. >> at the university of illinois chicago and heard what block school lunch politics. think you >> is such a pleasure to be here. this is such an exciting time for us. we are so pleased to have the opportunity to come and we can talk to you about this labor of love and passion. we will tell you a little about the but before we do i will turn it over to my colleagues. >> we are very excited to be here and especially excited a number of the contributors have also joined us. this has been a worldwide in diverse with the ball all over the world, african americans from one part of thj united states to the other africa, niger, and other countries and we are extremely excited the first african-american men woman in the white house as a response of the african americans around the world.Ñi we have laurie and betsy [applause] we will invite them a little later in the program to say something what this experience has meant to them and what motivated them to write to us what we have found we develop day network or a sisterhood that is comprised of women who contributed to this o

. >> we are here with susan levine at the university of illinois, chicago to talk about her book, "school lunch politics" the surprising history of america's favorite welfare program. susan, why did you think it was important to expose the behind-the-scenes scene of the school lunches? >> well, i think that everybody who goes to school in america eats a school lunch and at some point in their life, and it is a very important program for child nutrition and it is a very important program for poor children in this country. >> when and why did we start providing school lunches to children? >> that is a good question and it is a long story. , economists provided school lunches for children in the early part of the 20th-century and an effort to teach immigrant children how to become american in the depression of the 1930's. many more poor children were showing up in schools and teachers began to offer school lunches, and at that point, the government got involved with children's lunches, because there was a surplus of agricultural commodities and in order to keep the prices down, the governmen

but let's get one of our great champions from the great state of illinois, a fighter from chicago, let's say that january schakowsky has been a dedicated advocate for people for many years, not just in congress, but before that when she was a social worker. ms. schakowsky: i was a community organizer. mr. ellison: this public option, congresswoman schakowsky, any views you would like to share before you launch into any prepared remarks? . ms. schakowsky: i've had people come into my office day in and day out saying they can't get the health care they need, they have a child or disability or a

i have so many pacoima professor at the university of illinois in chicago and have been there 22 years. began when i was 43. i think of my work as an activist and it continues to be that even though i do a lot of writing and teaching and sponsoring dissertations and all of the rest of what a professor does by have thought of myself during my adult life as a political and social activist. >> host: what we're teaching last semester? >> guest: i am so exhausted i don't want to talk about it i just finished this week. any professor that winds about being a professor should be taken out and given a real job. my middle son is a middle school math and science teacher and would ever he talks to his right your brother and lost to the brother and professor parents he says me quiet some of us have a real job. i except that teaching middle school science and math is a real job. last semester i top four courses i top one of new tariff research which i teach every spring, i taught a course which is required called improving learning environment, i taught a seminar in teaching for a cohort of people

at chicago and founder of both the small schools workshop and the center for youth and society. he joins booktv for an in depth interview from the printer's row lit fest in chicago. >> host: bill ayers, in your book "to teach," you talk about teachers having a moral choice. what is that moral choice? >> guest: i think that teaching is profoundly ethical work, and the moral choice is to take the side of the students, see them as three-dimensional people with hearts and minds and spirits, and to see yourself as somebody who is in the position of shepherding the choices of others. and that gives you a very profound, i think, ethical responsibility. so part of it is to see the students whole, to see them as human beings, not as little inteha

my day job is i'm a professor at the university of illinois in chicago and i have been there for 22 years so i gap professorring was 43. but i think of my work really as the work of an activist, and it continues to be that even though i'm situated at uic and i do a lot of of writing and teaching and sponsor are dissertations but i have thought of myself as a political and social activist. >> host: what were you teaching last semester? what what course? >> guest: i just finished this week so i don't want to talk bit immigrant. i'm kidding. my prefer who whines about a professor ought to be taken out and given a real job in fact my son dish have three sons but my middle son, malik, is a middle school math and science teacher and whenever the talks to his two professor parents and his writer brother and his law student brother he says, would you people please be quiet, some of us have a real job, and i accept that. it's a real job teaching middle school math and signs. last semester i taught four courses. i taught a course in narrative research which i teach every spring. i taught a required

