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host: bradford, pa.. caller: good morning, we have not had a reality show on health care. it is killing industry. gm will build a plant in canada and mexico. we cannot afford the insurance. it applies to all industries. we are ruining american industry with burdening them with health care they cannot control. it has to be out of their hands. we have a bunch of zombie companies building cars which 90% of the labor is done in korea. they do not pay into social security, health care and become more competitive. naturally, if they do not have the burdens we have on air industry. host: michael ettlinger, what you think of what frank has to say? guest: absolutely rising health- care costs have hurt u.s. competitiveness. john claims it is because of government involvement -- that is bizarre. it is a classic case of market failure. market can produce tremendous benefits, but they do fail. they do produce distortions also. that is what we have seen in health care. to quickly come back to the recovery package and a stimulus in the principles underlying that -- the point of that pack

they encompass a whole range of diagnoses, illnesses, outcomes at the inpatient side, cardiac care, pamoney i can't care, -- pa money i can't care, infections, safety, complications, experience, and then on the outpatient side, a whole range of diagnoses. we're convinced after spending time with physicians and hospital leaders and clinicians, if for example on the outpatient basis, if a practice were to perform at the highest level in our contract in these areas, they would have built the infrastructure to deal especially with chronic illness, which for our plan, 5% of our members account for 50% of our spending and we know that that's part of the solution to affordability, so who's working with us? it's a whole range, this contract began in january of 2009, by may we had seven groups signed up. they range from 40-physician practice in the western part of our state to tufts medical center, which is academic medical center in boston with affiliated physicians, across eastern massachusetts. there are community hospitals, there are urban hospitals, there are hospitals outside the city. we

muriel is next, from hanover, pa.. caller: good morning. our you? host: fun, how are you?- fine, how are you? caller: i am still surprise that the level of coverage in iran. we have seen more on them and we have seen iraq or afghanistan in eight years. why is the media so interested in one country when these other countries have our men in women dying in them. this one woman cried about someone being killed in iran last week. the numbers for of iraqis and afghanistan these two are being killed are not reported -- afghanistanis being killed are not reported. do the viewers have any idea on the drum beats of other countries? places that are not run politically? host: iran, as a neighbor of iraq, is this not part of the equation? the future of israel, does this stuff all tied together? caller: you are right, but there are americans that need to be able to see not only what is going on in iran, but also israel, now that you bring it out. -- bring it up. afghanistan, the taliban, it is not that this stuff does not go on, i am just wondering why the media chooses to focus only o

that kind of approach is exactly what you want from international pa

she was born last night, weighs 7 pounds, 13 ounces and buck mart necessary is now grand pa buck, congratulationshank you very much. that's an awesome feeling. very proud moment. zoe is doing great. >> gary: fortunately, it was rights here in the state of california. >> buck: yes. >> gary: you were in the right place at the right time, even though he had to leave, he was there. >> buck: i got to there with my son and daughter-in-law. >> gary: now, we have to put it away, college education. >> buck: car. >> gary: new mortgage. >> buck: grand ma is taking care of all of that. >> gary: good. good to know that. yeah. that's great. zoe, 1 ball, 2 strikes count. here is the 1-2 delivery on the way and that is a slider taken outside. davis has a singling and an rbi, 10th hit for the a's. one thing about zoe, she will have beautiful hair [ laughter ]. >> gary: 2-2 delivery, bloop, to second. one away. runer back to first. orioles fans, you deser major league service. official fan-to-fan marketplace of the orioles. >> buck: two more games here in oakland many tomorrow, 9:00 p.m. eastern time, update on th

host: pa., tom, democratic line. go ahead. caller: i have noticed that nobody is really saying anything about this. what about people realizing that obama will not always be in the white house? for instance, many people might realize -- think about how different the last administration is, goals and ideals? some people, like the republicans, are so afraid if he is going to centralize the government and business, maybe because they realize that while he has good intentions, the administration that comes afterwards might not. i feel that a lot of people in iran feel very similar about relations with us. they do not want to get to close because they are afraid of getting screwed over later on. host: you think that the way to deal with iran is to have more consistency in u.s. foreign policy? caller: i think that that is one of the things that we could do, one of the very important things. host: more from secretary of state clinton, who was at a news conference in canada yesterday. "we are monitoring the situation as it unfolds in

