warm, personal. i talked to her about her days as a prosecutor because i have read the opinion piece that the district attorney of new york city did in the new york daily news where he said he was looking for someone to hire. someone recommended judge sotomayor, how he hired her, what great work she did as an assistant district attorney, and she has an enormous personal commitment, and that came through at the conversation. she has worked her way all the way up, never had a summer, except one, when she passed the bar. and she has worked all her life, and i do not think of that in the last hundred years there has been a supreme court nominee that has better credentials. federal district court, where you sit in trials and listen to people. the circuit court of appeal, the appellate court, where you interpret the law, the district attorney, prosecutor, corporate attorney -- she has done it all. it is quite amazing. >> did you ask her how she might look at cases involving abortion? >> i'm not corn to go

they want every single person in the country to walk around with an identity card. with that card there'd be over 50 pieces of personal information being transferred from your private control to state control. not just your name and address, place of birth, but your image, signature, fingerprints, maybe even iris scans and facial measurement template. for those who don't get a card, there is talk of fines, enforced registrations and penalties in public service revision. getting things withdrawn from you if you're not on the database or if you don't have the card. these are scare tactics to herd more disempowered citizens into the clutches of officialdom. if we want to stop the state controlling us, we've got to confront this surveillance state, so the next conservative government will scrap the database of children's details, we will scrap the id card scheme, and we will remove innocent people's records from the dna database. now, the action we take to rein in the control state and confront the surveillance state will help rebalance power in one direction by enhanci

he has said that he will appoint judges who have empathy for certain groups and that personal empathy is an essential ingredient for making judicial decisions. right off the bat, president obama's vision of judges deciding cases based on their personal feelings and priorities is at odds with what most americans believe. a recent national poll found that by more than 3:1, americans reject the notion that judges may go beyond the law and take their personal views and feelings into account. judge sotomayor appears to have endorsed this subjective view of judging. in one speesm that she gave several times over nearly a decade, she endorsed the view that there is actually no objectivity or neutrality in judging, but merely a series of perspectives. she questioned whether judges should even try to set aside their personal sympathies and prejudices in deciding cases, a view that seems in conflict with the oath of judicial office, which instead requires impartiality. we must require judge sotomayor's entire record for clues about her judicial philosophy. she was, after all, a federal district

she was an authentic person. she was also consistent, and that is the people who were her friends in her youth remained her friends for her lifetime. she didn't discard people because she rose in her social class or because her position became more elevated. she was consistent in her ideas. she condition change her opinions in order to be a popular person. and that has made her not just a very enjoyable figure to write about, but a model for women, and a model for women in my time who were looking for feminist models in the past. she was always political. she was what i call a pro toe feminist, that is, i don't think she was a feminist. she didn't ask for political rights, she didn't ask for the vote, but she did believe women should be treated respectfully before the law and with equal justice before the law. and she was also anti-slavery. and i'll get to that. so she was a wonderful model, both if her name and ours. i've also come over the years to who have john adams, and one of the reasons that he is such a g

so how can you put the burden on the person who sent the email? >> no, no. person who sent the email has -- they've sent their email to their friend. that user is not going to get any ad targeted to them. we're not going to have any information about that user at all but for the fact we hold their email because we're the email service provider for the gmail account holder which is the same as any other web mail service. >> and i guess the real question is, how is that person -- the gmail subscriber clearly has the ability to protect their privacy, to opt out if they so choose, maybe some of their data but they could opt out but the third-party they sent the third-party to who's contained in that thread doesn't have that same ability but yet their data is subject to being searched in the same way. >> that's true. but that occurs with every web mail service because -- >> yahoo! said they don't -- >> scans their email -- >> i'll ask miss toth -- >> every web mail scans their email for spam, scans it for viruses. it is the same -- >> but also for targeted advert

of information with advertisers in non-personally identifiable form. user's should choose what information they share with advertisers. this is a distinction that few companies make and facebook does it because we believe it protects user privacy. ad targeting that shares or sells personal information to advertisers, name, e-mail or other contact information without user control is materially different from targeting that only gives advertisers the ability to present their ads based on aggregate data. so to take in dr. felten's example, if you were to navigate to the social networking site in his example if it were facebook, we would not be sharing with the ad provider that he was edward felten or that he likes jazz. so on facebook a feed is established where people know what uploading and receive timely reactions from their friends. the privacy policy and users experience inform them about how advertising on the service works. advertising that enables us to provide the service free to yearses is targeted to the expressed attributes of a profile and pr

