are people concerned in oregon? you bet they are. they are concerned about the costs of health care, concerned about having enough doctors, they are concerned about the trend line. that is one of the reasons i am working hard on this legislation is because we are in a position, whether in a state that has high quality-low-cost before low- quality-high cost, we are all on the path that is not sustainable. i have concerns about my friends and family. i had that conversation with my son and dinner sunday night when he came over in terms of talking about what is happening to his premium costs. so, yes, people are concerned, but the objective data suggest there are lots of variations and the data suggests there is room for improvement in ways that will not cost the taxpayer a lot of money and, in fact, will be able to improve the quality of health care what the money we have. most of you introduced a trio of health care bills and one was talking about medicare costs. explain that legislation. guest: part of what i am hopeful we are able t

the people of oregon are very fortunate to have the senator from oregon, jeff merkley, here. he is a -- just a wonderful human being, i say to everyone in oregon, so well prepared. has extremely difficult committee assignments. he handles them with such confidence and with such grace. i appreciate very much the work you do for the state of oregon and our country. if there's no further business to come before the senate, i ask that it adjourn under the previous order. the presiding officer: the senate stands adjourned until 2:00 p.m. on monday. adjourn: >> and the house of representatives just a short while ago voted to impeach a federal judge 59-year-old u.s. district judge samuel b. kent on charges that he abused his power, lied to cover up sexual assaults on two female court employees. the house has not in piste a federal judge since the 1980's when three jurors were removed. a total of 13 judges have faced proceedings. the judge's case will next go before the senate. the house of representative it also voted 425-1 to condemn the iranian government crackdown on demonstrator

we have that problem in oregon.can tell you not everyone in oregon wro choose a medicare-style option because in their community it's hard to get in the door with your medicare card. but i can tell you what, i think we ought to give them the choice. let them choose. promote competition. we have in oregon a competition between private providers and@üe brunt of double-digit increases over the past decade are asking for help. our large businesses that compete internationally are saying to us, those of you you on this committee, please, we need a more cost-effective system so that we can compete internationally. our citizens at the door, at the public forum, are saying, this health care status quo is broken. it is a daily stress. it is a disaster. we need your help. let us not turn a deaf ear. let us not miss this window of opportunity when so many forces are coming together to take and dramatically improve our health care system to succeed in delivering the vision that truman laid out more than 60 years ago of saying i

the presiding officer: the senator from oregon. a senator: mr. president, before he leaves the floor, i want to tell the senator from utah how much i'm looking forward on a personal level to working with him in this five-month sprint to figure out a way to fix american health care on a bipartisan fashion. mr. wyden: some of the moments that i'm proudest of have been those moments when the two of us have been able to team up on health reform and without getting into it this afternoon, mr. president, let me say that millions of poor youngsters who use community health centers now are getting services there, scores and scores of them at no extra cost to our taxpayers because senator hatch was willing to work with this senator and a group of others, public interest groups and a wide variety of health care advocates, in order to change the malpractice rules so as to make sure that those who had a legitimate claim got served, but that the bulk of the money went into the needs of patients. and now thousands of low-income americans get care because senat

some of the states i focus on our washington, oregon, hawaii, oregon, alaska, mississippi, louisiana, oklahoma, virginia. i did the battles to a lot of these places. hopefully giving a new generation of people some environmental heroes to look at. the oregon coast, it was a battle of their to save the islands off a san francisco, also. roosevelt in hawaii, if you grab a map of hawaii and see the hawaiian islands, look to the west of hawaii going towards asia midway. roosevelt saved all of that bird sanctuaries. when -- he threatened war with japan when japan would try to kill birds on that island. he threatened war with japan. an alaska chain where he saved seals, roosevelt heard a group of japanese seal hunters came to an american archipelago and killed americans seals, he was gearing up for, if need be, with japan over seals. this wilderness warrior, it was not just a policy for him. you cannot understand the essence of their roosevelt if you don't understand his relationship with dahlin, ornithology, and with the big game and forestry of america. >> what about darwin? >> roosevelt'

