gordon brown could work? -- to e-seat -- de-seat gordon brown could work? >> recent blows have brought considerable cracks within beat gordon brown regime. tonight, the structure still holds together. early this morning, gordon brown was at the mercy of his cabinet. they could have killed him off today. with one, too, or three big names. one by one, they held back from making that fatal blow. nonetheless, gordon brown is considerably weaker tonight with his senior colleagues, alistair darling, allen johnson, and peter mendelssohn. all now pretty much of stackable. >> i think each cabinet member made their own calculation of what the mood was among labor mp's in general. gordon brown will be toppled when there is a very clear majority around labor mp's. they did not want to have an early general election. james and david made different calculations about that. >> until last autumn, paul sinclair was one of gordon brown's aides. >> i do not think the prime minister have very many options. with those options, he took the right ones. it is not a terribly inspir

reporters debate british prime ministers orton brown reshuffle. he said despite a poor showing in elections and he would not step down. >> good evening. this is the tumultuous week in 21st century british politics and it's far from over. disasters, it is a recent certainty that result will pile on the misery. in the past 24 hours seven members have resigned. there has been a hasty reshuffle which appeared at first to shore up orden brown's position. but then there is a depth charge. or acquisition was little more than window dressing could prove to be very damaging. earlier gordon brown said that he learned from his late father always to be honest. repeatedly denied he ever thought of replacing alistair darling as counselor. this made for grim reading of labor. results show that any general election, this would put the lowest at 23%, boost into third place by the liberal democrats. our first report tonight is by david cameron. >> this was a 24 hours bracketed by two government resignations, each in their way damaging for the prime minister. james

i think the key thing is that gordon brown survived it. last month, with of the resignation of james purnell, there will not be a single hospital resignation from the cabinet tomorrow. most people would have been surprised. ok, caroline foot, but she was not in the -- carolyn flint, but she was not in the cabinet. >> she says, with her arm on her back. >> yes. what is clear from this is that we are not going to get a coup from within the cabinet. on the other side of the coin, will there be some kind of coup from the back benches of? it seems clearer and clearer that there is a lack of coordination among the backbench rebels. they are less confident now that aaron johnson is an alternative waiting in the wings now that he has been promoted. if gordon brown goes, that means an earlier election and that will lose their seats. i think that borden is in a stronger position than he was last night. -- i think that gordon brown is in a stronger position now that he was last night. >> there are a few other problems for gordon brown. >> yes, the da

brown: mr. president? the presiding officer: the senator from ohio. mr. brown: i ask unanimous consent the call of the quorum be vitiated. i ask unanimous consent the call of the quorum be vitiated. the presiding officer: without objection, so ordered. mr. brown: mr. president, i ask unanimous consent the senate proceed to executive session to consider calendar number 168, the nomination of david heyman and the nomination be con firmed, the motion to reconsider be laid upon the table, and no further motions be in order and any statements appear in the appropriate place in the record as if read, the president be immediately notified of the senate's action and the senate resume legislative session. the presiding officer: without objection, so ordered. mr. brown: mr. president, i ask unanimous consent the cloture vote on the dodd substitute am occur at 5:30 on monday june 8 and the filing deadline by 3:00 p.m. for first-degree amendments. the presiding officer: without objection, so ordered. mr. br

jerry brown served as governor in the 1970's and 1980's. and a story in a lot of attention, the headline from the state newspaper in south carolina. it says sanford a wall -- who is in charge? john o'connor said south carolina gov. staff said the governor is taking on appellation trout, ending four days in which the staff and state officials say they have not heard from him. night in his office or the state law enforcement division that provides security had been able to reach him since he left the mansion thursday in a black suburban as uv assigned to his security detail, according to three people according to the -- familiar with the situation. the government spokesman did not disclose the trailer was hiking nor revealed whether he was hiking alone. his last known location was near atlanta late last week. a mobile telephone tower picked

senator brown. >> thank you, mr. chairman. i support mccain amendment and oppose any second degree amendment. i've been through this as john as 1 1/2 decades working with john on these and patent issues, too, that pharma seems to, even when we went to battle they seem to win the war. any weakening language does two things. one, it denies these cost savings to consumers and second, it's got something about public safety as john points out. it denies savings to consumers and only doesn't save us the money it would save if we were to do this right. for years, several years when what is in the house of representatives, i represented a district in northern ohio about four hours from windsor, ontario. i used to take bus loads of ohio consumers, mostly elderly, but not all, to canada to buy drugs. it was a peculiar thing for a federal official in one country to take people to another country to buy prescription drugs, the same prescription drugs they could have bought in a local drug store, same brand names, same box even, the same -

