at 12 major universities. well, there are 4,000 universities, and if you do the arithmetic, that's maximum of 40,000 courses. and a minimum of probably 10,000. so well, i'd say it's 20,000. well, how many millions of students go through this. so people often ask me, well, americans are individualists, and you know, you're assuming that they're all indoctrinated. no, i'm not. only 2% or 3% of them are indoctrinated in rabid, anti-american feuds. that's a lot of people. and then, and this is a really, you know, things get worse and worse, but who do you think runs the education school? the most radical, the most communist, and i use that word advisedly, since both my parents were communists, and the people, institutions in america are the education schools in our universities. the editor of the series of teacher guides at columbia teachers college and its star graduate, now the distinguished professor of early childhood education, that the university of-illinois is william airs, i knew william airs when i was on

universities. penn state, university of texas, university of california, usc, columbia, arizona and arizona state, missouri, university of miami ohio, and we found 150 courses that it's blatantly obvious that students are being indoctrinated. if they read about poverty, they read leftist about poverty. if at the read about global -- well, i hate to tell the older folks here like myself, if you haven't been on a campus, they don't even read books now that teachers show movies, films in class. so if the subject is global warming, you've seen al gore's film and you may have seen it in a french class or i had a student at penn state that complained about being shown michael moore's sicko in a french language class. the chairman of the department thought that was perfectly appropriate. here's a sample indoctrination course. at the university of california santa cruz is a course which is described in the official university catalog in these exact words. the goal of this seminar is to learn how to organiz

university of louisville or perhaps an out of state university. and they work on and solve the project the department has need for. to set the record straight, the institute receives specified research task orders from the science and technology direct rat at d.h.s. the task orders are then farmed out to the consortium of colleges and universities throughout the state of kentucky and other public and private entities across the country for their input on that particular problem. this process taps into and unleashes the intellectual firepower of our best and brightest people to address new and emerging threats to the homeland. these are competitive grants. make no mistake. these are competitive grants, all decisions on funding are made by the department of homeland security. so far, 22 projects are under way. dozens of colleges and universities participating. these are low-cost solutions. with a minimal footprint and maximum results. a couple of examples. university of kentucky -- researchers have developed a system to maintain the security of raw

aapplaud drew university. it speaks highly of the university that it was able to secure a grant. but it's curious that it should receive a $1 million earmark for the development of new environmental studies courses for the construction and improvement of science laboratories. it sounds to me like this new course of study not only got a grant from the foundation for the new major but $1 million grant from the taxpayers as well. i'm sure the curriculum at drew is competitive and noteworthy, but so are others at many other universities across the country. there has been increasing attention paid to earmarks for private companies. what do we do about earmarks to private universities that have demonstrated their ability to secure generous grants from prestigeous foundations. why do the taxpayers have to provide funding as well? drew university has the benefit of relationships with members of congress, obviously. but does that justify this kind of earmark? as i mentioned, there is a bit of a spoil system here. i mentioned the spending bill overall, when you look at one program, like th

in penn state, university of texas, university of california, usc, colombia, arizona, arizona state, missouri, university of miami ohio, and we found 150 courses that's blanton the obvious things are being indoctrinated if they read about poverty they read leftists about poverty, they read about i hate to tell the older folks like myself if you haven't been on a campus they don't even read books now teachers show movies, films and glass, show if the subject is global warming you have seen al gore's film and may have seen it in french class. i had a student at penn state that complained about being shown michael moore's "sicko" in french class. here's a sample indoctrination course. at the university of california, santa cruz is a course which is described in the official university catalog in these exact words. the goal of this seminar is to learn how to organize a revolution. and then it tells you it is an anticapitalist revolution. now the subject of revolution is totally appropriate for an academic setting if it is taught the approach is academic. that is what is a revolution and

institute of technology, mississippi state university, rice university, texas a&m, texas tech, university of kansas, oklahoma, texas, tulsa, utah, alaska, fair banks, houston, michigan, south carolina, corn california, west virginia, and west virginia state. those are just some of the many institutions that are working within the confines of the bill that we passed. the consortium has awarded dozens of projects. these are underway. this bill if you divert this money from this bill to support the bill that mr. skelton has, these are the things that you're knocking out. an effort to find energy for 100 years of energy that this country needs. it would prevent us from having to pay foreign agents, arab nations that we don't trust and don't trust us. that millions of dollars could stay here in this country. the consortium has awarded dozens of projects including 43 research projects currently underway with a total project value of nearly $60 million. also, madam chairman, the value of the projects over and above the amount of annual funding for the projects, 37.5 million was achieved because

