the first was oregon v. ice, it posed one of many post-aparen dee questions consistent with our current sixth amendment jurisprudence, could a judge rather than a jury find the fact essential to the imposition of consecutive sentences. i answered yes. and in agreement with me were justices stephens, kennedy, breyer, and alito. second, baden against discover bank involved a credit card issuer's resort to a federal court to compel arbitration for a dispute with a cardholder. though the issue itself had commenced that fray, in state court. the hard hold -- the cardholder raised a counterclaim governed by federal law. justices scalia, kennedy, souter and thomas joined me in holding that the issuer had to stay on the state court track and their petition for arbitration, not in federal court. if so inclined. the fourth circuit, whose decision we reviewed, had come out the other way, as had the second circuit, although on a different ground than the fourth simbingt. third and by far the most prominent of this set,

the court ruled today in favor of a teenage boy from oregon, whose parents try to force their local school district to pay the $5,200 a month it cost to send their son to a private school. coming up this week on washington journal, senator john mccain talks about iraq, iran, afghanistan, and domestic issues. that is tomorrow morning at 80 stern. followed at 9 by bob schieffer. the original head of the homeland security department, tom ridge. that is live at 9 eastern here on c-span. but july 4th weekend in booktv, discovered an unfamiliar sight of our nation's first president, live from george washington's mount vernon state with an author, and the success of toward washington. join our 3 our conversation and in depth, on c-span and booktv. >> barack obama announced today a step in changing the health care system. drug companies have pledged to spend $80 billion over the next decade to help reduce the cost of drugs for seniors, to pay for some of the president's health care plans. he is introduced by the new head of aarp. >> aarp is proud to stand with you, chairman max baucus, chairman do

president, you're well aware from your state of oregon and from my state of illinois, how much this health care reform debate means to everybody we represent. when you ask the american people what we can do about health insurance, 94% of the people across america overwhelmingly support change in our current health care system. 85% of the people across this country, democrats, republicans, and independents, say that the health care system needs to be fundamentally changed. well, this is the time to do it. this is the president to lead us in doing that. and we better seize this moment. if we don't, if we miss it, we may never have another chance for years and years to come, and that's unfortunate. democrats want to build on what's good about the current system. it's interesting that so many people would say we should change the health care system, but three out of four say i kind of like my health insurance. so what we've got to do first is to say, we're going to keep the things in the current system that work and only fix those things that are broken. if you have a health insurance plan tha

every time it made that judgment, it could have said we will follow the lead of oregon or washington. they chose not to do so. that was a conscious choice. if you look at the crawford decision from the u.s. supreme court would they upheld an indiana statute, they identified the legitimate interest in state has to prevent fraud -- >> can i go back to one case. we said there were 172. by treating similarly situated voters differently was no rational explanation, the statute violates equal protection guarantees. that is the argument that is made here. similarly situate absentee voters are being treated differently. you would articulate the rational explanation for that as what? >> as the need for the countess in the precincts to get the flexibility to allow elections to work. in pine county where there may be one street called maine, in minneapolis, there may be 20 streets that have bad name. you need -- you may need a different standard as to whether it is as main street, main avenue, or main boulevard. >> is there evidence in the record to support this rational explanation that you are

fastest time of the year, 9.94 by michael rogers last week in eugene, oregon. >> false starts in what appeared to be lane three or lane 8. you saw williams we saw that infamously in atlanta with lynnford christy. >> that was a tragedy. that was a farce that any athlete would do what he did in that race. but certainly set it up better for bailey. >> so bolt will reset. so 3 and 8 are charged with false starts. >> bolt loads himself into the starting blocks. >> another false start. this time, it is lane 6, marvin anderson. >> at least it appeared to be. it's got everyone has to run his own race. this is not man-to-man. this is avoiding that and executing as best you can. so marvin anderson is out. because the first false start effects everyone. we now have a seven-man field. usain bolt is ready to run. next to him is sean crawford. he's said he too has his eye on the london olympics. down to a field of 7. set again for the men's 100 meters. >> bolt is off quickly. in lane 3, ivory williams trying to hold on. but here comes usain bolt. and the world's fastest man blazes through the finis

