the chair: the gentleman from maine is recognized. mr. michaud: this is a tremendous worth while product and helps sustain a vital product in the state of maine. this is vital to maintaining the jobs and livelihoods of thousands of people. in order to maintain an important part of our economy, we must continue to monitor the resource in part so we don't overfish. in maine alone, more than 40,000 jobs depend on the health of this industry. in all, the industry contributes an indispensible $1 billion a year to the maine economy. as the fisheries have declined, fishermen have increased their dependency on lobster. down coast maine has the most effective michiganries in new england. this is a key element to the economic stability of this industry. these programs monitor the health and sustainability of the lobster resources and are the foundation of the industry management program. their continuation is not only essential to the successful preservation of the lobster population, but the preservation of tens of thousands of jobs in the state of

but what of the spaniards had not been responsible for the destruction of the main? president william mckinley was in short and so what he did was convened a naval court of inquiry to look into the matter which made william hearst livid. he was so impatient to get a war started, a war that he had covered than a month and a half after the maine exploded he published the findings of the naval court of inquiry. according to the journal's article, the court of inquiry quote, finds that the spanish government blew up the maine. ..

i will make a few points and then talk about the main points. mr. khatami and khamenei are great figures and have to put this debate in the debate with mr. mahmoud ahmadinejad and get answer to his points. i answer the race because i feel the danger in fact i am on gwen to touch of the area of mr. khatami. during the four years he is talking about when i was in power during the lifetime of ali khamenei and if necessary get answer to his plans. i've always loved iran and i think this lot is inherent in all of us. i cannot find any iranian not to be honored to be an iranian who wasn't concerned that the future of iran or the difficulties and problems. we want to create an dayron that is prosperous. the revolution was in fact launched in order to have a great islamic iran and influential iran to be able to lead the pack to and important message to the world but in solving the problems of the country and in order to achieve the proper place i think there are two ways there can be to managements in this regard. one is on the basis of adventurism and insta

we felt like it was a natural fit to be in the main section. we got very little outcry about it. we got a letter then the president of the washington greater board of trade who actually like it. it is part of our allies and part of the main news. -- is part of our content and part of the main news. we have never tried to be "the wall street journal." we provide is about the economy from a local standpoint and also about washington d.c. >> we have time for about one or two more. >> since we are on the topic of economic development, i wanted to ask you about a business model. is it possible that with .com's you are aware of a posting site that budding journalists who are developing their own sense of resources started becoming a hub for washington area news for young urban journalism standpoint? it does not currently exist, would you consider being at home posting site? the reason that i ask is because there is so much activity going on online that the market share seems to be really difficult to get into for people who really have quite a bit to say. the problem is where to go to f

one of the main obstacles is in the division of the palestinian side. you can't have a two-state solution before the palestinians have one side on their own. >> rose in tri-becca, new york. caller: good morning. good morning mr. guttman. i did say your name right? guest: yes. caller: the problem is -- this is the -- it is sad. first of all, with the hamas problem, i mean -- i'm not for them at all, obviously. but whenever they start blooming, it is when they're poor. poor people that have no jobs, whatever. they may just use conflict, you know, they have no schooling and stuff like that. you're not allowed to build houses. meanwhile, they can't get material to live in their own houses so they have to live in the ghetto-fashion. i mean, i feel like israel cannot -- i'm a jew, but i just don't think israel can have it both ways. they don't want hamas, but meanwhile, the people can't live like normal people. can't live in their own ghetto. and after israel made a clear agreement with the united states, will not have the settlements and stuff, the last 10 y

that is the main obstacle. host: st. louis on our democrats line. caller: that argument is the most painful thing i've ever heard. he is a journalist and he as a journalist question. i want to go back to the emissions question. with global warming, we know republicans don't even believe in the science. my question is, what is it they believe happens to the missions? does it just go into the air and disappear? i would like to hear from the conservative on the panel to answer that please. host: i don't know if you want to between the two of you. guest: i'm not sure they know where the emissions go. they say they want to push for a clean and healthy environment. i think the main thing they were arguing against was first of all, the cost. all these intricate details that many of the of members of congress did not even read, and the fact that a number of these jobs that people are in will be -- companies will move to china and india for cheaper labor. the emission standards are not as high there. host: another capitol hill store happening in detroit. the