it's one of the cal state university system, publicly supported university, i guess part of the question is, can we continue to do this, mr. chairman? can we take and borrow another $180,000 to put into this program to subsidize this program further? and is that such a critical need that this program gets another $180,000 from the federal taxpayer, borrowed by the federal taxpayer that we can't take just starting now, just take $180,000 and save it and start to reduce the deficit and start to save a little money and start to reduce that debt? so that hopefully we can begin to get this thing under control. until we start to do that, i understand the gentleman's concern, but, mr. chairman, until we start to do that, we are not just condemning our children and grandchildren to a mountain of debt. it's piling up so fast we are condemning ourselves to a mountain of debt. with that i yield back the balance of my time. i ask for an aye vote. the chair: the gentleman's time has expired. all time having expired, the question is on the amendment offered by the gentleman from california. so many as

which is our universe. and you see perhaps almost surely pretentious preaching to you we live in a different world because the words are being corrupted. the very phrase is being corrupted but as they told you the intelligent design thing gives me the creeps. these are good willing people or people who say equal sex marriage and so forth i do not want to go into this but you see, you see it emerson was a great wine and said the corruption of society leads to the corruption of language. i am convinced the opposite is true the corruption of language leads to the corruption of society. and i can give you the oodles of it examples of this intelligent design this previous president said i would give you a basic example or i could give the $1,000. americans wanted to have the ownership society, and ownership society when before the presented to pressure and -- depression less than half of americans own their houses. i am not only speaking mortgages but second equity, right now less than three percent of americans

in the same way these university youth -- and the soonest -- university faculties have fought for what they call shared the government's meaning we are responsible but nobody else, we control the curriculum in the classroom and nobody better say anything about it matter what goes on there or we are going to scream academic freedom, mccarthy -- if you want to see what they will scream and just punch my name in to an google with mccarthyism or go up to any other web sites. the union sponsored web site is called, of course, free exchange of ideas. the last thing they want. >> when i was a liberal arts student at university of michigan and we have now women's studies, we had no blacks thaddeus, we had no hispanic studies or ethnic studies. i am wondering where these programs came from and who set the standards? i have heard comments like cleopatra was black. now, she was great -- she was great. it seems like we have created academic anarchy. >> if you read in "one-party classroom" and i quote the constitution of the women's studies association which allegedly is a scholarly association but

from seven oregon university and a master's apart from central michigan university. the honorable christopher shays serves as co-chair of the commission of wartime contacting and was appointed by house minority leader john boehner. from 1987 to 2009 mr. shays served in the house of representatives where he represented the fourth district in connecticut. during his time in congress mr. shays served as ranking member of the subcommittee on foreign affairs as well as chairman of the committee. mr. shays holds a bachelor of arts from principia colleges wallison nda and mpa from new york university. mr. charles deaver serves as a wartime contrasting appointed by senate majority leader harry b. pirg aliza professor university of baltimore school of law, specializes in government contracts and contract legislation. from 1993 to 1994 he has served as acting general counsel on the house of representatives, from 1984 to 1995 he was the deputy general counsel in the united states senate. he holds a bachelor of arts from columbia university and a j.d. from harvard law school. co

in anthropology from the university of nevada las vegas and in english from the university of missouri kansas city. he has talked on wide-ranging subjects including human evolution, cultural linguistics, magic and witchcraft, and world poverty and underdevelopment, as we to stenographer he is currently working with administrators and library faculty at rutgers university to redesign the library is web interface. is currently a visiting assistant professor of anthropology at james madison university in harrisonburg, virginia and is one of those that has a fabulous time dividing it between, he devised with his partner in the highland park. i divide my time between my credit little office in my tiny little apartment -- that is fabulous enough for me i suppose. todd, can you please introduce your book to "pre-gay l.a.: a social history of the movement for homosexual rights". hot off the presses. ouch. >> thank you. i want to research the history of the gay-rights movement and how surprised upon moving to los angeles in about 1998 to matriculate at ust surprised to find as a whole history i