it has really hurt gordon brown. host of this is what he said regarding yesterday, -- host: this is what he had to say regarding yesterday. "i would never return to those places or worry about it." he went on to say that under his leadership, labor could win the next election. guest: he has got to say that last statement. if he does not say that, they would be justified in getting a new leader. look, it is very hard to be at the tail end of a large dynasty. major after thatcher, brown after blair, the party is exhausted. everyone has gone native. there tends to be more corruption at the petty level because they have been in power for too long. it's hard to be a leader that shows vigor to the nation at that point. brown has played his hand remarkably badly, including that line about fighting on. obviously much less heroic in churchill. blundering around, the fact that his cabinet is quitting around him, that is very shocking. i cannot remember the last time this happened. guest: it is a very different kind of system,

senator bob brown bought -- senator brown back is the third above and sang he will vote against sonia sotomayor's nomination did any speech the senator said he is afraid judge suleyman york -- judge sonia sotomayor wants to be a player more than an umpire. >> "washington journal" continues. host: we welcome former congressman, governor, and secured a secretary, tom ridge. the department of homeless security formed in march of 2003. has the the problem of that to your expectations? guest: yes. i think one of the problems is when the aggregate 180,000 people, different agencies, and still try to build a system that works a more collaborative and effective fashion. but, yes, i think it has appeared a lot of people work very hard to form a fundamental policy decisions to assist not only president bush but on which

segregation did not end with the case of brown vs. board of education. it did not end defacto, so justice stevens wrote in a dissent, and please read that, but the chief justice's decision twisted brown vs. board in a cruelly ironic whey. no justice price said he criticized the chief justice's opinion of supplying an overly theoretical approach to case law, and he said law is not an exercise in mathematical logic. if it was, we would not need judges. we could do with computers, and i do not want to see that day. [applause] chief justice warren, a man who had a real-life experience for two and a half years, made sure it was going to be a unanimous decision, so a deeply divided united states of america could except this. it ignored the real world experience of millions of americans, and in a few days the supreme court will issue one of its most important decisions in years. the constitutionality of the reauthorize the voting rights act. voting rights act section 5 is a time-honored way to prevent discrimination. the court has always upheld the constitution

brown: yes. mr. sanders: i want to thank him for his cogent remarks talking about one of the most basic issues facing this country, and that is health care. we're on the veterans committee as well, and i know that you spend a lot of time talking to veterans in ohio. you have heard a veteran in ohio tell you that they want to privatize the v.a.? mr. brown: i have heard mostly conservative republicans say that they want to privatize the v.a. mr. sanders: every time that issue is raised, the veterans say no. mr. brown: senator sanders, one of the things that we noticed about the veterans administration, is that the v.a. has found a way to -- to buy at the lowest cost possible some of the least expensive, but good-quality prescription drugs. because what the v.a. does is there are millions of veterans, they negotiate on behalf of veterans with individual drug companies for individual prescription drugs, individual pharmaceuticals, and they get a rate at about one half of what you would pay if you went to

brown: yes. mr. sessions: i see my colleague, senator durbin -- the presiding officer: the senator from alabama. mr. sessions: my colleague from illinois is such a fine lawyer and excellent senator. i just would respectfully talk about some of the ideas he respected. one, he raised a question of brown v. board of education where the supreme court held that separate was not equal. and that somehow this is a justification for a judge setting policy. they thought it wasn't good policy. but i would see it differently, mr. president. i would see brown v. board of education as the supreme court saying that the constitution of the united states guarantees every american equal protection of the laws and they found that in segregated schools, some people were told they must go to this school solely because of their race, some people must goes to this school solely because of their race, and that in fact it wasn't equal. there are several constitutional issues plainly there, and i don't think that was an activ

i go back to the day of brown vs. board of education, when that segregation was made illegal, i was 18 years old, getting ready for my junior year in college, and i saw for the first time science that still said, colored and whites only. and they remember this even though this was against the law in richmond. this is not only getting rid of the legal segregation, this is the active segregation. >> please identify yourself. [inaudible] >> i am wondering if, in the context of this committee, if there will be a willingness to address the issues that have happened in the last administration, as far as human rights abuses across the world. the united states has tried to put their own citizens in the context, for accountability on the human rights issues and at the same time we have tried to hold other countries accountable. i wonder what the judiciary will do with the human rights abuse, for the people in this government. >> the subcommittee hearing will be doing a lot of this, but much of this is by example, closing guant

