where people could go and see what steel mills used to look like. they could go and see what axel companies used to look like, what it looked like to make the silverado and the sierra pickup truck before we drove them to china, before we moved the last companies out. you can see -- and in between you can see soybean and corn farms which apparently we made some change here but it's amazing we had to make this change, that soybean, ethanol and sow diesel, drafe us was worried that in the original draft of this bill they were going to be put out because they were cutting down trees to plant soybean and corn for ethanol except our trees are already cut down. oh, you mean they were going to cut down trees in brazil. well, not our companies but because we're internationalists and trying to be one world, if we grow soybean in indiana then we have to offset it with trees in other places and now maybe we won't have to offset it and maybe we won't wipe out sowy diesel and ethanol. what kind of joke is this? i honestly did not think that this house could pass t

to do that. my concern looking ahead is that we sustain the level of resources to permit us to keep this equipment going. as we look forward to some forces drawing down in iraq. we don't see that happening in special operations forces at all. as we have come to depend on special funding means to keep this equipment going, in the operational environment we have to find a way to work that in the baseline budget. >> on that point, as we draw down the conventional forces, there are challenges to stay in the same numbers and continue to get the support you need from the conventional forces in field. how is that playing out? >> i think it's playing out well. recently we have had service lead talks and the chief staff the army, we are in complete accord of what the challenges are and seeking to resolve those. there is a broad understanding whether a small force in an area or large force, you need someone to control the air space and provide the medical support and all the rest it takes to look after the force that is forward. so we are helping them help us, doing the detailed analysis of what it is that

help each of us to look ahead to that grand and glorious day when you shall return, loved ones be rejoinedagain and all wars shall cease. oh, god, speed the day of your coming, we ask. guard this day, the soldiers, sailors, airmen, marines, and coast guardsmen of our several nations who fight for liberty and the freedom of oppressed peoples. grant each a special measure of your presence, protection, and abiding grace. indeed, yours is the kingdom and the power and the glory forever. in jesus name. amen. >> ladies and gentlemen, the president of the french republic. [applause] [speaking in french] [speaking in french] [speaking french] [speaking french] [speaking french]

to do that . my person looking ahead is simply that we sustain the level of resources that will permit us to keep this equipment going as we look forward to some forces perhaps drawing down in iraq especially. we don't see that happening with special operations forces at all. so as we have come to depend on some special funding means to keep this equipment going and the operational environment, we're going to have to find a way to work that into our base line budget in order to sustain this equipment over time. >> on that point, as we were drawing down our conventional forces, i know there were some challenges in terms of you staying there in the same numbers and mitigating sure you continue to get the support equipment you get. a lot of that you get from the conventional forces in the field. how is that playing out? are you satisfied those concerns are being met or is there more that need to be done? >> i think it's playing out well. recently, we have had service chief level talks with the commandant of the marine corps and the chief of staff of the army. we are in complete accord about what the

connectivity fully until after they became is subsidiary of bank of america. >> but it certainly looks like, i don't want to use the word "hedge" but it looks like financial people inside your company were anticipating what might occur and those -- the deferral of taxes in 2008 seems most curious. >> well, i'm not a tax attorney and i don't know exactly what the hedging was. but it was not, it was not, i don't see the connection to merrill because merrill was, the next year. >> i would sure appreciate, mr. lewis, if you could provide for the record what net effective tax your company paid in 2008. because to me it looks like you pay 1/50th of what you should and i would like to compare what tax rate was paid and the amount that was paid versus what the average middle class family in our country pays. i think the record will show you paid actually substantially less. i have a request, mr. chairman, if i could, for information for the record. mr. lewis, is it possible that in the spring of 2008, i have information that bank of america bought a portfolio of subprime loans from the federal deposit insurance corpora

would be our decision and i never heard from him on the issue of us not disclosing something. >> anything else -- look like you're trying to go somewhere. >> the second piece i thought you asked me, sir, was the issue of him not wanting us to call the mac and he did express that to us. >> when did he do that? >> he expressed it on more than one occasion. i don't remember which dates but several dates. if you are an experienced man, i understand you have great judgment, apparently when you thought about this mac thing, it was based upon your own experiences, was it not? yes, sir. >> what were you thinking? >> i was thinking that the losses had accelerated to a point that they were out of line with other institutions and our institution. >> so you still -- if you were to go back, you would thing there was not a mac situation? >> i can't say that there wasn't a mac because we never called it so we just don't know. >> very well. >> if the gentleman would yield for a moment. >> my time is up. >> the gentleman's time is expired. i now yield to congressman flake from arizona for five minutes. >> thank you, mr. chairman. i just wa

