we wrote this book, reagan's ruling class, which profiled the top 100 people in the reagan administration. because the assistant to casper weinberger, the secretary at the time, because he had been a raider in the 1970's, he got us an interview with casper weinberger, we used that to get interviews with everyone from william casey to frank carlucci. we got probably 60 interviews outf that. >> whoas the mayor's raider that worked for wineberg? >> it was robert taft. >> iv? >> yes. >> grandson? >> yes. we put a lot of energy in this, the enormous energy you have when you are young, and we ce up with this book. we were 23 years old. it was a terrific opportunity. >> how did it come that ron bern stein placed the ad and how you met and got married. >> he included the berkeley thing at the last minute as a chan. and those things happen. he came out to washington, and we wrote that book together, and that's how we -- >> whatas he doing? >> he was working for ralph nader as well. >> now, "the los angeles times" gets in there somewhere. >> yeah, i worked for ralph and i decided i needed to be a j

[ beeping ] >>> san jose state has not been this good since the reagan administration and tonight they are one step closer to the ncaa tournament. start the clock. tournament in vegas, down 1. aid general oliver -- adriene oliver, yes. at the buzzer, it goes, no. officials would review it. the buzzer sounded before the tip and the basket is no good. san jose state wins, 75-74. their first wishing season in 17 years. highest win total since 1987. >>> stanford down 2. green is going to take it himself. caught in a trap. stanford loses. >>> kardashian watching in jersey. golden state scores just 13 in the 4th quarter. >>> aubrey huff, way back, you can tell it goodbye. >>> and we have five scoreless innings today and the a's lost to the rangers, dallas braden gottlieb hammered -- got hammered again. >> what was that voice? >> that was goodbye. >> thank you. thank you very much. >> squint your eyes and say it that way. >> see you at 11:00. in tough areas like deep shade, along the driveway, and where the kids play can be a little intimidating... until now. with scotts ez seed. it's scotts

proposed and promoted them during the george washington administration until the time ronald reagan started dismantling them and then nine hundred eighty s. protectionism they say it's a bad word i say it's the thing that can save this country. it's time for our daily poll your chance to tell us what you think here's today's question maine ohio and new jersey are giving tax cuts to rich for the rich and at the same time raising taxes on the middle class well let's fly your options are a yes cuts to children's hospitals and pay millionaire welfare that's just fine or no just say no to the new robin hood's for the super rich the reverse robin hood's steal from the poor give to the rich so far the majority of you have said no he's still a time tell us what you think log on to time or not come cast your vote poll be open until tomorrow. coming up what's the real reason why every american president recent history has thrown us into a new war i'll explain in tonight's daily take. let's not forget that we had an apartheid regime right. i think. one well. we never government says they're confused s

that we need to do really quickly that basically undo a lot of the damage that was done by the reagan administration and several administrations since then following that same kind of milton freidman chicago school economics we need to reregulate the banks to stop the bubbles we need to return to a tax of over fifty percent on great income so that there's not an incentive to gamble like it's a it's a casino and it's cheap money and we need to return to manufacturing in the united states which means putting up barriers called tariffs it kept this country the place where we made things literally from seventy one when alexander hamilton pretty proposed and promoted them during the george washington administration until the time ronald reagan sort of dismantling them in the one nine hundred eighty s. protectionism they say it's a bad word i say it's the thing that can save this country. it's time for our daily poll your chance to tell us what you think here's today's question maine ohio and new jersey are giving tax cuts to rich to the rich and at the same time raising taxes on the middle class well is

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

period from one nine hundred thirty five to one thousand nine hundred six to the middle of the reagan administration when reagan deregulated yes nels was the law it was the first time in the history of the united states that we went more than fifteen years literally since george washington the first time that we went more than fifteen years without a major and they were bank failure. it's incredible when you think about it and then phil gramm gets in and puts in these two pieces of legislation ninety nine and two thousand and all hell goes loose. the banks now instead of manufacture in the us is you know manufacturing used to account for thirty five percent thirty four and a half thirty four percent of g.d.p. right now it's eleven percent we don't make things here anymore except basically weapons we have it's really quite startling so where do we generate our profits how does america do business we do business by moving money around finance now last year the financial sector accounted for over thirty five percent of all profits in the united states a sector that should be a utility a sector that sho