the presiding officer: the senator from oregon. a senator: i ask unanimous consent that the quorum call be lifted. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. merkley: madam president, i ask unanimous consent that when the senate completes its business today it adjourn until 10:00 a.m. on tuesday, june 23. that following the prayer and pledge, journal of proceedings be approved to date, the important hour be deemed expired, the time for the two leaders be reserved for their use later in the day and there be a period of morning business with senators permitted to speak up to 10 minutes each with the republicans controlling the first 30 minutes and the majority controlling the next 30 minutes. further, i ask that the senate recess from 12:30 until 2:15 p.m. to allow for the weekly caucus luncheons. madam president, tomorrow we will work on an agreement to consider the legislative branch appropriations bill. if we are able to reach an agreement, we could have votes in relation to the bill. earlier today the majority leader filed nom

the court ruled 6-3 in favor of a teenage boy from oregon is parents sought to have their local soap -- public-school district paid the $52 above the costs to send their sons to private school. they say school districts must pay for a private specialist services if the school does not have appropriate services, regardless of whether the child previously received special- education services through the public school. also, the supreme court upheld a federal government permit to dump waste from an alaskan gold mine into a nearby lake even though all its fish would be killed. by 6-3 vote, the justices said federal appeals court wrongly bought the permit on environmental grounds. the army corps of engineer granted that permit in 2005. environmental groups challenged the permit, saying it violated the clean water act. coming up at 3:00 eastern today, we will be live with a senate republican meeting on energy policy and the possibility of increasing the number of nuclear plants. the senate republican conference will speak with energy analysts. we will have that life here on c-span at 2:00.

government relations for sprint and served as telecommunications policy advisor to the governor of oregon. finally, we will be hearing from joel kelsey. he as an international affairs policy analyst for consumers union. before joining them he worked as a new york city outreach director for the new york public interest research group. we thank you all for appearing at our hearing. after each of you give your testimony we will proceed to ask questions. will you all rise and raise your right hand? repeat after me. do you affirm that the testimony you will give will be the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth? thank you. we will start with you, mr. watts. >> good afternoon and thank you for the gracious introduction. i appreciate your opening comments. they said committee's concern over prices for text messaging is based on a narrow -- this subcommittees' concern over prices for text messaging is based on a narrow concern. this refers to the charge for individual text messages that customers purchase on a single message basis. our current price is 20 cents per message. that rate d

the court ruled 6-3 today in favor of a teenaged boy from oregon whose parents sought to force the local school district to pay the cost to send their son to a private school. marc garlasco talks about human rights around the war. for the last six years, he has been an analyst for human rights watch. this is just under one hour. [applause] >> thank you very much. i will try to live up to that welcome. i would like to thank the world affairs council for having us to hear. i would like to thank the college for hosting us in this finding you. i would also like to thank all of you for coming, for your interest, and commitment to human rights. i would like to begin by telling you a little bit about myself. people are often curious about how one goes from the pentagon to working on human rights watch. then, i would like to tell you about the organization, what we do, how we operate. better than just telling you about it, i would like to show you. we have a short video. it will give you an idea of some of the dangers that we face when we are on the ground in the conflict zone and how we approac

regional banks in iowa, california, oregon, they work but they do not have adequate deposits. so much money is being in a money-market and other places now. securitization is going on. it is a very important component of our banking system. but many banks are not interested in that activity. ordinary sound won't do not of you pay jpmorgan $30 million a year. you have to pay normal salaries that make sense in the marketplace. the new york banks are not interested in that. i assure you. host: our guest is a professor of international business at the university of maryland. he is an economist. he is author of 18 books. he has taught of the university of maine. our next call is from indianapolis. you are on the republican line. caller: if we pass the cap and trade, do you believe that as nancy pelosi and president obama have said it will create all the jobs they say it will, or will we lose more jobs and hurt the economy? guest: i think it will hurt the economy because the chinese are not required to undertake the similar activities. we will not reduce global pollution. the jobs t

it is estimated that families cross the oregon trail, there is a woman named fanny kelly, shipped over buffalo jetblue judge she had a slave. part of the attack, his head was closed and open with a hatchet and her husband was left for dead. one of her children was killed, of her children crawl off in the bushes and she was taken prisoner and she wound up in what many historians -- she was rescued and ransomed back. she was a great proponent of cooking buffalo chips. when she wrote her memoirs -- it really worked. people tend to no, you saw dances with wolves and you know the honda and there's something about cooking. 2 things that everyone knows. on the texas plains, you can think of the extermination of the buffaloes having occurred in 2 phases. at these time of european contact, arranged more than any other time in history. a guy ran into one in present-day washington d.c. in north carolina. there are great herds, someone's on 4,000 in national tennessee. most of those were killed off hunting for food, doing limited amounts of hunting. in 1871, they only live on the great plains. the

