johnson school public affairs at the university of texas a senior scholar with the levy economics institute of bard college and the chair of the board of the economists for peace and security he's written hundreds of articles and policy papers and five books including his most recent the predator state i'm pleased to welcome now from austin texas professor james k. galbraith professor deal with welcome welcome to our program. but even so glad to have you with us if we're not able to deal with the predator actually even before before that question let's define that you use the term predator state other times you've used the word predator class predator groups but are you talking about the role of the theme of the book which appeared in the fall of two thousand and eight was that. conservatives had long since abandoned any serious commitment to small government supposedly free markets i had come to a sensible and accurate realisation that the fundamental institutions of our economy were in fact those programs created in the new deal of the great society that these were not just peripheral to

on the session it's the max in this next headline texas university takes cue from kyle bass to hold one billion dollars in gold bars so the university of texas has the second largest and down it fund of any u.s. university the number one being harvard they have nineteen point nine billion in their fund and last year they added another five hundred million in gold holdings to their already five hundred million worth and they took physical delivery it's being held at h.s.b.c. in new york it's physical cold they took they didn't take g.l.d. or any of these e.t.s or paper gold you know who are the best family the vast family they are super wealthy they've been riding the ball for decades been writing the take out bull the leveraged buyout ball but the all the rallies that we've seen in stocks bonds over the past thirty years you know the vast families amassed a huge fortune playing. in the game now they realize that the game now is gold now what's significant is that up until recently no institutional players have stepped into the gold market there's no big university endowments fund no big pension fund this is the first shot across the bo

they were wrong paul and long those people alan cooperman a professor of public affairs at the university of texas at austin he's also an author and among his works this book the limits of humanitarian intervention. and alan i know that you've written a lot about this that and something that you said was that the u.s. involvement in libya is not only not preventing murder and suffering but that it's in fact causing suffering by innocent people and also prolonging the civil war in libya where is your evidence at this. well my my evidence is that the claim that was made by the obama administration that there was going to be a bloodbath that there was going to be even genocidal violence that he was deliberately intentionally massacring civilians my evidence is that there is no evidence of that in the other cities that qaddafi has captured either totally or partially and the latest data comes actually from human rights watch and what they found is that the victims in which is the third biggest city in libya only three percent of the wounded are women and what that tells you is that the violence by kha

all of her letters were in the university of texas, the great archives of the world. i was able to go on a traumatic day and see she had neatly kept hundreds of letters that my father and family wrote to each other in the 20s. i saw patterns, the anger that had gone on 60 years before i was on the planet that became stamped on us. it became our dna. >> anything that helped you get insight as to why so much of your brother's anger and passion into what you regarded as coo coo politics? >> that is an interesting question. it is hard. what i have learned is, i have written biographies, bingham family of louisville. we take a letter of a piece of evidence, there is a ah-huh, this anger daughter wrote a letter to her father. my grandfather working away in san antonio then adored this daughter, book dedicated to him. she was then gone up to new york and going to school at columbia. he wrote her a furious letter. >> your grandfather? >> yes. you have broken your promise and haven't been putting yourself full time, although the book would you say in the front of "new york tim

. >> reporter: the university of texas just put nearly $1 billion of their endowment into gold. literally storing more than 6,000 gold bars in a vault. but can this go on forever? this is what actor, economist and commentator ben stein told us in september when we did a story on the stunning rise in gold prices back then. >> i think people are counting on it to be a sure thing. are possibly in for quite a severe disappointment. >> reporter: that was seven months ago. so what does stein think now? >> there's no such thing as a bubble that lasts forever. >> reporter: despite his doubts, gold is up more than 18% since then. in fact, while gold is up big in the last seven months, it's not alone. stocks, including the old-fashioned s&p index, up 19%. apple's stock, 31%. oil, up 46%. even orange juice is up 14%. and you can drink that. so gold is not the only way to make money. >> putting all your money into an asset which pays no interest, pays no dividends, is an inert metal, makes no sense at all. >> we can probably get you the best rates available -- >> reporter: even jose caba at