still together so this guy is not a knock over he of course or as many people but remember the reagan administration he drew the. line in the gulf of certain so you cross your american. fighters will be shut down we bombed. tripoli killed the kid our fees daughter he was implicated with the rebel discotheque bombing in west berlin and a couple of course lockerbie so there are some people in the neo con war hawk. ranks who would love to really get khadafi but could i feel of course changed his director of intelligence. that has been a socio to the cia in tracking the a.q. khan nuclear proliferation network in participating in the cia's rendition and torture program just like omar saleman was in egypt so he's got he's got good friends. the cia. but we have people who remember the 1980's and would just love to get our free and i want to talk about some of the chatter that's going on from lawmakers that to the mainstream media many people out there seem to be laying the groundwork and making the case for a potential invasion of libya take a look.

of a of a feeling of deja vu similar words mark the beginning of the attack on libya by the reagan administration twenty five years ago i was asked is christine for zero point next since then all incoming american leaders have made a habit of waging war. it's become an unthinking identifies of the job description. i become president of the united states. declare war on my fellow americans i fellow citizens for president ronald reagan in one thousand nine hundred sixty three mil your attack on a familiar enemy destroyed our repeated warnings khadafi continued his reckless policy of intimidation is relentless pursuit of terror he counted on america to be passions. you called it wrong turns out so did saddam hussein just two hours ago allied air forces began an attack on military targets in iraq in kuwait for his successor president clinton the target was slobodan milosevic today our armed forces joined our nato allies in airstrikes against serbian forces responsible for the brutality in kosovo president george w. bush said it was weapons of mass destruction that threaten the world and invaded iraq

she worked in the reagan and bush one administrations and also worked on the presidential campaigns of pat buchanan and gary bower. frc action was founded in 1992 to promote american values and philosophy of the founding fathers concerning the nature of ordered liberty. please welcome connie mackie. [applause] also on the panel is brian brown. president of the national organization for marriage. their advocacy center is tasked with connecting citizens with their officials on important issues on marriage, state and local level issues like here in iowa during the dispute and the resulting retention vote of the iowa supreme court three court justices. ladies and gentlemen, mr. brian brown. preserve innocence a mission of the american principles project, was organized to promote policies and actions to protect children. as the director of preserve innocence, it is the duty of our next panelist, emmet to not only advance the pro-family agenda but to promote a dedication to the fundamental principles on which our country was founded. please welcome emmet mcguarde. [applause] our fourth panel

the bush administration's department of justice took an active interest in fighting you in the case. this represents what you talk about the conservative assault on the constitution. walk us back to the nixon and reagan administration and the department of justice and define for us what this conservative assault on the constitution means. >> since richard nixon ran for president in 1968, conservatives sought to change some basic constitutional principles. the point of the book is that a very large extent they succeeded. we don't realize it, by the way, because it doesn't happen all in one case, but the supreme court does occur in a series of decisions. not every decision has a conservative outcome. the most important targets for conservatives like rowe vs. wade has not been overruled, but there's been a change in so many areas of constitutional law over the last few decades, and all to the right. i don't think conservatives and liberals disagree over the description that i've given, but certainly they would di agree on whether it's desirable. i begin the book with a story of this man to pose the question how could it be that the supreme court would uphold such a sentence that's constitutional. the re

senator speaking of the the budget deficit from the george washington administration to the ronald reagan administration other than a few problems for a few wars that we resolved fairly quickly we basically had no functional budget deficit it was under a trillion dollars when ronald reagan came in it reagan cut taxes on billionaires down to twenty eight percent and the budget deficit or the budget the debt exploded clinton raised taxes on billionaires to thirty nine percent and we had a budget surplus bush cut taxes back down to thirty six percent and we're back to budget deficits why would anybody talk about this really simple math instead of always ranting about spending well excellent point and you're quite right the republicans clearly have won the narrative when you talk about a book you're talking about two things spending and revenue coming in we have given hundreds and hundreds of billions of dollars in tax breaks to the top two person. today the effect that the real for the richest people in this country is the lowest on record corporations who in general are enjoying record brea

