victorious, 9000 black farmers denied the opportunity to take part in the lawsuit, and in 1981, the reagan administrationclosed the office of civil rights at the usda, and it did not reopen, tavis, until the clinton administration, and that gave us the lawsuit. they had to file a lawsuit between 1981 and 1996, and based on the fact that the civil rights office was closed, 80,000 black farmers missed the filing deadline. there was never notification by the usda to notify the black farmers about the settlement, and that pretty much brings us up to where we are today, and we lobbied congress to allow those 80,000 black congress to have their cases heard based on its merits. that bill passed in 2008. and here we are, in the year 2010, still looking for those cases to be heard based on its merits, tavis and, tavis, i have been in despite 26 years, and there was also discrimination at the united states department of agriculture. i am a fourth generation farmer, and i can tell you that the usda has not been a friend to our farmers. tavis: the department of agriculture you are talking about is where we had this

oberstar: but even a decade after it was enacted, the reagan administration came in and cut the grant program to a loan program. and funding diminished over a period of time. now, we still have 1/3 or more of the nation's streams and lakes that don't meet the standards of the clean water act. we have to advance the cause. that is the big challenge ahead of us. you just don't think of raw sewage in waterways in a developed country, and yet, that's what we have, and not just in pittsburgh, but all over. narrator: pittsburgh is situated at the confluence of the allegheny, monongahela, and ohio rivers. these three rivers are vital for industry, recreation, and drinking water. and each year, billions of gallons of combined sewer overflows discharge directly into those rivers. hecht: we're now having to face the consequences of the choice that was made to put in combined sewer systems. narrator: in 1994, the government adopted a combined sewer overflow policy to reduce csos nationwide. cities with combined sewer overflows now face an enforcement action called a consent decree. under a conse

he served in the reagan administration as head of the office of personnel management. it he is the author of reagan's -- the author of a "rating's terrible swift sword." he is running programs around the country and it is the vice chairman of the american conservative union. if i leave you in the hands of don devine. thank you, don. [applause] >> thank you very much for that kind introduction. for those of you ... -- who do not know me, i will give you a bit of an introduction, too. my claim to fame is that i was ronald reagan's chief bureaucrat under the civil service. it really showed a sense of humor on his part putting a conservative like me in charge of bureaucracy. we have cut the number of employees by 100,000. if we have reduced benefits by $6 billion. we even put in work rules to make them work hard. it was a great experience. i turned, and am very proud of earnings come on -- by turns, and am very proud of earnings, the enmity of the washington establishment. i was there most of -- i was their most favored punching banks in which they called me regin's rasputi

he was head of the office and management budget under the reagan administration. ws what it's like to be in the middle of one of these debates. here's what he said about extending the bush tax cuts. >> i don't think we can afford the bush tax cuts in 2001 and 2003 originally. now two wars later, $800 billion in t.a.r.p. a trillion deficit built in going forward as far as the eye can see, we've reached the end of the rope. we have to pay our bills. for that reason we have to this let these tax policies expire. >> a we question to extend them is if you look back they actually did create jobs, they did stimulate the economy originally. >> the interesting thing is there have been studies done by the office of management and budget that show the tax cuts do not go dollar to dollar in the economy. so though the wealthy spend a lot of money, they don't spend all the money they get backseat in the tax cuts. the tax cuts are expensive. we're talking hundreds of billions of dollars additional money that you would be sending out the door in the tax cuts. >> the debate continu

really since the beginning of the reagan administration we've seen a range of institutional mechanisms that have made it a huge gap between those who have hean those who don't. in recent times it's only intensified. the fact that 45% of american people, you know, were able to hold ground while many of us were losing ground is proof of that. this is a tough time for half of america. >> you know, steve, i keep thinking back to the town hall and the woman who stood up and said, a professional woman, who said my husband and i thought we were past the point of the beans and hot dogs. and her question for the president was, is this my new reality. i guess the question is are a lot of americans think just hanging onto your job or being worried if you'll be able to keep their job is their new reality? >> yeah, and not only that, when you're in the job, working longer hours sh making more concessions in terms of i'm not getting paid for this extra work. i'm not taking a vacation. because the job becomes more important when you know there's no other jobs out there to get. if you lose that job. i

