and secondly, when the f.b.i. realized that was part of the interrogation process, they said, you know, that's not what we're about, we can get the job done the right way without resorting to those kinds of techniques. and they returned back to headquarters. so with that, i hope we can have substantive debate on issues that are important to our country, issues that are relevant, and most importantly, issues that provide the men and women, the professionals in whatever agency you're talking about, the tools and the direction that we are a nation of laws. we have -- we have to respect

secondly, the role.t must educate and engage american since beyond the beltway on the truth, the tough choices, the prudence of act sooner rather than later, and the potential consequences of educating our families if we do not. and it must set goals and the goals of just 2015 deficit-to-g.d.p. in my opinion is not enough. we need a debt-to-g.d.p. ratio for a longer term which is what the commission recommended and we need to make meaningful progress on reducing the tense of trillions of dollars of unbalanced sheet obligation. so a triple goal for any type of fiscal commission. for membership, they need to have capable, credible, and committed people who are not only capable and credible in washington, but in the real world outside of washington's beltway because right now, that's a real problem. and thirdly, i mean, with regard to committed, they have to be committed to come up with non-partisan solutions that can achieve bipartisan support and they have to be willing to spend the amount of time that wi

secondly, he talked about supporting a paygo rule which i think the senate may be voting on right now. there's lots of holes in that paygo rule big enough to drive a truck through. on the other hand, it does provide some constraints that otherwise wouldn't be there and so i think it's a modest step forward. but thirdly and most importantly, he came out for a fiscal future commission to try to make -- set the table to make the tough choices for tougher statutory budget controls, social insurance reforms, other spending constraint and tax reform and it's critical we do it after recommendations from the midterm and to act before our foreign lenders lose patience. >> right. the book actually makes a strong case for creating a commission. >> right. >> but is the kind of commission obama is proposing, the kind of commission you had in mind? i mean, there's an issue as to whether we need a statutory commission and the powers and so forth. >> i have a strong preference for a statutory commission. and the reason the strong preference for a statutory commission. you get buy-in. only via statuto

secondly, you talked about the national guard. the mayor has told us that the national guard is providing 12 humvees, mostly deployed around the fire stations, for assisting medics, and also to assist the police. the most significant are these. number one, no parking in a snow emergency routes. look for those signs that are posted -- no parking in snow emergency route. suddenly, the mayor has suspended the closing of fire houses, which was a budgetary move -- secondly. third, they have also suspended the circulator bus which just started running earlier in january. that has been suspended this is the mayor's first full day on the job. nothing like this to deal with, but she said she had full confidence that the city is prepared to handle it and encourages folks to go to the city's website or to call the 396 pensoneau number if they need any information or any help in particular -- or to call the 396 snow number. >> we are going to lowell melser. >> we are down the block from her condominium. this is the snow accumulating, giving i

secondly, in respect of the reintegration fund, i think it is 140 million dollars was pledged, at the conference, and we spent over a five year period, over a one year period, and it is obviously, a trust fund, which the -- there will be two routes into it, one via the u.n., which reflects the importance of the japanese role in this, and the other is through a non u.n. dp route. the the organization of the fund, will bring a smile to your face, i hope, which is that the press fegsal advice on the structure of the trust fund, trustees on the matters has been put out by the smith institute -- i'm glad you smiled, it is note the adam smith institute that recommended the sort of mass privatization of everything that moved in britain, in the 1980s, but a different adam smith institute, another one, which takes great inspiration from the teachings of adam smith. and they have provided quite extensive, sort of advice on the modalities of how the u.n. and the afghans are structured and i would be happy to provide you with those details. >> we ought to know now, more detail, and... i hope his

secondly, goal -- poverty, global imbalances, many of the things. if you do not have a strong financial sector to support this sort of recovery and to contribute to the prosperity and growth in the real economy on a global scale, if you are making a huge mistake and we will regret that later on. we're saying that this fall word-looking statement should also mean that we now pull our forces together and say kenj," t should be done in order to make the system more stable, more resilient, without jeopardize and the efficiency of the market in the financing of the real economy?" first of all, we very much support the reforms being taken on the regulatory side in terms of more capital, better liquidity management, also in terms of improving the market infrastructure, having a system in place which allows us to exit failed banks and not have them jeopardize the stability of the system as a whole. but at the same time, we are saying we need consistent rules -- we need global rules. and the fact how far we should go in the reforms should be based on a micro