ginny brown-waite of florida. the speaker pro tempore: the -- the chair: the gentlewoman from florida, ms. brown-waite and a member opposed each will control five minutes. the chair recognizes the gentlewoman from florida. ms. brown-waite: we have a problem as every american in this chamber knows, american is facing unprecedented trillion-dollar deficit a ballooning national debt and steadily growing entitlement obligations. yet each and every time the house comes together to consider spending bills, evidence abounds that very few tough choices are being made. as i'm sure my colleagues will readily agree, never in the history of congress has there been a line item that at least one member did not support. there has not been a single program that somebody didn't think was worthy of the taxpayer dollars. in a perfect world where the united states is flush with money, very few spending ideas don't hold some merit. but simply having merit does not mean that american people have enough money to pay for it, nor do they

and brown said. "to be honest, i'm not interested in what companies being in power. i would worry if i never returned to those places, down the street, checkers, and it probably be good for my children." he went on to say that labour could win the next election. >> he has to say that last statement. it does not say that, he would be justified in getting a new leader. it is very hard to be at the tail end of a long issue like this. it is now brown after blair. the party is exhausted. there tends to be more corruption at the pet to a level. they have been in power too long. it is very hard to be a leader showing bigger to the nation at that point. der that shows vigor to the nation at that point. brown has played his hand remarkably badly, including that line about fighting on. obviously much less heroic in churchill. blundering around, the fact that his cabinet is quitting around him, that is very shocking. i cannot remember the last time this happened. guest: it is a very different kind of system, as

brown a question. -- i want to ask ms. brown a question. the undocumented immigrants covered in the bill are listed as 47 million. that is simply not true. it is stated that 67% of americans who do not have insurance do so because they do not get it. they could afford it. i am using the citizenship check, which apparently obama and the democrats who are putting the plan out are not including. i think that is a serious issue. i think the fact that he has basically said that he is not going to do anything about lawyers -- you ask any doctor who is paying $1 million for medical malpractice, if they do not do something to cap the trial lawyers, all you are doing is adding 47 million more people who can sue doctors. host: ms. budoff brown. guest: senator max baucus have said that undocumented immigrants will not receive benefits under this bill. he has stated pretty clearly that that will not happen. you are right that the 47 million, there are different kinds of uninsured in that group. there are folks to can and should -- who can afford insura

or in my state, like sheryl brown henderson of the brown family of the brown v. education, the landmark desegregating case inquir whered that even if a school is equal, segregation is inherently wrong. and that they've stood for it and stood tall to bring us to a better point in time. you know, it hasn't been all that long ago -- i started out in a professional career in broadcasting and one of the guys next to me was a sports broadcaster. and he would tell the story about -- and this is even in the big-8 where senator harkin and i share some territory -- they talk about people, african-americans coming on the basketball court being cheered wildly by everybody at the school but then not able to eat at the lunch counter in the community. well, everybody is cheering for them on the basketball court but they can't eat at the lunch counter. and the sportscaster was talking to me about that. or my old friend jack kemp who recently passed away, who was a strong advocate for african-americans and senator doing -- and for doing things like this and what he saw in the spo

brown: thank you, madam president. i ask unanimous consent to dispense with the quorum. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. brown: and, madam president, i ask unanimous consent to speak as if in morning business. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. brown: thank you, madam president. as members of the senate and the house tackle health reform, two overriding objectives have become apparent cloob we must bring down costs and we must expand access while allowing people who are happy with their health chair to stay in the plan that they're in now. bring down cost, expand access, fix what's broken, preserve what works. perhaps nowhere are these needs more obvious -- to bring down cost and expand access -- than in the area of biopharmaceuticals or so-called biologics. they are the fastest-growing segment of prescription drug spending in the united states. with costs of biologics ranging anywhere from $10,000 to $200,000 per patient per year, biologic treatments pose a significant financial challenge for p

brown: mr. president, i've watched with great admiration, senator dodd's work on this. i worked with chairman, with henry waxman in the house of representatives. and senator kennedy, senatorred ssenatordodd and congressman wae never given up and i am appear tich particularly to senator dodd. i boil this issue down to almost one sentence: i remember sitting in front of the "help" committee in the house of representatives many years ago and seeing the tobacco company executives stand in front of us, raise their right hand and swear to tell the truth and they didn't exactly tell the truth when they talked about nicotine not being an addiction but i learned one simple concept that we have known this number for years, 400,000 americans die every year from tobacco-related illness. that means on the average more than 1,000 americans die every single day from tobacco-related illnesses. no if you are a tobacco executive, mr. president, what you think about is this: you've lot 4 hundred dho 400,000 custou need to replenish your base much what do you do? you need to find 400,000 n

