different point of view about these important american rights; who believes it is more important for us to be in the mainstream of international thinking even though that represents a view of rights far less than the united states' right and it is far more important for us to be well viewed in the international community than it is to strictly adhere to those rights that are embodied in our constitution. that is extraordinarily troubling to me. some of his views are breath taking as they've been asserted. i know he has met with some of our colleagues. that he is apparently, in addition to being very intelligent, very charming, and that his essential position is, well, that's what i said this a speech but i'll recognize my obligations as a member of the administration. i think that we are all informed by our views and if we care enough about them to speak out in a way that he has as frequently and as forcely as mr. koh has done, it is difficult to believe that all of a sudden in a moment of his confirmation he will forget about everything he said and what he believes is conform his representation

and they have cars that used to be in the u.s. market. they haven't been in the market for a while. the question is how long it takes for them to bring the vehicles into the u.s. market and what kind of platforms they will introduce. but i think there is technology there that chrysler feel they can benefit. host: to chicago we go, this is our independent line, welcome. caller: yes, i would like to say that americans need to learn more about european vehicles. almost everyone is building the diesel vehicles that are getting more mile acknowledge. -- mileage. and americans are brain-dead about this. and in the united states they had a special program where they all developed diesel-electric cars and when bush got in, they were shoved under the rug. host: you talked about diesel. guest: i am a fan of diesel, and the caller is correct, that diesel in europe is more widely used and it's taxed less in europe. and when diesel have a price differential you see consumers respond to that. and it's a point. host: is there intermissions with diesel? guest: no, it took a while to meet the califo

used to be one of them, you knew certain things as a political figure, he used to be the guy in the house who is going for the foreman a pop on hardball, now you are the guy who is entering the guy doing the formative a pop on morning joe? what have you learned since being on the other side of the table about politicians and that you have a known? >> guest: i should not say this. thank you so much, connie chung said to newt gingrich's mother, just between you and me. there are notable exceptions, but i am surprised my how bad a lot of politicians are at getting their message across. how effective they are. >> host: effective because they don't know how to to mitigate or are they not that bright or not to that well read on their subjects to or are they in an ideological or philosophical to graft? what is their problem? >> guest: you tell me, has the quality of senator gone down over the past 20 years? >> guest: i don't know, the quality of house guy gone down prexy used to be in their. >> guest: i don't know. i am surprised by some questions that have that can be inserted by leaders of bot

to foil the fiat deal. what is your take on the fiat deal? guest: fiat is popular in europe and has a lot of models there. also some cars that used to be in the u.s. market. they have not been in the market for a while, so the question is how long does it take for them to bring those vehicles into the u.s. market, what kinds of platforms it would be introducing. but i think there is technology that chrysler believes it can benefit from. host: to chicago we go. been on the independent line. caller: americans need to learn much more about international automobile design and engineering. almost every country in europe is already presently deal -- building diesel cars that get over 80 miles a gallon and most americans are brainwashed about diesel. they know practically nothing about them. even here in america when clinton was the president, the united states government together but the american auto companies have a special program where they all developed diesel electric cars that get over 80 miles a gallon to 90 miles down and as soon as bush got in the whole thing was shoved under the rug. host: you talk a little bit about diesel a few

we both have partners named joe who used to be in congress and did not know when to stop talking. [laughter] and happening now, wolf pulitzer is here. -- blitzer is here. the only man in america with his own situation room. people assume that-cooler, but this is not the case. as far as we have tried, we have not been able to generate the band with necessary to turn larry summers into a hologram. [laughter] we can't do it. one person they know could not be here tonight is secretary hillary clinton. as most of you know, hillary broker elbow a few days ago on her way to the white house. we all wish for a speedy recovery. i do have to say, while it has been reported as an accident, there were some suspicious circumstances. just before the incident, secret service spotted richard holbrooke sprang to be 40 all over the driveway. -- spraying wd-40. on top of the cost of health care and energy, we have another fiscal problem. fortunately, the lawyers telerate -- tell me that hillary is ready to settle. [laughter] i have to admit, it was not easy coming up with fresh material for this dinn