. >>> guy mcpherson is a professor at the university of arizona and author of living with fire. professor mcpherson, is there a national fire policy? >> their ase actively in national fire policy developed during the clinton administration and it's largely been abandoned however. what we currently have is a very fractured set of disconnected policies that don't hang together very well so we have something called the national fire policy but we don't pay attention to it. >> is it a good thing in your view to have a national fire policy? >> particularly if a lousy enough flexibility for considerable variation how we treat places on the landscape. so, excuse me, yes, we still have policies that are broader but enough to encompass all acres but there has to be enough latitude so that we recognize california is not the desert is not counted for forest. >> what are the benefits and negative sides of fire breaking out into summers of the west? >> sure. the benefits include advantages to any number of species that involved in the presence of periodic fire. and for most ecosystems in the

they're a private university. to expel this kid. the university of colorado had a right -- well, that's debatable. some would say they did not have a right to investigate waren churchill because it stemmed from free speech. that's a very complicated question. these are very, very complicated questions. but yes, private institutions have the right to make these decisions. my father represented don imus. he made a very infamous comment that made a lot of people very upset. cbs fired him for that. those are questions about private institutions which are complicated. host: liz, up in new york, who is director and producer of "shouting fires," stories from the edge of free speech. thanks a lot for your time this morning. >> thanks for having me. >> your guests tomorrow include the editor in chief of

. >>> guy mcpherson is a professor at the university of arizona and author of living with fire.rofessor mcpherson, is there policy? >> particularly if a lousy enough flexibility for considerable variation how we treat places on the landscape. so, excuse me, yes, we still have policies that are broader but enough to encompass all acres but there has to be enough latitude so that we recognize california is not the desert is not counted for forest. >> what are the benefits and negative sides of fire breaking out into summers of the west? >> sure. the benefits include advantages to any number of species that involved in the presence of periodic fire. and for most ecosystems in the west united states, fire was a prevalent and frequent occurrence on a landscape, so all species and fire prone systems devolved in the presence of periodically this catastrophe as we like to call it these days, without fire they go extinct as some point so fire is great if we are interested in maintaining biological diversity particularly elevations there are really dry or not really, really cold. in the t

and one of those attending is yale university press and there are four new titles that yale universityress has out and chris rogers is the executive editor. what would you like to tell us about the conservatives? >> the conservatives is one of the first histories of all conservatives from the founding fathers right up through the bush administration. and it, you know, covers really the ideas and personalities that have evolved and how much it's changed over time and really almost come full circle to the colonial period in a very almost symmetrical sense. so each century reall had a different notion of what the conservative ideology was. and i think the beauty of the book is the sort of balanced nonideological objective historical view of the conservatives through time over three centuries. >> who's patrick allen. >> he's a historian. he's from australia. he is a full professor at emory university. and this is his -- one of his areas of specialization. >> now, mr. rogers, who are the first two gentlemen featured on the conservative's cover? >> thank you for asking. that's a very good qu

universal coverage will bring down health care costs. we know someone who has no health insurance uses the emergency room. it costs a lot of money to use the emergency room. we want to get care to the community and with universal coverage it will bring down costs. preventive health care saves money. saves money. saves lives. it provides better healthy lives for individuals and it saves monies. you know that providing a test for a person for early detection of a disease costs literally a couple hundred dollars compared to the surgery that can be avoided that costs tens of thousands of dollars. this is about saving cost, ves, and preventive health care. i congratulate the committees for really coming together on this issue. the better use of health information technology will save us money in the administrative aspects of health care but in delivery of care. if we can coordinate a person's care, we can bring down the cost of care and prevent medical errors. so for all of those reasons, i strongly concur in what our committees are doing cur

some favor universal coverage financed entirely by the taxpaying public. caution those who favor driving 120 million more americans into a taxpayer- financed insurance system that the federal government is an unfair competitor and would likely run the private sector of business. let's take the first call from the republican line in indiana. caller: i appreciate it. my basic overview is that america cannot pay for everybody. it is difficult for politicians to turn around and say "no." i believe that if you go to a hospital for any need if you cannot pay for you should be turned away. we have to be responsible financially. we have to be responsible for our own actions. nobody should have to pay for anybody else's mishaps or inefficiencies. if you cannot make it, cannot provide for yourself, then you should not be given anything. if we did that -- people say that is cruel. that is the way it is. if you are in a lifeboat and can only hold 10 people and you try to take 20 people in, the boat will drown and everyone in it. we are breaking away from our constitut

