i have talked and worked with some folks at the aspen institute and the berkeley journalism school on the theme of what are the business models that will help journalism survive. but me, i am an outsider. i am discussing this in kind of a casual way, and focused way, because i used to be an engineer, trying to talk about how we make the news business drive, because we need, you know, -- how we make the news business thrive so we can prevent problems, like governments going off on major misadventures, or allowing major financial crises to occur. asking tough questions with other people in the news, backing up people like helen to get the job done. again, i am a dilettante in this, but like all the good government actions going on right now, i realize that, you know, i am the far end of the internet. i know enough to see when something good is going on, and then i will stand up for those activities, and then, i will do more. today, the fda announced the new transparency initiative. not bad. i will tell people about it. i do not think i am being a journalist when i do that kind of thing.

media alliance related to the aspen institute. i am listening to them tell me what makes sense rather than what i think makes sense. i am hearing different sides of many stories that are surprising to me. but you know, listening is sometimes a good idea and sometimes difficult. i would prefer to respond to what people are telling me rather than telling them what they want. >> on that note, we can think a little bit about the lessons from greg -- craig's list. as a local of these issues about community involvement and open government, on behalf of everybody here, thank you for your time. >> i appreciate. i did not have enough chance to look at the twitter street. i was trying to read it all. it will get some mind share with me. i did not know how responsive we can be because some issues are tough, but i will be listening. [applause] [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2009] >> saturday, starting at 11:00 a.m. eastern, and throughout the day. and a look at the gr

i went to the institutions that gave sticker rights on the back of the car, that aspen station wagon was like a a chariot unto the gods, and i did all the things i was supposed to, and i had incredible ambitions generated in me by my mother except the world didn't change as fast as we did, or if you're a conspiracy theorist, you would say that the world changed in this nefarious way. suddenly, the workplace became this place you had to be in all the time. so when i was a kid, the train that showed up in new jersey at, say, 6:00, all the dads got off the train and went home. well, now that 6:00 train, there isn't a living sole on that train -- soul on that train. it was just at that moment that suddenly being a good professional meant you had to be at work all the time, nonstop. 8:00 face time, you know? so i think i don't know any women who have children who have not made some kind of professional sacrifice. they may be working as hard as they did, but somewhere they made sacrifices for their kids, and i think particularly women who chose to stay home with their kids, you know, when y

and al from took me under his wing and deck gephardt was a member of the committee on party effectiveness, les aspen was a member, tim worth was a member, i could go on, names that you all know, norm dicks, it was an extraordinary group. i was proud to be added to that rank. a few years went by, one of the things we talked about in the committee of party effectiveness was that too many democrats thought that we democrats had lost touch with, people work not representing their values or vision. of what our country ought to be and what this party ought to be about this young man, al from, who i had known at that point in time for over a decade decided that we would start an organization that would represent the mainstream of our party and the mainstream thinking in america about how we got from where we were to where we needed to be. al from was an example that ideas make a difference. ideas make an impact. ideas can change a state, a community, a congress, a country. but you need somebody to spark those ideas to organize those with ideas, and to marshal those ideas. john kennedy once said that winsto

when it fell dead after a shot at, slid down the steep slope across the wet/and crash into a snag of aspen trees. i have been working on it all day. i made scan cups at the legs and open the carcass from the tail to the chen before removing the entrails. with that slices from my naipaul the highway from the upper half of the carcass as if our slowly turning down the covers of a bit. i scandal for the brisket, ribs and over the shoulder all the way to the animals spine. if you touch the base of your own neck and feel the public shaves running up the center of your back bun you are feeling the neoprocesses of your thoracic vertebrae. on a buffalo this can be 20 inches long. the act as a sort of mooring pose for attendance that support the animal's head. , give the buffalo its distinctive look. its front have the bulldozer, matt shoulder the parents. i have been a rash in my food for the last few days and now i can eat all i want a guy cut slices the fat from behind, then pull the eye back in place to keep the carcass from freezing to solid. the fat has an orange color not like the white that

the presiding officer's state, what a beautiful state to go there to aspen, to vail, all of the many things, the national parks there. nevada, people think it's the bright lights of las vegas and reno, and it is. but it's a lot more. people don't realize that nevada is the most mountainous state in the union, 314 separate mountain ranges. we have 32 mountains over 11,000 feet high, one 14,000-foot high. but every senator here can boast about why people should come and vis their -- visit their state. i have been to every state in the union. they're all beautiful and all worth promoting tourism. in our country we don't promote tourism. we're the only industrialized nation that doesn't. some nonindustrialized nations promote their countries. we don't. we need to have people come here. since 9/11, the -- people coming to the united states has dropped significantly because of 9/11 people haven't been told it's the safest place in the world to come. people should come here and so this public-private partnership that's in this legislation will have programs set up and, frankly, mr. presiden