using feeders from the mohawk to water the canal to get water into the canal. between schenectady and albany, the mohawk makes a very big north were dark. that in the most eastern section of the mohawk river. with the falls finally spilling the mohawk into the hudson. now randle involved himself in the process. he had been invited day she had been asked to become an engineer on the erie canal. he had said no probably because he was still continuing his work in manhattan and yet other projects he was doing but in any case at a certain point he inserts himself in this issue as the eastern end of the canal. and he thinks, and he publicizes his thoughts that the canal path to leave the mohawk valley at schenectady and take a much shorter and cheaper and direct route to albany along a route that he had mapped 15 years earlier. so randle starts making some noise about. he publishes some anonymous newspaper articles and anonymous pamphlet, and chief engineer wright decides just before the section of the canal is to be dealt, wright decide to go in the opposite directi

the first thing i've gone out is that the famous erie canal song, 15 miles on the erie canal, also known as cavallo bridge, everybody down, was actually never saw it at the erie canal and that is because , in fact, no erie canal the boat ran ever loved the old name sali which is the main character and a song, or at least never saying about it. in fact, 15 miles on the erie canal is a tin pan alley songs written in 1905 author of that work began on the second and marchant into the current canal for motorized barges pulled by real history and very quickly folklore. as i researched more deeply i began to find many tales about the erie canal that were just that, story is how long tradition and unknown origin that had iran is so big, erie canal fax or to fax so i'm going to talk about some of those but i first want to set the stage by reading a couple of pages from the book's opening if i can find it and just to set the stage for the background that led to the erie canal. morning came on coolican bright, in recent frost could just began to color the chorus autumn, the blue sky and chill air m

one line on the canal. so again, even in the 1820's we have business interests that aren't necessarily aligned with the public interest. but eventually it and actually fairly quickly a number of competitors emerged. travel on the canal was very competitive. not particularly expensive, but enough that people who ran barges made a lot of money even after they paid significant holes, which is what wound up making these canals such a profitable venture for the state. >> hold on, one sack. >> what happened was i think if the canal had not been built from 1817-1825 river road start coming in in the 1830's. initially they can't really -- can't really transpired very much. there aren't really competitors for heavily loaded barges for a couple more decades. but it is a curious thing. once the canal was built and opened that became the request. and when i -- my office is in a neighborhood that -- in a neighborhood that has lots of the places to eat. i wind up having lunch or did in my mind all the time from the same

now, canal -- the canal project started in 1817 but in 1819 before much of it had been built, we had the panic of 1819. caused in large part, by flawed banking policies and that depression lasted into the middle 1820s, the precise period of the building of the canal and what that depression did, actually, was allow for contracts on the erie canal to be taken at much lower prices, essentially construction costs down, and, it gave work to what were suddenly many unemployed people. and so i think that if we do wind up creating a national infrastructure bank, we certainly seem to be heading in a similar economic direction, right now. and, it might be a good time to create such a bank, and have the -- in this case, federal government provide work to many people who may be losing their jobs. >> who is next? >> in the back. >> excuse me. do i in for correctly that the original sponsors were more politicians than businessmen? >> that is died would say the original idea came from this failed first western -- first grain merchants of western new york and he failed because he just had no way to

another similarity between the erie canal and what we have now is that the canal was built during the country's first great depression. the canal project started in 1817, but in 1819 before much of it had been built we had the panic of 1819 caused in large part by flawed 19 policies. and that depression lasted into the middle 1820s, the precise building of the canal. what that depression did actually was allow for contracts on the erie canal to be taken at much lower prices. essentially kept construction costs down and he gave worked too well worth suddenly many unemployed people. and so i think if we do wind up creating a national infrastructure bank, we certainly seem to be heading in a similar economic direction right now. and it might be a good time to create such a bank and have, in this case, the federal government provide work to people, too many people who may be losing their jobs. >> in the back. >> do i infer correctly that the original sponsor for more politicians and businessmen? >> bats, i would say, the original idea came from this failed first western, this first grain

