larson of connecticut. the speaker pro tempore: the chair recognizes the gentleman from connecticut. mr. larson: thank you, madam speaker. thank you, mr. lynch, chairman, you've done an outstanding job, along with the gentleman from utah, mr. chaffetz in outlining what this bill does. before i begin, i'd like to thank, because this has been such a nonpartisan effort in so many respects and a commitment on first and foremost on the part of the oversight committee to take a bill whose genesis evolved out of the last session and make it a better bill and perfect it. to those ends, along with mr. lynch and mr. chaffetz, i would especially like to thank chairman ed towns. mr. towns has down such a great job in marshaling this bill forward, along with diane watson, and i'd further like to thank on their staff mike mccarthy, adam boards of the oversight committee, austin burns in the majority leader's staff, barney frank, mel watt, and dennis moore for their ongoing efforts to reform the regulation of our markets

the presiding officer: the senator from connecticut. mr. lieberman: i thank the chair. i ask unanimous consent that my full statement be entered into the record as if read and i'll speak briefly. i rise to speak on behalf of of the nomination of harold koh. i speak from a real depth of personal spaoefrpbs with harold koh. i know him and have known him for years as a friend and a neighbor in new haven, connecticut. and based on that and all his professional work, there is no doubt in my mind that he is profoundly qualified to occupy this important position as legal advisor at the department of state. he's a brilliant scholar. he's one of america's foremost experts on international law. he actually is qualified to be the legal advisor to the secretary of state. he has a distinguished record of service in our government, having worked in both democratic and republican administrations, consistently won the highest regard from people across the political spectrum. harold koh will bring to this position a deep devotion to our country and the appreciation of the fundamental va

the presiding officer: the senator from connecticut. mr. dodd: i ask unanimous consent the call of the quorum be rescinded. the presiding officer: without objection, so ordered. mr. dodd: mr. president what is the business before the senate? the presiding officer: morning business is closed. under the previous order the senate will resume consideration of h.r. 1256, the clerk will report. the clerk: an act to protect the public health by providing the food and drug administration with certain authority to regulate tobacco products and is forth and for other purposes. the presiding officer: under the previous order the time until 2:30 p.m. will be equally divided and controlled between the senator from connecticut, mr. dodd, and the senator from wyoming, mr. enzi, or their designees. mr. dodd: i'm going to ask consent that a colloquy between senator mark warner of virginia and myself be printed in the record. the presiding officer: without objection, so ordered. mr. dodd: i see my good friend from ohio, senator brown, who has been a champion

the state of new york did not have it, and connecticut did. and they document the difference and the response, in that very organized region of our country. it was vivid. 211 was a very successful response in the state of connecticut. it was well documented, the concerns that occurred in new york. >> have a category for a hit in long island in 1998 that displaced hundreds of residents. the question is, for this densely populated area, if you do not have a number to dial to get informations, if your electricity is severely compromised, if you do not have the right shelter plan, and if the only fema housing plans are what they are today, trailers, we're in for a very serious situation, here. that is why this committee continues to work. we will continue to work. but it is just a matter of time. and i do not know how much more akin to personally to impress upon people how insufficient some of these -- held real some of these caps are, and what catastrophe lies ahead, should a hurricane slammed into one of these densely populated urban and low-lyi

connecticut -- of the c.d.c. recommendation, connecticut cont spent 18.9% of what. c.d.c. recommended. 21% of the youth in connecticut have a prevalence of smoking. 23.2% of the youth in connecticut have a prevalence of marijuana usage. the president's own state, illinois, of the c.d.c. recommendation of what illinois spends on youth prevention, illinois spends 6.1%. there are 19.9% of the youth that have a prevalence to smoke. there are 20.3% that have a prevalence of marijuana use. in missouri, of the c.d.c. recommendation on how much should be spent on the prevalence of youth smoking, missouri spent 3.7%. 23% of the youth have a prevalence of smoking. 19%, a prevalence of marijuana usage. i can see that the president gets where i'm going. we've constantly since 1998, with the money provided by the tobacco industry to the states, chosen to build sidewalks over promoting programs to reduce youth prevalence of smoking. and now the authors of this bill would have us suggest that by allowing the f.d.a. to have regulation of tobacco, that the preprevalence of youth smoking s

