and i appreciate your playing the navy hymn and "anchors away." ter] >> yeah. >> my wife and company thought i was kind of 16 inches off the ground about it, which i was. i threw up when i saw the woodstock thing on television. they wanted to update us, i couldn't watch anymore films. and i had been involved in both the security situation trying to improve that which -- [inaudible] after vietnam and the cultural thing. and the cultural poison, as i said, i think is more certainly to destroy this nation, as it has every other which undertook to make the state the decider of rights. when the roman army went from saying, virtue to saying, hail caesar, that was the beginning of the time, binning of the decline of their army and their populace because they came off of even their own gods, such as they were. and let caesar be -- decide what people could do and can't do. now we're not willing. if the creator is going to endow the rights and we are going to use those rights, we have to play according to the creator's rules. those rights were established wi

guest: i have been in the navy a little over a year. the national -- natural progression was to try at the navy out. no regrets. deftly a unique experience. caller: i am a former marine. i have spent time in desert storm, and i know how it is. keep your heads up, keep god, your family, and your country. keep doing your job. we all love you and appreciate what you're doing, and thank you. guest: thank you. thank blake for his service, as well. merry christmas to him and his family. i have your mother on the line. cindy lee potter. mrs. potter, are you on the line? go ahead. caller: hello. we miss you, we love you. guest: i miss you guys, too. i am jealous of my friends back in hawaii right now. caller: hello. this is her father. her brother is with other family members in puget sound. we're wishing her the best of luck and to say safe. just be safe. we leviable -- we love you. host: thank you for that. meghan, go ahead with your final thoughts. guest: thank you. i want to thank everybody for your service. i hope to have a great christmas

the navy seels are the united states navy's elite commandows and last week we learned that they have captured one of the most wanted terrorists in all of iraq. abed was behind the murder and mutilation of former blackwater u.s.a. security guards in fallujah in the year 2004. this ring leader of this ambush planned the murder of these four americans in fallujah. and these four blackwater security guards, what they were doing was transporting supplies from one place to another. so he had planned an ambush against these individuals. they are ambushed, they are murdered, the bodies of these four murdered americans were then dragged through the streets, burned and hung from a bridge in fallujah. mr. speaker, i've been to that very bridge in the year 2005 and you still have an eerie feeling knowing that four americans were hung there in public view. u.s. military, by the way, has put a plaque on that bridge in honor of those security guards. and so congratulations are in order to the navy s.e.a.l.s. who captured the mastermind behind this ambush and the murder of these four americans. we sh

the navy only gives us so much time to talk to them. because of the demands they have on their training. it is a constant effort. as we talked about in the branches, we encourage that and by evolution, i think we are going to have to have more of a conversation that you are going to have to be a savor before you can become a borrower. i see that taking place right now. >> i would address the in language challenges as well. i think it is necessary to have more information as well as a variety of languages. it is something we try to do where there is on-line material, some banks have gone much further than wells fargo has in terms of offering on-line banking in different languages. it is something we would all like to do. there is big cost to be able to offer that. we do concentrate quite a bit on offering upfront material, education material and language. the junior agent savor club has the entire line of the parent information in spanish. we just introduced spanish language as a positive statement. you can have english or spanish online

today the navy uses the area to store mothballed warships. but over the past several years, many corporations like the clothing company urban outfitters have moved in. last week philadelphia's mayor michael nutter with pennsylvania governor ed rendell at his side announced the opening of a solar panel plant at the navy yard. >> in years to come when people think about clean energy and solar power they're going to be thinking about philadelphia and the philadelphia region. >> the mayor sounds like urban executives across the country when he talks about 2009's most politically stylish color green. >> as we look to the navy yard increasingly as a clean energy campus, this is a place where whether you have a ged or a ph.d or anything in between there is a job opportunity for you as a part of our larger effort as greenworks, philadelphia. >> suarez: hear that? everything between a ged and a ph.d. highly desirable, and tough to do. with the emphasis on high tech, the ph.ds are in good shape. at the university city science center. >> it's getting re

david, first of all, what more can you tell bus the gunning down of this navy commando's family? ll, the operation seemed to be well designed. just hours after the commando was buried with full military honors, a group benefit a desen hit men stormed the house. they broke open the door. they were armed with ak-47s, and assault rifles and shot up the entire family. they left as quickly as they arrived, and prosecutors, mexican prosecutors are now saying that they may have had help from local police in find -- planning their getaway. it looks like a pretty either efficient operation, which shows this cartel run by arturo beltran leyva, is alive and kicking >> how well publicized was the name of this navy commando? >> well, that's a very good question. the name was publicized, and that's unusual in mexico. because normally, the military soldiers, both navy and army that take part ofn these operations, their identities are kept secret. most wear black masks to hide their identities. when they were killed, the government has up until now released their names and honored them as fallen