going back to the reagan administration, president reagan in 1982 when the gas tax was raised 5 centsnny of that was put into a public transportation fund. today, about 80% of what the federal government spends on public transportation comes from the gas tax. the other 20% comes from the general funds of the country. host: and if i hear you correctly and you advocate for an increase, how much would that be? guest: there were two commissions that turned in their report as couple of years ago. they had little variation to them but it is in the 10 to 15 cent range just to catch up to what inflation has done. and then many people believe that it should be indexed to inflation from that point forward. you know, unfortunately, and this is my personal view as a country we have been unwilling to be realistic about the revenue side of our budget. we have many, many wants. we are a very diverse country. certainly we have to find a way to invest more in infrastructure. we need good roads, we need good transit, we need better inner city rail passenger service than we have because we are a growing

the obama administration. it started way back actually with the reagan, a little bit before the reagan administration. the reagan, the george bush the first administration, dramatically altered by clinton which actually would have, if those policies had continued, created a surplus almost wiping out the total debt of america and then run up big time during the george w. bush administration. these are projections 10 years following if you continued the same policies what would happen. that's where it started. and then the great recession and the effort now to deal with that. the obama administration ha put forth a proposal that follows closely along with the recommendations of the deficit reduction commission that said don't -- don't do anything that would harm the current recovery like make an austerity program, like make massive cuts, yet our republican colleagues have done and proposed exactly that. fortunately, the senate has not gone along with that. but we're nickel and diming our way toward $30 billion of cuts that may in fact cause us to see a decline rather than a continued growth in the econom

books, served as assistant secretary of defense for international security affairs during the reagan administration for more on bing west and his work, visit bingwest.com. >> booktv has 48 hours of nonfiction authors and book programming every weekend on saturday from 8 a.m. to monday morning at 8 eastern. to get the complete weekend schedule e-mailed to you every week, sign up for the booktv alert at booktv.org or text the word book to 99702, standard message and data rates apply. booktv, top nonfiction authors and books every weekend on c-span2. >> called eye of the hurricane, my path from darkness to freedom with a forward by nelson mandela. >> guest: yes. and your co-author is ken. >> guest: that is correct. >> host: let me read to you, you say here, my main purpose in writing this book is to share with you that i have discovered the truth. >> guest: to be the truth. >> host: well, it says, yeah. [laughter] the love of truth is the spirit of man. given where i was and for how long i was there -- this is incredible -- i have no business at all being here now. >> guest: that is absolutely correct

opponents of the bill have tried to say it's antiregulation or it's an attempt to go after the administration. it is not that at all. in the bush administration, in the clinton administration, in the reagan administration, in the carter administration we can keep going on back finding rules and regulations that were implemented out what the original intent of the congress had been. you know, in the past we could work around these rules and regulations. economically now things are so tight and so tough we cannot afford to burden the competitiveness of our businesses any longer. when we come back i'll give you examples that have that will specialize this to an additional degree but i'm glad you're holding this hour tonight to discuss the critical impact of regulations, a cost that's approaching $2 trillion a year on the american economy, frankly the cost of regulations is substantially more than the annual tax revenue that is collected by the government and i yield back to the gentleman. mr. carter: reclaiming my time, i thank the gentleman for explaining this to us and he hit upon some points that i think we need to keep reminding the american people, because, you know, we've all been out

five senior posts in the reagan administration including state and justice and was a national fellow hey're debating skills would be worthy of its metal. and it is quite a contentious controversial issue to achieve operating officers for the center of american progress and neera tanden has a decade of experience in the executive and legislative branch as well as in the campaigns at every level including the presidential level, local government and think tanks. as the ceo 0 of american progress she leads strategic planning for operations and overseas the health care program. most recently she served as senior adviser for health reform and the department of health and human services advising secretary kathleen sebelius at work on health reform team to pass this bill. she developed policies of reform and worked on the hill and improved support of it. she has worked on other levels and campaigns, she worked on the obama/biden presidential campaign and the hillary clinton presidential campaign. she was a deputy campaign manager when it was senator clinton running for the senate in new york

