the fact is that we know florida to be a significant tourism destination. we're proud of that in our state. but the fact is that states around the country all can benefit and do benefit greatly from foretourists visiting our country. it is a -- foreign tourists sreuflgt our country. it is a great green way for promoting jobs and opportunities in our country and long overdue. if we're going to compete effectively with countries abroad, we must in fact also be competitive in how we promote and advertise ourselves to the world. madam chair, i yield the floor and return the balance of my time. a senator: madam president? the presiding officer: the senator from tennessee. mr. alexander: madam president, i ask consent to speak for up to 12 minutes as if in morning business. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. alexander: thank you, madam president. madam president, i'm looking for a way to offer an amendment to the health care bill that would sentence every united states senator who votes to increase medicaid eligibility to 150% of the federal poverty le

, international travelers to say: we want you to come to our country as a destination for your trip. india, one special reason to visit india is this advertisement. incredible india, any time is a good time to visit the land of taj, but there is no time like now. not unusual to see this. it's not just india. arrived, looking for an experience to remember? departed with an adventure you'll never forget? australia. come to australia. if you're an overseas traveler deciding where to visit, be sure to come to australia. go where ireland takes you. pretty straightforward. makes you want to go to ireland. great britain, italy, spain, france, australia, india, ireland, they say, come here, come to our country. travel to our country. see what our country's about. we're not doing that. and, as a result, let me show you the chart again. as a result in the last eight years we've seen a 3% decrease in foreign travel -- foreign visitors to the united states while the rest of the world is at a 40% increase in travelers destined to those other areas. it makes a big difference. and it's very negativ

each one of them has a kind of destination in mind, but from missouri where we lived to that destination somewhere example in the edge of to the southwest the left, get in the middle of the country and ended up in new mexico with the purpose of meeting a woman who had been writing me letters for 10 years, and almost seven year-old woman at the time. she had been writing me peculiar of letters and i wanted to meet her so that was the destination but between columbia, missouri and mexico the events that occur in that section happen. said that is where the serendipity comes in. i was saying, how do i put these together? and finally dawned on me because my wife's name is joanne, she has never been happy with that name given that she is largely a tomboy when she looks of or not, joe would be a better name but she doesn't go for that. to tell me one day when i first met her that she really only wanted to be named quintana. i thought that is a great name and i love that the two. to love the name kean, which existed in mexico, old mexico. i said that as a great name, so she became for a time can

when traveling i may have a slight destination and in this new book that took place over four years, 16,000 miles and each one had a a destination in mind in the trip to the southwest they ended up in new mexico there is a woman for writing letters for almost 70 years at the time and she is the right to me but to their letters and wanted to meet a person that was the destination of between missouri and new mexico most of the events that occur in that section happened. that is where the serendipity comes in. but how do i put these together? it finally dawned on me because my wife's name is joe weigh in and she has never been happy with that name given that she is largely a tomboy, joe would be a better name for her but she does not go for that. she told me when i first met her she always wanted a name it is a son of a state named an old mexico. self she became quintana but then short end at q. when a husband decides he will rightabout day spouse and if they are an attorney and if that spouse is trained to understand libel and invasion of privacy that writer had better know what he is

but we need to do a better job at promoting the united states as a premier travel destination. we are in a competition for international travelers. we have to face it, we are. but we're not competing. now, you look at what's going on around the world when it comes to tourism. here are some examples. yemen has their own tourism promotion for their own country. of course, the bahamas, i think many of us have seen those on tv. i certainly v. you see tourism australia. i've seen a few of those ads. south africa. taiwan. scotland. india. these countries are promoting themselves internationally to bring other visitors in. what do we have right now in our country? we don't have a centralized promotion of our country for tourism. countries around the world make tourism a national priority because they see that it bridges jobs to their country -- that it brings jobs to their country. they spend millions of dollars on their program and have senior officials coordinate national tourism policy. frampled, vietnam, new zealand, lebanon and jamaica have ministries of tourism. germany has a na

destination international tourism. let's at least get in the game. and so our bill creates this public-private partnership and establishes the capability to begin promoting our country. why is that important? well, obviously economic development and jobs, but even more important, at a time when there has been so much controversy about our country and actions abroad and so on, to invite people to our country and have them come here and visit this country is to have them leave with a wonderful impression about the united states of america. there just isn't any way to visit our country and leave with a bad attitude about what the united states is and what it means. this is a great place, the best -- the greatest democracy in all of history, with unbelievable freedoms to that most -- that many people in the world do not have. but it's a wonderful country, full of natural resources and wonderful people. and to come here and visit here is to leave and believe very positive things about our country. that, it seems to me, makes a lot of sense these days. now

