skills.i will go on wednesday afternoon to richmond to talk at a conference which is about worker skill acquisition junior colleges, community colleges and so on. give people skills and they can get the kind of work that will give them a decent wage. that is even more critical today than normal because one of the very disturbing aspects of our labour market situation is that about half of the unemployed have been unemployed for six months or more. that means they are losing skills and contact with the job market if they simply sit at home, when the economy gets back to normal normal state, they cannot find good work. even now, it is more important than ever that we make available in every way we can opportunities for people to get skills so they can get decent paying jobs them up the final question right over here. >> is it likely that this country will ever have much leverage in negotiating with china? >> i just came back from china. i attended the strategic and economic dialogue which is bo

so what skills that were useful in iraq do transfer to afghanistan? >> although afghanistan and iraq are different conflicts, the truth is that counterinsurgency fight has certain shapes. you have to take care of the problem in a very specific way. as general petraeus was quoted as saying in the opening segment, you actually have to defeat the enemy in the sanctuaries and safe havens he has established. you have to work to establish government that is viewed as legitimate in the eyes of the people. and you have to mediate between the people and the government when there is a dispute between them. and then in addition to that, you have the challenge of building host nation security forces to make sure that over time the country can defend itself, but not push those forces out too far too fast without u.s. or coalition partners to help them really get to the level of quality that they need to be at in order to protect and defend their country >> woodruff: peter mansoor, colonel mansoor, do you have a sense of how general petraeus sees the similarities b

will be determined by the ability to innovate, foster entrepreneurship and constantly improve the skill base of our work force. we believe that the evolving demands of the global economy make education vital to sustainable, social and economic success. we also believe that education is a fundamental human right %- and is the single most important investment in the future of individuals, communities, the nation and the world. we in congress and we as a nation must make it one of our highest priorities. h.res. 879 was introduced by our colleague, the gentleman from illinois, representative walter minnick, on october 29, 2009. the measure was referred to the committee on oversight and government reform which ordered it reported by unanimous consent on may 6, 2010. the measure has the support of over 70 members of the house. i thank the gentleman from idaho for introducing this measure, and i'd also like to thank chairman towns and ranking member issa for their support for the bill. and i urge my colleagues to support this measure and i reserve the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempor

her skills and intellect very quickly came to the attention of the clinton white house. which is when i first got to know her. i had been asked by the chairman of the commerce committee, senator hollings, our old friend, to help break through a stalemate on a bipartisan tobacco bill. it was a difficult issue for both caucuses. elena became the administration's point person. and when we started out no, one gave us any hope of being close to or getting close toes passage. but elaine nap camped out in the vice presideent's office off th senate floor, shuttling back and forth to the white house. she worked day and night equally with both sides of the aisle working every angle thinking through every single approach. and on the eve of the commerce committee's markup, things appeared to be falling apart. something we're all too familiar with here. but elena simply wasn't going to let that happen. that was an unacceptable outcome. she got together with the republican senators and staff and she listened carefully and she helped all of us to meet the last-minute objections. it was

many students just don't know how to study well, and that is a skilled like any other skill. it needs to be taught and practiced by the student and that is how we ensure the success. host: john, our last caller, in chicago. john, if you are on. caller: i worked as a teacher in chicago public schools briefly, so i had some experience. my main problem with the teaching environment is the union mentality of teachers. but in your time and wages keep increasing regardless up -- put in your time and wages keep increasing regardless of results. there is no accountability, and we see this in the chicago public school system. guest: i like the union culture. my organization started three years ago and now is really in full swing -- priorities schools. some people call these high- need, we call them priority. reaching out to parents in the community in collaboration with management and school board, saying that we need to be different. i believe that is the responsibility of the unions, and we are doing it. i can show you examples all over this country in every single state where colla

fundamentally, if the problem is skills, then the real solution is getting skills.m going to go thursday to richmond to to talk at a conference to talk about workplace positions. give people skills, and they can get a decent wage. one of the very disturbing aspects of our labour market situation is that about half of the unemployed have been unemployed for six months or more. that means that they are losing skills, losing contact with the job market, and as things go on if they just sit at home they will not find good work. even now, is more important than ever that we make available in every way that we can, not just k-12, but for working americans to get decent paying jobs. >> is it likely this country will ever have much leverage in negotiating with china? >> you just came back from china. >> i just came back from china. i attended what is now called the strategic and economic dialogue, which is strategic -- i am perhaps the only american person on the american side to have been to all of them. this meeting was created by secretary paulson and the previous admini