i said he was away on a conference in oregon and he said give the eighth day i said i am on the internet and nobody is doing this and it is ideal. >> he said give me until monday morning and he said it is a go. the rest of the staff of 40 people must have thought he went crazy because there were other books in line with 18 but it was the historic moment and we needed to get it done then perhaps after it was a go, i guess he had some second thoughts and he said maybe you should send me one of these letters i can take a look at it to see the story. so we sent him a powerful letter by ms. smith zero-coupon call me in anticipation of view. if i recall, it starts like we in anticipation of view, we swallow and engorged ossianic passages inside darkened carriers, moving coulter kindred from home as a slave reality. that was the opening and i thought all my goodness. [laughter] then it went on in extraordinary writing of recounting the history of african women from africa to this country and laying out all of the things and finally concluded with michelle saying week in anticipation of view we

they have the battle of oregon and washington state. they have slides. in florida of the early conservationists. we may not know these people. but in u.s. fish and wildlife culture paul cragle is a hero. he has a whole monument in florida. a singer spoke about being near the man's house to save manatees. >> so you called paul madison -- mark madison? >> that's right. i had books already, but they could find this kind of material for me. also, check with them even today before we were talking and they have the up-to-date numbers on species on writing about. for example, this is an louisiana black bear behind us, or louisiana bear. it's a subspecies of black bear. it's almost extinct. there are only 200 and some left in the river region of louisiana, mississippi near arkansas. this particular bear, only to under 50 approximately left in the united states. that are alive. we are about to lose the louisiana black bear. but here at u.s. fish and wildlife they're creating reserves for them in louisiana. the people of louisiana law used to hunt them, their loca

three states that i know of here, oregon, california and alabama already regulate tax preparers. can you find in their state regulation evidence that their tax preparers in those states are doing a better job? >> some of this regulation is pretty recent and relatively small subset. gao has done studies of state regulation and what is effective. and it is kind of across the board. everything from registration to registration and licensing to actual continuing education. what i announced last week is that i'm going to have a wide open discussion about this. we'll invite the industry in and invite taxpayers in and consumer advocates in. i would love to work with the committee on this and look and say, what's the most effective way for us to work with that community to make sure there's good compliance. that could include service and education and clearly will include ramped up enforcement of the bad preparers then regulation is on the table. and we'll closely look at the state -- >> some parts of the 1040s and schedules and such were most often mistakes being made. >> there's compli

i see my good friend jeff merkley from oregon here, a member of the committee. there are a number of amendments that he and i would have liked to have supported including daicial penalties and fines. but we know full well if we did that, we might break that fragile coalition of getting us to the goal line of passing this. so i for one want to stand here and say thank you to the majority leader for standing up on an issue that he cares deeply boxer the reimportation of drugs, because he understands, as does the presiding officer, as do all of us here who have loved ones we've cared about who've been smokers, who've a effected by tobacco and the harm and department of justice it does to our -- and the harm and damage it does to our citizenry, it is the only disease that's self-inflicted. there are more deaths each year as a result of smoking and tobacco products than alcohol, drugs, suicide, aids combined, automobile accidents. it's the greatest killer in america. and we have a dhans to make a difference on it. the day will come for reimportation. we ought to get

no, there are some birds in or oregon land owe. however, kobe bryant driving through theom lane. count it, and one. kobe had 13 in the first quarter. later, defense by dwight howard. turning into offense the other way. alston throws it up. and it goes. he wanted the foul as well. second quarter, magic up 7. rashard lewis off the pick and roll. can't leave that guy open. why would you go to nelson when rashard lewis is wide open? maybe that's why the lakers are trailing at halftime. then, j.j. redick. slips, no problem, turk alieu, and right now, the lakers have managed only 37 in the first half. turkoglu pacing the magic with 15 points. >> as soon as this is over, right now, right now, dwight howard, is standing by at the half. >> you did not get your first couple of field goals until late in the second period. yet you had a major influence on the first half. what were you looking to do early? >> trying to be the first one on the defensive end. block shots, rebound, and make it toughe for those guys to score. but we've got two more quarters, so we've got to keep it up. >> your de

