that almost every middle-class family in india has some relative who is studying in the united states are working in the united states or has had some other kind of experience in the united states. such ties provide the mutual understanding and the ballast that will enable continued progress in the u.s.-india relations. during my recent trip to india with undersecretary burns where we were preparing for the secretary's trip later in july, we heard from indian interlocutors that the sky is the lament to it the u.s. india relationship. and actually with our growing space cooperation we have to extend that particular boundary of cooperation. in this stage is bare for sat and the curtain is rising on a u.s. india 3.0. our governments and our peoples together will help shape the course of the 21st century. so thank you very much again for this kind invitation and i will be happy to take a few questions. [applause] >> we will just abide by the rules, everybody knows what they are. raise your hand, wait for the microphone, identify yourself. what we take some in the back for a change and make sure to ke

challenges of food security, energy security, so there are a range of areas where india and the united states work together. this is also underpinned by a very lively and vibrant relationship at the level of the people. for instance, there are 92,000 indian students in the united states of america today. there are 2.7 million indian americans in the u.s. and it's a community which has become very much more active and confident in recent years. and all this builds the relationship in a very substantive way. it's our effort to try to take this relationship to the next level, building on the gains which were made and on the strong bipartisan support within the united states for building this relationship as well as broad political support in the indian polity for building this relationship. as far as aid to pakistan is concerned, we certainly share the objective of the united states that we should, you know, help to stabilize afghanistan and pakistan and move them in the direction of both stability and modernization so there's a shared objective that we have with the united states. as to how best we

the sense of congress that we should continue working with the states of the former soviet union to see that immigrants from those states now in the united states are paid their government pensions that they earned while working in the former soviet union. the united states has bilateral agreements with many other nations to address cross-country government pension coverage. while these agreements coordinate pensions in different ways, under most circumstances government pensions are treated with reciprocity. in other words, with respect to countries with which we have arrangements, those countries pay the pensions that they earned while working in those countries to citizens of the united states who now live here. and by the same token we pay social security to americans who are now citizens of a foreign country if they earned the social security while working here. we do not have such arrangements with any of the states with russia, ukraine, bell areuss and so forth. millions of people had no choice but to flee the oppressive former soviet union in the 1970's, 1980's and 1990's. several hundred thousands of these people now live in the

their creator, to life, liberty, and the purr cyst happiness, and calls on all people of the united states to work towards eliminating racial prejudices, injustices, and discrimination from our society. and specifically does the apology but deals with nothing else. nothing in this resolution authorizes or supports any claim against the united states or serves aes a settlement of any claim against the united states. to leave that issue aside. i'm very aappreciative that a number of states have led the way on moving forward with the apology. the states of virginia, alabama, florida, maryland, north carolina led in adopting resolutions officially expressing that remorse for slavery and for jim-crow laws. madam president, i look forward to this unanimous consent request. i am glad we're doing it now. we will have recognition of this and a rotunda ceremony. i think that will be important. i hope many members will join us on that. i think it will be an historic point in time. madam president, with that, i would -- we have -- i believe we're ready to call for the passage of the resolution or -- i'd yield

as for the industrial infrastructure, the rapid growth showed that market signals on in the united states work. as more and more show varying levels of commitment to build reactors, support is coming on line. if you build it, they will come. the evidence supports this. we have yet to see a single board decide to build a reactor. some of the obstacles though. well we have seen progress on many fronts, there has -- while we have seen progress on many fronts, no one has made the decision to build a reactor. we have an approved, but untested licensing regime. until the first licence is issued, not many utility boards will commit more than a quarter of the company's value on the project. the one policy that appears to address this issue is the program applicable to new nuclear reactors. progress has been slow since it was enacted four years ago, is not possible to overstate how crucial this -- it is not possible to overstate how crucial this program is for new construction. this program must be expanded and modified, as was done a comprehensive energy legislation that was favorably reported by the