caller: it doesn't matter who wins, the main leader is the one that controls the relation, what iranoes, the government and everything else. in the history of iran, the incumbent has never lost against the person he's running against. thank you. guest: that is true. the incumbent has not lost an election since 1979. this was a particularly special election. let me tell you why. in 2005, i covered it closely. i was based tehran. i can tell you, every person that i spoke to that voted for ahmadinejad. they didn't say they wanted him because he denied the holocaust or belligerent to the economy. no, he said he would put dinner on the tables. the economy has one of the highest inflation rates in the world. high unemployment, high underemployment with young college graduates driving taxis and selling pizas. so this was a country that it is one of the few -- i argue probably the only major oil producer in the world whose population claims their economic circumstances got worse, even when oil was $150 a barrel. that is an achievement. oil prices quadruple and people say they're worse off th

if it's important for the state of maine, why didn't the state of maine pay for it? if it's important to these local communities, why don't the local communities pay for it? why didn't the chamber of commerce pay for it? why don't commercial companies pay for it? why don't co-ops pay for it? somebody needs to explain to me why the dublin family in texas that needs money to pay their mortgage, why do they have to pay for it? why does the morning family in athens, texas, when they need this money to put gas in their car, why do they have to pay for it? why does the lily family in coughman, texas, that need money to pay health care premiums on their insurance, why do they have to pay for it? i don't understand that, mr. chairman. and i don't think it's right. i don't think it is right at a time of economic crisis. we are losing small businesses by the thousands. the average small business is capitalized by $25,000. this $200,000 expenditure right here, that could mean the difference of saving eight small businesses and the jobs they represent in this great nation of ours

the main thing would do is invest in teachers. the dumbing down, the kind of hammering teachers into cards in a bureaucracy, treat teachers as if they are mid lifestyle bureaucrats in a machine is a huge mistake. i want any kids, my grandkids now to have in the classroom an intel legal talkly curl you, well paid, well rested teacher at the center of their lives. if we don't invest in that we lose the stabilities of the teaching corps, people staying in it for 10, 20, 30 years. we lose the kind of accumulated wisdom that comes, the institutional memory as well as a community of wisdom that comes from that. so investing in teachers is huge and treating teachers like professionals. they need to have the where n wherewithal the structures and support to meet with one another to face one another around a conference table and consider the content and conduct of the enterprise, teaching, curriculum, assessment, that should be in the hands of teachers. so, i want to invest in teachers. i don't think we should invest in layers of supervisio

>> it sounds like you are making the settlement issue one of the main issues. president obama and secretary clinton has talked about mr. spoken about settlements, that settlements are on helpful but for you to say from the podium that settlement should stop indicates this is one of the main points you are pushing. >> we are focused on the goal. and the goal is peace. the goal is two peoples living in their historic homeland, and there are a number of obstacles to this ultimate goal. i'm not saying that settlements are the main obstacle -- just one of the obstacles. >> on the today show he said there is hope for a room for negotiation on natural growth. indicating there will be discussion on how to finesse that with a obama administration. is that your understanding? >> again, you are asking me to get into what is going to happen when we actually sit down and negotiate, but it has to be worked out first and foremost between the two parties themselves. we are a facilitator. >> as far as the settlement freeze and negotiations on natural growth, is there room for ne

>> is sounds like you're making this one of the main issues, up until presidents obama and secretary clinton have spoken on settlements the judicial policy has been the sediments are unhelpful and you know our position on that but now for you to continue to say for the podium that summons should stop indicates that this is one of the main points that you're pushing was israel. >> where focused on the goal here and we think the goal is peace. the goal is two people's living in their historic homeland. and there are a number of obstacles to this the ultimate goal. i'm not saying that settlements is the main obstacle, it's just one of the obstacles to this old man goal. >> the israeli prime minister on the today show this morning said that he felt there was room for negotiation on the issue of natural growth and they seem to indicate that did will be discussion on kind of how to finesse that with the obama administration. is that you're understanding? >> you are asking me to get into what -- what is going to happen when we sit down and negotiate things but i have to be worked out first a

the main thing i would do is invest in teachers. i think the dumbing down kind of hammering teachers into cogs in a bureaucracy, treating teachers as if they are mid-level bureaucrats in a business kind of machine is a huge mistake. i want my kids, i want my grandkids now to have in the classroom an intellectually-curious, you know, ethically-grounded, well-paid, well-rested teacher at the center of their lives. i think that -- if we don't invest in that, we lose the stability of the teaching core, people staying in it for 10, 20, 30 years, we lose the kind of accumulated wisdom that comes, the kind of institutional memory as well as accumulated wisdom that comes from that, so investing in teachers is huge, and treating teachers like professionals. that is, they need to have the wherewithal, the structures and the support to meet with one another, to face one another around a conference table and to consider the content and conduct of the enterprise. teaching, curriculum, assessment, that should be in the hands of teach efers. so i w