he served in the justice department in the rate in -- in the reagan administration. he currently is the chairman of the intercollegiate studies institute, and his first book so-called upstream -- they ascendance of american conservatives -- his first book "upstream, the ascendance of american conservatives" is available for purchase now. he will be speaking about the impact of the sharon conference for the 1960's and 1970's. i will conclude with a few remarks about just who were these people -- these 96 young conservatives who came together in sharon, conn., and what became of them, and what marks have been made in american society and the conservative and libertarian movement in the united states. without further ado, let me turn the program over to lee edwards. thank you. [applause] >> thank you, wayne thorburn. good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen. the mid-1950's seemed to be a time of political eclipse for conservatism. senator robert taft was dead of cancer, and senator joseph mccarty, after his senate censure was as good as dead. the president eisenhower was off

what we've got to do is what we saw work in the kennedy administration. it worked in the reagan administration. it worked to some extent when bush cut tax rates. we need to cut tax rates. and i would combine that with an across-the-board reduction in the federal work force. the federal work force is turning into a gravy train. if the government would commit itself to reducing its size down to something reasonable, it would give people an incentive to invest and do all of these things that's so many people are now afraid of. they are afraid of risk taking. this economy is never one to come back unless people are willing to invest their dollars, go out and work hard and take entrepreneurial risk and get the economy going again. host: lawrence hunter, thank you very much for being here. coming up next, we will take a look at the groups that are spending millions of dollars for the 2010 campaign. >> the government says it will auction 52 million warrants it holds from the hartford financial services group tomorrow. it is the latest effort to recoup costs of the $700 billion financia

the carter administration negotiated what was called fault ifrp i. it never went up to the senate. i was saying the treat y was ratified under the reagan administration and under the bush administration. the go old fashion i have no doubt whatsoever if we had a republican administration this treaty would already be ratified >> one of the main debates going on about the budge etd for the nuclear weapons for the stockpile. over the last eight years, there was a great deal of difficulty the budget for the national infa structure working hard on that. he would have killed to have this kind of budget. the obama administration has been hitting hard. take some questions. i'd like you to identify yourself when you stand up. it is imperative in order to advance the idea of how we resolve nuclear proliferation. i will say that the first set of steps was outlined. the next steps were outlined in thepre am bell of the treaty. weapons and the storage facilities. we think we are going to work hard and move out on this next negotiation negotiations they are only one as secretary. it is very, very important that we show we are ready to move out on the

i was in the reagan administration as a political appointee before became a journalist.and, in fact, that they can interest in political things and spent some time in graduate school studying political philosophy for several years. because of his speech that ronald reagan gave in 1964. some of your probably for money with it. that was of course the speech the time for choosing. and one of the lines in that speech just absolutely gripped me, and i was a 14 year old adolescent at the time. and that was that this is the last best hope of freedom on earth. and being young and idealistic does exactly theind of sentiment that would encourage a young man too, as i then did, go out and organize a teenager club and become committed, am member of the young americans for freedom, then to enlist in the site to say for you. d ronald reagan of course was the great hope r that. i think it's especiall important today, with the tea party, to remember that ronald reagan was elected on a promise, among other things, abolish department of education and the department of energy. they weren't

the problem. >> but reagan was-- . >> rose: there is in part a government that is a problem but not all of government. you remember fritz holland used to come back and saying is he talking about the veteran's administration>> right. reagan was for the new deal there a story of conservatism, you can tell by what year they want to go back to. and reagan never wanted to go back before the if you deal. some times and 23409 all but some republicans seem to want to go back to john call houn, they want to go back before the new deal to some constitutional order. and that's just not where american has been for a century and a half. and that's sort of my problem with the tea party. >> rose: if you had to write a kind of nar tougher for where the republicans ought to be and where the democrats ought to be what would it be. >> well. >> rose: in terms of the concepts and message and story that would put them on the right track. >> right. well i may have said this before but i think there are three tendencies in american politics there a liberal tendency that believes in using government to enhance equality. there a conservative barry gold watter tendency to enhance freedom, limited government and then there is an al

thmujahadin were vips during the reagan white house administration. ma bin laden was something that we -- the united states cooperated i with in fighting against the sovt union. bacat it ooking right now, i realize it was not a very compassionate thing to say and i regretaving used those worlds. >> but do you believe that u.s. policies led to the world trade center being hit by planes, by terrorists? >> i -- >> you know, there's -- maybe shouldn't -- you feel it wasn' necessarily a politic thing to say, but do you think it's true? >> well, i mean, osama bin laden was something, you know, we had worked with befo and we've ende seen what bin laden did. and the sentiment was bin laden certaiy had shifted, and we see what has happened. and we have to understand what has happenedin order to solve it. but the work that we have to do nowis not about pointing fingers. >> people always say that to me. i don't want to point fingers, when they don't want to necessarily answer the question, which is do you think the u.s. was responsible for those attacks on its ow

