jackson lee: i ask to address the house and speak out of order for five minutes. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. ms. jackson lee: thank you very much, madam speaker, and i join my colleagues as a member of the subcommittee on the middle east and south asia, on the house foreign affairs committee. today our committee debated a very important nirttive dealing with iran sanctions, but it is interesting that we find ourselves in one domino effect after another. iran, iraq and then by extension, afghanistan and pakistan. today i rise with a plea to this government and to the state department to save those who are now huddled at the camp in iraq. this government that we have propped up, that we have seen thousands of our treasure lost in iraq so we could have a democratic government so that it would have its own boundaries and own sovreignty and would not be a puppet of some other country. yet iranian dissidents are huddled and fearful of their lives. we are more concerned about a desire to move the camp to someplace else inside iraq. the expectation is they

jackson lee: i thank the gentleman very much. and there is nothing like delay, delay, delay in terms of helping the american people. if you would look at what the intent of this bill is, i think we would find common ground. i rise to support the rule and the underlying bill because it attacks the crises. we are ending the bailout and preventing the rise of institutions that are too big to fail. we are dismantling institutions. i'm very glad that we have a financial stability council that has been enhanced by the congressional black caucus where we will have diverse membership. executive exn sayings gives share holders a say on pay. never before we have had that. this is long overdue. investor protections and certainly to be able to respond to too big and too fat, fat cats mike madoff. and then to emphasize the importance that i have heard from so many of my constituents on the whole question of mortgage foreclosure modification. and that is, they need to have real foreclosure modification and only 6% of those that have been in tr

what jackson bobby -- what jack's death meant to bobby, and more importantly, what they made him want to do. he loved looking at the capitol in the distance and the scratches on the desk doors. believing that he could cross party lines, that there could be friendships forged, that somehow he could make a difference in the social progress of the country. it is an extraordinary legacy. jack kennedy created a committee where they would have statues for all the best centers. they picked the best orator, daniel webster, the best committee chairman, the best constituent service person, the best person who was able to bring things across party lines. you look at ted kennedy and he is every single one of those things. in a sense, his legacy is larger than any one thing. any of us who were here during the time when he was here laying in state saw those people coming one after another, telling what he had done for them. what a great orator, committee chairman, all those things are in line. all that comes out in the book, his love of the senate, his love of family. he said the key made me unders

. >> greenhouse gas emissions pose a threat to public health, according to police said jackson, the head of the environmental protection agency. that clears the way for the epa to regulate certain emissions even if congress doesn't act. this is about half an hour. . >> we have spent decades studying greenhouse gas solution and climate change. scientists in the united states and around the world have tracked in the last century and in particular the last three decades alarming increases in the amount of greenhouse gases in our skies. that increase is deteriorating the natural balance in our atmosphere and changing our climate. there have and will continue to be debates about how quickly climate change will happen if we fail to act. the overwhelming amount of scientific study shows that the threat is real. polar icecaps are crumbling into the oceans, changing migratory patterns of animals and broader range is for deadly diseases, historic drought, more powerful storms, and disappearing coastlines are the symptoms. after decades of this evidence, climate change has now become a household is

what jackson bobby -- what jack's death meant to bobby, and more importantly, what they made him want to do. he loved looking at the capitol in the distance and the scratches on the desk doors. believing that he could cross party lines, that there could be friendships forged, that somehow he could make a difference in the social progress of the country. it is an extraordinary legacy. jack kennedy created a committee where they would have statues for all the best centers. they picked the best orator, daniel webster, the best committee chairman, the best constituent service person, the best person who was able to bring things across party lines. you look at ted kennedy and he is every single one of those things. in a sense, his legacy is larger than any one thing. any of us who were here during the time when he was here laying in state saw those people coming one after another, telling what he had done for them. what a great orator, committee chairman, all those things are in line. all that comes out in the book, his love of the senate, his love of family. he said the key made me unders

sunday night, the jacksons a family dynasty on a&e. "ac360" starts right now. >>> good evening from new york. we're cutting into christmas programming to bring you news of what the white house is calling an attempted terrorist attack. it happened on airline 330, inbound from amsterdam to detroit. a passenger tried to detonate some kind of explosive. >> i seen the stretcher, the ambulance guys pulling out a bed. and a young african-american, his hands were wrapped in bandages and he was handcuffed to the bed. >> that man has been taken to the hospital. apparently he's talking. kate bolduan is working her sources, gathering information on who this guy is and what he's saying. ed henry is in hawaii. >> according to a federal security bulletin obtained by cnn a nigerian set off a small explosive. also this passenger is claiming to have extremist affiliation and claims the device was acquired in yemen along with instructions on when it should be used. the fbi is leading this investigation and checking into this person's background and capab