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that's one of the main reasons when i headed off. when i headed out it was -- i got on a plane and by the time i landed, things had changed a little bit on the ground. this came up right when i was just about landing there. and the conflict was heating up. and i saw a lot of refugees coming from the liberian border to where i was. and that movement of people around seemingly caused an increase in the outbreak and in the burden of lassa fever so there's a lot of extra patients to be seen at the lassa ward. so i started my journey over there. and by the time i got there, it seemed like it was still getting a little bit more and more increasingly potentially dangerous. but at that point i kind of felt, well, i'm already here and each little one was just a little slight increment above the one before so it's a little bit like the story of -- i guess, you can cook a frog in a pot if you slowly turn up the heat. in some ways i was that frog in a little bit of the hot as the heat was slowly growing up. so when i got to sierra leone i looked

[speaking italian] >> and then there will be attendance by the representatives of the main international organizations. [speaking italian] >> and the third day, we are going to have the president of the african unit, and the main african organizations, and we will discuss the development of the continent, and the issue of hunger. [speaking italian] >> and i thank obama and express my warmest congratulations to him, this is coming from a person who has been long enough in international politics, to chair for the third time the summet, in 1994, 100 , --- 2001, and this is the third one. i want to thank h

maine is one of the laiders of health care reform. we have a high number of people who have insurance coverage, many of them on maine care system, medicaid. but the fact is, what my colleagues in maine told me and i felt it, that states can't go it alone. there are many states in the country that have passed these kinds of regulars layings, but it makes it hard to compete with the state next door or charges sick people more than people who are well and don't have a community kind of rating plan. one of the issues we are facing now, particularly in states that are having a hard time holding their budgets together, they are saying to us, let's make it the same kind of coverage from state to state. and you mentioned portbuilt. it is called job lock. people who stay in their job because they're terrified to leave that job because they can't go without health insurance because their spouse is sick or their child is sick. we have people who say i could create a job vacancy for someone else who would like to work at this company because i'm g

the main problem is that people do not understand the history. that is my observation of the solution is to go back and look at what abraham lincoln did. i do not like the gold standard, either. but abraham lincoln has the best idea to have a public bank their prints money debt-free. we do not need to issue bonds to private bank and have them give us money. we need to print our own money. guest: there are few. there were taking up. one, the fed is a very difficult institution for people to understand. it was created in 1913. it is a mix of public and private interests. we have the federal reserve board in washington with governors who are appointed by the president and confirmed by the senate. then you have 12 regional federal reserve banks around the country with boards that represent the private sector whose elect their own presidents. the president's then have to be approved by the federal reserve board in washington me know there is an odd mix you do not see in other areas of government between public and private interests. ben bernanke is a

while we were teaching at the university of tehran he was one of the main architects of the cultural revolution the closedown universities and try to bring about islamic ideology into the universities. as years went by a mr. mousavi became more and more withdrawn and quieter. we did not hear much from him until the elections in 1997. there were rumors that the opposition, the reformist candidates were considering him, but that did not go over because they thought that a cleric would do better. it is very interesting to see the transformation from a person in position to a person of opposition. host: the belief he has changed or has changed his public image? guest: i think both. the important thing is that this satisfaction comes not only from seculars for people who have been losing a great deal but from people in power. when someone like mr. mousavi or another, the speaker of the parliament, the other opposition candidate -- he was the head of the revolutionary guard, he boasted that he was responsible for the murder of of the 260 readings. all of these people -- of the 260 marines.