using eaters from the mohawk to water the canal, to get water into the canal. between schenectady and albany, the mohawk makes a very big northwood park your bets and the most uterine section of the mohawk river. with coho falls finally spelling the mohawk into the hudson. doctrine by involving himself in the process. he had been invited, he had been asked to become an engineer on the erie canal. he had said no, probably because he was still continuing his work in manhattan and yet other projects that he was doing. but in any case at a certain point he inserts himself into this issue of the eastern end of the canal. and he thinks, and he publicizes his thoughts that the canal ought to leave the mohawk valley at schenectady and take

this is a photograph of officer canales. he lives behind his wife, a 15-year-old son and a 17-year-old daughter. the officer was the first houston police department officer killed in the line of duty this year. the last time we had an officer killed was december 7 of last year. officer tim abernathy was killed by gunmen that ambushed him during a foot chase in northeast houston. in the state of texas, six police officers have been killed in the line of duty this year. they are senior corporal normal smith of the dallas police department, officer see czar arreola of the el paso department, lieutenant alexander of the corpus christi police department, sergeant randy white, harvey of the lubbock sheriff's department and now we add the name of henry canales of the houston police department to that hallowed role of honor. all americans should recognize the profound debt of gratitude we owe our law enforcement officers and the gratitude we owe their families. into he is officers put themselves into harm's way to guard our safety b

as one of those who worked on the panama canal. as he came to the united states and then settled between south carolina and brooklyn, new york, to know that he was part of that wonderful tradition of history and heritage, the wonderful cuisine of rice and peas and many other good things that we continue to enjoy culturally in my family, that i raised my children on, that i was raised on, so that this nexus of knowing your roots is so very key. so what i say to all who are listening, this nation is valuable because it respects the culture of all of us and today we salute caribbean americans and i've been privileged and proud to serve in the united states congress with that history but also to work on a number of issues helping to make their land, their nations better and creating a better partnership between the united states and the caribbean. with that, i'd be happy to yield back to the distinguished gentlelady. mrs. christensen: thank you, congresswoman jackson lee, and thank you for your hard work and service and support for all

by that, we were table build the panama canal. as a child, growing up in houston, texas, without air-conditioning, the d.d.t. truck went by every friday night. sprayed the whole neighborhood. and yet a lady wret a book called "a silent spring" in which she said that all the research showed, i hate it when people say all the research shows, all the research shows that if we continue to use d.d.t., we will have no insect life on earth and the birds will die and we will have a silent spring. when spring comes, the birds won't be singing, the crickets won't be cricketting, and they'll go away. and being loyal progressive believers we launched a campaign to get rid of d.d.t. we got rid of it. it's been gone. but we now have one of the -- we actually give millions, maybe even billions now of dollars from this congress to fight malaria. something that was almost eradicated when i was a kid is now a major worldwide problem because we did away with d.d.t. and guess what? now the research, the real present-day research, 21st century researc

at 26069 canal street. a $2.5 million building, roughly, relatively new and modern. that houses many of the subsidiary corporations that one can connect. i filed the list a. list that is incomplete but is a list of 174 of the more than 250 corporation that is are affiliated with acorn. i filed them into the congressional record as part of the amendments that were to go on the justice appropriations bill. that was managed by mr. mollohan and concluded yesterday. of course those amendments were denied not quite in secret but up here where you can't hardly get six reporters in the room if there are going to be a dozen members of congress in there pleading to be heard here on the floor. so that's the record, that's the standard. 2609 canal street, acorn's building, one should go on google earth and take a look at that, zero in on it and see what it looks like, madam speaker. and the corporations that are involved in subsidiaries, the interconnecting spider web of corporations, by the way louisiana is one of the easiest states in the union to incorporate in, i don't think

