i am personally overjoyed that she is coming to us from chicago which is my own, motter. dr. nussbaum however is an academic who quite commonly makes ivory tower into the civil sphere and is brought any conversations about practical justice, goodness and back to the academy with her. as a philosopher professor nussbaum strives to be a lawyer for humanity. i have heard her quote often. with an early background and

julie sandon joins us from chicago and attorney donna fillborn. >> i would imagine the most concern isthem? >> well, that depends on the size of the space that they need. but it is not a specific requirement that the space has to be a certain size. i think they said 4 by 6 that they wanted electrical outlet, a chair. so is unsubsidized. the employer has to make that decision themselves but it can be costly. more on the side of the unpaid breaks and also the idea that other employees that have special needs aren't getting these breakrooms and so there is going to be problems there as well. >> shannon: and let me ask you about that. if you do believe that this is necessary for this specific group, where do you draw the line? how many groups are going to be able to demand special treatment? >> we already do take care of other employees that have disabilities. title 7 requires that we do that. i don't think this is going place any undue burden or cause different employees to be fighting with each other. if you read the language of the law, it is pretty nondescript. it doesn't require a lar

i'm personally overjoyed that she's coming to us from the university of chicago, which is my own alma mater. dr. nussbaum,, however, is the sort of academic who talks about the ivory tower and brought many conversations about practical jurisdiction, goodness back into the academy with her. as a philosopher, professor nussbaum strives to be a lawyer for humanity. with an early background in drama she has moved into classics and then philosophy and then constitutional law. she talked for 20 years at harvard and brown and is a professor of law of ethics at the university of chicago. she divides her time between the philosophy department, the divinity school and the law school and if that's not enough, the department of south asian studies and also the human rights program. she's a world expert on virtue ethics and was written and talked on the emotions and ancient ethics of sexuality, hinduism and the emotion of shame and disgust as they relate to constitutional law. this is a topic she picks up once more in this most recent book which is part of oxford press's inalienable lights she app

. >> stacey bell and sheila bell joining us this morning from chicago. thank you for your time.. time for another check of the weather with mr. lonnie quinn. >> good morning to you, sir. good morning, everybody. lots of nice smiling faces out here. just quickly, we have to get a birthday wish out. where is he right now? >> london. >> he's stuck this, right? >> yeah, he's stuck because of the volcano. >> well, we wish your pappa a safe trip home. the toughest weather will be in texas. a low pressure system pulling in a lot of gulf moisture. so two for four inches of rain is possible. flash flooding, as well. we have mountain snow in colorado, but 8,000 feet to pick up a foot, maybe a foot and a half. that's a quick look at the national picture. here's a closer look at the weather for your weekend. >> i'll do one of my favorite things, the shout out. and it goes to indoi, california for tens of thousands of fans are gathering for the festival, some of the artists taking the stage jay-z. we want to thank everybody for watching "the early show" on local 2. thank you very much. >>> y

joining us now from houston is republican strategist and from chicago, democratic strategist.w we will start with mark, because i am thinking well, does this mean there is for room in the democratic party for a pro life democratic like stupak? if it were a republican "moderate," announcing republican after a bruising legislative battle that would be the media spin that it is a small part of the republican party and now a pro life democratic who was popular is calling it quits. >> on the contrary, the democratic leadership from nancy pelosi to the white house has been clear they would like stupak to remain, this was a personal decision. he actually believes, has to believe, that this is going to be an incredibly difficult, uphill fight for him coming into november after the tea party express blows $250,000 into your district how are you competing with that? he saw the writing on the wall, did he not? >> there is absolutely no doubt. like or hate your congressman or woman they know their district, lawyer -- and he got elected in 2008 with 69 percent of the vote, and polling said

jane: jim is a personal trainer, lifestyle expert, joining us from it looks like chicago today, a beautiful high home town. i'll try to follow that and get my abs in shape. >> i'll see you on memorial day! >> okay, thanks. jon: how close would you get to that thing? storm chasers go after a dangerous twister. we'll show you how close they got to this monster. >>> plus a new study on violent video games featuring a blot of blood and guts. you probably don't want your kids watching them but could they have a real medical benefit for some people? jane: you know they say everything is bigger in texas. have you seen this videotape? take a look at t a tornado, a bunch of storm chasers following it across the eastern part of the state, three tornadoes spotted in that area. listen. >> i think they just said they have another tornado behind us. jane: janice is watching the area today. j.d., would you be in that truck videotaping this thing? >> no! and i urge people, don't try this at home, especially in areas that are going to see potentially more of this type of scenario across texas. unbelievable

