there was many cities -- there was a period in which cities across the country and indeed the world were facing bankruptcy to do with a global recession. to do with, you know, inflation and stagflation as a result of, you know, recession and inflation combination. the global oil crisis. so it was a complex time and it was a time when the fortunes of cities in particular given the retrenchment of the federal government were put in this very difficult position. they were having to find new sources of revenue. >> was new york losing population in the '50s, '60s, '70s? >> no. well, there was suburbization that was going and had been going since the late 19th century in new york, in the surrounding suburbs. one thing that was occurring was the rise of suburbs more widely in the united states and the expansion of suburbs and so there was, you know, a loss of population to the growing sunbelt region that was going on since the '50s, so the west and southwest of the united states. and the sunbelt was also -- you know, the suburbanized sunbelt was the base of a growing, more conservative politica

i appreciate the achievements of securing the city's program. we know that this is a vital program and these protective functions are vital. but for that very reason, we need to get away from an earmark and get away from a pilot program and put this on a sustainment mode and for that reason, i ask colleagues top oppose this amendment. the chair: the gentleman reserve? mr. price: i reserve. the chair: the committee will rise to receive a message. the speaker pro tempore: the house will be in order. the chair will receive a message. the messenger: madam speaker, a message from the president of the united states. the secretary: madam speaker, i'm directed by the president of the united states to deliver to the house of representatives a message in writing. the speaker pro tempore: the committee will resume its sitting. the chair: the gentleman from new york. mr. king: madam chair, i recognize the gentlelady from new york and the co-sponsor of the amendment and a zealous fighter on this issue, ms. clarke, for one minute -- 90 seconds. the chair: the

>> this is against the city of new kevin. >> title seven is against the city because it is the employer. title 7 against the city alone. what do you have against anybody else? >> it is against decisionmakers. >> all those involved? they are involved in the action. >> i think there are only three board members that you charge. three board members? >> the two. >> then you have the mayor and the two executive officers, correct? >> the former chief executive officer was there. the chief civil service examiner. she is not named as a defendant. >> the problem with your 1983 cause of action -- do you have any proof that anybody certified this list or did not certify it? >> who survived the list? the board, correct? >> the board takes the list from the person on the record. they look at it under the standard procedure and because of the charter, it is the board's duty to assign it a start date and an end date. >> that is the certification. >> there has got to be some mechanism by which you have the first day of the list. >> how did 9-board members get made liable for it -- non-board members be

governor rendell made the good point about high-speed inner city rail to find $185 miles an hour and higher is we think the most important thing to remember is when you talk about high-speed rail is evidence by the examples around the world. projects that actually work that provide real significant potential -- to reduce potential -- reduce the congestion in our crowded skies and highways, reduce carbon emissions, reduce our dependence on foreign oil, stimulate and orchestrate economic development across the country right now. i was not invited here to talk about the preaching to the choir, though, for high-speed rail. you are aware of the benefits and we talked about that today. i was brought here more to discuss how close we are to seeing these benefits and what must be done to ensure we get to where we want to be. the president and secretary lahood have made their vision clear. they want world class high-speed rail in this country. to reap the kinds of benefits we are talking about today and senator thune to justify the tremendous investment that has already begun and if increased

the midwest governors said they had a plan to link the midwestern cities at 100 to 110 miles an hour. senator mccain said there is a plan to link washington with 100 to 110-mile-an-hour train. governor patrick said, slow down. we can't make this effort building 100-mile-an-hour train systems. or else we are truly consigning ourselves to be a second-class nation when it comes to transporting our citizens. we have to look at the maglas. we have to look at the bullet trains. we have to look at improving the aseller. we can go from new york to washington in an hour and 30 minutes. we can go from new york to philadelphia in 33 minutes. we can consign the shuttle to the rusty. and by doing that we can improve east-west traffic all over the eastern seaboard. we shouldn't be flying people 500 miles or less. we should put them on high-speed trains. now reabthern asked a very important question. -- now, ranking member thorn asked a very important question. what should be given priority? i suggest we create a national infrastructure bank staffed by professionals, not necessarily professionals al

this was not the city acting in good faith. this was the city belling to small-town politics. i think that's one of the threads that he is pulling from the alito concurrence. justice ginsburg -- justice kennedy wrote the main 5-4 decision. alito jump in because ginsburg had all the facts wrong. her dissent said i'm jumping and in the sense because they're not telling all of the facts. this is a strange situation where ginsburg and alito are really going at it. ginsburg's response was so what -- that is not a legal question. as a legal matter, the city had an obligation to toss the results of this exam if the disparate impact was such. that was just a lot. that was the affirmative mandate. her point was all the other stuff is very interesting and it makes for a good novel, but it is not the central legal issue. the central legal issue is that the law requires we tossed the big exam if it has a disparate impact on african americans. the city did that. the court said that is what the law requires. the court of appeals of which sonia sotomayor was sitting on, that as well the law