it just seems the way it is playing out right now is it is forcing us to look at other things. let me then finish up by saying it has been a fast for months on the job as dni and a discreet see friends who can understand just how fast that time goes and i think that we are -- i think we are moving along well, those of you that left the community can be proud where it is and you probably know we are voted one of the top places to work in the federal government recently and as i mentioned i think that is a great accomplishment given the character and the newness of the work force. there's the young people that joined after 1911 for the right reasons and are in there because they want to be, and i think that working in the national security area and intelligence communities in particular is becoming something that's a noble and these lawyers and we are all proud of. so we are happy that its being fault of in that light. and there are a few of us with gray hair and a lot of young ones who've come in and we can put it together a way the country can be proud of and we will do importa

anniversary of the publication or observations of giglio and use of the telescope for astronomical purposes. galileo was and of course the only one to lookthe marin. he may have been the first one to use a telescope but the book on this side of the table is from the 19th century, when telescopes' had improved a lot, and there were two scientists in england who published this book on the moon, based on their observations with the telescope. but although they could photograph the moon, they couldn't take a detailed observations with their telescope and photography, so they made a model based on their observations with the telescope and then made photographs of those observations. so this is the fault of copernicus named after the author we start with with very detailed observations that look like they are actual photographs of the moon but in fact photographs -- the book behind it is the same century as galileo. this is isaac newton's famous principia known by the third word of the title of the full title is mathematical principles of natural philosophy. and this is a book represents newtons idea of universal gratification or his three law

had a wonderful chance to visit with you in maryland monday evening, and we thank you so much for hosting us and look forward to your testimony today. >> thank you, sir. >> thank you. with that, admiral olson. >> thank you, sir. good afternoon. chairman smith, congressman miller, thank you very much for the opportunity to appear before this committee to highlight the current posture of the united states special operations command. we'll say thanks to the foresight add slow advocacy ando the support of this body and we recognize that we were a product of the congress, we do remain well positioned to meet the nation's expectations of its joint special operations forces. primarily as you well know u.s. special operations command is responsible through its service component commands. the u.s. army special operations command, the air force special operations command, the marine corps fors special operations command and naval special warfare command for organizing, equipping, training and providing fully-capable special operations forces to serve under the operational control of geographic combatant comman

us he wants a bipartisan bill. if he wants a bipartisan bill, he can do a lot of things to help make it bipartisan, and i look forward to that sort of cooperation. >> it was an opportunity for us to look at some thing the president is trying to do in a bipartisan way. this is the biggest issue that congress has ever had to do because it does affect 100% of the american people. what we have to be careful to do is start with a solution in look for the problem. we have been looking in both of these committees at the problem and trying to figure out a solution that everyone can agree on that will solve that problem. i think we've done a good job of listening, and hopelopefully we can follow from the problem to the solution instead of picking up on some local solutions to make problems. i am hopeful that we can -- we're on the right track, there are a lot of things we can agree on. we have those core things together. now we just have to work on some of the other issues and get them resolved. i am confident we can do that. i am a little worried about the timeline, and i'm worried about how we pay for it. but i think americ

to their hospitals and have systems integrated but that's another amendment. the whole point is we are looking at it from washington looking out and what i'm trying to do is get us to look at it for now in the country and look in. >> thank you, mr. chairman. >> senator mikulski. >> let's go to the actual amendment, not what a aspect of it does or may be an interesting idea or whenever. if you go to the front page of the colburn amendment, it says strike subtitle be of title to and insert the following. so he strikes the entire section with a title deed which goes to the patient safety research center, community health teams, trauma system reform and others and eliminates the agency with health research quality so that is what this amendment does. it strikes and inserts essentially an i.t. package. so that's number one. i think that our quality section had a lot of work and it should stand. second, during the course of the deliberations are held six hearings on quality. six hearings on quality and we wanted them to be bipartisan but hardly any members of the party showed up except the last two. so all this stuff now of information technology and so on is coming b