at chicago joins booktv for an in-depth interview from the printer's row of little vest in chicago. >> bill ayers, in your book "to teach" you talk about teachers having a world choice. what is that moral choice? >> i think that teaching is profound ethical work in the moral choice is to choose to take the side of the students, to choose to see them as three-dimensional creatures with hearts and minds and spirits, that somehow have to be both martian challenged and to see yourself as something which is in the position of shepherding the choices of others and that gives you a very profound i think ethically responsibility so part of it is to see the students whole, to see them as human beings not as interchangeable cog in a machine, that is infinitely manipulable but see them as human beings much like yourself and to open your eyes to that. >> is individuals? >> and as members of the committee both and that is one of the tensions of teaching is your teaching third grade and have 25 kids and you have a responsibility to see each one as the one and only in duplicable. no one else will

my day job is i'm a professor at the university of illinois at chicago, and i've been there for 22 years, so i began proffering when i was 43. but, you know, i think of my work, you know, really as the work of an act risk is -- activist, and it continues to be that even though i do a lot of writing and teaching and sponsoring dissertations and all the rest of what a professor does. but i have thought of myself for most of my adult life primarily as a political and social activist. >> host: what were you teaching last semester? >> guest: well, i just finished this week, and so i'm so exhausted i don't even want to talk about it. no, i'm just kidding. [laughter] any professor who whines about being a professor ought to be taken out and given a real job. in fact, i have three sons, but my middle son, malik, is a middle school math and science teacher, and whenever he talks to his two professor parents and his writer brother and his law student brother he says, will you people please be quiet? some of us have a real job, and i accept that. teaching middle school math and science is a real jo

host: let's go to ralph in chicago, illinois. caller: we could save $1 trillion per year by implementing what we have known for 100 years. streamlining the underside of cars just like airplanes to minimize the wind resistance. also, with synthetic lubricants to minimize internal friction on the engine. and also, totally evaporated in the gasoline before burning it in the combustion chamber because droplets of gas from the carburetor do not burn completely. we developed this in the pouge -- we had a patent for it and propose. they're getting 200 miles per gallon. if you consult thet movie consultucker" made in the 1980's about an inventor who got stifled and repressed by the auto companies who would buy up his patents and then sit on them, it is easy to see -- the movie "tucker" -- a company could easily buy up and influence carchemish to make sure that we dragged our feet -- influence car companies to make sure that we dragged our feet for 100 years. host: are there any mandates on the car industry to use technologies? guest: the

rangel: i recognize the gentleman from chicago, illinois, mr. davis for one minute. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized for one minute. mr. davis: i rise in strong support of h.r. 2454. i want to commend chairman waxman, chairman rangel, mr. barton, chairman peterson, chairman markey, mr. dingell and all of those who have worked so hard to reach compromises which helped to make this legislation possible. especially i want to commend representative bobby rush for his hard work to protect low-income consumers. representative butterfield for making sure that historical black colleges and universities and predominantly black institutions had the opportunity to be involved in the research and job creation. and i also want to thank representative january schakowsky and donna christensen on their hard work on environmental issues to help reduce health disparities. it's a good bill, mr. speaker. and i urge all of my colleagues to vote in favor of it. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields back the balance of his time. the gentleman from

chicago, illinois. democrats line. james? >> just two things. i think the next time someone calls that is so blatantly racist and a tacks other groups in this country should be could out on it. the guest shouldn't take anymore than that. maybe you also. but secondly, i wanted to comment that's the movement grows we need to make sure the interests are protected and we have to have the right to joun a francis yoon and that'll be important to that movement. >> madison heights, michigan. we here from the republican line. go ahead. >> yeah, this m administration control seems like deja vu from the movie, the demolition man. >> the hartford, current in the financial disclosure's section talks about senator chris dodd and the piece is call dad's major adjustment. a priced value of the senator's cottage in ireland more than triples. concludes it's worth three times as much as dad has been reporting. the new value on the island in the county is about $658 thousand dollars according to two financial disclosure forms. the two page appraisal was done guy sa