you're the main reason why i'm an independent. family are all democrats, so it's kind of hard to go to a family function, we get into arguments. >> guest: thank you. >> caller: i respect you so much. being a free mason, now, i can't tell you how hard it is to go to lodge meetings and hear the stuff i hear. not as top secret as you guys talk about, but just stuff, you know, we talk about it in the room. if you would have stuck to your guns with the taxes and immigration, you would have won. from the heart you would have won. you would have won. i respect obama, i don't respect a lot of what he's doing, but living here with a bunch of liberals it's hard, but if you would have stuck to your guns, you're the main reason why i became an independent. we saw you, my fiance is a time member, and we saw you fighting for her family in florida down there. you confronted these people bilking money from these native americans $80 million doing nothing. that's the main reason why i became an independent. >> host: thank you, alfredo. >> guest: w

they are the main obstacle. host: saint louis, on our democrats line. caller: the argument with the pitney thing is that the hideous thing i have ever heard. he is a journalist, right? he asked a question that a journalist last. secondly, i want to go back to the missions question, with global warming. we know that many republicans do not believe in the size. -- science. what do they believe happens to the emissions? do they go up in the air and disappear and have no effect on the planet whatsoever? i would like to hear from the conservative to after that, thank you. host: i know we have a conservative. guest: guest: what they are pushing is something they call and all of the above strategy. they want to push for a clean and healthy environment. the man then -- the main thing they're arguing for is the cost, the size of the bill, all the intricate details that many of the congress members did not even read. also, the fact that a number of these jobs that a number -- that people are in will shift over to china and india. host: another capitol hill story h

the gentlewoman from maine. ms. pingree: i yield two minutes to the the gentleman from ohio, member of the committee on armed services, mr. driehaus. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized for two minutes. mr. driehaus: thank you, mr. speaker and thank you for this opportunity. there has been much talk about fiscal responsibility on the floor of this house. and i come to the floor to support the rule and support the bill. and i support it because of the inclusion of the joint stryke fighter program. when we talk about the program, it is through competition that we achieve fiscal responsibility. since fiscal year 2006, $2.5 billion has been provided for the development of the joint stryke fighter program. and last month, president obama signed the recquistions reform act into law. this supported an increased use of competition in defense procurement. the expected cost of the primary joint stryke fighter propulsion system has increased by $1.8 billion while the competitive engine program has not experienc

. >> executives in germany, today in the main make more than executives in the united states? >> nope. >> and executives and france, today in the name mike morgan executives in the united states? >> no. >> the question becomes to those who contend if we do anything to encroach upon the current system people will flee to other places and make inordinate amounts of money and other places leaving us with a brain drain. the question becomes where do they go? >> they go to private equity and hedge funds. >> in the united states. >> within the united states. >> hold on just a minute. >> the percentage of private equity and hedge funds cannot accommodate the number of executives we are talking about. so, some may go but the truth be told the argument is that we are going to lose them to other countries. that's the argument that's being made and there is no other country that they are going to go to and fair as well as they are fearing that the united states of america. >> except that could change -- >> excuse me, it could change if the u.k. would change its law. it could, it could ch

so it's hard to define the main driving behind the initial thrust of the taliban appeal. the second one is they never had, unlike india, significant land reform so are there are massive landowners. >> host: like bhutto's family. >> guest: exactly. this is why parts of pakistan that have yet to be infected with the taliban problem are ripe for it because you have hundreds of thousands of people living on landlord property, very opressed and if the taliban can come in to promise to give them strength and no longer to be deciding laws based on sharia and not on the whims of the landlord, that that struck a chord. >> host: based on my own experiences in pakistan, it's only half a jobe -- corruption is so bad it makes my jury -- nigeria look like a quaker meeting. what used to trouble me in pakistan if i wanted a beer i had to literally sign a half a dozen different forms and have itself differed to my room where i would drink it secretly, looking away from the player orientation to mecca, and yet when you do to pakistani parties among the elite, the whiskey, preferably johnni

but the main point here is that there are a number of overlapping missions and while this works very well as a way of coup proven and it is difficult as far as integration of the forces and these different components of our competitive with one another especially over resources so the question is are these doctrine of themes being incorporated in the capabilities that one season iran and someone is definitely, yes,. certainly in the exercises the parades and the official statements that go with that in statements that gone all the time there is an effort to showcase iran's capability is and showcases regional power and as some cases making statements about capability here to for unknown by the outside world. this is a major party exaggeration of the capabilities as a major part of its deterrent and ballistic and cruise missiles certainly becoming more capable. the have the capability of every chain much of the region including israel but also closer in with the u.s. might have a number of bases and forces the quds force and along with that the ministry of intelligence services and sec

