that didn't play well in peoria.ently, landesman paid a visit, answered questions, and made amends. >> look at that >> brown: he also launched a six-month tour he calls "art works," to highlight the arts' role in the nation's culture and economy. recently, surrounded by paintings by his father, landesman said he took his new job despite advice to the contrary. >> when i went around and polled my friends and friendly and people that i trusted the most about whether i should volunteer for this every last one of them said you are out of your mind. you are out of your mind to come here. they said you are out of your blankety blank mind don't even think about it to come down and run a small federal agency 170 person bureaucracy, its a backwater, the amount of funding that they can do ultimately doesn't make that big a difference. i didn't feel that was the case. i felt in this administration it was going to be something more. you have a president who himself a writer, who cares about the arts, they go to the theatre, they

>>ell peoria was really a figure of spch.adway guy and there is that great old vauville expressionell play in peoria. what i w trying to say was really thaart that's going to be supported bthe nea is going to be onhe basis of merit and quality not just bause it ists in a certain place. so art can come om everywhere anwe are going to be wherever it is. >> bwn: of course when you talk about qualityarrates excellen then for some folks at can to start to sound lik a kindf elitism, you are coming here? hereou are a big broadway guy, new york, >> can't stand that. that somehow standards is co for elitism. or something worse. don't buy that at all. i dot think that there is a dionnect between supporting ality and having some kind o stdard and bng democratic anbeing in many, many different aces. >> brown: but go back to the funding questiongain i mean we have gone around t country and ported on different cities, states, and art initutions that areuffering. when you getown to a main stet and there is a lot of differenneeds out there,

and peoria to mesa is one of the popular routes. >> peoria, illinois to mesa, arizona. >> how do you do, mr. secretary. i'm the mayor of the city of denton, texas and we're at the point of dallas/fort worth and the point of the triangle of denton. we are about a little over 10 years ago decided to bypass new starts because of the barriers to success that that program had. and we created our own county transit authority to connect the dots between denton and metroplex dallas in particular in darp and that's working for us. one of the risks that we're facing now, however, in great measure we're counting on the transit-oriented development around the stations in the future to justify our heavy investment in creating our own transit authority. however, that is now at risk, in fact, financing has become so unsteady. a lot of the projected development has been pulled off even though we're right -- we're at the point of -- within a year or so having these transit stops open. and so what i would ask and would encourage is whatever can be done to help stabilize financing opportunity, federal

if a bomb goes off in peoria obvious columbus, ohio, that'd be a bad thing. but the idea of the rest of the country would fall apart, everybody starves to death or something strikes me as ridiculous kind of exaggeration. these people are never questioned about that. as this kind of hyperventilating has been taking place now for decades. i'm trying to -- i tried to put that into context. i do want to stress that nuclear weapons are terrible. they can kill lots of people. it's just that one bomb like that isn't the end of the planet. and we'd had years and years of that. okay. let me talk a little bit about the exstraplation that's gone beyond that. not only to nuclear weapons, but now they are in a new category as wepons of mass destruction. these are -- the phrase has been around for quite a long period of time. but it only got really inflated and became very common in the 1990s, basically in the first bush administration and in the clinton administration. so what has happened is the nuclear weapons which definitely are wepons of mass destruction was in there

albari, who was ultimately tried in peoria, now incarcerated in marian, illinois, at the federal prison, they went through the regular court system, successfully prosecuted and put away. moussaoui, the suspected 19th terrorist on 9/11, has been given a life sentence and now is at a supermax facility at florence, colorado. we're never going to hear from him again, nor should we, but he went through our regular court system. so those who want to close off our regular court system to the prosecution of terrorists ignore the obvious. that has been the most successful way to prosecute, to incarcerate and to keep those who are accused of terrorism and to keep america safe. let's not have an automatic visceral reaction that every time a terrorist is somehow arrested, that they need to be tried at a military commission. let us give this administration the option. let them decide which forum works best to bring justice and to protect america. in some cases, it may be military commissions. we recently had attorney general holder tell us that he had sent five suspected terrorists to be tried by mi