what is the judicial philosophy that this person carries with them? it's not necessarily about their own back ground, it's not necessarily about their qualifications. those are important to review. but at the heart what is -- heart what is the judicial philosophy? is this a person that supports an activist judiciary, getting into areas where many of the public don't think they should go into or is it a person that believes in a constructionist view that a court there 0 to be an umpire, is this a ball or strike and not how do we do law, how do we rewrite what is here? and i think the court loses its luster when it gets into becoming an active player in policy development instead of being a strict umpire of policy development. and, unfortunately, what i saw in judge sotomayor in 1998 was somebody who embraced an activist judicial philosophy. during a 1996 speech at suffix university law school two years before she was voted to the second circuit judge sotomayor said -- quote -- "the lawyer that lawyers practice an judges declare is not a definitive capi

one person from texas and another from new jersey. one person from florida. i think that is all of the members who are here with us. the may be some others who will come later. i will be introducing some of the other speakers in a moment. this is one of the really significant days in the calendar for our country, in particular the state department. we have so many people who have been affected by this significant issue over the years. it is especially fitting that we would hold this announcement here where we have a great diplomatic history of so many important events in our nation. i am especially pleased that our new ambassador, the new director of the office here at the state apartment was confirmed in time for him to be a part of this ceremony. [applause] he has been a valued member of the team on the house judiciary committee. thanks to him, hundreds of trafficking survivors are now living productive and healthy lives in our own country while their abusers are behind bars. we're also joined by two very special guests from the front lines against traffick

but i've concluded that he is not the right person for this job. because he has stated what i would consider to be radical views with regard to the role of the united states sovereignty relative to the rest of the world. for example, he's advocated judges using treat kwraos in customary -- treaties in customary law including treaties the united states has not ratified, to bind the united states. if that's not an erosion of u.s. sovereignty, i don't know what it is. and advocating that judges who take an oath to uphold the constitution and laws of the united states should instead look to international treaties as a source of that law, to me, is a radical and very fundamental shift in what i think most people would expect from our judges. he said that federal judges should use their power to vertically enforce or dough mess indicate american law with -- domesticate international law. do we want the top advisor at the state department supporting the idea that international bodies and unelected federal officials -- not the u.s. congress -- should be th

they think with the dialect that person for? i walked door-to-door because i thought that person believed in lower taxes. republicans have lost such numbers because they abandoned their principles. it is not because they stood up boldly for what they believed in. i believe now more than ever in the time for conservatives to stand firmly on their principles. our next speaker is here so thanks very much, god bless you. [applause] >> thank you for your time and remarks. >> i'm a rising third year at the university of virginia. my first experience with our next speaker took place in a torrential downpour in 2008. i was walking toward the building and i saw a woman running for shelter and once inside are recognized her as miss january from the miss institute calendar. i managed to matter in my starstruck state that i was coming to see her speak. i am sure she does not remember this insignificant event, i will not forget it because it was my first experience seeing her speak at my university and i was greatly inspired. dave buchanan i

a pleasure to read with a person of great passion. he lived well and he loved well and that makes john a very fascinating and inspiring person to deal with. that's a pretty much explains why i have so enjoyed working on the atoms in the course of writing this book but in the entire 30 long years i have worked on them. if you will indulge me i will read it to you a bit as my portrait of "abigail & john" from my book and i will read a portion first about john and then a portion of about abigail. the portion of john comes from the period 1775 when the revolutionary war had just begun and he is writing in his diary and this is particularly a letter to abigail. >> i was a soldier john wrote to abigail from philadelphia where the continental congress had convened in the spring of 1775. i am reading military books everybody must and will and shall be a soldier. jon was zealous however since he had no prior military experience and could not expect a rank higher than a lieutenant he concluded he would be more effective in the halls of congress

and give it to another person based on some elastic definition of public use. and i want to hear more from her on her thoughts on the equal protection clause of the 14th amendment of the constitution, which reads in part: no state shall deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws. obviously the third issue is going to be very much in the news, probably again as soon as next monday when the supreme court hands down its decision in the ricky vs. destafano case, a case in which judge sotomayor participated on the panel before her court of appeals. that case, as you may recall, involves firefighters who took a competitive race-neutral examination for promotion to lieutenant or captain at the new haven fire department. the bottom line is that the supreme court could decide the ricky case in a matter of days, and the court's decision, i believe, will tell us a great deal about whether judge sotomayor's philosophy in that regard as far as the equal protection clause is concerned, is within the judicial mainstream or well outside of it.