the knickson administration. -- ratified during the knickson administration. i was -- nixon administration. it was ratified turned reagan administration and the start treaty was ratified turned bush administration. i think one of the problems is good old-fashioned red meat politics. the republicans just can't resist this opportunity to say well, the democrats are weak on national security. that is one of the real barriers that the obama administration faces here. i have no doubt whatsoever that if we had a republican administration this treaty would be already ratified. >> that's what's so ironic about one of the main -- one of the main debates that's been going on is about the modernizeation budget for the nuclear weapons stockpile for the infrastructure and over the last -- over the last eight years, there was a great deal of difficulty getting budget sufficient for the national stockpile and its infrastructure and that was a great concern arriving in the year 2009 and it was something i began to hear about from republican colleagues while i was still in geneva, that we need more funding for the stockpile. it has been

i worked in the reagan and bush administration. i worked in the white house for president george w.ush. when i left, i went to the ethics and public policy center. i have great colleagues. a lot of bang for the buck. host: if you have -- you also are the offer of a new book. why did you write this book? guest: it was something on our minds -- we are both christians, both involved with politics. we have strong feelings on what our faith and policy relationship should be. we felt the timing was good. the religious right is essentially a burned out movement. it has not been replaced yet by any think. we have some ideas in terms of how christians, evangelical christians, should approach public policy both in tone, and on substance. we lay out what we think are the theological foundations for political involvement. we critique the -- we critiqued the religious right. it was fun. host: what are your thoughts on the headlines the preacher will go ahead with its plans to burn the koran on saturday? guest: it is terrible for all sorts of reasons, light in the sense of what general petraeus s

, you put those two things together, this is the slowest since we've had since the nixon administration. slower than reaganth bush administrations. >> we have one in eight federal judgeships open right now vacant but let's do this so what thing. there are a lot of people who think what's the big deal? is there a crisis in the federal courts right now? why should people care about this? >> some of these are very long standing. half are what the federal courts consider to be judicial emergencies because they've been pending so long. what does it mean? it means that very often if you have a lawsuit in the federal courts you have to wait a lot longer for the lawsuit to come to trial especially if it is before a jury or before a judge. just even just a judge. it slows everything down. sometimes it slows the criminal docket down as well. things pile up. everything takes longer. and that's not good for anybody. >> very quickly, of the nine circuits, which one does obama have the chance to sort of remake? >> he's already remade the fourth circuit court of appeals which was widely considered to be the most conserva

we'll bring in two voices on the right-- columnist and former bush administration official michael gerson, and the g.o.p.'s legendary strategist and former reagan advisor ed rollins to talk about the tea party movement and where it's going. i'll have a final thought on how democrats may have missed an opportunity to find a compromise on the tax cut debate. but first, bill clinton on "face the nation." captioning sponsored by cbs "face the nation" with cbs news chief washington correspondent bob schieffer. and now from washington, bob schieffer. >> schieffer: good morning again. we're going to welcome first to our broadcast former president bill clinton. but before we begin our interview this morning, some of you may have seen in your morning paper that we'd be talking also this morning with christine o'donnell, the surprise winner in the delaware senate primary. well, she canceled on us yesterday. she said she had scheduling conflicts and couldn't be here. we're going to have more on that later, and we're going to play the tape that began making the rounds friday night in which she said she once dabbled in witchcraft. i'm serious. but first to

and i covered these hearings in washington when the clinton administration in the 1990's basically fulfilled the promise of the reaganevolution. design t prevent us from getting into another depression. those regulations of which feingold was against for keeping and against reversing, said that investment banks playing with supposedly rich people's money should not be allowed to merge with commercial banks that were using deposits of people that were insured by the taxpayers. and that these were different activities. reagan could never pull off that kind of deregulation. in fact, because of the savings and loan scandal at the end of hiserm. he actually had to sign off on increased financial regulation. but when clinton came in, he brought in one of the big players on wall street, robert ruben, the head of goldman sachs, and basically turned to him and said, you know what i do need to do to get wall street on my side? and they said, reverse what they considered to be onerous financial regulation. and clinton delivered on that he brought in ruben then to be his treasury secretary who was followed by lawrence smors who'

that, to some degree, is a little bit what we are hearing from the obama administration now. reagan'sdo everything, that was a very yes we can message. that was obama's message as candidate. he was reagan then, carter now. >> you keep hearing that from republicans, james, that president obama is another jimmy carter. >> you know, you hear that and keep saying, god, you blaming bush, talking about bush, jimmy carter was president in the '70s. bush was president two years ago. kind of hilarious that you ask about something that happened in 1980 and we figure a way, let's connect to -- well, as long as you are blaming carter, we will blame bush. >> i was trying to be helpful. >> right. i got that. >> obama something as a candidate he has not had as president and that is that sense of optimism and what happened to the yes we can? >> do you believe it's possible, james that christine o'donnell, the republican senate nominee in delaware can win, can beat the democratic candidate, chris koons, on november 2nd? >> you know, she is a derelict, best i can see. she doesn't pay her taxes, doesn't