shooting, the governor of utah signed a bill proclaiming the first official state gun, and the university of texas is about to become the second major school after the university of utah to allow students to carry concealed weapons on campus. clyde wilcox is a professor of government at georgetown university and author of several books on subjects like gun control and the christian right. >> the interesting thing is we've come to the point where the debate is over whether you can carry a weapon in a bar, in a church, in a gymnasium, which were the places in the past where we thought maybe you don't want to have a gun because fights can break out or people can become inflamed. so it's really on the edge that we're having this whole discussion now. >> jesus ministered to the most marginalized, and he didn't do it with a gun. he didn't do it with violence. he did it with love. >> i have been a man who has turned the other cheek. you're talking to a man who has been jumped by gangs and beat. you're talking to a man who's been in several knife fights. you're talking to a man who has been shot at, and y

dollars to a replace it with but when you can be a better example here in the united states university of texas has one of the largest economic adama it's in the in the world and they moved the they now own a billion dollars worth of gold with these thought blotted out and albertsons never used to think about touching something like we'll now even what's more important the university has decided not to leave its gold in the institutions in the positive or in the commodity exchange but to actually take physical to libya and this is a trend that is going on around who are around the country counterparty risk government risk or has people concerned around the world so it seems like it's in slow motion if you but if you fast for a couple of years a dollar will be very very different so that's part of the players what do you think a couple years on the dollar longer be the reserve currency are they going to give much longer term. and i've written about this in my book the dollar melt down because you know that foreign central bankers understand this the dollar will not last is the reserve currency o

brilliant teachers in high school and went to high school near buffalo, new york, and then at the university of texas i was a reporter and became a professional journalist after that, and that just, you know, that got my -- that got my muscles built a bit, and once i moved into the scholarship to get the sense that whenever i write something, i'd like to be read, not have my work sit on a shelf for the edification of my own career, but rather have engaging in important public discussions and i'd like my mom to understand what i write and so forth, so you know, i'm originally trained as a journalist, poorly trained nonetheless, it's what i did for the awhile, but i'm thoroughly happy with my position now as a teacher and a scholar, and it's given me great opportunities to talk about important issues with lots of smart people. >> what do you currently teach at the university of virginia? >> well, most of my job is teaching undergraduates about media, the changes in the media world: i teach a huge class called "introduction to digitallal media". there's 250 students in it, and we talk about big issues d

in operations research from the university of texas, of long one indeed. and finally, arturo vargas, the executive director of the national association of latino elected and appointed officials. the national organization of latino policymakers and supporters. prior to joining the national association of latino and elected and appointed officials mr. vargas was vice president for community education and public policy at the mexican american legal defense and education fund there he supervised and directed the organization's committee education and development programs. mr. vargas is nationally recognized as an expert in latina demographic trends, electoral participation, voting rights, census and redistricting. a pretty good portfolio. to the men, we are glad you're here and appreciate your preparation for today's hearing. his statements will remain part of the record. if you would like to summarize, that would be fine. if you go over five minutes, that's all right. if you go way over, that's not all right. lead us off, mr. castro. again, welcome. >> thank

but when i was a student at the university of texas i was appalled by the politicization of higher educationsystem, in doctor nation that was going on there. the way that touched things i cared about. regard to music and literature especially. and journalism also. that's what got me into being a conservative activist. my ideas reform pretty early. in lubbock high school, lubbock, texas, we had a required econ class and are required reading was milton friedman's book. as long as i've been organized local ideas to assure that the david brooks of the new kind became a conservative. maybe a little less of one. but milton friedman led a great many people down this road, and you'd probably take a look at your book and think a great many of his ideas have been expressed in 2011 fashion. still as he would have wished into. influence, preached and developed. i think with a very fruitful conversation that i think a lot of people will be angry about it when it's over. sorry they were not able to call in. >> guest: the working title is the end of politics and what comes next. that wou