jackson lee for five minutes. >> let me thank you for the hearing. the background of a number of my questions will be simply the conditions that i think are well known and have accelerated over the last year. the gunrunning, explosive violence on the mexican side of the border and spilling over into the united states, and the interest of the american people about whether or not this can be contained and what elements we are using. certainly, fbi net deals specifically with the issues of securing the border in ways that might capture the less endowed a criminal because there are other ways promulgate the violence going on. if you would give me when you think is the major achilles heel of this program, the major indictment of this program. chief, would you give me a status of the lawsuits and negotiations dealing with the defense? ÑpiÑiçóxdÑiñrÑiñri would also ly there was an extension of the boeing contract. >> with a broad stroke, getting something that works to spec has been difficult. project 28 was accepted. it did not meet all specificati

we brought the players in yesterday for the meetings, whether it was vincent jackson or philip rivers, ladainian tomlinson, they all said the same thing. this is the best team we've ever had here. phil: i think it's the way they feel about themselves, the way they're being coached. which we've said a few times. and i think all players -- you always hear defensive players say we want to be aggressive. but offensive players are the same. they want to be aggressive. that means throwing it down the field and running the football, and san diego did both. jim: recovered by the chargers. antonio gates. last week tomlinson recovered an onside kick. a second away from 16 straight in december. phil: i was wondering if you could recover the onside kick and still have one second left. the answer is, yeah, you could have done it. jim: now you know. norv turner coming back to dallas. phil: coached here, great success. like he said, i was calling plays for emmitt smith, troy aikman, and michael irvin during the great run. jim: a team that leads the nfl in fewest giveaways, fewest penalty yards. long

wide receiver jackson pack tilled all week and is listed as probable for the game. jackson missed last week's game also because of a concussion. >>> still to come on sports night. kelli johnson has a talk with one of the redskins rising young stars. it's an interview you'll only see on comcast sports net and the puck will drop in a few minutes. we'll head back to verizon center to get the latest. geico sports night returns after this. is emily, and in 7 years... i'll be an alcoholic. all: hi, emily. announcer: kids who drink before age 15 are 5 times more likely to have alcohol problems when they're adults. so start talking before they start drinking. >>> welcome back, devin thomas fred davis and malcolm kelly, finally showing promise. last week thomas had 100 yards receiving. it's the first time any of the three topped the mark. kelli johnson talked one on one with thomas, it's an interview you'll only see on comcast sports net. >> i know a lot of people can look at the scene and say it would be easy to fold the tent and say, you know, whatever on the season. you g

and he was saying one of the scholars was chairman jackson who is an african-american scholar at the university of michigan. and he was very and scholarly and very distinct and his subscriptions of islam. but he was left out of the dialogue on this war on terror. and so is a good book to give you a different perspective than the americans. >> host: thank you for that tip in somewhat of a related note this is greg mortensen's book stones into schools in his previous book with three cups of tea. he was a guest several years ago on q&a for the first book for three cups of tea. most recently he was on afterwards. he was on booktv a couple weeks ago. greg mortensen and you'll see that on the upcoming schedule. you can search his name on our website booktv.org. this is henry, what is your favorite book of the year? >> caller: i hope was published in no nine. the islands at the center of the world. and it was written by shortell. i don't remember his first name. but it's a book about settling by the dutch of the island of manhattan years ago. and of course i can celebrate this year they cam

voices of african americans are left out of the media and he was singing one in particular was sherman jackson which was an african-american scholar at the university of michigan and he was very objective and scholarly and distinct in his description of islam but he left out the dialogue on the global war of terror and things of that nature and voices basically left out and so it gives a different perspective in the american spirit. >> thanks for that tape and somewhat of a related note this is craig morton's in's new book stones in schools, the previous book was three cups of tea. he was a guest several years ago on q&a for the first book three cups of tea and most recently he was on i believe after words. stones into schools you will probably see that on the coming and you can certainly search his name on the website, booktv.org. here is bill falls in vermont and this is an prieta. what was your favorite book of the year? >> caller: my favorite i hope was published in 2009 was -- siskel if it's not, don't worry about it. just -- >> caller: i listened at the center of the world and it was wri

the head of the environmental protection agency lisa jackson is in denmark. >> if we do not act to reduce greenhouse gases, the planet we leave to the next generation will be a very different place than the one we know today. >> reporter: other countries have gone out of their way to show the debate is urgent, the stakes high. leaders of the maldives-- a chain of islands in the indian ocean-- staged a cabinet meeting under water to emphasize fears of rising sea levels that could literally wash away their nation. nepal's cabinet took to the frigid heights of mount everest to declare the melting himalayan glaciers pose a threat to them. all this in the face of growing evidence from scientists that global warming risks more hurricanes, coastal flooding, disease and massive population migration. the best way to head that off, they argue, is by reducing the amount of carbon humans spew into the atmosphere. but because that entails costly changes in the forms of energy used, there's no guarantee the 192 countries meeting these two weeks will reach a deal. already, major players, including the u