murphy from connecticut, want to salute those who have worked on this issue. rosa delauro has been tireless and to know that she brings passion and intellect to what she does and so some of the ideas from her legislation our embedded in this. i look forward to our conversation. i hope that what we are asking the fda that you are up to it, i thank you have lived on fees for a long time and i still have questions i like to know directly from you whether he really think you're going to have the resources that are necessary to do this. because if you don't, then and the printing of the legislation or law will be wonderful to revive some constitutions around the world that are absolutely magnificent but they're not worth the paper they're written on. we have fallen off the edge of a cliff in terms of what's coming into the country and what's happened to the american people. we have to get this right this time. some think that there should be a stand-alone for inspection agency. can the fda actually do all of this? do you have the resources for it? i mean, if there

the state of new york did not have it, the state of connecticut did. and the documented difference in the response in that very urbanized region of our country was vivid, and 211 was very successful in their response in the state of connecticut. and it's well documented, the concerns that occurred in new york following 9/11. >> and i just want for the record in 1938 a category four hurricane struck long island. it destroyed 75,000 buildings and displaced thousands of residents. so the question is for these highly densely-populated areas, if you don't have a number to dial to get information, if your electricity is severely compromised, if you don't have the right sheltering plans, and if the only fema housing plan or still what it is today, fema trailers, we are in for a very serious situation here. and that is why this committee continues to work. and we will continue to work, but it is just a matter of time. and i don't know how much more i can do personally to impress upon people how insufficient some of these, i mean, how real some of these gaps ar

i mean, hands-on, the whole world watched, but that night in new york and new jersey and connecticut and almost everyone was in their own bed. that is the difference between what happened there and what happened in katrina where that might in the storm 2 million people were somewhere other than their own bedroom. and i don't think the country understands what this coin to happen if this happens in new york or new jersey or connecticut or pennsylvania, virginia, anyplace. and i think people think that they are now going to be impacted by category five hurricane. i think they think they've built buildings strong enough to withstand them but i beg to differ. so i will continue to, you know, make my valise heard to the president and the leadership and hope that we get through the storm season of without facing a category three, four, or five in a major metropolitan area. not that new orleans is not a major metropolitan area or galveston or houston, but northeast metropolitan area has a lot more density than even we do along the gulf coast because the numbers are staggering and i don't kn

the presiding officer: the senator from connecticut. mr. dodd: as i understand it, we're going to have a vote at 12:30. i'd ask unanimous consent that the time between now and 12:30 be equally divided between the minority and majority. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. dodd: and further unanimous consent that a statement from our colleague, senator kennedy, be made a part of the record. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. dodd: and that these letters of support for h.r. 1256 and the list of over 1,000 supporting organizationing be made a part of the record as well. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. dodd: madam president, let me just take a couple of minutes. i know my colleague and friend from wyoming, senator enzi, i think is coming to the floor as well. i think senator coburn is going to be here to make a point of order. i'll keep an eye out so i don't exceed the time. but i wanted to point out to my colleagues that this is now -- we're down to the last few votes on this matter. i had hoped, madam preside

i don't know if people are aware of it, but it is in the obama budget, senator dodd from connecticut has a bill in the senate to create a national infrastructure bank, felix rohatyn, the new york city finance year who helped new york city at of its desperate financial straits in the 1970's has a book out calling for a national infrastructure bank. and all three of them and other people to site the erie canal as the first major piece of infrastructure that was built in the country and this sort of thing we should be doing again. it's interesting to me that there are significant efforts to recreate -- to create and build and rebuild america's infrastructure and the erie canal was cited, but it almost seems as though a lot of the citation of the erie canal is somewhat blind. there aren't very many similarities between how new york city -- new york state built the erie canal and how the federal government now my support infrastructure products -- projects. however, there is one a very important similarity or one way in which two this erie canal i think would help inform the debate about