now james galbright is an esteemed economist from the university of texas. he points out an interesting tidbit in the cbo projections, of course, every reporter writing about this uses these same projections. that's what everybody is talking about. and the cbo projects relatively large and increasing budget deficits over the next year. especially if the so-called bush tax cuts which we might rename now the obama tax cuts are not allowed to expire on schedule. he says it's an interesting thing that the cbo does. they assume that we will have inflation at about the same rate as now. one half or two percent. and they assume that interest rates will go from close to zero to 5% over the next five years. now i know that the worse thing you could do in public speaking is to get wonky, but this is crucial to understand. the only reason they raised interest rates is to attract buyers who the inflation is high. so it's pretty much impossible to have very low inflation as we have now or relatively low inflation and magically have them increase interest rates from almost

but at the university of texas law was really appalled by the politicization of the high your education system and the indoctrination was going on, the way that touched things i heard about regarding musette and literature especially. and journalism also. and that is really what got me into being a conservative activist. my ideas were formed pretty early. we had a required econ class and the required reading was milton friedman. as long as i had organized political ideas. >> host: that's how david brooks of "the new york times" became conservative, and maybe a little less of one, but milton friedman led a great many people down this road and he would probably take a look at your book and think that a great many of his ideas have been expressed in 2011 fashion and influence, preach and develop down the road. we've had a very fruitful conversation. i think a lot of people are going to be angry about it when they we are over and they were not able to call in. >> guest: the working title is the politics and what comes next and it's about how we are going to end up being much more free socie

no one goes to war over the tax-free is 35 or 48%, but when i was a student at the university of texas i was really appalled by the political season of the higher education system, the indoctrination going on there, the way that touched come and i cared about like art and music and literature especially and journalism also. and, that's really what got me into being a conservative activist. i mean, my ideas were formed pretty early. i had in high school in texas we were required an economics class and required reading was milton friedman and as long as we and political ideas and that -- patel david brooks of "the new york times" became a conservative and maybe a little less of one, but milton friedman led a great many people down this road. he would probably take a look at your book and think a great many of his ideas had been expressed in 2011 fashion you wished them to and the influence preached and developed. i feel we've had a very fruitful conversation. i think a lot of people are going to be angry when it's over and they were not able to call in. against the screen to bother me ev

guest: no one goes to war over whether the texas 35% or 30% but when i was a student at the university of texasi was appalled by the politicization of the higher education system and the indoctrination going on there, the way that such things that i cared about regarding music and literature especially and journalism also. and, that is really what got me into being a conservative activists. my ideas were formed pretty early. lubbock high school and loved it texas we are required econ class and their required reading was milton friedman's ability to choose. that is how david brooks of "the new york times" became a conservative and maybe a little less of one that milton friedman led a great many people down this road and you would probably take a look at your book and think a great many of his ideas had been express and 2011 fashion still as he would have wished them to. influence, preached and developed down the road. i think we have had a very fruitful conversation and i think a lot of people are going to be angry about it when it is over and they will be sorry they weren't able to colin. >> gu

board of trustees of the national urban league, deans council of the harvard kennedy school, university of texas college advisory board. mr. odom received a bachelors degree in mechanical engineering from the university of texas and m.b.a. from the university of houston. we are thrilled to have you here and look forward to your thoughts on critical energy issues we face today. we will then take questions from the audience as i did before. please write them down on cards and we will get them up front. >> thank you very much. it is good to see everyone. quite a nice crowd this morning i have to say. it is a pleasure to be here with what is likely the most energy informed audience in washington. i think it is fair to say the most energy informed audience anywhere. i would like to begin with what might seem like the obvious. i think that it establishes right up front what has to be the starting point of any conversations about energy, whether you are in the u.s. or anywhere else. in the statement i will start with this one, there are things that we know and things we don't. and what we know and what

