country of ours, to draw straws to see which ones will be able to see a doctor. some have challenged the number of 47 million. there's a report from families usa that points out that 47 million is the number of americans who at any minute are without health insurance. if you look over the course of a year, it's more than 86 million americans who experienced going without health insurance. government must act, at last. the problems of health care in america are rooted in market failures. you can't wait for the market to cure market failure. we've got to change the rules of the game. you can't pay for one thing and expect another. we've got to change the incentives. we don't expect americans to go out and build the highway infrastructure in front of their homes and businesses. we can't sit around and wait for the health information infrastructure to get built. we must act. and we can't expect quality improvement and prevention to flourish when we made them money losers for the people who have to implement and do that work. we have to correct that anomaly. opponents

well, this really -- this was the last straw for dick mel in this continuing relationship that had been deteriorating all along and he just went ballistic. and i remembered the press conference where i was, and he -- he initially talked to fran spielman who got him late at night when he was the angriest and basically what he was saying to the entire chicago press corps well, you know, my son-in-law he's selling state jobs. why do you think all these people are getting appointed to commissions. how do you think they are getting state jobs. it's $25,000 a pop. and, you know, everyone was a little stunned. and then a couple of weeks later he was particularly talking about christopher kelly. christopher kelly threatened to sue and so dick mell took it back. but it was too late. you know, the genie was out of the bottle. the attorney general started the first investigations and that morphed into patrick fitzgerald's investigations and we've seen what happened with that. dick mell created his son-in-law and, in essence, planted the seeds that destroyed him. >> let's talk a little bit about wh

canterbury, primate of all england and metropolitan, our well-beloved and faithful counselors john whitaker straw, chancellor of great briton, thomas galloway dunlop, lord mcnally, janet -- barone necessary royal of blaisden, francis gertrude claire, baroness and other lord of our privy counsel cell by the tenor of these prebts to give and grant to them or any three or more of them full par in our name to declare and notify our royal approbation of the choice of the said john simon bercow to be speaker of the said lower house of our said parliament and to allow and confirm the said john simon bercow to be speaker of the said lower house and to do all things in our said parliament that may be necessary for declaring our said royal approbation allowance and confirmation of the said john simon bercow to be speaker of the said lower house of our said parliament. in witness whereoff we have caused these, our letters, to be made patent, witness ourself at westminster, the 22nd day of june in the 58th year of our reign by the queen herself signed with her own hand. >> mr. bercow, we have it in command f

so let's stop grasping at straws. the question is will she follow what law. she has for years.he law has always been her controlling factor. she knows that a lot better than most of us. i cannot speak for people who have restrictive gun laws, like arizona and texas. >> [inaudible] >> later, jeff sessions brief them on the upcoming confirmation hearing. >> sorry to keep you waiting. wheat shared similar experiences as a district judge, and a trial judge. i think that is a good background for any judge, particularly a supreme court judge. and we talked about the views on law and other matters relating to how a judge conducts themselves on the bench. i commend it to her and what we talked the day she was nominated, i said she will get a fair hearing in the judiciary committee. she will be treated respectfully, she will be given opportunities to answer any allegations out there, and i think it is going to be a good time. this is the best hearing we have ever had. and there are issues and questions, we have seen complaints in the papers, and those things will now be raised and she w

some of you may have thought sometime in this last year or so that you and this class drew the short straw. i do not think there's been a class for many many years that has had the difficulties that this class has had in terms of jobs, financial security, all of these things. of course, you are still much more low-key than most people in the world, and the difficulties you have had do not compare with most of the difficulties people are having. yet in comparison with some who have come before you, you have had a harder time of it. you face somewhat more constricted choices. but here's the thing. it is a

some of you may have thought sometime in this last year or so that you and this class drew the short straw. i do not think there's been a class for many many years that has had the difficulties that this class has had in terms of jobs, financial security, all of these things. of course, you are still much more low-key than most people in the world, and the difficulties you have had do not compare with most of the difficulties people are having. yet in comparison with some who have come before you, you have had a harder time of it. you face somewhat more constricted choices. but here's the thing. it is a cliche, but the thing about cliches is that they become cliches because they are true. i think this is true, that the greatest challenges produced the greatest challenges produced the biggest opportunities . here are two ways that i think that might be true for your class. the first is that this society today is an inflection point in so many ways. there are so many things changing. our economy, our politics, and that means that you can make a