the bush administration. slower than clinton. slower than carter. slower than reaganen out of eight nominations not going through here. why does mr. and mrs. jones care about this? what does this mean to the cases they may be interested in? about half of the president's nominations have been voted on. they've acted on 41 out of 87. it's about half so far. but it means the federal courts work much more slowly. if you have a case in the federal court. if there's a big lawsuit that you're part of, it's going to take a lot longer for judges to get around to them in places where there are the vacancies. in half the vacancies the judiciary considers emergencies because they've been spend pending so long. >>> the female tv reporter at the sexual harassment scandal. the nfl and the new york jets both say they're looking into how sainz was treated in the locker room when she went to interview quarterback mark sanchez. today she told tamron hall she was surprised of the criticism. >> in my nine years experience of career, that i'm not prepared to dress or do my job. i do over 2

panel with the bush administration father of the enron scandal father of the how the burton scandals father of the scandals over there. blackwater now xe he is evil incarnate when ronald reagan talked about the axis of evil it was dick cheney his mirror image and the mirror image of his mirror image he is the father son and holy ghost of evil dick cheney and he's absolutely right king yes wrecked i should say the american economy and this is absurd tony blair remember is dick cheney's little pool remember dick cheney goes down to washington to washington avenue you know we're in washington and look at the end of the least there's little tony blair. yes i'll spend british money on your wars yes i'm a little blue he's disgusting blair is why is why blair mom for the thai people looks like well he says it's not stupid cheney's view but let's look how stupid it is because the other thing the it's a scandal you forgot there was that cheney was the head of the scandal of nine eleven ok what america has lost it's clear we overreacted to nine eleven this is for. newsweek now and he's discussing this vast warfare state which is bigger than any sort of social welfare state one can ima

the obama administration's foreign policy is a far cry from ronald reagan days. president reagan nurtured our allies. he confronted our adversaries. he had clarity and vision and purpose. he knew that an evil empire deserves to be left on the ash heap of history, and he had the courage to say so. he called it as he saw it. i remember for me, just a young girl, the four words that he spoke, as i shared that grave concern with our country and for our country and the world's safety, wondering how are we going to be safe? the curiosity as to how we and our allies be secure against an evil world? reagan said it and solidified his commitment. he said we win, they lose. few leaders have the clarity and the courage and the conviction to define an era, but ronald reagan inspired us to greatness. he saw and he spoke to the heart of america. he looked out at soaring inflation and skyrocketing unemployment and a cold war. he didn't see despair, though. he saw the dawn of a new day, because reagan understood the exceptional nature of america. he knew that what makes her excep

the taxes were not higher 8 out of 8 years, they were 6 out of 8. and on average, taxes were higher in his administration than under ronald reagans. i stand by the ad. jerry brown doesn't like the ad because it calls out his record. he likes my positive ads about the vision that i have for california even less because, in fact, we are going to upend the status quo. we cannot continue to do things the way we have historically done them. and i want to reform the pension system. i want to reform education. and by the way, many of the unions who are so deeply entrenched in sacramento, they don't want any changes to the things that i know parents and others in california desperately want. if we do not reform our education system, our welfare system, our pension system, there's not going to be a way out of this mess. so i stand by the ads. they are an accurate portrayal of governor brown's record. >> mr. brown, you have run an ad depicting your opponent's nose growing. >> yes. it's a hell of an ad. >> are you happy with that ad? >> and pinnochio is waiting by to extend that nose. i want to tell you, $6 billion, remember it was 1974, when

the president talking to kids about bettering themselves and it's being -- you know -- >> and a question for every one of those teachers and administrators, did you do the same when george h.w. bush and ronald reaganches? if you've been in the schools long enough. did you do the same? if not, if not -- if you didn't give parents a chance to opt out, you should be completely ashamed of yourself that you dold it in this case. it's basically saying that this president isn't legitimate. that's the subtext of this. that he's not really the president. he's the other. he's an alien. he's not our president. that's not the way things are supposed to work in america. elections are supposed to have consequences. people should support their results of the election. >> no doubt. jonathan alter, great to have you with us tonight. thanks so much. >> thanks, ed. >>> yesterday was the nfl's kickoff sunday and a few calls that were just -- well, they were really bad. wrong. first off, the holding call that cost the cowboys the game last night in my opinion was a bad call, if you know anything about offensive and defensive line technique. that was a great play by the defensive lineman. and then the detroit lions, th

