he happens to be greatly indebted to woodrow wilson. one of owen wilson's major legislative achievements was the enactment of the federal reserve act of 1913. not to put too fine a spin on that and skipping over a awful lot of history, i just want to point out that i don't think he would have a job today if it wasn't for woodrow wilson. [laughter] for the past five years, he has faced tremendous challenges, adversity, and frustration. that is the lot of an avid washington nationals baseball fan. [laughter] which he certainly is. he and i and the sports fans all know that with the first pick in tonight's amateur draft and stephen strassberg's debut on the mound, things are looking up for the nationals. [applause] that is not really my purpose tonight to talk about them. we know him best as the 14 chairman of the federal reserve , first nominated by george w. bush in 2006, renominated by barack obama for a second four- year term last august. his scholarly expertise is the great depression and its causes and that prepared him for the histor

and again in 1916 president woodrow wilson proclaimed flag day as a national celebration. however, the holiday was not officially recognized until 1949 when president harry truman signed the national flag day bill. since the beginning of our republic, americans have flown the flag to show their appreciation and pride for this great nation. every day americans pledge their allegiance to the flag and the troops carry the flag to defend the liberty for which it stands. we reflect the loss of loved ones who died in defense of our nation. let us pledge allegiance to this flag, to declare our patriotism and to raise its colors high to express our pride and respect for the american way of life and the freedom that it represents. i urge my colleagues to support this resolution. madam speaker, i'll reserve the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman reserves the balance of his time. the gentlelady from california is recognized. ms. watson: madam speaker, i have no further speakers, and i yield back the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlelady -

he is an addict -- academic thinkers and policy maker in the tradition of woodrow wilson. e is a world-class scholar and like wilson, a princeton professor. dr. bernanke has become one of the country's most important and most respected policy makers. he happens to be greatly indebted to woodrow wilson. one of wells in's major legislative achievements, as many of you know, was the enactment of the federal reserve act of 1913. not to put too fine a spin on it, and skipping over an awful lot of history, i want to point out that i don't think he would have a job today if it had not been for woodrow wilson. [laughter] over the past five years, he has faced tremendous challenges, adversity, and frustration. that is the lot of an avid washington nationals baseball fan. [laughter] which he certainly is. he and i and the sports fans all know that work -- with the first pick in tonight amateur draft and stephen strassberg's debut tomorrow, things are looking up for the nats. that is not my purpose to talk about the nationals. he is the 14th chairman of the national reserve, first nom

he is an academic center and a policymaker in the tradition of woodrow wilson. world-class scholars. and like wilson, a princeton professor -- a world-class scholar. he is one of the most respected policymakers. . he and i am a sports fans in this whole note that the first pick in the amateur draft will be on the mound for the washington nationals. things are looking up. that is not really my purpose tonight. we know him best as the 14th chairman of the federal reserve nominated by george w. bush and renominated by barack obama last august. his scholarly expertise is in the great depression and its causes, and that prepared him for the historic task in facing the second greatest financial crisis in our nation's history. he has been at the center of the extraordinary efforts of this country, indeed the world, to rescue us from the frightening near-collapse of the financial system in the fall of 2008 by making available literally trillions of dollars of official funds and helping us to understand better what happened and how to respond. for his work, we can only of

it allowed woodrow wilson to win the presidency.as the court's sole former president to have served on the bench, he is the only person ever to have engineered his own future appointment from the white house. biographers suggesttthat president taft promoted white to the chief opposition rather than juice because the white was only 48 in would probably serve long enough to preclude a future president from appointing taft as a chief justice. president warren harding fulfilled taft highest aspiration to become chief justice. chief justice taft began participating in every presidential decision to fill vacancies on this court. he wrote to george sutherland, i look forward to having you on i know the president intendd to put you there. president harding was happy in on the court. the next court choice, pierce butler, was his second pick. he first approached john davis, whom he considered to have a sound use despite his democratic party affiliation. davis declined, so taft turned to butler. taft referred to brandeis and oliver wendell hol

nominated and the nominee's lack of judicial experience has certainly been no barrier to success woodrow wilson nominated lewis bran highs in 1916, many objected on the ground that he had never served on the bench. over his 23-year career, justice brandheis proved to be one of the greatest members. his opinions is exemplify judicial restraint more than 70 years after his retirement. felix frankfurter, william douglas, robert jackson, byron white, loss powell, harland fish stone, earl warren and william rehnquist all became justices without ever being previously judges and they certainly led to distinguished careers on the supreme court. as justice frankfurter, someone who knows wrote just to experience in 1957 and i quote, can one is entitled to say without qualification that the correlation between prior judicial experience and fitness for the function of the supreme court is zero. ." we've all now had the opportunity to review your extensive record as a lawyer, policy adviser and administrator throughout your career. you have consistently demonstrated the all too rare combination of first rat

that allowed woodrow wilson to win the presidency. as the sole president to serve on the bench, taft is the only person ever to engineer his future appointment from the white house. several biographers suggest that president tapped suggested white to the bench instead of use because white was only 48 and would serve a longgenough to as a justice. president warren harding nominated president taft. once the ascended, chief justice taft began participating in every presidential decision to fill vacancies on this court.%+ he said, i look forward to having you on the bench with me. president harding was happy to place on the supreme court his brilliant friend from their days in the u.s. senate. harding's next choice was his second pick. the president had first approoched john w. davis who has held views despite his party affiliation. davis declined, so taft turned to butler. taft deferred to brandeis and oliver wendell holmes jr.. tapped appreciated butler's a nominal democratic party label. it was top-heavy with several republicans. he wo

