recently i had a meeting on -- in the san diego area on the southwest border. it was a meeting of the top officials of all of the departments, f.b.i., d.e.a., d.a., etc. and i learned something quite surprising and i'd like to say what it is. and ask you to take a good look. and that is that virtually all of the narcotics traffic in this country, the roots that -- routes that drugs travel, the people who control those drugs, the hits that are ordered, are essentially control hed by certain gangs in federal prisons and some state prisons today. and they even gave me the names of the prisons. i spoke to bob muller, i've told him about this. i want to bring it to your attention publicly. it is not acceptable that narcotics trafficking directions be given out of federal or state prisons. and i'd like to ask you to make a thorough investigation. i'd be happy to give you the information that i have that i'm not going to discuss here but what i'm asking you is a commitment to take a big, strong, in depth look at this. >> sure. i will certainly do that. there are certai

i hope you're reserving that last one for the southwest. t could you tell me a little bit of the thinking on the 11th and where you are and what's the -- what your thoughts are on an el paso-albuquerque-denver corridor? >> i'm assuming that's to me. >> yes. yes it is, mr. szabo. >> frankly there's no position to announce at this time relative to any 11th high speed rail corridor, but the important thing is it's not necessary to be an applicant under the grant guidance we've issued. i think most of this gets addressed again as we start taking a look at a national rail plan. quite frankly, it's possible that there's the need for more than 11. we need to take a look at where are those markets where there's good potential, what is the interest from those states? and historically, there's not been a strong interest from the southwest, but it sounds like the level of enthusiasm frankly nationwide is changing considerably. so i think the issues of whether there's an 11th corridor a 12th corridor a 13th whatever will get fleshed out as we put togeth

i recently had a meeting in the san diego area on the southwest border. it was a meeting of top officials of all the departments, fbi, dea, the d.a., etc.. i learned something surprising and that like to say what is and ask you to take a good look. that is that virtually all the narcotics traffic in this country, but routes that drugs travel and the people to control those drugs, the hits that are ordered are essentially controlled by certain gangs in federal prisons and some state prisons today. they even gave me the names of the prisons. i spoke to bob miller and i spoke to him about this. it is not acceptable that narcotics trafficking directions be given out of federal or state prisons. i would like to ask you to make a thorough investigation and i would be happy to give you the information i have i will not discuss here. what i am asking you for is a commitment to take a strong, in- depth look at this. >> i will certainly do that. there are measures in place, the monitoring of telephone calls, the monitoring of people who visit with people detained, c

. -- egypt from the southwest. israel expanded its border by including the golan heights that was controlled by syria, the west bank controlled by jordan and gaza controlled by egypt. some would have you believe that the establishment changed the borders of arab states in an agreement that existed for centuries. that is incorrect. the boundaries of the middle east countries were fixed by western powers after turkey was defeated in world war i. the french took over syria and lebanon. the british took over palestine and iraq. the areas allotted to israel had been under the control of the on the man empire from 1517 to 1917. during this 400-year rein, it was only sparsely populated. it was the oppressed jewish population and muslim immigrant groups and small groups of christians in the area. the actual boundaries of what became the state of israel were set by the united nations in 1947 when formally established in 1948, the attacks on the state of israel began immediately by the neighboring arab states. arafaf formed

taking on the international drug cartels along our southwest boarder is another major priority we support in this bill. the bill enhances funding for c.b.p. and i.c.e. to combat illegal narcotics smuggling from mexico and others. the bill supports a realistic and strategic approach to the southwest border infrastructure and maintains a historically robust border patrol forest --s for -- force. other specifically priorities week of funded include $800 million for explosive detection systems at airports and $122.8 million for air cargo security to meet the 100% screening requirement for air cargo in the hold of passenger planes by august of 2010. $804 million to continue developing systems to screen inbound, land and sea-based cargo for weapons or nuclear materials which includes $162 million to strengthen overseas operations to monitor and target cargo. $241.5 million for the coast guard to support overseas contingencies in the persian gulf and off the coast of somalia. $382 million for cyber security, to help protect vulnerable computer infrastructure from the escalating sophistication an

