hal rogers, on the other hand, let's see, what can i say about hal rogers? a wonderful member from kentucky who also in this arena knows as much about the subject as anybody that i know. one of the things that's disconcerting to me about this bill, for it is one that perhaps addresses the most important area of responsibility we have that is, protecting our homeland, combined this bill with our national security measure and that is our national defense and america's ability to protect freedom in the world. but indeed, it's interesting to note that at a subcommittee meeting recently, i spend some time dealing with another bill, and air -- an area the public isn't always so supportive of, namely the foreign assistance or foreign aid bill. it came to my attention in this process and exchange that the foreign aid bill that will be coming to the floor very soon is approximately $10 billion more than our homeland security bill. think about that. we're in a condition where people, to say the least, here at home are pressed to the wall. all kinds of concerns besides

subcommittee's tradition of bipartisan cooperation initiated by its first chairman and now ranking member, hal rogers. i want to thank the distinguished ranking member for his advice and help in making this about eighter bill and for his staff, too, for working so closely and constructively with us. we agree on most of this bill and i believe this is a bill that every member in this body can get behind. in total the bill contains 42 -- $42.625 billion in appropriations for the department of homeland security. this is $2.6 billion or $6.5% above the comparable fiscal year 2009 amount and about 1% below the administration request excluding coast guard overseas contingency operations. this level reflects our share of the $10 billion cut made in the budget resolution to the administration's overall request. homeland security requires -- the chair: will the gentleman suspend? the committee will come to order. members will take their conversations off the floor. the gentleman may proceed. mr. price: homeland security requires identification of and response to all threats whether manmade or natural.

here's a twitter that says hal emigrants instantly benefit from taxes that retirees have paid for so many years. guest: if it is $5 billion, what that does not reflect is the economic contribution that these same people make. it is often by working in very low-paid jobs, but they are contributing something. the studies go back and forth. the studies i have seen show that immigrants, even undocumented immigrants make a significant contribution. what will you say about the children of undocumented immigrants? are we really going to say we should not educate children? that we should deny children the opportunity to get health care they need it? i think people in the middle recognize we need a national immigration policy that provides a path to citizenship for those who have come here to better their own lives. sure, people need to go through a process and work towards citizenship, but that needs to come from the national level. all of the stereotyping, the way that immigration is used by people from the right wing is frankly scary. host: this common comes from a viewer in the mississipp

hal information disclosure is regulated for political advantage. the government decides what it wants to disclose. it is often not based on principle, but on what serves their interests. that is a problematic approach. host: i should point out that the president has asked james jones, the national security adviser, to review the recommendations on the release of classified documents. what will happen in that 90-day period? guest: the classification is not based in law but an executive order. presidents typically issue their own version to define the classification system. president obama has said i want you to look at revising the bush administration's executive order to promote greater openness and transparency. over the next 90 days the national security council is supposed to lead a review of the classification system and consider recommendations for greater transparency. host: you have put together a recommendation that will be published in a duel review and policy -- and the yale and policy review. you write about several levels. what are thos

host: and finally, hal is bobby jindal doing? guest: well, if he would stay home in louisiana a little more and focus on being governor. since the legislative session has started he has, but before that he was all over the place. our state really needs the governor to stay focused. we have a deficit, this oil and gas situation to deal with, and our universities are in terrible shape right now. he is recommending substantial cuts to our universities and spending a lot of time focused on his next office instead of the the one that he has. that is unfortunate. people elected to office should serve in the position they were will be placed on the calendar. mr. reid: madam president, yesterday this city and our country experienced a terrible and horrifying tragedy. a man by the name of stephen johns went to work every day for six years at our most moving museums, a living memorial to one of our world's more horrific atrocities, the holocaust museum. while standing guard yesterday at that united states holocaust museum, mr. stephen john