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secondly, they're subject to political pressures. so you want to keep regulation to a minimum. but you must accept a responsibility that, for instance, alan greenspan explicitly rejected which was to prevent asset bubbles from growing too big. >> bubbles like in technology, stocks or housing. greenspan said that's not the job of the fed because if the market can't detect the bubble, how can i as a regulator detect it? >> and he's right. however, knowing that he's bound to be wrong. he nevertheless, knowing that markets will not prevent excesses, has to move against it and has to take some steps which is either too little or too much. but the market provides him with feedback, and then he can see whether it's too much or do little and do more. >> there's a certain commonsensical aspect. if you look at the canadians, when growth started growing strongly, they started raising capital requirements for banks, insisting on lower levels of leverage, greenspan seemed not to want to do anything like that. >> that's because of this false belief and this market fundamentalist belief that

secondly, and what was somewhat surprising is that many more women are comfortable talking about money today than they were prior to the recession, and not just with their family, but also with friends and coworkers. >> women often drive purchasing decisions in the household. are there changes in what women are spending their budget on or not spending money on anymore because of the recession? >> absolutely in the wake of the recession, women have been adjusting their spending and their saving behavior. main women are sharing tips for ways to cut back expenses, but keep a full life and still feel like they're having fun with their family. the tips that women have shared with me have ranged from going from a weekly manicure to a bi-weekly manicure, going to brown bagging lunch, bringing coffee from home, thinking carefully about what they're buying at the grocery stores, buying on sail, and put ago priority on savings. >> is there anything women are actually doing wrong when it comes to money? >> don't think there's anything that women in particular are doing wrong. i think what women a

secondly, there is this trade-off and people need to understand.say and others said said today. we have two parallel universes, conservatives, liberals on the internet and the dilemma is that people think that everybody agrees with them, because all that they hear is reinforcing so when some of us try to work out compromises we are accused of each rank unnecessarily because they all believe us when we say we don't have the majority for single-payer. i wish we did. people lonely talk to other people don't understand that and there are a lot of people out there who want you to compromise and i don't doubt that but none of my telephones, because whenever hear from them. we hear from the people who are most energized. the reason i said that is the hope people will come in, but there is a little bit of a sacrifice. getting into our-- you will accomplish more but you lose what i accuse one commentator of any debate of being able to luxuriate the purity of your arrow balance. [laughter] that is a tradeoff we think four is making that people should be awar

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secondly, i had a mother who was laying on a table, having a balloon stent put in her chest.hospital. this idea of not being able to charge the doctors with things like this i think is wrong because of these doctors are paid to do these procedures correctly. host: you have a law degree. what do you think about malpractice reform? guest: anything that cuts back on suits without merit is a good idea. i don't favor damage caps because, as moses said, what they do is take people who have legitimately been injured and deprive them the right to be made whole. the other thing about malpractice reform i think we ought to remember, it is an important factor but it is a very minor factor. the congressional budget office, our neutral referee, did a study that said malpractice reform can save one half of a percent. we put that in some perspective. if we did everything the republicans want to do on malpractice reform, we spend 6400 dot -- $6,400 per person port -- per year. it would save $32 of the 6400. now, it is worth saving money if we can, but when john boehner sat there and said tha

secondly, mr. president, a lot of other things have been said about what i have on this paper. one other thing i would like to mention, and it has to do with people who really cannot navigate the system, people who work very hard. they know what they need for themselves. but i was reminded of that, when we talk about putting together restaurant owners who will design plans for their members, i would hope that when we start designing plans for the members of small businesses, let's keep in mind that the employees of those small businesses are not negotiating these plans. they are at the mercy of the small business owners and the question is whether or not the plans are sufficient, that they will not fall into the same category that these people with $1,500 to $2,000 deductibles. finally, mr. president, this morning i was doing one of these call-in shows on c-span. a gentleman called in and was very, very emotional. he said to me that he was getting ready to have transplant surgery. but he was told by the hospital that because he's on medicare that his post-operative treatment wa

secondly, when people said, "maybe you should be waiting. maybe you should wait until there's more popular support," our answer to that was, "well, when is that going to happen? how long do you want people to wait? how long do you want people to be deprived of their constitutional rights in california?" >> moyers: you've clearly read martin luther king's letter from a birmingham jail. >> i was going to say the very next thing. people told martin luther king, "don't do it. the people aren't ready." and martin luther king responded, "i can't wait. i'm not going to make people wait." and when people told martin luther king, "you may lose," he said, "the battles for civil rights are won ultimately by people fighting for civil rights." and one more thing. when the supreme court had made the decision in "loving v. virginia" in 1967, striking down the laws of 17 states that prohibited interracial marriage, now it's only what, 40 years later? 40 years later we think that's inconceivable that virginia or some other state could prohibit interracial ma