. >> senator i also point to his what they have done in oregon. there may be others i don't know about that have set up the structures so that people is easier to be healthy to walk or bike and do different things like that in those cities. one of the reasons we have set up the public counsel that goes across all the departments is so that and all of the legislation we passed on all the rules and regulations promulgated by these departments they will start thinking about this. i mention on transportation that some have suggested when a book of the taxpayers' money into building highways and roads and bridges and things like that that people put in their bypass and walking paths. they don't now and i always mention in virginia we reached bought a house and sending an was because my school is less than a mile from our house. so there were no sidewalks and was a very busy street with no sidewalk. why are we doing things like that? transportation, that is not in their purview. they don't think about things like that so you're not telling people they'v

jordan is calling from portland, oregon. welcome, you are on the air. caller: thank you very much. a i was curious to hear your thoughts on bikes -- >> i was curious to hear your thoughts on the single payer system. why health care for a populace should be considered a matter for private industry, and why we should not look at it more of a socialist or a public interest standpoint. why should these things be profited upon instead of considered a matter of public interest? guest: well, that is a meet taty question. i think it is a mistake to make this division between profit and the public interest. when of the reasons for markets worked is that the profit motive often serves the public interest. when it has not worked, that is often the result of misguided government policies structuring that market in foolish ways. i think that president obama and a lot of leading democrats made an accurate political judgment that the single payer is too far left for the american public. host: you have criticized deficit spending what do you think the economy doing right now? do you see it improvi

it goes all the way from oregon and idaho all the way down to north las vegas. >> how many people in the district? >> oh, goodness. >> probably more now. >> at that time district one which is metropolitan. metropolitan clark county, los vegas, the largest population center. a very rural. very much branching. >> the rent. >> yes. the largest metropolitan area probably would have been -- if you didn't count north las vegas it would have been the reno. in carson city. >> did you have all of reno? >> oh, yes. >> is it fair to call this of fairly conservative district? >> very conservative. seventeen counties in our state. the only one that traditionally goes blue is clark county, which is vegas. the rest to vitiligo read. i'm proud to say this last election. it has made as a swing state for a number of election cycles. >> it is now represented by a republican. >> has been a republican for a long, long time. >> one of my colleagues is of representative. now, i do want our audience to know that if you have any sense of reading for fun or if you are a teacher or if you have any interest in

the next call comes from james from oregon. >> caller: hello? this is what i have mostly heard about you what you said about the clinton administration and fox news, if you believe rightly labeled a terrorist of that is a true assumption or that you have committed a terrorist act? >> guest: no. >> host: day you care to expound on that answer? >> guest: he wanted a yes or no answer. [laughter] >> host: in the 1960's were you considered a terrorist and looking back you consider yourself during those years, during the '60s and early '70s as an early terrorists? >> guest: i do not than and i do not know. we created a mythology on the war on terror which it was bizarre you may remember there is a fierce debate after 9/11 about how to understand what had just happened to us. no doubt it was a crime against humanity, a pure act of terror against a group of the ideologically driven religious fanatics and we have suffered something horrible not only the 3,000 died and the families but all of us. what was it? many people in the first six months it is a cr

. >> 2 2/3 against oregon state, 8 strikeouts, count that up. that's all the outs in 2 2/3. >> manny has seen a lot of pitching and bob boone knows pitching better than anybody, i mean he caught forever, 24 years i think, we called him fish hat depending, had to come back and play one more game so he could surpass bob's all-time record for most games caught and when bob likes this kid, i like him. >> all those strikeouts, that fastball frying flying through, could be a national very, very soon, hopefully before august 15th. we'll see what happens. stephen strasburg working undertake there for san diego state. the number 1 pick for the nats. more from nats extra after this. they let you put whatever you're watching down here, while you check out local traffic, weather, even your news up there. i've got a news flash you're out of mayo. how did you get in here? door was open. you'd have tons of ways for you to search for content: by actor, director, any word at all. what about chicken? chicken's fine. any word. no i mean do you have any chicken? i

