the history of the national guard began back during the early days of our nation. the colonists adopted the english militia system which required all males between the ages of 16 and 60 to bear arms and contribute to the defense of their community. in those early years, the militia provided the first line of defense in our nation, which continues to this very day. throughout our nation's conflicts, the national guard has been an integral part of our country's national defense. during world war i the national guard made up 40% of the america's combat divisions. the national defense act of 1933 established the national guard as a reserve component of the army and the 1947 national security act of 1947 established the air component of the national guard as a reserve component of the air force. more than 300,000 members of the national guard participated in world war ii. and over 180,000 members of the national guard participated in the korean war. and nearly 23,000 members of the national guard deployed in support of the vietnam war. more than 50,000 members of the nat

is amended by inserting after section 520a the following: "sec. 520b. national centers of excellence for depression. "(a) depressive disorder defined.-in this section, the term 'depressive disorder' means a mental or brain disorder relating to depression, including major depression, bipolar disorder, and related mood disorders. "(b) grant program.- "(1) in general.-the secretary, acting through the administrator, shall award grants on a competitive basis to eligible entities to establish national centers of excellence for depression (referred to in this section as 'centers'), which shall engage in activities related to the treatment of depressive disorders. "(2) allocation of awards.-if the funds authorized under subsection (f) are appropriated in the amounts provided for under such subsection, the secretary shall allocate such amounts so that- "(a) not later than 1 year after the date of enactment of the enhanced act of 2009, not more than 20 centers may be established; and "(b) not later than september 30, 2016, not more than 30 centers may be established. "(3

increasing the national debt. you know, it's moments like this that i really got to say that the american people have had it. i mean, at a time of economic difficulty for working families, small businesses and family farmers all across this country, a time when families are sitting down at kitchen tables, around aluminum desks, in basements with small lights hanging, they're figuring out where to cut back. they are just figuring out how to make it from one month to the next. and those families and those small businesses don't have the ability to walk down to the bank and just increase their debt limit with the wave of a hand. i mean, they got to make hard choices. and to their undying credits, the american people are making those hard choices. and the reason they're so frustrated looking to washington, d.c., today is they see a national government that is completely out of step with the character and the values and the sacrifice that the american people are practicing every day. not that it's anything new. as the d

he goes to the ymca and does push-ups for the benefit of the national media. all to exacerbate the age issue. so you had that. and then on top of that you have bush attacking reagan's politics as voodoo economics. by the time you get to detroit really on paper if you look at it, the guy who made the most sense was george bush because he was somewhat more moderate. he had a proven vote-getting ability in the primaries in the northeast. he'd won the pennsylvania primary and the michigan primary and massachusetts and others. he had more foreign policy experience. and he was the guy who was going to be the one who would best unify the convention because as you know as we all know, unified conventions tend to win in the fall and divided conventions tend to lose in the fall. and there's a part on governor reagan and mrs. reagan taking george bush because of these lingering issues being left unaddressed. this one day of what is just madness in detroit where they try to put together the copresidency which some of you would remember the gerald ford, the dream ticket wh

and my recollection is that although the d.c. nationaluard is technically under the president, that the commander of the d.c. national guard for in these troops as something other than reserve troops for purposes here, that may suggest there's some parallel there to avoid any constitutional issue of rising. because i do think we are truly preparing for the next one. we'd better assume, assume, that you will need to go beyond the national guard. national guard is best thing to do this. no question about it, from across the country. there are a whole lot of guards. it's not that i think that we would need more troops. i agree with you, but what we may need, is specialized training. spirit a congressional panel recently held a conference to eliminate the so-called education achievement gap and low income and minority children. and is part of the conference, scholars and civil rights activists think about the legal issues behind education inequality. house education committee member bobby scott leads this one hour 20 minute discussion. >> tha

is the investment worth it to them and the nation? ved it is the with like to get your thoughts on the record. thank you, mr. chairman. >> thank you, mr. whitman. we are pleased to be joined again by our committee chairman, ike skelton, formerly the chairman of the skelton panel in the late 1980's. he has already broken a microphone. >> it has happened. and i will hold the. >> mr. skelton, i'm going to hold this for about an hour. [laughter] we could use this whole book to prop it up with. ike skelton's book. still ahead, mr. chairman. >> thank you, mr. chairman, thank you very much for the opportunity to sit in on this hearing. i want to complement dr. snyder and the ranking member on holding hearings on this subject, which, as you may know, is near and dear to me through the years. a bit of history. backxd inq 1982, richard white,a member of the armed services committee, held a series of hearings in hisç subcommittee, which was the predecessor of this subcommittee. onç what david jones, airforce chief of staff, later the joint chie