election and the corruption of the ballot box, or that what we're seeing in the streets is just the final straw on the back of the pressure cooker of people that are yearning to be free? >> iranians will examine with much scrutiny after the hold dust settles, so to speak, everyone's track record one way or the other, and the ultimate judgment rests with the iranian people at the end of the day. what is important is to remain focused on the job at hand. . by actual proof to earn people's trust that you are on our side, to join that group, i welcome it and i encourage it. this is what it is about right now. we know that as long as this regime is there, as long as the system is in place, we will not see the light of day. we know that this regime ultimately may go -- must go. do you remember past administrations? many of us knew it led nowhere, but it had to be at least attempted. it did not work for obvious reasons. now, there is no question that iran and understand that the only way we will rid ourselves of all the problems is a matter of this regime's altman collapse. that is what we demand and

out of this planet every single day, we stick little straws in the earth and suck out oil. every single day there's about 84 million barrels of oil taken out of this earth. and it's a big old planet with a lot of people living on this planet, and of the 84 million barrels of oil that we take out every day from the earth, one-fourth of it is destined to be used in the united states. we use one-fourth of all the oil every single day. why? because we have a standard of living and a big, old country that is far above most other places in the world and we want to drive vehicles and we use oil in a very substantial way. an enormous appetite for oil. so here's the deal, one-fourth of all the oil that's produced every day comes here because we need it, and nearly 70% of the oil that we use comes from outside of our country and much of the oil that's produced comes from very troubled parts of the world -- saudi arabia, kuwait, iraq, venezuela, and more -- so 70% of the oil that we need comes from outside of our country and nearly 70% of the oil that we use is used in transportation.

her points are grasping at straws because it turns out we have before us one of the most qualified, exceptional nominees to come before this senate in recent history. let there be no doubt, sonia sotomayor's nomination is a proud moment for america. it is proof that the american dream is in reach for everyone willing to work hard, play by the rules and give back to their communities regardless of their ethnicity, gender or socio-economic background and it is further proof of the deep roots the hispanic community has in this country. let's be clear. we get to be proud of this nominee because she is exceptionally qualified. we get to be proud because of her vast knowledge of the law. her practical experience fighting crime and her proovepb record of dedication -- proven record of dedication to equal justice under the law. those are the reasons we're proud and those are the reasons she should be confirmed without delay. it should move just as promptly as the nomination of john roberts and that's exactly what we're going to do. just a little while ago at a press conference we heard from prominent l

chuck grassly and i'm wondering though, if they sort of grasping at straws trying grab him there and olympia snow from over here on the finance panel and maybe a couple of others. doesn't sound like you think that's bipartisan product. >> that's what they're doing. grassly has been given no authority to regard anything on republicans on that committee and he's said, while his staff has talked to senator balkas. he's not negotiating with him. if we have only three day left to produce a bill and we've not had a republican bill to decide what's the rerepublican on this? i say it may have, um... it may reflect the fact that i know our democratic friends know what a lot of us are thinking and that may partially be reflected but isn't as if we sat with them to write the bill. >> our news maker programs comes your way after tomorrow and 6 profit margins majority leader whip serving the state of arizona. we'll have open phones for 20 minutes before our next guest comes in. here's the number for republicans, democrats and independents. the "washington post" this morning. it's off lead story b

democrats, they insisted that max baucus and chuck grassley, but i am wondering if they are grasping at straws. trying to grab for olympia snowe, maybe a couple of others. does not sound like to me you will pick up a bipartisan vote. >> you are exactly right. charles grassley has been given no authority to negotiate anything. he has said that while his staff has spoken to senator baucus, he is not negotiating with max baucus. we have not had a republican meeting to decide the republican position. it may reflect the fact that i know that our democratic friends know what a lot of us are thinking. host: you will be able to see the entire interview with senator jon kyl later on this morning after this program, at 10:00 a.m. on c-span. we are going to continue our discussion of spending by the obama administration, especially with regards to health and other areas right after this break. we will be right back. ♪ >> the government funding of direct aid to colleges and students is aid late 1960's thing that has grown rapidly since then. >> today, not even government- backed student loans at hillside