joining us now live from chicago, mr.ould be for you and my dad. i'm at sears. they're expecting a big crowd here because there's $6 1/2 million of the federal government's money to be spread amongst the people of illinois and today, also in texas and florida and all you've got to do is get a piece it was is bring in an old appliance and buy a new government labelled energy star appliance. so starting today, people in, like i said, florida and texas and here in illinois, are going to be bringing in their old stuff, their old refrigerators and washing machines and dishwashers and getting new ones at a discount of 15% off with uncle sam picking up the tab for the money off and at places like here at sears, they're offering even more money off to make sure that people come in and they get the extra business and retailers are saying that this is going to mean big bills. >> what kind of forecasting of four times extra amount of business over the weekend through the hype that's going around this program. it could be a couple of

from the newsrooms. wow, that's some pictures. >> crazy, that's exactly what the cops told us, this was crazy. i'll show you fox chicago news. ened added first, it was a dispute as a party and a group from the party went to an address on marshfield avenue and police received a call of multiple shooting victims. they put in a plan, a lot of ambulances, five ambulances and police cars try to secure the scene. when they think it's secure, police started getting fired on and the chaos broke out. two people fatally shot n all, 16 people shot. police responding and all of a sudden some gunman turned the gun on the police. police calling this a crazy situation. right now police still investigating the situation and still on the scene there. this was a stringer who went down when he heard about the first shooting, got in the middle and then the second shooting and we got the money shots. police still investigating, we're working on it and hope to have updated information and a full report on the fox report tonight. >> tim gaughan, good friday to you. >>> the teen, the barefoot bandit, has terrorized business owners on a washington st

from chicago. thanks so much for joining us. e, tamron. >> some are wondering if this is going too far. i know 113 people killed in chicago since january. but why the national guard as a solution? >> well, the fact is we have a real problem here. that number of 113 people, that's the same amount of u.s. troops we've lost in iraq and afghanistan combined during the same time period. our police department is doing an excellent job and doing the best that they can but the fact is summer is just around the corner. with that comes an increased spike in violence every year historically. we need to do what we can to flood the hot spots to put more bodies on the street. when people hear the national guard they think troops and tanks and machine guns. what i'd like them to think is trained law enforcement members that can come in and aid the chicago police, work with them to have more patrols and keep those neighborhoods safer. >> but, you know, i mean obviously in a case of hurricane katrina we understand national guard troops. right now

mary joins us from the nation's capital and roland is in chicago. guys, what have you got?campbell, what everybody else got, which is scotus buzz, big, tabbreviation. every time something like this comes up it's going to be a giant fight. >> right. >> in the last several of them, they've become so choreographied. >> right. >> and they're so well-organized. and this president doesn't want a fight. and he is not going to pick somebody that is going to go up there and get everybody all gassed up and already volatile. >> right. >> mary, the day of great supreme court battles in the senate are gone. you had bourque. you had clarence thomas. those are gone because you're right, there are lessons learned from that. either side doesn't want to do that. but also, the last few picks they've been replacing people who are similar on the court. the real issue is going to be when you have a republican president and a liberal member steps down or if you're going to have a conservative court member step down under a democratic president. that's the only time we're really going to see a big

from us for a while. a big surge of warm air ahead of the system. high temperature in chicago was 83. that is the ms that will be visiting us during the holiday weekend. high pressure will be in control. it will be dry and warmer as we head towards friday and saturday. the lesson tonight, mostly clear skies when you wake up. it was too late in the morning today and was warm in the afternoon. that will happen again tomorrow. temperatures will be close to 80 degrees in the afternoon. the average high temperature is 60 degrees. if he will take the boat out, a good day for that. 10 not. waves 1 foot or less. on saturday, a weak cold front will approach from the northwest. it will come through saturday night. there will be no precipitation. a nice surge of warm air and close to 80 degrees. as the front moves down into the carolinas on sunday, it will cool things off a little bit for easter. it will stay dry. 78 tomorrow. 80 on saturday. 74 on sunday. that is still way above average for this time of year. nice holiday weather wise. high temperatures will be in the 60's early next week. >> m

