," or "nada forever." another posted images of a broken heart in green, the color of the opposition movement. so, mr. president, a debate has been going on as to how much the united states of america, its president, the congress, and the american people should speak out in favor and in support of these brave iranians, average age in tehran is 33 years of age, and their quest for the fundamentals of freedom and democracy that we have enjoyed for more than a couple of centuries. so, mr. president, today i, and all america, pays tribute to a brave young woman who was trying to exercise her fundamental human rights and was killed on the streets of tehran. all americans are with her. our thoughts and our prayers for her, her family, and her countrymen. now, mr. president, i'd like to talk a bit about health care since that seems to be a -- a major issue also of concern to all americans. today's june 22, 2009. millions of americans still lack health insurance coverage and we need to pass reforms that help them g

henderson committed to meet with nada to discuss our concerns. gm followed through on that commitment. in our leadership met with senior gm officials last friday and we had a very frank discussion. as a result, gm has agreed to make significant improvements in the participation agreement. additionally, gm is committed to clarify some of the terms of the wind out agreements. and nada will continue to work with jim to improve the agreements. we appreciate gm efforts to end iraq's with nada on these matters. in conclusion it mr. chairman i want to thank you again for giving me this hearing because we still have fundamental concerns. this government negotiated bankruptcy's continue to threaten to their rights under state motor vehicle franchise laws. these laws inject balance of the inherently on balance economic relationship between a dealer in the manufacture and they also provide consumers a reliable convenience and competitive on a retail network. therefore congress should insure that the franchise laws of 50 states apply with full force and effe

this is coming over on twitter in real time and the young woman who died, nada. is the secretary aware of this? is he making any comments about the role of women? >> as i have said before, he is playing an important role in briefing the secretary. this has been very difficult, as it is for all of you, to get confirmed information, about what is going on, because of the inability of the media, the representatives of these organizations to really cover the situation, this has been dangerous on the streets, the foreign diplomats have had difficulties as well. she is following this situation with great concern. as i have said these are very distressing images that we have seen, the most distressing was the young woman covered in blood. >> had she spoken to the president? >> yes. >> one more on iran? i will run out of material. >> we will supply the material. >> do you think it is appropriate to have the people -- the iranians coming on july 4. is there thought of taking back the invitation? >> no. >> it is important to have a social dialog? >> we have decided to enga

of this or not but general motors has been an active dialogue over the recent period with both the nada >> and i believe that in ada has put out a statement indicating that they find the modifications have been made to go forward agreement participation agreement to meet the majority of the dealers serve so i think concerns were raised. i think you and others brought them to the attention of gm, and i think the dialogue was had, and i think a good result. so certainly when members of congress bring to our attention situations, we absolutely will do everything we can to facilitate dialogue between the affected stakeholder in the company. we are not going to intervene and become the arbitrator of a dispute, but we certainly are going to ask and insist that the companies listen carefully to the concerns of any stakeholder. and if it's the particular situation you mentioned regarding the chrysler dealer or the participation agreement which is a broader issue, we are going to insist that they be listened to. but again, i don't want to mislead you. we are not going to substitute our judgment

opportunity to talk about the impact on every one of the dealers that you represent as chairman of nada that have not had a seat at the table. haven't had a seat at a table or an opportunity to tell their story because i am guessing that you been getting a lot of phone calls. what has it been like for you and what type of concerns are you hearing? >> well, we are hearing many concerns expressed earlier today by some of the dealers on the panel. they run the gamut of the dealers sometimes third, fourth generation. my family as you know has been in business 95 years and going forward but there's a lot of dealers like me that are not. most dealers the net worth of their enterprise is represented in the value of the real-estate of the fact of when it and the value of their franchise and in the case of dealers being terminated by gm or chrysler the franchise value is a zero and immediately realize the value is single purpose real-estate particularly in this commercial real estate market that is pretty stressed any way would be severely devalued even to the point many cases dealers will owe m

>> or from bullets piercing our beloved nada. [applause] >> whose only sin ws to -- was to quest for freedom. noone by tyrants and their thugs. do not let them to find what is sovereignty, what is interference in other's affairs. ladies and gentlemen, a movement was born on the 12th of june. it is not islamic or anti- islamic, it is not for capitalism or socialism, nor any other ideology or specific form of government. it cares little about the historical squabbles before its historical squabbles before its birth , but it is about the sanctity, even more, the sovereignty of the ballot box. it may not succeed immediately, it may have ads and flows -- and sen flows, but let me assure you, it will not die. we will not let it die. a week later, the supreme leader of the islamic republic decided to stand erect as a dam in front of this movement, sanctioning theft of the ballot box and flagrant fraud, all in the name of islam. it was an ugly moment of disrespect for both god and man. it will not stand. the citizens of iran will not sta