that he has a acknowledged that it is a problem and it needs to be addressed, and there will be ways of looking at it. he will work with ust it. >> you said in your opening speech something. the president said they need to move to a system that is more centered on patient outcomes. were you disappointed that he did not focus on the sgr? >> let us give him credit where credit is due. when he crafted his budget and released the budget, he was the first president to a knowledge that we need to pour cement into that effort. he put up a reality-based budget, not one that presumes that 21% cut to a physician services was going to occur. he did that, and we are very grateful. that was the point of the introductory remarks. >>wgn news. he said the ama is working to cover all americans. can you talk about your plan and your proposal as the president did today? >> we have been developing a plan over the last decade. i am not sure that you knew that. we have been working on this issue for a long time. we are committed to those who are lawmakers and who are helping to develop the plans to make sure we get to a solution this year. our

many of you personally and certainly many of their companies in helping us to this important work, so thank you very much and i look forward to the questions. [applause] >> if you have a question raise your hand. questions? oh, come on. >> admiral, something that the sine qua non of your metrics is what the president being pleased with what the intelligence committee delivers. i am curious what your internal metric says the ceo of the intelligence committee are for how the community is doing on a day-to-day, quarter to quarter, year to year basis? >> well, we are where we are and if we can do better tomorrow and better the -day after and better after that i think i would be happy. i would tell you the last time i was closely involved in, a closely involved in this business and a number of you and the audience were there with me, was in the mid-90s, when i was the associate dci for military support and i can tell you in the time since then there has been tremendous, tremendous improvements in capability by the intelligence community. we are able to do things we were only dreaming about that then so i think the traje

citizen who had not gotten up the matter yet, -- lkad adder yet, and he will always be an example for us to look up to. >> if we have not gotten across, then we have not done our job. that's exactly the point where they need to speak to the voters. what it means to think about the problems of america is not to stand back and stand at a great distance and think about it. it means to think about the life of a family. it means to think about parents who confronts a difficult balance between the needs a regular families and the needs of prospering and making money. it is a balance that exists at the very core of conservatives and has at the very beginning, this tension of what we think now of social conservatism and fiscal conservatism. that is not a philosophical problem. that exists in the life of every american family, and our effort to think about that and our ems that deal about that -- middle class parents face and inner city families face and in bringing up a new generation of americans and a dream of social mobility therefore begins at the bottom not at the top and is to my mind that's what

frankly disenchanting to know that there are those who would want them to receive kutz and not want us to look at the compensation these executives are receiving that can create excessive risks in the marketplace so thank you mr. chairman for giving me this moment to voice the concerns of those who are not here. the blue-collar workers and the lawyers who represent the consumers who have gone to battle for them and made a difference in their lives and the lives of people in the country who caused us to have products that are safe by virtue of knowing that there are these lawyers who would take on these challenges and make sure the consumer is protected. we have one of the best consumer protection systems in the world and it did not post the government 1 penny because we had lawyers willing to stand up for those that could not stand up and speak up for themselves and it's very unfortunate we choose to regulate these lawyers but we don't regulate those that don't see the need to regulate lawyers who are creating excessive risk who work with corporations. i don't want to see any bodies salary cut

opinion and i've signed onto h.r. 684 which is from representative barry, that bill would force us to look at this and to do something about the pricing of prescription drugs. and i think that's one other thing we have to address if we're really going to bring down the costs of health care. the one thing we know is that when people take their medications they stay much healthier. whether you're a senior citizen or someone with a high cholesterol rate and you need to keep it down. so we know the importance of medication and we know one way to drive down the cost of health care is to make sure that medicine is affordable. that's true of seniors and all people and it's certainly one of the issues that concerns me and one of the things that i promised my constituents back home, that even though we'd passed this bill in maine i would take it on as an issue here in the united states congress. and i know many share the same concern. >> i -- mr. boccieri: i applaud the gentlelady's perspective because there is no question that getting costs under control are the most important facet of any health

acknowledged that indeed it is a problem and that it needs to be addressed and that there will be ways of looking at it, and then he is going to work with uslook at it. >> emily walker with med page. you said in your opening spade-- speech-- the president today said he mentioned as gee are saying that they needed to move to a system that was more centered on patient outcomes. were you disappointed he did not focus on amora and what did you interpret his comments to be? >> let's give him credit where credit is due and in my introductory remarks i commented on that. lenny crafted his budget and release the budget, he was the first president to lead knowledge that we need to pour cement into that hole forever and he put out a reality based budget, not one that presents and that 21% cut to position services was going to occur, so he did that and we are very grateful and that was the point of the introductory remarks. we all know that in he knows it. >> catherine, wgn is. you said the ama is committed to covering all americans, working to cover the ensured and make insurance more affordable. can you talk about your proposal just as the presiden