and obviously alaska is a different state from connecticut. you have county i think probably areas of tundra that are -- so we all represent different constituencies and different needs. and how communities will react to this and respond to the challenge of prevention is going to be a tremendous challenge. and the last thing i'd want to support is a bill here that says specifically what you got to do in some remote village in alaska or some urban center in connecticut that the difference is they're significant and mammoth and there ought to be the opportunity to respond to those. but if we don't do this, if we walk away from this section of the bill and don't really do what needs to be done on prevention, in my view, then i think we're going to miss the opportunity. it will be hard pressed in my view to make the case to our respective constituencies that we have invested in the decisions that will get us to the point of we're not watching our economy let alone the moral issues of that 14,000 a day who will lose health care in this country ever

there are thousands of hospitals, some of which in the state of connecticut, that have competing systems even within their own hospitals that don't talk to each other. there are hospitals that have one record system, one electronic record system for their emergency room, and then one electronic medical records system for their inpatient unit. so the same thing that happens as you move from active service out to be part of the veterans health care system, works within a matter of days in a hospital setting when you come in and present to the e.d., you then aren't on the same record system when you move over to the inpatient unit. that's because we do not have a sort of nationally agreed upon platform for how systems communicate to each other. hospitals say to themselves, i've got one really good system for the emergency rooms, i want to buy this other really good system for inpatient care. we need national standards that say to any hospital or physicians office that's buying into a records office, you can be guaranteed you're getting a system that presents you with the data and tools you

charleses on the phone from connecticut. caller: last friday, the house passed the nancy pelosi-harry reid national energy tax. in just wondering how come you have not had as a morning subject ever since then? i regard it as one of the most disastrous things that has ever happened in the country. host: we devoted friday morning with the expected passage with two members of the congress. it will come up again because the senate will take up the bill with a lot of debate. the president talked about it yesterday. we carried his announcement from the white house. has been an issue we have been focusing on. caller: i will be eagerly awaiting that. . host: tell us why you oppose the bill. caller: here is one of the reasons. they say this will cost everybody $175. if you take into consideration, everything from banking and slicing bread, wrapping meat, shipping anything across the country, anything you do that requires energy -- it will add to the price of those things. that will be a lot more than $175. host: john boehner called t

he wound up, this fellow, another connecticut native to try to find his fortune in the west. western new york anyway. he winds up in debt or's prison. under a pseudonym he writes the argument newspaper essays arguing for -- proposing and arguing for a canal across new york state directly to lake erie. so it was actually his idea. but dewitt clinton picks up that idea three years later. and he is a guide that makes the erie canal happen. if you don't know anything about the wind clinton, he is a longtime new york city mayor. new york state lawmaker. congressman. he is one of the canal commissioners eventually. a longtime new york governor. new york city civic benefactor. social reformer. nearly president in 1812 over madison, but for the then swing state of pennsylvania. but clinton has to be credited for seeing the wisdom of the erie idea and then attaching himself very early to the effort. he becomes its chief promoter. and clinton is of very popular leader. a scrupulously honest. not something we often see in public officials. but at the same time he was a careless and ofte

the clerk: nomination, department of state, harold hungu ko of connecticut to be legal advisor of the department of state. mr. reid: mr. president, i send a cloture motion to the desk.. the presiding officer: the clerk will report the cloture motion. the clerk: cloture motion. we, the undersigned senators, in accordance with the provisions of rule 22 of the standing rules of the senate, do hereby move to bring to a close the debate on the nomination of harold hongju koh of connecticut to be legal advisor of the department of state. signed by 18 senators as follows: reid, pryor, whitehouse, inouye, feingold, dodd, burris, durbin, murray, tester, udall of colorado, klobuchar, reed of rhode island, baucus, merkley, lincoln, cantwell, dorgan. mr. reid: i ask that the mandatory quorum be waived. the presiding officer: is there objection? without objection. mr. reid: i ask the senate resume legislative session. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. reid: i ask now that we proceed to a period of monk business, senators allowed to speak -- of morning business, senators allowed to spea

chris dodd of connecticut chairs the senate banking committee. >> i do not see 12 of us here yet, and i do not want to delay the hearing. it is on the executive session nominees. there is going to be a vote sometime tomorrow morning on the tobacco bill, and my recommendation would be, during that zero or right after the vote, we need to consider these executive session nominations. i think, based on conversations, they should be relatively noncontroversial. i invite my colleagues to look at them and tell me if it requires further discussion. we will save it for another moment. yes, bob? >> i am curious about the status of the fha nomination. the nominee that is not on there. i'm curious as to where we are on that. >> let me turn to senator shelby. >> there is a hud investigation going on, as i understand it, from staff dealing with respa and in some of the companies, we do not know if he is involved. we're waiting to see what comes out of the investigation. my interest is making sure that all nominees feel like he will be ok. we want to make sure. we're waiting for a little more infor