secondly, i want to talk about primary-care physicians. i know that president obama is pushing for primary care physicians to increase health in rural areas especially, however i go to a primary-care physician and i like him very much. however, i had an experience with the drug they put me on while i was on chemo. that raised my blood pressure and i was put on al tase and i'm sure the doctor knows how that works. and-- >> host: patricia with all apologies, your point pleased because we have a lot of callers. >> caller: anyway after they found out my kidney function test or elevated, the primary care physician did not listen to me. i said it's the altace. >> host: patricia? what is the point about primary-care physicians? >> caller: the point is i was sent to other physicians and multiple tests were done in this to me was a waste in manicure and by private insurance had to pay for all of this place. all i am trying to say is that you are going to put primary-care physicians in you have to teach them to know what they are doing rather than t

secondly, we can be fiscally responsible and good stewards of taxpayer money. that is what we care about coming effected government, not larger government, delivering the results people can expect. we read -- we measure outcomes, not just been put. we care about efficient government. the third thing during these difficult times, we can be effective on national security. we care about being respected in the world and all those kinds of things, but we also care about the physical security of our country and citizens. we will be vigorous, including where appropriate the use of force to defend our people and our country. if you approach -- approach people from that perspective, they know we have big heart. they know we are compassionate. that is part of our dna. if we can reassure them on other things, we have more challenges in our home state. tavis: you suggested you think the democrats have a decent shot at retaining your seat in our state of indiana. how do you feel democrats will do across the country? i ask that because you are not the only democrat in the ho

secondly, i have some concerns about the way the hearings have been conducted.egree it seems we are having a hanging before the trial. i'm not saying you're not guilty. it seems by hauling you in here and the way we have handled this and by going through a lot of internal memos, there is a lot yet to be decided. and i'm trying to get to the truth. i represent an auto area. we make parts through my whole district. ft. wayne, indiana is the proud home of the silverado and sierra who is in competition with you every day. my goal is to sell ford, toyota and chrysler. also cts is right at the edge of my district. these two petadals have differe problems. the longer one was having a slightly slow release which means when you take your foot off, it comes up just a fraction of seconds too slow. it also was sticking in floor mats because it was longer, but nobody was killed from that. it was a standard recall problem where you say, okay, we're going to fix the part a. this one, however, whether it's electronic or whatever, the one from -- is it denso? it had acceleration

secondly, because of the sereness -- seriousness of the cars, they should be paying for rental cars foras when in the heck is it going to stop? last night, i asked if anyone was sick of the white stuff and apparently no one is. 7-year-old pretty straightforward, i'm not tired of the snow. okay. wendy from virginia, in fact writes, bring it on. i love the snow, the more the better. and karen from alexandria says, stop being a weather wimp. we in the dc area have it relatively easy. many of us included where it snows in feet from october to may. and stop whining, learn to drive in and plow the white stuff. as they still predicted six more weeks. a good deal. all right, everybody seems to like the snow. and they did send a list of things that he does not like about it. the suv drivers who feel like they are seeing it and they cleaned the snow off the vehicle. nonfour wheel drivers on the road spinning all over the place, where are they doing there? drivers that do not turn on their headlights. >>> okay, by the way, i have a question for you. has anyone ever died in the snowstorm because of

secondly, if there were more women in charge of technology, how would your blackberry or your palm or your iphone be different? >> wow, two big issues. in terms of the girls, i have a niece who recently made the transition from middle school to high school, great performer in academics, especially well in math and science and i still had to push her to enroll in advanced placement classes in high school. she automatically did not enroll in them when she had the opportunity do so. we need to give them a push when they have the ability. >> we should support programs that do that. during this research i found a program called tech bridge that does exactly what we're discussing, focuses on girl from 5th to 8th grade. google is a partner, girl scouts are a partner and they have after school programs and summer catches and put girls in real technology situations, robotics and it is fantastic and programs like that will help change it and encourage more women to go into technology. >> i wonders if first the problem was the stereotype of the science geek and computer nerd, but when you look a

