we are working very hard on southern sudan. there are things that must be done. there is development work and other aspects that we must focus on. the things we have talked about in the three areas, in addition there are things we need to work on in the area. our approach is very comprehensive. our approach is integrated. it is one where we do multiple things at the same time just because of our time line is short and the challenges are great that we do not have the luxury to focus on wondering and switched to the other. we must work on all of these things at the same time in an integrated way for all parties are part of the solution, where the international community comes together in a unified way to bring about the results that we all seek. >> thank you very much. [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2009] >> in a few moments, president obama announced his proposed changes to the financial regulatory system. after that, secretary clinton meets with the israeli foreign minister. the president

the nuclear assistance that the iaea provides to member states especially to iran, syria, cuba and sudan. the g.a.o. report noted that from 1997 to the year 2007 the international atomic energy agency's technical cooperation program provided over $55 million to these state sponsors of terrorism, supposedly for peaceful purposes, but as the g.a.o. report notes, nuclear equipment, technology, and expertise can be dual-use, meaning capable of serving a peaful purpose but also useful in contributing to nuclear weapons development. the g.a.o. report criticizes offices at the state department for having little or no idea what these programs actually consist of, much less working to stop the most harmful among them. . unfortunately the bill contains no language that addresses this problem despite the administration's full request for over $100 million to be given to the iaea. the bill before us does not mandate that the state department take immediate action to implement the recommendations of the g.a.o. it does not require our representatives at this agency to do anything to prevent additional

which balances the united states' imperatives in darfur and in southern sudan. this amendment simply goes one step further by giving the current administration the opportunity to resolve any outstanding issues with regard to the united states' policy towards sudan by formulating such a strategy and reporting this strategy back to the united states congress. with that i reserve the balance of my time. the chair: the gentleman reserves. does anyone seek time? for what purpose does the gentleman from california rise? mr. berman: mr. chairman, i rise to take the opposition even though i do not oppose the amendment. the chair: without objection, the gentleman is recognized. mr. berman: mr. chairman, the gentleman's amendment encourages the administration to create a comprehensive interagency strategy and implementation plan for sudan. i have spoken with mr. mccaul about his proposal and agree that developing a coherent approach to this situation in sudan is critical. the united states must make every effort to address the ongoing and interrelated crises in sudan. the

persian gulf czar, sudan czar. now, we have an ambassador to sudan, i think. we have diplomats that work with sudan. we have a secretary of of state who has an office that sudan falls under. i'm sure she has got some of the best experts on sudan anywhere in the contry. just like she does on the persian gulf. just like she does on the middle east. the secretary of of state has the best people we can hire. some of these people have been working in this field forever. now we got a sudan czar. this means this is the absolute monarch of sudan experts? what does it mean? or is it just an associate of the administration that needs a be job? i don't know. i don't know what it does. climate czar. it's not clay mat change czar. it's not global warming czar. because we have had to change those terms. we started with climate -- started with global warming and started getting colder that's kind of dropped. now we are climate change czar. he's got to be the climate czar. we always blame the weatherman for the weather. but, hey, we got a czar we can blame now. this guy could

he spent a lot of time on the ground and sudan. -- in sudan. there is less violence as a result of court it government actions as it -- and that has existed in the past. our goal is to save lives, facilitate lasting peace, and facilitate stability and security. >> then he miss spoke yesterday. he said circumstances described genocide. yesterday, he said it was in the past. >> going back to the former secretary of state colin powell, we have made it clear that genocide happened in darfur. we can say this is clearly that the situation and are for it remains dire -- in darfur remains dire. we want to restore the humanitarian capacity. there is room in administration for a debate about the interpretation of the fact that go in that judgment. it does not change our policy now which is to focus on working as hard as we can to improve the situation and are for = = -- in darfur. >> can you say definitively yes or no? >> it is still taking place -- is it still taking place? >> all i can say is that we characterize the events going on in dar asfur genoci

he was appointed as the special envoy to the sudan on march 18, 2009. we're very happy to have him here today. >> thank you for that kind introduction. i appreciate the opportunity to share some of the things that i have learned since becoming the special envoy. i will give you an idea of what we plan to do in the next few months. since the 18th of march i have made three trips overseas, and the first was to the sudan, darfur, nand the second was to doha and cairo. the last trip was to london and paris and beijing. i have learned that we need to have constructive dialogue with the international community, with all of the parties in the sudan. we have to do this to save lives, to bring about a lasting peace, more suffering is simply unacceptable. we need to have engagement in r four, to fully implement the comprehensive peace agreement. this is not only about discussions, this is about making a difference. this is about getting results. the efforts to build multiple channels of dialogue has produced positive results. we have worked with the united nation