commission, helsinki commission to raise the issue on trafficking in persons. as a result of the work on the u.s. commission, the leadership of our country, we were able to get the organization for security and cooperation in europe to make this a priority, to adopt policies within o.s.c. so every member state, all 56, would adopt the strategy to first understand what's happening in their own country, to take an assessment as to where they are in trafficking. then to develop a strategy to improve their record, adopt the best practices as we know who has worked and what has not worked. and then to make progress to route out trafficking in their own country, whether they happen to be an origin country or whether they happen to be a host country or whether they happen to be a transient country in which persons are trafficked through their country. they need to adopt a strategy that will help rid us of this modern-day slavery. so i'm very proud of the role the united states has played and our government has played, that the helsinki commission has played. i just wa

he thought that this person resembled this person that he had seen the poster from. he went and found the family, and found out that it was mr. hernandez, a pastry chef. it was his last day on the job. he got a job at a fifth avenue restaurant. he was there early in the morning to get ready for lunch, i guess. >> what is going through your head? >> i get asked that a lot. he photographed the event that is going on when that person is falling. i was talking to a police officer and an ambulance worker. i was in that area for whatever survivors -- they were pointing that out. there is another one, there is another one. you just do the job. >> is on a pilot? >> exactly. >> you can't allow any emotion. >> it really hits you later on. >> which of the photograph on this program. does it ever go through your mind as you're shooting it? >> you cannot edit as you shoot it. you have to record. we record whether it is tv, stills, written word. we record history every day. without us being there record that history, it is like the tree falling in the forest. it did not happen. yo

and it's a personal story for me. it's personal to me and my constituents who are struggling with the medical costs and it's personal for so many americans that are struggling with these health care costs across our country. i know what it's like for someone to struggle with health costs because of a lack of access to gl health insurance. i've seen my parents take this battle on growing up. my dad was self-employed. and my parents just couldn't afford health care. being self-employed, it was virtually an expense we could not take on. in fact, i'm not even sure i remember going to the doctor. it's something we didn't do. later on in life, my mom was only 49 when she was diagnosed with breast cancer. and i can remember my parents spending all their time focusing on how to pay for the bills instead of focusing on her health. and it was very, very depressing for the whole family. and i can remember her talking about -- and remember she was only 49. she's ok today, but i can remember her spending the next 15 years of her l

i appealed to him personally. gave him the facts as i knew them, and he promised that he would personally investigate mrs. beaton's case. and he further promised that if the facts were as she said, and i said, that her coverage would be reinstated. good to his word, the president called me back within four hours and said that ms. beaton's coverage would be reinstated. however, precious time was lost. luckily for robin, she was finally able to get the surgery. not through blue cross/blue shield, though, as i understand it. she's now undergoing chemotherapy because the cancer has spread to her lymph nodes. but she is still with us, thank god. and she's here today to tell us her personal story. her situation is what caused me to draft an amendment to the breast cancer bill last year to protect people like robin by prohibiting decisions of health insurance if nondisclosure information is not related to the claim. not related to the claim an inadvertent. there is no reason that somebody should have their health insuran