this is at stanford university last sunday. [applause] >> thank you. thank you very much. president, my fellow students, citizens of the world that my seat to come ever closer to the idea and reality of a rule of law, and especially graduates in the graduating class of 2009. thank you very much for inviting me to participate in your commencement. i suppose there are a number of witnesses where i have become a willing accomplice. each of you has your own story, a unique story of your years at stanford. that story is bound up with your pants, your family is, at your loved ones who have sustained you hear. you have already thanked them on a platform, and the entire nation thanks them, again, for sending you here to one of the great universities. thank you very much. [applause] your story has already been bound up with the idea of freedom, and freedom must always be a part of your story as you shape your careers and plan your destiny. from the beginning of the republic, we have understood that freedom is defined by a moral principle. and that principle is that with our freedom

quite honestly, i don't apologize for looking after my state, my public and private universities, because we want the best of america to be well educated. and i think the investments we're making in science, math and technology and engineering in new jersey and colleges and universities across the country is money well spent. and i retain the balance of my time. the chair: the gentleman reserves the balance of his time. the gentleman from arizona. mr. flake: mr. chairman, again, i would say if we're not going to cut spending here, where are we going to do it? if we can't say that we're not go to go give $1 million grant to a private university that just received $1 million grant or close to from the mullen foundation for an almost eyed call purpose, a private university that has an endowment of $268 million while we have a public debt of $11 trillion and a deficit this year of $2 trillion. if we can't decide that we're not going to give $1 million earmark in this manner, where are we going to cut? when are we going to say enough is enough? we're spending too much. so i commend those who a

from the university of massachusetts, boston. in james is a member of an organization that was withheld and retirement benefits for fortune 500 companies. he went to george washington university. he retired in 2001 from one particular organization. robert is from the heritage foundation. he is involved in a health insurance reform initiative in 2005. he received his degree from the university of arizona. our next guest was an operations manager. she is very experienced. our next guest directed the bureau of health professions. he has a ba from harvard university. welcome to all of you. thank you for your patience today. you will be given five minutes to summarize your written statement. if there is something you want to comment during your presentation from what you heard from the previous panel, feel free to do that within that timeframe if you think it would be helpful to us. >> thank you. the afternoon to all of you. congratulations on a very good try committee -- tri-committee. your hard work and wisdom and practicality is ev

universal health care. universal day care, child care, you don't have to use it but you have options. and family payments, the task of raising the next generation. those are building blocks that till transform every american's life instantly. we have the wealth to do it. it is more cost-effective than we are doing it now. frong families, i don't think african-american families, what was wrong with moynihan's accusation seems to be still wrong. we always joked that every family, remember your last ilmily funeral or your last family wedding or graduation. dysfunctional family, all of us would not hour heads, every family has its dysfunction. every family has divorce, every family has death and separation and illness. every family has drug addiction, every family has school failure in your extended family. let's get real and not stigmatize some group as being pathological and the rest of us being fine. the ones who are fine have a question of resources that allow you to go through these crises and have your ki

[applause] david kessler has been the dean of the medical schools of yale and university and the university of california san francisco. he served as commissioner of u.s. food and drug administration under presidents george h. w. bush and bill clinton from 1990 to 1997. dr. kessler is a graduate of amherst college, harvard medical school and university of chicago law school. rodale is the publisher. to find out more, visit rodale.com. .. >> host: we are here with one of the authors i am have admired my whole life, eduardo galeano. eduardo galeano board in the uruguay i mentioned to him i have had his books in my head for decades. one of the reasons i became involved in latin america and studies about latin america was because of your work spur it is really a great pleasure for me to be here with you. >> thank you. >> host: you have been in the states for a while? how long? >> guest: it 10 minutes. i just arrived. >> host: i know you are going to york. >> guest: and then other cities. >> my new baby. >> this is the book, at "mirrors" stories of almost everyone but of course, i checked out th

