he is a professor of political science at the university of california-berkeley. he has published extensively and american politics specifically on congress and american political development and he is well-suited to discuss the transformation of the senate and what the senate look like it mid century. he is maybe most well-known for two books he has written on the institutional development of congress. one called disjointed pluralism, institutional innovations in the development of the u.s. u.s. congress and another one called filibuster, obstruction and lawmaking in the u.s. senate. both of these book look historically at how the institution is change over time and i think he is going to share some of that information today. both of those books one bisphenol price, which is the prize for the best book in legislative politics granted by the american political science association. after eric, alan abramowitz will be speaking to us about elections. he is an expert on american politics, specifically elections and very specifically senate elections today. he is the au

like at mid-century, at the mid 20th century, he is professor of political science at university of california, berkeley. he has published extensively in american politics specifically on congress and american political development. and he is well suited to discuss the transformation of the senate and what the senate will look like at made century. he is maybe most well-known for two books he has written. he is renowned as a to b. government of congress, one called disjointed pro bowl ism, innovation and he devoted of the u.s. congress. and another one called filibuster, obstruction and lawmaking in the u.s. senate. both of these books will look to struggle at how the institutions have a change of time and i think he will share some of that information with us today. both of those books on the prize which is the price for the best book and legislative politics. after eric, alan abramowitz is a professor at emory university. you will be speaking to us about collection. he is an expert on american politics, specifically elections, and very specifically senate elections today. is the author of six books an

laura tiesing is a professor at the university of california berkeley, also a member of president obama's economic recovery advisory board. it's always wonderful to have you on the program. >> it's always a pleasure to be with you, maria. >> tell me your thoughts on where we are. your thoughts is friday's reported gains were just modest. >> i did say modest. if you look tess effect of the census and slowdown in february because of the weather, and you look at the numbers, i looked at the average over the first quarter, so the average is 55,000 jobs a month, actually now in the last two months of the first quarter, it was up to 66. that is still almost half of what we need just to stabilize, just to meet the increase in the labor supplies. that's why i use the word "modest." i think it's encouraging, because i think other parts show the situation is stabilizing. even that 66,000 number, you have to compare it to the 750,000 workers a month who are losing their jobs a year ago, so certainly encouraging. >> yeah, it's true. let me ask you this. everybody knows the government can really not c

i want to private az university of california berkeley. >> unfortunately that's the way we're going. >> ucal berkeley is 80% privatized. we won't debate cal berkeley. we're going to come back and talk about how to get rid of fannie and fredry. stay with us. >>> all right. we're talking fannie and freddie. they testified before this financial crisis committee in washington. steve moore, let me go -- you guys would both like to privatize. i want to go to a separate but related subject. we know the model for private profit and taxpayer bailouts doesn't work, but i want to get into this. how responsible for the financial meltdown was fannie and freddie, acting upon the mandates from hud, the housing department, andrew cuomo was the secretary, congress, barney frank and his ilk, essentially saying we want you to buy up these mortgages we made that were given to people that could not afford them in the first place. how culpable is fannie mae, for example, for the wholenings meltdown, steve moore? >> i think they're at the epicenter. the problem is with these institutions, you're right, that

university. he was chairman of the council of economic advisors for president george w. bush. and laura tyson, professor of economics at the hosk school of business at the university of california berkeley. she was chair of president clinton's council of economic advisors, and is now a member of president obama's economic advisory board. thank you both for being with us. and laura tyson, i'll turn to you first. how do you read this report? >> well, i read it as encouraging. but encouraging and moderate. it's encouraging because we have private sector employment growth. and actually the revisions to this report for january and february say that the economy on average has produced about 54,000 jobs a month for the first quarter of this year. think about how encouraging that is when you look at what was happening just a year ago in the first quarter when the economy was losing 750,000 jobs a month. so we have clearly dramatically turned a corner. but i would use the word modest here because we have a number of special factors in this report, the 48,000 census workers, the fact that the march numbers look stronger because of february numbers were weaker, because of bad weather. and then fin