the opening of the destin dome is positive. all of you i have not been a supporter of the res but i'll tell you the standard that we have in place in this bill is a more palatable standard from the perspective what we were able to get in as it relates to new hydro -- excuse me, new nuclear. we got some alaska hydroprovisions. we got a better definition of biomass. there are things in that res that in my opinion make it work better. do i like it? no, but is it better? yes. so again there are aspects of the bill that i wish we could have enhanced more. i don't think that we do enough for nuclear in this energy bill and i'm disappointed in that. but that's something that i think you will see when we go to the floor a great deal more discussion about how nuclear will play a role in emerging energy policy as we work to reduce our emissions. i think that that has to be a bigger factor. but we do make good strides in advancing renewable energies. the clean energy deployment bank, i think, is critically important for us. and that's a p

mostly my readers to our mail compared to the other gender are straight line it thinkers, destination and, let's get there. come on. the conversation between the men and women and the man, the woman is talking and talking and he says get to the point* this is the point*. but is my book we go here and here and three blinder round and i figure if you wander around the nephew hit a few good things it is a mosey. back to my story about the barbershop he asked me what i did and i said i am an author i say i am a writer. so then the next question is what do you write? that is the one i do not know how to answer. said i guess you could call it travel and the lost all interest thank god. he said i just read a good travel book the other day. what is it? he said i kind of like it he said it was about i said what is the title he said i cannot remember the title, who wrote it? i can remember who wrote it was about? there is a guy i think if i have read this one. [laughter] and he gets in an old man and he starts driving around the back roads of america. [laughter] i said yes? he said that's right

destiny, this was my destination, or no destination at all. and this is where i find my photos. these photos are easy to find. you know where the jefferson memorial is. you know where the world war ii memorial is. you have also know where the u.s. capitol is and you will know where the lincoln memorial is, because sam and others will take you there. but many of the photos that i take are what you would call found america. i find it, when, in the most unexpected places, like just today, i get an e-mail coming in from -- i have scouts and this one was, there was going to be a police ceremony for a fallen officer. well, i photographed those before, where hundreds of officers all lined up and it's quite a moves experience, but today i was told that look in the sky and there would be eight helicopters flying offer the city, and someplace over washington, there was. so to be a photo historian is to basically walk and view life through a viewfinder, which is what i do. even if the camera is not at my face, basically, my gut instinct is, i'm on the search, looking for photos. whether it

there are so many destinations with such wonder to attract people to our region of the country. it's where lewis and clark and this epic adventure of theirs decided to spend the winter, mind you. they spent the winter in what is now just an area about 40 miles north of bismarck, north dakota. and we celebrated the 200th bicentennial of the lewis and clark expedition and we had a lot of people come from around the tworld see that. the fact is, every -- the world to see that. the fact, is every state in this country has something that it is anxious to show the twocialtiond say look at us, look at what we're doing here, look at how beautiful this part of america is. and so what has happened is we have been unilaterally disarmed since 9/11 to say, well, we're worried about who's going to come into this country. we certainly want to keep terrorists out. we sure do, absolutely. but that message ought not be mixed with the message that we don't want to encourage foreign travelers to come to this country to vacation and to experience what america is. so at last, at long, long last, a gr

. -- destination. the bill initiates a nationally coordinated travel promotion campaign established in a public-private partnership to increase international travel to the united states. and it also creates a corporation for travel promotion, an independent nonprofit corporation to run the travel promotion campaign. the program will be funded equally by a small fee paid by foreign travelers coming into the u.s. and by matching contributions from the travel industry. it's interesting that the department of commerce announced that 3.8 million international visitors traveled to this country in march 2009, which was a decrease of 20% compared to march of 2008. that total visitation in the first quarter of 2009 was down 14% from the first quarter of 2008. and international visitors spent almost $10 billion during the month of march, 16% less than they had a year ago. and this march of 2009 marks the fifth consecutive month of decreases in international visitor spending. and so, the bill is going to go a lon

trade or transit point for slaves who criminal traffickers are undetected by law enforcement, or a destination for forced child labor, together to increase prosecution for these crimes. in concert with the immense awareness in the traffic report, traffic mechanism throughout the o.s.c. region resulted in a steady increase in a number of countries which enacted antitrafficking legislation. that's a success story. we've made progress. tougher laws are being adopted, and probably even more important than that we're developing attitudes in countries that this cannot continue, that it's not something that you can just overlook. i must tell you, this report that was issued, these reports, now almost ten years, have played a critical role. the united states should be proud of what we've been able to do to call world attention to this issue. according to the state department's report, a young woman from azerbaijan had a sister who had been tricked into unregistered marriage to a trafficker who later abandoned her when she got pregnant. when the woman confronted her sister's trafficker, she became a vi