united states border patrolmen and women. and the ranking member, thank you for your support. i think the men and women of the united states border patrol do incredible work. the united states border patrol has rh hist that began on may 28, 1924, when congress passed the bill that established the border patrol. the 450 patrol inspectors were not only charged with preventing the entry of undocumented immigrant into the united states but were also responsible for combating the entry of illicit liquor from canada. the border patrol has evolved to include almost 19,000 agents in 20 sectors and 164 stations around our country. the brave men and women of the border patrol are currently responsible for securing 8,000 miles of our international borders, both with mexico and canada. and the coastal waters around florida and puerto rico. since 9/11, the border patrol has been on the frontlines in our national strategy to detect and apprehend terrorists and their weapons as they attempt to illegally entered intr the united states. before coming to congress, i served for 26 1/2 years in the u.s. border patrol. for half of that time, i was border patrol sector chief,

for the united states congress and the u.s. administration to work together to develop an integrated and effective assistance plan to advance our mutual interest in a democratic, a stable, a prosperous pakistan that is a strong partner in the struggle against extremism and which maintains responsible controls over its nuclear weapons technology. with that, mr. speaker, i reserve the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlelady from florida reserves the balance of her time. the gentleman from california. mr. berman: mr. chairman, i'm very pleased to yield to the chairman of the south asia and middle east subcommittee, the gentleman whom i just traveled to pakistan with, mr. ackerman, three minutes. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from new york is recognized for three minutes. mr. ackerman: i thank the speaker. i rise in strong support of the legislation before us. and i want to thank the chairman for allowing me to work closely on this bill and producing such an excellent piece of legislation. some may be surprised i am in enthus

united states and foreign countries. it is the policy of the united states to work proactively under the united nations framework provision to establish a binding agreements and committing all major greenhouse nations to contribute to the reduction of global greenhouse emissions. this is all pain and no game. then we get to pitch 237. the president shall provide the notification to each foreign country, the products that are not exempted. this is less than a fig leaf. they're trying to pretend that this will satisfy the consultation required by the rules. it will result in retaliation against united states exports less give further down the page. it will take appropriate measures to limit greenhouse gas emissions in those countries. if they are really nice, they do not have to, but if we want to, we can make them about our regulatory scheme. then we get to page 338. the united states negotiating objectives -- [unintelligible] we tell them what their objectives are going to be as they negotiate environmental lean other nations around the world. page two under 39, not later than january 1, 2017, and every two years thereaft

the irony is that after the partition about which the united states supported, the state department led by the president of united states people working this debate -- state department represented as of the administration the state department began a very conscious long-term sustained effort to reverse a decision on partition to overturn tremendous supporter partition and to try to create a new trust the ship for palestine which with the things the way they were when the british had control of palestine. first, a comment on the british. winston churchill, the a great line from world war ii surprisingly, lost the election and in the middle of the conference in july 1945, the labor party won a and created a new government and the new prime minister was going to be ernest bevin. he would turn out to be not only opposed to a jewish state but some say are you personally anti-semitic and hostile one a personal level to a creation of a jewish state in palestine. he would have liked the mandate that britain had to continue possibly with united states replacing the british but with the same policies in tact. this is ironic because labor party

work regularly together. he knows that france is a friend of the united states.e basically coordinate on all major issues and we are determined to continue that. barack, welcome, welcome to your family. >> it's wonderful to be back in france, particularly on this day because this day marks not only the triumph of freedom, but it also marks how the transatlantic alliance has allowed for extraordinary prosperity and security on both sides of the atlantic. the fact that france fully reintegrated into nato this year under president sarkozy's leadership is just one further indication of the degree to which u.s.-french cooperation can help to underpin not only security in europe but also a more secure and prosperous world beyond europe. i very much appreciated president sarkozy's leadership on a whole range of issues. he mentioned a number of them. france's leadership within europe and understanding the need for us to have tough diplomacy with the iranians, to reach out to them but also insist that we couldn't afford a nuclear arms race in the middle east, our close co