the union navy was off the coast. if he could get to the coast the union navy would help supply his troops. in the meantime they would have to live off of the land. the land between atlanta and savannah. he worked this all out. he sent telegrams before she cut off the telegraph lines to the department of agriculture in washington asking for information on the produce of the farms between atlanta and savannah so he could find out if there was enough to go on and general grant said of him he bones all the time, boning meaning studies. he bones all the time. images, he did. he boned up the produce of georgia so he knew he could do this. then he arranged to send all the tricks he did not need particularly those in poor physical condition back north. he sent them to tennessee by the last trains he let go and he was left with 62,000 troops of which nearly 60,000 were infantry. the rest were calvary. then he arranged to have all the railway lines torn up and to make sure the state torn up between north and south, he had one

guest: i have been in the navy a little over a year. the national -- natural progression was to try at the navy out. no regrets. deftly a unique experience. caller: i am a former marine. i have spent time in desert storm, and i know how it is. keep your heads up, keep god, your family, and your country. keep doing your job. we all love you and appreciate what you're doing, and thank you. guest: thank you. thank blake for his service, as well. merry christmas to him and his family. i have your mother on the line. cindy lee potter. mrs. potter, are you on the line? go ahead. caller: hello. we miss you, we love you. guest: i miss you guys, too. i am jealous of my friends back in hawaii right now. caller: hello. this is her father. her brother is with other family members in puget sound. we're wishing her the best of luck and to say safe. just be safe. we leviable -- we love you. host: thank you for that. meghan, go ahead with your final thoughts. guest: thank you. i want to thank everybody for your service. i hope to have a great christmas

: it also my duty tod to express my most sincere condolces to the family of melquisedet anguloto the navyexico, foa horrible attack perprated in the night. >>eporter: the attorney general of the southn mexican statof tabasco said today a group allied to the ltran- leyva cartel carried o the monday murrs. said it was warning to the military: your famies are now targets. his death, beltran leyva wa among the most powerful mexico's drug lord- the self- proclaimed "boss of sses". he had conlidated his position through utal warfare with other drug runners, and withhe mexican governnt. mexico's attornegeneral said beltran-leyva's ath might now ad to a powestruggle. >> ( translat ): and this will for sure force them to restructe. it's not unlikely th there will be violence witn the cartel until t new head is defined. >> reporte which can only mean moreisery for a country where drug-related violence s killed 15,000 people over theast three years. it was once rgely confined to e region near the u.s. borde -tijna, juarez, nuevo laredo-- but hanow spread nationwide. as the killingscalates, president

he tried to give it to the union navy and giddy and said no the secretary of the navy. he was a little prickly. nobody thought the war would last that long. never going to have this expensive ship it's going to be a white elephant for the navy. he said no so vanderbilt ended up being forced actually against his will to lease it for large sums to the department. >> host: teaching styles on his book the first tycoon and by the way you can go to the book tv website, booktv.org and search defense. you will find all kind of video including that want to take a look at what online. you're favorite best non-fiction book of 2009 year raised dennis in bloomfield hills, michigan. go ahead. >> merry christmas, sir. >> thank you. >> caller: there's a lot of great nonfiction books that cannot and of a book about dred scott. the best this year was and the fed by dr. ron paul. we heard discussion back-and-forth about liberty and that sort of thing on the two parties but i think dr. paul kneal did in terms of the linchpin that's caused so many problems in the federal reserve system. it i

. >> larry: the former governor of minnesota, former pro wrestler, former navy s.e.a.l., the host of "conspiracy theory" which debuts wednesday night on trutv. what do you make of the gate crashers story? >> the concern i have was not over who did it but how they were allowed to be let in. so much for the patriot act and national security, huh? i mean, if you can crash the white house -- >> larry: your anger is -- >> if you can crash the white house like they did, obviously the patriot act and national security isn't working too well. that's the president of the united states. on a serious note, i think the secret service has something to answer to here. ultimately it's their responsibility. >> larry: and what are your thoughts on the tiger woods situation? >> well, for me, i hope tiger keeps quiet. i hope that tiger does what he's doing right now because it truly is nobody's business. it was an internal thing. whatever it is, inside his house on his property. he was never driving on a public street. i would do the identical same thingfy were in his shoes. i would say nothing. it wil

his condors was completely inappropriate and that's the letter that he wrote to his secretary of the navy, robert smith, where he denied all the other allegations including the sally rumors but admitted in that letter to the walker affair that he behavior badly. so that was known as the walker a fair and he ended that. he was young, he was rejected in he knew that he acted inappropriately. yes, ma'am. >> at the end of the day, how much do you think these rumors have actually hurts good jefferson legacy, both release certainly but also how much was he really hurt when he was alive? >> well, obviously he wasn't hurt when he was alive because he was reelected after the 1802 calendar -- callender article. >> so he was elected twice. and i often get asked that question, what does it really matter to his legacy. and i think the loan was the best line about that -- you cannot -- you can never not -- not thomas jefferson off his pedestal but you can scribble graffiti on the statute. and i am here and hopefully my book is here to embrace the graffiti. if you know, i had one young lady asked me whi