secondly, we also felt that a more differentiated analysis about the causes of the crisis showed thatly the bankers who made mistakes, but they are part of the blame. it is a pretty well balanced situation between political failures between market inefficiencies and banks mistakes. that is why we think we should now stop the blame game and start looking forward. at the end, we need a strong financial sector to cover the real issues which are ahead of us, namely unemployment. spain has an unemployment number among young people of 42%. poverty, global imbalances, and many other things. if you do not have a strong financial sector to support this sort of recovery, and to contribute to the prosperity and growth in the real economy on a global scale, it you are making a huge mistake. we are saying that this forward- looking statement, if we all pull our forces together and say what should be done in order to make the system more stable and more resilient without jeopardize in the efficiency of the market's and the financing of the real economy. there are few things we would like to highlig

secondly, he didn't take anything for granted. he didn't necessarily take the received wisdom. as a young man, he wanted to see for himself, and he went to the far was in the badlands of the code and all those sorts of places and saw for himself. so that was the second reason. the third reason was that he thought that war was a great evil, but also sometimes necessary. and he was determined to see war at close quarters, so he took an important part in the cuban liberation movement and led his own little army of american adventurers during that campaign. so that was the third reason. the fourth reason was that he had a strong idea, american leadership in the world. is most famous saying was speak softly, but carry a big stick. that is always very good advise for an american president. that he should be modest in his use of adjectives, and careful in his choice of words, and never post and never threatened without absolute compelling necessity. but at the same time that america should always have the physical means of fighting for what it believes to be right, and putting down wh

secondly, a provision in the amendment to this bill allocates $100 million to, ", "a public universityhat has the only medical and dental school in the state in which that university exist." kiosk -- what deceptive language. this was authored by senator dodd to win his bill and pass the money on to the university of connecticut. if they had written that in polish or russian to deceive the public, it would be unconstitutional. and this deception is, too. congress assumes the power to make every american by a product. nothing in the constitution and best converse with that of authority, although it is the easiest way to increase the number of injured. we could do the same thing to cure obesity, require people that -- require people to buy fruits and vegetables and ban them from eating anything else. and this is so important -- congress has the of authority of directing the decisions of doctors treating privately insured patients. nothing in the constitution permits that. and finally, the takings clause of the fifth amendment prevents all of us from government seizure of our property and

walks, if they will take a second to clear around the fire hydrants we greatly appreciate it and secondly we can connect to the fire hydrant quicker. we do 400 emergency responses in the district of columbia each and every day. since the storm has hit, we are probably closer to 800 to 900. we have seen a wide variety of call and have had several children born. yesterday they delivered a child before we could get to the hospital. a lot of heart attacks, relative lifting and shoveling the heavy snow. automobile accidents, slips and falls. it's been a plethora of emergency responses for our department. >> reporter: you guys are fully staffed, or are you having problems getting crews in. >> we are actually doubled staffed. we have added additional staff, firefighters, police officers, doctors, nurses and even reporters understand how important it is to be out here, in your case, to report the message, and keep people inned. in our case 0 to respond to emergency calls. we have had approximately 20 roof or building collapses of some form or fashion from extreme to minor. nonetheless we are seei

secondly, is the matter of detection. to credibly detect when an institution becomes insolvent, you have to be able to measure what's on its balance sheet. in particular, they have to be able to measure it. so that complex and opaque instruments, that were at the core of his last crisis have to be simplified. and in particular i think derivatives market reforms that bob pointed out to a new regulatory gaps are vital, because until you can measure what assets really trade at, we're not talking about fictitious mark to model rocket scientist. we're talking about actual transactions. until you can measure that, you can't measure the value of assets, and you can't measure capital. and if you don't know what capital you have, you don't know if you are solvent or insult. so you've got to be able to detect insolvency when it arises. finally, with regard to resolution. many proposals focus on the question of one isolated institution in trouble. but i think we've seen in this experience we had a whole constellation, a large oligop

prevent them running afghanistan through a government that would be run by the taliban itself and i secondly to him we have to persuade people we have a purpose of our mission and that is to train the afghan forces. there will be 300,000 afghan security forces in 2011. they will be a far greater course in numbers from coalition forces together and gradually the afghan forces in operation together gradually the afghan forces have got to take security controls to allow our troops to come home. cccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccc >> order. i think we're clear about the government's position. >> mr. speaker, what the prime minister agree with me that the terrorist plan in northern island not only is a threat to the peace process but our direct attacks on the very communities from which the terrorists, from? >> mr. speaker, their members from the house here who are from northern island who care deeply about northern island. i agree with them. in a renewed terrorist attacks should be taken the necessary action to stop. as he knows large numbers of previously terrorist organizations have the condition

