majority whip simpson, republican from wyoming and he tells a story that applies to all lawmakers andave to go back to states and speak before distinguished audiences like that and introduce highlights all that simpson has done for the great state of wyoming. and all he has done for the united states of america and lists the achievements. does president stop, all that he has done to promote world peace. at the end of the statement, he finally says well, now for the latest dope from washington, here's senator simpson. i'll give you my intellectual spin and we have roughly an hour or so and king henry viii said to his wives, i won't keep you long. i want to make a few general observations about the lobbying business and then i'll do what jim suggested and walk through the stages of a law making process and indicate where a lobbyist might be able to enter and try to influence the policy process and decisions that congress makes. any time you have a question, comment, story, joke, just yell out. i guess you have to raise your hand on c-span. i will be glad to take it there or else wait un

the creation of a center to honor the contribution of senator culver, an iowa state senator at the simpsoncollege in iowa. $400,000 to recruit and train closed-captioners and court reporters at the a.i.b. college of business in iowa. $250,000 for renovating the murphy theater community center in ohio. now, my friends, there is a lot more, and i will just go through them briefly, but the point is -- the point is you'll notice two things. one, that the preponderance of these pork-barrel and earmark projects are -- are allocated to members of the appropriations committee, which, first of all, is fundamentally unfair. second of all, you will find that each are designated to a certain place to make sure that none of that money isn't spent somewhere else in america where the need may be greater. and third of all, it breeds corruption. it breeds corruption. it is a gateway drug. what we're talking about is a gateway drug, and it's especially egregious now. $300,000 to monitor and research herring in maine. $200,000 to study maine lobster. $250,000 for a father's day rally parade in philadelphia,

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among his clients, nicole brown simpson and the parents of natalee holloway.geragos, what's your read on this? >> i think amanda's parents have got a real beef here. i think every parent's worst nightmare to send your child overseas and have them get ensnared in something like this. and by all accounts the evidence was anything but overwhelming and certainly not convincing. this -- i don't know who said it whether it was them or one of the other relatives. somebody had a great statement that i heard which was they weren't trying amanda, they were trying some fictional character. and it sure sounds like that's exactly what happened. >> larry: edda, is that what you feel? >> oh, absolutely. it's amazing. everything that was said in court about amanda, we're all looking at each other going who are they talking about? and it didn't even follow the evidence of the people that knew her and testified about her. it was just weird fantasy bizarre. >> larry: john, you've really been involved in this. you've been on with us before about it. would this have been different

i watched so many episodes of the simpsons i know that homer operates one of these plants.et's assume that we will solve these problems and i think that we will, but that leaves two big problems. first of all, cost has been increasing at the rate of 15% 3-year and a plant that used to cost $400 million now costs $4 billion and it is still increasing at the rate of 15% a year and they only come in one size, extra-large. so the utilities have been real reluctant to commit so much money to these very large, expensive plants when there is not a single engineering firm in the united states or europe that i can find that will stand behind an estimate of how much it will cost to build one or how long it will take to build one. so the present generation of nuclear reactors has been disappointing and has grossly unacceptable economics. with ever larger subsidies from taxpayers, there will be some built and they will pay a role and i hope that the new designs that are now being developed for smaller reactors that are inherently safer will enable that technology to play a larger role

simpson book and murdoch actually supported that book, judith was thrown out the door of her own company and branded an anti-semite by murdoch and his people. and judith is no anti-semite, believe me. and she was living in hollywood at the time, and that's like a death sentence. i'm of jewish origin myself, believe in christ as well, and i can tell you that if you're an anti-semite in hollywood, you're going nowhere. what happened was my book went into never-neverland at that point. and then all of a sudden last year they started advertising on the internet the sale of "whores," that's harpercollins, the parent company that continued on. and when i wrote to them and asked them, you know, when are we doing the book tour, when are we doing the promotion, they said, oh, by the way, your book's canceled. i said, well, how do you sell a book under my name and defraud the american people and not publish it? to this day i don't know of anyone who's gotten their money back. so thank god for new chapter publisher who is publishing this book. the owner is a renaissance man originally from italy, c

if i went back to him telling it in 1949 to henry stimson who has the simpsons diaries is it's not i got up and told the president. it's afterwards i said and then i found the notes in the documents of the meeting as well as the diaries of the meeting. mccloy hadn't gotten up and said that. i actually think he believes he did because over the years he kept telling it. but it was afterwards he talked to a few people as they put together a way of looking at providing a warning to the emperor or letting the emperor's day. so there was a kernel of truth to it but it was an embellished story. his ego back to the document, you ask other people. certainly i won't name names but there were people like when mac bundy tells you there's no such such thing as this and you go back and they're certain people who aren't telling you the truth and you are -- i don't think i've been fundamentally misled yet. yes sir? [inaudible] >> thank you, mr. isaacson. my question is vidor praise for social networking which is a little strange as a journalist of another generation not necessarily mine. i'm wonderi

and then a little bit later i met a guy named josh simpson, a different part of iraq, different time of the occupation. yeah, we figured out this great thing to do. we could actually get into the computer and move our little blip around and do the virtual patrols. so there was a lot of that. their is a lot of comparison to the it know. largely their way, way off because people ask, how much resistance is there of this type, directory resistance happening in iraq and afghanistan? certainly compared to vietnam it is minuscule. in vietnam for those who have not read history or weren't around at that time, this country has a very rich tradition of g.i. resistance. in vietnam there was a gi resistance movement that was s o powerful that by the end of the vietnam war nearly half the soldiers on the ground would not follow orders. they would not comply. they would not do missions. and there was little the military could do about it. there were certain little the government could do about it. basically when you have a military that is in that far advanced in a state of collapse where nearly