for example, i was looking at the oregon coast, you look at the pacific coast of washington, oregon, roosevelt saving them. you see them on the map and he saved those and the early photography. he was interested in wild life photography. he had a man from oregon, another one of the guys i deal with in my book. he would show him pictures of wild orlando magic. roosevelt went up to portland and met him once and it became the movement to save the wild life of oregon. the states, particularly in the west and florida, you can't even -- you can't write about the states without seeing the impact roosevelt had. and these weren't easy things to do. when he saved the grand canyon, he went there and said don't mar the grant canyon, standing on the rim. it's for future generations. you cannot improve the beauty of it. he was shocked to find that congress was ready to mine it for as bestios and sync, copper and commercialize it. and roosevelt used an executive order, meaning congress refused to make the grand canyon a national park. they refused. roosevelt had a weapon, the antiquities act of 190

walden from oregon for an opening statement. >> thank you mr. chairman. >> opening statement on an oversight hearing in the house about the insurance companies to cancel or deny health insurance. we hope to show you more of this letter -- you can see it on c-span 2 board. now back to the senate as senators remain in a quorum call. if i had a short recess. and they are officially still in session and we return to our live coverage of the senate here on c-span 2.

thomas is a constituent of mine from bend, oregon.his grandfather formed the dealership for general motors in 1918. he served as lieutenant in the u.s. marine corps from 1969 to 1972. he's a graduate of stanford university. serves on the boards of the united way, greater bend rotary, st. charles hospital foundation, boys and girls club, bend chamber of commerce, oregon state university, cascades campus and the central oregon visitors organization. the kind of person you'd want to represent your company in central oregon. >> next is mr. daniel. he was requested by mr. -- am i saying your name right or wrong? [inaudible] >> okay. thanks for being here. and mr. dicks asked that you be here. mr. james gollac, mr. doyle, you want to say a few words. >> thanks, mr. chairman. it's a pleasure to welcome my friend at today's hearing. jim and his family have been at the same location in pittsburgh since 1935. a business that's still owned and operated by his family. they started with a hudson franchise and then they sold cars from amc, jeep, an

the presiding officer: the senator from oregon. mr. merkley: mr. president, in the coming weeks we will take up what probably is one of the most vexing policy challenges of the last 50 years: how to reform our health care system and provide affordable, accessible health care to every single american. the goal couldn't be more straightforward, guarantee access for every american. and the stakes couldn't be higher. our small businesses are collapsing under the weight of health insurance premiums. just last month, oregon's largest insurer announced the small business premium was going up 14.7%. that's open top of a 26% increase just the previous year. now, large employers have the challenge as well. in a global economy, our broken health care system is a major competitive disadvantage. a greater share of the price of each car in the united states goes to health care than goes to steel. $1,500 of the cost of the car goes do health care and in canada that price is zero. if we're going to compete in the world we need competitive cost effective health car

from oregon, i mean on the "help" committee where he serves with such distinction an where much of the legislation to repair our broken health care system is being debated, written, and refined. in that capacity i was recently invited to the white house to meet with president obama, his health care time, and all of our colleagues on the "help" and finance committees. we discussed our reform and reported on the progress each committee made in the past several weeks. in the coming weeks we'll hear a lot about the details of health care reform legislation and those details are very important. but even more important are the hundreds of millions of american families in each of our states, all over the country, who have experienced real anguish, coverage, lost or denied, hospital stays extended due to complications or errors, prescription drug bills rising and rising with no end in sight, even losing everything because a loved one fell ill. a few months ago i launched a page on my website for rhode islands to share their experiences with our broken health care system. and hundreds of people

in bend, oregon and the general motors terminated the only gm dealerships substantial service repair facilities servings -- servicing thousands of assisting thousand square mile radius and to the planners behind us understand the rural america really understand

it became a movement to save the wildlife of oregon. these states particularly in the west and in florida, you cannot write about the states without seeing the impact roosevelt had. these are not easy things to do. when he saved the grand canyon -- he went there and said to not destroy the grand canyon, standing on the rim, it is for future generations, you cannot improve the beauty of its." he was then shocked to find congress was ready to mine it for investors in zinc, copper, and commercializing. roosevelt used an executive order and congress refused to make the grand canyon national park. they refused. roosevelt had a weapon. the antiquities act. that was like a club. the antiquities at the 1906. he said i declare this a national monument for future generations, overriding congress. the t3 is conservation is he did it with this group. congress, western senators in particular, were not reading into the federal government grabbing an area like the grand canyon and closing it off. roosevelt's conservation can be seen as he was inspired