getting skills.'m going to go on wednesday afternoon to talk to a conference which is about the workplace worker skill acquisition. junior colleges, state programs, and so on. get people skills, and then they can get the kind of work that will get them a decent wage. it is more critical today than normal because one of the very disturbing aspects of our labor market situation is that about half the unemployed have been unemployed for six months or more, which means they are losing skills and contracts in the job market. if they simply sit at home, or were very irregular, when the economy gets back to normal state, they will not be able find good work. even now it is more important than ever that we make available in every way that we can, not just through the same been used a different ones, the way for people to get skills so that they can get decent jobs. >> the final question right over here. >> is it likely that this country will ever have much leverage in negotiating with china? >> i just came b

beautiful game and i think that if you just sit down and pay attention to it you really understand the skill level and appreciate that. it really is a beautiful game is . >> an mark >> lehrer: and mark shields and david brooks offer their weekly analysis. that's all ahead on tonight's newshour. major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by: and with the ongoing support of these institutions and foundations. and... this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. >> woodruff: the numbers out of the gulf of mexico painted an even darker picture of the oil disaster today. and they raised new questions about how large the cleanup job will have to be and how long it will take. the magnitude of new estimates on the spill spread new urgency along the gulf coast today. it now appears the flow of oil, before the damaged wellhead was capped, may have been twice as much as originally thought. in other words, since the "deepwater horizon" rig sank, more than 100 million gallons could have gushe

within the military although sometiies in our reserve components we have thoss skills. but what we want to do is partner -- by the way we do have significant skills in uniforms, folks who pack weapons and everything else and are prepared to go down range, many of them, again, from our reserve components who perform civilian functions when not in uniform that lend themselves very well to these kinds of tasks and then on top of that we have the national guard agricultural development teams that have been superb. these are individuals that are farming experts. in some cases they are leaders in the agriculture departments of their states or counties, and they have been very valuable over there and they come as an entire self-contained unit, so you have a unit that can move itself, feed itself, secure itself, and communicate and provides the expertise in the agricultural arena on top of that. so, this is a mix, that's the way it ought to be. we can dispense some of the money and indeed the funds are substantial when you talk about $1.1 billion. that's a significant amount of

this was a vestigial survival courtships skill i was developing -- courtship skill i was developing. and i reached a point my senior year when my adjustment felt like me. i actually convinced myself that this person was mate n she may, pretty, talented, but not stack up, you know, a girl laughed a lot at every stupid thing every boy said, and who low-rise at the right moment and deferred, who learned to defer when the boys took over the conversation. i really remember this so clearly, and i could tell it was working. i was much less annoying to the guys that i had been. they like me better, and i like to that. this was conscious, but it was at the same time motivated and fully felt this was real, real acting. i got to vassar, which, 43 years ago, was a single-sex institution, like all colleges in what they called the seven sisters, the female ivy league, and i made some very quick but lifelong and challenging friends, and with their help outside of any competition for boys, my brain woke up. [laughter] [cheers and applause] i got up, and i got outside myself, and i found myself again

this was a vestigial survival courhips skill i was developing -- courtship skill i was developing. reached a point my senior year when my adjustment felt like me. i actually convinced myself that this person was mate n she may, pretty, talented, but not stack up, you know, a girl laughed a lot at every stupid thing every boy said, and who low-rise at the right moment and deferred, who learned to defer when the boys took over the conversation. i really remember this so clearly, and i could tell it was working. i was much less annoying to the guys that i had been. they like me better, and i like to that. this was conscious, but it was at the same time motivated and fully felt this was real, real acting. i got to vassar, which, 43 years ago, was a single-sex institution, like all colleges in what they called the seven sisters, the female ivy league, and i made some very quick but lifelong and challenging friends, and with their help outside of any competition for boys, my brain woke up. [laughter] [cheers and applause] i got up, and i got outside myself, and i found myself again. i di