i do not know if the navy pushed for it or what, but i agree. caller: i have watched it. it is a no-no. so many soldiers have been killed by that stinking aircraft. guest: the marines wanted it. it is in the marine budget, but it was in the navy budget. the navy was not happy with it, the marines pushed it, and with the pennsylvania and the texas delegation and the report of president clinton, they kept it alive. it was called the tillt-rotor caucus, because it takes off like a helicopter and flies like a plane. president clinton kept it going, then president bush, and now it is in president obama's budget. host: arlene, good morning. caller: i cannot believe what i am hearing now. you are talking about sacrifice? i mean, americans overwhelmingly do not support these wars. i do not know what world you live in, but this country is broken. we are on our knees, in debt up to our next to china. our infrastructure is crumbling. i have been wondering, this health care bill has gone from lukewarm to awful, how long it will be before the president slaps

it is an opportunity for us as the house of representatives to congratulate the navy and the sailors of our ballistic submarine fleet upon the completion of 1,000 missions, that's 1,000 missions of deterrent in protecting our nation. this silent service, the ohio class submarines, the highest of technology, the greatest of sailors and the most stealthy of operations have been in service protecting our nation since the first crews of the u.s.s. ohio in 1982. this is not an easy service. only 5% of all our sailors are qualified to serve in our ballistic submarine fleet. the highest of technology and the advancements that we have seen as a nation are represented in this classification of service also. oftentimes our sailors are on duty for 77 or more straight days, and they come back then to work 35 days of maintenance. it puts a tremendous burden upon them, but once again, these are the highest qualified of individuals that you can find because when they're on the ship they have to have the knowledge of the technology to the most minute of details to be able to service the ship as need

the college is responsible for all military education in the navy. grown from 1500 in 1989 to over 27,000 today. çthe in-residence programs from almost 300 to 600. in my short time as president, seven months on saturday, i have found the war college to be if professional graduate institution of the highest quality with faculty and staff members who are satisfied they are doing meaningful work that makes a difference. the students areç highly motivated professionals, many of çthe front lines overseas. okwe invite them in as we learn about the serious business of war. thank you, mr. chairman. i am happy to take any questions. >> thinking. >> chairman skelton, a german snyder, a distinguished members of the committee, thank you for the opportunity to appear before you today. my name is general bob williams, come about of the united states army war college. our soldiers have the good fortune of the associate with egyptian and training of cadets and soldiers for more than 34 years. i have served as the instructor oil and assistant professor at west poi

he tried to give to the union navy and he said no. and the secretary of the navy said no. he was a little and he didn't link it would last that long. and so vanderbilt ended up being forced actually against as well to lease it for very large sums to the work party. post go tj stiles on his book, the first tycoon. and by the way it will the waco turpitude websites booktv.org and search events. you'll find all kinds of video including that want to take a look. your favorite best nonfiction book of 2009. here's dennis in bloomfield hills, michigan. go ahead. >> caller: merry christmas, sir. there are lot of rate books that came out and i think the very best this year was and the fed by duron paul and at first was a discussion back and forth about the liberty and that sort of thing. but i think that dr. paul nailed it when it was calling so many problems. it's just a wonderful book, very well written. in his humanity comes through now which i recommend it. i wish a merry christmas to you and all the listeners. post go and we covered congressman ron paul talking about this book

>> i was in the navy and expelled -- you asked me that already. i was in the naval rotc and was kicked out for having asthma. but i did volunteer. they kicked me out. so there you are. >> okay. >> i was in it for a couple months marching around and learning -- i never was able to serve. >> larry: jesse was a s.e.a.l. >> jesse is a brave guy. >> you know what's going to be interesting, tomorrow night the president is going to give a speech and in which he's going to try and square the circle. he's going to give general mcchrystal more or less what he wanted in terms of troops. and he's going to try to give everybody else who is opposed to this escalation a lot of words. but that's not going to work. because the public is losing confidence in this attempt to try and be all things to our people. >> larry: sorry, folks, we're out of time. i'm really sorry. thank you all very much.