the presiding officer: the senator from connecticut. mr. dodd: madam president, i listened carefully to the conversation between the majority leader and our friend and colleague from arizona. i just want to, as the manager of this bill on smoking, let me say, i for one have also been a strong advocate for the reimportation proposal that senator mccain and dorgan among others have expressed an interest in. i think most of my colleagues have expressed their views on this and i suspect a majority have expressed their support for the idea. this is not about deny ago vote on reimpure taismghts i think we'd also take that opportunity. this bill on smoking and children is about as fragile a proposal that i've seen here in a long time. there are strong voices that would like to kill this legislation and have effectively. the food and drug administration has jurisdiction over almost every product you can think of except tobacco, including pet food. we've wasted ten years trying to get to this bill. you lose one or two votes on this bill here, you lo

host: thomas on the line from connecticut. caller: there is a current economic paradigm giving people a% of what a product offers for 20 percent -- 80% of what a product offers for 20% of the costs. of the 50 million, there are about 10 million who are making over $72,000 per year, so, for the 40 million people that need it, we could offer a program that gives them 80% of what they need for 20% of the cost. we do that by allowing people to have programs where they cannot -- where the doctors are not allowed to use elaborate, off- the-wall medical modalities or treatments. you can do this also by allowing people like myself -- my banking is controlled by the state of north carolina. why can't we open uppe the stats like connecticut to a lawsuit by a medical programs from any state? host: there are a lot of ideas out there that are certainly being considered by the congress as the various committees are writing -- right in healthcare reform legislation. -- committees are rising health care reform legislation. the important thing

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senator dodd from connecticut has a bill in the senate to create a national infrastructure bank. the new york city financier who helped new york city out of its desperate financial straits in the 1970s has a book out calling for a national infrastructure bank. and all three of them, and other people do, cite the

in connecticut, we're told by the health care proceedings will die prematurely because of their addiction to tobacco; 76,000. as i mentioned earlier we're on the eve of passing major health karen reforhealthcare reform le. the centerpiece is prevention. that's the one piece there's a great deal of unanimity about. how could we deal with health care reform? the best way to treat the disease is that it never happen in the first place. this bill we're talking about may do more in the area of prevention if it is adopted than anything else we may include in the health care bill. at least in the short-term. the estimates are that as much as 11% to 12% of young people could not begin the habit of smoking if this bill is adopted. imagine 11% or 12% young people not smoking of that 3,000 or 4,000 every day that start. that in itself would be a major, major achievement. my friend from north carolina, senator burr, does in the give authority to the f.d.a. the f.d.a. is 100 years old. it creates a completely, on his bill, a completely new agency, a new and untested acknowledge to oversee tobacco prod

one of we don't need that new federal program in connecticut over oklahoma? why don't we just get them the money and give them the flexibility to spend money. they're not stupid. we don't need washington telling us how we spend the money, we know we have a problem and our problem stiffer than connecticut or washington so the idea is to let the states be what they were intended to be and which will do is get surprised by the efficiency in and the response much better than treating 20 new programs into new commissions. less and make sure the money is spent. means and what then these are and the people in the states and should not have to come up with their hand out to a commission that says that is not the national interest. this isn't about the national interest, in dollar interest locally in terms of applying these funds. >> let me say and again up. there is no significant debate, the idea you have a national commission disregard of the state's means i think this is as baffling and exaggeration because obviously the needs of our states are critical in winning

yield to, my friend, my colleague, also a member of the armed services committee, the gentleman from connecticut, mr. courtney. for one minute. the chair: the gentleman is recognized for one minute. mr. courtney: i rise in support of mr. skelton's outstanding work on the underlying bill and to support that portion of the en banc amendment that sets up mental health screening set up by congresswoman delauro and myself. this is probably the most admirable issue admiral murrellen addressed, the stress levels of troops. general odierno had a number of us over in december, his biggest concern was the uncomfortable and outrageous number of suicides occurring in theater. i was with yen bagby in yupe, he sated -- stated that's the biggest challenge there. the present system of screening for returning troops is to fill out a questionnaire. that's not enough. this amendment will set up a demonstration project for face-to-face evaluation with a mental health professional. this is the type of process we need to deal with this unprecedented challenge. i urge strong support for the en banc amendment. the chai