the fbi has put together a new intelligence capability along the southwest border. we are trying to stop the floor -- flow of materials and drugs into our country. this is a priority for us. >> thank you. >> welcome and thank you for your service. at her confirmation hearing we talked about civil rights crimes. you made a commitment to me that you would do whatever you could in your power to make sure that was funded. my first question is, have you been successful? the group that motivated the response for that bill would like to have a meeting with the justice department and has been turned away. can you answer would you have done to get the funding for the bill? would you agree to meet with the principles of the organization so we can get these crimes resolved? >> i will have to look and see where we stand with regard to the budget for next year. i cannot remember how much money was dedicated to the product you talk about. i will check it and get back to you. i would be glad to meet with the people you are talking about. >> i will communicate that to them. it is in

the ride of your life. >> orioles baseball on masn brought to you by southwest airlines. ok your next trip at southwest.com. and by acura. acura advance. >> jim: back here at landshark stadium. you can see the ground is wet. about 4:00, the mother of all thunderstorms went through miami. the grounds crew did an absolutely amazing job of getting the tarp on the field with winds up to 67 miles per hour, and the field is playable and we will have an on-time start. an amazing turn of events in the past three hours. violent tomorrow and now calm but overcast. let's get a look at the orioles' southwest airlines lineup in the opener of this three-game series and brian roberts in his usual lead-off spot. interleague play this year, brian has axeled, .312 batting average with 11 rbi's. the orioles getting ready to bat after a day off yesterday. and, block, there are really differences of opinions on whether or not a day off in the middle of a winning streak is helpful or harmful. >> buck: it doesn't hurt. they're playing so well now. you can see caesar is the tour is in the dug-out

. $345 million in new funds to safeguard the southwest border. it would undermine the southwest border initiative, perhaps, mr. chairman, where the cuts were taken. the 3.4 billion in grant funding for state and local law enforcement assistance, including $298 million to put additional cops on the beat. $100 million for prisoner re-entry initiatives, $94 million for tribal law enforcement assistance. all this represents funding that again has been carefully fashioned, carefully considered, and carefully appropriated by the appropriations subcommittee and by the full committee as we move this bill to the floor. a 1% cut would undermine any or all of those programs by that amount. mr. chairman, for all those reasons, i oppose this amendment. and yield back the balance of my time. ae-- i reserve the balance of my time. the chair: the gentleman reserves. the gentleman from georgia. mr. price: how much time remaining? the chair: 2 1/2 minutes. mr. price: i appreciate the gentleman from west virginia's comments, but let's be honest, mr. chairman. a cut

to reduce violent crimes and enforce firearms and explosive laws and for the department-wide southwest border initiative to secure our border against violence and drug trafficking. with all of that in mind, i rise in support of the rule and the underlying bill, and i yield back the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlewoman from ohio yields back the balance of her time. the gentleman from florida. mr. diaz-balart: mr. speaker, i yield such time as he may consume to the distinguished gentleman from california, mr. dreier. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from california is recognized. mr. dreier: mr. speaker, i yield myself such time as i may consume. mr. speaker, like all of my colleagues, i know i speak for all of my colleagues when i say that i revere this institution. 220 years ago this summer james madison, following the urging of his constituents came back to the house of representatives, doing something that he actually opposed when he penned the u.s. constitution, that being the implementation of the very important bill of rights. something that we as ame

this week after those elections the southwest r.d.a. made 60 million pounds of cuts, cutting projects in my constituency, carving the budget for regeneration in gloucester. why should anybody believe a word the prime minister says again? >> thousands of companies in his area are getting help under the inland revenue scheme and other schemes we're interesting. thousands of companies are getting special help to take them through the recession. but if his argument is that we must avoid cuts, then he better talk to his shadow chancellor because he is proposing massive cuts in services today and in the future. the conservative party has been revealed today as the party that will fight for the next few months on cuts in services and at some point they're going to have to tell us how many nurses and how many doctors and how many teachers and how many public servants are going to lose their jobs as a result of this new policy announced this morning. >> mr. hamilton. >> thank you, mr. speaker. can i ask the prime minister to join with me in payin

