one of his biggest wins are the rams came in the 1993 ncaa tournament.s seeded eighth face off against ninth seeded purdue in winston-salem. fox hit this three-pointer to help rhode island come back against purdue. robinson would wind up with 36 in the game, by the way. but fox had this acrobatic dunk en route to 14 point to help rhode island win 76-48, their third ncaa win in school history. al skinner was recruited to rhode island as a player so he was familiar with the program when he first came as an assist apt in 1984. i had a chance to talk to him earlier tonight and ask him what he remembered about his time at rui. >> we had good years. my first couple of years weren't particularly good but after that i think we had some success. i was very pleased. went to the tournament and established the program very high. and uri was part of that success. >> do you see any remnants from what you tried to build in this team now and how do you beat that team now that you face them tonight? >> i think they've got some players there that are athletic. i think the

he carried the rams scoring 21 of his 24 in the second half. john shir had 24 for duke and the devils were leading by one. baron with a shot for the win, missed it after two key free throws. team was running out. he had one last chance to tie the game and fell short. 82-79 was the final. this is a legit basketball team. >> mike: you know, jim baron, they're playing oklahoma state this year. so they krael amp up their nonconference schedule. >> tim: when you think of the teams always there in that league and the success they've had in the tournament, getting into the top three of the a-10, pretty tough. >> mike: temple today beating nova by ten points, number three. >> tim: sanders, nice inbounds play and boston college. sanders now with six. >> mike: i think boston college is out of siync. they're still trying to work their way into a new rhythm. >> tim: there's outerbridge, baseline extended. not there. ravenel is hammered. outerbridge got him and will pick up the foul. esche ravenel is a big youngster from tampa, florida, 6'8", 255. outerbrid

titans blow out the rams 44-7 the final. >>> more football now.ing on in the division remaining tight. seems like things are blowing up in england. thomas inactive after being sent home wednesday. three others sent home but thomas the only one who criticized bill belichick's decision and he's the only one sitting out. pats and panthers. new england has lost three straight games since 2002. tom brady playing with assorted injuries, a finger, rib, shoulder. matt moore in the first, for the injured jake delhomme. 7-0, panthers. game tied 7-7, brady from watson. in the end zone. brady's only touchdown pass of the game. new england 8-5 now after winning it 20-10. >>> the dolphins trying to keep pace with the pats, vifing the jaguars. first quarter, scoreless game, ricky williams, untouched. 108 yards on the day for williams. 7-0, dolphins. chad henne boot legged, chad henne, touchdown. 14-0, miami. fourth quarter, 14-10, fourth down david gang tackled. >>>

he is a very old technique of ramming the earth down. like many writers i like thinking about other things than writing, and i like to build. this is a scrub building going into a dome, down by my friend and neighbor, greg smith. i don't like to write in the evening unless i have to do something for england, and then of course england is eight hours from here forward, and, you know, if you're going to get something on someone's desk by 8:00 in the morning you can do it until late at night. but that's the shape of my day. it's not particularly monk-like in seclusion. i spend a lot of time on the telephone with three or four people up in olympia, washington, who also does the editing on the books. our business operations are run right here in petrolia by becky grant and david wheeler, incredibly efficiency of course. counterpunch books, we started thinking we were publishing things in the internet web and wanted to keep on the form. our stuff on the counterpunch site doesn't go away. it's somewhere in the of fast sort of black hole of or i

. >> reporter: old dough men onwith the ball and gerald lee rams one home. he has four >> derek: this is what makes gerald lee so effective and why he sticks out as the pre-season conference of the year. going back to gerald lee. he realizes that he is being double teamed down on the low post owe he stems off the block and knocked down the mid-range jump shot. not many 6'10" guys that can get back on knock down that jump shot. >> mike: an air ball, no good, another offensive rebound, down the lane, inside, lee get checked from behind. get that junk out of here and there is going to be a foul called on it the flyers. that blocked shot by chris wright bought to you by 1-800- got jumped. chris johnson will go to the line. finney, 43% free throw shooter. old dominion 3 out of 5 from the free throw line so far tonight. he hems the flyers keep the lead. >> derek: old dominion monarchs will start it go to work on the offensive board. >> mike: another missed free throw and the flyers get the rebound. off the ball, no good, the foul. paul williams got behind the defe