secondly, we have the expiration of the 2001, 2003 tax cuts.d serve as a very useful lever, where both parties want to extend to the bulk of the tax cuts. i think it delaying doing that until we have a budget deal in place makes a good deal of sense. if we continue to give away the sweeteners in the budget, it makes it harder to take the tough medicine. finally, the risks of inaction is becoming more apparent every day. we see what is going on or around the world. we hear what moody's and other credit agencies are warning. we know excessive debt can harm the economy in terms of interest rates, jobs, standard of living. the most prudent course of action would be to commit to a credible plan as quickly as possible, and to phase in gradually as the economy recovers to accommodate it. if we do not get our fiscal house in order, ultimately we will face a fiscal crisis -- a steady deterioration of our standard of living or an abrupt crisis brought on by an external action. nobody wants to see that happen. i think the committee for holding this hearin

secondly on this question -- on my third question.ll you agree to so-called most-favored-nation status for similarly situated purchases that are now integrated programming? that is, will you commit all similarly situated cometors of yours will automatically get the best price that you will make available to them? my fourth question with regard to the nbc u. vast array of films in the film library. what commitments will you make about competitor access to valuable programming which is essential for video-on-demand services? next issue is on advertising. i understand comcast does not currently allow its video competitors to advertise their services on comcast cable -- on your cable channels. do you intend to extend this policy to all nbc u. networks and programs after the deal? and if you do -- let's see what your commitment's going to be on that. because you understand what this could do. the last is with regard to -- i'm not aware of any commitments that comcast has made regarding the availability of comcast and nbc u. programming for

and, secondly, the issue is it's not the cost of what is happening in new york.aying that we discovered that it's going to be expensive if you have it in new york and it will shut down manhattan. you really have to have a study? i could have told you that for nothing about six months ago. the reason that democrats are running away is not the expense of the trial. it's because of what happened in massachusetts. it was seized upon by a republican. this is lunancy in how you treat terror. democrats are running scared because it's going to be an issue in november. >> bret: nina, there is a push, bipartisan push led by lindsey graham of south carolina. democrats on board to strip all the funding and put them back into military commissions starting a bill launched tomorrow. >> i think it probably would do the white house a favor, actually, if congress took action, went this route, went a route of saying military -- we should have military tribunals for anybody declared an enemy combatant because i think what's happened to the white house is that they have run up agains

and secondly, the bill was a modest one.ts key provision provided a payroll holiday if a company hires somebody who's unemployed, they don't have to pay that person's social security taxes for the end of the year. and a few other provisions that help construction bonds and stuff like that. so this is not intended to be anything sweeping. on the other hand, it does present sort of a template, i think, for what the democrats are going to do. they're going to perhaps present a series of modest bills that are very difficult for republicans to oppose. and sort of dare them to stand up against it. gwen: in seems like a flip of what we saw in the health care bill. the republicans who didn't vote for this one were unhappy it wasn't bigger. instead of happy that it was incremental. why wasn't this a slam dunk for everybody to vote for at a time of economic crisis? >> that's a very good question. in that republicans supported almost everything that was in the bill. they didn't vote against it because they didn't like it. what they wer

and secondly, at the workforce of the fact and the supply chain are giving every possible support? >> mr. speaker, i know the regional development agency stands ready to help his constituents and the company that is in difficulty. this is could a difficult time for the workforce. the ministers have said in this case they will continue to train the business while they explore all options which include looking for a buyer for the business. i can assure him that all agencies will be available to help those workers in his constituency who are affected. >> mr. speaker, i'm sure the prime minister is aware that a percentage terms, the population of the united kingdom and ireland are the biggest reservoir of the pre-owned courses fail an incurable human plague disease. one of the transmissions as blood transfusion. in october last year, the government's scientific committee looking at is recommended to use of a photo for blood transfusion, for children initially. when is the government going to react on that recommendation? >> this is a very serious issue that he raises, and great detail.