his time was spent building roads and clinics, schools and canals for the afghan people. he was an ambassador for the american spirit. he described the job to family and friends as the best he had ever had in his entire career. when he was killed, mr. speaker, the villagers in afghanistan had a memorial service in his honor. mark held a deep sense of tradition of the judgment a few weeks prior to his death, he made a special effort to share his texasing ay spirit with the afghan friends that he had met. mr. speaker, each april 21, the day texas gained independence, aggies from texas a&m observe what is called aggie mustard. it's where they all gather in all parts of the world to oner -- honor aggies who have died in the previous year. even though he was the only one in the base, he convinced the provincial governor to join him atop a nearby mountain to observe the very special occasion of aggie mustard. one aggie air force colonel and afghan villagers paid tribute. that must have been a sight to see. texas aggies have a long history of service. texas a&m made more than --

micro feachfeesh what has happened is people are looking in his correspondence for issues of panama canal. t.r., when he trained in san antonio had to have animals around him. he had a cougar cub, a gold eagle and a dog. to train his men, he had three animals with him all the time. he would write letters about the cougar biting a man's foot. in the white house, he had a pony in the elevator and a pet badger that he would feed potatos. he didn't have a dog. he had six dogs around him. all night long, a little dog skip would sit on his lap. >> he inter receipted this love for animals. his uncle wrote a lot of books on canada, ontario , florida, wild florida, which was big to them. it become part of a family tradition to be a conservation any of the. >> how did you get this publisher to put this outright now? >> they don't like to promote publishers multivolumes i realized we have never written a real conservation of the country. t.r. was the perfect person to do it. i could have cut my book down. i would have had to not write about the forest in arizona or not write about the bird refuges i

got totally in on that book, brookline and sinker, talked about on the air, the notion of having root canals without anesthesia and we debated whether that was possible but i bought it, and he was revealed to be a fraud and oprah was the one who brought him down in that amazing albert of life tv. >> and so on your applaud -- >> i don't applaud her for doing what she did she was correct in what she did. you do know something about this. i'm sorry, what was the question? >> doesn't he say now that's fiction what he wrote? >> well, he says it was in the list and what does he say, creative memoir as if you go to barnes and noble and there's the creative memoir section. >> no, now that he is coming out with the paper back of the book. >> on that, yes that come on, he is a lawyer. when he says it's fiction you interpret as nonfiction? >> correct. i think he has dirt on her and forced her hand. i think that is what he did. because -- >> when i write my book on oprah i will tell you whether you are right or wrong. >> when will that be? [laughter] >> i hope it will be soon. >> who among those have yo

not once but twice and drove out the french and spanish, invented novel technologies, built roads, canals, cities, sold ice to far away india and spread open source creativity over every aspect of american culture. a major reason they were able to produce so many miracles from the six-shooter to the steamboat, to manned flight, was they weren't weakened by the phony concept of adolescence for which there is not a scrap of scientific evidence or by any artificial extension of childhood through forced schooling. early american society celebrated accomplishment as any frontier society must before the politicians and the schemers concluded -- colluded to build managers for themselves and the economy prior to the civil war was dominated by independent livelihoods. as abraham lincoln told me wisconsin agricultural association, in 1859, it had room for any one of energy and ideas whether they lived in a mud shack or behind brass knockered doors. foreign visitors were dazzled by the energy released by a society so revolutionarily egalitarian, and which makes them all learning from one another. th

taxes from the companies that had been, that had been actually the responsible parties to the love canal and other sites. and if you go by that kind of past, you know, u.s. tradition you would argue that the developed countries really ought to pay for the climate change that is happening today. now, in the other side of it argues, the other side, the other side or the opposite argument is when the developed countries, when they started emitting carbon and, you know, the industrial revolution started and so forth, nobody knew this was going to create this kind of global warming down the road, and so they never knew about it. you can argue on the other side as well, actually, that looking a lot of the times we don't know there are examples of slavery, for instance, where those really didn't know they were going to actually damage the futuregen rations, and so nevertheless we do actually then go in and have an an affirmative action, and someone cold argue the other -- could argue the other side that the mere fact that was not to argue in favor of some sort of compensation by those who actua