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ram. >>> donald trump remains with us. tiger woods, a friend of yours. one sponsor, accenture, has dropped him. some sponsors are middle-roading it. and nike endorsed him today, staying with him. what do you make of this, donald? >> he's going through a very tough period of time. who would have ever thought? his career was so perfectly manicured and managed it was amazing. he really is a good guy. i know him and i like him and i respect him. and i wish to see him play golf. i mean, he is rembrandt on canvas. you can't take that canvas away. you know, it's something he should be doing. i can't imagine him, larry, sitting home with his wife, holding hands, watching hundreds of thousands of people walking down the fairways and watching phil mickleson or somebody else winning the masters. he's going to be sitting there holding his wife's hand? i don't get it. i don't see it. >> larry: hasn't your respect for him diminished at all? >> well, i know him and i like him and i really respected him the most as a great athlete, as a great golfer. i mean, i know him

a very old technique of ramming earth down. i like thinking about things other than writing. i like to build. this is a square building going into a down going. >> the evening. unless i have to do something for and on to. of course england is eight hours for word. we have got to get something done to someone's desk by eight in the morning you can do it until late at night. that is the shape of my day. i spend a lot of time passing on the telephone to three or four people. in olympia, washington. does the editing on the books. >> our business operations are run right here by becky granted. incredible efficiency, of course. we started thinking that we were publishing a newsletter. we wanted to keep in a more current form. our web stuff does not go away. it is all somehow in the vast black hole of internet communications. probably all ending up in government archive. but we felt we wanted to put them in hard cover. we had done a whole bunch of articles about, you know, this idea of israel or an anti-semite which is absolutely nonsense. a very successful book, actually. we do our

what was interesting about how they did it was that rather than try to ram it through, what they did was allow for a lot of thoughtful legislative debates, and they sent a lot of the senators and others who were not quite convinced it was the right thing to europe to actually take a look at it. they also had a big public relations campaign where they would do town hall meetings and went across america to try to make the case for this. it was a huge effort. there were buttons and everything involved at that time. it was an exemplary process for how to go about that. when you look at these major initiatives, there are few successful initiatives that we found that actually were done on a strictly partisan basis. you had bipartisan cooperation and the majority of the american people behind it. hawke >> what are the back -- the best managed government programs? >> a lot of ranting and raving is done on the radio. we have had a lot of failures. we have had some real successes in the last 30 years. people looked at me sometimes like i am a crazy person. we have actually had some really good

actually, i remember a guy was mad at me and saying that rush limbaugh wanted to own the rams because he wanted to own a plantation of black men. so his response to me for that was he sent me a picture of a lynching, which i think is in this book. if i don't know the history or people and my direct relatives. if they are not in my bloodline. they are still in my brothers and sisters. i think there's the value in us knowing it's about a racism still exists. i was on o'reilly's show before the election. and laura inn gram. and she said that she -- the discussion was will there still be racism if -- that's when they were conceding obama was going to be like if and when he was elected. i was argue, of course there still would be racism. she acted like that was ridiculous. if he's elected, you can shut up and take your whining somewhere else. obviously, they have not ended since the election of president obama. >> of course, that's what they wanted to do. they want to put in thousands of neck of the african-american and latinos. and it's over. the question was how do they go to that next s

just an arrogance of power with one party ramming through unpopular and devastating proposals 1 after the other. let me talk now about other negative impacts of this bill at a time when we are in a terrible recession with a current unemployment rate of 10.2%. and that's not the real rate. can i tell you right now if you -- i can tell you right now if you take away some of part time and other statistics, we're really at an effective 17%. the reid bill is a job killer. it has a disproportionate impact on small businesses. this torve contains -- 2,074-pages contains taxes and fees which will affect small businesses, which is the 70% of small jobs are created by the business sector. according to the recent survey 50% of small businesses pay taxes at the individual level through those who report income of $24,000 and will be hit hardest with their mandate, job killing employer mandate in this bill. this is small business. this isn't a large corporate world. it's small business where most of the jobs come from. every dollar lost in new taxes on these businesses will be a dollar taken away f

republicans' position on health care to the pro-slavery movement were largely ignored as the clumsy offhand ram buildings of a partisan, but the references earlier today appeared to be not off the cuff mistakes but prepared text deliberately delivered by one of the brighter minds of the senate. our colleague went on to acknowledge, and i quote again -- that in the heat of those vindictive passions, some people earnestly believed they were justified. such is the human capacity for intoxication by those malignant and vindictive political passions." well, yes, republican senators do believe our position is justified and, in fact, correct. there are honorable people on both sides of the aisle who obviously have to agree to disagree. but our colleague attributes no good motive to republicans whose passions are simply malignant and vindictive. he adduces evidence to support his claim. first, an unnamed editor of "the manchester enquirer" who wrote that the g.o.p., and i'm quoting -- "has gone crazy. an unnamed economist who believes that our party has been taken over by the irrational right. "a phila