what ii this about basic language skills where they cannot be prepared? you have given us a lot of different topics there. what is the national average? guest: it is about $48,000, but that is an average and it varies a lot from state to state and district to district. >> is that for nine months of work? guest: i would say 10 months. i think it is definitely a full- time, year-round job. host: her concern for teachers safety and discipline in the classroom? guest: i think that points to help schools cannot solve all of the problems. it is a community effort. in syracuse, n.y., the say yes to education foundation is working with the entire community. they are working with the mayor's office, all the different parts of government to say, how do we remove obstacles for children who want to succeed? cannot lay it all on the shoulders of the people who work at the school. the partnership and collaboration is key. host: many school districts are making the decision because of state budget shortfalls with teachers and teacher layoffs. and there are discussions o

it directs public affairs personnel to "maintain on camera skill prooiciency peaky and also -- proficiency." it explains that communications which convey care and concern for the situation and provide relevant factual information are an integral part of exxonmobil's emergency response. it sets up a four-tiered system of who can respond to media inquiries. the highest level, category d, dictates special treatment for questions about global warming and the exxon valdez. the exxonmobil plan contains 13 detailed, pre-drafted press releases for almost any occasion. give this a minute here. there is a fully drafted press release for an accident involving an exxonmobil facility. if the injury occurred off site, there is a separate press release for that. six of the stockpiled press releases are ready to express that they "deeply regret" an outcome while two more press releases rate -- stand ready to -- stand ready to express that exxonmobil is deeply saddened. the media section contains a topic guide with talking points on over 65 issues. five different places, the plan directs public affairs age

shell stands ready with skilled people in state-of-the-art technology to continue meeting american's needs. thank you for your time and should forward to addressing your question. >> thank you, mr. odom. our final witness is mr. lamar mckay, the president and chairman of b.p. america. mr. mckay, please begin when you are ready. >> thank you. chairman markey, ranking member upton and members of the committee, i am chairman and president of b.p. america. before addressing the main topic of today's hearing, i would like to reiterate the profound sorrow and regret all of us at b.p. feel for the loss of life and the oil spill horizon explosion and fire. this is very prnlbole to me and b.p. i am from mississippi. i grew up in mississippi. i spent summers on the gulf coast. most of my family's in new orleans. anha

we are creating an additional skill code. i just lost my train of thought. >> security special. >> my security specialists special security personnel. these are limited appointment positions right now. they will be serving to augment diplomatic security officers within the pfd movement. we're currently recruiting and hiring -- >> how many have you hired? >> we have 25 on the ground in pakistan and afghanistan. and when we started hiring and training, we had enough agents to fill iraq. we will now start transitioning into iraq. >> do you consider that program successful? >> all the feedback that have gone from our security person now has been highly successful. and that they have matched incredibly well with our agents. to the point that we are looking to perhaps create a permanent skill code and move away from the limited appointment with them. >> and what would you do with these folks when we get out of iraq and afghanistan? >> the country will be and -- because we have small numbers, we can use them at the training center.

the jobs that he is speaking about are exactly the sort of high-tech, high-skill jobs that we want toeep in this country. so i will certainly meet him, and we will do what we can in the budget to ensure that we have in this country a tax regime, support for apprenticeships, and support for training that will want to make businesses locate and stay and invest in britain. >> mr. adam holloway. >> every household in gravesham has inherited a sort of second mortgage of debt. can the prime minister give us some idea of the level of debt per household across the country? >> my honorable friend is entirely right that every single person in this country is now carrying 22,000 pounds of debt because of the mess that the last labour government left us. the fact is this -- if we do not do something about it, by the end of this parliament, we will be paying 70 billion pounds in debt interest. that is more than we spend on schools and more than we spend on defense. it would be a tragic waste of money. that is why, however painful, we have to get to grips with the deficit that we were left by the l