out of the city. so this is not some brand new model that we're not sure how it's going to work. but to some extent we left the best for last. that is, baghdad and mosul. i was up in mosul a few weeks ago, and to be sure it's a city that has a lot of tension in it, to be sure, there are various groups, whether it's the kurdish population there, the sune e, or -- and i want to emphasize this as well, christian groups that have concerns about what life will be like in the future. again, i think the way forward is through political dialogue. i met with members of the provincial council. i met with the kurdish delegation that is continuing to boy cot the provincial council. i met with others. and we just have to keep doing that. i think whether this is irreversible will depend on the people themselves. i have no doubt that iraq is a better place for the fact that there's less violence and i think that's an insight most iraqis have every day. >> does the u.s. have any contingency plan in case the violence

this is city kids and city teachers, reports from the front row and the city kids and city schools, more reports on the front row. these are just some of his education books and we will get into some of his other books also as we go. this is "to teach" which also contains the myth of education -- what are some of the myths of education? in an era that 15 years ago and you're asking me to remember? [laughter] when i wrote the book i was taken with the attack that when you go to college is education and when you become a teacher you get kind of surrounded with the smiths and some of them are things like kids today are dividend kids ever were in the world feared that these of the time was kids, the worst it's a test that has been said by every generation ever. and now that i am old i feel myself wanting to save about young people today, it is just not true -- kids are kids, kids experiment, kids try things and do things so one myth is kids in there given than ever before. another myth is that i remember writing is teaching should be fine. you know, i argued a to be deeply satisfying and can

from kansas city but from that jazz others. michael jackson of course passed. many great musicians whose music needs to be remembered and young people need to learn this is a great way to pass on our culture and enjoy their own life. i'm pleased this is the 30th anniversary of black music month and we need to enjoy music and soothe the soul. the speaker pro tempore: any further requests for one minutes? the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does texas rise? mr. conaway: i ask unanimous consent that today following legislative business and special orders heretofore entered into, the following members may be permitted to address the house, revise and extend their remarks and include extraneous material, mcclintock today for five minutes, conaway today for five minutes. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. for what purpose does the gentleman from rise? >> i ask unanimous consent that today following legislative business and any special orders entered into, the following members may be permitted to address the house for

troops from iraqi cities. we showed you some of the scenes from youtube from iraq and also want to show you some headlines. here is an interview from dick cheney conducted for the washington times radio. his concern that the pending below could reverse the military progress made by american and iraqi forces in the 2007 surge. he is quoted as saying that he hopes the iraqis can deal with it. inside this paper one of the details is that the iraqi ackerman has declared today a day of sovereignty. the story can be found below the fold on "the washington post," concerning jubilation in iraq six years in three months after the u.s. invasion. it will turn over security to the iraqis. the paper points out that while there are still more than 130,000 remaining troops, patrols by heavily armed soldiers will largely disappear from baghdad and other urban centers. we will get to your phone calls, but first more from dick cheney. yesterday on the radio his interview became the front page of today. here's what he said. >> i

city. and i brought the philosophy, spend less than you take in. how do we deal with that philosophy? six years ago in our city of 60,000 people, we had $2 million in reserves. and when i came to congress, we had $24 million in reserves, we had not raised taxes and our bond rating went up while everybody else's went off the cliff. the city has a great commission and they're going to balance this budget and every single budget we passed had a surplus. now the philosophy in washington, d.c. i found out is you borrow more than you take in and you spend what you take in also. that's what we have done this year. as you have mentioned, we started our fiscal year on 1 october and by the 26 of april of this year, we had spent all the money that the taxpayers had sent us for the year. everything we have is borrowed money. and if the folks back home ask you, what is your biggest frustration or surprise or whatever and a lot of them think it's the work load. it's not that. it's the partisanship and se