and secondly, racial nomenclature as it impacts the citizens your quick comes to this, you will have a block that says black african-american, or negro, and a number of african-americans, excuse me, young african-americans are really protesting and nato is actually appearing on november 2010 census. but supposedly the black population in so-called negro. what do you feel about that? >> i first want to respond because this is the first question you had about our african-americans use towards the gay community and gay rights. and this is actually the one, given, if we had more time, one chapter the book i want to write was about african-americans attitude towards the gay community. and they somewhat happened in los angeles, california, during the election. and i don't know to remember this because there was is scapegoating. these exit poll said that african-americans are against gay marriage. and we work. we were. the majority of african-americans who voted were against gay merits. not nearly as much though as the team knows, as wives, as mormons, as catholics. why do you scapegoat --

secondly, the reader is sent where the person is so there is no association. further, the image is not stored. that is part of the how can i say, it is part of the contract, the technology, everything else that there is no storage of the image itself. it is merely designed to ping to someone upstairs if there is an anomaly of someone downstairs. i've seen the newspaper of the images. they use a very old first generation version of what actually shows up the technology now has really mitigated the privacy concerns, so hopefully we can work with you but also with the committee because i do think it is a very important investment for the country to make to satisfy people that this is not designed to be anything other than an objectively better way to protect people on aircraft. >> my final question, and i agree with you but people are concerned nonetheless, and we have a religious group that is also concerned about because of their own religious beliefs which i respect, but i wonder if we reduce of the paranoia and skepticism if we have same gender scampers like

and then secondly, the savings rate. just even we talked to a demographic shift, entitlement programs. we even talked about how people under the age of 35 are not expecting that much by the time, so shouldn't it be a rise in the savings rates? in that regard, and i would also kind of put in the context of -- >> can you wind up the? >> greece saving rate was below and we look like japan, there debt to gdp ratio is high but if other savings rate is much higher than the u.s. so doesn't that have a lot to do also without balto our debt to gdp ratio would determine the fluctuations in the market? >> maya slipped out. she is bored with this discussion, but she made some other excuse. but anyway, dick, do you want to respond on that, inflation? >> sure. you know, you don't see, you just see a rise in break evens and the financial markets. but i think that the real key to thinking about how investors are positioning themselves for inflation is to look at things that are not so evident in the tips market. people are buying option

>> we did that very early and secondly, we were prepared to help people get out of the way. we worked with the visitor industry to put a clear message to the visitors to stay off the roads and in the hotels go as high as they could, third floor and above. our life guards and police officers were out there and working hard and our people respond the. one thing to put out a series of instructions but if people tonight respond that makes it difficult and throughout the day we were saying please listen and please cooperate so that everybody can be in a good place. >> and people responded because you had a plan and a model. describe that plan quickly. >> it is multifaceted. take care of the tourists in congested waikiki and told them to evacuate upwards in the buildings along the coastal areas. we don't want them driving along coastal roads because if we didn't have the easy warning the safest way is to walk 50 feet above sea level and the good mayor even provided buses to take the homeless to a safe area. >> all a part of a model that you had because this s an active area in ter

secondly, we have the expiration of the 2001-2003 tax cuts coming up.ever where we can extend the bulk of the tax cuts. the laying doing that until we have a budget deal in place makes a good deal of sense. if we continue to give away the sweeteners in the budget, that makes it harder to take the tough medicine. finally, the risks of inaction is becoming more apparent every day. we hear what moody's and other credit agencies are warning. we know that excess of debt can harm the economy in terms of interest rates and jobs and standard of living. the most prudent course of action would be to commit to a credible plan as quickly as possible and to phase in gradually. if we do not get our fiscal house in order, we know that we will face some sort of fiscal crisis either a steady deterioration of our standard of living or abrupt crisis. clearly, nobody wants to see that happen. i think the committee for holy this hearing. -- for holding this hearing. >> thank you for a really excellent testimony. dr. penner thank you for being here and we appreciate all the

secondly, there is a scene depicted that happened before a the final day of taping in which nixon lubricated by alcohol calls frost at his hotel the night before and engages in a rambling discussion of how they are similar and have these resentments. i am wondering is that license storer to you have any information? >> i am not a great movie persian nowadays but nixon was soon made duplicated the night he told the press in 1962 you will not have richard nixon to kick around anymore. he was really blasted then. in terms of the bitterness bitterness, one thing i really did not touch on was the eisenhower and nixon relationship where he really was on thin ice all through the 1950's. in 1952 he was all we'll stem from the ticket in 1956 and eisenhower offered a number of the other post and during that election eisenhower stayed away from him. it was a very telling moment at the rnc in 1960 where eisenhower flies into chicago, as the motorcade performance and everyone has a chance to see and chair and who does he ride with? the chairman of the rnc, the senator from kentucky for richard nixon is w

