but i have to take issue with his harry potter comments. just think about that. i like the fact that the distinguished senator from rhode island compares this -- this itty-bitty bill here to a "harry potter" novel. perhaps pretty appropriate, because both of them are what i consider to be works of fantasy and fiction. this thing has 14 pages of table of contents alone. you notice how my voice goes up as i'm holding it. it just puts that my pressure on your speech diaphragm. so i just -- just wish that it was as valuable and would be as valuable to the american people as these "harry potter" novels have been. but let me just say one last thing before i close and leave the floor. again, i appreciate my colleague and i appreciate his graciousness in all ways. we've worked closely together on the intelligence committee, the judiciary committee and in many other ways, and i think he's one of the great additions to the united states senate. and in spite of his -- his dogged determination to support this awful bill, i still think greatly, very highly of him. but let me

cindy lee potter. mrs. potter, are you on the line? go ahead. caller: hello. we miss you, we love you. guest: i miss you guys, too. i am jealous of my friends back in hawaii right now. caller: hello. this is her father. her brother is with other family members in puget sound. we're wishing her the best of luck and to say safe. just be safe. we leviable -- we love you. host: thank you for that. meghan, go ahead with your final thoughts. guest: thank you. i want to thank everybody for your service. i hope to have a great christmas and new year's. host: lieutenant potter, we thank you and all of the service members who joined us this morning. next guest is with the institute for policy studies, looking at american armed forces' presence across the world. that is coming up on "washington journal." >> in the mid-90's, newsweek named him one of the people to watch on the internet. since then, he has founded a social networking site, helped start a charter school in brooklyn, and been on oprah. he talks about what is ahead. >> beginning monday, are rare glimpse into

cindy lee potter. mrs. potter, are you on the line? go ahead. caller: hello. we miss you, we love you. guest: i miss you guys, too. i am jealous of my friends back in hawaii right now. caller: hello. this is her father. her brother is with other family members in puget sound. we're wishing her the best of luck and to say safe. just be safe. we leviable -- we love you. host: thank you for that. meghan, go ahead with your final thoughts. guest: thank you. i want to thank everybody for your service. i hope to have a great christmas and new year's. host: lieutenant potter, we thank you and all of the service members who joined us this morning. next guest is with the institute for policy studies, looking at american armed forces' presence across the world. that is coming up on "washington journal." >> in the mid-90's, newsweek named him one of the people to watch on the internet. since then, he has founded a social networking site, helped start a charter school in brooklyn, and been on oprah. he talks about what is ahead. >> beginning monday, are rare glimpse into

couple of years ago for example the number-one best-seller in france would be a book called harry potter. even schoolchildren in brooklyn are brought up to have secret fantasies of the kind which our friends in the european union will never come close to. one of the things that surprised me when i went to these wonderful wonderful files the other in the hundreds of thousands and millions inside tim's house is that actually came across one or two people who did things that even bond would not have done. here is one. look at that. it is not a very good photograph. it was taken before the second world war. anyone who was then to the house of parliament in london will the c-net. eight is westminster bridge but nobody was attempting to fly a plane beneath that. he was known as the-- for two reasons one that he was a bit mad and secondly he was a major. he had been-- [laughter] he had been a fighter pilot ace during the first world war and he flew under every bridge in london. britain has always had esteemed eccentrics though he was not even prosecuted until after the second world war but hill

potter, at least not in this zip code, that he did the right thing because the alternative was worse. when bernanke one of 60 minutes he sat on a park bench on main street where his father's store had been. if it had been called wall street he would have been dead. [laughter] >> and he said i didn't set out to save wall street. i set out to save main street in order to save mainstreamed i had to save wall street that when you go out the financial system, that people make their money and don't financial institutions get bailed out. and that just happen. the question is, what, are we charging him enough money for this great service we did. we will see when it is in. , pay back their money. it's been a pretty healthy return for the taxpayer. the other thing are going to enough so that we are not in this situation again for your somehow? that really would be criminal. when what we know now, we cannot just a bump along with the status quo and hope that we can avoid this because they've learned their lesson because they're so evidence that people learned their lessons. >> we have time for t

cardoza are the ones we mention and justice holmes was an exceptional justice and my good friends potter stewart and byron white were great justices too. a number of great men have so the -- sat on the court. >> in your opinion, what makes a justice great? >> well, the quality of his work is the major main thing i think. you judge a judge by the work product they produce while they're on the court. >> but what makes quality? what makes good writing? >> well, i'm not out to give you an -- a lesson in english grammar and the rest of it but they have to write clearly and accurately and honestly about what the issues are the >> back to what we were talking about earlier, on the court, things when you disagree with them, what is your option if you're sitting in the conference and they vote not your way? what role does your dissenting opinion play, do you think, in the law? >> sometimes it becomes persuasive later on. sometimes it doesn't. but i don't write dissents trying to change the law. i just think it's part of the job of the justice to explain his or her vote in the case. i think that t

my good friends, potter stewart and byron white, were great justices. a number of great men had sat on the court. >> in your opinion, what makes it just as great? >> the quality of his work is the major main thing. and you judge them by their work product that they produce when they have been on the court. the >> what makes good quality of writing? >> i cannot give a lesson in english grammar but you have to write clearly and accurately and honestly about the issues. >> go back to what we were talking about earlier. the court and that things that you disagree with -- what is your option if you are sitting in the conference and a vote, not your way? what role does your dissenting opinion play in the law? >> it sometimes becomes persuasive later on. sometimes it does not. but i do not write this cents -- dussissents to chase a lot. this is an open process in that this is one institution that explains in a public way of what it decides and what it does. it is a program for those who disagree why they thought the other side had the better or worse argument.