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. -- when the data canal. when that comes up for each state and we know how many congressional districts in each state will get. usually the state legislature from a but in some an independent commission will then reallocate the population among the districts. over a decade population moves as people move in and out of the stabbing of some states grow, others lose population. there is a formula that congress has set out to determine how many congressional seats to get based on population calculation. they allocate seat number one, then see number two, all the way down to 435. host: bear some states that have redistricted between censuses -- how are they able to do that? guest: unless the state constitution or law bars them from redistricting more than one per decade, then they're permitted to do that. the most famous example was in texas where in 2003 the texas legislature took the congressional redistricting map and re-redistricted the state even though the head of della plan in place. it goes back to the ori

i told my boss i was having a root canal. i'm going to beat you! ( laughing ) ( sighs ) bud light port paradise. it's the most fun you might never want to talk about. >> back on espnews. jonathan coachman, i'm steve bunin, and that is cristiano ronaldo, the best soccer player in the world. and manchester united decided for 131 million dollars, real madrid, you can talk to him. they just signed kaka, the 2007 best player in the world. so man u plays $131 million just to negotiate with cristiano ronaldo. you have heard of ronaldo. that's the guy from brazil. this is cristiano ronaldo. led the devils to 25 goals last year. two years ago they won the premier ship, and the championships title. tommy smith, is he worth $131 large? >> real madrid to pay $131 million for the right to sign ronaldo. keep that in mind. he now has to agree on personal terms. which is probably going to cost another 10 to $15 million a ye year. this deal was supposed to happen last year, real madrid said no. is he worth it? i don't think any player is worth that kind of money. c

tremendous problem of shipping these old things, you have to put them on barges and roll them down canals. when you make the plant smaller, all of the uniquely difficult problems that we associate with nuclear go away. that type of problem goes away. it is a very interesting thing. it will open up a lot of new approaches to these problems. >> my last question i will make to you and then let the senator have an opportunity. i want to go back over the nuclear waste or they used fuel issue. the used fuel issue. you are saying from an engineering point of view, it is safe to store the used fuel for a period of time. it can be stored on site? >> it can be stored anywhere. it has been stored on site for the last several decades. >> for how long could it be safely stored? >> 100 years. by that time, we will be recycling it. utilities are now so anxious to get off their land. they will be bidding each other to get as valuable material back again. there are all sorts of interesting rare earths in this. it is a tremendous source. >> if we begin building smaller and more nuclear power plants, the qu

. -- when the data canal. when that comes up for each state and we khagb over the course of a decade, populations move and people moved in and out of the states. some states lose population and there is a formula congress has set out to determine how many congressional seats you get based on a population calculations. they allocate seat number one, then seat number two, all the way to four hundred 35. >>host: how are they able to do that? guest: unless the state law bars them from doing more than once a decade, they are permitted to do it. the most recently famous example was in texas, where in 2003, the texas legislature took the congressional redistricting map and a read-predicted the state even though they had a valid plan in state -- and the re redistricted the state. if we allow legislators and politicians after every election to look over the results and then decide this incumbent looks like their district is trending so they may have a problem in the next election, let's move some bad population out and

if you think about those canal walls, how badly they were built, how much corruption went into the poor maintenance and poor planning of them, and you think about the sec and all of the regulation that was not there so that you could not sell crack and collett gold on wall street's -- selling crap and calling it a gold on wall street eventually comes home. eventually came home to new orleans before it came to the rest of the country in a very little way. normans, but i admire about the people there -- northlands, what i admire about the people there is that they are trying to find their way home. they are doing it on their own. if you look at the way theme of the cave in the way money was administered not just -- if you look at the way fema the cavbeh and the way money was administered, that city has been trying to find its way home on its own and not an illusion about what the country is and how hollow america actually is when it comes to certain things. i find that to be interesting and admirable. that is what i want to pay attention to now. i think we all are in that boat. a lot of t