visiting fort jackson, i represent parris island, marine corps station, buford naval hospital, and then i'm also grateful, i have four sons currently serving in the military. so these truly are the best troops ever. and we want to back you up in every way we can with equipment and support. and i'm honored to serve with susan davis, military personnel backup families. general, the president set july 2011 as when the u.s. troops will begin to redeploy out of afghanistan. is this a conditions-based target that will be ajust if the afghan security forces or afghan government is not ready? is the process conditions based? and what are those conditions? >> sir, i view it is a solid decision the president has made. and i operate under the assumption that we will begin to decrease our forces beginning in july of 2011. but i do that in the context that the president is also providing the people of afghanistan a long-term strategic partnership, a guarantee that we are going to be partners with them over the long haul and help them continue to protect their security and their sovereignty. i think

with that, bobbi jackson. >> topics on sunday morning shows will include the economy as well as health care and afghanistan. the guests on nbc's "meet the press" hosted by david gregory will be christina roemer, chair of the council of the president's economic council of advisors, allen greensman, grandholm, and former presidential candidate mitt romney. abc "this week" george steff no luss will talk with sommers and house republican whip eric cantor. the guests on fox news sunday hosted by chris wallace include clare mccatskill, also oklahoma republican senator james inhoff and massachusetts democratic senator ed markey on "face the nation," connecticut independent senator joseph lism eberman and rockefeller from west virginia and nebraska's ben nelson. and cnn's state of the union will include lauren so maniers, director of the national economic council, virginia democratic senator mark warner, and south dakota republican john stone. you can listen to all five of the sunday morning talk shows starting at noon eastern on c-span radio at 90.1 f.m., nationwide on channel 132, xm, and on

i guess that's why someone sent me this michael jackson cutout paper doll book. here's a nice letter to the producer of "60 minutes" from someone named m. titus. mr. titus says about me: "he's not funny, he's not clever, he makes me dislike old men in general." next week, maybe i'll do a funny and clever piece about you, mr. titus. >> pelley: i'm scott pelley. we'll be back next week with another edition of "60 minutes." 'tis the chevy red tag event. ♪ now's the time to get a chevy♪ and nobody has more consumer's digest best buys than chevy. ♪ more best buys, more best buys, nobody has more.♪ not toyota. not honda. not anyone. ♪ not anyone! not anyone! not anyone! not anyone! not!♪ ah...warms the cockles of your heart. now during the chevy red tag event, get 0 percent apr for 72 months on most '09 models. see red and save green. now at your local chevy dealer. instead, try birds eye steamfresh meals from walmart for less. have a delicious meal at home once a month and save over $385 a year. save money. live better. walmart. and save over $385 a year.

administrator lisa jackson finally issued this week. the finding lays the groundwork for the e.p.a. to regulate greenhouse gas emissions across the entire economy on the grounds that global warming is hazardous to human health. from the start the obama team has wielded the e.p.a. action as a club, warning congress that it did not cop up with -- if it did not come up with cap-and-trade legislation, the e.p.a. would act on its own. and in a far more blunt fashion than congress preferred, now as one anonymous administration official menaced again this week -- quote -- "if congress doesn't pass this legislation, the e.p.a. is going to have to regulate in a command-and-control way, which will probably generate even more uncertainty." the thing about threats, thoerbgs is that at some point -- though, is at some point you have to act on them. the e.p.a. has been sitting on this finding for months much to the agitation of the environmental groups that have been upping the pressure for action. president obama having failed to get climate legislation, didn't want to show up the cope hagan cli

this was one of the main venues for social entertainment between president jackson and lincoln. sterling in them duricertainly'i me. >> i am sure it lincoln felt he could come across the street any time for a chat. i think dennis l. blair house function. it could be an escape, and a place for privacy where things were not overcome. the president could relax in front of a warm fire with an ice and brandy and talk over difficult issues and get good, sound advice as well as a sympathetic shoulder. he was just a boy and remembers abraham lincoln sitting in his father's study of the blair front entrance, deep in conversation with their feet propped up on the fireplace mantel. confidences were still share. there was a closeness. and certainly the night robert e. lee was invited by makori blair and his father to dinner at blair house -- over dinner at the blair and dining room table and continuing into the study with cigars and wine. they offered the command of the union army to robert e. lee in blair house. fedders testimony to the blair family influence in power. >> there are large e

jackson lee: to address the house. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, the gentlewoman from texas is recognized for one minute to address the house. ms. jackson lee: thank you very much, mr. speaker. let me say that when democrats gather, good things happen for the american people. our health care bill is a bill that will bring down premiums, save lives, and create a magnificent reformed comparable to saving lives when medicare was passed in 1965. it is only those who are scared and apprehensive and not ready to go forward for the american people that won't allow us to move forward on the health care reform. just as when we gathered together behind closed doors, democrats again are promoting transparentp legislation and creating jobs for americans. we stand with the small businesses in providing them resources and credit because they are the backbone of america. we realize that job training and specifically a bill that i am offering that says if you are unemployed and get unemployment compensation, you can be i

