shea mentioned. what hasn't been mentioned as president obama has rightly said the medicare facility, payment advisor commission should play a in role in improving medicare paying for certain services more efficiently and i believe medicare and the new public plan should be doing a better job encouraging the right care and quality care rather than more care. >> i want to say that as we move toward a national standard is important that these standards acknowledge differences based on race, american indians, thank you. >> thank you, mr. chairman, in my opening statement i did something you never do and that is misspeak. my final comment in the opening statement is there are positive solution to the challenges we face and i am hopeful the house will allow for an open, vibrant, robust debate and a deliberative process that respect america's doctors that most of all, america's patients. we have heard less talk about the patients specifically than i had hoped. there is a lot of common ground in health i te

shea-porter. for two minutes. the chair: the gentlewoman from new hampshire is recognized for two minutes. ms. shea-porter: thank you, mr. chair. i'd like to thank chairman thompson and his staff for their hard work on this very important bill. i'd also like to thank my colleague, mr. chaffetz. we share a deep concern and respect for the privacy of individuals. when this full body imaging was first introduced, t.s.a. said it would only be used as a secondary screening method for those people who set off a metal detector. now it has become very clear that the t.s.a. intends for this technology to replace metal detectors at airports all over the country. "the new york times" reported as much in an april 7, 2009 article. the chaffetz-shea-porter amendment would ensure that full body imaging would be a secondary device. and people that go through it is well informed. mr. chairman, we do not take this lightly. as a member of the armed services committee, i'm very aware of the security threats that are facing our countr

shea-porter: madam speaker, d.o.d. today i'm introducing the safety and defense contracting act of -- today i'm introducing the safety and defense contracting act of 2009. while putting their lives at risk overseas, they shouldn't worry about their working quarters. unfortunately, due to shoddy contract work they do. the same deficient work have resulted in hundreds of fires, one of which destroyed the largest dining hall in iraq. i am introducing the safety in defense contracting act to protect our military and civilian personnel to people who have found death due to contractor personnel. they don't deserve millions of dollars in contracts. defense contractors who are guilty of dangerously deficient work have been receiving award and incentive fees. my bill will not longer give these fees. it will take time to rebuild our contractor oversight capabilities, but i ask my colleagues to join me in this bill. thank you and i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from texas rise? mr. poe:

shea-porter: i thank you, mr. chairman. this amendment would ban the use of open air burn pits overseas after 12 months. such a dangerous waste disposal method should only be used temporarily while permanent and safe alternatives is developed. the amendment specifically prohibits the burning of medical and hazardous waste or solid waste containing plastic in open air pits. the burning much such waste produces chemicals that have proven toxic to humans and es

shea-porter: the democratic party has a new and better idea about health care. the democratic party under the leadership of barack obama is going to give americans and american businesses what they have been asking for, begging

he's interviewed by john dinges journalism professor at columbia and author of how peter shea and his allies brought terrorism to three continents. >> host: hello, we are here with one of the authors that i have admired by whole life, eduardo galeano. he is born in paraguay. i mentioned to him just a minute ago i have had his books in my head for decades. one of the reasons i've become involved in latin america and latin american studies and writing as a journalist is because of your work. so it is a great pleasure for me to be here. >> guest: thank you. >> host: you have been in the states a while now. how long have you been -- >> guest: ten minutes, just arrived. [laughter] >> host: and i know you're going to new york. >> guest: yes, new york and other cities to help my new baby called "mirrors." help it to walk. it's a baby. >> host: this is the book, "mirrors" stories of almost everyone. of course i checked out the spanish title. [speaking in spanish] which is a little bit different. it means universal history almost. >> guest: almost because if you say universal history it sounds

>> johnny: it was in new york at shea stadium. >> rob: i heard that was -- i didn't see it. i know jason kendall retired when he stepped wrong on 1st base. i will never forget it. they put it in the center fold of the magazine. i apologized to him on the air. i was doing radio because i guess jason's kid saw it. i never looked at it. there's just some things that shouldn't be made public. >> johnny: joe theismann the same way. >> rob: i love joe. joe is good people. >> johnny: but to have to see that over and over again. >> rob: very tough. people don't realize it is not supposed to be a full contact sport. >> johnny: runner going. zimmerman goes to right. and quickly gonzalez got to retreat to get back to 1st base and just barely got there. today's the day we kind of get you update inside up close and personal with adam dunn. let's go to debbi taylor. >> the dunns are a close-knit family and they live on dunn lane and here's more from his mom. >> dunn lane is in porter texas and that is where we all live. it is all family. we have all our christmases and thanksgiving there.

