john mulligan, providence journal. and tracy jann, "boston globe." washington these days, but it can work. just ask former congressman patrick kennedy, a democrat from rhode island and his friend and one-time colleague jim ramstad, the former republican representative from minnesota. in to 2008, these two co-sponsored the mental health act to treat mental illnesses as they would treat physical ailments. the legislation is considered a landmark achievement in the arena of mental health. and its passage is alsophafath r father, senator edward kennedy, long a champion of those with mental disabilities. this was a personal crusade for pat kennedy and mr. ramstad. mr. ramstad has struggled with alcoholism and mr. kennedy has been open about his past struggles with addiction. in 1996, then but the insurance companies used loopholes to get around the legislations. the legislation effectively closes those loopholes. both men are making sure all provisions of the act are fully implemented under the administration's new health care law. both ramstad and kenned

would ask for your cooperation in providing us pretty quick answers and i'd like to ask that a providence journal article from the summer of 2011 which is admitted into the record, madam chair, may i ask unanimous consent? >> without objection. >> thank you. >> it describes a success story, which is that our salt water beach days lost to contaminated swimming waters decreased by 35% in 2011 from 2009 levels and credited some of the big projects that rhode island has done. the commission has built enormous tunnels and receiving chambers underground to store stormwater from our combined sewer overflow storm systems so that they don't have to bypass sewage treatment and they can be held and when capacity is restored at the treatment plant, it can be pumped and treated properly. newport has built a $6 million storm water treatment plan that discharges on to easton's beach. were doing our job and we've put a lot of money behind keeping our waters clean. and so it really hits hard when this funding is cut off to rhode island, as i've said, as a largely nonpollution-producing state for the country. we'r

. >> i'm wondering what you think it would take for it to go to that next level and provide quality journalism. >> i just want to offer a slight difference of opinion. i think that we are seeing a couple of things happen right now. they are positive things that are happening. while it may be true that the first wave of online-only journalism tended to be national and international criticism and opinion, which got the name of blogs, what we are actually seeing of the local level is something even more exciting than that. as newspapers have become challenged, and we have seen, sadly, the destruction of capabilities of newspaper and local television stations and other media in the local arena, we are seeing a new layer journalism being created at the local level. some startups such as the "bases and close " in san francisco, "texas tribune" out in texas -- there have been others that attended some similar things -- are starting to use a digital- only medium to provide a layer of local coverage. after that, the other positive things that i see our outfits like -- are outfits like patch and yahoo!,

i think events have proven "the providence journal" correct. senator john mccain recently described these events. he said, "i predicted when the united states supreme court, with their absolute ignorance of what happens in politics, struck down the mccain-feingold campaign finance law, that there would be a flood of money into campaigns, not transparent, unaccounted for, and this is exactly what is happening." if you look at the 2006 and 2010 congressional elections where there wang a presidential race going on -- there wasn't a presidential race going on, after citizens united, in 2010 there was a fourfold increase in expenditures from super pacs and other outside groups compared to what occurred in 2006. with nearly three-quarters of that political advertising coming from sources that were prohibited from spending money in 2006 -- three-quarters of it. also in 2010, those 501-c-4 and 501-c-6 organizations spent more thank $135 million in unlimited and secret contributions. anonymous spending rose from 1% of outside spending in 2006 to 47% of

and i'd like to ask that a providence journal article from the summer of 2011, um, which be submitted into the record, madam chairman, i ask unanimous consent for the article to be admitted into the record. >> without objection. >> thank you. it describes the suggestion that our saltwater beach days lost to contaminated waters decreased by 35% from 2010, and it credited some of the big projects that rhode island has done. we have, the narragansett bay commission has built enormous tunnels and receiving chambers underground to store storm water from our combined sewer overflow storm systems so that they don't have to bypass sewage treatment, and they can be held. and when capacity is restored at the treatment plant, it can be pumped and treated properly. newport has built a $6 million ultraviolet treatment system for storm water that discharges on to eastman's beach. we're doing our job, and we've put a lot of money behind keeping our waters clean, so it really hits hard when this funding is cut off to rhode island, as i said, as a largely nonpollution-producing state for the country.