his next destination is france tomorrow with stops in paris and normandy, where he will observe the 65th anniversary of d-day. he was -- he spoke to the muslim -- muslim world yesterday. we will show you that speech again at 1030 east and on c- span. -- tan 30 a.m. eastern on c- span. on booktv, the midwest's largest literary event. saturday starting at 11 eastern and drop the day. panels and others on the economy, globalization and the american worker, homosexual rights, former illinois gov. robb book which, -- gov. plight of iof illinois. and last sunday come in depth, univ. vilma professed professor and former weather underground member. he will take your calls as well as questions from the audience. for complete schedule, go online to booktv.org. >> there's still time to get your copy of cspan22009 congressional directory, with information on house and senate members, and the nation's governors, plus the district maps and how to contact caucuses and committees. it is $16.95, online or call the number on the screen. >> and now a house hearing on the fiscal year 2010 budget, such as na

recruiters themselves of the loan sharks in the recruiting country so that by the time workers get to their destination, they are held in debt bondage. that is a circumstance that employers can build upon, holding a compliant labor force through the threat of force and corrosion and bankruptcy in an economic ruin. this is something the united states has been leading luncheon the last few years. it is the ninth annual trafficking reports. when it first began, it looked at 82 countries. now it is up to 175 nations. it is becoming a global snapshot of the problem. the use of the word trafficking has the notion of movement built into it. movement is not required. but we are really dealing with is the notion of global forced labor in global slavery. the ilo estimated about 12.3 million people in bondage worldwide. about 1.2 million are in sexual slavery. it is passed the accounts you see in movies and mass culture. they tend to define this as a problem of people being moved for prostitution or being kidnapped. what we see is the notion that people are being enslaves whether it is for prostitution, labor, ag

and of the 84 million barrels of oil that we take out every day from the earth, one-fourth of it is destined to be used in the united states. we use one-fourth of all the oil every single day. why? because we have a standard of living and a big, old country that is far above most other places in the world and we want to drive vehicles and we use oil in a very substantial way. an enormous appetite for oil. so here's the deal, one-fourth of all the oil that's produced every day comes here because we need it, and nearly 70% of the oil that we use comes from outside of our country and much of the oil that's produced comes from very troubled parts of the world -- saudi arabia, kuwait, iraq, venezuela, and more -- so 70% of the oil that we need comes from outside of our country and nearly 70% of the oil that we use is used in transportation. so you see the dilemma here. the dilemma is that we are unbelievably dependent and vulnerable on something over which we have very little control and that is if, god forbid, tonight terrorists interrupted the supply of oil coming into this country from other c

and said i could not be destined in this country because i did not have the money. now because of this president you have many enemies in this world. and he has to work hard to win back the trust of the world. and as a nation of commerce you need the trust of the world. that is very important. we need the trust of the chinese, the indians. and we are not the dominant tears of the world. america and the net is to estimate 300 300 million people. how many? six. six and a half billion. we have to be better. not only with our skills, but also with our hearts. and we have to live our value. and that is, you know, sometimes people in a rock say, yes, you are talking about human rights, t s, but is that human rights if you kill our children? i am a democrat. i am still in this. but when i was young sometimes i was protesting in the streets against things. and i'm a little bit amazed that the young americans who protest -- the older americans protest. but why the young americans don't say what they think about this strategy of working back it would help obama if you would s

i did nothing anybody believes we are at the final destination. . >> the ftse says there needs to be new management at citigroup. do you agree with that -- the fdic says there needs to be new management at citigroup. do you agree with that? >> one of the reasons we have to have reform of the financial system is that i do not think we have a situation where we have so many entities crawling over institutions sending conflicting signals adding to basic uncertainty. we of the united states of america. we have should be able to design a system where there is more clarity. that is something we want to work to in this context. we need to look at the u.s. financial system today versus where it was in in january. we are in a stronger position to get through this today because of the capital that has come into the system to make sure we have a system that is reinforcing recovery and not constraining it. >> there is a misperception about the public of you. they think you were a longtime banker. you were a regulator never a banker. you said you do not understand baker's. >> i do not know and i