the line, a new ad takes direct april at his administration. do you remember this 1984 campaign ad that helped president ronald reagan with his reelection bid? is morning again in america. and under the leadership of president reagan our country is prouder, stronger and better. why would he ever want to return to where we were less than four short years ago. >> sean: a new spinoff of this ad isn't being so complementry of president obama. >> announcer: there's morning in america, under the leadership of president obama, our country is fading and weaker and worse off. his policies were a grand experiment. policies that failed. this november, let's choose a smaller, more caring government. one that remembers us. >> sean: joining me with reaction are the authors of this new book, "mad as hell how the tea party is remaking our two-party system." i love campaign ads. this is football time this is super bowl playoff time. i think both ads are extraordinarily effective. your reaction? >> yeah, my sense is the carly fiorina ad plays in the resentment against washington, arrogance, titles, a good ad. the morning in america ad, arguably is a game-chang

the job approval polls? what's driving him down? >> well, first of all, he's not having that much trouble historically. he's about where clinton and reagan or a little higher than where they were in their first administrationbut it's partly the fault of the opposition. there's a lot of disinformation out there. i'm not saying where it comes from. and the lion's share of the fault goes to the democrats. did you not brag about their accomplishment? >> but there's something more in play here, i think and i just wondered if you had noticed anything about the president's presentation or the way he goes about his job that you might point to? >> well, obviously, people think he's a little bloodless. i happened to like that in a president. i like a president that uses his brain and not his faith or his heart or his gut as the former president did. i kind of like that in our president. but, you know, again, they don't brag about their accomplishments and when you down play the economy, all of the dissatisfaction with him is about the economy. because a lot of it is racially -- >> you think it's racially? you're on that bandwagon of if you don't like him, you're a racist and you can't be there. maher, that's not you

commissioner of social security during the johnson and nixon administrations and even in 1981 he served on the greenspan commission that was created by president reagan to examine the social security system. i think it speaks obviously very well for him that his expertise was tapped by both republicans and democratic administrations. it seems fitting, madam speaker, that we name the social security building after him in recognition for his dedication to that agency. so with that i don't have any further speakers and i don't believe that -- oh, yes. i will reserve the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman reserves the balance of his time. the gentlewoman from texas is recognized. ms. johnson: thank you, madam speaker. i would like to yield such time as he may consume to mr. pomeroy. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from north dakota is recognized. mr. pomeroy: i thank the gentlelady for yielding. and normally i don't come to the floor to add to a building naming that's flying through. but i want to put into the record my thoughts about bob ball, what a most -- one of the most remarkable people i've ever met and there is no o

the bush administration did for the economy and the deficit. we look at bill clinton, he actually increased taxes on the top wage earners. we had record surpluses. we go back to reagan, he gave massive tax cuts. he had historical deficits and debts. they often will fight john kennedy decreasing taxes and the economy taking off because of it. that was when the top tax bracket was at 70%. we are long past the point of diminishing returns. that's something we don't understand. revenues start to diminish. we pass that point long ago. i don't know whether they are ignorant or just dishonest. host: "new york times" headline discussioning g. m. chief to make $9 million. and in the "washington post" this morning, this story about eric prince, president of black stone approved of his most sensitive operations. sources close to the company said. host: los angeles, california. caller: the last caller had it right. the guy that called from texas is an idiot. when reagan tried this in the 1980s, revenues went down. bush try it had and revenues went down. it's ridiculous to say this. the people have been sold a bill of goods. the way to stimulate the economy is give people cash.

the future? >> you know that other administrations have changed and pivoted from bill clinton to ronald reagan whenfrom a sam nunn on down to change the tone and get things back on track, bipartisan? is it possible? >> that's the big -- the big question here is not really whether -- whether the president moves left or the president moves right. it's does he move smart? i mean, he's going to have a changed congress even if the republicans don't do as well. he's coming back to a more conservative congress. now, does he go dance with them or does he play them like a piano the way clinton did? remember how clinton did that. we're going to close down the federal government and clinton said oh, ok, close down the federal government. we'll start with the national parks. that's what we'll close down. for some, it may be social security, you know, he knew exactly what part of the government -- smart guy. is obama that smart politically speaking? we know he's got brains. >> you know what? i want you to lead off. we'll take a time-out. we'll hear about this and change topics a little bit. republicans who lost