when we made the recommendation to grow the after began national army to 13 -- the afghan national armyk into account four areas that are of concern in growing the force. the development of leaders, the ability to provide equipment, the ability to build the appropriate infrastructure and the appropriate number of mentors. to get to 134,000 by ocket of 2010 is a, no doubt, a challenge to achieve. but we think it's achieveable. and the approach that we took, working with the minister of defense, who also asserted it's achieveable, but the approach we took was first, grow strength without additional structure. so in that growth to 134,000, 7,500 were soldiers without additional structure, to reinforce the readiness of the adigal units, much like the 22,000 approved by the congress for the united states army toim prove readiness, soldiers without structure. that requires fewer leaders, fewer demands on equipment and no additional challenge to infrastructure. the second thing we did to get to 134,000 was to build small units in the existing kandacs. in the the 34 battalions -- battalions res

there's a proposal to grow the afghan national army. hat has not been decided on that specific number. >> all right. the goal is by the end of this year to have the afghan national police to be an 96,800. it has been proposed that we reach a total number of wonder and 60,000 by the year 2013 but it has not yet been proved. -- a total number of 160,000. >> general, first of all, thank you for your servers particularly in this last year on an assignment that i now had to be extremely challenging and may be frustrating at times. congratulations on your upcoming promotions. you will be moving too beautiful hot still, alabama. we have danced around -- he will be moving it to be a full huntsville, alabama. i would like to take this to the next debt. counterinsurgencies is very leader, jerk -- leader-centric. there are many who believe we should do more to improve the officer and an c.e.o. court -- and nco corps as opposed to bring them to fast. what does this have to do with training? obviously, we create a need for additional mentors and so f

they tend to win in the fall. . . minn national television between walter cronkite and gerald ford and the co presidency and rumors passed from delegate to delegate to network and all night launch a network television and recycled back so you had this day of madness about whether or not there was went to be a dream ticket and co presidency. would they address the convention in unison and at the end of the day ford and reagan, this is now 11:30 am i -- this is the might reagan has been nominated by the republican party. he's tried three times, he finally gets it and can't savor it because he hasn't gotten -- he doesn't have a running mate. at 11:30 that night after all these negotiations, and i need to tell you, too, about henry kissinger's role in this, they go in a room for five minutes, the two of them in the trade and come out and reagan tells the guys come peter and wan and allen and the others, says i can't tell you what's going on but it's not going to work. and so, they sit there, 11:30 at night in the reagan is looking at t

so he had no real experience running the nation. e hadn't had to make the major decisions jefferson made and he was simply incompetent. so he took on -- he left jefferson's cabinet in place and took on some political acts. especially the secretary of state, the new secretary of state. he placed himself with one of the republican leaders of congress, and that secretary of state today disastrous job. the british had signed a peace treaty with the americans in london, and it takes a month -- it took a month or more for ships to cross the milan took. before the ship could bring copies of the treaty here madison was talked into invading canada to show off how strong we were coming and of course it was a disaster. yes, sir. >> you elude at the beginning of the fact that they don't recognize him as one of the great presidents. like they don't recognize him at all. what do you think is the reason for that? >> well, i think the other gentleman asked that question, and i think the reason simply is historians like to cover exciting battles. a l

we see it all over the nation. you think about 20 years ago when president bush was first talking about points of light, we have gone to an additional 23 million people participated in national service. this past year alone, there was a 200% increase in the number of americorps applications. half of americans believe that they can create change in their community. that is a sense of empowerment that brings people to the national service table. we also believe that building on that legacy has to provide a new way of doing business. as for citizens and the government working together with philanthropic and private sectors. for citizens, it is not just about hours of service. it is not just about that one day of service may be in one year. that is a wonderful place to start. it is also about impact. we have huge challenges in this country together, we can work to address those challenges grid people have to start to ship their thinking about why engaging in service over a sustained period of time. at the same time, the

