so it's not a random experiment. but after abortion became legal some states in the 70's it was easy to get abortion and other states it was hard. it's easy to compare 20 years later in the states it was easy to get a portion to those states it was hard to get abortion and that is what we call an accidental experiment. and it's kind of the new wave of microeconomic research, is to not just look for your correlation but go deeper and find evidence of the sort of experiment, quasi experiments, what was to replicating a scientific experiment. now economists are getting into running reena mize experiments even more. one of my colleagues we talked a lot about in "superfreakonomics" is the cutting edge of the field experiments, so not going to the lab with college students and asking them to do things they are not used to but going into the real world settings people don't know they're being watched and try to learn from their behavior is randomized. >> host: how do you separate this from psychological from sociological di

and random and randomly three release from another state and see what happens. in that kind of world, complex world we live and we have to use what i call accidental experiment to figure out the answer. in other words, i look where quirks where something like a wall we change or, like, so if you want to talk about abortion and crime have a controversy of theory about how abortion, legalization of abortion in the 1970's reduced crime in the 1990's. so it's not a random experiment, but after abortion became legal in some states in the 70's very easy to get abortion, other states very hard. compare 20 years later what happened in the states it's easy to get abortion to those states it's hard to get abortion and that is what we call accidental experiment, and it's kind of the new wave of microeconomic research is to not just look for pure correlations would go deeper and try to find evidence of these experiments, clauson experiments where you think what can i do close to replicating a scientific experiment as possible now even economists are getting into running ran

the cornerstone of the scientific is the randomized experiment. we decide whether the fda should approve a particular drug. we see what the drug works, and a double blinded experiment relative to placebo and able to compare people who are treated and those who weren't. tells us whether not that works or as an economist, as much as i would love to carry a randomized experiment it's not always possible. we talking about how i would love to know one of the questions i wanted to know, do prisons reduce crime. it's not like they have allowed me to go out and run an experiment where i lock up a bunch of people and i randomly release some people in another state and see what happens. in that kind of a world economies have had is what i call accidental experience to figure out the gains. nor do i i look for quirks where something a law change or if you want to talk about abortion and crime, i have a controversy theory about how abortion, legalization of abortion in the 1970s reduced crimes in the 1990s. truly not a random experiment, but after abortion be

it is a legal fight was a random drug stores to go to canada and buy it and come here and a salad. that is a conservative sounding argument when you import price control. they clearly do very well the matter who is in power. white can't they lobby candidate? of those lawmakers much more strong? no. we give them a free ride but if you say you have five years to figure out what will happen if it is your job to make sure you can turn a profit, not the federal government's job perk a weird give you the patent exclusivity and after that you are on your own. there are a handful of other items with constitutional amendments to make it illegal for the government to own a share or a portion of a company. bn corporate welfare. it is a direct transfer of wealth from taxpayers to a private business? where is the constituency to kill corporate welfare and smashed give him a big business collusion? that is a problem and a question and anger and the fact we're democracy can handle that. if you are republican party you want to raise money to the anti-corporate campaign, that is where what rod paul

random killings, random bombings, seeing their friends die, killing iraqis, detaining innocent people, etc. these are the types of stories that are happening every day in iraq and afghanistan right now, and these are the stories that these veterans are coming back with. they then get to deal with on their home. when the run up against the next main segment of context that we have to talk up before we talk a lot the sin, is what happens to veterans when they do come back home, what happens to them and they're kept in the military here and there repeatedly redeployed and what happens to them when they are actually getting a valid discharge and try to get benefits from the veterans administrations that as we speak is overtaxed and overburdened trying to treat people. surpassed only by the average iraqi or person in afghanistan people in the u.s. military today are now part of a very quickly growing unfortunate tragic segment of the u.s. society that has been maligned and tossed aside, neglected, forgotten. today more u.s. war veterans are killing themselves than are dying in open combat

they have real concerns about the ethics of randomizing a group of children to not receiving vaccines started they were particularly concerned about the risk involved in not vaccinate a large number of children per year with a large number of children for such a study. >> so, we really can't tell that it. . i know people who are not letting their children get those numbers of vaccines. these people are highly educated, professional people. they have decided they will stretch them out over a long period of time for the woman given to them before the age of two, maybe by the age of five or six. i'm a lot of that is happening out there. many pediatricians will not treat a child if in fact they are not getting these immunizations. they tell parents that if they don't agree to the vaccination schedule, they cannot be a patient. i know a lot of people who are not having their kids vaccinator. i don't know the ramifications of that i don't advise that but i know that is happening. the problem is we don't know. we don't know if 29 vaccinations, immunizations by the age of 12 to have been a fa

