possible leave that to the department of defense, the va, and the communities throughout the country have to figure out a way to work together to meet the needs that are there. probably more importantly to take advantage of the resources and the potential and the future that includes so many of our veterans that will return home and make such a difference locally and in their community in service of some kind in the future. so many of them are going through or going back to school. how do we bring all of those together? we have a system that we built up over time that focuses heavily on compensation, particularly tied to disability. i struggle with that and recognize where that comes from. it is not about disability, but ability. it should never be about veterans returning and seeing them as a burden. it should be about veterans returning in seen them with great potential to make a huge difference. that is a whole different mindset. deborah and i spent some time focusing on homeless issues. when this war started, i do this because my generation, my first war was vietnam's. i still se

sake of their safety and for the entire region, we need to know the facts before we allow deepwater drilling to continue. host: arlington, va., patrick on the republican line. good morning. caller: that is great. i called on the second of many -- may, 10 days after the rig blew up. funny, we are almost in the same boat that we were in then. i watched it last night and i was not impressed other than we heard the typical bp is going to pay. we still have not heard anything about the cleanup. you do not have to wait until the leak is capped to start clean up. host: the president did say that he has deployed over 17,000 national guard members along the coast to compensate workers and business owners who have been harmed he will ask bp to set up an escrow account and establish a national commission to understand causes of the disaster and offer recommendation. caller: a couple fought off the top of my head. what if bp says no? and it winds up in court? that is the first thing. i think they had a 75 million- dollar cap. second, there are over 30 offshore rigs operating in the u.s. right now. you know? so, it is not the there are

i am on a pension from the va. i get less than $1,000 per month. month.

guest: the direction of the congress and the way va has been going the last election or two, i have a feeling it is going to go republican. host: the governor is currently democrat. the appointee will be a democrat. caller: until the e election. host: independent line, what you think about the passing of the senate. caller: a giant has passed away from the senate. he grew throughout his whole life. it started out as a klansman and became smarter and smarter. probably the smartest senator we have had -- not in terms of formal litigation, but studied hard and he learned and we are all lucky to have had him. host: can you count how many times you voted for senator byrd? byrd? caller: i have never voted for him because i am a new resident of west virginia. but i would have loved to have. caller: ok, all right. pardon me. he was valedictorian of mark twain high school when he graduated in reynolds county, west virginia. and he went to american university law school at night while serving in the senate. in the late 1950's and early 1960's. decatur, alabama. you are on the air. caller: i wan

i'm pleased to yield two minutes to the gentlelady from california, another vaed member of the house administration, ms. susan davis. the chair: the gentlelady is recognized for two minutes. mrs. davis: thank you, mr. speaker. i rise today in support of the disclose act. under current law, yes, it is correct that groups must disclose their name, their name and advertisements and file a disclosure form. but you know, that doesn't tell anyone very much at all. right now, voters see tv ads sponsored by organizations they've never heard of. groups like the american future fund. american leadership project. citizens for strength and security. common sense in america. and today i'm getting calls from the campaign for liberty. but they will not tell us who they are. does anybody know who they are? in 2008, there were over 80 of these groups and they bought $135 million in advertisements. i for one don't think o constituents should go through another election cycle in the dark. voters want to know who is %% behind that ad? who stands to gain from it? why isn't an actual -- sit an -- why isn'

we started the taliban grid israel started hamas. host: let's go to front royal, vaon our rrpublican line. caller: first of all, i love george bush and i pay all the criticism of him. i hope the school is doing well and i hope the library in dallas is doing well and i hope he is happy there. to the issues -- first of all, he had surveillance. our country was safe when they put in surveillance of all the wire tapping and so forth which got so much criticism. got so much criticism. all that time, they were able to do tteir damage. by the same token, i wish that george had jumped right in in iraq right from the beginning. every day they waited and allowed for all these people to investigate and to all that stuff, ,ñsekr&oge0s i knew, do it because i knew their work nuclear-weapons there and i am most people feel there were. even though they have not found on, that doesl ss not mean theye not there. host: any response to her comments? guest: the george bush school here at texas a and m is named after george h. w. bush, the 41st president and his library is here at texa

