today and one n

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at the white house. you can watch it on c-span 3 and also online at c-span.org and we plan to show it to you here ahead of the house coming back in if we are able. we'll show all of the president's comments upcoming in our schedule on c-span, here on c-span and of course on the c-span networks and again you can watch it online as well at c-span.org. but the u.s. house waiting for them to come back in to resume debate on the 2010 spending bill for the departments of commerce and justice asle as science programs. we spoke earlier to a capitol hill reporter about that bill. republicans arguing about over this commerce, justice and science spending bill? >> well, the not really about the substance of the bill but rather how the process is going to unfold for appropriations bills and how many amendments are going to be allowed and when they can be offered. >> the majority leader yesterday was quoted as saying he wants to proceed in a fashion that is reasonable, that provides opportunities for amendments. republicans don't see eye-to-eye with that? >> well, this started because the democrats had a requirement t

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online at c-span.org. calle[captions copyright nationl cable satellite corp. 2009] . >> we will continue covering the decisions and announcements of the supreme court here on the c-span network. you can listen on c-span radio and find more online that c- span.org. later today, you can watch a house hearing of publicly traded companies at 12:30 eastern time on our companion or, c-span2. later, and admiral speaking on the atlantic council. u.s. pacific commander includes conversation on the north korean missile testing at 5:30 eastern on c-span. >> file sharing has wreaked havoc on our business. >> tonight on "the communicators" copyright policy with the chairman of universal music publishing group. >> one of the goal is to have the isp's take more responsibility of the service they are providing and make sure they're not just providing an entree into intellectual property for free. >> the chairman of universal music publishing group tonight at 8:00 eastern on "the communicators" on c-span2. >> now more from this morning's "washington journal." peter brooks is a national security fellow at the heritage foundation, there is a report looking at the commission of preventi

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it is $16.95 come online at c- span.org/products or call 1-877- on-c-span. >> not a conversation about the obama and ministration and a public release of documents, from today's "washington journal." our is steven aftergood with the project on government secrecy. we have just finished talking a little about the cia and their preservation of the intelligence and a secret from congress. you heard some of that conversation. anything surprise you? guest: just that it is part of a larger issue. hal information disclosure is regulated for political advantage. the government decides what it wants to disclose. it is often not based on principle, but on what serves their interests. that is a problematic approach. host: i should point out that the president has asked james jones, the national security adviser, to review the recommendations on the release of classified documents. what will happen in that 90-day period? guest: the classification is not based in law but an executive order. presidents typically issue their own version to define the classification system. president obama has said i w

it's $16.95 online at c-span.org/products or call 1-877-on-c-span. >> president obama and german chancellor angela merkel held a news conference yesterday in dresden, germany. during the conference, they talked about climate change and the 65th anniversary of d-day. today president obama will speak in france at a commemoration of the anniversary. >> good morning, ladies and gentlemen. we are lucky to have the american president with us here for the first time after meeting with us at the nato summit. we will visit a little bit of dresden, and later we go to the former concentration camp. i believe this is a trip of a highly symbolic nature. let me just remind all of us of the visit to buchenberg we will take later in the day. it is so important that the american president makes his first stop here in dresden. this is a highly symbolic city. it was a city that was almost completely destroyed during the second world war. it has again turned out to be a jewel of german culture and civilization. the people here are so glad that you have come to see them, because it shows that you also pay tribu

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at 7:00 p.m. eastern on c-span. >> in his weekly online address, president obama proposed $315 billion if savings to pay for his health care initiative, including reducing government spending on prescription drugs, he's followed by indiana representative mike pence, chair of the republican conference who talks about his party's energy plan that calls for more oil and gas drilling and investments in alternative and renewable energy sources. >> last week i spoke to you about my commitment to work with congress to pass health care reform. today, i would like to talk about how that effort is essential to restoring fiscal responsibility. this much is clear, the status quo is unsustainable for families, businesses, and government. america spends nearly 50% more per person on health care than any other country. health care premiums have doubled over the last decade. deductibles and out of pocket costs have sky rocketed and many with preexisting conditions are denied coverage. more and more americans are being priced out of the care they need. these are also hurting business, and some big businesses are

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. >> there's still time to get your copy of the c-span 2009you can order it online or by phone. "washington journal" continues. host: at the table, the chief economic correspondent for "the wall street journal >" what will we hear today? guest: we will hear a comprehensive reform, the most sweeping since the great depression. we have had the worst financial crisis since the great depression and now they will go back and rewrite the rules as comprehensively. there are a number of steps. they break it down into five steps. they want to give the federal reserve power to oversee institutions that are too big to fail. they want to create a new consumer agency to protect consumer rights in the planning. they are looking at increasing cooperation with foreign regulators. that would be so that you do not see money flowing offshore. they will regulate certain markets more aggressively, such as credit default swaps, derivatives, some of these exotic instruments. the final step -- the main step is really giving the fed more power. the final step is closing institutions that could be too big to fail, and in the way when you are in

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get your copy of c-span's 2009 congressional directory with information on house and senate members, the cabinet, supreme court justices, and the nation's governors. it is $16.95 online at cspan.org/products. >> the government funding of colleges and their students really is a late 1950's and early 1960's thing that has grown very rapidly since then. >> today, not even government- backed student loans are permitted at hillsdale college. >> we have a lawyer here in town who tries to keep the government from giving us money. he said there was not in use in title for funding. -- and use -- any use in title iv funding. >> today, bank of america ceo ken lewis was here on capitol hill testifying about his company's merger with financial services firm merrill lynch. committee members questioned mr. lewis about recently uncovered e-mail's suggesting that bank of america may have been unduly pressured into the merger by the federal government. this hearing of the house oversight and government reform committee is just under three hours. >> thank you all for being here today. on september 15, 2008, when the financial crisis was at its height, bankamerica announced that it was pur

get your copy of c-span's 2009 congressional directory with information on house and senate members, the cabinet, supreme court justices, and the nation's governors. it is $16.95 online at cspan.org/products. >> now, a senate hearing on the government's role in the restructuring of general motors and chrysler. the witnesses are to obama administration officials who are working with the auto companies. chris dodd of connecticut chairs the senate banking committee. >> i do not see 12 of us here yet, and i do not want to delay the hearing. it is on the executive session nominees. there is going to be a vote sometime tomorrow morning on the tobacco bill, and my recommendation would be, during that zero or right after the vote, we need to consider these executive session nominations. i think, based on conversations, they should be relatively noncontroversial. i invite my colleagues to look at them and tell me if it requires further discussion. we will save it for another moment. yes, bob? >> i am curious about the status of the fha nomination. the nominee that is not on there. i'm curious as to where we are on that. >> let me turn to senator shelby. >> there is a hud investi

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online. next week on an "q&a" a book about theodore roosevelt. we have accompanied the book's author to west virginia. that is next sunday at 8:00 p.m. eastern here on c-span. coming up, the british prime minister gordon brown and his proposal to reform british parliament. remarks from the israeli prime minister netanyahu on the palestinian state. newt gingrich at the 2009 annual congressional gop fund-raising dinner. that is later. tomorrow on "washington journal" a look at the fiscal policy with bruce stokes. and phil mattingly will also be speaking. secure flight is a new program that will be discussed after that. that is with a former tsa administrator. that is live at 7:00 a.m. eastern here on c-span. >> let me be clear mr. speaker about what we think of electoral reform. we want to keep the existing system. we support the link between