european countries would generally have state-controlled universities. and there's little autonomy in the research mission. from the state. it also in many other countries does not fully recognize the importance of free inquiry and academic freedom. and then we've had unprecedented vast resources put into the system that has enabled us to build excellence. resources that went far beyond what european nations could do after the war when they were trying to recover from the war. and far what asian nations were able to do until very recently. so what were some of the factors that contributed to the evolving idea of the american university? and there are a few. first of all, until the turn of the century, these were small colleges basically. harvard and yale and princeton and the privates as well as some of the publics were relatively small focusing on undergraduate education when interestingly enough when daniel gilman created hopkins and began to raid harvard of some of its best faculty it, sort of woke up charles elliott to the idea that maybe we have to c

i think what state universities have to do, because i really believe that states across the united states are in a very serious trouble, not only defaulting on their notes, but just not being able to support the general obligations of their universities. and as a result in order for these institutions to really survive they are going to have to emulate not only what private universities have done from their inception, but to innovate in ways to generate additional revenue, and that is what we're doing. it is what we are seeing across the united states. there was a chill that existed for some time that really served as a break at public universities, and it was real. >> i'm in journalism school. thanks. in identifying curtailments to intellectual freedom almost all of you folks have done two things. would really surprise me that no one identified as the technology transfer offices and plants. do you identify that? also undermining the support capacity. with the result the hps and start-ups, do you think that is a real risk? >> i think geoff was alluding to some of this. it is discussed in

. >>> aim gigi barnett inside coppin state university's new stadium. a tour is just ahead. >>> i'm bernadette woods and how much long ser this storm system going to last we have your first warn forecast when eyewitness news returns. ,,,, . >>> the show goes on at seaworld today on a few days after a veteran train ser tragically killed by an osha. hundreds filled the amphitheater to watch the first killer whale show since the attack. trainers were notice allowed in the water, meaning that some spectacular stunts were missing from the show. at the end, it was a tribute to the 40-year-old veteran trainer, dawn brancheau, visitors described what it's like to be at that show today. >> i just wanted to be here for this show, to make sure that it continued. it's so professional and it touched so many lives and i don't think there was a dry eye in the stands when they mentioned this was a tribute. >> the medical examiner says brancheau died from drowning and multiple traumatic injuries. friends of brancheau say she loved her job and knew what she was doing whe

also ahead, they were kicked out of a state university 50 years ago. now they get a special invitation to return and talk about lessons learned from a tense time in history. >> the temperatures may be frigid, but the atmosphere here is red hot. welcome to comcast on the red carpet. i'm at the 14th annual maryland state police polar bear plunge, maryland's premier winter event. >> this is my kind of weather. >> perfect day for a plunge. >> you got to get in. >> this is a huge event. it's amazing. we started back in '96 and it was probably like hundreds of people, and now it's just thousands. it's turned into a major standout event for the state of maryland. >> this is the it first time we've had a snow like this and it really does tell who this is all about. it's raising money for a special group of people and they're coming no matter what the weather is. >> how do you do this? >> why? because i love the energy. >> the show must go on. the polar bear plunge, great benefit for special olympics, one of the great charities in maryland, and a ton of people

james mack was a swim coach at morgan state university in baltimore where i'm from. he also ran a wrestling club and was a decon in my church and coach mack whenever he would meet a young boy, he would say hi, champ, how are you doing. he would say wallison, there are two kinds of boys in this world, champs and chumps. i wasn't anyone that people spent time with, again, because of my stutter, i didn't talk much, because of my inability to read, i didn't participate in many church activities at the time, so i wasn't one of the kids a had great promise, that people wanted to embrace right away, but coach mack did. well, if my community, back when communities were a place with when neighbors talked, you looked after your children, coach mack had heard that i was about to get into trouble. as i mentioned, because of my size, pause of my learning issues -- because of my learning issues, i was bullied a lot by kids and i talked a lot about bullying. we've seen the stories of what happens across this country when a child is bullied and adults don't intervene and that child,

. >>> a special partnership between morgan state university's choir and the baltimore orchestra. highlights black history month. gigi barnett has more. ♪ [ music ] >> reporter: hours of practice and preparation by the morgan state university choir will come together on stage, with the baltimore symphony orchestra this weekend. ♪ [ music ] >> reporter: it's a celebration of the 75th anniversary of the opera classic. >> we have been working so hard on this piece, drilling it since last semester. we have been going over it. nit picking. >> just like that. >> reporter: the work starts here with university choir director, eric conway. he says this piece, composed by george gersh win is a chance for people to hear gospel, jazz, blended into an american opera. and just in time for black history month. >> the piece feels so good to sing. the harmonies are so rich. and again, we have a rich history with this piece. so everyone was totally engaged from the beginning. ♪ [ music ] >> reporter: but for some students, this weekend's performance is a chance to work with is a chance to work with