. >> our margin of error is zilch, nada. we can't play a full ballgame without having something happen that just makes us all say, oh, what's going on here? a couple of ground balls, ground ball to nick early in the game error. didn't really hurt us there. but we talk about how good our bullpen's going and how our pitching is going, but the one constant is over the last nine games we've scored 20 runs. and one game we scored seven. in five games out of the last nine we've scored two or less. it's just about not having offense. your pitchers cannot be under that kind of pressure every day that they go out and put a two or three spot on the board and expect to win. and our starters have been. >> when you look at last night, they got off to a 3-0 lead and couldn't hold it. tonight they get off to a 1-0 lead as we'll show you later on in the show. let's go back to tropicana field and bob and rob are standing by much a couple of bright spots in this ballgame was the pitching of jordan zimmermann and the hitting the anderson herna

>> on our continuation agreement, we will be meeting with the nada this week to -- friday, actually to address their concerns about our continuation agreement for those dealers going forward with us. thank you. >> okay. very good. one last question, just for you, mr. press, i know it is getting late, for -- did fiat require you guys to reduce the number of dealers? >> fiat did not require a number. the agreement does have a new dealer organization, viable dealer organization going forward as one of the requirements and we're producing that. they did not require a reduction. >> all right. okay. thank you. thank you for your time. >> thank you, senator. our final question will be from senator johanns. >> mr. chairman, thank you. how many, mr. press, how many minority dealers are going to be put out of business by your action here? >> the minority dealer reduction is exactly the same of the total dealer body reduction. the share of dealers that are minority dealers increases a small amount. >> not from the in share. raw numbers. tell me how many are going to be out of business. >> 38. >>

exist that will provide us with a great amount of production of wind energy throughout the great plains nada free form is the same, not every state is the same that we also then have got to make sure when we locate that kind of generation in the areas that we can move the power out of the region's swedish system to do it but also i think have to be very aware of the fact and it has been our experience bottom-up planning works the best. so you need local regional planning. local folks putting the plan together to determine what is the best way to move forward and so that is the principle i think we need to adhere to, bottom-up rather than top-down as far as planning the chance mission system of the country. i would also suggest under these conditions and given the fact we are going to have to move in more in efficient transmission system we are going to have to move the transmission across the state lines that we may run into difficulties and we may run into delays and quite frankly the national best interest isn't being served. so i think we have got while we are having the local planning we

chairman, senator hutchison, i am chairman of nada and the national automobile dealers association. i am also an automobile dealer. my dealership is mcelenen center in clinton, ohio. we have actually been in business 95 years. we provide jobs for 140 people. my family also held a chrysler franchise between 1984 and 2007. mr. chairman, we commend you and we thank you and senator hutchison for convening this hearing. in three face-to-face meetings with the president's auto task force, and at numerous meetings with the manufacturers, no one has explained why dealer reductions will make chrysler and gm more viable. over 90% of chrysler and gm's revenue comes from the dealer, because the dealer buys the cars, the parts, and even the dealership signs from the manufacturer. the retail network, the land, the building, the employees, the dealers pay for all of it. dealer cuts won't save any money, because dealers don't cost the manufacturers any money. when a dealership closes, the manufacturers will tell you that they lose market share. where is the objective standard and where is the publi

we have a meeting set up with the nada friday where we intend to discuss with them the most objection aable or parts of the agreement that they have the greatest objections to and we're confident we will find a resolution to that. that meeting is friday. we tried to pull it forward and we'll make judgments and decisions quickly, try to address the legitimate concerns in this case of the dealers. thank you. >> thank you very much. senator snowe, senator brownback. >> thank you, mr. chairman. i hope people watching this see the problems with having government run a private sector business when you try get these questions answered in this sort of hearing. i think that's why we're in such a difficult deep problematic situation today. but we -- the government is the big owner now here so we got a lot of questions. i don't like the process, just overall that this is. but we are where we are. i want to ask, if i could, particularly, mr. press and mr. henderson, i had the dealers again in my state and where i bought my town and country chrysler minivan, he says, look, we don't cost these guys

exclusively myself, i don't know what you can do about it, but i'm working with senator hutchison and the nada to see what we can think about doing about it. we're going to be talking to you about that. i just warn you that that may be coming. >> forewarned. >> okay. let us talk for just a minute about the whole question now of the viability of general motors. i take your point that the market cap can be achieved with much better, cleaner balance sheet so that we don't have to compare the new gm to the old gm, but i would point out to you that in terms of a true vulture capitalist, lot of people don't like that term but that's basically what you are here as the government, as a true vulture capitalist, you have gone exactly the wrong way. general motors, if a true vulture capitalist, i'm quoting from holman jenkins but i like what he says. he just happens to put it better than i can. >> i admit to reading it. >> you admit to reading it, okay. he says the bailout has deeply politicized the business model by -- domestic relations saddled by the uaw, you may not like that term, over its money-mak

we have a meeting set up with the nada friday where we intend to discuss with them the most objection aable or parts of the agreement that they have the greatest objections to and we're confident we will find a resolution to that. that meeting is friday. we tried to pull it forward and we'll make judgments and decisions quickly, try to address the legitimate concerns in this case of the dealers. thank you. >> thank you very much. senator snowe, senator brownback. >> thank you, mr. chairman. i hope people watching this see the problems with having government run a private sector business when you try get these questions are