and share the highlights of what simpson has done for the great state of wyoming, and doesn't stop thereall he's done for the united states of america. and doesn't stop there, and all he's done to promote world peace and prosperity. and finally at the end of the statement, he says well, now for the latest dope from washington, here's senator simpson. and i will give you my spin in this time, and king henry the viii said to his many wives, i won't keep you long, but long enough. i want to make some general observations about lobbying and the business. and secondly i will do as jim suggested to walk through some major stages of the lawmaking process and indicate where a lobbyist may be able to enter and influence the process and the decisions that congress makes. when you have a question or comment or story or joke, shoot up your hand. or yell out, maybe you have to raise your hand on c-span. i will take it then or the end you can ask questions. in terms of general observations. number one, i will make three or four of these points. we are all well represented in this institution. in this

the creation of a center to honor the contribution of senator culver, an iowa state senator at the simpson college in iowa. $400,000 to recruit and train closed-captioners and court reporters at the a.i.b. college of business in iowa. $250,000 for renovating the murphy theater community center in ohio. now, my friends, there is a lot more, and i will just go through them briefly, but the point is -- the point is you'll notice two things. one, that the preponderance of these pork-barrel and earmark projects are -- are allocated to members of the appropriations committee, which, first of all, is fundamentally unfair. second of all, you will find that each are designated to a certain place to make sure that none of that money isn't spent somewhere else in america where the need may be greater. and third of all, it breeds corruption. it breeds corruption. it is a gateway drug. what we're talking about is a gateway drug, and it's especially egregious now. $300,000 to monitor and research herring in maine. $200,000 to study maine lobster. $250,000 for a father's day rally parade in philadelphia,

simpson circus court comes to mind. that media circus would come. for what purpose? not because it's constitutional, statutory, reasonable, tactical. none of that, madam speaker. maybe, if maybe, if we want to be charitable we can say the president and the attorney general have concluded they want to demonstrate to the world that america has a legitimate civilian court and that equal justice will be provided under the law for anyone on the entire planet, not just people that have stepped foot in the united states or citizens of the united states or are americans. and so, madam speaker, if that is the motivation for the president and the attorney general to express to the world that we are equal justice under the law and an open judicial system that we have the courage and the confidence and the wherewithal to try these enemy combatants in a civilian court, so now the rest of the world is going to like us because we've done something that really isn't very smart and may be the most colossal blunder in this administration, could be the most colossal blunder of many adm

the creation of a center to honor the contribution of senator culver, an iowa state senator at the simpsoncollege in iowa. $400,000 to recruit and train closed-captioners and court reporters at the a.i.b. college of business in iowa. $250,000 for renovating the murphy theater community center in ohio. now, my friends, there is a lot more, and i will just go through them briefly, but the point is -- the point is you'll notice two things. one, that the preponderance of these pork-barrel and earmark projects are -- are allocated to members of the appropriations committee, which, first of all, is fundamentally unfair. second of all, you will find that each are designated to a certain place to make sure that none of that money isn't spent somewhere else in america where the need may be greater. and third of all, it breeds corruption. it breeds corruption. it is a gateway drug. what we're talking about is a gateway drug, and it's especially egregious now. $300,000 to monitor and research herring in maine. $200,000 to study maine lobster. $250,000 for a father's day rally parade in philadelphia,

ed simpson, who served as president of the general aviation manufacturers association for 19 years, diedis home on november 25 in boise, idaho. many of us in this chamber recall that he was the driving force behind the general aviation revitalization act, which altered the liability of small aircraft manufacturers and led to a reinvig ration of the small aircraft industry in the united states. after he retired from direct leadership of the association, he took on a new project, the be a pilot campaign that was designated to increase the population of student pilots in the united states. it was a great success. not only in enlarging the number of citizens capable of flying light aircraft but also in providing a technological boost to the manufacturing industry that rilted in the design and con-- resulted in the design and construction of new aircraft. he was part of the national aviation civil organization. he served in that post as ambassador through 2004. and he was one of three ambassadors to be reappointed by president george w. bush. his reappointment was indicative of the bipartisan

would say that last year, i traveled to haiti with the actress yeardley smith, the voice of lisa simpsonew up in the washington area, and her father was a journalist, and she has had a lot of success and entertainment, and wanted to give back, and has gotten very involved in microfinance, with our programs to assist the ultra -poor and with microfinance in haiti. a lot of people in entertainment have given to support self-help. host: does it create other examples -- teaching them how to farm or fish -- does that spread throughout a village or community? guest: the short answer is yes. microfinance -- the studies seem to indicate that it not only empowers the woman who borrows, but it has a spillover effect on other women, who start taking charge of their own lives even if they are not a client. last week, when i was in bangladesh -- it changes the whole dynamic over a couple of years. who is likely to become a political and economic actor in the future of the committee. host: you get the last word, wisconsin. caller: what i am concerned with and have always been concerned with -- i am a

simpson trial, the clinton and peach and hearings, and the microsoft hearings. you know how she feels about what is about to take place at the courthouse. we can stop it. here is our leader, debra berlingame. >> are we mad or not? let me tell you something. he is right. that tall building is the federal courthouse at our attorney general wants to bring an unrepentant were criminal, protected by our own military, surrounded by our own police officers and federal marshals, to protect him from you. as to give him a stage in the federal courthouse. -- he wants to give him a stage in the federal courthouse. we're here to say that is not going to happen. as we stand here today, american women in uniform for fighting al qaeda and their sympathizers on fronts all over the world. soon, 3000 more of our fellow citizens will be deployed into that fight. in the midst of war, the obama administration wants to put on a show trial on the site of al qaeda's bloodiest battle against this country. the citizens of this country need to understand that this trial will not happen soo