host: greensburg, pa., on our independent line. caller: good morning. i wanted to comment on the absurdities of a regulatory system that is invasive and if that insists finding out about these companies when the federal reserve has never been audited. never. 224 house members have co- sponsored a bill to audit the fed. that never comes to light on any of the major media. the fed was sold in 1913 on the india that there would be able to smoothes -- on the idea that they could smooth out the boom and bust and years later we had the great depression. guest: their returns to the previous callers comment on why we would give so much power to the fed. this bill would allow the government accountability office to audit the federal reserve which is currently not allowed. that right there is the perfect sign that people are very wary of its power right now. not just the conspiracy theorists. the average rank-and-file lawmaker is worried host: right now good morning on our democrats line. caller: i am 70 years old, so give me a chance. it is about people my age.

host: indiana, pa. on the democrats' line. caller: i live in a small county in monster in pennsylvania -- and i recently retired. we have been affected by the coal industry. things have been slow here probably slower than what has been on the national scene. stimulus money is coming in and there are construction jobs. there are bridge and road repair jobs that are coming in, and i have been doing volunteer work. there stimulus money is just now coming in in this month in june. i believe their fiscal year ends in june 30th. some of those payments we are just receiving care in the local county, which will bring jobs that will not be high-paying, and they will not pick up everyone who is applying for a job. but they are going to provide a stimulus to our local economy. i sat -- i think the economy will be slow, i think it will take patience on the part of all of us. i am retired and my husband is retiring. we are in a different position. i do think that there are pockets -- i just visited my son in jacksonville, north carolina. c

the first call this morning on the president's approach thus far -- lancaster, pa. on the independent line. caller: at the heart of all america's problems in the middle east is america's creation of israel back in 1948 which was essentially an invasion of muslim territory. it has been muslim territory for 1300 years. these jewish people in europe and in north america thought there were entitled to invade palestine. to take over that territory. there has been a war ever since. host: connected to the iranian election? caller: i america does: iran just the way it did not like iraq because they are the biggest enemies of israel. host: a republican as a line from minnesota. caller: good morning, i think the president is taking the right approach. in the past america has been blamed for meddling in the affairs of other countries throughout the world. many callers yesterday work using the president of meddling in the iranian effort. since he based his foreign policy by coming into office on a general policy he would like to establish and it is unclear whether ahmadinejad w

host: calmest of it, pa. -- caller: a couple of comments. first of all, i listened over the weekend since the energy bill passed, have not heard about the fact that the united states says 5% of the population of the world and we are responsible for 25% of the pollution. china, although they are a miserable polluter, they are taking some heavy-duty action to counteract that. they have mass transportation, etc. another comment is -- obama and the democrats better fight back against the republican onslaught that is coming on. we can see the beginnings of it. if they do not, they will lose in 2010 and 2012. progressives like myself and independents who make up the largest segment of the population, we are disgusted with what obama is doing. that will be the bottom line for it is not because of the strength of the republicans, it is because of the discipline of democrats and independents. host: one of the sunday shows made a statement yesterday and they thought it would be two or three election cycles before the republicans came back in power. gu

he's given up three walks and the orioles only made him pa for one of those, as he walked the lead-offond and thel face luke scott salazar and matt witr he in the orioles 7th. >>im p.: don't you think he's pitching the way he's pitched all june? >> rob: even going back farther, when he started to really step up as the acof the staff, there was a couple ogames where he was getting 3 and 4 double plays in the game. sometimes he'd stay out there and give up his first win of the season, he gave up six runs early. stayed out there for six, seven innings and we ended up coming back when the offense s clicking and he got his first win. i truly feel a lot of people talk about, your job as a starter is to try to win the ballgame for your team. forget about your stats or anything. go as long and as hard as youly >> jim p.: yeah, you beat the guy that you're pitching against. after watching you last couple of years pitched well against the nationals, play win. >> bob: high drive, right ce.t elijah dukes calling willie harris, i don't know what happened there. harris peeled off, then i'm no