jackson lee: ask unanimous consent to address the house for one minute. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. ms. jackson lee: thank you, very much, madam speaker, and i rise with a very sad duty today as the chair woman of the transportation security committee and infrastructure protection committee on homeland security, i rise to pay tribute to the late edward joseph kelly iii who passed away, born october 1, 1942 in new york and he joined the navy and served his country and graduated from the university of scranton in 1967 and retired as vice president of emory worldwide in 2000. he is a hero. after 9/11, he could not sit still. mr. kelly left retirement to join the department of homeland security, signing on as the first general manager of the air cargo security for the federal transportation security administration, whose mission is securing the nation's transportation network. air cargo officials have gone on record to say he transform the industry. if future airline passengers feel safe about what is carried in the belly of a cargo plane, the

., president of jackson state university, plays a prominent businessman returning to his hometown of belleville in the state of southernton with plans to build a multiplex in the city center. and a journalist has been assigned to cover the story. >> ogletree: mr. magagnini, let me ask you about this story. what are you thinking about when you want to talk to mr. mason about his background and his new opportunity? >> well, with a story like this, i want to get to mr. mason where he lives. and i want to get as much time with him as i can, perhaps an afternoon. and i'll take him out to dinner. and i'll get him to tell me the story from day one and from before. >> ogletree: well, mr. magagnini, you're able to come to visit mr. mason. you come to his house. you meet his wife, and you meet his daughter and his son. and you notice something. mr. mason, an african american now back in belleville, his daughter, lisanne, is white. his son, craig, is black. his wife is african american, as well. is that of interest to you? >> i would have some curiosity about it. >> ogletree: but this is a stor

jackson lee: i ask to address the house and to revise and extend. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, so ordered, the gentlewoman is recognized. ms. jackson lee: only the lack of clarity and poor eyesight can call this the so-called jobs bill because as we looked over the last year, the american recovery and reinvestment act helps save 3.5 million jobs. they named chairman bernanke as the person of the year,@@@@@@@℠g that. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from california is recognized. mr. lewis: madam speaker, by way of inquiry of my chairman, mr. chairman -- by way of inquiry of my chairman, aside, mr. chairman, from the unprecedented and secretive process by which this bill was put together and is being brought to the floor, the rule before us contains a most unusual provision to allow the chairman to submit a report explaining the legislation. it would be very helpful to all members before we vote on over $154 billion in spending to actually have the benefit of the chairman's explanation. i, for one, have not only n

bobbi jackson. guest: the guests on nbc's "meet the press" will be defense secretary robert gates, secretary of state hillary clinton, and ranking chairman john mccain. this week george steff no luss will -- steff no luss will talk with jeff feingold. -- senate yorte whip, richard durbin, and john cornin, the chairman of the national republican snorl committee. on "face the nation" you'll hear host bob sheefer with secretary gates and secretary of state clinton. and national security adviser james jones. senate republican whip john kyle and senate intelligence committee chair diane feinstein. we are at 90.1 f.m. here in washington, d.c. nationwide on xm satellite radio and on the web at c-spanradio.org, and you can follow us on facebook and twit tesm r. -- at which timer -- twitter. host: good morning. thank you for joining us. guest: good morning. host: should we pay for this war? if so, how? guest: i think we should pay for this war because it is a way to help our economy, it is a way to do fairne

bobby jackson from c-span radio with a look at other sun morning programs and issues and guests. >> the guests on "meet the press" hosted did i davidç gregory will be robert gibbs. new york independent mayor michael bloomberg. massachusetts democratic governor duval patrick andç ne gingrich. on abc this week jake tapper will talk with robert gibbs. janet napolitano and rich mcconnell. fox news sunday will include richard shelby and committee member and south carolina republican jim demint. on fox news sundayç pennsylvan democratic senator arlen spector and robert menendez. and the chair of the democratic congressional campaign committee chris van hollen. on "face the nation" you will have robert gibbs, house majority whip james clyburn and peter king the ranking member of the house homeland security member. and cnn state of the union hosted by john king will have secretary napolitano, andrew card and john podesto. and ed rendell and mitch daniels. you can listen to all five of the sunday morning talk shows starting at noon eastern on c-span radio here in washington, d.c. nationwid

