sam gagner emerging with it. sneed this way. rejected by aldner. fleischmann for knuble and back out. mike knuble cleared in. and then working the floor check with brendan morrison. >> craig: not a good clear there by sneed. along the wall, allowing the caps to come in and keep the play alive. >> joe: 1-0 for the oilers. horcoff here in the 2nd. looking at the breakout beginning. it happens quickly behind the net. morrow down the lane. armed away by dorber. i did see a quote saying we will not allow alex ovechkin to get three goals tonight. >> craig: that would be that quote. >> joe: that youngster should learn that could be quickly used as material. bruce going to the oilers doing a nice job keeping ovechkin and all the caps for that matter off the floor. o'sullivan with the good skate. there's no rebound. cadillac has the local primary dealership in the area for 50 years. demandmore.net. caps' fans are wondering how they work in the snow with all that snow at home. >> craig: put it in four-wheel drive, you will be fine. >> joe: green hovering bac

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for al-qaeda, because of their core messa of protecti muslims and fighting for muslims, but at the sam time most yemenis d't want to see suicide bombs in the streets ery day. >> wt about yemen as a failed stat whether it's the kind of place whe terror groups can fill a power vacuum? what do you se again, just around the country, or lking at how govnment works or doesn't work? what do yosee? >> yeah. i wouldn't calleit a failed stat i would say it is failing state. e government is facing numero challenges. it's got a civilar in the north. it seals with a successionst movent in the south. the economis crumbling. huge amounts of unemployme and poverty. the oil resources are dwindlg ass the water. they're facing numerou challenges. thers vast stretches of the country in which basically ungoverned, and which provid a perfect haven and recrting ground for al-qaeda mitants. >> and what out any possible u.s. involvemt? there's still quesons about to what degree the u.s. ihelping in any of the recent airrikes. is tt something you see or is that behd the scenes? wh can you tell us? >> it's very

sam houston state shot well. and made a lot of threes. kentucky had their hands full. >> matt: tigers coming off a loss to florida state. channels at the buzzer. that is the end of the first half. kentucky is a good half of basketball. as they shoot 51% from the floor. six of nine from behind the arc. perfect at the free-throw line. outrebound them by hefty 21-11. all those numbers add up to a 14-point lead for wildcats at the break. halftime coming up from rupp arena after this time-out. as kentucky closes in on win number 2,000. >>> halftime at rupp arena where the kentucky wildcats lead the austin peay governo governors. as we approach conference play, there are freshman starting to stand out in the crowd. take a look at bob wenzell top five impact freshmen this season. >> living up to enormous expectations seems to be no problem for this year's college freshman player. john wall of kentucky is exciting, entertaining and explosive scorer. he uses the dribble to get anywhere he wants on the floor. he has tremendous feel for the game. ge

sam tanenhaus has taken it further. in the death of conservatism, he distinguishes between what he calls burkey and realists, the good guys in his formulation, committed he says to flexible adjustments, to changing conditions are and knows he excoriates as revanchists. ideologues seeking a destructive counterrevolution. according to him, the american conservative movement is dominated by extremist revanchists who have betrayed burkeians moderation for a politics of the stabilizing into grants. and houses book has been criticized by conservative reviewers as a contentious miss reading of american conservatism. what cannon house wants, they charge, is a passive, defeatist accommodationist conservatism that politely adjusts in the name of burke to a political and social order created and controlled by the american left. and arrangement, as one conservatives put it, in which conservatives serve as chauffeurs to liberals. tapping the brakes occasionally, as the nation speeds toward socialism. this is not the first time in re

china is offering to finance it with uncle sam's and aunt samantha's dollars into the american unit for which the chinese have a trillion accumulated in terms of u.s. treasury debt. instruments as such. and lastly is a commitment it off explore the possibilities of not repeating what they did with a joint command in the northwest part of saudi arabia inside from kuwait. but rather a rapid deployment force of their own with double-headed soldiers and sailors and air personnel in the six armed forces that will include a special operations component. theoretically and strategically to begin to match the special operations component that iran has. i'll answer any questions including the dccc or any of its member countries to the best of my ability. [applause] >> excuse us while we do this for a moment so we can use the microphone. dr. anthony, iran was included in last year's meetings or invited but not this year. why? >> it was not included in last year's it was included in the year before last. the only two times that oman has -- iran has been included has been when qatar was the host. an