center for responsive government, a lecturer at johns hopkins university. he has written a variety of policy issues in his articles that have appeared in the "new york times," "the washington post," "usa today," the new york post, the new york daily news, just to make a few. his book "how philip morris burned ted kennedy and the antitobacco movement," this is no fan of tobacco. this is a guy that's calling balls and strikes. he's one person that's more concerned about the public health in this country and making sure that what we do accomplishes good public health policy that he's willing to be outspoken. he goes on in his book and he says "the process of validating new, reduced risk products appears to be designed to prevent such products from ever reaching the marketplace, thus giving smokers the start and for man the impossible choice of quit or die." you might remember that part. we can now call the continuum of risk "quit or die." rather than making smoking safer for those who continue to smoke, it will deny smokers access to new products that might li

at the university of buffalo in the art.o find out more visit as you and why that edu. >> mark top nonfiction authors and books throughout the weekend on c-span2's booktv. with books on the economy, former investment banker john talbott exposes myths about the recession and what it will take to recover. jay richards on why he thinks capitalism is the best way to ease poverty and protect the environment. also this weekend, the end of overeating, former fda commissioner david kessler explains how americans programmed by too much sugar, salt and john can control their eating habits and on after words, writers and artists, god's and visionaries from the garden of eden to today. atwater galeano recounts the history of the world three collection of 600 short stories. he talks with colombian university professor john dinges. there are lots more books and authors every weekend on booktv. our web site has the entire schedule and great new features including streaming video, archives that easy to search and simple ways to share your f

you are looking at the whole universe you see.here may be some averaged star systems are galaxies. what he is saying is that look at this aberrant -- this is proof that the universe is chaos. they have shown me that. they have shown me some chaos in this universe. tell me why they have not shown us enough that we should not implicate due process and equal protection here -- because we cannot see the whole universe, but they have shown us enough to show us there is a problem? >> i have several answers. the trial court correctly noted that the time to challenge an unlawful gigot is before it is separated from its envelope. it is at the time the ballot is delivered to the present. >> the problem i have with that is that many counted by the absentee ballot boards in the metro area, i did not see anything in the statute that would provide an opportunity for norm coleman to challenge that board. i do not see any indication that he would have received notice or any candidate would have received notice. it seems to me that we have those c

revolution the closedown universities and try to bring about islamic ideology into the universities. as years went by a mr. mousavi became more and more withdrawn and quieter. we did not hear much from him until the elections in 1997. there were rumors that the opposition, the reformist candidates were considering him, but that did not go over because they thought that a cleric would do better. it is very interesting to see the transformation from a person in position to a person of opposition. host: the belief he has changed or has changed his public image? guest: i think both. the important thing is that this satisfaction comes not only from seculars for people who have been losing a great deal but from people in power. when someone like mr. mousavi or another, the speaker of the parliament, the other opposition candidate -- he was the head of the revolutionary guard, he boasted that he was responsible for the murder of of the 260 readings. all of these people -- of the 260 marines. most of these people have had the failure of a ideology change them. but for them to move ahead some

they are a private university to expel this kid. the oouvrt of colorado had a right, well, i mean that's debateable, some would say they did not have the right to investigate ward churchill because it stemmed from free speech. that is a very complicated question. these are very complicated questions but, yes, private institutions have the right to make these decisions. my father represented don imus, he made a very infamous comment that made a lot of people very upset, reasonably so, cbs fired him for that. you know, those are questions about private institutions which are complicated. >> liz garbus up in new york who is director and producer of "shoulting fire: stories from the edge of free speech," hbo tomorrow night. thanks for your time this morning. >> thanks for having me. >> thanks for having me. plush plush ..:.

universities. i'm very excited about the opportunities for education and broadband and the next generation of e-rate. >> very good. my time has expired. thank you. i think you're going to be an incredible chair. mr. mcdowell, your reappointment is going to be a plus. i know you've ben a big proponent of alaska issues. you've seen it, you've been there. we'll work on the chairman together and give him that great experience of alaska. not the fish, the telecommunications. but again, thank you both and i look forward to working with you on alaska specific. thank you. >> thank you. before i call on senator can cantwell, i have to make a committee announcement. i am not pleased by the way that -- this was my fault so i take full responsibility for it, that people made their statements then left. some happily came back. and for that i applause them. but it is wrong -- i mean, this is a mammothly important hears for a nomination and a vote to follow. we cannot have it that people come in and make their op