by a hotel owner in chicago, illinois or by a single spanish-speaking mother who told her daughter she could do anything through hard work and a good education. let's be reasonable and realistic. these experiences do not turn a good judge into a bad one or an impartial one or whatever my colleagues on the other side of the aisle are suggesting. to recognize the role of perm experience is simply to acknowledge that in the art and science of interpreting the constitution and laws of our country, we have to ask ourselves the following questions. do we frust more the decisions of judges who as i have said have ice water in their rain iseses? who view their role of stripping them of their past? or do we trust more the decisions of judge who is acknowledge and address their own life experiences even while striving always to be fair and within the law. as judge sotomayor herself has said. madam president, mr. president, these are questions i look forward discussing at judge sotomayor's upcoming hearing. >> i thank the distinguished presiding officer and my friend. i also want to thank senator

. >> host: jeff from chicago illinois. comment, three pros. comment, i'm against any kind of draft. universal or otherwise. pro, do you believe that the arab did 9/11? i believe that it was a false flag, boast sides involved, undercover intelligence job. and again, what were the legal things that got you out of the underground, above ground? i noted -- >> host: leave it there. regular viewers of the book fair recognize this gentleman. he is at maybe of the panels and always has a thought-provoking question. so we have 9/11 -- i understand, sir. we're going to leave it there, we're running tight on time. we have 9/11 and what brought you above ground. >> host: how? >> guest: um, 9/11, i think -- you know, i assume with a little bit of skepticism left over i assume that the people who were identified as having cearld out 9/11 did carry out 9/11. i don't really think it was a conspiracy except in this broad seasons the u.s. failed -- the administration, both clinton and bush administration, failed the obvious warning signs-failed to see and respond to the obvious warning signs. i think

doris from chicago, illinois. >>caller: thank you. a statement about health care. it is interesting that the republicans have a problem with the government is standing between a person and their doctors except when it comes for a pregnant woman and her doctor. they want government to stand pit during them. but anyway there was a hearing, three of the largest

host: next up, robert on our line from independents from chicago, illinois. go ahead, please. caller: good morning. you know, it's very funny how the united states is set up to talk about they want a democratic move in iran. you just had a president who left office, george bush, who wasn't democratically elected to office. he got into office by his buddies in the supreme court. everybody asked when the united states was important to interrupt the shah of iran, and we were getting free oil for years. you didn't say nothing when people were oppressed by the shaw. now his son comes up and says we want a pro democratic movement. the problem you see in the movement is one, but when you see countries stand up, take control of their own political agendas, that's when they become outlaws. same thing in cuba. when cass stre came in an kicked out the sand niece stas, that's when you get a problem. you look at democracy. what is democracy, about 200 years old? how do you change 2,000-year-old cultures? go over to israel. nobody is saying what is going on over there, because the united st

. >> chicago, illinois. go ahead please. >> hello. i don't think our several governments are really doing anything to help us, and i sometimes wonder since they gave away all this money if we left and stopped paying taxes at all and did our own businesses if they would even miss us since they can just make their own money. it just - you know i'd like to give them a pink slip. i'd like to close the facilities in washington. i don't think we can afford for them to go to work anymore. >> i think they would miss you if you stopped paying taxeses, but i agree, that well, taxes are the prices we pay for civilization but are we getting good value? are we getting as - the value that um... for how much we're paying which is now 6 trillion dollars in fed, state, local taxes. are we getting as much civilization as we think we' buying. my big pet peeve is education and i'm, i'm the cochair of the milton and rose friedman foundation for the school choice because i think the way to solve social problems at this point is through education and i thin

host: terry joins us on the democrats' line from chicago, illinois. caller: i just want to say that i believe in what the president is trying to do. if it was easy, it would have been done a long time ago. i have seen your guest several times, and he is definitely -- i will not say right wing, but anything that involves the president, you can believe that he will be in that position. he just made the comment about medicare, why the costs are high. but the president also address that he has a plan to overhaul medicare. tell the whole story. i love c-span, but i assume you have another guest coming on that will have a different view. but i will say, people, do not just take what he says literally because he tends to talk very negative about the president, and his view, anything about obama is going to be skewed that way. well, you know, i think that it is right that the administration claims that it is going to have all kinds of reforms and savings in medicare, but it really has not put forward a whole lot for example, there say they want $300 billion i