to do in different places. this is $35 million right now. can you tell me why this funding has been used? >> this is peculiar to the special operations and requires that the funding be used to support the ongoing special operations. this is enabling the forces to extend their operations through the use of surrogates and counterparts, to conduct activities in partnership, of the operations forces, and this is an authority and not an appropriation -- appropriation, to recommend to the secretary, after coordinating with the commander and the chief of the mission, in the country. to utilize $35 million of funding, from within the special operations budget, so this is an issue of prioritization, within the budget. this is enormously important because this is a fund that is focused -- and is used for well correlated purposes, and in a closed session i could provide more detail about how this has had an effect across the world. >> this is a program that we strongly support. the importance of the interagency cooperation which is increasingly important, as you look at this globally as a counter insurgency, there are a lot of places that will have to come together to make thi

proceedings, and journalism has really enabled this group to continue through the years, and for us to be in a position to host this very important forum. i think it is interesting that john talked about confederate memorabilia in a museum that he lovingly enabled. i think it is a great starting point for this form and all of the differences that bring us together. even the passions may be very strong. take the confederate flag and confederate insignia which as john indicated, was a custodian of the part of history, but not trying to be racist about it, just it being part of history. another one of our speakers who below the later is going to talk about his father, charles walker senior coup in georgia was probably the state's leading opponents of the use of confederate insignia in the state flag. the insignia was put in not in 1856, but in 1956, specifically to indicate resistance to integration orders that had come before. charles walker senior was very well-known in georgia, a very divisive figure on the confederate flag issue. that may have played a factor in his prosecution, particularl

help is going to be there for them as they try to find a new economic path for themselves and their families in the midst of this economic hardship. what are you going to be asking of us and how we can help minimize the kind of economic blows these communities are going to be facing. response to the questions. >> thank you, senator. let me try to address your three questions if i can. in terms of equity stake, let me answer that this way. the size of the stake and the determination was done through the following process. the first thing that happened was the companies put forward a business plan which we vigorously reviewed and challenged them on but event kbrully came to a business plan. a financial need was determined because we saw how much money they needed to right size their business, to take the necessary steps. in the case of general motors in the bankruptcy to pay off some of the secured debts. there were a whole variety of needs that the company had. that determined the sort of starting point from the discussion. the second step was directly on your point, which was how do you determine how much should be debt and how much should be equity? and obviously as

be a more interesting way to have a conversation. it was the ambassador's suggestion, and i think that it'll be a lovely way for us to start a very nice monday morning inwashington on this holiday week. so you did just have an election. >> yes. >> let me turn on your mic for you. >> yes, we had an election in india and, you know, it's always a huge scale just to give you an example, you know, it had about 714 million eligible voters. out of whom 460 million cast their votes, 830,000 polling booths and i think the important aspect is that the whole process was conducted smoothly and that the outcome was perhaps better than predicted by our media pundits, who were apprehensive that the verdict could be a bit fragmented involving a lot of jostling in coalition formation. in the event the indian voter showed that he can make smart choices and the election is seen as a vote for continuity, stability, performance and good governance going beyond the bounds of identity politics. i think it puts india in a strong position to continue the policies of inclusive economic growth and to be a ambassador for the u.s. as a partner. >> so we were a little bit surprised

we have partners named joe who used to be in congress and don't know when to stop talking. and happening now, wolf blitzer is here. he's the only man in america with his own situation room. people assume that mine is cooler, but this is not the case . as hard as we've tried, we have not been able to generate the band width necessary to turn larry summers into a hologram. [laughter] >> one person who could not be here tonight is secretary clinton. hillary broke her elbow a few days ago on the way to the white house and we wish her a speedy recovery. i have to say, while it has been reported as an accident, there were some suspicious circumstances. just before the incident, secret service spotted richard holbrook spraying wd-40 all over the driveway. on top of the costs of health care, energy and the recovery plan, we've got another fiscal problem. fortunately, the lawyers told me that hillary is ready to settle. i have to admit though, it wasn't coming up with fresh material for this dinner. i was up tossing and turning trying to figure out what to say. i rolled over and aske

and we are concerned that a thousand of them are going to be using that in trends close to brolin. we are informed that the bowling will be getting 8,000 new people on top of the people may have and am sorry if i could finish and get an answer to this question i'd appreciate it -- and that a thousand and reno a thousand will be using this malcolm x area to make their entrances to saint elizabeth with an interchange. could i ask you given the good work you all have done on shepherd's parkway to facilitate this a federal project whether or not and i should let you know that the district, of course, is not going to take care of this federal project with in any highway fund it has -- whether there has been discussion within the federal highway administration of how this matter can be resolved. this major transportation matter for making sure this a thousand people dead in to this new development? >> i know that several our federal lands on his have been actively involved in the santa elizabeth project. i done of the specifics of where they are right now in the issue you referred to so i