brown brown: madam presidenn 1945, president truman delivered a speech to a joint session of congress in which he declared, "millions of our citizens do not know have the full measure of opportunity to achieve and enswroi good health -- enjoy good health. millions do not now have protection or security against the economic effects of sickness. the time has arrived for action, to help them attain that opportunity and that protectio protection." that was said by president truman 10 or 11 presidents ago, perhaps, six decades ago. 64 years later, we're still fighting to provide that opportunity and that protection. a severely weakened economy, growing unemployment, rising health care and insurance costs, and declining employment-based insurance are all factors contributing to the current health care crisis. today, 47 million americans are uninsured, an additional 2 25 million, 30 million, 35 million, as many as 40 million, americans are underinsured, and many are saddled with catastrophic medical debt. closing the health care gaps would dramatically prove the public health. it would also

segregation did not end with the case of brown vs. board of education. did may have ended deterrent but did not end to facto so we should always fight back and justice stevens wrote in a dissent and, please, read back to in the case that the chief justice's opinion twisted brown vs. board and a cruelly ironic way. just as prioress descend criticized the justice, chief justice opinion as applying an overly theoretical case approaching the case law. and he said, why is not an exercise in a mathematical logic. if it was we would not need judges, we could do it with computers and i don't ever want to see that day. [applause] chief justice warren, a man who had a real-life experience took two and half years to put through brown vs. board of education but he made sure it was going to be a unanimous decision so in a deeply divided united states of america could accept this in contrast the roberts court and is divided desegregation decision to years ago ignored the real world experience of millions of americans and said it would depart from the hallowed presiden

judith brown chomsky was one of the leading attorneys in this case that led to this landmark settlement. when i asked noam chomsky tonight how you like to be introduced, he said tom i'm the brother and lot of judith brown chomsky. [laughter] [applause] judith is married in to the younger brother of noam, david. noam was born december 7th, 1928 in philadelphia. by the age of 10 he was writing an extended essay against fascism and about the spanish civil war. [applause] don't be discouraged. at 14 he was getting his education in the back of the 72nd street subway station in new york. you go out the front, that is where you go by newspapers in the stand where people would rush by and go, but it was the back less populated stand with the stragglers would be, where his uncle ran at that newspaper stand and they would sit and debate and discuss politics. that is where noam said he was getting his education. i hear that they just opened the back again at about four years ago, the south side of the 72nd saint substation, but i've understand they removed the newspaper sustanon. maybe there were

brown: thank you, madam president. i appreciate the comments of the senator from tennessee. i don't know how the vote will come out at 550 today but i know it -ps infrastructure -- come out at 5:today but we want the government to return wholly to the private sector, that this was an extraordinary situation i represent, as senator from tennessee represents. a lot of auto workers, in this case union and nonunion alike. i think all those companies that, certainly g.m. and chrysler, workers and people in the community want this industry back on its feet and want it run by the private -- by the private investors, as it should be. madam president, i ask unanimous consent to place my following remarks in a different place in the "congressional record." the presiding officer: without objection. mr. brown: thank you, madam president. today marks the 40th anniversary when the cuyahoga river in cleveland burned. the june 22, 1969, fire wasn't the first or the biggest on the cuyahoga or in rivers all over the country in those day

we're joined by the honorable butch brown the executive director and chief administrative officer from mississippi department of transportation joseph mukasey general manager of the southeastern pennsylvania transportation authority representing the american public transportation association. brad penrod director and ceo of the allegheny county airport authority representing airports council international north america and john keating president and chief operating officer oldcastle materials group fees representing american road and transportation builders association. we will begin with mr. brown. >> thank you madam chairman as a special note we have included a few figures that were correctly added and not have been fixed and we ask we have been allowed to submit the revised testimony is just a couple of technical changes. think you'll. >> my name is larry butch brown i am the director of the mississippi department of transportation serving vice president of the american association of state highway and transportation officials and m the incoming president this fall. i want to thank

brown's response in that regard. we have not had been a problem and for the region -- recommend region 34 recruit -- approving your projects to be with my testimony 70% of the dollars have been awarded through me and we anticipate awarding 100% through the end of the calendar year and again in the fda region has been extremely cooperative to get the projects moving. >> mr. penrod? >> mr. chairman just as the colleagues have said so in me from my personal experience in the aviation airport business we have an abundant program that we track closely the local share on the typical routine projects are tracked and audited closely so it is another opportunity in our case put $12 million of your money to good work. and it was not problematic and four other airports and has not been an issue across the country. 100% bonds means 100% participation and that is the least we can do. >> very good. mr. keating your associates at this and gravel, stone, aggregate business, from the time the bill passed the house, and your associate

segregation did not end with a case of brown versus board of education. it may had adjourned, of but it did not end. -- but it did not end. justice stevens wrote in a dissent in a case that the chief justice's opinion trysta brown versus board of education in a crudely ironic way. justice prius descent criticized chief justice's opinion as -- justice breyers descent criticize the chief justice's opinion. he says law lot is not an exercise and mathematical logic. if it was, we would not need judges. we could do it with computers. i don't ever want to see that day. [applause] chief justice warren, a man who had real life experience. but he made sure it was going to be a unanimous decision, so a deeply divided united states of america could except this. in contrast, two years ago they ignored the real world experience of millions of americans so it would depart from the precedents of the court. a few days the supreme court will issue one of its most important decisions in years. the constitutionality and the reauthorize voting act. voting rights act provisio