addressing the southwest border threat has two basic elements. intradict and deter the crossing of contraband goods and confronting the largest organizations on the border. our strategy involves using federal prosecutor led task force that brings together federal, state and local law enforcements to identify, disrupt and dismantle the mexican drug cartels through investigation, prosecution and extradiction of their key leaders and facilitators and seizure and forfeiture of their assets. they're committed to defending the civil rights of every american, the department, and we are rededicating ourselves of implementing the range of federal laws at our disposal to protect rights at the workplace, in the voting booth. i have made restoring the proper functioning of the civil rights division a top priority for this justice department. now, as many americans face the adverse effects of a devastating economy and an unstable housing market, the administration announced a new coordinated effort across federal and state government and private sectors to ta

corner, the big boot in southwest pakistan through the wild to a port that pakistan dreams of developing with chinese help as a world-class outlet for asian oil and gas. >> guest: the sport is called gwadar -- it's what the government is sort of banking on. this would become the next dubai. so when i went there in the fall of 27, they had just built a glorious five-star hotel up on the top of -- it's a hammer head shape today and on the top of this hammerhead shaped herber, and what's happened though is that in doing this and building this part and investing so much confidence, the baluchis, the natives of this area for the very disenfranchised say look this might be the next dubai but we are not going to get a piece of it. >> host: and they have been excluded, the pakistani government. >> guest: totally. and there was an influential shipping magnate who mentioned to me that the government was prohibiting baluchis from even sweeping the floor. there was no piece of the project that was going to be for them. baluchi politicians are now the province joost -- this has been the grievance the

most southerners, i think, they were quite interested in what they called the southwest, what we think of as the southeast, alabama, mississippi, and whenever. i don't think very many people, at least anytime soon, thought of going beyond the mississippi river. they hoped to get to the mississippi river. many of the loyalists argued that one of the great reasons for remaining tied with great britain with the combined power of america and great britain, much more rapidly, the angle americans could sweep to the mississippi river and beyond the mississippi river to the pacific, they didn't stop there. they thought in terms of central america and south america so that the whole western hemisphere, north and south america, would be anglo-american in this end. >> you mentioned this what fox. over the years, i have read that it was largely a diversion, that he wasn't significant. would you expand on that? >> historians debate, there is not a uniform interpretation. i think it grows out of the fact that marion was a cantankerous, independent sort, who didn't always work particularly well with

addressing the southwest border as a threat involves two basic elements. confronting the large crow organizations on both sides of the border federal, state, and local agencies mexican drug cartels. the department is committed to defending the civil rights of every american. implementing the several laws that our range of disposal. as many americans think, the ems table economy, we are tending to target mortgage loan modification of fraud. responses from federal law enforcement agencies, investigators, prosecutors, and civil authority to protect homeowners, seeking assistance to protect from criminals looking to perpetrate criminal schemes. this will enhance the department's criminal and civil tools. including money laundering and protecting taxpayer money. with the tools and resources provided, the department and others will be better equipped to help the nation respond to this challenge. the department has been investigating and prosecuting financial crimes aggressively. we have been very successful. this includes ponzi schemes and market manipulation. as

or we could look at longer term climate history of the pacific southwest which is one of the i placesare about drought. the energy secretary who has a nobel prize in particle physics which is somewhat not related to climatology said recently that global warming will destroy agriculture in california and cause the loss of the major cities in california. this is absurd. but the reason he said that is because of stories about major drought in the pacific southwest and the colorado water system. and, of course, if we take a river stream flow as measured by tree rings and other kinds of fossils this is by dave in qñj here's the more recent drought and you can see that it is nothing compared to whatf0Ñ we e seen -- that's lowest in the current drought -- nothing compared to what we saw here in the 12th century. this thing lasted 60 years so to say there's any signal of warming in this record, which would begin somewhere aroundg÷w 1900:%9 absurd.gv i-again, you conditions in the early part of the 20th century which by the way resulted in the migration of people to california as a green par