what traditionally happens is people are looking as correspondents for issues about panama canal and farm policy. when he would write a lot, which she wrote most on about birds, people would look at it as a hobby. i took his writing about animal life very seriously, because he did. an example, we know him as the roughrider of the spanish- american war. he trained in san antonio and had three mascot, a cougar cub named josephine from arizona. a gold eagle named teddy. and a dog named kuba. trained as many had three animals with him all the time. he would write letters about the cougar fighting -- biting a man's foot. he found all a bit funny. this menagerie of roosevelt continued in the white house. he had a pony in the elevator. a pet badger he picked up on this trip in the picture above where he would feed potatoes and corn milk. he did not have one dog. this man had six dogs all the time around him. all night if little stocks to pick up in south dallas -- colorado would sit on is not. he inherited a love of animals that he inherited from his uncle robert roosevelt. in 1860's was th

the canals are jammed. rivers are jammed. if we can't use trucks, which take up about 40% of the energy on our roads, how are we

a tremendous problem of shipping these whole things -- you got to put them on barge guesbarges and canals and the problems we associate with nuclear go away. that type of problem goes away. of problem goes away. i think it is a very interesting thing. it is going to open up a lot of different new approaches to many of these problems. >> i have one last question. i want to go back over the nuclear waste produced fuel issued -- or the used fuel issue. you are saying from an engineering point of view, it is safe to store the used fuel for a period of time. it can be stored on site? >> it can be stored anywhere. it has been stored on site for the last several decades. >> for how long could it be safely s >> one hundred years. but by that time we're going to be recycling it and utilities that are now so anxious to get it off their land are going to be beating each other to get us a valuable material back again. because it is a material that isn't a fishable. there are all sort of a rare earth and things like that. it's a tremendous resource. >> if we build 100 new nuclear power plants or if we

what has traditionally happened, people are looking in his crohn's for issues of panama canal and trust busting. t.r. would write a lot, he would rightmost on birds, people would skirt over it. it's a hobby. i took his writing about animal life very seriously because he did. i'll give you an example. we know him as the rough riders, spanish american war. t.r., when he trained in san antonio, had to have animals around him. he had three mascots. he had a cougar cub named josephine from arizona. he had a gold eagle, teddy, and a dog, cuba. so to train his men, he had three animals with him all the time and would write letters about the cougar biting a man's foot and he would find all this funny. this menagerie of roosevelt continued in the white house. famously he had a pony in the elevator. he had a pet badger he picked up on this trip, josiah where he fed it potatoes and warm milk. he didn't have a dog like the obama's dog. he had six animals. the dog he picked up in colorado would sit on his lap. he inherited this love of animals a lot from his uncle robert roosevelt who in the 1850's

went ashore in the second world war, whether in north africa, italy, sicily or moral did i or guadal canal or all the way that you saipan and up to okinawa did so in a boat built in new orleans by higgins industries. dwight eisen hour toic eisenhow time i met him, he wanted to talk to me about writing his biography which i agreed to do. but he said i see you live in new orleans. did you ever know andy higgins. i said no, i didn't. he died in 1953 and i moved there in 1955. eisenhower said that is too bad. he is the man who won the war for us. well, that is quite a statement from what a source. i looked astonished. seeing that look, he said, that is absolutely correct. if higgins had not developed and produced those landing craft i would have had to go into ports that the germans had concentrated all of their defenses at cher powerithe othe we would not have won. guest: so true. host: tell us more about the landing craft and how important they were in the invasion. guest: earlier we were talking about the unglamorous stuff you need to win a war. the landing craft ar prime example. the higgi