i can't make as much money in central illinois as i can make in chicago. the plans ought to cover the entire service area. that has to be a regulatory ischetschemieschemscheme to eli external -- >> mr. shea, there's a play in massachusetts where you can -- your employees don't get any insurance. it is important that if you don't choose to pay option, the employees get coverage. >> absolutely. is also important that there is a meaningful payment option, not let massachusetts, $300 a year per employee and you are proposing something substantial. that is the right way to design it. >> mr. cassidy? >> mr. visco, when you speak, i think of my wife is a breast cancer survivor, that is music to my ears. dr. hacker, a couple things. as i think about it, your proposal, congratulations, this is your brainchild and it has become something. the public auction is innovative, the sense that nationalizing the insurance company creates a government run health insurance company, but as you're speaking of the need for innovative payment methods, medicare and medicaid have l

host: the next call is from chicago, illinois. cora, welcome to the program. caller: thank you for having me. what i wanted the young man to talk about was the fact that when away defeated hitler, no one ever gives russia recognition for coming in to siber siberia, because the russians could embrace the cold such as the germans and we came in in france and italy and america came in on the other side. so we more or less had hitler boxed in because he couldn't go back to the cold because this wasn't a way. i wonder why that is never discussed by anyone that how the real story goes. we were taught that it was not only the united states, france and italy but the russians but they never give them credit for the job that they did because without them we could not are done anything because they were the ones that actually did the real fighting because they were the only ones that really could. guest: the soviet union probably did about 80% of the ground fighting in the european theatre in world war ii. they certainly did most of the fighting and dying. but the latest

chicago that we can't get in navu which is in the central part of the illinois. that's because the plans have made the decision that i can't make as much money in central illinois than i can in chicago. so the plans ought to be required to require the entire service area. that has to be a regulatory scheme to eliminate the externality to the plans -- >> i'm trying to get another question before my time runs out. mr. shea, there's a pay and play where your insurance don't get any insurance. is it important if you choose the pay option that the employees actually get coverage? >> oh, absolutely. and it's also important that there's a meaningful payment option not like massachusetts. that they are $300 per employee and you're proposing something that's substantial. i think that's the right way to design it. >> mr. cassidy? >> my wife is a breast cancer surgeon and when you speak, i just think oh, my gosh, isn't that just nuke my ears and to my wife's ears. we share your concern. dr. hacker, a couple of things. you know,no carrierringconnect central to improving outc

host: chicago, illinois. for independents. caller: i just wanted to comment on a few things. first of all, i don't think barack obama is an ally of the lgbt community at all. i think that we need to stop being advocates for both of these major parties and come out and start advocating for the third parties, the libertarian party and the green party. i think that just from, like saying things like you know that these people are allies like barack obama. the guy is purely for banking interest and lobbying interests. he is not our ally. he didn't stand up and speak against the defensive marriage act after the department of justice called us in the lgbt community peedo fillaction. and things of that nature. and i'm tired of that. and i don't think that guy is an ally of ours. host: who in the political realm do you feel speaks for you and your community? caller: both dennis cuse niche and ron paul. but they never have a huge voice. but also, in a third party, mckinny and the green party. and michael bat anywheric of the libertarian party. guest: that's a recipe for disenfranchise

yesterday in chicago, illinois, which i am honored to rerntion the president came to speak to the american medical association, a gathering of doctors dpr all ove from all ove dwriewunitedstates to address te issue. they understand, as we do, that we want to maintain the best quality of health care in the world. nard to do that we have to face the realities. shored comings of our current health care system. though we have many of the best hospitals and doctors, some of the best technology, lead the world in the development of pharmaceuticals, we also know that the cost of this system is spinning out of control. people feel it, whether it is individuals buying health insurance, businesses, governments, state and local and federal governments all understand that if the government of health care continues to rise as it's currently going up, it will literally break the bank, not just for the federal government and all of the health care programs that we have but for individuals and families and businesses. that's the reality. so if we do nothing, if we ignore this reality, we are doomed to fac