. >> organization that sits firmly at the center of the nation's health reform debate. we have 1300 members that provide americans with their mental, health, dental coverage, long-term insurance plans disability benefits. in the organization is active in all 50 states and the boy is active in washington. the represents every large insurer, many of the small ones, bill allen of the alliance plan is iman for board members and is here today, welcome bill. we were formed in 2003 from the merger of american association of health plans and health insurance association of america. you may remember from its clinton era harry and louise commercials relevant today. an earlier in her career karen worked on capitol hill and for the afl-cio. she joined aahp in 1993 and has turned many accolades for her leadership. washington magazine named her one of three top guns of all the trade association heads in washington. in new york times wrote, in a city teeming with health care lobbyists, karen igagni is concerned -- considered one of the most effective. and she blends a detailed knowledg

welcome, sir to the low, low national forest. ired crews of seasonal rangers to go with his full-time assistants they strung telephone wire that first year, they built trails and rescued hunters and hikers. in the winter they snowshoe forest on little sugar, hard tack they felled trees for firewood and tried to stay warm wrapped in warm blankets years before anybody had a sleeping bag. koch learned how to read the sky and the human heart as well. now, his colleague just over the ridge in idaho had a bigger problem. for inside his national forest, there were three towns animated by debatchry and lusts of all kind. the worst was grand forks where muddy streets were thick with fifth and stumps of big cedars like nubs on a half shaven face. they were held together by rough cut planks with cribs out back. if a wagon broke down in the middle of the street it remained there until somebody burned it or it was picked apart for scrap. the little g.p.s were horrified and perplexed in what they found in the people's land. instead of honest ho

you have said the goal is 160,000 afghan national police. affected the quality of the police? one of the ways to attempt this would be to shorten the program of instruction while dividing time to weapons -- while devoting time to weapons. what you think about the target of 160,000 in that bind? >> i would say that that was our proposal. that has not been accepted by the dod and by afghanistan, so it is not yet a goal. we have reviewed the program of instruction for all of the training we do on a regular basis. there is no doubt the current training for police was eight weeks. we have looked at whether it six weeks was achievable. it was done in a committee -- a civilian police professional. they are looking at the program of instruction to see if we could not reduce the amount of training but compressed into six weeks the amount of training required to turn and a police of the same quality. one of that is will were training days, -- one of that is warmer training days. -- one of that is longer training days. there was some compression in the

so we lead the world in poverty among industrialized nations. end less than on the schools that those children attend. the blue bars here are the districts in california serving predominantly white students. the red bars are the district serving predominantly students of color. inequality is later on that the cross state intrastate and interdistrict levels. most of that then leads to the teaching gap that geoff robinson talked about where five times more teachers are unqualified in schools that serve minority students than in other schools. but policy can reduce this achievement gap. so let me just point out that the policies in the 1960s and '70s cut the achievement gap in half and sharply increased educational achievement. had we stayed with the policies that were in place, where we were in 1988, we would have closed the racial achievement gap by the year 2000. in 1981, almost all of those policies were turned around. and undone. college going rates were once equal. and so we have to look back at those broad policies that actually helped us mak

this would triple the national debt in 10 years. he least we could have exercised some restraint over domestic discretionary spending. >> in your discussions with the majority leader, do you sense the and democrats are trying to close down the bill and move to closure. >> they cannot close down the bill. they have serious problems. they have all kinds of -- all kinds of internal problems. my assumption is will go back and start voting on monday. that is what the american people expect us to be doing. the anxiety level on the other side is quite high. i do not think that anyone thinks this is inevitable next week will be interesting. >> just to follow on that question, would you be willing to vote against the dod bill if you do not like the other packages? >> we are working on health care right now. we will see how they put the package together. thank you, everybody. >> and now, some of today's >>'s senate debate on health care. this is about here have in front of us appropriations bills. we have heavy matters of the deficit. we have

the compliance with the treaty. >> satellite system? >> we have national, technical rules. >> not everything, no. there are certain things that are legally must be read about and put in here. but we're confident that we have the kind of measures in place to be able to monitor and compliance and monitor russian strategic alliance. spell that? botkinsk. >> also given here and there, but when the prime minister says, what was he doing improvising on this time also in the support? >> uh-huh. first of all, let me just make some comments on the the -- on the attacks. we extend our sympathy to today's attacks, and to the families in terms of those who lost their lives in these attack. these attacks highlight the vicious nature of the enemy. pakistan and security of all pakistan, you don't have any information of any americans were injured in this. and i just highlight the -- the need for us to support the government of pakistan and fight this common enemy, and this common challenge that we have. and we will continue to support them. we can fight this terrible sur

there are grand plans for the great swath of green at the national mall. one plan calls for historic landscape makeover that concentrates on education. union square would be redesigned and the mall revamped. gravel walks refurbished and improvements for pedestrian and bike circulation. under another plan, the mall memorial an landscape would be protected. the idea is to preserve the design. significant changes would be made at union square, restoring the ulysses grant memorial and some would shrink the size of the reflecting pool to allow more room for demonstrations. the parks service is accepting critiques our mid march. the price tag could be as high as $705 million. live from washington, alex trevino, 9 news now and wusa9.com. >> thank you. >>> this morning dozens of aspen hill residents are waking up away from home because of a fire. it started in the 14200 block overgave avenue. 100 firefighters battled flames there but crews had to cut the power off to all of the buildings. >> looks like the apartment next to ours, there is a lot of smoke coming out

