according to "the national tennessean," an auto pacific survey reports that 81% of americans polled -- quote -- "agreed that the faster that the government gets out of the automotive business the better." and 95% disagreed that the government is as gd -- disagreed that the government is a good overseer of corporations such as general motors an chrysler. unquote. 93 disagree that having the government in charge of general motors and chrysler would result in more cars and trucks than americans want to buy. unquote. mr. president, there should be plenty of material for these car czar awards. for example, last week auto executives spent four hours testifying before congressional committees about dealerships. i assumed the executives drove to washington, d.c., from detroit in their congressionally approved modes of transportation. probably hybrid cars, leaving them very little time on that day to design, build, or sell cars and trucks. i've counted at least 60 congressional committees an subcommittees with the authority to hold hearings on auto companies and, no doubt, most will. car execu

pays for that, the bill for the federal government for that increase is $1.6 billion just for the tennesseans covered. if we also increase the pay for medicaid providers to 110% of what medicare pays physicians, that would add another $600 million in tennessee, because tennessee medicaid pays physicians 70% of what medicare pays physicians, and medicare pays physicians 80% of what private pay pays physicians. so the increase costs just for tennessee of the medicaid expansion in the kennedy bill is $1.2 billion, according to our state medicaid directors. if the federal government has to pay the whole thing, it's $3.5 billion. then they're talking in the finance committee about shifting those costs back after five years to the state. so here comes a $1.2 billion bill to whomever is governor of tennessee in 2015. last time, just to put this in perspective, they tried to pass an income tax in tennessee. it took a 4% income tax to produce $400 million a year. we're talking about finding $1.2 billion a year. the national governors association said increasing the federal poverty level to 150% would

was voted on of the judgment to give -- just to give you a little bit background, i'm a native tennessean. i practiced in johnson, tennessee, and saw a tremendous change in the health care delivery system from 1970 when i graduated from medical school until the current and i really marvel myself at the miracles that have occurred. i recall when i was in medical school when st. jude's children hospital had just opened, hadn't been there long and the death rate among childhood cancers was 80%-plus and today over 80% of those children survive and live. . and thrive. . we are having a debate and i will share with you some things we learned in tennessee about a public and a private system. what i hear when i'm out talking to people is that number one, they're worried about the cost of care. they are worried about the availability of it. and there is another whole discussion we haven't had which is accessibility. as we age, as the medical population ages, there is going to be a huge problem of accessibility in this country and we are seeing in our own communities. where in the next seven years,

nissan has been the most efficient auto plant in america and many times, way of volkswagon show's tennessean the springhill plant of gm will be successful. >> would support any legislation that would try and commit the government to protect american jobs? >> no, you can't run a country that way. that is the direction we are headed. i am trying to go the other way. i am trying to say let the free market or can get the stock out of washington so everyone in washington "to run the car companies. >> it may be more efficient for gm to downsize their headquarters but the president is quickly on the phone with the mayor of detroit saying, don't worry we are going to keep the headquarters there in detroit. that is exactly the kind of political decision that has no place in the running of the company for the value of the stockholders. >> on jobs-- we have seen steady drops in claim numbers but also, no one are you and wheatridge by that and what you think we are going to see? >> i want try to forecast what we are going to see tomorrow. the unemployment problem is of course a serious one and it is a t

the world's patents granted between 2002 and 2008 in the clean energy field and will i note that tennesseans alone hold 1% of those worldwide patents in the hybrid electric vehicle market. it's serious business for our american patent holders. they have invested a lot of time, passion, effort, energy, and economic capital in developing these technologies. it's therefore incumbent upon us in congress to protect what they have created. the draft u.n. framework convention on climate change, for example, includes language supported by extreme carbon emitting nations like india and china, calling for a multilateral technology climate fund. housed inside the u.n. this new fund would require noncommercial transfers of patent protected technologies as a price for developing nation's participation in any new international agreement to reducing global emissions. these demands would lead to outright theft of of our american intellectual property and indirectly benefit the world's most prominent co-2 emitters. our amendment which is supported by the u.s. chamber of commerce, the emergency committee for

we tennesseans have been much better off since federal express started flying in china and nissan started building cars in tennessee. the federal express employs 30,000 people in the tennessee -- in the memphis, tennessee, area. nissan announced this week it's going to build electric cars not in japan, but in smyrna, tennessee. that's because we trade with the world. this creeping protectionism we see is a threat to the middle-class budget of every american. senator johanns has made an important step toward keeping that. let me talk about another threat to the middle-class families' budget, and that is health insurance. how do we pay for health care? and i don't have to explain to anyone who might be listening or reading these remarks that health care for most americans is a cost that is difficult to afford. it's difficult for most small businesses. we have many large businesses who are having a difficult time competing in the world marketplace because of health care costs. some, we think of the auto industry in detroit, has claimed that the legacy costs of health care have put them out o

you watch a movie where there's a lot of oil like the beverly hillbillies, men in black and many tennessean oil spill your probably looking at the products of evan expert though they died vegetable oils so you have it by the critical environmentally safe thing to demonstrate oil spills. that is what they do it bone. they are still around but they moves now. i want to jump ahead. this photo is called something like the aftermath of a hide hunter's stan. it was taken in canada. hide hunters usually would try to kill maybe 48 day. you would have a high hunter who would work with to skinner said he would go up the morning at daybreak and should for a couple of hours. he was usually limited by how many scanners he had and also the weather. it was called the carcasses would freeze ended there would be hard to scan. easily killed about 40 but a guy named convicts smith was hunting outside of montana and he killed to london 101 day. other guys, i have never heard of anybody killing more than 210 and monday but other guys would claim 160, 170. buffalo bill cody got his name in a shooting contest whe