really love their to go to the university of oklahoma for nine and a half years and delaware which is the only institution in the united states that gives a ph.d. in climatology wanted him back and that is why he is there now. david? you're commentary. >> thank you very much. i must say i have never done one of these before and chances over -- chances are i may never asked to me due one again but very much my pleasure to review this book in provide discussion on it. my thought was first of all, the first thing i did as most people do is turn to the back of a book and try to figure out where you have been cited. i was a little surprised to find a was only side did in two places and pat found no reason to cite my research come with a two. [laughter] but he found than the two talk about the state climatologist did one of the issues that pact and i signed on to this is security brief with the u.s. epa with the commonwealth of massachusetts. it turned out as we were at work the on the epa cited the governor and the state put themselves on the massachusetts side that put me on the one side

at the university of pennsylvania. and while he broke ground as a world-renowned linguist shattering all previous paradigms' and linguistics in a world i know very little about. [applause] he was also taking on the war in vietnam. so much so that his lifetime partner, his wife, carol, went back to school to get her graduate degree in linguistics so that she could be the breadwinner if noam was imprisoned, that is how she described it. to run on to be a professor at the harvard graduate school of education of what linguistics and also wrote to brown on the town of the language and position. they have known each other since i think he was three and they only lost carol a few months ago. his lifetime partnership with a great model for relationships appear to have his personal life also a model for all of us, what it means to live a life of integrity. on democracy now we have interviewed noam many times a year ago and i think about 2002 it was around midnight, it was may 20 and of. journalist and i were at a momentous time

we're talking here about the universe of minnesota absentee ballots. you would have us -- you've got a broad lands. you look at the whole universe, you say there is some intelligent design mandated by statute, and there is not chaos. it is order. there may be some, and you can cede some average star system galaxy or however you want to do it. what mr. coleman is saying is that he focuses on, look at this aberrant galaxy, look at this aberrant, this is proof that the universe is chaos. and in fact, they have shown me that. they have shown that there is some chaos in this universe. it's been pinpointed. tell me why they have not shown us enough that we should not implicate due process and equal protection here because, yeah, we can't see the whole universe but they have shown us enough to show there's a problem, and it implicates due process and equal protection. >> your honor, i have several answers. first, the trial court leaving this court's decision now correctly noted that the times to challenge an unlawful vote is before it is separated before its

, $405 for the whole year my senior year at the university of tennessee, gasps go through the room. but back when i went to college, anybody who needed to could work part time and pay all of their college expenses. nobody got out of college with a debt. but around that time or maybe a little bit before the federal student loan kicked in and the colleges and universities across the country have used that as a means or an excuse to raise their tuition and fees three or four or five times the rate of inflation. if i went to any college campus and told those students that the federal student loan program is one of the worst things that ever happened to them, they would stare at me probably in disbelief and yet it really is one of the worst things that ever happened to them. because throughout our history college tuition and fees went up very, very slowly and went up at the rate of inflation or even less until that loan program came in and now ever since that program came in, today tuition and fees are three or four -- 300%, 400%, 500% higher than they would have been if we'd left the th

which is just now been published by harvard university press. and one of the things that you touched on in the earlier half of our discussion that we didn't really get into in depth but i want to focus on now is this whole issue of religion. it this was news to me, this association between wal-mart and religion and just how powerful is in the history of the growth of this corporation. i confess, i'm something of an innocent of jesus as the son of god, and you somehow talked about wal-mart promoting free enterprise as christian service. that is a challenging concept for made -- free enterprise as a christian service you make a very strong case for how important evangelical christianity has been in the rise of this megacorporation. could you tell our listeners something about that iraq's? this man i didn't go looking for religion, it was a surprise for me as well ralph reed said at the head in of one of the largest evangelical organizations in the country said of two years ago that if you want to find, if you want to reach evangelicals on sunday o

a couple of things, i am struck that it lot of universities have centers are things that are funded by industry yet it is all not apparent when something is published under ivy league center for such and such and it gains a sense of legitimacy that is not revealed by who actually funded the study, sometimes and i don't know what is the best way to address that, and also you brought up something troubling with a lot of the journals he said were published by the industry themselves. is there a way to figure out what industries, does it say created in the association are something or the. cues that goes on in these is rigorous as of the ones because it should be-- you cannot interpret your data that way. >> you raise important points. their journals that specialize in publishing essentially what that u.s. questionable analysis. they are essentially run by individuals involved in trade association or consultants to big companies. they will often published articles 100 pages long. anybody who has published an article will know that pages and journal articles are precious commodities and the