time for us to look at another level -- another legislative aspect. representative wally herger of california. representative, tell us about your role in shaping this debate. guest: i serve on the ways and means committee, which has joint responsibility with health care, and this is certainly one of the biggest issues before our committee. i might mention also in front of the congress this year. host: tell us about the republicans on this debate. what role are you going to play in the next few weeks? guest: i think it is important that we get all the facts out, that this is too important an issue, the issue of health care, which affects 1/6 of our entire economy, and in which virtually everyone unanimously is aware that it is broken. that we get all the facts out. we are having a markup in mid july. we're having a hearing this coming week on the health care legislation. there are some very concerning aspects that are out there that i believe need to be gone over. host: what are chief among them? guest: welcome the idea that somehow the government can

>> i think it raises a good question for us to look at and that is the difference in training. qualitative versus quantitative, you know there's been suggestions maybe we should require four hours. my suggestion maybe we should look at the quality of the training people are getting. to have 1500 hours again, if that is flying in the command 20 hour legs at a time that isn't a lot of experience with takeoff and landing. someone else with high-quality training and less time could in fact be a better trained pilot and that is one of the things we are going to try to glean from bringing this together to look at training and do we make a distinction? should we make the distinction between the quality of the training people are exposed to versus just an arbitrary measure and amount of flying time and i think that is a very legitimate question. >> does anybody want to add anything on the training? >> administrator babbitt is on target. it's not always high numbers of hours. we have investigated unfortunately a number of accidents where we've seen 15,000 our pilots make mistakes. the

it is an issue which is driving us to look at reform of the health care system. now, i heard senator mcconnell this morning, and what he is arguing about, frankly, is not even in the debate here on capitol hill. he said repeatedly -- he said it yesterday, said it again today -- that our debate over health care reform means that americans run the risk of losing their health insurance that they want. exactly the opposite is true. what president obama has said and what we are saying is that if you have good health insurance, you can keep it. if you like the health insurance you have, you can keep it. no one has ever argued the opposite position which the senator from kentucky referred to this morning. he also spent a lot of time talking about government-run health care plans. it's interesting that he would raise that as an issue when we're not suggesting a government-centered health insurance reform. we think it should be a patient-centered health insurance reform. but we also know that when you ask americans across the board, families and patients, what do you thin

to talk about. i would think it is a useful exercise to look back on history and to see where countries have engaged in ongoing diplomatic discussions with countries whose regime we disapproved of and that we rejected. whenever stop negotiating with the former soviet union. they invaded countries. they promoted unrest. we knew we had an opportunity to learn more, to discuss fully and to reach better understandings that we might have in the absence of such engagements. we pursued it. we are doing this out of what we view it is our interest. and the interests of friends and allies such as israel. now we are waiting to see the outcome of the internal iranian process these. our intent is to pursue whatever opportunities might exist in the future with iran to discuss these matters. thank you. >> president obama wednesday announced the extension of some benefits to domestic partners of federal employees. this new memorandum stops short of full health care coverage. here is the president announcing the changes at the white house. >> many of our government's hard working public servants have long been denie

us to use natural gas and a better way. it is a much cleaner burning fuel -- that allows us to explore more nuclear capabilities that many countries use to generate power. to go look at the midwest where they have more reserves of shale than there are oil reserves in the middle east. when people have looked at this they say, wait a minute, let us go to that kind of policy. i don't think people in this country want a cap and trade and attacked where this administration is literally proposing a plan that the national association of manufacturers would run -- would run 3 million jobs to 4 million jobs out of our country into china. that is why we presented this alternative. when you look at the american energy act, this address is comprehensively all the things we can do to utilize our natural resources here in america, to create good jobs and to create more energy that we can reduce our dependence on middle eastern oil. host: independent line. robert from washington. caller: thank you. i would ask the congressman why is it that they are a bunch of cowards in washington. they are holding the american people hostage over the energy situation and the doing nothing abou