oregon i think it's difficult to claim very much in terms of what affected. what i are business tated in the moratorium froze as well. i'm a bill big believer in direct nonviolent opposition and action but did those things help? the war went on for ten years. it went on for seven years after the american people rejected it. so i find it difficult to make a claim that this caused that, that this equaled that. i'm reminded of in 1968, the mid-6s so, the premier or china was asked by a french journalist what the impact of the french revolution of the 18th century had had on the chinese revolution of the 20th 20th century. he thought about it for quite a long time and said it's too soon to tell. i think that's true. people who make claims about what did what, it's too soon to tell. >> guest: did a great job and i was also a participant in that and the days of rage. we don't need to compete with each other about which -- i income a way the doessive force became gi's turning against the war, i think in a way when they cam back. but everything was does does decisive

from seven oregon university and a master's apart from central michigan university. the honorable christopher shays serves as co-chair of the commission of wartime contacting and was appointed by house minority leader john boehner. from 1987 to 2009 mr. shays served in the house of representatives where he represented the fourth district in connecticut. during his time in congress mr. shays served as ranking member of the subcommittee on foreign affairs as well as chairman of the committee. mr. shays holds a bachelor of arts from principia colleges wallison nda and mpa from new york university. mr. charles deaver serves as a wartime contrasting appointed by senate majority leader harry b. pirg aliza professor university of baltimore school of law, specializes in government contracts and contract legislation. from 1993 to 1994 he has served as acting general counsel on the house of representatives, from 1984 to 1995 he was the deputy general counsel in the united states senate. he holds a bachelor of arts from columbia university and a j.d. from harvard law school. co

salem, oregon. tory on our line for democrats. you're on with ron fairchild. go ahead. caller: hi. it's good to be talking to you guys this morning. i have two questions for you, mr. fairchild. the first would be, well, the first should start out with a story. i used to work in, like, a summer program for children through americorps, and one of my problems was that there were children that -- it was hard to deal with because of the fact that the children who were bullying were very sly about it, very tricky, and i'm sure that any teacher would understand, you know, that, and -- host: tory, unfortunately we have run out of time. we have to cut you off. thanks for your call and thanks for everybody who has participated in this edition of "the washington journal." we will go live to white sulfur springs, west virginia where the fourth circuit court of appeal judicial conference has gotten underway. we are going there live. we will see you again tomorrow at 7:00 a.m. eastern. >> purchased and brought to the court, and in that state of euphoria, the court was able to work through the pr

i'd next like to turn to my ranking member from oregon for an opening statement, please. >> thank you, mr. chairman. before i give my opening statement, i just want to clarify something. you indicated in your opening statement you do plan to put this supplemental information in the record? >> yes, sir. i'll attach it as part of my opening statement. this is the supplemental information regarding the individual health insurance market dated june 16th. i realize a lot of members haven't had time to look at it. i know they were putting it together last night. in the last couple days they went through about 50,000 pages. it just helps members for questioning, so i wanted to put it in there, because it is supplemental. and members can use it in questioning witnesses. >> all right. i misunderstood what you were saying. i thought you told me you weren't going to put it in since the minority didn't see this until 9:20 this morning. >> i wasn't going to put it in as part of the document finder. i'll put it as part of my opening statement, and it's attributable to me. because as you have indica

the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from oregon rise? mr. defazio: to address the house for one minute. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized. mr. defazio: ure peaans have had a market-based cap and trade system and it has failed. the last recorded year $60 billion in trades, that is added cost, and higher greenhouse gas emissions. now the house of representatives wants to bring thature peaian system here to the united states of america. despite its failures. why? the market-based approach is only a failure if your objective is meaningful and predictable real reductions in greenhouse gas emissions. perhaps something else is afoot. europe already has a carbon offset futures derivative market complete with credit default swap insurance. is it a.i.g. and mortgages all over again? but now with carbon. we are going to bring that here to the united states. wall street is tingling with excitement. $1 trillion speculative market. listen to this, carbon will be the world's biggest commodity market and it could become the world's bigges

credible intends to make it more clear if they played the card and need assistance management is going oregon, excuse me. and then the third 1i would point out is the e-mail from mr. and willow at the new york fed, which deals with the disclosure concern. also this is in december of last year where he says i fink i will ask merrill lynch a current estimate and he makes the statement if i get a sense merrill lynch is leaning toward a january fall when i will steer them to a leader. but i am trying to figure out is we have all this pattern here which as i asked mr. lewis when he was here if what took place at the october 13th had an impact on his decision making, his fault process as he moves through this dealing in december with you and treasury relative to the merrill lynch acquisition do you see how a reasonable person could reach the conclusion there in fact was this pattern of pressure from the government? >> no, not if you are sufficiently informed. as i said i didn't tell mr. paulson to come as a threat. the e-mail from mr. lacher was a long@@@@@@@ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @v @ >> thank you m