. >> we're at the book expo america bookseller convention in new york city. here with a director of city lights books at seven cisco. what you have coming out this fall? >> weld, this fall we have a couple of books coming out from angela davis. we have a collection of essays, her first book that has been published in about four years that covers the nims she is particularly interested in, racism and sexism and industrial complex and particularly interesting publishing with angela is a new edition of the narrative of the life of frederick douglass, an american slave at which contains douglas's narrative as well as essays that were part of a chorus that she hadn't and ucla in the '70s. so it really brings to light up that s.a. and also include new essay written by her this year. we are hoping that people who have read the narrative speefour take a look at this book and the enriched by a new in the old work. we're also publishing the awaken there, and long awaited more by helen wheeler about her life with jack kerouac, lenny bruce, allen ginsberg, in greenwich v

new york's namesake city, new york city, had recently displaced philadelphia as the nation's largest city and was taking control of the young american economy. infield drawing rooms and counting houses across the atlantic the words of new york were becoming equivalent to economic opportunity for laborers, speculators and proto- industrialist alike. and yes, until this fine morning, until the fall morning, new york was no more assured of becoming the empire state dan was virginia, pennsylvania, or even ohio, south carolina or illinois. nor was the nation assured of becoming the global empire it remains. in 1825, the united states were still twirl and a few, not a singular nationstate but sovereign states with a constitutionally limited federal government. as late as 1885, walt whitman proclaimed with morality of the united states remained full of poetic stuff, mostly poets as opposed to need poets. abraham lincoln declaring the union at gettysburg finally change the grammar and the perception in the 18 '60s. in 1825 the seed onto a cd shining sea continental nation of patriotic songs

the department of energy's oak ridge national laboratories says the inner city passenger rail is 17% more efficient than air travel. that it is 21% more efficient than auto travel. says something. so encouraging greater use of it is terribly important. i'll do everything i can, senator lautenberg to work with you to make sure we can do this and we will. it's inevitable. it's part of america's destiny. i thank the chair. and i apologize to the audience and witnesses. >> thanks very much, senator rockefeller. your position ss chairman of the -- as chairman of this committee is one that gives us encouragement that we can achieve the goal of ours of having a more important rail leg tour transportation system. we thank you for your encouragement. senator hutchison. >> thank you, mr. chairman. i am very pleased, too, to be at this hearing and also to have the opportunity to have a texas presence at the hearing because you and i, mr. chairman, have worked far long time on amtrak, keeping amtrak viable and i will say that we've had a very productive partnership at keeping the national part o

was city can match that? of the waterfront, the berries, the smith our everything that you know, so well i was fascinated. the thing that overwhelmed me, i was about 23 years old and walking up and down the streets of downtown i did not have any wheels. i was fascinated with the faces. the mixture here growing up in kansas city as they did in the hearts of america i was not used to such diversity even one generation ago. not only black and white but asian, even more than that i kept running into american indian faces then i really flipped out one afternoon when i came across an inuit and later that day and then i thought all of north america comes together because than and those combinations but feel people who run america will not be happy but to see the crosses of the world i thought in this that way is the fulfillment as i see it what we're doing in this nation. on that second book tour i was stopping to get a haircut and talking with the man sitting next to me while we were both waiting we get to know whi

the city is not suggesting that. there is a difference between where you score on the test and how many openings you have. to the extent that there is an adverse impact on one group over another so that the first seven who are going to be hired only because of the vacancies at that moment, not because your unqualified, the pass rate is the pass rate. but if your test is always going to put a certain group at the bottom of the pass rate so that they are never going to be promoted and there is a fair test that could be devised that measures knowledge in a more substantive way, then why should the city not have an opportunity to look and see if they could develop that? >> because they already developed it. >> this is not the answer. it assumes the answer. that the test is valid because we say it is valid. >> the testing results are valid. he told me it is valid. they have evidence that the test is job-related and balanced. >> you did not present an alternative, did you? >> i had an alternative. there are plenty alterati

the city doesn't even know how to market. they would like to bring in somebody new to do something with it but it's owned by chrysler and the old chrysler, not the new fee at chrysler. and so how do they negotiate? with whom? they're asking all these questions and they don't have the answers. >> where and when is the recovery? >> that's a good question. unemployment as the secretary mention sd a lagging indicator. in past recessions you've seen the recession end, economic growth start, and unemployment continue to rise for months if not a year or more. so there are, there's two type of recoveries, there's the high level market gdp, economic number recovery, and then there's the average person recovery, which is my company is doing better, i can get a job. my friends or i'm not getting laid off. that's coming much, much farther down the road. >> but in cities like gary, indiana, cleveland, ohio, buffalo, new york, what are you sensing? >> i'm sensing people have grown up expecting a factory job. they don't have that factory jo