we do not want to minimize the navy's concern about these type things. ut we fly carriers on and off the deck. they have the vertical thrust. -- we'd like harriers on and off the deck. they have the vertical price. we think all those things can be fixed in time. >> any indication that they are allowing you to put your ospreys and joint strike fighters -- >> i think that it wants to put the ospreys and joint strike fighter jock aboard ship. collectively for those reasons and others, we're going to find a way to get it done. >> prime minister hatoyama said that he will put off the decision on the futenma this issue until next year. can you tell me how does that affect on moving marines from okinawa to guam? >> the fax said there. we have a new japanese government that is looking at all the treaty or rape -- agreements and obligations of the proceeding government. in this case, with regard to this treaty, we what -- we await their formal notification. we hear about all kinds of churn. there are reports coming out of japan and okinawa about this minister or t

, in 1893 the american ambassador to the country of hawaii ordered the united states marines off the navyhip. they marched into downtown honolulu. they surrounded the palace and invited the queen to leave. the first example of american regime change. when i went there in 2005 it was than that i realized why in 1905 when the americans on this imperial cruise sale than to honolulu harbor, novated hawiians came to greet them. you can imagine my surprise when i was out there in china. i am walking the streets of china and a stumble upon, i stumble upon the origins of the fortune that supported the life of franklin delano roosevelt. with a name like roosevelt i thought he had inherited roosevelt money but i learned that franklin delano roosevelt's father was a farmer up in the hudson, well off but not wealthy, not wealthy enough to support the lifestyle of franklin delano roosevelt, a town houses in manhattan and yachts and whatever. where did this money come from? i learned in china of that it was the delano fortune that supported franklin delano roosevelt who. the dylan of fortune that was m

at the academy, he led navy's basketball team with an unmatched passion and competitive spirit. upon commission as an ensign he went to sea with a work ethic and selflessness that characterized the very best of the graduates of annapolis. with a total commitment to the personal and professional excellence. he never forgot the importance of a sailor's family and he put in countless hours tending to the concerns of a parents, wives, and children who sacrifice so much in offering the loved ones to the naval service. tactically his fighting spirit and natural sense of competition drove him. systems operators and decisionmakers to outthink and outfight every adversary. when our fleet was challenged by maintenance concerns, he rolled up his sleeves and took charge of the most complex engineering plan the navy had devised. he set a standard for engineering readiness that astounded only those who did not know him. as a result, his rise from the ranges was deservedly fast. every ship and sailor he served reached new standards of excellence. he commanded the u.s.s. john hancock 981. destro

i had said no and my assistant said that the secretary of the navy was on the line.i thought i was born to get chewed out -- going to get chewed out. he told me that he understood that i decided against taking big case before the supreme court. he said that they appreciated the attention that i devoted to working at through and to thank you very much. i felt a chill. the office of solicitor general was held in high regard by the federal government. >> the most unpleasant and difficult, by far, in my experience, was conflict. conflict within the justice department. every administration, regardless of who the president is has a schizophrenic elements. i read this in a book where the author talked about the federal laws and police in the office of legal counsel -- the federalism police in the office of legal counsel. you find yourself in the solicitor general's office being more of an echo of john marshall then you do of john c. calhoun. you believe in the national economic union and our federal system. my personal one came in very early. after studying a position, a pa

. >> you were in the navy. i was in the navy, yes. and my experience as a practicing lawyer have had an impact on the work i've done. there are an awful lot of things that combined affect your view of the law. >> when you're sitting up on the bench looking out at the court during an oral argument, what do you think up there? what do you see that we don't see? >> one thing i often remember is the first time i argued before the court i was really surprised at how close i was to the justices and i think to myself sometimes, he is thinking the same thing. he didn't expect to be quite as close, to have quite an intimate experience as it really is. you are right in a conversation with the people on the other side of the bench and it's a very interesting experience. >> have you been here long enough for the bench itself was straight? >> no. it was -- warren burger made that change a year or two before i got here so since i've been a justice it's always been with the angle on the two sides. but when i was a law clerk it was a straight bench.

won't say anything. 15 minutes later, 200 of the taliban and the al qaeda came across, killed him, killed his partners and left him for dead. 16 navy s.e.a.l.s came in the

i don't know if the navy pushed for it or what. i agree. st: what is your experience with the v-22, it sounds like you have been following it. caller: i have watched it very carefully and it is a no-no. it has murdered -- not just killed. as mothers of the troops who died in that stinking aircraft. guest: again, the marines wanted it. it is in the navy budget. of course, marine corps is in the navy department and in itself would not have the and the marines posted and with the pennsylvania and texas delegation and the support of president clinton's the kept it alive. in fact, what they set up was of the tilt rotor caucus -- it takes off like a helicopter and flies like a plane. it was republicans and democrats and president clinton kept going and president bush kept it going and now it is in president obama's budget. host: clearwater, florida, arlene. caller: i can't believe what i am hearing. you are talking about sacrifice? americans overwhelmingly don't support these wars. i don't know what world you live in but this country is broken. we

