you can find that that c- span.org/kagan. president obama yesterday called on senate republicans to support an extension of unemployment benefits. a procedural vote on the measure was scheduled this afternoon with senate leaders expecting the 60 votes needed to move the bill for per this is less than 10 minutes. >> good morning, everybody. right now, across this country, many americans are sitting at the kitchen table and scanning the classifieds, updating their resumes or sending out another job application hoping that this time they will hear back from a potential employer. they are filled with a sense of uncertainty about where their next paycheck will come from. i know the only thing that will entirely free them of those worries, the only thing that will fully lift that sense of uncertainty is the security of a new job. to that end, we all have to continue our efforts to do everything in our power to spur growth and hiring. i hope the senate acts this week on a package of tax cuts and expanded lending for small businesses

go to c-span.org/kagan. yesterday, the casket of west virginia senator robert byrd arrived in charleston and is now lying in proposed at the state capitol rotunda. elected in 1952, the west virginia democrat died on monday at the age of 92. he was the longest serving member of congress in u.s. history. we will have live coverage of this memorial service later this morning. here is a portion of yesterday's arrival ceremony. ♪ [amazing grace] ♪ >> the president and vice president will speak at the memorial service this morning. that is at 11:30 in charleston, west virginia. we will have live coverage on c- span 2. the casket is lying in repose at the west virginia state capital which will be open to the public until 9:00 a.m. eastern. a funeral service will take place next tuesday at arlington virginia. robert byrd was 92. available on television, radio,s and online and you can also connect with this on twitter, facebook, and youtube and sign up for our scheduled hiller e- mails @ c-span.org. >> "washington jo

all at c-span.org/kagan. to purchase tv the copies of the confirmation hearing, go to c- span.org/a video library. find a program that you would like to purchase, then click on the buy now button. >> one of the best quotes about money and politics, it is like water that finds a hole. >> he won the pulitzer prize for his reporting. tonight we will talk with jeff smith, a national investigative correspondent for "the washington post." >> tuesday, general david petraeus told the senate committee that the july 2011 deadline for beginning u.s. troop withdrawal from afghanistan is the beginning of the process, not the date when the u.s. had for the exit. general petraeus replaces general stanley mcchrystal, who resigned in june 23 following an article in "rolling stone magazine" in which he and colleagues were quoted as making remarks about obama and top officials. . . d yesterday morning. robert byrd was a member of this committee for nearly three decades. just as he did in all of his senate work, he was a relentle

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you can see her confirmation hearing on line at c- span.org/kagan. you confine your other appearances here on c-span. all of that have more -- and more. . [captions copyright national cable satellite corp 2010] [captioning performed by national captioning institute] >> with my colleagues we addressed the next stage in this ongoing effort. since janet napalatono took her place as the secretary of homeland security in the administration of president obama, we have seen past efforts, but also an increase in resources in an unprecedented way. but we have seen the addition in accordance with the elements of the strategy we have consistently followed having to do with infrastructure personnel, strategy, and technology. today the secretary announced the active deployment of 1,200 national guards, and that will begin august 1. the efforts of the national guard will be to support the personnel that d.h.s. has increased and placed on the southwest border since 2009. we will see an increase in the technology that will be made available there. the mobile surveil

you also have access to additional documents, reference wins, remarks by senators and more at c-span.org/kagan. to purchase copies of the dvd, go to c-span.org where you can find a program you want to purchase and click the by now button. >> c-span is now available in over 100 million homes, bringing you a direct link to public affairs, politics, history and nonfiction books as a public service. created by america's cable companies. >> we move on now to date to of confirmation hearings with questions from the committee chairman and ranking members and senators orrin hatch, arlen specter, and lindsay gramm. >>> good morning, everyone. today -- today justice john paul stevens' resignation from the supreme court takes effect. i appreciated your recognition of his service to the country in your opening statements. general kagan -- he was the first person i -- the first supreme court nomination i was able to vote on. as a very young and very junior member of the united states senate. but you spoke eloquently about the rule of law securing the blessings of liberty about the constitution. and about t

you with find this online and for past support at c-sp c-span.orgclac-span.or c-span.org/kagan. >> c-span is available in homes as a public service created by american cable companies. >> now kenneth feinberg, administrator of the bp fund, he spoke in washington for a little less than an hour. >> objection >> could i have your attention please? we are pleased to have kenneth feinberg as a speaker. ken and i have known each other on capitol hill, i was working with senator vie, ken had come to capitol hill after time as an assistant attorney in new york and worked for a judge in court of appeals. ken is native of massachusetts, and graduated from ny law school. and after leaving in 1980 he set up the office for kay scluler and appointed by judge in the southern district of new york. to help the special master for the agent orange litigation. and did such a good job and appointed for other master's such as asbestos and subsequent to that. ken started his own firm, feinberg and company, and now rozen, and asked to do things in the mediation area, until known for the special master for 9/11 c