but let's get one of our great champions from the great state of illinois, a fighter from chicago, let's say that january schakowsky has been a dedicated advocate for people for many years, not just in congress, but before that when she was a social worker. ms. schakowsky: i was a community organizer. mr. ellison: this public option, congresswoman schakowsky, any views you would like to share before you launch into any prepared remarks? . ms. schakowsky: i've had people come into my office day in and day out saying they can't get the health care they need, they have a child or disability or a spouse who lost his job and his health care and also, people come in and say, you know, i'm 63 years old, i hope i can live another two years so i can get medicare, a government-provided health care for seniors and persons with disabilities. and we know that medicare is one of the most successful programs we have had, something that passed in 1965 and lifted the burden of health care costs off of the most vulnerable people, our elderly and persons with disabilities. this is something that i think ma

the fact is that as i said earlier we have in chicago and illinois some systems that fund very generously for kids. we have some systems that starve the kids. and those can be correlated along racial lines. that's not any attempt to stir up a fantasy. that's an attempt to shine a light on something real. >> guest: and to get white people to do something. we wrote this book to say this issue of inequality in the search for kind of unity and longing for unity has animated us now for 40 years, and i feel like the, of racism is not an issue for black people or latino people or arab people alone. it's our -- we have to own the issue. the people who have benefited or have allowed ourselves to not have to look at inequality. so i give you just the most -- to me the most obvious and silly example is this response by newt gingrich and company to the nomination of judge sotomayor. he thinks somehow that 200 years of having white male judges means that it's been without gender and without race? apparently. apparently the fact that she mentions the fact he some is a latino woman means she is a racist

the fact is that as i said earlier we have in chicago and illinois some systems that fund very generously for kids. we have some systems that starve the kids. and those can be correlated along racial lines. that's not any attempt to stir up a fantasy. lÑ ,Ñ example is this response by newt gingrich and company to the nomination of judge sotomayor. he thinks somehow that 200 years of having white male judges means that it's been without gender and without race? apparently. apparently the fact that she mentions the fact he some is a latino woman means she is a racist but he is not a racist for the silence about being a white man. it's a double-standard and i think women recognize it, peek of color recognize it but that's the effort to stir the pot and divide. >> host: melanie in pullman, washington, go ahead. >> caller: to talk about corporate greed and what happened during katrina. i studied state farm for four years, eight to nine hours a day, reading court documents, absolutely blown away by what i was finding out. so i blog all the insurance journal. i wrote the untouchables, and it's

but as people in the circle tell me there are two strands to chicago politics and illinois politics. there is the reformists and the party machine. and obama was never part of the party machine. in fact, he lost his first national race as it were, his race for the house of representatives in 2000 because he was bad at that kind of machine and ethnic politics that really characterizes chicago. he lost to bobby rush. it was a disaster rust race for him personally and politically. when he ran for senate later even his own friends last. you lost the race for the house, how can you be serious? of course he proved everyone wrong there. >> we are showing the photograph. we have a tweet, how was the cover photo chosen? >> i chose it. after a back and forth about five different covers. we wanted a couple of things. for start, everyone is familiar with him and his smiley face and i didn't think it was appropriate to have a smiley barack obama even though it's popular and would have fit better. i wanted a picture that showed him at work. so i love the fact that his sleeves were rolled up. this

to chicago politics and illinois politics. there is the reformists and party machine. and obama was never part of the party machine. in fact he lost his first national race, the race for the house of representatives in 2000 because he was a bad at that kind of machine and ethnic politics that characterize as chicago. it was a disastrous race personally and politically and frankly when he ran for the senate four years later even his own friends laughed and said you just lost the race for the house badly. how can you be serious. >> host: we are showing the cover of the book and we have the tweet from a viewer that says how was the cover photo chosin? >> guest: i chose it after back and forth about five different covers. we wanted a couple of things. for a start, everybody is familiar with him and his smiling face. i didn't think it was appropriate to have smiling barack obama even though it was proper and would have sold better. i wanted a picture that showed him as at work as president. i like the fact the sleeves are rolled up