and the worst thing johnny is my parents were there, my family, coming down from connecticut, i don't know what got into me when i got on the baseball field. >> johnny: alex gonzalez with a shot to right base hit. bruce will make the turn and stay at second base and the first base hit off of detwiler to alex gonzalez. we're not done, dibs, here comes some more.  >> rob: yeah, eric geld block of the helmet. you context mo that one. that was pretty good. yeah, that was pretty ugly.  . >> johnny: crew cut going in those days. >> rob: i owe everybody in the truck an awful lot. >> johnny: this is just the second inning. >> rob: yeah, pay back, incredible. that was one of my most regrettable moments. suicide squeeze and i kind of flashed back to when i was a child and you could tag the runner out by hitting him with the ball. doesn't work at the big leagues level. some serious belt time. >> johnny: sure did, that's pretty good stuff there. ryan hand eye gan the catcher. two outs here in the top of the second. 

from connecticut and oklahoma. different needs. different climactic conditions. all sorts of things that can result in a different set of priorities. tom's fear that is this commission will disregard what the states are doing in this regard. our answer is that -- >> i would say to the senator the okay opposite would occur. what we're going to look to, i assume with the commission, is for the states themselves to work with us to tell us, here's where our shortages are. here's an information-gathering commission. then at the federal level we can make sure what we're doing actually works out in the real community. so we are addressing that within the underlying bill. >> what that means is we ultimately decide, they don't. and this doesn't stop, preclude any money to other areas. this amendment doesn't stop that. all it says is we're giving hersa, you've got grants all across these things and our state, oklahoma for example, might not need it in three or four of them, hersa can sign a contract where they can concentrate where they don't have needs and put that money

under the speaker's announced policy of january 6, 2009, the gentleman from connecticut, mr. murphy, is recognized for 60 minutes as the designee of the majority leader. mr. murphy: thank you very much, madam speaker. i thank you and the speaker of the house for allowing the 30-something working group, which has been empowered by the speaker's office to come to the house floor every so often and share with our colleagues in the house some of the burning questions of our constituents out there, especially those that affect younger individuals and younger families. and to talk about how this house, under new leadership, with a new face in the white house, is rising to answer those questions and meet those challenges. we'll put this poster up at the end of the hour as well but we are always eager to hear feedback from people who want to know more about the 30-something working group. madam speaker, thanks to members of your class, we have a number of new members of the 30-something group and they've been coming down to join us in these hours, i'm glad to have mr. altmire with us

even though she wasn't available for the medicaid program in connecticut. so the point is we don't leave anybody out. it doesn't mean you get everything for free and it's zero -- you know, first dollar coverage. it means that there is a way to help people to make sure that they're not going to go broke that they are still going to have access. there is a means to do that that's fair to every american, that we treat every american family the same. host: there will be a hearing july 13. what does that mean? guest: it means a lot of hard work. i wish they would have delayed it. we have a commitment to get that nomination through before justice souter retires. there's 4,000 cases. and for me to do a good job and to make an appropriate -- i've got stay. i'm spending an hour a day on it right now. i'm sorry that we've got the conflict over time. actually, i heard the debate on the floor last night. it sound like a bunch of children argue between the republicans and democrats on it. fact is, it's not about time, it's about making a really good, informed decision.