recruiters themselves or to loan sharks and the home country so that by the time workers get to their destination, they are already held in bondage. unscrupulous employers can often build upon that, will a complacent and compliant labor force to the threat of force and coercion, through the threat of bankruptcy. this is something the united states has been leading on in the last 10 years. when the trafficking report first began, it was a relatively modest undertaking with 82 countries. the report is now up to 175 nations and is truly becoming the global snapshot of the modern slavery problem. one issue as far as trafficking is concerned, despite the name, the use of the word trafficking seems to have the notion of movement built into it. under u.s. law at the united nations protocol, movement is not required. we're really dealing with is the notion of global forced labor, global enslavement. the national labor organization issued a report, "the cost of coercion," about a month ago. in that report, estimated about 12.3 million people be held in bondage worldwide. they estimated about 1.5 million a

you get out and travel to your next destination. it has been so successful, that it needs renovation. thank you for participating in that event. you mentioned a positive train control, investing $10 million. that is under the recovery act money? >> yes, sir. >> could you list for us the company or companies that are producing the pt septc technolod how many jobs are created by that work. >> the total amount that we put this together, it would be 146 jobs in the first year. but that second year, it would be 8000 jobs. i do not have a broken down that way today. on the positive train control, we are doing in number of things. we are extending our access system, which is the enforcement train controls that exist already in the northeast quarter. we are extending our itcs structure, consistent with illinois and lockheed martin. the platform that will be the gps space, there are a couple of different suppliers. one of them is wedtech. we are working with them to make sure we have entered- inoperability with them and us. >> -- that we hav

. >> did you ever know a guy who seemed destined to live and die as a high school football coach? ed thomas was, by all reports, that guy. 37 years in high school ball, a stadium in a small iowa school named for him, a former players who speak lovingly of what he taught him. thomas one state titles and even put four players into the nfl. all from a school with an enrollment of around 250. last year when a tornado wiped out much of his town, including his house, there was ed thomas leading efforts to rebuild the football field in time for the season. despite his gift, thomas was never interested in the next level. some guy, like i say, are just meant to live and die as high school coaches. but not the way thomas died last week. shot by a former player in the weight room in front of several current players. who knows the killer's motivation? maybe time will tell. but the shock to the town of parkersburg, iowa, is immeasurable, almost as immeasurable as how much ed thomas meant to it. >> the united states' upset of top-ranked spain in the fifa confederations cup semifinal might seem

guest: it was obviously destined primarily to the muslim world, but it was also does tend to the american audience. he was clearly thinking that people back in the united states would be saying -- why is he doing this? why is he doing this on behalf of the united states? he is explaining to people back at home that democracy is in the best interest of the united states. he is also addressing the issue of democracy in that part of the world. obviously, what he said in that particular regard is nothing new. the previous administration, despite all its failings in the region, had talked about democracy a great deal. condoleezza rice said more less the same thing. the thing for the president is that he goes to the region at a time when there is actually -- there is great interest as far as the democratic debate. there is also a great deal of skepticism about the democracy project in the wake of all the chaos that followed the 2003 invasion of iraq. they want democracy. they are a little bit skeptical about it. the overriding concern was the overriding concern that people had in the arab and m

host: next up is destin, fla. on our independent line. caller: thank you for taking my call. joe biden disturbs me. i think he has a foot-in-mouth disease. the only thing that sets him up good is it judge sotomayor who is roman catholic, does not believe in abortion -- i think that will help. as far as health care, social security is going broke. medicare is going broke. where is the money going to come from? i would love for someone to answer that question. as far as taxes go, hold on to your wallet, everybody. host: linda, i wonder response to more of what this historian writes. comparing the vice president to the basketball player who does a bunch of things that do not show up on the stat sheet, obama has chosen someone who suits the current mold of an activist vice-president more attentive to the administration's need it then to personal plans for future campaigns. what do think about that? caller: [unintelligible] host: louisville, ky on our republican line. caller: good morning. vice president biden has the ability to spend other people's money hand over fist, yet he is

struggled because we knew it couldn't look like a conventional travel guide, couldn't have a single destination, but we didn't want it to seem too over the political, we wanted to be acceptable, fun, old-fashioned, so that is a suitcase that brick seeds own, we put stickers on it, it is not a stock photo, we put it together and designed around it. i like the way it is clean but fun. it comes across clearly. >> and the viewers are at the bookstore, a lot of work is put into these covers? >> covers are one of the toughest things we do because everybody has a legitimate opinion about what works as a cover and sometimes what i am doing is filtering through the many different legitimate points and trying to pick the one that is going to help us in the long run. >> all the books we are talking about are out right now. these are spring titles. >> usually to talk about fall books, we bring spring books that have just landed, that was published last month. 2 books here on the economy, 2 divergent takes, perspective, robert frank, to simplify things, liberal economist for the new york times, teaches at c

