for that petty officer between 1990 and 1995 increased $85 in five years. between 2000 and 2005, that perret's was $11,000. the nature of the force that we're dealing with today and the compensation that is required and that does not get into covering things such as medical and housing and retirement costs. it is a very different set of issues than we have had in the past. that is what we must do to have the type of navy that we have today. i think what you can see from these brief remarks is that your navy is out to and about. it is busy. it is global. it is delivering on those six capabilities that we addressed in our maritime strategy. this strategy is not a piece of shelfware. look around the world and can see your navy doing that but the decisions we're going to make in the future going to be key to the type of navy the nation has to protect its interests globally. i look forward to being involved in that

there's no question they're fed up with the petty partisan games. there's no question the reckless tactics have consequences. i would say that republicans delay and delay and delay at their peril but the truth; all americans suffer. it is time republicans let us get to work and allow president obama to have his nominees and let's get this bill off the floor. every day we wait is 3,500 more people subject to being addicted to tobacco. i note the absence of a quorum. the presiding officer: the clerk will call the roll. quorum call: a senator: mr. president? the presiding officer: the senator from illinois. mr. burris: i ask unanimous consent the call of the quorum be suspended. i ask unanimous consent the call of the quorum be suspended. the presiding officer: without objection, so ordered. mr. burris: mr. president, i'd like to speak for about three or four minutes. the presiding officer: the senator is recognized. mr. burris: thank you, mr. president. before too long, this nation's broken health care system has limped along badly and in need of seri

the true story for the past 30 to 50 years is not one, frankly, of petty claims on the one hand and extravagant claims on the other, but rather of the relentless erosion of this chamber's former strength. the prime minister recently asserted his desire to restore authority to parliament and, if a elected, i would seek to hold him and any successor to that pledge. this house must seize back control of its own core functions by, amongst other changes, a business committee which it really runs, urgent questions more readly granted, and enhanced scrutiny of budgets and legislation both domestic and european. and once and for all, ministers must be obliged to make key policy statements here. the speaker should always be neutral within this chamber, but he or she should not be neutral about this chamber. if elected, i would be a tireless advocate for our political relevance. so, finally, i turn to the world beyond west minister, reforming speaker needs to become both an advocate and an ambath dor for parliament. he must reconnect it with the society which he seeks to represent. i would be comfortable

there tends to be more corruption at the petty level because they have been in power for too long. it's hard to be a leader that shows vigor to the nation at that point. brown has played his hand remarkably badly, including that line about fighting on. obviously much less heroic in churchill. blundering around, the fact that his cabinet is quitting around him, that is very shocking. i cannot remember the last time this happened. guest: it is a very different kind of system, as we all know in the states. these cabinet members are party members. when i tell people at sky news the same person might serve under a republican and democratic administration, they cannot believe it because it does not happen there. we had a number of people under fdr. secretary gates. absolutely. it's unimaginable in the british system. also, steve, remember, tony, you know, wealth. gordon brown was never elected. the party put him in after tony blair left. host: when tony blair was running for a final term with labor support, the two of them would appear in infomercials. people knew that he would take over

.: he came up a shortstop, and gary pettis was in town with the rangers. he said he could play shortstop, but they had signed betancourt, so watch this. you're right about hitting the cut-off man. >> rob: and he did a nice job surrounding the ball. he went back on it. some guys will catch it flat- footed -- flat-footed and get nothing behind it. he hit the cut-off man. >> bob: i had some conversations with and di van slyke. he always told me the harder you work before the ball gets there, the easier it is once you have it in your hands. he was a big proponent of charging hard on base hits and fly balls, and not all guys do that. >> rob: when and di van slyke who was a gold glover would throw the ball, he would fall forward and almost do a summer salt. he would put so much behind the throw. you got to have momentum coming forward as an outfielder. >> bob: he also told me, he whistled at barry bonds and tried oh get him to move in two steps just before the cabrera hit that put the braves in the world series. bonds might have been able to get that runner at h

by hipaa are adopted we would be glad to participate in the system but it is necessary that all -- pettispaid when they say a system where people choose we need to have the process of assessing risk at the time of the application. >> with respect reforms are not going to happen. you are going to get a plan as your chairman this morning. mr. collins, can you answer briefly would you be willing to design such a project? >> but i would respectfully have to agree with mr. hamm a guaranteed issue product that would fit all people and affordable prices is economically practically impossible. but i would suggest is hipaa also create alternative coverage mechanisms for each and every state so each state is supposed to have higher risk or alternative coverage mechanism and these high risk pools have been underfunded some of the things that could be done right now today is to increase the amount of funding going into the high-risk pools so that people that have those series of issues otherwise uninsurable on the individual market have a place to go that is affordable and affords them the care that

has to understand how they view this and so when emile henry does his declaration he says about the petty bourgeois, he tried to kill them all and would have killed again, he says they are always with the big guys. there with the fat cats in the heat the people whose class they have come out of or they hate them, the patty bourgeois. as once a the university of michigan library and on the first and only sort of account of the first and last world congress meeting of the patty bourgeois appropriately and brussels in 1898 and then he says this, he writes his mom various letters, because this huge panic of the bombs and there are all sorts of big bombs. if you go to the airport to his novel the explosions of bags left behind that are put in these things to blow up suspicious objects, those were invented precisely at this time of the dynamize so coses and there are lots of heat mail. i have read in pardons, literally hundreds of threats in all of paris saying i'm going to blow you up. you are mean to your domestics, you are mean to the people who live in your building, and we are going to blo