although i have to point out that those random shocks don't happen on a billiard game, it's more liketilting, you know, in an amusement park, tilting the machine where things can slip around. >> you're talking about a black swan events because yes. i like to observe that where it is in fact happen rarely. and we should not lose the 90 percent to get the rare event. but we can at least test the rare event. >> can you give us a look at the dark side, the unsavory uses of your modeling? >> well, i'm not sure what would constitute unsavory. i guess that would be a matter of taste. i have had some and savory request as i talk about in my book. and in the past year i've had some more both unsavory and bizarre. many years ago i was approached by somebody who alleged to represent more market off the. a very modest man, by the way, still a girl after all these years. still not promoted. suggesting that they wanted me to do analysis on how to move on mars not in each of. of course, i declined and i informed authorities in the united states. this past year i was approached by somebody who was in

here's one i'm taking at random. jones vs. the united states. there were some people in the majority, there were some people dissenting. there were three people dissenting, and six in the majority. that is about 20-plus pages, 25 pages. in those opinions, they are giving their real reasons. they are giving a real reason as to why they think it is different from congress. they're not supposed to tell you why the statute is on the book. the statute just tells you what to do. it doesn't tell you why congress decided to have to do it. these documents tell you why the judge came to the conclusion, and the upshot is the inside story of the court. >> often, you'll see concurring opinion in a dissenting opinions. to those have an impact? >> i would say yes. the part that you haven't seen is, the first time i say right an opinion. you say, write a dissent. i read what he said, and i make sure my argument was as good as i thought it was. the impact will be at least to make me write a better decision. >> you get the dissent before the final decision? >> ab

the peoplo criticized you talked about -- >>e in 2002, he had written a book called "fooled by randomness made the argument, as a wall street trader, that we greatly underestimate the frequency of catastrophic event in life. we also greatly overestimate our ability to control events. we underestimate the role of luck and overestimate our own efficacy. he is a brilliant man. he is one of the most gregarious and charming and hilarious people i have ever met. when you write a profile, i fell in love with a guy. who wouldn't? he is so fascinating. he subsequently wrote a book called "black swan." that was a huge best seller. he brilliantly predicted and anticipated the events of last year on wall street. he called it. he was a best four or five years ago that the models these traders were using to justify these enormous multi billion c1 fiction. he said this in 2002. i feel an enormous intellectual kinship. if i had to list the people whose thinking how powerfully in the last month, i would put him very high on that list. i think he is right. as part of this desire that we have as humans to p

piece about him maybe four or five years ago. 2002, and he had just written a book, of " fool by randomness." we greatly under estimate the frequency of catastrophic events in our life. we also greatly overestimate our ability to control events. under estimate for role of luck and over estimate our own efficacy. nassim is a brilliant man, one of the most gregarious and charming and hilarious people have ever met. as one does sometimes when you write a profile, i just fell in love with a guy. and he has recently written a book called of a glut of the black swan," a huge best seller. -- a book called "the black swan," a huge best seller. and he hugely predicted the events that took place last year on wall street. he predicted it. they're using these justifications for enormous risks based on fiction. but i'd do feel an enormous intellectual can ship. if i had to list the people whose thinking have powerfully influence mine, i've nassim very high on that list. i think he is right. it is part of this desire that we have as humans to pretend we are far more in control of things than we actually

technology that ultimately will prevent redacting from showing up again on a website, then i don't want randomindividuals having access to that. then you can be exploited. i will introduce legislation in the early part of the year to establish the criteria and we will also have to find a better path way of informing the members of this house and senate and would imagine the white house on issues of breach of security. with that, this hearing remains in recess. we may start back with a brief open session but we will then go into the executive session. thank you. this hearing is now in recess. [gavel] [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2009] >> members return later for an executive session that was closed to news coverage. >> the heart of the men matter at -- are the matter is they have a trillion dollars in savings. insurance premiums will "dramatically for most americans. >> follow every minute of the debate from the senate floor with late nights and possibly another weekend session, live on our companion network, c-span 2

that was true with a very high index now we have done a randomized controlled trial and the results are clear. something like 80 percent of a group of chemically active methamphetamine users will be stable and the committee for periods of months, just by telling them there will be a consequence. now it is boiled down to a small minority there really does need treatment. it saves about $6,500 per year big decrease in recidivism. the people did not go to jail for probation violation any more than anybody else but they had more spells but they were shorter. it turns out you can actually in force probation and even make methamphetamine addict stop using. i claim you can control any behavior that you can monitor. for $1 per day you can monitor somebody. commercial services will sell you a service for a gps unit to going your kids backpack if he is not where he is supposed to me you get a text message on yourself on the flip that with a tamper evident anklet i cannot commit a crime that you do not know about. if he does not take it off you cannot do anything for you could not place him at the