. >> reporter: the subject of the spoof is michael mann of penn state university who is accused of tamperingh climate data to produce his famous hockey stick graph, which shows that the rise in manmade greenhouse gases corresponds to a rise in worldwide temperatures. an academic board cleared mann saying his science holtz up but the damage may be already done. ♪ hide the decline ♪. >> reporter: the biggest splash these days in the global warming argument may not be caused by the world's melting glackiers. it may be caused by a series of gaffes by climate change scientists. the latest one involves temperature data from weather stations in china used in global warming calculations. the problem is that where weather stations are matters. one located in the city will give a consistently higher temperature reading than one out in the country. the allegation is that the researchers used chinese data when they didn't really know where their weather stations were. it's just a small part, they say, of a worldwide database, but it's the little mistakes that matter. mistakes like the line in the last r

host a rock to rebuild concert february 11th, 7:30 p.m., mario will be there and maya, morgan state universityhoir and tbos from tlc. tickets, $35. you can find it under links at abc 2 news.com. we will take a look at wait inner 25 minutes. state close. good morning america continues at 7:30 a.m. >>> they have been called the bling ring, also the burglar bunch. a group of affluent teens accused of stealing millions of dollars of clothes and jewelry from stars like paris hilton and lindsay lohan. the alleged ring leader said one member called it shopping. he's breaking his silence in a "gma" exclusive. good morning, america. i'm george stephanopoulos. >> his friends don't like he's broken silence. and i'm robin roberts. >>> also, dr. richard besser show us the new brain scanning technique that can actually read your mind. we'll show you how it is changing lives. >>> we do want to get right to the so-called hollywood bling ring. rachel lee, one of the accused thieves will be arraigned in los angeles today. five others have been charged. we have an exclusive interview with one of the ring leaders

unfortunately, that, the state universities and great city university like the one that matthew runs really cannot have the luxury of all those small, small classes, and that does put enormous burdens on faculty members teaching thousands of students. it takes a very special type of person to be able to do that well, and i think that's where a lot of the discontent is expressed and where there are serious issues to be addressed. >> [inaudible] is this on? let me just quickly comment on that, and that is there is the formal teaching, largely undergraduate teaching, and then there's the intimate, daily teaching that a research professor participates in with his students and fellows. and i think we're all -- maybe the world is not aware of the extent to which research scientists teach graduate students and fellows and the realization on our part that without this teaching, our disciplines are dead. and so there is a great deal of informal teaching which amounts to many, many more hours a week than the formal teaching in the classroom. that is inherent in the research endeavor. >> well,

the louisiana state university tigers taking on the vanderbilt commodores. you could join us on saturday afternoon. with my partner, former rutgers head coach bob wenzel, i'm eric collins. well, the vanderbilt commodores may have been a real surprise team in the s.e.c. so far this year. just a game out of first place in the s.e.c. east. bob, up for the best conference start in 17 years. >> bob: the reason is balance. they have balance on perimeter scoring and inside scoring. and they have balance among players. four guys average in double figures. beal is the key player on the team. senior, experience, knows how to run a team. ogilvy, 6'11", 250 force in the paint. >> eric: another key for vanderbilt they control the unique home court. >> bob: they do. it's a problem for visitors. that's part of the reason, aside from their talent they win so often here. the benches typically on the sideline or on the end line at vanderbilt. they've been grandfathered in and i know from experience, difficult to coach your team from the end line. >> eric: so far 12-0 at the m

. >> michigan state university? >> michigan state yes.ad when he died, there were over 20,000 books in his house. i lived in a library. >> 20,000 books? >> 20,000. the entire basement was organized like a library. >> what had he done as a profession? >> he worked in a tool and dye shop. he was -- when he came back from world war ii, he was in an occupation in japan for the gi bill, he was going to college and he wanted to be a history professor and then my mom got pregnant with me which was unplanned. and so he dropped out of school in his second year and went to work in a steel mill in grand rapids which is where he was exposed to asbestos that ultimately killed him. but he continued a lifelong passion for learning as did my mother. >> but he worked in a tool and dye shop? >> yes, for 40 years. >> for 40 years and had 20,000 books in his library. >> that's right. >> and ended up his life as a conservative? >> his entire life, yes. in 1963, i went door to door with my dad, i was 14 years old, or in 64 i was 13 years old, i went door to do