it's a wonderful tourist destination. in the winter as cold as it is, a lot of great things to do. and in the summer. and as senator dorgan mentioned, we should be promoted our country. so that people like you may have had a father-in-law from duluth or minneapolis or wherever could go visit and have a good time being a tourist. and it is the same in nevada. as i mentioned, new hampshire, illinois. every state in the union is heavily dependent on tourism and the republicans don't seem to much care. this bill is probably finished for the year. and that means 40,000 less jobs. it means this country will go in the red more for not having things -- to stimulating economy and provide money like this. so i just appreciate very much the subcommittee and the committee getting this bill on the floor to -- we thought we would have this love fest because this bill helps every state in the union. it helps every state in the union create jobs and as the senator from minnesota said so rightly, jobs -- not manufacturing things which are important and i wish we could do more to help that; not jobs

new zealand is a good tourist destination, but options for cancer treatment are not so attractive right now. americans want health care reform, but they do not want the kind of reform that delays, the nice, and rations care like the system in -- delays, denies, and rations care like the system in new zealand. they want health care decisions left to doctors and patients not remote bureaucrats. but that is what we can expect if we have a government-run health care system. >> thank you. today i would like to talk about a bill that we introduced. a companion bill will also be introduced. the number of the bill is 1259. it is called the patient act. -- patients's act. the idea is to focus on health care as it relates to patients. it should be patient-centered. nothing should come between the position and the patient. we are concerned that there is something that is being done that needs to

you get out and driven on to your next destination. good to see that it's been so successful that it needs renovation. and i'm glad we were there to participate in that event. you mentioned the recovery act money. could you list for us the company or companies that are producing the ptc technology and how many jobs are resulting from that work? >> the specificity of the ptc -- the total amount when we put this together the first year would be 4600 jobs for all. the first year and the total for the whole package in two years was 8,000 jobs so i don't have it broken down. but we can provide that to you. on the pros tive train control, we're doing about three different things. one is that we're extending our access system which is the advanced civil enforcement train control that exists on the northeast corridor. another is that we're expanding itcs structure on the michigan line where we did a system with illinois and with lockheed martin. and then on the platform that today, will be the gps based, there are a couple of different supplie

they are pre-destin ated, the answer and they can be made to see the results are falling one way because, obviously, these are superior people. over 30 years teaching, i absolutely know that if you took all of the a-students and put them in a class, and you had to pick a-students as a class, b-students, c, combined and d, the one class you would never select to get results were the a-students, unless what you wanted were clerks and order-takers. someone else. yes, sir? >> is there any way to like to become a doctor or a lawyer without having to go through school? because -- >> that is of course a wonderful question, isn't it? >> you can rig the game in advance by saying you must do so-and-so on sats, or you must do x, y and z or we won't let you on the professional track. are there other ways to beat that. i would guess the answer is yes. but i would hardly have -- but i would say, by all means, look. and ask your local doctor, you know. yes, sir? >> i have nef heard of you prior to this day and i'm happy you described your vision as open source education. i am wondering, and it might be

guest: yes, we voted to open this destin dome area. i think that those on the coast of texas and louisiana -- there is a tremendous amount of work going into the fabrication of these facilities which are quite clean today, by the way look more like the space industry than the oil and gas industry -- but we believe the people along the coast should use some of those revenues for coastal restoration, improvements to energy ports, and at general infrastructure just like wyoming and alaska last year. wyoming received $1 billion from sharing the revenues on federal land. we believe the coastal states should share as well. it will be a big fight on the floor of the senate. we hope to build a coalition of interior and coastal states who believe that go it alone is not the right way. partnerships always work better. host: overall, what is your view of the obama administration's approach to energy policy? guest: i am encouraged by his goal of energy independence for our nation. i am encouraged that he wants to move to cleaner and more renewable

those who picked up the maps, that's just the way to locate all my favorite destinations. i had 20 maps left and rather than make y'all not get them, i rewarded the people who came first by giving them a copy of a map for those who came later. the first 20 books that are bought over there get a free map, okay, so that gives you that europe map. if you're curious about my business it's explained in this packet, this newsletter and then this blog -- i'm just so old when i do a blog i go backwards and put it in print and the most important thing is my journal from this iran experience and you all got that in your packages so i guess the routine is, i stay here and sign books or whatever and thank you very much. it's great to see you. [applause] >> rick steves is the author of many travel guides for europe and host travel shows on public television and public radio. mr. steves also writes a weekly syndicated column for the "chicago tribune." for more, visit big -- rick steves.com. >> there's lots more books and authors every weekend on book tv. our website has the entire sched