democrats ram through a so-called stimulus that left us asking, where are the jobs? now congressional democrats are asking for more money that they will turn around later this afternoon and spend on another stimulus bill that spends even more on failed policy. madam speaker, it's time for congress to say no to endless debt that is around the neck of our nation's economy and future generations. vote no on this increased debt limit. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from nevada reserves. the gentleman from massachusetts is recognized. mr. neal: thank you, madam speaker. with that i'd like to voice a -- to a voice of fiscal responsibility to the gentleman. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized for two minutes. >> i thank my friend, mr. neal, for yielding. i think all of us here today, certainly in this game of inside baseball, understand that we have to raise the debt limit. we don't have a choice to let our nation go into default on its bonds. but i do come today to ask you to support it. i come reluctantly. and i am glad to hear that

i would take this as likely evidence that the united states was seeking to undermine the ram pew yea peace talks, okay? certainly, it had that effect. and right after this was presented, serbia lost all interest in the peace talks leading directly to the breakdown of the peace talks and, ultimately, the war. so i think it's incorrect, it is a myth to say -- as many have -- that the united states and the ben powers used all reasonable peens to achieve a diplomatic solution and only went to war when a diplomatic solution was impossible. on the contrary, a diplomatic solution was made impossible according to the record of events as i see it. in any case, the breakdown led to western preparations for war, and the chronology is very interesting. on march 19th, shortly after the breakdown of negotiations, the osce monitors began to withdraw on the assumption that bombing was coming, and they didn't want to be injured. the very next day serbia began a major offensive in kosovo. leading to ugly atrocities. the bombing actually commenced on march 24th leading to an intensification of serb atr

louis rams because he wanted to own a plantation full of black men. [laughter] so his response to me for that was he sent me a picture of a lynching which i think is in this book, and there was some little cutie line with it or something like, you know, these are your cousins. like as if i don't know that. as if i don't know that history, as if i don't know these people are my direct relatives. they are still my brothers and sisters even if they're not my bloodline. but i think there's a value in us knowing this amount of racism still exists. i was on o'reilly's show before the election, but o'reilly wasn't there, it was laura ingram, and she made, she -- the decision was will there still be racism if -- and at that point they were conceding obama was going to be b elected -- if and when he's elected? and i was arguing, of course there will still be racism, and she laughed like that was the most ridiculous concept ever. like if this man is elected, that clearly is the end of racism, and you can take young arguments -- your arguments somewhere else. ob

of people with only one exception in the whole republican side of the aisle in 2003 that -- that rammed through the medicare privatization bill that was written by the drug companies and the insurance companies for the drug companies and the insurance companies. two things. one, they never paid for it. there was no discussion, no interest, no move to pay for their bill at all, and then they criticized our bill as costing too much and running up the debt when the congressional budget office, which everyone knows is fair, they complain -- it's like in a sporting event, mr. president, the losing team complains about the ref because they are losing, the other side complains about the congressional budget office, but we know it's fair. we cite it, we must, we do, it helps us move forward, it helps us figure things out. but they don't even try to pay for their medicare privatization bill because the drug companies and the insurance companies wouldn't have gotten in their way so much if they tried to pay for it. but their bill shortens the life of medicare. our bill increases the life expectan

added democrats have instead favored artificially generated haste and settled on this a strategy to ram it through congress. the senator details her good-faith participation in the group of six on the senate finance committee which met some 31 times over the spring and summer and reflected the kind of extensive, meticulous process that an issue of this magnitude requires. the negotiators tried to build a consensus blending their best ideas or at least they did before the group of six and mrs. snowe became a liberal target for proposed obstructionism. chairman max baucus pushed unfinished work to the senate floor where mr. reid is pressing to pass a bill in a race against rising unpopularity and president obama's falling approval ratings. mr. reid made this case with his usual intellectual nuance this week -- quote -- "instead of joining us on the right side of history, all republicans can come up with is 'slow down, stop everything, let's start over.' if you think you've heard these excuses before, you're right. when the country recognized the wrongs of slavery, there were those who dug

speaker pe he see rammed the bill through the house. harry reid rammed it through the senate. they spent $787 billion of our children and grandchildren's money, money we don't have, claiming we need to do this because this is going to stop unemployment from reaching 8% and it was going to create three million job, and then he said he stood right behind you here on this house floor, right at that podium i'm looking at right there, president obama said, we're going to track every dame and vice president joe biden will be in charge of tracking every dime because nobody messes with joe. that's what the president says. nobody. so, of course we decided to take president obama up on his claims months and months later after they came with budge that doubled the national debt in five years and turned around with another bill, the cap and trade energy tax and national tax on energy, then they came back with this government takeover of health care they're still pursuing, all of this, running jobs out of our country at a time when americans want us to be creating jobs. now that unemployme

