this tribute includes remarks by bill clinton, vice president joe biden, former senators tom daschle, bill frist, trent lott, and others. following a video tribute of their service and contribution, both bob dole and howard baker shared brief remarks. >> please rise for the playing of our national anthem. ♪ ♪ >> ladies and gentleman, former senate majority leaders howard baker and bob dole. [applause] ♪ ♪ >> please welcome former senate majority leader and bipartisan policy center founder tom daschle. [applause] >> trent lott and bill frist along with the president of the bipartisan policy center. it is my pleasure to welcome each of you here tonight. tonight, we are here to honor two distinct and different republicans. no, i am not talking about mitt romney, i am talking about two great men. in every sense of the word. howard baker, the senator from kansas -- howard baker and the senator from kansas he did not marry, bob dole. [applause] it is a real tribute to both of them that this amazing crowd is gathered in this extraordinary venue tonight. it is exciting for me when i can speak

he was ejected despite 20 points and 11 dishes, but the celtics tom daschle celtic -- caused himself chance to play in the next game as the hawks win >> san antonio and lakers, other winners. >> >> orioles right now are holt. >> first place. >> but they are in new -- . >>> still ahead, on that note, "eyewitness news," check out this -- taking you inside of a wedding that has all of the dogs barking. ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, s #-s >>> some dogs bark i do, a k9 wedding ceremony. crowds gathered to watch this peruv iran hairless dogs. ceremony made legal when the k9 couple put their paw prints on the matrimonial documents. afterwards, they drove off in true wedded bliss. what a party. >> >> check it out. this is is a baby panda learning survival skills from humans that look a lot like he does. these are people. helping take care of the pandas. workers are dressing up like pandas to assist the baby ones when they need it. the china center gradually release hundreds of captive at bank of america, we're lending and investing in the people and communities who call baltimore home. from funding to h

trade and investment policy chaired by tom daschle and andy card and started with the evidence that the u.s. has been an export underperformer and talked about how to improve things on that front. i'm delighted to be moderating this panel. we have a superb set of panelists with us to take us through the issues. on my right, samuel allen, the chief executive of john deere. his full bio is in your material. to his right, hall sirkin, managing director of the boston group and then to the far right, dave thompson, chief executive of orbital sciences. i'm just going to give a little bit of introduction. the title of our session is "competing around the world." i would suggest this is a particularly fluid time to be trying to address this question. just to sort of frame it, on the positive side some of might have seen a recent article in "american interest." it makes the argument the u.s. is poised to become an export powerhouse, notes since the end of the recession exports have accounted for fully half of total u.s. economic growth. so the rather weak recovery that we've had would is been po

tom daschle said you cannot professionalize if you don't federalize. people were scared. screen years obeyed -- obeid all faa rules the unlocked cockpit doors was legal but they were minimum-wage in private profit seeking contractors people thought that was the rest. now we have the tsa. how was that working? [laughter] i did not understand the extent damage more do they spend? ten times as much and private counterparts. and allot to save your city once to opt out to that most of the world uses with private contractors competing, which is better and you can fire them, and you can add couple places have. san francisco and kansas city. people say the screeners are nicer. line moves more quickly. tsa undercover studies find they are much likely to catch contraband in san francisco. in its private contractor who half's to work hard to keep the job. they run contest the best screener can win $2,000. pad the bag the most quickly? to keep the airport's happy, -- shift the screeners around so the line keeps moving. the other airports want them but did tsa a ignores the request fo

trade and investment policy which was chaired by tom daschle and andy card and started from the evidence that the u.s. has been an export underperformer and talked a lot about how to improve things. i'm delighted to be moderating this panel. we have a particularly superb set to take us through. this on my right samuel allen t chief executive of john deere, his full bio is in your material. i'll do brief introductions. to his right is hal sirkin, the senior partner and managing director of the boston consulting group, doing a lot of work on the manufacturing sector. and then to the far right, david thompson, chief executive of orbital sciences who was introduced by chairman hawkberg at the previous speech. i'll give introduction. the title of our session is competing around the world. and it will focus largely on how the united states and u.s. companies are doing in the competition for international markets. and i would suggest this is a particularly fluid time to be trying to address this question. just to sort of frame it on the positive side, some of you might have seen the article in