and i think that's important for us to be looking at. i'd like to think that we're going to be coming to the end of this down the economy, but i'm not an economist that anybody is going to be listening to. we need to make sure that what we impose on consumers, what we impose on industries that are providing us, you know, all of our resources here is a reasonable cost. >> i was wondering, i covered the market last week and i was wondering what new support really came from the expanding offshore drilling without revenue sharing? seems like a lot of republicans were happy they didn't include the revenue sharing. well, the democrats were happy because it expanded access. so what was sort of the good of that amendment? >> i think the good of that amendment, my view on it, was that through that amendment we have opened up an area that had been clearly identified as having good quantities of dry gas, clothes and here it is a very lucrative area. and i voted against that dortmund amendment because i wanted to make sure that we had a revenue-shari

to talk about. and i would think it is a useful exercise to look back on history and to ewhere countries, most particularly my own, have engaged in ongoing diplomatic discussions with countries boss regimes we disapproved of, that we rejected. we never stopped negotiating with the former soviet union. they invaded countries. they promoted unrest. but we knew we had an opportunity to learn more, to discuss fully and perhaps to reach better understandings than we might have in the absence of such engagement, so we pursued it. we are doing this out of what we view as our interests and the interests of friends and allies such as israel. so, now we are obviously waiting to see the outcome of the internal iranian processes. but our intent is to pursue whatever opportunities might exist in the future with iran to discuss these matters. thank you all. [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2009] [captioning performed by national captioning institute] >> up next former president bill clinton and house majority leader steny hoyer had a dinner for al fromm who is retiring as the c.e.o. of the democratic l

country given the nature of government that we have been very fortunate to inherit and now must shebbered. people of the world look to us for hope -- shepherd. people of the world look to us for hope and see the united states as a force for great good. however on the other hand they are wary of the imposition of controversial western style notions upon them. for instance, pursuant to secretary clinton's recent testimony before the house foreign affairs committee, we are now forced with a policy that equates abortion advocacy with health care advocacy. a policy that is very divisive in our own country and one that many nations around the world will repudiate. it is not consistent with internationally accepted notions of human rights. such a policy will undermine the very relationships that we are seeking to strengthen through this measure. while i see great value in strengthening our foreign relations overall, i remain deeply concerned that the bill before us today provides a framework for injecting jarring and discordant notes from divisive and unresolved domestic disputes here in our country into u.s. foreign policy. w

to be pointed in the long-- wrong direction. it looks like tax rates were likely to be going up for the first time, not down and that was a very scary prospect to us. a look like the consensus that had emerged over the last 25 years to move towards free trade and to reduce trade barriers, and by the way we are in the midst of writing the book was one hillary clinton remember and barack obama were, during the pennsylvania and michigan and ohio primaries than they were going around the state saying we are going to get rid of nafta, get rid of all this free trade nonsense and that scared us because obviously the political consensus for free trade has always been very fragile. and then we looked at what was happening with the currency and the explosion in the amount of money that has been created. are there has a wonderful graph in one of his most recent economic analysis that shows with the money supply has increased by-- how much? >> a little over 100%. >> this is more money creation in the last six months then perhaps the last 60 years. that's certainly scared us because we believe in the old-fashioned milton friedman idea that inflation is simply

to be there first. and it behoofs us at north com to understand their capability, look at their response times. because if they're uke successful at the federal local level that's one less asset that we have to put forward. >> so redistribute, reorganize what we've got? >> yes, senator. the congress has been very gracious with the department of defense and our ability to look at what we capall the ten eerbles that we use in the homeland, those capabilities that we respond to disasters. and we're coming along very well in improving that capability, especially in equiping of those ten eerbles. >> thank you. and mr. fugate, would you comment from your perspective the role of the national guard, and do you find it to be essential? how do you want to position your organization with it? and then if you can do that in one minute or less, or two, and then also comment on this idea that has boon moving around here about a sort of civilian ready reserve that could supplement both fema and the national guard in terms of trained person until that could be called out in the event of a catastrophic disaster

i would also like to welcome those of you who are watching us on c-span. we are looking forward to today's speech, and afterwards i will ask as many questions from the audience as time permits. please hold your applause during the speech so that we have time for as many questions as possible. for our broadcast audience, i would like to explain that if you hear applause, it may be from the guest and the general public who attend our luncheons, and not necessarily from the working press. i would like to introduce our head table guests and ask them to stand when their names are called. from your right, peter, editor of the kip linger tax letter and former first baseman of the softball team. >> kerry brackets ton. >> lisa, pigano, communication manager for the nationals. john allen a reporter for congressional quarterly and a shortstop for the team. shartise vice president for communication relations for the nationals. stipping over the podium for just a moment, we have jonathan of bloomberg news, the speaker's committee member who organized today's lunch and the coach of th