but i'm on the board of the national book foundation. so i'm very excited that we are celebrating our 60th. we had our contest to name the book. i have the honor of announcing that tonight. so it's an exciting night. >> well, let's talk economies. what's the economic situation for grove atlantic right now? >> grove atlantic consistents of two old, grove press founded in 1951 and atlantic founded in 1917. we are privately owned. myself and a couple others of my fames. -- families. we don't have the pressures. we also do about 50% of our business off of our old list. henry miller, samuel bucket, that gives us a kind of stability. it's tough out there. i was just saying upstairs to someone, you work harder to sell fewer books. you look at the newspaper or magazine, we're doing okay. haven't had to fire anybody, in fact, i'm thinking about hiring someone. i'll talk some sense before i do that. >> why do you think people are reading less? >> there's so many other demands on their time. but, you know, when you say they are reading less? they ar

sub title b, innovations in the health care work force. section 4101, nationalhealth care work force commission. section 4102. state health care work force development grants. section 4103, health care work force assessment. sub title c, increasing the supply of the health care work force. section 4201, federally supported student loan funds. section 4202, nursing student loan program. section 4203, health care work force loan repayment programs. section 4204, public health work force improvement and retention programs. section 4205, allied health work force recruitment and retention programs. section 4206, grants for state and local programs. section 4207, funding for national health services corps. section 4208, nurse-managed health clinics. section 4209, elimination of cap on commission corps. section 4210, establishing a ready reserve corps. sub title d, enhancing health care work force education and training. section 4301, training and family medicine, general internal medicine, general pediatrics and physician stanceship. section 4302, training opportuniti

he's collapsed in all the national polls. his campaign is heavily indebt. and still his campaign aides say -- and reagan campaigns the way he wants to campaign. the age issue was a huge issue in 1979, 1980. but what ended up happening is that he's traveling and he's going so furious and he's going so fast that the political press traveling with him -- they hang a sign on the bus that says free the reagan 44 because they're so exhausted from the pace set by a man twice their age. but going into the nashua telegraph debate and why it is so interesting, it shows a lot about ronald reagan was that reagan is losing in new hampshire. he needs a one-on-one debate with george bush to make his case of why he'd be a better nominee than george bush. as the debate negotiations are going on, reagan creeps in the polls and now this table is turned so bush wants the other candidates involved. then the federal election commission steps in and says, no, this newspaper cannot pay for the debate. it's an illegal corporate contribution so the reagan campaign steps up, okay, we'

was running the national zoo. does this really mean that we should put him in charge of the national health insurance plan? the office of personnel management has consistently been criticized for being out of date and being inefficient on everything from processing national security projects to administering federal benefits. and we've all heard about the massive backlog in people waiting for social security disability benefits. some 833,000 americans get it. 833,000 americans are currently on a waiting list to see if they calqualify for government disability benefits and some members blame o.p.m. for this backlog. so i'm going to put a chart up here from a person that i trust in the house of representatives, representative earl pomeroy, because i think he does very excellent work. and he heard about this backlog, so he made some comments about o.p.m. congressman pomeroy is a democrat from north dakota and a member of the very powerful house ways and means committee. he said -- and the quote is up here -- "the off

so we lead the world in poverty among industrialized nations. spend less than on the schools that those children attend. the blue bars here are the districts in california serving predominantly white students. the red bars are the district serving predominantly students of color. inequality is later on that the cross state intrastate and interdistrict levels. most of that then leads to the teaching gap that geoff robinson talked about where five times more teachers are unqualified in schools that serve minority students than in other schools. but policy can reduce this achievement gap. so let me just point out that the policies in the 1960s and '70s cut the achievement gap in half and sharply increased educational achievement. had we stayed with the policies that were in place, where we were in 1988, we would have closed the racial achievement gap by the year 2000. in 1981, almost all of those policies were turned around. and undone. college going rates were once equal. and so we have to look back at those broad policies that actually helped us m

a third is the head of the danish national space agency. a fourth is one of the best known scientists known on earth to further space flight he discovered nuclear propulsion for the orion project. this bubble, i believe, also explains the fervor of belief by al gore and others and their ability, the freedom they feel to act with impunity. the ability to attack regardless of his credentials. last year when michael griffin, the head of nasa, told national public radio that he believes global warming isn't a problem worth wrestling with, well, he was attacked. you'd think that griffin was entitled it off express his viewpoint. he holds a ph.d. in aerospace engineering. he holds five masters degrees. he's a member of the national academy of engineering, and the international academy of astronautics, he was unanimously confirmed to head nasa by the united states senate. he oversees the single biggest climate research budget, $1.1 billion a year. yet, no sooner did he express his opinion then he was called an idiot. he was set to be in denial. he