then in 1979 senator tom daschle, the democratic leader of the senate, i was having a casual conversation with him about the history of his office, history of leadership in the senate. he said, i didn't know a lot of that, and i bet my colleagues would be impressed at hearing some of this in the democratic caucus, so let's just try it out for a couple weeks, having no idea what i might do to embarrass myself and everyone else, he invited me in. so, for the next 12 1/2 years thanks to senator daschle and then senator harry reid i gave these minutes. and originally they were also a couple hundred words, and it's not enough to get the real meat of the story out, to get people's attention. you can't imagine the harder audience than a room full of united states senators who have 15 things on their minds and so forth. so, over the years i made them longer in the tradition of the senate. you need a few more words there up to about 450 words, and i think i can just about tell a story in 450 words. so, over the last 12 years, i've written myself, no one else has done them. i was the guy that was g

as a coleader of the bpc health project with senator tom daschle, we strive to fulfill that principle what senator baker and senator dole were hoping to achieve when they first envisioned this organization of the bpc. i'm here tonight with my good friend mitch mcconnell. first, to tell you my howard baker story. it was 1993. the place, below the tendency. a cold, wintry night. i drove from four hours from nashville to huntsville, his beloved home. the purpose was to seek advice. the doctor, to seek advice from the dean of public service in tennessee. senator baker, i am considering one running for the senate. senator baker, you're not a politician. senator baker, i have to be honest, i have never put out very many yard signs. senator baker, you have not paid your political d. was? along the four hour drive over. senator vitter, i have never run for political office. senator, you are a doctor with no political experience. as i understand, and i really just want to ask you your device, senator baker, no, bill frist, come back here. you are going to run for the united states senate. and

. >> tom daschle said you can't professionalize if you don't federalize and the senate voted 100 to zerotake over airport security screening. >> sir, do you have your i.d.? >> it it now professional? >> opt out! >> these people don't think so. flyers complain that they are. >> subjected to such disgusting abuses of poured concrete. >>> tsa employees ordered the elderly woman remove her soiled adult diaper because it was preventing a thorough patdown. >> this former miss america says she felt molest. >> she actually touched my vagina. >> but didn't the tsa keep us safe? >> there haven't been successful attacks since september 11th. you might say that shows it is working. >> actually, every report shows that tsa missed things. what saved us was the passengers and crew. >> congressman mica helped create the tsa and now chairs the transportation committee. >> richard reid. it wasn't the tsa that saved the day. the diaper bomber it was the passengers and crew that saved the day. the times square bomber he called on his cell phone and order his ticket on the way to jfk and went through tsa and

. >> tom daschle said you can't professionalize if you don't federalize and the senate voted 100 to zerotake over airport security screening. >> sir, do you have your i.d.? >> it it now professional? >> opt out! >> these people don't think so. flyers complain that they are. >> subjected to such disgusting abuses of poured concrete. >>> tsa employees ordered the elderly woman remove her soiled adult diaper because it was preventing a thorough patdown. >> this former miss america says she felt molest. >> she actually touched my vagina. >> but didn't the tsa keep us safe? >> there haven't been successful attacks since september 11th. you might say that shows it is working. >> actually, every report shows that tsa missed things. what saved us was the passengers and crew. >> congressman mica helped create the tsa and now chairs the transportation committee. >> richard reid. it wasn't the tsa that saved the day. the diaper bomber it was the passengers and crew that saved the day. the times square bomber he called on his cell phone and order his ticket on the way to jfk and went through tsa and

>> tom daschle defeated in that election. hurt rick santorum when he was running for re-election. >> i own a home and i have always owned a home. >> since you have owned your home at 111 stevens lane, how many nights have you personally spent there? >> i can't tell you how many nights i spent there. >> i mean a handful? >> i probably spend maybe a month a year, something like that. >> in that house? >> yeah, probably. >> a final note here, the u.s. chamber of commerce is the latest group to stark a claim in this race. lugar appears to have the inside track on holding his seat if he gets past the primary. but if he gets out of next month's primary, he might have a tough battle waiting for him in the fall. joining me now, we start doing these throughout the year, a meet the candidate of sorts. a democratic senator joe o'donnell, are you rooting for richard murdock to win the primary? >> i really don't have any preference at all. because our focus is on jobs and on working families and their focus has been on who's the most idea