the southwest airlines starting lineups for the birds. brian roberts in the lead-off spot.jones back in the number two spot in center field. pretty good numbers head to head in the brief interleague match-ups he's had against the nationals. markakis up and reimold with scott d.h.s and is luke happy to be back with american league rules. more of wieters and andino. >> rob: the pnc scouting all right on detwilerer. he did a very good job against them he has great stuff a breaking ball and he continues to pitch better every time out there. he went seven innings. work ahead of the hitters. strike one is still the best pitch for ross detwilerer. the last time we talked about him, jim, he throws across his body. he has to continually go towards home plate or else he gets a little lax with his arm. >> jim: i was talking to steve who took over for randy st. claire and he said that is who he is. you try to get a little straight, but he is way over on the first base side. i don't think he is over as much as some other guys, like rick ankiel who is now an outfield were st. louis. he u

am new -- imu 18 extremist group in eastern afghanistan routinely meet usually in pakistan and the southwest in the tribal areas we have heard about other meetings, they meet routinely to divide up the funds. it is like one of those things to see if the sopranos where they get together and similarly i should add another reason why i find it very similar to the idea these groups being like a crime family is like the new york crime family is sometimes they fight over the spoils. we hear reports of fighting that takes place between the imu and the pakistani taliban. what happens all the time and usually if you start looking into it they are fighting over money. i will come back to the idea. the top smugglers from the cartel is usually the intermediary between corrupt officials in the afghan and pakistani and every the government. what is ironic when i find most surprising is the extent to which insurgents were actually cooperating with government officials and we even heard cases of the police pretending to lose a district to the taliban because they have been paid off so much to lose the distr

here is the southwest airlines starting lineup for the orioles.oberts, markakis and jones with wigginton batting cleanup. melvin mora, .375 over the last nine games. reimold, wieters, andino and rich hill the pitcher batting ninth. nolan reimold now in the number six spot. takes a fastball high. mentioned last night that reimold and luke scott will be thrilled to get back to baltimore for tomorrow's investigate. there's only three games left in interleague and they will be american league rules at camden yards this weekend which means reimold can count on being in left field and luke scott cancount on dhing or at least have the option to do so. orioles will face yet ano left-handed pitcher tomorrow. so, dave trembley always has the option of putting wigginton in there, but you get the hitter back. >> buck: it's been an unbelievable stretch of left- handers they have faced lately going all the way back to the seattle series on the west coast. >> jim: sheer base hit to right eld for nolan reimold. good piece of hitting there going with it and

the corner around chicago, the southwest corner. what did change is now the eastern part does stay in sync. >> another pair read from your speech. -- paragraph from your speech. what is different about your four daughters and the boomer generation? >> we will have to see how they choose to live their lives. >> would you see in them that is different? >> i see a lot of their mother, and that is the best thing i can tell you about them. they will make their own choices, and i will support them, whatever those are. i hope that the soon to be three marriages that have begun in our family will last for life, or certainly as long as there are any children. i have enormous admiration and sympathy for single parents. i told you how hard we have worked on things like child support. it remains an empirical fact. this is not a moral judgments, but an empirical fact, that of the children of america -- poverty in america, every social pathology that tears at your heart would be so much less a problem if we did not -- if we had higher rates of imp

. >> johnny: and we will take a look at the southwest starting line-ups now for the nationals. they will go with -- we will go to the reds. hairston leading off, taveras, phillips at second for the reds, on on johnny gomes and hernandez, bruise in right, gonzalez at sort, rosales and micah owings. jay bruce, 14 homeruns against right-handed pitchers and there's john lannan coming off probably the best effort he has had against the mets this past saturday. >> rob: yes, johnny. he is going out there facing a pretty decent reds line-up. but he face add pretty good mets line-up and went a complete game in his 49th career start. let's give you the pnc scouting report. 50th career start. 5 e.r.a. on the road. higher on the road than at home. he does very well at home. 2-0 with a 1 plus earned run average. 6 or 7 in strong, give this team an opportunity to win and you have done your job. >> johnny: let's take a look at the nationals defense. they will take the field this way. and you will find cristian guzman at swords, dunn moves from left field to first and kearns in right and nieve