you know, half pakistani, half american, using chicago as a facilitation point for operations in india, denmark and elsewhere. we have seen five young men from virginia turn up in pakistan on their way to the fatah. we continue to see a trickle of individuals, somalian ancestry heading to east africa. so while i think that we are doing well, you know, the nature of the threat is always changing. >> thank you. let's open it up now for comments and, questions from the floor. if speakers could please identify themselves and wait for the microphone. we have the first question here in the front row with raymond tanter. >> hi. ray tanter, georgetown university. ambassador benjamin, thank you for your service to our country and our outstanding presentation. i wondered, you tended to use the word violent extremism, words like islamist never came out of your mouth during your speech. and some people think that the obama administration has turned its back and not taken the war on terrorism, if may use that term, as seriously as the result of the fact that you don't talk about role of islam. reminds me of when rob litak led the way with term rogue stat

the resolution reminds us of the polish american artist from chicago who just finished a memorial tothe victims of the katyn massacre where his father perished. the united states congress joins poland and countries across the globe in mourning the death of such extraordinary leaders. in the words of this resolution, we express strong and continued solidarity with the people of poland and all persons of polish descent. and we're so blessed that the dean of this delegation and this congress, mr. dingell, shares that honor, brings luster to his polish heritage as well as other members of our congress as well. the resolution offers our unwavering support for the polish government as it works to cover -- to overcome the loss of many key officials. let us strive to live up to their legacy of hope for a brighter future for poland, europe and all humanity. this morning i had the privilege of joining congresswoman marcy kaptur and congressman mike quigley, who was there before us and others who have gone to the polish embassy to sign the book of condolences. we're very proud in doing so we jo

from chicago, thanks, phil. >>> airlines promising not to charge for carry-ons, after spirit airlines announced it was implementing the unpopular fee. chuck schumer, from airlines, delta, united, ussed not to charge a new baggage fee for items passengers bring on board. smart of them perhaps. >>> "rolling stone" magazine inviting readers like you to check out its 43 year archive, which would be pretty cool. there's always a catch. let's get the scoop from cortney hazlet. >> you can file this under really smart as well. the reason be this isn't like rolling stone saying how do we make money, we'll do it any means possible. what they are doing is intelligently looking at what they have, which is a fascinating 43-year archive that really chronicles one of america's most interesting facets of history, pop culture. they are saying, here, everyone can look at it. this is how it will work. buy a monthly pass $3.95, allow you to look at archive stuff for the month. breaking news, slide shows, the things we like to click on when we're killing time, those things will still be free. when you're going back to the archives, that will cost $3.59 a month. however, you can get a year long pass f

from arkansas in chicago that cries to be politicians, come up millionaires? -- not rise to be politicians, come out millionaires? these people are keeping us working and making good money. let them make it. these people are smarter than i am. let them make it. host: joann lublin, you've got the last word. guest: i think that people -- the point of view would certainly be shared by a lot of ceos i have known in my time. host: joellen goodland is the managing news editor at -- joann lublin is the managing news editor at the "wall street journal." thanks for joining us. and thanks to all who have participated in today's program. we will see you all again tomorrow at 7:00 a.m. eastern. [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2010] . .

chicago. able to draw insights from items as mundane as a bottle of tide left on the sidewalk as a boy submits to a pat down this leaves us realizing our country remained gripped by the same myths, fears enthusiasms we had since we settled the prairie only in modern times. this is america, land of unexpected siblings and strange adoption of change, adaptation and surprising ancestry. when i was young, she writes, i believed this would of telephone wires was beautiful. now i tell my sister those polled, these wires -- it is innocent, my sister reminds me but nothing that remains unrepentant. this is telling us the story of our country and it is one we never saw coming. we congratulate you. [applause] >> i didn't allow myself wild imaginingss so i have nothing to say accept there is no award i would rather receive, an award from people who care about books and read books for a living. it is incredibly meaningful. i know there is some attica's that offers are not supposed to talk about their reviewers but i do want to thank lindsay because she wrote three reviews of my book and they were not only positive, but they were revi

joining us now from new york is former federal prosecutor ann marie mac i have and from chicago steveger a criminal defense attorney. steve, let me start with you. you are in the belly of the beast of chicago. chicago machine, chicago style politics. is this one more twist in the curvey road with blagojevich to try to now bring the president into all of this? >> i think the part of blagojevich's defense in everything is that this is how things were always done in chicago and in illinois. and there was horse trading that went on. but what the government has done is they have got a number of witnesses who say that we talked to blagojevich's people and then we went and we talked to obama or obama's people. the smart move on his part. the government may not want to present that evidence because they may not want obama coming in. a defendant has the right to present any and all relevant evidence that evidence that will help in his defense. if there is something that obama can shed light on it's relevant and reliable. the fact that the president will not shield him from something to testify