we created the university system of ohio in order to unify our higher education in our state and to helpus pursue the goal of being the best in the nation and turning our university research into new jobs and economic development. and today we are pursuing a ground-breaking agreement that will help our university system term great ideas into new products and new jobs. by administration and attorney-general are overseeing talks toward reaching a standing agreement between the entire university system of ohio and consumer products powerhouse, p&g. with the contract in place we will speed up and strengthen a research collaboration between a university faculty and the company. p&g will get the benefit of our innovative thinkers of our universities will get the benefits have unprecedented opportunities to collaborate with p&g on the products. and all hyaline -- and ohioans will get the benefit of new economic development. we can use this agreement as a model for other companies in industries that want to work with ohio's innovative institutions. so today i'm calling upon and the ohio auto ind

states. according to u.s. officials, keeping its currency artificially low so that chinese exports are cheaper to buy. >> brown: and for more on all this we turn to susan shirk, director of the universityf california's "institute on global conflict and cooperation"-- she was a deputy assistant secretary of state during the clinton administration. and gordon chang, who lived in china and hong kong as a lawyer for american and international law firms. he's an author and writes a weekly column for forbes.com. gordon chang, starting with you. how significant is this, was this meeting with the dalai lama? >> i think it was significant because it shows a recalibration of american policy. president obama came into office with an especially conciliatory policy towards china. he didn't see the dalai lama in october, as your piece noted. he had a very difficult summit with the chinese in november and in december on an issue very important to the president, the chinese snubbed him in copenhagen at the climate change talks. so i think what we're seeing is really a rethinking of china policy and essentially this meeting today is a signal to beijing that things might be different in the future. >> b

he's now with the new america foundation, a washington think tank, and teaches at penn state university. and david albright, a former u.n. nuclear weapons inspector. he's now president of the institute for science and international security. it produced one of the reports on iran's nuclear program cited in today's "washington post." welcome gentlemen to all of you. flynt leverett, beginning with you. how do you read what you've heard and seen in terms of the video what happened today on the streets in iran? >> i think it's further evidence for what i believe has been evidence since last june. namely that this movement, the green movement, the opposition, however you describe it, that this movement does not pose a threat to the fundamental stability of the islamic republic. there is no revolution afoot in iran, and the social base of this movement is not growing, it is, in fact, shrinking. i don't believe this movement ever had majority support in iran, but whatever its height of support was in the immediate aftermath of last june's presidential election, that support base has contracted

mann is a graduate of virginia state university, where he earned a bachelor's of science degree in business administration, without objection the witnesses' full statements will be inserted into the record and i now ask each witness to summarize your statement for five minutes, beginning with mr. mann. >> chairman carney, chairman thompson, members of the subcommittee, thank you for this opportunity to be here this morning to discuss recommendations for improving the department's conference spending practices and oversight. i would like to focus my remarks on five areas where improvements are needed. clear and consistent conference planning guidance reliable and verifiable date, sufficient supporting documentation, compliance with applicable travel regulation and departmental coordination of sponsored conferences. dhs conducts conferences for a variety of purposes including employee and stakeholder training, information-sharing, and mission support. we review the department's conference spending practices and evaluated its policies, oversight and reporting of conference related expenditures

just three months ago, the utah state university announced a partnership between the state, the departmentg included a $50 million donation from a local resident. -- $15 million donation from a local resident. this shows how we can work together with universities, industry, and the private sector to accomplish together but none could achieve individually [applause] we are uniquely positioned in the western energy corridor which stretches from the north to the south. we have the generation capacity. we have the transmission systems and we're at the crossroads of energy and commerce. billions of dollars of future capital investment will be required to maintain and expand our infrastructure. systems must be in place for our long term vision. one of our true economic competitive advantage as it -- is a relatively low cost of power. our energy plan must focus on maintaining a portability, encouraging capital investment, and protecting our environment. i will do my part to provide leadership both here in the state and also at the national level to form alliances. utah can and must be at the fore

moran: i rise today to recognize kansas state university's proud campaign. was founded in fall of 2006 as an effort for students to help other students. this year's event will be celebrated this saturday, february 27, in the missouri- kansas state men's basketball game. s that great concept that reflect ours kansas values of family, community, and stewardship. there are many people who take college experience for granted. leaving home to pursue education is not a given for many pam falies. certain -- for many families. certain amounts of financial support are needed to ensure a student's success. sometimes bad things happen and students' families fall on hard times. it's heart breaking to see their hard work jeopardized by events beyond their control. the k-state proud campaign was started in an effort to keep the struggling students in school. it was started by students, for students. students continue to organize and execute k-state's proud activities. the organizers are anna and grant. there are no benefactors or trust funds paying an annuity that funds t