, cultures, outlin ed a number of different civilizations had argued that would essentially be the straw busters the international drink. others argued that no comment economic frictions would be more important to understand how the world was ordered. what you to comment on the huntington thesis in terms what will drive these countries and what will be the dominant motivation and international affairs over the next 20 or 30 years? >> i disagree. i admire him but when you talk about islamic civilization, you can talk about it as a single entity but you have to draw distinctions between sunni and shiite, arab and non-arab, a secular and religious, varieties of religions and so on and so forth. when i look at the islamic world, i think of egypt, syria, iran, i think in terms of nation states. and i think in terms of the competition between for example, egypt and syria. for egypt and iran. my answer is economics to that question does not exist. i can imagine the american economy without american politics. certainly today when the federal reserve is getting into the game. societies, you can d

the election and the corruption in the ballot box, or what we are seeing in the streets is the final straw on the back of a pressure cooker of people yearning to be free? >> iranians will examine with scrutiny after the dust settles, so to speak, everyone's track record one way or the other. what is important is to remain focused on the job at hand. today we are not going to be judgmental about people. i'm not going to be judgmental about anyone who today wants to be with the people of iran. let the peel at the end decide who belongs and who doesn't in a position of political framework or responsibility. this is not our argument tonight. our argument today is anyone -- and i welcome anybody else who has been part of the system, if they choose today to join with the people in a realistic way, not just by words but by actual proof to earn people's trust that you are really on our side, to join that group, i welcome that. i encourage it. this is what this is all about right now. we know as long as this regime is there, as long as the system is in place, we will not see as a nation the light o

it is fair to say that in quieter times, although some of your predecessors may have drawn shorter straws. seven of them are actually be headed. if you have presided over the house at a time when there has been widespread concern about the executive and a diminished word of parliament, and that was not something in your power alone to stop. that has been clear about the expenses issue. the whole house shares in its responsibility for what happened in recent weeks. as you said, it was the house as a whole which last july rejected many of the reforms put forward by the members estimates committee which you, mr. speaker, chair. as you noted, some of the proposals now being put forward to clean up this place are similar to the ones your committee recommended a year ago. unfortunately, a consensus exists now to accept what -- fortunately, a consensus exists now to except now what they would not accept it then, and we'll have a responsibility to restore the reputation of this house. mr. speaker, you have served three decades in parliament. during that time, you have shown huge jet vacation -- y

he was drinking with a straw because he couldn't lift his head. someone finally came out and had a look and they found the buffalo were from an ice age animal which we now call the bison. there were a lot for jekyll points stuck in their spine and between their ribs. to that point there was no proof that man existed here during the ice age. it was almost like when copernicus proposed the notion of i heliocentric universe. because religious controversy. any religious figures attacked the finding because it was preposterous that it could have been native americans here 13 years ago. they ran into a herd of bison at a time when the mexico had glaciers, there were no cities anywhere, no agriculture, people lived in groups of 10 or 20, you would likely run your whole lifetime and not run into someone you didn't know. the animals had never seen a human being before. they walked, 23 of them, into this canyon until they were crammed in a spot the size of the bed room. and it rained down on them with that level, before the bow and arrow. they hadn't been p

that i get a better and then i say here is one per cent per you keep going after these little straws come anything to keep you going especially to get the first draft done. the redo the whole letter but the first sentence if you're a writer or becoming a writer, this may help a little bit. >> you're new book is one of the dullest things i have ever read. [laughter] trust me, i read every word of it. i even read portions of it to my wife so she could see howled dole it was. [laughter] i think the word we're looking for is anal compulsive although i do know once they start a book i do not like to quit in the middle. anybody in that category? you keep going and you say damage but you keep going as i get older i read i can read faster and faster with a book that is not working but before i commit to a book i will start reading if i am just browsing if i quit or five back away i am not a quitter. [laughter] that helps a little bit. i am eager for your next book so please hurry up with it right of your last book at a garage sale for $1 and. [laughter] -- $0.10 and you know, how long it tak

michael locke and his conspirators ran a classic house flipping scheme with a straw buyers, phony appraisals and forged bank records. they would obtain a loan money and divide the proceeds, loans within go into into default and homes into foreclosure. at the criminal activity did not end there. winlock sold one of the houses in question, the bodies of two suspected drug dealers were discovered buried under concrete slabs in the backyard. he is now serving two life sentences on homicide and kidnapping convictions, and has been convicted of wire fraud arising out of the mortgage fraud scheme. we have cases similar to these across the country, and by that i mean the mortgage fraud, not necessarily the bodies that were found in the backyard. turning to corporate fraud, unfortunately the picture is not any prettier when it comes to corporate rock. like mortgage fraud economic crimes are crimes of opportuni opportunity, new schemes are revealed everyday with losses that once would have been unthinkable, but now are becoming commonplace. currently we are investigating more than 500 corporate fraud