director of the people for the american way, and former legislative counsel for congresswoman sheila jackson lee and senator arbor boxer. so we will begin with nancy jones. >> thank you, mr. scott. i am nancy jones that i am an attorney with the american law division of crs. and crs does provide objective and nonpartisan information to the congress. i'm going to be speaking today about the legal and historic background of the individuals with disabilities education act, i.d.e.a. i.d.e.a. is a federal civil rights and grant statute that provides federal funds to states for the education of children with disabilities. in order to receive these funds, states must ensure that all children with disabilities have available to them a free appropriate public education. and ensure that the rights of children disabilities and their parents are protected. more specifically, the law also contains provisions for child find and for individualized education program, and has detailed due process procedures. as a supreme court said in smith versus robinson in 1984, i.d.e.a. is a conference of schemes set up

the jackson clarion ledger reported that he had run a racist campaign. and i think that when that was disclosed, merck, instead of sort of retreating into itself, said, you know what, there was a problem, we need to do more thorough vetting, we really need greater transparency and overseist our political spending, so i think they recognized that it really served the company better to be more open and adopt the policies and procedures to achieve that. so they've been a real leader. microsoft has been a leader. you have other companies that are doing this. aetna, you know, i think it shows that when companies want to change, they can step up to the plate and do it. host: "usa today" political cartoon with a comment on the money being spent and the snow that fell in washington during this senate debate from today's today tofmente as we go to san antonio. our republican line, this is michael. good morning. caller: good morning, gentlemen t. seems hypocritical that the cormses want the same statutes as us, joe public, but they don't want to -- if i give $200

we have said that three or four times here. >> now come to this question we have congresswoman jackson-lee, david scott and keith ellison to respond. >> thank you very much madam chair and i unprivileged to join my colleagues. i think you can see every member of the congressional black caucus is intimately engaged in this process. what i would suggest to you is this caucus remains an allied of this adminstration improv of the administration. as we begin to see the evidence of crafted let me be very clear, we work in partnership but our responsibilities are to pointedly be the advocates and the changemakers in the united states congress. we are writing legislation for gore job is to make sure the legislation gets to the president desk response to the degradation and the crisis in our community. it is a crisis. it is a peaking crisis and no one should leave here without knowing that we are in a crisis. ire communities bleeding and we are the worst hit. the old adage, if someone has a cold we have got its h1n1 so it is important to know that we are not going to seize rolling up our sleeves an

[applause] >> mcnally jackson books in new york city hosted this event go for more information visit mcnally jackson.com. >> pollitz surprise winner neil sheehan author of the book a bright shining line has a new book out, "a fiery peace in a cold war." bernard schriever and the ultimate weapon. what is an icbm? >> and icbm as a rocket that with the hydrogen bomb in its warhead that is fired into space and travels through space at 16,000 miles an hour for 67,000 miles an hour and then it would come down. there's no way to stop it. >> they have never been used. the whole point, you and i would probably be not having this conversation if it wasn't for these people. they built this weapon not to have war with but this bernard schriever and the ultimate weapon would say this the first weapon humankind which is to deter war. >> i want to start with what and icbm was because i think it tells the story of bernard schieber in the scientist who helped create for goody wanted tell me a little bit about bernard schriever? >> he was six years old money came to germany when his mother brought him

jackson-lee. >> mr. chairman, thank you very much. mr. sullivan, you are right. you have the responsibility of protecting our president. and you know the letter that i wrote to the secretary of homeland security which i believe should be more intimately involved in this issue as we go forward, i indicated my appreciation for the brave men and women that serve in the secret service. and i will never step back from that representation. i also acknowledge the fact that you've said there's no margin for error. i want to applaud you for the 1.2 million people that have come in securely. and i want to join you in recognizing that you staff-up, man-up, woman-up when you need to but i want to join my colleagues to say this is the time to understand what happened and what kind of resources going forward. so let me say to you that my perspective is that this is a law enforcement issue. a criminal activity that could have generated into a horrific incident at a state dinner in washington, d.c., in the white house and what has been classified as the most powerful nation in t

changed, the colors may be different, but these are the same walls and the same floors that andrew jackson walked on, that abraham lincoln walked on, and that everybody in-between and since then. >> in the 19th century, because the blares were so politically active, mostly behind the scenes, but prominent, almost all of our political figures -- daniel webster, whose portrait is here, henry clay -- were entertained here in this house. >> living here and being of the blair family and so close to the white house, this was one of the main venues for social entertaining between president jackson and lincoln, certainly in van buren's time, maybe a little bit in the beginning of polk's time before their falling out and certainly through andrew johnson's time, as long as he was president. >> and no president took more advantage of that hospitality than abraham lincoln. >> i'm sure that lincoln felt that he could come across the street any time for a chat, and i think that's how blair house really functioned. it could be an escape, it could be a place of privacy where things were not overheard. as