less skilled that you know you can pick up later on when the economy is better. host: employment rate dipped to 9.7% from 9.9% as thousands of people left the labor force. what does that mean? guest: when we see people leave the labor force that is not a great sign. it means they are so discouraged about the possibility of getting a job they have just given up. that is a big issue with the long-term unemployed because you don't want to see people drop out of the labor force. you don't want to lose the generation of, say, 50-year-old workers, 50 and 60-year-olds that will never work again because they will be a drain on all of the government resources and that is bad. host: how much of this is regional? around washington i think i saw 5.7% unemployment. national average 9.7%. mendota, california, 45%, detroit anywhere from sa 15% to 20%. guest: washington, d.c. is a great place to be unemployed because it is easier to find a job with government hiring. if you go to a place in california, michigan, any of those really hard hit states it is a much worse situation. w

but there was a real reason to respect both the outlook skills and the thodology of the other. we often switched roles. >> i can be honestabout this. the had been a reporter not two years. >> three weeks, right? >> you landed your first job in the coolidge administration. [laughter] >> garfield, actually. >> i went to graduate journalism school. you ught me many things, sometimes with a hammer and sometimes by example. in terms of the relationship, it was what happened here? what is going on? if you look at that story just on the face,he mysteries compound themselves. we were in charge, as reporters, of explaining this. what really happened here? who caused this? what does it mean? that is why we loved it. we were both on married. carl had his warm newspaper to go home to read that. i had nobody to go home to at night. [laughter] we worked. >>i am just curious. and our current political culture where i opened the newspaper and read the entire series anything you were talking about with bush, i wanto hide my head under a pillow. is it simpl because you are woodward and bernstein

we have to help those people move up their skill levels. i have recommended that we pay the $80 ged before the and put them in a state approved program to get minimal trade. that is a tough situation. we will have to have an office of job creation which i have recommended to focus on how we bring industries from other states even though times are tough th. >> technical schools are surviving but the reason they are surviving is because people like myself were bold enough to go out and get the lottery past to make sure our technical schools get more than their fair share of also like to remind everybody that we're still talking about $3.5 billion next year, thousands employees laid off, the next government will have to have a plan from the first day running to save the state and the thousands of people who will be out of work and income and -- and no income for their families. >> do you think people who receive government assistance in the form of welfare should be drug tested? >> that sounds like a dea question. as governor of south carolina

let's make sure that we have those skilled workers. have on the job training so that is a benefit for them, as well. >> the next fiscal year, will be forced to choose between cutting state agency budgets and thereby hurting the least of these were in south carolina. what would you choose? >> i have taken a no new taxes' pledge, and when we are talking about tax reform, we have got to come up with a system that is a more stable system and putting all the options on the table. it also have to go back and look at those core issues. what is the government's main responsibility? in good times, we say everything is a priority, and when everything is a priority, nothing is a priority. we have got to that 0-based budgeting. >> we have an email question. representative haley, this is for you. some say that if you are elected, we will have another toxic relationship with more gridlock. if elected governor, please differentiate your approach when working with our legislative body versus that of sanford. >> this is what i can tell you. first of al

there is stuff that is highly skilled, they do not possess the experience and skills to investigate some of these crimes and they have to start picking these things up, whether it is the working of securities markets or how cybercrime operates. how intellectual property death ring's work, how they district their property, how they get it out to the customers and how they get that money back to the people who put all this together. as we move toward this area of organized crime, we discovered we have an overlap in how to attack the growing problem i.p. of -- the growing problem of i.p. theft, how we combine our team and put these kinds of cases together and address an area which is not been well covered until now. for now, i'll turn it over to andrea. >> thanks, bruce. i want to thank the center and for the invitation here. i want to compliment them on this excellent logo. the eagle in the center is aggressive. i am concerned he will fly out of the screen. we have heard a lot about some of the challenges and growth of organized groups engaging in intellectual property crime. we know why w

why hone our skills, make us the most efficient and effective. the third used fuel you can horn -- can burn, do something about these and number five. but farmers produce fuel that saves us from tearing up the environment in gives them an incentive to come to north carolina. >> the next question is for mr. mcmaster. >> our next question comes from the voice of the voter project. there would like to know what you would do to better educate the people of south carolina? >> good question. that is where we are really falling short. unfortunately, our education system from top to bottom is dysfunctional. there is very little accountability. i am for choice in education, good schools and new ideas. here is the problem we have. if we have a governor that wants to do something about education, he has no direct authority other than the ability to veto. we had a superintendent that is elected separately that may or may not agree with the governor. he does not have power over the 70 members of the board of elections which are elected from around the state.