mind, but from missouri where we lived to that destination somewhere example in the edge of to the southwest the left, get in the middle of the country and ended up in new mexico with the purpose of meeting a woman who had been writing me letters for 10 years, and almost seven year-old woman at the time. she had been writing me peculiar of letters and i wanted to meet her so that was the destination but between columbia, missouri and mexico the events that occur in that section happen. said that is where the serendipity comes in. i was saying, how do i put these together? and finally dawned on me because my wife's name is joanne, she has never been happy with that name given that she is largely a tomboy when she looks of or not, joe would be a better name but she doesn't go for that. to tell me one day when i first met her that she really only wanted to be named quintana. i thought that is a great name and i love that the two. to love the name kean, which existed in mexico, old mexico. i said that as a great name, so she became for a time can, but then shirley q. to becomes q in the book for

person as wells on the page -- this huge, desolate, sometimes threatening pakistani province in the southwest corner, the big brute inside west pakistan, and you made it out there through the wilds to a port that pakistan dreams of developing with chinese help as a middle class outlet for central asian oil and gas. >> guest: you're right. it's gwadar, and it is -- the pakistani -- >> host: a dream. >> guest: it is. it's what the government is banking on, the next dubai. so i went there in the fall of 2007. they had just built a glorious five-star hotel on the top of the -- it's a hammerhead shaped bay and on the top of the hammerhead shaped harbor, and what happened is nat doing this, in billing this port and investing so much confidence, the natives of the area feel very disenfranchised and they say this might be the next dubai bought we're not going get any piece of it. >> host: they haven't excludessed government from any real wealth. >> guest: totally there was an influential shipping magnate that said the government was prohibiting the people from sweeping the floors. no piece of this pr

the winds blowing out of the southwest at seven miles per hour. the humidity is 94%. there is a 90% chance of rain. as amber just reported, it has been hard afternoon down there in south florida. i remember them saying last night on the weather it was 100 degrees in fort lauderdale for only the second time in the history of weather down in south florida. dennis sarfate has been trying to stay busy while on the disabled list. sarfate has decided to break into broadcasting here on masn. the orioles' right-handed recently filed his second report before before the orioles left on this road trip. [ music ] >> welcome back to dennis the menace. today we're going to take a look at media look-alikes. let's find some. i'm here with spencer ford. how are you? >> i'm doing all right. >> is there someone in this clubhouse who thinks you look like a certain celebrity? >> unfortunately there is. >> who is that is? >> a nascar drive were a bad attitude. >> i did some research and i found this. >> tony stewart. >> quite strong. >> we'll be going to the press box to interview more cel

let's get a look at the southwest airlines starting lineups for the orioles looking to bounce back after the five- game winning streak halted last night. brian roberts at second base. felix pie in center field. adam jones gets the night off. nick markakis and aubrey huff, melvin mora in the -- melvin mora in the middle with luke scott in left field. nolan reimold not starting tonight. matt wieters in the seven spot. 2-4 last night and a solo home run and an rbi single. robert andino at short and jason berken on the mound will bat for the first time as a beleaguer. >> buck: now, it's time for the pnc scouting report for the left-hander ricky nolasco. he has a -- right-hander ricky nolasco. he has a snappy hook. one if you're not aware of it. throws over the top a 12:00- 6:00 breaking ball. he's been more aggressive. he was optioned to the minor leagues may 23 and made two starts in trim and at got a little more aggressive. he was tentative. he was pitching around the plate not being aggressive enough. it really cost him. you could see his e.r.a. is 7.15 for the season rand the league has

prescription patterns and the patterns of mountain snow melt and climate change could be parchment to the southwest. one of the keys to dealing with these changes is going to be adapttation, developing ways to protect people and places by reducing their vulnerability to climate changes. to properly to adept to more extreme climate events, we need to have information, data, accurate weather fksing. they are trying to predict the extreme events expected with climate change and can give the american people the advanced warning needed to deal with or even escape from, if necessary, these dangerous and avoid tragedies such as hurricane katrina. funding for this amendment seeks to strike -- would be used by san jose university to complete the development of a field experience curriculum to supplement the existing bachelor of science meteorological program. this allows the university to better train the next generation and helping to ensure that government can plan and respond properly. this is a one-time shot that will be used over and over again as instruction goes on. the field expense will improve the

