often these are local jails similar to the alexandria jail that held the 20th terrorist. such a move could mean that kalid sheik muhammad could be held in alexandria for the duration of his trial. similar trials in the past have taken more than four years. regardless of where these detainees are held, i believe that should be in a location that ensures the safety of both those guarding the detainees and american citizens. my primary concern is their presence in a large civilian population could invite additional attacks and danger to the citizens. i take the oversight responsibility of congress very seriously and the fact that the justice department would take these actions without notifying members of congress is incredible. these detainees could pose serious threats to local communities and place an extraordinary burden on the cities where these individuals will be tried. i believe congress and the american people have a right to know their history of individuals the administration is intent on bringing on to u.s. soil. the guantanamo bay prison facility is closing. sin

stole all the knowledge from the black egyptians and that is a got his knowledge from the library of alexandria. there have been books by classical scholars putting out how ridiculous this is, for example, the library of alexandria was built after aristotle's death. [laughter] that was a problem, but the racist creator of this apartment and now they're villanova, there are many departments and in a tea to the unity and liberation of the race through blood and. it is not see doctrine and the temple, of course, is a public paid for by taxpayers and villanova is a catholic university saw things are very far gone. these are political fields. they can understand themselves as political indoctrination, they teach doctrines that are contradicted by other departments without telling the students that. for example with the name the, the organizing principle of a women's studies is that gender is socially constructive. now every leftist likes to think everything is socially constructed because then you can be constructed and reconstruct it. that is their marxist ideology. that is in the curriculum in the

in 2002, an entire wing of a jail in alexandria, virginia, was cleared out for the 9/11 20th hijacker, zac zacarias moussaoui, to be housed in the jail. that was just one detainee. for one detainee, they're talking about clearing out the entire wing to move those. so moving detapeees to the united states -- so moving detainees to the united states would not be reasonable. it would also place american citizens at risk and inevitably creating a new set of targets. this is the problem you have. you have 17 places in the united states where you're putting these people. we have 17 magnets to draw in terrorists located around the country. three weeks ago -- or three weeks after i called for president obama and the senate colleagues to go see firsthand the facility at gitmo, attorney general eric holder -- he's our new attorney general, appointed by president obama -- went down there. he came back with a glowing report and the facility is well-run by its current military officers. this affirms what i've been saying all along and that is gitmo is a state-of-the-art facility that provides huma

a democrat from alexandria, va. -- how the pay for health care? caller: through our own taxes. right now we pay taxes for the most, but seeing no personal benefit. but everyone's payment of taxes we will see something directly. right now i pay over $700 out- of-pocket. that would be spread out to everyone. it is not free. the government would not be painted out of their pockets. we would be willing to pay it out of our pocket. i believe in the same for education. we are going broke because of the health care system and the education system. host: ben in annapolis, md., good morning. caller: yes, we pay for the army with our taxes. if we put the government in control of health-care we lose accountability. you have to have accountability. look at congress now. democrats blame the republicans. and of the republicans blamed the democrats. it is absurd, with no accountability. i have heard a lot of democrats this morning talk about such things as getting rid of salaries and incentives -- that is ridiculous. everything that has made america successful is the desire for profit. want t

host: alexandria, virginia. democratic line. go ahead. caller: i would like to discuss the health care legislation in congress right now. in "the washington post" yesterday, you can see the number of people involved in health care industry who have a direct conflict of interest when it comes to health care for the american people. something has to be done about this. these people need to disqualify themselves if they have an interest in the health-care industry. they have to disqualify themselves. we cannot get anywhere. we have these people who are looking out for their own pockets and not the united states and its people. guest: many of these guys are the experts that know what is happening in the area. it will be hard to disqualify them from having any kind of input. my main concern is that you have a lot of people that do none know how the health care system works, and they are trying to run its the same way that the administration is trying to run the automobile company. they have no expertise, no way to make sure they're getting thi