he was a graduate of the university of texas, and the university of michigan law term. it was a judicial law clerk to harry edwards here in the d.c. circuit as well as sandra day o'connor in the united states supreme court from 2003-2004. it is our great pleasure that have dr. winter and mr. grimsley here. >> please to be here this morning. i will be presenting the results of the national academy investigation into the causes of the deepwater horizon. i will know that that i will be presenting what had been our interim findings which were first released back in november, and because of the process than -- that the national academy goes through with a formal peer review one of our findings, the next phase of our report which hopefully will be available around june has yet to be released. i will be giving you the report that we gave to the secretary and the staff back in november. in fact, i will be using the same charts for the most part during the presentation. on our activities in the reason for it, the national academy of engineering does such study as a matter of cou

the medication is inhaled, not injected, and was developed at the university of texas. mice were given potentially lethal doses of the influenza virus and all survived. the treatment boosts the immune system and unlike current vaccines it appears to fight all flu strains. the new treatment has not been tested on humans yet but researchers say it holds, quote, great potential. the flu kills up to half a million people worldwide every year. >>> in japan, the president of tepco, the company that tones the crippled nuclear power plant, visited an evacuation center this morning for the first time. he bowed and he apologized for the disaster. tepco has been accused of ignoring warnings about earthquakes and tsunamis and reacting too slowly to damage. >>> toyota announced this morning that because of japan's earthquake, it cannot resume full production of vehicles before november or december. toyota has a major shortage of parts that are made in northeast japan. meantime, nissan says they're checking all of its new vehicles for radiation to make sure those vehicles are not cont

. >> says "playboy," number ten, university of california, santa barbara, number five university of texasthe university of western ontario. >> interesting. >> i know, right? is number four. penn state. and number one, your alma mater the university of colorado of boulder. >> bulldogs you know what i'm talking about. >> stories for us? >> the number one party school when i was there as well. i'm not saying i had anything to do with that. >> polka time. >> we polka'ed a lot. >> i bet that you did. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ c >>> this morning on "world news now," deep divide. just how far apart are the house, the senate, and the white house on the budget? >>> the political muscle being flexed in the federal program cuts that could hit home. it's friday, april 15th. >> announcer: from abc news, this is "world news now." >> good morning, everyone. i'm peggy bunker. >> and i'm mike marusarz in for rob nelson. >>> well, the budget battle is putting republican paul ryan against president obama and his democratic supporters in an intense fight over the federal money and the deficit. >> yeah, a lot of fighting w

and that phd in operations research from the university of texas. longhorn. mr. vargas, the executive director of the latino elected officials. prior to joining the national association of latino affect original elected in imported officials. he was the vice president for community education and public policy at the mexican-american legal defense and education fund, where he supervised and directed the organization's community education and leadership development programs. mr. vargas is nationally recognized expert in latina demographic trends, of electoral participation, from voting rights, the census, and redistricting. we're glad that you're here. we appreciate your preparation for today's hearing. your entire statements will be made part of the record. if you like to summarize, i will be fine. if you go over 5 minutes, that is fine. if you go way over five minutes, that is not all right. mr. castro, welcome. >> mr. chairman, i commend you for exploring ways to use information technology to improve the census. it cost approximately $13 billion, more than any s

of the total texas natural gas production. and in south texas, a very exciting development there with the eagleford shale. according to a recent study by the university of texas at san antonio, the long-term regional implications of the boom in south texas is staggering. according to the study, under modest assumptions, by 2020, the shale is expected to account for close to 11.6 billion in close state product, $21.6 billion in economic output impact, and support close to 67,000 roughly 68,000 full-time jobs. the haynesville shale in texas was not commercially viable until a few years ago, but it is now thanks to advancing technology. i recently went to a drilling rig outside of texas that represents the latest improvement on horizontal drilling using more energy efficient engines, leading to shorter drilling times and reducing the impact on surrounding areas. the proliferation of these domestic resources has contributed to texas' ability if not unique nearly unique in this recession to actually add jobs to our economy. yet the job creators and workers on the particular rig were anxious about what they could expect from washington in terms of addition