>> hal is to spend funded? 30 years ago americus cable companies created in it as a private initiative with no government mandate or money. >> with the federally mandated transition coming next week we will get a status report on held the fcc has prepared dealers. these will be the guests. -- held the fcc has prepared viewers. tonight at 8:00 p.m. eastern on "the communicators" on c-spans. 2. >> there's still time to get your congressional directory. it includes information on the lawmakers and contact information along with maps. you can get it online or call. "washington journal" continues. host: tuesday is primary election date in virginia. jeff schapiro is a reporter for the paper there. it is a 3-way race for the democrats there. tell us why the rest of the nation should be interested. guest: virginia and new jersey are the only states have been governor elections in these two states were carried by obama. it will affect washington. host: two candidates might be familiar nationwide, particularly one for th

host: and finally, hal is bobby jindal doing? guest: well, if he would stay home in louisiana a little more and focus on being governor. since the legislative session has started he has, but before that he was all over the place. our state really needs the governor to stay focused. we have a deficit, this oil and gas situation to deal with, and our universities are in terrible shape right now. he is recommending substantial cuts to our universities and spending a lot of time focused on his next office instead of the the one that he has. that is unfortunate. people elected to office should serve in the position they were elected for. i hope he will pass up any presidential run and give the people of louisiana the full four years that we elected him for. host: they thank you for being n "washington journal." we will be right back. ♪ >> every weekend, the latest non-fiction books and authors. saturday, how the run for congress was $7,000 and your sixth grade students running the campaign? cahill for congress. sunday, joel rosenber

but i have to tell you, i had a town hal meeting in richmond, indiana monday this week. packed room, several hundred people came out. and there was a very broad understanding that this cap and trade legislation represents a national energy tax. and in this difficult economic time, i think most viewers and most americans know this is not the right course for our nation. they want to see congress deal with our energy challenges just as much as health care, just as much as other issues. but they want to see us put first and foremost policies forward that will make our economy stronger and not weaker. so is there a risk? yes. we'll try and combat that by making our position based on principle and on the american economy. but we'll also be articulating our alternative, which are -- our all of the above strategy. which every time i talk about that in indiana or elsewhere around the country, it is met with overwhelming approval. the american people know how we can steer a course toward a cleaner environment to energy independence and even create jobs. and it's by doing all of t

. >> picking fights with the attorney-general -- with the attorney generals, hal do you see craigslist in society, and why is it -- how do you see craigslist in society, and how is it that you want to be filing suits like that? >> we do respond inappropriate ways. >> and that is appropriate because? >> because it was the right way to do so in our current environment. >> what do you think will come of that? >> i do not know. [laughter] >> do you think the community -- people find themselves in the full range of human wants and needs and operas that are exchanged, is that going to thrive in this environment, or are there going to be places where one step after another, pieces of that are going to be split off -- the range of human wants and needs and other that are exchanged. >> i do not see how that is a problem. >> in the future? >> craigslist in 10 years will be about the same. we are passionate about the mundane and the boring. specifically, if you want to give people a break, help them find a job for a place to live, the kind of stuff, you know, that is the focus right there be a yo

hal is the white house feeling about that? guest: they do feel something changed, attitudes about the u.s. in the middle east. days later they understood the elections in lebanon for the hezbollah-backed coalition was supposed to win and lost largely because there was a large turnout, much larger than expected for the pro-u.s. coalition of parties. they understood that immediately to mean something. they could not quite bring themselves to say publicly, gee, we think that he had a big influence on these elections. now we see something in iran. they are trying to walk the line behind it taking credit for something happening, a new, diplomatic opening in that part of the world, and not antagonizing the authorities in iran or inserting themselves into a debate that they still insist is a iranians debating their own future. it is impossible to say whether or not, how much influence about events that his congress be chad. host: what is holding back the president and his team? the president has said already that some of his statemen

address, if you would, one of the comments from my opening statement, if this grandiose plan comes to hal sutton, and if there are some americans who believe it is not addressing their healthcare needs, and if they want to go visit a physician of their choosing and decide they want that physician to treat him or her for a specific illness or morality or problem, should they have the right to do that outside of the structure, mr. pollack? >> they should have that right. they may be required to pay an additional amount of money. >> if they want to use their own resources they ought to have that right? >> i do believe that. >> are you aware that isn't included in the present bill? would that give you pause? >> most health plans, even things like epos, we can go outside the network. i assume there will be retained. >> mr. scheck, you agree with that? does anyone in disagree americans ought to be able to opt out fifth they so desire? i was always frustrated when someone stepped between me and my patient and said you can't do that even though i felt it was in the best interest of the patient an