of the cities, a large majority of the cities, now, for the last 8 months. so, it is really only mosul and the last remnants we have had in baghdad that have pulled out, over the last few weeks and we have actually been implementing this in many parts of baghdad for a long time. and they understand what their mission is. they understand what we expect them to do. and, we have worked this very closely with all of the leader of iraq, i've worked closely with this mfinister of defense and the interior and operational commanders in order to work this out and i feel comfortable with where we are at. >> see the entire briefing tonight at 8:00 eastern, on c-span. >> now a discussion on health care policy. the national institute for health care management, invited health care policy experts, and insurance company executives to talk about how the health care system is funded, this is just over three hours. [inaudible conversations] >> hi, we are going to go ahead and get started, right on time, i'ms nancy chalkly, the president and ceo of the foundation and i'm delig

the new york city finance your who helped new york city out of its desperate financial straits in the 1970's as as a book out calling for a national infrastructure bank. and all three of them and other people, too, cited the eery canal as the first major piece of infrastructure that was built in the country and the sort of thing that we should be doing again. and it is interesting to me that there are significant efforts to recreate -- to create and to build and rebuild america's infrastructure and that the erie canal is cited. but it almost seems as though a lot of the citation of the erie canal is somewhat blind. there aren't really very many similarities between how new york city and new york state built the erie canal and of the federal government now might support infrastructure projects. however, there is one very important similarities -- one way in which the erie canal, i think, has helped inform the debate about whether the federal government should be creating a national infrastructure bank tough on infrastructure projects. and that is that it is essential for there to be a

troop presence in iraqi cities and localities. this is a significant milestone in irresponsible with all of our forces from iraq, and in iraq as a journey to become a stable, sovereign, self reliable state. -- i atarax the journey to become a stable, sovereign, self reliable state. -- in iraq's journey. the ambassador provided updates on the political, security, and economic situation in iraq, and we describe -- discussed in number of challenges that we are facing. as you remember, this withdrawal is occurring under the so-called so far agreement, the status and forces agreement -- so-called sofa agreement. there is another document that we will now be turning our attention to with even greater concern. that is the strategic framework agreement. which sets forth the way forward for the relationship between the united states and iraq. so there is a lot going on, and i wanted to come down and talk about some of what we are doing, and i would be happy to take some of your questions. >> do you believe -- you used the words detention a

new york's namesake city new york city had recently displaced philadelphia as the largest city and was taking control of the american in fields, a driver as an accounting houses across the atlantic the words new york were becoming equivalent to economic opportunity for laborers, speculators and pro industrialists alike. and yet until this fine morning new york was no more assured of becoming the empire state and west virginia, pennsylvania or even ohio, south carolina or to one way. nor was the nation assured of becoming the global empire it remains. nikkei-225 the u.s. were so plural and few, not a single nation state but sought a states were a constitution limited federal government and as late as 1865 walt whitman and proclaimed with verbal plurality, the united states with a useful political stuff most needed poets, as opposed to needs poets. abraham lincoln declaring the union as getty. change the back -- at gettysburg changed the verbiage. in a sea to shining sea continental nation the paychecks are still a dream, the land was harassed and access to and control was limited. the l

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that's why the city could not wait on the sewer line project. it is already underway and being managed by the county. the city will be responsible for the design, bidding, and overseeing the water project. the cost of both the water and sewer projects will be shared by the federal government, city of manhattan, and riley county. clearly it was congressional intent that manhattan's needs be funded. i understand they are not i understand they are not making technical corrections on

two nites ago we lost a hero veteran police officer in our city of houston. the houston police department senior officer henry was killed in the line of duty. he was an undercover police officer doing the very dangerous work of holding criminals accountable to the law. it is because of brave men like this officer that the rest of america can sleep safely tonight and every night. undercover officers face their own unique set of dangers. assuming the identity of a criminal, they mix with the worst elements of evil in our society. they seek out these outlaws, become a part of their world and they bring them to justice. their bravery, their nerve, is unequaled anywhere in our country. they live to serve and protect our freedom and our homes. and two nites ago about this time of night, officer henry and other undercover houston police officers met with four people in the parking lot of a drug store. these four theesks were buying stolen tv's in a sting operation by the houston police department. things started going downhill in this operation right after the money

and then the city of baltimore. it's a great example of a school district that's thinking differently and it's not just an issue for school districts but for community-based organizations and parks and recreation and a time when we need to max mize currently whatever resources and we also need to make the case for an additional federal, state and local dollars to target a time of year that's historically been elected. host: specifically what are they using this money for in baltimore? keeping the schools open or special sflams tell us about that. guest: sure. what they are doing is structuring full-day comprehensive programs for kids. many of them take place in public schools but also in and in the recreation centers in the afternoon so they are offer indeed collaboration and non-profit organizations and offers kids choices taintsd and instead of mandating calendar change and these solutions for everyone, we see a tremendous amount of penalty. they are coming out in droves. the kids are really interested and i mean,