he is from the city of alexandria. heat is the younger brother of jim, a longtime congressman from northern virginia who sits on the appropriations committee. he has been touched by some of the controversies surrounding military contracts. and the dollars that congressman generate from lobbyists for the defense industry. the next candidate is deeds. the polls seem to suggest a surge on his part. he is a former member of the house of delegates as well and was an unsuccessful candidate in 2005. that was the closest statewide race in virginia history. he was defeated by the man he would like to take on in the fall, bob macdonald, the republican. host: this piece as that mr. deeds cannot be him. guest: that was attacked by someone perceived to be a front runner. it indicates that the ground might be shifting. mr. mccullough's the love complaint focuses on two issues, the support of our rights, very sensitive and rural virginia, and his supporters of lawyers ago of an increase in fuel tax. mr. mccullough noted that bob macd

i know we had some opposition when i did that as mayor of alexandria virginia, but once it was set up, we have reduced the level of teenage pregnancies and thus abortions. we founded a number of cases of cancer that adolescence never would have had a checkup and identified at an early stage. mental health problems, etc., and we achieve the kind of coordination, collaboration that they think best serve the individual. now, i am wondering how you feel about those kinds of efforts of achieving more overlapping, more integration of all of those hundreds of the areas of services that you are responsible for? >> well, congressman, i think you make a great point that all too often the same family may have people coming up-- coming at them from 14 or 15 different angles and only four or five hit the mark, as we just talk about enrollments strategies often fail, so i am a huge fan and believer in a sort of systemic approach and a collaborative approach. i can tell you in my brief tenure in this position, i know the president shares those concerns and has implored cabinet members to really come

margarita, democrat, alexandria, virginia, you're on. how do you pay for health care? caller: through our own taxes. right now we pay taxes through the nose and we don't see any personal benefit. >> and we're leaving this and taking you back live to the u.s. house. they've gaveled back in. 1687. the first electronic vote will be conducted as a 15-minute vote. the remaining electronic vote will be conducted as a five-minute vote. the unfinished business is the question on the motion to instruct on h.r. 2346 offered by the gentleman from california, mr. lewis, which the chair will put de novo. the clerk will redesignate the motion. the clerk: motion to instruct conferees offered by mr. lewis of california. the speaker pro tempore: the question is on the motion to instruct. so many as are in favor say aye. those opposed, no. in the opinion of the chair, the ayes have it. the motion is agreed to. the gentleman from illinois. the chair recognizes the gentleman from florida. >> on that qui the yeas and nays. the speaker pro tempore: the yeas and nays are requested. those in

host: from alexandria, virginia. caller: good morning. i have called many times over the years, so i thank you, c- span. i have a question. i think the idea of bailing out american banks was ridiculous, much less bail out european banks, but that aside, with bipartisan support to make the books of the federal reserve transparent? obviously, these kinds of decisions, the federal role has a huge role in these macroeconomics issues. do you know where that bill stands? guest: as a matter of fact i do, because i have been flipping votes for that. as of today has 224 votes. 217 is the majority. originally, it is house resolution 1207 and was offered by ron paul of texas. it had 135 co-sponsors. at the time a democrat from florida who we started helping decided to start whipping democratic co-sponsors, sen now there is 222. we have been active in keeping track of those votes and it is another situation we are seeing an interesting coalition come together of conservative republicans and progressive democrats who won more transparency and an end t

and i said how does that work and he said well, we are auditing the work and contracts in iraq from alexandria va, which explained why, you know, it's reflected in your own report explains why we are having such a problem. and now i read again from the kennedys memo we've got four folks in the country spending billions of dollars. we have to add the blogger mer force base and two down in kandahar and that's it. and if we don't get a handle on it with boots on the ground, people competent enough to review these contracts, this is a criminal. it's criminal. you know, there is nobody that would operate like this in a private basis if we were spending private corporate dollars this wouldn't be happening. i think it's happening only because we are spending taxpayer dollars and people feel that it doesn't have to be audited to that degree. we are terribly sloppy in iraq and afghanistan and have got to tighten our act. what do you see as the greatest need in terms of getting some accountability on the ground? we can't continue to operate this way in terms of the contract going out without tight enoug