sam is teacy.ching at an osha lifelong learning institute, an adjunct of denver university. he has taught theater there. he is going to be teaching a course in mccarthy -- the mccarthy era in the winter. host: what did he do? guest: he is a retired businessman. host: now he is teaching? guest: yes, and his teeth -- and he is acting. host: readers of "the new york times" might know who danny is. guest: he is our youngest son. danny is great. he went to st. john's college. he won a pulitzer prize this year. for investigative reporting. he is head of the albany bureau. he broke the eliot spitzer story. danny has two little boys -- casey and eli. casey is a world expert on space. he knows all about the apollo missions and he loves space. host: any other kids? guest: jeff is the associate dean for science at american university. he is a mathematician. he is wonderful. danny is married to latest blue is a writer and she just had an article in "the new york times" about a school in search togo were kids,

to either build your family farm or to start your small business only to find out when you die uncle sam swoops in and takes nearly half of all you spent a lifetime building up, takes half of what you'd hoped to give to your children and grandchildren? that is the death tax in america. it is the wrong tax. it's the wrong people at exactly the wrong time. the only real solution to it is to fully permanently repeal it, to solve it once and for all, to give family farms, small businesses, women and minority owned businesses the piece of mind knowing they can hand down to their children a nest egg they've spent to build up. that's what republicans support. that is what we're going to vote for today, and it is time to bury the death tax once and for all. during the -- as they set the rules for this debate today, we naively think that congress is a debate of ideas, the best ideas win. unfortunately, the american public won't get to hear that debate or have that choice today because the democrat majority did not allow an amendment, bipartisan amendment, a better idea on how we help our family f

and then a man who needs no introduction, sam nunn. chief executive officer and a former senator.n of the senate arms committee. a man of many distinctions and the father of michele nunn. thank you so much for being here. we will start with melody and i'll start with saying, " but you focused on service? " thank you so much for the question of thank you for in fighting me here. it is such a pleasure. there is a tradition, is a sign of friendship and respect. i should say howdy. thank you. i love that question because it allows me to think back to the fact that our household had a culture of service. my father was a president of the pta and my mother was the president of the band boosters. we talked a lot about service. the earliest instances of service i can remember or both baking cup cakes for political campaigns when i was an also tutoring. there were a number of people moving to richmond through churches and other houses of worship from vietnam in the middle-incom to late 197's. i remember that experience of helping someone acclimate to being in a different country and to livi

they would like to see more goals from sam. >> joe: a look at how quickly the traffic so develops in front of the net minder. 8 seconds left in the first period. stone, o'sullivan wanting to bounce by. steckel keeping it at his feet. this first period is done. washington to deslauriers time after time, but the big edmonton net minder and mike neuvirth with a clean slate after 20. net star intermission live is coming up. you can't go anywhere in canada without talking about the olympic hockey tournament. we will put locker to work -- laughlin to work with tell station. there -- telestrati,on. stay with us. live on the other side of the break. - what can i say? i've got discriminating taste. - it's true. i just... i never thought that i'd find "the one," you know? and i mean, i've found ones in the past that i liked, but none that i really loved. - until now? - until now. ( makes explosion noise ) awesome. do you love the taste of your beer this much? we're still on for tonight, right? well, you could. try the great pilsner taste of a triple hops brewed miller lite. taste greatness. ♪

then when nelson got uncle sam to become nebraska's future medicaid tab. they go on to say maybe we should just put the senate votes on ebay. the same nelson won a permanent exemption from the state share of medicaid expansion for nebraska. ogle sam will take hit for 100% of the medicaid expansion for nebraska forever. the world's greatest deliberative body has now become the most corrupt. that is what this says and goes on to say it's not a of legislating is about. it's about bribery. mr. president, it is horrible as a nation to have these things written about this institution when we should be above any of these sorts of claims and i look at the map that my colleague of mississippi has with just nebraska as the special deal. we should be looking at ways to improve health care for all americans. improve the quality, make it more affordable, make it more available, give them the access they need. i've brought for amendments the other day after senator reva brought his massive amendment each was rejected and they were things that would actually improve this

sam tanenhaus has taken the burke revival even further. in the death of conservatism he distinguishes between what he calls burkean realist, the good guys in his formulation, committed he says to flexible adjustments to changing conditions and those he excoriates as revanchists. ideologue seeking a destructive counterrevolution. according to him, the american conservative movement is dominated by extremists prevention this-- three vanishes two the prayed for a politics of stabilizing intemperance. tanenhaus's book has been criticized by conservative reviewers as a tendentious misreading of american conservatism. what tanenhaus nonstate charge is a passive, defeatist, accommodationist conservatism that politely as just in the name of burke to a political and social order created and controlled by the american left. and the arrangement as one conservative has put it, in which conservatives served as chauffeurs to liberals, tapping the brakes occasionally as the nation speeds toward socialism. this is not the first time in recent american his