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journal." >> the national press foundation held its 29th annual awards this week in washington, d.c. the foundation provides educational programs for journalists and awards for excellence in journalism. recipients were chris wallace, david newhouse, and iwatch news. the keynote speaker at the dinner was google executive chairman eric schmidt. this is about one hour and five minutes. >> we are delighted and lucky tonight to have eric schmidt, the executive chairman of google. he is quick to talk about the future of mobile communications and the movement of information. this is the first in a series of talks we want to present at our awards dinners for leaders who live at the intersection of technology and media, which is where we all live now and where we are going to live up for some time to come. eric is a member of the president of a council of advisers on science and the prime minister's advisory council in the united kingdom. he joined google in 2001. eric will speak for about 10 minutes and take questions for about five minutes. there will be some microphones down the center of the ballroom that way. p

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the same way as an abortion before birth the british medical ethics journal which carried their article says it's intended to provide academic debate but there's been outrage over the comments as are other than explaining. surely through course was eight months pregnant when she found out her son would be born with down syndrome even as late as that the only advice she got was to have an abortion doctors tried to persuade her sam's condition would be a struggle not worth living but six years on the only struggle mother and child have had was ignoring that advice i was treated as a boatlift it stupid say. it is very sad to think that they are the people who are giving advice to their mothers they have a duty. to everyone they take to put their life and a day in a lot of their might i failed a field our children know where preserving their not worth saving then look what happened and that really is the case that stereotypes just been taken a whole lot further by two ethicists who argue that it's ok to kill babies even after they're born the controversial comments were published by the oxford educated professors in a l

provide. i wanted to go back to the question about the funding investments in journalism. i have to agree with the gentleman who raised the issue that there does not seem to be a lot of appreciation and investment at this stage, but in journalism, our center is funded by the knight foundation, one of a handful of organizations supporting this kind of transition of traditional journalism into this new age. we have begun to look at funding from other organizations, and there seems to be an interest in a particular handful of topics, including investigative reporting, business reporting, but there is a greater need for training in journalism to get journalists to understand this new environment we are working in, and also to educate the broader public about the need and public good that journalism serves and why it warrants investment from private investors as well as non-profit organizations. >> to the question about the huge influx of new sites, i think it is partially a question of scale. for example, i do not know -- i know very few hyper local sites that have full staff,

provided a floor for the markets. after that, of course, the adp jobs report. and a report from the "wall street journal" laying out options, possible options the feds considering for qe-3. that also provided some support to the markets. even though there are questions whether qe-3 will go through. also today what we saw was a return to correlated trade we had seen quite frequently, about six weeks ago. we saw strength in the euro. the markets and euro moving in tandem. it was optimism about greeks jobs report, a report on the possibility of qe-3, or options they're considering for q-33. >> i thought it was interesting the banks did well today. i think you have to look at the european banks, too. >> you saw a rebound there, you saw tyler showing you some of those european banks right before the closing bell. that, of course, spilled over into the u.s. banks as well. financials were leaders, industrials were leaders, and information technology getting a lift from, i guess you could say the halo effect of the new ipad. in a return to the risk on trade, we saw small cap stocks outperforming large caps toda

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in chicago have been implemented are providing additional challenge for us and we're going to use it showcase a lot of new tools and citizen and independent journalism we have a drone helicopter that is capable of live streaming we have cameras that we can mount on buildings that can stay live for days and days upon end without having any recharging and we're going to set up our headquarters in our hub there an alternate alternate communication networks and we're going to we're going to capture what goes on there and maybe we can turn it into a turn into a film if the battle in seattle is any indication of what's to come in and in chicago for nato and all of the activists that we're seeing already booked tickets and hotels to fly in from around the world you know i don't think that since since the jihad has been moved i don't think it means that we should we should pull out from protesting or for covering the protests rather that it's the time that we should you know stay strong and advance to cover these these events. and act echoes from both nato and pray you mentioned the battle in seattle which was an ethical obligation protest really to keep th

providing a floor under the market. before there was a story by "the wall street journal" laying out problems for qe-3. look what else is happening, look at the euro. that too what we've seen today basically is this correlation we used to see about six weeks ago or so where the stock market would move in tandem with the euro, the euro's higher, market's higher as well today as it recovers from its lows yesterday. among the blue chips driving the dow higher today, it's right now off about 15 points from its best levels of the day. general electric is a standout. it was leading the blue chips earlier. bank of america taken the lead there on a percentage basis. ge up about 2% after positive comments specifically about its expectations for growth in the emerging markets in latin america and also the middle east where they expect these two areas to be growth drivers basically replacing asia for ge. that's giving a lift to that stock. caterpillar also higher by 2%. united technologies, industrial cyclicals getting a bid today. yesterday of course investors were abandoning them along with financials, but jpmo