maybe this was random. a hair-trigger to really work, or we will end up with a workplace that is afraid to save anybody. how do -- host: how do i know if i am on the no-fly list? guest: there is a program that is worth writing to. what happens in many cases on the no-flight lists, is that the no-fly list is actually very small for people in the united states. a tiny number of americans. but this includes people from outside the united states, and then you take every alias that they have used, and every different spelling of that person's name. and by the time you are finished, there are 1 million names. much of this is taken away like the birthday. but many airlines never bother to update their software so that they can use this birthday. one thing i used to tell people when i was in government was one way to avoid many of these problems is to fly on southwest. they have a good computer system and they have managed to get down the number of people that they will stop. other airlines may have done this as we

just piles of rubble spunk thed, a broken plate, a random shoe, a wedding photo, a bent headset, a crushed child's toy, a holiday card celebrating eat day. life had stopped in the middle of a beautiful saturday morning four months earlier. so for me, again another life changing moment. but for the people there, a moment that none of us can fathom. in the book, i think i do -- i hope i do a good job of articulating the kind of work. all of which had nothing to do with politics, nothing to do with religion. it was simply that community showing up and doing what they needed to do. so now i'm going to turn to darfur. and in january of last year, january of 2008 by that point i had joined the port. i took it upon myself during one of the board meetings to go do similar work in darfur. darfur is a unique situation. because most of us know a little bit about it. even know i know not enough about it. but i did a little bit of homework before going to darfur. i've tried to articulate some of the history in the book. because the conflict is different and takes on different same shape when you learn

out fighting without sufficient equipment, and huge warehouses, hundreds of feet long, filled with random armaments. i think she just chose not to pay any attention to that. i don't know what else she could have done. i don't think she could have changed the way he felt about it. yes? >> you mentioned how she spent much of her life, her young life in america studying how and also she was a methodist i guess. and then in your book you talk about how when she went back to china, she started studying chinese. so i wonder if you could maybe psychoanalyze her a little bit more. how much, what she bicultural in terms of -- >> i think she was. i think she was very bicultural. i think that's a wonderful way of putting it. she was american when she was here, and when she went back to china, she insisted upon studying all the things that she had not gotten during her school years. and i think she was very chinese when she was there. and i think he was very fortunate to have a life who could go back and forth between two cultures and represent him, because she was basically his representative. and c

. >> do you believe in political cycles or is the process more random than that, and if you do do you think we are in the middle of a sustained political shift that would go beyond just one or two terms or do you think we are in the middle of some other type of political long-term change and what is that? >> i hope that we are -- i think the fury of political cycles and the swaying back and forth there's less than meets the eye. when you have donato two-league system, two-party system, it has to go back and forth. and by the way that is something that worries me about what is happening in the republican party. and the takeover of the republican party by the rush limbaugh, sarah palin, sean hannity types because this at some point people are going to get tired of the democrats and the only alternative is going to be the republicans and they are going to vote for the republicans. and these are the republicans then we have a real problem. we have a serious, serious problem on our hands. they've shown their incompetence and governing and that has led to some horace, and if you add on top

the children were randomized into either standard care in the community or an intensive early behavioralintervention that focused not only on working directly with the child with the therapist but also taught the family how to use intervention strategies so that intervention occurred throughout the daily activities with the child. the intervention went over a two-year period, approximately 25 hours a week of structured intervention. all assessments were done blind with respect to knowledge of whether the child had received early intervention. at the beginning both groups of toddlers with autism had i.q.s in the mentally retarded range and after two years, the children in the treatment group -- their i.q. had increased, the average i.q., to the extent they were no longer in the mentally reat that time range. -- retarded range. their diagnosis was less severe. many of the children went from a diagnosis of autism to what we call pervasive developmental disorder, which is a less-severe diagnosis. this is only two years so the children are only 4 and early intervention, you know, should conti

> simon: now, donaghy has written a book titled "personal foul," published by the vti group after randompped it. it's about his betting scandal and his allegations against the n.b.a. but the league is striking back. >> donaghy: they keep trying to paint me as the rogue referee. >> david stern: we think we have here a rogue, isolated criminal. >> simon: aren't you the rogue referee? >> donaghy: i mean, i certainly made some terrible choices to do what i did, but the culture that existed within the game of the n.b.a. enabled me to be able to do this at a very successful rate. >> simon: you've said that, to you, basketball represented a discipline-- tradition, fairness and integrity. you betrayed all of that, didn't you? >> donaghy: yes, i did. >> simon: have you learned to live with yourself? >> donaghy: it's tough. >> simon: but you brought it on yourself? >> donaghy: i certainly did. >> simon: what is the moral of your story? what message are you trying to put out? >> donaghy: we all have choices to make in life. and when we decide to go down that wrong road, we'd be better off backing u