we live in a world where skilled workers are increasingly mobile, where ideas are readily transmitted across international boundaries, where capital is ever more mobile, where the ability of corporations to maintain their networks across international borders is continually enhanced. in such an integrating and ever- more integrated world,as debates over everything from buy america provisions to outsourcing to intellectual property illustrate, we have an ever- increasing stake in ensuring that even as the global economy becomes more integrated, the american government must pursue policies that are focused on american prosperity and whose benefits flow to american workers. strengthening our infrastructure is such a policy. infrastructure is constructed here in the united states by american workers; it cannot be relocated; and it draws mobile factors of production towards our country. we can take advantage of the benefits it brings. if transportation infrastructure was and remains a key source of competitive advantage in the industrial economy, digital infrastructure will be a key source

and i think that's a skill that will prove to be very useful and valuable if you are confirmed. you also have an impressive education. you've worked at the highest levels of government. and you've taught and writen about the law. i have no doubt that you understand our system of government and the roles of the three branches. but most importantly, i hope you'll appreciate the impact the law has on the lives of all americans. so it's my hope that your diverse experiences, your thoughtfulness and openness your talent for consensus building will allow you to see the long-term dangers to the court and the country and enable you if confirmed convince your colleagues to avoid making similar mistakes in the future. i also hope that you will have the wisdom and the courage that the justice you have been nominated to replace, justice john paul stevens showed time and time again in drawing the line against an executive branch that sought powers that endangered the individual rights and freedoms that our constitution guarantees. ms. kagan, of course, judging isn't easy. it's not just a mat

the skills and other job seeking and implement behavior as they bring.re is no question that there is still discrimination in the labor market. in a lot of it stays, we sent out matched pairs of black-white testers and all of them show that there is still discrimination out there. i think some of is what economists call statistical discrimination, not necessarily based on racial attitudes but not having good information about the attributes of individual job applicants when people don't have that kind of information, they are likely to fall back on stereotypes and the worst fears come as many employers do. that has implicatioos for policy. but i also think there are large gaps in a whole range of skills, job readiness, that employers broughte between out that high school graduates and maybe between blacks and whites -- between dropouts and high-school graduates and maybe between blacks and whites. at young ages, blacks start to fall behind with previous work experience, and that sends a negative signal to employers as well but job readiness and whether t

the other direction, and we will not and lose the industry, we will lose the skills that go with it.he industrial base is one thing, but when you really are talking about rocket scientists, you lose them and they go elsewhere and would be impossible to reconstruct that. so, last year the congress directed the department to review and establish a plan to sustain the solid rockets industrial base, and the plan was to be due june 1st. june 1st has come and gone. i understand the interim report is still in the development and the department is working towards delivering a final plan, quote, no earlier than the end of this fiscal year. i can take you to today's newspapers. they are talking about a continuing resolution at the end of this year to be followed at some undetermined moment an omnibus bill and this creates great uncertainty with respect to the solid rocket folks. so in the absence of an official recommendation regarding the delivery of solid rocket motor industrial base system and plans to you have any recommendations the you could offer now or anything you could share as to th

the second thing we will look at is a skilled work force.t is the reason we need to pay attention and make sure we are giving them the work force they need. the third thing they look at what infrastructure. it is roads, air fare, and our ports. making sure our exports are strong so they can come in and out. it is a simple process of making sure the environment for economic development is strong in the state, but we also want to make sure we are not just looking at bringing large quantities of companies to the state but we are also looking at the qualities of the help the small businesses we already have. >> is building our infrastructure -- is that out of the question for the next fiscal year because so much money has been cut out, or are there other ways to fund this? >> it is all about priorities. everybody is talking about the fact that we do not have money. we have a tight budget year. we have the ability to prioritize. we have to decide, are we going to realize that infrastructure is an issue, or are we going to say that spending on thi

