people art chanting the slogan, down with the uk. death to the uk. i tell these brothers of hours to think of their responsibility. they are responsible to god. that will be asked here after about their performance. i asked them to remember what imam has recommended in his will. the lot is the source of reference for everyone. what is an election held for? what is the reason for holding an election? all the differences should be settled at the ballot boxes. that is what the elections are for. ballot boxes determine what people want and what they do not want, not on the streets. if after every election those who have lost votes, if they take to the streets, take their supporters to the streets and protest, and those who have secured the votes, if they also have their supporters on the streets, what on earth hold elections, then? people are having their business in the street. they live there. we should not go to the streets and show off our supporters to people. for a terrorist agents, an insider who is going to deal a terrorist blow, that is not a po

the zionists radio and also some media in the uk and the u.s. they have been trying to say otherwise that this has been a competition from inside and outside the establishment. no, it's not true. it's a competition within this establishment. i know them very closely. i know them all. i know their thinking, their tastes very well. i'm familiar with their personal trait. i work with all of them closely. i know them well. of course, i do not approve of all their viewpoints. not all of their viewpoints do i approve of. some of their attitudes and approaches could be criticized without a doubt. most of them i consider more appropriate to serve the nation as officials, but it has been up on up to the people to decide and that's what happened. the people have picked who they wanted. my will was never told to the public. what i wanted was never publicized and people did not have to listen to. people have their own criteria and access based on those millions here, millions outside the country. they decided for themselves. therefore, this is something tha

and when we look at statistics of countries where you routinely get put on a waiting list like the ukand others, and in particular, in the treatment of breast cancer, in our country, where you don't get put on a waiting list when you have breast cancer, you get operated on quickly the five-year overall survival right for breast cancer is 98%. but in the uk system, where you frequently get put on a waiting list, a five-year survival rate for breast cancer is 78%. that's a significant change. as you described to us, that -- that 2 sent meter mass grew to 7 centimeters and low and be hold you had to have your lymph nodes removed and i guess some of those were positive by the time you got operated on. is that the case? >> yes. >> well, let me oh we that information, let me just ask you this question. and it relates to you in particular. but it relates to everybody in general. and i'd appreciate your thoughts on ways that you think that we can strengthen the private market so that other people, anyone with chronic illness can find affordable health insurance or do you think we should turn

through 2013 but the reason 2005 is important that was imports and of the glen eagle summit in the ukwhich the gh made a commitment to sustained increase contribution to polio eradication until the job was finished. as you can see the proportion they made that commitment as a proportion of the contribution to the program they went from a peak of 62% with the overall funding at 43% and down 20% what is confirmed in the current period for the program you just not have to have only a very, very aggressive advocacy agenda to maintain funding streams but also other funding streams for problems like the. >> a seventh lesson is protect your gains progress we move forward in international public health we move on to the next thing and taking our attention away from our success is only to see them dwindle again and perhaps the most striking example in polio eradication is that we have not been able to protect polio free areas because of chronic gaps of routine immunization the service is. you can see the spread internationally a poliovirus from indiana and nigeria of the last five years, this

there were the publisher of harry potter in the uk so they took that opportunity and established a foothold here. 10 years ago in a small way now it has grown considerably and now george can talk about how my house expanded and those 10 years and now the divisions it encompasses. >>host: also the publisher from bloomsbury oppress what is the difference between bloomsbury press and it bloomsbury usa? >> the press is devoted entirely to nonfiction. history, politics, biography, current events in economics and science it is much less general and focused. what do have coming out this fall? >> and this one called half moon the henry hudson and the 400th anniversary of his discovery of the river that bears his name of new york harbor that was an adventure that really changed the course of history in north america that had a very daring voyage the first being he was supposed to go completely in the other direction he was commissioned to sale to china over the northern coast of russia and took a left turn and came to america instead which led him to his discoveries here and exploration of the river