he wants is to be modest, never seeking supremacy or potter rents on others. -- preponderance on othershese blessings. if human societies of follow values and beliefs as spread by profits, we will be able to contain environmental degradation and we will have a chance to remake ourselves and provide conditions for life. we have been endowed with all these blessings. we must be julies our pastors and the resources in a way to ensure thathere sustainability. we must avoid doing things that lead to the annihilation of our resources on the lands and in the sea. in this way, we would be able to create a better environment for the world. to do so, we propose that a working group be formed with volunteers from different countries from among dedicated and knowledgeable thinkers who will conduct a study on the criteria for happiness and welfare of human communities on the basis of the divine and to humanitarian world view, the teaching of the messengers of god. improved criteria can lead to a balanced consumption, thus contributing to the just distribution of resources in the world. we can create

it is an alleged that boys still like to read but the harry potter cedars has proved they will if you the right books. it -- have you found that boys and girls have responded differently to your books on science? guest: the first teacher for use my books in virginia beach. i went to the school board. i had been a reporter. i knew all the people. i want to try this with kids in a classroom. i assumed there would ask for a volunteer and i would have a teacher that was eager to work with me. they assign me to a teacher. she was very unhappy. the picture with good reason because she had to be out social study classes. a fifth grade teachers. one was going to use a standard textbook and the other was going to use my manuscript. i made two preparations for her. she was unhappy. she was also at first. when i came back a few weeks later, she had totally change. and she said, if she gave the kids in the classroom with a standard textbooks three pages to read, they usually did not read it. she said, i can give them 10 pages or you are -- of yours -- this is a great man is good. they want to rea

fewer words than a harry potter book. i don't know if we have to get as smile as "good night moon" or "harold and the purple crayon," i'm not sure what it takes, but this is a big topic. that's why we took so much time in committee to address the complexity of a derivatives market gone astray. that's why we took the time to address the complexity of mortgage-backed securities that weren't addressed during those many years republicans were in power. the results of that inaction, millions of foreclosures across the united states. the worst recession since the great depression. over 700,000 jobs lost the month the president was sworn into office because of the inaction. of the republican party. so now when the american people demand we step up and we take action, what do they want to do? they want to do the same thing they did when they were in power for year after year after year, that is, nothing. madam chair, i yield back the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman's time has expired. the gentleman from

by contrast for potter, 52.5% were hispanic. -- for poweder, 52.5% were hispanic.a lot of -- there is a lot of talk about alternatives to in concert -- incarceration. citizenship matters because if you are a non-citizen, you are not entitled to participate in a number of those programs. almost 40% of those powder offenders are non-citizens. you need to keep those things in mind. average sense length, the average set -- sentence length for crack cocaine offenders is 115 months. in fiscal yi 2008, it was 91 months for powder cocaine offenses. i would also note that 91 months is higher than we have seen the past. the average base quantity level for crack cocaine still remains about 50 grams, just so you know. also, a quick note about mandatory minimums, those convicted of crack cocaine, 80.6% are exposed to some sort of mandatory minimum with 80% of powder cocaine offenders are. the important thing is the safety valve provisions, those provisions that allow sentences below the but -- below the mandatory minimums to be employed. only 14.3% of offenders for crack cocai

it is an alleged that boys still like to read but the harry potter cedars has proved they will if you give them the right books. it -- have you found that boys and girls have responded differently to your books on science? guest: the first teacher for use my books in virginia beach. i went to the school board. i had been a reporter. i knew all the people. i want to try this with kids in a classroom. i assumed there would ask for a volunteer and i would have a teacher that was eager to work with me. they assign me to a teacher. she was very unhappy. the picture with good reason because she had to be out social study classes. a fifth grade teachers. one was going to use a standard textbook and the other was going to use my manuscript. i made two preparations for her. she was unhappy. she was also at first. when i came back a few weeks later, she had totally change. and she said, if she gave the kids in the classroom with a standard textbooks three pages to read, they usually did not read it. she said, i can give them 10 pages or you are -- of yours -- this is a great man is good. they w

hoped when the authorities discovered his body, before they have shipped it out for burial to the potter's field on hart island, the land of the lost souls, the title of the book, which is where he believed he was going to be buried in a plywood coffin, late into a long tranche dug by prisoners from rikers island and before that happened cadillac hope that someone might find a no book on his body and instead of throwing them in the garbage, deliver them miraculously to his daughters. but i didn't know that then. then i just knew that he was one more aspiring writer on the block. everybody in new york it seems as a manuscript, even the homeless guys but for some reason i said to him words that as a former editor i try never to say to anyone, if you ever want me to take a look at it, i would be happy to. and i said this as softly as i could. i actually mumble that. but he apparently heard, because if you months later cadillac handed me know book cannot ticket home to read. by deal with myself that night was that i would read only until i got bored. so i sat down and started to read what turn