[applause] the trojan explosion drum line from virginia state university.i am told this is the first time there has been a drum line in the white house. [laughter] this is what i have been told. before the civil war and the creation of what we call the historically black colleges and universities, and education much less a higher education was not possible for most african- americans. reading and writing were often taught in secret. as the civil war ended the 13th and 14th and 15th amendments were signed. the war on the literacy and ignorance began. there were some like booker t. washington, who walked from west virginia to studied at hampton and argued they should focus on teaching blacks skilled trades and vocations. there were others like w. e. b. dubois you can the first african-american to earn a doctorate from harvard who advocated for arts and sciences to cultivate leaders of the next-generation. today at america's 105 historically black colleges and universities, our men and women prepared to do both. there are the campuses where people are educated

just three months ago utah state university announced a partnership between the state, the departmentof energy and basin communities to construct a 70,000 square foot entrepreneurial and research center. the funding included a $15 million donation from mark bingham. what a perfect illustration of how government on all levels can work together with universities, industry and the private sector -- >> we're going to leave the last few minutes of this recorded speech and take you live to a discussion on the public defender system. in 1963 the u.s. supreme court overturned the felony conviction of clarence earl gideon after he is denied a -- courts are required under the sixth amendment to provide counsel in criminal cases for defendants who can't afford it. this is a discussion with a number of justice department officials including the attorney general, live coverage here on c-span2. >> i'm so pleased to see so many friends and so many people who are involved in this issue. many of you may recall that some of us met here in washington at the behest of attorney general janet reno back in

my mother at that time had a tenth grade education eventually went back to morgan state university andree in sociology and became a social worker to help the mostly single women raising families but that day with a tenth grade education and the *ferpa said i'm sorry misfits your son is mentally, he should be institutionalize. geisha pcast aside and how often have we seen stories in our community and elsewhere young people who are cast aside? fortunately for me my mother is an old school southern women, baptist woman, tough woman. she said, test him again. them in said-- test it mcginn. if that is his fate then we will deal with that that test him again. >> they tested me a second time in the next expert with the degrees behind his name said adductive one point they took out a tape measure and put it around my head like it was a mellon. like that felt like i was in a fruit stand in my mother was buying some cantaloupe. put the tape measure my head. wit you can imagine this head on a small boy,t

this took place at kansas state university.uilding because of an incident that is referred to here. we pick it up after introductory remarks from general richard miers. [applause] >> thank you for that kind introduction. it is a great pleasure to have such a distinguished graduate as a former colleague and such a good friend. i have done little intelligence on this occasion, and i was told that bomb threats were primarily exam week phenomenon, so i thought i was that, but apparently that was not very accurate either. thanks very much to all of you for your flexibility in changing being used and for sticking with it. i will be signing class excuses to miss the rest of the afternoon right after these remarks. as someone who has spoken year before, general miers knows the pressure i am feeling right now, having to follow in the distinguished footsteps of senator bob dole, secretary of defense bob gates. these were native kansans who had an inherent advantage. presidential, dr. regan, thank you for the opportunity to get the word o

robert came to our program from louisiana state university. he was a junior. and he went back to school and edited the school paper and then for a while he thought about getting a masters in business administration. but "the washington post" saved him from the fate of personal wealth by recruiting him as a reporter for the "post" and now he labors under the slave wages of journalism. what's left of journalism. thank goodness "the washington post" or there might be more problems right here in washington, d.c., with journalism. i not only am pleased to introduce robert and jon jeter here but i'm now jealous because i haven't written a book. and i'm pleased that he has done so. the only thing i ask is i get to ask the first question after they make their presentations. and by the way, with the exception of a few exceptions i will represent all white people here. i know that you're always -- what do black people think about this. you can ask me what white people think about this. thank you. [applause] >> good evening. first of all, jon and i wrote this book -- we'