how did city lights start and who founded city lights? >> city lights publishing was actually started in 1955 by lawrence getty and many people know who lawrence is. he's actually one of the most renowned poets in the world. he began the publishing company with a collection of his own poems called pictures of the gone world. that was the first book in the city lights pocket poet series which has gone on to continue publishing. we have about 60 books in print right now in the series. >> so tell me a little bit about the bookstore and the publishing house. how does it work. is there synergy between the bookstore and the publishing house? >> yeah. i would say that -- at one time most of the people that worked in the publishing company had worked in the bookstore. the person that is now the editorial director worked for over 15 years in the bookstore and is now leading the way publishing excellent books for city lights. we're in the same building. it's quite symbiotic. the books that we publish very much reflect the types of books that we car

they concluded that the second amendment does apply to the states and the cities and counties of there is a difference of opinion. i was a person of this is a very significant case that will come before the supreme court. just earlier this year she rented that opinion is that if it were to become law with the eviscerate the second amendment in many parts of this country because a lot of cities are hostile to weapons and guns of any kind and like the district of columbia are liable to go to very severe restrictions if not demands the right to keep and bear arms. so i would say that that's what we discussed today. the nominee i know will be billing to talk about that and i am sure it in individual meetings. i did not raise that with her, but i am sure some senators have and i think senator demint did it. it senator hatch is senior republican, a fabulous senator, a constitutional scholar, a man who has been to conformations time and again and i know he made a very eloquent speech just earlier today and i was recognizing senator hatch. >> thank you, senator, good two have your leadership o

a lot of money in seconded by, the city with 20% of the world cranes. people say it's an oil-rich shakeup. what a better place to park your dirty money bennett or the rich shake them with 20% of the world cranes. so that certainly is something that needs -- nobody is examining this i did some of it all i offer one chapter. but within the u.s. government, i'm not sure what our intelligence dollars are going for, but when i go and ask people about this in the u.s. government they are like really? do you think it's in dubai? [laughter] >> it's kind of stunning to see how much they don't -- nobody has bothered to work on this. >> so do you see any hope for afghanistan as a unified state anytime soon? because obviously it has a lot of different at the cities, and if not, why not support breaking it up to borders that make sense for local populations, things like that? >> yeah, i actually think about afghanistan as being more unified as a nation than pakistan. the afghans are always fighting for cobbles. you have a number of different separatist movements goi

the city adapted. elected officials does not do well when bodies fill up in the street when it gets hot. but back to the climate of extremes. i have two more examples. of simply not checking the facts. these two are shocking to me and will demonstrate the bipartisan nature of this particular climate of extremes. my favorite here is something called warming island. now, you may remember this story from a couple of years ago. this is john collins rudolf writing in the "new york times" january 16th, 2007. a peninsula long thought to be a part of greenland's main land turned out to be an island when a glacier retreated. the ominous implications were not lost on dennis schmitt who says he hopes the island he discovered in greenland will become an international symbol of the effects of climate change. mr. schmitt named the island uunartoq here's warming island. it's very interesting. it's got an interesting shape. this is an image from 1985 and you can see it's connected to the rest of greenland. by 2002, th

combat forces to leave iraqi cities and towns. that said, i think the general is confident both in the capabilities of his forces to deal with that increased threat level and with the iraqi security forces such that we are going to proceed per the security grievance, status forces agreement to remove all of our combat forces from iraqi cities. by june 30. now has he made clear in his press conference in iraq, i think last week and in his letter to his troops throughout the country. that does not mean that every single american soldier or marine or airmen or say legislators that happen to be on the ground are going to be out of iraqi cities. we are going to have some compliment, albeit in much smaller numbers, of troops in some iraqi cities and towns in an advisory and assistance role until such time that the iraqi security forces are developed to the point that they no longer need us in that capacity. >> do you have a follow-up. >> ok, capacity, what's the u.s. citizen expect that u.s. troops will be back in a cavel cavalry role v

pittsburg the first city to have the stanley cup after 52 years. last city to do so detroit in 1954. >> bottom of the third, joe mall er. joe nathan runs second to third. >> flies out to right. shut out the cubs 2-0. twins now two and 0 at wrigley. the cubs shut out for the second time in 88 all time enter league home games, both times by the twins. twins continue to struggle losing four straight now. >> a little less juice to the other serious between pittsburg and detroit. >> this is freddie sanchez didnt hitting 194 in his last eight games. that right there is a grand salami. 9-3 pirates win. what a quote from jack wilson. if we can come out of it in good shape, there's a lot of confidence in the second half. >> the brewers snapped a four in game losing streak against thew white sox friday. carlos with his buddies playingb a joke on him. of >> base hit, #-0 white sox just like that. from t how about jose demoted to the miner league, didn't like it. he's pitching well now. >> con trer as returning from his demotion. >> all right, still to come, j