china is offering to finance it with all sam and and samantha's >dollars -- with local sam -- uncle sam's adnd aunt cement the's dollars. that will include a special operations component. the radically and strategically, it would match the special operations component that iran has. i will answer any questions, including the gcc to the best of my ability. [applause] [inaudible] >> dr. anthony, iran is -- was including in last year's meetings but not this year. why? >> it was not included in last year's. it was in the year before last. the only two * that iran has been included has been when qatar has been the host. they've been pushing the envelope. on the two locations, it was catarrh that extended the invitation. -- it was qatar that extended the invitation. >> how are they using their economic and political capital to pressure the united states to be an honest broker in the arab- israeli conflict and to champion the cause of the palestinian state that strongly? >> i am not aware of there being any effort to pressure the u.s. there are difference of agreements among the six. their inves

we will be back here on december 20th for more auburn tigers basketball as auburn takes on sam houstontate. >> daymeon: you have finals coming up right now. as a player you don't want to lose this game. it will make for long practices over the break if you do. >> matt: virginia will be back in action against wilmington in 12 days. that will be seen on many of these comcast sportsnet stations. auburn will be back if action playing at florida state. ball out of bounds. it will be virginia's ball. that the third of three acc opponents that the tigers will play this season. 11:50 to play in regulation. virginia and auburn tied at 46. jeff lebo wants an explanation. it doesn't look like he is happy with it. towels in my room. continue. ( strokes violin ) ♪ do you need anybody! friendly service. real value from your friends at hampton. >> matt: auburn and virginia tied at 46. a year ago, daymeon, sammy zeglinski was one of eight in their loss to the auburn tigers and responded tonight with four three-pointers. >> daymeon: look he is doing a shooting drill out here. one for one. two for two.

. >> sam blodgett. he's on full time with us now. >> what's the agenda? >> is there always an agenda? i have no motive. >> what's the mission? >> we represent clean businesses, entrepreneurs, venture capitalists and we're creating a 50-state network, so actual businesses don't sign up for us. it's just clean energy professionals in them, business network just merged into us, it just became official, so we're building this chapter structure and we have a c3 and a c4. >> >> so you're a not for profit. >> c3 and pac. >> you should know that this is tim's. >> tim is one creative guy. it was the bus tour. >> i still have nightmares about that, i'm in the bus, i'm in the box. it's like a could 15 with wheels. >> later on when you write your memoirs, that will be up front and center. >> i hope you'll write the foreward. >> laurie or cheryl rights the foreward. >> this is exciting. >> yeah, it is. >> are you doing a tour around it? >> we did a press brief,, and tomorrow and then we go to h.a. and san francisco, so yes, a little tour, and it's moving, this is movi

sorry, bub, you owe uncle sam the death tax. what that does is kills small business when you do that death tax. so these are things that people know that they just -- you just can't do this. and expect to have a trong economy. so that's where we've been making some mistakes. fortunately, this last year, these mistakes have come home to roost. you can say, well, this is -- the bush -- this is bush's mistake, he got the whole economy messed up in the first place. let's go back to the record, back to that conservative newspaper "the new york times," on september 11, 2003, the "new york times" reported, first of all, the president george bush was worried about what was going on with freddie and fannie. freddie and fan mi had aparently lost a few billion dollars, didn't know where they put it. that said, these financial institutions were quasi-public, the implication was that the government would be in the bag if something went wrong with fannie and freddie. he's quoted on september 11, 2003, in the "new york times" saying, that cong

sam is teacy. he is teaching at an osha lifelong learning institute, an adjunct of denver university. he has taught theater there. he is going to be teaching a course in mccarthy -- the mccarthy era in the winter. host: what did he do? guest: he is a retired businessman. host: now he is teaching? guest: yes, and his teeth -- and he is acting. host: readers of "the new york times" might know who danny is. guest: he is our youngest son. danny is great. he went to st. john's college. he won a pulitzer prize this year. for investigative reporting. he is head of the albany bureau. he broke the eliot spitzer story. danny has two little boys -- casey and eli. casey is a world expert on space. he knows all about the apollo missions and he loves space. host: any other kids? guest: jeff is the associate dean for science at american university. he is a mathematician. he is wonderful. danny is married to latest blue is a writer and she just had an article in "the new york times" about a school in search togo w

i started sam adams with boston lager to make rich, flavorful beer.went and sold it one bottle at a time. no one had tried an american beer that had that kind of flavor. boston lager really was a groundswell. there's that saying, "do something you love "and you'll never work "a day in your life." i don't feel like i've worked for 24 years. myspace.com and "the best damn shorts show." check it out. >>> we now return to "the best damn shocking moments in sports." >>> tennessee was on the brink of losing their opening round playoff game to buffalo. they fielded a kickoff with only seconds remaining on the clock. >> do the titans have a miracle left in them? christie kicks it high and short. batch to wycheck. he throws it across the field. >> he's got something! he's got it! he's got it. >> 50, 40, 20 10shgs -- >> he's got it! >> touchdown! there are no flags on the field! it's a miracle! tennessee has pulled a miracle! >>> in game one of the 1996 alcs, the yankees trailed baltimore by one. in the bottom of the eighth inning, a rookie name derek jeter ste