hal pert. you each have one minute a piece. >> thank you, mr. chairman. i think the two things that we would emphasize are the issue of super sizing which relates to the cost allocation issue that we spoke about. it doesn't make a lot of sense for us to use up whatever good will we might have trying to locate -- or locate a line that's undersized. the second thing is the federal lands issue and the permeating issue and i've elaborated some on that, but this, we see, is a very large impediment and those would be two things that we'd like you to bear in mind. >> thank you, sir. >> mr. hibberd, thank you, mr. chairman. i would just say that certainly from our perspective in the commonwealth, we completely agree with the goals of the aces legislation. we absolutely have to address the carbon issue and we have to address it now. what i would urge you to consider from the standpoint of transmission is to try to retain the competitive market structure that delivers benefits to our rate payers in the designs that you implement going forward. the carbon cap that p

i played with hal morris lifetime .300 hitter and played with mattingly. he said if there's an rbi out there with less than two outs, all i have to do is hit the ball up the middle and that's an rbi. got to think about -- about it a little bit. >> jim h.: anderson hernandez has five steals on the year, he's been caught twice. there have been only two stolen base attempts on david hernandez in his brief time with the orioles. both have been successful. >> jim p.: in a couple of starts. the orioles struggled in that west coast trip. only the 1-0 by rich hill was the victory they had on the west coast. they play the angels the end of the week, fourth of july weekend. four out there, then off to seattle for three. >> jim h.: it's going to be a tough road trip, because you have the angels red-hot. seattle, that's the ballpark the orioles can't seem to hit home runs in. high fly ball to left. back on it is reimold. just in front of the warning track has it for the out. chugging back to first, anderson hernandez, one away. tomorrow the red sox will be here at ori

the little book cliff in colorado, in idaho, the hal cha. the mustangs at havasu, gallop, grazing, trying to make more of their own. pawing through the ice in winter to scrounge for forest. appearing in the backyards of the new leva towns that are recommend kiting across the desert, -- replicating across the desert. spreading seed so new grasses can grow, stopping for a drink, trying to cross highways, trappers running from bullets, on they go, but for how much longer, we cannot say. they really belong not to man, will james wrote, but to that country of junipers and sage of deeofdeep arroyos and mesas. now i just want to show you one picture. can you all see this? this is bug, the horse that survived the christmas massacre. outside reno in 1998. this is a picture of her taken last june. i had been visiting with her as you can tell, she's about 11 years old now, and she's just the sweetest and most big hearted horse i've ever met. i thought you might like to meet her. she's a spiritual and historical descendescendant of comanche, ae horses t

they'd like jake peavy or roy oswalt, or roy hal aday. but of course those trades aren't easily made. if they can't get them, there are some other guys they'd consider. eric bedard, that type of thing. they're looking for a right-handed bat off the bench. they're shorthanded in that department. they brought up a triple-a kid who played for about a week. they want to get him more playing time in triple-a. so those two things. the starting pitching, and the right-handed bat off the bench. otherwise they're very comfortable. they're scoring a ton of runs. they're great defensively. this he don't make a lot of errors. the bullpen is solid. so overall, the phillies are pretty happy with what they have right now. >> any explanation why they're 12 and 14 at home, and 20 and 6 on the road? >> that is the big mystery. we've been talking to the players a lot about that. talking to charlie manuel about that. and their explanation is it's just the way they've gone so far. this is a team last year that went 7-0 in the post season. i don't think it's a

him and hal gill to show down the red wings top guys. a lot of what happens on friday night will be determined by some of the guys we don't talk about all the time. >> that's always the way it ends up being with a game 7. there is extra time between game 6 and 7. what are foth both teams saying about the momentum? >> well, mike bob babcock has gone out of his way that momentum, he doesn't buy into it in the series. things happen in hockey games that change momentum on each night and several times throughout the game. i buy into that. i don't think, for example, pittsburgh winning game 6 and detroit losing. there are 2 games off. they will refocus. 2 teams with 1 chance to win a stanley cup. i don't think there will be a carryover from game 6. i think the teams really like to have the extra day off particularly the older guys or some of the guys who are dinged up a little bit. i thought in game 6 there were 2 days off between games 5 and 6. you really saw a much more uptempo game. everybody benefited from the extra day off. they had their