>> in another city? >> again our policy is we don't want to cross the picket line so there is not a picket line in smith will then that is where the conference is we will go to the conference. >> another conference in july, the naacp we understand it looks very favorable the present could be speaking to the nation's oldest civil rights organization? is that true? >> the president has spoken on a number of locations. i have not seen the final thing -- i assume strongly that he will go. and looks forward to honoring their historic commitment. >> the message, he has gone to the hispanic america, what is his message to black america and the first african-american president? >> let me not get ahead of a speech that hasn't been written. >> thanks, 13 questions. [laughter] i will settle for two. on the visitor login -- >> i am leaving. >> on the visitor's log issue, while the policy is under review you have denied to requests from msnbc and then was quoted by nbc -- and as nbc say that in essence there should b

the city is not suggesting that. there is a difference between where you score on the test and how many openings you have an to the effect and if -- the extent there is an adverse impact on one group or another so that this first seven who will be hired only because of the vagrancies of the vacancies of that moment, not because you are unqualified. the pass rate is the pass rate. but if your test is going to always put a certain group at the bottom of the pass rate so they are never going to be promoted, and there is a fair test that could be devised that measures knowledge in a more substantive way, then why should not the city have an opportunity to try to look and see if they could develop that? >> because they already developed it. >> it assumes the answer which is spent the test is valid because we say it is valid. >> they had evidence that that test was job-related invalid for use under title 7. >> you did not present an alternative. >> there are plenty of alternatives. they went back and said we had more vacan

>> title vii is against the city. >> title vii is the city alone. what else do you have against anybody else? >> or were decision makers answer -- filler to certify that tests. >> all those involved. >> you are including -- i think there are three board members that you are charging. two board members and you have the mayor. >> there is executive officer as well as the mayor. [inaudible] >> my problem with your action is -- you have any proof that anybody but [inaudible] certify this list or does not. >> the board takes the list from the personnel director, looks at it, under standard procedure, it is the board's duty to give this an and they. >> there has to be some mechanism by which you fixed the first date. the board gets these lists and signs. >> how did the non board member get made liable for the failure to certify the list? >> the reason was the mayor, his staff prompted them to do so. without the behavior it could never have been signed or published. this was an interesting claim with respect to the three other people. putting aside politic

soldiers with guns in the cities. you can call the mentors, but how different is it than what we saw three weeks ago? if you have soldiers just outside the city's, what is this? is this a show for the american people? >> i would say you probably did not listen to what i just said, because i said having battalions inside a city is different than having advisers and teens. i said we will be operating in the built around baghdad. i have been very clear about that. -- we will be operating around belts around baghdad. we had to get people in the cities and eliminate sanctuaries in the belts around baghdad. it is the same thing except the iraqis would take responsibility for the security in the cities. we will work to get to sentience around the city. it is -- we will work to get safe havens cleared around the city. if you are here in baghdad you would know there is a significant change inside of the cities. there are thousands of soldiers that have pulled out of baghdad. there has not been any soldiers in the cities in sou

the event hosted by the kansas city public library in kansas city, missouri, is about an hour. >> in fact, i sweat like nixon. [laughter] >> what a great -- what a great venue you have here. the truman forum auditorium and it's a real pleasure to be here. it's my third time in kansas city. and each time i seem to enjoy it more and more. my brother, howard, who as henry said is helping me out on this trip -- he and i went to the baseball game last night. [laughter] >> we didn't stay the whole game i have to admit. if you haven't been to kauffman stadium lately to see the changes, it's pretty cool. the stadium's great. bess truman was a big baseball fan and in the truman household, bess was the sports fan. and as a kid she actually played a lot of sports. harry wasn't much of an athlete. as a kid he wore glasses and confessed to not being very coordinated but bess placed a pretty good short stop according to harry and in her later years, she actually followed the royals pretty closely. she was actually honorary cochair is it thomas eagleton in 1974 running for reelection of the senate.