he was a graduate of the university of texas, and the university of michigan law term. it was a judicial law clerk to harry edwards here in the d.c. circuit as well as sandra day o'connor in the united states supreme court from 2003-2004. it is our great pleasure that have dr. winter and mr. grimsley here. >> please to be here this morning. i will be presenting the results of the national academy investigation into the causes of the deepwater horizon. i will know that that i will be presenting what had been our interim findings which were first released back in november, and because of the process than -- that the national academy goes through with a formal peer review one of our findings, the next phase of our report which hopefully will be available around june has yet to be released. i will be giving you the report that we gave to the secretary and the staff back in november. in fact, i will be using the same charts for the most part during the presentation. on our activities in the reason for it, the national academy of engineering does such study as a matter of cou

he was a graduate of the university of texas, and the university of michigan law term. it was a judicial law clerk to harry edwards here in the d.c. circuit as well as sandra day o'connor in the united states supreme court from 2003-2004. it is our great pleasure that have dr. winter and mr. grimsley here. >> please to be here this morning. i will be presenting the results of the national academy investigation into the causes of the deepwater horizon. i will know that that i will be presenting what had been our interim findings which were first released back in november, and because of the process than -- that the national academy goes through with a formal peer review one of our findings, the next phase of our report which hopefully will be available around june has yet to be released. i will be giving you the report that we gave to the secretary and the staff back in november. in fact, i will be using the same charts for the most part during the presentation. on our activities in the reason for it, the national academy of engineering does such study as a matter of cou

. >> i am the chairman of the university of texas in austin, texas. i worked as a civil engineer for about 30 years now. i started my career from shell in houston. for the last 2.5 years, i've been teaching and traveling. my background is in applied mathematics and physics more than anything else. iowa work also on the intersection of energy supply systems and ecosystems and dynamics of sustainability of the human race. the results are not positive. my hope is that not only will we achieve progress here, but we will also manage to keep public interest in this extremely important area of intersection of the highest energy supply for humanity and also impact on the environmental systems. >> good morning. i am the assistant minister of the u.s. epa. i spent many months with david dealing with the response, including many weeks and the gulf. -- in the gulf. we recognize that are prepared this was not as good as it should have done. a spill with significant impact on the livelihoods' of people. i met with many community members and i saw the consequences t

. >> i am the chairman of the university of texas in austin, texas. i worked as a civil engineer for about 30 years now. i started my career from shell in houston. for the last 2.5 years, i've been teaching and traveling. my background is in applied mathematics and physics more than anything else. iowa work also on the intersection of energy supply systems and ecosystems and dynamics of sustainability of the human race. the results are not positive. my hope is that not only will we achieve progress here, but we will also manage to keep public interest in this extremely important area of intersection of the highest energy supply for humanity and also impact on the environmental systems. >> good morning. i am the assistant minister of the u.s. epa. i spent many months with david dealing with the response, including many weeks and the gulf. -- in the gulf. we recognize that are prepared this was not as good as it should have done. a spill with significant impact on the livelihoods' of people. i met with many community members and i saw the consequences t

of the total texas natural gas production. and in south texas, a very exciting development there with the eagleford shale. according to a recent study by the university of texas at san antonio, the long-term regional implications of the boom in south texas is staggering. according to the study, under modest assumptions, by 2020, the shale is expected to account for close to 11.6 billion in close state product, $21.6 billion in economic output impact, and support close to 67,000 roughly 68,000 full-time jobs. the haynesville shale in texas was not commercially viable until a few years ago, but it is now thanks to advancing technology. i recently went to a drilling rig outside of texas that represents the latest improvement on horizontal drilling using more energy efficient engines, leading to shorter drilling times and reducing the impact on surrounding areas. the proliferation of these domestic resources has contributed to texas' ability if not unique nearly unique in this recession to actually add jobs to our economy. yet the job creators and workers on the particular rig were anxious about what they could expect from washington in terms of addition

