otherwise it will be tough. >> reporter: and other businesses we visited in springfield were feeling the credit crunch too like this local massage training school owned by juliette. >> the biggest problem we have is our growth ate our cash. getting cash these days is not easy. we have excellent credit. we have excellent credit history. obtaining credit is very difficult. >> reporter: meg and chambers owner of the springfield clothing boutiques stacks and jack stack's daughter didn't hang all her hopes on getting a loan when she actually needed it. instead she applied when her numbers were up. >> i didn't need the money but there might and time when i will need the money. due to the doctor crunch right now where people are trying to grow and they're needing the money and they're not getting, i wanted to cushion our business. we took our numbers that lookeded beautiful and asked them if they could expand our line of credit. >> reporter: did the bank say yes. >> they said yes. >> reporter: even though you didn't need the money. >> we didn't need the money. >> reporter: this is an affirm

in my district in lincoln, illinois, he's also a pastor for memorial medical center located in springfield, illinois. in addition to that, he's a public servant in his own right, being elected to his second term now for the west lincoln school board. he's in a whole host of organizations, constandly giving back to his family -- constantly giving back to his family. a member of the orchestra, an officer of the can you be scouts organization in his

[laughter] >> and i have always loved the story of the gentlemen in springfield 70 miles to boston who was writing his will, and said that, in a cohesive normal things in will entities if you want to be buried in a cemetery 70 miles from where he lived it and it turned out that the cemetery was in the district a legendary state senator who regularly managed to get turnouts about 100%. in the precincts he controlled. and the prince and why do you want to be buried in boston? and he replied, i see no reason why my death should deprive me of my right to participate in the democratic process. now i want to make very clear, no one involved in this event believes in that approach to democracy, but i also want to make clear, t is seen as a door and humorless lot and yes, reformers to have a sense of humor, even about democracy if so. i want to salute miles and demos and all the groups involved here. i'm going to say this at the end as well. for aking democracy a centerpiece of what they're up to four try to make democracy itself a centerpiece of our national debate. and that's why we at brook

in my district in lincoln, illinois, he's also a pastor for memorial medical center located in springfield, illinois. in addition to that, he's a public servant in his own right, being elected to his second term now for the west lincoln school board. he's in a whole host of organizations, constandly giving back to his family -- constantly giving back to his family. a member of the orchestra, an officer of the can you be scouts organization in his community -- an officer of the cub scouts organization in his community. he's joined by his wife, melissa, his daughter, burr gandhi, and his -- burghandy, his son, joshua. we welcome you to the capitol and thank you for offering up the prayer this morning. with that, madam speaker, i yield back. the speaker: thank you, mr. schock. the chair will entertain up to 15 additional one minutes on each side of the aisle. for what purpose does the gentlewoman from california rise? >> to address the house for one minute and to revise and extend. the speaker: without objection. ms. lofgren: i rise to talk about the service of a corporal who was killed in ac

host: springfield, missouri. mark is unemployed. tell me about your situation. caller: i'm originally from the chicago area. my company that was established up there, we tested metals, x- ray, ultrasound on metals, that kind of thing. after 25 years, they shut their doors. and they -- i am a disabled veteran, so i was able to go through the veterans administration to medical x-ray school. however, by that time, i got into the program in 2003, and there were hundreds of people applying for just 32 seats in the program. everyone at told to go to health care, go to health care. there are certain sectors of health care that are just flooded with an overabundance of people. i'm 50 years old, and this has been going on the last decade. this was more of a rural area with more of a need for x-ray techs, but both of the major hospitals have their own x-ray program. host: have you been receiving unemployment benefits? caller: yes, sir. host: how much you get a week? caller: about 283 that day at the stimulus money to that. -- about 280. they add a little stimulus money to

charles joining us from springfield, massachusetts. good morning. caller: i was thinking that what is going on right now is sort of a reflection of what went on at kyoto. it seems as though america is being challenged by these emerging powers. you have the situation in north korea where we are completely reliance on the chinese. and the situation with iran, some of these shifting alliances and up having influence in afghanistan. but the thing that struck me this morning is this situation with israel. i lived there in the 1990's and i'm interested in absolutely how polarized people are that, you know, that israel doesn't bargain in good faith, return to the 1967 borders. everyone takes sort of an line. ve tist i think a lot of is right now, i think it will be interesting to see where the israeli politics shakeout, whether people support netanyahu. but i think you could make an but i think you could make an argument that, you know, the bush administration pushed for this idea of democracy in iraq, pushed it for a solution, like having a democracy woul