we have a similar problem in chicago in cook county, illinois. at the local public hospital, wait times for specialty services can range from six months to one or two years, under the current system. so we know that when it comes to delays, unfortunately, they are occurring in the current system that we have. we also know that for a lot of people this current system has become just unaffordable and intolerable. when i think back of one of my friends in springfield, doug mayol, he tells the story. he ounce a -- owns a small business in springfield, a shop that sells cards and gifts. his only worker has medicare coverage, but doug has to buy private health insurance. unfortunately, you see, doug has a problem. he was diagnosed many years ago -- 30 years ago, in fact -- with congenital heart valve defect. he has no symptoms. without regular health care, he runs the risk of developing serious problems. in the year 2001, doug, in springfield, illinois, paid $200 a month for health insurance. 2001. by 2005, even though he had not turned in any claims,

look at blagojevich's as a case of the rod blagojevich or how does this fit into the rest of of state chicago politics and obviously when has gone in the governor's office, is this just an illinois affliction or what is going on here? >> i do have a chapter in my book devoted to the history of illinois political corruption. can i just one chapter? [laughter] >> it could have been a lot longer. there is no doubt we live in a state that has a strong sordid history of political corruption stemming 1853 governor madsen on tuna thousand dollars in script which he found he -- he said he found in a shoebox which goes along to paul paul who kept all his ill-gotten gains in a shoebox and i thought was funny when i reread the some of the store is about paul powell 21 to get his license plate to the secretary of state he wrote a check to paul powell. [laughter] it turned out a lot of those checks really did go to paul powell and it goes on and on. four of the last governor's will wind up in jail so there certainly is a long history of political corruption, but i do think i would like to patrick fitzgera

i am eric arneen at the university of chicago and i'll be talking with professors washington and beito and beito today. but first a few introductory remarks. the name sojourner truth is a familiar one. along with harriet tubman she is generally recognized as a female abolitionist who challenged racial and gender conventions of her day and provided a moral voice for the evils of chattel slavery. that she did and her story is more complicated as is the explanation of her world in these pages by professor washington who teaches history at cornell history. sojourner truth's life is crucial but little recognized facts. that the economy of the northern states at one point relied heavily upon the labor of slaves. and antebellum reform embarrassed a wide range of issues including temperance, spiritualism and women's rights as well as the all-important issue of antislavery and abolitionism. professor washington's study is more of a biography of a remarkable woman though she brings this out in vivid detail, brings out the suffering and triumphs of her subject. her book is a story of society, rel

blagojevich as this is just a case of rod blagojevich, or how does this fit into the rest of upstate chicago politics and obviously what is going on in the governor's office, like is this just in illinois affliction or what's going on here? >> i do have a chapter in my book devoted to, the second chapter devoted to the history of illinois corruption spec just one chapter? [laughter] >> yeah, it could've been much longer. there is no doubt, we live in a state that has a strong sordid history of political corruption. 1853 governor masten found $200,000 which he said he found in a shoebox which sort of goes right along to paul powell who kept all his ill-gotten gains in a shoebox. i thought it was funny when i reread some of the story about paul powell. when you wanted to get, you just wrote a check to paul powell. it turned out that a lot of those checks really did go to paul powell. [laughter] >> and it goes on and on. for the last governor's will wind up in jail. so there certainly is a long history of political corruption, but i do think, i did like what patrick fitzgerald said when he said

the lawyers, the police lieutenant who is responsible od athe torture of 100 black men outside chicago, total impunity tier a 25 year period. these activities came together so that 6 years after this demonstration the republican governor of illinois put a moratorium on execution. >> don't forget the writers of the tribute. >> so much credit to go around for how this happened in a short period of time but it is an example we should remember because it would have been unimaginable in 1991. it was unimaginable, no one could have said here is the strategy and here is how we are lic,. to do it, but shipping the way, doing some things, speaking broadly to the public, assuming people can be convinced by the fact, not just by your passion, and uniting as many forces as possible, it is an extraordinary example. tveryone in illinois is happy we ane not resumed execution. it is a wide consensus that the death penalty is just an example of our broken criminal justice system and we have to fix that. >> there have been some remarks attributed to you regarding the thaon murders. saidne remark. >> hos