the resolution reminds us of the polish american artist from chicago who just finished a memorial to the victims of the katyn massacre where his father perished. the united states congress joins poland and countries across the globe in mourning the death of such extraordinary leaders. in the words of this resolution, we express strong and continued solidarity with the people of poland and all persons of polish descent. and we're so blessed that the dean of this delegation and this congress, mr. dingell, shares that honor, brings luster to his polish heritage as well as other members of our congress as well. the resolution offers our unwavering support for the polish government as it works to cover -- to overcome the loss of many key officials. let us strive to live up to their legacy of hope for a brighter future for poland, europe and all humanity. this morning i had the privilege of joining congresswoman marcy kaptur and congressman mike quigley, who was there before us and others who have gone to the polish embassy to sign the book of condolences. we're very proud in doing so we j

from arkansas and chicago that rise as politicians, come out millionaires? are we going to go after them as well? people are investing their money, keeping us working, making good money. let them make it. these people are smarter than i am. let them make it. thank you. host: joann lublin,

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you really believe this congress and administration will go ahead and use a vat tax to reduce the deficit? these guys from chicago, illinois. state of illinois is ready to go under. i don't trust these people at all. we need to go to a flat tax. host: isabel. go ahead. >> a vat is very similar to a flat tax. if people are in favor of a flat tax, they should be more in favor of a vat. i think it makes a lot more sense. i suggest all those people get on board with the vat. i like the idea put forward just keep the income tax excuse everybody else from ever having to file a tax return we could lower the corporate business tax what would be the out come. that would be $150 who never had to file the income tax return not only because it takes money you feel you've earned. also because they hate the complexity and burden a nice thing about a vrn at or flat tax is is that everybody pays it because everybody buys goods and services more than half of the u.s. public pays income tax the majority is voting on benefits. >> if we eliminate income tax, a good chunch already reporting if we have an income tax and vat, we could

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they spoke with everyone from stevens brother, his children, people who work with stevens when a lawyer and judge in chicago, president ford when still with usointed stevens, donald rumsfeld who was instrumental in having stevens appointed in, a former clerk in ruth spader ginsburg, so a number of people they interviewed required tremendous amount of time and research and that is out and up to 10 years. >> what kind of competition do you have in this blacks we should not for they and others that at age 90 the longest serving justice and he has several decades of legacy of the courts. have there been other big works on his career? >> there have been had touched on stevens, there's a good book that looks at every specific part of his judicial career but nothing that is a true biography in this book really personalize stevens. he's a man who is beloved by the people we know him so in addition to covering his very important work in his influential professional life it also presents really entertaining anecdotes about his personal life and stories from people now him best and love him, so this is really the most complete look at stevens the man t

they spoke with everyone from the stevens brother, his children, people who work with siemens when he was a lawyer and judge in chicago. president ford when he was still with us, donald rumsfeld who was instrumental in having stevens appointed, a former clerks ruth bader ginsberg ginsberg. a number of people they interviewed required a tremendous amount of time and research. >>host: what type of competition and do you have been in this space? we should note to age 90 the longest serving justice he has decades of legacy of the courts have there been other big works on his career? >> other books of have touched on stevens one looks at a very specific part of his judicial career but not a true biography. this personalized stevens he is beloved by the people that knew him so in addition to covering his important work and intellectual and professional life but also represents entertaining anecdotes about his personal life and stories about the people who love him best this is the most complete to look at stephens the man and concerned it could not match it is in scope so and i thank you for staying with us. and independent life and we're talking with the publisher

spoke with everyone from stevens' brother, some of stevens' children, people who worked with stevens' when he was a lawyer and judge in chicago. president ford, when he was still with us, who appointed stevens, donald rumsfeld instrumental in having him appointed, former clerks and ruth bader ginsburg. >> and so the number of people they interviewed required tremendous amount of time and research and that is how it ended up to ten years. >> and what kind of competition do you have in this space? she is, we should note for the audience, he is 90-years-old, the ljungqvist serving justice. have there been other works on his career? >> there have been other books that have touched on stevens. there's a good book that looks at a very specific part of his judicial career but nothing that is a true biography. and this book really personalized stevens. he's a man beloved by the people who know him so in addition to covering his very important work and his influential professional life it also presents entertaining anecdotes about his personal life and stories from the people who know him best and let him the most so this is the most complete look at stevens, the man, that is