host: springfield, illinois, republican line.aller: there has been various road construction around the city especially around and states and highways. i work for a chiropractor. build a bridge. when they started it, half of it fell last fall. they had to clean up the mace -- mess and do it over. they are finishing this bridge and it has impacted my block of business. it is hard to get into this business. if you are going to stimulate the economy, through tax cuts and some regulations on business. i do not think the way to do it is to put it out at the taxpayers' expense. it should be more through private means. host: more from the analysis in the "new york times." we are talking about evidence of stimulus spending in your area. our next call comes on the independent line from grand rapids, michigan. caller: we have seen a lot of evidence here. there are widening the expressway. i just feel it is not money well spent. i do not know anybody who has gotten a job through this. it is evident and money being spent, but it is not relea

next call is springfield, missouri, bruce on the independent line. caller: good morning. why are we doing business with china first of all? they are and always will be -- why are we not building more companies in this country to bring jobs back? we have people out of work, many people out of work. the country has gone downhill since world war ii. and it has been taken on the aspects of rebuilding every other country in the world and giving money to all other countries. we borrow money from china to give money to other countries. it does not look like our government has done their job to protect our country from these overseas industries. host: not an uncommon refrain. guest: well, if you take the long-term perspective it certainly is true the united states is a less dominant force in the global economy than 50 or 60 years ago in a period after world war ii when most of eur e europe, the soviet union and so forth were devastated by the war and we survived in a relatively strong position with a very strong industrial base one that grew substantially during the second world

host: let's go to the democrat's line in springfield, illinois. caller: good morning. agree with your guest that jimmy carter did to kind allay their apathy. i think that was harmful to the american psyche as a whole because that didn't contribute to any inspiration coming from the white house, and i think that is a key thing that people want and they still want it. i think they need to feel contact with the president and their elected officials, and i think that is kind of what obama is trying to play catch up with now in going down to the gulf multiple times and trying to show just a little more hands-on connectedness to the american public. guest: i agree. i think that obama has to avoidd his own tendency to be froff sorely and to overanalyze the nuanced, give 17-minute length-long answers to simple questions. so far in bp he has done that. but that would be the type of danger that he shares with carter. and carter's speech was based and carter's speech was based on the work of a cultural critic named christopher lash and dell fed into some deep intellectual issues.

host springfield, missouri. welcome. caller: good morning. i believe the financial reform bill will have some effect. bill will have some effect. it will serve to rein in how big financial institutions operate. i think they've learned something from past experience also. i expect them to operate in greater fiduciary responsibility. on fannie mae and freddie mac, the caller from illinois was correct? fannie mae and freddie mac was not really involved in creating the mortgage crisis. there are public report filed with the sec, because they were holistic companies. the people who know nothing would assume what they read, they could see that the 2,003rd 2006, the market share decreased 50%. they were not involved in the subprime is. they may 30-year mortgages. the loans that caused the crisis were all adjustable-rate mortgages financed by wall street for do it too is not until late 2006 when president bush put a new person in charge veiny -- fannie mae the country wife actually went to fannie mae and said that if you do not start buying some of o

he came to springfield, illinois, in 1976 when he was aspiring to run for president of the united states he stood out from the rest of the crowd because he got up and he said a few words about why he wanted to be president, and then he reached in and grabbed his fiddle and he started playing it. i tell you,he brought the house down. i don't know who else was there. i think jimmy carter was there. but i do remember that bob byrd was there. when i came to the senate, i thought i can't wait to see or hear him play that fiddle again. i heard that after his grandson died in an automobile accident, he said i will never touch it again in memory of my grandson. that's the kind of family commitment he made as well. he would sing and would occasionally have a christmas party downstairs and a few of us would be lucky enough to get invited, and he would sing, but he was a man who had gone through some life experiences and family experiences which were very meaningful to him. i remember another day when i was on the floor of the senate here and there was a debate about the future of the national endo

but similar undercover operations after they allegedly tried to blow up buildings in dallas and springfield, illinois. the texas sky has now pleaded guilty to that crime. has now pleaded guilty to that crime. i could go on and on. there is jihad jane, there are a bunch of them. now, all of these -- not all of these cases make the headlines, and not all of the people who are convicted are hard-core terrorists or key terrorist operatives. an aggressive and wide ranging terrorist operation made net a lot of smaller fish along with the big ones. that is a good thing, because it allows us to stop operations before they go through, and allows us to catch the small fish before they become big. we have used the criminal justice system to collect valuable intelligence. in effect, it has worked at what the intelligence community would call a human intelligence platform. it is a platform for collecting human intelligence about terrorists. the fact is, when the government has a strong prosecution case, the defendant knows this. he knows that he will spend a long time in a small cell, which create power