an elite college guard who plays for the aztecs of san diego state university.e's used to distractions. he's an impressive 80% free-throw shooter. hi, brandon. thanks for coming . >> thanks for having me. >> all we want you to do is concentrate on making free throws, you and the every straight ho mostly empty gym with few distractions. the same for brandon in our lab and thecord is in jeopardy. brandon goes 9 for 10, above his personal average. with a baseline establisheheheh% and a pulse of 69. >> still calm and cool. 69. >> it's time to add the first variable. visual distraction. in our lab an unruly crowd isn't enough. we want to really get under brandon's skin. so we're going to pile on the visual distractions to make sure we achieve complete visual overload. it's known as sensory saturation. we fire up strobe lights, unleash the fans and, most importantly, we send in the clown. and to make sure we stretched his visual capacity to the max, we allowed everyone to break all the rules. what is the biggest thing that was distracting you out there? >> the clowns

universal health care package, mr. donovan this was health care for every be in your state, the word universal. orrect? >> we had two packages. someone the package based on what was happening in the federal government but we also had a package that opened up the state health care plan for the state employeeses, the governor, legislatures, cities, towns, small businesses, nonprofits and eventually, yes, every not be state. >> so really it is opposite joe lieberman's position when he goes to washington when it comes to representing his constituentsome that a fair statement? >> i would say it is fair. i think joe maybe doesn't know what is going on in his own state. >> what pressure can be brought to bear on someone that goes to washington without the folk at home on a state level paying a political price? there is this disconnect between the people that are out there, want health care, i saw them, came face-to-face with them yesterday and the long-time senator from connecticut who is doing exactly the opposite of what the people want? how do you cure that? >> i mean, ed york kn, i don't . you saw

. >> these are some of the best selling books >> we are at frostburg state university speaking with robert in more the third about his book the always said i would marry a white girl. to start off with, -- who action said that you would always marry a white girl? and why did they say that? >> i think that was more of an internal feeling on my part. i grew up and i think a very passing type it in the suburbs of philadelphia during the 1960s. we were one of the through african-american families, perhaps the only african-american family to ride the wave of millions of whites who left the urban american at that time period to go to the suburbs. at the same time many african-americans were coming off the land of rural america and going to the cities. so i thought very neat, i felt caught between i think two groups. almost like two sides. and it was a time period that was pre-multiculturalism. and so i felt internally perhaps i was destined to marry someone who was white. rather than african-american. >> one of the first part of your book is, you have a couple of different sections. the first on

the amendment to this bill allocates $100 million to, ", "a public university that has the only medical and dental school in the staten which that university exist." kiosk -- what deceptive language. this was authored by senator dodd to win his bill and pass the money on to the university of connecticut. if they had written that in polish or russian to deceive the public, it would be unconstitutional. and this deception is, too. congress assumes the power to make every american by a product. nothing in the constitution and best converse with that of authority, although it is the easiest way to increase the number of injured. we could do the same thing to cure obesity, require people that -- require people to buy fruits and vegetables and ban them from eating anything else. and this is so important -- congress has the of authority of directing the decisions of doctors treating privately insured patients. nothing in the constitution permits that. and finally, the takings clause of the fifth amendment prevents all of us from government seizure of our property and our ability to earn income. that provision was designed t

an economist from arizona state university wrote in an article on the front page of the washington times

black caucus foundation, a national archives african-american history society, and the boy state and university merit chapter of alpha kappa sorority. and i welcome it was up all those organizations here tonight. i also want to welcome c-span, one of our favorite visitors to programs here at the national archives. to moderate tonight's panel program, we're pleased to welcome michael. professor has been an analyst in congressional research service and u.s. commission on civil rights. is a regular contributor to the huffington post, has been published or quoted in a variety of print publications and has served as guest analyst on many radio and television public shows. at george mason school of public policy, he teaches american government, urban policy, civil rights policy, and the legislative process. he holds a bachelors degree from hampton university, master's and doctorate from howard university. he is a fourth generation washingtonian and lives in the city with his wife into. and i turn the program over to him. [applause] >> thank you very much. thank you all very much for coming out this e

is a proud leader of the school of choice movement and holds a bachelor degree from the ohio state universitye currently rese in ohio. i want to talk about the panel. we will discuss some of the tactics and philosophical approaches to saving freedom for future generations. i would like to introduce kevin mccullough. çq>> good morning, cpac. i am glad you are with us. xdokççpresident obama said wel lying in telling our friends untruths about things. xdçthen he said he was going to call us out. we showed up. washington tod. çwe're talking about saving freedom for the next generation. we're talking about the greatestç task being asked of y generation to beç passed on to those who are 30 and under. in the history of our nation, the greatest task that has been asked of a single generation with perhaps the exception of the world war ii generation. this enemy does not come from foreign elements or reside in the halls of academia and legislatures and of judiciary's that have ignored the people that sent them there. that is you and me. the problem is that now we are asking those that are 30 and