guest: [laughter] i have to note that i was not covering congress during the ford or during the reagan administrationshe history books, during the reagan episode, it was after the lockerbie bombing. because the president did not come to congress and ask permission, there was quite vast support behind him. here we have a situation where libya is the third if not the fourth in a series of countries going through this tumbled in the middle east and now we decide to go in the middle east. there are a lot of questions. what will obama do if these situations spread in yemen saudi arabia, and bahrain? host: seattle, washington. matthew on the line for independents. you are on the "washington journal." caller: what is our country coming to these days? being an independent -- i'm a union ironworker, ok. it's been the worst in the last few years than it has been in my entire adult life. where we were in afghanistan, we were in iraq. we cannot really afford this stuff anymore. everybody wants to blame obama. even though i'm not necessarily a democrat -- we are going over into other people's countries and stuff.

the liberals surrounded by others peter king is very active in fundraisers during the reagan administrationwas not only illegal but the private foreign policy. second -- host: dan, we'll leave it there. we have a lot of information on the table. what is your response? guest: congress is involved with many activities that caution us. many of us are very grateful there is peace in ireland i think it is important for him to assess they should be treated the branch mississippi, good morning. caller: thank you representative for your service i want to say i believe king is assisting in a ploy to pass more rules. we are becoming rules rather than a nation of law >> why don't they look at the catholic church with all those boys being terrorized. if you think we are going back to the constitution, you can forget it. nobody passes rules but rulers. the first black president who was john handson passed the articles of separation so we don't go following these rules this is a nation of laws. it is a late nation who adheres to the cons collusion. i think we have moved for those various movements i beli

five senior posts in the reagan administration including at state and justice. and was a national fellow at stanford hoover institution. and in 1999, i like this, the bicentennial commission presented him with the benjamin franklin award for excellence in writing on the u.s. constitution. roger of course will not be sitting here writing this afternoon but i'm sure that your debating skills will also perhaps be worthy of a metal. then on the other side to debate what is obviously quite has become quite a contentious law, controversial issue, neera tanden is a chief operating officer for the center for american progress. and neera has over a decade of experience in the executive and legislative branch, as well as in campaigns at every level including the presidential level. local government and think tanks. the coo for the center for american progress, chile's strategic planning for the organization, and manages operations and oversees the health care program. most recently she served as senior advisor for health reform at the department of health and human service

here's an assistant secretary of defense from the reagan administration, former infantry offer. counterinsurgency isn't working because the afghan people will turn on the american troops on a dime. they don't want us there. no matter how already guess that we bring. i think the question that we really have to ask you again is, is the government that we are backing in afghanistan, the karzai government, worthy of the resources, the sacrifice of lives that the american people, and particularly of the dedication of our soldiers who are fighting over there. secretary gates? >> well, first of all, let me just say i realized full well when i took this job in december 2006 under president bush that i was inheriting two unpopular wars. and that that was -- and i took this job knowing full well that the chances of ending one or both in terms honorable to united states and those who served our national security interest were pretty grim. i think in the first instance of iraq, we are ending it on terms that are honorable to the united states and serve our national security interest, leaving

early in the reagan administration, it happened. ere is better preparation for this kind of thing to happen. the other thing is the reportable difference. a lot of viewers are interested in who wins the shutdown battle. you have different dynamics. the republican class of that came in that wants to cut spending -- they ran on that. they were elected by it and no one has been fooled by their agenda. in 1995, they were elected on reforming congress largely and then they tried to cut spending and got into a fight with president clinton over that. the ground has shifted over time. there's more of an appetite now to cut spending. bill clinton versus newt gingrich in 1995 and 1996 might not play out again with president obama and the congress. host: we are talking about the impact government shutdown of governments with jonathan allen. ap is reporting that a witness says a libyan warplanes struck a scene at the eastern oil port. ap also says that the prosecutor of the international criminal court says he is opening a formal investigation i

during most of the reagan administration the top tax rate was 50%. and in previous decades, the top tax rate was as high as 94%. my bill would also address a fundamental inequality in our current law by taxing capital gains and dividends at ordinary income rates in those brackets. rich hedge fund managers should not be paying a lower tax rate than their secretaries because much of their income, the hedge fund managers, is capital gains and dividends. according to citizens for tax justice, the fairness in taxation act will raise more than $78.9 billion if enacted in 2011, allowing us to avoid the harsh cuts that will hurt the middle class. this is an idea that americans support. in a recent poll, 81% of respondents supported placing a surtax on federal income for those making more than $1 million per year in order to reduce the deficit. passing the fairness in taxation act will allow us to stop the war on the middle class, restore fiscal integrity and fairness and fund initiatives that reflect our american values and goals. thank you. i yield back. .