justice o'connor used to be in so many cases a critical vote. justice kennedy often plays that role now. why should we say about the place of justice kennedy in the court? fifthly, is the court today more receptive, or i should say less receptive to nontraditional legal sources? the warren court was famous, like in brown versus board of education, for having social science data in its footnotes. is the present court less receptive to data in this respect? one might think of the argument over the use of comparative or international law data, which has been somewhat controversial. sixth, what are the methodological debates? justices into debates about textualism, regionalism, and questions of that kind. seventh, " trend, if any, would you care to remark on from the beginning to the present time of the roberts court? are we able to paint any kind of picture of this particular court? i mentioned to the declining dockets. he was not here to speculate on how cases appear to be decided on merits. number nine, what i call avoidance techniques. there are

to work in other agencies of government inside the national capital region. most of the agencies that you would expect and perhaps some that you wouldn't normally expect us to be in in small teams, typically two to four people with an 06 colonel or a navy captain as the team leader. we also wake up every day at our headquarters at macdill air force base in tampa with about 140 members of other agencies coming to work in our headquarters. important members of the team sitting in on all the discussions, thinking in on all the global collaboration kinds of briefings, and this has provided a transparency in the interagency environment that's very helpful. and i -- it's hard now having seen it in action for a few years to imagine to remember back what it was like before we looked -- back when we used to look around a room and see only uniformed members. it real is a good, solid team effort at this point. >> this is something i want to encourage. getting people from the different agencies to actually work together side by side, day in and day out with each other in different forms. you have done an excellent job as you mentioned of sprinkling people out in other pla

and, so, i don't want us to be in a situation where we pass legislation that, again, you mentioned it yourself. we say well, okay, we did health care. we did health care back in 2009. we don't need to take that up for another 10, 12 years. and, again, we have made a promise to individuals. we've given you a card. but we haven't put anything behind that card. so, again, i throw it out for discussion. and i offer it as a challenge as to how we provide for a level of care that is equal in rural parts of america as it is in our centers where we have some of our finest medical research facilities and hospitals. >> let me thank our colleague from alaska. others may want to make a brief comment on this as well. i think you raised an excellent point. obviously, we're going to try and do in this bill of increase the number of nurse practitioners and primary care physicians and do a lot more to encourage people to move into -- i think there is a natural encouragement for the health care profession but the cost of doing so can be prohibitive. so that will take time. but you're correct. and this

they also have some cars that used to be in the u.s. market. they have been in the market for a while but it looks like the question is how long it takes for them to bring those vehicles into the u.s. market, what kinds of platforms that will be introducing but i think there is technology there that chrysler believes it can benefit from. >> host: to chicago we go, dean of our independent line. welcome. >> caller: i would like to say americans need to learn much more about international automobiles. most every country in europe is presently building diesel cars that get over 80 miles per gallon and most americans are brainwashed about diesel engines. they know practically nothing about them. even here in america when clinton was the president, the united states government together with the american auto companies had a special program where they all develops diesel electric cars that got over 80 to 90 miles a gallon and as soon as bush got in the whole thing was shoved under the rug. >> host: thanks for the copper co you talk the little bit about

them with information as happened in the madoff case, they have the ability to understand it and pursue it. it's about being humble in the information that comes to us that there's real value in what's being presented to us. we need to reward whistleblowers as the irs and other agencies do when they bring us well formed cases and documentation, a fraud that we can then pursue. it's about filling the regulatory gap through rules like the custody requirements i just spoke of, so we're sure the regulatory regime, coupled with aggressive enforcement, coupled with the tools and the skill sets combine to create an agency that's absolutely committed and focused on investor protection. i'm sorry, that's a very long answer. >> no, it's very good answer. i thank you for it. i going to turn to senator collins and return in later rounds. >> thank you, mr. chairman. ms. shapiro, you talked about the increased number of positions that you have requested. as part of the fiscal year '11 budget, 2011. but, in fact, the president's budget for this coming fiscal year does not allow you to hire any new positions, is that correct? >> that's correct, senator. the increas