this is, as i say, a universal issue. people say to me, health care ought to be a basic right, it is extremely important that this congress does something about the issue of health care and we want to see you do something. the good news is that this congress is working very hard on putting together legislation. the president budgeted for $634 billion for health care reform in the budget that we've already passed. and the speaker of the house is committed to passing a bill by the end of july. the president has asked us for a bill on his desk this fall. the discussion draft was released in the house just this friday and i personally can say that i'm happy to see a lot of the good things that are included in there. a public plan option, better insurance regulation, insurance companies won't be able to cut people out who have pre-existing conditions, reasonable amount of cost sharing and emphasis on prevention and wellness, investments in medicare and medicaid, many of the things that we've been talking about and that i hear

today we speak with one voice, the rights of the iranian people to have their voices heard, universal aspirations, and their bravery in the face of brutality is a testament of their enduring pursuit of justice. the violence perpetrated agains them is outrage jus. despite the government's efforts to keep the world from bearing witness to that violence, we see it and condemn it. as i have said before, the iranian people will be the ultimate judge of their government's actions, but if the iranian government desires the respect of the international community, then it must respect the rights and heed the will of its people. >> host: ambassador dalton, your thoughts about what the president had to say? >> i think it is admirable. it is the right stuff t makes clear that iran has two universal standards on human rights and civil and political rights are essential parts of the international human rights status, which all countries pay attention to, and it's many years now, since any country has been able to claim that its performance on civil rights is somehow beyond the questioning of other

they already have it in our colleges and universities. we have the finest colleges and universities anywhere in the world. people all over the world want to come to america to go to our colleges and universities. we have arguably the second worst k-12 system in the industrialized world. we are not inspiring children to become and engineers. they need the tools in the fields of science, technology, and engineering to compete. the university said the kids are not coming to us prepared. they are having to teach remedial courses today because they are not prepared. the democrats have controlled our schools for too long. they have allowed special interests to be in front of our kids'education. we need to take back our schools. education is mostly a local and state issue. there are things the federal government can do. we can show programs that are working in various places in the country. if you look at the number one difference between k-12 and higher education, if you get a pell grant, a student loan, the gi bill, some kind of financial assi

. >> this is carefully drafted, and i think it is clear that the universal values of freedom that are expressed in the resolution are done with a great amount of prudence, and i think that is right. i think it is also important that when the congress of the united states speaks, a lot of people listen, so it is important to not allow congress to be used as a tool in what is essentially an internal fight in iran, and so, i would urge caution and urged the united states congress to stand up and speak about the universal values that we care about, democracy, freedom, due process of law, lack of violence in terms of settling political disputes, and not allow us to be used as a weapon against the people who we are, in effect, he tried to help, which is the people of iran -- who we are, in effect, trying to help. i yield back. >> and member of the committee of the judiciary and a ranking member. >> -- a member of the committee. >> it is clear today that some would have us be silent as to the aspirations of the people risking life and limb on the streets of iran today. we cannot and should n

university of dallas, i don't know. but i would think the 9/11 project would be something that could really touch people's hearts. and get them interest and involved. it just depends on what the real -- i mean, you can't -- you bring somebody to speak on healthcare, it isn't going to work probably. as big a deal as it is in our country and as much i wish that it got college students enthusiastic so far we haven't found that it does. find that issue that is really the hot topic. maybe it's multiculturism. maybe it's political correctness. i would bring in somebody -- do you all have a women's studies center or something along those lines? >> no. >> you don't. >> you're doing super. you're like the one school in the country. i would look at something that your school is doing that's just a little bit off and make a big deal on out of it. and for those of you who do have women study centers bring in somebody to talk about starting up a male study center. that really gets things geared up and there are groups -- there are g