in bend, oregon and the general motors terminated the only gm dealerships substantial service repair facilities servings -- servicing thousands of assisting thousand square mile radius and to the planners behind us understand the rural america really understand customers and the world market, the loyalty, let's talk plainly if you want to turn gm and chrysler into a network ever been dealerships then tell me the don't ask me and my constituents to provide the bailout. or is your plan to use the crisis of bankruptcy as a cheap and quick way to get rid of dealers you don't want only to eventually sell or put in place since you don't sell them a new franchise in a market you have laughed? if you plan to reduce dealers can you give me a guarantee was simply get rid of a bob thomas only to turn around and offer a gm franchise to someone else in the coming months? so the goal today mr. chairman is to get straight talk and fax, we need to know the real reasons for the closure decisions and whether they are really justified. we need to know how this is a good deal and the consumer, we need t

i recently attended a meeting of letter recipients and oregon -- was there? a roomful of respectable business people with him, attended business meetings for 30 years, obviously they're able businesspeople to have survived as have we. the marketplace should be the sole arbiter of who should fall by the wayside, not the arbitrary acts of well many administrators. the plan to replace us with another gm dealer, why have we been deprived of the opportunity to make a transition with their approval? will our market be awarded to gm favored or insider? this will seem to be an unreasonable and wrongful taking of a valuable asset, nurtured through the years only to be snatched by an overreaching at a moment of opportunity inside the bankruptcy. and one of the inventory that remains? in our case of $4 million, the value of which fishing by a million or more from what we paid. over a year's supply of a gm cars a witter sale. half million dollars of parts cannot be returned. what i would hope for in such dire straits would be a request the reason, allow us to provide sup

the presiding officer: the senator from oregon. a senator: madam president, i have 15 unanimous consent requests for committees to meet during today's session of the senate. they have the approval of the majority and minority leaders. i ask unanimous consent that these requests be agreed to and that these requests be printed in the record. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. merkley: madam president? the presiding officer: the senator from oregon. mr. merkley: i ask consent that any recess time or morning business time count postcloture. the presiding officer: is there an objection? the presiding officer: without objection. mr. merkley: thank you, madam president. i yield the floor. madam president, i would note the absence of a quorum. the presiding officer: without objection. the clerk will call the roll. quorum call: a senator: mr. president? the presiding officer: the senator from minnesota. ms. klobuchar: madam president, i ask that the quorum call vitiated. the presiding officer: without objection. ms. klobuchar: ma

it's closed on the oregon coast. and it's all because politics was put ahead of science. you can't do business that way. the only way to fix this is to bring all of the agencies

the presiding officer: the senator from oregon. mr. wyden: how much time remains on the democratic side? the presiding officer: 11 minutes and 24 second. mr. wyden: thank you. many senators on both sides of the aisle are working constructively to fix american health care and for several years i have spent time listening to colleagues going to the offices of about 85 snorks at least that -- of about 85 senators, at least that many in the house, and also listening to thousands in the public and private sector about their ideas for fixing american health care. my aim has been to try to help find common ground and to chart a path so that this congress and this president can go somewhere that the country has never gone before, and that is to real health care reform. today i come to the floor to lay out the specifics of what real health care reform is all about. the president said yesterday there has never been a better opportunity to get the job done. specifically, to exriewf the lives of all americans -- to improve the lives of all america

the beauty of oregon coast was a real battle out there to save it. or the islands off of san francisco, and these are all t.r. last one, roosevelt in hawaii, look to the west of hawaii heading to asia. roosevelt saved all of that for bird sanctuaries. and not just that, he threatened war with japan, when they tried to kill birds on the islands. and he threatened war, and roosevelt heard that a group of japanese field hunters came on american seals, and he would not, he was gearing up for war if need be with japan over seals. when i use the title "wilderness warrior." this was a whole other thing. you can't understand the essence of theodore roosevelt if you don't understand darwin and the understanding of america. >> who introduced roosevelt to darwin? >> it's interesting, roosevelt's father was an early reader of darwin. t.r. when 14 or 15, he was in egypt and he writes about darwin. in fact, brian, in my book he draws out how we evolved from the stork. roosevelt has himself evolving from an stork. and draws pictures from it and shows his brother ev