it's the longitudinal pattern of verbal competence from the nation's report card. the top line represents 12th graders, the middle line is great eight and the bottom-line greed for and there's been an uptick and fourth grade representing improvement and the teaching of decoding skills but no improvement in mature literacy or language ability. for reasons that i discuss in this new book. i'm leaving a lot of stress on verbal competence. of language proficiency is this goal of skills because it increases a whole range of activities required for citizenship, for learning and for earning. we judge our schools today on their ability to teach reading. but i prefer the term language proficiency because what is at issue is the ability to communicate no matter what the medium is and communicate with others largest in ability to understand what is written. economists have found if you factor in language proficiency the notorious earnings gap between blacks and whites or hispanics and whites virtually disappears. that is a little appreciated fact. this is still the land of opp

lord god, the nation naturally and last by a lifetime of public service. illiam brock at the third. -- edward william brooke roman 3 -- roman numeral three may his work inspired us to treasure our senior citizens. may his legacy inspired many young people to overcome personal limitations and any social stigma in order to develop their qualifications, all they need to follow senator brooke into a life of service and accomplish great deeds for the poorest of the poor and give you glory. lord, make your sovereign power plus each person of this great nation and their representative government with a sense of social responsibility that all may join in building bridges that will connect your people and remove all that divides them. may we take as a mandate from senator brooke today a personal resolve that each day we will talk and come to know a stranger and make him a lasting friend. let your kingdom come, let your will be done, both now and forever. amen. >> ladies and gentleman, thank you for joining us today. please remain seated for the departure of the offi

can we say that the republicans are in campaign mode, too? you say they will have a nationalenergy tax. archer campaigning, also? >> know, what we're trying to do is to fend freedom in america and put enough pressure on democrats to stand up against the liberal leadership of the house and to the right thing for the country. it was amazing last night on the floor of the house the number of arms that the speaker had to break in order to increase the deficit. when it came to the $150 billion senate stimulus, they were woefully short and continued to break more arms in order to get it passed. there are some very unhappy members in the democratic caucus who have had enough of the liberal policies, and of this congress. >> there has been talk about liberals going against the leadership and the administration. is that some during the republicans will exploit? >> they do seem to be having a field day with each other, tearing each other apart. i have read all of these quotations than headlines -- and kentland and republicans will continue to stand on principle and we will continue to

the national science foundation. supporting education and research across all fields of science and engineering. and with the ongoing support of these institutions and foundations. and... this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. >> brown: the director of the central intelligence agency confirmed that 7 cia employees were killed and 6 others wounded in an attack on a base in afghanistan yesterday. a suicide bomber penetrated camp chapman detonating his vests filled with explosives. the names of those killed have not been released by the cia. the associated press reported that among the dead was the chief of the agency's khost base. she was described as a mother of three. the attack was one of the worst- ever carried out against the cia. prior to this, four known cia operatives had been killed in afghanistan since 2001. in a message to employees today, cia director leon panetta said "those who fell yesterday were

and then by a lucky coincidence, the nation's opposite number on the right, national review, became embroiled in a similar controversy of its own that provided commensurately powerful evidence to the argument went also been making since 1967, that anti-semitism was becoming more and more unwelcome among conservatives. this controversy involved a member of national review's editorial staff named joseph so brand. who had devoted a number of his syndicated columns to attacking not just the state of israel, but also the jewish people in general and judaism as a religion. accordingly, a letter of protest sent to a long list of prominent conservative intellectuals, and in sharp contrast to the liberal intellectual connected with the nation, all of the conservatives, every last one of them joined in expressing outrage at so brand anti-semitic writings. and in spite of the fact that none of the clearly anti-semitic teachings had appeared in national review itself, the letter was also sent to his editor, william f. buckley, jr. but whereas the editor of the nation had responded to a similar letter by

there's a proposal to grow the afghan national army. mber. >> all right. the goal is by the end of this year to have the afghan national police to be an 96,800. it has been proposed that we reach a total number of wonder and 60,000 by the year 2013 but it has not yet been proved. -- a total number of 160,000. >> general, first of all, thank you for your servers particularly in this last year on an assignment that i now had to be extremely challenging and may be frustrating at times. congratulations on your upcoming promotions. you will be moving too beautiful hot still, alabama. we have danced around -- he will be moving it to be a full huntsville, alabama. i would like to take this to the next debt. counterinsurgencies is very leader, jerk -- leader-centric. there are many who believe we should do more to improve the officer and an c.e.o. court -- and nco corps as opposed to bring them to fast. what does this have to do with training? obviously, we create a need for additional mentors and so forth. i would like your ideas on the rationa

