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do that at the same time that we see no evil and hear no evil because of institutional limitations thaa we cannot possibly intervene in these situations. justice roberts essentially took the old distinction and gave new terrs for it and now judicial restrain is judicial activism and judicial abdication turns out to be judicial restraint. when he starts to see things that of fenton, he is prepared to intervene and my view is that he would be more comfortable doing so if he were candid that the constitution takes precedence over a bunch of statutes or a particular administrative ruling which does not have similar credibility. in order to demonstrate the way this works, i will talk about three types of cases3 i think they illustrate the attention's prefers is a case where i was on the opposite side, a case involving the christian legal society against the hastings law school with respect to the question as to whether or not they could deny the students of the christian law school. they were spences' bush's of homosexual behavior and openly proud of it. -- they were openly against homosexua

have a bumper harvest, all of those good hit the market and prices drop and farmers make less money thaa in a normal year. and it works the other way too. if there is a below average harvest revenue goes up quite a bit. that's the homier farm based intuition. effectively afghanistan is the monoon louse. they have 95% of the market and are the lowest cost producer and for various reasons it tends to stay where it has become established. small reductions in quantity generate big increases in price. that after all is the motivation for opec. what opec tries to do is to have all of the oil exporting countries limit their production in order to keep prices high because it would bed a vanttiges them. it is hard -- be advantageous to them. countermarkets interventions in afghanistan innsome sense solves the coordination problem for the drug drafficers and increases the -- trafficers and increases the revenues. the money, the revenues is just the price times the quantity. the bad news is the price goes up by a larger percentage than the quantity goes down. the reason has to do with the tremendou

. >> other stakeholders have made note of the fact thaa both of you have indicated that a merger would generate 1.2 billion in [unintelligible] . they are wondering if with this merger and it takes place is be restored with a merged carrier? >> you might recall that the action taken by the refined benefit plan was taken at their discretion. along with the decision to agree with benefit plans that they assumed responsibility for. it was a condition in which the companies have slightly -pdifferent retirement plans, working hard together to make sure that the plans are put together for all employees the bess they can be. >> the short answer to those that lost theirrpension with the bankruptcy, how will they be affected? >> that will be unchanged. for the current retirees there is no provision. they should not hold outthope that they will in fact see a reversal of the decision made. >> the chair recognizes the ranking member. >> thank you very much, mr. chairman. the full committee often says that the number one job of our committee is to make sure, first and foremost, that here is safety

do that at the same time that we see no evil and hear no evil because of institutional limitations thaa we cannot possibly intervene in these situations. justice roberts essentially took the old distinction and gave new terrs for it and now judicial restraint is judicial activism and judicial abdication turns out to be judicial restraint. when he starts to see things that of fenton, he is prepared to intervene and my view is that he would be more comfortable doing so if he were candid that the constitution takes precedence over a bunch of statutes or a particular administrative ruling which does not have similar credibility. in order to demonstrate the way this works, i will talk about three types of cases3 i think they illustrate the attention's prefers is a case where i was on the opposite side, a case involving the christian legal society against the hastings law school with respect to the question as to whether or not they could deny the students of the christian law school. they were spences' bush's of homosexual behavior and openly proud of it. -- they were openly against homosexu

they argue thaa there are constitutional issues.st: could have come to some sort of terms to work together on something like this? it seems this is more of a turf battle over who will do the enforcement, rather than addressing the question of the need for enforcement. guest: i think there is some compromise possible. it is hard to see that here. the state wanted to do something. it had overwhelming suppoot in the state. the obama administration has a different opinion. it is tough to find compromise with that. host: one of your pieces earlier from the tennessee paper, what is to try to get there? guest: many people would say that we have to start enforcing the law first. let's stop talking about the idea that we will let illegal immigrants stay, that they will get a kind of amnesty -- whatever we call it. the public and common sense suggests the first thing you must do is restore the rule of law. collector employers. keep track of those coming in on a temporary basis. if you constantly say we will, right now -- you are going to do t

do that at the same time that we see no evil and hear no evil because of institutional limitations thaa cannot possibly intervene in these situations. justice roberts essentially took the old distinction and gave new terrs for it and now judicial restraint is judicial activism and judicial abdication turns out to be judicial restraint. when he starts to see things that of fenton, he is prepared to intervene and my view is that he would be more comfoable doing so if he were candid that the constitution takes precence over a bunch of statutes or a particular administrative ruling which does not have similar credibility. in order to demonstrate the way this works, i will talk about three types of cases3 i think they illustrate the attention's prefers is a case where i was on the opposite side, a case involving the christian legal society against the hastings law school with respect to the question as to whether or not they could deny the students of the christian law school. they were spences' bush's of homosexual behavior and openly proud of it. -- they were openly against homosexual beha