knox no, -- [inaudible conversations] >> the black book, 35th anniversary edition, was parished by random house. for more information visit randomhouse.com. >> coming up next, booktv presents after words, an hourlong program where we invite guest hosts to interview authors. this week joan biskupic discusses her new book, american original, a biography of supreme court justice antonin scalia. she explores the justice's colorful personality and history. the veteran legal reporter talks with former u.s. solicitor general ted olson. >> host: joan, you have written a book about justice antonin scalia, and your title is, "the american original: the life and constitution of supreme court justice antonin scalia," but i was taken with the words, american original. and i think that's very apt, but i'm wondering how you came to that. tell me about that. >> guest: that's an interesting question because, you know, you want the book to reflect the subject and what you're dealing with, but you also want a title that will urge people to pick it up and read it. and at first my publisher and editor and i w

when i was working at the newspaper, i tried to prove -- i would pick a city, a town at random in southern louisiana, and show up and say, i'm going to find a story. at one point i went to the cajun country, and did a series of stories on the sugar cane workers. and i realized what a rich narrative tale it was. at this point i was still a -- i fear the story is too much with literary potential, but they were useful in getting me the next stage of my life. i had gone to college, and i had heard somebody, whose book i'm sure you have up front right now, a friend of mine, harry evans. he was then the young crusadinged did for of the sunday times of london, some of you know him now, his memoirs have just come out. and harry came to speak at my college, and he said that american journalists had gotten away from the narrative tradition of journalism, and without any pretense of humility, assent off my sugar cane -- i sent off my sugar cane stories and didn't hear anything. never heard anything back until about six months later. i got a telegram in my dorm. by the way, getting a telegram in your

in 1974, toni morrison was a senior editor at random house and "the black book" was her project.and she described the purpose of the book to create something that might last, that would bear witness to the quality and the variety of black life. well, thank you all for being here. doctor bill cosby's original introduction opened, supposedly command, a 300 euros blackmun had decided to say when he was about 10, to keep a scrapbook, a record of what it was like for himself and his people in these united states. well, this is that a scrapbook, and everyone associated with it has been inspired by the more than 500 articles, photographs and posters data contained. from doctor morrison, who was inspired to write but love it from an article on page 10. it was written in 1856 entitled a visit to the slave mother, killed her child. the esteemed collector's morris levitt, roger berman, an obvious he burnet smith whose daughter rebecca, we're lucky to have you tonight. it inspired their production team in 1974 who kept such detailed records that 35 years later i can still taste the right hol

i would just pick a city, town, a village at random in southern louisiana and chew up there and say i'm going to find a story. at one point i went to louisiana and the cajun country in the sugarcane country and did a series of stories on the sugarcane workers. and i realize what a rich narrative tale it was at this point i was still a laugh in my still writers face and i read james agee still too often. i felt the stories read too much with literary attention amah but they were useful in getting the next stage of my life. i'd gone to college and i had heard somebody whose book you have a front right now who is now still a friend of mine, terry evans. terry evans was then began crusading editor of the sunday times of london, some of you know him now as the memoirs have just come out. and so they came to speak at my college days journalist had gotten delayed here it is that without any pretense of humility, i sent off my cougar came to him in london and then didn't hear anything, never heard anything back. go back six months later. i got a telegram in my door. and by the way, getting a te

. >> ifill: for domestic travelers random security checks have been increased and air marshalls added. >> every single item was examined. they took it out and used their sniffer tester, whatever they were runing along, inside. they wanted everything out of the bag and examining the interior of the bag. >> ifill: by today some of those procedures were already being eased a bit. this was the 6th terror incident on a commercial flight in the u.s. in ten years including 9/11, that works out about one attack for every 15.5 million flights. but abc news reports abdulmutallab has told the fbi that other op ratives are being trained in yemen to launch new attacks. so it is easy to >> ifill: it's easy to see why many questions remain about the christmas day terrorism attempt. we explore a few of them now with larry johnson. he served as deputy director of the state department's counter terrorism office in the early 1990s, and now runs his own security consulting company. douglas laird, a former security director at northwest airlines. he, too, is now a consultant specializing in aviation secur

here's one i'm taking at random. jones vs. the united states. there were some people in the majority, there were some people dissenting. there were three people dissenting, and six in the majority. that is about 20-plus pages, 25 pages. in those opinions, they are giving their real reasons. they are giving a real reason as to why they think it is different from congress. they're not supposed to tell you why the statute is on the book. the statute just tells you what to do. it doesn't tell you why congress decided to have to do it. these documents tell you why the judge came to the conclusion, and the upshot is the inside story of the court. >> often, you'll see concurring opinion in a dissenting opinions. to those have an impact? >> i would say yes. the part that you haven't seen is, the first time i say right an opinion. you say, write a dissent. i read what he said, and i make sure my argument was as good as i thought it was. the impact will be at least to make me write a better decision. >> you get the dissent before the final decision? >> ab