all at c-span.org/kagan. to buy copies of the hearing, go to c-span.org/videolibrary. find the program you want to purchase, and click on "by now." news from the labor department with a report that the unemployment rate fell to its lowest rate in almost a year, at 9.5%. here is more on numbers and what is behind them as the commission of labor and statistics testifies. it is about one hour 10 minutes. >> the meeting will come to order. and i would first like to recognize myself for my opening statement. today's employment report from the bureau of labor and statistics shows that in june the economy added 83,000 private-sector jobs. this is the sixth straight month of employment gains in the private sector. you can see that the light blue is the gains of jobs in the private sector. the red, the redv-chart -- when president bush was in office. you can see down in the valley. at the low point, we lost over 779,000 jobs. the last month president bush was in office. when president obama took office, it has been a zigzag, but we are trending in the right direction and gainin

kagan. c-span.org, we have created a kagan hub, we can watch the hearings in high-definition. you can watch the previous c- span appearances of elena kagan. real-time updates with explanation of legal terms, it leads to documents relating to the hearings and more. you can follow the hearings on twitter and access additional documents and more. you can purchase dvd copies for supreme court nominee taken, go to c-span.org/videolibrary. click the "buy now" button. witnesses who supported an opposed her nomination testified. this is about four hours. >> i apologize to anyone who has been waiting patiently. we have a former colleague, senator robert byrd, whose body is lying in repose in the senate, an extraordinary occurrence until a few minutes ago. we decided not to hold hearings during that time. there are a number of panels. any one of you have a statement? we will put the statement in the record. you can submit your statement. all of it will be in the record. i would urge you to keep it in the five-minute limit. senators will be recognized for five minutes each to go around.

kagan as supreme court justice. watch live coverage on c-span3 and c-span.org. and read the latest supreme court spoke providing unique insight about the accord. available in hardcover and as an e-boiok. >> last week, the u.s. and serve court of appeals struck down communications in the indecency policy. we will talk about this with patrick truman, who filed a brief for the family research council. that is tonight on "the communicators" on c-span2. >> c-span, and public service created by america's cable companies. >> "washington journal" continues. host: adam boulton is the political editor of sky news. thank you for joining us this morning. we are happy to have you on the eve of david cameron's first reserve to the white house as prime minister. tell us about what you expect. guest: it is always important, the first meeting as prime minister with the president. and it is very exciting for officials to meet their opposites. of course, the two men have met before, most recently at the g-8 in canada. but this time around there is a certain urgency, particularly t

span.org /store. the senate judiciary committee meets today to vote on the nomination of elena kagan. watch live coverage on c-span3 and online, and learn more about the nation's highest court in our latest book, "the supreme court." candid conversations providing unique insight about the court. available in hardcover and as an e-book. host: at the table, tom davis. former head of the republican national campaign committee. will republicans take over the house? guest: they have a great desire to do it, but you have to run more races. they have done a better recruiting job this year than at any time in history. there is a lot of banks out there. the democrats had done a great job of positioning candidates and raising money. very few democrats would just roll over for republicans. 39 seats is a high bar. there is a problem with the republican brand name. as good as the polls are, it is not that people are enamored with republicans, but they're just upset with the status quo. many people do not identify with republicans, so they must put the coalition together. as we move into september,

kagan until next tuesday. watch coverage at c-span.org and learn more of the nation's highest court in the latest book "the streak ." it provides unique insight about the court. available in hard cover and as an ebook. >> christina romert testified before the joint economic committee today on a report that says the stimulus act created about three million jobs. our coverage begins with questions from members and is a little less than two hours. >> i would like to ask a question about my home state of new york. i saw in your report you released today that the recovery act has created an estimated 206,000 jobs in new york state, and of course i'm very pleased to see that. new yorkers need every single one of those jobs. and along those lines, can you tell me how much private investment in new york state has been spurred or sparked by the $100 billion in recovery act investments? >> let me first -- [inaudible] >> the state employment numbers. >> the microphone, they need to hear you better. >> i wanted to first say a word about the state's employment numbers, because as those were mentioned we say those are inherent

kagan s supreme court justice. live coverage on c-span. and at c-span.org.earn more about the nation's highest court in "the supreme court." providing unique insight. available in hardcover and as an e-book. [laughter] -- host: we are talking about the future of medicaid with a man who used to run that organization in 2004 tom scully. what is medicare? guest: it is a wonderfully structured comments times planned for the government. spending is probably up to the $420 billion level this year. it is really the true safety net program. it covers 60 million americans. that is 16% of u.s. health care spending coming from medicaid spending. that will being expended under the reform program. 40% of births in the country are covered by medicaid. it covers 29 million children. about 9 million elderly and disabled. one of the confusing things is, it is actually 56 different programs. the five territories in the district of columbia. every one is run independently and different. in some cases, that is a problem. on average, just to get to the stimulus, the wealthiest s