thaa was very concerning because the headlines and that all of these companies -- i think it could have caused the last leg of the storm. -- at the time there was the claim that if aig failed, some of the entrance of products particularly in construction bonds, would fail and we would have to bailout every construction site in the united states. what was the real degree of spillover to the non-financial part of the world? >> that is an overstatement. by a twist of fate, the renewal. for many of the property lines were very near on the horizon. the way an insurance company ultimately fails is that if you andot get people to readup they go somewhere else, you will feel it like a sledgehammer. if it had failed, risk managers all over the world would have said that they would not renew our buy insurance from aig. you have had eight big blockage in their system. >> just a comment on this, peter and i have different perspectives on this question. i think there is a burden on the perspective that i have to explain -- i do not explain it well -- i do not understand it well enough -- how did tha

where i come from, thaa is not how you win. you have to create some kind of a shift in the way you operate against this kind of organization. you must have a fast organization that is very smart and very intelligent. >> i want to say that we feel that -- that we fear that richard is going to have to leave us a little early. i would like to let him make another comment, and then i have a follow-up. >> on congressional oversight, of the 43 recommendations of the the 9/11 commission may, we recognized that the most difficult one to achieve it was a recommendation to streamline congressional activity, particularly pursuant to dhs. it is crazy. thegree with mike depthat situation that confronted us on september 26th was a lot different than 9/11. yet, there were echoes of problems connecting the dots and connecting communications. but i think there has been tremendous progress made. having said that, you cannot take the human element out of the equation. with respect to the christmas day attempt, you had human failures. had the stat

they argue thaa there are constitutional issues. host: could have cooe to some sort of terms to workktogether on something like this? it seems thii is more of a turf battle over who will do the enforcement, rather than addressing the question of the need for nforcement. guest: i think there is some compromise possible. it is hard to see that here. the state wanted to do something. it had overwhelming suppoot in the state. the obama administration has a different opinion. it is tough to find compromise%% with that. host: one of your pieces earlier from the tennessee paper, what is to try to get there? guest: many people would say that we have to start enforcing the law first. lee's stop talking about the idea that we will let illegal immigrants stay, that they will get a kind of mnesty -- whatever we call it. the public and common sense suggests the first thing you must do is restore the rule of law. %%collector employers. keep track of those coming in on a temporary basis. if you constantly say we will, right now -- you are going to

they argue thaa there are constitutional issues.ost: could have come to some sort of terms to work together on something like this? it seems this is more of a turf battle over who will do the enforcement, rather than addressing the question of the need for enforcement. guest: i think there is some compromise possible. it is hard to see that here. the state wanted to do something. it had overwhelming suppoot in the state. the obama administration has a different opinion. it is tough to find compromise with that. host: one of your pieces earlier from the tennessee paper, what is to try to get there? guest: many people would say that we have to start enforcing the law first. let's stop talking about the idea that we will let illegal immigrants stay, that they will get a kind of amnesty -- whatever we call it. the public and common sense suggests the first thing you must do is restore the rule of law. collector employers. keep track of those coming in on a temporary basis. if you constantly say we will, right now -- you are going to do

the thiik would be helpful for israel [inaudible] do think thaa these measures will help keep the program going? >> first of all, let me say that the israeli government working through layers of various governmental entities and jurisdictions have shown strength over the last several months that i think has been conducive to the prospects of us getting into direct talks. . and sell, in -- and so, i want to make sure we sustain this over the next several weeks. i do think that there are a range of confidence-building measures that can be taken by all sides that improve the prospects of a successful negotiation. and i have discussed some of those privately with the prime minister. when presidents of boss -- abbas was here, i discussed it with him. it is important palestinians do not look for excuses for incitement. that at the international level, they are maintaining a constructive talk, as opposed to looking for opportunities to embarrass israel. at the same time, i have said to prime minister netanyahu, and i do not think he-me sharing publicly, -- heat-meet sharing publicly, there have

where i come from, thaa is not how you win.ind of a shift in the way you operate against this kind of organization. you must have a fast organization that is very smart and very intelligent. >> i want to say that we feel that -- that we fear that richard is going to have to leave us a little early. i would like to let him make another comment, and then i have a follow-up. >> on congressional oversight, of the 43 recommendations of the the 9/11 commission may, we recognized that the most difficult one to achieve it was a recommendation to streamline congressional activity, particularly pursuant to dhs. it is crazy. thegree with mike depthat situation that confronted us on september 26th was a lot different than 9/11. yet, there were echoes of problems connecting the dots and connecting communications. but i think there has been tremendous progress made. having said that, you cannot take the human element out of the equation. with respect to the christmas day attempt, you had human failures. had the state department recognized th