host: another common here on the president's speech in cairo. richmond, va., and charles on the line for republicans. caller: good morning. when the founding fathers came to the new continent, they boughrought korans with them. slavery is islamic. when they left, most of the europeans did not delike slavery. the constitution of the united states had to be revised. people alws talk about how they wish they could go back to the old ways of the constitution. i'm a blacc person in america and. [inaudible] host: charles, there's a breath connection. andrew mccarthy, anything there you want to respond to? guest: despite the fact that slavery is the darkest chapter in the history of our country, it is a chapter that we overcame. the caller is thought that there is islamic scripture, which is approving of slavery, for that reason world. host: you argue in your book at president obama crafted his message and images for a muslim world. outside of the speech in cairo, give us a specific ongoing example of that. guest: the president follows the same practice that some o

for example, we were allowed to use the va drug pricing scheme. there have been some efficiencies. is the struggle that we need to continue. we need do -- it is a struggle that we need to continue. we need to continue to reduce costs while improving services. >> you talked about the deficiencies in joint strike fighter. are you confident about that? >> the secretary and the president have said in the strongest possible terms that they will not accept a bill with the alternative engine in it. >> i want to clarify. i think as a department, it will undergo the change and review. we would essentially see -- the third track dimension -- personal savings, a purging of people within osd. >> yes. osd is clearly part of this. you will see changes in the office of the secretary of defense and reductions in the size of the staff as well as other changes. >> we expect to see the results of what each of the departments and the services come up with. >> we will see the initial effort. i do not know whether you will see it. we will see it on july 31. you may see

but she is immensely popular with the democratic base in va

senator byrd passed away today at the age of 92 in a va hospital. lsewhere in the washington, confirmation hearings get under way for supreme court nominee l.a. get taken. she will appear before the senate judiciary committee. it will be on our companion network, [captioning performed by national captioning institute] -- it will be on our companion network, c-span3. tonight, a look at the fcc's efforts to reclassify the internet, which two members of the house communications subcommittee. that is tonight on c-span2. president obama to questions on afghanistan and the global economy at a news conference at the end of the g-20 summit in canada over the weekend. he pledged to cut the u.s. does it in half by the year 2013. >> please, everybody have a seat. good evening. i want to thank our wonderful hosts the first and foremost, my friend and partner, prime minister harper, as well as the canadian people and the people of toronto for their extraordinary hospitality. the success of these summits, the g-8 and the g-20, is a tribute to canadian leadership.

the same way. while we take a question from up front -- why don't we take a question from up front? >> i am from virginia. in 2008, vawent a blue for the first time in 30 something years. after that, we went purple. we voted for obama but now people are voting more republicans. what can candidates learn from the obama campaign besides just reaching out to young voters? what else different than they do? >> i tend not to talk in the red, blue, and purple because i do not think that is our regular people do things. -- view things. virginia has a recent history of putting democrat for governor and has selected several democratic senators are the last couple of decades. the fact that it was the first time in 40 or 50 years that they voted for a democratic president was an aberration. to the pundits suggest that virginia completely changed by voting for a republican governor, i don't look at states that way. i think each of these states will be unique as we move toward. states are changing. you look at the changing demographics and nevada and new mexico and so many of the states. you cannot just look at the past to predict

the recommended blowout preventer, they were supposed to use 21. even if they had used six that day. that is all i had to say. host: here is a tweet -- from marion, va., dennis on the independent line. dennis, what are your thoughts? caller: it is fairly obvious that bp is going to have a few -- a huge financial debt. the idea that bp is going to get out of this without being hit financially [unintelligible] i liked art stupak comment -- i like barton's comment. instead of the president using the viggo process to determine what bp -- using the legal process to determine what bp will 0owe, i think that needs to be determined in the future. i think they did the same thing with gm. host: sutterville hill, alabama, independent line, mary, go ahead. caller: i am very upset. i just have four quick points. the administration should apologize for not responding for nine days. alan salazar should resign. and that $20 billion, and that is over four years. that is $5 billion per year. they should listen to the locals who know the waterways and the estuaries and the wildlife and not hinder people who are trying to clean it up like bobby jindal in it louisiana.