i add things that the dnc did not tell us to. i looked up my representatives and senators stands and i tell them and they are shocked. for all of this going back and forth about who is on and who is off, they just don't know. guest: that is a very good point. apart from obama or the dnc, we have to be mobilizing our self. i don't think the american people -- our passivity is frightening. we have to be out there fighting about their representatives are saying and doing and holding their feet to the fire. host: next call from ohio. good morning. caller: i have appreciated everything you have stated. there is one thing i want you to speak a little bit more about. we said about the ama saying, we are fine with what we have and we are not going to make a move. i think this is something that the obama administration will have to take on, the big people like that, the health care providers. can you touch on more than that? guest: the ama is somewhat overrated in the media. it only represents about 20% of all doctors. it is very high profile. thi

different things that will do, but barbara is right, one of the things that is important for us to take a lookt, and that is that the stories that people that told us, namely the women, about how they came to this, and meeting you and hearing your stories here is another story about the story. when we went to the human bookstore in harlem, and you just have to go there, to have all the sisters from all over new york coming in bringing their mothers and their fathers and their lovers and husbands and their children and grandmothers, and standing up and signing books with us and telling us that, if you know, how their lives were changed and one mother creeping up to me and saying, she is alive again. she is rising again. this broker writer's block. she is on the road again. so, there are so many powerful stories that we heard and we really want a chance to document those. we just want to lose them of all. >> the press would like this to do a journal, which will allow us to bring these stories forward a lot quicker, because the book takes at least 34 days. [laughter] but, the articles might take

admiral, thank you for the hospitality, i had a wonderful chance to visit with you, and we thank you so much for hosting us and we look forward to your testimony. >> atmel? >> good afternoon. thank you very much for the opportunity to appear before the committee to highlight the posture of the special forces command. i would like to thank you for the strong support of this body and we are a product of the congress. we're well-positioned to meet the expectations of the special operations forces. a special operations command is responsible for the servant components command, the special operations command and the marine corps forces, the nabal's pressure -- special warfare command. we are treating the forces to serve under the operational control of the commanders around the world. the headquarters has many of the responsibilities and the authorities and the characteristics of the defense agency, including a separate budget established by the congress to fund the head of men and material, services and training in the operational activities that are peculiar to special operations. this has also been designated as the com

celebrate those victories, and let's take a minute to celebrate the legacy and to look around the room and to know that each of us are here buzz we care so deeply and so personally and passionately about this issue, and to say good morning, and thank you for all you do for mental health. give yourselves a hand. it doesn't happen that much. but like many of you, i came to the issue of mental health through personal experience. my mother was a single working mother. she would have a bout of depression, she would, of course, lose her job. she would be hospitalized, she would recover, and then she wouldn't want to tell the perspective employer what happened, because, of course, they wouldn't hire her, because of the stigma associated with a mental health issue. and i would witness this. i would watch her go through these things periodically, and have the courage to rebuild her life again and again. but i noticed also that she felt strongly and deeply that she could not be honest about what her disease was. so we were fortunate to have a strong and extended loving family. but our family wasn't any different than any o

to use rail. and they want to use fast rail system of that's what this is about. i look at west virginia, people have been -- people don't necessarily assume there's a lot of passenger rail through west virginia, it's actually a huge fact, it is obviously in southwestern virginia also. in fact, our amtrak service, which senator lautenberg helped so much, has increased -- has doubled in one of its lines in the last year. doubled. and the other has rizz bin 19%. west virginians don't travel endlessly, so this is a very important statement. earlier this year, senator lautenberg joined as he indicated with the vice president, the $1.3 billion application -- allocation to the stimulus package. it was called -- it was cold, the speeches were not interesting, but the money is real. that's what counts. and i have to say, in a nonpartisan fashion, that it is thrilling to have, as senator lautenberg pointed out, somebody in the white house who wants this and isn't happy with the level of green up there. wants more green. i believe that passenger rail can do a lot for us as a count