gross i have a comment about the 9/11 and war policy. jesse ventura, a navy seal, came on the air on larry king and says our government lied to us. he has a goodpiont and i have read three books. on the it the best to read is "the new pro harbor," which you can get a barnes and noble. host: let me ask you, what would be the government benefit about lying to us about 9/11? caller: number one, you cannot bring the building down in 10 seconds, other than blowed up with demolition and side of the building -- you would not have just dust at the bottom of the heap, but chunks of concrete about the size of the building. was it 6000 people who are dying now from the dust around the building who worked as zero site? host: why with the government do this? would be their benefit? caller: if you will read their books and look at911 in plain sight, it will show you what happened in. why host: tom. caller: there was a big policy speech last night. there were four democratic guest and only one republican. what is up with that? i disagree with barack obama because if you wan

bill raferty is a planner a british officer, another allied officer from the u.s. navygreg smith runs our communications jake mcfaren is our political adviser in the headquarters, casey welsh is my other aide, american aide. hi 27 months in iraq before he came to afghanistan with only five months off between those two deployments and then dave silverman works in my personal staff obviously another naval officer. >> great. thank you very much. we'll begin our questioning now and i'm first going to recognize the gentleman from texas, mr. green, for five minutes. >> thank you, mr. chairman and thank you for continuing the hearing and i want to thank both ambassador eikenberry and general mcchrystal for what you do and your leadership you're doing for our young men and women not only serving in the in military but obviously in the civilian side, having been the embassy in afghanistan a couple times and been hosted there, it's not the plush area anyone ever thinks but i appreciate what y'all do and i know members of congress do. general mcchrystal there, are currently 94,000

bill raferty is a planner a british officer, another allied officer from the u.s. navy greg smith runs our communications jake mcfaren is our political adviser in the headquarters, casey welsh is my other aide, american aide. hi 27 months in iraq before he came to afghanistan with only five months off between those two deployments and then dave silverman works in my personal staff obviously another naval officer. >> great. thank you very much. we'll begin our questioning now and i'm first going to recognize the gentleman from texas, mr. green, for five minutes. >> thank you, mr. chairman and thank you for continuing the hearing and i want to thank both ambassador eikenberry and general mcchrystal for what you do and your leadership you're doing for our young men and women not only serving in the in military but obviously in the civilian side, having been the embassy in afghanistan a couple times and been hosted there, it's not the plush area anyone ever thinks but i appreciate what y'all do and i know members of congress do. general mcchrystal there, are currently 94,00

and is often seen as an army campaign and the royal navy could be without hindering either the mission in afghanistan or -- is just plane wrong. >> i did meet with the royal navy in hellmand in afghanistan yesterday. there are people people from the royal navy working with our troops in afghanistan and doing an incredible job. i think our commitment to the navy is assured by our positions on the aircraft carrier. >> fascinating in september last year just after the 2,000 british troops just delivered a turbine, a daring dangerous mission. 15 months later that turbine has yet to be installed because the other equipment needed cannot be got there because over the dangers. bear in mind, the prime minister's promise that he is going to get more european nations involved, and with the additional aerial surveillance, will he get the european nations to secure that road so that it can be one? >> i don't want him to get the wrong impression. two generators are there. the third generator has not been brought into use. the decision has been made that diesel power is a better way forward

you know, we don't want to minimize the navy's concern about these types of things. but we fly harriers on and off the deck. they have the vertical thrust. and so we think all those things can be fixed in time. it's going to be a different set of requirements, admittedly, but there is nothing we see that will be a showstopper. >> do you have any indication that they are rethinking a lie you to put your osprey's? >> no, i think they want us to put them on board ship. i think for those reasons and others will find a way to get it done. >> can you tell me how moving the raids from okinawa to guam? >> you know, the facts are there. we have a new japanese government that is looking at i suppose all the treaty agreements and obligations of the preceding government. in this case, with regard to this treaty, we a way, you know, their formal notification. we are hearing about all kind of churn, there are reports coming out of japan and okinawa about this minister or that, saying this or that. but i mean we've got to give the government a chance to reach their logical determina

i had the honor of serving in the u.s. navy 11 years after a military scholarship. e whole time i never once felt hyphenated or labeled. i served proudly as an american. let us not to give this platform to al qaeda and mohammad. let us not give that to them. we formed the american islamic form for democracy to build a future of our faith that is not in conflict with liberty, or democracy. this is a clear and present danger to muslims in the free practice of islam. after the fort hood massacre, despite what was presented as the overwhelming concern, most american muslims actually asked not about what would happen to us but about how we could prevent the next attack. that is what we are dedicated to. it is time for congress to formally declared war on radical islam is soism. it's time to declare war on al qaeda and all of its brethren. we ask for military justice. let me be the first to say i hope k.s.m and other radical islamists meet the ultimate penalty, the death penalty. i'm asking you to call, right, protest, engage your community, engage your muslim and interfai