times because they cover the heart of the city. journalism has its own appalls statistic on the editorial side. that is the pulitzer. if you want to fix in journalism on the editorial side -- if the pulitzer prize committee started saying, you know what, we will give out five pulitzers for beat reporting every year, but they have to cover the beat for five years. when you have actually covered it long enough to have an impact in terms of you are all over the agency or issue -- you have been a medical reporter for five years, nelson some of your stuff to the pulitzer. -- now send some of your stuff to the pulitzer. you would be increasing the papers capacity for doing great journalism. the gamesmanship of our rewards centric profession makes it so that that will not happen. >> i have never won a pulitzer. >> me neither. >> is it your view that one of the turning points had to do with the concentration of the media amounts shareholder driven companies? is that what really changed in the time span you have referenced? >> yes, the publ

mike had terrific years with kansas city. 68 games he pitched in 2003. came back a couple of years later, did the same thing. 54 with the white sox two years ago. he racked up 144 innings with kansas city in omaha before he got to the big leagues. 1-2. fouled off the plate at his foot. left hander getting ready in the nationals bullpen. this ballgame began four hours five minutes ago. >> rob: the first 8 1/2 innings took 2 1/2 hours. >> johnny: this is the 10th time in all the home games there's been rain which has forced delays in nationals games games. i don't think any team in baseball has had this much problems with weather. >> rob: still holding on to the conspiracy, bad karma. >> johnny: 2-2 to brandon phillips. nobody on and one out in the 11 11th. macdougal delivers. phillips on with the potential go ahead run. 5th base hit tonight for cincinnati. >> rob: kind of a four iron shot to right center field. pretty good pitch went with it. >> johnny: phillips on base for the first time tonight. phillips hit by a pitch in the 1 1st inning, grounded out

this year's city host, cincinnati, ohio, has a long and rich history in both the game of baseball and the field of civil rights. cincinnati was an important stop in the underground railroad and is the home of the national underground railroad freedom center located adjacent to the ballgame. it's also the home of the negro league cincinnati tighters from 1934 to 1937, and it was in cincinnati that the first night baseball game was played in 1935. mr. speaker, baseball has long been considered the great american past time. it was part of our culture. it reflects the values of team work, competition, fair play and the pursuit of excellence. baseball was once segregated, as was most of the rest of the country, until branch rickey signed jackie robinson to player in dodgers in 1947. the rest of the nation would follow in time but thovense die mnd we made the most important steps toward ending jim crow. as mr. rickey said, prejudice has no place in sports and baseball must recognize that truth if it's to maintain its sfalstature as a national game. mr. speaker, i'm joined -- i'm pleased to

i have a feeling that some of the reports we have gotten from some of the cities in hamas and sheran, they're acting a little wit, the governmental affiliated sources are acting more brutally in other cities because there is not much report coming out of those cities as much as we see and hear out of tehran. so these two things need to take place for this to become a major movement that would impact -- that would have such an impact to change the regime of maybe not fundamentally, but to a degree that, you know, we can say that this was the moment for us. as far as being a fair election, i'm not sure. you have a mechanism that allows for a certain people to run. there were 400-plus people who registered to be candidates for president, but only four were qualified by the garden council, which is the body. i don't know about the election. host: mike on the line from georgia for republicans. go ahead. caller: can you hear me? host: go ahead. caller: i want to piggyback on what a number of other callers said this morning inspect is totally inappropriate for the united states to be interfe

i am an honorary sheriff of dodge city, kansas, my hometown. so from one sheriff to another, i would simply say to the vice president, sheriff, i'll ride shotgun or you can ride shotgun. we have the problem only half solved. you see, in april, e.p.a. region 7 issues a press release saying cherokee county would receive up to $25 million from the stimulus. according to the press release, by starting or speeding up cleanup at superfund sites, the stimulus funding is also increasing the speed with which these sites are returned to productive use. when a superfund site is redeveloped, it can offer significant economic benefits to local communities, including future job creation. well, unfortunately, for fewer than 100 residents living in the city of treece -- t-r-e-e-c of e -- treece, the stimulus funding for this project is literally going down a sinking hole. the city of treece, kansas, sits on the kansas-oklahoma border. this small rural community was once a world leader in lead and zinc mining, mining that lasted for nearly 100 years. as the min