our economy, one mushroom cloud would destroy the economy of the message that if a bomb goes off in peoria, that would be a really bad thing, or columbus, ohio. that would be a really, really bad thing to do the idea that the whole rest of the country would fall apart, it just goes home and starts to do something like that, strikes me as being ridiculous, kind of exaggeration that these people are never basically great about the. there's this kind of hyperventilating, has been taking place now for decades. and trying to put that at least any degree of context. once again, i do want to stress that nuclear weapons are terrible and they can kill lots of people. it's just that one bomb like that is at the end of the planet. and we would have years and years of that. let me talk about the extrapolation that's gone beyond that, do not own nuclear weapons, but now there's a new category known as weapons of mass destruction. the phrase has been around for quite a long period of time. but it only got really inflated and became very common in the 1990s basically in the first administration and under

. >> and to the peoria to it may set route is still one of the most popular. >> peoria, ill. to mesa, arizona. >> i am from the city of denton, texas. we are at the point of the triangle, denton. we decided to bypass some barriers to success that the program had and would created our own transit authority to connect with that -- to connect the dots between denton and the metroplex. one of the risks we are facing now, however, is that in great measure, we are counting on the transit oriented the element of around the stations in the future to justify our heavy investment in creating our own transit authority. that is now at risk. financing has become so unsteady, a lot of the projected development has been pulled off even though we are up a point of within a year or so of having -- at the point of within a year or so of having these trances stations open. i would ask what ever could be done -- these transit stations open. i would ask whatever could be done to allow this to a moment to occur because the effect of that development is tremendous, both locally and for the future s

it can be very difficult to understand certainly i frame a lot of this in terms of the farmer in peoria whose riding because generally speaking they are still called admiral or general on the one hand and on the other hand they were training in that regard many of our young officers in particular, but not exclusively that it's okay to speak up and it's okay to disagree publicly and constantly and i worry a great deal about that in terms of the a political position that the military is in and so actually one of the things i have asked admiral, ron had to do is address this issue. actually in all of the war colleges because i do think we need to make sure we have a right and -- pledge your both encouraging them to speak about the same time saying watch it. >> but they have to do it correctly and the treasurer here is the apolitical military and it is in my view what we have to i think in short regard and retain at all costs in this democracy and it goes back to who we are, who we work for, very clear civilian control and win as i think the admiral said when we disagree and against a point

that means union and nonunion members who are working for caterpillar in peoria, illinois, manufacturers working for whirlpool in ohio would have an opportunity to sell their manufactured products, their tractors, their washing machines and refrigerators, into this market. now, mr. speaker, what that would do is create, again, good long-term private sector jobs. if we were to be able to do the korea deal, it would be the single largest trade agreement in the history of the world. korea has a $1 trillion economy, mr. speaker. a $1 trillion economy. we have about $83 billion in trade with korea right now. by and large korean products, automobiles and other things, get to the u.s. consumer tariff free. virtually tariff free. i think that's a good thing. i think imports benefit the consumer. what we need to do is we need to pry open their market, mr. speaker -- mr. session: i yield an additional five minutes. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized for additional five minutes. mr. dreier: i won't take the five minutes. i'm going to wrap up here because i think what we need to do

she was born december 6, 1946, in peoria, illinois. and is most notably known for her work with the susan g. komen for the cure foundation, the world's leading breast cancer, grassroots organization which has impacted millions of lives. this organization was established in memory of her sister, suzy komen, who passed away from cancer in 1980. ms. brinker since then has also founded the susan g. komen for the cure's signature program, the race for the cure, the largest series of 5-k run and fitness walks in the world. since its origin in 1983 in dallas, texas, the race for the cure series has grown from one local race with 800 participants to a national series of 112 races that yielded just over 1.5 million participants last year. ms. brinker's contributions to society extends beyond her work with the susan g. komen's centers. she has served in the government as chair of the president's cancer panel in the early 1990's. she then went on as the u.s. ambassador for hungry from 2001 to 2003 and as the chief of protocol for the united state