sam. guest: good morning, sam. caller: the morning. i'm a first-time caller -- i have been watching this program cents above lewinsky scandal. the best show on tv. guest: it is. it is great. caller: i don't have much to say. i am in -- and direct era veteran and i do believe it is the biggest non issue of the year -- iraq era veteran but i don't care if they are tried the military code of justice or the long way -- they need to be tried and hanged. they will have it easier in guantanamo than any knacks facility and i just don't think -- we are not giving them anything. guest: first of all -- again, thank you for your service, sam. let's start with this group of about 100 because in the and it will shake down to about 100 even though it may start at 200. this group that will come from guantanamo bay to the united states will find a huge increase and constitutional rights. if you don't think that is the case, just look at the talk going on when it was determined by attorney general eric holder to have khalid sheikh mohammed tried in new

in a seat first held by sam houston in 1846. sometimes the senate is referred to as the world's greatest deliberative body. and i think that certainly -- that description is the -- is a description that inspires school children and lovers of this great democracy of ours to admire and respect this body. but i have to tell you, i think the world's greatest deliberative body might not apply to this particular piece of legislation. it might, rather, be called the world's biggest railroad because of the railroading of the legislation that was revealed here only yesterday by senator reid, cooked up behind closed doors with a variety of interest groups negotiating deals on the side. deals that are unknown. we know some of those pertain to hospitals. some to the pharmaceutical companies. and then i heard one of our other senators from north carolina yesterday said, well, really we should call this the price is right. because we know a number of senators held out for various inducements -- financial inducements to encourage them to get t

ecial correspondent fred de sam laza reports from a viage in nor india. >> reporr: it is sunny most mornings in khairatp, but you can hardly tel at least not until some time after everne's had breakfast. that's becau here and in millns of villages in the developing world, od is cooked with wood or cow dung. the sootr black carbon from incompleteombustion causes not only lung diase but global warming,ays climatologist v. ramanathan, whis with the scripps institutioat the universityf california, san diego. >> and this iseing done by over three billi people in the world; not becausehey want to destroy their vironment. they have no access to oer types of fuel. >> reporter: he sayseducing black carbon will imdiately slow global warming. cleani up diesel engines is one y to do this, but ramanathan ifocused on cleaner cookin he's doi an experiment. with u.n. and private grants s surya project is handing o cleaner burning stoves to ,000 househol in and around khairatpur. they use biofuels, but have a solar chargeinternal fan to burnore efficiently. >> so at instrument measures black caon. >> reporte

former british colonies and a few south american countries that mindlessly imitate uncle sam. nobody else. i think that's a dream, but i'd like to see the conversation begin. it's something that could be done on the state level. the way it actually was done in illinois for a long time, where you had three-member congressional districts and that mitigated to some extent that this disc franchise and its inherent in the single-member district. you know, even if you had -- because of the way democratics, even if you had perfectly -- even if you're congressional districts drawn up right independent mission or something like that and there was no political influence involved, it would have an effect, but only a very marginal one on the problem that you described accurately. so i think we've got to think. i want to see us bank a lot more fundamentally about the design of our democracy. i know people say old process is nothing process. so i think we've got to get interested in process. it's absolutely crucial. i'm tran to our future. well, thank you all for your attention. [applause]

e insurgents hit 2 checkpoin one in the nor, and one in the uth at approximately the sam time. the violence came admiral mike mullen chairman of e u.s. joint chie was in kabul, meing with afghan president hamid kaai. mullen warnethe insurgent network is expanding. >> i remain deeplyoncerned about the growinlevel of cole useetween the afghan, taliban and al qda, and otheextremist groups taking ruge across the border in pakistan. tting at this network which is nowore entrenched wille a far more difficult task than it was just one year a >> sreenasan: also today, the second-ranking u.s. mmander in afghistan lieutenant general david rodriguez said dloying 30,000d mo u.s. troops could take 11 months. the obama adnistration originly said they'd be in place within six mons. italn premier silvio berlusconi remai hospitalized inilan, after being attacked on sunda he was hit in the face wita atuette as he signed autographs at a political lly. he suffered fractured nose and 2 brok teeth. police identified thattacker as massi tartaglia, a man with a history ofental problems. world stock ma

he was counsel for the legendary senator sam nunn, who is still doing great work, by the way. wonderful public servant, and ran the permanent subcommittee on investigations. i wish you well in your current endeavor, dan. a very, very fine public servant. thank you. [applause] >> i want to acknowledge my friend, representative elaine bloom who is here, and thank you very much, elaine. [applause] >> and i want to acknowledge this fantastic miami-dade college, one of the greatest institutions of our country and the world. and i think president and his staff for all of their hospitality here. [applause] >> i am al gore. i used to be the next president of the united states of america. [laughter] >> i don't think that's funny. you know, i came here to miami on a book tour when i wrote earth in the balance back in 1991, and before joining bill clinton, six, eight months after that. it seems like a long time that i have been speaking and writing about this issue, climate crisis. i was reminded recently of how long it's been when i was with a friend, we worked through lunch and went ba