. >> my mother's father worked for the coal company in connecticut, and my father's father worked for the yale lock company making those locks that had the hinges. that's what he did. very hardworking family. one ball and two strikes to scutaro. they had a whole bunch of them six early. fastball up. the pitching staff is suddenly doing its job. so the defense. harris, bard and the pitcher spot coming up.  >>> adam done was coached b his dad, and now he cherishes every minute he gets to spend with his son, brady. i asked him earlier what father's day moans to him. >> father's day is about my father, and i look at it as kind of reflecting what my father did for me. he's obviously been the best, and he's been there for me through the good and bad. >> really proud of his son, bob. >> yeah think of anything prouder than seeing your son make it to the major leagues. >> and have success. there's adam and brady. >>. >> we're told that that ball was hit onto potomac avenue. >> he takes it up and in, so he's another candidate to get on base. the nationals have had their lead

senator alexander pointed out some in his speech at oak ridge that the attorney general of connecticut was complaining at one point that the nuclear power guys were making so much profit that they ought to put an extra windfall tax on them. i am looking at finland. finland is complaining. i am reading the words of the finnish government. the lower price and the fact that the nuclear plants do not have to fool with the carbon trading costs, they do not have the uncertainties that other people have, all of this means they are making unfair and unearned income. it has become so profitable. the french presumably share that situation. it is becoming so profitable that they ought to turn it back to the government. sweden is doing a similar thing. norway is doing it. in belgium, the government is no carrierringconnect 1200 250 n >> it is not exactly a fair comparison. france was facing the same decisions we were. they decided they did not want to be dependent upon foreign sources of energy anymore than we did. we have abundant supplies of coal and natural gas. they went the nuclear route. we

i often said, bob, in 2007, he was reliever of the year in the summer league up in connecticut. he can pitch out of the bullpen but there is no reason to make him go up there after 110 innings pitched in college and have him go out there and try to start five games in september. >> bob: adam dunn, a perfect night with an rbi hit and two walks. i think, if this is any indication, the rays may be pitching around him almost all weekend. the only hit he got tonight was when matt garza had him 0-2 and gave him something that was too close to the strike zone. other than that, they pitched away from adam dunn, away from the strike zone, that is. and a 1-1 pitch. that was strike 3 with the bases loaded last week, that pitch [ laughter ]. >> bob: we don't foreget, do we? >> rob: never. >> bob: elijah dukes next here in the top of the 8th. ball 3. breaking pitch i'm i people who may not know who mike grizz yo; he independento, he inked -- he is very well versed as part of that 2007 draft, as they said, the best draft in 2007 by baseball america. he should be the general manager. >> bob: t

thought you might have had experience in connecticut. let me turn to senator tester. >> thank you, mr. chairman. and those introductions cleared up a lot. when i came in, i met mr. allison in the back room and i walked out here and i saw his brother george and thought, wow, how did he get out here so quick? >> he's going to be good at this. >> exactly. very, very good. thank you, chairman dodd. i want to thank you for calling this hearing and, of course, welcome mr. allison. i want to echo the chairman's comments on thanking you for your willingness to serve and your willingness to appear before the committee today. it was milton friedman that said nothing so permanent as a temporary government program. we need to make sure that t.a.r.p. does what it needs to do and then wind it down and get the taxpayers back as soon as possible. i know you feel that way. i want to commend you, mr. allison, for your willingness to serve and your efforts at fannie mae. i also want to be mindful of what i think we're going to need to do to get out of this

your alma mater, connecticut, another undefeated national championship. everyone wants to know, which team was better. how do you think your undefeated team would fare against these huskies? >> i think we would stay undefeated. >> you do? >> oh, yeah. i think we had a tremendous team, but i was so happy to see them win it all. rene montgomery, maya moore, what a great team, and for coach especially, you know, after five years of really not doing much in the tournament, he finally got one. >> get your expertise on this, rutgers' star e. >> iny prince leaving college early for europe. diana, do you think this might become a trend with women's college basketball to take the cash early and head over the europe? >> i don't know. i don't know if it's going to... i don't know if it's for everyone. she made a personal decision that was best for her. the way i look at it, it's an opportunity for women to explore different options, and as long as we have those opportunities, you know, it is america, and that's what it's all about. >> you've been given a great deal

a case stemming from a lawsuit filed by white firefighters in new haven, connecticut against city officials who threw out a promotion exam because no african americans and only to hispanic firefighters past. supreme court nominee sonia sotomayor was one of the judges who decided the case. some of the argument from richard roberts, attorney for the city of new haven. >> if this court to reverse the judgment, you are saying the municipalities -- [inaudible] certify the exams and did not look into alternatives. >> i do not -- what they're saying is you should read mediate but not permit race to be the driving force on either end of their choice. it should be based on some objective standard. you have to look at the test and determine whether the test was there or not and if you say it is unfair, point to specifics of ways it was not. make sure that there are alternatives, that there is a fair test. >> you're not going to know if the test -- all you can get is an opinion that another test in fact may have a setback but this is that -- this is what title vii and kyrgyz. it must step back and try