secondly, the question of war and militarism a few job about portugal i did not know why it is in there, and looks like you really have the most militarily aggressive countries that match the most unequal and the white colonial countries as opposed, not necessarily too military spending, japan has a huge amount but it does not use that military spending around the world. is that something that matches as well, not instead of but the inequality gap? thank you. >> i suppose japan is an example of a country where top income, i think japanese directives were quite broad they did not pay themselves as much and the differences have been widening but in the past sometimes they did not pay themselves and that was partly that they provided more people from within the company who have loyalties to other people so it became a bit more embarrassing to lay off employees while giving yourself these huge bonuses. also occasionally moving across that was a possibility but also representatives on the board. we think we need to develop all forms of workplace of economic democracy as ways of really embedd

secondly it would be free from having to investigate its own decisions and actions. long as the institute is not a regulatory agency is on tainted by the fact that if it were investigating itself it would be given an impossible challenge and impossible task if you are looking for a truly independent assessments of what is going on. third, the institute would be self funded and self funded for a couple of important reasons. one, fairness. it is our understanding based upon the research that we've seen and the discussions we have held that adopting the common data standards associated with federal financial data center would produce a significant reduction operating costs on the part of the financial institutions because they would get the benefit it's only fair some small share of those savings would be used to fund the operations of the institute. secondly, given the burdens placed on the taxpayer in the most recent crisis it is not appropriate taxpayer should be asked to pay for it. the monitoring of an industry which has already imposed a tremendous burden on the t

but secondly, right from the very start, there was this element of constitutional freedom and political freedom. when the founding fathers came across on the mayflower, already while the mayflower was still afloat in the mid-atlantic, they held their first as it were constitutional meetings, in which they decided certain things they were going to do when they started the colony and massachusetts. so right from the very beginning, there was an element of constitutional freedom in the makeup of america. and that is the second element of uniqueness minutes. there is however a third. although it is true that the first settlers of the united states came from england, mainly from the west of england and from east anglia and they were very much english people. from a very early point in the evolution of the united states, they began to attract settlers from other parts of europe. first in the netherlands and germany and so on. and gradually that settlement coming from the whole of europe spread and spread and spread until really by the time the america achieved its independence it was already

secondly, how did your colleagues react to the proposal that they meet every month? economic governance -- this is something that can be interpreted many different ways. we should not just reduce it to a slogan. one thing is certain, in view of what has happened in the bureau's own -- in the bureau zone, there has to be far stronger coordination of macroeconomic level so that a worse situation like the one we have seen now and it is important that there is our strong record nation in terms of economic strategy. and with regard to government, that is was meant when we use that term. the other strand is equally strong. make asomeplace a lot of emphasn disparate as the european union, we will soon need more weight than the past. we need more blade becomes to the decision making in world wide institutions. there are some items on the agenda which we can raise in that regard. the union is often criticized unfairly dg-20 is a creation of the union. if there had been no implosion in financial terms, if we had not ended upÑi in the major cris such as we had in the 1930's, th

secondly, i would run it through the un. of we would have been in such a position the middle east would have been happy. the world would have cooperated. everything would have been better. >> we cannot do the. >> it was possible. >> we dispute with other witnesses. you were not part of government at the time, but it defined the united states and the united kingdom as joint operating powers, thereby giving the united kingdom equal responsibility and accountability, everything that happened across all of iraq. was that a sensible decision? >> it probably made blair feel important. it is just a very sad story. the important thing is we usually have the un special representative, and in the case of afghanistan, he led the consultations and all that. that was the thing with me in 1483. the americans and -- kept asking for sergio, and sergio became the viewing human rights representative but also was in a weak position, that normally the special representative was in a much stronger position. it was all pretty insulting and hopele

secondly, mr. president, i'd point out that this right here is a dangerous experiment.we may have problems in our health care system. but we do have the best health care system in the world, by far. and having a government takeover of health care -- and i believe that's what this is -- is a dangerous experiment with the best health care system in the world that i don't think we should do. so why did i bring this bill today? i'll tell you why i brought it. we have $500 billion in new taxes here over the next ten years. at a time when our economy is struggling, the last thing we need to do is to be raising taxes on the american people. secondly, we've got $500 billion worth of medicare cuts here. i agree with kent conrad. we need to deal with the problem of medicare, but if we are going to deal with a problem of medicare and find savings why don't we use it to extend the life of the medicare program as opposed to find spending that money creating a new entitlement program. it's not just the taxes or the medicare cuts. you've got the individual mandate here which i think i