coup overthrew the government of salvador and i stay on her for six years to write about the peanut shea dictatorship and that the book, your book i think this is a distinction would have been among the books that i had to burn in order to be able to say in chilly along with all of the books about the government, the democratically elected socialist president of chile who was overthrown and introduced 17 years of dictatorship by the right wing regime. and that was an amazing experience that books before an american like me, the books would be burned and that in order to say in a country you had to perjure library cell i think that is a distinction that the books that were so good that they were threatening to it pinochet or the ones that had to be kept in the memory and not on my bookshelves and yours was among them. >> guest: is not an innocent book, it is clearly guilty and is an honor to be from the point of view of the pinochet or any one of them. >> host: you have been accused of being in pamphleteer and there is a lot of criticism as a result which i was offended by because i know

>> urie long was the quintessential and there have been many other from daniel shea who was a revolutionary during the time of the constitutional convention i think joseph mccarthy, a george wallace, there have been david duke even in his little burst in louisiana was a demagogue. and there have also been in history when i talk about this beneficial, paradoxically you can have a demagogue if the definition is a test to establish rules but if they are unjust. there is a chapter of british history where demagogue was used as a term of praise. you have some demagogues offer something to the people and they can do good. of most of the time the term accurately is a negative or harsh for somebody who really does threaten the system that we hold dear. >> so what is the example of a good demagogue and why? >> the head of solidarity in poland when they were overturning the regime, the soviet regime it was a beneficial demagogue, boris yeltsin at the beginning was beneficial. then you had there are the paradox, huey long was a very dangerous figure in american politics but also did paved highways and

there have been many other examples from daniel shea, a revolutionary during the time of the constitutional convention. joseph mccarthy, george wallace, david duke has a burst, in louisiana, was a demagogue. and in history, when i talk about -- is beneficial, paradoxically you can have a demagogue, they test establish rules. if the rules are on just a, there's a chapter of british history where a demagogue was used as a term of praise. some demagogues' offer something. they can do good. most of the time, the term accurately is negative for harsh. >> since you brought it up, what is an example of a good demagogue and why? >> the head of solidarity in poland when they were overturning the regime, the soviet regime, that was the beneficial demagogue, boris yeltsin in russia, a beneficial demagogue. there are a paradoxes, qe long was a dangerous figure in american politics but he paved highways, built public hospitals, public schools. his relationship to the people was routed on his boundless willingness to manipulate them for his own benefit but also in doing good things for thousands of peopl

shea, there's a play in massachusetts where you can -- your employees don't get any insurance. it is important that if you don't choose to pay option, the employees get coverage. >> absolutely. is also important that there is a meaningful payment option, not let massachusetts, $300 a year per employee and you are proposing something substantial. that is the right way to design it. >> mr. cassidy? >> mr. visco, when you speak, i think of my wife is a breast cancer survivor, that is music to my ears. dr. hacker, a couple things. as i think about it, your proposal, congratulations, this is your brainchild and it has become something. the public auction is innovative, the sense that nationalizing the insurance company creates a government run health insurance company, but as you're speaking of the need for innovative payment methods, medicare and medicaid have lagged far behind other companies in coming up with innovative payment schemes. and certain as i look at this, the patient is central. i never see that the patient is central to cost or central to improving outcomes, what i d

shea is carrying a bomb or something she is now supposed to do. >> guest: i am sorry you had that experience in every checkpoint does, in fact, have a private screening area so should that happen again you can ask to be screened privately and they are, they have places that are outside of public view. so the dignity of the passenger is really important and i think tsa is making a big ever to try to get passengers back on its side and to do that they know the half to two passengers with dignity and get them to quickly. hopefully that experience will be repeated. >> host: back to the program, kip hawley, in "the new york times" a spokesman for southwest said that names are going to be one of the big issues, spokesman for southwest aimed to start collecting secure flight data in october. tell us about how the airlines will deal with the nickname issue. >> guest: well, the nickname won't be a problem in there and in the form they say what is your first name and you put your real first name. and then you can be nicknamed and everything else, all you have to do is enter when putting your date of b

shea might be willing to speak to that. >> i appreciate the question, and i think you're right on track. one of the ideas that has been widely discussed is the notion that we need to be able to, as we link payments to quality, we need to be able to do rapid cycle testing of the way to do that so that we're not in the system where medicare once a year makes set rates and so forth. we need a more -- we need a more flexible and nimble approach that really matches the quality improvement efforts that are being done around the country and rewards those and incentivize those. i know that in the senate health bill i was admiring some of the things that they did that were beginning steps to do this but sensible kind of things like we're going to pay a physician's office extra money if they do follow-up on hospital discharges. this is a huge problem. it costs us an enormous amount of money. it's very simple to solve but the current system we have has nobody responsible for that. well, why not pay a little bit extra money to save some money? so i think this is -- this is one big point. the other

