and the final lap dixon takes the flag. and dixon wins the 19th indy series race. tying a series record. >> and this is what we are watching for tomorrow. u.s.a. and brazil in the final of the federal ration's cup. and landon donovan and what the match has done for the u.s. >> clearly it's earned us more respect. how much? who knows. but our goal is not to beat spain and not give it our best shot. we don't often get to the finals. and this is our first major final in a real tournament ever. and we want to take advantage. a big challenge against brazil. >> if you want to be the best team you have to beat the best team. if you want to win a cup or championship it is never easy. that in and of itself gives us can have deputies. >> the final against brazil is something all of our players have dreamed about and this is an opportunity that's very important for our united states soccer. >> u.s. 1-13 versus brazil all-time including 0-3 in the cup. and the only win was one. >> and still to come the rangers appear to be heating up after a recent offense of drought. they wer

. >> paul dixon, author of "the dixon baseball dictionary" and other books. and finally we have amy, an original member of the n.p.c. softball team. [applause] >> of the old washington senators it was often said washington, first in war, first in peace, and last in the american league. substitute nationals for senators, and national league for american, and you can describe the situation for our local major league team today and today's speaker. in fact, it is hard to think of anyone that has had a worse season than the nationals except for perhaps the republicans. [laughter] >> today's speaker, stan kasten formerly served as president of the atlanta braves, who ran off an unprecedented 14 straight division titles. the braves haven't won since he brought his baseball expertise to the nationals. so far, however, a success on the ball field has eluded the nation's capital, despite a new stadium, attendance is down unless you count the red sox fans, so is the nats as won-loss record. still, they did beat the yankees two out of three earlier this month. [applause

president reagan's travels from dixon, illinois, hollywood, washington, dear lynn and beyond is as enduring of legacy as anyone. throughout that time nevadaians have been proud to call  president reagan our leader and our friend. [applause] >> ladies and gentlemen, the speaker of the united states house of representatives, the honorable nancy pelosi. >> it is a distinct honor, i know for my colleagues as well as myself to welcome so many distinguished guests on this very special day in the capitol. the unveiling of a statue in the capitol is always exciting. rarely are we able to to it in the presence of an immediate family member. it is usually about history. today it is a great privilege for all of us, for all of us to be joined by the former first lady, mrs. ronald reagan, nancy reagan. we are honored by your presence. [applause] president reagan and mrs. reagan have one of the great love stories of all-time and the american people benefited from that. the support, the love that mrs. reagan gave the president were a source of joy to the american people and again of strength to the pres

adrian, dixon, diana, derek, tracy, scott, all with the subcommittee. mike and john on the minority staff. and then on my personal staff, sali and julie. it's a lot of work putting these appropriation bills if anyone who has been involved in it and they have worked long hours diligently with great competence to move this bill forward. and i most sincerely thank them for the efforts. we couldn't do it without them. mr. chairman, in brief summary, this bill totals $46.4 billion and increases $6.7 over last year, but it is $200 million below the president's request. $30.6 billion in science, technology and innovation, an increase of over $1 billion. within this level, the bill provides $6.9 billion for the national science foundation and $18.2 billion for nasa. for n.i.s., the bill provides $781 billion and noaa and the committee continues to provide resources consistent with the path identified. it also considers the science and research conducted at noaa and at nasa as critical to the nation's science enterprise just as that performed by nist. for law en

an option because he is not attached to the program but the kind of guy i'm talking about is jamie dixon of pitt. you would think this would make a lot of sense for him but not at this time, not with everything going on at usc. >> andy, you mentioned tim floyd and the coaches that could go potentially to usc. what about the flip side. a guy that was linked with arizona, memphis, turned those jobs away. do you think tim floyd coaches again at the college level? >> i don't. unless he is completely exonerated i would be very surprised if he does. he as a good friend in the general manager of the chicago bulls who tim hired to go to chicago when he was head coach. they were at ohio state together. i can see him bringing tim back into the fold with the bulls. that would make more sense than tim going back in college. the only job i can see right now is helping his good friend down at southern miss. >> espn.com, andy katz. thanks for the insight. >> riff tom brady returning to in the patriots, new england, at least for the moments, appears to be everybody's favorite to win the afc east this se

castroneves the new winner, briscoe in second, scott dixon third. >> welcome to the family. jets head coach rex ryan meeting yankees skipper joe girardi before the yanks-rays game. a-rod breaks a scoreless tie in the second. 43 at-bats without a homer, hits his eighth off the year off david price. in the sixth, cc sabathia serves one to willie aybar. ayb bar's fourth of the year. 5-3 rays. cc, eight innings, five runs, four earned. 5-5 in the ninth, joe dillon, his third hit of the game. tampa four runs in the ninth off mariano rivera. yanks let threaten in the bottom of the ninth. tying run at the plate, robbie cano drills it to center, b.j. upton an eventful ninth inning in the field holds onto that one. the yankees this season have lost 9-11 to the red sox and the rays. meanwhile, tampa 10-6 against new york and boston but three games under .500 against everybody else they've played. >> the rangers had their eyes on a second straight win over boston. jon lester had his eyes a perfect game. ian kinsler goes down. so does michael young. andruw jones as well. lester, perfect

dixon became the first black woman to head the panama supreme court. and another member of the supreme court. moreno is the first colombian to serve in the presidential cabinet. and in he can what door, more than 100 black women sought more government assistance for housing to combat racial discrimination. we are in this together and can accomplish this together. and i thank the gentlelady who is the ranking member on the committee for supporting this as well as the chair of the committee. and i yield back. the chair: the the gentleman yields back the balance of his time. the question is on the amendment offered by the gentleman from new york. those in favor say aye. opposed, no. in the opinion of the chair, the ayes have it. the amendment is agreed to. it is now in order to consider amendment number 18 printed in part c of house report 111-143. for what purpose does gentlelady from arizona rise? mr. kirk: i have an amendment at the desk. the chair: the clerk will designate the amendment. the clerk: amendment number 18 printed in part c of house report

this is based on a new mason- dixon polling for the las vegas review, finding that 39% of voters had a favorable view of mr. anson, that is down from 53% -- mr. ensign, down 53% from last month. he has a 34% favorable rating from the same poll. the comments from our twittered site, "private lives should be private, but hypocritical gop ranos have been doing this since the 1980's. our next call. caller: good morning. i think you have got to have a moral standard, and i do not think the democrats have got that because of the abortion, the premeditated murder of babies. i just do not think they have got that -- you have to have something immoral to fall from. god forgives people for that, but it is hard to get forgiveness for premeditated murder. host: from "the new york times," mark sanford was sworn in as south carolina's governor last year. our next call is from david, from virginia beach. caller: i find it strange that we have not heard from any south carolina college yet. they call all the time. i was born and raised in south carolina, so i am rather familiar with the politics of t