host: representative, we are joined by carrie budoff brown of "the politico." guest: hi, representative pallone. on the senate side, they are taking a strong look at a proposal from senator kent conrad on a cooperative, a nonprofit cooperative, as an alternative to the public plan. you said you are considering a public plan based on medicare. it is kent conrad's model something that your colleagues are taking a look at, that even has any chance of passing the house? if not, i guess given that the senate is not looking at a medicare model for the public plan, how do the two changers' bridge -- how do the two chambers bridge your differences on that point? guest: i use medicare as an example because people familiar with it. i think the people that fear a public plan are afraid that it is going to be all paid for by the federal government, it is not going to make a profit, and the federal government is going to favor it in many ways as possible so that there is not a level playing field. what we have said and what i have said is that you have to create a level pla

brown: thank you, madam president. i ask unanimous consent to -- the quorum call be dispensed with. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. brown: thank you, madam president. in my state of ohio, especially states like michigan, indiana, pennsylvania. middle class families are facing a new wave of job losses. 400,000 ohioans are employed directly or indirectly because of the auto industry. the auto industry crisis is a crisis he especially in my state and in michigan and the other states in the region. as congress works to help the industry through the difficult times, the industry must do all it can to keep the jobs at home. it was welcome news when g.m. announced that rather than start more small-car production in china and mexico, which they have done in the past, that they would open a new small-car manufacturing plant somewhere in one of these auto states. this crisis, though, as congress works -- this crisis has hit home in my state, especially in mansfield where g.m. has one of its best stamping plants. wo

because it seems to me that when people start getting beyond marbury versus madison and brown versus board of education, the views about the importance of some of the others diverge, and so i was wondering what cases you might add to that list of really, really landmark cases in the past. >> well, i do think there he's one that stands out, and it's a counterpoint. i mean, people talk about the monumental cases and you assume they're talking about the good ones, marbury and brown. i would say the third most significant case in the supreme court's history was dread scott, in the sense that marbury and brown are good examples of what to do in very challenging situations and how to handle it, dread scott is an example where things went terribly wrong. you need to look at that and try to figure out why, and i think some of the reasons are pretty clear. you had, of course, the most divisive your shoe in our history -- divisive issue in our history, leading the country toward civil war, sectionalism overlay on top of that. the political branches failing to address it, in the case of the exe

continues on whether or not court and brown will step down. according to news reports this morning, he will -- whether or not gordon brown will step down. according to news reports this morning, he says, no, he will not step down. next caller, good morning. caller: well, i guess i will have to say that cheney was proved wrong again. evidently deficits do matter, and after, you know, eight years of the bush administration basically wrecking our economy, the minute a democrat gets elected, we are now told that these deficits and this debt are very, very important, and we have to immediately start taking action to get this reduced. i do agree long term that we need to take care of deficits, but i think first thing has been that we need to get our economy going again. that is important. when they do look at the deficits, they do not need to be cutting our social security benefits and our medicare and medicaid because that seems to be the drum beat going on now. we can take the money away from the military contractors, we can close military bases a

. >> sweet redemption for kent, who was blistered last year for his ride on big brown. he finally gets his belmont. >> kent desormeaux said of calvin borel's guarantee this week, "i think calvin is naive." the experience of desormeaux in the belmont pays off, sweet revenge after big brown, and summer bird brings back over $25. dunkirk held on for second. mine that bird finishes in the money now at all three triple-crown races. here is what trainer chip woolley had to say about calvin borel's ride. >> i was disappointed, i think my horse was the best horse here, made a move early and came up empty. calvin said he was fighting him a little bit down the back side, but you could tell when calvin set him down maybe a hair early, but that's a judgment call out there, and i'll pat him on the back when i see him. >> calvin, tell me what happened. >> just went a little slow up front, i had to get him go a little bit down the back side, he was fighting me a little bit, but i don't know, i made the lead at the 16th pole, i thought he was home free. >> alongside randy moss and two-

brown. mr. casey. >> in afternoon representative edwards and members, my name is joseph casey, representing the public transportation of philadelphia and surrounding counties area and the american public transit authority with 1500 members including public transit agencies and private businesses. public transportation can be a critical component to reduce this nation's dependency on foreign oil. improving the and vermin and achieving sustainability and improving the economy. with the increased price of gasoline over the last couple years america has rediscovered of public transportation. apta reporting last year 10.3 billion trips taken on public transportation, the highest in the last 50 years. we've seen a similar increase of the last three years, ridership has increased so% and even though prices again dropped last year better ship remains strong and say another 3% increase for we were last year. the american recovery and reinvestment act is critical to mass transit. prior to enactment apta d