industrial infrastructure the rapid growth in nuclear engineers demonstrates market signals in the united states work. as more and more utilities show levels of commitment to build new reactors the required infrastructure is coming online in support. i think the situation is best summarized, if you build it they will come. the evidence already supports this and we have yet to see a single board officially decide to build a new reactor. some of the obstacles, though. while we have seen progress on many fronts, no utility has made an official decision to build a reactor. the nrc is in the midst of reviewing license applications under a approved but untested licensing regime. all the reforms and improvements look great on paper but until the first construction operating license is issued not many utility boards are going to commit up a quarter of an company's value on a single project. the one policy that looks to address this issue with the greatest affect and efficiency is the loan guarantee program applicable to new nuclear reactors. while progress in this program has been slow since it was nooktd al

he's trying to walk a thin line between the coalition at home and to work with the united states to work on the iranian issue. one thing to understand is israel can't take on iran on its own. it can't threaten iraq. so if nuclear prospects in iran are israel's greatest threat, there needs to be cooperation with the united states. that is why today he will try to get with both the officials. heeds telling -- he's telling people at home we can't do everything we want because of the global position. and telling americans, i can't do everything you want me to do because these are the people that voted for me his presidency we have florida on the line. go ahead, please. caller: one of the keys is to create a two-state solution. it seems two problems are inherent with that. one is this the palestinians are extremely divided. you have hamas and gaza. and in the west bank, you have a division between the plo and fascia who are rivalling one anothers. one of the significant challenges is how do the palestinians come together as a unity. the second issue is whenever the palestinians have been offe

work that is required. i mentioned it to her that in the united states we are working diligently to strengthen financial regulations to insure that a crisis like this does not happen again. it will be very important to coordinate between europe and the united states as we move to strengthen our financial regulatory systems. we affirm that we will not engage in protectionism. we have to make sure we will keep our borders open and companies can move back and forth between the united states and european in providing goods and services to our respective countries. i am very pleased to see the resolution of the opel situation here. we are very sympathetic towards each other. it is not easy to help the car companies restructure and not always popular. but it is the right thing to do. i am hopeful that not only are we going to see these companies to stabilize, but also that they will emerge even stronger and more competitive. chancellor merkel and i discussed security challenges. germany has been a strong nato partner, as all of you now. we had great challenges in afghanistan. and increasingly in pakistan, but our collect

work for the u.s. department of the interior. overall it's the secretary of the interior, and above that it's the president of the united states. we work for what administration is there. >> what is the budget for an operation for a year? >> our budget is a little more than $23 million a year. and that gives us more than 600 events a year and more than 6,000 people coming through the programs. >> in history how much are we spending on this effort compared to 50 years ago? >> i don't think we were spending much money 50 years ago, i am first fish and wildlife personnel and that's 10 years. and in the last 10 years, we created a history program. and we run tight, we don't purchase artifacts. we manage an archive and museum. >> so both of you could have what you wanted to make this better, what would you ask for? >> what i would ask for is for the public, the general public in the u.s. to all know who the fish and wildlife service is. we have dedicated form -folks that do great work and a lot of people don't know that we exist. >> how many people in the united states come under this umbrella? >> we have 800 centers and manage thous

the mustin fordham action that the united states is taking right now is the action against violent extremists, al qaeda's and the groups like that. it involves hard work by the central intelligence agency, by military units and these actions so far have been successful in putting al qaeda back on its heels. their strength has been whittled down. they have been put on the defensive, and that has been the result of a great deal of hard work supported by a good intelligence. there is also the aspect of the campaign against, by countering radicalism as an ideology. you heard the president's speech last week, an important step in that event and again it is important to inform that with intelligence so that it can be done in a smart way. as frs regional actions are going on, we are supporting field units and continue to support field units in iraq as our presence there is being drawn down and shifting our emphasis to afghanistan and pakistan where the effort is ramping up now. last week, during my trip, i was checking on intelligence support both for military and the civil units we have there. we sent analysts, we have increased card collection, we have thi

inalienable rights to life, liberty and pursuit of happiness and causing all people of the united states to work toward eliminating racial prejudices, injustices and discrimination from our society. to disclaimer, nothing in this resolution authorizes or supports any claim against the united states or, b, serves as a settlement of any claim against the united states. the presiding officer: under the previous order, there will now be 60 minutes for debate with respect to the concurrent resolution with time equally divided and controlled between the two leaders or their designees. mr. harkin: madam president? the presiding officer: the senator from iowa. mr. harkin: madam president, the clerk just read for the first time ever in this body what we should have done a long time ago. an apology for slavery and the jim-crow laws which for a century after emancipation deprived millions of americans their basic human rights, equal justice under law and equal opportunities. today the senate will unanimously make that apology. i, first of all, want to thank my friend, senator sam brownback, for all of his