. >> you had made a quote he said there's no such thing as an ordinary person however within the booksu highlight people's ordinary lives with, you know -- >> how do you define an ordinary life? >> exactly, that's kind of a segue to her question if there is no such thing as an ordinary person would do you gauge as extraordinary in ordinary and then on top of that, to parts, sorry. do either you, harvey or paul feel that you are romanticizing the working class as far as turning it into this is how it should be looked at instead of like harvey, eating dinner is the reality of the job? >> i think that, you know, what i would like to do i am not a jogging to put so-called ordinary people ahead of so-called extraordinary people will, but i would like to seek them who, you know, the same level. because everybody -- there are all kind of essential jobs in society and very few people get credit for doing these jobs. >> you should never mistake celebrated with extraordinary either. i don't know how good of a singer britney spears is. she might be a great singer. but i saw paris hilton on david

and these personal views of hers could very well affect that. recently five judges of the supreme court decided based in part of their review of rulings of courts in foreign countries that the constitution says that the united states did not execute a violent criminal if he is 17 years of -- 17 years and 364 days old when he willfully premeditatedly killed someone. they say that the constitution says that the state who has a law to that effect cannot do it. looking, quote, to evolving standards of decency that marked the progress of a maturing society, closed quote. now, this is what the court said as they set about their duty to define the united states constitution. five members of the supreme court said looking to, quote, evolving standards of decency that marked the progress of a maturing society, closed court. we conclude the death penalty in this case violated the eighth amendment. and there are at least six or eight references in the constitution to a death penalty. and if states don't believe 18-year-olds should be executed or 17 they sh

there are a lot of aggressive type a personalities. -- tayba "de" -- type "a" personalities.t is very difficult to handle serious felony cases. everyone wants to handle the serious felony cases. in six months, sonia sotomayor was promoted to handle certain cases in the courtroom. she prosecuted every type of crime imaginable, including the most serious crimes that are committed in our country. she had many famous cases. one was the tarzan murderer. she joined a law enforcement officers scouring houses for evidence. after a month of trial. she convicted of one person on three district -- three different murders. he was sent to life in prison. -- sentenced to life in prison. there was a longtime prosecutor who was willing to take a child pornography case. -- so my york -- sonia sotomayor stepped up to deal with a case dealing with child pornography convictions. these were the first child pornography convictions after the supreme court had upheld new york's law that barred the sale of sexually explicit films using children. she helped to bar those that had sexually explicit use

there is a tendency in favor of liking another smart person, another intelligent person. obama has that and that will carry him for a good while in terms of that kind of media coverage. >> not follow up on that. i mentioned the extent to which the media does reinforce his presidency. it as some have pointed out, when things do turn sour, the media can be just as good in jumping all over a president who has a failure of some kind in the administration. i think the obama administration realizes this is i read an article just a little while ago to see how they're revolutionizing the communication shop in the white house with more on nine films of the president, speeches, he is the first president to do the saturday radio address on -- as a production. we understand that we're going to have to get our message across without immediate shelter at times. whether or not it was a seed, i do not know. -- whether or not it will succeed, i do not know. i think the first outing was not that successful with trying to have people write to the members of congress for the president's budg

close to $8,000 per person on health care. and we all know folks who are out there making $20,000, $25,000, $30,00, and we are spending on average almost $8,000 per person. despite that huge outlay, unprecedented in the world, a recent study found that medical problems contributed to 62% of all bankruptcies in 2007. medical problems, bankruptcies. and i should add most of the people who went bankrupt had health insurance. they had health insurance, but what they had was inadequate health insurance. from a business perspective as opposed from the needs of an individual, general motors spends more money on health care per automobile than they do on steel. more money on health care than on steel, which might lead us to understand why they are where they are today. and business -- small business owners in the state of vermont and around this country are forced to divert hard-earned profits into health coverage for their employees rather than new business investments. you're seeing many small businesses are trying to do the right t

>> on a personal basis as far as i could discover and mr. geithner are certainly much more to of a kind and then mr. paulson and mr. bernanke. >> can you explain that? >> well, let's say that i can't -- but i have a kind of look at life that is marked parallel and a look at economics and financial methods that are more comparable. i think it must have been quite difficult situation for mr. bernanke when the financial crisis turned and maybe you can go back in your memory, it took quite a while for paulson and the bush administration to realize that this was really bad. this is not just a minor crisis that would go away in three months' time and i think there have been very interesting articles amongst "the new york times" about what bernanke had to do to convince paulson and other people in the bush administration that this was serious and is needed urgent personal reaction to prevent from getting into something really bad. >> there was a lot of resistance to government intervention in general which now we have seen pretty much told. practic