this is the nation's doctors. this is your doctor who's telling the members of the senate vote for it. they're not, they don't believe the line about that bureaucrats are going to come between doctor and thaeurbt. they call medicare unpatriotic and un-american. they were wrong again. they said it would mean the rationing of health care. they were wrong. they made the same arguments they have been making for 74 years, and they are still wrong. in 1965, the champion of my conservative friends, ronald reagan, issued a 19-minute long, l.p. -- for those of us who still remember that, a long-playing vinyl recording at the time. it's passed on. they're like antiques now. it was entitled "ronald reagan speaks out against socialized medicine." it featured an impassioned 2,000-word speech intended to get people to write to their congressman against the idea of medicare that was beginning to make its way through the congress. that was 1965. it was referred to as operation coffee cup, something of a precursor to today's tea pa

that money goes into the national acorn coffers. if they were to actually go out and fix the things they said they were going to fix that money would eventually dry up. but they've been able to draw this out for 30 years by saying that the people need a voice, the people need power. but they've taken all the power and consolidated it at the top of acorn. and that's also where all the money sits. so they're not really helping. they may have a housing counseling session. but it's usually run by a poorly-trained worker whose main goal is to get -- increase acorn membership. they're not really doing anything with the money that they're getting besides using it to fund the political machine. what little that they do use for actual programs is still not -- doesn't justify what they've gotten from the government and from private foundations over the years. and as long as they keep people poor, they will continue to get that money to fix the same problems in the neighborhoods. >> so it's essentially a perpetual motion machine that swallows u

he was the officer. our nation needed in the persian gulf as that theater became increasingly dangerous. he was the surface warrior, best qualified, to support actions in the adriatic that helped close hostilities in kosovo quickly and favorbly. on his promotion to admiral, he was offered the precisely the intellect and sense of the world our navy and nation needed to meet the challenges of the 21st century. upon retirement, his patriotism and sense of responsibility continued unabated. as a first federal security director los angeles international airport, and later as head of the transportation security administration, he helped security our frorgs infrastructure so quickly and so completely that his work stands out as one of our government's greatest and most impressive post-9/11 achievements. however dave always considered his greatest achievement the fortune to fall in love with and marry his wide. -- bride. of clearwater, florida. together dave and faith represented all that was right and good about life in t

it's only happened four times i guess in the nation's history. only once since the united states became a relatively modern democracy with an elected senate and women allowed to vote and so on. now, it happens too often for that of -- for out of 44 that small -- that's not an error rate you want in heart surgery and it's not such a great error rate in presidential elections and it's worse if you look at the close elections that are not landslides the nets one and seven error rate that means six times as often it works. what happens in every presidential election and with this would solve is politics is not worth doing and 80% of the country in the general election if you live in the district of columbia. if you live in new york. if you live in texas or mississippi or california or in fact 38 or 40 of the 50 states it just doesn't happen. there is no -- there might as well -- you might as well be disenfranchised in the presidential election, and it's wrong that grass-roots politics should not be worth doing in all those parts of the country. if thi

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some on the other side assert this bill adds to the nation's burden of debt. the fact is, the nonpartisan cbo says this bill will reduce the deficit by $132 billion the first 10 years and by 650 billion and one point* 3 trillion in the second 10 years for a reduction. between $650 billion and one point* $3 trillion. and this is the most serious deficit reduction effort in more than a decade. some on the other side of the aisle assert medicare. the fact is medicare at independent actuaries say this bill will extend the life of medicare by nine years. the fact is it is the most responsible effort to shore up medicare in more than a decade. some on riverside assert this post not do enough to insure the uninsured. the nonpartisan congressional budget office says it will extend access to 31 million americans and other supplies have to go without. the cbo says "the sheriff legal residents would rise from about 83% to about 94% in quote nothing on the other side of the aisle proposed would come close. the cbo estimated the republicans offered in the house extended cov