here's an assistant secretary of defense from the reagan administration, former infantry offer. counterinsurgency isn't working because the afghan people will turn on the american troops on a dime. they don't want us there. no matter how already guess that we bring. i think the question that we really have to ask you again is, is the government that we are backing in afghanistan, the karzai government, worthy of the resources, the sacrifice of lives that the american people, and particularly of the dedication of our soldiers who are fighting over there. secretary gates? >> well, first of all, let me just say i realized full well when i took this job in december 2006 under president bush that i was inheriting two unpopular wars. and that that was -- and i took this job knowing full well that the chances of ending one or both in terms honorable to united states and those who served our national security interest were pretty grim. i think in the first instance of iraq, we are ending it on terms that are honorable to the united states and serve our national security interest, leaving

cato held a 1984, on economic liberty and judiciary which i was even at the time serving in the reagan administrationnd spoke as well, we had a spirited debate between the two camps, the libertarian or classical liberal camp which obviously i come from, which was represented by richard epstein in a spirited debate with then judge antonin scalia, a d.c. circuit on economic. they both came out afterwards on that and it was a classic battle between the two sides. but that's an issue that i myself have been working on a long with bernie segan as early as the mid to late '70s when i was doing my doctorate at the university of chicago. and so there has been just struggle all along, and since the early 90s when we here at cato, especially when other joints -- others joined us along the way started with the revival of the doctrine of enumerated powers, not simply the attack on liberal judicial activism, we have seen this yet on the jurisprudence of the right. there are many more people today who are calling for this fundamental return to first principles. and to the idea of reviving the doctrine of enumerate

the administration. [laughter] i think this is administration is jimmy carter. i am waiting for ronald reagan. applause] agree have an opportunity in that part of the world that could mean -- i think we have an opportunity in that part of the world that could mean we could squash terrorism and allow for the free flow of energy. the alternative is not a world any of us want to 11. so, is that good enough? ok. -- want to live again. -- want to live in. so, is that good enough? ok. [applause] you get to ask me tough questions. >> i love your comments and very much appreciate you being here. talk a little bit more -- i am very concerned at whatever the next explosion happens to be, macro sense of around the world, that the crisis will be even more energy related. you have talked a lot about the middle east, but you did not talk about what happens to the north of there. over the next 30 years, what is the impact of all of this on europe, the islam is aging going on in much of -- islam-ization going on. how do europe and russia factor into this, especially the role that russia is going to play? >> th

here's an assistant secretary of defense from the reagan administration, former infantry offer. counterinsurgency isn't working because the afghan people will turn on the american troops on a dime. they don't want us there. no matter how already guess that we bring. i think theqestion that we really have to ask you again is, is the government that weare backing in afghanistan, the karzai government, worthy of the resources, the sacrifice of lives that the american people, and particularly of the dedication of our soldiers who are fighting over there. secretary gates? >> well, first of all, let me just say i realized full well when i took this jo in december 2006 under president bush that i was inheriting two unpopular wars. and that that was -- and i took this jo knowing full well that the chances of ending one or both in terms honorable to united states and those who served our national security interest were pretty grim. i think in the first instance of iraq, we are ending it on terms that are honorable to the united states and serve our national security interest, leaving asid

already discussed and on the internet that had already been drafted by veterans from the reagan and bush administrations? you could do this within minutes to begin turning the government around. the first executive order might be to abolish every bizarre -- czar in the white house as of that minute. [applause] the second executive order might be to reimpose ronald reagan's mexico city policy and abolish any federal money going anywhere in the world to pay for abortion. [applause] the third executive order might be to reinstitute george w. bush's policy on enforcing the right of conscience and that no government can force you to perform an abortion or any other act against europe religious beliefs. [applause] a fourth executive order might say to the state department that you will allow companies to designate their own capital. the only country in the world where the united states refuses to allow the country to define its own capital is the democracy of israel. it is profoundly wrong to discriminate against the israeli government's right to do that. [applause] imagine that during the campaign next year,