we did that with genocide in sudan. and if my view, there's nothing wrong now, especially with respect to its state sponsorship of terrorism. i think that the assistant secretary of state for africa's words speak for themselves. again, this is secretary carson, before the senate foreign relations committee last month in which he said, we have clear evidence that eritrea is supporting these extremist elements, including that they continue to supply weapons, and ammunitions to terrorist elements. i ask for a aye vote. the chair: the gentleman reserves the balance of his time. the question now is on the amendment offered by the gentleman from california. those in favor say aye. those opposed, no. in the opinion of the chair, the noes have it. the amendment is not agreed to. mr. royce: in that case, madam speaker, i request a recorded vote. the chair: pursuant to clause 6 of rule 18, further proceedings on the amendment offered by the gentleman from california will be postponed. the chair: the gentleman from california. >>

he did not touch on the sedan issue because sudan is one of the arab nations, and on the sudan issue because sudan is one of the arab nations and -- host: i should point out that it did come up as a question this morning, the president did talk about the situation in darfur, and we will we talking about his meeting with angela merkel, the chancellor from germany, later on c-span. thank you for the call. guest: i think one of the point here that the caller alluded to -- yes, there was a change in terminology, but i think when the president was trying to articulate american values and interests, he said, look, this idea of 9/11 being perpetrated by al qaeda, some in the muslim world question that if it was al qaeda, there were lured rumors. he said this is the fact. 3000 of my citizens have been slaughtered. that is why we are in afghanistan. i think he tried to be very direct when he said this is the priority of the american president, to protect american lives. but i think he fails by reaching out and trying to widen the distance between the muslim communities and extremists, that is

the iraq and sudan is also a proxy of iran. you've got these ponds that are surrounding israel and israel played a masterful game of chess to my chest was invented in persia and we can now see that even if iran doesn't get these weapons and has placed upon separately route is real, and it gets the nukes and all these factors into would they please and women even necessarily need to be a nuclear attack with israel, it could be just a toy of the missiles. the low to the 30,000 plus in their position and other 5,210,000 possibly chemical weapons in syrian hands and the homemade weapons that hamas buyers into southern israel which increasingly can now reach tell of the according to some reports not to mention whenever sudan was, and other wares having all this in place to put israel in a great amount of danger and also threaten the viability of a speech to the fashion in the west bank arab robins reasons the strength of wayne. so there are a lot of petitions about the way this is going to work out but at the end of the day it comes

congo, sudan, chad have been chronically affected and keep getting we infected and cleaned out but betweenthem they have done 150 campaigns in the last seven years they do not replace routine immunization it is an adjunct especially when you get bombarded by importations. looking forward we do have strategies in place to continue to eight -- contain that to keep a polio free but we need to see progress on routine amortization and me part of the solution but others working in those areas. and then one lesson learned the hard way that is completely obvious to those who may remember the original target date for eradication was 2002 plan for contingencies because it will take longer than you think and will cost more money than you think. one of the things we learned is it does not end not just interrupt the of the virus to make a timeline for the poster revocation period, you can see once we stop the last wild virus we have a multi-year program of work to make it world free altogether which will include stopping the use of the orioles -- oral vaccine and eventually verifying the full eliminati

four countries, sudan, chad, chronically polio infected, cleaned out, reinfected. they have done 150 polio campaigns in the last 7 years. looking forward we have strategies for continued trying to campaign the highest risk area to keep it polio free but we need to see real progress on routine immunization and need to be part of that solution. the final lesson we learned the hard way and completely obvious to everyone who might have remember the original target date, planned for the contingencies because it will take longer than you think and is going to cost more money than you think. one of the things we learned through eradication is it doesn't end with just interrupting the polio virus. taking a timeline for the post eradication period, you can see once we stopped the last wide poliovirus, we have a multi-year program at work to make the world free of polio altogether which would include stopping the use of the oral polio vaccine and eventually verifying the elimination of that which you alluded to in your comments in vaccine derived polioviruses. that summarize