health care reform is too important for too many americans to be rammed through the senate with little or no debate on the weekend before christmas. it appears my colleagues understand how deeply unpopular this bill is with the american people and they want to force it through when they believe most americans are not paying attention. i want to assure my democratic colleagues that the american people are watching and the voices of august will only grow louder. they will remember the vote to cut off debate on this bill for a long time because they understand that it will mean for them their health care and the future of this country. the person that i served in the wyoming legislature with sent me a little note and said if it's broken, don't break it more. that's what we're doing. i would ask that -- i'd ask unanimous consent that i have some articles inserted in the record. there is one by howard dean that suggests that the, this reform falls short. of course he's the former chairman of the democratic national committee. i'd also ask that an editorial by matthew dowd, a political analy

with all of their agendas that they seem to want to ram through, what can we do? i mean, 2010 can't come soon enough. to be able to change our votes. >> guest: well, you know, one of the things that margaret thatcher talked about is that you don't have a healthy economy unless you have a legal system that works that protects the rights of the american people. and my book talks about that, how our legal system has, frankly, broken down. it's become a cesspool. judges not making decisions on the merits, but on the basis of feathering the nests of those who got them their jobs, you've got lawyers who don't tell the truth. you have to have a good legal system to be able to invest money in the system. and, of course, we have president obama and congress who comes up with a trillion dollar bailout. nobody's seen that money, not even the left, and i live in los angeles, california, for the most part now, and i can tell you even the left in hollywood is getting very concerned, if not agitated, at the inability of this administration to affect the economy having sold every

, there are especially for the cargo carriers the number of the major carriers to actually provide ramsperature controls, quiet rims for pilots to sleep and one of the recommendations from new york was to give consideration to that kind of rest to perhaps add additional time to the duty day and again we will look at proposals in that area and ask for comment on that as well. folk a-- for the altar long flights or the flights were we have what we call augmented crew there are sleeping facilities on board the aircraft and the arc recommended the higher and facilities be given more credit than perhaps were an operator might expect parlett to sleep and a first-class seat for example, and so the proposal will look at those differences and ask for comment on whether credit ought to be given in those areas as well so again we are trying to address all of these various issues that are, not the main issue of brown fatigue but certainly that contribute to how we can help the pilots better manage that fatigue. >> what about supervision? >> i am sorry. on the last issue the regulations will likely

you will have rammed through a -- quote -- reform on a strictly partisan basis without the participation of the other party over the objections of a majority of the american people, done in closed negotiations and results that are announced to the american people without debate or discussion and to this side without debate or discussion. the american people don't like it. they don't like for us to do business that way. and i am sure that this peaceful revolution that's going out there, -- going on out there already -- because as the senator from idaho pointed out because of the involvement in the car companies, the stimulus, the bonus, the generational theft that we're committing, this all on top of that is going to give great fuel to the fire that's already burning out there where they want real change, real change which they were promised in the last presidential campaign and certainly did not get. a senator: probably one of the great ironies of all this is going to be at 8:00 on the 24th when this bill passes with the 60 votes, all democrats. mr. risch: immediately following that vote

did i -- ram i ask, i -- ramsey, i want to read this because it has the sentiment of my heart, tell us why we shouldn't feel betrayed. after decades of memorizing breast cancer's warning signs, training ourselves to do monthly self-examines and guiding ourselves into annual mammograms, we women are now being told the exms are useless and mammogram -- exams are useless and mammograms unreliable. a federal task force has reversed a decade's long campaign that trained women to make screenings a cornerstone of their self-care. it now recommends against routine mammograms for women in their 40's, longer intervools between them for older -- intervals between them for older women and ditching self-exams. intended or not, yanking away the tools we relied on to keep ourselves safe from this disease shakes the confidence that we can keep ourselves safe and fear and confusion have always been breast cancer's best friend. now we are left to reconcile two utterly conflicting messages. the task force cautioning against the tests, the american cancer society still calls life saving. as so often ha

vehicle down as of course one that's been with us for many years, traces its history to the icbms or ram in fact that it's been extended by the department of defense. and these vehicles have been used in various forms, some not yet in the form are carrying the full throw weight that would be needed for this mission. and the vehicles are proven. they are not human rated. and they would require additional development. they offer a legitimate alternative. they also offer the advantage that the department of defense and the intelligence community might find them useful. and we could have some savings they are. that offers a disadvantage of having to coordinate vehicles coming down the line, who gets what and who gets first priority. but it would be our committee's view that elv family is a viable option for that consideration. and we have not attempted to make specific choices here, in part because would require a great deal more analysis that we have done of our not wanting to take a position. it's a choice that good engineering could make. >> i'm curious, one of the earlier years of accomp