this even includes the second reagan administration, a time when the cia was not even considered, --but the outcome was more certain back then. we as an extraordinarily divergent and conflicting views. one is the view of president obama, that you that you heard in the state of the union -- never in the modern era has the president spent some much time in his state of the union message talking about transportation, talking about the promise that transportation investment brings us for the future, the essential need to invest in transportation to win our future. and when he talked about that, he is talking about investing not just in transportation broadly, but specifically in our enterprise. high-speed rail, daily bus, daily transit services, that our public transportation and inherently are dependent on public support. let's be clear -- the president is proposed to sharply restrained spending in his budget. he has included a five-year non- security freeze that will save more than $400 billion over two years. this is a tight budget. it is a budget in which the president has made many

the structure was you. i don't think it would be much of a war. i don't think liberals want to be really. paul craig roberts former reagan administration official why are the world's biggest investors jumping ship from u.s. stocks and bonds bill gross of pimco who runs the world's largest bond fund has dumped u.s. treasuries and billionaire hedge fund manager carl icahn is giving investors their money back and talking about the possibility of another market crisis and what do they know that we don't and why am i ben bernanke in the federal reserve be to blame are the financial correspondent lauren lyster joins me from now one from new york. or let's talk about what's going on with these investors are also with bill gross why is he dumping government bonds and why is this a big deal. well this is a big deal because bill gross runs the largest bond funds in the world not only is it the largest but it's extremely successful it's been the top performing bond fund over the last fifteen years outperforming eighty five percent of its peers so it's done a really good job he's a very well regarded investor very powerful investor and in his last

the loan traffic controller at reagan national airport. two different planes were coming in for a landing. several administration said 12:1:00 a.m. american airlines from miami with needed to touchdown but could not contact the controller. >> i'm going to take a guess and say that the comptroller got locked out. the-controller got locked out. >> that is the first time i've heard it. >> yes, it happened about one year ago. >>reporter: 50 minutes later, a united flight wanted to land from chicago a 15-minutes later with no response. both flights landed safely. the investigation is underway from the ntsb and also changes are on the way. and " i directed the faa with two different air traffic controllers at ronald reagan control tower. on the midnight shift it is not acceptable to have only one in the tower. managing air traffic in this critical airspace. also studying staffing levels that airports nation-wide. the air travelers expressing concern >> is scary in a little bit, asleep but the will? >> let us face a there are too many planes appeared to not potentia. tension. if >>catherine: not to pay attention,-test there are too many

. >>> the head of the federal aviation administration says he has suspended a controlled tower supervisor at washington's reagan international airport. that comes after reports the supervisor might have fallen asleep early yesterday morning and failed to respond to the pilots of two airliners calling for landing instructions. he was working alone in the tower at the time. the pilots contacted a regionaller traffic control facility and both planes landed safely. the transportation secretary has also ordered a second controller to be on duty overnight into the tower. >>> a controversial kansas church known for protesting military funerals is picketing the funeral of elizabeth taylor because of her humanitarian work against aids. they're known for their extreme distance against homosexuality. >>> that's sir elton john singing a tribute to elizabeth taylor. he honored her yesterday, calling her his hero and one of greatest people he had ever melt. they were active for years in fighting hiv and aids. >>> still ahead, finding a summer job this year, coming up. >>> live look at the big board on wall street. stocks ris

in fact, during that cumulative period of 30 years, notwithstanding the obama administration, i'll discuss that in a second, mr. reagan, mr. bush i and mr. bush ii ran deficits of over $6 trillion that they signed the bills to spend. over $6 trillion. bill clinton was president for eight years, the last four years we didn't raise the debt at all, unlike every one of the republican administrations where we raised it on a regular basis. not at all during the last administration. the last four years of mr. clinton's. and he ran the only president in your lifetime, and mine and i'm older han -- than you are, a $69.2 billion surplus. look it up, no argument, but let me say something. irrespective of who's responsible, we are responsible for fixing it. republicans and democrats, the american people know that we have a crisis confronting us. they know there is no option other than to deal with this realistically. i would call everybody in this body, republican, democrat, liberal, conservatives, attention to an article that was written by david brooks today in "the new york times." read it. read it. we all ought to read this,