we are very grateful that we are also able to get together with the united states to work on principles as to how matters are to be taken in the future after this crisis. we have to emerge from this crisis and recovery of our economies is a great precondition for progress. we talked about climate. ju as i did this morning when i was in conscience carb congress, i said this is indeed a change when i see this upcoming bill debated today on climate. this really points to the fact that the united states is very serious on climate. it should not be up to date estimated this brings to us to come to a good and sustainable result during the copy hagen conference. i have been in many meetings, and i know what is at stake when you talk about reduction targets and how tricky that is. so i wish you every success. i hope that you will come to good results when the vote is taken. i think it is so important, and we need to talk to emerging countries, but the fact that with the united states we stand where we stand today is an enormous success. thank you for the gracious hospitality offered to me and t

united states and foreign countries. it is the policy of the united states to work proactively under the united nations framework convention on climate change and other appropriate fora commits all major greenhouse gas emitting nations to contribute equitably to the global greenhouse emissions. the bottom line of all of this is all pain for the united states citizens and no gain. then we get to page 237. the president shall provide a notification on climate change described in paragraph 2 to each foreign country, the products of which are not exempted under section 768. this is less than a fig leaf here. they're trying to pretend that this notification will satisfy the consultation required by the w.t.o. rules. it won't end there and it's going to result in retaliation against the united states exports. then we get further down on the pages, requesting the foreign country to take appropriate measures to limit the greenhouse gas emissions in those countries. so if they're really nice, they won't have to, but if we can, we can force them to adopt our

worked for the u.s. department of the interior. overall, secretary of interior. above that it's the president of the united states. we work for whatever administration is currently there. >> what is the budget for an operation like this throughout the year? >> a little more than $23 million a year. that gives us almost 600 events per year and more than 15,000 people coming through our programs. >> industry, how much are we spending all this kind of effort compared to what it was 50 years ago? >> i don't think we are spending much money at all 50 years ago. i am the first historian we have had for the fish and wildlife service and i was hired 10 years ago. 12 years ago we did not have an archive or a historian. we do not have a history program. if in the last 12 years we created a history program. we still want it tight. we don't spend a lot of money purchasing artifacts or anything. if we manage to archive and the museum and manage a couple of personnel and that's it. >> if you could have whatever you wanted to make of this better, what would you ask for? >> what i would ask for would be for the the public, the gen

that is, they should import from the united states while working people mostly women slaved under miserable conditions in u.s. on an assembly

included i think just to mention a few other things that she mentioned that india and the united states can workogether towards our nuclear free world, stability in afghanistan and pakistan, development of human potential and education, women's empowerment, health, the successful conclusion of the doha right through and climate change and the battle against terrorism. so i think you'll agree it's a pretty ambitious agenda. for this new partnership for all of these are multilateral challenges, but there is little that's been said by president obama or by secretary clinton, or anyone, in the administration about the bilateral agenda, including some of the things that have been discussed this morning. free trade agreement, the defense trade, carrying out the nuclear agreement, and i think all of these things are going to be on secretary clintons agenda on her visit to india at the end of july. and they won't be easy to resolve concerns a different context in which india and the united states have approached these issues. being the representative of a large indian firm with a large indian investment

united states. now we use apparent number of h1b. in india, come to work virtually all of them go back to work for tata in india. i understand the importance of ensuring that there are no abuses of any decent program. but there must be a process by which india and american companies can serve as clients and freely travel between our two countries for legitimate business purposes. thank you. >> thank you, david. arvind? >> thanks for the invitation. a great pleasure to be here again. and speaking on trade. let me just begin first by a bit of, a brief statement about india and then i will talk about u.s.-india. this is a rapidly growing economy now. the last six years has grown eight and a half%. if you calculate in real dollars, it is even higher. it has opened up quite dramatically from something like less than 15% of trade ratio in the early 1990s. the economy is now about 45, 47% so it's three times that. remember, we are talking about the trade ratio of the gdp itself has grown, then growing over that long period between six and 7%. so it's very rapidly