. >> robert jackson said that the challenge of that decision was to explain in legal terms what was a political conclusion. they would have to do that in this case. >> they would have to enforce it, which the court did not do for years. >> one of the issues that lurks behind so many of the questions and so much of the discussion today has to do with the authority of the court. in this case whether the court would endanger its own authority. perhaps we can finish up by anticipating what is going to be happening in the rest of this season. the court does have some major cases that it will be confronting. do you see it raising fundamental question" role of the court, authority and citizens united? >> i would say briefly that the public conversation about why the court didn't go all the way. why they did not pull the trigger in major, you know, one case over the other to the voting rights act. so i think that is the carryover theme that we are struggling with. we have clearly five votes to reshape the revolution it is not happening as dramatically as one might expect. one of the themes, w

it was the right thing for andrew jackson. it was the right thing for abraham lincoln. it was the right thing for franklin delano roosevelt. it is the right thing now. it has always been the right thing. it never told be the right thing. f-word is a war. the war is not a crime. you don't bring your enemy to a courthouse. -- a war is a war. come away with one thing today. the people who made this decision are not your rulers. the people who made this decision are your representatives. the justice department is not eric holder. the american government is not barack obama. the government and that court house belonged to new -- b elong to you. we have to light a fire under congress because they work for you as well. congress is a jurisdiction of the federal courts. if they don't want this trial to happen, if they vote against it, it cannot happen. but they will not change unless they hear from new. will they hear you? >> yes. >> thank you for coming. it is an honor to be here with you. let's get this changed. >> thank you. ladies and gentlemen, curtis sliwa. [applause] >> f

perfect yankees, the babe ruth, joe dimaggio, reggie jackson. but you never had the perfect yankees. >> we have 10 minutes or 15 minutes more of tapping, then we will open up to questions. i want to get your thoughts on some political figures, and then we will end with your thoughts on the current political environment. >> she helped with date certain kind of society. certainly the buckleys were well connected. this helps. and she was certainly a very stylish woman who was a figure in new york society. she was also -- she was also quite a lively person. i remember one of my favorite members of her is towards the end -- one of my favorite memories, bloomberg came to an editorial dinner, in full campaign mode against smoking. she did not blow a puff of smoke right into the mayor's face, but it was pretty close. and she said, mr. mayor, may i smoke in my own house? that is a mild example. >> you have surprisingly mixed things to say about him as a writer. >> i never liked his fiction particularly. it is john rep. fiction. -- chandra -- genre fictio

that's a great acronym, hope, reverend jesse jackson, keep hope alive and how many people have you helped? >> this year alone, the records on 40 million loans which is the majority of the market share indicates that 2.6 million people have had either modifications or repayment plans in addition to the 700,000 government trial plans, 3.4 million people while 700,000 went to actual foreclosure sale, four times higher. >> what am i missing in this question, counsel? what's the basis for saying -- you're saying millions were saved? how you can identify who was prevented from foreclosure and the numbers you reveal are staggering the numbers you reveal are staggering and raise some questions. >> those are actually records that we get of people in repayment plans or actual modifications with a structural change in the contract, and we have the government actual modification trials. we know how many go to actual sale. there are a lot of people in between. there are millions of people who need help. so i am acknowledging that. i am trying to share with you data that is very strong data around this

jackson lee: madam speaker, i rise today to reinforce the call to action by the american people. as we watch the recovery grow and wall street strive, the american people need an answer to unemployment. i will be introducing legislation to provide one year training for those individuals out of work and be allowed to keep their unemployment and keep a stipend. i believe as a member of the new jobs caucus that is led by members from chicago and from ohio and members from around the nation, that we need to expand our domestic energy resources by exploring natural gas. i also believe it is important to address those individuals who have been chronicically unemployed. in addition, i support the durbin-hoyer relief to auto dealers but make sure that the arbitration is not so expensive that they can't participate. 40,000 jobs in the state of texas alone, it is important to create the opportunity for americans to work. they have me as a partner along with members of hundreds of this caucus, the democratic caucus who know that real jobs equal a great america. i yield back. the speaker pro

. >> now to this question we have congressman jackson lee, david scott and we will go to the next questions. >> thank you, madame chair. i am pleased to join my colleagues believe you can see every member of the black caucus is intimately engaged in this process. what i would suggest to you is this caucus remains an ally in this administration and proud of the administration as we begin to see the efforts of crack edge lit mabey be clear we work in partnership with the responsibilities are to be the advocates and the changemakers in the united states congress. we are writing legislation. our job is to make sure the legislation that gets to the president's desk response to the degradation and crisis in our community. it is a crisis is a peaking crisis and no one should leave here without knowing that we are in a crisis. our community is bleeding. and we are the worst hit, the old adage. someone has a cold we have got h1n1 dewey we are not going to cease like our sleeves, and i will say this, as you help those that are latinos and african-americans you help poor whites and appalachian because