next call is from james in medford, oregon. >> caller: i wanted to know with a yes or no question if possible, since -- what i have mostly heard about you from what you said to the clinton administration and fox news, if you believe that you are widely label a terrorist if that is a true assumption or you're committed to terrorist acts, that is my question. >> guest: no. >> host: do you care to expound on that answer? >> guest: he wanted a yes or no answer. i mean, i can. i mean -- >> host: in the 1960s were you considered a terrorist and do you, looking back, consider yourself during those years, during the '60s anderlily '70s as a terrorist? >> guest: , and i didn't consider myself that then and not now. if you take deaf mission of terror -- one of the problems since 9/11 we createed this mythology of the war on terror which is bizarre. in was a fierce debate after 9/11 about how to understand what had just happened to us and there was no doubt it was a crime against humanity, that it was a pure act of terror by a group of ideology driven -- so what was it? many people in first sin

stories written by and for and about kids who actually lived and was and didn't pick up their fist oregon but picked up a pen and told their story. they told the story about what they knew, the hardships that adversity, little girls like and frank, girls in a tiny attic that would look out her window and watch her friends led off like sheep to slaughter. every day for two years ann frank immortalized her story. when i gave the story to maria first she was upset. she looked at the cover and said i don't look like her or talk like her or even preach the same god she prays to. in marinas mind how was this little girl who wasn't latino, didn't speak spanish and was sent from her hood supposed to help her change? i remember asking her to take this book, and maybe she would find herself in the pages of this book. we picked up a plastic champagne glass and toasted for change and in the back of her mind i know she thought there was no way this will grow from a country i can't identify on a map, how is she supposed to help me change and on her toast for change that date it wasn't about number two

>> peggy is the beekman a professor at northwestern history and university of oregon and she is a professor of a domestic studies, this is our second book and she -- it is a labor of love of. >> the day wall street exploded. >> what could be more topical, this is not about the economy today, set in the 20s when there was i to make a real explosion down on wall street. this is the first book, mr. nouri book and a wonderful storyteller, beverly gage is a professor of yale and she wrote this to talk about america and the age of terror. she started it well before 9/11 so this is not a book that was inspired to write because of current events in europe is something to talk about was happening on wall street at this time it is a detective story. >> finally one of the book we want to talk about, the wilsonian moment king and the wilsonian, is an example of a new generation of scholarship, this is a methodology and what is really exciting to me is there's been a division in history between people who study the u.s. in people the senate the rest of the world so people will focus on countries and foc

the chair: the gentleman from oregon is recognized. mr. blumenauer: i rise to urge that clean water and sanitation be addressed at the highest level of the state dapt and usaid. it remains the greatest preventable health problem, accounting for two million deaths a year ago, a child dying every 15 seconds and half the illness in the world. we can not meet our goals without addressing this crisis. on earth day, i introduced the bipartisan paul simon water for the world act with a goal to provide 100 billion of the world's poorest with first-time access to safe drinking water and sanitation. i'd like to work with you, mr. chairman to ensure that clean water and sanitation are adequately funded and related at the highest level of our diplomatic levels. mr. berman: i want to manifest clearly my intention to take up a major recite writhe of foreign assistance legislation late they are year and we will address the issues raised in the water for the world act as part of that effort. mr. blumenauer: thank you, mr. chairman. i appreciate your atten

>> she's the beakman professor of northwestern history at the university of oregon. this is her second book and -- it's a labor of love. >> the day wall street exploded. >> what could be more topic cal. this is not about the economy today. this is a book set in the '20s when there was actually a real explosion down on wall street. this is a first book. this is an extraordinary first book and a wonderful storyteller. beverly gage is a professor of yale university. she started it well before 9/11. it's not something she decided to talk about before the current events and what was happening in wall street in this period and it's a real detective story. >> and finally one other book we want to talk about the wilsonian moment. >> this is new method ideology and what is really exciting to me there's been such a division in history between people who studied the united states and people who studied the rest of the world so people will focus on countries and focus on individual topics. this is a person who actually is part of this new generation of international historian. h