united states. so there's no congressional oversight. there's no judicial oversight, both of which were created by our founding fathers. no. the only real person they answer to is the president of the united states. and they work for the president of the united states. he hired them, he chose them and put them in this position. he is paying them good money. and -- but they don't do what our founding fathers envisioned our country to be doing. so what does it create? it creates an executive department that is garnering power in every area. i'm joined by my good friend from texas, representative gohmert. i'll give you as much time as you wish to consume. mr. gohmert: i thank my friend for yielding. and your last comments are exactly what i would like to discuss as well, and that is these people are unelected. we were promised before the november elections that we would have unparalleled transparency, that you would know everything about the government, everything that was going on, we were going to be transparent, we were told, if only you would elect the obama administration -- elect him president, and that would happen. and we've heard people say in this body that there was a mandate. we got a mandate. no, you

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salute caribbean americans and i've been privileged and proud to serve in the united states congress with that history but also to work on a number of issues helping to make their land, their nations better and creating a better partnership between the united states and the caribbean. with that, i'd be happy to yield back to the distinguished gentlelady. mrs. christensen: thank you, congresswoman jackson lee, and thank you for your hard work and service and support for all issues relating to the caribbean. i know you're very proud of your jamaican heritage because you speak of it very often. thank you. at this time i'd like to yield such time as he might consume to the founding chair of the friends of the caribbean caucus, the gentleman from new jersey, congressman donald payne. mr. pane: i ask unanimous consent to revise and extend my remarks. thank you. let me commend the congressional black caucus and its chairperson this evening, barbara lee, from california for the outstanding job that she is doing as chair of the congressional black caucus and as the caucus moves forward being the conscience of the congress, let

work that's required. i mentioned to her that in the united states we are working diligently to strengthen financial regulations, to ensure that a crisis like this doesn't happen again, and it is going to be very important to coordinate between europe and the united states as we move to strengthen our financial regulatory systems. we affirmed that we are not going to engage in protectionism, and as all of us do what is required to restart our economy, we have to make sure that we keep our borders open and that companies can move back and forth between the united states and europe in providing goods and services to our respective countries. i am very pleased to see the resolution of the o.p.a.l. situation here. we are very sympathetic toward each other that it is not easy to help auto companies restructure, and it is not always popular, but it is, we are convinced, the right thing to do. and i am hopeful that not only are we going to see these companies stablize, but also that they are going to emerge even stronger and more competitive in the international marketplace. chancellor merkel and i have discussed secu

us is the extent to which the mexican government once a close partnership with the united states, they said let's work together, let's help each other on this and for those of you who of dealt with mexican-american relations over the years, that is pretty remarkable. i think it is a great opportunity for the united states to develop a strong partnership to address some of the problems that really are in the american interests as well as in the mexican interest. we in the intelligence community are doing our part along with many other departments of the american government to try to assist mexico in this common problem. i see great possibilities for working together on this problem with mexico and i hope in future years the same spirit can work on other issues in u.s.-mexican relations with its baby immigration, how the border is handled, economic relations that are still left over from nafta. i think we are an edge of potentially a new era in mexican american relations that is very much in the interest of both countries to pursue them. so, if you decide-- mertz green missiles or the crisis than iran i

the united states has been working with our partners in the o.a.s. to fashion a strong consensus condemning it is detention and expulsion of the president and calling for the full restoration of democratic order in hurenls. our immediate priority is to restore full democratic and constitutional order in that country. today, foreign ministers of the rio group will be attending a previously scheduled meeting of central american leaders to address the issue of honduras, and tomorrow the o.a.s. will hold an extraordinary general assembly. as we move forward, all parties have a responsibility to address the underlying problems that led to yesterday's events in a way that enhances democracy and it is rule of law in honduras. to that end, we will continue working with the o.a.s. and other partners to construct a process of dialogue and engagement that will promote to the restoration of democratic order, address the serious problems of political polarization in honduras, restore confidence in their institutions of government, and insure that honduras moves s