guest: the direction of the congress and the way va has been going the last election or two, i have afeeling it is going to go republican. host: the governor is currently democrat. the appointee will be a democrat. caller: until the e election. host: independent line, what you think about the passing of the senate. caer: a giant has passed away from the senate. he grew throughout his whole life. it started out as a klansman and became smarter and smarter. probably the smartest senator we have had -- not in terms of formal litigation, but studi hard and he learned and we are all lucky to have had him. host: can you count how many times you voted for senator byrd? byrd? caller: i have never voted for him because i am a new resident of west virginia. but i would have loved to have. caller: ok, all right. pardon me. he was valedictorian of mark twain high school when he graduated in reynolds county, west virginia. and he went to american university law school at night while serving in the senate. in the late 1950's and early 1960's. decatur, alabama. you are on the air. caller: i want to

the taliban. we will go to fairfax, va., with the independent line. caller: hello, are you there? i was going to say that is prrtty disturbing news. ii is probably part of the way that you have to conduct waa as a nation to get things done. but i would appreciite it if the government would tell me the there,why we are over rather than just telling us their case in the taliban or osama bin laden. i could exct the facts of were much moreereadily. that is pretty much all that i have to say. -- i could accept the facts%- under the circumstances. host: craig, democrat from las gas,evada. caller: yes, iiwould like to see the people of the u.s. step forward. what we tell the senators, until you pass unemployment extensions, we cut your pay. you get no pay. let them live on $20 per week in food stamps. let them d that for about one month, and then they will know how we feel. instead of wasting $900 apiecc. start doing stuff for our people tteforget the rest of world. get out of these wars and quit wasting money. host: let's look at other news in the headlines, from the wall street journal

the taliban. we will go to fairfax, va., with trevor on the independent line. caller: hello, are you there? i was going to say that is pretty disturbing news. it is probably part of the way that you have to conduct war as a nation to get things done. but i would appreciate it if the government would tell me the truth of why we are over there, rather than just telling us their case in the taliban or osama bin laden. i could except the facts of were much more readily. that is pretty much all that i have to say. -- i could accept the facts under the circumstances. host: craig, democrat from las vegas, nevada. caller: yes, i would like to see the people of the u.s. step forward. what we tell the senators, until you pass unemployment extensions, we cut your pay. you get no pay. let them live on $200 per week in food stamps. let them do that for about one month, and then they will know how we feel. instead of wasting $900 apiece. start doing stuff for our people and forget the rest of the world. get out of these wars and quit wasting money. host: let's look at other news in the headlines, from "t

host: another common here on the president's speech in cairo. richmond, va., and charles on the line for republicans. caller: good morning. when the founding fathers came to the new continent, they boughrought korans with them. slavery is islamic. when they left, most of the europeans did not delike slavery. the constitution of the united states had to be revised. people always talk about how they wish they could go back to the old ways of the constitution. i'm a blacc person in america and. [inaudible] host: charles, there's a breath connection. andrew mccarthy, anything there you want to respond to? guest: despite the fact that slavery is the darkest chapter in the history of our country, it is a chapter that we overcame. the caller is thought that there is islamic scripture, which is approving of slavery, for that reason world. host: you argue in your book that president obama crafted his message and images for a muslim world. outside of the speech in cairo, give us a specific ongoing example of that. guest: the president follows the same practice that so

we are waiting for the white house briefing. arlington, va. caller: thank you for picking up my call. i would like to ask a question about european affairs. we are familiar with the situation in switzerland when they recently -- i would like to ask a question to andrew mccarthy. do you think that the problem is the import of radicalized clerics that do preach to islamic youth in europe? the real problem is in these people to preach branches of islam? guest: you are right that is the basic problem. part of what they are preaching is that the way the sharia agenda is advanced is not only by acts of terrorism, but by a broad based propaganda campaign that seems to infiltrate the media and the academy and all aspects of our society. propaganda victories are deemed to be very important. that's part of the reason we're having this big debate in new york now. it would be a great propaganda coup for people who are still at war with the united states and to identify themselves as involved in a civilization will struggle to islamicize the. . . you would

we need a strong financial system that will make the lives of the americans much better. host: richmond, vat line. your on the air. -- you are on the air. caller: i hate to digress, but i would like to get back on the subject of energy. i feel that if we are putting our tax dollars into research and the government is giving subsidies and grants and what not, whenever they use to process the research -- what ever they used to process the research, i would like to ask how you take ownership and accept the outcome on the use of energy. i would like to know, what do you feel personally about the governor -- the government taking ownership? guest: the free market and enterprise system has proven in country after country in the world as the best model. i do think is in the best interest of government to make investments in things, such as our road system, our real way system, and including our energy system. not to own assets -- i think is better not to own the assets, but to reassure low-cost energy to make our economy more effective. i think that is a legitimate role of government. but i do bel