economics at gatwick are not as good as heathrow and the majority of people who fly to and from the uk, the business community in particular insist on flying out of heathrow. if you fly on virgin atlantic, we have our own drive-through check in service and we can get you into our lounge in about four minutes from the time our limousine drops you off at heathrow. and so if you haven't flown virgin atlantic, give us a try and hopefully we'll win you over to heath row. thank you. >> of all the countries where virgin does air transport, which country has the most restrictive laws and regulations?. >> airline industry is a strange industry in that there are still restrictions in -- on a global basis and we have urged for years that why should the airline industry be any different from any other industry? but america has a lot of rerestrictions but in fairness, most countries around the world have a lot of restrictions when it comes to the airline industry. >> you mentioned some of your innovative ideas like the seat back movies and all those sort of things. who thinks these things up? are t

we knew we could not pass again a uk way and nor did we want to go that way, but we wanted to pass something to protect seniors who were terrified that if they went into a hospital they would go bankrupt. so we passed medicare and we also passed medicaid to be a safety net for people who could not afford private insurance. the same argument we're hearing against medicare are the same arguments we are hearing now. the same arguments against medicare are the same arguments we are hearing now. government-controlled, centralized bureaucracy, ho, hum, hum, ho. we've heard that before and yet you try to cancel medicare. and also in came private insurance with med igap. well, we all know what happened in the '90s. it didn't turn out too well, but now we have a chance in the 21st century. so we have tried at every time to come up with new ideas. they have served the public well. they often require requirements and refinements and this is the time now where we close the gap and we build on what we know we can do. public and private options, a public option that holds the private options couldable so

how the uk for that? -- how do you pay for that? give me an example of a pay for that is $120 billion a year. >> congressman barton, the president has proposed about $660 billion in savings from the current medicare and medicaid program. this is an addition to proposing revenue enhancers' -- >> that is over a 10-year period. >> yes sir and i think your estimate is -- >> per year. >> i do not know the numbers accurately. i assume that your 20 million is within the ballpark. i just can tell you that whenever proposal comes forward, the president has insisted that it still will be paid for. >> you are a former governor. is that not correct? >> yes, sir. >> kansas? >> kansas. >> governor of kansas. this kansas have a but we have a state budget requirement? >> yes. >> when you are the government of kansas, by law, you had to submit pay-fors when you did a budget that had money. >> we spend money within the revenues we had. >> yes. my numbers may not be the number, but they are definitely in the ballpark. if i give the president the benef

one of the first things that they did was to call some anti piracy center in the uk when they were being attacked. on this question, you thought about history quite a bit. what are your thoughts on this question. >> we have tried to have as many ad hoc relationships as we can. some our relationships with our closest partners those relationships have been in place since before world war ii. we have used those relationships to expand sharing crown cyber stuff and iran incident response. we have succeeded in some of the cyber emergencies in putting together ad hoc coalitions. that is part of what dod does. it tried to get something done around the cyber a emergencies and other parts of the world. there are not social norms yet. we need better notions of where the boundaries are. we need to figure some of those out with our partners so that it is not all ad hoc. >> one quick point. this is another area where we need to go further, stronger, faster. this is an inherently international problem. no one government could solve this. acknowledging that we have a lot further to go, let's not preten

it is more than the combined gdp of could japan -- of japan, germany, and the uk. we are not talking small potatoes, paul, and you are absolutely right that we need to take our time. hopefully we will be able to do that and having measured bill, something that can work. there are a number of ways that i think the never -- the republican party believes we need to go in that direction. those who have health care from their employer, they get a very nice tax exclusion. in many cases it includes a prescription drug benefit. but as somebody -- but if somebody is not working for a large employer, or if they are out of work, they have to go to the individual market, pay higher rates because they do not have the dilution effect, and they get no tax break. that is not fair. so they clearly -- so we clearly need to equalize that. there are so many things that we do not have time in the show to talk about because we, too -- we are not the party that -- we clearly understand that our system should be better, could be better. it is the greatest system in the world. most people