one person, says he has three letters that have gone unanswered by the department. he has serious concerns about that. i am sure you want to address that. >> with regard to the hate crimes legislation, i would suggest that we have a hearing on that. it is a matter worthy of attention. there is a letter from the united states civil commission on civil rights. i believe six of the eight members signed it and they say -- they write to us and the president urging that -- but against the hate crimes prevention act. it would do little good in great harm according to one person. i will offer that for the record. hopefully we can do that and not have that pop up on legislation on the floor. president obama signed an executive order to establish procedures to close guantanamo detention facility in to return -- review the case of every detainee to determine if they should be transferred, release, prosecuted, or handled in some other way. we want to make sure that you as the attorney general, the person responsible for coordinating the review. do you agree that you bear respon

between 85 and 95% of persons with severe treatable mental illnesses are unemployed. people with serious mental illnesses died on an average of 25 years younger, earlier, younger than the rest of the population so all of these are really great faxed to get out there. further illustrating the importance of integrating mental-health in overall healthcare is the fact that many of our most chronic medical conditions such as heart disease have coley hearing mental health disorders and as a society, we can no longer afford not to treat those who are suffering particularly when effective treatments are within our grasp and with me know that they work. we can no longer afford to ignore the fact that mental health is a crucial and separable part of our health and well-being and as we focus more on integrating mental health and to our overall health focus we will fund greater opportunities to prevent this orders before they occur-- prevention. it is always a hard sell. i don't understand that but it is always a hard sell. the reason iom report on the prevention of mental health

you are clearly not the person we thought it would be. perhaps, it was wrong and impractical and unrealistic for us to lay such hopes up on new. the reality is, we are geeks. we are defined by our passions and by our open mindedness. i am nervous. i am nervous because this is a beginning. a beginning is a delicate time, and it is unsettling to realize that at the time that we are in is not a triumph. this is not the end of something happening. this is the beginning of a long journey. many of the categories we have used to define ourselves are evaporation. while that is exciting, it is also unsettling and scary. in many ways, talk-show radio hosts are correct. the president is a complete mystery to me, but no more so than the future itself. i am obliged to embrace the future. i am happy to turn to the president and extent what i consider to be the most american of greetings. although we might not always agree, i will always be your friend. live long and prosper. thank you very much. [applause] >> thank you, john. please give a round of app

third, they use those for personal or political benefit. fourth the most important they been or break established rules of governance. >> host: who would you define as eight american and demagogue? huey long was the quintessential at including daniel shays who was a revolutionary during the constitutional convention comment joseph mccarthy, george wallace, david duke even with his little burst and louisiana was a demagogue. and there also have been in history when i talk about is the paradoxical eight you can have a demagogue if the definition is they cast aside the rules of they are unjust. there is a chapter of british history were demagogue was used as a term of praise. so you have some demagogues offer something to people and they can do good in a paradox way but most of the time the term accurately is a negative or a harsh of some way that does threaten. >> host: what is an example of a good demagogue and why? >> guest: the woman in charge of solidarity apple went that was a beneficial boris yeltsin in russia was beneficial, then there

that that information is personal. it shouldn't be shared unless that individual allows and knows that it's going to be shared. it needs to be protected. it's nobody's business. don't expect to have someone follow you in your car when you go make an errand, whether it be to a dry cleaner or wherever you might go, and expect some competitor then to perhaps get the information to trace you back. so this is a great hearing. i look forward to it. and i yield back the balance of my time. >> the chair thanks the gentleman. the chair now recognizes the gentleman from georgia, mr. barrow, for two minutes for the purposes of opening statements. >> i thank the chairman. i'm going to waive my opening but i want to thank the ranking member for his congratulations of the democrats. in solidity of mr. pitts i want to say those of us who sit in the stands and cheer also serve. thank you very much. [laughter] >> the chair now recognizes the gentleman from kentucky, mr. whitfield, for five minutes. >> thank you, mr. chairman. we certai

