us plenty of time. we have to work hard. but we get elected november, st of us, the first week in november if we're new senators and we find it really difficult to put everything together in o months to go into a -- into the senate january. but we should at least give the same courtesy to the justice of the supreme court that we expect the american voters and taxpayers to give us. i yield the floor. a senator: mr. president? the presiding officer: the senator from new york. mr. schumer: i just want to confirm and agrgr with the majority leader and our chairman in terms of what they said. bottom line here: this is a nomination that should be easy to study up on. the record is public. the record has been ailable from the day her name was nominated. and there are not thousands and thousands of pages that we given to us at the end of the day, as i kno my colleague, the chairman, has said. i'd like to make one other point here. i know that my colleague, our ranking minority member, mr. sessions said, alito took some 90 days. that is true. but that included both

today we honor all the veterans of normandy and all their camp radios who never left. host: joining us from st. louis, john mcmanus, associate professor at the university of missouri at ralla to talk to us about the 65th anniversary of - d-day. what is the significance of d-day in terms of how they think of warfare in the 21st century? guest: in some respects it is the event of the 21st century because many hitching believe it is the pivotal moment of world war ii in europe. from an american perspective it is really the moment when the united states becomes a military superpower. in a larger sense you see that in the summer of 1944 in many parts of world two, but the normandy invasion is the leading element of that. it is probably the quintessential amphibious invasion in human history from a military tack ithticiatachticia view. host: in many cases we use the words d-day and normandy interchangeably. but d-day was a separate event from the battle of normandy. explain that. guest: exactly. d-day was just the beginning. the invasion itself is known as d-day, june 6, 1944. that is one of the poi

is a time of endless apectations, and at the same time crises that are real, not s st financial but economic, not e st economic, the global environmental crisis is catastrophic. it is upon us. the role of the united states and the world, continuing ingitary ism is upon us. theis an amazing moment to be alive. we need to find a way to negotiate through the bleakness and brightness of this important moment in history. ou host: there is a chapter you wrote called the modern slave pr ship, you walk through visiting chase's biological mother in prison. an expert pro, recognizable and treated affectionately by the most miserable of prison guards. don't bring anything into prison that is contraband, chewing gum, keys, magic markers, empty your pockets, take off shoes. why do you have a chapter about visiting prisons in this book? >> guest: there's almost no example that is more clear-cut about why we still have a problem with racism and the structure of white supremacy in the united states than the present lag -- blog that we can no longer sustain. inr brothers and sisters incarcerated for non-violent crimes, no evidence whatsoever that this caging of young black latino men makes

of benjamin netanyahu on "meet the press." st. petersburg, florida. thomas on the independent line. caller: anti-terrorist training material currently being used by the department of defense teaches its personnel that free expression in the form of public protest should be regarded as low level terrorism. this is what the part of the -- defense, which is suppose protect our civil rights, is teaching its personnel that people who question authority should be regarded as low-level terrorists. host: the story on some of the former guantanamo detaineess. bermuda premier faces scrutiny, the decision to accept former guantanamo prisoners fuels' debate about bill leader's motives. bermuda's top elected officials survived a vote of no-confidence after a 14-hour parliamentary debate here over the weekend. prime minister ewart brown remains focus of a fiery public debate over the motives that led him to accept for freed prisoners from the u.s. detention facility in guantanamo bay, cuba. mr. brown said the decision was the right thing to do and he was happy to help the united states and to president obama. new mexico, last call on the issue of the respon

of the american dream. 400 years later, that dream is alive and well. the evidence is all around us. for we are all the products of some uniquely american story. at the corner of st. james and charity streets in downtown richmond, va., and may historically -- in a historical african-american neighborhood, there is a widowed jewish immigrant from russia. she fled the anti-semitism and bloody pogroms of her native lands just before the bolshevik revolution. in american -- in america, she sought religious freedom, opportunity, and a better life. in richmond, she did not have much money. but she did have remarkable drive and determination. she raised her two children in tight quarters above a tiny grocery store she owned and operated. she worked day and night and sacrificed tremendously to secure a better future for her and her two children. sure enough, this young woman who had the courage to journey to a distant land with hope as our only possession listed herself into the ranks of the middle-class. through hard work, thrift, and face, she was even able to send her two children to college. before making her way to virginia, this young woman had passed through ellis

of the 3rd. loyal fans traveling down to st. pete to follow our ball club club. today is telecasts by the washington nationals. it may not be reproduced in any form. the counts may not be used without consent of the washington nationals. >> bob: looking to bunt. this kid has had a great series, 4 life 7 with -- 4-7 with a walk. >> rob: from this point on, this is where detwiler has had issues. 22 earned runs or 22-72 with 13 earned runs. >> bob: the name of the hometown, same high school as andy and ben sheets went to. that's a shattered bat. to johnson for the first out. >> rob: right here he gets gets inside. great curveball. i had a great conversation with the equipment manager for the marlins when i was there. now he's the equipment manager for the nationals. we talked about the extended length of the new bats and maple wood. how the maple wood has a swirling grain to it. the old bats, the grains are the length of the bat. when you broke them, it was basically like breaking a boat oar. now they're longer and thinner in the middle. you've got to projectiles when i used to break them, they dropped at home plate. it's the grain and not the different types of bats. >> bob:

of their opening statements, the st. james catholic elementary school students from falls church virginia, and their social studies teacher, kelly crayton, used to work on the hill. there she is back there, but we thank you for bringing these young people and we hope you enjoyed a few minutes of this important testimony. andy get the opportunity to see how we congressional hearing is chaired by mr. oberstar and participation by other members of the committee. thank you for being with us. >> and you will go back knowing that you are-- your member of congress, mr. mica is a partner in the works of all of this committee, and from st. james, so appropriate, the epistle of james is the epistle of works. [laughter] by your works, you shall be saved, so you were here. you quebecan read the epistle of st. james, and then related to what we are doing in this inputting people to work. >> and if you don't study hard, we will make a comeback here and sit through all of the hearings. [laughter] thank you very much class. class dismissed, as you wish. [applause] now that you have regained your composure thank you very much for that interruption. please pro

us on masn. good crowd at tropicana field in st. petersburg. dukes 2-2 with a pair of doubles and two runs scored stepping in a place where he first played and not far from where he grew up. >> rob: elijah has nailed two shots off today. >> bob: evidently the problems elijah was having with the fans in left field last night, some of what they were saying was getting personal and family related. elijah didn't like it. fans have been harassing opposing ballplayers for 100 years, but there's a point where it goes too far. >> bob: he's done damage today. that's the best way to shut them down. swing and a miss, 2-1. in on dukes' hands. shields started this inning with 59 pitches. he's nearing 80. [cheering and applause] and a big breaking ball. elijah dukes strikes out. nationals strand their third runner of the day. 4 life 2 half way through. thro) - it's on. - oh, it's on, all right. - it's on. - totally on. 2 -- 4-2 half way through. . - it's on. - oh, yeah, it's on. affirmative, it's on. announcer: southwest airlines announces new service out of bwi airport, with three

st. regis says. host: but if there is no other way to get to some parts of the country other than using the regional carriers. caller: that is true, as some places you don't have a choice, but in a lot of flying the last couple of years, the mainline route has been replaced with a smaller, regional jets going from houston to york -- newark, used to be heavy carriers and now to save money the replace the larger aircraft with the regional airplanes. host: that a cut on the democrats' line. -- vivica. caller: putting out a national call for amtrak and the high- speed trains that they have in japan, it would not cost any more to buy a ticket for them and to implement as much money as we spend on the airlines and their big failures. it is safer to travel on the ground. the contract up to 200 miles an hour. of course, it would not work for international, but for national journey is, i think that the airlines and the businesses, the lobbyists that kept amtrak down, they are always down in them and saying it is not feasible -- yes, it is. it would save lives. and in the end, i think it would save money. hos

of practice. >> as he moves through the st. jude classic, does phil mickelson go to the st. jude trying to win the tournament, or does he almost usee round to prepare himself for bethpage? >> i think it's definitely going to be a practice round. obviously winning is such a positive and we saw with tiger woods, i mean, i think the thing from tiger woods that i took from a couple days ago from yesterday i guess is that he actually started on first tee in front of everybody when seven years ago he basically tried to avoid the public eye by starting on the third tee away from where all the people were. that said to me he was in such a good mood from winning the day before at the memorial. without a doubt winning helps. and i think winning would be a nice boost for mickelson coming into the bethpage black, but that said, it's there for practice. he's not there... he doesn't want to come away from this winning the st. jude and finishing tenth in the u.s. open. he wants to win the u.s. open and finish tenth at the st. jude. >> last thing, just watching him for as long as you were able to see him today, i know much of the round was privat

i remember one time the first lithotriptor was used in my state of oklahoma, st. john's hospital, you could submerge a patient and dissolve what was in them, kidney stones and other things, however, they couldn't use it, they had to invasively cut open people to remove these things that could have otherwise have been dissolved. but the problem is we have in our medicare system a lot of people making medical decisions who are not qualified. we have a lot of improvement that's need to be made. by adopting a system that has been a failure every place it has been tried whether it is sweden or great britain or canada is not something that we are prepared to do in this country. i know the effort's out there. they're going to make every effort to see that that happens. we're going to have to make sure it doesn't happen. with that, i yield the floor, mr. president. mr. brown: mr. president? the presiding officer: the senator from ohio. mr. brown: thank you, mr. president. i know that most of my colleagues seem to enjoy the government health care plan for -- of which they a

st. louis, illinois, focus on grass, roots, sustainable progress. it creates a bond between businesses, imleerks and surrounding communities. despite selfing only one-fourth of the anticipated federal funding, they have found aspiring entrepreneurs to develop businesses using a creative away of tax incentives and loans. this legislation is an important step toward revising the blight faced by our inner cities without gentrifying these areas or shutting out the community members who need our help the most. senator lincoln and senator snowe deserve our most utmost support in their fight to rehabilitate these communities. i'm proud to sponsor -- i'm proud to cosponsor this legislation. i urge my colleagues to join with me in this effort. thank you, mr. president. i'll change to another subject i had like to speak on, mr. president. as i address this chamber today, our country remains in the grips of the worst economic disaster since the great deppression. we have all felt its devastating effects. in the last half-century, there's never been harder for working americans to make ends meet. but finally, we're beginning to see indications that the worst may be behind us. the economy is still shedding jobs, but at a slower rate. business is starting to pick up aga