he said one scholar was sherman jackson, the african-american scholar at the university of michigan. he was very objective and sink in this description of islam. but he is left out of the dialogue in the global war of terror and the forces are basically left out. so it gives a different perspective hmongs. host: thank you for that to a. this is greg more in somtenson'w book. he was a guest for "3 cups of tea." he was on "book tv" a few weeks ago. you can search that online. this is henry. caller: i hope it was published in 2009. host: it is fine. do not worry about it. caller: it was written by sorto. i do not remember his first name. it is a book about settle in the dutch off the island of manhattan years ago. is celebrated this year, the crown prince and his wife came to new york. it's a fabulous book. a warm. , one of the people predict at one point thank you for taking my call. -- he was the lawyer ok'd of alask-- whatever you call it. he was at one time in conflict with the dutch government. they banned him to a small island where they get together about a few commuters come fro

with some of his folks, and during denny hastert's -- hired the distinguished historian, a scholar of jackson that would play the early theperiod. -- the early national period. he would write the history, but was appointed historian about the time the book was completed. he remains house historian to this day. he is not there very often, as i understand. in the meantime, the house has created wonderful office of history and preservation, headed by elliot that you have had on c-span from time to time. she is the curator, there is the archivist. there is a first-class historian and writer. they have a very nice office. they're doing a lot of the things at my office was doing. i am happy to see that the house has paid attention to its history. >> last quesiton. how long -- question. how long will you keep doing this? >> as long as i can. i have a few more books in a trade and might take up what you suggest and to do something about my years as house historian. i also thank my publisher that did the booker t. washington book. they have been talking about doing a book about how politics has change

host: good morning to jackson, mississippi. good morning, dee, on our independents line. caller: thank you, c-span. thank you for taking my causm i've been listening to mr. forbes as well as a lot of other republicans, and i have one question at this point before i go any further. where were you in the last eight yearsñr when george bush ran -- excuse me -- ran our country's tab up to over a trillion dollars? mr. obama has only been in office less than a year, but you want to accuse and hold him responsible for trillions of dollars, but your voice was not heard when mr. bush was in office. secondly, i have a problem with the republicans who talk against medical reform when we are the ones who pay the insurance for their insurance. they won't allow us to have the public option, but they are the public option. they are on the public option. again, you speak about 50 years ago in terms of what the budget was in comparison, comparing it to what it is today. we're going back 50 years. there is no comparison. please do not continue to use that. another question i have, you guy

. >> greenhouse gas emissions pose a threat to public health according to lisa jackson. that clears the way for the epa to regulate certain emissions even if congress does not act. this is about half an hour. >> good afternoon, and special hello to those on line and on the phone. the scientific community, the business community, and the policy world has spent decades studying greenhouse gas and climate change. scientists in the united states and around the world have track in the last century and in particular in the last three decades alarming increases in the amount of greenhouse gases in our skies. that increase is deteriorated in the natural balance in our atmosphere and changing our climate. there has and will continue to be debate about how and how quickly climate change will happen if we fail to act, but the studies show the threat is real, as does the evidence before our eyes. polar ice caps crumbling into the ocean, changing migratory patterns, causing droughts and more powerful storms and disappearing coastlines. after decades, climate change has now become a h

jackson lee to suspend the rules and agree to h.res. 28 as amended, on which the yeas and nays were ordered. the clerk will report the title of the resolution. the clerk: house calendar number 135, house resolution 28. resolution expressing the sense of the house of representatives that the transportation security administration should in accordance with congressional mandate provided for and recognition of the 9/11 commission act of 2007, attend security to our nation's rail and mass transit lines. the speaker pro tempore: the question is will the house suspend the rules and agree to the resolution as amended. members will record their votes the speaker pro tempore: nays are three. 2/3 of those voting having responded in the affirmative, the rules are suspended, the resolution is agreed to and without objection the motion to reconsider is laid upon the table. without objection, the title is amended. for what purpose does the gentleman from missouri rise? >> mr. speaker, i ask unanimous consent to my name be removed as a co-sponsor of h.r. 1880. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, s

that's a great acronym, hope, reverend jesse jackson, keep hope alive and how many people have you helped? >> this year alone, the records on 40 million loans which is the majority of the market share indicates that 2.6 million people have had either modifications or repayment plans in addition to the 700,000 government trial plans, 3.4 million people while 700,000 went to actual foreclosure sale, four times higher. >> what am i missing in this question, counsel? what's the basis for saying -- you're saying millions were saved? how you can identify who was prevented from foreclosure and the numbers you reveal are staggering and raises some questions. >> well, those are actually records we get on the data of people that are in repayment plans or actual modification which is a structural change in the contract and we have the government actual modification trials and then foreclosure sales are records. so we know how many go to actual sale. there are a lot of people in-between. there are millions of people who need help and we know that. so i'm acknowledging that when i'm trying to share yo