. >> there is reason for us to be cautious in our dealings with iran. there is not yet a final outcome of the process that they are engaged in internally her to demonstrate to their own people the credibility of the electoral process that has just been completed. so i am well aware of the daunting challenges ahead of us or any group that tries to deal with the regime. having said that, i think the president has made clear that we're going to watched this unfold and we're going to act in america's national interests. that is what this is about. it has never been about iran as much as it is as the values and the goals of the u.s. we remain committed to doing all we can to try to prevent iran from becoming a nuclear weapons power. we are going to watch this and we are going to engage our actions accordingly. >> what sense do you get that these events might have enhanced the prospects for engagement? >> i am not going to do a value judgment on what they may or may not have done. i am going to reiterate that everything we intend to do is in light of how we vi

that something happens in that family that puts them at risk, and all of the sudden, they find themselves without the ability to care for their child or spouse, and none of us want to be in the position and none of us want to see our constituents in that moment. we won't solve that problem, obviously if we pass a bill five minutes from now. i realize that there are provisions that don't kick in immediately, and i realize that it won't solve the answer immediately, but the idea to come up with some kind of security that the family is counting on us is something we

justice o'connor used to be in so many cases the fifth and critical vote. justice kennedy is often maying that role out. what should we say about the place of justice kennedy on the court? fifthly, is the court today more less receptive to non-traditional legal sources. the warren court was famous in brown versus board of education for having social science data in its footnotes. is the present court less receptive to data of that kind? in this respect, one might think about the argument over the use of comparative or international law data, which is somewhat controversial. sixthly, what about the method logical debates? do justices enter into debates over things like text ulism and originalism and questions of that kind? second, what trends if any, would you care to remark on from the beginning to the present time of the roberts' court? it has only been four years, but are we beginning to paint any kind of picture of this particular court? eighth, i mentioned the declining docket. does anyone care to speculate on why fewer cases appear to be decided on the

because very often what's being conveyed to us is information that's specific only to a browser that's used to customize advertising but that level is what the user is able to opt out of inms of that data being used. >> right and there are different levels -- if you're just going onto a browser and i think miss wong talked about that and go on google and do a search there's different information maybe just my ip address and if i use yahoo! for an email account i'll give you more information and you'll have information if i choose to opt out of that, what am i opting out there? are you not going to be collecting the data anymore or just not getting the targeted advertising? >> the way that we do it at yahoo! is that when a user opts out we're not using targeted information and using that information in that way. yahoo! uses wide search, email -- >> maybe social network services. >> exactly. so when a user opts out, we opt them of the delivery of targeted advertising but we also recognize that users may not want us to have that much information about them so we take great pains to deidentify the data as soon as we can. we spent over a year looking at every single product,

to work in other agencies of government inside the national capital region. most of the agencies you would expect and perhaps some you wouldn't normally expect us to be in, small teams typically 2-4 people with an 06 colonel or capital as the team leader. we also wake up in tampa with about 140 members of other agencies coming to work in our headquarters. full members of the team sitting in on all the discussions, sitting in on all the, all the global collaboration kinds of briefings, and this has provided a transparency in the interagency environment that's very helpful, and it's hard now having seen it in action for a few years to imagine, to remember back what it was like before we looked, back when we used to look around the room and see only uniformed members. it really is a good, solid team effort at this point. >> and that is something we really want to encourage. i think you hit upon the absolute key to it, getting people from the different agencies to actually work side by side day in and day out, and you've done an excellent job of springing some socom people out in other places. i think the nctc is a good forum for that, but we want to see that happ

funds may be expended for any new hires by the department that are not verified through the basic pilot program. section 5 to 30, none of the funds may be used to prevent an individual not in the business of importing a prescription drug from importing a prescription drug from canada. section 531, none of the funds may be used by the secretary to issue any rule which implements the notice of proposed rule making related to petitions for aliens to perform temporary nonagriculture services or labor. section 532, section 831 of the homeland security act of 2002 is amended. section 533, none of the funds may be used for planning or developing a national identification card. section 534, the president determines whether to declare a major disaster because of an event of any appeal is competed. the administrator shall submit to the committee on homeland security a report regarding that decision which shall summarize damage assessment information. section 535, if the secretary determines that the national bio and agro defense facilities should be located at a site other than plum island, new york, they should liquidate the assets through public sale. section 536, any official who