that destination can only be reached to a peaceful negotiation, but achieve the full and verifiable denuclearization of the korean peninsula. that is the opportunity that exists for north korea and president lee and i join with the international community in urging the north koreans to take it. president lee and i also discussed our efforts to confront the global economic crisis here earlier this year in london we agreed on full and sustained action to jumpstart growth and to prevent a crisis like this from ever happening again. today, we reaffirmed this effort as well as our commitment to resist protectionism and to continue our close collaboration in the run up to the next meeting of the g-20 in pittsburgh. in addition to taking immediate action to put our economies on the path of recovery, both presently and i want to build a foundation for new prosperity. in particular we believe that the united states and the republic of korea can partner together on behalf of clean energy and sustainable growth so that we are working together to build the jobs and industries of the future. finally i think it's

which is sometimes a transit point for further global destinations. russia has been transparent in its cooperation with burma in the development of a nuclear reactor reportedly for medical research purposes. it is number three a contributing to the development of burma's nuclear program and if so in one way. what level of international cooperation exists to scrutinize north korea's global trading network and its potential proliferation routes? and can such cooperation be improved? is there a clear understanding of the efficacy and current status of agreements relating to the six party talks in the north korean nuclear program? in essence would any new negotiations be starting from square one? the united states and china have cooperated closely in the six party process about our priorities are not identical. with regard to north korea. while the united states is focus on eliminating north korea's nuclear weapons program, china's primary concern relates to regional stability. a point not lost on the north korean officials. given recent provocations have

britain has become a favorite destination for liable tourists for a number of reasons. first, british law lacks our constitutional free speech protections and instead specifically disfavors speech critical of public officials and public figures. second, british liable law places the burden of proving the truth of the allegedly defamiliartory statement on the defendant. this has grown criticism not only from american defenders of free speech but also from the united nations and also from some members of the british parliament. and third, britain takes a very expansion of view of personal jurisdiction. a british court can exercise personal jurisdiction over a liable defendant if his or her statement, wherever it was made or aimed, is said to cause real or substantial harm or injury to reputation of britain. combined with the internet, this expanse of view has rendered american authors and publishers liable to lawsuits in britain. in the internet tainl, -- age, the british liable law can bite you wherever you live. h.r. 2765 will deter liable tourists from taking advantage

john merriman, history professor at yale recounts the destination of a bomb in a paris cafe on february 12th, 1994 by french and artist emile henry. he examines henry's ideological arguments for his active indiscriminate violence and documents in the ensuing years of attacks by other interests in public locations which included the assassination of the president of france and u.s. president william mckinley. the event hosted by labyrinth books in new haven, connecticut is 45 minutes. >> thanks for coming. i guess i'll start at the beginning about emile henry, the guy that i studied. i don't remember when i got interested in him. i remembered reading about him in high school and a glass minute. i guess if you're going to take one person as an example as a prism on which two look at a movement is good to pick someone who lives to be 21 when he was guillotined and this is a much shorter book. it is also given me the odd experience three times now to eat in the same cafe restaurant that my books subject blew up over 100 years ago and that's a very odd sensation as while. and i don't admire

struggled because we knew it couldn't look like a conventional travel guide, couldn't have a single destination for, but we didn't want it to seem too overtly political, we wanted it to seem accessible, fun, old-fashioned, that is a suitcase that rick steves boned and we put stickers on it. that is not a stock photo. we put it together and designed around it. i liked the way it is clean but fun and it gets the message across very clearly. >> people at the bookstore no lot is put into these covers. >> we agonize. the cover is one of the toughest things we do because everybody has a legitimate opinion about what works as a cover and sometimes what i am doing is filtering through the many different legitimate voices and trying to pick the one that i think is going to help us in the long run. >> all the books we're talking about on the table are out right now. these are spring titles. >> this show is usually to talk about all books but we also talk about spring books that have just landed. that was published last book. 2 books on the economy, two divergent takes on the economy. from 2 -- from two d

kirchner in argentina was recently intercepted by authorities before reaching its intended destination. castro has purchased advocates and spies through the years via the always present threat of blackmail after trips to totalitarian cuba where the regime tapes visitors in compromising situations. as confirmed by interior ministry defector and a cuban intelligence defector. castro also serves as a banker for illicit money possessed by those who seek to avoid the detection by the anti-money laundering connections. it matters not if its source is political corruption or narcotrafficking. through his mastery of anti-american marxism, leninism, he's conned others into being spies. no other state sponsor of terrorism, no other state in fact has had more spies arrested and convicted in the united states in the last decades as fidel castro's dictatorship. let us remember one of the top analysts at the defend intelligence agency who was arrested in 2001 and subsequently convicted of espionage in federal court and whose treason led to the deaths of many, including u.s. special forces sergeant g