. >> you aren't getting close to that uk medical health care plan. >> i am trying to find out how they- >> actually, you know what? senator coburn, i actually spoke to sir michael rolings who does run n.i.c.e. and about what worked, what didn't work, what they might rethink and what they are very proud of. i would be interested if you do raise that with your visiting guest. what they think of n.i.c.e. from his -- >> senator, may i just say one thing. i was a very close friend of a member of parliament. used to come visit all the time. and he went in and under their program of n.i.c.e., which is what i guess the acronym is. he had a broken wrist. he doesn't have a broken wrist. he had cancer throughout his body. and he died in two weeks. i don't know the exact details of that, but that's the classic case of what i think we're talking about. >> i have no idea what you just said. i mean, anybody could go to see someone and be dead in two weeks and would have nothing to do with -- >> no, no. he had the diagnosis, but he was on a waiting list for treatment, suffered a broken wrist. went in

the conflict has led to the deaths of 1079 uk service personnel and 150,000 iraqi civilians. their loved ones want to know the cause of this war and why their loved ones failed. if every evidence session is held in private, that may not be possible, so will the prime minister think again about holding a secret inquiry? is the wrong thing to do. >> mr. speaker, i disagree. the inquiry has to take into account the issue of our national security, as to look at the issues that reflect on the capability and a plan of our troops, in a way it may not be best made public. it also has to get people to talk frankly about what they believe are the lessons to be learned from this inquiry, surrounded by lawyers and everyone else in a public arena is more difficult, i think you have to acknowledge. i believe this inquiry will be thorough and independent and i believe the results will be reported to this house. i think it's quite extraordinary that for weeks and months people have been calling for a francs style inquiry and now they have a franks style inquiry, they are trying to oppose it

but speaking of mandela, and london and the uk, you have done all these international campaigns. james has done an. identity we have all worked together. he spoke to the universality of mandela hearing the focus groups and being responsive to those. for the universality of the fight, whenever we talk to anybody about doing international campaigns they are, not lost in a positive way, they are just dumbfounded. how do you do that? have you go to place we don't understand the language but there is later universality as going back to cicero that only 24 hours in a day, there is only one way to tell a story you're talking about the universal elements of campaign and then we will talk about the impediments, the cultural impediments that i'm sure cause. >> there's lots of impediments. you know, not having the first language, you have translation and things like that. so you always have local partners who are native. you are always working with research organizations that are from the country. so there's always a collaboration. it's never americans coming in and displacing what's happen

would be a very significant move forward in terms of transparency, accountability, the evidence in the uk shows that it has had a positive impact. and in terms of the independence of compensation committees, i would just say briefly we start with the same premise as chairman frank, that independence in name does not mean independence in fact. but we do believe that if you gave a comp committee the funding and authority to be the sole hirer's other compensation consultant and the council, and that you have the sec go forward to ensure a reduction or elimination of conflicts of interest for compensation consultants, it is our hope that we would at least make progress and move the ball forward. thank you very much. >> thank you. mr. alvarez. >> thank you, chairman frank. other members of the committee for the opportunity to offer the federal reserve's perspective in the financial services industry. compensation practices of financial firms and other business organizations can have a significant effect on the safety and soundness of banking organizations and on financial stability. compensati

let's face it uks it's already hard enough for an individual or small business owner to find health insurance. in my state of illinois, there is no requirement that insurers take all-comers. i've heard from constituents over and over again who are unable to find a policy really at any price. those who do get through the insurance industry gauntlet know they're not home free. they know they may face high out-of-pocket costs, and doctor prescribed treatments, prior approval requirements, caps on services, and other devices that are designed to limit the insurance company payments. but few, no. when they need care, the insurance company has been collecting their -- that has been collecting their premiums may now go back and comb through their personal history in order to find an excuse not to pay, just when the policyholder needs the coverage the most. there are some who argue that recisions are used to stop fraud on the part of enrollees who misrepresent their health histories in order to obtain coverage. one has to wonder why we would put up with a health care system when people have to hide t