maybe this was random.oncerns on a hair-trigger to really work, or we will end up with a workplace that is afraid to save anybody. how do -- host: how do i know if i am on the no-fly list? guest: there is a program that is worth writing to. what happens in many cases on the no-flight lists, is that the no-fly list is actually very small for people in the united states. a tiny number of americans. but this includes people from outside the united states, and then you take every alias that they have used, and every different spelling of that person's name. and by the time you are finished, there are 1 million names. much of this is taken away like the birthday. but many airlines never bother to update their software so that they can use this birthday. one thing i used to tell people when i was in government was one way to avoid many of these problems is to fly on southwest. they have a good computer system and they have managed to get down the number of people that they will stop. other airlines may have done

. >> again, the evidence, there have been two very well conducted randomized clinical trials in whichen were taught how to do breast self-examinations here than both of those trials found no overall benefit in terms of reducing mortality from breast cancer. again, we go to the evidence spector gentlest time has expired. >> as i said in my opening statement -- >> mr. burgess, you are over two minutes. >> it does strike me -- >> mr. burgess. >> again, as a young doctor -- >> mr. burgess, your time has expired. >> i will be interested with some of the other clinicians tell us when they get the time. >> doctor burgess, you almost three-minute over and we're about to vote. we have time for one of the set of questions and they would have to vote. we have five votes. we will take one more set of questions and then we will adjourn and come back after the five boat pick our next is chairman dingell, did you want to proceed now? >> i think i would proceed rather quickly, mr. chairman, yes, please. i would like to welcome you both to the committee and to help helpful it is to have you here. from

subject to strict requirements to assure the safety of important medications, including frequent, random inspections. so the amendment i am offering here would ensure safety, and in fact provide a much greater margin of safety that now exist with all of our drug supply. and we need to have these improvements, in my judgment, because our own prescription drug distribution system is not as good as we think it is. here's an excellent example of something that took place in the united states, a 2000 -- well, this is a picture of mr. tim fagan, a young 16 year old boy from long island new york. he received liver transplant. prescribed a drug after his liver transplant called apogee and to boost his red blood cells and to fight the immediate. after the operation. he received daily injections, but his red blood cell count was in improving and the doctors couldn't figure out why, what was happening. after two months, tim's mom went to her local pharmacy where she was told by the way, the epogen your son has been taking may have been counterfeit. and here is an example of, again, an example of co

many of them are anonymous and just random "der souljah" cards.s a german -- "dear soldier" cards. it does a tremendous job in motivating me and my soldiers here. it is a tough time to be over your during the holidays. we would rather be under the christmas tree and wrapping presents right now with our family members. i have cut two daughters and a son and my wife beckham in northern virginia. but what motivates me -- i have got two daughters and a son and my wife back home in virginia. but what motivates me is the mission and i have seen the same level of determination in the eyes of the soldiers and service members when i went to talk to them yesterday on christmas eve. it is a large ship, but we are prepared to face that a hardship because it is an important mission. i would like to thank the caller for his support. i brought in a couple of the cards around my front door in my office. i want to thank the first presbyterian church of clarksville, georgia, for their well wishes. i would like to thank mr. william sayers, who sent me this can of ch

, all you have to do is make private schools illegal and assign every child to a public school by random lottery. so think about that for a minute. if we did that in d.c. which would mean that every ambassador's child, every ceo's child, every congressman's child and the president's children would all get assigned to a random dcps school by a lot lottery which would mean that a huge percentage would be going across the river to anacostia every day, you would never see a faster movement of resources from one side of the city to another as you would in that circumstance. and i guarantee you that very, very quickly we would have a system of excellent schools. so in my mind it's not a matter of is it possible to insure a quality education for every child, it is possible. the more relevant question is, do we as the adults in this country have the wherewithal that it takes to make the incredibly difficult decisions that are necessary to make that a reality for every kid? and the answer to date has been absolutely not, we're not willing to make those decisions. so in the meantime because i can'

they had real concerns about the ethics of randomizing a group of children to not receiving vaccines because they were concerned about the risk involved in not vaccinating a large number of children and you would lead -- need a large number of children for such a study. >> i do know of people now, children who are not letting their children get those numbers of vaccines and some of those numbers are highly educated professional people and they have decided they are going to stretch them out--not give it to them by the age of 2, maybe 5 or 6. i know a lot of that is happening. a lot of pediatricians will not treat a child if in fact they aren't getting these immunizations. if you don't agree to the vaccination schedule i cannot -- you cannot be a patient of mine. lot of people are not having their kids vaccinated. i don't know the ramifications of that. i don't advise that but i know it is happening. the problem is we don't know. we don't know if 29 immunizations by the age of 2 do have an effect. we don't know that. >> let me share with you the conversation we had on this committee o

