>> first of all, senator, one of the points that i made in singapore with chinese military leaders inhe audience was that our arms sales to taiwan are on the basis of the tie -- taiwan relations act that was passed at the time of normalization in the late 1970's. i think that -- and the have known that all along, and i was struck by an article in the local press in singapore following that session somebody asked one of the chinese generals were some chinese general, it may not have been one present, and you guys have known about these for decades. why all of a sudden are you raising such a stink about them? and the general response was we had to accept it when we were weak. we are no longer week. and bottom-line is the decision on the taiwan our sales is fundamentally a political decision. it is a decision mandated by the taiwan relations act, and it is a presidential decision. so this is not a decision that is up to the department of defense. it is a decision that is of to the political leadership of the united states in terms of what would be a requirement in order to change our app

even our military is beginning to use, announced they're moving their research headquarters from singapore to stark county, ohio, in the 16th congressional district. they'll invest three million jobs and equipment and creating up to 60 new jobs and maintaining 32 that are there already. it goes on and on. the statistics show we're improvinn this economy, we're growing, not fast enough for the millions of jobs lost under the previous administration an what we were handed day one when we walked into the office but we're doing our best to turn this economy around. >> and we're doing it without our friends on tte other side of the aisle which is incredibly disappointing. i have seen our leadership reach across the aisle time and again and ask our republican colleagues to come to the table, sit down, let's -- we're not going to agree on everything, but let's try to hammer out areas of agreement where we can find common ground. let's try to pass bipartisan legislation. as you said. we passed health care reform withhover 150 amendments that wwre offered by republicans, accepted and included into

>> first of ll, senator, one of the points that i made in singapore with chinese military leaders inhe audince was that our arms sales to taiwan are on the basis of the tie -- taiwan relations act that was passed at the time of normalization in the late 1970's. i think that -- and the have known that all along, and i was struck by an article in the local press in singapore following that session somebody asked one of the chinese generals were some chinese general, it may not have been onpresent, and you guys have known about these for decades. why all of a sudden are you raising such a stink about them? and the general response was we had to accept it whenwe were weak. we are no longer week. and bottom-line is the decision on the taiwan our sales is fundamentally a political decision. it is a decision mandated by the taiwan relations act, and it is a presidential decision. so this is not a decision that is up to the department of defense. it is a decision that is of to the political leadership of the united states in terms of what would be a requirement in order to change our approac

air nipon, air china, singapore air, lufthansa, british midland. austrian air, all the carriers with whom we share code across the entire star alliance, we either from the global association of carriers perspective, all of the safety authorities that exist in all of those countries, we have to set a safety standard for the entire industry worldwide, regardless of the nationality of the pilots. that is the essence of the reliance -- of the alliance structure. we will fly a passenger across four or five carriers. we know we are making an implied commitment to the training of all of those carriers, which is why, congressman, to get into the star alliance or into a code-sharing agreement, you have to be approved across a spectrum of safety considerations before you are approved. >> the after action reports from ntsb with the colgan showed the regional air carrier in part of their syllabus did not teach the pilots how to recover from a full stahl, almost all recognition through the stick shaker, not a stick pusher. it was not part of their training syll

are aware, doddsaid that secretary gates will not be going to china next week when he will be in singapore and the region. and i wonder if you regard the chinese decision that it is not convenient for him to come now has a disappointment, particularly given that senior officials have told us that they were hopeful that gates would make a visit within a few weeks of the secretary's trip last week. >> i cannot judge. i will defer. i do not know what the explanation was from china. clearly, the kind of senior- level engagement that we have with a likes of secretary clinton, secretary gates, and others, we think it is important to read during the course of the recent strategic and economic dialogue, regional security issues, military to military issues, were discussed. i think that was one of the bases for the secretary gates visit to china. i would not hazard a guess as to the rationale in postponing a visit. >> can you take the question -- it seems like you have not had a chance to look into it, but as to whether or not you're disappointed about this? it seems that one of the things that the

they just announced a new fuel cell research headquarters from singapore to ohio. i know i will be working with my colleague in the 177h district working on research and development and retain nearly 90 jobs in my congressional district. we see a.b.s. company, a national science foundation grant, a company in worcester, ohio, they have this grant to do leading-edge research and helping further development of creating high-tech jo1 helping further development of creating high-tech jobs here in the 16th congressional district. and barbasol added dozens of jobs in ashland county in my district. these are real signs of how some of the pplicies that we have enacted are pell pping to grow our economy. the leadership is about action, not just taking a political position. just say no crowd here in washington is not lending itself to the recovery of our country. we need their help. we need their help and need all americans working together to put our country back on track. we need the republicans' help to put the country back on track. we have seen tough times beeore but we

our competition now is all of the countries of europe, japan, south korea, china, malaysia, india, singapore, australia, brazil. the rest of the world. if we can have a government as i write in this book, while other countries are going pedal to the metal and starting to lap us so we need to have that competitive spirit and they do have a winning energy game plan in here. another thing about sports, no one ever goes to a game, no one pays to watch officials officiate. you don't go there to say gosh i hope that zebras figure out to-- who will win this game but too often in washington may come up with manipulations and burdens and nanny government regulations that impede the flow and whether it is our complicated tax code or this most recent health care monstrosity that-- what we want is not people to be dependent on the government. we want folks to be responsible for themselves and have more affordable personalized importable health care options, which i talk about in here, in my book. another chapter is defense wins championships. everyone talks about defense runs-- wins championships. defen