speaker, we have c-span, we have live radio, we have internet, we have podcasts, we can have realtime, interactive town hall meetings that interact all the way across america. we can carry this message all across this country this constitutional republic is more effective today from a communications standpoint than it was in the era of our founding fathers. we should be grateful for that it's our job to use it, our%% j to utilize it, to continue to build on this. let's have the debate. let's have a nationwide debate, let's get after this. come november, the american people will decide whether this path of the federal takeover of first 1/3 of the former private sector activity of our economy, then adding obamacare to this, another 18% of our economy going o 51%. then sitting in conference committee right now, being deliberated and debated by the conferees, another 15% of the economy, the financial sector of our economy, roughly 15% by some estimates, you add that on to the 51%, and we get up there to 66% of our economy, i think that's close. then we have the cap and trade argument, rou

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those of you in new orleans and listening, to not forget, we podcast all of our shows. i want to thank our earlier guests. churning is now is the vice president of communications for the louisiana restaurant association. welcome. i wanted to bring you on the program because i have expressed that new orleans is open for business. this is a tragedy that is happening. but the louisiana department of wildlife and fisheries, when you look at our hospitals division, they are making sure that louisiana seafood is safe to eat and being very proactive and closing areas that may even have the slightest opportunity to have i will throw it to you now. talk about louisiana seafood. talk about how safe it is and why people should not fear eating louisiana seafood. >> this time around with this situation louisiana faces, on very impressed at the state's response, the wildlife of fisheries and the environmental quality have been on it from day one. they have been communicating with all the affected partners from day one, so i am pretty impressed him. that makes me as a consumer feel ev

those of you listening on a and 690, don't forget we podcast each and every one of our shows.nk our previous guests for joining us in our last segment. joining us now is the vice president of communications for the louisiana restaurant association. welcome. how are you? >> i am hanging in there. >> i wanted to bring you into the program because, as i have expressed, new orleans is open for business and, look, this is a tragedy happening on our coastline. hospital department, they are making sure that louisiana seafood is safe to eat. they are being proactive, closing areas that may have the slightest opportunity to have oil going to the areas, long before the oil comes in. they have been very proactive agencies. talk a little bit about louisiana seafood and about how safe it is. tell us why people around the country should not be your eating louisiana seafood. >> this time around, with this kind of situation that louisiana faces, i am very impressed with the state boasts a response that governor jindal's response. they have been on it from day one and have communicated with al

it is podcast also. ♪ good luck. he is spreading the message.hank you. >> for those of listening and watching on c-span. this has affected this on three fronts. y coming back from the perceptio we were unde water and new orlean was not the same city pre-katrina. the lot of you saw the celebration in the streets and felt of five of what this nfl team d and how it lifted us as a community. it is like it changed overnight from the saints' victory in miami. people started coming to new orleans again, not just for mardi gras, but because, we have had to overcome a lot of the bad publicity from katrina. we are fighting on this front to try to make sure people understand not one bit of seafood is being released unless it has been tested. we have been very proactive on that. the final front we are fighting is to fight for the existence of our culture and coastline. the inundation of saltwater because of oil production on our tlands, they are the first and secondines of defense long before it hits our levee system which is being rebuilt now. all i am ask

today, for example, on the site, you can highlight a podcast of a program we had conversations with america where this morning, bob blake and former ambassador had a nice 45-minute discussion of the implications of the u.s. dialogue completed last week. and then just a few cats and dogs before taking your questions. we were asked yesterday when did we become aware of the leak of -- alleged leak of department cables? we became aware of that on may 27. we were asked regarding potential requests for extradition involving a u.s. citizen and former executive of union car bide. the united stateses has an extradition treaty in force but we do not comment on extradition requests in any particular case. regarding the canadian boom, we expect to see the first somewhere around 9,843 of boom arrive this evening by truck in alabama and we would expect to have two additional arrivals on wednesday and thursday. you have been asking in recent days regarding the extent of our assistance of humanitarian aid po gaza. in terms of the current fiscal year -- fiscal 2010, we estimate -- we have appropriated rough