and skilled craftsman. i just think the infrastructure of this country cries out for innovative ways of educating the populace. and we have to get out of this arcane, if you did not go to i believe or most elite schools, then you cannot aspire to the top of any type of industry. host: thank you. pensacola, florida. tristan, democrats landed caller: i was calling in regards to the gentleman who was on earlier. i don't want to butcher his name. i will call the mr. k -- call him mr. k. the drug policy person. i believe your opening question was what does he feel the root cause is to the drug epidemic problem. i don't ever recall him really fully addressing it. and i think because what we need and there is someone from a behavioral science background in his position that can really address the social issues and the people's lives, they're up -- upbringing, the daily things they go through, the reason why they use drugs. and as far as -- because, you know, he is from law enforcement background, so i think his wh

but aside from that, a skillful legislator, very skillful.i watched him walk out of this chamber from that door and very, very often stop as a bunch of senate pages, high school kids who serve in the senate, would gather around and then he would spend 15, 20 minutes telling them a story about the united states senate, about the history of this great place. too many of us walked bath -- back and forth walking too briskly because we're working on a lot of things. senator byrd always took time to talk to the pages. not just to talk to them, to tell them the stories about what this great united states senate has meant to this great country. he also loved very much his wife, erma, his late wife erma. and talked about her a lot to many of us. he loved to play the fiddle. and early on when i came to the united states senate, if you expressed even the least interest in music, he would get you down to his office and put a tape in his recording device to show that he played the fiddle on the program "hee haw." he was someone who loved west virginia, lo

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we have created an additional skill code. i just lost my train of thought. >> security special. >> by security -- a special protective security personnel. these are limited appointment positions right now. there will be serving to augment diplomatic security officers within the psd movement . >> how many have you hired. -- how many have you hired? >> we started hiring and training and we had enough agents to fill iraq and now we will start transitioning them into iraq. >> did you consider that program successful? >> all the feedback that i have gotten from our security personnel has been highly successful. in fact, to the point that we are looking to perhaps create a permanent skill code and move away from the limited appointment with them. >> what would you do with these folks when we get out of iraq and afghanistan? >> we will be able to use them for the training center. they will have an incredible amount of skill and high threat capability. >> one thing that i am concerned about is coordination appears to be going very we

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these were men of outstanding skill. mr. speaker, we should be alarmed and shocked by the events. i can assure you the body of the gunman has been found by the police. the statement would be made to parliament tomorrow. when communities are suddenly shattered in this way, our thoughts should be with those caught up in the dramatic events, especially those killed or injured. &&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&& >> the biggest concern is that appointed by the legislative. will you confirm that you will make all our lawmakers accountable to? >> i am grateful for my hon. friend for asking that question. i do not always give him answers that make him happy. there will be a session for the house can vote on. i am delighted that an agreement has been reached on the program. i can already hear what a talented is going to be how to achieve the consensus that we need, and i hope after all the promises of reform we can move toward a second chamber. >> harriet harman to. >> can i join the prime minister in paying tribute to those in the royal marines and to the royal itinerary. they were brave me

there seems to be a difference in cost as you sort of move up the skills chain. if you're going to hire local or third party nationals to do conruction, laundry or mail service, you're much more likely to save money than to do things sort of at the top of the skills, private security, more engineering function. if you hire americans you may pay on a per day basis more than an american official to do the same things. the benefits seem to be lesson the cost side often and more on quick deployability of contractors into a war zone. on the inherently governmental sid, there is certainly reason to revisit is whole issue. our recommendation has been to try to move away from trying to divide every single activity into interntly governmental and against a law to never contract out. we might be able to have the flibility to do that, but that shouldn't be the run of the mill way we do our operations. >> in our recent experience we have found that our federal pension rules, you know, we have some very highly skilled experienced personnel who we could use in afghanistan and