the fact that sudan is also a proxy of iran, you've got the sort of a pause that surrounded israel and iran has been a masterful game of chess. >> chess was invented in persia. >> and we can see that even if iran doesn't get these weapons it has placed these bonds perfectly round israel and if it gets the nukes and all these actors can do what they please and with an even necessarily need to be a nuclear attack, it could be just a torrent of missiles. it weakened the the 30,000 plus that are in the hezbollah position and other by to 10,000 possibly chemical weapons in syrian hands and the homemade weapons that hamas buyers into southern israel which increasingly can reach demonic and televisa according to some reports not to mention whenever saddam wants to do so having all these ponds in place to put israel in a great amount of danger and also from the viability of a fatah led a faction in the west bank. it for obvious reasons the strength will wane. there are a lot of permutations about the way this is going to work out but at the end of the day it comes down to iran not getting nucl

doc started wine to water after doing some water sanitation work in darfur, sudan, with samaritans first, another exceptional relief works located in boone, north carolina. wine to water was founded on the premise of giving the nor fortunate members of our society -- more fortunate members of our society the opportunity to bring life giving water to people without access to clean drinking water around the world. wine to water which takes its name from the first miracle performed by jesus during his earthly ministry took an otherwise everyday event like a wine tasting and turned it on its head. by using wine events to raise money and awareness about the lack of of clean drinking water in the developing world, doc has harness add powerful social force and multiplied the against ross it of many, including a core of dedicated a.s.u. students who volunteer with wine to water. doc is in essence turning wine to water for some of the neediest people on the planet. the work of wine to water in places like sudan and cambodia has already brought clean water to more than 25,000 people. today doc's e

denouncing violence in places like sudan. we have stepped up our confrontations with north korea. obama came into office saying, if we are going to be effective in dealing with the iran country and getting some possible changes there, we have to establish some type of dialogue insulation. that was then. now we have this regime acting with terrible brutality. we are not in a position to say we had good relations with the before, now we are going to add the sanctions and pull back. we had nothing before. the question now is can we still go forward and try to establish relations with the hope of moderating the regime's behavior? or do we say this is a regime is not a good concept, and we can no longer deal with them. it is important to do as little as possible right now. where is the

>> of course, dictatorship in our countries, like sudan, are supported by dictators here. we cannot separate between local dictatorship and global dictatorship. and they are one and they oppress us. when i was in prison, we didn't hear any voice from the united states authorities. though, some other writers work with the government and they are imprisoned, you'll find them in the media, in the "new york times" and everybody asking for their liberation. but really when dissident writers, real dissident, creative writers are imprisoned, the global powers are silent. because they support the local powers. the local dictators. some people think there is democracy in the west or in america and in europe. which is not true. because maybe you have some freedom here, some democracy. but it's very limited. you must -- you must have a lot of money to be elected president. if you do not have money, you cannot be barack obama. you cannot be. in our region, dictatorship is very visible but here dictatorship is more hidden, but they are connected together. and that's why when our organi

discussions with president mubarak of egypt, who has strong diplomatic relations with the country of sudan. i have assigned one of my closest national security advisers, general scott, as a special envoy who has been traveling throughout the region trying to not only solve the immediate humanitarian crisis that exists and that was made worse when president bashir kicked out the government organizations that had been providing assistance. we are working diligently to solve that problem and get assistance back on the ground. but what we have also been doing is trying to reactivate the possibilities of a peace settlement between khartoum and some of the rebels in darfur that would allow the internally displaced people from darfur to start returning to their homes. we have been very active on this issue. we have worked to make sure we have progress and the people of darfur are able to return to their homes and live in peace. >> part of our past experience in germany is obviously the [unintelligible] out of that comes and everlasting responsibility for the safety and security of israel. [uninte

discussions with president mubarak of egypt who has strong diplomatic relations with the country of sudan. and i've assigned one of my closest national security advisors as a special envoy who has been traveling throughout the region trying to not only solve the immediate humanitarian crisis that exists and that was made worse when president bashir kicked out many of the snalm nongovernmental organizations that have been providing nonhumanitarian assistance. we have been working to solve that immediate problem and get humanitarian assistance back on the ground, but what we've also been doing is to try react vitvate -- reactivate the possibilities of a peaceful -- a peace settlement between car toom and some of the -- khartoum and some of the rebels in dar 23ur -- in darfur that would allow the internally displaced people from darfur to start returning to their homes. so we have been very active on this issue. it may not have received the attention in the press that some of the other issues have, but we are spending a lot of time trying to make sure that we make progress and that the peopl