i was born and raised in connecticut, lived in cincinnati when i play there had, moved back. i am an east coast person. can't say i love all this rain and humidity. >> johnny: don't you hate it? >> rob: i can't say i hate it. i was in california those years. >> johnny: enough is enough. dukes drifting back. tagging up at 2nd. down to 3rd goes gonzalez. two out here in the 2nd. >> rob: we talked about needing punch in the middle of your lineup. since he went down for the reds, they're 4-6. look at that. almost every offensive category. bruce has been struggling. a lot of guys have been struggling this year. >> johnny: if you look at the batting average, nobody is above .300. nix has the highest at .277 harang quickly falls behind. >> rob: overall they've raised their team batting average. about a month ago they were hitting .215. >> johnny: fired to 1st to johnson. gets him. we go to the bottom of the 2nd 2nd. 2-0 cincinnati. we'll be back in a moment. ú boss: so you've been ing a nice job out there on car insurance. elpiy ú gecko: aw thank you,n ing a nicesir. out t

i got the pleasure of his hospitality many times down there in connecticut, a fine gentleman about a -- with a beautiful smile and a beautiful wife, ok, who spent 16 years in a chinese communist prison for no reason than speaking the truth. dr. shu win lee. >> translating for mr. shu win lee is his assistant. >> good morning, ladies and gentlemen. [speaking in chinese] [speaking in chinese] >> this year a fellow in new jersey wrote me an email asking me for my thoughts regarding the tiananmen massacre and the unknown rebels tankmen. the young men who bravely stood before the tanks in tiananmen in 1989. her email moved me tremendously. it has already been 20 years, and yet this young american girl was still concerned about the tiananmen square protests that happened 20 years ago in china, a land thousands of miles away from where she lives. unfortunately, i'm sad to say that due to the brutal suppression of information and sensorship by the chinese communist party, many of china, many of our own high school students do not even know of the tiananmen square purpose nor off the democrac

the great leader in the senate from connecticut, joe lieberman. i thought about dave bliss here this evening. i thought about ellen and the great senator from indiana. i thought about my dear friend and vice chairman and partner in sharing -- in sharing this organization. and of course, my immediate predecessor, my friend, the great governor. for we have all been a part of something very special. mainly because of the courage and determination and tenacity of a fellow black men who is now a fellow again that you will see later, and our friend al from. tonight's dinner is special, not only for those of us in this room. what al did more for our party and the body of politics, and the most to get for our party -- the more he did for the larger body of politics, he helped make our party, or at least a huge wing of it, not only believes in the future, the shapers and chasers of the future. it is his blueprint, and in some new ways, the blueprints that he started that he leaves for bruce and the rest of us to take to new levels and new heights. it has m

quorum call: the presiding officer: the senator from connecticut. mr. dodd: mr. president, i ask consent the call of the quorum be rescinded. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. dodd: mr. president, i further ask consent that i be allowed to speak as if in morning business for ten minutes. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. dodd: i thank the chair. and i'll try and be brief on this. i know i've talked at some length about the bill before us, the family smoking prevention and tobacco control act. i want to begin by thanking again our colleagues who voted yesterday to allow us to move forward by supporting the cloture motion. that took a bipartisan effort here and i'm grateful to colleagues, both in the majority and minority, for lending their support to that effort. and i'm also pleased that we're having an opportunity to vote on senator burr's and senator hagan's amendment. there were some questions raised as to whether or not that amendment would be permissible under a postcloture environment, from a parliamentary standpoint. and as i told m