focus at the senate judiciary committee hearing was goodwin liu, law professor at the university of california, berkeley. he's been nominated for the ninth circuit court of appeals in san francisco. republican orrin hatch of utah charged liu's writings show he'd reinterpret the constitution to suit his liberal views. >> it's one thing to be a law professor and make a lot of hypotheticals and other things. do you still stand by these approaches that you can make the law anything you want to? >> whatever i may have written in the books and articles would have no bearing on my role as a judge. >> holman: as the hearing went on, liu was pressed repeatedly to say he'd be impartial, if confirmed. >> as much as i like my own views, i confess to you that i would actually be a little afraid if i was the only voice speaking and that everything went my way. that is not the kind of certainty i have about my own views. >> holman: liu has sharply criticized conservative u.s. supreme court justices john roberts and samuel alito. but republican jeff sessions contrasted their experience, when nominated, with liu's. >> h

george will, as always, matthew dowd, former bush strategist, robert reich from the university of california-berkeleyouthf mouthful. say berkeley and former democratic strategist or current democratic strategist, former democratic national committee spok spokeswoman karen finney. thanks so much for joining us. george, the president is encouraged by the jobs number. are you? >> he's easily encouraged. the economy began to grow nine months ago the usual pattern since the second world war a sharp downturn is followed by a sharp upturn. takes more than 100,000 jobs to stay even because of immigration and the workforce. of the 162,000 subtract maybe 110,000 just to cover natural growth then subtract 48,000 temporary census workers and what you get is nine months into a recovery essentially no meaningful job creation. furthermore, the average unemployment today is 31 weeks. much the highest since that record began to be kept in 1948. >> matt, this -- it was positive news. it might not have been as positive as some would like or all of us would like but it was positive news. is it good politics for democrat

he is the associate dean of the university of california berkeley school of law. before i give some brief remarks, as also the center from california, i will like to just quickly go over the order of this hearing. there'll be five-minute rounds. we will use the early bird rule. we will go from side to side. following my statement, the ranking member will give his opening statement. of course, the chairman of the committee is here and if he wishes to make a statement he will do so. i will recognize senator gramm -- senator grasaham to introduce. [applause] [laughter] >> we are glad to have you here. you did not are not -- >> you do not regard that as a promotion? then, i will introduce a series of letters into the record. then, we will call professor goodwin liu. thus for -- a four other candidates are magistrate judge , now dead from california, nominated from south carolina -- and nominated from california, nominative from south carolina, and nominated from north carolina. welcome all of you and your families. i was privileged to have an opportunity to meet some

host: robert reich is a professor of public policy at university of california berkeley. former labor secretary under president clinton, and author of an upcoming book, "aftershock and the economy." thank you for being with us this morning. we appreciate your time. that does it for today's "washington journal." we will be back tomorrow morning at 7:00 a.m. eastern. thanks for watching. [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2010] . . meanwhile, the u.s. senate is working on a bill to extend long-term term insurance benefits and tom coburn leading a g.o.p. call for pai as you go rules for makeup for the measures cost. democrats say it is emergency spending because of the high unemployment rate. the senate is just underway and you can follow live coverage on c-span 2. tim geithner has a speech today before the society of newspaper editors convention and we will have that live for you at 12:45 eastern and the u.s. house coming back from spring recess will work on suspension bills that gets underway at 2:00 ea

california, robert reich is joining us to talk about the economy. many of you know him as the former labor secretary under plaze -- president clinton and now the policy professor at university of berkeley, california. also, the author of 12 books. i wanted for some headlines out there for you this morning before we get going. here is the "wall street journal." that is the front page. the "washington post" frontpage says the team is optimistic. and then we also saw in the last couple of days that the economy is on track to possibly grow up 3.6% from off -- 3.6%, create $518 billion in recovery and the banks have started to repay their loans from taxpayers. are we on our way to recovery? guest: greta, i wish i could say we were on our way to a vigorous recovery. we certainly are on our way to recovery. the business cycle follows isleton's law, but in reverse. everything that goes down eventually -- follows isaac newton's law, but in reverse. everything that it goes down and eventually comes up. the stock market is recovering in part because corporate earnings are up, and corporate earnings are up largely because companies have sliced their payrolls. they have cut their cost and, again, t

host: our guest was educated at the university of california- berkeley. also at indiana university. s the founder of the website, and coordinator of sunshine in government, and they have a website. you have mentioned freedom of information requests a couple of times. for the average person to file one of those, what does it take? guest: time. basically, get an address and write a letter. look on agency website where there are forms to fill out. it is very easy. the more specific you can make the request, the better. if you know the particular office, that is better. for the one caller looking for the person with authority over fences, it can be difficult. but you can request, given this incident, a want to know who has authority. then the agencies have responsibility to get back to you. they have 20 days. oftentimes, you get a tracking number and it could take weeks, months, even years. some people plan their news stories years in advance because they know it takes awhile. you could get charged for duplication services or research time if you have a particularly difficult, more compl