they routinely meet usually in pakistan often and the city of in the southwest. 've heard of other meetings in the tribal areas. we heard about other meetings in the shower. they need routinely to divide up the funds. it's kind of like one of those scenes you see in a movie or in the sopranos or a movie like goodfellas where they get together, everybody has to answer envelope to the boss. and similarly i should add another reason why i find this very similar to the idea of these groups being like crime families, like the new york crime family and the new jersey crime family is that sometimes they fight over the spoils. i mean, we hear reports of fighting that takes place between the imu and a pakistani taliban. it happens all the time. and usually if you start looking into it, they are fighting over money. and i'll come back to that idea. the top smugglers from the cartels are usually the intermediaries between corrupt officials in the afghan and pakistani and iranian governments and the insurgents. what's ironic about this, what i found probably both surprising a

in fact, it was just two weeks ago the president unveiled a new gentleman ji on securing the southwest border and fighting the cartels a strategy that calls for sustained enhancements to border security and countermarkets. the president's budget request calls for only 44 new agents. that's right. only 44 new agents. contrast that with the 2,500 additional agents this congress funded last year. 44 new agents in this bill, 2,500 additional agents last year. how can we support such a flattening of this crucial security asset? how can we risk a reduction in the size of the border patrol when our border security needs our -- needs are so great and the agent attrition rate is creeping up to about 11%. the decision to fund what is essentially a current services budget for border patrol comes in conjunction with a request for more than 30% increase in administrative policy and bureaucratic functions at d.h.s. talk about getting your priorities all wrong. think about that. 11% versus 30%. clearly a higher priority being given to border security by way of more personnel. at a time of such obviou

and we already in the southwest, because of climate change dynamics and drought cycles are experiencing those situations. water is the lifeblood of the west. recent droughts in the southeast of our great country remind us that no one's immune from water shortages. and it's with an eye to those experiences that i rise today to introduce legislation that would take a measured and practical step toward conserving it. the name of this act is the water accountability tax efficiency reinvestment act of 2009. that's a mouthful, but if you boil down its acronym, it's the water act and it creates a tax incentive for individuals and businesses to purchase products and services that use water, middle east a 20% more efficient level in comparable technologies. it's very similar to the existing tax credit that we all receive now for purchasing energy-efficient energy star products. certainly you see energy star products all over homes and increasingly customers are purchasing them. i want to thank my friend and colleague in the house of representatives, where the presiding officer and i had the hono

manny, who struggled in this game, maybe it was the southwest flight that he took to fly to albuquerque. he did fly commercial. manny did play four innings. he went 0 for 2 with a strikeout. in his time on the albuquerque field. and for ramirez, he is scheduled to play two more games, too. five innings on wednesday, and six innings on thursday, then fly back to los angeles for friday. manny of course rescheduled to join the dodgers on the field july 3rd when they face the padres in san diego, the firsts game after his suspension comess to an end. >> all right. so the dodgers with one eye onnt albuquerque,e,e,eye on chicago and the white sox on tuesday. region. inflicting suffering of its own people and many others. to be sure i am aware and international affairs old wounds do not heal easily. however if we look closely at iraq political economics potential is clearly in the gulf nations' strategic interest to support the government and people of iraq. iraq neighbors should lend support with intelligence sharing and increase border control efforts. especially those nations that have thus

and security of inmates and guards in federal prisons and $345 million in new funds to safeguard the southwest border, address the mexican cartel violence in support of activities in the department of homeland security. $3.4 billion in grant funding for state and local enforcement assistance, including $298 million to put additional police on the beat and $94 million for tribal law enforcement. these investments are absolutely necessary, unlike what the gentleman has suggested that somehow they're unnecessary, somehow this is change that can be found and these programs can be cut. what we're doing is reinvesting in the law enforcement infrastructure of which country on the border in our cities, and in issues of white collar crime. and i would hope he would understand that this is an essential part of this legislation than this was carefully crafted as we consulted with people across various jurisdictions within the institutions to make sure we could provide them to be secure and serve the needs of this nation. i think this has been a good faith effort to do that and i would hope we reject the