university of texas or something said that. hing to part of your brain that makes you remember and learn better. don't ask why. >> ethanol exposure. >> when we drink our alcohol subconscious is stimulated and you learn to be creative. >> there are benefits, but you should not abuse it. >> we have an announcement on this plam. there was an apology. >> about time. >> tori spelling came on our show. when asked a direct, straight-forward question. >> hard-hitting news question i asked. >> which was? >> are you pregnant? >> and she said this. >> everybody would be very delighted, very thrilled if you're expecting another mcdermott. >> we hope currently, but we are not expecting. >> you wanted me to ask. >> i never brought it up. >> that was clearly an untruth. we are thrilled for her and the baby, but it's kind of about us. >> they're fun. >> yesterday it was so funny. we got a flower delivery from tori and dean. it's in the shape of a dog. she said they were in the dog house. here is the card. >> she is a very sweet girl. >> dear ka

of the total texas natural gas production. and in south texas, a vey exciting development there with the eagleford shale. according to a recent study by the university of texas at san antonio, the long-term regional implications of the boom in south texas is staggering. according to the study, under modest assumptions, by 2020, the shale is expected to account for close to 11.6 billion in close state product, $21.6 billion in economic output impact, and support close to 67,000 roughly 68,000 full-time jobs. the haynesville shale in texas was not commercially viable until a few years ago, but it is now thanks to advancing technology. i recently went to a drilling rig outside of texas that represents the latest improvement on horizontal drilling using more energy efficient engines, leading to shorter drilling times and reducing the impact on surrounding areas. the proliferation of these domestic resources has contributed to texas' ability if not unique nearly unique in this recession to atually add jobs to our economy. yet the job creators and orkers on the particular rig were anxious about what they could expect from washington in terms of additional

university. best wishes, mr. steinberg on your future endeavor, and you have a long and distinguished career, served as design of lynn done b. johnson affairs at university of texas and vice president and director of foreign policies studies at brookings institute, you served as deputy national security adviser to president clinton and held a number of positions at state department, including chief of staff, director of policy planning and deputy assistant secretary in the bureau of intelligence and research. you hold a b.a. from harvard, a j.d. from yale. i'd like thank you for your help in securing the freedom of three journalists who had a direct link to my area in south florida. thank you for taking my call and so many calls about their predicament. thank you for your help in making sure they got home safely. mr. steinberg, you are recognized. >> thank you, madam chairman. thank all of you for the kind personal words people working on the winter wardrobe and looking forward to wonderful winters in syracuse, but the beautiful springs, summers and falls. i'm grateful for the opportunity to meet with the committee to update you on developments in libya and answe

i went to the university of texas, but there was an amazing program that a college student started actuallyh a school boat in one of the most marginally -- marginalized places in austin. you would go and spend time and to do these kids, and it was so successful that it really change the trajectory of the students' lives, and it is now one of the best schools in austin in one of the poorest neighborhoods, and a college students started that. there are so many ways. my sister just started and non- profit call the global health corp., which uses the teach for america model to give a recent college graduates to give clinics -- get them in clinics around the world. i was at an age conference -- a conference in san francisco, and i met two kids from stanford, and they were the founding team. it was two kids from stanford who were seniors, and then my sister, we have been out of college of of a longer, and that is ok. nobody judged us because of our age. and then one of the founders of global held court had already started a very profitable group. i think a lot of people underestimate how dynamic

and then retired from there the being placed in what seems to be kind of the republican think tank called texas a and m. universitywhere our current department of defense head but gates had headed up the george bush school of public administration or something like that then ryan crocker has been in there in an interim time until he was brought back in by the obama administration as well as you're saying you're saying that the obama administration is just continuing the ultimately the water and legacies of the bush administration so so who's pulling the strings hit a couple home. well the administrator can certainly is just shuffling around it's the same people one could say that the congress certainly is. in the war spending mode still here it is ten years said at the great peril of the national. security of the united states the budgets that have now over fifty five percent of the american budget is related to military expenditures and yet we see schools that are laying off tens of thousands of teachers we have a health care system that's going down the tubes and yet we spend fifty five percent of our budget. as