us. he has a white mother. she's from hawaii. she is backed by the university of chicago, highly controversy institution on the south side especially for black folks. and also, his money is coming from white people, from shoes. it got really ugly and he got beat so bad that certainly michelle obama was not eager to repeat the experience and really almost left politics for the life of a little of this, a little of that. writing, teaching, may be running a foundation. was that close. >> people who are successful are often successful because they fail. if they learn the proper lessons from their setbacks. >> absolutely. >> what did he learn from that and how was he able to move forward? >> he learned he's not bobby rush. he learned he's not a guy that is going to succeed by trying to out-bobby rush bobby rush. he started going on trips of the state, the counties, the suburbs around chicago. he starts going south in the state with a kind of old political hand from the state legislature named dan showmen and he's been visiting -- and he starts to see that white people at vfw i

spoke with everyone from stevens' brother, some of stevens' children, people who worked with stephen's when he was a lawyer and a judge in chicago. president for but he was still with uswho appointed stephen's. donald rumsfeld was asked about and having stephen's appointed. former clerks and with ginsberg. so the number of people required a tremendous amount of time and research them and that is how it ended up to 10 years. >> what kind of competition do you have in this space? we should know for the audience, age 90, the longest-serving justice. he has got several decades of legacy on the court. have you been other big works on his career? >> there have been other books i've touched on transport. there's a good book that looks a very specific part of his judicial career. but nothing that is a true biography. and this book really personalized stevens who is a man who is beloved by the people who know him. so in addition to covering is very important work and his influential professional life, it also really presents really entertaining anecdotes about his personal life and stories from the people who know him best and love him the most. so this is really the most comp

from our nbc chicago station, wmaq. the superintendent says he's being careful about the case of the student who hung herself after being bullied. >>> a search -- the video shows three police officers using their batons to beat the university of maryland student after a basketball game. the student had been charged with suspicion of assaulting officers on horseback. joining me now by phone is andrew ellis. commander ellis, i appreciate your time. if you can, articulate to us what the investigation has shown or what led to this incident. >> we first became aware of this yesterday afternoon after reffing a copy of the tape. we launched an internal investigation to identify the officers. looking at the tape, it's clear to us that the officers used excessive force in arresting the student. >> so this was released just within the last 24 hours or so. why is it being released now and not something we knew about earlier? >> whoever took the video never brought it to our attention. we have not received any internal affairs complaints as a result of police actions after the civil disturbance after the game. this tape, we didn't know it existed and the attorney from the student released it yesterd

use chemicals and enzymes to abort a fetus. authorities contacted the fbi about the flyer, the postmark is from a chicago suburb, mailings went out to groups in a dozen states. jon: most americans work more than three-months just to pay their tax bill. but according to the tax policy center, a d.c. research group, about 47 percent of u.s. households won't pay any federal taxes at all for 2009. how can that be? stuart varney, anchor with the fox business network is here. i was amazed at that percentage, nearly half the country. >> this is not widely known. roughly half of all the households in america pay not a single dime in federal income tax. either their income is too low to cross that taxing threshold or they've got so many deductions it puts them below the taxes threshold. about half pay nothing. jon: i said federal taxes, you're saying federal income taxes, they may payroll taxes. >> if you work you obviously pay social security tax, that's a payroll tax, you pay it, regardless of income, you pay it, but when it comes to federal income taxes, 47 percent of households pay nothing at all. jon: so i was reading that it's possi

us airways have been badly hit by the recession and had to cut capacity. >>> now here's a look at the national weather. chicago could see flurries from a system which brings several inches of snow to parts of wisconsin and michigan. new orleans, pittsburgh, and atlanta can expect some rain, thunderstorms and possibly some severe weather. >> it's cooler than usual and rainy in the northwest with seattle only in the upper 40s. new york city will be 83 instead of the usual 58. phoenix and baltimore tie for the hottest spots on the map at 84. >>> i think it's probably safe to bet this guy from california gets a lot of looks while he is out walking his dog. take a look at this freak show going on there. so that is a cat and a rat riding on top of the dog. apparently they all really get along quite well. the trio, who are named booger, kitty and mousey, tour the country with their owner gregory pike. >> pike told onlookers during a stop in texas he hopes people will be inspired by the animals and learn to just get along. don't be surprised to find out of course video of the threesome is a major hit on youtube. >> i don't see this friendshi