we had the national guard from montgomery all the way to jackson, the alabama national guard on the bus with baronets. then we got to the line and they changed the mississippi guards. we were taken to jail. i managed to get inside the bus terminal and sit at the counter with my friend, john lewis, and then we were arrested which meant time in the city jail, county jail and then some of us were taken to the county farm where we spent a couple of days from back to the county jail and then transferred to department penitentiary and spent time in parchment. they had a way of trying to break you down. one of the things the movement it was a lot of singing. we would sing all the time. and they got tired of the singing so they would do things to try to stop loss from singing. one, the top mattress is a way and we slept on the steel blanka. they would take our toothbrushes away or give us food that had laxative and at and cut the water off for two or three days and turn the heat on in the summertime to make it miserable. but we made it through. and after i was released and came back to nashvill

didn't come up at the director of national intelligence. just as yogi berra says deja vu all over again. here it is. and, look, one incident alone, this wasn't any father. this was a father that is one of the topsyth citizens in his country and a very prominent businessman. when he has the courage to come forward to the american embassy and say, look, i'm worried about my son. he's in with terrorists. all that. that should have risen right to the top. i mean, forget all the other pieces of information. and the president said -- some we don't even know about, but forget all the rest. that alone should have gotten attention. >> larry: thank you, governor. happy new year. good seeing you again. >> nice to see you again, larry. >> larry: governor thomas kean, former governor of new jersey. >>> the cia denies allegations that the agency didn't properly share information about the terror suspect, but many people are asking did the cia drop the ball? two former cia officials will talk about it. (announcer) we understand. you want time to enjoy the

that is his job. >> larry: you were chairman of the national commission or terrorism. is it a winnable war? >> yes, it is a winnable war. but it is winnable on the condition that we understand it's going to be a long war, just as the cold war was a long war. and by the way, it's important that in this war we have bipartisan support for the car. it has to be conducted under democratic and republican administrations across a long period of time. and had is a generational conflict we are in with islamic extre extremists and after this, we can begin to build bipartisan support for winning a war. >> larry: thank you, happy new year. >> happy new year to you. >> larry: governor thomas keen, we will ask him about the failed terror attack and what he thinks went wrong next. k ) oh, wowww ! that's fun ! you didn't say i could have a real one. well, you didn't ask. even kids know when it's wrong to hold out on somebody. why don't banks ? we're ally, a new bank that alerts you when your money could be working harder and earning more. it's just the right thing to do. >>> joining us

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pursuant to section 1238b3 of the floyd b. fence national authorization act, amended by division p of the consolidated appropriations resolution, 2003, 22 u.s.c. 6901, i am pleased to reappoint mr. peter t. arbrooks of virginia and mr. blain of ohio to the commission, effective january 1, 2010. both have expressed interest in serving in this capacity and i'm pleased to fill their request. signed sincerely, john boehner, republican leader. the chair: the chair lays before the house, the following personal requests. the clerk: leaves of absence requested for ms. baldwin of wisconsin for today, mr. mica of florida for today until 6:00 p.m., and ms. slaughter of new york for today after 7:00 p.m. and the balance of the week. the clerk: without objection. requests are granted. for what purpose does the gentleman from california rise? >> i ask unanimous consent that today following legislative business and any special orders theertoffer entered into, the following members may be permitted to address the house, revise and extend their remarks and i

and in fact the national security of our nation, ohio since 2001 lost hundreds of thousands of jobs. that was long before the recession began. there are certain things that will help us and of course the job creation task force supports this idea that we have to build and strengthen our nation's crumbling infrastructure. and we also need and i'm inspired by your words about the innovative spirit and also the potential that exists in this nation, well some of that potential needs to be applied to our legislation because while some of the ways that we have pursue things in the past are -- pursued things in the past are tried and true and we need to move forward in those vains that work, we also need to think creatively. you talked about the environment and, you know, representative tonko, you're well aware that i was the sponsor of the cars act which became known affection atly i hope as the cash for clunkers bill but the thing about cash for clunkers was it gave away, it shot down the old paradigm that it's either about jobs or the environment. it was about jobs and the envir

number nine in the nation in rebounding margin, plus 10.6. wall, his third three-pointer. >> kyle: hard not to talk about wall. he felt like his team needed a boost. shot the wide-open three. wow! >> matt: john wall, nine points, two assists. three of three on the three-point shooting already in the ballgame. >> kyle: now you hear the crowd excited. deandre liggins checked in the game. he played the last minute of the last contest. been in the doghouse for whatever reason. no explanation given. coach calipari liked the play. he recruited him heavily at memphis and he feels like he can improve the team pushing the player above him. excellent athlete. plays good defense. very long and fast. >> matt: fraley keeps it going for the governors. fraley with eight points. he's not yet missed a shot from the floor. >> kyle: i think they'd be going to him more. >> matt: fraley no doubt jacked up to play in kentucky. the shot was blocked by fraley. channels. orton rebound. fast break to wall. wall. wow! le left it short. follow. by liggins. >> kyle: team