flexibility to allow us to use those funds if we believe there's a strong and compelling case and since we're -- all those thing are getting better in the financial system, i think to be realistec, there's a lot of risk ahead for us and we need to be careful to remind people that the flexible sit important. in the reserve fund the president put in the budget this additional reserve fund and in the abundance of caution against the possible they we could face a deepening crisis. we do not expect at this time to come back to congress to ask for authority to use those resources. i began by pointing out the $68 billion repayment thing because it does provide modest encouragement, i think, that we'll be able to get through this without having to put you in the position of coming back for substantial additional funds. >> and we appreciate that. i guess the question is out of $750 billion, $250 billion, even though it's a ton of money, it's like spitting in the ocean. >> you're right. we're a $14 trillion economy, this is a very bad financial crisis and -- particularly if you wait to solve them. >> i interpreted by your answer of the last question that you anticipate that the

and judges in our import, indeed, appear come are those devices being used in any recognizable way by the roberts court? tent, what about the interplay -- this question goes back to the warren court -- the interplay between the court and the democratic religious and ever political process? is there evidence that the justices on the prison guards are more inclined to want to respect decisions being made in some other venue than the court itself? and i would add in addition to that, what difference of any do fine in the courts cases to administrative agencies? today assumes some expertise or competence which the court are not over tune -- overturned. 11, a statutory interpretation -- how does the court reached statues? do they read them generously to sort of expand upon of a thing to be the core principles of the statute or are they likely to give statutes a more narrow or technical reading? and in that respect finally, and this again is to borrow a description, is impossible again to talk about the roberts court as being pro-business? is impossible to say that it's not very friendly to environmentalists? what would one say about questions like that? well, to say n

us. even if we wanted to. and none of us are talk act filibuster, it's all in response to the media. we're not proposing this. as you point out, it would be difficult for us to pull off anyway unless democrats joined in. >> newsmakers," with senator jon kyl, today at 6:00 p.m. eastern on c-span. >> the government funding of colleges, direct aid to colleges and their students is a late 1950's, early 1960's thing that has grown rapidly since then. >> hillsdale college never accepted goth funding and today, not even government-backed student lobes are admitted. >> title 4 of the higher education act is 400, roughly, pages long. we have a lawyer here in town who tries to keep the government from trying to give us money and i asked him to send me title 4, he said there wasn't any kwluse, i wouldn't be able to read it. >> hillsdale college president larry arnn tonight at 8:00 on c spn's "q&a," or listen on c-span radio oar download the c-span podcast. >> this week on prime minister's question, gordon brown discusses reforms in the parliament in the wake of misuse of expense accounts, and he discusses mortgage loans and funding for new discussio

to participate in reviewing the proposals that come in. that is the program that is very flexible, and will be able to be used in a variety of ways. >> if funds are not used, which is to say they're not obligated, the same is true in highways, if they're not utilize or obligated by the deadlines, they are reallocated to players that are prepared to use the money. we are not locked in to the distribution list you are seeing on your map. if funds are freed up, they will be moved. >> i am sorry, i am getting confused. is she next? >> i do things in the order in which people arrived. touchdown know if the staff ki track. miss richardson? >> i had an opportunity to go to 3 events with allocation of these recovery dollars being distributed and it is happening at los angeles international airport, recently with secretary napolita napolitano. i have seen great progress and i commend you. mr. paniati, i want to talk about what mr. chao was just asking you. you said through the efficient implementation of the recovery projects, fhwa has the key role in protecting families from foreclosure. it has energized working people of all sizes and is the lifelin

and there's also a way in which the culture of the academic world is tilted against us and more and more of the highly-educate ready educated not in engineering but in what used to be humanities, whatever it is now. so you're going to see a left wards tilt in people who have ph.d.'s. that in and of itself is not a huge problem but points to things that underlie. >> governor? anything to add to that? >> it's too soon i think to say. clearly there was an enthusiasm that i think stem from a lot of miscellaneous sources. for a lot of upper income people it was a luxury purchase. >> in a sense that he didn't seem a threat economically. and it was the history the national desire for change after a period of poor rilts which quite honestly was a fashion statement for some folks, some people, and i'm not disparaging that. people who wanteded to demonstrate their enthusiasm for a society which in which we could elect an african-american president, things like that. like this. not sure how that holds up over time. even since the election there's a lot of people who aren't quite so certain of their economic futures and the threats of higher taxes or severe restrictions on the