to educate us. you're the experts here. and we respect your opinions. we want to do no harm here. so i think when we look at this possibility of federal legislation dealing with privacy we want to make sure that it's consumer centric. consumers don't care if you're a search engine or broadband provider. they just want to ensure the privacy -- their assurance that their privacy is protected. we must empower them to make these privacy decisions themselves. and they feel they know how much they want to be collected and whatnot should be collected. congress cannot and should not make that decision for them but it can play a role in making sure consumers have the information simply to make their own choices. that means companies should be as transparent as possible about what information they collect. and of course how they're using it. that way consumers will be better able to make informed privacy decisions. this transparency should include robust disclosure and notice outside the privacy policy. notice and disclosure needs to be clear and conspicuous so the consumers know that. first some information is be

the treasury's programs, the pace of decline in home prices has started to slow and that is early signs of us being able to look to the other side of this, but realistically, i think you can associate a challenging period ahead for many homeowners and many homeowners at risk of losing their homes and that's why we want the programs to work. >> senator collins, i might say each member will have five minutes and more than one round. >> thank you mr. chairman, mr. secretary i want to follow up on the discussion we had about the use of t.a.r.p. funds. it troubles me that banks have received billions of dollars without having to demonstrate that they've increased lending as a result, and without having to be fully accountable and transparent in the expenditure of funds they have received. i mentioned to you that i've seen in my state a large recipient of t.a.r.p. funding constrain credit to actually cut off lines of credit to cease lending to a non-profit hospital in my state, a major retail er. so i don't see on the grassroots le

used to be a common term. >> jim: now since the millionaire. >> gary: or multi. >> jim: the first time i ever warmed up for instructional league, they taught me, used to throw, he lookedat me and he says, you can always tell the bonus boys, they never want to throw 60 feet. that's all it took. >> gary: fernando tatis has had one at-bat. tatis hit into a double play as he pinch-hit for martinez in the sixth inning. >> jim: that was after base on -- bases loaded walk, and hendrickson made a great pitch. >> gary: got him on the inside corner raising his arms. >> jim: hit it right back up the middle. cora at first, andino almost side armed him right in the forehead. made him get down and they turned the double play. >> gary: tatis down to third, fair ball, it went over the bag. he'll go to second base. reimold over to play it, touched by a fan, it will be a double. so tatis delivers. that will allow the mets to get the potential tying run

by doing that he created a parity benefit and it was that benefit to which allowed us to really to understand looking at large covered a populations the fact that parity in a managed-care environment is not only cost effective and, it is very horrible and you can't do that so obviously when we think of national leaders in the mental health arena and think of people who have been important to our movement tipper gore is clearly one of those people and out like to invite her to make a few remarks for us today. [applause] >> good morning everyone and thank you so much coming david, for the introduction in the energy and the leadership you provide. we all really appreciate you and i hear nothing but just wonderful things about you from some different people. i want to return the compliment and i'm so delighted to be here with all of you and to serve as the honorary chair for this year's conference. when i was asked i didn't think twice. i wanted to be involved when ever i can be for mental health and mental wellness, it's a lifetime commitment for me and the mental health movement that began in 1909, we

to take us? we have a clear picture of that too. all we have to do is look in cuba. look in soviet controlled soviet union prior to them making their forms and turning towards more capitalistic system. but we can look at cuba. cuba prior to fidel castro taking over that government was very prosperous. certainly they had problems but not the problems that they have today. in cuba we have a very rich elite headed by a marxist, fidel castro. and we have a vast majority of the people in that country are struggling, very poor with no choices. that's exactly where we're headed in america today if we continue down this road, the steam roll of socialism, this high-speed train that's going to drive us off the economic cliff. and we've got to stop it. republicans have offered alternative after alternative. we had alternatives to the housing crisis. the liberals on the other side were obstructionists. they wouldn't let our alternatives be heard. we had alternatives to the stimulus bill. i call it a nonstimulus bill because it has not and will not stimulate the economy. we had a

they changed the name they tell me back in my, used to be dolphin stadium. looks to me like you're in the dugout. might there be precipitation in the area? >> of course, johnny, it's florida, it always rains down here. we'll have more on that in a moment. but how about josh willingham, he's been outstanding lately. in his last 17 games he's raised his batting average 65 points, he's now hitting .278. i talked to him about that and also about facing some familiar faces on the marlins. >> absolutely. you know, there's a lot of people that i care about here, that i spent a lot of time with. went to war with, and playing a lot of games with. so it's nice to come back and see people, but i want to beat them tonight. >> you're hitting .454 since june 20. what's been the key to your consistens iscy at the plate? >> i think just getting pitches that i can handle, and just trying to hit them hard. i'm not trying to do too much with them. trying to hit the ball hard. luckily when i have hit the ball hard, they found holes. they've been finding holes for me, so i'm thankful.