the nixon administration put in place the strong rules to prevent abuses that might stifle an industry. this was improved upon by the carter and reagan administrations. in the telecom act of 1996, a bipartisan congress recognize that to foster new industry, we needed the fcc to ensure that everyone had access to the open superhighway. congress intended non- discrimination to survive any the regulation -- deregulation. the commission recognized the underlying non-discriminatory outcomes were worth preserving. the sec chairman michael powell outlined four freedoms that were adopted by the house in 2006. action was taken in 2008 to stop comcast discrimination. we've seen the debate move away from the shared goals of preserving the open internet. the problem of market power and communications networks is very real. it is increasingly politically inconvenient. we have seen those who used to recognize the problem abandon those views. some policy makers seem resigned to the misguided notion that the duopoly is competitive. this is unfortunate. i believe we all agree the internet should be preserved as an open platform. allowing gatekeepers

this even includes the second reagan administration. at times when the fta was even considered for termination, then known as umta. but it was known as a time when i don't believe the stakes were as high because i believe the outcome was more certain back then. we see like i said extraordinarily divergent and conflicting views. one is the view of president obama. it is a view that you heard in the state of the union message. never in the modern era has a president spent so much time in the state of the union message talking about transportation, talking about the promise that transportation investment brings us to the future, talking about the essential need to invest in transportation to win our future. and when he talks about that, he's really talking about investing not just in transportation broadly but specifically in our enterprise. the high-speed rail, the daily bus, the daily transit services that our public transportation and inherently are dependent on public support. now, let's be clear the president proposed to sharply restra

we would regularly hear members of the reagan and bush administration and their answer under testimony was, "what do you think of federal employees?" to a person, thehave said they were impressed with what they have encountered and that many of them are listed as the biggest surprise they encountered in washington. i was with clay johnson last friday night. he said the exact samthing. i think anecdotally people who are around federal employees, who see what they do, come away very impressed. resurvey our employees every year with questions. the most recent employee survey showed that 97% of respondents answered positively to the question "when needed, i am willing to put in the extra effort to do what needs to be done to get the job done." our federal employees are committed. they understand the criticality of theirission. they are protecting our interests. i am here to tell you, i have never seen a study that would question the work ethic. >> thank you very much. process, mr. chairman. >> thank you, mr. chairman. mr. cummings, thank you. >> one of my concerns is that so often federal

we would regularly hear members of the reagan and bush administration and their answer under testimony was, "what do you think of federal employees?" to a person, they have said they were impressed with what they have encountered and that many of them are listed as the biggest surprise they encountered in washington. i was with clay johnson last friday night. he said the exact same thing. i think anecdotally people who are around federal employees, who see what they do, come away very impressed. resurvey our employees every year with questions. the most recent employee survey showed that 97% of respondents answered positively to the question "when needed, i am willing to put in the extra effort to do what needs to be done to get the job done." our federal employees are committed. they understand the criticality of their mission. they are protecting our interests. i am here to tell you, i have never seen a study that would question the work ethic. >> thank you very much. process, mr. chairman. >> thank you, mr. chairman. mr. cummings, thank you. >> one of my concerns is that so often fe

well why the day the bush administration deliberately act as its senior regulators people who hated the concept of regulation remember this was president reagan's moti that government was the problem never the solution and most prominent economists and that included alan greenspan chairman of the fed said that fraud could not exist in financial markets even though we victims a thousand people including his patrons the charles keating the most of tory it's fraud for the savings and loan industry who used alan greenspan to recruit the five senators who became known as the keating five even though lincoln savings became the most notorious fraud the most expensive failure in the entire industry alan greenspan after that experience said fraud could not exist the head of the s.c. c. first appointment by president bush was harvey pitt and harvey pitt was selected because he was the leading opponent of securities and accounting regulation in america but now we have brought obama you thing up we're on our way towards recovery and we have this financial reform in place and then make a difference. that it was a joke well what do you think well it is in ef