. >> bob: and the pa announcer has to get it. >> rob: it took 3:38 for jonathan papelbon.ned 1,000 bucks. >> bob: he admits he was warned about it previously. >> rob: i mean, when i was playing, the third base umpire always had a stop watch. when it was a local game, whatever, the locals were a little bit quicker but nationals were 2 1/2 minute. you sea me pitch. i warm up on five pitches. i'm standing there and waiting for the guy to give me the okay, go ahead and pitch. and you would be waiting for 30 seconds. he is one of those guys that like to, you know, the second base umpire, i guess, has the stop watch. 2-2 to josh bard. that's a fastball that misses up and away. and the nationals continue to work the count beautifully against matt garza. here is a guy who has thrown 120 pitches this year but through three innings here tonight, he is almost halfway there. in fact, he is beyond halfway. 3-2 to bard who slams it out to ben zobrist at second base. i i ben zobrist who already had trouble catching one ground ball that came off the turf into the dirt who threw willie har

host: let's go to redding, pa., on the democrat line. caller: you opened the show with "don't ask don't tell." it simply does not work. the gay community does not do itself justice when it comes to getting equal rights. the gay community, especially during world war two, tens of thousands were marched to concentration camps and used for target practice and medical experiments. the breast were gassed. -- the rest were gassed. it was illegal in the '60s for two people the same sex to dance together in clubs or walking together down the street holding hands. going into the aids crisis, their mates could not have the ability to be involved in their mates'' medical care. guesthost: gay-rights activistse stepped up their protest for the president's failure to act on " don't ask, don't tell yo cupl." guest: paul numbers are in a different spot than where congress and the a ministration are. the poll numbers on this issue, people are supportive of it. people see no reason for a continued discrimination in the military, particularly when they say

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worth with pa population of 17,000. today, over 200 towns in texas have chrysler, ford or gm stores. that is over two thirds of our texas towns with dealerships. my grandfather opened this dealership in 1919 and has kept it open through the depression, world war ii and countless economic setbacks. in the 90 years that we have been here, 36 other new car dealerships have come and gone in our town. we have stayed open because we are committ eted to customer service. we have five new hotel chains under construction. new schools, restaurants and many corporate relocations. to meet the needs of a growing city, we have purchased five ache oefrs land on a busy highway. we hired a builder and have drawn up plans for a new building. all these plans have been shown to the legaler placement people for chrysler. no dealership is a cost to chrysler. we pay for everything we use and we take all the risk. we are chrysler's cust mer. in a typical month, we pay chrysler over $2,500 in fantasticed e eed -- fixed expe alone plus parts and

but, this is very serious pa because, as i said, when you look to the future, how much will it cost to own and operate and how dependent are we on hydrocarbons and we have to get serious about it. now is the time and we are off and running on that. yes, sir in in the back? >> richard wise, hudson institute. two specific questions. you talked a bit about the chinese navy in general. last week, we had our session of the defense council -- i wonder if you have a readout on e whether the issues you talked about, came up, particularly the navigation issues and admiral mullen just went to russia and there is a speculation, some kind of military agreement will be in next week's some and i'm not sure if there are any navy issues potentially involved in those discussions. >> right. i think when you talk about that with china or russia, all of the services have an interest in it. and whereas i have not gotten the full readout from the chairman's talks and the team has just gotten back from china, the details i do not have. but i'm encouraged by some of the things that i hear, and, the importance

monongahela, pa., what year did you come to indiana? >> my family arrived in indiana in 1959. i was about 10 years old. we had lived around the south. we never lived in pennsylvania. i was born in the same hospital room as joe montana. we lived in tennessee and georgia, and moved to the indianapolis area when i was 10. i went to north central high school. at that time, i believe it was one of the handful of best high schools in north america. we were fortunate to go there. it showed me that you can have uncompromising excellence in public schools if you have the right elements. i went to princeton university, law school at night school. i finished at georgetown while working out here. >> what was the first thing you did in politics? >> the lowest person on the totem pole for a campaign for bill ruckleshouse for the senate in our home state. he went on to renown in the nixon administration, and resigned in the saturday night massacre. >> you worked for him when he was the first head of the epa? >> no, just when he ran for office. i finished school and fell in with the boy-mayor