. >> do you feel that you have the stuff to get it done and when you take on sam prats, do you look for anything in the serve to get it back? >> i wish i could figure out what it is so i could see a key where he's going. one of his great strengths is his toss. he hides his serve really well. so i think i'm going to have to guess i'll have to be on my game. and i have enough to get it done, but it will be tough. >> good luck. >> thanks. >> did a good job up there in that opening point forcing sampras into a volley situation off the second ball. there is a time to get sampras, it would be early in the match before he's found his rhythm. >> no long everyer the holder of the grand slam record, but doesn't diminish in any way. >> who could have possibly known the record would be beat so soon after he retired. thought it might stand for any number of years. >> held it for seven. >> i thought the record might be safe the french wimbledon back to back within a month. >> i think pete would tell that you a worthy man took it from him. >> exemplified his usual class. went to london. how great were

the guy named sam walton woke up one morning and decided he wanted to provide a quality product at a reasonable price for the working poor. in the southern states initially. the company became walmart, the largest retailer in the world today. are you getting what i am trying to say? did people become rich and powerful as a result of this? dr. dorothy height had an idea and so on and so forth. mother theresa had an idea. dude people become rich endure powerful and i would say wealthy because that is different from being financially rich as a result of having these great ideas? sure they did that was it their goal when i woke up in the morning to become rich and powerful? are was becoming rich and powerful the byproducts and not the product? fastforward to where we are today. in the last 20 years quincy jones a friend of ambassador young paulson one of my mentors and said it takes 20 years to change a culture. knoll's 20 years that think we made them sexy. we have them down and we have celebrated. what is the effect of that? did today people wake up and say i have an idea, they wake up

all right, sam is not there.rsistence of those men and women who acted so boldly decades ago. and it will require us to think in new ways about the notions of a just war and the imperatives of a just peace. we must begin by acknowledging a hard truth, we will not eradicate violent content -- violent conflict in our lifetimes. there will be times when nations, acting individually or in concert, will find the use of force not only necessary, but morally justified. host: more on president obama in oslo. sam, are you there that now in orange, texas? caller: yes, i am most proud person of our president. i have been a republican all my life, but i am so proud of president obama and what he is doing and will be doing for this country. thank you very much, ma'am. host: the next caller is from new orleans, norman, an independent line. caller: i wish your previous caller would have been more specific. what0 the heck is he proud of? in nobel prize seems to beÑi achieved on e-bay these days. you have al gore and he has shown

you know, i'll tell you something, that's not what uncle sam should do.uncle sam should respect women, we should respe >> i apologize for the delay but with this committee coming up we are a little busy. we will convene this hearing today. we have had a series of conversations obviously on an ongoing basis with a variety of people. we have a great frustration at the failure of the combined efforts of the federal government to make a substantial impact on the foreclosure issue. programs have been put forward but no one can think we have done a satisfactory job. part of it this mistakes of the past and one of the things we're determined to do going forward, it is to change so that some of the problems that we have now will not continue. namely, we will not have a continuation where there are mortgages that we believe in the public interest to modify and no one has the authority to modify or if they do, he or she will dodge the responsibility by revoking some share responsibility that cannot be allowed to continue. we will straighten that out going forward.

, sam majority.een the majority and minority leader -- hammered out between the majority and minority leader. every day is a process of negotiation going back and forth between which mcconnell and harry reid. in a lot of ways, the senate is the grand tradition of democracy, compromise and conciliation majority does rule. you still have to have 60 votes , and individual senators have enormous leverage to get their amendment, and if the senator once the amendment on the floor, she will get the debate. -- once the amendment on the floor, she will get the debate. you had mr. kingston on before me. he was joking about how impressive the house rules are. a minority in the house is not a fun place to be. host: detroit, mark, democrats line. caller: high, are you there? host: you are on. caller: i have not been on in a while, i am happy to watch c- span every day. i have a couple of things, to say, and i hope you are not cut off. like i said, i have not called in quite some time. the republicans seem to thin