you can see the picture of that right here. great falls, va., fred is on the line. caller: 80 c-span for making life better for everybody. -- thank you c-span for making life better for everybody. in europe, gas stations are different. this is a big country with different cultures and economies. when we talk about alternative energy, we have to figure out all the gas stations, employees, technicians. they will have to change their jobs. the real estate for the gas station would need to be changed. it would be like if one day we decided not to eat hamburgers. what would be the alternative? we need to think about those points. they kill again. gu-- thank you again. guest: the transition will have to take 20 or 30 years. the intra- structure is based on oil. you have the donkey following the ^. at some point, if you have to make a change. you can keep falling something forever. we've been doing that with oil for over a century. the real thing is when there is an energy crisis. we have that in the 1970's when there were lines at the pump and there was no oil. things wer

will affect the communit need a strong final system that will make the lives of the americans much better. host: richmond, valine your on the air. -- you are on the r. caller: i hate to digress, but i would like to get back on the subjec of energy. i feel that if we are putting our tax dollars in research and the governments giving subsidies and grts and wha not, whenever they use to ever they used to process the rearch, i wod like to ask how you take ownership and accept t outcome on the use of energy. i would like to know, what do u fl persollybout the goveor -- the government taking ownership guest: the free market and enterpriseystem has proven in country after country in the world as the best model. i think is in the best intest o government to make instments in things, such as ooad stem, our real y system, nd including our ene system. not to o assets -- i thinis tter not to own the assets, but to reassure lcost ergy to make our econo more effective. i think tt is a legitimate role of government. but i do believe that thas a strategy board, thereught to ba lot of leeway in improvements for the economy.

the social services. on my shirt it says "no severance tax," because i believe that is a jobs killer. ." >> oh. i na believe va is -- i believe that nava is taking thousands of jobs out of kern county. they pay $20 to $25 per hour. while they are not the dollars per hour, but having experienced that wage, i was able to educate my children, i was able to stay off public assistance, i was able to prepare for my retirement. i feel that every american should be able to be allowed to produce and be self-reliant. so, some of these regulations and that everyone is talking about, i think they need to be tied to unemployment. if the unemployment rate down here is around 5%, we get a little picky about who we hire, what they do, how they do it. if unemployment is up. 18%, we need to back off. first of all, we do not have people doing the jobs that are harming the environment or -- the small business does not have a chance to grow and strive. everyone who is a public servant, i appreciate the job you're doing. but you're not producing. we need some producers. we've got to grow it. we cut to mina. we cut to manufacture it

va. on the republican line, go ahead. caller: it seemed a bit of a circus to me yesterday, really. once the guy was not going to comment on open investigation matters, you know, they had five good points that they had to say to bp. he was just not going to comment on >> he can mosh pit -- you can watch washington journal any time. we are taking live to join dr. rajiv shah. will be talking about reconstruction efforts six months after the earthquake in haiti. we join us live on c-span. >> we've committed $1.5 billion at a donors' conference in april. of this funding, usaid contributions entitle -- in, and $5 million. conditions in haiti remain dire as the six-month anniversary of the earthquake approaches. dr. rajiv shah is managing aid and development programs and more than 100 other countries. shah has says the goal of usaid is to create communities where it is no longer needed. before leaving usaid, dr. rajiv shah served as the chief scientist for the department of agriculture. it he established in international financing program for childhood immunizations. he served as health c

the state. there's been some friction jobs going on. we that is beautiful va hospital out here. -- there are some construction jobs going on. we have this beautiful be a hospital out there. and we have new air-traffic control towers in two locations. that is what we're talking about. the problem is with education. it is really too bad that we have not been able to do more. but we have done, from washington and carson city, $300 million of the economic recovery package that directly went to education. [applause] that bill also reduce taxes for 95% of people in america. [applause] small businesses we helped. home buyers -- we have done some things for home buyers. i heard our attorney general talking about mortgage fraud. the reason that the u.s. attorney here in guided almost 200 people, because they were cheating people. in nevada regarding their homes, and that is because of federal law was passed. when one person called me to talk about the problems that the city center, i thought i should do something. i call the number of banks. i called the miracle way wh

relations order in place, and what type of benefit the election did he make with spousal consent on his termination of employment. host: arlington, va on. caller: how do pensions relates to interest earned on them? what about the federal or state law that requires taxpayers to receive benefits of -- on interest earned on even pension accounts like a comprehensive financial report of the united states or individual states? they have the interest earned but they do not reported. it. you have this corruption within the legislative body and the whole government structure as to whether they are making money, private money with public funds and not really using the interest and taxing taxpayers beyond law apparethe law. what is going on there. guest: i don't know which state you are talking about. these laws don't apply at the state level. the states are under what ever constitution in their state general law requires. however, there is a movement with respect to pension governance reform. the first component of this reform is the duty of loyalty, that the trustees and managers of these funds should have a duty of loyalty first and foremo