in sudan, chechnya, china, bosnia and kosovo i have spoken out against the people against the muslim faith. i led the first delegation in darfur where nearly all the victims of the genocide are muslim. i was the only member of congress to visit chechnya during the fighting in 1995. when i returned i condemned the violence against the people, most of whom are muslim, and called for a cease-fire. i was one of the only members to visit muslim men in a serb run prison where i saw a modern day holocaust taking place. and very early on i began speaking about the ethnic cleansing and cultural genocide against the bosnian people. i said to lift the arms embargo against bosnia so they can defend itself. i visited kosovo five times and i voted and spoke out on the floor to approve the bombing campaign to stop the serbian atrocities against muslims in kosovo. i was one of the first members to raise concerns about the persecution of muslims in china and continued to speak out when few others do. further, i was the author of the international religious freedom act which created the u.s. commissio

from the sudan who are trying to cross over. this is really not a major population.they were initially denied, i think. and then israel had made some exceptions to some of them. but i do not believe any of them were incorporated or absorbed as citizens. host: in the first conversation since his speech in cairo the white house confirmed that president obama had a 20-minute conversation with prime minister netanyahu in tel aviv. and either sunday in jews lum -- jerusalem or monday he's expected to deliver his own response to the president's remarks in die -- cairo. what will we hear? guest: it was interesting. to us it generated big in america about our relations with the muslim world. but it generated an important debate in israel. about the syrians -- seriousness of the president brkts new american policy, about the peace initiative about the priority of the white house. and therefore the prime minister of israel under pressure from his own people to put something on table to respond. if you look at the israeli debate, you know, in the press and among politicians, th

later, a state department update on the situation in sudan. >> on "washington journal" tomorrow morning, we will discuss the situation in iran with a visiting scholar from johns hopkins university. you'll hear from it to members of the house financial services committee -- you'll hear from two members of the house financial services committee, and we will also hear from george will. "washington journal" is live on c-span every day at 7:00 a.m. eastern. the senate health committee continues work on health-care legislation tomorrow morning. live coverage is on c-span3 at 10:00 eastern. >> how is c-span funded? >> i have no clue. >> may be some government grants? >> i would say the nation. >> advertising for products? >> public money, i am sure. >> my taxes? >> how was c-span funded? 30 years ago, america's cable companies created c-span as a public service, a private business initiative, no government mandate, no government money. >> attorney general eric holder testified before the senate judiciary committee tuesday in a justice department oversight hearing. questions included the future

people, he began to save the people of iran, and all across this region from india and the east to sudan and ethiopia in the west, all throughout the epicenter of god was on the move. now the book of esther is the same god we have today. all throughout leaders there have been, all throughout history their kiloliters, evil leaders in the epicenter and all around the world that threatened those that loved the god of cizik, abraham and jacob that have been called by his name. now, some of you gentiles, god bless you, you say jews think you're so special. [laughter] you were the chosen people, think they are so great, and we are sort of like you know, we are really not opposed it someone else wants to be chosen. [laughter] it's okay. the faeroe chose tosk. haman shows us. king xerxes, stalin, hitler, mahmoud ahmadinejad, shoes somebody else, we are totally fine with that. [laughter] in the 1980's i remember there was a wonderful cartoon you may remember gerient larsen cartoons, little animals and they would say these funny little things. i remember one it is a single panel, it has got two de

similar minivans, two similar full-size sport utilities, two similar midsize suvs and two similar sudans. we cannot afford to produce unique products any longer and that's one of the real reasons that the company had to declare bankruptcy. other cost inefficiencies include $150 million annual in marketing and advertising. $33 million annually in just administrative cost to work with the dealer body. third question, my discontinued dealer said he's profitable why not keep him? profitability is not an adequate measure to determine a dealer's viability or value to chrysler's future. chrysler's discontinued dealers were for the least profitable dealers in the network. on average the discontinued lost $73,000 last year, of course, some of them are profitable, yes, some of them are profitable. but their new chrysler business may not be. .. many dealers are in the wrong location. some did not have all three brands. they are not viable. we can no longer produce products to keep those dealers alive. 84% sell more used and new period 44% sell competing brands from the same show room. here's a typi