we have submitted skills in uniforms. many of them are from our reserve components to perform civilian functions when not in uniform that lend themselves very well to these kinds of tasks. on top of that, we have the national guard and the cultural development teams that have been superb. these are individuals who are farming experts, some cases leaders in the agricultural departments of their states, counties, and they have been a very valuable. they come as a self-contained units. if you have a unit that can move itself from a feed itself, secure itself, communicate, and provide expertise on the agricultural arena on top of that. there is a mix and that is the way it ought to be. the funds are substantial when you talk about $1.1 billion, that is significant to dispense. we coordinate very carefully with a the and the other elements doing -- we courtney very carefully with aid and the other elements of doing this. >> two things. i believe 90% of the prt's are military. the chairman ask you about why we are not moving mo

yet, the average investment in research and development for safety, accident prevention, and skill response was a paltry $20 million per year, less than 1/10 of 1% of their profits. the oil companies may think it is fine to produce carbon copies of their safety plans, but the american people and -- expect and deserve more. it is time to expect more from the oil industry, and that needs to start today. first, congress must ensure that there is unlimited liability for oil spills by oil companies. while we try to cap this well, we must lift the cap on oil industry liability. second, congress must also enact wide-ranging safety reforms for offshore drilling. if oil companies are going to pursue alternate-deep drilling, we must ensure that it is all true safe and that companies can respond ultrafast ann it is ultra safe. the free ride is over. right now, every single one of the company's here today and dozens of others are drilling for free in the gulf of mexico on leases that will cost american taxpayers more than $50 a billion in lost royalties. and fourth, we must ensure that new technologies

they say we should retain skilled space professionals. what is happening today is the exact opposite of this effort or this directive. they say we should invigorate, reinvigorate u.s. leadership, you don't reinvigorate something if you destroy the program, the program of record to move us toward the leadership position. i find this document unusual. i haven't had the chance to read everything in it but certain things come glaring out in the front, in the process of skimming through it, saying what we are doing is not necessarily what our words are. if our words here were indeed what our policy is, i'd be very happy and content. but what i see happening is not what this policy statement says we should be doing. sometimes i wonder if we really do understand what we are doing in space, and we need to recognize the significance of it, the importance of it and the importance it has in other aspects of the government and to our citizens and to the future, to inspiring kids. i yield back. mr. olson: i'm just very scared that this administration

low literacy skills, on the other hand, are associated with poor health, lower income levels, and social exclusion. braille is an internationally recognized mmthod of reading and writing for the blind community and is the key to literacy. it provides the blind community with the tools they need to succeed and improve their lives. yet braille literacy has declined to 10% in the united states compared to 50% in the 1960's. house resolution 1034, which i was proud to introduce and which has co-sponsorship among both republicans and democrats, recognizes the importance of braille for success and adult independence. studies show that braille literacy leads to higher educational levels, better employment, and increased financial independence. while 70% of blind adults face unemployment, 85% of those who are employed are able to read and write braille fluently. i am pleased to work with the national federation of the blind in developing this resolution that calls attention to the need for renewed commitment to braille literacy. the national federation of the blind, which is the nation's largest

two are widely praised with having mastered with the skill that running america's wars demands. it raises a seering question, what is wrong with a system that produces top generals? today's wars point out that they act like modern viceroys overseeing -- everything. they play dominant roles in the internal politics in the countries where the troopsal fight. also this morning a rare praise from the weekly standard. obama's choice is editorial written by joe crystal beginning this way. let us now praise barack obama, someone should, the left, weary of afghanistan is uneasy about then point to replace general stanley mccrystal since this was not the president laying the ground work for getting out. can't quite bring the themselves to believe the president may actually be doing the right thing. that editorial from the weekly standard. the philadelphia inquiror, congress is a war zone. that's your opinion. what do you think? caller: hi. thank you for taking my call. host: certainly. caller: right now i'm supporting bobby. and i will call myself a republican. i've been a democrat and i

they are very skilled in their trade. can we not put that in as a part of the solution in the emigration problem? >> i have a couple of different opinions on this. as an individual that is here illegally, are they getting benefits that taxpayers are paying where citizens are not? >> n he pays for his own education and is paying out of state tuition. >> we want to encourage the best and brightest to compete inside our college system. i think it'something we can debate and talk about. do i have the perfect solution for it? off the top of my head, i don't think i do. we can address it, but it goes back to a system. if you teach a generation that we are a nation of laws, but it is ok if you break it because we are going to allow it, you cannot sustain that. so there ii a way to do it properly. if we had a process system that allowed it to process, i think we could probably get ere. until then, is something we will have to debate. i don't have the direct answer. maybe you have some ideas for me. >> i graduate next saturday. >>