then, another look at all of today's coverage from the chicago tribune. and alive, tomorrow, and that with bill eyres. the university of illinois professor and former underground member. he will take your calls. for all of this weekend's programs at times, go to book tv dog or. >> today marks the sixty fifth anniversary of d-day. president obama was in normandy, france to attend the ceremony. joining him was french president nicholas sarkozy. this is just over an hour. >> president obama, your royal highness, prime minister rao, prime minister harbor, presidents are cozy, distinguished guests, ladies and gentlemen, please be seated. -- president sarkozy. it is our privilege to welcome all the illustrious visitors joining us today. we extend a special welcome to the d-day and world war ii veterans and family members in attendance to honor us all with their presence. [applause] today we commemorate the 60th anniversary of the d-day landings that took place in the early morning hours of june 6, 1944. today's ceremony will honor the soldiers, sailors, and air

the midwest's largest literary effect, "the chicago tribune" printers row lit fest. panels and authors on the economy, globalization expht american worker, homosexual rights, former illinois governor rod blagojevich. civil rights and sojourner truth. the mob and counterfeiting and a look at the graphic adaptation of studser the cels working. later on after words, stanley greenberg on advising tony blair and nelson mandela. he's interviewed by mary madeleine, former counselor in the bush/cheney white house. and live sunday in depth with bill ayers, university of illinois professor and former weather underground member. his latest is race course, against white supremacy, and he'll take your calls as well as questions from the audience. for a complete schedule of this weekend's programs and times, go online to booktv.org. >> now a hearing on the fiscal year 2010 budget for the military's special operations command. including navy sales and army rangers. this is about an hour. >> it's right at 1:00. we certainly expect other members to come terroristing in as we proceed

the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from illinois rise? mr. quigley: i ask unanimous consent that today following legislative business and any special orders heretofore entered into, the following members may be permitted to address the house for five minutes to revise and extend their remarks and include extraneous material. the following, ms. woolsey from california. mr. peters from michigan. mr. george miller from california. ms. kaptur from ohio. mr. inslee from washington. mr. spratt from south carolina. the speaker pro tempore: there's no objection. the chair recognizes the gentleman from illinois for a motion. mr. quigley: mr. speaker, i move now that the h d

they were in ohio, illinois. probably a matter of time. after we extracted everything we could extract, the only thing left was bones. most commonly, fertilizer. and we collect the bones on the great plains with st. louis, chicago, detroit, and send that fertilizer back to the great plains. the soil is very aesthetic. they would make fine china with good buffalo bones. and burned at inside that filter. they will clarify sugar and wine. when buffalo bones began to run out, people began digging up indian burial grounds. they had historically run hundreds of thousands of buffalo off of clips. there is a place in wyoming called the buffalo jump, there is a bone bed hundreds of feet in diameter and this would suggest native americans over the course of a few decades killed 20,000 buffalo in the same spot. a bonet cotton plant in st. louis processed seventy million buffalo carcasses. this is more than ever existed at any time. was that exhaustive. there was a point when a guy, did you could not find a buffalo bound that you didn't realign. guys

, illinois, because i have a special interest in bringing those olympics to my hometown. thank you, mr. president. i yield the floor, and i suggest the absence of a quorum. the presiding officer: the clerk will call the roll. quorum call: quorum call:

louis and chicago, illinois, have received tax incentives for $5.3 billion. these incentives encourage businesses to open or expand and to hire local residents. they include employment credits, low-interest loans, reduced taxation on capital gains, and other incentives. unfortunately, some of the programs have not operated as intended. a few major hurdles have prevented full utilization of the tax benefits available. these incentives desperately need to be refined and extended. that is exactly what this legislation would do, and that is why it is so important for this senate to act without delay. empowerment zones, like the one in east st. louis, illinois, focus on grass, roots, sustainable progress. it creates a bond between businesses, imleerks and surrounding communities. despite selfing only one-fourth of the anticipated federal funding, they have found aspiring entrepreneurs to develop businesses using a creative away of tax incentives and loans. this legislation is an important step toward revising the blight faced by our inner cities without gentrifyin