our guest is david renzer, the chairman of universal music publishing. >> host: when you hear the term file sharing, what do you think? >> guest: i think about all my song writers who won't get paid, you know? we represent established big arkansastists whether it's coldplay and u2, and we represent everyday working song writers. in nashville we've got a large group of song writers to come into our office and write songs for a living, and file sharing has wreaked havoc on our business. piracy is a huge issue. the music industry has been really at the front line in terms of, you know, the impact of digital on a intellectual property business, and i think the film and television industry has kind of looked at what's happened to our industry, and they're, you know, they're trying to prevent some of the things that have happened to our industry. so it's a huge challenge for us. but one in which i think we're seeing some, some positive government reaction to. recently in france they, they enacted something we could call a three strikes kind of law which is if you are at home, wherever, and y

we also have what will be now nearly an $8 billion universal service fund at the fcc. and that fund is growing despite a cap we voted last year on the competitive eligible telecommunication carrier portion of that fund. that's a mouthful. cetc portion. the contribution factor or the sort of tax sorts is -- has grown to an all-time high of almost 13%. so that is something we administer and i think we need a full audit of that fund and how it's used, as well as all fcc operations, by the way. but that would be part and parsele to any part of any broadband reform. >> well, and i know that universal service fund generates a lot of controversy. the only thing i guess i would ask of you as you take these issues on that you take into consideration the impact on rural areas and making sure that rural areas in the frontier, so to speak, isn't left behind. i think there are just some wonderful applications of technology that are leading to incredible increases in productivity and job creation and everything else in our economy. but it's obviously going to be very important, in m

they used to be this was all done in the public from universities and corporations could come but now the defense department does not like the policy they can have it changed in secret. we cannot let the epa change our defense strategy and iraq will let the defense department. [laughter] it is very worrisome the next president will have a big problem how to roll that back and raised the ball because the level of integrity has gone down so far in the white house in some of these agencies. >> thank you. i am from oceanic. a couple of things i am struck down a lot of universities have centers or things funded by industry but it is not very apparent when something is published under the i be the center and it gains a sense of legitimacy that is revealed on who actually funded the study. what is the best way to address that? and also, you brought of something with a lot of the journals published by the industry themselves is there a way to figure out which industries does is a trade association under something your the peer review that goes on isn't as rigorous as others because there shou

following his career in the marines, the director went on to earn his law degree from the university of virginia law school, he served as a litigator, the u.s. attorney, and acting deputy attorney general for the department of justice. he will speak to us today about a very important topic in the economy generally and to this city in particular, financial crime. director mueller, you have the floor, they give. [applause] [applause] >> thank you all in good afternoon, it is a pleasure to be with you here today. a few months ago the economist magazine and announced plans to build an entertainment venue that in their words which continue the magic of a theme park with the excitement of the macroeconomics. [laughter] among the planned rise or the currency high roller or one could fly like a butterfly with the hero or sink like a stone with a pound. the chamber of horrors where one could travel with your in the face of distressed debt to and leslie my favorite, the fiscal fantasy land where one could

guest: you have to understand how universities are structured. they are full of people who do whatever research they want, but they have to do research that there other peers consider relevant. it is up to individual professors. it is the matter of finding a professor with a knowledge of financial regulation and law and the interest to do this. this is better done in a law school than the department of economics. but there are serious problem with the obama justice department. there is also another situation in california where i believe a former basketball star has been elected a mayor, and there has been a similar trail of misuse of government grants, a criminal investigation. the criminal investigation has gone away. host: last fall, republican -- last call, republican from palm beach. caller: we can cut the mycogen as -- michael jackson's, we all have a billion or two coming in. our government itself was basically set up for defense. somehow or other in the last 40 or 50 years it has gone from local people taking care of local needs to where

she graduated second in her class, and i do not think that princeton university is an easy assignment. she went on to graduate from yale, she was involved in prosecution, and private law practice. she has an amazing background. i think that she will be an extraordinary member of the supreme court. jeff sessions talked about his philosophy, i had no prepared remarks, i disagree with him but i respect him very much. i hope that we can serve the nation by giving her a fair hearing. we should not use a double standard on the nominee. the chairman has suggested a timely hearing, within the same schedule of those who went before, like chief justice roberts or alito. if she is given the same -- the same standard of fairness, i think that she will do well. >> i will say to my colleague, a great lawyer and excellent senator, i think, i would respectfully talk about the ideas that he suggests. he spoke about brown vs. board of education, where the supreme court said that separate was not equal, and some say this is a justification -- justification for a judge setting policy. i would see this di