to be authorized. section 507, none of the funds may be used to make a grant allocation or to issue a letter of intent totaling in excess of $1 million. section 508, no agency shall purchase any additional facilities to be used for the purpose of conducting law enforcement training without the advanced approval of the committees. section 509, none of the funds may be used for expenses for any construction of which a prospectus has not been approved. section 510, section law 110-161 shall remain available in such sections applied to funds made available in that act. section 511, none of the funds may be used in controvention of the applicable provisions of buy america act. section 23512, none of the funds may be used to -- section 512, none of the funds may be used under the management and budget a-76 for services provided after june 4, 2004. section 513, the secretary shall research and procure new technologies to inspect and screen air cargo carried on passenger aircraft. section 514, except in section 44945 funds appropriated that are recovered or deobligated shall be available for the procurement or installati

in the case of general motors? >> absolutely. >> could i convince the chairman to do so it would be easier if that could be made available to us. >> in our case, i have no weight tm how many that is but we have been keeping some of them a better subject to litigation but i will come back to you. >> have either s of the spoken to brian? >> i have. >> have you exchanged e-mails with this individual? >> i think so, yes. i don't think i have addressed 12 him i think there may have seen and e-mails vivica would like to submit i would be particularly interested in those e-mails to be made available to the committee and made part of the record. i would like to spend some time before i finished up, the tar plans, a taxpayer funds paid by the employees of these dealerships have gone to fund the closing of these dealerships. i sit on the joint economic committee we see an employment numbers in excess of 9% 9%, heading for 10 and what will that look like after you decimate the steelers across the country? that is a rhetorical question but mr. kollek i did not intend to ask this but your story is so similar to a story i have heard done in

korean ships that may or may not be carrying weapons parts or contraband according to the latest security council resolution. can you give us a sense -- what that would mean in this particular case but also in future cases where we have intelligence that allows us to shadow other ships. >> going back to my point on being a global navy, the ability for the u.s. navy and the western pacific to be able to maintain contact on that ship is a function of being there. you do not whistle it up and send it forward. the fact that we have some good information is no coincidence. you made the comment about no enforcement. i think the resolution that is in place has significantly close down on a lot of options for that type of proliferation to occur. because the ship is prevented from bunkering for either fuel or water. and there are some provisions in the resolution that called for states to do more than they have in the past and i believe that it has been helpful in that regard. we will see how that plays out in the coming weeks. i do believe that the resolution with the added aspect of not giving a ship a place to go get pretty lonely out there and you have so much wa

us to do more work, we are the congressional oversight panel. if you want for us to do more work through hearings, and if you want us to be able to have more officials in front of us, bankers appearing in front of us, we cannot do this without subpoena power. i should say, there is plenty that we can do without this. we will be able to write a report to expose misrepresentation about the value of transactions, this has been valuable. and we have been able to deal with the other parts of the program. the treasury is not operating in the same way that it was operating before. let me turn your question, i want to say something about this. glass-stegel was about rest manipulation. they understood after the depression, that we have gone through these cycles every 15 years, and the banks were part of this, the banks were the risk takers and they would roll the dice and as long as they made money, the investors got rich, and then they took down everyone with them, taking down a lot of local communities. the basic understanding was that we cannot keep doing that, that is not going to work for us. you are not just hurting yourself, the one little business, that

in a way that you can use. . and if any country in the world should be leading these efforts, it's the united states. and it's time for to us take back our rightful position, leading the world on the future clean jobs, but we can only do that through changes in policy. if we sit back and watch as the battery research moves to korea and japan and other places, we will be buying the advanced vehicles from those countries. and instead we need to be supporting the advanced battery research that's being done in places like new york and my own home district. we were doing research on batteries at a national laboratory to make sure that we do a better job increasing the density and the safety of these things. this is a huge opportunity for us. as you said, it's a job creator and the costs, the opportunity costs of not acting really hits us in the west, i think, probably more than anyplace except for maybe where you have a coast line. we are reliant for our economy on water, on the water that falls just like it does in your district in colorado, congressman polis, and that water flows downhills and runs our farms and runs our fa