the judge's role is not policy, politics, ethnicity, feelings, religion or personal preference. because whatever those things are, they are not law. and first and foremost, a judge personifies law. that's why lawyers and judges during court sessions -- and i practiced hard in federal courts for 15 years, been in court a lot -- when they go to court, they don't say even the judge's name and usually don't even say "judge." they refer to the judge as "the court." they say, "if the court please, i would like to show the witness a statement." or a judge may write, "this court has held," maybe what he has written himself. or she. all of this is to depersonalize, to objectify the process, to clearly establish that the deciding entity has put on a robe, a blindfold, according to our image, and is objective, honest and fair and will not allow personal feelings or biases to enter into the process. so the confirmation process rightly should require careful evaluation to ensure that a nominee, even one who has a fine career of experience, as judge sotomayor does, meets all the qualities req

our tradition teaches that at 5 years old the person should study scripture. at 13 the commandments, at 20 one is ready for one's life pursuit. at 40 within achieves discernment. at 50 one is ready to give counsel. at 60, one becomes an elder even with your grace, a sage. which is is the proper course that a man should choose for himself? he would then say that which is an honor to him and elicits honor from his fellow man. the rabbi would continue, be as scrupulous about a small deed as a weighty one because you do not know the reward allotted for each action. finally, he would teach, know what is above you. a seeing eye, a hearing ear, and all your deeds recorded in a bo book. appe al, you have been a follower of rabbi judah. we might even say, to use a technical term, a total mench. with the patience and strength perhaps not quite of jobe but, devoted cubs fan, something almost biblical. you embody the words that say you follow three crowns. the torah, the priesthood and kingship. but the crown of a good name surpasses them all. al fromm, a good name. we as

so do we, but we spend almost twice as much per person. if we continue to spend that kind of money, $2.3 trillion, we can have a better system than the canadians. the correct question to ask is how does it happen that every other major countries such as health care is a right of all people? we do not do that. second of all, they come up with a much more cost-effective approach. 3, the outcomes are better. i think the evidence is overwhelming. our current system is not working. we have to work in a very different direction. we have to have the courage to take on the private insurance companies that spend billions of dollars lobbying, the drug companies. host: there has been a lot of discussion in this town over the single payer plan. is it on the table? guest: i've arranged for a meeting between a number of physicians and nurses organizations with max baucus. months ago, he said single payer is not on the table. he indicated to us that he regrets saying that. the truth of the matter is, the power of the insurance companies that make so much

they tested his personal skills and his management. remember this is the biggest operational he had ever run and undertaking of his life and not only was it important for the voters to see this person being tested but it was important for him to understand the kind of pressures just in a sort of laboratory form, the kind of pressure you get as president absolutely i think it was necessary. >> host: baton rouge on the independent line with richard wolffe. good morning. >> caller: good morning. how are you this morning? well, i have heard a lot, and the only thing i hear is how great he is, which may be he is, i don't know but there was a lot of it with the reason that mccain lost was because of the media. the media was square behind obama and they never denied it for crying out loud. everything, they pour palin , everything that came up the media went after. >> host: let me do my for you right now, number one, if you think the media was always in love with him and only gave positive coverage you must have forgotten the two month period

to person. the noise itself you get a fever and a couple days later you get the flu-like symptoms that everybody is talking about and if they have a severe version of the disease they believe out. just on one day they suddenly bleed out and a lot of people can die of the illness. because of the kind of horrific manner of the death and because of the fact that it can be transmitted from person to person, especially, when the people are bleeding out, especially, in africa and in other parts of the world, it is feared for some good reasons. and i think a lot of people have asked me why i wanted to go to sierra leon to study lassa fever at the time. it sounds like a very dumb thing to do. and i had friends who told me that before i went. [laughter] >> as well. and i think a couple of different things. certainly, there was a sense of adventure. i got into much more of an adventure than i was planning on. when the time i got on the airplane. but also i think it's that there's a lot of opportunity in t

person by person household by household, community by community, african-americans are evicted in massf the summer they had to form a tent city. and that is just one aspect. night writers repeatedly targeted african american leaders and our people in the tent city. anybody you housed and was associated was targeted for racial violence. people lost their jobs. some never came back. it was this long process. the possibility that you would lose your job. they continued to organize and not just allow the vote. that was the initial catalyst. like so much of the african american freedom struggle that gets ignored they quickly moved beyond the vote to fight for quality education by improving sigurd digit schools. to desegregate what schools. to improve and increase the opportunities for black farmers. so they are organizing black farmers. then it moving beyond to actually organize an independent political party to decontrol. >> 80 percent african american. what kind of participation in the freedom organization was there? >> slow at first. >> a lot of fear. >> a lot of fear. it is funny. when