it's an up simple majority to ram basically a question or bill, what have you, through. this is considered hard ball tactics in bad form and a chamber that values common ty and tradition. in this case they'd discussed this strategy in terms of passing part of the health overhaul through a process called reconciliation. not sure that's what the caller is talking about but they could have used budget rules to try to get part of this through rather than 60 votes. they have for strategy reasons decided to go with the 60 vote rule and that's calculation harry reed made. host: how about more mr. adriel bettelheim on the evolution of what maybe used to be called the public option. we read this headline in the wall street about a new government run health proposal. they point out democrats are employing the federal reserve plan as a model. guest: this is one thing going on. we talked about how things going on behind closed doors and there as so-called group often. five moderate and five liberal talking about possible things. one that has occur supply and demand a public option m

a bipartisan way not one rammed through without public hearings. mr. chairman, a famous son of new jersey once said, and that's yogi berra, it's deja vu all over again. congress and the president acted in february a trillion dollar stimulus package with the promise of its shovel ready spend would go prevent unemployment from exceeding 8%. while the nation's official unemployment is about 10%, the real unemployment and underemployment now exceeds 17%. yet the majority suggests we double down on spending borrowed dollars in many of the same areas touched by the first stimulus. for example, only 7% of the $2 billion in the stimulus bill for the army corps of engineers, civil construction has been spent. yet this bill adds another $750 million. only 8% of the $1.billion for the stimulus for the bureau of reclamation water projects has been spent. this legislation includes another $100 million. the stimulus contains $4 billion for energy innovation loans, just 10% has been spent since january. let's make sure to approve another billion dollars. of the $36 b

good morning, welcome to the ram on the republican line. caller: good morning.k you for taking my call. it is a historic year, but i feel it is a yearçóÑi where evee is feeling that what they voted for and what they got were two different things. host: how so? caller: i think when barack obama ran for president he convinced the public that he was going to cut taxes and he was going to be fiscally conservative and he was going to get everyone out of the war. but i think what was really going on is g.e. and other conglomerates own the media, and they were putting their candidate in place that they thought was going to be spending big government money on contracts, and the unions are supporting him because they want the contracts to be signed so that they can have the government money paid, their paychecks that are way overblown and their compensation packages that are out of whack with private industry. so really i think the crooks are in charge at this point and our country is suffering because of it. i think socialism has taken over. host: thanks for the call. a

you will have rammed through a, quote, reform and strictly partisan basis without the participation ofthe other party over the objections of the majority of the american people done and done closed negotiations and results announced with no debate or discussion in this side without debate or discussion. the american people don't like. they don't like us to do business that way. and i am sure this peaceful resolution that's going out, going on already because as the senator from idaho pointed out because the involvement in the car companies, the stimulus, the bonus, the generational theft, this on top of that is going to give greater fuel to the fire already burning where they want real change which they were promised in the last presidential campaign and certainly did not get. >> one of the great ironies is we to be at 8:00 on the 24th when this bill passes with the 60 votes old democrat immediately following the vote is going to be a vote again all 16 democrats and only democrats raising the national debt. what an irony to put $2.5 trillion in spending of a new social and thailand pro

the building i live in new jersey is right on the ram river and a high eighth that i live where the pilot had to head for a lower altitude. captain sullenburger the private from u.s. airways flight 1549 known as the "miracle on the hudson" said here in the house earlier this year that his pay has been cut to 40% in recent years and he started a consulting business to maintain a middle-class standard of living. this is a guy with terrific experience and great skills. so i think we're at a point* in time where we have to say that there are certain standards that must we match. i do not out to implement them. that is not my job. sick and to protect the safety of the public to whatever extent we can possibly do it. and those that are relatively high risk we should avoid. what we are looking at salaries and what is happening look being at the major regional stare doing pretty well with profitability with skywest made 200 million of through the years 2009 and american eagle made 122 million and express made 60 million anna nicole been made the 76 million so what is to say they should exert them

if you are on the telephone we do have they on line and news ram that you click on and we will also be able to allow questions on the phone, so please just queue up with the operator and we will get to you when we can based on the people in the room as well. without further ado, dr. croats. >> good morning. thank you for coming here. this is the second update we have had since my coming to the census bureau in july and we will try to do these every once in awhile to make sure that everyone is up to speed on how we are coming along on the perforations. as you know, in 1790, the census has been done every ten years, and each of those ten years we do the same thing. we enumerate everyone in the population, and we try to place them at their residential location, so we count all persons in their usual abode as the founding fathers said. this decade, we had the shortest census in our lifetimes. it is a census that can be completed in about ten minutes by every household throughout the country so it is an easy thing to do. we are happy about that. let me give you a rundown of the basics of th