.  >> jim: marlins have a pa home runs with a 5-0 lead over the orioles. orioles back home at camden yards interleague play. nats are in town. it's student night presented by at&t. students of any age can receive a left field upper reserve seat for just $6 and it's fireworks night presented by aaa mid- atlantic. students can stay after the game -- fans can stay after the game. call fom 888-848-bird or orioles.com. sean west on the mound going against ross detwiler. >> buck: nobody was anticipating that possible return of smoltz to the rotation against the atlanta braves. the red sox go there beginning a three-game series tomorrow. i think they made a good move not creating a little more hoopla around his return by starting him in atlanta. >> jim: doin bounce it is to secondment uggla charges -- andino bounces one to second. uggla retires. the way the rotation goes with smoltz going tonight, orioles can expect him at camden yards next week. >> buck: yeah, it will be good. obviously, he's not up to speetd speed as he's coming back from shoulder problems, and

reading, pa., good morning. caller: good morning. in that our area anin berks county we have all large population, also in north hampton, and a large influx from new york in the polkas. -- it is in thepoconos. our unemployment rate does not reveal how many people are truly out of work. that is something we will look at in the future when we try to evaluate the numbers. many more not on and employment have fallen through the cracks. whether we have a 9.4% right now you could probably put another 1.5% on top of that. host: what was the biggest industry there in reading prior to the downturn? caller: at one time it existed off of industrial production. this is also the home base for mack trucks and bethlehem steel. i have more less disbanded and let the air. the latest transformer film that will, was a film on the remnants of bethlehem steel which is now being turned into a casino i am not sure our growth factor makes sense for the logic of good employment. currently you could get a job in the new casino that opened in bethlehem, but th

. -- pas law to outlaw discrimination in the workplace so men and women would receive equal pay for equal work. with the supreme court did, of course made up of people talking about judicial restraint during the confirmation hearing, a court basically struck down equal pay for women, and i was for a proud to be standing right behind president obama, and you were there and when he signed philosophizes first act, and that is going to change this -- the son the first law as it -- find this law as his first act, and that is going to change this. we should ask about those conservative activists who are the legislation designed to protect americans right to equal pay. the law is meant to protect the privacy of all americans from an overreaching government. when those laws are in place and conservatives on the port strike goes down, are they not being the same kind of activists -- the conservatives on the court strike goes down, are they not being the same kind of activist they try to avoid. we understand the real work to take dozens doctrine of separate but equal -- what is done more fair devli

ronald reagan pa's last speech to the republican party was very dramatic -- ronald reagan's last speech to the republican party was very dramatic. he gather delegates to speak. >> i will segue to our next clip close-up started at the end of the carter presidency but we have and as a former president. let's take a look at that clip. >> i was just wondering -- people from all over the world have different cultures and value systems. i was interested in knowing if there is something that you found that everybody connects on because they are human. when you are dealing with somebody, is there something you can always relate with them about? >> yes, regardless of one's race or creed or political philosophy or religion, there are things that blind people together. i have always referred to the mothers in the middle east area. the israeli mothers, the palestinian mothers, the jordanian mothers, the syrian mothers, the lebanese mothers, the egyptian mothers, want to see their families raised in the spirit they want to see their sons get a good job and not go to war and get killed. they want to