we've got firsthand experience in the uk where the passenger duty paid by each passenger was initially introduced as an environmental tax allowing aviation to cover its extra costs. since then, it has morphed into a revenue raising mechanism for government and the passenger got the passenger contradictions have doubled or tripled in the face of a couple of years, with none of the proceeds for environmental projects. cap and trade schemes are at least link to the environment performance of the carrier and incentivize low carbon behavior. aviation is a carbon of the industry that currently relies totally on fossil fuel derived kerosene to get our planes off the ground. just 18 months ago people did not think that there were any alternatives to using fossil fuel derived kerosene to get planes off the ground. it was only with virgin atlantic's announcement we're going to be the first airline with our partner, boeing, to use biofuel kerosene blended to fly a commercial jet aircraft which at the time greeted by enormous skepticism. but we did. and in february 2008 and since then sustainable

recently, as i believe you know, s&p downgraded uk's debt on may 21st from stable to negative. so, what's going to going to ha u.s. loses its aaa rating or what happens if we have a 60% tax increase over the next ten years to deal with this massive infusion of debt? >> at some point, you have to have a path of spending and taxes that will give you a stabilization of the debt to gdp ratio. if you don't, then fear that the debt will continue to rise will make it very difficult to finance it. and at some point you'll hit a point where you'll have to have both very draconian cuts and very large tax increases, which is not something we want. so in order to avoid that outcome down the road, we need to begin now to plan how we're going to get the fiscal situation into a better balance in medium term. >> thank you. >> mr. scott from virginia? >> thank you, mr. chairman. we just -- the gentleman from texas just showed a chart that showed how bad things have gotten since 2000 and what he didn't show -- show the first chart -- is how we got there. this chart shows that when the clinton ad

inappropriate strategies to resolve but, i'm instructed to look at the example of royal bank of scotland, uk replacing our management. the bankers maintain operations without significant instructions i would not want to discard this option prematurely, that is a quote. german bernanke, ken lewis came to you with a store the fed didn't believe. you were getting information from your staff and pierced considerable concessions should be required at bank of america because of concern of the quality of top management, and yet you decide to give the eight away without any meaningful changes to bank of america's corporate management or compensation policies. how do you explain that, chairman? >> congressman, the process isn't a one time thing, it's an ongoing process and in the ongoing supervisory process we have made demand of the bank of america in terms of their -- >> so you give the money first and then start supervising? >> well, we have the ability to insist on these changes at any point. >> thank you mr. chairman. >> thank you. i now yield to the gentleman from indiana, mr. burton. >> is mr.

a book publishing so they were taking that next up, there were the publisher of harry potter in the uk i think they took that opportunity this and establish a foothold here. in a very small way 10 years ago and now it has grown considerably and george tipson who is the publisher can talk about the various how it has expanded in those 10 years and the different divisions that and now encompasses. >> also joining us the publisher from bloomsbury press, what is the difference between bloomsbury press and that bloomsbury press usa. >> bloomsbury press is a small imprint devoted to serious nonfiction. we have history, politics and for events, economic science in the kind of thing. so it is much less general and more focused than the general audience in general interest. >> what you have coming out that you are excited about? >> one book is this one called half moon. henry hudson, the september is the 400th anniversary of hudson's discovery of the river that bears his name and his exploration of new york harbor and that was an adventure that really changed the course of history in north amer

because if they're uke successful at the federal local level that's one less asset that we have to put forward. >> so redistribute, reorganize what we've got? >> yes, senator. the congress has been very gracious with the department of defense and our ability to look at what we capall the ten eerbles that we use in the homeland, those capabilities that we respond to disasters. and we're coming along very well in improving that capability, especially in equiping of those ten eerbles. >> thank you. and mr. fugate, would you comment from your perspective the role of the national guard, and do you find it to be essential? how do you want to position your organization with it? and then if you can do that in one minute or less, or two, and then also comment on this idea that has boon moving around here about a sort of civilian ready reserve that could supplement both fema and the national guard in terms of trained person until that could be called out in the event of a catastrophic disaster which obviously we can't maintain on the call every day but it would be nice to maybe have something li