comanche from 1700 to 1850 so it's got 150 years' time frame where the comanche completely dominated the southwestand what comes through is their intelligence, their decentralized political organization, their escape from disease because they were nomanic. they would enslave whoever captured but if you wanted to be a comanche they would have groups. they were the first understand the horse and its importance in the western economy and the buffalo so they were very well armed, very well funded and very smart. and so they outdueled their rival tribes, the apache especially, and they absolutely ruled the spanish and anglos who came in and tried to take over and then finally the american government in 1857 send all the troops you can there and let's get the comanche problem settled and they basically took care of the comanche but for 150 years they ruled. >> you're listening to chris rogers, executive editor of yale university press talking about some of the new titles. >> our coverage of the "chicago tribune" printers row lit fest continues with jeff coen, and jason kersten on the art of making money

lisa wound for helping to organize this event and the rest of the staff and also to the staff at the southwesteum. and a shoutout to peter at c-span, happy norwegian day, i know that norway is home of the amazing breeds of fjord horse. here we are and thank you all for coming today. i'd like to talk about first how and why i wrote "mustang." about 10 years ago, a little over 10 years ago, in 1998, at christmastime, i was out in a desert bar in 29 palms california, waiting to meet with a source. i was finishing up my previous book, "29 palms," the true story of murder, marines and the mojave, about two girls who had been killed after the gulf war and i picked up a local paper and saw an item that said six wild horses had been gunned down outside reno and i was of course, extremely shocked and horrified. it was a terrible story on its face. and it started to person late. a couple of days later, there was another item that said, 12 horse carcasses had been found in the virginia range outside reno. and i was even more horrified by then. then by the end of that year, christmas eve, 1998, as the bal

took place over four years, 16,000 miles and each one had a a destination in mind in the trip to the southwest they ended up in new mexico there is a woman for writing letters for almost 70 years at the time and she is the right to me but to their letters and wanted to meet a person that was the destination of between missouri and new mexico most of the events that occur in that section happened. that is where the serendipity comes in. but how do i put these together? it finally dawned on me because my wife's name is joe weigh in and she has never been happy with that name given that she is largely a tomboy, joe would be a better name for her but she does not go for that. she told me when i first met her she always wanted a name it is a son of a state named an old mexico. self she became quintana but then short end at q. when a husband decides he will rightabout day spouse and if they are an attorney and if that spouse is trained to understand libel and invasion of privacy that writer had better know what he is doing i'm a fellow who writes not knowing what i am doing that is the purpose of wr

take for example ann from dayton ohio in the southwest part of my state she wrote with me to share her story. the past five and a half years she paid $125,000 climbing in health care bills. how can this be? was she on insured? in fact when her illness struck she was a partner in a law firm and had good insurance but once she became too sick to work she lost her coverage and was forced to fend for herself. she and her family went on cobra, as expensive as it is when you are unemployed, for as long as they could and then paid $27,000 a year for insurance in the individual market where medical underwriting runs rampant and the cost of the bureaucratic cost of a single policy and individual market is 40, 40% off. she recently traded at plan because of the expense for a bear bones policy that cost her $15,000 a year but doesn't cover prescription drugs and has a 5,000-dollar deductible. so she starts off paying $20,000 for medical care. that's just the start. she writes in the letter this is not what insurance is about. the bill of course today takes a number of steps to ensure americans do

could store that energy on overcast days, nuclear weapons climates that aren't as warm as say the southwest where our friend, mr. heinrich, comes from in new mexico, we could absolutely transform the solar industry and make it a practical, either slement or alternative, for households and business all across the united states. what could that do in terms of job creation and reviving the manufacturing sector of the united states? an almost endless return on a very wise investment of dollars. mr. tonko: if i might, to the comments -- two of the comments made by representative connolly of virginia, i thank him for his insight, two of those comments -- to those comments i would add that as we achieve those efficiency outcomes, we are also cleaning the environment. we have the moral responsibility to make certain that our children, our grandchildren, generations that will follow us, do not get handicapped by some sort of of situation out there like climate change, global warming, the carbon footprint that will destroy our environment. the air we breathe is essential. as stewards today of the env