next we've robert sam uleson, contributing editor at "newsweek" and "the washington post" where he has written about business and economic issues since 1977. his articles have appeared in the wall street journal, "new york times" and other papers. his latest book is on the past and future of american avenue will youence, in case you are wondering about a holiday gifment paul solomon is occasional correspondent for the pbs news hour. he answers questions on the business desk. recently he has become a fellow at yale's berkeley college and for those of you who were why our discussions this afternoon you know that he was a loud -- lovely moderator in the panel that just preceded dinner the with that i'm going to turn to bob franken and ask that he cuck the discussion on has the financial crisis changed the nature of economic news in bob? >> governor balile, commissioner kaplan, president jefferson, other slightly less notable lights who are here, first of all i'll make a deal with you, no jokes about tiger woods or the salahis. but they do make a point and the point is that people are almo

come to the floor when the majority say they come to the floor so what we did on that day was commend sam bradford for winning the heisman trophy. again, just like teen dating, i'm sure the bradford family is proud of sam, i think it's quite an accomplishment to win the heisman trophy, but tens of thousands of people are losing jobs. now we get out toward the end of february. people continue to lose their jobs, every jobs report that comes out, it's hundreds of thousands of people are being displaced and out of work. so surely at this moment in time, with complete control of the government, you would think we'd be doing a jobs bill. but the most important thing they could come up with was the monkey safety act, to debate the monkey safety act here in the house of representatives. >> that sounds like real monkey business. mr. latourette: i'm not saying that this is a bad piece of legislation but what i'm saying is, for crying out loud, when people want to know where the jobs are, why are we debating the monkey safety act. you get into march, hundreds of thousands of people out of work, you

sam rayburn was legendary for being scrupulous about money.tour of the panama canal one time on his own dollar. and i like to observe money numbers myself. i have seen them in history. some people have a good moral compass about these things and they stick to it. i think the senator is in that category. but the pattern shifts. . . they're flying around and -- in jets and so on. in order to be that, they're supposed to be watching for their stockholders. society, it seems is changing. money's influence is everything. it is the new media, and the new way we look at politics. >> what was your last year as historian of the house of representatives? >> january of 1995. while i was there, i kept a journal. about 2000 single spaced pages. i kept a record of things that i saw, things that i was doing. we were celebrating the bicentennial of the united states congress. we were interacting with all kinds of folks at the supreme court and in congress. i was part of the speaker's office. i had a bird's-eye view of what was going on. i was on the floor for

with all this reliance on uncle sam why don't we just put everyone in the united states on the federal government payroll and call it a day? in essence, that's what this fatally flawed process attempts to do. according to transportation weekly, even if you -- "transportation weekly," even if you only count title 1 as an appropriations bill it would still be the third largest f.y. 2010 discretionary appropriations bill, bigger than agriculture, bigger than commerce justice, energy and water, financial services, homeland security, environment, the legislative branch and state foreign operations. and imagine what ranking member david obey's reaction would have been had a g.o.p. majority moved a supplement of this size to the house floor with less than 24 hours notice and with no committee markup. you can imagine the screaming from the rooftops? we've seen that before. . the majority leader says we are the party of no. we are the party of no more spending beyond our means. we are the party of no more increases in the historic debt limit. republicans in the house are the party of no, no mor

sam rayburn once said -- quote -- "a jackass can kick a barn door down, but it takes a carpenter to build one." my friends on the other side of the aisle seem intent on kicking the barn door down. in my view, that's not victory. doing nothing, delaying, obfuscating, saying "no," "no" to everything, blocking the ability of this chamber to fulfill its duty to the people is no victory. saying no to funding our troops serving bravely overseas in iraq and afghanistan is hardly victory. delaying it is hardly victory. saying no to funding medical care for military men and women and their families is not a victory. it is shameful delay of needed care. saying no to 120 million for traumatic brain injury and psychological health research at a time when so many of our troops are coming home from iraq and afghanistan with such injuries is by no means a victory. saying no to funding necessary funding to train and equip afghan security forces so that they can stand up for their own country and get our people out is contrary to the president's surge policy which our friends on the other side of the aisl

china is offering to finance it to with uncle sam's dollars. [unintelligible] lastly, it is a commitment to explore the possibilities of not repeating what they did with the joint command in the northwest part of saudi arabia but rather a rapid deployment force of their round with double headed soldiers and sailors and their personnel in the six armed forces that will include a special operations component. theoretically and strategically to begin to match the special operations component that iran has. i will answer any questions an including the gcc countries to the best of my ability. [applause] >> dr. anthony, iran was included in last year's meetings or invited but not this year. why? >> it was not included at last year's. it was included the year before last. the only two times iran has been included is when qatar was the host. they have an image of pushing the envelope and being innovative. it was qatar that extended the invitation. it has not been extended on any other occasion. >> how worthy gcc countries -- how are they pushing to be