-it is the intention of this title to replace by january 1, 2013, random utilization controls with asystematic review of patterns of practice that compromise the quality of care. (b) superseding case reviews.- (1) in general.-subject to the succeeding provisions of this subsection, the program of quality review provided under the previous sections of this title supersede all existing federal requirements for utilization review programs, including requirements for random case-by-case reviews and programs requiring pre-certification of medical procedures on a case-by-case basis. (2) transition.-before january 1, 2013, the board and the states may employ existing utilization review standards and mechanisms as may be necessary to effect the transition to pattern of practice-based reviews. (3) construction.-nothing in this subsection shall be construed- (a) as precluding the case-by-case review of the provision of care- (i) in individual incidents where the quality of care has significantly deviated from acceptable standards of practice; and (ii) with respect to a provider who has been de

they were senselessly murdered, presumably at random, by a deranged killer and they and their families deserve our deepest sympathy. i know my washington state colleague, congressman dave reichert who spent more than 40 years in law enforcement, understands the human cost of this tragedy and knows the risk all officers face each and every day to ensure that we're safe in our homes and safe in our community. i yield to congressman reichert. mr. reichert: i thank the gentleman for yielding. i know sometime it's hard to pause for a second in the busy lives we lead hear in the capitol of this great country, but today we must. we must stop and pause and think about first of all how safe we are and why. because men and women who are wearing the uniform across this country sacrificed their lives for us. and on sunday morning, two days ago, three police officers and their sergeant went to work. went to work. they paused for a moment at the coffee shop, talking about the day about to begin. somebody walked in, and took their lives away. all four. in total, they left behind nine children, and th

many of them are anonymous and just random "der souljah" cards. it does a german -- "dear soldier" cards. it does a tremendous job in motivating me and my soldiers here. it is a tough time to be over your during the holidays. we would rather be under the christmas tree and wrapping presents right now with our family members. i have cut two daughters and a son and my wife beckham in northern virginia. but what motivates me -- i have got two daughters and a son and my wife back home in virginia. but what motivates me is the mission and i have seen the same level of determination in the eyes of the soldiers and service members when i went to talk to them yesterday on christmas eve. it is a large ship, but we are prepared to face that a hardship because it is an important mission. i would like to thank the caller for his support. i brought in a couple of the cards around my front door in my office. i want to thank the first presbyterian church of clarksville, georgia, for their well wishes. i would like to thank mr. william sayers, who sent me this ca

do you do random reviews? and did not want to be critical. -- i do not want to be critical.t did they tell you and what use he can be two different things. do you have the authority to say i want to see last month of how many people said they cannot fly because of its cheek? but he -- because of fatigue? >> we have not requested that type of inspection. >> but you have legal capacity? >> and nubbly we do. let's ok. -- >> i do not believe we do. >> ok. >> it would ask how many people called in sick or could not fly due to fatigue, and very comfortable that the carriers would share that. >> i have gone well as my time pi -- past my time. [unintelligible] i think that is a good idea. take it one more step. >> thank you. >> thank you. let me say that we must acknowledge in the overall area how safe our aviation system is. we make that our highest priority. we will always do that. as we all know, flight 34 07 is weighing on our minds. we have learned a lot from the investigation. let me ask you. on the timetable, i understand that at the end of january is when you are looking at

instead of taxing productive capital, it takes taxes from a random heir. on a revenue neutral basis, i, for one, would much rather pay taxes after dying than before dying. and however much in income tax may distort the market, an estate tax distorts it less on a revenue neutral basis. mr. speaker, allow me to be clear. individuals like myself who through hard work have been able to start businesses, create jobs, and as a result have been rewarded with financial resources to provide a high standard of living for our families, have a duty to our fellow americans to pay our fair share. and an estate tax, existence of an estate tax is critical to prevent a permanent aristocracy from arising in this country. when i think of the everyday tax burden for my constituents or for that matter on my staff and associates as a proportion ever their income as a result of sales tax, property taxes, let alone income taxes, i can think of no credible argument for suggesting that an estate tax is unreasonable. i also take comfort in knowing that with the passage of this bill