he is the associate dean of the university of california berkeley school of law. before i give some brief remarks, as also the center from california, i will like to just quickly go over the order of this hearing. there'll be five-minute rounds. we will use the early bird rule. we will go from side to side. following my statement, the ranking member will give his opening statement. of course, the chairman of the committee is here and if he wishes to make a statement he will do so. i will recognize senator gramm -- senator grasaham to introduce. [applause] [laughter] >> we are glad to have you here. you did not are not -- >> you do not regard that as a promotion? then, i will introduce a series of letters into the record. then, we will call professor goodwin liu. thus for -- a four other candidates are magistrate judge , now dead from california, nominated from south carolina -- and nominated from california, nominative from south carolina, and nominated from north carolina. welcome all of you and your families. i was privileged to have an opportunity to meet some

of high ranking positions at the justice. he graduated from princeton university, received his master of divinity from yale definitive school before earning his law degree from the university of california berkeley in 1974. there's no question he's well qualified to run the office of legal policy. and it shouldn't require somebody who's going to be confirmed easily, it shouldn't be necessary for the majority leader to have to file cloture in order to end the republican filibuster and for the senate to at last have an up-or-down vote on professor schroeder's nomination. what has this place come to, madam president, when we have filibusters on routine nominations like this? we never had anything like this before. i remember when i first came here, probably the biggest nomination we had before a heavily democratic-controlled senate was the nomination of a conservative republican president -- gerald ford -- for the u.s. supreme court, nominating a republican from chicago, well-respected but a republican from chicago, seen as conservative, john paul stevens. we took that nomination to the republican president. two and a half weeks after that nomination arrived here, we all voted for john paul stevens

he is the associate dean of the university of california berkeley school of law. before i give some brief remarks, as also the center from california, i will like to just quickly go over the order of this hearing. there'll be five-minute rounds. we will use the early bird rule. we will go from side to side. following my statement, the ranking member will give his opening statement. of course, the chairman of the committee is here and if he wishes to make a statement he will do so. i will recognize senator gramm -- senator grasaham to introduce. [applause] [laughter] >> we are glad to have you here. you did not are not -- >> you do not regard that as a promotion? then, i will introduce a series of letters into the record. then, we will call professor goodwin liu. thus for -- a four other candidates are magistrate judge , now dead from california, nominated from south carolina -- and nominated from california, nominative from south carolina, and nominated from north carolina. welcome all of you and your families. i was privileged to have an opportunity to meet some

host: robert reich is a professor of public policy at university of california berkeley. welcome everyone to our event on iran's blogosphere and citizen engagement. i think we have a different kind of conference today. i'm a professor here at g.w. of media and public affairs and i'm also the director of the institute for public diplomacy and global communication which along with the broadcasting board of governors is hosting today's event. like i said we're doing things a little differently today. our goal is really to talk about the importance of engagement. means of engagement. the importance of person to person contact even when foreign policy between two countries is difficult to say the least. and we'll be talking about new media, of course. and one of the things that we're going to do that's a little different today is we're going to have an online moderator who will be bringing in comments and questions that we've received through our conference web page and facebook page. and twitter feeds. and also some videos that have been sent in from everyone from a noted film

in 2005 through 2006, the month awarded three grants from the university of california berkeley to complete hazardous feel reduction projects in the hills surrounding the temples. this is a potential fire-prone effort. despite the urgency of this project, fema has taken 58 months to reach the simple conclusion that it required an environmental review. i have met with the people. the university has come them. i think it is just dreadful. you cannot move a small grant to university in a five years . what do you know about it? what is the problem? >> what i know about it is that i am unhappy it is taken this long. i have asked the lead to work with berkeley to resolve this. the substantive issue is the environmental issue. it involves how to handle the large eucalyptus trees that in the campus. -- are in the campus. i have asked fema to light a fire under its sell comic get together with the folks and see what we can do. >> would you follow up on it? it just falls between the cracks. >> got it. >> i appreciate that. >> got it. >> thank you. >> i appreciate you. utah is the crossroads of the we