. >> second round of the travelers championship at the tpc river highlands in connecticut. sergio garcia not having a good day, teeing off on number 11 with a wedge. he's into the deep rough. nowhere near the green. so his second shot, skirts off the edge of the green. he would bogey the hole. sergio would be saved from his rough outing by a massive storm that rolled in delaying play. kenny perry your leader at 11 under. >> twins and cardinals meeting for the first time since 2001. bottom nine, albert pujols, a chance to tie the game. joe nathan gets him swinging. the twins go on to win it by the final of 3-1. >> friday st. joe's dedicated the ramsey center, a 20,000-square-foot addition to the fieldhouse named after former coach and current espn basketball analyst jack ramsay. shaq will wear

the clerk: nomination, department of state, harold koh of connecticut to be legal advisor of the department of state. mr. specter: madam president, may i regain the floor for a unanimous consent request? i've been asked on behalf of the democratic leader to ask consent that caroline mcneil, nay can keefer and stephanie -- nathan keefer and stephanie lewis be allowed privileges of the floor for the remainder of the debate on the nuclear option of dean koh to be legal advisor to the state department. prosecute. the presiding officer: without objection. a senator: madam president? the presiding officer: the senator from missouri. mr. bond: madam president, i rise today to express my strong opposition to the nomination of mr. harold koh to be the legal advisor to the department of state. my concerns with mr. koh arise primarily from his own statements, writings and testimony before congress. in my opinion, he seems more comfortable basing his legal conclusions on partisan political opinions and trendy arguments rather than the facts and the law. we don't need more legal clerics in government. w

host: does go to sheila in connecticut. you are on with flynt leverett. caller: if you'll let me say my whole statement. i would appreciate it. i was wondering what the u.s. pokes its nose where it doesn't belong. we don't other countries but into our business. we the people are fed up listening to terrorism talk about everyone out there coming in to get us. i find it childish and boring. if we do not take "terrorism" out of our vocabulary. we should work with them as soon as possible and find an answer to conquering their problem of global warming once and for all. the we can all celebrate together that our solidarity accomplished this and we save the planet from destroying itself. guest: i think i would agree with you that it with the global war on terror was defined by the previous administration after the 911 attacks ended up having a really distorting -- the 9/11 attacks ended up having a really distorting view on our policy toward iran. on the night of september 11, i was working at the state department at the time. i was called back into the state

and then later on, he booted to her upscale apartment up on connecticut avenue and set up a public relations firm. he took over her financial affairs. as a set, i do not think she was at an age where she could have very precise judgment. they took over the financial affairs. later on, he ended up setting up as i am reconstructing this, he set up this public relations firm that became allied with the neo-nazis and white supremacists. i found as by investigating. he turns out to be a paid informer for the fbi. according to some reports and interviews from other newspapermen, he says that he was paid $8,000 a month to survey all -- to surveil white supremacist organizations. we get into the periphery of behavior and comments that would be an attractive for other races and other people's heritage. he was the one recommending all of this. we find he is actually a paid informant of the fbi. i go back and i looked at my list i have different lists of members. there are other fbi people here. they decided to be a sustaining member. [laughter] i see all these people connected with it we get up and ha

i will respond to the gentleman from connecticut is said we need honesty in this discussion. the gentleman from illinois on the will -- on the rule said that there is a zero irrefutable articles from scientists the degree that humans are causing global warming. one person has written 520 himself. he is the foremost expert in the world on sea levels. a professor at mit has written several articles. one of the world's foremost scientists on precipitation, as well as other professors and scientists from across the country, and the five authors of one particular report who wrote that there is no evidence that humans are causing any of this. those five sentences were removed and replaced with one sentence that said, it is clear that humans are the cause. the bureaucrat was asked why he removed those

before beginning his academic career, he worked for the connecticut general assembly and as a legislative assistant on capitol hill. in 1991 and 1992, he was a guest scholar at the brookings institution. he has published numerous scholarly articles. he has also been a political commentator for news outlets like "washington post,""new york times,"and abc news. he authored a book about republicans as minorities in the house. he has been a faculty adviser to the presidential convention. he also founded the nels washington program in 1987. in 2007, he received the higher education outstanding faculty award. he will moderate our panel. he will introduce the panelists. please join me in welcoming him. [applause] >> thank you. i appreciate that. thank you again to the reynolds foundation for generally -- generously supporting the symposium. i would like to begin by acknowledging the alumni who have joined us today. i created the washington term program 22 years ago. without the loyal support of the alumni in washington, i could never have kept the program going. they have provided helps with --