city of new york, we determine whether the city can meet rico's standing requirements by alleging injury resulting from nonpayment of taxes. third, shady grove orthopedic associates, the allstate insurance company presents an issue procedure teachers will follow with rapt attention. may a state legislature forbid recourse to class actions for claims arising under state law but filed as diversity cases in federal corbet? that completes my report -- in federal court? that completes my report on the 2008-2009 term. i invite judge livingston and judge kravitz to join me in conversation. [applause] >> you're watching public affairs programming on c-span. up next, from the federalist society of dallas, a former bush administration justice department official talks about judge sonia sotomayor's nomination knot supreme court. after that, secretary of state clinton talks about honduras and iran. after that, president obama announces new energy efficiency standards for light bulbs. >> how is c-span funded? >> publicly funded. >> donations, maybe? i have no idea. >> government? >> c-span gets its f

carson city is a fire-prone area. it is important for the federal agencies to move ahead with an inter-agency center so they can be more efficient and effective firefighters. this joint new facility will support the silver hot shot crew, a key part of the firefighting force. the interior department has already spent funds for the planning and design of this particular project, so we should not stop or undualy delay its implementation. both the interior department and the forest service have budgeted some of their limited infrastructure funding for this badly needed project. i understand the gentleman from nevada has concerns. i pledge to work with him as this bill moves forward to be sure that his constituents' concerns are heard and fully considered. we all want to improve the firefighting capacity and protect neighborhoods and wildlands. and this amendment was not brought to our attention -- the subcommittee's attention until very late in the process. and had we known, we could have taken an opportunity to talk to t

so we learned a lot about the city. the traffic is crazy. [laughter] you've got eight teams coming together with no stop lights. [laughter] i felt this is a developing world city, they've got broken lights and nobody fixed them. no, they just didn't put lights there, they don't want them. why stop? you can shuffle through and carry on. [laughter] on initial reaction is that is insane. but they like it and it seems to work quite well. [laughter] it's so different. i spent a lot of time in traffic you can imagine and it was fascinating to be their connecting with the people and feeling the pulse of the society and when you are in iran you know it is the revolution of values. the revolution of values. i got that they have signs in english not for americans but that's the language for anybody that comes to the country and it's the ayatollah khamenei dollar years. what are the values? they are what we would call family values. that is what it is. and i think it's an interesting irony the americans, you know, the political sort of typical american

he opened a haberdasher with his friend in kansas city. and in early 1922, there was a financial crisis in the country, a panic and he and jacobson lost the business and he was 38 and living at his mother-in-law's. at the time bess told her mother don't worry harry going places and her mother said, he better hurry up. the circumstances did not poor trend greatness but fate, destiny, chance, god -- something intervened as it would time and again, in harry truman's life. and in this particular instance, in the summer of 1922, as an old army buddy who he'd served in france with, and jimmy had an uncle named tom who was the big political boss in kansas city, in jackson county at the time and they were looking for a candidate to run for judge. which you probably know is sort of like a county commissioner. and truman fit the bill perfectly. he was a baptist. he was a mason. he'd been a farmer. so in 1922, he was elected judge. twelve years later in 1934 they were looking for a good candidate to run for united states senate]"çát'p)ry fits the b

every city has an international class of hotel and every city has funky little guest houses. if you were there on your own i think you would have a more rewarding time staying in the funky guest houses. it's a free enterprise. they are not so good at free enterprise because that's not their primary concern. it's interesting how -- the whole place felt like it was on business valium. nothing was that important. >> did you have a chance to go shopping? >> i didn't go shopping, no. >> you didn't buy any jewelry for your wife? >> i bought a mecca compass to find out which direction was mecca was. i don't shop. >> how about the cleanliness in of the city itself, was there trash and graffiti and was there a mcdonald's. >> i was impressed there was no angry graffiti or american chains. here you got temptations all over the place in a big fast food society. there was less affluence. there's plenty of places to eat. you weren't constantly tempted with that. it felt clean, reasonably clean. i wasn't -- there's countries where you're impressed how dirty it was. i wasn't impressed for th

to avoid the result, the city threw out -- to avoid this result, the city threw out the test and announced that no one that took it would be eligible for promotion regardless of how well they performed. the firefighters who scored highly sued the city under federal law on grounds of employment discrimination. the trial court ruled against them on summary judgment. when their case reached the circuit -- second circuit, judge sotomayor sat on the panel that decided it. it was and is a major case. as i mentioned, the supreme court has taken that case and its decision is expected soon. the second circuit recognized tpwas a major case too. amicus briefs were submitted. the court allotted extra time for oral argument. but unlike the trial judge who rendered a 48-page opinion, judge sotomayor's panel dismissed the firefighters' appeal in just a few sentences. so not only did judge sotomayor's panel dismiss the firefighters' claim, thereby deriving them a trial on the merits, it didn't even explain why they shouldn't have their day in court on their very significant claims. now i don't believe the