the cap and trade bill rammed through the house by defeat and alarmist propaganda awaits the u.s. senate. if it becomes law, as i said on the floor of the debate, our economy will go to hell awe and our jobs will go to china and, yes, it will affect all of us big time and that's what this is all about. changing our lives big time. what are some of the long-term changes these steely-eyed fanatics behind cap and trade and global warming and behind the copenhagen gathering want to make in our lives? it's a long one but here's some of the things they want. they want gas to double in price, maybe triple, maybe more. parking prices need to go up. parking permits need to go way up. air travel will be out of reach for ordinary people by elimination of frequent flier miles and discount tickets and simply dramatically rising the price of airplane tickets. only the rich and powerful in their private jets and limousines will be free to travel as they please. yes, there will be restrictions on our diet, embedded in the manmade global warming unit is a contingent of power freaks who want to res

a bipartisan way not one rammed through without public hearings. mr.rman, a famous son of new jersey once said, and that's yogi berra, it's deja vu all over again. congress and the president acted in february a trillion dollar stimulus package with the promise of its shovel ready spend would go prevent unemployment from exceeding 8%. while the nation's official unemployment is about 10%, the real unemployment and underemployment now exceeds 17%. yet the majority suggests we double down on spending borrowed dollars in many of the same areas touched by the first stimulus. for example, only 7% of the $2 billion in the stimulus bill for the army corps of engineers, civil construction has been spent. yet this bill adds another $750 million. only 8% of the $1.billion for the stimulus for the bureau of reclamation water projects has been spent. this legislation includes another $100 million. the stimulus contains $4 billion for energy innovation loans, just 10% has been spent since january. let's make sure to approve another billion dollars. of the $36 billio

it's an up simple majority to ram basically a question or bill, what have you, through. this is considered hard ball tactics in bad form and a chamber that values common ty and tradition. in this case they'd discussed this strategy in terms of passing part of the health overhaul through a process called reconciliation. not sure that's what the caller is talking about but they could have used budget rules to try to get part of this through rather than 60 votes. they have for strategy reasons decided to go with the 60 vote rule and that's calculation harry reed made. host: how about more mr. adriel bettelheim on the evolution of what maybe used to be called the public option. we read this headline in the wall street about a new government run health proposal. they point out democrats are employing the federal reserve plan as a model. guest: this is one thing going on. we talked about how things going on behind closed doors and there as so-called group often. five moderate and five liberal talking about possible things. one that has occur supply and demand a public option m

it's hard for me to understand how that can make medicare more solvent you take money out of ram of medicare and spend it on someone else. >> respond to another question. isn't it shall we say enron accounting when you have a proposal that you, as soon as you have the bill become law, you begin to raise taxes and cut benefits and then you wait four years before any of the benefit are then extended to the beneficiaries. that -- back on its face is a remarkable piece of legislation. my experience, which has only been 20 some years that we haven't passed legislation and those were going to collect taxes on it for four years and then we are going to give you whatever benefit that may accrue from this legislation. there is then no time in history, i would ask my colleague, there's been no time in history where we have taken money from already a failing system to create a new entitlement program. >> which colleague are you asking? >> pardon? >> which colleague are you asking? >> the senator from tennessee. and obviously i was addressing the person who has the floor, which i'm sure that the senator

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increased the debt this year by $1.4 trillion, they are pushing through a health care bill trying to ram it through that's going to cost $1 trillion to $3 trillion. they are trying to push through a cap and trade bill that's going to cost millions of jobs. and now because they are worried about whether they are going to get re-elected or not, they are coming down here saying they are going to come up another jobs bill. what that means is another stimulus bill. the first stimulus bill did not work. it cost over $1 trillion when you include interest and now they are going to do it again. the way to create jobs is to take the heavyweight off the back of the american people by cutting their taxes and cutting business taxes like john f. kennedy did and like ronald reagan did. if you do that, you'll start seeing economic recovery. not by blowing more money. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman's time has expired. for what purpose does the gentleman from kentucky rise? mr. yarmuth: request permission to address the house for one minute. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. the gentlema

we were sitting in a ram where logcap was administered in iraq. this was not in kuwait. as is so often the case and i say this with affection when you were getting a briefing from the military there was a powerpoint and in fact i think there must be a loss of more than you are not allowed to get a briefing from the military without a powerpoint. there was a powerpoint and there was a lot of important people in the room. there were command staff, there were lots of people that clearly had the military command authority in the area but they turned over the discussion of a logcap contract to why women in the room. clearly a civilian and maybe the most knowledgeable about the logcap contract in the room and i think they turned it over to her because she was the one trying to make the trains run on time in a lot about it. she put up a powerpoint showing the logcap contract by year end as many of you remember the first year of the logcap contract wildly exceeded the estimates by billions of dollars. i think i can remember now and i haven't gone back to look but my recollection