medicaid, anytime we can reimburse for preventive care, getting a regular mammogram or pat smear patpap s pa of the people will utilize them more. i think this is extraordinarily important. we can all take steps to become healthier. there's nothing wrong with us getting a little bit of a nudge in moving people into the direction of a healthier lifestyle. it is hard and changing habits are hard. it starts with their children. as part of our overall health care reform, we also have got to talk about, for example, our school lunch programs. your at the head of the school board as well as a nurse, i know you are struggling with this. the cheapest way to feed all the kids is to have frozen tater tots, eat them up, then you have pizza, fries, the soda companies so kids can have as much as soda as they want, and presume kids are seeing type 2 diabetes skyrocket. schools are running out of money when it comes to physical education. kids sit in for of the tv of the long period michelle my used to talk, when we were kids, basically your folks during the summer, you would leave a a.m. it may be came ho

he was traded to the marlins in november as pa part of that big trade, scott olsen and willingham wentack to washington, d.c. he swings through and it is 0-2. the problem with bonifacio this year, buck, is he is outstanding on the bases, but he is having trouble getting on base. he can -- you cannot steal first. he's gown on three pitches. there is a strikeout and two away. two straight outs. let's head down stairs and say hell he once again to amber. >> hello. as buck mentioned, caesar izturis is back with the team. he lives in the miami area, so a good opportunity to come over and be evaluated. he did a little bit of running today. he also swung off of a tee, but he told me he is still feeling pretty weak from the a pen deck tom me he received on june 5. he is nervous to get in a full swing of the bat. as i said, he will be evaluated an the orioles will determine what he will do, what will be the next step. we do know he will go back up north with the team, though. jim? >> >> jim: amber, thank you very much that is the first step as you get back to the team and then the baseball-rela

this connects to the last bit of our discussion -- they understand there is not a single silver bullet pa for the kinds of problems we face. not a single answer in iraq, not a single answer in afghanistan, and not, lord knows, a single answer to the economy. it does not mean there are not answers. but not mean people cannot disagree about practical steps to take. but the idea that you can wave a magic wand and everything will be ok is just simply not realistic. my sense of the president is back -- and as a candidate -- he made a bet that we would appreciate a president's who would play a role not unlike franklin roosevelt's role, being a kind of national headmaster, a kind of teacher and professor, explaining things, giving us credit, to some extent, that we can follow along. i think one of the things that president would get in trouble -- and if you think back through history, this is universally true, i think -- president to get in trouble are those who think they can pull something over on the american people, that they are smarter somehow than the people, and the president to do well

standards should be made close to the ground in a democracy, always, par tis pa tore democracy demandsl participate in standards setting. we're not stupid. we can do that. number two whatever assessments we do loops back to help teachers become smarter and competent. standardsizeed testing its off in some space that doesn't talk to us. so i don't know what to make of it except i know i will be judged on it. doesn't tell me how to teach. i want an assessment that is close though ground and close to teaching. >> host: got 0 couple e-mails for both you. i participated in the the moratorium demonstrations in october and november. which do you believe contributed more to increasing opposition to the war? i believe it was the more tore pore yum. >> guest: you could be wright i don't have any causal. of the many choices people made around how to oppose the war -- and again i said the only decision i don't agree with is the decision not to be active. if you're active opposing the war, you're on the right side of history. oregon i think it's difficult to claim very much in terms of what affecte

he was born and raised in at reading, pa., where they raised their daughter. he currently lives in south carolina. the appreciate you taking the time to come to washington. i think this is his third week here, and i know it is difficult for you to continue recounting this tragedy in public as well as private. if he comes as a representative of over 150 people -- he comes as a representative of over 150 people from the 3407 group. they come with the goal of making changes in the airline industry, the faa, hoping to keep an accident like 3407 from happening again. and saving many other families the sadness they are continuing to endure. he is also joined this morning by his wife, terri. i am deeply impressed with the work of the maurers and all the families of the victims of flight 3407. as the father of four and grandfather of two, i cannot begin to imagine the pain that comes from tragically losing a loved one. it speaks very highly of all the families here today that you are working to take what must be such deep sorrow and focusing on improving airline safet