proclamation of woodrow wilson in 1916. 30 years later, harry truman signed an act in congress designating june 14 as flag day. the flag is a direct reflection of the people and many enemies burn our flag as a symbol of their hate for us and what we stand for. on flag day, it is our job to contribute to the american brand which stands for justice, fairness, and the generosity. our independent line is next. caller: last night of a coast- to-coast radio, they had three hours of coverage about the deep water -- deep water drilling. russia has been doing this at 40,000 feet. they have not experienced what bp did in the gulf. that well was about 25,000- 35,000 feet. they experienced a pressure that was unbelievable between 20,000 and 70,000 pounds of pressure. the flow rate is about 4 million gallons per day. they do not think they can stop this thing could go on forever. they did not expect this. this was an accident. the united states, bp, our military were all in this together. quit pointing fingers, do something to solve the problem. host: 1 more of view on the issue, warren, ohio caller: [

and as we know up until the 17 tfer -- 17th amendment, woodrow wilson liked the federal government running everything and he would have been proud of the health care bill because it was about the g.r.a., the government running everything, this 17th amendment was an effective way of taking away any check or balances that the states were provided under the constitution. because under the constitution, the state legislatures selected the u.s. senators. most students were never taught that. but the founders felt like there had to be a way that the federal government could be prevented from just usurping all the power from the states and the people, as the 10 st. amendment talks about and this would be it because you would never send a senator up here if he's go go to add unfunded mandates to your responsibilities in the state and take away your powers at the same time. there were senators that were recalled. so from the day after the health care bill was passed in the house, i have been talking about an article 5 amendment constitution that would allow the states to come together and propose a

after that, federal reserve chairman ben bernanke at the woodrow wilson international center for scholars where he is interviewed by former abc newsman sam donaldson. on "washington journal" tomorrow morning, we will look at tuesday's primary races in 10 states, with bob benenson, nicholas lardy examines china's economy and its effect on the u.s. and more about the supreme court nomination of elena kagan from jliulie hirschfeld davis. we have got three new c-span books for you. "abraham lincoln," the supreme inrt" and "who's buriedn i grant's tomb?" to order, go to c- span.org/books. each one a great gift idea for father's day. the campaign for america's future began its annual conference in washington focusing on the progressive movement assessment of the obama administration and its role in this year's elections. this is a little more than two hours. [applause] >> welcome to america's future now. [applause] hi. you are over here. namecards. my name is robert. i welcome you to washington. this has been a city of great heat and big storms recently and i am not talking about the weather. a

it has been 100 years and whether it is woodrow wilson, fdr, lbj or obama, we need to learn that there is not always going to be a government solution for every problem. they just do not have the know- how and ability to solve every problem. host: greenville, new york, david, hello. caller: what i was watching yesterday was pretty much showing me how these congressmen and senators just do not know what is going on and they just need to make their constituents feel a little bit better about what is going on. i just feel that federal regulations, just like what happened on wall street, continue to fail the american people. they continue not to look our for our interest. they continue to just bend over for special interest groups and how much money they're getting from lobbyists and all of this other stuff. we are never going to get away from drilling in the gulf. one-third of the production comes from the gulf. a lot of natural gas comes from the gulf. putting a moratorium on the gulf is just going to make the gas go up. it is going to make everything go up. it is ridiculous. host: insid

those words are written by woodrow wilson well before he was the president of united states. they are no less true today than they were one century ago. implementation matters. it is our duty to continually strive to be improving the use of tax dollars to create the government that is effective in the service of the public. thank you. i would be delighted to take some questions. >> is every non-security discretionary going to be cut by at least 5%? >> this happened last year too. when we send out budget guidance, what we are asking agencies to do is come back at the beginning of the process with a set of proposals that meet certain constraints. last year we also asked for a 5% reduction so that we could hit, which we succeeded in doing, hit an overall freeze in a non- security spending. it was not in the fiscal year 2011 budget. it will not be in the 2012 budget either. each agency will not be exactly at 0. some godown, some will go up. we are creating the room to push up some and reduce others, so that we can continue to hit the overall freeze. it is the second year. . . >>

i am with the woodrow wilson center. you have a good grasp of public opinion did the one thing that i did not hear is public opinion on public financing of campaigns. the last pilot, taxpayers do not want their dollars being used for politicians to campaign. maybe that has changed since. but even if we assume that they supported and you get there, how you shut out special interest from giving? is this going to happen without a constitutional amendment? and what kind of example you think president obama said in opting out of public financing for the general campaign? >> let me start with the last one. he had been pro-reform in word and deed in the illinois state senate anddthen turned around and said no to the public financing system as a presidential candidate. the reform communities spoke pretty loudly and said that the system is broke with -- broken. going out and saying that the system is broken but you better use it, i think the reform groups were very clear about that. . that, for turkey pushed them come to pledge s

anton wilson's berth at the woodrow wilson center. this is for mr. nick nyhart. thing i didn't hear and maybe i missed it is the public opinion on public financing of campaigns. last i looked there is taxpayers don't want their dollars to be used for politicians to campaign. maybe that has changed since. but even if we assume they supported a need to get back, have you shut up a special interest from giving? i mean, is this something of a constitutional amendment and finally an relionship, what kind of example to think president obama said in public talking of the general election campaign? >> levies are with the last one because i think we form groups all faith that in watching a candidate to attend pro-reform in word and indeed in the illinois state senate, then turn around and say noto the public financing system as presidential candidate. i think it's important to remember the reform committee spoke pretty loudly for years earlier that the system is broken. getting most of him said qite publicly that forcing people, for us in the community same system is brok