host: organ, independent -- oregon, on the independent line. caller: when cheney made his debut he made it at the heritage foundation. i feel a lot safer with barack obama then i would with mccain in office. host: florida on our democrats line. caller: i would like to let the people know and i am sure you are aware of this, that bush gave billions of dollars to someone through -- to develop and flu virus several years ago. then they give them another $3 million to develop a vaccine for it. we are developing these weapons here in this country through our military. i think that is scary. you are saying how we have to be careful of all of this. we are the ones developing all of this stuff. we developed all of this stuff. guest: i am not aware of that accusation. i think 10 million people died from the spanish influence of in 1918. the accusation regarding u.s. developing a vaccine, some pathogens are capped live with the ability to develop vaccines. i am not aware of anyone developing bioweapons. the military has a vaccine for anthrax, for -- as a

they have all the battles of oregon and washington state, they have slides. and of florida of these early wardens and conservationists. we may not know who this guy is, paul craigle. he's a hero and known all over, and has a monument in florida. the singer arlo guthrie moved to be near this. >> so you called mark madison. >> come here or other places, at yosemite and to have do -- documents and books. and to check with them, they have the up-to-date numbers on species. for example the louisiana bear, it's a sub-species of black bear. and it's almost extinct, there are only 200 left in arkansas. and bear people only know, but there are 250 left in the united states. >> that are alive? >> alive. that's it. we are about to lose the louisiana black bear, only 250 down. but here at the fish and wildlife, they are creating reserves for them. and the people in louisiana, they want to save the louisiana black bear. the people are proud of their bear history. william fauker of mississippi wrote the short story of a bear modeled on holt collier, there are legendary bea

>> guest: a political science professor at the university of oregon. i teach american politics paradigm teaching a course on comparative conservatism with europe and america and also racial politics from the mid 20th century to the president. >> host: when it comes to compared to a politics what is the difference? >> guest: one difference is america was founded on the liberal idea of the classic idea in the way that the europeans don't have. here if you looked at the origins of american conservatism you see hamilton ideas about manufacturer and capitalism and markets and a centralized power and jeffersonian they blend together into a conservative movement in the 20th century so there is no tradition the wigs lacked either an aristocracy to fight or a mob to fight against. so you don't have feudal traditions and the same way. >> host: university of oregon, from the new deal to the new right. >> hi. thank you for coming. i will read a real quick passage from chapter four and then do my little routine, am i talk. this is a chapter called the new taliban.

instead, the public option would be consistently available in all markets and in rural eastern oregon, in rural western and southeastern ohio. i stand ready to work with my colleagues to design a public insurance option as part of overall health care reform. the stories of millions of americans behind spiraling costs of health care will no longer go unheard. the stories of chris and gary and michelle and randall will guide this administration, will guide this congress, will guide this nation to protect and provide health security for all americans.s. mr. president, i would yield the floor and note the absence of a quorum. the presiding officer: the clerk will call the roll. quorum call:

spot we will provide system operators the opportunity to look up at first. >> what's go to bend, oregon you close to bend, redmon and leave matchless. so, what is that process is going to be put in place that allows mr. thomas may be to get his dealership back. you're telling me you were going to look at it and decide. i wouldn't be asking if it wasn't taxpayer dollars funding this whole thing, i would like you figured out under the law of the land. i actually voted for t.a.r.p.. i didn't vote for the although bill but i voted for t.a.r.p.. what we will do as i said we will have location bilocation if we've made mistakes in the future we conclude we can't take care of customers in the location and appointees to be put back we would go to whether the individual was affected and give the first chance to do that >> we may follow that further because i am just looking at chrysler and here is michigan you know the peninsula is very small. two big cities, dealers are gone. that's the two biggest cities in the upper peninsula and now the next one closest across the bridge is sheboygan, and the

$600, $800 on the health care you buy, you've got $800 to go fishing in oregon. and i suspect the senator from delaware and georgia may have some other ideas for where people can use their savings. but the point is we will have created a market where there is none now. i consider the current health care system today for all practical purposes a money laundering operation. what we have done large the since world war ii is set it up so that third parties really call all the shots and there really aren't any opportunities for individuals who want to make a cost-conscious buy for a good-quality package to benefit from it. in effect, the individual has been divorced from the process completely. now, i am not calling for individuals to go off into the health insurance marketplace by themselves. what i am saying is they ought to have the opportunity like we have as members of congress to be part of a large group where they can have clout, where they aren't discriminated against, where they do have power in the marketplace to make a sensible choice for themselves and the