we have very large number, about 700 community college programs, 15 in oregon which ledbetter be able to prepare their students with assistance in preparing and nurses for the high technology based nursing care and thank you mr. chairman kim mr. chairman, i want to just commend senator mark lee on this amendment. as a former community college teacher as well as chairman of implement and workplace safety i agree community colleges are extremely valuable in finding in how a skilled workforce so i share your concern that they be adequately addressed in this and will work with you as we move to the floor he met with me and my voice to that as well. the community colleges are in a fabulous job and tremendous source of education opportunity for people and i am not sure we celebrated in an upper supportive enough and i suspect in the years to come given the rising cost of our education you'll see a greater role played by the community college system across the country and provide a quality education of substantially reduce costs from the others are charging. whenever we can do to expand thos

the chair recognizes the gentleman from oregon, mr. blumenauer, for five minutes. mr. blumenauer: thank you, madam chair. as one fifth of the world's population relies on fresh water that is either polluted or significantly overdrawn, the lack of safe water and sanitation is an ongoing threat to global security and remains the world's greatest health problem, accounting for two million deaths a year and half the illness in the developing world. before i finish speaking, 15 more children will die needlessly from water-borne disease. to address this slow-moving disaster, i worked with then chair henry hyde and tom lantos and the senate majority and minority leaders bill frist and harry reid to enact the paul simon water for the poor act of 2005. this landmark bipartisan legislation established investment in safe and affordable water for the world's poorest as a major goal of united states foreign assistance but sadly with the last administration we were slow to implement and until last year slow to fund it. we are more than halfway to the 2015 millennium development goal

appropriates dollars to federal agencies and the studies they produce are ones of national import beer in oregon but this type of research on more solid ground removing from political influence in funding cliffs by setting the ground rules without how it is conducted. and i prefer the second approach. and that is why i introduce comparative effectiveness research activities as an aide two along with my colleagues. we share a passim for this. we believe it is fundamental to chance woman our health system. from one that is volume driven to one evidence based here and there are many other components of moving that direction but comparative effectiveness research is clearly a part of it. this year we plan to reintroduce the bill and have been discussing and constantly with our staff and the committee and elsewhere and close to coming to an agreement and i tend to include my bill that is the comparative effectiveness research bill in a comprehensive health reform bill in the finance committee later this month. that brings me to my last point in it the need for comprehensive health reform. the finance

host: much here on our independent line, roger from norman, " oregon. caller: norman, oklahoma, ma'am. host: i am sorry. caller: i am a republican schoolteacher. this cap and a trade bill is going to raise taxes, and basically what is going to happen is our school is then going to have to pay huge energy costs. we already use -- we are doing everything we can to save energy, but it is going to raise it up so badly that then we are going to have to look at how many teachers do we have, we are going to have to get rid of teachers now oc. they're paying all these people money, and before you know it, we are cleaning our own rooms and we are -- people are out of jobs and kids have a poor education. this thing is going to trickle down -- and i hate to use that word -- but this thing is going to trickle down to where every last part of society is going to be affected tremendously by it. we are scared of it in oklahoma. we are really scared of it. guest: and i think people should be scared of it. he is exactly right. my wife was a teacher until she retired a y

the transportation and infrastructure subcommittee on highways and transportation, the gentleman from oregon, mr. defazio. i yield one minute to the gentleman from virginia, mr. connelly. the chair: the gentleman is recognized for 45 remaining seconds. mr. connelly: thank you, mr. chairman. mr. chairman, i'm pleased to introduce this amendment with mr. nye and mr. pierriello. during the 110th congress the service members civil relief act did acess cell phone and property release contracts for active duty deployed. however, they did not address -- they addressed individual cell phone contracts and individual leases. they did not provide that protection to family cell phone plans. as a result, we have service members who are finding themselves having to continue to pay obligations to cell phone companies. under the motor vehicle section of our amendment, the leasing agent may not charge an early termination penalty, something also not addressed in scra last year. this is a practical amendment that will help our active duty deployed and their families make sure that they're safe and secure from

in 1972 the title 9 amendment was introduced by representatives edith green of oregon and patsy mink of hawaii. in 1980, i attended the university of the california-santa barbara where i played on the women's basketball team and i witnessed there was a difference between playing on the women's team and the men's team. for example, for women, we had to travel in two or three advance to go to all of our away games where the men were allowed to fly on a plane. you might say, why is that something that was important? well, we lost instruction time, we had time in general lost, preparation was lost and recoup ration was lost. that's why title 9 was so important. in 2007 we celebrated the 35th anniversary of title 9 which assured the women's right to education quality. and -- equality and the u.s. department of education showed that 56% of all women compared to 44% of men now have achieved four years or more of college. so title 9 has been working. federal laws prohibit description across a wide area of -- discrimination across a wide area of public policy arenas. no more than when you con