typically, walter reed and fort sam houston had the most severely injured.the things they need to do. i could not drive, i cannot get out of a vehicle without assistance. my wife became the attendant for me. the person that did those things for me. we had to relocate our family to this area. >> during that process, she did receive or did not receive. >> she received nonmedical attendant. >> when we moved here to consolidate our family, its stock because she was in the local area. it really does not make any sense. the rule does not make sense my point is that it pays lodging and per diem for the local area. someone in san antonio front table asked than washington, d.c.. -- probably gets paid less than someone from washington, d.c. >> the transition from your acute military facility post injury to your cute rehabilitation facility, all have to use myself, our experience. when scott was injured he was taken to bethesda and we were there for 8 weeks and then we transferred to the shi'a in tampa. the status remained with me and still is in tampa. i will tell you

host: thank you, next we have sam.nforming the country, and god help with someone with that echo chamber. i am a muslim and it should definitely be ron paul. i applaud your network because it has some gumption to stay true to the principles. for ron paul, he understands foreign policy and understands the nature of the relationship between intervening in =ññ countries and occupying them. but unfortunately he's regarded as a bit of a nut job with the news media, but i applause you and your staff for having him in your studio. host: we love having him and always welcome. caller: i appreciate that, but i was disappointed as you cut off an earlier caller for the journalalists that wanted to elaborate his point of the nature of his israeli nature. host: you know why, because it's a :icaller that frequents the network, we want to have a wide variety of opinions and a chance are others to weigh in. next is karen. caller: i would like to nominate nasa scientist, gavin schmidt, that's on realclimate.org answering all the e-mail

sam on the independent line. support for ron paul and support for dennis kucinich and all of these independent voices starting to be heard around the country. but think the most impressive political figure has to be sarah palin for making the recovery she had from 2008 until now. she took a beating in the election cycle in 2008, and it seems like us people in this country have a short memory -- host: allentown, pennsylvania. caller: barack obama came through allentown, all the places that i go to and it seems like he is trying to help us. my friend chris is in the army here in pennsylvania and he is leaving today for afghanistan and want to give a shout out to maine airforce engine. he is gone to afghanistan, please look out for chris peters, a soldier going to afghanistan. protect him, get up there with my planes and help him. host: chester, west virginia, louis on the line for democrats. caller: i think dennis kucinich, and the senator from west virginia robert byrd, they voted against the war in afghanistan. t

and then a man who needs no introduction, sam nunn. chief executive officer and a former senator.n of the senate arms committee. a man of many distinctions and the father of michele nunn. thank you so much for being here. we will start with melody and i'll start with saying, " but you focused on service? " thank you so much for the question of thank you for in fighting me here. it is such a pleasure. there is a tradition, is a sign of friendship and respect. i should say howdy. thank you. i love that question because it allows me to think back to the fact that our household had a culture of service. my father was a president of the pta and my mother was the president of the band boosters. we talked a lot about service. the earliest instances of service i can remember or both baking cup cakes for political campaigns when i was an also tutoring. there were a number of people moving to richmond through churches and other houses of worship from vietnam in the middle-incom to late 197's. i remember that experience of helping someone acclimate to being in a different country and to livi

before i was a member of this body the republican majority reported out over 20 rules that allowed for sam day consideration. madam speaker, -- same day consideration. madam speaker, i urge my colleagues to vote for this rule and the underlying measures before us today. these programs are too important, our constituents are in too much turmoil to slow this process down even further. i urge a yes vote on the previous question and on the rule. i yield back the balance of my time and i move the previous question on the resolution. the speaker pro tempore: the question is on ordering the previous question on the resolution. those in favor say aye. those opposed, no. the ayes have it. ms. foxx: madam speaker. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlewoman from north carolina. ms. foxx: on that i request the yeas and nays. the speaker pro tempore: the yeas and nays are requested. all those in favor of taking this vote by the yeas and nays will rise. a sufficient number having arisen, the yeas and nays are ordered. pursuant to clause 8 of rule 20, further proceedings on this question are postponed. for

uncle sam will take the hit for 100% of the medicaid expansion for nebraska forever. the world's greatest deliberative body has now become the most corrupt. that's what this says. and it goes on to say, it's not what legislating is about, it's about bribery. mr. president, it is horrible for us, as a nation, to have these things written about this institution when we should be way above any of these sorts of -- sorts of claims. and i look at that map that my colleague from mississippi has with just the nebraska on there as the special deal, that is not the way legislation should be. we should be looking at ways to improve health care for all americans. improve the quality. make it more affordable. make it more available to people. give them the access they need. i brought four amendments the other day after senator reid brought his massive amendment. each was rejected and they were things that would actually improve this bill to make it better for americans. so i stand here looking at this at a time when headline after headline and editorial after editorial talks abou