electric transportation, most of these factories are in haunted areas of the country, in the erie, pa. 4,000 people are ready to build the next generation of high-speed locomotives. a little town across from harrisburg, the biggest steel corp. in the world has a plant that builds railroad tracks, it has 400 workers. with $13 billion investment, they intend to increase, double or triple the size of their work force. tgv, the french rail system, is run by a company called national rail company sncf. they employ a thousand people in good paying jobs. just imagine the number of jobs, permanent jobs in this system, as well as all of the construction jobs and orders for the factories in building the system itself. if we are going to do this, we have to do it right and we have to do it in scale. i know what senator thune said, $13 billion is a lot of money but in another sense it is a small amount of money to do what needs to be done. to build high-speed rail on the california coast is expected to be a $45 billion cost factor. to build a high-speed train from philadelphia to pittsburgh which

came out of the 1919 paris peace conference that ended world war i and wilson was spreading a whole -- pa rhetoric about self-determination and nationalism and giving colonial peoples the hope that they too could form their own nations. and so he takes these wilsonian ideas and looks at how they traveled in different countries and led to uprisings the following year in many nations, china, korea, egypt and india. and those are only some of the countries that are involved in this book because similar events are going on in palestine and other areas. this is an author that

we know that supposedly other uighurs are going from guantanamo to pa lou -- palau. one report i read estimated that over the last 14 years going back to the middle of the clinton administration, we paid them about $852 million just for aid and so there's some question are we going to pay them more millions to take this or since their 15-year agreement is up are they willing to take these -- but the bottom line is, millions and millions of dollars are being paid to take 17 uighurs, for those that don't know those are people in china who because of their religious beliefs or adverse to china, even we know that these 17 were -- and we know these 17 were captured in terrorist camps in afghanistan. some say they weren't being trained to terrorize us, but they were in terrorist camps in afghanistan. so the question many are asking now is for those two million of us who lost our jobs since january of this year, what terrorist camp can we go to to train so that maybe we could spend the rest ever our lives alt u.s. ex-- of our lives at u.s. expense at the beaches of bermuda?

like pa tricia o'toole and kathleen dalton. there is great literature out there and we have known each other. i have been going to t.r. conferences really since the 1980's where i visited and talked to scholars and collect things. because my hobby was t.r. and the sites that he saved. >> and certainly i want to go back to how you did this, the reagan diaries you edited. what year was that? >> reagan came out -- well, what happened with the reagan diaries was i wasn't expecting it. i had written a little book that was about our u.s. army rangers and d-day. it reflected back to reagan's famous speeches there that he gave. i simply had an opportunity, an offer to be the president, as presidential historian to pete wilson, i really have to give credit to, former governor of california had me come out to look at it and i was stunned to see reagan wrote a diary every day. yeah, i would like to be the one to edit them. there was a stipulation, mrs. reagan wanted it out quickly. although i had been working on this roosevelt, i had to m

you may do, going forward -- >> but as to the hipaa law, basically leave it up to the states and hip pa has to be enforced by the federal government, cms, right. >> that is correct. the ultimate enforcement. >> so the value of the law, depends on the enforcement of the law. >> yes, it does and there is a fine, of $100 per day, per affected individual. for noncompliance with the law. that can be levied. >> let me ask each of our ceos this question, mr. hamm, would you commit your company will never rescind another policy unless there was an intentional fraudulent misrepresentation in the application. >> i would not commit to that. >> mr. collins, would you commit to not resinned any policy unless there is an intentional fraudulent misrepresentation. >> no, sir, we follow the state laws and regulations, and, we would not spulate to that, that is not consistent with each state's laws. >> how about you, mr. sassi would you commit your company will never rescind another policy unless there was an intentional fraud or misrepresent zen station. >> i cannot commit to that, the intentional stand