brown: thank you, madam speaker. for years my republican colleagues and i have focused on implementing an all-of-the-above energy plan to cut the ties of foreign oil and create affordable american energy. however the democrat tax and cap plan will serve as a national energy tax, resulting in fewer jobs. more than $3,100 will be added to the annual energy cost of american families if financial hardship that will greatly impact the poor who spend a large part of their income on energy. these taxes would directly im pact farmers of south carolina as every day costs of fuel and fertilizer may become too expensive for them afford. additionally our state's clean energy production would be excessively taxed. forcing companies to move to countries with less stringent standards resulting in little progress towards protecting our environment. the relocation of these businesses could result in the loss of up to seven million jobs, increasing unemployment and placing further economic strains on the american families. all for a p

brown: thank you, mr. president. i ask unanimous consent to address the house for up to ten minutes. the presiding officer: is there objection? without objection, so ordered. mr. brown: thank you, mr. president. in 1989 was the seminole year in world history, late in the year, november 9, the berlin wall fell. and like dominoes, poland, hungary and czechoslovakia went from being soviet satellites to democracies. the revolution of 1989 would set the tone for the peaceful breakup for the soviet union. the winds of change were bringing democracy in freedom to the oppressed. i look forward to honoring the peaceful revolutions of 1989 later this year. but i want to speak today about the revolution that never was, an event that took place 20 years ago this week in a country whose people remain subject to totalitarianism and tyranny. a peaceful pro-democracy rally that was snuffed out with the brutality the world hadn't seen since the invasion of czechoslovakia by the ussr in 1968. it started much like the revolutions of 19

brown tries to stop him. he's too late. nats get castillo at second -- total and complete confusion on the basepaths. "go back, go back. where are you going?" >> "tom emanski, line one." >> i don't know if tom would be able to help those guys out. mets lose 7-1. >> no triple crown for calvin borel but the belmont did offer sweet redemption for another jockey. >> plus, detroit, rock city, now red wings wrestle away control of the stanley cup final. your health is your true wealth. make a smart investment in your health with a vitapak program only from gnc. our customized vitapak regimens give you essential vitamins and supplements with ingredients that support heart health, promote strong bones and power up energy levels. stop by gnc and find the vitapak regimen that's right for you with the help of one of our in-store experts. it's a small investment with a huge, healthy return. gnc vitapak programs. invest well. live well. today and into the future. >> detroit's edwin jackson 4-1 in -- going for the complete game against t

there you see prime minister gordon brown on the left side of the screen and on the right side the french president. we want to thank john mcmannis for being our guest. we are going live to normandy as we await the speech by the president. ♪ ♪ ♪ [applause] >> president obama, your royal high ness, prime minister brown, prime minister harper, distinguished guests, ladies and gentlemen, please be seated. it's our privilege to welcome all the visitors joining us today. we extend a special welcome to the d-day and world war ii veterans and their family members in attendance who honor us all with their presence. [applause] today, we commemorate the 65th anniversary of the d-day landings that took place in the early morning hours of 6 june, 1944. today's ceremony will honor the soldiers, sailors, and airmen who made the supreme sacrifice so that europe might be liberated. included among those so honored are the 3,881 who lost their lives on d-day at omaha beach and the 9,387 of our dead who are buried at this cemetary. [speaking in french] >> ladies and gentlemen, please bow your heads in

brown tries to stop him. he's too late. nats get castillo at second -- total and complete confusion on the basepaths. "go back, go back. where are you going?" >> "tom emanski, line one." >> i don't know if tom would be able to help those guys out. mets lose 7-1. >> no triple crown for calvin borel but the belmont did offer sweet redemption for another jockey. >> plus, detroit, rock city, now red wings wrestle away control of the stanley cup final. ♪ hey kevin, filling up with nitrogen-enriched shell gasoline? it seeks and destroys the engine gunk... left by lower-quality gasoline. yes, winner! everyone wins with new nitrogen-enriched shell gasolines. ( whines ) somebody do something! ♪ help me! keep me from harm ♪ - ♪ won't you help me, baby? take me in your arms... ♪ - ( yelps ) ♪ won't you help me? 'cause i want... ♪ hey, there's a dog on your roof! - raise the roof, dawg! - ♪ so come and take me home ♪ well, well, well, oh, you know i need... ♪ for drivers who want to get the most out of their cars, i