remember, back in the end of the 19, beginning of the 20th century, much of the export was done by the army and navy, so just across the road here, we have adolphus w. greeley which was a great explores. he went farther north than anybody had been at that time. just down this road is the grave of john wesley powell, who explored the colorado river. he had one arm at the time. he had lost his arm at shiloh in the civil war, but he went on to be a great explores. and two other great things. u.s. geological survey. and another part of arlington just over the hill, the arctic explorers robert peary and his associate, matthew hans who claimed to reach the north pole in 1909. they are here. so the point is arlington is more than just a military cemetery. it is a place for explorers, figures from history, and many other things. >> well, we're on the hill overlooking the city here. what is this tomb on the mound here overlooking the city? >> this is the tomb of a frenchman who served in the american revolution. he stayed on. he was commissioned to design the city of washington. so he came here in 1891, 1892

"to review found that the navy pays its mentor's an average of $330 an hour, the marines, $187 per hourour plus expenses. the investigation published last month found that 80% of the 158 military mentors that the newspaper could identify also had ties to defense contractors." guest: that is all relevant and something that we should ask a lot of hard questions about and may discontinue the program and rebuild completely. i don't know what the benefit is. we have to get the benefit to say is it worth all of this apparent waste and over-billing? i don't know the answer to that. one of the things that i think the liberals and conservatives and independents can get together on is inside this military budget, which is massive, what can we do to reduce costs and make it more effective and efficient? i believe, as a conservative republican, that republicans need to measure it with the same yardstick that we applied to welfare programs and social programs that have waste that we are very concerned about. i think it is something that congress can actually put its best foot forward and say, "lets

even if the navy seals punched this murderer in the mouth, they're overreacting.punching is allowed, so is shooting. instead of court marshal, the seals should be getting a medal. it seems they are more concerned about his bruised lip instead of the seals doing their job. the job of the american military is to fight wars. they're supposed to defeat the enemy. they break things. that's what they do. the military needs to be trying this terrorist for the murder of americans instead of court marshaling the seals for successfully accomplishing their mission and that's just the way it is. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from arkansas rise? mr. boozman: i ask permission to address the house for one minute. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized for one minute. accept my apology, please. mr. boozman: thank you, mr. speaker. i rise today to congratulate dr. gregory salamow for being the 2009 united states professor of the year. dr. salamow, the dwrished professor of physics and part of the optical society of america

another allied officer from the u.s. navy, greg smith runs adjudications. cferrin is our political advise you in the headquarters. casey welch is my other aid, my american a. i had 27 months in iraq before he came to afghanistan with only five months off between those two deployments. and then dave silverman works on my personal staff as well obvious he. another naval officer. >> thank you very much. we will begin are questioning a. and first i want to recognize the gentleman from texas, mr. green, for five minutes. >> thank you, mr. chairman, and thank you for continuing the hearing. and i want to thank both ambassador eikenberry and general mcchrystal for what you do in your leadership. you are doing for our men and women. not only serving in military, but obviously in the civilian side. having been the embassy in afghanistan a couple of times and then hosted there, it's not the plush area anyone ever thinks. but i appreciate what you all do, and i know members of congress do. general mcchrystal, there are currently 94000 afghan soldiers on the ground. cur

the late edward joseph kelly iii who passed away, born october 1, 1942 in new york and he joined the navy served his country and graduated from the university of scranton in 1967 and retired as vice president of emory worldwide in 2000. he is a hero. after 9/11, he could not sit still. mr. kelly left retirement to join the department of homeland security, signing on as the first general manager of the air cargo security for the federal transportation security administration, whose mission is securing the nation's transportation network. air cargo officials have gone on record to say he transform the industry. if future airline passengers feel safe about what is carried in the belly of a cargo plane, they should credit mr. kelly. officials who worked with him said he was a professional and loved his country, yes, a navy man and the officials of the president of the cargo security alliance said that he was front and center on this work. madam speaker, his contributions were immeasurable. he is a great american hero. i pay tribute to this distinguished american edward joseph kelly iii and ma

the helicopter. they killed all 16. we have three navy s.e.a.l.s on trial right now. how do you say to these troops sent on a mission to kill an al qaeda leader? should they have killed the three people? should they have killed them on the spot so they wouldn't alert the enemy they were going over the hill? would they have been court-martialed by the united states? here we are court-martialing three guys who in operation amber attacked one of the leaders and arrested him, turned him over to the iraqi military. they said they smackeded him in the mouth. and you're court-martialing. it makes no sense. you're the general in charge and you're the ambassador. i talked to the chairman of the joint chiefs and i don't understand why somebody would say this is baloney. >> ambassador watson is recognized for five minutes. >> i want to thank our two witnesses for the service to our country. and the image that you serve to fill abroad. i want to thank you for your experience and wish you well. now, my question goes to the africa africans. in the eight years that we've been involve