university. best wishes, mr. steinberg on your future endeavor, and you have a long and distinguished career, served as design of lynn done b. johnson affairs at university of texas and vice president and director of foreign policies studies at brookings institute, you served as deputy national security adviser to president clinton and held a number of positions at state department, including chief of staff, director of policy planning and deputy assistant secretary in the bureau of intligence and research. you hold a b.a. from harvard, a j.d. from yale. i'd like thank you for your help in securing the freedom of three journalists who had a direct link to my are in south florida. thank you for taking my call and so many calls about their predament. thank you for your help in making sure they got home safely. mr. steinberg, you are recognized. >> thank you, madam chairman. thank all of you for the kind personal words people working on the winter wardrobe and looking forward to wonderful winters in syracuse, but the beautiful springs, summers and falls. i'm grateful for the opportunity to meet with the committee to update you on developments in libya and answer the

you have impressive backgrounds, professor hill, harvard, university of texas.g time to share your views with us. my fellow new yorker, always good to see someone from new york testified. have been in charge with the attorney general's office in new york. the peace corps. i am glad to see you associated with that. and george washington university. you went out of your way to explain you had no particular knowledge of health care providing institutions. i assume you didn't think that was necessary in order to testify about aarp. >> i did not think it was necessary to express the opinions i was asked to expressed with respect to the report. hypothetically i am in charge of any further investigations this is a subject i would have to become an expert in and i would become an expert. >> you are not familiar with what aarp really does. you're given a hypothetical and give your professional opinion. >> a treated my report as if it were hypothetical. >> it is the practice down here that republicans and democrats select different witnesses to support their case and you

there was an amazing program in east austin, i went to university of texas -- like i said before -- butthere was this amazing program that a college student started, actually, partnering with a school in one of the most marginalized parts of austin, east austin. and we would, everybody would go. i mean, it was what you did. you would go and spend time and tutor these kids, and it was so successful that it really changed the trajectories of these children's lives, and it changed the school. i mean, the it's one of the best schools in austin now in one of the poorest neighborhoods. and a college student started that. you know, there's so many ways. my sister, i have to brag a little, has just started a nonfor profit called the global health corps which uses a teach for america model to get recent college graduates into health clinics around the world. and we started this, i was at an aids conference in san francisco at google, and we met -- i met, i mean, she hadn't met him yet, she was still in new york, but i met two kids from stanford. and they were the founding team. it was two kids f

of my personal history that has nothing to do with what i started with. and, that is, in 1971, i was hired at a public school in texas. i had just graduated from the university of houston. i weren't to work as a public schoolteacher in east texas. i had a 66 dodge dart. i wish i still had it. they are great cars. at a 66 dodge dart and i started out on telephone road, the telephone road of the steve earle song. i crossed the houston channel, one of the most polluted oddities of water in the nation. i was an occasional -- a casual worker on the docks and there were warnings about the possibility of death should you fall into the water. on down highway 90, i passed -- i knew it miles before i got there, i passed across the san jacinto river. on my right was the slot pit which was later an epa superfund site. in this pit, 100 ship channel companies dumped 70,000 gallons of industrial waste of the backs of their tanks. it went on through 1970 and it did in 1970. i get to lynchburg ferry with road and i turn right. crosby texas was rigidly segregated by i-90, barrett station on the right, 100% black and i would differ slightly with professor kaufman and that i do

university of connecticut men's basketball team won the ncaa championship. but the real championship of college basketball was held last night in indianapolis, where texas a&m women's championship. a local news crew set up shop at a bar in college station, texas. now, this is where presumably they would be very excited about texas a&m and the celebration was wild, to say the least. >> well, guess what? tonight, the lady aggies basketball team won it all, a national championship. our reporter kevin reese joins us live with all the activity at college station. they have to be excited. kevin? >> very excited. this place is still hopping. you can see the folks still here celebrating. how is everybody doing? good. [ laughter ] >> jimmy: can i get an order of chicken strips? [ applause ] everybody's doing just fine. probably celebrating on the inside. it must be a sleepy week for sports or something. i don't know if people are resting up for football or what, but this is a video taken in the stands at the yankees game on sunday. and this is why you should never, ever fall asleep in the bronx. okay. that's two. three. that's four -- oh -- you can credit him with f