you know, i'll tell you something, that's not what uncle sam should do.am should respect women, we should respect men, and i hope we defeat this amendment. and i yield the floor. the presiding officer: the senator from wyoming. mr. enzi: mr. president, i'd yield ten minutes to the senator -- up to ten minutes to the senator from arizona. the presiding officer: the senator from arizona. mr. kyl: thank you, mr. president. mr. president, america's seniors have made clear that they value the medicare advantage program. they like their access to private plans, plan choices, the lower cost sharing, and all of the extra benefits not included in traditional medicare, such as vision, dental, hearing, and the wellness programs that help them to stay fit. before the medicare modernization act of 2003, seniors had been decrying their lack of choices. we made sure under the medicare modernization act that seniors would be assured health care choices just as all of us here in the congress enjoy. now that they have access to private coverage and enjoy more benefits and

is uncle sam that pays the difference -- the right pocket and the left pocket, where you have the abilityol costs. many of these are being paid by the taxpayer rather than out of the enrollees pockets. host: the medicare advantages -- did they improve the program? guest: the hugely improved it. in some respects, they are better than the fehbp in some of the design features. the party program has been a resounding success -- part d program has been a resounding success. it has controlled costs exceedingly wel. it has been an extremely successful program. the medicare and a program, together with the prescription drug program, has contributed to lowering the cost of the original medicare. host: democrats line, calle, we. caller: there is a few points i want to make here. the federal health care plan should be for everybody for this reason -- i am not knocking the ones we have, but for this reason -- i work 70, 80 hours a week, and before i receive compensation for services that i provide, the united states government takes money from my family before i get it. therefore, i believe they have

with all this reliance on uncle sam why don't we just put everyone in the united states on the federalgovernment payroll and call it a day? in essence, that's what this fatally flawed process attempts to do. according to transportation weekly, even if you -- "transportation weekly," even if you only count title 1 as an appropriations bill it would still be the third largest f.y. 2010 discretionary appropriations bill, bigger than agriculture, bigger than commerce justice, energy and water, financial services, homeland security, environment, the legislative branch and state foreign operations. and imagine what ranking member david obey's reaction would have been had a g.o.p. majority moveá party of no, no more busing the spending cap and calling it emergency spending. our country's economy will never recover as long as congress continues making the same mistakes over and over again. spending by this house majority is unconstrained and unsustainable. billions and billions and billions spent on the continued expansion of government will only exacerbate our financial troubles and bring lit

host: sam on our line go ahead.en they were having the demonstrations the complete lack of support of the american government? guest: thank you. when the demonstrations started inside of iran, right after the elections in june, there was some sentiments in washington that the united states needed to strongly back that movement and essentially say that we're siding with them. the obama administration's approach, however, was different. essentially saying that because this is an internal struggle and because of the history of the u.s. relationship in which having the united states support explicitly at least is not necessarily a positive for you, the reality was that there was no cause from the opposition asking for the united states to side with it. as a result, the obama administration went forward with a policy in which they did not take sides in that conflict but made it clear that they stand on the side of the aspirations of the iranian people. what happened perhaps a little bit too late was strong condemnations

first, bob cusack, the front page of "the hill" a newspaper host: sam young man writes in the piece presidents are defined by and large by the wars they wage. how will the president be defined tonight? >> well, he'll be defined because he will basically own the afghanistan war. own the afghanistan war. he called this the good war on the campaign trail. he sent 17,000 additional troops to afghanistan. at that time democrats embraced the move. they said that president bush had not paid a lot of attention to afghanistan and that he was focusing too much. just like president bush was defined by his decision to invade iraq, it went well at first and his political capital evaporated as the war went on. this is a key moment in the obama presidency. he spent a lot of time deciding which course to take and he is definitely a war presidents. host: the other had line is that the president must sway doubting democrats. will the president be speaking ahead of this speech? guest: yes, he is going to be meeting with 30 lawmakers before he heads to west point, he will be detailing what he will be saying tonig

he swats sam dalembert. actually, his shot. third quarter, tied at 72., from allen iverson. close game through three. in the first half, lebron. did he kick that? he didn't do it. sit in the corner, hit a three. then, lebron again. he had 36, a game high. cavs have won four in a row. this one on the road. >>> turkoglu playing in orlando, first time since he signed with the raptors. first quarter, magic up eight. the guy they replaced him with, vince carter to dwight howard. magic up 11. third quarter. those same two. little pick and roll action. howard jams. he had 18. go to the fourth. this was kind of ugly. magic up 17. i mentioned dwight howard. here he is defensively, swatting marcus banks. howard had eight blocks. magic swatted 14. they win it 118-99. >> i guarantee you he's got butterflies in his stomach. >> here comes mcgrady. i don't think anybody expected to see him tonight. >> i was a little nervous. just a great feeling just to be back on the basketball court. >> believe it or not, the fans in houston often booed when tracy mcgrady's face show