. >> and something to be very helpful i served with congresswoman sheila jackson lee in the afghan caucus. if you could provide to us, say a bullet type of presentation that we could distribute to our colleagues on items of progress that you see, that would be very helpful. and general mcchrystal, i have had the opportunity to visit the police training academy in jalalabad, my former national guard unit the 218th helped train the police units across the country and i saw really dedicate persons but i'm very concerned about their pay. the pay is so low that it certainly would call into question loyalty and then lead to some level of bribery. what's the status of pay, training, who is paying? >> congressman, well timed. we just, the government of afghanistan just increased the pay of afghan national army and police. didn't quite double it, but brought it almost to twice. it's still -- the design is to get to a living reasonable wage so we don't have people who are forced to resort to corruption or family support to go forward. and it's paid -- it's foreign money that helps. the afghan gover

this epa, as soon as president obama got lisa jackson and place, they put an artificial time line on the group within the epa that was supposed to go out and verify. they issued a report that was suppressed, and they were told point blank that the decision has already been made at the white house, your report is not helpful, it is harmful, stop working on it. i have a copy of that report. i'm sure that mr. sensenbrenner could provide, anybody in this room, and clearly it just a casual review of this report shows they have made a predetermined decision to issue the engagement findings, to act with the facts. this report says that. -- to heck with what the facts are. this report says that. this automatic to sit missile, again, co2 is odorless, colorless, tasteless. i am creating co2 talking to you, when you breathe in and out. and is not harmful to public health, human health in the traditional sense of the term. you have this very esoteric theory that somehow man-made co2 is causing the concentration of the sierra to the rise in the atmosphere and causing all of these things happen in

jefferson got rid of one and jackson got rid of the other. it is the sacredness and the power that exists with the central bank that finally usually arouses the people to the point of saying, this is a bad deal. we need to know more of what is going on. host: we have about 15 more minutes with ron paul. this is a port charlotte, fla.. caller: i think it was january or february of this year, there was a story that broke about a couple of guys trying to smuggle -- i think it was $135 billion worth of government securities into italy and there were rumors that the federal reserve was involved. but that story was dropped as quickly as it came on the scene. do you have any information about that? guest: no, i'm sorry i do not. i remember reading about that, but i do not know exactly what was going on. it reminds me of the stories of shipping carloads of cash over to iraq to be distributed, literally billions of dollars of cash. and there was no audit exactly of where this cash went into iraq. a lot of those things happen. maybe something like that

when the bank after the united states charter was repealed and president jackson sent the money back to state banks. until the fed was formed there was no central banking in the item and we went through massive periods of disruption. we were on a tremendous roller coaster relative to the value of currency. then with the fed being created, we went to the gold standard and stayed on the gold standard. that worked for a fair amount of time. except for the fact that we had a great recession. to have the fed be abolished or significantly influenced in determination of the monetary policy by the congress. we are political people here. you know? we live for the next election. we are moved by the intensity of the moment. maybe not so much in the senate but certainly not in the house. you don't want monetary policy being set by somebody who is living by the intensity of the moment or the politics of the day or the moment or the next election. you want that independence. i think it is absolutely critical to the strength of our currency and the strength of our economy and it would be a huge mis

. >> robert jackson said that the challenge of that decision was to explain in legal terms what was a political conclusion. they would have to do that in this case. >> they would have to enforce it, which the court did not do for years. >> one of the issues that lurks behind so many of the questions and so much of the discussion today has to do with the authority of the court. in this case whether the court would endanger its own authority. perhaps we can finish up by anticipating what is going to be happening in the rest of this season. the court does have some major cases that it will be confronting. do you see it raising fundamental question" role of the court, authority and citizens united? >> i would say briefly that the public conversation about why the court didn't go all the way. why they did not pull the trigger in major, you know, one case over the other to the voting rights act. so i think that is the carryover theme that we are struggling with. we have clearly five votes to reshape the revolution it is not happening as dramatically as one might expect. one of the themes, w

lisa jackson, head of the environmental protection agency, speaking earlier at the 192-nation climate conference in copenhagen says she will take common sense steps to regulate carbon emissions to protect the health of americans, adding that her newly declared power to regulate greenhouse gases will be used to complement legislation pending in congress, not replace it. the president leaves tonight for the climate summit, then will stop in oslo to receive his nobel peace prize. those are some of the latest headlines on c-span radio. we'll cover a second day of the afghanistan strategy, hearing from general petraeus, the head of u.s. central command and u.s. ambassador to afghanistan, carl eikenberry. live coverage begin beginning at 10:00 eastern and on c-span radio and at c-span.org. this afternoon, a senate homeland subcommittee looks at how government ensures diplomatic security. the state department spends nearly $2 billion a year on a security force of more than 30,000 agents an law enforcement professionals. that hearing is live at 2:30 eastern on c-span 3 and at c-span.org. tomo