estuaries, new york new jersey harbor, paconic estuary, pimlico's sound, lower columbia river, tilimuk bay, oregon, coastal bays, texas, and galveston bay, texas. i would warn members that 151 members of this body whose districts border these bodies that i mentioned will see that tear funds will be cut for these important programs. a reduction of this size would mean the e.p.a. would stop construction and demobilize eight to 10 large high-cost, ongoing superfund projects such as the site in new jersey, the tar greek site in oklahoma and the new bedford site in massachusetts. e.p.a. would not be able to start any new superfund sites in 2010. after years of reduction under the previous administration. e.p.a. estimates that a reduction of this size would prohibit them from completing construction at as many as nine superfund sites in 2010 and 2011. this reduction would mean e.p.a. would not properly certify new vehicles, fuels and engines sold in the united states, to ensure they conform to e.p.a.'s emission standards. 217 tribes would lose funding for their environmental programs, a 38% reduction to

for what purpose does the gentleman from oregon rise? mr. defazio: to address the house for one minute. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized for one minute. mr. defazio: unlike his predecessor, president obama recognizes the greenhouse gases and climate change are a real problem and must be dealt with. and in the tradition of the hugely successful clean water act and clean air act, he has ordered his environmental protection agency to develop rules to cap and reduce greenhouse gases. this bill today actually prohibits the e.p.a. from continuing to develop rules to regulate greenhouse gases in the tradition of the clean water act and the clean air act. instead, it turns to a market-based approach. instead of a firm cap, regulating and reducing, this bill turns to carbon offset derivative futures that will be ensured by -- insured by credit default swaps. how quickly they forget wall street and a.i.g. and the damage they rot in the -- wrought in the financial sector. the market manipulators of enron corporation may have bankrup

in fact, one of our colleagues, a democrat from oregon, mr. defazio, in his one minute this morning made two terrific points. one was, the alternative jobs in alternative energy are being created faster now than they will be under this bill. because we're moving that direction already with incentives in the market and with some supplemental funding out of congress, some tax incentives out of congress. we're going to get major breakthroughs. i have a car company in my district that may be able to get 60 miles a gallon out of e-85. they got 100 in the first test and it's a new motor. but if we mandate electric cars, it will never come to market. the government doesn't make efficient decisions. if they protect this class, protect this company, protect the t.v.a. power system but not this power system, you get all these special categories but what we know he, as all of you have pointed out -- we know, as all of you have pointed out, the upper classes are going to figure that out, they're not going to get damaged and to some degree they're going to

the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from oregon rise? without objection, the gentleman is recognized for one minute. mr. blumenauer: 49 years ago the 1960 october harper's magazine cover story was the crisis in american medicine. well, we are still in crisis but change is in the air. the facts are clear. high costs, more procedures, tests, hospitalization is not better care, it's a symptom of poor care. every major nation spends less and most have better outcomes than the united states. every major nation spends less, most have better outcomes. getting 50 million americans health insurance and giving the rest americans with insurance stability will cost more, but about half of this cost can be achieved by reforming the system, and having the government pay the balance will cost far less than business and people with insurance over the next 10 years of business as usual. with a president who gets it, a congress listening to what the people want, a public plan to keep the system honest means that there won't be a cover story 50 years from

the democrat is ron wyden of oregon. and they crafted language that would put strings on. that would have said, maybe if things aren't going so good and we are giving billions of dollars of taxpayers' money to wall street firms maybe we should have a limit on what they can get, but then a funny thing happened. the house passed its version, the senate passed its version. madam speaker, you know when we have bills that pass each chamber and there's some differences in them we have to appoint a conference committee and they meet and work out the differences and then send back to us a conference report. . somehow, somewhere in that conference committee the language that was put in by senator snowe and senator wyden was taken out of the bill and the words about 40 words that are located on the easel to my left were inserted into the bill and, madam speaker, as you read that language, not only were there no longer any strings on those bonuses, but this paragraph specifically protected any bonus that was given to any official, including the ones that became controversial a little