the beauty of the oregon coast. it was a real battle out there to save it. or the islands off of san francisco. these are all t.r. last one. roosevelt in hawaii -- if you grab a map -- viewers look at a map in hawaii. you see the hawaiian islands. look to the west of hawaii heading towards midway. roosevelt saved all of that for bird sanctuaries. not just that, he's threatened war with japan when japan, for example, would try to kill birds on that island. he'd threaten war with japan. an alaska chain where he saved seal herds, roosevelt heard that a group of japanese seal hunters went on american, a pell go, rocks, and killed american seals, and he would not -- he was gears up for war if need be with japan over seals. so we're not using a title for this book "the wilderness warrior" -- this wasn't just a policy. it's not like doing conservation on richard nixon or something. this was a whole other thing. you can't understand the essence of theodore roosevelt if you don't understand his relationship with darwin, with the big game and forestry of america. >> w

although oregon i don't think it's that. >> yeah, i think there is a bit of a correlation. some of the manufacturing states started with higher unemployment rates and also had a higher rise in unemployment. >> i will save some questions for the second round. >> thank you. commissioner hall, we have got a number of constituents i am sure watching you right now. and we have got young people coming out of college, and we've got folks that have lost their jobs statistics, where would you say to them they were tried and to find a job? what kind of areas might want to look based upon what you see? what might be their best chance of getting employment? >> it's hard for me to recommend something. >> i am not necessarily asking you to recommend i am just trying to see where the jobs are. >> during the recession the amit consistent top growth has been health care and maybe government a little bit. almost everything else has seen job loss and almost every sector now pays expected to see some job loss. so it's hard to say at least right now where there is likely to be growth. >> when i

waled run of oregon. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized for two minutes. mr. walden: i want to talk about a couple of things here, process, cost, and language. this is the 309 pages printed at 1:34 in the morning and submitted to the rules committee sometime around 2:49 this morning. nobody, it's impossible, i can't imagine anybody has read this i just discovered they've changed the hide roe language so hide roe, -- hydco, they used to -- hydro, they used to say it counted, now they chave changed it. it's page after page of -- of technical changes with major impact. nine committees this was referred to, only one was allowed to have a markup. a lot of this got put together, dark of night, back room deals, no committee has held a hearing on this new bill, 309 pages amending the 1,201 pages sitting there on the desk. look at fuel costs. $811 more for oregonians in 2012. if you're a pacificorp customer in oregon, you can expect to pay 9.7% more in electricity costs. talk about a massive new welfare program for energy, it's in here too. in fact this energy tax refu

the most dazzling blue color lake in that whole region of southern oregon, which t.r. did so much to protect. the back story of publication had never been written about crater lake. they were helping me get drumets left and right. if you pick a site that hasn't been overcovered or overwritten about, they were thrilled to have somebody. you really care about the history of our park? many people don't think about history of national parks. they're coming for a camping experience, for hiking. they're less interested in the history of a park or wildlife refuge, where i would try to look at the history of it. >> what evidence do you have -- does your publisher have that this kind of book will sell? what is it, $35 apiece? >> when you get it online immediately, i think it's less than that. i think presidential studies does well. and theodore roosevelt is beloved. it's like washington or lincoln. i think people want to read about a president. i wanted to do the book as thoroughly and accurately as possible. believe it or not, i had to cut a lot just to get it down to a -- i m

the reports we got from the field in oregon remain very minimal, that is, people are as frustrated todayn trying to reach someone they can talk to. those who service the loans are as un -- as unknowledgeable, if you will, as unhelpful as they were months ago. we have one particular institution that folks repeatedly get told, well, our institution is not participating when their institution is participating. this institution was featured in an article yesterday in a different state with experiences that very much reflect what's happening in oregon and which a person who had lost their job and was doing everything they could to make their payments but clearly was going under, was simply told they would have to wait until they were behind three months, and then the effort was made to sell them a new loan at a higher interest rate with high servicing charges that would have put them further in the hole. kind of a repeat of the types of flipping practices that have been destructive. somehow we have to get over the hill here. we have to get into -- into the world where our institutions are rea