alzner rams it in. and the capitals tag up and there is no off sides and montador waits. >> craig: and just to get back to your thought about nashville and the job that he is doing, you see a lot of similarities between these two teams. and buffalo and nashville. they get a lot of their success about the team first defense. there's a lot of structure, and there's a lot of discipline for both of those teams. >> joe: and semin fires and it is blocked, and a hard-working gaustad getting back as well. >> craig: a good crisscross there by the caps' trio of backstrom, semin and alex ovechkin causing problems for [ car starting ] >> allen iverson! >> i'm so far different from the guys. i'm very brief. >> you look at allen. you say, hey, there's a free- spirit guy. >> iverson. >> allen's life is a dream come true. . >> where i go, i hear about it the next day, like anywhere! >> a think a big part of al is he doesn't try to appeal to anybody. he does what he does. >> i heard the legend of bubba chuck. >> one of

six of the 13 appropriations bills have all been packaged together in one, and to see if they can't ram it through here on the last days before christmas when nobody will have the gumption to really cause a fuss about it, and we can just get this done. so what is it that's contained in the legislation that causes such angst on my part and on others? i'll just explain it. these are the numbers. the commerce-justice-science appropriations bill is is $64 billion, and the percent of growth over last year's spending is 12%. i just recall for my colleagues and everyone, if you know the rule of seven that you learn in accounting, at a 7% growth rate, your money -- if you have an interest rate of 7%, your money will double in value in ten -- in ten years, so here we have got a 12% increase. so the expenditure line of commerce-justice-science increases at 12%, which would double that whole line item in about seven years. do you think that's what the american people want? and this does not count. the stimulus package that we passed earlier this year -- my wife says quit saying we passed when you

but what was interesting about how they did it was rather than try to ram it through or anything, whathey did was they allowed for a lot of thoughtful legislative debate, and they actually sent a lot of the senators and others who were not quite convinced it was the right thing to send them to europe to actually take a look at it. and they involved them, but they had, what i thought was remarkable, a big hub relations campaign where they had town hall meetings and they went across america to try to make the case for this. it was a huge effort. there was buttons, everything involved in that time. and i think it was really an exemplary process for actually how to go about that, because when you look at these major initiatives like we did time and time again, there's very, very few really successful initiatives that we found that actually were done on a strictly partisan basis. most of the successes -- you had bipartisan cooperation and you had the majority of the american people really behind them. >> this is a broad question. war the best managed government programs? >> you know, it's f

the idea of public higher education will be left aside, all because washington politicians rammed up the bill, took the credit, made an announcement and sent a huge bill to state governments who are struggling with their worst fiscal condition since the great depression. mr. crapo: we see state taxes as well as federal taxes will be going up. i notice our colleague senator johanns has joined us as well. before i ask senator johanns to join us with his concerns and questions and comments, i just want to make one other clarification here. again, we have the president's pledge up here. remember, the motion that i have made simply says let's imply -- make the bill comply with the president's pledge. if there are no new taxes, the bill doesn't have to be changed if we pass this motion. if there are, it does. but remember, i don't think when the president made this pledge that he was saying he will not increase taxes on a net basis. in other words, i didn't hear the president say, i won't raise your taxes higher than i'd cut them in some other area. he specifically didn't say that he would

just an arrogance of power with one party ramming through unpopular and devastating proposals like this one after another. well, let me say there's a better way to handle health care reform. for months i've been pushing for a fiscally responsible and step-by-step proposal that recognizes our current need for spending restraint while starting us on a path to sustainable health care reform. there are several areas of consensus that can form the basis for sustainable, fiscally responsible and bipartisan reform. these include reforming the health insurance market for every american by making sure that no american is denied coverage simply based on a preexisting condition. some of my colleagues on the other side have tried to blast the insurance industry, they are an evil powerful industry. no, we need to reform them; no question about it. and we can do it if we work together. protecting coverage for almost 85% of americans who already have coverage they like by making that coverage more affordable. this means reducing costs by rewarding quality and coordinating care. gives families more inf

areas that we agree on, now say to our democratic friends and the president, rather than trying to ram60 votes through the senate, why can't we now sit down and proceed in a fashion, we'll give things up. we're willing to make concessions to save a system of medicare that's about to go broke in six years. we'll make some concessions, but get us in on the takeoff and don't secretary us to be in on the landing when already the bill is wraind the fix is in. just as the fix apparently is in on the dorgan amendment. mr. mcconnell: i say to my friend from arizona, no one has done more in the senate in the time that i've been here to express opposition to and warn us about the perils of excessive spending. and, as i recall, one of the things that you came back after your campaign and told us is what -- what the american people are concerned about is the cost of health care. the cost of health care. and, of course, we're also concerned about government spending. the cost to consumers of health care and the cost of government spending. doctor christina roma, a part of the white house economic t