loved to follow things as they occurred, because we're told those who fail to learn from history are destinned to repeat it. those who deal -- learn from history will find ways to screw up. we aren't learning from history. but you can look back at the soviet union and we were reminded about that yesterday as ronald reagan's statue was unveiled and it's a great tribute. but as he pushed the missile defense system and the soviets tried to keep up, they were spending up too much money and running up too much debt and people were nervous about loaning the soviet union more debt. do you remember the baltic states started rebeling? the soviet union would roll in with tanks. they could put it down, but for some reason, they didn't roll in with tanks and supress it like they had in years past. well, it appears there's information indicating that they were needing us to loan them $100 billion, which 20 or so years ago was real money, $100 billion to keep them afloat. and we got them word, yeah, it's your country, but if you roll in with tanks, we aren't going to be able to loan you that money. we owned

our airport on guam facilitates the daily transiting of international passengers to destinations in the united states, other pacific islands, major cities in the pacific rim, including, japan, korea, taiwan and australia. the security arrangement requires significant resources to be expended in constant around the clock monitoring by security personnel to prevent the co-mingling of transiting and departing passengers. the security enhancements made subsequent to the terrorist attacks of september 11, 2001, particularly with respect to preventing the co-mingling of passengers at our airports all across the country have been costly and in some cases difficult to fully implement. moreover, the current decrease in tourist arrivals and departures due to the economic downturn erodes the financial capability of small airports to implement such security improvements. the guam international airport authority has been operating from a waiver from the t.s.a. for several years. the t.s.a. and the guam international airport agree that the temporary solution which amounts to placement of removable pa

. ♪ (singing) [applause] >> around page 300 now, i catch my first glimpse of the true destination shimmering magically on the far horizon like pilgrim monument in provincetown, still a good distance off but a straight shot. a dead sprint to what i am now guessing correctly as it turns out will be page 375. okay, not a typical richard russo tone, but so what? i had lost control of the short story and instead of crashing and burning, i have embraced by shifting state and come out of this whole thing with a book. how lucky was that? well, a little over a year later with galleys in hand, it feels less like luck now than it did then. now it feels more like skill. but not of the literary variety. the particular skill i refer to is self-deception, the rider's best friend. because truth and honesty will let you down every time. by counseling caution, wisdom. when what the novel industry requires is if not sheer barking lunacy, then gentle guile, purposeful deception, duplicity. novelists are not hard counters. they don't need to be reminded about the odds. but are professional liars, after all, so i

and now it's so dirty and all of us are destined to die and to be infected with this pollution in our lungs. well, the fact is, that is dead wrong as well. someone continues to misinform our young people, perhaps for political reasons, whatever, but the fact is, when i tell them that they are 180 degrees wrong, that in fact the air is so much cleaner now, that there's almost no comparison to what it was when i was a young person in high school, they are incredulous. many of them don't believe me when i say that. but they know afterwards when they check up on it that they have been lied to. well, whatever the reason, whatever the motive behind this misinformation that's being provided to young people, whether it was jacques cousteau or whether it's the education establishment or any of the other people we're talking about who have ties to the radical environmental movement, whatever reason they are misinforming our students, it's not just the students. it's our general population as well. for decades, phony, frightening predictions, false climate assumptions and inaccurate information

it couldn't have a single destination but we also didn't want it to seem too overtly political. we wanted it to seem accessible, a little fun, old-fashioned. so that's actually a suitcase that rick steve's owns and we put stickers on it. it's not a stock photo that we found. we put it together and then decide around. i like the way it's clean, but it's on. >> some of our viewers are at the bookstore so they know a lot has been put into these covers? >> covers are one of the toughest things that we do because everybody has a legitimate opinion about what works as a cover. sometimes i'm doing is just filtering through the many different legitimate voices and just trying to pick the one i think is going to help us in the long run. >> all the books we're talking about here on the table are out right now, these are spring titles. >> that's right. this show is usually to talk about all books that don't also bring spring books that had just landed. that book just published last month. >> two books on the economy. two divergent takes on the economy? >> robert frank to just simple by thi