without it we might be living in philadelphia or alexandria, charleston, savanna or maybe even new orleans. if the erie canal hadn't made new york city the center of the commercial world and establish habitual routes of trade and travel, the railroad which came along not much later might have made other coastal places greater. now a lot of the material in the book is the traditional erie canal tale, but i have selected some of the myth busting in it or this brief talk. one, the irish did not go the erie canal. at least not any significant numbers until halfway through the ninth construction season. the early contractors were pioneer farmers and settlers, almost invariably refugees from bad forms in connecticut. the workers on the canal sections that these farmers contracted for were mostly their sons or their farmhands. it was only when the most dangerous work eventually needed to be done on the western portions of the line, malarial slumps and blasting of limestone ridges that the legendary gains of irish immigrant laborers found work on the erie canal. another little bit of myth busting,

his son nikolai and daughter alexandria who is here today. he's provided invaluable help to his church and my constituency. i thank him for his positive impact, leadership and service to the community and wish him the best as his congregation continues to grow with god's blessing. i also want to acknowledge representative jeff fortenberry who joins me here today, and pastor kumm's parents reside in representative fortenberry's district. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlewoman yields back. the chair will entertain up to 15 further win-minute speeches on each side of the aisle. for what purpose does the gentleman from maryland rise? mr. hoyer: to address the house for one minute. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, the gentleman is recognized for one minute. mr. hoyer: thank you, madam speaker. on monday evening, as millions of americans were making their daily commute home, tragedy struck in our nation's capital. the collision outside of the station in northeast washington, the worst in the 33-year history of washington'

evidentiary questions and other questions that are illustrated by the case of moussaoui who was tried in alexandria. and we can all acknowledge that the government would say that was a huge problem for them. because it was difficult to use evidence in the case that had been acquired through confidential or classified methods and the case was ping-ponged between the district court and the court of appeals. it was a difficult, hard thing to do. and then there are the situations where cases have been tried in american courts an classified information has inadvertently and in some cases not inadvertently been released, gotten into the hands of terrorists. let me just cite a few of these. not to make the case that it's impossible or a terrible idea, but also to refute the notion that it's a piece of cake. it's not. it's really hard and if you can avoid doing this, i think the better practice would be to try to do so. but on an occasional basis when you have a good federal charge, you've got the evidence that can back it up and you think you can get a conviction, there's nothing wrong in those few select

management, bringing the work in iraq and afghanistan closer to the theater of operations rather than from alexandria or rock island illinois and with more resources on the ground at the front and we will address those issues, some of the issues the commission identified as the lawyers and management and deficiencies. >> are there cases where fraud is alleged among contractors but never proven and that is the case, what damage is done to the contractor? >> there many allegations of fraud and certainly allegations of contractor overbilling and mischarging. many of them did not prove that to be the case but there are of course litigation issues. the justice department does not push through every allegation of fraud. sometimes the cases are there, sometimes the prosecutorial discretion is and there but every one of those damages the reputation of the company and i think calls into question the functioning of the entire acquisition system. if there's no credibility in the system from the requirements generation for the contractor war to t oversight-- oversight to the responsibility if allocations are mad

new york city today because of the erie canal, without it we might be living in philadelphia or alexandria, charleston, savannah or maybe even new orleans. if the erie canal hadn't made new york city the center of the commercial world and established habitual roots of trade and travel, the railroad which kimmel on how much later it might have made other coastal places greater. now, a lot of material and the book is the traditional erie canal tale but i've selected some of the myth busing for this brief talk. what, the irish to not build the erie canal, at least not in a significant numbers until halfway through that nine construction seasons. the early contractors were pioneer farmer sends out dollars, almost unbearable refugees from bad farms in connecticut, the workers on the canal sections that these farmers contract for were mostly their sons or their farmhands. it was only when the most dangerous work eventually needed to be done on the western portions of the line blocking out malarial swamps and blasting limestone ridges that the legendary kings of irish immigrant laborers that work