worked. i do not think it does help the interests of the united states or our allies in this part of the world for the past 30 years. president obama says he wants to take policy in a different direction. he wants to engage diplomatically with iran. i think at this. my criticism of the obama administration would be that he has not laid out a real strategic framework for engaging iran diplomatically. how do solve the major bilateral disputes between the united states and iran? other concerns? he needs to lay out a framework for trying to resolve these issues on a comprehensive basis in much the same way that president nixon rhee oriented 25 years of american policy towards the people's republic of china and reach that framework with china which is still ruled by the same man. on that basis he was able to achieve a major rapprochement and i think that has served u.s. interests profoundly well ever since. that is the kind of approach we need to take toward iran. set up a framework for dealing with all of the major disputes between the u.s. and iran. someone referred to it as a grand agenda. it is

secretary gates, and general jones have all commented positively about the prospects of the united states and russia working on a common missile defense as a way of deterring nuclear -- iran's nuclear ambitions. i recently explored that possibility on a visit to moscow, prague, and warsaw, and came back with positive things to explore. i invite your comments on whether that could change the overall dynamic in the region, and might cause iran to recalculate in the nuclear weapons ambitions. we would welcome comments that you might have on the potential for the nato russian council to serve as a useful forum for discussing such possible defense cooperation. the general mcchrystal, if you are confirmed, you'll bring fresh eyes to commanding nato's assistant force, and u.s. forces afghanistan. outlining the president's strategy will require significant coordination, up one reporting up to the nato supreme allied commander in europe, the other through u.s. forces afghanistan through general petraeus u.s. central command and to coordinate between the military and civilian components for the effort in afghanistan.

one quarter of the united states senate is working at this and not to mention the other body in the white house who are trying to pull together something that makes sense. the easiest thing for me to do at this point is to throw up my hands in frustration and say it will not work and we are no different than any other congress that has preceded us. we cannot solve it and cannot do that, so let's move on to something else and maybe some future congress can come up with the answer. but none of us want to be indicted by history because we have not come up with an answer of how to pay for this to make it deficit-neutral, but allow us to increase access for million of americans who are excluded in a quality system to allow people to get good health care in the future. that is the daunting challenge that faces us. we have done a good job and i have thanked my colleagues on prevention and quality and workforce issues, and i realize that not every amendment has been agreed to and we have not reached accommodation on every single point, but most of us believe that we are headed in the right direct

then is easy for others to say that they are working as tools for the united states. the united states has a serious, strategic agenda to work through with iran. that is not going to be served by having us get involved in an internal political controversy and to try to take sides one way or the other. we do not know enough to do that as the government. we do not have the leaders to influence things on the ground. the potential for counterproductive blow back is extremely high. i think we should not be intervening in this. this is an iranian matter. is up to iranians to pick their leaders. we should be prepared -- this is the get over it part of our title -- we should be prepared to pursue our strategic agenda with iran with the government that is in place. host: conn, independent line. larry. thank you for calling. guestcaller: i cannot believe wt i'm hearing. the united states -- you being a former cia agent -- do you know the united states goes into these places. it is a division. especially when they are about to hold elections. you can see with hezbollah and hamas

work for the u.s. department of the interior. so overall, it's the secretary of the interior, and above that, it's the president of the united states. so we work for whatever administration is currently there. >> what's the budget for an operation like this for a year? >> our budget is a little more than $23 million a year. and that gives us almost 600 events of the year and more than 15,000 people coming through our programs. >> and in history, how much are we spending on this kind of effort compared to, say, what it was 50 years ago? >> i don't think we're spending much money at all on history 50 years ago. in fact, i'm the first historian we've had for the fish & wildlife service and i was hired 10 years ago. basically 12 years ago, we didn't have an archive, a historian. we didn't have a history program. in the last 12 years, we've created a history program. we still run really tight. we don't spend a lot of money purchasing art art -- art facts or anything. we manage a couple personnel and that's it. >> both of you could have everything you wanted to make all this better. what would you ask for? >> you go first. >> what i woul