was like rewarding the captain of the "titanic" for getting everyone off the sinking ship after he rammedit into the iceberg. and chairman bernanke may wonder if he really wants to be honored by an organization that has previously named people like joseph stalin twice, yasser arafat, adolf hitler, the ayatollah khomeini, vlad mire putin, richard nixon twice as their person of the year. but, i congratulate him and hope he at least turns out better than most of those people. four years ago when chairman bernanke was first nominated to be chairman of the federal reserve, i was the only senator to vote against him. in fact, i was the only senator even to raise serious concerns about his nomination. i opposed him because i knew he would continue the legacy of alan greenspan and i was right. but, i did not know how right i would be and could not imagine how wrong he would be in the following four years. from monetary policy to regulation, consumer protection, transparency, and independence, chairman bernanke's time has fed chair has been a failure. we must put an end to his and the federal rese

was like rewarding the captain of the titanic for getting everyone off the sinking ship after he rammedants to be honored by an organization that has previously named people like josef stalin twice, yaws sar arafat, adolf hitler, the ayatollah khomeini, vladimir putin, richard nixon twice as their person of the year. but i congratulate him and hope he at least turns out better than most of those people. four years ago when chairman bernanke was first nominated to be chairman of the federal reserve i was the only senator to vote against him. in fact i was the only senator even to raise serious concerns about his nomination. i opposed him because i knew he would continue the legacy of alan greenspan and i was right. but i did not know how right i would be and could not imagine how wrong he would be in the following four years. from monetary policy to regulation, consumer protection, transparency and independence, chairman bernanke's time as fed chair has been a failure. we must put an end to his and the federal reserve's failures and there is no better time than now. as i said two weeks a

was like rewarding the captain of the "titanic" for getting everyone off the sinking ship after he rammedceberg. and chairman bernanke may wonder if he really wants to be honored by an organization that has previously named people like joseph stalin twice, yasser arafat, adolf hitler, the ayatollah khomeini, vlad mire putin, richard nixon twice as their person of the year. but, i congratulate him and hope he at least turns out better than most of those people. four years ago when chairman bernanke was first nominated to be chairman of the federal reserve, i was the only senator to vote against him. in fact, i was the only senator even to raise serious concerns about his nomination. i opposed him because i knew he would continue the legacy of alan greenspan and i was right. but, i did not know how right i would be and could not imagine how wrong he would be in the following four years. from monetary policy to regulation, consumer protection, transparency, and independence, chairman bernanke's time has fed chair has been a failure. we must put an end to his and the federal reserve's failure

what was interesting about how they did it was that rather than try to ram it through, what they did lot of thoughtful legislative debates, and they sent a lot of the senators and others who were not quite convinced it was the right thing to europe to actually take a look at it. they also had a big public relations campaign where they would do town hall meetings and went across america to try to make the case for this. it was a huge effort. there were buttons and everything involved at that time. it was an exemplary process for how to go about that. when you look at these major initiatives, there are few successful initiatives that we found that actually were done on a strictly partisan basis. you had bipartisan cooperation and the majority of the american people behind it. hawke >> what are the back -- the best managed government programs? >> a lot of ranting and raving is done on the radio. we have had a lot of failures. we have had some real successes in the last 30 years. people looked at me sometimes like i am a crazy person. we have actually had some really good successes. let'

visits and other for a rams with interval we have worked to promote the increased use of the stolen documentbase. 20 million invalid records and passports. every month we identify cases of fraud that would not otherwise be detectable. i have identified known and suspected terrorists as well, denying them entry into the west. we can limit travel, this is a number of tools that we use. in a forward to your questions. >> finally, timothy, the director of the terrorist screening center at the fbi. >> thank-you, chairman. thank you for the opportunity to talk about the terrorist screening center. over the past six years our tools for fighting terrorism and integrating into communities by consolidating information, we are continuing to move forward by safeguarding civil liberties in the process. screening efforts have matured into a true success. with your continued support we hope to improve upon it initiative today let me begin to tell you about where we are at today and where we want to be in the future. we were established in 2003 connecting law-enforcement with intelligence. we strive to prov

what was interesting about how they did it was that, rather than try to ram it through, they allow forthoughtful legislative debate. daschle said in a lot of senators and others -- they actually sent a lot of senators and others to europe to look at it. then called them. -- they can call them. they had big town hall meetings and went across -- they involved with them. they had big town hall meetings and went across america. when you look at the major initiatives, there were very few really successful initiatives that we have found that were actually done on a strictly partisan basis. most successes you had a bipartisan cooperation and you had the majority of the american people behind them. >> this is a broad question. what are the best managed government programs? >> as i have been doing a lot of radio programs, a lot of ranting and raving that people are doing on the radio days, but i will say that we have had a lot of failures but a lot of real successes in the last 30 years. people look at me like i'm a crazy person. we have actually had some really good successes. one of them was