we count on them for this, and they perform their duties with a professionalism and skill that goes above and beyond every single day. they depend on us for our support and for a tough and smart federal enforcement strategy. we owe them nothing less. we are giving them nothing less. and i will continue to do so as long as the president and i and everyone else on this dais hold these positions. we also know there are thousands and thousands of businesses around the country that are trying to follow the law and hire a legal workforce. these are small businesses, farmers, food growers, producers, and ranchers that are the backbone of our economy. they, like our men and women in law enforcement, must have our full support. they deserve nothing less than a regime that cracks down swiftly on businesses that knowingly hire illegal workers to gain an unfair workplace advantage. to our partners in the business community who are doing the right thing, i say, we are with you. the government has stepped up our efforts through i-9 audits and intelligent workplace enforcement to level the playing field

but there was a real reason to respect both the outlook skills and the methodology of the other. honest about this. the had been a reporter not two years. >> three weeks, right? >> you landed your first job in the coolidge administration. [laughter] >> garfield, actually. >> i went to graduate journalism school. you taught me many things, sometimes with a hammer and sometimes by example. in terms of the relationship, it was what happened here? what is going on? if you look at that story just on the face, the mysteries compound themselves. we were in charge, as reporters, of explaining this. what really happened here? who caused this? what does it mean? that is why we loved it. we were both on married. carl had his warm newspaper to go home to read that. i had nobody to go home to at night. [laughter] we worked. >> i am just curious. and our current political culture where i opened the newspaper and read the entire series anything you were talking about with bush, i want to hide my head under a pillow. is it simply because you are woodward and bernstein did you do not just quit an

those of us who have sufficient quantitative skills but not impressive quantitative skills find ourselves actually quite unable to comprehend exactly what was going on and what went wrong. trying to manage risk today s become more and more difficult, and my own view of the matter is that, for what it's worth which is having disclosed that i have sufficient though not impressive quantitave skills probably not terribly relevant to your work, is that america did not become a great country by trying to avoid risk. and do not believe that we'll remain a great country if we try to avoid and take risk to zero. thisity as an example benefited enormously from a public works project called the erie canal begun at the start of a great recession in 1817, took seven years to build. not a single member of the new york city assembly or senate delegation voted for the project because they considered it to be an upstate project, but the details of that story which i have acquid having come and been in this city for ten years caused me to wonder whether or not the erie canal could be built today. because w

he possesses superior leadership skills and ability and was able to guide his team through to victory and so i thank again the gentlewoman from the district of columbia for yielding. i was rushing hard to try and get here before this ended because i am indeed proud to represent the world famous world known, world renowned chicago blackhawks who make up a part of the heart and the spirit of the congressional district that i have the good fortune to represent. so i thank you, mr. speaker, and yield back the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields back the balance of his time. the gentlewoman from the district of columbia. ms. norton: mr. speaker, in closing i'd like to reiterate my strong support for s. 1510 as amended. the bill is pay-go neutral. it makes important improvements that will strengthen the secret service, it improves government efficiency and helps a handful of d.o.d. civilian employees who have been wronged. i encourage all members to support this bill and i yield back the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlewoman hags yielded

this type of innovation creates good-paying, highly skilled jobs. however, before this business can develop the next game changing defense technology, unearth the next medical breakthrough, or discover a new source of clean energy, they need capital. the amendment before us simply ensures that the small business early stage investment program is targeted to fields like this, where there will be the biggest payoff for economic growth and job creation. madam chair, this is a good amendment, it will ensure the industries of tomorrow and future companies can secure financing to get off the ground. i urge my colleagues to vote yes and i yield the remaining time to the gentleman from missouri, mr. graves. . the chair: the gentleman from missouri is recognized. mr. graves: thank you, madam chair. thank you, mad cram chair for recognizing me -- madam chair for recognizing. i rise in support of the amendment to enact a program to target investment in certain industries. the selection of the applicant should be based on the likelihood the venture compap compa