i will sherri brown bag lunch with you. >> thank you. >> this bill is a draft. i want to recognize the chairman of this committee. he is the champion of health care reform. he is the man that shall be the first time on the legislation. mr. dingell's? >> first, thank you for holding this important hearing. thank you for your remarkable leadership on moving forward toward resolution of the health care problems we have. i am grateful and proud. i am appreciative of the words he said about my dad. on behalf of my dad, i want to thank you for your kind words and for your friendship. i also want to do something on a personal factor. that is to welcome secretary sibelius. your father was a bible member of this committee. he said in his room for a number of years. we are always proud to have you here. your father and all was a bible member of the house, as you will recall. -- a valuable member of the house, as you will recall. this week marks the beginning of a historic process. it is an opportunity to fill our economic obligations, to provide quality and affordable hea

i totally agree with secretary brown, five, six years is a very good horizon. we can plan as an industry with our capital investment plans. the states can plan very effectively with what their master road and bridge program will be that addresses both the maintenance needs of the state as well as whatever capacity expansion needs of the individual states. when you have that all kind of drawn out, we know what to expect. we need to be low bidder on the projects we bid but we know what to expect and can plan accordingly as they can. an 18-year fix does not help us at all. >> 18-month? >> i mean, an 18-month fixed. >> that's music to my ears. i wanted to hear it straight from you. commissioner brown, have you had an opportunity to review -- you've seen in broad strokes the proposal for project expediting and progress expediting in the federal highway administration that i've crafted and that is in our bill and we've had bipartisan agreement on with some touches yet to come, what are your thoughts? do you think that's -- what are lessons from the stimulus that -- i

protecting gordon brown from the cabinet to is lord mandelson, the business secretary. he was awarded with a new title of the first to secretary of state. >> what the party needs to do now is unite behind the prime minister. he is by far the biggest figure in british politics, to lead the country in the face of a very difficult times, economically and politically, and i believe you will see the entire cabinet falling behind the prime minister, and nobody followed james' lead. >> the prime ministers position was looking more secure as a journalist arrived for a press conference in. about 10 minutes in this happen. >> caroline flint just resigned yet last night she came out and gave you her full support. what does that say about the support for other ministers, are they going to resign now? >> she was and has been a very good minister. >> caroline flint is a very close friend of the former communities secretary who resigned wednesday. the pair shared the view that

henry brown, for such time as he may consume. mr. brown: i appreciate my colleague from wisconsin for yielding. i rise today to to support house resolution 410, legislation i was proud to introduce with representative klein. 75% of south carolina's coast and many of my commercial bothers, i'm proud of this resolution that recognizes the numerous contributions of the recreational and boating community. boating is big business in the state of south carolina with more than 826 million in sales a year and nearly 9,000 boating industry employees across the state. boats are owned by families of all income levels and across communities in the state. there are 145 boating businesses rangesing from small businesses to major boat manufacturers and employ hundreds of my constituents. nationally, the recreational boating community includes 59 million americans that make a significant impact to our community. they serve as stewards of the marine environment. it has a long history of education of future generations on resources. additionally throu

british prime minister - gorham brown -- gordon brown spoke. >> order. one of the things of the speaker moving on is a signature. i can inform the house that in the past few weeks, i save several hundred bottles of -- dare the chancellor will be pleased to know that some bottles are fetching as much as 150 lbs. on ebay. i wanted to help the chancellor to stimulate the economy and was surprised i could do that in such a way. i give tribute to my staff. no speaker could ask for a better and more dedicated staff. thank you for giving me first class support. the expertise is plain to see. i also think the members of the chairman's panel for working nights and days. so i want to say thank-you to the one person -- it is planned for members to observe the police security officers, messengers, going about their duties. the speaker's chaplain, has given me in valuable spiritual help. the speaker's office, there is much that is on some. they go out of their way to help. they are held in the highest regard. the cpa do so much for us. i must make mention to those me

brown. let me turn to you, mr. casey, and i am so familiar with septa having spent a little time as a youngster visiting my grandmother and using the septa system. i can attest to the work that is needed on the septa system as while. but i wanted to ask just in terms of the current authorization for highway and transit programs that expires on september 30th, can you tell me how the lack of a long-term authorization for these programs affect septa ability to plan for capital improvement projects? >> some of our critical means our multi year. i can specifically say we are completing a project now between engineering and construction in eight years and without a long-term project cannot have committed those funds to get that project completed. we have a number of projects that are on the drawing boards and city hall station is a major station under city hall that is very complicated system and. the project will take multiple years from a design and also construction efforts and so is critical that we have a multi-yea