where folks come in terms of engaging with us, we hope to be providing a balance of that sort the end of the day we do have stronger journalism and a stronger democracy. >> we have time for one more question. >> hihigh, there has been a recurring theme since the republicans took over the house that fox has been continually lying about planned parenthood and i was wondering if you talk a little bit about why fox seems to continually target planned parenthood and how you know more of the demo credit media can respond to those big lies especially with jon kyl in a statement, saying he doesn't have the facts. >> there is an analysis in the book that relates here developed by media matters. it relates to nearly every campaign that fox has waged against the progressive organization and six steps that they go through. step one, conservative activists so let's take acorn and the james o'keefe videotape and andrew breitbart campaign. step two, fox devotes massive coverage to the lies max on the 24 hours after that first a.c.o.r.n. tape was released, fox just sent another dozen segments on it. step three, fox attacks other outlets for

journal this. a strategist have always relied on conventional thinking when it comes to voter turnout. that was the logic that saved arlen specter in 2004 sick years later they provide the 60th vote for obamacare. >> well, one of the state in the republican party but only if i could vote my conscience and when we were heading for a depression, i felt it was necessary to support the stimulus package and took the lead role in getting that passed. and the right wing was outraged. they have never been very happy with me. i have a tough race in 2004, as you just quoted but i wasn't sent to congress to vote simply to preserve my seat. listen, i was a child during the depression in the 1930s and i remember as it was my family lived in wichita kansas and we packed -- my dad had a pickup truck, put the four kids in the back of the pickup truck, a rough ride from wichita to live with the family. that's where we're headed and it's pretty much conceded. but the right wing, the extremist, did not look like the bush bail out of the auto industry. >> the t.a.r.p. growth? >> the t.a.r.p. growth. and dick cheney came and talked to the republican caucus in early october 2008. the hou

what do i care more for our company to evolve in that speech and still provide the choice and quality of entertainment and journalism that we have up to that. >> we have time for one or two questions from the members. question, one or two. >> how are you doing to the figure for the presentation. i'm struggling with your business model because if someone purchases hbo just as a network and as a series of different shows that show on hbo as the model asked if you are not concerned with readings how do you determine which ones you put in and out of hbo because you've taken things on and off during the evolution how to make that determination? >> if you are buying of the whole service and its after the shows, which it is, how we pick which ones we keep and that we produce from scratch? >> in the ratings construct. sprigg that is a very good question debating with each other should we do this or that and we basically try to put together a total service of shows some of which are great hits that we think will be appealing and some of them are fairly narrow because we'd that story for that kind of audience group hasn't bee

something in "the wall street journal" that they are considering their options on qe-3, they are communicating to markets. either the economy will pick up or we'll provide more support, but just keep on taking risks and being optimistic, because we'll keep a floor under the situation. >> what about the law of diminishing returns, julia, thank you for joining us. >> it's a pleasure. >>> zero or hero, twitter and facebook are blowing up over the goldman exec's resignation letter, we've got reaction to the headline of the day. >>> but madness on the street, is your basketball bracket a slam dunk? carfirmation. only hertz gives you a carfirmation. hey, this is challenger. i'll be waiting for you in stall 5. it confirms your reservation and the location your car is in, the moment you land. it's just another way you'll be traveling at the speed of hertz. you have to dig a little. fidelity's etf market tracker shows you the big picture on how different asset classes are performing, and it lets you go in for a closer look at areas within a class or sector that may be bucking a larger trend. i'm stephen hett of fidelity investments. the etf market tracker is one

that this program and the award winners up here have helped provide some answers of their own to the question we were asking, why journalismers. please join us at the post dinner reception in the lincoln room, on this level, where you can dance to the music of my friends in nobody's business. i promise you if you hear them, you will not be disappointed. see you next year. [applause] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] >> and not fighting and daying because they're al-qaeda or sacrificing lives because they are muslim extremists. they are fighting and dying because they want the same universal right and freedom we guaranteed in our constitution. >> i think if we don't get the international community together in a coalition of the willing soon, we're going to look back and say we not only didn't do the right thing morally to stop innocence from being killed, we missed an extraordinary strategic opportunity. >> i want to make the point that the concerns that senator mccain and you and others have expressed are exactly the concerns of the administration. we're not -- we're not divided here, and we are not holdi