an agreement that allowed us to take responsibility and what the process is and it is available for them to understand what can be used. >> mr. spencer i know you are jumping in but go ahead. >> speak into the microphone. >> you asked the question of other dealers in a similar situations of the stores that were terminated, three of them were project genesis stores, one of them under way, we purchased a piece of land at chrysler's insistence, 1.$6 million in the market and that store was in the area they wanted to get away from. and quote we're undergoing construction and, if they agreed to hold off construction because of the market conditions for one more year than they cancel the franchise. we still own the church and their penalizing us for results in an area they want us to get out of. >> time is up. this cries out for further investigation i hope this committee will do a very thorough job as to what is going on in. in texas it looks like we have cleared the decks but of who we are clearing them for progressivity is about to make a lot of money on the re-emergence of chrysler. by to know who that is and what is in the works by have a nagging suspicion the

that something happens in that family that puts them at risk, and all of the sudden, they find themselves without the ability to care for their child or spouse, and none of us want to be in the position and none of us want to see our constituents in that moment. we won't solve that problem, obviously if we pass a bill five minutes from now. i realize that there are provisions that don't kick in immediately, and i realize that it won't solve the answer immediately, but the idea to come up with some kind of security that the family is counting on us is something we cannot quit on. not at this hour. not at this hour. i understand at some point others may say, i cannot support this bill that you put together and walk away, but let's not say that in the first 15 minutes of the conversation in effect of what is going to happen in the coming months, and that is not a conclusion that the american public wants us to make. they expect us to get the job done. >> thank you, mr. chairman, and i agree with almost everything you said. the essential problem that we have is that unlike every other major country on earth, we don't have a health care system. some people say that the cos

show us that parents can have confidence to view the programming in their homes without their children being exposed to violent and i would say indecent content. show us that the agency can think beyond its borders. i work with industry and government to create jobs. so does the fcc. we've got to expand entrepreneurship, grow educational resources and improve health care. that's just for starters. i wind up saying let me remind you the congress and the american people look to you for these reforms. i thank you for joining us today. i was proud to meet your family who you must introduce after chuck introduces, senator schumer introduces you, and your willingness to serve. i am awed by your willingness to serve because you're going to be a lot older when you're finished. and i look forward to your testimony. >> i think i should let the ranking member go first. >> mr. chairman, i do have an opening statement but i would be happy to let senator schumer introduce the nominee. i would be happy to. >> please go ahead. >> okay. mr. chairman, thank you. thank you forolding this hearing. i have met wi

now, i used to be a bucket toter, i was a bucket toter here in the senate for two year, went to the house, i was a bucket toter over there as a staff member. my box kathleen sebelius says you're in charge of health care. well i was in charge of everything, window, rug, administrative assistant, whatever else. agriculture, too. but every time that we would get into problems with our hospitals, our doctors, our home health care people, clinical la, everybody in the health care delivery system it was because of some goofy thing out of the hqs on a cost containment

i think it would be helpful in response to our hearing. >> we will detail how we think the facilities we have can be used to minimize the concerns that you have expressed. >> and then the final question in this area is, senator sessions has pointed out that it would be against the law today to release a terrorist or accused terrorist into our -- into the united states and into our society. can you comment on -- i mean, if that's not an option in other words, the resolution of the president's dilemma here about closing guantanamo does that mean releasing anyone into the united states then i guess we don't have to worry about it. but if it does include that option, what is your response to the point that existing law the immigration nationality act would make that a crime or would prevent it from happening? >> well, certainly the house has already passed as part of its supplemental appropriations bill -- i guess, identity going to be considered by the senate and what i'm hearing, my intelligence tells me it's going to be passed by the senate so there will be provisions in that bill that would forbid the br

to stop along with some of the other abuses. use of non committed to rating systems and what they called pre-existing conditions. there'll be no recent decisions in the public options and there'll be none of the other uses which we are seeing in the insurance practices that are now offered to the american people. in consumer protections will be established in that option that private companies have so far refused to do. so we're going to create competition and going to create choice and we're going to see to it that the public auction included in this bill will not only see that people are treated fairly and have the option of having the kind of policy they might want available public or private but will also establish benchmarks regarding fair pricing and drive innovations that will help reduce long-term cost growth. the public auction will ensure competition in the areas where there are few private plans they're the only alternative two this that i see is counting on the insurance companies to fix the problem, they have had 50 years to do it in more than i can tell you that is a terrible thought to me. while there may be some differences in opi