having government take over our nation's health care system may be the last straw. think about that. think about all the things that just this year the government has decided to take over, and the comments i get at home and the other places i've traveled across the united states is doesn't the government have a little bit of trouble running government? there's certainly a role for government as aon

that cell phones were 20 pounds and you do straws and the guy who lost had to carry the cell phone. imagine, you guys -- >> guest: baiters. >> host: pages. okay, having bad flashbacks. so you get rapid response in a time where there was no technological capacity, no present technological capacity to do it. but you also brought, this is a good lesson for geos and corporations and all that, my husband is sort of famous, he probably stole it from you. why wouldn't you want everybody from the secretary to the candidate to know what the strategy is? if the stat untrimmed strategy is secret in the people -- >> guest: there's a big difference. first of all, you have campaigned. i've been involved in campaigns, i've camping in mexico in which you had divided power sectors, separate media, separate media. the war room is a decision to centralize. people lose power when you centralize. it's a measure of a successful campaign is the willingness to form. either way, part of this history, winners tell history. you know, when you win you're the smartest and your ideas are the smartest. i'm sure a

i'm wondering if they are just grasping at straws trying to grab may be a libya's know from maine who sits on the finance panel -- olympia snowe who sits on the finance panel? >> that is what they're doing. senator grassley has been giving no authority to negotiate anything by all of us republicans on that committee. he has said that while his staff has talked to senator baucus staff, they are not negotiating with max baucus. if there is only three days left to produce a bill and we will not have had a republican meeting to decide what the republican position is on this, that is why i say it may reflect the fact that i know our democratic friends know what all of us are thinking. that may be reflected, but it's not as if we have sat down with them to write the bill. >> we have been through this before with bill clinton in 1993. regardless of what happens, it has to happen this year before we move into the midterm election year, would you agree? >> no. nothing has to happen this year. >> realistically, politically, can happen? >> the president says we have to do it now or it will happe

i've been struck by the testimony about how awful american healthcare is, just straw. the statistics don't bear that at all in fact dr. tsou one of your quotes was by and large the quality-of-care is suboptimal. astounding. the american people would be astounded to learn the care they are receiving a suboptimal. in fact if you look a disease specific criteria the care provided in america all across all democratic quadrants of society is second almost to none. we have principles to adhere to in the area of health care. everybody has the top three, access, affordability and quality. i add three to that, responsiveness, innovation and choice. i would suggest to everybody listening that none of the principles of your health care that you provide are improved by the intervention of the federal government. not access, access is limited in the programs run by the federal government, not affordability. all of the cost overruns that occurred in the systems run by the government, medicare, medicaid, indian health service, the veterans' health care certainly not quality when you

letter and somebody says something, there is one person i reached so you keep going after these little straws when you're buying, anything to keep you going especially the first draft done here and here is a letter slightly different kind -- i'm reading the first sentence or two. if you are becoming a writer this may help to a little bit. your new book is one of the dulles things i have rhetoric read. [laughter] trust a, i read every word of it. i even read portions of it to my wife so she could see how bill it was. [laughter] i think the word here that we're looking for is anal compulsive of although i do know once i start a book i really don't like to quit in the middle and anybody in that category here, you keep going and say damage but to keep going. i do this and i found i can read faster and faster and with labor isn't working but i've developed this, before i commit a start reading and say i'm not reading the book, i am looking at it and browsing so to speak. so if i quit i have been a quitter that way. it helps a little bit. i am eager for your next book so please hurry up with that.

and i'm wondering, though, are they just sort of grasping at straws here trying to grab gratsly here,aybe senator snow who sits on the finance panel and maybe a couple others? it doesn't think of me you're going to make tup bipartisan product. >> that's what they're doing. senator grassley has been given no authority to negotiate anything by all of us republicans on that committee. and he has said that while his staff has talked to senator baucus' staff, baucus is the chairman of the committee, that he is not negotiating with max baucus. if we have only three days left to produce a bill and we will not have had a republican meeting to decide, ok, what's the republican position on this, then that's what why i say, it may have -- it may reflect the fact that i know our democratic friends know what a lot of us are thinking. and that may partially be reflected but it isn't as if we've sat down with them to write the bill. >> we've been through this before obviously with 1993, 1994 with bill clinton. but would you agree with regardless of what happens, it has to happen this year before we