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chicago. >> we want to hear from you. should the national guard be called? ? think about it. go to our blog and leave us a message. we'll share your comments on the air later in the newsroom. you know, it's been nearly a week since an oil rig exploded and sank off the gulf of mexico. crews are scrambling to find ways to stop it from leaking. right now, an unmanned submarine is being used to try to shut off the valves. about 42,000 gallons are gushing out every day. the leak goes as far as a mile down and an oil slick on the surface has grown to about the size of houston. wow. >>> a painful cleanup effort is under way after this weekend's deadly tornados. at least ten people killed in mississippi. two in alabama. reynolds wolf is in a hard hit city in mississippi. reynolds, tell us exactly where you are. look at that scene behind you. >> reporter: it's hard to believe, tony. this is basically the stamp of a storm that came through here. it was a mile wide from where you happen to be and the viewers tuning in, seeing this on the screen. the storm came from behiemd you and back over to the watertowers. the storm, inc

us. he is a white other. he is from hawaii. he is backed by the university of chicago highly controversial institution on the southside especially for black folks and also his money is coming from white people, from jewish. it got really really ugly and he got beat so bad that certainly michelle obama was not eager to repeat the experience. and really almost left politics for a life of a little of this, little of that, writing, teaching and maybe running a foundation. he was that close. >> people who are successful often say this because they have failed if they learned the proper lessons. what did he learn from that and how was he able to move forward? >> he is not a bobby rush. he learned he is not a guy who is going to succeed by trying to out bobby rush bobby rush. he starts to go on trips throughout the state. collar counties, the suburbs around chicago. he starts going south into the state with an old political hand from the state legislature named dan shulman and he has been visiting and he starts to see that white people at vfw's in the southern counties, who a

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they stole and spent in from somewhere and a john died in -- jogging died for every one of their friends that got in chicago. [cheering] our friends on the left would like to divide us paying attention. we are all united because we are active today here in the chris country because we all want one simple thing from our government. we want to be left alone. [cheering] on taxes, that is what i work on, leave our earnings alone. [cheering] some people focus on their families. the home school, they will their children left alone. [cheering] the board of directors and the national rifle association. [cheering] we ask one thing of the government to leave the second amendment rights alone. [cheering] we don't know, where neighbors stores and told them they have to be hunters. we don't insist every fourth grade child in school [inaudible] we simply wish to be left alone. the other team is a takings coalition. setting the ground hillary clinton and barack obama and nancy pelosi and harry reid's table are the trial lawyers, labor unions, the big city political machines, the wings of the dependency movement, the people who are lost in the welfare dependency and the people who

us on c-span. some of the other headlines this morning from "the washington post" and a copy of some of the mills. let's hear from you. this is on the independent line from chicago. what do you think will happen this week? caller: they're definitely need to be some regulations put into place. i was on the ground when the ino dollar was developed at the chicago mercantile exchange -- though euro-dollar. it became the largest trading commodity ever. the banks would not take the responsibility of regulating their own markets -- this is what has to be done. they have to be brought into an exchange as a result. performance bonds need to be placed on both sides. that would be so that there is financial responsibility behind. when it derivatives first cannot i would ask people what a derivative was. they would say you know, you know -- it is a thing. what there were trying to describe was a call and a put -- the right to be long and the right to be short, respectively. but they extended the meaning of a derivative into airspace. they came with all these financial instruments with no responsibility whatsoever behind them. the situation with goldman in contention is that

they stole and spent in from somewhere and a john died in -- jogging died for every one of their friends that got in chicago. [cheering] our friends on the left would like to divide us paying attention. we are all united because we are active today here in the chris country because we all want one simple thing from our government. we want to be left alone. [cheering] on taxes, that is what i work on, leave our earnings alone. [cheering] some people focus on their families. the home school, they will their children left alone. [cheering] the board of directors and the national rifle association. [cheering] we ask one thing of the government to leave the second amendment rights alone. [cheering] we don't know, where neighbors stores and told them they have to be hunters. we don't insist every fourth grade child in school [inaudible] we simply wish to be left alone. the other team is a takings coalition. setting the ground hillary clinton and barack obama and nancy pelosi and harry reid's table are the trial lawyers, labor unions, the big city political machines, the wings of the dependency movement, the people who are lost in the welfare dependency and the people who

