. >> shirley waldo want talk about this. no. with the funky music white girl. >> there was never a doubt which ones mattered most. >> i have the best gift imaginable. why walk to the door after work, three youngsters raised my way calling out the name i cherish most, daddy. >> washington will never be the same without tony snow. it is a better city because of his legacy. god bless this no family, and may god bless you all. >> from nbc news, this is "meet the press" with tim russert. >> today, a subject that concerns each and everyone of us. your pocketbook. >> i never knew anyone who enjoyed news, who was more curious or had more enthusiasm about news than candid. that was his great secret. great reporters had this curiosity about them. the greatest curiosity i have ever known. walter had this great curiosity. the guy that came closest to that was tim russert. >> every sunday, we invite the american people to share their views with the american public. mr. secretary, you say that people were sent to the convention center. there

shirley. caller: thank-you, governor, and thank you, c-span. i think you would agree that we are nation a oflaws. to talk about -- i live in florida. we have a lot of illegal immigrants. my take on that is, the operative word is "illegal." we need to go after the employers and enforce the laws we have on the books and not keep giving the illegal immigrants benefits that other people have worked hard for. host: in your state what happens if you are an illegal immigrant? what benefits do get? guest: it depends on the program, but in many cases you do not qualify for state-based benefits with a few exceptions. pre-natal care is not denied, but we also have some much fraud that for most health care providers and government programs there is a lot of spillover between those who are legal and those who are illegal getting benefits. we are country of immigrants and we celebrate and welcome immigration. everyone is an immigrant or descendant of one unless you are native american, but it needs to be legal and orderly. right now it is a mess. we are base

shirley from always working neutral journalists. communications director with the institute for public accuracy. he assured me that he got his name right. injures matter, associate editor and chair of the book and author committee. executive director with the fund for investigative journalism. the newsweek washington bureau chief. senior business editor with national public radio. on the other side of the podium, bloomberg news. organizer of today's luncheon, and the new managing director of stanton communications. valerie jackson, associate editor. public affairs specialist. independent writer and author of "letters from washington." washington bureau chief, one of our former presidents with hearst newspapers. finally, editor and publisher with american journalism review. now you can give your applause. thank you. [applause] it may come as a surprise to some of you here today. we do not tend to invite members of the press to speak at the podium. it would get way out of control. we do have a special cause to do that today because ou

the shirley chisholm exchange act of 2009 introduced again by congressional black caucus chairwoman and madam speaker lee, is now working its way through congress. it will help to build a stronger caribbean work force and promote greater collaboration between the united states and the caribbean, as well as a sharing of values and culture. madam speaker, i do have a few colleagues here with me this evening and i'd like to yield some time to themp so that they may bring some remarks about the special month that we are celebrating in which we are recognizing the contributions of people from the caribbean to the united states. so at this time i will yield such time as she might consume to congresswoman yvette clarke. ms. clarke: i'd like to thank the gentlelady for yielding and i'd like to associate myself with your comments, remarks, and historical context for this congressional black caucus' c.b.c. hour commemorating caribbean american history month. i want to thank you, my colleague, donna christensen, for all

and we will continue shirley with our coverage of the "chicago tribune" printer's row book fest withscussion on the sojourner truth and it t.r. m. howard. we'll be right back. >> us for university press in 2009 has several new titles coming out, susan ferber, a senior editor with oxford. what are some of those new titles? >> how be thrilled to, we have a range of new books and i thinki will talk more about political ones that have political implications today. real enemies, i realize there's a lot of talk about a conspiracy theory and use them on the internet -- this is an author who spent time looking at what this conspiracy there remain for american democracy and how does the fact there have been conspiracy theories over a long time since world war i, what does that mean about americans and what they think about their government and do they trust government. it is a book that looks at pearl harbor, looks at fear of using government, it looks at what happened after the kennedy assassination with huge literature, on that and it comes up to 9/11, it's a wonderful read in something th

i said that as a great name, so she became for a time can, but then shirley q. to becomes q in the book for this reason. when a husband decides he's going to write about a spouse or a wife decides she's going to read about a spouse and if that spouse is an attorney and if that's spouses train to understand and libel and invasion of privacy, that writer had better know what he is doing. [laughter] i am a fellow who writes not knowing what i'm doing, that is the purpose of writing to find out how i am doing so i said i'm going to make assertions in here how many of these might be liable and privacy invasion but if she goes by another name that could change things so for a while i struggled how to present her and finally i thought she will be q, i was free and i felt free to write things. i did run everything by her so she put her stamp on everything sign that as acrid but when you're writing you don't know that since she was q. while i was struggling with this team organizing principle behind this book, i don't know what got him i had but one day and went to my di

but his greatest achievement is his family, including his lovely wife, shirley, and his three adult sons, elliott, his wife alyssa, and their children michael and brook, jeffrey, his wife,riesa and their children. steven, his wife jacqueline, and their children, jennifer and jeremy. the opening prayer rabbi schiff presented today reflects his intellectual fiber as well as a determination to improve our community and our country. i thank rabbi schiff for his invocation and look forward to working with him in the years ahead. thank you, mr. speaker. the speaker pro tempore: the chair will entertain up to 10 further requests for one-minute speeches on each side of the aisle. for what purpose does the gentlewoman from massachusetts rise? ms. tsongas: to address the house for one minute. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. ms. tsongas: no one was more worried about the national debt than my late husband, paul tsongas. during the years of the clinton administration, fiscal responsibility prevailed and the debt clock started to roll back. but we have seen a stark reversal of that succes