winds out of the southwest, 15 miles per hour. humidity 53%. chance of rain 5%. looks kind of clear right now down in south florida as the orioles conclude a three-game series in miami. we thank trane for responsoring the weather forecast. welcome back to "o's xtra" here on masn. tom davis with rick dempsey in our studio. orioles had problems on the field last night in their 5-2 loss to the marlins. dave trembley summed up a lost night in miami. >> a lot of the success we've had recently is because we've played very good baseball and we played all 27 outs, but we gave some outs tonight. that was a difference of the game. that's about as direct as i can say it. [ indiscernible ] >> i forget what -- who is running, you know, so -- >> bonifacio? >> yeah, it's bonifacio. i try to throw home plate. know make a decision. i try to throw to home plate or second base. but when -- you know, that, mistake, that's my fault. i have to throw for the second base. that's my fault. >> obviously, felix pie had a tough game last night. it seemed like pie had trouble in more ways tha

there was a question in both the american airlines case and the southwest case. their relationship had something to do. recently reported a number of things in that report. as i stated in this hearing we will follow up on that. >> i'm not asking you specifically about this. it is in the context of the crash, but it's in the institutional relationship tier. it's in the culture. we need to hear that culture must change. so talk to me about how you feel about this. you have been around. my god, you went into these aircraft and have the passenger safety on your back for all those years. if anybody can change the culture over there, it's you. but can you tell me, are you doing anything to change the culture? >> we are certainly trying. i have only been there -- >> i know. >> my tenure on my watch. >> i'm asking for a commitment that you will look into the charge that we made. get back to us on what you are finding. be honest like the ntsb is honest. don't cover up anything. you have too much responsibility on your hands. we want to help you. that is the purpose of thi

you do, we thank you could have a hand in shaping this new economic reality to the sun belt and the southwest. so wal-mart did this through these colleges and to this organization students of free enterprise which actually has that much longer history in texas that i get into but which essentially was a vehicle for having grassroots campus activism in favor of free-market capitalism. >> host: we all think of the '60s and a been left wing and radical. >> guest: here are the students at dean parks cheering for capitalism and the use those terms and of other point is they avoided but they use capitalism as underlining the late '60s. they have a voice and is going to go down every lead in the hands of people at columbia university or berkeley. the country needs according to them coming in these good values coming out of christian business schools and coming out of it the experience of these young people going out essentially door to door trying to drum up support for capitalism so they would have is marvelously greater projects with a wooden show for example -- they would show host i tell the pen

last week i sent an e-mail to the southwest business center specifically asking for a definite timeline on redistribution. what am i supposed to be doing, what is my plan. the response back was possibly we'll try to have a plan by next week. next week is the last week. we're out of time. >> let me ask, again, i will run out of time here, i can feel it. in the time lines that have been granted, the june 12th timeline, if i get that right, is there any opportunity to expand that? yes or no? >> in our case, senator, no. >> in the parts of the appeal process that they have before june 9th or 12th, whatever that date is on the appeal process, is there any opportunity to extend that beyond the target date of when they have to sign? >> no. >> mr. chairman, i have plenty of questions and i know i have to go to another meeting. but i guess two documents i would like to have, if they can present them to us. one is i think senator johanns asked the question and that is in regards to your actual savings that you will achieve and chrysler laid that out in detail. i just looked through your testimony

case further demonstrates the important role that local law enforcement in arizona and throughout the southwest are playing in combating a national problem. i commend navajo county sheriff kasey clark and his department for yet another successful operation. thank you, mr. speaker. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlewoman yields back the balance of her time. for what purpose does the gentleman from oklahoma rise? >> ask unanimous consent to address the house for one minute. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. >> thank you, mr. speaker. mr. speaker, like many americans, i cheered when c.i.a. director recently defended the honor of his agency against unsubstantiated charges by the speaker of the house that the c.i.a. routinely lied to americans. and to the congress of the united states. given those remarks, i was suppliesed -- surprised to see his recent remarks about vice president cheney when he said, quote, it's almost as if he wishes that this country would be attacked again in order to make his point. just as mr.py neta deserves an apology from the speaker, he owes one to the vice pre