it is very clear to me that in california, in washington, in oregon, in many states, this has become a tremendous problem and drugs are being grown, marijuana particularly, on federal lands and i think we have to do more on enforcement and i commend the gentleman for his leadership in presenting the amendment and our side supports it and if the gentleman has nothing further to say, i think we ought to have a vote on his amendment. i yield to the gentleman. mr. smith: i would like to make a statement about the amendment if the gentleman doesn't object. mr. dicks: i'll reserve my time. the chair: the gentleman reserves. the gentleman is recognized. mr. smith: i yield myself the balance of my time. the chair: the gentleman is recognized for 3 1/2 minutes. mr. smith: first of all, i'd like to consider in the smith-herger amendment because i appreciate so much the work of the gentleman from california and his comments a few minutes ago. mexican drug cartels are converting america's national parks and forests into farms for their illegal marijuana crops. damaging these protected ecosystems

abandoned as will we come other dealer of choice, the largest gm dealership in central and eastern oregon. their world is crumbling, things they thought they could count on being are taken away, longstanding reliability, integrity, a safe harbor in a very real sense our customers are afraid. who benefits from this taking? this cancellation that is so unnecessary, so wrong, so wrong executed, not gm? having no dealer in bennett will not for increased jann sales, up to a 16,000 people in our region left solely with a small gm dealer in the tiny town and as parameter was limited inventory and repair capacity, not our community who has relied on us a voice to generously support its activities, not our employees or highly trained to work on sophisticated gm products like cadillac and chevrolet and service@@@@@@@@ >> that we would be here forever. that is our business model. always do it right, be here for the long haul, rental loyalty of your client out. over the years, that has been a gm's business model, too. we were a good fit until we got cut from the team. what with these cuts necessary?

the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from oregon is recognized for one minute. mr. blumenauer: thank you, madam speaker, chairman waxman, i appreciate your courtesy as i appreciate your leadership. it's strangely the debate boils down to our friends from the minority party being able to access the website of the rules committee to print out the rule that has been available to any member of the house. i understand some of them were waving earlier in the day talking about provisions they didn't like. but i guess we shouldn't be surprised because this is the same leadership that continually misrepresents the m.i.t. study citing $3,000 of costs that has been reputed by the author of that report and asked the republican leadership to stop misrepresenting his handy work. the c.b.o., the e.p.a. have given estimates that are pennies a day, not thousands of dollars a year, and we are not talking about the long-term benefits of transitioning to an economy of the future. i appreciate the leadership on the recent trip to china with the speaker, we saw the chinese moving ahead.

there's a woman across the oregon trail named fannie kelly. she refused to eat anything cooked over a buffalo chip. she later husbands than most of his money buying would. sometimes did the by fence post would or collectors would come out with wood to sell. she was traveling with a slave. she had a slave. her slave, his head was cloven open with the hatches and her husband with left for dead with some ehrlinson in. one of her children was killed and another one of her children crawled off into the bushes. she was taken prisoner. she wound up in what historians say must been sitting bull's can't. she was rescued some years later rants and back. she had become honored venture, a great proponent of cooking with buffalo chips and started to really like it. later when she wrote her memoirs, she was very laudatory and sort of a convert, like i was. it takes awhile to get it right but it really works. when i talk to people about buffalo, people tend to know that they saw dancing with the wolves. they know that there's something about cooking with the

jacob is from portland, oregon. and he got sick from eating peanut butter crackers, his favorite food. when his parents took him to the doctor, they said they finally got him stabilized and he wouldn't need so they told the parents, have jacob just eat what he loves, the peanut butter crackers are the very food that had made him sick in the first place. and the only way we found out about this was because the alert commissioner of consumer protection in oregon showed up personally at his door and confiscated the peanut butter crackers. we need to fix this. we need to fix it now, and i am so grateful that we are. thank you, mr. chairman. >> thank you ms. degette. next is the gentleman from indiana. >> man, welcome to the committee. is it homburg or hamburg? hamburg. welcome. and my first reaction to the discussion draft is going to lead to some discussions that i will have for you today. it appears that congress a lot of times we like to pound our chest and then show the american people that we are doing something we

he would come to the white house and show him pictures of wild oregon.e went to portland and met him once. these states particularly in the west and florida. he then was shocked to find a congress ready to mine it roosevelt says, i so declare it a national monday ue meant. we are not really into the federal government grabbing an area and closing it off. he is zermed to use the executive power to save wild america. >> are you afraid maybe you would open this place up to others and they would take it away? >> you can't pick up a magazine without reading about green power or the environmental movementÁold every green forests. it wasn't just localized. he was evolved in a sentence of seeing the problems of hyper industrialation. he wanted the world to act. >> this place wouldn't be here without robert c. bird. i don't think he would. his sense of grand your for example many of our rangers from the west were rough riders he was doing law enforcement saying we are going to protect our heir looms. mmp e search a verdea we are going to police them. we are train