. >> tom daschle said you can't professionalize if you don't federalize and the senate voted 100 to zerover airport security screening. >> sir, do you have your i.d.? >> it it now professional? >> opt out! >> these people don't think so. flyers complain that they are. >> subjected to such disgusting abuses of poured concrete. >>> tsa employees ordered the elderly woman remove her soiled adult diaper because it was preventing a thorough patdown. >> this former miss america says she felt molest. >> she actually touched my vagina. >> but didn't the tsa keep us safe? >> there haven't been successful attacks since september 11th. you might say that shows it is working. >> actually, every report shows that tsa missed things. what saved us was the passengers and crew. >> congressman mica helped create the tsa and now chairs the transportation committee. >> richard reid. it wasn't the tsa that saved the day. the diaper bomber it was the passengers and crew that saved the day. the times square bomber he called on his cell phone and order his ticket on the way to jfk and went through tsa and got o

. >> tom daschle said you can't professionalize if you don't federalize and the senate voted 100 to zerorport security screening. >> sir, do you have your i.d.? >> it it now professional? >> opt out! >> these people don't think so. flyers complain that they are. >> subjected to such disgusting abuses of poured concrete. >>> tsa employees ordered the elderly woman remove her soiled adult diaper because it was preventing a thorough patdown. >> this former miss america says she felt molest. >> she actually touched my vagina. >> but didn't the tsa keep us safe? >> there haven't been successful attacks since september 11th. you might say that shows it is working. >> actually, every report shows that tsa missed things. what saved us was the passengers and crew. >> congressman mica helped create the tsa and now chairs the transportation committee. >> richard reid. it wasn't the tsa that saved the day. the diaper bomber it was the passengers and crew that saved the day. the times square bomber he called on his cell phone and order his ticket on the way to jfk and went through tsa and got on the

. >> tom daschle said you can't professionalize if you don't federalize and the senate voted 100 to zerover airport security screening. >> sir, do you have your i.d.? >> it it now professional? >> opt out! >> these people don't think so. flyers complain that they are. >> subjected to such disgusting abuses of poured concrete. >>> tsa employees ordered the elderly woman remove her soiled adult diaper because it was preventing a thorough patdown. >> this former miss america says she felt molest. >> she actually touched my vagina. >> but didn't the tsa keep us safe? >> there haven't been successful attacks since september 11th. you might say that shows it is working. >> actually, every report shows that tsa missed things. what saved us was the passengers and crew. >> congressman mica helped create the tsa and now chairs the transportation committee. >> richard reid. it wasn't the tsa that saved the day. the diaper bomber it was the passengers and crew that saved the day. the times square bomber he called on his cell phone and order his ticket on the way to jfk and went through tsa and got o

. >> tom daschle said you can't professionalize if you don't federalize and the senate voted 100 to zerover airport security screening. >> sir, do you have your i.d.? >> it it now professional? >> opt out! >> these people don't think so. flyers complain that they are. >> subjected to such disgusting abuses of poured concrete. >>> tsa employees ordered the elderly woman remove her soiled adult diaper because it was preventing a thorough patdown. >> this former miss america says she felt molest. >> she actually touched my vagina. >> but didn't the tsa keep us safe? >> there haven't been successful attacks since september 11th. you might say that shows it is working. >> actually, every report shows that tsa missed things. what saved us was the passengers and crew. >> congressman mica helped create the tsa and now chairs the transportation committee. >> richard reid. it wasn't the tsa that saved the day. the diaper bomber it was the passengers and crew that saved the day. the times square bomber he called on his cell phone and order his ticket on the way to jfk and went through tsa and got o

tom daschle said you can't professionalize, federalize. it was instinctive. people were scared. the screeners had let these people go through. in fact, they had obeyed all the faa rules, the small minds they brought on in the box cutters were legal, the unlocked cockpit doors, that was all legal. but nevertheless, they were minimum-wage workers often, and tried contractor. now we get the tsa. and how is that working out for us? so, you know, your experience with it. i didn't realize the extent of it. it goes well beyond that. how much more do they spend than the private screeners? not twice as much. 10 times as much. and in the law they put in a part that says, if your city wants to opt out and go back to the system that europe uses and most of the world uses, which is private contractors competing under government supervision, which, of course, is better because they have to compete and you can fire them if they're bad. you can't buy the government. it creates some flex builder if you want to do that is ask tsa if you can do a couple places have, kansas city, the largest a san

we were all scared after september 11th, people said we got to have government take this over, tom daschlen't professionalize if you don't federalize and the senate voted 100-zero to create the sasa, so now they spend ten times what the previous screeners spent. are they better? you've heard the complaints. but what moved me was seeing the one big city where they allow them to still have private screeners to opt out of the tsa. and they do better. we interviewed people who say gee, lines are moving quickly and these screener, they're nice, and the tsa tested them and found they're more likely to find contraband. they do it better because they have contests, where a screener can win $2000 if he's better at finding things and repacking luggage well. the private contractor knows he'll make more money if his people do a good job, they'll be fired if they don't. he tries harder. government outlaws that. jon: and again you examined what happened after the big financial crash in 2008. we got dodd-frank as a result of that. that was the bill that was going to make sure it never happened again, rig