bringing the work that iraq and afghanistan have closer to the theater of operations rather than from alexandria or illinois. i think with more resources on the ground in the front end, we will address some of the issues that the commission identified as failures and management deficiencies. >> are there cases where fraud is alleged among contractors but never proven and that is the case, what damage is done to the contractor? >> there many allegations of fraud and certainly allegations of contractor overbilling and mischarging. many of them did not prove that to be the case but there are of course litigation issues. the justice department does not push through every allegation of fraud. sometimes the cases are there, sometimes the prosecutorial discretion is and there but every one of those damages the reputation of the company and i think calls into question the functioning of the entire acquisition system. if there's no credibility in the system from the requirements generation for the contractor war to the oversight-- oversight to the responsibility if allocations are made that are not susta

moran amember, former member of the house of delegates in the virginia legislature from the city of alexandria, just across the potomac river from you all and he is the younger brother of jim moran a longtime congressman from northern virginia who sits on the appropriations committee and has been touched somewhat by some of the controversies surrounding military contracts. and the dollars that congressmen generate from lobbyists for the defensedry. the third candidate is -- defense industry. the third senator is creigh deeds. those polls seem to suggest a surge on mr. deeds' part. he's a former member of the house of delegates as well. and was the unsuccessful candidate for attorney general in 2005. he was defeated by 360 votes. it was the closest statewide election in virginia history. and he was defeated by the man he'd like to take on in the fall, bob mcdonald, the republican. >> your story yesterday in the times dispatch said that mr. mcauliffe said mr. deeds can't beat mr. mcdonnell and that's his, his pitch to the voters. >> well, what i suspect an attack by someone who has been perceive

. >> i'm maria and i work for a strategic marketing communications company in alexandria, virginia. and i also mentor about 15 to 18 women. and i wanted to say and encourage the group is that i have seenÑ ÷ in the last three years the most amazing transformations in these women's lives that standing here i would say i would fall over if i would tell you even some of the things that have happened but through studying the scriptures and through jesus christ the amazing things that he wants done in those women's lives and the encouragement that his word leads in their lives and the ability for them to be able to understand it and to grasp hold of it and to trust that he has the most amazing plan for their lives and to walk on that bridge that they can't see. and some of these women are on the hill. some of them are í!ñlawyers, in medicine. different walks of life but i just would encourage everyone here if there is any mentor group that they could get into in their church or in their work, that they run to it. >> you know, one of the things that you're talking about mentoring, that

without it we might be living in philadelphia or alexandria, charleston, savanna or maybe even new orleans. if the erie canal hadn't made new york city the center of the commercial world and established habitual routes of trade and travel, the railroad which came along not much later might have made other coastal places greater. now, a lot of the material in the book is the traditional erie canal fail, but has selected some of the myth busting in it for this brief doctor one, the irish did not build the erie canal. at least not any significant the at least not insignificant numbers until at least halfway through the nine construction seasons. the early contractors were pioneer farmers and settlers almost invariably refugees from bad farms in connecticut. the workers on the canal sections that these farmers contracted for were mostly their sons or their farmhands. it was only when the most dangerous work eventually needed to be done on the western portions of the line mucking out malaria swamps and blasting limestone ridges that the legendary gains of the irish emigrant laborers found work

students and faculty have, essentially, the world's greatest library, in some ways the library of al alexandria, ultimately, every book you could ever want would be available to their students and faculties not just by going to the library and taking a physical copy out, but in their dorm rooms, in their offices, pulled up by search engines. it would be an absolute revolution of scholarship and a really big change for american educational institutions to have that capacity. married to that, we would create an economic model so that was, that would be available by subscription to these universities so that all the creators of that content and the publishers of that content can be compensated for these, essentially for these subscriptions that the institutions would be engaged in providing to their audiences. that's a brand new market for us and allowed us to do this settlement. >> host: but there have been serious antitrust concerns about google's having exclusive rights to all these books in copy right because owners can't be found, and this may actually tie up this settlement, so i'm wondering