the democratic line. are you there? we are going to move on. bristow, va. go ahead. caller: good morning to both of you. my question for mr. wilson, on what to -- i want to harp on what the other person was saying. and i know that the chinese are starting a compromise over there -- copper mine over there. american companies should be the one over there. we should be mining. the other country with lithium is bolivia. american companies should be extracting any resources that are there, not the chinese. they should not be there. they did not want to help us. they should not benefit from the resources. thank you. guest: what we have is a sovereign country. we are working with afghanistan, particularly with this startling and positive discovery of their resources. we are helping them establish a mining department so that they can properly set up local companies or international companies to bid and provide royalties to the people of the afghanistan. we have been accused of liberating kuwait to steal their oil, iraq to steal their oil. this is not true. it will not be true in afghanistan. we are working to cr

the opium out? what are we doing there? we started thetalibangrid isra started hamas. host: let's go to front royal, va on our rrpublicaline. caller: first ofall, i love george bush and i pay all the criticism of him. i hope the school is doing well and i hope the library in dallas is doing well and i hope he is happy ere. to the issues -- first of all, he had surveillance. our country was safe when they put in surveillance of all the wire tapping and so rth which got so mh criticism. got so mh criticism. all that time, they were able to do tteir damage. by the same token, i wish that george had jumped right in in iraq right fr the beginni. every day they waited and allowed for all these people to investigate ando all that stuff, ,ñsekr&oge0s knew, dd o it because i knew their work nuclear-weapons there and i am most peop feel there were even though they have not found on, that doesl ss not mean theyr not ther host: any response to her commts? guest: the george bush school here at texas a and m is named after george h. w. bush, the 41st president a his library is here at texas a&m. the 43rd president

the explosion? were short cuts implemented that could have prevented what happened? host: va, william. caller: good morning, senator dorgan. guest: good morning. caller: ok, i just wanted to make some statements, due to the big gusher that we got instead of the little spill -- and it is a shame we can put a man into outer space, have a space station in outer space but we cannot plug in the gusher. but as far as the blame is concerned, you go back during the time in 1961, george halliburton started giving government contracts. north dakota cap on getting his contract and he changed his name to just halliburton co.. i think caliber and should be blamed in this also because their job was to views he meant to keep contaminants out of these wells. but halliburton made dick cheney ceo in 1966 and did cheney, just like i say, he has been all the way through from the 1960's up until now, and he had a lot of closed door discussions with the big gas and oil companies. i'd still feel that some of the politicians are in the bed of these big oil companies and gas companies and a stop needs to be put

she came to the united states in 2000 we don't know necsarily how she got intthe ines whether it was some type of va, tourist orhat it might have been, but she stayed. and alonabout the year 202, she became the focus of the immigration law enforcement personnel. by 2004, she had -- his aunt had been adjudicated fo deportation by an imgration judge. well, she defied the deimportanttion order, stayed in the united states reportedly on publ benefits and don't ow h she did that that's what thne has reported. but not at long ago, after her nephew becameresident, she received asylum. now, asylum in this case, is the equivalent of amnesty for an individual, mr. speaker. so zatuni, president obama's aunt, if sheonored the deportation order, stuckund here and couldn't be deported and was not forcibly taken out ofhe united stes, she defied the orr and rerded with the objtive of her crime. remember when i said the deinition of amnesty is to pardon imgracious law brkers and reward them. coming into e united stes illegally. she may have overstayed her vi but if her objective was to be able to stay in the united

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the clare boothe luce organization is a self-described conservative group that matures and trains women for leadership programs. -- that mentors and tradeswoman for leadership programs. >> hello, i am from mclean, va., and 2010 summer intern. i next speaker as former senator and governor of virginia george allen. he has served the commonwealth of virginia over 20 years. these years of public service are marked by the distinctive dedication to the common-sense conservative values of personal liberty, educational excellence, economic up kennedy, and freedom. freedom. he describes himself as a common sense conservative and that h under his leadership from 1994 to 2000, introduced fund the reform of state program, particularly welfare, the criminal justice system, and the education system. personal accountability, fiscal restraint and common sense standards of excellence. three these brilliant achievements of mr. allen have a will to virginia to the forefront of the nation in terms of economic development. he continues to promote public policy and making virginia and america a leader in innovation and technology. governor allen as president of george rollin llc whose mission is to advocate positive id

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