it is about trying to make sure oregonically who does what.we are traying to state the obvious that in an extreme cyber attack, it really wasn't meant to go beyond that. this kind of a discussion is something we've been having in a conference room. it is very hopeful so that by the time we got to moving the legislation, i'm hoping that it will be more warmly received. >> i think a core part of the report is exactly that. defining the lines on the rode we've known this is a problem for some time. getting people to report to you incidents has always been a real problem. one of the reasons for that is the people asking the rourt don't really see what benefit they will get out of it. we need to do our part too. i don't think government is going to pick up in a big siper incident either. we need to have organic processes and come together april really respond. can i ask a silly question? >> absolutely. >> d.o.d. is a planning outfit. we work out relationships. all those details appear in that practice. what do you think about what we are going to w

people who are listening, watching or understanding this, we are not here berating republicans in oregon or nevada or cross the country. what i'm saying as the republicans here in the senate, the 40 of them, are not being fair to our president and our country. last year after senate republicans held up the work of congress more then any or time in the history -- remember, 100 filibusters last year -- after that the american people rejected the republican status quo. they said no to republicans "just say no" strategy. i would hope they learn the american people don't like this. independents don't like, republicans don't like it and democrats don't like it. we want to work telling. take health care. they have seats at the negotiating terrible. we want to work with them -- negotiating table. we want to work with them. energy -- same thing. there's in question the american people are taking notice. there's no question they're fed up with the petty partisan games. there's no question the reckless tactics have consequences. i would say that republicans delay and delay and delay at their peril

oregon secretary of state kate brown is here. [applause] all of you are here. welcome to your wife house. -- welcome to your white house. [cheers and applause] somebody asked for the lincoln bedroom. [laughter] it is good to see so many friends and familiar faces. i appreciate the support that i have received from so many of you. michelle appreciates it. i want you to know that you have our support as well. [applause] you have my thanks for the work that you do every day in pursuit of quality on behalf of the millions of people in this country that work hard and care about their communities, and that are gay, bisexual, or transgender. [applause] this struggle, i don't need to tell you, is incredibly difficult. although i think it is important to consider the progress that we have made. there are unjust laws to overturn and unfair practices to stop. although we have made progress, there are still fellow citizens, perhaps neighbors or even family members who still hold fast to warn arguments and attitudes who fail to see your families like their families and who

the first was oregon v. i.c.e. it posed one of many post-apprendi questions. consistent with our current sixth amendment jury its prudence, could a judge rather than a jury find the fact essential to the imposition of consecutive sentences. i answered yes. and in agreement with me were justices stevens, kennedy, breyer, and alito. second baden against discover bank involved a credit card issuer's resort to a federal court to compel -- to compel arbitration with the dispute or a card holder. although the issue it accept had commenced in state court, the card holder, however, had raised a counter claim governed by federal law. justice scalia, kennedy, sutor and thomas joined me in holding that issuer had to stay on the state court track, and their there petition for arbitration, not in federal court if so inclined. the fourth circuit whose decision we reviewed had come out the other way, as had the second circuit, although on a different ground than the fourth circuit. third and by far the most prominent of this set in arizona v.gant, the court revisited new yor

the court ruled 6-3 in favor of a teenage boy from oregon who whose parents fought to of their local school district. the 5000 two hundred dollars a month it cost to send their son to a private school. majority opinion says a school district must pay for private special and services if the public school does not have a proper and services regardless if the child previously receive special education services for the public schools. the supreme court has upheld a federal government permit to dump waste from an alaskan gold mine into a nearby wet -- late, even though all its fish would be killed. the justices say a federal appeals court wrongly blocked the permit on environmental grounds. the army corps of engineers granted the permit in 2005. instrumental groups challenged the permit, saying it violated clean water act. coming up today at 2 eastern time, we will be live with a senate republican meeting on energy policy, and the possibility of increasing the number of nuclear plants. senate republican conference will talk with an energy analyst. the u.s. senate gavels in at 2:00 p.m.. t