a large steamship's and given to the union navy. they said no. he was prickly. they never thought the war would last that long. the ship was expensive. so he ended up being forced against his will to lease it for large sums to the war department. host: t.j. stiles. you confine all kinds of video on our website. your favor nonfiction book of 2009. here is dennis in michigan. caller: merry christmas. there are a lot of nonfiction books the came out. i think the very best this year was "end the debt." or heard discussion about the different parties but i think he melted. this caused so many problems. -- i think heat nailed it. it is a wonderful book. i would highly recommended. and mary christmas to you and all the publicity. host: recovered wrong cawe covel talking about his book. " there were discussions with alan greenspan. i tell the story about the time and most of you would know the story. alan greenspan was get a supporter of a little group of people in the 1960's. he wrote a fantastic article about how bad the debt was and how bad the central bank was and we

but time will tell, especially on the use of the u.s. and navy vessel that was promised a long time ago and pledged again by the prime minister. in laos, cooperation is physical and welcome. the evolving relationship including establishment and exchange is very good for the u.s. laos bilateral relationship and pow measure mia in particular, something we fought for 12 years. they finally agreed, and it's now in place. a small increase in air lift funding in the case of laos would expedite the effort as well. i'm not in a position to suggest the number of additional personnel that would be required. i do know an agreement with these gentleman that j h pac funding is inadequate for the fy '09 budget. that doesn't even include operations for north korea if that happens to open up. so an increase of at least 1/3 or 20 plus million with a plus of forensic an throw poll gist and other staff as necessary. -- an an, our positions i know have to stop. our positions on all of the questions are in the full testimony that i provided. but i'd like to say that

and my assistant said, the secretary of the navy is on the line. and i thought i was going to get chewed out. but i said, hello, mr. secretary. he said, i understand you've decided against taking your case up to the supreme court. and i took another deep breath. and he said we appreciate very much the attention that you devoted to working this through and thank you very much, end of conversation. i felt a chill that not drew days but the office of the solicitor general stood in such high regard throughout the government that in this really critical matter, deference was shown. >> point 1, the most unpleasant and difficult by far in my experience was conflict. and conflict within the justice department specifically. every administration, regardless of who the president is, has its schizophrenic elements. or dimensions. i've seen no better treatment of this than charles freed's book, "order in the reagan revolution" where he talked about somewhat in the pejorative i lay of the police in the office of legal counsel. when he was taking more hamiltonian

i can't speak yet for the navy and marine corps. n the contracting personnel oversight side i have no information as to commitments to extend tours. but we are mindful that these are civil servants, not military personnel primarily forming these functions. and they cannot be ordered to serve longer tours. but we understand that incentives are being built into their assignments to make it more attractive to serve longer and that there is a trend towards volunteering to serve longer than three to six months. >> thank you. do you see the incentive that is have been developed so far and adopted so far have had any impact on civilian tour lengths? .. >> what are the benefits and limitations of using contractors in a training role, aside from tour length? we've already heard from commissioner shay that we are run into many contractors that have a number of years in country, and obviously, that is a benefit, that continuity is a benefit, but what are some of the limitations and benefits in your mind of using contractors in this role? >> tha

as an example, justice stevens had a distinguished career in the navy in a special organization thatwas involved in cracking codes. now, he was an officer, a naval officer, and distinguished himself. but always as bill said where somebody served him his meals. it took us two years to become sergeants. and we never advanced beyond that. we always lived in fear. and this is what i think reflects itself in his judicial conduct. that some low level military bureaucrat would have us is destroyed barricaded where we would wounded our killed. privates learned of a new posting when a sergeant read your name on a clipboard at revelry and there were no appeals. our democratically elected government had ordered us in harm's way. we understood it was necessary. we didn't question now and certainly now now, i don't know about then, when was it was appropriate but we knew government's power. and we knew just how great it could be. and we feared it. and the fear was deep. it lasted throughout our lives. finally, in closing, i would just like to say that "rehnquist" is not a highbrow book. it is a w

we were the flagship of the navy. it was admiral campbell's ship but he was not on it that day. >> when we used to go out on patrol, the saying used to be the japs are attacking, the japs are attacking and we would run into our battle stations. most of us knew we were going to have defied the japanese. where that trickle-down from, i have no idea. i maybe it was from the politicians to the officers and the officers to us. we expected to buy them eventually. we just did not know when. there was no need for radio communication. it was obvious to all of the ships that we were under attack. they had as carrying ammunition to the three and should 50. i had just been handed a shell -- a three inch 50. the next thing i knew i was flat on my face. something went for my right side out might rear end. i had five pieces of shrapnel in my left leg. my right hand was shot open. i lost part of my left elbow, but my bicep muscle. they put me into a bog -- bunk. i saw one of the third class regimen to go by and i asked, -- then i real