secondly, if you received t.a.r.p.if you are aig or a big wall street firm or other firm that has received park money, until you pay back that park money -- that t.a.r.p. money, you cannot use corporate funds. we do not want a big firm like and to be able to take taxpayer dollars and turn around and use those to defeat candidates who set forth regulating wall street or other big financial interests. that is wrong and we want to make sure that does not happen. finally, let me say a word about the disclosure provisions. following the money is extremely important. we should be able to agree -- everyone in the country should agree that the american people should know who is paying for this political advertisement. people should not be able to hide behind dummy corporations or shell entities that is set up. the voter has a right to know about those disclosures. when it comes to corporate spending, shareholders also have a right to know and are required under this legislation to make disclosures to shareholders. we will also

and secondly, i like community-based restoration. restoring threatened and endangered fish species requires additional investments to improve habitat condition and ecosystem functioning. the budget request would allow noaa's community-based restoration programs to increase the fish package, spawning and rearing habitat by implementing larger scale ecological restoration and targeted areas such as wetlands. specifically noaa's is requesting an increase of 10.4 million for a total of 20.8 million for this program in 2011. in the fisheries budget includes 65 million for the pacific coast salmon recovery fund. turning to researchand climate, noaa has become a global leader in understanding and reporting on the state of knowledge of the climate. noaa's 2011 request includes investments for the core client services and observations needed to enable the nation to effectively address the impacts of climate change. climate science covers a range of inquiry from topics have been well studied and documented such as the tracking and fate of gree

secondly -- >> excuse me. we will be following the law. this will involve legislature -- >> you're not going to do it unless congress gives you authority to do it. >> exactly. >> gloria borgman joining me about this. the law is very clear about this. the president cannot just announce he's going to do this, right? >> look, the president can announce whatever he wants, he's got a proposal, but he does have to change the law to do it and that's something congress is going to have to do, as peter or zach sa zag said. just take a look at this. today the president was in senator gregg's home state. that's what was really getting him upset, too, talking about this proposal which senator gregg clearly does not like, clearly will not support, clearly believes will add to the deficit, and he was upset that there the president was in new hampshire and here he was in washington, and he was going to grill peter orszag about it because he was mad. >> but it's not just republicans, either. democrats, like kent conrad who for a long time has been very ag

secondly, it is not easy to develop a pay package that has long-term performance-based the lelike i havethe five companies before me when long- term performance-based delay is uncertain with a company like fannie mae and freddie mac. you cannot simply say that you can pay them four or five years out when there is a question as to what fannie mae and freddie mac will look like that much time out. finally, a major proponent of what i am doing and what the office of the special master is doing is tied to stock. the portions of the individual will depend on the portions of the individual per the stock fell you will depend on how well the company is doing. fannie and freddie may have no stock. it is kasparov -- it is cash. >> for firms that continue to depend on taxpayer assistance, more scrutiny is warranted i filed a bill to limit executive compensation for employees of tarp firms. in your work, have you conducted a cost benefit analysis of any employee making more than what the president receives or anyone making more than $1 million annually so we have a better idea of what taxpayer retur

and secondly, when the f.b.i. realized that was part of the interrogation process, they said, you know, that's not what we're about, we can get the job done the right way without resorting to those kinds of techniques. and they returned back to headquarters. so with that, i hope we can have substantive debate on issues that are important to our country, issues that are relevant, and most importantly, issues that provide the men and women, the professionals in whatever agency you're talking about, the tools and the direction that we are a nation of laws. we have -- we have to respect our constitution. with that, i reserve the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman reserves the balance of his time. the gentleman from california, mr. dreier. mr. dreier: mr. speaker, may i inquire of the gentleman from atwater how many speakers he has on his side? mr. cardoza: mr. speaker, i'm the last speaker on our side but the chairman may reserve the right to respond in the event he wants to answer the other si

secondly on this question -- on my third question. will you agree to so-called most-favored-nation status for similarly situated purchases that are now integrated programming? that is, will you commit all similarly situated cometors of yours will automatically get the best price that you will make available to them? my fourth question with regard about a competitor access to valuable programming which is essential for video-on-demand services? i understand comcast does not currently allow its video competitors to advertise their services on comcast's cable channels. do you intend to extend this policy to all nbcu networks after the deal? and if you do -- let's hear with the commitment is going to be on that. you understand what this could do. the last is, i am not aware of any commitments that comcast has made regarding the availability of comcast and nbcu program and in regard to distribution on line. the ability to take it with them on different devices is the frontier that you and i spoke about. will comcast make a commitment that