the health-care delivered in the united states across the board is not backed by specific evidence that what your doctor is recommending or what is being done actually works better than an alternative. we spend a very tiny share of total health-care spending in the united states trying to examine whether what we're doing works. that needs to change. we have 1.one billion dollars to expand this kind of research. the goal is to provide more information about what is likely to work in that kind of case. let me try to be directly responsive to the excellent questions that were raised during the previous session. and by mr. rubin. critically important, we do not just look at national averages. there is a huge amount of variation in what is likely to work for different types of people, what that will necessarily entail, i did read the papers for the conference last night. they were very good. we are likely going to have to adopt different types of evidence procedures for this research effort and randomized controlled try and cannot be the only standard by which we judge things. in order to get a wider array of evidence brought to bear we are likely going to hav

he has great documentation on how health care can work, unlike the united states, where it does not work. people just refused to say that. and phil gingrey will be on there and give the same stuff about how it is the greatest system in the world, and it is just baloney. it is propaganda. host: he will be on, as well senator bernie sanders, as this continues to unfold. inside "the politico," "what obama said and what he meant." "pouring money into a broken system only perpetuates inefficiencies. doing nothing to put our entire health care system at risk. we simply cannot afford to postpone health care reform a logger." that is a letter to president sent to congress. in this point, "do not try to slow-walk healthcare." scott joins us from new york city. good morning, democrats like. caller: good morning and thank you for c-span. a couple of very quick points. you know, the germans and french -- they do not wait -- we are always talking about canada and having to wait. the germans and french have national health care, and they do not wait. france is reported to have one of the best is not t

united states in 1977. i had the good fortune of working in this organization for a while, which was a great learning experience particularly about the united states and its government and how it works. but right now, i am in a project with ngo. i think tank, with an institute out of washington, d.c. i'm the editor in chief of their online journal in persian, farsi. a weekly journal we put out about the u.s., on the matter of politics, society and the such. host: back to the phones. cincinnati, ohio. d on the line for the democrats. caller: how are you? host: go ahead. caller: there is a lot of talk in the house and senate about what the united states should say vis-a-vis the elections in iran. these point out to me that there isn't much we really need to say. we said all we need to say in last year's election. and when barack obama was campaigning for president and he talked about the power of one to make a difference in this country. i don't think he was just talking about the american people, i think he was talking to the people around the world to be free. this point sounds so ridiculous for the united stat

the united states has been working to fashion a strong consensus don demming the detention and expungs of the president and calling for the full restoration of democratic order in honduras. our immediate priority is to restore full democratic and constitutional order in that country. today foreign ministers of the rhee yo group will attend a previously scheduled meeting in nicaragua to address the issue of honduras and tomorrow the oas will hold an extraordinary general assembly. as we move forward all parties have a responsibility to address the underlying problems that led to yesterday's events in a way that addresses the rule of law in honduras. we will continue working with the oas and others to instruct a process of dialogue and promote the restoration of zem rat i can order, address the political polarization, restore confidence in their institutions soft government and ensure that honduras moves successfully toward its scheduled presidential elections in november. at the oas general assembly earlier this month some of you were with me there. the united states insisted that the l

i am committed to my service in the united states senate and my work on behalf of the people of nevada. i will not be taking any questions, thank you. >> coming up, patrick leahy discusses the supreme court nomination of sotomayor, then debates on war spending followed by "washington journal." topics include health care and iran. >> later thsi morning, jon hilsenrath on financial market regulations, dave camp and brad sherman, and flynt leverett talks about if i ahmadinejad -- ahmadinejad really won the election. that is on "washington journal." later, rahm emanuel talks about the agenda of the obama administration. we will hace coverage -- have coverage on c-span 2. yesterday the state department said that the economic downturn has increased human trafficking. it was listing 17 countries that have failed to make progress in preventing human trafficking. hillary clinton now talks about the report. we are delighted to have with us members of congress who have been working with us on this issue for many years. this is the first time we have introduced this in this way because we want to