we were also flagship of the navy. it was admiral campbekimball's . japanese are attacking, the japs are attacking. most of us knew we would have to fight the japanese. where that trickled from i have -- where the trickle-down from i do not know. we expected to fight them eventually. we just did not know when. there was no need for radio communication. it was obvious to all the ships in the harbor we were under attack. so they had as carrying ammunition now to the 3 inch 50. i had been handed a 3 inch shell and i was getting ready to run its to the getting. the next thing i knew i was flat on my face. something went to my right side and out my rear end and i had a six inch piece thrown out of my leg. my right hand was shot open and i lost part of the left elbow and part of the muscle of a by said. they put me into a bunk and i was lying there and i saw one of the third class brit hume and go by. -- radiomen go by. i realized either somethigng is wrong with me or him. i said, it is highland. all he did was walk away. >> watch more extended interviews at

i was in the navy. and my experiences as a practicing lawyer have had an impact on the work that i have done. bad experience on the seventh circuit affected me and in all lot of things have combined to affect your view of the law. >> when you're sitting on the bench looking out at the court during an oral argument, what are you thinking? what do you see that we do not see? >> i often remember, the first time i argued before the court, i was really surprised at how close i was to the justices. i say to myself, he is thinking the same thing. he did not expect to be quite as close to us and be as intimate and experience as it really is. you are having a conversation with the people on the other side of the bench. it is a very interesting experience. >> you have been here long enough for the bank itself being straight? >> note, warren burger made that change i year or two before i got here. since i have been a justice, it has always been with the ankle on the two sites. when i was a law clerk, it was a strai

there's a different one from the navy and the army and the marine corps.e duty. they actually work hand in hand. they even have him back to the care coalition office. i do a credit to the u.s. army for taking good care of my husband. >> i think the department of defense is working towards making it more efficient. sometimes people were trying to do good are stepping on each other. you're dealing with traumatic and difficult times the in the. >> thank you very much all of you for your excellent testimony. >> thanks, mr. chairman. i would like to add my thanks for your willingness to come and tell us how you have seen it and experienced it. we are very interested in what you have to say but also in solutions that need for their work. we will do everything we can to try to plug those holes and make it work the way americans want it to work for our men and women and our families. thank you, god bless you. thank you. let's give them a round of applause. [applause] >> this second panel is comprised of gao subject matter be the experts. mr. williamson, a deal hav

the rights that our framers, our soldiers, our marines, our airmen, our coast guard, everyone in the u.s. navy spot so hard to preserve all these years. i don't wear a uniform, i don't wear a uniform, that with every last breath in this body of mine and with all of you and all the people across the country today who could not be here, we continue to stand vigilant. we must continue this work from the moment this rally ends to the office is over there to the people who say they care about they care about the children in one breath and have no trouble spending taxpayers money to abort their babies and the next. that is the message we must send. and to all of these senior citizens here today, i say this. you work hard your entire life and you were promised that you would be cared for in this medicare system. those people who said they said with you are lying all along. they had to be if they vote for this. i am proud to stand with you today and i am saying and great respect closing with this, first they came for the rich and i did not speak out because i was not rich. and then they confiscated th

i had said no and my assistant said that the secretary of the navy was on the line.i thought i was born to get chewed out -- going to get chewed out. he told me that he understood that i decided against taking big case before the supreme court. he said that they appreciated the attention that i devoted to working at through and to thank you very much. i felt a chill. the office of solicitor general was held in high regard by the federal government. >> the most unpleasant and difficult, by far, in my experience, was conflict. conflict within the justice department. every administration, regardless of who the president is has a schizophrenic elements. i read this in a book where the author talked about the federal laws and police in the office of legal counsel -- the federalism police in the office of legal counsel. you find yourself in the solicitor general's office being more of an echo of john marshall then you do of john c. calhoun. you believe in the national economic union and our federal system. my personal one came in very early. after studying a position, a pa

an american ship run by a captain engaged a british ship, the mighty british navy, and the american ship was outgunned and it was outmanned, and as they came together in mortal combat, the dead and dying all around and the british captain said do you surrender, and that captain, that captain john paul jones said "i have not yet begun to fight." i tell the american people we're going to go around this country, we're going to the town halls, we're going to the senior centers, we're going to the rotary clubs, we're going to carry this message. we will not do this. we will not commit generational theft on future generations of americans. we won't give them another another $2.5 trillion of debt. we won't give them an unfair policy where deals are done in back rooms, and we, we, all of us on this side of the aisle will stand up for the american people and we have just begun to fight. mr. harkin: mr. president? the presiding officer: the senator from iowa is recognized. mr. harkin: mr. president, you know, for the last several weeks, all we have heard from the other side is attack, attack, atta