brain is functioning differently for a person who has depression. and steve said, here's a picture for a person who has had their depression treated with ssri, and you can see it looks looked very much like the normal brain, and he said here's the picture of a brain -- of a person who huh had depression who was successfully treated with cogtive therapy, and it looked just like the brain that was treated with cogtive therapy. no pharmaceuticals. so there is no difference between our ability to learn and change or to use psychological farm logical interventions was very unifying for me. tipper had also told me the surgeon general's report on fitness, said, wouldn't it be terrific if we had a surgeon general's report on mental health? and we were approached from the surgeon general himself and from howard goldman, who can't keep a secret, that when he was initially approached by the goers, that he didn't think that the science was really adequate for a surgeon general's report on mental health, and he became through the process of the development of th

it is personally distressing. well, let's say i have been an aarp member for years, and the kids with their loud rock-and- roll and instant messaging, i just cannot keep up, but this is, kids, get off of my Élan. >> sir, i am an attorney in town. first, i want to congratulate you on your amazing accomplishment and no matter how you slice it, craigslist is incredibly influential and incredibly powerful, so thank you. with that kind of kissing up kind of preface, the adult services/erotic services. saul press you on that, and your response is, in effect, that is what members want us to do. there is an enormous component. do not look to me. that is what members chose, and that is all well and good except, i take it, craigslist is not a democracy and does exercise discretion of when the community voice in government and when it does not, and i wonder what you would say about the tensions. how much should people look to craigslist as a normative actor versus looking at the community as a normative actor? >> i will conf

a person who preached personal responsibility but more importantly took personal responsibility. personal responsibility to make a difference. al, you have made a difference. you have made a difference corporately with this organization, you've made a difference in my life. you've made a difference in the lives of all with whom you've worked. you and your beautiful bride have been friends for a very long period of time and i'm here on behalf of all of us who you have touched and who you have made wiser and more effective in the service we tried to perform for this country. to say thank you. thank you from a grateful majority leader, grateful member of congress but more importantly a grateful friend. thank you. [applause] >> ladies and gentlemen, al from. [applause] >> steny, thank you very much. you know, steny, i still have that first check. i've been going through my old records, i've got a copy of it. it actually cleared. you know, first of all, i want to thank everybody for coming. i know the hour is late and i'm not going to talk long tonight. if you can believe that. but i

under federal medicaid and el paso was $7,500 per person in. so quite remarkable. if we don't address that type of issue then the question is why is that? because of malpractice insurance, over testing, kinds of medicine but i think we should talk about that. >> if you read that article is a culture of the excess with respect to the provision of care. i have been thinking if the way this willow go in this once in a generation time where congress gets it right with respect to the broad aspect of reform that have been discussed, and then the time created for those implementation activities it to take place, that becomes the critical time for those of us were mental-health advocates come and knock on wood, but we will have reform and parity will be included, but we think. so to keep a fresh eye on reform but that creates a playing field for change. then it seems the message of wellness and prevention becomes, in a sense come a sweet spot for the mental-health community. these reforms will not go to critical changes in the high end safety net for e

their personal views. which they were never empowered to do. the temptation to reinterpret the constitution leaves judges sometimes, i think -- i say this succumb to the siren call of just using that opportunity they might possess at a given point in time to enact something they'd like to see occur. maybe somebody will write in a law review they were bold and courageous and did something great. but we've seen some of these actions occur. under the power to regulate business and commerce the government is given, our supreme court recently ruled that carbon dioxide, which is a natural occurring substance in our environment -- when plants decay, they emit carbon dioxide; when they live, they draw in from the air carbon dioxide. it's plant food -- they -- they ruled that it was a pollutant. as a result of that, regardless of how you see that matter, i think when the statute was passed, they gave e.p.a. regulation to control pollution in 1970's, long before global warming was ever a thought, th that -- that the