but after brown v. board of education in 1954, there was no doubt that equal protection did mean integration. the confirmation proceedings of chief justice rehnquist were very informative. chief justice rehnquist had more than 30 votes cast against his nomination in 1986. the issue aroseerose as to the quadive his answering questions as to the role of the supreme court contrasted with the role of congress. chief justice rehnquist had written an interesting article for "the harvard law record" back in 1958 when he was a young practicing attorney criticizing the senate for the confirmation hearings of justice whittaker, not asking probing questions about due process of law. but only extolling justice whittaker's virtues because he represented both the state of kansas and the state of missouri, living in one state and practicing law in the other. and when chief justice rehnquist was asked questions about the authority of congress to take away the jurisdiction of the supreme court, he answered finally that

in the "washington post," prime minister brown is going to stay as the leader of britain. he reshuffled his cabinet. the financial times has this editorial. they write time runs out for depord on brown. >> san antonio, texas, john on the line for republicans. >> let me see if i can put it easy. no one in the country is complaining about the mess that the government make in tax dollars. no one complains about nothing congress does as far as taking money unto themselves. and they live quite well. these little companies like insurance companies who make money to pay, the people invest in their money and people return on the investment. people complain they shouldn't do this. we have the best healthcare industry in the world in america. why do people come here from england. they come here from canada. from australia, they come here. all over europe, come here. sure you have to pay for it. everything you have to pay for. get the government out of the way. this obituary for barker. >> i see a glaring need for two different issues. one healthcare reform. the other health insuranc

. >> it is the first book with our loving you publisher brown and they actually came to us and said it would you consider doing an anthology for us and we have so much fun. >> we are doing another one. >> yes we are. it was enormous fun. we obviously, they are our favorite poems. my father instilled in the love of poetry and i hopefully instill that in my kids. we read to each other, we give poems read together, all our lives we have done that and here we are asked to put down our favorites. the first choices which were about 20 were really easy and then after that we have the most wonderful journey of discovery in finding what we really loved. >> digging back into our memories of family anthologies. >> we essentially came down to nine separate teams and before each thema there is a piece that we were explaining why we love the themes, optimism or countryside or nature. >> and why each choice of palm or song lyric is within that same resonance for us, what memory and associates for us. >> and we have always as a family had a palms for fun and deaths and special days and holidays and so

brown-waite, and a member opposed each will control five minutes. the chair recognizes the gentlewoman from florida. ms. brown-waite: just a few moments ago i rose to point out what i believe is unnecessary spending. i suppose it's not a coincidence that i rise again to point out what i believe is another unnecessary spending item. section 303 of the foreign relations act before us authorizes funding for the establishment of a lessons learned center. if money were no object i think it may be a fine thing to do. in fact, it's thoord imagine that anything produced by the center would not be used. however, as you can imagine many of my colleagues are wondering why would anyone oppose the center. they might point out that those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it. mr. chairman, in some way miscolleague mace be right. but what is essential is that we do learn from our mistakes. that's prix liss -- precisely why the state department's exam to become a foreign service officer is so rigorous and why the intelligence agencies seek the best

much as i wish to claim this as an original idea, i have to give thanks and credit to senator sherrod brown, who first introduced this legislation last december before i was sworn in. it's appropriate that we honor congressman ralph regula with this bill, because in many ways this building would not exist without his efforts. having laid the groundwork for it many, many years ago. . it will serve his legacy for many years to come. it is fitting and proper to honor congressman regula with this designation. i urge the immediate passage and reserve the balance of my time, mr. speaker. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman reserves the balance of his time. the chair recognizes the gentleman from florida. mr. diaz-balart: i would yield myself as much time as i may consume. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized. mr. diaz-balart: i want to thank the chairman and the sponsor, the gentleman from ohio for sponsoring this legislation. he mentioned the history of mr. regula. he obviously served honorably for the people of the 16th district in ohio for 18 consecutive terms, from 1973 unt

senator brown? senator casey? senator haguin'? senator berkeley? >> no by proxy. >> senatorwhitehouse. >> senator gray? senator alexander? >> aye by proxy. >> senator isaacson? >> senator mccain? >> aye by proxy. >> senator coburn in. >> aye by proxy. >> senator roberts? chairman kennedy? >> no by proxy. >> the vote is 10 ayes, 13 neys. >> the amendment is defeated. and you were very persuasive. i'm shoe there will be more work done on this before we're through. senator alex and her an amendment. i know senator sanders has an amendment and senator harkin has amendment number two which goes to the investment of funds. since we're on that subject matter as his -- here's what i'm going to do. it's noon. the idea would be -- we'll go into the half hour. we won't have any -- i won't ask for -- unless we can wrap the things up in 20 minutes. senator coburn has three amendments. others as well. i point out again that thanks to the work of senator harkin and senator enzi's staff and others involved in this. there were 50 amendment that's were agreed to out