to join us. banks also look to susan eisenhower, whose grandfather began this mission 65 years ago with a simple charge, okay, let's go. and to a world war two veteran who returned home to serve a proud and distinguished career as a united states senator and a national leader, bob dole. [applause] i am not the first american president to come up and mark this anniversary, and i likely will not be the last. this is an event that has long brought to this coast both heads of state and grateful citizens, veterans and their loved ones, the liberated and their liberators. spoken of, and depicted in countless books and films and speeches. long after our time on this earth has passed, one word will still bring forth the pride and awe of men and women who will never meet the heroes who said before us -- the day. why is this? of all the battles and all the wars across the span of human history, why does this day hold such a revered place in our memory? what is it about the struggle that took place on the sands a few short steps from here that brings us back to remember a year after year after year? part o

us. but to look at ways in which we may be able to accommodate a situation where someone is -- why they're a medicare or medicaid recipient if, you can't get health care, it seems to me at that point the status doesn't do you much good at all and how we might accommodate that kind of a concern, where that problem arises. i presume most of the rural areas, it may be others as well. i thank you immensely for that. >> i'd like to make a comment. in many of our villages, the health care to the individuals in those villages is provided through ihs. so we have, again, you've got another government plan. and as long as we have appropriately funded ihs which historically we have failed to do, but there is a level of service that is provided there. so it's not necessarily in the most remote of communities as much as just in parts of the state where we simply cannot attract a sufficient number of providers. we can't attract the primary care providers. and, again, many of these are -- the largest city has the worst problem which is more than just a little bit ironic. >> will the agenda will lady yiel

congress has been very gracious with the department of defense and our ability to look what we call the essentials we use in the homeland, the capabilities that respond to disasters and we are coming along very well improving the capabilities especially in the equipping of those essentials. >> thank you. mr. fugate, but to comment on your perspective on the national guard the role of the national guard and do you find it to be essential? how do you want to position your organization with it and then if you could do that in one minute or less or two and also comment on this idea that's been moving around about a sort of civilian ready reserve that could supplement both fema and the national guard in terms of trained personnel that could be called out in the event of a catastrophic disaster which obviously we can't maintain, you know, on call every day but it would be nice to maybe have something like that. maybe we don't need it. maybe that is what the red cross is going to do or maybe that is the will of the national guard plays but if there is a gap comment on the national guard and then the ready reser

us to the side. our driver eased forward. they looked over our car and waved us through. i discarded the newspaper, spun in my seat and stared out the back window. i wanted to watch and keep watching the talibs for hours to cram the midge -- image my mind of them command the road. at the point of close contact i was too scared to take pictures. a different kind of pakistan. that pakistan was no longer a figment of someone's worried imagination. four hours from the capitol, five trucks with militants totally unchallenged had arrived and were in charge. >> host: of course, gang gore ya and swat where the pakistani army is trying to take it back from the taliban. you got even deeper in the taliban world than swat which is, again, just a few hours from the capitol city of islamabad. can you tell us more about -- for instance, there's a marvelous passage about your summer camp day with the talibs. >> as a quick interlude there the guy who we were going to meet was this fellow named icabahan. he was a local taliban commander but not a hard core commander. there is a difference o

to join us in our conversation tonight. i hope that everybody else will feel comfortable to just tune right in and join us. we're going to have a little bit of fun and take a look at some of the economics. it's a serious picture but it's an example to us that we must learn from history and it's also an example of the fact that america is on the wrong track, as we take a look at what's going on with job losses. i think many americans, congressman king, understand the fact that all is not right and that unemployment number jumping up as high as 9%-something is not acceptable. i would yield time to my good friend from iowa, congressman king. mr. king: i thank mr. akin for pulling this hour together. and i listened to the first flash of illumination of common sense here coming from deep within history of the franklin roosevelt's administration, his treasurer, henry morgenthau, saying that kens rainy commix does not work -- keynesian commix does not work. so i wanted to add to this, john may narcotic keynes' philosophy that he spoke about during that period of time of the implementation of the new deal that was presented by f.d.r. and historians have taught for year