being treated however they were treated? general petraeus has said in his judgment that the release of these photographs will help recruit additional terrorists, additional jihadists to the team and they will be used to spur actions against our military, against our troops in the field that might not otherwise be there. and so i don't think it's too much of a stretch to say that the release of these photographs in all likelihood will result in additional deaths and injuries to american troops that don't have to occur. the senate language would restrict acksess to these photographs which is the right thing. the white house said these photographs should not be released. i encourage my colleagues on both sides of the aisle to support our motion to instruct because it does make sense to not release these photographs. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields back the balance of his time. the gentleman from california. mr. lewis: madam speaker, i yield two minutes to the gentleman from texas, mr. gohmert. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from texas is recognized for two minutes. mr. gohmert: thank you, madam speaker. we'd like to touch on the issue of gitmo as well. i've been th

being here. i want to say congratulations on the speed in which the chrysler situation, someone who used to make is living restructuring companies in bankruptcy, nothing this complicated. this has been lightning quick. lot of people say it couldn't be done. you are not going to come in in 30 days, you came pretty close to a. in my view that is a major step forward to try to create some credibility on these matters. congratulations on that. with all that said, i want to echo the chairman's view that the american taxpayers want to be out of these companies as soon as practical, the language you have used. i hope you are successful as you have been getting this bankruptcy accomplished. my first question is whether or not you would be willing, or could shed some light, i am sure it is in the bankruptcy documents, on the underlying assumptions on the arms length negotiations you were talking about. what were some of the assumptions relating to the sales of automobiles, the cash flow, the company's, the other parties, how did you think about the value of the enterprise itself and distributed to the con

be returned. what i would hope for in such dire straits would be a request the reason, allow us to provide support for those in gm customers and our region and relieve us of the inventory obligations we incurred in good faith by repurchasing it will be paid. this is a small price to pay for a potentially depriving long and painful associate of its livelihood. >> thank you, sp -- mr. thomas. >> my name is frank blanklenbeckler, the dealer principal of carlisle chevrolet cadillac in waxahachie, texas and to my knowledge the only chevrolet dealership in the senate texas. the cadillac line was added in 1990 and the jeep line was added around 1978. this dealership has operated continuously in the same community and the same family ownership since 1926 the dealership was founded in 1926 by my maternal grandfather. my father frank blanklenbeckler jr. who was awarded a bronze star for his service to his country during world war ii and you received a master's in tax law from harvard it married my mother in 1947 and moved to waxahach to beat the dealer for the next 55 years. i read with of the university of

to engage in this region. and-in essence, they are never going to strike in the grand bargain with you. >> there certainly is reason for us to be cautious in our dealings with iran. there is not yet a final outcome of the process they are engaged in the tunnel -- internally to demonstrate to their own people the credibility of the electoral process that has just been completed a. so i am well aware of the daunting challenges ahead of us for any group that tries to deal with the iranian regime. having said that, i think the president has made clear in several statements in the last week that we are going to watch this unfold, and we are going to act in america's national interests. that is what this has always been about. it has never been about iran as much as it has been about the values, goals, and interests of the united states of america. we remain committed to doing all we can to try to prevent iran from becoming a nuclear weapons power, so we are going to watch this engaged our actions accordingly. >> one is the sense you get in which these events may have somehow enhance the process? >> i am not going to make a value jud

intention is that we don't use it to limit or marginalize care, and i won't use the word rationed because that seems to be offensive and i understand wages offensive. but, in fact, we don't want to use it. so what this amendment simply says is that we strike a section that was all the controversy last week and we say are prohibited by using payment, coverture treatment decisions. nothing in this section shall be construed as preventing the center from disseminating reports or recommendations to healthcare providers. so, the one argument that was truly raised about our previous language is addressed here i believe fully, and would not limit in any way, shape or form the dissemination of that information. if in fact we are not going to use this to limit care, then what we will be using it for is to improve care. to increase quality, to bring people up and make them aware of the standards if they are not there. make them aware of best practices, make them aware of the alternatives that might be more effective, and so i believe this is a good compromise to this discussion. it allows us to get the information out, but it the same time mashers the american peopl