in economics from the state university of new york.rgy commission, and then move to the planning association in washington d.c.. he has served in positions of increasing research and managerial responsibility and was elected vice president in 1983. he joined the university of maine as a professor of economics in 1988, and was director of the canadian- american center. acknowledged expert on national -- international economics and agreements. he served with the reuters macro economics forecasting panel and and has served on television with the financial network, bloomberg news, cnbc, abc, fox, on and on and on. the fourth of our speakers this morning is paul wolfram. is president of the hillsdale policy group, consulting and tax policy and analysis. he served as treasury of the border trusties for university. he served as a member of the states -- michigan state board of education. he was chairman of the blue ribbon commission that has been a member of michigan enterprise and authority. his public policy experience includes chief of sta

of california, tuition is estimated to go up 20% and 10% to 15% hikes at state universities in nevada, florida and i think washington. robin, back to you. >> okay. thank you. 14 minutes past the hour. you have to see a mother's joy when she meets her adopted haitian son for the first time. talk about the battle to get him to the united states. you can wear your birthday suit to one church. a church that welcomes naked people. come on. ♪ >>> huh. that sounds good. haitian orphans got hugs and kisses from their new american families. they landed in miami yesterday. haitian police seized the orphans saturday because of fears they were being kidnapped. a u.s. official carrying their papers was running late. a mother talked about meeting her new son. >> i can't put it into words. it was joy. so much joy, it made me cry. it's just so perfect. he's so much better than i thought he would be. i thought of perfection. >> the orphan spent three nights sleeping on the ground in a tent city before leaving haiti. >>> the parents of missing actor andr andrew was on the sitcom, "growing pai

the university of california and the state university system, instead of laying people off received stimuluso they were able to continue to provide classes. i don't know where all this talk the stimulus doesn't work comes from. it certainly doesn't come from the reality of hass taking place in california -- what's taking place in california. i also notice on television many of my republican colleagues who have come here on the floor and say the stimulus does no good go home and show some huge checks taking credit for stimulus money providing jobs in their district. so perhaps there is the speech on the floor and then there's the reality out in the country. yes, we do need a second stimulus and we need it to be a big one. people want to work, they don't want to take unemployment insurance, they don't want to have to be tax takers, they want to be taxpayers. the first stimulus did that, a second stimulus should do that. and i'd also point out that around the world every industrialized nation in the world including china and india did the same thing that we did in america and they did far more.

a graduate of virginia state university which he has say b.s. degree in business administration burt or about objections of false statements will be inserted into the record i now ask each witness to summarize your statement beginning with mr. mann. >> chairman carney, chairman tom said thank you for this opportunity to discuss recommendations to discuss spending practices and oversight. i will focus my remarks of five areas where improvements are needed. clear consistent planning guidance, reliable data, sufficient supporting documentation, compliance with applicable travel regulations and coordination of sponsored conferences. dhs conducts conferences for a variety of purposes for it training, information sharing common mission support. we review the conference spending practices and reporting of conference related expenditures and assess the total spent by the permanent producing and facilitating, birds is come retreats and other offside activities 2005/2006/2007. for each dhs component we look at the funds spent come in number, location comi

host: april ryan, a graduate of morgan state university, radio show host.mas defrank has spent many years at "newsweek" magazine and is now the bureau chief for "the new york daily news." how is betty ford doing? guest: last time i checked she just turned 93. she is frail but hanging in there. she is still living in the same home that she and jerry ford left the white house for. host: i heard that the dale colorado home was on the market. guest: they came into the house on track court in beaver creek, colorado. a beautiful home, overlooking the slopes. i knew a few months before he died in 2006, when i heard that the house was going up for sale, i knew two things -- they were never going back to this place that they really loved and i suspected that the end was near. a great house. the guy that owns it has tried to preserve elements of the presidency in that house. host: what with the last conversation you had with gerald ford -- what was the last conversation you had with gerald ford? guest: six weeks before his death, november 2006. i had a speech in palm

our next witness is professor of marketing statistics at pennsylvania state university.'s also the co-founder of the committee to establish a national institute of finance. thank you, professor. we are also joined by professor robert engle at the stern school of business. professor engle was awarded the nobel prize for economics in 2003 along with his colleague at the time i presume dr. green durham university of california san diego. finally, our final witness is steve horn, currently vice president for data management integration services for dow jones business and relationship intelligence. he specializes in data integration and analysis of large quantities of disparate data from thousands of sources in the interest of marketing productivity from the resulting information. thank you very much for joining dr. mendelowitz, please. >> thank you. thank you, mr. chairman, senator corker. i'm very pleased to be here today. as a representative of the committee to establish financing bring recommendations and findings of that committee. the committee to establish the finance