sold up through fannie mae and freddie mac which has been nationalized because of the insolvency in pa created by some of those transactions. and get out the vote democrat drive that took place in many of the cities, chicago, for example, and register hundreds of thousands of fraudulent voter registrations. and in fact by acorn's own admission over 400,000 fraudulent registrations were filed by acorn in that cycle leading up to the 2008 election. and i ask for investigations, i ask for congressional inquiries, i ask for the justice department to look into acorn. and i have no sympathy on this side of the aisle. temporarily had some sympathy from the chairman of the judiciary committee, mr. conyers, for about three weeks was on record as believing there was evidence there that may warrant that we take it up and investigate acorn. three weeks after he expressed the sentiment he concluded there wasn't enough evidence there. there's a lawsuit against acorn that has been won. and a settlement that's been achieved. we have put hundreds of pages of data into the records here in this congress

have you decided whether they would be able to have their response made a right pa of that record? >> yeah, we actually views expressed by former deputy general philip and former attorney general mukasey. it would be my intention subject to their approval to include their comments, their views as part of the release of the report. i mean, i've not checked with them but i assume that they would not have objection to that and assuming they did not, i would make that a part of the report. >> previously, you've heard a reference to warrantless wiretapping and was suggesting this was a great violation of constitutional rights. but for the most part, as i understand these difficulties, they arise from a lawful intercept, maybe in a foreign country. maybe of a satellite phone or something in afghanistan. and those are legally intercepted. i think emails could be, too, as part of an intelligence-gathering operation. what happens is -- and that's lawful. it's lawful with regard to that individual. now, if they all of a sudden make a phone call to some terrorist cell in the united states, so

the iranian dias pa is very diverse but i would hope most would fall somewhere in the moderate middle. thank you very much. [applause]

that sort pa of the debate. i see two of -- that is part of the debate. i see two of my colleagues are on the floor and i ask unanimous consent the reminder of my statement be entered in the record. the presiding officer: without objection, so ordered. mr. durbin: i yield the floor. the presiding officer: the senator from new york. mr. schumer: i thank my colleague and friend from illinois for his outstanding words once again on health care. and on the fact that we need some kind of check on the insurance companies -- our colleagues offer nothing, they just point to canada and england which is a totally different system than we are focusing on. second, i thank my colleague from oregon doing a great job in his first year in the senate for his generosity so i can speak for a brief moment, share with my colleagues some words about an act of bravery that occurred in my state yesterday. mr. president, as the senate right now debates some of the biggest national issues of our time, it's important to sometimes take a step back and look to see some of the great a

came up from north carolina -- [laughter] i've actually met a lot of north carolinians here, the di as pa sent everybody out. and when i did, nobody was at home. some people were at the beach, some people were at camp, so i was at home, and you'd think that'd be the perfect time so i'd be incredibly organized. i was not. i pulled the folder where i'd put my speech and the schedule of what was going to happen in my bag, and the speech was for an event in montana. [laughter] i write the speeches separately for each event, so it was a problem. the opening of this wonderful cancer clinic in montana was something i wanted to talk about, but not here. [laughter] so this afternoon i got to rewrite the speech. so i'll probably look down a little more than i should, but i'm doing it because it was important for me to say something that was particular to what you all do. it's honestly, an immense honor for me to be with you tonight. to say that i admire you, that i applaud how you've decided to spend your lives would be a tremendous understatement. one of my favorite songs, angels among us, i feel

opportunity to protect the planet, but unless you're prepared to lead, china and india will continue to pa lute -- pollute more and more. s the first step in this leadership and i urge the courage to vote yes on this legislation today. thank you and i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields back his time. the gentleman -- mr. camp: i yield two minutes to the gentleman from georgia, mr. lender. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized for two minutes. mr. linder: i thank the gentleman for yielding. i want to ask unanimous consent to submit a statement from the record -- for the record but i'm not going to read that statement. i want to respond to the gentleman from connecticut who said we need honesty in this discussion this egentleman from illinois this morning on the rule, the gentleman from illinois said on the rule there's zero peer-reviewed articles by scientists who disagree with the notion that humans are causing global warming. that will come as a surprise to professor mirner from the university of stockholm who has written 25 articles himself. or profe