chad has collapsed because it is near sudan. fl the gulf coast region, we have provide resources to a region that is still living under the shadow of hurricane ike. we have the resources to put people in housing and be able to correct the wrong of that terrible storm, but yet the inability to move as fast as we like, pursuant to the work that was not done in the last administration. i think it is important that we are supporting a national monetary fund, because we cannot stand by while we speak the language of reconstruction and rebuilding and not provide for that particular support. so there is a value in the hard work of our colleagues. but i do believe it is important to revisit an issue that impacts many states. the sidestepping of the president's mission on stimulus dollars and our state, texas, is a poster child. $3.2 billion was taken from the monies that should have been utilized for the education of our commirn. one of my school districts has lost $155 milon because it has been replaced, snuck under in what we call a r

is as baffling and exaggeration because obviously the needs of our states are critical in winning sudan. where a high of national health care and obviously our responsibility is to canada and is somewhat to make proposals to address these needs and just writing a check and sending it on and while i have great respect for it happening around the country and as to the sense delegate our responsibility. you need to have the combination it seems to me or you are listening carefully to what our states are saying and obviously the nea is a very from one place to another in a country and i think this bill reflects the insistence on listening to those ideas and thoughts as we move forward in these areas, but what senator murray has suggested i think you are addressing illegitimate issue about may be sure the states are going to be listened to in this by simultaneously in wiping out a lot of other areas entitle the subtitles the, section 431 of this as well as the recession is sections of the bill and in order to address the issue of insisting that our states be listened to we don't to sacrifice

for countries, condo, sudan and chad in the month have been chronically polio infected and between them they have done 150 polio campaigns in the last seven years. polio campaigns don't replace routine immunization services or adjectives to especially when getting bombarded by importations so looking for and we do have sans use in place

similar minivans, two similar full-size sport utilities, two similar midsize suvs and two similar sudans. we cannot afford to produce unique products any longer and that's one of the real reasons that the company had to declare bankruptcy. other cost inefficiencies include $150 million annual in marketing and advertising. $33 million annually in just administrative cost to work with the dealer body. third question, my discontinued dealer said he's profitable why not keep him? profitability is not an adequate measure to determine a dealer's viability or value to chrysler's future. chrysler's discontinued dealers

in sudan there are more than 5 million followers of jesus christ including 1 million who have just become followers since the year 2000. god loves the muslim people and he is drawing them back to himself. [applause] not every country has millions of muslims coming to christ. some it is thousands, some it is tens of thousands, but the dynamic is extraordinary and this is bible prophecy coming true as well. this is all happening as the bible said. and matthew, chapter four, verse 14 win jesus lips all the things you should watch for as evidence he is coming back, wars, rumors of wars, revolutions, earthquakes, famines, persecutions, the trials, he says in matthew 24, verse 14 this gospel of the kingdom, this good news that god will forgive you know matter who you are from whatever religious background, from whatever ethnic background, this gospel of the kingdom will be preached in the last days he says, in the whole world as a testimony to all the nation's, and then the end shall come. this is what is happening. look at the difference between new testament eschatology and sharia islamic esc

themselves to a committee to have the kind of background that you have which is i think privately sudan to taking the responsibility that you are about to take and i noticed the that you and i are focused on the quality of life for children. in that is really a principal focus for this consumer product safety commission. one of the things that we have seen happening now is that there is a focus on toy guns. news reports have shown the popularity among children with toy guns that look like real ak-47 or other assault rifles. as a matter of fact, in some instances young people have been killed@@@@@ , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ >> severely injured due to a crib that had collapsed. oddly enough, my wife's daughter, my stepdaughter had a baby and she is just turning a year old and i was with her this weekend. and she was chewing the paint off the crib. and even though these things are leadfree, i don't think it's very healthy for children to have paint chips in their system. now, under your leadership, will be cpsc require grids to be tested to prove that they are herbal and will not collapse under p

have another group of countries that are infected from spread from nigeria as well as tad and the sudan, they added two key countries that and fight the spread in this area and then in addition we've had the challenge we are facing to to the spread of polio from india and angola. i don't to be labor everything to get the job of revocation finished as published in this document and isn't the topic of today's discussion but that test, the things we're doing over the course of my presentation. the key thing will be sustaining implementation and the core strategy is very have an independent evaluation on going of the major barriers to interrupt in transmission this year to give a fresh look at what we're doing in each of the remaining impacted areas. assessing a number of new approaches, we're in the process of developing and evaluating a new vaccine by type one and three polio to try to augment the tools we have and take additional strategy is to try and limit international spread. to get a sense of the scale of the international response to the outbreaks ongoing you can see the scale and