management, bringing the work in iraq and afghanistan closer to the theater of operations rather than from alexandria or rock island illinois and with more resources on the ground at the front and we will address those issues, some of the issues the commission identified as the lawyers and management and deficiencies. >> are there cases where fraud is alleged among contractors but never proven and that is the case, what damage is done to the contractor? >> there many allegations of fraud and certainly allegations of contractor overbilling and mischarging. many of them did not prove that to be the case but there are of course litigation issues. the justice department does not push through every allegation of fraud. sometimes the cases are there, sometimes the prosecutorial discretion is and there but every one of those damages the reputation of the company and i think calls into question the functioning of the entire acquisition system. if there's no credibility in the system from the requirements generation for the contractor war to the oversight-- oversight to the responsibility if allocations are m

the second problem is, the security issue, and the people in virginia and alexandria in the county will tell you it was a costly and difficult thing for them to be able to conduct this trial of zarqawi there. but it was possible and it was possible to get a conviction, i suggest, primarily because of decisions he made, but it was possible to do so. and, everybody acknowledges that there are some people who need to be tried for serious crimes. in effect, like war crimes. and that they should be tried in united states courts. it doesn't make it easy but it can be done. what it doesn't prove is that should be done for all of the people at gitmo. in fact, not even the president suggests that. the president, in his speech a few weeks ago, acknowledged that many of the prisoners at gitmo now are infer goin never going a trial. they are being held until the termination of the hostilities that have caused them to be captured and imprisoned in the first place and they are like prisoners of war who can be detained until the war is over. here, however, they don't even have the rights of prisoners

because how proud and hanson was a ritual alexandria, how proud and handsome with that look airbags five melbourne our bumpers and a maze of pollution control equipment under her tail? and that is it -- that was it, the end of the american automobile industry because when it comes to bill practical ugly things that poor and annoy me, a japanese things cost less. and the cup holders are more convenient relocated. i myself have something old school under a tarp out of my basement roush, but i bet that after my will has been probated some child of mine will yank the dust cover and use the proceeds of the ebay sale to buy a mountain bike. fourth thing is greater than all these are and i am pretty sure bicycles are not one of them. there are those of us who've had the good fortune to meet with strength and beauty, majestic force in which we were feeling to trust our lives and the day comes that strength and beauty fails and a man does when a man has got to do and i'm going to go downstairs and put a bullet in '88. anyway, thank you very much and that is everything i know about cars. [applause

students and faculty have essentially the world's greatest library and in some ways they have library of alexandria ultimately, every book that you could ever want would be available to their students and faculty, not just by going to the library and taking a physical copy, but in their dorm rooms, in their offices. it would be an absolute revolution of scholarship and a really big sea change for the american educational institutions to have that capacity. married to that, we would create an economic model so that would be available by subscription to these universities so all of the creators of the content and the publishers of that content can be compensated for these essentially, for these subscriptions the institution would be engaged in providing to their audiences. that is a brand new market for us and allow this to do this settlement. >> guest: but there have been serious antitrust concerns and google's role in having exclusive rights to these books that are in cop rate but use owners can be found and this may actually tie up the settlement. it could be the basis for being rejected with the

. >> i am brought in nine from alexandria minnesota. earlier we talked about presidential legacies and i was wondering about your legacy. i want to know what accomplishment, wide world have you played that you would be most proud of in all, when you are done? [laughter] not now. >> i am just proud that i am still here. that is the part that i like best of all. i have no idea. i think there's a great deal of difference in people who write about things and the people who do them. i have always tried to keep that in mind as a journalist. the important people are not the people writing about it but the people who are doing things. i think journalism is an open profession and it is a big part, as you have heard me say, about making democracy possible but i think it might be pretentious to think about a legacy. >> thank you. we are going to go to our next poll question. this is kind of and are you paying attention question because we have been talking about bias. do you believe there is liberal bias in the mainstream news media? raise your ha