from the opening bell. here's a rundown. we'll see how chicago traders reacting to dow 11,000 and the ten-year near 4%. then it's back to business for capitol hill. senator judd gregg tells usattle over financial regulatory reform that continues to play out. and we have the stock of the day eventually. which is a huge highlight for -- >> and you've been thinking about all morning long. >>> let's get to our headlines this morning. there's a bailout plan in place for greece. the aid package would make 30 billion in euro available with the imf ready to contribute another 10 billion euros. however the greek government would have to ask for the money for the plan to be activated. that's something not done yet. >>> gasoline prices on the rise again. lundberg survey say average pump prices rose by 4 cents the last three weeks to $2.85 a gallon. more than 80 cents higher than a year ago. >>> solid opening for the box office for the new comedy "date night." it earned more than $27 million during its opening weekend. that put it in a virtual tie with last weekend's box office champ "clash of the titans." >>> the futures indicating a gain of somewhere under 20 points all morning. let'

us 10 years ago. we were blessed that father coughlin had worked with cardinal bern canned bsh -- bern canned -- bernard in chicago and he was recommended to our former speaker who was from illinois and was well-known to the people of chicago that connection is the connection that has blessed all of our lives. so as we honor his 10 years of service to the congress, that is a small number of years -- it's a long time to be in congress and to serve as chaplain. he has seen us through the dark and through the bright. he has helped us personally and he has helped us understand our responsibilities of -- to god's creation and he has always understood his generosity of spirit has given him an understanding so that when he speaks to any of us we know that we are hearing words of wisdom, words of values, words that are -- that recognize our responsibilities to this great nation as elected officials. he knows to render unto caesar and to render unto god. we could not be better served. so it is with great joy i join our colleagues, some little regret they had not placed me in a situation where i could be where mr. sensenbrenner and his wife cheryl were last weekend and mr. lipinsk

they stole and spent in from somewhere and a john died in -- jogging died for every one of their friends that got in chicago. [cheering] our friends on the left would like to divide usargue that we are not united. they are not paying attention. we are all united because we are active today here in the chris country because we all want one simple thing from our government. we want to be left alone. [cheering] on taxes, that is what i work on, leave our earnings alone. [cheering] some people focus on their families. the home school, they will their children left alone. [cheering] the board of directors and the national rifle association. [cheering] we ask one thing of the government to leave the second amendment rights alone. [cheering] we don't know, where neighbors stores and told them they have to be hunters. we don't insist every fourth grade child in school [inaudible] we simply wish to be left alone. the other team is a takings coalition. setting the ground hillary clinton and barack obama and nancy pelosi and harry reid's table are the trial lawyers, labor unions, the big city political machines, the wings of the dependency movement, the people who are lost in

use and support. all types of libraries, schools, public and academic participate. the city of chicago is home to exactly 79 public loy brears -- libraries and many public libraries with information ranging from cultural specific research to academic. in my congressional district, the seventh congressional district of illinois, we serve as home of the headquarters for the american library association. i am proud to have this great organization in my district, and i am pleased that many of its staff members are my constituents. we have libraries that are renowned, both public and private, sauches the -- such as the harold washington library. at a town hall meeting in westchester, illinois, one of the trestees of the loy brear board -- trustees of the library board made it known to everyone present that loy brears are vitally -- libraries are vitally important and i was pleased to agree with him. i also want to congratulate robert morris college, one of the academic institutions in my congressional district, for their installation of a new library that recently opened its magnificent -- mag anyway sense. i thank you, mr. speaker, and i yield back the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore:

from state law enforcement people that they inform us of any such examples. and we really got nothing. having said that, predatory lending exists. on tours that i've taken in suburban neighborhoods in chicago for example, we have seen evidence of it. and it comes back to a point that i have made several times about the way loans are underwritten to the essence of predatory lending is making a loan without regard to the borrower's ability to repay. with the lines being placed on the body of the equity in the property. it is the predatory lenders are really interested in stripping equity that people have built up in their homes, and that's why there is a much higher degree of foreclosures with respect to true predatory lending, than other types of lending. and that's the reason why we have emphasized on so many occasions the importance of underwriting practices that look at a borrower's ability through their regular resources, to handle the interest and principal payments on loans without regard to the collateral. it's that very fundamental principle of loan underwriting is observed, it's a cure for a lot of the bad things that we have seen. >> good, they get. >> mr. georgiou, do you have a

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