it's like a bucket brigade and everybody's got a bucket. 70 of you -- >> destin present is fine. >> those of us in the brigade will know which ones are in and which ones aren't, using the peer pressure of all loveless recognizing who is there. absolutely i am a dealer body amount would never threaten a dealer. you can ask anybody in the united states i would never use that pressure, and i promise you under any oath that there was never an aspect, and if you ask the people that did not get approved to go forward, they both equally either bought cars or didn't and that is why we were so insistent on the redistribution program to make sure any dealer that cars would be reimbursed. we added incentives. we had the best sales in february after that, we had a retail month for the first time in history we outsold ford. we sold those cars we didn't want the dealers to score them. we wanted to save the company and get to the point we could emerge from the currency. >> three months after you cut those guys loose. i see my time is up. >> ms. sutphen of ohio. >> thank you, mr. chairman. there are so m

recruiters themselves or to loan sharks in the home country so that by the time that workers get to their destination, they are already, in effect, held in debt bondage. that is a circumstance that is unscrupulous employers can often build upon, holding a complacent and compliant labor force through the threat of force, through the threat of coercion, through the threat of bankruptcy and economic ruin. this is something that the united states has been leading on in the last 10 years. this is the ninth annual trafficking report. when the trafficking report first began it was a relatively modest undertaking with about 82 countries. now the report is up to 175 nations and is truly becoming the global snapshot of the modern slavery problem. one definitional issue as far as trafficking is concerned despite the name, the use of the word trafficking seems to have the notion of movement built into it. under both u.s. law and under the united nations protocol, movement is not required and so what we're really dealing with is we're dealing with that notion of global forced labor, global enslavement. the intern

why do you think it is and would you agree there is travel and minnesota is also a destination state for medical care with rochester and matteo clinic. why do you suppose there is that travel from canada and the united states? >> click the old soviet system everything is free and nothing is readily available. canadians wait for any diagnostic test and some of taught by crossing the border. they do that at the mayo clinic but not exclusively so if you were in downtown toronto you'd find an office for the cleveland clinic, medical tourism cuts across the border. the >> and so we are sort of, the united states and i'm thinking in terms of minnesota right now a safety valve. if you can't get it, if the single-payer system in canada doesn't provide the service across the border and get help in minnesota. >> if you can afford it. >> then the question is what would happen if we are now canada and have the canadian system? where do they go? >> your compassion for canadians is outstanding. [laughter] >> well, when they come south for medical care systems to stop the mall of america and we are

as one cancer doctor put it, new zealand is a good tourist destination but options for cancer treatment are not so attractive there right now. americans want health care reform but they dant want the kind of re -- don't want the kind of care that denies and rations care like the systems in new zealand, britain and canada. they don't want to be forced into a government plan that replaces the freedoms and choices they n enjoy with bureaucratic hassles, hours spent on hold and politicians in washington telling them how much care and what kind of care they can have. they want health care decisions left to doctors and patients, not remote bureaucrats. but if some in washington get their way and enact a government takeover of health care that is exactly what america can expect@ be dispensed with. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. kyl: thank you. mr. president, today i'd like to talk about a bill which today senator mccnell and i introduced and i think a companion bill will be introduced by some of the leadership in the house of representatives. the number of the bill is 1259. and

and so a one-way agreement that was destined to fail. again, i do not understand how we have gotten to a point on a piece of legislation that should be so noncontroversial, sufficient so with a 90-3 vote on a motion to proceed, it is stopped by the united states senate. a bill that had over 50 cosponsors in the united states senate, a bill that deals with travel and promotion of travel an tourism. that we now have this unbelievable impasse. we had to do two days on a cloture petition on a motion to proceed, then a motion to proceed that passed 90-3, then 30 hours postcloture. now we -- we go around this merry-go-round last thursday and friday with an absurd proposition, that the minority wants to decide what amendments the majority can have, despite the fact the majority says you can have whatever amendments you want? i mean, they must have missed the last couple of elections. they apparently think they run the senate. what runs the senate is consensus, consensus by people that care about getting things done on important issues. you can'

he will say this with greater passion, sees that this benefits upstate new york and that this is a destination location and there is a high unemployment rate in the district. there is a high unemployment rate in many places around the country. again, somewhat like the previous amendment and the previous earmark, i don't doubt at all that this is an important project. i don't doubt at all this is an important project to the citizens of that area of new york. but i do question if this is such a vital economic driver for the community -- i haven't been able to find how or where it does that. whether it was this one or another, could have picked many of them. question basically is this, that which are going to have a $2 trillion deficit. 46 cents of every single dollar spent will be borrowed. 46 cents of this $150,000 will be borrowed. is this a national priority? is this something that in these times with the deficits and debt that we have, is this the sort of thing that rises to the level of a national priority such that we should borrow 46 cents on the dollar, increase the deficit further, incr