the clerk: senate resolution 142 congratulating the lady aggies of texas a&m university on winning the 2011 national collegiate associate division women one basketball championship. the presiding officer: without objection, the senate will proceed to the measure. the presiding officer: i ask unanimous consent that the resolution be agreed to, the motion to reconsider be agreed to. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. reid: i ask consent we proceed to s. res 143. the presiding officer: the clerk will report. the clerk: senate resolution 143 supporting the goals and ideals of national safe digging month. the presiding officer: without objection, the senate will proceed to the measure. mr. reid: i further ask the resolution pw-bl, the preamble pw-bl, there be no -- the preamble be agreed to, any statements related to this measure appear at the appropriate place as if read. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. reid: i ask consent that the appointments at the desk appear separately in the record as if made by the chair. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. reid::

of my personal history that has nothing to do with what i started with. and, that is, in 1971, i was hired at a public school in texas. i had just graduated from the university of houston. i weren't to work as a public schoolteacher in east texas. i had a 66 dodge dart. i wish i still had it. they are great cars. at a 66 dodge dart and i started out on telephone road, the telephone road of the steve earle song. i crossed the houston channel, one of the most polluted oddities of water in the nation. i was an occasional -- a casual worker on the docks and there were warnings about the possibility of death should you fall into the water. on down highway 90, i passed -- i knew it miles before i got there, i passed across the san jacinto river. on my right was the slot pit which was later an epa superfund site. in this pit, 100 ship channel companies dumped 70,000 gallons of industrial waste of the backs of their tanks. it went on through 1970 and it did in 1970. i get to lynchburg ferry with road and i turn right. crosby texas was rigidly segregated by i-90, barrett station on the right, 100% black and i would differ slightly with professor kaufman and that i do

university 70-62. mack led butler with 24. >> the pga tour touping up for masters. and phil mickelson was on fire in texas. round three of the shell houston open and lefty was feeling it. we start with anthony kim. for birdie. 40 feet. on line. the right speed? bottom of the cup. 69 for kim. 11-under. scott verplank made a run on 10. second shot from 85-yard, and it's in the hole for eagle. 1450695 today. 13-under. and tied for the tournament lead with lefty. on 6. if anyone can make this shot, it's phil mickelson. nails that for par. but mickelson made plenty of birds, nine of them. including this one on 18. after sticking his proorchtion ties the course record with a 9-under 63. best run in two years. >>> women's first major of the year at rancho mirage. michelle wie playing well. her approach on 16. nearly holes out. wie, 3-under 69 today. minus 6. another young gun, morgan pressle. bottom of the cup. your leader isyani sting. she has two-stroke lead. >> a little tennis. key biscayne florida, women's finals, sharapova and azarenka. sazarenka dominated. sharapova with 43 unforced errors. falls to 0-3 in the finals. aza

before i went to the university of missouri school of journalism i went to a small college in texas call victoria halfway between houston and corpus christi on the texas gulf coast and in order to get the money required to go to missouri later i worked eight hour the day at the bus depot. for two years. one of my duties was to call the buses on the epa system and here's what i did. may i have your attention please, this is your last call for continental railways, air-conditioned through houston, now leaving for ines, el campo, beasley pleaded children rosenberg, staffland, and houston, all aboard! don't forget your baggage please. why that is relevant is if i had not done that and would not have been able to go to the university of missouri because i couldn't have afforded it and you should know that was the first time i was ever paid money to speak into a microphone. thank you very much. have a great seminar. [applause] >> thank you. you got us off to a rousing start. good morning and welcome. my name is barbara cochran, i in the curtis b. hurley chair for the university of missouri. i