we will still be in the same national security paradigm. he fails to have the good governance we want. if he fails to support the creation of afghan level of troops and police and the quality of them to carry out missions, we'll still be in the position that it will be our national security interest security and stable in afghanistan because we don't want another al qaeda. is that fair to say? >> yes. it is. >> so the problem is that part of the question is that dictates that we have a long-term obligation to afghanistan because we hope karzai will do everything that's right we may prod and poke and maybe try to direct money in different ways. at the end of the day, it depends upon an afghan government that can sustain itself. let me ask you then, do we agree with the comments made by president karzai that it may be as much as five years before his troops can take on insurgents in 2024, before the afghans will be able to pay for their own schurt? is his statement a fair one? >> it's not a light switch. >> is that a reasonable time frame? >>

this prop is the house. national dairy goat awareness week. ent it over to the senate and the senate says, what is so special about dairy goats? it is not very good that is important to the diet of americans. it is beef, that is what we want. they have got all kinds of -- there is probably a cattle caucus and the cattle caucus gets activated. then they make an amendment to the dairy goats and now it is the national dairy goats and cattle and awareness week. they do not ask for a conference. they send it back to the house. here is the house. they say, the senate, what are they always doing to us? it is not beef. the chickens, americans love to ins. that is what they like. -- americans love chickens. that is what they like. then they have the interest courage, you know, frank perdue and his forces out there. now we have the national dairy goats, cattle, and chicken awareness week, right? and now the last one is, over here, this is back over to the senate. what happens here? grassley and harkin, they say, wait a minute, this is all wrong here. por

the wars are a threat to our national security. we'll spend over $100 billion next year to bombation of poor people while we re-energize the taliban, destabilize pakistan, deplete our army and put our soldiers' lives on the line. 15 million people at home are out of work. $13 trillion in bailouts for wall street. trillions for war. when are we going to start taking care of things here at home? the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields back the balance of his time. for what purpose does the gentleman from south carolina rise? mr. wilson: mr. speaker, i ask permission to address the house for one minute and to revise and extend my remarks. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, so ordered. mr. wilson: mr. speaker, success in afghanistan shall be defined in the tradition of ronell reagan. we win and the terrorists -- ronald reagan. we win and the terrorists lose. the president has listened to our commanders on the ground for a counterinsurgency surge. to secure afghanistan and protects american families. this decision will def

you believe in the national economic union and our federal system. y personal one came in very early. after studying a position, a particular statute passed by the congress of the united states was facially unconstitutional. i could not take that position and we did not take that position. the most enjoyable part was the sense of community within the office. there was a sense that this was really special. we knew we would not be there for a very long time. i would say that erwin griswold said to me, not long after i was privileged to take the office, that there was not one thing long -- was only one thing and wrong. the office does not enjoy article 3 life tenure. i knew that i was on worthy and that he should be there -- on were the and that he should be there -- and were the -- unworthy and that he should be there. >> is there unanimity that justice marshall was right? thank you, everyone. >> the supreme court historical society hosted this discussion on tuesday in washington d.c.. you can watch this program again or other recent programs at c- span

we will still be in the same national security paradigm. he fails to have the good governance we want. if he fails to support the creation of afghan level of troops and police and the quality of them to carry out missions, we'll still be in the position that it will be our national security interest security and stable in afghanistan because we don't want another al qaeda. is that fair to say? >> yes. it is. >> so the problem is that part of the question is that dictates that we have a long-term obligation to afghanistan because we hope karzai will do everything that's right we may prod and poke and maybe try to direct money in different ways. at the end of the day, it depends upon an afghan government that can sustain itself. let me ask you then, do we agree with the comments made by president karzai that it may be as much as five years before his troops can take on insurgents in 2024, before the afghans will be able to pay for their own schurt? is his statement a fair one? >> it's not a light switch. >> is that a reasonable time frame? >>

at the national and sub-national levels. our overarching going, improve governance so afghans can see the benefit of supporty a lift government and the insurgency loses its support. as general mcchrystal pointsous, one of our major impediments faced, the afghan government's lack of credibility with its own people. to strengthen its legitimacy our approach at the national level is improving key ministries, increasinged number of civilian technical advisers and providing more development assistance directly through these ministries' budgets. by focusing on ministries that deliver essential services and security, we can accelerate the building of the afghan government to one that is sufficiently visible, effective and accountable. at the provincial and district levels we're working jointly with our military through our provincial reconstruction teams, our district development working groups and our district support teams which help build afghan capacity, particularly in the areas of greatest insecurity, in southern and in easter