out and use it as material that would be in more of an narrative form especially the testimony of the mainlayer in the case is a guy named nick calabresi who is the first member of the mob to testify against the organization and he testified several days in chicago and poured out tons and tons of interesting information and wonderful stories and anecdote after anecdote so the biggest challenge for me was to keep the chronology of the case but not have the reader gets to make calabresi in chapter nine and tens of the early part of the book i am pulling a lot of the material for work to create a flow. >> jason, for you in my history in chicago instead of looking for books to write i always roundup to give myself in the head when eric since copies i love karen of sin in the second city and i think to myself with this book it was another kick in the head. why didn't i know this? why didn't i know this story? why didn't i know this story, jason? >> because he was good at what he did, he kept quiet many years. the crimes he was committing. i think he didn't want you to know it so that is why. >>

you are the main reason i am an independent. aw you fighting for the family in florida down there. guest: thank you for those kind words. it is pretty clear that some of your frustrations are felt by many americans. the we are seeing a dramatic increase in the number of people who are registering as independent voters. thank you, alfredo. host: do you tweet? guest: oh yeah, all the time. by the way, facebook and ritter had an impact in this iranian situation. -- end to torturand twitter hadn this iranian situation. it is interesting to read the twitters from the streets of tehran, particularly at its height a couple of days ago. host: you saw what happened in the 1970's. what you think ultimately will go on? guest: i think ultimately, democracy will prevail. i think the people of iran have indicated their dissatisfaction with the status quo and the radical clerics' tight control of the country. this is a very old country and an old culture and a very sophisticated one. people are not going to stand for that forever. i think you c

but the main issue here is that there are two main forces in iran. one is the islamic revolutionary guard corps, the irgc, as well as the regular army. the our cash and the irgc both have an army, navy and air force. they have overlapping missions there are other parts of the force structure, the intelligence services, the law enforcement forces and then within the islamic revolutionary guard corps, the code force which is used mainly for training and advising militias overseas. and then the militia which is also part of the irgc but is part of the 5 million are sometime it's only 10 million man army which will take up arms in case of invasion. but the main point here is that there are a number of overlapping missions. while this works very well as a way of coup proofing, it's definitely difficult as far as integration of the forces. and the different components are often competitive with one another especially over resources. so the question is what are these things being incorporated in the capabilities that one sees in iran? in some ways definitely

the gentlewoman from maine. ms. pingree: i yield three minutes to the gentleman from massachusetts, the chair of the committee on financial services, mr. frank. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized for three minutes. mr. frank: mr. speaker, i cannot remember the last time i was as deeply disappointed in the actions of people with whom i generally agree and continue to admire as i am by this rule. president obama to his credit has become the first president to try to put on to military spending the same kind of notion that resources are limited, that people apply elsewhere. military spending in which old threats are continued to be dealt with while new threats are dealt with make it impossible for us to talk about curtailing a deficit without doing savage damage elsewhere. to his credit president obama and secretary gates said we do not need to build more f-22's. was conceived to defeat the soviet union in war. it's over. it's a wonderful weapon. it just has a terrible defect for a weapon. no enemy. no

as i told you, the main problem is not -- the main problem of human beings is not mental or low iqs. it is not the inability to think, but it is the unwillingness to thank. i don't want to talk more about the book. as i told you it's a difficult time, a difficult day to talk about what i have written and what i just told you in the past five or 10 minutes is not really a summary of the book, you know. you know, i could have gone through chapters, but this kind of statesmanship i find very boring. but now i face the second difficulty, which is a great one. i am not a professional literature. i do not know you. i never met jack bateman until half an hour ago, you see. and when you talk to people, for gods sake, you have to know who you talk to. you see, i'm not saying that you have to tailor your remarks exactly to an audience. that's television. that's showmanship. that's politics. and he never told me what he wanted me to talk about. he said i want to talk you about the book. i said i cannot do this except, except you see, in a very limited way. and he told me i should talk to you ab

under the speaker's announced policy of january 6, 2009, the gentlewoman from maine, ms. pingree, is now recognized for 60 minutes ased he isingny of the majority lead -- as the designee of the majority leader. ms. pingree: thank you so much, mr. chair. mr. chair, it's a great honor to be here tonight. the freshmen members would like to take a little bit of time and come to the floor and talk about issues that we find are a great concern to both this country and what we're hearing back home in our own district and so tonight i'm going to be joined by a couple of my freshmen colleagues and we want to devote our time to talk about the issue of health care. given the late hour we may not see as many of our colleagues as we would at other hours of the day but we know this is an important issue at any hour of the day and i'm very happy to be here and have this opportunity to talk a little bit about it. this is certainly an important time about the -- for the issue of universal access to health care and expanding the access to health care. i don't know about other members, but i