was recently the prompt director -- project director of the cfr independent task force chaired by tom daschle andy card and really started from the evidence that the u.s. has been an export underperformer and talked a lot about how to improve things on that front. i'm delighted to be moderating this panel. we have a particularly superb set of panelists to take us through these issues. on my immediate right, samuel allen, who's the chief executive of john deere. his full bio is in your material, i'll do brief introductions. to his right, hal circumstancen who is the senior partner and managing director of the boston consulting group, and then to the far right david thompson, chief executive of orbital sciences who was wonderfully introduced by chairman hochberg to start the previous speech. so i'm just going to give a little introduction. the title of our session is "competing around the world," and it will focus largely on how the united states and u.s. companies are doing in the competition for international markets. and i would suggest this is a particularly fluid time to be trying to addre

then came -- have you guys ever heard of tom-shall -- daschle? then came this role in the senate and filibuster, which is where his name comes in. in order to get it in place -- he had no choice but to -- now we are where we are. we have a cliff coming at the end of the year. what we are saying is that actually provides a great opportunity. the code is effectively blowing up so let's reform it. let's take a page from steve forbes's playbook and go back to a better system -- lower the rates and broaden the base. guess what? there are a lot of democrats who agree with us. i served on the fiscal commission with erskine bowles and alan simpson and i have tremendous respect for the gentleman. a lot of german who agree with this idea -- take away the tax shelters, limit the loopholes and lower tax rates for all so we can help those small businesses succeed and compete in the global economy. we proposed specifically a 10% bracket -- bringing the corporate rate down to 25% and get rid of the clumsy, outdated anti internationally competitive tax system it

have you ever heard of tom daschle? then came the filibuster.03 law was to speed it up to get out of the slow growth recession we had a time, he had no choice but to accept a time limit because the senate refused to go along with making these things permanent. so we are where we are. we have a cliff coming at the end of the year. it provides a great opportunity. take a page out of steve forbes's playbook and go back with a common, simple system -- a lower the rates, broaden the base. guess what? there are democrats who agree with us. there are a lot of democrats who agree with this idea, take away tax shelters, limit loopholes, lower everyone's tax rates so we can be entrepreneurs and help those small businesses succeed in the global economy. we proposed a 10% bracket and 25% bracket and bring the corporate rate down to 25%. get rid of this clumsy, outdated, anti system and go to a territorial system. that's simply a system to make sure we don't keep pushing capital away from america and we make america the place you want to keep your capital. m

tom daschle said you can't professionalize if you don't federalize.rking out for them? >> of course, representative john michael also brought up who was in control of the t.s.a. and it passed the senate 100-0, he brought up the fact that it's not even working. >> we go to san francisco where one big city where they've opted out of using t.s.a. screeners and passengers tell us, hey, these people are friendly. and the lines move quickly and the t.s.a.'s own tests say they're more likely to find contraband so these screeners are friendlier and better at their job because they're working for a private contractor. and they know if they don't do a good job they can be fired. if they do a good job. they can make money, that's how israel and europe do it. in the united states, we turn it over to the federal government and then worse, put in his bill, cities get to opt out if they want to. but the t.s.a. ignores the city's request. a bunch have asked to. they ignored it for a year and they finally say, we don't think this is useful for the federal government.

health project with senator tom daschle, we strive, we work hard to fulfill that principle, to fulfill that example of what senator baker and senator dole were hoping to achieve when setting up -- when they first envisioned this organization of the b.p.c.. first i want to tell you my howard baker story. the year's 1993. the place, the beloved tennessee. cold wintery night. i've driven four hours from nashville to huntsville. , his beloved home. a doctor to seek advice from the dean of public service in tennessee. senator baker, i'm considering running for the united states senate and i'm a doctor. senator baker, you're not a politician? senator baker, i have to be honest, i've never really put out very many yard signs. senator baker, you've not paid your political dues? i was shrinking each time. senator baker, i never run for political office. i clearly never served in political office. senator baker, you're a doctor with no political experience? senator baker, i understand and i really just wanted to come over and ask your advice. i understand. i'll come back in four years. i'll earn