and if you think about those canal walls, how badly they were built, how much corruption went into the poor maintenance of things the poor planning, and you think about the s.e.c. and all of the attendant regulation that wasn't there so that you couldn't sell crap and call it gold on wall street, you know, selling crap and calling it gold eventually comes home. and it came home to new orleans about four years before it came home to the rest of the country in a very literal way. not in a metaphor cal, financial way. so in a way, new orleans, what i really admire about people there is they're trying to find their way home. because it is one of the great places in america culturally. and they're trying to find their way back. and they're doing it on their own. and there's been a real loss -- if you look at everything from the way the road home money was administered to the way fema behaved, you know, not just in the immediate aftermath but in the months and years since, and now in terms of the state and local government and what they're doing in terms of everything from zoning issues to t

and if you think about those canal walls, how badly the rebels, how much corruption went into the poor minister of them and the poor planning, and to think about the sec and all of the attendant regulations that was unfair said that you couldn't sell crack and call it a gold on wall street, selling crack and calling and gold eventually comes home and came home to new orleans about four years before it came home to the rest of the country in a very literal way. not in a matter of -- metaphorical financial way. so in a way new orleans when i really admire about people is they're trying to find their way home. because it is one of the great places in america culturally and they are trying to find their way back and they are doing it on their own. there has been a real loss -- a look everything from the way the money was a minister to the way fema became and not just in that immediate aftermath but in the months and years since into now in terms of the state and local government and what they're doing in terms of everything from zoning issues to the hospitals, that city is enduring and try

says who are you and you answer, my name is joe schmo and let's use a previously used address, 2609 canale street, new orleans, and they hand you a vote. no i.d. required, no picture i.d. required. in fact, in new mexico, and this is part of the congressional record with the secretary of state of new mexico testified before the judiciary committee about three years ago, it comes down to this. if i am working as a poll worker in new mexico registered to vote in new mexico and someone walks in to that polling place and says, i am steve king and i live at -- names the address that i live at -- even if they say they are me and i am working the polls, by law in new mexico i can't challenge that fraudulent voter. it's against the law to challenge voters in new mexico and many other states because  the liberals have so corrupted the process. first, they passed motor voter so when people get a driver's license they ask them, do you want to be registered to vote, well, who says no? and a test that you are a citizens of the united states. well, who says no? what if you don't understand the languag

how the press really drove regulation and businesses dropping bisphenol a and plastic products and canalizing san childrens toys and teeters andel samir gary. mercury does not ever seen to go away either in terms of the problems of exposure through fish and other sources, so if you could comment for example on the controversy with regulation with this venal a and also mercury. >> it is a fascinating subject to look at how the scientists develop. this is a chemical that may or may not cause-- it is not well study. we don't know how to study it yet. but it is the chemical were all exposed to the ports of more than 90% of musab bisphenol a macanack audit because the centers of disease control has the monitored program and it is seen in everyone's here in. we don't know how we are exposed to it although this and all these bottles and our babies are exposed to some allen perhaps it is leaching in from the bottles or had until recently, abyss colonol a. their hundreds of studies on bisphenol a and you can show that it causes harm in animals or doesn't. so the discussion is not so much does it cause

you see politicians, journalists, financial analysts and all the purveyors of the canal, they have been looking at cars sf in convertible were in business. it isn't. fire the nba's, hire a poet. afraid of detroit is not a higher prices of foreign competition and corporate greed, union intransigent energy costs or measuring the seuss size of the footprints in the carbon. it is a tragic romance, it is a tragic romance about an these passions of a titanic clash as, lost love and and while horses. especially wild horses because you cannot understand the automobile unless you understand horses. a hundred years ago richard kipling wrote a poem called the about of the kings just and a kipling has this afghan tribesmen from the u.s. always ahead of the curve on the board choose subjects, and afghan tribesmen says four things less than all things are women and horses and power and more. now if you insert and other power after the worst in adverse was as true in the suburbs of my boyhood as it ever was up in the khyber pass. horsepower. hp is not a quaint leftover of linguistics or some sort of b