host: robert reich is a professor of public policy at university of california berkeley. >> let's meet another winner in c-span's student cam documentary competition. through a five to eight minute video, we asked students to tell us about one of the country's greatest strength or a challenge the country's facing. today we talked to matthew he will, m, a ninth grader at bloomington high school south in bloomington, indiana. thanks for talking to us today. >> thank you. >> so tell me, the title of your documentary is breaking news, the end of civility. how did you come up with that name? >> well, brandon dame -- bren dannielynn came up with it at first. the whole thing was about news. so the breaking news, the kind of breaking news story like you hear on the news channels and then the whole topic was about the end of civil discourse in the us in media and cable news and we thought that was a big problem and we thought that that had really contributed to it so we put the two together. >> do you think cable news has contributed to the end of civility? >> yeah. we thought it does. that's p

he is a professor of political science at the university of california-berkeley. e has published extensively and american politics specifically on congress and american political development and he is well-suited to discuss the transformation of the senate and what the senate look like it mid century. he is maybe most well-known for two books he has written on the institutional development of congress. one called disjointed pluralism, institutional innovations in the development of the u.s. u.s. congress and another one called filibuster, obstruction and lawmaking in the u.s. senate. both of these book look historically at how the institution is change over time and i think he is going to share some of that information today. both of those books one bisphenol price, which is the prize for the best book in legislative politics granted by the american political science association. after eric, alan abramowitz will be speaking to us about elections. he is an expert on american politics, specifically elections and very specifically senate elections today. he is the aut

he is the associate dean of the university of california berkeley school of law.before i give some brief remarks, as also the center from california, i will like to just quickly go over the order of this hearing. there'll be five-minute rounds. we will use the early bird rule. we will go from side to side. following my statement, the ranking member will give his opening statement. of course, the chairman of the committee is here and if he wishes to make a statement he will do so. i will recognize senator gramm -- senator graham to introduce. [applause] [laughter] >> we are glad to have you here. >> you do not regard that as a promotion? then, i will introduce a series of letters into the record. then, we will call professor goodwin liu. four other candidates are magistrate judge, and nominated from california, nominative from south carolina, and nominated from north carolina. welcome all of you and your families. i was privileged to have an opportunity to meet some of you briefly. let me say a few words about professor goodwin liu. he was born in agusta, georgia.

of the duke's program in public law. chris was born in springfield, ohio, received his b.a. from princeton university, a master's in divinity from yale, and his j.d. from the university of california at berkeley, where he was editor in chief of the california law review. he's married to the wonderful katherine t. bartlett, former dean of the duke law school, and currently the kenneth -- a. kenneth pie professor at duke. chris and kate have three wonderful children. during his legal career, chris has excelled in private practi practice, government service, and academics. following his graduation from law school, chris practiced law in san francisco, gaining valuable experience in a wide variety of both state and federal practice. in 1979, he became law professor at duke, where he has been a respected and prolific scholar and an invaluable administrator, and a committed and effective teacher. he has authored and edited several books, including a leading casebook on environmental law, environmental regulation, law, science and policy, which now is in its sixth edition. he also has published countless articles in law reviews and journals on an impressive range of topics, including environmental l

university of california. he's a professor out there at the berkeley law school.and jong to us talk a little bit more about that is the chief congressional correspondent with the washington examiner. good morning. welcome to the program. guest: good morning. host: most of the headlines this morning talk about the nomination hearing in terms of his contentiousness between mr. liu and some of the republicans in the senate judiciary committee. explain that for us. guest: congressmen are accusing him of practicing judicial activism. they think when he comes to the court, he's going to interpret the constitution very liberally just by lookt his past writings and speeches. he's been a law sexrofere a law clerk, but they think by looking at his writings and speeches that he would be somebody who was on the ninth circuit court be a very -- use a very liberal interpretation of the snugs rather than following specifically, which is what a lot of republicans want. he has defend helpless by saying these were things that he said and wrote about as a professor to be sort of pro

he is a professor of political science at the university of california-berkeley. he has published extensively and american politics specifically on congress and american political development and he is well-suited to discuss the transformation of the senate and what the senate look like it mid century. he is maybe most well-known for two books he has written on the institutional development of congress. one called disjointed pluralism, institutional innovations in the development of the u.s. u.s. congress and another one called filibuster, obstruction and lawmaking in the u.s. senate. both of these book look historically at how the institution is change over time and i think he is going to share some of that information today. both of those books one bisphenol price, which is the prize for the best book in legislative politics granted by the american political science association. after eric, alan abramowitz will be speaking to us about elections. he is an expert on american politics, specifically elections and very specifically senate elections today. he is the au