but we are subject to random events.i will tell you that the -- it's a rule that pilots take very seriously, obviously. and some companies even have time limits that exceed the safety limits that f.a.a. has established. >> because with all of these things that do exist, and you get back to the -- to the starting pay for a pilot or a copilot, second seat, when someone is in that seat are they fully prepared in your view to take over command if necessary? >> that is one of the responsibilities of command in fact is to assess your fellow crew member. and whether or not it was as -- you cite the concern of alcohol. most of us watch that very, very closely in each other. and i'm proud to say that we have very, very good success in recognizing those individuals that have a problem. and we have very good success -- >> well, the problem is that doesn't suggest that that's a long-time thing. it can be a single episode. >> right. >> but the point i get to here is that the requirements even to the current standard are pretty heavy

start out, that we're going to do this and try to pass that and then as they get along and random along, it is like they're at each other's throats. how can you get anything done? >> tim? >> looking at health care is one issue. i'm sure it happens every issue. they're so partial, they could care less about the country. what the -- the effects of what they do, they don't care, they're not going to be around in 30 or 40 years. and what is the truth -- who here knows, i don't, who knows the truth about whether the health care is effective or not? the republicans say no and the democrats say yes. what is the truth? don't pull a piece of a bill and tell me this is the reason you don't vote, this is reason you vote. i want the facts and the truth. they won't give it to us. >> vick, anything to add? >> i had a variation of what john had mentioned. i think the specific instance was -- i believe it was the senator from louisiana who basically put it -- i think it was a female put her vote up for sale and -- they were doing the vote to close off the debate on the health care bill and they needed

. >> do you know 2 random reviews to seeking -- i do not want to be critical of the airline industry. generally, it is amazing. we have some issues. " they tell you and what you see maybe two different things. do you have authority to say, i want to see how many people pilots cannot fly because of fatigue? do you have a capacity and have you done that? >> we have not made that recommendation to go in court or request that type of inspection. on sure they would volunteer. you think -- i do not believe we do. i would see no reason, as long as we kept the information proprietary. if we said, how many people called in sick last month and how many said they could not fly because of fatigue, i am very comfortable the carriers would share that with us. >> you are an example of when you posted on the web site, people were not paid their bills. it is amazing the collection rate spiked dramatically. i think it is a good idea. i was glad to hear about it today. >> thank you, sir. >> thank you, mr. chairman. thank you, administrator babbitt. let me say first of all that we must take knowledge in

technology that ultimately will prevent redacting from showing up again on a website, then i don't want randomindividuals having access to that because then you can be exploited. so i will introduce legislation in the early part of the year to establish that criteria and we will also have to find a pathway of informing the members of this house and senate and i will imagine the white house on issues of breach of security. with that, this hearing remains in recess. we may start back in -- with a brief open session but we will then go into the executive session. thank you. this hearing is now recessed. [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2009] [captioning performed by national captioning institute] >> members returned later for an executive session that was closed to news coverage. >> in a few moments, several speeches from delegates to the u.n. climate change conference in denmark. in about 40 mince, vermont senator bernie sanders affirms his opposition to ben bernanke serving a second term as head of the federal reserve. after that, house debate on a bill that supporters say wou

. >> do you know 2 random reviews to seeking -- i do not want to be critical of the airline industry. generally, it is amazing. we have some issues. " they tell you and what you see maybe two different things. do you have authority to say, i want to see how many people pilots cannot fly because of fatigue? do you have a capacity and have you done that? >> we have not made that recommendation to go in court or request that type of inspection. on sure they would volunteer. you think -- i do not believe we do. i would see no reason, as long as we kept the information proprietary. if we said, how many people called in sick last month and how many said they could not fly because of fatigue, i am very comfortable the carriers would share that with us. >> you are an example of when you posted on the web site, people were not paid their bills. it is amazing the collection rate spiked dramatically. i think it is a good idea. i was glad to hear about it today. >> thank you, sir. >> thank you, mr. chairman. thank you, administrator babbitt. let me say first of all that we must take knowledge in

. >> no, but we are subject to random events. it's a rule that pilots take very seriously. obviously, and some companies are -- even have time limits that exceed the safety limits that the faa has established. >> because with all of the these things that do exist, and you get back to the starting pay for a pilot or co-pilot, if someone is in that seat, are they fully prepared in your view to take over command if necessary? >> that is one of the responsibility of command in fact, is to assess your fellow crew member. and whether or not it was as a -- you site the concern of alcohol. most of us watch that very, very closely in each other. and i'm proud to say that we have very, very good success in recognizing those individuals that have a problem. and we have very good success. >> well, the problem. doesn't suggest that that's a long-time thing. it can be a single episode. >> right. >> and bob -- but the point i get to here is that the requirements it met even to the current standard are pretty heavy-duty things. but still in all,