the last experience in free banking was down in chile with pin shea. it was a disaster to that country, almost a quarter century to pay back the debt that resulted from that. we didn't learn those lessons and we deregulated. p it was bipartisan. it was both partyies taken up in this ewe foreya over deregulation. the basic point is that there needs to be a balance between the government and the market, and that balance was lost. now, in terms of encouraging homeownership, yes, the government did encourage homeownership, but it never told banks go out and lend money beyond their ability to pay. it never encouraged predatory lending, and it was clear that the banks with engaged in predatory lending or at least some of them. there were efforts made to stop that predatory lending, but those in the financial sector were making so much money, used all the political pulls they could to stop this legislation to restrict predatory lending. the irony, of course, is that the banks have been bitten by their own greed. they have been hoisted by their own greed. that

much higher than shea stadium. >> gary: a ground ball towards third thief they had the shift on.ght makes the play. orioles go easily in the seventh inning as green shuts them down 1-2-3.  >> gary: it's time to tex your vote for the at & f player of the game. here are your candidates. nick markakis, two rbi homer in the game. cora who a -- who had a couple of hits and run a scored and wright, the world's leading hitter, rbi base hit picked up 11-game hit streak. text in your vote to a, b or c to 518626789 baez remains on the mound. gary sheffield will stand in against him as we go to the top half of the eighth inning, a 6- 2 lead. let me correct the line i gave you on rie. guthrie, 6 1/3, five runs, three earned on six hits, two walks and four strikeouts. an unearned run charged to castillo part of an inning gave up two hits and now baez working. gary sheffield has singled, 1-3 in the ballgame. the dh hitting at .1. he'll fight one that off. throughout his career, he has donesomeing you would never teach hitters to do and that's be in constant movement at thep

shea, there's a pay and play where your insurance don't get any insurance. is it important if you choose the pay option that the employees actually get coverage? >> oh, absolutely. and it's also important that there's a meaningful payment option not like massachusetts. that they are $300 per employee and you're proposing something that's substantial. i think that's the right way to design it. >> mr. cassidy? >> my wife is a breast cancer surgeon and when you speak, i just think oh, my gosh, isn't that just nuke my ears and to my wife's ears. we share your concern. dr. hacker, a couple of things. you know,no carrierringconnect central to improving outcomes. what i do see there's a great emphasis on bargaining power to decrease cost even though in your paper you mention that probably for physicians, that bargaining power has been used to excess and you can demonstrably show in some cases that physicians that access the decrease because of it indeed the cbo scoring of this or maybe the document, the cbo score said there would be limited access to some specialis

the guest chaplain, rabbi shea harlig, spiritual leader of chabad of southern nevada, las vegas, nevada, the guest chaplain: almighty god, the members of this prestigious body, the united states senate, convene here in the spirit of one of the seven noahide laws which were set forth by you as an eternal universal code of ethics for all mankind. that every society be governed by just laws, based in the recognition of you god as the sovereign ruler. we proudly proclaim this commitment to justice in our pledge of allegiance, one nation under god with liberty and justice for all. grant us almighty god that those assembled here today be aware of your presence and conduct their deliberations accordingly. bless them with good health, wisdom, compassion and good fellowship. on this 25th day of june, 2009, which corresponds to the third day of the hebrew month of tammuz, we are 15 years -- to the day -- from the physical passing of our esteemed spiritual leader, the lubavitcher rebbe, rabbi menachem mendel schneerson, of blessed memory, who consistently extolled the virtues of this great land as

when we both entered, will meet both introduced the shea bill. i know of his strong support for wallace activities. so, i think there has been some really pretty good suggestions that i have seen from the other side on this. not all knowledge reside here with one person or one staff grouping, but the process i think it's going to lead is towards having some significant reforms, reforms, changes in wellness and prevention. but, i will again repeat, nothing comes free. nothing is free. there's no free lunch here. freer pointage dude we are going to have to put some bucks behind it and if we get into a match where to put the box behind it were quantitate the bugs out of medicare or medicaid or existing structures, propension will never get there so we have got to set the structure up, we have got to fund it. we have got to provide the kind of best practices that senator mikulski has come up with intersection in terms of comparative effectiveness and we have got to do the same thing with wellness and prevention also. mr. chairman, thank you very much

shea is, when he was in the house of representatives. we've submitted comments on legislation and participated in the comprehensive lessons learned projects conducted by special inspector general for iraq reconstruction and accountability office and in 2005 conducted a formal joint lessons learned review with commanding general of the army. we know the commissioners appointed to conduct this review and had the opportunity to work professionally with many of them during the past and we worked professionally with senior commission staff and each and every individual brings expertise and perspective to these important tasks. we also have the a fraternity to work with the key federal agencies involved in developing the requirements including the oversight activities and special inspector general for iraq reconstruction. we appreciate challenges they faced and commitments they've shown to fulfill the government's mission. we've also been privileged to work with dozens of companies and hundreds of executives from across the membership in the i