and i can apply for that grant, but i don't have the flexibility to then turn around and use it on pas. >> but this is -- but you're not prohibiting the states from targeting three areas. if connecticut decided they wanted to target three areas, there's nothing in this law that prohibits my state from targeting -- or five areas, or one area. >> no, but to your disproportionately excludeing -- in other words, the whole idea is to ramp up the money in the most acute area. >> i think that's fine. you've got a good amendment here. we're trying to help you on this one. >> help me, sir, help me. help me, help me. >> a couple of pieces here that i think can -- >> hersa is going to contract this. in other words, hersa's going to hold them accountable -- >> it's not limited -- first of all it's not limited to the commission either -- >> i think you have to look -- >> hersa can say -- >> basically saying that it will take all the health care different funding pots and put them into one pot and allow states to be flexible with it. sounds good but we've been in these situations before and accounta

called the physician group practice demonstration, where a number of physicians, integrated with an anti-pa participate in a deal like this with a medicare beneficiaries are they still get paid a traditional medicare fee-for-service payment, but in addition to that date started reporting on a set of meaningful quality performance measures for the patient population. the whole set of patients who were touched by their care, including a set of preventive measures, including a set of evidence -based process and specialty outcome and patient experience made for the chronic diseases that are out for most medicare cost. and i think i medicare started tracking the overall spending for patients in these programs. the deal was that they could document improvements in a number of these dimensions of important patient quality of care, and medicare saw slowed down and the growth trend while they could get back some of those savings. at this point, i think the latest results are that just about all of them have significantly improved quality, and about half have been able to get cost spending trends dow

find themselves faced with buying a family ol policy with a preexisting condition and the cost of that pa policy if they find one is too high for them to afford. in the philadelphia area, a decent family policy costs from $12,000 to $15,000 a year. a family earning even $50,000 a year, after paying their mortgage and paying their expenses and maybe trying to save something for the children to go to college and it's -- taxes locally and state -- don't have those kinds of dollars left for them to find $12,000 to buy a decent policy. they are completely shut out. which is a very significant problem when they want to go for health coverage. we know cost is absolutely a major issue for our businesses, families, and government. what can we do about it? how can we ensure we'll contain costs and improve quality and extend coverage to the 47 million or 48 million americans who do not have ongoing health insurance coverage. the fact is we can do numbers of things. we have been working hard on this to make sure we create the kind of market reforms that will enable people to buy meaningful coverage t

higgins expanded from a little almost ma-and-pa kind of a factory into an assembly plant. he had four different ones in new orleans, some of them under canvas, 30,000 employees, and he turned out 20,000 of these landing craft in the course of the war. he was just a genius at design and a genius at production. he was a lousy businessman, and he went bust after the war. but he's the man who won the war for us. c-span: now, you're doing something at the ... >> guest: we're building a museum in new orleans, the national d-day museum, on the site where higgins built some of these boats and tested them. it's bigger than just honoring higgins' industry. it's going to honor all of american industry because you've got similar figures. we had no landing craft at all -- none -- in 1940. we had 30,000 in 1944. we virtually didn't have an air force in 1940. by 1944 we were building 8,000 planes a month. some of these were big four-engine bombers. so we want to honor american industry for what it did to make d-day possible, and higgins is the man we center our attention on. but there wa

has had pa distinguished career in the federal government, having serving as assistant secretary of a state from 1998 to 2001. he has done exemplary work at yale. his father was the first korean lawyer to study in the united states. yesterday i spoke at some length about dean koh and inserted his extraordinary resume in the record. it took some eight pages to list all of his honorary degrees, all of his publications, and all of his awards. when we search for the best and the brightest to come to washington, dean koh is a perfect match for that description. and if his nomination is to be rejected, it certainly will be a signal to people who have an interest in public service that they're better off not treading in these waters because the politics is so thick that even individuals of such extraordinary credentials can be rejected by the united states senate. i strongly urge my colleagues to support this nomination. i've been in this body a while. i've never spoken with such enthusiasm or such determination for the confirmation of a nominee as i have for dean koh. i think he would do an