they mean different things to different persons depending on an array of variables. there is feedback here. has that been -- such variables may include the identity of the user, whether he or she has registered with the website, whether the ads are being served by first or third- party sites, the conspicuous ness of pre-existing privacy policies and exposure, the robustness of user enabled settings for user privacy, and the list goes on and on. all of these variables are important on whether legislation is needed. i will be listening intently on your accounts of how upfront. they're collecting from consumers. i want to thank all the witnesses coming in this morning for sharing with us and sharing your busy schedule for providing much needed input into these matters today and preparing for this subcommittee for this hearing. now i want to recognize for five minutes for the purposes of opening statements the next five minutes for opening statements. >> thank you, chairman. i want to thank you for these hearings today. i think it is a good issue we need to be talking ab

caller: hi, will we ever be able to return to do with a person with proper i.d. tennistennis court your spouse or child down to the gate and went with them as in the old days? guest: i think that the answer isyes. there is the opportunity, but much of the reason not to was the congestion check point. as that has become more manageable and we can screen differently, that is possible to get that changed at some time. host: the four martsa administrator, kip hawley, joining us from mountain view this morning. guest: it has been a pleasure. host: president obama is speaking to doctors this afternoon. we will have live coverage at 12:15 p.m. eastern. that will do it for "washington journal" this morning. we will we back tomorrow morning at 7:00 a.m. eastern. [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2009] . .

issue -- i think we started to touch on this a while ago that the fact that the president is one person and does one dramatic vein a day or so is automatically causes us to gravitate to him. .. the information is out there and if you want to be aware of all of these different actions taking place and the full picture as opposed to just the obama picture it's available, but it's harder to get to. it's more time-consuming and it's not as interesting but it adds up to a lot and it is ultimately what determines elections and what people ultimately care about and what presidencies are measured against. but don't think we have the answer how to bring it into balance. >> it is skipped over in my notes i had with congress and democrats advocating to some degree and republicans working hard and opposing him it's up to the media. i had one word is obviously our job to hold the feet to the fire but that is tough to do when he has been as good as he has so far. he has of weighted serious missteps and even when he does something that gets people mcmichael these decisions he's made and it is a length

there is no question, a personal statement. there were some things in there that should not be in there. they did make an effort -- they are trying to make arguments and eliminate arguments the bush administration has made. the administration is trying hard and moving slowly. they announced yesterday he asked for presidential memorandum extending benefits to same-sex couples for travel benefits and health benefits. it is a complicated area of law. we are constrained by doma so he is trying to do what he can do within the confines and extend those benefits and said clearly he wants to be working with congress to support the legislation that would extend benefits and to repeal doma. no one thinks it is fast enough right now. i know the president cares about this and is working on, he wants to reverse do not ask, do not tell. >> what she said. in the stand when people are impatient with the pace of progress. i would say in our defense progress is mostly in the right direction and there is a question of pace. we have only been here

personalize medicine is a new f . . u @@@@@@irection which medicine should be moving. in the early february fda announced the creation of a new position to focus on offering new personalized medical methods can about. one of those on one hand the government promotes this personalized medical research and on the other hand it's stymieing the progress through effectiveness policy. comparative effectiveness will directly affect doctors' ability to make the best decision for his patience. the federal government is the largest customer in health care industry. industry. once it no longer pays certain medicines or treatment it becomes financially unsound for manufacturers to be about to recoup the cost for research and development of the estimate their development of products. similarly innovative research on gene therapy and other personalized madison options will be threatened. second i believe the removal of the conscience protection would threaten the nation's health care access. as americans we believe no one should be forced to act in a way that violates his or her mor

the judges would go on screen saver if you try to the emotional or personal. we all probably thought this was going to be a debacle and this guy is going to go in and testify about his daughter and his investment in the case. and he did go in and do all those things. maybe we can hear a little bit of his opening. [inaudible] >> this is what we thought would happen. can you stop for one second? know? you can't? all right. it was working when we started. let me try one more time. i apologize, guys. i guess you are going to need to read the beginning and i will bring the idea when we can get it going. >> okay. as compared to many other opening, out of any attorney's mouth that i had ever heard, he started this way. every morning in the unified school district public schools, government agent teachers funding with tax dollars have their students stand up, including my daughter, face the flag of the united states, face their hands over their hearts and a firm that ours is a nation under a particular religious entities, the appreciation of which is not accepted by n