, a word of thanks the car people forgetting all america paid from the kids in the body casts this shea-porterthe time. not a word of thanks. [laughter] cars provided america with an enviable standard of living. you cannot get a steady job with high wages and health and retirement benefits working on that general livestock corporation assembly line putting others on cows -- it just couldn't be done. and i think that the american car was a source of intellectual stimulation, because you think of the innovation. did the invention, the sheer genius that transformed the 1908 model t ford into the 1968 shelby cobra gt500. in the course of one single human lifetime goal of speeding tickets. [laughter] compare this to progress in the previous mode of transportation. worse production, course design -- unchanged for thousands of years. and you know when it comes to creativity with the horse and did the research on this one riding, i lifted up. you know and nobody thought to put a stirrup, nobody thought to hastert from a saddle until about 580. the strip was invented. people have been riding horses for

paul mccartney is going to do another concert at shea. they've add add third. they sold out the first two. they've added another one. 0-1 delivery on the way. fastball taken i signed by -- inside by wright. here is one of the game's outstanding hitters not just at the moment but particularly at the moment as he leads the majors in batting average coming into this game and he has a 10-game hit streak getting there. >> jim: they always talk about young players. here are the numbers we talk about. at that average, steals. look at him right here. you know, he won a couple of gold gloves. he's only 26. ex-he can hit for power, steal bases. he can hit for average. >> gary:.309 average career coming into this season. clearly has upped that so far with the .364 number. a good slider away foul tipped into the mitt held on to by wieters. second strikeout for jeremy guthrie. >> jim: right here, a little extra. i don't know if it's a cut fastball, slider. it ends up in the low 90sment for wright who loves the ball out over the plate f you're hitting what he's hitting, you'

. >> who is shea? peggy is the beekman a professor at northwestern history and university of oregon and she is a professor of a domestic studies, this is our second book and she -- it is a labor of love of. >> the day wall street exploded. >> what could be more topical, this is not about the economy today, set in the 20s when there was i to make a real explosion down on wall street. this is the first book, mr. nouri book and a wonderful storyteller, beverly gage is a professor of yale and she wrote this to talk about america and the age of terror. she started it well before 9/11 so this is not a book that was inspired to write because of current events in europe is something to talk about was happening on wall street at this time it is a detective story. >> finally one of the book we want to talk about, the wilsonian moment king and the wilsonian, is an example of a new generation of scholarship, this is a methodology and what is really exciting to me is there's been a division in history between peopl

i rise to join my colleague, representative carol shea-porter, in urging our colleagues to ban burn areas in the war zone. we talked about the reckless disposal of hazardous waste in iraq and afghanistan and the devastating toll they are taking on the health of our service men and women. it's encouraging that the generals have taken seriously our concerns about the dangers of burn pits. but this legislation is necessary to make sure this takes place. this sendorsed by the american legion, by the d.a.v., by the iava, by the national guard association and by the v.f.w. i urge its passage. the chair: the gentleman yields back. the gentleman from california. mr. mckeon: reserve the balance of our time. the chair: the gentleman reserves. the gentleman from missouri. mr. skelton: mr. chairman, i yield one minute to my friend, a member of the armed services committee, the gentleman from virginia, mr. nye, one minute. the chair: the gentleman is recognized for one minute. mr. nye: i'd like to thank the chairman for yielding. mr. speaker, a lot of the legislation that comes through this house deal

shea, welcome to the committee. >> good afternoon and good afternoon to all the committee members.to start by congratulating by putting forward a bill which we think really addresses the issues that the american people are concerned about. and we look forward to working on this bill. our druthers might be talking based on the current system does provide a way to get the kind of reform we need. and what i want to talk to you about briefly today is what we think it takes to stabilize the employment-based system which is the backbone of both theÑ coverage and the financing of healthcare in the united states as you know. it has proved remarkably resilient despite enormous cost pressure. it has shown that employers want to continue to offer coverage and that employees highly value the coverage they get at work. but we've lost five percentage of points in coverage of people between the ages of 18 and 64 in an employment-based coverage from 2000 to 2007 and frankly this is a pretty fragile system at the moment. we think that it takes three things to stabilize the system and we think tha