kagan to the supreme court. watch live coverage on c-span 3 and on c-span.org. learn more about the supreme court in c-span's latest book, providing unique insight about the court. available in hardcover and as an ebook. >> monday, a discussion on attitudes affecting u.s.-china relations. the woodrow wilson center host speakers from panels on the u.s.-china university. >> by a vote of 60 to 39, the senate approved the financial regulations bill on thursday. they decided to tighten regulation practices and expand consumer protection. prior to that vote, the senate had the vote to end a bit on the bill. ranking member, richard shelby, took the floor to discuss the bill. this is just under 30 minutes. on the dodd-frank regulation conference report which is now before the senate. madam president, nearly two years ago, the financial crisis exposed massive deficiencies in the structure and the culture of our financial regulatory system. years of technological advances, product development, and the advent of global capital markets rendered the system ill-suited to achi

kagan being on the supreme court. you can see that online at c- span.org. you also find her other appearances on c-span and passet hearings on nominees. kenneth feinberg, the administrator of dozen bp gulf oil spill -- the bp gulf oil spill forum. he spoke for a little less than an hour. n and i have known each other for about 0 years. we -- 30ears. we both worked together on catol hill, he was working for senator kennedy, a i was d come to capitol hill after completing some time as an assistant u.s. attorney in new york and also has clerked for chief judge fuld in the new york court of appeals. ken is a nati of massachusetts, graduate of university of matts at amherst, and after he left senator kennedy as chief of staff in 1980, he set up the washington officer for kay shuller. in that position he was appointed by judge jack weinstein, a judge from the southern district of new york, to help the special master for the -- [inaudible] litigation. and ken did such a good job in getting that resolved that he was subsequently appointed for a number of special li

judiciary committee has postponed voting on elena kagan as supreme court justice until next tuesday. watch live coverage on c-span 3 and under c-span.orgnd out more from the latest c- span book, "the supreme court." unique insight on the court, available in hardcover and in e- book. >> c-span is now available in over 100 million homes, bringing you a direct link to public affairs. crted by america's cable companies. >> "washington journal" continues. host: we are pleased to welcome back congressman xavier becerra of california, vice chair of the democratic congress and part of the debt commission. there's a tension between house democrats and the white house. "politico" ran the story on the meeting between the two. caller: -- guest: it was a good meeting, the president was right on the money. making it clear that where we want jobs this year is in america. i thought that it was a very good meeting. i saw no inconsistency, it was a good meeting. host: call came suggested this -- pauol kane suggested this morning that they have been taking it on the chin from the president without enough political support from him. do you feel that? gues

kagan. watch the live coverage on c- span 3 and at c-span.org and lend more about the nation's highest court. the latest book -- "the supreme court" -- providing unique in said. -- providing unique insight. >> now a town hall meeting on the bp oil spill fund. ken feinberg spoke to residents in houma, louisiana about the claims process, and answers their questions. it is just over one hour. it is from last tuesday. >> good morning. my name is michel claudet, and i am very pleased to introduce this gentleman who has had a long history of working with people to resolve certain problems. he worked with agent orange people, with the 9/11 people, has been a mediator, and is a very impressive individual. i have heard him speak now twice. the first time was when the senior senator from louisiana, senator landrieu brought him down, and we had the good fortune to meet at that time. after that, we begged him to please come to houma where we have so many people would be claims information and how-to knowledge for the future. it is my pleasure to introduce the man known as a $20 billion man-to-man select

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span.org. while the commission is breaking for lunch, a couple of news stories here. earlier today the senate judiciary committee committee met to vote on the nomination of elena kagan to be the next supreme court justice. republicans on the committee called for a one-week delay so they'll reconvene next week. if approved the full senate will then vote on the nomination. also, president obama announced his new budget director nominee. jacob lew will move over from the state department to fill the place of outgoing director peter orszag who steps down this month. if confirmed, mr. lew will assume the cabinet level post with the administration facing a deficit that exceeds $3 trillion for the first third quarters of the fiscal year. we'll have more live coverage of the oil spill commission when the house takes a break. you can watch all the proceedings on our website at c-span.org. yesterday, a number of people gathered outside the hotel where this oil spill meeting is being held. they were protesting the response. >> why are you out here protesting today? >> because this is an enormous environmental disaster and economic disaster and b.p. and the government have been co