you will notice that the ray gap administration, reagan-bush noted in this first red quadrant. the clinton administration going from deep debt to surplus, then the bush administration going from surplus into deep debt, an the obama administration trying to get out of the extraordinarily tanking, rae ceding economic status, invested in bringing us out, now we see us coming out. it shows how the fiscally responsible policy adopted under president clinton took us into surplus and unfortunately shows when we reversed those policies in 2001, we then went back into deep deficits. we all know how those predictions the republicans made when we adopted this economic program for which none of the republicans in the house or the senate voted for. . they said economic catastrophe would occur. that was their analysis. that was their economic prediction. in fact, exactly the opposite happened and we created 22 million new jobs for americans. this deficit chart also shows how our record surplus was squandered during the bush administration. the second chart i want to show you talks about gover

strong support of the national committee to preserve social security and medicare, the american med reagan administration of government employees, the paralyzed veterans of america, the military order of the purple heart, and the jewish veterans of america, among others. mr. president, social security is the most successful and reliable federal program in our nation's history. for 75 years, through good times and bad, when the economy was strong and when the economy was weak, social security has paid out every nickel owed to every eligible american. and while we take that for granted, that in fact is an extraordinary accomplishment, and it is all done at very modest administrative cost. social security has been enormously successful in accomplishing exactly what its founders hoped to accomplish. before president roosevelt signed the social security act into law in august of 1935, approximately half of our senior citizens lived in poverty. before social security, about half of our seniors lived in poverty. today fewer than 10% of seniors live in poverty. that number is too great, but it is a significant i

. >>> the federal aviation administration is investigating a scary case at reagan national airport in washington d.c. ktvu's allison burns reports from our washington d.c. newsroom that two planes were forced to land without clearance because the air traffic control tower was silent. allison. >> reporter: pam, you know reagan national airport is just on the other side of the capitol here across from the pa to mack. only one air traffic controller was in the tower at the time and he was reportedly asleep on the job. the pilots of two airliners carrying a total of 165 passengers and crew members were forced to land on their own early yesterday morning. the planes landed safely after the pilots broadcast their progress as they approached the runway and landed. here's a call one of them made to the facility overseeing the control tower. >> land line and called on the commercial line and there's no answer. >> reporter: now the secretary of transportation is ordering more air traffic controllers to be in the tower on those overnight shifts. you know nationwide the number of errors by air tr

recently including the obama administration decision to extend the bush tax cuts is that we're not taxing wealthy individuals we haven't much taxed wealthy individuals united states since the reagan tax cuts of the eighty's the problem that we're having now is we've redistributed so much money upward so in other words our rich people our largest companies take home so much of the money at the end of the day if we don't tax them we really don't have enough money to run our basic government systems and services anymore and that's what you're seeing in the washington d.c. debates about national policy as well as in places like madison wisconsin and columbus ohio and all over tallahassee florida and i just want to but before we get into taxing though with the wealthiest people if you look at the corporations the big six j.p. morgan bank of america that are all their banks they're not paying the thirty five percent rate they're paying an eleven percent rate and if we had gotten the thirty five percent rate from them we would have earned thirteen billion dollars in tax revenue which were not i mean it seems like it's the sort of political third rail to even suggest that these corporati

the oil subsidies for the oil companies how much effect would that have if it were put into something like when our backs and thank you. president guest: reagan talks administration move the it solar panel as an ideological move -- ragan's administration removed the solar panels as an ideological move. and was an important symbol. the white house is one of the most visible platforms in america. president carter putting the solar panels up was a very important sign about where we wanted to go. president reagan taking them off was a sign about where he wanted to go which was more of the same. as you know, the home -- the obama administration has put solar panels back up on the roof. turning to oil subsidies from a right now we spend about $3.50 billion to subsidize big oil companies. that is a waste of money given that the big five oil companies over the last decade made over $1 trillion in profit. that report $5 billion could be invested in things like making homes much more energy efficient. treated incentives for cars, helping people riding buses and trains and making transit more affordable and accessible would be much better use of that money then to give mone