mann is a graduate of virginia state university where he earned a bachelor of science degree in businessl statements will be asserted into the record. i now ask each witness to summarize the statement for $5 beginning with mr. mann. >> chairman carney, chairman thompson, members of the subcommittee. we thank you for the opportunity to be here this morning to discuss recommendation for improving the department spending practices and oversight. i would like to focus my remarks on five areas where improvement are needed. clear and consistent conference planning guidance, reliable and verifiable data, sufficient supporting documentation, compliance with applicable travel regulations, with and sponsored conferences. dhs conducts conferences for a variety of purposes including employee and stakeholder trains, information sharing, and mission support. we reviewed the department's conference spending practices and evaluated it's policy of oversight and reporting of conference related expenditures. specifically, we accessed a total of conference, retreats, and other offsight activities for 2005,

hoenig got his masters and ph.d at iowa state university and undçóergraduate benedictine college.o get bad outcomes gave the central bank the federal reserve system a certain degree of independence and was structed in the way it was, to help insure that independence, so you had -- you h?dçd different views and y could take a longer teÑirm -- vw of things, from a policy per spect pitch and so ts a very ç'3 important relationship but somewhat independent from the daily pressures of politician, so we could hopefully over time come up with the right answers for, for the long-term sustainability of the economy and for that matter, because our economy is so important it affects the world in general. so, very, very important that we have a degree of autonomy but also we're accountable. and on a professional level, is health care reform important to you? >> on professional level, it certainly is. and -- it is, it has to be looked at because -- of the future liabilities that come with medicare and with the -- with the with the baby boom population entering their retirement years. those are

former teacher at a news yet -- we welcome congressman bill passed, a former teacher at louisiana state universitystill to -- host: get a drink of water. maybe you are nervous. guest: i'm good. host: okay, how do you reform health care? what changes need to be made? guest: you look at what works and that which doesn't, and it you gravitate towards what works. one of the things that have is held savings account. currently if you buy an insurance policy, at the end of the year, you have not put up to zero thousand others, did you put up another $12,000. -- not put up $12,000, then you put up another $12,000. but withheld savings account, if you have not used it, you keep it. the kaiser foundation has a study that shows that for a family of four withheld savings account, it is 30% cheaper, and the family of four is just as likely to use preventive services as with the traditional policy, and 27% of people with hsa's previously uninsured, $50,000 or less. this is something that works and can be built upon. that should be the format. on the other hand, big government programs like medicaid and medicare

the director of ethics and emerging sciences group at the university of california polytechnic state universityending machines to do our dirty work. your thoughts on that? guest: do not think we use autonomous robots. they are being piloted by human beings. a i do not know what he means. i think people take for granted the fact we have been doing this for seven years. we went through to thousand 680 days during the bush administration since 9/11 without a terrorist attack. i think people did that for granted. there are only two explanations, of the terrorists -- either the terrorist stopped plotting against us, or we are able to get the information to stop a series of terrorist attacks. host: our last call from baltimore, md., lesley on the independent line. caller: for the last two years the only information i've been hearing is from a bunch of war markers. now we hear this thing about drones. drones are nothing but a means for a coward to conduct war. you say that someone is operating a drone, but when you have the capability to bomb a man 5,000 miles away and you can sit at andrews air force

an economist from arizona state university wrote in an article on the front page of the washington times since the inception of bail out nation, which occurred in september of 2008, the federal government has taken ownership or control of the 30% of the private economy. consider that prior to the inception of bail at nation, 100% of the private economy was private. banks, insurance companies, aig, chrysler, general motors, the student loan industry, every bit was taken over by the government and was -- and with no exit strategy for getting out and with no limits on further the government infusion and attached in these entities. . . you can see where republicans took over congress. under george w. bush we were in a deficit. and then you look at the case under president obama. this is in -- this is intending to fail. [applause] we have watched as the obama administration has accumulated more debt than in each previous 230 years of american history. in a matter of months, taking us from $10 trillion to $14 trillion in debt accumulation. $4 trillion dollar bills, take them and pack them tigh