over to my left, this is kendall hall, one of the main academic buildings for most of the classes are held. to my right, this is lane. that is where all my terrible classes, i mean all of my wonderful classes, are held. in the middle of this courtyard here is a statue of a union soldier holding a flag, of course. this comes from the civil war, or the war of northern aggression as we know it. hillsdale college sent more officers to the civil war than any other school in the country except for west point military academy. >> what did he mean by war of northern aggression? as we know it? we, hillsdale? >> i think jared is from texas. i am from arkansas. the college very much celebrates its connection to the civil war and to the union army. he was making fun of that fact. he is a college student. he is a good kid. he is a fine young man, but it is not being sold on the campus. >> whenever you go on college campuses like you did on hillsdale, lane and kendall halls and all that, those are people. why do people want their names on these buildings? >> harry kendall -- the big building in the

it always was in my mind the main thing i wanted to do as a historian with my life is to write the history, of first off, t.r., but f.d.r. and the c.c.c., carson and the u.s. fish and wildlife, the beautification during the 1960's up until the present time global warming and the modern green movement. i wanted to see that all that through the presidency meaning using people like t.r. and f.d.r. and truman and lyndon johnson and jimmy carter and clinton and people that have gotten involved with conservation, using them as the centerpiece but talk about these characters around them. >> when did you do the reagan diaries? >> that came out a couple years ago. we did it pretty quickly. again, i didn't have to right that, it's ronald reagan's book. what we're doing this year is we're bringing out the complete diaries in a box set. so i was working on this book for a long time, but started the writing in earnest the second i had a couple of chapters written when i started the reagan diaries. what it is, brian, when you go to these places, i pick one. if you're going to mesa verde, when you go the

mainly because the main character is so fascinating. harry truman certainly is one of the most unlikely presidents in american history. i would say the most unlikely since grover cleveland, side-bar. grover cleveland was elected mayor of buffalo in 1881, governor of new york in 1882 and president in 1884. so in three years went from mayor of buffalo to president, first time he ever went to washington was for his inauguration. so it's kind of -- and it's funny because harry remembers grover's second election, harry was born in 1884, so the second time grover was elected, of course, it's nonconsecutive. i'm not going to do the math now but another great democratic president that harry was quite fond of. harry himself for his own unlikeliness was born 125 years ago. his early life was unremarkable. worked in a bank. he was a farmer. on his father's farm in grandview. he opened a haberdasher with his friend in kansas city. and in early 1922, there was a financial crisis in the country, a panic and he and jacobson lost the business and he was

we should be bright, that is the main thing. host: now washington, ky. republican collar. -- caller. caller: i do think the president is a little bit too timid in what he has said. honestly it really does not matter what he says because even if the more moderate leader does get in, the ayatollah is still going to be in power and is still not going to ever accept israel's right to exist. host: a couple of editorial views here on the conflict in iran. this is "the washington post" this morning. he writes -- president obama was right to exercise caution, both because the united states should not imply false promises it will not able to keep and the increase could come indeed, heard them. and, paradoxically, european political leaders have been outspoken in criticizing the iranian government's abuse is precisely because obama's restraint gave them room to act independently. views in "the washington post." the editorial writers of "the wall street journal," meanwhile, has obama and the roads, the lead editorial did they write, the risks of doing nothing are ev

tom silver was the main one.e is dead now, and my wife and i are graduating -- my wife and i are raising his kid. we were very close. one of them is married to my sister. we started this thing.

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that is one of the main reasons he had star wars. what he wanted to do was make those so powerful and so strong that nobody could try to come in on the united states. what he said all along--that is exactly what obama is saying now. he is not saying let's get rid of all nuclear weapons, nobody wants to do that. what they want to visit you to reduce the number of weapons you have so that you are not going to kill us all. as you are doing it, be very careful. the further down you go it will get very tricky and delicate. that is what is going to happen and you are absolutely right. do we have time for one more? >> can we talk about the pope? >> absolutely. >> this is an interesting thing we ran across when going to the classified documents. i ran across some letters that the pope had sent to reagan. reagan sent back to the pope. i would really like to get some of those but you can't get them because the vatican has them locked up. i believe if they died, then you have to wait for 50 years before you could see them and that is higher than