>> no, but we are subject to random events and i will tell you that it is a ruled that pilots take veryously. obviously, and some companies even have time limits that exceed the safety limits that the faa has established. >> because, with all of these things that do exist, and you get back to the, into the starting pay for the pilot or the co-pilot, when someone is in that seat, are they fully prepared in your view to take over command if necessary? >> that is one of the responsibilities of command in fact come is to assess your fellow crewmember, and whether or not it was as a-- you site the concern of alcohol. most of us watch that very, very closely in each other, and i am proud to say that we have very, very good success in recognizing those individuals that have a problem and we have very good success. >> the problem is, that doesn't suggest that is a long time thing. it could be a single episode, but, the point i get to hear is that the requirements, if even to the current standard, are pretty, pretty heavy duty things. but, still we have these outrageous examples of pilots not re

do random reviews to see -- i mean, i don't want to be critical of the airline industry because i think generally it is an amazing safe industry overall be we have some issues but -- what they tell you and what you see may be two different things . do you have capacity? do you have authority and capacity to say i want to see last month of how many people you pilots said no, i can't fly because of fatigue or you have turned away pilots. have you done that? >> we have not made that recommendation to my knowledge to go in or request that type of inspection. i'm certain if we did, the carriers would volunteer it. >> you have the legal capacity to do that? >> i don't believe we do. but i would see no reason why as long as we kept the information proprietary that a carrier, how many people called in sick and how many said they couldn't i fly due to fatigue, not illness, but fatigue, i'm very comfortable the carriers would share that with us. >> i've gone way past my time. i just want to say your example when you posted on the website, i did that as mayor a couple of types when they were not p

what the problem is and we're trying to fix it, he said, that's -- ask why recipients would put in random numbers, pound replide, this is my favorite, who knows, man? who really knows? there are 130,000 reports out there. somebody should know. it's your money. well, again, it's not really your money yet because we borrowed it. congress borrowed it from the chinese, japanese, the -- all kinds of lenders. oil producing nations that we pay exorbitant prices to for crude oil because we don't have our own resources here. they're the once do -- ones doing it. talladega county, alabama, saved or created 5,000 jobs from only one $42,000 in stimulus funds. 5,000 jobs, $42,000 expenditures. now they're efficient. that would be $8.40 a job. now there's some cheap places to work, i don't even think alabama is paying their people $840 a job, though. so there's something wrong there. belmont, metropolitan housing authority in ohio reported 16,120 jobs saved or created. for $1.3. now that is efficient, too. so congratulations to bell month. that's $80.64 a job. folks, the government is not the creator o

be subject to strict requirements to assure the safety of important medications including frequent random inspections. so the amendment i am offering here would ensure safety and in fact provide a much greater margin of safety that now exists with all of our drug supply. and we need to have these improvements in my judgment because our own prescription distribution system is not as good as we think it is. here's an excellent example of something that took ways in the united states, a 2000 -- well this is a picture of mr. tim fagan, the young 16-year-old boy from long island, new york who received a liver transplant. he was described a drug called at the gym to boost his red blood cells and to fight the anemia after the operation. he received daily injections but his red blood cell count was and improving and the doctors couldn't figure out why, what was happening. after two months, tim's mom went to her local cvs pharmacy where she was told by the way the epogen or a site has been taking may have been counterfeits. and here is an example of again an example of counterfeiting in the existi

there are two randomized trials on psa. one shows that saves lives and another that fails to confirm that first finding. >> congressman, i would like to comment on that as well. as you know, we have partnered closely with the cdc and others providers to support free clinics and moguls in dishes such as yours so we're very for my with a kind of constituents you have. and really i very fragile relationship they have. with the health care system. many of whom are uninsured. and so we've been working very hard in these last few weeks to make sure that the hullabaloo around the release of this recommendation doesn't cause women who really already have that fragile relationship, who may just be coming into mammography clinics for the first time in their life, to say, well, maybe i don't need to come at all. so we are working very hard to ensure that that message doesn't get twisted around and be taken as a sign that mammography is can provide help to them. >> and i would hope that the clinician doing this, just as in my practice,

but we are subject to random events.tell you that the -- it's a rule that pilots take very seriously, obviously. and some companies even have time limits that exceed the safety limits that f.a.a. has established. >> because with all of these things that do exist, and you get back to the -- to the starting pay for a pilot or a copilot, second seat, when someone is in that seat are they fully prepared in your view to take over command if necessary? >> that is one of the responsibilities of command in fact is to assess your fellow crew member. and whether or not it was as -- you cite the concern of alcohol. most of us watch that very, very closely in each other. and i'm proud to say that we have very, very good success in recognizing those individuals that have a problem. and we have very good success -- >> well, the problem is that doesn't suggest that that's a long-time thing. it can be a single episode. >> right. >> but the point i get to here is that the requirements even to the current standard are pretty heavy duty th