the first time we came to the university we really thought we would be somewhere in the united states, and some elite university. because it is such a modern, how you call it, compound? >> campus. >> campus. and what we experienced there when we have our conversations and discussions with the students, and they do not hold back, is this energy of the next generation of chinese. what we don't really think of in the west, and what i have not thought of before. i really got into china, and analyzing what china is about was that where china comes from, what it has behind it is 3000 years of imperialism, and in the 20th century which was filled with humiliation by other nations and chaos. and they really, the generation after the cultural revolution really started from zero. and the chinese, the young people who are in your age now and a little older is a completely different generation, which a generation which has not experienced all the suffering and the poverty their parents and grandparents had suffered through. they experienced the social freedom that has never been there before. and

at iowa state university. how important is your relationship with congress? there and in need to be responsive to the congress of the united states. now, congress knowing that if you put the printing press with the spending, you are going to get bad outcomes, gave the federal reserve a certain degree of independence anthem structured it in a way -- of independence and the structure did in a way so that you could take a longer-term view of things from a policy perspective. it is a very important relationship, but somewhat independent from the daily pressures of politics, so that we can hopefully, over time, come up with answers for the right kind of stability for the u.s. economy. and for that matter, because our economy is so in portland -- is so important, it affects the world. host: on a professional level, is health care reform important to you? guest: on a professional level, is certainly is. and it has to be looked at because of the future liabilities that come with medicare and with the baby boom population and during their retirement years. those are i

black caucus the nation, the national archives and african-american history society and the state and university maryland chapter of alpha kappa ceretti and welcome members of all of those organizations here tonight. i also want to welcome c-span, one of our favorite visitors to programs here at the national archives. to madre to nice panel program were pleased to welcome michael fauntroy the assistant professor of public policy of george mason university, professor fatweh has been an analyst an congressional research service on civil-rights. he is of regular contributor to "the huffington post" and has been published or quoted in a variety of print publications and served as a guest analyst on many radio public affairs shows. george mason school of public policy teaches american government, urban policy, civil-rights policy and the legislative process. healed the bachelor's degree from hampton university and a master's and doctorate from howard university. he is the fourth generation washingtonian and lives in the city with his wife and children and now i turn the program over to professor faun

other bank coÑzga incentived the credit crisis from the fisher college of business from ohio state university >> without objection, they will both be entered into the record. and the gentleman is recognized. >> thank you, mr. chairman. again, the american people were presented with a great outrage on christmas eve when this administration decided after tens of billions of dollars of losses, $110 billion now to announce unlimited, unlimited taxpayer exposure to the government-sponsored enterprises those that are the epicenter of the financial crisis and to simultaneously for all these losses that are costing the taxpayers all this money to million to each of the ceos, $42 million in total for the executives. so again as i said in my opening statement, i had hoped that we would have an opportunity to ask questions of the acting head of fhfa, mr. ed de-marco about this. -- de marco. and i said i'm a patient man. well, perhaps i'm patient but i'm not sure after the election results in the commonwealth of massachusetts that the american people are patient. they don't want answers a month from now.

we voted in my chemistry class at michigan state university not to allow calculators because most middle-class kids could not afford it and yet four, five years later you can get much better calculators that fit in your pocket for $10. technology has been at a rapid pace. it may be that some interested math genius with a twisted sense of humor in indonesia would hack into the department of defense computers just to see if he could. not really caring how many f-22's were in production but just he wanted to know. but then eventually the bad guys became more sophisticated, talked to each other. the way of hacking into the department of defense. the doe doe -- the department of energy, the centers for disease control, all kinds of government agencies with all kinds of sensitive information. but there's no need to stop there. wall street, financial information, other things you could get at a university, all of it is vulnerable. and so this bill today is relevant because it shows that congress is moving along with the technology to rise to the challenge. we need to have cybersecurity experts. so ma

an economist from arizona state university wrote in an article on the front page of the washington timesvernment has taken ownership or control of the 30% of the private economy. consider that prior to the inception of bail at nation, 100% of the private economy was private. banks, insurance companies, aig, chrysler, general motors, the student loan industry, every bit was taken over by the government and was -- and with no exit strategy for getting out and with no limits on further the government infusion and attached in these entities. . . you can see where republicans took over congress. under george w. bush we were in a deficit. and then you look at the case under president obama. this is in -- this is intending to fail. [applause] we have watched as the obama administration has accumulated more debt than in each previous 230 years of american history. in a matter of months, taking us from $10 trillion to $14 trillion in debt accumulation. $4 trillion dollar bills, take them and pack them tightly on top of one another, you have to go to hundred 68 miles up into the atmosphere to fina