laura, you remember the scene of the young girl mays with the ballerina and art will persist in the main character's poetry, things that appeal op a number of different levels but that's the central message. see what happens once you get me started! i mean, it is the symbolizing of the people try you um offing -- triumphing over the russian winter and the story line of their fundamental human emotions persistent through human oppression. it all comes together and it's a great story. >> and a beautiful theme song. >> right. should we whistle along? >> we would like to hear from members of the audience. i know some of you have a question that you would enjoy asking the chief justice, so please step up to the microphone and pose your question. i will ask that it will be a question, not a speech or a monologue, but somebody come forward. >> there's usually not a shy bunch in here. >> come on. you're all lawyers. >> mr. chief justice, judge, last term, i think it was, there was a school case commonly known as bong hits for jesus. this term you had a school case involving a strip search. if yo

he writes about what he sees is the main problem. he says the main problem, i think, was appointed -- pointed out by the ryan avent -- and trade and scd that gets 70 miles an hour with 617 of a gallon of my one that gets 19 mpg with a 3500 hot bling hand from the government. -- with a $3,500 helping hand from the government. guest: it is aimed primarily at helping the of the industry. i guess it depends of your point of view, if you think that is a laudable goal and you don't mind, but if you think this is an attempt to clean up the environment, you may very well be disappointed. host: massachusetts. carol ann, republican. caller: i unconcerned -- i am concerned, americans with a high gas mileage cars, the present saying we will save 1.8 million gallons of gasoline, but who will make up the tax revenue that comes from the gasoline that we use? if we will lose all of that revenue, we have all these cars driving places, someone will have to step up taxes somewhere. i would thank you if you could give me a little bit of light on who wou

in fact, that was the main part of their argument and they were totally wrong in that. ey didn't think they could defend themselves and they didn't think they could win. you know, certainly the point is -- >> in fairness to the people making it, it was an improbable victory. >> yeah. but to a lot of of the jewish leaders in palestine they felt they would be able to stand up against insurmountable odds and they know they would be able to and that aside from the trans-jordan army trained by the british, that the arab fighters would be relatively weak and without motivation and would collapse which is one of the jewish agency arguments but in the long-range, from day one to the present, the arabs have held true to the argument and -- you use the term that it was palestine that it was jewish palestine. they were going to create an arab state and a jewish state but the arabs then as well as the palestinians now have never accepted partition. that's why the arguments are so similar. they could have had peace. and they would have had a much smaller israel granted at the time by

[laughter] and i want to get back to the question of, i guess, aside from the main characters what's different this time around? what do you see is really -- >> there's a lot of big differences. number one, we're 15 years farther along, and even though you had this period in the late '90s where health care costs actually did start to go down or didn't grow at the same rate that they had been growing, that went away and for this entire decade you've had costs continuing. so people feel the problem. number two, and i think it's a huge difference, when we came in, we were dealing with democratic majorities in both the house and senate, but entrenched democratic majorities who had been in power for more than 40 years who hadn't felt and lived defeat. and defeat can concentrate your mind, and it does concentrate your mind, and it makes, it can become a real motivational force. and make people more willing to work together. and i don't think we, i think that's what obama has now that clinton didn't have as well. it's a much more unified group up on capitol hill. on the democratic side. i th

the other nice thing is that at its peak it will support 350 jobs and the state of maine. members in virtually every state are reporting similar experiences and we will see greater benefits and the remainder of the year in the 2010 when most of the stimulus funds hit the market. that said the recovery act success we must acknowledge i reality the federal programs are only one part of the overall transportation market. virtually all states, counties, the municipalities space budget challenges and many were required to delay their own dissertation investment before the recovery act was signed into law and as such the recovery act investment is serving to protect existing jobs while keeping transportation programs afloat may not generate headlines i can tell you from personal experience a saved jobs means a great deal to people. the transportation system is investment are the first up in a critical two-part process the congress must enact a robust multi-year reauthorization of the transportation program the progress being made from the recovery act puts the authorization on ho

the main stock holder is the american government. the democrat senator was able to secure a meeting with the car dealership and general motors. that is great. there is another article that i saw where a constituent contacted one of the democrat representative here in this chamber, representative barney frank. barney frank was able to get this dealership back open. is that what we have come to in this country, that rather than a private business with a private contract with another private corporation, they are no longer able to work out their agre